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14" Semi-Flush Bowl with Finials from the Alabaster Rocks! Collection
The innovative Alabaster Rocks!™ Collection, in which pieces of real alabaster are hand-selected and suspended in resin, offers a truly original mosaic look. When illuminated, each fixture displays its unique and varied colors, even more dramatically than solid alabaster.
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- Shade Material: Shaved Alabaster Rocks Cast Into Resin
- Standard Overall Height (OAH) - 10"
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- Bowl uses 4 Stainless Steel Cables w/ Finials
- Custom Overall Heights (OAH) Available - Not field adjustable
- Min. OAH: 10", Max. OAH: 24"
- Standard Incandescent Lamping: (2) 60W Type A-19 Max
- Optional Fluorescent Lamping: (2) 13W GU24 Self Ballast CFL Max
- Dimensions (Approx): 14" Square x 10" Overall Average Height
- Canopy (Approx): 1.75" Height x 6" Diameter
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JRuby Fusion
By john on Mar 17, 2009
I recently ported a medium-sized Java web application to Ruby on Rails. Overall it was a gratifying experience but I struggled with PDF generation, and specifically the limits of the Ruby PDF generator PDF::Writer and associated SimpleTable.
Actually PDF::Writer itself is fairly powerful but unfortunately SimpleTable lives up to its name by lacking many of the features found in other PDF generators.
My original Java app uses the awesome iText PDF generator which has extensive table support.
After fiddling with SimpleTable for a while, I gave up and wrote a simple bridge between my Rails app and my original Java PDF generation servlet. On the rails side I create a delimited string containing each record to be printed, and post that to the servlet with:
http.post(path_to_servlet, delimited_string)
On the Java side I parse the InputStream to retrieve the values, and generate table cells using the iText APIs.
This is straightforward, but it bugs me having to maintain two codebases in two languages, and deploy two separate applications, one in an app server, to support PDF generation. It would be far preferable to access iText directly from Ruby.
Enter JRuby
So I installed JRuby on my S10 box, and entered these two commands (courtesy Charles Nutter):
% gem install glassfish-gem-10.0-SNAPSHOT.gem % glassfish_rails myapp
And voila: my app is running inside Glassfish on JRuby. Wow - that was easy! I can get rid of my mongrels and manage everything from GlassFish. Even better, I can now call Java from within ruby:
setenv CLASSPATH itext.jar require 'java' include_class 'java.io.FileOutputStream' include_class 'com.lowagie.text.Document' document = Document.new(PageSize::A4.rotate(), 10, 10, 10, 10) pdfFile = FileOutputStream.new("it_works.pdf") writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, pdfFile) table = PdfPTable.new(9)
This is the best of all worlds. Of course there are some downsides with this approach, such as inevitable impedance mismatches between Java and Ruby, code maintainability issues, etc. but this approach quickly and elegantly solved my original problem of not being able to access iText.
First impressions: JRuby Rocks.

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News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Deputies are looking for a man who beat and then sexually assaulted a 59-year-old woman. The victim says the man lured her in by claiming to be a police officer.
Neighbors say it's a bad area of town and that they are used to living in fear, but they say this is a whole new type of fear for them.
Christine Fox lives right beside where it all happened.
"It does make me nervous. If he was impersonating a police officer, how are you supposed to know he wasn't a police officer?" Fox said.
It's a scary thought for Fox, who is being a lot more cautious near her home lately.
"I try not to come outside too much at night unless my fiance's home," she said.
Just last Thursday, a woman says she was walking along the corner of Walker and Eve streets when a two-toned gold pickup truck pulled over, and the driver told her to get into the truck.
Lt. Blaise Dresser says, "He had a flip-style wallet, flipped it open and said he was an off-duty deputy or an off-duty police officer, and our victim indicates she saw a gold star badge."
The victim got in, but he didn't take her to jail. Instead he took her to a secluded area behind a park on Hicks Lane.
"It makes me nervous because it was right outside my house," Fox said.
Once they were out of clear view, deputies say the suspect told her to perform sexual acts. When she refused, he beat her with a handgun until she complied before he released her.
"I don't care if you're male or female, you shouldn't get in the car with someone you don't know, you shouldn't go home with somebody you don't know," Fox said.
But when someone claims to be a police officer, how can you be sure?
"If you're basing your trust on someone because they're showing you a badge, but they're not in any kind of uniform, and you don't really know for sure that's a police officer, you know, check," Dresser said.
Deputies say to go with your gut. If you think something is fishy, call 911 to verify an officer is who they say they are.
Deputies say they don't have any leads yet. They are searching for a two-tone 90s model pickup truck. The driver is a black, heavyset male in his 30s or 40s.
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Jury selection is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 7, with the trial set to start immediately afterward for a former Jackson Township pastor charged with killing his second wife.
Former Reeders United Methodist Church pastor Arthur Schirmer, 64, is charged with fatally injuring Betty Jean Schirmer in 2008 and then making it seem as though that fatal head injury came from a car crash. Schirmer said he was taking Betty Jean to the hospital when he swerved to avoid a deer on Route 715 in Pocono Township and crashed.
He said she hit her head against the windshield. She died later in the hospital.
Schirmer appeared today in court with defense attorney Brandon Reish on a motion involving forensic testing the defense wanted done. The motion became a moot issue, partly because the defense had already had the testing done at that point, and no action was taken.
Schirmer is charged with murder also in the 1999 death of his first wife, Jewel Schirmer, in Lebanon County, where he was Bethany United Methodist Church pastor at the time. He said he came home from jogging to find her lying with her head in a pool of blood at the bottom of the steps.
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The Air Jordan XX8 Tee celebrates the legendary shoe. With its "Thermo Optics" inspired graphics and black smooth-looking print, this tee goes perfect with the AJXX8 shoes' mysterious vibes. It also has the iconic jumpman logo on the back and on the lower right-hand side, so you got all your baller vibes checked off the list.
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Genre/Subjects: Comedy, Drama, GLBT, Romance
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In SAN FRANCISCO: A cross-dressing sex-worker faces a challenging assignment with a quadriplegic man. As the pressure mounts, an awakening begins.
