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Golden anniversary for Gold Rush Days
Founding member Jerri Plaster looks back
Gold Rush Days – the multi-day festival in Valdez that celebrates the town's roots as the all-American route to interior gold mines – is itself celebrating its golden anniversary.
While modern day cancan girls tighten up their garters and organizers work feverishly behind the scenes to bring the people of Valdez and its numerous visitors a grand celebration, Jerri Plaster, one of the original founders of the five-day event, looked back in time to the humble beginnings of Gold Rush Days.
"The first one was the most magnificent one," she said of the 1962 event.
Hometown hero and then-governor Bill Egan marched in the first Gold Rush Days parade, setting the tone for future politicians, many of whom today still consider the parade a must-attend event.
While Gold Rush Days has become a major contributor to many good works in Valdez – most notably the thousands of dollars worth of scholarships its board awards to Valdez High School graduates each year - Plaster said she had to take out a bank loan of $150 to fund the first event.
The original founders got a hold of surplus test tubes from the Army hospital located in Old Town at the time, filled them with melted ice from the Worthington Glacier and a piece of Spaghetti. Plaster said she used India ink to dab eyes onto the pasta.
"The spaghetti would swell up and become an ice worm," she chuckled, "We would sell them to tourist for a dollar."
Plaster said the idea for the event came from herself, La Rue Rogers and Enola "Shiny" Olds, friends who were looking for a way to bring some excitement to town. They never dreamed the event would endure for 50 years, or become a major philanthropy.
"You know, it never came to mind," she said of the event's growth. "We were just bored to death and looking for something to do."
The ladies definitely found plenty to do after that according to Plaster.
"We'd get up on the Pinzon Bar," and dance cancan, Plaster said, "All the men would buy beer so they could look up our skirts!"
Scandalous stuff for the day, Plaster admits. She says the first Gold Rush Days also featured mud races and a unique challenger to the testosterone infused culture of the time in the form of a six foot tall woman named Mary who drove a cab in Valdez at the time.
"She was a leg wrestler," Plaster remembered, "Any man, she challenged him – and she never lost. The soldiers would be so embarrassed to be pinned by a woman."
Plaster also recalled that a hometown war-hero called president JFKs office to request help in securing a surplus army tent for the event, where most of the shenanigans took place.
After fifty years, Plaster is going to be crowned Queen of Gold Rush Days Wednesday evening, during this year's kick-off event at the Valdez Civic Center. Festivities begin a 6 p.m.
"It's nice to be the Queen of the Gold Rush Days," Plaster said.
Special events run through Sunday, August 5. Look for Jerri Plaster, with son Dan as King, in the parade that starts on Egan Street this Sunday at 3 p.m. A free community fish fry, complete with old fashioned games for kids, begins at 4 p.m. on the Kelsey Dock.
Check the flyer in last week's edition of the Valdez Star for the full schedule of events, or check out the website, http://www.goldrushdays.org


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SMS 2003 SP3 Upgrade Checklist
This document outlines the steps you should take to upgrade from Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3). This document is intended to provide a high-level checklist of items to consider when upgrading to SMS 2003 SP3. This document is not intended to provide support for a new installation of SMS 2003 SP3 or for upgrading from SMS 2.0.
For a complete discussion about planning for an implementation or upgrade of SMS, especially if you are deploying a new installation of SMS 2003 SP3 rather than an upgrade, review the "Scenarios and Procedures for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Planning and Deployment" guide, which is available for download from the Systems Management Server 2003 Product Documentation web site.
In this document:
Changes in SMS 2003 SP3
Preparing to Upgrade to SMS 2003 SP3
Upgrading the SMS 2003 Site to SP3
Upgrading Legacy Clients
Upgrading Advanced Clients
Changes in SMS 2003 SP3
Microsoft introduced several changes with SMS 2003 SP3. These changes have been outlined in detail in the "What's New in SMS 2003 Service Pack 3" ** document included with the SMS 2003 SP3 source files, and can be downloaded from the Systems Management Server 2003 Product Documentation web site. It is recommended that you read that document before you upgrade your SMS 2003 site.
This section describes the changes in SMS 2003 SP3 that affect the upgrade process.
New Update.exe Upgrade Method
There are now two methods to upgrade from SMS 2003, SMS 2003 SP1, or SMS 2003 SP2 to SMS 2003 SP3. Interactive setup can be run from the installation CD, which is the same as upgrading to a previous SMS 2003 service pack, and the new Update.exe upgrade method can be run from extracted installation files or the update folder on the service pack CD.
SMS 2003 SP3 can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site as a file named SMS2003SP3.exe.To manually extract the installation files to a folder use the /X:path parameter where path is the location where you want to extract the files. Update.exe can be run with the /passive or /quiet switches to upgrade your site. The /quiet switch is completely unattended and hidden, while the /passive switch displays a progress bar during the upgrade process. These switches can also be placed on the command line for SMS2003SP3.exe, and will launch Update.exe with the appropriate switches after automatic extraction to a temporary folder has completed.
Platform Changes in SP3: Site System Operating System Support
Before upgrading your site to SMS 2003 SP3, ensure that all of your site system Operating Systems are at least Windows 2000, Service Pack 4. SMS 2003 SP3 site systems roles are only supported on systems running Windows 2000, Service Pack 4 or later.
Platform Changes in SP3: Advanced Client Support
SMS 2003 SP3 no longer supports SMS Advanced Client installation on workstations running Windows 2000, Service Pack 3 or earlier or Windows XP, Service Pack 1 or earlier. Before attempting to upgrade your SMS site, you should install Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000 systems and at least Service Pack 2 for Windows XP systems if possible.
Alternatively, if you upgrade the site to SMS 2003 SP3, the computers running unsupported operating systems will have reduced SMS functionality while in this state. Specifically, SMS 2003 clients in this state will not be able to receive SMS hotfixes, and SMS 2.0 clients will not be able to report software inventory. Clients in this state should be upgraded to a supported operating system, or service pack, and then upgraded to SMS 2003 SP3, to receive full SMS client functionality.
SMS 2003 SP3 provides support for 64-bit server platforms as SMS Advanced Clients. It also offers support for Vista clients as SMS 2003 Advanced Clients.
Platform Changes in SP3: Legacy Client Support
SMS 2003 SP3 no longer supports the SMS Legacy Client on computers that are capable of running the SMS Advanced Client, such as computers running the Windows 2000 or later operating system. If you have SMS Legacy Clients that fall into this category, you must upgrade them to the SMS Advanced Client when you upgrade their assigned site to SMS 2003 SP3. Until you upgrade those Legacy Clients to the Advanced Client, they cannot receive client agent hotfixes, although they will continue to be managed by SMS. (For example, Legacy Clients can receive a package that upgrades them to the SMS Advanced Client.) Where possible, upgrade these clients before you upgrade your SMS site, and refer to the "Upgrade Legacy Clients" section of this document for more information.
Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates
SMS 2003 SP3 includes an updated version of the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU), with hotfixes and updates to the product since its initial release. Installation of the ITMU is an optional installation choice from the setup.exe splash screen. This version of the ITMU requires no updates to the SMS environment before installation can occur. However, you must upgrade your site and clients to SMS 2003 SP3 before upgrading or installing the new version of Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates. An upgrade using the Update.exe upgrade method would not install the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates automatically. To manually install the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates you must run Autorun.exe and choose the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates option from the SMS Setup splash screen or run SMSITMU.msi directly from the Scantools folder of the extracted files.
Advanced Security Implementation
During an upgrade to SMS 2003 SP3, if the site being upgraded is running in standard security, and the requirements for an advanced security implementation are met, setup will state the site will be migrated to advanced security. This migration is optional and can be cancelled during the upgrade process.
Preparing to Upgrade to SMS 2003 SP3
Plan for your upgrade to SMS 2003 SP3 as you would plan for a new installation of SMS 2003, and read the planning recommendations presented in "Scenarios and Procedures for Systems Management Server 2003: Planning and Deployment".
