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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Vanderbilt Law Review Roundtable on DaimlerCrysler v. Bauman
October 3, 2013 in Conferences/Symposia, Federal Courts, Recent Scholarship, Supreme Court Cases | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 30, 2013
Civil Litigation Has Low Priority in Justice Department's Plan for Government Shutdown
The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes reports that the Justice Department has released a Contingency Plan for FY 2014 (which starts tomorrow) "in the event of a lapse in appropriations" (the phrase used in the Contingency Plan). Most Civil Division employees will be subject to furlough because their activities do not relate to "emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property," or meet some other category of exemption. Although the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has indicated "that federal courts will continue to hear and decide cases without interruption," Justice is directing its civil litigators "to approach the courts and request that acvtive cases, except for those in which posponement would compromise . . . the safety of human life or the protection of property, be postponed until funding is available."
September 30, 2013 in Federal Courts, In the News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Federal Courts to Remain Open For Ten Days If Government Shuts Down
The federal judiciary, which has been releasing dire warnings about its financial situation for months, has just released an announcement on Third Branch News that reads:
In the event of a government shutdown on October 1, 2013, the federal Judiciary will remain open for business for approximately 10 business days. On or around October 15, 2013, the Judiciary will reassess its situation and provide further guidance. All proceedings and deadlines remain in effect as scheduled, unless otherwise advised. Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) will remain in operation for the electronic filing of documents with courts.
September 26, 2013 in Federal Courts, In the News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Eighth Circuit Opinion on Iqbal and Twombly
The Eighth Circuit's decision last week in Horras v. American Capital Strategies, Ltd. (No. 12-3886), __ F.3d __, 2013 WL 4711389, includes a partial dissent by Judge Colloton that is worth a read for his approach to pleading standards after Iqbal and Twombly. (Hat tip to Ryan Koopmans, who covers the case in this post.) The majority in Horras affirms the district court's dismissal of Horras's complaint. Judge Colloton dissents as to Horras's claim for breach of fiduciary duty.
Judge Colloton writes that while the Supreme Court's approach to pleading in Iqbal and Twombly is an "important development," courts "must be careful not to embellish it." Citing Erickson, Swierkiewicz, Form 11, and articles by Judge, Dean, and chief drafter of the original FRCPs Charles E. Clark, he concludes: "Under the simplified pleading standard of Rule 8(a), I think the complaint here was sufficient to give ACS fair notice of the fiduciary duty claim that Horras has amplified in his briefing."
Here are some excerpts from Judge Colloton's opinion:
September 12, 2013 in Federal Courts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Recent Decisions, Twombly/Iqbal, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, September 6, 2013
Denial of Motion to Reconsider Remand Order Not Appealable
Plaintiffs filed suit in Pennsylvania state court asserting state-law claims arising from a plane crash. Defendants removed the case to federal district court, asserting diversity jurisdiction. Plaintiffs moved to remand the case, asserting that one of the defendants was a citizen of Pennsylvania, and therefore not diverse from all plaintiffs. The district court granted plaintiffs' motion and ordered the case remanded to state court. One of the defendants moved for reconsideration. The district court also denied the motion for reconsideration. Defendants appealed.
The Third Circuit dismissed the appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) provides that "[a]n order remanding a case to the State court from which it was removed is not reviewble on appeal or otherwise . . ." The court noted that the purpose of this provision "is to prevent a party to a state lawsuit from using federal removal provisions and appeals as a tool to introduce substantial delay into a state action." Allowing an appeal from a denial of a motion to reconsider an order to remand would circumvent this purpose.
The district court itself had jurisdiction to consider the motion to reconsider, however, because "at the time when the District Court considered the motion for reconsideration, a certified copy of the remand order had not yet been mailed from the District Court Clerk to the state court." Agostini v. Piper Aircraft Corp., No. 12-2098 (3d Cir. Sept. 5, 2013).
September 6, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Decisions, Subject Matter Jurisdiction | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Appeal from District Court's Denial of Exemption from PACER Fees Dismissed
The Ninth Circuit dismissed an appeal from the district court's denial of an ex parte application for an exemption from PACER fees (the fees associated with electronic access to federal court records) for lack of jurisdiction, holding that the denial was not a final decision under 28 U.S.C. Section 1291. In Re: Application for Exemption from Electronic Public Access Fees, No. 12-16373 (9th Cir. Aug. 29, 2013).
Judge O'Scannlain, who wrote the opinion, also filed a concurrence acknowledging "the elephant in the room" -- if the denial was unappealable, to whom might one go for review? -- and suggesting that it "will be up to Congress to decide whether to fashion an appellate-review mechanism." I'm not holding my breath.
August 31, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Decisions, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, August 26, 2013
Vladeck on Military Courts and the All Writs Act
Stephen Vladeck (American University) has posted Military Courts and the All Writs Act to SSRN.
When it comes to the role of the federal courts in the federal system, few statutes play as significant a role — or are as routinely misunderstood — as the All Writs Act. It is the All Writs Act that rounds Article III's sharp jurisdictional edges by investing courts of such limited subject-matter jurisdiction with a species of common-law authority; as Justice Stevens has explained, "The Act was, and is, necessary because federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction having only those powers expressly granted by Congress, and the statute provides these courts with the procedural tools — the various historic common-law writs — necessary for them to exercise their limited jurisdiction."
Although the All Writs Act applies on its terms to "all courts established by Act of Congress," two recent opinions in high-profile military justice cases have rejected the power of military courts to issue relief that is routinely available from civilian courts under the All Writs Act. In the Bradley Manning court-martial proceedings, for example, the highest court in the military justice system — the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) — held that it lacked the authority under the All Writs Act to issue extraordinary relief to protect the First Amendment right of public access to criminal trials identified by the Supreme Court in Richmond Newspapers and its progeny. Similar reasoning was also offered by one of the judges of the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), in explaining why the CMCR lacked jurisdiction to provide analogous relief in the context of the military commission trial of the 9/11 defendants.
It is easy enough to identify the analytical errors common to these two opinions, but in addition to doing so, this short essay argues that there is more behind such analysis than a mere misreading of precedent. Ultimately, both CAAF's decision in the Manning case and Judge Silliman's concurrence in the CMCR's 9/11 proceedings have at their core a misplaced and outdated understanding of both the military justice system's exceptionalism and its relationship to the civilian courts. As I conclude, the understanding common to these two opinions has the ironic — and surely unintended — effect of weakening arguments for a separate system of military justice insofar as such crabbed understandings of the All Writs Act only bolster the need for increased Article III oversight of the military justice system through actions for collateral review.
August 26, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Trammell on Jurisdictional Sequencing
Alan Trammell (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Jurisdictional Sequencing to SSRN.
This Article offers a critical re-assessment of subject matter jurisdiction, arguably the most fundamental constraint on federal courts. The project examines the nature and purposes of subject matter jurisdiction through the lens of jurisdictional sequencing, a practice that allows a federal court to decide certain issues — and even dismiss cases — before it has verified subject matter jurisdiction.
