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* DFRWS2006/2007 carving challenge results
* DFRWS2006/2007 carving challenge results
* DFRWS2008 paper on carving
* DFRWS2008 paper on carving
* photorec
* photorec
* revit06 and revit07 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/revit/)
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Input support
Input support
* EWF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libewf/)
* EWF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libewf/)
* TSK device & raw & split raw
* TSK device & raw & split raw
Volume/Partition support
Volume/Partition support
* disktype
* disktype
* testdisk
* testdisk
Revision as of 19:04, 31 October 2008
This page is for planning Carver 2.0.
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- 1 License
- 3 Requirements
- 4 Ideas
- 5 Caving algorithm
- 6 File System Awareness
- 7 Supportive tooling
- 8 Testing
- 9 Validator Construction
- 10 Existing Code that we have
- 11 Implementation Timeline
- Joachim library based validator could need other licenses
- Shouldn't this just match what the underlying afflib & sleuthkit cover? RB
- Yes, but you need to test and validate on each. Question: Do we want to support windows? Simsong 21:09, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
- Joachim I think we would do wise to design with windows support from the start this will improve the platform independence from the start
- Agreed; I would even settle at first for being able to run against Cygwin. Note that I don't even own or use a copy of Windows, but the vast majority of forensic investigators do. RB 14:01, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
- Joachim A name for the tooling I propose coldcut
- How about 'butcher'? ;) RB 14:20, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Joachim Could we do a MoSCoW evaluation of these.
- AFF and EWF file images supported from scratch. (Joachim I would like to have raw/split raw and device access as well)
- If we base our image i/o on afflib, we get all three with one interface. RB
- Joachim volume/partition aware layer (what about carving unpartioned space)
- File system aware layer.
- By default, files are not carved. (clarify: only identified? RB; I guess that it operates like Selective file dumper .FUF 07:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC))
- Plug-in architecture for identification/validation.
- Joachim support for multiple types of validators
- dedicated validator
- validator based on file library (i.e. we could specify/implement a file structure for these)
- configuration based validator (Can handle config files,like Revit07, to enter different file formats used by the carver.)
- Joachim support for multiple types of validators
- Ship with validators for:
Joachim I think we should distinguish between file format validators and content validators
- TAR (gz/bz2)
Joachim For a production carver we need at least the following formats
- Grapical Images
- JPEG (the 3 different types with JFIF/EXIF support)
- Office documents
- OLE2 (Word/Excell content support)
- Open Office/Office 2007 (ZIP+XML)
- Archive files
- 7z
- gzip
- bzip2
- tar
- E-mail files
- MBOX (text based format, base64 content support)
- Audio/Video files
- QuickTime
- Printer spool files
- EMF (if I remember correctly)
- Internet history files
- index.dat
- firefox (sqllite 3)
- Other files
- thumbs.db
- pagefile?
- Grapical Images
- Simple fragment recovery carving using gap carving.
- Joachim have hook in for more advanced fragment recovery?
- Recovering of individual ZIP sections and JPEG icons that are not sector aligned.
- Joachim I would propose a generic fragment detection and recovery
- Autonomous operation (some mode of operation should be completely non-interactive, requiring no human intervention to complete RB)
- Joachim as much as possible, but allow to be overwritten by user
- Tested on 500GB-sized images. Should be able to carve a 500GB image in roughly 50% longer than it takes to read the image.
- Parallelizable
- Joachim tunable for different architectures
- Configuration:
- Capability to parse some existing carvers' configuration files, either on-the-fly or as a one-way converter.
- Disengage internal configuration structure from configuration files, create parsers that present the expected structure
- Joachim The validator should deal with the file structure the carving algorithm should not know anything about the file structure (as in revit07 design)
- Either extend Scalpel/Foremost syntaxes for extended features or use a tertiary syntax (Joachim I would prefer a derivative of the revit07 configuration syntax which already has encountered some problems of dealing with defining file structure in a configuration file)
- Can output audit.txt file.
- Joachim Can output database with offset analysis values i.e. for visualization tooling
- Joachim Can output debug log for debugging the algorithm/validation
- Easy integration into ascription software.
- Joachim I'm no native speaker what do you mean with "ascription software"?
- I think this was another non-native requesting easy scriptability. RB 14:20, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
- Use as much TSK if possible. Don't carry your own FS implementation the way photorec does.
- Joachim using TSK as much as possible would not allow to add your own file system support (i.e. mobile phones, memory structures, cap files) I would propose wrapping TSK and using it as much as possible but allow to integrate own FS implementations.
- Extracting/carving data from Thumbs.db? I've used foremost for it with some success. Vinetto has some critical bugs :( .FUF 19:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- Joachim this poses an interesting addition to the carver do we want to support (let's call it) 'recursive in file carving' (for now)
- Carving data structures. For example, extract all TCP headers from image by defining TCP header structure and some fields (e.g. source port > 1024, dest port = 80). This will extract all data matching the pattern and write a file with other fields. Another example is carving INFO2 structures and URL activity records from index.dat .FUF 20:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- This has the opportunity to be extended to the concept of "point at blob FOO and interpret it as BAR"
Configuration language/specification
.FUF added: The main idea is to allow users to define structures, for example (in pascal-like form):
Field1: Byte = 123; SomeTextLength: DWORD; SomeText: string[SomeTextLength]; Field4: Char = 'r'; ...
This will produce something like this:
Field1 = 123 SomeTextLength = 5 SomeText = 'abcd1' Field4 = 'r'
(In text or raw forms.)
Opinion: Simple pattern identification like that may not suffice, I think Simson's original intent was not only to identify but to allow for validation routines (plugins, as the original wording was). As such, the format syntax would need to implement a large chunk of some programming language in order to be sufficiently flexible. RB
Joachim In my option your example is too limited. Making the revit configuration I learned you'll need a near programming language to specify some file formats. A simple descriptive language is too limiting. I would also go for 2 bytes with endianess instead of using terminology like WORD and small integer, it's much more clear. The configuration also needs to deal with aspects like cardinality, required and optional structures.
Please take a look at the revit07 configuration. It's not there yet but goes a far way. Some things currently missing:
- bitwise alignment
- handling encapsulated streams (MPEG/capture files)
- handling content based formats (MBOX)
Caving algorithm
- should we allow for multiple runs?
- should we allow for multiple algorithms?
- does the algorithm passes data blocks to the validators?
- does a validator need to maintain a state?
- does a validator need to revert a state?
- do we use the assumption that a data block can be used by a single file (with the exception of embedded/encapsulated files)?
Caving scenarios
- normal file (file structure, loose text based structure (more a content structure?))
- fragmented file (the file entirely exist)
- a file fragment (the file does not entirely exist)
- intertwined file
- encapsulated file (MPEG/network capture)
- embedded file (JPEG thumbnail)
File System Awareness
Background: Why be File System Aware?
Advantages of being FS aware:
- You can pick up sector allocation sizes
- Joachim do you mean file system block sizes?
- Some file systems may store things off sector boundaries. (ReiserFS with tail packing)
- Increasingly file systems have compression (NTFS compression)
- Carve just the sectors that are not in allocated files.