This section is intended to highlight some of the most significant content from that guide, which you might want to consider before you upgrade from SMS 2003 to SMS 2003 SP3.
As you plan your upgrade strategy, consider the following:
You can upgrade your SMS sites first, or you can upgrade your SMS clients first, depending on the needs of your organization—provided that both clients and sites are running SMS 2003. However, you will not be able to take advantage of the new features in SP3 until the clients and sites are upgraded.
Upgrade the SMS sites in your hierarchy, beginning with the central site, followed by the SMS sites in each subsequent level.
As discussed in the section "Platform Changes in SP3: Legacy Client Support" earlier in this document, before you upgrade your SMS site, upgrade Legacy Clients running the Windows 2000 operating system or later to Advanced Clients.
Every site and Advanced Client in the SMS site hierarchy needs to be configured to use the same HTTP port. Although SMS 2003 SP1, SP2, and SP3 allow you to change the default HTTP port, do not do this until all sites and clients in the SMS hierarchy have been successfully upgraded to SMS 2003 SP3 or, at a minimum, are running SMS 2003 SP1.
Do not reassign an Advanced Client from a site that uses client authentication and data encryption to a site that does not, because Heartbeat Discovery and inventory data will be rejected.
Upgrade each remote SMS Administrator console to the SMS 2003 SP3 version. You cannot access an SMS 2003 SP3 site by using an SMS 2003 SP2 or earlier Administrator console.
Before you can upgrade your SMS site, you must first perform the following steps:
Ensure your site meets all support prerequisites.
Determine readiness for SMS 2003 SP3 upgrade.
Disable Microsoft® SQL Server™ replication of the SMS site database if you enabled it.
Test the database upgrade process.
Ensure Your Site Meets All Support Prerequisites
For detailed information about operating systems that are supported for SMS servers and clients, see "SMS 2003 Supported Configurations". This document can be downloaded from the Systems Management Server 2003 Product Documentation web site.
The SMS site server and site system roles must be installed on computers running any of the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server, Service Pack 4 or later.
Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 4 or later.
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Service Pack 4 or later.
Windows Server™ 2003, Standard Edition.
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition.
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition.
Windows Virtual Server 2005 SP1 or later.
All SMS 2003 SP3 site system roles are only supported on systems running Windows 2000, Service Pack 4 or later.
To verify the service pack support dates, visit the Lifecycle Supported Service Packs web site. For additional information about Microsoft's support lifecycle policy, visit the Microsoft Support Lifestyle Support Policy FAQ web site.
The SMS 2003 SP3 site database can be hosted by any of the following Microsoft SQL® Server versions:
Microsoft SQL® Server 7.0, Service Pack 4 or later.
Microsoft SQL® Server 2000, Service Pack 3a or later.
Microsoft SQL® Server 2005 or later.
Determine Readiness for SMS 2003 SP3 Upgrade
If the site being upgraded is already running SMS 2003 SP1 or SP2 you are not required to run the Deployment Readiness Wizard (DRW) to validate that the site is ready to upgrade to SP3. DRW is only required when upgrading from SMS 2003 RTM to SMS 2003 SP1 or later. The DRW has been updated to support SMS 2003 SP3, and specifically for the new client operating system requirements.
If you are upgrading a site other than SMS 2003 SP1 or SP2 using the /quiet switch, setup will fail unless you first run the DRW manually. When using the /passive switch on a site other than SMS 2003 SP1 or SP2, the DRW setup wizard page will appear during the upgrade process. You must select Run Now and continue. If you cancel the wizard at this point, setup will abort.
You can run the DRW.exe file manually from the following folder on the SMS 2003 SP3 product CD: SMSSETUP\BIN\I386\.
To run the SMS 2003 SP3 Deployment Readiness Wizard on a Primary Site
Start DRW.exe on the primary site.
On the Welcome page, click Next.
If you have child secondary sites, you will see a Site Selection page. Select a site to analyze, select Analyze this primary site, and then click Next. You must complete this step for every child secondary site you want to upgrade.
On the Tests page, select the tests that you want to run and then click Next.
On the Completing the Systems Management Server 2003 Deployment Readiness Wizard page, click Finish.
The SMS 2003 Deployment Readiness Wizard runs the selected tests. After completion, you can view the detailed test results by selecting the site and clicking Details.
To run the SMS 2003 SP3 Deployment Readiness Wizard on a Secondary Site
On the parent primary site for the secondary site, start DRW.exe.
On the Welcome page, click Next.
On the Site Selection page, select the secondary sites to analyze and then click Next.
On the Tests page, select the tests that you want to run and then click Next.
On the Completing the Systems Management Server 2003 Deployment Readiness Wizard page, click Finish .
Disable SQL Replication of the SMS Site Database If You Enabled It
You must disable SQL Server database replication before you upgrade and then reconfigure it when the upgrade is complete.
To disable SQL Server replication
In the SQL Server Enterprise Manager, select the SMS site database server (the publisher).
On the menu bar, select Tools, select Replication, and then select Disable Publishing.
On the Welcome to the Disable Publishing and Distribution Wizard page, click Next.
On the Disable Publishing page, select Yes, disable publishing and then click Next.
On the Confirm Dropping of Publications page, click Next.
On the Completing the Disable Publishing and Distribution Wizard page, click Finish. If the wizard displays a message that the database is in use, click OK and then click Cancel on the Completing the Disable Publishing and Distribution Wizard page. Refresh the SQL Server Enterprise Manager to verify that the publication has been removed.
Replication is now disabled and you can upgrade your site. After the site has successfully upgraded, you can reconfigure SQL Server database replication.
To confirm that the upgrade has completed, refer to the "Determining that SMS Setup Has Completed" section, later in this document. For detailed information about configuring SQL Server database replication for SMS management points, see the white paper, Configuring Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Replication for a System Management Server (SMS) 2003 Management Point.
You should also manually delete any subscription information from remote subscribers. For more detailed information about how to manually disable SQL Server database replication, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article number 324401, How to manually remove a replication in SQL Server 2000 or in SQL Server 2005. In addition, refer to the information contained in your Microsoft SQL Server 2000 documentation.
Test the Database Upgrade Process
On a backup copy of the SMS site database, you should test the SMS site database upgrade, using the /testdbupgrade setup switch as in the following example:
Setup.exe /testdbupgrade SMS_
Or if you are going to install Asset Intelligence:
Setup.exe /testdbupgrade SMS_
<sitecode> FakePre-4e1caf5b231d4087b6b11b2254d0c871-6cc04385918b4e3d86e5956663830c36 <Folder path containing desired .enc file>
After successfully running the database upgrade test, you are assured that the database portion of the upgrade process will be successful. You can review the results of the test in SMSsetup.log, which is in the root of the system drive.
After running the /testdbupgrade setup switch, your SMS site database will not be compatible with earlier versions of SMS if you do not complete the upgrade, so make sure to run this on a copy of your SMS site database rather than on the original.
Due to changes in how SMS inventories data, the SMS upgrade process needs to move significant amounts of data within the SMS site database. Depending primarily on how many computers and how much inventory data is in the SMS site database, the SQL Server data and/or log files can grow significantly.
Record the size of the SQL Server data and log files, both before and after, using setup with the /testdbupgrade switch to determine the amount of disk space required for the upgrade to succeed. Before upgrading your site, ensure that SQL Server is configured to autogrow and that sufficient disk space is available on the computer running SQL Server, for both the upgrade activity and the subsequent storage of software inventory that is reported from clients.
To test the SMS 2003 site database by using /testdbupgrade
Back up your SMS site database.
Obtain a copy of the SMS site database backup by doing one of the following:
Obtain a copy created by a recent SMS backup task.
Stop all SMS services on the SMS site server and SQL Server, disable publishing on the SMS 2003 site database, and then use SQL Server Enterprise Manager to back up the SMS site database.
Setup /testdbupgrade fails on SMS site databases that are restored from an SMS 2003 site database with SQL Server database replication enabled. When SQL Server database replication is enabled for the SMS 2003 site database, the computer running SQL Server modifies the SQL Server tables that are included in the publication. When the database is restored to another database, the setup /testdbupgrade fails on that restored SMS site database.
