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This lovely lane is one of the oldest roads in Santa Fe, established when the Spaniards settled in the 1600s. These days the old adobe houses lining the mile-long narrow road are mostly fine art galleries. Devote an afternoon to poking your head in, and don't miss the many backyard sculpture gardens. You'll find vintage Western art at Zaplin Lampert, with original oils by Frederic Remington. For a look at up-and-coming painters, pop into the beautiful space at Selby Fleetwood, which sells Dennis Hartley's gorgeous abstract barns, and Nathalie Guarracinto's textured oil paintings. Similarly, Gallery Moda shows a number of modern masters from Rauschenberg to Lichtenstein. The whimsical world of Hahn Ross is populated by crocodile sculptures made from typewriter parts and expression-filled sculptures of bemused-looking Native Americans by New Mexican Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell. When you're ready for a break, grab a beer on the deck of El Farol, Santa Fe's oldest bar (808 Canyon Rd.; 505-983-9912; www.elfarolsf.com).
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Hawaiian Health Center Promotes Healthy Lifestyles
Jennifer Martin, CSREES Staff, (202) 720-8188 Patrick Holian, CSREES Staff, (202) 720-5280
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2006– Native Hawaiians have some of the highest rates of obesity and related chronic diseases in the nation with more than 30 percent classified as obese.
The cause appears to be a trend of moving away from traditional native foods to more American foods, which are higher in fat and calorie content. Rather than eating fresh bananas, coconuts, taro, yams, breadfruit, pork, chicken and fish, Hawaiians now consume more processed foods than their bodies are genetically able to handle, predisposing them to obesity.
CSREES awarded an $800,000 National Research Initiative (NRI) grant to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) on the island of Oahu to search for solutions to this health crisis. The study will determine whether lifestyle changes can reduce the prevalence of obesity among native Hawaiians.
"We have some of the highest prevalence of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and hypertension," said Sheila Beckham, preventive health services director at WCCHC. "We're basically trying to improve health and reduce the horrible impact of obesity and diabetes."
According to Christine McLaurin, who was diagnosed with diabetes in June 2004, the health center has renewed her life. When she joined the lifestyle enhancement program at WCCHC, McLaurin weighed 250 pounds. The center's staff helped her develop healthy eating habits and begin an exercise routine. She has lost 40 pounds and plans to get her weight down to 175.
The health center staff also networks with community farmers who provide fresh food for the center's Pavilion restaurant. The arrangement also benefits local producers in Waianae, the poorest community of Oahu. There are plans to establish a local farmers market.
"Every week we deliver some stuff, and that's a good income for us because it's a way to survive," said Gigi Cocquio, a local farmer. Cocquio grows corn, beans, lettuce, radishes, green onions, peanuts and a range of different fruits that he sells to the health center. "[Health center employees] touch thousands of people and through them, people start to realize that there's a different way of living."
WCCHC's efforts are the focus of the January episode of CSREES' Partners Video Magazine. It highlights the programs and accomplishments of the partnership between CSREES and the Land-Grant University System in the areas of research, education and extension.
The NRI is the largest peer reviewed, competitive grants program in CSREES. It supports research, education and extension grants that address key problems of national, regional and multi-state importance in sustaining all components of agriculture.

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This blog post follows on from Extending Ian Selby's RESTful API in PHP – Part 1 and will talk about how to add security to your RESTful api.
It is important that we can implement the authentication for our RESTful api's on a call-by-call basis as, for example, maybe we would want to lock down a POST call that adds a user to the database but we are not looking to lock down a call to get a users list of favourite bands. The following code snippets will show you how to implement call authentication through one line of code in your api calls.
The first thing we do is add a series of constants to our configuration file to determine username, password and realm. You will see in Part 1 of this article that we are setting up these in our config.inc.php. (see below)
//API CREDENTIALS //set the api login credentials define("AUTH_REALM", $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]); define("AUTH_USERNAME", "ENTER_API_USERNAME"); define("AUTH_PASSWORD", "ENTER_API_PASSWORD"); define("AUTH_ON", false);
You can see that we enter our username and password in this configuration and change our AUTH_ON constant to be true to switch on authentication for our API. To implement security on the api I have amended Ian Selby's authentication code found on this page (last snippet) to also allow both Basic and Digest authentication as we do much Flash work here so the applications we built would require Basic security as well as Digest.
public static function performAuthentication($server, $security = "Basic") { //check if the user agent has been set if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) { //here we determine the user agent, if it is flash - force basic authentication $flash = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Flash Player"); //if flash is found if ($flash) { //force security to basic authentication as Flash does not //support digest $security = "Basic"; } } //get the calls request variables $data = $server->GetRequestVars(); //check if authentication is switched on in inc/config.inc.php if (AUTH_ON) { //determine security switch($security) { //basic authentication case "Basic": //handle all basic authentication //check if the username and password are set if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) && !isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) { //set the 401 permission error response headers header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="' . AUTH_REALM . '"'); header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized'); //401 > Unauthorized die(RestUtils::SendResponse(401)); } else { //determine if credentials are correct if ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] != AUTH_USERNAME || $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] != AUTH_PASSWORD) { //set the 401 permission error response headers header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="' . AUTH_REALM . '"'); header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized'); //401 > Unauthorized die(RestUtils::SendResponse(401)); } } break; //digest authentication case "Digest": //handle all digest authentication // figure out if we need to challenge the user if(empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'])) { //set 401 headers (AUTH_REALM set in config.inc.php) header('HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized'); header('WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="' . AUTH_REALM . '",qop="auth",nonce="' . uniqid() . '",opaque="' . md5(AUTH_REALM) . '"'); // show the error if they hit cancel //401 > Unauthorized die(RestUtils::SendResponse(401)); } // now, analayze the PHP_AUTH_DIGEST var if(!($data = RestUtils::HTTPDigestParse($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'])) || AUTH_USERNAME != $data['username']) { // show the error due to bad auth //401 > Unauthorized die(RestUtils::SendResponse(401)); } // so far, everything's good, let's now check the response a bit more... $A1 = md5($data['username'] . ':' . AUTH_REALM . ':' . AUTH_PASSWORD); $A2 = md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] . ':' . $data['uri']); $validResponse = md5($A1 . ':' . $data['nonce'] . ':' . $data['nc'] . ':' . $data['cnonce'] . ':' . $data['qop'] . ':' . $A2); // check responses match if($data['response'] != $validResponse) { //401 > Unauthorized die(RestUtils::SendResponse(401)); } break; } } return; }
Inside the setAuth method in the RestRequestClient class we amend as follows:
protected function setAuth(&$curlHandle) { if ($this->username !== null && $this->password !== null) { switch($this->GetSecurity()) { //basic authentication case "Basic": curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); break; //digest authentication case "Digest": curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST); break; } curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->username . ':' . $this->password); } }
You can see that the function takes two arguments, the server instance and the type of security to implement. The server instance is used to look at the request variables and determine if the security has been successful. The type of security is just a flag to implement the security for that particular call. You can also see at the top of the function that there is some code to force flash calls to use Basic authentication for any calls that are made. Obviously this function could be extended to do a database lookup instead of using static variables inside the configuration file….
