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About S3QL
S3QL is a FUSE file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3. It effectively allows you to use S3 as a harddisk with infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with internet access.
S3QL has been designed mainly to store backups, and many of its features are geared towards this purpose. However, since S3QL is providing a standard UNIX file system, it can not only be used with every backup program but also for any other purpose.
S3QL is designed to favor simplicity and elegance over performance and feature-richness. Care has been taken to make the source code as readable and serviceable as possible. Solid error detection and error handling have been included from the very first line, and S3QL comes with extensive automated test cases for all its components.
- Compression. Before being stored in S3, all data can be compressed using the highly efficient Bz2 algorithm (the same algorithm that is used by the bzip2 -9 command on Unix).
- Encryption. After compression (but still before storage in S3), all data can be AES encrypted using 256 bit key. This protects the data from being seen by anyone else. Additionally, a SHA256 HMAC checksum protects the data against unauthorized modifications.
- Data De-duplication. If several files have identical contents, the duplicate data will be stored only once. This works across all files stored in the file system, and also if only some parts of the files are identical while other parts are different.
- Writable Snapshots. Inside an S3QL file system, you can duplicate entire directory trees without using any additional storage space. Only if one of the copies is modified, the part of the data that has been modified will take up additional storage space.
This feature can be used to create snapshots of the contents of a given directory at a given point in time.
- Performance independent of network latency. S3QL saves the file and directory structure in a database that is downloaded from S3 when the file system is mounted and uploaded again when the file system is unmounted. The file contents are transferred on demand in blocks of a configurable size and are cached locally. Most file system operations can therefore be carried out without any (potentially slow) network access at all.


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Wow... I was out of my seat the whole game... can't wait until the Bucks game on Friday!
This is what hope looks like, what hope sounds like.
It looks like Roy Hibbert, the young guy who is emerging as the true face of this franchise, taking charges and keeping balls alive and hitting cutters for easy layups.
It looks like Darren Collison -- finally, a real Indiana Pacers point guard -- jumping into the passing lane, making a steal, taking it to the basket and elevating over Philadelphia's Louis Williams for a slam.
It looks like Josh McRoberts doing all the little things McRoberts does, defending the lane and diving for loose balls, finally capping it off with a roof-raising dunk late in the third quarter.
It looks like Danny Granger taking it hard to the basket for a three-point play and, yes, defending -- truly defending -- with active hands.
And it sounds like 18,165 voices in full throat, Conseco Fieldhouse sounding like it hasn't sounded in way too many years. Was that the sound of a community finally starting to fall back in love with its basketball franchise? After all those irrelevant, lifeless post-brawl years, do the Pacers finally have a product this city can truly embrace?
Granger has hoped before, knowing deep down his team didn't have the talent or the disposition.
This is different than hope, more than hope. It's a growing sense of belief.
"I do sense there's real hope,'' he said after the Pacers' 99-86 home-opening victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. "Finally, we have a solid point guard who will be here for a while. And we've got young guys who are playing well. We've got the mix, the potion, whatever you want to call it, to have a really solid team and make a (playoff) run.''
The Pacers won in Charlotte and won again Saturday night for the simplest of reasons: They played defense, especially against the Sixers, fighting back after a Philly second-quarter run and putting the hammer down in a game-altering third quarter.
"Yeah,'' Granger said, laughing. "Pretty good, huh?''
Coach Jim O'Brien is something of a basketball sabermetrician, a stats guy who keeps his own semi-unique numbers. The Pacers keep track of something they call hustle points -- a compilation of charges taken, loose balls corralled, balls deflected, things like that -- and his team had 69 of those.
They've already shown they aren't last year's team, or the team before that. They won a road game, something they did just nine times last season. And they won the second game of a back-to-back, although Philly played Friday night, too.
It's hard to resist the temptation to go a little overboard, to get a little giddy at the way the Pacers have played this first week. But think back to last year's home opener, a funereal loss to the Miami Heat. The season started badly and never got much better. Hope was snuffed out by the first week of November. It was grim, not just because of the losses but the way they too often lost.
Saturday night, they were too enthusiastic, if that's possible. Hibbert took a second-half charge, jumped to his feet and clapped his hands. He got called for a technical foul. Part of the new emphasis on respect-for-the-game dictum.
"That's OK; I'll write my check and it'll be fine,'' Hibbert said with a smile. "We won the game. That's what counts.''
(For the record, it was one of the most ridiculous calls ever. Hibbert wasn't taunting; he wasn't in the suburbs of taunting. I understand the NBA's desire to cut down on all the post-foul-call complaining and gesticulating, but applauding? Really?)
Yep, this is what hope looks like.
We haven't experienced hope, or even a facsimile of it, since the 2004-05 season, when the brawl set the stage for the franchise's decline.
Granted, there have been fast starts before, misleading starts. In 2005-06, they began 4-1 and finished 41-41. In 2006-07, they won three of their first four and finished 35-47. In 2007-08, they began 3-0 and went 36-46.
This, though, looks different. It feels different. They look like they're building now, establishing a foundation. They finally have their point guard of the future. They have a center who has a chance to be one of the top 10 at his position. They have Granger, who is not only healthy, but looks more and more interested in defending and leading.
Seriously, who thought McRoberts would emerge as a very workable power forward in this league? Who thought Tyler Hansbrough, whom O'Brien felt was not yet ready to play after sitting in San Antonio, would come out and make an impact against Charlotte and Philly? Who thought T.J. Ford -- maybe it's one of those Halloween-esque zombie deals -- would come back from the hoops grave to be a huge part of this team . . finally?
This is what hope looks like, what hope sounds like.
"Jeff Foster has told me what it used to be like around here,'' Collison said. "The goal now is to bring that back.''
Been a long time, hasn't it?
It's so easy to root for these guys... man, what a game.

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MARION, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's prognosticating groundhog says spring will come early to the state.
For the fourth year in the row, Buckeye Chuck sent a signal Saturday that spring will come soon for Ohioans. Buckeye Chuck did not see his shadow at 7:39 a.m.
According to the Mansfield News Journal (ohne.ws/XP5wR5), hundreds attended the festivities held at WMRN-AM in Marion in north-central Ohio.
In Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW'-nee) Phil has made his prediction. He also says expect an early spring.
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Hello all,
My name is John, i'm new here and have been playing for about 5 months.
I want to join a tournament, mainly to learn and practice.
I can drive about 200 feet on average, sometimes more. My average score when I play 18 holes is +15 or so.
I don't care if I came in dead last in a tournament. Is it disrespectful to play one without being great at the sport? I haven't joined the PDGA yet or anything, just wanted to see people's opinions on this.
Thanks in advance, these forums that i've been lurking on have tought me some good information!


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Topic: Sort of diagnosed?!?
Hello, my husband is 54 and in general good health. He was diagnosed as diabetic almost 4 years ago. Last week he had his routine bloodwork done and it showed elevated bilirubin levels. This was the 10th of September. On the 12th he had an ultrasound and we were told it was a gallstone. He had more bloodwork done on the 13th. On Friday the 14th he was admitted to the hospital for a CT Scan. They also ordered a MRI. We were told there was an "obstruction" in the hepatic duct. He had an ERCP on Monday and they inserted a stent. After the procedure the Dr told me there was a tumor and his gall bladder was "a mess". I started to cry and he told me "not to worry until I tell you to worry" and to pray that it was not in his pancreas. He also told me not to tell my husband or anyone in the family until we were able to see a specialist in Cleveland. There was no need to worry anyone until we knew what we were dealing with. So I didn't. My husband had terrible nausea after the ERCP and slept and threw up for the past two days. On Tuesday I was able to talk to another Dr from the Gastrionoligist office who informed me there was a large mass in the tail and middle section of his pancreas plus the tumor in his common hepatic duct. His CA 19-9 number was 3720. He used the term Klatskin's tumors and wrote down Cholangio Carcinoma for me. My husband came home today and has been sleeping well, his jaundice is all but gone and he is not as nauseated. The Dr that did the ERCP came in before discharge and told us that my husband has an "obstruction" that could be anything from calcium to cholestrol and that he was sending us to Cleveland University Hospital to have a scope ultrasound and he is confident that this doctor will be able to help us. He was so calm and upbeat I almost forgot what the other doctor had already told me. I have been searching the internet for any information I can find and came upon this wonderful forum. I would welcome ANY information.


