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In truth of course what we usually end up with floats flabbily and far adrift of this big idea – classless Justice clones whose MySpace pages you can't visit without getting an electric shock or guitar goons for whom the ideas of 'big' and 'best' are compressed into the same horrible missile and flung in our wincing faces. And even if a band sounds truly apocalyptic, their dead-world visions stretch small-mindedly to a silver-suited retro-futurist pastiche of the initial impact, rarely moving beyond that or taking into account that anyone left standing after an epic nuclear or environmental disaster may not want to relive the whole thing through the medium of pop music.
Why all the blather? Here I go, damp-panted and screaming – there are moments on Crystal Castles' debut record that make you wish all the plaudits weren't so blown-out and valueless. Moments where Ethan Kath manipulates Alice Glass's voice and everything around it in such a way that I'm left fumbling for a pre-cursor and, as such, moments when their scrambled digitisations sound otherworldly, almost new-worldly. When you pause to re-gather poise and break tracks like the HEALTH-sampling 'Courtship Dating' (see video below) and 'Vanished' down to their constituent parts you realise that what the duo are doing has a glorious past. Like The VU, SY, MBV (the best bands, there's no need for names), Crystal Castles strike out to the edges of their own sensibility and return with the most unwieldy, uncomfortable sounds they find there before trying to work that noise inwards 'til it passes for pop. And by 'pop' I mean to say 'sex', and the clumsy chaos that goes into getting it.
The past and sex are conjured in other ways – once you get through thinly-veiled synths that splay over Crystal Castles like a nu-raver's kecks wafting on the line, all but a handful of the album's 17 tracks slink along on tight but established disco / trance / house beats. Glass's voice, too, is the same that's been luring lusty seamen onto the rocks for millennia, but the way it and the drums are textured – so that the machines they're passed through sound like they're melting away – brings Crystal Castles to the outer edges of greatness.
Again, this may sound like vacuous hype, but the chances are you've heard this record as it leaked ages ago and it's out already. So, if you've already heard it why bother to read this? Probably the same reason you're in or know at least two people who are in shit, tediously derivative bands. The middle-classes have never been so swollen – anything, financially, is possible, so it's easier than ever to make music, job or not. And if you can, why not? This outlook is what directs much action in a society based upon the individual's right to leisure but then there's the dilemma of having too much choice and not being sure how best to spend your time. Reading record reviews after you've heard the record is, on the whole, an example of this self-confirming narcissism – not that that's a bitter-fingered accusation, I do it myself – as is forming a sound-alike band.
Video: 'Courtship Dating'
What makes Crystal Castles so thrilling is that they turn the fruits of this affluence into weapons to use against it, using technology to cut through the shitty mire. At times they seem to live and breathe through that technology – that much should be obvious already from tracks that have been on the duo's MySpace for years, 'Alice Practice' and 'Air War' losing Glass in shards of melting synth so you don't know whether it's the voice or the machine that's in control, the latter invariably bleeping away like a life support machine. The way the band've distanced themselves from the ever-bleating press is admirable too, surly interviews with Plan B, _Stool Pigeon and NME testament to a desire to opt out of the relentless churn of music as leisure and of consumption, (or just symptoms of a rabid speed habit).
I'm not trying to bang a drum for working class authenticity here, either – it's impossible to conjure survival music when that survival's already insured, so instead we get destruction music, which again has a long history, particularly among the various tribes of teenage suburbia. Memories of this tacky heritage are what sometimes drag Crystal Castles down – aimless blitzkrieg splurges like 'xxzxcuzx me' and 'Love and Caring' could easily have been cut from a record that's three or four tracks too long, though it's arguable if there are many who would've planned to listen to this from start to bitter end.
Crystal Castles' end is bitterly sweet here – on final track 'Tell Me What to Swallow' someone dares to pick up an acoustic guitar and Glass's ruined voice returns to breathy effect. It could almost be a lullaby if the lyrics weren't so creepy ("through the walking, through me / I know he'd never hurt me / daddy watched me sleeping / praying for you silently"). It's a bluff, really – they're most at home within the crumbled walls of their post-disco apoc-rock; a crystal castle of technological rubbish fusing together under the harsh gaze of a falling sun, Kath and Glass digging around in the molten plastic for things to bang together, new-age Stigs dreaming of leisure's lost golden age in a data dump.
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Original post made by George Peters, Foothill High School, on Mar 4, 2008
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a resident of Foothill Knolls
on Mar 4, 2008 at 11:27 pm
The next board meeting is Tuesday, March 11th. Come to the meeting and tell the board why. Hopefully the board will discuss it with the public and not say it is not on the agenda, like they do with other topics to avoid conflict.
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Mar 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Is PUSD also cutting like Alameda is? Just curious- haven't heard anything about our schools, other than the large cuts state wide which I assume would affect the schools here.
a resident of Castlewood
on Mar 6, 2008 at 8:49 am
The School Board is not only cutting coaches, but also Reading Teachers. Why not cut administrators? A comment was made at the board meeting to compare Pleasanton to San Ramon, has that been done? How many students does San Ramon have and how many District Office people do they have compared to Pleasanton. The big question is will the board listen to the community at the next meeting, or will they say it is done. Are these issues on the agenda for further review? Please school board do not be like other Districts who hide behind rules. Pleasanton is a District of Character and that includes the board. Write to your board member !
a resident of Pleasanton Middle School
on Mar 6, 2008 at 9:53 am
What are you kidding...?
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The Board voted 4 to 1 to move forward on a parcel tax. They did not respond to the input shared on the PW threads.
Steve Brozosky was the only board member that was not fully committed to the parcel tax. He tried hard, made strong points and was dismissed.
Two brave parents made comments questioning the parcel tax. Good effort Joan, great job John! The board acted as though they had not heard John at all. John was well spoken and his comments followed the theme of these threads... he was ignored.
Do not be played for a chump. Do not get trapped into the question of which programs should get cut. Give direction to restructure and find cuts that do not touch the kids or get an outside professional to come in and show PUSD how it would be done in the real world.
If you do not have kids in the schools you can be a voice where many of us can not.
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a resident of Birdland
on Mar 6, 2008 at 10:50 am
Pointing to other communities parcel taxes is a Red Herring.
Even with San Ramon's parcel tax revenue, San Ramon has far fewer dollars per student than Pleasanton does. And San Ramon's administrators did not take their raises.
PUSD has far more money, from ADA state dollars, to work with than most districts.
They are playing hide the pea by talking about emotional cuts. Don't participate in those discussions, it only divides parents, pitting one important program against another.
Bring in someone to make unbiased cuts starting at the administrative level.
a resident of Carriage Gardens
on Mar 6, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Everyone is right. Do not pit programs against each other for kids. Start cutting at the District Office. What people cuts have been done at that level? The business person said during the meeting something about the district getting very little money in a program called cat...., yet the district has a director of that program ...why? This is just one example of fat!! Peter makes a good point - look at San Ramons web site and Pleasantons web site, compare number of district administrators.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 6, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Administration is top heavy, but then who cares about sports?
