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Here's a problem you don't have: what to do with those pesky farm animals who inconveniently die on you?
The answer is "call the tallow works,"* but the problem is deeper than that. If, hypothetically, you're in your yard in hot pursuit of a chicken, and you glance way out in the east pasture and see an unnaturally girthy cow lying on her side, you may or may not notice her. But if, on this hypothetical Saturday morning, you notice the girthy cow in the first place because she has a buzzard balanced on her tummy, you do what I would do. You'd say, "Oh, crap" and go inside to call the cow's owner. Hypothetically, my father.
"Dead cow way out in the east pasture, Dad."
"Oh, okay. Thanks."
Later you'll probably see the cow's owner headed way out into the pasture on his tractor, and this is where the trouble starts. The dearly departed cow will need to be moved out from under the cloud of buzzards to a new location -- one with good access to a road, allowing a large garbage-truck-looking vehicle enough room to easily scoop her up -- stiff as a very large cow-shaped piñata -- and deposit her into the bin on the back of the truck. Officially this truck is in the employ of the rendering company ("tallow works"). Unofficially this truck is called The Dead Wagon. You don't want to be caught driving on a narrow country road, stuck behind The Dead Wagon. It's no fun to drive for over a mile, plugging your nose, with no way to pass, eyes riveted on a cow leg sticking out of the truck like an umbrella adorning a tropical drink.
A dead cow is no big problem if the cow expires right in front of you. You know she's gone; you have time to call for The Dead Wagon before she becomes stinky. This is a very big problem if the cow didn't tell anybody she was dying and was discovered after, oh, maybe five or six hot July days. She could potentially explode out there in the midday sun of the Back Forty.
So after having been discovered and subsequently towed behind a tractor through the pasture, back to civilization, the Cow Piñata waits for her Monday retrieval in a very convenient place, such as, oh, I don't know, maybe the access lane by my house. The access lane is convenient to the road and accessible to the huge Dead Wagon, which will rumble in on Monday, probably, maybe, we can only hope. The pièce de résistance of this tale is that the access lane, at least at MY house, is just on the other side of the fence closest to the master bedroom.
Yeah, my bedroom. The windows are shut tight and we haven't been outside for more than a sprint across the road all Saturday -- and then we were breathing through our mouths and holding our breath. Sunday will be another hot day of extra fun. I hope the Cow Piñata doesn't explode.
Hypothetically, of course.
*Tallow works, or rendering plant -- a company which recycles dead animals into useful stuff, but that's another story entirely.


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Ryan Gosling is quietly charismatic as Driver, the man with no name -- Hollywood stuntman by day, getaway driver by night -- in this existential action film. Director Nicolas Winding Refn gives the car-chase-heist plot a stylistic jolt: It's a B-film with a noir heart.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston
Rating: Four stars out of five
It's an irresistible combination: a European director with a lucid sense of hard-edged style, set loose in Los Angeles with a bunch of fast cars. The result, Drive, is a fable that straddles the worlds of movies and criminality, featuring a hero who's a hard-bodied throwback to those laconic men of action who tamed the West with their fists and their guns, if not their dialogue.
He's another man with no name, called "Driver" or "The Kid" by those around him and played by Ryan Gosling as one of those silent enigmas who live by their own code in a thousand Hollywood noirs. The existential tough guy -- the quiet man whose answer to a Godless universe involves a punch in the kisser -- has taken on many forms in fiction, but few of them travel as quickly as Driver.
He's a movie stunt man who steps in for the stars when it's time to crash a car or race around a studio backlot (Drive has a meta-fictional love of genre), but that's just part-time work. When the day is over, Driver becomes a getaway man for hire, someone who will wait five minutes -- and only five minutes, he makes it clear -- for his employees to run out of the bank or the jewelry store, then race down the slick neon streets one step ahead of the cops. Drive is partly an extended car chase; Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn invigorates the form with an ingenious opening sequence, in which Driver manufactures his own GPS system using the crowd at a basketball game to cover his tracks.
Like all such heroes, Driver is a quiet, reactive and economic man who is revealed through his actions. His character blooms slowly, as he runs up against the many forces that chance puts in his way: Like the stranger in town, he's easy to underestimate until the bad guy tries to outdraw him.
Drive pulses with a mood of impending threat, mostly in the form of two unlikely villains: Jewish tough guys played by Ron Perlman -- as gruff as Hellboy -- and Albert Brooks, the gravel-voiced comic whose amiable personality provides an unexpected counterpoint to a streak of violence. Refn, whose prison drama Bronson had a similar ticking-bomb tension, juxtaposes moments of tenderness with graphic violence, particularly in an elevator scene that gives a jolt of overkill to the prevailing mood (angst and pessimism, leavened with 140-kilometre-an-hour escapes).
Driver is the quintessential anti-hero: tough, self-sufficient, self-invented. But, like hundreds before him, he has a soft secret at his heart. We discover it when he goes to the aid of his attractive neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan), a single mother whose husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac) is in jail but about to be released. Like many withdrawn and pained heroes, from Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven, Driver becomes engaged in the world because of a woman.
It's always a difficult decision for the existential action hero, this caring business, and Drive unfolds as a double-cross that brings all the plot's various players and sidekicks into action. The guns and the cars stop you, but they never take over. Refn provides a propulsive thrum, even in the quieter moments, so the movie becomes a character study, as well. The old cars and a dated, synth-influenced score creates a 1980s vibe that gives Drive a timelessness that matches its classic sensibility.
The fun in the movie lies in its unabashed modesty. It's a B-picture assembled from many film ideas -- cars, guns, fists, betrayal, the unfaithful city -- and elevated by Gosling's alert performance. Driver has wrapped himself in hip modesty, his alter-ego of a getaway man being so much cooler than the nerdy disguises of other superheroes. Gosling reveals the turmoil and commitment so quietly that, by the end, you've forgotten his disguise. He's the new version of the outsider, riding into town on his faithful Chevy Malibu, and riding out again with many destroyed surprises behind him.
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# big-bucks - Friday 16 March, 2012
Henderson hails Irish stable lad's €1.2million accumulator foresight
Newly-minted millionaire Conor Murphy is at work today ahead of the Gold Cup despite his good fortune with a €60 bet.
Mark Your Card: Cheltenham Day 4
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# big-bucks - Thursday 15 March, 2012
The winners' enclosure: Walsh delivers on Big Buck's promise
For the punters who could afford to stick around, there was plenty of joy to be found inside the fog at Prestbury Park.
History-maker Big Buck's wins Cheltenham feature
Ruby Walsh rode the champion horse to victory in a thrilling finish as Voler La Vedette pushed it all the way.
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As Hector might be shouting at this very instant in field in the Cotswolds: let yourself go.
# big-bucks - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
Two more fatalities at Cheltenham today
Yesterday, three horses lost their lives on the first afternoon of racing at the Festival.
The winners' enclosure: Barry and the Hendersons
A mixed day for punters, but a landmark day for Irish jockeys, particularly Barry Geraghty who claimed three wins.
In pictures: Spills and thrills on dramatic second Festival day
It wasn't a particularly good day to be a photographer at trackside… but here's what the snappers at Prestbury Park captured earlier.
Cheltenham controversy in dramatic Champion Chase
Finian's Rainbow comes in first after last fence dolled off in day's feature race.
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Even if Hurricane Fly's defeat leaves you broke, today's another day.
