text: How a Brad Pitt Mantra, 'Game On, F---ers!,' Fueled His Oscar Contender '12 Years a Slave' 9:16 AM PDT 10/2/2013 by Stephen Galloway FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Miller Mobley The Plan B star-producer reveals the stomach-churning drama that had his team remaking "World War Z" while developing "Slave," as negative whispers and doubt abounded. Says his partner, Dede Gardner: "It's still hard for me to talk about, to be totally honest." THR Cover: How a Brad Pitt Mantra, 'Game On, F---ers!,' Fueled His Oscar Contender '12 Years a Slave' PHOTOS: '12 Years a Slave': Exclusive Portraits of Star-Producer Brad Pitt and His Cast The Plan B star-producer reveals the stomach-churning drama that had his team remaking "World War Z" while developing "Slave," as negative whispers and doubt abounded. Says his partner, Dede Gardner: "It's still hard for me to talk about, to be totally honest." This story first appeared in the Oct. 11 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. On the morning of Aug. 30, a nervous Brad Pitt boarded a private plane in Los Angeles for the hourlong journey to Telluride, Colo., where his company's new film, 12 Years a Slave, was about to debut. Bringing Slave to a close -- while dealing with the roller-coaster ride leading to his June release, World War Z -- had left the star and partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner exhausted, uncertain and at times publicly vilified. PHOTOS: Exclusive Portraits of Brad Pitt and His '12 Years a Slave' Stars The three had worked together intimately for more than a decade, but they never had endured a year like this. The negative reports about Z had been constant, including a Vanity Fair article that implied its producers didn't know what they were doing. One Wall Street analyst, Cowen and Co.'s Doug Creutz, had even predicted doom before the $170 million-to-$200 million zombie thriller opened, estimating it would take in a mere $85 million and calling it a "likely candidate for a big write-down." Pitt, rather than giving in to his critics, dug in his heels and thought, "Game on, f---ers." But Gardner, 45, a thoughtful executive who had cut her teeth at Paramount during the Sherry Lansing regime before joining Pitt's Plan B Entertainment in 2003, found the whole experience far more painful. "It's still hard for me to talk about, to be totally honest," she says. "The criticism resonated with me on several different levels. There's the purely professional level, which involves feeling acute responsibility for this film and the investment these people made in it. Then there's the more personal concern: 'How have I failed? Have I failed?' And I was disappointed by the absence of comrades or just people reaching out and saying, 'Hang in there. It's gonna be OK.' " Despite Z's success (it would go on to earn $539 million globally), an air of uncertainty hung over Plan B. It had gained a reputation for artiness in a town where that was something of a dirty word. Several of its best-known movies had been critical hits but commercial disappointments, including 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and 2012's Killing Them Softly. Now insiders were grumbling that Plan B was being coddled by Brad Grey, the powerful Paramount Pictures chairman who had launched the production outfit with Pitt and his then-wife Jennifer Aniston a decade earlier and who helped maintain it through a first-look deal with his studio. Given all this, the fact that Pitt, 49, was about to present a bleak period piece about a real-life 19th century black man kidnapped from New York and sold into slavery hardly seemed cause for celebration; in fact, the only thing that looked good about Slave was its budget -- $16 million, or $4 million less than Paramount had spent on reshoots for Z. All this was in the air as Pitt and Kleiner landed in Telluride, where they joined Gardner, who had driven in from her Wyoming vacation, for an early dinner at Cosmopolitan restaurant before they strolled to the Galaxy Theatre and waited anxiously for Slave to unspool. PHOTOS: Brad Pitt's 10 Highest Grossing Movies The movie's triumph at Telluride, where it was met with an ovation before receiving a rapturous reception at Toronto, not only has positioned the film -- which opens Oct. 18 in limited release -- as a major Oscar contender, but it also has vindicated the work done by Pitt's small staff of seven for more than a decade. Years after Hollywood cognoscenti dismissed Plan B as a "vanity deal," it has emerged from these festivals as a major force for some of the most challenging material around, Pitt's mandate when he started the company in 2002. "From the outside looking in, it's easy to reduce this to, 'Here's a fabulously powerful A-list movie star who is now going to be a quote-unquote producer,' " says Damon Lindelof, who wrote a new ending for Z when the reshoots became necessary. "Whereas Plan B seems to be exactly the opposite: They are using their clout and Brad's notoriety to make movies that wouldn't be made otherwise." Those movies have included Year of the Dog, The Tree of Life and Running With Scissors, though Plan B also has made more mainstream fare such as the Julia Roberts starrer Eat Pray Love, Kick-Ass and its sequel. (While Plan B was a producer on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Departed, others handled most of the production chores.) Now, helped by a blockbuster and an awards front-runner, the company is moving forward with a host of film projects and also is entering the television field with Resurrection, a supernatural drama that debuts on ABC in March. Plan B also is developing a sequel to Z, which still is in its nascent stages, though director Marc Forster won't be back. "We are talking about it," says Pitt. "We are going to investigate a script. We have a lot of ideas we will cull from. Nobody is writing just yet, but we are compiling our ideas." STORY: Toronto: '12 Years a Slave' Wins Audience Award Plan B came into being when Grey (then an owner of management company Brillstein-Grey Entertainment) approached Pitt about joining forces. The actor was in the early stages of creating his own production entity with Aniston. "I decided I wanted to start focusing on producing movies," recalls Grey. "Brad had been trying to build a small company with Jennifer. I called Brad, who's an old friend, and he and I had a long talk, and I told him what I wanted to do with the company and said, 'We should really think of doing this together.' " [pagebreak] Pitt, whom Gardner calls a "lifelong cineaste," had wanted to move more actively into producing, aiming to make the type of films he always had admired. "I'm a fan of film first and was since I was a little boy sitting in Missouri," he notes. "I go back to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and All the President's Men. And Dr. Strangelove is still the funniest film I have ever seen." As to more recent work, he adds: "There Will Be Blood is one of my absolute favorites; incredible, a whole film dedicated to someone's hatred." At the time Grey approached him, Pitt was riding high with the blockbuster Ocean's Eleven, and he was being paid between $10 million and $15 million a picture. He and Aniston had been married since 2000; they were a golden couple whose relationship had yet to collapse. The duo agreed to pool forces with Grey, and their incipient production outfits merged. It was Grey who came up with the Plan B moniker in recognition of his and his new partner's first initials. STORY: Toronto: Why '12 Years a Slave' Wasn't at Venice With Warner Bros. committed to a first-look deal that would cover overhead and some development costs for projects including A Mighty Heart (later to be made at Paramount) and screenwriter Eric Roth's Hatfields & McCoys (still in the works), Grey and Pitt embarked on a search for executives to head the company. They landed on Kleiner, who had worked for Donner Shuler Donner and who joined Plan B as a junior executive in June 2003; and Gardner, who initially was refused an "out" on her Paramount contract but came on board later that year. The two currently serve as co-presidents. Gardner soon found that Pitt "is tireless and very astute at identifying the ways in which a filmmaker's voice and intention are expressed -- and then protecting those things. Brad's also incredibly [aware of] how the business works, which is not to say he always agrees with its results. But he always gets the game." Within months, however, his company was plunged into turmoil when Grey exited for Paramount, and Aniston and Pitt split, leaving Pitt the sole owner. Gardner remembers her shock at hearing of Grey's late-2004 departure when she had just given birth. "Brad called at 10:30 at night, and he was on a plane coming home from Hawaii. I was asleep, and my mother took the message," she says. "And then I woke up an hour later and came downstairs to feed the baby, and she said: 'Brad Grey called. I told him you were asleep.' I just thought, 'Are you kidding me?' I said, 'Mom, it doesn't work that way.' " Soon after, Gardner started getting calls from all over Hollywood warning that the company wouldn't last. "There was a lot of chatter about [the company folding]," she says. STORY: Telluride Wrap: 'Gravity' and '12 Years A Slave' Among Potential Award Winners She and Kleiner, now 37, both were nervous about their future but decided to stay, especially when Pitt gathered his