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Many applications make use of multiple datastores. It is a common requirement to be able to replicate parts of one datastore in another datastore. Obviously, depending on the datastore, you could make use of the datastores own capabilities for replication. DataNucleus provides its own extension to JPA to allow replication from one datastore to another. This extension doesn't restrict you to using 2 datastores of the same type. You could replicate from RDBMS to XML for example, or from MySQL to HSQLDB.
Note that the case of replication between two RDBMS of the same type is usually way more efficiently replicated using the capabilities of the datastore itself
The following sample code will replicate all objects of type Product and Employee from EMF1 to EMF2. These EMFs are created in the normal way so, as mentioned above, EMF1 could be for a MySQL datastore, and EMF2 for XML. By default this will replicate the complete object graphs reachable from these specified types.
import org.datanucleus.api.jpa.JPAReplicationManager; ... JPAReplicationManager replicator = new JPAReplicationManager(emf1, emf2); replicator.replicate(new Class[]{Product.class, Employee.class});

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A new book released today introduces natural science and art lovers alike to a selection of seldom-seen and beautifully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library (Sterling Signature) features 40 essays from Museum curators, scientists, and librarians that discuss each rare work's unique qualities and scientific contribution. The edition is packaged with 40 extraordinary, suitable-for-framing prints representing each essay.


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In a letter to Arena Football League interim commissioner Ed Policy, New Orleans Voodoo owner Tom Benson said the Voodoo is folding and severing its five-year stay in the Crescent City and its affiliation with the league, VooDoo team spokesman Greg Bensel said.
- Did the Hornets' success kill the VooDoo?
- Discuss the fallout in the AFL forum
- Check out photos from the VooDoo's final season
"The VooDoo fans have been the best in the AFL," said Rita Benson LeBlanc, executive vice president/owner. "Their passion, enthusiasm and support made it possible for us to bring two consecutive Arena Bowls to benefit New Orleans. It is a sad day for our community and our organization but circumstances prevented us from continuing in the AFL."
Executive Vice President/ General Manager Mickey Loomis, in a statement released by the team, said it was a tough decision to make.
"We have a very fine football staff led by head coach Mike Neu, who I think is one of the finest young coaches in this league," Loomis said in his statement. "Circumstances have led us to this decision, but I would be remiss if I did not recognize the hard work that the many people on our staff here have put into the VooDoo."


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Las Vegas — The Las Vegas Athletic Club has had to cease its offer of free enrollments to women after the Nevada Equal Rights Commission decided in a 3-to-1 vote that the promotion was discriminatory. The vote was held last month after a public hearing before the commission.
The ruling came after Todd Phillips brought a complaint about the promotion to the commission last year after his wife received a free enrollment to the fitness club while he did not.
Chad Smith, the executive vice president of the Las Vegas Athletic Club, says the outcome of the vote was expected, even though he disagrees with it.
"We don't feel like what we were doing is discrimination," Smith says.
During special promotions, the Las Vegas Athletic Club offered a free enrollment to women and charged a $10 enrollment to men. Enrollment at the club normally is $99.
Phillips says that once he complained about the promotion to the club staff, the club terminated his membership. Phillips also says he received a letter from the club stating his membership was cancelled and that he would be accused of trespassing if he returned to any of the six Las Vegas Athletic Clubs.
"It was retaliation because I questioned the policy," Phillips says. "They saw that as an affront."
Smith acknowledges that the letter was sent to Phillips, but only after Phillips repeatedly called the six Las Vegas Athletic Clubs and harassed employees about the company's promotion, Smith says.
Phillips is an attorney who has tried several cases involving women who receive free admission into nightclubs, but he says that his complaint was prompted by the health club's letter.
"I believe everyone should stand up for their civil rights," he says.
Smith says that this matter will eventually go to court, and that the issue could continue in the legal system for the next three to five years. It is also possible, Smith says, that the Nevada Resort Association will get involved in the case once it goes to court. An attorney with the association, which represents the casino industry, was on hand for the hearing.
Casinos also charge men and women differently for entry into several clubs, and the commission's ruling could impact them in the future, the attorney for the association says. However, the association's impact at the hearing was minimal since it was not party to the complaint.
"The ruling that [the commission] made affects not just our health club but all public accommodation and service industries in the state," Smith says. "There is a specific law that addresses health clubs. They did not look at that law."
The commission issued a cease-and-desist order to stop the Las Vegas Athletic Club from running its "ladies join free" promotion, which Smith says the club stopped doing several months ago.