# big-bucks - Tuesday 13 March, 2012
Festival's opening day marred by three horse fatalities
Glenfarclas Handicap Chase favourite Scotsirish and Garde Champetre were put down after what was the fifth race on the card before Educated Evans fell in the last.
The winners' enclosure: Rock on Ruby saves the day for bookies
Paul Nicholls' runner denied the much fancied favourite Hurricane Fly to put a spring in the step of the turf accountants trackside.
In pictures: And they're off at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival...
Here's how Centenary Day looked on a day when banker Hurricane Fly failed to cash.
As it happened: Cheltenham day one
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Cheltenham 2012: who'll win the race to be crowned top jockey?
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# big-bucks - Monday 12 March, 2012
It's on: Kauto Star will run in Cheltenham Gold Cup
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Buckaroo! Here's what's happening at Cheltenham today…
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# big-bucks - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
My big stars are fine: Nicholls plays down stable illness
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# big-bucks - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
Voler la Vedette sets her sights on World domination
Colm Murphy's Voler la Vedette is "more than likely" to compete against Big Buck's in the Cheltenham World Hurdle, the trainer said yesterday.
# big-bucks - Saturday 17 December, 2011
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# big-bucks - Thursday 7 April, 2011
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The Winners' Enclosure: because it's all just a little bit of history repeating
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# big-bucks - Tuesday 15 March, 2011
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Cream Cheese Sausage Balls Recipe
These are the BEST Sausage Balls!
These are by far the best sausage balls we've ever made. What makes these sausage balls so good? Well, the secret ingredient is cream cheese. The cream cheese keeps the sausage balls very moist and tender. We used hot sausage to give the sausage balls a little kick, but regular sausage would work well too. Bring these to your next tailgate party - you won't be sorry!
Cream Cheese Sausage Balls
- 1 lb hot sausage, uncooked
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1-1/4 cups Bisquick
- 1 cup (4-oz) cheddar cheese, shredded
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- Mix all ingredients until well combined. (I use my KitchenAid mixer with the dough hook attachment) Roll into 1-inch balls. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until brown.
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Rowlf in the Challenger
I was looking for a picture to put as my Deviant ID and I found the picture of Rowlf driving a Dodge Challenger. Was it a promotional thing? This is just out of curiosity but does anyone know where this came from? --ALFRED1182 (talk) 00:21, April 16, 2012 (UTC)
- If you're talking about this one, I was wondering the same thing. — Julian (talk) 18:27, April 16, 2012 (UTC)
- It comes from promotional material for the The Muppets Sweepstakes (Yamaha All Access). -- Brad D. (talk) 13:56, April 17, 2012 (UTC)
Through the Years
Rowlf is a pretty significant character. Why doesn't he have a "Rowlf Through the Years" page? --Rankin (talk) 22:36, February 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Mostly because he hasn't really gone through any big design changes. - Oscarfan 23:13, February 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, Rankin! Take a look at Talk:Prairie Dawn Through the Years and you'll see that in fact at this point the community census is very strongly to merge "Through the Years" pages on to the character pages themselves, in which case we already have the early Rowlf, more recent ones (though the "Bohemian Rhapsody" one might be added, but likely the images would have to be moved up if any more are added, since if image size doesn't line up with the length of the paragraph where it's placed, then it creates spacing issues for all users who are on Internet Explorer; it's an old problem which is due to IE itself and can't be fixed), or else a supplemental gallery created. If someone wanted to add the pilot images here, that's fine too (as you noted yourself in the discussion below, the card is probably of the puppet from the pilots, but otherwise it's a photo puppet used for merchandise anyway and so not especially relevant). -- Andrew Leal (talk) 01:21, February 13, 2010 (UTC)
I won on ebay not long ago Muppet Show picture playing cards to promot it's first season. On one of the cards had Rowlf on it (pictured). I have never seen him like this before, is he a prototype puppet? - Just wondered.-- MuppetDanny (talk) 18:05, January 2, 2010 (UTC)
- It's possible that this is an example of a photo puppet. --TenCents 01:10, January 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, it looks like the Rowlf that briefly appeared in The Muppets Valentine Show and The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence. --TenCents 01:11, January 4, 2010 (UTC)
I noticed this sentence: "On The Jim Henson Hour, Rowlf appeared in a series of sketches where he portrayed a character named Merlin." Apart from the fact that Merlin is an Arthurian reference, was this in fact a recurring sketch? There's only one such instance mentioned on the Wiki, Episode 102: Aquatic Life. In fact, given how brief that section is, is there a way to either expand it or merge it? I know recent additions to Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog have been production by production, but I'm not entirely in agreement with that approach if the text can't support the division; it seems to me a seperate sub-section of this kind should be more than two sentences. Can anyone with a knowledge of The Jim Henson Hour correct, verify, or expand this area? -- Andrew Leal (talk) 01:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- If I recall correctly, they did it twice -- once in episode 102, and once in the second half of the series -- maybe Smokey Robinson or so. -- Danny (talk) 01:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not sure about the recurring or not of Merlin as I haven't seen all of JHH (that tidbit was here when the article was small and I shuffled it along as I expanded the article). As for JHH being a separate heading, right now it is a bit small. I've been doing a lot of work on this article over the past few days, and haven't seen much of JHH to expand it in detail. I think that information on Rowlf's role in Dog City, the O.M.D. meeting, and Rowlf as Merlin could all be expanded to be more than just one sentence each. If done right you could have a paragraph that's as big as, if not bigger than, "Muppet Caper" or "Origins". -- Brad D. (talk) 01:41, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- True, but right now, it's the weakest spot in an otherwise great article, and sticks out like a sore thumb. I don't see why it couldn't temporarily be merged with The Muppet Show, under some heading. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 01:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, I was watching the Jim Henson Hour Episode 107: Health and Fitness at the Paley Center for Media, and the Merlin the Magician, M.D., was in that episode. To be exact, the sketch only appeared in two episodes. Too bad for Rowlf, though. User:TenCents 9:52, March 26 2009 (UTC)
Ticklin' the ivories...
The page says, "When Rowlf was required to play piano, Jim Henson would control Rowlf's head while leaving an actual piano player to operate Rowlf's hands, making what may have seemed to be an illusion just the opposite."
Is that true? My understanding is that it was, in fact, an illusion. I thought Rowlf only had four fingers on each hand, which would make it difficult to play pieces intended for five fingers. -Ryan R PrawnRR 18:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- There's a quote from some damn place (??) where Steve Whitmire speaks about performing Rowf's hands and how much of a joy it was to do because he couldn't really play the piano. If you watch closely, Rowlf is never really playing, but it's usually pretty darn convincing.
- I don't know who did Rowlf's hands on piano before Steve joined the troupe. -- Scott Scarecroe 18:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- I call no way. I don't think piano players typically play very well with heavy gloves on while they're wedged underneath a piano, a puppet and a puppeteer. That seems like a lot of trouble to go through when the other option is to record the music track and sync to it, which is what they actually did. I took that sentence out. -- Danny Toughpigs 18:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- Is it this quote Scott?
- " One of my favorite things to do, ever, in my career has been to do Rowlf's hands on the piano, which is something that other people had done, but once I started doing it, I kind of have done it… since The Muppet Show days. I love it. It's the best job in the world for somebody who sort of plays the piano, but would really like to play the piano well. The fact that you can approximate what it's supposed to be and make it look really good."