In AUSTIN: Lily, early thirties, is fertile and off the pill. She and her boyfriend Kai plan a casual night of sex after a long dry spell, but Lily's unwed sister and sick baby nephew make hooking up at Lily's place impossible. As they prowl the sultry summer night streets, they debate whether marriage and babies are really in their future...and arrive at a startling compromise.
In TAMPA: Late-twenties Louis loops into a local mall to grab lunch in the food court and a quickie in the public restroom. Paranoid about his own small package and clearly nervous about the situation, he scouts for possible partners, letting his imagination take over when reality proves thoroughly unsatisfying.
In SKOKIE: Marcy, a closeted, mid-forties lesbian church choir member, pines for Gail, the wife of her Methodist pastor, Roger. When Gail and Roger head out of town for the weekend, Marcy offers to watch their nightmare of a dog, Myra. Marcy works hard to win the pooch over, and ultimately, accomplishes much more than that.
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OK, I admit from the start that I am in love with my iPad2; but it is the availability of Apps for it that make it such a part of my current life. I just encountered a new App that I think is going to be extremely useful in the future. It's an App called Genius Scan from Grizzly Labs that is intended for use on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In short, it uses the back facing camera of the iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch) to take an image that can be corrected and then mailed—that's in the … [Read more...]
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Membership fees for the 2009-2010 society year are now due. If you have not yet done so, you can mail them to Wood County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 832, Quitman, Texas 75783. Make checks to the society. Current membership dues are $15 per individual or $20 per family. Dues may also may be paid at the October meeting Oct. 19 at the Quitman Public Library.
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Intel IT believes that the combination of powerful Intel® architecture-based tablets and Microsoft Windows* 8 provides significant productivity benefits to employees, as well as improved manageability and information security capabilities. This paper describes our process and best practices for preparing for and deploying Windows 8 on Intel architecture-based tablets.
The use of Intel architecture-based tablets, compared to other tablets, enables Intel employees to move beyond mere content consumption and use their tablets for content creation and collaboration. Running Windows 8 on Intel architecture-based tablets is the first time employees can have a tablet form factor with the exact same software and network access as with a laptop, as well as the productivity benefits associated with touch interaction, system responsiveness, and improved battery life. IT benefits include improved manageability and information security, compared to other OSs and tablets. These Intel architecture-based tablets are also compatible with our PC support model, because the build and software components are the same as what we use on PCs.
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Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
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RoseBay International Inc., a real estate brokerage with offices in Bradenton and Sarasota, has opened a satellite branch in the Rosemary district of Sarasota.
The office, at 423 Central Ave., is on the first floor commercial level of a three-story building at Central Avenue and Fourth Street.
RoseBay manages the condominiums on the second and third floors of the building.
"This new office not only will help us better serve our residential real estate and property-management clients, but will support our expanding commercial real estate efforts," broker Magdiel "Mike" Rosario said.
Rosebay is a residential and commercial real estate and property-management company that has been in business for more than 20 years.
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This is Barca's new home jersey for the 12/13 season.
Ever since his days in Barcelona's youth system, Andres Iniesta has been making an impact on the field. The gifted central midfielder has the speed and skill to push forward and score goals as well as the vision and accuracy to find teammates with pinpoint accurate passes.
Barcelona's classic navy and red are fused for a unique look. Nike designed these jerseys to honor Barcelona's tradition of excellence with a modern/creative look to inspire and excite the team and fans. Mes que un club is screened on the inside of the collar. Red cuffs and collar design.
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Apoya al Barcelona con esta camiseta de local de Andrés Iniesta para la temporada 12/13. Viene en el tradicional tono azul con una franja roja en el centro. Nike diseñó estas camisetas para honrar la tradición catalana con una apariencia moderna y creativa


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Jerry Rice and Tim Brown, two of the best wide receivers in NFL history, have been through a lot together as both opponents and teammates.
But the two claim their rivalry on the golf course is as rabid as anything that ever existed on the football field. As teammates on the Oakland Raiders, Rice and Brown became golfing buddies, though according to them, the relationship was more about golf than it was about being buddies.
"After two holes we realized we couldn't ride in the cart together," Brown said during an interview with the duo at The Wall Street Journal Monday.
According to Brown and Rice, there is a "cup" they play for – not cash. The winner of the last match gets to keep the cup until he loses. Brown has it now at his home in Dallas. Rice, who is one handicap compared with a four for Brown, has every intention of going to Dallas and winning it back.
Brown and Rice are among six former NFL Players who captained teams in the latest rendition of The Golf Channel's Big Break competition, where participants compete for $200,000 in cash and prizes and a spot in top tier professional events.
When they aren't on the golf course, Brown and Rice have also been keeping up with the NFL season, and admiring the high-flying, undefeated Denver Broncos, led by Peyton Manning. "They can't stop him," Brown said of Manning.
Not surprisingly, Rice gave due credit to the Broncos' receiving corps, but he put Manning in the same class as his former quarterback, Joe Montana, even though Manning has just one Super Bowl ring compared with four for Montana.
"He's one of those playmakers who elevates the game of everyone else on that football team," Rice said of Manning.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 20: Electronic Edition
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1 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I do not seem to have F. Yes. So I put this
2in the back?
3 MR IRVING: That is correct, my Lord. Mr Rampton's
4intervention, of course, has highlighted the problem that
5I face in view of the fact that the representative of the
6Centre for Democratic Renewal and the Coalition for Human
7Dignity who gave statements relied which have been relied
8upon by Professor Levin, those statements are not sworn.
9They are just put in by way of evidence. They are relied
10on by Professor Levin. Professor Levin is not going to
11give oral evidence, so I cannot test the validity of any
12of the statements that Mr Rampton has made or any of the
13statements these witnesses have made.
14 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Professor Levin, who is not coming to give
15evidence, I had understood (and perhaps I am wrong about
16this and perhaps we can clarify now) that his report is no
17longer relied on.
18 MR RAMPTON: No, that is not right. There is a Civil Evidence
19Act Notice.
20 MR JUSTICE GRAY: For an expert?
21 MR RAMPTON: Yes, in respect of that. What weight it has is
22another question, but it has to be a 1968 Act Notice
23because this case was started before the 1995 Act came
24into force. So there is a Civil Evidence Act statement in
25respect of Professor Levin.
