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We send our customers notifications by text and email whenever severe weather is reported in their area.
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Our coverage provides you with benefits similar to leading emergency roadside assistance organizations: we license technology to alert you if severe weather strikes your street, thereby which you can elect to have a certified serviceman complete an immediate on-site damage assessment, any necessary emergency tarping, & place signage indicating that your property has been inspected to deter soliciting storm chasers.
Few people realize that under Texas law, construction & repair contractors do not need to licensed, insured, registered to operate within the state -- the result from this regulation has been a major influx of storm chasers who are unqualified and engage in illicit sales pitches.
Of the roofing & siding contractors that actually registered with the state, the numbers exceeds 10,000; review sites lack the capacity to regularly validate contractors and ensure that they are current in their standing with regards to insurance, business ratings, & financial obligations.
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I've been ruminating over some ethical issues.
Recently, I had a business ask to use several of my images, and they were willing to pay a decent amount of money. It's not like I'm rolling in the dough (who is?) and I can afford to turn business away. But in this case, that's exactly what I did. I turned them away for one simple reason: I did not have a model release, and there was no way I could obtain a release on those images; therefore I felt I could not in good conscience deliver the images for this business to use to generate revenue.


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Suzette's Feedback on 4 Days Shenzhen, Guilin, Yangshuo, Guangzhou Tour
Contribute by Suzette from United States; Tour date: 11/3/2011
Hi Sammi,
We had a very nice time and enjoyed meeting you and Candy.
The Li River Cruse is the most memorable attraction in our tour.The natural scenery is the biggest WOW!We went to the acrobatic show and enjoyed it, we went to the cultural show and it was just ok-did not follow it because no English translation. We didn't have much free time.But we did enjoy a quick walk through the market.I did not expect Guilin to be so commercialized and touristy.
Lily was great with suggestions, we filled out time completely.
Thanks Sammi for doing a great job planning out our trip and thanks to Liliy for being such a great guide.
I look forward to working with China Highlights again in the future.
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Social Conformity in Online Environments: A Comparison Between Text and Video PROCEEDINGS
Christopher Devers, Timothy Steenbergh, Erin Devers, Rachel Brighton, Brooks Ayers, Eric Carmichael, Judith Keen, Philip Hannum, Indiana Wesleyan University, United States
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-98-3 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA
Social conformity is defined as movement from one's own position to a contradictory position based on the expressed positions of others in a group (Cialdini & Trost, 1998). Asch (1955) discovered that roughly one-third of participants went against their judgment to agree with an incorrect response of confederates in their group. Additional studies since then have elucidated the factors associated with conformity in the physical world; however, research on social conformity in online environments is still evolving. Using Google+ Hangout, this experimental study examined social conformity in both synchronous textual and video online environments. Although no statistical difference was found between the two groups, participants in both conditions conformed. Interestingly, participants were equally likely to conform in the text condition as in the video condition. This project adds to the general literature on conformity, as well as direction for future research.
Devers, C., Steenbergh, T., Devers, E., Brighton, R., Ayers, B., Carmichael, E., Keen, J. & Hannum, P. (2012). Social Conformity in Online Environments: A Comparison Between Text and Video. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (pp. 1777-1781). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).


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WCF Part 1: Why WCF?
When i create a WCF service, i feel like it is a very easy task but when somebody asks me, why you have created it? then the simplest answer is, i got the requirement like this. But to be honest, Nobody tells us to use WCF specifically. Then why there is roar over WCF? This post will touch the 'why' perspective of WCF and in subsequent articles, we will touch base with WCF through coding or programming.
What's the idea behind WCF?
Idea behind , can be described as simplified communication between applications or programs written in different languages or residing at different locations.
We will try to see two important concepts which are required to understand as How communication between components can be a possibility?
Note: Here, component refers to a program or functionality which can exist independently.
Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) :
As per Wikipedia "a remote procedure call (RPC) is an inter-process communication that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space (commonly on another computer on a shared network) without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction" .
In Simple words, We have two machines, Server and Client, there is an independent code/program/component available or placed on Server to perform some function. Client like our remote machine is also running a code/program/component, which sends a request to Server to execute program residing on server machine and once execution is over,Server should share the result with program on Client machine who have waited for Server to finish the job.
Now we have some idea about RPC, here, we can deduce that Server has to tell the client which all methods are available for use. Now, There is a catch, Server should not expose their methods directly, There should be a level of encapsulation and abstraction applied to protect the functionality. We have interfaces to achieve this kind of feature.
Interface ICalls() { public void GetCount(); }
An Interface defines the expected behavior and it is available when Server side component implements this interface by inheritance.This interface can only exist if the component is instantiated. This interface is exposed to the client and, As it hides all the complexities of implementation, client just needs to call the method exposed through interface.
RPC Calls:
Client => Interface=>Server
All the service oriented technologies like COM,DCOM,Remoting, WebService,WCF were developed on this Model and can be described as improvised versions of RPC calls via interface. We will try to see the improvements achieved by each of these technologies.
Component Object Model- COM can be considered as the birth of communication between the components. In this Model, two independent component interact with each other trough interface pointers like IUnknown.There is no server and client approach established with COM but components developed on different platforms followed binary standard for function calling between components.Here, the point of interest is communication happens between the components residing at the same location.
Distributed Component Object Model- As COM was not efficient in communication between components residing on remote locations, DCOM came into existence. Wiki has mentioned "The addition of the "D" to COM was due to extensive use of DCE/RPC (Distributed Computing Environment/Remote Procedure Calls)". DCOM was Microsoft's version of handling calls between remote components. DCOM was one of the first attempt of distributed environment where client components can request services from server components on other computers in a network.
DCOM was an improvement over COM but it didn't achieve a global distribution adaptation so Microsoft came out with .Net Remoting. .NET Remoting helped in improving inter-process communication by providing loose coupling between remote object and client, also made the communication independent of specific formatting. As a result, it was easy to replace one communication protocol with another, or one serialization format with another without recompiling the client or the server.Remoting was able to use Http or TCP, and messages could have been formatted as Binary or Soap.
4.Web Services:
Though Remoting was considered more useful but there were some grey areas and web services took care of that.
- Web Services are Interoperable with many software vendors, languages and platforms and not limited to .Net like remoting.
- Audience is Unlimited and available to World Wide Web.
- Easy Development,Deployment and Maintenance.
- Highly scalable.
- Follows open web standards (such as SOAP, HTTP, and XML)
With all the above information, we have passed the journey of communication between components and reached the latest edition of communication, WCF.
How can we say, it is an improvement?
Till WCF came into picture, every technology was an improvement over the previous one but WCF was one complete product, created and built from the ground up. It can termed as a unified platform having all the improvisations achieved earlier by COM,DCOM,Remoting, WebService. We can compare it with immediate predecessor .
- Web services technology uses open web standards and build applications that send and receive messages via the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP. The messages sent or receive were defined using XML Schema. Same with WCF.
- There were only singlex and request-response communication possible in WebServices. WCF have singlex, request-response, full duplex communication.
- Web Services supported only HTTP whereas WCF supported more like TCP, IPC, MSMQ.
We can say at this point, why we require WCF compare to other options. In 2nd article, we will describe WCF and its implementation. WCF Part 2: Fundamentals


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Growing up is a revelation in retrospect. What I mean is that today and each day going forward when I reflect back to my teens and mid-twenties, thirties and forties I understand now things I knew then but didn't learn from at that moment.
What I know now that I didn't realize then was that the world around me was smothering everything that made sense.
This has been the case since I was old enough to remember.
The way we live is dictated by consensus and not logic and science. Truth is an obstacle to what we each want to believe about ourselves and about others.
So many things we've experienced and observed in our lifetimes as members of society have required changes to make corrections and improvements.
Bad habits are hard to break, I'm not sure when I first heard that. Alcohol and tobacco come immediately to my mind.
Yet we accumulate many habits in life, some good and some bad. As human beings our habits shape our lives. Most habits are acquired and influenced by others; family, friends and acquaintances.
This is true not only as individuals but in groups as well.
There are so many groups in our world that we each can count them in dozens and they most likely overlap one another and more than just one another.
Thus children are a group and fathers as well as mothers and grandparents. All together we have the family and even there we have the immediate family as opposed to cousins and aunts and uncles which happen to also be groups.
These invisible circles drawn around human beings of two or more are contained within larger circles until we realize we can quickly just draw a circle around all human beings.
Most of us humans will curb our thoughts when it comes to ourselves as a species without remembering that we humans as a whole are contained within a larger circle defined as nature and in fact are confined to a physical circle we call earth.
