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Inspired by the first Tomb Raider game, originally released on PS one in 1996, Tomb Raider: Anniversary is a totally new 2007 adventure for Lara, faithfully preserving the elements which made the original Tomb Raider such a classic and helped it sell over 7 million copies worldwide.
Using an enhanced Tomb Raider: Legend game engine, the graphics, technology and physics bring Lara's first and most famous adventure right up to today's standards and offer a completely new gameplay experience.
Tomb Raider: Anniversary follows the adventures of Lara Croft after she is hired by a powerful syndicate to retrieve a mythical object called the Scion. After discovering that she has been used as a pawn in some larger scheme, Lara takes matters into her own hands deciding that she must uncover the mystery behind this ancient artefact.
Including classic environments from the original Tomb Raider as never experienced before, the latest technology allows you to manoeuvre Lara fluidly using her newest moves and gear, through all the breathtaking worlds from the original game: Peru, Greece, Egypt and more. The dynamic world allows multiple playthrough options and also opens up new places and ways to explore.
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She Don't Love Me
She don't love me
She love the power, she loves a man of my position
Loves the sex, loves a man of my positions
Love the pool, love the hot tub, my summer bunny
Both parents broke, but she come from money
And I don't just beat it up, I pound her
She reciprocates it with fresh grits and flounder
I counter by letting her put whatever on the counter
Cause I never seen a ass better or rounder
Plus I never seen ass better around ya
No dollars, just ass, bet it surround ya
She don't love me, she love the way I navigate
Love the wordplay and how I make her masturbate
I drop her off and laugh at you while you chasing it
If I was ever in Marvin's Room, I was casing it
But do be calling or right after I'm all in
I be like feel free, pick up, I'm watching SportsCenter
I grew up poor, I never had shit
So now I don't hit the mall I hit the flagship
I got her thinking that's her paper to burn
But when I lock her out, she won't doubt David is Stern
I mean, they don't love me, they wanna send me Llamas
But I can understand why they envy, kinda
Friendly reminder, bank statements with plenty commas
Made it right in front of em, gotta thank Benihana
If you with these rap dudes, I may have tainted it
They blackballed me, I spray painted it
Been accused of cheating, but I never take the blame for it
They did all the fucking, my ass just entertained the shit
Yea, I'm through the hood, red Porsche
They been mad, but I'm pistol whipping a dead horse
Now execs wanna hop on the phone
Cause I snuck in the back door while they was watching the throne
I mean, she don't love me, she just infatuated
She was the side chick, then she graduated
If she loved me, that would be unusual
I think she only say that shit to find out if it's mutual
I'm in the zone, but I don't need MTV
I need pills, not percs, I'm on NZTs
Why the fuck would they mess with another guy's rhymes
If the stakes is high, nigga butterfly mines
I mean, hate my bars, but she love the way I say the shit
Hate my job, but she love it when I pay for shit
If she ever wild, tryna ruin my dictatorship
I put her in the oven, let her bake a bit
One land, one take off
One's annoying, one demand make her take off
One's a older nympho, get mad when I say it's soft
But she feels a way when ? cried when the Lakers lost
She don't love me, love the company I keep
But the fans don't love me, mean they wanna be the sheep
My motto is to do it for the culture, they not of the same gene
You want the current wave, stay on the main stream
Is it me or is what I'm hearing just pitiful
Airwaves the same, even the stereo is typical
It don't love me, it love the models that I be with
But when I be talking about all of these models I'm ? you should believe it
Wanna know the secret? I guess it's how you time the shit
You come with wooden jewelry, I give her diamond dick
I hit the booth and the track get nervous
If you say I sold out, try to track that purchase
If we shared the same life, nigga you would understand it
When no matter the charges you accrue, you never panic
You would take advantage
When I feel like you the ruler of the planet
Get some head, a little hookah on the hammock
Rodman with the trash talk, the Magic will Walt with the black ball
The way I bounce off the asphalt like cat paws
Tried to trap me till I started to roam
Tried to keep me out the game, so I started my own
I mean, she don't love me, she just infatuated
She was the side chick, then she graduated
99 problems and a bitch is every one of em
How the fuck I'm gonna give dick to every one of em?


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Steve Reid Ensemble | 13/04/12
Today, April 13th, marks the second anniversary of Steve Reid's passing and we wanted to celebrate his legacy by sharing some musical highlights from his life.
Steve Reid was a giant of a drummer, who began playing professionally at the age of 16. His first recorded work was with Martha And The Vandellas, working in the Apollo Theatre House band, under the direction of Quincy Jones. Over the years Steve recorded and played with artists such as Miles Davies, Fela Kuti, James Brown and Sun Ra, amongst other musical legends.
Domino had the pleasure of releasing The Steve Reid Ensemble's Daxaar album in 2007 and Steve's groundbreaking works with Kieran Hebden, the albums The Exchange Session Vol. 1, The Exchange Session Vol. 2, Tongues and their final collaboration NYC.
Kieran and Steve's musical partnership produced a stunning series of albums. Here's what Kieran had to say at the time of Steve's death: "Steve was one of my great friends and the most wonderful musician I have ever encountered. The music and adventures we shared have been some of the most happy and meaningful experiences I've ever had. A true inspiration. He lived a great life and gave us incredible music. I'll miss him forever."
Two years on he is sorely missed.
Here's a playlist of some of his greatest musical moments:


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As part of the 'Lift the Skirt' campaign to support gender equality, male students and teachers of 27 public schools in France wore skirts on May 16 to protest sexism, creating controversy throughout the city.
In Nantes, northwest France, the students themselves came up with the idea to substitute their trousers for skirts to stand against sexism, according to RT.
According to New York Dailey News, 'Lift the Skirt' organizer Arthur Moinet said, "We noticed that in a lot of high schools in our region, there are lots of cases of sexism and discrimination, so we thought we should do something to change that, and so we came up with the idea."
According to the Huffington Post, boys who chose not to bare their legs could wear stickers which read "I am fighting against sexism, are you?"
"We'll do any old nonsense in the name of equality. This move is inspired by the Day of the Skirt, whose original aim was to allow women to express their femininity in environments where it was often difficult. But this is just denying feminine and masculine identity," said Olivier Vial, president of the conservative UNI party, according to Bustle.
French political activist Frigide Barjot, notorious for her opposition against same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption, tweeted about the event asking if girls would be wearing beards, referencing Eurovision winner bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst.
The movement faced other opposition, but most responses were positive.


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Errani won 6-3, 6-2, a year after beating Zahlavova Strycova in the final for her second Palermo title.
Errani will next face seventh-seeded Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain, who progressed after Croatian opponent Mirjana Lucic-Baroni retired while trailing 6-2, 1-0.
Five-time winner Anabel Medina Garrigues was knocked out 6-1, 6-1 by Dinah Pfizenmaier of Germany.
Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic also won her second-round match against local wild card Corinna Dentoni 7-5, 6-1.
In the only first-round match, third-seeded Kristina Mladenovic of France rescued six set points on her way to a 6-1, 7-6 (5) victory over Portuguese qualifier Maria Joao Koehler.