The next and final step is to add the function call to your api calls. This is achieved very easily by adding the following line to your call.
//check if authentication is on if (AUTH_ON) { //perform authentication on this api call RestUtils::performAuthentication($requestResponse); }
You can see that this function call is made if the authorisation has been switched on. If you do not want the authentication to be implemented for a certain call you would just omit this line from your code.
Thats it!
I hope you found this useful and thanks to Ian Selby for his excellent RESTful api code which has helped me build various projects with his implementation.


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In general, any mouse that normally lives in fields; more strictly, any of about seven species of small, long-tailed mice in the genus Apodemus (family Muridae). Field mice in this genus are found in fields, woodlands, and mountain meadows in the warm and temperate parts of Eurasia. They are grayish or light or reddish brown and are 2–5 in. (6–12 cm) long excluding the tail. They generally live in burrows and build nests of grass and other plants. They eat seeds, roots, and other plant material, occasionally damaging crops or young trees.
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"Go not to those who need you, but to those who need you the most." — John Wesley
For Lee Warren D'04, the search for the intersection of what theologian Frederick Buechner calls each person's "deep gladness and the world's deep hunger" often seemed circuitous.
Yet if the path leading to her current work as Virginia director for Stop Hunger Now took a few unexpected turns, she says it was worth it. Warren is just where she wants to be — helping satisfy hunger both physical and spiritual.
"We're all starving for something," says the former high school French teacher who was an empty-nester when she began to commute from her home in South Hill, Va., to Duke to pursue her master of divinity degree. "A lot of us are starving to give; sometimes people just need to be shown where and how they can do it."
Warren, who believes that caring for "the least of these" is a moral imperative that transforms the lives of both recipient and giver, brings a lifelong interest in other countries and cultures to Stop Hunger Now's commitment to ending global hunger.
Stop Hunger Now does that by bringing together givers from colleges, churches, and civic organizations. But donor involvement doesn't end there. In addition to writing a check, donors are encouraged to take an active role by helping package meals and supplies that are stocked in a network of Operation Sharehouses in Virginia
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"I had been focusing on spiritual transformation, and I found that if I listened very carefully to who I am and what I am created to do and be, God calls me to what theologian Frederick Buechner describes as 'the place where our deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet,' " Warren says. "That's the way I work with God. I seek the 'deep gladness' that uses all my strengths, makes my cylinders run, and feeds my soul. When we're really fed, we do our best work."
Warren recalls asking God: "What am I meant to do to help serve the world's hunger?"
She was leading spiritual retreats and thinking about further ministry. "But I couldn't become an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church because you have to be able to move wherever you're appointed," Warren says. "My husband (Charles H. Warren, a general district judge for Mecklenburg and Lunenburg counties in Virginia) has to live within the county, so that wasn't an option."
Warren longed to pursue her love for theological study and decided to earn a degree at Duke Divinity School. With her husband's enthusiastic support, she spent four years commuting to Durham, where she spent much of the week before returning home on weekends. Sometimes she shared a hotel room with fellow women commuters; other times she rented a room in the home of a UMC clergy's widow. She served three of those years as a student pastor, juggling her studies with pastoral duties.
Those were "four of the happiest years of my life," says Warren, a magna cum laude graduate who is as fit as she is energetic. She teaches yoga and Pilates, and is eagerly anticipating the arrival of her first grandchild in August.
At Duke, she especially enjoyed her Old Testament classes and was influenced by the life and teachings of Peter Storey, Williams professor emeritus of the practice of Christian ministry, and a former bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
When she introduced Storey at the Virginia Annual Conference's banquet for the Methodist Federation for Social Justice, Warren remembered his response to a personal question she had asked him about tithing.
"Lee, it's not about how much you give," said Storey, who served as chaplain to Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment at Robben Island. "It's about how much you keep."
Those words continue to "challenge and haunt" her, she says.
When Warren accepted the position of Virginia director for Stop Hunger Now in 2006, she felt she'd arrived where she had been called. She has known founder and president Ray Buchanan since he visited her church 25 years ago in support of the Society of St. Andrew, a domestic hunger program he co-founded in Virginia.
"Lee was always interested in leading her congregations to a deeper understanding of hunger," Buchanan says. When she joined Stop Hunger Now, she "grabbed hold of the challenge and in less than three years has re-established and re-energized our efforts in Virginia in a phenomenal way."
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Stop Hunger Now gives people a hands-on experience in global ministry. Warren and other organizers set up an assembly line with huge bags of ingredients, including a chicken-flavored rice-soy mixture fortified with 21 essential vitamins and minerals. Wearing baseball caps or hairnets and plastic gloves, volunteers typically package 10,000 of the high-protein meals, each of which costs Stop Hunger Now just 25 cents.
In August 2008, 4,000 college students packaged 1 million meals in one day on the campuses of UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State, and East Carolina with help from nine other colleges and universities across the state.
"We called it the University Million Meals Event," says Warren, "and we'll be doing it again next August."
Since June 2006, when donors provided Warren's office, a warehouse, and a panel truck, she has traveled throughout her home state to get the word out about Stop Hunger Now. In early May, a new Richmond Sharehouse replaced the smaller South Hill location, joining sites in Lynchburg and Norfolk.
The success of the program shows that giving is "not all about writing a check," she says. During a Sunday in March, more than 250 northern Virginians gathered between worship services and packaged 50,000 meals at church.
These meals are shipped primarily to schools in developing countries.
"This is the United Nations' best strategy for alleviating poverty," Warren says. "We've learned that when we set up school feeding programs, enrollment doubles and GPAs increase. It makes sense, because obviously, children can't learn, nor do they attend school, when they're hungry."
Stop Hunger Now was on the ground for the 2007 earthquake in Peru, she adds, and on the ground one week ahead of the two most recent major hurricanes in Haiti. It also sends meals to Africa and Central America, and in 2009 will open Sharehouses in Mississippi, Arizona, and South Africa. The organization has received a $100,000 grant for its work with rural churches from The Duke Endowment.
When people ask about serving the hungry in the United States, Warren replies that no organization can successfully be all things to all people.
"We're focused on those overseas who need help most urgently," Warren says. The rice-based meals Stop Hunger Now offers are welcomed in Haiti, where she has been several times in the past year, and other developing countries, but might not be in this country.
She believes that the global economic crisis is making Americans "even more alert and aware" of the reality of global starvation.
"People want to give — they're inherently starving to give, especially in churches, and especially among small rural congregations where there are limited opportunities to participate in hands-on mission," Warren says.