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Aus 64 Designs von 17 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Am after a logo design for a web-based game currently in development. The logo has to look semi-industrial, as it represents a game that is surrounded by a steampunk-like universe.
We need a logo designed that is both great to look at, involves industrial and steampunk elements, as well as oozing "power". The game makes use of a power called Magik (yes, very original, we know). This Magik is controlled by various characters whom use this to control the mechs. As such, the mechs will have this design element "leaking/showing" from them at certain joins, engines.etc. We want this to also be reflected int he logo design, but not overpowering. The successful applicant may also be contacted to also produce the web design for the game.
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- Must contain the word "Battlerig" or "Battlerigs". Obviously entries that contain both versions will be favoured over those that don't.
- It must contain elements of steampunk based design
- It must look partly industrial. Think the industrial revolution, as this is the rough timeframe the game is set in.
- It must look like a game logo. No corporate designs.
- We're thinking capital letters would look best, but we're always willing to be proven wrong
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And when that siren goes off, they only have 15 seconds to find shelter, 15 seconds that separates life from death and no other warning other than these mentally paralyzing sirens. This is the reality that children living in Israel face, sometimes on a daily basis, sometimes many times a day.
Each day, a constant barrage of missiles leaves children terrified of leaving their homes. That was true for many cities and towns in Southern Israel even before Operation Protective Edge got under way. Now it is a reality for most of the country under fire.
On Monday evening two children, sisters from the village of Lakiya in southern Israel, were wounded by a rocket explosion. One of them, 11-year-old Maram Wakili, is in moderate condition after doctors fought around the clock for 3 days to save her life. Her sister Atir is now in light condition.
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U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York told delegates that she ran for president in part, "To promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green collar jobs."
Presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton of New York accepts the applause of convention delegates (Photo courtesy DNCC)
"We need to elect Barack Obama because we need a president who understands that America can't compete in a global economy by padding the pockets of energy speculators, while ignoring the workers whose jobs have been shipped overseas. We need a president who understands that we can't solve the problems of global warming by giving windfall profits to the oil companies while ignoring opportunities to invest in new technologies that will build a green economy," Clinton said.
In keynote address to the convention, former Virginia Governor Mark Warner who is now running for a seat in the Senate, said the Republican policies are wrong because they have brought America, "Two wars, a warming planet, an energy policy that says let's borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."
"Look at energy," Warner said. "If we actually got ourselves off foreign oil, we can make our country safer."
"We'll start to solve global warming. And with the right policies, within 24 months, we'll be building 100 mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrid vehicles right here - with American technology and with American workers."
Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia, delivered the keynote address. (Photo courtesy DNCC)
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told delegates what she said when she accepted the chair from the previous chair, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who has famously called global warming a "hoax."
"When I took the gavel from the former chairman, I told him that 'elections have consequences.' When we win in November, we'll prove it," said Boxer.
"Instead of protecting polluters, we'll protect our families. Instead of ignoring the experts, we'll fight global warming. Instead of facing Republican roadblocks, we'll have a Democratic majority large enough to ensure healthy communities," she said.
"Instead of a president with an Exxon policy, we'll have a president with an energy policy. This November, we can't afford more of the same," Boxer said. "Let's elect Barack Obama so that the world's economic and environmental leader will clearly be our nation - the United States of America."
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington told the delegates that voters in her state "know it's time for a president who will make energy independence America's top priority."
"After eight years of skyrocketing gas prices, eight years of families spending more and more of their paychecks at the pump, and eight years of two former oil men catering to big oil's agenda, it's time for a new energy day in America," said Cantwell. "One that makes energy more efficient and renewable, creating millions of high-wage jobs. One that allows families to spend more of their precious dollars raising children, instead of boosting oil company profits."
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer devoted his entire speech to solving America's energy problems by electing Obama, not his Republican opponent.
"We face a great new challenge, a world energy crisis that threatens our economy, our security, our climate and our way of life. And until we address that energy crisis, our problems will only get worse," Schweitzer said.
"For eight long years, the White House has led us in the wrong direction," said Schweitzer, a Democrat who chose a Republican to be his second in command.
"After eight years of a White House waiting hand and foot on big oil, John McCain offers more of the same. At a time of skyrocketing fuel prices, when American families are struggling to keep their gas tanks full, John McCain voted 25 times against renewable and alternative energy. Against clean biofuels. Against solar power. Against wind energy," said the Montana governor.
Schweitzer blamed McCain for taking "more than a million dollars in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry," and for proposing to "give the oil companies another four billion dollars in tax breaks."
"Right now, the United States imports about 70 percent of its oil from overseas. At the same time, billions of dollars that we spend on all that foreign oil seems to end up in the bank accounts of those around the world who are openly hostile to American values and our way of life."
At the same time, he said, "CO2 emissions are increasing global temperatures, sea levels are rising and storms are getting worse."
On the floor of the Democratic National Convention. August 26, 2008 (Photo DNCC)
"Barack Obama knows there's no single platform for energy independence. It's not a question of either wind or clean coal, solar or hydrogen, oil or geothermal. We need them all to create a strong American energy system, a system built on American innovation," Schweitzer.
"In Montana, we're investing in wind farms and we're drilling in the Bakken formation, one of the most promising oil fields in America. We're pursuing coal gasification with carbon sequestration and we're promoting greater energy efficiency in homes and offices," said the govenor.
"Barack Obama understands the most important barrel of oil is the one you don't use," he said.
The Montana governor supports Obama's plan to invest $150 billion over the next 10 years in clean, renewable energy technology. "This will create up to five million new, green jobs and fuel long-term growth and prosperity. Senator Obama's plan will also invest in a modern transmission grid to deliver this new, clean electricity from wind turbines and solar panels to homes, offices and the batteries in America's new plug-in hybrid cars," Schweitzer said.
Iowa Governor Chet Culver told delegates that "securing our energy future" is the most important challenge America faces.
"For the last eight years, the big oil companies and their Washington lobbyists have literally written our national energy policies. They have made billions, while the rest of us are stuck paying the bill," said Culver.
"Now the oil companies are placing their bets on John McCain, bankrolling his campaign, and gambling with our future. McCain has voted against tax credits for renewable energy 11 times, and his only idea to solve our energy crisis is to keep doing what we're doing, as we watch prices go up and up and up."
The Iowa governor said only Obama has a detailed plan to lower energy prices and create more green-collar jobs.
"If anyone still doubts whether renewable energy can lower prices and create jobs, look no further than Iowa," Culver said. "We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy, created more than 100,000 good-paying jobs and provided clean alternatives to overpriced, foreign oil."
U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, who also contested the Democratic nomination for president, told convention delegates that this election is a wake-up call for America.
"Wake up, America. In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the neo-con artists seized the economy and have added four trillion dollars of unproductive spending to the national debt. We now pay four times more for defense, three times more for gasoline and home heating oil and twice what we paid for health care," Kucinich said, "while all the president's oilmen are maneuvering to grab Iraq's oil."
"Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more. War against Iran will mean $10-a-gallon gasoline. The oil administration wants to drill more, into your wallet," he said.
"Wake up, America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up," Kucinich said. "Up with creating millions of good paying jobs, rebuilding our bridges, ports and water systems. Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon emissions and protect the environment."
And Dave Gipp, a Hunkpapa/Lakota American Indian from the Standing Rock Lakota-Dakota Nation, who serves as president of United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, told delegates that he is one of "thousands of tribal citizens who support Senator Barack Obama for accepting tribal nations and their citizens into the future he sees for America."
"We're not another special interest group trying to claim a share of the American pie," said Gipp. "We are, after all, the first Americans. We paid for our place with land and blood. Our status as sovereign tribal nations is specially recognized in the U.S. Constitution."
"Every step you take across this great nation, every vista you admire, every city you call by its tribal name, was once Indian country," said Gipp.
"American Indians are still here and we're seeking justice for our people," he said. "We offer the strengths of our spirituality and our connection with Mother Earth in renewing America's promise for all."
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2008. All rights reserved.


