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Just like Batman's Gotham, Malarrassa is an existent and nonexistent city at the same time: it exists because it is made up by certain streets, squares, buildings and spots from the city of Terrassa (Catalonia), and it doesn't exist because it's impossible to be found on a map under this name. Malarrassa is an urban fantasy based on actual places, a city I'm constantly creating and destroying, just like a Sim City game. The only difference is I do it walking the streets of Terrassa with camera hanging from my neck and not sitting in front of a computer.
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Connected Products
Empowering Internet of Things (IoT) supports product-centric operations to optimize product lifecycle management by real time feedback from the field as well as in-time replenishment to reduce out-of-stock scenarios, making product data available to suppliers, customers and manufacturers to strengthen the collaboration as well as achieving an end-to-end visibility.
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Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG has reorganized its regional media operations, while retaining Omnicom Media Group in a handful of international markets.
The company has moved its Canadian media operation out of North America and regrouped it into a new region that now includes Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. With the shift, the OMG team adds South Africa to its remit, which already included the other three markets.
Omnicom Media Group is the Omnicom media agency network that houses media shops PHD and OMD.
Ebiquity supported the search, which covered Daimler in the four regions and was run out of Germany.
"With the current growth strategy, 'Mercedes-Benz 2020' in mind, we are further pursuing regional optimization and consolidation in the area of media activities," said Jens Thiemer, VP-marketing for Mercedes-Benz Cars, in a statement. "Our concern is for consistent, innovative marketing communications that lead in quality, for still greater efficiency in media planning, and above all to have the right positioning for the global challenges presented by digital media."
Three agency groups participated in the pitch process for international business which began in June, the company said.
Sabine Lutz, head of procurement for non-production material, said in the statement that the "bundled tendering of the media activities" in the four markets follows consolidations in Europe and Asia. "The Omnicom Media Group has convinced us with the most competitive bid," he said.
Europe, China and the U.S. were not part of the review. A Publicis media agency team won the business in Europe a couple years ago. Omnicom's PHD, which had been working with Mercedes in the U.S. since 1999, retained its business after a review last year. The China pitch is ongoing, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The German automotive giant spent $339.8 million on U.S. measured media in 2014, according to Kantar Media.


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Anybody having sex with a 9 year old is a pedophile. If the girl were at least old enough for breeding, then your argument might have some sliver of merit.
He has a checkered past with the law
Nakoula has a history of "check-kiting" — whereby you remove money from a bank account before the bank realizes it is fraud. In 2010 he was forced to pay $790,000 in fines for federal bank fraud and sentenced to 21 months in prison. The Federal Bureau of Prison's show he was released in June 2011.
Nakoula's criminal history goes further than that, however. In 1997 he was charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and was sentenced to jail, the Daily Beast reports. He violated probation in 2002 and was forced to return to jail.
He has also had a series of financial problems.
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I mean, these things were common. Just look at the marriage of King Richard II of England in 1396. King Richard II married a 6 year old just to stop the war between France and England.
Nakoula, who used Bacile spelled multiple ways as a pseudonym, contacted Klein months ago for advice about the limits of American free speech and asked for help vetting the movie's script, Klein said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Klein said he recognized parallels between what he saw in Vietnam, where he says he infiltrated Viet Cong cells, and "Muslim sleeper cells"..."I'm kind of an unsophisticated James Bond operative. I want to piss this guy off, I want to find out, Why does he want to kill me?" he said. "Why does he want to capture my daughter and granddaughter and rape them? Why does this guy want to act this way?"
The role dovetailed with Klein's relentless pursuit of radical Muslims in America, an activity he says he began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It took on more meaning in 2007, when his son, then a 27-year-old Army staff sergeant, was seriously injured in Iraq. ... "What do I get out of this? I get to die one of these days hoping my granddaughters and my grandsons will be safe from these monsters," Klein said while sipping a beer on the front porch of his home.
Klein founded Courageous Christians United, which conducts protests outside abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques, and started Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, which preaches against Muslims and publishes volumes of anti-Muslim propaganda that Klein distributes. He also has helped train paramilitary militias at the church of Kaweah near Three Rivers, about an hour southeast of Fresno, to prepare for what they believe is a coming holy war with Muslim sleeper cells,
The filmmaker's idea was to give the film a title that would draw in "hardcore Muslims" and then trick them into watching a movie that bashed Islam in the hopes that they would give up their faith, Klein said.
June 24, 2010: U.S.A. vs. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (sentencing) Case 2:09-cr-00617-CAS Document 58 Filed 06/24/10 Page 1 of 6 Page ID #:291 United States District Court Central District of California UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. NAKOULA BASSELEY NAKOULA Defendant Mark Basseley Youssef; Yousseff M. Basseley; akas: Nicola Bacily; Malid Ahlawi Docket No. CR09-617-CAS 7 7 4 ENTER Social Security No. 0 (Last 4 digits) JUDGMENT AND PROBATION/COMMITMENT ORDER MONTH DAY YEAR
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7.Defendant shall not possess or use a device with access to any online service at anylocation without the prior approval of the Probation Officer. This includes access throughany Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), bulletin board system, or any public or privatecomputer network system. Further, defendant shall not have another individual access theInternet on defendant's behalf to obtain files or information that defendant is restrictedfrom accessing personally, or accept restricted files or information from another person;8.Defendant shall use only those computers, computer related devices, screen/user names,passwords, e-mail accounts, and ISPs approved by the Probation Officer. Computer andcomputer-related devices include, but are not limited to, personal computers, personaldata assistants (PDAs), Internet appliances, electronic games, and cellular telephones, aswell as peripheral equipment, that can access, or can be modified to access, the Internet,electronic bulletin boards, other computers, or similar media. Defendant shall use anyapproved computers only within the scope of his employment. Defendant shall not accessa computer for any other purpose. Defendant shall immediately report to the ProbationOfficer any changes in defendant's employment affecting defendant's access and/or use of computers or the Internet, including e-mail;
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Hatred from any religious group must be called out.
