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After several years of fighting in France, all Sir Gavin Patrick wants to do is go home to Scotland. He thinks his life will be easier off the battlefield, until he is saddled with a passel of orphans, a massive treasure to transport, and a sharp-tongued French heiress, Lady Marie Colette, whom he is honor bound to escort to her Highland fiancé. The situation gets worse when they are forced to pose as a married couple to sneak out of France. Stuck in a small cabin on a long voyage, Gavin and Colette fight against their forbidden attraction while pretending to be a happy couple... yet they both want to do so much more than pretend.
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Miss Penelope Rose, the notorious Madame X, exclusive matchmaker to London's elite, has made a modest fortune creating love matches for everyone but herself. Her toughest client yet, the Duke of Marchford, has commissioned her to find him a bride, but he is more interested in tracking down a spy than interviewing potential mates. Marchford is willing to do anything to find that spy, including announcing an impromptu engagement to force Penelope to stay close and help him catch the traitor. When Pen decides she has had enough, Marchford takes to wooing her to stay, including embracing that most perilous of holidays--Christmas! As Penelope and Marchford work together to uncover a deadly plot, they find falling in love is the most dangerous adventure of all.
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- WINTER WEDDING has been given a starred review by Publishers Weekly. Now each book in the Marriage Mart Trilogy has been given a starred review!
- Enjoyed participating in the King County Library's Romance Extravaganza - thanks to everyone who came out!
- MIDSUMMER BRIDE has been given a Starred Review by Publishers Weekly!
- WEDDING IN SPRINGTIME named one of the top ten romances for 2013 by Booklist!
- I am excited to return to medieval Scotland to visit the Campbell family in my first novella, THE HIGHLAND BRIDE'S CHOICE. This novella features the Scottish ancestor of Mr. Grant, the hero in A WEDDING IN SPRINGTIME. It is a several hundred year prequel!
- Publishers Weekly names A Wedding in Springtime one of the Best Books for Summer 2013!
- A WEDDING IN SPRINGTIME receives a Starred Review from Publisher's Weekly!
- I am excited to begin a new Marriage Mart series set in the Regency. A WEDDING IN SPRINGTIME will debut in May and MIDSUMMER BRIDE is due to be released in November 2013.
- I am looking forward signing books with hundreds of my fellow romance authors at the "Readers for Life" Literacy Autographing, Wednesday, July 25, 5-8p.m., Anaheim Covention Center, CA. Proceeds benefit ProLiteracy Worldwide and local literacy organizations, so you can meet your favorite author, buy some great books, and fight illiteracy all in one event - awesome!
- Launch party for True Highland Spirit at the Barnes and Noble in Lakewood, WA, Friday March 30 from 3:00-7:00. Hope to see you there!
- True Highland Spirit receives a Starred Review from Publisher's Weekly!
- THE HIGHLANDER'S HEART received a glowing review from Publisher's Weekly. Check it out!
- The next book in the Highlander series, TRUE HIGHLAND SPIRIT will be released March of 2012.
- Come join me for the launch of THE HIGHLANDER'S HEART at the Emerald City Writer's Conference bookfair held at 4:30pm on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Westin Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.


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What the People of the Book Can't Read
A look at Israel's (literally) byzantine press rules
All over the world, newspapers today are reporting about Prisoner X, an alleged Mossad agent gone rogue, who had hung himself in 2010 in a maximum security Israeli prison.
Israelis, however, woke up to the news that there's news their newspapers can't report. Here's what Ha'aretz (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/prime-minister-s-office-calls-emergency-meeting-with-heads-of-israeli-media-outlets.premium-1.503095) had to say, in a brief piece written by its editor in chief, Aluf Benn:
"The Prime Minister's Office called on Tuesday an emergency meeting of the Israeli Editors Committee, an informal forum comprised of the editors and owners of major Israeli media outlets, to ask its members to cooperate with the government and withhold publication of information pertaining to an incident that is very embarrassing to a certain government agency."
While there's very little we know about the affair, the Israeli government's censorship decree reveals two troubling truths.
The first has to do with the strict limitations still placed on Israel's press. In 1933, in an attempt to control the rowdy Jewish and Arab newspapers in Palestine, the British Mandate authorities issued a set of directives aimed to curb the local media's independence. Most punishing among them was the requirement to obtain a license from the authorities prior to establishing a new newspaper, but other ordinances were equally as limiting—the directives, for example, give the Mandate's High Commissioner the right to stop the publication of any newspaper on any grounds and without warning. With the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, the same directives were kept in place, with the High Commissioner's authority now transferred to Israel's Minister of the Interior. Throughout the years, successive Israeli governments have used the powers awarded them by the directives to stop the publication, including, most notably, the repeated closing, in the 1950s, of the Israeli Communist Party's official paper. Despite repeated attempts to strike these directives off the law books, they remain the law of the land.
In addition to the directives, and to a robust office of military censorship, the editors of Israel's newspapers banded together as early as 1942 to form the Editors Committee, an ersatz regulatory body that, more often than not, bowed down to the government's requests and voluntarily refrained from publishing embarrassing stories. Before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, for example, numerous Israeli newspaper editors had concrete information about Egyptian and Syrian military maneuvers, but suppressed the story to avoid conflict with the government and the army, both of which were largely certain than an Arab attack was unlikely.
With a culture of self-suppression still strong among Israeli journalists, and with decidedly anti-democratic measures, unheard of in western democracies, still firmly in place, Israel's press is far less free than it ought to be. The case of Prisoner X, as the Australian citizen is being called in the international media, proves that point all too well.
There is, however, one more troubling side to this story: for all of its chest-thumping and pride in being the Start-Up Nation, Israel is showing a shocking ignorance of just how modern technology works. As soon as they caught whiff of the suppressed story, Israelis simply whipped out their cell phones, did some basic googling, and then shared everything that they've learnt on Facebook and on Twitter. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg et al are not members of the Editors Committee; the Start-Up Nation should finally realize that.
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14 May 2015 2:53 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch is naked and afraid in a brand new trailer for Search Party.
Middleditch reunites with Silicon Valley co-star Tj Miller in the new comedy from Old School writer Scot Armstrong.
Middleditch stars in Search Party as Nardo, whose ruined wedding ceremony causes a spiral of bizarre events as he desperately tries to win back his fiancée.
Nardo ends up on the run from Mexican drug-runners, while his two best friends (Adam Pally and Miller) have to stave off femme fatales and organ thieves to save him.
Along the way, they encounter stars like Alison Brie (Community), Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad), Lance Reddick (The Wire), Jason Mantzoukas (The League) and Jb Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm).
