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This chapter describes how to configure Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) N-port Virtulization (NPV) on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices.
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 5.0(3)N2(1) and later releases, FCoE NPV is supported on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices. The FCoE NPV feature is an enhanced form of FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) snooping that provides a secure method to connect FCoE-capable hosts to an FCoE-capable FCoE forwarder (FCF) device. The FCoE NPV feature provides the following benefits:
You can enable FCoE NPV by choosing one of the following methods:
Note The feature fcoe-npv command is only for FCoE (not for FC and does not allow conversion of ethernet ports to FC ports). The feature fcoe command is for FC and FCoE. The feature npv command is for node port virtualization.
Connectivity from an FCoE NPV bridge to the FCF is supported only over point-to-point links. These links can be individual Ethernet interfaces or port channel interfaces. For each FCF connected to an Ethernet interface, a vFC interface must be created and bound to it. These vFC interfaces must be configured as VNP ports.
On the VNP port, the FCoE NPV bridge emulates an FCoE-capable host with multiple enodes, each with a unique enode MAC address. By default, the VNP port is enabled in trunk mode.
Multiple VSANs can be configured on the VNP port. The FCoE VLANs that correspond to the VNP port VSANs must be configured on the bound Ethernet interface.
Note VNP ports on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device emulate an FCoE capable host with multiple Ethernet nodes, each with unique Fabric Provided MAC-Addresses (FPMA).
As seen in Figure 6-1, the FCoE-NPV device is proxying FIP control messages and the Fabric Login (FLOGI) between the converged network adapter (CNA) and the FCoE FCF device. An FCoE NPV, unlike a FIP snooping bridge, is VSAN-aware and will take VSANs into account when mapping (or pinning) logins from the CNA to an FCF uplink. FLOGI from the initiators (eNodes), are load balanced between the two links of each port channel interface (VNP) connecting the FCoE NPV and FCF devices.
Note In Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices, the FCoE NPV feature does not convert FLOGI to FDISC.
Note Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is disabled for FCoE VLANs on Ethernet interfaces that are bound to VNP, VF, and VE interfaces.
Figure 6-1 FCoE NPV Pinning, FLOGI-Based on VSANs
On an FCoE NPV device, the VFC interfaces bound to server-facing ports are configured in VF mode and the VFC interfaces facing the FCoE FCF are configured as VNP ports. In the following configuration example, the FCoE NPV device uses the FCOE_NPV_PKG license to enable the FCoE NPV feature. We recommend that you selectively allow a specific list of VSANs instead of allowing all VSANs on the VNP port.
For Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform devices, you must configure class-fcoe in the QoS policy maps of all types.
This example shows how to configure class-fcoe in all QoS policy maps:
Note The above QoS configuration is essential for Cisco Nexus 5548 and Cisco Nexus 5596 platforms running Cisco NX-OS Release 5.0(3)N2(1) or earlier. Starting with NX-OS Release 5.1(3)N1(1), this configuration is applied automatically unless a user defined custom policy for FCoE traffic already exists. If a user defined policy is already configured, the default QOS policy is not applied.
The following FiberChannel NPV features are as follows:
Note FCoE NPV over port channel VNP ports use automatic traffic mapping only for FIP negotiations. FCoE traffic distribution over port channel VNP ports is based on the computed hash value.
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 5.0(3)N2(1), the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device interoperates with the following FCoE-capable devices:
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2, the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series devices supports FCoE functionality with a 32-port 10G SFP+ F1 linecard. On the Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Director, FCoE is supported on the 10-Gbps 8-port FCoE Module from Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2 and later releases. Based on the SAN design requirements, a combination of Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, and Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices can be used to design single-hop, multi hop, or multi tier FCoE networks.
Figure 6-2 shows one recommended multi tier FCoE design topology using Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, and Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices can run FCoE NPV and FC NPV simultaneously, providing server-CNA connectivity to FCF devices while maintaining connectivity with existing SAN networks.
Figure 6-2 Converged Multi-hop FCoE Network Design Using FCoE NPV
By default, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, and Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices use a CoS value of 3 for the FCoE traffic.When FCoE is enabled on a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device, CoS 3 is automatically configured for a no-drop service (PFC setting), and in the case of congestion (ETS setting) a guaranteed bandwidth of 50 percent is allocated to FCoE traffic.
The default ETS setting for Cisco Nexus 7000 Series devices and the Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices is 70 percent for FCoE no-drop traffic class.
The following commands are required on the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series device to configure QoS settings for the FCoE traffic:
Note For Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, and Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices, you should leave the default CoS value of 3 for the FCoE traffic while ensuring the same end-to-end guaranteed bandwidth gets allocated for this FCoE no-drop class.
The cost/benefit tradeoff for consolidated links and dedicated links for FCoE is discussed in detail in the "Consolidated Links and Dedicated Links for FCoE" section, which covers the design considerations and link type selection you should consider when designing FCoE networks using Cisco Nexus 7000 Series and Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices.
We recommend that you use dedicated links to carry the FCoE traffic between Cisco Nexus 7000 Series and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices because FCoE links are part of storage Virtual Device Contents (VDCs) and not part of Ethernet VDCs. Consolidated links go to the storage VDCs of the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series devices drop Ethernet traffic carried over the link. Similarly consolidated links that are configured to be a part of Ethernet VDC on a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series device drop all FCoE traffic carried on that link. A network design using dedicated links for Ethernet and FCoE traffic makes use of the high-availability features of both LAN and SAN networks.
Because Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices do not support the switching of Ethernet traffic, we recommend that you ensure that no Ethernet VLANs get mapped to interfaces that connect Cisco Nexus 5000 Series and Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices. Directing Ethernet LAN traffic to a Cisco MDS 9000 Series devices that causes a traffic black hole and might result in loss of traffic.
VDCs that are available on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series devices allow virtualization at the device level, where logical entities are created to provide process separation and fault tolerance. For FCoE, dedicated links can be configured so that ingress traffic is processed in a separate and distinct VDC, which is the storage VDC.
On the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series device, you must create a storage VDC for FCoE traffic as follows:
Moving ports causes all configuration that is associated to them in the source VDC to be removed.
Beginning with the Cisco NX-OS Release 5.1(3)N1(1), Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices support FCoE on Enhanced vPC (EVPC). With EVPC topologies, it is important to ensure that FCoE traffic does not get forwarded from the FEXs to more than one Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device, because it violates the SAN fabric isolation rule.
This behavior is implemented by associating each FEX with only one Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device. The Cisco Nexus 2000 and Cisco Nexus 5000 pair is part of only one FCoE SAN fabric.
Figure 6-3 shows an FCoE network design that uses an eVPC-layer vPC. The server FCoE traffic received on the FEX is sent only to the associated Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device. Using the fcoe command for the FEX configuration associates the FEX device with one Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device. One vPC link is used for FCoE traffic, which helps to implement the SAN A and SAN B isolation.
Figure 6-3 FCoE Network Design Using eVPC-layer vPC
This example shows how to associate a FEX and a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device with FCoE SAN fabrics:
Note Do not associate the same FEX with multiple Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices because it brings down host-facing VFC links that are associated with FEX and can cause FCoE traffic disruption.
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 5.1(3)N1(1), Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices support the SAN boot of initiators on Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) based vPC. This limitation is specific to LACP- based port channels. The host-facing VFC interfaces are bound to port channel members instead of the port channel itself. This binding ensures that the host-side VFC comes up during a SAN boot as soon as the link on the CNA/ Host Bus Adapter (HBA) comes up, without relying on the LACP-based port channel to form first.
Figure 6-4 shows a network design with an initiator configured to boot from SAN via a vPC. VFC1 is bound to physical interface Eth101/1/1 that is part of port channel 1. VFC interfaces come up as soon as the channel-member state of host-facing vPC comes up, which helps the initiator to boot from SAN via the vPC.
This example shows how to configure the host-facing FEX:
Figure 6-4 Network Design with an Initiator Configured to Boot from SAN via a vPC
Note VFC binding to host vPC configurations are permitted only if the FEXs are configured in a FEX straight-through topology (non-EVPC mode). This functionality ensures backward compatibility of configurations and all supported topologies prior to Cisco NX-OS release 5.1(3)N1(1).
Note Binding multiple VFC interfaces with multiple members of a vPC is not allowed.
Note VFC binding to a member of a port channel in a two-layer vPC topology is not allowed if the member port resides on a FEX that is not associated with the local Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device.
Beginning with Cisco NXOS 5.1(3)N1(1), Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices, when connected to Cisco UCS servers with P81E adapters, can support FCoE over vEthernet interfaces. The Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series rack-mount servers. When configured in Adapter-FEX mode, the two unified ports can be sliced into two FCoE channels, which creates four vHBA interfaces available to the operating system.
Figure 6-5 shows a topology implementation of FCoE over the Adapter-FEX. For FCoE over Adapter-FEX network designs, the current supported configuration is to use a vPC between the Cisco Nexus Series 5000 Series and a FEX. At the same time, the host end of the P81E adapter should be configured in Active/Standby mode. For FCoE and EVPC topologies, the FEX gets associated with one Cisco Nexus 5000 Series fabric for FCoE traffic forwarding. Because the host HBA is configured in Active/Standby mode, a separate Ethernet to vEthernet to VFC mapping is needed on the other FEX and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series pair for topology implementation of FCoE over Adapter-FEX
Figure 6-5 Topology implementation of FCoE over Adapter-FEX
The following configuration is required on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device for binding the VFC to vEthernet interfaces. For FCoE, the Adapter-FEX can be deployed using the Active/Standby mode on the host side.
Note Because the vNIC of a virtual machine is mapped to the vEthernet interface on Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices, between the two Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices configured for redundancy, the vEthernet interface number has to be unique.
Note FCoE and FCoE NPV functionalities can co exist with FabricPath by using a dedicated link for FCoE traffic.
Note NPIV mode is not supported on the Cisco UCS P81E adapter when connected to a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device using a VNP port.
Note SAN boot of initiators using the Cisco UCS P81E virtual interface card is supported only when the Network Interface Virtualization feature is enabled.
The following configurations are required to create vEthernet port profiles on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices and to form connectivity to vCenter:
Note Configuring SVS connectivity with a vCenter automatically pushes the port profiles created on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series device to the vCenter.
The Adapter-FEX feature of Cisco UCS P81E adapters on UCS servers is configured by using the Cisco UCS Manager CLI. This example shows how to connect to the Cisco UCS Manager CLI and to create vHBA interfaces:
Note Creation of more than two vHBA interfaces is not supported using the Cisco UCS C-Series Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) graphical user interface (GUI) in Cisco NX-OS Release OS 5.1(3)N1(1).
Virtual HBA interfaces created using the UCS C-Series Server CLI can be mapped to port profiles using the CIMC GUI. CIMC is the management service for the UCS C-Series server and runs within the server. The CIMC component can be accessed using a web browser.
Port profiles created on Cisco Nexus 5000 Series devices are pushed to the Cisco UCS P81E adapter using a VNTag link. VNTag is a unique tag that is assigned by the adapter to identify the source and destination vNIC. Port profiles appear in the drop-down menu of CIMC.
Figure 6-6 shows how to map port profiles to vHBA interfaces using the CIMC tool.
Figure 6-6 Mapping port profiles to vHBA interfaces using the CIMC tool