On another computer running the same version of SQL Server, restore the database you just backed up as follows:
Manually create a new database with the same name as the one you backed up. Default data/log file sizes of 1 MB are adequate.
Copy the database backup file from the SQL Server database to a local drive on the test computer running SQL Server.
Restore the database using SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Because the drive letters might be different on your test computer that is running SQL Server, you might need to modify the destination drive and file properties during the restore operation.
On the restored SQL Server database, type the following at the command prompt: setup.exe /testdbupgrade < database name >. If you are installing Asset Intelligence, verify that the database will be compatible with Asset Intelligence by adding the /AI setup switch as shown: Setup.exe /testdbupgrade SMS_ <sitecode> /AI <Folder path containing desired .enc file> .
Setup.exe in the command line above should be run from an upgrade CD or extracted SP3 files from the service pack download. Any problems you encounter during the test upgrade must be corrected before you upgrade your production site. You can review the results of the test in SMSsetup.log, which is in the root of the system drive.
Upgrading the SMS 2003 Site to SP3
After you have completed the planning requirements listed earlier in this document, you can upgrade your SMS 2003 site to SMS 2003 SP3. You must begin your upgrade with the central site in your SMS site hierarchy and then upgrade child sites using a top-down approach. SMS Setup does not provide an automated upgrade for secondary sites, so you must manually upgrade each secondary site. For a detailed discussion about upgrading your site and running setup, see Appendix H, "Upgrading to SMS 2003" in "Scenarios and Procedures for Systems Management Server 2003: Planning and Deployment".
Any non-SMS files or folders that are in the SMS 2003 folder structure will be deleted when SMS 2003 is upgraded or removed. To avoid removing non-SMS data when SMS is upgraded or removed, install SMS in a folder that does not contain other application or data files. Also, do not install other applications into SMS folders.
If you have previously used the automated Backup SMS Site Server database maintenance task, copies of all files in the SMS site server folder tree are included in your SMS backup.
To start the upgrade process
Run Autorun.exe from the SMS 2003 SP3 Upgrade CD. Alternatively, you can download SMS 2003 SP3 from the Microsoft Systems Management Server web site, or you can order an SMS 2003 SP3 upgrade CD from Microsoft.
If the upgrade site is not already running at least SMS 2003 SP1, setup prompts you to run the Deployment Readiness Wizard. If the Deployment Readiness Wizard completes with no errors, the upgrade continues. If there are any errors, you must first correct the errors before you can complete the upgrade.
All SMS services are uninstalled and then reinstalled on all SMS site systems.
Complete this process for every primary site in your SMS site hierarchy.
To upgrade Secondary Sites to SMS 2003 SP3
Run the SMS 2003 SP3 Setup.exe on each primary site in the hierarchy. The parent primary site must be upgraded to SMS 2003 SP3 before upgrading secondary sites that report to it.
Run the Deployment Readiness Wizard against the secondary site by starting it on the primary site server, as outlined in the section "Determine Readiness for SMS 2003 SP3 Upgrade" earlier in this document.
Upgrade the secondary site by running the SMS 2003 SP3 Autorun.exe or Update.exe on the secondary site server, or initiate the upgrade from the parent primary site of the secondary site server by using the SMS Administrator console.
Determining That SMS Setup Has Completed
After you apply SP3, wait at least 30 minutes before opening the SMS Administrator console, running a site reset, or performing any other site configuration change or operation. This waiting period allows the initial SMS configuration processes, carried out by the SMS Executive and SMS Site Component Manager services, to complete. You can verify whether these processes are completed by checking the level of CPU activity on your computer or Task Manager for running upgrade processes during the SMS service installation. When the activity level returns to normal, you can open the SMS Administrator console.
You can check the C:\SMSSetup log for the SMS Setup completed successfully entry. This entry indicates that SMS Setup.exe has completed its tasks. However, this does not always mean that other SMS processes have completed their own tasks associated with setup or site reset. In addition, you can check the following logs in SMS/logs for specific activity.
SMS Site Component Manager log (SMSSitecomp.log)
This log verifies that SMS components have been reinstalled.
- Search for Processing site shutdown transaction.
In the case of a site reset, this entry represents the first occurrence of the site being shut down. Subsequent lines in the log indicate that other individual services were stopped and that status messages were generated to indicate that the service stopped.
- Search for Site shutdown complete.
This entry represents the first occurrence of the site shut down having completed. This occurred when the update installation signaled SMS to perform the site reset. Subsequent lines in the log indicate that other individual services were being reinstalled. This might take several minutes to complete.
- Search for Waiting for changes to the "C:\SMS\Inboxes\Sitectrl.box" or "C:\SMS\Inboxes\Sitecomp.box" directories.
This entry indicates that the Site Component Manager has completed its work for the site upgrade.
Hierarchy Manager log (Hman.log)
This log verifies that SMS site information is published in Active Directory (in an extended Active Directory schema environment).
- Search for Wait for site control changes for maximum 3600 seconds.
This entry indicates that Hierarchy Manager has completed its work for the site upgrade. In the lines prior to this entry, you will see entries related to publishing SMS site data to Active Directory.
SMS Inbox Manager log (Inboxmgr.log)
This log verifies that inboxes have been successfully created on the SMS site server and the SMS client access point (CAP).
- Search for Waiting for changes inbox definition, inbox rules and inbox replication files, max wait = 3600 seconds.
This entry indicates that SMS Inbox Manager has completed its work for the site upgrade. In the lines prior to this entry, you will see entries indicating that files were copied to the client access point and that some inboxes were updated. In general, the last inbox to be created on the client access point is CAP_xxx\Clicomp.box.
Upgrading Legacy Clients
SMS 2.0 clients and Legacy Clients running the Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems cannot upgrade to the SMS 2003 SP3 version of the Legacy Client.
When SMS 2.0 clients or SMS 2003 Legacy Clients running the Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems are members of an SMS 2003 SP3 site, you cannot apply client agent hotfixes to them. In addition, SMS 2.0 clients running the Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems cannot report software inventory to an SMS 2003 SP3 site server.
Consequently, you should upgrade these clients to the SMS 2003 SP3 Advanced Client as soon as possible. You can upgrade these clients before you upgrade your SMS site servers. SMS 2003 SP3 Advanced Clients will communicate successfully with an SMS 2003 site.
On supported Legacy Client platforms for SMS 2003 SP3, Legacy Clients will automatically upgrade to SMS 2003 SP3 when any of the following occur after upgrading the site to SMS 2003 SP3:
On the next Client Configuration Installation Manager (CCIM) maintenance cycle, which is every 25 hours for SMS 2003 clients, or every 23 hours for SMS 2.0 clients.
When the SMS Client Service is restarted.
When forced by clicking Update Configuration on the Sites tab on the client's Systems Management Properties page.
The clients do not upgrade if any of the following is true:
The client's CCIM cycle has not yet run.
The client has run cliupgrade /disable, which stops the CCIM cycle from running.
The client's operating system is Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003.
Upgrading Advanced Clients
Unlike the Legacy Client, SMS Advanced Clients do not automatically upgrade to a newer version. Consequently, you must determine how to upgrade existing SMS 2003 Advanced Clients to SMS 2003 SP3. One way is for the SMS administrator to use the Client Push Installation Wizard, by selecting the option Always install (repair or upgrade existing client) on the Client Installation Options Wizard page. The SMS Administrator can also use SMS software distribution to advertise the upgrade to clients in a collection.
Windows 2000, Service Pack 4 and Windows XP, Service Pack 2 are the earliest supported version of a Windows operating system for the SMS 2003 SP3 Advanced Client. For more information about installing and upgrading Advanced Clients, refer to Appendix 1, "Installing and Configuring SMS Clients," in Scenarios and Procedures for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Planning and Deployment.
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James Franco 'embarrassed' for flirting with teen
The situation is 'doubly embarrassing' for the actor, he says.