The pattern I've noticing for years now is the circularity of everything I know.
An easier approach to comprehending this concept of circularity is to simply look at the universe that surrounds us.
How utterly and obscenely myopic are we human beings when it comes to ourselves? How obsessed are we with our own relatively meaningless circles?
What importance do we place on circles within us? The cells that when broken down define us. The way we think, our shape and sex and the color of our eyes and hair.
It seems when it comes to circles we are as intelligent as the least intelligent among us.
Why so?
Our circular way of thinking.
We humans have a proclivity to cling to habits and repeat ourselves. This manifests itself physically and mentally.
The desire to move ahead into uncharted waters is radically tempered by the probability of failure. It is only when a circular repetitive pattern of success creates a circle that we are inclined to forge ahead.
And so we reach the subject that inspired me to write this thought piece ... the mass killings of six and seven year old children in Newtown Connecticut.
I ask myself is the death by murder of one child any different than the death of twenty or two thousand or two million?
We can have a lengthy discussion about murder as well. The discussions and thoughts are all old and repetitive and circular in their logic and destination.
If there is no change in outcomes we are trapped within our circles. The words ipso facto come to mind ... we are in and of ourselves when it comes to much if not all of our thoughts.
Contemplate the fact that to murder twenty innocent children is not prevented by the absence of any one weapon.
Certainly the probability of such incidents is reduced but the proclivity remains within the would be perpetrators.
I can't recall any time during my life that I was angry enough to want to kill someone - although it is likely that in a moment of rage when hearing and reading about the acts of others I have had the urge to seek out the perpetrator and end his or her existence.
Mental illness.
I do not think it is a question as to whether or not we humans are each mentally ill; rather it is matter of to what degree are we ALL ill as a whole.
A cognitive species that can incept, tolerate and ignore wars is mentally ill. War is a pandemic, yet is disguised and classified as adventure and action in movies and is glorified in endless ways. War is just a collective way of describing what individuals do to one another everyday.
Cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians.
I trust I am traveling a straight line in what I'm writing here ... I hope that most if not all readers are feeling squeamish and uncomfortable. If I am successful in breaking your circles then I will be referred to and thought of in many unflattering ways.
However, in some cases perhaps a few will join me on this writing journey.
To change we must first be willing to be wrong, at least in the eyes of the majority. Slowly one by one, human beings will bond and form a new straight line.
As a nation nothing could make us happier or more successful than to solve such easily solvable problems as immigration reform, health care, income inequality, poor education etc etc etc!
As a species nothing else can be a substitute for change.
If humanity does not dramatically and rapidly change we will soon cease to be.
America is capable of leading the way. WE must however find the will and bravery to draw a straight line.


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Are you in business without a plan for consistent and effective social media presence? Do you have a marketing strategy that incorporates "new media"?
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This popular course will cover Social Media Basics for Business. It's interactive, because we know you'll get a better handle on the material if you can follow along online, with others in the room who understand your pain.
Learn business basics about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare, Pinterest, YouTube, and LinkedIn, to name a handful, and figure out the best "channels" for building YOUR particular business relationships; driving traffic through your "doors", which can translate to your bottom line $$. Time permitting, we'll even cover smart phone basics so that you can make mobile a part of your social media marketing, finding ways to gather your customers and potential customers closer.
Send in questions with your advance registration here, and we'll do our best to tackle them in a way that will leave you breathing a sigh of relief (and smiling a lot more)!
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My wife, who is originally from Austria, and I are considering moving from California back to Austria to be closer to her family. We did our first European Delivery this summer and it was fantastic....which has me thinking of a possible business idea for if/when we move to Austria -- personal tours of Europe and bed and breakfast.
I'm American, and speak passable German...but my job options still would be fairly limited if/when we move back there. We own a 5 bed/2 bath house in a quaint farm village in the Alpine foothills. I keep thinking it would be cool (and profitable) if I could run a bed and breakfast business with personal day-trip tours of places like Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Alpine region, etc. My thought is I would cater to them from and American's perspective, visiting Europe likely for the first time - or like a "European Vacation of a Lifetime". I'd plan trips for people and even be tour guide for some trips.
My question to anyone who reads this - especially BMW ED dealers - is do you all think there'd be a way to cross-market my idea to new ED owners? I would market almost exclusively to middle- to upper-class Americans, and really push them to combine a fantastic vacation with a new BMW.
Is there any dealers out there who could see this being a good idea? My thought is I could partner with one BMW ED dealer in as many major US cities as possible. I could then push business to that dealer from the perspective of someone who actually has done the ED program. The dealer does the BMW paperwork, I help arrange a dream vacation, complete with personal (small group) tours of Austria and Bavaria.
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Microbial enzymes are of great importance in the development of industrial bioprocesses. Current applications are focused on many different markets including pulp and paper, leather, detergents and textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemical, food and beverages, biofuels, animal feed and personal care, among others. Today there is a need for new, improved or/and more versatile enzymes in order to develop more novel, sustainable and economically competitive production processes. Microbial diversity and modern molecular techniques, such as metagenomics and genomics, are being used to discover new microbial enzymes whose catalytic properties can be improved/modified by different strategies based on rational, semi-rational and random directed evolution. Most industrial enzymes are recombinant forms produced in bacteria and fungi.
Microbial enzymes are known to play a crucial role as metabolic catalysts, leading to their use in various industries and applications. The end use market for industrial enzymes is extremely wide-spread with numerous industrial commercial applications [
The global industrial enzymes market is very competitive with Novozymes being the largest player in the industry, followed by DSM, and DuPont (after it acquired a majority stake in Danisco and its Genencor division), among others. The companies mainly compete on the basis of product quality, performance, use of intellectual property rights, and the ability to innovate, among other such factors. North America and Europe are the largest consumers of industrial enzymes although the Asia Pacific region will undergo a rapid increase in enzyme demand in China, Japan and India, reflecting the size and strength of these country's economies.
Nature provides a vast amount of microbial enzyme resources. Our ability to tap into such immense biodiversity depends on the tools available to expand the search for new enzymes by (i) metagenome screening [
Although numerous microbes inhabit the biosphere, less than 1% can be cultivated through standard laboratory techniques. Metagenomics has appeared as an alternative strategy to conventional microbe screening by preparing a genomic library from environmental DNA and systematically screening such a library for the open reading frames potentially encoding putative novel enzymes [
Metagenomic screening is mostly based on either function or sequence approaches [
Studies from different habitats such as volcanic vents, arctic tundra, cow rumen [
Function-based screening of metagenomic libraries is somehow problematic mainly due to insufficient, biased expression of foreign genes in
Hit rate (probability of identifying a certain gene) also depends on other factors such as size of the target gene and the assay method. Enzyme activities are usually assayed on agar plates supplemented with different substrates Sensitivity of agar plate-based screening can be improved by using cell lysates [
Recent success of genome sequencing programs has resulted in an explosion of information available from sequence databases, thus creating an opportunity to explore the possibility of finding new natural products (including enzymes) by database mining [
Two approaches are being followed to discover new enzymes [
Over 30 articles on extremophiles have been published in a special issue [
Thermophilic proteases, lipases as well as cellulases and amylases are being used in many different industrial applications [
Also, enzymes from psychrophiles have become quite interesting for many industrial applications, partly because of the ongoing efforts to reduce energy consumption. Therefore, enzymes like proteases, amylases or lipases have great commercial potential for development of detergents to reduce wear and tear of textile fibers. Polymer-degrading activities (e.g., cellulases, xylanases,) are quite interesting for the pulp and paper industry, as well as for saccharification of pre-treated lignocellulosic biomass for the production of second generation biofuels [
Enzymes from halophites have to cope with very high concentrations of salts (e.g., sodium or potassium chloride). Such proteins have adapted to these environments by acquiring a large number of negatively-charged amino acid residues of their surfaces to prevent precipitation. Such a property has been taken advantage of by use of non-aqueous media [
Microorganisms that can survive under extreme pH values could be good sources of thermoalkaliphilic enzymes, like proteases and lipases, particularly useful for applications as additives in laundry and dishwashing detergents [
The continuously expanding application of enzymes is creating a growing demand for biocatalysts that exhibit improved or new properties [
Discovery and development of biocatalysts.
