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Staying with Windows NT might have made sense to the administrators of small shops and single domains: Although NT Server isn't as sexy as Windows 2000 Server, when correctly installed and configured, NT Server is stable and reliable. Also, requirements to meet and concepts to learn clutter the Win2K migration path. However, DNS and Active Directory (AD) offer great benefits, and Microsoft has made the upgrade process as simple as possible. Now is the time for single-domain administrators to migrate their NT infrastructure completely to Win2K—DNS, AD, and all.
Putting Pencil to Paper
After you brush up on the concepts behind AD and DNS, you'll be ready to make a few decisions about your migration. For information about AD and DNS, see Mark Minasi, "DNS and Active Directory," page 39 and "Related Articles in Previous Issues," page 46. Because planning results in a smoother migration, I don't recommend making migration decisions on the fly.
First, you need to choose a name for your top-level Win2K domain. Rather than choose company.com and confuse your company's private and public domain names, choose a name of the form company.internal. DNS servers use both the machine name and the domain name to reference a machine in an AD network. Because your domain name will be a part of every host name in your network, I recommend keeping the name short and applicable. You probably don't want chicago.il.company.internal to be the domain name attached to every host name in your network—especially if your organization opens an office in a city other than Chicago.
You also need to plan around any existing DNS infrastructure your NT network might have. Most NT networks that have DNS infrastructures use DNS for only client-side Internet communications. Your NT network's client workstations are likely configured one of two ways for Internet DNS resolution: Workstations send requests to either your ISP's DNS servers or a DNS host server in your NT network.
Workstations configured to use your ISP's DNS servers send all DNS name resolution requests to those servers. This configuration is acceptable for NT networks, whose only DNS resolution requests are for external DNS names. But after you migrate to AD and adopt internal DNS host names, you don't want your Win2K network's workstations sending their internal DNS name resolution requests to your ISP's DNS servers. Those servers most likely would not know a system named www.company.internal.
Workstations in an NT network with an internal DNS host server send all DNS requests to that server. If you want to use this DNS server in your AD network, the server needs to support service resource records (SRV RRs). NT's DNS service won't cut it.
Both of the above DNS infrastructures require you to install Win2K's DNS service when you upgrade. You have two options for installing DNS on your network: building a standalone DNS server before migration or letting the DC promotion program, Dcpromo, install DNS on the first domain controller (DC) you migrate to Win2K. Using Dcpromo is the path of least resistance and the approach I recommend.
Upgrading your PDC
Of course, you'll back up your PDC, DCs, and member servers before you begin the migration. You'll also need to verify that each system you intend to upgrade meets (or preferably, exceeds) Win2K Server's minimum hardware specifications. Migrate your NT domain's PDC first.
To begin the upgrade, insert the Win2K Server CD-ROM into your PDC, then choose the Upgrade option or run winnt32.exe from the CD-ROM's \i386 directory. Both approaches launch a Win2K Server upgrade and leave the server's settings in place. Win2K Server installation takes time, so get a cup of coffee and check your voicemail while you wait. The installation process eventually logs on as Administrator and starts Dcpromo.
Dcpromo is one of Win2K's most significant advantages over NT. Not only can you use Dcpromo for your Win2K upgrade, you can also use it to remove the DC function from or add it to a server without reinstalling Win2K Server from scratch. The program's straightforward Active Directory Installation Wizard asks several questions, but the two most crucial are Do you want to create a new domain tree or a new child domain in an existing domain tree? and Do you want to create a new forest or join an existing forest?
For a single-domain migration, the answer to the first question, which Figure 1 shows, is obviously to Create a new domain tree. The term tree is simply AD parlance for a series of domains that connect to one another through a contiguous DNS namespace—for example, microsoft.com might be Microsoft's top domain in a domain tree that includes the subdomain redmond.microsoft.com. If you worked for a large organization and wanted your Win2K domain to join the domain tree of a preexisting domain structure, you would select Create a new child domain in an existing domain tree, instead.
The second question, which Figure 2 shows, is whether to create a new forest or join an existing forest. A forest, in AD terms, is a collection of domain trees. Let's say, for example, that Microsoft makes its Hotmail division a separate tree with-in the company's existing forest. The forest permits some information-sharing between the domain trees while maintaining each tree (i.e., microsoft.com and hotmail.com) as a top-level domain. Because a single domain doesn't have an existing domain forest to join, single-domain administrators need to select Create a new forest of domain trees.
The wizard prompts you to name your domain, then asks you to specify where you want to store the AD database and log. If your server has two hard disks, I recommend storing the database on one hard disk and the log on the other. However, performance in your single-domain environment is typically better than in large organizations' environments, and putting both files on the system's main hard disk might be acceptable.
The wizard's next screen, which Figure 3 shows, prompts you to specify the system volume (SYSVOL) folder's location. AD DCs automatically replicate the SYSVOL directory and any changes to the files within it. However, don't use SYSVOL to replicate user data (e.g., Microsoft Word documents). Rather, look into Win2K Server's Dfs capabilities. (For information about Dfs, see "Related Articles in Previous Issues.") Also, Win2K doesn't support NT's directory replication service—the logon script replication you might have configured for your NT DCs is useless after you migrate. For information about developing an alternative method for replicating logon scripts on your Win2K Server machines, see "Logon Script Replication," February 2000.
After you supply the wizard with AD database, log, and SYSVOL folder locations, the wizard attempts to contact your DNS servers and determine whether they support features such as dynamic DNS (DDNS). Typically, NT networks won't have a DNS server or their configured DNS servers won't meet AD's requirements (specifically, SRV RR support), and the check will fail.
The wizard will then ask whether you want Dcpromo to install DNS on your system or whether you want to install and configure DNS on your own. Wizard-driven installation is a helpful feature for administrators who are new to DNS: After you've given the wizard the information it needs, Dcpromo installs and configures the DNS server for proper AD support. Although Dcpromo requires you to install DNS on the first server you upgrade (unless your existing DNS configuration meets Win2K's requirements), you can thereafter choose the other—if any—servers on which you'll install DNS.
The wizard also asks whether you want to permit Anonymous access to particular information in the AD database or enforce authentication before users can query the database. Enforcing authentication is the more secure configuration. However, some NT services—RAS, in particular—depend on sending anonymous queries to a DC. Thus, as Figure 4, page 48, shows, you select Permissions compatible with pre-Windows 2000 servers (which permits anonymous queries) or Permissions compatible only with Windows 2000 servers (which enforces user authentication).
If you plan to migrate all your servers in one weekend, you might choose Win2K-only compatibility. However, I prefer to migrate more gradually and upgrade servers one at a time. If you prefer the same approach that I do, you need to permit anonymous queries so that legacy NT services can function properly while you migrate. After you've finished the migration, you can remove the Everyone group from AD's Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group to upgrade security.
Finally, the wizard asks you for a Directory Services recovery password. This password becomes an alternative administrator password. If you lose the Administrator password or someone changes it without your knowledge, you can use the Directory Services recovery password and AD's Directory Services Restore mode or the Recovery Console to log on. Although you can leave the password blank, I recommend providing a value. I like to use the serial number of the server on which I'm installing Win2K. Serial numbers are unique, typically complex, and always available.
