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Japan, a country with culture that stretches back to millennia is known as Nihon/Nippon in Japanese. This country of samurai and anime is a hub of highest technologies and at the same time rich in traditions and rituals.
Let us have a closer look at various aspects of Japan, The Land of Rising Sun.
Population: The population of this country is homogenous and few minorities which you may find are Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos and Brazilians.
Culture: In Japanese culture, you can see strong influence of China and also traits of Asia, Europe and North America can be seen. In fact, here you can find a blend of tradition and modernity. Some of the sectors in culture where Japan excels are: ceramics, textiles, swords, dolls, martial arts, tea ceremony, calligraphy, games, geisha, noh, dance kabuki etc. You can also find 16 sites inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage from Japan.
Food: The basic food of Japan is rice/noodles with soup and okazu (a dish prepared from fish and vegetables). Japanese food has a different flavour and this cannot be found in other parts of the world. Seasonal food in Japan is more popular and this country has also been awarded for its luscious recipes.
Fashion: In the middle of 19th century sway of western culture was seen in the Japanese fashion. Street fashion is the latest trend where people mix and math both modern and traditional fashion trends. The mainstream fashion industry is also influenced by Japanese hip-hop style.
Tourist attraction: A place where 16 sites are already listed in UNESCO World Heritage list doesn't need any introduction. However, when you travel in the high speed trains whisking from one part of the country to another, the feel is completely fantastic one. Some of the places which a traveller might like to explore are: Mount Fuji, Ginza in Tokyo, Himeji Castle, Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Kamakura, Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Matsumoto Castle etc.
Shopping: For shopaholics, Japan is no less than a paradise. Everything is available here starting from traditional souvenirs, highly advanced electronics to local food. There are malls, big box retailers, suburban malls as well as kiosks where shoppers can find anything and everything.
In nutshell, Japan is an enchanting country where you can construct an outing anytime and feel the elegance embedded in this place. Before you plan a sojourn to Japan, collect in length information on this place and make your trip the most memorable one.


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Where's Maintenance?
People either rave about or complain about their building's maintenance man, but when the toilet is backed up, he's the first person they call. Brown water running out of the faucet? Call maintenance. Furnace not cycling on during the blizzard? Call maintenance. Large ants parading to the fridge with tiny knapsacks? Call maintenance.
But when it's 4 a.m. in your very own home on a rainy evening and a chunk of the ceiling falls onto your bedroom floor, who are you going to call, and how are you going to pay them? Would you have deep enough pockets to get a maintenance problem taken care of right away?
Sump pumps fail, basements flood, animals die in crawlspaces, ice jams thaw and leak through your wood detailing, and whether in the hundreds or thousands of dollars, these issues are your responsibility now. And while homeowners insurance covers a lot of repairs, using it can lead to increased premiums, and the cost of the repair is subject to your deductible, which is often much higher [source: IIABA, Insurance Information Institute].
Even regular wear-and-tear and maintenance comes with a monthly or even weekly price tag. Some relish this aspect of homeownership and others resent the weekend trips to hardware megastores. There's a reason the phrase "the joys of homeownership" can drip with sarcasm.


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Animal Rights Activist Being Sent to Jail: "The Animals Have it Far Worse."
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Amber Canavan is spending the month of July in jail. Her crime? Entering a foie gras facility, where tens of thousands of ducks are intensively confined and force fed through metal pipes, and rescuing two of them.
"We still live in a world where people who commit the abuses are victims and those who expose them are criminals," said Ms. Canavan. "I don't want to go to jail, but my time there will be a cakewalk compared to what animals are forced to endure in foie gras factories."
In 2011, Ms. Canavan and another activist whose identity she has protected paid a late night visit to Hudson Valley Foie Gras in upstate New York, the largest foie gras producer in the United States. While there, she documented the "deplorable" conditions in which the ducks are kept. The footage she captured was used in a foie gras exposé produced by the Animal Protection and Rescue League and narrated by actress Wendy Malick.
In February, the NY Times published a lengthy story about the incident, which linked to the video and informed readers about the "force feeding" required to produce this "controversial" dish. "I take comfort in the fact the NY Times article and the footage that I took have helped to expose the atrocities being committed against these animals," said Ms. Canavan.
After several weeks of intensive care, the two ducks rescued by Ms. Canavan recovered from their injuries and are "flourishing" at a sanctuary, where they have access to fresh air, proper care and water for swimming. Ducks and geese are aquatic animals, but they have no access to water in foie gras factories.
The campaign to expose foie gras cruelty and hold restaurants that serve it accountable has intensified in recent years. Since 2014, activists in the U.K. with Hertfordshire Animal Rights and London Vegan Actions (LVA) have compelled at least 10 restaurants to stop selling foie gras. In recent months, LVA has staged provocative disruptions inside of establishments that refuse to remove the "delicacy of despair" from the menu.
Amber Canavan will complete her jail term at the end of July, but her punishment won't stop there. For the next five years, an order of protection – a penalty intended to protect victims of stalkers or domestic violence – will prevent her from campaigning against Hudson Valley Foie Gras. Ms. Canavan hopes that the court's breach of her civil liberties and "heavy-handed" jail sentence backfire by triggering activists to convince as many restaurants as possible to drop foie gras.
Your Turn
Amber sacrificed her safety, freedom and financial security to expose the plight of animals exploited and killed for foie gras. Now, she needs help. Please make a tax deductible donation to her legal defense fund.


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Since 1975 special schooling has been a compulsory requirement for class rosters. Special Education Academics earn more than sixty four{41a4fa72052d090cdf978b5f623810d9e63d56b87d344a20ba2665474de70526} p.c of Schooling & Childcare careers. Lecturers should commonly assess pupil's learning progress utilizing crucial considering skills and work with students struggling with dyslexia, ADHD, studying disabilities or mental and bodily handicaps.
Academics with prior experience in instructing, particularly of children with disabilities, will stand out from others. The job requires interactions with particular needs youngsters who are very different and come from all forms of backgrounds. The instructor should be able to create an individualized schooling plan that addresses both the college and scholar's studying needs successfully.
Demand for special training lecturers with specialized skills and certifications will increase, especially for younger college students who're recognized with particular needs and disabilities at a younger age. IEPs outline the targets and companies for every pupil, comparable to classes with the college psychologists, counselors, and particular education lecturers.
Most special schooling lecturers use computer systems to maintain records of their students' performance, prepare lesson plans, and replace IEPs. Special education academics work with basic schooling teachers, counselors, school superintendents, directors, and fogeys.
The job of a special education trainer contains assisting common education lecturers in figuring out youngsters who've disabilities or special needs. Special training lecturers must be comfortable working with computers and studying different types of software programs.


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From research to action, leaf by leaf: Getting gender right in the REDD+ social and environmental standards. Lessons from Action Research: Booklet 1.
Including case studies from Brazil, Ecuador, Nepal, and Tanzania, the purpose of this booklet is to describe action research undertaken by WEDO and REDD+ SES related to gender equality and REDD+ initiatives. The action research approach utilizes by WEDO and REDD+ SES moves beyond conceptual discussions of gender equality to focus on incorporating these principles.


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A Pastor in San Diego was informed by a County Official that he was in violation of the county code with his "religious assembly" for having too many people over for a Bible Study. Fox News has the full story here;
When I read about this story I was in shock. What about Christmas time, family barbeque's, or just hanging out watching the Super Bowl? I find it strange that a problem with a gathering that violates a county code has something to do with the Christian faith. I see persecution coming our way in this country and it is troubling. First we have a Hate Crime Bill (HR 1913) and now this. Maybe this is a wake up call for the Church that has taken its faith in Christ for granted. Maybe this will be a means for us to evangelize and defend our faith in greater ways. Whatever it is we need to wake up and take a look around. Every group in our country is being accepted with the exception of Christianity. However the San Diego problem turns out will be interesting.