This approach includes site-directed mutagenesis to target amino acid substitutions, thus requiring knowledge of detailed information about the 3-dimensional structure and chemical mechanism of the enzymatic reaction, some of which may not be available. However, the increasing growth of databases containing protein structures and sequences is helping to overcome this lack of information. Comparison of the sequence of a new biocatalyst identified in a screening program with the thousands deposited in the databases can identify related proteins whose functions or/and structures are already known. Because new enzymes have evolved in nature by relatively minor modification of active-site structures, the goals of homology-driven experiments include engineering binding sites to fit different substrates as well as construction of new catalytic residues to modify functions and mechanisms [
Computational protein design starts with the coordinates of a protein main chain and uses a force field to identify sequences and geometries of amino acids that are optimal for stabilizing the backbone geometry [
Combinatorial methods such as directed evolution create a large number of variants for screening for enantioselectivity, catalytic efficiency, catalytic rate, solubility, specificity and enzyme stability, but do not require extensive knowledge about the enzyme. Directed evolution is a fast and inexpensive way of finding variants of existing enzymes that work better than naturally occurring enzymes under specific conditions [
All the approaches mentioned above are not mutually exclusive as the fields of rational, semi-rational and random redesign of enzymes are moving closer. Thus, directed evolution techniques make use, where possible, of smaller enzyme variant libraries designed by rational or semi-rational methods to reduce the screening effort but without compromising the likelihood of finding better variants [
As the fitness of a gene will increase more rapidly in a breeding population with high genetic variability that is under the influence of selection, DNA Family Shuffling, an improvement in the breeding technique based on recombination of several homologous sequences, yielded an improvement in activity of about 30 to 80 times higher than when each gene was shuffled independently [
Random redesign techniques are being currently used to generate enzymes with improved properties, such as: activity and stability at different pH values and temperatures [
In 2005, there were 4,200 biotechnology companies worldwide. Total revenue amounted to $63 billion. Recombinant DNA technology has been remarkably advanced by their development of efficient and scale-up expression systems to produce enzymes from industrially-unknown microorganisms and other living organisms using industrial organisms such as
Heterologous gene expression in the methylotropic yeast
The development of molecular techniques for production of recombinant heterologous proteins in filamentous fungi has been laborious and contrasts markedly with the success achieved in yeasts. The ability to introduce or delete genes remains difficult, although some advances in transformation have been reported, e.g., restriction enzyme-mediated integration [
Biocatalysts have been widely applied in the brewing and food industries for a long time but ar finding new applications in many fields including industrial chemistry [
Enzymes are very important for processes of industrial, pharmaceutical and biotechnological significance [
The use of enzymes as detergent additives represents a major application of industrial enzymes. Proteases, lipases, amylases, oxidases, peroxidases and cellulases are added to detergents where they catalyze the breakdown of chemical bonds on the addition of water. To be suitable, they must be active under thermophilic (60 °C) and alkalophilic (pH 9–11) conditions, as well as in the presence of the various components of washing powders.
Proteases constitute over 60% of the global market for enzymes. They are used to produce pharmaceuticals, foods, detergents, leather, silk and agrochemical products. In laundry detergents, they account for approximately 25% of the total worldwide sales of enzymes. The first detergent containing a bacterial protease ("Biotex") was introduced by Novo Industry A/S (now Novozymes) in 1956. It contained an alcalase produced by
In the textile industry, enzymes are also increasingly being used to develop cleaner processes and reduce the use of raw materials and production of waste. The application of cellulases for denim finishing and laccases for decolorization of textile effluents and textile bleaching are the most recent commercial advances [
Another application of enzymes with increasing importance is the use of lipases, xylanases and laccases in removing pitch (hydrophobic components of wood, mainly triglycerides and waxes) in the pulp industry [
Although cellulases have been widely used in textile applications for many years, these enzymes are gaining additional consideration in the enzyme market owing to their ability in the degradation of lignocellulosic feedstocks. The cost of cellulases is a key issue in achieving a low price conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels and other products [
The global market for feed enzymes is a promising segment in the enzyme industry and is expected to reach about $730 million in 2015 [
Food and beverage enzymes constitute the largest segment of industrial enzymes with revenues of nearly $1.2 billion in 2011 which is expected to grow to $1.8 billion by 2016, at a composed annual growth rate of 10.4% [
Lipases are commonly used in the production of a variety of products, ranging from fruit juices, baked foods, and vegetable fermentations to dairy enrichment. Fats, oils and related compounds are the main targets of lipases in food technology. Accurate control of lipase concentration, pH, temperature and emulsion content is required to maximize the production of flavor and fragrance. The lipase mediation of carbohydrate esters of fatty acids offers a potential market for use as emulsifiers in foods, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. There are three recombinant fungal lipases currently used in the food industry, one from
The major application of proteases in the dairy industry is for the manufacture of cheese. Calf rennin had been preferred in cheese making due to its high specificity, but microbial proteases produced by GRAS microorganisms like
Bacterial glucose isomerase, fungal α-amylase and glucoamylase are currently used to produce "high fructose corn syrup" from starch in a $1 billion business. Other enzymes useful in the food industry include invertase from
In terms of government regulation, enzymes used in food can be divided into food additives and processing aids. Most food enzymes are considered as processing aids, with only a few used as additives, such as lysozyme and invertase [
Successful application of enzymatic processes in the chemical industry depends mainly on cost competitiveness with the existing and well-established chemical methods [
An enzymatic conversion was devised to produce the amino acid L-tyrosine [
Industrial scale biocatalysis is focused primarily on hydrolases, a few ketoreductases (KREDs), cofactor regeneration and protein stability in organic solvents. The numerous biocatalytic routes scaled up for pharmaceutical manufacturing have been recently reviewed by Bornscheuer
Enzymes are useful for preparing beta-lactam antibiotics such as semi-synthetic penicillins and cephalosporins [
Preparation of chiral medicines,
The inherent inefficiency of kinetic resolution (maximum 50% yield) can be overcome by novel asymmetric reactions catalyzed by improved microbial enzymes which can provide a 100% yield [
Atorvastatin, the active ingredient of Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that had global sales of US$12 billion in 2010, can be produced enzymatically. The process is based on three enzymatic activities: a ketone reductase, a glucose dehydrogenase and a halohydryn dehalogenase. Several iterative rounds of DNA shuffling for these three enzymes, with screening in the presence of iteratively higher concentrations of product, led to a 14-fold reduction in reaction time, a 7-fold increase in substrate loading, a 25-fold reduction in enzyme use, and a 50% improvement in isolated yield [
Kinetic resolution of racemic amines is a common method used in the synthesis of chiral amines. Acylation of a primary amine moiety by a lipase is used by BASF for the resolution of chiral primary amines in a multi-thousand ton scale [
An effective enzymatic process using enzyme evolution was developed by the biotechnology company Codexis, in cooperation with Pfizer, to produce 2-methyl pentanol, an important intermediate for manufacture of pharmaceuticals and liquid crystals [
Optically active carboxylic acids have been usually synthesized through different enzymatic routes catalyzed by lipases, nitrilases or hydroxynitrile lyases. Recent advances have improved the efficiency of such procedures. The synthesis of 2-arylpropanoic acids (e.g., ketoprofen, ibuprofen and naproxen) is mainly achieved through the kinetic resolution of racemic substrates by lipases from
Application of enzymes in several industrial bioconversions has been broadened by the use of organic solvents replacing water [
From a biotechnological perspective, there are many advantages of employing enzymes in organic, as opposed to aqueous, media [
Microorganisms provide an impressive amount of catalysts with a wide range of applications across several industries such as household care, food, animal feed, technical industries, fine chemicals and pharma. The unique properties of enzymes such as high specificity, fast action and biodegradability allow enzyme-assisted processes in industry to run under milder reaction conditions, with improved yields and reduce waste generation.
However, naturally occurring enzymes are often not suitable for such biocatalytic processes without further tailoring or redesign of the enzyme itself in order to fine-tune substrate specificity activity or other key catalytic properties.
Recent advances in genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, efficient expression systems and emerging recombinant DNA techniques have facilitated the discovery of new microbial enzymes from nature (through genome and metagenome) or by creating (or evolving) enzymes with improved catalytic properties.
The ongoing progress and interest in enzymes provide further success in areas of industrial biocatalysis. The next years should see a lot of exciting developments in the area of biotransformations. There are many factors influencing the growing interest in biocatalysis which include enzyme promiscuity, robust computational methods combined with directed evolution and screening technologies to improve enzyme properties to meet process prospects, the application of one-pot multistep reactions using multifunctional catalysts and the
Many future investigations will use combinations of engineered and
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His medical colleagues advised him not to break ranks by talking about the hospital's problems to the newspapers.
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Venezuela Hugo Chávez said yesterday that he favored the creation of a group of "Friends of Venezuela" to lead an international diplomatic effort to end the month-long general strike.