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Mar 7, 2008 at 12:23 am
LINDA- no I'm not. I do not have children in school in Pleasanton
a resident of Country Fair
on Mar 7, 2008 at 2:10 pm
They are not cutting coachs, just the stipends they are paid. The district will move to a pay to play model (like other school districts). Pleasanton kids have been pretty lucky to pay little or nothing to play sports. They will now either need to raise more booster money to fund programs, or charge players to play.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Mar 9, 2008 at 12:53 pm
The more I learn about the self-serving antics of some of our community leaders, the more disillusioned I become! How can we even consider cutting programs when our own Superintendent has taken a significant salary increase? Why is Pleasanton not taking admirable, more civic-minded steps as San Ramon has already done? They gave back raises to the administrators and froze other upcoming raises so that they would not have to lay off teachers or cut programs. Pleasanton will not continue to enjoy its good reputation unless our leaders begin using more integrity in the decisions they are making.
As far as sports are concerned, may other districts require students to pay if they play sports. The Booster clubs provide sport scholarships to students who cannot afford the fees. Perhaps that is one concession the community might be willing to consider to save the academic programs and teachers.
a resident of Pleasanton Middle School
on Mar 9, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Mark your calenders and start sending email:
Special Board Meeting, Budget Hearing,
April 14, 2008 (Monday), 5:00 p.m. Open Session.
District Office Board Room, 4665 Bernal Avenue,
a resident of Pleasanton Middle School
on Mar 9, 2008 at 4:17 pm
PToWN94566, a member of the Walnut Grove Elementary School community,
I am sorry. Yes PUSD has suggested making many cuts. Their choice of cuts has been the subject of several news articles and three PW bloggs.
This is the district site that lists the proposed cuts. There have been some changes but I don't see the changes reflected yet.
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Many of us are skeptical of their choice of cuts since they seem to be intended to manipulate the community to approve a parcel tax.
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Mar 10, 2008 at 10:52 pm
O wow, some of those cuts are ridiculous! My nephew is starting in the fall so it'll be interesting to see where things lead to. I feel bad for some of the other cities, but from what it looks like it's hitting home as well!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 11, 2008 at 1:28 pm
You could suggest to the board that instead of cutting coaches' stipends, the district eliminates the following:
1) Public Information Department employees and expenses:
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2) Roll back raises for all administrators
3) Do without the superintendent's and others' car and meal stipends
These are just a few examples of simple and all too obvious cuts that the superintendent has failed to notice - which makes me question if he really is competent to run this district.
Bring in an independent consultant to look at the expenses and suggest reasonable, intelligent cuts away from the classroom/students.
a resident of Pleasanton Middle School
on Mar 11, 2008 at 9:59 pm
We are comparable to San Ramon in most ways demographics and test scores.
Our board members say we need a parcel tax because our neighbors have one.
My point is that even without a parcel tax we have more revenue than they do.
Pleasanton total revenue( Fed, state, local) is $9,113, 114% of average for Ca. districts.
San Ramon total revenue( Fed, state, local) is $7,361, 92% of average for Ca. districts.
Our kids will not do without if we hold the district accountable. They must make responsible cuts or we should demand someone be brought in that can make unbiased recommendations.
I used ED-DATA. Put in district zip code, scroll to the bottom then click on the dollar sign to see financial reports, then click on revenue source.
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a resident of Foothill High School
on Apr 4, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Having a child in sports I can say that I do not mind if they cut the stipends as many of the sports teams are politically structured and there is a definite "favoritism" that occurs. It's not always what you know -but who you know that happens on the field/court. Many Pleasanton parents pay big dollars for outside coaching and club teams. I think there is a definite advantage to their children playing sports in the schools and they should be willing to pay for it like other school districts do. Many of the students who are GIVEN the opportunity to play varsity sports have their path paved for college entrance and scholarships. This must be worth something to these kids and they should be willing to supplement the cost just as they would for outside coaching, tutoring or club teams. I do not think another parcel tax is warranted. I also feel strongly that before academic programs of any kind are cut that housecleaning needs to occur at the district office and the administrative staff. There are also ways to alleviate jobs through productivity and technology that isn't even being considered because it would cut these "perfect" summer free jobs. Let's get creative at the PUSD headquarters. I'm sure you'll come up with something besides teachers and programs. If not, I volunteer to help slice appropriate overhead!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Apr 4, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I agree with Linda regarding the comparison between San Ramon and Pleasanton. And the extra "kicker" is that San Ramon has better test scores than Pleasanton! We need to cut the "extra" fluff in our schools and focus back on basics. Also, I agree with Foothill mom about the sports programs. Parents that have children participating should be willing to pay or fund raise for these activities just like they would for any other extracurricular activity that benefits their child. So many parents at Foothill take advantage of the education and sports programs but do nothing to supplement the cost or the work involved. As Foothill's demographics are changing - this is becoming more apparent. No on another parcel tax.
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Otori T, Greenberg JH, Welsh FA: Cortical spreading depression causes a long-lasting decrease in cerebral blood flow and induces tolerance to permanent focal ischemia in rat brain. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 23(1): 43-50, Jan 2003.
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Rangel YM, Karikó K, Harris VA, Duvall ME, Welsh FA: Dose-dependent induction of mRNAs encoding brain-derived neurotrophic factor and heat-shock protein-72 after cortical spreading depression in the rat. Mol Brain Res 88(1-2): 103-112, Mar 2001.
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Bá and I will participate this year again in the awesomeness that is TR!CKSTER. During Comicon in San Diego, while amazing stuff happens inside the convention center, there's just too much going on, and more and more it's easy to lose focus of what you want, what you love and what you're looking for. For these reasons, some amazing folks created a place outside the convention center where you can focus on creators who do their own comics, and where you can learn and discuss how to become a creator yourself talking with some great talented bunch of authors you admire or soon will discover.
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Bá will do one cocktail hour, and I will do another.
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David Cullen is a Grammy Award Winner for Best Pop Instrumental Recording. He has performed with Will Ackerman, Samite, Tracy Silverman, Darol Anger, The DePue Brothers Band and Michael Manring. David also has played with The Jaco Big Band, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia , The Philly Pops and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
David Cullen has performed in a dazzling wide range of styles including Classical, Jazz, and World Music. David has performed throughout North America for Classical Guitar Societies, Jazz Festivals, and Performing Arts Series. He has released 10 CDs for the acoustic guitar label Solid Air Records. David Cullen's recordings have been featured on NPR stations across America.
David Cullen earned his Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from the Hartt School of Music. David is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Elizabethtown College working with Music Therapy and Music Education majors.
He teaches Jazz Guitar, Classical Guitar and Guitar Skills for Music Therapy and Music Education Students at West Chester University.
