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Pentax OptioMX
Price: $729 (without SD card)
Rating: * * *
Website: www.crkennedy.com.au
It doesn't look like any conventional digital camera we've seen. Its barrel shape and swivel handle are straight out of a video camera design book and this is very intentional.
The 3.2-megapixel Pentax OptioMX is a hybrid of digital still and video, the latter recorded in MPEG-4 format at an admirable rate of 30 frames per second with audio. It's better than video clips captured on regular digital cameras and you can use the zoom while recording (most digital cameras lock the zoom). However, it's not going to threaten the camcorder market any time soon.
Providing the action isn't happening too fast, video clips are impressively smooth and detailed. There are three resolution options in video mode topping out at 640 x 480 and with two different frame rates to choose from (30 and 15fps).
A one-touch button starts recording video immediately without having to switch modes manually.
One annoying characteristic is that the autofocus tends to hunt around a lot and is easily thrown off by other objects around the edge of the frame. You end up with a lot of out-of-focus footage.
There's a similar problem with the digital still side of things. The OptioMX takes its time locking onto a shot. Depress the shutter halfway to lock the focus and you could be waiting a good three seconds before anything happens, depending on the lighting condition. Most moving subjects would be out of frame by the time the camera decides to take the shot. It's a real shame, as the image quality is very good.
Because the OptioMX is intended for video, you'll need plenty of memory. A 512MB SD card bundle is available with the camera for $899, which is recommended. Improved responsiveness would see the OptioMX become a real killer of a cross-over camera.


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"Developing Confidence"
Scratch's Hidden Treasures - It's Scratch's first day, and he's a bit scared - he wants to fit in! Today they are helping by working on the Fixham Museum gardens. However, instead of giving Scratch a job to do, Bob asks him to watch everyone else - you can learn a lot from watching! Scratch spends the day watching the other machines but still isn't satisfied - he wants to do something! He decides to practice digging by himself. While digging Scratch's bucket hits something! He's found treasure! Concentrating hard, Scratch remembers everything he's learned from watching the other machines and manages to dig up the great treasure! Scratch is really pleased and admits that Bob was right - he did learn a lot from watching! Lofty and the Monster - Bob and the team are rebuilding an old shack on the beach and transforming it into a surf school with Brad Rad, the awesome new surf instructor. D
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Series 27605
Wayne County (Utah). County Recorder plat maps
Dates: 1888-
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
Town surveys and maps.
Additional Forms
This series is available on microfilm.
Access Restrictions
Microfiche holdings require staff assistance due to fewer reference copies. Handle masters under supervision.
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Processing Note
Some microfiche is of very poor quality.
Processing Note
Microfiche processed by Rebekkah Shaw under the National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant to the Utah State Archives and Records Services for the Utah Microfiche Backlog Project (Grant No.: NAR10-RB-50086-10). July 2010 - December 2011
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Firearm & Non-Lethal Weapon Training For Safety, Defense & Recreation
Illinois Concealed Carry, LLC offers professional and standardized lethal and non-lethal firearm handling, carrying and safety training. Train with certified and highly qualified instructors whose number one priority is your safety!
We are committed to providing quality firearm and non-lethal weapon training to responsible adults to want to enhance their firearm knowledge, skill and attitude. Our goal is to get all firearm and non-lethal weapon owners trained to a high-level of proficiency. Whether you are a novice, beginner or have many years of experience; we can add to your skill-set!!!
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The State of Illinois ranks #5 out of 50 for most violent crimes (that's almost 70,000) violent crimes per year. The City of Chicago alone experienced over 28,000 violent crimes in 2010.
These are just some of the crimes that actually get reported according to the F.B.I. bureau of crime statistics. Countless others go unreported... Or worse, they end up as one of the nearly 15,000 murder victims reported every year.
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Seth Palatnik, managing director, Willamette Management Associates
Seth Palatnik has joined Willamette Management Associates as a managing director, the firm announced Tuesday. Palatnik will direct the firm's forensic analysis and litigation support services, including business valuation, intellectual property analysis, and lost profits/economic damages related to shareholder disputes, infringement, breach of contract, and other commercial litigation. Previously, Palatnik was president of the Business Valuation Association.
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iOS Apps: Baby Connect: track, log, share your child activities(via)
Picked by Apple as a featured App for Busy Moms, Baby Connect is the most comprehensive baby tracking application on the AppStore. It has graphical reports and trending charts, weekly averages, medicine, vaccine and growth tracking, timers, notifications, reminder alarms, emails, .csv export, an easy to use interface, unlimited data, and it is the only application that allows you to exchange information in real time (over wifi, 3g or Edge) with your spouse, babysitter, nanny or daycare.
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Venezuela: In Lieu of Inauguration, Chavistas Rally in Support of Ailing Leader
Venezuela's government has organized what seems an alternative inauguration outside the presidential palace Thursday, the day the ailing ailing President Hugo Chávez was to be sworn in for a fourth term.
Vice President Nicolás Maduro urged supporters to gather on a street outside Miraflores Palace to demonstrate solidarity with Chávez, who remains in Cuba fighting complications after cancer surgery and hasn't spoken publicly or been seen in more than a month.
"Everyone to the street," Maduro said at a televised Cabinet meeting Wednesday night. "We're going to have a great function in honor of President Chávez."
Leaders from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean were invited, as they normally would be for a formal inauguration. President Jose Mujica of Uruguay arrived Wednesday, and other presidents expected to attend included Bolivia's Evo Morales and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.
Everyone to the street! We're going to have a great function in honor of President Chávez.
Maduro said heads of state, foreign ministers and other officials from 19 countries had come to Caracas. The vice president, whom Chávez designated his chosen successor last month, said that even though it wasn't an official swearing-in, Thursday's event still marks the start of a new term for the president following his re-election in October.
"A historic period of this second decade of the 21st century is starting, with our commander leading," Maduro said.
But glaring above all in the planned event was Chávez's absence from the presidential where he has so often spoken for hours on television, chided his opponents and called for a socialist revolution.
The opposition, limping from two recent electoral defeats, seems powerless to effectively challenge the postponement of Chávez's swearing-in, a legislative move that was endorsed Wednesday by a Supreme Court widely viewed as favoring the government.
Apparently clinging to life in Cuba, unable to travel home or speak publicly, Chávez remains fully and legally in power. The opposition has been left complaining that there are no independent institutions or courts inside Venezuela for them to appeal to, and the world appears to be giving a collective shrug to their plight.
The door to a court challenge was slammed by Supreme Court President Luisa Estella Morales even before the opposition could file one. Morales announced Wednesday that it was fine to delay the inauguration past the Jan. 10 date set by the constitution, saying the Supreme Court could handle the issue later, "at a time and place to be determined."
As for demands that, under the constitution, a caretaker should be named for the unseen president in Cuba, Morales said that so far, "there is not even a temporary absence."
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles condemned the high court's endorsement of delaying the inauguration. "Institutions should not respond to the interests of a government," he said at a news conference.
He said the opposition had urged various governments not to send representatives to Thursday's event, and said he was grateful to presidents who had decided not to come to Caracas.
Government officials are at pains to insist that Chávez remains in command, even if unheard from. Pro-Chávez politicians have been wearing T-shirts with an image of the president's eyes. New murals with Chávez's smiling face have gone up on city walls.
Maduro on Wednesday reiterated hopes of Chávez eventually returning. Still, the long silence by the dominant Venezuelan politician of the past 14 years has fed speculation that he could be near death, raising anxieties and tensions.
Military leaders have sought to show they are in step with Maduro and the government. They appeared alongside ministers at Wednesday night's Cabinet meeting. A military commander, Maj. Gen. Wilmer Barrientos, also spoke on television saying that the armed forces were "very pleased" with the court's decision and were focused on providing a "sense of peace and tranquility."
Chávez has been fighting an unspecified type of pelvic cancer since June 2011 and has undergone repeated surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Chávez said before his latest operation that if he were unable to continue as president, Maduro should take his place and run in an election to replace him.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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Islanders hang on to beat Panthersby Alain Poupart
SUNRISE, Fla. -- The New York Islanders were able to keep rolling Saturday, but not before they got a big scare.