- - Steve Whitmire (July 19, 1999)
- " One of my favorite things to do, ever, in my career has been to do Rowlf's hands on the piano, which is something that other people had done, but once I started doing it, I kind of have done it… since The Muppet Show days. I love it. It's the best job in the world for somebody who sort of plays the piano, but would really like to play the piano well. The fact that you can approximate what it's supposed to be and make it look really good."
- -- BradFraggle 22:40, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- Is it this quote Scott?
- That's the one! -- Scarecroe 15:19, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
In the Pogo comic strip for 7/21/49, Beauregard Hound Dog gets a package from his "Uncle Rowf". Likely just a coincidence, especially since I don't think this strip was ever reprinted in a paperback, but who knows? Galenfott 03:26, January 5, 2012 (UTC)
Bears a striking resemblance to Ernie
IDK if this is imporant or not but at times Rowlf's design can remind me of Ernie for some reason maybe it's the eyes does anyone else notice this? Skullzproductions (talk) 14:31, January 20, 2013 (UTC)


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It's finally here!!!! Benetint and Posietint have been around forever in their red and pink hues respectively, and now the much needed orange-coral crush shade has joined the stable.
Cha Cha Tint is a mango hued lip and cheek stain. Just when I've rediscovered my love for tints too! Thanks Benefit!
They say:
Featuring a lightweight liquid formula, the multiuse stain is a bright coral, mango hue and adds a long-lasting subtle tint to cheeks and lips. For application, brush onto the apples of the cheek or lips and blend with your fingertips.
A few weeks ago I attended a Benefit event for Cha Cha tint (a photo for you later) and learned that Benetint was actually created for a stripper who wanted to make her nipples look more rosy!
Or maybe the correct term is exotic dancer. Or go-go dancer. Either way, it doesn't matter – she must've had amazing nipples.
Alas, Cha Cha tint is a beautiful orange hue and is not suitable for nipples, not unless you want them to look like satsumas. Orange could so easily go wrong…mango, could so easily go wrong. Benefit did not get this wrong – they got it right as you can see from this extremely pretty, wearable milky mango:
I like all my Benefit tints although sometimes I find them a bit sheer. Cha Cha tint, I think, has more pigment that the originals, and it can most definitely be seen even on olive complexions like mine. One must work fast – after taking the above photo, I had a orange stain on my hand (d'oh!) and I am the kind of person that will dot it on my cheek and go and have a cup of tea.
Do not get distracted when applying this!
It also looks good on the lips, very natural!
On my cheek – note it's a bit stripy at the top, my fault as I swiped it and…yes I got…distracted. Whoops. If I do that, I have to go over with a bit of foundation and start again. Dot, dot, dot:
Any criticisms of this product? Well I think it's fab but if there's two thing I noticed is that:
a. The finish can look a bit glossy, so don't mix this up with a matte finish base cos then it looks odd. But it looks great if you are wearing dewy make up.
b. It can cling to dry spots. I had a couple on my cheek and the stain (like all stains) can stick to them and accentuate. Therefore, moisturise beforehand, and if your skin is really dry with patches, avoid using this until your skin is a bit better. Cream blushers in that instance, works better.
This is still my favourite colour from the Benefit tints though.
Oh I promised you a picture from the Cha Cha Tint event, and here it is – those dancers up close are pretty fierce, very energetic, very fast, very…shiny.
Cha Cha tint is excellent, and if you love the Benefit tints then this is a lovely choice. It's definitely my tint for the summer…or should I say, "summer".
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Not only is it important to know if your backups are successful, it's also important to know when backups are running. This information is also often displayed graphically, allowing you to easily see in one view when backups are running and when they're not.
Media utilization reports show which tapes are full, which are on site and which are off site. They can often provide insight into why you're running out of media.
The more complex your storage environment, the more you need comprehensive configuration reports. These reports, easily viewed from a central point, let you know whether configuration policies are being followed. A throughput report tells how fast your tape drives are running, and how much data is being transferred per second through each of your backup servers.
All backup reporting tools provide predefined reports. However, most of these products also allow you to create custom reports so you can add or delete information and get exactly the data you're looking for.
|Tek-Tools Profiler provides a backup summary of servers.
Product differentiators
When you move beyond the basics of backup reporting, not all of these products provide specialized reporting. While some report criteria may seem arcane, if it's relevant to your backup environment, it may become a determining factor in what backup reporting tool you ultimately select. For example, not all backup reporting programs provide information related to:
- Disappearing clients
- Backup orphans
- Most unreliable clients
- Slowest clients
- Why backups are failing
- Chargeback and SLA compliance
|Slices represent different client platforms: Unix, Windows 2k, and Windows 2k Pro.
Among its many backup reports, Tavata's Enterprise Storage Manager (TESM) can show details of tape drive usage. This graph, a report for Veritas NetBackup, shows usage statistics for a number of tape drives over a period of a year.
One common problem with most backup applications is that if you disable a client, it doesn't show up as an error. Disappearing clients are a big problem, especially when they're accidentally disabled. Or perhaps a client was disabled on purpose, and then was never re-enabled. Some backup reporting products would help expose this situation by showing the condition as an error; alternatively, for an intentionally disabled client, you can tell the reporting application to ignore it.
As opposed to a disappearing client, a backup orphan is a system that isn't being backed up by any system. Backup reporting products watch all of your backup servers and backup products so that they know what's being backed up. But some go further and can scan your entire network to find servers whose host names don't appear to be listed in your backup system. This is an extremely useful feature that hopefully will be expanded to include file systems or databases that aren't being backed up.
|This Legato NetWorker report displays the amount of data, number of files and number of save sets for a selection of groups.
The most unreliable clients follow Murphy's Law for backups: The odds of your needing to restore a given client are inversely proportional to the success rate of its backups. The more unsuccessful a client is, the higher the likelihood that you'll need to restore it.
While all backup reporting tools will tell you that backups are failing, SysDM Inc.'s WysDM can also tell you why it's failing. It collects environmental data such as file system sizes, memory and process lists, system messages and so forth. You can easily drill down and see all of the elements of your environment that might have contributed to that failure.
|SysDM's WysDM for Backups provides status information for every device being backed up in the enterprise. Success and failure comments are highlighted and color-coded in green and red.
Utility computing is gaining traction as IT departments try to pass the cost of computing back to the users of that service. (See "Storage on demand.") One of the best ways to do that is through chargeback. If you want to charge per gigabyte, per backup or per restore, a few products--such as Bocada's BackupReport and StorageTek's Global Storage Manager--create chargeback reports based on your criteria. And if you've defined an SLA for your backup and recovery system, these reports will tell you how close you're getting to meeting that SLA. It can be used as a success report for management, or as supporting evidence for the purchase of additional hardware.
|BackupReport from Bocada shows total system utilization, including, in this example, an understanding of actual drive utilization over the course of a day, highlighting underutilization across 20 drives.
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Different approaches
There are a number of differences among backup reporting products. None of the differences, however, make the products better or worse than the others; they are just different ways to accomplish the same thing.
Take agents, for example. Some products require you to install agents--or data collectors--on your backup servers and/or clients. The use of agents makes installation more difficult, but the agents make data collection a little easier. On the other hand, an agentless design is cleaner, and doesn't require updating every system when you upgrade the reporting software.