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There are many professionals for an individual to choose and I believe that e should follow the professional that he like most or hate least. The chance of success and quality of life are both much better that way. So, if you ask me why I choose software development as a career, I can assure you that programming is a fun career. Of course, it is fun not by sitting in front of the monitor and typing endlessly on the keyboard. It is fun because we control what we write and we can let our innovation run wild.
In this article, I want to share some ideas that I have tried and please see for your self if any idea fit your work.
Using OpenExtern and AnyEdit plugins for Eclipse
Of all the plugins that I have tried, these two plugins are my two most favorites. They are small, fast and stable.
OpenExtern give you the shortcut to open file explorer or console for any eclipse resource. At the beginning day of using Eclipse, I often found myself opening project properties just to copy project folder to open console or file explorer. OpenExtern plugin make the tedious 5 to 10 seconds process become 1 second mouse click. This simple tool actually helps a lot because many of us running Maven or Git commands from console.
The other plugin that I find useful is AnyEdit. It adds handful of converting, comparing and sorting tool to Eclipse editor. It eliminates the need to use external editor or comparison tool for Eclipse. I also like to turn on auto formatting and removing trailing spaces when saving. This works pretty well if all of us have the same formatter configuration (line wrapping, indentation,...). Before we standardized our code formatter, we had a hard time comparing and merging source code after each check in.
Other than these two, in the past, I often installed the Decompiler and Json Editor plugins. However, as most of Maven artifacts now a day are uploaded with source code and Json content can be viewed easily using Chrome Json plugin, I do not find these plugins useful anymore.
Using JArchitect to monitor code quality
In the past, we monitored the code quality of projects with eye balls. That seems good enough when you have time to take care of all modules. Things get more complicated when the team is growing or multiple team working on the same project. Eventually, the code still need to be reviewed and we need to be alerted if things go wrong.
Fortunately, I got an offer from JArchitect to try out their latest product. First and foremost, this is a stand alone product rather than traditional way of integrating to IDE. For me, it is a plus point because you may not want to make your IDE too heavy. The second good thing is JArchitect can understand Maven, which is a rare feature in the market. The third good thing is that JArchitect create their own project file in their own workspace, which make no harm to the original Java project. Currently, the product is commercial but you may want to take a look to see if the benefit justify cost
As we all know, a Java web project has both unit test and functional test. For functional test, if you use framework like Spring MVC, it is possible to create tests for controller without bringing up the server. Otherwise, it is quite normal that developers need to start up server, run functional test, then shutdown the server. This process is a bit tedious given the fact that the project may be created by someone else, which we have never communicated before. Therefore, we are trying to setup project in such a way that people can just download it and run without much hassle.
In the past, we had the server setup manually for each local development box and the integration server (Cruise Control or Hudson). Gradually, our common practice shift toward checking in the server to every project. The motivation behind this move is saving of effort to setup a new project after checking out. Because the server is embedded inside project, there is no need to download or setup the server for each box. Moreover, this practice discourages shared server among projects, which is less error prone.
Other than server, there are two other elements inside a project that are server dependence. They are properties files and database. For each of this element, we have slightly different practice, depending on situation.
Properties file
Checking in properties template rather than properties file
Each developer need to clone the template file and edit when necessary. For continuous integration server, it is a bit trickier. Developer can manually create the file in the workspace or simply check in the build server properties file to the project.
The former practice is not used any more because it is too error prone. Any attempt to clean workspace will delete properties file and we cannot track back the modification of properties in the file. Moreover, as we setup Jenkins as a cluster rather than single node like in the past, it is not applicable any more.
For second practice, rather than checking in my-project.properties, I would rather checkin my-project.properties-template and my-project.properties-jenkins. The first file can be used as guidance to setup local properties file while the second can be renamed and used for Jenkins.
Using host name to define external network connection
This practice may work better sometimes if we need to setup similar network connections for various projects. Let say we need to configure database for around 10 similar project pointing to the same database. In this case, we can hard code the database server in the properties file and manually setup the host file in each build node to point the pre-defined domain of the database.
For non essential properties, provide as much default value as possible
There is nothing much to say about this practice. We only need to remind ourselves to be less lazy so that other people may enjoy handling our projects
Using LandLord Service
This is a pretty new practice that we only apply from last year. With the regulation in our office, Web Service is the only team that manage and have access to UAT and PRODUCTION server. That why we need to guide them and they need to do the repetitive setup for at least 2 environments, both normally require clustering. It is quite tedious to them until the day we consolidate the properties of all environments, all project to a single landlord service.
From that time, each project would start up and connecting to the landlord service with an environment id and application id. The landlord will happily serve them all the information they need.
Using DBUnit to setup database once and let each test case automatically roll back transaction
This is the traditional practice which is still work quite well now a day. However, it still require developer to create an empty schema for DBUnit to connect to. For it to work, the project must have a transaction management framework that support auto roll back in test environment. It also requires that the database operation happen within the test environment. For example, if in the functional test, we attempt to send a HTTP request to the server. In this case, the database operation happen in the server itself rather than in the test environment wen cannot do anything to roll it back.
Running database in memory
This is a built-in feature of Play framework. Developer will work with in-memory database in development mode and external database in production mode. This is doable as long as developer only work with JPA entities and has no knowledge of underlying database system.
Database evolutions
This is a borrowed idea from Ror. Rather than setting up the database from beginning, we can simply check current version and sequentially run the delta script so that the database got the wanted schema. Similar to above, it is expensive to do it yourselves unless there is native support from a framework like Ror or Play.
I have been in the industry for 10 years and I can tell you that software development is like fashion. There is no clear separation between good and bad practice. Whatever things are classified as bad practices may come back another day as new best practices. Let summarize some of the heaty debates we have
Access modifiers for class attributes
Most of us were taught that we should hide class attributes from external access. Instead, we suppose to create getter and setter for each attribute. I strictly followed this rule in my early days even I did not know that most IDE can auto generate getter and setter.
However, later, I was introduced to another idea that setter is dangerous. It allows other developers to spoil your object and mess up the system. In this case, you should create immutable object and do not provide the attribute setter.
The challenge is how should we write our Unit Test if we hide the setter for class attributes. Sometimes, the attributes is inserted to the object using IOC framework like Spring. If there is no framework around, we may need to use reflection util to insert mock dependency to the test object.
I have seen many developers solving problem this way but I think it is over-engineering. If we compromise a bit, it is much more convenient to use package modifier for the attribute. As best practices, test cases will always be on the same package with implementation and we should have no issue injecting mock dependencies. The package is normally controlled and contributed by the same individual or team; therefore the chance of spoiling object is minimal. Finally, as package modifier is the default modifier, it saves a few bytes of your codes.
Monolithic application versus Micro Service architecture
When I joined industry, the word "Enterprise" mean lots of xml, lots of deployment steps, huge application, many layers and the code is very domain oriented. As things evolve, we adopted ORM, learned to split business logic from presentation logic, learn how to simplify and enrich our application with AOP. It goes well until I was told again that the way to move forward is Micro Service Architect, which make Java Enterprise application functions similarly to a Php application. The biggest benefit we have with Java now may be the performance advantage of Java Vitual Machine.
When adopting Micro Service architecture, it is obvious that our application will be database oriented. By removing the layers, it also minimize the benefit of AOP. The code base sure will shrink but it will be harder to write Unit Test.


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My prediction about (myself) not getting out of the porch swing at our Madera Canyon (AZ) cabin has been self-fulfilling. There really isn't much to report for the last few weeks.
So far, this year has been very different than last, which was our first time holed up here in the Canyon. Although it's hard to believe, it is probably 10-15 degrees warmer every day than last year. In addition, the dryness is notable and alarming. For the first time in the nearly 9 years that I've been coming to the Green Valley area, (always in February), there is no snow in the upper elevations. Mt. Wrightson, which looms above our cabin, is devoid of snow. There's no water in the creek which runs alongside the road down to Green Valley. Already, there are reports of two wildfires nearby. While we appreciate the warmer temperatures, the extreme dryness is worrisome. It doesn't bode well for the long hot summer ahead.
Some things are the same. We're still chasing the coatimundi away from our birdfeeders. One cheeky dude stands with his feet on the deck railing, and drinks from our hummingbird feeders.We put an end to that little trick by raising all of our feeders a few inches – but they still come back and manage to get a snack every day.
While walking Jezzy a few days ago, seven coatimundis ran out in front of us – I thought Jezzy would have a heart attack! To me, coatimundis look like a cross between a raccoon and a monkey, but they can really move when they want to. We love our front-porch view of them every day.Speaking of Jezzy, we have finally unraveled the mystery of her origins. Santa Claus brought her an Embarkvet DNA test, and we have the results. Her mom, maternal grandparents and great-grandparents were pure Boxer. Dad, paternal grandparents and great-grandparents are pure Old English Sheepdog. I guess that makes her an Old English Shebox – 50% Boxer, 50% Old English Sheepdog. Perfect. If you're interested in seeing the details of her report, or are curious as to what you might find out about your own dog, click here.
It seems like the turkey flock here has grown a thousandfold. As many as 30 at a time congregate in our driveway and yard. One of the big toms has taken a liking (or maybe he wants to fight) our truck. Every morning we hear him banging away at his own reflection in the chrome bumper. It's crazy.
We've hiked a bit, biked a bit. Watched the birds in the feeders. Southern Arizona is a bird-watchers heaven. So many species that we never see in Michigan are hanging out at our feeders here – Acorn Woodpeckers, Arizona Woodpeckers, Mexican Jays, Blue-Throated Hummingbirds, Oregon Junco, and Yellow-Eyed Juncos are regular visitors. It's delightful.
A week ago, we went on a hike along a four-mile stretch of the D'Anza Historic Trail. The Friends of the D'Anza had a shuttle running, so you could walk from Tubac to Tumacacori and shuttle back. We'd never been on this flat trail, which runs along the (mostly dry) Santa Cruz River, so we headed out with Caroline and Greg. It was a pleasant hike – we met lots of families out for the day, enjoying the great weather. Without the trees in bloom yet, we had mostly a bit of light shade, with a few sections in full sun. A few dicey water crossings added to a really nice hike.We ended our hike at the Tumacacori Mission. Volunteers had cooked food that was probably eaten by the original Trail travelers – on their journey from Mexico to San Franisco – hoppin John, cornbread, and some type of pudding. It was great. There was also a woman weaving baskets, slowly and patiently, with the most beautiful results. Our Vermont camping pals (former T@DA owners) Cathie and Jay have been here for several days. Although I'd have to admit that we've spent most of our time catching up on camping gigs and mutual friends, we did decide to venture across the Border to Nogales, Mexico for an afternoon. Folks we consulted said "Don't do it. Dirty and dangerous." We found it to be neither. The four-block area nearest the border was filled with Sunday-afternoon families out for a stroll and a snack.
Food vendors were out in force lining the streets, which (during the week) are home mostly to dentists, pharmacies, and eye clinics catering to US citizens crossing the border for inexpensive care. Since it was Sunday afternoon, only the pharmacies and restaurants were open, along with the stalls selling t-shirts and trinkets in the outdoor marketplace. But, there were few Americans around with ready cash. All the warnings against travel to the Mexico border towns have taken a toll in tourist traffic, and I'm sure many of the vendors there are suffering financially. But, for a few delightful hours, we wandered around, finishing with a beer/fish taco lunch.
While we were sitting in the restaurant, we did see an open-air Jeep-type vehicle with three heavily armed gendarmes in the back end. Cathie managed to capture a shot of them just as they passed by. It was a reminder of the danger of this border city. But, as we wandered a few blocks later, we came upon the gathering of cops/cars, and they were gracious enough to allow Cathie to pose with one of their guys.
One of the cops even used Cathie's phone to capture the photo. There is a bit of humanity everywhere. We all smiled and shook hands.
Of course, we had to ponder the Wall. Here's what it looks like from the Mexico side of Nogales.In places, there are benches within a few feet of the wall, many occupied with people – perhaps waiting for their friends or relatives on the US side to connect.
So, that's the No News Report from Madera Canyon. All is good here, but we're already struggling with the idea that our time here is already half over! How can that be?


