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SimRel/Simultaneous Release FAQ
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How do we join the simultaneous release train
- 3 What are the most important URLs
- 4 Where can the common repository be tested, before it is rolled out for a milestone or release?
- 5 What is the staging repository?
- 5.1 What is staging, for the current, most forward looking, yet-to-be-released stream?
- 5.2 What is staging, for the maintenance stream?
- 5.3 What's the best way to test with the staging repository?
- 6 Once I update my .b3aggrcon file, how can I start a build?
- 7 A build failed message says it can not find xyz.feature.group, but I have nothing with "feature.group" in the name?
- 8 A build failed message says it can not find version 1.2.3.v9 but I can see 1.2.3.v9 on the file system?
- 9 How is a final build made "invisible" until release?
- 10 I see that xyz is being pulled into the repository, how can I see who is pulling it in?
- 11 What if we need a rebuild, past our deadline?
- 12 Policy FAQs
This page is to document answers to frequently asked questions about the yearly Simultaneous Release process or build.
How do we join the simultaneous release train
Pretty much any project that wants to join the yearly release train can and are encouraged to. Of course, it does sometimes take more work ... it is not just a matter of timing. But, often makes things much easier for your adopters and users. You should discuss with your mentors and PMC if you have any doubts or to make sure they agree its appropriate for your project.
Be aware, too, that there are conceivably "limits to growth", but hopefully we will not encounter such limits that can not be solved by improved resources and processes. A rough document of [SimRel/Priorities priorities for the yearly simultaneous release] has been drafted by the Planning Council, to help communicate and be open and transparent about some of the potential future limits.
Mark simultaneousrelease flag in portal
You need to mark the simultaneousrelease flag in the Foundation's Portal metadata for your project ... by M4, at the latest.
Mark "offset" category in portal tracking data
After you mark that simultaneousrelease flag, the project lead should see some extra "tracking" metadata at the Foundation Portal.
Click "track" next to your project. As of Juno, we've deprecated most of the information in the Simultaneous Release Tracker. The one bit of information that you really need to provide is the offset. You can safely ignore everything else (the EMO is working on a replacement implementation that is expected to be available in the Kepler timeframe).
The information that you provide here is displayed on the Releases page and the Release Descriptions page. Note that the descriptions are mined from the project description. The Project Metadata page provides help on specifying and updating your project's description (note that the EMO is also working on making this a lot easier).
The Releases page provides a listing of projects participating in a particular release. You can navigate to previous releases directly on the page (it shows the current simultaneous release by default).
Note that the project release number is displayed along with the offset. This page picks up the project releases provided in the project metadata that occur on the date of the simultaneous release. Note that the name provided for the release is normalized to a three part version number, release names that do not contain numbers, or are labelled as a milestone (e.g. "1.0.0M2") are ignored.
How to decide if offset is +N category
It partially depends on who you depend on. The Platform is +0, so nearly everyone else is +1, +2, or +3. For example, if you highly depended on "webtools" (which is +2) then you'd have to be a +3.
It also depends on "who depends on you". If no one else, in release train, depends on building with you as a pre-requisite, then +3 would be a good choice.
Of course, the lines are not always clear and pure ... such as part of emf is required at +0 but part of it is later at +1. In such cases, projects usually mark themselves as +1 and "work out the details" with those that need things at +0. Another example, part of a project such as WTP might depend on part of DTP and DTP might depend on part of WTP, but both need to be +2 to "fit in". In cases such, the projects might have to work out plans or agreements about having the sensitive, overlapping parts to be stable early (in both API and version numbers) so neither has to build against the literal final delivery of the other.
Keep in mind, the +N category designation just signifies the last possible time to drop (at least, without notifying others on cross project list). You are welcome and encouraged to have a "warm up drop" a bit earlier, with your "near final" bits, just to see if anything breaks or effects others.
That's too easy, how do we really join the simultaneous release train
Setting the simultaneousrelease flag and offset category is the first step, the formal step in declaring your intent. Of course, your PMC should be well aware of your plans, as always. Some people like to post a note to cross-project list, which is not necessary, but does not hurt anything either, if you just want to keep everyone informed. Then, of course, the real work begins.
There is a whole list of things you have to do, some required, some recommended, and, you need to get yourself into the common repository aggregation build, by M4, at the latest for new projects (existing projects continuing from previous years should already be in, as part of the intent it to be "simultaneous" every milestone, not just at the end. You will want to read through these documents, and others at the main wiki category (e.g. for Juno) as there is a lot of work involved ... more than just "releasing at the same time of year". And, if it is after M4, there is an exception processes, but you should talk to your PMC and Planning Council representative to see if you have a reasonable case for your Planning Council representative to take to the whole council.
What are the most important URLs
Where can the common repository be tested, before it is rolled out for a milestone or release?
The best place is the "staging area", by adding this URL to your "available software sites" list.
Note: to get the best test, disable all other repositories in your list, or you might end up pulling something from some other repository, not staging. Be aware that moving a specific build to "staging" may happen only every few days (if you need something promoted more urgently, just ask on cross-project list).
What is the staging repository?
Conceptually, it is simply a place to hold a repository temporarily ... until the repository is promoted to a released location.
What is staging, for the current, most forward looking, yet-to-be-released stream?
Not every build-repository makes it to this staging repository, but they do fairly frequently. Before the actual yearly release, a common milestone aggregation build is moved from 'staging' to the 'releases' area. For example, once, for each final milestone, staging is moved to
What is staging, for the maintenance stream?
Not every build-repository makes it to this staging repository, but they do fairly frequently. There are no milestones for maintenance streams, so this is as far as a maintenance repository gets, until it is time for SR1 or SR2 to be declared at which time 'maintenance' is promoted to be part of the composite for the release, such as
What's the best way to test with the staging repository?
There are a couple of good tests to do, before a staging repository is released:
Test staging all by itself
Just add the staging repository to the available software sites, using preferences, and ... very important ... make sure all other sites are disabled. This then gives you the best view that everything in that one repository is correct, and all dependencies can indeed be found, and things show up in categories as expected.
After confirming the categories are as expected, usually the next test is just to install things, fresh, but often it is a good idea to test various update sceneries, to make sure things work as expected (for example, if you already have M6 installed, then once M7 is ready, test to be sure it updates to M7 as expected.
Test staging as a pseudo composite
After confirming staging repository is correct, its often useful to then also (re)enable the released repository. Then, on install dialog, you can select "all available sites" and this effectively simulates what the eventual, final composite repository will look like to end users. There are cases, especially during initial development, where invalid features will show up. For example, if a feature was removed, renamed, its version reduced, or its category changed from one milestone to the next, it might still show up in the composite, and that might interfere with correct installation (see bug 314165), if not merely be confusing to end users. If there is a serious problem due to the composite, please open a bug in cross-project component and we'll decide if the composite should be changed or reduced to allow for correct installation.
Test EPP Package updates
For a release, EPP packages are added to the common repository via composite, so its exact (final) location is transparent to end-users.
