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Sebastian Loe
Sebastian was born in London and trained at the Royal Ballet School. He joined Northern Ballet in 2004 and retired from the Company after the run of The Nutcracker in early 2016.
Learn more about Sebastian
Favourite roles
Fritz & Chinese doll, The Nutcracker; 'Girl Crazy', I Got Rhythm; Michael, Peter Pan; Pierre, La Traviata; Renfield, Dracula;
Career highlights
Getting a place at the Royal Ballet Upper School.
Where were you born and raised?
Where did you do your dance training?
Royal Ballet School
When did you join Northern Ballet?
What made you want to be a dancer?
I always had a natural urge to move to music.
Who are your artistic influence or heroes?
Michael Jackson
Describe your perfect Sunday morning
Stepping out of bed on to a sandy beach into tropical waters would be nice.
What would your luxury item on a desert Island be?
A surf board.
What are your favourite places in Yorkshire?
The Reliance Restaurant. Roundhay Park on a sunny day.

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Chop the top on my 1947 Ford Pickup
Well, i am a little nervous since this is going to be the first time i have ever done this. I kind of wanted to keep the top the way it is, but everyone i show it to says i should chop the top. So, what i have done so far is; i measured off of the frame up to where i felt the rear window of the cab could be moved down without allot of changes. I then took a level and walked around the truck with the level and drew a line where i am going to make the cuts. I too measured down 4" inches since i am taking that much out of the cab. My lines are now all the way around the cab and doors. Here are the pics of my layout and i will be cutting the cab off with a sawzall.
I know before i make the cuts that i need to reinforce the cab, so i will be using heavy rebar and weld it to the inside of the cab.
Wish me luck.......oh, and i added a picture of the rims i am planning on running.
Just remember that on some chop's.. You have to cut the roof into 1/4's.. Because the roof get's narrower and shorter..as you move it down..
There is ways to get around the strip down the center and side to side..
The first one I did was on a 48 Chevy truck.. I used two cabs.. That way I didn't end up with a 2'' strip down the center and side to side.. I hope you under stand what I'm trying to say.. If you don't use two cabs.. You sometimes will have that strip down the center and side to side.. Good luck.. And this is where you will learn.. Don't be in a hurry, and it will all work out..
I gotcha bro......after looking at tons of pictures, i planned on using a strip of metal down the center of the cab and door tops. Hopefully if i use one of those tools that can flange the metal, it won't look to bad across the top. Thanks a bunch for the heads up, i will see how it starts to look and if it gets to bad, i will find another cab.
Well the top is off. I checked and double checked my measurements, i removed all of the windshield molding and the glass. I welded in my rebar in a bunch of different directions for strength and removed the top. Here are the pic's with the top off of the truck.
I have to admit it was pretty scary making that first cut. After making the first cut and i relooked at what i was doing, i am pretty excited. I am going to be sure to take my time and make sure all of the metal lines up nicely, i hope anyways.......
Looking good so far.. Don't look back now.. The reason I used two cabs is.. I had a extra one sitting here.. I cut one side long on one 1/4 piece.. Then on the other cab I cut the other 1/4 piece long.. and so on.. The way I laid it out.. I only had One weld down the center and side to side.. Worked out great like that.. By sometimes we don't have two cabs to cut up.. But your doing a great job.. My first cut wasn't to scary..I knew I could fix what I would mess up.. Now I will cut them and smile..Or Should I say Smile then cut...
There is another method. It is called a "toupee".
You chop it in 1/4s, then after the four quarters are reattached... and you have filled the gaps about 6" above the windows... you cut the entire center out of the roof, right where it starts to flatten out on top.
At that point you use the top roof panel from a donor truck, or something with a very similar shape... cut it to match the dimensions of the hole, then weld that in.
The point of all of this is the have your bodywork around the edges only... and not have to struggle,trying to get the patched up area on top straight and smooth again.
I have never done this but Im watching this post close. This is a chore I would like to do on a future project.
Thanks for posting
4" chop top complete
Awesome guys, thanks a bunch for the info and yea, no going back now. I just finished cutting the full 4" inches around the top of the cab. I temporarily placed the top back on the body so i can get an idea of which and where i need to go from here. Check it out:
Look's great !!! The only thing I would have done different is.. I would have move the back glass up... It's a little to far down for me..I would have put it a little more center of the back of the cab.. It's a little to close to the body line... But that's me... You have to like it.. But then again I ''never'' leave the full back glass when I do a chop.. It isn't as bad as some may think... (To chop a truck)... But every chop is different..
Very cool, nothing to make you feel better than pulling something like that off. I found it cool that you are all the way over in Cheyenne, and you are doing the exact same thing my brother and his son are doing at the exact same time over here in California.
Here are a few of his project photos.
Here is my brothers email to me today,
OK here are some pix of how the truck is coming, we just chopped it 4" and we already channeled it 6" and stepped the frame 6", 2" dropped axle and the tires will be 600 and 700 16's.. We need to C the frame above the rear axle another 6" .. I say WE but he has done 99% the work with my guidance..
The block in the frame is just for mock up, he already has his 401 Buick Nailhead built and ready to bolt in.
When I did the top on my 51 F1 I laid the windshield back a bit and like the way it made the truck look. Check out the pictures on webshots search mphracing
I did not 1/4 the roof at all. I also TIG welded everything so I could control the heat and warping better.
I didn't want to stretch the doors etc and didn't have a doner cab for the tops of the doors and door openings in the cab.
What I am going to do on my 48 Chevy is lengthen the roof AND lean the posts back. In other words lengthen the roof about half as much as needed, then lean the posts back the remainder needed. On most chops such as the "AD" Chevy if you lengthen the roof the windshield looks like you leaned if FORWARD. The reason for this is the distance from the top of the glass forward meeting an imaginary vertical line from the bottom of the glass becomes shorter than when the top was stock! Soooooo, it effectively makes the windshield look more vertical than when stock!
If all you do is slant the window back then the windshield looks just that, like it is slanted back and doesn't match the factory lines.
Lengthening the top half way and racking the posts back the other half gives it lines more like the factory would have if they were to have put the top lower to begin with.
Very Cool. Thanks for sharing.
I have no idea what your trying to say.. And I thought you chopped that truck when you was 15yrs old.. Brian you sure swing a big bat.. We would sure like to see some pictures of the things you did.. I know I would...
Is there something wrong with that?
Listen, if you can't understand what I said I will draw a picture for you. It's sort of a art thing, not all people can grasp concepts like this so I will draw you a picture.
Well buddy !!! I have done ''almost'' anything that can and can't be done to a car are a truck,, I'm not one of your little school kids here.. So I don't need any picture of what your ''trying'' to say.. What you said just didn't make any sense to me.. Maybe your talking Japanese or something.. And as far as seeing some pictures.. I have been on here for sometime now,, And all I every seen was one picture of you ''I guess'' at the age of 15. I would just love to see ''SOMETHING'' you did..