handful of troops at their offices in Brillstein-Grey's Beverly Hills headquarters and told them how committed he was to Plan B, emphasizing that he had no intention of closing the company even though he would be paying his staff's salaries himself. "I left with the feeling that this was somehow a central part of his understanding of himself as an artist and a business person," says Kleiner. "It was very confidence-inspiring." Still, uncertainty shrouded the Plan B executives' lives, especially in terms of who would replace Grey. "When someone as formidable as Brad Grey leaves, you just assume an equally tenured person will come in," explains Gardner. "I thought, 'This will never stick.' But Jeremy and I put our heads down and, in the most organic way, kept riding the bike." Eventually, in spring 2005, Pitt sat down with her and Kleiner and said he liked the way things were going and the films they were developing -- including Year of the Dog and The Time Traveler's Wife -- and they would be running the company. Grey's exit left a tangled legal situation with Warner Bros., however. Now the executive wanted to move the company to Paramount and approached then-Warners president Alan Horn to discuss which projects Plan B would take and which would remain at Horn's studio. "It wasn't as crystal clear as it should have been in the contract," acknowledges Grey, "so it became one of those negotiations." While Plan B was extricating itself from Warners, it also moved forward with Running With Scissors and Jesse James. Those films solidified the company's reputation as a champion of original material; but their box-office inconsistency left a question mark about its commercial taste. Slave, when it began, seemed even less commercial. The idea of making a picture about the "peculiar institution" (as slavery euphemistically was known in the 19th century) first was broached in summer 2008, when Gardner and Kleiner met at the Chateau Marmont with a young British director, Steve McQueen, shortly before his first feature, Hunger, debuted at Toronto. [pagebreak] McQueen, who keeps a family tree at his home in Amsterdam going back hundreds of years to his slave ancestors in the West Indies, was intrigued that there had been no major movie about slavery from an African-American point of view. He also was fascinated by "just the extent of it, the scale of it," he says. "You think you know that, but when you get into the details, it's a factory, an institution which is bigger than most industries you could think of. And what's interesting about it for me was how much it was the norm, in a way. There was no humanity; they were cattle." After the Chateau Marmont meeting, Pitt arranged to sit down with McQueen separately. "We met in London over a couple of bottles of wine," recalls Pitt, "and ended up talking until the wee hours of the night about art and history -- he was a video artist first." (McQueen, 43, is a recipient of Britain's Turner prize, its most prestigious award for an artist under age 50.) Encouraged by Plan B, the helmer began to work with screenwriter John Ridley (Red Tails), who agreed to write a screenplay on spec. At the beginning, they had a theme but no story. "What I wanted was the idea of a free man who had been kidnapped and put through the assault course of slavery," explains McQueen. "I thought that was a great 'in' to the subject." STORY: Telluride: Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave' Met with Shock and Awe at World Premiere Soon McQueen's wife, Bianca Stigter, a writer and art historian, discovered Solomon Northup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana. The book, a best-seller that sold 27,000 copies when it was published in 1853, is one of a mere 101 "fugitive slave narratives" written before the Civil War, says Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, a consultant on the film. Of those, only this one "is the narrative of a free man who was kidnapped and manages in this case to be liberated." McQueen was stunned by the memoir's drama and fablelike quality. "It read like Pinocchio," he says. "I was shocked, I was thrown." That combination appealed to Pitt. "This particular story, these transformative experiences from visceral filmmakers are the things that truly excite me," he says. He and his partners studied the book and other original slave stories in depth. Gardner rejects allegations that the Northup account might have been somewhat fictionalized. "We have had numerous conversations with 'Skip' Gates, Ira Berlin, tons and tons of historians who all vouch for its authenticity based on numerous pieces of evidence," she says. VIDEO: '12 Years a Slave' Trailer: Chiwetel Ejiofor Fights for Survival as Slave Solomon Northup While the script was progressing, Plan B strove to find the money for what was envisioned as a $30 million film. Even with Pitt committed to play a small part as an itinerant laborer who comes to Solomon's aid, that wasn't easy. Few wanted to tackle a film of Slave's bleakness, with its harrowing scenes showing children torn from their mother and a young woman brutally whipped; nor was there any great conviction that a large enough audience existed for a film about the African-American experience -- though the subsequent success of The Help, Lee Daniels' The Butler and Fruitvale Station would appear proof positive. Bill Pohlad's production and financing company River Road Entertainment joined the project early and helped in its development. "We had done Tree of Life with Brad," he notes. "That was a trial by fire, and Brad was super-committed. He is very passionate, and sincerely passionate, a great quality and a surprise." Following Pohlad, Fox Searchlight agreed to pay for some of the production's cost, with Arnon Milchan's New Regency footing the rest, and Summit International handling foreign sales -- all drawn by Pitt's stature and his team's conviction. "We were able to put something together, but it had to be done for a price," says Pitt. The film finally would cost a gross $20 million and receive $4 million in rebates from Louisiana. STORY: Box Office Milestone: 'World War Z' Becomes Brad Pitt's Top-Grossing Film Early on, American Gangster's Chiwetel Ejiofor, a British native, signed on as Solomon; Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, Paul Giamatti and Alfre Woodard all followed. But one pivotal role remained uncast: Patsey, a young slave who works for the slave owner Edwin Epps (Fassbender) and is the subject of his wife's jealousy and both characters' brutalization. "We auditioned over 1,000 people for the part," says McQueen. "It was like looking for Scarlett O'Hara. I thought we would never find her" -- until a tape came from an untried actress of Kenyan descent, born in Mexico and about to graduate from the Yale School of Drama. The actress, Lupita Nyong'o, had heard about the film from her manager. "[My manager] put me on tape with a camera in her house against a plain background," recalls Nyong'o. "I did two scenes from the movie -- the scene where Patsey asks Platt [the name Solomon is given by his master] to kill her; and the scene right before the whipping" -- when Fassbender attacks the young woman. "It's pretty difficult to do in a room with fluorescent lights." When McQueen saw her tape, he flew her to the set: "She came down to New Orleans, and that was it." With Gardner and Kleiner on hand, and Pitt there for a while, a seven-week shoot began in June 2012 in and around New Orleans. The cast suffocated in heat that regularly topped 100 degrees and then had to deal with a hurricane that destroyed part of the set, but otherwise the shoot was trouble-free. [pagebreak] The hardest thing, says McQueen, was dealing with "the violence. I think the biggest challenge was for the actors, going to these dark places, and for me keeping things together, having to be captain of the ship where you have to make people insane, then come out the other end and be sane again." STORY: How Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' Came Back From the Dead While McQueen was dealing with one kind of insanity, Pitt was dealing with another on Z. Five years after Paramount had bought Max Brooks' novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War for Plan B (following a 2006 bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way) and after writers J. Michael Straczynski and Matt Carnahan had gone through multiple drafts, a difficult shoot had taken place in which one line producer had had to be fired and another brought in. When a rough cut was assembled, it became clear the ending wasn't working. After the picture was screened for all the producers and Paramount execs Adam Goodman, Marc Evans and Geoff Stier, they and the Plan B team huddled over what to do. "The conclusion that we needed to reshoot was immediate and uniform," says Gardner. "We were obviously dealing with an enormous responsibility. Paramount was a great partner, but I can't say any of it was calm, and it wouldn't be calm until we made a great movie." Reports began to circulate that Pitt and director Forster weren't speaking. "The idea they were not speaking was not my experience," says Lindelof, who was brought in to rework the ending. "And more importantly, the way Brad talked about Marc and Marc talked about Brad was entirely respectable, as if they were both creative partners trying to fix a problem." Admits Grey: "Those were fairly intense times for all of us as filmmakers. But