"People of all denominations are seeing what a transformative experience this work is."


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So I've been thinking about Authlogic lately and here are a few ideas I've been bouncing around:
The worst part about this idea are the views. Interfaces can be quite a bit different from application to application. How do I provide views that are suitable for every project? In my opinion you can't. I could give you a million partials, tons of configuration, a lot of helpers, etc. This might add some flexibility, but this seems like a hack. It's not a clean solution. This is the one thing that I just don't like about rails engines. I prefer tools that help me create my views. Give me a set of tools so I can go easily create my interface, but don't go create my interface for me. And I think rails does a pretty good job of this with things like form_for, etc.
The bottom line is that I want to keep Authlogic focused on the business logic behind authentication. You should be able to use Authlogic in a rails app, merb app, sinatra app, etc. All of the interface cruft should probably be in a separate gem or in a template. The thing is, this gem could be written a million different ways depending on your preferences. Maybe I can create a base rails engine that people can fork and modify to their liking. That's the beauty of git.
To conclude, #1 is probably going to happen, I want to do #2 if I can figure out a good way to do this, #3 is still up in the air and more likely to be in a separate gem / plugin.
That's it for now, I figured I would try to keep everyone in the loop. Maybe you can help me out or have some ideas of your own.
#1: I really like.
#2: Seems pretty important.
#3: I like the idea of a gem / plugin much more than it being included because it seems like then it's headed down the restful_authentication path. I like how Moonshine is, they have different plugins.
I'm getting into Datamapper for a project I'm starting on now. I really hope Authlogic becomes easily compatible with it, because I see a lot more people switching to DM once Rails 3 hits.
1 and 2: Sounds good as long as it doesn't take abstraction to a Java level.
3: I think you should have (optional) generators that would generate controllers and views with a sensible default for those items that are usually same from application to applpication. I don't think that deviates from the Rails way, but instead gets closer to it. It's like how David said at the Rails conf in Las Vegas: When you order a burger, you expect it to contain all the standard things on a burger unless you specifically say you don't want something on it. A small set of sensible defaults that anyone can change is a good thing. Whether as a separate gem or as part of the core is a good idea since I end up copying the views and controllers from your example app for every new app even though I modify them later. They are just sensible defaults, IMHO.
PS. What's the status of PBKDF2 integration?
Oh, and I'm not advocating big scary generators like restful_authentication. That thing was like a horror movie. I mean something that will generate a small and simple but working shell that can easily be customized.
eg. ./script/generate sessioncontroller UserSessions
would just generate the default
Since you would have a specific one for each framework, I think it would make sense to make separate gems for it.
Definitely agree that you should abstract to support different ORMs. Datamapper will be gaining a much larger following when Rails 3 is finalized. I'd imagine someone as clever as yourself could come up with a nice thin abstraction layer/interface model to cover the differences between ORMs that Authlogic is concerned with.
One thing you mentioned is compatibility with any framework… You could accomplish this by allowing AuthLogic to be used as a piece of rack middleware. I like the model used by CloudKit for authentication middleware, take a look for some inspiration.
I like the idea of a very lightweight generator. Just something that saves some typing, and which we can then tailor to any unique requirements.
#1 – Great
#2 – If you get it working once, and it breaks between the adapter and the ORM, then IMO, that's for the ORM makers to handle (since they broke their public API). As long as you have tests, and the ORM does proper deprecation, shouldn't it be fairly easy to keep things working between versions?
#3 – I'd prefer well maintained tutorials in the codebase (under docs/ or something) to be honest. I liked the fact that views/controllers weren't generated (because I ended up using non Rails standards anyway, like for example, utilizing formtastic).
@Kieran P: My idea for the generator is it would be 100% optional to ever run it. It's just there to generate the defualt controllers and views for various parts of an auth system using Authlogic if you want. You can still continue using Authlogic without ever running a single generator if you don't want it, just like it is now.
A lightweight generator would be useful for generating the controller and view for session management, password reset, account activation, etc. ONLY IF you want to do it the way it's in the docs already instead of copying and pasting from there.
Nobody complains about the ./script/generate controller and all the xml format and code comments it puts in your controller that most people delete. It's just the default and people edit it. The same can be done for Authlogic. Since it's frameword agnostic, it'd make sense to use a separate gem for it though.
"Anyways, one of the solution I was thinking was to make another library that you could use that served as an abstraction layer. This way authlogic could use it and so could other libraries. I think this would be a good addition to the community and might help other libraries accomplish the same thing. The big down side is that this would be pain in the ass to maintain"
Actually, this kind of like what rack does between web servers, and web frameworks. But this would instead be between applications, and ORM libraries.
I think the challenge would be in coming up with a nice api for apps to use, and still be consistent with different ORM layers.
And it doesn't have to be that hard to maintain, if you put the responsibility on the ORM developers/users to maintain adapters for this library.
Seems like too many layers though. A layer to abstract the database is fine, but a layer to abstract the layer that abstracts the database? Perhaps going too far? It may be better if everyone just simply used datamapper, and that was the sole abstraction layer to any underlying database you might want to use.
I just want to drop in to say that I just installed authlogic and it was amazing. I have never gone through a more thorough and easy-to-understand tutorial/documentation in my life.
I literally felt like I was going through the iPhone of "getting started" guides with your sample apps. It was amazing.
I've watched a screencast, read a few tutorials and tried a demo…now it's time to add the AuthLogic functionality to an existing app. So far, it seems pretty straightforward but I did want to let you know about one concern. I'm using an Oracle database and when I try running "rake db:migrate", I receive the following message…
rake aborted!
An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled:
OCIError: ORA-00972: identifier is too long: CREATE INDEX index_users_on_persistence_token ON users (persistence_token)
Basically, the "add_index :users, :persistence_token" line in my migration is causing the migration to fail since the generated index name is greater than 30 characters (which is Oracle's limit).
I'm not sure if this is something that's may be fixed in Authlogic or if it's something that must be fixed in Rails and/or ActiveRecord. Still, I thought you might want to know.
All of that aside, I really like this gem. Thank you very much for the great work! It's very helpful.


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The question of whether James Gandolfini was the greatest actor of his era will be settled sometime in the future. Commentators will have to decide whether an 86 hour performance as one character (plus 25 or so stellar supporting performances) required more of an actor, and delivered more from an actor, than did, say, twenty or so bravura film performances by Daniel Day Lewis.
Almost impossible to compare, right? Almost ludicrous to contemplate. Yet if critics and commentators do in fact, try to make that comparison, it will be because Gandolfini, and David Chase, along with the rest of the talents associated with The Sopranos, seized with their brilliance the cultural ground that cinema was abandoning like they were owners of residential property at Love Canal.
