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A decade ago, apes and men separated on a bridge,
to take two different paths.
The apes followed theirs to freedom, but the path men took led to disease and war.
Now in the moments before dawn, the two paths are destined to collide once again.
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A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
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Celebrated for his performance in 2011's Rise of the Apes, Andy Serkis reprises his role as Caesar, the heroic and highly intelligent ape that led his fellow apes to freedom in the last film. In Dawn, we discover that Caesar oversees a utopian kingdom of apes, having established a rich life for the simians in the years that followed their liberation. Now, a decade later, he finds himself grappling with the challenges of maintaining his benevolent leadership in the face of renewed interaction with humans.
Andy Serkis is an award-winning actor who has earned acclaim from both critics and audiences for his work in a range of memorable roles. Serkis is reprising his role of Caesar, in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the follow-up to the blockbuster film from 2011, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. His performance as Caesar received critical acclaim from both journalists and audiences around the world, earning him a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor from the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
Serkis gained legions of fans around the globe for his performance as Gollum in the Academy Award winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson. Serkis won an Empire Award for his role in addition to sharing in several Outstanding Ensemble Cast Awards, including, a Screen Actors Guild Award®. Reuniting with Jackson, he played two roles in the director's epic retelling of King Kong, taking performance capture to another level as the title character of Kong and also appearing as Lumpy, the ship's cook. Serkis reprised his role of "Gollum" in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as well as tackling 2nd Unit directing duties on the film.
For director Steven Spielberg and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Peter Jackson, Serkis brought to life the iconic character of Captain Haddock in the film adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin.
In October of 2012, Serkis announced the acquisition of two projects that will be produced by his London-based performance capture studio The Imaginarium: The Bone Season (based on a series of books by Samantha Shannon) and a re-telling of George Orwell's Animal Farm, which Serkis will direct.
Serkis also had co-starring roles in Death of a Superhero and Brighton Rock. In 2010, Serkis received critical acclaim and accolades for his portrayal of punk-rock legend Ian Dury in the film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll for director Mat Whitecross. The role earned Serkis a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. He also played 19th century grave robber William Hare, opposite Simon Pegg's William Burke, in John Landis' black comedy Burke & Hare.
On the small screen, Serkis appeared in the BBC miniseries Little Dorrit, based on Charles Dickens' classic tale, which garnered him a 2009 Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein in the BBC/HBO production of Einstein and Eddington.
Serkis previously earned Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award nominations for his performance as Ian Brady in HBO's Longford. He also garnered acclaim for the role of Bill Sikes in the PBS presentation of Oliver Twist. British television audiences also know him for a wide range of roles in telefilms, miniseries and series.
Feature film credits include Christopher Nolan's acclaimed drama The Prestige; the comedy 13 Going on 30, with Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer; and indie films The Cottage, Extraordinary Rendition and Sugarhouse. He also lent his voice to the animated feature Flushed Away. He earlier co-starred in Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People and Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. Serkis includes among his additional film credits such independent releases as Deathwatch, The Escapist, Shiner, Pandaemonium, The Jolly Boys' Last Stand, Five Seconds to Spare, Sweety Barrett, Among Giants, Mojo, Career Girls, Loop, Stella Does Tricks and The Near Room.
An accomplished stage actor, Serkis received acclaim for his work on the stages of London and across the United Kingdom. He starred as Iago in Othello, at the Royal Exchange Theatre; played the Emcee in Cabaret; and originated the role of Potts in Jez Butterworth's Mojo, at the Royal Court Theatre. His stage work also includes productions of King Lear, Hush, and Decadence. In 2003, he made his directorial debut with the play The Double Bass at London's Southwark Playhouse.
As a director, Serkis also helmed the award-winning Heavenly Sword™ for PLAYSTATION®3 and the Enslaved: Odyssey to the West for Namco Bandai Games. In addition, he wrote and directed a short film called Snake, starring his wife, Lorraine Ashbourne and Rupert Graves.
Toby Kebbell
A formidable antagonist for the humans is Koba. The milky-eyed and scar-faced bonobo, introduced in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Koba spent much of his younger life confined in laboratories, where he was subjected to experimentation in the name of science. In the decade following the apes' liberation, Koba has evolved into a grizzled warrior who harbors a strong hatred of the human race, believing that the only good human is a dead human.
Toby Kebbell was recently seen in Steven Spielberg's sweeping drama War Horse, the action thriller The East, with Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård and Wrath of the Titans, with Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.
In 2010, Kebbell starred in three very different films: Mike Newell's epic Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal; Jon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Nicolas Cage; and Robert Redford's historical drama The Conspirator, in which he portrayed President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Kebbell previously starred in Control, Anton Corbijn's 2007 biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. For his portrayal of the band's manager, Rob Gretton, Kebbell won a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Supporting Actor and earned a nomination for a London Film Critics Circle Award. The next year, Kebbell co-starred in Guy Ritchie's acclaimed crime comedy RocknRolla, with Gerard Butler, Idris Elba, Tom Wilkinson and Thandie Newton. Following his work in those films, he received nominations for a BAFTA Award and an Empire Award.
His earlier film work includes Wilderness, Woody Allen's Match Point, Oliver Stone's Alexander, and Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes, which marked his screen debut and brought him a BIFA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.
On British television, Kebbell's credits include Black Mirror, The Commander – Windows of the Soul, and the Macbeth segment of the series ShakespeaRe-Told, as well as episodes of the series The Street and Peak Practice.
Kebbell has also performed on the London stage, including the plays Enemies at the Almeida, under the direction of Michael Attenborough and the critically acclaimed Journey's End at the Playhouse Theatre, directed by David Grindley.
In Rise of the Planet of the Apes Maurice, an ex-circus orangutan, was forced to perform for the entertainment of his human captors. Now a wise elder, Maurice serves as loyal consigliere and advisor, serving Caesar and educating the youth of his ape kingdom.
Karin Konoval reprises her role of the Orangutan, Maurice, as featured in 2011's Rise of the Apes.
Since first becoming acquainted with orangutans and studying their behavior during her preparation for Rise, Karin has continued on her own to learn much more about these compelling great apes. She attended the Orangutan Species Survival Plan conference in Portland in August 2012, which proved to be an opportunity to learn from and meet some of the most committed people in the world working on behalf of orangutan conservation.
She also visits regularly with a group of five orangutans in Seattle, Washington at Woodland Park Zoo, each of whom she has discovered to be distinct in character and fascinating individuals. Towan, one of the two eldest of the group and the oldest living male orangutan in North America, is the personal inspiration for her portrayal of Maurice. Like Karin, Towan loves to paint.
Karin's film and television credits include, the Wicked Witch in the mini-series Tin Man, Mrs. Peacock in the X-Files episode Home, Emilia Rodriguez in the television movie Anything But Christmas, reoccurring guest roles on television's Continuum, Fringe and The Haunting Hourand the lead role of Mary Leonard the feature film Cable Beach, for which she received Whistler Film Festival's Phillip Borsos Award in 2004.
Garnering numerous awards for her work in theatre, Karin's stage work includes roles in contemporary classics such as August, OsageCounty, Sweeney Todd, The Threepenny Opera, Guys And Dolls and more.
Karin's writing has been published in various anthologies and literary magazines and broadcast on CBC Radio. As a painter she has had many solo exhibits of her work for a growing audience. Born in Baltimore, Karin moved to Canada with her family as a child and grew up in Edmonton where she originally trained as a dancer. After graduating from the University of Alberta, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Karin's upcoming screen credits include the recurring role of Bobbi Zimmerman on the BBC series 'Intruders', and the supporting lead role of Ana in the feature 'Step Up All In,' both premiering later this summer.
Terry Notary
Rocket is a skilled combatant and one of Caesar's closest allies.
