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Red Dead Revolver sequel confirmed [Update]
Rockstar's just confirmed a sequel to 2004 western Red Dead Revolver, to release this year.
Red Dead Redemption follows the story of former outlaw John Marston and takes place at the turn of the 20th Century.
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They may be young, but they're not naive.
"We know that we haven't proven anything yet," said 21-year-old Andrew Cogliano. "A big 20-game push late when we appeared to be dead and out of it doesn't automatically turn us into a Stanley Cup favorite.
"There's a huge difference in playing pressure-free, without much outside expectation, then one day waking up to find yourself involved in a playoff hunt and being in the mix every day, every game, with so much at stake every night you play."
It was an out-of-nowhere 14-5-1 Secretariat-like gallop down the stretch last season that very nearly propelled Edmonton into a wildly unlikely playoff spot, thanks to a combination of fresh faces and the experience gleaned by their kiddie corps in both good times and bad.
But are the Oilers really ready for prime time?
The dynamics have certainly changed in the town that crafty cartographer Wayne Gretzky and his pals put on the sporting map. Courageous losses won't cut it at The Big Drugstore anymore. Merely waging the spirited fight isn't going to be enough these days.
Edmonton, you see, has gone slightly gaga over its Oilers. So, too, have a good many hockey pundits, anointing them the bright young things of this NHL season; championing the apple-cheeked Oil to actually scale the summit of a suddenly susceptible Northwest Division.
"We hear the nice things people are saying, see what they're writing, and believe me, we appreciate them," Cogliano said. "But until we go out on the ice this year and justify any of it "
Andrew lighten up, son. You're sounding old beyond your years. What, pray tell, is there not to like about the Edmonton Oilers?
Oh, the critics may throw their prime asset -- youth -- back in their faces, and maybe this isn't the toughest or largest team to be found in the Western Conference.
But there's so, so much to recommend them.
For starters, they can boast the league's most quotable coach, Craig MacTavish, to keep the parasites of the press amused. In Steve Tambellini, the Oilers have hired a bright young GM who has learned his trade and has been waiting for this chance for a while now.
They're a franchise transformed from sellers to buyers. Gritty winger Erik Cole and puck-moving defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky add quality experience (rather than just stockpiling a few old familiar faces to show you're awake) to the cause this season. The return to health of both Shawn Horcoff and Sheldon Souray is like injecting two new, significant players into the lineup.
This is a franchise of legendary players and exploits fallen on difficult times (the blip of 2005 notwithstanding) that is threatening to rise like Lazarus. This sort of resurrectionist tale is always box-office magic; it never fails to hook us and draw us in.
And hey, there haven't been this many precocious kids in one spot since Robert Reed and Florence Henderson got together for a '70s TV sitcom. The 21-year-old Cogliano. The poised-beyond-his-19-years Sam Gagner. Robert Nilsson. Tom Gilbert on the back line. Kyle Brodziak.
Beyond the car-seat brigade is Denis Grebeshkov (only 25), big body Dustin Penner (26), Ales Hemsky (25) and Marc-Andre Pouliot (23).
The Edmonton backers out there see Cogliano making a substantive leap from his 45 points from last season, Gagner from his 49 and fellow Kid Liner Nilsson from his 41. They see a budding superstar in Hemsky and a solid grounding in a veteran supporting cast that includes Steve Staios, Ethan Moreau and Fernando Pisani.
"We let other people do the forecasting, and at times, I've almost felt the need to just calm everyone down, but we really believe we can be competitive," MacTavish said. "That said, there's a tenuous line between being a really good team and a really bad one. We should know. We were both last year."
Much of the focus on the revitalized Oil is being directed at The Kid Line.
"We kind of took over at the end," Cogliano said. "It was great experience for us, all being so young. It'll help us a ton this year. We're all good players."
But MacTavish certainly isn't about to let his glittering young talent become complacent.
"If you're looping around and building speed at the wrong time," he warned, "you'll be picking the puck out of your net a lot. You'll absolutely get crushed at this level. They've still got some learning to do in that area.
"But it's not just that line. It's everybody, all of us. It's how they come together, how we come together, that's going to determine what happens."
The key to the entire enterprise just might the continuing evolution of Mathieu Garon as a genuine No. 1 stopper in net. After being cast aside by the L.A. Kings, he went on to win 26 games and post a .913 save percentage and all four of Edmonton's shutouts last season after signing as a free agent.
At 30, Garon's no kid, and has hopped around from the NHL to the minors a lot during his career, but in a division that includes Miikka Kiprusoff and Roberto Luongo, and a conference that boasts Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Marty Turco and Evgeni Nabokov, your goaltending better be up to snuff.
Perhaps the Oilers' greatest asset in ending a two-year absence from the playoffs is Edmonton itself. This is a working-class town, a proud town, a town that's been lifted to the heights by this franchise and longs to rekindle that feeling again.
"It's great to see the city so turned on by the team," Cogliano said. "I know some of the older players kind of roll their eyes at all the attention and just want to concentrate on the job at hand. But for us young guys, it's kinda cool. It can pull you along on tough days.
"There's an energy, an enthusiasm, not only around the city, but around the organization. You feel there's such, I don't know possibilities here this year. It's hard to not to get caught up in the excitement.
"The feeling is infectious."
George Johnson, a columnist for the Calgary Herald, is a regular contributor to ESPN.com.


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Hollywood Blvd. was transformed on Monday night, it went from a thoroughfare for cars to a landing strip for planes, Disney's Planes that is. The premiere of the film, that tells the tale of the "land above Cars," brought out the stars, and lots of them, who flew down the red carpet. The voice stars were there, including Teri Hatcher, Dane Cook and Priyanka Chopra and a whole bunch of Disney fans (and parents) like Hilary Duff, Alyssa Milano and Ashlee Simpson.