The Venezuelan leader made the announcement in Brazil where he attended the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Chavez said that he expected countries from Latin America, Europe and OPEC, which Venezuela helped found more than 40 years ago, would help his country end the strike. Chavez also proposed forming a "Latin American OPEC" between Venezuela and Brazil. Chavez said Lula expressed his "total support" and predicted that Brazil and Venezuela would make "great advances together in the coming years" because of the similar views.
To relieve economic pressure, Brazil last week sent an oil tanker with 520,000 barrels of gasoline to Venezuela.
As for the ongoing strike, Chavez said yesterday, "What is going on in my country is not a strike. It is a coup attempt disguised as a strike," organized by "terrorists who are blocking oil and food distribution and sabotaging refineries."
Meanwhile the leaders of the strike called today on the military to join their cause. So far, the military has backed Chavez.
- Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for BBC-TV's "News Night." He is the author of many books including "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and also a regular contributor to the British newspapers The Guardian and The Observer.
- Samuel Moncada, Historian and Director of the School of History at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas.
- Maria Luisa Mendonca , Brazilian grassroots organizer and one of the coordinators of the World Social Forum.


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James W. Vertullo, 51, of Pittsburgh, was indicted by a federal grand jury June 6, 2012 and arrested by HSI special agents June 13, 2012. He subsequently pleaded guilty to the charge in December 2012.
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Classic Reviews Round-Up #35 and New Announcements (Continued)
The year 2007 is shaping up as a good one for Doris Day fans as Warners has a second collection of her films scheduled for release in April with rumours abounding that her entire list of films will be available on DVD by the end of the year. Contributing to this is Fox's recent release of three CinemaScope titles:
Do Not Disturb
, and
Move Over, Darling
Each has been accorded a new restoration presented on DVD in a 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer and endowed with a generous helping of supplementary material. For example,
(1967) features an audio commentary, an interview with the film's costume designer, two featurettes, photo galleries, and radio interviews with Doris Day and Richard Harris while
Do Not Disturb
(1965) includes four new featurettes and photo galleries. I looked at the best of three -
Move Over, Darling
(1963) - in detail and found it to be a diverting timepasser though not nearly on the same level as the original sound version with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne (
My Favorite Wife
, 1940). Interestingly, this remake was originally planned by Fox as a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin to be called
Something's Got to Give
, but that effort was abandoned when the studio became fed up with Monroe's frequent absences. Shortly thereafter, Fox tried again with James Garner and Doris Day assuming the lead roles and
Move Over, Darling
was the result. The story involves a man who has his wife declared legally dead after she had disappeared during an ocean-going tragedy five years previously. He remarries only to have his original wife finally show up after spending those five years stranded on a remote Pacific island. The film is a slick production and the lead performers (including Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, and Chuck Connors) play their roles with obvious relish. The situation is contrived, but there are plenty of chuckles and a strong supporting cast that includes Fred Clark, Don Knotts, and Edgar Buchanan helps plaster over the weaker sections, although some of them, notably Knotts, are sadly underutilized. The film may pale in comparison to the original, but on the other hand, compared to what passes as film comedy now-a-days, it's a riot. Fox makes it even easier to take with a superb restoration that looks bright, clean, and vibrant. The mono sound has also been cleaned up nicely as well. The supplement package is very thoughtful and is highlighted by what still exists (about 33 minutes) of D.W. Griffith's
Enoch Arden
, a 1911 silent film drawing on the Tennyson poem that is the basis for it and the subsequent sound films. Other supplements include featurettes on the fate of
Something's Got to Give
, a comparison of Doris Day and Marilyn Monroe, a short conversation with Polly Bergen, a restoration comparison, and a photo gallery. The other two Doris Day releases in this grouping (
Do Not Disturb
, as mentioned above) are lesser vehicles, particularly
which is one of numerous films of the time that attempted to piggy back on the then-current spy craze. A spy spoof, it's cringingly unfunny throughout. Due to Fox's fine efforts, Doris Day completists will be very happy with all three of these presentations, but the casual fan or someone looking to take a chance need only consider
Move Over, Darling
and probably as a rental.
With MGM ramping up its DVD release program once again now that its distribution arrangement with Fox is fully operational, one of the early results is a new two-disc
Collector's Edition
Fiddler on the Roof
. I'm not going to review the film itself for it's had two DVD incarnations from MGM already and I suspect that most people know that it's a superb Norman Jewison-directed musical. If you haven't seen it, you've missed a real treat. The real question, though, is whether there's any reason to consider a purchase of this new
Collector's Edition
. The previous SE version released in 2001 (a double-sided presentation) was already a pretty good effort with a very nice transfer, a great audio commentary with Jewison and actor Topol, and a number of supporting featurettes and other materials. For the new
Collector's Edition
, we get two discs but the transfer appears to be the same as the one previously available. All the supplements from 2001 have been carried over to 2007 (the
Norman Jewison Filmmaker
documentary, the
Norman Jewison Looks Back
featurette, historical background, deleted song, storyboards, photos, etc.). New material, totaling a little over 50 minutes, consists of four featurettes;
John Williams: Creating a Musical Tradition
Topol's Daughters
Set in Reality: Production Design
, and
Songs of Fiddler on the Roof
. Each is an interesting piece that does add to the information available on the film, but in total they don't provide a compelling reason to upgrade if you already have the previous SE release. If however, you've somehow not managed to acquire a disc version of
Fiddler on the Roof
before now, this new
Collector's Edition
is the one to buy and in those circumstances is highly recommended.
The early days of DVD did quite well by the "angry young man" British films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a time of resurgence in British film with its emphasis on realism and social desperation. Prime examples such as
Look Back in Anger
The Entertainer
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
, and
Room at the Top
have all been available for quite a while (although
Room at the Top
may now be OOP). One of the movement's key figures, director Tony Richardson who had been responsible for
Look Back in Anger
The Entertainer
, had a brief fling in Hollywood in the early 1960s before returning to Britain for his biggest commercial success,
Tom Jones
. In between, he made
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
(1962), which has now been released on DVD by Warner Bros. Based on a short story by Alan Sillitoe, who also wrote "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", the film tells the story of a young man from Nottingham who is sent to Borstal reformatory school where his affinity for cross country running leads the Borstal warden to encourage him to win an upcoming race. In a series of flashbacks that are well integrated with the rest of the film, we learn the background to the young man's current incarceration as well as following his ongoing running progress. The nature of the film's end becomes fairly evident well before it occurs, the only thing remaining in the balance being the decision that the main character will ultimately make. Despite an at-times off-putting overuse of French New Wave techniques (undercranked scenes, jerky editing, jump cuts, overlapping dialogue), the film is a mesmerizing portrait of youth in conflict with the establishment. The portrait of social conditions typical for lower class families at the time is uncompromising in terms of the stifling living conditions and the general air of hopelessness prevalent. Tom Courtenay makes a smashing film debut as the runner, his lack of film-star-like beauty adding much to the film's realism. Michael Redgrave plays the reformatory warden or "guvner" and does a wonderful job of embodying a paternalistic, "there's a good chap", "you play ball with us; we'll play ball with you" establishment. The images of Courtenay running alone along wet pathways, through swampy ground, in almost continually gray, overcast conditions emphasizes the sense of an unrewarding present and lack of a bright future that pervades the film. The 1.78:1 anamorphic transfer looks nicely framed even though the film was likely originally intended for projection at 1.66:1. The image is sharp and very nicely detailed, but there is some speckling evident at times. The mono sound seems slightly muffled on occasion, but is quite workable for the most part. The only supplement is a theatrical trailer. Recommended.
