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Having 5 Babies: The Challenge of Pregnancy With Quintuplets
The fear and joy of carrying five babies at once.
Oct. 2, 2012 -- When Meryl Ferraro was on bed rest for two months, awaiting the birth of her quintuplets in an Arizona hospital, the Olympics were on television almost constantly during the first three weeks of her stay. As her belly grew (somewhat lopsided, by the way), she said he began to see making her pregnancy last 34 weeks as her own sort of Olympic challenge.
"It's just determination," Ferraro said. "If you decide this is what you want, you've got to give it all you have."
Most quintuplets are born between 24 and 28 weeks into pregnancy, sometimes causing them to be born with underdeveloped lungs, cerebral palsy, and sight and hearing deficiencies. So it was crucial for Ferraro to keep her babies inside as long as possible to give their tiny bodies more time to grow. Full-term pregnancy is typically about 38 weeks.
Early on, doctors told her to reduce the number of fetuses she was carrying, but Ferraro and her husband, John, decided they couldn't bear to choose which babies would live and which would die. After John read a chapter in a book about multiple births written by Dr. John Elliott, they found out he lived 45 minutes from their California home and gave him a call.
Elliott specialized in high-risk pregnancies. He delivered his first quadruplets in 1984, and has delivered 99 sets in all. He'd also delivered 12 sets of quintuplets when Ferraro met him.
And this month, he delivered two more sets of quints: one to Meryl and one to Carmen Matthews, who met Meryl in July and gave birth a few weeks before Meryl did. Both families temporarily moved to Arizona to keep Elliott as their doctor when he relocated to Banner Desert Medical Center in July. (John actually took all the seats out of his van and put a mattress in back when Meryl was 23 weeks pregnant, so he could drive her from their home in Southern California to Mesa, Ariz.)
Both moms were nurses; both sought fertility treatment; and both gave birth to five babies with September birthdays.
Once Matthews gave birth, Meryl was even more uncomfortable -- both ready to hold her babies in her arms and desperate to keep them inside just a few weeks longer. Quoting her husband, Meryl said giving birth to quints at 32 weeks instead of 28 weeks was like the difference between a "fender-bender and a front-end collision." She'd take the fender-bender.
Her water broke at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, when she was 32 weeks and five days pregnant. All five babies were born via Caesarean section between 11:01 and 11:04 a.m. There was a team of 24 people in the operating room and another 50 in recovery.
When she went into labor and knew she wouldn't make it to 34 weeks, Meryl said the first thing she felt was anger. In the Olympic challenge she dreamed up, 33 weeks was only worth a sliver metal, and she wanted to reach the 34-week mark she'd imagined as gold.
"I was so mad because I had this goal, and, to me, I didn't reach it," she said.
But in the days since delivering, she's gotten to know the three girls and two boys she felt nudge her from the inside for so long. She already knows Gabby can sleep through anything, Addy (the smallest) is a fighter, and Riley (the biggest) is kind of lazy, she said. She calls Riley "my chubber."
Meryl Ferraro, 39, and 5-day-old daughter Addy, a quintuplet.
Although Meryl says her stomach feels as sore as if she's done "1,000 crunches," and she's getting used to walking again after two months in bed, she can go home to her temporary apartment in Arizona today. The quints will stay in the NICU until they're ready to leave, too.
Always a step ahead, Carmen Matthews, who gave birth on Sept. 6, is waiting for just one more baby to leave the NICU before she and her family can go home to North Carolina.
"I'm definitely glad that we did what we did," Matthews said. "We couldn't have asked for better outcomes. It was a lot of sacrifice for all of us, but it was totally worth it."
As Matthews spoke into the phone, a few of her new babies cooed in the background.
Elliott said having a plan and keeping a positive attitude plays an important role in his patients' outcomes. For the Ferraros and the Matthews, it was a comfort to have each other.
"I think it helped both of these families to have somebody else going through the same thing, same fears, same questions," Elliot said. "It was special. It just doesn't happen."
Elliott said he's able to get his patients to carry their high risk pregnancies between four and six weeks longer than average because he uses magnesium sulfate to prolong pregnancies longer than most doctors. Once he puts the mother on the drug, she's often uncomfortable -- with chest pain, muscle weakness, blurred vision and headaches -- but those symptoms usually go away after about three days, and the medication can extend the gestation period for months.
"Most people don't know that because they're afraid to go three to four days," he said. "If you don't know how to treat it in an aggressive way, you're going to fail."
Although the babies are doing well, Dr. James Goldfarb, who directs the University Hospital's fertility center in Cleveland, said having more than one baby as a result of fertility treatments is something to be avoided because of the associated health risks. He said fertility specialists' goals should not just be to get their patients pregnant; it should be to help them have healthy families. He said even triplets are 20 times more likely to be born with cerebral palsy than single babies.
Goldfarb said doctors and patients need to be conservative about administering fertility shots. He recommended that they implant only one embryo at a time. He said doctors also need to be mindful that some patients can't reduce their number of embryos for moral or religious reasons.
"Patients come to us desperate t get pregnant, and the last thing they're concerned about is being too pregnant," Goldfarb said.


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You'd never expect elements of a soccer or a boxing game to play a paramount role in a hockey title, but Electronic Arts says "NHL 14" will be better because of it.
Using technology from both their "FIFA Soccer" and "Fight Night" franchises, EA said the gameplay additions will ultimately make "NHL 14" the best hockey game on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.
"'NHL14' had to be the best playing, best looking and most authentic game on this generation of console," "NHL 14" Producer Sean Ramjagsingh said. "In order to achieve this, we sought out to leverage the best technology from within EA Sports and bring that over to 'NHL14' to deliver on Big Hits, Real Fights and Unbelievable Speed and Skill."
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To help revamp the hitting engine, the "NHL 14" development team borrowed the Player Impact Engine from the FIFA games and modified it for hockey. This season, players can throw huge hits with just a flick of the left stick. Ramjagsingh said the hits this year are "extremely satisfying."
While hitting is a big part of the sport, many casual fans are drawn into hockey games for the fisticuffs. With their old first-person fighting system getting mixed reviews, the development team used technology from their critically-acclaimed "Fight Night" boxing series to make scraps in "NHL 14" feel more realistic and fun.
"The 'Fight Night' tech has allowed for unprecedented depth to the fighting as now you can punch and dodge prior to clinching up and once in the clinch, you can throw overhand punches and uppercuts plus dodge and tug your opponent to get him off balance," Ramjagsingh said. "You also have the ability to throw devastating counter punches and occasionally get a one punch knock-out."
But the game isn't all about retreads and modification either.
With so much focus on fighting and checking, the development team also created a One Touch Deking system, which allows players the ability to shift the puck and their bodies away from incoming checks.