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http://mmajunkie.com A lightweight bout between Evan Dunham (11-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and "The Ultimate Fighter 12" cast member Shamar Bailey (12-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has been added to September's UFC Fight Night 25 event.
UFC officials recently announced that verbal agreements are in place for the fight.
Featuring a welterweight matchup between Jake Shields and Jake Ellenberger, UFC Fight Night 25 takes place Sept. 17 at New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
The night's main card airs on Spike TV, though Dunham vs. Bailey likely will be part of the preliminary card.
Dunham, a Las Vegas-based Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, won his first four UFC fights and earned a top-10 lightweight ranking just a year ago. But after that 11-0 start, which included wins over Efrain Escudero and Tyson Griffin, he's dropped his past two fights to Sean Sherk (controversial split decision) and Melvin Guillard (TKO).
He desperately needs a win against Bailey, a Strikeforce vet who entered "TUF 12" as a favorite to win the tournament. Chris Cope, though, upset him in the quarterfinal round, but Bailey rebounded WITH a unanimous-decision victory over Ryan McGillivray on the undercard of the show's live finale. It ended the amateur wrestler's two-fight losing streak that included a Strikeforce loss to Justin Wilcox and a TKO defeat to Kurt Kinser at a regional show in Indiana.
For more on "UFC Fight Night 25," stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
(Pictured: Evan Dunham)


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Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4
12 ounces dry fettuccine pasta
8 ounces fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
1/2 cup butter
2 cups heavy cream
3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 pinch cayenne pepper
1/2 lb cooked ham, diced
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al denté.
Stir asparagus into pot in the last five minutes of cooking; drain.
While pasta is cooking, heat butter and cream in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
When mixture begins to bubble, stir in Parmesan, garlic powder, pepper and cayenne.
Continue cooking until mixture thickens, stirring occasionally.
Stir in ham and heat through.
Toss pasta and asparagus with sauce and serve immediately.


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Christmas time at the Kjars
16 comments:
- kylie said...
I LOVE THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT! SO CUTE! and how'd you make this personal note on the leave your comment thing? so cute
- December 7, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- lindsay said...
first off...i hope your little man gets to feeling better soon! second, you and your husband are quite the good looking couple, and third, those decorations are fantastic! i love your tree, it is so beautiful and oh my gosh i was talking to matthew during lunch today about doing a charlie brown christmas tree :) i want to do one sooo bad.
I have yet to string popcorn togehter, but from the sounds of it, this is a timely project?!?
we have a giant puppy on our hands and some remodeling going on in our house so we decided to hold off for the holiday decor until next year :( sad, but at least i get to enjoy seeing everyone elses...yours is fab!!
- December 7, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Eva Marie said...
These pictures are way to cute, especially of your son!
Loving your charlie brown tree.. a must have staple
- December 7, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Lauren Byers said...
I love decorating for Christmas! and i love your homemade ornaments! so cute :)
- December 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM
okay those decorations are adorable! i haven't even though of putting cinnamon sticks around my apartment, i just use scented artificial candles. how lame am i?! and the last two pictures are the bottom are so so cute. i love it!
- December 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Brooke T said...
I LOVE your decorations! I bet if I walked into your house I would feel like it's Christmas Morning!!! Everything is so amazing :)
- December 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Emily Carter said...
I love everything! But my favorite thing is your lovely paper fan bunting. On the 13th WhipperBerry is hosting a linky party, and I would love it if you would link that up so we can share it to the world!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Ashley {hudson's happenings} said...
This post makes me so happy! I love all of your decorations, and that sweet smilin' baby just melts my heart! Christmas is such a wonderful time!!
p.s. are you & your guy just about the cutest couple ever, or what? ;)
- December 7, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Shay said...
SO CUTE, Haley! I NEED TO HOLD BROOKS IN MY ARMS 10 SECONDS AGO! Seriously... such a doll
- December 7, 2010 at 8:32 PM
- Unknown said...
So many GOOD things about this post :) In love with all the christmas cheer! You three are adorable. And the decor...amazing hales! I wish we lived close so we could make crafts together...maybe someday :)
ps. I've been meaning to ask, are these pictures with your phone? So fun.
- December 7, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Living Foxy said...
Thanks for the comment Haley!. I'm glad to hear my Mom's spreading the word.
I love your Christmas decor, it's all so beautiful:)
- December 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Nicole Jeannette said...
What a beautiful family! I hope your baby feels better soon! :)
I love your blog! Merry Christmas! :)
- December 8, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Adam and Jamie said...
Haley, all of your decorations are beautiful--so simple, yet lovely. And, hello, your little boy is one of the cutest kids I've ever seen!
I've tried to play around with my blog to see if there's a way that people can follow it. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know how to figure it out! Any suggestions??
- December 9, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Larsen Family said...
I love reading your blog. You are so cute and creative. I wish i could blog like you.
- December 12, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Wendys Hat said...
Love your jars! I saw you on WhipperBerry.
- December 14, 2010 at 1:35 AM
- Emily Carter said...
I hope you don't mind that we featured you today on WhipperBerry! Come by if you want and grab a featured button!
- December 17, 2010 at 6:45 AM


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Showing off her famous curves, Kim Kardashian posed for some ultra-sultry pics for French magazine, Factice.
Clad in a lacy cream-colored bra and panty set, the 32-year-old bombshell shot several boudoir-inspired poses, which were captured by photographer Vijat Mohindra, before later changing in to a feathery number.
The reality star first gave fans a sneak peek of the shoot via her Twitter feed back in September, when she uploaded two shots of herself in the lingerie.
Earlier today, Kim took to her Celebuzz page to express her excitement of the reveal, writing, "'I'm so pleased with the way the shots turned out. This was such a glamorous and feminine shoot and it was an honor to work with Vijat."
Launched in February 2011, Factice magazine is a French, fashion and online magazine that releases a new issue every two months.