having been in this business some time, both of us know if you put yourself in the arena, it comes with the territory." STORY: Paramount, Brad Pitt Set Sights on 'World War Z' Sequel The group turned to Lindelof, a longtime Gardner friend, who now suggested rewriting the third act altogether, abandoning an extravagant battle and closing with a more suspenseful, intimate sequence in which Pitt must infiltrate a laboratory riddled with zombies. No other ending was explored. "Damon always felt there needed to be a very kind of personal context for this as opposed to the instinct to scale up," says Kleiner. Reshoots meant that Z's release would be delayed from late 2012 until summer 2013; but Paramount agreed this was the right way to go, even though it meant Pitt would be promoting two films back-to-back. Five weeks of Z reshoots commenced in fall 2011 and continued through November, with Pitt juggling that movie and Slave. With both movies wrapped, Team Pitt hunkered down to complete postproduction on both pictures. After McQueen showed Gardner his cut of Slave in Amsterdam, he flew to Los Angeles and worked with Pitt, who shuttled between the Paramount lot, where Z was being edited, and the San Fernando Valley, where McQueen was finishing his film. "Brad [juggled the two] with great dexterity," says Gardner. "There was a sense that every minute counted, and if that meant we were there till midnight, we were there till midnight. We would cobble every minute we could. [Brad handled it] gracefully, very conscious of solving the problems we were currently looking at. If we had made a list of all the problems we didn't yet know, it would have been easy to crumble. But if you look at the problems at hand -- it was very methodical. Being methodical is a real muscle, and he has it and knows when to use it." Given that Pitt, Gardner and Kleiner have children, they were "dependent on the patience of loved ones," says Gardner. She and Kleiner sometimes brought their kids to the editing room, but Pitt always came alone. "We'd have many a night when everyone would say, 'I am going home to have dinner with the kids' or 'I'm going to give the kids a bath and I'll be back in the cutting room,' " says Gardner. "It was just our lives." [pagebreak] Pitt's absorption with the work to some degree gave him immunity from the dozens of nattering nabobs, particularly where Z was concerned. "I have done this long enough and have sat in editing rooms with enough talented people that I have a grasp of, 'How do we shape things when they are not working?' " he reflects. "The idea was, let people see it and let them talk." STORY: World War Z: Film Review Producing seems to enrich Pitt more than acting at this point, he admits, though he gives no indication he might step away from his career as a performer: "As I get older, I am enjoying more the producorial side of things -- not being so forefront in the camera -- the creativity of putting the pieces together." The company now is moving forward with projects including an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' Marilyn Monroe novel Blonde, with Andrew Dominik (Jesse James) to direct; The Last Family of England, with Taika Waititi directing the story centered on a talking dog; and Black Hole, a project that teams Plan B with David Fincher and is adapted from the Charles Burns graphic novel about a virus that infects a group of kids living in the northwest, manifesting itself in strange, supernatural ways (one kid, for instance, develops a second mouth that always speaks the truth). Plan B also is developing The Operators, based on the book by the late Michael Hastings, which Gardner describes as an expansion of his Rolling Stone article that led to the firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan from June 2009 to June 2010 whose impolitic remarks about the president -- during time spent with Hastings -- caused a media firestorm. Pitt says his company's strategy will remain the same as it has been from the start: "We follow the storytellers, and our little garage band of a production company's mandate was [always] to help complex films get over the hill if they need a little push. We are in a fortunate position to do that." At the same time, the actor-producer says Plan B -- whose money is raised on a per-film basis -- now is starting to look at outside sources of finance. "We have been talking about the next evolution of what we do," he continues. "Do we stay in the same construct as now? Are there new constructs we can investigate?" As to Plan B's long-term future, Pitt says he wants to maintain the same mix of big-budget and low-budget, always with pictures that strive to push boundaries. "I wouldn't want to change anything," he says. "I like extremes." the anger that goes along with it and the desperation. … You've got to start at 60 miles an hour." Plus: Why did director Paul Greengrass keep his Somalian actors away from his star?"] FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Stephen Galloway firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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The EEF workflow is the same than many others projects of the Eclipse Modeling Project :
- Modeling : In the first step, you have to define some models (conforms to EEF metamodels) describing the graphical components that will be generated by EEF.
- Generating : Once the EEF models defined, the second step in the EEF development is to call he EEF generating module. EEF bring an Acceleo module that generate the java classes for the components defined in the preceding step.
- Customization : An optional third step can be done by customizing java code to add features that aren't directly accessible by the EEF generation. The third component of EEF is the runtime that is used by the generated code. This runtime is extensible, so you can substitute the generated code by your code and bring new features.
The custom can also be done by adding custom code in dedicated area in the generated code (called "user code area"). Acceleo will keep this code in the next generators invocation.
This document will describes all these steps in the user point of view.
EEF Modeling
The EEF editing components are designed with three models conform to four metamodels. This models are :
- The views model : This is one or more ViewsRepository that we be used to edit the EMF models. These views can be stored in several categories.
- The components model : This a context PropertiesEditionContext that describes the controllers associating the elements of the views with the metamodel properties that they have to edit.
- The eefgen generation settings model : it allows the user to define settings for the generation. Thus, the target directory, the legal notice, and many other option can be set up in this model.
Warning : The EEF intializer create the two first models in only one file !
Views model
The views modeling is made with a model conform to the EEF views metamodel. The root element of this model is a ViewsRepository. A ViewsRepository has a name and an optional documentation. A RepositoryKind property can be set but isn't used in the generation. This will be done in the next release.

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2. Mrs. Roberts Against "Abortion Rights," Fed Society "Dogging" Him
3. Olbermann Raises Watergate in "Potentially Explosive" Rove Case
4. "Top Ten George W. Bush Solutions for Global Warming"
CNN's Dobbs Warns of Dire Global Warming,
In a subsequent story on Lou Dobbs Tonight, reporter Kitty Pilgrim relied on a spokesman from the far-left Union of Concerned Scientists, though she failed to label the group before she warned: "The climate change is not about discomfort, it's deadly." Pilgrim insisted: "Nine of the last ten years have been the warmest years on record." But on Monday's NBC Nightly News, after a man on the street declared that "it seems like each summer is a little warmer than the one before," Carl Quintanilla countered: "Actually, that's not right." He noted that "three of the five warmest summers on record were in the 1930s. Climate experts like Kevin Trenberth say the one-degree increase in temperature this century is no reason to break a sweat."
Lou Dobbs plugged his upcoming story: "Record heat and drought in the United States and Europe. New fears tonight that it's all the result of global warming. Is the Earth witnessing a massive environmental change?"
Dobbs soon set up the July 25 segment: "Heat advisories in effect tonight all around the Midwest, the Southeast, Southwest, northeastern United States. That just about covers it. The triple-digit temperatures and other bizarre weather patterns have many now wondering whether this is the reality of global warming. Kitty Pilgrim reports."
Pilgrim began her story on the 6pm EDT newscast: "It's sizzling from coast to coast. In Arizona, the heat left 18 dead. This weekend, Denver had the fifth day in a row of 100 degree heat. In Las Vegas, no fun at 117 degrees. Chicago, over 100 degrees. The Governor asked for federal disaster help, with half the normal rainfall in the state in the past four months."
Pilgrim on set next to Dobbs: "Nine of the last ten years have been the warmest years on record. Global warming is turning out to be more than a scientific theory, but scientists say it's hard to keep people concentrated on the threat of global warming, except when it becomes an obvious discomfort. And that would be right now, Lou."
