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Dave's latest dog: Lots of saccharine at this grocery
A spoonful of sugar helps the saccharine (or Splenda, if you prefer) go down in Because of Winn-Dixie, a movie guaranteed to rot your teeth.
You should ignore my cynicism if you've been waiting for a picture that you can take the whole family to about a cute little girl and a cute medium-sized dog.
As an extra added attraction there's bandster Dave Matthews following up his acting debut in the direct-to-video Where the Red Fern Grows. He hums and strums and even sings a little, and he doesn't keep nodding like a bobble-head to show he's awake, the way he did in Red Fern.
India Opal Buloni (AnnaSophia Robb) has just moved to Naomi, Florida, with her father, "The Preacher" (Jeff Daniels). Naomi's a small town full of lonely people. How lonely are they? Eleanor Rigby could win Miss Congeniality there.
The Preacher opens the Open Arms Baptist Church in the former Pick-It-Quick Food Mart. Opal, as his daughter would be known to her friends (if she had any), lays claims to a dog that runs amok in the supermarket and names it after the store: Winn-Dixie. (A better dog's name than Pick-It-Quick.) She brings him home and persuades her father to let her keep him until they can find him another home.
This doesn't sit well with the owner of the trailer park where they're living rent-free (a tax write-off: charitable contribution). Mr. Alfred waived his "No children or dogs allowed" policy for 10-year-old Opal, but he won't for Winn-Dixie. "You want a home or a dog?" he asks the Preacher.
The dog gives Opal the impetus to make friends with everyone: Franny (Eva Marie Saint), the librarian who never married ("I didn't have the need"); Gloria (Cicely Tyson), the blind recluse who's rumored to be a witch; and Otis (Matthews), the pet store clerk who lets the animals out of their cages and sings to them.
"It's no good bein' locked up," he tells Opal. Gee, you don't think his character knows from experience, do you? You'll find out soon enough.
It takes a little longer, but Opal also makes friends with some kids: stuck-up Amanda, young Sweetie Pie, and the surly Dewberry boys. "Just about everything good that happened that summer," she tells us, "happened because of Winn-Dixie."
Periodically Winn-Dixie goes on a rampage and tears up the trailer or interrupts a church service. No one seems to mind. They're as grateful for the comic relief as we are. It's especially welcome after a long series of scenes in which everybody tells the sad stories of their lives.
That includes the Preacher, who finally gives Opal some details about why her mother walked out on them seven years before.
AnnaSophia Robb is the same age as Dakota Fanning, whose little sister Elle plays Sweetie Pie, but while Dakota really inhabits her characters, AnnaSophia does everything she's supposed to do without making any of it believable. Cute, but not believable. Like the dog that plays Winn-Dixie, she's so perfect she seems more animatronic than alive.
The adults, all of whom have supporting roles, perform well enough. Wayne Wang directs them too broadly sometimes, on the theory that young viewers can't appreciate subtlety. He should have been more concerned about the long, talky, often preachy segments, which are a chore for anyone to sit through unless they're really enchanted with the whole thing.
The group I saw the film with was evenly divided. Of two women, each the mother of two boys, one liked it and one didn't. Two pre-adolescent brothers split the same way. As for me, I got through it by fantasizing about a cage match between Winn-Dixie and Benji.


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History of Iran
The History of Iran, historically known to the West as Persia, stretched back to 600 BC. For recent events see Iran.
Perdia was once a major empire in its own right, has been overrun frequently and has had its territory altered throughout the centuries. Invaded by Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, and others—and often caught up in the affairs of larger powers—Iran has always reasserted its national identity and has developed as a distinct political and cultural entity.
see Persian Empire
The sixth millennium B.C. saw a fairly sophisticated agricultural society and proto-urban population centers. Many dynasties have ruled Iran, starting with the Achaemenid (559-330 B.C.) founded by Cyrus the Great. After the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic period (300-250 B.C.) came the Parthian (250 B.C.-226 A.D.) and the Sassanian (226-651) dynasties.
Muslim Conquest
The seventh century Arab-Muslim conquest of Iran was followed with invasions by the Seljuk Turks and the Mongols. Iran underwent something of a revival under the Safavid dynasty (1502-1736), the most prominent figure of which was Shah Abbas, who expelled the Uzbeks and Ottomans from Persia. The conqueror Nadir Shah and his successors were followed by the Zand dynasty, founded by Karim Khan, and later the Qajar (1795-1925) and the Pahlavi dynasties (1925-1979).
Modern Era
Modern Iranian history began with a nationalist uprising against the Shah in 1905 and the establishment of a limited constitutional monarchy in 1906. The discovery of oil in 1908 would later become a key factor in Iranian history and development.
In 1921, Reza Khan, an Iranian officer of the Persian Cossack Brigade, seized control of the government. In 1925, having ousted the Qajar dynasty, he made himself Shah and established the Pahlavi dynasty, ruling as Reza Shah for almost 16 years.
Under Reza Shah's reign, Iran began to modernize and to secularize, and the central government reasserted its authority over the tribes and provinces. During World War Two the Allies feared the monarch close relations with Nazi Germany. In September 1941, following the occupation of western Iran by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, Reza Shah was forced to abdicate. His son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, became Shah and would rule until 1979.
During World War II Iran was openly partial to the Axis cause. A joint Anglo-Soviet military action began on 25 August 1941 when 40,000 Soviet troops entered Iran from the north and headed for Tehran. On the same day about 19,000 British Commonwealth troops, mostly in Indian brigades, entered from various directions. There was slight resistance on the part of Iranian troops but no force Iran could not have withstood the power of the occupying armies of British Empire and the Soviet Union, and German assistance by air was now as far away as Crete. On 30 August 1941 identical notes were submitted by the invading powers to the Iranian Government which accepted their terms on 9 September. On 16 September the Shah abdicated in favor of his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and left the country. The next day Tehran was jointly occupied by the British and Soviet troops without show of military force.
The terms imposed by Tri-Partite Treaty of alliance signed on 29 January 1942 disavowed any designs against the territorial integrity of Iran or independence. Iran agreed to refrain from any act contrary to British or Soviet interests.[1]
Soviet political "agitprops," graduates from the Lenin Institute in Moscow, were dispatched to exploit whatever resentment and hostility toward the "imperialist warmongers" of the West they might encounter or stir up. The Tudeh party, founded early in 1942, at once began to lay the ground work for the Communist uprisings which followed World War II. The Tudeh party, guided by the Soviet officials who at the same time were supervising the movement of American lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union through Iran, began openly agitating against the Anglo-Saxon "exploiters." By 1944 Iran's mushrooming, Soviet-financed Tudeh press openly called the British and Americans "fascists," "reactionaries," and "imperialist." [2]
In 1949 the Angelo-Persian Oil Company negotiated an agreement with the Iranian government under which it would pay the government 25 to 30 per cent of its net profits, The British government controlled 52 per cent of the stock of the company. Under pressure from the Shia clergy and members of the Communist Tudeh party, the Iranian government led by Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh did not ratify the agreement and on May 2, 1951, nationalized ownership of the oil industry. In October Britain shut down Abadan, the world's largest refinery, on the Persian Gulf, and boycotted Iranian oil for the next two years. 30 per cent of Iran's national income previously came from oil exports. Iranian production fell from 424,000 barrels a day in 1947 to 59,000 in 1954, while Saudi Arabia rose from 246,000 barrels to 953,000, and Kuwait from 45,000 barrels to 953,000.
