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- 10 Feb 2014
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- Sochi 2014 , IOC News , Speed skating , Netherlands
Twin peaks for Mulder brothers as Dutch skaters complete another podium sweep
Dutch speed skater Michel Mulder saw off a fierce challenge from his Dutch team-mates to win the 500m Olympic speed skating gold at the Adler Arena on Monday as the Netherlands swept the podium for the second time at Sochi 2014.
Mulder, 27, won with a combined time from his two races of 69.31 seconds, beating compatriot Jan Smeekens by just 0.01 second in a thrilling climax to the competition. Meanwhile, Ronald Mulder, the twin brother of Michel, took bronze in a time of 69.46 seconds.
Smeekens led the eventual winner by 0.04 sec after the first race, and with Michel Mulder only racing in the 19th pair, the stage was set for a nail-biting finale.
He crossed the line with his head in his hands and it took several seconds for him to register that he had won the Olympic title. Then, when the final result flashed up he let out a roar of triumph and pulled his orange skating suit open.
"When I crossed the line I just didn't know. Then I saw that I had won and I couldn't believe it," explained the new Olympic champion.
"Now I have won everything there is to win. After all this work, I'm the Olympic champion, I can't believe it."
It was the second speed skating clean sweep for the Netherlands at the Adler Arena in three days of competition after the country's men took all three medals in the 5,000m on Saturday.
Surprisingly, though, it was the first ever 500m Olympic title for a country that has long been one of the world's speed skating powerhouses.
Silver medallist Smeekens was philosophical about coming second: "At first I had mixed feelings because it was so close. I looked at the scoreboard and I thought that I'd won, and seconds later I saw I didn't.
"But now I have to be happy with my second place. It was a very stressful day, and now I've won an Olympic medal. It's unbelievable," he concluded.


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Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking, accused the senior tax partners of KPMG, Ernst & Young (E&Y), Deloitte and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) of harming society by reducing the Exchequer's tax take. She said the Big 4 had created 79 tax avoidance schemes in past 3 years.
"I don't think people who give advice to cut the tax payable should be getting government business. Quite simple," said Ms Hodge.
At the end of the two-and-a-half-hour grilling, she added: "What really depresses me is you could contribute so much to society and the public good and you all choose to focus on working in an area which reduces the available resources for us to build schools, hospitals, infrastructure," she said at the end of a two-and-half-hour grilling.
Declaring that the firms' tax divisions had become a £20bn global business, Ms Hodge said: "Avoiding tax has become a new way of making profits."
The Committee honed in on KPMG's role advising the Government in setting up the Patent Box last year. The legislation allows individuals and companies to claim tax relief on intellectual property. Ms Hodge claimed KPMG had then marketed the Patent Box to clients as a way of reducing tax. She accused them of "selling it to clients, not to encourage innovation, but help them pay less tax." Jane McCormick of KPMG said they were helping innovative firms.
Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at Deloitte said: "We help make the tax system work."
All the tax expert insisted that they all help clients within the law. When the Committee claimed that the firms helped "taxable income disappear into thin air", Ms McCormick said that "there is no appetite among clients to do that." She told them that clients wanted a "sustainable" business and tax model, not one that was trying to find loopholes.
The Committee pointed a tribunal cases - some of which have been lost by the Big Four - as evidence that the firms were sometimes helping clients to break the rules.
Deloitte's Mr Dodwell said falling foul of tax law was "not an offence." A tribunal loss, he said, merely showed a "different interpretation" of the tax law.
Ms Hodge attacked them for helping clients shift profits out of the UK into lower tax jurisdictions. "You have deliberately taken them off shore so they don't pay their fair share in the UK - and that stinks," she said. They insisted they did not "mass market" avoidance schemes, even when Ms Hodge waved brochures at them. Ernst & Young tax boss, John Dixon, insisted "they are not mass market schemes, they are bespoke pieces of advice to clients." They denied sharing profits of successful schemes although Kevin Nicholson, head of tax at PwC conceded that there were "commonality between cases."
The Committee also alleged that an "online retailer", was not paying full VAT on items like ebooks. Amazon told The Daily Telegraph: "In accordance with EU and UK law, we apply the Luxembourg rate of VAT in relation to sales of digital services like ebooks and MP3 downloads."


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ACRL is accepting applications from prospective new presenters for the workshop "Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action." The day-long workshop is led by one or two expert presenters at locations across the country. The workshop curriculum is designed to support librarians in applying the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education at their institutions. ACRL seeks to expand our pool of presenters by recruiting experienced individuals to join our existing team. Presenters may also be asked to present webcasts or teach online courses.
- Evidence of understanding and/or usage of the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education and their application in libraries.
- Experience developing, facilitating, and leading interactive workshops.
- Demonstrated ability to engage in collaborative planning.
- Ability to observe the "Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action" workshop held in conjunction with the ACRL 2013 Conference on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Indianapolis.
- Ability to present the Standards workshops beginning summer 2013 through summer 2014 (between 2-4 workshops during the time span).
- Experience working in academic or research libraries
Strongly preferred:
- Background in assessment and/or benchmarking.
- Demonstrated understanding and engagement of campus-wide planning.
- Ability to deliver effective live webcasts in an interactive, online classroom environment.
We encourage applications from individuals representing the full array of professional areas and services in academic and research librarianship.
New presenters will gain experience by shadowing experienced presenters and team-teaching a section or assignment before taking a leading role. The workshop curriculum has been designed and presented in a variety of settings. There may be occasional need to refresh the curriculum; new presenters would be expected to participate in these curriculum updates. Presenters may need to participate in planning calls and/or in-person meetings held in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter and/or Annual Conference. ACRL will reimburse the presenters for travel costs for workshop presentation to include flights, hotel, ground transportation, and per diem for meals. ACRL provides a modest honorarium to experienced presenters.
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- Why do you want to become a presenter for ACRL's Standards for Libraries in Higher Education workshops?
- What contributions could you make to the presenter team that align with the qualifications?
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The Role Of Stakeholders
The Role of Stakeholders
In April, JPMorgan Chase, the third-largest bank holding company in the United States, announced that it would adopt a comprehensive environmental policy. The policy will improve its own internal practices, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing use of recycled paper. More importantly, it will also create strict criteria to guide JPMorgan Chase's lending decisions. Now the bank will take into consideration environmental impacts (as laid out in the Equator Principles) when evaluating loan requests of over $10 million from the mining, forestry, oil, and gas industries, as well as all other loans of over $50 million. Moreover, it will no longer finance projects in environmentally sensitive ecosystems and will encourage clients that emit large amounts of greenhouse gases to design plans to reduce or offset emissions.
JPMorgan Chase is actually the third U.S. bank to "green" its lending practices, following on the heels of America's two largest, Citigroup and Bank of America. It's no coincidence that the three largest U.S. banks-collectively holding assets of almost $4 trillion-have made such sweeping changes recently. The changes follow years of aggressive efforts by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), investors, and activists.