Another design difference among these programs is the control console; some use a Web-based console, while others provide a native console. A Web console is more ubiquitous, but a native console can often provide more detailed reports because the reports aren't constrained by HTML/XML.
You'll also need to determine if you want your reporting product to talk in real-time to your backup server or at preset intervals (e.g., once an hour). Real-time reports can provide more up-to-date information, but they also place a greater load on your server, and can take longer to generate data.
Passive or active reporting is another consideration. A product that supports active reporting can page you when bad things happen, while a passive program would not provide those kinds of alerts. Not all products support active notification based on established parameters.
A product designed by your backup software company may work more seamlessly and provide better backup reports, but it probably won't report on multiple backup products. There are, however, exceptions. For example, Computer Associates' BrightStor Portal can report on Legato's NetWorker, Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and Veritas' NetBackup and Backup Exec--along with the full line of its BrightStor backup products.
Many standalone backup reporting tools report on more than one backup product. But that raises another issue: Do you want a common view with common terminology across all products, or do you want a report that has been customized for a particular product? For example, if you're a TSM customer, you may want a reclamation report, while a NetBackup system would have no such report.
Some other considerations that will help determine your choice of backup reporting products include:
- Do you want a reporting tool or a management tool?
- Do you want to be able to configure your product in the tool? Most of these reporting products don't do that.
- How easy is it to create customized reports? Do you need to learn SQL?
- Which database product does the backup reporting tool use to store its data? Are you going to need a new DBA, or require your current DBA to learn a new database?
- What environment does the backup reporting product run in--Windows? Unix? Both?
Related Resources
- The New Network: Software-Defined Networking Gets Real –SearchSecurity.com
- The Best Storage for Virtual Environments –SearchStorage.com
- Allocating and Configuring Storage for Virtual Machines –SearchConvergedInfrastucture
- Modernize and Future-proof Your Storage Cost-effectively –Simms International


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It's been about a year since Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation authorizing three casinos and a single slot parlor and now the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has a detailed blueprint on how to implement the Expanded Gaming Act.
It's been about a year since Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation authorizing three casinos and a single slot parlor and now the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has a detailed blueprint on how to implement the Expanded Gaming Act.
At last week's commission meeting, the board unanimously approved the 169-page strategic plan authored by consultants Michael & Carroll and Spectrum Gaming Group. The plan includes a detailed timeline for key milestones, recommends staffing levels for the fledgling agency and estimates a future budget of $20.6 million for the commission by 2016 — the same year consultants predict that a full-scale casino will open for gamblers.
"As a result of a significant amount of research and the collaboration with renowned gaming industry experts, I am confident that this plan builds on the best practices of gaming regulation from across the country and a wide range of jurisdictions," Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, said in a prepared statement.
The legislation authorized three resort-style casinos and a single slot parlor in the Bay State. Included in the legislation was an opportunity for the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and Gov. Deval Patrick to negotiate a compact for a tribal casino.
While the tribe and state met the goal of negotiating that compact by the July 31 deadline, it was rejected by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, sending them back to the negotiating table. The tribe is proposing a $500 million casino in East Taunton, but still has a tangle of legal hurdles to overcome to get 140 acres in there taken into federal trust for the project.
The strategic plan produced by consultants makes reference to the rejected compact and outlines what some of the responsibilities of the commission could be in providing oversight for the Indian casino should the compact be signed.
Among the two-dozen questions consultants say the commission must flesh out in the coming months is whether to put a deadline on federal approval for a compact. The commission must also decide whether to approve rules to deal with its regulatory and financial oversight, and licensing and monitoring roles as they pertain to a tribal casino, the consultants wrote.
Consultants also question whether the commission should seek clarification on jurisdictional issues surrounding criminal activity and whether to begin talks with the tribe about a future relationship between the commission and the to-be-established Tribal Gaming Commission.
"Experience in other jurisdictions indicates that these relationships have an enhanced likelihood of success if the sovereign regulatory authorities establish mutually respectful systems of cooperation and coordinated logistical interdependence," the consultants wrote.
Assuming that a new tribal-state compact is reached and approved by the BIA, the commission will have significant operational and oversight involvement, the consultants wrote, which will require "significant resource allocation" by the commission.
Because the compact and land issues are still up in the air, consultants wrote that the issues cannot be addressed with "further precision" in the strategic plan.
The report makes no recommendation of how or when the commission should decide whether to pull the plug on the Wampanoag casino and put the license for Southeastern Massachusetts out to competitive bid. The legislation gives the commission authority to do that if it determines that the tribe is unable to secure land in federal trust for the casino project.
Crosby has said the commission will provide the tribe adequate time to get its federal approvals, but in a recent interview said commissioners need to begin talking about the issue.
Tribe spokeswoman Brooke Scannell had no immediate comment on the newly released strategic plan.
Jason Lefferts, a spokesman for the state, said Patrick's administration is in "active conversations" with the tribe and is focused on reaching a fair agreement.


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Ranks sixth in Harvard history and 26th in Ivy League annals with 1,458 career points.
Ranks second in Harvard history and fourth in Ivy League annals with 524 career assists.
Harvard record holder in career appearances (116) and career starts (115).
Only student-athlete in Ivy League history with 1,400 points and 500 assists.
One of only 4 Harvard student-athletes to be named All-Ivy four consecutive years (2011-12 first team, 2010-11 first team, 2009-10 second team, 2008-09 honorable mention).
2008-09 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and All-Rookie selection.
Two-time Harvard Team MVP (2009-10, 2010-11).
Has earned 11 Ivy League weekly awards (5 Player of the Week, 6 Rookie of the Week).
Has recorded one double-double.
Career Highs
Points: 31 vs. Northeastern (12/9/09)
FG made: 10, twice
FG attempts: 18 vs. Northeastern (12/9/09)
3FG made: 5 af Hofstra (3/15/12)
3FG attempts: 9 at Hofstra (3/15/12)
FT made: 12 vs. Vermont (12/11/08)
FT attempts: 13 vs. Vermont (12/11/08)
Rebounds: 10 vs. Loyola (Md.) (11/15/08)
Assists: 10, twice
Steals: 5 at Penn (3/4/11)
Blocks: 1, 6 times
2011-12 (Senior)
Co-captain ... Named a candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award ... All-Ivy League first team selection ... Led the Ivy League and ranked 18th in the NCAA with a 1.8 assist-to-turnover ratio ... Also ranked first in the Ivy League in assists (4.2), first in free-throw percentage (85.7), second in minutes (35.3), fourth in three-point percentage (38.4) and seventh in scoring (12.7) ... Scored a game-high 18 points with three assists and three steals vs. Butler (Nov. 13) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll after netting a season-high 19 points at Providence (Nov. 18) with five assists in 40 minutes of action ... Pulled down a game-high eight rebounds to go along with seven points and four assists versus Holy Cross (Nov. 27) ... Recorded 10 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals against Boston University (Nov. 30) ... Named the Ivy League Player of the Week Dec. 12 after averaging 15.0 ppg, 5.7 rpg and 5.3 apg in three games ... Scored 15 points with three rebounds and three steals at New Hampshire (Dec. 6) ... Named to the Best Buy Classic All-Tournament Team with 15.0 ppg, 7.0 rpg and 7.0 apg ... Matched her season high with 19 points against Alcorn State (Dec. 9) on 4-of-5 shooting from the field and was 10-of-12 at the line ... Dished out a season-high eight assists to go with 11 points and seven rebounds at Minnesota (Dec. 10) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll after scoring 12 points, dishing out five assists and grabbing two steals against St. John's (Dec. 22) ... Earned her second Ivy League Athlete of the Week honor of the year Jan. 9 after averaging 14.5 ppg and 5.5 apg in two road wins ... Recorded her first career double-double with 12 points and 10 assists at UMass (Jan. 3) ... Scored a game-high 17 points with three three-pointers at TCU (Jan. 7) ... Registered 17 points and eight assists with 0 turnovers at Dartmouth (Jan. 14) ... Made her 100th career start against North Dakota (Jan. 17) .... Scored 20-plus points in back-to-back games for the first time in her career with 26 against Penn (Feb. 10) and 21 against Princeton (Feb. 11) ... Recorded her 500th career assist at Yale (Feb. 18) and finished the night with seven helpers ... Tallied 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting against Columbia (Feb. 2) ... Matched her season-high with 26 points while shooting 5-of-9 from three at Hofstra (March 15) ... Scored 21 points and dished out three assists at Temple (March 17).