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- By intelligently synchronizing your motion with that of the opponent, you can cut the chaos and imprecision in the system by as much as half (e.g. from 14 inches to 7 inches in our example above). A 2X increase in precision is a big deal!
- If you don't move as he crosses ma-ai then he'll be greater than 7 inches closer than you thought by the time you see him coming – and that's just observation-orientation time. It takes much more time to plan a response and get your body into motion.
- If you see an opening, it's already too late to attack it because by the time you get there everything will be at least 7 inches different than it was when you made your plan. There's a famous story (maybe apocryphal) that Joe Lewis retired when he realized he was seeing openings before he hit them because that's when he knew he was getting too slow. He was still at the top of his game, but it freaked him out too much to realize that he'd never actually seen an opening before – he just hit where the opening was going to be.
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That's why you have to learn to predict the opponents' intentions (reaction patterns). The question is: how you do that? There are considerably exercises out there which explain just the patterns of movement (like do not use big movements or you moved to much to the side etc.) , but this in my opinion will not make you faster. Once you have learned to predict the opponents intention, the next step would be to "speed it up " to the level where you can execute the technique and at the same time react on those "openings". Well, I have the exercise which clearly change your mind set when it comes to this "speed it up" thing. You can call it "predictive mind" exercise and I think I'll write something on that next time on my blog.ReplyDelete
It's even worse than that, Patrick. A quick punch moves at around 40 feet per second. There is just no way to respond by using methods that require a 200ms delay. I'll write something more about unconventional methods in my next post.ReplyDelete
It's even worse than that, Patrick. A quick punch moves at around 40 feet per second. There is just no way to respond by using methods that require a 200ms delay.ReplyDelete
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Started seeing this guy... he said he thinks I'm too nice and that I come off as really innocent and he doesn't want to corrupt me. I feel like that's an awkward statement. Then he wanted to know about what I've done sexually... and said he was glad I wasn't a virgin. Not sure how I'm supposed to respond to that...
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I think I get what he's feeling. He say's your too nice, it basically mean's he feels like you could go out with someone better than him and he may feel he's not good enough for you or not worthy for you and may also feel that he would screw you over somehow and change you without trying. It's like he value's you so much that he doesn't want to do anything that would change or harm you because he feels he would ruin you somehow if he did. This is only if he is actually interested in you. Do you get what I mean at all?10|10|1
Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe I won't bother with him :/ He seemed so nice at first!