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This contribution is actually a repost of material from last June, where it was originally a contribution to the ATRC podcast for my segment called "Blackboard Feature of the Week". The fact that eight months later I can still remember some of the details from this segment lead me to believe that it might be worth a revisit… plus, it's a long weekend so I ran out of week to record something.
Rather than dwell on specific tools in Blackboard, this time I'd like to draw comparisons between several of the options in Blackboard and actual in-classroom functions. If you're struggling to figure out what Blackboard can do for you, perhaps this will help.
In class it's useful to get a feel for which students are attending regularly. Most of the time this is done anecdotally by recognizing the students; in Blackboard you can stop by the Performance Dashboard and easily see the last time a student has accessed the course site.
In the classroom, if something out of the ordinary is about to happen, or if something that's been on the schedule for a while is about to be due, you might write a note on the chalkboard. With the truly important things, you may even want to "DNE" it, so other classes do not erase it. Clearly this is the Announcement tool in Blackboard, even down to the Make Permanent function to "DNE" your information.
The most obvious comparison between Blackboard and classroom functions is with handouts. If you would have material photocopied and passed out in class, you could have it posted as an item in Blackboard. A slightly overlooked option is how Blackboard items also replicate demonstration objects that you might bring into the classroom. If you want your students to see an Asiatic mask, or a monkey skull, or a topographic map of North America, these things could also be displayed in Blackboard. Possibly shooting a digital picture of the item would work, but there are more freely available resources of complexity available online than you might think; perhaps someone has a 3-D model of that monkey skull, probably some governmental department has the maps you need available. If you're not sure how to get started finding such resources, that's a pretty legitimate reason to call on Academic Technology for help.
If you do objective tests in class, you likely have your students use a Scantron. If you just can't limit yourself to "pick A-E for each question" testing, you may have to manually grade objective tests by hand, which is never a fun exercise. Blackboard's testing module excels at automatically and immediately scoring objective test questions, and may have more question choices than you'd ever believe. Up to twenty possible answers per multiple choice question, matching, ordering, multiple answer, fill in the blank, and even "Where's Waldo" style Hotspot questions where the student answers by clicking a specific spot on an image are all easily set up in a Blackboard test.
If you ever use blue books, you may want to try instead having students type up their work and submit it via a Blackboard assignment. Imagine never needing to decipher student penmanship again… And if your concern is over limiting the time in which the students are working, just have the papers typed up in a monitored environment, either by bringing the whole class into a computer lab for that class session, or by having laptops rolled out to your classroom for students to use during the class session. Of course a fully online class would just want to assume all writing assignments are open book anyway, but an on-campus class would not need to.
If your students are ever invited to talk about class material during class sessions, then using the Blackboard Discussion Board could be a good idea. Just set up a forum, possibly seed it with some questions, then tell the students to "talk amongst yourselves." Just because students post to the forum doesn't make it uncontrolled; there are options to have moderated discussions, and you could even allow some trusted students to moderate in your place. If you just want to facilitate student discussion without making it a normal part of class, just set up a forum and let students know they can post there for any extra things they wish to discuss.
Do you show PowerPoint Presentations in the classroom? Do you lecture? Likely you do, and Blackboard has a variety of ways to make this material available to students. Use the Elluminate tool to have a live presentation online with your students, and record that so the student who missed can at least see what went on. Or, record a solo session, where you run through your presentation similar to what you might do in a lecture hall, then let the students watch that recording and post questions to a discussion board. Even if you already have all your material available in a written format, you could still make little audio snippets using the Wimba Voice Tools to accompany the written material, verbally drawing student attention to the most vital material or correcting the common misperceptions that your experience in the classroom tells you at least someone will have.
With the tools in Blackboard it is possible to replicate many of the features of a classroom environment over the Internet. However, it is even more possible to closely tie Blackboard features into an on-campus class, and offer a richness to the flow of a semester that could help your students to succeed. If there's something you are doing in the classroom, and you're interested in seeing if you can develop an online aid or equivalent, give us in Academic Technology a call (email@example.com or X2862) and we'll see if we can work something out together.


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Greetings all,
Regarding the topics in the Subject of this thread, does anyone know when we, as Buddhists, first started doing these things? Who made it traditional for the offerings to be incense, light and flowers? Did the same person come up with the symbolism of these offerings? I hope I do not annoy with my questions, I just sit there and think about things and they come up. I have no where else to really ask these questions. Also, even with my library (both on the computer and bookshelf) I don't think I have any books that answer these questions.


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Royal Baby Gets A Name
The royal baby has been named.The new son of Prince William and Kate Dutchess of Cambridge will be known as Prince George Alexander Louis according to a tweet from #ClarenceHouse, their official home. The baby will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted to announce that they have named their son George Alexander Louis.
USA Today reports the baby is named for his great,great grandfather George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Mountbatten was the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle and the last British Viceroy of India before independence in 1947. William's father, Prince Charles, was close with Mountbatten, who was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army in 1979.
The name came relatively quickly by royal standards according to the New York Times, which notes that names for other royal babies have taken days and even weeks after their birth to be announced. The name was William and Kate's choice reports the Times. George was the name most were betting on to be the infant's name.
Other leading contenders: James, Alexander, Arthur, Louis and Henry according to CNN. Next milestone for the new born prince: a photographer for the baby's first official portrait.
Meeting The Family
Earlier today Queen Elizabeth II met her great-grandson for the first time during a visit to Kensington Palace. She spent about a half-hour visiting the new Prince of Cambridge, her third great-grandchild. Prince William and his wife Kate then took the baby to visit his maternal grandparents outside London.
Palace officials say Prince Harry has also been to see his new nephew.
Georges Who Have Become King
Source: ITV
- George I – ruled August 1714 to June 1727
- George II – ruled June 1727 to October 1760
- George III – ruled October 1760 to January 1820
- George IV – ruled January 1820 to June 1830
- George V – ruled May 1910 to January 1936
- George VI – ruled December 1936 to February 1952


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Reports: Man facing charges in fatal Incline crash arrested at Giants/Dodgers game
September 11, 2012
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — A Northern California man facing two felony counts for his alleged role in a New Year's Eve Weekend fatal accident at a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe has been arrested for allegedly attacking a man at Sunday's San Francisco Giants baseball game, Bay Area media outlets are reporting.Christopher Torii Smith, 26, of Grass Valley, Calif., was arrested in connection with the attack, which was reported at 6:42 p.m. Sunday at AT&T Park, where the Giants were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to a Tuesday morning report from the San Jose Mercury News.According to the newspaper, Smith allegedly approached a 21-year-old victim in a ballpark bathroom and began hitting him. The victim fell to the ground and Smith continued attacking him. The full story can be read here: http://bit.ly/QDBySI.According to the newspaper, Smith fled the bathroom, but was arrested at the park and booked into jail on suspicion of battery, vandalism and public intoxication. The victim suffered a laceration to his lip in the attack.Smith is awaiting trial in May 2013 on two charges of DUI causing serious injury or death regarding the Lake Tahoe incident, according to the Washoe County District Attorney's Office, which took place on the North Shore in Incline Village.According to previous Bonanza reports, Smith was driving a black 2006 Chevrolet pickup southbound (east toward Sand Harbor) on Highway 28 east of the Village Boulevard intersection shortly before 8 p.m. on Dec. 30, 2011, when his truck struck Linda S. Mathis and Robert C. Mathis, who were crossing from the east side. The Mathises, who were Incline residents, both 46, died from injuries suffered.According to the charges, Smith, who was 25 at the time of the incident, had marijuana in his system, and he failed to yield to the right of way of the pedestrians. The amount of marijuana in Smith's blood was identified as greater than or equal to 5 nanograms per milliliter.


