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Kelly Preston guest stars as venture capitalist Meghan Doyle, who strikes up a professional and personal connection with Joe, testing the DuBois marriage in the process. Meanwhile, an FBI profiler (Kurtwood Smith) arrives in town to catch a serial killer, but Allison's visions reveal his plans may be much more sinister.
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Two stars shone their light on Medium this week. First, we enjoyed the return of Kurtwood Smith as Agent Edward Cooper, back to solve serial killings. Secondly, Kelly Preston (that's Mrs. John Travolta, thank you very much), appeared as a monetary angel to Joe making him a proposition he couldn't refuse. Allison began this week's nocturnal visions, by dreaming of Agent Cooper killing someone. She feared he had become vigilante and was going to kill the serial killer of three young women. And she wasn't far off base. Allison told Cooper off because she knew he intended to kill the killer and she didn't think it was right for him to do. In return, Cooper cleverly pulled her into his circle. He told Van Dyke he wanted her help and made him give her an office. When she dreamed the same scenario the second time, she saw her initial dream had some very pertinent details missing. The killer had slipped into Cooper's hotel room with every intention of killing him, and not the other way around. Cooper talked a good game about real justice, "I only take justice when the system fails." This was a nice gesture to bring Allison a little justice after having been treated so shabbily by the media and the D.A.'s office. Cooper believed in her and her visions were helpful clues to his latest cases. While Cooper was great alive, he was even better dead. He kept popping up in front of Allison. At first it was very sad, because he didn't know that he was dead and Allison had to explain it to him. That would just plan suck to have to do. Later, when she woke up and Cooper was standing over her in her bed it was hilarious. He led her and Scanlon on a wild-goose chase to keep them from arresting the serial killer because, being dead, Cooper was able to see what was going to happen to this guy in the future and it wasn't going to be pretty. Allison refused to work with him because justice is not his to dole out. She can be a real goody-goody sometimes. However, our fearless leader, Mrs Dubois, was looking particularly good this epsisode and I realized, it's not just the longer hair but the heavy black eyeliner tres sexy. I like her new look. In the only really amusing scene in this ep, the girls were fighting at the kitchen table. Ariel was pretty perturbed by Bridgette's tooth-wiggling. Bridgette realized she was sitting on a goldmine, if the exchange rate with the tooth fairy was $1 per tooth. I'm surprised she didn't wiggle them all out at once. Joe met with some Venture Capitalists that decided against funding him, but Kelly Preston's, Meagan, decided to put up her own cash because she believed his idea was a "money-maker". When she told him she was going to keep the controlling interest in the deal, he was planning on telling her no. But like most men, Joe's a louse, easily seduced by dirty martinis and lured by a pretty, rich femme fatale. I can see now, this isn't going to end well. Kelly Preston has signed up for four episodes, so there may be more to the deal than dollars and sub-atomic particles. After that martini, Joe consented to giving Meagan a 51% share in the business, to which his wife said, "I'm not upset, I'm bewildered. " And she had plenty of right to be. Her husband just gave away the farm, so to speak, and didn't even bother to consult his wife. I believe that is LOW. My favorite line of the evening: "We are officially happy." The question, of course, is, did she really mean it? I actually miss Roseanna. Ah, but Kurtwood was almost as good. And we can all hold on to the fact that Kelly Preston will be back next week to try to tempt Joe out of his boxers. Until then, satisfy your Medium urges with our Online Video Guide.
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Two stars shone their light on Medium this week First we enjoyed the return of Kurtwood Smith as Agent Edward Cooper back to solve serial killings Secondly Kelly Preston thats Mrs John Travolta thank you very much appeared as a monetary angel to Joe making him a proposition he couldnt refuse Allison began this weeks nocturnal visions by dreaming of Agent Cooper killing someone She feared he had become vigilante and was going to kill the serial killer of three young women And she wasnt far off base Allison told Cooper off because she knew he intended to kill the killer and she didnt think it was right for him to do In return Cooper cleverly pulled her into his circle He told Van Dyke he wanted her help and made him give her an office When she dreamed the same scenario the second time she saw her initial dream had some very pertinent details missing The killer had slipped into Coopers hotel room with every intention of killing him and no
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In 2006, the American Psychological Foundation (APF) Koppitz Fellowship Program awarded $20,000 each to three child psychology graduate students. The four-year-old program is funded by a bequest of more than $4 million from Werner J. Koppitz, PhD, in memory of his late wife, Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz, PhD, a school and educational psychologist.
One of this year's Koppitz fellows will use the award to investigate how children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affect their parent's marital relationships. Another will map visual salience in 2-year-old children with autism to predict their social functioning. Another will continue a study of parent and child anxiety that was almost destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Parental relationships and ADHD
Research shows that parental discord can lead to negative or ineffective parenting strategies that in turn spark behavioral problems in children, says Koppitz winner Brian Wymbs, a clinical psychology graduate student at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. However, he adds, no study has yet examined the opposite scenario: What effect do children with behavior problems have on their parents' relationship?
"It appears that the more severely misbehaving child you have, the more severe the level of discord is in the parents," says Wymbs.
For his dissertation research project, Wymbs devised a first-of-its-kind study that manipulates child behavior to examine its effect on how parents interact. Wymbs trained four normally well-behaved child actors, ages 9 to 12, to act in a disruptive manner similar to how a child with ADHD behaves-uncooperative, distractible, overactive and bossy. The children were also trained to follow another script, which dictated that they behave in a friendly, compliant manner.
He then had each child behave in either a "good" or "bad" way in the lab with mother-father pairs, 47 of which actually had children with ADHD and 17 of which had children without ADHD.
The trios engaged in structured- and free-play activities, completed a math assignment and cleaned up the play area together. Research assistants observed them from behind two-way glass, videotaped and coded the interaction and had parents report on how they perceived their partner during the activities.
Wymbs' preliminary findings show that parents of children with and without ADHD were significantly more negative toward and less supportive of each other during interactions with disruptive children than during interactions with typical children. Findings also indicate that parents of children with ADHD are more susceptible to being negative and less supportive during interactions with children than parents of children without ADHD.
"Given the manipulation we have right now, it's outstanding that we're seeing these effects," he says. "It's surprising that we're finding differences in how parents react even when not only do they know they're not interacting with their own child, but they're in a university setting and they know they're being watched."