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It used to be that when you shopped for a motherboard you would find several of the same boards that would produce a wide variety of results. Performance would vary greatly between motherboard brands using the same chipset. You could wait for the reviews to come out and see that brand X was a 10% better performer than brand Z. That performance gap has seemed to close over the last couple of years. You still see some variance, but for the most part, boards are within what you could call a margin of error. Technology has also advanced to the point that what we have is faster than what we need. I mean, how fast does the average user need their computer to be? Does it matter whether Word opens in one second or two seconds? Me thinks not. The average user never notices the difference in normal day to day use.
I say all of that to say this: if there is not a major difference in the performance of the boards, then something else has to set it apart. These days users will look at price (probably most important for the average Joe), bundle (including games), overclocking (for the enthusiast) and now, power consumption. A couple of years ago, power consumption was not a big deal. Now, with real concern for our planet, and the fact that politics is involved, power consumption is a big deal, and I think rightfully so (although, maybe not to the extent that some take it).
Enter ASUS and Gigabyte. With the intensity and demeanor of a couple of two year olds, these two companies have recently taken their temper tantrums public over the way that power is handled on their boards. Gigabyte called out ASUS and said lied to consumers and claimed that their board was more energy efficient.
I will say from the get-go that I do not claim to understand all there is to know about how power consumption and power saving work, but I do know what my power meter reads as I put these boards to the test. So, with all that said, we set out to take two boards through the ringer to see how their boards actually worked, and whose power handling worked the best. Unless you just want to look at the Gigabyte marketing slide showing that they win across the board in power consumption tests:
So, get a cup of Joe, sit back, and take the next few minutes to look over what we found.
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It stands to reason that Mugstar should finally create a film that they themselves can soundtrack. At first glance the Liverpool five-piece display all the typical credentials of any third-eye batting collective borne out of a fug-filled rehearsal space; their back catalogue is littered with CD-Rs, split releases and cassettes that seem to have been flung out as collateral from a never-ending psychedelic loop. Yet actually digging into their music has always provided more than bare bones motorik jams, the band's work always coming across far more considered and panoramic than that.
You sense that they've had Ad Marginem whirring around in their heads for a while. Tracks like 'Memorial' and 'Inquisition' are ponderous, methodical constructions of sound, the former loosely reminiscent of Slint in the way its two guitars circle each warily, both bleak and pronounced against a sparse aural landscape. 'Inquisition' is even more stripped back, little more than a heartbeat amidst the cusp of the wind. The soundtrack is littered with these interlinking interludes, the five-piece only really opening up to full velocity with the tribal opening of 'Rite I' and, more satisfyingly, the final third of 'Island – Red' which emerges most righteously from three minutes of shimmering drones to provide the soundtrack's only real acid-scorched wig out.
When coupled with the accompanying film - which comes included on DVD in the limited 500 copy physical run - the music finds itself set against a backdrop of black and white Liverpool, a time blur that doesn't entirely leave the present, though its characters seem echoes of a shadowy past. The soundtrack's dark opulence fits perfectly to these images; it's too glib to say that Mugstar are striving to create this separate world in reaction to the generalised cartoon legacy that their city has, but you do get the sense that there is a broader attempt to hollow out the grimly fantastical from the restraint of the surroundings that they have at hand. The brooding swells at the beginning of 'Island – Red', the aptly stalking guitars that march through 'Death Hunter'; these elements add to a sense of foreboding and provide an emotional charge that aids the film in transcending the everyday that it never fully escapes being bound to.
Shorn of the film though, and viewed simply as an album, some of that is lost. Taken purely at musical value, Ad Marginem sometimes feels so controlled that instead of the claustrophobia clearly intended, you find yourself willing for an explosion of guttural squall, a quickening of that tribal percussion, something to break out and fully rip free of the band's self-imposed shackles. The album clocks in at 35 minutes, relatively short but a length of time that's still hard to maintain tension throughout. For the most they do succeed in this, but the very pay-off at the end of 'Rite II', a final full assault that sees sonic components lose all composure and writhe furiously with each other in the dirt of the song's foundations, is such a glorious contrast because by that point a jolt to the system really is required. Such is the paradox of reviewing a piece of work meant for a companion piece, though, and ultimately what Mugstar have done here is successfully take the next logical step that their music's path has presented to them.
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New College Librarian has moved
After over 150 posts the New College Librarian blog has moved to a new home this month. It becomes part of the University of Edinburgh Library & Collections family of blogs at http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/newcollegelibrarian/. Please follow us there!
What's New in the Library Week 2013 #whatsnew2013
'What's New in the Library 2013 is a brand new event to promote the developing collections in the University of Edinburgh Library, led by the Library Consultants in IS User Services Division.
You can expect a week of events highlighting new additions and new developments in the Library collections, running this week from Monday 21 October to Friday 25 October.
As Open Access Week and the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) Open Day are happening in the same week, staff in Library & University Collections will also be showcasing the wide range of Library collections activity.
The 'What's New' Blog at http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/whatsnew2013 will feature a constantly changing stream of posts about what's new in different subject areas throughout the three Colleges. You'll also find the programme of events day by day, and an opportunity for library users to give their feedback and win prizes.
King James Bible on display at New College Library, Edinburgh
Currently on display in the entrance to New College Library is a first edition (1611) of the the Authorised version or King James' version of the Bible. In this edition, some copies are identified as "He" Bibles and some as "She" Bibles because a typographical discrepancy in Ruth 3:15 rendered a pronoun "He" instead of "She" in that verse in some printings. These huge folio Bibles were designed to be read aloud in the pulpit, and a copy was originally chained to every church pulpit in England.
Fire and Brimstone
Five years in to the Funk Cataloguing Projects here at New College Library, early Pamphlets are continuing to be catalogued. We're still finding unique items which are being sent for digital photography over at the University of Edinburgh Main Library. Great blog post on these by Susan Petigrew in the Digital Imaging Unit – see http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/diu/2013/09/25/fire-and-brimstone/
New books at New College Library – October
New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks.
New in this month are a number of new volumes in the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea scrolls project : The Dead Sea scrolls : Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts with English translations at sEY 51 CHA. These volumes were purchased with additional funding from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Also new is Crown of Aleppo : the mystery of the oldest Hebrew Bible codex, by Hawal Tayim, at BS715.5.A43 Taw..
This title was purchased for Biblical Studies at the School of Divinity, Edinburgh University.
You can see an regularly updated list of new books for New College Library on the Library Catalogue – choose the New Books Search and limit your search to New College Library. Here's a quick link to new books arriving in the last few weeks. A word of caution – some of the books listed here may still be in transit between the Main Library (where they are catalogued) and New College Library, so not on the shelf just yet.
Looking at the Acta Sanctorum – Life of St Cuthbert
We welcomed University of Edinburgh MSc Medieval History students today for a tour of New College Library and the chance to see one of the texts they were studying, the Life of St Cuthbert, in New College Library's first edition of the Acta Sanctorum, which was on display in the Funk Reading Room. Published in the seventeenth century, the Acta Sanctorum, which contains the first printed edition of this work, is a huge Latin work in sixty-eight volumes examines the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day in the calendar year. This image shows the large folio volume, still in its original leather binding with metal clasps, open at the Life of St Cuthbert. The Acta Sanctorum is also available online to University of Edinburgh users.