"We wanted to give users the ability to read that a player was stepping up for a big hit then react quickly to counter the big hit," Ramjagsingh said. "Our older loose puck deking system (which is still there) makes it difficult for most users to quickly react to situations because it requires the two sticks and a bumper or L1. We wanted our users to have a simple but effective mechanic to pull off some cool dekes without having to rely on multiple buttons."
"NHL 14" skates its way on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on September 10.

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text: Sports Safety for Parents and Caregivers Did you know… Each year, 2.6 million children ages 19 and under receive medical treatment for sports and recreation injuries? Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospitals? Injuries associated with participation in sports and recreational activities account for 21 percent of all traumatic brain injuries among children in the United States? Follow These Tips in Order to Help Keep the Ones You Love Free From Injuries: Children should stay hydrated while playing sports. Encourage them to drink before, during, and after play. Encourage children to stretch before practices and games; this will help prevent sports-related injuries. Also make sure they cool down when play is done. Make sure your child receives a pre-participation physical exam. Wear all appropriate protective gear such as helmets, protective pads, and other gear. Follow all the rules of the game to ensure fewer injuries occur. Do not play when you are injured; this can prolong healing time. Watch out for others and listen to the coach. Plan to have at least 1 day per week from a particular sport to allow the body time to recover. Visit the Following Websites For More Information: American Academy of Pediatrics: Sports Injury Prevention Tip Sheet Safe Kids USA: Sports Safety Tips


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I'm trying to add an Image to my JPanel, but I'm not sure how to add it. I know there are lots of thread like this available, but for me I can't get it working.
I found that for adding picture I can use Canvas. Can you pls help me and show me what I'm doing wrong?
here is the code ....
Maps = new JPanel(); mainTab.addTab("Maps", null, Maps, null); Gcanava canvas = new Gcanava(); Maps.add(canvas);
Here the mainTab is a JTabbledPanel and I have a Maps panel on it.
Gcanava is different class where I have the code for adding picture:
class Gcanava extends JComponent{ /** * */ public void paint(Graphics g){ // Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g; // // Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("pictures/map.jpg"); // g2.drawImage(img, 100, 100,this); // g2.finalize();
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I can't.
I still can't process this.
All of the following:
Charlize Theron and Sean Penn are together. Charlize Theron and Sean Penn are even posing together.
What in the actual f-ck?!
They were out last night at a party celebrating Pharrell Williams and his hat. They were just on holiday last week holding hands, like super romance. And Charlize is presenting at the Oscars on Sunday. I can't see them walking the carpet together but then again, I couldn't see them together, period, in the first place so maybe they will work the carpet together. And kiss for the cameras. And show up at Vanity Fair like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. No? Too far? Too much?
She's practically sitting on his lap for an endorsed photo and he's not attacking the photographer -- did you ever think that would happen? This is a Sean Penn who's in love and wants you to know. Like, proud. Like swaggery.
Ten years ago, this happened:
And now Charlize Theron and Sean Penn are ok an official, PUBLIC couple. Trippy, right? How long do you think it'll take you to get used to this?
As for what she'll be wearing at the Oscars, I'm not sure she can wear anything other than Dior.


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Rebecca offers psychological skills teaching, advice and coaching to rock climbers who would like to develop their mental focus, overcome fears and anxieties, and improve their motivation, visualisation skills and psychological tactics for climbing. She teaches cognitive-behavioural techniques, mindfulness skills, relaxation, as well as using graded exposure in a safe, supportive way to help you overcome your fears around leading or falling.
Coaching can be face to face or online via Zoom, for individuals, groups or instructors, and Rebecca can also deliver workshops and lectures at your local climbing wall, club or conference.


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Benefit Cosmetics has launched a new blush palette called Cheek Parade and it's a showstopper!
Nak Haircare
A few weeks ago I attended the Proefparade, where I left with a bag full of goodies, including a haircare set by the Austrialian brand Nak. Nak is an Australian hair company that provides hair care and products, for professional as well as consumers and the brand is inspired by the Australia: the environment, sun and blue skies, oceans and majestic landscapes. Sound great, right? Check out my experience and review!
Real Techniques Miracle Sculpting Sponge review
Today I'm reviewing the Real Techniques Miracle Sculpting Sponge. It's part of the brand's new Miracles Collection, which contains three new sponges for foundation, contour and highlight application.
Review // Diva Professional Styling Auto Tong Curling Iron
Back in march I was invited to a special 'Diva Professional Styling Event' at John Beerens hairstudio, where I was introduced to Diva Professional Styling and got a goodie bag filled with products including the Diva Professional Styling Auto Tong Curling Iron. Today I'm reviewing the curling iron and showing you how I've been using it!
Review // Yves Rocher Solaire Peau Parfaite
Today I'm reviewing the new sun care line 'Solaire Peau Parfaite' by Yves Rocher. I've had these products for a while now, but the weather just wasn't nice enough to really test these products out. Untill now that is, we're in the middle of a heat wave!
Benefit Brows: Precisely, My Brow Pencil + 3D BROWtones
Back in April, I attended a special event by Benefit in Amsterdam. We were introduced to their brand new Brow Collection! They already had some great brow products and re-formulated some of those, added shades and of course introduced entirely new products. The packaging is cute and eye catching, like every product by Benefit. So I was over the moon when this package by Benefit arrived! I've was sent the 'Precisely, My Brow Pencil' and the '3D BROWtones' and have been testing them out for a while. Today I'm reviewing them and showing you the magic of these brow products!
Tarte Tartelette Tease Eyeshadow Palette Review
Exciting! This is my first time trying out a palette by Tarte. The reason I bought this palette was simple, I had my eyes on Tarte for a while, and when I bumped into this mini-palette online, I knew it was perfect to take with me when I head to work or go out.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Self-Made palette
I made a pact with myself a while ago, that I wouldn't buy any more eyeshadows palettes. But then the Anastasia Beverly Hills Self-Made Palette became available in the Netherlands! This is just such gorgeous palette, I just couldn't help myself. I've been using it for a few months now, so it's about time that I share my opinion on it, as well as swatches and eye looks.
Benefit Watt's Up!
I finally found the time to spend a giftcard that was burning a hole in my wallet since January… I took this highlighter / luminizer home: the Watt's Up by Benefit! This "champagne" hued cream-to-powder highlighter stick has quickly become one of my favorite make up products. Why? Let me show you!