Casey Cizikas scored with 7:05 left in the third period as the Islanders beat the Florida Panthers 4-3 after squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period at BB&T Center.
"In this League, everyone can score, every team is good," Cizikas said. "We take five, 10 minutes off and you kind of lose focus, that's what happens. It's just a perfect example of how you have to play a full 60 minutes. It's something that we can learn from."
Cizikas beat Scott Clemmensen to the short side for his fourth goal of the season after some strong board work from linemates Colin McDonald and Keith Aucoin.
Cizikas scored from the left of the net after taking a feed from McDonald.
"We worked hard enough and we were rewarded with a goal, which is always nice," Cizikas said. "But our main focus was just to get out there and try to get momentum back on our side and try to get the guys going.
"They were both working their [butts] off down low. We were just trying to cycle the puck. Mac made a great play behind the net of finding me right there. I just tried to get it off as quick as possible. It's easy being the goal scorer, but when you've got guys working their bag off for you to get that goal, it's definitely nice."
For McDonald, getting the assist on the game-winning goal provided a great capper to a roller-coaster week.
He had to sit out Thursday's 2-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning because of illness and then signed a two-year contract extension on Friday.
"That was the joke in the locker room, that I was holding out all week until I got a new deal," McDonald said. "Yeah, it's good timing, I guess. It's a good feeling to finally get the one-way contract that I've been working for for about six years now.
"It's been a little hectic. My main concern was just trying to get healthy. I just got a pretty bad stomach virus. It's really put me in bed for a couple of days. While they were doing this, they kind of opened up negotiations for us and they were talking back and forth. It was a bit of a whirlwind, but it was just a great end to a week that I'll definitely never forget."
Kyle Okposo, Radek Martinek and Brad Boyes had the other goals for the Islanders, who improved to 5-1-1 in March after suffering through a 4-9-1 February.
Evgeni Nabokov made 27 saves as he improved to 8-2-1 on the road this season.
The victory moved the Islanders past the New York Rangers into ninth place in the Eastern Conference standings. It was the first time in 12 meetings in South Florida that the Islanders beat the Panthers in regulation.
"All the points right now are crucial," Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. "For us, it doesn't matter who we play. We've got a tough road ahead, but we can't look back and look past anybody. It's good for our guys. We had a couple of days to review some things. We came in, we played some structured hockey over the last couple of games with the exception of eight or nine minutes in this game, so we were pleased."
T.J. Brennan, Marcel Goc and Mike Santorelli scored for the Panthers, who lost for the sixth straight time (0-5-1), their longest losing streak since they went 0-7-3 late in the 2010-11 season.
The Panthers scored three goals in a span of 1:43 early in the third period, more goals than in any other game during their losing streak.
"I like that we came back and we pushed that hard," Panthers coach Kevin Dineen said. "It made our team very emotional in a positive way. It's staying with it throughout the game. We have some highs and lows in the game and we've got to find a way to balance that out. That's an important aspect that's missing. But when you push as hard as they did to bring that game back to where it got, you're proud of them."
Florida hasn't won since beating the Winnipeg Jets 4-1 on March 5 and has fallen behind 2-0 in the first period of each game during its current losing streak.
"We've got to be better with our starts in the first period and come back with a lot of energy," Florida wing Jack Skille said. "[Our start] was fairly decent, we were getting some scoring chances, we had a lot of jump, but when you're playing against a team like that, they're really good in transition like that, you've got to make sure that you're getting pucks in deep."
The Panthers, who won the first division title in team history last season, have the worst record in the NHL at 7-16-6.
Clemmensen received a second consecutive start in net for Florida and finished with 21 saves.
Captain Ed Jovanovski returned to the Florida lineup after missing 22 games with a lower-body injury, but didn't play in the third period. The Panthers also lost enforcer George Parros to an upper-body injury in the first period after he had a fight with Islanders winger Eric Boulton.
Dineen said he would have "an announcement" on Jovanovski's status, as well as that of Parros, on Monday.
The Islanders led 3-0 before Brennan, playing in his first game with Florida after being acquired in a trade with Buffalo on Friday, started the Panthers' comeback.
Brennan scored at 5:09 of the third after rushing to the net and following up with a rebound.
"I just tried to throw one to the net and hung around and guys were on the outside and the puck kind of popped out and I threw it on net and the next thing I know it's in and guys are celebrating, so it was good," said Brennan, who didn't arrive in South Florida until late Saturday afternoon and didn't have a nameplate in the Panthers dressing room. "We got a little momentum off that. We had a lot of jump in the third, which is great, and it was great to see this team come out in the third and never say die. Not getting a point or two is tough, but a lot of character in here."
Brennan, who played for Dineen for two seasons with the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League, ended up with 23:42 of ice time — second on the team behind only defenseman Brian Campbell.
It was an impressive Panthers debut for Brennan, who was selected as the second star of the game.
"That's what my expectations are as a player," Dineen said. "That's the level he's set in game one and that's what we're going to expect until our season ends this year, that he can go out there, he can log some quality minutes, he's got a good read for the ice and like a lot of people when they know they're going to get some confidence in them it makes a big difference. I think he got off to a good start tonight."
After Goc made it 3-2 at 5:43 when he one-timed Tomas Fleischmann's pass to the right side of the net, Santorelli tied the game at 6:52 when he put home a rebound after Nabokov had stopped two quick shots by Skille.
After giving up a goal in the first four minutes in each of their previous five games, the Panthers outshot the Islanders 7-1 in the first 7:10 Saturday, but the game remained scoreless until Okposo scored at 15:26.
After a turnover behind the Florida net, Frans Nielsen whipped around a no-look back that found its way to Okposo in front of the net. Okposo one-timed it between Clemmensen's legs.
Martinek scored at 17:59 after defenseman Mark Streit carried the puck deep into the Florida zone and let the Panthers players drop into coverage. Streit then fed Martinek near the blue line and his seemingly harmless one-timer found its way through traffic just inside the left post.
The Islanders made it 3-0 only 33 seconds into the second period, thanks to some luck. After a pass from John Tavares bounced off his stick, Boyes tried to feed Matt Moulson across the crease but the puck instead went in off the skate of Panthers forward Tomas Kopecky.
At that point, it looked like the Islanders were headed for a rout. Instead, the Panthers made it a game to continue their strange pattern during their losing streak — they've alternated losses by three goals or more with one-goal losses since the streak began.
"I knew they'd make a push," Capuano said. "This is a team that played Boston really tough the last couple of times we watched them in our pre-scouts, they put 40 shots up against Tampa. We blew some coverage on our rush coverage tonight. Hopefully we can learn from that.
"But we found a way to get it done. We called a timeout, raised our battle level to where it needed to be and we got a big goal from a line that worked extremely hard tonight."


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Targeting TiVo Ad Skippers With Targeted Ads
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The struggle for advertisers to find a way to keep DVR users from skipping ads continues, with the latest great idea targeted ads. A company's developed some technology that lets advertisers display different information to different people on the fly -- having a national car ad show local dealer info for different places around the country, for example -- and thinks that they'll keep people from fast-forwarding. But how does simplfying the process of making these ads more "relevant" for advertisers translate to viewers stopping to watch them? After all, much of the editing that can be done with the new technology can be done by hand, and it doesn't seem to keep people from skipping over them. TV commercials compete for people's attention these days, and changing their content based on location or demographic won't change the underlying lack of interest most people have in them.


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Friend testifies she told accuser to report abuse; Testimony in trial of Mayottes.
WORCESTER -- A childhood friend of Joseph Mayotte's accuser testified Thursday that the girl told her in 2007 that she was being sexually abused by Mr. Mayotte.
Called as a prosecution witness at the trial of Joseph and Linda Mayotte on child sexual assault charges, the 16-year-old said she and the girl became best friends after the girl moved into the Mayottes' house at 67 Laura Lane, Northbridge, in 2004.
On the night of June 15, 2007, she told the Worcester Superior Court jury, she was with her older sister and the 10-year-old girl when the girl related that Mr. Mayotte "had been touching her in inappropriate areas.''