Once movies slew the novel in the sixties, film was considered the most culturally significant art form. Part of it had to do with the iconic power of the stars, part with the way fans and the media treated film, part with the depth and ambitions of the film makers, with what they were trying to say. There was a time when a film could influence the culture for two years. It would open in a downtown movie house and spread slowly throughout the country; if it was a hit, it would run in cities for months, and in parts of the country, people would be waiting for close to two years to see a major picture. Crowning that influence were the Oscars, honors that could cement the stature of a film or a performer for decades. And in that way, generations would contemplate the meaning of The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, Nashville, Chinatown, and so on.
Now movies come and go so fast they barely register. They open wide and even successful films get moved out fast. The significance of the Oscar has diminished in a crowd of other award shows. But with ten or thirteen week runs (along with in-week repeats and off-season reruns), with the close analysis some series receive and the big build-ups to new seasons, and most importantly, with their greater ambitions and more serious content, it is TV shows like Mad Men or Game of Thrones or Girls that dominate the culture. At a conference in Hollywood ten days ago, Steven Spielberg predicted a coming "implosion" in the film industry, after which there will be price variances at movie theaters, where "you're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln." He also said that Lincoln came "this close" to being an HBO movie instead of a theatrical release. Speaking on the same panel, George Lucas predicted that film exhibition would morph into a Broadway play model, whereby fewer movies are released, they stay in theaters for a year and ticket prices are much higher. His prediction prompted Spielberg to recall that his 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial stayed in theaters for a year and four months. Lucas called cable television "much more adventurous" than film nowadays.
Why is this happening? Technological changes, demographic changes, audience preferences—huge movements. But I believe it wouldn't be happening now, and in the way it has been happening, if The Sopranos hadn't been so damn good. And it was Chase's writing and vision, and Gandolfini's acting, that made it happen.
The Sopranos was The Death of a Salesman of our era: a vision of the way we lived and worked and the costs involved. At first it played as a comedy with a twisted undercurrent of violence; the very simple decision to play the mobster as a suburban family man created the comic framework that the show never shed. This must have horrified Chase, who each season thereafter made Tony an uglier, more violent, more selfish, more controlling and less in control character. But Chase continued to allow Tony elements of humor and especially humanity, and Gandolfini squeezed the compassion out of each opportunity. "AJ, you're a good guy,'' says a frustrated Tony to his son in one late episode, and breaking into Gandolfini's delivery of that line was all of Tony's anguished, desperate suspicion that AJ was in no way a good guy, not a good citizen in possession of a compassionate heart, and not even a good criminal, a stand-up guy in possession of the nominal capabilities of that profession. You felt sympathy for Tony in that instant, as in so many instants, when Gandolfini expressed a universal human emotion, in this case, a father's terror that his kid might be a ne'er-do-well.
Gandolfini possessed an astonishingly expressive face, and it was constantly in motion. (It's amazing what he did with his voice, too; it's amazing to realize that Tony's voice was not Gandolfini's natural voice, that Gandolfini pitched it higher and altered his natural cadences and tuned his accent for the part.) In my favorite episode, the 12th of season 2, Gandolfini's gifts and skills are on peacock display. Following the scene in which Janice shoots Richie Aprile, Tony registers fear, caution, shock, control, authority, fury, sarcasm, love, affection, exasperation—all in a handful of minutes. He calms his sister, he commands his men, he yells at his mother, he mocks his sister, and he opens himself, cautiously, to his wife. It's just wonderful. And it is one of, I don't know, ten thousand sequences that mark Gandolfini's excellence, in The Sopranos and other pieces. (The wonderful In the Loop is Peter Capaldi's movie, but Gandolfini holds his own in every scene he's in.)
The first episode of The Sopranos aired on January 10, 1999. I was working for Entertainment Weekly, and Ginny and the girls met me in Manhattan. Somehow we ended up at a restaurant called Mayrose, on Broadway near the Flatiron building. We were there early, maybe six o'clock., and the place was nearly empty, although by himself, right in the front, was a man I recognized as James Gandolfini. I almost never bother celebrities, but he was right there, practically underfoot as we waited to be seated, so I put out my hand and congratulated him, and wished him and show great success. I'm glad I did that. It was one of a tiny number of times in my life that I have shaken the hand of genius.


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NEW YORK (AP) — With people in storm-ravaged areas still shivering without electricity and the death toll in New York City at more than 40, many New Yorkers recoiled at the prospect of police officers being assigned to protect a marathon.
They were repelled by the thought of storm victims being evicted from hotels to make room for people coming into town for the race, and the sight of big generators humming along at the finish-line tents in Central Park.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he hoped to lift spirits and unite the stricken city when he decided to press ahead with this weekend's New York City Marathon. Instead, the move became a source of strife Friday, with Bloomberg facing an outcry from politicians and ordinary New Yorkers who said this is not the time for a road race.
They complained that holding the event just six days after Superstorm Sandy would be insensitive and tie up precious resources when many people are still suffering.
Joan Wacks, whose Staten Island waterfront condo was swamped with 4 feet of water, predicted authorities will still be recovering bodies when the estimated 40,000 runners from around the world hit the streets for the 26.2-mile race Sunday, and she called the mayor "tone deaf."
"He is clueless without a paddle to the reality of what everyone else is dealing with," she said. "If there are any resources being put toward the marathon, that's wrong. I'm sorry, that's wrong."
At a news conference, Bloomberg defended his decision as a way to raise money for the city's recovery and boost morale after Sandy flooded neighborhoods and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands homes and businesses.
Bloomberg said New York "has to show that we are here and we are going to recover" and "give people something to cheer about in what's been a very dismal week for a lot of people."
"You have to keep going and doing things," he said, "and you can grieve, you can cry and you can laugh all at the same time. That's what human beings are good at."
Noting that street lights should be back on in Manhattan by midnight Friday and parts of the transit system are up and running again, he gave assurances that the race would not take away police officers and other resources needed in the recovery.
He also pointed out that his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, went ahead with the marathon two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and "it pulled people together."
But in a sign of the how the political mood was turning against Bloomberg, City Comptroller John Liu, an elected official who is considered a likely candidate for mayor next year, reversed course. Liu warned that it has become clear that holding the marathon this weekend would "compromise the city's ability to protect and provide for the residents most affected by the hurricane."
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer called for a postponement, saying New Yorkers "deserve nothing less than to know that the entire government is focused solely on returning the City and their region back to normalcy. And City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said pressing ahead "is not a decision I would have made."
One of the world's pre-eminent road races, the marathon generates an estimated $340 million for the city. This time, the marathon's sponsors and organizers have dubbed it the "Race to Recover" and intend to use the event to raise money for the city to deal with the crisis. New York Road Runners, the race organizer, will donate $1 million and said sponsors have pledged more than $1.5 million.
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Edvard Munch's iconic artwork The Scream sold for $120m
Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's The Scream has become the most expensive artwork sold at auction, after it fetched $119.9m (£74m).