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Planes star Teri Hatcher - who plays Dottie - looked AMAZING with her daughter on the red carpet.
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Alyssa Milano was at the premiere and had a very special date, her son! And seriously how cute is he?
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The gorgeous Priyanka Chopra, who lends her voice to the character Ishani in Planes, looked stunning on the red carpet.
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Ashlee Simpson wore all black to the premiere, getting in touch with her inner rocker chick, and brought her son Bronx and his pal.
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Giuliana Rancic went with a monotone color combo of black and white, with some very fierce heels.
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Shake It Up star Bella Thorne wore a flirty floral dress looking so adorable, as always.
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Hot momma Hilary Duff wore black shorts and lacy black top, and flashed her million dollar smile.
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Kendra Wilkinson wore a tweed dress and brought her hubby and adorable son along for the film flight.
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I have one word for you - Sharknado! Hot off his cult hit Sharknado, Ian Ziering hit the Planes premiere with his adorable daughter.
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Twilight dad Peter Facinelli brought his real life daughters to the event.
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Skai Jackson, who stars on Jessie, was adorable as always.
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Dane Cook is the star of the show! He has the lead role as Dusty in the film.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus 14 of 19
The one and only Julia Louis-Dreyfus has a role in Planes, she plays Rochelle in the film.
Jason Priestley 15 of 19
90210 alum Jason Priestley brought his wife and his adorable son to the event, and his son looks so excited.
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John Lasseter, the head of Pixar and Disney animation greeted his pal John Ratzenberger.
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Top Gun star Anthony Edwards has a super awesome cameo in Planes!
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Peyton List, of Disney's Jessie, rocked the red carpet in style!
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And last but not least, Kevin Nealon and his sons dressed to impress with their aviation themed outfits!
Disney's Planes opens everywhere on Augutst 9th.
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In a recent work, we introduced two models for the dynamics of customers trying to find the business that best corresponds to their expectation for the price of a commodity. In agreement with the empirical data, a power-law distribution for the business sizes was obtained, taking the number of customers of a business as a proxy for its size. Here, we extend one of our previous models in two different ways. First, we introduce a business aggregation rate that is fitness dependent, which allows us to reproduce a spread in empirical data from one country to another. Second, we allow the bankruptcy rate to take a different functional form, to be able to obtain a log-normal distribution with power-law tails for the size of the businesses.
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QR codes—those odd black-and-white checkered boxes that smart-phone users can scan for more information—are being threatened with obsolescence by a gang of ambitious new startups armed with flashier image-scanning technology. At…
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Parents can also participate in the MoChip program.
The peace of mind MoChip provides to Missouri families in invaluable. The program consists of five major components, digital photographs, digital fingerprints, vital child information and emergency contacts, a dental bite impression and two laminated ID cards. Information is burned onto a CD that is compatible with the Amber Alert system.
No parent wants to believe that the unimaginable could happen to them, though nearly 2,000 children are reported missing or abducted in the United States each day.
On the day of the event, parents are urged to gather pertinent information such as doctor, dentist, and emergency contact and phone numbers. Information collection forms and permission slips can be downloaded from the mochip.org web site and filled out ahead of time. Height charts and scales are available at the event to facilitate the most current details regarding your child. Security and privacy are of utmost importance. All information and specimens are collected on site, prossed and provided to the parent or legal guardian in a yellow envelope. At the end of the event, databases are erased.
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This column was written by CBS News Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.
I'm a baby boomer and have certain very strong feelings about rock and roll. What is — The Rolling Stones. What isn't — most everything else.
I've painstakingly passed this wisdom on to one of my sons. So when he suggested a couple of years ago that we attend an Allman Brothers concert — southern blues — in New York, I said great.
Man, were we in for a treat. Most every year, the Allmans set up camp for a couple of weeks at the old Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side. Concerts last hours, and each is its own tour de force.
We went again this year, and I'm beginning to believe their young guitarist Derek Trucks may be the best at his instrument I've ever heard. I was awestruck by his brilliant facility, but his dazzling fingers almost mask his even-more-impressive musicianship. He is an improvisational wonder — rich, death-defying blues licks infused with a catalogue of influences.
Rock legend Peter Frampton shared the stage with Trucks — and even he was blown away.
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General Information:
- Name: William Greystoke
- Origin: Lycan
- Age: 225
- Height: 6' 6"
- Weight: 265lbs
- Eye Color: Varies
- Hair Color: Brown
The Greystokes
Creatures of the night have existed for thousands of years. They are the substance of legend, nightmares come to life. Among these creatures are the lycans - immortal, shape-shifting beings who draw their power from the moon itself. Their characteristics most closely resemble those of a wolf. Of these many characteristics comes a certain "pack mentality."
Of the many various bloodlines and breeds, the Greystoke line was graced with exceptional physical and mental capabilities. Among these mental capabilities was the ability to maintain control over the beast within. Whether in the form of man or beast, their will was their own. No carnal desires overtook them; and in that regard, they slowly began to transition from man's nightmare to his protector.
However, aside from benefiting man, the abilities of the Greystoke bloodline also benefited their own kind as well. The Greystokes were able to use their minds to command their lycan kin - just as an alpha wolf asserts its dominance to control a pack. In return, lycans everywhere yielded to the mighty Greystokes and were united under one banner.
The Greystoke Patriarch, Malcolm Greystoke, took the throne as the first true King of the Lycan Underworld in A.D. 1246. In doing so, he devoted his cause to protecting mankind and ensuring the prosperity of his people. Building a stronghold in the highlands of Scotland, he called it Greystoke Manor.
An Era of War
In 1488, Malcolm and his mate conceived and an heir was born unto the Greystoke name - a son whom Malcolm named Peter. During that same year, the Lycan Underworld faced its first great threat - Vampires. For centuries, there had been an uneasy peace between the two races of immortals. Tensions had arisen concerning the existence of humans.