Tasks that would be required
- As noted above, TSK should be utilized as much as possible, particularly the filesystem-aware portion. If we want to identify filesystems outside of its supported set, it would be more worth our time to work on implementing them there than in the carver itself. RB
- I guess this tool operates like Selective file dumper and can recover files in both ways (or not?). Recovering files by using carving can recover files in situations where sleuthkit does nothing (e.g. file on NTFS was deleted using ntfs-3g, or filesystem was destroyed or just unknown). And we should build the list of filesystems supported by carver, not by TSK. .FUF 07:08, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- This tool is still in the early planning stages (requirements discovery), hence few operational details (like precise modes of operation) have been fleshed out - those will and should come later. The justification for strictly using TSK for the filesystem-sensitive approach is simple: TSK has good filesystem APIs, and it would be foolish to create yet another standalone, incompatible implementation of filesystem(foo) when time would be better spent improving those in TSK, aiding other methods of analysis as well. This is the same reason individuals that have implemented several other carvers are participating: de-duplication of effort. RB
Joachim I would like to have the carver (recovery tool) also do recovery using file allocation data or remainders of file allocation data.
Joachim I would go as far to ask you all to look beyond the carver as a tool and look from the perspective of the carver as part of the forensic investigation process. In my eyes certain information needed/acquired by the carver could be also very useful investigative information i.e. what part of a hard disk contains empty sectors.
Supportive tooling
- validator (definitions) tester (detest in revit07)
- tool to make configuration based definitions
- post carving validation
- the carver needs to provide support for fuse mount of carved files (carvfs)
- automated testing
- test data
Validator Construction
- Write validators in C/C++
- Joachim you mean dedicated validators
- Have a scripting language for writing them (python? Perl?) our own?
- Joachim use easy to embed programming languages i.e. Phyton or Lua
- Use existing programs (libjpeg?) as plug-in validators?
- Joachim define a file structure api for this
Existing Code that we have
Joachim Please add any missing links
- DFRWS2006/2007 carving challenge results
- DFRWS2008 paper on carving
- DFRWS2006/2007 carving challenge results
- photorec (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec)
- revit06 and revit07 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/revit/)
- s3/scarve
Possible file structure validator libraries
- divers existing file support libraries
- libole2 (inhouse experimental code of OLE2 support)
- libpff (alpha release for PFF (PST/OST) file support) (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpff/)
Input support
- AFF (http://www.afflib.org/)
- EWF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libewf/)
- TSK device & raw & split raw (http://www.sleuthkit.org/)
Volume/Partition support
- disktype (http://disktype.sourceforge.net/)
- testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk)
File system support
- photorec FS code
- implementations of FS in Linux/BSD
Content support
Implementation Timeline
- gather the available resources/ideas/wishes/needs etc. (I guess we're in this phase)
- start discussing a high level design (in terms of algorithm, facilities, information needed)
- input formats facility
- partition/volume facility
- file system facility
- file format facility
- content facility
- how to deal with fragment detection (do the validators allow for fragment detection?)
- how to deal with recombination of fragments
- do we want multiple carving phases in light of speed/precision tradeoffs
- start detailing parts of the design
- Discuss options for a grammar driven validator?
- Hard-coded plug-ins?
- Which exsisting code can we use?
- start building/assembling parts of the tooling for a prototype
- Implement simple file carving with validation.
- Implement gap carving
- Initial Release
- Implement the threaded carving that .FUF is describing above.


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Cerion (Strophiops) paucicostatum
Clench, 1934:209, pl. 2, fig. E.
Cerion mossi
Clench, 1952:108.
Cerion paucicostatum
Gonz�lez Guill�n, A. 2008:68.
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Geographic Distribution:
Eleuthera Island, Bahama Islands.
Type Locality:
Miller Hill, southern Eleuthera Island, Bahama Islands
Type Material:
Holotype, MCZ 103033, paratypes MCZ 103034
Cerion mossi Clench, 1952 is a new name for Cerion paucicostatum Clench, 1934, non Cerion paucicostatum Pilsbry, 1929.
Clench (1934:210) noted that "The material obtained at Weymss Bight completely hybridizes with the variety indianorum, herein described. Extremes of these two forms are astonishingly different but in the collection made, which numbers well over 2000 specimens, every intergrading form exists. Elsewhere, the typical form occurs as a pure race.
In relationship this species appears to be distantly related to C. eleutherae Pils. and Van. which probably exists somewhere in the northern portion of the island. The exact locality of eleutherae has never been ascertained. C. paucicostatum differs from C. eleutherae by being much less conic, possessing fewer and heavier ribs, having a reflected and somewhat beveled lip and not the back fold or collared lip found in eleutherae .
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Los Angeles-area veterinary behaviorist Karen Sueda, DVM, a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (DACVB), came to the canine's rescue. After spending time with Trixie's owner, Dr. Sueda started a behavior modification program where she slowly introduced new people to the anxious greyhound and conditioned Trixie to respond with behaviors other than growling or snapping. She encouraged the dog to sit or offer a paw and rewarded her with a treat for doing so. Dr. Sueda also prescribed a psychiatric medication, similar to human medications such as Prozac, for the stressed-out pooch to help her get accustomed to busy streets and loud noises.
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Veterinary behaviorists are fully trained veterinarians who complete an additional specialized program in behavioral medicine. They then apply to be board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Behavior (ACVB). There are only 47 such certified veterinary behaviorists in the United States today. Ask your general veterinarian for a referral if you think your dog might benefit from this treatment, or look on the ACVBs Web site for a list of certified behaviorists and where they practice. The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) Web site may also be a good source. In addition to veterinary behaviorists, this site lists veterinarians who have a special interest in behavior, as well as members with a Ph.D. in animal behavior or a related field.
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Problems Behaviorists Treat
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Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
I am, by no means, unaware of my nation's many many issues. I am also very aware how we are doing financially and socially. However, it seems to me that a lot of other nations and their denizens have recently taken to being all around assholes about America and it's people.
I live in a nation where it's a pastime to make fun of Americans, but it seems to me that this unfounded hate is getting out of hands. What is other people's problem with the United States? Hell, I'm not much of a fan of it half the time, but I don't go around saying how stupid it is, or how dumb the people are...
Does anyone else see this around the web?
Anytime I stick up for myself (because I am an American and calling Americans dumb IS an insult to me) or explain why the US is the way it is, I get called stupid or ignorant.
If you are not American, do you dislike Americans or the US?
I'm fucking sick of the Americans being the butt of every joke...is anyone else?
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
All I'm saying is you Americans out there better get your shit together because I live next door and if they bomb you they bomb us.
Just kidding. The thing I hate the most about America is the border patrol guys, such dicks. Other than that I dislike the same things I dislike about Canada (us being so similar) oh and the misinformation about Canada. I do not live in an igloo. I live in a teepee. Get it straight.
We could probably just merge and no one would notice, except all the other countries who think Canada is like the nice little brother... although we are bigger in size .
No country is without it's problems, and the reason for that is because assholes live in every country there is. Let's all hug. Cept' you assholes out there. No hugs for you.
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments." -Jim Morrison
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
I'm one of those people who ignites anti-US hate speeches =p I've just never had any interest in the country and spent my life looking for a way out (let it be coming soon), The reason many parts of the world say these things (like Japan who in truth is a strong supporter of the US due to financial ties) is because the US is the media capitol of the world. TV shows are not known for their intelligence, it's not hard at all for anyone anywhere to see Americans being stupid. The general idea at this point is derived from this media image. Also, the US has always been very focused on getting in the middle of everything everywhere. This constant butting in is a great reason for a large amount of countries hatred. Many mistakes were made by the US in the hopes that it would mean they get something in return for supporting this or that insurgency or strike.
I have never felt as ostracized in other countries as I do here (I avoid ones that would kill me on sight). In every way I'm an outsider as compared to people in Missouri, so I've never fit in. I also have never pledged allegiance as I was never given a reason to believe in this current country. I like the original ideas, but I was born after 1915 (luckily) so I don't really feel I should give much credit for things happening in past generations to the current powers.