The 1895 pastel was bought by an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's in New York. Bidding lasted 12 minutes.
The work is one of four in a series by the Norwegian expressionist artist and was the only one still privately owned.
Proceeds of the sale are to go towards founding a new museum, hotel and art centre in Norway.
Seven bidders were competing for the work, which had a starting price of $40m. The crowd broke into applause, following the sale on Wednesday.
The reason for the record-breaking auction price achieved by The Scream is a simple case of market economics in an age of global capitalism: demand for Grade A art far outstrips supply.
In a world of jittery stock markets and double-dip recessions, top-end artworks have become a reliable and highly desirable investment for the world's super-rich.
There are five factors at play in dictating an artwork's value: rarity, reputation of the artist, confidence in the market, condition of the artwork, and competition for the piece.
It is this last factor that has powered the continued rise in prices. A few years ago Sotheby's would have had bidders from three or four countries, now it's 20 or 30: that's globalisation for you.
The sale price includes the buyer's premium.
The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was for Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, which sold for $106.5m in 2010.
According to Forbes, The Scream is the eighth most expensive painting sold at a private or public auction, when prices are adjusted for inflation.
'Trembling with anxiety'The other three versions of The Scream are all owned by Norwegian museums, but Sotheby's say the version they sold is the most colourful.
It is also the only one to include a poem by Munch on the frame, which talks of the inspiration behind the series of works.
It reads: "I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city.
"My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."
The piece was sold by businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was friendly with the Norwegian artist.
Earlier this year, Mr Olsen said he had decided to sell The Scream because he wanted to "offer the rest of the world a chance to own and appreciate this remarkable work".
- Edvard Munch, The Scream - $119.9m (2012)
- Picasso, Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust - $106.5m (2010)
- Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man I - $104.3m (2010)
- Picasso, Boy With a Pipe - $104.1m (2004)
After the sale, he said: "I hope that the publicity given by this sale will increase public interest in Munch's work and awareness of the important message that I feel it conveys.
"The Scream, for me, shows the horrifying moment when man realises his impact on nature and the irreversible changes that he has initiated."
Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias Meyer said the painting was "worth every penny".
"It is one of the great icons of art in the world and whoever bought it should be congratulated," he said.
"This evening's sale was a dream for an auctioneer and to be able to sell The Scream for over $100 million was a moment that I cherish as an auctioneer."
The painting has become one of the famous works of art in popular culture.
"Together with the Mona Lisa, it's the most famous and recognised image in art history," Michael Frahm, an art adviser with Frahm Ltd, told the Associated Press news agency.
He added that it has been "used by everyone from Warhol to Hollywood to cartoons to teacups and T-shirts".
Two of the other versions of The Scream were stolen, in 1994 and 2004 respectively. Both were later recovered.


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Posted on March 1, 2012, 1:29 a.m. by permhole96
ok guys, lets admit, were all sick of standard being all zombies, delverblade and wolfrun...
im sick of it too. whenever i bring a different idea, i get stomped on, then laughed at.
i think i speak for a lot of people when i say that we need some new, creative, competitive deck ideas...
so my challenge to you is this:
lets get those creative juices flowen people...
Ohthenoises says... #1
My Boom goes the goblin! deck is another that is incredibly fun to play. The most fun I had was against u/b control where I had him to 6 life and a Increasing Vengeance in the graveyard and enough mana to kill him if I topdecked a burn spell. Unfortunately he milled me out first but both of us knew if I topdecked a burn he was toast. We both laughed our asses off afterwards and he said I was his hardest match all night. Goblins are crazy fun to play and crazy easy to get ahold of price wise and they DECIMATE Titan decks without heavy creature hate.
March 6, 2012 1:33 a.m.
Mono black hand disruption. Take out all of ramps and delvers bombs early game with discards and they have no gas to run on. Can also use the discards to sucker out a mana leak so your obliterator hits the table. Running a deck like this and its quite fun to drop smallpox and turn one despises on tier 1 decks and watch them scramble.
March 6, 2012 4:25 p.m.
I dont know if you guys would consider this wolfrun or not but this is my own home brew deck, take a look and let me know what you guys thinkBuG
March 6, 2012 9:54 p.m.
permhole96 says... #5
yea, what was the popular deck on tapped out like 4 or 5 days ago that used the Black Cat+Smallpox combo?
March 6, 2012 10:43 p.m.
ravengamer93 says... #6
I recently made deck:fun-staller-deck its not standard but it's kinda hilarious to see a blue destroy deck. plus when you run out of cards you just tap/sac the scepter. Your garunteed a long game lol. + a win. It's not unbeatable so it makes it fun to challenge.
March 30, 2012 8:49 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #7
@permhole96, Your original post summarizes my feelings towards standard right now and, most likely, as long as I continue to play mtg. here some of my creative decks that have worked in standard:
Out of Time (once flicker stuff comes out I will work on this again)
Elves Have NOT Left The Building (I noticed others talking about elves, so its cool to see that others acknowledge their current power)
Melira is Sexy (tough against enchantment-hate sideboarding.)
Colossal Burn (perfect for the metagame, watch out for tragic slip and frost titan though!)
April 21, 2012 10:19 p.m.
Valentine35 says... #8
i have won an FNM with my deck Black Hole Sun, and made top 4 with twice.I also made top 8 with deck:turbo-fog-lover, and J.R.R. Token. May not always win but making top 8 with a fog deck is funny as hell.......Also for another idea, i was thinking something along the lines of Heartless Summoning, Myr Superion, Grand Architect, Perilous Myr and Wurmcoil Engine. throw in a Bloodgift Demon or two i think you could have a pretty good deck to make atleast top 8 at your local FNM.
April 22, 2012 5:42 a.m.
Wizard of the Damned says... #9
The deck that has done best for me consistently is my t1000. When I started playing, standard is what I played but as I continued to play, I found it static and boring to where if you weren't playing a top tier you did get laughed at. I just don't feel any sense of accomplishment winning with someone else's build. Standard just feels stale with no sense of creativity, which is why I'm starting to get into modern and legacy
April 23, 2012 1:14 p.m.
My favorite standard deck to use at the moment has been dubbed "12coil" by my friends. It's a Grand Architect/Heartless Summoning hybrid with 4x Wurmcoil Engine, 4x Phyrexian Metamorph, and 4x Phantasmal Image. It's really tough to deal with 3-4 Wurmcoils on the field before turn 6.
My next idea is Demonic Torpor with Torpor Orb because it's awesome.
April 24, 2012 11:25 a.m.
I take pride in my deck. It's not particularly good, or consistent, but it's fun, exciting, and can clinch a win against even the most battle-hardened of decks. I also take pride in the fact that I didn't really take a pro-made deck and just added a few tweaks to it. My friend told me about this idea, just a simple idea, and then I made the deck from scratch otherwise.