New College Library's Torah Scroll
New College Library's Torah Scroll (Pentateuch) was on display to visitors today in the Funk Reading Room.
Scrolls such as these are an integral part of Jewish communal life, being read in their entirety in a yearly cycle. The portions of the masoretic texts are divided into weekly portions and their reading in communal worship is followed by a set reading from the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible.
This scroll is no longer suitable for ritual use, as it is no longer bound onto its original etzim (rollers) or clothed in its original protective and decorative garments. Some letters are damaged, indicating its non-kosher status. Conservation work was undertaken in 2008 to ensure that the scroll was preserved in an appropriate state for study and teaching, and it received new rollers and new box. The funds for this work were raised by the New College Library Book Sale.
The provenance of the scroll is not known, but it may have come to the Library at the same time as other objects from Jewish religious practice in the New College Library objects collection. These include a phylatctory or tefillin, a small, black leather cube-shaped case made to contain Torah texts.


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Rails Test Prescriptions is a comprehensive guide to testing Rails applications, covering Test-Driven Development from both a theoretical perspective (why to test) and from a practical perspective (how to test effectively). It covers the core Rails testing tools and procedures for Rails 2 and Rails 3, and introduces popular add-ons, including RSpec, Shoulda, Cucumber, Factory Girl, and Rcov.
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It is from that plan that our business has grown into more than I ever imagined. We have developed into a dedicated team with diverse skills around the field of website design and development. We are fortunate to work with clients all around the country and a few internationally. We are on a solid path of growth for a long time to come. In fact, we are planning other branch offices right now. If that makes your heart flutter with ideas you might get in touch.
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Last month when I was in Queens ,I bought some sweet potato .Now I wonder what to do with it before it's rot.At first I wanted to make some sesame ball but after steamed the sweet potato ,I decided to make plain sweet potato ball for convenience reason.(read here: suddenly L.A.Z.Y mode on the way!! hahaha!!)This dessert is easy and simple to make as long you have the 3 main ingredients :sweet potato,glutinous flour and sugar.Honestly, this sweet potato dessert is not bad at all pairing with hot coffee as snack or afternoon tea.
300 gm steamed yellow or white sweet potato ( or any of your favorite:purple or orange) peeled and cut before steamed
250 gm glutinous flour,plus extra for dusting
200 gm sugar,plus extra if you prefer sweeter
1 cup canola oil for frying
1:Peeled and cut sweet potato before steam at high heat.I steamed in steamer for 30 minutes at high heat.If you don't have steamer or wok or want a easy way then you can use microwave to steam at high heat until soft.I didn't know long long coz I never use microwave for steaming potato or yam..
2:Then mashed steamed sweet potato while it's still warm until mushy.Add in glutinous flour and sugar,knead together until well blended.
3:Then divided the dough in ball shape about 50 gm each.Heat oil in fryer or deep stock pot at medium high heat about 320 F.Place the balls on the hot oil,fry until golden brown.


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In its short public life so far, Webmachine has already been used to build a range of Web applications, including a sales productivity tool, an SMS gateway, an HTTP caching intermediary, a content management system, the front end to a decentralized key/value data store, and more. It has been used as a central element in Erlang training courses, enabling students to write working, Web-friendly applications after only a day or two of exposure to the language. Some of its users have been delivering customer-facing Webmachine applications for nearly a year and a half now.
However, the 1.0 release isn't just an acknowledgment of that stability. It also introduces two major changes that are very beneficial to developers. One of these is a new debugging tool that is unlike anything we've seen elsewhere, allowing you to visualize in great detail how your Web resources process requests. Bryan Fink did most of the work on the debugging and tracing tool, and is the best person to explain how it works.
The other major change is to the developer API for resources, helping to make your resource functions to be referentially transparent. In case that phrase is new to you, it really means something quite simple. Resource functions no longer interact with a Req object that manipulates the response via side effects and stored state. Instead, the behavior is defined purely in terms of its input parameters and return value. For any given input a given function ought to return the same output and the side effects will be insignificant from the point of view of Webmachine's execution. This might not sound like a huge deal, but the difference it makes in terms of testability and re-use is huge.
Unit testability is vastly improved because the functions are fully isolated. You can write test inputs for your (e.g.)
is_authorized function (and verify that it only returns
true in the cases you want it to) without having those tests have to interact with anything else in the application. There's no need for anything resembling a "mock object" or other such silliness; when the inputs and outputs are simple records as opposed to gen_servers with side effects, you can just construct whole records for your test inputs, and inspect the output records for checking test results.
Referential transparency also enables much more in the way of static analysis. One item on the roadmap for a future version of Webmachine is a type analysis tool that can verify at compile time that the type signatures of your resource functions can only lead to valid HTTP behavior.
It's also worth noting that the backward incompatibility is well-contained and easy to get past. Our production application was switched entirely to the new API by one person in a day, and Bryan also converted all of BeerRiot in under two hours. A handy guide to upgrading shows just how simple it is.
As of the 1.0 release we're also moving Webmachine from Google Code to Bitbucket. The main reason for this is that we vastly prefer Mercurial to Subversion, but a number of other features on Bitbucket have also turned out to be nice. We're leaving the old version up on Google Code for a while, so that people with running applications can access both the old and new versions.


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The County of Hawai`i has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to hire six additional police officers, Mayor Billy Kenoi announced today.
The COPS grant application process is highly competitive, and the County of Hawai`i was awarded $1,392,336 to cover salaries and benefits for six officers for three years. A total of $243 million was awarded to communities across the nation, according to an announcement by the Department of Justice.
"The six additional positions for the County of Hawai`i will be used to add officers and increase patrols in the Puna District and other rural districts where the populations have been growing, and where the demand for police services has grown," Mayor Kenoi said. "This will help to protect the public, and make our communities safer. We want to thank the Department of Justice, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye and our entire Congressional delegation for this assistance."
Hawai`i County Police Chief Harry Kubojiri said the funding will be used to hire, train and field the officers, who will be deployed to rural areas that have shown the largest increases in calls for service.
"Especially in these difficult economic times, this grant represents an important boost for public safety," Chief Kubojiri said. "We have asked our officers to do more with less, and they have responded. We have seen an overall decline in reported crimes in the county over the last decade, but there are some areas including Puna that have seen an increase in calls for service. There is much more to be done, and the entire community will benefit from these additional police officers."
The last increase in the number of police officers in the county was in 2004, when 10 officers were added in Kona, and five were added in Puna, Kubojiri said. The police department now has 432 authorized sworn officer positions, including eight vacant positions.
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) today announced more than $243 million in grants awarded nationwide to 238 law enforcement agencies and municipalities for the hiring of new officers and deputies.
The awards were made through the COPS Hiring Program, a competitive grant program that provides funding directly to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to hire police officers dedicated to addressing specific crime and disorder challenges confronting communities. The grants provide 100 percent funding for the entry-level salaries and benefits of newly-hired, or rehired, full-time officer positions over a three-year period.
For the 2011 COPS Hiring Program, 2,712 applications were received requesting more than $2 billion and 8,999 positions. Funding decisions were based on an agency's commitment to community policing, crime rates, changes in law enforcement budgets, and other local fiscal data (poverty, unemployment, foreclosure rates, etc.).