Search Party opens on May 29 in the UK. A Us release date has not yet been set. »
11 May 2015 6:46 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
If you were wondering why we haven't seen the next Old School/Hangover clone yet, well, wonder no more! From the aformentioned writer of those two films, Scot Armstrong, comes the trailer for his directorial debut that looks to take the ingredients of those films and throw 'em in a blender. Search Party follows a pair of friends who must embark on a mission to reunite their pal with the woman he was going to marry. The only issue is that this friend has been kidnapped in »
- Sean Wist
26 March 2015 11:31 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Some comedians burn brightly then fade away. Surfing a hit TV series or breakout supporting role to a movie lead, sometimes even a hit one, they can become overexposed, or have too many flops, and find themselves returning to relative obscurity or more modest creative pursuits. Will Ferrell is not one of those people. 2015 marks twenty years since he first appeared on "Saturday Night Live," on which he quickly became one of the most valuable players. Twelve years since he became a fully-flung movie star with "Old School" and "Elf," and Ferrell still remains one of the most in-demand comic names around. Sure, there have been misfires and flops along the way (this week's "Get Hard" being one of them, at least according to our review), but his success rate has remained higher than most. Even in his worst films, or in his briefest appearances in other people's films, »
- The Playlist Staff
23 March 2015 5:28 AM, PDT | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
While we all loved Will Ferrell in Old School, the former Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother showed his serious side when asked what he thought about the college social clubs.
Recently, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma was disbanded when members were caught on tape singing, "There will never be a n****r Sae." Since the release of the video, students at Sae chapters outside Oklahoma University have also come forward saying they too have heard the song on their campuses.
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"The incident in Oklahoma, that is a real argument for getting rid of the system altogether, in my opinion, even having been through a fraternity," Ferrell, 47, answered when asked during a New York Times Q&A in Austin, TX what he thought of college fraternities.
"Because when you break it down, it really is about creating cliques and clubs and being »
20 March 2015 12:00 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
In a competitive situation, Showtime has landed Dice, a single-camera scripted comedy starring controversial actor-comedian Andrew Dice Clay, with a six-episode straight-to-series order. Created and written by Scot Armstrong (Old School, The Hangover Part II), Dice, from Fox 21 TV Studios, chronicles "the semi-true stories of Andrew Dice Clay, one of the most polarizing men on the planet." It follows the comedian as he works in Las Vegas to resurrect his career while… »
20 March 2015 12:00 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Hickory dickory dock, Showtime is giving Dice a shot.
Andrew Dice Clay, the chain-smoking, R-rated comedian who gained notoriety in the 1990s, will headline a scripted series loosely based on his life, the premium cabler announced Friday.
Dice, a half-hour single-camera comedy, will follow the abrasive stand-up "as he works in Vegas to resurrect his career while supporting his family. And his girlfriend. And his ex-fiancée. And his ex-wife. And his mother-in-law. And his son's band," per the series official logline.
Video Happyish: Showtime Series' Trailer Has Harsh Words for a Founding Father
Scot Armstrong (Old School, Playing House) created and wrote the series, »
14 March 2015 9:55 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To celebrate the release of The Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, on Monday 16th March, we've got 3 copies to giveaway on DVD and an exclusive outtakes clip!
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment present two of the best comedy-drama actors around as they take on the story about two estranged siblings who are reunited after ten years apart. Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, The Skeleton Twins was directed by Craig Johnson (True Adolescents), written by Johnson and Mark Heyman (Black Swan), and co-stars Luke Wilson (Old School), Ty Burrell (TV's "Modern Family"), Boyd Holbrook (Gone Girl) and Joanna Gleason (Last Vegas).
The DVD also features a whole host of extras which includes a Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Craig Johnson, "To Whom it May Concern: Making The Skeleton Twins" Featurette, "Sweet Moves" Featurette, a load of audio commentary and this exclusive outtake clip, »
- Dan Bullock
9 March 2015 9:59 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Will Ferrell has no problem going the extra mile for a joke. Whether it.s streaking in Old School or climbing into a bear pit for Anchorman, Ferrell frequently pushes the envelope if it means he.s going to get the biggest laugh. As we prepare for his next feature, Get Hard, however, Ferrell wants us to know that we haven.t seen anything yet. We recently ventured down to New Orleans to watch Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart on the set of Get Hard. And without giving away any of the film's best jokes, we witnessed Ferrell with a knife In his skull . while later, Hart revealed that the duo would be sharing a scene with a baboon. Those shots, however, have nothing on a scene that Ferrell said they are saving for the final day of the shoot. because he might have chickened out if they tried to »
8 March 2015 10:00 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
I'm on the set of "Get Hard," and Kevin Hart is cracking himself up. Some context is in order. Hart, Will Ferrell, actress Edwina Finley (as Hart's wife) and Ariana Neal (as Hart's young daughter) are sitting around a table on a New Orleans soundstage. It's a dinner scene. Ferrell's character James, a business executive wrongfully convicted of tax evasion, has hired Hart's character Darnell to prep him for prison under the assumption that the car wash owner has served time. There's just one problem: Darnell hasn't been behind bars a day in his life. In this scene, he's forced to concoct a story about his criminal past after James puts him on the spot during dinner. And by "concoct," I mean "pass off a scene from the movie 'Boyz N the Hood' as an episode from his own life." "Rickaaaaay! Rickaaaaay!" Hart screams near the tail end of his monologue. »
- Chris Eggertsen
6 March 2015 9:24 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Flickering Myth chats with Vince Vaughn…
Vince Vaughn leads an all-star cast as the boss of a small company desperately trying to secure a make or break contract in Ken Scott's cutting edge, R rated comedy Unfinished Business.
Frustrated with in fighting and office politics, Dan Trunkman quits his secure job to launch his own company with just two associates – the naïve, inexperienced Mike (Dave Franco) and the world weary Tim (Tom Wilkinson) who is nearing retirement. But the new venture is struggling to survive in a harsh economic climate and Dan and his colleagues need to win a lucrative deal with a large, European owned corporation to keep afloat.At first Dan is convinced that the deal is done and heads to Portland, Oregon, confident that it's in the bag. But once there, he discovers that his old employers, represented by his former boss, Chuck Fortnoy (Sienna Miller »
- Luke Owen
5 March 2015 1:30 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Director: Ken Scott; Screenwriter: Steve Conrad; Starring: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, Sienna Miller, June Diane Raphael, Nick Frost, James Marsden; Running time: 91 mins; Certificate: 15
Vince Vaughn's desperate need for a career recharge hits a critical point with his latest comedy Unfinished Business, a story of three down-and-out salesmen who form their own company and head to Europe in a bid to close a deal ahead of a competitor.