As the world embraces democracy and sort of follows suit of the US, expect everyone to notice all the mistakes made by the progenitors. That's just common.
This recent popularity of self deprecating speeches by just about everyone in the nation is really uncalled for. Most of these people like where they live, and aren't even slightly aware of how bad the message they send out on e-mail is. Sure, everyone is tired of the current media circus that is politics, but they should discuss their hatred of that not the country they live in and actually do appreciate.
If the US continues to give up opportunities in advancement the rest of the world will stop discussing them. What put them in the spotlight was a huge flood of new inventions and a constant race to build a better tomorrow. Though nowadays instead that is left up to the big corporations and the elected officials are there to smile for the camera. If the US becomes a less powerful nation no one will talk about them much at all, unless something happens.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
I generally dislike America, but I think the name calling and the 'smugness' complexes of the other nations, acting like their shit don't stink is just irritating. I'm so pissed off that I'm actually reverting a little back to my hick accent. (I developed an Atlantic accent after living in England).
I know how you feel, Lilith, I don't really fit into America either. I am much too... atheist?
Sadly the rest of the world groups me in with the likes of WBC... I guess I always be looking for a home.
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
I've never been considered a US citizen outside the US. During my periods being elsewhere the only time I ever noticed anyone talking about Americans was a laugh at tourists. I've met plenty of hate speech online and in media I've ran into some, but in general I haven't noticed a large street level distaste outside of hokey tourists. My entire outside the US experiences currently amount to about 1 month though so I'm definitely no expert.
I found a home in Japan but don't yet have a real reason to move there and deal with some of the issues. I love the country, but I do know enough of the problems I'll face (if only I was a blonde) and need to have a good amount of money before going (I can't do a military term). So I'm still looking for a more feasible option, though I may end up there eventually anyway. I would probably live in Hokkaido as I've always been very interested in Ainu culture, really not sure how I would be treated in that region.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
Not so much hate as fear. FEAR, even. The US is a very scary country these days.
On the other hand, i have known quite a few people who either came from there or still live there; have spent a little time there myself (if LA counts as part of the US....) and i feel deep sympathy for all the decent, intelligent, open-minded Americans who are both being bullied by their intolerant compatriots and lumped in with those same bullies by people in other countries.
Some possible solutions: free media, real democracy, a popular... not uprising but movement toward independence from big money and party politics: Don't fight them, ignore them. Or maybe North America should subdivide itself like an amoeba, and become a dozen separate, less powerful nations. Power does corrupt.
But the bad, scary stuff isn't confined to the US. It's been in the UK for some time; has crept into Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, even Denmark. The ex-USSR and east bloc are in tatters. Some of that is down to US interference, but there is no way for the American people to control their elite, so the only thing they can blamed for is not resisting - of which all the other industrial populations are also guilty. Maybe that's why they prefer to blame it all on America - it's easier than than facing how venal and gullible the rest of us have been.
A whole lot of change is needed globally, to set things right again. I don't anticipate an up-turn before it gets much worse.
If you pray to anything, you're prey to anything.
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monkeyshine89 (27-07-2011), impr0vise (07-02-2012)
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
(27-07-2011 12:50 PM)monkeyshine89 Wrote: I am, by no means, unaware of my nation's many many issues. I am also very aware how we are doing financially and socially. However, it seems to me that a lot of other nations and their denizens have recently taken to being all around assholes about America and it's people.
I have to own up to something. I was growing up (not that I ever finished the process) when Reagan was president. He typified everything I hated about the United States not least the "oppression of Nicaragua".
Now I am older and I have changed my minds on many things many times. I realize that in many ways the US has the strongest democracy in the world but at the same time the most corrupt and broken. Reagan may have done many things I still disagree with, but now I know that in his youth he spoke against McCarthyism and that he contributed at least in some way to bringing freedom to Eastern Europe. Some of my favourite scientists hail from the US and yet it has some of the most moronic and anti-scientific manifestations of religion in the world. In short the US is simply too complicated, interesting, frustrating and important to simply love or hate.
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
Lilith- I would love to talk to about Japanese-American relations. Although it's a rather huge topic here are some things I noticed.
1. Japanese are much more happier with the idea of us going 'home'. Other then the usually bunch of crazies we get with every nation, Japanese generally like tourists and people showing an interest in their culture.
2. But to Japanese, we always remain foreigner, outsider, even if we live in Japan for a number of years. We can never truly understand what it is like to be Japanese or never truly understand the culture, which is to me, incorrect.
I love Japan and I would love to stay here (Jasen protests this) but I can understand why, we would always be considered outsiders. Then again I reason with him we will be considered outsiders in the united states as well.
Have you considered the JET program? Anyone with a undergrad degree can apply to be an English teacher and teach at a high school or middle school for three years. Then you can get a clear idea of what it is like to live in Japan as a foreigner without going through the process of immigration. If you decide it's good for you, then maybe consider immigrating here.
I live in Okinawa, so I think my perceptions may be skewed (due to military we have a more volatile foreign relations), but it was similar when I went to the main islands of Japan.
27-07-2011, 05:10 PM (This post was last modified: 27-07-2011 05:20 PM by Lilith Pride.)
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
I understand those things fully, but what I mean is that America the country is where many resources are attained. Japan relies on trade to survive due to their limited resources. The cultural aspects have also caught on heavily, American music television and even food has quite a following in Japan. This added onto the many steps Japan takes to westernize.
Not only we are considered foreigners even Chinese living in Japan are life long foreigners. In order to be a natural citizen you must have your full family history on record or be of Ainu descent. The Ainu are the only non-Japanese who can claim full citizenship due to their status as the true natives. It is still a constant practice that a Japanese citizen marrying a foreigner removes them from the family records.
I was at some point going to mention that since you probably live in Okinawa you are likely to have more issues. It is where the base is, and the only part of Japan where western money is used. Okinawa was basically taken by the US after WWII. I agree that the people who live in Okinawa are more likely to be aggressive to foreigners than others. The nationalism is not uncommon, go to almost any country in Asia and you'll have the same issue, if a Japanese person and Korean person can barely get along what hope does a Caucasian have since they are obviously different? That's something you either accept or reject about Asia in general as they are the most racist area I know of.
I've thought about JET a few times but I'm not really big on English. I am aware that it is a very effective option. By the time I was going to Japan I had started being very interested in this person from Quebec so I was not too worried about it. My desired profession is anthropology. I've studied the Ainu a good deal as they are the group I'd most wish to look at (even though they've been pretty much ravaged culturally).
Sorry if the way I talk about Japan makes me sound like I'm romanticizing it or unaware, but I just feel that you would already know the basics and to me that's a part of the country that you already accept by being there. In the other discussion we had on this I said I was proud to be seen as a local foreigner =p. I can understand fully that your husband does not want to stay, and I'm sure you'll find a good place yourself. Japan is simply a place I connect well with so I talk about it often enough.
I have the same views on parts of the US, but that doesn't excuse current events, like in Japan the disgusting handling of the nuclear issue. It's not a perfect place I just like it there, which is more than I can say for here. And as I've said previously, for one reason or another I was given the credit for understanding their culture, whether it was due to the area or something about me I'm not sure. They accepted that I knew most of it and held me accountable for my mistakes.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: Hate America- It's the hip and trendy thing to do.
I'm English and, gotta hold my hands up, rather cynical about the US but then again I'm rather cynical about most things so it's nothing personal.
I probably am one of those very critical people who annoy you and I do love making jokes at Americas expense, I also find a lot of things about America/American culture intensely annoying (not just major religious/political things but everyday things as well).