"Cities across the country are dealing with numerous challenges and we are pleased to be able to assist their public safety efforts," said COPS Director Bernard Melekian. "Creating and maintaining jobs is a key part of this program. This funding helps support local departments in their efforts to increase their ranks, enhance their relationship with the community and directly address their public safety concerns."
The 2011 COPS Hiring Program awards will create or help preserve 1,021 sworn law enforcement positions. The jobs created, preserved or refilled with COPS Hiring Program funds will advance community policing at the local level and contribute greatly to the quality of life of the citizens in each community.
The COPS Office is a federal agency responsible for advancing community policing nationwide. Since 1995, COPS has awarded over $13 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of approximately 120,000 officers and to provide a variety of knowledge resource products including publications, training, technical assistance, conferences, and webcasts.
For additional information about the COPS Hiring Program, and to view a list of municipalities that received grants, visit the COPS website at www.cops.usdoj.gov.
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The mediator said the two sides had agreed to extend the existing contract by 30 days, to Jan. 28, to give them time to try to reach an agreement on the remaining issues, including what the companies say are antiquated work rules. Late Friday, the two sides issued a new announcement, saying they had agreed to extend the contract an additional week, to Feb. 6, creating a new potential strike deadline.
The partial agreement means that the union, the International Longshoremen's Association, will not carry out its threat to have 14,500 dockworkers go on strike this Sunday at 14 ports along the East and Gulf Coasts.
In a statement on Friday, George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, said the two sides had reached an agreement in principle on a particularly contentious issue, known as container royalty payments.
The shipping companies share those payments with union members for each ton of cargo handled.
The union had for months denounced the companies' proposal to freeze those payments for current longshoremen and eliminate them for future employees. No details about the agreement were disclosed.
"What I can report is that the agreement on this important subject represents a major positive step toward achieving an overall collective bargaining agreement," Mr. Cohen said. "While some significant issues remain, I am cautiously optimistic that they can be resolved in the 30-day extension period."
After the talks broke off on Dec. 18, Mr. Cohen persuaded the two sides to return this week for a last-minute round of bargaining. They have been negotiating on and off since March.
The United States Maritime Alliance, a group of shipping companies and terminal owners, said it paid $211 million in container royalties to the dockworkers last year, averaging $15,500 for each eligible union member.
James A. Capo, the alliance's chairman, said the royalty payments amounted to $10 an hour on top of what he said were already generous wages. "This issue seems to have dwarfed anything else," Mr. Capo said in an interview this week.
But in the days before the strike deadline, Harold J. Daggett, the union's president, said, "We have repeatedly asked them to leave this item alone."
The maritime alliance, known as USMX, said the longshoremen earned $124,000 a year on average in wages and benefits, including the royalty payments. Union officials said those figures were exaggerated and put average annual wages at $75,000 before benefits, for what they described as dangerous jobs moving heavy cargo. Under the current contract, most longshoremen earn $32 an hour.
The container payments were created in the 1960s to compensate the longshoremen because many were losing their jobs as seaports embraced automation and the use of standardized, 40-foot-long containers to ship goods.
Largely as a result of those trends, the number of longshoremen employed in the Port of New York and New Jersey, the busiest East Coast port, has dropped to 3,500 from 35,000 in the 1960s.
The shipping companies view the royalty payments as a relic of decades past, intended for longshoremen who worked in the 1960s and 1970s. But the union still sees the payments as a core part of wages and as an important way to share productivity gains with members. The payments come to $4.85 a ton, the union said.
As the strike deadline approached, Mr. Daggett said, "USMX seems intent on gutting a provision of our master contract that I.L.A. members fought and sacrificed for years to achieve."
Representatives of the maritime alliance and shipping companies declined to discuss the agreement on the royalty payments or other aspects of the talks, saying that Mr. Cohen had urged the two sides not to talk to the news media.
Matthew Shay, president of the National Retail Federation, applauded the announcement but said a contract extension did not provide the level of certainty that retailers and other industries were looking for to ensure that their goods would continue to pass through the ports. "We welcome today's news that a contract extension has been reached," he said in a statement. "However, we continue to urge both parties to remain at the negotiating table until a long-term contract agreement is finalized."
Mr. Shay's federation and more than 100 other business groups wrote to President Obama last week, urging him to invoke his emergency powers under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to prevent a strike. Labor experts said Mr. Obama would have been caught between fears that a strike would damage the already-fragile economy and worries that blocking it would anger allies in the labor movement.
In addition to reaching a master contract for the 14 ports, the two sides need to negotiate individual agreements for the ports, many of which involve work rules that the shipping companies are eager to change, calling them inefficient and costly.
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In response to the rise in school bullying and violence,
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Gai-lan or Chinese Broccoli is a very common vegetable consume daily by many Chinese or Asian..This vegetable is available in any Asian market in NYC.It's flavor is very similar to a regular broccoli, but slightly bit bitter.The best way to cook this vegetable is stir-fry or steamed.For me, I like to add plenty of fried garlic and fried shallot on the top and oyster sauce and Chinese wine as the gravy..This vegetable dish is easy and simple to cook yet healthy and delicious!!
1 lb fresh gai-lan(Chinese broccoli) peeled off the stems at the bottom
2-3 tbsp oil
2 tbsp oyster sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp Chinese wine
3 scallion ,peeled and sliced thin
1 bulb garlic,peeled and sliced
5-6 tbsp oil
1:Prepare a large pot or wok of water at high heat.Drop few drop of oil in the water.When water rolling boil,place gai-lan in the water for 10-15 minutes.(if you want the vegetable to stay crisp and crunchy ,steam in shorter time)
2:Meantime,heat skillet with oil at medium heat.Add in sliced garlic and scallion into the skillet.Fry until golden brown or fragrant,remove and set aside.
3:Remove gai-lan from water,arrange in a plate.Use the same skillet ,add in some oil at medium heat,add in oyster sauce and soy sauce.When the sauce is bubbly boil,remove from heat and slowly pour onto the steamed gai-lan.Sprinkle fried scallion ,garlic and cut red chili pepper on the top.Serve immediately.


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TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Israel's Iron Dome counter-rocket system has been a critical factor in blocking a massive missile onslaught from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Many Israelis see it as a "wonder weapon." But as an official at state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which produces Iron Dome, observed, that could be a problem "because there aren't enough of these things.
"People see Iron Dome as a savior. We've warned that the danger is that people feel so secure with Iron Dome they don't take security precautions when they hear sirens. They film the rockets on their mobile phones."
Since fighting began last Wednesday, Palestinian extremists have fired more than 1,000 rockets. Iron Dome has shot down around 300. That's around 80 percent of those it engaged; the system only responds to missiles heading for populated areas or vital targets.
There are no comparisons because Iron Dome is one of a kind, developed at a cost of $1 billion. Much of the funding came from the United States.
Four days ago, the most sophisticated version of the weapon built by Haifa's Rafael was thrust into combat two months ahead of schedule to protect Tel Aviv, Israel's largest city, from Iranian-built Fajr-5 missiles and swiftly proved its rocket-wrecking power.