26 MR JUSTICE GRAY: It is highly unusual to have an expert's
1report subject to the Civil Evidence Act.
2 MR RAMPTON: It may be unusual but ----
3 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I do not know whether I have ever heard of it
5 MR RAMPTON: --- there is nothing the matter with it in
7 MR JUSTICE GRAY: That may be right.
8 MR IRVING: It does place me at a serious disadvantage, of
10 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I know. Actually, I thought the disadvantage
11was less great than it now appears to be because I had
12wrongly taken it (and I am glad I have now discovered my
13error) that the Defendants were not any longer relying on
14Levin and Eatwell.
15 MR RAMPTON: If I can say this, quite frankly, I do not myself
16believe I need to depend very heavily on Professor Levin
17anyway for ----
18 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I think that is probably right.
19 MR RAMPTON: --- quite different reasons. The factual
20witnesses probably, so far as the United States and Canada
21are concerned, are more important.
22 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. To help you with your difficulty,
23Mr Irving, can I suggest this, that when you come to be
24cross-examined, as you will be I think on ----
25 MR IRVING: Next week sometime.
26 MR JUSTICE GRAY: --- the sort of rogues' gallery point, if
1I can rudely call it that, namely your associating with
2these extremists.
3 MR IRVING: Guilt by association.
4 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, well, that is the way you put it. I am
5not sure it is as simple as that.
6 MR IRVING: It is the way Morland J would put it probably too.
7 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, you might then take the opportunity,
8either in cross-examination or perhaps re-examining
9yourself, to make the points you are wanting to make in
10reference to Professor Levin or Dr Levin's report.
11 MR IRVING: I was proposing to make it by way of submission.
12 MR JUSTICE GRAY: All right. You can do it that way as well or
13instead, rather.
14 MR IRVING: But is a rather unfortunate halfway house that he
15is going to partly rely on Mr Levin's report, and we have
16no way of knowing which part he is relying on and which
17part he is not. Either he should or he should not, in my
18view, my Lord, and your Lordship may wish to make a ruling
19on that.
20 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, you may want to make the application
21that it is not legitimate for a party to use the Civil
22Evidence Act machinery to avoid having the expert witness
23in question called and cross-examined.
24 MR IRVING: Now that we are under the CPR, as we are, I think
25it should be either or.
26 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well I am not going to that now because
1Professor Evans is, no doubt, wanting to get on with his
2evidence, but if you want to make that application, feel
3free to do so. But, as I say, I think it is unusual.
4Yes, now, are we ready to resume?
5 MR IRVING: One more minor matter, your Lordship asked to see
6the index of the Hitler's War books, the new version, and
7that also appended as -- it is the very last page of what
8you have.
9 MR JUSTICE GRAY: When you say the "new" version, the one that
10is about to come out?
11 MR IRVING: No, this was an index we commissioned for the 1991
12edition, in other words, it is a fuller index for 1991.
13 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I see.
14 MR IRVING: It has now been superceded because we are about to
15do a completely updated edition.
16 MR JUSTICE GRAY: So this is just the extract dealing with...
17 MR IRVING: That, I presume, is the page that your Lordship was
18interested in.
19 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, you are quite right.
20 MR IRVING: Also, finally, my Lord, if you look two items back
21from that, your Lordship will find The Spectator.
22 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Is this "as many as"?
23 MR IRVING: "As many as", yes, my Lord. Your Lordship will see
24that I was absolutely correct; either Professor Eatwell or
25Professor Levin or both omitted the word which completely
26reversed the meaning.
1 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. Professor Evans, this is a point at
2which I think you ought to join in, if I can put it like
3that. I think, Mr Irving, the point he made yesterday is
5 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] It is right, yes, indeed.
6 MR IRVING: Is it right to say that I, therefore, did not
7double the death roll by means of the comparison, in
8fact? I adhered to a death roll in Hamburg of up to or
9nearly 50,000?
10 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] That is right, yes.
11 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Not, I think, your error, but Professor
13 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] It looks like it, my Lord.
14 MR IRVING: My Lord, the problem is Professor Evans' report has
15turned out to be a bit of a dummy minefield. I am
16advancing into it, but very gingerly, because I do not
17know where the real mines are and where the dummies are
18like that one, and this is what is delaying us.
19 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I am not sure I accept any of that, but let
20us move on anyway. We have got to about 100?
21 MR IRVING: 128, my Lord, is where I propose to continue, my
22Lord. I am on 128 at paragraph 4, Professor Evans.
23 MR JUSTICE GRAY: You are still on the topic of Holocaust
24denial, are you not?
25 MR IRVING: We are, my Lord, and we are dealing just briefly
26with the experiment made with the gas vans. Your Lordship
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Passing time on Saturday
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 10:08 a.m.
Saturday was an interesting day for me.
While I cleaned the house, I also watched a couple of television events and attended a live event.
What made the day interesting were those three events are never on the top of my favorite things to do list.
I'm talking about the NFL Combine, the Nationwide race at Daytona and the "Fear No Evil" bull riding at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
I have never watched the NFL Combine, but on Saturday, I had a reason.
Former Assumption High all-state offensive lineman Jordan Mills was out there trying to get noticed. Mills has completed a stellar career at Louisiana Tech and was invited to the combine.
Getting an invite to the combine represents getting your foot in the door. What an athlete does at the combine determines if he has knocked down that door or not.
I watched Mills run his 40-yard dash and do the odd drills, and by my observation, he held his own.
Once Mills was done, I turned my attention to another sporting event I rarely, if ever, watch.
I can honestly say that you will never hear these words come out of my mouth, "Hey, is there a NASCAR race on?"
Sorry, I don't get it and don't apologize for it.
But after watching the combine, there I was tuning in on the Nationwide race from Daytona Beach, Fla.
My reason was simple: Hal Martin was making his first start of the 2013 season.
Ever since I did a story on the Galliano native, I have kept up with his career.
Martin has made a steady climb in auto racing, and after getting three Nationwide starts for Tristar Motorsports last season, he is off and running for 2013.
Well, the running part for Martin ended with five laps to go as he was caught up in a huge pileup ending his race in 28th place. However if not for the accident, he was aiming for a Top 20 finish. I hated to see the accident, but following the No. 44 car around the track passed the time.