The film aims to harness the spirit of Vaughn's best comedies from a decade ago,Old School and Dodgeball (a Vaughn-led band of misfits triumph over adversity), but this is a mere shadow of those films, painfully lacking in laughs or any characters that leave a lasting impression. The True Detective-inspired Vaughnaissance can't get here fast enough.
Lending support are Tom Wilkinson as a divorced sixtysomething desperate to get his mojo back and Dave Franco as a dimwitted ex-Foot Locker employee whose name, »
4 March 2015 10:00 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Vince Vaughn moved to Hollywood at age 18, straight out of high school. And, like many starry-eyed aspiring actors, one of his first stops was Grauman's Chinese Theatre to see where famous stars like Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe had encased their hands and feet in cement.
More than 25 years later, much has changed. It's now called the Tcl Chinese Theatre. Many other actors have been added from Jennifer Aniston to Tom Cruise. And Vaughn has gone from struggling actor to bonafide movie star, with hits like "The Lost World," "Wedding Crashers" and "Old School" on his resume. His latest comedy, "Unfinished Business," hits theaters March 6.
So when Vaughn was told the theater wanted to encase his hands and feet in cement in the forecourt on March 4, he was thrilled.
"Getting the letter asking me, I thought about growing up and being a fan of all those folks," he says. »
- Jenelle Riley
4 March 2015 6:00 AM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
In the years since he strutted onto the scene — lean, handsome, mouth running a mile a minute — in Doug Liman's Swingers (1996), Vince Vaughn has become one of the poster boys for the mainstream American comedy: from romantic (The Break-Up) to bromantic (Old School), pretty good (Wedding Crashers) to very bad (Fred Claus) to frankly unnecessary (Delivery Man). His new film, Unfinished Business, falls into that last sub-category — perhaps not coincidentally, as it, too, has been directed by Ken Scott (Delivery Man was Scott's remake of his own homegrown Quebecois hit, Starbuck). A guys-gone-
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- Jon Frosch
6 February 2015 7:09 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
With an all-star cast that includes Chris Evans (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Michelle Monaghan (Due Date) and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Playing It Cool is an offbeat romantic comedy from debut feature director Justin Reardon and is described as Swingers meets 500 Days of Summer.
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Playing it Cool is this generation's 'Swingers' meets '500 Days of Summer', a fresh and quirky story of a slight pretentious man, our 'narrator' (Evans), who falls for an unlikely girl, 'her' (Monaghan), and will stop at nothing to get her even after realizing she is already in a relationship. Like a young 'Walter Mitty', it tells the story of a quarter-life crisis amidst figuring out who you are and what your destiny holds.
Playing it Cool is available on VOD on March 1st 2015 and also features in the cast Anthony Mackie (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3 »
- Luke Owen
2 February 2015 6:00 AM, PST | TooFab | See recent TooFab news »
It was the lip sync battle to end all lip sync battles!Jimmy Fallon took on Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart during "The Tonight Show's" Super Bowl special -- and it was the best one yet! See All the Explosive Super Bowl Movie TrailersThe "Old School" star performed Beyonce's "Drunk in Love," bringing down the house by adding Bey's trademark moves. As the late night host put it, "You can't unsee that." Hart later brought his "Get Hard" costar to tears when he lip synced John Legend's ballad "All of Me."Britney Spears Had an Epic Reunion at the Super Bowl Meanwhile, Fallon did a rendition of Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone," but surprised everyone when he had Drew Barrymore join him to help lip sync the "Dirty Dancing" hit "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes.The best part? »
- tooFab Staff
29 January 2015 3:41 PM, PST | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Every parent's worst nightmare could soon become a reality on NBC.
The network has ordered a pilot based on the 1990 John Ritter movie Problem Child, which chronicles the "cat-and-mouse game" between a loving couple and their hellish (see photo) son.
Problem Child is being written by Scot Armstrong (Old School), who will executive-produce alongside Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Robert Simonds and Brian Grazer.
Your thoughts on Problem Child? Any casting suggestions? Drop 'em all in the comments section below.
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NBC has given a pilot order to "Problem Child" from Scot Armstrong, Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Robert Simonds and Brian Grazer.
The 30-minute single-cam family comedy, inspired by the original 1990 film, in which the late John Ritter starred, follows the cat-and-mouse game between a brilliant yet mischievous child and his parents.
The pickup marks NBC's 11th comedy in contention for the 2015-16 cycle, and the net's second of the day. "Cuckoo," based on the British series starring Andy Samberg, was also ordered to pilot Thursday.
Armstrong, who wrote the screenplay for "The Hangover Part II" and worked on "Old School" and "Road Trip," will exec produce, alongside Brian Grazer ("24″), Simonds ("State of Affairs"), Traugott and Kaplan, who worked on "Manhattan Love Story" together. Armstrong will pen the pilot. Universal TV, Tbd Entertainment, Imagine TV and Stx Entertainment will produce.
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NBC is moving ahead with its Problem Child reboot. The network on Thursday handed out a pilot order to the comedy inspired by the 1990 John Ritter film of the same name, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. From writer Scot Armstrong (The Hangover II, Old School, Road Trip), the half-hour single-camera comedy is described as a family show about the cast-and-mouse game between a set of parents and their brilliant but mischievous child. The comedy, which landed at the network in September with a script order, will be executive produced by Armstrong, Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan via their Universal Television-based Tbd
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Pilot season is currently in full swing, with NBC issuing a pilot order for Problem Child. The half-hour sitcom is based on the 1990 feature film comedy of the same name, which starred John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck and Michael Oliver as the title character. The original movie followed a couple who get conned into adopting a seemingly-normal 7-year-old boy, before learning that he leaves destruction everywhere he goes.
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Another Twin Cities comedian will be showing up on the small screen tonight. Isaac Witty is set to perform on Conan.
A longtime veteran of the local comedy scene, Witty has performed at basically every club in town, and over the past year has begun to get major attention as one-fifth of the sketch/standup comedy super group the Turkeys.
While tonight will be his first time on Conan, Witty is no stranger to TV. He's performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, as well as Thou Shalt Laugh with John Tesh (wait, John Tesh had a comedy show?).
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LinuxFest Northwest 2012: Day 0Submitted by Scott Dowdle on Sat, 2012-04-28 06:52. LFNW2012
The reason BillingsLUG members Andrew and Warren were visiting the BozemanLUG meeting was because they are going to the LinuxFest Northwest 2012 show in Bellingham, Washington along with BozemanLUG member Gary Bummer and myself. Yeah, four people for the trip this year! Last year I was all by myself.