That's a major success for Rafael and other Israeli defense companies, such as Elta, which developed the detection and tracking radar, and mPrest, the battle management interception guidance unit.
For the Israelis, the Hamas rocket attacks on Tel Aviv and apparent attempts to hit Israeli targets in the holy city of Jerusalem, which Israel calls its "eternal capital," are a rehearsal of sorts for the feared onslaught of Iranian, and possibly even Syrian, ballistic missiles if a full-scale war breaks out in the region.
Israeli officials say that could involve up to 200 missiles a day falling on Israeli cities for up to two months, an unprecedented barrage that for the first time in the 64-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict will concentrate on the civilian population.
Iron Dome was developed after the 2006 war with Lebanon's Hezbollah which unleashed 4,800 missiles and rockets on northern Israel in the 34-day conflict. Israel had no defenses for that.
In March 2011, Iron Dome was deployed outside the Negev Desert city of Beersheba to counter Hamas' short-range Grad and Qassam rockets and swiftly got its baptism of fire. It knocked out around 75 percent of those projectiles it engaged, a major success.
A more advanced version was thrown into action Saturday, two months ahead of its planned deployment. It made its first interception soon after and has racked up a 90 percent kill rate. It's positioned at Gush Dan south of Tel Aviv in central Israel, specifically to protect the country's commercial capital.
Four regular Iron Dome batteries are deployed outside Beersheba, Nevitot in the Negev, and the southern coastal cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon, which have long been within range of Hamas' rockets.
The military says it needs at least 13 batteries to effectively cover the nation, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is seeking $190 million to produce three more and expand the Iron Dome program.
The system's command computer is designed to engage only those rockets or missiles whose plotted trajectory indicates they will impact in populated areas or critical infrastructure.
Incoming missiles deemed headed for open ground are disregarded.
Each truck-towed Iron Dome battery is armed with three launch units, each containing 20 Tamir radar-guided interceptor missiles with proximity-fused warheads.
An interceptor costs around $40,000, so the number of Tamirs expended so far in Operation Pillar of Defense have cost Israel around $16 million. That's an expensive proposition when used against Qassam rockets that cost $200 to manufacture in Hamas' clandestine workshops in Gaza's teeming refugee camps.
But, military planners say, that's a lot cheaper than getting caught up in a full-scale war that costs around $380 million a day.
Rafael, which is also developing another system called David's Sling to counter missiles with a range up to 180 miles, says Iron Dome can provide cover for a large city of some 40 square miles against rockets with ranges of 3-45 miles.
The company says Iron Dome's computer system even calculates the safest spot to blow up an incoming missile.


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Robert Koch (1843-1910)
The German doctor Robert Koch is considered the founder of modern bacteriology. His discoveries made a significant contribution to the development of the first 'magic bullets' - chemicals developed to attack specific bacteria - and Koch was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1905.
Koch developed a new experimental method to test whether a particular micro-organism is the cause of a disease. Building on Pasteur's work on germ theory, Koch used experiments to prove that the bacterium Bacillus anthracis was the cause of anthrax - the bacterium could be observed in the tissue of anthrax victims. He extracted this bacterium from a sheep which had died of anthrax, grew it and injected a mouse with it. The mouse developed the disease as well. Koch repeated this process over 20 generations of mice, before he announced in 1876 that he had proved this bacterium caused anthrax.
Koch continued to improve his methods and techniques. By solidifying liquids such as broth with gelatine and agar, for instance, he created a solid medium for growing bacteria which was easier to handle than the liquids used by Pasteur. Koch's assistant Julius Richard Petri (1852-1921) developed the Petri dish, which made the observation of bacteria even easier.
Koch and his team also developed ways of staining bacteria to improve the bacteria's visibility under the microscope, and were able to identify the bacterial causes of tuberculosis (1882) and cholera (1883). Adopting Koch's method, other researchers were able to identify the bacteria that caused diseases such as typhus (1880), tetanus (1884) and the plague (1894).
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T D Brock, Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology (Washington, DC: ASM Press, 1999)
C Gradmann, 'Robert Koch and the pressures of scientific research: tuberculosis and tuberculin', Medical History, 45/1 (2001), pp 1-32
R Koch, 'On bacteriological research', in German Essays on Science in the Twentieth Century, (The German library, vol. 82), translated by D Theisen, (New York: Continuum, 1996)
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pgowder precisava de um novo design de página da web e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 17 designs enviados por 8 designers freelancers.
Contest to design look and feel for new Native American Music website http://www.NativeMusicSource.com.
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This contest is to design the look and feel for our new Native American site - NativeMusicSource.com.
Please take a look at my other sites to get a feel for the types of designs I prefer:
The site is going to feature all types of Native American music.
Here is a breakdown of the organization of the site:
Artist Profiles
-This section will include pages with photo, description, links to albums, links to store, etc
Album page
-This will have photo of album art, list of tracks, links to store, links to review item, etc
-This section will allow the users to browse categories of music such as Hip Hop, Pow Wow, Gospel, Traditional, Flute, etc. The links here will be back to the artist profiles.
-eCommerce application for selling cd's
-Calendar displaying concert dates
-Place for people to post reviews on albums
-We will have a weekly podcast featuring music from the site
-The site will also feature an online radio station.
The site will be built using several software packages. I'll be looking for someone to code this template for these applications later.
Most of the site will be developed with WordPress including the artist profiles, music, album pages. The podcast will use WordPress with the PodPress plugin.
The Review section will be built using ReviewPost.
The online store will use xCart.
The Radio will use SamBroadcaster. You can see an example site at http://radio.powwows.com
And the calendar will be an RSS feed from our site NativeGatherings.com for the concert category.
I will also need a place for a newsletter subscription and search box. I'll also need a link for an About Us page and Contact Us page.
The design needs to have places for Google Adsense ads as well as a place to display in house ads such as 728 x 90, 160 x 600, and 250 x 250.
For this contest I need one main template with a few variations. The main template will be used for the pages inside WordPress. Then I need a variation of that for the xCart online store, radio and reviews.
For the radio, like I said, I use SamBroadcaster. Please take a look at our Pow Wow Radio. I'll need designs for the popup windows as well.
As for how I want it to look, I'm pretty open.
It needs to have a Native American look with bright and vibrant colors and use a Web 2.0 style.
Thanks for your time and submissions!


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Post-Operative Instructions
While recovering from oral surgery, it is important to carefully follow any post-operative instructions from your dentist. These directions can help speed healing and minimize the risk of complications, such as infection or dry socket. There are some general instructions which apply to most oral surgery procedures. Your doctor will likely provide you with specific oral surgery aftercare instructions before your procedure to help you prepare for the recovery process.


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The cultural planning process assesses the current community culture and creates an implementation plan to achieve a community's vision. Cultural plans act as mirrors for a community—they are, ideally, a reflection of the community's culture that they serve.
Many communities are engaged in cultural planning to help address the needs and opportunities of the community members by assessing and utilizing the cultural resources available. Some cultural planning may be narrowly focused on the needs of artists, arts organizations, and audiences; however, cultural planners are increasingly considering the role of culture in resolving broader community issues.