In January 1953 the Iranian parliament extended Mossadegh's dictatorial powers. The following month, Mossadegh denounced the Shah for intrigues with "foreign interests". On February 28 the Shah announced he would abdicate "for reasons of health". Serious riots followed when the Shah's supporters clashed with Mossadegh's supporters in the streets. The Shah canceled his plan of abdication. Meanwhile, the United States ambassador presented proposals to end the impasse with the United Kingdom, one proposal was for a consortium of oil companies to replace Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and buy from Iran's nationalized industry. Mossadegh rejected the suggestion and continued to complain about the boycott.
On July 19 Mossadegh dissolved the Majlis and called for a plebiscite on August 2. The Tudeh party, which was staging violent demonstrations in the streets, by the end of July openly supported Mossadegh while the Soviet Union offered desperately needed economic assistance. Mossadegh received 99.4 per cent of the vote and on August 8 Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov told the Supreme Soviet that the Soviet Union had been conducting negotiations with Iran since June and concluded a series of agreements on border, aid, and trade issues. The Shah, who still held the position of Head of State, asked for the resignation of the government and appointed a successor.
When Mossadegh received word, he began mass arrests. Two days of chaos ensued. Rioters smashed statues of the Shah and his father and screamed, "Death to the Shah!" With assurances from the CIA, the Iranian Army turned against the officers Mossadegh installed, and drove rioters off the streets. On August 19, Mossadegh turned himself over to the Shah's forces and was jailed along with Tudeh leaders. In December he was sentenced to three years in solitary confinement. The Iranian economy and living standards of the people gradually recovered as oil exports regained a market share which had been decimated during the previous two years. The Shah, who could not be seen as too close to the West because of Iran's domestic situation, nevertheless expressed his understating of the importance of Iran's position in the region, and the world, as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism.
The Shah recognized and secured formal diplomatic relations with Israel and did he participate in the Arab oil embargoes during the Six Day War of 1967 and Yom Kippur War of 1973. The US and British Mediterranean Fleets were provided with oil by the Shah. During the Yom Kippur War the Shah deterred Sadam Hussein from playing any role by moving Iranian troops to the border, and with covert aid to the Kurds of Iraq which kept the Iraqi Army diverted.
For a more detailed treatment, see Islamic Revolution.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini emerged as an active critic of the Shah's increasingly autocratic government. Khomeini was imprisoned and later exiled, but popular anti-government sentiment continued to spread.
During the Carter presidency, the State Department's Bureau of Human Rights was headed by Patricia Derian, who publicly deplored aspects of the Shah's rule, particularly SAVAK, and issued low ratings for Iran's and other pro-American government's treatment of dissidents. Aligned with Derian in a general way was President Carter's Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, who on one occasion had referred to the Ayatollah Khomeini as a "saint." The American Ambassador to Iran, William Sullivan, a veteran diplomat of many years experience and an acute observer of the stresses in Iranian society, sought to steer a middle course through the official U.S. debates on Iran. Nevertheless, when instructed, Sullivan also would remind the Shah of the State Department's concern (and presumably President Carter's) about the regime's treatment of its enemies.
By the fall of 1978, events in Iran were moving fast. The Iranian armed forces—whose officer corps had been carefully cultivated by the Shah and had sworn a personal oath of allegiance to him—witnessed the growing disorder and violence in Tehran. Knowing of the Carter administration's discomfort at attempts to repress it, the generals nevertheless urged the Shah to crack down. The result, enacted on the 7th of September, was "martial law" without exactly being martial law. Opponents of the Shah quickly found they could challenge their sovereign's authority and court the foreign media.
Khomeini returned from exile in France to Teheran on 31 January 1979. On 11 February the Shah fled, and mobs armed with machine guns attacked the U.S. embassy. Iran's armed forces did not respond. On 3 November 1979, the American embassy was stormed again, and 66 U.S. personnel were taken prisoner. Thirteen were released in a few days, but the remainder stayed captive in Iran until 30 minutes after Jimmy Carter had turned the White House over to Ronald Reagan at noon on 21 January 1981.[3]
In 1984 the Reagan administration as part of its policy of Containment, and in seeking to secure an ally for Israel, sought to repair the breach that occurred with a longtime ally in 1980. Oliver North of the National Security Council staff was dispatched to Tehran with a proposal to reconcile the United States and Israels differences with the Shia Islamic regime. The proposal entailed sales of Tow missiles to help Iran break the deadlock in the trench war with Iraq. The United States and its allies feared a militarized Iraq could pose a threat to the region, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, if Iraq emerged from the war as victor.
Iran needed the weapons after US arms sales were cutoff in the wake of the break in diplomatic relations. Iraq had invaded the majority Arab Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran in September 1980. The ensuing Iran-Iraq War lasted until 1988, when some naval operations by the United States against Iran impressed the impossibility of their position upon the Iranian leadership. Iran finally signed an armistice which ceded to Iraq the Shatt al-Arab waterway, the latter country's main war aim. Less than three years later, Iraq ceded it back to guarantee Iranian neutrality in the Gulf War against the United States.
After the war, Iran continued to support Hezbollah, the most powerful Shiite militia in Lebanon, which had waged war against the United States during the latter's intervention to end the 1982 Israeli invasion. With Iran's assistance, Hezbollah launched terrorist attacks even against such clearly inoffensive countries as Argentina, which seems to have been attacked because there were Jews there. The head of Iranian intelligence during the early 1990s, Ali Fallahian, was indicted along with various Hezbollah operatives and an international arrest warrant was issued for him in March 2007, which the Iranians immediately appealed. This and the Iranian role in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing prevented any normalization of relations, even after Mohammed Khatami became President of Iran in 1997 and made this one of the principal goals of his administration.
Khatami was seen by some in the West as a possible Iranian version of Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Kingdom reestablished relations with Iran in 1999. His coalition was dominated by persons who clearly wished to make Iran a normal country. However, the limitations of the President in the Iranian system allowed Iranian conservatives to marginalize his supporters and close media outlets friendly to his policies. Although he won reelection in 2001 and cooperated with the United States to some extent against their mutual enemy the Taliban, his supporters were not able to take the next logical step that Boris Yeltsin and other anti-communist Russians did under Gorbachev, that is, unite to completely replace the existing political system. Because they had been able to outmaneuver him politically, Iranian conservatives also did not oblige with a corresponding coup d'état against Khatami. Normal relations with the United States probably will require just this sort of replacement of the existing Iranian constitution, but the popularity of Khatami and congruent popular distaste for his successor indicates that may be possible without war.
Iran is currently ruled by the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the second theocrat of the country, who has been in office since the death of Khomenei in 1989. He is considered to have a less extreme anti-Western bias than his predecessor. It is governed on a day-to-day basis by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected by several Western nations to be developing nuclear weapons to use against Israel and America. Domestically, however, he is facing questioning and possible impeachment by the Iranian Parliament, who see him as too extreme.
The Iranian constitution calls for a Presidential election once every four years (in practice, the year following Presidential elections in the United States). Candidates are selected by the Guardian Council, an unelected clerical body. Presidents are limited to two terms as in the United States. While since 1981 no Iranian President has been defeated for reelection, elections lacking an incumbent have been quite lively, as was the 2005 election, which Ahmadinejad only won at the runoff stage.
