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a 4 Slot drobo with 4 x 2TB drives can only store 6TB since it HAS to use 2TB of capacity for parity information.
Like Burger King, Western Digital believes in whoppers; it's just announced a 4TB capacity My Book external drive. Inside this My Book Studio Edition II is a pair of 2TB SATA drives with four interfaces to a host PC: eSATA and FireWire 800 for maximum performance, with FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 for more pedestrian and wide- …
I think having what is essentially a backup device configured as Raid 0 is highly inadvisable, considering that if one disk fails, then all the data is gone, beyond any reasonable attempts at recovery. It's especially worrying considering that they then spefically make reference to the possibilty of the drives failing.
Also, can't we just reformat the drives for Windows? I am also a creative video editor type, Windows does all that too...
Words cannot discribe how much I hated having to hold the apple button and click when in windows I can right click.
Anyway, Macs are good for people who don't know to use things because it's simple and it's their way or the highway. I want choice. /rant
Apple Licensing effectively killed firewire, eSata will do fine.
So can it be formatted for Windows like I think it should?
Though aimed at Mac users, the fanless Studio II drives appeal to discerning PC users too (I guess Mac users are deemed more up-market), and they're supplied with Windows drivers. You can select RAID 1 (mirroring), if you wish.
I was hoping that WD could produce drivers that would work around XP's inability to handle the type of partition table required for more than 2TB, but their web site would indicate otherwise. :( Of course, MS won't supply an upgrade for XP.
This is one reason why I expect drive manufacturers to wait as long as possible before releasing drives larger than 2TB that are aimed at ordinary PC users connecting with USB. They won't want to deal with large numbers of support calls from people who are still using XP.
This drive probably comes formatted to FAT32 to be compatible between Windows and OS X. However if you're only using it on one system, you may as well format it to the respective native FS as FAT32 is pretty naff.
"Words cannot discribe how much I hated having to hold the apple button and click when in windows I can right click."
I hate this too, and I use a Mac. This is why I use a two button mouse (novel idea, huh?) and I have the two-finger-tap enabled on my track pad.
I personally find that the trackpad in my early 2008 MacBook Pro to be the best trackpad I've ever used (not given the new glass ones a good testing so can't comment on those). Two finger scrolling is miles better than a 'scroll zone' on your average PC trackpad.
"I want choice. /rant"
You have choice, you made it. That doesn't mean you need to rubbish Macs because you chose a PC.
There are plenty of good reasons to favour a PC over a Mac, but the mouse is not one of them.
"Words cannot discribe how much I hated having to hold the apple button and click..."
Words cannot describe my incomprehension at such apopleptic and inarticulate rage, being generated by so small a thing. Calm down and get a two button mouse: in fact, plug a Microsoft one in, if it'll make you feel better. And try and get a sense of proportion. What effects do rush hour traffic, difficult personal relationships, people not folding their towels right on the radiator, or adverse weather conditions, bring about, in you, prey?
Where do these people, who go on about holding a key down and click, live? Is it the same place as the ones who claim that Linux users spend their whole lives manually editing config files, or who still claim to see blue screens of death all the time on Windows machines? Jesus! What febrile and thwarted lives, you must live!
Anyway, back to this drive thingie... I wouldn't want to entrust the amount of data this thing can hold, to the thing that was being asked to hold it (for all of the reasons mentioned by the other posters). The dangers of storing everything in one fragile repository have been apparent since about the time the Library of Alexandria burnt down.
I don't understand this misinformed attitude about buttons on Apple mice. You are obviously criticising something you have never used! The Apple Mighty Mouse has been out for many years and ships with all Mac desktop computers. There is also a wireless option.
They have right-click, left-click, center-click, a center scroll nipple that works left and right and up and down plus two side buttons. The buttons are all totaly configurable in the System Preferences.
It doesn't have one button, it doesn't have a roller ball, it needs no special drivers, it works equally well for right and left handed people.
Wolf Clostermann- "I think having what is essentially a backup device configured as Raid 0 is highly inadvisable, considering that if one disk fails, then all the data is gone, beyond any reasonable attempts at recovery."
This is the point about using such a device as a "backup" device - if the backup device goes bad, all the production data still exists. What happens to the critical data when a backup tape goes bad? - nothing, since the original data still exists.
Martin posts, "If you have 4GB of data on this thing, you either need another 1 to back this data up onto, otherwise you will be up the creek if (when) one drive breaks"
If you are doing video editing or graphic design, the need is for significant storage with fast access for current projects. Some people decide that RAID 0, for double read speed and double write throughput meets their business requirements.
If the storage is only temporary (original content they are aggregating is still on DVD or Tape and the eventual output will be on DVD, BlueRay, or Tape) - the hours of time saved over the life expectancy of the drive may more than make up for the time lost on a part of a single project if a drive fails in a few years. It is up to the consumer to make the cost-benefit analysis.
Chris Harris posts, "I hated having to hold the apple button and click when in windows I can right click"
That is why sane people buy 5 button Bluetooth mice for their Mac's! LOL!
Just pull a 5 button Bluetooth mouse out of the box and it works - no drivers to configure, no dongles, no crashing kernels!
I have experienced the weekly blue-screen-of-death due to (XP compatible) wireless mouse drivers crashing my XP laptop. The productivity loss to some warrants buying a system (Apple) with reasonable stable OS mouse drivers (to use the high-tech mouse) while I had to buy a simpler 3 button mouse with scroll wheel for the XP laptop (to keep XP from crashing).
Chris Harris posts, "Macs are good for people who don't know to use things because it's simple and it's their way or the highway. I want choice. /rant"
Your "rant" is somewhat simplistic. The Mac is a fine example of a "choice", just as is a PC, UNIX workstation, thin-client, Linux desktop, etc. If your concern was really about "choice" - you would not have ranted.
Some people make the "choice" to invest their time improving their skill (to make more money), or invest their time on producing a product (to make more money), rather than waste their time in tangentially related areas (that do not make them money.)
We make similar "choices" all the time - are you too ignorant to create your own CPU chips, write your own operating system, write your own web browser, create your own car, dig your own well, create your own septic system, cut down & mill your own trees, build your own house, grow your own produce, butcher your own animals, and deploy your own solar generation to supply power?
Unfortunately, the human is limited in time - people make intelligent decisions on how to use time since time is limited. Just because someone decides to use a Mac does not mean they "don't know how to use things" (i.e. they are using their Mac, obviously!) - just like the modern person teams to do a small portion of what is required in society to be more productive.
Anonymous Coward posts, "This drive probably comes formatted to FAT32 to be compatible between Windows and OS X."
Chris Mellor wrote in the original article, "The product is formatted for Mac computers and compatible with Apple's Time Machine backup utility."
FAT32 is impractical for large hard drives due to the huge allocation block sizes and has a limit of about 2TB. Big drives are almost always formatted with a more modern filesystem--either HFS+ for MacOS or NTFS for Windows. NTFS support is not as widespread as that for FAT, so NTFS is not as well suited as a universal format. As for the 2TB limit, that's a limitation of the Master Boot Record system, not XP. If you switch to a GPT-based system, the limit is lifted.
Sorry for that, I thought you guys would have been to able to read my post well enough to realise I was speaking past tense, live and learn.
I was using power PC macs back in 1999 to edit TV shows and although I suppose I could have used a two button mouse, it wasn't really our place to connect one because back then the suites cost $200,000 plus so they didn't even want to chance people touching the back of the thing.
My rant was simplistic because Macs are simplistic and that's why I wanted to make it readable by Mac users, if I had really wanted to bitch I would have. I could spend hours coming up with reason after reason on why the cult of mac is full people with more money than sense (and ability), but at the end of the day I think Mac will eventually become a gadget maker and stop with computers altogether because Windows will catch up and no one will care or remember.
Im an optimist...
"If you switch to a GPT-based system, the limit is lifted."
No it's not. Per Microsoft's own information, XP has GPT support (which surprised me) but is still limited to 2TB, as was Windows 2003 server.. Windows server 2003 SP1 and Windows XP x64 are the earliest to support >2TB disks with GPT (the only Windows version that supports *booting* from GPT was the Windows for Itanium though, which is discontinued... so have fun booting from a >2TB disk.)
Anyway... *shrug*. No worries for me. A) I don't have the cash for one of these. B) Ubuntu supports HFS+ out-of-the-box, so I don't even have to reformat it if I don't feel like it. Pwned.
With the mess of XP not having >2TB support added, GPT, and so on, I think it makes sense to just ship this out as a Mac drive, and make getting it work on your PC the buyer's problem.