2010-11 (Junior)
Named to the first team All-Ivy League ... Played in all 28 games, starting 27 and playing a team-high 32.6 minutes per game ... Led the team in scoring and was second in the Ancient Eight, averaging 13.9 points per game ... Led the team and Ivy League in assists per game, averaging 4.6 ... Her 2.25 assist-to-turnover ratio ranked her first in the Ivy League and 10th in the nation ... Scored 20 points, grabbed six rebounds, handed out six assists and had one steal in win over Maine (Nov. 13) ... Named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week (Nov. 15) ... Contributed 15 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in win over Oral Roberts (Nov. 19) ... Led the Crimson with 12 points in win at Boston University (Nov. 23) ... Scored 13 points and handed out five assists in win over Hartford (Dec. 3) ... Scored a team-high 15 points and grabbed five rebounds at Florida (Dec. 7) ... Connected on 8-of-9 field goals for 22 points, five assists and four steals in win over UNH (Dec. 10) ... Named Ivy League Player of the Week for efforts against Florida and UNH (Dec. 13) ... Put up 10 points, grabbed six rebounds and handed out two assists in loss to Sacred Heart (Dec. 22) ... Posted 15 points, including three treys and handed out four assists in front of hometown crowd at Dayton (Dec. 30) ... Led the Crimson with 18 points, five assists, five rebounds and a steal in win over UMass (Jan. 2) ... Scored a team-high 17 points, including seven from the free throw line, handed out six assists and grabbed four rebounds at Boston College (Jan. 6) ... Had a team-high 16 points, six assists, five rebounds and two steals in win over NJIT (Jan. 9) ... Went 6-for-9 from the field, including 3-for-3 from three-point land for 18 points and seven assists in win over Dartmouth (Jan. 15) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll on Jan. 17 ... Led the Crimson with 16 points and four steals in win at Seattle (Jan. 22) ... Contributed 15 points and four rebounds in win at Columbia (Jan. 28) ... Scored 17 points and handed out eight assists in games against Princeton (Feb. 4) and Penn (Feb. 5) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll on Feb. 7 ... Had 16 points and seven assists at Yale (Feb. 11) ... Scored 12 points and handed out eight assists against Cornell (Feb. 19) ... Tallied 13 points, including 1,000th career points in win over Columbia (Feb. 20) ... Earned a spot on the Ivy League Honor roll Feb. 21 ... Recorded 13 points and a team-high eight rebounds vs. Yale (Feb. 26) ... Recorded 10 points against Penn (Mar. 4) and 13 at Princeton (Mar 5) ... Had 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting against Dartmouth (Mar 8).
2009-10 (Sophomore)
Second-team All-Ivy League selection ... Started all 29 games for the Crimson … Handed out 169 assists which is good enough for second on the single season assists list … Averaged 11.9 points per game and 5.8 assists per game … Dished out nine or most assists five times this season, including a career-high 10 against Dartmouth … Dished out nine assists and added five points and four rebounds in win over Boston College ... Handed out nine assists for the second game in the row and collected a career-high three steals in win over Maine ... Scored a team-high 20 points in loss to Sacred Heart and was named to the Ivy League honor roll ... Scored 15 points, handed out seven assists and collected three steals at New Hampshire ... Scored 13 points on a 4-for-10 effort from the field and a 5-for-5 performance from the charity stripe in win over New Orleans ... Handed out nine assists, scored four points and pulled down four rebounds in Omni Hotels Classic Championship game at Colorado ... Scored 16 points on a 5-for-7 effort from the field and dished out seven assists in win over Holy Cross ... Led the Crimson with 19 points and seven assists in win over Boston University ... Scored a career-high 31 points on a 10-for-18 effort from the field and handed out eight assists in a double overtime win over Northeastern ... Named COOP Athlete of the Week and to the Ivy League Honor Roll ... Posted 16 points, five rebounds and four assists at Marist ... Scored 16 points and had seven assists at UMass ... Scored 14 points on 5-for-10 shooting and handed out seven assists in win over Cornell ... Scored 15 points and recorded nine assists.
2008-09 (Freshman)
Named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and to the All-Rookie Team ... Earned honorable mention All-Ivy League honors ... Started in all 29 games for the Crimson ... Third on the team in scoring with 11.7 points per game ... Scored in double figures in 18 games ... Led the league in three-point field goal percentage (.411) and was second in assist/turnover ratio (1.7) ... Was fifth in the league un assists (3.4 assists per game) and ninth in scoring ... Started her first collegiate game against Loyola, first freshman to do so since 2001 ... Scored nine points, pulled down 10 rebounds, dished out five assists and collected three steals in collegiate debut against Loyola ... Scored a career-high 15 points on an 11-for-12 effort from the charity stripe against CCSU ... Was 2-for-4 from the three-point line for six points, four rebounds and five assists in win over Holy Cross ... Scored a career-high five field goals, including a collegiate high three treys, for 13 points and five assists against Marist ... Dished out a career-high six assists to go along with eight points and a rebound in a win at Siena ... Went 5-for-8 from the field for 14 points and dished out four assists in win over New Hampshire ... Scored 11 points on a 4-for-9 effort from the field and added two rebounds, two assists and two steals in loss at BU ... Scored a game- and then-career-high 18 points to go along with four assists and three steals in win over Vermont ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Dec. 15) ... Tabbed as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Dec. 22) after scoring 22 points, handing out 12 assists and posting a perfect performance from the free throw line in three games for Harvard ... Scored a game- and career-high 20 points on a career-high six baskets from the field against Dartmouth ... Earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors (Jan. 12) for her efforts ... Put up 19 points on a 6-for-9 effort from the field and grabbed six rebounds against Penn ... Named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week for averaging 17.0 points, 3.0 steals and 3.0 assists in wins at Brown and Yale ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for averaging 14.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists against Cornell and Columbia ... Scored 19 points on a 7-for-10 effort from the field in win over Penn ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after scoring 12 points in wins against Columbia and Cornell ... Was 6-for-7 from the field in win over the Lions ... Was 6-for-8 from the field with 15 points, six assists and three rebounds against Yale ... Led the Crimson with 12 points in loss to Dartmouth.
