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Enterprise monitoring needs over the years have been addressed by Microsoft Systems Centre Operations Manager to a large extent. The problem however is that SCOM produces a lot of noise and the data could very quickly become irrelevant for producing any actionable information. IT teams very easily fall in the trap of configuring SCOM for every possible scheme of alerts, but do not put effective mechanisms in place to improve the alert to noise ratio by creating usable knowledge base out of the alerts that are generated by SCOM. Splunk and its cloud avatar, Hunk could be very useful in the following aspects:
In your enterprise, Splunk could be positioned in a layer above SCOM, where it gets the alert log as input for processing and analysis. This pair can be used to address the following enterprise monitoring needs of an organization:
Using Splunk in conjunction with SCOM provides you a very robust enterprise monitoring infrastructure. That said, the true benefit of this stack can be realized only with an appropriate architecture for alert design, a process guidance on thresholds, and identification of key performance indicators to improve the signal to noise ratio.
In Visual Studio 2013, the team unified the performance and diagnostics experience (memory profiling, etc.) under one umbrella and named it Performance and Diagnostics Hub. Available under the Debug menu, this option reduces lot of clutter in terms of profiling client and server side code during a debug operation. There was lot of visual noise in the IDE in the 2012 version and the hub is a significant addition in improving developer productivity.
In the Performance and Diagnostics hub, you may select the target, and specify the performance tools with which you would want to run diagnostics. There are various tools that you can use to start capturing the performance matrices like CPU Usage and Memory Allocation. You can collect CPU utilization matrices on a Windows forms based or WPF application.
The latest release of Update 3 brings with it some key enhancements to the CPU and memory usage tools. In the CPU usage tool, you can now right-click on a function name that was captured as part of the diagnostics and click View Source. This will allow you to easily navigate to the code that is consuming CPU in your application. The memory usage tool now allows you to capture memory usage for Win32 and WPF applications.
The hub will also allow you to figure hot paths in the application code that might be causing more CPU cycles and may need refactoring.
You can also look for functions that is doing most work as illustrated in the figure below.
Overall, the Performance and Diagnostics hub has become a useful arsenal for developer productivity and catering to non-functional aspects of the application scope.
Microsoft Azure Service Bus Event Hubs provide a topic based publish/subscribe messaging platform that allows for high throughput and low latency message processing. A preview version has been recently released by the Microsoft Azure team.
Event Hubs is a component of the service bus, and works alongside service bus topics and queues. Event Hubs provide a perfect platform for collecting event streams from multiple devices and sending them to an analytics engine for processing. This makes it ideal for an Internet of Things (IoT) scenario, where you can capture events from various connected devices and make meaningful decisions based on the ingested event stream.
You can also make use of analytics on the ingress to perform tenant billing, and performance monitoring amongst many possibilities. Event Hubs not only provide a reliable message processing platform, but also support durability for a predefined retention period allowing consumers to connect back in case of a failure.
An Event Hub is part of a Service Bus namespace, and typically consists of a Publisher Policy, Consumer Groups and Partition Keys. A publisher is a logical concept for publishing a message into an Event Hub, and a consumer is a logical concept for receiving messages. Partition allows for scaling Event Hubs and subscribers connect to a partition. Events in a partition are also ordered for delivery.
Currently the supported protocols for pub-sub are HTTP and AMQP. Note that for receiving data only AMQP is currently supported.
The Azure Service Bus NuGet package provides the EventProcessorHost and the EventHubClient API to process messages and send messages to the hub respectively. To start a host that can listen for incoming messages you can create a new instance of the EventProcessorHostas shown below:
host = new EventProcessorHost(
storageConnectionString, eventHubName.ToLowerInvariant());
Note that it is a good practice to share the hub name in lowercase to avoid any case conflicts on names that the subscribers may present. You need to provide the connection strings for the event hub on the service bus namespace, the storage connection string for the queue, the name of the consumer group and a host name. You can then create a processor factory implementation using the IEventProcessorFactory interface to provide a factory implementation for processing the incoming messages. The host instance can then register the factory to listen for ingress using the RegisterEventProcessorFactoryAsync method. Similarly from the client, you can create an instance of the Event Hub Client using the EventHubClient.CreateFromConnectionString method, and then start sending messages using the SendAsync method that the client exposes.
In the previous post you learned how to setup an Express Node.js application in Microsoft Azure and also make it a unit of continuous deployment using Git. An Express Node.js application in silos without a data store to back it is not very useful. In this post you will explore setting up a MongoDB database using the Microsoft Azure marketplace that can then act as a repository for your Express Node.js web application to store large scale unstructured data. Hosted in Azure, it is limited only by the ability of the platform to scale, which is virtually infinite.
The first thing you would need to do is to subscribe to the MongoLab service from the Microsoft Azure store. MongoLab is a fully hosted MongoDB cloud database that is available with all the major cloud providers, including Azure.
To add MongoLab service to your subscription, click New in your management portal, and select the Store (preview) option.
Note that, depending on your subscription, the store may or may not be available to you. Reach out to Azure support if you need more details.
Find MongoLab from under the App Services category in the store and select to add it to your subscription.