David Cullen also teaches guitar to Music Business and Music Technology students at Millersville University
Recording work also includes the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and other Windham Hill Compilation CDs. David has released 2 books through Warner Brothers Publications; Jazz, Classical, and Beyond as well as Grateful Guitar. His performance DVD Jazz, Classical and Beyond features multi-camera angles and lessons.


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Steyer plans $100M campaign push
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer is laying plans to go big in the 2014 election.
The former hedge fund manager is hoping to spend $100 million — $50 million from his personal fortune and $50 million from other donors — to make climate change a top-tier issue in the election, The New York Times is reporting.
A person close to Steyer confirmed the $100 million figure to POLITICO but cautioned that it is not a ceiling.
Steyer and his group NextGen Climate Action have emerged over the last year as a major player in the growing world of money and politics, a realm in which court decisions such as the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling have tossed out much of the old rulebook.
( PHOTOS: Climate skeptics in Congress)
He spent millions on the 2013 Massachusetts Senate and Virginia governor's races, helping Democrats Ed Markey and Terry McAuliffe prevail, and has become one of the most outspoken opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. The group has also showed signs it's willing to go after Democrats who support Keystone, possibly including vulnerable Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu.
On Wednesday, Steyer's home will be the site of a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser, with scheduled attendees including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the Hill's most outspoken climate advocates.
Steyer's ambitious $100 million plan would rocket him into the big leagues. As the Times put it, the move would make NextGen "among the largest outside groups in the country, similar in scale to the conservative political network overseen by Charles and David Koch."
( Also on POLITICO: Full energy and environment policy coverage)
Steyer has said for months that he wants to get involved in the 2014 mid-terms, but until now his plans have been vague. Steyer, who has largely self-funded his previous campaigns, is actively seeking to recruit big donors. He pitched Democratic donors and wealthy environmentalists on his 2014 plans in February at his ranch in California, according to The Times.
While Steyer hasn't outlined a full list of his 2014 targets, the Times says early contenders include the Florida governor's race and the Iowa Senate race.
And in the latest signal that rejecting Keystone will be one of his top priorities going into the election, Steyer will brief people attending Wednesday's DSCC event about new polling about the pipeline, the person close to Steyer said. The polling will be released publicly Thursday.
Besides Reid and Whitehouse, senators scheduled to attend include Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Ben Cardin of Maryland, Mark Udall of Colorado, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
The Wednesday evening dinner fundraiser is being co-hosted by longtime San Francisco-based climate and Democratic donors Susie Tompkins Buell and her husband Mark Buell, as well as Lorna and Wade Randlett. Wade Randlett is chairman and co-founder of Enagra Holdings, a holding company for renewable energy projects.
Darren Goode contributed to this report.


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What is reassuring is that there is ample water on Mars and that surely means that deeper rock will also be water saturated as happens on Earth. Mars is really a wet planet with a freeze dried skin.
This actually means that terrafoming is possible using clear skin bubbles which can easily be a mile in radius and holding a pressurized atmosphere. It should be the equivalent of twelve thousand feet of elevation and perhaps potatoes could adapt there.
Everything else starts with the availability of water and that is now assured. The real habitat would be typically underground but an open shirt sleeve environment can be created on the surface in the bubbles.. Free energy from Dark matter electron decay can supply additional lighting and heat as well as needed.
It suddenly becomes possible to envisage large populations on Mars with gravity pads used to maintain our natural g levels at home at least.
This is not science fiction.
Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
November 22, 2016
This vertically exaggerated view shows scalloped depressions in a part of Mars where such textures prompted researchers to check for buried ice, using ground-penetrating radar aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Fast Facts:
› Water ice makes up half or more of an underground layer in a large region of Mars about halfway from the equator to the north pole.
› The amount of water in this deposit is about as much as in Lake Superior. It was assessed using a radar aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.
› This research advances understanding about Mars' history and identifies a possible resource for future astronauts.
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
Scientists examined part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument. Analyses of data from more than 600 overhead passes with the onboard radar instrument reveal a deposit more extensive in area than the state of New Mexico. The deposit ranges in thickness from about 260 feet (80 meters) to about 560 feet (170 meters), with a composition that's 50 to 85 percent water ice, mixed with dust or larger rocky particles.
At the latitude of this deposit -- about halfway from the equator to the pole -- water ice cannot persist on the surface of Mars today. It sublimes into water vapor in the planet's thin, dry atmosphere. The Utopia deposit is shielded from the atmosphere by a soil covering estimated to be about 3 to 33 feet (1 to 10 meters) thick.
"This deposit probably formed as snowfall accumulating into an ice sheet mixed with dust during a period in Mars history when the planet's axis was more tilted than it is today," said Cassie Stuurman of the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the lead author of a report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Mars today, with an axial tilt of 25 degrees, accumulates large amounts of water ice at the poles. In cycles lasting about 120,000 years, the tilt varies to nearly twice that much, heating the poles and driving ice to middle latitudes. Climate modeling and previous findings of buried, mid-latitude ice indicate that frozen water accumulates away from the poles during high-tilt periods.
Martian Water as a Future Resource
The name Utopia Planitia translates loosely as the "plains of paradise." The newly surveyed ice deposit spans latitudes from 39 to 49 degrees within the plains. It represents less than one percent of all known water ice on Mars, but it more than doubles the volume of thick, buried ice sheets known in the northern plains. Ice deposits close to the surface are being considered as a resource for astronauts.
"This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice," said Jack Holt of the University of Texas, a co-author of the Utopia paper who is a SHARAD co-investigator and has previously used radar to study Martian ice in buried glaciers and the polar caps.
The Utopian water is all frozen now. If there were a melted layer -- which would be significant for the possibility of life on Mars -- it would have been evident in the radar scans. However, some melting can't be ruled out during different climate conditions when the planet's axis was more tilted. "Where water ice has been around for a long time, we just don't know whether there could have been enough liquid water at some point for supporting microbial life," Holt said.
Utopia Planitia is a basin with a diameter of about 2,050 miles (3,300 kilometers), resulting from a major impact early in Mars' history and subsequently filled. NASA sent the Viking 2 Lander to a site near the center of Utopia in 1976. The portion examined by Stuurman and colleagues lies southwest of that long-silent lander.
Use of the Italian-built SHARAD instrument for examining part of Utopia Planitia was prompted by Gordon Osinski at Western University in Ontario, Canada, a co-author of the study. For many years, he and other researchers have been intrigued by ground-surface patterns there such as polygonal cracking and rimless pits called scalloped depressions -- "like someone took an ice-cream scoop to the ground," said Stuurman, who started this project while a student at Western.
Clue from Canada
In the Canadian Arctic, similar landforms are indicative of ground ice, Osinski noted, "but there was an outstanding question as to whether any ice was still present at the Martian Utopia or whether it had been lost over the millions of years since the formation of these polygons and depressions."