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By virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed to Secure Debt from SANDRA A. SMITH to ALTAMAHA BANK & TRUST COMPANY filed for record, and recorded in Deed Book 409, Pages 425-427, Appling County, Georgia Records, said Deed to Secure Debt having been given to secure a Note dated October 18, 2005, and said note or the renewal thereof now being in default there will be sold by the undersigned at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the Courthouse door in Baxley, Appling County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in March, 2012, the property described is:
TRACT 1: All that tract or parcel of land lying, being and situate in the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 1.257 acres, more or less, of Land Lot NO. 283, being more particularly described by a survey and plat thereof by Denean W. Dixon and Assoc. dated February 14, 2004, which said plat is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference for all purposes of description and being bound now or formerly, as follows: Northeast by Peach Lane; Southeast by First Avenue; Southwest by lands of Earl D. Griffis and Charles M. Aldridge; and Northeast by other lands of Sandra A. Smith, the line being agreed upon and described on said plat.
The above-described property is restricted to single-family residential dwellings of a permanent construction. No prefabricated modular or mobile homes are permitted on the above-described property.
TRACT 2: All that tract or parcel of land lying, being and situate in the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 0.642 acres, more or less, in Land Lot No. 283, and being bound on the Northeast by Peach Lane; Southeast by other lands of the Grantors, the line being described on the below referenced plat; Southwest by lands of William H. and Sandra A. Smith; and Northwest by lands of Geraldine M. Wiggins. Said tract of land is more particularly described in a survey and plat thereof by Denean W. Dixon, Surveyor, dated 10/5/99, which said plat is attached hereto and incorporated herein for all purposes of description.
The debt secured by said Deed to Secure Debt has been and is hereby declared due because of among other possible events of default, non-payment of the monthly installments and lack of insurance on said loan. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, including attorney?s fees.
A copy of this legal advertisement (Notice of Sale Under Power), which was sent to the Baxley News-Banner has been mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested to Sandra A. Smith if required by Georgia Law O.C.G.A. 44-14-162.2 and 44-14-162.3.
Said property will be sold as the property of Sandra A. Smith subject to any and all unpaid taxes, assessments, general subdivision restrictions, if any, and other restrictions and easements of record, if any; and to the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, Sandra A. Smith is in possession of said property.
The proceeds of the sale will be used as follows:
(a) To pay the expense of said sale,
(b) To pay the sum secured by said deed;
(c) The Balance to as provided by law.
This 1st Day of February, 2012.
Massie H. McIntyre, Massie McIntyre, P. C., P. O. Box 506, Vidalia, Georgia 30475, for Altamaha Bank & Trust Company as Attorney in Fact for Sandra A. Smith.
File No. 20068.
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'European Football Weekends is a perennial source of pleasure' The Guardian
Thursday, 5 June 2008
We're off to Euro 2008!
Happy to report that this Sunday, we here at European Football Weekend Towers are decamping to Switzerland for Euro 2008. Sadly, UEFAs decision to hold the matches in stadiums the size of an old shoe box meant that we could only get tickets for one match; Romania v France in Zurich.
Initially we'd applied for six matches across two weeks in what we hoped was to be a repeat of the never to be forgotten Euro 2004 experience. All of those applications were rejected. Sepp Blatter must have had a very minor change of heart however and a few weeks ago an emeither from UEFA arrived in my inbox offering me the chance of three tickets for the aforementioned France v Romania game - yes please Sepp.
The build up to Euro 2008 has been wonderfully understated here in England. Thank Croatia for that if that nitwit Gary Linekers predictions on the BBC website are anything to go by. You and I pay this chap around a million quid a year and this is what he came out with - "It's open, but I'm going for those perennial underachievers Spain....my Euro 2008 one to watch is Cristiano Ronaldo." Ta very much for that Gary lad - have a word with him.
So with only one game to attend in person, I'm going to have to get used to watching a few matches in the Zurich fan zone. To get me in the mood for such an act, I've dug out a photo from the archives from the 2006 World Cup final which I watched with my wife in a fan zone in Innsbruck, Austria (see above).
In the absence of any home nations participation everybody is asking 'Who will you support in Euro 2008!?' - for the record 10% of my support will be with the Romanians who I saw in the qualifiers against Holland in Constanta. The other 90% of me will be supporting Spain (see wife for details).
So that's it folks. I fly out with a couple of mates to Basel or Basle whichever you prefer on Sunday and we'll make our way over to Zurich for a couple of nights of fan zones, cheese and one actual match. I'll pen a report upon my return so for now vamos Espana - Switzerland here we jolly well come!
4 comments:
- SlaCker GurL said...
hii... i totally agree with u... 'shoe-box' sized stadiums. haha.... it's great to see football through you're point of view.
Thanks for sharing. I think that your views are neutral and that what makes reading your entries delightful!
- 11 June 2008 at 11:39
- Danny Last said...
Thanks for the comment!
All these reports and you are the first person brave enough to leave a remark.
Neutral and delightful!? I think I might get that made into a t-shirt :-)
- 14 June 2008 at 19:03
- Soccer Freestyle said...
You can catch all the soccer action at Soccer Highlights & Soccer Freestyle & Football Torrent
- 31 March 2010 at 14:22
Watch all the Football Highlights online
- 17 December 2010 at 09:51
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In JPA2 there is a query API referred to as "criteria". This is really an API allowing the construction of queries expression by expression, and optionally making it type safe. It provides two ways of specifying a field/property. The first way is using Strings, and the second using a MetaModel. The advantage of the MetaModel is that it means that your queries are refactorable if you rename a field. Each example will be expressed in both ways where appropriate so you can see the difference.
To use the JPA Criteria API, firstly you need to create a CriteriaQuery object for the candidate in question, and set the candidate, its alias, and the result to be of the candidate type
CriteriaBuilder cb = emf.getCriteriaBuilder(); CriteriaQuery<Person> crit = cb.createQuery(Person.class); Root<Person> candidateRoot = crit.from(Person.class); candidateRoot.alias("p"); crit.select(candidateRoot);
So what we have there equates to
SELECT p FROM mydomain.Person p
For a complete list of all methods available on CriteriaBuilder, refer to For a complete list of all methods available on CriteriaQuery, refer to
If you ever want to know what is the equivalent JPQL string-based query for your Criteria, just print out criteriaQuery.toString(). This is not part of the JPA spec, but something that we feel is very useful so is provided as a DataNucleus vendor extension. So, for example, the criteria query above would result in the following from crit.toString()
SELECT p FROM mydomain.Person p
The basic Criteria query above is fine, but you may want to define a result other than the candidate. To do this we need to use the Criteria API.
Path nameField = candidateRoot.get("name"); crit.select(nameField);
which equates to
SELECT p.name
Note that here we accessed a field by its name (as a String). We could easily have accessed it via the Criteria MetaModel too.
The basic Criteria query above is fine, but you may want to define some explicit joins. To do this we need to use the Criteria API.