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Now that the producer has been identified, how does anyone feel about the legality of making this film? I realize the actors and others employed by the film's producers are quite angry. But as to our future, and the internet's future, I'm concerned that this will result in an EO which suspends certain internet freedoms contingent upon staff review. I wonder if YouTube users will soon experience a delay in posting video while staff reviews it for content.


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Lucifer is Coming
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Your Sons and Your Daughters Will
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The Song of Mary
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The Disciple's Top Ten
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Christ's Metric Alone
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A Conspiracy in North America
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A Candid, Pastoral Heart
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Thousands of Pastors Leave Austin Reignited for Service
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They're finally here! FC Bayern Munich's World Cup winners and semi-finalists have landed in the US at last. Brazilian defender Dante joined the team early and trained with them Wednesday morning. Now Arjen Robben and Bayern's German World Cup-winning contingent rounded out the squad after landing at the Portland Airport.
Bayern and Germany captain Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer, Arjen Robben, Mario Götze and Jerome Boateng all reunited at the airport before heading back to join the rest of the squad. All players are eager to get going again: "Now things really kick off. We have to go full throttle because there's not much time left," commented Lahm.
Their first major test will be against Major League Soccer's All-Star squad on Wednesday evening. The World Cup is over now and the focus shifts to pre-season and the new campaign for Neuer, "I'm still full of hunger and ambition after winning the double and the World Cup."
Bayern take on the MLS All-Stars at Providence Park at 6:30pm PDT


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Saudi Arabia is reportedly going to complete its new wave of mass executions that started in January.
The monarchy put more than 47 people were executed that nonth, although some state affiliated media claimed the number to be 52 people.
In a new article published in Okaz, the most read liberal newspaper in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom is going to behead three convicted prisoners imminently on Friday.
"The three terrorists are waiting for the implementation of retribution against them will complete the first batch of 47 on Saturday (2 January)" the report Said.
The report says that the prisoners are convicted of affiliation with terrorist groups" "embracing a takfirist approach contrary to the Quran and Sunnah".
Please sign the petition: Stop the Executions of Teenage Protesters in #SaudiArabiahttps://t.co/JNGoQPyZqy pic.twitter.com/49QfSmZUeS— Instituto Manquehue (@InsManquehue) March 14, 2016
Human right activists often condemn Saudi Arabia of Financially supporting extremist groups like ISIS and Al-Nosrah front.
- Sign the petition "Stop the Executions of Teenage Protesters in Saudi Arabia"
- Read more: Executions in Saudi Arabia reach 'frightening' rate as 70th prisoner in 2016 is killed
Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud characterized Saudi Arabia in an op-ed in The New York Times as "an ISIS that has made it."
"Black Daesh, white Daesh," Daoud wrote, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. "The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity's common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The ISIS; Saudi Arabia."
The Saudi newspaper report did not mention the prisoners name but human rights groups says that there are three underage prisoners who were arrested after attending anti-government protests in 2012.
Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher were 16 and 17 when they were arrested at a peaceful protest.
Among them Ali al-Nimr is of more distinction due to his kinship with Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, the Shia cleric put to death in January after what human rights groups called a "politically motivated and grossly unfair trial".
According to the report published by Amnesty International and Reprieve, the three boys were subjected to tortures to sign false confessions that later were used to convict them.
- Sign the petition "Stop the Executions of Teenage Protesters in Saudi Arabia"


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AUBURN, Alabama -- The first national coaching award has arrived for Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn .
Malzahn was named the Home Depot Coach of the Year early Wednesday morning, an award that will be presented during the Home Depot College Football Awards show at 7 p.m. Thursday on ESPN.
Already named the SEC's Coach of the Year by the Associated Press, Malzahn is also a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award and the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year award.
Handed a massive rebuilding project after Auburn collapsed to its worst season in 60 years in 2012, Malzahn has engineered a turnaround that is tied for the biggest in college football history, steering the Tigers to a 12-1 record, their third SEC Championship in 10 years and a spot in the BCS National Championship against undefeated Florida State.
"I don't think anybody in this room, probably with the exception of those guys that put on the jersey every Saturday, there probably wasn't thinking we'd be sitting here," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs said last week. "Particularly coming out of a spring where you didn't know who your starting quarterback was going to be and a team that had finished 3-9 and just the confidence and where these guys are from a competitive standpoint, that's why he should be the national coach of the year."
Malzahn, the only first-year head coach to win an SEC Championship in the 22-year history of the conference title game and the first SEC Coach in 66 years to win an SEC title in his first season, hit the ground running.
It took Malzahn only two days to hire coordinators Rhett Lashlee and Ellis Johnson , a month to hire an experienced veteran SEC coaching staff, tabbed Ryan Russell to renovate the Tigers' strength and conditioning program and tightened up discipline.
By the time the spring ended, Auburn still had questions -- particularly at quarterback -- but after Nick Marshall won the starting job in August, Malzahn steered a team that kept improving, shaking off an early loss to LSU to beat Georgia, Alabama and Missouri in memorable fashion down the stretch behind the nation's best running game and a bend-but-don't-break defense that seems to come up with the right stop at the right time.