I needed to pass the time as I was destined to see bull riding.
I have seen countless bull-riding events, but the problem I have with them is the same problem I have with racing — the only time I get excited is when something bad happens, and that doesn't give me a good feeling.
The event celebrated my parents' 51st wedding anniversary, and spending time with my brother and his boys, Jonathan and Taylor, is always good. The only thing that scared me was watching my wife whistle and holler for the bulls to win. I guess she likes to see pain inflicted, and I know. She takes a jab at me every once in a while.
I can't say I'm now a fan of the NFL combine, auto racing or bull riding, but I can say that on Saturday I was.
Staff Writer Teddy Renois can be reached at 448-7618 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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How naive can we be?
As we go about our daily routines � dutifully performing our jobs, tending to our homes and families, doing what it takes for this society to endure � a scheme so dastardly that it boggles the mind has unfolded in our nation's capital.
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Noelle E. Fearn, PhD
Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Criminal justice decision making; Sentencing and punishment outcomes; Correctional treatment of offenders; Women and the criminal justice system; Juvenile justice processing and outcomes
Teaching Areas: CCJ Research Methods and Statistics; Corrections and Community Corrections; Criminological Theory; Ethics in Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Practicum/Internship
Education History: Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri - St. Louis (2003)
Community and Professional Service: Editorial Board Member, Western Criminology Review
Dr. Fearn received her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2003. She is an associate professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Social Work. She is the Director of Undergraduate Criminology & Criminal Justice Program and the MS Criminology and Professional Practice Program. She teaches research methods and statistics in criminology and criminal justice, corrections-related courses, criminological theory, and ethics in criminal justice.
Her scholarly work has appeared in Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law, and Society, the International Journal of Comparative Criminology, the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Social Justice Research, and the Californian Journal of Health Promotion. Her research focuses on the factors that influence criminal justice decision making (particularly sentencing) and evaluations of community and custodial programming for adult and juvenile offenders. She is currently PI on a funded study evaluating the St. Louis County Drug and DWI Courts.


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FREMONT -- Now that a time-consuming ballot count has Bill Harrison maintaining his lead over four opponents, second-place finisher Steve Cho on Monday conceded the Fremont mayoral race.
"I would like to congratulate Bill for winning the election," Cho announced 13 days after Election Day. "The voters in Fremont have spoken and made their choice."
The morning after Election Day, Harrison led Cho by 35.25 percent to 31 percent of the vote. But Cho said then he would not concede until "at least 15,000" remaining Fremont vote-by-mail and provisional ballots -- among 140,000 countywide -- were counted.
Nearly two weeks later, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters says it has counted every ballot and lists Harrison as the winner with 34.02 percent of the vote. He finished with 22,121 votes -- 1,412 more than Cho, who had 31.85 percent.
Cho said Monday that he planned to call Harrison personally to congratulate him. "Even though the race was close, the results are what they are," said Cho, a Fremont councilman from 2000-2008. "I would also like to congratulate the other candidates for stepping up and wanting to make a better Fremont."
Pending the county registrar's certification of the results -- expected by next week at the latest -- officials say Harrison will be sworn in at the Dec. 4 City Council meeting.
Harrison said his first challenge will be to work with the City Council to appoint a council member -- and avoid a costly special election -- to take the seat he will vacate in order to become mayor.
"It'll be about coming together as a new council and finding a consensus candidate we can all work with," Harrison said.
The city's biggest issue involves "getting people back to work and improving the local economy so we can bring in more revenue and provide people with more resources," he said.
As mayor, he will serve on the council alongside Vice Mayor Anu Natarajan -- who finished third in the mayoral election; Councilman-elect Vinnie Bacon, who captured the council race's top spot with 25.35 percent of the vote; and Councilwoman Sue Chan, who retained her seat by finishing second behind Bacon with 23.18 percent.
Harrison will replace Gus Morrison, a former mayor appointed this year to serve on an interim basis after Mayor Bob Wasserman died in December. Harrison said it means a lot to hold the same position as Wasserman, his political mentor. Wasserman also was a close friend of the mayor-elect's late father, Herb Harrison, who got involved in local politics by serving as treasurer for his friends' campaigns.
They especially were on Harrison's mind on Election Day, when he visited his father's gravesite and emailed Wasserman's wife, Linda.
"I've been thinking a lot about Bob and my dad," he said. "They're probably together right now, playing cards, and looking down on us."
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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SAN JOSE -- Such a weird vibe. Hockey opening night? In late January?
Here was HP Pavilion on Thursday night, finally open for puck business. Here was the teal tribe of customers parading through the doors and filling up most every seat, ready for the Sharks' home opener. And here were the players on the blue line, lining up for pregame introductions in the spotlight. Usually, that's all in October. So odd.
Especially when you consider that just 12 days earlier, there was no National Hockey League at all.
"It's been only 12 days?" asked Joe Pavelski before Thursday's opening faceoff.
Yes. Only 12 days. The NHL lockout was settled early on the morning of Jan. 13. The Sharks held a fast-food-drive-through version of training camp and played their first game last Saturday in Calgary. They played another in Edmonton on Tuesday night, thereby completing one-twelfth of their entire road schedule in a truncated 48-game season.
Then they came home for Thursday's first home game. Twelve days.
"I'm still trying to play catch-up a little bit," said Patrick Marleau.
As is the entire hockey universe, it seems. But we know this much: The Sharks have no time to sit and ponder the meaning of it all. They badly need to prove themselves early.
Amid the frenzied eagerness of the quick run-up to the first faceoff, it has been easy to overlook one important fact: Our beloved Los Tiburones were far from being a fantastic, or awesome, team last season. They finished seventh in the Western Conference. They exited quickly in the first playoff round to St. Louis. And few changes have been made to their roster.
From here, this looks like a team that will again reach the Stanley Cup playoffs because of its top-two-line strength and power play prowess ... but will once more struggle to go deep in the postseason because of depth issues and uncertainty on defense.