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The Director's Theater
( Originally Published 1938 )
"ANY COMMUNITY which includes professional actors who have retired from the stage has the necessary directorial ability." This statement is taken from a recent pamphlet on amateur theaters.
Such a statement may be challenged on several grounds. First, it suggests that because a man has acted professionally, he is thereby qualified to direct amateur plays. Second, it assumes that in method of procedure, background, circumstances, and capabilities the amateur theater is similar to the professional theater. Third, it implies that direction is a casual, almost a trivial, matter. Our purpose in this book will be to make clear the complete fallacy of the above quotation.
We have, today, a commercial theater with professional directors and professional actors; we have also a non-commercial theater with professional directors and amateur ac-tors. Such non-commercial theaters are scattered thoughout the land in communities, schools, and colleges. We have no single term to designate this new theater; we must, perhaps, still call it the amateur theater; but even though we do, let it be understood that the director whom we wish to place at its head should be a professional, in the full sense of the word.
The theater of the amateur, however humble, should be an honest theater; that is, it should endeavor to interpret the play fully, intelligently, and through a creditable theater method. It should be a discontented and aspiring theater, for it has not yet produced a quality of work remarkable enough to warrant any self-satisfaction or relaxation. It should be a creative theater, for imitation will kill it as surely as drought kills the grasses on our western plains. An honest, aspiring, creative theater at the present time can be brought into being only by an honest, aspiring, creative director and not by an actor who knows nothing about directing, regardless of his success as a performer on the stage. More than this, the theater of the amateurs can be brought into being only by an experienced artist-executive possessed with a peculiar talent that he brings to his highly specialized task.
The time has already passed when we should have adopted a higher objective for our amateur drama. Our theater needs no apology; it has proved itself throughout three thousand years of service to human culture; it has been of significance in a score of different civilizations. It is imperative that we recognize directing as a profession worthy of the time and talent of men and women who possess intelligence and sound training. We have adequate theater buildings, we have an audience which has not yet turned from us, we have potential actors, and direct competition with the commercial theater is restricted to the larger cities; in brief, an opportunity is ours which may never be ours again.
Yet, we may miss this opportunity if we do not realize that amateur actors by themselves cannot create a successfully presented play; that amateur painters, electricians, mechanics, or costumers cannot save us; that insufficient directors do us more harm than good. Having realized these things, we should do something about them; first, by recognizing that under present conditions, with the director so completely in charge of the production, it is the trained director and what he does with his actors and stage that must lead the amateur theater to any success which the immediate future may hold; and, second, by preparing trained, intelligent directors to create better productions.
We cannot emphasize this too strongly. It is the director who is administrator and creator in the amateur theater. It is, in a true sense, his theater, and it is going to fall or succeed through him.
When the history of these theatrical times is recorded, it will be written that those in the seats of authority, namely, the directors, either were of sufficient caliber to meet the challenge and, in consequence, created a worthy theater by giving their productions a necessary form and content, or that they were without ability and vision, failed to measure up to their opportunity, and allowed the amateur theater to sink back to its former low estate.


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Brawl Erupts After Jose Bautista Downed By Rougned Odor Punch
A brawl started after Toronto's Jose Bautista was punched by Texas' Rougned Odor in the eighth inning of the game between the two teams. Odor appeared to dislike what he believed was a late slide by Bautista at the second base.
Words were exchanged between the two players and Odor shoved Bautista, who started to move toward Odor. The infielder of the Rangers then punched Bautista in the face, which staggered the Toronto star. Bautista said he was surprised, which was the only reason Odor got him. He added that it takes someone bigger than him to knock him down.
The two players were ejected together with Josh Donaldson of Toronto and the bench coach of the Rangers, Steve Buechele. After the scuffle, Prince Fielder was hit by Jesse Chavez of the Blue Jays with the next pitch. Officials ejected Chavez after a warning was issued to both teams in the eighth inning after Matt Bush hit Bautista with a pitch.
Toronto manager John Gibbons said the incident was "ugly and unfortunate" adding that it was gutless. He said the other teams would come at them immediate but waiting for the end was something he did not like. Jose Bautista was hit in the ribs by the first pitch of Bush. After Justin Smoak hit a ground ball in the next play towards Adrian Beltre, Beltre threw it to Odor to start a double play. Umpires ruled the hard slide of Bautista an automatic double play, which ended the inning.
Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister said it was just two tough teams playing the game hard. He had an exchange of words with Gibbons as the field was being cleared. He added that the players like their respective clubs and he does not like it when people think the game should not be played hard with intensity and emotion.
The two teams tangled with each other in the past starting with the famous bat flip of Bautista in the AL division series last year. Bautista flipped the bat into the air after hitting a three-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 5. The moment was considered disrespectful by traditionalists while new-school advocates loved the individuality of the action of Jose Bautista.


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Over the past decade, technological advances have meant that it is now possible to make your home far more energy efficient than what was possible in the past. With some simple changes and improvements to your home, you can drastically cut your energy usage, saving you money on your heating bills as well as helping with the conservation of the environment. Despite these advances, it is surprising how few people know about them. Keep reading to find out our top energy saving tips for your home.
1. Ensure Your Insulation is Working Effectively
Living in the UK where temperatures are cooler than most, making sure your insulation is up to scratch is essential. Heat escapes the home primarily via the roof and walls. Insulation is used to minimize the amount of heat escaping your home. In older properties there is a high chance that your insulation will not be working as efficiently as it could be. If your insulation is not working properly more energy is needed to adequately heat your home, increasing your energy bills and usage. If your insulation does need to be replaced, there are a number of government schemes available which will contribute to the cost of your new insulation. Find out more about government grants here.
2. Upgrade Old Heating Systems
Like poor insulation, an old heating system could be costing you time and energy. Advances in heating technology over the past decade means it is now more affordable than ever to heat your home efficiently. Boilers are the main areas of heating systems where heat will escape from with some boilers leaking up to 30% of the energy they produce. With boilers accounting for over half of your overall energy bill, this could be costing you hundreds of pounds a year.
It's not just your boilers you need to think about, old radiators could also be costing you. Today, there are a number of eco-friendly radiators on the market including aluminium and column radiators. Site's like Trade Radiators have a large selection of energy efficient radiators. Upgrading your radiators or boiler may cost you initially but it is important to think of it as a long term investment and you will see instant changes when you get your first energy bill.
3. Double or Triple Glaze Your Home
Like walls and roofs, windows allow heat to escape the home. If your home doesn't already have double glazing then it is imperative that you install them as soon as possible if you want to make your home as energy efficient as possible. On average, you will save £150 on your heating bill by switching to double glazed windows. If you take saving energy seriously then you can up your energy saving game by upgrading to triple glazing. Locking in heat, triple glazed homes are designed to stay at an average temperature of around 21 degrees meaning less energy is used to heat your home. As well as energy saving benefits, they also keep noise out which makes them ideal for homes located next to a busy road.


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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
23 comments:
- Elzaan said...
Christmas cheer has popped up in Blogland for sure! I enjoy seeing everybody's ideas. Mine is a table runner and a quilt for presents, but not with the Christmas theme though.
Your mitten is very well done!
- 9:45 PM, October 05, 2011
- Vivian said...
Love the mitten, Darlene.
I'm so used to nontraditional Christmas colors now that if I see the red and green of my youth, it almost looks wrong. I enjoy all the green and red variants, plus anything else that designers toss in. Great fun seeing the options each year.
- 10:05 PM, October 05, 2011
- Leanne said...
Your block looks great, christmas sewing is so much fun, I have made my list now I need to get sewing.
- 11:53 PM, October 05, 2011
- Kaaren said...
I can see the smoke from your machine all the way from here, Darlene. You go girl!
90 days, huh? Yikes!
- 1:46 AM, October 06, 2011
- Abby and Stephanie said...
I just love the blocks from this quilt. The mitten is cute as can be.
- 3:52 AM, October 06, 2011
- Kim Brackett said...
Where did the rest of the year go? Your mitten is so cute. I know you'll enjoy this quilt -- such pretty fabrics.
- 4:17 AM, October 06, 2011
- Ulla's Quilt World said...
Greets from Finland! That looks fantastic! Very good idea! It's so nice to find other quilters from the other side of the world! :)
- 5:13 AM, October 06, 2011
- Diane said...
I see you were able to keep yourself in your sewing room yesterday! Good for you! love the fabrics and that is a sweet little mitten block!
I can not believe we are starting to count down for Christmas already! wasn't Christmas like a month ago? CRAZY!
- 5:21 AM, October 06, 2011
- sunny said...
Now I'm getting nervous! Everyone's talking about Christmas. I better make my list and check it twice.
- 5:32 AM, October 06, 2011
- Kelly@ Charming Chatter said...
Oh Christmas is coming so quickly! Look at you go girl - your house is going to be gorgeous with all of your pretty things! So happy to see you in the "light"!!! You deserve it :) Hugs!
- 6:55 AM, October 06, 2011
- Lori said...
Would you quit reminding me about Christmas!! You are such an overachiever! LOL
- 7:28 AM, October 06, 2011
- Michelle said...
LOL!!! Thanks for the Christmas reminder...less than 90 days... still giggling!!!
- 8:07 AM, October 06, 2011
- deb said...
oh my 90 days away....I better get crackin!!! love the mitton...darling!!!
- 8:24 AM, October 06, 2011
- Carol said...
Say it isn't so...Christmas is less than 90 days away...you've got a great start! Way to go! So glad you're stitching away and having some fun!
- 12:46 PM, October 06, 2011
- Sandie @ crazy'boutquilts said...
Oh gosh~ Christmas reminders always send me into a sewing tizzy! LOL Love your mitten. Have a happy weekend!
- 1:25 PM, October 06, 2011
- Allie said...
What a darling block!!! Oh yes it's crunch time....yikes....
- 5:39 PM, October 06, 2011
- JoAnn ( Scene Through My Eyes) said...
Oh fun - I love the mitten - and I love christmas.
- 7:33 PM, October 06, 2011
- Deanna said...
Such fun projects. I need to get to my holiday sewing--SOON!
- 6:07 AM, October 07, 2011
- Quilter Kathy said...
You are soo organized!
I haven't even realized that Christmas is coming!
Not a single thought about it yet...yikes!
- 1:00 PM, October 07, 2011
- Myra said...
A wonderful block! 90 days! Oh my!!!
- 9:42 AM, October 08, 2011
- paulette said...
YIKES!! Oh yeah...no Christmas for me!! Yippee!! Love your mitt...very sweet!
- 5:38 PM, October 08, 2011
- Carrie P. said...
OH, don't remind me. Christmas seems to get here quicker and quicker every year.
- 2:29 PM, October 09, 2011
- deb said...
aye....Christmas....not that far off huh?????? love the mitten!!!
- 9:46 AM, October 13, 2011