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Poems / Short Stories / Monologues / Letters
de Bobby Miller
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A collection of poems, short stories, monologues and letters 1967 - 2009 by poet, photographer and actor
Bobby Miller. With art work by Basil Twist, George Wittman, Lisa Edelstein, Gary Lisz, Alexis
Arquette, STP, Zeet Peabody and Elizabeth Castagna.
True short stories from my life, monologues from my stage show " Bobby Miller, Bobby Miller" , Slam Poetry, love poems, sex diary excerpts and a funny letter to Madonna from 1987.
Not for the faint of heart or children under 18 years of age.
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- Categoría Biografías y memorias
Vertical estándar, 20×25 cm
154 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación abr. 23, 2009
- Idioma English
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Bobby Miller is a performance poet, and photographer. Author of three books of poetry; "Benestrific Blonde", "Mouth Of Jane" and "Rigmarole" and " Troubleblonde" Poems/short stories/monologues and letters.Published in "Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Cafe" ," Verses That Hurt; Pleasure And Pain From The Poemfone Poets" St.Martin's Press , and " The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry" His photography books include "Fabulous! A Photographic Diary Of Studio 54" REDUX, , " A Downtown State of Mind", " Wigstock in black & white" , " PORTRAITS 1973 - 2009 " in three Volumes, " Queer Nation" with figures by he and Basil Twist, " Jackie 60 Nights" , " Forget Them Not: A Celebration Of Those Who've Gone Before" and "Divas, Dudes & Dandie. i His influences were Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jimmy De Sana and George Hurrell. Studied photography with Lisette Model The New School of Social Research.. New work" The Outlaw Bible of American Art" " Comic Book" & "NUDES".
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Fat Fancy is a radical fat fashion boutique located in NE Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to bring stylish, reasonably priced, vintage and modern plus size clothing to men, women, and those in between. Come visit our storefront on burgeoning Sandy BLVD ! We are on the max line, near many fun boutiques, and many delicious restaurants! Be sure to check our hours because they are unique.
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Fat Fancy's very first sale was held out of our founder's studio apartment. She cleared out her belongings, pushed in her murphy bed, and wheeled in clothing racks bursting with glamour. People came from far and wide to munch on snacks, shop, bop to soul music, and watch Hairspray! A wonderful time was had by all, and history was made!
From there, we began throwing monthly sales out of a friend's basement in NE Portland. During "the basement years", we amassed a ton of support from the community, including Beth Ditto of the band, Gossip, and Leslie Hall of Leslie and the Lys. Fat Fancy has been featured in local, national, and international publications. We've been written up in The UK Guardian, Bust, Bitch, Lucky and Curve Magazines, The Oregonian, and even in the New York Times Style section! We were also featured on French TV with Beth Ditto as one of her favorite places to shop in Portland.
It has always been our dream to have a real storefront, and since December of 2009, that dream has become reality! Yes, folks, it's really real! Come down and see for yourself.
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Online Extra: Full Steam Ahead for Carnival
Long regarded as the star performer of the cruise industry, Miami-based Carnival Corp. found itself in choppy waters just a few years ago. In 1999 and 2000, Carnival (CCL ) was plagued by three fires and technical problems aboard its ships, as well an industrywide glut of new ships coming onstream that knocked down profits for the whole sector. Then the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001, hit the cruise industry just as hard as they hit the airlines, as travelers were afraid to board the planes that would ferry them to their cruises.
But Carnival has recovered from those crises. In the past year, its profits rose 25%, to $2.6 billion, on a healthy 17% increase in revenues. Investors, who bailed out en masse earlier this decade, have been scrambling back on board: In the year ended this past Feb. 27, Carnival's stock rebounded by 95.7%. That recovery earned Carnival the No. 46 ranking in this year's BusinessWeek 50 list of America's top-performing companies.
BusinessWeek Atlanta Bureau Chief Dean Foust recently spoke with Carnival CEO Micky Arison about the company's comeback. Edited excerpts of their conversation follow:
Q: Carnival has had a remarkable turnaround in the past year -- profits up, stock up 95%. How did you do it? A:
Q: Carnival has had a remarkable turnaround in the past year -- profits up, stock up 95%. How did you do it?
A:I think our resilience to the hits of [September 11] and the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars -- which was probably the worst period for leisure in general -- was due to a number of things. No. 1 is the value of our vacation products. They're just great vacations, great value, and by bringing the price down, the value that was created was even greater. There's also the perception of security.
[No. 2 was] the ability to bring our ships closer to our guests. On many cruises, people were able to take a vacation without going to an airport. Clearly, we demonstrated in the 2001-03 period that we're resilient to economic hits, terrorist hits, as well as military conflict. We have continued to operate at very high load factors, with good margins. We weren't able to grow our earnings the way we would have anticipated if we hadn't had those hits, but we did outperform the rest of leisure.
Q: You're actually the only leisure company on the BW50 this year. A:
Q: You're actually the only leisure company on the BW50 this year.
A:We're the only leisure company that withstood those hits the way we did. We're the only leisure company, I think, in the world [whose debt is] rated in the A categories by Standard & Poor's and Moody's.
So we're uniquely positioned, and clearly if we can withstand the hits, we can withstand the good times even better. If we have some relative quiet in the geopolitical sense, we're very, very optimistic that '04 and '05 can be great years for us.
Q: As I remember, you were doing whatever it took to fill those berths. A:
Q: As I remember, you were doing whatever it took to fill those berths.
Q: Even if it meant reductions in pricing. A:
Q: Even if it meant reductions in pricing.
Q: The goal was, what, to be at 100% of capacity? A:
Q: The goal was, what, to be at 100% of capacity?
A:In the quarter ended on November 30, 2001 -- in other words, the quarter in which the September 11 event occurred -- we still operated at 98% load factor. And remember, during that period there were many airports and airplanes on the ground that couldn't service cruise ships.
Q: How much do you do to get to know your customers better? Some companies are known to do exhaustive customer-research focus groups, data mining. How much of that does Carnival do? A:
Q: How much do you do to get to know your customers better? Some companies are known to do exhaustive customer-research focus groups, data mining. How much of that does Carnival do?
A:From our point of view, I don't think that's a major issue. On any given evening, we're serving dinner to 130,000 people, we're entertaining 130,000 people -- and they're giving us feedback.
All of our brands are well-attuned to getting customer feedback and reacting to it. And I think by our ships' management and shore management of the various brands being very open to talking to their guests, understanding their guests' needs and desires, that we continue to give them the value and exceed their expectations.
There have been a lot of changes. Look today at the level of our spas that are offered on the ships compared to three to five years ago. We offer a far greater choice of food and beverage product, from casual cafés -- almost a Starbucks-like experience -- on the ship to the very top steakhouses in New York [in response to] that re-interest in the steakhouse kind of environment for dinner.
Q: You closed your deal for P&O Princess Cruise in 2003. How's the integration of that merger going? A:
Q: You closed your deal for P&O Princess Cruise in 2003. How's the integration of that merger going?
A:To a great extent, we've let the business units and the brands operate autonomously. We take synergies, where appropriate, through areas like purchasing, but not a lot of back-office consolidation. We have reorganized a little bit -- focusing our European group into one business unit and our British-U.K. group into another. Then of course we've got Princess, Carnival, and Holland America, our three largest U.S. brands.
We're very pleased with our progress. We hit all our internal synergy targets to date. The brands are all performing very, very well. In our recent 10-K [filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission], we said that bookings were up 59%, year-over-year. And that's across all geographies and all brands. So we're very, very pleased with the way the whole process worked and the level of cooperation between the various brands.
Q: Did you try to share any "best practices" among the different divisions? A:
Q: Did you try to share any "best practices" among the different divisions?
A:We have literally hundreds of synergy teams. But we didn't have to do a lot. The onboard-revenue group would find that Princess Cruises was doing something that was more effective in gaining more onboard revenue than something that [another unit was] doing, and so they immediately switched to that practice.
Carnival has successfully run its own internal casino operations for years and was doing better than Princess. So, Carnival Casinos took over the operations of the Princess casinos. It was done because every brand manager is incentivized by his own performances, so when he can take advantage of a best practice, they tend to jump on it quickly.
Q: What are going to be your big initiatives for 2004? You recently launched the Queen Mary 2. A:
Q: What are going to be your big initiatives for 2004? You recently launched the Queen Mary 2.
A:There are a lot of things. We're at the peak right now in building new deliveries for the various brands. Clearly, Queen Mary II was a huge undertaking for the Cunard brand, with great visibility for Cunard and for the rest of the cruise industry.
And all of our brands are really at a peak cycle -- 2003 and 2004 were really the peak of our new building program. We're taking delivery of ships -- large ships -- every three or four weeks until the middle of the year. So, there's a great deal of focus on that.
At the same time, Carnival Cruise Lines has stepped up significantly in terms of network television advertising. So we're in the middle of a lot of stuff, with significantly higher marketing budgets in a number of companies because their capacity has increased quite dramatically over the last two years. The company is up 35%, capacity-wise, over a two-year period. And we're absorbing that capacity very well.


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What's the issue?
(July 6, 5 p.m. EDT) -- The Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the weekend, tar balls from the slick reached the shores of Galveston, homeport to two Carnival Cruise Lines ships.
According to a spokesperson from the U.S. Coast Guard, tests confirmed that tar balls collected from the Crystal Beach area of the Bolivar Peninsula on Saturday and Galveston's East Beach on Saturday and Sunday came from the Deepwater Horizon spill. It is still unclear, however, how the balls arrived in Texas.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Richard Brahm told Cruise Critic that the consistency of the tar balls indicates that they traveled to Texas by way of ship rather than natural Gulf current. "If the balls had traveled 400 miles on their own, they would have weathered a lot more, been a lot tougher. What everyone's guessing is that they were sucked up in the ballast water of a ship," noted Officer Brahm, "and carried here that way."
Decontamination areas have since been set up off the Port of Galveston, and Brahm added that the general consensus from authorities is that it's unlikely that the oil will impact shipping off the shores of Texas. All Galveston beaches and Southeast Texas waterways remain open.
Tar balls from the spill have also reached Alabama, beaches near Pensacola, Florida, as well as near the cruise ports of New Orleans and Mobile.
Still, Gulf cruisers continue to ask, "Will my upcoming cruise be impacted?" and spokespersons for Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises and Disney Cruise Line today reaffirmed that cruises have been departing on schedule. As always, changing weather patterns and currents could impact how close the oil comes to cruise ports and future departures could be affected.
Which ports and ship could be impacted?
Carnival Ecstasy and Carnival Conquest are currently the only two ships sailing out of Galveston, the last of five Gulf States to be affected by the oil spill. Carnival Conquest, currently in the midst of a weeklong Western Caribbean cruise, is due back in Galveston on July 11, and Carnival Ecstasy, in the middle of a five-night Western Caribbean sailing, is due back to Galveston on July 10.
Meanwhile, Carnival Elation, which sails from Mobile, has high priority at the decontamination center should it need its hull cleaned, but Carnival representative Vance Gulliksen said that the ship has not needed any such cleaning so far -- and that Carnival ships have been able to successfully sail around the spill. Sheila H. Gurganus, general manager for the Mobile Alabama Cruise Terminal, reaffirmed that the port has not yet been impacted and that Alabama is doing everything possible to make sure oil is kept out of Mobile Bay. "We've had more than 2,600 passengers on every cruise in June. Haven't had an un-full ship yet," she added.
In addition to ships that cruise out of Galveston and Mobile, we're keeping a close eye on ships that call on Nassau and Freeport in the Bahamas, as well as those that turn around regularly in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Port Canaveral, New Orleans and Tampa.
What's the cruise impact?
Carnival -- which sails from Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and Florida ports -- reports that "ships sailing from New Orleans and Mobile are making slight course alterations as necessary to avoid the most heavily impacted spill areas. There are no impacts to cruises out of Galveston or Florida ports at this point."
What should I do?
At this time, all cruises are sailing as usual; stay tuned.
--by Dan Askin, Associate Editor