Despite many scholars' antipathy toward jurisdictional sequencing, it is a legitimate practice that reveals a nuanced understanding of jurisdiction's unique structural role in protecting federalism and separation of powers. Specifically, elected institutions have principal responsibility for crafting conduct rules that regulate people's primary activities. Federal courts may interpret and apply conduct rules — and thus in a meaningful sense "make law" — only when they have verified their subject matter jurisdiction. By contrast, federal adjudication does not implicate the structural concerns at the heart of subject matter jurisdiction when courts dismiss cases based on other rules (what I term allocative rules). Re-imagining the precise role of subject matter jurisdiction reveals how federal courts can decide cases more efficiently and also respect essential constraints on the allocation of powers.
August 22, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Scholarship, Subject Matter Jurisdiction | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Green on the Twin Aims of Erie
Michael Steven Green (William & Mary) has posted The Twin Aims of Erie to SSRN.
We all remember the twin aims of the Erie rule from first-year civil procedure. A federal court sitting in diversity must use forum state law if it is necessary to avoid "forum shopping" and the "inequitable administration of the laws." This Article offers a reading of the twin aims and a systematic analysis of their proper role in federal and state court. I argue that the twin aims apply in diversity cases not because they protect state interests, but because they serve the federal purposes standing behind the diversity statute. So understood, they are about separation of powers, not federalism. Through the twin aims, state law is incorporated into federal procedural common law in order to serve federal interests.
This reading does not merely have important consequences for diversity cases. It also has an impact on the role of the twin aims outside diversity. If the twin aims have their source in the purposes standing behind the congressional grant of jurisdiction, rather than respect for state interests, the fact that a federal court entertains a state law action is neither a necessary nor a sufficient reason for the twin aims to apply. The twin aims might apply to federal courts when entertaining federal causes of action. Conversely, they might not apply to a federal court when entertaining state law actions under jurisdictional statutes other than diversity.
I therefore examine four jurisdictional scenarios in order to assess the role of the twin aims in each: a federal court entertaining a federal cause of action, a state court entertaining a federal cause of action (sometimes called reverse-Erie), and a federal court entertaining a state law action under supplemental jurisdiction and under bankruptcy. In the course of my argument, I suggest a resolution to the current circuit split about whether a federal court sitting in bankruptcy should use forum state choice-of-law rules. I also argue that the Supreme Court has wrongly assumed that the twin aims apply in a reverse-Erie context. As a result, it has improperly limited state courts' powers when entertaining federal civil rights actions — most recently in Haywood v. Drown, 556 U.S. 729 (2009).
This Article offers an original justification of the twin aims in diversity cases, and the first comprehensive explanation of their role in a variety of other jurisdictional contexts.
August 20, 2013 in Federal Courts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Washington Post Op-Ed Urges Changes in ABA's Panel on Judicial Selection
The Washington Post published an Op-Ed yesterday by Professor Michael J. Yelnosky, at Roger Williams University School of Law. Yelnosky notes that in the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which rates potential nominees for federal judicial vacancies, "Not one of the lawyers on the committee for 2013-14 regularly represents individuals who bring lawsuits alleging they were harmed by the actions of corporations or other business entities, and not one represents individuals charged with anything other than white-collar crimes."
August 17, 2013 in Current Affairs, Federal Courts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, July 19, 2013
AALS Section on Federal Courts: Annual Award for Best Untenured Article on the Law of Federal Jurisdiction
The AALS Section on Federal Courts is pleased to announce the second annual award for the best article on the law of federal jurisdiction by a full-time, untenured faculty member at an AALS member or affiliate school—and to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for the prize to be awarded at the 2014 AALS Annual Meeting in New York.
The purpose of the award program is to recognize outstanding scholarship in the field of federal courts by untenured faculty members. To that end, eligible articles are those specifically in the field of Federal Courts that were published by a recognized journal during the twelve-month period ending on September 1, 2013 (date of actual publication determines eligibility). Eligible authors are those who, at the close of nominations (i.e., as of September 15, 2013), are untenured, full-time faculty members at AALS member or affiliate schools, and have not previously won the award.
Nominations (or questions about the award) should be directed to Tara Leigh Grove at William and Mary Law School (firstname.lastname@example.com), Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Federal Courts. Without exception, all nominations must be received by 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on September 15, 2013. Nominations will be reviewed by a prize committee comprised of Professors Janet Cooper Alexander (Stanford), Judith Resnik (Yale), and Steve Vladeck (American), with the result announced at the Federal Courts section program at the 2014 AALS Annual Meeting.
July 19, 2013 in Conferences/Symposia, Federal Courts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, July 12, 2013
The Sequester's Effect on Federal Courts
The Atlantic online has posted an essay entitled "How the Sequester is Holding up Our Legal System" by Andrew Cohen. It describes federal judges' concerns about issues raised if the budget cuts reach into the next fiscal year. "The sequester . . . represents an assault by the legislative and executive branches upon core judicial functions. . . . The Administrative Office of the United States already has indicated that it may be forced to eliminate civil jury trials in the month of September . . ."
The essay also describes public apathy about the issue.
Hat tip: Howard Bashman, @howappealing.
July 12, 2013 in Federal Courts, In the News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, June 28, 2013
SCOTUS Decisions in Same-Sex Marriage Cases: Lots on Article III and Standing
This week the Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decisions in Windsor v. United States (on the federal Defense of Marriage Act) and Hollingsworth v. Perry (on California's Prop. 8). Both cases presented significant questions with respect to Article III jurisdiction and standing, which were excellently summarized earlier this year by Marty Lederman's seven-part series for SCOTUSblog.
In Windsor, a five-Justice majority opinion authored by Justice Kennedy (joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan) found that Article III jurisdiction was proper and that the Court should not invoke prudential grounds to refrain from exercising jurisdiction; the majority then concluded that DOMA was unconstitutional.
In Perry, a five-Justice majority opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts concluded that the intervenors who supported Proposition 8 lacked Article III standing to challenge the district court's order declaring Prop. 8 unconstitutional and enjoining California officials from enforcing it. Perry was a particularly interesting 5-4 split: The Chief was joined by Scalia, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan. Justice Kennedy dissented, joined by Thomas, Alito, and Sotomayor.
From a jurisdictional standpoint, one crucial difference was that in Windsor, the federal government enforced DOMA (by denying Windsor the requested refund) and then proceeded to seek review of both the district court and appellate court rulings that DOMA was unconstitutional. As Kennedy puts it: "It would be a different case if the Executive had taken the further step of paying Windsor the refund to which she was entitled under the District Court's ruling." In Perry, on the other hand, the California government did not appeal the district court's order and injunction. Perhaps the standing inquiry in Perry would have come out differently if the California government had adopted a litigation strategy similar to the one the U.S. government took in Windsor.
For anyone counting heads, here's how each Justice came down on the Article III issues in both cases:
- Kennedy, Alito and Sotomayor supported exercising jurisdiction in both Windsor and Perry. (Alito is somewhat unique as to Windsor, because he argued that the U.S. government "clearly is not a proper petitioner" given its position that DOMA was unconstitutional; he argued instead that jurisdiction was proper because the House of Representatives' Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group had standing as intervenors.)
- Roberts and Scalia opposed exercising jurisdiction in both Windsor and Perry.
- Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan supported jurisdiction in Windsor and opposed jurisdiction in Perry.
- Thomas supported jurisdiction in Perry and opposed jurisdiction in Windsor.