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The Tuesday shits at work got much worse as the day progressed. By 2.30pm my bladder had given up the ghost choosing instead to pass it's workload onto my arsehole that gaily pissed budget Cola from it every half hour. I was beginning to feel slightly feverish, weakened by my condition I discharged myself from work and rode home with my bones shaking in my person like tinned Twiglets.
After cancelling the evening's appointments I lay down to rest in my bed feeling decidedly nauseous allowing the waves of cold sweat to ripple icy fingers over my skin in between the dark warm waves of sickness. An hour later my mouth yawned over the edge of the bath as I jettisoned 3 terrific blasts of gut broth into the North sea. I felt instantly cured for about 15 seconds until my stomach re-established its foul congregation of vapours. Five minutes later I was back in bed pondering he consequences of my newfound fever.
The biggest threat posed by my condition was to Myfwt who was due to have surgery on Friday. If she contracted this bastard, her appointment, which had taken years to arrange, would be cancelled before she'd even set foot on the ward. Having said that I wasn't sure if this malaise was due to a bug that I know had been going around, though not in my office, or food poisoning. I'd been feeling queasy since the previous evenings meal, which I apportioned to the asparagus due to my forgetting to wash it.
Aside from the Myfwt equation there was also the matter of my being able to see Hawkwind the following evening. 'Fuck' I thought. Then I said it out loud. Then I went to sleep.
The next day I was feeling a little better but the arse gravy was still featuring. I decided an egg with toast would be a good binding agent and I tentatively consumed my first meal in 36 hours. Happily it stayed down and I subsequently felt better. I'd arranged a shopping trip with Myfwt in the afternoon and was deliberating whether or not to risk contact with her should my 'asparagus food poisoning' theory, which I'd reasoned was the cause of my woes, be incorrect. I discussed the matter with her and we decided to risk it. The trip took its toll to some degree, I was feeling weary and delicate but this was the only way, psychologically, I was going to be able to make it to the evenings gig. I figured that if I can do the Christmas shopping I can do Hawkwind.
At 6pm Jamie arrived and we headed off to the local to meet James. I'd not had a drink since Sunday and the thought of a pint, worryingly, wasn't doing it for me. I managed a foul tasting Fosters, really nasty, like drinking paracetamol, and seriously questioned if I was going to be able to see the evening through. Instead of setting off we had another 'tester' pint after which I was pretty much on the side of giving the gig a shot. By the time we arrived at Tottenham Court Road I was feeling a bit better and after a couple more at The Royal George I was better still. Astonishingly Jamie and I bumped into an old mate from way back, he'd not changed in the least and evening begun to get hilariously rambunctious. The Astoria was packed solid; a bit too packed to the point we contemplated some counterfeit tickets in circulation, but nonetheless, Hawkwind did a splendid set (which included the quirky Calvert-penned Flying Doctor) and finishing with Silver Machine. Despite this being their seminal number and their best known tune, in the 20 years I've being seeing them (this was about my 17th time) I'd never seen them play in. When it began I nearly burst into tears and James had to, well, look after me. I felt like a right berk.
Following the gig we bumped into yet another mate and headed off to the nearest available hostelry with a rather peculiar crew that comprised of mates, friends of friends and few hangers on. Bonded by our penchant for liking a band with an outsider, non conformist oeuvre we merrily bought drinks and chatted, but with an eye on the time in order to secure the last tube home. By the time we arrived back, following a farewell to James at Balham, Jamie and I grabbed a kebab (which I couldn't eat, my stomach still wasn't 100%) and arrived home to a sleepy Myfwt.
Next morning after Jamie left Myfwt and I went to finish off our Christmas shopping. On the way to the Kings Road I had to pick up a pair of motorcycle goggles for my dad, the old-fashioned Second World War fellows desired by fighter pilots, specifically, Halcyon Mark 4 Silver Cross. Having failed to find a pair outside of the internet (they never would've arrived in time) I was forced to purchase them from a Chelsea Scooters. For a hairy arsed seasoned biker such as I this was tantamount to entering a gay bar and asking to be fellated. Having no choice in the matter I entered the establishment and found myself looking up at a giant skinheaded mod. Oh the difference between the gentlemen motorcycle retailers I'm used to dealing with and these fellows. Whilst perfectly cheery to me the loud and aggressive manner – peppered with very blue language- that was used to communicate with colleagues was startling, frankly. The Skin was unable to locate the item despite his bug-eyed mate insisting they were 'on the top fucking shelf over the fucking counter', this made the Skin cross until eventually his mate had to down tools being used to reconnect some elastic to a leaf blower and find the item himself amid much 'you blind cunt' and suchlike. When the item was finally presented to me I was told that they'd been hanging around for the past 5 years, subsequently I purchased them at the arcane price of £36 Queen heads when they're £42 brought direct from Halcyon. I asked the Skin if they were the silver ones with black leather, 'dunno mate' he said cheerily 'lets find out' and he helpfully ripped the box in half to satisfy my curiosity. I wasn't going to bother complaining.
Following our final Christmas shopping trip, which was quite a success, we came home and settled down for the night. We had to get up early, at 6am to be precise, as Myfwt had a hospital appointment and I was the designated carer.
Living quite near to St.Georges in Tooting we were able to walk there. It was pitch black and cold outside and neither of us were in any mood for the journey that would end in surgery for one and a wait for the other. By 7am we were in the waiting room with about 20 others, all waiting for the stations to the theatre. At 9am Myfwt was gowned up, I walked her down to theatre with a very ginger male nurse and I said goodbye, assuring her I'd be there when she came round. Needless to say she was nervous, I've had two General aesthetics in my life but she was a virgin. My attempts at reassurance hadn't helped either. Having been an auxiliary nurse (in fact, I had worked at the very hospital we were in) my bedside manner is somewhat pragmatic; I don't think I was being very helpful in hindsight.
For me there began an 8-hour wait. I'd been told to call the relevant department at 10.30 to enquire about her allocation of a bed, then told to call back at 11.30, and so on. After a few hours my mind began to install itself into the wait. I deliberately spent time drifting between teas, cigarettes, sandwiches and various waiting rooms, all fired up to the temperature of fucking Hades, as is the want of such institutions. My book, which I'd been half way through, was soon finished to heightened emotion -Giles Milton, Samurai William, a triumph- and I was forced to purchase a paperback from the woefully inadequate but time-killing hospital shop. Fortunately, amidst all the fucking crap that passes for fiction these days, I found something rather good, a delicious crime novel into which I became immediately engrossed.
After what seemed like 2 days I eventually arrived on the ward at 5pm where Myfwt was due half an hour later, following a conversation with a chap who'd just had his toe amputated, a confused soporific patient with a bandaged limb was parked to rest. The procedure, we were informed by a rather dashing surgeon, had been an unmitigated success. Splendid news. Her sister arrived shortly after and I left them to it. On top of everything, tonight was the office Christmas party and was expected to be there for 7pm.
I didn't bother going home; I jumped on a bus and in 30 minutes was in the loathsome Wimbledon ascending a staircase to my co-workers, who, it must be said, greeted me with a certain degree of enthusiasm. Most were already half cut, being the model of sobriety I allowed myself to fully indulge in all that was offered in the form of booze and to a lesser extent, food, though my appetite for the latter was virtually non existent. It was a nice evening, everyone in good cheer though toward the end some casualties were dropping off the end. One colleague, the unstable actor I occasionally have cause to chide like an infant, interrupted a colleague and I having a deep and meaningful. Of course I told him to fuck off out of it and he came at me shouting and screaming a few minutes later making an utter twat of himself. I had him removed. He later re-appeared to apologise, the berk.
I brushed of the hangover the next day. I called the hospital and discovered much to my delight Myfwt was ready to be discharged. I drove over and after a paperwork interlude took her back home. When we got back the noise downstairs was a fucking disgrace, despite having informed Cunt that she needed to rest the arsehole had decided to throw a fucking party for his grubby mates. At 11am I went down to tell him to shut the fuck up. He answered the door wearing sunglasses (what a fucking cunt) and clutching a can of strong lager. He apologised with as much sincerity as a Rumsfeld before inexplicably informing me he was Catholic and then, ironically, asking me to give Myfwt his blessing like he was the fucking Pope.
Myfwt was still very dazed by the drugs and spent most of the Saturday asleep in bed while I read, wrote and watched TV next door. The time passed in a not entirely dissimilar way to the previous one, I felt largely removed from reality but was snapped very much into focus when later in the afternoon the noise began again. There were by now a few of them downstairs and I assumed all were pissed stupid, we had no choice but to suffer his utter selfishness, going downstairs again on balance may have been unsafe, besides as Myfwt was largely out of it she didn't seem overtly fussed by his cuntiness. The noise continued on and off all fucking night but despite it we were both so exhausted/stoned that we slept soundly. On the plus side he must have awoken knowing he's been an utter wanker as I've not heard a peep downstairs since. I'm praying for violent death, of course.
On Sunday I took Myfwt to her sisters in dense fog, it was rather fun but no so much when on returning I got fucking lost. Earlier I'd been forced to Sainsbury to do some last minute food and booze shopping. I wasn't expecting the place to be so crowded. It was fucking unbelievable actually, it was almost impossible to actually get to anything with a fight and I queued for over three quarters of an hour before I was served. That and the journey back in the fog had soured my mood but I was cheered by a trip to Clapham to meet my bro, Frank and his missus and Harry for a few Christmas drinks. I got back home in time to take delivery of an exhausted Myfwt who'd been dropped off by her sister. We had a lovely quiet evening, exchanged gifts and watched Christmassy shite on the box before retiring. I admit to staying up a little bit later and having a few whiskies, its Christmas, I thought. Why not…
So, here we are, Christmas eve. I've just dropped Myfwt off at her sisters (again), as they are all off up t'northern somewhere to meet the rest of family. Shortly I'm off to meet Frank for one last snifter before it all kicks off. Tomorrow I pick up My bro and his missus and we all head off to deepest darkest Surrey for the usual family shenanigans. I have to say I'm rather looking forward to it.
This really is the last Piqued this year, I'll be back in just over a week so don't fuck off now. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you where ever you may be. (Obviously, I reserve this goodwill for cunts, however.)
Toodle pip.