She said the alleged victim appeared frightened and unsure of what to do.
"We told her that she needed to tell somebody,'' the teen testified. She said the girl responded that she had already told Mrs. Mayotte but that she had not believed her.
According to earlier testimony in the case, the sisters told their mother what the girl reported to them and the mother notified authorities. When police and social workers from the state Department of Children and Families went to the Mayottes' home, the girl said the allegations were untrue.
Charges were lodged against Mr. Mayotte in 2009, after the girl again accused him of sexually assaulting her.
Under cross-examination by Mr. Mayotte's lawyer, Christopher P. LoConto, the 16-year-old acknowledged that she had been to the Mayottes' home many times and had never seen any inappropriate activity between Mr. Mayotte and the girl.
When the 16-year-old asked the girl about the sexual assault allegations on at least one occasion after June 15, 2007, the girl told her, "It's not happening,'' she said in response to Mr. LoConto's questions.
Judge Richard T. Tucker instructed the jurors that the teen's so-called "first complaint'' testimony could be used by them solely for the purpose of assessing the credibility of the complaining witness.
Mr. Mayotte, 50, and Mrs. Mayotte, 49, have pleaded not guilty to charges that include child rape, child rape aggravated by age difference, indecent assault and battery on a child, indecent assault and battery and assault with intent to rape. The allegations against them involve two children who were once in their care.
Mr. Mayotte is alleged to have sexually abused the girl over a span of nearly five years beginning in 2004, when she was 8 years old.
In his opening statement in the case, Mr. LoConto said Mr. Mayotte would testify that the sexual abuse never occurred.
Mrs. Mayotte stands accused of having a two-year sexual relationship with a teenage boy who fathered a child with her. She told investigators after her arrest that she was raped by the teen.
The former girlfriend of Mrs. Mayotte's alleged victim testified Thursday that he told her on June 4, 2009, that Mrs. Mayotte had "taught him how to have sex'' and that he was the father of the baby boy Mrs. Mayotte had given birth to in January 2008.
The now 21-year-old woman said she advised her then-boyfriend that he had to report the sexual abuse allegations to authorities.
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The mission of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) is to provide leadership for disease prevention and health promotion among Americans. ODPHP undertakes this mandate through the formulation of national health goals and objectives; the coordination of the Department of Health and Human Services activities in disease prevention, health promotion, preventive health services, and health information and education with respect to the appropriate use of health care; and the stimulation of public and private programs and strategies to enhance the health of the Nation. ODPHP is organized around four areas: prevention policy, clinical preventive services, nutrition policy, health communication, and Telehealth. ODPHP's Prevention Policy oversaw the development of HEALTHY PEOPLE 2000, the national prevention agenda, and manages the process by which progress is monitored. ODPHP's Clinical Preventive Services staff promote the appropriate use of immunizations, screening tests, patient counseling, and other prevention activities in clinical settings. The staff coordinate the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and its development of age- and sex-specific guidelines for preventive services. ODPHP acts as a catalyst for activities that strengthen the Department's capabilities and national leadership in nutrition research, nutrition monitoring, nutrition services and training, nutrition education, food safety and quality, and international nutrition. ODPHP promotes improved access to health information through coordination of Federal health information resources and partnerships with local channels, such as libraries. ODPHP manages the Federal gateway to consumer health information on the Internet, healthfinder (www.healthfinder.gov). ODPHP also operates the National Health Information Center (NHIC). The Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health (SciPICH) is promoting the evaluation of effective communication technology for health information and education.
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Barnacle Bill is nothing but the best for seafood lovers! Barnacle Bill is Australia's cooked seafood specialist, capturing that tangy, unique flavour of fresh seafood, complemented by Barnacle Bill's own tartare sauce.
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Configuring a MyFRITZ! account in several FRITZ!Boxes
You can configure your MyFRITZ! account in several FRITZ!Boxes. After logging onto myfritz.net you will then see an overview of all the FRITZ!Boxes associated with your MyFRITZ! account and you can select the one you want to be redirected to.
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- All of the FRITZ!Boxes must obtain a public IPv4 address or an IPv6 address from the internet service provider.
Important:The FRITZ!Box can only be accessed over IPv6 when used on a DS-Lite internet connection. When DS-Lite is active, the status "IPv4 over DS Lite" is displayed under "Connections" on the "Overview" page of the FRITZ!Box user interface.
Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.
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Set up your personal MyFRITZ! account in all of the FRITZ!Boxes you would like to access over the internet:
- Click "Internet" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
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- In the corresponding fields, enter the email address and MyFRITZ! password you used to register with MyFRITZ!. This is the login information for your MyFRITZ! account required to log in on the myfritz.net website.
- Click "Continue".
- If you are asked to set up a FRITZ!Box user, enter a name and password for the FRITZ!Box user in the corresponding fields and click "Next".
Important:For security reasons, the passwords for the FRITZ!Box user and your MyFRITZ! account must be different.
Now you will be redirected to your MyFRITZ! device overview when you log in to myfritz.net. There you can select the FRITZ!Box you would like to access.
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With more and more people providing their own hardware for work, the "bring your own" PC is becoming more commonplace and IT Pros want to have the confidence that they can support their clients who follow this trend. The presence of BYO does not change the need for IT Pros to manage, secure, and remain accountable for the network assets of an organization, and we all know that written policies can only go so far.
This post focuses on managing WOA PCs, which are designed with this "consumerization of IT" in mind. PCs of all form factors built on x86/64 architecture have the full complement of management tools available to them, especially those supported by third-party code running on the system. Since WOA PCs only support third-party code through the Windows Store and WinRT-based applications, we set out to develop industry-leading management capabilities that support BYO or company-deployed WOA PCs. This post was authored by Jeffrey Sutherland, a program manager lead in our Management Systems group.
One of the major trends in IT in recent years has been the drive towards "consumerization of IT," which is a term describing how consumer technology, from phones to PCs, is bleeding into business organizations in all forms and fashions. And increasingly, the devices that are showing up are owned by and liable to the employee rather than the organization they work for. We see this most notably in the smartphone device category, but more recently also in tablets or other portable PC form factors that are increasingly showing up in the workplace. As organizations embrace consumerization, IT must consider how much control they can exert over a user's personally-owned device, and how much management is "good enough." These questions were top of mind for us as we began our journey to Windows 8, and particularly, as we built Windows for the ARM processor architecture. Our focus has been on how we can continue to deliver PCs and software that users need, like applications and data-access on any device, with enough IT control to assert that the device is trustworthy, while avoiding any compromise of the user's privacy on their personal device.
In Steven's earlier blog post about Windows on ARM, or WOA, he talked about how the bulk of the Windows experience remains the same on ARM as it is on x86/64, and the products share a significant amount of code. So, while this post will focus primarily on WOA, many of the features discussed are equally applicable to both processor architectures. In addition, this post covers the capabilities on the PC, itself, not the overall management infrastructure and tools used by IT. Also, please keep in mind all the security capabilities built into Windows that come with WOA from the basics of networking all the way through drive encryption.
Line-of-Business applications and the WOA management client
Demand for access to the business apps that users rely on - from email to licensed software from an independent software vendor to home-grown apps developed by IT - is one of the most important use cases for "consumer" devices in the enterprise. We know that developers are going to find it easy and convenient to build elegant Metro style apps that automatically work on any Windows 8 system including WOA, and developers of line-of-business (LOB) apps won't be any different. But many organizations want to directly control and manage access to their internal LOB apps, including the distribution of the app binaries for installation. For these organizations, publishing their LOB apps to the public Windows Store doesn't make sense, since there is no reason to broadcast these applications to others or to have their application deployment managed through the Windows Store process. And access to these resources and the data that they expose requires an assurance to IT that the systems accessing them meet an established bar for security and data protection.