April 24, 2012 11:20 p.m.
Its an idea just to build a deck around Havengul Lich.
ive commented it to some other ppl but i mention it here aswell 5 collor deck starring him all creatures that die can be summ to my side of field.
sounds awesome.
April 25, 2012 3:12 p.m.
TheFrozenFox says... #13
RG aggro R/g the non-werewolf style. And for AVR: R/U Budget Miracles different decks that Top8.
May 2, 2012 4:16 a.m.
UmbrotheUmbreon says... #14
My top rated deck, deck:grafting-powerhouses is pretty fun :3
Also check out the insane Elf power my deck:elf-powers-go deck can bring out :3
Opponent likes creatures? I say deck:controlabsorb to them :3
May 3, 2012 9:04 p.m.
What I tend to do is take a card that has a bad name for itself and make a deck to make it better. I have made Quicksilver Gargantuan a force to be reckoned with. I just took apart my own brew of Unburial Rites. It ran R,U,B,and W and I won two FNMs with it. Flayer of the Hatebound, and a gang of clones. I had my fun. Now I'm working on a R/W token deck that uses Burn at the Stake: deck:boros-riot.
May 4, 2012 7:44 p.m.
I'm personally working on a Deadeye Navigator deck, which for the most part has been running pretty well for me, though I still have some problems with certain decks. But by and far it's one of the funnest decks I've played in a while. I love learning from the netdecks, and applying those principles to new deck ideas.
Deadeye Control for those who want to look at it.
May 12, 2012 3:06 a.m.
my deck Home alone using single creatures for Predator's Gambit and Homicidal Seclusion.
May 13, 2012 8:14 a.m.
seem to be pretty good and thinking of going to upcoming fnm if can make it(probly cant but who knows)


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For more from our Royal Welsh Show preview, see the story links on the right
What Katie did next – became ambassador
THE Welsh Black Cattle Society's young member ambassador for 2010-11 is Katie Pugh, a 21-year-old farmer's daughter from Ty-Talgarth, Nantymoel, near Bridgend, in Glamorgan.
Currently she is studying agriculture part-time at Carmarthenshire's Coleg Sir Gar Gelli Aur campus while also working on an organic dairy farm in Pembrokeshire.
Studies have already seen her gain a National Diploma in Agriculture and a Higher National Certificate. On completion of her HND she hopes to go on to take a degree in agriculture at Aberystwyth University.
"The variety of work experience and knowledge I have gained to date has been beneficial to me," says Katie, who was a finalist in the 2009 Lantra Learner of the Year Awards.
As a member of Neath YFC, she represented her county at the Dairy Event at Stoneleigh in 2004, taking fourth place overall for dairy stockjudging.
In 2008, she won the YFC Welsh Stockman of the Year competition, judging and giving reasons on a pen of four dairy cows, beef, sheep and pigs.
Agricultural work
Ever since leaving school at 16, Katie has always wanted to work in agriculture.
Her farming roots run deep and her family has farmed at Nantymoel since 1939.
During the early days, the land covered roughly 100ha (250 acres) and in order to make a sustainable living, the family took on two additional farms, renting 360ha (889 acres) in 1966 and purchasing Maindy Farm at Ton Pentre in 1989 – taking today's total acreage to 750ha (1,853 acres).
Ty-Talgarth is situated at the head of the Ogmore Valley, nine miles north of Bridgend.
The lower lying fields are around 900ft above sea level, rising to 1,750ft – making the farm one of the highest in Glamorganshire.
Mainly due to the topography and nature of the land, the farm is committed to breeding traditional breeds of livestock, both beef cattle and sheep.
The herd of 40 pedigree breeding Welsh Black cows and the 1,000 Nelson-type Welsh Mountain ewes with followers, adapt well to the restrictions of the environment and climate.
The farm is managed on an organic system and both cattle and sheep are predominantly grass fed, receiving only a small amount of organic concentrate at the finishing stage.
Distinctive areas
The grassland is divided into two distinctive areas, the 'in-bye', where organic forage crops such as triticale and oats are grown under-sown with grass leys mixed with red and white clover, and the upland grazings.
The clover fixes atmospheric nitrogen in the soil, enabling the farm to grow crops without the use of chemical fertilisers.
Phosphate and potash come from the manure produced on the farm, making the holding self-sufficient in home-grown feed and soil fertility.
The farm is unique in that it is located on the edge of a large urban populated area yet adjoining the high altitude mountains of Blaen Ogwr and Gelli.
As on most family farms, the need to expand has resulted in diversification and the Ty-Talgarth organic butchery and farm shop on the main holding means the family has secured the business for the children – Katie is one of three – living and contributing to farm life.
One of Katie's first major appointments will be to represent the society at this year's Royal Welsh Show.
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How Alcerreca and Berges happened to become interested in acquiring a gorilla for the zoo isn't clear; they claim they received an inquiry from an employee of the Mexican state finance department, a woman who was a trusted assistant to Victor Bernal, head of the state's Natural Parks and Zoos Commission. Bernal, on the other hand, testified that Alcerreca contacted him from time to time since 1990, proferring several endangered or exotic animals, and that in early January 1993, Alcerreca told Bernal he could get a gorilla. Matthew Block says Alcerreca and Berges had sought to buy gorillas and orangutans from him as early as 1991, but after he informed them about the strict regulation of such purchases, the matter was dropped. This time, Block alleges, the two were not so picky about paperwork.
The government's first surreptitious audio recording in the case picks up a January 6 phone call from Berges and Alcerreca in Mexico City to Block in Miami. Berges says he usually did the talking for the 46-year-old Alcerreca when English was required, and spoke to Block on most occasions. In the January 6 call, Berges broaches the subject of a gorilla for the Toluca zoo, apparently not for the first time, and Block says he thinks he heard of one for sale; he'll check it out and call them back. When Berges asks for orangutans, Block tells him he does know of some available (Block's long-time business associate, Dr. Bern Levine, part-owner of Parrot Jungle, breeds orangutans). Seventy-nine subsequent telephone calls were taped, 72 of which either Pic centsn or Block initiated to Berges or Alcerreca.