Metamodel model = emf.getMetamodel(); ManagedType personType = model.type(Person.class); Attribute addressAttr = personType.getAttribute("address"); Join addressJoin = candidateRoot.join((SingularAttribute)addressAttr); addressJoin.alias("a");
which equates to
FROM mydomain.Person p JOIN p.address a
The basic Criteria query above is fine, but in the majority of cases we want to define a filter. To do this we need to use the Criteria API.
String-based: Predicate nameEquals = cb.equal(candidateRoot.get("name"), "First"); crit.where(nameEquals); MetaModel-based: Predicate nameEquals = cb.equal(candidateRoot.get(Person_.name), "First"); crit.where(nameEquals);
You can also invoke methods, so a slight variation on this clause would be
String-based: Predicate nameUpperEquals = cb.equal(cb.upper(candidateRoot.get("name")), "FIRST"); MetaModel-based: Predicate nameUpperEquals = cb.equal(cb.upper(candidateRoot.get(Person_.name)), "FIRST");
which equates to
WHERE (UPPER(p.name) = 'FIRST')
The basic Criteria query above is fine, but in many cases we want to define ordering. To do this we need to use the Criteria API.
String-based: Order orderFirstName = cb.desc(candidateRoot.get("name")); crit.orderBy(orderFirstName); MetaModel-based: Order orderFirstName = cb.desc(candidateRoot.get(Person_.name)); crit.orderBy(orderFirstName);
which equates to
ORDER BY p.name DESC
Another common thing we would want to do is specify input parameters. To do this we need to use the Criteria API. Let's take an example of a filter with parameters.
String-based: ParameterExpression param1 = cb.parameter(String.class, "myParam1"); Predicate nameEquals = cb.equal(candidateRoot.get("name"), param1); crit.where(nameEquals); MetaModel-based: ParameterExpression param1 = cb.parameter(String.class, "myParam1"); Predicate nameEquals = cb.equal(candidateRoot.get(Person_.name), param1); crit.where(nameEquals);
which equates to
WHERE (p.name = :myParam)
Don't forget to set the value of the parameters before executing the query!
Ok, so we've seen how to generate a Criteria query. So how can we execute it ? This is simple; convert it into a standard JPA query, set any parameter values and execute it.
Query query = em.createQuery(crit); List<Person> results = query.getResultList();
As we mentioned at the start of this section, there is a MetaModel allowing refactorability. In JPA the MetaModel is a static metamodel of generated classes that mirror the applications persistable classes and have persistable fields marked as public and static so that they can be accessed when generating the queries. In the examples above you saw reference to a class with name with suffix "_". This is a metamodel class. It is defined below.
The JPA2 spec contains the following description of the static metamodel.
For every managed class in the persistence unit, a corresponding metamodel class is produced as follows:
public static volatile SingularAttribute<X, Y> y;
public static volatile CollectionAttribute<X, Z> z;
public static volatile SetAttribute<X, Z> z;
public static volatile ListAttribute<X, Z> z;
public static volatile MapAttribute<X, K, Z> z;
Let's take an example, for the following class
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa2.metamodel; import java.util.*; import javax.persistence.*; @Entity public class Person { @Id long id; String name; @OneToMany List<Address> addresses; }
the static metamodel class will be
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa2.metamodel; import javax.persistence.metamodel.*; @StaticMetamodel(Person.class) public class Person_ { public static volatile SingularAttribute<Person, Long> id; public static volatile SingularAttribute<Person, String> name; public static volatile ListAttribute<Person, Address> addresses; }
So how do we generate this metamodel definition for our query classes? DataNucleus provides an annotation processor in the jar datanucleus-jpa-query that can be used when compiling your model classes to generate the static metamodel classes. What this does is when the compile is invoked, all classes that have persistence annotations will be passed to the annotation processor and a Java file generated for its metamodel. Then all classes (original + metamodel) are compiled.
To enable this in Maven2 you would need the above jar, plus datanucleus-core and datanucleus-api-jpa (as well as persistence-api.jar) to be in the CLASSPATH at compile
<plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin>
To enable this in Eclipse you would need to do the following


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Amazing on its own, beneath makeup or lovingly caring for your hands after application, Luminesce Daily Moisturizing Complex is your go-to moisturizer with broad spectrum SPF 30. As winter shortens our days, the power of the sun's rays can be underestimated – and if you're in the mountains, you have even less atmosphere to defend your skin from environmental aggressors. Lean on Luminesce Daily Moisturizing Complex to protect your skin from harmful sunrays. The proprietary formula with APT-200 also includes a special blend of vitamins and antioxidants to help refresh, and fruit and legume extracts to help moisturize.
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No reason to explain! It all sounds good to me... good luck!!
NYU and Berkeley are on the top of my list. Hey of the top 14, do you guys know any schools that aren't queer-friendly? I'm thinking UVa and Duke... But what about others?And, I don't intend to come out in my application at all because it's not really relavant to any of the achievments upon which I intend to focus... From what I understand, there really isn't much advantage in the application process given to queer folks anyway.
I'm actually done applying and am starting LS about 6 weeks, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. I only came out in my personal statement because my activism is what is driving me to attend LS and my activism is almost all gay right-related.That's the general advice I got--to come out only as much as is relevant to the point of your personal statement. Make sure it makes sense in your story or it might sound like you're coming out just to milk the diversity factor (not that there's anything wrong with milking the diversity factor--just don't make it obvious...heh...) Of course, had there been an "LGBT" box to check on the application, I would have done that, even if my personal statement was about horseback riding or something...Good luck to you! Where are you thinking of applying?
Having just looked at his LSN, I'm not sure that Mike 245 needs to milk his LGBT status or anything else! He's in pretty good shape.FWIW, I haven't seen any evidence that schools really consider queerness to be worth a whole lot.
I'm applying this cycle and thinking of coming out... one of my personal statement drafts is about losing financial support from my parents after coming out and having to support myself. It's less about being a lesbian and more about motivating myself and growing as a person I do hope that's the kind of thing admissions committees like to hear about.Another is about activism I've done related to queer stuff- organizing events, leadership positions, etc. So it's not directly saying "I'm a dyke" but it could be safe to assume. I'm interested in public interest law, so it's relevant, I think.
thanks! good luck to you, too! My numbers are in the range for most of the top ten, though not quite as impressive as yours . I haven't taken the real LSAT yet, but my timed practice tests have given me a feel for where I'll fall and I've still got time to prepare before sept. 30. NYU is probably my top choice right now. I'm looking at -prestigious schools (as long as I'm going into massive debt I might as well get the best of the best)-in big cities (I've been in cornfields for three years now and after growing up in Chicago, I need a city again)-that allow deferment for Teach for America (most do, and that's my first choice for post-undergrad), -and have strong public interest programs and/or a dual degree option in public policy. GWU, U of Chicago, and Duke are a few, though each has drawbacks (no deferral, economics focused, and in a smaller city, respectively). you're looking at top 8, right? any specific area of interest?