Organizations have been dealing with apps on x86/64 machines for a long time using a variety of tools and methods, including management products like System Center Configuration Manager and Windows Intune. Management of Metro style LOB apps on x86/64 will be able to leverage those same existing tools and methods and only requires that the client be configured to trust the apps that come from a source other than the Windows Store. For more information on the base capabilities of adding and removing Metro style apps on x86/64, see How to Add and Remove Apps. Developing WOA, however, provided us a unique opportunity to architect how LOB apps can be delivered to users in a way that meets the needs of IT while continuing to guarantee a consistent and reliable end-to-end experience over the life of the PC.
For WOA, we have integrated a new management client that can communicate with a management infrastructure in the cloud to deliver LOB apps to users. You'll hear more about this management infrastructure at a later date from our friends on the System Center blog, so this post will focus on the benefits and capabilities of the WOA management client itself.
There are actually two parts to the WOA management client: the built-in system component, which we'll call the agent; and a Metro-style app, which we'll call the self-service portal, or SSP, that the consumer uses to browse for and install LOB apps made available to them. Both parts of the WOA management client are well behaved Windows 8 apps in terms of user experience, power management/battery life, network awareness (for metered networks), and overall functionality.
The agent does most of the heavy lifting on the client. It configures the client to communicate with the organization's management infrastructure; periodically synchronizes with the management infrastructure to check for any updated LOB apps and apply the latest settings policies configured by IT for the device; and handles the actual download and installation of any LOB apps that the user wants to install. Finally, if the user or the administrator chooses to remove the device from the management infrastructure, it clears the configuration of the agent itself and disables any LOB apps the user installed from the SSP.
Connecting to the management infrastructure
Let's explore some of these elements in more detail, starting with connecting the client to the management infrastructure. In truth, this step begins with the IT admin who specifies the group of Active Directory (AD) domain users who are authorized to connect devices into the service. The admin also has the option to specify the maximum number of devices allowed per user. For authorized users, the actual steps to connect a device are quite simple. Using a new Control Panel applet on their WOA device, the user supplies their company email address and password, just like they do to set up an Exchange email account. The agent then performs a service lookup to locate the organization's management infrastructure based on the user's email address.
Connecting to your management infrastructure is as easy as entering your company email address and password
Once the agent has found the right address, it establishes a secure connection to the management infrastructure using SSL Server Authentication and authenticates the user. If the user is successfully authenticated and has been authorized by the admin to connect devices, the service issues a user certificate to the user who initiated the connection. This certificate is sent back to the agent along with the organization root certificate and instructions for the agent, which it uses to configure its ongoing communications with the management infrastructure. All of this happens in a matter of seconds and typically requires no further interaction from the user. Once complete, the user is directed to install the SSP while the agent completes the connection in the background.
Completing the connection
Next, the agent automatically initiates a session with the management infrastructure, using the user certificate to authenticate. This session and any subsequent sessions are performed using SSL Mutual Authentication to ensure the security of the connection. This initial session completes the registration of the device with the service by supplying some basic device information such as the make and model, the OS version, device capabilities, and other hardware information. This allows IT admins to monitor what types of devices are connecting to the organization, so they can improve the apps and services they deliver to users over time.
Following the initial session, the agent initiates communication with the management infrastructure in two circumstances:
- First, as a maintenance task that runs daily at a time that the user can configure on the client. The activities performed during these maintenance sessions focus on reporting updated hardware information to the management infrastructure, applying changes to the settings policies for the device, reporting compliance back to the management infrastructure, and applying app updates to LOB apps, or retrying any previously failed LOB app installations initiated from the SSP.
- Secondly, the agent will communicate with the management infrastructure anytime the user initiates an app installation from the SSP. These user-initiated sessions are solely focused on app installation and do not perform the maintenance and management activities described in the first case.
Regardless of whether a session is initiated automatically by a scheduled maintenance task or manually by the user, the WOA management client continues to behave well relative to the state of the battery on the device and its current network conditions.
Settings policy management
As already discussed, access to LOB apps typically requires systems to comply with basic security and data protection policies. From the management infrastructure, the IT admin is able to configure a set of policies that we believe are the most critical to give IT the assurances they need without seriously affecting the user's experience with their device, including:
- Allow Convenience Logon
- Maximum Failed Password Attempts
- Maximum Inactivity Time Lock
- Minimum Device Password Complex Characters
- Minimum Password Length
- Password Enabled
- Password Expiration
- Password History
Although our new WOA management client can only connect with a single management infrastructure at a time, we may decide to add other policy sources before we release Windows 8 and so we've architected the policy system to handle this. In the case where more than one policy exists for the same Windows 8 device, the policies will be merged and the most restrictive configuration will be selected for each. This resultant policy will apply to every administrative user on the Windows 8 device and every standard user with an Exchange account configured. Standard users who do not have an Exchange account will not be subject to the policy, but Windows 8 already restricts those users from accessing data in other users' profiles and from privileged locations, thereby automatically protecting your corporate data.
In addition to the configurable policies described above, the agent can also be used to automatically configure a VPN profile for the user, so that WOA devices easily connect to a corporate network without requiring any user action. Finally, the agent can also monitor and report on compliance of WOA devices for the following:
- Drive Encryption Status
- Auto Update Status
- Antivirus Status
- AntiSpyWare Status
Leveraging this compliance information, IT admins can more effectively control access to corporate resources if a device is determined to be at risk. Yet once again, the user's basic experience with the device is left intact and their personal privacy is maintained.
Before we move on, let's consider a couple of the policies listed above and how they practically affect a Windows 8 system. First, we'll look at Allow Convenience Logon. Windows 8 offers users convenience login features, like biometric login or the picture password feature. These options maintain a high level of security for Windows 8 devices, while solving one of the biggest headaches for users and IT alike: forgetting your password. Yet some organizations may require additional time before they are ready to embrace these alternative logon methods, so the Allow Convenience Logon option lets IT manage when to allow convenience logins in their organization.
Secondly, let's look at how drive encryption and Maximum Failed Password Attempts work together. You probably know people who've picked up their smartphone only to find that the device has wiped itself after their young child was playing with it and inadvertently entered the wrong password repeatedly. Nothing so severe will happen with your Windows 8 devices, fortunately. Windows 8 provides strong data protection already out of the box. So, when a user exceeds the password entry threshold, Windows will instead cryptographically lock all encrypted volumes and reboot the device into the Windows 8 recovery console. If your device has been lost or stolen, this effectively renders the device unreadable. But if you're simply the victim of your young son or daughter trying to get to Angry Birds while your device is locked, you can easily recover with the use of a recovery key that Windows 8 can automatically store on your behalf in your SkyDrive account. This way, you are able to get back up and running without enduring a lengthy wait to re-install all of your apps and copy down all of your data.
LOB app management
The features we've covered so far are obviously focused more on the mechanics of the management client and infrastructure along with the needs of the IT admin, but ultimately the entire solution exists to benefit the end user by enabling access to their LOB apps. Without such a benefit there's little reason a user would go through the trouble of using the enterprise management infrastructure. So let's dig deeper into LOB app delivery on the WOA platform.
In our previous blog post about WOA, we told you that "consumers obtain all software... through the Windows Store and Microsoft Update or Windows Update." Now, with the addition of the WOA management client, we're adding a fourth trusted source of software for the WOA platform. As mentioned, the Metro style self-service portal app, or SSP, is the day-to-day interface for the corporate user to access their management infrastructure. Here they can browse to discover LOB apps that have been made available to them by the IT admin. There are actually four different types of apps that IT can publish for users in the SSP:
- Internally-developed Metro style apps that are not published in the Windows Store
- Apps produced by independent software vendors that are licensed to the organization for internal distribution
- Web links that launch websites and web-based apps directly in the browser
- Links to app listings in the Windows Store. This is a convenient way for IT to make users aware of useful business apps that are publicly available.
Since the user specified his or her corporate credentials as part of the initial connection with the management infrastructure, the IT admin can then specify which apps are published to each user individually, based on the user's AD domain user account, or as a member of AD user groups. As a result, the user only sees those apps that are applicable to them in the SSP.
Browsing for LOB apps in the self-service portal (SSP) for a fictional company called Woodgrove
NOTE: This screenshot shows an early prototype of the SSP and may not reflect the final product.