The Sharks are no longer a trendy pick to win the Cup. That's for sure. In fact, the ESPN.com website's power rankings put the Sharks as the 23rd best team in the league. The Hockey News is kinder, slotting them sixth in the Western Conference -- but in the magazine's annual preseason rankings of the NHL's top 50 players, no Sharks are listed among the top 30. Logan Couture is highest on the list at No. 35.
Essentially, the Sharks are being called out for no longer being an elite team.
Inside the Sharks' dressing room, the response is about what you'd expect.
"We put a lot of pressure on ourselves, so it doesn't matter," said captain Joe Thornton.
"We probably deserve it after what happened last year," said Pavelski. "We feel like we underachieved. We know what we have in here and what we're capable of. We just have to do it."
"We still know what we have in here," Marleau said.
But more than ever, knowing needs to become showing. It was encouraging to see the Sharks win those first two games in Canada. Thursday's energy inside the Tank was good. But at any point over the next month, a three- or four-game losing streak could send a team out of a top-eight spot in the conference and lead to two months of trying to claw back.
Before Thursday's faceoff, Shark coach Todd McLellan was asked to name two things he had learned about his team in those two games. McLellan first listed the Shark's tendency to be inconsistent from period to period, which needs to be fixed. Secondly, he noted that the continuity in the first two forward lines -- from retaining so many key players -- has been paying off to this point.
McLellan was then asked to name two things that are still Shark question marks. He named the penalty kill, which remains troublesome, and the chemistry on the third and fourth forward lines, which is a work in progress.
You have to believe that Shark general manager Doug Wilson will also keep an eye on those last two lines, with an eye toward upgrading before the trade deadline if the "chemistry" isn't there. This week's signing of Scott Gomez, dropped by Montreal because his production no longer matched his salary, could be the first step. It's funny how better chemistry often coincides with better talent.
For now, it's a pretty peculiar deal. Thornton stands in the dressing room there with nicks and scrapes on his face, the residue of his games in Switzerland during the lockout. Marleau has a so-far-unscarred mug after just three games because he chose to stay in the South Bay and work out with several other teammates. Pavelski, who played in Russia, is among the Sharks who look fresh and fast. Others look slower and not yet 100 percent. McLellan is trying to figure out the formula, in terms of handing out minutes.
So discombobulating. The players notice. Last Saturday night in Calgary, Thornton found himself gathered in a teammate's hotel room with a group of other Sharks to watch the season openers for other teams.
"That's kind of strange," Thornton said. "That really never happens on the road normally, unless maybe it's before the first game of the playoffs."
But maybe that tells us something. This time around, the regular season and the playoffs are one and the same. The Sharks can't mess around.
Contact Mark Purdy at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/MercPurdy.


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Hey guys. I've noticed something really weird lately.
I'm running the latest version on a wired connection from a windows vista 64 bit system.
Now, I've had these weird experiences, that sometimes the video I stream gives some short white flashes in the lower region of the screen. Sometimes it's happening on the entire screen. Weirdly enough, if I try to restart the PS3, or PSM, it mostly disappears, but sometimes it keeps flashing now and then. So it's not the video source material (divx and mkv).
I can't really figger out why it does this, and I've never seen it before this latest release. Also, it seems to be really random when it does this.
Anyone knows what's wrong, and/or how to fix this?


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Subler is an Mac OS X app created to work with mp4 files
Subler is an Mac OS X app created to work with mp4 files. The main features are:
- Creation of subtitles tracks, compatible with all Apple's devices (iPod, AppleTV, iPhone, QuickTime).
- Import of video, audio, chapters and subtitles tracks from mov and mp4.
- Raw formats: H.264 Elementary streams (.h264, .264), AAC (.aac), AC3 (.ac3).
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Tags: video , subtitles , editing , iphone , ipod , appletv , quicktime
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Very nice. It would be great to have a preview mode though.
Does the job well and its free.
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Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 17, 1942. He began writing at the age of thirteen and started a magazine in high school called The White Dove Review with friends Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard. In its five issues, the magazine published Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), Ted Berrigan, and others.
In 1960, he moved to New York City, where he attended Columbia College and studied with Kenneth Koch and Lionel Trilling. Padgett later spent a year in Paris on a Fulbright fellowship where he studied French literature.
His first collection of poems, Bean Spasms (Kulcher Press), written with Ted Berrigan, was published in 1967. Since then he has published many books of poetry, including Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry; How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011); How to Be Perfect (Coffee House Press, 2007); You Never Know (Coffee House Press, 2002); Poems I Guess I Wrote (CUZ Editions, 2001); New & Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 1995); The Big Something (The Figures, 1990); Triangles in the Afternoon (SUN, 1979); and Great Balls of Fire (Holt McDougal, 1969).
He has also published a volume of selected prose titled Blood Work (Bamberger Books, 1993), as well as translations of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems (University of California Press, 1992), Pierre Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1971), and Guillaume Apollinaire's The Poet Assassinated (HarperCollins, 1968).
For his translations, Padgett has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Columbia University's Translation Center.
About Padgett's work, the poet James Tate wrote, "Ron Padgett's poems sing with absolutely true pitch. And they are human friendly. Their search for truths, both small and large, can be cause for laughter, or at least a thoughtful sigh."
Padgett was the editor-in-chief of World Poets, a three-volume reference book (Scribner, 2000). For twenty years Padgett was the publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2008 to 2013. He lives in New York City.
Selected Bibliography
Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013)
How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011)
How to Be Perfect (Coffee House Press, 2007)
You Never Know (Coffee House Press, 2002)
Poems I Guess I Wrote (CUZ Editions, 2001)
New & Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 1995)
The Big Something (The Figures, 1990)
Triangles in the Afternoon (SUN, 1979)
Great Balls of Fire (Holt McDougal, 1969)
Bean Spasms, with Ted Berrigan (Kulcher Press, 1967)
Blaise Cendrars, Complete Poems (University of California Press, 1992)
Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1971)
Guillaume Apollinaire, The Poet Assassinated (HarperCollins, 1968)


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Corruption Costing Taxpayers
Published: Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 10:10 p.m.
I had a good laugh over The Ledger article about the law firm of Gray Robinson billing the city of Lakeland $11,078 for reviewing the Lakeland Police Department's public records request procedures ["Former Judge Examined Record-Providing Practices, Says LPD on Right Track," Aug. 24].