June 28, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Decisions, Standing, Subject Matter Jurisdiction, Supreme Court Cases | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, June 24, 2013
SCOTUS Cert Grants of Interest: Executive Benefits & UBS
With all of this week's end-of-the-Term anticipation and excitement, some of today's cert. grants may have slipped below the radar. But here are two cases that will be argued next Term that may be of interest:
June 24, 2013 in Federal Courts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Recent Decisions, Supreme Court Cases | Permalink | Comments (1)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Fees Award in Dismissal for Lack of Diversity Jurisdiction Reversed
Plaintiff, a Florida limited liability company, filed a diversity suit against Sheraton in the Southern District of New York. After three years and much discovery, the action was dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when it was revealed that at least one of the members of plaintiff's limited liability company was a New York citizen, as was Sheraton. Plaintiff then tried to cure the jurisdictional defect by dropping the non-diverse member of its company and filing a new action alleging the same claims.
The district court also dismissed the second action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, ruling that 28 U.S.C. §1359 prohibited such "engineering" of diversity jurisdiction. The court also granted Sheraton's motion for "just costs," including $200,000 in attorney's fees, under 28 U.S.C. §1919 ("Whenever any action or suit is dismissed in any district court . . . for want of jurisdiction, such court may order the payment of just costs.")
The Second Circuit reversed, holding that Section 1919's allowance of "just costs" did not include attorney's fees, and that the invocation of the common-law "bad faith" exception to the American Rule on attorney's fees was not appropriate in the case. Castillo Grand, LLC v. Sheraton Operating Corp., No. 11-2457 (2d Cir. June 18, 2013).
June 19, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Decisions | Permalink | Comments (0)
SCOTUS Cert Grant on Appellate Jurisdiction
This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund (No. 12-992), which presents the question:
In Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co., 486 U.S. 196 (1988), this Court held that a district court's decision on the merits that left unresolved a request for statutory attorney's fees was a "final decision" under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. The question presented in this case, on which there is an acknowledged conflict among nine circuits, is whether a district court's decision on the merits that leaves unresolved a request for contractual attorney's fees is a "final decision" under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
You can find a link to the First Circuit's decision below and the cert-stage briefing at SCOTUSblog's case file.
June 19, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Decisions, Supreme Court Cases | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Erie and Magic Words
Now available on the Florida Law Review Forum is my short piece, Magic Words and the Erie Doctrine. It's a response to a recent article by Sergio Campos, Erie as a Choice of Enforcement Defaults.
It's a quick read at <3 pages, where "<3" actually means "less than 3" as opposed to a sideways emoticon heart.
June 12, 2013 in Adam Steinman, Federal Courts, Recent Scholarship, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Third Circuit Holds GlaxoSmithKline Companies Delaware Citizens for Diversity Purposes
In an absurdly lengthy opinion, which I must admit to only skimming, the Third Circuit has held that a ten-by-ten foot subleased office makes Delaware the principal place of business of a GlaxoSmithKline holding company, and thus upheld diversity jurisdiction over a personal injury action involving thalilomide. (Yes, thalilomide, the anti-nausea-in-pregnancy drug from the late 50's and early 60's that caused birth defects.) Plaintiffs claim to have discovered new evidence showing that defendants were aware of the drug's defects while marketing it. Johnson v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., No. 12-2561 (3d Cir. June 7, 2013.)
The plaintiffs are Pennsylvania citizens and they claimed that four defendants were also Pennsylvania citizens. So when defendants removed the action from Pennsylvania state court, plaintiffs moved to remand. That motion was denied and the issue certified for interlocutory appeal. Apparently the issue of these companies' citizenship for diversity purposes has come up in several other cases and the district court rulings have conflicted.
As a naive law student, I concluded that any corporate structure that I could not understand was up to no good, and I have found no reason to change my mind about this well into middle age. Three of the four defendants that plaintiffs claimed were Pennsylvania citizens are entities affiliated with GlaxoSmithKline plc, the British entity that is the "global head" of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. Defendant SmithKline Beecham Corp. was once a Pennsylvania corporation, but it converted in 2009 to a Delaware LLC. As far as I understood, the purpose of the conversion was to avoid "unnecessary tax liability." (Wish I could convert myself to a Delaware LLC!) SmithKline Beecham then dissolved. The court thus held that SmithKline Beecham was not a Pennsylvania citizen because it had converted itself into a new entity, defendant GSK LLC.
GSK LLC operates the US division of GlaxoSmithKline plc. Its headquarters is still in Philadelphia, "where it occupies 650,000 square feet of office space and employs 1,800 people" – the same as when it was still SmithKline Beecham. SmithKline Beecham's board of directors became GSK LLC's "board of managers." Does that mean GSK LLC's principal place of business is still Pennsylvania?
No. As an LLC, GSK LLC's citizenship for diversity purposes is derivative of its owner's (or "member's") citizenship. Its sole member is GSK Holdings, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in (according to the Third Circuit) Delaware. GSK Holdings subleases a ten-by-ten foot office in Delaware. It has one employee who works about 20 hours per year. Its three directors hold quarterly 15-30 minute meetings in Delaware (at least one of the directors is usually physically present at the meetings) to discuss GSK Holdings' investments.
As for the fourth defendant at issue, Avantor, it evidently moved its principal place of business to Pennsylvania five days after the removal, so the court held that it was still a New Jersey citizen at the time of removal.
June 8, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Decisions, Subject Matter Jurisdiction | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, May 31, 2013
Campos on Jones on Judicial Review and the Lost Constitution
Now available on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is an essay by Sergio Campos (Miami) entitled Back to the Future. It reviews a recent article by Robert Jones (Northern Illinois), Lessons from a Lost Constitution, 27 J. L. & Politics 459 (2012).
May 31, 2013 in Federal Courts, Recent Scholarship, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
SCOTUS Grants Cert in Another Class Action Fairness Act Case
Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp. (No. 12-1036), which presents the question:
Whether a state's parens patriae action is removable as a "mass action" under the Class Action Fairness Act when the state is the sole plaintiff, the claims arise under state law, and the state attorney general possesses statutory and common-law authority to assert all claims in the complaint.
You can find a link to the Fifth Circuit's decision below and the cert-stage briefing at SCOTUSblog's case file.
It will be the second Supreme Court case to interpret CAFA in as many Terms, following the decision this March in Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles.
May 28, 2013 in Class Actions, Federal Courts, Recent Decisions, Subject Matter Jurisdiction, Supreme Court Cases | Permalink | Comments (0)


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Upcoming Releases (1) | Week of September 01, 2013
Every week on bookish & nerdy, I will be spotlighting the upcoming releases (mostly YA but some adult fiction) that will be in stores and online. For the week of September 01, 2013, I have 7 bo…
Every week on bookish & nerdy, I will be spotlighting the upcoming releases (mostly YA but some adult fiction) that will be in stores and online. For the week of September 01, 2013, I have 7 bo…
This comes out in September this year.
Here is the synopsis:
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan …
But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.
Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words … And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
Or will she just go on living inside somebody else's fiction?
Well it's safe to say I want this book.
I think it's safe to say all of tumblr should want this book. Am I right? This is what we all want right? lol
I really recommend her books everyone. Eleanor and Park was just released so please go out and buy it!