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Virgil Films gets Stevie Nicks doc
Virgil Films has acquired US VoD and digital download rights to In Your Dreams.
Virgil will release the film on VoD and digital download platforms in late spring following the nationwide theatrical release on Apr 2 that Richard Abramowitz's Abramorama will handle.
In Your Dreams presents a portrait of Fleetwood Mac singer Nicks as she records an album with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame. Nicks and Stewart co-directed and co-produced In Your Dreams.
Virgil president Joe Amodei brokered the deal with John Beug and Scott Pascucci of SN Productions.
The film will premiere at The Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles on Mar 31 with an introduction by and Q+A featuring Nicks.
In Your Dreams will then have exclusive showings on Apr 2 at theatres in more than 75 cities across the US and Canada.
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For children with kidney disease, urinary tract disease, bladder problems or high blood pressure, the nephrology team at Carilion Children's is here to help. We provide specialized care for infants, children and adolescents.
Our expert team, including a pediatric nephrologist and nurses, dietitians and social workers, specializes in treating pediatric patients with the following conditions:
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Here we are, with another edition of my debate analysis. This time its the FOX 35/MY65 coverage of the local races. You guys probably know that FOX 35 has been very good to me, so they will be spared the corny jokes about the questions and camera work. Keith Landry is moderating these and he is a really good guy, in person as well as on TV.
As always I invite you guys to watch along with me. Here is the Orlando Matters Debate for Orange County Commission District 4.
Let's get going!
:49- and they're are the candidates. These two really don't like each other.
1:02- Why are you running? Every candidate should go into a trance when they hear this question and answer it with no hesitation. Its the first question you learn how to answer, when you decide to run for office.
2:07- Man, its hard to trust Mayra, she didn't impress during the two other D4 forums, I attended and I caught her lying during, the Children's Home Society event. She has to really impress, here today.
2:28- Scout Leader, Government Operative, Non-profit owner…spends 90% of her answer talking about herself, then says its about the community.
3:10- Jennifer Thompson is good,
not the nicest lady ( a gifted speaker.. sent her a media referral for her social media skills and didn't even get a thank you, but thats cool) ,
4:16- What are you top 5 priorities? Mayra says- Not to raise taxes and she will take a 10% salary cut as well as her staff. Well I guess when all of the other county staff members are hitting happy hour, Uribe's people will have to take a pass. Oh, she brought a shirt that has 10% on it.
5:34- Mayra says a lot of people don't agree with education…yea, my friend's kids hate school
5:55- Jennifer Thompson says its hard to limit it to five, then says she'll give Keith two…take it easy on Keith, Jennifer!
6:33- More efficient county spending and an internal audit of county government. Reduce redundancy. Thompson is laying out a plan, it's amazing how much more substance there is in her platform than Uribe's.
7:15- The first time I've heard all election cycle on how, long construction projects can hurt small business. Good point.
8:50- ahhh silence..no pesky commercials, I love the internet.
9:50- Uribe is trying to champion South OBT, Conway and Delaney park and other areas. She brings up her Orange Initiative but still not one method on how to actually bring in the jobs
10:44- Thompson is touting her business background. I'm glad Keith is pushing them for details.
11:38- Here comes the beating from Thompson, it's easy to hide when your sitting on the panel during a forum, as oppose to a one on one debate.
12:00- Uribe jumps the moderator for the first time. She disses Thompson for her last run for office that failed.
12:26- Oh come on! Mayra, it can't all be fluff. You want to talk track records, but your not giving us anything.
13:24- Uh oh, developers…..
1350- Uribe says no one owns her, and Ms. Thompson would have given the thumbs up on Innovation Way Development
14:38- Thompson says Uribe flip flopped in the Orlando Sentinel and then they get into a "are not, are too" exchange, over developer contributions.
15:28- Uribe is about the people…again
16:06- Thompson touts the content of her magazine "Insight" and wants to look at responsible growth patterns with other counties
16:46- Landry notices they both dodged the answer and follows up. Thompson says we need tougher ethics.
17:30- Keith asks "do you feel my pain?", when relating to the hard times voters are in. I don't think enough candidates honestly do.
1830- Thompson brings up her volunteer background and availability to the community.
19:09- Uribe brings up her family and says its about integrity. C'mon, really? She goes on to say she is "The People's candidate"
20:09- 1 minute left and Keith says how you gonna convince the Hispanic voters? Well?…Thompson says she is going to convince them like everybody else. She brings up her endorsements from her two former opponents. Uribe, well come on? She is not a Hispanic candidate, well…what is she? She brings up that they're is a nasty youtube video. Is that true? and she says thats racist! On TV! The two throw a few jabs, before Keith ends the program.
Okay, that was garbage…
That last part actually ticked me off a bit, because Mayra Uribe brought up discrimination with absolutely no right to do so. I looked up that video and this is what I found
Ms. Uribe's accusations of Jennifer Thompson's racist activites are irresponsible and sloppy. It was probably the most foolish thing, I've heard on the trail all year. I'm not crazy about Jennifer Thompson, but I'm sharp enough to know, she is not racist and Mayra Uribe was backed in a corner, when she said it.
I'm more certain than ever that Lydia Pisano or Pete Clark would have ensured that Orange County District 4 would have been left in capable hands in a run-off against Jennifer Thompson.
Well, there you have it. If you were watching along, I think you know what I was getting at.
Till next time…


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Isaiah Minkoff, of New York, has been named executive secretary of the General Jewish Council, it was announced by Chairman Edgar J. Kaufmann. Minkoff assumed his new duties today. He has been for almost six years executive secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee, one of the constituent organizations of the General Jewish Council along with the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith.


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I picked this talk up after someone tweeted "Google maps is so dead". I remember thinking; "Yeah right" but I clicked on the link anyway but left the tab untouched for hours. Sorry; I don't recall who tweeted the comment.
Rather than weigh up whether Google Maps really are in trouble or whether Google's also well on the way to having technology like this. I'm just going to post the video.