Dobbs: "Indeed it is for too many people. Kitty, thank you very much, Kitty Pilgrim. These blistering temperatures and drought in most parts of the country and Europe provoked the natural question, is this global warming. Here now, climatologist and climate modeler, for NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr. Gavin Schmidt. Good to have you with us."
The July 25 NBC Nightly News provided a contrasting take. Anchor Brian Williams introduced a story: "The temperature in Florida is downright chilly compared to parts of this country much further north these days. The brutal heat wave that's gripped a big part of the nation is topping off what has already been a season of records. In fact, at least three cities -- Las Vegas, Denver and Needles, California -- have tied or broken all-time temperature records so far this summer. NBC's Carl Quintanilla tonight on the question many ask, whether global warming has anything to do with this."
From a hot Chicago, Quintanilla relayed: "In Louisville, Kentucky, this was the road less traveled today, buckling in the summer heat. The same heat wave that's killed elderly residents in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and fueled a grass fire today near Dallas."
[Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth is head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research: www.cgd.ucar.edu ]
Quintanilla explained: "Experts blame this heat wave on a stubborn high pressure system that's lingered over the West and Midwest, shutting out cool air and rain. Until today. A storm front passing through Chicago is expected literally to pour cold water on a sizzling summer."
No doubt those ill-informed men and women on the street have relied on the preponderance of fear-mongering media reports.
Mrs. Roberts Against "Abortion Rights,"
On the John Roberts front, on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday co-host Kate Snow pointed out that "he has been tight-lipped about his own views on abortion. But his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, is very outspoken about her views." Reporter Jessica Yellin warned that she "is also a devout Catholic and in 1995 joined the board of Feminists for Life, an organization that opposes abortion rights and is against the death penalty." And prompted by a silly Washington Post front page story, "Roberts Listed in Federalist Society '97-98 Directory: Court Nominee Said He Has No Memory of Membership," as if there's something bad about any affiliation with the conservative group, on CNN's Inside Politics anchor Dana Bash ridiculously referred to the membership question as "dogging Supreme Court nominee John Roberts." She intoned: "Has he ever been a member of the conservative legal group The Federalist Society?"
GMA substitute co-host Kate Snow, the MRC's Brian Boyd noticed, set up a July 25 taped story: "Now, to some new details about President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts. He has been tight-lipped about his own views on abortion. But his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, is very outspoken about her views. ABC's Jessica Yellin has been looking into this and she joins us from the White House. Good morning, Jessica."
Yellin checked in: "Good morning, Kate. This morning as both sides continue to study Judge John Roberts position on hot button issues, the spotlight has turned to his wife. Opponents are examining her political activities and especially her involvement in a group that opposes abortion. Friends describe Jane Roberts as a pioneer."
Later in the day, on CNN's Inside Politics, anchor Dana Bash, the MRC's Megan McCormack noticed, set up a segment: "We're now going to go back to the question dogging Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Has he ever been a member of the conservative legal group The Federalist Society? The Washington Post reports Roberts name appeared in the group's leadership directory in the late '90s, but the White House says Roberts has no memory of ever joining the group or paying dues."
John King then profiled the conservative group.
For the July 25 Washington Post front page article: www.washingtonpost.com
Olbermann Raises Watergate in "Potentially
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann applied a Watergate analogy Monday night to the Plame/Rove case as he asserted that "in the same summer in which Deep Throat has been identified, that remodeled phrase from Watergate keeps reappearing: What did the 'fill-in-the-blank' know and when did he know it?" Olbermann noted how "the White House Chief-of-Staff knew about the investigation at least 12 hours before the White House itself was warned." Citing a supposedly "potentially explosive question," Olbermann reveled in how "a phone call between Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card" is "raising eyebrows and raising questions about a 12-hour gap, a 12-hour gap that might really be an 84-hour gap." As for whether President Bush will sacrifice Karl Rove, Olbermann recalled how "Richard Nixon loved Ehrlichman and Haldeman and got rid of them both on the same day."
Olbermann teased at the top of the July 25 Countdown: "Another 'oops' in the Karl Rove case: The White House chief of staff knew about the investigation at least 12 hours before the White House itself was warned, 'Don't shred any documents.'"
Before an ad break, he provided another plug: "And another angle in the Karl Rove CIA leak investigation. Now, it's a phone call between Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card raising eyebrows and raising questions about a 12-hour gap, a 12-hour gap that might really be an 84-hour gap."
Before the next break: "Also tonight, new questions arising in the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA officer."
And before another ad break: "They may know the number and the feeling as well at the White House. The CIA leak investigation now sending shocks to yet two more key administration figures."
At 8:32pm EDT Olbermann set up the repeatedly-plugged segment, as tracked by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth:
Speaking of dumb comments, you don't have to be the top person to make assignments. Large organizations have may sub-departments and divisions with leaders making decisions. And in Plame's case, the contention simply is that she made a suggestion others acted upon.
"Top Ten George W. Bush Solutions for
From the July 25 Late Show with David Letterman, the "Top Ten George W. Bush Solutions for Global Warming." Late Show home page: www.cbs.com
10. NASA mission to turn down the sun's thermostat
9. Federal subsidies to boost production of Cool Ranch Doritos
8. Fast track Rumsfeld's "Colonize Neptune" proposal
7. Convene Blue-Ribbon Committee to explore innovative ways of ignoring the problem
6. Let Hillary worry about it when she takes over
5. I dunno -- tax cuts for the rich?
4. Give the boys at Halliburton $90 billion dollar contract to patch hole in ozone
3. Switch to Celsius so scorching 98 becomes frosty 37
2. Keep plenty of Bud on ice
1. Invade Antarctica
For more than you want to know about Arnett, who we last heard from when he was ousted by NBC News after appearing on Iraqi TV to praise the solidarity of the Iraqi people behind Saddam and against the U.S., see the March 31, 2003 CyberAlert Extra, "Peter Arnett's Years as Conveyer of Enemy Propaganda," at: www.mediaresearch.org
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Ohio Hospital Graduation Ceremony Fulfills Mother's Dying Wish
Jennifer Linnabary's last wish was to see her son Ben graduate from high school.
Feb. 6, 2013 -- Like a typical graduation ceremony, the graduation march played, the graduate wore a cap and gown and all of the school officials were present. But this ceremony took place in an Ohio hospital room in January as a dying wish for the sole graduate's mother. She died the next day.
Jennifer Linnabary's last wish after a four-year battle with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare blood cancer, was to see her son Ben graduate from high school.
"We knew that my mom wasn't doing well at all and the last thing she wanted to see before she passed away was my brother graduating," Linnabary's daughter Becca Asimus told ABCNews.com.
Family friends made some phone calls on Saturday and within a matter of hours all of the necessary school officials had assembled at Linnabary's bedside along with some family and friends for an official Colerain High School graduation.
"It was important because we realized that this was important to the mother and to the family and so to make this whole situation they had to deal with as easy for them as possible, it was just something that we had to do," Northwest Local School District Superintendent Rick Glatfelter told ABCNews.com.
As the music played, Ben Linnabary, 18, proudly stood by his mother's bed and was presented his diploma by school and district authorities.
"I graduated, Mom," an emotional Linnabary said, looking at his mother as she lay in her hospital bed.
"This really does mean so much from all of you," he said, turning to the people who had put the ceremony together in a matter of hours. "Thank you so much."
Linnabary threw his orange cap in the air as loved ones cried a bittersweet mixture of joy and sadness.
"It was unbelievable, just the fact that even though she may not have been [able] to open her eyes and see it, I know she could sense what was going on and that meant so much to my brother," Asimus said.