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Hi. My dad is out of the hospital after being in and out of it 4 weeks of the last 6. He has a home health nurse coming daily to give him iv antibiotics to help finish fighting off the staph infection in his blood. The problem now is he is so very weak and tired. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to kick start his regaining strength process? He eats so little compared to what he used to and he has a hard time walking and just wants to sleep all the time. He was doing well with his chemo before all his infections put him in the hospital and we want to get him strong enough to begin chemo again. He drinks Boost shakes as supplements too. I would appreciate any suggestions- thanks.


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Sadly, the circumstances surrounding the building sound more mysterious than their reality, even with the NSA's new data center as a close neighbor. The location in the south suburbs of Salt Lake City is an up-and-coming region for tech business sometimes called "Silicon Slope." Adobe's new campus will operate as the company's digital marketing division.
The building itself, however, is unlike anything Adobe has ever built before. The company has hired designers from Rapt Studio to make sure the building design is integrated into the space at the deepest level, ensuring that, despite being an office building at its core, this isn't just one more massive tech campus.
David Galullo, CEO, and Cory Sistrunk, design principal, talked us through Rapt's approach to the project, offering a look inside both the facility and their design methods.
He and Sistrunk use forceful language. They're enforcing their design ideals, pushing the company to capitulate, and capturing the attention of the employees.
"It's not something that you do just lobby, or in a huge communal space," Galullo says. "It's something that just permeates the entirety of the project."
"We tried to formulate the new Adobe, but in telling that story, we built a space where there are walls that speak to the history," says Sistrunk. "The concept's there that there's this innocence that children have around the idea of creativity that we want to remind people of."
"There's an area, we actually put a gas fireplace in, and it's kind of the hearth of the customer experience," says Galullo.
"There was a healthy push and shove between the interior and exterior that allowed the building not to be designed just as a beautiful piece of architecture ... but was designed as an integrated interior-exterior," he says. "Because of that, the design aesthetic and the program bled through from the interior to the exterior and back in again."
"More and more of our clients are finding a disconnect between the various pieces of their consultant base and how they deliver design services," says Galullo. "It's what really brought Adobe to us, and allowed us to bring a project to them that was not just a cool interior, but really did have a lot to do with the development and fostering of a culture and a brand and making more meaningful connections between that and their staff."
"There's a certain genuineness around that, that we didn't spend a lot of money bringing stone tiles and suspended ceilings and all of that into the open areas," he says.
Often, this kind of immersive environment is usually put on hold or not accomplished because people would view it as very expensive," he says. "And that's another part of the design challenge that we really like. You don't have to make an immersive experience something that's astronomically expensive."
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The idea for a calf feeding study came to Don Sockett during conversations he had with co-workers, who also happened to be moms, at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. In fact, you might say he had one of those "Mother knows best" moments.
"My passion is dairy calves, and I spend a lot of my time dealing with health issues related to dairy calves," says Sockett, a veterinary microbiologist at the diagnostic lab in Madison, Wis. "At work I always ask people what they think."
And boy did he get an earful during conversations about feeding calves twice a day. In fact, the moms were quick to chastise him with the comment, "Every mother knows a baby needs to be fed more than twice a day."
Those moms may have been on to something. New research shows that when calves on a higher plane of nutrition were fed three times a day instead of two, they had a much better chance of entering lactation than calves fed twice a day. Here's a closer look at what the research found.
A powerful response
During the study, all the calves were fed the same amount of a 28-percent protein, 20-percent fat milk replacer daily. The only difference was the 3X calves' portion was split into three meals, with the extra feeding taking place at 2:30 in the afternoon. Otherwise, both groups were fed at 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. It's important to note that all the calves received the same amount (700 grams) of a commercially available colostrum replacement product within four hours of birth. The product supplied 150 grams of immunoglobulin G and there was no difference between the two groups for failure of passive transfer.
Study results show the additional milk replacer feeding yielded some pretty powerful results — 97.1 percent (or 34 out of 35 calves) went on to become lactating animals in the herd.
"That's unheard of in the Holstein industry, absolutely unheard of," Sockett says. "The national average is about 80 percent."
And that's exactly how the calves fed twice daily performed. Eighty percent, or 28 out of 35 of the calves, entered the milking herd. That means, for every six calves fed three times a day, one additional heifer entered lactation.
"When you look at the reasons why calves in the twice-a-day feeding didn't make it as mothers lactating in the herd, it wasn't any one particular thing," Sockett says.
Mostly, it was common reasons — like death prior to weaning, the heifer didn't get bred or she aborted — that expedited her departure from the herd.
The calves fed three times per day also calved 16 days earlier and averaged 1,136 pounds more milk during their first lactation. They also had better starter intake, growth and feed efficiency during the pre-weaning phase — what you would expect of calves fed to a higher plane of nutrition. (Please see "Study results at a glance" below.)
If 3X is good, is 4X better?
If you don't use an automatic calf feeder to deliver milk replacer, offering more than three hand-fed meals is probably not worth it.
"Three (meals) is probably going to give you the best response for your dollar, in terms of the additional labor," says Tom Earleywine, director of nutritional services at Land O'Lakes Animal Milk Products Company.
Sockett agrees, adding that four hand feedings per day may benefit calves, but you probably won't get the "wow" factor that you see when feeding frequency increases from two to three meals per day.
"Obviously this work needs to be repeated to make sure it's a repeatable finding," Sockett adds.
However, the evidence so far presents a strong case for feeding calves multiple meals.
And many already are. It's estimated that roughly 8 percent to 14 percent of dairy farms feed calves three times a day, and that's not just in winter, Earleywine says.
Further study results might prompt more calf feeders to adopt a three-a-day approach. If it helps more animals become productive members of the herd, why not?
This table provides a snapshot of the performance of calves fed a 28:20 milk replacer three times a day vs. twice a day.
A 3X calf feeding program does not require you to miss your favorite late-night television program.
"When you talk about feeding (calves) three times a day, everybody thinks of going outside and having to do a midnight feeding," says Don Sockett, veterinary microbiologist at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Madison, Wis. "That wasn't done in this study."
The study Sockett is referring to looked at the impact of feeding calves a 28:20 milk replacer three times a day instead of two. Implementing such a strategy is relatively straight-forward, and there doesn't need to be an eighthour split between feedings.
"All the calves were fed at 8:00 in the morning and at 9 o'clock at night, and the calves that were fed three times a day got a meal at 2:30 in the afternoon," Sockett says.
Calves were fed this way for the first six weeks of the study, and then from week six to week seven, or 43 to 49 days of age, they were all fed once a day in preparation for weaning.
The key to success, Sockett says, is getting the people who feed the calves on board.
"If there's a will to do it, the calf feeder will figure out a way to do it," he says.
To find out how they made it work in this particular study, go to dairyherd.com and type "Tips for feeding calves 3X" into the "Search" box.