Terry Notary (Rocket/Stunt Coordinator and Ape Movement Coach) is an actor, movement specialist, choreographer and stunt coordinator. He began his career as a gymnast. At UCLA he was a four-time NCAA All American and captain of the UCLA gymnastics team. Upon graduating with a major in theater, Terry was recruited by Cirque du Soleil. They offered him the challenge of joining 15 other hand-picked performers from around the world to form Cirque's prestigious 'Troupe Maison.' Terry performed with Cirque du Soleil's productionMystere for five years.
His experience as a world-class gymnast, stuntman and lead performer with Cirque du Soleil has given him the unique skill set to turn his knowledge of movement into characters that are seen in some of the highest grossing films in Hollywood. His credits include Rise of the Apes, Avatar, X2: X-Men United, The Hobbit movies and The Adventures of Tintin.
Judy Greer
Cornelia is a young female chimp who, in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was held at the San Bruno Primate Shelter. Ten years after Caesar's uprising against humanity, their budding relationship has blossomed. Cornelia is now Caesar's wife and queen, as well as the mother of his two children.
Judy Greer consistently captivates both critics and audiences with her engaging performances. She is one of the most prolific actresses of her time, appearing in 80 over roles across film and television to date.
Judy's book, "I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star," was recently published. This Doubleday publication includes humorous essays that chronicle Greer's life with titles such as "Celebrities I've Peed Next To" and "I'm Not America's Sweetheart, I'm America's Best Friend."
Greer stars in a new untitled comedy pilot on FX by Andrew Gurland centered on a married man (Nat Faxon) and his wife (Greer), who are best friends determined to shake things up in order to save their marriage. She is currently voicing 'Cheryl' on the fourth season of FX's animated hit series Archer, which became an instant cult classic after its television debut in 2010. She can now be seen in Arrested Development in which she reprised her role as Kitty Sanchez, George Bluth's (Jeffrey Tambor) assistant/girlfriend, in the fourth season on Netflix.
Greer was also recently seen in Alexander Payne's The Descendants opposite George Clooney. The Academy Award® nominated film centers around attorney 'Matt King' (Clooney), who learns, after his wife suffers a boating accident and winds up in a coma, that she'd been having an affair with local real estate broker 'Brian Speer' (Matthew Lillard). Greer received critical acclaim for her supporting role in the film, garnering solo nominations from both the Satellite Awards and the Denver Film Critics Society, in addition to being nominated as part of the ensemble cast for a Gotham Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics Choice Award.
Greer starred in the recently released remake of the 1976 cult-classic, Carrie, directed by Kimberly Peirce as Miss Desjardin, the gym teacher, alongside Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne More. Previously, Greer starred opposite Ed Helms, Jason Segel, and Susan Sarandon in Jeff, Who Lives at Home for directors Jay and Mark Duplass.
Greer is also currently starring in her own Yahoo! series called Reluctantly Healthy, which she started in December of 2011. Each week this webisode gives special tips and advice on how to stay healthy while on-the go, working long hours, and traveling away from home.
Greer's numerous past film credits include Robbie Fox's Playing the Field alongside Gerard Butler, Barry Blaustein's Peep World opposite Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Kate Mara and Rainn Wilson which debuted at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival; Malcolm Venville's comedy Henry's Crime opposite Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, and James Caan; Magnolia Pictures' Barry Munday opposite Patrick Wilson and Chloe Sevigny; Ed Zwick's Love & Other Drugs, opposite Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal; Love Happens, opposite Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart; Visioneers opposite Zach Galifianakis; The Go-Getter opposite Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone; 27 Dressesopposite Katherine Heigl and James Marsden; The TV Set opposite Sigourney Weaver and David Duchovny; American Dreamz opposite Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore; The Amateurs opposite Jeff Bridges; Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown; M. Night Shyamalan's The Village;13 Going on 30 opposite Jennifer Garner; writer/director Adam Goldberg's psychological drama I Love Your Work (which debuted at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival); The Hebrew Hammer; Charlie Kaufman's critically-acclaimed Adaptation; The Wedding Planner opposite Jennifer Lopez; What Women Want opposite Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt; Danny Leiner's The Great New Wonderful; What Planet Are You From?; Three Kings; Jawbreaker; In Memory of My Father; The Specials; and Kissing Fools.
No stranger to the small screen, Greer appeared in a multi-episode arc on Two and a Half Men as Bridget Schmidt', ex-wife of Ashton Kutcher's character Walden Schmidt. Greer returned to the show after a 2007 guest appearance as a completely different character.
Additional television credits include the ABC comedy Miss Guided, where she garnered rave reviews for her role as a woman who returns to her high school alma mater as a guidance counselor, and guest appearances on Modern Family; How I Met Your Mother; The Big Bang Theory; House; Two and a Half Men; E.R.; My Name is Earl; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Californication and Love Monkey.
On stage, Judy recently made her Broadway debut alongside Katie Holmes and Norbert Leo Butz in the Broadway show Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck. Judy also starred in Paul Weitz's play Show People for Second Stage opposite Ty Burrell.
Greer was born and raised in Detroit. She trained for nearly ten years in classical Russian ballet before shifting her interest to acting and gaining acceptance into The Theatre School, DePaul University's prestigious theatre conservatory program. Greer currently resides in Los Angeles.
Malcolm is a former architect who lost his wife to the virus that wiped out the vast majority of humanity. Left on his own to raise their son, Alexander, Malcolm is desperate to maintain the hope and stability he and Alexander have found within a small colony of fellow survivors in San Francisco.
Jason Clarke has emerged in the U.S. with a slate of performances in both television and film. Clarke most recently wrapped production on The Green Blade Rises, produced by Terrence Malick; and action thriller, White House Down, for director Roland Emmerich, alongside Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx and James Woods.
Clarke recently received acclaim for his performances in Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar® nominated Zero Dark Thirty. In Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan, Clarke played George Wilson, the cuckolded husband of Myrtle and the man who brings the story to its climax.
Clarke was also recently seen in John Hillcoat's period drama Lawless opposite Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pierce and Jessica Chastain. The film centers on a family of Depression-era bootleggers in the American South.
Clarke also starred in several high profile films including Michael Mann's Public Enemies opposite Johnny Depp; and Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race.
In the world of independent films, Clarke starred in The Fields, opposite Sam Worthington, which premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Jada Pinkett Smith's directorial debut, The Human Contract and David Schwimmer's Trust opposite Clive Owen and Catherine Keener; Yelling to the Sky directed by Victoria Mahoney; and Swerve for director Craig Lahiff.
In his native Australia, Clarke starred in Phillip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence, as well as Better than Sex, and Park Street. In television, Clarke worked opposite Geoffrey Rush in the series, Mercury.
Clarke first came to America's attention in the critically acclaimed dramatic Showtime series, Brotherhood, where he played Tommy Caffee, an ambitious Rhode Island politician who navigates the treacherous worlds of local politics and organized crime. He also starred in Shawn Ryan's (The Shield) acclaimed crime-drama, The Chicago Code on FOX as Veteran Chicago Police Detective Jarek Wysocki who leads the special unit fighting against the corruption.
Clarke graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and also has extensive credits in theater, as an actor as well as director.
Dreyfus, like so many, he lost family and friends to the Simian Flu. Forged by this tragedy, Dreyfus is now a leader of the human colony among the ruins of downtown San Francisco. He is intent on not only saving, but rebuilding what's left of mankind a decade after the Simian Flu decimated most of its inhabitants and infrastructure.