Enter a password, and you'll have provided all the information necessary for installing AD. The wizard processes the information and migrates your user and machine accounts to AD. You then can access all your users and computers through the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
BDCs and Member Servers
After you migrate your PDC, that machine will emulate a PDC under Win2K to permit interoperation with the BDCs and member servers you haven't yet migrated to Win2K. When you migrate your remaining servers, begin with the BDCs. To begin the migrations, insert the Win2K Server CD-ROM, then choose Upgrade or run winnt32.exe from the CD-ROM's \i386 directory. Win2K Server installation proceeds as it did for your PDC and eventually logs on as Administrator and starts Dcpromo.
Dcpromo is intelligent. It recognizes whether your server was a BDC or a member server and, as Figure 5 shows, asks whether you want to run the system as a DC or a member server in your Win2K network. If you choose the Leave as a member server option, you exit the wizard immediately—the servers you designate as member servers will inherit their previous domain memberships, so they'll automatically migrate to your AD domain. However, because I recommend having at least two Win2K DCs, I suggest you instead select the Make a domain controller option when you migrate your NT network's first BDC.
The PDC and BDC migration processes are similar. Dcpromo needs to know your DNS server's location and requires a username and password for accessing account data from the first DC you migrated (i.e., your former PDC). Dcpromo then replicates this account data from the first DC you migrated to the server you're currently migrating. Dcpromo's wizard also asks for some of the same information that it needed to migrate your former PDC (e.g., where to store the AD database and SYSVOL directory). When you enter this information, use the same guidelines you used for PDC migration.
Finishing Touches
Before you're finished, you need to consider your network workstations' OSs and their configurations, then make the necessary changes to these workstations. You'll likely need to reconfigure your workstations to send their DNS name resolution requests to your network's new host DNS server. To migrate completely to Win2K, you eventually need to kill WINS and rely solely on your network's DNS server for internal name resolution.
I recommend letting your internal DNS server handle your clients' external name resolution requests as well. If you follow this recommendation, you need to configure your DNS server as a forwarder. A forwarder sends external requests that it can't resolve to your ISP's DNS servers. When the request is for a legitimate host name, your ISP's DNS servers can resolve the request and pass the IP address to your internal DNS server. Your internal DNS server receives the answer and passes it to the client machine that requested the name. When the process works correctly, it's faster and requires less overhead than you might expect. For more information about forwarders, see "DNS and Active Directory."
Native Mode
For downlevel compatibility with NT systems, Win2K installations default to mixed mode. This mode lets Win2K DCs act like NT PDCs: The DC can send PDC-emulating messages out on the network and respond to PDC-targeted requests, such as requests for the domain master browser. However, you ultimately want to switch to native mode. Only in native mode can you take advantage of features such as multimaster replication. This mode switch is the last step in a complete Win2K migration.
You can't undo a move to native mode, so as a test-run, I recommend manually stopping the WINS service for several workdays before you make the switch. If users have name-resolution problems, restart the WINS service and diagnose the problem. Before you switch to native mode, you need to make sure that none of your internal systems depend on NT-style name resolution and that your network functions solely and reliably on DNS name resolution. If your network functions as usual after you stop WINS, you've most likely done everything you need to do to make the permanent switch to native mode.
When you're ready, use any DC's MMC Active Directory Domains and Trusts snap-in to make the switch to native mode. Right-click your domain, and open the Properties page. In the General tab's Domain Mode area, click Change Mode. After you click through a few confirmation dialog boxes, the irrevocable shift from mixed to native mode begins. Your DCs will communicate with one another for a while, then your domain's servers will be 100 percent Win2K.
Reap the Rewards
Of course, a migration demands plenty of additional obligatory tasks, such as cleaning up the user database, group memberships, and share permissions. Overall, however, a single-domain migration to Win2K is fairly painless. And moving all the way to native mode significantly increases your network's stability, reliability, and manageability.
|Related Articles in Previous Issues
You can obtain the following articles from Windows 2000 Magazine's Web site at http://www.win2000mag.com.
"10 Steps to Prepare for Windows 2000," Winter 1999, InstantDoc ID 7470
"Planning for Active Directory," September 2000, InstantDoc ID 9643
"Active Directory in Windows 2000," Winter 1999, InstantDoc ID 7429
Inside Out, "Win2K DNS," March 2001, InstantDoc ID 19697
"A DNS Primer," January 2000, InstantDoc ID 7733
"Migrating Domain Controllers to Windows 2000," February 2000, InstantDoc ID 7873
"Dfs in Windows 2000," Winter 1999, InstantDoc ID 7471


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Healix Health Services have teamed up with Healthcode® (www.healthcode.co.uk) , the UK's largest medical bills clearing house and signed up to use their VEDA ebiller application and electronic secure messaging service.
Secure Messaging will allow the secure and confidential transfer of information between Healix Health Services and the majority of providers we work with across the UK. The service can be utilized for any of the following:
Because secure messaging is delivered through Healthcode's web platform using encryption technology, Healix clients can be assured that all confidential medical information relating to member claims is being transmitted safely and securely whilst also saving time and money. This service provides proof of delivery directly to the intended recipient and avoids the need for using fax machines where confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. Secure Messaging will also allow the Medical Case Managers to better manage their workload.
By the end of 2007, Healix Health Services will be utilising Healthcode's VEDALite ebiller to receive invoices from providers and will expect to receive at least 80% of provider invoices electronically, saving both time and money.

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Here it is yet another week and I'm here with my Top 5 Wednesday post. Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme/challenge for book bloggers – visit the original Goodreads group here! This week we're talking about the series, in which … Continued


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Black Friday Week is almost upon us, although with the scorching console bundle deals we've been seeing these past few days, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was already here. The Christmas retail season is about to hit full swing and there'll be games deals aplenty in amongst the retail madness. There'll be lots to get through, but this guide to Black Friday and Cyber Monday should hopefully stand you in good stead.
Black Friday: The Lowdown
If you're not American or directly involved in the retail industry, you might not even have heard of Black Friday, athough you'll probably have heard the stampeding herds of shoppers around this time of year. Here's a quick guide to what Black Friday actually entails:
What is Black Friday? Black Friday is the first Friday after Thanksgiving (yes, blame the US), and has therefore been a time when many consumers have had the day off and used the freedom to do a spot of Christmas shopping. As a result, many stores began gearing their key sales towards this date, and it's swelled into global retail phenomenon.
Why Black Friday? Perhaps it's because profits start swinging back into the black again around this time of year. Perhaps it's because of the horrors that customer-facing staff see every year as the stampeding hordes approach their doors. Wikipedia posits that the terms originated in Philadelphia, where it was "used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving".
So what's Cyber Monday? The online equivalent of Black Friday, engineered back in 2005 to help online retailers get in on the fun.
What are lightning deals? You'll have seen this phrase a fair bit across a number of retailers (Amazon especially). Lightning deals are fast-moving bargains that typically last for a few hours or less, meaning you should snap deals up while you have the chance.
When? Black Friday 2014 is November 28th. Cyber Monday 2014 is December 1st.
It's worth noting, if you've not already realised from the ludicrous bundles we've been seeing recently, that retailers start stepping up their games well in advance of Black Friday. Although the 28th is when we're likely to see the very hottest bargains and lightning deals, many retailers are running sales initiatives cross the whole week.
Black Friday & Christmas Games Console Buyer's Guides
Over the course of the week, we've been putting together comprehensive buyer's guides on all of the main consoles and handheld devices to be had this Christmas. Whether you're looking for a sweet Xbox One deal, a bargain price on a 3DS, or a cheap PS4 console bundle, we've got all of the information to help you find the best deal for your needs.
Bookmark these pages!
