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Armageddon (US - BD)
Gabe revisits Michael Bay's science abhoring disaster movie on Blu-ray...
Bad news everyone: there is a really large chunk of space rock on a collision course with the Earth. Worse news: if it hits the planet all life will be wiped out. But there's some good news too: Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) and his NASA buddies have a plan. Now stick with us, because the plan sounds a little silly on paper, but we're pretty sure it's going to work. We're going to send the world's best hard-bodied, good ole' boy oil drillers (Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Michael Clark Duncan), lead by super bit-chomper Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), to the land on the asteroid in a spaceship, and drill a big hold in it. Then we're gonna stick an A-Bomb in that hole, and blow the damn thing right in half. Oh, more bad news though: one of the younger drillers, A.J (Ben Affleck), is looking to marry Harry's daughters, and Harry is so angry about it he might not be able to drill holes right.
Just because I hate Armageddon doesn't mean I can't grudgingly respect its asinine excesses. It's actually kind of quaint to look back on an era when film audiences thought director Michael Bay couldn't possibly make a sillier movie, and it's pretty hard to get worked up about the dumbass script, which looking back at some of the original reviews, seemed to be the biggest point of contention with critics. The story so clearly disavows realism from the word 'go' I can't possibly muster that kind of anger anymore (the convenient gravity has become a constant source of giggles). In fact, there's something to be said for the story structure kind of redefining the modern ensemble disaster movie (even if all the best parts are blatantly stolen from The Right Stuff), and speaking frankly, rednecks need their sci-fi fantasies too. We nerds tend to hog all the good space adventures. Still there's no defending the film's technical idiocy, nor should any multi-million dollar asteroid movie ever be this mind-numbingly boring.
The most definitively and consistently terrible element is the editing, which is so ridiculously whiplash it makes most thirty second commercial spots appear restrained in comparison. And it's not only the matter of the speed of the cutting, the nail-on-a-chalkboard rhythm, which almost never works with the action, music, or Bay's pointless Dutch angles and panning shots, is twice as egregious. The audience is given almost no time to appreciate the money shots, and the inter-cut, computer generated mass destruction more or less never satisfactorily blends with the 'dramatic' dialogue zooms. The script is stupid, yes, but it's really this patented 'pan, cut, repeat' imagery that designates the film as a joke a decade on. Armageddon acts as its own parody, which is a nearly novel achievement in itself. Bay found some steady ground with small parts of Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, and the first Transformers, but Armageddon is an experimental mess. There's also the matter of overall pacing—there's no reason a movie with this little plot, cut this quickly should be more than two hours long, or feel even longer.
The ensemble cast is too big for the story, or for Bay's editorial skills, but is the bright spot on this garish anti-masterpiece. The supporting cast is uniformly rather golden, though I'm not sure it's possible to hate even an off performance from William Fichtner, Steve Buscemi, Jason Isaacs or Keith David. Even better are the 'blink and you miss 'em' cameos, specifically Udo Kier as the NASA psychiatrist. The lead characters are so lightly defined by clichés (the romantic scenes are gruelling), lacking in chemistry, and flatly realized by the actors (Willis should know better, but how Ben Affleck ever grew into a proper actor after this performance is a miracle greater than anything played out in the world-saving story), that it's a labour to be too excited by the back-up players, but one has a tendency to grasp at sips of water when tossed in such an intellectual desert.
This is a nearly perfect transfer in many respects, but there is no mistaking that Armageddon was shot on film. There is plenty of grain permeating from every frame, and the degree of grain is rarely consistent, though considering the film's age we're not talking anything unexpected. Some of the location establishing shots are a little dirty (perhaps they're stock footage), but artefacts are at a premium, including compression issues, print damage, and edge-enhancement. Details are super-sharp, and consistent considering Bay's love of pin-point and shallow focus. The contrast is, of course, super high, both in terms of black and white levels, and in terms of saturated colour. The compositions make no sense in terms of realism (if NASA was this dark in real life nothing would ever get done, and half the scientists would die of eye-strain), but they certainly look nice in 1080p, especially those rich, hard blacks. The colours are most impressive in scenes that take place in the green-tinted NASA 'war room', and especially during the black and blue light scenes aboard the asteroid. Bay's compositions may be ugly, but they're bright, pure, and stylized enough to impress on this transfer.
Lossless DTS-HD Master Audio is clearly the ideal way to watch such a loud and abrasive film, and fans should be very happy with the sonic attack presented on this Blu-ray release. The film shows its age a little bit in terms of sound design and editing (sometimes its muddied), but I have no real complaints concerning this presentation. Standout spots include the forty-minute point 'Sweet Emotion' montage, which mixes Aerosmith's punchy, pop song with the 'important' dialogue, small, textural audio, and sweeping jet fighters, and any scene involving the asteroid and its little meteor buddies. The opening crushing of New York is especially zippy, as is the brief smashing of Shanghai (or whatever South Pacific city that is that finds itself so unceremoniously killed). The scenes aboard the asteroid are probably the best in terms of surround design, including skippy little rocks, jet engines, and the asteroids eerie, bassy 'voice'. Trevor Rabin's overwrought score (which I may hate more than anything else in the film), is mostly a right/left affair, but also sounds plenty bassy and aggressive.
Fans are going to be bummed with the extras on this Blu-ray release. Despite a Criterion Collection two-disc set to cull from the disc's producers have only supplied Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' music video, a teaser, a trailer, and a few Disney release sneak peeks.
Armageddon is still the yard stick for which stupid modern disaster films are measured, but a stupid yard stick is still an achievement, and I admit defeat in the face of the awe of stupidity. I hope I never have to see it again, and I don't wish the films upon the unsuspecting, but fans should be happy with the sharp, colourful 1080p HD transfer, and the massively noisy DTS-HD Master Audio sound. I believe that lovers and haters can all agree that the lack of extras here is a big disappointment considering the stuff available on the Criterion two-disc DVD release (which is out of print). I don't think anyone can convince me Disney can't afford to buy the extras from Criterion, if that's even the problem.
*Thanks to Troy at Andersonvision.com for the screen-caps, which have been taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 27th April 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Music Video, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Michael Clark Duncan
Genre: Action and Adventure
Length: 150 minutes
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Although SQL Server databases have always had a degree of portability, SQL Server 2012 introduces a powerful new database containment feature that makes databases much more portable. After I explain why this new feature is needed, I'll show you how to work with contained databases. I'll also address some of the pros, cons, and potential gotchas associated with their use.
The Need for Contained Databases
Authentication is the process of making sure that users and applications are who or what they say they are. Prior to SQL Server 2012, authentication could be performed only at the server level and effectively worked in either one of two ways: authentication by Windows (or against the underlying SQL Server host) or authentication by SQL Server. With Windows integrated authentication, SQL Server trusts the underlying host's assessment that users and applications are who or what they claim to be. That's why Windows integrated authentication is sometimes called "trusted auth" -- SQL Server is trusting Windows' assessment that a user or application is authentic. With SQL Server authentication, users and applications are assumed authentic if they provide SQL Server with the correct username and password.