Wymbs sees his lab research as setting the groundwork for future observational studies in parents' homes with their children, and he'd eventually like to design interventions to help couples parent children with ADHD and prevent marital dissolution.
The Koppitz fellowship has helped Wymbs fund recruitment efforts for his dissertation research and pay the child actors in his study.
From art to autism
As an undergraduate art and engineering student at Yale University, Warren Jones created sculptures that incorporated technology to explore how people relate to each other. While teaching art to children with autism, Jones found a topic that inspired him to enter the Yale neuroscience doctoral program, and one for which he received the Koppitz fellowship.
"My interest in autism came from an interest in how one person comes to know and understand another," says Jones. "Autism is an extreme case of difficulty connecting with anyone else and sharing someone else's experience of the world."
Jones uses eye-tracking technology to map visual salience through the eyes of 2-year-old children with autism as they view movies of social interaction. In a lab setting, Jones uses concealed cameras that zoom in on children's eyes and monitor the movement of their pupils to determine exactly what they are viewing on the TV screen.
Jones has found that when typically developing children watch scenes of other people, they spend most of their time looking at people's eyes. However, autistic children tend to be attracted to the mouths of people who are talking and to objects in the background. What first attracts children's attention as they view a scene translates to how their brains develop, he notes.
Jones hopes his research will help with early diagnosis of autistic children.
"It's already been shown that if you start interventions at age 3 rather than 5, they are more effective," he says. "But if you can start interventions in the critical window between zero and 3, when the brain is doing a lot of growth, it has the potential to be even more effective."
In future research, Jones hopes to map the "ongoing dance" of eye contact and social signaling between mother and child.
'It saved my education.'
Natalie Costa lost her home and all her possessions during Hurricane Katrina. Without funding from the Koppitz fellowship, her research and career plans would have been two more things lost to the storm.
"I don't really have words to say how happy I was to get this fellowship, because literally my future education was in limbo," says Costa, who this spring will finish her applied developmental psychology doctoral program at the University of New Orleans (UNO).
Costa, a New Orleans native who also received her undergraduate and master's degrees from UNO, began a study in 2002 to examine the social and contextual variables that underlie the relationship between maternal and child anxiety. Costa recruited 250 families and had parents complete questionnaires on such topics as their anxiety and depression levels, beliefs about their parenting, past traumas and relationship behaviors. Parents also completed a questionnaire about their child to describe their child's anxiety, psychopathology and academic and social functioning. In turn, children responded to questionnaires about their parents, took an intelligence test and received a skin conductance test to gauge their response to a movie of a threatening dog.
"I was supposed to be extending this study to look at over-time variables," says Costa. "But then the hurricane hit, and everything changed."
UNO was closed until January 2006, and Costa's lab was so damaged that she couldn't return to it until four months later. Worse still, her study families were all from areas of New Orleans that were "completely devastated," she says. After the hurricane, they scattered throughout the country.
Costa applied for the Koppitz fellowship for funding to help find her families and continue her study.
"We had a unique opportunity in that we had pre-disaster functioning variables on them, which in any kind of natural disaster literature is a pretty rare thing," she says. "Usually you have a whole lot of studies about what happened to people because of things like 9/11 or a hurricane or tsunami, but you don't have anything pre to predict the people who are going to be the worst responders."
Costa began the difficult task of locating her families through contact information supplied on her initial questionnaires, Internet searches and, sadly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency death lists, but she's only found about two-thirds of her original sample. She changed the focus of her study to how parental and youth anxiety, control and attachment interact with pre-Katrina anxiety levels to predict responses to natural disasters. She now conducts phone interviews with her participants on these topics.
Costa hopes that the data she's collected both before and after Katrina will help identify factors that make certain people more vulnerable toanxiety and post-traumatic stress-before a natural disaster occurs-so that they can be taught resilience and coping skills.
"People know we have to do more now in terms of prevention," says Costa. "I think a part of that is targeting some of the things that might help people cope better in the face of disasters, instead of waiting until after their mental health is destroyed and then trying to go in and help."Koppitz runners-up
Five runners-up for the Koppitz Fellowship awards each received $4,000 travel stipends to attend APA's 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco. They are Anne Shaffer, of the University of Minnesota, Russell Carleton, of DePaul University, Vanessa Simmering, of the University of Iowa, Ryan Beveridge, of the University of Utah, and Sujin Yang, of Cornell University.
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A:I am sorry but the manufacturer has never tested it so they would not be able to say a definite yes. Your conversion kit is quite a bit different from theirs so they would be concerned that it would not work but again we cannot say for sure. Thanks
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A:Follower holds bolt open on last round, but bolt will close when you remove the mag.
If you're using the additional CMMG Bolt Hold Open Adapter, these will not trigger that, have to use the CMMG Evolution mag or older CMMG standard mag that look like these but have a different follower.
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A:Yes. However, once the magazine is removed the bolt will close.
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A:The bolt stays open after the mag is emptied.
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A:Short answer - Yes.
Long answer - The follower for these mags are extra long and will hold the bolt back after the last round. However unless you have the bold hold adapter for conversion kit, when you drop the empty mag the bolt closes and once a new mag is inserted you will have to use the charge handle to chamber the first round from the new mag.
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A:Yes the bolt open feature is incorperated into the magazine.
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Welcome to Virtualization Short Take #25, the first edition of this series for 2009! Here I've collected a variety of articles and posts that I found interesting or useful. Enjoy!
- We'll start off today's list with some Hyper-V links. First up is this article on how to manually add a VM configuration to Hyper-V. It would be interesting to me to know some of the technical details—i.e., the design decisions that led Microsoft to architect things in this way—that might explain why this process is, in my opinion, so complicated. Was it scalability? Manageability? If anyone knows, please share your information in the comments.
- It looks like this post by John Howard on how to resolve event ID 4096 with Hyper-V is also closely related.
- This blog post brings to light a clause in Microsoft's licensing policy that forces organizations to use Windows Server 2008 CALs when accessing a Windows Server 2003-based VM hosted on Hyper-V. In the spirit of disclosure, it's important to note that this was written by VMware, but an independent organization apparently verified the licensing requirements. So, while you may get Hyper-V at no additional cost (not free) with Windows Server 2008, you'll have to pay to upgrade your CALs to Windows Server 2008 in order to access any Windows Server 2003-based VMs on those Hyper-V hosts. Ouch.