Synopsis: Mila was living with her mother in a small Minnesota town when she discovered she was also living a lie. She was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was never supposed to remember the past—that she was built in a computer science lab and programmed to do things real people would never do. Now she has no choice but to run—from the dangerous operatives who want her terminated because she knows too much, and from a mysterious group that wants to capture her alive and unlock her advanced technology. Evading her enemies won't help Mila escape the cruel reality of what she is and cope with everything she has had to leave behind. However, what she's becoming is beyond anyone's imagination, including her own, and that just might save her life. A compulsively readable sci-fi thriller, Mila 2.0 is Debra Driza's bold debut and the first book in an action-filled, Bourne Identity–style trilogy. (BN.com)
Upcoming YA Releases 2013
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we're 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be.
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.


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Sep 10, 2011Francis Coppola's haunting war movie "Apocalypse Now" presents (obviously) powerful performance from Marlon Brando and a lasting appeal. Easily one of the greatest, and possibly the darkest, war movie I have ever encountered. -REDUX VERSION-
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Nov 7, 2012Apocalypse Now is one of the most awe-inspiring films of all time. It truly is, in every sense of the word, a masterpiece.
Jan 12, 2011My personal favorite film of all time. It changed the way I view film, art, and even life. The acting is flawless, it has the most beautiful cinematography in the history of film, the messages are powerful and haunting. It stays with you the rest of your life. Which is something not many films can claim.
Oct 19, 2011Best film ever... Wonderful depiction of human psyche transmitted by making you feel the message.
Nov 1, 2011A cinematic triumph in every way, excellent writing, superb cast and wonderfully acted (Sheen, Brando and Duvall and all excellent) I've only recently watched this for the first time as I purchased the collector's edition blu ray and haven't yet watched Redux, but the original is the best war film I have ever seen, and it has firmly put itself in my top 10 all time favourite movies
Dec 9, 2013Richly dark and beautifully hallucinatory, Apocalypse Now like the greatest war movies picks no side, but rightfully informs us of the horrors of war on an primordially human level.
Aug 17, 2012One of my favorite movies of all-time. It is absolutely unrelenting in maintaining a constant disorientation and incredibly disturbing tone throughout.
May 28, 2012The time comes for everyone. Never at the same time or under the same circumstances. But it does arrive. Loss is unavoidable. Whether it's our sanity. Our dreams. Our hopes. The very identity of who we once were. Definitely friends and family. Those usually go or rearrange themselves into a new unexpected landscape. Loss. One way or another. Whether we admit it or choose to live in denial. Loss is there to stay.
Milius and Coppola made it clear. Their message of loss and madness stays with you in a haunting way. You just can't wash it off. "The horrors," Brando insists. The things we see. We experience. We find ourselves doing. Who are these new men we've become along the way. Where is that guy I left behind when I started? Is there ever a true way back? And if so, to where?
There is no doubt the content of the film carries a truly emotional and psychological impact. Yes. The context is war. The most extreme of violent acts. A perfect metaphor for the loss of innocence and the discovery of life's real intent. It turns out life doesn't always have your back. No matter how good you are. No matter how good a side you fight for. Sometimes life just doesn't have your back. All characters are great studies of humanity's journey. But some of the more obvious ones can't be avoided. Like those Playboy models. So glossy and hopeful in their early arrival. Fireworks was the theme. The object of everyone's dreams. Dreams finally buried in mud and despair inside that rain soaked tent. Innocent beauties confessing their sacrifices while handing over their honor as if it was a buffet. Tall price to pay for one's dreams. "They made me do all kinds of horrible things," she says. "I just want a simple boy to like me... Are you a simple boy?" And then the next guy interrupts, "I'm next madam." The things we sold along the way. And to make the irony colder let's not forget that those girls traveled to the front lines to 'help' the soldiers. They just didn't know how deep a sale this was going to be.
Remember the French? Holding on to their family land next to the river? There for generations? But they do say they came from France, brought the supplies from Brazil, and taught the locals to work with them. To save them, as they say. Was this education in exchange for slavery? I didn't see any Vietnamese workers at that lavish dinner table. Are the once ignorant locals glad to be enslaved? Whose land is it then? Perhaps the French will die in this land after all. Perhaps someone will educate them on a new form of slavery. The slavery to your land that was never yours.
The final discovery of Marlon Brando was epic. You can feel that man's energy jumping out of the screen. Each and every one of his words perfectly calculated. Telling us of the propaganda of war. The perpetuity and necessity of the lies. The machine that moves all of us. Influences us. Tricks us to participate willingly. Is this war just a backdrop for life's journey. Who do we lie to? Others? Ourselves? One day this war will end. And then what? There is always room for fresh new lies to believe.
Martin Sheen was amazingly handsome in this movie. Great shape. A man's man. I always forget Martin was once a great good looking stud. He seems to have aged fast into his more mature roles of late. Regardless, the acting was on point at all times. As if made of steel. Where do you take your acting career from that? Perhaps that's why his role seemed to mature so quickly after Apocalypse.
Marlon Brando can't truly be congratulated in words. The man's talents are pure art in motion. You simply surrender to the beast and let him take you whole. He's barely in the movie, yet there were times when I though he was going to reach out of the screen and grab me. Amazing.
The rest of the cast was rounded to perfection. Who could forget Robert Duvall? Genius! The part reads as if written expressly for him. I would have given him back the surf board. Don't wanna mess with that guy.
The film made me a bit nostalgic of older movies. We have to keep in mind this production took place before digital imagery was the soup of the day at fifty cents a pop. Those explosions are real. The groups of helicopters are real. The airplanes doing fly overs and blowing up crap, well, they are real. That's film making with balls. Coppola had the privilege of directing the real thing. No green screen in sight. It must have been an amazing experience. Although, if we put the time of production in perspective, that is, the seventies, Francis was probably doing business as it should be done. "OK. We need a dozen helicopters over there!" Awesome. What balls.… Expand
Jul 26, 2013A masterfully done movie. A nearly flawless modern adaptation of Heart of Darkness. Great writing, great acting and great directing. The only notable problem is that Brando is packing on just a few too many pounds to be a perfect Kurtz.
Oct 19, 2013The original film is engrossing, riveting, brilliantly directed, and superbly acted. Easily the best films I have ever seenandalso one of the weirdest films I have seen in general.
Feb 8, 2014Being unique is not always a positive attribute for a film, but with Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's devastating portrayal of the Vietnam War, it most certainly is. At least in my opinion however, the two-and-a-half-hour-long depiction of war's atrocities is not that great when regarded simply as a film; it's much more a work of art, drastically showcasing the futility of this notorious bloodshed, resulting in millions of casualties over its duration of almost 20 years. Apocalypse Now fuels hatred and incomprehension for these happenings in the audience and makes a major pacifistic statement through the metaphorical journey of one man. But apart from the stunning cinematography, the 1979 epic lacks some cinematic traits to make it a thoroughly thrilling and rewatchable experience and can thus not get a top rating from me when regarded as a film.… Expand
Dec 1, 2013The moment we are introduced to the main character, it's clear what the war has done to his mind. He is in a haze. Part of special operations, his tasks often involve assassinating people deemed hazardous to the war effort. He is not expected to think for himself. Actually the dossier he is given over his next target he only opens to read once he has set off for the mission, and it's instantly clear that even if he could find sympathy for his target, he must at all costs finish the mission.