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Michael Curtiz
|Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Kertész Kaminer Manó
December 24, 1886
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
April 10, 1962 (aged 75)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
|Other names
Michael Courtice
Michael Kertesz
Mihaly Kertesz
Michael Kertész
Mihály Kertész
Kertész Mihály
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Lucy Doraine (1918–1923; divorced)
Lili Damita (1925–1926; divorced)
Bess Meredyth (1929–1962; his death; 1 child)
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886Template:Spaced ndash April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian American film director.[1] He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States, many of them cinema classics, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Dodge City, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas.
He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s/40s. He was less successful after the 1940s, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but continued working until shortly before his death.
Early life
Curtiz was born Manó Kaminer[2] to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary). In 1905 he Hungaricised his name to Mihály Kertész.[3] He claimed to have been born December 24, 1886. Both the date and the year are open to debate: he was fond of telling tall tales about his early life, including that he had run away from home to join the circus and that he had been a member of the Hungarian fencing team at the 1912 Olympic Games. In reality, Curtiz had a conventional middle-class upbringing; he studied at Markoszy University and the Royal Academy of Theater and Art, Budapest, before beginning his career as an actor and director as Mihály Kertész at the National Hungarian Theater in 1912.[4]
Details of his early experience as a director are sparse, and it is not clear what part he may have played in the direction of several early films, but he is known to have directed at least one film in Hungary before spending six months in 1913 at the Nordisk studio in Denmark honing his craft. While in Denmark, Curtiz worked as the assistant director for August Blom on Denmark's first multi-reel feature film, Atlantis. On the outbreak of World War I, he briefly served in the artillery of the Austro-Hungarian Army, but he had returned to film-making by 1915. In that or the following year he married for the first time, to actress Lucy Doraine. The couple divorced in 1923. Curtiz left Hungary when the film industry was nationalised in 1919, during the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic, and soon settled in Vienna. He made at least 21 films for Sascha Films, among them the Biblical epics Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) and Die Sklavenkönigin (1924). The latter, released in the US as Moon of Israel, caught the attention of Jack Warner, who hired Curtiz for his own studio with the intention of having him direct a similar film for Warner Brothers, Noah's Ark, eventually produced in 1928. He married his second wife, Lili Damita, in 1925; they divorced in 1926. When he left for the United States, he left behind at least one illegitimate son and one illegitimate daughter.[5]
Career in the US
Curtiz arrived in the United States in 1926 (according to some sources on the fourth of July, but according to others in June).[6] He took the anglicised name "Michael Curtiz". He had a lengthy and prolific Hollywood career, with directing credits on over 100 films in many film genres. During the 1930s, he was often credited on four films in a single year, although he was not always the sole director on these projects. In the pre-Code period, Curtiz directed such films as Mystery of the Wax Museum, Doctor X (both shot in two-strip Technicolor), and The Kennel Murder Case. In the mid-1930s, he began the successful cycle of adventure films starring Errol Flynn that included Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Dodge City, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), The Sea Hawk and Santa Fe Trail (1940).
By the early 1940s Curtiz had become fairly wealthy, earning $3,600 per week and owning a substantial estate, complete with polo pitch.[7] One of his regular polo partners was Hal B. Wallis, who had met Curtiz on his arrival in the country and had established a close friendship with him. Wallis' wife, the actress Louise Fazenda, and Curtiz's third wife, Bess Meredyth, an actress and screenwriter, had been close since before Curtiz's marriage to Meredyth in 1929. Curtiz was frequently unfaithful, and had numerous sexual relationships with extras on set; Meredyth once left him for a short time, but they remained married until 1961, shortly before Curtiz's death.[8] She was Curtiz's helper whenever his need to deal with scripts or other elements went beyond his grasp of English, and he often phoned her for advice when presented with a problem while filming.[9]
Prime examples of his work in the 1940s are The Sea Wolf (1941), Casablanca (1942) and Mildred Pierce (1945). During this period he also directed the World War 2 propaganda film Mission to Moscow (1943), which was commissioned at the request of president Franklin D. Roosevelt in support of the U.S. and British ally, the Soviet Union, at that time holding down 80% of all Nazi German forces as they repelled the Nazi invasion of Russia. Other Curtiz efforts included Four Daughters (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Life With Father (1947), Young Man with a Horn and The Breaking Point (1950).
While Curtiz himself had escaped Europe before the rise of Nazism, other members of his family were not as lucky. His sister's family were sent to Auschwitz, where her husband died. Curtiz paid part of his own salary into the European Film Fund, a benevolent association which helped European refugees in the film business establish themselves in the U.S.[10]
Later years
In the late 1940s, he made a new agreement with Warners under which the studio and his own production company were to share the costs and profits of his subsequent films. These films did poorly, however, whether as part of the changes in the film industry in this period or because Curtiz "had no skills in shaping the entirety of a picture".[11] Either way, as Curtiz himself said, "You are only appreciated so far as you carry the dough into the box office. They throw you into gutter next day".[12] The long partnership between director and studio descended into a bitter court battle.
After his relationship with Warners broke down, Curtiz continued to direct on a freelance basis from 1954 onwards. The Egyptian (1954) (based on Mika Waltari's novel about Sinuhe) for Fox starring Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Gene Tierney. He directed many films for Paramount, including White Christmas (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye; We're No Angels (1955), starring Humphrey Bogart; and King Creole (1958), starring Elvis Presley.
His final film, The Comancheros, was released six months before his death from cancer on April 10, 1962, aged 75. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Working with colleagues
Curtiz was always extremely active: he worked very long days, took part in several sports in his spare time, and was often found to sleep under a cold shower.[13] He was dismissive of actors who ate lunch, believing that "lunch bums" had no energy for work in the afternoons. The flip side of his dedication was an often callous demeanour: Fay Wray, who worked under him on Mystery of the Wax Museum, said that, "I felt that he was not flesh and bones, that he was part of the steel of the camera".[14] Curtiz was not popular with most of his colleagues, many of whom thought him arrogant.[15] He reserved most of his venom for subordinates rather than his stars, frequently quarreling with his technicians and dismissing one extra by saying, "More to your right. More. More. Now you are out of the scene. Go home".[16] Nevertheless, Bette Davis made five more films with him even after he called her a "goddamned nothing no good sexless son of a bitch" while filming The Cabin in the Cotton.[17] He had a low opinion of actors in general, saying that acting "is fifty percent a big bag of tricks. The other fifty percent should be talent and ability, although it seldom is." Nevertheless, he did not offend everyone: he treated Ingrid Bergman with courtesy on the set of Casablanca, while Claude Rains credited him with teaching him the difference between film and theater acting, or, "what not to do in front of a camera".[18]
Curtiz had a lifelong struggle with the English language and there are many anecdotes about his failures. He bewildered a set dresser on Casablanca by demanding a "poodle", when he actually wanted a puddle of water. David Niven liked Curtiz's phrase "bring on the empty horses" (for "bring on the horses without riders") so much that he used it for the title of the second volume of his memoirs.[citation needed]
Aljean Harmetz states that, "Curtiz's vision of any movie... was almost totally a visual one", and quotes him as saying, "Who cares about character? I make it go so fast nobody notices".[19]
Sidney Rosenzweig argues that Curtiz did have his own distinctive style, which was in place by the time of his move to America: "high crane shots to establish a story's environment; unusual camera angles and complex compositions in which characters are often framed by physical objects; much camera movement; subjective shots, in which the camera becomes the character's eye; and high contrast lighting with pools of shadows".[20] This style was not purely visual, but had the effect of highlighting the character's relationship to his environment; often this environment was identified with the fate in which the character was trapped.[21] This entrapment then forces the "morally divided" protagonist to make a moral choice. While Rosenzweig accepts that almost every film involves such moral dilemmas to some extent, it is Curtiz's directorial decisions which place the element center stage in his films, albeit at an emotional rather than an intellectual level.[22]
Academy Award nominations
Curtiz also won an Academy Award in the category of Best Short Subject (Two-reel), for Sons of Liberty.[23]
Six of Curtiz's films were nominated for Best Picture: Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Four Daughters (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Casablanca (1943), and Mildred Pierce (1945). Of these, only Casablanca won Best Picture.
Directed Academy Award performances
|Academy Award for Best Actor
|Paul Muni
|Black Fury (Write-in candidate)
|James Cagney
|Angels with Dirty Faces
|James Cagney
|Yankee Doodle Dandy
|Humphrey Bogart
|William Powell
|Life with Father
|Academy Award for Best Actress
|Joan Crawford
|Mildred Pierce
|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
|John Garfield
|Four Daughters
|Walter Huston
|Yankee Doodle Dandy
|Claude Rains
|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
|Eve Arden
|Mildred Pierce
|Ann Blyth
|Mildred Pierce
The American Film Institute ranked Casablanca #3 and Yankee Doodle Dandy #98 on their list of the greatest American movies. The Adventures of Robin Hood and Mildred Pierce were nominated for the list.
Selected Hollywood filmography
- The Charlatan (1917) with Gyula Csortos and Lenkeffy Ica
- The Mad Genius (1931) with John Barrymore and Marian Marsh
- The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) with Richard Barthelmess and Bette Davis
- Doctor X (1932) with Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill
- Goodbye Again (1933) with Warren William and Joan Blondell
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933) Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) with Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Glenda Farrell
- The Kennel Murder Case (1933) with William Powell as Philo Vance
- Jimmy the Gent (1934) with James Cagney and Bette Davis
- British Agent (1934) with Leslie Howard and Kay Francis
- Front Page Woman (1935) with Bette Davis and George Brent
- Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone
- Four Daughters (1938) John Garfield, Claude Rains
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart
- Dodge City (1939) with Errol Flynn and Bruce Cabot
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn
- Santa Fe Trail (1940) with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan
- Virginia City (1940) with Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart
- The Sea Hawk (1940) with Errol Flynn and Alan Hale, Sr.
- The Sea Wolf (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield
- Captains of the Clouds (1942) with James Cagney and famed fighter pilot Billy Bishop
- Casablanca (1942) with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
- Mission to Moscow (1943) with Walter Huston
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney and Walter Huston
- Mildred Pierce (1945) with Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth
- Night and Day (1946) with Cary Grant as Cole Porter
- Life with Father (1947) William Powell, Irene Dunn, Elizabeth Taylor
- Romance on the High Seas (1948 film); Doris Day's movie debut
- The Breaking Point (1950) with John Garfield and Patricia Neal
- I'll See You in My Dreams (1951), a biopic of composer and lyricist Gus Kahn, with Doris Day and Danny Thomas
- The Jazz Singer, (1952) a remake with Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee
- White Christmas (1954) with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney
- The Egyptian (1954) with Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Gene Tierney
- We're No Angels (1955) with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov
- King Creole (1958) with Elvis Presley and Walter Matthau
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) with Eddie Hodges, Tony Randall and Patty McCormick
- The Comancheros (1961) with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman
- ^ Obituary Variety, April 18, 1962.
- ^ In Hungarian eastern name order Kaminer Manó
- ^ In Hungarian eastern name order Kertész Mihály
- ^ Rosenzweig, p. 5.
- ^ Harmetz p. 122.
- ^ Rosenzweig, p. 6 states July 4; Harmetz p. 63 states June.
- ^ Harmetz, p. 76.
- ^ Harmetz, p. 121.
- ^ Harmetz, p. 123.
- ^ Harmetz, p. 221.
- ^ Harmetz, pp. 191, 332.
- ^ Harmetz, p. 332.
- ^ Harmetz p. 188.
- ^ Harmetz p. 126.
- ^ Rosenzweig p. 7.
- ^ Harmetz p. 124.
- ^ Quirk p. 67
- ^ Harmetz p. 190.
- ^ Harmetz, pp 183-84.
- ^ Rosenzweig, pp. 6-7.
- ^ Rosenzweig, p. 158.
- ^ Rosenzweig, pp. 158-159.
- ^ "New York Times: Sons of Liberty". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- Harmetz, Aljean. Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca". Orion Publishing Co, 1993. ISBN 0297812947
- Quirk, Lawrence J. Fasten Your Seat Belts: The Passionate Life of Bette Davis. New York, NY: Penguin, 1990. ISBN 0-451-16950-6
- Rosenzweig, Sidney. Casablanca and Other Major Films of Michael Curtiz. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1982. ISBN 0835713040
External links
- Michael Curtiz at the Internet Movie Database
- Template:Tcmdb name
- Literature on Michael Curtiz
- Kertész Kaminer Manó (aka Kertész Mihály) profile
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|Panorama of San Francisco in ruins, taken via kite photography approx. 2,000 ft (600 m) above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden Gate. May 28, 1906 by George R. Lawrence
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California, and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.9; however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. The main shock epicenter occurred offshore about 2 miles (3 km) from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault both northward and southward for a total of 296 miles (477 km). Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and resulting fire are remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States alongside the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire, estimated to be above 3,000, is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The economic impact has been compared with the more recent Hurricane Katrina.
|Post and Grant Avenue look
|Arnold Genthe's famous photograph, looking toward the fire on Sacramento Street
|Bird's-eye view, surrounding Ferry Building, looking west on Market Street. Photographed from tower
|Burning of San Francisco, Mission District
|Stockton Street from Union Square, looking toward Market Street