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Vacaville police arrested two Sacramento men on a variety of potential charges Wednesday night after they crashed their vehicle during a high-speed chase, authorities reported.
Sean Maurice Rushton, 21, and his passenger, Anthony Leyva, 22, were taken into custody in the 100 block of Browns Valley Parkway, where Rushton reportedly lost control of the vehicle they were in while coming around a curve, according to the Vacaville Police Department.
The incident began when an officer out conducting burglary suppression checks spotted a man, later identified as Leyva, standing alongside a car with another car parked adjacent to it, police said. He appeared to be trying to get into the car and seemed startled by the officer's approach, they said.
As the officer passed the cars, she noticed one of the vehicles had been stripped of its license plates, trim, mirrors and several other parts, police said.
Authorities said Leyva was acting suspiciously and got into the passenger seat of the second car and tried to leave the area, heading east on Woodcrest Drive toward Browns Valley Parkway.
With emergency lights flashing and siren blaring, the officer tried to stop the vehicle but the driver, identified as Rushton, allegedly refused to stop and sped away at speeds ranging from 80 and 90 mph, police said. The officer pursued the vehicle south on Browns Valley Parkway, where Rushton continued to accelerate.
He lost control of the car on a curve in the roadway and struck the curb before plowing into several street signs, disabling the vehicle, which came to a rest on the sidewalk behind a bank, police said. More officers arrive at the scene and Rushton and Leyva, neither of whom were injured in the crash, were detained.
During their investigation, officers learned that the stripped car had been stolen from Sacramento earlier in the day.
Both Rushton and Leyva were arrested on suspicion of felony counts of stealing a vehicle, conspiracy, possession of burglary tools and possession of stolen property. Rushton may face additional possible charges of committing a crime while on bail, evading and driving on a suspended license.
Police said Leyva, who also had an outstanding warrant out of Sacramento County, admitted to being a Norteño gang member. Both men are allegedly affiliated with gangs in Sacramento, and were booked into Solano County Jail.
Rushton's bail was set at $50,000 and Leyva's was set at $40,500.
Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to contact Officer Carly Broaddus at 449-5200.
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This article, entitled The New Scary Fashion Trend comes from Danielle Herzog's blog Martinis and Minivans at martinisandminivans.com.
So I'm just going to say this and get it out fast because just saying it makes me crack up laughing. Ok, here I go… I shopped at Forever 21 this weekend. And here's the kicker – I bought things. I bought four different things. I should point out that I'm 38 years old and FAR, FAR, FAR from ever being 21. I am so far from being 21 again, I was pretty sure they were going to card me and ask me to please find my teenage daughter because I couldn't possibly be shopping in there for myself.
However, I was. What's insane is that I actually found a few cute tops. BUT, that's not the really entertaining part of this story. The entertaining, scary and some-what disturbing part is that I have fashion news to share with all you women. I saw something that I thought I would never see again. I thought the days of this trend were long gone, but it seems to have returned with a vengeance. It's the…BODYSUIT!!!!
Hold back your cries. Try to contain yourself. You are under no obligation to run out and buy them. This isn't like UGGs or skinny jeans, this phase will pass and we will return to a world where we don't have snaps in our private parts areas.
Don't get me wrong, I have fond memories of rocking a body suit and baggy jeans in college. However, that was 1992 people. Let's progress in fashion, please! If this continues, I fear that we'll be pegging our jeans and sticking them into our socks soon…


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The Ugly Sweater Run kicks off at 11 a.m. on Sunday, December 1, at Calder Plaza. Clad in their gaudiest holiday finery, runners chart an untimed 5K course fueled by hot chocolate before race officials dole out wacky awards. Each entry includes a custom vintage knit hat, unlimited hot chocolate, two hard ciders or lagers for runners age 21+, and a mustache; kids younger than 8 race for free. Each runner is encouraged bring along a new toy to put under the race's huge Christmas tree and the haul is later donated to the local Toys for Tots chapter. For more information, see the race page.


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Home prices in 20 U.S. metropolitan regions rose 2% in August, according to the latest Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, published in late October. New-home sales stepped up to their highest level in more than two years, as well, when the pace of homebuilding hit a four-year high in September. All of this is happening while mortgage rates are at near-record lows, giving a further boost to residential real estate.
Such data indicate that the housing market is bouncing back. I admit the recovery is still tentative, and could derail if the economy heads south. But, for now, the trends for the housing market are definitely pointing upward. This means that companies serving the housing market are potentially good investments at this time....266 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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CLEARLAKE -- During the final forum for city council candidates before the Nov. 6 elections, the phrase, "not going over the mountain," echoed throughout the night. Candidates want a city in which residents do not have to leave to have all their needs fulfilled, and each has a plan to develop a self-sustaining community.
The Calvary Church hosted the forum Thursday evening for an audience of roughly 100 people.
Candidates were asked the same six questions, which they did not receive beforehand, and had two minutes to give their response.
The questions addressed concerns over economic expansion, tourism and community outreach programs for the city's youth.
The candidates present for the forum were incumbent Joyce Overton, Denise Lee Loustalot, Alvaro Valencia, Melinda Young, Gina Fortino-Dickson, Bruno Sabatier and Charles O'Neill-Jones; Bunnie Carter was not present for the event.
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MIAMI - On Wednesday, October 3rd at 8 p.m., the Miami Improv presents "Puppies & Kittens!" a special night of stand-up comedy, and the entirety of the proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated to Miami-Dade Animal Services Department.
The show features local comedians Forrest Shaw, Lisa Corrao, John Wynn, and Nery Saenz, all of whom are proud owners of adopted pets.
Tickets are only $15 and can also be purchased online at: http://www.laughstub.com/buyTicket.cfm?showTimingID=177735&buy
"This is going to be a special night of fun," said Forrest Shaw, one of the comedians starring in the show. "It will not only warm your heart but also help save a furry friend," added Shaw.
Who: The Miami Improv
What: Stand-up comedy show to benefit Miami-Dade Animal Services Department
Where: 3390 Mary St., Miami, FL 33133
When: Wednesday, October 3rd at 8:00 PM
Each year, Animal Services receives over 30,000 pets and sadly euthanizes a large number of them due to shelter overcrowding and lack of adoptions.
The goal of this event, as with any event in which the Department participates, is to increase pet adoptions and community awareness and involvement with the shelter.
For more information, visit Miami-Dade Animals or call 3-1-1.
For more Pets news visit the Local10.com Furry Friends section, and the Pets News Facebook page.