The most successful cultural plans address the needs and desires of the community throughout the planning process, from the initial stages to the implementation of cultural programming and development.
Getting Started
Before you start a cultural planning process, you should take time to:
- Read about cultural planning.
- Ask questions and listen to others in your community. Are they ready for planning?
- Build your partnerships and alliances.
- Learn about the decision-makers in your community.
- Research funding possibilities.
How long will the planning process take?
- Preparation (2-3 months)
- Information Gathering and Research (4-6 months)
- Assessment and Analysis (2-3 months)
- Organization and Consultation (ongoing)
- Writing the Plan (1-2 months)
- Public Consultation (2-3 months)
- Finalizing and Adoption (1-2 months)
- Implementation, Monitoring and Review (Ongoing)
What is a Cultural Facility?
These facilities can be used as a launching point for a broader cultural plan. Funding for cultural facilities is usually comprised of public support through taxes and private sector resources. In the past two decades, cultural facilities have been seen by artists, arts organizations, government officials, urban planners, and communities as key anchors to the revitalization of distressed communities.
Many arts organizations are using renovated older or abandoned buildings for their businesses and/or performance spaces, particularly in urban areas. Adaptive reuse of older buildings enlivens neighborhoods and gives locals a greater sense of ownership over a facility, while also combating sprawl and increases real estate values in the neighborhood.
Types of Cultural Facilities
Performing Arts Facilities
Performing arts facilities range in size from small to enormous. Most performing arts centers contain multiple varied performance spaces, and often each space is designed for a specific purpose such as symphonic music, theater, dance, etc.
Artist Live/Work Spaces
Spaces where local artists live and work have contributed significantly to the revitalization of communities. Municipal leaders and nonprofit developers are converting older buildings into affordable, long-term housing for low-income artists. Mixed-use facilities are also common, often combining artist housing and work space, exhibition and/or performance areas, and retail areas.
Exhibition/Gallery Spaces
Exhibition and gallery spaces are spaces designed specifically for the display of art and/or historic items. These spaces provide opportunities for local artists to display and sell their work. Often these spaces are also used as small performing venues for local artists.
Museums range from large institutions to small historic homes. Typically, these facilities host permanent and temporary exhibits for educational or artistic purposes and are open to the public on a regular basis.
Arts Incubators
Incubators create a nurturing environment for small and emerging arts organizations by offering low-cost or subsidized space and services. They provide shared office equipment, telephone, computers, and copy machines. Each incubator is uniquely tailored to meet the needs of the community.
Multiuse Facilities
A multiuse facility is not dedicated to one art form or discipline. Many multiuse facilities have a cluster of arts activities such as dance studios, theaters, galleries, and classrooms. Some facilities also host recreational activities as part of their use.
Different Types of Cultural Plans
- Comprehensive detailed cultural plan: A community-wide plan based on broadly defined understanding of culture with integrated goals compiled through community consultation.
- Cultural plan with a single discipline focus: community-wide plan with a specific focus, for example on the arts sector alone or a focus on the visual arts, etc.
- Community cultural assessment or cultural mapping: a comprehensive identification and analysis of a community's cultural resources and needs gathered through a broadly based consultative/collaborative process. It is a critical early phase of any cultural planning process.
- Cultural plan with a project-specific focus: examples include an economic impact study, a feasibility study for fundraising campaign, a feasibility study for a facility, a cultural district study, or a cultural tourism study.
- Cultural component of municipal or regional general plan: arts and/or heritage and/or culture are integrated vertically as one part of a city or master plan, e.g., a section or chapter of the plan is dedicated to arts, culture, heritage, etc.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find basic information on cultural planning?
- The National Endowment for the Arts has a great planning tool site which also includes a "lessons learned" section.
- Community Cultural Planning: A Guidebook for Community Leaders Although this guidebook (available via download) was developed in 1997, it is still a great guide to community cultural planning. It outlines five steps to developing a cultural plan for your community, as well as profiles of seven communities and their plans and recommendations for effective planning, which will help you ensure optimal benefits for arts and culture in your community. Download a copy for $5.00.
Where can I find some examples of cultural planning and cultural mapping?
- The Creative City Network of Canada has some great examples of cultural planning and mapping. There are free tool kits for cultural planning and cultural mapping.
Check out this successful community plans:
- Portland, OR has a great city-wide cultural plan that was adopted in 2011.
- Chicago just completed a very comprehensive planning process which involved thousands of community comments.
- Imagine Chattanooga 20/20 was recently completed and now they are working on implementation steps.
We have compiled a list of cities and counties that have developed cultural plans and policies.
What are some ways arts facilities have obtained funding from cities?
- Funding for arts facilities can be obtained through public sources such as bonds, general funds, and Capital Improvement Projects, or private sources including corporate, foundation, and individual gifts. Most organizations depend at least in part by these philanthropic sources. Additionally, centers may hire a consulting firm to manage a capital campaign, or instigate a public or private partnership for management.
A few things to consider when looking for funding:
- Community engagement in fundraising is crucial. Fundraising campaigns force developers to communicate to the public why their center is important and worthy of their support. While large private donations are wonderful, this network of public supporters carriers important ramifications in terms of long-term sustainability: if you don't make the case for why you are building a center
- It's important to initially make the case for the center's importance and role in the community to establish a public network. Once you've raised money for the building, the challenge is not over: maintaining resources to operate the center is an ongoing, yet equally important challenge.
- While this is not a comprehensive list, here are a few examples of how various arts centers have obtained funding.
- Find out how Cultural Facilities can impact the local economy.


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Inglourious Basterds [2009] (DVD)
Amoeba Review
Sean Sweeney 04/02/2013
Though it almost shares a title (but little else) with director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 spaghetti-war flick The Inglorious Bastards, which was just a dirtier Dirty Dozen knockoff, Quentin Tarantino knows a good title when he sees it. With a minor spelling change he gave us his own comic book WWII movie, Inglourious Basterds. With a definite nod to François Truffaut's The Last Metro, it's like a Powell & Pressburger (49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing) piece of propaganda, if those guys were still making those flicks in the 1970s. What at first glance may seem like a nasty and mean Nazi revenge fantasy is actually a tribute to the power of cinema and the power of Tarantino's beautifully composed dialogue. This may be the most talky war script ever written, but unlike the pointlessly inane ramblings of the film he made two years before this, Death Proof (his half of the double feature movie Grindhouse), this dialogue is used to constantly build suspense, and in the hands of an expert actor like Christoph Waltz, it often sounds like an evil poetry. Aided by the clever score, pirated from other films, and the sharp period detail, Inglourious Basterds proved to not only be one of Tarantino's most ingenious creations, but is a film that has aged well (in the brief years since) and is sure to take its place with the best of the genre (lets call 'em Naziploitation flicks).