Before Harvard
Four-year member of the basketball team and two year captain ... Also competed in cross country, track and field and soccer ... Two-time Mid-Miami League first team ... Mid-Miami League Player of the Year as a sophomore ... Two-time District 15 Division II Underclassmen of the Year and Player of the Year as a senior ... Two-time Girls Greater Cincinnati League Player of the Year and first team selection ... Three-time AP All-Southwest Ohio Division II first team honoree ... AP All-Southwest Ohio Player of the Year as a senior ... AP All-Ohio Division II second-team recipient as a junior and first-team selection as a senior ... Three-time Dayton Daily News Division II first-team honoree and Player of the Year as a senior ... Participated in the Ohio North-South All-Star game ... McDonald's All-American nominee ... Holds Carroll High School records in games played, wins, points, assists, steals, turnover/assist ratio, free throws made and free throws attempted ... Ranks 10th all-time in assists in the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Member of the National Honor Society and French National Honor Society ... Made honor roll in eight different semesters ... Recipient of the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association Scholarship Society silver certificate and gold certificate ... Retreat Leader.


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Multimedia junkies who use Amazon to watch movies on their TVs will now be able to use WhisperSync to wirelessly sync their content, allowing Fire users to stop a movie on their TV and pick up where they left off on the Fire.
Further use of the cloud can be seen on the new Amazon Silk browser, which is built to make rendering web content on the go faster than ever. The built-in web browser can prioritise specific things within a webpage to improve speeds.
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Season 36 of [ITALIC "This Old House"] kicks off in Belmont, MA, a suburb northwest of Boston. This season follows homeowners Katherine, Murat, and their two children as they embark on a journey to bring their home back to its original Victorian style after a previous owner stripped many classic architectural details.
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Can you believe it's been a decade since Kelly Clarkson won American Idol and launched her career? Neither can she. As the singer steps into her 30s and celebrates 10 years of making music, she will release Greatest Hits – Chapter One on Monday, November 19.
Much of the focus of the album will be her pop material–that is, after all, what she built her career upon. However, she has been dabbling more and more in country music (even moving to Nashville this year). And two songs on Greatest Hits will showcase this side of her musical persona.
Perhaps the most obvious to make the cut is "Don't You Wanna Stay," her duet with Jason Aldean that won two ACM awards this year. The second, though, is a new song called "Don't Rush"–another duet, this time featuring Vince Gill.
"It's sexy retro-country," Clarkson said of the latter song in a statement, "and as soon I heard it, I put the song on hold. My goal as a singer is to capture the sentiment of a song and emote what the feeling is. I'm in a relationship and super happy, and I don't think I would have been able to sing this song eight months ago. Love should be celebrated, and this is a great description of where I'm at in my life."
Another new song on the album is "Catch My Breath." Clarkson wrote the pop song specifically for this album, about putting her first greatest hits collection together. And she's just released a video for the song as well.
The video is an appropriately low-key production. Keeping it simple, we see only Clarkson in a black column gown by Martin Margiela, with key-hole cutouts on top plus a gold belt carefully matched to her ringed fingers and complimenting her hair color, with the wind blowing through her hair on a soundstage. As the video progresses, all four of the elements make an appearance: fire, water, water and Clarkson herself seems to stand in for earth.
She also appears in a black pantsuit and a white, yellow and brown faux fur short sleeved jacket, the latter looking very much like a Rachel Zoe styled item.
Her makeup features light lips and a smokey eye that isn't heavy. The focus seems to be her eyelashes — they draw you in to give the impression that into the windows of her soul is exactly where Clarkson wants you to look.
This is the most glommed up we've seen Clarkson in a video in some time. The singer embraces a grown up look to mark a very grown up moment in her career, to great effect.
"Catch My Breath," "Don't Rush," and "Don't You Wanna Stay" all appear on Clarkson's upcoming collection Greatest Hits — Chapter One, which is set to hit stores on Monday.
Greatest Hits — Chapter One tracklist:
1. Since U Been Gone
2. My Life Would Suck Without You
3. Miss Independent
4. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
5. Behind These Hazel Eyes
6. Because Of You
7. Never Again
8. Already Gone
9. Mr. Know It All
10. Breakaway
11. Don't You Wanna Stay (with Jason Aldean)
12. Walk Away
13. Catch My Breath
14. People Like Us
15. Don't Rush (featuring Vince Gill)
16. A Moment Like This
17. I'll Be Home For Christmas
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Following the lead of its standard bearer, the Democratic Party has decided to make legalizing same-sex marriage an official plank of its campaign platform. A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee said July 30 that the party's drafting committee had voted during a weekend meeting in Minneapolis to add the party's formal support for homosexual marriage. Political observers expected that there will be little opposition to the move, and that delegates will approve the platform during the party's September convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In addition to endorsing the legalization of "gay" marriage, the party platform will reaffirm the Democrats' opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal statute signed into law by Democrat President Bill Clinton in 1996 which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman for the purposes of federal business.
As reported by The New American, in May President Obama put his personal "struggle" over the issue aside, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to endorse homosexual marriage. A little over a year earlier Obama had ordered his administration's Justice Department to stop defending DOMA against federal lawsuits.
Homosexual activists stumbled over themselves to applaud the party's decision. "Like Americans from all walks of life, the Democratic Party has recognized that committed and loving gay and lesbian couples deserve the right to have their relationships respected as equal under the law," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. He predicted that "one day very soon the platforms of both major parties will include similar language. There is no more American value than honoring and protecting one's family."
Marc Solomon of the homosexual group Freedom to Marry said that "we are grateful for the Platform Drafting Committee's unanimous vote to include the freedom to marry in its draft of the Democratic Party platform. As I testified to the Committee on Friday, the Democratic Party has a noble history of fighting for the human and civil rights of all Americans. We are proud that the Committee is including language that will ensure the Party is leading the way forward in supporting marriage for loving and committed same-sex couples and their families."
Rick Jacobs, founder of the Courage Campaign, another homosexual group, called the decision a "historic move by the Democratic Party that places it squarely on the right side of history, alongside President Obama. For the first time, a major U.S. political party has embraced gay and lesbian people as full Americans."
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a conservative group battling for traditional marriage, said that the announcement ensures that marriage will be a central issue in the upcoming elections. "We will rally supporters of traditional marriage to make sure they realize that the outcome of the presidential election may determine the future of marriage in our country," said Brian Brown, the group's president.
Thomas Peters, another NOM official, told OneNewsNow.com that the Democratic National Committee is reopening an issue that voters in 32 states have already settled by passing state amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman. "And one of our big points is that obviously if the Democrats have their way, all of the marriage amendments passed in [those states and] certainly Florida and other swing states are in jeopardy."
Referring to the Democrats' upcoming convention in North Carolina, Peters added: "I think it's particularly ironic that the Democrats are choosing to introduce for the first time the idea that they are corporately behind redefining marriage in a state where all the evidence suggests a majority of Democrats just voted in May to define marriage as a union between a husband and a wife." North Carolina voters approved their state's marriage amendment by a 61-percent margin.
According to the Wall Street Journal, "Republican strategists predicted the Democratic platform would make life uncomfortable for Democratic candidates in conservative states, such as Sen. Jon Tester, who is seeking re-election in Montana. Tester has said he respects his state's constitution, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, but he has declined to state explicitly his personal beliefs on same-sex marriage."