The focus here is of course on the Vietnam War. A colonel has gone renegade and needs to be killed. A captain is sent to do the job. On his way he comes across various units, one of whom treats war as a picnic outing. Human nature, it would seem, would politicize almost anything. Video cameras roll as soldiers pretend to be caught in an ambush. Officers having their pictures taken for publicity stunts. This would have been disturbing in itself, this total disregard for human suffering, of the people of the land they have invaded and their own wounded and killed. But it is apparent that these men only do these things to feel normal, or whatever passes for normal during a bloody war.
As the captain travels up the river, the banks are littered with unattended dead. No one has the time and the interest to bury them. The whole pointlessness of war is shown with poignant imagery. One would think two wars that caused the deaths of tens of millions would have been enough to teach mankind the lesson of a lifetime. Still about one and a half million Vietnamese had to perish, not to count the dead of several other wars. And the lesson is still not learnt.
It becomes more disturbing as Captain Willard goes deeper and closer to the source of the conflict. Command structures have completely vanished. A mass hysteria seems to have gripped these men. They joke and laugh like maniacs and kill with complete apathy. This before Willard has even reached his destination. But nothing prepares you for what awaits him at the end of his journey. The colonel has gathered himself a cult following of native Cambodians and Vietnamese among some Americans too. That place gave me the creeps.
The film explored how the violence and cruelty of war alters the nature of men fighting it, especially wars of an imperial nature. How the soldiers become desensitized and dehumanize everyone, suspect everyone, kill with impunity. They may not be aware of this at the moment, but killing a human being, even one you will always consider somewhere between your pets and an insect, will have an effect on you. Coppola succeeds in showing this message loud and clear.
Martin Sheen tackles his character with a relaxed laid-back approach. He is in no rush to reach his destination. The journey is the real part of the story. But when he does reach the colonel, even after everything he has seen on the way, including his own slip of character, he still is surprised at the colonel's doings. Marlon Brando plays a lunatic with extreme precision.
This being a war movie, the scale of the human involvement and military machinery was captured effectively. The costumes and make up department did a wondrous job. The equatorial climate has everyone perspiring constantly. You know that they hate the weather, the country, the jungles, and most disturbingly of all, the people. Their dead count for nothing and they lie and rot.
I must admit that this movie made me very uncomfortable and unsettled at times. The way some of the characters seem to lose their minds is palpable and frightening, like losing it is itself chosen as a way to remain sane in the face of such devastation of human lives.… Expand
Mar 21, 2013This is my favorite Martin Sheen movie! I think I saw him on TV recently as I channel-surfed. I think the show was called Breakthroughs with Martin Sheen.
Apr 14, 2013One of the greatest war movies of all-time with many of the most iconic moments and quotes in cinema. This film took so many hardships to make and Francis Ford Coppola definitely made history.
Apr 4, 2014A Phenomenal triumph! Haunting, powerful and an outstanding piece of cinema. A very dark and psychological war film, with a great, powerful and memorable performance from Marlon Brando, as well as the rest of the cast who are all terrific. The action, destruction and every little detail is tremendously captured on camera. Rarely in movies can the film makers make such tension between characters, using superb lighting and soundtrack. The air assault on the village never gets old, love it! Classic masterpiece!… Expand
Jun 25, 2013Anyone reading this now is reading my full honest review of this legendary picture, and while the original is classic the Redux is Legend...
Obviously any film enthusiast can agree that "Apocalypse Now" is essentially a War film like no other.
A tense hullucinogenic, physically exhausting movie which can be only be described as part War, part something that doesn't really have a Genre, Apocalypse Now is something indescribable unless you see it and even then it's hard to put into words, as Roger Ebert said in a statement too true: "Longer or shorter, redux or not, Apocalypse Now is one of the central events of my life as a filmgoer".
Again one thing i love about this movie is the success it had after going against all odds in Pre-Production, for those who don't know Brando showed up way too overweight and was reportedly very hard to work with and would require a body double, Martin Sheen had a Heart Attack at the age of 36 and returned to work a month later, What would be a 16-week shooting took over 239 days of torture, Typhoon Olga destroyed many expensive sets, extras and crew all got malaria and disease, Sam Bottoms (The actor who plays Lance) was constantly on drugs while shooting, Martin Sheen's brother did half of the Voice-Over Narrative due to his Brother's Sickness, the killing of the water buffalo attracted obvious animal protection laws, the ending was re-written countless times, Coppola had to make a film out of 2300 hours of recorded footage and of course for obvious reasons Francis Ford Coppola threatened suicide countless times.
That's just a handful of problems and stuff that happened (if you're interested in learning more go watch his wife's Documentary about the movie, "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmaker's Apocalypse").
Finally beginning the movie Hellicopters fly across a burning jungle all while "The End The Doors" plays out, Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is Drunk, Drugged out and wasting away in a room in Saigon (Anyone anctious to know this was shot on Martin's 36th Birthday who actually WAS drunk and drugged out, he told Copolla to film what was happening and leave him to it, what happened as you saw he actually broke the mirror, bled out then reportedly attacked Francis, who's crew were so frightened they wanted to stop yet Coppola ordered to continue.)
Being called upon by Generals (most notably a cameo by Harrison Ford under the name General. Lucas "wink") he is ordered to exterminate "with extreme prejudice" General Walter Kurtz (Marlon Brando), A Green Barret who's literally gone off the deep end.
What follows is Willard's mission up the Vietnamese river on the boat narrating his views on the war and Kurtz in the Dossier given to him questioning his respect for Kurtz as well as his mission.
With his crew (among them Laurence Fishburne's first role), there all of them witness the horrors of the war and a vital lesson: Never get off the boat.
On their journey they encounter kind,yet nutcase Seargent. Kilgore (a manic performance by Robert Duvall) who utters my favourite quote "I love the smell of napalm in the morning, A Tiger, Playboy Bunnies (including real-life playmate of the Year Cynthia Wood) A Sanpan, abandoned troops, the French (In a mansion scene which should have stayed out the redux) and finally at the "Heart of Darkness" (arriving at Kurtz's location)
Arriving at the location where Kurtz is, is like jumping into a whole new movie, the natives see Kurtz as a God-like figure who constantly offer his views on life, war and everything in general one person who takes it too literally is an american photographer known only as "the photojournalist" (an expertly casted Dennis Hopper), Seeing Kurtz for the first time is probably one of the most chilling, tense, surreal moments in Motion Picture History.
The ending reflects the beginning with "The End" blaring out again as well as luckily being able to hear Kurtz's view like we did Willard's.
Not giving away the ending it is, in the sickest sense beautiful, unexplainable, and left me as physically exhausted as the soldiers (It should be noted that many people who have seen it have declared it so very accurate to how it was like experiencing Vietnam.
Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando are unforgetable characters, Sheen to me represents the every day soldier, ultimately he decides to just go with the flow and do what is neccesary to survive no matter how truly horrible it is. Brando on the other hand playing such a high ranking officer has seen more and therefore lost all hope for humanity and above all himself, making me wonder at the end will Willard be destined to follow in Kurtz's footsteps?...