James Franco has responded to yesterday's news that he attempted to pick up a 17-year-old girl on social media.
Reports surfaced on Thursday, courtesy of the teen's uploaded text messages, that the 35-year-old actor pursued Lucy Clode, a tourist from Scotland, after meeting her outside his Broadway show Of Mice and Men. In the exchanges, Clode told Franco she turns 18 in May.
Clode met the actor outside the Broadway stage door and tagged him (upon Franco's request) in her Instagram video. The two then began to flirt over social media, with Franco asking if Clode had a boyfriend, how old she was and if she wanted to meet.
The most cringe-worthy exchange?
"What's the hotel?" Franco texted the teen. "Should I rent a room?"
On Friday, Franco addressed the situation on live TV. "I'm embarrassed," Franco said on Live with Kelly and Michael. "I guess I'm just a model of how social media is tricky. It's a way people meet each other today." He added, "I used bad judgment and I learned my lesson."
The movie star said he was "doubly" embarrassed by the media glare. "I have a very good life," he said, "but not only do I have to go through the embarrassing rituals of meeting someone, sometimes if I do that, then it gets published for the world. So now it's doubly embarrassing."
Several sites have gone on to speculate if this is all part of a viral campaign for Franco's new movie, Palo Alto, in which his character plays a soccer coach who romances an underage girl.
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In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the original Gojira and in anticipation of Godzilla, Toho Studios releases 8 of its Godzilla films in two disc Blu-ray sets. Each of these double feature sets boast a new high definition digital transfer of films released from 1991 to 2004.
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It's officially going to be raining for the rest of today. The kids are going to a party at 5pm and then we're trick or treating around the block. I've packed up treat bags for the kids at the party just in case it's too rainy.
A while back, I did a tutorial on Printing on Paper Lunch Bags and I've been printing lots since then. However this Halloween, I made a slight change to how I do this.
In the original tutorial, I showed you a picture where the bag bottom is taped up to the side that I printed on. If you look at the picture below, you are limited in how far down the bag you can print if you fold the bag bottom upwards.
So the alternative is to tape the bottom to the back like this. Remember that the "back of the bag" is where the the bag seam is. Now I can fill the bag and have some space to roll up the top.
In case you were wondering, the Halloween Font is from dafont under the category "fancy" and "horror" and it's called Scary Halloween.
Friends, there's always room for improvement and I'm liking this small change. Happy trick or treating!


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Brain Dead 13: the best of the FMV genre on CD-i
>> Thursday, May 14, 2009
Ever have just one of those days? Our hero Lance is having several of them.... all today. The premiere computer repairman for the region, he's summoned to the mysterious mansion of Dr. Nero Nurosis to repair his super-computer. Not too bad right? Most of these egg-heads have alot of money. Well, the doctor isn't exactly an egg-head at all. In fact, he's just a brain in a jar... with dreams of world domination. So, now instead of paying for the repairs, and... after a few cheap shots from Lance, he's sicked Fritz, his hooked hand psychotic sidekick to take Lance out. Can Lance elude Fritz, defeat Dr. Neurosis and escape? Will he fall prey to the Doc and his many co-horts? Will he get paid for the job?
Being a huge Dragon's Lair fan, it's one of the reasons I bought the CD-i initally, especially after seeing the pathetic, heavily (and poorly) edited editions of Dragon's Lair & Space Ace that Readysoft did for Sega CD & 3DO. So, when I first heard about BRAIN DEAD 13, I can honestly say, my hopes weren't very high. However, being an FMV game fan, I just had to give it a try, and to my surprize, there was ALOT to love about this one. Being one of the only games developed by Readysoft themselves, they weren't limited by keeping the rigid structure imposed by the original games and were able to tailormake the game game to fit the console environment it ran on. A major step up from where they were heading.
Unfortunatly for the financially strapped Readysoft, alot of technical glitches arose right at the time of release, and after they had already begun a rather hillarious print advertizing campaign, so that by the time the game finally released, it was too late and the company went under not soon after. The visuals on this one are what it was all out about, and they do not fail to entertain. With an eye toward the macbre, each of the villanous characters have a personality thats very hillarious. Intermixing them with heavily detailed backgrounds, this one does not fail to be pleasing to the eye. Even the most monsterous things like the iron maiden (rock on!! heh), vampiric blood sucking, etc, just seem so hillarious, it's more like crossing over into the classic Bugs Bunny horror cartoons.... sans the rabbit.
The biggest drawback to this one is the lack of obvious route sometimes. Often times with no real cue to know what to do next, you'll die 3 or 4 times in one location... .so the death animations get really old really quick. Even though there are a variety of them unique to each area... there are really just too few to make them tollerable. Most will want to find a strategy guide after a while, just to beat certain puzzles. The character voices in this one were over the top. With so much emphasis on the cartoony aspect of play, it needed some good work done both in scripting and casting to make the characters really memorable and enjoable. Thankfully, they did a great casting job for ALL the characters. Lance, who we listen to for the whole game has a definite root in Bugs Bunny-esqe acting... for both the quips and the way he talks. Easily, this could have been a Warner Bros. licence, it's just that good.
Great lines from characters like the sports fanatic monster 'Moose' "Ok, punk. Third Down, Bases are loaded, and we're pullin' the goalie!!", and even some subtle visual jokes for the adults (look at some of the stuff Fritz drops later in the game), add to the myrth and overal experience of the game. While with most FMV games, once you're done, theres little reason to replay... this one does offer a bit more as some of the cheap jokes and subtle humor are easy to miss. Control is really where this one shines. Out-doing the control input for other games like Dragon's Lair, ICDI's port brought over the impressive control scheme and kept it really tight and refined. Playing more like the Dragon's Lair arcade game of old, you're given the dull tone for unaccepted commands, and the ping for accepted ones. Very helpful, and not nearly as hit & miss as the others. A major step up!
Overall, this one is a great FMV game. Alot to do, not as linear as other titles in the genre as you do have a choice as to where you can go and how you get there and inifnite lives.... all adding up to a really fun game. Fair warning : Some parents might be put off by the violence level in this one, and occasionally adult-ish humor. But for the most part, it's nothing you haven't seen similar events of in classic Bugs & Daffy cartoons. Still supervision is advised for the real youngsters.
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This weekend I borrowed Beth's copy of The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Lynnea and I sometimes read to each on car trips, and neither of us have read it in several years. Since Lynnea has been watching "Cosmos" on Netflix, it seemed like a good book to revisit. Also, one of the most common questions we at the Atheist Experience receive is: "As a new atheist, what books should I think about reading?" I always, always recommend Demon Haunted World first. It's not a book about atheism, it's a book about critical thinking, and in my opinion that is the first tool that recovering theists need to have no matter what their ultimate philosophical bent will be.
It's fun to revisit an old favorite. Reading chapter one, I read Carl Sagan's story about meeting a taxi driver who was full of wonder and enthusiasm in learning about the natural world… but unfortunately it was all misdirected into pseudoscience. Crystals, Atlantis, horoscopes, faith healing…he believed it all. Sagan suggest s that the man's passion for pseudoscience could have been — should have been — channeled into scientific curiosity from an early age. But unfortunately, his teachers failed to inspire wonder and excitement for science, which ultimately led him to swallow all these nonsensical claims in the thirst to feed his quest for "knowledge." Sagan waxes poetic about astronomy and biology, and he wonders why the driver hadn't ever managed to get so turned on by these real scientific subjects
Of course I love Carl Sagan's work and enjoy hearing his thoughts again, but after so many years of dealing with callers' misconceptions about science on a one-on-one basis, I was surprised to find the question a little bit naive. Actually, I think that it's easy to understand why pseudoscience beats real science, if you just think about the two concepts as competing memes.
Like all memes, concepts within both science and pseudoscience are in constant competition for brain space, and "try" (in a metaphorical sense) to infect as many minds as possible, and to stick in those minds in the long term. But the strategies they use are different. Science has one set of rules for survival, and pseudoscience has a different set. To put it another way, their fitness algorithm is different.