The lycans had been living alongside the humans in peace. Certainly, there would be the occasional rogue every now and then that had terrorized the humans - hunting them down and either turning them or devouring them. However, any attacks on humans brought down the wrath of the Greystokes. In cases such as those, King Malcolm himself would hunt down the rogues and kill them. What he did was not for the humans, but for his kin.
The humans vastly outnumbered lycans all over the globe. Collectively, their power could potentially have crushed the relatively young Lycan Underworld. Therefore, in instances where lycans went on killing sprees of human innocents, there was a potential to spread justifiable hatred towards all lycans. It benefited the lycans was a race far more to have the humans as allies, and it would keep them from the brink of extinction.
This is where the lycans and vampires had different tactics. While the lycans wanted to keep the peace and bring prolonged prosperity to all races, the vampires sought only to do so for their own; and their was no better way to do that than to subjugate the humans. Thus, they began to attack villages and storm human strongholds in Eastern Europe where they would either turn, enslave, or devour the inhabitants thereof.
At first, King Malcolm hesitated to get his people involved in a war between the vampires and humans. However, when the vampires began to attack human settlements under lycan protection, Malcolm's mind was made up and the lycans went to war.
By 1531, the war had already spread throughout the entire continent of Europe and to some parts of Asia. It was during that same year that King Malcolm Greystoke led and invasion into the East alongside his son, Prince Peter. Though he was forty-three years old, the prince was still considered young by most lycan standards.
The lycan force had marched its way east through Italy and had begun to enter lands of Austria and Hungary - known for being lands which contained many strongholds to the vampires. Under a full moon, the ferocious army of lycans were preparing to attack a fortress which housed a prestigious coven of vampires. Successfully destroying it would bring the war one step closer to coming to an end.
As they reached the castle and bombarded it with siege equipment, enemy reinforcements arrived on the scene. From behind, vampiric cavalry swept in and began to attack the rear. At that same moment, an army of defenders emptied from the bombarded keep. It was a trap, for the castle and vampire nobles presents were mere bait for the lycans. Trapped on either side, the lycans were pinned down with their king and prince caught in the middle.
Finally, a large vampiric noble by the name of Nostrovich found King Malcolm on the battlefield. As the two titans of their races collided, it was not long before the mighty lycan king dominated his vampire foe. Yet, just as King Malcolm was about to deliver the killer blow to his enemy, several vampires armed with crossbows took aim. Malcolm was stopped as several silver-tipped bolts pierced his body, and he fell to his knees.
From across the moonlit battlefield, young Prince Peter watched as the cold Nostrovich elder rose up and moved towards the helpless lycan king. Caught in his own fight, Peter desperately tried to break away and tear through the masses in order to come to his father's aid; but he was too late. In agony, he watched the Nostrovich elder brandish a sword and behead the Greystoke patriarch... Alas, the mighty king was dead and the lycan army began to fall back.
It was in that moment, when all hope was lost, that Peter threw down his weapons and transformed into his true lycan state. Leaping across the battlefield with an unbridled fury, the Greystoke Legacy tore down every vampire in his way. When he reached to Nostrovich elder, the vampire tried to fight back, but to no avail. Peter's wrath was too strong. Striking away the vampire's sword, Peter sank his large canine fangs into the throat of his enemy and ripped it out. Then, taking hold of the head with his sharp talons, the lycan lord literally ripped the vampire's head away from his shoulders and avenged his father.
Covered in blood, Peter looked up at the moon and let out a long, deep howl. It was at that moment when the lycans halted their retreat and rallied behind their prince-turned-king. Though they were outnumbered, the lycans banded together and tore through the vampires' forces with raw ferocity. When dawn came, the castle had fallen to the lycans and not a single vampire remained alive on the premise. What few nobles had survived made their way through underground tunnels to safety. The tunnels were then caved in so that the relentless lycans could not follow. That day marked not only the fall of the Nostrovich Clan, but as the day that one king died and another one was born. Thus, Peter Greystoke took his place as the next King of the Lycan Underworld.
William Greystoke
Eventually, the Lycan Underworld had begun to expand into an actual empire. For over two hundred years, King Peter Greystoke increased the lycans' holdings by more than ten fold. His reign had been defined by the eternal feud between the vampires and lycans. Not only had he defended Greystoke Manor and many human settlements from the attack of vampires, but he took a more proactive approach to the war.
Rather than waiting for the vampires to make their move, he actively sought out their covens and began to hunt them down. Hence, many of his enemies began to call King Peter Greystoke "The Hunter." Over time, that title defined him and became like a mantle... an idea that resembled the spirit of the lycan race under King Peter's rule. Even his own personal guards which accompanied him on various missions and conquests were referred to as "hunters."
Yet, despite the amounts of wealth and plunder gained from the war with the vampires, Peter continued to honor his father's law by continuing his protection of the humans. The role of the lycans throughout history had been to protect mankind, not to rule or subjugate it. As part of its territorial growth, the Lycan Underworld expanded throughout the entire continent of Europe and even parts of Asia and Africa - though forever keeping its capital as the original Greystoke Manor.
In 1787, Peter decided that the time was right to produce another heir to the throne. Therefore, he and his mate conceived and brought forth a son whom Peter named William. Indeed, the Greystokes had become a true aristocracy as William was the first to be born into a world of plenty. Despite being an aristocrat, William was brought up with rigorous training as he was groomed to be a future king.
His training consisted of a strict regime of mental, physical, and psychological training. A typical day of study would begin with physical training, followed by academics (mathematics, language, philosophy, etc.), then more physical training before the day's end. Academics would include principles of economics, philosophy, and military strategy - highly beneficial for a future king. His physical training was broken down into conditioning and combat. The conditioning focused on balance, agility, and learning to control his powers. The combat training was broken down into unarmed combat, armed combat, and then a mixture of both. For decades, William was periodically sent across the globe in order to master new forms of combat - just as his father did before him.