That Apple format thing is a bit disappointing - reformatting a 4TB drive takes a lot of time. I usually buy one of these things in a hurry, and want it up and running quickly. My main usage for these things is transporting a lot of data rather than backup, so ymmv. I wouldn't backup my system to one of these too.
Uncompressed HD or 2K frames (or simulation caches) can eat space like you wouldn't believe (especially if they have a lot of channels and/or layers). It's nice to be able to copy them quickly off the main drives, to send to off-site color correction etc. We wait for renders enough as it is.
AC wrote "That Apple format thing is a bit disappointing - reformatting a 4TB drive takes a lot of time"
At the end of the day someone will need to reformat the bastard. Perhaps, just perhaps, this drive is being targeted at Mac users in particular or that they buy most of these particular WD drives and therefore deserve the attention?
Makes sense given XP's limitations and poor Vista take-up.
@ Mad Hacker
Did I say anything about the languages used on the platforms? No. We are talking about the end user here, and apart from the professionals....and...you know what I'm going to stop myself there.
Macs suck. That's my argument summed up in cave-speak.
Ooh-oh! Ah-AHHH!
I won't be coming back to read this article either - I swear.
I prefer to use RAID 5 in my NAS (and my PC come to that); 5 x 750GB may only give me about 3TB, but I can hot-swap out failed drives and replace without data loss, and should I choose to replace the 750GB drives with something bigger the NAS can grow my RAID to fill all the available capacity. Sure this comes at a cost, but then peace of mind is priceless!
Paris? Because for it to work it should be simple.
I'll bet you are a flat-Earth creationist too.
They're the other group that insist old, outdated "facts" are still 100% true and relevant to this day.
My question to you is - what exactly can a PC do that a Mac cannot, especially with the Boot Camp ability. Or were you talking about the operating system, OS X? or were you talking about the mouse from years ago? Or are you talking about how simple Macs are, despite their obvious complexity "under the hood"?
Make up your mind, or your other mind - since you're talking out of both sides of that mouth.
Two drives in a RAID 0 configuration will increase two-fold your chances of data loss, compared to using a single drive.
If they had configured this box as a RAID 1 mirror it would have been much safer, as it would have reduced your chances of data loss two-fold compared to using a single drive.
But salesmen market this product, instead of engineers, and so you have a 4TB "lose all your data" product instead of a 2TB "doubly safe" product.
I'll stick with this "RAID 6" solution I think:
he made the classic mistake of saying that Apple Mac's are not as perfect as the sales guff makes them out to be. Bet he wont do that again in a hurry, eh?
However, I think your question still needs answering - if the device is just a HDD that shows up as an HDD when you plug it into Windows, then yeah, you probably can format it to NTFS.
Someone did point out that NTFS is only really suited to a Windows environment, which is true. But this shouldnt be a problem so much as the device doesnt appear to be a NAS etc. So, should you decide to brave this article again and dodge the Apple zealots, i hope this helps you out.
Paris, well, because
There is a program called fat32format.exe available on the InterWeb that can put a FAT32 format on large partitions, saving the space wasted on the NTFS metadata file(s), and Windows (XP at least) can deal with really big FAT32 partitions.
I think the biggest FAT32 partition I've made was about 384 GB, but I think FAT32 can do 8TB.
NTFS has some advantages over FAT32: security and ACLs at least.
Someone called us Mac users simple and unable to grasp complex ideas....well I'll just go back to dribbiling and drooling onto my keyboard in my simple way, while I use my shiny, usable, no crashing 64bit O/S, with a shiny pre-compiz, pre-aero GUI, multi-filesystem supported hardware and O/S, major industry supported application aware, multi-button mouse, Unix based O/S, free developer kit on standard O/S release DVD, only $29 upgrade path to next release, Cider emu Windows game running, Intel CPU, GPL/FOSS/GNU software capable compiling, crap, simple, braindead O/S, while you...oh yeah wait for 2 files to take 6 hours to copy under Vista, crash just at 99% of any job, BSOD, SOB MS O/S on your self-built unsupported, knock-up bargain basement PC!
GO icon, 'cos, ermmm, I got confused as am a bit simple apparently......oh no got confused between red and green now....


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John Hinderaker at the popular conservative blog PowerLine reports that it's been cold, cold, cold in his home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota, going to far as to compare it with "The Year Without a Summer", 1816, when global temperatures were abnormally low as a result of the eruption of Mount Tambora:
I don't think things are quite so bad this year, but if something doesn't change pretty soon 2009 may go down in history, in some parts of the U.S. at least, as another year with barely any summer. Here in Minnesota and across the Midwest, temperatures are abnormally cold. I don't know whether the phenomenon is world-wide–data that will answer this question have probably not been assembled, and may not be honestly reported–but the current low level of solar activity suggests that the cooling trend could indeed be universal.
Indeed, it's been pretty cool in Minneapolis for the past couple of days; the temperature hasn't hit 70 since midday Thursday. But has it been an unusually cool summer? No, not really. Since summer began on June 21st, high temperatures there have been above average 15 times and below average 13 times. The average high temperature there since summer began this year has been 82.4 degrees. The average historic high temperature over the same period is … 82.4 degrees. It's been a completely typical summer in Minneapolis, although with one rather hot period in late June and one rather cool one now. (Note: actual high temperatures can be found here and historical averages can be found here.)
Selective memory is a powerful thing. I'm not particularly certain when pointing out the fact that it might be cool or rainy in your hometown one afternoon became subject for worthwhile blog material, but you have started to see this all the time on certain conservative blogs, probably led by the example of Matt Drudge.
Therefore, because I'd like to see more accountability on all sides of this debate and because I'm tired of people who don't understand statistics and because I'd like to make some money, I issue the following challenge.
You are eligible for this challenge if:
1. You live in the United States and provide me with your home address and telephone number (I will provide you with mine) and,
2. You are a regular (at least once weekly) contributor to a political, economics or science blog with an Alexa traffic global ranking of 50,000 or lower.
The reason for the latter requirement is because I want to be able to shame/humiliate you if you back out of the challenge or refuse to pay, as I'd assume you'd do the same with me.
The rules of the challenge are as follows:
1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit above average, as listed by Weather Underground, you owe me $25. For each day that it is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit below average, I owe you $25.
2. The challenge proceeds in monthly intervals, with the first month being August. At the end of each month, we'll tally up the winning and losing days and the loser writes the winner a check for the balance.
3. The challenge automatically rolls over to the next month until/unless: (i) one party informs the other by the 20th of the previous month that he would like to discontinue the challenge (that is, if you want to discontinue the challenge for September, you'd have to tell me this by August 20th), or (ii) the losing party has failed to pay the winning party in a timely fashion, in which case the challenge may be canceled at the sole discretion of the winning party.
Any takers? You can reach me by clicking the 'Contact' button at the top of the page.
EDIT: No takers yet. Eligibility will remain open through Monday (the 20th). Limit three contestants within any one 100-mile geographic radius.
And sorry for all the typos, etc. Been a long week.

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Monday, July 30, 2012
"Daring Adventures in Paint" Giveaway and Tutorial
End result, this painted collage and I will be trying this out with Grade5/6 next year I think.
"Daring Adventures in Paint" by Mati Rose McDonough is a new book from Quarry.
- 128 pgs
- soft cover
- roughly 8.5 x 9 inches
- suggested retail $22.99US/$24.99CAN
using silver leaf, spray painting with doilies. transferring sketches onto specific areas of a painting and developing your narrative.
I will be giving away a copy of this book later this week, see the end of this post for details but first let's go thru the painted college using some techniques from Mati.
- canvas, piece of masonite, or paper/cardboard as a base (substrate)
- assorted papers from recycling, junk mail, etc.
- acrylic paint
- glue
- alphabet stamps
- craft foam
- scissors
- scraps of cardboard
- sealer, optional. I like Mod Podge!
Take some craft foam and a piece of corrugated cardboard (or foamboard, or gatorboard). You want it the size of your stamp.
Cut out your design. This is different than the other stamps I make by etching designs in foam with a pencil.
Let dry.
- plain paper
- paintbrush or roller, whatever you have on hand
- acrylic paint
- disposable plate or even newspaper, waxpaper to squeeze your paint onto to load your brush or roller. If I use a plate I will wash it and reuse it again and again.
Let dry.
Keep your stamp as you can use it over and over again.
Some of my edges are cut some torn. I know what colors I want to use in the final piece so I'm choosing very neutral colored papers.
Remember to do the sides if using a board or canvas.
So I cut out the part I want. I then tint it with paint and glue into position.
Add details with more acrylic. Here I'm stamping circles using an old spool dipped in paint.
I added some sharpie and stamped on the word CROW using the R that was already there in the map paper.
Fiddle with it until you are satisfied.