500 MB is free to use. Enter your subscription details in the form that is presented and then click Purchase to complete the operation of adding it to your subscription. You can now use the Mongoose Node.js driver to connect to the MongoLab service database and start storing your model data.
To install the Mongoose driver, run the following command in your console:
npm install mongoose –save
You are now all set to connect to the MongoDB database hosted in Azure. Get the connection string for the hosted instance and then use it in your express Node.js application controller code:
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('[connection string]');
You can use the model function to get associate a model with the Mongoose schema and then perform your operations on the model data.
Express is a powerful, yet lightweight and flexible web application framework for Node.js. In this post we will explore how you can create and deploy an express application in Microsoft Azure.
First and foremost you need Node.js. Once you have installed Node.js, use the command prompt to install Express.
npm install express
You can also use the –g switch to install express globally rather than to a specific directory.
In addition, you will need to create a web site in Microsoft Azure that will host the application. If you have the Azure SDK for Node.js then you would already have the command line tools, but if not, use the following command to install the Azure command line tool:
npm install azure-cli
Once you have installed Node.js, use the command prompt to create the Express scaffolding using the express command. This will install the scaffolding templates for views, controllers and other relevant resources with Jade and Stylus support:
express --css stylus [Your App Name]
Next, run the install command to install the dependencies
npm install
This command will install the additional dependencies that are required by Express. The express command creates a package.json file that will be used by the Azure command tool to deploy the application and the dependencies in Azure.
The express command creates a folder structure for views, controllers and models to which you can add your own. To modify the default view, you can edit the index.jade file under the views folder and add your own mark-up code. The app.js file under the application folder will contain an instance of express:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
You can now use VERBs to start defining routes.
In order to deploy the Express app in Azure, first, install the Azure command tools for Node.js if you don't have the SDK installed. The next thing you need to do is to get the publish settings from Azure and import it into your Node.js application using the following commands
azure account download
azure account import <publish settings file path>
Next, you need to create a web site in Azure, and also create a local git repository inside your application folder.
azure site create [your site name] --git
You can now commit your files to your local git repository and then use it to push for deployment to Azure using the following command:
git push azure master
You are now all set. The express Node.js application is deployed in Azure.
The Microsoft Open Technologies team announced the support for Cordova tools in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 during Tech-Ed US. If you have been building cross platform apps using Apache Cordova, you would know that it is a great tool for leveraging your existing skills and assets in HTML5 and JavaScript, and then use them to package the assets for building native apps in Android, iOS, and Windows Store/Phone.
You can download the Cordova tools for Visual Studio here. An important pre-requisite to note is that it will run only on Windows 8.1. The multi-device hybrid apps that you create using the tools support the following platforms:
Once you install the tool, the additional dependencies will automatically be downloaded to support debugging and running the apps from within Visual Studio for various devices. Some of the significant dependencies are:
For Android apps, you can use the Ripple emulator to run the app for devices of various form factors. For iOS apps, you need to run Visual Studio from a Mac with support for Xcode 5.1. The tools, however, provide a remote agent that can be used to configure a remote Mac to allow you to remote debug. To set up the remote agent, you need to first install the ios-sim node module and then start the build server with the allowEmulate option set to true. In Visual Studio, you need to configure the port and address of the remote build server using the Multi-Device Hybrid Apps in general settings under Options.
You are now all set to create your first Cordova project. You will find the project template under JavaScript to create a new blank Cordova project. You will find that the default solution structure has been organized into folders to store the CSS files, Scripts and Images. In addition, there will be a folder called Res to store the platform specific assets and certificates. There will also be a folder called Merges to add platform specific code.
In line with the Cloud First strategy, the Microsoft Azure team is aggressively working towards creating a Connected Systems and Devices platform using the Azure Service Bus, called the Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service. This will enable enterprises to aggregate data from a variety of devices and sensors, and other lines of business applications. The data can then be made as a source for big data analytics using Azure HD Insight.
With all the scalability and performance attributes of Microsoft Azure in play, the platform could address the needs of industries such as transportation, manufacturing, supply chain, retail and healthcare, and enable the creation of smart cities and buildings. The idea of the Internet of Everything is to be able to support more efficient use of resources by providing insight on the data aggregated from them. As Todd Holmquist-Sutherland and Paolo Salvatori included in their Build 2014 conference session, the significance of Internet of Things (IoT) is in building the business of data driven insight. In addition, the significance is not just limited to getting business insights, but also to take appropriate action using the platform. For example, in a smart grid, the system could decide based on insights, the power consumption trends of house-holds and take action to control the ingress.
The Azure IoT stack provides a Cloud Gateway that acts as a secure boundary for communicating with the backend services. The gateway interprets messages from proprietary protocols and sends it to the Ingress Messaging Layer. The Cloud Gateway supports two patterns for communication. A Device Direct pattern where the IP Capable Devices are able to communicate directly with Azure Service Bus for storage and notification, or the brokered Custom Gateway where a set of Cloud Services broker the communication. The gateway allows partitioning of resources that are assigned to specific population of devices, allowing the ability to scale on demand.