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Maynard To Oversee Reality And Unscripted Programming Operations
For The CBS Television Network And Assume Newly Created Post Overseeing Alternative Programming For The CW And CBS Paramount Network Television,
As Well As Entertainment Content For Wireless, Online And Other Emerging Platforms
Ghen Maynard, the executive who developed SURVIVOR, THE AMAZING RACE and AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, is returning to CBS as Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming & Entertainment Content for New Media, CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group.
The announcement was made today by Nancy Tellem, President of the CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group.
In this multi-faceted position, Maynard will oversee alternative programming development and operations for the CBS Television Network, as well as newly created, parallel responsibilities for The CW (which CBS operates in a joint venture with Warner Bros. Entertainment) and CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Corporation's television production studio. He will work with each of the Divisional Entertainment Presidents in these respective areas -- Nina Tassler, Dawn Ostroff and David Stapf -- to develop and produce a wide range of reality and unscripted programs.
In addition, Maynard will assume oversight of CBS's growing original programming operation for wireless and online platforms � including CBS.com � creating entertainment content that can be streamed on single or multiple platforms in the new media universe.
"Ghen is the ultimate entrepreneurial programmer with expertise, instincts and passion for inventing new and exciting forms of programming that engage the audience on many levels," said Tellem. "This new position speaks to his interests, his talents and the company's commitment to develop new forms of programming content that can be broadcast on network television or streamed across multiple platforms."
For the new media and television studio areas of his position, Maynard will report to Tellem, who oversees operations at CBS Entertainment and CBS Paramount Network Television.
For his alternative programming responsibilities at CBS and The CW, he will report to Tassler and Ostroff, respectively.
Maynard, who will be based at CBS's Television City in Los Angeles, will begin his new position on June 5.
Maynard rejoins CBS after two years as Executive Vice President, Primetime Development, NBC Entertainment, where he developed programs such as "My Name Is Earl" and the upcoming series "Kidnapped" and "The Black Donnellys."
From June 2002-May 2004, Maynard was Senior Vice President, Alternative Programming & Creative Strategies, CBS Entertainment, responsible for overseeing the development of all CBS alternative programming including reality series, variety, game shows, limited run series and other unique forms of programming.
Previously, Maynard had been Vice President, Alternative Programming, a newly-created position he was named to in June 2000. Maynard was responsible for bringing SURVIVOR, CBS's hit adventure-reality series, currently in its 12th edition, to the Network, working closely with executive producer Mark Burnett in overseeing the show's format and creative development.
He also developed the three-time Emmy Award winning THE AMAZING RACE, now in its ninth edition; BIG BROTHER, which returns for its seventh edition this summer; and AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, which is currently in its sixth cycle on UPN.
Prior to that, Maynard had been Director, Drama Series Development at CBS, working on CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION and "Judging Amy," among others.
Maynard got his start in television as a post production coordinator at ABC Productions. He began his career in publishing, serving as publisher of the Let's Go travel guides while still a student at Harvard. He held subsequent positions at Houghton Mifflin Company.
Maynard earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Harvard University.


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Diabetes - tests and checkups
You can live an active lifestyle when you take control of your diabetes care. Still, you must have regular health checkups and tests. These visits will give you a chance to:
- Ask your doctor questions.
- Learn more about diabetes.
See Your Doctor
See your diabetes doctor every 3 - 6 months. During this exam, your doctor should check your:
- Blood pressure
- Weight
- Feet
Also see your dentist every 6 months.
Eye Exams
An eye doctor should check your eyes at least once a year. See an eye doctor who takes care of people with diabetes. If you have eye problems because of diabetes, you will probably see your eye doctor more often.
Foot Exams
Your doctor should check the pulses in your feet and your reflexes at least once a year. The doctor should also look for calluses, infections, and sores.
The doctor should check every year for loss of feeling, using a special tool.
If you have had foot ulcers before, see your doctor every 3 - 6 months. It is always a good idea to ask your doctor to check your feet.
Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C)
An HbA1C lab test shows how well you are controlling your blood sugar levels over a three-month period.
The normal level is less than 6%. Most people with diabetes should aim for an HbA1C of less than 7%. Some people have a higher target, however. Your doctor will tell you what your target should be.
Higher HbA1C numbers mean that your blood sugar is higher.
A cholesterol test measures cholesterol and triglycerides in your blood. You should have the test on an empty stomach after not eating overnight.
Adults with type 2 diabetes should have this test every year. People with high cholesterol may have this test more often.
Kidney Tests
Once a year, you should have a urine test. It looks for a protein called "albumin."
You will have more of this protein in your blood if you have early kidney damage due to diabetes. But the level of this protein in urine can also be higher for other reasons.
Your doctor will also check a kidney blood test every year. This test measures how well your kidneys work.


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Hooksett, Manchester school boards meet
Proposals could reshape school system
The school boards of Manchester and Hooksett met Thursday to discuss the future of a contract involving high school students.
Hooksett has a contract to send its high school students to Manchester, but when the school year opened with crowded classrooms, parents said Manchester wasn't living up to its end of the deal.
The two school boards faced each other, and there was no disagreement that Manchester's budget led to layoffs and increased class sizes.
"Overcrowding is an issue," Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas said. "The size of the classrooms are an issue."
But Manchester officials said improvements are being made, and the number of classrooms with more than 30 students has fallen to 56.
"The administration was actually moving some furniture around to ensure our students were not sitting on the floor or tables," Manchester Superintendent Dr. Thomas Brennan said.
Manchester asked Hooksett to stick with them, but Hooksett School Board members questioned if the same problem will keep popping up and said they plan to shop for other school districts.
"What's to ensure next year and the year after is going to be better?" Hooksett School Board member Dana Argo asked.
"We are looking into all of our options for what's best for our Hooksett students and Hooksett taxpayers," Hooksett School Board member Mike Dubisz said.
Manchester proposed leasing West High School to Hooksett and allowing them to run the school and receive tuition from Manchester students who go there.
Parents also spoke. Some of them had questions, and others said it's time to cut contract ties.
"Mutually agree with Hooksett to back out of the current long-term contract," a parent said.
"I simply ask how will Manchester fulfill it's commitment to Hooksett next year?" another parent asked.
There were no decisions made at the meeting. Both school boards agreed they should have more communication, and Hooksett asked for more representation in Manchester.


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- "The giant, spectral dog that haunts churchyards! My dear boy, it is an omen—the worst omen—of death!"
- —Sybill Trelawney discussing the Grim with Harry Potter.[src]
The Grim is an omen of death, which is reputed to bring about the demise of the person who encounters it. The Grim takes the shape of a large, black, spectral dog. Perhaps the most well-known of omens,[1] the Grim has earned infamy throughout the wizarding world and is considered to be one of the worst, if not the worst, omens around.
Harry Potter's 'encounters'
In 1993, after accidentally inflating his aunt, Marjorie Dursley, Harry Potter ran away from number 4 Privet Drive, and by the time he reached Magnolia Crescent he witnessed "the hulking outline of something very big, with wide, gleaming eyes".[2] Shocked, he stepped backwards and fell off the curb, into the street, and inadvertently summoned the Knight Bus to his rescue. By the time Harry had got back up again, the creature has vanished. Harry, describing it as "like a dog... but massive",[2] departed for Diagon Alley. Whilst in Flourish and Blotts in Diagon Alley, he noticed a book, entitled Death Omens: What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming with the front cover depicting a large black dog with gleaming eyes, strikingly similar to the one he witnessed on Magnolia Crescent.
The term 'Grim' was only first mentioned to Harry by Professor Trelawney during a Divination lesson studying the art of Tessomancy. When the tea leaves revealed the Grim, a horrified Professor Trelawney informed Harry, that the Grim is the possible omen of death. Harry's stomach "lurched" upon remembering he had witnessed the dog at Magnolia Crescent.[3]
Later, during a Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff Quidditch match, Harry saw a "the silhouette of an enormous shaggy black dog" in the topmost empty row of seats,[4] which wildly distracted him. When he glanced back, the dog had disappeared. Seconds later approximately one-hundred Dementors entered the proximity of the stadium, causing Harry to fall unconscious, plummeting fifty feet from his broom(in the film, Harry saw it high in the clouds while chasing after the Golden Snitch, before having to dodge several Dementors, and eventually falling off his broom).
The 'Grim' Harry witnessed on multiple occasions was revealed to be Sirius Black in his Animagus form, who had recently escaped from Azkaban Prison. Therefore, Harry actually never witnessed the Grim, only believing he had done so. Although he was prophesised the Grim by Trelawney, like many of her other prophecies, it did not come true.
Scepticism regarding the Grim
- "There you are then. They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim's not an omen, it's the cause of death!"
- —Hermione Granger arguing with Ronald Weasley.[src]
Hermione Granger highly doubted the Grim's status as an omen of death, thinking that if the Grim even existed, it was most likely the cause of death rather than an omen, as people who ever saw it would die of fear; she took Ron's claim that his Uncle Bilius died twenty-four hours after seeing a Grim as proof to her belief. She also grew so tired of Professor Trelawney's continuous predictions regarding the Grim, such that when she claimed to see it in a crystal ball, she stalked out of class and never returned. Also, the assistant in Flourish and Blotts may have expressed a degree of scepticism, as he discouraged Harry from buying Death Omens: What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming, saying "Oh, I wouldn't read that if I were you. You'll start seeing death omens everywhere, it's enough to frighten anyone to death".
Behind the scenes
- Seamus Finnigan: "The Grin? What's the Grin?"
- Bem: "Not the Grin, you idiot. The Grim. "Taking the form of a giant spectral dog, it's among the darkest omens in our world. It's an omen...of death."
- — Bem explains the meaning of the Grim[src]
- The chapter in which Harry falls from his broom during a Quidditch match after seeing what he believed to be the Grim is aptly named "Grim Defeat".
- The Grim appears to be based on the Black Shuck of English folklore, or the Cù Sìth of Scottish mythology, black dogs which also signal death.
- The Grim being a large black dog and the black shuck appear to be no coincidence as Black's nickname is Padfoot, this being one of the many alternate names of 'black ghostly dog' figures, and Black's transformed appearance is like that of the Grim.
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Grim is shown as a gigantic shadow in the sky, and not on the topmost seats in the Quidditch field.
- The Grim may also be based on the Barghest, a large black dog in English legend.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, the Grim (Sirius Black) appears on a roundabout in the playground.
- The Grim could be based off of the urban legend of Cadejo Negro, a large black dog with glowing red eyes that is said to kill travelers at night. This beast is said to be stopped by it opposite, the Cadejo Blanco who protects travelers.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Notes and references
- ↑ This is judging by the fact that in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban "nearly everybody else [in the class] clapped their hands to their mouths in horror" at the mention of the Grim, despite it being their first Divination lesson. Obviously the Grim must have enough renown so that even students know of it.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — The Knight Bus.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Talons and Tea Leaves.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Grim Defeat.
- ↑ Though Harry didn't die, or even see the real Grim, only Sirius Black, this may have heightened his belief in the existence of the Grim, as he was severely injured just seconds after witnessing what he believed to be the Grim.