So you're all set now, totally prepared for Black Friday, loaded up with info on the consoles and the games to look out. But what about the retailers themselves? Well, a number of UK retailers have started putting up splash pages for their Black Friday games deals, and we've listed a whole bunch of them here. We'll be adding to the list regularly as more sites start their sales, so remember to check back regularly.
365 Games: One of the few places you can get a New Nintendo 3DS this Christmas, 365 Games have gone live with a Black Friday ad on their front page, linking through to their games section.
Amazon: Always a Black Friday favourite. Pay particular heed to the lightning deals, as some absolutely blinding console bundle deals have been known to pop up each year. Click here to check out the PC & Video Games deals section.
Argos: Another retailer with a fat clock counting down to Black Friday deals, Argos are preparing to go big this year.
Asda: Although they haven't gone live with their Black Friday plans as yet, we're fully expecting Asda to built on the huge successes they enjoyed this time last year, and go big with Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2014.
Coolshop: We'd almost forgotten about Coolshop as their prices are often not that competitive these days, but their Black Friday deals are now live and definitely worth checking out!
Currys / PC World: The electronics leviathan is also counting down to the big day, and you can register your interest in Black Friday deals and learn more about the day itself on their splash page.
GAME: The purple retailer has set up a landing page for its Black Friday wares, though currently most of the links just lead to GAME's main deals hub.
GameStop: The UK branch of GameStop have fired up their Black Friday countdown timer, and you can sign up to their newsletter which'll give you prompt warning when the biggest deals are about to hit. They're promising up to 70% off on a lot of their wares come Friday.
Green Man Gaming: GMG have announced that they'll be running five days of games deals, starting on Thursday 27th.
John Lewis: Just a splash page for now, but JL have announced that they'll be price matching their competitors. Although we'll likely see the best prices from specialist shops, we're not counting out the one-stop department stores. They've been known to have the occasional steal when it comes to console bundles.
Origin: Get up to 75% off of the likes of Mass Effect, Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 4 right now!
Paradox: Paradox Interactive have gone big for Black Friday over on their own store, with up to 80% off selected titles.
Steam: Gird your wallets, folks. The Steam Fall Sale arrives on Wednesday 26th and will run through Black Friday until the end of play on Cyber Monday. Get ready for some serious PC games deals and for your backlog to triple in size. We're scared..
The Hut: You can check out The Hut's Black Friday deals page right now, though at the time of writing it doesn't look as though there are too many killer price cuts in effect. No doubt that'll change the closer we get to the 28th.
Very: The department store have a splash page in place taking newsletter signups. Check out their gaming section here.
Xbox: Microsoft have launched their Xbox Black Friday deals page, promising savings of up to 85% through until December 1st, with special deals and discounts happening on Friday.
Check in with us regularly
We will, of course, be bringing you all of the hottest gaming deals across our site, the Dealspwn Twitter stream, and Facebook page throughout the insanity of Black Friday week and all throughout the Christmas retail season. Make sure you've got our general games deals stream and console bundles channel bookmarked, and if you have any questions or queries, do be sure to pop a comment into our forum.


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The brief 5 places... series received a bunch of feedback. Wow! So now we're going to do your takes for the next few days.
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Interview: Rob Meyer from "A Birder's Guide to Everything"
Attention all birders! Director Rob Meyer is pleased to bring you a very special new film called "A Birder's Guide to Everything", which is now available on VOD. The film follows a young group of teenagers as they try to prove the existence of an extinct duck by snagging a photograph. Veteran actor Ben Kingsley is an expert birder who tries to help the kids hunt down fame. Movie Room Reviews was lucky enough to talk with director Rob Meyer all about his new film.
Nick Leyland from Movie Room Reviews: I got to watch your new film "A Birder's Guide to Everything" which premiered at Tribeca last year, I think, right?
Rob Meyer: That's correct, yes.
MRR: Now it looks like you just released it on video or something. Can you tell us about that?
Rob Meyer: We released it both in limited release in theaters, as well as Video On Demand, at the same time. And so basically right now it's playing in eight different cities. And then simultaneously you can get it on demand through Comcast, and Time Warner or download it on iTunes or Amazon. So that seems to be the new model for smaller films is to use any kind of good buzz you're getting from the theatrical release to also drive the Video On Demand release. Especially, when you don't have a huge budget to advertise, that seems to be the way forward.
MRR: Well it's a unique film, not only because there are only a few movies about birding but this is a movie about teenage birders. And the other major part of the film is the fact that the main character, David, his mom had just died and his dad is getting remarried. Why and how did you wanna make these two stories balance together?
Rob Meyer: I know it's a good point. That was, I'd say, our main challenge in writing the script, was balancing the fun and the lyricism and the off-beat qualities of birding, with really genuine serious emotions and weighty subject matter. Luke and I used to liken it to the scene in Top Gun where they're flying the planes and they take a Polaroid picture. Like one flies upside down and takes a Polaroid picture of the other. It's a difficult aerial maneuver. So we thought, in writing the script we're imagining the challenging aerial maneuver to balance bird watching with the loss of a mother.
But actually, I think once we got into the writing of the script, especially the story of searching for birds and I've been birding, a lot, it wasn't that far of a stretch. And actually, Jonathan Franzen writes beautifully about birding and often deals with topics of loss. And when you're out there looking for something rare or looking for a glimpse of something, or seeking something, it's not a stretch to feel like the character is also looking for answers, looking to feel something again after a loss. I thought at the end that the theme helped us. Those two themes actually worked really well together.
MRR: They did. It wasn't just a film about birding and it wasn't just a film about a kid whose mom had just died.
Rob Meyer: That was our hope, that those two themes felt not like they were fighting, but that they were complementing each other.
MRR: You almost got to see the main actor, David, have to act while acting. 'Cause he had to act happy or sad or whatever.
Rob Meyer: Yeah, exactly and Cody's so good and subtle like that, getting that layered performance of holding back his emotions and being withdrawn. That's a really hard thing to show as an actor. I think very few actors can pull that off, especially young actors, and he's one of the few out there that can illustrate that in a really compelling way.
MRR: I'm sure you've heard this question a lot, but tell me about working with the birds. You got some great shots, the scene with the owl was really great.
Rob Meyer: Yeah. You a birder, at all?
MRR: No, my girlfriend is.
Rob Meyer: Okay, so you know how frustrating it can be. The birds do not cooperate. They don't really care. You're trying to film them or see them with binoculars. We went out about three times before the film had started shooting with an Alexa camera and actually one time we went out with a Red Epic camera. They're both quite big and require a couple of people to move them around. So it was really challenging to... First of all just find some good birds to film and then on top of that, to have a long enough lens to get a good shot of them, get them in focus and get the shot off before they fly away. I'd say 90% of the time, the birds flew away before we got the shot off. So we have a lot of footage of leaves and a blurry bird in the distance.
We had some great birding guides with us who helped. They can pish and they sort of know where the birds tend to come out into the open and where you might be able to get a good look at them. So they helped us get to the right spots. Yeah, I'm really proud that all of the shots of the birds in the film we got. Not during the shoot. This shoot was so fast. It was a 20-day shoot, which for this scale of film was really ambitious. So we didn't have a half a day to go shoot birds. But all the inserts of the birds were shot before we actually started principal photography.
MRR: I think I would've just cut corners and gone to the zoo or something.
Rob Meyer: Yeah. I guess a couple of them we did cut some corners. But the shot of the owl and the kestrel, those are both rescue birds that we had a trainer with and we had placed. And then also the duck at the beginning was a pet, a somewhat trained... As trained as a duck can be which is not very trained. [chuckle] But it was a domestic duck that we set out on the road and chased around.