This is the same law firm being paid by the city to represent a city employee in an effort to suppress the grand jury investigation of the Lakeland Police Department's obstruction of public record requests.
This is consistent with the laughable accreditation of the LPD by an organization that counts the Lakeland chief of police among its governing board members.
Of course, the argument is made that neither case involved an actual evaluation of LPD practices. They were just reviews of paper procedures, regardless of whether the Police Department actually followed them.
The truth is that the taxpayers are being forced to pay for cronyism, corruption and conflicts of interest.
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The Killers Kill It in Hometown Las Vegas
"It's the last Saturday night of the year—and you're at a Killers concert!" said Killers frontman Brandon Flowers. "Please don't tell me you forgot your dancin' shoes."
Following a four-year break, not to mention a recent bout of laryngitis that put the kibosh on shows in New York, New Jersey and Toronto, the Killers ended their 2012 North American tour with a sold-out, two-night engagement at the Cosmopolitan Hotel's Chelsea ballroom in their hometown of Las Vegas this past weekend. Known for their classic rock influences ranging from the Beatles and U2 to Bruce Springsteen, the Killers seemed particularly thrilled to be back home, as Flowers belted out a rocking rendition of the Elvis classic, "Viva Las Vegas," dressed in his signature all-black look, his hair slicked back. (The name of the Killers' new album, "Battle Born", is also a tribute to Nevada, known as "The Battle Born State.")
The multigenerational crowd was on its feet for the entire set, which began at 10:45 and went on for nearly two hours. And this being Vegas, the show was filled with flash: laser light shows, elaborate video backdrops and a shower of glittery confetti upon the audience at the end of "All These Things That I've Done," a single from the band's debut album, "Hot Fuss." Only four of the 20 songs—"From Here On Out," "The Way It Was," "Runaways" and "A Matter of Time"—came from the new album, which was released in September and quickly climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard charts. The majority of the songs were old favorites such as "Spaceman" from 2008's "Day & Age," and "When You Were Young," from 2006's "Sam's Town."
Flowers, 31, seemed to get emotional before singing "A Dustland Fairytale," a Springsteen-esque blue-collar love song about his parents, who met at the age of 15 in a Nevada trailer park. He told the audience that his father had an old Chevy and occasionally forgot to pick up his mom from school. But his mother, who died two years ago, "stuck with him…and I'm thankful she did, or else I wouldn't be here." He also told the well-known story of finding his longtime collaborator, guitarist Dave Keuning, in the classified ads of a Vegas newspaper. In the last of a three-song encore, he recalled driving his '92 Geo Metro to Keuning's house a decade ago, and leaving with a cassette tape containing five demos. The first one on it eventually became "Mr. Brightside," the Killers' debut single in 2004. The band closed the show with it, and the audience knew every word.
The band picks up its tour in 2013 in Sydney, Australia, after which it will travel to Europe, and then back to the U.S. in May to make up for the cancelled dates.


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Choreographer Brian Reeder set a high and witty bar Thursday night when Company C Contemporary Ballet opened its winter run at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.
A former dancer with New York City Ballet, Ballet Frankfurt and American Ballet Theatre and now a freelance choreographer, Reeder peopled his latest work, "Being Served," with a maid, a butler and a swank dinner party crowd. Right away, he launched the capable cast into taut movement sequences that expressed repression, bitterness and yearning, followed later by sexual abandon, chaos and a whole lot of dying.
This was a multifaceted, tightly packaged comic drama built from elegant duets and ensemble work. It knew what it was about -- it was part paean to the genre of psychological ballets that sprang up in the 1940s, and part homage to film, master painting ("The Last Supper") and, particularly, film noir. Reeder eloquently quoted the 20th-century dramatic dances while leaving behind their overheated earnestness. He gave us a contemptuous brush of the arm from Jose Limon's tragedy "The Moor's Pavane"; a duet sequence echoing Antony Tudor's despairing "Jardin Aux Lilas"; and an insulting gesture that Mercutio dangerously doles out in "Romeo and Juliet."
Then, once the couples' restraint loosened and the party took on the air of a bacchanal, with standout performances by Kristin Lindsay and Bobby Briscoe, "Being Served" turned gothic. Working in the tradition of today's gold standard in television -- everything from "Breaking Bad" to "True Blood" -- the gothic next got elegantly campy.
The maid and butler joined the crowd as it ripped up the stage, then they set about poisoning the posh party goers. When the diners finally collapsed into their chairs, the servants pushed the dead into their plates with the same brusque air as Mrs. Lovett dispenses with the bodies in "Sweeney Todd." The dying doesn't end there, nor does the humor. A bit over the top? Indeed.
This wry homage to American values on the skids had a strange coda. It came in the evening's closing work, a world premiere choreographed by former Paul Taylor dancer Patrick Corbin, a thumping dance titled "For Use in Subhuman Primates Only," set to music by the British duo Massive Attack. The title is the cautionary warning on bottles of an anesthetic designed for cats and primates but used as a party high that induces floaty, near-deathlike dissociation from the body -- and this captured the dance maker's vision of a zombiesque afterlife. If only Corbin had shared some of his fellow choreographer's sensibilities, then the ravelike, monochromatic weirdness of "For Use" might have seemed ironic rather than portentous.
The rest of the evening had a scattershot feel. On the heels of "Being Served," Company C director Charles Anderson premiered "Polyglot," a dance that began sweetly, with the cast dressed as circus figures that respond to comical horn beeps, typewriter clacks and insect buzzes. But the work got abruptly hijacked by an accent-thick text about multiple identity, as though another artist had crept in and taken over.