Because the young prince displayed such great progression in his training, King Peter allowed William to accompany him to battle when he was fully grown. Remarkably, William kept calm in battle and handled the experience well. For twenty more years, Peter and William went to battle alongside one another. Once he was experienced enough, William was given command of his father's armies and began to travel the globe in a conquest against the vampires alone.
As time went on, the weapons became more sophisticated and the lycans adapted. Swords and shields had begun to be replaced with firearms and cartridges. Muzzle-loaded cannons had been replaced with more modern automatic artillery. In addition, the use of stealth became more and more widely used. Large battles that had once involved thousands of warriors had become small incursions involving no more than thirty on either side.
By 1930, the Lycan Underworld had become one of the most powerful empires on the planet. Yet, it had grown to the point where it interacted vastly with the economy and even the stock market. Even when markets all over the world crashed, the lycans were affected. Nevertheless, they had prevailed. In deed, their power had greatly resembled the might and glory that was once Rome.
Yet, even Rome fell eventually...
By 1940, the entire world was going to war. As the famous Blitz was executed, Germany tried to subdue the might of Great Britain. Of all the factions of the Underworld, the Lycans were still the most prevalent class of immortals. Once regarded as dogs which haunted caves and sewers, their aristocracy had become notoriously famous to those of "certain circles."
One night, William had returned home to a hero's welcome at Greystoke Manor. The occasion was his latest victory in Romania where he had eliminated a notorious clan of vampires who had enslaved the human inhabitants of the land for centuries. Yet, as he entered the great throne room of Greystoke Manor, he walked in on a meeting between King Peter, the lycan court, and a group of humans.
Faithfully taking his place at his father's side, the prince listened to what the humans had to say. Though he did not know which group they represented, they spoke of the current situation of the world. Sure enough, mankind's greatest war was on the horizon. The representative spoke of the aftermath of the war, saying that the world itself would be in a state of shambles. Furthermore, he said that the world would be ripe for the taking. He then extended his hand towards the lycan king and offered an alliance. If the Lycan Underworld were to join this "Order" of his, then they would share in the ownership of a new world.
King Peter wisely declined, stating that it was not the lycans' purpose to dominate men; but to make sure that no one else would. The human thought for a moment, then stated that those who did not stand by the "Order" would stand against it. Immediately, William moved forward to strike down this mere human who dared to threaten his father; but King Peter placed his hand on his son's shoulder and kept him at bay.
As the humans left, William turned to his father and said, "Why did you allow them to leave?! They threatened you! They threatened us!"
"True." King Peter replied. "But time will tell if these humans reveal themselves to be an actual threat, my son."
"Who were those men anyway?" William asked.
"Templars..." Peter replied to his son.
"Weren't the Templars down away with? How does a dead society expect to wield any real power... especially against our empire?"
"Trust me, my son... That society never died in the first place..."
With that, William was told to ignore the matter and attend unto his reception. Late into the night, while his father and the other members of the council dealt with more pressing matters, William Greystoke celebrated with his friends and comrades. After drunken bouts of sparring with his lycan kin and carousing with several females, William and his peers fell asleep in the great hall.
The next morning, William awoke naked on a table with two females wrapped in a tablecloth next to him. He paused as he heard a distant rumbling and humming sound in the distance. Just as it became louder, a large explosion rocked the hall. Large bombs filled with shards of silver nitrate were being dropped down upon Greystoke Manor by airplanes.
Immediately, alarms were raised and the Lycans took their positions to defend Greystoke Manor. From the sky, dozens of bombers rained down explosives packed with shards of silver. Upon detonation, any lycans that were hit by the shrapnel could not heal properly. Therefore, normal explosions dealt far greater damage. To make matters worse, it took place during a time with there was a new moon in the sky - meaning that the lycans were already in their weakest state.
Across the sea, large battleships fired their massive guns at Greystoke Manor from miles away - cutting off an escape by sea. Cutting off the land routes was a massive army consisting of nearly fifty tanks and nearly a dozen heavy artillery units. During the onslaught, Peter found his son and told him to take a group of survivors and escape through hidden passages into the mountains.
As William gathered survivors, King Peter led an attack to divert the enemies' attention. Meanwhile, William assisted members of the council and other survivors to get to safety. Nearly an hour later, there was barely anything left of Greystoke Manor. The cannons had ceased fire; and amid the smoke and fire, King Peter finally emerged. However, he was chained down like a dog. His body was covered in gunshot wounds and a tight moon shackle was secured around his neck - preventing him from transforming into a more powerful state.
Behind him, the same man who had been in the lycan court the night before kicked King Peter down to his knees and yelled, "DO YOU SEE YOUR KING?! This is what happens to those who oppose the ORDER... I thought this mongrel had a SON... Come out now... Your father NEEDS you..." With that, the man pulled out a Webley revolver and put it up to the back of Peter's head - no doubt loaded with silver nitrate rounds.
From a far off distance, William watched as his father's suffering. Every fiber of his being wanted to race back and tear off that man's throat; but an older member of the council stopped him, stating that it was a trap. If William rushed in, both he and his father would be killed - destroying the Greystoke Legacy and thus leaving the lycans scattered and leaderless. Therefore, he was forced to watch as the man emptied the revolver's cylinder into the back of Peter Greystoke's head - killing the lycan king. With that, the man gave a signal and the bombardment concluded. In a matter of seconds, the once glorious Greystoke Manor was reduced to ash.
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Banished, poor, and homeless, all that William Greystoke had left of the once powerful lycan empire were a few of the elders from the council and a handful of his father's old relics (saved by one of the elders). On that day, William's entire world came crashing down. All that he had once held dear and all that he knew had been torn away from him. He vowed revenge on the ones who had done this to him... the ones who had destroyed his family... his home... his people...