Madelyn Schnick, an activist and volunteer with Missouri's Greene County Democrats, "said the move won't help the party in her area," reported the Wall Street Journal. "'The opinion here is that gay marriage will affect so-called traditional marriage…. It's an extreme Bible Belt situation, so that does factor into it.'"
Tim Wildmon, president of the conservative American Family Association, confessed to being "a little surprised they would put it in the platform, because there are a lot of Democrats who don't agree with that, especially in the black community." He added that "I don't see how a socially conservative Democrat can stay with the party now."
Black Christian leaders, still stinging from the NAACP's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage, reacted to the Democratic Party's announcement with disdain and anger. "President Obama has not given us the courtesy of a reply to discuss his support of same-sex marriage, and is taking the black vote for granted," said the Rev. William Owens, president of the Coalition of African American Pastors. He said that his group would urge black voters to "withdraw their support" for Obama. "We will see that the black community is informed that the president is taking them for granted while pandering to the gay community," said Owens.
The Family Research Council (FRC), which has been a leader in the fight for traditional marriage over the past 10 years, released a statement saying that the Democratic Party's decision to make same-sex marriage a major plank in its platform would place it at a distinct disadvantage in the November elections. FRC spokesman Peter Sprigg said that if, in the upcoming election, Obama were to lose in the 32 states that have reaffirmed their commitment to traditional marriage, "he would face an electoral debacle." Sprigg noted that "while opposition to same-sex 'marriage' may have become politically incorrect in the Democratic Party at the national level, there are many Democratic members of Congress, and office-holders further down the ticket, who live in states and districts where it will be a serious disadvantage to be identified with 'the gay marriage party.' "
Sprigg also sent out a challenge to expected Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who, many GOP members fear, may not be the dependable candidate he insists he is. "Gov. Romney, who has signed a pledge to support a marriage protection amendment to the U.S. Constitution, should not shy away from making a clear distinction with President Obama and the Democrats on this issue," challenged Sprigg.
He added: "We expect that the Republican Party will maintain its strong support for one-man-one-woman marriage in their platform. The current Republican platform reflects the voters in 32 states who have voted to preserve marriage. The American people have done so because of their deep appreciation for the unique and irreplaceable benefits that marriage between a man and a woman gives to children and society."
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Fast food has become an epidemic as people are trying to do everything faster these days, including eat. While that might be a boom for the fast food industry it certainly isn't a good thing for your health or waistline. The newly opened Fresh Griller in Santa Ana has taken the concept of fast food and turned it on its head. The food will get to you fast at Fresh Griller but you won't find anything greasy or unhealthy, you will find clean and healthy flavors that will make your turn your nose up every time you pass a fast food restaurant.
The Fresh Griller takes on a Chipotle style format for serving which allows you take any of the innovative flavors on the menu and create your own bowl, salad or wrap in just minutes. You choose from Midwest raised steak, chicken or the veggie version to get things started. From there you can add white or brown rice, a flavor twist on Pico De Gallo that has a hint of ginger, white beans, vegetable medley or the amazing kale slaw.
The finally topping, the sauces are where you will get the concept of Fresh Griller, infusing blends of American, Asian, Mediterranean and Latin flavors. You will find a creamy wasabi, sweet chili, bbq, spicy aji verde, teriyaki and balsamic vinaigrette. The teriyaki is on the menu if you want to keep it simple, but the other flavors are all going to provide you a little bit of an interesting twist on what you might normally expect. The creamy wasabi really worked well with the chicken as you get a familiarity of ranch but you also get that "wow" flavor of wasabi. If you are a little fearful of being overpowered by the wasabi this is actually the perfect sauce for you as you get a hint of the wasabi, but it is really cut nicely by the addition of the ranch.
The Fresh Griller signature dish is the BBQ Chicken Bowl and after taking one bite it just might become your personal signature dish. A vast assortment of flavors and textures will force your taste buds to work overtime, taking your from the original barbeque sauce that is accented perfectly with a hint of guava and chipotle flavors. The dish then gives a vegetable medley that is so fresh it feels like it was just picked out of the garden and then they are complimented with white rice. What really takes this dish to another level is the kale slaw. Mixed in such a manner when you get a little of everything you will be taken on a flavor rollercoaster. The kale slaw is really creative and flavorful; the addition of the superfood kale gives this crisp and flavorful slaw even more goodness. The amazing thing about this bowl is that it is made of such high quality food you are likely to be full before you can reach the end of the bowl.
The Fresh Griller also is the only restaurant I have seen that has a soda dispenser that provides pure cane soda. So flavorful you will want to come back just for the flavor and just a little tip, mix the vanilla and the orange, you will swear you are drinking a dreamsicle. The Fresh Griller has a number of healthy side items to try that are great compliments to your meal, the two that are great to go with your meal or just to take home are the hummus and the parfait. The hummus is fresh and thick; once you try it you will find it to be an addicting snack. The parfait makes a tasty and healthy dessert and the fruit is hidden at the bottom of the container to keep it fresh and crisp. You might come across a parfait at a fast food restaurant and you will find there is no comparison, the Fresh Griller version is in a completely different stratosphere.
If you are looking for a restaurant that can change your lifestyle and not crush your budget, Fresh Griller should be at the top of your list of restaurants to visit. You are likely to spend more on a value meal at McDonalds than what one bowl or wrap at Fresh Griller and if you can leave satisfied and knowing you are giving your body a true treat and you can do it for a great price, there is not much more you could ask for from any restaurant.
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text: A forum poster over at Macrumors has posted photos of a fake iPhone that's close enough to the real hardware that you might believe it at first glance. Its proportions are off, the screen's not wide-sized and there's a mini-USB connector instead of an iPod dock one, but even the packaging is mocked-up to look Appleish. The UI is glossed-up to look very real, with some differences of course. And sure, you can imagine it would be not so sweet to operate... but you can't argue with the look of the thing. Steve's famous "start your photocopiers" call has gone a lot further than Redmond. Wonder how soon we'll see photocopy iPhone 3Gs? [Macrumors]


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GAMER press is heating up, with some great articles in anticipation of the film's September 4 US Release:
Interview: Gerard Butler – Scotland on Sunday
Gerard Butler's just a regular 'Gamer' – New York Daily News
For Butler, it's all part of the game – Chicago Sun-Times
Butler Bringing The Action Back for "Gamer" – UFC
Gamer Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Wanting to Be Abused – AMC TV
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More from F. Gary Gray on the making of Law Abiding Citizen, this one covering "Scoring of the Film":
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I am 16, doing IBDP and a very stressed teenager.
I belong to a Hindu family and my family strongly supports religion and existence of god.
But I don't believe in god as I doubt its existence and holy books.
It's been 3-4 years since I have become atheist.
I have kept it a secret to my family and everyone else.
now my life is more hectic, I don't have time and my parents want me to be more religious in terms of going regularly to temple, praying to god..and when they ask me I am like "I have better things to do than that..."
I do some of it and skip the rest, like I go down outside my home but just take a walk and come back home, don't really go to to temple.
But now it's very tough, I don't have time for all that, I don't like going to temple and pretend that I am praying..
I am so desperate to reveal this secret to my parents, I feel like I am betraying the closest people in my life. All people close to me, my parents, teachers, friends are religious.
but I am scared about the after-effects.
My parents love me a lot and I love them.