- Wrapping up this edition's Microsoft virtualization coverage is this post by Ben Armstrong warning Hyper-V users about the use of physical disks with VMs. Apparently, it's possible to connect a physical disk to both the Hyper-V parent partition as well as a guest VM, and…well, bad things can happen when you do that. The unfortunate part is that Hyper-V doesn't block users from doing this very thing.
- Daniel Feller asks the question, "Am I the only one who has trouble understanding Cloud Computing?" No, Daniel, you're not the only one—I've written before about how amorphous and undefined cloud computing is. In this post over at the Citrix Community site, Daniel goes on to indicate that cloud computing's undefined nature is actually its greatest strength:
As I see it, Cloud Computing is a big white board waiting for organizations to make their requirements known. Do you want a Test/QA environment to do whatever? This is cloud computing. Do you want someone to deliver office productivity applications for you? That is cloud computing. Do you want to have all of your MP3s stored on an Internet storage repository so you can get to it from any device? That is also cloud computing.
Daniel may be right there, but I still insist that there need to be well-defined and well-understood standards around cloud computing in order for cloud computing to really see broad adoption. Perhaps cloud computing is storing my MP3s on the Internet, but what happens when I want to move to a different MP3 storage provider? Without standards, that becomes quite difficult, perhaps even impossible. I'm not the only one who thinks this way, either; check this post by Geva Perry. Until some substance appears in all these clouds, people are going to hold off.
- Rodney Haywood shared a useful command to use with VMware HA in this post about blades and VMware HA. He points out that it's a good idea to spread VMware HA primary nodes across multiple blade chassis so that the failure of a single chassis does not take down all the primary nodes. One note about the using the "ftcli" command is that you'll need to set the FT_DIR environment variable first using "export FT_DIR=/opt/vmware/aam" (assuming you're using bash as the shell on VMware ESX). Otherwise, the advice to spread clusters across chassis as well as to ensure that primary agents are spread across chassis is advice that should be followed.
- Joshua Townsend has a good post at VMtoday.com about using PowerShell and SQL queries to determine the amount of free space within guest VMs. As he states in his post, this can often impact the storage design significantly. It seems to me that there used to be a plug-in for vCenter that added this information, but I must be mistaken as I can no longer find it. Oh, and one of Eric Siebert's top 10 lists also points out a free utility that will provide this information as well.
- I don't have a record of where this information turned up, but this article from NetApp (NOW login required) on troubleshooting NFS performance was quite helpful. In particular, it linked to this VMware KB article that provides in-depth information on how to identify IRQ sharing that's occurring between the Service Console and the VMkernel. Good stuff.
- Want more information on scaling a VMware View installation? Greg Lato posts a notice about the VMware View Reference Architecture Kit, available from VMware, that provides more information on some basic "building blocks" in creating a large-scale View implementation. I've only had the opportunity to skim through the documents thus far, but I like what I've seen thus far. Chad also mentions the Reference Architecture Kit on his site as well.
- Duncan at Yellow Bricks posts yet another useful "in the trenches" post about VMFS-3 heap size. If your VMware ESX server is handling more than 4TB of open VMDK files, then it's worth having a look at this VMware KB article.
- The idea of "virtual routing" is an interesting idea, but I share the thoughts of one of the commenters in that technologies like VMotion/XenMotion/live migration may not be able to respond quickly enough to changing network patterns to be effective. Perhaps it's just my server-centric view showing itself, but it seems more "costly" (in terms of effort) to move servers around to match traffic flow than to just route the traffic accordingly.
- CrossBow looks quite cool, but I'm having a hard time understanding the real business value. I am quite confident that my lack of understanding about CrossBow is simply a reflection of the fact that I don't know enough about Solaris Containers or how Xen handles networking, but can someone help me better understand? What is the huge deal with Crossbow?
- Jason Boche shares some information with us about how to increase the number of simultaneous VMotion operations per host. That information could be quite handy in some cases.
- I had high hopes for this document on VMFS best practices, but it fell short of my hopes. I was looking for hard guidelines on when to use isolation vs. consolidation, strong recommendations on VMFS volume sizes and the number of VMs to host in a VMFS volume, etc. Instead, I got an overview of what VMFS is and how it works—not what I needed.
- Users interested in getting started with PowerShell with VMware Infrastructure should have a look at this article by Scott Herold. It's an excellent place to start.
- Here's a list of some of the basic things you should do on a "golden master" template for Windows Server VMs. I actually disagree with #15, preferring instead to let Windows manage the time at the guest OS level. The only other thing I'd add: be sure your VMDK is aligned to the underlying storage. Otherwise, this is a great checklist to follow.
I think that should just about do it for this post. Comments are welcome!
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Thanks for the pingback, Scott. You are correct on there being a vCenter plugin for obtaining free disk space – Rich Garsthagen wrote a plug-in called VCPlus that accomplishes this (http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=145). I used it for a while a few years back and had mixed results (some VM's were just not being reported on). Rich and I emailed back and forth a few times trying to figure it out but I dropped off as new projects demanded time. VCPlus also offers a few other neat options such as showing snapshot status and syncing the DNS name with the VC display name for each guest. Rich also has a sample script for the VI Perl Toolkit called VMDiskFree that can report on guest free space.
Well, crossbow should make a lot of sense to you. Imagine ESX's networking stack on crack.
Virtual swiches, virtual nic's, only the ability to use the full suite of network tools against those virtual interfaces.
If you've spent any amount of time with Xen, to me that's one place it is SEVERELY lagging behind vmware. The networking usability IMHO is nowhere near what vmware has. Crossbow is a leapfrog from what I've read on it.
Ben Rockwood has a couple of good posts that may help you out a bit??
Re: Crossbow
Remember that Sun bought the company that made VirtualBox, and is also working on being able to run Solaris as both dom0 (host) and domU (guest) instances in Xen. Also combine that with their use of LDoms and containers, and you have a virtualization stack that runs from heavy (Ldoms), to middle (VB/Xen), to very light weight (zones).
Given the flexibility of how you can set up guests, you need a network stack that can be configured to connect to upstream switches in a flexible manner.