Gary Oldman, with over 20 years as a worldwide presence in major motion pictures, is also known to millions as Sirius Black (Harry Potter's Godfather), Commissioner Jim Gordon (Batman's crime-fighting partner), Dracula, Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, Joe Orton, Sid Vicious, and also the terrorist who hijacked Harrison Ford's Air Force One. He also starred in Luc Besson's The Professional and The Fifth Element and also as Dr. Zachary Smith in LOST IN SPACE
Highly regarded as one of foremost actors of his generation, and an internationally known, iconic figure, he has the distinction of appearing in more successful films than any other artist spanning the past twenty years, and additionally has appeared in more than one of the top ten highest grossing films in history including, not one, but both of the most successful film franchises in history!
Mr. Oldman is the recipient of the 2011 Empire Icon Award, awarded for a lifetime of outstanding achievement.
He has appeared in the following Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II; and also appeared in the Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
With the addition of master spy George Smiley in 2011, Oldman created yet another iconic character in the acclaimed film version of John Le Carre'sTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which brought Oldman his first Academy Award Nomination and also a BAFTA nomination as Best Actor.
Starring also with Denzel Washington in the hit film The Book of Eli, his acting career began in 1979 where he worked exclusively in the theatre; in 1985 through 1989 working at London's Royal Court. His early BBC films were Mike Leigh's Meantime and The Firm by the late Alan Clark. Feature films, which immediately followed were Sid and Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, directed by Stephen Frears, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead directed by Tom Stoppard, State of Grace, JFK directed by Oliver Stone, Bram Stoker's Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Romeo is Bleeding, True Romance directed by Tony Scott, The Professional directed by Luc Besson, Murder in the First, Immortal Beloved, and The Scarlet Letter directed by Roland Joffe.
In 1995 and manager/producing partner Douglas Urbanski formed a production company, which produced Mr. Oldman's directorial debut, the highly acclaimed Nil by Mouth. The film won nine of seventeen major awards for which it was nominated. The film was selected to open the main competition for the 1997 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, for which Kathy Burke won Best Actress. The same year Oldman won the prestigious Channel Four Director's Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival in addition to winning the British Academy Award (shared with Douglas Urbanski) for Best Film and also the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay, written by Gary Oldman.
In 2000, Mr. Oldman, and Douglas Urbanski produced the original film The Contender, which also starred Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater and Sam Elliott; the film received several Academy Award Nominations.
During the past twenty years Mr. Oldman has appeared in a staggering thirteen films that have opened in the number one box office position; the films in which he has appeared have a cumulative gross in the billions and billions of dollars, remarkably, making him, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the highest grossing film actor in the history of motion pictures.
Ellie is a nurse who assisted the Center for Disease Control in their failed efforts to contain the viral outbreak. Ellie has attained some measure of security amidst her fellow survivors in San Francisco, including Malcolm, with whom she has a burgeoning relationship.
Keri Russell stars in the original FX series The Americans, a drama that centers on Russian sleeper cells operating within the United States in the 1980s.
In 2013, Russell also stars in two motion pictures: Dark Skies, a science fiction – horror thriller and the romantic comedy Austenland, directed by Joshua Hess, about a woman obsessed with the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice who travels to a Jane Austen-theme park in search of her perfect gentleman. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
The Award-winning actress previously entranced audiences with her portrayal of the eponymous character Felicity, making the show a break out phenomenon. On the show, Felicity Porter's rash decision to follow her high school crush to New York becomes a path to self-discovery – and her dilemmas spoke to viewers everywhere. For her efforts, Russell won a Golden Globe Award in 1999.
Simultaneously, Russell added to her motion picture credits, with roles in Eight Days a Week, The Curve, Mad About Mambo and the Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers.
After Felicity concluded, Russell moved to New York City where she made her Off-Broadway stage debut in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig with Jeremy Piven and Andrew McCarthy.
Her on-screen charm and vulnerability led to many memorable motion picture portraits, as Russell appeared in The Upside of Anger with Kevin Costner and Joan Allen, Mission: Impossible III with Tom Cruise, Waitress, The Girl in the Park, August Rush, Bedtime Stories, Leaves of Grass, Extraordinary Measures and Goats.
Her additional television credits include the mini-series Into the West, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and the Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation The Magic of Ordinary Days and the television series Running Wild opposite Will Arnett.
Alexander is the teenage son of Jason Clarke's character, Malcolm. Alexander's mother has passed away – one of countless victims of the Simian Flu – and Alexander is having a difficult time adjusting to life among the few human survivors. But his secret bond with one of the apes helps facilitate a fragile peace between the two species…but can it last?
Kodi Smit-McPhee's work on Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes reunites him with director Matt Reeves with whom he previously worked with on the film Let Me In opposite Chloe Grace Moretz and Richard Jenkins, for which he received a 2010 Critics Choice Nomination.
Kodi recently finished filming The Young Ones starring opposite Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning and Michael Shannon. In 2012, Kodi starred in the independent film, The Wilderness Of James. He also was the lead in A Birder's Guide To Everything, opposite Ben Kingsley, which premiered at the 2013 TriBeca Film Festival.
Kodi played 'Benvolio' in Romeo & Juliet opposite Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Ed Westwick, and Paul Giamatti. In addition, he appears in The Congress opposite Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti and Harvey Keitel.
Kodi starred in Paranorman, in which he lends his voice as the lead role of 'Norman'. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature for the 2013 Academy Awards and also received a 2013 BAFTA Awards nomination for Best Animated Film. The cast also includes Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Casey Affleck, Leslie Mann, and Jeff Garlin.
Kodi previously starred in The Road opposite Viggo Mortenson, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, for which he received a 2009 Broadcast Critics Nomination for Best Young Actor and a 2010 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Nomination for Best International Actor; Romulus, My Father with Eric Bana and Franka Potente, garnered him the 2007 AFI Award for Best Young Actor as well as a Best Actor Nomination; the Australian film Matching Jack for which he received a 2010 AFI Nomination for Best Supporting Actor and also Dead Europe which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Well as many of you know I was brutalized by a police officer the other day. It's been nearly a day and half since it happened.
Today I was actually able to get out and help with a neighborhood clean up sponsored by Opala in Paradise where we cleared three truckloads of garbage out of Hawaiian Acres. I wasn't able to be as effective as others as I'm still sore as hell but it was good to get out and walk around as my body has been feeling pretty tight and stiff since the incident.
Drove by two cop cars on the way there and my heart rate instantly went up as I drove by them… That's never happened to me before!
I was about to do some laundry when I came across the clothes I was wearing that fateful night and I've decided not to wash it or wear it again as it may be a part of the evidence. Here is the front of the shirt.
This is one of my Twitter shirts that clearly identifies who I am when I cover some things like this. The [IRL] stands for "In Real Life" (as opposed to online).
Both shoulders are marked where I was rubbed into the ground right inside the gate to the Luquins parking lot and my stomach appears to have gotten a bit dirty.
Here is the back of my shirt:
The back of the shirt shows the blood in the middle of my back and the lower back area as well as the dirt from the ground on the shoulder.
Here are the shorts I was wearing:
Nice tear above the pocket… I assume that this was done in the process of throwing me to the ground.
Dr. Gary has asked me to follow up with a doctor the Hilo Medical Center has recommended on Monday when they open. I'm still sore as heck and I'm just glad I have some pain medicine to get me through this recovery.
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Doctors who treated a strange case of Zika say sweat and tears may be able to transmit the virus, NBC News reports.
A team at the University of Utah School of Medicine said their case, of a man who infected his adult son with Zika before he died, leaves no other alternatives than those two routes, according to their study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The 73-year-old patient died in July, and he hadn't been very sick before he caught the virus and developed muscle aches, diarrhea and other symptoms. He became the first person in an American state to die of Zika.
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Investigators spent weeks trying to figure out how his 38-year-old son, who hadn't traveled to a place where Zika spreads, got infected, eventually determining that "infectious levels of virus may have been present in sweat or tears," which the son touched without gloves during his father's illness.