MRR: Well tell me about working with a young cast. You had these high school kids and there are not much adults in the film, so tell me about working with those guys the whole time.
Rob Meyer: I love working with young actors. I think these guys, they were 14 through 17 so they were young. They're not little kids though. You really could treat them as collaborators and creative equals and their ideas, especially about what teenagers would say and do, was something I really wanted to listen to and empower them with being in charge of their characters and the film. A week in we hadn't really done a scene with an adult yet, [chuckle] and I realized sort of how crazy/ballsy it was to actually do a film so driven by young teenagers, but I knew as we were shooting that we were getting good stuff.
You never really know till you edit it together, but especially some of the heartfelt conversations that David and Ellen had and some of the funnier bits with Timmy, I could tell on the set that we were getting good stuff. My strategy was really simple. It's just casting great kids, which I have to give all of the credit to Avy Kaufman, who was our casting director, and also then just sort of giving them the space and the freedom and the security of knowing that they were doing a great job and so they wouldn't get insecure and clam up, that they would feel like they were the best kids in the world for these roles and that they were gonna nail it. And then they did.
MRR: Well, what formula were you looking for between all the kids? Because it reminded me a little bit of something that Spielberg would have done or something with Goonies and things like that.
Rob Meyer: Yeah. I like that, yes. Spielberg, '80s coming-of-age films are my favorite and I feel like that nostalgia for our childhood and the somewhat simpler time doesn't get told very often, and I've used something that's quite relevant, and these kids, I know in real life certainly responded to the material and said, "Oh, this is great." There are kids who aren't glued to their cellphones or watching the Kardashians all the time, who are more into more interesting, alternative stuff and are into doing simpler things.
When I printed out their pictures, just the look of these kids, I don't know why, when I printed out stills from their auditions and I had them all lined up, I just kind of smiled. I'm like, "This is a group that I want to hang out with." I like this group. They just look interesting and funny and kinda sweet and you wanna root for them as a crew in a way that not a whole lot of movies are able to do. I know why. It's very hard to market a film based on four likeable kids going out on an adventure. That doesn't sell as well as four superhero kids or four kids who are out to rob houses and do drugs.
MRR: Well, you also got veteran actor Ben Kinsley, he plays the role of a lifelong birder. When you get an actor of this quality, what do you do? Do you rewrite the script a little bit to include them a little bit more, or do you just kind of stick with your guns?
MRR: It's funny you should say that. We rewrote the script to expand that character, which I'm really glad we did because it improved the script. When we knew we were going to go out to some of these bigger actors and Ben Kinsley was the biggest, I didn't want to send Ben Kinsley a script without something that I knew he would be interested in, so we did a couple of passes, my writing partner and I, to really beef up that role and the role of the fathers to make them more attractive to seasoned actors who could help us get the movie made, but also I think it did improve the script as well.
MRR: I don't want to give away the ending or anything, but why did you choose to go with the way that you did it at the end?
Rob Meyer: So we're giving a spoiler alert. The duck gets shot. There's two things that happened that were important to me. One is the duck gets shot and dies, and David has to watch something die in front of him. I always wanted a cathartic moment of seeing a living thing die, and I recently just had to kill a mouse in my kitchen, and it's traumatizing. It pointed out how rarely we actually watch things die in the modern day in terms of our food or older relatives in our family, it's just something we're very removed from. So that was always important.
And, then the decision to make it so that it turns out it wasn't actually a Labrador duck. We didn't think a movie about a kid who may or may not have found a Labrador duck was all that interesting, but we thought a movie about a kid who may or may not estrange himself from his father at a critical crossroads in their relationship and his growth over the movie to the type of kid who wanted to get back and make amends and stand up and ask some difficult questions of his father, that to us sounded more interesting. They call it a MacGuffin in film, after like a Hitchcock old film, it's like... It turned out not to be the important thing in the film.
MRR: It was very interesting. I was expecting a different ending and it caught me by surprise, which is nice.
Rob Meyer: Oh good! Well that's good. That's great, I'm glad to hear that.
MRR: Well, you know, sometimes you just expect it to be the way that you think it should be, and then it totally takes a different direction.
Rob Meyer: Yeah. Certainly, when the duck gets shot, I've seen it with audiences and there's gasps. Certainly not a lot of people see that coming.
MRR: Tell me about the Audience Award at Tribeca.
Rob Meyer: That was really thrilling and it won this at San Luis Obispo Film Festival recently and it recently won best narrative there too.
MRR: Ttell me what you find is different or unique about narratives compared to other styles of film.
Rob Meyer: Well, I came from a documentary film-making background. I use to work at NOVA, the science documentary series. In some ways, a good film, in my opinion, if it'd be a doc or a short or a narrative, it is narrative, it tells the story, it's engaging, the audience empathizes with the character and goes through a journey. But making a narrative fiction film like this is really my dream, more so than making a short or a doc.
Rob Meyer: When you make a film like this, there's no other experience like it, in my experiences, in terms of working with a really talented team from the hair and makeup people, to the grips, to the cinematographer, and the production designer, and the editor, and the colorist. Everyone on a film set, that's sort of their life dream, to be doing what they're doing. So that, to work with a group of 50 people for a month in that kind of capacity, it's a real dream coming true experience and that's what drives me to directing narrative films. Documentary films, it tends to be a much smaller crew and it's a much longer process.
MRR: I'm always intrigued by young directors like yourself. Do you follow the three-act pattern that most go by?
Rob Meyer: Yeah. This one we did for sure. It's my first screenplay and I wanted to make sure it worked. The three-act structure, it gets a lot of flack I feel like, for being "formulaic" but it's like saying every story needs a beginning, middle, and end. To me it's not rocket science. I do think most films work well in that structure. Memento has a three-act structure and it certainly feels revolutionary and weird and pushing boundaries. It goes back to Aristotle, I think that first put that structure forward as the kind of way we think of stories, and it does make a lot of sense to me. So we certainly weren't trying to reinvent the wheel structurally with this film.
MRR: It's out now for everyone to see, right?
Rob Meyer: Well, it's in LA and New York right now. In Ohio, actually we're gonna do I think a special screening with the biggest week in American Birding, which is a big birding conference at Magee Marsh, I believe it's called. And we're also, right now, on Video On Demand and iTunes. So the easiest way is actually just to head over to one of those things and you can watch it instantly. But I like also pushing people to the theaters, 'cause I think seeing it theatrically is a much more rewarding experience.
MRR: Cool. Thank you so much, man. I enjoyed the film and I wish you the best.
Rob Meyer: Thank you so much. Really appreciate it, appreciate your help.


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This is the question I recently received from a viewer on YouTube. Can Dragon transcribe a Professor's lecture using a pocket recorder device?
The answer is maybe, if you jump through a few hoops, but the software does not make the claim that it can do this.
Here's my more in depth answer explaining the maybe a bit more….
This version of the program is only intended for a single voice. With version 10, you might be able to have some level of success if you setup a profile exclusively for your teacher/professor. You would have to record the lecture, then go through and make corrections in the program to help train dragon to recognize that voice, train it to recognize that voice through your voice recorder, and train it to recognize the voice from what ever distance you are sitting at. (the better the sound the better the transcription, so if you sit in a different location, if people talk a lot or make noise, or if your instructors voice changes (uses a microphone/speaker system one day and not the next) you might run into complications.