You know, it's quite unfortunate that Fox seems to have no interest whatsoever in really publicizing its classic releases. Even more so than Warners recently, Fox has been issuing interesting classic choices on DVD, including a surprising number of films that one might have secretly hoped to have released but never really believed would actually appear - films such as the Will Rogers ones or the forthcoming Michael Shayne mysteries or 1930s Jeeves titles. It would be a shame to see such initiatives go unrewarded in the market place due to lack of consumer awareness, even more so when one considers the superior efforts that Fox puts into its supplementary material as well. A current case in point is
The Ernest Hemingway Film Collection
, which has made a last minute appearance just in time for inclusion in this column. Yes, it does contain a title previously released by Fox - the overblown 1957
A Farewell to Arms
- but that's a minor quibble, when one considers what else has been included. How about Darryl Zanuck's second independent production of the mid-1950s, the ambitious and sumptuously-filmed
The Sun Also Rises
(1957), with fine work by Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn and a 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer that is close to if not the best looking one that I've ever seen from a standard definition DVD (in fact, almost high definition-like at times). Or, a beautiful presentation of
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1952, with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner), a film until now only available in poor-looking public domain releases. Or two titles never before available on home video, 1962's
Adventures of a Young Man
(an impressively diverse cast) and 1950's
Under My Skin
(with John Garfield) - both at least interesting films if not quite as successful as one might have hoped. Fox's restoration work on these films is as good as anyone is doing in the industry; it also presents them with the correct aspect ratios, anamorphically enhanced as appropriate, and its attention to supplementary material is first rate. In fact, if you like audio commentaries with your classic films, you're more likely to find them on Fox discs than anyone else's. In this Hemingway set, three of the films benefit from the solidly informative and entertaining work of film historians Patricia King Hanson and Frank Thompson (
Adventures of a Young Man
The Sun Also Rises
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
) while Anthony Slide provides his thoughts on
Under My Skin
. Aside from
A Farewell to Arms
, which offers nothing new to distinguish it from its first release, the other four discs all provide new making-of documentaries and new featurettes focused on several of the key filmmakers or on Hemingway himself. Restoration comparisons, still galleries, and trailers round out each disc. Very highly recommended.
New Announcements
The highlight of this column's new announcements section is the news of Warner Bros.' future plans as revealed in a chat recently held by senior Warner executives with the
Home Theater Forum
. Those wishing to read the full text of the chat
may do so here
, but for others who may just want to know what was said about classic titles, I've summarized the results under four headings, as follows:
2007 releases
-there will be a June release of some films that will likely be in the western/adventure genre, and/or possibly early CinemaScope films
coming very soon with a bunch of other fun and highly desired titles
-Joan Crawford collection waiting in wings for announcement (just pending a few mastering issues)
-Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland box set this summer
Forbidden Hollywood #2
later this year with six films (will include some Norma Shearer) plus a new documentary on pre-Code films
-Burt Lancaster set later this year (hope to include
Twilight's Last Gleaming
in it)
-will celebrate John Wayne's 100th birthday this year with a two-disc set of
Rio Bravo
and six new-to-DVD titles (See below for the official announcement which Warners has now released)
-more classic horror (no titles specified)
-Kubrick collection by Christmas
(Joan Crawford, 1970)
35th anniversary 2-disc SE
O Lucky Man
Cool Hand Luke
40th anniversary SE
Royal Wedding
being rescued from public domain
The Jazz Singer
(1927) in Super Deluxe 80th anniversary edition
2008 releases
Pete Kelly's Blues
, both restored and in 5.1
Jack and the Beanstalk
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Rio Rita
in early 2008
-two Forbidden Hollywood releases planned for this year and in succeeding years
Quo Vadis
probably around Easter time (in Ultra Resolution)
The Magnificent Ambersons
(found new elements) and
Journey into Fear
(will include alternate cuts)
-more classic horror (no titles specified)
-more Cagney, Bogart, Robinson, Garfield
-hope to have Philo Vance, Perry Mason, The Saint and The Falcon
Busby Berkeley Volume 2
Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers in Paris
Varsity Show
Hollywood Hotel
Brewster McCloud
being considered
-John Garfield collection (six films) early in 2008
The Prize
(1963, Paul Newman)
Lon Chaney Collection Volume 2
will have a Tod Browning documentary as centerpiece
-more Ann Sheridan
-first of several Andy Hardy box sets
-roadshow version of
Raintree County
for the 50th anniversary
How the West Was Won
fully restored
Goodbye Mr. Chips
(1969) maybe in 2008
-Lana Turner set maybe in 2008
Light in the Piazza
(1962) for Valentine's Day
Complete Show Boat
(1929, 36, 51 versions-latter in Ultra Resolution) maybe in 2008 (definitely not 2007)
-Natalie Wood box set (
Inside Daisy Clover
Sex and the Single Girl
Splendor in the Grass
, others)
I Died a Thousand Times
being considered
Hit the Deck
coming and other non-musical scope/stereo epics
-WB does not have rights to
Drum Beat
anymore (possibly reverted to Alan Ladd estate?)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
definitely planned but timing most likely 2009
-still searching for better source material on the Bowery Boys films so they won't be coming in 2007
-no longer own rights to
-no date set for the Spencer Tracy Collection yet (it will include
Northwest Passage
-Torchy Blane set will be dependent upon how well the Nancy Drew set does (coming this June)
-another James Stewart collection is planned (will include
Carbine Williams
) but will not appear in 2007 for sure
Merry Widow
is in the plans
(1923) won't be much longer and will include the theatrical release as well as the reconstruction
-Robert Redford has recorded a commentary for
The Candidate
but no date on a release
-new edition of
The Man Who Would Be King
in the works
-more Greer Garson and Norma Shearer over the next 18 months
-still considering Chan films Warners controls
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
(1970) being considered
-no plans for Altman's
(1968) or an SE of
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
-the Wheeler and Woolsey films from RKO are in bad shape and need restoration, costs for which are currently being considered
-no plans to revisit
Wait Until Dark
for 40th anniversary in 2007
-silent titles such as
The Wind
Scarlet Letter
The Big Parade
Show People
The Crowd
were restored in the 1980s and need to be redone from scratch for DVD. No timing indicated
-no plans for a new version of
National Velvet
(1974) coming soon and in the original mono (could not do a stereo version as hoped)
-big MGM musical promo coming shortly and hopefully an Eleanor Powell set by the end of the year
-no Hedy Lamarr set planned
-working on
No Time for Sergeants
but no timing available as yet
being revisited especially audio mix, but don't expect anytime soon
-Eddy/Macdonald films need extensive restoration which will be done but don't expect anytime soon
HD news
North by Northwest
needs to be remastered for HD, likely in 2009 for the 50th anniversary
Quo Vadis
around Easter time 2008 (based on Ultra Resolution effort)
35th anniversary later in 2007 in HD and BD
-BD version of
Forbidden Planet
is planned but no date set
-Kubrick on HD and BD before the end of 2007
The Music Man
needs to be redone and hope to have in 2008
Other News
Now we get to the rest of the new announcements. The
Classic Coming Attractions Database
has been updated as usual and sources for this edition include studio press releases and websites, personal contacts, internet newsgroups, online retailers, and DVD news sites (
The Digital Bits
, the
Home Theater Forum
DVD Times
, and
among others).
In Criterion news, it appears that Lindsay Anderson's
will be released in June. This release is apparently related to the same arrangement with Paramount that gave Criterion access to
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
as is the news from various sources that a Criterion release of Billy Wilder's
Ace in the Hole
is a certainty with a July date currently being targeted. The third entry in Criterion's Eclipse line will appear on June 12th. It's entitled
Late Ozu
and will include five titles by director Yasujiro Ozu:
Early Spring
Tokyo Twilight
Equinox Flower
Late Autumn
(1960), and
The End of Summer
Classic Media will offer 1964's
Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster
and 1965's
Invasion of Astro Monster
on June 5th. Both releases will include the original Japanese versions as well as the English re-edited ones, audio commentary (by David Kalat and Stuart Galbraith IV respectively), featurette biographies of key crew members, poster galleries, and the original Japanese trailer.
Fox's May releases due on the 22nd also include the studio's usual spring western releases and a couple of other miscellaneous items. The westerns are:
Fury at Furnace Creek
(1948, with Victor Mature),
Broken Arrow
(1950, with James Stewart),
Convict Stage
(1965, with Don "Red" Barry),
Fort Courageous
(1965, with Don "Red" Barry), and
White Feather
(1955, with Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter in CinemaScope). The miscellaneous others are Sam Fuller's
Hell and High Water
(1954, with Richard Widmark in CinemaScope) and
The Third Secret
(1964, British mystery with Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins). Fox kicks off June with a mixture of new classic releases and special editions of previously available titles. On June 5th, expect
The Neptune Factor
(1973, with Ben Gazzara),
The Sand Pebbles: Special Edition
(1966, with Steve McQueen, 2 discs incl. audio commentary),
Twelve O'Clock High: Special Edition
(1949, with Gregory Peck, audio commentary), and
Von Ryan's Express: Special Edition
(1965, with Frank Sinatra. 2 discs incl. audio commentary). Then on June 12th, scheduled releases include
Charley's Aunt
(1941, with Jack Benny, audio commentary),
The Hustler: Collector's Edition
(1961, with Paul Newman. 2 discs incl. audio commentary), the
Jeeves Collection
Thank You, Jeeves!