"I don't know if I've ever had a team come as far as we have. The very first game, we were an average-at-best team. We were a work in progress probably the first half of the season," Malzahn said Sunday night. "Our players bought in to what we asked and they worked extremely hard and they earned the right to get here."
For his efforts, Auburn rewarded Malzahn with a six-year contract extension and a leap in salary to $3.85 million, a contract that includes a $250,000 raise in each subsequent year.
"This where I want to be," Malzahn said Sunday night. "I love Auburn. You start hearing rumors about this stuff, I didn't want our players or coaches or fans to wonder how I felt. I wanted to be here and I'm one blessed guy to be the head coach of the Auburn Tigers."


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The series name is Flowers Can Be Fatal. All are available from the usual places plus direct from the publisher.
Carnations in Jan - out now
Violets in Feb - out now
Daffodils in March - out now
Sweetpeas in April - March 11
Lily of the Valley in May - April 4
Roses in June - May 20
Waterlilies in July - June 10
Gladioli in August - July 7
Forget me nots in Sept - Aug 5
Marigolds in Oct - Sept 9
'Mums in Nov - Oct 21
Holly in Dec - Nov 4
Dutch Crocus - TBA (still not galley'd yet)
And here's the series poem - the tagline of each book being the relevant line of said poem.
Carnations in January shake the foundations
Violets in February are an aid to salvation
Daffodils in March bring betrayal and loss
Sweet peas in April consume all the dross
Lily of the Valley in May brings danger untold
Roses in June show hope in a heart filled with gold
Water lilies in July a town will submerge
Gladioli in August love from the ash will emerge
Forget-me-nots in September are on the front line of fear
Marigolds in October will test her career
Chrysanthemums in November show the burden of choice
Holly in December lets a broken family rejoice


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Last day for all students (Grades 7-12) is Monday, June 25 (Half Day)
Graduation is set for Friday, June 22 at 7 p.m.
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April 17, 2018
On November 1, 2017, the Kittatinny Education Association ("Association") unilaterally filed a Notice of Impasse seeking the appointment of a State Mediator to assist the parties in negotiating a successor collective negotiations agreement. The State Mediator met with the parties on January 31, 2018, but was unable to achieve a voluntary settlement. The Public Employment Relations Commission ("PERC") has appointed an independent Fact-Finder – Edmund Gerber – to further assist the parties in negotiating a successor collective negotiations agreement.
The Kittatinny Regional High School Board of Education ("Board") has offered the Association with the following economic proposal:
The Board remains committed, as evidenced by a median teacher salary of $84,540 (ranked 19th highest district in the state according to the Star Ledger 9/1/17), to negotiate in good-faith and is hopeful that the independent Fact-Finder can assist the parties in achieving a successor collective negotiations agreement.As soon as an initial Fact-Finding date is confirmed, the Board will advise the public and apprise them of any developments.


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You Can't Detect What You Can't See: Illuminating the Entire Kill Chain
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As a mission critical service, VoIP deployments require careful assessment to identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities in VoIP clients, applications, and infrastructure. But what exactly should you hunt for? Let's explore a few security cracks commonly found in VoIP products that use SIP.
Right from the get-go, this architecture inherits the same old vulnerabilities that can plague any networked application. Within the public switched telephone network, systems are trusted and insulated from outsiders. But in many VoIP deployments, user agents live outside the trusted network, requiring SIP and RTP to traverse unknown and potentially hostile territory. Furthermore, when converged IP networks support both data and VoIP, SIP user agents and servers may be readily accessible to other LAN hosts.
This exposure makes SIP and RTP vulnerable to network-borne attacks. For example, a hacker can flood a SIP server or proxy with REGISTER or INVITE messages, or flood a SIP client with RTP sessions, exhausting resources and making VoIP service unavailable. Or he can extract a caller's identity from SIP messages to steal service or impersonate an authorized user. Unless RTP is encrypted (for example, by SRTP), a hacker can easily capture and reconstruct voice payload for the purposes of call eavesdropping or replay. SIP calls can also be redirected, hijacked, degraded, or disrupted altogether.
While these attack details are specific to SIP and RTP, the underlying methodologies are familiar and common to most clear-text TCP/IP protocols. As such, existing network security measures can be used to help mitigate them. For example, firewalls can protect SIP servers and applications from Denial of Service floods, while LAN authentication methods like 802.1X can deter impersonation. Extensions are often necessary to satisfy VoIP-specific demandsfor example, firewalls must process RTP without undue latency or jitter, while intrusion prevention systems need SIP attack signatures. To learn more, see VOIP security appliances by Sipera, SecureLogix, and Ingate.
For example, when the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) tested INVITE message processing by SIP agents and proxies, just one of nine implementations survived this relatively basic exercise. This "fuzzing" test sent 4,527 crafted messages to representative SIP implementations, looking for buffer overflows, unhandled exceptions, and unexpected behavior. Failure impacts ranged from unexpected system behavior and denial of service to arbitrary code execution on the system under test.
Although the affected implementations have since been patched (see CERT Advisory CA-2003-06), this test demonstrates the likelihood of code flaws in newly released VoIP products and the importance of applying available patches. Fuzzing (i.e., functional testing) finds many of these problems during product development, but consumers can verify robustness using open source tools like SIPp or the OUSPG PROTOS SIP tester (now a commercial test tool, Codenomicon).