But before a release, similar to above, you can use a pseudo composite to test if an EPP Package updates as expected. You'd need to follow (or ask on) the epp-dev list to know details, but in addition to the above staging repo, you would add (and enable) EPP's staging repo, which would usually have a form similar to the following:
Why do we use composites anyway, if there are potential problems with them?
Two reasons. While the eventual, initial released repository, in June, will definitely consist of just one set of released, consistent features, later in September, and then February, we use composites to add maintenance, so testing composites early is a good idea to make sure there are no bugs in p2, etc., that need to be fixed.
Secondly, someone may be using a previous milestone as a runtime target, and once we remove it, it will invalidate that target, so we do not want to force everyone to "move up" all at the the same time. Some developers may need a few weeks to transition to the latest code. To save space, we do not try and save all previous milestones, though. Our goal is to maintain about 3 milestones in the composite. For example, if we had M4, M5, and M6 in the composite, once M7 came out, we'd only have M5, M6, and M7. But the number can not be guaranteed. If there are serious problem with providing the composite we will reduce it to just two, or even to just one, to make sure the repository is usable for testing and continued development.
Once I update my .b3aggrcon file, how can I start a build?
You don't need to. The build will start automatically, once you check in a .build file. The .build files are checked every 15 minutes to see if any have changed, and if so an aggregation build will start. It takes approximately 2 hours to run.
But what if I really want to kick off the build myself?
If you can't wait 15 minutes, you can start the build your self. Anyone that has authorization to check in a .build file, should have authority to manually start a build.
Plus, there are some cases where someone may need to kick off a build manually. For example, if a build fails due to network issues. Another common case is that a build may fail, even though the .build file is correct, the repository it points to might have had an error. Once the repository is corrected, there's no automatic mechanism to detect that change, so after the repository is corrected, a new build has to be manually started (that, or the .build file "touched" and then checked in again). To manually start a build, just click the "Schedule a Build" button at the build status control page.
You need to be sure to login (with your committer ID):
Then click the "Schedule a Build" buttton:
A build failed message says it can not find xyz.feature.group, but I have nothing with "feature.group" in the name?
The suffix ".feature.group" is added to feature names, to refer to the whole feature ... the feature files themselves, but also all its included bundles and features ... to help distinguish it from the literal feature files. So "xyz.feature.group" just means the "xyz feature", conceptually. See Eclipse Help for detailed information about metadata.
A build failed message says it can not find version 1.2.3.v9 but I can see 1.2.3.v9 on the file system?
The key file, the one that "drives" P2, is the content.jar/xml file. Be sure to check the version numbers there. If, inside it, the installable unit (often a feature) says version="1.2.3.v8", then P2 will look no further and conclude that the 'v9' feature it is looking for is not there. This is usually a sign your meta data needs to be re-generated to match the contents on the file system.
How is a final build made "invisible" until release?
Web download pages?
You can put the zips in their download directory, so those large items can replicate to mirrors, but don't use any HTML that would cause them to be displayed as links to an end user. True, if someone knew the exact URL they could still get it, but the idea is that the URL is not widely announced or visible, so even if a few download it, it is not hit by thousands of downloads. Then, on release day, you'd update the HTML pages to make the downloads visible to browsers and click-able by users.
Tip : you can hide some particular builds from download pages using the hidden.txt file in downloads directory ( see for example emft : http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/www/modeling/emft/downloads/hidden.txt?root=Eclipse_Website&view=log )
P2 repositories?
There is a few ways to accomplish this, depending on if you have composite or simple repositories, but they all involve promoting the "main" parts of the repository (the artifacts, usually "plugins" and "features" directory) to their final location so those meaty parts can be replicating to mirrors, but do not put the metadata (usually content.jar and artifacts.jar) to their final location until "release day". p2 doesn't "see" the artifacts, until it can read the metadata.
I see that xyz is being pulled into the repository, how can I see who is pulling it in?
There are times when someone may see an old, or inappropriate, bundle being "pulled in" to the aggregation build, and they want to find out how or why it is being included. While the full rules for how p2 decides something is required, or satisfies a requirement, is beyond the scope of this FAQ, there are two ways to get started narrowing it down. Just to have a concrete example, I will use the use-case provided by bug 357171 to show a specific case, where some old (unsigned) version of org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.libraries was being included.
The quick approximate check of where its coming from
Check the console log for a message about mirroring the problematic bundle, and then look back "up" in the log, to see what repository is being processed at that point.
For, our example, searching for 'org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.libraries' we find the following line:
[exec] - mirroring artifact osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.libraries,1.0.1.v200907090915
Then, looking back "up" in the log, we see the following repositories were being used to pull things from:
[exec] Mirroring meta-data from from file:///home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/updates/interim [exec] - mirroring meta-data reference http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/updates/ [exec] - mirroring artifacts reference http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/updates/ [exec] - mirroring meta-data reference http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/updates/ [exec] - mirroring artifacts reference http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/updates/ [exec] - mirroring meta-data reference http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/updates/ [exec] - mirroring artifacts reference http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/updates/ [exec] Mirroring artifacts from from file:///home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/updates/interim
In some cases, this might be sufficient to track down the problematic contributor.
The detailed, exact check on requirements
If the log doesn't help, the definitive source of "requirements" can be seen in the content.jar/xml. It can be tricky to "find" the content.jar/xml file, depending on composites repositories, if compressed or not, etc., but for our example, from a temporary maintenance repository, you can download it from
Once unzipped, you can search for your bundle, in our case. searching for 'org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.libraries'.
You'll certainly find the IU that defines the bundle
<unit id='org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.libraries' version='1.0.1.v200907090915' singleton='false'>
That IU, by itself, doesn't help narrow down who is requiring it. But, continue to search.
The easy case of "Require-Bundle"
If you find a match in a "requires" element, you can see what bundle "requires" your bundle. If found, those matches would start with "<required" element and include the name of the bundle. In these cases, there is some bundle that uses "Require-Bundle" and should be easy to resolve with who ever is doing that.
The harder case of "Import-Package"
If you find no direct "<required" match, then that means p2 is deciding your bundle "fits" the requirements due to the packages it provides (exports), and some other bundle (or bundles) "imports" those packages. If there are just a few, uniquely named packages provided by your mystery bundle, you can search the content.xml file for who "requires" those packages and figure out what to do from there.
The hardest case
But, our example does not have such a happy ending. The IU 'org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.libraries' provides 264 packages! Some of those are fairly distinctly named, but some are very common, and very commonly "imported" by other bundles. While I did not try, it would be hard to narrow down to just a few other bundles that might be requiring the many exported packages. I do not know the exact details, but p2 does have some heuristics where it will give extra weight to include a bundle that satisfies the most requirements -- so, any bundle that provides (exports) a huge number of common packages is in danger of getting included unintentionally by p2.
Back to the quick approximate findings
Another approach is to go back to those repositories implied in the "The quick approximate check" above.
Ideally, it would be possible to provide a more specific repository for the b3 aggregator so it only looks in more currently correct repositories. For example, (and, I emphasize 'example', since I am unsure of Modeling project's policies and procedures) a repository for "../emf/updates/indigo/" might be more appropriate for indigo contributions than a high level "../emf/updates/" repository. Or, as another example, perhaps "../emf/updates/interim" repository is actually incorrect for Indigo contributions. In that case, you could search the b3aggrecon files to see who is using or providing that repository and work out a better alternative.