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Sustained silent reading time is very beneficial to students. It is not about picking a book for them and seeing where their reading levels may fall or how much they are comprehending. It is about being exposed to different types of print or texts. On average adolescents learn 3,000 new words year. Now I do not know a single teacher who can teach this many words, but it is done through exposure to new words through reading. You could combine free writes with SSR time and have students journal about what it is they are reading and go from there.


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I assume you are writing a server type application (lets leave Web apps for a while - there are some good off the shelf solutions that can help there, so lets look at the "i've got this great new type of server I have write", but I want it to be HA problem).
In a server implementation, the requests from clients are usually (in some form or another) converted to some event or command type pattern, and are then executed on one or more queue's.
So, first problem - need to store events/commands in a manner that will survive in the cluster (ie. when a new node takes over as master , it looks at the next command that needs executing and begins).
Lets start with a single threaded server impl (the easiest - and concepts still apply to multi-threaded but its got its own set of issues0. When a command is being processed need some sort of transaction processing.
Another concern is managing side effects and how do you handle failure of the current command ? Where possible, handle side effects in a transactional manner, so that they are all or nothing. ie. if the command changes state variables, but crashes half way through execution, being able to return to the "previous" state is great. This allows the new master node to resume the crashed command and just re-run the command. A good way again is breaking a side effects into smaller tasks that can again be run on any node. ie. store the main request start and end tasks, with lots of little tasks that handle say only one side effect per task.
This also introduces other issues which will effect your design. Those state variables are not necessarily databases updates. They could be shared state (say a finite state machine for an internal component) that needs to also be distributed in the cluster. So the pattern for managing changes such that the master code must see a consistent version of the state it needs, and then committing that state across the cluster. Using some form of immutable (at least from the master thread doing the update) data storage is useful. ie. all updates are effectively done on new copies that must go through some sort of mediator or facade that only updates the local in memory copies with the updates after updating across the cluster (or the minimum number of members across the cluster for data consistency).
Some of these issues are also present for master worker systems.
Also need good error management as the number of things that can go wrong on state update increases (as you have the network now involved).
I use the state pattern a lot. Instead of one line updates, for side effects you want to send requests/responses, and use conversation specific fsm's to track the progress.
Another issue is the representation of end points. ie. client connected to master node needs to be able to reconnect to the new master, and then listen for results ? Or do you simply cancel all pending results and let the clients resubmit ? If you allow pending requests to be processed, a nice way to identify endpoints (clients) is needed (ie. some sort of client id in a lookup).
Also need cleanup code etc (ie. don't want data waiting for a client to reconnect to wait forever).
Lots of queue are used. A lot of people will therefore using some message bus (jms say for java) to push events in a transactional manner.
Terracotta (again for java) solves a lot of this for you - just update the memory - terracotta is your facade/mediator here. They have just inject the aspects for your.
Terracotta (i don't work for them) - introduces the concept of "super static", so you get these cluster wide singletons that are cool, but you just need to be aware how this will effect testing and development workflow - ie. use lots of composition, instead of inheritance of concrete implementations for good reuse.
For web apps - a good app server can help with session variable replication and a good load balancer works. In someways, using this via a REST (or your web service method of choice) is a an easy way to write a multi-threaded service. But it will have performance implications. Again depends on your problem domain.
Messages serves (say jms) are often used to introduce a loose coupling between different services. With a decent message server, you can do a lot of msg routing (again apache camel or similar does a great job) ie. say a sticky consumer against a cluster of jms producers etc. that can also allow for good failover. Jms queue's etc can provide a simple way to distribute cmds in the cluster, indept of master / slave. (again it depends on if you are doing LOB or writing a server / product from scratch).
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One approach to creating reliable software is crash-only software:
I'd recommend having a read of Release it! by Michael Nygard. He outlines a number of anti-patterns that impact production systems, and patterns to help prevent one errant component from taking the whole system down. The book covers three major areas; Stability, Capacity and General Design (covering Networking, Security, Availability and Administration).
My previous workplace was bitten (at one time or another) by pretty much every single failure scenario Nygard outlines (with loss of revenue for each resulting outage). Implementing some of the techniques and patterns he suggests resulted in significantly more stable and predictable systems (and yes, the book is a little Java centric, but the principles are applicable in many contexts).
Designing high availability (HA) systems is an active research and development area. If you look at ACM or IEEE, there are a ton of research papers on qualities of service (availability, reliability, scalability, etc.) and how to achieve them (loose coupling, adaptation, etc.). If you're looking more for practical applications, take a look at fault tolerant systems and middleware that is built to allow clustering, grid, or cloud like functionality.
Replication and load balancing (a.k.a. reverse proxy) are some of the most common patterns of achieving HA systems, and can often be done without making code changes to the underlying software assuming it is not too tightly coupled. Even a lot of the recent cloud offerings are achieved essentially through replication and load balancing, although they tend to build in elasticity to handle wide ranges of system demand.
Making software components stateless eases the burden of replication, as the state itself doesn't need to be replicated along with the software components. Statelessness is one of the major reasons that HTTP scales so well, but it often requires applications to add on their own state (e.g. sessions) which then needs to be replicated.
Therefore, it is easier to make loosely coupled systems highly available than tightly coupled systems. Since reliability of the system's components determine the overall system reliability, components that are unreliable may need to be replaced (hardware failures, software bugs, etc). Allowing for dynamic adaptation at runtime lets these failed components to be replaced without affecting the availability of the overall system. Loose coupling is another reason for the use of reliable messaging systems where the sender and receiver do not have to be available at the same time, but the system itself is still available.