On one hand, a scientific meme lives or dies based on how closely it matches reality. If the meme is untestable, or if it directly conflicts with some known principle of reality, then it dies a gradual death. Researchers don't find it useful; don't propagate in their work; don't refer back to it in other peer reviewed papers; don't insert it as a critical fact in textbooks; and it is eventually forgotten (or else, like Lamarckian inheritance, it is remembered as a contrast to a meme that won).
On the other hand, a pseudoscience meme does not have any such restriction. Since there is no peer review in the world of pseudoscience, the concepts can only survive based on how many people like them. In other words, they survive solely by being compelling and interesting to a lot of people. So in the battle for headspace in the "wow that's cool" part of the brain, science is not going to win.
Of course I'm not saying that real science can't be exciting and interesting. Once you have a grounding in scientific inquiry, the process of measuring things against reality and studying all the complex information about the world we've accumulated can be very appealing. But I am saying that being exciting cannot be the criterion for judging science. if we threw out all the science it wasn't sexy then we'd lose a lot of important discoveries. Science is in the business of figuring out what's true, regardless of whether the facts are fun or not.
By contrast, pseudoscience is free to follow what TV Tropes calls "The Rule of Cool." If you are writing a novel, a show, or a movie, you create your own reality. In this reality, it doesn't matter whether something is scientifically accurate or not. All that matters in your own universe is what looks good on screen or in readers' heads. That's how you sell more books, tickets, and advertising space. Fake science is the same way.
How does this tendency to obey the Rule of Cool show up to the average follower? One thing that I notice about pseudoscience is that it personalizes concepts which, in science can be very difficult to relate to:
- Astronomy allows you to chart the positions of the stars, painstakingly mapping their locations with mathematical formulas applied over centuries of data collection. Astrology tells you that if you know what month somebody is born in, you can know more about the personal qualities of yourself and your friends!
- Evolution tells us that life, including human life, evolved due to complex but consistent patterns which only emerge after studying thousands of generations. Creationism says that a magic man in the sky created you special, because he wanted to love and care for you for ever and ever!
- Neurologists study the movement of neurons and synapses on a microscopic level. Sylvia Brown says that I can talk to my dead love ones, even though their brain activity stopped decades ago!
- A novel about what life was like in Atlantis? Cool! An investigation of the Mediterranean
OceanSea showing that there was no such place? Not so cool!
I hope you see the point. Science can be cool, and often is cool. But pseudoscience has to be cool, or else it has no other reason to exist.
I'm not just trying to be negative. I think learning should be fun. I admire what Carl Sagan did in bringing real science to amateurs like us, and I think that education is always more effective when it's entertaining. At the same time, I think we shouldn't kid ourselves about what science is up against. People like to feel special. They like to feel connected. And for many people, it's much easier to believe in an exciting falsehood than in a less exciting well-tested theoretical framework.
Edit: In this post, I may have conveyed the mistaken impression that the ideas brought up were mine alone. This was clearly a case of my runaway ego. In reality, many of the points about the survival qualities of science vs. pseudoscience were brought up originally by Lynnea, without whom this post would not have been possible, as we discussed the book. In writing this, I may have unintentionally pre-empted a similar post that she was planning to put up on her own blog, which undoubtedly would have been excellent.


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By Business editor Peter Ryan
The Australian dollar surges on the RBA's bullish outlook
Source: Bloomberg
The Reserve Bank has forecast that the resources boom will continue for the next few years, countering suggestions that it has already peaked.
In the minutes from its August meeting released today, the RBA said resource investment would "continue rapidly over the next year or so, broadly in line with expectations."
However, in a reality check the RBA has pointed to the boom's "eventual decline", but expects the fallout to be offset in "a ramp-up in resource exports" as projects are completed.
The RBA has also signalled a recovery in non-mining parts of the economy which have been hurt by the multi-speed nature of resource investment.
The minutes refer to "a gradual strengthening in some parts of the non-resource economy that had been relatively weak."
But the RBA did not put a time frame on any strengthening noting that "there was a good deal of uncertainty surrounding the forecast timing of these shifts."
The outlook for continuing resource investment and a period of low inflation saw the RBA leave the cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent when the board last met on August 7.
RBA board members were told that underlying inflation was around the bottom of the 2-3 percent target range and that it would be temporarily pushed higher by the introduction of the carbon price.
Some economists believe the cash rate could be left steady for the rest of the year after the RBA noted the cash rate level "remained appropriate."
On continuing tensions about the high value of the Australian dollar, the RBA said it had been pushed higher in part by a decline in the Euro and Australian currency purchases by the Swiss National Bank.
The RBA noted the Libor fixing scandal and the level of any impact here, saying "Australian banks' net exposures were low" because local financial products were benchmarked against domestic bank bill rates.
As outlined in earlier statements, the RBA remained alert but not alarmed about the debt crisis in Europe and said that "escalating concerns" had "weighed on confidence."
While some European economies were improving, members were told that "further significant economic adjustment seems necessary and the challenges ahead for the euro remained substantial."
The Reserve Bank board holds its next meeting on Tuesday September 4.
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Males and female: Are Their Orgasms the Very Same or Various?
Is sex all we ever discuss? To a specific degree, we make love on the brain. In today's world, it's tough not to because many publications are running stories about sex. The orgasm in specific is a typical subject of conversation. If you wonder about the female orgasm vs. male orgasm, then you are not alone. Although there are distinctions in the orgasm for males and females, physiologically they are extremely comparable. In basic, an orgasm is balanced contractions of the muscles of the pelvic location, leading to a discharge of sexual stress. This holds true for female orgasm and male orgasm. So, the real "what an orgasm is" stays the very same for both sexes. The distinction in female orgasm vs. male orgasm comes more from what triggers the orgasm to come from, how quickly it is induced, and the ease with which another orgasm can be caused after the very first one.
Another typical misconception in the female orgasm vs. male orgasm centers upon the ease with which another orgasm can be caused after the very first one. In layperson's terms, we call this the several orgasms. The misconception is that just women can have a several orgasm, however brand-new research study recommends otherwise. Usually, when males orgasm, they experience what is called a refractory duration. This is an amount of time throughout which no matter just how much they may prefer to, sex is impossibility. The body requires to recuperate from the previous sexual release. Generally, individuals have actually thought that males have one orgasm, then should suffer the refractory period-which it is thought grows longer as one ages-before another effort at orgasm can be made. We are now finding out that numerous males can in reality have numerous orgasms. This is specifically real in guys who experience the dry orgasm. However males who started sexual contact (consisting of masturbating) prior to reaching the age of puberty frequently report both the dry orgasm and the capability to orgasm numerous times consecutively. There are likewise males who have actually reported mentor themselves to have numerous orgasms, in addition to postponing their initial ejaculation.
In women, an orgasm can arise from stimulation of the clitoris, the G-spot, or the vaginal cavity, which we generally describe as a deep area, AFE, or A-spot orgasm. Clitoral stimulation to orgasm can take place through foreplay, manual stimulation, stimulation utilizing a vibrator or other execute, or less often, through agreement throughout sexual intercourse. This is the most typical kind of orgasm for females. In truth, 70% of females report this is the only coming from place for orgasm. The G-spot can be promoted by hand, utilizing a vibrator or carry out, or less regularly through sexual intercourse. The area of the G-spot makes stimulation through sexual intercourse extremely difficult. The fingers or other executes are the most effective ways of reaching this erotic zone. The deep spot/A-spot/AFE can be reached finest through orgasm, however males who are less endowed might discover this difficult. There are reports of vibrators or executes being created for this area (long, thin, and curved at the very end) however finding a vibrator particular to the A-spot in the United States is challenging.