The users and applications that log in to a server are collectively known and managed as entities called logins. After logins are authenticated by either Windows or SQL Server, they're permitted to execute certain tasks or operations within SQL Server. For some logins, permissions might exist at the server level, which means that they're allowed to create databases, manage security or backups, or even take full control of all aspects of a given SQL Server instance if they've been mapped, for example, to the sysadmin server-level role.
Most logins, however, are typically authorized for certain tasks at the database level. This means that they're given permission to access certain databases (while being denied access to others) and are assigned explicit rights (e.g., the ability to read data, write data, or create new objects) at the database level. Conversely, logins might be explicitly denied certain rights. These particular rights are managed as a collection in a construct known as a user. A user is created and managed within each database in which a login has been granted explicit permissions.
Because logins are managed at the server level and users are managed at the database level, SQL Server permissions end up being defined in two or more locations. Besides creating confusion for less-experienced DBAs and many end users, a huge problem can occur if the mapping that "binds" the logins to users becomes lost when a database is copied, moved, or restored on a different server from where the mapping was originally defined.
When a database is restored or attached to its new host, the logins must already be defined on the new host and must exactly match the logins on the original host. If identical logins aren't on the new host, the mappings will be broken. Although the logins can be created after the fact, the mappings between logins and users often remain broken, resulting in what are commonly referred to as orphaned users. To complicate matters further, even in cases in which identical logins might already exist, it's sadly all too common for the mappings between logins and users to become lost during database migrations.
In this regard, having to manage logins and users separately can cause problems when it comes to creating and maintaining high availability and disaster recovery solutions. For starters, the fact that users are defined at the database level and logins are defined at the server level means that databases really aren't as portable as they should be. SQL Server databases have underlying dependencies on their current host server configuration to work correctly. As such, DBAs need to regularly synchronize logins against secondary or failover servers if they want to avoid problems with orphaned users after recovering from certain types of failures or crashes. Moreover, because orphaned users can still occur despite regularly synchronizing logins, DBAs might still have the headache of having to repair large numbers of users after a disaster. To make matters worse, the syntax of the sp_change_users_login stored procedure used to repair orphaned users is rather unintuitive. (See my video that explains how to copy and move SQL Server logins.)
Contained Databases -- A Better Way
In SQL Server 2012, DBAs finally get help dealing with the age-old problem of orphaned users, thanks to the new database containment feature. With containment, SQL Server databases can become free of external dependencies on server-level metadata and settings, including login details.
To facilitate the goal of containment, SQL Server 2012 introduces the notion of boundaries, which are borders that define where a database and its metadata and settings end and where server-level features, metadata, and dependencies begin. In addition to implicitly allowing increased portability, boundaries are also used to help explicitly isolate data, settings, features, and capabilities.
There are three types of containment hinted at in SQL Server 2012 Books Online (BOL):
- NONE. This default containment mode is what exists prior to SQL Server 2012. There are no boundaries defined or visible.
- PARTIAL. With partially contained databases, you have the ability to define clearer boundaries between databases and the server, making it easier for metadata to be hosted within the databases. This, in turn, makes SQL Server databases more portable and less dependent on underlying hosts.
- FULL. Fully contained databases are only alluded to in SQL Server 2012 BOL in a few locations and aren't currently available as an option. It's assumed, however, that full containment will enable greater database portability and potentially allow for strict enforcement of containment boundaries as a means of fully isolating databases from each other and from the underlying host.
To achieve increased containment and isolation, SQL Server 2012 introduced a few new features and capabilities that allow the database to take greater control over its own metadata. One such feature is the option to define users at the database level so that they don't have any dependency on server-level logins. This new option provides increased portability, which addresses the problem of orphaned users in high availability and disaster recovery scenarios and offers other benefits.
Some features have also been modified in SQL Server 2012 so that they support contained databases. One such feature is the ALTER DATABASE statement. It includes the new CONTAINMENT argument, which lets you change a database's containment status to partially contained. In addition, the ALTER DATABASE statement includes the new CURRENT argument. When you want to alter the current database, you can simply specify this argument rather than having to specify the database by name.
Getting Started with Contained Databases
In SQL Server 2012, user databases can be easily configured to support partial containment or no containment by means of the ALTER DATABASE statement. To configure partial containment, you set the new CONTAINMENT argument to PARTIAL, as in:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2012 SET CONTAINMENT = PARTIAL GO
You can also use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to configure partial containment. To do so, right-click the database, select Properties, and go to the Options page. In the Containment type drop-down list, select Partial, as Figure 1 shows.
Figure 1: Configuring Partial Containment in SSMS
After you configure a database for partial containment, you need to configure the server to allow contained database authentication. Otherwise, the underlying host (or SQL Server itself) won't allow these login attempts. To enable contained database authentication, you use code such as:
EXEC sp_configure 'contained database authentication' EXEC sp_configure 'contained database authentication',1 GO RECONFIGURE GO
The first line just reports on the current setting. With this server-level setting enabled, SQL Server allows deferment of authentication to the databases themselves, provided that users have been configured with the necessary authentication details.
At this point, you can create "portable" users. For example, the following code defines a portable user (SamplePortableUser) that will use SQL Server authentication to access the AdventureWorks2012 database:
USE AdventureWorks2012 GO CREATE USER SamplePortableUser WITH PASSWORD = 'Some secure passphrase goes here.' GO ALTER ROLE [db_owner] ADD MEMBER SamplePortableUser GO
For examples of how to create portable users that log in with Windows integrated authentication, see the CREATE USER (Transact-SQL) web page in SQL Server 2012 BOL.
As Figure 2 shows, you can also use SSMS to create portable users, whether you want to use SQL Server authentication or Windows integrated authentication. To do so, expand the Security node of the target database, right-click the Users node, and select the New User context-menu option.
Figure 2: Creating Portable Users at the Database Level in SSMS
The prospect of databases creating portable users that can log in to a given host raises a number of potential security implications, which is why SQL Server 2012 BOL has dedicated an entire section, "Security Best Practices with Contained Databases," to that topic. It's worth noting that once a portable user gains access to a contained database through contained database authentication, that user also ends up gaining guest access to all other databases on the host system -- a potential issue to be aware of (and something that will hopefully be addressed when FULL containment becomes available).
It's also worth noting that conventional users can also be converted into standalone database-level portable users through the use of a new special stored procedure: sp_migrate_user_to_contained. It provides an argument that you can use to specify whether or not to disable the server-level login -- something you'll typically want to do as a best practice to avoid ugly login problems that can occur when duplicate logins and users overlap each other.
At this point, if you copy or deploy this sample database on a new host, you'll be able log in to this database as the SamplePortableUser against the new host using a standard .NET (or similar) connection string without needing to copy any logins over to the server itself. (This is assuming that you configured the server to allow contained database authentication and that you enabled SQL Server authentication in your test environment.)
However, if you test this out using SSMS, you might wonder why you aren't able to connect to your contained database on the other server when specifying the correct login, as shown in Figure 3. This error message is caused by the fact that contained database authentication can only occur when the contained database is specified in the connection details being used to connect to the server, as shown in Figure 4. Without a specified database, SQL Server would have to traverse each database on the server to determine whether the login being used was a contained user. (For more information about this, see Don Kiely's article "SQL Server 2012 Keeps Your Data a Little More Secure," May 2012.)