Before any LOB apps can be delivered through the management infrastructure, there are two things that happen on the client. First, an activation key is issued by the management infrastructure and applied to the WOA device to allow the agent to install apps. Second, any certificates used to sign the LOB apps must be added to the certificate store on the device. In most cases, both the activation key and the root certificates are automatically applied during the first session after establishing the connection with the management infrastructure. Otherwise, they are automatically deployed during a subsequent session after the IT admin has turned on the feature in the management infrastructure.
When the user chooses to install an app from the SSP, the request is sent to the management infrastructure and a download link is provided to the agent. The agent then downloads the app, verifies the validity of the content, checks the signature, and installs the app. All of this typically occurs within seconds and is generally invisible to the user. In the event that an error occurs during any part of this process (e.g. the location of the content is unavailable), the agent queues the app for a retry during its next regularly scheduled maintenance session. In either case, the agent reports the state of the installation back to the management infrastructure.
The details page of an app in the SSP, where the user can initiate installation
NOTE: This screenshot shows an early prototype of the SSP, and may not reflect the final product.
As part of its regular maintenance sessions, the agent will inventory which LOB apps are currently installed and report that information back to the management infrastructure so the IT admin can effectively manage their LOB apps. Only Metro-style apps that were installed via the SSP and the management client are included in this inventory from a WOA device. Apps installed from the Windows Store are never reported as part of the inventory.
Anytime the IT admin publishes an update for an app that has been installed on a WOA device, the agent will automatically download and install the update during its next regular maintenance session.
Disconnecting from the management infrastructure
Finally, let's look at how to disconnect a device from the management infrastructure. Disconnecting may be initiated either locally by the user or remotely by the IT admin. User-initiated disconnection is performed much like the initial connection, and is initiated from the same location in the Control Panel. Users may choose to disconnect for any number of reasons, including leaving the company or getting a new device and no longer needing access to their LOB apps on the old device. When an admin initiates a disconnection, the agent performs the disconnection during its next regular maintenance session. Admins may choose to disconnect a user's device after they've left the company or because the device is regularly failing to comply with the organization's security settings policy.
During disconnection, the agent does the following:
- Removes the activation key that allowed the agent to install LOB apps. Once removed, any Metro style apps that were installed via the SSP and management client are deactivated. Note, however, that the apps are not automatically removed from the device, but they can no longer be launched and the user is no longer able to install additional LOB apps.
- Removes any certificates that the agent has provisioned.
- Ceases enforcement of the settings policies that the management infrastructure has applied.
- Reports successful deactivation to the management infrastructure if the admin initiated the process.
- Removes the agent configuration, including the scheduled maintenance task. Once completed, the agent remains dormant unless the user reconnects it to the management infrastructure.
Given the trend towards "consumerization" of IT and our introduction of WOA with Windows 8, we wanted to rethink the way systems management is done. We worked to strike a balance between the sometimes competing needs of IT admins and the consumer who uses the device on a day-to-day basis. With the new WOA management client connecting to a management infrastructure in the cloud, we believe we've accomplished those goals, and we hope you'll agree when you see it all in action.
-- Jeffrey Sutherland


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Australian Artists Upset That Australian Tourism Campaign Crowdsourced Images
from the overreact-much? dept
The National Association for the Visual Arts, the Australian Copyright Council and the Arts Law Centre of Australia are protesting the conditions.Let me get this straight. Even though the whole thing is completely optional, and photographers, who don't like the terms, have every right to just not participate, they're pissed off that others can participate -- of their own free will -- by letting the Tourism campaign use their photographs freely. If the photographers don't mind the terms, why should others? The reality is that these groups are trying to stomp out amateur competition. This whole hissy fit is about limiting the market to professionals, and keeping the amateurs out.
They are demanding the agency relicense any photographs used in the campaign to pay royalties to the artists.
Arts Law Centre of Australia chief executive Robyn Ayres says the copyright rules set a "worrying precedent".Of course the creative industries play a huge role in the economy and culture. But what does that have to do with willing participants letting the Tourism campaign use their images for free of their own free will?
"The creative industries play a huge role in our economy and our culture," she said in a statement.
"Refusing to license these photographic works in an appropriate way sends a message that it (government) does not value creative work in the same way as it values other economic assets."No, it shows that the Tourism group realizes that some people are more than willing to contribute their works for free for reasons other than direct payment.


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McDonald's restaurants in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts have once again partnered with Telemundo to host a local singing competition, "Solo Tu Voz." This is the fourth year of the local talent search, where participants audition in front of Telemundo cameras at various McDonald's restaurants. Audition videos are posted on holaciudad.com where visitors can vote for their favorite contestants, and finalists then go on to perform at Telemundo's "Feria de la Familia" event in September where someone will be named the winner. All Solo Tu Voz auditions are held from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at various McDonald's restaurants.
The 2014 Solo Tu Voz audition schedule is as follows:
May 29 – McDonald's, 40 MLK Drive, New Britain, Conn.
June 26 – McDonald's, 360 S. Main St., Springfield, Mass.
July 24 – McDonald's, 280 Kimberly Ave., New Haven, Conn.
August 21 – McDonald's, 533 Broad St., Meriden, Con..
September – Finalists will perform at "Feria de la Familia" in Hartford.
Follow the singing competition on Twitter via McDonald's @McD_CTWMA, @TelemundoCT @holaciudad or hashtag #SoloTuVoz.


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Take Another Little Pizza My Heart: Valentine's Day Cards for Food-Lovers
It has become something of a tradition to line up our favorite food-related Valentine's cards every year, for your perusal. Valentine's Day is a week away so you still have time to do a bit of shopping for food-lovin' sentiments! Love comes in all shapes and flavors this year, many guilty — from French fries, to roast dinner, to milk and cookies, here are 10 food-lovers' cards from Etsy.
• 1 Take another little pizza my heart card, $4 from BettyTurbo
• 2 You're The Bangers To My Mash Card, $4.95 from Stilldez
• 3 You're good for me, $3.50 from SimplyCutebyKarin
• 4 I shouldn't love you, but I do, $3.25 from DoggonitDesigns
• 5 You complete me, $3.50 from Cracked Designs
• 6 More Than A Giant Burrito, $3.50 from Amy Walters Handmade Illustration
• 7 Hand Cut Valentines Day Greetings Card - I Love You More Than Roast Dinner, £8.00 GBP from Storeyshop
• 8 Better Together, $3 from DrawntoLetters
• 9 Milk and Cookies, $4.50 from HappyDappyBits
• 10 Cheese Loves Cracker Notecard Set, $11 from fuzzygrapefruit
Seen any other great food-lovers' Valentines this year?
• More Than Avocados? Valentines for Food-Lovers
• Radish Me: More Valentines for Food-Lovers from Etsy
(Images: agnes barton-sabo; Stilldez; SimplyCutebyKarin; DoggonitDesigns; Cracked Designs; Amy Walters Handmade Illustration; Storeyshop; DrawntoLetters; HappyDappyBits; fuzzygrapefruit)


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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 31 May 2010
Here's a great resource about musuems and libraries in the digital world.
Inspiring the Technological Imagination: the Future of Museums and Libraries in a Digital Age is "A series of reports that present the literature review conducted as part of the project which addresses one of the four key questions that defines the Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative: How might institutions change to take advantage of the learning opportunities provided by new digital media? The work discussed here seeks to contribute to the development of a field in new media and learning by focusing on museums and libraries as important learning institutions."
Many of the papers are very relevant to our work and there are links to further resources here.


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OK, here I go again... I'm still looking for new hitting partners.
44 years old. I'm around a 3.5 (never been formally rated) and live in West Knox. I'm available to play on weeknights and weekends. Anyone interested in getting out to play?
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Hi Keith,
I too am around a 3.5. I don't live in West Knoxville but I do play out there a lot at Winston Park next to the YMCA. I can play week nights and on weekends as well. If you are interested I'd like to play a few days a week. Give me a reply if you are interested. Thanks.
Sounds good to me Joe. Shoot me an email to [please share private info via a PM or Friend Request.] and we can work out the details.