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Escape artist faces coffin skydive at 14,500 feet
Imagine the terror of being handcuffed, chained and locked inside a wooden casket that is subsequently dragged out of an airplane at 14,500 feet.
That's the scenario Anthony Martin faces later Tuesday when he takes to the sky over Serena in northern Illinois.
"How many of us have never been in a situation that we wished we could get out of?" the 47-year-old escape artist asked recently with a sly grin.
And he's quick to insist, he's no fake.
Martin said his father shattered his early fascination with magic when he explained the trickery behind a floating pen illusion. So at age 6, he resolved to find a more respectable means of impressing an audience and began studying the art of escape.
"I thought that skill and knowledge could surpass trickery and magic," he said.
Martin took locks apart until he understood how the mechanisms operate and are put together.
"At 10 I had pretty much started to specialize in escapes," Martin says. "By the time I was 13, the sheriff was locking me in his handcuffs. And I was getting out."
Jumping from a raft into a lake at age 11 _ naturally, with his hands cuffed behind his back _ whet Martin's appetite for high risk escapes. So in February 1990, he performed his most dangerous water stunt, in which he was locked in a cage and lowered through a hole in the ice and into the frigid water at a Wisconsin quarry. It took him one minute and 45 seconds to emerge.
"It was very, very cold," Martin said. "It doesn't take long for your fingers, even with gloves, to get numb and lose effectiveness ... you have to work very quickly."
Martin now is planning to revisit arguably his most dangerous escape _ an August 1988 stunt in which he escaped from a casket dropped from a plane at 13,500 feet. It was just his 17th skydive.
On Tuesday, Martin will lay inside a plywood box with his hands cuffed to a belt around his waist and his right arm chained to the inside of the box. The casket's door will then be held tight with a prison door lock for which no key exists; a locksmith scrambled the tumblers.
The box will be rolled out of the plane _ a Short SC.7 Skyvan _ at about 14,500 feet. Two skydivers will stabilize the box by holding handles on the side, while a drogue similar to the parachutes used to slow drag-racing cars and fighter jets will further steady it from the top as Martin picks the locks. He expects to be free and tracking away at around 7,000 feet after about 40 seconds of free fall, and plans to land on a farm in Serena, 70 miles southwest of Chicago.
On Monday, Martin exuded calm, saying his only concerns are for the other people involved in the jump.
"You try to get yourself to the point where there's really not a lot of fear involved. Fear is one of those emotions that kind of distracts from your ability to think clearly and be effective," he said.
And how did Martin plan to prepare the night before his escape-or-die skydive?
"I'm just going to find something cool to watch on television," he said. "I'm not going to change a thing. It's just business."