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|I found this article funny. You're in depth view of the dog that went into space and the conflict between Russia and Canada was something I didn't expect to read when I started to read about Laika. I also liked your obscure reference to Roman mythology at the start of "Early Life." Now for the stuff that needs to be fixed. In "Early Life," you mention that Laika was abandoned by her mother, and then in the next sentence your mention her mother and father. This should be the other way around, and you need to mention what happened to Laika's father. Did he abandon her? Was he killed in a freak accident? Something needs to be mentioned about the father. Also on a historical note it would be worth changing Moscow to Volgograd, since Stalingrad was changed to Volgograd. In "Mission details" you write that the "Laika mission became the stuff of legends," put you already wrote that at the start of the article, so its being unnecessarily redundant. In "Animal Welfare concerns" you wrote that 'We must rescue the dog, and we are doing all in our power to find where the bitch dropped down,' which sounds like a quote but it isn't quoted. Quote it as a quote by an animal rights organization, such as PETA.
|It is a good concept. This article could have been a boring article, but you made it something interesting, albeit crazy, with Laika, her rumoured adventures, and the tension it brought to Russia and Canada.
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|The writing style, spelling, grammar, layout and overall appearance was great and written in an informative way.
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This custom fields thing is hanging me up. I know how to assign values to the other parameters (,ApiKey, ListID, Email, and Name). Those values are just strings which I can easily construct and pass to the method using the request method of campaign_monitor.rb. However, the value of the CustomFields parameter is an array. How do I construct this array to pass to the method? What does it look like? What is the format for presenting name/value pairs (name=value?))? How are name/value paris delimited from one another? Sorry. Obviously I'm missing a whole lot. Thanks for any help.
... doug
Hi Doug,
I don't know anything about Ruby, so I hope that someone who is helps us out.
Have a look at http://www.campaignmonitor.com/api/method/subscriber-addwithcustomfields/. There you can see in the soap envelope what is required for the array of custom fields. I've no idea how to do that in ruby, but I hope that gets you started.
Thanks, Ken, for your response. I don't think that it is so much what Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields is expectiong; because, in theory, that is supplied by campaign_monitor.rb. What I need to figure out is what campaign_monitor.rb is expecting from me. I'm not sure that I'm smart enough to figure that out from the source code. I'm hoping that someone will show up that can tell me. I surely can't be the only one that has ever wanted to do this. Thanks again.
... doug
Hi Doug,
I have updated the Ruby gem to support custom fields. You can install the gem from GitHub:
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
gem install patientslikeme-campaign_monitor
Now when you add a subscriber to a list, you can just include a hash of custom fields:
list.add_subscriber(email, name, "City" => "Boston", "State" => "MA")
Hope that helps!
> I have updated the Ruby gem to support custom fields.
That's awesome!!!
I haven't got joy here yet; but, I feel like there is light at the end of the tunnel.
With the update, I would expect that I would be able to:
require 'campaign_monitor'
cm = CampaignMonitor.new()
cm.add_subscriber('123456789','firstname.lastname@example.com','John Doe','Street'=>'Main Street','Country'=>'USA')
When I do that, I get a 'Wrong number of arguments (4 for 3)'. Unfortunately, that sort of suggests to me that it's not liking the hash appended to the arguments. I thought that perhaps curly braces '{}' should surround the entire hash and that they might have inadvertently been omitted from your post; but, including them didn't cure the problem.
WRT the 'list.add_subscriber(email, name, "City" => "Boston", "State" => "MA")' example that you provided, I couldn't get that to work either. I know that I'm doing something stupid on that. The problem is that I can't even get the list object created. I'm reading the documentation to say that I can just, 'list = List.new('123456789'). I really think that I need to do more than that; but, apparently I don't know exactly what else needs to be done.
Anyway, thanks a batch for the help. I do hope that I'll be able to get this thing working in the near future. Thanks again.
... doug
Hi Doug,
You're using a shortcut method to add a subscriber, which doesn't (yet) support custom fields. Maybe some day, but in all honesty I'd rather eliminate that method altogether so there's just _one_ way to add a subscriber.
The method on the List object should support custom fields but I see a bug. I'm working on a fix and hope to have it up on GitHub in the next few minutes.
I just pushed a fix to GitHub. Version 1.3.0 of the gem is now available.
You should be able to do something like:
list = CampaignMonitor::List.new('12345abcdef') # or find it via client.lists
list.add_subscriber(email, name, "City" => "Boston", "State" => "MA")
Note that you have to have manually added the City and State fields to your list on the CM web site.
> I just pushed a fix to GitHub. Version 1.3.0 of the gem is now available.
Viola!!! It worked great!! :) I'm a happy camper!! :) Thanks so much for your efforts.
> I'd rather eliminate that method altogether so there's just _one_ way to add a subscriber.
I'd be happy with it either way. However, I think that if you are going to have multiple methods for adding subscribers, they all need to support custom fields. I would prefer eliminating a method over having the method retained without support for custom fields.
> Maybe some day
When that day comes, I would like to toss out a couple of things that you might consider for your next release.
First, I don't know if you saw my earlier post; but, if something could be done about the Cannot-load-rexml-security-patch warning, it would be great. As I mentioned in the post, there is advice floating around out there to simply incorporate a hack to campaign_monitor.rb to stiffle the warning. I'm not sure that's a good idea and in general, I don't like hacking library files (a la my comment in the following paragraph). Regardless of how it is handled, however, it would be nice if it were handled in the package.
I might be a bit premature on my second item because I note that you indicate that the api_key may be set in the environment and that my resolve the issue. However, I was just thinking that it would be nice to have an alternative to setting the api_key in campaign_monitor.rb. (As I said, I'm not real fond of hacking library files.) The thing is, in some situations (e.g., a shared server), the campaign_monitor.rb file might be shared among applications with differing api_keys.
These are just a couple of points that were on my mind. The custom-fields fix has definitely made my day and that's enough excitement for one day. Again, thanks so much for your help.
... doug
Hi Doug,
Glad that worked for you!
I agree, the other method should support the same stuff if it remains -- but I extended the library only as much as I needed (maybe a tiny bit more), and I was using the List class to add subscribers. One of these days when I have time, I'd love to clean up the interface a bit and add more documentation and code samples. Maybe even a screencast. :) The day job is keeping me pretty busy at the moment though...
I did see your earlier post about the rexml warning. I posted a reply, pointing you to the gem that patches rexml, which will fix a serious bug and secondarily make the annoying warning go away. That's really the right fix as far as I can tell.
Yes, the way the code is structured, it's hard to use multiple API keys. For example, if you use CampaignMonitor::List.new, you can't override the global constant for the API key. This is something I would like to improve at some point as time allows.
That said, if you're feeling ambitious, you're welcome to fork the project on GitHub and improve the code for the rest of us (that's all I did, forking from Jordan Brock's repo). We can pull your changes back into the PatientsLikeMe repo if it makes sense.
Thanks for all the help, Jeremy. I missed your post about the patch. I was thinking that the 2 messages shown meant my original message and the first response. Actually, it meant 2 responses. Anyway, I agree, that is no doubt the way to go. I'll get on that.
As far as my forking the project goes, you flatter me, but I think that is a bit beyond my capabilities. You did give me an ego boost by mentioning it though. :)
Have a great day and thanks again.
... doug
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MARKETERS who expect their advertising agencies to pitch for work on every campaign have been condemned as short-sighted by the Communications Council.
The industry body's warning shot to brand managers followed the Sydney ad agency Leo Burnett quitting the Subaru account after a decade, reportedly because the car maker began demanding its agencies pitch against other rostered agencies to win each brief.
The practice of continually pitching for each brief is reluctantly accepted by ad agencies that sit on government rosters. However, it is widely frowned upon by the advertising fraternity when expected by even some of the more desirable clients. Pitching requires the agency to create an often-detailed campaign concept for a nominal fee or free of charge despite the process taking considerable time and money.
Leo Burnett's chief executive, Todd Sampson, told staff in an internal email leaked to the industry website Mumbrella that it sacked Subaru because continual pitching was hard on staff, an agency's culture and current clients.
He also said as an agency, Leo Burnett deserved better. ''We have had a long relationship with Subaru, of which the last 10 years were record sales, so we all need to act professionally in ending this relationship,'' the email read. Leo Burnett did not respond to questions.
The leaked email won dozens of supportive comments for Mr Sampson from industry colleagues, many of whom believe agencies should stand up to clients with unreasonable demands.
His decision to farewell Subaru has been applauded by the Communications Council's chief executive, Daniel Leesong. He said the practice of pitching every campaign did not develop the best capability within an agency.
''Agencies devote significant resources to pitching, but with a view to establishing long-term partnerships,'' Mr Leesong said. ''Continual pitching means agencies devote disproportionate resources to winning a piece of business, and this obviously comes at a cost to other areas.''
Damian Pincus, the founder of the Sydney ad agency The Works, said he would have also sacked Subaru if put in the same position as Mr Sampson. ''It's not sustainable in the long run to have to pitch for every single brief,'' he said.
''When a client throws in a game-changer like that, perhaps they should consider starting fresh with new agencies, because it's too hard to continue on with a client that insists on having affairs with your competitors. I think we need to stand up against clients doing this as an industry.''
David Whittle, the managing director of M&C Saatchi Australia, agreed that working with multiple partners often didn't enable a brand to build continuity and consistency.
''Some clients aren't valuing the relationship with their agency. When you look out into the market, you can see which brands are suffering because they have more than one agency working on their account,'' he said.
Leo Burnett was behind last year's Subaru ''crowd rider'' ad. Other agencies on Subaru's agency roster include Disciple and US Sydney.