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What are the 4 best shoe styles for an outdoor wedding?
While weddings outside can be refreshingly romantic, we know firsthand that choosing occasion appropriate footwear can be a challenge. Here are some grass-friendly shoes that feel both dressy and stylish.
A nude sandal with minimal straps or buckles feels almost invisible, and hints that you are barefoot and fancy free. Opt for a t-strap style that is close to your skin tone.
A sparkly little flat sandal is essentially jewelry for your feet. Just be sure it compliments your look—we love it styled with florals—and is delicate and chic in design.
If you prefer to give yourself some height, a sturdy wedge that won't sink into the grass is your best bet. A nude all-leather wedge always looks good, while a bold black and white number can feel modern and dressed-up.
If you are rocking a LBS (little black suit), then a pointy flat in a metallic hue or swathed in a fancy print works perfectly well. Our advice: amp up your femininity with layered necklaces or a statement piece!
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I'm supposed to practice every day… but sometimes it's too much for me."
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At Philips we believe we can always make life better for people, we asked ourselves could our Philips Air Purifier improve Tammam's quality of life?
On the day of Tammam's concert he is ready to play the third part of Haydn's concerto. What happens next is surely the best day of his life…


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Beverly Rowley appeared before the Monticello City Council in the public comments portion of the July 25 meeting, asking that the city to consider lowering the speed limit near the San Juan County Fairgrounds.
Rowley told the council that there is virtually no shoulder near the Fairgrounds, therefore not enough room for kids on horses to stay far enough off the road. Rowley asked the council to consider lowering the speed limit until people get past the Fairgrounds and look into signage in the area to let drivers know that there is horse traffic in the area.
The council talked about upgrades that will be made to the road in the next few years, including widening shoulders, turn lanes and the possibility of a gravel trail for horse traffic.
Kathy Hurst approached the council representing the Blanding Rotary Club asking for a $1,000 donation. Hurst told the council that the Rotary is a service club and they plan to serve the entire county with their programs.
Two areas they want to focus on are literacy and autism. Hurst pointed out that many children have no books in their homes, and many come to school unprepared in reading and literacy. The program would give two quality children's board books to every child born in San Juan County and a refrigerator magnet that lists tips about reading to children. Families who are served by the early intervention program will receive a total of five books. The council approved the donation.
The council appointed Pete Darlington to the airport committee.
Councilman Brad Randall reported problems with the Hideout Golf Club website, saying the site is slow, has no pictures, and is not linked to the City of Monticello site.
He also told the council that Monticello Home and Auto, along with Young's Machine, will host a benefit golf tournament at The Hideout for the Victims of Mill Tailings Exposure committee in September. He asked that the city consider giving more of a price break on the cost of golf, as the VTME committee is a City committee.
Councilwoman Cassie Boyle expressed concern about the structural conditions at the Monticello Swimming Pool. She questioned how many more years the facility will last.
Mayor Doug Allen asked about an ad running in the San Juan Record regarding the pool. City Manager Trent Schafer said that there had been some rumors about kids getting sick at the pool.
Councilman Blen Freestone said that if kids were getting sick at the pool, they would be seeing a large number of kids at the hospital, which they are not.
Boyle said she was concerned about rust falling from the ceiling beams into the pool. She asked that the city "make some headway on that before we get to the point that the health people shut us down and we have ten years with no swimming pool because nobody made the effort to get moving," said Boyle. Mayor Allen asked that Schafer update the council on the pool during their next meeting.