Inglourious Basterds is an equally shared international ensemble piece divided into chapters. First you are introduced to a cat n' mouse playing German SS man, "Jew Hunter," Col. Hans Landa (Waltz in a mannered piece of scenery chewing that deservedly won him an Oscar). The film opens with him interrogating a French dairy farmer who is hiding a neighboring Jewish family in his floorboards. He toys with the man before his soldiers shoot up the floor, but the teenage daughter Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) manages to escape into the countryside. Meanwhile an American unit commanded by a very Southern Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt acting like a cross between Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn) leads a group of Jewish soldiers known as the "Basterds" on a dirty trick mission to torture and wreak havoc on Nazis, becoming legends and the thing of nightmares to Nazis, including even a flummoxed Hitler (Martin Wuttke). A few years later, Shosanna, now known as "Emmanuelle Mimieux" (and resembling a young Catherine Deneuve), runs a hip cinema in Paris and is any movie geek's dream girl. Unfortunately she has the unwanted attention of a young German war hero, Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl of Good Bye, Lenin! and The Edukators). He is even starring as himself in a recently completed film about his sniper exploits called Nation's Pride, directed by head Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth). Zoller convinces the higher-ups, including security-chief Hans Landa, to hold the premiere at Shosanna's cinema, with the German high command in attendance, including the Führer himself. Shosanna and her boyfriend hatch a plan to burn the theater down during the screening.
A British intelligence agent (Michael Myers, doing a perfect accent) and Winston Churchill (an unrecognizable Rod Taylor) bring in a secret agent, Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender, the start of his reign as the current "it" actor), a German-speaking film critic/historian to meet up with a double agent, German movie star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) and the Basterds to go blow up the theater (not knowing about Shosanna's own plan). This leads to an incredibly intense and eventual violent meeting in a basement bar. Nothing goes according to plan, leading Pitt and two of his men to do their best Chico Marx, posing as Italian filmmakers to infiltrate the movie premiere, with more insane twists and surprises to come.
Like so many of Tarantino's films one of the highlights and most important elements of Inglourious Basterds is the soundtrack. This one hit a number of personal notes for me. As a kid, I recorded scenes off the TV from the violent action movie Dark of the Sun to capture sections of Jacques Loussier's very Morricone-like score with a tape recorder. So I got goosebumps when I heard it used so well here. I also had the soundtrack to Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People because I loved the David Bowie/Giorgio Moroder theme song "Putting out Fire." Here it is used beautifully as Shosanna gets ready for her night of mayhem (the moment has no resemblance to a WWII flick; instead it seems to be paying a homage to Schrader and others of that era, like Tony Scott's The Hunger). Of course Tarantino uses a lot from the master, Ennio Morricone, whose Spaghetti Western scores helped to popularize the genre and has done literally hundreds of movies since, ranging from Italian gangster flicks to The Mission and The Untouchables. There's a showy piece from Perry Como collaborator Nicholas Perito, the theme from the Burt Reynolds' good ol' boy flick White Lightning, a Lalo Schifrin piece from Kelly's Heroes, and most hilariously is a Billy Preston track from the blaxplotaion flick Slaughter. This may be Tarantino's best mix tape yet.
Like Tarantino's earlier Kill Bill (and later Django Unchained) Inglourious Basterds is a beef stew of B-cinema ingredients, but unlike his other films this isn't just a well choreographed "best of...". Yes, you can spot many of the references and nods, but it's also loaded with original ideas, the best of which come from Tarantino's own love of film and the pop culture language of video store geeks. The scene in the tavern where everyone is pretending to be someone else is a verbal joust of stay-alive while a pop (and classic) culture drinking name game is played. The heroine Shosanna owns a revival movie house (like the New Beverly, the cinema Tarantino recently took ownership of). Fassbender is a badass soldier but also a film lover. The Mata Hari like Kruger is an actress and film lover. Pitt and his guys pose as filmmakers (and Pitt's character's name bares a striking resemblance to war movie star Aldo Ray). Even the Nazis all seem to be obsessed with movies. Pessimists might say that the only way Tarantino can intellectually relate to WWII is through film, but I would counter that's the best way anyone who didn't live through it can. Like many of us, I learned a lot more about the war and our history through movies than I did from history class. If some dimwit walks out of Inglourious Basterds thinking the allies won the war by blowing up a movie theater and that America had a Jesish terror squad working behind enemy lines, then I would direct that idiot to see Downfall or Schindler's List or Come and See or Saving Private Ryan or The Great Escape or The Bridge on the River Kwai or Army of Shadows or one of the dozens of other maybe more reliable terrific films on the subject. You know what they say, the filmmakers are the new history-book writers (or if they don't say that yet, some day they will).
Inglourious Basterds won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz). It was nominated for an additional seven Oscars for Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.
Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino's high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as "The Basterds," is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with "action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is "another Tarantino masterpiece" (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!
Product Details
- Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender
- Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: R
- Label: Universal Studios
- Release Date: 12/15/2009
- Run Time: 153 minutes
- Catalogue #: 611108380
Special Features
- Extended & Alternate Scenes
- Nation's Pride: The Film Within The Film
- And More!


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This may possibly be the most amazing control in the history of controls. Found by a friend on a hotel air conditioner.
There are clearly only two options, blow hard or blow harder. Otherwise, just stop.
Of course, the usual method for designing an air speed control is a range from Low to High, communicated either with words or a graphic spectrum, plus Off. Also, "more" is typically clockwise to the right and "less" is ccw to the left.
But this control shows the danger when you try to use colloquial English terms for interface controls. Great theory, but proceed with caution.


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Windows tools for investigating an attack
Use this list of Windows tools when investigating an attack against a Web server.
by Michael Cobb
This checklist is a companion to the primer, Web site attacks and how to defeat them, part of SearchSecurity.com's Intrusion Defense School lesson, Web attack defense and prevention.
|Windows tools for investigating an attack
| Run event viewer to look at logs:
C:\> eventvwr.msc
| Look for suspicious events:
"Event log service was stopped."
"Windows File Protection is not active on this system."
"The MS Telnet Service has started successfully."
|Look for a large number of failed logon attempts or locked out accounts.
| Look at file shares, and make sure each has a defined business purpose:
C:\> net view 127.0.0.1
| Look at who has an open session with the machine:
C:\> net session
| Look at which sessions the machine has opened with other systems:
C:\> net use
| Look at NetBIOS over TCP/IP activity:
C:\> nbtstat –S
| Look for unusual listening TCP and UDP ports:
C:\> netstat –na
| Look for unusual scheduled tasks on the local host, especially those that run as a user in the Administrators group, as SYSTEM, or with a blank user name by running:
C:\> at
| Look for new, unexpected accounts in the Administrators group:
C:\> lusrmgr.msc
| Look for unusual/unexpected processes:
Run Task Manager
| Look for unusual network services:
C:\> net start
| Check file space usage to look for sudden major decreases in free space:
C:\> dir
Security School
Download the primer: Web site attacks and how to defeat them.
Return to Intrusion Defense School.


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Oracle accepts a nice round number in damages from Google
Let's get this over with so we can appeal already
Oracle has agreed to accept damages of $0 from Google in the Java case for the small bit of copyright infringement of which the judge found it guilty.
Judge William Alsup cleared the Chocolate Factory of most of Oracle's infringement claims last month and ruled that Google had copied only a few small bits of Java code. Oracle and Google met in court yesterday to decide what damages Google should pay, where their lawyers announced the firms had settled on $0.