Figure 3: Resulting Error Message when the Contained Database Is not Specified in the Connection Deta
Figure 4: Specifying the Contained Database in the Connection Details
Contained Database Limitations
Because contained databases are explicitly designed to use boundaries that help decouple SQL Server databases from the underlying server, it should come as no surprise that there are some limitations when using them. According to SQL Server 2012 BOL, partially contained databases can't use:
- Replication, change data capture, or change tracking
- Numbered procedures (simply because these are being deprecated)
- Schema-bound objects that depend on built-in functions with collation changes
- Binding changes resulting from collation changes, including references to objects, columns, symbols, or types
Ironically, temporary stored procedures are currently supported in contained databases, but their use is strongly discouraged because they breach containment. According to SQL Server 2012 BOL, temporary stored procedures probably won't be supported in future versions.
There are also a few situations in which "extra database" interactions might be supported but execute with slightly different behaviors than what might be typically expected. For example, in "Contained Database Collations," SQL Server 2012 BOL provides a comprehensive overview of the kinds of behavioral changes that can be expected when contained databases interact with the tempdb database. The behavioral changes are due to the fact that noncontained databases use the tempdb database's collation settings by default, whereas contained databases use their own collation settings by default when interacting with the tempdb database. It's important to note that although contained databases can interact with the tempdb database to create temporary tables, the use of explicitly named constraints defined against those temporary tables isn't allowed once databases become contained.
Given that the entire purpose of database containment is to facilitate isolation and portability, it stands to reason that cross-database queries, joins, and other interactions (such as calls into msdb to start a SQL Server Agent job or send an email message) would limit a database's portability. Therefore, the use of any feature that crosses the isolation boundary for a contained database is going to cause portability problems.
Happily, though, the SQL Server team has done a fantastic job of making these and other kinds of potential containment concerns easy to identify by means of a powerful new dynamic management view (DMV) named sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities. This DMV provides a plethora of information about noncontained entities within any contained or noncontained SQL Server 2012 database.
For example, if you were to create a cross-database query by means of the stored procedure in Listing 1 (below), then query sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities using the code in Listing 2 (below), you'd end up with the results shown in Figure 5. As you can see, these results include my test stored procedure along with a few other entities that aren't fully contained. Note how thorough sys.dm_db_uncontainted_entities is -- it's showing full-text indexes as noncontained entities because they impose minor additional dependencies on the underlying server in the sense that you might want to know about these host-related features if you were trying to deploy this database to a host where, for example, Full-Text Indexing (FTI) wasn't available.
Figure 5: Examining the Results from Querying sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities
Consequently, if you intend to use contained databases, you'll likely want to become very familiar with the new sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities DMV because it can help you identify uncontained entities that might jeopardize portability. You might also want to use sys.databases to identify databases that are configured to enable containment. Sys.databases has been updated to show this information at the server level as well, through the new "containment" and "containment_desc" columns.
The Allure of Portability
By and large, the biggest benefit of contained databases is that they help address long-standing problems with logins and users when it comes to addressing failover in high availability and disaster recovery scenarios. Accordingly, it's no surprise that contained databases were released at the same time as AlwaysOn Availability Groups -- a SQL Server 2012 Enterprise feature that lets DBAs build high availability and disaster recovery solutions with a single set of tools. However, as well as database containment naturally complements AlwaysOn Availability Groups, there's no reason why you can't use contained databases in high availability and disaster recovery solutions that don't require the Enterprise edition, such as log shipping and database mirroring.
A bigger allure, though, is that database containment helps paint the picture of a brighter tomorrow, where, in a future version of SQL Server, databases might become portable enough to:
- Become mere "workloads" that can be moved from one SQL Server host to another
- Be moved from one SQL Server instance to another to handle load-balancing requirements and ensure continuity, much like entire virtual machines (VMs) can be moved from one virtualization host to another
Similarly, it's difficult not to think of database containment in relation to SQL Azure because Azure databases are essentially specialized instances of SQL Server databases designed to run in a state where they're isolated from the host. So, in both cases, it's difficult not to wonder what database containment might lead to in the future.
But the reality is that, right now and right out of the box, SQL Server 2012's support for database containment is simply one of the best things to happen to high availability and disaster recovery in a long time. It can greatly simplify environmental and failover concerns.
Listing 1: Example of a Cross-Database Query that Violates Containment
CREATE PROC dbo.CrossDatabaseBorderViolationExample AS SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ReportServer.sys.all_views RETURN 0 GO
Listing 2: Code to Query the New DMV for Uncontained Entities
SELECT class_desc, CASE class WHEN 1 THEN OBJECT_NAME(major_id) WHEN 4 THEN 'Login: ' + (SELECT name from sys.server_principals WHERE principal_id = u.major_id) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS WHEN 7 THEN 'FTI:' + OBJECT_NAME(major_id) -- etc. END [Detail], major_id, statement_line_number, statement_type FROM sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities u

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Olympic Committee Accepts Yelena Isinayeva's "Clarification" At Face Value, Won't Pursue Action
The International Olympic Committee is under fire yet again today for embracing the prefectly timed "clarification" from Russian Olympian Yelena Isinayeva following her vehemently anti-gay (and crystal clear) remarks from Thursday.
Though Yelena insisted on Friday that she's against the discrimination of LGBT and other minority groups (following, of course, calls for her to be removed from the honorific post of "mayor" of the upcoming Sochi Olympic Village on Thursday night), her message earlier in the week was pretty straightforward.
"We consider us normal people, where boys live with women, women live with boys. It comes from our history," Yelena said while criticizing a competitor's rainbow Pride nails. "We never had any of these problems in Russia and we don't want to have it in the future."
But instead of reprimanding their Russian Olympic ambassador, the IOC has instead fully embraced her follow-up comments that basically amount to pointing the finger at us for misunderstanding. "English is not my first language and I think I may have been misunderstood when I spoke yesterday," Yelena said in a statement released on Friday.
The IOC is totally cool with this statement and will not, as many fellow Olympians have asked, revoke Yelena's mayorship in the upcoming Winter Games.
The IOC said in a statement: "Clearly English is not her mother tongue and she has now clarified that she was misunderstood and that she is 'opposed to any kind of discrimination against gay people'.
"We can only reiterate that the Olympic Games should be open to all, free of discrimination, and that applies to spectators, officials, media and of course athletes."
The IAAF's secretary general, Essar Gabriel, welcomed Yelena Isinbayeva's latest statement.
"I think Yelena is very genuine about this," he told the BBC. "I know Yelena very well myself, it is correct her English and her understanding of English is not the best and it's great that she sought to explain exactly what she meant.
"She is somebody who has a great heart, and if she has a lack of English language which we know of she certainly should be careful. When I saw them [Thursday's comments] I thought that doesn't respond to the character and what we know of Yelena."
You pussy's stop bashing Russia, these laws are in affect in EVERY Muslim country!!
Go cry wolf there.
Don't get me wrong I'm all in favor of equal rights but its just so sad to see everybody is turning to mother Russia while LGBT are being slaughtered throughout the Middle East!!!
They throw them off buildings, hang them in public and worse.