However, I will say that while I haven't met many Americans, despite the fact that I collectively find American society very irritating, on an individual level I've always liked the American people from what I have seen of them. Always seem friendly and warm people.
Best and worst of Ferdinand .....
Ferdinand: We don't really say 'theist' in Alabama. Here, you're either a Christian, or you're from Afghanistan and we fucking hate you.
Ferdinand: Everyone from British is so, like, fucking retarded.
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Jones returns to PIA
The Petersburg Indian Association re-hired Bruce Jones after letting him go in mid-October – and only two months of service to the organization. Jones has agreed to a four-year commitment with PIA after a long career in local government.
"I had all intentions of continuing on with retirement," Jones said. "I had my name out there on the Alaska Municipal League website to be available as an interim City Manager."
Jones had just been called by the City of Whittier when he met with the PIA tribal council Wednesday evening.
"I put in 28 years with the City of Petersburg and another five with the Inter-Island Ferry Authority," Jones stated. "I have been waiting for Fran to get ready to quit working but I will be back at work Monday morning."
The PIA tribal council has changed due to the January elections and another appointment to a resigned seat.
"We have a board that is more engaged now," Jones said. "I think this board will understand that the tribal administrator needs to have the ability to control the work, the workers, the non-producers and those that can't be educated to acceptable standards."
Jones will rearrange some positions within PIA and will be looking to hire a new grant coordinator as well as combining a human resources and finance position.
"Those that continually want to work outside of the work rules just won't do," Jones stated. "Issues with personnel happen fast and you just have to accept that fact."
The Seaside Restaurant is also an issue for Jones.
"The board closed the place and turned around and opened it up for breakfast and lunch," Jones said. "This is one of the first things the board wants me to do is get in there and run the numbers and see where we are with the restaurant."
Before leaving PIA in October, Jones hired a manager for the restaurant, Jason Wilson, to run the business.
"I knew we needed a manager in there that had experience managing people," Jones stated. "He has been very effective getting in there and looking at the manpower, prices and menu and he has revamped the whole thing and is doing a great job."
Jones also explained that if the restaurant is not making money the board is looking a several options and waiting for his assessment of the business.
"I hate to give up on the place because we have some outstanding people working there," Jones said. "It's hard to do that when they have been promised jobs and it doesn't work out, but if the community isn't supporting the program then we can't keep it going."
Jones also stated that he is happy to be back at PIA.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Shortly after 11 a.m., Ryan Howard emerged from a side door at Bright House Field and stared at empty dirt.
"Where'd everybody go?" he asked.
Howard missed Tuesday's informal infield drills by about 10 minutes. Had he received the memo, he could have been standing on the same infield at the same time as Chase Utley.
In recent springs, that has not happened often.
Howard missed all of last spring following Achilles surgery and complications thereafter. Utley has not played in a Grapefruit League game since 2010 because of his chronically injured knees. But both infielders appear healthy at the start of camp this spring.
Utley spryly moved during groundball drills Tuesday. He may have been more active than at any point last spring. The Phillies monitored him closer than ever this winter. The second baseman, on the advice of his doctors and trainers, made the decision to stay busy on his knees. The downtime in recent winters apparently made it more difficult to ramp up in preparation for the season.
Howard looked in better shape than last spring, which was to be expected. After Achilles surgery in October 2011, he was restrained to a couch for two months and conditioning was a challenge.
Shortly after Howard disappeared, Jimmy Rollins completed some work on the same field. The three infielders are here well in advance of Friday's mandatory report date for position players.
The real tests, of course, are beyond taking grounders on a half field in February.
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Scientific name: Postia fragilis (Fr.) Julich
Derivation of name: Postia means ???; fragilis
means "brittle, fragile, easily broken"
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Synonymy: Polyporus fragilis Fr.; Tyromyces fragilis
(Fr.) Donk; Oligoporus fragilis (Fr.) Gilbn. & Ryvarden
Common names: Brown-staining cheese polypore;
Staining cheese polypore.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; solitary or
overlapping clusters or in laterally fused rows on decaying
conifer wood; September through November.
Dimensions: Caps 1-10 cm wide.
Upper surface: White to yellowish to orange-brown,
staining reddish-brown when bruised; finely hairy to
Pore surface: White, staining yellowish, then reddish-
brown where bruised; pores 2-4 per mm..
Edibility: Inedible.
Comments: Specimens are soft when fresh and much
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Figure 1. Postia fragilis on wood. The fruitbodies
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Figure 2. Specimens on a log.
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Figure 3. A closer look at some of the specimens in Figure 2.
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Figure 4. These are the same specimens as in Figure 3 but
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President Barack Obama landed in Japan Wednesday night to start a week-long Asia visit aimed at reassuring allies who share the region with an increasingly assertive China that the U.S. is here to stay.
Obama, who is making the first state visit to Japan by a U.S. president since former president Bill Clinton, arrived at Haneda International Airport shortly before 7 p.m. local time and 90 minutes later was at one of the city's top sushi restaurants, Sukiyabashi Jiro, for a 90-minute dinner with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
"That's some good sushi right there," Obama said as he emerged from the basement restaurant along with U.S. Ambassador Japan Caroline Kennedy and National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
The Ginza restaurant's sushi master, Jiro Ono, who turns 90 next year, was profiled in the 2011 documentary, "Jiro Dreams of Sushi." Obama, tie less, as was Abe, arrived at the restaurant along with Rice and Kennedy, whom the Yomiuri Shimbun says lobbied Obama to attend the private dinner with Abe ahead of his more formal talks with him Thursday.
Reservations at the restaurant are among the hardest in the world to score, the New Yorker noted in a review of the documentary. Meals -- about 20 pieces of sushi -- run about 30,000 yen, or about $300 per person.
More formal talks with Abe will resume on Thursday, along with a dinner at the Imperial Palace with Emperor Akihito.
Even before he landed, Obama was looking to reassure anxious allies, telling a Japanese newspaper on the eve of his arrival that a string of small islands in the East China Sea that are subject to a bitter Chinese-Japanese dispute fall within the scope of a U.S.-Japan security treaty.
China rattled nerves in the region last November when it expanded its airspace to claim control of the air zone over the contested waters between itself and Japan.
U.S. policy "is clear," that the tiny, uninhabited islands at the center of a long dispute are administered by Japan and "therefore fall within the scope of Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security," Obama said in written remarks to The Yomiuri Shimbun.
The Chinese government took offense at Obama's remarks, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang saying the United States "should respect the facts, in a responsible manner abide by its commitment not to choose sides over a territorial sovereignty issue, be cautious on words and deeds and earnestly play a constructive role for peace and stability in the region."
But Chinese state media also reported that numerous countries, including China and the U.S., have agreed to a code of conduct to reduce conflict and encourage communication over any encounters in the East and South China Seas.
Obama's statement is longtime U.S. policy -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel conveyed a similar message last November in a call with Japanese military officials -- but Obama's remarks made the front page, perhaps underscoring the level of worry about U.S. commitment more than two years after the administration said it would focus on rebalancing U.S. attention to Asia.
International conflagrations elsewhere and domestic concerns have distracted the administration, leading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week to call the administration's rebalancing effort toward Asia "uneven."
Obama isn't visiting China on the trip, but the country will loom large, with the U.S. looking to assure Japan and its other allies that the U.S.'s relationship with China won't affect its relationship with other Asian countries. China's assertion of a "great power" relationship with the U.S. has other countries worried that the two will create a relationship that excludes the others.