SIP registrar/proxy servers are not the only devices that should be tested for security bugs. Applications and handsets/phones also deserve plenty of scrutiny. For example:
These examples illustrate a range of potential flaws and consequences. The bottom line: diligent patching is a must for every system in your VoIP deployment. Public databases that can be monitored for relevant security advisories include:
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So although I missed the first quarter of the big game because I was cooking away, I did sit comfortably with my spinach dip and beer battered onion rings in front of the TV for the second quarter. This spinach dip came out amazing and the onion rings were delicious. Thankfully I only made one onion instead of the two the recipe called for because that would have been way too much food. And to complete the spread, we made some yummy margaritas. It was perfect.
Then during the third quarter I served my famous ribs with roasted mini potatoes and a side salad. That's not too bad--I did make veggies! I will post this recipe soon. Enjoy!
p.s. my favorite commercial during the big game was the M&Ms when he wiggled it! Too cute.
Hot Spinach Dip
Adapted by Martha Stewart
2 teaspoons olive oil
PAM non-stick spray
1 large onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 bag of frozen spinach
1/2 cup 1% low fat milk
6 ounces reduced-fat bar cream cheese
5 dashes Worcestershire sauce
5 dashes hot sauce, such as Tabasco
3/4 cup shredded mozzarellaS
alt and ground pepper
Toasted bread, carrots or anything you want to dip
Preheat oven to 400°F. Cook frozen spinach as directed and squeeze any access water out of it. Set the spinach aside.
Then in a Dutch oven or large pot, heat olive oil. Add onion and garlic until lightly browned. Add spinach and mix well. Put this spinach mixture in a separate bowl and set aside.
Then in the same pot over high heat, add milk.
Then whisk in cream cheese until melted, this will only take a couple of minutes.
Now mix in the spinach onion mixture to the milk mixture along with the Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and 1/4 cup cheese. Taste the mixture and season with salt and pepper.
Pour into a baking dish that has been sprayed with PAM. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup cheese over top.
Bake until dip is bubbly and the cheese over the top has melted, about 5-10 minutes. Serve hot. Enjoy!
Beer Battered Onion Rings
Adapted by Martha Stewart
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon coarse salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
3/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup Heineken or other beer
1 large egg
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
Vegetable oil, for frying (about 4 cups)
1 large onions, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices, separated into rings
Course salt
1 lemon
Combine flour, salt, and cayenne pepper in a medium bowl.
Whisk in buttermilk, beer, egg, and lemon zest, and let rest for 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 200°F and place a baking sheet lined with parchment paper on middle rack of the oven. You will be tossing batches of the onion rings onto this sheet to keep warm until finished. In a deep pot, preheat oil. Once oil is hot, dip a few slices of onion in batter, turning to coat and gently drop into oil. Cook, turning once until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Transfer rings to paper towels and sprinkle with salt. Transfer onions to the baking sheet to keep warm. Repeat with remaining onions and adjust heat as needed to avoid burning onion rings. Serve with lemon wedges.


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A Timeline of How We Got to the Entourage Movie
It took some Ari Gold–level plotting to bring this movie into the world.
As it turns out, the ghastly ghoulies in the recent Poltergeist remake aren't the most terrifying things to come out of the TV and invade multiplexes this summer. That dubious honor goes to Entourage, the big-screen spinoff of HBO's most successful alpha-male bro-comedy (sorry, How to Make It in America), which arrives in theaters this Friday. It's been four years since Vince, Drama, Turtle, and E (don't forget E!) literally flew off into the premium-cable sunset, so the arrival of Entourage provokes almost as many questions as the final scene of The Sopranos did: Will Turtle become a successful restaurateur? Did Vince actually get married? WILL HE MAKE THE MOVIE? Does Ari Gold still treat Lloyd like shit? Will Bobby Flay walk the Entourage red carpet? (Is Bobby still such a weird kisser?) Does Ari's wife actually have a first name? And again, WILL VINNY MAKE THE MOVIE OR NOT?
But the most important question is this: How in the world did the Entourage movie get made? The four-year process of bringing the boys back together for one last ride turned out to be as convoluted and dramatic as, well, an episode of Entourage. Here's a chronicle of Doug Ellin's arduous climb in bringing this long-gestating summer sequel to life:
2008: While working on Entourage's fifth season, the boys look at another HBO show turned film — specifically, the just-released Sex and the City film — and start to get some very, very vague ideas. "We all went, 'Hmmm, maybe we could do something like that,' you know?" Kevin Dillon, who portrays possibly the show's only lovable character, Johnny Drama, claims in a recent Hollywood Reporter profile, revealing that he never watched Sex and the City but that "We thought maybe we could do a film as well."
August 7, 2010: In the middle of Entourage's sixth season, HBO programming president Michael Lombardo tells the Television Critics Association that the network's ordered a shortened final season of Entourage to air the following year. He adds that series creator Doug Ellin might write a follow-up film after the series concludes, but that Ellin is in the process of pitching other projects to the network, too.
Late August 2011: While doing press for his role in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Jeremy Piven claims that the cast is ready and willing to make a movie after the series' conclusion, placing the onus on Ellin: "They're basically like 'Write this movie' and he needs to pick it up. We need to get on this guy."
September 10, 2011: A day before the finale airs, Entourage lead Adrian Grenier states that the film is "100 percent" happening.
September 11, 2011: The final episode of Entourage airs.
September 21, 2011: Entourage executive producer Mark Wahlberg gives an interview to People in the very Entourage-esque location of the Palms Place Hotel and Spa in Las Vegas; he tells the paper that the film "better happen" and that "we're working on [a movie] as we speak."