It also gives the option to do Layer 2 isolation with-in the same host, which is fairly standard (ESX does this). But you can also do something like QoS (UDP allowed only 10% of bandwidth; HTTPS before anything else; etc.). All the QoS stuff is done in hardware AFAICT, so if you're trying to do traffic shaping over dual 10 GigE interfaces near saturation, you're not pegging the CPU doing packet inspection and QoS:
Just like ZFS features (ZIL logging, L2ARC), DTrace, and the new kernel CIFS server allowed Sun to make a high-end filer out of a bunch of SATA JBODs:
A lot of this, and other OpenSolaris projects, could mean you could possibly Cisco 6509 replacement from Sun. (They already sell a lot of Infiband stuff for HPC.)
If you take a look at 7000 series storage, you can see that each controller can have up to 128 GB of non-proprietary RAM (you can buy it from Kingston.com). So with two controllers, you can have 256 GB of RAM. And this built on a "low-end" chassis from Sun (T5120). Now take a look at NetApp's highest end FAS6080, which can have 64 GB per controller. And the I'm guessing the 6080 is A LOT more expensive than the Sun system, and you probably have to buy RAM directly from NetApp–no Kingston for you.
Idle speculation / brainstorming: so you take that 'analogy', and move it over the the networking world. I don't know know much RAM most routers or switches take, but if Sun builds a switch based off of one of their Niagara processors, imagine having a router with 128+ GB of RAM. That's a lot of space for routing tables.
Fun times.
Yes, Sun is very much an engineering and design company, but unfortunately all their wonderful software and kit isn't being reflected in profits. I've used various things over the last decade, and S10 and their current hardware is some of the best stuff money can buy (and extremely competitively priced).
I have no idea why they're having such a rough time.
I've done a lot of work in the last year with defining a cloud platform reference architecture from an infrastructure point of view with our customers – i.e what bits of tech go where and how do they plug together to try and demistify this kind of thing
I have a session on this submitted for vmworld.com based around this, the 1st basic version is online here but I will put up the rest once I find out if my session has been accepted or not.
Some linkage http://vinf.net/2008/06/23/virtualization-the-key-to-delivering-cloud-based-architecture-now/
In the meantime I'm always interested in discussion around this topic!
Hey Scott,
Kinda went anti-MS on this one didn't you. I thought you purported to be a balanced perspective?
On the manual VM addition, the author says right in his blog "mainly due to live snapshots." Doing it manual isn't the supported way from MS, and I don't know why you would want to. You can export and import the VMs if you so choose. If you are looking for DR type purposes you should look into DPM, not just taking copies of a VHD and trying to manually stuff things back together. DPM can snapshot any of your virtual machines live (using VSS) then you can restore them from there and don't need to mess with any of this manual stuff. DPM is hyper-v aware so you can just restore the VM to whatever host you choose form whatever poitn in time. You can use DPM2DPM4DR if you want offsite replication. I can see the VMware response coming already with "why should I have to have extra MS stuff to get t job done?" Well you have to have extra stuff to get the same type of functionality out of vmware. I'm not even sure if there is a VSS aware option for vmware to truly get the same functionality of a live perfectly clean snapshot. Besides you are going to want virtual machine manager anyways, and if you are a Microsoft shop you'd also like ops manager and config manager. Well just buy a single system center enterprise management license for the physical boxand it covers unlimited VMs on it for all four products ops manager, VMM, config manager, and DPM.
On the licensing issue, the report is coming from Vmware, so I don't immediately take it as codified truth. For the sake of argument however, let's assume it is correct. I can't think of any enterprise Microsoft customer that would not have software assurance. You'd have to be absolutely foolish not to. And if you do have software assurance all of your 2k3 CALs became 2k8 CALS the instant 2k8 was available. If you are not keeping software assurance on your Microsoft products I'd have to assume you are a very small shop in which case you can either A) Run hyper-v server for free and not worry about it (you are small so you probably don't need the higher end features of full hyper-v, aka you'd probably run ESXi if you weren't running hyper-v). B) Pay to upgrade the few CALS you have. Again this is only assuming that the VMware article about Microsoft licensing is accurate. It could be FUD, especially considering they aren't even willing to completely own their accusation.
I agree Robert's method is extremely complicated, and also pointless. I guess that was my point. You are not supposed to move VMs that way, so why expect it to be clean and easy. If you want to take a VM configuration and move it from one server to another there is an easy export/import option. All you have to do is 1. shut down the VM 2. right click the vm and select export 3. Move or copy the exported files to the appropriate place 4. Click import virtual machine and select your files. Pretty easy. I like the export/import method because you can get a nice little package of everything related to the VM (you can slo just grab the config if you want). Robert was apparently talking about using his complicated manual method for DR purposes, which is why I talked abou DPM. The appropriate way to handel DR for your hyper-v infrastructure is to backup your VMs with DPM. Then recovery is ultra simplistic, none of this complicated manual stuff. Heck, if it came down to it I'd just created a new VM and point it at the existing VHD before I went through all that Robert is doing.
I am curious as to what the real story is with licensing. It has no impact for me since I use software assurance, but I am curious now. I dislike the marketing tactic from VMware though. They put it out there with an extreme lack of clarity, but got exactly what they wanted out of it. Blog sites like yours picked it up. Trying to do a quick search for real information on the licensing issue what did I hit? Blogs repeating the VMware claim with their sole source of information being the same VMware page you linked to. I had the same experience trying to get valid information on NIC teaming. Thats really frustrating. At least with NIC teaming it was a technical thing so I could just do it for myself to see what reality was (once I had time). Licensing you can't just 'figure out'.
I brought up the SC suite because I had brought up DPM for use as DR of your hyper-v infrastructure. In other conversations I've had with VMware folk I tend to get the "oh see there's M$ trying to make you spend more money on M$ products" whenever I bring up complimentary products that make life easier for you. I think Microsoft has done some great things in licensing for virtualized environments. The unlimited VMs with datacenter (even if you are using VMware) is great, the unlimited managed VMs with SC enterprise mangement license is great too. VMware wants to be nasty to Microsoft about licensing, but Microsft's licensing changes have helped VMware quite a bit. Heck they probably could have been nasty and made it so that the datacenter unlimited VMs only counted for hyper-v, but they didn't.