Aside from that everything is just incredible, the supporting actors, the destroyed jungle, villages, vehicles "The Attack of the Valkyries" helicopter Scene is something i don't think i'll ever forget and though the Redux is in a sense too extended for it's own good, it will forever be a question to me what my opinion would be had i seen the original version first.
Final Verdict: Francis Ford Coppola Thank you, Thank you Sir for one of the greatest experiences me as a film fan and movie goer could possibly have. there's really no way to end this review due to it's magnitude, but please do see this movie as soon as, it's so incredibly hard to find on DVD in the UK and that's wierd considering it just had a sudden re-release in theatres last April.… Expand
May 25, 2014Ask any moviebuff to list their their top movies and you'll generally hear Apocalypse Now on it. This film is nothing but top talent stars Marlon Brando,
Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall,Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne. Francis Ford Coppola directs another masterpiece Apocalypse Now is one of the best war movies of all time.
The brutalness that Apocalypse Now portrays made me and many others love this film. Its how how war can make people go insane how being in a jungle for months to years can do to a man's psyche.
As soon as Martin Sheen (Captain Benjamin L. Willard gets on the boat this movie takes off. The epic story is just executed flawlessly. Everything flows really well and the story never loses your atention. Robert Duvall's character Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore is fantastic.
The way this movie is written is brilliant. It has maybe one of the most Quoted lines in film history with "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." I really enjoy the way this movie portrayed true war. It wasn't candy coated for the viewers it was brutally honest and that's what sets it apart from it's genre.
Overall i give it a 10 and if anyone is yet to watch it yet id recommend watching the extended cut or should i say Apocalypse Now Redux it adds 49 minutes of extra footage that was not in the original film.… Expand
Nov 8, 2013A visually stunning and superbly directed piece of work about the horrors of war, Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic is what I consider one of the best depictions of the war in Vietnam next to Stanley Kubrick's equally superior "Full Metal Jacket". Everything about this movie is perfect: the characters, the setting, the music, and the cinematography. "Apocalypse Now" is definitely listed on my list of favorite movies of all time.… Expand
Dec 1, 2013The french dinner sequence is my favorite scene from any movie ever. It's a shame it wasn't in the original cut, otherwise these blowhards who saw the older version wouldn't try to reject such a meaningful scene.
Jun 16, 2014Not to mention story, performance or direction, this movie is already my favorite even when i hadn't seen it because i fancy all war flicks, especially those concerning the haunting epic Vietnam War. This movie delivers a straightforward look at the cause of shameful failure of the US Army in Vietnam so clearly that everyone can understand it. "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning" - the surely most memorable quote of all times outstandingly depicts despair as well as ruthlessness of virtually all American soldiers fighting the war.… Expand
Aug 6, 2014Very few of the movies I watch get nine stars, but this one top it well. This gritty war epic is packed with gritty action scenes and great dialogue. The acting is stunning and dramatic and well done. The best Martin Sheen performance hands down.
Such gorgeous explosions, such a terrible vision, such an amazing work of art. Go. Now.
One of the great films of all time. It shames modern Hollywood's timidity. To watch it is to feel yourself lifted up to the heights where the cinema can take you, but so rarely does.
Better in certain ways than the original "Apocalypse Now," though the flaws are also magnified.


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Feisty. Stubborn. A real cowboy. According to people who knew him, the real Ron Woodroof was very much like the character portrayed in the new movie Dallas Buyers Club, where he's played by Matthew McConaughey.
Bill Minutaglio — who wrote about Woodroof for The Dallas Morning News — describes him as "salty."
"I kinda liked him. He cursed like four sailors," says Minutaglio.
Chicago attorney Michael Cascino represented Woodroof in a case against the Food and Drug Administration.
"Ron was full of life … He'd greet you with a white shirt and a red tie and stories to tell … " says Cascino.
Stephen Nightingale, who was the medical director of the AIDS clinic at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, says Woodroof was all Texas — complete "with a pickup truck and a shot gun."
He also had, says Nightingale, "a very, very bad disease."
Woodroof's Dallas Buyers Club was in full swing by the time Nightingale met him in 1988. Nightingale says he didn't approve of people who were untrained treating the very sick with unapproved drugs. But he does remember that Woodroof was trying to be part of the solution.
"We would talk every two or three months," he says. "I'd reach out to him. He'd call me up, see what I thought of something. And I usually wasn't too enthusiastic about it."
Nightingale likens the early days of the AIDS epidemic to the movie No Country For Old Men, in which a murderous psychopath terrorizes a town, and completely eludes its sheriff, Tom Bell.
"There was this amorphous evil that went around just killing people randomly, and nobody seemed to understand it," Nightingale says. "And I think many of us who were treating — or otherwise involved with — people with AIDS at that time would've felt very much like Sheriff Bell."
In the 1992 documentary The AIDS Underground, Woodroof drives across the border to a pharmacy in Mexico. You can see just what a hustler he is when he talks about how he'll bluff his way through customs if they find his large stash of drugs in the trunk.
"You just have to be sure that you've got soles on the bottom of your shoes," Woodroof says. "Because when I say 'song and dance,' I'm not joking. You better. I will have an answer, because if I ever stutter they'll tear me apart," he says.
Woodroof constantly kept tabs on what new treatments were in the pipeline. He traveled overseas to find them, then tried them out on himself. In the documentary, he boasts that when he started injecting himself with the drug Peptide T, "it had never been injected" before.
Among other buyers clubs in the U.S, the one in Dallas had a reputation as a kind of Wild West affair, says writer Bill Minutaglio.
"People kept saying, 'Well, the Dallas Buyers Club, they're the pirates. They're the ones really out on the edge pushing the envelope, doing more crazy and intense work than anybody else,'" says Minutaglio. "'They take more risks.'"
It was scary work. Mary Franklin was a receptionist at the Dallas Buyers Club — the "front person," as she puts it.
"I was getting nervous about being busted," she says. "Because I knew what we were doing was illegal. Or just barely legal."
But Franklin, who's spent 20 years working for AIDS-related causes, says it was worth it. Her close friends were dying, and the Dallas Buyers Club gave them a little hope.
"I know it made them feel more powerful about their disease," Franklin says. "That they had a fighting chance, which is something the government was not offering."
Ron Woodroof fought the government too. He sued the FDA over a ban on a drug he was using. He was a plaintiff in the Dallas Gay Alliance's discrimination lawsuit against the Dallas County Hospital District, though he wasn't gay himself.
In that 1992 documentary, Woodroof says he just refused to listen to people who told him he was going to die.
"Just logically, I'm going 'Well, instead of letting these guys kill me, let me try anything I can get my hands on.' Because if it kills me, at least I died trying."
Woodroof died on Sept. 12, 1992. His lawyer, Michael Cascino, said Woodroof always wanted to have a movie made of his life — and he would've gotten a kick out of being played by a big Hollywood star.


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Stinging caterpillars
I thought I knew about any insect that could possibly bite you in rural Alabama.
Mosquitos, just like in Mississippi, are prevalent, but they've never really bothered me. My youngest daughter, Erin, can go outside in the evening with me and get back in the house with 10 or 15 bites, and I have none.