On the road again
Warren was kind enough to drive again this year. He is a "professional" and "ninja" driver. Andrew sat next to him in the front and Gary and I sat in the back. Gary and I watched two Big Bang Theory videos on my laptop along with the HBO movie Game Change. We also listened to the most recent episode of the Sunday Morning Linux review audiocast.
Visiting Psymin and Agethol
I don't know if I spelled Agethol correctly so forgive me if not. Speaking of spell checking, Firefox 12 doesn't seem to be doing while-you-type spell checking for me so I'm sure this post will be rife with typos. :(
One of the traditions that we do on the trip to LFNW if at all possible is to visit with Seth McClain and Frank in Missoula. We meet at Seth's favorite eatery, "The Shack". Seth yet again bought everyone a bruchy meal. I had oatmeal with fruit and it was delecious. Even with the long trip we stayed and talked geek talk for about an hour and a half. It was awesome.
It was also Seth's birthday. Happy birthday Seth! You are getting old like me dude. :) Thanks for the food and sorry we didn't bring the dirt and rocks from Manhattan that you wanted as posted on Craig's List (inside joke).
Arriving in Bellingham
When driving from Montana to the Northwest coastal region, you gain an hour. We arrived in Bellingham around 7PM. We stopped at our favorite hole-in-the-wall oriental food place and all had "Spicy Chicken". While I've been trying to cut back on my animal product intake this year, I couldn't resist. I'm a wimp when it comes to spicy stuff but this wasn't too hot and was very tasty... and on Fridays you get a can of soda with each meal FREE! :)
With our full bellies we went over to the Hampton Inn and checked in. Gary and I went over to the Fox Hall (part of Hampton Inn) for the last 30 minutes of a Job Fair event that was held as part of LFNW. We weren't looking for jobs or anything and were mainly fighting bordom... but they had some fruit kabobs and some finger veggies so I snacked a little bit and didn't even feel guilty about it.
Looking forward to day 1
There are many fine presentations scheduled. The Calligra Krita folks (as mentioned in BozemanLUG April 2012 Meeting Report) really wanted there to be a Krita presentation at LFNW and I believe one guy really familiar with Blender (and giving a presenation on it as well?) volunteered to show Krita off even though he is relatively new to it. The Krita folks mailed him a copy of the promotional training video DVD with physical comicbook included to be donated as a prize at the LFNW World Famous Raffle. I'm going to buy 20 raffle tickets in hopes of winning that and I'll definitely be attending (and hopefully video recording) the Krita presentation... along with all of the other presentations I attend... with the permissions of the presenters of course.
Here are the presentations I hope to attend:
- An Intro to CrunchBang
- Software Patents: What You Can Do
- Linux Logical Volume Manager Advanced Topics
- Help us get open source used in local schools
- ownCloud - Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!
- The LFNW World Famous Raffle
- Krita - Digital graphics for real artists
- XenClient: Client-side virtualization
- Meet Fedora: The Not-So-Miraculous story of a successful community
- Teaching Linux and Linux System Administration as Distance Education Classes
Isn't that list awesome? There are quite a few other (overlapping) presentations I wish I could attend and it was hard to settle on those. I hope to blog day 1 and day 2... although there might be some lag... and I'll be posting the videos ASAP after the event to archive.org in webm format.
BozemanLUG: April Meeting ReportSubmitted by Scott Dowdle on Sat, 2012-04-28 06:08. BozemanLUG | lfnw
The April meeting went pretty well. Attendance was better because Andrew N. and Warren Sanders were visiting from the BillingsLUG. Besides me, Andrew and Warren were regulars David Eder and Gary Bummer. A new guy showed up from Belgrade named Jethro. Unfortunately I didn't catch Jethro's last name nor get a picture of him but he participated quite a bit so I'm hoping he will make it to some future meetings. He has EMT training and is currently working on a motorcycle with a blown up engine.
I talked about and showed GIMP 2.8 RC1 (as found in the Fedora 17 pre-release). I tried my best to highlight a few of the new features including of course the new Single Window mode. I briefly talked about the tentative roadmap GIMP has for the next two or three releases and mentioned the recent code sprint done by two GIMP developers that got ~ 90% of the work the project wanted to get accomplished for the next two releases (that usually take years) done in three weeks. GIMP is really a great program for editing and refining pre-existing images and I have been using it for more than 10 years... but it is obvious that GIMP still needs a number of long-time lingering feature deficiencies resolved before advanced users will be satisfied with it. They look well on the way to getting their in the next release or two.
Then I showed Calligra Krita 2.4 (again as found in Fedora 17 pre-release). I had a USB touch tablet input device (is that what you call them?) hooked up and showed off some of Krita's fancy paint brush stuff. I'm really new to Krita so I don't know what I'm doing yet... but it is so obvious how good of a program it is and I want to learn more. Just by doing some goofing around with the touch tablet it was clear that the quality of what you can create with Krita closely approximates what you can do with real paper, pencils, paints, etc. If I were had more artistic talents I think I'd be spending hours and hours with Krita just experimenting.
For about 10 years of my youth I collected comicbooks (Marvel, DC, and many independents like Cerebus) and one of Krita's use cases is in comicbook creation. Krita really excells in creating new artwork as opposed to working with pre-existing images and to help raise funds for future development one of the Krita developers has put together a series of 1080p webm videos on data DVD that show the creation of a color comicbook from start to finish. I hope to purchase that DVD (all content under a Creative Commons license) in the near future. I don't know if I'll actually get into creating a comicbook of my own but I can dream, can't I?
Fedora Artwork?
Speaking of art, some fine folks at the Fedora Project answered my plea for old Fedora branded install media and shipped me 19 lbs of old CDs/DVDs. Why would I want those? I like to decorate the walls at work (Computer Science Department at Montana State University Bozeman) with discs. With the help of everyone at the meeting, we used the optical media to create a new "artwork" for a previously blank and boring strech of wall in the main undergraduate computer lab (EPS 254). We did it very quickly and it still needs a little fine tuning, but the end result doesn't look too bad. We got a quick picture (thanks Andrew) but I'll probably post some better pictures when I get it fine tuned. I think the letter a at the end needs to be skooted to the left a little. Darn kerning.
Thanks for the help guys and hope to see some of you next month!
No Machine's NX 4 Preview 6Submitted by Scott Dowdle on Fri, 2012-04-06 20:49. remote display protocols
I downloaded the No Machine's NX 4 Preview 6 packages. They have server builds for Linux, Windows, and Mac. So far, I've only tried the Linux version but I hope to try the others soon.