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Sony took over Page Three (and two) for a day, apologizing (sigh, apologising) to "Rosie, 22, from Middlesex," for displacing her. That couldn't have been a cheap ad, but I'd say it hit the target audience.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of two of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's less heralded films, Gone to Earth and The Elusive Pimpernel.
Although very different in style and theme, the two films share some things in common. They were both released in 1950 under the auspices of Alexander Korda, with whom Powell and Pressburger had signed a five-picture deal in 1948, ceding the independence of their production company The Archers.
Finance for both films came from American partners. Korda needed the money – his company London Films was flat broke due to currency restrictions. He had co-produced The Third Man with David Selznick, who had been dazzled by The Red Shoes and was enthralled by the prospect of working with its creators.
Based on a popular novel by Mary Webb to which Korda had the film rights, Gone to Earth was intended by Selznick as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. It is the story of Hazel Woodus, a child of nature in late nineteenth century rural Shropshire where she lives with her father and pet fox. The local squire Jack Reddin seduces her but she marries the Baptist minister Edward Marston. Torn between passion and duty, she falls to her death while protecting "Foxy" from a pack of hounds – "gone to earth," as the huntsman cries when a fox has escaped to its lair.
Powell had roots in Shropshire so was attracted to the novel's setting in the Welsh Marches. Pressburger enjoyed meeting Selznick in May 1949 at the Krönenhalle restaurant in Zurich. It all looked extremely promising.
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Once filming began in July Selznick, who fuelled himself with Benzedrine and amphetamine, bombarded the set with semi-hallucogenic memos that were up to ten-pages long. The ever-courteous Pressburger never read them before throwing them away but would always reply, "Thank you for your useful comments. We shall take the utmost account of them."
Selznick was not the only challenge. During the location shoot at Much Wenlock there were objections from the British Field Sports' Society, which prevented its members from lending packs of hounds because they felt the film was anti-blood sports. Eventually the Welsh farmer Daniel Stephens offered the use of his pack of hounds – he is seen in the film as "Master of Fox Hounds."
After seeing the final cut in December 1949 Selznick claimed that it "varied in substance" from the novel and tried to block the film's release. A judge ruled in April 1950 that because Selznick had approved the shooting script the film could be released in the UK. It was first screened to the public in November 1950.
The problems with Selznick continued even after the film had been released. His deal with Korda allowed him full control over the "western hemisphere" version of Gone to Earth: Powell and Pressburger were powerless to prevent alterations to the film. Selznick used Rouben Mamoulian to reshoot several scenes for the US version, including close-ups of Jones that were comically undermined by shots of her carrying what was obviously a stuffed fox rather than the live version of the first cut. It was released in America in July 1952 as The Wild Heart, using only 35 minutes of Powell's footage.
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In Gone to Earth Powell uses symbolism rather than the cinematic alchemy of The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death. Sometimes the symbolism is rather heavy-handed, such as the half-made coffin that frames Hazel's first entrance to the cottage she shares with her father, or the flowers trampled underfoot by the squire when he seduces Hazel.
The Technicolor photography of Chris Challis is particularly fine; the extensive outdoor scenes were a literal breath of fresh air in an era that was still largely studio-bound. Brian Easdale's brooding score contributes to the film's otherworldly atmosphere.
Jennifer Jones gave a good if sometimes melodramatic performance with an accent that sometimes slips as much as her off-the-shoulder gowns. Perhaps her Hollywood lipstick and teeth are rather too perfect for a Shropshire country girl.
Gone to Earth was the third and final appearance by David Farrar in a Powell-Pressburger production; he remained the only actor ever to be personally contracted to The Archers. Esmond Knight and Hugh Griffith contributed entertainingly goggle-eyed performances as Hazel's father Abel Woodus and Squire Reddin's servant Andrew Vessons respectively. By contrast, Cyril Cusack plays Edward Marston understatedly.
Powell was dismissive of Gone to Earth in later years, calling it "a disaster… except for Jennifer's performance, which I thought was absolutely wonderful." It lacks the flamboyance of Powell's most famed work but has endured better than he might have imagined. Steve Crook of The Powell & Pressburger Pages website suggests that the scene in which Jack Reddin stands in the rain outside the chapel house was the inspiration for a similar scene in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear.
Probably the importance of Gone to Earth is less to do with its cinematic values and more to do with Powell and Pressburger's first experience of the Hollywood machine. The Elusive Pimpernel caused problems with its co-producer Samuel Goldwyn and proved conclusively that The Archers were too free-spirited for Hollywood. Their loss was our gain.


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Saints remain confident of finalising a deal with Feyenoord for striker Graziano Pellè – despite negotiations dragging on.
Discussions between the clubs have been ongoing for around two weeks now, leading to suggestions that talks had stalled and that Saints had turned their attention elsewhere.
However, the Daily Echo understands that Pellè remains their number-one strike target and there was a growing confidence yesterday that a solution with Feyenoord would be found.
As previously reported, Saints increased their initial offer for the Italian, who turns 29 next week, to about £6.4m (€8m).
They believe that is a fair offer and do not wish to spend much more – especially as the player is likely to have little resale value, given his age.
Feyenoord are understood to want nearer £8m (€10m), knowing that there is pressure on Saints to deliver the signing for new manager Ronald Koeman, who this week got his hands on his other top target – FC Twente's highly-rated playmaker Dusan Tadic.
However, a compromise on Pellè was said to be getting closer yesterday, with one source describing the deal as having moved from "50-50" to "75-25" in favour of it happening.
Pellè is fond of Feyenoord, but is understood to be keen to follow former boss Koeman to St Mary's and test himself in the Premier League.
If a deal does happen, it will almost certainly not be confirmed until next week, although Saints will not wish for it to continue on much longer than that.
Pellè is an obvious replacement for Rickie Lambert, after he was sold to Liverpool earlier this summer.
The Feyenoord ace has enjoyed two spectacular seasons in the Eredevisie – the Dutch top flight – since arriving at the Rotterdam club.
In 57 appearances, he has bagged 50 goals, making the 6ft 4in star one of the most prolific frontmen across Europe in the past 24 months.
Last season, he also contributed six assists and laid on 57 chances in the league.
Koeman believes Pellè can translate much of that form to England's top-flight with Saints.
As well as a striker, the club are also on the search for other additions.
As first revealed by the Echo, Saints want to sign a new goalkeeper this summer, with Celtic's Fraser Forster and Cardiff's David Marshall having been linked, although both would cost a significant amount.