"We welcome the continuing rise of a China that is stable, prosperous and peaceful and plays a responsible role in global affairs," Obama told the newspaper, adding, "our engagement with China does not and will not come at the expense of Japan or any other ally."
Obama is under pressure to show some progress on the administration's long-delayed trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Obama made a case for it, noting it would help Abe with his efforts to overhaul Japan's economy.
The pact, he said, "will help support jobs and growth in all our countries and give an added boost to America and Japan's economic revitalization."
The Japanese press and several politicians were miffed by the fact that first lady Michelle Obama isn't accompanying the president on the trip – a slight magnified by her trip last month to rival China with her daughters and her mother.
But her absence is unlikely to be a factor if Obama "does a good job framing the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance," said Michael Green, senior vice president for Asia and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Obama wasn't asked, and didn't mention Abe's decision earlier this week to send a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals from World War II. Critics see it as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
The administration is grappling with how to respond to Abe's revisionist tendencies which have inflamed tensions with Japan's neighbors, including China and South Korea.
Abe, a right-wing nationalist and former prime minister, returned to office in late 2012 and in December became the first Japanese prime minister since 2006 to visit the Yasukuni Shrine.
Japan's internal affairs minister and about 150 members of the Diet visited the shrine this week ahead of Obama's visit. Abe sent a ritual offering – a half measure viewed by his critics as an attempt to assuage domestic conservatives in Japan without further inflaming the Obama administration, which criticized Abe's December visit. (Pop singer Justin Bieber touched off his own shrine visit controversy when he posted a photo of his visit to the shrine.)
Abe's actions have further soured Japan's relations with China and South Korea, complicating efforts to present a united front to counter Chinese and North Korean aggression.
Obama isn't likely to bring up the issue in public, said Douglas Paal, vice president for studies and director of the Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
"It's best done in private, it's hard to do in public without stepping all over yourself," Paal said.
Obama last month brokered a meeting between himself, Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye – who met for the first time since they both took office.
That came after Abe in January said he'd drop plans to review a 1993 Japanese government statement that expressed remorse for the suffering of mostly South Korean "comfort women" who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.
Stuart Leavenworth contributed to this report.


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Batting scrap at least 10 X 10 inches
Choose 9 strips from your honey bun. Cross cut each strip 9 1/2 inches. Your strips will be 1 1/2 inches X 9 1/2 inches.
Arrange them and sew the 9 1/2 inch sides together. Square up the 'new' fabric piece as shown.
Layer the lining wrong side up (I used muslin), batting and the stripped fabric right side up.
Using a walking foot to quilt in the ditch of each strip, then zig zag the entire edge.
Stitch close to the zipper thread. Yes I used my walking foot instead of a zipper foot…use what you are comfortable with. I also used an 'invisible' zipper but any style of zipper will do.
Repeat the same steps for the other side of the zipper, resulting in a tube.
Turn the tube inside out and match up and pin the sides.
Once the sides are sewn, pinch open the bottom corner and form a triangle. It measures about an inch from the point. Sew across the triangle, zig zag and trim or serger.
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June 18. 2013 2:06PM
Londonderry students who haven't had whooping cough vaccine asked to stay home
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
LONDONDERRY - Students who haven't been immunized against pertussis (whooping cough) are being asked to stay home after an outbreak of the communicable disease was confirmed at Londonderry Middle School this week.
On Tuesday, a letter was sent home to parents alerting them that a school staff member tested positive for the illness. The sick teacher was the third person in the school to come down with whooping cough this month, according to Superintendent Nathan Greenberg.
State health officials qualify three or more pertussis cases within a single school as an outbreak, Greenberg noted, and district policy dictates that students who haven't had the pertussis vaccine must be kept home at this time. It's unclear at this time just how many middle school students haven't had vaccinations.
Londonderry's last day of school is this Friday, so this means that for some students, the school year is already over.
Officials said more pertussis cases are likely to present themselves in the coming weeks, since the disease is highly contagious and it often takes up to two weeks after exposure for symptoms to present.
The bacterial infection is transported from person to person when a patient's coughing and sneezing expels infected droplets into the air. Though deaths from pertussis are rare, the disease is particularly dangerous for the very old, the very young, and those with chronic illnesses.
Officials from the state health department have warned that the illness remains contagious for three weeks after the onset of severe coughing, though antibiotic treatment can reduce symptom severity.
Whooping cough initially appears similar to the common cold, with patients having a runny nose and a low-grade fever. After one or two weeks, severe coughing spells that can make it difficult for the patient to breathe begin to set in.
Many with the illness suffer such symptoms for up to six weeks, Greenberg said, and not all patients exhibit the telltale "whooping" sound when they cough.
The state Bureau of Communicable Disease Control recommends that children suffering from cough symptoms for more than a week or two seek medical treatment and those with confirmed cases should remain out of school until they've completed a full course of antibiotics.
If antibiotics aren't taken, the patient should be kept home for 21 days after the start of severe coughing.


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Science & Engineering Expo on National Mall: Michigan Tech NSF Program Answers Burning Questions About Volcanoes
By Jillian Schwab | Published
How can you tell if a volcano is about to blow? What tools do you use to monitor a volcano? What's so important about volcanoes, anyway? The world—including thousands of school-age youngsters—will get hands-on answers from Michigan Technological University at the first annual USA Science and Engineering Festival, Oct. 23-24 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Michigan Tech's volcano exhibit is in Freedom Plaza (Section PA-13, Booth #1317). Graduate students Luke Bowman, Kyle Brill and Anieri Morales Rivera will demonstrate equipment and techniques used by field researchers to monitor volcanic activity. By doing this monitoring, volcanologists can learn more about volcanic processes and identify potential precursors to eruptions.
The team hopes their exhibit will get people interested in geology. "Geology is a science full of wonders, excitement and lots of things to discover," says Morales Rivera, "from understanding natural processes that may become a hazard to humans, such as volcanoes, to improving our knowledge of Earth and planetary sciences." People are "exposed to geology in a daily basis," she points out, "from the use of mineral resources to the location of petroleum and water supplies."
To help illustrate what they look for when monitoring volcanoes, the Tech team is bringing an accelerometer and a Forward-Looking Infrared, or FLIR, camera. To demonstrate the accelerometer, which measures seismic activity, guests will be invited to jump on the ground, creating earthquake-like vibrations that the accelerometer will pick up and display as a seismogram.
The graduate students will also show visitors pictures of themselves taken with the FLIR camera, which measures an object's radiant energy, translates it into temperature, and displays an image using light intensity or color brightness to show levels of heat.
"Scientists can't predict eruptions," says Morales Rivera, "but we can talk about the probability of one based on changes in the volcano's behavior, such as increased seismicity, changes in gas concentrations coming out of the volcano, and deformation of the volcano itself."
The exhibit will also explain the kinds of hazards posed by a volcanic eruption, from ash clouds that can block sunlight and interfere with airline flights, to lava flows that can burn everything in their path.
Michigan Tech's Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences is one of only 15 National Science Foundation-funded projects invited to participate nationwide. Tech's project is part of the NSF's Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) program. Tech operates PIRE programs in Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Peru.
"The NSF Office for International Science and Education, which manages the PIRE program, was very excited about our selection," says John Gierke. "We were the only PIRE project that was selected."
The Science & Engineering Expo is the grand finale of a two-week festival promoting public interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Michigan Tech was invited to bring two interactive exhibits to the Expo, where activities for all ages hosted by more than 350 of the nation's leading science and engineering organizations will expose attendees to a broad spectrum of science. All events are free and open to the public, and hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to attend.