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California drought: communities at risk of running dry
Kurtis Alexander | San Francisco Chronicle
Updated 10:43 pm, Wednesday, January 29, 2014
It is a bleak roadmap of the deepening crisis brought on by one of California's worst droughts - a list of 17 communities and water districts that within 100 days could run dry of the state's most precious commodity.
The threatened towns and districts, identified this week by state health officials, are mostly small and in rural areas. They get their water in a variety of ways, from reservoirs to wells to rivers. But, in all cases, a largely rainless winter has left their supplies near empty.
In the Bay Area, Cloverdale and Healdsburg in Sonoma County are among those at risk of running out of water, according to the state. The small Lompico Water District in the Santa Cruz Mountains is also on the list. Others could be added if the dry weather lingers.
"These systems all are experiencing challenges meeting customer need, and those challenges are exacerbated by drought conditions," said Matt Conens, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health.
The health department is looking to help the communities in several ways, Conens said. In some areas, new wells will be dug. In others, water may be hauled in. In some cases, smaller water systems will be connected with larger ones.
Drought emergency
The state's offer to provide assistance follows Gov. Jerry Brown's declaration of a drought emergency this month, which gives state agencies expanded powers and the flexibility to intervene.
In the mountain town of Lompico in Santa Cruz County, the creek that provides the community with water has run dry, while three wells that tap an underground aquifer aren't drawing as much as usual.
The water district has required its 1,200 or so customers to scale back water use by 30 percent to preserve what little water it has, but officials aren't sure the conservation targets are realistic.
"Here's the problem: We live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. People don't have lawns. They don't have gardens. How are they going to conserve 30 percent?" said Lois Henry, president of the Lompico Water District board.
The district has begun exploring opportunities to expand its supplies, perhaps upgrading wells or working with a neighboring water district. But the options are costly and could take time - quandaries that Henry expects to discuss with the state.
In Healdsburg, where the low-flowing Russian River threatens to undermine city wells, the mayor spoke with state officials this week about tapping additional wells in the nearby Dry Creek Valley, according to the city manager's office.
The city has the right to use the Dry Creek wells, but only for part of the year - and not until spring.
City Manager Marjie Pettus said lining up the additional water is a precautionary measure. Despite Healdsburg's listing on the state's most-vulnerable roster, she said, the city is not at risk of running dry.
"We do not anticipate having any difficulty meeting demand," she said.
Healdsburg was one of the first cities in the North Bay to enact mandatory conservation measures, imposing rules on homes and businesses last week. People can water landscaping only on certain days, while washing cars and filling swimming pools are prohibited.
Willits, in Mendocino County, is also on the state's list - and it, too, has declared a water shortage and passed mandatory conservation measures. City leaders said the move is a bid to keep the two reservoirs that provide city water from running dry in the spring should the drought persist.
'Preparing for worst'
"While we are hoping for the best, we want to be proactive in preparing for the worst," said City Manager Adrienne Moore.
A weather system rolling through the Bay Area this week is bringing some needed rain, but not enough of it. Until Wednesday, most of the state had seen little or no rainfall this month, setting up California for a third consecutive dry rainy season.
The Bay Area has seen less than 10 percent of the rainfall it ordinarily sees by this point in the season, and forecasters say rain would have to fall every day through May - and heavily - to bring conditions back to normal.
In addition to the Bay Area districts, the systems and communities in danger run from Kern County to the south through the Sierra Nevada foothills to the north. The districts at risk serve from 39 to 11,000 residents.
Communities at risk
State public health officials have identified 17 towns and water districts that could run out of water within 100 days if nothing is done to enhance their supplies:
Shaver Lake Heights Mutual Water Company (Fresno County)
Sierra Cedars Community Services District (Fresno County)
Bass Lake Water Company (Madera County)
Whispering Pines Apartments (Mariposa County)
Boulder Canyon Water Association (Kern County)
Cypress Canyon Water System (Kern County)
Lake Of The Woods Mutual Water Company (Kern County)
Camp Condor (Kern County)
Jackson Valley Irrigation District (Amador County)
City of Willits (Mendocino County)
Redwood Valley Community Water District (Mendocino County)
Brooktrail Township Community Services District (Mendocino County)
Washington Ridge Conservation Camp (Nevada County)
Ophir Gardens (Placer County)
Lompico Water District (Santa Cruz County)
City of Cloverdale (Sonoma County)
City of Healdsburg (Sonoma County)
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DOHA, Qatar - Anticipating an onslaught of criticism from poor nations, the United States claimed "enormous" strides in reducing greenhouse emissions at the opening of U.N. climate talks Monday, despite failing to join other industrialized nations in committing to binding cuts.
The pre-emptive U.S. approach underscores one of the major showdowns expected at the two-week conference as China pushes developed countries to take an even greater role in tackling global warming.
Speaking for a coalition of developed nations known as the G77, China's delegate, Su Wei, said rich nations should become party to an extended Kyoto Protocol - an emissions deal for some industrialized countries, which the Americans long ago rejected - or at least make "comparable mitigation commitments."
The United States rejected Kyoto because it didn't impose any binding commitments on major developing countries such as India and China, which is now the world's No. 1 carbon emitter.
American delegate Jonathan Pershing offered no new sweeteners to the poor countries, only reiterating what the United States has done to tackle global warming: investing heavily in clean energy, doubling fuel efficiency standards and reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants. Pershing also said the United States would not increase its earlier commitment of cutting emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. It is half way to that target.
"I would suggest those who don't follow what the U.S. is doing may not be informed of the scale and extent of the effort, but it's enormous," Pershing said.
"It doesn't mean enough is being done. It's clear the global community, and that includes us, has to do more if we are going to succeed at avoiding the damages projected in a warming world," Pershing added. "It is not to say we haven't acted. We have and we have acted with enormous urgency and singular purpose."
The battles between rich and poor nations often have undermined talks in the past decade and stymied efforts to reach a deal to keep global temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees F, compared to preindustrial times. Efforts taken in the absence of a deal to rein in emissions, reduce deforestation and promote clean technology are not getting the job done. A recent projection by the World Bank showed temperatures are expected to increase by up to 7.2 degrees F by 2100.
Countries are hoping to build on the momentum of last year's talks in Durban, South Africa, where nearly 200 nations agreed to restart stalled negotiations with a 2015 deadline to adopt a new treaty and extend Kyoto between five and eight years. The problem is only the European Union and a handful of other nations - which together account for less than 15 percent of global emissions - are willing to commit to it.


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This is a move that makes complete sense.
Not all police precincts are located in high-traffic areas, and many are located on side streets and can be hard to locate. Likewise, many police precincts are in fairly nondescript buildings with little to no signage outside. Often, the only tell-tale signifier of a police precinct is the fleet of cop cars parked on the street.
There have been many times that we have been driving or walking in a neighborhood we thought we were familiar with, only to be surprised to come upon a police precinct that we have passed several times, but never noticed.
Simply posting signs to help people find police precincts seems like a low-cost measure to help insure public safety.
As we travel around Queens and Brooklyn, we have noticed a lot of antiquated signage, including old signs that mark hurricane evacuation routes to others that point the way to a Lutheran church, neither of which we're sure are still up to date or current.
As DOT updates signs across the city, part of the process should include installing markers that point the way to the nearest police precinct.
The elected officials called on DOT to place a higher priority on high-crime areas, but there is no reason that precinct signs shouldn't be installed across the five boroughs, regardless of the crime rates.
The intent of new signs would be to help victims of crime or people in distress find their way to a police precinct if there is one nearby, but these signs could also have an unintended consequence. A gentle reminder to someone about to commit a petty crime that there is a police precinct just blocks away could actually deter crime.