The Cloud Gateway interacts with the Azure Service Bus using a topic based publisher subscriber pattern. Messages from the telemetry pump are split into alerts and data, and are sent to the alert processor and storage pre-processor respectively. This video from Build provides a quick preview into what's in store for the future of IoT with Microsoft Azure.
With mobile services in the fray, an ecosystem of publishers are constantly giving rise to data and business processes that are being licensed to consumers. This has resulted in significant investments towards outsourcing API management to providers than can scale the infrastructure to support the growing demands of consumers. Microsoft Azure is not behind in this race, and part of its major May 12, 2014 release announced support for API Management.
In today's post (and future posts as well), we will explore some of the API Management capabilities that Microsoft Azure brings to the table.
Before you read further, note that this like many other features announced in the post is still an early preview release not meant to be used for applications in production.
Microsoft Azure API Management addresses some key issues concerning sharing of Cloud assets by creating a façade on top them and isolating the developer and publisher personas to control access. It also allows metering by developers to control usage and provide rich analytics on it.
In Azure, APIs are published as Products, containing one or more APIs wrapping the core backend operations.
The visibility to Products are controlled using Groups. There are three built-in groups namely Administrators, Developers and Guests. While administrators are primarily responsible for authoring, developers are consumers of the authored APIs.
Azure API Management also provides a feature called Policies that are used to control the behaviour of APIs. Policies contain a series of instructions that can be executed on the request of an API operation.
APIs can be explored through a developer portal, where developers can read the documentation about API operations and ultimately consume them in their application. In a future blog post, we will look at creating and publishing a Cloud service as API and then consuming it in an application using the developer portal.
Redis is an extremely popular and powerful in-memory key-value store supporting a wide variety of data structures. Microsoft Azure has recently announced support for Redis Cache and the applications in Azure can leverage it as a high performance caching platform. Currently in preview mode, Azure Redis Cache is limited to a maximum size of 1GB. The platform can also be configured for replication providing high availability.
Configuring Redis Cache is very simple. First login to your Microsoft Azure Preview Portal and click "New" from the menu options.
You will find the Redis Cache (Preview) option in the list and select it to configure Redis Cache. In the next dialog, specify a DNS name for the cache service. If required specify the resource group, location and select the pricing tier (at present options are 250 MB and 1 GB).
You are now ready to access the cache from your application. Redis supportsclients in several languages including C# and Node.js. StackExchange.Redis is a popular client in C#. Use the StackExchange.Redis NuGet package to install the necessary client components required to connect to Azure Redis Cache.
The following code snippet illustrates the usage of the Redis cache provider.
var connection = ConnectionMultiplexer.Connect("[specify the connection string to Azure Redis Cache Service]");
var cacheProvider = connection.GetDatabase();
You can now use it as you would any other cache, but with addition of the powerful features of Redis.
Continuing from where we left in the previous post, let us explore how you can use Breeze syntax to create powerful HTTP services with Web API. When you add the Breeze Server nuget package, you will notice that along with the relevant assemblies, a WebApiConfig class will also get added under the App Start folder with a Register method as shown below:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
// Web API configuration and services
// Web API routes
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
This registers the appropriate routes for Breeze. The Register method is called in the Application_Start method under Global.asax.
protected void Application_Start()
Now let us create a Web API Controller for an Entity Framework Model. The first step is to decorate the Controller class with the BreezeControllerAttribute. Please note that you need to have the Breeze Server for Web API 2 also installed via nuget to get the necessary artefacts for augmenting the Web API services with Breeze.
public class SalesController : ApiController
Next, create an instance of Breeze EFContextProvider using the EF DbContext as shown in the code below:
public class SalesController : ApiController
readonly EFContextProvider<AdventureWorksEntities> contextProvider =
new EFContextProvider<AdventureWorksEntities>();
The instance of Breeze EFContextProvider will now enable you to write methods to query the AdventureWorksEntities DbContext. What is more, it will translate your expressions into SQL Queries and execute them on the database providing optimal performance.
To query your entities, you can create methods that returns those entities as the EFContextProvider properties. This will allow you to write OData expressions to filter results.
// ~/breeze/sales/SalesOrders
// ~/breeze/sales/SalesOrders?$filter=[expression]
public IQueryable<SalesOrderDetail> SalesOrders()
return contextProvider.Context.SalesOrderDetails;
Breeze also provides a mechanism to allow you to perform multiple insert / update operations and then persist them in the repository using SaveChanges method exposed by the EFContextProvider.
// ~/breeze/sales/SaveChanges
public SaveResult SaveChanges(JObject saveBundle)
return contextProvider.SaveChanges(saveBundle);
One of the challenges with Web API design with RPC style implementation is that there is no metadata available that you can expose to the consumers of your service. The contract signatures have to be shared in an out-of-bounds fashion, which is a problem. Breeze allows you to expose the service metadata using the EFContextProvider Metadata method:
// ~/breeze/sales/Metadata
public string Metadata()
return contextProvider.Metadata();
You are all set now, having configured a Web API service with Breeze. If you run and browse the metadata URL you will see the method definitions listed.