The large volume of ice detected with SHARAD advances understanding about Mars' history and identifies a possible resource for future use.
"It's important to expand what we know about the distribution and quantity of Martian water," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "We know early Mars had enough liquid water on the surface for rivers and lakes. Where did it go? Much of it left the planet from the top of the atmosphere. Other missions have been examining that process. But there's also a large quantity that is now underground ice, and we want to keep learning more about that."
Joe Levy of the University of Texas, a co-author of the new study, said, "The ice deposits in Utopia Planitia aren't just an exploration resource, they're also one of the most accessible climate change records on Mars. We don't understand fully why ice has built up in some areas of the Martian surface and not in others. Sampling and using this ice with a future mission could help keep astronauts alive, while also helping them unlock the secrets of Martian ice ages."
SHARAD is one of six science instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began its prime science phase 10 years ago this month. The mission's longevity is enabling studies of features and active processes all around Mars, from subsurface to upper atmosphere. The Italian Space Agency provided the SHARAD instrument and Sapienza University of Rome leads its operations. The Planetary Science Institute, based in Tucson, Arizona, leads U.S. involvement in SHARAD. JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the orbiter mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver built the spacecraft and supports its operations.
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Nailed was meant to be a quirky David O. Russell comedy starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, Tracy Morgan, Catherine Keener, and Paul Reubens. Instead, its unlucky cast and crew have gotten screwed in a way that wasn't remotely funny.
For once, the nightmare had nothing to do with the famously volatile Russell, who brawled with George Clooney while making Three Kings and who inadvertently starred in a viral video that showed him throwing a spectacular tantrum on the set of I Heart Huckabees.
Rather, Nailed was one of many films caught in the snares of would-be Hollywood moneyman David Bergstein, a defiant operator with a string of movie companies that have a tendency to run out of money.
"He has fancy offices in Century City," says one veteran producer who's had unhappy dealings with Bergstein. "It doesn't look like a set."
Bergstein, 47, came into the business by acquiring the remains of Franchise Films, a scandal-engulfed company that ran aground in 2004 after founder Elie Samaha was found liable for using "grossly fraudulent and inflated budgets." Since then, Bergstein and his silent partner, Los Angeles-based construction magnate Ron Tutor, have acquired several more film companies and built up a library that includes such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown.
To many in Hollywood, Bergstein came across as a serious businessman. "He has fancy offices in Century City," says one veteran producer who's had unhappy dealings with him. "It doesn't look like a set." The bearded Bergstein has "a nervous thing where he's constantly shaking his leg while he's talking," this producer says, "but he seemed stand-up."
Now Bergstein is facing more than a dozen creditors in Los Angeles bankruptcy court who say he's left a trail of unpaid bills and "demonstrated repeatedly that he is unfit and incompetent." Bergstein did not respond to a request for comment but in recent interviews he has denied wrongdoing, portraying himself as the victim of "fake" creditors and tough times in the independent film world.
The cast and crew of Nailed certainly found Bergstein unfit and incompetent—and that's putting it kindly. They suffered through repeated shutdowns when promised funds failed to materialize. Nonetheless, Russell almost managed to finish filming his movie. He got everything shot before the money finally ran out—except for one key scene.
Nailed sounds like a typically off-the-wall Russell project: A young woman accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head, loses her sexual inhibitions, and goes to Washington on a crusade to reform healthcare. Based on a script by Kristin Gore (Al's daughter, who's had writing credits on Saturday Night Live and Futurama), the movie was developed by seasoned producers Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick, whose credits include Gladiator and Stuart Little. In a better economy, they would have been comfortably settled at a big studio rather than looking for funding from Bergstein, who homed in on smaller projects that the studios would not make.
According to several sources, Bergstein has consistently lured in talent by offering just a bit more money than the next highest bidder. In the world of independent film, that's a temptation many can't resist. "If he's saying, I'll put up $24 million and the other person is saying he'll put up $22 million—that's a lot of money," says a key player on Nailed. "What he understands in a very parasitical way is that you get people pregnant and you use their natural creative urges, knowing that once they get [involved], you can really fuck them over."
Though Bergstein's business habits are well known in Hollywood by now, his reputation wasn't so clearly established when the cast and crew of Nailed set off to film in South Carolina in 2008. A tipoff came early. On the first day of filming, the Screen Actors Guild instructed its members not to work because a required bond payment had not been deposited. With the SAG order, actors were not even supposed to rehearse.
"We had the normal five blocks of trucks, it looked like the Marines had landed, and we couldn't start," says a source involved with the project. Though filming commenced without much delay, a week later the Director's Guild also ordered its members to stop work.
Bergstein's associates kept promising that money was on the way. It arrived late, in fits and starts, and often in smaller amounts than promised. Repeatedly, a line producer standing on the back of a grip truck had to tell the unhappy crew that payroll money had not arrived again. The orders from Bergstein's company were to offer a premium if the crew would wait for payment. For each day the money failed to arrive, the promised payday grew and the cost of the film went up.
"It was the hardest movie in my life," says one key member of Nailed's filmmaking team. "Some people quit. Some people were brought to tears. . . They were at the breaking point."
One production source estimates the many starts and stops probably added $4 million to the cost of the film. By the end, some crew members were left so short of money and desperate that they made off with photocopiers and other equipment in an attempt to recoup their losses. And no one seems to blame them. "It was the hardest movie in my life," says one key member of the filmmaking team. "Some people quit. Some people were brought to tears. . . They were at the breaking point."
Gyllenhaal and Biel were not at risk financially. They worked for reduced fees but their money had been secured before they started. Sources on the film say Gyllenhaal pressured his agents at CAA to squeeze Bergstein but the executive proved to be squeeze-resistant. Both Gyllenhaal and Biel offered words of support to the crew. More than once, when filming shut down, Justin Timberlake sent a jet to spirit his girlfriend Biel away, according to one of the production staff.
Meanwhile, crew members drowned their sorrows in a local bar called The Whig. They began to read news articles about problems on other Bergstein films, emailing distressing stories to each other with mounting horror. A group created a website called "ihatedavidbergstein.com." And a member of the accounting staff sent Bergstein and his associates a signed "fuck-you" email—using those exact words, more than once.
"How can you people live with yourselves?" this employee asked. "My typical day is filled with making promises that I cannot keep to little Ma and Pa vendors who have extended services to our company on good faith. These are real people with families to provide for and bills to pay. Your constant promises of `tomorrow the loan will go through' [are] ludicrous. And you've all made a liar out of me . . . Fuck you."
Through it all, David O. Russell remained relatively calm—a response that makes sense to one associate involved in the film. "For the first time, there were more demons outside his head than inside his head," this insider says. "He wanted to step forward and captain a good ship for his own career. He was in ultra-professional mode. For him, it was so cruel—he was trapped at every turn." (Russell did not respond to a request for comment.)