Jennifer Linnabary, 52, did not think that she was going to make it long enough to see Asimus, 21, get married last summer, but when she made it to that milestone, the last thing she wanted was to see her son graduate.
Linnabary helped start Project SEARCH, a program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center that trains developmentally disabled people to help them get jobs. The program model has been duplicated all over the country.
She was diagnosed with blood cancer in the spring of 2009 and was in remission by that summer, but the illness returned the next year. She fought it for four years as her immune system weakened and she struggled with heart and kidney failure, Asimus said.
"She just grew so much from that, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually," her daughter said. "She just became such a strong woman and she had a lot of trials that she had to face through this illness."
Asimus said her mother loved the outdoors and wanted to be outside as much as possible, even as she got sicker.
"She was very selfless and thought of me and my brother and my dad above her sickness," Asimus said. "She was such a caring person, a second mom to all of our friends. She never let her illness get her down."
A service on Thursday will be held to celebrate Linnabary.
"She didn't want it to be called a funeral," Asimus said. "She wanted it to be called a celebration of life. She said she didn't want anything sad to happen."
Now, the family will work to turn one of Linnabary's unachieved dreams into a reality--she wanted to create a version of the Make-a-Wish charity for adults.
"She really wanted to start that and try and get the word out that it would be awesome to have this for adults too," Asimus said. "Me and my family and trying to make that happen."


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1. Whenever I think of my Savior and friend,
who lovingly said, "Let the children come unto me,"
I quietly feel his presence so near,
his sweet compassion and care;
and a wonderful feeling of love and of peace comes into my heart.
2. Whenever I'm feeling all sad and alone,
in need of a Friend who will give me comfort and cheer,
I know that my Heav'nly Father is there
to hear and answer my prayer;
and a wonderful feeling of love and of peace comes into my heart.
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Australian falls to death in Phuket
A 21-year-old Australian tourist has fallen to his death from a hotel balcony in Phuket.
The Melbourne man, Sebastian Eric Faulkner, fell in the early hours of New Year's Day, police said.
The Phuket News reported that Mr Faulkner sought medical assistance for mental health treatment from Patong hospital on December 30, but "left without anyone noticing".
The Bangkok Post reported that Mr Faulkner suffered a fractured skull and several other injuries from the fall and was pronounced dead at the Bangkok Hospital in Phuket.
He had been travelling with friends, who are assisting authorities with their inquiries.
It was reported that none of his friends knew his whereabouts until after his death and that police said he may have suffered an hallucination that drove him to jump from the building.
Members of Mr Faulkner's family were expected to arrive in Phuket on Wednesday.
Mr Faulkner was a student at Australian Catholic University, according to his Facebook page, and had graduated from St Bede's College in 2009.
An older cousin, Ben Faulkner, wrote on his Facebook page that the death was like a nightmare he could not wake from.
''I have memories of having a beer with you, having many a laugh with you & teasing you as your older & dramatically less talented cousin - no one can ever take them away from me - they will be with me forever mate!''
Fellow St Bede's graduates posted messages on their Facebook page paying tribute to Mr Faulkner. Some just posted their favourite pictures of their friend.
''Heaven won't know what hit them you crazy kid! Will miss you like all hell mate!,'' one friend wrote.
A spokesman for ANL Shipping said Mr Faulkner was due to complete a 12-month co-op position at the company on January 25.
He had been working in the international trade area at the company's Docklands office and was one of 13 people in his co-op group.
''Obviously his closest friends in that group are very upset and distraught,'' the spokesman said.
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Omar Gonzalez danced naked in the LA Galaxy locker room after winning the 2012 MLS Cup. The exuberance he showed after scoring – flailing his arms like an inflatable advertising tubeman – plus champagne, stripped him of his shorts as he celebrated the trophy in the heart of the Home Depot Center.
"It was pretty emotional for me after the game because at the beginning of the year I didn't see myself getting back to this level," Gonzalez said after winning the 2012 MLS Cup MVP. "I had some days when I was just thinking if I was ever going to come back the same way. … Today was really special for me because I know that I'm able to go even further now."
Less than a year prior, the 6-foot-5 center back tore his ACL. He landed in Germany for a trial with Nurnberg, entered his first training session, and collided with Timmy Chandler. "It wasn't a tackle, just a slight push and my leg buckled," Gonzalez told Goal.com. Trial over. Season too, possibly.
Both players are now on the roster for the World Cup qualifier against Honduras. A lot has happened in a year.
On July 4, roughly two months ahead of the announced timeline, Gonzalez returned to the field for the Galaxy. Bruce Arena slowly worked him into the lineup, and Gonzalez's rehabilitation coincided with the reigning MLS champion's defense ossifying once more. From 11 points in the opening 13 games, the Galaxy went on to win the MLS Cup. Gonzalez scored the equalizer in a 3-1 win over the Houston Dynamo.
"I think [my career] is right back on schedule," Gonzalez told Goal.com. "I think I'm back to where I was, maybe even better than what I was."
Gonzalez estimated that he was only at 90 percent capacity in the MLS Cup final. That extra 10 percent should push him into the country's elite, according to club teammates.
"Omar, he's not just a special player but he's a special person as well," former Galaxy midfielder David Beckham said. "He works hard. He listens. He's a young player with a lot of talent that I hope at some point is going to play for the U.S. national team more regularly, because he deserves it."
"Omar belongs in the national team pool," Arena, who led the United States to the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup, said. "I'm confident that Omar's a player who can play internationally for the United States."
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann agrees. He called Gonzalez into a three-week January camp and handed the hulking defender the start against Canada in a friendly on Jan. 29. An inexperienced backline kept a shutout in the disappointing 0-0 draw.
Gonzalez would have more international experience were it not for his extended injury absence, according to Klinsmann. Additionally, Gonzalez's involvement in the MLS Cup final ruled him out of the November friendly against Russia, which ended in a 2-2 tie.
"We wanted to have him in the camp last year," Klinsmann said. "But it's really nice to see how serious he takes his job, how he matured, and how he is greedy for the next level. He comes in every training session 100 percent focused, hungry, and he wants to prove a point. This is the type of player we need, everywhere, in every position."
Klinsmann particularly needs that type of player in central defense. In the 2009 Confederations Cup, the center back position was arguably the strongest in the U.S. pool, with the twin towers of Jay DeMerit and Oguchi Onyewu helping shut out Spain in the semifinal. From that cycle, only captain Carlos Bocanegra, 33, remains.
Though he cited a lack of playing time as the reason Onyewu missed out on the trip to Honduras, Klinsmann demands more from his center backs than the skill set on offer from DeMerit or Gooch.
"A center back nowadays is not good enough anymore if he just kind of shuts down the forwards from the other team. A center back is a key connector already toward midfield, is a distributor out of the back," Klinsmann said. "Traditionally, 20 years ago, 'Center back, just kill your opponent.' It's not like that anymore today."
Gonzalez, himself a touch gangly on the ball and imprecise in the pass, has tried to learn from others' mistakes.
"It's definitely something I've been working on, and also it comes with experience," Gonzalez told Goal.com. "In the very beginning things are moving pretty fast, you're not as comfortable on the field, you don't want to make mistakes; it's pretty hard to go forward with the ball. Now going into my fifth year I'm more comfortable as a player. Experience-wise I'm a little bit smarter and everything's coming a little bit easier, so playing out of the back is something I can do. I know I can do it."
Los Angeles coughed up early leads to three of its four playoff opponents, so the 2010 MLS Rookie of the Year often galloped forward with the Galaxy in desperation mode.
Against (the admittedly negligible pressure from) Canada, Gonzalez completed 57 of his 65 attempted passes, an 88 percent completion rate. These are indications of progress, though it is clearly still a deficiency.