December 11, 2011: Piven appears on The Talk to promote the terrible alternate-universe-Entourage drama I Melt With You and is asked again about the status of the Entourage movie. "So the movie's going to happen?" Sheryl Underwood asks, with Piven replying in a 90-degree pivot from Wahlberg's previous affirmations, "That's the rumor right now."
January 11, 2012: "People were complaining the episodes were too short," Wahlberg offers to GQ on the impetus for making an Entourage movie while promoting his latest actioner Contraband. He claims that "we're actively trying" to make the film and waiting on Ellin to begin writing the script, describing his cinematic vision for the endeavor as "a 90-minute movie of sheer craziness — the guys getting back to just being about the guys, you know? Lose the ladies. Go crazy. Give people what they want."
June 13, 2012: Wahlberg claims that the Entourage film will be set in an "exotic location." No word as to whether Ellin's script has actually been finished, though.
August 1, 2012: Lombardo and HBO programming co-president Richard Plepler tell the Television Critics Association that Ellin is "on page 65" of the Entourage film script and is "excited about it," but "it's not a done deal just yet. After we take a look at the script ... we still have to make deals with the cast and see if this is something we want to do."
September 12, 2012: A year and a day after Entourage ceases to exist as a TV series, Deadline reports that — praise Lloyd — Ellin is pretty much finished writing the film's screenplay. He claims in an email to Deadline's Nikki Finke that Wahlberg has been "promising to kill me if I don't write faster. Everytime I see him, Mark says, 'I've made five movies this year. Get going!'" (Side note: If you read that quote while doing a decent Wahlberg impression, it's pretty believable.) Ellin says the film will pick up six months after the show's season finale left off, and attributes the delay to fatigue following the conclusion of Entourage (as well as several failed projects that were in development for HBO).
January 29, 2013: Warner Bros. officially green-lights the Entourage movie, with no set start date. "Getting everyone in the same place has been tough," Wahlberg tells MTV the following day, reiterating his desire to make sure the Entourage film is as bro-tastic as bro-ically possible: "I always just wanted to get back to where it was just about the guys. We had a lot of strong female characters, and I love those characters, but it really was always about the guys."
April 18, 2013: "I have to ask: are the rumors of an Entourage movie true?" asks "StoneRenegade" during a HuffPost Live interview with Grenier. "Yes, it's true ... it's true, I'd say yes. The answer's yes," says an unsure-sounding Grenier. "Making movies is hard, so it's gonna take some time. I know you're anxious — I am, too." His anxiety is understandable: As of the interview, Grenier's last high-profile film role — romantic interest Nate, in The Devil Wears Prada — took place seven years previous.
August 11, 2013: "Hey @mrdougellin Twitter is dying to know. Are we doing the Entourage movie or not?" That tweet's from Kevin Connolly — he who plays Entourage's perpetually beleaguered, aspirant beta-male manager E — rather confrontationally directed Ellin's way. Ellin's response is short and telling: "trying to get everyone on board. Ain't easy."
September 1–10, 2013: Ellin fields a series of fan questions regarding the Entourage movie where he claims the film is "not on my hands," "seems impossible" to make, "not optimistic but still hoping" it'll be made, and that the likelihood of its existence seems "less and less likely every day." "Maybe Billy Walsh will direct it," he cheekily replies at one point, referring to the series' enfant terrible faux-auteur fictional director.
September 11, 2013: Two years after the finale airs, the hammer drops: "Page Six" reports that the film was scheduled to shoot in May of that year, but contract negotiations are holding it back. Piven signed his contract a few weeks before the "Page Six" article, but the rest of the cast — specifically Grenier and Jerry Ferrara, who portrays perpetual pop-culture punch line Turtle — are still holding out.
October 15, 2013: Wahlberg is asked at LAX by TMZ when the movie's being made. "As soon as them guys stop being so greedy," he says.
October 18, 2013: In what is possibly the most Turtle-esque move he's ever pulled, Jerry Ferrara tells TMZ in response to Wahlberg's claims that he'd do the Entourage movie for free if need be. The same day, Grenier posts an impassioned statement to Instagram that includes the phrase, "I take my role as Vince on the show & off very seriously," which is hilarious.
October 28, 2013: VICTORY! The cast have worked out their pieces of the Entourage movie's $30 million pie. "It's a go. love you all," Ellin tweets, along with a cast photo that features Dillon wearing a hideous shirt.
November 20, 2013: Ellin takes to Twitter again to reveal the film's start date for shooting: January 16, 2014.
January 2014: Wahlberg be damned, the pesky female characters of Entourage are locked in place, as Perrey Reeves and Constance Zimmer are booked to reprise their roles as "Mrs. Ari" and movie exec Dana Gordon, respectively.
February 19, 2014: A month after Ellin's initially announced release date, Entourage finally starts filming.
February 25, 2014: Just over a month after shooting begins, Warner Bros. gives an official release date for the film: June 12, 2015. A legion of men's body-spray marketers and energy-drink street-teamers light candles and solemnly mark the date on their calendars.
March 11, 2014: Shooting is temporarily delayed (and a few plot points are shuffled around) after Connolly breaks his leg while playing football on set. These fuckin' guys, man.
January–April 2014: It wouldn't be Entourage without a ton of celebrity appearances and cameos, and thus a wave of castings hit the trades: Haley Joel Osment! Billy Bob Thornton! Bow Wow! Kid Cudi! Martin Landau! Emily Ratajkowski! Pre-Deflategate Tom Brady! Thierry Henry! Liam Neeson! Piers Morgan! Russell Wilson! Ronda Rousey!