Does the Tech team feel intimidated? Of course not, says Bowman. "We hike active volcanoes; we can handle the Mall."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Scarlett Johansson has put her split from Ryan Reynolds down to the couple's busy schedules, and insists she "wasn't prepared to do the work" a marriage requires.
The Lost In Translation star called off her relationship with Reynolds at the end of 2010 and their divorce became final in July.
Johansson now reveals she was unaware how difficult it would be to sustain their union, and admits her hectic career took its toll on the romance.
She tells Cosmopolitan, "Relationships are complicated and being married is a living, breathing process. I think I was not fully aware of the peaks and valleys. I wasn't prepared to hunker down and do the work… Both of us were extremely busy. We spent so much time apart."
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She adds, "I'm a big believer that when something feels right, you should do it. I'm a big believer in instinct. Getting married was the right thing to do because it was natural. It grew out of a romance and love and a desire to have a future with somebody and I was very fortunate that I married somebody who turned out to be the person I thought he would be."


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Born in Paris to a Tunisian mother and a German father, Fred was raised by a nanny from Benin and the only boy among five girls. Thanks to his parents, at the age of 16 he has already traveled across 5 different continents, opening his mind to different cultures. After a Masters degree in Management, he discovered the concepts of Sustainable Development and microfinance. Having finished his MBA in Sustainable Development, he worked for 6 months at a legal office besides taking courses at the legal school to finally obtain a Master in private law. Afterwards, he worked for 2 years at an insurance company as a Project Manager working on the group strategy towards Sustainable Development. Unfortunately, he still felt a void in his work life, lacking fulfillment and sense of purpose. Then, he discovered the Kiva Fellows program of Kiva: travelling abroad, encountering people, trusting people, giving meaning to his work. Now, he is both thrilled and frightened to live this whole new experience as a Fellow for CAURIE in Senegal.


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WASHINGTON — Representative Don Young, the gruff Republican veteran who represents the entire state of Alaska, apologized Friday for referring to Hispanic migrant workers as "wetbacks" in a radio interview.
"I apologize for the insensitive term I used during an interview," Young said in a statement after lawmakers from both political parties called on him to apologize.
"There was no malice in my heart or intent to offend; it was a poor choice of words," Young, 79, said. "That word, and the negative attitudes that come with it, should be left in the 20th century, and I'm sorry that this has shifted our focus away from comprehensive immigration reform."
The second-most senior Republican in the House, Young issued a statement Thursday seeking to explain his remark after using the derogatory term to describe the workers on his father's farm in Central California, where he grew up.
Young, discussing the labor market with radio station KRBD in Ketchikan, Alaska, said that on his father's ranch, "we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes." He said, "It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It's all done by machine."
"Wetbacks" often refers to Mexican migrants who have entered the country illegally, and Hispanics consider the word, which can be used to disparage all Hispanics, to be highly pejorative.
Young's explanation on Thursday was not good enough for lawmakers from either political party. His use of the word drew swift criticism from fellow Republicans working to temper the party's hardline positions on illegal immigrants and to improve GOP standing among Hispanic voters.
House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, called the remarks "offensive and beneath the dignity of the office he holds." Boehner said he did not care why Young said it; "there's no excuse, and it warrants an immediate apology."
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the party offers a ''beacon of hope'' for those seeking liberty around the world and that Young's remarks "emphatically do not represent the beliefs of the Republican Party."
"Shame on Don Young," said Ruben Hinojosa, a Texas Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "It is deeply disheartening that in 2013 we are forced to have a discussion about a member of Congress using such hateful words and racial slurs."
Arturo Carmona, executive director of Presente.org, an online Latino advocacy organization, said Young should resign.
As resources committee chairman in the late 1990s, he took on environmentalists and the Bill Clinton administration in pushing for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and logging in Alaska national forests. He headed the transportation committee during much of the George W. Bush administration, during which he defied his party's antitax positions by supporting an increase in the federal gas tax to help pay for bridge and highway construction.
It was under Young's chairmanship that the "bridge to nowhere," which was actually two proposed Alaska construction projects, became a symbol for questionable special projects inserted into spending bills.
He also is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which is looking into whether he failed to report gifts on his annual disclosure forms, misused campaign funds, and lied to federal officials.
— Associated Press
Associated Press
Ambitious plan to improve US infrastructure is pushed
MIAMI — President Obama promoted his plans Friday to rebuild the nation's "raggedy" roads, bridges, schools, and other infrastructure with a marriage of public and private investment.
At the end of a week absorbed by social issues like gun control and gay rights, the president returned to the economic challenges he has called his top priorities with proposals to generate money for construction projects.
"What are we waiting for?" Obama asked, surrounded by massive cranes and cargo containers at Miami's congested ocean port. "There's work to be done. There are workers who are ready to do it. Let's prove to the world that there's no better place to do business than right here in the United States of America, and let's get started rebuilding America."
Expanding on ideas from his first term and this year's State of the Union address, Obama proposed tax breaks and loans to stimulate private investment. Among other things, new ''America Fast Forward Bonds'' would help state and local governments borrow money for projects, while foreign pension and retirement funds would have a tax penalty eliminated so they could invest in infrastructure in the United States on a similar basis as American funds. Grant programs that were part of the stimulus program would be expanded by $4 billion.
Obama also promoted an infrastructure bank that would use $10 billion in public money to leverage private investment, a concept he has been pushing without success since 2011.
Republicans responded by saying they also wanted to upgrade roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, but only if it could be paid for. Speaker John A. Boehner's office distributed comments he made last month after Obama's State of the Union address.
"It's easy to go out there and be Santa Claus and talk about all the things you want to give away," Boehner said. "But at some point, somebody has to pay the bill."
— New York Times
New York Times


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Richard Montoya keeps a mental library of depictions of L.A. gleaned from "Chinatown," "Repo Man," "Mulholland Drive," the novels of James Ellroy, and other pop-culture texts.
So when he began adapting his neo-noir stage drama "Water & Power" for the screen in 2007, as a Sundance Institute film fellow, it was natural for Montoya to seek advice from Walter Mosley, author of Angeleno classics such as "Devil In a Blue Dress," and one of Montoya's literary idols.
Montoya quickly learned that he had a lot to learn about filmmaking.
"It was complete tough love," recalls Montoya, an actor, playwright and member of the Chicano comedy-theater ensemble Culture Clash. "He [Mosley] throws my script on the table, and he says, 'This is still a play, it's not a film yet."
Was he right? "Absolutely," Montoya says.
Six years and $600,000 later, "Water & Power" is being screened Saturday and Sunday as part of the revived L.A. Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF). The movie was adapted and directed by Montoya from the Culture Clash stage play that premiered in 2006 at the Mark Taper Forum.
"I know for a fact there are people that saw the play three times, four times," says Marlene Dermer, LALIFF's executive director and co-founder. Montoya, she adds, "is a multi-faceted artist" whom "more people need to know."
The film doesn't yet have a distributor. What it does have is a lyrically two-fisted, tragi-comic vision of Los Angeles centered on the city's Latino-centric Eastside, a region that movies largely ignore with rare exceptions such as "Zoot Suit," "Stand and Deliver" and "American Me."
"I often think that its grandfather is 'Zoot Suit,' its father is 'American Me,' and this is the son," Montoya says of his feature directing debut. "There's a lineage there that I can only hope for."
If those earlier movies were, albeit in very different ways, about L.A. Latinos aspiring to equality and opportunity, "Water & Power" is about what happens once that influence is actually acquired. The play was first produced soon after L.A. had voted in its first Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, in a century. Sometime this year, according to U.S. Census estimates, Latinos will become the city's dominant ethno-cultural group.