Stakeholders, including NGOs, investors, and activists, as well as communities, labor, and consumers, are playing an increasingly important role in improving corporate behavior. Some NGOs are using tactics of direct confrontation. Others have been working for years to create partnerships with companies in order to help them green their production, often in ways that actually save them money. As well, the investor community is taking an increasingly active role in encouraging corporations to consider not just the next quarter's earnings but also the long-term financial risks of failing to address broader social and environmental issues. Together, these are proving key strategies in compelling corporations to internalize the environmental and social costs that are often ignored in the mad race for profit.
Inciting a Race to the Top
Corporate managers face many daily pressures, and improving social and environmental records (often in ways that don't directly enhance the bottom line) is not generally their highest priority-until their corporations suddenly become the targets of bad publicity from a coordinated group of activists. With corporations spending a half trillion dollars each year to create positive images through advertising, a sudden storm of negative publicity from the actions of thousands of coordinated activists can swiftly raise environmental issues to the top of managers' action-item lists.
This fear of public shaming-and the connected loss of profit and stock value-are what makes these "corporate campaigns" so successful. Unlike traditional campaigns against companies, such as boycotts, labor strikes, and litigation (which remain important but often have limited objectives), corporate campaigns treat the targeted company more as a lever of change than as an end in itself. When a coalition of NGOs and investors led by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) targeted Citigroup, the goal was to reduce overall exploitation of natural resources. But RAN didn't target mining and logging companies-which are not in the public eye and depend on continued extraction to survive-pouncing instead on the financial institutions that capitalize the mining and logging companies. Unlike them, banks spend billions to maintain strong brands and customer bases. These assets are essential, and thus exploitable vulnerabilities. And exploit RAN did. In 2000, RAN asked Citigroup to adopt a green lending policy. While the company initially refused, after more than three years of protests, shareholder actions, and other irritating tactics, Citigroup finally recognized that lending to unsustainable industries would be more costly than profitable, while not lending to them would be worth its weight in free advertising.
Once Citigroup yielded, its antagonistic relationship with RAN evolved into a collaboration to ensure adherence to its new standards-a partnership that provided much free publicity to Citigroup. Meanwhile, RAN quietly drafted a letter to Bank of America asking managers to adopt a similar policy. Bank of America, having witnessed the disruption that committed activists can cause by chaining themselves to bank doors, quickly realized that it was better to join the ranks of ecofriendly banks. Bank of America's capitulation then left JPMorgan Chase as the next target, and it soon followed suit.
RAN's strategic choices-including effective partnering with investors and corporate insiders, sequentially targeting intermediary companies, and providing the companies with easy ways to cooperate-have leveraged its successes. For example, after Home Depot yielded to RAN's demand to change its wood-buying practices in August 1999, it only took a month for Lowes (the second-largest do-it-yourself, or DIY, store) to agree to a similar policy. Within nine months, eight of the ten largest DIY stores had developed similar policies.
This "rank 'em and spank 'em" strategy-in which one company after the next is brought to the negotiating table-has proved to be incredibly effective. Already, it has changed the practices of banks and DIY stores, as well as office supply stores and computer retailers. Now it's being applied to cosmetics companies, coffee vendors, jewelry stores, and even a well-known lingerie retailer.
Today, just the fear of these campaigns (or desire for good publicity) can trigger change. In 2004, the mining reform organization Earthworks launched its "No Dirty Gold" campaign. While the goal is to reform gold mining practices-which create, on average, 20 tons of waste for every gold ring produced-the campaign's target is not the mining industry, but companies that can easily change their gold-buying practices and are in the public's eye, such as world-famous jeweler Tiffany's, school ring retailer Josten's, and Wal-Mart, the largest jewelry retailer in the country. Almost immediately after the campaign started, Tiffany's published an open letter to the U.S. Forest Service in The Washington Post in which it criticized the building of a mine in a pristine wilderness area in Montana and used the example to highlight the urgent need for mining reforms-a first for a major jewelry company.
Beyond merely defensive reactions, these campaigns can sometimes lead to real leadership. Nike, originally the target of a sweeping sweatshop campaign because of the abysmal conditions in its overseas factories, is now leading the apparel industry in sector-wide reform to increase transparency and improve labor standards. And Staples, another target of a corporate campaign, is now part of a coalition of businesses helping to design a comprehensive paper-purchasing guideline that it hopes corporations around the world will adopt.
Investing for Change
Along with the activist community, corporate campaigns usually involve another important stakeholder: investors. In the United States, corporate law requires companies to consider above all the interests of shareholders. Generally this has led to the fixation on short-term profit, but as shareholders recognize that the lasting value of their investments depend on how companies address long-term risks like climate change and toxic chemical releases, shareholders are becoming a powerful force for change. More investors-from mutual fund companies to big institutional investors like the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)-are increasingly engaging with companies to encourage them to adopt policies that address long-term risks.
In corporate campaigns, activists use negative publicity to drag corporations to the negotiating table. But investors, as the owners of those corporations, have the right to "dialogue" with management, express their concerns, and ask the corporation to take action. Just putting issues on the table is sometimes enough to trigger a response. In 2002, Calvert Asset Management Company, a socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual fund, sent letters to 154 corporations listed in their Calvert Social Index that had no women or minority members on their boards of directors, and asked them to consider diversifying as they hired new board members. Since then, 48 of these companies have added at least one minority member or woman to their boards and another 39 have adopted language that promotes increased diversity.
But when asking politely doesn't work, shareholders and investors can turn up the heat with shareholder resolutions. As owners of corporations, shareholders have power to influence company policies through board elections and by filing resolutions that offer specific policy changes. While resolutions are non-binding, companies often agree to policy changes in order to maintain positive relationships with shareholders and avoid bad publicity. Indeed, the most successful resolutions are not those that actually come to a vote (since most shares are held by non-voting institutions, and resolutions are non-binding anyway), but the ones withdrawn by filers after management agrees to act on the issue.
In 2004, according to the Investor Responsibility Research Center, investors filed 350 resolutions regarding social or environmental issues with U.S. companies, 17 percent more than the previous year. Of these, investors withdrew 87 after companies agreed to address issues ranging from animal welfare and climate change to political contributions and global labor standards.
Perhaps the most impressive investor initiative was a recent show of force this past May at the United Nations. Hundreds of major investors, collectively controlling assets of $3.2 trillion ($600 billion more than the total funds invested globally in actual SRI funds), gathered at the UN to discuss how to press companies to address climate change and its associated financial risks. At the end of the day, this "Investor Network on Climate Risk" pledged not only to invest $1 billion in clean energy companies but to step up pressure on companies to disclose their climate impacts and how they are dealing with them.