[1936] and
Step Lively, Jeeves!
[1937], both with Arthur Treacher), and
The Three Musketeers
(1939, with Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers). Finally, in a recent issue of his "Noir Sentinel", Eddie Muller indicates that Fox will have three more entries in its Film Noir line, but he makes no mention of the titles or timing other than to suggest that
The Brasher Doubloon
will not be among them.
On April 3rd, Genius Products will follow up last year's
two-disc release with a similar presentation of
Godzilla Raids Again
, the 1955 sequel. Content includes the original Japanese version as well as the English re-edit, audio commentary, a special effects featurette, and a poster gallery.
Those who have the first two volumes in the
Treasures from American Film Archives
series, issued through Image Entertainment, should be aware that a third volume is planned for release this coming autumn.
Treasures from American Film Archives III: Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934
is planned as a four-disc set comprising 12½ hours of material.
The Godless Girl
(1928) and
(1928) are among the titles expected to be included. The autumn of 2008 will see a fourth volume (a two-disc set),
Treasures from American Film Archives IV: The American Avant-Garde Film 1945-1985
Looser Than Loose Publishing will offer T
he Larger World of Laurel & Hardy: Volume 5 - Almost Hats Off
on March 13th. This volume of the series exploits the central gag of the lost short
Hats Off
and the celebrated
The Music Box
with two shorts that focus on the staircase that featured so prominently in those films. The shorts are
Ice Cold Cocos
(1926, with Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde) and
It's Your Move
(1945, with Edgar Kennedy). Also included is
His Musical Career
(1914, with Charlie Chaplin) and a 1997 video tour of Laurel & Hardy locations in Los Angeles and Culver City.
As a follow-up to its first DVD serial release of
Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery
, Hermitage Hill (again in conjunction with the Serial Squadron) will release the 1944 13-chapter Universal serial
Mystery of the Riverboat
(with Robert Lowery) on March 27th.
Image plans to release the 1941 Gene Autry film
The Singing Hill
on May 1st.
For those who care, Legend Films will make available
The Little Rascals In Color
on March 26th. This will be a three-disc set containing 15 shorts and a nice selection of bonus material. All the shorts will be presented in the original black and white as well as colourized versions. The shorts are:
Our Gang Follies of 1938
Washee Ironee
Shrimps for a Day
Night 'N' Gales
School's Out
Free Wheeling
For Pete's Sake
Divot Diggers
Waldo's Last Stand
Fly My Kite
A Lad an' a Lamp
The Kid from Borneo
Hi Neighbor
, and
Hide and Shriek
MPI plans to release the
(and final)
The Doris Day Show
later this year. Reportedly, it will include commentaries on some episodes by Doris Day herself.
Paramount and Warner Bros together will be celebrating what would have been John Wayne's 100th birthday with a pile of new and recycled releases on May 22nd. (For the Warner Bros. part of this announcement, see the Warner Bros. release paragraph below.) Paramount will offer a
True Grit: Special Collector's Edition
which will include audio commentary by Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Boze Bell, and J. Stuart Rosebrook; a four-part making-of documentary (
True Writing
Working with the Duke
Aspen Gold: Locations of True Grit
The Law and the Lawless
), and the theatrical trailer. This new edition, which will be available separately, will also be packaged along with 13 other previously-released Wayne films in three ways: all together in a 14-title
John Wayne Century Collection
and in two smaller sub-collections - the 9-title
John Wayne Western Collection
and the 5-title
John Wayne Adventure Collection
. The 14 titles in total are as follows (with the particular sub-collection they're also in shown in brackets):
The High And The Mighty: Special Collector's Edition
(Adventure Collection),
Island In The Sky: Special Collector's Edition
(Adventure Collection),
True Grit: Special Collector's Edition
(Western Collection),
Hondo: Special Collector's Edition
(Western Collection),
McLintock!: Special Collector's Edition
(Western Collection),
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(Western Collection),
The Shootist
(Western Collection),
Big Jake
(Western Collection),
Donovan's Reef
(Adventure Collection),
In Harm's Way
(Adventure Collection),
(Adventure Collection),
Rio Lobo
(Western Collection),
The Sons Of Katie Elder
(Western Collection), and
El Dorado
(Western Collection). (I wonder if Paramount now regrets giving the Republic catalog back to Lionsgate. Just think of the new John Wayne titles it could have had for this promotion instead of all the recycled material it's announced.) Paramount also has
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C: Season Two
set for June 26th.
Reelclassicdvd.com has announced the availability of two new releases.
Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman
is the 1917 version of the adventure comedy with John Barrymore and Frank Morgan. It's accompanied by the 1922 two-reel short
The Leather Pushers: Round Three - Payment Through the Nose
. Original music scores are composed and performed by Richardson Price. The other release is
The Our Gang Collection: Volume One
, which contains five shorts with original music composed and performed by Ben Model. The shorts are:
Derby Day
Big Business
Monkey Business
War Feathers
(1926), and
Love My Dog
Sony has delayed the release of the new versions of
The Caine Mutiny
The Guns of Navarone
The Bridge on the River Kwai
, and
Lawrence of Arabia
from March 20th to May 8th.
Universal apparently has Legacy Series releases of Hitchcock's
The Birds
in its September plans.
As revealed at inthebalcony.com, VCI is apparently working at restoring the lost serial
Brenda Starr, Reporter
(Columbia, 1945 with Joan Woodbury) for a fall 2007 release. Other serial plans include a May release for
Scouts to the Rescue
(Universal, 1939 with Jackie Cooper) and
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
(Universal, 1945 with Bill Kennedy) with plans for the three Dick Tracy sequels (
Dick Tracy Returns
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Dick Tracy Vs. Crime Inc.
) in the summer and a reissued
Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere
(Columbia, 1951). VCI will be introducing a budget line of discs (each $6 SRP) in April. Many will be minor post-1970 titles, but included are a number of TV series compilations of six episodes each (
My Little Margie: Volumes 1-4
I Married Joan: Volumes 1-4
Annie Oakley: Volumes 1-2
One Step Beyond: Volumes 1-2
The Littlest Hobo: Volumes 1-2
). All the latter are set to street on April 24th.
Warner Bros. and Paramount together will be celebrating what would have been John Wayne's 100th birthday with a pile of new and recycled releases on May 22nd. (For the Paramount part of this announcement, see the Paramount release paragraph above.) Warners will have
Rio Bravo
in a new two-disc
Special Edition
and an
Ultimate Collector's Edition
The Cowboys
in a new
Deluxe Edition
, and six new-to-DVD titles in the
John Wayne Film Collection
. The
Rio Bravo SE
will feature a new digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements, audio commentary by director John Carpenter and film critic Richard Schickel, the 1973 documentary
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
, two new featurettes (
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo
Old Tucson: Where the Legends Walked
), and a John Wayne trailer gallery. Added to this content for the
Ultimate Edition
will be press book, Dell comic book, and lobby card reproductions. The
Deluxe Edition
The Cowboys
features a newly restored and remastered transfer, audio commentary by Mark Rydell, two featurettes (one of which is new), and the trailer. The
John Wayne Film Collection
Allegheny Uprising
Big Jim McLain
Reunion in France
Trouble Along the Way
(1947), and
Without Reservations
(1946). Each title (all of which will also be available individually) will have a short and a cartoon for supplements. On June 19th, Warners will release
The Lucille Ball Collection
which will include five films:
Critic's Choice
Dance Girl Dance
DuBarry Was a Lady
The Big Street
(1942), and
(1974). All titles (each will also be available separately) will have vintage shorts/cartoons and trailers as supplements. Also being released widely the same day is
Best Foot Forward
(1943), which was previously only available as an Amazon exclusive.
In HD news, Warner Bros. has announced April 10th as the release date for
Dog Day Afternoon
(1975, with Al Pacino). Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray versions will be available and all the supplements of the SE standard DVD release will be included. On April 17th,
The Dirty Dozen
will come to Blu-ray. Universal has an ambitious series of High Definition releases planned over the spring and summer months, but there's not a classic title in sight.
Well, that's all for now. I'll return again soon.
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Adventures of the Fellowship of the Huemul (Or There and Maybe Eventually Back Again)
March 27, 2014
By Frances Iannucci (University of Vermont '15)
Sixty days in, and the adventure is still going strong! The group woke up on Saint Patrick's Day to frosty tents, clear blue skies, and a buzz of excitement in the air as we began the preparations for our backpacking exploration of Parque Nacional Bernardo O'Higgins. While we were partly continuing our search for huemul deer in the park, our main objective was simply to explore new places, traveling where no gringo had traveled before (that's not an exaggeration- we are literally the first people other than a few CONAF park rangers to explore this region of the park!). The plan was to hike out the first day, do a little exploring and huemul searching, then head home to Fiordo Bernardo on day 3. So after a wholesome breakfast of cake and mote, we packed up camp, waved goodbye to our kayaking NOLS visitors, squeezed in a pre-hike yoga session, and without further ado we were on our way!
