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The homicide and crime rate in Stockton is absolutely ridiculous. We've already broken the record in homicides and the year is not over with.
The homicide and crime rate in Stockton is absolutely ridiculous. We've already broken the record in homicides and the year is not over with.
Nine people died violent deaths within 51 hours recently, bringing Stockton then to a record 59 homicides. There were 58 in all of 2011. Now there have been at least 64 homicides.
This is a prime example of what budget cuts and bankruptcy can do to a city. Police officers are spread so thin that the criminals can use that to their advantage, because the response times are longer and there are fewer police to deal with it.
The criminals are very much aware of our crisis our city is going through and are taking advantage of it. They will continue to do so unless we do something about it.
The police department has taken a huge hit in salaries and benefits, which in my opinion gives them a lesser drive to do their job.
I do realize that they have been hiring new police officers lately, but new police officers equal less experience, and that doesn't help our city.
Most of our experienced officers have been laid off or have gone elsewhere to work in a more stable environment.
This issue affects the city of Stockton, and does not give it a very good reputation as well.
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When a crime is committed, no one sees anything, no one knows anything and no one notices anything.
All of these little thugs/thieves must live somewhere. Whether they live with a relative, parents or friends, no one notices that this little career thief all of a sudden has money to spend (without ever working), or has a nice little gold chain "they found," or has a new DVD player or iPad "because their friend bought a new one and gave them the old one."
Or never worked a day in their life and have money to spend probably "bank money."
Why do family members/parents/friends never notice this? Thieves are right out in the open.
It is time for all of us to take notice if a friend or relative all of a sudden has "stuff" and never works. Check into it.
If thieves do it to others, they will do it to you. Don't complain when you get ripped off. You created a monster by looking the other way.
Oh, and please don't blame the police when the thief gets shot!
Lydia Villalpando
In his Nov. 9 column, "How about some common sense from media outlets?" Ruben Navarrette made reference to illegal immigrants being called such.
I have read his columns and noticed on several occasions he was center of the road on Mexicans versus the rest of the world, but most of the time he is leaning to the south. I would expect him to be a little biased. If I were in his shoes, I would probably be also.
It should be noted there are illegal immigrants from places other than Mexico!
However, being offended by being called an illegal immigrant when you are one is kind of like being offended when being called a murderer when you have killed someone.
Jim Emerson
NOTE: In his column, Navarrette defended the use of the term "illegal immigrant," arguing that the issue of using the term is about political correctness.
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Mary Esther Asher, Lieutenant Commander, Navy Nurse Corp, Retired, 101, of Mooresville, died September 3, 2013. Miss Asher was born May 4, 1912, in Owen County to the late Bert C. and Ethel (Reid) Asher. She was also preceded in death by her stepmother, Mae (Ridge) Asher.
The oldest living alumni of Gosport High School, she graduated in 1930 and also graduated from Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in New Jersey. She worked as a nurse at Culver Military Academy and at Children's Hospital in Winchester, Virginia. Miss Asher enlisted in the United States Navy in 1943, served during World War II, and retired as a Lieutenant Commander after 20 years of service. Following her military retirement, she worked at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she lived for 25 years. She was a member of the Mooresville First United Methodist Church.
In addition to her parents and stepmother, she was preceded in death by one sister, Marilynn Morine.
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"[Arno] Gourdol confirmed tonight [Flash Player] would get the full WebM support, which also includes the Vorbis audio encoding technology and a container to bundle the data together.[...] 'We don't have a timetable for it,' Gourdol said of WebM support in Flash. Important factors include hardware support, just getting under way today, and broad use of the technology, he said."


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Developing-nation stocks rose to a 10-month high, pushing the MSCI BRIC Index of the largest emerging markets up 22 percent from last year's low, after U.S. lawmakers passed a bill that averted spending cuts and tax gains that had threatened the world's largest economy.
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest maker of televisions and mobile phones, rallied 3.6 percent to a record, pushing an index of emerging-market technology stocks to the highest in more than 12 years. China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. jumped to a 17-month high after Credit Suisse Group AG included the stock among its 2013 top picks. Brazil's Bovespa Index surged to the highest since April, boosted by Braskem SA, while while Russia's ruble climbed 1.3 percent in over-the- counter trading.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index jumped 2.1 percent to 1,077.53 by 2:33 p.m. in New York, set for the highest close since March 2. The MSCI BRIC Index rose 2.5 percent, poised to close in a bull market. The House of Representatives voted in favor of budget legislation as Republican lawmakers abandoned efforts to add spending cuts to the bill, boosting confidence in the U.S. economy. The 21 nations in the developing-nations gauge send about 17 percent of their exports to the U.S. on average, data compiled by the World Trade Organization show.