Beginning in 2004, U.S. President George W. Bush is reported to have signed a series of Executive Orders initiating covert operations aimed at destabilizing the Iranian regime.[4] The CIA was authorized to supply communications equipment which would enable opposition groups in Iran to work together and bypass internet censorship by the clerical regime.[5] During the domestic unrest following the post-election protests in which opposition groups accused the regime of rigged elections, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Twitter networking service to keep the system running, leading to complaints from Iran's government. Protesters used Twitter to communicate amid the clampdown.[6]
In the Iranian presidential elections of 2013, the reformist Hassan Rouhani won.[7] Rouhani wants to improve the relationships with the US and Israel. But it does make no difference because the real power got Ali Khamenei.[8]
In 2015 President Barack Obama negotiated an Iranian nuke deal allowing Iran to build nuclear weapons in 13 years. In 2018 President Donald Trump rescinded the deal.
Further reading
- Ferrier, R. W., ed. The Arts of Persia. (1989). 334 pp.
- Irving, Clive. Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History. (1980). 223 pp.
- Katouzian, Homa. The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (2009), scholarly survey
- Mackey, Sandra. The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation. (1996). 448 pp.
- Allen, Lindsay. The Persian Empire (2005)
- Holland, Tom. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2007) excerpt and text search
- Katouzian, Homa. The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (2009), scholarly survey
- Stierlin, Henri. Splendors of The Persian Empire (2006), art abd architecture
Medieval to 1900
- Morgan, David. Medieval Persia, 1040-1797. (1988). 197 pp.
- Savory, Roger. Iran under the Safavids. (1980). 277 pp. covers 1501-1722 AD.
- Foran, John. Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution. (1993). 452 pp.
20th century
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982).
- Akhavi, Shahrough. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran (1980).
- Amid, Mohammad. Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran (1990).
- Ansari, Ali. Modern Iran Since 1921 (2003).
- Arjomand, Said Amir. The Turban for the Crown. The Islamic Revolution in Iran (1988).
- Bayat, Mangol. Iran's First Revolution (1991).
- Burke, Edmund, and Yaghoubian, David, eds. Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (2nd ed. 2006).
- Dabashi, Hamid. Theology of Discontent. The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1993).
- Kamrava, Mehran. The Political History of Modern Iran: From Tribalism to Theocracy. (1992). 177 pp.
- Keddie, Nikki. Roots of Revolution (1981).
- Kedourie, Elie and Haim, Syvia G., eds. Towards a Modern Iran: Studies in Thought, Politics, and Society. (1980). 262 pp.
- McDaniel, Tim. Autocracy, Modernization, and Revolution in Russia and Iran (1991).
- Martin, Vanessa. Islam and Modernism (1989).
- Moin, Baqer. Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah (1999).
- Schayegh, Cyrus. "Recent Trends in the Historiography of Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty, 1921–1979" History Compass v.6 #6 (Nov. 2008) pp 1400–1406 DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00558.x online
Primary sources
- Alexander, Yonah and Nanes, Allan, eds. The United States and Iran: A Documentary History. (1980). 524 pp.
See also
- ↑ United States Army in World War II, The Middle East Theater The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia, T. H. Vail Motter, Center of Military History United States Army Washington, D.C., 2000. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 52-60791. First Printed 1952-CMH Pub 8-1.
- ↑ The Yalta Betrayal, Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 20, 54.
- ↑ Grinter, Dr. Lawrence E. Avoiding the Burden: The Carter Doctrine in Perspective Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (January–February 1983): 73-82.
- ↑ Reports Suggest Obama Faces Early Choice On Iran Covert Ops, Ron Synovitz, Globalsecurity.org January 13, 2009.
- ↑ Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran, London Telegraph, 27 May 2007.
- ↑ Hillary Clinton defends Twitter efforts for Iran, L.A. Times, June 17, 2009.
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/15/early-results-in-iran-presidential-election-give-reformist-backed-rowhani-wide/
- ↑ http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/the-islamic-republic-goes-to-the-polls/


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Tiger Woods says he won't play the British Open as his left leg continues to heal.
Woods announced Tuesday on his website that he has been advised not to play next week at Royal St. George's.
The decision is not a big surprise, considering he said last week at the AT&T National that he has not hit balls since The Players Championship nearly two months ago.
He will be replaced in the field by Brendan Jones.
Woods says he will not return to competition until he feels his left knee and Achilles are 100 percent recovered.
He did not say when that might be. This is the second straight major that Woods will miss.
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AUBURN (AP) — State officials are celebrating the imminent completion of what is being billed as the biggest freeway renovation project in California in years.
Crews are putting the final touches on the $820 million, 15-year effort to revamp Interstate 80 starting about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento to the Nevada state line, 423 miles worth of lanes, the Sacramento Bee reported The road crosses the Sierra and is a major truck route in addition to carrying vacationers headed to Lake Tahoe.
Dignitaries posed for pictures and lit a symbolic Olympic torch at a celebratory gathering for the project Wednesday. The original road was built between 1957 and 1964, and state officials timed the completion of the Sacramento-to-Truckee leg for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, the Bee reported.
The renovation is in fact a series of projects that began in the late 1990s after officials determined the freeway had outlived its functional life. The high mountain sections of the freeway, in particular, were gouged where trucks and cars had passed with snow chains.
In some cases, the entire freeway was removed and replaced. In other spots, a new slab of concrete was put on top.
"These 15 projects have brought I-80 back to its original glory while updating it to modern standards," said Rick Land, a California Department of Transportation chief deputy director.
The new freeway is expected to have a longer life. Concrete slabs put down in key high-mountain sections are thicker, giving crews extra inches to grind down when the road becomes rutted. And slabs of different lengths are expected to cut down on the damaging up-and-down movement of trucks as they cross from one slab to another, said David Catania, Caltrans construction manager.
Funding for the project came from the state and federal governments and California voter-approved bonds.


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Food Photo 101: Shooting BBQ
March 25, 2008 in BBQ, Food Photo 101
I am sorry that the next class in this series has taken so long to produce.
Today I am going to step away from technical and aesthetic foci, be a bit less formal and try to tackle some of the challenges of shooting BBQ'd foods and scenes for your blog.
Some of you, like Curt, may have a preference (or obsession) for BBQ so many of your images are going to have similar BBQ related needs.
When I think of BBQ I think of my backyard and mostly grilling, which is not BBQing at all.
Grilling is, I think, much easier to shoot because the grill can be better lit and you are not trying to capture the unctuous depths of a pit smoker.
Pit Smoker
Both cooking methods can give you similar problems – mainly dark, lumpy chunks of delicious meat that is mostly not photogenic or not nearly photogenic enough to equal the beauty of it's flavor.
It is also hard to "food style" away the essential darkness of a perfectly smoked BBQ'd pork butt because that, in person, is what is so arresting in its beauty. In a photo, the pork butt looks like it has been burned and dried to inedibility (when, in fact, its smoked and moist).
Another problem with BBQ and grilling is that its a shame to lose the context by focusing too closely. If you show just the BBQ'd rib you miss the dramatic smoky grill, pit, or smoker. This means you might want to shoot outside and then lighting becomes less predictable (but exciting too). To do any sort of ambient outdoor shooting you need to master your manual settings, shoot lots of shots from many angles, and be patient!