Despite all the setbacks, the cast and crew on Nailed nearly got to the finish line, with everything shot except for the key scene in which Biel's character gets the nail implanted in her skull. Frustrating but perhaps not accidental: Without that scene, no one can slap a version of the film together and release it.
By now, the Nailed footage has languished for nearly two years. "It is $26 million just sitting on a shelf," says a high-level source involved with the project. "It's insane." Russell still wants to shoot that last scene, which would take just a couple of days, and complete his movie. But others associated with the project say key players are worn out and feel that nothing is worth the pain of dealing with Bergstein again.
"That's where the joke is on him," says the insider. "He has your baby and he tortures you. But finally, he's the one sitting with the $26 million dead baby."
The baby might not be quite dead after all. Until recently, building magnate Ron Tutor has remained a silent partner in Bergstein's doings but in the past couple of weeks, he quietly met with representatives from Nailed, including attorney Bruce Ramer, who represents Russell (but is better known as Steven Spielberg's lawyer). Sources involved with the film say Tutor wants to get the movie finished—which makes sense given the amount of money that's already been spent. But those involved with the film remain leery of anyone associated with Bergstein. "I'm too suspicious to assume the best," says one.
Meanwhile, Bergstein's problems have only deepend. Last month, a bankruptcy judge in Los Angeles took the rare step of appointing an interim trustee to seize control of Bergstein's assets. The major Hollywood unions—the Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild—have lined up against him. He also faces a bankruptcy proceeding in Britain.
And the story continues to get darker. On Monday, the Los Angeles Superior Court issued a bench warrant for Bergstein's arrest in connection with a gambling debt of more than $1 million owed to Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas. The casino had won a default judgment against Bergstein in August after he failed to appear in court in Nevada. He later told The Hollywood Reporter that he had been unaware of the matter. The casino has pursued its claim in Los Angeles—alleging that Bergstein has transferred two homes in Southern California—apparently to his mother—to prevent them from being seized in connection with the case. Bergstein has twice defied a judge's order to appear in court to explain what assets will enable him to cover the debt (though he did send an attorney).
Gyllenhaal and Biel are hardly the only big names who have suffered through Bergstein-financed productions. Among them are Helen Mirren, star of Love Ranch, a film directed by her husband, Taylor Hackford, about a couple who open a brothel in Nevada. Like Nailed, Love Ranch had to shut down temporarily during filming due to lack of funds. The Director's Guild filed a claim last year to help Hackford collect the better part of his $500,000 fee. He managed to get most of his money and complete his film, which is set for a limited release in July.
While Bergstein would seem to have his hands more than full, he has amazed those in Hollywood who thought they had seen it all by spearheading what seems to be a quixotic attempt to purchase Miramax from Disney for about $650 million.
For those who suffered through the nightmare of Nailed, that's the new definition of "chutzpah."
Plus: Check out more of the latest entertainment, fashion, and culture coverage on Sexy Beast—photos, videos, features, and Tweets.
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business, and the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.


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After nine years on the Orioles beat, I've been handed the keys to my own sports blog. The ride won't always be smooth, especially the first few miles, and I have a tendency to become reckless behind the wheel – which allowed me to blend in perfectly with the Orioles. But it was time for a change. Nothing lasts forever, except for Sidney Ponson's attempts to recite the alphabet after a night of drinking.
I was given the option of remaining with the team as a consultant, but Jim Beattie didn't recommend it. I also could have become the bullpen coach. But such a move probably would have killed my chances of being a manager someday. At least, that's what Rick Dempsey told me.
Once I was informed of the Sun's plans to start this blog, I had only one question for my boss: What the heck is a blog? It sounds like something that requires a surgeon's scalpel and a biopsy. I have to admit, I don't usually read these things, but I'm hoping there are enough people out there who will. And feel free to join in, though I can't always promise that your responses will appear on my site. (Some free advice: Avoid any e-mails that include the word "sucks," unless you're referring to Kyle Boller).
I have to admit, I'll miss standing around the Orioles' clubhouse 3 ½ hours before the first pitch, realizing once again that there's way too much nudity in baseball. Would it kill these guys to grab a towel?
But where else could I witness Channel 13 sportscaster Stan Saunders, with microphone in hand, asking second baseman Brian Roberts why he decided to bat right-handed in the eighth inning after swinging from the left side earlier in the game? Rattled only for a brief moment, Roberts glanced at the other reporters and politely responded: "Um, because they brought in a left-handed pitcher." Spoken like a true switch-hitter.
I'll always appreciate the chance to watch, up close and personal, Rafael Palmeiro's smooth swings and Albert Belle's mood swings, which reminds me of B.J. Surhoff's classic response to a reporter's question about the dour left fielder being named Most Valuable Oriole by the media in 1999. "I know why you guys chose me," Surhoff said. "Cal's hurt and you guys hate Albert." Damn, he saw right through us.
Even though I'm no longer working exclusively on the baseball beat, I'll still be available to inject Peter Schmuck with B-12 shots whenever he's feeling a little sluggish. And I'll still have plenty to say about the Orioles. It might take a bit longer to grow comfortable with hockey and NASCAR, but I'll do my best.
Like I said, the ride with me won't always be smooth. Is everyone OK with reckless?


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Newswise — Scientists at SUNY Buffalo State are taking the lead in a $2 million project to safeguard the environmental health of the upper Niagara River for the Western New Yorkers who use it for bird-watching, kayaking, and recreational sport-fishing. And all that may depend on a small silvery-green fish, the emerald shiner.
Alicia Pérez-Fuentetaja, associate professor of biology and research scientist with the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State, is the project director. She is an aquatic ecologist who studies food web interactions, particularly in the Great Lakes.
"The emerald shiner, a native fish that's about three to four inches long, is eaten by many of the sport fish and the fish-eating birds that nest or migrate along the Upper Niagara," she said. "But we know almost nothing about the shiner ecology in the Niagara River, or whether the available habitat meets their needs."
Collaborators on the project, representing the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, the University at Buffalo, Virginia Technical Institute, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources share Pérez-Fuentetaja's concern. Massive die-offs of emerald shiners occur sporadically, but no one knows why with any certainty.
"To ensure the long-term survival of the emerald shiners and all the fish and birds that depend on them," said Pérez-Fuentetaja, "we have to understand what they need and determine what is available in the river and try to reconcile those two aspects."
The fish that feast on shiners in the Niagara include walleye, steelhead trout, and largemouth and smallmouth bass; bird species include the common loon, mergansers, and the threatened common tern. The Niagara River, like the Florida Everglades and the Galapagos Islands, has been designated an international Important Bird Area, and the well-being of the birds that use the river depends on healthy emerald shiner populations.