"The friendlies they're going to be playing at the end of the month aren't anything he can't deal with," Arena said.
The key for Gonzalez is proving he can deal with an away CONCACAF venue in the Hexagonal. Can Gonzalez can find his rhythm at the increased tempo of the international game? Will he keep step as Klinsmann choreographs a roster aimed at competing in the World Cup?
Wednesday's match against Honduras should provide the first clue.
"It's just soccer," Gonzalez told Goal.com. "One coach is different than the other, but in the grand scheme of things it's the same things. I'm at a level where I understand the game, I know how to read the game, so whatever he throws at me I think I can pick up pretty quickly."
Gonzalez is ready for this dance.
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This inspiring note greets new Apple staff on their first day
Apple does things differently to other companies, and this note that greets its new employees on their first day is further proof of that.
While the note and inspiring words are not a new introduction, the growth of Instagram — which now has more than 50 million users — and other sharing services are bringing details like this to large scale audiences like never before.
Instagram user 'M', who posted the photo, says he's had the note taped to his dresser for the last two years, such is its significance to him.
There's nothing to stop non-Apple employees following suit and being motivated by the words too.
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Twitter's a Big Baby! Apple iPhone's AT&T Problem! MySpace's Blues! No One's Gonna Pay for This Blog! Poll-Crazy at D7
Hey, politicians aren't the only ones who get to do fancy polls!
Walt and I had a bunch of them about a variety of tech topics that we pulled out to ambush, ooops, pose to speakers at our seventh D: All Things Digital conference last week.
For the D7, we commissioned a study of digital trends from Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates (PSB), a global market research and consulting company and a conference production partner.
PSB conducted 1,005 interviews within the general U.S. population–you know, real people who are not geeked out.
One showed–despite Silicon Valley hype–how Twitter was still in its infancy, in awareness, engagement and size, which we got Co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams to react to onstage. (They could care less.)
Another showed that the biggest problem that users of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone cited was the poor AT&T (T) network. (Sorry, Randall Stephenson!)
Another looked at the declines in usage of the MySpace social networking site, which we know its new CEO Owen Van Natta enjoyed reacting to in front of the crowd. (Okay, he did not enjoy it.)
Also, no one is paying for subscriptions to blogs, which the Huffington Post impresario Arianna Huffington said was okay, since consumers will only fork over money for "very weird porn." (Yes, she said that!)
In any case, here is a selection of slides that were shown and discussed during various speaker sessions.
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[#fd054aa8] -Improve damage/playability of Bob -Improve IGotShot's equipment to the point of running red portals quickly on players 7 in Hell diff [i.e. maples/dstones for the bow] -Use IGotShot to acquire gear for IiiiiHateRap. **Needs [#b6db4a5b] -Ancient Scroll 40 -Maple Leaves -Eth Ceremonial Armor -cLOD Griffon's Eye **Notes to Self [#a97d62e8] :Skill Points --2 actual skill points in Strength or Dexterity grants +1 To Max Damage for 2H weapons. --4 actual skill points in Strength or Dexterity grants +1 To Max Damage for other weapons. --4 actual skill points in Energy grants +1% To F/C/L/P Skill Damage. --6 actual skill points in Energy grants +1% To Magic/Wind Skill Damage. --2 actual skill points in Energy grants +1% To Summon Melee Damage. :Aura Forging |CENTER:Name|CENTER:Type|CENTER:Stone|CENTER:Aura|CENTER:Levels| |Plague's Last Arrowhead|Amazonian Pin|Green Aura Stone|Annihilation|2-4| |Dweia's Revenge|Assassin's Choker|Red Aura Stone|Concentration|3-5| |Smaqdoun's Painful Pride|Totemic Pebble|Violet Aura Stone|Defiance|8-10| |Yagul's Bloody Rage|Druidic Necklace|Yellow Aura Stone|Vigor|4-6| |The Cursed Doughnut|Death's Locket|Black Aura Stone|Thorns|10-12| |BlackKnight's Holy Signet|Holy Pendant|White Aura Stone|Clensing|6-8| |The Mistress' Leather Collar|Sorcerer's Talisman|Blue Aura Stone|Meditation|5-7| :Staffmods that don't spawn |Class|Additional Skills (ie. can't appear as a staffmod or random skill bonus)|h |Amazon|Eagle Eye, Legendary Arrow, Dance of Death, Fire Wall, Frost Nova| |Sorceress|Time Stop, Fanatic Swing, Aerial Shield, Fissure, Twister| |Necromancer|Pierce P&B, Killer Scythe, Hells Gate, Hydra, Blade Fury| |Paladin|Aura of Divinity, Arrow of Confession, Sacred Piercer, Holy Ward, Summon Anointed Bear| |Barbarian|Ancient's Call, Phantom Hatchets, Berserk Fury, Nova, Thunder Storm| |Druid|Sandstorm, Iron Claws, Cow Baloon, Charged Strike, Bone Spear| |Assassin|Shade Armor, Shuriken, Iaigiri, Teeth, Cold Wave| **Progress Reports [#d3d777cf] //You can add a new entry of diary here. Remove the examples lines. //Copy and paste the following line and remove // to make the heading of today. //***//date; ***9-10-2008 [#fd05c3f0] It's been awhile since an update. I got distracted by Viva Pinata for awhile and probably will again. But, for now, I've been working on IiiiiHateRap. He has reached twinking stage and a good bit of my wealth has gone to him. Quite a nice character he has turned into. Currently at 93k max lightning damage on Plasma Rain (with Battle Command at +2 skills). With Ancient's Call at -100% and Hazade, his Conviction merc, he's ripping up hell so far. I want to get him up to Act 5 quickly, so that he can do multiplayer runs if I want to. Have to work on the Hazade's equipment and IiiiiHateRap's jewelry and helm. I'll also have to farm for dstones so that when I get the jewelry I need, it can be socketed quickly. ***08-19-2008 [#t2ab4140] I've put IGotShot aside for awhile and I'm now focusing on IiiiiHateRap. (Points for knowing the reference!) I'm planning on playing him untwinked through the end of NM. After that, I'll take all the stuff I have stashed away for him and pump him up big time. Frankly, I just want to save time, otherwise, I'd play thru untwinked all the way. He's currently running cows for money to gamble the unique petrified wands and for purchasing/amassing pgems for anvil stones. If he happens around a sol and ral decal, all the better. Then he'll at least have a meditation aura from the merc. ... I really should be studying.... ***08-02-2008 [#da8a3c91] IGotShot is having some good luck in the red portals in Act V. A couple days ago, Unknown Hero dropped, today a Vlad's with perfect resistances. Forged both with Max Life% and with BO, IGotShot is inching up on 4k life. Also socketed the Valhalla's Pendant and put a Max Life % jewel forged into it. Lit & Cold res are sitting at 81, Fire at 71. Things are looking up! ***07-31-2008 [#v2f02103] So I was moving through Act 5 Hell with IGotShot pretty well on players3... I decided to go into Naraku, just to see how far I could get and when I died, I'd go to bed. Well, I was lucky with floor changes being close (though I think I could have survived it, anyway) and actually got to Nowhere. Which was where I got owned.. big time... Fanat pack of horseman combined with a might pack of Automaton.. or vice versa.. Ouch! Oh well, things are scouted out now.. for now, at least. Off to bed... ***07-28-2008 [#j2bafcef] Just creating a diary for now. I'll be slowly adding things here when I think of them. Hmm, I need to figure out what I need to gamble... Probably something for the 'zon, but I'm not sure what. *Added equipment list of IGotShot* Wow, those farmers(?) in the Moonshine Distillery just laid waste to the minions. Extra Fast w/ Might pack. Had to run back to and out of the portal. 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A cat like me sees a lot of things sitting in odd corners. Few sentients pay attention to cats, unless we are making noise, or are trying to communicate on the move. Over the years, I have collected a number of interesting odds and ends. I once tried giving away a bunch of them, but it turned out that the operation of the various and sundry proved so complex, that it did not work out well for the poor recipient.