That's it. I love the way I really did not have a plan but the work just came together......this will be a great lesson for the kids!
If you would like to win your own copy of "Daring Adventures in Paint" please do one of the following:
- leave a comment on this post
- like or comment on this link on my Facebook page
- send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com
I will be making the random draw on Friday Aug 3rd/12.
In the spirit of the Olympics I am opening this draw up to everyone. Good luck.
Thanks to my friends at Quayside Publications for sponsoring this giveaway.
See you soon.
55 comments:
I love how your painting turned out. I can't wait to give this a try. Thanks for sharing and the opportunity to win Mati's book!ReplyDelete
Beautiful collage!! I would absolutely LOVE to win this book!!!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful picture! I'm in!ReplyDelete
I want to try this...the heck with the kids!! :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration!
PS: I pinned it for all to see. :)
cool! I've never heard of this book, but would have lots of fun getting inspired from it.ReplyDelete
It looks like this book has a lot of great techniques to try! I'd love to win! Great collage too, love the crow image! -- TinaReplyDelete
I am always inspired by your projects. Love the printmaking aspect especially.ReplyDelete
This looks like a great resource! Wonderful giveaway!
- Kim SchadrackJuly 30, 2012 at 1:25 PM
I would love to add this to my collection of art books for more inspiration!ReplyDelete
Beautiful picture. Great inspiration. Thanks. MariaReplyDelete
Your work is so creative , colorful and so much FUN! :) I think your book is going to be fabulous, and hope that you pick me! :) I'm sharing this link on my Facebook page and Pinterest for all my creative friends to check out too!ReplyDelete
This book sounds so helpful and looks like fun! I would love to have it, I often find it hard to channel my inspiration, great collage!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to check this book out. I would love to win!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 2:18 PM
I would love to win this for my artistic daughter who really needs more direction than I can give her. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I would love this book! I enjoy your blog.ReplyDelete
Love this stamp - I have been exploring printing this term, done gelatin mono printing about to do reduction printing. This book would be great for more inspiration for painting.ReplyDelete
- The ScribblerJuly 30, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Your spool tool is clever! I had fun paint stamping with celery and bok choy this spring with my kids. My girls and I have tried our hand at making paper bag books of our own (I am far behind them in execution). Daring Adventures in Paint sounds like fun for all.ReplyDelete
I so need a hobby!! Pick me.ReplyDelete
I love all of your ideas! I would also love to have the book!ReplyDelete
Thanks for keeping the inspiration coming!
Looks like a great book. Would love to win a copy :)ReplyDelete
I really enjoy your blog! I have been teaching art to young children for decades. It is always great to find a new book for inspiration and Daring Adventures in Paint is a book I would like to own.ReplyDelete
You make it look so easy. The stamp is great. I am not very good at the 'random' kind of creating- much more structured works for me but I'd love to find a bit more 'wild abandon' in me.ReplyDelete
what a great way to make stamps ive always dreaded the carving way lol and thanks for sharing and the chance to win the book which looks great ...ReplyDelete
Love the title of this book, which reminds me of a Helen Keler quote: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."ReplyDelete
I love your blog and am always telling my sister about the things you do. Then she actually does some of them. I'd really like to try some of the ideas in the book.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the great tutorial, I'd love to win this book for some new ideas to try.ReplyDelete
tanyainjville at yahoo dot com
I'd love to crack open this book, it looks great! Thanks for the opportunity.ReplyDelete
I really appreciate your blog and the great things I can do with my kids. Maybe sometime you could share some practical ideas for creating an art space in the home and even how to organize/save things for projects...supplies, etc. Thx a bunch.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 4:32 AM
I check your blog for ideas for my son and this book would be of great help.ReplyDelete
Maris (stelmar4 at gmail dot com)
This book looks awesome. I do a lot of Painting projects with my granddaughter and you have taught me so many new techniques. Thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
This looks like a wonderful book. I love it when art books have great photographs. Your artwork turned out very nice.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tut and a reminder about making our own stamps. That book sounds great. happyacres at wowway dot comReplyDelete
ooohhhhhh, how cool is this! would love to attempt this incredible project with my kiddos. your enthusiasm for all things art is infectious! thank you for sharing your talents with us as always.ReplyDelete
What fun! I've done collographs before, but this could be a step up for older kids!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing so clearly!
The book looks very inspiring!
I love seeing all the different projects. I teach k-12 art and can see using this book.ReplyDelete
I'd love to win this book!ReplyDelete
Wonderful! Love to win a copy to jump-start our school year.ReplyDelete
Great Collage!ReplyDelete
You've inspire me to give it a go!
Looks like a good book!
Thanks for sharing all your wonderful ideas!
I love collage & this is a great one! I love your make-your-own-stamp technique. I will definitely be trying that one! Thank you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Hello GailReplyDelete
I love the sounds of this book. I've been wanting to learn more about this type of media,and would love to have this book.
Also, I just want to thank you for such a wonderful website. I love all your projects, and the simplicity of them.
Thanks again.
Debbie Aristone
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Hello GailReplyDelete
Forgot to add my email for the book
Oh...love this book and your painting! Would also love to own this one. Thanks for the chance to win it on here!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 12:07 PM
We would love to win this book for our homeschool! thank you!ReplyDelete
Love it! Sounds like my kinda book! Thanks! Tara firstname.lastname@example.com
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Thanks for opening this giveaway to all.I'd love to have this book - hope to win.ReplyDelete
Happy creative days to all
Naomi firstname.lastname@example.com
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Love this book!ReplyDelete
Thanks Gail! Great book review - I hope to win but if I don't that's ok too cause I think I'll buy it. Great ideas for my son & I.ReplyDelete
Such a great technique and I'm excited about the book. I also enjoy following your blog very much.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM
This looks like a great book!ReplyDelete
You can't win if you don't try. Thanks for all the inspiration. I enjoy reading your ideas very much.ReplyDelete
Your blog is one of my favourites. I especially love the ideas for adults:)ReplyDelete
Looks like a great resource and love your mixed media too :)ReplyDelete
I'd love a copy! And I'm definitely going to try this project. Thanks, as always, for your great site!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the continual inspiration! We'll be trying this out in my art classes soon! In case I should be lucky enough to win, here's my email address: damajade (at) yahoo dot com. Thanks Gail!ReplyDelete
Love your blog. Great review and project. Keeping my fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
Love the idea Gail. Will definitely give it a try!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Bee Craft Inspirations, under the Page 5 post on Aug. 30, 2012. Thanks again.ReplyDelete


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Liz Ramanand, Loudwire So much for that Foo Fighters hiatus announced in October 2012! According to frontman Dave Grohl , work on a new Foo Fighters album is set to begin this week. Dave Grohl may be the hardest working man in rock today, having just premiered his 'Sound City' documentary, rolling out shows with his Sound City Players supergroup and recording a track with Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana . And instead of taking a presumed long break from his main gig, Grohl is already at work on a new Foo Fighters album. The Foo's most recent album, 'Wasting Light,' was unleashed in 2011 to much acclaim, earning the band a handful of Grammy Awards. According to NME , Grohl has decided that it's time to work on another effort. "I return to Los Angeles tomorrow to start work on a Foo Fighters record," Grohl divulged on Feb. 19, only four months after announcing a Foo Fighters hiatus in 2012. In an earlier NME news piece, Grohl spoke of his plans for Foo Fighters after the 'Sound City' engagements were finished, and the frontman has since stuck with those plans. "We have a plan," begins Grohl. "We know exactly what's coming next, and I have the music for the next record and we're going to start working on it once we finish doing all this stuff … And we have really awesome, big plans for the next album and I'm really excited about it." Stay tuned for more Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters news as it continues to break. [button href="http://loudwire.com/dave-grohl-talks-sound-city-documentary-more-the-colbert-report/" title="Watch Dave Grohl on 'The Colbert Report'" align="center"]
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STANFORD, Calif. — Kevin Hogan has taken Stanford to a place Andrew Luck never could.
Hogan threw for 155 yards and a touchdown and ran for 47 yards to help the eighth-ranked Cardinal beat No. 17 UCLA 27-24 in the Pac-12 championship game Friday night.
As a defender barreled into him, Hogan hurled a 26-yard tying touchdown to Drew Terrell on third-and-15 early in the fourth quarter. Jordan Williamson kicked his second field goal from 36 yards with 6:49 remaining for the go-ahead score to seal Stanford's first conference title since the 1999 season.
The Cardinal (11-2) play the winner of the Big Ten title game between Nebraska and Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.
UCLA's Brent Hundley threw for 177 yards and a costly interception that set up a Stanford touchdown. He still almost brought the Bruins (9-4) back, but Ka'imi Fairbairn missed a 52-yard field goal wide left in the closing moments for a disappointing loss.