In males, the origination of the orgasm is stealthily uncomplicated. Standard knowledge states that guys's orgasm comes from stimulation to the penis. This can be achieved through vaginal sexual intercourse, anal sexual intercourse, fellatio, and even manual stimulation from either a partner or by one's own hand, which we generally identify masturbation. Many people think that males should climax in order to have had an orgasm, however get more info there is such a thing as a 'dry orgasm' for males. On the other hand, it is possible for guys to climax in the lack of an orgasm. Hence, the misconception of the climax equates to orgasm in males is incorrect. For a long time, we have actually usually thought about males's orgasm as so simple it hardly ranked conversation, however since late we're starting to recognize there is more intricacy than we believed. We are now mindful that stimulation of the prostate can likewise lead to an orgasm for guys.
In basic, it is simpler to cause an orgasm in male vs. female. In reality, 90% of guys constantly orgasm throughout sexual intercourse. Just 25% of females report the very same. In truth, there are 30% of ladies who have actually never ever had an orgasm, through sexual intercourse or otherwise (consisting of masturbation). Therefore, the female orgasm has more mystiques surrounding it vs. the male orgasm, which is thought about much easier to produce. Lots of people have actually presumed regarding state discovering a guy who is a great lover-as specified by the capability to regularly bring his female partners to orgasm-is more unusual than discovering a female who is an excellent enthusiast. And, even more, that the meaning of a lady being an excellent enthusiast is more complex than just guaranteeing her partner has an orgasm each time they make love.
Therefore, the female orgasm vs. the male orgasm is surrounded by much misconception, legend, and unpredictability. For that reason, finding out all you can about orgasm and sexual stimulation will provide you in edge. Sexual stimulation and orgasm are something all of us think of and are interested, as evidenced by the quantity of broadcast both subjects get.


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by Kyle Collins, sports information student assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Coming off top-10 finishes in the NCAA Southeast Region Championship, both the men's and women's squads moved up in the final U.S. Cross Country Coaches (USTFCCA) Division II Southeast Regional Rankings. The poll, released Nov. 11, had the Georgia College & State University women at fifth and the men ninth in the region.
The women moved up four places while the men broke back into the top-10 in the final poll. Both Bobcat harriers improved their team finishes from last year's regional. Ninth place was a two spot improvement for the men, while the women's fifth place finish was 10 spots better.
The final regional rankings mirrored each team's finish in the Southeast Championship. On the women's side, Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams Columbus State University and Augusta State University finished No. 4 and No. 2 respectively in the final standings. Augusta State advanced to the National Championship off their strong finish.
As for the men, PBC opponents coming in at No. 2 and 3 were Columbus State and Clayton State University. With the runner-up finish, Columbus moves on to Nationals.
Junior Heather Raines (Lawrenceville, Ga.) led women's cross country to their best-ever school finish. Raines finished the 6K event 26th (25:16), while fellow junior Bonnie Ueltzen (Blairsville, Ga.) was close behind at 28th (25:21).
Georgia College freshman Rob Manning (Lawrenceville, Ga.) broke the school record in the 10K. Manning's 18th place finish at 33:56 busted Josh Hollar's (Canton, Ga.) previous record at last year's meet by 16 seconds and nearly gave him All-Region honors, as he came up three spots short.
Georgia College cross country will look to continue their upward climb next season. Both the men and women lose just one senior a piece.
The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.


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Barbara Burtness, MD
Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology); Disease Aligned Research Team Leader, Head and Neck Cancers Program; Co-Director, Developmental Therapeutics Research Program
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Internal Medicine: Medical Oncology: Subset Medical Oncology Faculty
Status of Women in Medicine Committee (SWIM)
Yale Cancer Center: Developmental Therapeutics | Head and Neck Cancers Program | K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (IOTP) | Yale CTAP
Barbara Burtness, MD is Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) at the Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center. She serves as Co-Leader of the Developmental Therapeutics Program and the Disease Aligned Research Team Leader for Head and Neck Cancer. Dr. Burtness is internationally recognized for her research in head and neck cancer. She chairs the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Head and Neck Cancer Committee, and leads national and international trials of targeted therapy in head and neck cancer. She comes to Yale from Fox Chase Cancer Center, where she co-led the Developmental Therapeutics Program, was Chief of Head and Neck Oncology and served as Associate Director for Clinical Research.
Education & Training
|SUNY at Stonybrook (1986)
|Bryn Mawr College (1982)
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|Yale-New Haven Hospital
|Yale-New Haven Hospital
|Board Certification
|AB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (1989)
|Board Certification
|AB of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology (1993, recertified: 2016)
Honors & Recognition
Robert L. Krigel Award, Excellence in Teaching and Clinical OncologyFox Chase Cancer Center (2012)
Top DoctorU.S. News and World Report
Best Doctors in AmericaBest Doctors
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ECOG-ACRIN (2006 - Present) Chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Head and Neck Therapeutics Committee


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Shinola is about to leave a permanent mark on Detroit.The luxury goods company has become synonymous with the city, selling a story of Detroit's resurgence with every $3,000 bike and $900 watch it produces. And now it's going to install oversize versions of its iconic watches across the city. In the coming weeks, Shinola will install a city clock outside Cobo Center, plus three more in yet-to-be revealed locations.
"City clocks became popular fixtures as early as the mid-1800s," said Jacques Panis, president of Shinola/Detroit LLC. "The Kern's clock downtown was always a popular meeting spot after it was introduced in the 1930s. We thought it was fitting for Detroit to have some more city clocks."Panis couldn't say how much the clocks would cost, but he did indicate that they will be installed before daylight saving time starts on March 9.
The clocks themselves are based on Shinola's pocket-watch design, which will be released later this year as the second watch in the company's Great Americans Series. The first watch, unveiled late last year, paid homage to the Wright Brothers; the pocket watch – and corresponding city clocks – honor Henry Ford.One of the things Panis said he likes about city clocks is that they become popular meeting spots for city residents. And it will be hard to miss the elegant timepieces: Mounted, they will stand nearly 13 feet tall and have a diameter of nearly 38 inches.
The clocks are being produced by Electric Time Co. Inc., based in Medfield, Mass. One of the few remaining manufacturers of city clocks, it made the clock that tops Tiffany & Co.'s famous Fifth Avenue store in New York City.
"We knew we wanted to make it here in America," Panis said. "We just called them up one day and asked them if they could do it."That is, essentially, how the clock got slated for the Cobo Center, as well.
Shinola had the idea last year, called the Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority, which runs Cobo, and asked. The authority said yes. Today, a Detroit City Council subcommittee approved the installation."As a proud owner of one of their first-edition watches; I couldn't think of a better tie-in to what we're doing here at Cobo Center," said Thom Connors, Cobo's general manager. "People have seen the interior improvements with the new atrium and ballroom, but the next stage is going to move outside." That construction is extensive, and part of it involves creating a new Cobo Square, linking the north-facing side of the building – where the new food court is located – with West Jefferson Avenue. The Shinola clock will eventually call that plaza its permanent home, but during construction people can find it at the southwest corner of Washington Boulevard and West Larned Street. "To me, this speaks to the collaborative nature of everyone working in Detroit today toward a common goal," Panis said. "The common goal is to bring back Detroit to its glory and might."


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An adventure game based on Columbia Pictures' CG-rendered movie, Monster House is a thrill-ride tale about three kids who must do battle with a mysterious home that is determined to eat every trick or treater in sight on Halloween. The Monster House videogames allow players to experience key moments of the movie as all three playable characters from the film as they explore the house room by room, while also taking on unique adventures that were inspired by the film.
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Release Date: July 18, 2006
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Release Date: September 7, 2006
Publisher: THQ
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Chin Rodger got the call from her son Elliot Rodger's therapist at 9:17 p.m. Friday – 13 minutes before authorities say he opened fire outside a sorority house.
"Have you gotten Elliot's email?" he said. "I think you should see it."
Chin opened the email, saw the first few lines of a 137-page screed Elliot wrote and instantly knew something was terribly wrong, said Simon Astaire, a family friend, who is a Hollywood talent agent and media advisor. He provided this account on behalf of the family in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Chin Rodger immediately checked Elliot's YouTube channel, where he had posted bizarre videos about how alienated he felt, particularly from women. On top of the video queue was one called "Elliot Rodger's Retribution."