Go for detail, interesting point of view, drama, and emphasize context whenever possible.
Did I mention that you should be patient? Be patient with yourself mostly because you need to take the time to capture many alternative shots but you need to also take the time to go through all of those shots and asses which ones work, how they happened and also identify those that didn't work. Those that didn't work can be helpful teaching tools for you so that the next time you will know what to avoid (not that you would take any fewer shots, just that the ones you do take will likely not repeat too many of the previous mistakes).
I have been including various shots above from my own grilling and BBQ. Next I am going to show some images from a shoot a couple of weeks ago that I did at Brian Trietman's B.T.'s Smokehouse (see these two blog posts: An improbable meat nirvana in a BBQ wasteland, Criminally Good Smoked Salmon and Bacon – B.T.'s Smokehouse). I was shooting inside of his mini-restaurant and I had no special plates because I wanted the location and the non-fussy nature of the BBQ to show through.
I took a flash head but did not end up using it. Below you can see a shot of the set up – a table by some windows and a fluorescent light overhead. The light coming in from the windows was super-bright bluish light bouncing off of the snow outside. By far, the most dominant light was from the windows.
I wasn't that happy with the light in that location and my attempts to bounce didn't give me much sparkle as you can see below.
I did some other shooting in the mini-restaurant/service window but didn't do much outside because the snow was just too much for getting much of a shot. I used my Canon 30D kit lens for the general shots below.
Your Task
Using everything you have learned in the past Food Photo 101 classes, go out and either shoot your own BBQ (I am sure Curt will because he has quite the set up and I am looking forward to seeing it!) or perhaps find an event where some real pit BBQers are doing their thing.
Post it to your blog and send us your link or post it to the Food Photo 101 group on Flickr.
Thats it! I am looking forward to seeing what you all submit.
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METARIE, La. - "American Idol" picked Nicki Minaj as a judge to draw in viewers, but she's actually discouraged at least one person from watching it — her mentor, Lil Wayne.
The rap star admitted Friday that he has yet to see "Idol" this season — or any other season.
Lil Wayne says part of the reason he hasn't tuned in to see Minaj is because she told him it wasn't his type of show. However, he says he heard the talent on the show is pretty good.
Lil Wayne spoke Friday after signing autographs for more than 100 fans who were at a suburban New Orleans Macy's to support his Trukfit clothing line. A couple hundred more were waiting outside for a glimpse of the star.


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Group argues that zoning code prohibits a Supercenter
A neighborhood group headed by former mayor Kelly Kirschner is appealing a planning board decision to allow Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to build a 24-hour-a-day Supercenter on the fringes of downtown Sarasota.
Wal-Mart's plan for the 98,000-square-foot store at the Ringling Shopping Plaza, combining general merchandise and grocery sales, was approved Nov. 14 by city planners.
Because the land is zoned for retail commercial use, planners said City Commission approval is not required.
While a few residents registered mild complaints at the planning board meeting, their concerns had more to do with providing a pathway through the Walmart parking lot to Payne Park, than with whether the Supercenter is allowed under existing code.
Kirschner told the Herald-Tribune that he spoke "with every single planning board member before the meeting."
"My understanding was they were conversant with the zoning code, and specifically with the fact that a department store is a prohibited use in that zoning district.
"That is a district that is exclusively for small-scale retail and is extremely sensitive to architectural design," Kirschner said. He said the zoning provisions on the Alta Vista neighborhood "says it is extremely sensitive to operating hours."
Wal-Mart plans to operate the store 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A Wal-Mart spokesman said that the company typically expects to open a store one year after approval.
City Hall spokeswoman Jan Thornburg confirmed Thursday that the email initiating the appeal was filed in a timely manner.
Kirschner said he expected to solidify opposition to the plan at a Thursday night meeting of the Alta Vista Neighborhood Association.
Developer Ron Burks, who controls a planned nearby condo project, joined in initiating the appeal, as did Juanita Rawlinson, Candy Spaulding, Jerry Sparkman and Marian Maxson.
The appeal is not on the City Commission's agenda.
"It will be up to City Commission whether they want to hear or don't," Thornburg said. "If yes, it will be set for a public hearing. If no, that is end of it as far as the commission is concerned."
"It is important that they do hear this," said Kirschner. "This is something that is of great concern to the neighborhood. We elect them to represent us."


text: Sometimes you catch an odd glint of light, see a colorful rainbow or spot a hazy mirage in the distance. All these are optical effects, where a distortion of light produces some incredible image. Optics is the branch of physics dealing with the behavior of light, how it interacts with matter and the way it reflects from and refracts through materials. For 14 years, the website Optics Picture of the Day has collected and featured stunning examples of these effects. The site's owner, physicist Les Cowley, came to appreciate what light can do one cold afternoon back in the 1970s. "I was dragged outside the lab to see an ice halo display," he wrote in an e-mail. "The sky was webbed and crisscrossed with delicate arcs -- it was entrancing. I had no idea of their names or how they had formed but I was hooked on sky optics." Cowley started OPOD back in 1998 to spread the message of sky optics and help explain how such phenomena form. Fairly soon, other interested photographers were submitting their own superb pictures. In this gallery, we look at some of the site's most amazing images and the physics underlying their eye-catching effects. Above: Lightning Spectra In his celebrated 1704 book Opticks, Isaac Newton describes shining a white light through a prism. When the light emerged, the famous physicist was surprised to see it broken into a dazzling rainbow of colors. While this and other discoveries from Newton helped revolutionize the field of optics, it wasn't until the 1800s that scientists understood how much information those rainbows contained. When passed through a prism, the light coming from a hot gas reveals its constituent elements in telltale lines of color. In this image, taken during a thunderstorm over Paris, the forking lightning bolt heats surrounding air to between 36,000 and 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking apart air molecules into ionized plasma. The bright lines of the spectra reveals the presence of nitrogen and hydrogen in our atmosphere. Image: Denis JoyeIridescent Meat Many optical effects come from distorting light. When waves of light are bent or reflected through some material or scatter off a surface, they can interfere with one another. The trough of one light wave cancels out the peak of another, or two peaks coincide, creating a brighter spot. With many wavelengths interacting, these effects can give rise to strange phenomena. In this picture of corned beef, the unappetizing colors come from the light waves bouncing off the sliced meat. When cut, the animal muscles of the meat protrude in a regularly spaced array, like a set of stairs, forming what is known as a diffraction grating. (Probably the most familiar diffraction grating is the back of a compact disc, which produces a rainbow pattern.) Light waves reflecting off the meat interfere with one another, giving rise to the odd prismatic colors seen in the image. The photographer of this picture, John Flyte, was able to turn the unexpected sighting into a lesson for his fifth-grade students: "It was St. Patrick's Day 2011 and I wanted a traditional lunch so I ordered some freshly cut corned beef at the deli. When I got home and made a sandwich I saw green and was a little grossed out. Then I saw the reds, pinks, blues, as well as the shades of green. I recognized it as iridescence and only saw it once before at a banquet that had freshly cut roast beef. As a science teacher I was immediately fascinated and took pictures of it in natural light," Flyte wrote in an e-mail. "When [Les Cowley] printed my picture on his website, I showed my 5th grade classes and we started a great discussion on rainbows, optics, haloes, etc. It was one of those 'teachable moments' that teachers dream about. Websites like Mr. Cowley's are great, and as I try to remind my students, 'Science is everywhere, and every where there is usually a scientific story about it.'" Image: John Flyte