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Introducing The Most Ripped Man of the Year – Darren McAllan
Hi, I'm Darren McAllan and Tom Venuto invited me to share the motivation, nutrition and training strategies I used to cut down from 9% body fat to 4% body fat and win the Most Ripped Man Award at the recent
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I'm thrilled and honoured to write this for Tom and ALL the
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It's funny that Tom asked the questions in this order (mindset, nutrition and training) because I believe that was the exact order of importance for me getting into peak shape.
My Motivation / Mindset
The condition I reached in the
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challenge is by far the best shape I've ever been in and I put a large part of it down to the mindset I needed to develop. In the beginning of the challenge, I'd say the mindset was as simple as finding a goal that excited me (to win the most ripped man title was my goal right from the start), and then figure out my reasons as to WHY I wanted to win that award.
I don't believe that motivation is something you wait for, like someone coming along and randomly inspiring you, I believe you must create it yourself, by digging for strong enough reasons.
I knew that I could get into reasonable shape through reasons associated with my ego. Things like: To have an amazing six pack, to have people want what I have, to be the best conditioned guy in the gym, to feel more attractive and so on. But I knew that this would not be enough to get me to push through the final stages of fat loss. If it were that simple, then most people who decide to get ripped would get ripped.
I knew I had to dig deeper for more meaningful reasons.
I tried asking, "What will being ripped mean to me?" "What is most important to me about being ripped?" and so on, but the answers that came back were not emotionally charged enough.
So I changed my approach. I asked, "What's most important to me in my life", and without hesitation, the answer that instantly came to my mind was my little girl Sophie. She is by far the most important part of my life.
You might say, "But this has nothing to do with getting ripped, right?" I'm not so sure. I know most people here are wondering, "What diet did you follow... how many grams of protein and carbs were you on?" and so on. Sure, the nutrition was important and I'll touch on that next. But in my opinion, what it really takes to get ripped is to find your motivation – because this is not an easy goal to achieve!
As I began thinking about it, I realised that it was important for me to be a role model for my little girl, to be a father who sticks to his word, and follows through on his promises. I had to show her (even though she may not fully understand right now), that sometimes things get tough, but you have to hold on to your vision, and press on. That's when it hit me. I had found MY reason.
I decided to get extremely lean because it was a challenge that would show my daughter that I'm not average, that her Dad can say he's going to take on a massive challenge and follow through by sticking to his word. This would develop the character needed to be a good role model. By getting ripped, I would ultimately become a better and stronger father figure. Now THAT'S motivation!
From there, I used the "mental training" techniques Tom explains to me to install this new mindset so that it became part of me and not just a wish. The best thing you can do is go to the burn the fat body transformation program if you want to know more (and P.S. Tom is not paying me to say this).
It just goes to show, that learning to eat right and train correctly is not only about how you'll look at the end, but more about who you'll become in the process - a better father figure, a person who is NOT average, a man who follows through on his word, a good role model, a person with character, or whatever your motivations are. (That's not to say that you won't enjoy watching your body transforming too!)
My nutrition
Here is where I may have been a little different compared to many contestants who entered the
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
challenge. Most people on Burn the Fat, Feed the muscle are pretty meticulous about counting and crunching numbers ALL the time. But you see, I like my weekends to relax and eat without much thought for calories, portion sizes, macronutrient ratio etc, so I took a mixed approach.
I told myself that I could either do a small deficit, with a small reduction in carbs, and hold that steady (the "linear dieting" approach), and I think that would most likely have produced similar results, especially at the start. Or, I could go more aggressive using Toms "Phase 3 competition diet" from
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
with some really low carb/ low calorie days and then a reefed day...
I used the 2nd strategy, but the way I decided to customize it was to go low from Monday to Friday, then "relax" at the weekend and use Saturday and Sunday as the re-feed to stimulate my metabolism and get a psychological break from the strict low calorie/ low carb days.
I remember hearing Tom saying that if you've depleted your glycogen stores and held a strict calorie deficit for several days, you can create an optimal environment for a large carb re-feed without putting fat on, and possibly even continue losing fat on those days. I have to point out that I don't think Tom's favourite approach was the entire week – 5 days - low, because you tend to suffer from losing energy as the week progresses (even more so when your bodyfat gets lower!) The most popular method is the 3 days low followed by the reefed. But I thought using the same principle for 5 days then reefed on the weekend would fit perfect for my lifestyle, so was excited to give it a go. As it turns out, it worked just fine.
I did, however, have to make changes to the nutrition as I got leaner, as my body just couldn't stay on aggressive carb reduction for more than a few days before NEEDING to be re-fed. (Yes Tom, I know you would love to say, "I told you so" here, ha ha). To cut a long story short, I ended up going with the more frequent refeeds later – after I was seriously dieted down.
What I did was to take the information I had learned from
and from years of of experimenting, while at the same time listening to my body's needs. And that is right in line with the
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
philosophy of using the "feedback loop." Measure results, listen to your body, and adjust to keep results coming.
One final thing I have to add: I'm not sure if this is an individual thing, or whether it happens to most people when body fat gets extremely low, but almost every evening without fail, in the final 1-2 weeks, I would get an overwhelming feeling to consume food! I'm telling you, this was not just physical hunger, as I had only an hour ago finished a 7 egg veggie omelette. This was more of an "instinct."
I'm not even sure if this is making sense to you if you've never experienced it, but the only way I can describe it is that every cell in my body was screaming out to eat, even though I wasn't physically hungry. After that started happening, Instead of trying to fight it, I decided to put some damage control in place in the form of simply shifting some of my calories to before bedtime. That sorted it out for me nicely.
If you're going to pursue getting ripped, know this: when you get super lean, your body is going to fight you every way possible to stop you from getting leaner and trick you to eat more. It seems that this happens on not only the physical, but also the mental level as well, with these weird urges.
My Training:
This is also where I did things a little different from the past. I had already built up a reasonable amount of muscle, so my main goal for the challenge was to maintain my current lean body mass. I figured the important thing was to keep my weight training in place and not worry about trying to gain any additional muscle. So I decided to do mostly full body workouts. I used all the rep ranges 4-6, 6-12, 15-20 on different days on the week.
I knew I would have most of my energy on the days where my food intake (carbs mostly) was very high, so I'd do my heavy workouts on those days, or the day immediately following. The other rep ranges were done Monday through Friday. Again, this had to change slightly as my diet changed in the final month due to my changing the frequency of the re-feed.
During the first month, I didn't do much cardio. I only did a little bit of low intensity cardio after lifting, but not too often, as I wanted to start out with as little cardio as possible so I could keep it as a tool for later as I got leaner. The second half of my challenge, I began using more cardio. I mixed both steady state and intervals, depending on my energy levels that day. The final month, I was up to 2 cardio sessions on most days. Some days I'd do intense intervals, some days I would walk on an inclined treadmill. I simply had to listen to my body and blend that with my results.
It's difficult to explain everything about my training in such a short space, because I used so many different approaches throughout this challenge, I'd probably be better off getting you to read Tom's book. I think having flexibility in my approach was key to getting as lean as I did because I found that things change when you get leaner and leaner.
Other "getting ripped" advice
If I were to offer any other advice to those reading, what also helped me was to get support and motivation from other members of the
Burn the Fat Inner Circle
, and "some" of those people around me back home. Some people don't like to see you change unless they're on the same journey. But you can use both - the positive support, and the negative feedback -to fuel you.
In my experience, having someone say, "you're looking too skinny", "you don't look healthy", "when are you going to stop losing weight?" and so on, is just as motivating as someone saying "well done", "you're looking great", "I'm so impressed and proud of what you're doing".
If I had only heard or listened to the positives, I might have gotten complacent, but if I only listened to the negatives, I'd have gotten disheartened and possibly doubted myself too much. Having both was like double motivation, so I can even thank those who doubted me because the negativity added fuel to the fire.
Of course, an even bigger thank you goes to those of you who believed in me and supported me. My daughter and the support of my friends at
Burn the Fat Inner Circle
is what I believe made the biggest difference to me following through, and not giving up. Thank you all!
Bring on the next challenge!!!
Darren McAllan
A happy dad.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
Thrive Chiropractic
I am looking to create a logo and an image that says something visually about my practice and me. I am skilled at my work but my personal artistic skills are limited to the verbal arena only. That being said, I am certain I will recognize the logo I am looking for once I see it. I have been a chiropractor for a number of years and am opening a new practice and need a new logo to help. There are a number of 'Thrive Chiropractic' offices around the country but only one 'me'. It is difficult to differentiate one chiropractor from another until you are actually getting treated but I think a well designed logo will help achieve that goal. Once patients meet me and I am successful in addressing their needs, my work and character will carry it forward. I want the logo design to help get them there.
I will try and describe what I want but am hoping one of you will be able to 'visualize' what I am asking for and create it for me. To assist in this process I am including below an 'elevator' speech as I am told it is called. This is basically an amalgam of my personal vision and mission statement I use for treating patients that I started to formalize at the suggestion of a business professional helping me start my business. I hope it will help you.
30 second 'elevator' pitch
I am the owner and primary clinician at Thrive Chiropractic Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. My personal mantra is: "In life it is better to thrive than survive." To that end, my mission is to get people out of pain or discomfort as quickly as I can. Once I have relieved your pain my goal is to teach patients strategies to achieve the type of lifestyle you want, whether through exercise, nutrition or workplace/lifestyle modifications. I am not satisfied by the status quo and want to do more than just get you out of pain, I want to teach you ways to stay pain free and achieve your goals without being held back due to pain or discomfort. Regardless of your desire to compete faster, play longer, wrestle with the kids or just enjoy days more fully, my mission is to get you there. Remember, "In life it is better to thrive than survive."
This logo will be used for both my web page as well as my business cards and letterhead and I am hoping it will be iconic for me and my practice. With that in mind, a higher dpi count for the image(s) will be important. I don't really have any color schemes or anything like that in mind. The only visual I am reaching for here verbally is something that suggests 'thriving' and/or 'growth'. As I do lots of work with athletes and athletic performance and rehabilitation, an image that suggests some type of activity or physicality would be nice and evocative but do not feel constrained by that alone. I am not trying to ramble but am hoping my verbal descriptions will spark some creative visualizations on your part.
Thank you all in advance.
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Inside the High-Stakes World of Designing a Gala
From light shows and suspended dining tables, to a tornado made out of sneakers, event designers are pushing the limits to wow crowds numbed by a barrage of party pictures online. Ray Smith takes a look at the competitive world of event design. Photo: Julie Skarratt.
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Assessing education with computers in Georgia
One of the fascinating benefits of working at a place like the World Bank is the exposure it offers to interesting people doing interesting things in interesting places that many other folks know little about. Small countries like Uruguay and Portugal, for example, are beginning to attract the attention of educational reform communities from around the world due to their ambitious plans for the use of educational technologies. Much is happening in other parts of the world as well, of course, especially in many countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The largest stand-alone World Bank education project to date that focused on educational technologies, for example, was the Russia E-Learning Support Project. Macedonia gained renown in many corners as the first 'wireless country', with all of that Balkan country's primary and secondary schools online since the middle of the last decade -- although other countries, like Estonia and the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue, also lay claim to versions of this title. (If you are looking for more information on the Macedonian experience, you can find it here and here [pdf]). Much less well known, however, is the related experience of the small country of Georgia, located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, where small laptops are being distributed to primary school students and where school leaving exams are now conducted via online computer-adaptive testing.