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The publication of scientific articles helps gauge how well Canada is fostering the creation of knowledge. Scientific articles—most of which come from the academic community—measure the scope and depth of a country's scientific research. Universities produce the scientists and engineers whose discoveries and innovations are essential to a country's continued prosperity. Leading-edge science is often the result of innovative industries collaborating with science and engineering specialists. A country's ability to sustain a strong science base—measured in part by the publication of scientific articles—is thus an indicator of its advanced innovation capacity.
Canada receives a "B" grade and ranks in 8th place. Canada performs better than science powerhouses such as the U.S. and U.K., as well as technology leaders such as Germany and Japan. But Canada ranks behind peer countries with smaller populations where innovative science and technology output is more intensive.
Canada has a high public share of R&D financing spent by university researchers, something that encourages relatively more publications. Some of Canada's peer countries, on the other hand, have a higher share of industry funding for R&D, which seems to encourage patenting over publishing.
In the late 1990s, Canada dropped from a "B" for the number of scientific articles published per million people to a "C" grade. Although Canada still scores a "C" overall for the 2000s, it moved up to a "B" in 2006. That year, with 835 articles published per million people, Canada's performance surpassed 1995's previous peak of 810 articles per million people. In 2009, the latest year for which data are available, Canada further increased its output, with 861 scientific articles per million people.
Sweden and Switzerland are the only two countries with "A"s in both periods. Five countries have been consistent "D" performers: Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, and Japan.
Relative intensity is a measure of comparative advantage. Countries with larger populations have more diversified economies than smaller countries. In absolute terms, larger countries may have more scientists and technologists and produce more science and technology. But their science and technology sectors may be a less important source of economic gain, proportionately, than other sectors. Smaller countries with economies more specialized in particular industries—such as science and technology, in this case—can therefore have a comparative advantage when competing on a global scale.
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Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott Doesn't Judge Beyonce for Lip-Syncing
Last week, Beyonce sang the national anthem flawlessly at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. Then it was revealed that she sang to a pre-recorded track, meaning she lip-synced. It caused an uproar in the media. We know what Miranda Lambert thought of the situation, but how about Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott? How did one of country music's best belters feel?
The mom-to-be isn't judging anyone in this situation, least of all Beyonce, since she understands how uncontrolled of an environment singing the national anthem live is. So many things can and do go wrong. It's common practice for vocalists to flub the lyrics in an epic fail, which gets tongues wagging.
"We've never been in that situation, but I think we could easily put ourselves in that position to where, when you're in that much of a high pressure situation, something that is gonna live on way past you ever will because it's such a historical moment," the singer said. "I mean you look at the Super Bowl every year, no one ever, ever sings live hardly anymore for the national anthem. So I can only speak from just the experience that we have in this industry."
Scott continued, expressing sympathy for the pressure the pop diva was under without exactly condoning her decision to use the pre-recorded version, saying, "I can see how you would want that, because there's so many variables that could go wrong in that environment. And so, to have that safety, not that everyone would choose to do that, and I think it's obviously still up in the air to what actually happened from what I gather."
As a singer, Scott "gets" it so she won't pass judgment on anyone.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether auditing company Ernst & Young violated auditor rules by letting its lobbying unit perform work for several major audit clients, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The SEC inquiry began shortly after Reuters reported in March 2012 that Washington Council Ernst & Young, the E&Y unit, was registered as a lobbyist for several corporate audit clients including Amgen Inc, CVS Caremark Corp and Verizon Communications Inc [ID:nL2E8DL649], according to one of the sources.
The SEC's enforcement division and its Office of the Chief Accountant are looking in to the issue, according to the two sources, who spoke in recent days and who could not be named because the investigation is not public.
It is unclear how far along the probe is, or whether it could result in the SEC filing civil charges against Ernst & Young, one of the world's largest audit and accounting firms.
An SEC spokesman declined to comment.
Ernst & Young spokeswoman Amy Call Well declined to comment on whether the company was being investigated. "All of our services for audit clients undergo considerable scrutiny to confirm they are consistent with applicable rules," she said.
U.S. independence rules bar auditors from serving in an "advocacy role" for audit clients. The goal is to allow auditors to maintain some degree of objectivity regarding the companies they audit, based on the idea that auditors are watchdogs for investors and should not be promoting management's interests.
The SEC's rule does not definitively say whether lobbying could compromise an auditor's independence. It is more focused on barring legal advocacy, such as expert witness testimony.
In interviews last year, former SEC Chief Accountant Jim Kroeker told Reuters that certain lobbying activities could potentially be covered under the general prohibition on advocacy. Kroeker is now an executive at Deloitte, a rival of Ernst & Young.
Harvard Business School Professor Max Bazerman said on Monday that it was "abundantly clear" that a firm that is lobbying for a company is no longer capable of independently auditing that company.
Ernst & Young has previously said it complied with independence rules. It also said that it did not act in an advocacy role and that the work performed by its lobbying unit was limited to tax issues.
Tax consulting is a permissible activity under auditor independence rules if it does not involve public advocacy.
About two months after publication of the Reuters story, federal records showed Washington Council Ernst & Young was no longer registered as a lobbyist for Amgen, CVS Caremark or Verizon Communications.
A spokesman for Amgen did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment. Verizon and CVS spokesmen declined to comment.
Ernst & Young also terminated a lobbying relationship with a fourth company, Nomura Holdings Inc, which also used an E&Y affiliate for auditing services.
Obtaining an independent view on the books is the main reason companies are required to hire outside auditors, said Richard Kaplan, law professor at the University of Illinois.
Ernst & Young was suspended in 2004 from accepting new public company audit clients for six months because of alleged violations of independence rules. The suspension stemmed from a joint venture that Ernst had in the 1990s with business software provider PeopleSoft, now part of Oracle Corp, when Ernst was also auditing PeopleSoft's books.
An SEC administrative law judge ordered Ernst & Young to give back $1.7 million in audit fees and issued a cease-and- desist order against future independence violations.
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I find shoe shopping stressful. It's stressful because I have giant feet that become magically disconnected from my brain when I'm trying on shoes. For example, last fall I spent $180 on hiking boots that make my toes fall asleep when I'm SITTING IN CLASS. How did I walk up and down the store's fake rock trail a million times without figuring out that my toes were ramming into the front of the boots? Nice one Jamie.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Wicked Stepsister Woes
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Jamie, Meet Your Type A Personality
We had a really busy weekend with lots of awesome food and visits with my sisters and friends we haven't seen in a long time. For your rereading pleasure, I've reposted something that I wrote a while ago and didn't keep up.
Why I Should Never Redo my Undergrad...
Ever since I was 15, I've wanted to be a psychologist. I was pretty casual about this goal until the world shifted one sunny spring day in my second year of university. Feeling inspired after a really interesting lecture, I promised myself that I would do everything I could to get into grad school and become a psychologist. Thus began my descent into madness...