In the middle of the program, Anderson staged an excerpt of his 2010 "Beautiful Maladies," offering up six familiar jazz tunes. He set a small cast of dancers turning and stepping in what often looked like pleasurable but unformed noodling. Jacqueline McConnell is someone to watch with her sinewy elegance, and Bobby Briscoe and David Van Ligon shared fleeting moments of power in their male-male pairings. If only Anderson allowed these to develop, he might have taken us somewhere beautiful -- with or without the maladies.
dance review
Company C Contemporary Ballet presents world premieres by Brian Reeder, Charles Anderson and Patrick Corbin
When and where: 8 p.m. Jan. 18 and 3 and 8 p.m. Jan. 19 at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek; 8 p.m. Feb. 7 and 8, 6 p.m. Feb. 9 and 3 p.m. Feb. 10 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco
How much: $23-$45, 925-943-7469, www.lesherartscenter.org; 415-978-2787, www.ybca.org


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Over the last year, several end-users have asked for status update of disposables for a wide variety of final filling applications. The availability of technology in this area has grown rapidly in the last two years. Here we discuss a recent example of a successful end-to-end deployment of single-use technology in aseptic filling. This case study was first presented by Nigel Bell, sterile product lead at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK, Barnard Castle, UK) at IBC's Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing & Development Summit in San Francisco, CA, in December. For this article, Miriam Monge (MM) talked to Nigel Bell (NB) of GSK, along with Ernie Jenness (EJ), a development engineer at Millipore (Billerica, MA), one of the main vendors who actively collaborated with GSK throughout this project.
MM: Nigel, in what context did you start evaluating the use of disposable technologies?
MM: I understand that one factor that motivated you to switch to disposables was that cold fill products challenged the integrity of hard-piped steam-sterilized stainless steel systems.
NB: The thing that puts a lot of strain on the joints in the stainless steel systems is the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) gaskets. These plastics do not have a cold flow memory and so do not react well when being heated to 121 °C for sterilization purposes, then to 5 °C for filling. There have been some problems with leakage over the years.
But even though cold fill products provided the greatest risk from the integrity point of view, there were many other reasons for the need for change. Stainless steel is fine when you are working with one dedicated product, but as we move to filling multiple biopharmaceutical products, the cleaning and sterilization issues rapidly become unwieldy. As the needs of our facility were changing and the regulatory qualification requirements for operations were increasing, it was becoming increasingly challenging to prove that there was no risk of cross contamination.
MM: You talk about the cost and capacity loss through qualification and routine steam-in-place (SIP) as one of the key challenges when working with traditional systems.
NB: When you carry out this analysis, you rapidly realize that the opportunities to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and reduce cost are huge. The time required for cleaning and sterilizing stainless steel; the space and money required for dedicated areas for clean and dirty vessel storage; the downtime required for cleaning, steaming, and product changeover; the massive energy consumption required to generate thousands of liters of water for injection (WFI) to clean and steam equipment, and the cost to make the WFI, are all highly time consuming and offer the potential for efficiency improvement.
Another key concern for us with the traditional systems was the complexity of operation and the associated level of grade A intrusions. With the existing arrangement using restricted access barriers (RABs), the doors between grades A and B would be open taking out and replacing equipment, and so on.
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This is my flaming hoop called breakage. Please jump through it several times in order to be deemed worthy enough to get your rebate.
I didn't have any problem when I updated to the bb curve. In fact, with the online discount, the mail-in rebate, and the discounts on your first bill, they basically paid me buying the phone. I made a profit. Never called the rebate center once.
Or… You just go to best buy to get your new sprint phone, where they honor the upgrade discount and take the rebate off at the register, so there is no rebate to mail at all, you get it immediately… just so everyone knows
@AKAJBuddha: Woah, Best buy sans the rebate. That's messed up. I usually avoid them because of the rebates.
I had to call this line as well last year for a couple upgrades. Very unhappy about that.
I'm on the line with them now. They can't find my rebate for my Blackberry 8330….11:49am
11:@AngrySicilian: 11:52, I've been told to go back to the sprint store and find out why my receipt number does not exist. Joy!
@AngrySicilian: that makes me nervous because the only reason I am finally upgrading from my 8830 to the Curve is because I can get it for $99 after the $100 mail in rebate. I will not pay $200 plus tax for a new blackberry when that is not the advertised price.
Good luck with your rebate, I hope you get your hundred back.
I just read this and called about my blackberry I bought in May of 08′ and they had no record of receiving my forms. I had given up hope until I read this post and decided to call. About 8 minutes on the phone and they said my rebate will be here in 15-20 days.
This appears to be no coincedence….I bought several new phones for Christmas gifts because they qualified for the rebates. Then last week I was notified that all three rebates were denied.
I think this is a patten with Sprint. I made copies of what I sent and am going to re-send them, because I DO qualifiy for the rebates.
Let me know if you have had the same problem. I bet lost of people will be denied after puchasing new phones as Christmas gifts.
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The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) was once part of the largest grassland ecosystems in the world. However, the region has changed dramatically since the days of Lewis and Clark. After settlement, grasslands in the most productive portions of the PPR were converted to cropland to feed a growing world population. Today, grassland-dominated landscapes are largely confined to areas with poor soils, steep topography, and/or climatic conditions unsuitable for crop production.
Unfortunately, a new wave of grassland conversion has occurred in the last decade, causing significant ecological and sociological impacts to the region. Current farm policy is fueling the destruction of this rare and important habitat. Congress must implement a policy in the 2012 Farm Bill to reverse this trend. Ducks Unlimited suggests calling this the "Sodsaver" provision.
Reps. Kristi Noem (SD) and Tim Walz (MN) are the lead co-sponsors of the bipartisan Protect Our Prairies Act. Watch them talk about the bill.
Of the 13.8 million acres of native prairie that remains in the eastern Dakotas, the FSA reports that 298,000 acres (2.2%) were converted to cropland during 2002-2005. Unfortunately, this 0.55% annual conversion rate may be much higher in some regions. For example, research by Ducks Unlimited conducted in the Missouri Coteau region of the Dakotas has documented annual loss rates as high as 2% in some key areas. At that rate, half of the remaining native grassland in those areas will be lost in only 34 years!
The accelerated loss of native grassland is a combined result of technological advances and unintended consequences of federal farm policy. The current Farm Bill provides substantial price support and risk protection to crop producers. The combination of loan-deficiency and disaster payments – coupled with crop insurance – makes crop production economically viable even if high yields are never achieved. The reduction in economic risk, combined with advances in herbicides, genetically engineered crops, and large farm equipment, provides the incentive to break new ground. Additionally, because there is negligible government support for the cattle ranching industry – the current land-use for most native grasslands – subsidized crop producers have a significant economic advantage when competing to rent and buy native grassland.