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This turned out to be a lot more challenging than I was expecting it to be. Duplicating a content type required that I learn a lot about how to programmatically create things like site columns and workflows associations and policies. I also had to do a lot of reverse engineering to figure out seemingly simple things such as how the document information panel and document templates are stored.
In some cases copying elements became as simple as adding xml to a collection or adding an object from the source collection to the target with basically no real logic needed. In other cases I had to painstakingly reconstruct the original element – considering the limited documentation on some of this stuff I'm not convinced it could have been done without Reflector – Microsoft does some rather odd things that I can't seem to find documented anywhere.
I think this command, perhaps more than some of the others, has potential for the most use post deployment. If you've got several site collections and content types that you need duplicated across those site collections then you'll want to check this out – it's a real pain to have to recreate a content type more than once (it's so easy to miss something when you consider all the custom columns, policies, workflows, templates, etc.). Of course if you built your content types using Features then you wouldn't have this issue but I know that there are many that do not 🙂
The nice thing about this command is that it can be used to copy all content types from one site collection to another or just a single content type. The code to accomplish this consists of 7 key methods – the primary method, CreateContentType() creates the content type itself based on the source content type. This method then calls out to the remaining six methods to add peripheral items such as workflows and templates. To create a new content type you have to make sure that the parent content type exists first – the CreateContentType method does a recursive call to address the Parent and then once all the parent types exist it will set the basic properties for the new content type.
1: private static void CreateContentType(string targetUrl, SPContentType sourceCT, SPFieldCollection sourceFields, bool verbose)
2: {
3: // Make sure any parent content types exist - they have to be there before we can create this content type.
4: if (availableTargetContentTypes[sourceCT.Parent.Id] == null)
5: {
6: Log(string.Format("Progress: Parent of content type '{0}' does not exist - creating...", sourceCT.Name));
8: CreateContentType(targetUrl, sourceCT.Parent, sourceFields, verbose);
10: // Reset the fields and content types.
11: GetAvailableTargetContentTypes(verbose, targetUrl);
12: }
14: Log(string.Format("Progress: Creating content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
16: // Create a new content type using information from the source content type.
17: SPContentType newCT = new SPContentType(availableTargetContentTypes[sourceCT.Parent.Id], targetContentTypes, sourceCT.Name);
19: Log(string.Format("Progress: Setting fields for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
21: // Set all the core properties for the content type.
22: newCT.Group = sourceCT.Group;
23: newCT.Hidden = sourceCT.Hidden;
24: newCT.NewDocumentControl = sourceCT.NewDocumentControl;
25: newCT.NewFormTemplateName = sourceCT.NewFormTemplateName;
26: newCT.NewFormUrl = sourceCT.NewFormUrl;
27: newCT.ReadOnly = sourceCT.ReadOnly;
28: newCT.RequireClientRenderingOnNew = sourceCT.RequireClientRenderingOnNew;
29: newCT.Description = sourceCT.Description;
30: newCT.DisplayFormTemplateName = sourceCT.DisplayFormTemplateName;
31: newCT.DisplayFormUrl = sourceCT.DisplayFormUrl;
32: newCT.EditFormTemplateName = sourceCT.EditFormTemplateName;
33: newCT.EditFormUrl = sourceCT.EditFormUrl;
35: string xml = (string)Utilities.GetFieldValue(newCT, "m_strXmlNonLocalized");
36: xml = xml.Replace(string.Format("ID=\"{0}\"", newCT.Id), string.Format("ID=\"{0}\"", sourceCT.Id));
37: Utilities.SetFieldValue(newCT, typeof (SPContentType), "m_strXmlNonLocalized", xml);
38: Utilities.SetFieldValue(newCT, typeof(SPContentType), "m_id", sourceCT.Id);
40: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding content type '{0}' to collection...", sourceCT.Name));
42: // Add the content type to the content types collection and update all the settings.
43: targetContentTypes.Add(newCT);
44: newCT.Update();
46: // Add all the peripheral items
48: try
49: {
50: if (copyColumns)
51: {
52: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding site columns for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
54: AddSiteColumns(newCT, sourceCT, sourceFields, verbose);
55: }
57: if (copyWorkflows)
58: {
59: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding workflow associations for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
61: AddWorkflowAssociations(newCT, sourceCT, verbose);
62: }
64: if (copyDocTemplate)
65: {
66: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding document template for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
68: AddDocumentTemplate(newCT, sourceCT);
69: }
71: if (copyDocConversions)
72: {
73: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding document conversion settings for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
75: AddDocumentConversionSettings(newCT, sourceCT);
76: }
78: if (copyPolicies)
79: {
80: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding information rights policies for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
82: AddInformationRightsPolicies(newCT, sourceCT, verbose);
83: }
85: if (copyDocInfoPanel)
86: {
87: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding document information panel for content type '{0}'...", sourceCT.Name));
89: AddDocumentInfoPanelToContentType(sourceCT, newCT);
90: }
91: }
92: finally
93: {
94: newCT.ParentWeb.Site.Dispose();
95: newCT.ParentWeb.Dispose();
96: }
97: }
After creating the content type and saving it the code then adds the other elements according to flags that can be passed in (the default is to copy everything but you can turn off individual items). The first thing I do is add any needed columns. A content type doesn't actually store any details about columns (or fields as they are referred to in code) rather it stores a link to the columns. The columns themselves are part of the Fields collection which you can get from an SPWeb object. So the first step in setting the columns for the content type is to create the columns if they don't already exist and then link that column to the content type:
1: private static void AddSiteColumns(SPContentType targetCT, SPContentType sourceCT, SPFieldCollection sourceFields, bool verbose)
2: {
3: // Store the field order so that we can reorder after adding all the fields.
4: List<string> fields = new List<string>();
5: foreach (SPField field in sourceCT.Fields)
6: {
7: if (!field.Hidden && field.Reorderable)
8: fields.Add(field.InternalName);
9: }
10: // Add any columns associated with the content type.
11: foreach (SPFieldLink field in sourceCT.FieldLinks)
12: {
13: // First we need to see if the column already exists as a Site Column.
14: SPField sourceField;
15: try
16: {
17: // First try and find the column via the ID
18: sourceField = sourceFields[field.Id];
19: }
20: catch
21: {
22: try
23: {
24: // Couldn't locate via ID so now try the name
25: sourceField = sourceFields[field.Name];
26: }
27: catch
28: {
29: sourceField = null;
30: }
31: }
32: if (sourceField == null)
33: {
34: // Couldn't locate by ID or name - it could be due to casing issues between the linked version of the name and actual field
35: // (for example, the Contact content type stores the name for email differently: EMail for the field and Email for the link)
36: foreach (SPField f in sourceCT.Fields)
37: {
38: if (field.Name.ToLowerInvariant() == f.InternalName.ToLowerInvariant())
39: {
40: sourceField = f;
41: break;
42: }
43: }
44: }
45: if (sourceField == null)
46: {
47: Log(string.Format("WARNING: Unable to add column '{0}' to content type.", field.Name));
48: continue;
49: }
51: if (!targetFields.ContainsField(sourceField.InternalName))
52: {
53: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding column '{0}' to site columns...", sourceField.InternalName));
55: // The column does not exist so add the Site Column.
56: targetFields.Add(sourceField);
57: }
59: // Now that we know the column exists we can add it to our content type.
60: if (targetCT.FieldLinks[sourceField.InternalName] == null) // This should always be true if we're here but I'm keeping it in as a safety check.
61: {
62: Log(string.Format("Progress: Associating content type with site column '{0}'...", sourceField.InternalName));
64: // Now add the reference to the site column for this content type.
65: try
66: {
67: targetCT.FieldLinks.Add(field);
68: }
69: catch (Exception ex)
70: {
71: Log("WARNING: Unable to add field '{0}' to content type: {1}", sourceField.InternalName, ex.Message);
72: }
73: }
74: }
75: // Save the fields so that we can reorder them.
76: targetCT.Update(true);
78: // Reorder the fields.
79: try
80: {
81: targetCT.FieldLinks.Reorder(fields.ToArray());
82: }
83: catch
84: {
85: Log("WARNING: Unable to set field order.");
86: }
87: targetCT.Update(true);
88: }
After adding the columns I add the workflows (note that adding these peripheral items can be done in any order as long as the content type has been saved and therefore belongs to a content type collection). When I first started researching how to do this I thought I was going to have to do a whole lot of work to recreate the workflow (based on what I was seeing in Reflector and how Microsoft was handling the creation of workflows for a content type). On a whim I decided to simply try adding a workflow association object (SPWorkflowAssociation) directly to the targets WorkflowAssociations collection and to my surprise it worked perfectly. Only catch was that I had to make sure I cleared out any existing workflows on the target (the default items that are added behind the scenes when you create a content type):
1: private static void AddWorkflowAssociations(SPContentType targetCT, SPContentType sourceCT, bool verbose)
2: {
3: // Remove the default workflows - we're going to add from the source.
4: while (targetCT.WorkflowAssociations.Count > 0)
5: {
6: targetCT.RemoveWorkflowAssociation(targetCT.WorkflowAssociations[0]);
7: }
9: // Add workflows.
10: foreach (SPWorkflowAssociation wf in sourceCT.WorkflowAssociations)
11: {
12: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding workflow '{0}' to content type...", wf.Name));
14: targetCT.AddWorkflowAssociation(wf);
15: }
16: targetCT.Update();
17: }
Adding the document templates was another one that I thought was going to be a lot more difficult but in the end turned out pretty easy. Document templates (and custom document information panels) are stored in the resource folder which is located at "http://yourdomain/yoursitecollection/_cts/yourcontenttypename/". The SPContentType object has a ResourceFolder property which contains all the documents located here. To copy the template all I had to do was get a reference to the SPFile object returned by the ResourceFolder.Files collection and then add it to my targets ResourceFolder.Files collection:
1: private static void AddDocumentTemplate(SPContentType targetCT, SPContentType sourceCT)
2: {
3: if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(sourceCT.DocumentTemplate))
4: return;
6: // Add the document template.
7: SPFile sourceFile = null;
8: try
9: {
10: sourceFile = sourceCT.ResourceFolder.Files[sourceCT.DocumentTemplate];
11: }
12: catch (ArgumentException) {}
13: if (sourceFile != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(sourceFile.Name))
14: {
15: SPFile targetFile = targetCT.ResourceFolder.Files.Add(sourceFile.Name, sourceFile.OpenBinary(), true);
16: targetCT.DocumentTemplate = targetFile.Name;
17: targetCT.Update();
18: }
19: else
20: {
21: targetCT.DocumentTemplate = sourceCT.DocumentTemplate;
22: targetCT.Update();
23: }
24: }
Adding the document conversion settings turned out to be only marginally more difficult than adding the document template settings. When I first started researching how to do this I was expecting an object for which I could set various properties. Unfortunately (and fortunately as it turned out) I was wrong. Microsoft effectively breaks the pattern here (as well as with the document information panel) by choosing to use an XmlDocument object to store the settings. This threw me for a loop when trying to figure out how to do this but the result was that I could easily copy the settings by simply copying the XML from one object to another.
The SPContentType object has an XmlDocuments property which is a collection of documents that contain settings for certain services. There are two documents that we need here – one is named "urn:sharePointPublishingRcaProperties" and the other is named "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/transformers". The first stores the settings for any document conversions that are set up. The second contains all the converters that are excluded (doesn't really make sense to me to do it this way but whatever). So all I had to do was add these two documents to my target content type:
1: private static void AddDocumentConversionSettings(SPContentType targetCT, SPContentType sourceCT)
2: {
3: // Add document conversion settings if document converisons are enabled.
4: // ParentWeb and Site will be disposed later.
5: if (targetCT.ParentWeb.Site.WebApplication.DocumentConversionsEnabled)
6: {
7: // First, handle the xml that describes what is enabled and each setting
8: string sourceDocConversionXml = sourceCT.XmlDocuments["urn:sharePointPublishingRcaProperties"];
9: if (sourceDocConversionXml != null)
10: {
11: XmlDocument sourceDocConversionXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
12: sourceDocConversionXmlDoc.LoadXml(sourceDocConversionXml);
14: targetCT.XmlDocuments.Delete("urn:sharePointPublishingRcaProperties");
15: targetCT.XmlDocuments.Add(sourceDocConversionXmlDoc);
16: }
17: // Second, handle the xml that describes what is excluded (disabled).
18: sourceDocConversionXml =
19: sourceCT.XmlDocuments["http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/transformers"];
20: if (sourceDocConversionXml != null)
21: {
22: XmlDocument sourceDocConversionXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
23: sourceDocConversionXmlDoc.LoadXml(sourceDocConversionXml);
25: targetCT.XmlDocuments.Delete("http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/transformers");
26: targetCT.XmlDocuments.Add(sourceDocConversionXmlDoc);
27: }
28: targetCT.Update();
29: }
30: }
Setting the information rights policies was another one that took me a while – mainly because some of the core classes that Microsoft uses to do this have been obfuscated so I couldn't disassemble them. In the end the solution once again turned out pretty simple – just took me a while to get there. To copy the policies I had to create a PolicyCatalog object which I then use to return a PolicyCollection object. If the policy doesn't already exist in that collection then I export the policy from the source policy (which I got by calling the static GetPolicy() method of the Policy object).
The export method returns an XmlDocument object which I then use add to my target site collection by using the static PolicyCollection.Add() method. Once the policy exist at the site collection level then I can associate it with the content type by calling Policy.CreatePolicy and passing in my Policy object that I got from the source (the method name is a bit confusing as it's not actually creating a policy – it's just assocating a policy with your content type):
1: private static void AddInformationRightsPolicies(SPContentType targetCT, SPContentType sourceCT, bool verbose)
2: {
3: #if MOSS
4: // Set information rights policy - must be done after the new content type is added to the collection.
5: using (Policy sourcePolicy = Policy.GetPolicy(sourceCT))
6: {
7: if (sourcePolicy != null)
8: {
9: PolicyCatalog catalog = new PolicyCatalog(targetCT.ParentWeb.Site);
10: PolicyCollection policyList = catalog.PolicyList;
12: Policy tempPolicy = null;
13: try
14: {
15: tempPolicy = policyList[sourcePolicy.Id];
16: if (tempPolicy == null)
17: {
18: XmlDocument exportedSourcePolicy = sourcePolicy.Export();
19: try
20: {
21: Log(string.Format("Progress: Adding policy '{0}' to content type...", sourcePolicy.Name));
23: PolicyCollection.Add(targetCT.ParentWeb.Site, exportedSourcePolicy.OuterXml);
24: }
25: catch (Exception ex)
26: {
27: if (ex is NullReferenceException || ex is SEHException)
28: throw;
29: // Policy already exists
30: Log("ERROR: An error occured creating the information rights policy: {0}", ex.Message);
31: }
32: }
33: Log(string.Format("Progress: Associating content type with policy '{0}'...", sourcePolicy.Name));
34: // Associate the policy with the content type.
35: Policy.CreatePolicy(targetCT, sourcePolicy);
36: }
37: finally
38: {
39: if (tempPolicy != null)
40: tempPolicy.Dispose();
41: }
42: }
43: targetCT.Update();
44: }
45: #endif
46: }
The last piece I had to address was the document information panel. This was hands down the most annoying to work on. I ended up grabbing a lot of code from Reflector in order to pull this off – mainly the code necessary to construct the resultant XmlDocument object that stores all the settings as well as the code to read those settings out of the source content type. I couldn't just copy the XML directly as the values needed to be different based on the different URLs of the target and source. The XML of interest can be retrieved using the XmlDocuments property collection and passing in the name http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/customXsn.
Once you have this you simply have to manipulate the values or construct a new doc as I did (I won't show that code here as it's a bit of a mess considering it's practically a straight copy and paste from Reflector). Beyond setting the XML settings you also have to copy the template file itself. This is actually very similar to what was needed for the document template:
1: private static void AddDocumentInfoPanelToContentType(SPContentType sourceCT, SPContentType targetCT)
2: {
3: XmlDocument sourceXmlDoc = null;
4: string sourceXsnLocation;
5: bool isCached;
6: bool openByDefault;
7: string scope;
9: // We first need to get the XML which describes the custom information panel.
10: string str = sourceCT.XmlDocuments["http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/customXsn"];
11: if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))
12: {
13: sourceXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
14: sourceXmlDoc.LoadXml(str);
15: }
16: if (sourceXmlDoc != null)
17: {
18: // We found settings for a custom information panel so grab those settings for later use.
19: XmlNode node;
20: string innerText;
21: XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(sourceXmlDoc.NameTable);
22: nsmgr.AddNamespace("cust", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/customXsn");
23: sourceXsnLocation = sourceXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/cust:customXsn/cust:xsnLocation", nsmgr).InnerText;
24: node = sourceXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/cust:customXsn/cust:cached", nsmgr);
25: isCached = (node != null) && (node.InnerText == bool.TrueString);
26: innerText = sourceXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/cust:customXsn/cust:openByDefault", nsmgr).InnerText;
27: openByDefault = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(innerText) && (innerText == bool.TrueString);
28: }
29: else
30: return;
32: // This should never be null but just in case...
33: if (sourceXsnLocation == null)
34: return;
36: // Grab the source file and add it to the target resource folder.
37: SPFile sourceFile = null;
38: try
39: {
40: sourceFile = sourceCT.ResourceFolder.Files[sourceXsnLocation];
41: }
42: catch (ArgumentException)
43: {
44: }
45: if (sourceFile != null)
46: {
47: SPFile file2 = targetCT.ResourceFolder.Files.Add(targetCT.ParentWeb.Url + "/" + sourceFile.Url, sourceFile.OpenBinary(), true);
49: // Get the target and scope to use in the xsn for the custom information panel.
50: string targetXsnLocation = targetCT.ParentWeb.Url + "/" + file2.Url;
51: scope = targetCT.ParentWeb.Site.MakeFullUrl(targetCT.Scope);
53: XmlDocument targetXmlDoc = BuildCustomInformationPanelXml(targetXsnLocation, isCached, openByDefault, scope);
54: // Delete the existing doc so that we can add the new one.
55: targetCT.XmlDocuments.Delete("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/customXsn");
56: targetCT.XmlDocuments.Add(targetXmlDoc);
57: }
58: targetCT.Update();
59: }
What's interesting about many pieces of the code above is that they can easily be extracted out and used to copy other elements such as policies and site columns. I expect I'll eventually do just that as I can see the need to have these items copied across site collections (replication is something that I don't even want to think about as it introduces so many issues when dealing with content that is already consuming these elements – perhaps if the issue comes up I'll look into it). The syntax of the command can be seen below:
C:\>stsadm -help gl-copycontenttypes stsadm -o gl-copycontenttypes Copies all Content Types from one gallery to another. Parameters: -sourceurl <site collection url containing the source content types> -targeturl <site collection url where the content types will be copied to> [-sourcename <name of an individual content type to copy - if ommitted all content types are copied if they don't already exist> [-noworkflows] [-nocolumns] [-nodocconversions] [-nodocinfopanel] [-nopolicies] [-nodoctemplate]
Here's an example of how to copy all the content types from one site collection to another without copying document templates:
stsadm –o gl-copycontenttypes –sourceurl "http://intranet/operations" -targeturl "http://intranet/hr" -nodoctemplate
Update 11/26/2007: I've fixed a bug with copying site columns. I had omitted an Update() call after copying the columns (it worked for me during testing because later calls were calling Update but for certain types of content types this wasn't happening because there was nothing to do in the later calls). I also fixed null argument issue when copying content types that are not based on documents (so no document template is present). Thanks to Chris Rivera for helping me find these.