Concerned investors can influence corporate behavior directly (by demanding policy changes) and more subtly (by selective investing). However, to become an even more effective force for change, socially responsible investing will have to go mainstream. Although most major investors, such as universities and pension funds, do not consider social responsibility criteria when choosing investments, in some countries this is starting to change. In the United Kingdom, for example, pension funds have been required since 2000 to disclose the extent to which their investment portfolios take into account environmental and social concerns-a law that has triggered similar initiatives in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and France. These simple law changes have started to mainstream SRI in Europe and could greatly enhance investors' role in improving corporate behavior.
In the short term, the power of SRI continues to come from shareholder advocacy. But as more dollars, euros, yen, and yuan are directed towards sustainable companies, this will pressure unsustainable companies to improve their records in order to compete for capital, in turn helping to transform the role of the corporation in society.
Supporting the Proactive
While many NGOs and investors are confronting corporations, other NGOs are proactively seeking out corporations to help them improve their social and environmental records-as well as their bottom lines. In 2000, Environmental Defense approached FedEx with an offer to help reduce the emissions of its delivery fleet. After realizing that this would provide a triple win-cost savings, good publicity, and reduced pollution-FedEx agreed. By the end of 2002, a new hybrid truck design was selected and 18 prototypes were put into service in Sacramento, New York City, Tampa, and Washington, D.C. Seventy-five more trucks are to be launched this year. Because each truck reduces emissions of soot by 96 percent and nitrogen oxides by 65 percent (and improves fuel efficiency by 57 percent), FedEx's introduction of these vehicles into its 30,000-strong fleet will have considerable environmental benefits. Moreover, the benefits don't stop at FedEx. As Elizabeth Strucken of Environmental Defense points out, "This project is serving as a catalyst for the entire shipping industry to convert their fleets."
World Resources Institute (WRI) is another environmental organization that is helping corporations to improve environmental records while reducing costs. One of its programs, Climate Northeast, has brought together 10 companies in the northeastern United States to help them collaborate in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and save money in the process.
General Electric-the ninth largest company in the world in 2004-is one of these companies, and has tracked its emissions for two years. In May, it went a step farther and developed a comprehensive plan to reduce its climate impacts. GE plans to produce diesel-electric hybrid locomotives and more efficient jet engines and double its investments in green technology research over the next five years to an annual $1.5 billion. It has also promised to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions by 1 percent by 2012 (even as it plans to grow significantly during that time). The company is now working with WRI to create a plan to achieve these emission reductions.
With GE's massive assets, its "ecomagination" program will give a significant boost to efforts to slow climate change, not to mention GE's bottom line, as the company is a major producer of wind turbines, locomotives, and jet engines. Moreover, the positive publicity that GE will get from such a high profile initiative will help to counter the years of attacks it has endured at the hands of activists for being one of the largest corporate polluters in the United States. GE is responsible for about 100 Superfund sites, the most badly polluted toxic waste sites in the country, including the country's largest: a 320-kilometer stretch of the Hudson River contaminated with PCBs the company dumped throughout the mid-1900s.
GE is not the first company to recognize the benefits of proactively working with NGOs rather than waiting until it is attacked by them. In the 1990s, Chiquita Banana suffered through a bout of terrible publicity for labor and environmental practices, plus a labor strike and the havoc of Hurricane Mitch. The company realized that it needed to rebuild its brand, and sought out a partnership with Rainforest Alliance, an NGO that worked with Chiquita to certify the health, labor, and environmental practices on the company's farms. By 2002, all of Chiquita's farms, covering 25,000 hectares, were certified by Rainforest Alliance, as were 75 percent of the bananas sold by the company in Europe and the United States.
In short, more corporate managers are reading the proverbial writing on the wall. Corporations really have only two options: seek out genuine partnerships with stakeholders for support as they work towards being more sustainable, or wait until stakeholders come knocking on their doors, brandishing picket signs and shareholder resolutions, and demanding immediate and sometimes difficult change. The benefits of the first course, with all the positive publicity and frequent financial rewards it brings, far outweigh the benefits of waiting for the hammer to fall, which in today's globalized world can shatter a brand almost overnight. Indeed, Coca-Cola is currently experiencing this first-hand as articles proliferate worldwide about Indian activists attacking Coca-Cola for its draining of community aquifers and for allowing high levels of pesticides in its soft drinks.
To avoid facing the same conflict that the Nikes, Nestlés, Citigroups, and Coca-Colas of the world have experienced, corporations are starting to protect their brands by more proactively addressing looming social and environmental threats. Yet the speed of this transition will depend on the continued efforts of stakeholders to make sure that corporations "get it," that is, understand that their long-term financial success depends not just on pursuing the bottom line, but on doing so in a socially and environmentally responsible way.
Erik Assadourian is a Staff Researcher at Worldwatch and co-director of State of the World 2006. The third article in this series will explore corporations that are leading the way towards a sustainable economy.


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PRISMWednesday, June 12th, 2013
The recent disclosure by Edward Snowden about the NSA's PRISM surveillance system has been quite interesting. It seems certain that they are collecting meta data about all phone calls that pass through US infrastructure (or perhaps even infrastructure of US domiciled telcos that is located elsewhere). There are also claims that they have access to content from major B2C cloud providers such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Skype.
First, was anyone seriously surprised? Surely not! The US government is in a siege mind-set and both surveillance and development of a social graph to find accomplices are reasonable approaches (never mind legality) to defend against terrorism.
Why the siege mentality? Because of the ominous terrorist threat! Never mind that the number of people killed or injured in the western world, by terrorism, is statistically indistinguishable from zero and that no government can point to any successful prevention despite billions in spending. The best the US government can point to is a few dead terrorists, thanks to the drone assassination program over Pakistan. And a lot of dead soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tragic.
So given that wire-tapping without a court order is supposed to be illegal in the US, how might the government justify the legality of this program?
One approach might be to collect all the data, store it, but only analyze any of it with a court order. Another approach might be to run analyses on the social graph, generate reports on interesting sets of people but without identifying who they are and get a secret court to approve display of identity data for the people identified in a report.
Who knows? I am not a lawyer. It's fun to speculate, though!
So is any of this useful?
As an IT security practitioner, my first instinct is to say "yes" — i.e., it seems plausible that you would find some bad guys this way.
The trouble is, have the US feds found any bad guys? I can't imagine politicians resisting the urge to brag about the success of this kind of effort if they actually caught someone. They haven't really done that, so I have to conclude that the program has been a dud. Very much like the video surveillance in London – sounds good on paper, but where is the data to show that it had an impact on crime rates? (hint: there is no such data).
I'm a big believe in "if you can't measure it, it doesn't exist" – and extreme surveillance like PRISM or like the London camera system have yielded no measurable value, as far as I can tell.