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Windows 8 tablets seems to be heading to the market soon in wide variety. The already confirmed to come Acer's Iconia W3 running on Windows 8 OS is said to hit the market at the price or $379 (Rs. 21,591.63) by June and another one called Lyon was spotted at Computex 2013, and now the tech world has witnessed a gallery of pictures that shows another tablet with the same OS.
Recently, Win8China posted series of pictures taken from Microsoft's Computex 2013 trade show keynote address. These pictures actually indicate that a Lenovo tablet is in the making on the Windows 8 platform. Dubbed as Mix 8 and confirmed by Microsoft marketing manager Leigha Anderson, the pictures of the device clearly show a person holding an 8-inch tablet with the Lenovo brand name on its back.
Furthermore, Leigha Anderson added that the Mix 8 would be thin, will have a 3G wireless support and will come with folio and pen. However, no information was outed regarding the chip it will have inside along with the other specs. However, multiple reports suggest that it would probably come with Intel's Atom processor with either Clover Trail design or the upcoming Bay Trail chip which is featured in Lyon 7 inch tablet.
Build wise, the slim Mix 8 tablet, seems to come with an aluminum back with a rear camera. As of now there are no word on pricing and availability.
This 8 inch Lenovo Mix 8 will surely be waited by rivals like Acer Iconia W3 and probably Lyon with the latest Bay Trail chip. At the same time, all these new range to Windows 8 tablets may have a great impact on the Android tablet market.
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If you were to take a peek into the Roku offices this morning, you'd see beaming employees. Why the excitement? Today we announced a $45 million strategic investment from News Corporation, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), and our prior venture investors Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners.
While this strategic investment and the activities that it affords us are great, even more significant for us is the demonstration of the industry's confidence in Roku – with industry giants like News Corporation and Sky taking notice – as the leading distribution platform to bring streaming entertainment to mainstream consumers.
These partners are actually not new to Roku. We launched FoxNews.com, WSJ Live and XFactor channels on Roku in the U.S. last year. And Sky announced last week that Now TV, its brand new Internet TV service, is coming to Roku in the U.K. later this year. NOW TV will open up more choice for consumers by making Sky Movies – followed later this year by Sky Sports – available across a wide range of Internet-connected devices.
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:09 PM
Scurrilous (29,421 posts)
The Former Terror Suspect Leading the Attack on the Brooklyn College BDS Panel
"When Brooklyn Colleges chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine announced it would be hosting a forum promoting the BDS movement, or the Palestinian call to boycott, sanction and divest from the state of Israel, and would be doing so with sponsorship from the schools political science department, a whos who of top New York Democrats snapped into action. In a strongly worded letter to Brooklyn College president Karen Gould, the self-described progressives demanded that the political science department withdraw its sponsorship of an event they cast as unacceptable. The signers included Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Nydia Velasquez and Hakeem Jeffries, as well as the progressive councilman Brad Lander and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is a front-runner in the race to be New York Citys next mayor.
Mayor Michael Bloomberga committed Zionist who has spoken in favor of Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Stripreacted strongly against the letter. If you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea, Bloomberg remarked. Then, on February 6, most of the apparently humbled Democrats who lent their names to the letter retracted their demand for the Brooklyn College political science department to pull its sponsorship. Out of the letters nineteen original signers, seventeen withdrew their names, leaving only former city comptroller and mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson and State Assemblyman James Brennan as the outliers."
"Before a crowd of camera people and reporters, Thompson railed, This organization (the BDS movement) is one that expresses hate; is one that expresses opposition to Israel. Next, New York City Councilman David Greenfield held forth until he was red in the face, calling BDS advocates members of a hate-filled, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist movement.
"If the lawmakers had in fact gathered to take a principled stand against hate and terrorism, they chose a curious figure to stand behind. Indeed, the press conference was organized by a man who has been suspected by the FBI of involvement in several terrorist bombings and who was a top cadre in an organization currently identified by the FBI as a violent extremist Jewish organization. He is Dov Hikind, a Democratic State Asssemblyman who, despite his links to acts of terrorism and violence against racial minorities, has emerged as a political kingmaker in New York State politics. With his ability to deliver thousands of Russian and Orthodox Jewish votes to the candidates of his choice, often deciding hotly contested elections, Hikind had no trouble marshaling high-level opposition to Brooklyn Colleges scheduled BDS event."
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Response to Scurrilous (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:16 PM
oberliner (45,166 posts)
1. All this for a quiet event attended by about a hundred or so people
Much sound and fury signifying nothing.
But good play in some corners in need of web hits.
Response to oberliner (Reply #1)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:25 PM
Jefferson23 (30,099 posts)
2. So The Nation is another poor publication, as well as +972 Magazine? n/t
Response to Jefferson23 (Reply #2)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:27 PM
oberliner (45,166 posts)
3. Max Blumenthal craves attention
His ego is what I was attempting to "ding" in this case.
This is exactly the kind of article I'd expect him to write in this case.
He likes to drum things up where nothing exists in order to draw attention to himself.
Response to oberliner (Reply #3)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:28 PM
Jefferson23 (30,099 posts)
4. The Nation does not agree, evidently. n/t
Response to Jefferson23 (Reply #4)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:31 PM
oberliner (45,166 posts)
5. I think they do
His articles help generate web traffic - he is good at rabble rousing for those who are interested in that kind of thing.
In any case, I'm glad there are so many people posting on this snowy day!
Hope you are safe.
Response to oberliner (Reply #5)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:38 PM
Jefferson23 (30,099 posts)
6. You imagine The Nation's working relationship with him has nothing
to do with the content but merely a rabble rouser...interesting. So you don't think much of this publication either.
Thanks, I hope there are no significant power outages for anyone. It is beautiful outside right now, as long as you're
able to view it from inside.
Response to Jefferson23 (Reply #6)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:53 PM
oberliner (45,166 posts)
7. Pretty much all news magazines are in trouble
I think a lot of them are turning to purple prose to generate attention (and revenue).
Or maybe it's yellow journalism. I forget which means what.
Response to oberliner (Reply #7)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:56 PM
Jefferson23 (30,099 posts)
8. That's a pretty cynical viewpoint, but ok. n/t
Response to Jefferson23 (Reply #8)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 05:39 PM
shira (30,109 posts)
9. It's Chomsky's viewpoint. Some news/narratives get more hits....
More hits means more revenue.
Keep giving the people what they want...
Response to shira (Reply #9)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 05:47 PM
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- ice retreat
- foraminifera
Date of Defense 2010-03-05 Availability unrestricted AbstractIt is widely accepted that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) was grounded at the continental shelf edge in Eastern Ross Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), but the precise chronology is debated. Existing post-LGM ice retreat chronologies are considered suspect because nearly all have been developed using radiocarbon dating of acid-insoluble organics (AIO). Foraminifer tests yield more accurate radiocarbon dates than AIO because unlike loose sediment, foram tests are unlikely to be contaminated by allochthonous carbon, but unfortunately forams are sparse in Antarctic marine sediment cores. Here I utilized a new 3-D multibeam survey of a mid-continental-shelf grounding zone wedge (GZW) and report four consistent radiocarbon dates of forams from four different depth intervals at two core sites on the foreset of the GZW in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea. The forams dated in this study most likely represent a mixture of in situ forams and forams reworked a short distance. These new radiocarbon dates are inconsistent with dates from Western Ross Sea and suggest that the WAIS began retreat across the Ross Sea Eastern Basin prior to 31,000 14C yr BP, more than 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. In the future, if in situ forams can be isolated from foreset sediments within other GZWs, precise dates for grounding event chronologies can be developed, which would ultimately permit us to relate the WAIS retreat to other high-resolution, proxy-based evidence of potential climatic and eustatic forcing. Files
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G.I. Combat
Review by Wist
"A sloppy transition into a 3D world..."
G.I. Combat is a real time strategy game that takes place in a totally 3D enviroment. Made by the same people who made the Close Combat series, this game kept the same concept, but was poorly done. G.I. Combat takes place during World War II and it is historically accurate, weapons and all. The game is filled with different types of infantry, armored units, and neat features such as artillery fire. Very similar to the Close Combat series, which was practically perfected, they decided to turn the game into 3D. This transition caused problems and just isn't as high quality as the 2D.
Gameplay: G.I. Combat is a real time strategy game where you must capture positions on the battlefield from the enemy. If you are familiar with the Close Combat series, then let me be the first to say, nothing has changed. Victory will be yours if you deploy your troops tactically and move them strategically. If you lack realistic strategy, you will lose many troops. The artificial intelligence is unforgiving. Its not very smart, but its good at killing your troops. Prior to going into battle, you pick your troops. You have a limited amount to pick, so make sure you have the most effecient squad. From there, you deploy them on the battlefield. Then you must move them and take the enemy positions and when enough men have died and you have all the positions, victory is yours. Be smart, don't move your troops blindly across the field with no cover fire. Also, conserve ammo! Numerous times have the majority of my team ran out of ammo.
Story: The story is set during WWII. You can also be on either side of the battle.
Sound: The sound is very realistic. Even when there is no fighting going on, you can still hear the distant rumble of bombs, guns, etc, but when you do get into a firefight, it is excellent. The gernades going off, the exchange of fire across a field and the screaming...its very well done. The explosions, the voices, the guns, the sound effects, everything sounds nice. Put your headphones on for this game...
Graphics: The graphics are okay. All the vehicles and units are represented nicely. The trees are done okay. However, the bushes and other landscaping graphics are not. Bushes are represented by a thin green wall which has barely any 3D modeling whatsoever. The units look good and the animations are realistic. People running, people walking, people going prone, people crouching, people burning, people dying, it all looks nice. All together, the graphics aren't that impressive and aren't up to date with some of the games on the market now, but it is still good looking and gets the job done.
Flaws: The game resembles Close Combat a lot. However, its transition into 3D created problems. I can't put my finger on it, but its just not as fun as the 2D WWII games. The camera is also a problem. You will find yourself trying to get a good view of whats going on and instead of actually moving your troops. The last problem I encountered which really bugged me was the artificial intelligence. If you played Close Combat, then you probably know how stupid the A.I. can be. However, this game is much worse. The units are plain out retarded. Somtimes I would order them to a location and they would linger about twenty yards behind it. Then I would go just alittle bit farther to make them go to the desired spot, but instead they would go too far and out in the wide open for a machine gun to pick them off.
Replayability: Its replayability is all up to you. If you enjoy the game, then this game could last a really long time. However, if you don't like this game, then its over quick. You might not even explore deep enough to find out all its goodies. So it all depends on you taste and your tolerance.
Conclusion: G.I. Combat is a decent game. It is fun and enjoyable, if you like realistic combat. However, its not for everyone. If you really like games like this, then you might be able to tolerate its flaws. If you don't like this type of game, then stay clear of this one.
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 11/24/02, Updated 11/24/02
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Computex 2011: Intel's Thin miniITX Sandy Bridge Platformby Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011 4:07 AM EST
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duploxxx - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkso now since they have decent competition they will abbandon there slowish atom everywhere? Reply
LuckyKnight - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkWithout true 24 Hz (23.97 Hz) still Reply
dagamer34 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkWill be fixed in Ivy Bridge. See Anand's Sandy Bridge review. Reply
ChuckDriver - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkFor something like this you'd need a standardized internal header for connecting to the monitor. I also can't find the 2" wide 24-pin power supply connector on the motherboard in the pictures, so that probably changes too. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkHopefully this means we can get some HTPC cases that don't look terrible. Fitting an HTPC into the form factor of a blu-ray player would be great. Reply
scook9 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkGreat it is thinner!
Still have to cool the CPU though...... Reply
Doltmoopsie - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkYou could not be more right about this. Low-profile systems are usually constrained by the cooling. If the CPU faces away from the screen, the CPU could be connected to a back case by a vapor chamber or heat pipes.
Also, others here are right that the connector would have to be standardized in size and positions. Reply
AmdInside - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkIs this a problem? For me, the problem has always been getting a CPU cooler that is low enough to fit certain cases. You can get low profile memory. Reply
mianmian - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - linkLooking at Intel's link, the CPU is connected to heat sink via heatpipes. But if the CPU position is flexible, it will be a big computability problem: You have to use a specific board. Hope intel has the solution. Reply
ggathagan - Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - linkAlthough I like the idea, I still remember Intel's last attempt and bringing a new form factor to the market.
Anyone else left with a bad taste in their mouth from the BTX standard? Reply