The trip began with a leisurely walk along the newly completed 1/2 km of trail, followed by a brief traipse through some prickly shrubbery. By the time no shirt o'clock rolled around, we were rock-hopping our way toward the glacier. Spirits were high as we grazed on calafate berries and munched on glacial ice for a pleasant hour of walking along the fjord, drinking in all the sights and sounds of this unbelievable place we're living in. The path up to this point was familiar to all of us from previous tours of the area. As soon as the clock struck 12, though, we officially struck out into a totally new part of the Patagonian wilderness.
One of our biggest discoveries of the day was how well The Lord of the Rings has transcended cultural boundaries. It seemed quite fitting, listening to the a capella soundtrack provided by Tyler and Cameron as we trekked across the countryside, although our cast of characters was a little jumbled. Frodo (Felador) led the way throughout our voyage, accompanied by Pippin (Tyler), Faramir (Bolton), and Gandalf (Orlando). I believe Aragorn and an Ent came along for the ride, as well. After several hours of traversing "paths" that only our Chilean guides would know, we even gazed upon the gates of Mordor. Perhaps you would know it as Magellanes, Region XII of Chile. It's a lot wetter and more vegetated than I would have imagined from reading the books, and who knew that Mount Doom was actually a giant ice field? The largest ice field outside the Arctic and Antarctic circles, as a matter of fact. Okay, so maybe the landscape is a little different, but the spirit of adventure is still very much the same.
As the first couple days progressed, the surprises began to accumulate. It started out with smaller details, like the gun strapped to Orlando's backpack, and the hunks of sheep that continued to emerge from that same backpack at every meal (we all got to partake in the rack of ribs on the second night). We also received the news that we had permanently lost one of our fearless leaders, as Jonny was returning to the UK for hand surgery and would not be rejoining our Round River family (see previous blog entry). If things go according to plan, a new leader will be waiting for us upon our return to Tortel. Ups and downs, you could say.
Then, we saw a cow pie.
As it turns out, there are a few feral cows roaming around these parts, which has indirect negative impacts on the park's huemul population. Given this negative perception of the cows and the freshness of the signs we were coming across, the time was ripe for a good gaucho-style cow hunt. Thus, we continued our hike fully armed: Felador with his gun in the lead, and Orlando bringing up the rear with a machete. We even got a lesson in cow safety, being instructed to ditch our packs and run for a tree if we ever faced a charging cow. We were clearly hot on the trail, but the first day of hunting yielded little more than a dead mouse sighting.
Now, were this a trip back in the USA, you would think at this point we would start heading home, and maybe keep an eye out for a cow along the way… but this is Patagonia we're talking about. Instead, after some confusing and slightly aggravating deliberation, we found ourselves en route to Refugio Tempano, the other refuge in the park. After all, when will we ever get another chance to explore this place? We pressed on through the continual rain, swampy ground, and knee- to thigh-deep river crossings, driven on by the prospect of a roof over our heads, a fire to dry out by, and Chilean hospitality to fill our bellies for the night. The long hike home would be much more pleasant the next day anyway, with sun in the forecast.
We arrived at Tempano after a fairly short hike, but – plot twist – nobody was home when we arrived! Apparently the two resident CONAF park rangers were out and about for the day. We managed to sneak in the back door to dry out, thaw out, drink mate, discuss some restoration ecology (Academics? What?), and cook up some dinner before pitching our tents on the porch in the interest of being polite. I initially lost my tent over the railing in the crazy wind, but a strategically placed box of potatoes prevented any further incidents.
After a very windy night, we set out bright and early with the intention of powering through the 25 km back to Fiordo Bernardo. Things started smoothly: the sun was shining, and the first 6 km went by relatively quickly. What followed, however, was the longest unexpected lesson in Chilean culture, beyond the scope of any of our imaginations.
When in the remote backcountry of Chile, the name of the game is flexibility, hospitality, and giving whatever you can. Plans can change in the blink of an eye, so you quickly learn to go with the flow, make the most of the situation at hand, and trust that things will work out in the end. In this case, our change of plans came in the form of two CONAF rangers tending to a tree decorated with the choice cuts of a recently killed feral cow. The Chileans got talking, one thing led to another, and suddenly half the group was embarking on another cow hunt, while the rest of us loaded our packs with 20-pound bags of raw meat to bring back to Tempano for the night's Asado.
Hospitality is very freely offered in Chilean culture, and it cannot be politely declined. At first, I thought nothing could display this better than these two men taking in eleven people they had never met in their lives, cooking us a feast fit for royalty, and giving us a house to sleep in for the night, when we could give nothing of the sort in return. Then plans were made to take a boat ride to the glacier and make empanadas the next day, so one day became two. Then the massive rain storm rolled in, and two days became three. Not once in that entire time did we ever want for anything (except maybe some vegan meals for Sarah). It was hard to accept so much, when all we had to give were hands to help set the table or harvest calafate berries, and whatever company we could provide. We just had to settle for helping out in whatever small ways we could, and hoping we could somehow return the favor some day.
Three days at the refuge provided time for plenty of cultural experiences. Our backpacking trip turned into more of an eating marathon, with multiple courses of culinary perfection appearing at almost every meal (not to mention the endless supply of freshly baked bread). Even the vegetarians partook in the feral cow feasts! We learned the intricacies of drinking mate, harvested calafate for homemade jam, tried to learn some Chilean card games, watched Pirates of the Caribbean en Español, and even had a sing-along night of "Hotel California" and Bon Jovi's greatest hits (it's amazing what crosses cultural boundaries).
By day 7 of our trip, it was clearly time to begin the trip back to Fiordo Bernardo. We enjoyed one last round of mate around the wood stove, took some group photos for "mucho remembering," then sent the first wave of hikers on their way for one last round of cow hunting. The rest of us followed shortly after, stopping to pick up a forgotten chunk of meat from the last cow on the way to our campsite. Unfortunately, the last two cows continued to elude us, but we still got to enjoy one last campfire with Tito and Fabian (intentionally started with a pile of trash, some unwanted rain pants, and a healthy dose of gasoline).
We were officially homeward-bound the next morning, determined to make it to Fiordo Bernardo by the end of the day. We set out expecting a long day of drizzle and slick wet rocks. To our delight, however, Felador knew a short cut over the hill, and the end was suddenly surprisingly close! We still had to traverse some tricky terrain, but after about 5 hours on the trail, innumerable slips and butt slides, and a last push through the dense prickly shrubs, we finally arrived at home sweet refugio, with the smell of cooking sheep already wafting down the trail on the breeze.
The adventure continues, as they say, and there will most definitely be mucho remembering by all!
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Judge rebukes Apple for invoking nationalist bias but denies Samsung a retrial
Apple's remarks in a patent trial suggested an 'American-versus-non-American theme' to the jury, Judge Koh said.
Apple's Siri chief moves to Samsung to build connected device platform
The engineer who oversaw development of Apple's Siri technology is now at Samsung building an online service for linking together the "Internet of things."
Apple and Samsung spar over 'massive disclosure' of leaked license contracts
Apple and Samsung Electronics exchanged heated words in court Tuesday over allegations that Samsung's lawyers leaked details of confidential Apple licensing agreements to Samsung executives.
Publishers say e-book restrictions would hurt them, not Apple
Five book publishers have objected to restrictions that would be placed on Apple's business after it was found guilty last month of conspiring to fix prices for e-books.
US vetoes import ban on Apple over Samsung patent claim
The Obama administration has vetoed a decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban the import of certain Apple products to the U.S. on the grounds they infringed a Samsung Electronics technology patent.
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns to work at Apple
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple, a one-time close partner of Adobe that became the most vociferous critic of its Flash technology.
Judge lowers Apple's $1 billion Samsung award, orders partial retrial
A judge has ordered a partial retrial in Apple's patent lawsuit against Samsung in California, and has cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the $1 billion in damages that Apple was awarded last summer.
Twitter hacked; 250,000 users must reset their passwords
Twitter's servers have been breached by "extremely sophisticated" hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users, the company said Friday.