So do something about that NEXT to crying to Russia for equal rights.
The gay rights issue is just the latest in a string of atrocities committed by Russia - it's not a democracy - they don't have free press - opposition leaders and journalists are being imprisoned and murdered, and the public services system is corrupt beyond repair. Russia deserves the harsh spotlight being shone on it.
You're right about those other countries, but as a tiny minority of only 5-10% of the population, we rely for our strength on our heterosexual families, friends, colleagues and allies. There is only so much we can ask of all these people who support us and put themselves in harm's way for us out of the goodness of their hearts.
We can therefore fight our battle to be released from persecution on only one front at a time. I can assure you however that the United Nations has already taken a stand on the countries you mention, 76 of whom imprison people for being gay, and 7 of which have the death penalty. Hillary Clinton delivered a stunning 30 minute long address to the UN specifically on LGBT rights, so please don't think we're not aware of this, or that nothing is being done.
Russia however is the biggest of big disappointments, because it is the home of some of the world's greatest culture, specifically ballet, music, literature, sculpture, science, architecture and to see its government turn with such vehemence and outright hostility against its LGBT citizens just to garner the religious voters from the Russian Orthodox Church, whose priests are participating in the violent nationwide pogroms against LGBT, including torturing a 15 year old gay teenager to death, and "correctively raping" a gay man with beer bottles till he bled to death is utterly horrifying. We expected so much better from this once great nation.
I don't think it's straw man to conclude that by refusing to move or cancel the Winter Olympics, or to take any firm steps whatsoever to ensure equal treatment for all participants in the games, the IOC implicitly backs the Russian government's popular persecution of gay people and all that connotes.
We therefore have to look elsewhere for progress on this issue.
The Blood on the hands of Putin.
• Accused of having former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko poisoned on foreign soil with Polonium-210. Litvinenko had exposed Russian secret services' staging Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts to bring Vladimir Putin to power.
• Has made Russia the $1.5 billion arsenal of Assad's Syria, notably S-300 missile systems
• Jailed anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny for 5 years after Navalny had exposed billions of dollars in official corruption
• Had whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who had exposed $2.5 million in police fraud, arrested by the very police he exposed, who then tortured him to death in prison, after which Putin commended, promoted and decorated said police.
• In order to shore up the Russian Orthodox religious voting bloc, passed legislation recriminalising homosexuality, thereby allowing police to ignore mob, gang and individual attacks on gay people, including several torturing murders, and instead arrest those that were attacked on charges of 'extremism' and 'homosexual propaganda'.
• Dismissed popular government news presenter Anton Krasovsky from his job on the spot, without entitlements after he came out as gay.
Jailed by Russia for supporting non-discrimination of all, including LGBT, or booted as #IOC Ambassador? Neither, because all are being "politically correct" which of course the IOC states there should be NO politics in thy Olympics. It's BULLSHIT and the IOC knows that she meant what she said!! It's pretty damn clear "We consider us normal people, where boys live with women, women live with boys."


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Michael Oren is the brilliant historian and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States; Yossi Klein Halevi is the author, most recently, of Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation and, I take it, Oren's best friend. In the video below, under the gentle hand of moderator Gary Rosenblatt, Oren and Halevi discuss Halevi's new book, but the conversation opens up to deliberate over the survival of the Jewish people, the fate of Israel and the challenge of history to Jewish faith. Between the 25 to 30 minute mark, Oren makes some extremely interesting remarks about the Iranian nuclear program. If you have any interest in the related subjects under discussion, I highly recommend this video.
Related: Peter Berkowitz, "A must-read book for brokers of Mideast peace talks."
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Git is a widely used source code management system for software development, and is built into your SAP Cloud Platform account, and integrated with SAP Web IDE.
By Jim Jaquet
Learn how to commit and push your project files to the Git repository built into your SAP Cloud Platform account.
Git is a widely used source code management system for software development, and is built into your SAP Cloud Platform account, and integrated with SAP Web IDE.
There are many reasons why you might want to use a source code management tool. Some obvious ones are:
In this tutorial, you will learn how to commit and "push" your project files to your Git repository. In addition to being a good idea, your project files will need to be in Git for the next tutorial where you will Localize your SAPUI5 app
As you work through this tutorial (and afterwards) you will notice some Git "decorations" or icons indicating Git status starting to appear next to your files and folders. There are six different states which are indicated as shown in the table below. Watch for the decorations to change from New file > Modified and Staged > Committed. After a commit, any changes in a file will be indicated with one asterisk (indicating that the file is out of sync with the version in Git).
|Committed file (version in your project matches that in Git)
|Modified file that has not been staged
|Modified file that has been staged
|New file
|Folder containing deleted files
|File with merge conflicts
Open your SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit view, click on Repositories > Git Repositories.
Click on New Repository, and enter the following:
Repository for northwind app
Make sure the Create empty commit box is checked, click OK and your repository will be created.
Click on the northwind repository link to open the repository overview page.
On the repository overview page, copy the Git Repository URL:
Open SAP Web IDE in a browser window, and open your project folder (
northwind). Note that there are no decorations next to your files.
Right-click on your northwind project folder and select Git > Initialize Local Repository.
Paste in the Git Repository URL you copied earlier and click OK. This will initialize your local repository and link it to the Git repository in SAP Cloud Platform.
Click on the Git pane icon on the right hand side of the SAP Web IDE window.
If your project does not appear in the Git pane, keep the Git pane open and click on the project folder.
So you can see remote branches in the SAP Cloud Platform Git repository, click the Fetch button on the Git pane and log in with your SAP Cloud Platform account credentials if prompted. When the Changes Fetched dialog box opens, click OK.
Click the Merge button on the Git pane to merge your local branch to the remote origin/master branch. When the Merge "master" dialog box opens, make sure the origin/master remote branch is selected and click OK.
You will now notice that the new file decorations are visible on your project files.
At this point your Git repository is set up. The next steps will commit and push your project files to the repository.
You may select individual files to commit, but to commit all project files, click the Stage All checkbox.
Notice the change in the decorations for your files and folders.
Scroll down in the Git pane and enter a description (required for any commits). A description like
Initial commit of northwind app would work well.
Click on the Commit and Push button, and select Remote Branch, from the pop up menu. This will add your files to the master branch (in other source control systems this is sometimes referred to as the "trunk").
In the Push Changes to a remote branch dialog box, select origin/master, click OK and log in with your SAP Cloud Platform credentials if prompted.
You will see a confirmation alert appear briefly in the top-right corner of the Web IDE window (just below Logout), and you will see the decorations change to the green circles indicating that the files have been committed (and the version in your project matches the version in the Git repository).
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Bucking the stereotypes: A review of West of 98
West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West
Edited by Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland
380 pages, softcover: $21.95.
University of Texas Press, 2011.
Any anthology is a collage, a series of snapshots imperfectly melded into one composition. That's why we read them: They allow us to look at a topic from a variety of angles, through the filter of disparate but informed minds.