All in all this program isn't intended for this purpose yet, but if you want to get your geek on and see how to make it work, I think there is potential there. Expect to play with it quite a bit, . . . (might be more fun than taking notes and studying ;) )
So this would be one of those situations where if you try to make this tool work in this environment, you may waste some time and money, but if you find a way to be successful, you could save a lot of time!


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When industry changes, so do its influencers, so I found it rather instructive to look at the new PRWeek Power List that includes our CEO, Jim Weiss.
What's changed is fairly significant. The leaders include several independent agency heads who have always followed their own path. Folks like Richard Edelman and Margery Kraus. Kudos to them.
It also includes visionary leaders of Fortune 100 companies, like Sally Susman, whose team is innovating communications in ways large and small. No surprise to see Google and Disney and Wal-Mart among others. All great leaders within great companies.
The larger agencies presence is much smaller than I would expect. And here is why I believe this to be the case.
The old model of big agencies is like a ball and chain. It's hard to figure out how to innovate beyond it. The people running agencies are smart as ever, but their model is an impediment.
Leaders want big picture, marketing-oriented thinking from us….they want us thinking like CMO's, not silos, whether it is social media or creative or PR or other. Synergy needs to be real and lived every day.
PR firms are too often thinking like PR people…..this is frustrating clients who want bigger, more integrated thinking. Most PR firms are in major danger of becoming less relevant at a time when more opportunity than ever is leaking out of the big agency model into next gen firms.
Clients are looking for great ideas…..well rounded, measurable, game changing ideas and models and metrics. They want next practices, not best practices.
What it means is that integration within a firm has to happen yesterday. It is partly "how we do it". It is about the talent mix. It is about encouraging our team to learn about new areas of the marketing mix.
We need to keep hiring people from different backgrounds in the marketing spectrum, who will challenge our thinking/add new ideas/new ways to move. We should be asking ourselves if we are hiring too many people who think the same way. We want great PR people right next to great digital leaders right next to creative geniuses. No silos, just great teams. We all raise our game as a result.
The next gen agency is equally comfortable handling PR or social media or advertising or direct marketing or other opps as they arise and can do so in an efficient manner. They won't need to call on separate departments of separate people in separate P&Ls. They will simply tap their team. Agencies will either be ready when the market is ready or the opportunity will simply fly by. Integration is happening today in ways never imagined 15 years ago when we started talking about it continually.
Jim is building this type of next gen firm every day at WCG . We know it because we are living it. It's why I believe he made the power list.
Now back to work….
All the best, Bob Pearson


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Faith, love, and Nature
Adam Sperl
In the summer of 2012, a young American man, Jack, found his way to Assisi, Italy with a group of his friends. The group pulled up in their bus to a parking lot just outside the stone walls of the beautiful historical city. Jack's closest companion on the trip, David, was sleeping as they drove in.
"He missed the most breath-taking view of the countryside on the ride in just to get some sleep," Jack thought. Jack was a bit agitated that something like sleep could take precedence over such a beautiful view.
"O well," thought Jack, "It is just David being David."
As the group unloaded the bus, their guide, Padre Marco, reminded them sternly, "You must be back here three days from now at 10:00am sharp. That means you have tonight, tomorrow, and the following day to explore the town. The bus will leave at that time. If you are not here, you will be left behind."
The group carried their suitcases up a long, steep cobblestone street to their hotel, where they waited in the lobby for their rooms to be ready. As Jack waited, he looked through the picture window of the lobby and noticed an old horse-drawn cart rattle down the cobblestone street. In the cart sat three monks-all dressed in black habits-with their hoods pulled over their heads.
"Just like home," thought Jack, as he drew a connection between these Franciscan monks of Assisi, Italy and the Benedictine monks back home in Collegeville, Minnesota. He did not think much of these monks at the time, but he felt a sense of comfort relating this foreign place to the place he calls home.
"You're rooms are ready," the hotel clerk exclaimed happily to the traveling group of young men and women, with a peculiar smirk on his face.
The hotel clerk further explained, "You have the room for three nights, including this evening," as he smiled to himself. The smile was one of an inside joke, like the group was missing something. Jack was a little annoyed but after thinking for a little while, he attributed the hotel clerk's smirks to a difference in culture.
Jack and his group members settled into their rooms and unpacked while Jack swung open the hotel-room window to let in the crisp air of the Tuscan countryside. The view was extraordinary: rolling golden hills, small farmsteads interspersed about the countryside and a magnificent sun just beginning to set over the horizon.
"This is the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world," Jack thought to himself, as he captured a photograph of the lovely scene. It was a magnificent picture, but he knew he could do better. Jack's goal was to capture the most beautiful view of the Tuscan countryside to share with his girlfriend, Jill, when he returned home. Jill was the love of his life and he wanted her to fully experience the beauty of Assisi.
"If I capture the most beautiful view in Italy," Jack thought, "Jill will be so happy that she will want to marry me."
The group set off for the evening to explore the quaint town together, stopping to take in views of the beautiful Tuscan countryside as the sun set over the rolling hills. Padre Marco had been to the small town numerous times before and he guided the group with ease, telling stories of his past visits as they strolled past small shops and magnificent churches.
"The religious history is so rich in this small town," Padre Marco explained. "It is fascinating that St. Francis actually lived here and walked these streets," he went on.
Jack wanted to hear more about the economic, political, artistic and architectural history. Anything but religion, for he was not spiritual or religious.
The group continued through the winding streets. Each street looked the same: cobblestone surface lined by old, interconnected buildings. Jack noted that a person could easily get lost in a place like this, even though the town was so small. The group returned to their hotel around 10:00pm and decided to go to bed early to make the most of their second day in the tranquil little town.
Jack and David woke around 6:00am and went for a run through the winding, deserted streets. They were careful to take note of their path so they wouldn't get lost in the confusing little town. They stopped at the top of a hill, looking out over the walled-in town to the countryside. Jack knew this view was gorgeous, but not the best he could do. He would have to find another view, maybe higher up, maybe with more intriguing scenery, to bring back a picture for the love of his life. The two jogged back to their hotel, following the mental map they had made when they set off earlier that morning.
The group set off for another day of exploring. Padre Marco took them to the "Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi" to see the Franciscan monastery and view Giotto's frescos on the walls. Jack wanted nothing to do with the spiritual and religious nature of the monastery but he was intrigued by the artwork that lay within. They viewed the paintings that spanned the entire ceiling of the basilica. They were beautiful paintings, but he still had one thing on his mind: he knew he must find a beautiful landscape to capture via photograph for his girlfriend, Jill. As the group left, Jack noticed the three monks again. They were walking in a V-shaped fashion with their arms folded in front of them within their habits pulled over their heads. No one else seemed to notice the three monks conspicuously walking across the courtyard.
The group of friends ate lunch and went on their way to visit another church: Basilica di Santa Chiara. This basilica was the home of the cross that spoke to St. Francis. Jack thought to himself with overwhelming skepticism, "I guess that is what they say, anyway." Jack looked around at the artwork and architecture for a short period of time and then went out into the courtyard outside. Many group members prayed under the cross for over an hour while Jack waited patiently.
David was the first of the group to come out after praying and explained to Jack, "Something happened in there."
"What do you mean?" Jack questioned.
"Well...I was praying and suddenly the cross began to "speak" to me, just like it did to St. Francis," David explained.
"Alright, then what did it say?" Jack prodded condescendingly.
"It told me to be more faithful," David said. "I think it was right. I think it was God talked to me."