This is Kaushik. I live in West Knox (near Lovell Rd & Middlebrook Pike intersection) as well. Let me know if you're still looking to play. You can email me at [please share private info via a PM or Friend Request.].
PS: This may be too late, but let me know if you're interested in playing this evening, around 6:30 maybe. I been playing at YMCA courts at times.
If you still would like to get out some and play tennis, let me know!
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When we talk about classical country music at Bear Family Records, we mean country music from the 1940s to the 1970s, which includes the different modes of playing the Honky Tonk Sound, the Nashville Sound, and the Bakersfield Sound.
Honky Tonk Sound:
Honky Tonk Sound was created in Texas in the late 1940s, primarily in the areas where oil was mined, and was mostly represented in the local dance halls, bars and clubs, which were often very busy. To make the music audible, they began to amplify it electrically and accompanied with drums. Thematically it was often about everyday problems and the lyrics were very direct. Popular topics in the 'Honky Tonk Music' are for example 'women' (Honky Tonk had mostly male performers), beer, singing and dancing. Among the most popular representatives of the 'Honky Tonk Sound' are Hank Williams Sr., George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn and Webb Pierce,
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The so-called 'Nashville Sound' was produced as the name implies in Nashville, Tennessee. In the 1950s, country music lost ground to Rock 'n' Roll and Pop music. The producers tried to counteract by smoothing out the 'raw' sound of Country music and for example underscored the songs with choirs. Among the most well-known and successful producers of the 'Nashville Sound' are Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley, who are well known for the success of artists like Jim Reeves, Skeeter Davis, Tammy Wynette, Eddy Arnold.
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Toyota manufacturers have secured their will introduce the latest generation of the car a million people, All New Avanza. How is this brand-new car specs? Here leak.
According to the plan of the car manufacturer Toyota will soon do the ceremonial launch of the All New Avanza in the next few days. Most were reportedly also been opened by the Japanese manufacturer.The source went on to explain that the latest generation of the All New Avanza will be divided into four variants. Two variants, 1.3 E and 1.3 G will carry 1298 cc engine. While variants of 1.5 G and Veloz will bring the 1495 cc engine.
Many of the changes that will be raised and increase Toyota on this new car. From the exterior, this car will have a line of completely different design with the existing Avanza.
It can clearly be seen in various corners of the car. Similarly, features that will be applied or crossbar rim design that fills the foot of this car. For the 1.3 variant that will fill the wheel size 185/70 R14. While the 1.5 sized 185/65 R15.
Each variant of the All New Avanza will be equipped with rack & pinion steering system with Electronic Power Steering (EPS) Steering & Tolt that will pamper its passengers.
There is also a New Combination Meter with Digital LCD, New Sliding Seat & One Touch Tumble and Bottle Holder & Multi Storge that allows the passengers to put favorite drink.
Especially for variants 1.3 G and 1.5 G and Veloz will be equipped with New Parking Sensor with rear reflector.
As for the two variants namely 1.5 G and Veloz also be equipped with a New 2 Din Audio CD MP3 and outer mirrors with turn signal lamp new in her rearview mirror as well as some chrome accents on the exterior. Audio on Avanza 1.3 G will only contain 1 Din MP3 CD.
Performance suspension was already corrected by adjustments to the suspension system Macpherson Struts and rear suspension per snail that enhance stability and comfort and is also equipped with Upper Spring Insulator to increase cabin space of silence.
For Toyota transmission provides a choice of manual and automatic transmissions in the Avanza 1.3. Surprisingly in the Avanza 1.5 G manual transmission is only available course.
"If Veloz brochure should not be taken. But the possibility of differences with 1.5 G was limited to accessories, such as the addition of audio controls on steering wheel, and others. The possibility of manual and automatic transmission is just not clear as well," he said.
Veloz itself is a designation for the type of top Avanza. So if once there Avanza 1.5 S, is now a variant of it is gone and its role could be replaced by Veloz.
As for its tagline, Avanza Veloz will use the phrase 'Sensation of a Unique Ride', while the Avanza 1.3 E, 1.3 G and 1.5 G in the brochure that detikOto can have a tagline 'One to One Million Dreams.'
Specifications of the All New Avanza:
Length: 4140 mm
Width: 1660 mm
Height: 1695 mm
Wheelbase: 2655 mm
Ground clearance: 200 mm
Foot distance: 1425 mm front, rear 1435 mm
Transmission: 5-speed manual, 4-speed automatic
Steering system: Rack & pinion with Electronic Power Steering (EPS) Steering & Tolt
Front suspension: MacPherson Strut with Coil Spring
Rear suspension: 4 link coil spring with lateral rod
Brakes front: Ventilated disc
Rear brake: Tromol
Tire size: 1.3 liters: 1.5-liter 185/70 R14: 185/65 R15
Type of engine: IL, 4 cylinder, 16 V, DOHC, VVT-i
Fuel: Petrol
System: Electronic Fule Injection (EFI)
Tank capacity: 45 liters
Machine code: K3-VE
Displacement: 1298 cc
Maximum power: 92 PS at 6,000 rpm
Maximum torque: 11.9 kgm at 4,400 rpm
Machine code: 3SZ-VE
Displacement: 1495 cc
Maximum power: 104 PS at 6,000 rpm
Maximum torque: 13.9 kgm at 4,400 rpm
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Bridezillas: Seasons 1 and 2 (US - DVD R1)
Gabe Powers thinks of better ways to spend your hard earned money...
In this Weinstein Company produced series power-hungry brides obsess manically over the tiny details of their pending nuptials. When Murphy's Law takes its full effect, these women, who assume they're entitled to being treated like princesses, snap and yell at the hard working people behind the scenes and their loved ones. Everyone is ostracized and the wedding itself does nothing to rectify the asinine behaviour.
The series may have been fun to watch in the 'train wreck' sense had it not been so utterly boring, including one of the most detached and sheepish narrators I've ever heard. It's almost as if he's afraid that one of the brides may hear him. Had the producers set up events, or even had some kind of competition between the brides, I might've cared, but as it stands watching this series is about as exciting as watching slightly loopy, well-to-do women feel sorry for themselves, which it is. What we need here is some intervention from a few Japanese producers. Make the Bridzillas fight each other dressed up as the movie monsters they're named after. The winner gets a standard wedding cake; the loser has to make her own out of ground beef.
And with that I'm pretty much done with my analysis of the WE channels hit series, Bridezillas, seasons one and two. All 700 minutes of it. Since I've finished quicker than usual, I'll take this opportunity to supply my readers with a few fun facts about marriage in America.
In May of 2005, a new survey placed the average cost of a wedding at $26,327. A total of $125 billion—about the size of Ireland's GDP—will be spent on 2.1 million weddings in 2005, according to the 'American Weddings' study conducted by the Fairchild Bridal Group. Fairchild surveyed more than 1,000 brides (states CNNmoney.com). On the flip side, the U.S. has the third highest divorce rate in the world. Roughly half of American marriages end in divorce, and the average cost of a divorce is about $20,000 (according to Bankrate.com), a $28 billion-a-year industry. 43.7 percent of custodial mothers and 56.2 percent of custodial fathers are divorced or separated. In 2002, 7.8 million payers had paid $40 billion in support arrangements.
The average cost of an engagement ring (usually diamond) is between $2,000 and $3,000. That's roughly four billion dollars spent last year in the United States alone. Rings make up 79 % of diamond jewellery sales worldwide, although the major market is the USA (cnn.com). In African countries such as Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, the profits from unregulated diamond trade are used to obtain weapons and fund armed conflicts. As a result, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, raped, mutilated or abducted, according to Amnesty International. From 1991 to 1999 Sierra Leone reported 50,000 dead, one million displaced. Numbers in Liberia and the Congo are even grimmer. The world diamond jewellery retail market was worth US $56 billion in 1999. De Beers, the world's leading diamond mining company that controls 70% of global diamond supply, is based in South Africa.
America's official poverty rate rose from 12.5% in 2003 to 12.7% in 2004, according to the US Census Bureau. World wide, 852 million people are hungry, up from 842 million a year ago. According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they 'die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death'. That is about 210,000 children each week; or just under eleven million children under five years of age, each year.