"Well, this is my last video, it all has come to this," he started, speaking coldly and confidently, not his usual timid tone. "Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you."
The 22-year-old student at Santa Barbara City College complained about how girls were not attracted to him, throwing themselves at "obnoxious men, instead of me, the supreme gentleman."
After just over two minutes, he said: "On the day of retribution I am going to enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up blond slut I see inside there."
Chin Rodger frantically called her ex-husband Peter, a Hollywood director and photographer, who was dining with his wife and two friends.
They decided to race to Isla Vista, the college community near UC Santa Barbara where Elliot lived. Astaire said Chin called either 911 or the sheriff directly, and arranged to meet with authorities when they arrived. As they drove up the 101 Freeway, they heard news of a shooting in Isla Vista on the radio. Elliot is accused of killing six people before taking his own life.
Chin called Elliot's therapist, who told her it was unrelated. He said Elliot promised retribution the following day, and his nature was to stick to such details. By the time Chin and her ex-husband reached the police station, officers confirmed it was their son, and that he and six others were dead by his hand. Astaire said he didn't have the words to describe their emotions.
This was the second time in recent months that Elliot's mother tried to intervene in his life. In April, she saw bizarre videos he had posted on YouTube, though not the menacing ones he posted shortly before the rampage, Astaire said.
She called his therapist, saying she was worried about his well-being. He called a mental health service and they referred it to police, according to Astaire. A half dozen officers showed up at his door on April 30.
"I heard a knock on my apartment door," Rodger wrote in the diatribe he would later send out. "I opened it to see seven police officers asking for me."
He wrote that "the biggest fear I had ever felt in my life overcame me."
He had three semi-automatic weapons in his bedroom and had written up plans for his assault.
"I tactfully told them that it was all a misunderstanding, and they finally left. If they had demanded to search my room .. .. that would have ended everything," he wrote. "For a few horrible seconds I thought it was all over. When they left, the biggest wave of relief swept over me."
Astaire said the family couldn't judge the officers' actions in hindsight. Obviously, given what happened, they wished the police had searched the room.
But Astaire said the family never suspected Elliot would have guns. "He had no affinity, it seemed, to guns whatsoever," said Astaire.
Astaire said Elliot played the video game "World of Warcraft," but wasn't "obsessed with guns or war games."
Astaire said Elliot had not been diagnosed with Asperger's but the family suspected he was on the spectrum, and had been in therapy for years. He said he knew of no other mental illnesses, but Elliot truly had no friends, as he said in his videos and writings.
Astaire said Elliot was incredibly shy, spoke haltingly and rarely looked people in the eye. "He was fundamentally withdrawn," he said. "The guy on the video was much more confident. That is a guy I never met."


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On her blog Pan and Ink Lis Fogt shares stories about raising her two boys- Gabe, age 3, and Owen, age 2- and recipes, usually for something delicious enough to make you want to run from your computer straight into the kitchen. In the last couple months these have included instructions for Sweet Potato and Kale Quesadilla, Apple Cupcakes with Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting, and Cherry Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake.
In the following interview Lis explains that she sees the orderliness and precision of baking as a counterpoint to the helter-skelter rhythm of taking care of two young boys. She also talks about the hardest four months of her life as a parent when her husband was on assignment in Afghanistan, about how spending her days with Gabe and Owen is a little like having "clanging symbols" going off in her head every 20 seconds, and about the unimaginable abruptness and unexpected rewards of the transition from childlessness to motherhood.
So, thank you Lis, for taking the time to share your thoughts on life, parenting, and baking with the Growing Sideways community.
Can you tell me where you were in life when you and Steve had kids?
Steve and I had been married for six years (and together for fourteen!) when Gabe was born. I had been an English teacher for eleven years and had recently earned my master's degree. Steve had been a journalist for the same length of time and was just embarking on a part-time master's program for working professionals. We owned a home and felt we had enjoyed our time being together, just the two of us, as a couple. We were fortunate to have a lot of it before the kids came along.
You stopped teaching when Gabe was born. How did you decide to leave your career to raise your kids?
When I was pregnant with Gabe, I had no idea what parenting would be like. I knew that teaching was very demanding, involving hours of work at home on weeknights and weekends. I wasn't sure that I could be a good teacher and a good parent at the same time, so I decided to take a year "off."
The decision was made easier by the large cut childcare would take out of my salary, and I think my own mother's choice to stay home to raise my siblings and me must have made leaving work a more natural choice for me as well. When Owen came along (and he turned up quite a bit sooner than we had planned), the financial benefit of my returning to work was diminished, and the reality of parenting made me even more anxious about how my returning to work would impact our family, so here we are.
Very much like teaching, I find that the more years I put into parenting, the more I enjoy it. This is, of course, because my confidence level is much higher now than it was those first couple years. I expect that I will return to teaching some day, though I am enjoying working part-time as a tutor right now, and I love having time (albeit not a lot) to write.
The stories you tell on your delightful blog Pan and Ink almost always combine parenting and baking. Do you see similarities between the two?
I have not thought about the similarities between the two, but I have often reflected on the differences. I think I became drawn to baking after making the decision to stay home with the boys because it offers a level of concentration, control, order, and predictability that is completely lacking in my life as a parent. I love to be in the kitchen when it's quiet in the afternoons, while the boys are napping; to wipe clean the countertop and set out my ingredients; to follow a simple recipe; to lay out cookies in orderly rows or to smooth the batter of a cake or quick bread. When I have more time, I love to make a dough, roll it out, and enclose something in it. Not only do these sessions restore me mentally, but they also produce a little treat for the boys and me to enjoy in the late afternoon.
If I were to choose a culinary analogy for parenting, I think I would tap cooking rather than baking. Whereas baking requires exactitude in its amounts and processes, cooking lends itself to improvisation, to a bit more looseness and responsiveness. To me, this is much like parenting, the way in which I'm constantly observing, making adjustments, and shifting course as I make my way towards various ends. With baking, once you combine ingredients and pop your mixture into the oven, you have to just wait and hope things turn out well. I'd hate to think parenting is that formulaic.
Last year your husband Steve spent four months in Afghanistan on assignment from the State Department. What was it like being home alone with the boys for such a long time?
Last summer was one of the hardest times of my life. I am still processing it, but I see it as both a time of great stress and despair and an opportunity for personal growth. Being the sole parent to the kids for all those days and nights helped me to tap into reserves of strength and resourcefulness I didn't know I had. And it reinforced one of the most important lessons I have learned as a parent: This too shall pass. I knew that somehow I'd get out on the other side if we just kept plugging along, and I/we did. The experience gave me a tremendous appreciation of what military spouses and single parents go through. And it presented an opportunity to connect with neighbors, friends, and family in a way that would never have happened had Steve not been absent. I will never forget the kindness that so many people bestowed upon me in the form of childcare, meals, the lifting of heavy stuff, and, most importantly, companionship. I plan to pay it forward.
In your post "Rescue" (which included a recipe for a Fig and Frangipane Tart) you write that after a day with the boys you often have "no mental energy available for savoring." That got me thinking about this question: While raising kids, there are lots of moments to savor yet a lot of the work lies in the long-term project of helping them grow up. So how do you think about the balance between savoring and making progress towards long-term goals?
It has taken a long time, but I think I am finally learning to savor the moments I have with the kids. I attribute this to a few things: Gabe starting school and the accompanying realization that he will soon be off all day doing his own thing without me; Owen entering his two's and a new appreciation for how much Gabe has learned and matured since he was a two year-old; and a frustratingly gradual learning curve when it comes to parenting. For me, it took a long time to come to terms with the ways in which motherhood requires you to set aside your own cares and truly put others first.
I wouldn't say that enjoying the present and pursuing long-term goals are mutually exclusive. In fact, for me it is helpful to remember that the more I can be present and positive with my children now (rather than checking Facebook constantly or fretting about a dirty apartment, both of which I do often), the better off they will be in the long term.