So, what do I think? It is *AMAZING*. No really. I installed it on my work desktop and connected to it from my laptop at home over wireless. I adjusted the display quality down a bit because the combination of the bandwidth at work and the latency of my DSL connection at home are pretty bad. By the way, I connected to my pre-existing X11 desktop session and was able to share it. While the connection to my work desktop was rather grainy, it was VERY USABLE. I was able to watch video... and I'm even writing this blog post while I'm listening to a video... all running on the remote machine.
To really test it out, I opened up the spicec client on my remote work desktop and connected to a remote KVM virtual machine via the SPICE protocol and everything worked including sound with good A/V sync. What is amazing about this is that I've never been able to connect to a work machine via SPICE from home but NX allowed me to and it worked well even though I was running a remote display inside of a remote display.
All I can say is that this is the best remote session experience I've ever had with any protocol. This NX 4 Preview 6 works better and is more dynamically configurable than anything I've ever seen. If I'm able to stream a Windows desktop and a Mac Desktop with the same quality, in my opinion, NX is the protocol of the future... hands down.
Please forgive me for being so positive and optimistic... yeah, I've only been using it for about 30 minutes now... but wow... really... wow.
BTW, they have totally redone the user interface of the NXplayer application and it is much easier to use. Give it try for yourself. To clarify, this is definitely a preview release and there are some bugs, but what I've seen thus far has greatly impressed me.
Remote Display Protocols in AbundanceSubmitted by Scott Dowdle on Fri, 2012-03-23 12:35. remote display protocols | xrdp
Over the years I've used a number remote display products.
The first one I recall using was Virtual Network Computing aka VNC in 1998. VNC is free software and has been incorporated, forked and enhanced by a number of companies and projects. While VNC works rather well over a medium to high speed LAN, it can be a bit slow over slower connections. That is because VNC isn't a completely vector-based protocol and still uses mostly bitmaps... or at least that is my understanding. One good thing about VNC though is that both the client and the server are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux... and a few other things as well.
Let's examine a few alternatives.
Tales of Enterprise Linux Major Version UpgradingSubmitted by Scott Dowdle on Wed, 2012-02-15 17:41. CentOS | OpenVZ | Scientific Linux
In the last post I mentioned that I migrated from CentOS 4.9 to Scientific 6.1... and that certain aspects of this Drupal 4.7.x site were broken because of an incompatibility with PHP 5.3.x.
Downgrading a distro
Well, I decided to move from Scientific Linux 6.1 to Scientific Linux 5.7. EL5 offers both PHP 5.1.x and PHP 5.3.x and Red Hat announced a few weeks ago that they are extending the support lifecycle of both RHEL5 and RHEL6 from 7 years to 10 years. Migrating back to EL5 fixes the issues (knock on wood) that I was having with Drupal... but yet I can easily move to PHP 5.3.x at some point in the future if I so desire.
Doing EL major version upgrades
Two friends of mine happened to have CentOS 4.9 OpenVZ containers as well. They also run a number of services I'm less familiar with and weren't really versed enough with Linux to migrate their data like I did. In an effort to help them out, I looked into how to upgrade from EL4 to EL5. That really IS NOT supported or recommended but I thought I'd give it a try and see how it went. If it failed, I'd roll back to the original system. If it succeeded I'd keep it. After much work I *THINK* I figured it out. At least it worked for me in the particular situation I was dealing with. I started off with a page on the CentOS wiki about Upgrading from 4.4 to 5. I did not do a boot media based upgrade (I'm working with containers) so I did it strictly with rpm and yum.
I followed the instructions but they were written some time ago and were a bit outdated. So the first container I did took the longest because I was finding my way. Basically this happens in a few steps.
- Install the EL5 repos
- Manually download the core packages recommended and install them.
- Hopefully when you are done rpm is still working. If yum is broken, manually install a few more packages to make it work.
- With a working yum, upgrade everything else
- Turn off any new services that happen to be on by default that you don't want
- Find any stray packages left over from the previous release
- Fix your service configs by comparing your original service configs with the new ones
Read on to find out more of the nitty gritty details.
Site Upgrade - About timeSubmitted by Scott Dowdle on Sun, 2012-01-29 12:46. MontanaLinux
Warren Sanders put together a newer server to host this domain on. The system we were using was put together about 5 years ago. When we originally set it up, it was running CentOS 4.0. It was upgraded with each CentOS update and worked its way all the way up to CentOS 4.9. Anyone using RHEL 4.x or a clone can tell you that it is rather old in the tooth. For example it uses PHP 4.x.
A few weeks ago, I migrated all of our OpenVZ containers to the new system. The host node is running Scientific Linux 6.x. The containers continued to run CentOS 4.x Today I decided to make a new container and migrate all of the accounts and data to the new system. I basically went from CentOS 4.9 i386 to Scientific Linux 6.1 x86_64. The migration went pretty smoothly. My wife has a couple of Drupal 6-based sites and they just worked. I have a few Drupal 4.7.x based sites (which includes this one) and there were some issues. The main problem is that the Drupal 4 series is no longer supported / updated... and there are a number of known issues with Drupal 4.7.x and PHP 5.3. Going from PHP 4.x to 5.3.x is indeed a big jump. I also tried using the binary files for MySQL but ran into problems and ended up using mysqldump to export everything to an .sql file and then importing it. I don't know if the issues I ran into were caused by the big jump in MySQL versions or simply because I switched from 32-bit to 64-bit.
Any any event, with my testing and a little bit of php source code editing, this site is back in operation. It took me a couple of hours and there are still a few issues. What issues are those? Well, there will be no new account registrations and existing users can't edit their account information. Other than that, everything seems to work well enough.
I eventually plan on creating a new, Drupal 7-based site. I think trying to upgrade from the existing version through 5, then 6 and finally to 7... would be very problematic... unless there is someone out there who has done it. Problems with upgrading are what have held this site back at Drupal 4. Also being on CentOS 4.9, it was impossible to use Drupal 7 because it requires PHP 5.3.x at a minimum. I'm not really sure how I'm going to go about it... run both the old site and the new site... and manually copy and paste content between them? Or maybe I'll just run the old site in read-only type mode... and just use the new site for new content only. We'll see how it goes. I don't currently have a timeframe for when I'll set up the new site... so my guess is that this site will limp along for a while yet. Just wanted to let everyone know about the big change made today.