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Nene dominates, Wizards rally past Bulls, 102-93By ANDREW SELIGMAN
The Associated press | April 21,2014AP Photo
Washington Wizards forward Nene, right, drives toward the basket against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah during Sundays NBA playoff game in Chicago.CHICAGO Nene started thinking about how it would all unfold in the middle of the night. No way could he have scripted it any better than this.
Nene dominated with 24 points, Trevor Ariza scored 18, and the Washington Wizards rallied from 13 down to beat the Chicago Bulls 102-93 in their playoff opener on Sunday night.
John Wall scored 16 in his postseason debut. Marcin Gortat added 15 points and 13 rebounds, and the fifth-seeded Wizards pulled out the victory even though they looked like they were ready to be blown out.
They cut a 13-point deficit to one in the third and trailed by three going into the fourth, before outscoring Chicago 18-6 over the final six minutes to come out on top in their first playoff appearance since 2008.
We had a team dinner, and after that, in the middle of the night I started thinking about what Im going to do, Nene said. How Im going to defend. ... Things like that. Its a good feeling.
Game 2 is Tuesday in Chicago.
Nene was locked in from the opening tip, dunking on the games first possession and scoring eight points in the first six minutes, and the Wizards turned it on down the stretch.
Gortats layup started the decisive run, and Ariza gave the Wizards an 88-87 lead when he hit a pair of free throws with 4:17 remaining. Jimmy Butler tied it for Chicago with one of his own, but a layup by Gortat and basket by Nene made it 92-88, and Washington hung on after Chicagos Joakim Noah cut it to two on a tip-in with 2:11 left.
Gortat hit two free throws and added a jumper with 34 seconds left to make it a six-point game, and the Wizards took the early lead in the best-of-seven series.
Washington shot 49 percent and outrebounded Chicago 45-39 with Nene setting the tone inside. He hit 11 of 17 shots and grabbed eight rebounds.
Andre Miller came on strong down the stretch, scoring eight of his 10 points in the fourth, and the Wizards pulled this one out even though Wall and Bradley Beal (13 points) combined to shoot just 7 of 25.
Kirk Hinrich and D.J. Augustin each scored 16 points, and Butler had 15. But after posting more wins since Jan. 1 than any other Eastern Conference team, the Bulls find themselves in a hole.
There are a lot of things you can do to help your team win. Were capable of playing a lot better, coach Tom Thibodeau said.
The Bulls led by 13 early in the third and were up 69-57 midway through the quarter when the Wizards went on a 13-2 run to make it a one-point game.
Arizas 3-pointer cut it to 71-70 with 3:32 remaining. Noah answered with a layup and Taj Gibson hit two free throws to make it a five-point game, but a basket by Miller made it a three-point game going into the fourth.
Up 13, we exhaled and they came back, Noah said. Bad turnovers. They got some easy scores. We got to make our adjustments. This is chess. It isnt checkers.
The collapse was surprising given the resolve the Bulls showed all season. They could have easily packed it in after losing Derrick Rose to another season-ending knee injury and trading away Luol Deng. Instead, they dug in, and they were in good shape in this one before everything came apart.
The Bulls overcame a 14-point first half by Nene and took a 54-48 lead to the locker room after a strong second quarter.
Augustin drove for a three-point play with just over a minute left to finish the first-half scoring and start a 13-3 run that stretched into the third quarter and made it 64-51.
You have to stay in the moment, Wizards coach Randy Wittman said. There will be times in the playoffs where we have to survive and stay in the game with six or seven straight possessions and not score. Both teams can do that. Who is going to stay in the fight when you do that? We did. We had a period where they outplayed us, no question about it. We had to get that back, and in the second half, I thought we did.
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A Paranormal Investigator Sees INSIDIOUS!
Nordling here.
Although I missed seeing INSIDIOUS at SXSW, I was able to catch a screening this week. I admire what James Wan and Leign Whannell were trying to do. INSIDIOUS wants to have fun scaring you, and if you throw your popcorn into the air, maybe get a squeeze in with your significant other, it's all good. I do think that it suffers from a syndrome Stephen King described in DANSE MACABRE - once Wan and Whannell have to deliver on what's causing all the problems in the film, what they come up with can't possibly compete with what we've already invented in our heads.
That said, I still think the film is worth your time, and I had my friend Jen Dracowyrm (yeah, it's an alias), who saw the film with me, send in a review. He's actually been on some ghost investigations. And although I'm a skeptic about the paranormal, I believe that he believes it. He's told me he's seen and heard some pretty strange things while out on his investigations, and on April 9th, I'm finally going to go on one of them after he's been bugging me to go for years now. Will I come back a believer? Unlikely. But it'll be fun hanging out regardless. But here's Jen:
Can Insidious Entrap Its Audience?
The PG – 13 rating has evolved into more of a financial tool and less of a guideline for age appropriate movies. This is only too painfully obvious when applied to horror movies that are edited down graphically for theatrical release to grab as much of the kiddie dollars as possible, then have the unrated label slapped on for home video to catch those last points. It's always fun for me to see a horror movie that was written within the parameters of the PG – 13 rating rules, yet still delivers on the script. Insidious falls into this latter category.