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All That Remains And Hollywood Undead To Tour Together
I've mentioned several times that Massachusetts quintet All That Remains is one of my most favorite bands. I am always so excited when I hear they are venturing out on another tour, as they usually hit the Capital District. Tomorrow, their newest tour with headliners Hollywood Undead begins. Are they headed this way?
A few months ago, ATR was on tour with Buckcherry, which I thought didn't make sense at all because they're both so different, but I never complain when they're in the area. I never get tired of seeing or hearing them live and it makes me so happy that they visit the area so often. Some bands go years without coming back, so the fact that ATR is here three to four times a year is just so awesome!
As if a line-up couldn't be more of an oxymoron, ATR is currently on tour with rap/rock/pop LA sextet Hollywood Undead. I am actually a fan of HU, but they don't at all go with ATR, but I won't complain about seeing both of them!
Their tour with HU doesn't actually start until July 9, but starting tomorrow, ATR will be playing a few shows and festivals throughout the U.S.
The tour dates are as follows:
May 23 – London, ON – Cowboy's
May 24 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew's Hall
May 26 – Little Rock, AR – Juanita's
May 27 – Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma
May 28 – Minneapolis, MN – Midway Stadium (93X XFest)
May 31 – Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
July 9 – Ft Wayne, IN- Piere's*- The first date with HU
July 15 – Sioux Falls, SD – Sioux Falls Arena (KRROQFEST)
July 20 – Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock Café*
July 23 – Fitchburg, MA – Central Mass Expo Center*
July 22 – Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights*
July 24 – Hampton Beach, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom*
July 26 – S. Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom*
Aug 4 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel*
Aug 5 – Nashville, TN – Nashville War Memorial Auditorium*
Aug 7 – Knoxville, TN – The Valarium*
I am so excited for the upcoming tour! Are you a fan of either or both bands? Will you be going to see them live?


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Sequestration furloughs affect Mitchell, Chamberlain Guard
Furloughs starting next month will affect 55 South Dakota National Guard employees in Mitchell and Chamberlain.
According to Terry Ommen, a Guard spokesman, 47 of the Guard's employees in Mitchell and another eight in Chamberlain will be forced to take unpaid days off beginning next month as a result of federal budget cuts.
The furloughs will require certain Guard employees to take 11 unpaid days off from Aug. 2 to Sept. 30. Employees affected by the furlough will lose nearly $4,200 in pay, or 20 percent of their annual paycheck.
The employees affected in the Mitchell area are mostly technicians working in the Guard's maintenance shops, Ommen said.
The furloughs are the result of government sequestration meant to reduce the federal budget deficit, Ommen said. The federal government intends to cut $1.1 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. Ommen said 540 full-time employees out of the Guard's 958 employees statewide will be affected by the furloughs. "There are definitely some challenges from a morale perspective," Ommen said. Ommen said the employees affected by the furloughs understand the cuts are out of the Guard's control. "We're just working together to make sure we maintain a level of readiness to meet both our state and federal missions," he said.
Last year, the Guard relocated six units across the state to save money. Units in Platte, Winner and Salem were among those relocated. The Platte and Winner units relocated to Wagner and Rapid City, and the Salem unit relocated to Yankton.
No Guard employees in Wagner will be affected by the furloughs.


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Warsaw (Aug. 27)
The Jewish press in Poland commemorates to-day the 11th. anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shapiro of Ploczk, who was shot by the Polish troops when they re-entered the town after driving out the Bolshevik army which had occupied it during the invasion of 1921, on the accusation that the Rabbi, in swaying backwards and forwards at his prayers, was signalling to the Bolsheviks the movements of the Polish troops.
Eleven years the ill-fated Rabbi Chaim Shapiro lies in his grave in Ploozk, the "Moment" writes. Eleven years his body riddled by the bullets of the firing party lies there wrapped in his Talith, and his voice still cries, "Earth, cover not my innocent blood". Like once the blood of Zachariah, the blood of the martyr of Ploczk will not rest, and demands justice and rehabilitation, for over his grave still hovers the accusation that he was a traitor. The charge has never yet been repudiated by a court of law.
Our martyrs of old, the paper continues, did not care what the nations thought of their alleged crimes. Rabbi Akibah did not ask that the world should acquit him of the charge for which he was put to death. He died with the words "Hear, O Israel" on his lips, not "Hear, Oh nations". But the martyr of Ploczk a few minutes before the firing party did their work, asked his relatives to see to it that there should be a revision of his trial, so that his innocence should be proclaimed. His last wish was that he should not be left in his grave with the infamy of treason besmirching his name. His brother, also a Rabbi, relates that years ago, long before the Bolshevist invasion of Poland, they were discussing martyrdom, and Rabbi Chaim Shapiro said: Believe me, brother, would that I were singled out to be a martyr innocently for His Holy Name. He had his wish. He heard the sentence calmly. He was not cast down in his soul. The accusation against him was that he had sold himself to the enemies of religion, to the Bolsheviks, and he was to be shot as a Bolshevist spy, but he was convinced that the truth would come out, and that it would be seen that he died innocently, a martyr for His Holy Name.
But to the present day his innocence has not yet been demonstrated, and the name of traitor still clings to his memory. When the tragedy of Ploczk occurred, there was an outcry from end to end of world Jewry. Jews were aroused. Nothing else was spoken of at that time. But people realised that it was a time of war and that the Rabbi had been sentenced by a court-martial, acting in haste and in rude, soldierly fashion. Nothing could be done then. But now, eleven years have passed. Poland is no longer in a state of war and yet the Rabbi's name has not been cleared. So long as we do not have a declaration by a court of law that the Rabbi's innocence has been legally demonstrated, his blood will not rest in the earth where it lies. Can Jewry allow this to go on? the paper asks. Jewish opinion must demand, it concludes, that the Polish law courts should reopen the case, should review the evidence, and should hand down the only possible decision, that the Rabbi was innocent and thus clear his name.


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New York City Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard said Wednesday it is taking its $36 per-share cash offer for Casey's General Stores directly to shareholders in a tender offer after Casey's rejected its bid in April, the Associated Press reported.
Casey's said in April the bid undervalues the Ankeny, Iowa, company.
The new bid is worth $1.87 billion in total, excluding about $29 million in Casey's debt. Couche-Tard also plans to nominate nine candidates for Casey's board of directors.
In a statement, Couche-Tard CEO Alain Bouchard said it was "unfortunate" that Casey's rejected the offer in April without any discussion or negotiation.
"We continue to believe that a combination of Casey's and Couche-Tard is compelling and would deliver superior value to our respective shareholders, employees, business partners and other constituencies," he added. "We are confident that the shareholders of Casey's will recognize the seriousness of our interest and send a strong message to the Casey's board that they should sit down with us immediately to negotiate a mutually acceptable transaction."
Couche-Tard is one of the largest convenience store operators in North America, operating about 5,700 outlets under the Couche-Tard, Mac's, Circle K, 7-jours, Dairy Mart, Daisy Mart, Beckers and Winks banners. The company is also the master franchise holder for Dunkin' Donuts quick-service restaurants in Quebec. It operates more than 3,500 stores across the United States.
Casey's operates about 1,500 stores.


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The three-day camp, for children between the ages of five and 12, saw 45 keen rugby players from throughout Worcestershire have an enjoyable experience playing conditioned games and developing their core skills with Warriors Community coaching team.
"The players worked exceptionally well and as always the certificates and prizes we award were very hard to decide," said Community Rugby Manager Steve Joslin
"A lot of fun was had by all and to have the involvement and experience of Chris and Craig was fantastic, the children really took to them."
The next Warriors Premier Rugby Academy Camps are taking place in the May half term; further details are available on the Warriors community page www.warriors.co.uk or in the community office 01905 454183.