Obviously, a criminal intent on committing murder or some other violent felony isn't going to be persuaded not to because of a sign advertising a nearby precinct, but a vandal about to spray paint a tag on a garage door or damage a block of cars might be dissuaded.
DOT would be wise to implement this small, but worthwhile, suggestion.


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On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine released its third annual report summarizing 2011 sales and distribution data of antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals.
The Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA), as amended in 2008, requires antimicrobial drug sponsors to annually report the amount of antimicrobial active ingredient in the drugs they sold or distributed for use in food-producing animals. ADUFA also requires that FDA provide public summaries of these sales and distribution data. The collected data helps FDA evaluate antimicrobial resistance trends and other issues relating to the safety and effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals.
FDA cautions that several variables make it difficult to compare antimicrobial sales and distribution data in food-producing animals with such data collected for antimicrobials intended for human use. These variables include the number of humans vs. that of food-producing animals during the data period, differences in physical characteristics (such as weight) between humans and the various species of animals, molecular weights and dosages of the different antimicrobials, as well as other differences in the conditions of use of the antimicrobials.
In July 2012, FDA solicited comments from the public on a number of issues regarding the collection of antimicrobial drug sales and distribution data, including how FDA can most effectively compile and present its annual summary report. FDA believes it would be helpful to have more information on how medically important antimicrobial drugs are currently used in food-producing animals in order to enhance ongoing efforts to monitor antimicrobial resistance. These efforts are important to support the agency's current strategy to protect public health and promote the judicious use of medically important antibiotics in food-producing animals.
FDA extended the comment period to Nov. 26, 2012, and the agency is now reviewing the comments. In particular, FDA is considering these comments as part of an ongoing effort to enhance the content and format of its annual summary report. FDA intends to implement the updated format when it summarizes the data reported for 2012, and also plans to re-analyze and update prior year reports to conform to the new format.
For more information, access the following reports:
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One of Auden's poems talks about a 'nightmare of the dark'. Its an important image for the poet contemplating the locust years of the thirties, during which all the dogs of Europe barked, but its just as important as a summary of what modernity has done to humanity. We have looked into the soul and found the monsters of Babylon contained within it. Dreams have turned from a language of God into a language of the spirit. From describing the events of the future, dreams turned, in the hands of Freud and Jung, into signifiers of what it was to be human. That psychology may be old but it still holds a sway over the popular imagination. Dreams are important- and they have been important to cinema. Christopher Nolan's Inception is one of a long line of films to deal with what dreams are, what goes on in our sleep when we dream. His film is novel in the sense that it deals with an individual, Cobb, who seeks to change our dreams. In this sense Cobb is a post-Freudian figure: dreams are no longer the reserves of the id, though the ego cannot understand them, they are accessible for others and others, like Cobb, may interfere with them. Cobb's industry is the removal of ideas from dreams, but Inception is about a more profound object: the placing a dream inside someone else's head.
Cobb is given this task by an Asian businessman (why he receives it is unimportant though it is disclosed) and proceeds to recruit a team. The key members of which are his ally and friend, Arthur, a student of his father-in-law's called Ariadne, the forger Eames, a chemist called Yusuf and Saito, the businessman who has to be there to see the deed done. They must implant an idea into the head of a young tycoon- Robert Fischer- and persuade him to break up his father's business. Again the purpose of the plot is a McGuffin: it does not matter. Fischer's sub conscious tries to stop them from this Inception. Cobb's memory of his ex-wife Mal will also try and stop them from implanting the idea inside Fischer's memory. The team are thus faced with two principle and interesting conflicts: the first is between themselves and the sub conscious of the character whose mind they interact with, the second is between Cobb and his own sub-conscious regrets over his ex-wife's death. Both are powerful agents in the storyline that develops.
It is important though to grasp the novelty of what Nolan is doing here. For whilst in films most dreams are passive, things that happen to you, in Nolan's world dreams are things which you create. This is most visible when Cobb educates Ariadne in how to construct a dream world. She excitedly begins to flip cities over, so that the squares of Paris fold onto each other. She creates mirror walls. But it is not only the conscious mind, the hand of the artist who creates a dream, it is also the subconscious a dreamer. As Ariadne fiddles inside Cobb's dream, his subconscious begins to stare at her, the characters in his dream look at her, brush against her and finally push back against her. Dreams are creations. Memories are also creations. Cobb's memory of his wife does not relate to a 'reality' but to the reality inside his head which he has created. To be trite the film reminds us that what is inside our heads is created by us. We create our thoughts- we decide to have those thoughts based on our beliefs about the world. Cobb and Ariadne create that dream because they believe in it: in Ariadne's world she creates a world inside Cobb's dream, in Cobb's dream he creates a resistance to her and he finally creates the memories which inhibit him.
Creation is central to inception but then so is time. The point about human dreams is that they like humans themselves are bounded by time. We are creatures of the clock. Ariadne's dream landscape can only hold for so long before the individual's self conscious begins to realise what has happened. More importantly, Cobb's character reveals that we create the space inside our heads but that we always have to struggle to reality. Cobb's relationship with Mal ended at some point in the past. His memory attempts to keep that relationship alive. Cobb strives to hold her in his arms again. But he never can. Never is a word that recurs with Cobb- his attempt in the film is to evade an inevitability through his use of the powers he has in the dream world. The whole film in that sense resembles Cobb's memory of Mal: it is an attempt to make memory reality. If we are endlessly creative, the film reminds us of the boundaries of our creation: one of the most formidable of which is time itself.
Creation and constraint: these are two constants in human experience. They are constants, as Nolan shows, inside the head as well as outside. The constants of time, death and sorrow are ever present. This is perhaps Nolan's darkest film to date. Creation can be the creation of a world but it is also the creation of a truth. When in a dream the characters believe that they are in reality. Only a 'kick'- the feeling that you often have in dreams of falling backwards- or the fact that a talisman weighs a particular way or spins a particular way in the real world can identify that this world is this world: that this world is uncreated. Creation thus can be the creation of a thing that looks a lot like truth. The audience definitely feels this: we fail to comprehend the distinction throughout inception between events taking place in dreams and events taking place in reality. At one point, Arthur kisses Ariadne to distract Fischer's sub-conscious: have they kissed or has one of them or both of them dreamt it? What does it mean to kiss in a dream or to kill in a dream? What is agency when the agent is unconscious or subconscious? These questions are not idle because they probe at our definitions of reality. If reality cannot be created, then nothing that happens in the film is real save for the slumbering, but if so then nothing happens and 'something' does happen. If reality incorporates the world of dreams then it incorporates a world in which the dead walk and smile and dance, a world in which human beings play God.
I do not want to go further and spoil the film. One last point though must be mentioned. This is that Nolan is quite clearly playing into a line of argument which sees advertising and the media as in some senses mind control. One reviewer ended his review by asking whether Nolan had seen Fox- but actually the point of the film is that he has seen Fox and the rest of the TV channels and movies that we've all seen. The mind is a social place in Nolan's imagination: it is a place that others shape as much as we shape it. This point is crucial to an appreciation of his film. The film is an allegory and not a falsehood- we don't enter dreams and manipulate them but we do continuously manipulate each other's imaginations. We plant images within those imaginations, pictures, and even ideas. What Nolan's film is about is the place of those ideas in our created worlds, created within constraints formed by time and death, but created none the less.
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Reg Kermonde, chief executive and chairman of Cabcharge, made his views of the two-strike system clear, as the company received its second strike against its executive remuneration report at today's annual meeting.
More than 38 per cent of shares vote against adoption of the report, triggering a vote to spill the board.
But shareholders overwhemingly voted against the spill, with more than 86 per cent voting down the resolution.
"That's not democracy,'' Mr Kermode said of the two strike system. ''And it's not in the interest of any companies in this country.