"Well that is great for you," said Jack impatiently, thinking that David was lying.
Other group members started to emerge from the church and told a similar story. Jack was convinced that they had planned their stories and were trying to trick him because each person told him almost exactly the same story as David had. Jack was still unconvinced that God would call anyone to be more faithful in such a supernatural way; he did not have faith in God and certainly did not believe in anything that wasn't practical and rational. Magic, miracles, and divine intervention did not exist in his eyes. He shook it off and didn't investigate further as to whether this was a joke or they had really experienced divine influence in their lives.
The sun was starting to set, so Padre Marco took the group back to their hotel to regroup and then head to dinner. The whole group went to a restaurant with a beautiful view of the countryside as the sun began to dip under the mountains in the distance. Jack captured a photograph, but upon review, decided it was not good enough for Jill. He was determined to capture the perfect photo. Padre Marco ordered several liters of wine for the group and they began to drink as their orders were prepared. Jack, as well as many other group members, drank until they were drunk. They ordered more wine and took a few bottles to drink after their meal. Jack and David shared a bottle of wine as they walked the streets of Assisi with the group. Padre Marco, after some difficulty with directions, got the group back to the hotel after an hour of walking. Jack was glad to be back. He had a difficult and frustrating day with all of the "spiritual" happenings. He was far too drunk to stay awake so he fell into a drunken slumber.
The next morning, Jack woke at 10:00am in a groggy state. He looked around his hotel room and no one was there. Everyone's luggage was packed and sitting on their already-made beds. He knew it was late in the morning, but he figured someone would wake him up if they were heading out for the day. Jack got up, got ready, and went to look in the lobby for the rest of his group. His group was nowhere to be found in the lobby. The hotel clerk, the one with the peculiar smirk, was at the desk and motioned for Jack to come over. The clerk handed Jack a note with a smile on his face; that same smile from before. He knew something that Jack did not.
Jack read the note: "Jack, I have decided that everyone will split up today and experience Assisi separately." Remember, we will be leaving at 10:00am tomorrow morning. Don't be late. From, Padre Marco."
This was Jack's chance. He was going to use this day to find the best view and snap a photo for his girlfriend. He wanted to marry her so bad but knew it would take something quite impressive to win her heart. He would find the perfect place that day, he knew it. Jack decided to explore the part of town he had not yet seen to find the perfect view.
He walked the cobblestone streets and peered in the shops. It seemed like every shop had religious souvenirs, for the town was known for being the home town of St. Francis and St. Clare. Jack wanted nothing to do with religious souvenirs but one shop caught his eye. Rather than the traditional crosses and rosaries, the shop had painted wooden dragons. He entered the shop and talked with the shop keeper. The old man explained that he made the dragons by hand and that there was something special about them. They are meant to be kept for use during times of dire need. Jack thought the old man was crazy as he spoke of the special dragons that help in times of need, but he bought one because he thought it looked pretty cool. He paid the old man and tucked the dragon in his bag.
As Jack left the shop, the old man stopped him and said, "Remember, that carved dragon can help you in times of need." Jack thanked the old man and chuckled as he thought to himself, "I never want to be old and senile like that old man."
Jack ate lunch at a small restaurant where he overheard two locals conversing in English. This was peculiar as nearly everyone in the remote town regularly spoke Italian. Jack overheard the two old men speak of a castle. Jack remembered that there was a castle that lay on a large hill above the large town. He knew such a vantage point would provide for the most beautiful picture of the Tuscan countryside.
Jack immediately set off for the castle, "Rocca Maggiore," so he could make it there before sundown. It was a bit of a treacherous hike and it took him an hour and a half to get to the top of the hill where the castle was standing. He ran the last 100 yards, racing against the lowering sun. He quickly snapped a picture as the sun fell beneath the distant mountains. Jack viewed the picture.
"It is too dark!" he yelled aloud. He was frustrated and angry that he had put in so much time and effort only to fail once again in capturing a beautiful view of the Tuscan countryside. He knew this was the place to take the picture, but it was just too dark. Jack decided he would take a picture in the morning, as the sun would rise over the mountains, giving enough light to capture the beautiful view. After all, he only had to be back by 10:00am, which would give him enough time to take the picture, get back to the hotel, and walk to the location of the bus to meet the group.
Jack decided to explore the outside of the castle, as the inside was closed off at this time of night. He peeked through cracks and tried to climb parts of the wall. It was an adventure and he was glad to be rid of the religious activities of the city down below. As he was climbing around, Jack's camera fell out of his bag and onto the ground, shattering the lens. Jack sat down and sobbed. He was in anguish; he had just lost his only chance of marrying his one true love. He needed that photograph to win her heart. After several minutes, he pulled himself together and began to walk back toward the city. As he began to walk, the dragon from the shop fell from Jack's bag. After seeing the dragon lying on the ground, Jack remembered what the old man had said, but Jack did not believe in miracles or magic or anything of the sort. He picked up the dragon and was about to put it back in his bag when the dragon's wings began to move. Startled, Jack quickly let go of the wooden dragon and to his surprise, it began to fly above his head breathing fire. It dipped and dove all around while breathing fire and suddenly, the dragon made a dive into Jack's bag. Jack rummaged around in his bag only to find that the dragon was nowhere to be found and his camera lens was in perfect condition. Jack was confused; he knew magic was not real.
"What just happened?" Jack thought to himself. "What in the world was that and how did a dragon made of wood fly, breath fire, and fix my camera lens?"
"The old man wasn't crazy, he was right," thought Jack. The dragon had helped him in a time of dire need.
Faster than seemed possible, 7:00am rolled around and the sun was rising over the mountains. Jack ran to find the perfect spot to take a picture; he leaned against the wall of the castle. He found the perfect view through the newly-repaired lens: the city of Assisi below with its clay-shingle roofs and cobblestone roads, the golden Tuscan countryside just above with farmsteads scattered throughout, and the burning red sun barely peaking over the prominent mountains in the distance. Jack snapped the photograph at the perfect moment. It was the best picture he had ever taken. He had finally captured the most beautiful view in all of Italy.
Jack was confused and exhausted but also relieved. He began to descend the hill away from the castle toward the city as he thought about the old man, the dragon, and the two men in the café. He was caught up in thought, bewildered by the sudden fix of his camera lens just in time to capture a picture of the Tuscan countryside at sunrise.
"How did that happen?" Jack thought, as he searched for a rational answer to the seemingly irrational evening. Was he sleep-deprived? Did that actually happen? He was confused, as many people would be.
Jack walked for about an hour before he looked up and realized he was lost. Starting to panic, as it was already 9:00am, he began to run to higher ground to get his bearings back. He suddenly realized he had no idea where to go. The town was confusing and he did not remember the location of his hotel or where the bus dropped them off three days earlier. Jack realized he only had one hour to get somewhere that he had no idea how to get to. If only he had paid attention to directions during the previous two days. Just then he saw the three monks in their cart traveling along the cobblestone road down the hill from where he stood.
The monks stopped directly below Jack but did not make a sound or gesture in his direction. Jack walked to the cart and without saying a word climbed into the back. One of the monks made a motion with the reigns and the cart took off down the road. Jack sat in the back of the cart, unsure of whether he should strike up a conversation. He had seen these three monks together on three occasions. They did not say a word. They rolled in silence through the cobblestone streets. As Jack looked around, nothing looked familiar. Eventually, they ended up at the bus stop where Jack's group was to meet. It was exactly 10:00am. Jack thanked the monks, hopped out of the cart, and went around the corner to find that everyone had already loaded the bus. He turned around and waved to the monks who were now rolling away in their cart as the members of the group watched the scene from the bus. David ran off the bus and went to question Jack.