March 28, 2014: ... And there's casting news from the adult-film industry, too, as actresses Lilly Banks, Maia Davis, Spencer Scott, and Anna Morna are all confirmed to appear as well. "It was a great experience," says Morna, who shares a scene with Osment and Piven in the film.
October 24, 2014: Perhaps scared off by the prospect of opening against the potential juggernaut Jurassic World, Warner Bros. decides to move the release date for Entourage a week early, to June 5.
December 23, 2014: It's a Christmas Eve Eve miracle: The teaser trailer and first poster for Entourage are unveiled, along with the poster for Vinny Chase's movie-within-a-movie, Hyde. (The latter poster looks hilarious.) Additionally, it's revealed that EDM superstar Calvin Harris co-stars with Vinny in Hyde (confused? me too), entering Entourage in the competition for the Most EDM Movie of 2015 (a competition it will soon lose).
January 11, 2015: But wait! The movie's not done yet, as the cast is caught on the Golden Globes red carpet shooting last-minute footage with Al Roker (of course), marking the closest the Entourage movie will come to being involved with an awards ceremony in 2015.
March 24, 2015: A full-length trailer for Entourage is unveiled, as well as the revelation that the entire cast dies at the end of the film (just kidding). The movie looks ... like a feature-length version of an episode of Entourage. Go with what you know, am I right, boys?
April 21, 2015: Entourage's release date is moved up two days to June 3, avoiding another potential box-office competitor: the Melissa McCarthy action-comedy Spy.
April 27, 2015: The first in a series of totally sick branding opportunities arrives with a Johnnie Walker promo featuring Johnny Drama that has not one but TWO twist endings.
May 14, 2015: Less than a month before Entourage's big-screen debut — bro, you stoked? BRO?!?! YOU STOKED?!?! If you weren't, maybe this short-film-cum-advertisement for Cadillac starring Jeremy Piven in a hilariously bad wig changed your mind.
May 20, 2015: A few weeks out, and the long road to bringing Entourage to the big screen is pretty much finished — or is it? "Warner Bros. is ready to move ahead with the script," Ellin tells The Hollywood Reporter about plans for — brace yourselves — ANOTHER Entourage movie. "But I'm not thinking about it till I see if people are into this one."


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Why the Google Analytics API is good for the industry and Webtrends
April 24, 2009
At Webtrends, we're excited about the announcement of Google Analytics public beta for their Data Export API. Why would we be excited? It's simple really, because we understand that value is derived not solely from the data, but the insights you get from this data that lead you to action. Action enabled through integration of the data into enterprise systems and processes of YOUR business.
Gone are the days of the all-in-one suite falsely promising it can be everything to everyone. Today's business owners should refuse to pay for the convenience of getting at their data through vendor APIs. We launched public beta of our web services on April 7, and customer response has been fantastic – we have about 20 times more accounts (customer and developer/technology partner) enabled today than we did at the end of our private beta period a few weeks back. The release of the Google API a few days ago reinforces all the reasons we were so excited to announce the Open Exchange to our customers. We believe you should be able to get to your data in a way that makes sense to your business and that includes the integration of the data into tools/processes that provide true meaning of the data – whether it is a complex business intelligence tool or Microsoft Excel, a tool that most people use every day. Providing unfettered access to your data is why we announced Open Exchange at our Engage customer conference a few weeks ago and why we talked about it during our seminar series last November. Having Google join us in this effort is exciting.
We believe that our new web services, and the developer network community we launched, provide powerful tools for integrating Webtrends data with everything from Excel or your own custom reporting apps and everything in between. We created these new web services so that our customers can:
- Build their own powerful applications by integrating data directly in to their apps. Custom dashboards, widgets, and analytics apps just got a lot smarter with REST URL methods
- Build dashboards in Excel by bringing in live data from your Analytics reports. In Excel, you can use the "import from web" option to import report data.
Why build something that makes it easier to get data into Excel? Excel is the most widely used analytics tool in the world. Fortune 100 companies to small businesses us it to analyze, understand, and present this data throughout their organization. A typical barrier is that most business users aren't programmers or developers, and think that REST is something your body gets at night when you are asleep. We had a challenge to ensure that our business users could take full advantage of our new REST API from within Excel. To support the typical business user, we developed the REST URL Generator tool as part of the new web services. Check it out and see how easy it is to get this data out of Webtrends and into Excel.
So maybe you are reading this and thinking you're a programmer, what's in this for me? The same powerful and elegant solution we've created for business users is what we've set out to accomplish for developers as well. As I mentioned, we're using REST, which is a powerful standard that is widely accepted to program on. Our simple XML and JSON formats are easy to consume into applications you can build. The JSON format is a less verbose option than XML, which will make performance better for applications that can consume it. Plus we have an Excel-specific XML format to make data appear in Excel the way you want it to – in case you are programmer building powerful Excel applications for business users described above.
In all we believe that the future of the analytics industry is going to be driven by enabling customers to get their data, in a way that works for their business, that gets them to insight and leads to action. We fully expect that all the other players in the analytics space will be moving this direction too. We welcome it because it ultimately benefits our customers – and that is what truly excites us.