Such is the case with West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West. Editors Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland have assembled the thoughts of "sixty-seven writers, each of whom could talk credibly about living west of the 98th meridian." A medley of essays and poetry, it's an impressive collection, a Who's Who of Western literature -- featuring Jim Harrison, Barry Lopez, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jane Hirshfield and Gretel Ehrlich, among others. West of 98 strives to put into context the post-colonization of the American West, a region 100 years young that "is still becoming."
A deep ecological current runs through many of the entries, along with the wind-chapped, sunburned voice of authority. These writers don't just live in the West, they love it. Kris Saknussemm speaks for many of his colleagues when he says, "We idealize the American West because we can't help it. The West we're really seeking is a place inside ourselves where there are things still to be discovered. We always end up heading west whenever we need to find more life to keep us living."
West of 98 seeks to ride the real West of today, bucking off the stereotypes of the past. Larry McMurtry describes trying to subvert the myth of the cowboy and the West, only to conclude that "Lies about the West are more important to (readers) than truths." And Charles Bowden declares: "The real West will begin when both the name and the habits we now cherish in our films and other fictions are erased."
Ultimately, the West is a work in progress. Writing about the region, co-editor Stegner notes, is "a little like dissecting a creature still alive." Fortunately, these writers prove to be skilled surgeons, and their words cut true, giving readers 67 firsthand glimpses into the heart of the ever-changing West.


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Vancouver Canucks blogger Richard Hodges Love Em Hate Em Canucks hockey blog. He recaps and rewinds the win on Saturday night win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. How bad were the Leafs tonight? Their best defensive play of the night came courtesy of Cody Hodgson's broken stick that foiled David Booth on a breakaway. Game summarized in one play, see Sami Salo's powerplay goal that made it 5-1.
Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Canucks blog: love 'em & hate 'em
February 18, 2012 By Richard Hodges
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5 Fantastic Fights Scenes in Action Movies
Movies new and old are filled with amazing fight scenes that leave the viewer on the edge of his seat, cringing with the blows and rooting for his favorite character. These are five of the best fight scenes from some of the best action movies around. For anyone interested in a night of punches, intense action and fun, these movie fight scenes are a great way to go.
Photo Credit: Tristar Pictures
T-800 vs. T-1000 in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
This 1991 hit is the sequel to the 1984 film "The Terminator" and stays true to the franchise theme of violence with a few key battles. The finale, however, is the most impressive of the film. The group of characters comes together in a steel mill filled with machinery and dangerously hot molten metal. The two terminators, the helpful T-800 and the evil T-1000, quickly engage in a battle of technology and brute strength against one another.
The T-800's stiff, mechanical movements provide a wonderful contrast to the sleek, ever-changing physique of the T-1000, resulting in an exciting, varied battle. The Terminator, or T-800, is taken down by the T-1000, but with a great show of strength and will power, he rejoins the fight soon after.
Photo Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back"
This long-awaited battle pits the main antagonist and protagonist of the "Star Wars" franchise against one another. Although neither succeeds in killing the other, the two fight an impressive battle. Luke Skywalker uses the techniques and skills taught to him by the Force Master Yoda while Darth Vader draws on decades of experience against the younger man.
This is not only an awesome fight scene, but it is a pivotal point in the series. The scene shows the characters of Luke and Darth Vader while creating an exciting battle. In addition, it is the source of one of the most famous twists in cinematic history, although the relationship between the characters has since become common knowledge. The 1980 release date does not mean the visuals are anything less than impressive, so movie-goers should not overlook this title.
Photo Credit: New Line Cinema
Gandalf vs. Balrog in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
When people think about "The Lord of the Rings," most think of elves and huge, oversized battles. This discounts some of the smaller, one-on-one fights that put the films into a new category of impressive visuals, acting and characterization. In the first film of the trilogy released in 2001, the Fellowship finds itself deep in a dwarven ruin where they are soon hunted by a giant monster called Balrog.
In order to let the rest of the Fellowship escape, Gandalf hangs back in the group to fight Balrog. The wizard stands alone against the stunning fiery darkness of Balrog and lets his companions escape, although he falls into a pit with his foe. The battle between the two does not end there, however. They continue fighting to a tall mountain peak where the battle finally comes to an end. This fight signals the biggest character change that Gandalf the Grey goes through during the trilogy.
Photo Credit: Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures
The Avengers vs. Loki and Friends in "The Avengers"
This 2012 hit comic book movie brings together the most powerful and popular Marvel heroes to fight the dangerous villain and brother of Thor, Loki. The final battle involves the whole Avengers gang against Loki and the creatures he unleashes on New York City via a wormhole. This battle brings out the best in the heroes, with each performing a specific duty. For example, Captain America organizes the police while Hawkeye snipes villains from the rooftops.
The Hulk's impressive strength is the end of Loki, but the battle is not without its humorous moments that are so commonly found in comics. The humor makes this fight stand out among the rest and makes it easy to re-watch since there is always something new to discover.
Photo Credit: Warner Bros.
Batman vs. Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises"
A list of the best fight scenes is sorely lacking without an appearance from the famous Batman. This 2012 finale of the Nolan Batman franchise technically has two battles between Batman and Bane, but they are so linked together that it is easy to combine them into one item. At first, Batman is beaten badly. The hero has lost his will to fight and lacks the control and confidence needed to win. With no musical score to break up the fight, the audience is left with heavy punches and agonized breaths as Batman loses to his foe.
However, the second act of the Batman and Bane saga includes a rejuvenated Batman that is a wonderful contrast to the original fight. This battle is hard-hitting on both sides, with Batman finally finding his stride to be the hero that Gotham deserves.
This wide range of fantastic fight scenes covers science fiction, fantasy and comics, so there is something for everyone. These fight scenes are essential plot points for their respective movies and provide crucial character development while giving the viewer an impressive show.


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Brought to you by our friends at the SANS Institute.
Special Invitation for Monday January 27 Web Broadcast
The SQL Slammer Worm: Ask The Experts
SANS has organized an "ask the experts" session so you can get your
questions answered about the new SQL worm that caused so much damage
over the weekend (and is still causing damage.)
Time: 3:00 PM EST (2000 UTC)
You must register right away if you want to come. We have only 2,500
slots (6,000 registered for our last web broadcast so we must cut
off the registrations as soon as 2,500 people register).
How to register:
Please visit http://www.sans.org/webcasts/012703.php to sign up.
An archive of the audiocast will be available after the event at this
same URL if you are unable to participate during the live broadcast.
The panel includes technical experts from SANS, the White House Office
of Cyberspace Security, and from leading security vendors that were
working all weekend to try to understand and develop means of blocking
the worm.
This is an important event in educating management. It is another case
that proves that asking every user to install the correct patches in
a timely fashion is futile. There are better solutions we'll discuss
in the web broadcast.
Below is a preliminary analysis of the worm. Please email us (at
email@example.com) with a (completely confidential) brief report of
the damage that you experienced (your ISP was down, you couldn't get
money from your ATM, etc.) from this worm. By combining these stories,
we may be able to put an actual cost on the problem and thereby help
justify better security.
Also please send us one or two questions about SQL Slammer in advance
of the briefing so we can make sure we get popular questions answered.