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So you shot a really nice street video bustling with people, and you want to showcase your video on the Web. But before that, you want to blur the faces of people to protect their identity. And since you captured a moving crowd, you also want to ensure that the faces continue to remain blurred as they move from frame to frame through the video.
Sounds like a daunting task?
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In this 5-min video tutorial, learn how to apply a feathered mask to protect a person's identity and then track that mask as it moves across the frame in a scene.
The tutorial provides you sample files to try out the feature for yourself.
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When you want to use more advanced masking features, you can simply jump into Adobe After Effects CC. Read more about it at Using the Rigid Mask Tracker in After Effects.


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Contactless Payments Market Worth $9.88 Billion by 2018
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MarketsandMarkets broadly segments the Contactless Payments Market by payment modes such as contactless payments via mobile handsets, contactless smart cards and key fobs. The report also covers types of solutions: payment terminal solutions, business management solutions, card issuance solutions, and anti-skimming solutions. It is also segmented by types of services including consultation services, integration services and value added services. The Contactless Payments Market is also segmented by type of verticals: banking financial services and insurance (BFSI), consumer goods and retail, healthcare, government and public sector, telecom and IT, transportation and logistics; and by regions: North America (NA), Europe (EU), Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America (LA).
Contactless Payments are ideally suited to various quick service businesses such as movie theatres, convenience stores, gas stations and fast food restaurants. The contactless reader interface with existing POS terminals can read wide array of devices such as key fobs, cards, vehicle tags, and mobile phones amongst others. The major vendors in this market have worked closely with financial institutions and other service bureaus to maintain and ensure the high standards of security. Contactless readers and smart cards are considered to be cash free payment solutions. The main benefits of using contactless payment are easy installation, integration and seamless free maintenance along with cost effectiveness. The proximity cards and readers are completely complied with ISO 14443, banks and other industry standards.
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The March 28 Planting Intentions Report showed that U.S. farmers will plant 10.026 million acres for the 2013-14 cotton crop to be harvested this coming fall, down from last year's final planting estimate of 12.701 million acres. The forecast was near the low end of analysts' guesstimates. New-crop contract months rallied for a few days in response, but the 88¢-cent-per-pound level proved to be a near-term top. Prices proceeded to drop in the weeks that followed, by about 5¢ per pound, before finding some support at the 85¢-per-pound level.
We pointed out in our last discussion of cotton that even with the push toward the 90¢-per-pound level, it was still more profitable to plant soybeans or corn. No doubt the rally that began in November inspired some additional acres, but a new dynamic was introduced into the market that could be even more instrumental in expanding U.S. cotton area. It has been a very wet late winter and early spring, which has delayed corn planting. In regions where the optimum window for planting corn will close before farmers can get into the fields, cotton planting will be a viable alternative. Some analysts say that we could see as many as 1 million acres added to cotton area. The recent selloff in December cotton back down to 83¢ per pound reflected expectations for larger plantings.
As far as the other major producing nations are concerned: China and Australia will plant smaller crops as well, but Brazil, India and Pakistan will see an increase in cotton area. Total global production is expected to decline by about 3%, to 115.5 million bales. However, with a modest 2.6% increase in global consumption, to 109 million bales, burdensome inventories will continue to grow.
U.S. exports have been surprisingly strong and have provided some support to the market. Commitments were lagging behind last year's pace as recently as early April, but have now pulled ahead of last year by close to 1 million bales, and are in perfect position to meet the USDA's upwardly-revised target for 2012-13 sales of 13 million bales. But is it enough?


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We're here today with Abhay Parekh, founder and CEO of Flowgram, a company that promises a "new" kind of multimedia experience.
DDJ: Abhay, what are "Flowgrams"?
AP: Flowgrams are a free, groundbreaking interactive communications tool that give people and organizations the power to combine various digital assets into a unified multimedia package with a guided audio narrative. Flowgrams allow you to package and share web pages, PowerPoint presentations, videos, documents, and other web-based elements in ways never before possible. Instead of just adding static links to an email, or creating a video using a screen casting tool, Flowgrams enable you to actually take your viewers on a guided tour by walking them through interactive Web pages, highlighting content, adding notes and providing a personalized voiceover as you go.
Flowgram is for anyone who wants to communicate in an engaging, interactive way on any topic. Flowgrams are interactive, non linear, and live -- but they also leverage the best aspects of presentation software and screen casts. For a Flowgram creator, the entire web serves as a palette -- you can mash it up in any way you choose to bring your message to life. Making a Flowgram is easy, requires no downloads or installations, and can take as much or as little time as creator likes. For the simplest Flowgrams, the authors just choose what content they want to share and upload it. Flowgram creators also have the capability to author more elaborate multimedia experiences by uploading their own audio and music, adding highlights, editing transitions, and creating their own custom web pages. Consumers and business users are using Flowgram to share presentations, offer site tours, explain things, create talking portfolios, teach, entertain, sell more efficiently and effectively, express ideas, and more. You can share a Flowgram via a link within an email or post the Flowgram widget directly into your blog or website.
The Flowgram viewing experience is completely interactive, so viewers can control what they're watching. They can click on web links, play videos, pause, skip around and engage with the Flowgram as much they like or they can just lean back and enjoy a passive viewing experience if that's what they're looking for.
DDJ: Flowgrams accommodate a number of different file formats. Can you tell us how this works?
AP: The trick here is to convert the file format into a web-friendly file type. This usually means converting the imported file into Flash or HTML. We had to build a set of tools that handle this conversion and architect the API in a way that allows us to quickly add new media types moving forward. For example, one of our developers added PDF and Microsoft Word docs last week after only a couple of days of effort. We plan to expose these APIs to developers so that they can add their own media types and integrate this service into their own offerings.
DDJ: From a technical perspective, what's the most unique feature of Flowgrams?
AP: We found interesting technical challenges around almost every corner when we were building the Flowgram platform. We set out to create a product that worked with every website, and digital document format. What's more, Flowgram gives creators a set of tools to interact with these pages. Given the diversity of how pages are coded and the nuances of different file types, we needed to create techniques to homogenize all of these formats.
The architecture also had to afford us the ability to integrate many disparate technologies. For example, we make extensive use of Adobe Flex for our client, we've created interesting server side screenshot technology using WebKit, and our highlighting feature is incredibly robust -- especially considering that it does not require a plug-in or add on. It's the technical complexity that arises when using of all of these features in concert that makes Flowgram unique.
DDJ: What's the most unique Flowgram application you've run across so far?
AP: The thing that has been most surprising about Flowgram is that, unlike many Web 2.0 tools, a large percentage of our users are utilizing Flowgram to get important things done. We have sales people using it for pitches, teachers are using it as an educational tool and also having their students use it for their reports. We've even had a keynote delivered at a major conference using Flowgram. We're excited by the diversity of applications we've seen so far, especially considering that we've only been publicly available for a month.
DDJ: Where can readers go for more information about Flowgrams?
AP: They can visit www.flowgram.com for more information.