Jr.Lunar Halo The beautiful circle surrounding the moon in this image is caused by ice crystals suspended in the air. Known as a paraselenic circle, this rare phenomenon comes from moonlight reflecting in complex ways off the crystals. While the circle is commonly only seen in sections, in some cases, such as this one, it can stretch around the entire sky. A similar effect can occur on a chilly day with sunlight, forming a giant parhelic circle in the sky. Image: Adam KraftTropical Rainbows Serenity could be defined as a rainbow-filled tropical paradise. This image, taken in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia, comes pretty close to capturing this idyllic idea. But these iridescent thin clouds aren't exactly producing rainbows. When a wave of light passes the tiny droplets of water in a cloud, it splits like water moving past a breaker. The two waves can then overlap and interfere, giving rise to the shimmering colors seen here. This tranquil image was rather a stroke of luck. "I was outside photographing insects," wrote photographer Scott Frazier in an e-mail. "Suddenly the sky turned dark. Disappointed at first but I looked up, and this is what I saw! This fantastic optical phenomenon made a striking backdrop to a stand of "betel nut" palms (Areca catechu)." Image: Scott FrazierGlory in Space While on a plane, you may have once looked out the window and seen the aircraft's shadow on a cloud ringed by a perfect circular rainbow. This rainbow ring is called a glory. Glories happen when the sun shines through a mist or cloud and the light gets scattered backward by individual droplets. They will appear around an observer's shadow, which usually gets distorted and magnified into what is known as a "Brocken spectre." This glory -- possibly the first spotted around an ascending spacecraft -- was seen trailing the Space Shuttle Atlantis after it launched on July 8, 2011. Atmospheric optics observer Rafael Schmall in Hungary and a group of friends who were watching the launch on live NASA TV saw the glory and notified the OPOD website. Image: NASA TVSeptuple Rainbow This image, taken in Strasbourg, France, features grey clouds framing an astounding rainbow with seven fainter rainbows trailing below it. This infrequent effect, called a supernumerary rainbow, comes about when the raindrops generating a rainbow are particularly uniform in size. As the different light waves spread out, they interfere with one another and form areas of darkness or brightness. These appear as pastel fringes below a regular rainbow. Image: Denis BetschPrismatic Road Signs Road signs need to make their presence known rain or shine, dark or light. Even without the benefit of electricity, a road sign still catches a driver's attention. They do this by reflecting light into a spectrum. Modern road signs are covered in small prisms and even lenses which bounce light directly back at a driver. The iridescent colors appear when sunlight or headlamp light is dispersed into its components by the tiny prism faces. Image: Denis JoyeLens Reflection The glasses in this image appear normal, but their reflection in the table contains a multitude of psychedelic colors. This effect comes about because of interference in polarized light. Light is polarized when its electromagnetic waves are all oriented in the same way. Polarizing sunglasses, for instance, reduce glare by only allowing through a small percentage of light with the correct orientation. The polarized light emitted by a white LED monitor illuminates this picture. When the light passes through the glasses, it gets split into two beams. Once these two beams bounce off the table, they interfere with one another, producing odd swirls of color in the reflection. Image: John MooreWater Strider Optics Those dark spots sitting underneath this water strider aren't exactly shadows. They're patches of darkness created from distorted light as the little insect walks on the water's surface. A shallow pond's surface acts somewhat like a stretched elastic skin. Water striders (of the family Gerridae) are able to "walk" on top of this skin because the surface tension produces a small upward thrust that holds their tiny weight. The insect's feet depress the water's surface, producing a dip that bends light rays away from it. This creates a zone where no light can reach. Reflected rays all get pulled together, creating an intensely bright rim around each darkened patch. Image: Andrew Kirk


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A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc accidentally caused a slab of ice to snap off Thursday high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche that swept nine European climbers to their deaths, authorities said. Eleven other climbers were hospitalized and at least four were still unaccounted for.
As a sheet of snow and ice thundered down the steep slope, several other climbers managed to turn away from the slide in time, regional authorities in Haute-Savoie said.
Two other climbers were rescued as emergency crews using dogs and helicopters scoured the churned-up, high-altitude area in a frantic search for the missing. Their quest, hampered by the possibility of further avalanches, was called off before nightfall.
Three Britons, three Germans and two Spaniards were among the dead, their governments confirmed. The other victim was from Switzerland, according to police in the French mountain town of Chamonix.
Early summer storms apparently left behind heavy snow that combined with high winds to form dangerous overhanging conditions on some of the popular climbing routes around Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in western Europe. Regional authorities had warned climbers earlier this summer to be careful because of an unusually snowy spring.
The Mont Blanc massif is a popular area for climbers, hikers and tourists but a dangerous one, with dozens dying on it each year. Chamonix, a top center for climbing, hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924.
Some of the climbers were with professional guides, others were climbing independently.
Police said they were alerted around 5:25 a.m. Thursday to the avalanche, which hit a group of climbers - people from Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Serbia - who were some 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) high on the north face of Mont Maudit, part of the Mont Blanc range.
A block of ice 40 centimeters (16 inches) thick broke off and slid down the slope, creating a mass of snow that was 2 meters (6 feet) deep and 50 meters (160 feet) long.
"The first elements that we have from testimony are that a climber could have set loose a sheet of ice, and that sheet then pulled down the group of climbers below. I should say the incline was very, very steep on this northern face," Col. Bertrand Fran�ois of the Haute-Savoie police told reporters.
It was not immediately known if the climber lived or died.
According to recent tweets from climbers, high winds led to overhanging ice slabs forming on the slope. Several days ago Chamonix saw a monsoon-like downpour which turned to snow at 3,000 meters (9,850 feet) high.
Jonas Moestrup from the western Danish city of Randers heard about the accident as he was on his way down from Mont Blanc.
"Three days ago, we ascended it (Mont Maudit). It was shocking to hear, it could easily have been us," he told the Danish news agency Ritzau by telephone. "It is scary and tragic."
Still, he noted the allure of those foreboding, majestic Alpine peaks.
"It's part of the thrill that something can go wrong," he told Ritzau.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls flew over the site later Thursday, describing it as "a particularly spectacular block of ice." He said the climbers appeared to be an experienced group, and that the churned-up snow had made the search particularly difficult.
French investigators will examine the circumstances of the deaths.


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December 2, 2012
When President Obama first took office, one of his first acts was to tell government employees to be a lot more open in responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. The key paragraph:
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. Nondisclosure should never be based on an effort to protect the personal interests of Government officials at the expense of those they are supposed to serve. In responding to requests under the FOIA, executive branch agencies (agencies) should act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing that such agencies are servants of the public.
Unfortunately, as we've noted, the administration has quite frequently failed to live up to this promise. Last fall, we noted the particularly troubling news that Homeland Security had basically ignored the very basis of the above paragraph, and instead instituted special new processes to give FOIA requests extra political scrutiny to avoid embarrassing officials. In fact, they singled out certain groups, including the EFF, as requiring extra political scrutiny, rather than the basic scrutiny that is only supposed to make sure that classified/confidential info doesn't get out.