Borgenproject.org states that the elimination of starvation and malnutrition globally would cost roughly $19 billion. Some call this figure too optimistic and price the cost closer to $24 billion. The organization also averages the cost of educating every child on earth at $12 billion, and supplying sanitation and water at $15 billion.
Bridezillas is shot on location and doesn't appear to use high definition cameras, because of this the image can often appear washed out and/or grainy. This is not the fault of the DVD, but of the trials of not filming on a closed set. There seems to be a small issue with compression leading to some digital blocking and low level noise. Had it really mattered, these episodes could've been stretched across a third disc to avoid these problems. As it stands, each season is allocated two discs.
Bridezillas, surprisingly, may just be the best sounding disc on my shelf, blowing away the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars trilogies. The consistent whining, crying, and passive fit throwing rings bombastically from every speaker, and Hans Zimmer's epic score will shake you right off your couch, giving new meaning to the phrase 'For Those About to Rock, We Salute You'. I am, of course, lying. The location sound, like the video, isn't the best, and being a television series the sound designers haven't really gone too far out of their way to make the series sound special. Again, any issues can most likely be blamed on the filming process.
Basically these sets come with no extras, but the box art would lead you to believe otherwise. Both seasons come with elongated ads for season three of the titular show, which I suppose would get me excited to set my Tivo to record if I had one, or had I not despised the show. We also get footage from the 'Real Brides Cake Dive Event', which is pretty lame, but more of what I would've wanted from the series.
The estimated budget of each season of Bridezillas is one million dollars, and the SRP of each season of the DVD is $26.99. I'm sure everyone who reads this review can think of a better way of spending this money, whether it is on everyday necessities like toilet paper, or charitable organizations like UNICEFF. If Bridezillas has taught me anything it's that marriage is expensive, stupid, and above all, not even slightly about love. View at your own risk, and Weinstein Company, I actually enjoy your Bravo network reality shows, next time send me one of them instead.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 11th July 2006
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Sneak peek at Bridezillas: Season Three, Footage from the "Real Brides Cake Dive Event"
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Bridezillas
Genre: Horror
Length: 0 minutes
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Madonna is not remembered for her appearances on the big screen, but for her music. Her attempts at acting have been mainly failures, except for "Evita" in 1996, where she sang for the majority of the film. Her personal life has even been, one might say, wrecked by film: her first marriage to the actor Sean Penn ended in divorce, as did her second marriage to British film director, Guy Ritchie. Still, somehow, the scandalous divorcee has weathered all odds and directed a new film, W.E., which opened nationally on February 3.
The film is very much Madonna's movie; she not only directed it, but also co-wrote the screenplay. Her fellow screenwriter is Alek Keshishian, a Lebanon-born film director, best known for Madonna's "Truth or Dare," the 1991 documentary that showcased her antics and debauchery during her Blond Ambition tour. Harvey Weinstein, the Oscar-winning Hollywood maven featured in the documentary 20 years ago, now serves as the executive producer of "W.E." It is perhaps unsurprising that after so many cinematic failures, Madonna wanted to surround herself with long-term business partners she could rely on.
Foregoing a focus on her own life, the film hinges on the story of King Edward VIII, heir to the throne of the United Kingdom and dominions of the British Empire, as well as Emperor of India, and his abdication out of romantic passion for a mere commoner: the American socialite Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough). The viewer sees their saga through the eyes of two modern characters who parallel the famous love story: Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), married to a renowned yet abusive psychiatrist, and a security guard at Sotheby's (Oscar Isaac). The two meet as she visits a Wallis Simpson auction.
The tale is not a naive hymn to love, and graphic scenes of domestic violence are sure to disturb. Yet the voyeuristic spectacle, as seen by the roving camera at the outset of the film, is not gratuitous. Despite the shock-value of domestic violence, there is a quintessentially Christian, if not Catholic subtext to the film. If it is true that Madonna attempted to bury her Catholic faith during her years of waywardness, a late adolescence of sorts when she reveled in her brash impiousness, she still seems haunted by Holy Mother Church. This is not a godless picture.
The leitmotif of rise and fall lies at the center of the film, most notably as the king and his American wife are often remembered as Nazi sympathizers—arguably the most damning epithet modern history could bestow on a public figure. Madonna said she found no concrete evidence of this egregious association in her research while writing the script, aside from their meeting Hitler prior to the war as many leaders did. (She adds an ironic twist on modern celebrity, as the director claims she has been maligned unfairly by the press more than once.)
The film's most searing scenes show us a broken female body, as when Wallis Simpson bleeds after her first husband beat her up. Or when her Wally Winthrop realizes her husband really does not want to have children and start a family. Enraged, she smashes all her fertility capsules into the sink, bleeding again. In both instances, the blood of Christ is reflected in the hands and groins of Mary-like figures.
Still, the film is not devoid of insouciance. Certainly the love that binds the king and Wallis at the beginning is winsome and carefree. So is the romantic bond of the modern-day couple. As she visits a Sotheby's exhibition of Wallis Simpson memorabilia, Wally Winthrop slowly falls in love with the security guard, a Russian-sounding immigrant who comes from a "'refugee camp in Vermont."' Exoticism, the brainchild of romance, is a bit clichéd—but it sets the mood before the tide rises.
Transgression runs high as the film glamorizes divorce through both timelines. To be sure, there is an expected feminist touch, as both women decide to go out into the world and find something better out there rather than stay in their homes and work on their marriages. In this sense, Wallis Simpson is seen as a forward-thinking, headstrong woman rather than the unappealing imagine of a reckless and selfish wife. Interestingly, her indomitable character is reflected in her fashion style, as her dresses, hats and shoes always enhance her.
But men are not belittled by the film. In both cases, they are the ones to approach their prospective paramours and encourage them to start a relationship. The king, madly in love with the socialite, arranges for her divorce from her first husband, then rearranges his entire life to suit her. The security guard sees the hapless visitor in the auction hall and starts conversations with her every time she returns, until he brings her home. This traditional sociological pattern may indeed jar a viewer with preconceptions about the director. While both women are reminiscent of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, they are also deeply dependent on strong men. Perhaps the Material Girl, too, is more conservative than one might assume.
The soundtrack has already been praised, as the theme-song, "Masterpiece," won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song earlier this year. Yet it is not difficult to see why Madonna would be displeased if her cinematic work were remembered solely on the basis of its musical dimension. Evidently, this film was her attempt to make a masterpiece out of this historical love story. She falls short of such a feat, setting her expectations a little too high. Still, the film offers a refreshing perspective on a much-contested tale. Could this be a more mature Blond Ambition tour, chasing after artistic gravitas?
I should in fairness be more specific about my discomfort
with Mr. Stepien's review. Might the reviewer be straining to make
a dull film sound like a flawed masterpiece? I literally cringed
reading: "the blood of Christ is reflected in the hands & groins
of Mary-like figures." Likewise, "Blond Ambition tour...chasing
after artistic gravitas" is too rich a sauce, too pretentious for
a first film. In sum, the review sounds much too grand for the subject.
The reviewer's artistry is stealing the show-not Madonna's film.
When Madonna first appeared I was a very fundamentalist young adult. Nevertheless, there was something appealing and authentic and artistic about her. I have followed her through the years and am glad to see, now in my senior years as a Catholic, that she is treated seriously and respectfully by the Catholic press. I think I will go see the film based on this review. Enjoyed it. Well done.
Louis Templeman
Commenter #1, "Abrahams" says it all for me. Initially I wasn't going to comment, specifically because of my discomfort with Mr. Sepien's review. I don't know how we can take seriously a fairy tale about the King and Mrs. Simpson. I too "literally cringed reading "the blood of Christ, etc." Perhaps America sees something in this film and review which led them to print it. I'd love to know what.
What an insightful reviewer. I wasn't going to see this movie but now I think I will. It's great to relate it to the Catholic church also. Thank you America!
My girlfriend's been begging me to see this movie. I guess we will. I didn't know it was that good.
Why applaud the sacriligious and pretentious? The aged Material Girl has not changed.