''Shareholder democracy is always about the majority, and not the loudest voice. That is the problem with the strike system, all it measures is [the] minority.''
A board spill has to be called if more than 25 per cent of shareholders vote against the remuneration report two years in a row.
A representative from the Australian Shareholders' Associtiation, Allan Goldin, voted against executive remuneration but was not in favour of a board spill.
''We worry about the affect [the legislation] has on the company and the reputations of the directors. It is not something that is taken lightly,'' he said.
Mr Kermonde also addressed concern over recent Reserve Bank criticism of its 10 per cent surcharge on taxi fares paid by card.
''Suggestions that our industry could survive on 5 per cent because of some as-yet unaccepted draft report to the Victorian government on the Victorian taxi industry are not realistic and are likely to be met with significant resistance,'' he said.
Research compiled by Deutsche Bank pointed to a possible bright side for Cabcharge if it were to be forced to reduce its surcharge.
''A 5 per cent cap would affect smaller competitors disproportionately. We believe that this will see some players forced out of the industry and the consolidation of market share among the larger players.''
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The last time around, Gary Bettman pledged that NHL "cost certainty" in the guise of a percentage-of-the-gross hard cap would, in no particular order, make ticket prices more affordable, increase franchise values across the board, and give small-market clubs every opportunity to become profitable.
Seven years later, the CBA won from the ashes of the canceled 2004-05 season has accomplished none of these objectives. And yet the commissioner, the Board of Governors and the NHL are doubling down on their own flawed concept with a collective bargaining strategy amounting to little more than reaching as deep as possible into the players' pockets.
A system in which the payroll of revenue-poor clubs is linked to the amount of revenue generated by the league's powerhouse franchises is fatally flawed — incoherent and doomed to fail no matter how low the league wants the players to go.
And yet here we are again, the league right out of the gate having proposed the players take 22 percent less (a much smaller percentage of a much smaller pot) without any sort of plan or inclination to funnel additional dollars to the small market franchises that cannot economically keep pace with the big boys.
This is a plan designed to produce another windfall for big-market ownerships in the guise of competitive balance, this time without a pledge from the league office that such an agreement would equate to lower ticket prices.
If this is simply a case of owners being owners in a society in which the wealthiest are increasingly empowered by the day, then beginning today in New York when the sides convene for the first of three consecutive days of meetings, it is up to Donald Fehr and the NHLPA to immediately recast the negotiating landscape of givebacks the league established with its initial proposal Friday in Toronto.
If it is not already too late, that is.
By the way, I fully recognize that NHL players are not minimum-wage laborers, but for anyone to equate Jeremy Jacobs with Zdeno Chara or Ed Snider with Claude Giroux or Jim Dolan with Ryan Callahan is a sign of willful ignorance meant to obscure the issue.
There is no question a soft cap/payroll tax system in which tax dollars would be funneled to low-revenue clubs would have the best chance of achieving the objectives to which the NHL only pays lip service. Yet the league and commissioner will not even consider it, married as they are to this percentage-of-the-gross system that is meaningless beyond its value as a campaign slogan.
This is what Fehr faces in his first and only confrontation with Bettman and the Board, yet he must have known this is what he was signing up for when he took on the assignment to lead the NHLPA out of the rubble that followed its 2004-05 cave-in.
The league's first proposal, a Declaration of Economic War against its putative partners, is not a serious document. It not only fails to address the disparity of wealth among its franchises, it guarantees to exacerbate that imbalance. The rich will grow exponentially richer. The poor will not grow at all.
Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
A union counter off the initial proposal is folly. Talking the league's talk will only lead the NHLPA on a walk to nowhere and would be an admission of weakness, with only the ultimate terms of surrender remaining to negotiate to avoid cancellation of another season.
Beginning today, Fehr's play isn't as much to the NHL as it is to his union's rank-and-file as the NHLPA somehow attempts to establish a credible foothold of strength where little is evident and good faith is every bit as much an opponent as the people across the table.


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As a Hebrew school teacher for many years, I've seen how these extra lessons can both challenge and enrich students and their families. Here are five suggestions to getting the most out of your Sunday or Hebrew school this year.
1. Commit to attending.
One of the greatest challenges for extracurricular religious schools is making sure they're not "extra" at all, but a crucial part of students' overall education.
It's a struggle to find time in our busy schedules. The soccer tournaments scheduled during Sunday school, the nights of heavy homework that make it hard for kids to leave the house for weekday afternoon Hebrew classes. But kids understand very quickly what our priorities are. When we put off Jewish classes for convenience, we're telling our kids that Jewish education is less important other activities.
Conversely, by resolving to put Jewish classes first – above sports, social engagements, even above extra homework and projects for regular school – we send a message that Jewish learning is important: that it's central to who we are and what we stand for.
As Hillel taught in Ethics of the Fathers, "Do not say, 'When I am free I will study,' for perhaps you will not become free" (Pirkei Avot 2:5).
2. Demand excellence.
The other day a mom told me about her middle-school-aged son's activities. He's a serious musician, taking instrument lessons each week and performing in a youth band. In his competitive public school, he elected to study Mandarin and can already carry on basic conversations. Last summer, he even participated in a program for extremely bright children at a nearby research university, where he studied advanced chemistry and physics.
"And what about Hebrew school," I asked? "How's he doing there?"
"Oh fine," his mom replied, "last year he learned to say the short prayer before reading the Torah in Hebrew."
Parents expect great strides each year in "regular" school, but they are somehow content with a much lower level of achievement when it comes to Jewish studies. This double standard conveys something to our kids about how little we value their Jewish studies.
This year, consider making an appointment with your child's religious studies teachers to discuss what will be learned in the classroom. Make sure you communicate to your kids that you expect them to master certain skills. And follow through: if you find your child isn't thriving academically in Sunday school, take the same steps you would if they were failing to thrive in "regular" school. Consider hiring a tutor, talk to their teacher about work they can do at home, find someone knowledgeable to review difficult subjects with them.
In addition to helping your child, finding them extra help also sends the message that you value Jewish subjects, and want them to do well in them.
3. Make Jewish learning a family activity.
Author Wendy Mogul describes the "dry-cleaning" version of Jewish education: just like we take our clothing in to be cleaned – with little or no input from us – some of us drop off our kids once a week or more to be spiritually enriched – with no work required from home.
Kids can see right through this "outsourced" model of Jewish education." If something's not important enough to engage the whole family, why – kids question – should they value it?
Jewish learning is a central part of family life. Teachers can help us transmit knowledge, but the ultimate responsibility to teach our kids rests with us.
The Torah instructs us to pass its wisdom along to our children: "And these words shall be, which I command you this day, upon thy heart, and you shall teach them diligently to thy children" (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). For many of us, though, this seems a tall order. How can we pass along wisdom that many of us never acquired in the first place?
The famous sage Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi) anticipated this problem. Commenting on this verse, Rashi explained it means that we as parents need to prepare, so that when our children ask us questions, we are ready to answer them.
This might mean taking Jewish or Hebrew classes of our own, reading books, or just talking through issues that our kids are studying along with them. Opening a dialogue with our kids about Jewish subjects shows them they're not alone, that we value what they're learning: that growing together Jewishly is an important family goal.
4. Come up with Jewish goals for the family this year.
Sunday school doesn't have to be your family's only forum for imparting Jewish knowledge. This year, come up with concrete goals for your family. Whether it's reading a Jewish book and discussing it together, finding out the meaning behind a Jewish ritual you do, or improving your Hebrew, try brainstorming things you can learn together.
In addition to giving you something to share with your kids, exploring Jewish concepts as a family shows them you value their Jewish learning, and encourages them to stick with Jewish education.
5. Integrate your kids' curriculum into your family's life.
Finally, if there's one wish I could make for my students, it would be for families to integrate the topics they're learning about into their weekly routines.