Amazingly, the FOIA requests that revealed this info... turn out to have been politically censored as well through that same process. The same documents have been released again -- this time without the extra redactions -- and we discover that a bunch of folks within Homeland Security were quite angry about the politicization of the FOIA process, with Chief Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan, who was in charge of the FOIA process, complaining that this politicization was "CRAZY." Other emails show that DHS officials declared the politicized process to be: "meddling," "nuts" and "bananas!"
It's nice that all of this is coming out now, but it's immensely troubling that Homeland Security tried to politicize the FOIA process, and got away with it for a while as well. It's also unclear if similar politicization has taken place elsewhere in the administration. If the President really believed in that memo that he sent out when he first took office, why isn't he taking a stand against the fact that DHS specifically appeared to go against the very basis of that memo?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201103 ... razy.shtml
Begs the question how often does this go on....more than we can imagine.
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Latin language, member of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Latin was first encountered in ancient times as the language of Latium, the region of central Italy in which Rome is located (see Italic languages). Roman conquests later spread Latin throughout Italy and the vast Roman Empire. Numerous documents, such as Latin inscriptions and literary works, furnish much information about the language, as do the comments of ancient scholars and various related dialects and languages. After the ancient Romans began to develop a literature (in the 3d cent. BC), a gap emerged between literary, or classical, Latin and Vulgar Latin, which was the popular (spoken) form of the language. This division had become considerable by the beginning of the Roman Empire. It is especially from Vulgar Latin, carried by the soldiers and colonists of Rome throughout the Roman Empire, that the modern Romance languages are descended.
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VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) Ryan Arcidiacono scored 17 points as Villanova overcame struggles from the field in a 70-60 victory over New Jersey Institute of Technology on Friday night.
It was the final nonconference game for Villanova (9-4), which opens Big East play next Wednesday by hosting St. John's.
Darrun Hilliard had 12 points and JayVaughn Pinkston and Maurice Sutton had 10 apiece for the Wildcats, who won their fifth straight.
Villanova shot just 30.8 percent (20 of 65) from the field, including 5 of 27 3-point attempts.
Ryan Woods had 13 points for NJIT (6-6).
The Highlanders, who began Division I play in 2006-07, were playing their fourth Big East team this season. NJIT lost its three previous games to St. John's, Providence and Seton Hall by a combined 18 points.
NJIT led the Friars 63-62 with 4:17 left and held a 14-point lead over St. John's in the first half.
The Wildcats made 25 of 33 free-throw attempts, while NJIT was 8 for 15 from the line.
Villanova struggled to a five-point halftime lead before appearing to gain control with a 10-5 run to start the second half, giving it a 42-32 lead with 16:06 remaining.
But NJIT didn't wilt, outscoring the Wildcats 19-9 over the next 10:12 to knot the score at 51 with 7:54 left.
Then, Pinkston scored six of the next eight Villanova points to help the Wildcats reclaim the lead, 59-54, with 4:49 to play. The Wildcats stretched the margin to seven points when Hilliard converted a fast-break layup after a steal by Tony Chennault to put Villanova up 65-58 with 1:37 left.
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TORONTO - Big budget cuts at the CBC are putting "everything" on the chopping block — including hit shows "Republic of Doyle" and "Heartland," programming boss Kirstine Stewart said Tuesday as the public broadcaster axed CBC News Network's "Connect with Mark Kelley" and CBC Radio's "Dispatches."
Tough decisions about how to manage a $225-million shortfall will include shaving six existing or planned shows from the public broadcaster's TV lineup, said Stewart, executive vice-president of CBC's English Services.
"We are making those decisions next week and we've got some pretty strong criteria to make those decisions," Stewart said after CBC staff were briefed on job and program cuts in an internal meeting.
"But in the end what we're trying to do is protect the programming that Canadians seem to be most interested in and it will really narrow down the variety of programming that we've been able to give Canadians over the last few years."
Staff learned Tuesday that CBC-TV's programming and news departments will bear the brunt of punishing cuts planned over the next three years.
They include shuttered news bureaus in Africa and South America as well the elimination of 88 news jobs.
CBC says $10 million will be cut from news on all platforms while $21.3 million in cuts will come from non-news TV including 18 positions in the documentary unit.
"It's not a good day for CBC," said Marc-Philippe Laurin, president of the Canadian Media Guild's CBC branch.
"Canadians are really going to see a difference on the TV screen and hear a difference on CBC Radio."
In all, English services will eliminate 215 positions this year and a total of 256 positions by 2015.
The belt-tightening follows last week's federal budget, which cut $115 million — or about 10 per cent of the CBC's overall government subsidy — over the next three years.
CBC president Hubert Lacroix has said additional financial pressures actually push the CBC's shortfall to $200 million, plus there's another $25 million in severance costs for expected layoffs.
Last week, the broadcaster said it expected to lay off more than 650 people over three years, with the majority to be let go this year.
It said CBC fans could expect fewer TV shows, more ads on radio and the delay of regional initiatives that were meant to boost local programming.
Government funding makes up about 64 per cent of CBC's budget and the corporation receives about $1.15 billion a year from taxpayers.
The media guild says the news cuts include 34 jobs at local stations, 44 at the network level and another 10 will come from news administration.
Stewart said the news department would minimize the impact of the cuts as much as possible, noting that funds previously directed toward maintaining bureaus in Africa and South America could be used to support roving reporters.
"You can't have a cut this sizable without it affecting all areas and the news is going to be affected," she said.
"But we're living in a world where some technologies and other opportunities are making us be able to produce things, particularly in a live kind of way, more inexpensively. So we're going to push that integration into news gathering and try to make most efficiencies out of that."
CBC Kids will also reduce programming by four hours a week, while the "Sports Weekend" program will narrow its focus to "snow and ice sports" in the winter and signature programs in the summer. Laurin said that means sports fans can expect less coverage of amateur events.
Meanwhile, the guild said Radio 2 is cutting live concert recordings and scrapping regional recording facilities in St. John's, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Edmonton.
Laurin says he has "some empathy" for the hard decisions facing managers.
"They're in a tough position, they're trying to save as much programming as possible, they're trying to save jobs, they're trying to save people that create the content that create the programs that CBC airs," he said.
"They're trying to avoid as much as possible starting to run repeat after repeat after repeat. It's not what the CBC wants to be, it's not what the CBC wants to put on the air, it's not what our members want to see but at the same time we all knew that some hard decisions were going to have to be made because this is a devastating cut to the CBC allocation."
Stewart said decisions to cut programs and staff were made all the harder because of recent ratings successes such as rookie breakout "Arctic Air."
"It's not easy to be told with all this enthusiasm and all this talent that now we're going to be working with less," she said.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's pop king Jay Chou has played roles as varied as superhero, vampire and cowboy. So his latest album about an influential but corrupt court eunuch may not sound all that odd to his fans.
In "Gong Gong with A Headache" released Thursday, Chou raps about the eunuch who has a secret passion for women but "must not touch them." "Gong Gong" is a name for court eunuchs in China.
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Editorial: It's time to extend the nation's jobless benefits
The U.S. unemployment rate has fallen substantially since its recession high of 10 percent in October 2009. But when it finally dropped to 7 percent in November, it still remained two full percentage points above what it was in the months before the downturn.