As I understand it, you're looking for specific patterns to use in java applications part of an HA architecture. Of course there's a numerous number of patterns and best practices that can be used, but these aren't really "HA patterns". Rather, they're good ideas that can be utilized in manys contexts.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this: A high availability architecture is composed of numerous small parts. If we pick one of these small parts and examine them, we'll probably find that there's no magical HA attributes to this small component. If we examine all the other components we'll find the same thing. It's when they're combined in an intelligent manner thay the become an HA application.
An HA application is an application where you plan for the worst from the beginning. If you ever think in terms of "This component is so stable that we don't need additional redundancy for it" it's probably not a HA architecture. After all, it's easy to handle the problem scenarios that you foresee. It's the one that surprises you that brings down the system.
Despite all this, there are patterns that are especially useful in HA contexts. Many of them are documented in the classic book "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler.
I am interpreting "High Availability" as "Zero Downtime"`, which can be implemented as per other SE question :
Zero downtime deployment for Java apps
I will use some of those concepts to come up with design patterns for High Availability system from software perspective, which compliments above approaches.
Patterns to use:
Have a proxy object and proxy will decide where to redirect the requests. Assume that you have Version 1 & Version 2 of software. If clients are connecting with old protocol, redirect them to Version 1 software. New Clients can connect to Version 2 directly. Proxy can have either Factory method or AbstractFactory to render new version of software.
You can change algorithm at run time by selecting one algorithm from a family of algorithms. If you take airlines example, you can switch between DiscountFare and NormalFare algorithms during Non-peak and Peak traffic months.
You can change the behaviour of object at run time. Add a new class and decorate additional responsibility.
Useful when you change interface or contract between version 1 and version 2. Adapter will respond to both old & new client requests appropriately.
General guidelines:
Refer to sourcemaking website articles for above patterns for better understanding.
What not to use:
Apart from design patterns, you have to take some precautions to achieve zero downtime for your application.
High availability is more about hardware availability and redundancy than about coding conventions. There are a couple patterns that I would use in almost every HA case: I would choose the singleton pattern for my database object and use the factory pattern to create the singleton. The factory can then have the logic to handle availability issues with the database (which is where most availability problems happen). For instance, if the Master is down, then connect to a second Master for both reads and writes until the Master is back. I don't know if these are the most leveraged patterns, but they are the most leveraged in my code.
Of course this logic could be handled in a __construct method, but a factory pattern will allow you to better control your code and the decision-making logic of how to handle database connectivity issues. A factory will also allow you to better handle the singleton pattern.
I would absolutely avoid the decorator pattern, and the observer pattern. They both create complexity in your code that makes it difficult to maintain. Their are cases where these are the best choice for your needs, but most of the time they are not.


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Art Show and Sale Central New York Art Guild members will be holding their popular Spring Fine Arts Show and Sale at The Aspen House, Willett Parkway, Radisson, Saturday, April 18th and Sunday, April 19th, from 1:00 to 4:30 pm both days. Guild Members from all over Central New York will be showcasing Photography, Watercolor, Acrylics, Oils Pastels, Ceramics and More. There will be a Drawing held for original art work. Refreshments will be served. Proceeds of the raffle benefit the guild sponsored High School Student Exhibition held each spring at the Edgewood Gallery in Syracuse. This is a wonderful experience for the students and gives them a taste of exhibiting in a professional setting.
start date: Nov 21 2014
end date: Nov 23 2014
event type: Shows and Festivals with Arts and Crafts vendors
Rochester Museum & Science Center
657 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
contact: Christine DeTurck
times: Friday 5-9, Saturday 9:30 to 5, Sunday 11-4
44th annual Holiday Bazaar featuring more than 200 fine artists and craftspeople who create paintings, ceramics, glass, printmaking, woodwork, photography, sculpture, jewelry, fiber arts and more.
start date: Oct 11 2014
end date: Oct 11 2014
event type: Shows and Festivals with Arts and Crafts vendors
West Elmira Fire Department
1299 West Water Street
Elmira, NY 14905
contact: Caitlin DeFilippo
(607) 481-1874
times: 10:00 AM -- 3:00 PM
26th Annual West Elmira Fire Department Auxiliary Fall Craft Fair Please join us for this long-standing, well-attended event. As usual, this is an all-indoors event and as such, we are impervious to weather! Admission is free to event-goers and we will be offering our popular lunch counter. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com to request an application and further information. We hope you can join us!
start date: Oct 11 2014
end date: Oct 11 2014
event type: Shows and Festivals with Arts and Crafts vendors
443 Coleman Ave.
Elmira, NY
Elmira, NY 14903
contact: Ian McLaughlin
(607) 732-6060
times: The festival runs from 1pm-4pm
ARTISTS: We are looking for wood carvers from the Elmira NY or Southern Tier NY area, and to be up front, we don't have a budget to compensate your time. We will feed you and let you advertise your arts as much as you want. Great opportunity for new artists!!! The first annual Mountain Music Festival at Tanglewood Nature Center! Celebrate the natural and cultural heritage of Elmira! We will have historical re-enactors, storytellers, chainsaw carvers and/or wood carvers, fiddlers, and a variety of arts and crafts that make up Chemung County's history. This is a family friendly autumn celebration.
start date: Oct 4 2014
end date: Oct 5 2014
event type: Shows and Festivals with Arts and Crafts vendors
Canandaigua, NY 14424
contact: Nancy Napurski
(585) 967-3348
times: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Naples Open Studio Trail (NOST) is a group of dynamic, innovative artists located in the Finger Lakes. During the first weekend of every October, these artists invite the public to their homes and studios to share their craft, demonstrate how they work, and create a better understanding of the arts. During the Open Studio Trail Weekend, visitors can stop by all the studios or only those that strike a particular art interest, and many of our artists conduct captivating demonstrations. They work in oils, glass, ceramics, metal, wood, textiles, and leather, and create paintings, sculpture, wearables, furniture, jewelry, housewares, etc. These artists typically sell their wares in galleries and craft fairs; during NOST, purchases and commissions can be made directly with the artist. The Open Studio Trail is a free, two-day event with studios open from 10:00-5:00 both days.