But what about 9/11 you might ask? It's a single event, and it could be prevented by better doors on cockpits (done). Seriously – you don't need a TSA or DHS to prevent it. Even if you include 9/11, in objective terms, terrorism still poses a lower risk than slippery bathtubs (On an average, 370 persons of all ages sustain injuries from bathtub/shower daily in the United States.).
If you accept my thesis that all this anti-terror activity is a huge waste of energy, then what effect does it actually have? Well, if the purported $200,000/year salary for high-school-educated Edward Snowden is any indication, it has an impact on the IT labor market. As does the fact that the NSA and its contractors certainly employ tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands, collectively) of talented individuals in work that has no economic benefit. This isn't good for the US economy (diverting labor away from productive work) or for the US federal budget deficit (this isn't cheap folks!).
Another impact is on cloud computing. While US-domiciled firms may continue to be comfortable moving their corporate infrastructure and apps to the cloud, firms domiciled elsewhere will either not feel comfortable using US-based cloud providers (such as Amazon, Salesforce, etc.) or may even be legally prohibited from doing so (I've heard that medical researchers in Canada cannot host their IT on US servers). This means that all the surveillance has the unintended effect of making otherwise world-leading US cloud providers uncompetitive.
Another angle on all this is that it makes US government behaviour uncomfortably similar to Chinese government behaviour. Extensive surveillance? Check! Ability to block content? Check! (the US do this with DNS take-down orders due to claimed IP violations, but still…). Did the moral high ground just making a whooshing noise as it disappeared?
What else could they monitor? Full speech-to-text of voice calls comes to mind. The technology almost certainly exists (I have heard that the Israeli government has had this capability for years). You could use same legal cover to add this feature.
Why the fancy new data centers in Utah and Maryland? Well, if you collect this kind of voluminous data, you have to store it somewhere. Surely the telcos and cloud B2C web site companies won't want to spend their own money to store all this data on their servers, in their facilities. Violating customer privacy is one thing. Spending big money to do so is something else again.
The US public seems to be sanguine about all this surveillance. That's an uncharacteristic trust in government's good intentions, quite at odds with the recent IRS abuse of power scandal. Nishant Kaushik pointed out something really smart today — Americans would likely respond quite differently if they clued in to the idea that PRISM could probably be used to create a gun owners registry. Imagine the NRA's response! LOL.
So is this just a US problem? Well, obviously more repressive regimes like China and Russia do the same thing. I think we should assume, by default, that other Western countries (including my home in Canada) do so too. That's gotta be the safer assumption.
That's what comes to mind. Quite a lot. 😉 We certainly live in interesting times!


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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
Azure Storage Data Movement Library on CoreCLR for Linux
Azure Storage Data Movement Library on CoreCLR targetting Linux platforms - Demonstrates how to copy and download large directory of files to/from Azure Storage Blob service.
Note: If you don't have a Microsoft Azure subscription you can get a FREE trial account here
Running this sample with one-click deploy
- Click on the 'Deploy to Azure' link above, which will create a new VM with name 'StorageSampleVM-DMlib-CoreCLR' and a storage account in your azure subscription using an Azure Resource Manager template.
- Once deployment is completed, login to the Linux VM using SSH.
- The sample application will be located under /home/< your-user>/storage-blob-coreclr-linux-getting-started-w-data-movement-library/. Sample data will be located under /mnt/testdata
- To run the sample app, issue the following commands:
azurecli cd /home/<your-user>/storage-blob-coreclr-linux-getting-started-w-data-movement-library/ dotnet run backup /mnt/testdata dotnet run restore /mnt/restoreddata
Running this sample manually
This sample can only be run using an Azure Storage Account. When the sample is run, the user will be be prompted to enter an Azure Storage account name and a service/account SAS key that has read and write access to the blob service.
You need to install the .NET Core 1.1 in your linux environment. Please visit https://www.microsoft.com/net/core for installation instructions. If you have a different version than .NET Core 1.1, be sure to update project.json file for the .NET Core dependency version.
To run the sample you need to supplement two arguments in the Linux commandline
- First argument is the option to backup or restore data. Simply provide 'backup' or 'restore' keyword
- Local directory to be backed up or restored to.
Sample usage:
- Clone this repository.
azurecli git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/storage-blob-coreclr-linux-getting-started-w-data-movement-library/
- Build and run the sample
azurecli dotnet restore dotnet build dotnet run <first argument: backup/restore> <second argument: /home/sampledirectory> dotnet run backup /home/sampledirectory dotnet run restore /home/sampledirectory


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General Application- New York
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|Induction Class of 2012
|Previous College:
|Boston State College '73
|Lacrosse, Football
The only Boston State College alumnus to be elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Honorable James P. Collins III was a three-year letterman in both lacrosse and football at Boston State College. Collins was instrumental in two of the most memorable lacrosse seasons in the college's history. He also served as one of the founders of the Boston State football program, which he quarterbacked in all three seasons, including its outstanding 6–1 finish in its inaugural year.
While with the lacrosse program, Collins helped lead the Warriors to the first USILA Colonial League championship, after closing out the 1972 season with an 112 record. That team would later be inducted into the UMass Boston Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1971, Collins, the team's go-to defensive midfielder, helped the Warriors set the single-season program record for wins with 12.
Off the field, Collins was active on campus and was elected student government president in his senior year. Following his graduation, Collins entered the political world and in 1977 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He subsequently joined the Governor Edward King administration and found time to serve on college committees including the Alumni Association Board and the Michael Crowley Memorial Foundation, named for a lacrosse teammate. His son, Rep. Nick Collins, currently serves the district that includes the UMass Boston campus area.
Collins earned his master's degree from Boston University and is currently the CEO of New England Business Partners, based in Boston. He is on the board of several companies, business groups, and charitable organizations, including the JFK Family Services Center in Charlestown, his hometown. Collins and his wife Mary live in South Boston and are proud parents of Michaela, Andrew, Nick, James P. IV, Mariella, and Olivia.


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Baylor Corner Chair
At Century, We Have Only One Standard: The Best. That Means Only The Best Materials, Design And Craftsmanship. Our Founder, Harley Shuford Senior, Built This Company On One Single Premise. We Strive To Build Furniture Of Such Impeccable Quality That It Gives Satisfaction Not Only To The Person Who Owns It, But To The Craftsmen Who Build It. We Expect Every Piece We Make To Be Perfect And We Stand Behind It, Hand-In-Hand With Only The Finest Retailers.
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The Pointers have been selected to play in downtown's Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, as part of a Friday, April 19 tripleheader of prep games.
Taking the field at 1 p.m. for the day's first game, PLHS will be facing La Jolla High in a league game that is part of Western League standings.
Tickets for the game are priced at $15 and $25 and include a ticket to return to Petco Park on May 3 to see the major league Padres battle their National League rival Arizonas Diamondbacks in a 7 p.m. encounter.