"The film hopes to be a kind of a cautionary tale with how we're going to proceed in this city and how are we going to deal with each other," Montoya says.
The movie tells the story of the Garcia twins, nicknamed Water and Power by their father, a DWP laborer who coaches his sons to fulfill their worldly ambitions but keep faith with their Eastside origins. Gilbert, a.k.a. Water (played in the film by Enrique Murciano), grows up to be a state senator who stakes his integrity on pushing a green-space bill for the congested Eastside. Gabriel (Nicholas Gonzalez) grows up to be a cop struggling to reconcile his personal and professional obligations with society's situational ethics.
Shot in 12 nights in September 2012, the movie takes place in the course of one moody, rain-swept evening that transports viewers to a motel room, a police station, a strip club and other bluesy haunts. By the time dawn breaks, sibling loyalty and civic idealism have collided with harsher realities: greed, racism, corruption, violence and — the most self-immolating force of all — noble intentions.
Aficionados of L.A. theater will spot many familiar faces among the cast including, in a fleeting role, the late Lupe Ontiveros in her final screen performance. Clancy Brown plays the smoothly menacing powerbroker called the Fixer. Roger Guenveur Smith is a cop who in one scene confronts the movie's burly Chicano homeboy narrator, Norte/Sur, portrayed by Emilio Rivera, whose television roles include Marcus Álvarez in the FX drama "Sons of Anarchy."
Rivera, who portrayed a different character in the stage version of "Water & Power," said that as the film shoot progressed, he watched it transform from a creature of the stage to a creature of the screen.
"When I first saw the first cut, it looked like they put together a play," Rivera said during a recent interview at the Eastside Luv bar. A key challenge in making the conversion from play to film, Rivera said, was to "bring it down and make it real."
Smith, who directed one of Culture Clash's earliest shows, "Radio Mambo," said he thought it would be crucial for the film "Water & Power" to preserve the "psychic claustrophobia" of the stage play.
"If anything, it's been enhanced," Smith says, "because those intimate moments are something that really takes the audience imaginatively, and work in ways in which a stage play could never work."
Regardless of how the movie fares with critics and audiences, it may already have captured an important moment in L.A.'s historical and cinematic evolution. At a screening, Howard Rodman, a USC professor and an artistic director of the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab, said that with "Water & Power," Montoya had "turned the camera around 180 degrees" on L.A. and its long arc of filmic representation.
"He challenged us to imagine that Los Angeles is a Hispanic city," Rodman said. "He challenged us to see what is in front of our eyes that we never see."


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|2007-09-27, 08:18
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✖ ǝʇ ɯıqnɾl ☆
Join Date: Feb 2006
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[MANGA] Espadas' Ranking
We all know Nell was ranked 3 rd once upon a time but was that ranking system same as Privaron as in former Espada as Dol Cirucci or something different.
Dol is ranked 103 was that in relationship with his former ranking … If we go by creation and numbering theory the Privaron Espada were not created by Hogyoku so numbering according to time of creation is void ..
Nnoitora who is current number 5 defeated Nell the former Espada of rank 3 so what must have been his rank then. He also mentions it happened years ago, as in Nell ranking three was defeated. Therefore, what systems of Espada are they talking about as Privarion were there for a transitional phase a few months at the maximum? Going by the theory Aizen constituted / created Espada the ten swords
This few years raises quite a few questions were the Espada in existence before Aizen took over HM ? I hope this few years is a mistranslation so the confusion is cleared
|2007-09-27, 08:45
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commands you to...!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Yea it's abit messed up. If Nel's a privaron espada, noitora shouldn't have existed then, because he's a current batch hougyouku espada. And it's obvious Aizen didn't take over HM 3 years ago. If Nel was a hougyouku espada, it makes no sense that she existed 3 years ago.
My own theory is that Nel is a privaron and so is Noitora. And somehow, because of his sheer strength, he is able to make it into the current ranking espada, despite being a previous batch espada. That is also why he has all that pride in himself being the top espada. Well, my own 2 cents.
|2007-09-27, 10:00
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The Ironman
Join Date: Sep 2006
I agree it's confusing and quite possibly a plot hole. If the current Espada were turned into arrancar with the hogyoku, then they shouldn't have existed for more than a few months. I guess it's possible that a few of the pre-hogyoku ones were strong enough to make the cut but they should be in the lower ranks.
|2007-09-27, 11:46
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I'm blind not dead
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Rabona
I believe that the tattoo thing is a bit recent. We didn't see the privaron like Dordoni, Cirucci and Gantenbein having a tattoo.
So, maybe, Nell is a more recent espada in comparison to the privaron, which have a different numeration system.
And the whole "years before" thing is a lot confusing. Aizen gained the Hougyoku a few months ago, and there are lots of hints that it's been years since Aizen started to create his army in Las Noches.
The only way I can see an explanation about these two things is that Hueco Mundo could possibly have a different timeline.
One day in the Earth could be a week or more in Hueco Mundo. The same kind of rule should apply to Soul Society either.
And if the answer is not that, maybe Aizen was already creating Arrancars when he still was a captain in Soul Society.
We know that he did lots of experiences trying to hibridizate Hollows. The ones we heard could be only the failed ones.
Following that, at that time he could already have an espada generation, not composed by perfect arrancars, but powerful ones who already were the elite at that time.
And after he returned to Hueco Mundo with the Hougyoku, he started to create even more powerful and perfect hybrids, substituting the former ones and making the current espada that we know now.
|2007-09-28, 06:33
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Affably Evil
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hammerspace or Australia, I forget which
I don't think Nell is a Privaron Espada at all, as she is not part of Aizen's army, i.e. she is rank-less. She was kicked out of La Noches by Nnoitra, while loosing her memory from the trauma and thus her tattoo was never removed.
Also, I think she was part of the same batch of natural arrancar as Dordonii and co. or maybe the first generation of arrancar made with the Ultra-Skittle/Steve/Glorified Magic 8-ball/Hougyoku.
|2008-10-29, 04:34
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First generations occurred naturally. Second are created by Aizen.
I think she was made by Aizen but not with Hougyoku. He said that he had experiments but was looking for the means to create the perfect hybrid.
My guess is...he made her that way. Or Time flows different in HM than anywhere else and she is the 3 that replaced 103, got kicked out by Noi. Aizen probably figured if that could happen...She is useless (You know he just discards useless chicks) So he make a new number 3 which is probably Halibel or Barrigan
|2008-10-29, 04:45
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Ha ha ha ha ha...
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Right behind you.
Age: 29
Him, interesting, but I think you're overthinking it a bit. I figure Aizen took over La Noches leaving *most* of the command infrastructure intact. If Nnoitra was strong enough to make it into the Espada, it could be that he worked his way back up, or was a significantly low enough rank that he was passed over during the initial purge, or something like that.
And the only reason he beat Nel was because he got the drop on her from behind in a sneaky ambush after nearly killing her fraccion. He bashed her on the head while she was distracted by her injured fraccion.
|2008-10-29, 05:40
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Only likely explanation I can think of is that Aizen took over Las Noches long before he obtained the hougyoku and there are at least three generations of espada: gen 1 - Privaron - the arrancar Aizen found already in HM when he took over, gen 2 - Nel & Nnoi etc - arrancar upgraded with Aizen's experiments, gen 3 - current espada - Arrancar upgraded with Hougyoku, gen 4(?) - wonderweiss - arrancar created with hougyoku.
There may have been alot of in-fighting between espada like Nnoitra and Nel and many rose in ranks while others died.
Otherwise the espada must have existed and served the hollow king before Aizen took over, but iirc it was mentioned that Aizen formed the espada so this is impossible.