By the time Alcerreca, Berges, and Bernal had checked into the Airport Hilton Hotel on January 12, Fish and Wildlife agent Jorge Pic centsn had prepared as elaborate a ruse as possible, given the short notice. After inquiring of zoos around the country about borrowing a gorilla and being told he was crazy, Pic centsn went to Metrozoo's general curator, Bill Zeigler. Pic centsn proposed bringing his "clients" to see Moja, the zoo's ten-year-old male gorilla. He would do this after the zoo had closed for the day. "That way I can tell them you work for me and I'm paying you under the table to keep [the gorilla] for me," Pic centsn recalls telling Zeigler. Another reason he wanted to visit late, he explains, is that people at the zoo know him and guess when they see him that he's on the trail of some illegal activity. Zeigler was amenable but said he first had to get approval from the zoo director and Metro-Dade officials. That done, Pic centsn planned his next move. Zeigler already had agreed to lend him a cage. "Once I convinced the folks it was my gorilla, what if they want it?" Pic centsn mused. "Now I have to produce a gorilla, and the only thing is to get me a gorilla costume." So he went shopping. There was a nice gorilla suit at a store in Coral Gables, but it didn't look authentic enough. He mentioned his quest to Bern Levine, who remembered one of his Parrot Jungle volunteers had worn a gorilla costume to a party. He'd see if he could get it. Pic centsn also arranged with Levine to bring the Mexicans by Parrot Jungle to look at some baby orangutans before they stopped at Metrozoo.
On January 13, at the Airport Hilton coffee shop, the cool, well-mannered Block introduced the abrasive Jorge Blanco to Alcerreca, Berges, and Bernal. They got into the back seat of Pic centsn's rented gray Continental for the drive south to Parrot Jungle, Block in the passenger seat. The entire time Pic centsn wore a microphone on his waist and a recorder strapped to his ankle, picking up very unclear conversations about Miami, the recent Hurricane Andrew, and the deal that Senor Blanco wanted to make with his new friends. (Pic centsn had planned to back up his own tapes of unreliable clarity with an expensive Customs recording system, but it never functioned, he says. Most of the government's recordings were left out of the evidence at trial as a time-saving agreement between the defense and prosecution.)
Some very valuable animals had been bestowed on him in payment of a debt, Blanco explained conspiratorily. He was keeping a male gorilla temporarily at Metrozoo and some baby orangutans at Parrot Jungle, and was bribing employees to care for them. But he wanted to get rid of them fast before someone figured out they didn't belong there. "I have a lot of business to the Caribbean basin, I do not want the...U.S. government to come down on my ass and arrest me because of a freaking gorilla or orang," Blanco tells his prospective clients in one exchange. "Because if they come down on me with that shit, then they might discover other stuff that I do, that, you know, is not for nobody to know about here."
Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the complicated legal process by which endangered apes end up in zoos would probably have serious questions about such a bizarre and apparently corrupt arrangement. On the other hand, as defense lawyers attempted to point out at trial, bribery has different connotations in Mexico than in the U.S., and the scenario didn't necessarily seem suspicious. Besides, according to Berges, his and Alcerreca's only contact with the wildlife business had been through Block; they assumed the well-known primate dealer knew what he was doing and did it legally.


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"I mean, from your skin I can tell that your system is way out of whack!" She was not gaining any points with me! Already very self conscious because of my weight, but she was right, my acne meds had stopped working and the cyctic acne was worse than ever. She did take the time to talk about why she said what she did and spoke of the ER4YT lifestyle. I bought the book that day.
The changes I have made in the past three weeks have been fairly minute, because my cabin is full of avoids, but I am making changes as I buy new things. And, although not completely clear skinned yet, for the most part the cystic ance is almost gone.
So yes, I think what we eat does directly affect our skin, so naturally, as we eat better, our bodies get healthier, I think our skin gets healthier too!
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Stat: If Devendorf stayed for his senior season at Syracuse, he needed to average 17.2 points per game to finish his career as SU's all-time leading scorer, passing Lawrence Moten's 2,334 points (based on 38 games, which Syracuse played this past season).
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OpsCenter collects system and column family metrics data for each node in your cluster. OpsCenter creates its own keyspace within a cluster for storing collected metrics. Metrics data is collected at regular intervals and stored within your cluster in a keyspace called OpsCenter. The column families containing metric data continue to grow. You can configure how long you want to keep historical metrics. Data expires after configurable time periods.
The following table provides guidance for estimating the amount of metrics data generated:
Number of days | Number of column families monitored | MB per node |
31 | 5 | 200 |
31 | 10 | 300 |
31 | 20 | 500 |
365 | 5 | 250 |
365 | 10 | 380 |
365 | 20 | 630 |
The default upper limit of data collected is 365 days.
To help control consumption of disk space, OpsCenter provides two ways to limit the growth of OpsCenter performance data:
By default, OpsCenter does not collect performance data for its own keyspace or the Cassandra system keyspace. You can manually add any other keyspaces or column families that you do not want to monitor in the [cassandra_metrics] section of the configuration file.
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[cassandra_metrics] ignored_keyspaces = system, OpsCenter, test ignored_column_families = Keyspace1.Standard1
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So, I woke up this morning to my mom calling me. I don't know how I managed to sleep until 8:00 today,I always, always wake up before or on 7:30. But my internal sense of time is probably off because of the fog.
But anyways, Mom wants to see me, I want to see my sister, Dad wants to see my sister. Mom dosen't want to see Dad, and my sister wants to see both of us. My mom also refuses to talk to my dad, she's been like that since she left.
It it tore me up, I asked my sister how things were, and she said yesterday was bad. And she wouldn't tell me why. She never hides things from me, I think my grandparents told her not to say anything. Because I would ask her what had happened, and she'd pause for a minute before she said anything.
I guess I want to see my mom, I really want to see my sister, but I really want my dad to see my sister too. He (obviously) misses her a lot. We haven't seen her at all in like, 2 months. I don't think she's ever been apart from me for this long.
They're going to be up here tomorrow apparently, which kind of stinks because I was hoping to talk to Sora at the same time. And as much as not seeing my sister is tearing me apart, I need to talk to her too. Though I really want to see my sister, very much. But I'm not sure if I want to see my mom. She's being so mean to my dad... At first she wouldn't let him talk to my sister, at all. And her and my grandparents (who she's living with.) are telling my sis what she can say and what she can't say.
And I'm mostly upset because Sis was and she won't tell me what happened. That's never happened before. It worries me. My grandparents have probably been telling her awful things about Dad too. Lies, they always lied about what an "awful person" my dad is. I don't understand why they hate him so much, they've always hated him. Once they were coming up and they wanted to see me, but I didn't want to see them, because Grandad had falsely accused my dad of kidnapping me, and my sister and mom. And almost got him in trouble. And I didn't want to see him because of that, so you know what he says? He says that if I didn't go see him he'd accuse my dad of kidnapping again. I mean, WTF? That was supposed to make me want to see him?
I want to help my sister, I want to know when she's upset and help her feel better like I always have. I guess it's just big sister instinct or something. (I'm like this with all of my younger friends too.) I want her to be happy I guess. And I don't want her to be forced to hide things from me. I'm sick of my mom acting the way she is. She wants me to go down there and visit her, but she won't talk to Dad, or let Dad see Sis. So I don't know.