MS-SQL Server Worm (also called Sapphire, SQL Slammer, SQL Hell)
A worm launched Saturday morning January 25, about 12:30 AM (EST),
takes advantage of a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft SQL
Server 2000. The SQL vulnerability was initially reported in July
of 2002. The worm is also being called Sapphire, SQL Slammer, and
SQL Hell.
Microsoft reports that the worm also infects MSDE 2000 systems,
typically used by software developers.
The worm attempts to infect systems at (approximately) randomly
generated IP addresses. The worm has no back doors or code for
flooding like other worms (Code Red). However, by using UDP packets
for infection, the worm allows infected machines to generate huge
amounts of traffic; even greater than that produced by most code
written specifically for flooding. Thus, in attempting to infect
other systems, the worm has powerful denial of service capabilities.
The worm resides in memory, and not on disk, so it can be eliminated
using a system reboot. However, if the defensive perimeter is not
upgraded to block offending udp packets or the system is not patched,
it will be quickly reinfected.
The worm uses UDP port 1434, so the impact of the worm can be
reduced by blocking inbound and outbound traffic destined for UDP
port 1434. Sites should use caution when blocking all traffic to this
port, since it is legitimately used by Microsoft SQL services. Some
sites have reported high levels of UDP traffic to port 1433 as well.
A CERT Advisory said the worm has caused various levels of network
degradation across the Internet. One news story reported that
ATMs of Bank of America were impacted by the worm. According to the
various reports, about 35,000 hosts had been infected as of Saturday.
Incidents.Org reports 120,000 IP addresses infected by Sunday at 10 AM
Incidents.org preliminary analysis of worm (includes a packet trace):
Original Vulnerability Analysis by David Litchfield:
CERT Advisory:
Microsoft Advisory:
Cisco Security Notice (Recommendations):
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Much has been written about the new directory services features in Windows Server 2008, including the read-only domain controller (RODC), fine-grained password policies (FGPPs), enhanced auditing, and more. In my experience, the biggest improvements in your operations with a new OS sometimes come from what initially might seem like very small improvements. Although every Active Directory (AD) installation shares common needs (e.g., security, administration, backups), these needs have been addressed in practice in almost as many ways as there are AD installations.
The Server 2008 improvements to Ntdsutil, the command-line utility administrators use to perform critical AD maintenance, haven't received as much press as other Server 2008 features. However, these features might be as valuable to you as better-advertised features. Server 2008 has six new Ntdsutil features, of varying significance: Snapshot, Activate Instance, DS Behavior, Local Roles, Partition Management, and Install from Media (IFM). Read on for more information about each feature and to learn whether they will benefit your organization.
The Snapshot feature (aka Active Directory Database Mounting Tool) is an Ntdsutil command that takes a snapshot in time of your AD database, including all objects and attributes. You can use snapshots in conjunction with tombstone reanimation to very quickly perform a complete restore of deleted AD objects and their attributes. Historically, if an important AD object such as an organizational unit (OU) were accidentally deleted, the AD administrator would have to go through an authoritative restore. The authoritative restore process involves taking a production domain controller (DC) offline, mounting a tape or disk-based backup, performing a nonauthoritative restore from backup, using Ntdsutil's authoritative restore command to select the object(s) being restored, and rebooting the DC. You might also need to take extra steps to restore group memberships. The whole process can be very time consuming, especially with upset managers breathing down your neck!
Tombstone reanimation, first introduced in Windows Server 2003 (and discussed in "AD Tombstone Objects"), provides a way to return a deleted object from the DeletedObjects container to its original location. Most attribute values are stripped from the deleted object (or "tombstone"), however, so the restore isn't really useful until these attributes are repopulated. For example, if a user is deleted and subsequently reanimated, the MemberOf and password attributes will be empty.
Systems administrators and various vendors have come up with several methods for retaining this data and mapping it to the deleted object to speed up the restore process. If the object in question is a user object, the password is also stripped on deletion, which can be an operational headache if you need to restore many user objects and generate all their new passwords. You can use bit 3 (0x00000008) of the attributeSchema object's SearchFlags attribute to modify which attributes remain stored in the tombstone object, including the password. (For more information about reanimating tombstone objects, see the TechNet article "Reanimating Active Directory Tombstone Objects.") Because a snapshot contains all objects and attributes of the directory at the time the snapshot was taken, if you have a snapshot of the directory before the object was deleted you can review and extract all its attributes, then apply them to the reanimated object. Taking a snapshot requires you to be a member of the Enterprise Admins or Domain Admins group.
Suppose an administrator accidentally deletes the CEO's user object. Because you modified SearchFlags beforehand to retain a deleted object's password, you can use a free tombstone reanimation program such as SDM Software's AD Tombstone Reanimation Cmdlets to return the deleted object to its original location. Then you need to mount the appropriate snapshot by following the directions in the TechNet article "Active Directory Domain Services Database Mounting Tool (Snapshot Viewer or Snapshot Browser) Step-by-Step Guide," extract the object's important attributes with a utility such as Joeware's AdFind, apply them to the restored object with Joeware's AdMod, and voilà! You've just restored an accidentally deleted object without resorting to an authoritative restore. This process can be automated, of course. For a PowerShell script that performs this task, see Darren Mar-Elia's blog "PowerShell Script to leverage AD Tombstone cmdlets," which contains a link to Guido Grillenmeier's script.
Taking a snapshot is a simple procedure. Open a command prompt with administrative rights on a DC, then start Ntdsutil. Enter
activate instance ntds
to select the directory instance you want to take the snapshot of. Enter
to take a snapshot, as Figure 1 shows.
DS Behavior
DS Behavior lets you control an extra layer of security in Server 2008. By default, Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) doesn't allow password operations over an unsecured connection. With DS Behavior, you can use the following command:
allow passwd op on unsecured connection
to circumvent this limitation. Note that even though this option is available, you'd typically want to retain the secure default.
Local Roles
The Local Roles feature is used to define group membership locally on RODCs. RODCs can provide true administrative role separation by giving users some degree of elevated rights (e.g., Administrators, Server Operators) on an RODC but not anywhere else in the domain. For example, to add JaneBranchOfficeAdmin to an RODC's local Administrators group, launch Ntdsutil from a command prompt on the RODC. Enter
local roles
From the local roles menu, enter
add JaneBranchOfficeAdmin Administrators
to add Jane to the local Administrators role.
Partition Management
Partition Management lets you create, list, remove, and set replication notification delay for application partitions in an AD domain or forest. (Application partitions are also referred to as NDNCs, or non-domain naming contexts.) You can also list the DCs that are replicas supporting an application partition. Finally, you can use Partition Management to manage partitions in AD LDS.
Install from Media
IFM is an advanced option of the DCPROMO DC creation wizard. (Although interestingly enough, the terms IFM and Install From Media don't actually appear anywhere in the wizard.) IFM lets administrators promote a new DC into a domain by using a system state backup to load the necessary directory partitions into the DC's database rather than over the network. If you have a large database, this approach can provide a substantial time savings compared with a traditional over-the-wire promotion. (For more information about using IFM to promote DCs, see the Microsoft article "How to use the Install from Media feature to promote Windows 2003-based domain controllers.")