The film utilizes tried and true formulae: Young family, Josh and Renai Lambert (portrayed by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) move into an older, spacious home with their three children, then spooky things begin to happen centered around their young son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins) and it quickly escalates from there. Where the film seems to excel is the feel of the movie. It was reminiscent of horror flicks of the early 80's and having veteran actors that have worked in the genre at the time, only adds to the time capsule.
As the movie progresses, Dalton is playing alone upstairs, gets lured into the attic, has an experience, seems okay and by the next morning just doesn't wake up. He's not in a coma, Doc's never seen anything like it, wait and see and this is how the boy remains for the majority of the movie. Mom (Byrne) remains at home while Dad's off at work, so she starts to notice objects out of place, picks up voices on the monitor when the baby is not crying and things escalate from there until they move out of the house in fear and desperation.
Unpacking in a new, brighter home, Mrs. Lambert listens to a record that scratches and skips to Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips", which has its own creepiness factor, and starts to see the otherworldly visitors again. Enter Lorraine Lambert, Barbara Hershey, and the horror cred comes into play. Hershey, is not new to the genre, having played the tortured Carla Moran in The Entity and most recently the standoffish, domineering Erica Sayers in Black Swan. Here she plays her part to introduce another horror vet, Lin Shaye. Shaye appeared in a few 80's horror films, including, but not limited to, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hidden and a couple of the Critters movies and here she plays psychic Elise Rainier and with her in the picture, the story is allowed to run wild.
With her and her two comic relief investigators, gadget man Tucker (Angus Sampson) and sketch artist 'Specs' (the movies writer, Leigh Whannell), the story ramps up when Elise does a walk through and points out the main antagonist hovering somewhere above inanimate Dalton's bed and has it sketched out as she whispers details to Specs. 'I'm sorry to inform you, it's not a haunted house, but a haunted kid', to paraphrase Elise. Dalton can astrally project, a gift he apparently received from his dad, and went into the film's original title, The Further, and can't find his way back. Go get him.
Problems I had with the film? Yes, there are quite a few formulaic scenes, the psychic and helpers ripped directly from Poltergeist, the old house that kept reminding me of Witchboard and a very effective placement of a demonic face (the part that made me jump, though I wish wasn't in the trailer) a la The Exorcist, but they are used well. The films only allowed F-bomb is squandered by Wilson, when it could have been used to add levity after a shock, say by the other son, Foster (Andrew Astor) and the portrayal of astral projection looks like a locally produced stage play, but, again, played effectively to convey the limbo of astral space. And a difficult balance; how much of the monster do you show? A little too much monster here.
These complaints aside, I had fun. Considering the budget was one mil and reportedly came around 20% under that budget, the films use of practical prosthetics and a smidgen of CGI to advance the story are well placed within the script. The story rules here and without the advantage of say Sam Raimi's recent Drag Me to Hell, which utilized his patented mix of horror and humor throughout, the mood is well kept. Well, the séance part kinda borrows from Raimi too.
I will also say, the portrayal of the two paranormal investigators was personally fun for me, as I'm with a paranormal research group myself, South Texas Apparition Research Society (yes, S.T.A.R.S. for you Raccoon City dwellers). The unprofessional demeanor that is rampant with most of these groups, mine included, is well portrayed as well as some of the over the top, home built investigation equipment.
You can guess how the movie turns out, or can you? Not the best haunting/paranormal flick I've seen, but fun, none the less. There's plenty of canned, aerosol-propelled, processed cheeze product throughout, but it's supposed to go there. You wouldn't substitute Moet in a 7Up cake, now would you? Enjoy.
Jen Dracowyrm
Hope you enjoyed that. Nordling, out.
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April 1, 2011, 6:35 a.m. CST
by DJEagles11
Movie looks like garbage...but what else is new.
April 1, 2011, 7:25 a.m. CST
so, who ya gonna call?
by smylexx
April 1, 2011, 7:28 a.m. CST
Fraud does not exist in this dojo
by Cobra--Kai
Jen, nice concise review. If your group does paranormal research for fun, out of curiosity as a kinda hobby then more power to you. But if you're going into households and taking money from vulnerable recently bereaved people then FUCK YOU.
April 1, 2011, 7:45 a.m. CST
It's Comma-mania!
by Aquatarkusman
Bad enough that this dreck is italicized, but I felt my nauseous reading momentum was being halted after every two words.
Verhoeven doing FANTASTIC 4? Damn... there's about 100 other movies i'd rather see him do. I think he's rather wasted on PG rated stuff. Ah well - at least with him at the helm it'll be more 'interesting' than the previous two blandly forgettable attempts.
April 1, 2011, 7:58 a.m. CST
Is he a Ninja too?
by The_Dark_Shite
April 1, 2011, 8:01 a.m. CST
Problem with what King said in his book...
by Sicuv Uyall
is that he's the most guilty of that exact problem. Giant flea. Right?
April 1, 2011, 8:13 a.m. CST
by Spielbergs Furious Racism
Yet all these posts on GHOST movies! REDICULOUS!
April 1, 2011, 8:16 a.m. CST
He's actually been on some ghost investigations =
by TheApostle
Fucking nutcase
April 1, 2011, 8:18 a.m. CST
by Wookie_1995
looks like crap, and its pretty low trying to get me to see this just because guys from the saw flims worked on it.