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Obsessive Behavior
Acne dysmorphia, put simply, is the obsessive thought that the skin is irregular or disgusting. In most cases the person suffering with acne dysmorphia does have acne, but even when the acne is very mild or even non-apparent, the person will believe that they have "horrible skin" or "terrible acne." A sufferer is usually not far from a mirror, and may obsessively and relentlessly check for imperfections.1-2
Instead of seeking psychiatric help, people often look to other avenues of recourse, sometimes self-inflicted and harmful. For instance, a person might pick at their imperfections until they tear away the skin and bleed. The extent of this disorder should not be underestimated. It can take over a person's life and ruin his or her chances for normal social interaction. Understandably, patients are often shy in telling their physician about their obsessive thoughts and behaviors. It is therefore important that the physician ask questions if acne dysmorphia is suspected.
Not surprisingly, people with acne dysmorphia can be depressed. It may be helpful to consult a psychiatrist or psychologist for possible treatment options. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is often helpful as well.1


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A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently released a 2-1 decision that would essentially outlaw tip pooling arrangements in which tips are required to be shared with employees who do not usually receive them. Such employees would generally include dishwashers, cooks, and janitors. The ruling affects employers in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
The question at issue was whether the Department of Labor (DOL) has the authority to enforce rules related to tip pooling if the employer does not take a tip credit (it is undisputed that the DOL can regulate if the employer does take a tip credit). The court ruled that the DOL does have that authority. As a result, the Department of Labor can enforce its 2011 regulation that prohibits tip sharing with those who do not customarily or regularly receive tips.
The National Restaurant Association and its co-plaintiffs are considering appealing the ruling to a full 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the meantime, employers in affected states should evaluate their current tip pooling arrangements to ensure they are in compliance with the DOL's regulations.
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VOSS is a global partner of the automotive and mechanical engineering sector for transmission and connection technology in fluid systems. The VOSS Holding umbrella company encompasses VOSS Automotive GmbH, VOSS Fluid GmbH and 11 foreign companies.
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Construction of a new plant and logistics centre. Production and storage of braking and convenience systems in a multi-user industry and logistics park.
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How to Cook Angel Hair Pasta With Garlic and Butter
A thinner version of the familiar rod-shaped dried spaghetti, the delicate strands of capelli d'angelo, or angel hair pasta, are ideally suited for use with thin, delicate sauces. Although traditionally made with durum flour -- a refined by-product of durum wheat -- in response to consumer demand, manufacturers now offer a higher quality product made from 100 percent semolina flour. Unlike the conventional serving sizes of Italian-American cuisine, Italian chefs toss small portions of pasta with a light sauce, and serve it as a first course. For a nutritious entrée, accompany your angel hair pasta dish with a serving of lean protein, and a large, dark green salad.
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Place the butter into the skillet and melt it over medium-low heat.
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Add the garlic cloves and sauté for 1 minute.
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Remove the skillet from the heat and set aside.
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Fill the pasta pot three quarters full with cold water, approximately 4 qts.
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Bring the water to a full boil over high heat, and add the kosher salt to the pot.
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Stir the pasta into the pasta pot basket and allow the water to return to a boil. Lower the heat just enough to prevent the water from boiling over, but continue to boil.
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Remove the pasta basket from the boiling water and shake over the sink to drain.
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The Fender Classic Player Jaguar Special HH electric guitar combines the classic Jaguar design with modern appointments that gives it a previously unseen energy. The Jaguar electric guitar has been used by some of the finest musicians in recent history, including Kurt Cobain, John Frusciante, Johnny Marr, and Kevin Shields. If you're looking for a highly versatile tonal selection, a comfortable playing feel, and a reassuringly reliable build quality, then this is the guitar for you.
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Hey you – yeah, you, the one who's been avoiding the Library because you've got overdue fines and money is tight right now. Today through Oct. 24, just bring a few cans of food into a Kansas City Public Library location near you, and, voila, our collection of four-squillion books, CDs and DVDs will once again be at your disposal. Why? Because it's Food for Fines week.
Here at the Library, we like giving things away. Late fees, of course, are a necessary part of doing business. But it really bums us out whenever we hear that you aren't coming to partake of our eighteen-quindupletillion free items (OK, OK, more like 1.1 million) because you kept that copy of The Ersatz Elevator too long.
That's why every year, we team up with the wonderful people at Harvesters Community Food Network to bring you the one time of the year where you get the satisfaction of feeding your fellow citizens and having your foolish fines forgiven in one fell blow.
Each food item erases $1 in late fees for overdue items. And that really adds up. To wit, here's a Harper's Index-ian rundown of some of last year's numbers:
- Amount of fines forgiven during last year's Food for Fines: $18,088.59.
- Total number of food items donated: 19,881. (It's slightly higher than amount forgiven due to folks' generosity in bringing extra food.)
- Average amount of fines forgiven per day: $2,584.
- Amount forgiven per hour the Library was open during Food for Fines week: $33.
- Average amount of fines forgiven per Library account: $14.20.
- Pounds of food Harvesters received during Food for Fines in 2009: 18,108 (just over 9 tons).
- Equivalent number of meals: 13,939.
So you see, it pays to give. But you can't just bring in whatever's moldering in the larder, such as that year-old, brick-hard fruitcake your Aunt Nonnie foisted on you last Christmas.
We will only credit you for undamaged and unexpired boxed or canned non-perishable food items. Harvesters is always in need of canned meat, peanut butter, canned fruit, canned vegetables, and boxed meals. Non-nutritional beverages such as soda, as well as any beverages in glass or plastic containers will not be accepted. Dented cans are a no-no.
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Police: Thomas O'Connor, of Coram, accused of impersonating cop, pulling over driver
Police say a Coram man pretended to be a police officer and performed a traffic stop on Saturday night.
Police officers say they caught 42-year-old Thomas O'Connor performing the stop on Coram-Mount Sinai Road near West Dennis Lane in Coram.