To investigate the emerald shiner, Pérez-Fuentetaja received a consistency determination to the Niagara River Greenway Plan from the Niagara River Greenway Commission, indicating that the proposed project is in line with the Greenway Commission's plan. The Greenway Commission's Ecological Standing Committee, established by the relicensing of the New York Power Authority, awarded the project a $766,448 grant to fund a three-year study; the first-year award was $298,880. Mark Clapsadl, fisheries biologist at the Great Lakes Center and Randal Snyder, biology professor at Buffalo State, are co-principal investigators.
When Pérez-Fuentetaja reached out to area agencies, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed that the original grant be used to leverage additional funding--to the tune of $1.3 million--from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Remedial Action Plan for the Niagara River Area of Concern. A partnership agreement between Buffalo State and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers articulates that the Corps of Engineers will provide in-kind services under Pérez-Fuentetaja's direction to expand the scope of the project. One aspect includes studying the ability of the emerald shiner to migrate back into Lake Erie against the current.
"The emerald shiners appear in the Upper Niagara in large numbers about this time of the year," said Pérez-Fuentetaja, "but we don't know their migratory patterns. Our hypothesis is that most of them return to Lake Erie before freeze-up while some overwinter in the river. One of our concerns is that the loss of natural habitat along the Niagara shore imperils their natural movements."
That's because the river's edges, which once provided sloping shorelines where aquatic plants could grow and shelter the shiners, have been replaced by manmade structures. "Vertical bulkheads and concrete structures transform the Niagara from a river to a giant canal where the water speeds through," she said. "The rapid current in some key areas may be affecting the shiners' ability to migrate and complete their life cycle."
As Pérez-Fuentetaja has visited observation sites along the Niagara River, she has met people fishing, paddling, or bird-watching. "These people love this river," she said, "and it's an important part of their lives." As the three-year project unfolds, she plans to reach out to the public through education.
"The ice is flowing through the Upper Niagara now," Pérez-Fuentetaja said, "and we are getting ready to start sampling right behind it!"


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Teen Mania Celebrates 25 Years of Global Missions Work
Teen Mania Ministries is celebrating 25 years of sending young people on foreign missions trips through its Global Expeditions program, which has taught thousands of teenagers that they don't have to wait until they are adults in order to be used by God.
"The 25th anniversary for Teen Mania, I don't think it's a congratulations to us. It's just another sign that God is insisting that his mission gets accomplished," Ron Luce, founder and president of Teen Mania, told The Christian Post on Thursday.
Luce and his wife, Katie, started the Garden Valley, Texas-based ministry with the understanding that adults aren't the only ones who can be used by God, and teens don't need a high school diploma to make an impact on the world.
"When we first started, very few people were taking teenagers on missions trips. People would look at us and go, 'You want to take kids where? They can't remember to put their socks on, you want them to remember their passport?'" Luce told The Christian Post on Thursday.
Despite their passion, however, the Luce's decision to work with teenage missionaries wasn't easy. They were torn by their convictions to both reach young people in the U.S. and to work in foreign missions, Luce says, so they prayed for clarity and eventually God showed them that they could do both at the same time.
Since that time, around 70,000 teenagers have participated in Global Expeditions trips, Luce says, and nearly 1.5 million people have received Christ as a result of the witness of these young missionaries. Since its founding in 1987, the program has sent missionaries to over 69 different countries, and this year alone it will send 2,000 young people to 33 countries on six different continents.
"Every place we go we're teaching young people to share their faith in Christ, which, ironically, is a distinction that's not all so common on short-term mission trips now. There's a lot of 'let's go and do good things for people but not necessarily share our faith,' and...we want every single young person to lead people to Jesus," said Luce.
And those they serve aren't the only ones who benefit, but the teens themselves also have a lot to gain through the trips. Luce says leading someone to Christ helps teens to realize that they have a greater purpose in life, and helping people in dire need causes them to adopt a different value system.
"What happens is, when they go overseas, they tend to come back to the States and they can see through the lies of the culture," said Luce. He says teens often return caring much less about the latest clothes and forms of entertainment, because they have seen and met people who live in desperate need.
On these trips, the missionaries might serve the locals in any number of ways, like building houses for those who live in cardboard boxes, or by drilling wells for water, or by visiting prisoners and orphans. No matter how they help on a practical level, however, they are sure to share their faith as well.
"History's...shown us that wars are won by young people going to the front lines, and so why not win spiritual wars with young people going out to share their faith and break the chains on people in bondage?" said Luce.
But what motivates teens to take several weeks out of their summer fun to serve others? Luce says the motivation for many teens is the "spark" they feel inside of themselves when they think, "Just maybe God can use me to do something to change the world."
Some parents might be afraid to let their children travel out of the country, but Luce says parents sometimes regret not letting their teenagers have the faith-deepening experience of doing foreign mission work while they are young. Global Expeditions takes a number of safety precautions to make sure young missionaries are kept safe, and all team leaders and project directors must receive a special certification before they can lead a group of young people.
Luce says it is good for teens to show "kindness in the name of the Lord" by serving people in their local communities, but he also believes they should get out of their "comfort zone" and experience sharing the Gospel in a different culture at least once in their lives.


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DSA-2770-1 torque -- authentication bypass
- Date Reported:
- 09 Oct 2013
- Affected Packages:
- torque
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 722306.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4319.
- More information:
John Fitzpatrick of MWR InfoSecurity discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in torque, a PBS-derived batch processing queueing system.
The torque authentication model revolves around the use of privileged ports. If a request is not made from a privileged port then it is assumed not to be trusted or authenticated. It was found that pbs_mom does not perform a check to ensure that connections are established from a privileged port.
A user who can run jobs or login to a node running pbs_server or pbs_mom can exploit this vulnerability to remotely execute code as root on the cluster by submitting a command directly to a pbs_mom daemon to queue and run a job.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.8+dfsg-9squeeze2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.16+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your torque packages.


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Democrats Are United on Debt Talks, For Now
Finding themselves in the unusual position of having leverage in the debt limit talks, House Democrats are not letting traditional dividing forces fracture their Caucus — at least for now.
A senior Democratic aide said that because Republicans will need 50 to 70 — or even more — of their Members to pass any deal, "It does give [Democrats] some leverage, there's no doubt about it."
Democrats have traditionally been riven with conflicts among groups that range from the Congressional Progressive Caucus to the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, but Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) are managing to keep their party on the same page on the debt negotiations.
A Democratic aide said part of the Caucus' ability to remain united is an understanding that it finds itself in a rare moment in which the minority party in the House — which is normally sidelined in the best of circumstances — has a say in a major policy debate in Washington.
"It's serious, there's no question about that. Being in the minority and still having a taste of what it was like to be in the majority, it helps remind folks what we need to get back there," the aide said.
According to Democrats, Pelosi and other leaders sought to reinforce that unity during Tuesday's Caucus meeting. "She also made the point that we're with the president. He has a role to play, and we have a role to play," a Democratic aide said.