April 1, 2011, 8:18 a.m. CST
reading italics is really goddam annoying
by Scott
April 1, 2011, 8:22 a.m. CST
i saw a sneak peek of this movie two days ago and..
by thesmilingpsycho
let me just sum it up by saying it did scare the crap out of me more than once. it does get corny at the end, but overall it is a fun movie to see in the theatre. this is also james wan's best movie so far.
April 1, 2011, 8:27 a.m. CST
Harry left AICN for Famous Monsters. It's all true.
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:41 a.m. CST
I think the Choppah is right. The SPY SHOP just got turned into the YOGURT SHOPPE.
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:44 a.m. CST
How could I be so stupid? We don't even get Spy Pics from Prometheus.
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:45 a.m. CST
We get a fake Pseudo-story, that actually has nothing to do with Prometheus, only for this site to rack up internet hits.
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:46 a.m. CST
I'll never see spy pics from Prometheus. It was all smoke and mirrors.
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:47 a.m. CST
Now Verhoeven is directing Fantastic Four...THE END IS NEAR!
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:47 a.m. CST
Harry's conspiring with JAR JAR ABRAMS...THE END IS NEAR!
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:48 a.m. CST
Back room studio deals have prevented me from getting my Prometheus spy pics...THE END IS NEAR!
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 8:52 a.m. CST
You can do this Kong. You can figure out what they are doing. I'm still full of ideas guys. I won't let you down.
by Darth_Kong
April 1, 2011, 9:42 a.m. CST
starring nic cage as the darth maul comic con demon
by vulturess
April 1, 2011, 9:44 a.m. CST
"Paranormal investigators" are all fucking con artists
by NapoleonDynamite
There is no such thing as the "paranormal." There is no such science as "paranormal investigation." There is no such thing as "ghosts." That is a fact, not an opinion. Not a single genuine instance of "parnormal" or "supernatural" phenomena has ever been scientifically demonstrated to exist. Not a single "psychic" Or "medium." Not a single "ghost" nothing. It's all horsehit. What the fuck is a ghost even supposed to BE?" What's it made of? What material substance or energy? Where is it in the body? The more you analyze the concept, the more fucking retarded it becomes. No one can even give a decent enough definition or theory of "ghosts" to make legit scientififc investigation possible. It's just dipshots with infrared cameras listing goggle-eyed to pipes knocking. "Paranormal research" is a scam, plain and simple. There is no such thing. It doesn't exist. There is nothing to "research," no testable hyptheses, and no means to test them. It's just theater. If you take money from people for playing this game, you should be punched in the face for being a scumbag. If you don't take money and actually believe that garbage, you should be slapped for being a moron.
April 1, 2011, 9:50 a.m. CST
Mind your surroundings...
by paynoattentiontothemanbehindthecurtain
Consider the date. Verhoeven on FF reboot is a (rather obvious) April Fool's prank, innit?
April 1, 2011, 9:51 a.m. CST
Verhoeven doing Fantastic Four? On April 1st? What a scoop!
by Chewtoy
Anyway, I actually like a paranormal investigation that works hard to come back with a non-paranormal (aka "normal", I suppose) explanation. Sometimes those are even cooler than the idea of ghosts, such as heating pipes that resonate at sub-audible frequencies causing instinctual reactions in tenants.
April 1, 2011, 10:25 a.m. CST
by artdude102
hottest spot north of Havana.
April 1, 2011, 10:47 a.m. CST
Verhoeven's Fastastic Four is maybe the best April Fool's joke I'll hear today!
by WriteForTheEdit
Awesome work, whoever did that!
April 1, 2011, 10:48 a.m. CST
I want to hear The Thing say "Bitches, leave!"
by WriteForTheEdit
April 1, 2011, 12:05 p.m. CST
Lin Shaye\Dead End love
by smackfu
Lin was great in Dead End. Great, low budget, black comedy slash horror film. I highly recommend it, overall it's got the vibe of a feature length Twilight Zone episode, but Ray Wise and Lin Shayne elevate it by injecting some epic black comedy.
April 1, 2011, 12:12 p.m. CST
sicuv uyall
by smackfu
It is a major problem that is prevalent in tv and film. The most recent victims are Lost, Battlestar Galactica and Sopranos. In fact, the only show in recent history that has been able to provide a satisfying conclusion to it's story arc was Supernatural.
April 1, 2011, 4:58 p.m. CST
If you don't believe in the paranormal, you wont see anything
by rsswope
If you do, you will. I have seen a LOT of con artists, but I also have seen a lot of sincere people having real problems with real things. that said, I am REALLY tired of these movies. I want At the Mountains of Madness!!
April 1, 2011, 5:03 p.m. CST
by film11
And here I thought I was the only one who had ever seen and loved DEAD END!
April 2, 2011, 4:26 p.m. CST
mr ahole ramirez
by smackfu
Agreed, Dollhouse did it right too, as well as providing a truly original apocalypse scenario.