The most motivated, excited students I teach are invariably the ones whose families use the tzedaka boxes they made in Hebrew school to set aside money for charity, who light candles in the home-made menorahs and Shabbat candlesticks their kids bring home, who talk about the ideas and concepts their kids are learning about in class.
View Hebrew school as a journey. Show your kids it's a trip you're committed to making along-side them as they learn more and grow.


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Aug 2, 2010
PIANY hails new law increasing auto surcharge threshold
GLENMONT, N.Y.–PIANY praised Gov. David Paterson for signing a law this weekend that will provide relief to New York states drivers from oppressive surcharges assessed by insurance companies when damages are incurred to a vehicle in an accident.
PIANY has long advocated for the improvement, and making it a top priority this session to pass S.1700-B/A.1952-B, which increases the property damage threshold for which carriers may assess a surcharge from $1,000 to $2,000. With strong grassroots support by insurance agents throughout New York state, the bill passed overwhelmingly in the Senate and Assembly earlier this summer and the governor signed the law Saturday, July 31, 2010.
"PIA applauds Gov. Paterson and the bills sponsors, Senate Insurance Committee Chair Neil Breslin, D-46, and Assembly Insurance Committee Chair Joseph D. Morelle, D-132, for their support of policyholders in New York, who have endured excessive and unreasonable expenses after minor automobile accidents far too long," said PIANY President Kevin M. Ryan, CIC, CPIA. "The threshold, which has not been raised in nearly 20 years, has saddled drivers with surcharges on almost every car accident, even minor fender-benders, since they are almost always likely to cost more than $1,000 to repair damages."
PIA has long urged lawmakers to bring the surcharge in line with current prices, arguing that inflation alone justified raising the figure, which last saw an increase from $600 to $1,000 in 1991. The new law is a direct result of a coordinated, grassroots campaign by insurance agents throughout the state, who stood up for their clients to change the unfair and outdated threshold.
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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I have a bunch of bookmarks in my laptop, I know I can copy ~/.gtk-bookmarks to my desktop
But i have to re-entry all the passwords for ftp, ssh, etc...
Is there a way i could restore the bookmarks along with theirs respective passwords.
My username/id is the same in both computers and both keyrings are unlocked on login.
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Among Stephen Sondheim fans, it's already being called "the other 'Follies.'" When Gary Griffin and Chicago Shakespeare Theater began making plans for a major Chicago revival of the 1971 musical (book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Sondheim) about a bittersweet reunion of former showgirls, they'd no idea that director Eric Schaeffer's Kennedy Center revival would attract megawatt talent like Bernadette Peters and Elaine Paige, let alone move to Broadway and catch fire.
"Follies," a massive undertaking for Chicago Shakespeare, was designed to be a marquee attraction for the company's 25th anniversary season. "We started a year and a half ago in our planning," Griffin said over breakfast recently. "We had no idea there would be this massive Broadway revival happening."
Then again, that's not entirely a bad thing for Griffin's production, which started previews this week and opens officially Wednesday. Not only is Sondheim himself seemingly everywhere this fall (he and I will have a Chicago Humanities Festival conversation Nov. 6), but the Broadway "Follies" has ignited a great deal of interest in every last nuance of this piece.
That's not surprising. Even among Sondheim musicals, this particular title is special, given its signature Sondheim numbers and the potent themes of sadness, nostalgia and regret. "Follies" has never been a show for the young. At this point, with Sondheim's status as a legendary figure now etched in a kind of concrete that had not yet set in 1971, many of the show's most fervent fans are living some version of the reality of the characters. Interest in "Follies" has never been more acute.
And the director of the piece is, after all, Griffin, a director of national note whose production of "Pacific Overtures" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater was a signature event for Sondheim lovers everywhere.
So what's he going to do with this baby?
For one, he will be working on a thrust stage, rather than the proscenium arch of the Marquis Theatre on Broadway.
"This is a party happening inside a theater," Griffin said. "We want to take the audience inside it. That's something you can do in our theater." That's true, and it would give the production a different emphasis than Schaeffer's take, where the reality of the party very much plays second fiddle to the sepia-toned memories.
Griffin also said that he plans to take the dance out on the thrust stage. He has a record of doing that; Griffin's Stratford production of "West Side Story" was notable for the way the original Jerome Robbins choreography played in the Festival Theatre, where it moved closer to the audience. And with the exception of "West Side Story," there's no Sondheim show where dance is more important than "Follies."
Chicago Shakespeare will not have the full-size orchestra that played so beautifully at the Marquis; there will 12 players on Navy Pier. But Griffin notes that a follies-type orchestra would, in actuality, have been closer to a dozen than the 25 or so players you find on Broadway. The Chicago Shakespeare production will use fresh orchestrations and the instruments will all be acoustic.
And then there is the cast, which includes such longtime Chicago stars as Susan Moniz as Sally and Hollis Resnik as Carlotta. This is not all a Chicago-based cast; Caroline O'Connor plays Phyllis, a crucial, tough-to-cast role, and Brent Barrett is the just-as-crucial Benjamin.
The casting of Moniz was especially interesting to some — about five minutes ago, it feels, she was playing ingenues at the Marriott Theatre. But that, of course, is the whole point of "Follies." These changes creep up on you. The extent to which Moniz and Resnik confront the demons of time passing will likely go a long way to defining how successful this production will be.
For sure, they have some tough Broadway acts to beat.
But then we all deal with this stuff in our own ways. "It was quite a moving thing watching actors come in and audition for these roles," Griffin said. "People were like, 'Oh, I'm not at the point where I get called in for that. And in rehearsals, it's been interesting to watch the different ways in which people negotiate that."
Ah yes, the that. At the end of the night, you can stage it one way or another, play it on a dozen instruments or power up twice that number. "Follies" is about our inability to stop the debilitating passage of time.
"People have always told me to be careful of doing 'Follies,'" Griffin said, looking tired. "They say your life will fall apart."
Follies runs through Nov. 6 by Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier; $44-$75 at 312-595-5600 and chicagoshakes.com
Among Stephen Sondheim fans, it's already being called "the other 'Follies.'" When Gary Griffin and Chicago Shakespeare Theater began making plans for a major Chicago revival of the 1971 musical (book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Sondheim) about a bittersweet reunion of former showgirls, they'd no idea that director Eric Schaeffer's Kennedy Center revival would attract megawatt talent like Bernadette Peters and Elaine Paige, let alone move to Broadway and catch fire.


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Court News ...2012-01-26-01
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
Re: Revisions to the Self-Represented Litigant Simple Divorce Packet
Administrative Order
Pursuant to the provisions of South Carolina Constitution Article V § 4, IT IS ORDERED that revisions to SCCA 400.10 SRL-DIV – Final Order of Divorce (01/2012) are approved. Previous versions of this form are obsolete.
s/Jean Hoefer Toal
Jean Hoefer Toal
Chief Justice
January 26, 2012
Columbia, South Carolina


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Tel.:+34 956517771
A cultural crossover: from mosque to cathedral.
It is built over the ruins of the Main Mosque. The project was developed in the 17th century and it was built in the 18th. It was finally rebuilt between 1948 and 1961.
Inside, 18th-century statues and canvasses are mixed in with the work of renowned contemporary artists such as Castillo Lastrucci and Minarro. Special mention should be made of the 15th-century Virgen Capitana, of Portuguese origin. It has a neo-Classical doorway in black marble. The choir stalls are located in the front section of the nave. The Baroque altarpiece in the Santísimo chapel is also a very beautiful and highly important work.
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I have written a php web-app for my client which has no troubles accessing the database --
I have also written several database apps with vb using data from servers that I have put together myself. BUT I can't seem to figure out the connection string (or whatever else is missing) to connect to the same database that I can access easily with php.