For the life of me I don't understand how the Nazi connection is so glossed over. The British secret service were relieved when the pro-Nazi Edward left the Throne. God only knows what he would have done to force the British Parliament to appease Hitler. Maybe Madonna should have studied harder. Maybe she didn't want a little Nazism to get in the way of her "love" story.


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Rowdy's Dream Blog #288: A woman takes my tacos away.
G and I are in Taos at dusk. We watch a jeep Wagoneer perform a jump from a dirt road off a hill and over some water. We then go to a fancy Mexican buffet. There are circular bas-relief carvings in the patio floor and walls. I get a plate of tacos. G gets green chili enchiladas that I had not noticed. Our waitress, a gray-haired woman, takes my full plate from me, ostensibly to bring me some enchiladas instead. She does not return. I try to hunt her down. I find some of the other wait staff and describe her to them. They point and I find her hiding behind a door. She gives an unintelligible excuse. I go up to the pretty cashier, who informs me that they are now closed. I go upstairs onto the roof. The food is now gone - only empty tables and steam trays remain.


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The Choice of Hercules
A musical interlude by GF Handel (1685-1759)
Libretto by Thomas Morrell
Marsh Court, Hampshire, September 2011
Holywell Music Room, Oxford, October 2011
Music at Wotton, January 2012
Lincoln College, Oxford, June 2012
Studley Priory, June 2012
|Lisa Wilson
|Amanda Pitt
An Attendant on Pleasure
|James Geer
|Hercules, a youth
|Christopher Lowrey (June)
|Owen Willetts
Hercules' father
|Mark Saberton
Conductor and harpsichord
|Christopher Bucknall
|John Arthur
|The Bampton Classical Players
The Choice of Hercules is a gem of a piece. Handel's English oratorios were not confined to sacred subjects – indeed there are several on the themes of classical mythology, notably Semele (which is an opera in all but name), Acis and Galatea and The Choice of Hercules. The latter, at about 45 minutes long, is the shortest of Handel's dramatic works and the music is largely recycled from incidental music to a play based on Euripides' Alceste.
The story is a simple allegory. Hercules, a youth, is approached by Pleasure and Virtue with their respective claims. Pleasure, in two successive arias, offers him a characteristic 18th-century bower of bliss, with 'numerous sparkling rills', rich odours, cool fountains, shady groves, a bed of flowers, 'embathed in bliss and wrapt in ease'. Hercules is urged by Pleasure and the chorus to 'seize these blessings… be hail'd the rose-crown'd king of joy, and reign on Pleasure's downy throne'. Virtue rebukes Pleasure in somewhat peremptory tones: 'Away, mistaken wretch! This manly youth's exalted mind, Above thy grov'ling taste refined, Shall listen to my awful voice' and bids him assert his heavenly race, 'level pride's high-plumed crest, And bravely succour the distrest'. The chorus first urges Hercules to follow the path of Virtue, but Pleasure counters with her 'Turn thee, youth, to joy and love, why, ah why this fond delay?' Hercules is at first unsure whether he is capable of obeying the call to the virtuous life ('Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay') and the Attendant on Pleasure responds with a persuasive vision of the Elysian Fields. This leads to a masterly trio in which Hercules' cries of 'Where shall I go?' are answered by the two competing goddesses each with their conflicting instructions. In the end Hercules is won over by the promise of immortality - 'among the Gods a God' - and sets himself with Virtue to 'mount the steep ascent'. The final chorus, in the unexpected key of G minor, leaves the listener in what the Handel scholar Winton Dean describes as the 'emphatic if paradoxical conviction that the hero's loss far outweighs his gain'.
As might be expected Pleasure, being Pleasure, gets the better of the music, and it has been suggested that Virtue's rather more perfunctory offering is perhaps representative of Handel's distaste for the primness of the subject matter.
The story originated from Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, where it is presented as a summary of a lost poem by Prodicus of Ceos. As the philosopher A.C. Grayling elegantly puts it, the story is too good ever to have been neglected in subsequent moral and even political symbolisations: it was applied to different heroes and was incorporated into Christian teaching - one reworking of it has Christ in the wilderness for forty days, but with only one would-be seducer. Poussin, Veronese, Paolo de Matteis and Rubens painted it; Handel, his English contemporaries Greene and Stanley as well as J.S. Bach put it to music; the revolutionary fathers of the United States wanted to represent it on their coinage; and the French revolutionaries proposed to build a giant statue of virtue-choosing Hercules in central Paris as an emblem of their new order.
I have translated this Allegory for the Benefit of the Youth of Great Britain (…); and particularly of those who are still in the deplorable State of Non-Existence, and whom I most earnestly entreat to come into the World. Let my Embrios show the least Inclination to any single Virtue, and I shall allow it to be a Struggling towards Birth. I don't expect of them, that, like the Hero in the foregoing Story, they should go about as soon as they are born, with a Club in their Hands, and Lion's Skin on their Shoulders, to root out Monsters, and destroy Tyrants; but as the finest Author of all Antiquity has said upon this very Occasion, Tho' a Man has not the Abilities to distinguish himself in the most shining Parts of a great Character, he has certainly the Capacity of being just, faithful, modest, and temperate.
Joseph Addison 'The Choice of Hercules' first published in Tatler no. 97 (1709)
Joseph Addison's translation of the classical tale of the Choice of Hercules, accompanied by an essay, was popular in eighteenth-century England and it can be supposed that Handel's librettist Thomas Morrell knew it well. Addison points out in the essay that Pleasure 'appears in all the Charms of Beauty', and that therefore Hercules's choice is a genuine and difficult one. Some versions make clear that she was a manifestation of Vice, but Addison recognizes, and Handel surely agrees in his music for her, that Pleasure is truly seductive and plausible. Similarly, Virtue's way is not all glory; she draws attention to the dangers Hercules must face if he is to be worthy of his 'heavenly race'. Handel presents us with a young Hercules, wistfully aware that, even as he turns to Virtue, he can hear the 'dulcet lay' of Pleasure's voice and still torn in the sharply characterized trio as to which way to take.
Addison's concern for 'the Youth of Great Britain' translates easily to today. In the classical tale, Hercules has retreated to the desert to think through his future when he meets Pleasure and Virtue at a crossroads; today's adolescent is more likely to be challenged by such abstractions as he wanders along London's South Bank where pavement artists provide a portal between our age and those of the Enlightenment and of classical literature. Whatever the setting, Handel presents us with a totally human story and some of his most sensuous music.
John Arthur
Glossary Awful = full of awe; fond = foolish; dulcet lay = a sweet tune; fane = temple


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Date(s) - Jan 13, 2018
7:30 am - 11:30 am
Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC)
Welcome back to the Capital Region Farmers Market! Join us for the first Market of the year on 13 January 2018.
The Market is open from 7.30am to 11.30am on Saturday mornings at Exhibition Park in Canberra.
The Market is a community project run by the Rotary Club of Hall, the only rural Rotary Club in the ACT.
The Club is pleased to do something positive to underpin the growing agri-business opportunities in the region, provide a direct and unbroken link between food producers and customers, offer a great seasonal food experience and support important regional community projects.


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November 8, 2017, 10:00 AM - January 3, 2018, 12:00 AM
'Tis the season for food drives! It's a holiday tradition here at the Larkspur Library to host a food drive for those in need. With the spirit of giving in mind, if you come and donate food, we will also clear your Larkspur Library late fees. All food collected will be donated to the SF-Marin Food Bank. Happy Holidays!
Food must be in store-sealed cans, boxes, or plastic containers within its expiration date. No glass containers, perishable food or opened containers. Good for Library fines only (not valid for lost or damaged items). Valid only for Larkspur Materials.
December 21, 2017, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Picture books, fingerplays and songs for two and three year olds.


text: A melodic and haunting track that rolls along in a fashion reminiscent of an extract from a chill out album. The beautiful female vocal has an alluring undertone making you want to hear more. Guitar and piano picks start the track and lead it into a full band ensemble with drums and bass. 74bpm and both wav and mp3 files are included in the download.