I'm guessing it's all a matter of perspective. ZFS was/is also considered "revolutionary" by those same folks.
I personally say "so it's WAFL for free minus some features".
I can agree with the revolutionary part from their perspective of "but it's free and open". That's entirely true. Having ZFS and Crossbow in the public domain is a huge step forward for open source, and especially so given we don't know if Sun will be able to turn that corner or not.
At this point I can't imagine an open source solaris wouldn't live on even if Sun did go the way of the dodo (which I also don't think is going to happen).
I would imagine though, much like with the storage server 7000, you will see some sort of "vm appliance" out of Sun in 2009 that will give VMware a serious run for it's money (assuming they can get mind share with it).
I have entered the conversation, or should that be continued, "What is the Cloud?".
You can read my answer at http://rodos.haywood.org/2009/01/what-is-cloud-conversation.html
Hi Scott,
On the time issue, all our VM's are on our domain, so initally I always went along with the fact the VM's would sync with the domain controller.
Then I was told at the VCP training that you should always have it sync with the host (and of course make sure the host is syncing properly), the reason being that if the machine goes idle for say 5 mins, the next time it goes to execute it'll be 5 mins out, and only sync again when sceduled in Windows, which could be serveral minutes, so the machine would be out of sync. On the other hand if it's set in VMTools to sync with the host it'll make sure it's synced before executing.
Can anyone shed some light, especially for machines on a Windows domain?
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I'm not sure my legs could handle this kind of cute. They might just fall off.
Pro: Your rainbow cake doesn't taste like chemicals. Con: Your rainbow cake tastes like vegetables. Oh well, still pretty!
Rainbows are seasonally appropriate for every season! They never go out of style.
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No no no, you don't cut bread with blue, that's what pink is for!
I know St. Paddy's Day is long gone but I could not resist the chance to share these awesome double-decker cookies! More cookie for your money!
Tuna salad sounds super boring until you imagine it squeezed between two of these babies.


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This rainbow appeared at the Plaza on the Million Dollar HIghway in St. Marys following a wet and windy Wednesday afternoon. Daily Press Staff Reporter Amy Cherry captured this arc, which she described as "by far the biggest and brightest" rainbow she's ever seen.
Dawn Saquin was crowned Kane's 2012 Homecoming Queen during halftime of Friday night's football game with Elk County Catholic. Saquin's escort for the evening was Zach Hadfield. Hadfield is one of the candidates for Homecoming King, which will be announced at the Homecoming Dance Saturday evening. The Wolves rallied for a late touchdown to knock the Crusaders from the ranks of the unbeatens.Â
Pictured is the crowd gathering for the post-parade bonfire on Wednesday evening on Wetmore Avenue. The photo was taken from the bucket of the Kane Volunteer Fire Department's ladder truck. KVFD members Mike Detsch and Zach Holt provided the lift.
Members of the Kane High Marching Band entertain the crowd during Wednesday's parade. The parade is one of the highlights of the Homecoming Week, culminating in the game on Friday night and the dance on Saturday evening.
Desiree Asel of Kane shows off her pom-poms prior to Wednesday night's parade in uptown Kane. Members of Kane's fall sports teams, cheerleaders and band marched in the parade along with various community organizations before the traditional bonfire.
Uptown Kane was a busy place Wednesday evening when members of the Kane fall sports teams marched in the annual Homecoming parade. Pictured patiently awaiting the start of the parade are, from left to right, Madyson Wilson, Emmah Wilson, Ben Wilson and Miranda McKinney, all of Kane.
The Kane Area Middle School September AR winners are Joey Newton (left, eighth grade), Christopher Park (middle, seventh grade), and Clayton Detrick (right, sixth grade). Students are entered into the drawing based on how many AR points they have received for the month. Winners are randomly drawn from the entries.
These are the candidates for Homecoming king and queen at Kane Area High School. Candidates for Homecoming queen include, seated, left to right: Nikki Sicher, Audrey Perry, Gina Picarelli, Dawn Saquin, Jackie Bedford and Nerissa Rich; candidates for king include, left to right, standing: Sean Rolick, Randy Ginkel, Zach Hadfield, Sean Jordan, Gage Feronti and Chris Israel. All candidates are seniors. The Homecoming parade is scheduled tonight at 6:30 on Fraley Street followed by a bonfire on Wetmore Avenue. The Homecoming football game is Friday night versus unbeaten Elk County Catholic (ECC).
Pictured are the 2012 Kane Tornado Homecoming candidates. In the front row, from left to right, are Dessa Gentile, Sierra Pontious and Elise Johnson. In the back row, from left to right, are Kendra Farnsworth, Krisalyn Rhodes, Kayla Lupole (Homecoming Queen) and Caitlyn Zampogna.
Kayla Lupole, daughter of Terry and Betsy Lupole of Kane was crowned the Kane Tornadoes Homecoming Princess Saturday.


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Q&A: EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Power Plants
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Power Plants (known as the Clean Power Plan), per its authority under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). The development of this rule was announced by President Obama during his June 25, 2013, climate policy speech. The Clean Power Plan would establish different target emission rates (lbs of CO2 per megawatt-hour) for each state due to regional variations in generation mix and electricity consumption, but overall is projected to achieve a 30 percent cut from 2005 emissions by 2030, with an interim target of 25 percent on average between 2020 and 2029.
See more resources and maps at the C2ES Carbon Pollution Standards Resource Page.
Why is regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants important?
Electric power generation is responsible for nearly 40 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
Figure 1: 2012 U.S. CO2 Emissions
Source: Energy Information Administration
Since the federal government adopted new vehicle efficiency standards last summer to address transportation emissions through 2025, the power sector represents the greatest opportunity for greenhouse gas reductions.
Figure 2: Electric Power Sector Carbon Dioxide Emissions without Proposed Emission Standards
Source: Energy Information Administration
Power sector emissions have declined over the past five years in part due to the economic downturn, increased energy efficiency, greater use of renewable energy and a switch from coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, to natural gas, the least carbon-intensive (in terms of combustion). In the absence of any policy changes, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that as the economy grows and natural gas prices rise slowly over the next five years, emissions will rise. The Clean Power Plan will have to push against these underlying trends.