"Where have you been, man?" asked David.
Jack explained everything that had happened to him: the old man in the shop, the men talking in the café, the trek to the castle, the broken camera lens, the magical dragon, and finally, the three monks in the cart.
As one would expect, David thought Jack was going crazy. Some of his story was believable but David expressed, "Magic dragons don't exist. Also, you just walked around that corner; there weren't any monks in a cart on the road."
At this point, the two had made it to the bus and the rest of the group verified what David had expressed to Jack: magic dragons aren't real and none of them saw a cart with three monks drop Jack off.
Jack thought to himself, "I was skeptical of their stories before but now they do not believe me. I know what I saw and experienced was real. How could they not see those monks in the cart? Were they monks? Why hadn't they talked to me?"
Jack was beginning to think, "What if they weren't actually monks but they were superhuman messengers of God? Maybe they were the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?"
Jack remembered the hotel clerk who seemed to know something that no one else did. He must know that special things happen in that town. Jack realized that something special did happen in that town. In the last three days, he set out on a task to fulfill the desire of his true love and succeeded. He learned to fully appreciate the beauty of nature and he realized that one must have faith in the extraordinary.
Jack didn't care if anyone believed his story. He knew what he experienced. He just wanted to be home to show the beautiful picture to his future wife. As the bus drove away, Jack came to find that he learned a lot about himself and about life in those three days: nature is beautiful, love prevails, and faith in God will bring you home.


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- Read more about the Moore Institute.
Moore Institute achieves an important milestone
Three projects selected as foundational research projects
On Monday, May 7, the OHSU Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness reached a milestone when it announced awards for three foundational research projects.
The projects, the first to be supported by the institute, were selected for their efforts to address the Moore Institute's priorities and align with its central commitment: to reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases across the lifespan in current and future generations by promoting healthy, nutrient-rich diets based on whole-foods in early life – before conception, during pregnancy and lactation, and in infancy and early childhood.
"These first projects of the Moore Institute are emblematic of the potential to shift the way we think about food and its long-term impact on our health," said Kent Thornburg, PhD, Interim Director of the OHSU Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness.
Earlier this year, the Moore Institute issued a call for proposals for projects that would build on existing strengths in the fields of nutrition and developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). The institute is specifically looking to reach women and children to increase awareness of the importance of nutrition during pregnancy and beyond.
"These three exciting projects are the start of many concrete steps we need to take in order to change entrenched thinking and behaviors and have an impact on the health of families," said Dean Mark Richardson.
The institute received 56 letters of intent from across the state and narrowed it down to three proposals. The selected foundational projects represent a spectrum of research: patient-oriented science, clinical care and broad community outreach and education.
The OHSU Pregnancy Exercise & Nutrition (PEN) Program, led by Linn Goldberg, MD, Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine, will develop, implement and study a team-based, behavior intervention to prevent gestational diabetes. Although it will be conducted first at OHSU, this study has tremendous potential for addressing a problem that affects one of every 10 pregnancies in the United States, and an even higher percentage worldwide, with lifelong consequences for both the child and the mother.
"I'm very grateful to the Moore Institute for their support to help us in an endeavor that should have great societal impact: reducing diabetes during pregnancy," said Dr. Goldberg. "A proper diet and exercise program has the potential to significantly reduce this problem."
Dr. Goldberg is an internationally recognized expert on researching, diagnosing and treating medical illnesses that impair physical activity and was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. This Moore Institute project builds on this knowledge and expertise.
Jackilen Shannon, PhD, CROET Scientist, Associate Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, will launch an important education outreach program on "Improving Adolescent Awareness of the Epigenetics on Generational Nutrition." This program will introduce Oregon middle school students to the concept of epigenetics and promote their understanding of how their current behaviors, specifically dietary intake, can impact their health and the health of future generations.
"I spend my life out in schools, communities and in rural areas of Oregon spreading information about nutrition, body composition and, soon, epigenetics to help children understand that what they're eating now can impact their health, their future and the future of their children," said Dr. Shannon. "Thank you!"
Finally, an innovative study conducted by Joel Nigg, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, titled Nutrient-Rich, Whole-Food Dietary Intervention in Pregnant Women with ADHD, will target a population of pregnant women who are at an elevated risk of poor nutrition and at an elevated risk of having offspring with serious mental and behavioral health problems, mediated by delayed brain development. Intervention during pregnancy could open the potential for widespread application of nutritional prevention for mental and behavioral conditions and brain development.
"We're going to see if we can change the brain development of babies by changing the diet of the mother," said Dr. Nigg. "This will be the first time this has ever been done. We're grateful for the chance to see if we can get this exciting effect."
"Through the vision and leadership of the Moores, we will harness the knowledge and power of research, which shows that appropriate maternal, fetal and early life nutrition leads to healthier adults," said Dr. Thornburg. "It's very exciting for us to have the resources to help these outstanding scientists whose projects have the potential to improve the health of our population. This is just the beginning. Thank you."
Pictured: (Back row, from left to right) Dr. Thornburg, Dr. Nigg, Dr. Shannon, Dr. Goldberg; (front row, from left to right) Charlee and Bob Moore.


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He describes lakes and salt water too, but says those bodies of water are so large they're hard to get to know, while most rivers "are comparatively small, and one feels that it is within the range of the mind to know them intimately. . . And in knowing a river intimately is a very large part of the joy of fly fishing."
This Web Site – an electronic river in the great ocean of the Internet – is dedicated to those same principles.
About the producers of A River Never Sleeps
This site was "hatched" by the co-founders Mark Hume and Nick Didlick while streamside on a fishing trip a long time ago. They met in a Vancouver, B.C. city newsroom in 1989 when they were assigned to cover a long forgotten out-of-town assignment together.
Nick laughs when he remembers asking Mark:"Um, you don't happen to fish do you? And you wouldn't mind if we took an extra day and fished a local river would you?".
To which Mark replied: "Only a day?".
Since then they have fished many times and in many places and when the baggage on a trip gets tight they have even been known to share a fly rod!
Nick Didlick and Mark Hume first launched A River Never Sleeps in 2000, publishing it, with a few interruptions caused by life, until 2006, when it had an extended hiatus while the publishers pursued other distractions (i.e. real jobs).
Along the way dozens of writers, photographers and artists offered their work to help support the web site. Van Egan, a poet, writer, historian and close friend of Roderick Haig-Brown was an early and frequent contributor until his death in 2010.
Permission to use his iconic shot of Haig-Brown, coming out of the Line Fence Pool on the Campbell River in 1957, is one of his enduring gifts to us. We will miss Van and his contributions very much. Harvey Thommasen, Glenn Baglo, Mo Bradley, Peter McMullan (who with Pierce Clegg recently published 'Babine') were other early contributors who shared their fishing experiences with us from British Columbia, Ireland, Yukon, Manitoba, Alberta, Scotland, Fiji, West Virginia, and New Zealand. Loucas Raptis, Bob Wyatt, Mike Sturk, Mike Sayle, Margaret Munro, Stephen Hume, Les Brazier, Dave Hadden, Carl DeFazio, Kirk Wirsig, Hans van Klinken were among those who sent us articles, photographs or art work.
Some of that material can be found posted under Best of ARNS on this renewed site.