The IFM feature has been around since Windows 2003, but it wasn't part of Ntdsutil until Server 2008. Microsoft added IFM to Ntdsutil to provide the Windows Server Backup feature. Windows Server Backup replaces the venerable NTBackup utility that's been part of the product since Windows NT 3.5. However, Windows Server Backup has a different functionality set than NTBackup; if you performed disk-based system state backups of your DCs with NTBackup, you'll find that Windows Server Backup takes much longer and uses up far more space. (Server 2008 system state backup also backs up system files that are under Windows File Protection—WFP—in addition to backing up the AD database and SYSVOL.)
The change in functionality to Windows Server Backup and the additional needs of the RODC prompted the Directory Services team to add the ability to back up just enough of a DC (the database itself and two registry hives) to promote a new Server 2008 DC from media rather than over the network. IFM does just that. In addition, IFM is simpler and faster than the Windows 2003 method because you don't need to perform a backup and then restore from that backup to obtain the necessary files. I've personally witnessed an incredible reduction in DCPROMO time from 19 hours (replication over the network) to 10 minutes (IFM).
IFM has four options: create full backup name, create SYSVOL full backup name, create RODC backup name, and create SYSVOL RODC backup name. Logically split into two pairs, these commands perform two functions. The "full" options create installable media to promote a full DC, and the "RODC" options create media for RODCs. The difference is that for security reasons the RODC options mark the AD database as read-only, and they clear the password attributes. Letting an IFM media set fall into the wrong hands is as much of a security risk as letting an entire DC do so. The RODC option makes the IFM media set as safe as an RODC itself. If you include the SYSVOL option, the contents of the SYSVOL shared folder are also added to the set. This method creates a larger set of files to be moved to the DC-to-be, but SYSVOL won't need to replicate over the network.
IFM is easily scripted; you can stack up Ntdsutil commands on a command line or in a script. The following example creates a full IFM backup, without SYSVOL, into a folder named backup:
ntdsutil "active instance ntds" ifm "create full backup" quit quit
Figure 2 shows this command's output. Substituting a date variable for "test" is a simple scripting task.
Using IFM to create new DCs is handy, but its real usefulness is in quickly restoring DCs after an operational failure. By far the most common operational failure mode is OS-related, not AD-related. In such a case, both the OS and the AD database must be recovered. Server 2008 provides three methods for recovering the OS and AD database. The traditional method is to restore the system from tape. Although Server 2008 doesn't support this method natively, you can use a number of third-party products. You can also use Windows Server Backup to perform a recovery through Windows Complete PC Backup. (Note that because the OS has failed, a system state restore won't do the job.) Finally, you can skip the recovery process and just rebuild and repromote the DC.
The most important task to accomplish in case of a failed DC is to get the DC back up as soon as possible. (A secondary goal is to determine the root cause of the failure.) When restoration time is crucial, the restore from tape backup method takes too long: You must reinstall the OS, install the backup software, restore the system, and reboot. Restoring from Windows Complete PC Backup is much faster: You simply boot from the Server 2008 installation CD-ROM, select Repair my computer, and recover every volume with critical system data on it. This process can also be time consuming, however, if your AD database and log files are spread across several partitions. In addition, the backup set must be available either on a local partition or a USB hard drive. If the set is on a local partition, the partition must be dedicated to Windows Server Backup because it will reformat and use the partition entirely. Although some planning and repartitioning is necessary as you upgrade your DCs to Server 2008, the process should be easy because hard disk sizes have grown far beyond any DC's possible disk requirements.
I recommend a third approach: Skip the restore process entirely. Instead, simply wipe and reinstall the OS on the server, then repromote it to DC status using the IFM method. This method is by far the fastest way to get a seriously broken DC back into service. The process involves the following steps:
- Perform regular IFM backups of your DC's local database and direct them toward a partition that doesn't contain critical system data.
- Have an unattended build CD-ROM available at the DC's data center. (For information about unattended setup on Windows 2003, see the TechNet article "How Unattended Installation Works"; for information about Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2, see the TechNet article "Lite-Touch, High Volume Deployment.")
- The DC should be dedicated in its role (with the exception of AD-integrated DNS).
If your DC's OS fails or has any problem that takes more than 15 minutes to fix:
a. Have operations insert the CD-ROM and perform an unattended (re)installation of the OS. This step should take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes.
b. While the reinstall is underway, the DC administrator on call should perform a metadata cleanup of the DC in AD. The metadata cleanup process removes AD data about the failed DC that's used in replication. When a DC is demoted normally, this information is removed as part of the demotion process. A failed DC, however, doesn't go through the normal demotion process, so this information must be removed manually. In Windows 2003, you use Ntdsutil to perform the metadata cleanup, as discussed in the TechNet article "Clean up server metadata." The procedure is simplified in Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2; the TechNet article "Clean Up Server Data (Windows Server 2008)" explains the process using Active Directory Users and Computers and Active Directory Sites and Services.
c. When the reinstall and reconfiguration is complete, perform an IFM promotion of the DC, pointing to the IFM backups on the backup partition. The entire operation should take no more than 15 minutes.
As a fellow Directory Services MVP once remarked, "Domain controllers are like little tin soldiers; if one falls down, you can stand up another one just like it."
New Recovery Capabilities
Ntdsutil has several interesting new features in Server 2008. Pay careful attention to them, and consider not only what functions they perform but also the new recovery capabilities they provide the groundwork for. Even small improvements in a foundational distributed system such as AD can provide large benefits.
Sean writes about cloud identity, Microsoft hybrid identity, and whatever else he finds interesting at his blog on Enterprise Identity and on Twitter at @shorinsean.


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Quincy Richard Sr. Convicted On All Charges In St. Landry Parish School Board Bribery Case
St. Landry Parish School Board Member 51-year-old Quincy Richard Sr. of Opelousas has been convicted of taking bribes for his vote in favor of a former candidate for St. Landry Parish Superintendent.
According to court documents, Richard, along with fellow board member 72-year-old John Miller of Opelousas, who has already pled guilty in the case, met with superintendent candidate Joseph Cassimere, getting him to pay them $5,000.00 each in return for their votes for superintendent. But Cassimere was working for the FBI.
Richard faces up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines for all three counts - two counts of bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. Miller faces up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines on one cont of conspiracy to commit bribery. Sentencing dates have not been set.


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Stockton, CA
Dennis James Green
April 21, 1940 - November 14, 2012
Dennis James Green, beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, and friend to many,
passed away peacefully at
Stanford Hospital on November 14, 2012, from complications following surgery. Born in Stockton, California, on April 21, 1940, to Julia Pizzo Green and James Everett Green, Dennis attended St.
Gertrude's Elementary School and St. Mary's High School. He continued his education, receiving a
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from California State
University, Sacramento, and his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco.
Upon completion of his formal education, Dennis returned to his hometown in Stockton and served as a Deputy District Attorney in the San Joaquin County District Attorney's office for two years. He then joined and later became a partner in the law firm of Mayall, Hurley, Knutsen, Smith & Green, where he enjoyed a successful legal career, specializing in complex defense litigation. He was deeply admired and respected by his colleagues.
Dennis was a member of numerous legal bars and organizations, including the State Bar of California, the San Joaquin County Bar Association, and the Board of Directors of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California. He was also a member of the Italian Athletic Club of Stockton, the Stockton Golf and Country Club, and the Italian Gardeners Society of Stockton.