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Moortown Lodge is an AA 4 gold star, Georgian c1760 B&B, highly commended by the AA and recommended by The Michelin Guide.
Welcome to Moortown Lodge
At Moortown Lodge you can be sure of a warm welcome and a relaxed friendly atmosphere. We provide a high standard of guest accommodation and have been awarded the AA 4 Gold Star "Highly Commended" rating, the Trip Advisor "2014 Certificate of Excellence" and are also recommended by the Michelin Guide.
Our family run B & B accommodation offers seven en-suite rooms, all of which are equipped with flat screen TV with DVD player, free WiFi, bath robes, luxury toiletries and tea and coffee making facilities. Our delicious traditional English breakfasts are cooked to order.
Once a Georgian hunting lodge, Moortown Lodge is located on the B3347, half a mile south of the A31 at Ringwood, the historic market town at the Western Gateway to the New Forest National Park. Conveniently located for Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Salisbury and Southampton, all within 20 minutes by car, this makes Moortown Lodge the perfect stop-over for business people as well as an excellent base for touring and leisure visitors. There are special arrangements for our guests wishing to use the bar and restaurant in the adjacent private David Lloyd Leisure Club and, for a small concessionary fee, guests may use the clubs outstanding range of sports and recreational facilities. Owners Jacqueline and Leslie Rice look forward to welcoming you to the Moortown Lodge soon.
Rooms from £75.00. Please call 01425 471 404 for more information.
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Facilities include a bar, restaurant, gymnasium, swimming pool and racquet sports.
"Really lovely spot close to the New Forest. Very nice room and super comfortable bed. Breakfast was terrific and the owner was really helpful when we checked in early to get ready for a wedding".
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- AED storage cabinet with steel body for strength, and with alarm to notify individuals within hearing range of potential emergency
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- Alarm emits a sound that ranges from 85 to 120 dBA when door is opened, and can be configured to be turned off automatically or manually
- Clear acrylic window and red lettering facilitate visual identification of AED
- Four holes punched in back of cabinet for wall-mount, instructions included, fasteners and tools sold separately
First Voice TS180SM-1 Medium Surface Mounted AED Cabinet with Alarm, 14" Width x 14" Height x 6.25" Depth
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The First Voice TS180SM-1 is a surface-mounted wall cabinet with an alarm for holding and storing an automated external defibrillator (AED). This cabinet has a steel body for strength, and an alarm to notify individuals who are within hearing range of a potential emergency if the door is opened. The alarm on this cabinet operates either on a 9V battery (included) or it can be hard-wired to a building security system (instructions included). When connected to a battery, the alarm emits a sound that ranges from 85 to 120 decibels (dBA) when the door is opened, and chirps when the battery is low. When connected to a security system, the alarm emits a sound at 120 dBA when the door is opened. The alarm can be configured to shut off automatically either 30 seconds or three minutes after the door is opened, or it can be configured to be shut off manually either with a key or when the door is closed. This cabinet has a white enamel finish that resists corrosion, and a clear acrylic window and red lettering to facilitate visual identification of the AED. Four holes are punched in the back of this cabinet for a wall-mount. Mounting instructions are included, and fasteners and tools are sold separately. Assembly is required for the handle and door latch on this cabinet. Assembly instructions are included, assembly tools are sold separately. This cabinet measures 14 x 14 x 6-1/4 inches (H x W x D). (H is height, the vertical distance from lowest to highest point; W is width, the horizontal distance from left to right; D is depth, the horizontal distance from front to back.)
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This. Think how much RedBul would pay for that! How expensive was this road to make?
Amazing work! Can't wait for more...
I'd have to drive both, but damn that looks good. Might be hard to beat.
There's no way he wants $85K for a $14K car with a poorly executed $14K kit.
At $8,500 you could probably restore and flip it for a small profit though.
Makes me miss driving a low Euro.
Makes me miss driving a low car.
Makes me miss Vegas.
The people there are awesome. Made a lot of friends out there just by showing up to a GTG in a rental.
I looked at a few two years ago, but they were priced in the high 20s with 50K+ miles; they hardly depreciate at all.
I vote to sell it while they're still exceedingly overpriced. I do like them...
G FY G = Glorify God
Like, I get it, but I don't get it.
That's me!
People yell at me for speeding all the time. I have stock exhaust, usually in a higher gear than I should be, and I don't speed in neighborhoods. Her opinion might be damning, but it's not...
That's a pretty weak way to have a run-in with the police. Stupid kids were stupid, and rage-cop is full of rage.
Would have been a whole lot better if the cop calmly requested the two yutes back to...
We can't stop here. This is bat country.
Or a Fox Body.
Agreed, but in TCL it's bad form to post your own in threads like that. I was scolded for sharing my R0FL plate on my air-bagged Passat.
I do see people behind me taking a picture of my license...
Cleaned up now, this was a couple of snows ago.
Blueteeth integration shouldn't be a deal breaker. Not with stuff like this that work great.
I got a Mustang GT. The original tires don't last long, so I got all-seasons. It works fine in < 4" snow. I mean, honestly it sucks even in the rain, but you can still get to work.
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Released: Oct 17th, 2008
Running Time: 209 Min.
Director: Manuel Ferrara
Companies: Manuel Ferrara Productions, Evil Angel
Distribution Companies: Evil Angel
DVD Extras: Behind the Scenes, Fetish Menus, Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s)
Cast: DELETED Francesca Lé, Ramon Nomar, Loona Lux, Ian Scott, Jada Fire, Toni Ribas, David Perry, Jandi Lin, Kelly Divine, Manuel Ferrara, Katie Cummings, Chayse Evans
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: All-Sex
Francesca Lé steals the show in this series of super-hot sex vignettes.