Gorilla Glass 3 promises 40 percent fewer scratches (video)
Corning has developed a new version of its Gorilla Glass for smartphones and tablets that it says will result in 40 percent fewer scratches and appear in devices later this year.
Judge accepts $22.5 million Google fine in Safari privacy case
A U.S. judge has indicated she will accept the terms of a settlement deal between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in which Google will pay a $22.5 million fine for circumventing privacy protections in Apple's Safari browser.
Yahoo buys Stamped; will kill its mobile app
Marissa Mayer has made her first acquisition at Yahoo, a recommendations app called Stamped that was developed by ex-Googlers and has even received backing from Google Ventures.
Samsung says ITC ruling in favor of Apple would mean less choice, higher prices
Samsung contends that a finding by the U.S. International Trade Commission that the company infringed Apple's patents will lead to less choice and higher prices for consumers.
Foxconn factory workers strike, stall iPhone 5 production
Thousands of workers went on strike at a Foxconn factory in China on Friday, bringing some iPhone 5 production lines to a halt, a labor rights group said.
Zuckerberg says IPO has been 'disappointing,' eyes search opportunity
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his first interview Tuesday since the company's troubled initial public offering earlier this year at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Expert: Quick verdict in Apple trial doesn't mean jury shirked its duty
It may have been surprising that the jury in the Samsung-Apple trial returned a verdict after just three days of deliberations, but Roy Futterman, director at DOAR Litigation Consulting and a clinical psychologist who works on trial strategies and the mindset of jurors, says it appeared that the nine-person panel did its job.
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Cowboy Caviar Salsa
March 18, 2013—Fearlessly Archived—Still a fun read, price & availability may have changed.
Legend has it that the Cowboy Caviar concept was originally developed around 1930 for an "all Texas" menu at a high-end department store. The head chef was mandated to include black-eyed-peas on the menu. Since she personally loathed the legumes, to make them palatable, she pickled them with onions, creating a salad-esque salsa that has since become a cult classic.
We love culinary creations that inspire elaborate fandom, and we've had good success with our other less-than-ordinary salsa, so… Strap on your spurs, Trader Joe's Cowboy Caviar Salsa is now in your town. Instead of black-eyed peas, however, our "caviar" of choice is black beans that are mixed together with corn, onions and red bell peppers. Pickled in a blend of chipotle peppers, adobo sauce and lime juice concentrate, this crunchy, savory salsation carries Southwestern character and enough heat to take note. It's a natural partner to chips and makes a delicious fish taco topping. Gluten-free, fat-free, low in sodium and vegan, Cowboy Caviar Salsa will make you wave your hat in the air, especially at just $2.49 for a 13 ounce jar.
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March 5, 2013 The Bloomington chamber choir Voces Novae performs with artistic integrity and is motivated by social conscience. … At the heart of the concert was a performance of "Après Moi, le Déluge,"
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Rainfall, snow hit north India; MeT office warns of more
Rain and snowfall lashed north India on Monday pulling down the mercury with the inclement weather likely to continue in the coming days.
New Delhi: Rain and snowfall lashed north India on Monday pulling down the mercury with the inclement weather likely to continue in the coming days.
It was a chilly day for Delhiites after a spell of relatively warm weather as intermittent light rain lashed parts of the city and the maximum dropped to 19.3 degrees Celsius from 26.3 degrees yesterday.
The national capital recorded 1.6mm rainfall between 9 A.M. And 5.30 P.M. Today with the sky remaining overcast throughout the day. The minimum temperature was 11.7 degrees Celsius.
The cloudy conditions are likely to continue tomorrow as well.
In Kashmir, a fresh bout of snowfall lashed parts of the Valley while Srinagar witnessed rain which marginally brought down the minimum to 2.2 degrees Celsius as against 4.1 degrees the previous night. The summer capital received 2.6mm rainfall during the night.
Picturesque Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded a low of -5 degrees Celsius, two notches up from the previous night`s -7 degrees, and received 11 inches of fresh snowfall.
The MeT office has forecast heavy snowfall across the Valley over the coming few days with road and air traffic likely to face disruptions.
Himachal Pradesh was reeling from intense cold after another spell of heavy snowfall in the higher reaches of the state while the middle and lower hills, including state capital Shimla, were lashed by rain and sleet accompanied by icy, strong velocity winds.
Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti and Kalpa in Kinnaur district had received 35cm to 40cm snow by afternoon while the sprawling Dhauladhar and Churdhar ranges were covered under 75cm to 100cm of snow.
The snowfall and rain has thrown normal life out of gear in several parts of the state including at Dharamsala.
The sky remained heavily overcast throughout the day and the local MeT has warned of more rains and snowfall in the next two days.
Uttarakhand, too, saw snowfall in the higher reaches and showers in its plains as temperatures dropped at most places in the state.
The mercury in the state capital of Dehradun plunged by four degrees as most places were lashed by moderate to heavy rainfall with Joshimath receiving the maximum of 33mm followed by Chamoli at 21mm.
Heavy snowfall occurred at heights above 3,000 metres at
Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri with similar weather conditions forecast for the state in the coming 24 hours.
Several parts of Punjab and Haryana also reported light to moderate rainfall as minimum temperatures rose sharply by up to eight notches above normal in the two states.
Chandigarh received rainfall of 3.8mm and recorded a minimum of 13.7 degrees while in Haryana, Bhiwani, with rainfall of 4.6mm saw the mercury settle at a low of 10.4 degrees Celsius.
The weatherman`s forecast is for light to moderate rainfall to continue over the coming 48 hours with chances of hail or thunderstorm at isolated places across the two states.
Light rain and thundershowers occurred at isolated places in western Uttar Pradesh although the weather remained mainly dry over eastern parts of the state.
Night temperatures rose markedly in Lucknow, Bareilly, Moradabad, Agra and Meerut divisions with rain and thundershowers expected at many places in western UP and at a few places in eastern parts of the state in the next 48 hours.
Rajasthan reported some relief today as the cold subsided in parts of the state where Sri Ganganagar recorded the lowest temperature at 11.2 degrees Celsius.
Other places recorded minimum temperatures between 13 degrees to 17.3 degrees Celsius with the MeT department predicting light showers in isolated areas.


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eye is Luke Hanna's debut choreographic work, which will premier at the Wellington Fringe Festival in February 2014. Luke and his sister, Fran Olds, form the Brothers and Sisters Collective. They will team up with sound artist Jason Wright to explore the world of eye.
Since graduating New Zealand School of Dance in 2006 Luke has toured Europe, USA and Australia with internationally acclaimed dance companies including Black Grace, Australian Dance Theatre and Dance North. However Luke has "always wanted to create a piece".
The world and journey that Luke seeks to explore in eye was provoked by his experiences whilst dancing in Brussels in 2013. Luke says, "while I was overseas something inside started to click, and an image... started to birth this work. Since then it had its own life, and I was trying to keep up with it." eye is a solo piece of dance theatre that follows the journey of a man as he navigates himself through a world where growth, perception and identity are key players.
On working with her brother Fran says "we are able to support and challenge each other in a way that is unique to family". For Luke this collaboration is about the meeting of skills and experiences "she is into drama and writing, I obviously have a movement background, she can put into words things I think about or create that is exactly what I want to get across."
Brothers and Sisters is passionate about engaging the community in live arts, and it is for this reason that this show will be put on for koha at the Old Hall Wesley Taranaki Street Church. Luke hopes that "they (the audience) will come away feeling like they have been on a journey, possibly a little shocked, but maybe an understanding on where live performance can go." Brothers and Sisters have received funding from the Emerging Arts Trust and Creative New Zealand, without which this show would not have been possible.
eye premiers on the 13th and 14th of February 7.30pm at the Old Hall Wesley Taranaki Street Church, 75 Taranaki Street, Wellington. The audience is invited to enter the world of eye and embark upon an intimate experience.


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Recipe by roja khan
serve with dal and boiled rice.but u can eat it any time .so easy and simple snack.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 12 big green chilies (mild)
- 1 medium potato (boiled,peeled and mashed)
- salt
- 1 teaspoon tamarind pulp
- 12 tablespoons gram flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon carom seeds (ajwain)
- 1⁄3 teaspoon garlic powder
- oil, for fry
Directions See How It's Made
- mix the potato with tamarnid pulp and salt.and stuff green chillies with potato mixture.
- Combine gramflour, chilli powder, carom seeds,garlic powder,salt and water (as required) in a bowl.
- Mix well.
- Heat oil in a wok.
- Dip green chillies into the above prepared batter.
- Deep fry in hot oil.
- Drain on clean kitchen paper napkins/towels.


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