Ugh, I'm all upset again and stuff. I just want my sister back. Or at least living nearby so I can see her. Why couldn't Mom have stayed in the area? :(


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Employment declines in metropolitan divisions, December 2008–December 2009
February 04, 2010
In December 2009, 31 of the 32 metropolitan divisions—which are essentially separately identifiable employment centers within metropolitan areas—reported over-the-year employment losses. The largest over-the-year employment decrease in the metropolitan divisions occurred in Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Illinois (‑163,200).
The next largest over-the-year employment losses among metropolitan divisions were Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, California (‑115,300), and New York-White Plains-Wayne, N.Y.-N.J. (‑103,500).
Bethesda-Frederick-Rockville, Maryland (part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area), was the only metropolitan division with an employment increase over the year (+3,100).
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metro Area) program and are not seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent month are preliminary. To learn more, see "Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — December 2009" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-0139.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Employment declines in metropolitan divisions, December 2008–December 2009 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100204.htm (visited March 04, 2015).
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Prawn and Scallop Tortellini
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Prawn and scallop tortellini is a perfect summer dinner. The creaminess of the goat cheese mixed with the seafood creates a nice blend of textures.
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Calories | 323 |
Total Fat | 28.6g |
Saturated Fat | 7.1g |
Cholesterol | -- |
Sodium | -- |
Total Carbohydrate | 1.8g |
Dietary Fiber | 0.2g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 15.3g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 6
Total Time: 40 min
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- 1 pound(s) uncooked medium king prawns, shelled and deveined
- 8 ounce(s) sea scallops
- 1 tablespoon(s) olive oil
- 2 tablespoon(s) finely chopped fresh Vietnamese mint
- 2 tablespoon(s) finely chopped fresh chervil
- 2 tablespoon(s) finely chopped preserved lemon rind
- 7 ounce(s) soft goat's cheese
- 2 teaspoon(s) sea salt
- 1 teaspoon(s) cracked black pepper
- 1 package(s) (8-1/2-ounce) round gow gee dumpling wrappers
Lemon Dressing
- 1/4 cup(s) lemon juice
- 1/2 cup(s) olive oil
- 1 tablespoon(s) finely chopped fresh chevril
- 1 tablespoon(s) finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- Place ingredients for lemon dressing in screw-top jar; shake well.
- Coarsely chop prawns and scallops. Heat oil in large frying pan; cook seafood over medium heat until prawns change color. Cool.
- Combine seafood, herbs, lemon rind, cheese, salt, and pepper in medium bowl.
- To make tortellini, place a gow gee wrapper on work surface; place 1 level tablespoon of the seafood mixture in center, brush edge with water. Fold in half; bring two points together, to make a crescent shape, press gently to seal. Repeat with remaining wrappers and filling.
- Cook tortellini in large saucepan of boiling water until tortellini floats to the top; drain. Transfer tortellini to large heatproof bowl; drizzle with a little dressing.
- Serve tortellini drizzled with remaining dressing; sprinkle with extra chervil sprigs.
Tips & Techniques
Cover gow gee wrappers with a damp tea towel to stop them from drying out while making the tortellini.
The tortellini can be made a day ahead; store tortellini in a single layer, covered in plastic wrap, in the refrigerator until ready to cook.
Preserved lemons are available from delis and some supermarkets. Bear in mind that only the rind is used in cooking, so discard the flesh from each piece first. Rinse the rind well before chopping finely.
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PASADENA, Calif., September 17, 2008—When the Tampa Bay Rays conclude their three-game series against the Boston Red Sox this Wednesday, the Rays' first trip to the post-season could be sealed with a kiss courtesy of eHarmony, the Internet's most trusted relationship service provider. This season, eHarmony has sponsored the eHarmony Kiss Cam at Tropicana Field and recently announced a record of its own – on average, 236 eHarmony members marry every day in the United States as a result of being matched on eHarmony. To celebrate these achievements, eHarmony and the Rays have invited 236 eHarmony Success Stories to kiss simultaneously on the eHarmony Kiss Cam at the end of the seventh inning tonight.
"The Tampa Bay Rays and eHarmony have both experienced phenomenal success this year," commented eHarmony CEO Greg Waldorf. "We're not taking credit for their remarkable season, but looking at the numbers does beg the question: Who knew baseball and love could be so compatible?"
Leading up to this series against the Red Sox, the Tampa Bay Rays won 52 of their 74 home games, or 40.5 percent more games than the previous season when they won 37 at home. After the eHarmony Kiss Cam at the end of the seventh inning, the team had 93 hits, scored 49 runs, slugged 13 home runs and stole nine bases this season.
"eHarmony and their featured success couples have been a big hit all season with Rays fans. We believe this is the beginning of a highly compatible relationship," said Mark Fernandez, Senior Vice President for the Rays.
In 2008, the Rays have won eight series at home, including sweeping the Boston Red Sox twice. In 2007, they swept two series at home – a two-game series against the New York Yankees in April and a three-game series against the Texas Rangers in May.
In a game in which statistics play such a vital role, like eHarmony, several Tampa Bay players have also flirted with the number 236 at one point in their careers:
- Carl Crawford had 236 total chances (assists plus putouts plus errors) this season
- Eric Hinske had 236 at bats before the 2008 All Star break
- Carols Pena had a .236 batting average before the 2008 All Star break
- Scott Kazmir had an ERA of 2.36 while playing for Capital City in A
- BJ Upton scored a total of 236 runs while playing for the Durham Bulls in AAA
- Lance Carter pitched 236 innings for the Devil Rays from 2002-2005
- Paul Sorrento played 236 games for the Devil Rays between 1998-1999
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Santa Monica, Calif.-based eHarmony, Inc. eHarmony, Inc. (www.eharmony.com) was founded in 2000 and is a pioneer in using relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships. Its service presents users with compatible matches based on key dimensions of personality that are scientifically proven to predict highly successful long-term relationships. New peer-reviewed research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ranks eHarmony as number one for producing the most marriages and the most satisfied marriages. Of all meeting places measured, eHarmony also had the lowest divorce rate.b On average, 438 people marry every day in the U.S. as a result of being matched on eHarmony, nearly 4% of new marriages.b Currently, eHarmony operates online matchmaking services in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil.
bBased on data on 19,131 marriages from 2005 to 2012 by Harris Interactive, couples that met on eHarmony had significantly fewer breakups than couples who met via all other methods combined. Combining methods that account for less than 1% of marriages sampled."
* 2012 survey conducted for eHarmony by Harris Interactive.®
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eHarmony Wins Prestigious Entretech Annual Entrepreneurship 2008 Award
March 7, 2008
eHarmony Launches First Country-Specific Website in Canada
February 12, 2007
eHarmony Launches eHarmony Labs
February 5, 2007
eHarmony Names Gregory Waldorf Chief Executive Officer
November 8, 2006
eHarmony Introduces eHarmony Marriage
February 6, 2006
New Research Finds eHarmony Couples Are Significantly Happier in Their Marriages
February 2, 2006