My sister Gayla fell in a huge fire ant bed once when we were growing up over in Marion County, Ala. It was a frightening situation, to say the least.
We have a few fire ants in Mississippi, too.
Roaming the country during my youth, I encountered wasps, yellow jackets, bumble-bees and so on and so forth.
I saw caterpillars. They were typically plentiful when I was helping tend to the family garden. But I never got stung by one. Heck, I didn't even know they could sting.
On Labor Day, Emma and Erin drove to Alabama for a cookout with my family. Pam stayed back for housework. I stayed back for South Reporter work.
While taking it easy outside at my sister's house, Emma felt a sudden, sharp sting on the upper part of her leg. It hurt. She looked around and couldn't immediately notice the culprit.
Then my brother-in-law noticed a fuzzy looking critter in the grass.
"Stinging caterpillar," he said.
My sister administered some medication for Emma's pain.
It gradually got better but the "stinging caterpillar" also left its mark on her leg, which stuck with her for a good while.
Emma did a little research, via the Internet, and found there are several types of "stinging caterpillars." In fact, more than 50 species in the United States are capable of inflicting a painful sting. Those stinging fibers and hairs are a form of protection against predators – like Emma, I guess.
Some of the worse stings can causes things like upper airway inflammation, rash, nausea, vomiting and headaches.
Emma determined she was stung by a puss caterpillar – a hairy little creature.
And her research shows it's one of the most poisonous in the U.S.
And it appears it's surfacing in not only Alabama but also in Mississippi and Tennessee.
Saturday, I received a text from Latoye Zinn of Holly Springs, who asked "Have you done a story on these?"
She attached a photo of a puss caterpillar.
Then she asked, "Did she (Emma) go to the emergency room? They are on the rise but so cute."
One Internet report said the puss caterpillar "looks harmless enough, even inviting petting, but stay far away from this furry caterpillar."
The article, from the Cox Media Group National Content Desk, said the puss caterpillar cannot only cause pain but also vomiting and convulsions.
It also said, if you get accidentally stung by one, place Scotch tape over the area and remove it to take out the spines. Then cover with ice packs to reduce stinging, followed by a baking soda and water paste. Also, flush the area with soap and water, monitor the sting, and if the pain or swelling gets worse, see a doctor.
Emma, thank goodness, was OK. But she had a tough week. A few days later, she was stung by a yellow jacket, and her foot was swollen until this past Sunday.
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For the second time in a year I have upgraded to a new Ubuntu and lost internet access! And we expect people to drop Windows and flock to Linux??!! I don't think so.
Last time it was my wireless dongle which didn't work.
This time 10:10 it has switched off my wireless and won't let me switch it on again and when I connect by wire it won't connect to the internet!!!
So I have no chance of getting it fixed!!
I find myself wanting to move to Linux completely but I am thwarted at every upgrade!!
Come on guys surely we can keep the things which were working working when there is an upgrade otherwise it's not an upgrade - just another embarrassment.
I'm so glad the people whom I have encouraged to try Linux have not done so - or they would have been put off forever.
Sent from my Windows 7 desktop which seems to work impeccably. Which is even more annoying.
In windows you want to see computer and system information there are many methods for Exp:-To see Microsoft System Information, use either of the following methods:
• Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click System Information.
• Click Start, click Run, type msinfo32.exe in the Open box, and then click OK.
In the same way in Ubuntu system you want to see computer and system information in Graphical Mode you have to install Sysinfo
What is Sysinfo: - Sysinfo is a graphical tool that is able to display some hardware and software information about the computer it is run on.
It is able to recognize information about:
. System (Linux distribution release, versions of GNOME, Kernel, gcc and Xorg and hostname);
. CPU (vendor identification, model name, frequency, level2 cache, bogomips, model numbers and Flags);
. Memory(total system RAM, free memory, swap space total and free cached, active, inactive memory);
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In my first article that is posted at 29.10.2010 "Installing Ubuntu 10.10 on a Windows 7 System (Dual booting) with Radeon X300/X550/X1050 SERIES Graphics Card". I got most of email in that most of the people are asked me to give step by step Installation method for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 in dual booting. So I am trying to give you to installation method for both Operating Systems. I hope it will help to you for easy installation for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 in Dual booting method.
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First you have to download avast anti virus software from avast website
now you will see avast web page called avast Linux home edition
you will see a Note: the program will not work with out a valid license key. To get your key places use the registration form.
You have to click on registration form now you will see a new page called "Register for your free avast 1 year license" in the you have to give full details information to register for free license you will get key to your mail.
Now you have go to avast Linux Edition (DEB Package)
now you will see opening avast 4 workstation_1.3.0-2_i386.deb box
you have to select
(.) open with "Ubuntu software Center (Default)"
press {OK} button
after downloading is over. You will see a box called Ubuntu software Center in that you see Right side a small box called Install
just press that Install Button
In my first article that is posted at 29.10.2010 "Installing Ubuntu 10.10 on a Windows 7 System (Dual booting) with Radeon X300/X550/X1050 SERIES Graphics Card". I got most of email in that most of the people are asked me to give step by step Installation method for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 in dual booting. So I am trying to give you to installation method for both Operating Systems. I hope it will help to you for easy installation for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 in Dual booting method.
I have installed Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on HP dx 7200 micro towers.
System Information :-
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7201) (7201.winmain_win7ids.090601-1516)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Compaq dx7200 Micro tower
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3584MB RAM
Display Devices
It still functioning well when i used it last nite i am very sure that i quick it properly. But today when i on my pc it showed "INSTALL PROBLEM" ar the top of right hand site corner. It is like that:
The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator.
At the same time, at the to top of left hand site corner it said that:
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for evolution-alarm-notify. Some of your configurations setting may not work properly.
That all it show out when i on my laktop and not even have the chance to type my password and get into the system yet.
So what i going to do to fix this problem as i am totally new in Ubuntu 10.04. I am fresh user. I love the simple and speed of Ubuntu and dont want to change to window now.
Please help me on this problem if you guys know how to fix this. Thanks so much.
If you want to install Rediff Bol 8.0 (messenger) in Ubuntu first you have to install Wine. Installation of wine software in two ways.
First way through the command line
second way through the Ubuntu software center
in first way
you go to applications---> accessories ---> Terminal
And type sudo apt-get installs wine after installation complete
You should install Microsoft's True Type fonts:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
In the second way
you go to applications ---> Ubuntu software center ---> in search box type wine
It will show Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Beta Release)
Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer
Q4Wine (GUI configuration tool for wine)
in this you should install Q4wine (GUI configuration tool for wine) install first
second you install Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Beta Release)
after that you install Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer
I have tried using itunes in kubuntu with Wine. Wine runs well until you try to open the progams and it says the progarams has not been well installed. I am only trying to load my iPod so if their is another program that would help too.
If you want to change speed and duplex of your network card you have to use ethtool or mii-tool.ethtool can be used to query and change settings such as speed, auto- negotiation and checksum offload on many network devices, especially Ethernet devices.
I installed ubuntu on my system on D: drive, and had not setted the root password. Then i had logically deleted the D: drive from windows and formatted it. After that i tried to install the Ubuntu again on D; drive, it asks for login which i give previous userlgin id and password, but ut fails.