Tickets for the event are available at all Pointer varsity baseball games or through the school's financial office during regular school hours.
Rosemary Avalos also has tickets available at (619) 339-1042, as does Kathy Seymour at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Later games at Petco Park on
April 19 involve Escondido vs. Mission Hills at 4 p.m. and West Hills vs. Valhalla at 7 p.m.
The Padres will be on an early-season road trip in San Francisco on this day.
Pointer bats are beginning to come alive after the team was shut out four times in preseason and tournament play.
The team improved to an overall record of 5-5 after downing Olympian High School 8-4 in its most recent game.
The La Jolla High Vikings currently stand at 4-3, with a 10-1 win over Olympian last month.


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Extending Global Communication
In real estate, location, location, location is the most important thing to remember. It doesn't matter the condition of the house, the color of the walls, or whether or not there are stainless steel appliances. All of that is cosmetic and unimportant, as long as you are in a desirable neighborhood with safe streets and a grocery store nearby.
The only downside is that once you buy that house, you are locked into one location for the life of your mortgage payments. The thought is daunting and requires quite a commitment. Location can be a blessing or it can be something that holds you back.
For the 194 member states of the United Nations that participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), however, location was not a cause for concern. For their 17th annual Conference of Parties (COP17), member countries from across the globe gathered to debate climate change strategies with a goal of coming to a global political deal between all attendees.
Committed to their mission of reducing impact on the environment, the United Nations chose Cisco to provide HD and quality video communication tools and web conferencing capabilities for its expected 20,000 attendees to participate. With trust in Cisco's stable and secure communications network, attendees were able to engage face-to-face in conversations with each other from telepresence rooms and via desktop video from all around the world.
COP17 represents a milestone in the ability of the international community to work together on climate change by leveraging virtual collaboration capabilities as the parties agreed to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change by 2015. Disparate locations could have limited the UN's ability to effect transformation in global sustainability, but instead, TelePresence enabled each participant to bring his or her perspective from all across the globe to make change.
Read more about COP17 here.
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Around this time of year, when the temperature is finally dropping, I begin craving sweet potatoes. This is an odd craving since, as a child and young adult, I detested the flavor of a sweet potato. Now I actually prefer a baked sweet potato or sweet potato fries over the white potato option.
I introduced sweet potatoes into my diet because I heard they were healthful. The older I get, the more I like that word "healthful," and after researching for this article, sweet potatoes are going to become a regular part of my diet.
Sweet Potatoes are a type of "super food." One sweet potato provides 200 percent of our recommended daily amount of vitamin A. Their orange flesh is high in fiber, beta carotene and other antioxidants that fight off all those free radicals floating around us all day.
Sweet potatoes also have some anti-inflammatory nutrients and blood sugar regulating nutrients.
My favorite discovery while researching the sweet potato was that it is important to have some fat in your sweet potato meals. (I knew fat had to be good for something.) Of course the recommended fat is olive oil, but I'm going to use the statement to justify my slathering a hot baked sweet potato with a whole lot of butter.
The first sweet potatoes produced in the United States were a firmer, white variety. When the softer, orange-fleshed potatoes were introduced the word "yam" was adopted to differentiate the two varieties. A yam is not a sweet potato but a different tubular that resembles the sweet potato.
There are many ways to enjoy this healthful and tasty vegetable. I usually punch a few holes in them with a fork and microwave for seven minutes. In some produce sections, you may find sweet potatoes sealed in plastic and labeled "microwavable." Please don't spend the extra dollars to purchase those. All sweet potatoes are microwavable, and they don't have to be wrapped up in some fancy packaging.
Then, of course, there is that delightful choice of turning the healthy vegetable into dessert. Sweet potato pies are one of those old fashioned desserts that aren't often made anymore. Sweet potato pies don't really taste like sweet potatoes, and it can be a good way to get a child, or a stubborn adult, to consume a sweet potato every now and then.
They're easy to make and delicious with or without a dollop of whipped cream on top.
Whether you're roasting, microwaving, baking or pie making, sweet potatoes are a healthful addition to any meal plan.
Even if you didn't like them as a child, try giving your maturing taste buds a chance to change your mind.
4 medium size sweet potatoes
3 tablespoons olive oil
Salt & Pepper to taste
1 stick butter, melted
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a sheet pan with cooking spray and set aside. Cut sweet potatoes into 1 inch cubes. In a medium size bowl, toss potatoes with olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. Spread potatoes out in a single layer on prepared pan. Roast until soft, approximately 40 minutes, turning once. Pour melted butter over roasted potatoes, toss and serve. Serves 4
2 cups self-rising flour
3 tablespoons brown sugar
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
¼ cup butter
3 tablespoons shortening
1 cup cooked, peeled and mashed sweet potatoes (about 1 medium size potato)
6 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Sift together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice. Cut in ¼ cup butter and shortening with a fork until mixture resembles crumbs. Add mashed sweet potatoes and milk, stirring just until ingredients are moist. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times. Roll dough out to ½ inch thickness. Cut with a 2 inch biscuit cutter. Place biscuits on an ungreased sheet pan and brush with melted butter. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until browned.
1 stick butter, melted
2 cups cooked, peeled and mashed sweet potatoes (about 2 medium size potatoes)
2 cups sugar
1 – 5 ounce can of evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs, beaten well
½ teaspoon cinnamon
2 prepared pie crusts, unbaked
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine potatoes, sugar and evaporated milk with a hand mixer until well blended. Add vanilla, eggs and cinnamon and mix well. Pour into the prepared pie shells. Bake for approximately 1 hour. Pie will be set in the middle and not runny when done. Allow pie to cool before slicing.


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Anodized Blue Rigger Sponson Speedy Changing Clamp
(Suitable for using on 10mm diameter tubing)
Specially designed for tightening 10mm Aluminum tube together with 6mm carbon fiber tube. It is designed for replacing the sponson speedily in a very short time in case the carbon fiber tube is broken during the race!
(No glue nor re-drill the carbon fiber tube are required anymore!!!)
This handy tool is made of 6061 Aluminum. (Pack for 8 pcs)


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whymatt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
We are an events management business specialising in meditation-related events. We organise and promote meditation classes/workshops/retreats/conferences/expos.
See http://www.meditate08.com.au and http://www.simplysilence.org for examples of the logos and style we currently use. We're looking for something along similar lines for 'Meditation Events'
Meditation Events
We would like:
- a subtle/simple design which incorporates balancing stones or a network of stones e.g. stepping stones or something else that conveys the following impression.- a very simple yet stylish font for our business name to create a professional corporate image without looking too boring
- the colour scheme to consist of cool calming colours such as blue/green/purple or just a plain black logo which is stylised with flowing lines (rather than a photographic image) and simple enough to use in big or small versions.