A caution on how not to solve
For cases such as this, where some old, inappropriate bundle is being included, one solution, one might think, would be to surgically remove it from its original repository. This is almost never a good idea, since someone, somewhere, might be depending on it being there ... released repositories are forever, or, at least, are supposed to be ... so great care is needed in changing released repositories.
What if we need a rebuild, past our deadline?
Everyone knows plans are just plans, and occasionally exceptions are required. While we can't cover every exception (after all ... they are exceptions) there are the some general principles of deciding if an exception is required. The same ideas apply to milestones, release candidates, and service releases, but the impact levels are higher the further along a cycle is. If possible, naturally, it is best to handle problems within your own project, say, by providing a patch feature or update to your own project's software repository, but in some cases, that's not possible ... this FAQ entry is about those cases.
Questions to ask yourself (and answer, in your request for an exception or rebuild)
Not necessarily an exhaustive list ... but, some common questions:
- Is the bug something that effects IP or similar "legal requirements" from the Eclipse Foundation?
- Is the bug something that prevents other projects from working correctly?
- Is the bug something that causes install, or update, to fail, or otherwise leave an installation in a bad, unfixable state?
- Is the bug something that can not be solved by a patch feature, applied by users or adopters after the release?
- Is the bug a regression, from previous release?
- Do other projects have to recompile, once a bug is fixed? For example, are constants changed? APIs? version numbers?
- Do other projects need to retest, once a bug is fixed? That is, is it something that could potentially effect others ... such as a change in timing or synchronization of some "notification" to listeners? Or something clearly "internal" to your own code?
- Do you have the support, approval, or review of your Project Lead and PMC? (Or, otherwise follow what ever your project's rampdown process is?)
- Does it affect an EPP Package? Or just the common repository?
Past our +n day, but before window closes?
If we are still within the "drop window" for a deadline, but you are past your particular +n day, simply post a note to cross-project list, with any relevant questions and answers from above list, the bug number, and then just do it. (No need for further approval or coordination.)
Keep in mind that spinning new builds past your deadline can result in a lot of work for downstream projects and consumers as they make last minute adjustment to your change. Projects are generally willing to accommodate these changes as much as they can, but please keep this in mind and only do it when absolutely necessary.
Past the drop window?
In this case, it is completely past the drop window, after EPP packages have been built. In this case, you still need to post to cross-project list, with bug number, and relevant questions and answers from above list, but now explicit review/permission from Planning Council is also required. Please follow the Planning Council Exception Process, but in cases of "tight timing", the Planning Council has authorized the Planning Council Chair (currently David Williams) to make the initial decision and allow others to review later or in parallel.
Policy FAQs
Can a new project or feature join a Simultaneous Service Release (SR1 or SR2)?
Yes, but still subject to all the other rules of the Eclipse Development Process and the Simultaneous Release Requirements. For example, if a "Release Review" is required by the EDP, it is still required, before being in an SR. A release review is normally not required for a maintenance release, if the maintenance is "bug fixes" only, but if a new feature is added (including an increase in minor version number) then according to the Eclipse Development Process a release review is required. All that is independent of the "Simultaneous Service Release" and Planning Council ... just normal Eclipse business. Similarly, something "new" must still meet all the other Simultaneous Release requirements, such as signed jars, 4 part versioning, etc. In particular, the addition must "do no harm". In practice this means it is relatively easy to change "leaf components", but more care and effort is required to change a "low level" feature.
Note: [added April, 2013]. The new release must be in RC1 builds for the SR, must have released one month prior to that RC1, and the project must be willing and able to test and provide a quick maintenance release if last minute problems found. This detail and timing is important to avoid last minute surprises for adopters and consumers and to make sure the "new release" is at least somewhat tested before going into Simultaneous Maintenance Release.
Note: [added August, 2013]. Projects should "announce" on cross-project list if they do include new features in an SR, and they should carefully follow the versioning semantics and increment the minor version when they do (That is, there is no "cheating" semantics ... it will catch up with you eventually). When possible, it is best to include the new feature as "optional" ... so, for example, if adopters are "building products" on top of a Simultaneous Release they can omit the new feature if they desired (though, we know that is not literally possible, in every case).
Can a Simultaneous Release project include bundles or features from a project not in the Simultaneous Release?
It can "include" another Eclipse Project that is not in the Simultaneous Release, if that other other Eclipse Project has been released before, and if that other Eclipse project (still) meets all the requirements of a Release (such as correct about.html files, etc.) and also the extra requirements of Simultaneous Release (such as signed jars, etc.,). This is analogous to the use of "third party" bundles from Orbit, where the original authors clearly do not "participate" in the release ... but the bundles have all been through the IP process, are well formed, etc. Of course, it it only natural and polite to let the other Eclipse Project know that you are planning on doing this, and give them the right to comment or object if they had some reason too (for example, they might say, "oh, we didn't know you were using us, ok, we'll join the Sim. Release too" or they might say, "Please don't, we plan to come out with a new, incompatible release in August and contribute that in SR1" ... just to give some hypothetical examples of the importance of communication.
But, if a project has not been released before, then another project can not "include" it in their own released code, even for a normal Eclipse Foundation Release, much less a Simultaneous Release. For the sake of history, I'll note this topic was discussed at length in bug 370974.


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Skin cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in the United States according to the US Preventative Services Task Force.1 Sun exposure is a major risk factor for the development of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers.2,3 Proper sun protection is crucial in the fight against skin cancer. Most children and adults are not properly educated about the risks of sun exposure and the basic ways in which they can use sunscreen.4
Sun protection will have the greatest impact if achieved as early as possible in life.5,6 Previous studies have found that approximately 80% of lifetime sun exposure occurs before age 18 years.7 Early education of the harmful effects of exposure to the sun and ultraviolet (UV) radiation can establish healthy behaviors early in life that are more likely to be practiced into adulthood.8
So, parents -- teach your children from an early age and lead by example by following these general guidelines . . .
1U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Counseling to prevent skin cancer: recommendations and rationale of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. MMWR Recomm Rep 2003;52(RR-15):13-17.
2Thompson J, Menzies S, Shaw H, Scolyer R and Kefford R. Cutaneous melanoma. Lancet 2005;365(9476):2004-2005.
3Lim JL, Stern RS. High levels of ultraviolet B exposure increase the risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in psoralen and ultraviolet A-treated patients. J Invest Dermatol 2005;124(3):505-513.
4Wesson KM, Silverberg NB. Sun protection education in the United States: what we know and what needs to be taught. Cutis 2003;71(1):71-4, 77.
5Armstrong BK, Kricker A. The epidemiology of UV induced skin cancer. J Photochem Photobiol B 2001;63(1-3):8-18.
6Tucker MA, Goldstein AM. Melanoma etiology: where are we? Oncogene 2003;22(20):3042-3052.