Another possibility is that Kubo just messed up his timeline and we're trying to fix it for him.
|2008-10-29, 07:13
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Sinear Mambur
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Look behind you...
Praviron aren't Natural Espada, Praviron are any ex-Espada who got his/her seat taken. Grimmjow (who is Hougyoku 'created') was a Praviron when Luppi took his place.
I think I rememberd Noi to be Ranked 8 when he and whats-his-name ambushed Nel. He moved up either by getting stronger or ranks 6 and 7 got dumped and there was no-one stronger to replace him.
I think Aizen had already set the Espada up when he was a Captain/during his 'death'. Back then, he was collecting the top ten Natural Arrancar, and when he stumbled upon another who's stronger than, say, 8, but weaker than 7, said Arrancar would become the new 8 and the previous one will be pushed to 9, 9 to 10, and 10 would become a Praviron. When he got the Hougyoku, the new Arrancar entered the ranks the same way, pushing weaker ones down making another into a Praviron in the process, provided all 10 slots are full.
So Nel would probably a Natural Arrancar Espada, who while in her prime got ambushed by Noi and Syazel (oh yea...) and dropped off the list. Because there was a space, everyone below 3 moved up one, and I guess Noi had to work for the remaining ranks. That might mean Szayel was the most powerful Numero at that time and got the rank of 10 when Nel was defeated. He then worked his way up to 8. Makes sense, both him and Noi moved up 2 ranks since then.
|2008-10-29, 10:04
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Of course I over think it...we all do! (It's called OTAKU) it's why the thread exists...
See Neuro just said the same thing I did but differently...
@Kon...their spots got taken because they occurred natural and weren't suped up. Espada, Fraccion /Numeros are like "Pimp my Arrancar"
First Gen are Privarion with the Exception of the squid with Nejibana...#9 They occurred naturally so Aizen-sama doesn't consider them that great
Tres Cifas thus they are called. Privarion is the name for the class. 3 digit numbers means they are OLD NEWS TO AIZEN!
Nel has 1
1-10 order of power...Termed Arrancar. Former Class...Menos. Called Espada. For the top-u
11-99. Numeros, Class... All Hollows. Ordered by birth so they can be forced in to subservience by top-u hence called Fraccion
100_up. Privarion . Former Menos who became Arrancar Naturally. Been replaced by topu thus given a 3digit # Thus called Tres Cifa's.
Read chapter again...or if you ask. Later when I have time I will get the page for you!
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|2008-10-29, 13:03
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Senior Member
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We know D-roy who was the weakest under him seemed to have been an Anacarr durring MiTR durring the part that was cut from the anime showing Iceringer makeing GF an Anacarr (ch25 page 18-19) had what looks like D-roy looking down on them Although it looks as if his bottom half was still sandwormish. So my thoughts are that like GF Grim and his Group were upgrades.
|2008-10-29, 21:39
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Sinear Mambur
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Look behind you...
When someone joins Aizen's army as an Arrancar, they start off as a Numero. If he/she is strong enough, then he/she would be promoted to an Espada. If another Arrancar is stronger than above mentioned Espada, said Arrancar would be promoted to Espada and placed according to his/her power. If the Espada is full when said Arrancar is promoted, the weakest (10) would have to be kicked off and he/she thus becomes a Praviron. Yes, everyone starts as a Numero, but those powerful enough are immediately promoted. (Not explicitly mentioned but it makes sense, right? or should i not try to apply logic to bleach?)
|2008-10-30, 00:31
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Location: Currently stalking, Evil Rick, Larthak, Malin, Kholdstare, lv23, as always Endrance.anafewothrs
A necessary evil....
Privarion are first Generation Arrancar. There is no indication that they all were ex-Espada.
The Tres Cifas. Reason there are two different names and they are called that. It's a class system...
That is why they have a Three digit number that used to be two. They are also ALL MENOS (Of different classes. i.e. Gillian, Adjuchas, VL)<--...Maybe.
The only exception who was not a Tres Cifas nor a Menos. was Aaroniero Arruruerie, Espada #9. Who was hollow that had a unique ability to absorb the abilities of whomever he consumed and use them too.. He ate the Hollow that fused with Shiba Kaien. He was able to use Kaien's power because he had his memories (from the Hollow's Memory & Appearance because of self esteem issues. *can you blame him?!*)
He was the last of his Generation. Privarion. Not Tres Cifas who are the Ex-Espada.
Beside ex means he's fired or retired. Which he clearly was not! Which means Privarion DOES NOT=ALL Ex-Espada...
Which brings me to another point. When making that statement It's possible that Nel's life could not have been known about. But then that rules out Noi being from that Generation too! Since last means "There isn't another anywhere"
So I don't believe either of them are former Privarion that Aizen didn't create.
I think Aizen's "Pimp My Arrancar" team worked on them. But they didn't get "Hydraulics" because they didn't have the Hougyoku. I do believe they were created by" Artificial Means" just not with the Hougyoku. I believe that while Nel was out of town. Aizen decided to PUT some NEW"Rims"(20 inch!) on Noi .Looks like he also decided to redo the body since he had the Hougyoku and could afford to put a "New Engine" in that bitch! That's why he looks the different now. His weapon changed...
So Noi is spinning on "20's" *Plays Steady Mobbin* Get in bitch!...
Nel is like the equivalent of having "Fake Spinners and 16's" (Fuckers couldn't even afford 18 inches without the Hougyoku)
You feel me?
The question is when the hell did he do it all?!
Aizen made some Arrancar. 1-99 (100 Used to be TEN when he was an Espada)
The strongest of all those he created were taken and numbered by order of Strength. Just so happens all of these except one (#9) were ALL Menos.
They are Espada. (Top of the food chain)
Fraccion.(Middle of food chain)
Because Espada are the strongest they have the right to pick any Numeros they want and make them servants. They can have one or 20. Their choice. Most seem to pick their homies not necessarily the strongest ones.
Which is why I say some are just under Espada Level. You can't tell since they are bound because they roll from the same hood. Not because they are as strong as their masters.
Numeros ( last in the food chain)
11-up Are not numbered by Strength but the order they were born. Thus are called Numeros. Because they have a number but it doesn't really say how strong they are....
Numerous can include all classes of Hollows but only the one that the Espada chose are Fraccion. Some can actually be Menos that didn't make "Team Espada"
Vega could be one of em...
That is how Arrancar Power Level work. The key is figuring out who belongs to what class
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|2008-10-30, 00:33
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Optimus Prime
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Japan/Canada
Age: 33
Okay, from the manga I got the impression that the espada were around BEFORE Aizen took over HM. Aizen only took over HM recently, hence why there is still some obvious and some subtle resistance to his authority. It would seem from what's been said thus far, that Aizen's Hyogoku only made the pre-existing espada stronger and facilitated the quick creation of new espada.
So in relation to Nel, what you have is
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|2008-10-30, 00:52
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Arrancar (Broken Mask) seem to have been around but Aizen probably labeled them and sorted them into groups. He could have even coined the term Esapada. Don was replaced by Aizen which means he served Aizen...
"Aizen-sama no longer needs us"
As for Noi vs Nel. Noi's dumb ass thinks that he's hot shit because he's a souped 2020 Ford SUV with 20 inch rims I might add. (That's spinning!)
He doesn't realize Nel the 96 Toyota Corolla with the Fake Spinners and 16's. Will still outrun his ass. And last damn near forever no matter how you injure the body. All you do is give it a tune-up (In this case emotional distress. Itsygo!)
That's why she was kicking his ass. It's only my opinion
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