Vol. 8 of Manuel Ferrara's series is dominated by woman on fire Francesca Lé, who burns up the pixels every time she's on screen. That's practically every second of a long scene that starts with her brutally dominating bound and ball-gagged Loona Lux and winds up with both taking the huge dick of Ian Scott, Francesca in the pussy, Loona in the butt.
Jada Fire plays a no-nonsense madam who makes top ho Chayse Evans work for her money with client Ferrara. Cutie pie newcomer Katie Cummings gets a twat full of Spanish cock from Ramon Nomar and Toni Ribas.


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CANNES JOURNAL; Directors, Out of Character, Try Charting New Courses
By ELVIS MITCHELL
Published: May 25, 2000
CANNES, France, May 24— When the film festival here features as many major directors taking their work in new directions as this year's did, that's notable.
The collection included a soulful action film by the master of comedy of manners, Ang Lee, ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,'' which featured Chow Yun Fat brimming with physical grace and was held together by an ethereal calm as its battlers soared through the air. There was ''Nurse Betty,'' a comedy with a warm touch by the director-provocateur Neil LaBute.
And there were movies from three major filmmakers that tried to expand the horizons of the musical: Lars Von Trier's ''Dancer in the Dark,'' Wong Kar-wei's ''In the Mood for Love'' and Joel and Ethan Coen's ''Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?'' Two of those musical departures, ''Dancer'' and ''Mood,' received major recognition from the jury at the festival, which ended on Sunday.
''Dancer,'' which won the Palme d'Or and the best actress award for its star, Bjork, in her acting debut, is a melodrama with musical elements. For Mr. Von Trier, trying something new did not seem to cause the slightest furrow in his brow.
''I'm completely sure I'm doing wonderful things,'' he said, a nervous smile playing around the corners of his mouth. ''That's because my mother always said I was doing wonderful things. Even Napoleon's mother said: 'No, no. You're tall!' ''
It is the first time that Mr. Von Trier has used musical scenes in a film, and he disturbed some conventions of the form. Except for the musical numbers that erupt from the imagination of Bjork's character, the film has no music, not even an underscore. Such music irritates him, he said, calling it cheap manipulation. ''I'm cheating people in smarter ways,'' he added.
''Dancer'' had its first public showing here, and the movie, in which Bjork plays Selma, a woman slowly going blind and working several shifts to raise money for an operation that can save her son's sight, left some in the audience sobbing. The film has plot gambits that would have seemed shameless even in the silent era. Selma is the lead in her small town's production of ''The Sound of Music'' -- it's one of the few things that keeps her going -- and she stars in big musical numbers in her imagination.
This could be Mr. Von Trier's ''Pennies From Heaven,'' the BBC series by Dennis Potter in which full-scale musical numbers exploded in the characters' minds as a way of relieving the gloom of their existence. But Mr. Von Trier said: ''I wasn't fond of 'Pennies.' I don't like making fun of genres, which maybe he was.''
In Selma, ''Dancer'' carries on the tradition of the suffering female protagonist. ''She loves Technicolor musicals and human beings with flaws,'' Mr. Von Trier said. The decisions she makes send her spiraling into tragedy. ''From a logical point of view, the women have a choice,'' he added. ''From their point of view, they don't have a choice. It's a very romantic thing.''
Mr. Von Trier may have found his battles with Bjork neither romantic nor logical. She submerged herself so deeply into the character that she seemed to feel he was her torturer. The director said he had feared that the strains would wreck his career and his marriage. As a line goes in a song she sang with her old band, the Sugarcubes: ''This wasn't supposed to happen.''
Bjork is evidently as controlling and stubborn as he is, though in ''Dancer'' she chose to play a character with no control, one whose life contrasts with her own powerful and affirming pop music. Perhaps the most striking thing about her speaking voice is how similar it is to her singing.
The picture introduces Selma and others rehearsing ''My Favorite Things.'' It's a moving, rough-hewn opening that will feel like a new Bjork demo to her fans. To the uninitiated it will be a riveting insight into Selma's fervor. Mr. Von Trier has an instinct for drawing audiences into his work.
No Monologues
For Mr. LaBute the Cannes festival provided a rare chance to present a film that he hadn't written. ''Nurse Betty,'' received the writing award for its script, by John C. Richards. ''I read it and thought it was more charming than anything I'd write,'' the director said.
''Betty'' is a road comedy starring Renee Zellweger as a traumatized woman who believes she's a character from her favorite soap opera and who heads west to meet the show's star (Greg Kinnear) while being followed by a pair of hit men (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock). ''This movie has the first girl character in one of my movies who's not a victim, and maybe that's because I didn't write it,'' Mr. LaBute continued. ''I liked that aspect and didn't want to muddy the waters by getting my hands in it.''
This film has a thematic similarity to Mr. LaBute's ''In the Company of Men'' and ''Your Friends and Neighbors,'' in that the protagonist is looking to change her life and intent on finding what she needs.
''It's true, everyone is searching for an ideal in this one,'' he said. ''It's something I see in myself.''
Mr. LaBute said he was intrigued by the script because the central character, Betty, was an innocent who survived because of her purity, embodied by Ms. Zellweger.


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My DNS server went belly up last week so I've rebuilt it using the following tutorial DNS Tutorial.
I don't know what how I have setup it up different from the last time I configured it (I did use a different tutorial but I didn't save it) but I use to be able to connect to other pcs & servers just by specifying the machine name i.e. a http connection would be
Now with my newly configured server I have connect using the following method to connect to them i.e. a http connection is now
Can somebody help to shed some light on this for me? I've obviously done something or not done something which I did last time and I have spent too much time trying to find where I have gone wrong now.


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