Hogan completed 16 of 22 passes to beat a fourth ranked opponent in his fourth straight start since unseating Josh Nunes at quarterback. After the Cardinal rolled past UCLA 35-17 last Saturday at the Rose Bowl, it took all 60 minutes for another victory in the rare rematch.
The heavy rain that pounded the Bay Area most of the day relented most of the night, and a tarp that covered the field until about 3 hours before kickoff. Scattered showers still kept the grass slightly slick.
The surface never seemed to slow down the Bruins, who ran for 284 yards behind Jonathan Franklin 194 yards on the ground. The most yards rushing Stanford allowed this season had been 198 in an overtime victory at Oregon two weeks ago.
Not matter.
The Cardinal won its seventh straight game to advance to their third different BCS bowl in as many seasons — a run that began behind coach Jim Harbaugh and Luck, the No. 1 overall pick of the Indianapolis Colts. Before that, the Cardinal had only won 10 games three times — 1992, 1940, 1926 — in program history.
The Bruins made the final road block more difficult than expected.
UCLA converted a pair of third downs before Franklin burst through the middle for a 51-yard touchdown. He carried safety Jordan Richards the final 5 yards into the end zone to give the Bruins a 7-0 lead on the game's opening drive.
Stanford answered in a hurry when Hogan ran 14 yards on a read-option keeper to convert a long third down, fullback Ryan Hewitt bulldozed through the line on a fourth-and-1 and Stepfan Taylor took a short pass 33 yards inches shy of the goal line. On the next play, Hogan faked a handoff and rolled untouched for the tying touchdown.
Before the Cardinal offense even found their seats on the sideline, Hundley ran 48 yards and scrambled for a 5-yard TD to put UCLA back in front, 14-7. With the Bruins about to go ahead two scores, Ed Reynolds intercepted Hundley's pass and returned it 80 yards to set up Taylor's short TD run.
Officials ruled that Reynolds, who ran three interceptions back for a touchdown this season, was tackled by Hundley short of the goal line and a replay challenge by Stanford coach David Shaw was inconclusive. Reynolds moved into a tie with Oregon State's Jordan Poyer for the Pac-12 lead with six interceptions.
Williamson kicked a 37-yard field goal as the first half expired to give Stanford a 17-14 lead. Fairbairn answered with a field goal from 31 yards on UCLA's opening drive of the second half.
Franklin capped a 12-play, 80-yard drive with a 20-yard TD run late in the third quarter. That gave the Bruins a 24-17 and put Stanford on the brink of its first home loss this season.
Instead, the Cardinal came back in impressive fashion.
Hogan heaved the long touchdown to Terrell on third down.
Stanford stuffed UCLA three-and-out and Terrell returned the punt 18 yards to the Bruins 43. That set up Williamson's winning 36-yard field goal with 6:49 remaining.
Stanford stopped UCLA again, and Hogan ran for 11 yards on third-and-2 to help Stanford drain the clock some more before punting back to the Bruins one final time from their own 19 with 2:18 remaining.
Tight end Joseph Fauria caught a pass over the middle on fourth-and-7 and lateraled the ball to Jordon James to complete a 17-yard pass. That helped set up Fairbairn's field goal, which never looked on target.
Stanford has beaten the Bruins five straight games. UCLA was going for its first conference championship since 1998.
The Bruins still had to feel better about their showing than last year's league title game, when they lost 49-31 at Oregon in lame duck coach Rick Neuheisel's weird finale — the Bruins had a 6-6 record and only advanced out of the South Division because crosstown rival Southern California was finishing a two-year postseason ban for NCAA violations
The announced crowd of 31,622 was the lowest at 50,000-seat Stanford Stadium since the Cardinal drew 30,626 against Sacramento State on Sept. 4, 2010.
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VERSIONversion 0.43
use JIRA::Client;
my $jira = JIRA::Client->new('http://jira.example.com/jira', 'user', 'passwd');
my $issue = $jira->create_issue(
project => 'TST',
type => 'Bug',
summary => 'Summary of the bug',
assignee => 'gustavo',
components => ['compa', 'compb'],
fixVersions => ['1.0.1'],
custom_fields => {Language => 'Perl', Architecture => 'Linux'},
$issue = eval { $jira->getIssue('TST-123') };
die "Can't getIssue(): $@" if $@;
while (my $issue = $jira->next_issue()) {
# ...
DESCRIPTIONDEPRECATION WARNING: Please, before using this module consider using the newer JIRA::REST because JIRA's SOAP API was deprecated <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/SOAP+and+XML-RPC+API+Deprecated+in+JIRA+6.0> on JIRA 6.0 and won't be available anymore on JIRA 8.0.
JIRA is a proprietary bug tracking system from Atlassian (<http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/>).
This module implements an Object Oriented wrapper around JIRA's SOAP API, which is specified in <http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/JiraSoapService.html>. (This version is known work against JIRA 4.4.)
Moreover, it implements some other methods to make it easier to do some common operations.
API METHODSWith the exception of the API "login" and "logout" methods, which aren't needed, all other methods are available through the JIRA::Client object interface. You must call them with the same name as documented in the specification but you should not pass the "token" argument, because it is supplied transparently by the JIRA::Client object.
All methods fail by throwing exceptions (croaking, actually). You may want to guard against this by invoking them within an eval block, like this:
my $issue = eval { $jira->getIssue('TST-123') }; die "Can't getIssue('TST-123'): $@" if $@;
Some of the API methods require hard-to-build data structures as arguments. This module tries to make them easier to call by accepting simpler structures and implicitly constructing the more elaborated ones before making the actual SOAP call. Note that this is an option, i.e, you can either pass the elaborate structures by yourself or the simpler ones in the call.
The items below are all the implemented implicit conversions. Wherever a parameter of the type specified first is required (as an rvalue, not as an lvalue) by an API method you can safely pass a value of the type specified second.
- A issue key as a string can be specified by a RemoteIssue object.
- A RemoteComment object can be specified by a string.
- A filterId as a string can be specified by a RemoteFilter object.
- A RemoteFieldValue object array can be specified by a hash mapping field names to values.
EXTRA METHODSThis module implements some extra methods to add useful functionality to the API. They are described below. Note that their names don't follow the CamelCase convention used by the native API methods but the more Perlish underscore_separated_words convention so that you can distinguish them and we can avoid future name clashes.
new BASEURL, USER, PASSWD [, <SOAP::Lite arguments>]"BASEURL" is the JIRA server's base URL (e.g., "https://jira.example.net" or "https://example.net/jira"), to which the default WSDL descriptor path ("/rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2?wsdl") will be appended in order to construct the underlying SOAP::Lite object.
"USER" and "PASSWD" are the credentials that will be used to authenticate into JIRA.
Any other arguments will be passed to the SOAP::Lite object that will be created to talk to JIRA.
new HASH_REFYou can invoke the constructor with a single hash-ref argument. The same arguments that are passed as a list above can be passed by name with a hash. This constructor is also more flexible, as it makes room for extra arguments.
The valid hash keys are listed below.
- baseurl => STRING
- (Required) The JIRA server's base URL.
- wsdl => STRING
- (Optional) JIRA's standard WSDL descriptor path is "/rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2?wsdl". If your JIRA instance has a non-standard path to the WSDL service, you may specify it here.
- user => STRING
- (Required) The username to authenticate into JIRA.
- password => STRING
- (Required) The password to authenticate into JIRA.
- soapargs => ARRAY_REF
- (Optional) Extra arguments to be passed to the SOAP::Lite object that will be created to talk to JIRA.
create_issue HASH_REF [, SECURITYLEVEL]Creates a new issue given a hash containing the initial values for its fields and, optionally, a security-level. The hash must specify at least the fields "project", "summary", and "type".
This is an easier to use version of the createIssue API method. For once it accepts symbolic values for some of the issue fields that the API method does not. Specifically:
- "type" can be specified by name instead of by id.
- "priority" can be specified by name instead of by id.
- "component" can be specified by a list of component names or ids instead of a list of "RemoteComponent" objects.
- "affectsVersions" and "fixVersions" can be specified by a list of version names or ids instead of a list of "RemoteVersion" objects.
- "duedate" can be specified by a DateTime object or by a string in ISO standard format (YYYY-MM-DD...). (Note that up to JIRA 4.3 you could pass a string in the format "d/MMM/yy", which was passed as is to JIRA, which expected a string SOAP type. However, since JIRA 4.4 the server expects a date SOAP type, which must be in the ISO standard format.)
It accepts a 'magic' field called parent, which specifies the issue key from which the created issue must be a sub-task.