Figure 3: Distribution of Power Plants across the Contiguous United States
Source: Energy Information Administration
What is in EPA's proposal?
Typically, EPA regulations are set at the federal level and then administered by states. For example, EPA sets a limit on the level of smog in the atmosphere, and states then submit plans for how they will meet that standard. Once approved by EPA, states then administer these plans, known as State Implementation Plans.
The proposed Clean Power Plan is similar in that states would be given a target emissions rate, but have broad flexibility to determine how to achieve that target. Each state would be assigned a carbon emissions baseline based on its level of carbon emissions from fossil-fired power plants divided by its total electricity generation. (See our Proposed State Emission Rate Targets Map.) Electricity generation in this case includes fossil generation, nuclear, renewables, plus generation avoided through the use of energy efficiency programs. A target for 2030 is then established for each state based on its capacity to achieve reductions using the following four "building blocks" identified by EPA:
1. Make fossil fuel power plants more efficient.
2. Use low-emitting natural gas combined cycle plants more where excess capacity is available.
3. Use more zero- and low-emitting power sources such as renewables and nuclear.
4. Reduce electricity demand by using electricity more efficiently.
Each state could then meet its established target however it sees fit. States could join multi-state programs to reduce emissions collectively, for example through a cap-and-trade program.
How much flexibility will states have to minimize costs?
States would have considerable flexibility to adopt a variety of approaches to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector, if they can demonstrate that they will achieve the emissions target.
Among the possibilities:
- States could allow emissions credit trading among power plants owned by the same operator. This means that if one power plant reduced its emission rate below the state target, it could trade credits to a power plant that could not meet the target so that the company overall would be in compliance.
- States could allow emissions trading between power companies and even across state lines (such a program would be similar to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative). Averaging or trading across power plants, companies, and states cut overall compliance costs by taking advantage of the lowest-cost opportunity for emissions reductions.
- States could use energy efficiency or renewable energy for compliance, provided that the total emissions met an EPA-approved target.
- States could also set a standard that is more stringent than what would be required by EPA's guidelines.
How much will this rule cost?
EPA projects that the compliance costs for this rule would be between $7.3 billion and $8.8 billion annually by 2030. EPA projects that this would lead to about a 3 percent increase in electricity rates by 2030. The rule would deliver considerable benefits as well, including a total of $55 billion to $93 billion in public health benefits by 2030, as projected by EPA. The rule could also reduce electricity consumption, meaning a homeowner's electricity bill could stay the same or even decrease. It is important to weigh any costs of the Clean Power Plan against the costs of allowing carbon dioxide emissions to continue to rise unabated, contributing to climate change. The costs of climate impacts such as more frequent and intense heat waves, higher sea levels, and more severe droughts, wildfires and downpours, are projected to be much higher.
What can power plants do to reduce emissions?
An individual power plant could reduce its greenhouse gas emission rate by using fuel more efficiently or by switching to a lower carbon fuel, such as natural gas or biomass instead of coal. However, states would be complying with this rule on a statewide basis using any number of emission reduction options. As long as states met carbon dioxide targets broadly, action would not necessarily be required at particular power plants. States could meet their emissions targets by increasing their consumption of renewable electricity relative to fossil-generated electricity or improving energy efficiency. Options to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector are illustrated in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Opportunities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector
How will existing state policies, such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, be affected?
States would have significant flexibility in setting regulations for existing power plants within their borders, but are required to follow the broad limits in EPA's proposed rule. Since states have been given the authority to use market-based mechanisms, the nine Northeast states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)would be able to demonstrate that their cap-and-trade program for power plants satisfies the required emission reductions, and that further regulation is therefore unnecessary. Policy measures that states might employ to achieve their carbon targets are listed in Table 1.
Table 1: Policy options to reduce power sector carbon dioxide emissions
|Power plant performance standard
|Each power plant must achieve a set emissions intensity
|California, New York, Washington
|Renewable Portfolio Standard
|Utilities must deliver a set percentage of renewable electricity
|Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Rhode Island, and others
|Energy Efficiency Resource Standard
|Utilities must cut demand by a set amount by target years
|Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, Texas, and others
|Reduce utility incentive to deliver more electricity by decoupling revenue and profit
|California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, and others
|Net Metering
|Encourage residential solar by paying homeowners to put excess electricity back on grid
|Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and others
|Cap & Trade
|Issue a declining number of carbon allowances, which must be surrendered in proportion to each plant's emissions
|California, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
|Carbon Tax
|Charge a tax for emitting carbon
|British Columbia
|Grid Operator Carbon Fee
|Add a carbon price to grid operator decision over which power plants to run
|None currently
|Appliance Efficiency Standards
|Require new appliances sold to meet set electricity consumption standards
|California, Florida, New Jersey, and others
|Commercial & Residential Building Codes
|Require new buildings to include electricity saving measures
|California, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, and others
What happens now?
EPA has been directed by President Obama to work closely with states, power plant operators, and other stakeholders as it finalizes its guidelines due to their novelty and far-reaching implications. Administration officials have said they aim to issue a final rule by June 2015. The target date for states to submit their proposed plans to EPA is June 30, 2016, but states can apply for a one-year extension. After a plan is submitted, EPA will have a year to either approve plans or send them back to states for revision. If a state does not submit an adequate plan, EPA is authorized to impose a federal plan to drive the necessary reductions.
It is important to note that this action is not voluntary on the part of EPA. According to the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA (a decision that was recently reaffirmed), EPA is legally required to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act if it finds them to endanger public health and welfare, just as EPA has addressed more traditional pollutants for the past 43 years. In 2010, EPA settled a suit with several states and environmental groups by agreeing to finalize greenhouse gas standards for existing power plants by May 26, 2012.
Additional resources can be found on the C2ES Carbon Pollution Standards Resource Page.
U.S. Department of Energy Investment in Carbon, Capture and Storage
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) oversees federal efforts to advance the deployment carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In addition to working on the research and development of CCS component technologies, DOE has provided financial support to multiple commercial-scale CCS projects in the power and industrial sectors. This brief examines DOE's support for CCS through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and through its annual budget.