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diy project: flower frog wall art
You can find flower frogs by the dozens at flea markets, antique stores and on eBay. They come in all shapes and sizes, and the prices start at a couple dollars. My mother has collected frogs for at least 10 years, and I have always loved them for their form and simplicity. Flower frogs have been used in floral arranging for centuries, but here I have used them as wall art. My mother has been wanting to show off her collection; this way she can display them, and when she wants to use one for flowers, she can easily access it by simply taking it off of its nail. Enjoy! — Haylie
CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump!
- flower frogs
- craft paper or recycled paper sack (size depends on the space you are filling)
- measuring tool
- chalk or pencil
- tape
- scissors
- spray paint (optional)
- heavy floral wire
- wire cutters
- hammer
- nails
1. Measure your space, length and width.
2. Cut your paper to size and tape it to the wall to be sure it fits; you can make any size adjustments from here.
3. Layout your collection, arrange it and then be sure to view it from above — the perspective is going to be much different once it's on the wall, so keep that in mind. Once you have something laid out, trace each piece in chalk and mark the best hanging spot. Frogs are great because they usually have a hanging feature built in (the holes) and if they don't, we can fix that (see Step 5).
4. If you have a frog that is a bit lackluster and needs to "pop," don't be afraid to give it a fresh layer of paint. For my mother's collection, I wanted some metallics.
5. This frog is unusual for its shape, but the pin/spoke style is common. The back of this leaf is just as interesting as the spoke side, so I decided to hang it by a piece of floral wire that can easily be removed when needed. The arrow shows the hanging point.
6. Hang your template on the wall and before you nail into it, be sure you are happy with your layout. If there are any pieces you want to move around, save those for last. For the frogs that you are happy with, go ahead and hammer a nail through the spots you have marked, then hang those frogs. Now you can make any placement changes for your questionable frogs, and then finish putting up the nails. Before you remove the paper, hang all of your frogs to be sure you like the arrangement. Then take them all down and remove your template carefully; you don't want to ruin it so that you can reference it to rehang the frogs!
7. Stand back and admire your mini wall sculptures!


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As mentioned previously, we're in the process of refreshing the QuickBase UI code and the look and feel of our product to make your experience more modern, consistent, and easy to use. Old, out-of-date browsers like Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) don't support the new capabilities that we need in order to deliver these improvements. So rather than compromise the new experience by accommodating archaic browsers like IE7, which is used by less than 5% of our customers, we've made the decision to only support modern browsers.
In our next major release,
targeted for August 19th , we will discontinue support for IE7. This means that some current features, and most new features, may not work properly in that browser after that date. Please see 8/21/2012 update below for new information.
We don't want this discontinuation to be a surprise for folks. So starting with our release on June 10th we'll show a dismissible message to all IE7 users when they access the My QuickBase page or an app dashboard announcing the discontinuation plan and encouraging them to upgrade their browser.
We're encouraging all users, and especially app developers, to consider upgrading to Chrome or Firefox where possible, because in our tests these programs currently have the best performance when handling pages with large amounts of data – something that QuickBase often calls upon a browser to do.
We're aware it might be a burden for some organizations to upgrade all their users by the August date. We will be assessing what the impacts may be for those who are still on IE7 in August and reaching out individually. But please be assured that this was not a decision we made lightly; it is necessary to move forward with QuickBase.
Update 8/21/2012:
As an interim solution while customers seek migration from IE7 to a more modern browser, we will add support of IE7 with Google Chrome Frame Plug-in. This widely-used Plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer is being used by large sites such as Salesforce.com, Gmail, Yahoo, Cnet, Groupon, WordPress and others. This plug-in allows IE7 to render the latest browser features. Intuit's support of the IE7 Plug-in with QuickBase will enable IE7 users to temporarily continue to use their QuickBase apps until they finish their migration to newer supported browsers.
Note that the Plug-in won't affect other sites that rely on IE7. Also, users won't need admin privileges to activate the plug-in.
Beginning on August 29, 2012, users accessing QuickBase via IE7 will see a banner message on the top of their pages urging them to upgrade, switch browsers, or activate the Google Chrome Frame Plug-in.
Starting on September 13, 2012, users won't be able to access QuickBase via IE7 until they activate the plug-in or upgrade their browser. We recommend that IE7 users who know they will not able to upgrade install the plug-in in advance of the Sept 13 deadline, here: http://www.google.com/chromeframe/


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Newsweek reports:
'One new trend has been to combine a luxury cruise with a pilgrimage. In March, Travel Dynamics International hosted a 12-day cruise to Spain and Morocco, titled "Coexistence of Cultures and Faiths." Passengers attended lectures on the interaction of the three monotheistic faiths, led by a rabbi, a minister and an imam. "People came with their own religious identities," says Feisal Abdul Rauf, one of the guest speakers. "But everyone was genuinely interested in how the relationship among faiths is a give-and-take." They also explored Moroccan sites that revealed how the three religions collaborated to create a sophisticated 16th-century society. That's the kind of pilgrimage the world could use more of these days.'