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Already Over: Your Granite Kitchen Countertops
"Granite has taken on the Kleenex brand," says Carino, the HGTV host. "Now everything's Kleenex. Most people don't realize that they don't actually want a granite countertop." They might want soapstone. They might want Silestone. What they're really looking for, Carino says, is "granite-esque."
The forward-leaning design snobs — the readers of "Dwell" and "Architectural Digest" — have already moved on. They want poured concrete in swirling designs. Carino is trying to turn people on to quartz, which is even harder than granite, even less porous.


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Family seeking the miracle of a living donor
For most families, the need for a liver or kidney transplant never comes.
For the Petrosky family, that need has come three times.
Lori Petrosky, 62, underwent a liver transplant in 2011. It was her second.
Her daughter Nicole, 35, has end-stage kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her family is seeking the miracle of a living donor.
"Through my first and second transplant, there was a saint that I prayed to and I believe he wanted to make sure that I lived and the reason, I know now, is to help my daughter," Lori Petrosky said. "I understand with a mother's love, but also from experience."
The family is devoted to Saint Pio of Pietrelcina and has visited his grave in Italy.
Among the many who have turned to the Capuchin Franciscan to intercede with God on their behalf was the man who would become Pope John Paul II, according to AmericanCatholic.org. In 1962, when the late pope was an archbishop in Poland, he wrote to Padre Pio and asked him to pray for a Polish woman with throat cancer. Within two weeks, she was cured.
"We are praying he intervenes for Nicole and hopefully by getting the word out that will happen," said Lori Petrosky. "It will happen. It's just a matter of time."
Nicole, whose family and friends are not a healthy match for donation, is on the waiting list maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a private nonprofit that manages the nation's organ transplant system under contract with the federal government.
Her father, Frank Petrosky, said it could take three to five years on the waiting list, so the family is actively searching for a healthy donor willing to donate a kidney. He and his wife own New Image Hair Clinic in Irwin and Harrisburg.
Nicole, a 1996 graduate of Shadyside Academy who lives in Washington, D.C., was diagnosed in 2012 after the family returned from a Christmas vacation to Poland. Nicole was tired all the time and "just not herself," she said. Upon her return, she ended up in the hospital, where she learned her kidneys were failing.
"Then it all made her sense," her mother said. "She probably had this for years. In 2008, she was in the hospital with pneumonia, and heavy doses of antibiotics are said to be a cause for kidney failure."
Nicole, an avid animal lover, has not been able to enjoy her role as ambassador for the National Zoo in Washington or her volunteer work with the Cheetah Conservation Fund. Her life's ambition is to help endangered animals, particularly cheetahs. She knows exactly what she wants to do when a transplant restores her health: "Go to Africa."
Nicole said she is grateful for the support she receives. Her husband, De Margo Hopson, "understands the nutrition aspect of kidney disease and makes sure I eat the right foods," she said.
Michele Stewardson is a contributing writer for Trib Total Media.


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The full trailer to "Live Free or Die Hard" can now be viewed exclusively via Yahoo! Movies.
Well, it's no doubt such a huge treat for those who wait patiently to get more sneak peek on "Live Free or Die Hard."
A full trailer to the highly anticipated movie has come online exclusively on Yahoo! Movies in both Windows Media and Quicktime format. Apart from the clip, fans also can look back on the teaser trailer on the site as well as a number of production photos.
What's more, the 20th Century Fox delightfully has also fully launched the official site of the flick where the visitors can look for new downloads while getting the movie's synopsis and viewing the gallery section.
The fourth installment of the "Die Hard" franchise, "Live Free or Die Hard" this time sees our hero John McClane, still played by Bruce Willis, get assigned to stop an attack on the U.S. infrastructure from shutting down the entire nation on the July 4th holiday. Directed by Len Wiseman from script by Mark Bomback, pic is scheduled to hit U.S. theaters on June 27 this year.


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FEARnet, MASTERXFX Partners to Present 'Son Of A BASH' Costume Party 10/27 At Son Of Monsterpalooza
FEARnet-the cable industry's premier TV movie network, VOD channel and online portal featuring horror, suspense and thriller content-will join forces with Todd Masters' MASTERSFX to present "Son of a BASH," an exclusive star-studded costume party celebrating the 25th anniversary of MASTERSFX. "Son of a BASH" is the 15th MASTERSFX BASH, and the first BASH since 2007. This industry event will be a feast for the senses, featuring live entertainment, masterful makeup and a disturbing DJ set by the legendary CryptKeeper, himself, from "Tales from the Crypt." The red carpet will begin at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 27 at the Marriott Burbank Hotel & Convention Center in Burbank, CA. "Son of a BASH" is being organized in conjunction with the Son of Monsterpalooza convention, starting Friday, October 26.
As part of the event's charity component, 25 special VIP tickets will be sold for $250, with all proceeds going to benefit the Southern California Hospice Foundation. People who purchase these tickets will not only receive a monster grab bag, but will be able to enter the party in full-on monster makeup, created for them by Todd Masters' own team of Hollywood makeup artists. There will also be opportunities for fans to win exclusive tickets online via the event's Facebook and twitter accounts-fans can follow along at event #sonofaBASH-as well as other social media outlets. And celebrated genre filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska, a.k.a. the Twisted Twins ("American Mary"), will also be giving away tickets, as will the various vendors who will be attending Son of Monsterpalooza this year.
Todd Masters is an Emmy Award-winning makeup and character effects artist whose impressive recent credits include work on a variety of hit TV shows and movies such as "True Blood," "Falling Skies," "Arrow," "Fringe," "Sinister" and the upcoming feature, "Vamps." He began throwing these Monster-Makers Bashes in the early '90s at MASTERSFX headquarters in the San Fernando Valley, as a way for some of the industry's top professional monster makers to come together and show off their skills to other professional monster makers. Initially the party was invite-only and exclusive, but word eventually got out and the event's notoriety and popularity grew.
The yearly BASH has always been non-profit, and, in the time following 9/11, the BASH raised thousands of dollars for the Families of Freedom organization, which benefits those who lost loved ones on 9/11. This year, proceeds will go toward the Southern California Hospice Foundation.
"We threw these Pro Monster Maker Events for over a decade, and it nearly took over our lives-a monster in itself! Years later, we still look back at the amazing costumes and makeup that professional artists would conjure up exclusively for this event, turning the venue into the 'Star Wars' Cantina Bar... from Hell! Now, working with Son of Monsterpalooza and FEARnet, both of which carry on the spirit of what these events were all about, we're excited to bring it back," said Masters.
MASTERSFX clientele includes some of the biggest names in the business, and each year the BASH guest list reflects this. Past BASH events have featured established genre icons such as Kurt Russell ("The THING"), Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), Angus Scrimm ("Phantasm") and John Kassir ("Tales from the Crypt"), as well as Seth Green ("Robot Chicken"), Nicolas Cage ("Drive Angry"), Traci Lords ("Blade"), Billy Zane ("Demon Knight"), Judd Nelson ("Dark Asylum") and Paul Reubens ("The Nightmare Before Christmas").
"One of our marketing priorities at FEARnet is to sponsor and promote local film festivals and fan conventions," said Faye Walker, FEARnet's vice president of marketing. "Grass-root efforts are a cornerstone of our marketing campaigns-we're a network of fans, and we like sharing our programming and our love for the genre with other fans. Being involved in MASTERSFX's 'Son of a BASH' is a great way to do this, while supporting an extraordinary company and a great cause; and we're especially excited to support them in making their party the industry event of the year! As a special treat, the CryptKeeper will be making an appearance at the event."
With October, its most popular month, well underway, FEARnet has added special Halloween programming treats to its lineup. Highlights include the annual fan-favorite 24-hour marathon of the cult classic "Trick R' Treat" on October 31, as well as airing episodes of the Emmy Award-winning anthology horror series "Tales from the Crypt" every Friday night from 7 to 9 p.m. Upcoming "Tales from the Crypt" episodes for October 26 are "The Sacrifice," starring Michael Ironside ("Scanners"), about a murderous man being blackmailed for his deeds, and "Four-Sided Triangle," directed by Tom Holland ("Fright Night") and starring Patricia Arquette ("Medium") as a troubled woman in love with a scarecrow.


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Trending on Twitter in the suburbs and the city this morning:
Lance Armstrong, Livestrong and Nike. Armstrong resigned today as chairman of his charity, and Nike canceled his contract.
Even though #Nike dropped Lance Armstrong they need to continue the Live Strong movement. The cause its represent is far more bigger.
— TavonnNicolas (@iamtavonn) October 17, 2012
Official statement: @lancearmstrong to Step Down as Chairman of @livestrong bit.ly/P9E17O
— LIVESTRONG (@LIVESTRONG) October 17, 2012
So proud of what we've accomplished together: The 15 Defining Moments of LIVESTRONG: bit.ly/Q5XRvk #LIVESTRONG15
— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) October 12, 2012
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