"We know what our message is, our message is clear," Pelosi told the Caucus, ticking off defending Medicare and attacking Republicans on tax loopholes for corporations, according to the aide.
"I think there's going to be a great unity," Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) said Tuesday of his party's approach to the debt limit.
"Democrats have been ready," House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.) told reporters Tuesday. "We're not the ones who have been making ultimatums. We're not the ones who have walked away from the negotiations — more than once — and we're not the ones that are calling this process smoke and mirrors. We're ready. The American people expect us to be ready, and we're ready for that adult moment whenever our Republican counterparts agree to come to the table."
That is not to say Democrats will still be unified if the White House and Congressional leaders agree on a deal.
Democrats acknowledge that in the end, there is a small subset of their Members who will likely vote for almost any debt limit deal, so long as it does not include massive changes to Medicare or Social Security. Although neither party has begun counting votes, Democratic and Republican aides predicted Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) can likely count on just shy of 20 Blue Dogs and other moderates from the outset.
Earlier this year, 85 Democrats voted for a continuing resolution agreed to by Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and President Barack Obama, and aides predicted a number of those Members were also likely to be inclined to vote for a debt limit deal.
Still, some of those Democrats who voted for the CR cautioned that their support of that measure would not necessarily equate to support for raising the debt ceiling, particularly if Republicans push a measure that slashes entitlements.
"It's completely different," said Dicks, who voted for the CR.
"It wasn't that bad a deal, it was acceptable," the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee said about the funding measure. "That was serious; this is super serious."
Rep. David Price said it "would be a sad miscalculation" for Republicans to expect many Democrats to join the majority in voting for a debt limit deal. Like Democratic leaders and Obama, Price said any deal must strike a balance between finding new tax revenues and trimming entitlement expenditures — but not at the expense of the people who receive them.
The North Carolina Democrat also took aim at Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who Monday said the GOP was compromising just by "the fact that we have been discussing voting for a debt ceiling increase."
"If Cantor says he's giving us a break by even being at the table, and the only question is how much are we willing to cut — what kind of negotiation is that? It's not a negotiation," Price said.
Hoyer issued his own retort to Cantor's remarks during a Tuesday briefing with reporters, calling it "an extraordinary comment to be made in a democracy." And while the Maryland Democrat has long called for a bipartisan debt deal, going back to April when he penned a letter to Boehner offering to work together on the issue, he said that support was not guaranteed.
"I think if what the Republicans do is try to hold hostage the creditworthiness of the United States of America so they can slash programs that are critically important to the American people and to stabilizing and growing the economy, the answer to that is they ought not to expect us to support that," Hoyer said.
Meanwhile, Democrats were ramping up their message offensive against the GOP's balanced budget amendment push.
On Tuesday, Boehner explicitly endorsed passing such an amendment to the Constitution, telling his Conference he could think of "no better" way to enforce future spending caps than by passing the amendment.
Democrats quickly began pushing back, and leadership has its Members linking the amendment to Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) plan to retool Medicare.
For instance, Budget ranking member Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Tuesday, "That's not a balanced budget amendment. That's a Trojan Horse for the Republican budget."
Van Hollen argued that Republicans had written the amendment in such a way that it would impose significant cuts to Medicare and Social Security and "is an abuse, using the Constitution of the country to impose their plan to end Medicare."


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We live in an age when a presumed irrevocable gulf between science and religion is perpetuated in the public sphere. But new evidence is emerging that reveals a far more complex picture of the relationship between these powerful social forces. One eight-region study of Religion among Scientists in International Context found a majority of scientists consider themselves either religious or spiritual, or both, in all regions except the United States, United Kingdom and France. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to address long-held animosities. On both sides.


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Hewlett-Packard wants to make BYOD easier for small businesses through a new cloud-based service to manage and protect mobile devices and PCs.
The company's Web-based Touchpoint Manager service, launched Monday, can remotely check the health of smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. It can also issue alerts and remotely lock or wipe data from devices in case of theft.
The service is for businesses with up to 500 employees that need a basic bring-your-own-device management plan at an affordable price, said Michael Park, vice president and general manager of Commercial Mobility, Printer and Personal Systems at HP.
For US$2 a month, a starter plan provides a list of users and devices, tracks devices on a map, and monitors hard-disk health and battery life of remote devices. For $10, users get additional features like camera management and the ability find lost devices, reset passwords remotely and wipe data. Under both plans, system administrators can track and issue alerts in case devices are close to expiration or security software is out of date.
Device management isn't a new field and that considering HP has been selling PCs and tablets for years now, it's taken a while for the company to release such a cohesive offering. HP worked on the product for one-and-a-half years and though it may be late, it wanted to offer BYOD tools that are "stable" and "radically" easy to use, Park said.
HP is announcing the service just a few months after IBM and Apple announced an "exclusive" deal in which iPhones and iPads would be sold to enterprises backed by IBM's device management, cloud and analytics services. Locking corporate environments into one OS can be an expensive proposition, and HP wanted to offer a service that's device and OS agnostic, Park said.
Touchpoint Manager supports mobile devices and PCs running Android, iOS and Windows. It doesn't support Mac laptops or BlackBerry devices. It also won't provide management and security for thin clients that run applications directly off servers.
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HP is also tailoring its business laptops with exclusive features to take advantage of the service. Its Elitebook business laptops coming later this year will have GPS-like technology so laptops can be tracked even when they are turned off. The feature isn't available on current Elitebooks.
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A quick update from the SLV database. I was looking at the SLV inventory over the last two weeks of April. I cobbed together this chart (click for larger view) which compares the closing price of SLV vs. the inventory held according to the ounces published. It's a bad graph, but one of my first composite charts so be kind.
The graph is curious because on the 20th of May, the number of bars held takes a big drop and then peaks again on the 27th April with the high in silver (the gap in the middle is the easter holiday).
I have always wondered about the bars which disappear and then show up again. It stands to reason that because the 1000-oz bars are quite heavy, that movement in and out of the vault will probably be more like allocations rather than actual shipping (as highlighted by Bron).
So using the 13th April bar list as a reference point, I set out to find out how many bars showing up in 27th April list, were already present in the 13th April list, with a temporary absence of leave on the 20th April (in between).
After crunching the numbers in the bar serial numbers database, I have an answer - 8.3 percent of the amount added to the inventory between 20th April and 27th April. i.e. between those dates, some 9,954,185 oz of silver was added to SLV, and of that amount 1,197,039.8 oz (8.3 pct) was already sitting in the vault on the 13th April (14 days before). The table in the database for those date ranges is called "SLV_Analysis" so you can check my maths if you want - the connection information for the database is here.
I used this exercise to cut my teeth on the data processing and I give no personal guarantee about any numbers, this exercise was about 5 hours of work. I'm happy to share any details if anyone is interested (and again, the data is all there if you want to check).