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Apr 21, 2017
If you missed your weekly dose of Regular Joe's last week you were not alone. While Tod wallowed at home in a pool of his own self-pity Barry and Dave whooped it up at Star Wars celebration in sunny Orlando Florida. Hear about the sites, the panels, the merchandise, and costumes you, and Tod missed at historic Star Wars 40th anniversary event. Also, the usual Random Topics and the near weekly fretting over Star Trek Discovery. For the full interactive experience check out the companion gallery in the OTHER STUFF tab on Regularjoes.com. Thanks for listening!


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The conference was essentially just a program of panels, with time in-between for mingling and book-buying, but it went so quickly and was so fun and informative.
|Panel Schedule
|Violence in Crime Fiction
|Making a Mystery
|Playing with the Past
All the panels were great, but my favorite had to be "Genre Conventions and Why We Break Them," moderated by Danny Gardner and featuring Lori Rader-Day (co-chair/creator of MMC), Shaun Harris, Marcus Sakey, Sean Chercover, and Alverne Ball.
Not only was it hilarious, but it was especially important to me as a writer whose work doesn't fit into neat little genre slots. I also love that it featured writers who work cross-media, since that's something that I'm interested in (I'm strictly a writer, but have plans for a graphic novel as well as a film project).
|Genre Conventions and Why We Break Them
Another major perk of this panel? I got to sit next to the legendary Sara Paretsky, and it took everything in me to not completely fangirl out on her. I might not have been all that successful...
|I'm gonna have a collage of ridiculous photos of me and Sara Paretsky someday
Sadly, I had to leave early to attend one of my closest friends' baby shower, so I missed the panel moderated by Nancy Johnson, where she interviewed librarians and booksellers. I also had to miss the keynote conversation between Sara Paretsky and William Kent Krueger, though I did make sure to get both my books signed by them. I was really sad to miss that last conversation, because I heard it was great and they are both such kind and talented people.
Alas, my overbooked weekend had to continue, and I headed out into the cold and up to Albany Park to attend the only baby shower that I've ever had fun at. The decorations were adorable, the food was great (they had a taco guy!), and the company was even better. I'm so excited for my friend, and I can't wait to spoil my honorary nephew/godson (especially since he might be the only baby in our close circle of friends. We are not a particularly maternal bunch).
|The adorable mom-to-be (and equally adorable cookie)
|First helping, straight from the Taco Guy
|Dessert table (minus donuts and watermelon)
|The Winners Circle (AKA my best friends)
To round out the night, my husband and I headed to our friend Sean's birthday party, where we sipped overpriced cocktails and fancy beer, and had the nerdiest of nerd conversations (ranging from Power Rangers to Voltron to Dragonball Z and other such properties). It was a good way to end the night.
|Organic means it's healthy, right?
After such an action-packed day, Sunday was obviously a chill day where I did nothing but marathon the Great British Baking Show and eat ice cream, right? I wish (though I do that often enough). Sunday was the March MWA Midwest meeting, featuring guest speaker Clare O'Donohue talking about the 10 Things Writers Shouldn't Do. Expect that post sometime soon.
After the meeting, I participated in the first MWA Midwest critique group, which consisted of me and 6 other unpublished writers going over the first 20 pages of 3 different manuscripts (including mine). I got a lot of great feedback, including some praise for my dialogue and setting, but the biggest takeaway? I love writing backstory way more than people enjoy reading it. Probably leftover from my love of character creation for tabletop gaming, but it's a bad habit I'm trying to kick.
So now I'm off to edit my entire first act (which inevitably means changing everything else, as well) for the billionth time. Yay...


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Just a quick Unboxing video for the new Servohaulers
Saturday, 6 May 2017
Galvanic Servohaulers Unboxing
Hi all
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Rules included? 7th edition or shadow war?ReplyDelete
So bummed I didn't manage to get any of these before they went Out of Stock. Hopefully they get more done up soon. I really want a set or two.ReplyDelete
Think I may need to pick up a set or two of these! Looks like a fantastic kit!ReplyDelete
That big one is gonna look aces mounted to the top of my FW manufactorum realm of battle board!ReplyDelete
One nice bit about this kit that was revealed in the new White Dwarf: the carriage wheels on the biggest crane are designed to also fit on the armored containers kit, so they can be towed by the tractors.ReplyDeleteReplies
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SCDTP Studentship - Contextual Factors in Low Back Pain Consultations
A fully funded studentship awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) commencing in 2019/20 Academic Year.
Supervisory Team:
Dr Felicity Bishop (Lead, Psychology)(firstname.lastname@example.com); Dr David Newell (Medicine);
Components other than the active ingredients of treatment can have substantial effects on pain and disability. Such "contextual" components include: the therapeutic relationship, the healthcare environment, incidental treatment characteristics, patients' beliefs, and practitioners' beliefs. This PhD will identify which contextual components are associated with reduced pain and disability over time in patients with low back pain having chiropractic treatment. You will conduct a major prospective questionnaire-based study, using advanced statistical techniques (e.g. multilevel modelling, structural equation modelling) to analyse the data. You will also design and conduct a nested qualitative study to explore in more depth a contextual component of your choice. Findings will develop theory on contextual effects in managing low back pain and associated disability, and will inform training to attempt to augment chiropractic treatment.
Skills Required
A good grasp of basic multivariate statistics (multiple regression, factor analysis), consistent with accredited undergraduate psychology degrees.
South Coast DTP Funding provides an annual maintenance grant (tax free) of £14777 (2018/19 UKRI rate), plus payment of all programme fees. Other funding available for SCDTP funded students can be found on the SCDTP website (www.southcoastdtp.ac.uk).
Funding is provided for 3 years full-time PhD study (pro-rata for part-time students). Applications for 1+3 funding for students completing a Master's year prior to the commencement of PhD study are also welcome (details available at www.southcoastdtp.ac.uk).
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All-American Backyard Entertaining Menu
This meal is the quintessential barbecue dinner or afternoon picnic. So simple, and yet it always makes everyone happy. The menu is broken down to make every item manageable for a large party, but you can serve just your family in no time flat.
Main Course
This timeline shows you how far in advance food preparation for the menu can take place. Following these tips allows maximum time with your guests and minimum fuss.
Up to 1 month before
- Prepare dry ingredients for step 1 of the cobbler. Store in an airtight container and freeze.
Up to 2 weeks before dinner
- Toast and chop nuts for cheese ball, place in a zip-top bag and freeze.
- Prepare dressing for vinaigrette slaw; cover and refrigerate.
Up to 1 week before dinner
- Prepare chicken marinade; cover and refrigerate.
- Prepare dressing (step 2) for potato salad; cover and refrigerate.
Up to 2 days before dinner
- Hard-cook eggs for potato salad and refrigerate.
- Slice celery. Chop onions and pickles for potato salad and place each in a zip-top bag.
Up to 1 day before dinner
- Marinate chicken in refrigerator, drain after four hours. Make sauce from reserved marinade; cover and refrigerate. Keep chicken refrigerated.
- Thaw nuts for cheese ball.
- Prepare cheese ball through step 1; cover and refrigerate.
- Prepare potato salad; cover and refrigerate.
- Prepare vinaigrette slaw; cover and refrigerate.
- Shuck corn; cover and refrigerate.
Up to 6 hours before dinner:
- Prepare cobbler, bake and cool to serve.
1 hour before dinner
- Grill chicken.
20 minutes before dinner
- Reheat remaining barbecue sauce.
- Roll cheese ball in nuts and arrange with crackers.
- Cook corn on the cob.