So I thought I would give some of them away one at a time. Drop me a line,


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As with any drug rehabilitation programme, individual results will vary.
|What Graduates Say
|What Families of Graduates Say
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"Tenacity to Take on Life"
Narconon Graduate
Jara S.
Going through college, there's you know, fraternity and sorority parties and things like that.
You drink, like alcohol gets involved.
Somewhere along the line cocaine was introduced.
It first started with a once-in-a-while, at a party. Next thing, you know, I was turning to cocaine to actually maintain my schedule, keep myself awake, go to school all day, go to the after-school programme and work, and then come home and need a way to stay awake so I could keep up with my studies.
I also then started to drink alcohol on a daily basis.
I was drinking maybe a bottle of whiskey a day.
What I started was to get through school, and it ended up, I was failing out of school.
At that point it was like, gig's up. My dad called Narconon. 12 hours later, I was there.
While I was going through, something like really clicked for me, realizing and feeling that I am in control. It was actually empowering.
Since I've completed the programme, I have gone back to school and finished my degree and graduated with straight As both semesters, while I was also working. And I did it on my own.
Narconon gave me this tenacity to attack life.


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I'm currently working on displaying twitter geo data (currently just long/lat -> cartesian without any analysis).
This is the world map (source: naturalearthdata): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14747311/world.png
This is the rendered data: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14747311/overlay.png. The mapping is done via mercator projection (with R = 1):
x = ((long + 180)/360)*x_dim
y = (y_dim/2) - ((arsinh(tan(lat))*(y_dim/2) (lat converted to radiant of course)
Now, the shape is apparent, but of course, the projections don't match. How can I fix that? (programming experience is plentiful, so it's more the theoretical side I'm concerned with).


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How to cook for a cancer patient
The news comes in a phone call or an e-mail from your relative, friend or neighbor: They've been diagnosed with cancer.
What can you do? How about bringing over a meal?
Hold that thought. And don't hurry to the computer, because the information linking cancer and food isn't always reliable.
"The first thing people do is bring over the comfort food, and it's loaded with cheese and dairy, or it's cookies and cakes, and it's feel-good food, but it's detrimental to the recovery of the cancer patient," says Cheryl Rojic, a holistic-health coach trained at Integrative Nutrition. She is also a cancer survivor and works with cancer patients.
"I think people panic. It's 'OMG, something's wrong, so let's feed them with comfort food.' Those foods can cause a happy reaction in the brain, but only for a short time. You can eat a couple spoonfuls of a cheesy casserole, and half an hour later, you're exhausted and depressed."
Instead, Rojic suggests recipes that use fresh organic produce and raw foods. Unroasted cashews, macadamia nuts or pumpkin seeds, which can be soaked in water and then blended into protein-rich purees and nut butters.
"Fresh, organic foods are usually the best -- fresh berries, organic chicken, something like that, is better than the cheesy pile of pasta whatever," she said.
Ask before you cook
Rojic and other nutritionists -- and their clients -- want well-meaning friends to ask their loved ones a few questions before heading for the kitchen. For example:
Has cancer altered your sense of taste? Appetite? Your sense of smell?
Does your treatment program leave you with a sore mouth?
Do sweet foods seem sweeter to you now?
Do you find sour or spicy foods appealing?
Do you prefer bland foods?
What specific foods have you stopped eating?
What kind of protein appeals to you now?
Has your treatment program resulted in constipation or diarrhea? (Too much information, perhaps, but important in knowing which ingredients to use or avoid.)
Unless they've been a cancer patient or a caregiver, most people don't know that different kinds of cancer, and different cancer treatments, alter the way bodies process food. Someone with a sore mouth will find it difficult or painful to eat raspberries or flaxseeds, which have sharp, irritating points that can injure the patient's tender mouth.
" It really varies according to what kind of cancer people have," said University of Colorado Cancer Center clinical dietitian Lisa Wingrove, who was her husband's primary caretaker when he underwent cancer treatment.
"What we tend to find is that people, even before starting treatment, will have taste changes, because of changes in their hormones and the inflammation that occurs as part of your body's response to having cancer."
Don't forget the protein
Boosting protein is important for cancer patients, Wingrove and Rojic say. When Wingrove meets with new patients to discuss nutrition plans, they often tell her that they've cut red meat from their diet.
"What are you replacing it with?" she will ask.
"Well, I'm not," is the usual response.
"A lot of people like carbohydrates and find them comforting, but there's no protein in that stuff," Wingrove said.
"This is a disease that reduces the albumin [a simple form of protein found in blood serum] in your cells. If you're not eating protein, then pretty soon we've got a problem. Inflammation breaks down albumin, and cancer itself does too, so we need to work hard to maintain protein intake. And the proteins we've relied on all our lives, chicken or meat or fish, don't taste so good. Alternative proteins, like eggs, quinoa, legumes, beans and nut butters seem to be tolerated better," Wingrove continued.
"You need to eat protein to increase your albumin, and you're already competing against the disease breaking it down. Our biggest challenge is helping patients have good protein intake."
Cancer alters smell, taste
Part of that challenge is that both cancer and cancer treatment may dramatically alter the way food smells and tastes.
"Some people will say that food tastes super-sweet to them, that foods they normally like -- cookies, for example -- are unpalatably sweet. They do better with sour flavors. Another thing is smell. If you sit down to a pungent food, like lasagna, which is the ultimate comfort food that people bring over, you get that heavy aroma, and it makes patients feel a little queasy. Or it can make them feel like they've eaten a meal before they've even picked up a fork."
And some people will feel like -- how to put this tactfully? -- that particular meal has already returned to say hello. Nausea can force a cancer patient to turn away from a five-star chef's greatest amuse-bouche.
"This usually is related to food hitting the taste and smell receptors before the fork even enters the mouth," Wingrove said.
"I recently saw a young breast-cancer patient who reported severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhea after her first round of chemo. The MD changed her anti-emetics to reduce the nausea and vomiting, scheduled for her to get extra fluids during infusion, and scheduled an additional appointment for closer evaluation, Wingrove said.
"I worked on foods to reduce diarrhea, and ways for her to use over-the-counter meds to help."
Still, "some regimens are more nauseating than others," she acknowledged. Dehydration makes nausea, pain and fatigue even worse. Wingrove encourages those patients to try protein-enhanced smoothies and other beverages, and to request scheduled intravenous fluid intake twice a week.
She also observed that room-temperature food, and "non-fragrant" foods, like mashed potato (or mashed taro, yuca root or steamed plaintain), may be better tolerated by patients prone to nausea.
When Rojic teaches "Healthful Habits" cooking and nutrition classes to cancer patients, she points out how the ingredients in her recipes address specific symptoms and needs.
For example, the cilantro in her gazpacho soup is a high-potassium and low-sodium herb that may help lower blood pressure. Tomatoes are full of lycopene, an antioxidant believed to prevent many cancers, and helps reduce cholesterol and minimizes heart disease. Cucumbers offer B vitamins, encourage hydration and detoxification.
But the best ingredient that friends and family can offer is their presence.
"People who bring over food tend to drop it off and go," Rojic said.
"Maybe they're afraid to catch something, or worried that they'll say something wrong, or that you don't feel good. Company is what we crave. It's good for the soul."
Feeding someone with cancer
A cancer patient has different nutritional needs and considerations, so find out how the disease and treatment affect the patient's appetite, digestion, sense of taste and smell, and what foods are most appealing.