7Stern RS, Weinstein MC and Baker SG. Risk reduction for nonmelanoma skin cancer with childhood sunscreen use. Arch Dermatol 1986;122(5):537-545.
8Center for Disease Control MMWR Weekly. Survey of the Knowledge of and Awareness of Melanoma:May 03, 1996 / 45(17);346-349. 2001; 2005.
9FDA Proposes New Rule for Sunscreen Products:Highlights Include New UVA Rating System, Sun Warning Information. August 23, 2007.
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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Thursday released of two Coptic Christian boys taken into in juvenile detention for allegedly urinating on the Quran, but they will remain under investigation, a security official said.
Even as news spread that the boys would be freed, their village remained tense.
According to priest in the village, located in the province of Beni Suef south of Cairo, local leaders of Gamaa Islamiya — once a prominent militant group — took to mosques, rallying Muslims to rise up against the order to release the boys.
"I don't know why they are inciting people now. Right now, villagers from outside our place are gathering," the priest said, adding, "God help us."
However a neighbor who tried to resolve tension said that Islamists from outside the village came and held a conference in the mosque calling for revenge for insulting the Quran, but security officials intervened and prevented escalation. The priest and the resident spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.
Rights groups say allegations of contempt of religion are on the increase. Many are made against Coptic Christians, showcasing the tenuous position of a minority estimated to make up 8 to 10 percent of the population.
Some of the accusations are made by members of radical Islamist groups, whose political clout has risen since the 2011 popular uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.
A flurry of criminal investigations in recent weeks comes amid heightened tensions over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, which sparked protests across the Muslim world.
The most recent case is a rare example of minors being accused of contempt of religion. Local cleric Sheik Gamal Shamardal said residents of the village of Ezbat Marco saw the boys, ages 9 and 10, bring pages of the Quran behind a local mosque and urinate on them.
Police on Tuesday arrested the boys, and a crowd of angry residents gathered outside the police station. Fearing violence, security forces surrounded the village and the boys were taken to a nearby juvenile detention facility.
The neighbor said that the boys are illiterate and could not have recognized the Quran.
"We brought one boy and asked him if he knew this is the Quran. He didn't know it was the Quran. He can't even read or write, like most kids in the village. They are illiterate and even those who go to school don't know how to read. If you bring a Quran, he wouldn't recognize it," he said.
When police officer came at night to take the boys, "we begged him to leave the kids. They can't spend night outside their home. The officer said he feared for their lives and he wanted to keep them with him."
He said a third of the villagers are Christian and the rest are Muslims.
"We visit each other, we are together in weddings, funerals and everything," he said. "We became a target. When anything happens outside, we bear the results."
Father Abdel-Qouddos Hana, deputy of Archbishop Estafanous with whom the boys' village is affiliated, believed that the over-reaction to the boys' action was related to the anti-Islam movie.
"I think this is all about the movie," he said. "We stood by our brothers here in their protests, but some people have bad souls," he said.
Security chief Gen. Attiya Mazrou in Beni Suef province south of Cairo said that authorities ordered the boys to be released after five days in detention, and they were taken to a police station to await their parents.
It was not immediately possible to reach the boys' family for comment.
Seventeen cases of alleged contempt of religion have been filed since the January 2011 uprising, including at least five in recent weeks, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said.
The cases include a Christian teacher in the southern province of Assiut who received six years in prison for posting anti-Islam material on his Facebook page.
A female Coptic teacher in another southern town was also summoned for interrogation last week and detained for a night after her students accused her of speaking offensively about the Prophet Muhammad in class. The teacher was released from detention, but prosecutors are still investigating her, human rights activists said.
A Coptic Christian activist, Alber Saber, is facing trial for posting material on his Facebook page deemed offensive to religion. He was first detained after neighbors complained he had posted the anti-Islam film, but investigators didn't find it. Nonetheless, within days he was put on trial on charges of contempt of religion. His trial began last week.


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This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase His people's enemies before a new age begins."
It would be nice to leave them all alone but they have that stuff we need...OIL.
the people of the middle east have been at each others throats for a few thousand years now with one side calling for the eradication of the other
Well, Christians have been at war with Muslims for at least 1000 years. I know that.
Quote from: Mr. Blackwell on September 13, 2012, 02:43:09 PM the people of the middle east have been at each others throats for a few thousand years now with one side calling for the eradication of the other1. Whom specifically do you mean? Muslims and Jews? If so, they've not been fighting for thousands of years. That is a common misperception. They have only been at it a very short period of time, about 100 years. Prior to the creation of Israel, the zionist jews were fighting the British. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence2. How are they different from anyone else? Europe has constantly been at war for about 1000 years. The US for about 100 years.
Just seems to me the easy solution would be to just let them fight it out among themselves but that just feels...cowardly and selfish.
Trying to sell Jaques Chirac on joining the War Against the Iraqi People, Geo. Bush revealed to the French PM that Bush believed the war was a literal fullfillment of a Biblical Prophecy. There was a general sense during the war that Bush believed he was acting out such a scenario, and this particular story, in less explicict form, surfaced in 2009, but a new book sources it out really well, establishing it sufficiently to be historical fact:http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021329690Just a shout out to the liberal Xians who love to talk about how Xianity is a religion of peace.
It's my understanding that a bunch of Xians marched out the middle east a millenia or so ago and pretty much started the whole row. Religion was a pretense. Like always, land, wealth and power were the real objectives.
I just don't see why we NEED their particular brand of crude...just cut them completely out of the equation and see if that sobers them up.
Quote from: Nick on September 13, 2012, 02:45:53 PMIt would be nice to leave them all alone but they have that stuff we need...OIL.Russia has oil, Canada has oil, America has oil....I fail to see the need for their oil.


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The S&P 500 gained 0.9% at 4 p.m. in New York, trimming its weekly loss to 2.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average's gain was limited to less than 0.1% as International Business Machines Corp. plunged the most since in eight years after posting disappointing earnings. Japan's currency tumbled at least 0.9% against all 16 major peers. Ten-year Treasury yields climbed two basis points to 1.70%. Gold for immediate delivery rose for a fourth day. The pound weakened as Britain lost its top credit grade at Fitch Ratings.
Capital One Financial Corp., Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and Microsoft Corp. climbed at least 3.4% to help lead the market higher after reporting quarterly results that beat estimates. G-20 finance chiefs handed Japan leeway to reflate its stagnant economy by indicating its fresh round of monetary stimulus doesn't contravene a pact to avoid a currency war.
"Earnings have more of an impact on the market at this time of the year," Lawrence Creatura, a Rochester, New York- based fund manager at Federated Investors Inc., which oversees about $380 billion, said by phone. "Macro issues are taking a bit of a backseat as investors stop to listen to what management teams have to say. Today's reports have been mainly good with the exception of IBM."
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Volume of S&P 500 stocks was 17% higher than the 30- day average for this time of day. U.S. options contracts expire today, leading investors to adjust their holdings of some stocks.
The S&P 500 retreated 3.3% from its record close on April 11 through yesterday, spurring concern over what UBS AG strategist Jonathan Golub called a "spring break" in equities. Stocks began short-term declines in April of each of the last three years. The benchmark measure surged as much as 136% from a 12-year low in 2009 as the Federal Reserve embarked on three rounds of bond purchases to stimulate the economy.