I found professors who would let me work in their labs. I got a job at the hospital as a research assistant. I started studying maniacally, having meltdowns the night before most tests and wailing to Kyle about how I "didn't know anything", which really meant I didn't know everything. Fourth-year was particularly bad as I wrote an honours thesis and started applying to grad school. Some of my friends managed to go through this process with a bit of grace and dignity (Fran). But not me! I became an insomniac with a constant stomach ache, losing sleep before every exam and presentation. I remember sitting in class at the end of fourth year, confessing to my good friend Ian that I had cried into my mini wheats that morning.
Thankfully, I did manage to get into graduate school and the pressure was off. Knowing that I only had to do well enough to finish, I became less ridiculous with each passing day. I can testify that over the past year and a half, there has been very little, if any, weeping into cold cereal.
I was walking to the university today to meet a couple of friends when I was struck by the fact that I felt really happy, joyful in fact. Things have been going particularly well since I began my practicum in September. I love the work and I'm pretty sure that I'll be good at it one day. Of course, it would have been better to get to this place with a little less stress and neuroticism but it's good to be here.
A behind-the-scenes look at Fourth-Year Jamie. It's probably 3pm and I'm still wearing my pajamas, sitting in my own filth at the computer. If you stare for a while, you can almost see my left eye twitching. I'm just about to pounce on my lovely husband and tear his face off for breathing too loudly while I'm styding.
Me and Fran the Evil Genius looking happy, successful, and well-adjusted at convocation.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Them Pigs are Skinny!
Okay, I promise not to write about skinny pigs again after this (hmmm...is that a promise I can keep?) but I wanted to link to my sister's Heather's fantastic blog about a skinny pig at her clinic.
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
Banter While Driving OR Why I Should Never Be Kyle's Therapist
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Jamie Heart Skinny Pigs
So to stave off my foul mood, I've decided to write about something that makes me very happy. Skinny Pigs!...another one of my "favourite animals". Oh how clearly I remember that glorious day in 2001 when I first laid eyes on a hairless guinea pig. In addition to making cool guinea pig noises, this creature was fabulously hairless except for tufts on the top of his nose.
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Monday, February 12, 2007
Harry Potter = Star Wars
I've spent the past couple of days preparing the paper for publication. A lot of it revolves around a book called "The Hero With a Thousand Faces", which is about common themes in heroic myths that people express repeatedly across time and cultures. Harry Potter and Star Wars are great examples of this type of hero mythology. And the formula = Box Office Magic! Check it out...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Open Letter
Dear Sleep Country Canada,
Yes, we are enjoying the new bed we purchased from you last month. And although I appreciate the sentiment behind your mattress-themed thank-you card, I would rather have been refunded the dollar it cost you to send it.
Posted by Jamie at 9:41 a.m. 8 comments
Monday, February 5, 2007
Non-Parable of the Lost Keys
We've had a busy weekend with lots of people in and out of our house. Somehow, one set of our keys which usually sits by the door got lost in the mix. Because I was the last person to have the keys, I was in the hot spot and believe me, I didn't take the pressure well. I looked all over for them. In the car, garage, closet, snow, garden... Last night, I had really weird dreams and I kept waking up because I could hear our garage door squeaking or the front door opening as evil thugs came to assault us and steal our collection of Company's Coming Cookbooks.
Every time I lose something, I get obsessed by the idea that the lost object is out there, existing somewhere beyond my reach. It drives me crazy! And the thought of our keys laying around in some unknown location bothered me so much that I even considered spending my afternoon cleaning out the hall closet and our horribly dirty garage to uncover their hiding place. Thankfully, when I turned on my cell after getting out of class this morning, Kyle had left a message saying that one of our friends had accidentally grabbed them on his way out of our house. I was so pumped that I jumped around when I got off the bus, actually thew my hands in the air and ran part of the way home.
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Friday, February 2, 2007
For Jena
Mushaboom by Feist makes me very happy. I hope this brightens your day!
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Five Random Things About Me
So I've been "tagged" by Robyn and now I have to write five random things about myself or risk incurring her wrath.
1. I sucked my thumb until I was fourteen years old.
FOURTEEN! And I only quit sucking said thumb because I broke it playing volleyball and wore a cast over it for six weeks. No, I didn't suck on the cast. But during that time of separation, something happened and things just weren't the same between us when we were reunited. That leads me to my next random fact...
2. I have broken 8 bones, I think.
a) broken foot bones while running backwards in gym in grade 5
b) an assortment of broken toes
c) broken thumb playing volleyball in grade 9
d) broken leg while skiing when I was 16. This one was by far the worst
e) cracked foot when I tripped while dancing down the stairs at age 20
Clumsy or brittle? You decide. I choose clumsy because it's more hilarious and less scary than brittle.
3. Someone seriously threatened to kill/kidnap me
When I was about 4, one of my dad's patients threatened my family because my dad wouldn't give him the narcotics he wanted. I remember being warned about it, crying, and saying "I'm too young to die!", which now seems like a bit of a melodramatic and obvious statement for a four-year-old to make. That was when my dad quit hanging pictures of us in his office.
4. I can't tell my left hand from my right.
I've played the piano since I was 3 but still can't seem to figure out left/right. It's not that I have no idea which hand is my right hand, it's just that I need a second to think about it before I can feel sure. This makes giving/receiving directions while driving kind of problematic. So Kyle started telling me to "take a steering wheel". Also, when he scratches my back, I tell him to go east/west rather than left/right. He says this makes no sense, but I think it's pretty obvious that my head is north and my bum is south. He should be able to figure it out from there...
5. I can pick up a dime off the floor with my crazy-awesome monkey feet.
So there you have it, five random things about me. Now I think it's time for Amisha and Squeelia to make lists of their own.
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From Agamben to Žižek: contemporary critical theorists
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of James Bond's film career, MGM and 20th Century Fox have put together the ultimate 007 Blu-ray boxed set that features all 22 films and includes an more than five days worth of extras. This thing is so comprehensive that they've even included George Lazenby--but it's gonna be short a film the minute "Skyfall" opens.
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Here's the press release hailing the arrival of this blessed gift:
In celebration of James Bond's monumental golden anniversary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today unveiled BOND 50, a collectible box-set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray Disc for the first time in one complete offering. The longest running film franchise of all time, the Bond 50 collection marks the debut of nine James Bond films previously unavailable in high definition Blu-ray. Fans around the world can pre-order now with participating online retailers.
Acclaimed Bond directors John Glen (five Bond films including For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights & Licence To Kill), Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale) and Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough) with special guests Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Caterina Murino (Casino Royale) made the Blu-ray announcement today during a Directors' Panel discussion in the Panasonic Booth at the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
BOND 50 showcases fifty years of Bond neatly packaged into one cool, sleek collectable box-set featuring all six iconic James Bond actors. Produced using the highest possible picture quality and audio presentation, the collection includes all 22 James Bond feature films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus features including some new and exclusive content.