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The first woman on the Moon
by Anthony Young
|Practically anyone can name the Mercury Seven, but the first seven American women in space is a question for a game show.
If NASA was currently flying missions to the Moon, no doubt the agency would select Collins to be the first woman on walk on the lunar surface. It doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon. 2015 is the earliest hoped-for return to the Moon by the United States within the new Vision for Space Exploration. Collins is 48, so run the math. She has been with the agency for 15 years, but that can't hold a candle to John Young, who recently retired from NASA after 42 years with the agency. Would Collins like to place her boot on luna firma? No doubt she would. Does she want to wait ten-plus years to do so? Maybe someone should ask her. Two things are for certain: she won't be alone, and there will be a first woman on the Moon. She is alive right now. She may have just joined the astronaut corps, or she may still be in college with plans to join the Air Force and perhaps dreaming of becoming an astronaut. Whoever it is, she will probably follow much the same path that Eileen Collins did.
Women have tried to get into space ever since Project Mercury. That subject has been ably covered by Martha Ackmann in her book, The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight published in 2003. The subject of women in space was expanded in Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space written by Yale historian Bettyann Kevles, also published in 2003. Of course, no American woman flew during Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo; only the Soviets flew a single female cosmonaut and then for political advantage—read propaganda. It was the Cold War. NASA wouldn't accept women applicants to the astronaut corps until 1978. The first American woman to fly into space aboard the space shuttle was Sally Ride in 1983, and the glass stratosphere was finally shattered. However, the names of the many women who followed aboard the space shuttle can only be learned through a search on the web. Practically anyone can name the Mercury Seven, but the first seven American women in space is a question for a game show. Sadly, these female pioneers of space are an enigma and virtually unknown today. Nevertheless, they paved the way, and that way now points to the Moon and eventually Mars.
The shuttle never achieved its lofty launch schedule promised early in the program. If it had, even more women could boast of having flown in space. Being an astronaut today is a waiting game. Many astronauts, both men and women, trained yet never flew. The unspoken belief among many in the space community is that we are witnessing the last of the shuttle flights right now, because if there is one more catastrophic failure of the orbiter, there will be no more flights. Michael Griffin is right to accelerate the timeline for the Crew Exploration Vehicle. With the infrastructure already in place at KSC, it comes as no surprise a shuttle-derived launch vehicle is the frontrunner for the CEV. That just may close the gap between the retiring shuttle fleet and the new CEV and its launch vehicle. Certainly, ten years is an achievable goal in landing American men and women on the Moon. What will the first woman on the Moon say as she steps down off the ladder to the lunar surface? We will just have to wait to find out.


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I must be terribly naïve, or a little dim-witted (un peu nunuche) perhaps. I still don't understand why people google (and several times a day too) the words "kiwi porn", which in turns brings them to my uncanny fruit post. I mean, it's pretty damn flattering that I seem to be the world reference on kiwi porn, but who on earth are these people? If you are reading this after googling "kiwi porn", please leave a comment and let us know what you were looking for exactly, then seek urgent help from Fructophiles Anonymous.Thank you.
In the meantime, another stunning recipe adapted from Pork and Sons by Stéphane Reynaud.
And don't tell me you're not salivating because I'm taking none of that crap (balivernes!).
Start a day ahead by soaking 2 3/4 c dried beans (pinto, brown, cranberry...) in a lot of water. When ready to cook, put the beans in a large pan with their soaking water (enough to cover the beans), a bouquet garni, bring to a boil and simmer for about an hour to an hour and a half. Keep an eye on it, you may need to add water as you go along.
In a large frying pan (the larger the better, so it doesn't steam up the meat), melt 2 1/2 tbsp duck fat (or lard), and add 2 1/4lb boneless pork loin cut in large cubes, 2 onions, sliced, and 3 crushed garlic cloves. Cook, stirring constantly until the pork is evenly browned. Stir in 1tbsp of flour, cook 2 minutes, then add 2 1/4c white wine and stir again.
At that stage, I transferred eveybody to my cast iron pot. Add 30 sage leaves (adjust according to your love of sage), a big can of San Marzano tomatoes (which you can crush to a rough pulp with your hands before adding), and a tbsp or two of tomato paste. Simmer 30 minutes.
Drain the beans, reserving a little bit of the cooking liquid. Taste them. If they are not cooked, add them to the pork, and simmer for an extra 30 minutes. Mine were cooked, though, so I drained and reserved them, and I let the pork simmer for an extra 30 minutes on its own, and added the beans right at the end, until warmed through.
Don't forget to season with salt and pepper (adding salt to beans while they cook hardens them apparently). This dish can be made a day in advance, left on the stovetop/in the fridge overnight and reheated the next day.
Serve with a nice fresh loaf of rye bread to soak up the sauce.
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2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a pretty big hit. It grossed $493 million worldwide off a $125 million budget, and while I wasn't a fan of the movie, I completely understand why the studio greenlit and fast-tracked a sequel. That sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, drastically underperformed at the box office, going on to gross only $245 million, less than half of what the first film made.
Speaking to producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller about their new movie, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Steve Weintraub asked to get their thoughts on TMNT 2, which they also produced. Form was circumspect on the matter, and walked us through their realization that the sequel was going to be a flop:
ANDREW FORM: We were obviously surprised at the box office results. We loved the movie. We loved making the movie. From our first Super Bowl teaser to everything we launched, we felt so good about our material, and for some reason it did not find the audience that the first movie found. And we talk about it all the time, and we tried to figure it out, but we cannot put our finger on what happened. We really can't. It's just one of those things where we feel like we made a really great movie; we thought at the time that our release date was great, and we added all these new characters with Bebop and Rocksteady and Baxter Stockwell had a big role in the movie and Casey Jones and for some reason when it came to opening weekend…Even before the movie came out, we were feeling great. And you wake up two days before the movie opens and you go, "Wow, I don't know if this movie is tracking as well as it should." Then you hope, and then Thursday night happens and your midnights come in and you're like, "That's not what Movie 1 did," and then sure enough your weekend comes and it's nowhere near what anyone thought, and it's nowhere near Movie 1, and, before you know it, it's over. We're still so proud of the movie; it just didn't find an audience. We really don't know why.


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About Analog Collage Art
Analog Collage from french, coller that means to glue is a technique of an art production, primaly used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.The origins of analog collage can be traced back hundreds of yeasrs, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty.
The collage term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art.