It sounds a bit like Oracle has taken leave of its senses, but it's more likely that the firm just wants this trial over so that it can appeal and try to get Alsup's earlier decisions overturned.
Google has also signalled that it might look for legal fees from Oracle, since it basically won on most counts.
It all went horribly wrong for Oracle at the end of last month when Judge Alsup ruled that APIs can't be copyrighted, effectively killing Oracle's suit.
"So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API," he said.
The previous week, Google got off the hook on patent infringement when the jury ruled that neither of the two patents left to be claimed by Oracle had been infringed by the Android operating system.
Oracle was originally hoping for as much as $1bn from the patent part of the suit and a cool $6bn on copyright infringement, so $0 isn't really going to cut it.
Dragging out the arguments about the amount of damages would just waste Oracle's time though, since it's not going to get anywhere near what it wants from the small amount of copyright infringement in the ruling. Tidying things up at this stage will speed the firm onward to its appeal.
Google now has two weeks to file for legal fees if it wants to, a request that Oracle can contest. ®
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Top prospect Bradley among young arms in waiting
DENVER -- The D-backs' Minor League teams began their regular seasons recently, and Arizona has some starting pitching options there if it needs them.
Top club prospect Archie Bradley is of course the one who most fans think of, but general manager Kevin Towers also mentioned Bo Schultz and Mike Bolsinger as candidates who could come up if the D-backs were in need of a starter.
Bradley and Schultz were late cuts from the roster this spring and have yet to open their Minor League campaigns.
Bolsinger, who was a non-roster invite to spring camp, has made one start this year and tossed 6 2/3 scoreless innings.
"I've always liked him," Towers said of Bolsinger. "I know nobody talks about him, but every time I've seen him -- in Double-A or Triple-A -- I've seen him probably five or six times, and I've never seen a bad start. He just stays off the barrel. We told him that when we sent him down, you never hear his name, nobody writes about him, but we know what you're doing and you're on our radar screen."
The D-backs also have relief options at Double-A Mobile in Jake Barrett and Matt Stites, who were both in big league camp this spring.
The bullpen has struggled this year, but Towers said it was too soon to be thinking about making any changes there.
"I think we're just trying to get guys in slots," he said, referring to set roles. "We'll stick with what we have. What would really help is if we get a starter who goes six or seven innings a couple of days in a row."


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| 8.5°C Belfast
A police officer who claimed in a drunken rage to have witnessed the Plebgate row was jailed for 12 months today for misconduct in a public office.
Pc Keith Wallis, 53, of West Drayton, west London, sent an email to Conservative deputy chief whip John Randall, who was his MP, wrongly claiming that he had seen what happened as Andrew Mitchell left Downing Street on September 19, 2012.
Mr Mitchell, then chief whip, had been involved in a heated confrontation with another police officer, Toby Rowland, after he was refused permission to cycle through the main gate.
Wallis, who worked at Metropolitan Police diplomatic protection group, was moved to act by "rumour and gossip" about the incident in which Mr Mitchell was accused of calling the officer a "Pleb".
Emotions were already running high following the killing of two female officers, Pc Fiona Bone and Pc Nicola Hughes, in Manchester the day before, the Old Bailey was told.
The officer, who was just one year from retirement after a 30-year career, was also intoxicated and suffering from mental illness at the time, the court was told.
Following a month of intense media interest in the story, Mr Mitchell, who always denied using the word "Pleb", was forced to resign his post.
Defending, Patrick Gibbs QC appealed for leniency for Wallis who had admitted the off ence.
He said Wallis was in no way part of a conspiracy against Mr Mitchell and there was no attempt to pervert the course of justice.
He said: "He would be the ideal scapegoat for more sophisticated men but sending him to prison would be to mistake this for what it is not."
But Mr Justice Sweeney dismissed his plea, telling Wallis his "devious" actions "fell far below the standards expected of a police officer".
Mr Sweeney said his actions not only had an impact on Mr Mitchell but also had "a significant impact on public trust and confidence in the integrity of police officers".
In a victim impact statement Mr Mitchell described his devastation at Wallis's false accusations which "gave traction" to the story in Downing Street.
He wrote: "The existence of the emails contributed to my acute demoralisation and sense of isolation. They were therefore a contributory factor in the events which led to my resignation."
Following reports of the incident in 2012, the Sutton Coldfield MP apologised for being disrespectful to police but denied Pc Rowland's claim that he used the word ''pleb''.
Political pressure on Mr Mitchell intensified and eventually led to his resignation on October 19, a month after the initial altercation.
Two emails from Wallis to Mr Randall during that time were read out by prosecutor Zoe Martin.
In the email of September 20, he says: "I write to complain at the absolutely digesting (sic) behaviour displayed by your fellow member of parliament."
Sometimes writing in capital letters and misspelling words, he claimed he and his nephew witnessed Mr Mitchell's "unacceptable behaviour" but he "did not expect anything to come of it".
Mr Randall did take up the complaint. An investigation got under way at Westminster and a story ran in The Sun the following day.
As the situation intensified, a Channel 4 news team went to Wallis's home and confronted him about the email but Wallis denied knowledge of it.
Shortly before his arrest in December, Wallis seemed upset at work and his sergeant suggested he take time off, the court heard.
Wallis told a member of the Police Federation about contacting his MP because he was "disgusted by the incident", saying he had not mentioned he was a police officer.
Police investigating the incident eventually found out Wallis was a constable and he was arrested for misconduct in a public office.
In an interview, Wallis told officers: "I knew I should have thrown myself under a train yesterday."
Initially Wallis stuck to his story but when confronted by the CCTV evidence, he came clean, the court heard.
He told police: "I thought in a stupid, naive pathetic way I was backing up my colleagues. I just convinced myself I was there."
He went on to apologise for letting down the Metropolitan Police, his family and Mr Mitchell.
Ms Martin said Wallis was "mortified by the disgrace" of his actions.
Mr Gibbs told the court that events "got completely out of hand" and Wallis, who had been deeply affected by the death of his father, never wanted Mr Mitchell to lose his job.
After the sentencing, Met commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said Wallis would be the subject of a misconduct process "as soon as possible".
He said: "I expect my officers to serve the public without fear or favour. Where officers break the law, they must expect to be held to account and answer for what they have done.
"Yesterday I apologised personally to Mr Mitchell that an MPS officer clearly lied about seeing him behaving in a certain manner. Today, I apologise to the public for Pc Wallis's behaviour."
Two officers from the diplomatic protection group (DPG) have received final written warnings and a third officer has undergone management action in relation to inappropriate comments, the Metropolitan Police confirmed.
Wallis, along with four other officers from DPG, will be the subject of gross misconduct hearings due to start at the end of the month.
John Tully, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: "It is hugely regrettable that Pc Wallis decided to take the course of action he did in respect of his having witnessed the Downing Street incident (Plebgate).
"His actions have undermined public confidence in the police service in general and have muddied the waters in respect of the original incident. He has admitted his guilt in the criminal proceedings and must face the consequences.
"It must be emphasised that the great majority of police officers display courage and dedication in their daily duties and work tirelessly and honestly to keep their communities safe."