It accepts another 'magic' field called custom_fields to make it easy to set custom fields. It accepts a hash mapping each custom field to its value. The custom field can be specified by its id (in the format customfield_NNNNN) or by its name, in which case the method will try to convert it to its id. Note that to do that conversion the user needs administrator rights.
A simple custom field value can be specified by a scalar, which will be properly placed inside an ARRAY in order to satisfy the RemoteFieldValue's structure.
Cascading select fields are properly specified like this: http://tinyurl.com/2bmthoa. The magic short-cut requires a HASH where each cascading level is indexed by its level number, starting at zero. So, instead of specifying it like this:
{ id => 'customfield_10011', values => [ SOAP::Data->type(string => '10031' ) ] }, { id => 'customfield_10011:1', values => [ SOAP::Data->type(string => '10188') ], },
You can do it like this:
{customfield_10011 => {'0' => 10031, '1' => 10188}},
Note that the original hash keys and values are completely preserved.
update_issue ISSUE_OR_KEY, HASH_REFUpdate a issue given a hash containing the values for its fields. The first argument may be an issue key or a RemoteIssue object. The second argument must be a hash-ref specifying the fields's values just like documented in the create_issue function above.
This is an easier to use version of the updateIssue API method because it accepts the same shortcuts that create_issue does.
get_issue_typesReturns a hash mapping the server's issue type names to the RemoteIssueType objects describing them.
get_subtask_issue_typesReturns a hash mapping the server's sub-task issue type names to the RemoteIssueType objects describing them.
get_statusesReturns a hash mapping the server's status names to the RemoteStatus objects describing them.
get_prioritiesReturns a hash mapping a server's priorities names to the RemotePriority objects describing them.
get_resolutionsReturns a hash mapping a server's resolution names to the RemoteResolution objects describing them.
get_security_levels PROJECT-KEYReturns a hash mapping a project's security level names to the RemoteSecurityLevel objects describing them.
get_custom_fieldsReturns a hash mapping JIRA's custom field names to the RemoteField representing them. It's useful since when you get a RemoteIssue object from this API it doesn't contain the custom field's names, but just their identifiers. From the RemoteField object you can obtain the field's id, which is useful when calling the updateIssue method.
The method calls the getCustomFields API method the first time and keeps the custom fields information in a cache.
set_custom_fields HASHREFPasses a hash mapping JIRA's custom field names to the RemoteField representing them to populate the custom field's cache. This can be useful if you don't have administrative privileges to the JIRA instance, since only administrators can call the getCustomFields API method.
get_components PROJECT_KEYReturns a hash mapping a project's components names to the RemoteComponent objects describing them.
get_versions PROJECT_KEYReturns a hash mapping a project's versions names to the RemoteVersion objects describing them.
get_favourite_filtersReturns a hash mapping the user's favourite filter names to its filter ids.
set_filter_iterator FILTER [, CACHE_SIZE]Sets up an iterator for the filter identified by FILTER. It must be called before calls to next_issue.
FILTER can be either a filter id or a filter name, in which case it's converted to a filter id with a call to "getSavedFilters".
CACHE_SIZE defines the number of issues that will be pre-fetched by nect_issue using "getIssuesFromFilterWithLimit". If not specified, a suitable default will be used.
next_issueThis must be called after a call to set_filter_iterator. Each call returns a reference to the next issue from the filter. When there are no more issues it returns undef.
progress_workflow_action_safely ISSUE, ACTION, PARAMSThis is a safe and easier to use version of the progressWorkflowAction API method which is used to progress an issue through a workflow's action while making edits to the fields that are shown in the action screen. The API method is dangerous because if you forget to provide new values to all the fields shown in the screen, then the fields not provided will become undefined in the issue. The problem has a pending issue on Atlassian's JIRA <http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8717>.
This method plays it safe by making sure that all fields shown in the screen that already have a value are given new (or the same) values so that they don't get undefined. It calls the getFieldsForAction API method to grok all fields that are shown in the screen. If there is any field not set in the ACTION_PARAMS then it calls getIssue to grok the missing fields current values. As a result it constructs the necessary RemoteFieldAction array that must be passed to progressWorkflowAction.
The method is also easier to use because its arguments are more flexible:
- "ISSUE" can be either an issue key or a RemoteIssue object returned by a previous call to, e.g., "getIssue".
- "ACTION" can be either an action id or an action name.
- "PARAMS" must be a hash mapping field names to field values. This hash is treated in the same way as the hash passed to the function create_issue above.
For example, instead of using this:
my $action_id = somehow_grok_the_id_of('close'); $jira->progressWorkflowAction('PRJ-5', $action_id, [ RemoteFieldValue->new(2, 'new value'), ..., # all fields must be specified here ]);
And risking to forget to pass some field you can do this:
$jira->progress_workflow_action_safely('PRJ-5', 'close', {2 => 'new value'});
get_issue_custom_field_values ISSUE, NAME_OR_IDsThis method receives a RemoteField object and a list of names or ids of custom fields. It returns a list of references to the ARRAYs containing the values of the ISSUE's custom fields denoted by their NAME_OR_IDs. Returns undef for custom fields not set on the issue.
In scalar context it returns a reference to the list.
attach_files_to_issue ISSUE, FILES...This method attaches one or more files to an issue. The ISSUE argument may be an issue key or a RemoteIssue object. The attachments may be specified in two ways:
- A string denotes a filename to be open and read. In this case, the attachment name is the file's basename.
- When you want to specify a different name to the attachment or when you already have an IO object (a GLOB, a IO::File, or a FileHandle) you must pass them as values of a hash. The keys of the hash are taken as the attachment name. You can specify more than one attachment in each hash.
The method retuns the value returned by the addBase64EncodedAttachmentsToIssue API method.
In the example below, we attach three files to the issue TST-1. The first is called "file1.txt" and its contents are read from "/path/to/file1.txt". The second is called "text.txt" and its contents are read from "/path/to/file2.txt". the third is called "me.jpg" and its contents are read from the object refered to by $fh.
$jira->attach_files_to_issue('TST-1', '/path/to/file1.txt', { 'text.txt' => '/path/to/file2.txt', 'me.jpg' => $fh, }, );
attach_strings_to_issue ISSUE, HASHREFThis method attaches one or more strings to an issue. The ISSUE argument may be an issue key or a RemoteIssue object. The attachments are specified by a HASHREF in which the keys denote the file names and the values their contents.
The method retuns the value returned by the addBase64EncodedAttachmentsToIssue API method.
filter_issues_unsorted FILTER [, LIMIT]This method returns a list of RemoteIssue objects from the specified FILTER, which is a string that is understood in one of these ways (in order):
- A space-separated list of issue keys
To specify issues explicitly by their keys, which must match
/[A-Z]+-\d+/i. The letters in the key are upcased before being passed
to getIssue. For example:
KEY-123 chave-234 CLAVE-345
Note that the result list doesn't respect the order in which the keys are specified and also that duplicate keys are discarded and the corresponding issue appear only once in the resulting list.
- The name of a saved filter
If FILTER is a single word, it is passed to
getIssuesFromFilterWithLimit as a filter name. For example:
- A JQL expression
As a last resort, FILTER is passed to getIssuesFromJqlSearch as a JQL
expression. For example:
project = CDS AND fixVersion = sprint-5
The optional LIMIT argument specified the maximum number of issues that can be returned. It has a default limit of 1000, but this can be overridden by the JIRA server configuration.
This method is meant to be used as a flexible interface for human beings to request a list of issues. Be warned, however, that you are responsible to de-taint the FILTER argument before passing it to the method.
filter_issues FILTER [, LIMIT]This method invokes the filter_issues_unsorted method with the same arguments and returns the list of RemoteIssue objects sorted by issue key.
OTHER CONSTRUCTORSThe JIRA SOAP API uses several types of objects (i.e., classes) for which the Perl SOAP interface does not provide the necessary constructors. This module implements some of them.
RemoteFieldValue->new ID, VALUESThe RemoteFieldValue object represents the value of a field of an issue. It needs two arguments:
- The field name, which must be a valid key for the ISSUE hash.
- A scalar or an array of scalars.
RemoteCustomFieldValue->new ID, VALUESThe RemoteCustomFieldValue object represents the value of a custom_field of an issue. It needs two arguments:
- The field name, which must be a valid custom_field key.
- A scalar or an array of scalars.
RemoteComponent->new ID, NAME
RemoteVersion->new ID, NAME
EXAMPLESPlease, see the examples under the "examples" directory in the module distribution.
AUTHORGustavo L. de M. Chaves <[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSEThis software is copyright (c) 2015 by CPqD.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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College tuition: Judge throws out suit against illegals
College tuition suit claimed Nebraskans' taxes were subsidizing illegals' education. Judge rules plaintiffs should seek federal action.
| OMAHA, Neb.