- the logo to convey a sense of connectedness and progress and look natural/organicLogo required in editable Illustrator or Fireworks vector format, with editable fonts included.
- simple, clean and stylish
- cool smooth colours
- no more than two colours
- lotus flowers
- meditation (lotus or cross-legged) poses
- candles
- incense
- angels
- crystals
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No Way! Looks like you've been crushin' a bit too hard on this style and its no longer available
Marlo is our newest luxe take on the classic barely there. Featuring a wide front strap. The ankle cuff is nice and chunky with an oversized buckle for major style points. Stitching detail around the front sole gives these that super luxurious feel. Chunky block heels are totes in right now which makes trotting around in heels that lil' bit more bareable. Pair these with a wrap around style skirt in shades of grey and team with a blouse...this look is perfect for office to drinks transition.
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I spent four years in the Marine Corps covering everything from combat patrols in Iraq to commanding generals cutting ribbons. It was challenging, exciting, life-changing and boring in almost equal measure.
After I'd gotten out and finished my Master's in journalism at NYU, I took what little money I had saved and decided to head to Afghanistan. I needed to go back, I needed to see the guys I knew and remind myself what seemed more real to me than anything else in my life.
So, I did. I got approved to embed with a Marine unit, filled out the paperwork absolving the Corps of my not unlikely demise, and took off for Kabul.
The freedom of being a civilian in that environment was a blessing and a curse. A blessing in that I could cover whatever I wanted, and a curse because so many ranking contacts now refused to talk to me. Weird being the enemy on the American side like that, but it was a good trip.
I'll be posting a series of photo essays and features on my time in country over the coming weeks, and this is a preview of what's to come.


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Kim and the Padre
(wanted to send an audio form with music and such- but your head might create that from written form)
When I moved back to N.Y.C I was trailed by Kimmy- from Cincinnati, an adorable, petite, nicely rounded intelligent young thing. She was in the beauty college and teasing hair ("beating heads" she called it). Paid the rent but she knew it wasn't hr cup of fur. I'd moved into the typical Lower east side hovel. She enrolled in Hunter College and amazingly found a room mate with a fine serviceable flat off central park west at 70th St.
The room mate Gina was a dancer (read:stripper). Hunter was expensive so she introduced Kimmy to the scene. Times Square was rough in those days and required ovaries of steel and game as she was, Kim's naivete' could not brook it. Gina found her other gigs in Hoboken and short New Jersey commutes in dives with ancient retired Polish workers, bleary and non-aggresive- less cash, but still plenty flow for rent, tuition and books.
I'd take the B or C train up to se her. Along with the other intoxicants we'd grown up with, we chipped at herion in those ays. Perhaps it was love and wonderment that kept us from going south with a jones, but we didn't get lost and dodged that bullit.
Her flat was a studio apt. so we'd have our assingnations while Gina was out at work or on a date (she was also an "escort"). Sometimes if Gina came home early we'd take our blanket and bumping up to the roof. Deep into it one starry summer evening I got hit in the back by a frisbee. Some cats on a roof higher than ours had missed a toss. I'm fairly accurate, didn't put my pants on and just sent it back to them. They thanked, waved and went on with their play- we did too. Gotta love New York!
Gina was still egging Kim on to pursue the escort biz. She was very protective of her, knew the education costs she faced and genuinely wanted to help.
"I can find you a niche baby. You don't have to do nobody!" "Gina, I don't go there, you know", Kim mumbled.
"I know, I know, but like for example, this guy I been seein', all's we do is, he picks me up, we go out to eat and then come home- don't gotta talk, touch...nothin!
So Kim asks, "Yeah?!? How's that work?".
"I dunno. He shows up in a big limo, takes me to a restaurant- but always a special expensive one- and we're not like with everybody else, It's always just a table for 2, with a curtain or seperate room. Then he orders all this food and wine- like oysters and lobster- and he just sits there and watches me eat it. O.K,O.K., sometimes he whacks off under the table- but not always. Then he brings me home!
And Kimmy says, "Well, that doesn't seem so bad for a night of delicious food. How much you bringing down for that much of nothing?". "Plenty!", Gina says, "But of course there's a bit of the weirdo factor too." I'd been listening to this, saying nothing, keeping my lip buttoned, but finally allowed my eyes to roll.
Kimmy asks, "What"s the rub?". "Well, he dresses like a priest!". Gina continues, "Yeah like those European priests, with the long black thing and the flat brimmed hat!?!"
"The guy wears a cossack?" I interject.
"I dunno, like what I said, and I'm only allow to call him father Salvatore. An he's got these weird poppin' eyes and this moustache that goes straight out all twisted tight and shit!"
And then it hits Kim and I both and we gaze at each other jaws agape. I clap mine shut, probe a question or two further to confirm the deviant. Kim asks, "Don't you realize you're dining with Salvador Dali?!?"
"He told me Padre Salvatore! But I'm getting fat eating all that shit- Maybe I could hook you up with him?" This is where I step in. "KImmy is an enticing and lovely creature but your good padre is an artist and I'm afraid her form is a bit too diminutive for his delectation." Kim cracked up well before Gina could mumble, "Wad duh hell zat mean???"
Soon after Kim got a serious (or stupid) 9 to 5, another apt., quit stripping, finished school at the top of her class, had some kids with a Nigerian- who left her and put a dent in her plans. She now live inquiet sucess in the tropics with 2 lovely children. I still shuffle the streets of New York and find wonder (even now!) Gina disappeared. Padre Salvatore died but they just keep on showing HIS work!
Rik Letendre, email@example.com, Snail mail, PO BOX 167, Trout Creek, NY 13847, PH#607-369-4140 my radio voice ain't bad and I'd love to record it. Any explicatives can be cooled or bleeped. With your rejection notice please include the phone # for sending direct audio...I've a stack of bizarre, short real tales....Thankx....best, Rik


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MP-25 Masterpiece Tracks
Next up in Takara's amazing Masterpiece Series is the MP-25 Tracks! He transforms from Chevrolet Corvette to a great looking screen accurate robot and can even fly in vehicle mode by deploying his hidden wings. Both robot and vehicle mode are in scale with the rest of the Autobot cars and other Masterpiece figures.
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Next up in Takara's amazing Masterpiece Series is the MP-25 Tracks! He transforms from Chevrolet Corvette to a great looking screen accurate robot and can even fly in vehicle mode by deploying his hidden wings. Both robot and vehicle mode are in scale with the rest of the Autobot cars and other Masterpiece figures.
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The ASP 6-Star Lusiaves Figueira Pro went mobile again in search of the best possible conditions to run today's session of competition. Setting up camp some 500 metres south of the main event site peaks in the 3-4ft range pulsed for some great displays of surfing.