Boeing Co. rallied 2.1% after winning U.S. approval to return to service with a redesigned lithium-ion battery, more than three months into the government's longest grounding of a commercial model in the jet age.
IBM slid 8.3%, the most since April 2005, after the computer-services provider posted profit that trailed projections for the first time since 2005, hurt by a hardware slump and failure to sign customers to contracts. IBM, which accounts for 10% of the price-weighted Dow average for its heaviest weighting, by itself took 131.7 points off the 30- stock gauge today, trimming the average's advance to less than 14 points.
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The premise of visiting so many pubs as a narrative device, however, bogs down the initially energetic pacing and goofiness. Piling on the mayhem renders The World's End a sometimes chaotic and uneven comedy.
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A fraction less gut-bustingly goofy than its predecessors.
The World's End stands on its own as hilarious high-end nonsense.
While things get a tad buckled town in mayhem and special effects throughout the film's busy final reels, Wright spends enough time sketching out his mischievous middle-aged men so that their journey...feels worthwhile and even meaningful for a few of them.
The movie is madly, wonderfully at odds with itself.
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Fantastically funny, weird film has violence, alcohol, more.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The World's End is an offbeat hybrid that starts out like a buddy comedy and ends up being a whole other kettle of fish. Like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which were made by the same director and stars, it's irreverent and unpredictable, which makes it truly enjoyable, but its edgy content means it's definitely best for older teens and up. Expect loads of drinking -- the movie is, after all, about an epic pub crawl gone very awry -- and scenes of violence (though they're cartoonish and played for laughs at times) with limbs coming off, explosions, outright melees, and the like. There's lots of swearing, including "f--k," "s--t," and much more.
Messages: Amid the raucous comedy, heavy drinking, and (cartoonish) violence is the underlying message that friendship will see you through even the very worst situations.
Role models: The five friends may have drifted apart after secondary school, but they remain loyal to each other -- which counts for a lot, despite the fact that their behavior (drinking, swearing, smoking, etc.) isn't always exactly what you'd want teens emulating.
Violence: Lots of mostly cartoonish violence, including brutal fights in which arms are twisted, heads are kicked off, and cars explode. But they don't seem as brutal as they are because some of those involved don't bleed red but blue, making the aftermath seem more strange than gory.
Sex: Brief allusions to a sexual encounter in a bathroom; some cleavage and heavy makeouts. Quick glimpse of a man's behind. Sexual references in language.
Language: Very frequent use of a wide variety of strong language, including "f--k," "c--t," "c--k," "s--t," "piss," "balls," "hell," and more.
Consumerism: Some products/labels are mentioned and shown, especially by characters who seem fairly materialistic or affluent (or both): Nokia, Audi, Foster's Lager, Starbucks, Marlboro, Ford. And Cornetto ice cream makes an appearance, as it has in Pegg and Frost's other films, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Part of the film's premise is five friends going on an elaborate pub crawl that has them downing a pint of beer (and sometimes shots of liquor) at 12 different bars. Also some mention of weed smoking and flashbacks showing teens drinking to excess.
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Think of a superlative — biggest, most, best, tallest — and chances are you'll find something in Dubai that corresponds. The nation holds nearly 150 Guinness World Records, including tallest building, biggest-ever fireworks display, largest indoor theme park and world's largest gold ring.
Dubai is also raking in the accolades beyond its world records, however. Recently it ranked as the third "most dynamic" city in the world, after San Francisco and London, on Jones Lang LaSalle's City Momentum Index. Late last year, it achieved another first, when it was selected to host the World Expo 2020, making this the first-ever World Expo to be held in the Middle East.
As Dubai rolls out plans for the expo, the city of bigger and better is demonstrating that it is nowhere near finished growing.
Under its "Tourism Vision for 2020" plan, Dubai plans to double its tourism infrastructure in the next six years, attracting 20 million visitors annually by the end of the decade. Accordingly, it plans to increase its hotel inventory to 160,000 rooms in time for the expo, twice its current inventory of 80,000 rooms.
To meet its new goals, Dubai intends to focus its tourism marketing efforts on business travelers as well as the lucrative family travel market. Tourism officials say they will aim at the 25 to 55 age segment in particular, a complement to the city's own youthful population — about 50 percent of Dubai's residents are younger than 20 years old.
As it continues to roll out newer, bigger and taller offerings, let's not forget, however, that Dubai is also an excellent place to enjoy a little downtime.Indeed, Paris Hilton seemed impressed with the destination's resort-style offerings.
"Dubai is my new Hawaii," said the celebrity in a tweet last year.
Dubai's favorable location on the Arabian Sea, with plenty of high-end resorts set along the coastline, offers recreational activities for visitors looking to do nothing more than soak up the sun.
Ready to explore Dubai? The city offers an impressive selection of cuisine, venues and activities to choose from.
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Where to Eat:A fantastic place to dine and learn about Emirati culture is the Sheikh Mohammed Center for Cultural Understanding. The Cultural Center offers a variety of cultural activities, including a mosque visit. Daily lunch programs serve up the finest in Emirati home cooking while explaining the traditions behind the food. During the meal, a hostess answers questions from the audience, some even touching on personal issues such as what life as a Muslim woman is like.
What to Do:A visit to the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower, is a must. On-site binoculars show both real-time views and historical views of the area from 50 years ago. The building is located within the Dubai Mall, one of the largest shopping centers in the world.
Dubai sparkles so bright that it can be easy to forget that the city is located in the midst of the Arabian Desert. Tour Operator Desert Adventures enables guests to experience desert life by bringing them to the city's outskirts for an afternoon of sandboarding. It also offers a four-wheel jeep experience that's unique to the area. Guests are then taken to an authentic Bedouin campsite where they will enjoy a traditional dinner, camel rides, a belly dancing performance and a shisha pipe lounge. www.desertadventures.com
Where to Stay:Made up of three properties, One&Only Royal Mirage is set on 65 acres of lush green lawns overlooking the Arabian Sea. Featuring one of the top beaches in Dubai, the hotel also offers a sports center and temperature-controlled pools, making it the ideal city retreat for active travelers. http://royalmirage.oneandonlyresorts.com
Located on Dubai's famed Palm Island, an artificial island designed to resemble a palm tree, the One&Only The Palm resort offers a distinctive views of Dubai's impressive city skyline. This low-rise building is refreshing in a city filled with over-the-top architecture, and it offers the perfect laid-back vibe away from the bustle of the city. http://thepalm.oneandonlyresorts.com
Atlantis, The Palm is a children's paradise. On-site recreation includes an aquarium housing 65,000 marine animals, a dolphin bay, a waterpark and three private beaches. The best bet here are the three-story Underwater Suites, where floor-to-ceiling bedroom windows offer a dramatic view of the aquarium. www.atlantisthepalm.com
The Palace Downtown Dubai is located on Old Town Island, a vibrant market square offering an eclectic mix of outdoor stalls, boutiques, international restaurants and coffee houses. The hotel is adjacent to Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower, and offers quick access into the city. www.theaddress.com/en
Set on its own private beach, Madinat Jumeirah resort's facilities are connected by nearly two miles of waterways and landscaped gardens. It is also the site of the Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project, where sick turtles are rehabilitated and released back to the sea. It also features a 1,000-seat amphitheater, the region's only dedicated entertainment center and more than 40 restaurants and bars. www.jumeirah.com/en
Getting There:Emirates offers nonstop flights from Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, New York (JFK), San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Washington Dulles. The airline has a frequent flier affiliation with Jet Blue, offering convenient domestic connections. The nonstop flight from Los Angeles takes 16 hours, but Emirates offers an impressive in-flight entertainment system with plenty of international movies, television shows and video games.