A Nebraska judge threw out a lawsuit Friday challenging a state law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition.
Jefferson County District Judge Paul Korslund ruled the six Nebraskans who claimed their taxes were being spent in violation of federal law should have first gone to the federal government and could renew the challenge in state court if the federal government declines to act.
The plaintiffs' attorney, Kris Kobach, called the dismissal "a bump in the road" and said he wasn't sure whether he would appeal the judge's dismissal or ask the Department of Homeland Security to intervene.
"The case is far from over," said Kobach, the recently elected Kansas secretary of state who has led litigation in other states targeting illegal immigration.
The lawsuit filed in January claimed that taxes from the Fairbury residents were being used to support the state's immigration-tuition law in violation of federal law. The lawsuit named the University of Nebraska Board of Regents and other state college boards as defendants and asked the judge to prevent school officials from following the law.
University attorney Joel Pedersen agreed that the dismissal left open potential further litigation but declined to speculate how the plaintiffs will proceed.
The state law passed in 2005 says students whose parents brought them to the U.S. illegally may pay the lower in-state tuition fees, as long as they graduated from Nebraska high schools, lived in the state for at least three years and are pursuing or promise to pursue legal status. The rules for residency requirements and nonresident tuition fees are governed by state law.
Opponents of the law say it is unfair to legal residents and conflicts with both the U.S. Constitution and a 1996 federal law that prohibits higher education institutions giving benefits to illegal immigrants without offering the same break to U.S. citizens.
In-state tuition can be significantly cheaper than fees for out-of-state residents. For example, undergraduate tuition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is about $6,000 per year for in-state students and $17,650 for those from out of state.
Kobach led a similar lawsuit in California, where the state Supreme Court ruled last month that illegal immigrants are entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to in-state high school students to attend public colleges and universities. Kobach, who represented a group of U.S. students seeking to invalidate the California law, has said he would appeal that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The California Legislature passed the measure in 2001 that allowed any student, regardless of immigration status, who attended a California high school for at least three years and graduated to qualify for in-state tuition at the state's colleges and universities. In-state tuition saves each state college student about $11,000 a year and each University of California student about $23,000 a year.
Several other states, including New York and Texas, have similar laws.


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MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher's mother in the romantic comedy "Moonstruck," has died. She was 89.
Allison Levy her agent at Innovative Artists said Saturday that Dukakis died Saturday morning in her home in New York City. A cause of death was not immediately released.
Dukakis won her Oscar through a surprising chain of circumstances, beginning with author Nora Ephron's recommendation that she play Meryl Streep's mother in the film version of Ephron's book "Heartburn." Dukakis got the role, but her scenes were cut from the film. To make it up to her, director Mike Nichols cast her in his hit play "Social Security." Director Norman Jewison saw her in that role and cast her in "Moonstruck."
Dukakis won the Oscar for best supporting actress and Cher took home the trophy for best actress.
She referred to her 1988 win as "the year of the Dukakii" because it was also the year Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, her cousin, was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. At the ceremony, she held her Oscar high over her head and called out: "OK, Michael, let's go!"
Dukakis had yearned to be an actress from an early age and had hoped to study drama in college. Her Greek immigrant parents insisted she pursue a more practical education, so she studied physical therapy at Boston University on a scholarship from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
After earning her bachelor's degree, she worked at an understaffed hospital in Marmet, West Virginia, and at the Hospital for Contagious Diseases in Boston.
But the lure of the theater eventually led her to study drama at Boston University.
It was a shocking change, she told an interviewer in 1988, noting that she had gone from the calm world of science to one where students routinely screamed at the teachers.
"I thought they were all nuts," she said. "It was wonderful."
Her first graduate school performance was a disaster, however, as she sat wordless on the stage.
After a teacher helped cure her stage fright, she began working in summer stock theaters. In 1960, she made her off-Broadway debut and two years later had a small part in "The Aspen Papers" on Broadway.
After three years with a Boston regional theater, Dukakis moved to New York and married actor Louis Zorich.
During their first years of marriage, acting jobs were scarce, and Dukakis worked as a bartender, waitress and other jobs.
She and Zorich had three children — Christina, Peter and Stefan. They decided it was too hard to raise children in New York with limited income, so they moved the family to a century-old house in Montclair, a New Jersey suburb of New York.
Her Oscar victory kept the motherly film roles coming. She was Kirstie Alley's mom in "Look Who's Talking" and its sequel "Look Who's Talking Too," the sardonic widow in "Steel Magnolias" and the overbearing wife of Jack Lemmon (and mother of Ted Danson) in "Dad."
But the stage had been her first love.
"My ambition wasn't to win the Oscar," she commented after her "Moonstruck" win. "It was to play the great parts."
She accomplished that in such New York productions as Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children," Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" and Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo."
For two decades she ran the Whole Theater Company in Montclair, New Jersey, specializing in classic dramas.
While her passion lay in stage, a line from her Oscar-winning performance as Rose nonetheless seemed fitting: "I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."
The late Associated Press writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles was the primary writer of this obituary.


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San Jose, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Brent Burns scored twice during San Jose's four-goal third period as the Sharks extended their home dominance over Pittsburgh with a 5-3 win.
Joe Pavelski assisted on three San Jose goals and Antti Niemi stopped 19 Pittsburgh shots.
Rookie Olli Maatta had two goals for the Penguins, who are winless in their last 11 trips to San Jose (0-9-1 with a tie) since a 5-2 victory on Oct. 22, 1997.
Pittsburgh backup Jeff Zatkoff was tested often by the Sharks and finished with 42 saves on 46 shots.
However, Zatkoff fanned with the glove on Joe Thornton's tiebreaking goal. Thornton let a rather innocuous looking wrister go from just inside the blue line at the left point that eluded the netminder with 5:39 remaining.
Burns added an empty-netter in the waning seconds.
"We got physical and that just totally turned the game," Thornton said.
The Penguins jumped out to a 2-0 lead as Maatta and Chris Kunitz scored 1:12 apart in the first period.
San Jose got on the board late in the second period courtsey of Justin Braun's shot finding its way past a screened Zatkoff, but Pittsburgh had a chance to increase its lead on a four-minute power play early in the third period.
Instead, the Sharks pulled even as Patrick Marleau stickhandled around Evgeni Malkin and beat Zatkoff with a backhander for a short-handed goal at the 5:18 mark.
Maatta, however, scored 21 seconds later with the Penguins still on the man advantage.
Burns then tied things up at 6:52. Pavelski grabbed a loose puck in the right corner after board work by Thornton and dished out front to Burns, whose one- timer from the slot found the back of the net.
"We did a good job in the first half of the game and then made it easy for them in the second half of the game," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said.
Game Notes
The Sharks improved to 4-1-1 in a stretch that sees them play 12 consecutive games against Eastern Conference teams ... Pittsburgh dropped to 1-2-0 on its five-game road trip and has lost four of five overall.


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Break out the egg nog: Hallmark channels plan week of Christmas programming in July
The Hallmark TV channels are beginning a week's worth of holiday programming on the Fourth of July — but think ornaments and egg nog instead of fireworks and hot dogs.
The stunt on the Hallmark and Hallmark Movie channels begins Friday afternoon and continues into the early morning hours of July 15. Mostly, it will be repeats of the holiday movies that Hallmark traditionally airs during the last two months of the year.
"This is a little bit of escapism," said Bill Abbott, president and CEO of the Crown Media Family Networks, "and that's what television is for."
Hallmark's "Christmas in July" began two years ago as a single weekend intended as corporate synergy. The programming aired to draw attention to the annual debut of new holiday ornaments by Hallmark Cards, yet unexpectedly struck a chord with viewers. The weekend averaged 747,000 viewers, or 55 percent above more season-appropriate fare that aired the same weekend the year before, the Nielsen company said.
Viewership ticked up slightly in 2013 when Hallmark expanded its offerings, and this year the network went all-in. In addition to the movies, Hallmark's daytime show "Home & Family" will offer holiday tips oriented to the time of year, like saving up for shopping or storage of decorations.
"You're always concerned with how viewers will react to this kind of stunt," Abbott said. "The passion that they reacted with was a surprise, on social media particularly. We would receive a lot of feedback. People would buy ornaments and go home and watch a holiday movie."
Besides the rerun movies, Hallmark will air for the first time "Angels Sing," a former theatrical release starring Harry Connick Jr. and Connie Britton.
"Often you can enjoy these movies more when it's not the holidays because the holidays are such a time of stress and hustle and bustle for people," he said. "Sometimes anticipating the season is better than actually being in the season."