You often bring up Buddhism and your search for equanimity. In a post called "The Treat Cure" you write that before you had kids you were someone who would "dependably face challenges with composure and optimism." If you could snap your fingers and be calm and content all the time, would you do it?
This question echoes your post about friction! And of course I agree with you that life would not be life without the friction of challenging relationships and responsibilities. I have learned a lot through the trials of parenting.
I keep hoping, however (probably in vain), that someday I will feel more in control of my life. I often feel anxious about forgetting something important or not being able to get somewhere on time. I'm sure that some parents are better at staying organized and keeping their heads on straight. If I could do this all the time, yes, I think I would.
My life right now reminds me a little bit of "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut's story in which citizens judged overly-smart by the government have a buzzer implanted in their brains. Every twenty seconds or so, they receive a jolt of loud noise (crashing cymbals, ten-gun salutes) in their heads that makes it impossible for them to sustain a thought. The one thing I would miss if I could return to the days before I had the equivalent of periodic cannon fire in my head would be the delightful ways in which the children combine and pronounce words, and the opportunities for fascinating, intimate conversation that their many interruptions present.
In your post "Life is Just a Bowl of…" (that featured a recipe for a Cherry-Almond Tart) you write that despite a day of tantrums, "At evening's final reckoning the accumulated joy far outweighs the moments of despair." I liked that a lot and it made me want to ask: Has being a parent been the way you'd imagined it?
I had very little understanding of what parenting would be like, and for this reason, I did not spend much of time imagining myself as a mother. When I was pregnant, I read a lot about pregnancy and labor and delivery. I was so focused on the seemingly impossible task of getting the baby outside of my body that I barely investigated what life would be like once I was Gabe's parent rather than his incubator.
I have read about the research showing that parents are on the whole less content moment-to-moment than non-parents, instead experiencing higher highs and lower lows. The intensity of the highs and lows of motherhood is something I could never have imagined before I had children. Had I been able to time travel forward and see myself struggling through some of our hardest days, I think I may have balked at the prospect.
I recall that in Rachel Cusk's novel Arlington Park, a character's transition from childlessness to motherhood is likened to falling off a cliff. The person she was before she became a mother stopped existing and a new person now walks around in her body (which, of course, is irrevocably altered as well). Cusk's portrait of motherhood is a bit dark, but I generally appreciate her honesty, which is not to be found everywhere, and I think she's onto something with this analogy. All that is to say that, no, parenting is not at all what I imagined!
Additional posts from the "Parent Interview" series:
The Parent Interview #1: A dad looks back
The Parent Interview #2: Where Wall Street meets motherhood
The Parent Interview #3: Wanting to be a mom and a woman, too
The Parent Interview #4: The nest is empty
The Parent Interview #5: Irrational love


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November 18, 2004
LOS ANGELES — A team of MBA students from UCLA Anderson School of Management won the fourth annual Elite Eight Brand Strategy Competition held earlier this month at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. This is the second consecutive year that UCLA Anderson students have won this competition, which pits student teams from eight of the nation's top MBA programs against each other in solving a major branding problem.
In addition to earning another year of bragging rights, the team won $10,000 and the respect of their peers across the country and their fellow MBA students here at UCLA Anderson. The winning team from UCLA Anderson was composed of second-year MBA students Alice Keh, Rosie O'Neill and Jeremy Vandervoet, and first-year MBA students Nicole Lewis and Jesse Ross. This win is especially sweet for Keh and O'Neill, who both participated on last year's Elite Eight winning team. "Winning the Elite Eight competition two years in a row is an amazing experience," said O'Neill. "Our team followed a strategy similar to the one we implemented last year, combining solid branding frameworks with primary research and plenty of creativity. But the real key to UCLA Anderson's win was teamwork!"
"I loved our team dynamic," added Vandervoet. "I feel we were all focused on the same page in terms of the direction our team was headed and what needed to get done in order to accomplish our goal."
"We truly had a fun and focused group and each of us brought different skills to the table," noted O'Neill.
The team from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management placed second and the team from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania took third place.
The Elite Eight, named for the eight participating schools—UCLA Anderson School, UC Berkeley's Haas School, Minnesota's Carlson School, Duke's Fuqua School, Indiana's Kelley School, Northwestern's Kellogg School, Michigan's Ross School and UPenn's Wharton School—gives MBA student teams 30 hours to research, prepare and present their solution to a real branding problem.
Mark Bergen, Carlson School marketing professor and Elite Eight faculty advisor, compares the competition to the television show "The Apprentice."
"Imagine presenting to a roomful of the Donald Trumps and Simon Cowells of the branding world," said Prof. Bergen. "At the end, the judging panel chose the winning team, anointing them the best branding students in America."
"The whole experience was tiring, but winning is always fun," said UCLA Anderson's Ross. "It feels great to show the world the skills and talents of UCLA Anderson students."
Case Competition Specifics
This year, a Best Buy case asked students to determine the implications of customer centricity on its brand and how the giant retailer should manage its brand and its marketing communications to best leverage this initiative. Below are some specifics on the case:
- Best Buy management presented the company's Customer Centricity program, a part of its new strategy in identifying and optimizing high profit potential customer segments. Under this program, customers are segmented into five distinct groups based on psychographic/lifestyle information.
- Using the Customer Centricity program, Best Buy plans to create a store environment driven by customer experiences and needs. Rather than pushing the product, Best Buy wants to sell the benefit of what products do—a long-term vision of growing loyalty and profitability.
"The case was not just about generating great ideas; it's about problem-solving," said repeat Elite Eight champ Keh. "It's about helping Best Buy management look at a unique challenge with a fresh perspective—an insightful way that may help them make better future decisions."
A Recruiter's Dream
Barry Judge, vice president of marketing for customer centricity at Best Buy, said the company views the competition as a unique opportunity.
"Not only does Best Buy get a fresh perspective from bright MBAs on a real-world marketing challenge we're facing right now," said Judge, "but the recruiting opportunity is second to none.
"We get rare visibility to students' assessment of a meaty assignment in a pressure-cooker setting, and it allows us to show prospective candidates the kind of work they might expect to handle if they were to come work for Best Buy. No interview can replicate that."
"It was a great opportunity for me because I learned a lot working with such talented second-year students," said UCLA Anderson first-year MBA student Nicole Lewis. "UCLA Anderson is certainly producing the next generation of marketing talent and it's great to be a part of such a talented community of individuals."
In addition to Best Buy, other corporate sponsors included Carlson Companies, ConAgra, Fallon Worldwide, General Mills, Land O'Lakes, Philip Morris and Target Corporation. Marketing and brand executives from these companies served as judges for the Elite Eight competition. Minnesota's Carlson School MBA students managed the event.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. UCLA Anderson students are part of a culture that values individual vision, intellectual discipline and a sense of teamwork and collegiality.
Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson School of Management provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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Report: Warner Bros. lording over Rings IP
Variety reports film studio's game arm now has control of Peter Jackson fantasy film license long held by Electronic Arts; parties involved decline comment.
Variety reports film studio's game arm now has control of Peter Jackson fantasy film license long held by Electronic Arts; parties involved decline comment.
Interview with EA developer appears to confirm existence of new role-playing game set in Middle-earth.
EA's adventure RPG features new playable characters and locations never before seen in a Rings game.
The action RPG set in the blockbuster film trilogy's universe ventures off to the factory.
We delve into the lands of Middle-earth for a new look at this Tolkien-inspired RPG.
We hear from The Lord of the Rings, The Third Age audio director Don Veca on the upcoming RPG's sound presentation in an exclusive video.
We get an updated look at the upcoming Lord of the Rings-themed role-playing game from Electronic Arts.
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We take a closer look at Electronic Arts' upcoming RPG based on Peter Jackson's film trilogy.
Final Fantasy meets Middle-earth in what will be EA's first role-playing game in years. We gave it a spin--read our impressions.
EA's free-roaming RPG will span all three Lord of the Rings movies.
We talk to Electronic Arts about its upcoming RPG based on the wildly popular fantasy movie trilogy.
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