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Posted by: Audiegrl
"The Wizard of Oz," "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" will be among the 80 Best Picture nominees represented in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' new exhibition "The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936 – 1943," opening on Saturday, January 23, in the Academy's Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free.
Focusing on the eight consecutive years during which there were annually ten Best Picture nominees, the exhibition will showcase what are arguably some of the most striking movie posters ever created, including artwork for "Romeo and Juliet" (1936), "A Star Is Born" (1937), "Jezebel" (1938), "Stagecoach" (1939), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942) and "Heaven Can Wait" (1943). Key artists and illustrators whose work will be featured include Norman Rockwell, Al Hirschfeld, Jacques Kapralik, France's Boris Grinsson and Pierre Pigeot, and Italy's Ercole Brini.
The exhibition also will present the only known three-sheet posters for "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936), the special British cinema display for "Lost Horizon" (1937), and an original painting for "Gone with the Wind" (1939) by the prolific artist Sergio Gargiulo.
"The More the Merrier" is drawn from the collection of Academy member and poster art director Mike Kaplan, and augmented by materials from the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library. The posters include foreign versions from South American and Europe.
The specific number of Best Picture nominees ranged from 3 to 12 in the Awards years from 1927/28 through 1943; in 1944 the number was set at 5, as it remained until 2009. The 82nd Academy Awards®, which will be televised on Sunday, March 7, will return to the Academy's past practice of nominating 10 films for the Best Picture award.
Kaplan will lead a public gallery talk at the Academy on Sunday, January 24, at 3 p.m. No reservations are required.
"The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936 – 1943" will be on display through Sunday, April 18. The Academy's Grand Lobby Gallery is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and weekends, noon to 6 p.m. For more information call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org.


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New Yorkers All Think 30 Rock Will Impress Dates
Male or female, gay or straight, it doesn't seem to matter: Basically all of Gotham is citing 30 Rock in their online dating profiles. Because talking about television is sure to get you laid!
The NBC meta-show was the most mentioned term in male and female profiles, according to an internal survey by OKCupid. Number two? Also a TV show! Here are the rankings:
30 Rock
Arrested Development
Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Bob Dylan
born and raised
my iPhone
30 Rock
True Blood
Jay Z
obsessed with
ice cream
This is horrible, albeit about what we'd expect — or even slightly better! — from an undifferentiated clump of online sex/dinner seekers. Just remember: Night cheese is for laughing about with friends. You do not mention night cheese on a date (or it officially ceases to be a date).