Screencast: Virtualization Basic IntroductionSubmitted by Scott Dowdle on Fri, 2012-01-27 17:33. screencast | video | Virtualization
I was asked to put together a presentation on Virtualization... and wasn't quite sure what the audience would want... so I put together a basic introduction that I can easily improvise on as the audience asks questions.
I designed the slides using Prezi which is a freemium web-based presentation site. It has lots of motion so watch out... but I did keep it rather simple - no pictures nor embedded videos. :)
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Videos: Linux.conf.au 2012Submitted by Scott Dowdle on Fri, 2012-01-27 12:42. bruce perens | linux.conf.au 2012 | vidoes
Bruce Perens was one of the keynote speakers at the 2012 Linux.conf.au conference held in Ballarat, Australia January 16-20, 2012. I really enjoyed his presentation so I'm sharing it below. The linux.conf.au folks have posted videos for all of their presentations to their YouTube channel. I downloaded all of them and posted them to an archive.org LCA2012 page. They are also available in ogg format.
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Video: OLPC Tablet reports from CESSubmitted by Scott Dowdle on Mon, 2012-01-09 10:58. OLPC | videos
The eagle has landed.
Other videos:
Techcrunch Live at CES - Unveiled talks to Ed McNierney about the XO 3.0 tablet
Engadget - OLPC's XO 3.0 tablet hands-on
The Verge - OLPC XO 3.0 tablet preview
Gizmodo - OLPC XO 3.0 Hands On: The $100 Wonder Tablet
OLPC TV - OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012
OLPC News: The OLPC Tablet at CES?Submitted by Scott Dowdle on Sat, 2012-01-07 09:32. OLPC
It seems that the upcoming OLPC XO 3 Tablet is getting some buzz right before its debut next week at CES. It is said to be an 8" tablet that may come in a few models. Information about it is currently very sketchy but supposedly some will be revealed next week. I am NOT posting any of the early concept pictures because they are dated and I'm fairly sure the real thing looks quite different... since it is designed to be very rugged for children. Here are some external links to get you in the mood:
COMPUTERWORLD - OLPC's XO-3 tablet to debut at CES
ELECTRONISTA - OLPC XO 3.0 tablet to show at CES with Android, Sugar
ENGADGET - OLPC outs XO 3.0 tablet at last, will make its debut at CES
GIZMODO - The $100 OLPC Tablet Is Really Real and Debuting at CES
OLPC News - What Will OLPC Show at CES 2012 Next Week?
OFFICIAL OLPC WIKI - XO-3 Tablet Alpha test model
There is a lot of repeating of the same speculation (echo chamber) and even some misinformation... but at least there appears to be some interest. For one thing the XO 1.75 is NOT out yet (March 2012?). They are keeping the Pixel Qi screen layer that gives it an eInk display mode just like in all previous OLPCs... but probably not in the $100 model. I think both Amazon and Barnes & Noble really missed the boat when they DID NOT but the Pixel Qi eInk layer in the displays of their Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet products. An eInk display mode in a color display from book sellers would have been a no-brainer. Who would of thought the OLPC project would have remained innovative with a 5 year old feature they pioneered?
I have to wonder if the OLPC folks have finalized the design and all of the models they plan to offer and what features they will have. I doubt it because the alpha board appears to have arrived about a month ago and they said they have more shrinking to do and a few more features to add... although it is currently half the size of the XO 1.75 board. The $100 model will almost certainly sacrifice some features because they can not sell them at a loss and make up the difference with "content sales" like the commercial vendors.
Is the $100 entry-level price hard to believe? Not really. The upcoming $25 / $35 Raspberry Pi devices (not shipping yet but probably within a month) have shown that modern SoC designs can actually be inexpensive. The OLPC XO-3 Tablet will have more hardware features than the Raspbery Pi including the not-cheap display, camera, wifi and battery (although no wired network port).
While the low price points are definitely achievements, there are three factors that make such pricing possible:
- Both OLPC and Raspberry Pi are non-profits
- Both are using completely free (speech and beer) software
- Both are aimed at the education market
One big difference though is that the OLPC project remains focused on only selling in bulk directly to governments and school systems whereas the Raspberry Pi is targeting single-unit direct-sales to the public.
Update: I found some images of the real external design. It is supposedly going to be shown early (Sunday night). The images look real and to the best of my knowledge, they are... and some ports are visible. Note that the thickness is what you'd expect in a rugged device... and is very reminiscent of the display-half of the current OLPC models. Since the existing OLPC models ALREADY had all of the guts behind the display (with the exception of the battery), this is definitely what I was expecting... but the lids are a surprising twist, eh?
By the way, a package showed up in my mailbox yesterday... a long lost OLPC XO 1.5. I just updated it to the latest stable software release and will be revisiting it since I haven't gotten much time with a 1.5. It will be available in the OPLC Lending Library RSN.


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Fill a 12-ounce glass three-fourths full with ice cubes. Add vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer and gently stir.
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The selected CTMM projects focus on molecular medicine that aims to understand how diseases develop at the molecular and cellular level. Many of these projects are seeking to identify so-called 'biomarkers', such as abnormal proteins in the blood, that often appear long before the patient develops symptoms. Molecular medicine therefore has the potential to allow diagnosis and treatment at a much earlier stage than symptom-based diagnosis. Because treating disease in its early stages generally requires less aggressive interventions, this approach may lead to fewer side effects, better patient outcomes and more effective use of healthcare resources.
In the fall of 2008 CTMM will organise a second call for project proposals.
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The CTMM (Center for Translational Molecular Medicine) is a Netherlands-based public-private partnership dedicated to the development of technologies in molecular medicine that enable early diagnosis and personalized treatment for oncology, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and infectious disease - the four main areas of disease causing mortality and diminished quality of life in the western world. CTMM operates by inviting, assessing and funding multidisciplinary projects that involve active participation by Netherlands-based academia and industry. All CTMM projects are judged by an independent International Advisory Board and approved by a Supervisory Board based on their significant potential to translate research knowledge into clinical practice. The CTMM is funded by the Dutch government (50%), academia (25%) and industry (25%). For more information, visit http://www.ctmm.nl
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There are few places left in the world like TLV. My great-grandmother came here in the 40s and 50s, and my parents took us here in the 70s. When my kids were born, we began vacationing again at TLV in the 2000s. Not much has changed, thankfully, except for the addition of WiFi in the hotel common areas and hummus... More
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This week's winner is Joshua Muss, who reflected on ptcha in the comments of Grace Bello's elegy for this delicacy of questionable taste:
Back in the '40s my mother made it for dinner and my sister and I were so revolted by its look and taste we ate only a mouthful. Mother put the leftover in the refrigerator, a unrebutable sign to us that it was sure to reappear soon. The next day a stray dog followed my sister and me home from school. We seized on the opportunity to get rid of the ptcha and put it out for the dog. Though hungry, he refused to eat it. We knew that this was a dog of impeccable taste and manners and so we adopted him. He was a great dog, whose only misdeed was to eat our father's portion of chopped liver that had been plated on the table in anticipation on our return from Friday night services.