Event officials had a tough decision on their hands when they were greeted with a very clean, straight swell that was basically a close-out from end-to-end. After checking other locations both north and south it was decided to make the most of the high tide period down the beach to run the eight heats of Round Four.
The decision proved successful with the guys blowing up on the fun peaks during the morning. Tanner Gadauskas (USA) set the standard with an explosive performance in his 25-minute heat to advance along with Shaun Joubert (ZAF) in one of the highlight clashes of the round. With the lead changing and Joubert in third place needing an excellent score to advance the young South African fought his way back with an impressive combination of turns on his next two waves to grab the lead.
However Tanner Gadauskas was not to be out done and smashed a long right hander to score a 9.00 out of 10 and take the victory. Gudauskas felt for Maxime Huscenot (FRA) who despite a solid performance found himself out of the event.
"That was the most exciting heat I've had so far definitely in a long time," stated Gudauskas. "I think at one point of the heat all three of us had been in the lead so it was a see-saw battle."
"It's a bummer for Maxime, we've all been there in one of those heats where you get a big total and then the other guys get the rhythm. It was a fun heat and I am stoked to make it but I feel bad for Maxime."
Austin Ware (USA) who is travelling with Gadauskas here at the Lusiaves Figueira Pro, found some long awaited form and finds himself with one of his best results of the year. Surfing strong on both the lefts and rights with flow and speed, Ware has set himself up to have a shot at the title with his impressive 16.50 out of 20 combined heat total, the next best behind Gadauskas' 16.83.
"I took the opportunity to move to a different break, to adapt, set a strategy and it seemed like it paid off because I started to build a rhythm every wave I caught. By the end I was finding my way through the break pretty well. I feel like I have some confidence and some good strategy. One of my good friends and travel mate, Tannner is bringing the froth and it is making me more excited so I love it."
"I had a fifth placing in Sri Lanka and other than that it has been a lot of Round of 48," explained Ware. "I am always stoked to make it to the man-on-man because that brings a lot more excitement to be able to compete against one competitor and bring out your top surfing."
Jonathan Gonzalez (CNY) also claimed his best result of the season here in Figueira making it to the final 16 remaining competitors. Taking control from the outset, Gonzalez surfed sharp to gain the confidence he was lacking.
"Before this result today I have only had one Round of 24 finish and the truth is that I haven't even surfed very well. I haven't felt good in the other events because of the waves we've had but here I feel really comfortable at this contest. The waves are great fun and I am surfing with a small board and in this heat it went well and that's what is needed if you want to advance."
"I started off strongly," continued Gonzalez about his heat. "Then I controlled the heat. It was very tactical and I was able to take control from the start and get two good scores which is what you have to do."
Gony Zubizarreta (ESP) came out on top in one of the most stacked heats of the day to advance along with Marc Lacomare (FRA) and oust an in form Mitch Coleborn (AUS). Knowing he had a tough job on his hands, Zubizarreta started strongly and then followed it up with a final solid ride. Coleborn never found his rhythm and was unlucky with wave selection during the heat which he finished off with the wave he needed however seconds after the final siren had sounded.
"The guys in my heat can do crazy airs and yesterday they were ripping the left," stated Zubizarreta. "I was a bit scared if they started to get lefts today but I was lucky that I got off to a good start right when the heat started with a high score and then I focused on getting another one.
"Not many more came through after that and Marc got a couple of 6's and was leading but in the end I got my score and got back the lead. Mitch is very dangerous because he can easily pull off a 9 point ride so it was a tough heat and I am really stoked to get through.
After assessing conditions at the end of the round and concluding that the tide was once again getting too low, event officials and surfers decided to come back tomorrow at 07:00am for a possible start to Round Five shortly after.
Upcoming Round Five Lusiaves Figueira Pro Match-Ups
Heat 1: Austin Ware (USA) Vs Wiggolly Dantas (BRA)
Heat 2: Richard Christie (NZL) Vs Heitor Alves (BRA)
Heat 3: Gony Zubizarreta (ESP) Vs Rudy Palmboom (ZAF)
Heat 4: Marc Lacomare (FRA) Vs Jonathan Gonzalez (CNY)
Heat 5: Tanner Gadauskas (USA) Vs Royden Bryson (ZAF)
Heat 6: Shaun Joubert (ZAF) Vs Tim Boal (FRA)
Heat 7: Jano Belo (BRA) Vs Yadin Nicol (AUS)
Heat 8: Leonardo Neves (BRA) Vs Glen Hall (IRL)
Lusiaves Figueira Pro Round Four Results
Heat 1: Austin Ware (USA) 16.50, Richard Christie (NZL) 13.86, Charles Martin (GLP) 10.67
Heat 2: Heitor Alves (BRA) 14.77, Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 12.74, Andre Silva (BRA) 7.33
Heat 3: Gony Zubizarreta (ESP) 13.73, Marc Lacomare (FRA) 13.10, Mitch Coleborn (AUS) 7.06
Heat 4: Jonathan Gonzalez (CNY) 13.23, Rudy Palmboom (ZAF) 10.03, Francisco Bellorin (VEN) 9.06
Heat 5: Tanner Gadauskas (USA) 16.83, Shaun Joubert (ZAF) 14.67, Maxime Huscenot (FRA) 13.90
Heat 6: Tim Boal (FRA) 13.50, Royden Bryson (ZAF) 10.44, David do Carmo (BRA) 10.37
Heat 7: Jano Belo (BRA) 13.33, Leonardo Neves (BRA) 10.24, Jatyr Berasaluce (EUK) 10.24
Heat 8: Glen Hall (IRL) 11.26, Yadin Nicol (AUS) 9.80, Pablo Paulino (BRA) 8.13


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Actress Priyanka Chopra insists she is the heroine of 'Krrish 3', which also stars Kangana Ranaut.
Kangana had initially turned down the film as she was concerned about sharing screen space with Priyanka. Earlier, Jacqueline Fernandez, Chitrangada Singh, had similar concerns and they rejected the film.
"A lot of girls rejected that role. It is really stupid to do it as it is an amazing role. I am the heroine of the film, I am playing wife of Hrithik and that is how it is," Priyanka said in an interview here. Priyanka feels Kangana's role is also quite interesting and if she had the opportunity, she would have even taken it up.
"Her character is credible, it is an amazing role and if I had the opportunity I would have done it. I had told Rakesh sir I am ready to play that part, as everybody was saying no to doing it," Priyanka said.
"I am happy Kangana has done the role, she has done an amazing job. She is looking fabulous and it is a new thing for Hindi cinema," she said.
This is not the first time that Priyanka is sharing screen space with another actress."In my first two films I came right after interval and before climax. I have learnt that the film does not run because of the length of your role but because it is a good film. I have done many two-heroine films. For me it doesn't matter, I have always thought of how good I can be in this role, what impact I am leaving in my role," Priyanka said.