Dennis was a loyal friend and a man of integrity and high moral character. A friend of his was a friend for life. He was incredibly generous with his time, love, and talents, and his quick wit and infectious laughter brought smiles to many. He had a profound faith in God and was a dedicated Roman Catholic. He loved playing golf, watching professional football, listening to music, swimming in the ocean and laying on the beach, reading, camping, tending his vegetable garden, spending time in Truckee, giving his grandchildren "mooches," and, most of all, he relished time spent with his family.
Dennis is survived by the love of his life, his wife of 50 years, Judy Rae (Noli) Green, and his children, Christine Sanfilippo of Sacramento (Todd), Renee Nickerson of Alamo (John), and Kevin Dennis Green of Diablo (Jennifer). He is further survived by his seven grandchildren, Nina and Natalie Sanfilippo, Alexandra and Andrew Nickerson, and, Maxwell, Mackenzie, and
Madison Green, whose love and enthusiasm brought him great joy and happiness. He also leaves behind loving sisters-in-law, Jo Ann Marsau (Don) and Patrice Noli, his godson/nephew, Donald Marsau (Nicole), and a large and loving extended family and many close friends.
Family and friends are invited to attend a Rosary on November 29, at 6:00 p.m. at St. Michael's Catholic Church, 5882 North
Ashley Lane, Stockton, California, and a Mass of Christian Burial will be held the following morning at St. Michael's Catholic Church on November 30, at 10:00 a.m. There will be a private family committal following the Funeral Mass.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the St. Michael's Building Fund, 5882 North Ashley Lane, Stockton, California. Casa Bonita Funeral Home, 2500 Cemetery Ln., Stockton, CA in charge of arrangements.
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anyone else buy the DVD volume 1 for Durarara!! Overall rating I give it an 8, pretty good dub series over all is great and I enjoy the story after it starts picking up after ep 6.
Aniplex did a pretty good job with the handling of this imo.
|2011-02-12, 08:15
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It was decent, I like a lot of the VA's in the show.
6/10 or a C+ Which ever you prefer.
Slightly above average.
|2011-02-12, 12:54
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: florida
Age: 34
But I got used to it, mostly, as the episodes progressed, and some of the VAs were much more satisfactory - Celty's and Simon's, and JYB was great as Shizuo.
(I'm slightly disappointed that they went with "Shizu-chan" and not the "Shizzy" nickname that the first sub I saw used. It's a much more fitting localisation, imo, considering that they decided to have everyone call each other by first name, including the otaku group who no one calls by first name.)
|2011-02-13, 17:04
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Location: florida
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|2011-02-23, 14:15
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Iwakawa Base
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Awesome episode 25. Really, I wouldn't mind another season just to see all the weird happenings in Ikebukuro. Always fun to watch. Also, epic imoutos are epic. Didn't see that coming... those moves almost looked as though on par with Izaya.
|2011-02-23, 19:12
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: USA
Age: 26
damn! I fallen in love again with this anime!
Kururi moe!
Shizuo is the strongest mean=Power
Celty is Overall and win with SP!
EDIT: DID SOMEONE SAW Isaac in 80's clothes and he's the boss of Yuuhei?
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|2011-02-24, 12:57
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Paperland
Age: 27
That was a really great episode. So... Durararaish X)
I enjoyed Namie killing Izaya's TV and saying all this "where-the-hell-is-he-oh-like-I-care". And the way Shizuo dealt with Orihara twins. And shaggy Shinra worrying about his darling Celty, as usual. Aaaand Izaya-Shizuo interactions (gosh all the chasing scene was hilarious!), of course.
I realized how I miss them all. Want another season so badly.
|2011-02-24, 13:48
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Location: California
My new favorite episode!!
OMG! I LOOOOOVE EP 25!!! It was PERFECT especially for all the Shizaya fans. Their fighting took a HUGE chuck of the latter half. This is going to be an extremely long post cuz I want to post my thoughts on all the characters.
Their fighting was just AWESOME and EPIC and I never knew Izaya could move like that! The parkour scenes were mind-blowing! I wish they showed more of it. It was so fast too keep up. Even tho Shizuo can do parkour too, Izaya still keeps it in his OWN fun style with all the swinging and all.
Izaya is such a loveable prick taunting Shizuo like that (and getting away with it). OMG it just made me love him all over again. : D====
Was it just me or did they made Izayas expression very Light Yagami (Death Note)? Throughout the entire episode, all those zoom in Izayas shots were faces that I have seen Light made. It creped me out!! Izaya was having a little TOO much fun.
I went 0.0 how Shizuo treated Izayas sisters!! How mean!! I thought he had a policy to never hurt girls? I wonder how they got out? The sisters were very cute being all fangirls but that kiss came out of no where. I assume it was fanservice?
Celty and Shinra was just pure awesome. I love how MOE and caring Celty was and how lovely dovey Shinra was. Too bad they didnt win for #1 couple.
I cant believe they showed Kida & Saki!! Urgh too MUCH Seiji and I cant believe Namie destroyed Izayas TV!! How is he gonna watch his kiddie shows now? Im happy they showed Namie but her level of incest is getting too disturbing.
Kasuka wasnt at all what I expected; I always wondered how he was a great actor if all he does is deadpan. It actually disturbed me seeing him having .Kidas personality .Mikado and Anri were the same; yay Anri (and Kida) got new clothes!! Simon was funny trying to get on tv so he could advertise his sushi.
Did anyone notice that during the final scene where everyone got the this is what they are doing now scenes that they skipped Izaya?!!! Even the cop got a final scene!!
Sadly the ending gave me a no second season feeling cuz they randomly included a new Mikados character.
Also thank you so very much Revan21 for helping me find it!
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(Reuters) - Sirius XM Radio, the largest U.S. satellite radio provider, said it expects to increase the number of subscribers by about 6 percent in 2013 and raise its revenue by about 12 percent compared to its estimate for 2012.
Analysts expect the company, which is being taken over by Liberty Media Corp, to report $3.82 billion in revenue for 2013, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The satellite radio operator said its 2012 results are likely to meet or exceed its earlier outlook. In October, it had forecast $3.3 billion in revenue for 2012 and about $700 million of free cash flow.
Sirius said it added 2 million subscribers in 2012, taking the total to 23.9 million. It had forecast a net subscriber addition of 1.8 million for the year.
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Olympus Has Fallen
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Running time: 120 mins Released: 19th April 2013
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Former U.S Army Ranger Miek Banning (Gerard Butler) is the lead Secret Service agent in charge of the safety of the President (Aaron Eckhart). He enjoys a close relationship with the First Family, especially their young son Connor, to whom he imparts useful advice. After a tragic accident, Banning is demoted so that the President isn't constantly reminded of what he has lost. Banning is nearby at the Treasury Department when terrorist Kang Yeonsak (Rick Yune) storms the White House. He has an ex-Secret Service agent on his side, and is determind to blow up America's nuclear missiles. To do this he needs special codes, including one from the President. But luckily word has gotten out that Olympus has fallen and Banning wades in to secure Connor and kill all the bad guys.
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