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This is a round of two players who do not deserve to be rated as highly as they are, but I thought it would make an interesting opening round matchup. These are actually two that in my estimation shouldn't even be on this list, but there are a number of fans suggesting that these two athletes be traded.
So this matchup is actually more about which player you'd rather see traded and thereby is more about their maximum potential, and also the expected return. So don't ask for a None Of The Above.
(7) - Jordan Eberle
Eberle dazed and otherwise confused in this photo. He is a 23 year old - 22nd Overall Pick. In 4 seasons he has scored 18, 34, 16 & 26 Goals. A career 14.1% shooting percentage. Arguably Eberle would be considered to be exceeding his draft pedigree. In a re-draft he would quite possibly find himself inside the top 10.
This is about his potential, a 14.1% shooting percentage on 667 shots, is statistically relevant, he is a sublime backhand, good vision and on the offensive is often in the right place. A defense he is a bit more of an adventure, and has yet to show he can push the river.
What is his potential return? A player that is consistently a 25 goal scorer and in the top 30 in NHL scoring (well 31 currently is close enough), will return an excellent return. At 23 he is still 2 years from his "prime".
(10) - Nail Yakupov
Nail has been in Coach Eakins doghouse numerous times this year while players such as Eberle have escaped it, despite playing a similar style. Nail is an "enigmatic" Russian, this is because he is Russian rather than actually being "enigmatic" - there was an excellent article on this, but I can't remember where.
Yakupov, is a 1st Overall pick, he scored 17 goals in last year's short season, and this year he has 11. He has not played with the best players that the Oilers have as often as Eberle has - often he has found himself on his off wing. This is obviously a disappointing season for Yakupov. He is only 20, and has much maturing to do. On offense he has shown himself to have an amazing one times and some electric moves.
What is his potential return? A 1st overall pick always has value (see Daigle's second stint in the NHL). Even after a rough season he could probably return nearly as much as Eberle could.


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ELMHURST, Ill. (AP) - The DuPage County coroner says a suburban Chicago man shot and killed his wife and two adult children before committing suicide.
Coroner Richard Jorgensen told the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday that 82-year-old Francis Stack shot his wife, 82-year-old Joan Stack, and their children, 57-year-old Mary Stack and 48-year-old Francis Stack Jr.
The coroner said Francis Stack then shot himself.
Police found the four bodies in the family's Elmhurst home on Saturday evening while doing a well-being check. Elmhurst police said in a statement that officers found the victims "with visible gunshot wounds." Police recovered a weapon at the scene.
Sunday afternoon four white crosses with the victims' names and flowers were set outside the home. Neighbors described the Stacks as loving parents.
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JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Police say a newborn baby found alive inside a trash bin in the central Illinois community of Jacksonville is in good condition.
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Quinn has made raising Illinois' minimum wage a cornerstone of his re-election campaign against Republican challenger Bruce Rauner. On Sunday the governor announced at a campaign event that he would limit his spending on food and other expenses for the next week to $79.
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Yesterday, the Pike River inquiry heard renewed calls for a criminal charge of corporate manslaughter to be put on the books in New Zealand. "Some of the issues canvassed in the evidence [about Pike River] once again raise feeling among the public," Council of Trade Unions lawyer Rosas Wilson told the inquiry, "that the law should be able to fix criminal responsibility on the corporate person itself…" As Wilson indicated, the legislation that created a crime of corporate killing in the UK was passed by the British Parliament after a disaster that aroused similar levels of public outrage:
Wilson likened the charge to one introduced in the United Kingdom in 2006, after a car passenger ferry capsized near Belgium, killing nearly 200 people.
The inquiry following the incident showed disorder in the company, which fuelled moves to create the corporate manslaughter charge. Fines for the charge in the UK start at 5% of a company's turnover…
If monitoring and enforcement resources were now inadequate within the Department of Labour, Wilson also argued, the level of employer levies should be reviewed, given that the health and safety levy on employers had not increased since 1999.
The union also recommended a new Crown entity be established to cover health and safety for all high hazard industries. Commission chairman Justice Graham Panckhurst said evidence previously heard had highlighted it was 'the beginning of the end' of a specialist mines inspectorate when it merged into a government department in the 1990s. Wilson said the narrow scope of the Labour Department's high-hazards unit on mining and petroleum-geothermal industries should be broadened, to include 38 high-hazard industries.
The Crown Minerals Act required a fair financial return for the Crown for coal extraction, and the Resource Management Act required resource consents to protect the environment. It was bitterly ironic there was no similar process in the Health and Safety in Employment Act to protect workers' health and safety, he said. 'This is a bizarre order of priorities….'
The most comprehensive case for a charge of corporate manslaughter (along UK lines) being passed into law in New Zealand was made by Jonathan Wong in an article published in the Canterbury Law Review which is available here in full. Wong's conclusion, written in 2006, makes chilling reading in the light of Pike River :
Public and workplace disasters 'graphically demonstrate the shattering impact of corporate misconduct upon human life.' However, the current law in New Zealand fails to hold accountable at-fault organisations in an effective way. It is obviously not ideal to await the occurrence of such disasters before pressing the case for law reform.