Ah Rex, we miss you.
Joshua gets David Mamet's The Wicked Son, because you should always eat what your mother makes you!
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If you are intrigued by the Linux world, there is no better time than now to get in on the action. There has never been so much support, or a wide variety of distros to choose from. One of the most popular distros in recent years have been SuSE, due to it's ease of use.
KDE has always been my favorite Linux desktop environment, so I tend to stick with it with each new distro install. The SuSE desktop never changes too much from version to version, though the desktop wallpaper is always a nice treat. You will first be greeted with a welcome screen offering you to register the product. This will entitle you to the professional support.
The main problem with buying a retail version of Linux is that by the time you get it installed, many components will already have newer versions. KDE 3.5.1 is the version bundled with 10.1, while the latest version is 3.5.3. For most users this will not matter in the least, but for a power user it will only take a few steps to update.
Firefox began being bundled with SuSE ever since 9.3, and 220.127.116.11 is the version included here. Luckily, Firefox has a built in update feature, so updating to the latest version is not a problem.
Oddly though, even though my internet worked through the installation, it did not once I hit the desktop. During the installation, I -had- to manually input my IP address in order for the online update to function, even though my connection supports DHCP. When I hit the desktop though, I could not manually specify the IP address, but rather had to let DHCP do it for me. It's almost like SuSE didn't know what it preferred.
I have to wonder why SuSE doesn't automatically install an NVIDIA driver for you, when it knows you have an NVIDIA card. As you can see in the Xorg configuration, the 'nv' driver has been specified. This doesn't do much for you in terms of 3D acceleration though, so you must download a new driver manually. In SuSE 9.3, an NVIDIA driver was included in the YaST update but that's not the case any longer. I am unsure of why this is, but it was convenient.


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In one of the most thrilling volleyball games ever played at Cougar Gym, one in which every point was fought and clawed for, the Edmonson County Lady Cats beat Grayson County's Lady Cougars in a back-and-forth, five-set match, 3-2 (13-25, 25-18, 19-25, 25-21, 16-14) in the opening round of the 12th District Tournament.
The loss ended the season for the Lady Cougars. Finishing with a fine 16-12 record, the young Lady Cougars will lose just two starters next season, Kelsey Embry and Machala Perkins, and should be strong in the future. Edmonson County improved to 20-10 for the season and will face the winner of Whitesville Trinity and Butler County on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Cougar Gym.
The Lady Cougars came out absolutely fired up at the start of the match and never trailed in the first set. Two aces from Katlynn Bratcher and some Edmonson mistakes on a volley allowed them to grab an early 5-1 lead.
Grayson County pushed the lead to five points at 7-2, but the Lady Cats kept fighting back, pulling to within a point of the lead at 10-9 following an ace by Mikayla Lindsey.
But the Lady Cougars went on a 9-1 run that saw them grab their largest lead to that point, 19-10. Perkins and Shelbi Arnold both had kills in the run and Ciarra Meredith added an ace.
Shelby Watkins took the serve with Grayson County leading 23-13 and a hitting error by Ariel Hodge brought it to set-point, 24-13. The Lady Cougars then won a duel at the net to take the first set.
With the second set tied at 4-4, the Lady Cats got a kill from Hodge and two aces from Courtney Hymer to take the lead for good at 7-4. The Lady Cougars stayed within three or four points until Hymer took the serve again with her team on top 16-12. Two more aces and some Lady Cougar mistakes put the Lady Cats up by eight 20-12
Grayson County got as close as six points three times, but the Lady Cats put away a kill on set-point to even the match at one set apiece.
The third set was all about the Lady Cougars. They trailed 1-3 in the early going, but 10 straight points put them in front to stay at 11-3. Sophomore Bailey Martin was on fire hitting during the run, putting away five kills. Bratcher was also a big contributor as she served three aces
Edmonson County would not quit, and twice closed to within three of the lead, 18-15 and 20-17, but the Lady Cougars held on. Freshman Miranda Boaz served an ace on set-point to give Grayson County a 2-1 lead.
The Lady Cougars raced out to a five-point lead, 9-5, in the fourth set looking to close out an upset of the number-two seeded Lady Cats, but the visitors fought back. Five straight points, including two aces from Mary Chris Waddell gave them an 18-15 lead and they would not trail again.
Grayson County staved off one set-point at 20-24, but with Meredith serving at 21-24, the Lady Cougars let a set-ball fall untouched, allowing the Lady Cats to tie things at two-sets apiece and setting up the 15-point final set.
The Lady Cats took an early 5-2 lead following a kill by Hodge and an ace by Hymer, but the Lady Cougars knotted things at 6-6 following a 4-1 run.
Neither team would lead by more than a point until the Lady Cougars took a 12-10 lead following an Edmonson error. The Lady Cats tied it at 12-12, but the Lady Cougars responded with two more to give them a match-point at 14-12.
Then came a call which decided the match in favor of Edmonson County. Hodge sent a cross court kill attempt that appeared to be wide, but the line judge called it in despite vehement protests from the Cougar sideline.
The call stood and the Lady Cats took the serve trailing by just one, 14-13. Hodge came up with another kill off the Cougar block to tie things at 14-14. Hymer followed with another ace to give her team their first match-point, and when Martin put her next kill attempt into the net, the Lady Cats celebrated their win.


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"It's good in terms of numbers and it's bad in terms of trying to choose teams. It's great for the program ... I guess for most schools it would be a good problem to have."
"Don't wait until everyone knows who you are. To start making a change in the world, but start making a change in the world before anyone knows who you are. If you can love and help every person you meet before the whole world knows who you are ,then I guess by the time when the whole world knows who you are. We would be living in one love."
"It's difficult for the state to say we choose Nags Head to fund for beach nourishment with out some kind of parameters to measure the benefit that they're getting for their dollars. Almost every beach in the state is asking for beach nourishment funds."
"You determined where you are now. And, you will determine where you will be tomorrow. You get to choose where you will live your life."


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From a neighborhood school to an orphanage half a world away, Pacific's School of Occupational Therapy puts community partnerships at the forefront of student learning.