The economy is clearly picking up, in other words, but it has been something less than a dynamo at creating jobs. In fact, fewer Americans overall are employed today than in 2007.
Those are among the reasons Congress would be justified in extending expired unemployment benefits for another three months, as President Obama has requested, and why the Senate's 60-to-37 preliminary vote Tuesday was encouraging.
To be clear, we're not suggesting that emergency unemployment benefits, originally approved in 2008, be extended reflexively every time their expiration approaches. At some point, a normal labor market will reassert itself, and the rationale for another extension will fade.
But the economy has yet to meet that definition and, until it does, we don't believe the arguments of some Republicans that the benefits are a deterrent to job-seeking have as much merit as they might.
To be sure, the granting of perpetual jobless benefits can influence recipients' behavior, which is why such benefits historically have been limited during robust periods of job creation and relatively modest levels of unemployment. But that's not the situation the country finds itself in today - however much we all would like that to change.
Both of Colorado's Democratic senators, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, support the latest extension. Without it, Bennet argues, "tens of thousands of Coloradans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own lose this important lifeline." Udall says pulling the plug on the benefits will "undermine middle-class families and slow our economic recovery."
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I'm just back from a quick trip to Germany, where I went to give a talk to travel-industry execs onboard AROSA Cruises, a German cruise line that plans to start selling to Americans next year. Remember my article "Europe's River Cruise Revolution," about how river cruise lines are introducing dozens of innovative new ships designed to attract U.S. baby boomers? Now AROSA is jumping on the bandwagon too, hoping its ships built for Germans can entice North Americans. It won't be mixing Germans and Americans onboard; it will set aside certain sailings just for the latter.
Based on last week's three-night Christmas Markets shakedown cruise aboard the AROSA Silva, I'd wait a while till they've worked out the kinks. For starters, they need to fix the Wi-Fi, which barely worked throughout the three days. They also need to improve their shoreside guidance. In Regensburg, for instance, why didn't they take passengers to the city's best Christmas market—the Palace of St. Emmeram's artisanal Romantischer Weihnachtsmarkt (admission: 5.50 euros)? Grand Circle Cruise Line—the river line that Condé Nast Traveler readers rate highest—was in town on the same day and took its passengers there. (I went too and will post my pics from the Palace Christmas Market later this week). AROSA took passengers only to the Christmas Market at Neupfarrplatz, a seven-minute walk closer to the ship; while that market has its own charms, it's kitschier and sells crafts made in China.
On the plus side? The food on AROSA was the best I've had on any river ship. And there's a top-deck bar, which I hadn't seen on a river ship before. There's no point in my reviewing the ship further because it was a highly irregular cruise: Neither the clientele nor the itinerary were typical, I was not traveling anonymously (and they placed me in one of only two balcony suites onboard), and they're planning a number of changes. So I did not get the experience that regular passengers next year will get. Still, I think it's worth sharing my snapshots, so you can compare the ship with others you might be considering—and because they tell a story about river cruising in general. Tell me: What do you think? Would you give the AROSA Silva a try?
UPDATE, July 2, 2013: For an important caveat about AROSA, read Another Shocking Way a Cruise Line Can Ruin Your Vacation.
Also from Wendy:
Is a River Cruise for You? Ten Things to Know Before You Commit
River Cruising vs. Ocean Cruising
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Orchestrates AWS cloud resources using boto and pychef
Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.
WARNING! This plugin is in alpha.
I recommend you not use this plugin yet on production instances. Although you likely won't lose ec2 instances or chef data, it's still quite immature. It would be best to try out on dev instances to help test the plugin and generate ideas for new features.
- robguttman, 2011 Jan 28
This plugin is meant to fill the coordination gap between AWS and Chef, especially:
- Launch an ec2 instance and apply one or more chef roles
- Terminate ec2 instances and delete its chef node
There are additional features and quite possibly more to come, but my intention is to keep the scope down to what's needed to orchestrate between AWS and Chef (and not re-implement either the AWS Management Console or the Chef Server webui).
This plugin relies heavily upon boto and pychef. Special thanks to coderanger for his responsiveness on pychef.
- Install the plugin (after downloading and unzipping):
cd cloudplugin/0.12 sudo python setup.py bdist_egg sudo cp dist/TracCloud*.egg /your/trac/location/plugins/
See TracPlugins for more installation details and options. You'll likely need to restart Trac's web server after installation.
- Enable the plugin in
[components] cloud.* = enabled
You can alternatively use the Trac Web Admin GUI to enable any or all rules.
- Configure the main
[cloud] label = Cloud aws_key = <aws-access-key> aws_secret = <aws-secret-key> aws_keypair = <ec2-key-pair> chef_instancedata_file = /path/to/instance-data.json
label option above is the name to be used in the top navigation:
AWS credentials
aws_* options are your AWS credentials and the key pair used by your ec2 instances.
Chef configuration
chef_instancedata_file option is the absolute path to the ec2 instance/user data generated by chef's knife command:
% knife ec2 instance data role[<desired-role>] > /path/to/instance-data.json
The plugin will use this file for the instance data replacing the role information as needed. As the file contains the
validation.pem data, be sure to secure it accordingly. In cases where you need different credentials and/or chefserver url, you can use the following option to specify a base directory which must contain the typical
.chef directory and its contents plus (optionally) a
validation.pem file within the
.chef directory:
[cloud] .. chef_base_path = /path/to/dir/that/contains/.chef
It's currently assumed that you're using one of Opscode's AMIs or a homegrown AMI derived from it. These AMIs use the instance's id as the node name. However, you may have recipes which for one reason or another change the node's name after the first chef-client run. If so, you need to specify the boto field that maps to the final node name using this config option:
[cloud] .. boto_field_node_name = private_dns_name
Adding this option will cause the plugin to create a new node of that name upon launching a new ec2 instance and once it checks in will remove the original node. Otherwise you'll have two chef nodes for the same ec2 instance - something you likely don't want. Yeah, this is a bit complicated - an area ripe for improvement.
The plugin is intended to support multiple AWS resource types in addition to instances as needed for orchestration with chef. You specify the default resource to view using this config option:
[cloud] .. default_resource = instance
Each AWS resource type such as
instance above is configured independently. See the examples section below for how to specify these resources.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for CloudPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download the zipped source from [download:cloudplugin here].
You can check out CloudPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
trac.ini config ...
[cloud] ...
Recent Changes
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Dozier, Pinto, Pelfrey moving past minor injuries
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Twins have avoided any major injuries so far in Spring Training, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire gave an update on a few minor injuries on Friday.
Catcher Josmil Pinto was held out of action on Friday with a stiff back after working with bench coach and former big league catcher Terry Steinbach on blocking balls in the dirt on Thursday. But the injury isn't serious, as he was still listed to catch on Saturday.
"We kept him out of drills," Gardenhire said. "They did the blocking with the rubber balls and that was a little much. It wore him out with rubber balls. ... So he missed a day today, and we'll see how he is tomorrow. He's just a little sore."
Second baseman Brian Dozier has also been limited early in camp with a sore back, but is expected to be ready for the first full day of workouts on Saturday. He's still been taking ground balls, but he hasn't been running.
"We'll be guarded, but he feels a lot better," Gardenhire said. "We don't want him to fall back into it. We'll have him take it nice and easy with all the drills."
Right-hander Mike Pelfrey is also feeling better after dealing with an ear infection that caused dizziness and is on track to throw his next live bullpen session.