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Warnings for snow, heavy rain and storm-force winds are in place across Oxfordshire today.
A Met Office yellow warning has been issued, meaning residents should be aware that severe weather is possible over the next few days and could affect them.
People are being advised to plan ahead and consider possible travel delays.
Met Office spokesperson Nicola Maxey said the warning for sleet and between 2cm to 5cm of snow for Oxfordshire was in place overnight until 10am today.
But the snow is not expected to settle, with a band of heavy rain due to cross the county.
Between 15 and 25mm of rain is set to fall from 9am until 9pm today. Ms Maxey said: "One of the real issues for the day will be the wind which could reach speeds of 50 to 60mph."
Winds over 40mph are classed as gale force with 55 to 63mph winds counted as storm-force.


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The Asus VivoTab Smart will be on shelves in major Australian retailers this week.
Retailers include JB HiFi, Harvey Norman, Dick Smith Electronics, Bing Lee, Office Works, The Good Guys, Retravision, Costco, EB Games, Radio Rentals, Leading Edge and BSR. Authorised Asus resellers will also have access to the device, which comes in black or white.
VivoTab Smart is a Windows 8 tablet with a 10.1-inch HD display featuring an Intel Atom dual-core processor.
The device contains an LED-backlit display with 1366 x 768 HD resolution. In addition, IPS display technology delivers 178-degree wide viewing angles and provides clear and bright images, even when seen from the side. It also has five-point multi-touch for fluid fingertip control with Windows 8.
Asus claims the VivoTab Smart has 9.5 hours battery life on a single charge and is compatible with both Windows 8 store and desktop apps, along with plug and play support for a wide range of existing peripherals.
The 8-megapixel rear camera has auto-focus, a five-element lens and 1080p Full HD video recording. It will retail for $599.


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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
The Pope's announcement on Monday that he will resign at the end of February surprised the world, and even many of his closest aides.
But one friend of Pope Benedict XVI isn't shocked at all.
"I've known him for many years. I'm not surprised at this decision that he made today because he's always placed the emphasis – the priority of the Catholic Church over any kind of ambition," the Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Joseph Flynn, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday. "I think he has really recognized and sees that this is an opportunity to move the Church forward for a more energetic person in good health."
The Pope has admitted in the last four or five months that he is in declining health, Flynn said.
In the video above, Flynn says the timing of the Pope's announcement may have to do with Lent, an important six week period for many Christian denominations leading to Easter Sunday, which begins this week.
I'm good with the ex-Nazi quitting.
I'm not a big fan of the catholic church per se, and I don't mean this comment of mine to seem overly negative, but your Nazi reference shows how little you understand of why he was in the hitler youth, and what it meant. He was in a catholic school, and it was required at the time and the leaders of that school put everyone in the hitler youth in order to keep the school open. They were told if they didn't, the school would be closed. It was one of those political moves that had no other implications. They didn't partake in any activites or anything else. I would be surprised if any of the kids even knew of it when it happened. That having been said, you can still dislike the guy, but it just would make sense to dislike him for real reasons.
The child abuse scandals or money laundry scams by the joint mafia-vatican deals? New secrets will soon surface!
The poor old man is overwhelmed by new evidence that shall soon be exposed, he just doesnt want anything to do with it!
Thats the reason why his friends & accomplices are not so surprised, they fear a mass suicide by the church officials!!! When Nostradamus predicted the destruction & end of Roman Empire ,he wasnt kidding!!! The time is just about NOW!!!! Infact it coincides with the end of the mayan call – Ender!!!!
It won't be the first Pope outside of Europe-that's impossible: Popes Gelasius I, Miltiades, & Victor I were all Africans.
The former mayor and ambassador is Raymond Flynn, not Joseph Flynn.
Spare a thought for the countless altar boys who have been anally abused by their trusted parish priest. I am sure they will be following the latest news from the Vatican.
So, we are now in for an election by fellow paedophiles for the next person who can best protect the child abusing priests and members of the RC clergy.
OBrien is the one with red hair, isn't he the one that should prove he is not orangutan-spawn?
The real question is how will this protect the choir boys who will be anally raped by the men of God in the next 12 months. Will it simply be business as usual?
Just a point of clarification: The man being interviewed is named Ray Flynn.
Lightning hits St Peter's hours after Pope Benedict stuns cardinals with first resignation in 600 years
· Pontiff, 85, says health 'no longer adequate due to his advanced age'
· 'I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry'
· Made the decision in 'full freedom' but is aware of 'gravity of gesture'
· Doctor advised him 'not to take transatlantic flights for health reasons'
· Will retire on February 28, a decision that shocked even the Vatican
· The only Pope to quit for health reasons and first to stand down since Gregory XII in 1415
Lightning struck the St. Peter's Basilica Monday, hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will resign as leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics on February 28. In this photo taken by Filippo Monteforte, the St. Peter's iconic dome received a direct hit from lightning during stormy weather.
Yes! A true act of leadership. Nelson Mandela did it. Only leaders that have the led at heart will do such. A man of peace, love and unity. I know he has seen it fit for the church.
So when did Christiane Amanpour turn into a Catholic apologist over the Pope's resignation? It's amazing how the mainstream media is completely ignoring the fact that the Vatican is facing legal action against the Pope over the thousands of pedophile priests. That Holy See's property has public liens against it for seizure.
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Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: I Go Like the Raven
Once again, I am switching things up, and running the For a Song feature first this week. Next week…., well next week is another story that I will tell everyone about soon. Meanwhile…
My wife and I are always sprinkling song references into our conversations. We have done this every since we first got together. As my daughter gets older, she becomes more and more amazed by this. So we have a saying in the house: everything is a musical reference. I have a good friend on line who is just discovering this about me. I was kind enough to drop two song references on her that I knew she would recognize. One of them was to this song.
Some birds are just birds, but the raven has accumulated a body of lore over the years. Back in the days when warfare meant hand-to-hand combat, ravens would appear on fields where a battle had just ended. People believed that they were there to collect the spirits of fallen warriors, and take them to the afterlife. For this reason, raven goddesses were death goddesses, sacred to warriors. Over time, belief systems changed. But the raven continued to be regarded as a bad omen. This dark mood is very much present in I Go Like the Raven. There are a variety of supernatural creatures in the lyrics, and the song's protagonist soars not above but among them.
I just realized that I posted this song as part of a theme post back in November. However, it is worthy of a few more words than I gave it that time. And, (thank you), I have many people visiting now who weren't then. So, if you heard this when I posted it last, I hope you liked the write-up this time. And if this is new to you, I hope you enjoyed it, and will be coming back.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
For a Song: I Go Like the Raven
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Craig et al v. Bayer CropScience LP et al
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CONDITIONAL TRANSFER ORDER (CTO-33)transferring case to Eastern District of Missouri to become part of MDL 1811. (Attachments: # 1 MDL Transfer Letter)(mkf)
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Thomas Rhett dropped a new video for his single, "Life Changes," which is currently No. 13 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart.
Directed by Shaun Silva and shot across multiple stops on his Life Changes Tour, the video features TR performing onstage, spending time with his wife and two kids, working out and much more.
"This song is super personal and reflects exactly how much things have changed for me in the past year," Thomas Rhett said. "Having the girls out on tour has changed what being on the road looks like for me . . . it just seems to keep getting more and more fun. And, I think the fans might even cheer louder for them than me!"
"Life Changes" was penned by TR, Rhett Akins, Jesse Frasure and Ashley Gorley and is the title track to TR's third studio album, which debuted atop the all-genre Billboard 200 in September 2017.
Watch TR's new video below.
photo by Tammie Arroyo, AFF-USA.com