Movies that play best in the summer tend to be family stories where the holidays are more of a backdrop, Abbott said. The Debbie Macomber series will be emphasized, for example. A holiday music special wouldn't particularly work.
Hallmark has toyed with the idea of a holiday-oriented network full-time, although it would feature other seasons besides Christmas.
That would involve risk, though. November and December are big business months for Hallmark, and the company would not want to cut into those ratings.
"We have to be very careful of overexposure," Abbott said.


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Birds Of Uzbekistan
This gallery is a sincere effort to document birds of Uzbekistan. I've got two fold objective in bird photography (a) first is for documenting various species in Uzbekistan and their behavior and (b) second is to bring an artistic perspective that is visible beyond the naked eye. As such you will find some pictures not so good as others meant for art as they are pure for documentation purpose only (labelled as "Documentation Shot"). If there are any species identified incorrectly, pls do email me and I will be glad to update them as soon as possible. None of these photographs have been taken in the zoo or of tamed birds, neither have any artificial perches or bait been put to attract these birds. All shots are taken in wild environment with all caution to minimize disturbance to the birds. Also, I am not a big fan of Photoshoping photographs - as such these photographs are as shot, with minor crop, spot removals, exposure and contrast changes done in Adobe Lightroom. Hope you enjoy this gallery.Read More
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Google Chrome launches default ad-blocker
Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent "annoying" and "intrusive" ads being shown to users.
Google announced the move to curtail full-page and auto-playing video ads, among others, last year.
The choice of which ads to block will be determined by the Coalition for Better Ads (CBA) – made up of companies including Google and Facebook.
Sites will have 30 days to remove disruptive ads before blocking begins.
A survey of 40,000 US and European web users found that the most intrusive ads were full-page ads that hide the content of a web page and flashing animated ads, according to a blog by Chris Bentzel at Google.
"Chrome will automatically block ads on sites that fail the Better Ads Standards," wrote Bentzel.
"When at least one network request has been blocked, Chrome will show the user a message indicating that ad blocking has occurred as well as an option to disable this setting….."
The ad industry was generally accepting of the move, said Emily Tan, an editor at Campaign magazine.
"At first, people were worried that it would be implementing ad-blocking across the board," she told the BBC.
"Now everyone has a clearer picture of what it does."
Block party
Sites that have already altered the ads they show after being warned by Google include the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune.
However, users who simply want to block as many ads as possible may seek other solutions.
Rival firm Adblock Plus has analysed how effective a CBA ad-detection tool can be, in terms of its ability to block ads described in a CBA white paper published last year.
The analysis found that the CBA blocker failed to prevent ads that re-positioned article text on a web page while users were reading it, for example to make way for auto-playing video ads.
"In total, the new CBA-endorsed ad skimmer will only block 16.4 percent of the ad types listed in its white paper " said a spokeswoman for Adblock Plus.
She added that Adblock Plus blocks 92.7% of ads by comparison.
The Chrome browser is in use on approximately 60% of computers and mobile devices, according to statistics from Stat Counter, W3Counter and Net Applications.
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Understand more about the historical context that gave rise to the Face of Jamaica exhibition that toured Germany and the UK between 1963 and 1964.
Supporting the tourism sector seemed important in the early 1960s as after steadily increasing numbers of visitors in the 1950s and the record high of visitor arrivals in 1960, the figures dropped by almost 11 percent between 1960 and 1963. Visitors from Continental Europe were in the minority compared to Americans or Canadians.
It is interesting to consider the way that exhibitions like Face of Jamaica reflected different images of Jamaica's tourism package, from a "playground for millionaires" in the 1950s and 1960s to the contemporary spring break destination for American college kids years later. Perhaps incidentally, one year after Face of Jamaica returned home, in 1965 the Jamaica tourist industry came "to full maturity" as "for the first time ever, long-stay visitors came to comprise the bulk of arrivals, accounting for 59 percent of the total. It was also "the year in which tourism surpassed the declining sugar industry as a foreign exchange earner in the economy."
In 1964 when the exhibition made its tour, the newly independent nation appeared to be on the up and up. Jamaica's mineral rich red earth in St Elizabeth, Mandeville and St Catherine was satisfying a growing world demand for bauxite, while its white sand beaches were acclaimed by movie stars like, Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson. For US $105 you could book a five days stay at the newly constructed Playboy Hotel in Ocho Rios. Everybody wanted to be a jet setter but there was another side to that story of glamorous wealth and that would make itself heard before the decades. Reggae, Rastafari and the ground swell of a suppressed African culture was about to re-fashion Jamaican identity.
Skatalites – Simmer Down, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires – Original Rude Boy Ska, P. 4
The new sounds of Ska and Reggae were already storming the airwaves displacing the calypso beat and Lord Creator's message that had dominated the pop culture just a year or two earlier. This new downbeat with a combination of local references and Beatle wailing seemed to offer a new form of expression and social critique. Bob Marley's refrain 'She's just a Playboy' is a cryptic commentary on Jamaica's image and the excitement and tensions that exhibition's like Face of Jamaica would generate at home and abroad.
Bob Marley and the Wailers – Playboy, From album Another Dance, Studio One, 1965
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Title: Meeting at Intermedia on Beatty Street
Pictured: Dennis Vance
Pictured: Gerry Gilbert
Pictured: Henry Rappaport
Pictured: James Barber
Artist: Michael de Courcy
Date: February 28, 1969
Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]
Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive
Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm
More Information: A meeting of Intermedia members and staff at Intermedia administrative offices of 575 Beatty Street. L-R: Dennis Vance, Gerry Gilbert, Henry Rappaport, James Barber. Collection of the artist.Further Research: The Intermedia Catalogue
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CHARLOTTE, NC – A group of atheists are upset after their billboard was vandalized!
The words 'Under God" were spray painted on a billboard funded by a group of atheists. The Charlotte atheist association put up the ad and discovered it vandalized on Monday. The billboard will remain defaced until after July 4, the group reports, which is the soonest that workers can furnish a new billboard.
The billboard reads, "One Nation Indivisible" on a backdrop of an American flag. The phrase precedes the 1954 insertion of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, Charlotte Observer's Tim Funk reports. The billboard had been up for all of a week and it was constructed on Billy Graham Parkway.
Similar North Carolina ads have gone up in Asheville, Greensboro, Wilmington, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem as a Fourth of July project by the area's atheist association. The group has filed a police report.
"It was done by one or two people off on their own who decided their only recourse was vandalism rather than having a conversation," Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics spokesman William Warren said. "It does show how needed our message is. As atheists, we want to let people know we exist and that there's a community here."
CHARLOTTE, NC – A group of atheists are upset after their billboard was vandalized!


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Tiger Woods' Wife Confronted Alleged Mistress
Tiger Woods' Wife Confronted Alleged Mistress
Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren placed an angry call to Jaimee Grubbs, Tiger's alleged mistress, confronting her about the alleged affair with her husband.
As we first reported, Grubbs bragged to co-workers at the Stone Rose Lounge in West Hollywood, claiming she was having an affair with Tiger and even playing them the voicemail Tiger left for Jaimee on November 24 -- when he asked her to remove her name from the outgoing message on her voicemail because Elin was becoming suspicious.
Co-workers tell TMZ on Friday -- the day of Tiger's crash -- Jaimee went to work, played the voicemail to co-workers and then later in the evening said she had received a call from a blocked number. Jaimee says she answered and asked who was on the line. Jaimee says the caller -- a woman -- did not identify herself but said, "You know who this is because you're f**king my husband."


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Crack open the cover of any of the three books written by Alice Sebold, the keynote speaker of this year's Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, and there's no turning back. At least not without a backward glance and wondering what you missed. Without question, Sebold has mastered the power of getting readers' attention from the get-go.
During the conference and for attendees only, Sebold will deliver the keynote address at the conference's opening dinner at Land's End Resort's Quarterdeck, which begins at 7 p.m. June 13, will do a question-and-answer session during the conference luncheon at Land's End at noon June 15, and will give a talk on writing at 8:30 a.m. June 16.
She also will give a public reading of her work at the Mariner Theatre at 8 p.m. June 14.
Since the age of 11, the California-based author knew being a writer was the direction her life was headed.
"I grew up in a house with people who read books. Books were everywhere, in every room and had a huge effect on me," she said.
Being surrounded by the written word was one thing. Making sense of it was another for the youngster struggling with undiagnosed dyslexia. With the help of a teacher, Sebold taught herself to play with words like they were objects.
"That way I conquered my reading disorder as well," she said. "I don't know if I'd taken to language and writing if I hadn't had to struggle that way."
Poetry was Sebold's starting point, providing a format for arranging those word-shapes concisely and for maximum impact.