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30 comments:
- Kendra said...
Piali, you never cease to amaze me... I love this little set! Those containers are too cute... that paper is just right too, works so well! I love them :)
- January 8, 2010 at 12:20 AM
- fairie said...
This digi makes me want to have a lolli now. So cute.
- January 8, 2010 at 12:49 AM
- Fink said...
You are totally talented! I just love how you take your image to a level noone else does! You show how to use them so many ways that everyone gets great ideas! What cute work you did!
- January 8, 2010 at 12:57 AM
- Lilacanglia said...
fantastic creations,
Angie E
- January 8, 2010 at 2:42 AM
- Anne said...
Very cute candy holders, lovely image too
- January 8, 2010 at 5:53 AM
- CraftyMomOf3 said...
unbelievable piali!!!! seriously girl...you totally rocked this!! so super cute i can't even stand it!! way to go!! =) such inspiration!
meredith =)
- January 8, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- Diane (djuseless) said...
How super cute are these! I love how you made the wings sparkle too!
- January 8, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- dmgifts said...
Very cute holders i will need to make some for the grandkids. Awsome work
- January 8, 2010 at 8:52 AM
love your sucker holder great ideas
- January 8, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- Rachel said...
OMGoodness Piali i just love these! Such great little goodies!!
- January 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM
- Sara said...
Awww, this is so cute!! Love the card and the treat holder!!! Amazing job on the coloring as well!
- January 8, 2010 at 10:53 AM
- Heather Schlatter said...
This is great and I love the coloring you did it is truly out of this world good!!! You always rock the 3-D projects and youhave done it once again too!!!
Love this you did awesome this month again!!!!
- January 8, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- Kim said...
Wow, how cute is this? It would make the perfect valentine for my grandson to give to his classmates!
- January 8, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Deanne Clarke said...
Wow! Love your creations!!!
- January 8, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Yvette said...
Noooo stinkin way!!! These are SOOOO CUUUTE!!! You are a genius!! I have got to try these out myself! You amaze me!
- January 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Cheryl said...
So cute! Great idea.
- January 8, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Angie Cortes said...
Wow Piali! What a great idea for the Lolly image! LOVE it!
- January 8, 2010 at 8:37 PM
- Mary said...
This is so cute! Thank you for the link to the tutorial. I can't wait to go try it out! Thanks for the chance to wint this cute image!
- January 8, 2010 at 9:27 PM
- scrapBugz said...
Super adorable! Love the cute idea. Thanks for the chance to win.
- January 9, 2010 at 12:28 AM
- Tami said...
Real Real cute:) Also love that valentine box:)
- January 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM
- Lee - grandmalee said...
Lollie is so cute! Love all of your great ideas! Awesome blog!
- January 9, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- Lola said...
What a wonderful set...I'll have to check out your tutorial. I would have had no idea that was christmas paper!
- January 10, 2010 at 12:26 AM
- Angie said...
Wow, this set is sooo pretty! Love that little "lolly" guy too!
- January 10, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- Loz said...
Fabulous... love your little treats and your delicious ribbon!!
- January 12, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Loz said...
Fabulous... love your little treats and your delicious ribbon!!
- January 12, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Kelly said...
This is soooo stinkin' cute Piali!!
Great gift set...I love the papers you chose and your coloring really rocks!!...you go girl.
- January 13, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- Stacie (craft-princess) said...
Great job with this image!
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Well, I almost forgot to write this post.
Sorry Abbs.
And whoever my readers are (hi mom).
Anyhoo, Abigail came to visit me here in Norway last weekend! It was really fun having her around, but it was also the weekend before finals so I had a lot of studying to do.
I picked her up at the bus stop around two in the morning. That was a long night. I did not get a SIM card when I came to Norway, so when she got off the bus, texted me and received no reply, she got a little freaked out that she'd have to sleep in a gas station that night. Lo and behold, I was in the gas station with a few friends waiting for her bus to get in. So here comes Abby wandering into Deli de Luca, and I'm just so taken aback because I thought there were five more minutes until her bus got here.
The next day we walked around town and down by the sea. It was the first time I dipped my toes in the water actually. I showed her all my favorite things and we met up with some of my friends that night. I wish I could share Moss with everyone, but it was good that I could at least share it with one friend from home! The weather was extremely nice while Abby was here, so on Saturday we decided to go down by the lake (a reservoir) and try to give our skin some color. There was even a canoe that had been there since January, so we decided to borrow it and canoe around (thanks to whoever actually owns it).
Sunday was a studying day, but Abby headed to Sweden with a few of my friends. They needed to get alcohol, Snuis (like chewing tobacco but "better for you"), and candy. It's the usual when it comes to shopping in Sweden. Monday Abbs and I took the train into Oslo for the day. I loved showing off the Norwegian countryside as we zipped by the fjord. We took the ferry out to the Folk Museum and went to the Nobel Peace Prize Center as well. I hadn't been to either place yet so it was really fun being able to explore them. The Nobel Peace Prize Center was my favorite.
It was cool being able to show Abby around my home away from home. Next time we will see each other it's going to be in the States, and that's still a little too crazy for me to comprehend.
Thanks for reading,
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Hot Water Decaf Tea Bath Myth?
I must openly and somewhat ashamedly admit that I have been perpetuating a myth, albeit one that I truly believed! The wide-spread belief that a 30-second hot water bath will remove most of the caffeine in tea has been so widely proclaimed that it may never die, even though it has been proven to be untrue.
Some of the tea industries' most highly respected tea connoisseurs, including tea expert and author James Norwood Pratt, have publicly stated that their long-held beliefs in the hot water decaf bath were ill-informed. In a T Ching blog post, Pratt stated, "I'm grateful for the chance to repudiate past errors, of which the misinformation on decaffeinating tea ranks amongst my most egregious. When I wrote this ten years ago this hear-say was the conventional wisdom."
Even though Bruce Richardson, whom MSN called "a leading tea expert involved in tea's American renaissance for over 20 years," financed extensive and extremely expensive lab studies to chemically dispel this misconception that caffeine can simply be washed away, many still battle back defiantly with their "thoughts" on the 30 second decaf process.
There will likely always will be two schools of thought on the subject, but from what I have recently learned about the science of tea, I have to join the "Myth Busted" class on this one. According to a most authoritative article Caffeine and Tea: Myth and Reality, written by Nigel Melican – Founder and Director of Teacraft, LTD., even the delicate and presumably low caffeine white tea leaves may contain more caffeine than most green teas! In Melican's conclusion, he humorously reflects, "Science apart does anyone really believe that Lipton would use extremely expensive decaffeination systems…if a cheap effective 30 second water dip suffices? They have tested water decaffeination – and it failed."
One of many things I was reminded of after reading an abundance of information available on this subject is that tea is and always has been a refreshing and invigorating drink. Originally consumed with little concern over caffeine levels, tea was simply drank because of its uplifting flavors and the added bonus of putting the mind in a calmer more meditative state. I've personally witnessed it over and over in my tea shop, those who come through my doors in a flurry of shopping and errands and worries, but after sipping a cup of tea decide that the world can wait for just a moment.
Søren M. Chr. Bisgaard from Kyoto, Japan recently stated "I believe in the old Chinese (and later Japanese) saying that "Tea is the Elixir of Life." This gentleman's mother and father are both approaching 100 years old, and he says that, largely due to the drinking of tea, he fully expects to celebrate his own 120th birthday one day. I hope to be around to honor him on that occasion. I won't be worried about the level of caffeine in my cup, but more about the level of enjoyment my life has held.
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SUSE Manager/Migration 23
Migration from SUSE Manager 2.1 to SUSE Manager 3
The migration from SUSE Manager 2.1 to SUSE Manager 3 works quite the same as a migration from Red Hat Satellite to SUSE Manager. There is NO in-place migration! The migration happens from the original machine to a new one. While this has the drawback that you temporarily need two machines, it also has the advantage that the original machine will remain fully functional in case something goes wrong.
The whole process may be tricky, so it is strongly advised that the migration is done by an experienced consultant. Given the complexity of the product, the migration is an "all-or-nothing", this means if something goes wrong you will need to start all over. Error handling is very limited. Nevertheless it should work more or less out of the box if all the steps are carefully executed as documented.
Please note that the migration involves dumping the whole database on the source machine and restoring it on the target machine. This is a very time-consuming process! Also all of the channels and packages need to be copied to the new machine, so expect the whole migration to take several hours!
The source machine needs to run SUSE Manager 2.1 with all the latest updates applied! Before trying to migrate, please make sure that the machine is up to date and all updates are installed!
Only machines running with the embedded postgresql database may be migrated. For the migration of an Oracle based installation, a two-step migration is required: First the installation needs to get migrated from Oracle to postgresql (by means of a separate tool) and afterwards the migration to SUSE Manager 3 can be performed as documented here.
For the special case of migrating a SUSE Manager server with external Oracle database to SUSE Manager 3 with external Oracle database, please also read this section.
As SUSE Manager 3 does no longer support NCC but only SCC, you can migrate a machine only after it has been switched to SCC. The migration script will check if the installation has already been switched to SCC and will terminate if this is not the case. Switch to SCC on the source machine and repeat the migration.
During migration the database from the source machine needs to get dumped and this dump needs to be temporarily stored on the target system. The dump gets compressed with
gzip using the default compression options (maximum compression only yields about 10% of space savings but costs a lot of runtime); so check the disk usage of the database with
du -sch /var/lib/pgsql/data and ensure that you have at least 30% of this value available in
These values from a test migration might help illustrate the space requirements:
f204:/var/lib/pgsql # du -sch data 1,8G data 1,8G total f204:/var/spacewalk/packages # l -h /tmp/susemanager.dmp.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 506M Jan 12 14:58 /tmp/susemanager.dmp.gz
This is a small test installation; for bigger installations the ratio might be better (space required for the database dump might be less than 30%).
The dump will be written to the directory
/var/spacewalk/tmp, the directory will be created if it does not exist yet. If you want the dump to be stored somewhere else, change the definition of the variable
$TMPDIR on the beginning of the script to suit your needs.
Setting up the target machine
After the target system has been installed with SLE12SP2 and the add-on product "SUSE Manager Server 3", just run
yast2 susemanager_setup as you would do for a normal installation of SUSE Manager.
On the first screen, make sure to check