In returning to regular production we hope once again, with the help of friends from around the world, to turn this into the best celebration of fly fishing on the web. If you'd like to contribute, joining the collective of artists, photographers and writers who make the site what it is, please drop us an email. All submissions are treated with respect. As editors we like to present a range of voices and often run material we think is brilliant, but which likely wouldn't be published in any of the commercial on-line or print magazines out there.
A River Never Sleeps.com is not a commercial publication. The few small ads you see provide enough income to pay the technical costs associated with keeping the site posted, but all the creative work is provided by the contributors without charge to us, and with charge to you. It is anglers sharing with anglers, the way they would if they met you on a river bank. We hope you enjoy it.
If you have stories you'd like to submit, books, videos or gear you'd like reviewed, or if you just want to make a general comment, contact Mark Hume at: firstname.lastname@example.com
If you have photos you want to submit, advertising inquiries or technical questions about our site, contact Nick Didlick at: email@example.com
The Team:
Mark Hume has been fly fishing for more than 40 years. He began, at about age eight, catching small trout in Penticton Creek using his hands. From there he graduated to a small, cheap fiberglass rod, a level wind reel (was it really made of tin?) and a can of earth worms. With no one to teach him, he had to learn from books and by watching others.
One day, on Muir Creek, Vancouver Island, he watched a fly fisherman catch a sea-run cutthroat. For his 16th birthday he got a fly rod, slept overnight in the back of his dad's Ford Falcon on the banks of Muir, and the next day caught 10 sea-runs over 18 inches. There was no looking back. He guided for several years in Haida Gwaii, fly fishing for ocean coho out of Boston Whalers and has fished widely throughout British Columbia and the Canadian North.
Mark contributes fro the leading fly fishing magazines in North America, is the author of a trilogy of books – River of the Angry Moon, Run of the River and Adams River – and is co-author of Birds of the Raincoast. His work can be found in the anthologies Genius of Place and Northern Wild. His writing is profiled in the Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature and he currently is a national correspondent and columnist for The Globe and Mail.
Nick Didlick calls himself a professional fly fisherman and an amateur photographer, which is pretty strange, since he has been employed as a photographer for over 30 years. He is recognized as an expert in digital photography and guided both The Vancouver Sun and the National Post when they set up digital photo departments. He lectures widely in Canada and the United States on digital still and video photography. You can see his photography website at: http://nickdidlick.com
He began fishing for trout at age five or six, and like most children was captivated by the spirit of adventure that went along with every bobber and worm trip he took after school and on weekends with his fishing pals.
He began fly fishing in his early teens after he won a fly rod in a Bar Fishing Derby on the Fraser River, East of Vancouver, B.C and slowly took to fly fishing. Nick has been head guide at the Pitt River Lodge for several years and can be found floating clients down the river in pursuit of steelhead, salmon, bull trout and rainbows any time he is free of his photographic career. Nick's fly fish guiding website can be found at: http://flyfishingvancouver.com
Peter McMullan is a frequent contributor who got his start writing at the Belfast Telegraph, in Northern Ireland, before moving to the Nanaimo Daily Free Press, on Vancouver Island, where he became managing editor and fell in love with the local salmon rivers, which he still fishes.
Peter currently lives in Nanaimo with Daphne, his wife of 50 years. He was the manager of corporate communications for many years at BC Hydro, where he won the respect of journalists for his straight shooting and for never ducking a tough question. After 'retiring' he worked for ten years as communications manager for Canada's national rugby team, and traveled to World Cups in New Zealand, France and South Africa. He writes for Island Fisherman, The Steelhead Review, Fly Fusion, Chasing Silver Magazine and Living Rivers. He recently co-authored, with Pierce Clegg, Babine: A 50-Year Celebration of a World-renowned Steelhead and Trout River.
Bob Salisbury is a frequent contributor who has been fascinated by shooting and fishing for as long as he can remember. He has written numerous articles for the Shooting Times, Sporting Gun, Australian Hunter and contributes monthly to the Irish Shooter's Digest and Irish Angler's Digest.
For the past 10 years Bob and his wife, Rosemary, have been developing a wildlife conservation area of lakes, woodland and meadows in the area where they live in Northern Ireland. Bob still finds time to go afield with his dog, his gun and his fly rod. He recently wrote Days With Dog & Gun, which is available through Amazon.com.


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WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world leader in storage and connected-life products, today announced it is shipping the world's first ultra-slim 2.5-inch, 5 mm hard drives and solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) , which are designed for integration into the slimmest devices and space-constrained computing environments. With 500 GB of storage capacity and models with high performance-enabling solid state hybrid drive technology, this slim product line helps to address the tradeoffs system designers often make between capacity, physical size and performance.
"With the launch of our new WD Blue™ 5 mm ultra slim hard drives and our WD Black™ SSHD products, currently shipping to OEMs, WD is delivering to our customers a variety of solutions that maximize storage capacity and volumetric efficiency, as well as performance and system responsiveness, for consumers," said Matt Rutledge, vice president of WD's client computing business unit. "Our engineering team took a clean-sheet approach with 5 mm to deliver an ultra-thin hard drive that enables a world of possibilities and applications for mobile computing and beyond."
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Business news : Best Buy Beats Estimates! 'In Joly We Trust' Says Prabhakar
One day after Best Buy (BBY) founder Richard Schulze pulled his plans to make an offer for the chain the company posted results well ahead of Wall St estimates, sending the stock soaring in pre-market trading.
For the all important holiday quarter BBY posted adjusted EPS of $1.64 on $16.7b in revenue compared to expectations of $1.54 and $16.4b. CEO Hubert Joly was pleased with the results but cautioned that 2014 would be a "year of transition". To that end Best Buy will ramp up SG&A with special attention paid to revamping the on-line division.
While refusing to offer financial guidance Joly laid out 6 areas of focus for the company. Investors can use these as a way to gauge Best Buy's progress. These priorities are 1) grow on-line sales 2) improve multi-channel selling 3) increasing sales and profits per square foot 4) driving down costs in the supply chain 5) optimizing the real estate portfolio [most likely by closing stores] 6) reducing SG&A expenses [cutting HQ staff].
Author, analyst and friend of Breakout Hitha Prabhakar says Schulze not being able to fund a buyout is the best outcome for all concerned. In the attached video Prabharkar explains that there's no magic bullet for the troubled electronics retailer but Joly's Renew Blue strategy deserves a chance.
"At this point I would say 'in Joly we trust,'" Prabhakar says of Schulze. Joly is reducing headcount in the home office rather than stores, increasing training and has apparently succeeded in stopping the bleeding, if not restoring the chain to full health. It may not be enough to return Best Buy to its former glory, but the Joly plan is about the best choice of the known options.
In the mid-teens Best Buy is too expensive to earn a large enough premium for Schulze to get control at a decent price. The smart play is for Schulze to sit back and watch. He's got billions invested in the company already. If Joly's plan works, Schulze will get even richer. If Renew Blue is a flop, Schulze can swoop in at a lower price. A buyout at these prices is the highest risk play with a limited upside potential.
As for shareholders it depends on their time frame. The buy & hold set should be aware there's a decent chance the stock will take a hit on no offer but its unlikely to be catastrophic. "I think it's worth taking a hit on the stock just to see what they're about to do," is how Prabhakar puts it.
Short term trading types may just want to mosey on to other ideas. The animal spirits of the market took over the day to day fluctuations in BBY stock long ago. Taking long or short positions and hoping something goes your way is a recipe for losing money.
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