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This high-energy game features over three hundred levels, a variety of activities, a cast of over thirty wacky characters, and an easy-to-use in-game editor that allows players to express their creativity.
"I am a gamer myself, and I really wanted to create a video game that I could play with my kids," said Steven Spielberg. "Boom Blox features an enormous amount of fun challenges and cool scenarios for your kids to solve or for you to master together."
Fun for kids and the entire family, Boom Blox offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. Players can explore the visceral gameplay -- perfectly suited for the Wii's interactivity -- that keeps them destroying their way through brain-twisting challenges. They can interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments. Additionally, players can remix any level of the game in Create Mode using props, blocks, or characters that have been unlocked during the game. Players can also virtually build anything they can dream up. Plus, their designs can then be shared with friends or used to challenge others to solve their newly created puzzle via WiiConnect24.
"We developed Boom Blox with endless combinations of gameplay in mind," explains Louis Castle, Executive Producer. "With over three hundred levels, built upon a full real-time physics model, your experience can be as easy or difficult as you want it to be -- there really is something for everyone to enjoy."
"My inspiration for this game came while I was playing the Wii for the first time," added Spielberg. "From the initial concept to what the game is today, it's always been built around the innovations the Wii brings to playing games. Boom Blox plays on the enjoyment of building and knocking down blocks, something that can appeal innately to kids and adults of all ages."
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- Throw, grab, and blast - Use fun action gestures with the Wii remote to cause strategic destruction in levels like Tiki-Tower-Topple and Medieval Mayhem.
- Over 300 Brain-Busting Challenges
- Fast-paced Multiplayer Action - Play with or against your friends in co-op, versus, or 4-player games.
- Make It Your Own – Unlock characters, worlds, blocks, and props throughout the game and use to build whatever you can imagine in Create Mode. Remix any level and share what you create with friends via WiiConnect24.
- Over 30 Wacky Blox Characters - Tackle the action and interact with a cast of entertaining characters including animals like a chicken that lays bomb blocks and a beaver that likes to make them explode.
Developed at EA Los Angeles, Boom Blox will be available in May 2008 for the Wii.
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Who's to blame for the 2010 GSA junket to Vegas?
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The General Services Administration's now infamous 2010 "team building" junket in Nevada has been widely talked about lately. Heads have rolled and the White House was reportedly furious, though it's unclear if that anger was over the amount of money spent, or that the meetings were held in Vegas in spite of a presidential advisory to avoid Sin City.
We're just now getting to the bottom of who's really to blame for the latest example of government waste. I don't want to ruin the suspense, so all I'll say is that the last name of the culprit rhymes with "push."
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The Obama administration is responding to the recent report that shows a federal agency spent more that $800,000 on a lavish conference near Las Vegas by putting some of the blame on the Bush administration.
"At least we have taken, bold, swift forceful action to hold those responsible accountable and put in place protections to make sure this never happened again," a White House official told Fox News.
The Inspector General Office's report last week about the 2010 General Services Administration conference outside of Las Vegas indicates the Obama administration knew about the trip since May 2010. The report was followed by a release of videos.
One video shows an employee performing in the fake music video, which is laced with jokes and references that only federal employees are likely to get.
In the lyrics, the employee sings: "Donate my vacation, love to the nation, I'll never be under OIG investigation."
The $840,000 conference is partly Bush's fault, they say, but at least it helped serve as evidence of the Obama administration's stewardship of taxpayer dollars:
The administration also argued Friday night that the cost of the Western Regional Conference increased sharply under the Bush White House — from $93,000 in 2004 to $323,855 in 2006 to $655,025 in 2008, then $840,616 in 2010, or just 28 percent under Obama.
So even if the bill for the 2012 conference is a cool million, the cost will have only increased 19 percent — or a 9 percent decrease from 2010. That's saving money, government style.
We'll close with words of wisdom from somebody who made an appearance at the 2010 GSA meeting in Vegas, the Angry Office Clown: "Government — if you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions."
If the mind reader taxpayers were billed $3,200 for could only read our minds now.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Reynolds American Inc.'s first-quarter profit fell more than 28 percent as the company sold fewer cigarettes and spent more on expanding its electronic cigarette brand and legal costs.
The nation's second-biggest tobacco company on Wednesday reported earnings of $363 million, or 67 cents per share, for the quarter ended March. 31. That's down from $508 million, or 92 cents per share, a year earlier.
Adjusted earnings were 72 cents per share, missing Wall Street estimates by 2 cents.
The Winston-Salem, N.C., maker of Camel and Pall Mall cigarettes said revenue excluding excise taxes increased nearly 3 percent to $1.93 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.91 billion.
The company said its R.J. Reynolds Tobacco subsidiary sold 14.3 billion cigarettes, a decline of about 4 percent, compared with a estimated decline of about 3 percent for the industry as a whole.
Volumes for Camel grew 2.5 percent and volumes for Pall Mall were flat. The brands account for more than 60 percent of the company's total cigarette volume. Shipments of its other brands, which include Winston, Kool, Doral and Salem, fell about 13 percent.
Camel's market share increased 0.4 percentage points to 10 percent of the U.S. market, while Pall Mall's market share grew 0.3 percentage points to 9.5 percent.
The company has promoted Pall Mall as a longer-lasting and more affordable cigarette as smokers weather the weak economy and high unemployment.
The number of Natural American Spirit cigarettes sold by its Santa Fe Natural Tobacco subsidiary grew nearly 11 percent to 800 million.
Reynolds and other tobacco companies are also focusing on cigarette alternatives such as snuff, chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes as tax hikes, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma make the cigarette business tougher.
Volume for its smokeless tobacco brands including Grizzly and Kodiak rose about 11 percent compared with a year ago. The brands had a 34.6 percent share of the U.S. retail market, though that market is tiny compared with cigarettes.
The company said its Vuse brand electronic cigarette is on track for its initial wave of national distribution this summer. It expects spending on the brand, which is currently in Colorado and Utah, to increase in the second quarter.
Reynolds American on Wednesday also reaffirmed its full-year 2014 earnings forecast in the range of $3.30 and $3.45 per share. Analysts expect $3.37 per share.
Michael Felberbaum can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/MLFelberbaum .


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Soloist, The (UK - DVD R2)
Scott McKenzie has been away but is found playing his cello on LA's streets...