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Consistent with its religious heritage, Marquette University encourages all employees to make use of opportunities for continued spiritual development according to their particular religious tradition. Opportunities for spiritual growth and development are available through Campus Ministry, the Center for Ignatian Spirituality and other sources on campus.
In many academic units of the university, opportunities for professional development and in-service programs provide faculty with time off from their normal work in order to become acquainted with important developments in their field. Marquette likewise encourages non-faculty employees to make use of similar opportunities by granting two days leave for a person who wishes to make a spiritual retreat. For each day granted by the university, the individual must take one of his or her personal or vacation days. Thus, if a person wants four days off to make a retreat, he or she must take two vacation days or one vacation day and one personal day. If a person wishes to spend only one work day in retreat, the person does not take a vacation or personal day. In each case, in order to ensure that important services do not lapse because of absences from the university, a person must receive the approval of his or her supervisor for the time away from the university.
If the proposed retreat is not sponsored by the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality or Campus Ministry, or held at one of the retreat houses listed in the Marquette retreat brochure, the person must consult the Office of Mission and Ministry for a written confirmation that the proposed retreat meets the intent of this policy.
Please contact the office of University Ministry for more information on the various retreats they are currently offering.


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Barbie Without Makeup: Photo by Graphic Artist Shows a 'Regular' Barbie (PHOTO)
A Barbie without makeup has been featured by a graphic artist, showing the long time favorite doll following the recent trend of celebrities to be photographed without makeup on.
Barbie is normally seen donning makeup, but a graphic artist by the name of Eddi Aguirre has decided to show what the doll would look like sans makeup, and the result has gotten a lot of attention by online readers.
The graphic artists posted his creation on his online portfolio, showing Barbie with some freckles, some bags under her eyes, as well as imperfect hair. Some have commented that the Barbie also looks like she has been working the graveyard shift, as she appears sleep deprived and exhausted as well.
The graphic designed in fact comes from Mexico, and a caption above his Barbie pictures, roughly translated into English, reads: "Image used for a special makeup for the new magazine, Barbie shows before and after makeup (no one is perfect)."
Barbie has been seen throughout the past decades with perfectly polished, glossy and flawless complexion and makeup. People are used to see her her in that way, but according to some commenters, the recent image of a makeup free Barbie has been like a breath of fresh air, as it has reminded people that Barbie is an unrealistic role model for young girls.
"It's human nature for people to build up iconic figures and then tear them down," Fran Walfish, a child and family therapist based in Beverly Hills, CA, told Yahoo News. "We idealize public figures because we want something to aspire to but our standards are impossibly high. And when these icons inevitably misstep, we feel disappointed and angry that our hopes have been dashed."
Artist Eddi Aguirre's portfolio can be seen by clicking here.
Further images of the makeup free Barbie can also be seen by clicking here.


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Samuel Avro – Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Sam founded Energy Trends Insider (originally Consumer Energy Report) in 2008-2009 and has since maintained and built the publication to where it is now. His primary roles are business manager and editor, but he often finds himself dipping his toes into the world of web design and content management systems.
To discuss partnerships and business matters, or for media personnel seeking to interview a member of ETI's team, Sam is the person to speak to. He can be reached at editor [at] energytrendsinsider [dot] com .
Robert Rapier - Managing Editor & Director of Analysis
Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about issues involving energy and the environment. He is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Merica International, a forestry and renewable energy company involved in a variety of projects around the world.
Robert has 20 years of experience working in the areas of oil refining, natural gas production, synthetic fuels, ethanol production, butanol production, and various biomass to energy projects – and has several patents based on his work. He is the author of Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil, and his articles on energy and sustainability have appeared in numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Forbes.
Andrew Holland
Andrew Holland is a Washington-based expert on energy, climate change, and infrastructure policy. He has over seven years of experience working at the center of debates about how to achieve sustainable energy security and how to effectively address climate change. He is an experienced writer and strategic analyst. He has spoken about energy security, Arctic policy, and water resources at high-level events in South Korea, Brussels, Washington, London, Geneva, and China.
Since April, 2011, Andrew has been a Fellow for Energy and Environmental Security with the American Security Project. In 2009 and 2010, he was the manager of the Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security for the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). This dialogue, funded by the European Commission, brought together subject experts from government, the military, NGOs, Think Tanks, and academia to discuss the impacts of climate change on food, water, and energy security. He has a close relationship with a diverse group of energy, security, and environmental experts from around the world. Prior to joining the IISS, he was a Legislative Assistant on Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure for United States Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska from 2006 through 2008. He also has experience working in the US House of Representatives for the House Ways and Means Committee and the Office of Congresswoman Roukema. He holds a Master's Degree in International Strategy and Economics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Bachelor's Degree in History and Economics from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is originally from New York City, grew up in New Jersey, and currently resides in Washington DC.
James Hamilton received a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, and has been a professor in the Economics Department at the University of California at San Diego since 1992. He has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC as well as many of the Federal Reserve Banks. James has also been a consultant for the National Academy of Sciences, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the European Central Bank and has testified before the United States Congress. More details can be found on his c.v.
James has published academic books and articles on a wide range of topics including econometrics, business cycles, monetary policy, and energy markets. But he think it's a real problem if academics only write things for other academics to read. In his words: "A blog can be a very good way to engage the broader public and help inform my own understanding of what's going on with real-world issues. I invite readers to join me as I share thoughts both on matters that I think I understand as well as trends or developments that may surprise or puzzle me."
Will Rogers
Will Rogers is the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a nonpartisan national security and defense policy think tank in Washington. At CNAS, Mr. Rogers leads the center's Natural Security program, which focuses on climate change, energy, natural resources and natural security policy. He has authored or co-authored a range of publications on energy, climate change, environmental cooperation in Asia and cybersecurity.
Mr. Rogers is a contributor to a variety of CNAS reports, including Cooperation from Strength: The United States, China and the South China Sea (2012), Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age (2011), and Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy (2010). He is also the editor of the Natural Security Blog and a contributor to the National Journal's Energy Experts Blog.
Prior to joining CNAS, Will was an intern with the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he frequently wrote on environmental security for The New Security Beat. Previously, he served as a legislative intern in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. He has studied abroad at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was a recipient of the 2007 Political Studies Senior Prize Scholarship.
Mr. Rogers has a B.A. in Political Science-International Relations from the University of California, San Diego, with an emphasis in U.S. national security and foreign policy. He is currently a graduate student in Georgetown University's Security Studies Program.
Elias Hinckley
Eli Hinckley leads the clean energy practice at Kilpatrick Townsend. He has more than a dozen years of experience of financial and legal support for energy and resource project development, with a special focus on efficiently realizing the economic value of policy and regulatory platforms, and has helped dozens of companies realize more than $1 billion in policy-based support for a range of projects.
He was the leader of Deloitte's U.S. alternative energy tax practice, co-leader of the firm's sustainability practice and co-author of the firm's global climate change platform.
Eli has held several advisory roles, from acting as a senior advisor for energy technology and development companies to providing policy strategy for one of the largest natural resource companies in the world.
He has been a professor of international energy policy at Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and is a regular speaker and author on financial innovations associated with the transitioning energy economy.
Russ Finley
Russ Finley is an avid amateur naturalist. He is also an aerospace engineer with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, an Associate's in Aviation Technology, airframe and power plant mechanic's licenses, and pilot's license, all from Purdue University.
Much of his spare time for the past decade has been spent writing about energy and environmental issues. He lives in Seattle along with his wife and two children.
Matthew Stepp
Matthew Stepp is a Senior Analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) specializing in climate change and clean energy policy.
His research interests include clean energy technology development, climate science policy development, transportation policy, and the role innovation has in economic growth.
Before joining ITIF, he served as Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, a think tank located in Oakland, California, focused on climate and energy policy issues. He worked on a report aimed at presenting an alternative strategy for building a US green economy through innovation-focused policies instead of the traditional approach of putting a price on carbon emissions. Prior to this position, he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a M.S. degree in Science, Technology, and Public Policy. His thesis focused on qualitatively and quantitatively modeling greenhouse gas reduction policy portfolios and highlighting opportunities for greater emission reductions due to system synergies. This work has been published in the Journal of Energy Policy and presented at both regional and stakeholder conferences.
As a graduate student he was a Fellow with the Transportation Research Board at the National Academies of Science where he researched and analyzed light duty vehicle energy reduction policy strategies. Matthew also has a B.S. in Meteorology from Millersville University where he conducted a wide range of research on the meteorological applications of synthetic radar and conducted climate modeling studies at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.