Elder care: New online gerontology certificate program helps healthcare providers serve aging population
In December, Pacific conferred its first gerontology certificates to a class of interdisciplinary health professionals. Pacific's first online-only program, the gerontology certification is a spin-off of the School of Occupational Therapy and seeks to improve elder care.
Girls Only!
Girls Gather for Computer Science (G2CS) is a National Science Foundation grant-funded summer camp at Pacific University, giving teen girls high tech experiences in computer science.
P.J. Saves the World
P.J. Pitts, a member of Pacific University's first pharmacy class in 2009, has spent more than two years working on recovery and relief efforts in Haiti.
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Disaster in Japan
Pacific's connection
A tragedy across the ocean touches and inspires the Pacific community.
Norihiro Mizukami '07
'That tragic scene of the tsunami always reminds me I'm lucky to be alive.'
Angelica Rockquemore '10
Resilience, determination reveal beauty in the wake of disaster
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The Comedy In Fifty Shades of Grey
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Among the most sublime cinematic treatments of that sector of the service industry politely referred to as "bar hostesses," When a Woman iswith the possible exception of its thematically contiguous cousin, the 1954 graying-geisha drama Late Chrysanthemums the one bit of the Naruse catechism film-loving lay folk are likely to know; it's the "Now I lay me down to sleep" of the director's 90-features-long and still-too-little-known career. Tempting though it might be to describe Film Forum's 31-film retrospectiveflush with rubbed-raw riches from the silent 1933 boy-meets-geisha romance Apart From You to the Sirk-saturated colors of his 1967 career capper, Scattered Cloudsas tantamount to the miracle of resurrection, the reality is that Naruse has so long been locked in the "ripe for rediscovery" position that it's come to seem an integral aspect of his historically sanctioned rigor state. Born in 1905, Narusefrom his career origins as the Shochiku Studios stablemate of Yasujiro Ozu through his 30-year tenure at Toho and brief taste of independence before his death in 1969has always been thought of as an acquired and easily spoiled taste. Even acknowledged masterworks, like 1934's Wife, Be Like a Rose and 1954's Floating Clouds, were deemed flashes in the decades of darkness he spent (apparently with some contentment) in popular and critical disregard.
According to film historian Audie Bock, Naruse spent much of his life living alone, dining on the cheap, and sharing his thoughts only with waitresses and bottles of booze: He saw "living with people as a terribly difficult thing even before he tried it." This attitude extended to his treatment of his actors and his characters. Tatsuya Nakadai, who had a reputation for delivering precisely what directors requested, deplored Naruse's "nihilism" and disinterest in guiding performances. Hideko Takamine, who starred in 15 Naruse films, once summoned the courage to ask him how she should approach a role: "It'll be over before you know it," came his chastening response. Hardly surprising, then, was the recurrent centrality of caddish men like Masayuki Mori's arrogant philanderer in Floating Clouds or emotionally constricted women like Haruko Sugimura's aging, childless clutch purse in Late Chrysanthemums. Even Naruse's fans share in their auteur's alienations, leading critic Phillip Lopate to note that "Fellow Naruseans do not fall into each other's arms but are testy, as though irritated at meeting another keeper of the flame."
It's possible that the director would have taken some perverse pleasure in his consignment to fate's shadow realm, so suffused were his tormented melodramas with a sense of emotional exile. But how to account for the tenderness and compassion with which those essays in abjection and alienation were made? Or the boundless empathy with which he treated the women on whose suffering his cinema, perhaps even more than Mizoguchi's, so ardently depends? And has a director ever depicted drunkenness with such delicacy?
Perhaps the answers lie in the minor refrains and mischievously bleak motifs that recur throughout his films. Among them: an interest in calamitous car crashes of the sort for which his 1966 Hit and Run was named, widows and rejected lovers who focus their thwarted affections on household pets, and money (and especially the lack thereof) as the root rot beneath every family's tree. For a filmmaker who abhorred the mercurial changeability of the weather, Naruse remained preoccupied with the floating, scattered, and "herringbone" cloud formations for which many of his movies were titled. Critics who insist on the aesthetic centrality of the director's distaste for location shooting should look again at how he sets characters in strolling motion through ruined postwar landscapes, and especially at Floating Clouds, which travels to hotbox French Indochina and monsoon-seasoned Kyushu in order to reassert the remoteness endured by lovers marooned between physical intimacy and the unbridgeable desire that something less fleeting than the lusts of a lifetime might bind them forever.
Superstructured above it all is that grandest of Naruse's infernal designs: a metaphysical certainty about the interpenetration of the past and the present in human lives, most painfully felt in unrequited hearts and formally manifest in the director's fondness for joining flashbacks with present-day actions by the most deceptively innocent of dissolve-free straight cuts. As the doomed Takamine comes to realize in Floating Clouds, "For us, the past is our only reality." Her sentiment echoes everywhere in Naruse's cinema. Rediscovering Naruse during this extraordinary series is unlikely to mitigate the perpetual essentiality that we'll need to rediscover him again, and again. Anything less would deny the forever closed and reopening legacy of a director who saw no contradiction in describing a film he'd entitled Flowing as the story of fragile mortals struggling with the realization that "if they move even a little, they quickly hit the wall."
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Conn. blast fuels plant plan's critics
NRG's Hoffmann said the company is well aware that disasters happen, and that's why the plant would have built-in detection, suppression and monitoring systems. He called the Fire Department's statements about potential danger "wild speculation" and said Encina's safety record is exemplary.
When questioned last week, Carlsbad fire operations Chief Chris Heiser testified that there have been few recent incidents at Encina. The worst accident was in 1976, when six people died in a crane accident, he said.
Recent reports from Middletown indicate that gas may have vented outside the building into an enclosed area, where welding equipment ignited it.
The Connecticut disaster is prompting calls by residents elsewhere in the country to challenge power plants. Opponents of a proposed gas-fired plant in Brockton, Mass., jammed a state legislative hearing Tuesday, urging lawmakers to block its construction.
California Energy Commission officials hesitated this week to draw conclusions about Sunday's explosion, saying they want to see the results of an investigation first. However, they said initial reports from Connecticut raised some concerns, such as the procedures used in venting the gas.
"The commission doesn't allow venting gas into a confined space," said Layton, the commission's engineering office manager. "You would vent on a day that would make sure there isn't a confined area (that would) lead to such an event."
He also said it wasn't clear how closely Connecticut officials monitored the venting. He said California requires a chief building officer and a safety monitor to be present for gas venting, and that it didn't appear a monitor was there.
Layton said commissioners are familiar with the safety debate at the Carlsbad plant. The commission is expected to make a final decision on the proposed plant by the end of the year.
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