Temperate grasslands, like those in the PPR, are at highest risk of conversion to cropland yet have some of the lowest rates of protection of any major ecological biome on earth. The grasslands of the PPR provide critically important habitat for prairie wildlife and are the heart of the breeding range for many North American ducks and shorebirds. The region also hosts numerous grassland-dependent songbirds, species that are experiencing a steeper population decline than any other bird group in North America. Currently, only one endangered species exists in the PPR. However, a "train wreck" of endangered species listings could result if the current pace of grassland loss continues.
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In this absorbing and provocative book, Gerald Heard shows that a fissure in human consciousness, which has been rapidly widening for 400 years, is the cause of modern man's tragic dismay. Believing his problem external, when it is really in his own mind, man at last faces a "veritable Copernican revolution" psychologically. Science tells us that man is the only animal capable of continued evolution. It shows further that he can evolve in only one way-mentally. Pain, Sex and Time is then a new outlook, a new promise for the future, a new exploration of those strange and little-known powers of human consciousness of which man is becoming increasingly aware. Harper & Brothers, 1939
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Reese Witherspoon: white for Wild
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Reese Witherspoon wore white to the premiere of Wild in Hollywood last night. Both Reese and Laura Dern are considered strong candidates for Oscar nominations – Reese in the Best Actress category and Laura for Supporting. So if we're looking ahead to the Golden Globes, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, and Laura Dern could all be in the ballroom at the same time. Full Story
Andrew Garfield, Forever Child
Do you buy Andrew Garfield as an adult? I don't know that I do. He's 31 years old, I know that academically, but I don't think I really know that. Because when I see Garfield, I don't think "grown ass man". He's a Forever Child, which is why it's totally believable for him to be playing Peter Parker in the Spider-Man movies—he looks like he should still be in college. Full Story
Laura Dern came as Kyra Sedgwick
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At the end of it all I asked Duana if she missed Kyra Sedgwick. She did. Then I asked her if Laura Dern filled the Kyra Sedgwick void. It's the colour. It's a colour Kyra would have delivered to us, and beautifully. In the absence of Kyra Sedgwick, Laura Dern tried. It was an admirable attempt. Full Story
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This green dress really moved me onscreen, but in the still pictures, it's less dynamic. Maybe that's the point of sequins, that they have to be seen in motion to really kick you in the eyeballs. It's an interesting dress – both super-sexy and a little bit austere. Full Story


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Fisker Automotive, the electric-car maker that missed its first payment on a U.S. loan this week, sought taxpayer financing at the urging of President George W. Bush's administration, its co-founder said.
The company, which fired three-quarters of its workforce this month, began its slide for a variety of reasons, Henrik Fisker said at a congressional hearing today.
After the U.S. Energy Department pushed it to apply for a loan, suppliers provided parts that were subject to safety recalls, its battery supplier went bankrupt and Superstorm Sandy destroyed shipments of assembled cars, he said in the remarks.
"Some have alleged that the company only received the loans due to political connections," Fisker, who resigned from his company March 13, said. "I am not aware and do not believe that any improper political influence was used in connection with the company's loan application or subsequent negotiations with the Department of Energy. We were approached and encouraged to apply for a loan by the department."
Fisker is among the witnesses testifying before a subcommittee of the Republican-controlled House scrutinizing the $529 million in loans to Fisker, which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year called a "loser" and a recipient of "crony capitalism." The company, based in Anaheim, California, hasn't produced a car since July.
President Barack Obama's administration announced a conditional loan approval for Fisker in September 2009, eight months after he took office.
Henrik Fisker, though, said he was approached at a sustainability conference in California by John Mizroch, formerly an acting assistant DOE secretary, "soon after" the company debuted the concept of its $103,000 Karma at the Detroit auto show in January 2008.
"We discussed the technology that Fisker Automotive was developing and he encouraged the company to apply" for a loan, which it did at the end of the year, he said.
Mizroch didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
The vehicle loan program was created in a law passed by Congress, and signed by Bush, to spur development of more fuel- efficient vehicles including plug-in electrics.
"It is hard to understand why the Department of Energy ever thought Fisker was a viable company that should receive taxpayer money," Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who is chairman of the subcommittee, said in an e- mailed statement. At the hearing, he criticized the choice of Fisker as a recipient given its credit rating, lack of collateral and poor cash flow.
The company raised private capital "before we heard of" the U.S. loan program, Bernhard Koehler, Fisker's chief executive officer for Europe and the Middle East, said in prepared testimony. Fisker, for whom Koehler had been chief operating officer, raised $1.2 billion from investors, Koehler said.
While Fisker's access to its loan was frozen in June 2011, the company and the Energy Department didn't make that public until the following year.
Fisker missed its first payment due on the loan on April 22. It drew down about $193 million of its balance before the Energy Department cut off its access after the company missed milestones it was required to meet for production of the Karma.
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Nicholas Whitcombe, former acting director of the Energy Department's Advanced Technologies Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, defended the loan program and the decision to lend to Fisker.
"The department has acted decisively to protect the taxpayers' interest since it became evident that Fisker faced financial difficulties," Whitcombe, who now works in a different loan office at the agency, said in his testimony. "The department is continuing to communicate with Fisker regarding its obligations under the loan agreement, and is committed to ensuring that the taxpayers' interests are protected to the maximum extent possible."
Whitcombe said there were about 150 applications to the vehicle loan program. Five loans were granted.
In June 2010, less than two months after Fisker's loan was finalized, Sandra Claghorn, then an Energy Department loan official, said in an e-mail released by the committee that the company's request to draw money might not be honored because it wasn't meeting loan requirements.
The "Fisker draw request may be in limbo due to lack of compliance with financial covenants," Claghorn said in the June 2, 2010 e-mail.
"The document shows that one person at a meeting discussed the possibility that Fisker might not meet a financial commitment, which had to be certified as met by the company before a loan disbursement," Aoife McCarthy, an Energy Department spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. "The department received that certification five days later, and subsequently disbursed on the loan."
The same e-mail from Claghorn talked about the status of loan applications from other companies seeking funding from the vehicle loan program, which last granted a loan when it had $4 billion remaining.