Country Emissions Targets
International Emissions Targets
Pledged targets under the UNFCCC [1]
Domestically mandated targets
8% above 1990 levels
5% below 2000 levels by 2020
15%-25% below 2000 levels by 2020 under different conditions of a global agreement that stabilizes GHG levels
Clean Energy Future Legislation: 80% below 2000 levels by 2050
Default emissions cap for cap-and-trade system starting in 2015 consistent with target of reducing emissions 5% below 2000 levels by 2020
6% below 1990 levels
17% below 2005 levels by 2020
European Community
EU-15: 8% below 1990 levels
EU-27: 20% below 1990 levels by 2020
30% below 1990 levels by 2020 if comparable and adequate actions by other countries
EU-27: 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, translated to 14% below 2005 levels by 2020
21% reduction from 2005 levels for ETS sectors
10% reduction from 2005 levels for non-ETS sectors
8% below 1988 levels
Part of EU
Czech Republic
8% below 1990 levels
Part of EU
8% below 1990 levels
Part of EU
6% below average1985-1987 levels
Part of EU
8% below 1990 levels
Part of EU
8% below 1990 levels
Part of EU
6% below 1988 levels
Part of EU
8% below 1989 levels
Part of EU
8% below 1990 levels
Part of EU
8% below 1986 levels
Part of EU
6% below 1990 levels
25% below 1990 levels by 2020 on condition of fair, effective international framework with ambitious targets by all major economies
New Zealand
Remain at 1990 levels
10-20% below 1990 levels by 2020 if comprehensive global agreement
Remain at 1990 levels
15-25% below 1990 levels by 2020; range depends on accounting of forestry sector and actions by all major emitters
United States
In the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, in conformity with anticipated legislation
5% below 1990 levels
5% below 1990 levels by 2020, to be replaced upon EU accession (1 July 2013)
10% above 1990 levels
Same as EU target
8% below 1990 levels
Same as EU target
8% below 1990 levels
Same as EU target
1% above 1990 levels
30% below 1990 levels by 2020
40% below 1990 levels by 2020 as part of a global and comprehensive international agreement
Strengthening Kyoto target to 9% below 1990 levels
30% below 1990 levels by 2020
Targets in the Report No. 34 (2006-2007) to the Storting (Parliament)
8% below 1990 levels
Same as EU target
Remain at 1990 levels
20% below 1990 levels by 2020 under certain conditions
United Kingdom
12.5% below 1990 levels
Same as EU target
Domestically legislated emissions target of 34% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050
5-10% below 1990 levels by 2020, conditional on access to carbon markets, technology and capacity assistance, as well as clarity on accounting rules for forestry and land-use
15% below 1992 levels by 2020
36.1-38.9% below business-as-usual projected emissions level in 2020
Presidential Decree of 9 December 2010: 36.1-38.9% below business-as-usual projected emissions level in 2020 (3236 MtCO2e)
20% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020, projected from 2007 levels, requiring international support
40-45% reduction in CO2 emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) from 2005 level by 2020
12th Five Year Plan: 17% reduction in CO2 emissions per unit of GDP from 2010 levels by 2015
Costa Rica
Carbon neutral by 2021
Carbon neutrality goal in 2008 Climate Change Strategy
20-25% reduction in emissions per unit of GDP (excluding agriculture sector) from 2005 level by 2020
26% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020
Presidential Decree No. 61 2011, National Action Plan for Reduction Greenhouse Gas Emissions
20% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020
41% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020 with international support
30% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020, subject to provision of adequate support
General Climate Change Law, April 2012: 30% below business-as-usual projected emissions by 2020 and 50% below 2000 levels by 2050
Korea (Republic of)
30% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020 (4% below 2005 level)
Cabinet decision of 17 November 2009: 30% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020
7-11% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020
16% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020, contingent on legally binding global agreement
2009 Sustainable Singapore Blueprint goals expected to lead to 7-11% reduction in business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020
South Africa
34% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2020
42% below business-as-usual projected emissions in 2025, extent of implementation dependent on level of support
Marshall Islands
40% below 2009 levels by 2020 (CO2 only)
Carbon neutrality by 2020
Antigua and Barbuda
25% below 1990 levels by 2020
European Community
Kyoto Target [2] 2008-2012
EU Climate and Energy Package Effort Sharing targets for 2013-2020 [3]
13% below 1990
16% below 2005 level
7.5% below 1990
15% below 2005 level
20% above 2005 level
Czech Republic
9% above 2005 level
5% below 2005 level
21% below 1990
20% below 2005 level
11% above 2005 level
1990 levels
16% below 2005 level
1990 levels
14% below 2005 level
21% below 1990
14% below 2005 level
25% above 1990
4% below 2005 level
10% above 2005 level
13% above 1990
20% below 2005 level
6.5% below 1990
13% below 2005 level
17% above 2005 level
15% above 2005 level
28% below 1990
20% below 2005 level
5% above 2005 level
6% below 1990
16% below 2005 level
14% above 2005 level
27% above 1990
1% above 2005 level
19% above 2005 level
4% above 2005 level
13% above 2005 level
15% above 1990
10% below 2005 level
4% above 1990
17% below 2005 level
United Kingdom
12.5% below 1990
16% below 2005 level
1. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2011, FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/INF.1 and FCCC/SB/2011/INF.1/Rev.1
2. The EU-15 nations have joined a "bubble" which allows the joint fulfillment of emissions commitments and preserves the collective emissions reduction goal of 8% below 1990 levels by 2008/2012. http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2002/l_130/l_13020020515en00010020.pdf
3. http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/effort/index_en.htm. The EU's collective 20% reduction target from 1990 levels translates to a 14% reduction from 2005 levels, split into sectors covered by the ETS (21% reduction) and those not covered by it (10% reduction). These targets apply to sectors not covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), such as buildings, transport, and other commercial activities. The EU ETS applies a sectoral cap and reduction target across the EU countries for emissions from power and heavy industry, and aviation from 2012. The ETS reduction target is 21% below 2005 levels by 2020.


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An update on the The city of Longview, WA tree mapping. "The Longview City Council decided Thursday to reject a $10,000 state grant for mapping Longview's urban forest with satellite imagery, saying the city's grant matching funds would be better spent battling the aphid problem."
- TDN.com
—- original post 7/22/10—-
McKinney, Texas has four city council districts and needs to update them based on the 2010 census. Who'll do that work? The same firm that did it ten years ago: a law firm.