"It was some kind of ear thing where he got it all taken care of and checked out yesterday," Gardenhire said. "He said he got dizzy and all those things. I told him I got dizzy watching you pitch last year, so we're even."


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The UFC returns for another mid-winter fight card in the Windy City in January, and tickets for the event go on sale later this month.
"UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Dodson" is official for Chicago's United Center on Jan. 26. The main event features the first flyweight title defense of Demetrious Johnson (16-2-1 MMA, 5-1-1 UFC) against top contender John Dodson (14-5 MMA, 3-0 UFC).
UFC officials on Thursday announced the card, with tickets for the event on sale to the general public Nov. 30 with pre-sale dates on Nov. 28 and Nov. 29.
"Chicago is a great fight town and we're excited to come back to the United Center on Jan. 26," UFC President Dana White stated. "This will be our first big event on FOX for 2013, and we've lined up an incredible card, including the flyweight title fight."
Also on the main card is a light heavyweight bout between former champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (32-10 MMA, 7-4 UFC) and Glover Teixeira (19-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) in the co-feature slot and a lightweight contenders fight between former WEC champ Anthony Pettis (15-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and Donald Cerrone (19-4 MMA, 6-1 UFC).
The UFC last was in Chicago for UFC on FOX 2 at the United Center this past January. Then, as with this time around for UFC on FOX 6, the event takes place in the NFL's off week between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl.
Sources close to the event on Thursday told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that the main card on FOX will feature four fights – though the fourth has not yet been announced. The main card will air live on FOX at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
But the UFC has some local Chicago options to pick from if it so chooses.
Featherweights Erik Koch (13-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) and Ricardo Lamas (12-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC), who lives and trains in the suburbs, meet in what could be a No. 1 contenders fight. Chicago area native Clay Guida (29-13 MMA, 9-7 UFC) will make his featherweight debut after a long run at lightweight when he meets Hatsu Hioki (26-5-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC). And Mike Russow (15-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC), a Chicago police officer, and Shawn Jordan (13-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) will clash at heavyweight.
Tickets for the event are priced between $40 and $250, plus fees, and will be available at Ticketmaster locations as well as the United Center box office.
The latest UFC on FOX 6 card now includes:
- Champion Demetrious Johnson vs. John Dodson – for flyweight title
- Quinton Jackson vs. Glover Teixeira
- Donald Cerrone vs. Anthony Pettis
- Erik Koch vs. Ricardo Lamas
- Clay Guida vs. Hatsu Hioki
- Shawn Jordan vs. Mike Russow
- T.J. Grant vs. Matt Wiman
For more on UFC on FOX 6, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Sacramento International airport is one of the busiest airports in Sacramento County, California. Located about 10 miles to the northwest of downtown Sacramento, the airport gets most of its airline passengers from Southwest Airlines. So, if you're boarding South West Airlines, chances are high that you will be landing at Sacramento's largest airport.
Sacramento is classy indeed, complete with a resting area so you don't have to circle endlessly as you wait to board your flight or to be picked by a friend. There are plenty of parking spaces for travelers and shopping, dining, and other services are accomplished with great convenience.
As soon as you touch down at the airport, you'll need some form of transportation. There are plenty of options. For example, you can catch a public bus connecting to Davis, Woodland, and beyond. There are also several taxi operators working onsite waiting to take you anywhere. Then there are shuttles, vans, and sedans always waiting on standby. Car rentals, however, remain your best option especially if you're not a large group of travelers.
All rental car companies at the airport operate from either of two rental car terminal; Terminal A and Terminal B. Sacramento has an on-airport shuttle that serves these terminals. It transports travelers to the stopping terminals arriving after every ten minutes. F course, you can expect longer wait hours during peak hours that is 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. to midnight.
The on-airport shuttle serves all rental car agencies working on-airport.
There are a total of seven rental car agencies that work on-airport. These are Advantage, Alamo, Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Hertz, and National.
It is also worth mentioning that four of the seven on-airport rental car providers offer services for people with disability. These are Avis, Budget, Hertz, and National. You will be required to make a reservation for such kind of transportation at least 48 hours to 72 hours in advance.
These are several off-airport rental car agencies, four of which are allowed by the airport management to pick travelers from any of the two rental car terminals. The four are Advance Rent a Car, Dollar Rent a Car, Payless Car Rental, and Thrifty.
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Investigators suspect a north Georgia woman hurt after being glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot restroom put herself in the sticky position, according to a report.
Paramedics had to be called to remove Illyanna De La Keur from the glue-covered seat just before Thanksgiving, according to reports.
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Someone spread a layer of Loctite GO2 glue over each toilet seat; a bottle of the glue was later found by the manager of the store, the Morris News Service reported. A Banks County sheriff's investigator described the glue as construction-grade.
Paramedics used WD-40 to free De La Keur, however she left with ripped skin and wounds, the Atlanta Journal reported. Her sister captured video of the ordeal.
De La Keur called her injuries painful and embarrassing. She said she didn't understand why she wasn't taken to an emergency room so a doctor could remove the seat, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Home Depot said a third party was handling the case, the paper also reported.
Upon reviewing video footage, investigators said no other person had entered the bathroom with enough time to have pulled the prank, Deputy Sheriff Carissa McFaddin told the Morris News Service.
"There is no evidence to show that someone did it besides who was in there," McFaddin said.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Rapid Response Research Grants on Research about the Potential Threat of Debris Fields from the March 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami on the West Coast of North America
DATE: August 9, 2012
In the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, fields of debris are now washing up on the western shores of the United States. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Japanese authorities say that approximately five million tons of wreckage flowed into the Pacific Ocean following the earthquake and tsunami. While a majority of it likely sank, experts estimate that between one to two million tons was left floating and is heading toward North America. The debris fields are expected to reach and potentially threaten the west coast of North America from the spring of 2012 through late 2014.
When unforeseen circumstances offer unique opportunities to advance basic knowledge, NSF has in place the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism. As noted in the GPG, this mechanism is used to support activities having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. In the past RAPID funding supported fundamental research activities related to acute events such as the New Zealand earthquake in February 2011, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
The NSF Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO), Geosciences (GEO), Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) are accepting proposals to conduct research on the potential threat to the North American west coast from debris fields associated with the March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Proposals must conform to the guidelines for preparation of Rapid Response Research (RAPID) proposals as specified in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) available at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg.
Alan Blatecky
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Acting Assistant Director for Geosciences
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Taxis are OK for getting across a city. But if you have to leave the state, that's what buses, planes and trains are for. Especially when you're trying to get from New York to a suburb of Boston.
According to MetroWest Daily News, a cab driver picked up Deice Rebelato from JFK Airport Wednesday night and wanted to go to her home in Framingham, Mass., about 200 miles away. The driver reportedly informed Rebelato the fare would be about $1,000.
When she reached her home, the driver said the ride came out to $980. According to the police report, Rebelato told the driver she had the money in her house. Which is where she went and stayed for 10 minutes before coming back out to the cab driver and saying she didn't have the cash or a credit card that would cover the fare. Then she got back into the taxi so the driver could take her to the nearest police station.
Rebelato told police, "I have so many problems. I just came from Brazil." She was still charged with larceny, but the charge will be dropped if she can pay the fare within 60 days.
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