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|The play Frighten Shaindel (Shrek Shaindel), 9 April 1928
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Tuve Ruch, Libe Ruch, Israel Panevesh, Tybe Kil;
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Berl Ruch, Rachmiel Arsh, Gitel Agins, Aaron Nahumovits, Honeh Shneiderman;
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Chana Shadur, Zelig Zemachovits, Gita Rubin, Abba Rubin, Sime Milner;
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Lana Arelovits, Genia Rubin, Yudel Pen, Israel Panevesh,
Shloime Rubin, Henye Katz
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Singin' the Blues
Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi carry a musical torch across America as the Blues Brothers.
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The two men, wearing black suits, black fedoras and black Wayfarer sunglasses, make their entrance to a crescendo in the music, climb up the six feet of stairs and stride across the stage in front of the Sacred Hearts band, their arms straight, swinging in almost perfect unison as they glide from one end of the stage to the other and back again. The band breaks into "Sweet Home Chicago," keeping the rhythm steady and the music loud as the "brothers" reach for the microphones.
Within seconds, women wearing floor-length silk or satin gowns and men in tuxedos are out of their seats and flooding onto the dance floor. By the time Brother Zee, a.k.a. Jim Belushi, grabs the microphone to growl out the first lyrics, the dance floor is jammed, back-to-back and shoulder-to-shoulder, everyone moving to the irresistible beat of one of history's greatest blues songs. Brother Elwood, aka Dan Aykroyd, shakes his thing in a perfect duet with Zee, the music getting louder and the dancing getting more furious.
The Blues Brothers are doing their thing. Again.
Thirty years ago, the world first heard the raucous sounds of the Blues Brothers, as part of a skit on "Saturday Night Live," NBC's legendary comedy show. In three short years, the band, founded by Aykroyd and John Belushi, who was known as Jake Blues, spawned a live record album that sold 3.5 million copies and two additional albums, a 16-city nationwide tour and a movie, The Blues Brothers, that lives on today on DVD and television replays as a monument to America's cultural gem, the music genre called the blues. Some music historians reluctantly even give the black-suited duo credit for expanding appreciation of the blues in the United States. Today, the Blues Brothers Classic Revue with the Sacred Hearts band appears 10 to 12 times a year, mostly at charity and corporate events, at casinos around the country and at openings of House of Blues venues, the chain of music halls and restaurants cofounded by Aykroyd.
Each time they march onto the stage, Elwood and Brother Zee and the band make it clear they are there to do one thing: play the blues. In fact, the original Blues Brothers' movie provides the simple clue to what this band is about and what its two creators meant it to be. It's one line in the movie, repeated several times, but the phrase is still used today by Aykroyd and Jim Belushi when they talk about their music. Early in the movie, Elwood has just picked up Jake from a penitentiary and they've been stopped by the highway patrol, who discover Elwood's license is suspended. As he squeals away from the traffic stop, with the officers running back to their car to begin chase and Jake screaming that he is going to end up "back in the joint," Elwood says calmly, "They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God." For Aykroyd, Jim Belushi and their Blues Brothers characters, the mission is alive and well.
The mission began in Aykroyd's teenage years as a young Canadian frequenting the blues bars of Ottawa where he grew up. His dad, Peter, worked as a bureaucrat in the Canadian government, for many years on the National Film Board.
"Music was a huge part of our lives," Aykroyd explains, a 45-year-old Cuban cigar stuck in his mouth during an interview in New York. "Every weekend he'd look in the paper to see which record collections were being sold, and he would buy secondhand records. I grew up listening to Fats Waller and Jack Hilton." But as he grew older, Aykroyd gravitated to a small blues bar called Le Hibou, where all the great blues stars came to play. "I would be there every weekend when I was 14 or 15," Aykroyd says. "I got to see Muddy Waters, and even jammed behind him one night." The blues legend had gotten impatient that his drummer was taking too long on a break, so he invited anyone in the audience to fill in, and Aykroyd jumped up. "He gave me the beat, and he said, 'You keep that beat going.'"
The weekly excursions exposed Aykroyd to Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Cary Bell, Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite, the mouth harp, or harmonica, genius. Aykroyd's fascination with Musselwhite led to his first dabbling in the harmonica, which he continues to play today as part of the Blues Brothers band. But his more extensive, in-depth education in the blues came during his abbreviated tenure at Carleton University, where he connected with Doug Tansley, a man who worked in the university's audiovisual department. "One night I went to his apartment and he had a wall of blues albums," Aykroyd exclaims, waving his hand at a 20-foot wall. "I mean, it was…floor to ceiling, wall to wall, every conceivable blues album…. I started at the beginning of time and listened to Ma Rainy, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House."
Getting Aykroyd talking about the blues is akin to turning on a faucet. There's such a mastery of blues's history that he can spill out a CliffsNotes—like monologue in a few sentences. Unprompted, he ranges from the slave trade origins of the music, to field hollers sung while working, to the Saturday night front porch serenades with "a cheap Chinese harmonica, a cigar box banjo, and gut bucket bass and a washboard." He weaves in the influence of black gospel music with its piano and organ components, to the evolution of the Saturday night juke joint. The narrative spans musical events in America, east of the Mississippi from Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and eventually to the urban centers of the mid-South and North, such as Memphis and Chicago. Aykroyd could expand each topic into a lengthy oral defense for a post-doctoral dissertation.
Aykroyd went through some vagabond years in the late '60s, and in 1970 spent a summer working in the oil fields of northern Canada. He ended up in Toronto, where he auditioned for the Second City improvisational group, a branch of the original group in Chicago. He tried out the same day as John Candy, Gilda Radner and Valri Bromfield, all comedic actors. Although he went to Chicago several times, he never encountered John Belushi, who was also deeply involved in the improvisational world there with the original Second City. It was during his Second City stint in Toronto that Aykroyd began to experiment with his musical passion on stage. "We used to do things called Make a Song, and there was always a piano player at a Second City Improv show. So we did Make a Blues Song, Make an R&B Song, Make a Rock and Roll Song. I was playing harp and singing and dancing…it was a furthering of the education and practice of the blues."
In 1974, John Belushi came to Toronto, recruiting for National Lampoon Radio, and, according to Aykroyd, successfully talked Gilda Radner into leaving for New York. Aykroyd, who didn't want to leave because he was having a modicum of success in Canada, describes his first meeting with Belushi as if it were yesterday. "I remember John coming through the back door at Second City on Adelaide Street, the old fire hall that we operated out of, and he had a kind of tweed driver's cap on…and a scarf—he was, you know, the grand actor—and he came on and he did the set with us.
"And basically, you know, we looked at each other, and it was love at first sight," Aykroyd says, conveying the genuine affection he still clearly feels for John, more than 25 years after his death. After the Second City show, Aykroyd and Belushi returned to a small blues club that he operated in "the worst part of Toronto." Aykroyd said he put a song on the record player, "Straight Up," by a local blues band, Down Child Blues Band.
"So we're sitting there…the windows all fogged up, and John listens and says, 'Hey, what's that music?'" Aykroyd recalls.
"Well, I say, 'John, that's a local blues band,' and he said, 'Wow, that's great.' 'Well, it's just local…you come from Chicago, which is the home of the blues.' But John said he was into heavy metal, and I said, 'Well, you can teach me 'bout that, and I'll teach you about the blues.'"
"So we started listening to this record, and Howard Shore [who wrote the score for Lord of the Rings] says, 'Yeah, you guys should start a group. You could call yourselves the Blues Brothers.' So that early, even back then, before we went to 'Saturday Night Live' and were hired there, we were thinking about doing a band together."
Within the year, Aykroyd decided to go to New York, where he joined the "Saturday Night Live" cast, one of the most incredible groups of comedians ever assembled: Belushi, Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Garrett Morris, among them. One of his first nights in the city, he went over to Belushi's apartment. Aykroyd recalls that John said, "Hey, remember when we were in Toronto and we were talking about doing some music? Well, I got these blues albums." Aykroyd pauses for a moment with a slight tilt of his head, looking out from under one arched eyebrow, and repeats what he said then: "Oh, yeah."
It turned out that since that night in Toronto about a year earlier, Belushi had bought more than a hundred blues albums and had been listening to all the classics, obsessed with his newfound musical passion. "He said we should pick a couple of songs…. 'You could play harp, I could sing,'" recalls Aykroyd. "I said, 'Who's going to back us up?' and he said, 'Ah, we'll figure that out.'…So we began together to figure out songs we could do effectively that wouldn't sound too bad."
Next, they talked about how they were going to look. Since they were both fans of Lenny Bruce, who wore a thin tie and a white shirt—"just to fool the straights," Aykroyd says—they decided to copy that look. "So we got the suits from Lenny Bruce, the shades and hat came from a record that John Lee Hooker had called House of the Blues, " Aykroyd says. "All of a sudden, we had material that we could do. We had a look. So how and where were we going to play?"
"Saturday Night Live" become one of the hottest shows on TV in its first season in 1975, and many musicians were vying to be the guest acts. Belushi struck up a friendship with Willie Nelson, who appeared on the show, and, according to Aykroyd, Belushi spoke with the country music star about his and Ayroyd's musical aspirations. Nelson said his band was playing at New York's Lone Star Cafe, and the Blues Brothers were welcome to come down, and the band would back them up. "We did five songs the first night, and it was a big hit," Aykroyd recalls, "and the next night it was a bigger hit and the next night it was an even bigger hit. We did three nights, with the briefcase on the arm, and John would unlock it and out would come the harmonica…we thought to ourselves, We really have something here."
Since Nelson was on tour, Aykroyd and Belushi had to find another band, which they did in Rhode Island, Duke Robillard and the Roomful of Blues. "Robillard is a giant, giant talent," Aykroyd says. "But it was obvious that John and Duke were going to have an ego clash, and it might not have worked in the long term." Aykroyd and Belushi began jamming with the "Saturday Night Live" band, doing little opening segments for the show.
"At the time, we used to do the 'Killer Bees' skit," Aykroyd says. "One night we decided to perform the song, 'King Bee,' as the bees. Dressed as bees, with John singing and me playing the harp." Aykroyd, leaning back in his chair, intones the chorus of the song: "'I'm a King bee, buzzing around your hive….' That was the first Blues Brothers appearance ever on television." The date was January 17, 1976. Aykroyd remembers Tom Malone, one of three "phenomenal" horn players in the "SNL" band, saying, "You guys, if you're going to do this any further, play or whatever, make a record." Says Aykroyd: "We hadn't discussed making a record at that point, so he was the first one to do it."
In short order, the future Blues Brothers began to take shape. From 1976 through early 1978, the Blues Brothers appeared on the show a handful of times, once with Steve Martin as the host in April 1978, which many fans remember as one of the troupe's greatest performances, with Aykroyd and Martin doing their "Wild and Crazy Guys" and the Blues Brothers performing "Hey, Bartender" and "I Don't Know."
Following further on Malone's suggestion about creating a record, Belushi and Aykroyd asked Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, the backbone of one of the legendary blues record labels, Stax Volt, to join them. The pair had backed up blues greats from Otis Redding to Booker T. and the MGs. They also lined up guitarist Matt Murphy. Once they were signed up, Aykroyd points to that band as the genesis of the act. "So the first real show we did on 'SNL,' I think it was the Carrie Fisher show," Aykroyd says, recalling the November 18, 1978, date. "We brought in Steve and Duck, and they backed us up. Those were the beginnings of the Blues Brothers. Now, there would have been no Blues Brothers if it were not for Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn."
That night, the band played "Soul Man," which would appear on its live album Briefcase Full of Blues, recorded live at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles in 1978. Aykroyd said that Belushi paid for the recording set-up himself with some of his salary from Animal House, the college frat house movie that was released in the summer of 1978. The album would sell 3.5 million copies, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard hottest 200 albums charts in early 1979, and "Soul Man" would climb as high as No. 14 on the Billboard singles charts that same year.
After the record came out in late 1978, Belushi and Aykroyd started working on the Blues Brothers' movie, which was released in 1980. It was a hit, with more than $75 million in theater receipts, and today with rentals, over $200 million in gross revenues according to Aykroyd. That summer, the band toured America, doing 20 gigs in 16 cities. "We had Elvis's Conair 880, that big old plane," Aykroyd says, rolling his eyes as he recalls the scene on the plane. "I remember taking off one time and looking back, and the stewardess had forgotten to close the door…the tour was a big hit."
In addition to Briefcase Full of Blues, the band came out with the soundtrack to the Blues Brothers' movie, as well as Made in America. "You listen to those three records today, and the musicianship, the quality of the sound, the horns, the guitar playing—everything really. I'm really proud of those records," Aykroyd says. "But the tour album didn't sell as well as the movie soundtrack or the first record. We were on the decline, I guess, and we were kind of ready to put the Blues Brothers to bed and say goodbye to them.
"That was 1980, and in 1981, John went on to do some other movies. And in March, March 5 [1982], at, oh I guess about 10:30 in the morning, I'm sitting at my typewriter at 150 Fifth Avenue, at our offices at Phantom Corp., and I was writing a line for John, and the phone rang, and it was Bernie Brillstein telling me that John had died that morning at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles."
There's a pause in the interview. Twenty-five years later, there's still a pained look on Aykroyd's face.
"It was the end," Aykroyd pauses again. "A bad day. And an end to the Blues Brothers and an incredible partnership. He was 33. I was 29. We had a hit record, a hit movie and a hit TV show. And we were about to build an empire, and then all of a sudden my partner's taken away from me."
Are you ready for me?" Brother Zee is on the edge of the stage, the pulsating sounds of "Too Hot to Handle" blasting out from the band. As Zee lifts his shirt, exposing his smooth and not small stomach, the Houston crowd screams in appreciation, more for the audacity of the move than anything else. By the time the music gets into full swing, more than 20 women are up on stage dancing with Brother Zee and Elwood Blues. "I'm in love," Jim Belushi shouts, dancing with a woman from the audience in a long gown.
Belushi's tenure with the band goes back to 1992. Dan Aykroyd was receiving an honorary degree from his college, Carleton University, in Toronto. When he was told about the honor, he had responded by saying that he wanted to do something in return for the university. He offered to put on a real Blues Brothers concert, the first one since John had died 10 years earlier. His first call was to Jim Belushi, John's brother, who by that point had become a well-known film actor in his own right.
"He said that he was doing a Blues Brothers concert, and he wanted me to do it with him," Belushi recalls during an interview just hours before the Houston performance of the group. "'I don't do that thing,' and he goes, 'Oh yeah, you can do it. I want you to take over the legacy, you know, the blood.' And I said, 'No, I kind of left that stuff to John.' But he wouldn't stop. 'Well, you sing, don't you?' and I said, 'No, I don't sing any songs. I sang on Broadway and that's about it.'
"'Oh, you're a singer,' he said," Jim Belushi continues. "I sing light opera, or Second City singing, but I've never sung with a band. I don't know that stuff. That's the blues. That's what John did. I can't lift a sword, I can't eat a cheeseburger, and I can't sing the blues. I mean, he just cornered all that shit. So, I've got to find myself. But Danny wouldn't give up. 'No, I want you to do it. It'll be great.' But I said, 'I can't do it because of the John thing,' and he goes, 'He willed it to you' and I said, 'I don't remember reading that in the will,' and he just keeps going. 'There was a will. It was in the will. You didn't see the will? It said, "I will Jimmy the Blues Brothers"…come on, it's like a law firm: when one of the partners goes down, the brother or the son steps in.'
"Of course, I'm thinking, You could have brought that will to me a long time ago, but he did the whole will thing, and keeping the spirit of the Blues Brothers and Jake Blues alive, and by the end of his speech, I'm going, Yes. Yes. I'll do it. But then I said, 'But I don't sing the blues,' and he goes, 'Well, you'd better learn.'"
Belushi says he started practicing with the Sacred Hearts band in L.A., which was part of the House of Blues house band, and during the next couple of weeks, he learned three songs that he could handle pretty well: "Sweet Home Chicago," "I'm Ready" and "Hard to Handle." "I was listening to the Blues Brothers album over and over, but I figured those three songs were enough. That's all they'd let me do as a guest anyway," Belushi says.
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Victoria, BC is the perfect mix of old world charm and new world excitement. Established by British settlers, the city maintains its rich sense of history and culture, showcasing beautiful Victorian architecture, tree-lined streets and old British charm. Surrounded by natural beauty and offering great sightseeing opportunities year-round, it is one of the premier tourist vacation spots in the Pacific Northwest.
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The world of director Wes Anderson is one in which color, slow-motion and classic rock play roles as prominent as the dysfunctional-yet-loving characters that grace the screen. Anderson's latest film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on the book by Roald Dahl, is no exception. Mr. Fox and his family and friends live in a land colored exclusively in autumnal reds, yellows, oranges and browns. Their homes and farms are meticulously arranged, and one can occasionally catch the harmonious sound of the Beach Boys in the distance. The stop-motion animation doesn't come close to the approximating the smooth movements of a real-life fox, and that is part of the film's charm. The whimsy allows viewers to easily enter into the world of Roald Dahl, through the dry wit and existential angst for which Anderson is known. The result is a place where foxes strut on two legs, wear tiny suits and have checkered pasts. But Mr. Fox and his friends also live in a land with more pragmatism and depth than the quirky animation suggests.
Once a star athlete and skilled chicken thief, Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) promised to give up his risk-taking ways after he learned his wife, Felicity (Meryl Streep), was pregnant. Twelve years later, he has remained faithful to that promise. But now, just shy of the age at which his own father died, Fox finds himself contemplating his own mortality and usefulness. Eager to redefine himself, he feels compelled to lift his wife; son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman); and nephew, Kristofferson (Eric Anderson), literally out of the foxhole in which he feels trapped.
But a new home built in an old tree doesn't solve Fox's existential angst. "Who am I?" he asks Kiley (Wiley Wolodarsky), a loyal if not particularly bright opossum friend, as they stand on a balcony and look toward the farms and factories of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three particularly nasty farmers from whom Fox had a habit of stealing chickens in his younger days.
This simple question is the driving force behind Fox's decision to pull one final heist. But his actions that follow threaten his marriage, his relationship with his son and ultimately his life. He is a stubborn, sly fox; an excellent athlete; a well-meaning but occasionally selfish father and husband; and as he puts it "a wild animal," with all the qualities that come with such a title. "How can a fox ever be happy without a chicken in its teeth?" he asks.
Fox's efforts to both tame and embrace his wild instincts are made more compelling by Ash's quest to emerge from the shadow of his father's success and that of his scholar-athlete cousin. Ash's sarcasm provides some of the film's funnier scenes as Schwartzman seems to channel the more earnest elements of Max Fisher, the precocious character he played in Anderson's "Rushmore." Still, in the midst of many humorous moments, the film does not avoid tackling tough questions—of redemption, identity, community, survival—which lend a heavier-than-usual tone to a movie many children will see.
One scene may be especially frightening for children. In the wake of a fight an animal dies, but not before he has a last-minute change of heart. Ash remarks, "He redeemed himself." But Fox simply replies, "Redemption? Maybe. But in the end he's just another dead [animal] in a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant." Whether Fox's words echo the callous attitude of the farmers or his own philosophy is unclear. But the ambiguity surrounding the character's death is unsettling. How does one go on living a life seemingly destined to end with the bang of a dumpster door? It is a troubling philosophical question for viewers of any age.
There is a cold artificiality to the world constructed by Boggis, Bunce and Bean. When the farmers aren't separating themselves from nature with gray concrete walls and fluorescent lighting, they are actively destroying it in both obvious (digging with backhoes) and subtle (selling apples decorated with gold stars) ways. Theirs is a paler version of Mr. Fox's world, and constantly presents threats to Fox's survival.
But Fox's greatest weapon turns out not to be any tool or talent, but his relationships with his family and friends, the individuals who sometimes have taken second place to his own ego. Fox recognizes the best qualities in each animal, calls each by its species scientific Latin name and demands that each proclaim a talent. Mole has night vision; Rabbit has speed; Badger is a demolitions expert. Fox, perhaps echoing St. Ignatius, calls on every animal to use his unique gift for the benefit of all. (Moles and Badgers for Others?)
Still, the animals' future at the end of the film remains uncertain. Elements of normal life remain as animals take up their old jobs and even meditation. They will continue to steal and eat and love and learn, but the lives of Fox and his friends will never be the same.
But no external change can suppress the true nature of Mr. Fox, who remains a wild animal. His willingness to take risks now brings not embarrassment, but hope to his family and newfound community. He is moved to make a toast, not to his success, but to survival.
From now on, the lives of Fox and his friends will be more complicated. They are inextricably linked to the very farmers they sought to subvert. But they will survive. Though the peace they have won is precarious, Mr. Fox is more confident, more himself than ever. He is also overcome with gratitude and love. So, in spite of all their troubles, he and his loved ones begin to dance. Although, for now, they must exist in a world that at times seems grey and artificial, processed and repackaged, it is clear that they will rise, fantastically, above it all.