Migrate a SUSE Manager compatible server instead of
Set up SUSE Manager from scratch.
On the second screen, enter the name of the source system as
Hostname of source SUSE Manager Server as well as the domain name. Also enter the database credentials of the source system.
On the next screen, you will need to specify the IP address of the target system. Normally this value should be pre-set to the correct value and you only should need to press ENTER. Only in the case of multiple IP addresses you might need to specify the one that should be used during migration. Please note that during the migration process, the target system will fake its host name to the one of the source system, because the host name of a SUSE Manager installation is very vital and should be used from the very beginning. So do not get confused when logging in to the systems during migration; they both will present you with the same hostname!
The next screens are the same as for a regular installation: Just specify the database parameters (using the same ones as on the source system is recommended) and your SCC credentials.
After all the data has been gathered,
YaST2 will terminate. The actual migration will NOT start automatically but needs to be triggered manually!
Performing the migration
The actual migration is performed by giving the command
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/mgr-setup -m. This will read the data gathered in the previous step, set up SUSE Manager on the new machine and transfer all of the data from the source machine. As it needs to perform several operations on the source machine via ssh, you will be prompted once for the root password of the source machine. A temporary ssh key named "migration-key" is created and installed on the source machine, so you need to give the root password only once. Of course the temporary ssh key will be deleted after successful migration.
Ideally, this is all you will need to do. Depending on the size of the installation, the actual migration will take up to several hours. Once finished, you will be prompted to shutdown the source machine, re-configure the network of the target machine to use the same IP address and host name as the original machine and restart it. It should now be a fully functional replacement for your previous 2.1 installation.
The following numbers illustrate the runtime for dumping and importing the database:
14:53:37 Dumping remote database to /var/spacewalk/tmp/susemanager.dmp.gz on target system. Please wait... 14:58:14 Database successfully dumped. Size is: 506M 14:58:29 Importing database dump. Please wait... 15:05:11 Database dump successfully imported.
So dumping the database took about five minutes and importing the dump on the target system took about seven minutes. For big installations this can take up to several hours. Additionally account for the time it takes to copy all the package data to the new machine. Depending on your network infrastructure and hardware, this can also take significant time.
Speeding up the migration
Since a lot of data needs to be copied the whole migration can consume a lot of time. The actual migration can be sped up by doing one of the most time consuming task prior to the actual migration: The copying of all the channels, packages, autoinstall images and so on. So the following approach is recommended: Once you gathered all the data via YaST2, run the following command:
mgr-setup -r
This will copy the lion's share of the data from the old server to the new one. This command can be run at any time; the current server remains fully functional during this task. Once the actual migration is started, only the data changed since running above command needs to be transferred which significantly will reduce the downtime.
On huge installations, the transfer of the database (which involves dumping of the database on the source machine and importing the dump on the target system) still can take quite some time. This is unavoidable as we only can dump the whole database. Of course during this time no write operations may happen, therefore the migration script needs to shutdown the SUSE Manager services on the source machine.
Packages on external storage
Some installations might store the package data on external storage (eg. NFS mount on
/var/spacewalk/packages). In such a case it is of course pointless to have all this data copied to the new machine. Just edit the script
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/mgr-setup and remove the respective
rsync command (around line 345). Make sure to have the storage mounted on the new machine before the first start of the system!
Analogue handling for
/srv/www/htdocs/pub if appropriate.
Broken UI after migration
Chances are you will notice a broken user interface after migration. This is not a bug, but a browser caching issue. The new machine has the same hostname and the same IP address as the old machine which can confuse some web browsers. If you are experiencing this issue, just do a forced reload of the page (in Firefox this is accomplished by pressing the key combination
ctrl-F5) and everything will be fine.
Example session
This is the output of a typical migration:
e50:~ # /usr/lib/susemanager/bin/mgr-setup -m Filesystem type for /var/spacewalk is ext4 - ok. Open needed firewall ports... Migration needs to execute several commands on the remote machine. Please enter the root password of the remote machine. Password: Remote machine is SUSE Manager Remote system is already migrated to SCC. Good. Shutting down remote spacewalk services... Shutting down spacewalk services... Stopping Taskomatic... Stopped Taskomatic. Stopping cobbler daemon: ..done Stopping rhn-search... Stopped rhn-search. Stopping MonitoringScout ... [ OK ] Stopping Monitoring ... [ OK ] Shutting down osa-dispatcher: ..done Shutting down httpd2 (waiting for all children to terminate) ..done Shutting down Tomcat (/usr/share/tomcat6) ..done Terminating jabberd processes... Stopping router ..done Stopping sm ..done Stopping c2s ..done Stopping s2s ..done Done. CREATE ROLE * Loading answer file: /root/spacewalk-answers. ** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend. ** Database: Populating database. ** Database: Skipping database population. * Configuring tomcat. * Setting up users and groups. ** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key. * Performing initial configuration. * Configuring apache SSL virtual host. ** /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf has been backed up to vhost-ssl.conf-swsave * Configuring jabberd. * Creating SSL certificates. ** Skipping SSL certificate generation. * Deploying configuration files. * Setting up Cobbler.. * Setting up Salt Master. 11:26:47 Dumping remote database. Please wait... 11:26:50 Database successfully dumped. Copy remote database dump to local machine... Delete remote database dump... 11:26:50 Importing database dump. Please wait... 11:28:55 Database dump successfully imported. Schema upgrade: [susemanager-schema-18.104.22.168-3.2.devel21] -> [susemanager-schema-3.0.5-5.1.develHead] Searching for upgrade path to: [susemanager-schema-3.0.5-5.1] Searching for upgrade path to: [susemanager-schema-3.0.5] Searching for upgrade path to: [susemanager-schema-3.0] Searching for start path: [susemanager-schema-184.108.40.206-3.2] Searching for start path: [susemanager-schema-188.8.131.52] The path: [susemanager-schema-184.108.40.206] -> [susemanager-schema-18.104.22.168] -> [susemanager-schema-2.1.51] -> [susemanager-schema-3.0] Planning to run schema upgrade with dir '/var/log/spacewalk/schema-upgrade/schema-from-20160112-112856' Executing spacewalk-sql, the log is in [/var/log/spacewalk/schema-upgrade/schema-from-20160112-112856-to-susemanager-schema-3.0.log]. (248/248) apply upgrade [schema-from-20160112-112856/99_9999-upgrade-end.sql] e-suse-channels-to-public-channel-family.sql.postgresql] The database schema was upgraded to version [susemanager-schema-3.0.5-5.1.develHead]. Copy files from old SUSE Manager... receiving incremental file list ./ packages/ sent 18 bytes received 66 bytes 168.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 receiving incremental file list ./ RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT res.key rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm suse-307E3D54.key suse-39DB7C82.key suse-9C800ACA.key bootstrap/ bootstrap/bootstrap.sh bootstrap/client-config-overrides.txt bootstrap/sm-client-tools.rpm sent 189 bytes received 66,701 bytes 44,593.33 bytes/sec total size is 72,427 speedup is 1.08 receiving incremental file list ./ .mtime lock web.ss config/ config/distros.d/ config/images.d/ config/profiles.d/ config/repos.d/ config/systems.d/ kickstarts/ kickstarts/autoyast_sample.xml loaders/ snippets/ triggers/ triggers/add/ triggers/add/distro/ triggers/add/distro/post/ triggers/add/distro/pre/ triggers/add/profile/ triggers/add/profile/post/ triggers/add/profile/pre/ triggers/add/repo/ triggers/add/repo/post/ triggers/add/repo/pre/ triggers/add/system/ triggers/add/system/post/ triggers/add/system/pre/ triggers/change/ triggers/delete/ triggers/delete/distro/ triggers/delete/distro/post/ triggers/delete/distro/pre/ triggers/delete/profile/ triggers/delete/profile/post/ triggers/delete/profile/pre/ triggers/delete/repo/ triggers/delete/repo/post/ triggers/delete/repo/pre/ triggers/delete/system/ triggers/delete/system/post/ triggers/delete/system/pre/ triggers/install/ triggers/install/post/ triggers/install/pre/ triggers/sync/ triggers/sync/post/ triggers/sync/pre/ sent 262 bytes received 3,446 bytes 7,416.00 bytes/sec total size is 70,742 speedup is 19.08 receiving incremental file list kickstarts/ kickstarts/snippets/ kickstarts/snippets/default_motd kickstarts/snippets/keep_system_id kickstarts/snippets/post_delete_system kickstarts/snippets/post_reactivation_key kickstarts/snippets/redhat_register kickstarts/snippets/sles_no_signature_checks kickstarts/snippets/sles_register kickstarts/snippets/sles_register_script kickstarts/snippets/wait_for_networkmanager_script kickstarts/upload/ kickstarts/wizard/ sent 324 bytes received 1,063 bytes 2,774.00 bytes/sec total size is 12,133 speedup is 8.75 receiving incremental file list ssl-build/ ssl-build/RHN-ORG-PRIVATE-SSL-KEY ssl-build/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT ssl-build/index.txt ssl-build/index.txt.attr ssl-build/latest.txt ssl-build/rhn-ca-openssl.cnf ssl-build/rhn-ca-openssl.cnf.1 ssl-build/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm ssl-build/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.src.rpm ssl-build/serial ssl-build/d248/ ssl-build/d248/latest.txt ssl-build/d248/rhn-org-httpd-ssl-archive-d248-1.0-1.tar ssl-build/d248/rhn-org-httpd-ssl-key-pair-d248-1.0-1.noarch.rpm ssl-build/d248/rhn-org-httpd-ssl-key-pair-d248-1.0-1.src.rpm ssl-build/d248/rhn-server-openssl.cnf ssl-build/d248/server.crt ssl-build/d248/server.csr ssl-build/d248/server.key ssl-build/d248/server.pem sent 380 bytes received 50,377 bytes 101,514.00 bytes/sec total size is 90,001 speedup is 1.77 SUSE Manager Database Control. Version 1.5.2 Copyright (c) 2012 by SUSE Linux Products GmbH INFO: Database configuration has been changed. INFO: Wrote new general configuration. Backup as /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.2016-01-12-11-29-42.conf INFO: Wrote new client auth configuration. Backup as /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.2016-01-12-11-29-42.conf INFO: New configuration has been applied. Database is online System check finished e50:~ # ============================================================================ Migration complete. Please shut down the old SUSE Manager server now. Reboot the new server and make sure it uses the same IP address and hostname as the old SUSE Manager server! ============================================================================
In case of trouble
- check diskspace
- check the output of the following command:
ssh root@<SUMa_2.1_machine> "su -s /bin/bash - postgres -c exit"
This Command shouldn't produce any output. If it does, it can lead to corrupted transfer of the archive with the database dump. Please re-visit your bash environment on the 2.1 machine (e.g. .bashrc file) and make sure no extra text is printed on the shell start.
- check best practices:
- /var/spacewalk and /var/lib/pgsql on separate (XFS) filesystem
- and don't forget to remove subvolume entry in /etc/fstab for subvolume of /var/lib/pqsql when using a separate file system and reboot server first before continuing.
To try again do the following on the new server:
- remove /root/.MANAGER_SETUP_COMPLETE
- stop postgresql and remove /var/lib/pgsql/data
- set the hostname correctly (it know has the hostname from the old SUSE Manager server)
- correct the /etc/hosts
- on the new server check /etc/setup_env.sh and see if the correct database name is set: MANAGER_DB_NAME='susemanager'
- reboot the server before running mgr-setup again.