While searching the city for a story, LA Times columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) comes across a homeless man (Jamie Foxx) called Nathaniel Ayers with an obvious talent for music playing a two-string violin. Nathaniel suffers from schizophrenia and his mental problems led to him dropping out of a prestigious music college and living his life on the streets. Steve builds a relationship with him and writes a popular series of columns about Nathaniel's story, prompting the writer to take action to support Nathaniel and give him back as much of his previous life as a professional musician as he can.
Based on a real-life story and featuring a strong performance from Jamie Foxx, The Soloist looks like exactly the type of film that would clean up in awards season. Paramount had originally given this film a release date of November 2008, which would have put it in the running for the Oscars, but by holding it back until April 2009 it is now unlikely to be at the front of the Academy's mind when they're putting together the nominations, especially since it only just managed to recoup half its budget at the US box office.
Jamie Foxx puts in a strong performance as Nathaniel across two different periods of time—in flashback scenes as he struggles to cope with schizophrenia during his time at music school and as a homeless man in the present day. As convincing and well-researched as his performance is, it's difficult to shake off the feeling that it's a combination of Ray and Rain Man— Rayn Man so to speak (did you like that?). For me, this has more to do with weaknesses in the script than Foxx's abilities as an actor though. While I'm sure that some of Nathaniel's tics and mannerisms are a mirror on the real man himself, the way they are scripted for the screen feels like they were lifted directly from Rain Man and at times it's difficult to shake off the image of Dustin Hoffman.
The relationship between Nathaniel and Steve is central to the movie and your appreciation of The Soloist depends on your emotional investment in the bond that grows between them. I got to the end of the movie without really feeling like I wanted to know more about how their friendship continued to develop in real life. It wasn't until I listened to the director's commentary that I worked out what it was that didn't feel right. It turns out that the character of Steve Lopez is not much like the real Steve Lopez. In real life he is happily married, but in the movie he's painted as a quirky, divorced loner. Robert Downey Jr. certainly gives the character his usual brand of unhinged charm, but his character feels too much like a dramatic contrivance just to make us think he is a 'soloist' too, where using him just as our eyes on Nathaniel's world might have worked better and been more true to the real-life Steve Lopez.
That's not to say The Soloist is all bad though. Like most films starring Catherine Keener, she steals the scenes she's in and also like most films starring Catherine Keener, she isn't given enough screen time, even though her role was purposely expanded for her. Joe Wright is an interesting director and just as he did with Atonement, he takes opportunities here to use long takes and feature some slightly surreal moments. The way he uses flashing colours against a black background to represent Nathaniel's synaesthetic appreciation of the orchestra at the Disney theatre is a strange choice but it works well, highlighting the fact that Nathaniel's mind is wired differently to most people's.
Well then Universal, you didn't get off to a good start in these stakes by plastering 'Property of Universal' all over the screen, did you? The screener copy I got kept reminding me every few minutes that I was watching their movie. It won't affect anyone that picks up a retail copy, but I find this approach to copy protection regularly takes me out of the film. Anyhoo, the main thing I noted about the visuals of The Soloist was the great lighting, both of the dark interiors that Steve Lopez inhabits and the contrast of bright sunshine and shadow where Nathaniel spends his days. The picture here is sharp and very detailed, bringing attention to the grime-tinged bright colours of Nathaniel's clothes. The only complaint I have (other than Universal's water-marking) is that the black level is more like very dark grey, which doesn't really detract from the viewing experience.
The Soloist is all about the music. In real life, Nathaniel said that when he was playing, all he could hear was the music and the applause of the pigeon's wings. When we see Nathaniel playing in the street (especially when we see him playing the cello for the first time) the other sound effects fade out and we just get to hear the music. The music sounds powerful on the 5.1 surround track, but it can occasionally be a bit too loud when we're supposed to be paying attention to Robert Downey Jr.'s narration. There is also good use of the surround channels to bring the city alive, with traffic and other city noises coming through the rear channels.
The disc loads up with skippable trailers for The Boat That Rocked and State of Play, a promo for Universal's Blu-ray releases and an advert for Universal Resort in Orlando. The director provides a commentary track, where he discusses lots of interesting details about the making of the film, including the fact that they managed to film in the real LA Times offices. He also reveals that Jamie Foxx and the actor who played the young Nathaniel spent time together working on their character to ensure continuity between the different time periods in the movie. There are five deleted scenes available, most of them obviously cut for timing to keep the story moving but the last one appears to be an alternative ending, even though it isn't billed as that.
Finally, we get two featurettes. The first is a typical twenty-minute making of that includes interviews with the actors, producers and director Joe Wright in a horrible hat, all talking about how great each other were. However, there are some interesting nuggets to be found—for example, the extras in the scenes among the homeless and people in social care really are members of those communities. 'Juilliard' is a four-minute spot about the music college that Nathaniel attended and the roles some ex-students played in the making of the film.
I had high hopes for The Soloist. I'd give it the nod to anyone who happens to come across it, but I felt I was in mostly familiar overcoming-mental-disorder territory and the central relationship that is critical to the movie doesn't quite work. While rather slight, the extras definitely improved my appreciation of the film, if only to give me more details about what I thought were the weaker points. No complaints about the transfer though—fans of The Soloist will not be disappointed at all.
Review by Scott McKenzie
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Sorry Scott, I had no idea this was plastered with stupid bloody 'Property of' messages. I wouldn't have sent it if I had. Universal piss me off with that - they're the only studio that still does it and quite frankly it's more than a bit insulting.
scottmck Contributor Join Date: April 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 393
No worries. I wanted to watch it so I thought I'd review it anyway and put the boot in
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That was a great movie.
EthanRunt Member Join Date: March 2009 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 265
Wait, it's been out on DVD in America for months, and they post that on your one anyway? Weird.
Solid, if bit hit and miss, film.
Solid, if bit hit and miss, film.
losthighway Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 309
One of the best films I saw in 2009... just a shame it took so bloody long for it to reach UK cinemas!!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 1st February 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Extras: Director's Commentary, Deleted Scenes, An Unlikely Friendship - Making The Soloist, Featurette - Juilliard
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener
Genre: Drama
Length: 112 minutes
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Problem: How would you write a query to find the top 10 customers based on unit sales who aren't single and female? Can you do it without listing any of the three other combinations (i.e., single male, married male, and married female)?
Solution: As Listing A shows, I answered this problem by filtering out the single, female customers before ranking the remaining customers with a TOPCOUNT() function. As you can see in the FILTER() function's second parameter, I used the virtual dimensions Marital Status and Gender, along with Unit Sales, to determine whether a particular customer in the top 10 was single and female. To be sure I had the right customers, I also created measures to return the marital status and gender for each displayed customer. I included those measures on the result's columns along with Unit Sales.


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Closing time? Steelers looking to go on usual December run against stumbling Chargers
PITTSBURGH – The message from Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin or his staff doesn't change when the calendar flips to December.
The way it's received by Tomlin's players? That's another matter.
"I think it might resonate a little bit more when you know what the picture is and the goal is," tackle Max Starks said. "Game one obviously you don't think 'How are we going to do in our division? Where are we seeded right now?' You're 0-0. But by December you know where you're seeded. You know what's at stake."