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And Still DuChamp-eenMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
"8:00 A.M. Friday? I'll be there, with bells on." Nora Shekrie said as she hit 'end' on her cell phone, pleased with the call. After more than a month of casual contacts and interactions, Wilby Habenpfun, the handsome bank manager, had asked her personally to attend a function with him. The invitation was based on her one course in art history in a year to which she didn't readily admit, but it was still a day at his side. That was the good news.
The bad news was that the function was the estate sale for his father's "surplus collection", a sale mandated by the IRS before Wilby could inherit the remaining small percentage of his father's apparent wealth. Still, there were several unusual items in the auction, including minor works by Marcel DuChamp, Picasso, and Grant Wood. Wilby stood to keep the family's stock in the bank intact, with enough funds left over for a life of relative comfort.
Wilby spotted her immediately when she entered the grounds at 7:43. "Nora, I'm so glad you could come!" He looked her up and down, as if seeing her in a different light -- such as a moonlit front porch. He took her arm and introduced her to several local dignitaries as his "art expert". Privately, Nora thought that the minor items alone should cover the amount that Wilby said his father owed Uncle Sam.
She was on her fourth mocha when Wilby took her to a chair in the front row and suggested she take a break.
"But I'm having so much fun!"
"I noticed. You just spent nearly five minutes straight talking to Ida Bindair about that ugly little Picasso thing." Wilby replied.
"Well, it's one of the things I know." said Nora, a bit defensively.
"She was being polite. She knows more than you do. Enough that she paid top dollar for it." Nora was silent for the first time in nearly half an hour.
"It's okay. Some people chatter. I just thought that someone might be noticing by now, and thought you'd like a little time off."
Just then, the auctioneer brought up the final piece before their lunch break. He read from his note cards.
"Lot number 114, an oil painting by Marcel DuChamp, titled 'The Bridesmaid'. DuChamp is most noted for his 1912 painting, 'Nude Descending a Staircase #2', which helped define the cubist movement. This smaller piece, roughly thirty by twenty-four inches, is his last known work. It's signed by the artist and dated '66, two years before his death."
"Wilby!" Nora whispered, "Stop the auction!"
"Are you sure you haven't had too much caffeine? This is supposed to be the third biggest price tag of the day!"
Mrs. Bindair spoke up from behind him. "Wilberforce, she may be a chatterbox, but she knows her art. What happens if he sells the piece, dear?"
"It will be the third biggest check he gets, but he'll have to give it all back after he loses the fraud suit!"
"Mr. auctioneer, the estate has decided to retain that piece. Please strike the lot, and we'll negotiate your commission after a fair appraisal." The auctioneer took it in stride; he'd seen stranger things.
"Now, Nora, perhaps you can calm down enough to tell me why I just gave up two years of retirement?" a confused Wilby inquired.
How did she know something was wrong?
HintLook up the biography of Marcel DuChamp.
AnswerMarcel DuChamp did paint 'Nude' in 1912. Its display at the New York Exposition in 1913 galvanized modern art of the time, and was a major piece in the cubist style. However, he is better known for his sculpture -- that painting was his last. In fact, he gave up making art altogether around 1928, and spent the remainder of his life on chess. A later painting, especially after 1928, must be the work of someone else.
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Red Cane Theatre: 'It is so important to keep the arts alive'
EUGENE, Ore. - In their stage make-up and custom-made giddups, a group of a dozen college-age performers take the stage they made themselves.
The group, known as the Phoinix Players, rehearses every night at the Red Cane Theatre in Eugene.
"We're usually here as often as we can be," said Emmelene Romer, a performer with the Phoinix Players. "We're always running numbers until we think they're perfect."
But the Red Cane was not always a theater.
"It used to be an Asian market," said Amanda Lawrence, house manager and performer at the Red Cane Theatre.
The Asian market is in a strip mall on the corner of 11th and Chambers.
Lawrence said it was not easy turning the market into a theater.
"So we had to paint the walls black obviously and scrub the floors," Lawrence said. "That took two to three days."
Amanda Lawrence is a native of Springfield with more than a decade of theater experience.
The performer said opening up the Red Cane Theatre is something she's always wanted to bring to Eugene.
"We kind of call it our baby because it took us so long to find a space," Lawrence said.
Since July, the Phoinix Players have taken part in a variety of different shows. These shows include Beauty and the Beast and Silver Spur Saloon.
"We're so bombarded by screens," Lawrence said. "I think that is so important to keep the arts alive and to keep live theater around. It's such a beautiful thing, and I think sometimes we take it a little for granted."
When asked where Lawrence saw herself in the near future, the answer was simple.
"I would say still here and sold out every night," Lawrence said. "That would be the dream."
The Phoinix Players' opening night for "A Christmas to Remember" is Thursday, November 15th.
The show will go through December 21st.
Tickets can be purchased by calling (541) 556-4524 or you can go to their website at http://theredcanetheatre.yolasite.com.