"The truth is, a good poem has the weight and significance of a good novel. So there it all was," she said.
Also there was the key to Sebold's future as a writer.
"I think certain people feel called to do something," she said. "They find it and then their brain kind of explodes and nothing else can hold a candle to it. That's what happened to me."
After beginning what would eventually become her second book, "The Lovely Bones," Sebold felt directed by the story's central figure, Susie, a 14-year-old who has been murdered, to first tackle her own story.
"It felt like it was bearing too much weight," said Sebold of her initial attempts to write Susie's story. "Basically, as a rape victim myself, I had a story to tell that was not Susie's story. For Susie to be free on her own as a character and not as an autobiographical representative, I needed to go away and write my own story."
The result was "Lucky," published in 1999, with "The Lovely Bones" following three years later. Her third novel, "The Almost Moon," was published in 2007.
"For me, that was part of the process, to realize I had a story that I probably wouldn't have told if I hadn't been motivated to write it by Susie," said Sebold. "My characters are very real for me and I felt it was something Susie needed and wanted me to do."
Offering the subject matter of "Lucky" for public consumption was something Sebold did after having processed the trauma of her experience on her own, with the help of therapy and personal writing exercises not meant to see the light of day.
The subjects of her books, whether memoir or fiction, are large, complicated, uncomfortable. While not softening their impact, Sebold pairs them with prose of strength and victory, compassion and forgiveness.
"I think we have such a black and white idea of dark material," said Sebold. "Dark material has a light quality to it, as in transcendent. That was what I really wanted."
In 2009, "The Lovely Bones" was produced as a film, directed by Peter Jackson, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci. Sebold saw it once, at its premiere for the royal family in England.
She has been awarded the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2001 and The American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction for "The Lovely Bones."
The success she's achieved doesn't mean writing comes easily.
"I never love what I put on paper," she said, recalling once being told there are two kinds of writers, those that think what they put on paper is genius and those that think what they put on paper is horrible. "I'm the self-hating one. I don't write thinking, 'this is fabulous.'"
To make the most of her creative energy, as well as those inner critics, Sebold chooses what time of day to write and when to edit.
"I like working early in the morning because the judges haven't woken up yet. I get my creative work done in the morning," she said. "In the afternoon the judges are awake and have had coffee and then I go from there."
That said, when asked which of her books she is most proud, Sebold said, "It's so hard for me to take the word 'proud,' but I think I'm proud of them all … I think I'm proud that I've published three books that I truly believe in."
When it comes to advice for other writers, she draws from her own journey.
"Unless you feel a desperate need to write, go find something else to do," said Sebold. "I really feel like it has to be something that you cannot not do."
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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts / Global Research – 2013-06-24 02:15:33
Fake WMD "Intelligence" and Orwellian Double-speak : Washington Is Insane
WASHINGTON, DC (June 17, 2013) — In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakably clear that the American people don't even influence, much less control, the government. As far as Washington is concerned, the people are nothing but chaff in the wind.
Polls demonstrate that 65% of the US population opposes US intervention in Syria. Despite this clear indication of the people's will, the Obama regime is ramping up a propaganda case for more arming of Washington's mercenaries sent to overthrow the secular Syrian government and for a "no-fly zone" over Syria, which, if Libya is the example, means US or NATO aircraft attacking the Syrian army on the ground, thus serving as the air force of Washington's imported mercenaries, euphemistically called "the Syrian rebels."
Washington declared some time ago that the "red line" that would bring Syria under Washington's military attack was the Assad government's use of chemical weapons of mass destruction against Washington's mercenaries.
Once this announcement was made, everyone with a brain immediately knew that Washington would fabricate false intelligence that Assad had used chemical weapons, just as Washington presented to the United Nations the intentional lie via Secretary of State Colin Powell that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had dangerous weapons of mass destruction.
Remember National Security Advisor Condi Rice's image of a "mushroom cloud over American cities?" Propagandistic lies were Washington's orders of the day.
And they still are. Now Washington has fabricated the false intelligence, and president obama has announced it with a straight face, that Syria's Assad has used sarin gas on several occasions and that between 100 and 150 "of his own people," a euphemism for the US supplied foreign mercenaries, have been killed by the weapon of mass destruction.
Think about that for a minute. As unfortunate as is any death from war, is 100-150 deaths "mass destruction?" According to low-ball estimates, the US-sponsored foreign mercenary invasion of Syria has cost 93,000 lives, of which 150 deaths amounts to 0.0016%. If we round up, Washington's 150 deaths comes to two-thousands of one percent.
In other words, 99.998% of the deaths did not cross the "red line." But the 0.002 (rounded up) percent did.
Yes, I know. Washington's position makes no sense. But when has it ever made any sense?
Let's stretch our minds just a tiny bit farther. Assad knows about Washington's "red line." It has been repeated over and over in order to create in the minds of the distracted American public that there is a real, valid reason for attacking Syria.
Why would Assad use the proscribed weapons of mass destruction in order to kill a measly 100-150 mercenaries when his army is mopping up the US mercenaries without the use of gas and when Assad knows that the use of gas brings in the US military against him?
As the Russian government made clear, Washington's accusation is not believable. No informed person could possibly believe it. No doubt, many Americans wearing patriotism on their sleeves will fall for Washington's latest lie, but no one else in the world will.
Even Washington's NATO puppets calling for attacking Syria know that the justification for the attack is a lie. For the NATO puppets, Washington's money overwhelms integrity, for which the rewards are low.
The Russians certainly know that Washington is lying. The Russian Foreign Minister Larov said:
"The [Assad] government, as the opposition is saying openly, is enjoying military success on the ground. The [Assad] regime isn't driven to the wall. What sense is there for the regime to use chemical arms–especially in such small amounts."
Larov is a relatively civilized person in the role of Russia's main diplomat. However, other Russian officials can be more pointed in their dismissal of Washington's latest blatant lies. Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Putin said:
"The Americans tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons by the [Assad] regime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing. We wouldn't like to invoke references to [the infamous lies o] Secretary of State Powell [at the UN alleging Iraqi WMD], but the facts don't look convincing in our eyes."
Aleksey Pushkov, the chairman of the Russian Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee, cut to the chase.
"The data about Assad's use of chemical weapons is fabricated by the same facility that made up the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Obama is walking George W. Bush's path."
Here in America no one will ever hear straight talk like this from the US presstitutes.
Orwellian double-speak is now the language of the United States government. Secretary of State john kerry condemned Assad for harming "peace talks" while the US arms its Syrian mercenaries.
Washington's double-speak is now obvious to the world. Not only Assad, but also the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and every US puppet state which includes all of NATO and Japan, are fully aware that Washington is again lying through its teeth.
The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are trying to avoid confrontation with Washington, as war with the modern nuclear weapons would destroy all life on planet earth. What is striking is that despite 24/7 brainwashing by the presstitutes, a large majority of the American population opposes obama's war on Syria.
This is good news. It means more Americans are developing the ability to think independently of the lies Washington feeds to them.
What the neocon nazis, the bush/obama regime, and the presstitute media have made clear is that Washington is going to push its agenda of world hegemony to the point of starting World War III, which, of course, means the end of life on earth.
Russia and China, either one of which can destroy the United States, have learned that the US government is a liar and cannot be trusted. The Libyan "no-fly" policy to which Russia and China agreed turned out to be a NATO air attack on the Libyan army so that the CIA-sponsored mercenaries could prevail.
Russia and China, having learned their lesson, are protesting Washington's assault on Syria that Washington pretends is a "civil war." If Syria falls, Russia and China know that Iran is next.
Iran is Russia's underbelly, and for China Iran is 20% of its energy imports. Both Russian and Chinese governments know that after Iran falls, they are next. There is no other explanation for Washington surrounding Russia with missile bases and surrounding China with naval and air bases.
Both Russia and China are now preparing for the war that they see as inevitable. Washington's crazed, demented drive for world hegemony is bringing unsuspecting Americans up against two countries with hydrogen bombs whose combined population is five times the US population. In such a conflict everyone dies.
Considering the utterly insane government ruling in Washington, if human life exists in 2020, it will be a miracle. All the worry about future Medicare and Social Security deficits is meaningless. There will be no one here to collect the benefits.
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February 5: Rwandan Music
Rwandan Music
Tuesday, February 5, 7:00 p.m. at the Library, 706 4th St.
Musician Enric Sifa lived through the Rwandan genocide. To comfort himself and other children living on the streets, he began singing his mother's songs. Now he speaks and performs in both Rwanda and the United States, advocating for marginalized children. He will be playing his guitar and performing songs from his three albums as well as sharing some of his personal experiences from his time in Rwanda.