O'Connor's gray Jeep Grand Cherokee was equipped with red and white flashing lights, police say. He was allegedly wearing a police shirt and shield on a chain around his neck, and was carrying a pellet gun and handcuffs.
O'Connor was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal impersonation of a public servant, unauthorized use of colored lights on a vehicle, and unauthorized use of a police receiver.
Police say they have not released O'Connor's mug shot for investigative reasons.
O'Connor pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was ordered held on $5,000 bail.
Anyone who may have had an encounter with O'Connor is urged to call police at 631-854-8627.


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It sounds like the beginning of a joke from a medical conference: What do you get when an immunologist and a plant molecular cell biologist share the same lab?
Many doctors and scientists would find humor in the simple fact that it rarely happens. You would be just as hard-pressed to find a plant expert at a medical school as you would be to find an immunologist inside a university's biology department.
But at UNC Charlotte, the two disciplines have come together. And in the case of Ken Piller and Ken Bost, what you get when they do is the kind of innovation that may some day change the course of medicine.
In 2005, Piller and Bost, both professors at the university, launched SoyMeds, a company where research into soybeans is on the cusp of making vaccines, diagnostic tests and therapeutic medicines safer and more affordable.
The soybean, they've discovered, can help flick the immune system on or off like a light switch. Turning it on can protect against diseases like measles and polio. Turning it off can benefit people with autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, where their own immune systems fight healthy cells.
It's a discovery with enormous potential. One day, our grandchildren may sit wide-eyed in disbelief as we tell them the story of our own childhood visits to the doctor – perched on a table and poked full of holes from immunization shots.
Instead, they'll just drink a glass of soymilk where the proteins have been specially made to provide immunity from a variety of diseases.
The key is in the protein of both the virus and the soybean. Our largest immune system lies in the gut and responds better to proteins than carbohydrates or anything else.
Researchers have discovered that taking just the proteins of viral organisms is enough to trigger an immunity response in our bodies.
In their lab, Bost and Piller have genetically introduced those proteins into soybean proteins, creating a soybean with pharmaceutical uses.
Soybean-derived vaccinations, where patients pop a soybean seed for immunity, may some day be the only kind of vaccinations that exist.
The benefits of a soybean-based vaccine that uses just the protein portion of a virus are many, said Bost. "If you can isolate the stuff on the outside and just use the protein, then you don't have to worry about this pathogen causing the disease in some people. It's much safer."
Much of what's on the market today can cause infection in some people.
Of those who receive the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination – which is made from live and weakened viruses – 5 percent will develop a mild form of one of the diseases.
One in 2.4 million who take the oral polio vaccination, which is no longer used in the United States, will develop polio.
SoyMeds's lab, housed in Woodward Hall on the university's main campus, is no bigger than a walk-in closet. Its humid and balmy climate shelters a small crop of soybean plants specially designed for pharmaceutical use.
The idea of plant-based vaccines emerged in the 1980s but has sputtered and spun its wheels most of the time since then.
"None of the vaccines that I'm aware of right now are being used with plant systems," said Piller. "You use bacteria cultures, yeast cultures, fermenters – traditional biological systems."
But the process to purify those cells in a laboratory is costly, said Bost, and the expense is passed on to the patients.
Soybeans don't need to go through the same rigorous purification process. "We can bring the cost of production down considerably," said Bost. "We can grow a dose of vaccine for fractions of a cent."
Last year, SoyMeds won the North Carolina Technology Association's Life Sciences Company of the Year award, for what the judges called a disruptive technology.
Bost and Piller say it's one of the biggest honors they've received.
"It's making people say, 'Hey, this is radically different than the way we think now, and it's got a lot of potential.' "


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'Graphic depictions'
PTC described the episode as containing "graphic depictions" of a man having sex with a prostitute whose hands were tied to the bed, reaching orgasm and then murdering the prostitute by smothering her with a pillow.
"Without Staples' and McDonald's advertising dollars, programs like 'Medium' could not exist," PTC President L. Brent Bozell said in a statement. "By underwriting such graphic sexual content, these companies are violating parents' trust in their corporate brand and image. Both Staples and McDonald's have chosen not to take responsibility for where their ads have aired and for the content their advertising dollars are making possible."
Staples statement
Staples in a statement said it "advertises with a variety of media outlets, but we do not necessarily share the same views of these organizations or their content. We will take their concerns into consideration in our ongoing advertising plans."
McDonald's did not immediately respond. PTC said the burger chain had responded to their letter by saying, "As an advertiser, our role is not to determine what broadcasters should or should not air. That decision belongs to the broadcaster and, ultimately, to the individual viewer."
Mr. Bozell called the companies response "disingenuous" and said they could have an impact on TV content.
"If companies were unwilling to buy advertising on sexually graphic shows, those offensive shows would disappear overnight," he said.


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Honey Cantrell was a comic book geek who enjoyed hanging out with her arcade-hopping friends. Then the Celestials arrived and Honey was thrust into a life she thought only happened in comics.
Honey had barely adjusted to her new life when things take a turn for the worst.
Her humanity was at risk.
With her future up in the air and no one to confide in, she attempts to be as unsociable as she can…until she meets her new partner, Sammus. Now she's forced to deal with unexpected feelings, jealous squad members, a plot for revenge, and a dangerous alien mating ritual.
All Honey wanted was to be invisible but it's getting difficult. Can she build a relationship with Sammus? Trust her classmates? Lead a ship filled with aliens? Most importantly, can she learn how to thrive in this new body, now that she's only Mostly Human?