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SANTA CLARA — Bruce Miller signed a three-year extension Thursday that locks up the 49ers fullback through 2017.
Miller declared himself fully recovered from a fractured left scapula that sidelined him during the 49ers' playoff run to the NFC Championship game.
"It was a struggle standing on the sideline and watching the playoffs, but it's been great motivation for the offseason to get back better than ever," Miller said on a media conference call.
Injured Dec. 15 at Tampa Bay, Miller expects to be "100 percent" cleared for the 49ers' offseason program that begins April 21. His versatility as a lead blocker, short-yardage runner and pass catcher was missed over the 49ers' final five games.
Such attributes weren't on Miller's scouting report coming out of the University of Central Florida. On the eve of the 2011 draft, Miller got a phone call from 49ers running backs coach Tom Rathman that set in motion what's become a prosperous career path.
"It was the first time I heard that was a possibility," Miller said of getting moved to fullback.
After racking up 35 ½ sacks and two-time Conference USA Defensive Player of
the Year honors at Central Florida, the 49ers made him a seventh-round draft pick, and he switched to fullback.
"At that point in time, I was really excited about any opportunity to continue playing and moving into the NFL," Miller said. "I didn't care if it was on offense, defense or special teams. It was exciting to know I was on their radar."
Although he had only seven carries for 13 yards last season, he was the 49ers' third-leading receiver with a career-high 25 receptions for 243 yards.
Miller's extension is the latest deal by a 49ers front office that, in recent weeks, also extended fellow 2011 draft pick Daniel Kilgore (a potential starter at center) and re-signed wide receiver Anquan Boldin and kicker Phil Dawson. Hammering out an extension for quarterback Colin Kaepernick remains on the team's agenda as he enters the final season of his rookie deal.