"In this film I am the heroine of the film. Her character is also very interesting. In one film there can be various characters... if the film works then it works for me, Hrithik, Vivek and Kangana. If it doesn't work and I am the most important person in the film, then what is the point as eventually the film did not work," she said.
There is a chameleon girl played by Kangana, then there is scorpion, cheetah girl, rhino, frog man in it. They are in the army of 'Kaal' (played by Vivek Oberoi) and they are evil. I am normal, I am not part of the mutant space," she explains.


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Posted 09 December 2012 - 02:47 PM
Experienced this on a match of Regicide where I had this zoomed-in look the entire match.
Head-ache inducing.
Head-ache inducing.
Edited by Merguson, 09 December 2012 - 02:48 PM.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 08:42 AM
LOL! Wow.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 11:15 AM
I tried to play Spartan Ops afterwards and it still had that perspective.. same when booting up a custom game... I fixed it by restarting Halo 4 though.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 08:09 PM
Did you still get the flinching when you were shot in that perspective?
Posted 11 December 2012 - 09:14 PM
I didn't remember so I went and checked the film which I saved. Load it up... the perspective is now perfectly normal. It wasn't before as in the saved film picture I linked above. I guess rebooting Halo 4 must have fixed it. Weird.
Posted 18 December 2012 - 08:46 AM
The only glitch i've experienced is on Reclaimer, whereby tagging the second particle cannon too early teleports me next to the gauss hog and causes the Lich to never appear (with some additional annoying sound effects replaying over and over the background). I initially restarted the level and then did exactly the same thing with the same effect. Then googled it and found that a lot of other people had experienced it too. 3rd time around I simply went a bit further (up to where the hog is) and waited until the cannon had a red target on it before tagging it. Pretty annoying to have wasted about 2 hours on Legendary, but otherwise it was a fun level.
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The Center for Rural Policy and Development in St. Peter came out with a report on Thursday that doesn't really surprise us. It really validates the suspicions and fears many have had about the future state of rural roads in Minnesota.
The study, "Roads Less Traveled," concludes that the state is falling farther and farther behind on maintaining our roads and bridges. And as money gets tighter, it will be harder for rural road projects to get the funding they need.
The study points out the shortfalls projected by the Minnesota Department of Transportation in the draft of its 20-year plan. It can currently budget $18 billion over the next 20 years, but the agency also projects it will need $30 billion just to keep up on maintenance of roads and bridges.
The report details how the gas tax has been holding steady or declining as a source of transportation project revenue over the past decade, and how inflation is eating away at the gas tax's buying power.
It also points out the concentration of population and legislative seats in the metropolitan area will make it difficult for rural legislators to get attention for our projects, and how new federal legislation is concentrating federal resources on the biggest, most heavily traveled roads.
It is essential that the state explore new sources of funding to replace or supplement the gas tax. There is no one easy solution, but a mixture of options must be considered, from expanding sales taxes dedicated to public transit, expanding local government revenue options, toll roads, taxing vehicles by weight, to public-private partnerships and other options.
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Red Wine Braised Duck Leg with Huckleberries and Chestnuts
- Serves 4-6
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Rich, moist and incredibly delicious, this versatile recipe is about as good as it gets. Chef Brian Streeter braises duck legs with aromatic ingredients and red wine to create a hearty fall dish with great appeal that will easily impress anyone you may be cooking for. Enjoy with Cakebread Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon.
4 duck legs
1/2 yellow onion, diced
1 carrot, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
2 c. red wine
6 juniper berries, crushed
2 bay leaves
1 c. brown chicken stock
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3/4 c. huckleberries, see note
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Preheat oven to 375° F. Trim the edges of the duck legs of any excess fat and season with salt and pepper. Place in a wide, heavy bottom pan, skin side down over high heat. Sear on both sides and remove from the pan. Drain off all but two tablespoons of the duck fat. Sauté the onion, carrot and celery for two to three minutes to soften. Add the red wine, juniper berries and bay leaves. Reduce by half. Return the duck legs to the pan, skin side up, along with enough chicken stock to cover three quarters of the duck. Bring to a simmer, cover and place in the middle of the preheated oven. After one hour remove the lid and add the peeled chestnuts. Cook for an additional half hour, until duck is tender and starting to pull away from the bone. Remove the duck from the pan and return to the top of the stove. Add the huckleberries and reduce to a light sauce consistency. Using a ladle, skim off any fat that may have accumulated on top. Return the duck legs to the pan and warm through. Serve over wide ribbon noodles.
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(WASHINGTON) -- Although they have no say in her possible confirmation proceedings, 97 House Republicans have spoken out loud and clear about their opposition to President Obama nominating United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice as the next secretary of state.
Rice has come under attack by the GOP and some Democrats for initially stating that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 was the result of a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Islam movie.
The Republican lawmakers, in a letter to the White House Monday, alleged that Rice, who was working off talking points from the CIA, "either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi affair."
It was eight days after Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed that "the American people learn(ed)...that the intelligence services quickly considered the attack an act of terrorism and that al Qaeda may have played a role," according to the letter.
In spite of Obama and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defending Rice, the House Republicans claimed she "caused irreparable damage to her credibility both at home and around the world...we strongly oppose any efforts to nominate Ambassador Susan Rice for the position of Secretary of State" to replace outgoing envoy Hillary Clinton.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Rain gave the Philadelphia Phillies a mini All-Star break.
Wednesday night's game between the Phillies and New York Mets was postponed because of rain, giving the Phillies three days off in a four-day span. The Phillies, who were off Monday, return to the field Friday night against Washington.
The game against the Mets was rescheduled for June 2 at 7:05 p.m. Both teams had been scheduled for a day off then.
The Mets beat the Phillies 6-1 Tuesday night in a game played during steady rain after a delay of 1 hour, 28 minutes at the start. The Mets will travel to Colorado to open a four-game set on Thursday night.
Bartolo Colon (2-3), who was scheduled to start against the Phillies, will take the mound in the opener at the Rockies.
The Phillies will skip Kyle Kendrick and Roberto Hernandez, their fourth and fifth starters. Cliff Lee, A.J. Burnett and Cole Hamels will start on regular four days' rest against the Nationals.
Kendrick will pitch Monday against Toronto followed by Hernandez on Tuesday.
This was the first postponement this season for the Mets. The Phillies (13-13) had three home games postponed in April, including their home opener that was played the next day.
The Mets, off to a 15-11 start, will get outfielder Juan Lagares back on their road trip. Lagares has been sidelined by a hamstring injury since April 15.
NOTES: The Mets sent an open letter to fans, inviting them to add their name to a list calling themselves ''True New Yorkers'' and urging them to show their support. Former Mets greats Doc Gooden, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling were among those who signed the letter.