Wong's article outlined the situation with respect to corporate killing in other jurisdictions, analysed the inadequacies of our own Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and noted the existence here of large, complex organizations where the chain of command has effectively obscured the lines of corporate responsibility and accountability:
The basis of liability for the proposed offence is a failure by senior management of a corporation to organise and develop its systems, arrangements and culture to avoid serious harm to others. The concept of management failure recognises the fact that death is rarely solely caused by individual operational negligence, and ideally reflects the complex decision making structures of organizations…. The proposed offence is designed to be a new and effective way to target the worst cases of management failure which cause death to workers, or members of the public.
Wong had hoped his article might stimulate discussion and place the issue of corporate killing on the legislative agenda in New Zealand. The arguments for that course of action, he wrote, reflect the view that the HSE Act fails to properly reflect the moral outrage that the community feels when a death occurs through the gross negligence of the employer – and the HSE Act also fails to adequately reinforce the notion that workplace fatalities are socially repugnant:
This is borne out by factors such as the offences not being indictable and, therefore, generally prosecuted in the lower courts; that prosecution is considered only a last resort; that the fines imposed by the courts are generally small; fines for large corporations are not sufficiently punitive and therefore lack the necessary deterrent and retributive effect; and the small number of proceedings against senior officers of corporations.
"The time has come," Wong wrote six years ago, "for organisations that have paid little regard to the safety of their workers and members of the public to be held accountable in New Zealand in an effective and meaningful way." In his view, an offence of corporate manslaughter would have this effect. Finally, some people may argue that the HSE Act 1992 already covers off the issue of corporate responsibility. See for instance the wording of section 56 of that Act available here:
However this section, as worded, presents major difficulties in mounting a successful prosecution. Thus, section 56 is a rarely-used platform for HSE prosecutions, as reflected in the small-to-non-existent number of proceedings taken against senior officers of negligent corporations. As things stand, it seems clear that fines alone have not provided a sufficient deterrent to lessen the rate of fatalities and serious injury that occur in New Zealand workplaces. (In some industries, the risk of such fines appear to be treated as an affordable cost of doing business.) Hopefully, the Royal Commission findings on the Pike River disaster will go some way to transforming the 'unsafety culture' that has taken root in New Zealand.
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With three weeks still to go until the first round of voting in the French presidential elections, it still seems a pretty good bet that the final run-off between the top two contenders on May 6th will bring down the curtain on Nicolas Sarkozy's political career. Only a remarkably low turnout can save Sarkozy – that, or the unlikely prospect that the current surge of support for the hard left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon will continue, and propel Melenchon into the second round. Currently, that seems to be the only situation likely to induce centrist voters to think again and flock to the incumbent.
Neither outcome is likely. Turnout looks like being low, but not low enough to save Sarkozy's hide. And although Melenchon's rise has been one of the few talking points of this lacklustre election campaign, it still seems far more likely that the run-off battle on May 6th will be between Sarkozy and Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party.
Obviously, not all of Melenchon's ardent supporters would turn around on May 6th and vote for Hollande – mainly because on the stump, Melenchon has been devastating about the cozy arrangements that exist between the elites on both the right and the left. Yet at this point, the combined forces of the left still enjoy a comfortable six to ten point lead over Sarkozy and his allies on the centre right. Sarkozy will certainly get the support of Marine Le Pen's ultra rightists, but most of the supporters of Francois Bayrou, the centrist candidate, will be voting for Hollande in the second round.
The bland M. Hollande has been given a few nervous moments in recent days though. Both major candidates have all but ignored the electorate's major concerns about the state of the economy and unemployment, leaving that field almost entirely to Melenchon, who has been running very successfully on what the Independent has called "an anti-EU, anti-American, anti-big finance" platform:
Mr Mélenchon, an ex-Trotskyist and ex-Socialist, has swept up most of the support that normally scatters in the first round over candidates of the "further left". His call for a people's revolution, overturning existing financial and political institutions, has united – unexpectedly – some Greens, the remaining Communists, various Trotskyists, and the anti-globalist "alternative" left.
Mr Mélenchon has also started in recent weeks to take blue-collar votes away from the far right National Front and – significantly – from the Socialist candidate, Mr Hollande. Other polls in recent days have shown him neck and neck with the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, and the centrist François Bayrou. [One recent poll] showed Mr Mélenchon emerging clearly as the campaign's "third man" for the first time.
Instead, Sarkozy has been running a diversionary campaign on Islamic terrorism – presumably in the hope of shoring up his ultra right flank, provoking Hollande into a gaffe that will alienate his moderate support or at the very least – since Melenchon is sure to respond - dividing the left vote and making it less likely that Melenchon's supporters will turn out for Hollande on May 6th. Meanwhile, the actual people in the impoverished poor suburbs (banlieues) on the outskirts of Paris that harbour the alleged Islamic threat will continue to be ignored, and will steadily be radicalized as a result.
While the clamour about Islamic terrorism is garnering headlines it won't help Sarkozy enough. Even though he may still eke out a narrow victory in the first round, the numbers falling into place for the May 6th run-off still look terminal for him. With her days as France's First Lady numbered, Carla Bruni may have been very wise to try and launch an acting career in that recent Woody Allen film about Paris.
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