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Florida's public schools may get a chance to start school in early August.
The Legislature is considering a bill that would allow school districts to move up the starting date of school to three weeks before Labor Day.
A House panel is scheduled to consider the bill (HB 657) on Tuesday. It's the last stop before it heads to the full House.
The measure would undo a law pushed by former Gov. Jeb Bush. Bush backed the change after complaints from parents about school starting in early August.
Bush supported the change because some were blaming the state's high-stakes test for the start dates.
School districts designated as academically high performing are allowed to set an earlier start date now. Fourteen districts start school between Aug. 7 and Aug. 16.
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Fresh Voices: Demons and Delights Takes the Stage at Touchstone Theatre
Touchstone Theatre will present Fresh Voices, which will run February 24th & 25th, 2012 at 8pm. A production from the four Touchstone Theatre apprentices, the show is designed to showcase the collaborative process and highlight the works created by the team.
"As a dynamic foursome, the 2011-2012 apprentice class at Touchstone Theatre has been thrust into an experiment in collaborative creation," said Lisa Jordan, Touchstone's Managing Director and Ensemble Member. "We have a dynamic group of apprentices this year. We invited the community to come out and enjoy their performance."
Katy Fitzpatrick, Meggan Gomez, Nicole Javier, and Rob White unite from across the country to explore many varieties of theatrical expression, including clown, movement, and storytelling. Fresh Voices: Demons and Delights, encompasses living, loving, and learning in the 21st century.
As a group, the four apprentices tackle themes of dreams, the absurdities of the everyday, and the threshold of transformation. "This year's Fresh Voices aims to break common ground with the audience and community," said Meggan Gomez.
Tickets are pay what you will at the door with a suggeted donation of $10.00, available online at www.touchstone.org or by calling 610-867-1689.
Katy Fitzpatrick, a native of the inland northwest, is always impressed with Touchstone's ability to create something from nothing. A storyteller at heart, Katy enjoys drawing on her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer, GED teacher, and lover of rodeos.
Meggan Gomez is a Lehigh Valley native on a mission for new perspectives. She wants to introduce you all to this crazy little girl she met this year. Her name is Pinkie. She is a touch stubborn, super affectionate and an obnoxious attention hog. She is a clown, and can't wait to play with you.
Being three thousand miles away from the comforts of home, Nicole Javier turned to her ever-faithful journal for therapy. As the thoughts and pages turned, she faced both magical and unsettling realities within herself which will be making an appearance in this year's Fresh Voices. Through a collage of Shakespeare, music, and movement, Nicole follows the footsteps of the famous Alice in Wonderland to discover that the rabbit hole turned out to be one of the best rides of her life.
Exploring the wacky world of Buffoon, Rob White aims to expose the true nature of the performer and audience relationship. The piece is a wild ride through the emotions that people experience everyday; and through those emotions it seeks to blur the line between actor and observer. Dive into the grotesque world of Buffoon, and lose yourself in an experience you'll never forget.
About Touchstone
Celebrating over thirty years, Touchstone Theatre produces and presents cutting edge original productions, with a dedication to the renewal of theatre as a vital art form. Touchstone works to foster collaboration on a local and national level through educational and youth empowerment programs, using theatre as a community-building tool. Visit us on the web at www.touchstone.org


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I've got not one, not two but three cautionary tales about what happens when you wander into battlegrounds, obvious battlegrounds that can be avoided.
In fact, today's action provides a battlefield manual of where not to go, where the interstitial machine gunfire is so overwhelming that you know you are going to eat lead. We've got three companies, Mellanox Technologies (MLNX), Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX) and Herbalife (HLF), all vying for worst battlefields out there.
Let's start with Mellanox Technologies. Here's one I put in the "sell block" a few months back, after it caught a gigantic gain. The Israeli semiconductor company had had a monster run. Next thing I know, the chief financial officer retired, and I thought it had just moved up too much, so I just said "enough already." Sure enough, Mellanox reported soon after, and it didn't have the best guidance, so I told people here to dump it. I said that while you can never get out at the top, I thought that once the stock was broken, it would stay broken.
And that's just what happened.
There are some obvious lessons here. When a CFO departs, even if the move is orderly, it is worth it to ring the register particularly, after a colossal run. Then once a red-hot stock reports a weak quarter, it doesn't pay to hang around, as the momentum people will sell relentlessly.
That's what is happening in today's action.
Then there's Allscripts Healthcare solutions, another hammered stock today. Allscripts, another "sell block" name, had faltered badly and lost out to Cerner (CERN) for a lot of business. I had urged people to bolt from it, but the CEO of Allscripts, Glen Tullman, tried to sell the company. I say over and over again that you can't speculate on a takeover if the fundamentals are in decline as they were with Allscripts, because who wants to buy a faltering business?
Apparently no one; Tullman was fired last night.
Finally there's Herbalife. What can I say that hasn't been said about Herbalife by the principal, Michael Johnson, and the antagonist, Bill Ackman? I will tell you what: If Johnson doesn't file a tortious interference action against Ackman, maybe he's just doing a whole lot of passionate talking and nothing more. Ackman's goal seems to be to expose Herbalife as a pyramid scheme, to warn people not to work for it. Given how recruiting potential salespeople is integral to the business, you can argue that Ackman is trying to take the business down with his comments. Johnson has got a study that shows that his company produces merchandise that is largely consumed by people who are outside his distribution network, and that means, per se, that Ackman is wrong, at least if you believe in the merits of the study.
But I am not discussing the merits of Ackman's arguments or Herbalife's counterarguments. I am simply saying that those who have asked me what level I would buy Herbalife don't get me. I am not going to go over the top and face a hail of Spandau machine gun bullets. Let someone else be a hero.
These stories are all cautionary tales of the hard way to make money. When in doubt, stay away from takeover stories with faltering fundamentals and stories that have vociferous players on television telling you that the stock is going to zero.


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Standing on a platform, eco-tourists pause to admire the view before stepping from their perch to soar across a high wire and admire the complex ecosystem of animals, plants, and Swiss Family Robinsons that lives in the scenic canopy. This moment—both tranquil and adrenaline-filled—occurs every day at Carolina Ziplines Canopy Tours, where experienced guides lead safely harnessed visitors on excursions through the verdant treetops of the Carolina forests nestled in the shadow of Pilot Mountain, near Hanging Rock State Park. The zipline course weaves from platform to platform, culminating in a 1,000-foot-long uninterrupted soar. After tours, guests can linger to have a picnic on the historic grounds, enjoy a bonfire when the weather's cool, or even stay overnight in a cozy inn.