I don't want them to stop loving me or disliking me because of my beliefs. They might be heart-broken to know this.
So I want to know what should I do?
Tell them, or live my life way it is, bearing this burden or a secret in me throughout my life?
I definitely want to tell them as it is intolerable now.. but I don't want to disturb them.
So please give me a good or a proper way to approach them and discuss with them about my views through which they completely understand me, and they are not "that" disturbed.
What currently I have planned is to write what I am facing in a sheet, and put in what I am facing but slight changes in the situation - character, religion,... and tell them my teacher has asked me to discuss with parents and their views, I believe this should let me know what would be their reaction and help me know what will be the after effects.
I am going to try this tomorrow(Saturday) evening and see what happens..
But if you have better opinions which I really need, PLEASE someone assist me!
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You are in a difficult situation, no doubt. I don't claim to know what is the best approach for every situation, and yours seems incredibly hard, but I'll give it a go. The first thing I would suggest is going as slowly as you can. Parents are notoriously slow to be understanding of differing opinions, so if you could go on step at a time with them it might make it easier for them to digest. You might want to begin with just the simple fact of it, that you don't believe it and don't want to feel forced to believe what you cannot accept. I think what generally happens is that parents who don't accept this first statement of non-belief begin to ask rebuttal questions. That is always the hardest, because if you answer them badly you set yourself up for more questions and you feel badly that you cannot defend your beliefs, whereas if you answer them well you can end up hurting your parents feelings. I don't know what they would ask, especially being not too familiar with hinduism, so I don't have any suggestions here.
You might also consider raising the question of other beliefs. Ask them how they manage to distinguish between hinduism and other faiths/religions. Since every faith believes just as strongly that theirs is the right one, how can anyone choose between them?
I think the strongest argument is simply to attack faith itself. Faith is opposed to reason - when you are asked to take something on faith, it literally means without having enough justification based on reason. There is reason to believe that we come up with beliefs requiring faith because it is what we desire - we want to live forever, we want to live in a just world ruled by a just creator, and so on, but that doesn't mean that we do. If you want to come to your own beliefs using reason and not accept things just because other people do, then it seems reasonable that faith is just wish-fulfillment, that man created the ideas of deities, and that we would be better to have a scientific understanding of human nature and of the universe, and rationally discern what is true and good in the world and in ourselves, and what we ought to do based on what really does exist. Hope that helped.
I plan to live with my parents throughout my life...
so I guess that wouldn't work :(
I feel for you. My son is also doing IB and it is stressful. Interesting and clever idea to bring it up as a school assignment and see how they react. Along those lines you could leave Gora's "We Become Atheist" laying around and see if they take it well.
You should probably avoid creating more stress for yourself at least until you are done with IB. You have so much homework, can you use that to avoid the most time consuming of the religious activities? Do you have a doctor or a school counselor that you can trust to talk to about it? If you have to do religious things just realize you are doing it for your parents and don't beat yourself up for it.
I like Steph's idea of waiting until you are a bit older and they aren't trying to control you as much. Maybe ease them into it with transitional ideas that treat religion allegorically.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me, I am going to discuss tonight about this and post it online over here, hope the outcome is good...
Hello everyone, thanks for your support and encouraging me.
Yesterday night, I discussed it with me dad and he didn't seem to shocked! He was somewhat suspicious about my beliefs.
He accepted and said "well, it's your belief, and everyone has their own beliefs". Well it well, he wants to have a further discussion today or tomorrow about this before I tell it to my mom and my sister, as both of them are very sentimental.
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When you hear the word "wedding" you think of a bride and groom. However, weddings are nothing without the guests. You need to plan your wedding with your guests in mind as they want to have a fantastic experience too. I'm not saying to design your wedding to their style or taste, no way it's your day, but plan each and every move as if you were a guest.
From the moment guests arrive, it should feel like every detail has been thought of with your guests in mind. It's not just about making the room look pretty, it's about making your guests feel welcome, letting them know where they're supposed to be, making sure they have transportation to and from the venue, and giving them something special, treat them like royalty. To give your guests a great experience you must tap into psychology.
Before the wedding even begins, I encourage couples to write a "welcome letter" for out of town guests. This letter will include information on local transportation, the best coffee shops, museums, pubs, cocktail bars, shopping, information on the wedding and any pre/post wedding events, etc. It's a great way for guests to explore the town without having to do their own research.
To really turn up the heat on your guests' experience, provide transportation to and from the venue. If you're having a London wedding then consider shuttling your guests on an iconic red doubledecker bus. Providing transportation helps your guests relax as they won't be stressing about traffic, parking, and who's going to be the sober driver. It's a wonderful gesture and is greatly appreciated. If your budget doesn't allow this then consider printing off the name and number for two local cab numbers and placing a stack of these near the bar for guests to grab.
There are dozens of ways to make guests feel special and welcomed. I'm not going to give away all my tips (!) but lastly, if you're giving out guest favours, then have a strolling musician (like a strolling violin) go from table to table during dinner while a waiter personally hands a favour to each guests. Now that's love!
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Formal Arrangement: Designed for entertaining and little tete a tetes, this formal living room's oval furniture arrangement keeps the focus inwards. Plus Size Arranging: An extra large sofa can mean plenty of room to stretch out, but it can also engulf a room. The trick is to anchor an oversized piece of furniture against a wall and use other voluminous accessories (a jumbo print or a king sized ottoman) for balance. Cabin Chic: A rustic retreat gets a pop with slipper chairs covered in a tribal ikat. It gives the outdoorsy cabin a feminine spin. Playing Together: Spike the interest level in a neutral room with a few splatters of pattern. The bold designs on these throw pillows might be overwhelming in a larger scale, but in a petite form they add a casual chic vibe. Eclectic Appeal: Two Moroccan poufs set on the floor give a wanderlust feel to this traditional living room and provide extra casual seating for guests. Accent Wall: Swathe one wall in a cheery wallpaper to warm your space. Choose a print that picks up other colors in the room. Office Space: Create a petite home office in your living room that's big on style: Instead of a traditional desk chair (that would look out of place) appoint a living room chair that looks good facing the desk or the rest of the space.
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Tottenham signs U.S. defender DeAndre Yedlin
DeAndre Yedlin's breakout performance at the World Cup has earned him a move to Tottenham of the English Premier League.
The 21-year-old right back signed a four-year deal with the London club, and he will be loaned back to the Seattle Sounders until joining Tottenham ahead of the 2015-16 Premier League season.
A product of the Sounders' academy, Yedlin had a stellar rookie campaign in 2013 and has made the MLS All-Star team each of the past two seasons.
Yedlin has seven appearances for the national team under his belt, including three at the World Cup in Brazil. Coming off the bench in the group stage against Portugal, he caused havoc on the right flank and set up the team's go-ahead goal. In the Round of 16 loss to Belgium, Yedlin came on early in the match and did an impressive job defending world-class winger Eden Hazard.
"I'm very excited to come to the Premier League and challenge myself against some of the best players in the world," Yedlin told Tottenham's website.
"I've talked to [U.S. coach] Jurgen Klinsmann a lot about this move and he supports it, which was one of the big reasons behind the decision."
The club has a number of U.S. ties. Klinsmann played the 1994-95 season for Tottenham, American goalkeeper Brad Friedel, 43, has been with the team since 2011 and U.S. captain Clint Dempsey spent the 2012-13 season there.


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