Below is the vb code that I am trying to connect with, followed by the php I use to access the same server. I've also provided a copy of the server info to confirm the sql version and driver compatibility)
It errors with: "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified." on the line con1.open cst
Could someone point me in the right direction?
The error message seems to me its saying two different things. ..But which one is causing the issue? I've specified a default driver (it may be incorrect, but it's specified ) And I'm not sure what else I would use for a data source name. Could it be having an issue with the fact that the server is routed through port 805? Is it possible there are missing drivers/software on the server that I would need to get installed? Should I be using a different method to connect from vb? Maybe it doesn't like the blank password? ... But it's complaining about the default driver and data source name... Sounds to me like its having connection issues :s
Thanks in advance for any input.
Dim con1 As New ADODB.Connection
cst = "Driver={mySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver};Data Source=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;Port=805; Database=db_name;User=dbusr01; Password=;"
con1.open cst
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$DBUSER="dbusr01"; // database user
$DBPASS=""; // database password
$DBNAME="db_name"; // database name
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* Server version: 5.1.33-community
* Protocol version: 10
* User: root@localhost
* MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
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Launch Center Pro Delivers a Jolt of Speed in iOS 7
Oct 21, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Launch Center Pro by Contrast Apps is an iOS 7 app available in the App Store for $4.99. Like most gadget geeks, I get obsessed with the speed of things, the fast and snappy feel of a Mac, an OS, an app. After an upgrade to a new iPhone or Mac, my brain inevitably catches up to the speed boost and it feels as if I'm once again waiting for things to happen, waiting for apps to launch, for transitional graphic swooshes to do their thing.
There's only so much you can do to the hardware and OS, but there are plenty of actions -- things you do again and again in certain ways -- that you can improve and make faster. You've just got to look -- maybe break a navigational habit on your iPhone, for instance, where you really ought to add a contact to your favorites so you can call quicker, but you don't so you tap through Contacts or search.
This is a habit problem more than a tech problem, but fortunately there's a tech solution: Launch Center Pro is a catalyst that helps you think through the things you do often and makes it easy for you to find ways to do them faster.
Not Just an App Launcher
When I first saw Launch Center Pro with its "rocket" icon, I assumed it was just another way to launch apps from a grid of buttons, which seemed silly because the whole structure of iOS is about easily launching apps from a grid of buttons. Surely there had to be more to it? There is. A lot more.
For starters, while you can use Launch Center Pro to launch apps, it's more about launching actions within apps. What if you want to send a text message to a friend? If you're like me, you open up Messages then scroll up and down your recent messages list until you find the past conversations with your friend, then you tap it, see what you sent or received last time, then start texting in your next message. If the friend isn't in the list, I tap the little write new message button, then start typing a name, then select the right name, then start typing the message.
In the big scheme of things, this doesn't really take that long -- except that it's a series of steps to do just one thing with one contact. Imagine if you have a friend, spouse, kid, or mom that you contact in multiple ways. Suddenly you can great Launch Center Pro actions for a single person, say Message Mom, Call Mom @Work, Call Mom iPhone, Email Mom.
Instead of navigating around apps and contacts and favorites and typing in numbers and partial names, you can instantly engage with key people in the ways you want in the moment. And it's fast. Boom, boom, boom. Pleasantly snappy.
Create Groups
Of course, if you created a few ways to contact your key people, you would quickly run out of room in Launch Center Pro and re-clutter up your iPhone in a new way. But Launch Center Pro lets you add Groups, which is a lot like creating a folder that you can drill down into. If you wanted, you could create a Family Group, for instance, and when you tap and hold the Family Group icon, see a new grid of 15 possible actions. Call Dad next to Message Mom next to Tease Brother.
You get the idea: Smart groupings are possible.
More Than People
Say, for example, that you frequently order out -- pizza, sweet-and-sour pork, sandwiches, or Burritos-to-Go. Whatever. With Launch Center Pro, you can create a group for something like Order Out -- or even just Food. In the group, you could create a series of action buttons with phone numbers to your favorite restaurants. Or a Safari browser link to a Web-based menu. Or an app that lets you order or make reservations from within the app itself. Or launch a grocery list app.
Now imagine these concepts applied to social media, to work, to a group of apps you use to catch up on news, to research, to wind down.
Powerful stuff.
How Launch Center Pro Works
To create an action, you simple choose to edit the launcher interface. Tap a box in your grid, and you get a screen that lets you create the name (anything you can type, pretty much) as well as a URL, which you'll ignore until you get really smart.
Next, you tap on Action Composer, and this brings up a set of System Actions, Installed Apps, All Supported Apps, and Featured Apps. Systems Actions relate to the iOS 7 of the iPhone itself -- calling people, messaging, brightness, clipboard actions, etc. Installed Apps are apps you have on your iPhone that are compatible with Launch Center Pro. All Supported Apps and Featured Apps are apps available in the App Store that play nice with Launch Center Pro. I'm assuming that Featured Apps are either more likely to benefit from the "actions" concept behind Launch Center Pro or they have better hooks into the apps that let you launch more specific actions that are normally buried inside the app's own controls.
Not all Apple iOS apps work with Launch Center Pro right now. For instance, I wanted to create a preset timer action using the iPhone's built-in Clock app. I couldn't figure out how to do it. Near as I can tell, I would have to get a timer app from the App Store and use that. Why is this? I'm not sure. It could be a restriction created by Apple or the apps in question might not work with Launch Center Pro because of how they were created. I'm sure a developer could tell you if you care enough to find out.
Meanwhile, the support site for Launch Center Pro explains: "Launch Center Pro relies on a technology called URL schemes to launch apps and actions. Unfortunately, not every app in the App Store has implemented a URL scheme, and others only support actions, but not launching specific actions. And even the apps that do have a URL scheme don't always support all the cool actions that might be possible."
What does this mean? If you understand URL schemes and how they work with apps, you can actually create new and more complicated actions. Most people won't spend the time to the learn these, but having the option (and knowing it's there) is fantastic. For example, with the tap of an action, you could use the last photo you took from the Camera app, post it to your Dropbox account, collect the public link to it, and launch Tweetbot, presumably so you could tweet the new photo out to the world. All with the tap of a single action.
Like I said, powerful stuff.
Opening Up Your Mind
There's more, though. You can use photos for contacts and choose from a large library of icons to customize your actions and groups. Plus, you can schedule certain events. And if you create a new cool action, you can share it with others. Nice.
Once you get a feel for how much Launch Center Pro can do, prepare to be disappointed by what it can't yet do -- this isn't Launch Center Pro's fault, but it's a function of opening up your mind to how you can engage with your iPhone and apps.
For instance, I wish I could create a music action that links to certain playlists in the built-in music app, as well as a set of iTunes radio channels -- but I can't do that yet. I'm stuck navigating Apple's clunky music app the way Apple intended. Maybe Apple will sometime allow the music app to work with URL schemes; in the meantime, I can replicate the music-loving idea by using other apps and websites.
All in all, I haven't yet moved Launch Center Pro down to my dock, but it's close. I'm a creature of habit, and while I forge new ones with Launch Center Pro, I'm sure it'll find its way to the dock soon.


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They're big! Yes, yes —we know Universal Studios and Capcom are teaming up to recreate Monster Hunter this August in the Osaka theme park. Here are some more details.
According to Capcom, the collaboration will produce 1:1 scale versions of monsters like the Rathalos Rare Species, the Silver Rathalos. It will be over 20 meters long!
More monsters, such as Jinouga, Doboruberuku, and Tigrex Subspecies are expected as well.
In game locations, such as the Spa House, will also add to the Mon Hun atmosphere.
Life Size Beasts from Monster Hunter Being Built in Japan [Capcom]