What to conclude? Not much - approximately 1197 bars probably never left the vault and went 'dark' for a few weeks while SLV shuffled its data around, reappearing 14 days later. Either that or those bars left the vault and then got redelivered within a few weeks. I am personally more inclined to think that they have shitloads of silver - more than you can imagine - and they shuffle the allocation as best as they see fit to manage the price and futures, all that stuff, to make lots of money from hapless investors. Certainly it's more likely a change of ownership registration than a physical move, but it means that we've got more hard work ahead to identify these dark pools of silver. If anyone out there has any comments that can enhance my understanding, please let me know your thoughts, many thanks.
NOTE: This analysis indicates the SLV Serial Bars data is about right. If it were claiming all the bars were brand new, that would be unusual, and if all the inventory showed up a second time, that would indicate shenanigans, but a 8.3% seems about right.
Since this analysis, we got a bit more sophisticated. For a full list of all future articles in this series, please check out http://screwtapefiles.blogspot.com/p/bullion-bars-database.html


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DreamWhen a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realize his dream. Paulo Coelho
Fun Times on the AC 100 course. Friday there was 17 runners who showed up to run 23 miles on the AC course.
I felt a little off when I woke up in the morning. I was tired going into the run.
We headed up Baden Powell and I knew right away I didn't feel 100%. I was tired I was sleepy, I woke up early Thursday worked then drove 5 1/2 hours to Sierra Madre and woke up early for the run. So I knew it was going to be a long day. Andy didn't calculate the time right..the drive and time we had to be done early. We had a date that night and needed to be home by 4pm to get ready for our date.
We all ran with different groups since everyone was running at different speeds.
Andy ran ahead and would wait for me. We decided we would run to islip saddle to regroup. We met the rest of the group. We decided we would run the road then pick the trail up again and run to Eagles roost
There we decided we would hitch to go back to get the car at Vincent gap. Others also hitched to their cars or ran the road back. A few of our friends got lost and added miles but made it back safe some four hours later.
We made it home around 4:30 just in time to get ready for my surprise date. Andy took me to see Cirque Berzerk we had a blast I love all the performers they were awesome. It's a very Gothic type cirques. If you live in LA I suggest you see it. I believe it is running until July 18th. http://www.cirqueberzerk.com/
4th of July we went to the Sierra madre parade and we did a night run of 27 miles on the AC 100 course. I felt great during that run what a difference a day makes.
Not all opportunity is good opportunity, so pick and choose wisely out of the opportunities that will soon be presented. This is a time to be considering the future and putting down strong foundations that will lead to success. If you build the foundations correctly success will follow easily. If you don't take time to lay the foundation correctly then your plans are likely to fall down. Don't delay or prevaricate at this time. Propitious happenings are afoott.
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Selena Gomez Gabs on 'The View,' Performs on 'Letterman' [VIDEO]
Selena Gomez gabbed with Barbara Walters and her crew on 'The View' yesterday (Oct. 17). She also visited David Letterman's late night show to perform. Thankfully, she didn't diss Justin Bieber this time out.
Looking gorgeous with her side braid on the gabfest, Sel talked about her newborn little sister, saying she feels like a big aunt, given their two-decade age gap.
Babs asked how she manages to dance as much as she does on tour, even though she is young and full of energy. Sel shared that she loves telling a story through dance and that there are 13 choreographed pieces on the Stars Dance Tour. That's a lot! No wonder she had to ice down when the tour started.
The singer and actress also talked about baking cookies with Taylor Swift and dancing like they are five year olds!
It wasn't a super enlightening interview, in that we didn't learn anything that we didn't already know. But Sel did say that she is a girl, which means she changes her mind a lot, so 'Stars Dance' might not be her final CD. That's good news!
Is it us or was co-host Jenny McCarthy a bit over-the-top while gushing over Gomez?
Bieber's ex also performed 'Slow Down' on 'The Late Show With David Letterman.'
You can watch that perf below. Check out those slits in her skirt! Sexxxxxxaaaaayyyy!
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Russia Allows Final Child Adoptions to Leave for US
MOSCOW - The 22-month-old boy ran out with a big smile and exclaimed, "Mama!"
It was a moment Robert and Kim Summers had dreamt of for months, but feared would never happen.
After weeks of uncertainty and diplomatic wrangling, Russian authorities have begun to allow a final few adoptions to the United States to proceed, squeaking in under the wire despite Russia's new ban on adoptions to the United States.
The boy, whom the Summers have renamed Preston, is among just a handful of Russian orphans were able to leave the country starting last Thursday. U.S. officials said they expect nearly two dozen more to leave in the coming days, and they hope more will soon follow.
They are among 52 adoptions that were in legal limbo after Russia's ban on adoptions by Americans went into effect on Jan. 1. The measure was part of Russia's retaliation for a set of human rights sanctions President Obama signed into law last month.
After back-and-forth statements from various Russian officials about whether those cases would be subject to the ban or not, senior Russian officials said they would allow them to proceed. They had received court approval before the ban went into effect.
Still, it was not so easy. After the ban was announced, Robert and Kim Summers spent hours on the phone, calling their adoption agency, members of Congress and anyone else they thought could help.
"We decided we were going to bring this baby home, no matter what it took," Robert said.
Finally, they decided to fly to Russia anyway in hope that they would be allowed to bring Preston home. When they took off they had no idea if the boy would be with them on the return flight.
They traveled to Preston's orphanage in Kaluga, a few hours south of Moscow. They had not seen him since Dec. 12, but after he ran to greet them they were reassured they were doing the right thing.
They were supposed to bring Preston home on Jan. 11, but the date came and went. A judge gave final approval, but officials in the passport office were reluctant to issue travel documents because they did not know if the adoption ban applied in this case.
After days of pleading they finally received the passport. On Sunday they boarded a plane to New York. Preston was so excited he did not sleep on the entire ten-hour flight.
The family's difficulties were not unique. Families and U.S. officials said that lower-level Russian bureaucrats have been reluctant to process travel documents amid the confusion over what was banned and what was not. Last week Russia's children's ombudsman, Pavel Astakhav, who supports the ban, tried to clear up the confusion and promised to intervene personally in any cases that were blocked.
Still, there are some cases that remain stuck. According to families and officials, Russian judges and officials have refused to provide travel documents despite the clearer guidance from Moscow. U.S. officials said the problem is appearing only in certain regions, but declined to identify which ones.
But even though they say they are hopeful that most, if not all, of the 52 cases will proceed, U.S. officials have turned their attention to the potentially hundreds of other adoptions that remain more precarious. In those cases families may have even visited a child multiple times, but did not receive court approval prior to the Jan. 1 cutoff.
U.S. officials say they are urging the Russians to interpret their exceptions to the ban - that they will allow adoptions in process to proceed - to include such cases.
So far Russian officials have said they will honor only those cases already approved by a judge.