"With all 22 feature films available on Blu-ray in one collection for the first time this is a great way for fans to catch up on 007's epic journey before Skyfall hits theaters next Fall," said Michael Brown, Senior Vice President, MGM Home Entertainment. "Now viewers can enjoy the intense action of the innovative franchise in the most immersive home experience possible."
"We have a whole program of exciting activities planned for our 50th anniversary year, beginning with today's announcement, by Fox, of the release of all 22 films on Blu-ray for the very first time,'' added Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, with Eon Productions. "We are also delighted that Fox has unveiled a specially designed anniversary poster which we hope the fans will love as much as we do. Our website, 007.com will be regularly updated with all the latest anniversary news and events."


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I know I've been rather sparse in posting of late… lots going on, not much energy to spare. As things calm down on various fronts with the approach of winter here in Minnesota, it should pick up again. Having my annual tussle with seasonal affective disorder hasn't helped much, either… that should disappear here shortly as the length of day starts to stabilize again.
Sandwiched between other tasks and distractions, I've been continuing to plug away at that XNA project I've mentioned a few times in the past. It's something I can work on for as little as a half-hour or so and achieve something, and yet drop at a moment's notice without even a tinge of guilt.
A brief list of my latest and current tasks/goals, since there might be someone out there vaguely interested…
- As I mentioned briefly a couple weeks ago, I added "seamless zoning" to the application. Currently, it works as follows…
- Switched over to more of a web-based network paradigm. While the socket class was working, it was becoming somewhat of a pain to be going back and forth writing code in two separate apps. What I'm currently trying is simple calls to web pages (php pages, actually), sending and returning whatever data I happen to be working with at that moment.
- Modifying my tiling code to more fully incorporate wall/edge data. I've decided I want to allow "thin" walls… I already have a tile structure that tracks which edges face onto a "filled" tile as opposed to which do not, which was added to make the lighting code a little easier. However, as things stand, while I can draw a thin edge wall, it's utterly transparent to the other processes… neither light nor movement gets blocked at present, as you can tell from the "shell" of wall segments near the NPC in the upper part of this screenshot.
- I want to add some "paper-doll" capability to the code. Probably just start with my poor overused "generic fighter" sprite, and make it so the weapon, cloak, and some off-hand items like a torch and/or shield can be added and removed. Start simple, within the (very) limited boundaries of my artistic ability to create new pieces/parts, and accrete from there.
The application can track up to 16 "zones", which are simply square regions of a uniform size (currently trying it with grids of 50 tilesx50 tiles). Nine of those zones will always be active, the other seven are for managing transitioning and data loading more smoothly.
When the character first enters the world, the basic layout of the 9 zones immediately surrounding the character is loaded from the server, rudiments like walls, doors, etc. State information (whether a door is open or closed) and transitory objects (other players, NPCs, items laying on the ground) are sent later, based on more specific location and line of sight information.
As the character moves from one zone to another, new zones are loaded into "open" slots to keep an active 1 zone "buffer" around the character's location in play. Zones which were loaded but moved outside the buffer area are just marked as "stale", so that if the character moves back in that direction in a short time frame, a request to "refresh" the zone based on actions which took place in the interim can be sent instead of having to reload the entire zone. Once all 16 slots are in use, the oldest "stale" slots start to be re-used.
For example, if a character is in zone (10,10), the following zones would be in memory:
(9,9) (9,10) (9,11) (10,9) [10,10] (10,11) (11,9) (11,10) (11,11)
If he then moves to a tile that is located in zone (11,10), three new zones are loaded, and three old zones are marked as potentially "stale", denoted by {}:
{9,9} {9,10} {9,11} (10,9) (10,10) (10,11) (11,9) [11,10] (11,11) (12,9) (12,10) (12,11)
If for some reason he turned around and moved back into zone (10,10), the basic data for the (9,x) zones is still fairly readily available… the only potential issue should be any events in those zones that changed the core structure of the zone (explosions?)
Pretty rudimentary, like I said earlier, but it seems to work okay so far, within the other limitations of the app at least. I doubt it scales all that well, but for a hobby/test application it should be adequate.
Now, why I'm finding it easier to write standalone php pages to perform discrete tasks, than I did to write discrete C classes/functions as part of a server app to perform those very same tasks, I really don't know… I just know that it has proven more workable for me, and therefore, that's the route I'm going to pursue for the moment. It won't be all that hard to go back to the other code, when it proves necessary.
The code to implement this on a rudimentary basis is so dirt simple, it's almost criminal… I don't even bother doing anything in the constructor at present, and it's working fine…
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;
namespace TestEngine
class WebAccess
public WebAccess()
public string PageLoad(string reqURL)
string strURL;
string strResult;
string strResultTemp;
HttpWebRequest wbrq;
HttpWebResponse wbrs;
StreamReader sr;
int xx;
wbrq = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(reqURL);
wbrq.Method = "GET";
wbrs = (HttpWebResponse) wbrq.GetResponse();
sr = new StreamReader(wbrs.GetResponseStream());
strResult = sr.ReadToEnd().Trim();
// strip off excess http/html in response
xx = strResult.IndexOf("[START]");
if (xx > 0)
strResultTemp = strResult.Substring(xx+7);
xx = strResultTemp.IndexOf("[END]");
strResult = strResultTemp.Substring(0, xx-1);
return (strResult);
Again, not exceptionally robust, but adequate for the present and fairly easy to expand…
In particular, I want to be able to have different textures on each side of a wall segment, which should be simple, and I want to keep wall segments from being lit that face away from the light source, but are attached to floor segments that should have some lighting… two examples near the "doorways" in the screenshot below. (I should try adding a slight yellow tinge to the outdoor light… that white is supposed to be "sunlight", but it looks more like fluorescent cafeteria lighting to me right now…)
Shouldn't be hugely difficult, but since I haven't looked at that code for a while now… ah well, worst case, I just go back a rev…
I know, simple stuff, but it's fun to be able to just putz away when the mood takes me. (And it fills the occasional blog post, tho I try to avoid doing that too often, since I imagine it's rather boring to read.) But, if you want to kibbitz, feel free…


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Maine gas prices drop slightly, yet remain 15 cents above the national average
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Gas prices in Maine dropped slightly in the past week, but remain well above the national average.
Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail price in the state fell by just over a penny to $3.58.
Nationally, the price remained unchanged, at $3.43 per gallon.
Prices in Maine are now nearly 11 cents lower per gallon than a month ago, yet remain more than 18 cents higher than a year ago.
A company analyst predicts that prices will fluctuate up and down between now and Christmas.


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