text: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bill Broadley wrote: > > Er, I'd like to buy one, is EIP an online store? I tried eip.com and > it doesn't look like a store front. > > How did you order it? Oops, silly me. Don't know what I was typing. Let's try EFI, via: http://www.efi.org/greenmountain/info001.htm so all you have to do is click "add to cart" for $39.95 plus $5 S/H. This is a site that seems to specialize in energy saving tools and methodologies. Looks like a good place, for example, to buy compact fluorescent lighting. They push the kill-a-watt device as a way to find out what nearly anything electrical you're likely to have in a house (short of your 220V central air, stove, or drier) draws, so you can choose to economize or select a suitably efficient model. I don't think they'd disapprove of us doing the same thing with node engineering. Nodes cost money, inexorably, every minute they are plugged in and turned on. As I said before, if y'all want to wait 2-3 days before ordering, I'd be happy to give at least a short report on the device as soon as I receive it. As in, well made/cheap, works/broken out of box, horribly exciting or rather dull (but useful) or useless as the case may be. I can't imagine not liking it if it works and isn't horribly shoddy, but one never knows... rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Blaze destroys Birchwood home
An early-morning fire off South Birchwood Loop on Sunday, May 6, completely destroyed the home of longtime Chugiak residents Jim and Lindsay Vermillion.
"It's just a smoking hole in the ground," said Jim Vermillion on Monday, May 7.
He and his wife were in the process of remodeling the home at 19022 Baidarka, which Jim said was originally built in the 1950s. At the time of the blaze, they were staying in their large shop next door, which houses Concrete Polishing and Artistic Staining of Alaska.
"A passing jogger, a Good Samaritan, pounded on our door at 6:30 in the morning," Jim said.
The Vermillions awoke to see the home they've lived in since the 1970s nearly completely engulfed in flames.
When crews from the Chugiak Volunteer Fire Department arrived minutes later, they realized the burning home was already too far gone to save.
"It was 30 to 50 percent involved," said CVFD spokesman Jeff Hartley.
However, the shop — which sits just 50 feet away from the home — was still in real danger, Jim Vermillion said.
"It was hot enough that it was starting to break windows," he said.
Hartley said fire crews concentrated their efforts on making sure the fire didn't spread to the Vermillions' shop.
"When our crews got on scene they went into a defensive operation," he said.
Jim Vermillion said he doesn't know who the jogger was who woke he and his wife, but he's sure that if the fire department had arrived much later, the fire could have been even worse.
"We would have lost both buildings," he said.
He said the remodeling process was nearly complete. New appliances and a dining room table were already in place, and the couple planned to return to their home this spring.
"We were going to move into it soon," he said.
Jim Vermillion said it's too early to say if he and his wife will rebuild.
"We've got to sort through this disaster first," he said.
He said many people in the community have already stopped by to offer their help, and the outpouring of support from neighbors has been overwhelming.
"Everyone that's come around have been wonderful," he said.
Hartley said the cause of the fire is undetermined.
Contact Matt Tunseth at 694-2727 or [email protected]


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'Hung' Star Thomas Jane Was Once a Homeless Gay Hooker
Thomas Jane, who plays a gigolo on the HBO drama 'Hung,' opened up about his past real-life experiences in the sex trade during an interview with The Los Angeles Times.
"You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car," Jane explained. "I was 18. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?"
According to Jane, going gay for pay wasn't only an economic decision. It was also part of an exploration of his sexual identity, and one that helped him to settle on heterosexuality.
"It blew the doors off of my conventional upbringing and thinking and opened up possibilities for me that were akin to World War III. And then you actually have a choice, and I chose to be a heterosexual guy because that's what my DNA dictates and my nurture dictates that I am," said the twice-married 42-year old actor.