According to a timeline presented during the council presentation, Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP will begin collecting and developing Geographic Information System (GIS) data later this year in anticipation of the deadline for the release of census data: April 1, 2011.
I had no idea law firms did that sort of work.
Chesterfield County, Virginia won the Digital Counties Survey 2010 a "competition" put together by the Center for Digital Government, the National Association of Counties, Government Technology magazine and the Digital Communities program, Among the tools cited that helped capture the award:
* Citizen GIS, a new online-mapping and aerial-photography feature available on the county's website that is making county geographic information more readily available to the public.
The city of Longview, WA plans to find out the details of its tree cover using high-resolution satellite imagery. "By creating an aerial map of Longview's urban forest, which includes trees on private property, the city can evaluate where it needs to plant more trees to achieve or maintain a goal of a 30 percent canopy. In future years, the map can be used as a baseline for comparison."
The project will cost about $21,400, part of which will come from a $10,000 grant from the Department of Natural Resources Urban and Community Forestry Program.
- TDN.com
Even the smallest of public transportation "agencies" can get GPS tracking. The wholly volunteer run Astoria Oregon trolley now has its own GPS-enabled phone and a system in place to broadcast its location to the Chamber of Commerce website. Rides are still $1 per person or $2 per day.


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Just as they had done to start the MCLA game at the beginning of the week, the Cardinals used a titanic scoring run to decimate Mitchell in the consolation game of the Hockenbury Classic at Norwich Sun., Dec. 2, coming away with an 82-52 victory. Mike Callaghan '13 (#44, right-side photo) was named to the all-tournament team, his second such honor this season, as he had 12 points and eight rebounds vs. Mitchell after leading Wesleyan with 20 points in the opening-game loss to Babson. Rashid Epps '16 (#00, left-side photo) came off the bench and pumped in 15 points along with 15 rebounds, 10 of them on the offensive glass, to lead the charge against the Mariners.
Wesleyan trailed by 11, 24-13, with 8:48 left in the first half. What took place over the next 18:30 was almost unbelievable. Wesleyan went on a 50-7 scoring run to hold a 63-31 advantage with 10:52 to go in the game. The Cardinals led by at least 24 the rest of the way. Wesleyan shot nearly 60 percent from the floor in the second half and made four of its seven three-point tries during the period. Wesleyan shot 44 percent and had only one three-pointer in the opening 20 minutes, yet still led 36-28 at intermission. Mitchell was limited to 33 percent shooting in the second half and missed all seven treys. Norwich had only beaten Mitchell by five, 73-68, in their first-round contest. At MCLA this past Tuesday, Wesleyan began the game with a 32-4 run en route to a 99-84 win.
Joining Epps and Callaghan in double-digit scoring for Wesleyan against Mitchell was Shasha Brown '13 with 12 and BJ Davis '16 with 11. Brown also had six assists while Davis cashed in on four steals.
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(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
David Hudson, IFC.com
Braun, Eric. Deborah Kerr. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.
Capua, Michelangelo. Deborah Kerr: A Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
1. Kerr does not appear in Haskell's essays except in a list of actresses who made films in 1950. However, in understanding Kerr, Haskell's conceptual touchstones have never been more relevant.
2. The subject of rape was little explored again until Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950), from an original screenplay she co-wrote, starring Mala Powers; and Jean Negulesco's Johnny Belinda (1948) with Jane Wyman's Oscar-winning performance in a screen adaptation of the play co-written by Irma Von Cube, a female screenwriter whose film work debuted in 1928. Ironically, Powers, Wyman, and Deborah Kerr all died in 2007.
3. Delbert Mann, who also died in 2007, went on to say that much to his surprise and delight, he attended a film festival in Great Britain where his original director's cut was screened. According to curator Josephine Botting, not even the BFI possesses a copy of this version. Its whereabouts remain a mystery.
4. One of several bonus features included with the 50th Anniversary Edition (2007) of Leo McCarey's remake An Affair to Remember (1957).
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Having started as a recording project to create a soundtrack to a book of prints, Homebirth is simply an Organ and Drum set played by Britta Anderson and Sam Molstad. No frills, just tone and beats. This record was made from recordings left over from the production of their second tape. The packaging is hand sewn, hand screened and folds in quarters around a square, polycarbonate, hand stamped, 7" lathe cut made in an edition of 20.
Visitor "IV" 8" lathe cut
This is the fourth release from what has been a band for sometimes a greater part of a year, most of a year not and then sometimes for only five days a year later. Visitor has been several people and several ideas. This is the follow up in part to last years' tape release "III". After adding and changing people, equipment, time and geographic placements; hours and hours of recordings were made toward the efforts for another tape. When it all shakes out the tape is still to be made but these two sides (one session split in two halves) stand on there own as both a stark sound scape and amp fried fuzz plateau. Two drummers, one oscillator, one guitar, some pedals and a bass. This another addition to the world of swirled, looped and delay thickened space rock. Individually lathe cut polycarbonate 8" comes packaged in a hand made 8"metallic on black harlequin checked card stock jacket in an unnumbered edition of 40.
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It was a good idea at the time. Set up some microphones and burn up two reels of tape. The resulting four songs are what floated to the top or sank to the bottom from endless running of a drone synth under looped hollow body guitar lines. These are the small versions of bigger ideas brought into reality as a genuine cassingle. Produbbed C20 in an off white shell with gold imprint in a photo printed O-card. $3.00 + shipping.
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Feathered Friends Canvas Reproduction by Oopsy Daisy
Holiday order deadlines for this item are as follows:Delivery by the first day of Hanukkah: 11/29/2014Delivery by Christmas Eve: 12/3/2014If this is a gift, please note the need-by date for this item in the comments section of your order.Stated deadline assumes item will be shipped via standard ground shipping. Orders placed after the deadline may be accommodated with expedited shipping. Please contact our customer care team at 877-214-6875 and we'll do our best to accommodate your request!Dress up a bare wall with the Feathered Friends Canvas Reproduction from Oopsy Daisy. Canvas wall art is perfect for adding color and style to bedrooms, playrooms, nurseries and even bathrooms! Your little one is sure to love this canvas art piece from Oopsy Daisy!Features of this Oopsy Daisy Canvas Wall Art:
Category: Art, Whimsical Canvas Art
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