Now i had reformatted the whole system, but still when i try to install the ubuntu it stops at Login. what to do...
go to this link you will find ubuntu 10.10 documentation
Ubuntu: Maverick guide (Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat) Documentation
Allu John Sudhakar
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UCE,OU Osmania University
to see my Blogger (for windows) http://ajsudhakar.blogspot.com
to see my Blogger (for Ubuntu) http://allujohn.blogspot.com
any help mail to me firstname.lastname@example.com
i have ubuntu 10.4 on my intel dual core machine
when i installed ubuntu at the start it was going good but now whenever i boot my machine its starts in terminal mode only when i give exit commond in terminal the machine logs off. help me to resolve matter
I have using Ubuntu desktop more then 3 years. Thire is no problem for me to install dual boot ubuntu 9.10 and windows XP sp3 & Vista.
When Ubuntu10.04 was released I upgrade Ubuntu9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04. After upgrade is completed the system will ask for restart. When i restart display was not comming be cause of my NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 Graphic Card. As this card supports only windows Vista and XP
Ubuntu is a free and open source software and so it will not support NVIDIA Graphic card.
This is where the problem lies
To solve this problem i have don this method.
In my home at present i am using dual boot ubuntu10.04 and windows XP sp3 with NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 Graphic Card
I shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 9.10 desktop to Ubuntu 10.04.
Start the Update Manager (System > Administration > Update Manager):
The Update Manager should show that a new distribution release (10.04 LTS) is available. Click the Upgrade button to start the distribution upgrade:
I have P4 system in my home and system configuration is
BIOS: Mother Board version ZX-865v v1.0 (2009-04-22-4m)
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU 2.40 Ghz
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Name: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Manufacture: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce FX 5500
DACType: Integrated RAMDAC
Approx Total Memory:256.0MB
Current Display mode: 1024X768(32bit)(60HZ)
Monitor: Plug and Play monitor
and in that system i have SAM SUNG HD321Hj hard disk of 320GB and made three partitions (C D E) in that i have installed xp with sp3 in C & D partitions and in E partition I installed Ubuntu 9.10.
in this month Ubuntu 10.10 was released and i tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. Installation was not done because of NVIDIA Graphic Card, as this card supports only windows vista and xp. Ubuntu is a free and open source software and so it will not support NVIDIA Graphic card. This is where the problem lies


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Apparently I've become one of those bloggers- you know, the ones that don't post for days on end and when they do it's always old photos? Haha, not that it's a bad thing but I normally pride myself on sorting everything on the day the photos are taken, otherwise it's not true to life. Not that it always is! If I wrote about every little thing there would be reams of uninteresting text, most of which about me contemplating whether the lighter it gets how likely it is I could I could pass my hair off as that of a My Little Pony (my educated guess is yes). But anyway, I love this dress. I've never gotten anything Tesco brand before and it's a little long and perhaps a bit big on the bust but other than that I like it - it's comfy and really easy to wear.
dress: tesco via ebay £2, jeans: QS £4, pumps: primark 99p, cardi: h&m £14.99, necklace: claires
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your hair is looking so pretty :) xReplyDelete
i still love that cardi, i went for the blue blazer instead but i keep wondering if i should go back for it - you look fab in yours :)ReplyDelete
amazing cardigan and I love the dress!ReplyDelete
the dress is lovely and because its a little long you can wear it in the summer with no tights. I find everything so short at the moment xReplyDelete
I love your cardigan and I'm super jealous that you can find all these amazing things on ebay!ReplyDelete
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You can use any yeast or pizza dough you prefer. I'm a fan of the Master Dough recipe in Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day and made a version of their olive oil dough, subbing whole wheat for some of the AP flour and using a tad more olive oil.
Onion and Rosemary Fougasse
Ingredients for basic dough
2 ½ c lukewarm water
1 ½ T yeast (or two packets)
1 T sugar
1 ½ T salt
4 T olive oil
4 c AP flour
2 ½ c whole wheat flour
- Stir the yeast and sugar in the water and let it bloom for about 10 minutes.
- Add the olive oil to the wet mix.
- Combine salt and flours, then mix with wet ingredients.
- Mix until well combined. Some folks prefer no-knead method. I love my standup mixer. Using the dough hook, the ingredients combine to make a non-sticky dough after about 5 minutes. Works for me.
- Cover and set aside for about 2 hours for the first rise.
- Now you're ready to form the fougasse. Don't forget to pre-heat the oven to 425.
- Quick aside: Because you'll have enough dough to make several fougasse, I suggest holding off adding the secondary components until you are ready to bake.
- For the onion rosemary bread, I lightly browned ½ medium red onion in a tad of olive oil and drained it well on paper towels. Then I chopped about 2 T of rosemary fresh from the garden.
- Divide the dough into 5. Take one of those and knead the half of the onion and rosemary into the dough, roll out to about ½" thin, then cut slits in the traditional design. Fougasse looks like a leaf. Like this or this or this. This short video demystifies the process.
- I topped the second batch with za'tar.. Brush the top of the dough lightly with olive oil, then sprinkle the herbs and maldon salt.
- If you're famished, you can actually throw this in the oven now. But letting the dough sit for 20-30 minutes yields a slightly lightly bread. Remember to brush the top with olive oil before popping it in the oven.
- If you use a baking stone, you know the drill. Sprinkle it lightly with cornmeal, then slide on the bread. Otherwise, a baking sheet with parchment paper works well.
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Maple-Pepper Steaks
- Yield 4 servings
- Prep 15 mins
- Cook 10 mins
Sweet-savory marinade packs beef tenderloin with flavor.
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme OR 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 (6-oz) beef tenderloin steaks (1 ½-inch thick)
- Combine all ingredients (except beef) in blender; process until well blended. Combine beef with half the sauce; let stand 30 minutes to 4 hours. Remove beef from marinade, discarding marinade. Cook beef in grill pan or on grill, basting with remaining sauce.
Recipe by Chef Jon Ashton.
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When the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" climbed to the top of the pop charts in 1961, it was not only a hit record, it was the crossover hit an ambitious and feisty little independent label out of Detroit, Motown Records, needed. The rest is history -- Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, the Supremes, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson -- the Motown catalog is an endless treasure, and not the least of these is the wonderful recording legacy of the Marvelettes. Somehow the public wasn't drawn to this fine singing trio quite as much as it was to the Supremes, but the quality and consistency of the Marvelettes' work at Motown proves that they were way more than just an opening act for the Diana Ross caravan. This four-CD set, the second multi-disc set in a series documenting the Marvelettes history at Motown (the first, 2009's Forever: The Complete Motown Albums, Vol. 1, covered 1961 to 1965 and collected the group's first six albums, plus singles, B-sides and rarities), compiles the group's final four albums (1967's The Marvelettes, 1968's Sophisticated Soul, 1969's In Full Bloom, and 1970's The Return of the Marvelettes), along with non-LP singles, B-sides, and other rarities from the same time period, and documents the last chapter in this fine singing group's Motown legacy -- a legacy that stands with any at the label. Without the Marvelettes, who knows what the history of Motown Records would have been like? Luckily, we don't have to worry about it. Here's why. Steve Leggett, Rovi
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