And the stakes remain high even if the Steelers (7-5) spent the first three-quarters of the season simply trying to survive. Heading into Sunday's game against crumbling San Diego (4-8), Pittsburgh remains in the thick of the AFC playoff chase despite spending long stretches without stars Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu and James Harrison.
Roethlisberger, however, figures to be fully recovered from a sprained right shoulder and dislocated rib that sidelined him the last three weeks. The two-time Super Bowl winner practiced without issue both Wednesday and Thursday, and the Steelers are optimistic it won't take long for their MVP to return to form.
"When he's in there, it just opens everything up for us," wide receiver Mike Wallace said. "You look at where we were at before he got hurt, and we were really starting to get it."
The Steelers briefly wobbled with Roethlisberger watching from the sidelines in a gray sweat suit, losing consecutive games for the first time in three years. Backs against the wall a week ago in Baltimore, Pittsburgh responded with an emotional 23-20 comeback victory over the Ravens behind backup Charlie Batch.
Maybe the fact the game was played Dec. 2 is no coincidence. The Steelers have been among the best closers in the league over the last three seasons, going 11-2 in regular-season games played after Nov. 30 since 2010.
"It's just like running a marathon," Wallace said. "Everybody stays in a pack then at the end you've got to separate yourselves. So hopefully we can do that and separate ourselves as one of the best teams in the league."
It's something the Chargers hoped to be doing this winter too. Instead San Diego heads to a city where it has never won during the regular season (0-14) already out of the AFC West race and needing several miracles to get back into the postseason mix and provide a compelling argument to keep coach Norv Turner around.
The Chargers have dropped seven of eight following a 3-1 start thanks to a series of injuries — particularly along the offensive line — and baffling implosions. San Diego needs to win out to avoid its first losing season since 2003, the year before the Chargers drafted quarterback Philip Rivers to help resuscitate the franchise.
Rivers did that and more, leading San Diego to four straight playoff appearances from 2006-2009, including a memorable push in 2008 when the Chargers won their last four games to capture the division title at 8-8.
Mathematically, there's no chance of repeating the feat this time around. And even if there was, Rivers allows the vibe in the locker room is one of frustration, not optimism.
"We've been 4-8 before and with playoff chances just as slim and bleak, yet in some ways this feels worse," Rivers said. "I remember being in the stadium in Atlanta after we lost in 2008 at 4-8 and that was about as low as I thought I could ever be. So I guess this ranks right up there and it's been tough because we've had a chance in every single game."
On that front, he's right. All seven of San Diego's losses during its two-month swoon have been by 11 points or less and three of them have come against the AFC North, including a lifeless 7-6 meltdown at Cleveland in October and a stunning implosion in a 16-13 overtime loss to Baltimore two weeks ago in which the Ravens converted fourth-and-29 in the final minutes of regulation to tie it.
Not exactly the fall Rivers had in mind. He expected to spend December shadowboxing Denver's Peyton Manning for a division title. Instead Rivers is defeat away from his first losing season as a quarterback.
"I think that in seventh grade we had (one) but I played a little wide-out and other things believe it or not," he said. "I don't know what it's like and I don't know how many guys do here. I know that since I've been here in '04 we haven't had one. We had a couple of 8-8's. That's something that as a group and as a competitor, you still care about."
The Steelers aren't exactly in the clear themselves, but knocking off the Ravens on the road gave the locker room a needed jolt. Though cornerback Ike Taylor will miss his first game in eight years with a fractured right ankle, Pittsburgh is getting healthy and gaining momentum.
It's a formula that helped propel the Steelers to the Super Bowl two years ago. The memory remains fresh, just like Tomlin's message to focus on the details and take care of the task in front of you before getting too worked up about the one coming behind it.
"It's not going to be an average team that wins in the playoffs," Wallace said. "Even though we haven't been great the whole year, if we get great now, that's all that really matters."
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I would like to have the ability to make custom UI windows that can dock and live nativly in sublime.
We use python for most of our in house tools, and some of them i would like to integrate directly into sublime. I know I can do add on's and already do, but i am getting to the point where i would like to have docked control windows that expose some of our tools directly in sublime.
Any plans for this, of suggestions on how to make this happen with the current API, we are using Tk for our GUI apps if that helps answering about making custom UI in sublime.
Thanks - rob
PS. Sublime is still the best editor i have ever used, totally in love with it.


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Seven Deaths Confirmed in Arkansas
Authorities have now confirmed seven deaths in Arkansas after a severe storm
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NORCO, Calif. (AP) — Almost 900 inmates in California prisons are taking part in a seminary training program that teachers hope will lead them to plant churches and evangelize on the outside.
The program was built from an experiment begun four years ago by The Urban Ministry Institute at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, southeast of Los Angeles. Now it's being funded with a $2 million donation and is expanding to 18 prisons.
World Impact developed the seminary curriculum to target poor communities and partnered with Prison Fellowship Ministries to offer the rigorous, three-and-half year course behind prison walls. The partnership between the two evangelical organizations graduated 10 men last year and expects to graduate 14 more next year.
Prisons in Michigan, Florida and Colorado have also started classes.


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This design is also featured in the DVD Beginner Free Motion Quilting Fillers, as well as the ebook From Daisy to Paisley.
Way back on day and day I ran designs named Flowing Glass and Trailing Tears. I really loved both designs a lot, so much so that I ended up making stencils out of both of them.
But I always felt that these designs could use another variation, and today I've finally created a new version with spirals!
But I'm really trying to have a good outlook about this. Just like with enjoying quilting for the process of quilting, I'm going to try to enjoy doing my taxes because it's will make the job so much easier than hating it.
And further proof that my new ideology is working: I finished the gift baby quilt last night after my lecture and I wasn't even TRYING to finish it!
I was just quilting, listening to some great music, and having a nice time and then WHOOPS! the quilt was done.
So cross your fingers that my cheerful attitude works for taxes as well!
Difficulty Level - Beginner. This is a really easy design, especially if you're just wanting to try out spiral shapes for the first time. The spirals stay fairly far apart so it's a great learning design without a lot of stress about making everything fit together perfectly.
Design Family - Edge to Center. This design is stitched first into the center of your quilting space, then once you fill one whole side, you'll go back and fill the second half.
Because of the way it is stitched, this design will work really well in open areas, like your sashing. I'm really trying to convince quilters to use bigger sashing, like 4" or even 6" because it's such a fun place to show off with free motion quilting.
The plus side is you'll also finish your quilt faster and with fewer blocks if you use wider sashing.
Directional Texture - 2 directions. This fill flows from one side of your quilting space to another so it works great as a horizontal or vertical filler.
Suggestions for Use - I think I'm finally going to get all 15 of the Basic Blue quilts I pieced for How to Piece Perfect Quilts basted and ready to quilt.
These quilts are all very simple blue and white quilts perfect for showcasing free motion quilting designs. Best of all, these blue quilts all have 3" sashing or wider so I'll have more than enough room to play with Trailing Spirals in these nice open areas!
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