"The fiscal cliff was one of the big drags on the market at the end of the last year, so I suspect that for the next few days and weeks we're going to see markets run up further," Neil Shearing, the chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics Ltd., said by phone from London.
ETF Surges
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index exchange-traded fund, the ETF tracking developing-nation shares, jumped 1.6 percent to $45.08, headed for the strongest close since August 2011. The ETF will see more inflows after the amount of shares outstanding reached a record last week according to Marketfield Asset Management LLC. Outstanding shares rose to an all-time high of 1.11 billion by Dec. 28, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index, a measure of options prices on the fund and expectations of price swings, dropped 7.1 percent to 20.15 in the biggest slump since Nov. 19.
The Mexico IPC Index rose 1.2 percent to a record. Brazil's Bovespa rallied 2.7 percent to the highest level since April 19 as commodity prices boosted the outlook for the country's biggest companies. Iron-ore producer Vale SA jumped 4.6 percent, while oil producer OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA climbed 8 percent.
Braskem, Latin America's largest petrochemical maker, surged 6.6 percent in Sao Paulo after selling Brazilian assets for a total of 652 million reais ($319.6 million).
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Caryophyllales have long been recognized as a natural assemblage (e.g., Braun 1864; Eichler 1875-1878). Previous circumscriptions based on morphological and embryological characters recognized up to nine families, and subsequent classifications that pioneered the use of chemical and anatomical characters included 12 families (e.g., Dahlgren 1975, 1980; Takhtajan 1980; Cronquist 1981; Thorne 1983, 1992a, 1992b). These circumscriptions remained largely intact for the past 30 years until recently when molecular phylogenetic analyses started reshaping concepts of Caryophyllales. Most notable is the discovery that certain carnivorous plants—the sundews and Venus flytrap (Droseraceae) and Old World pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae)—are closely related to Cronquist's Caryophyllidae (Albert et al. 1992; Chase et al. 1993; Williams et al. 1994; Meimberg et al. 2000; Cuénoud et al. 2002). In addition, many families previously considered distantly related to Caryophyllales have been found to form a large clade with Caryophyllales (e.g., Asteropeiaceae and Physenaceae, Morton et al. 1997; Rhabdodendraceae, Fay et al. 1997a; Simmondsiaceae, e.g., D. Soltis et al. 2000). The strong support for this clade in recent multigene analyses (e.g., D. Soltis et al. 2000; Cuénoud et al. 2002) has led to a revised—and broader—circumscription of Caryophyllales by APG (1998) and APG II (2003).
Because of the potential confusion introduced by applying the name Caryophyllales to a large clade, not all investigators have accepted this circumscription. For example, Judd et al. (2002) continue to use Caryophyllales in a narrow sense (= core Caryophyllales in APG and APG II) and refer to the larger, more inclusive clade as the caryophyllid clade. Although morphological and anatomical characters are generally consistent with these expanded circumscriptions, nonDNA synapomorphies for this newly recognized expanded Caryophyllales have not yet been discovered. Caryophyllales sensu APG II (2003) comprise 29 families, including Caryophyllaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Aizoaceae, Amaranthaceae (including Chenopodiaceae), Molluginaceae, Basellaceae, Cactaceae, Didiereaceae, a polyphyletic "Portulacaceae" and several small families, some of them of problematic placement, such as Frankeniaceae, Tamaricaceae, Asteropeiaceae, Rhabdodendraceae, Simmondsiaceae, Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae. Two other families have been proposed: "Agdestidaceae" and "Petiveriaceae".


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These interests include Immediate Media London and Immediate Media Bristol, as BBC Magazines and Bristol Magazines were renamed after their acquisition by Exponent in the autumn of 2011, as well as Magicalia, a digitally-focused publisher already owned by Exponent.
Langford was reluctant to provide figures backing up his claim that print is showing growth, but elaborated that growth was on an organic basis, that print revenues are mainly made up of the businesses acquired from BBC Worldwide, and print growth was not as strong as digital growth.
Vancouver Topco's results, published at Companies House this week, show the company made revenues of £65.6m (including £2.1m from joint ventures) from the start of trading on 1 November 2011 to the end of the financial period on 31 March 2012.
The pre-tax profit during the period was £211,000, but Langford pointed to an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) figure of £11.3m.
"Trading is better than Exponent thought it would be when [BBC Magazines] was acquired," Langford claimed, confirming this was the case for the company's current trading as well.
Of his expectations for the current financial year (to 31 March 2013), Langford said: "We will be growing on a top line and bottom line [EBITDA] basis."
He ascribed the performance to the company having "leading brands" and "a relatively upmarket audience that is much more resilient in the economic circumstances we've got".
While Langford described the company's ad sales performance as "pretty ok this year", he suggested the strength of its subscription base was a more significant factor. Ad sales accounted for less than a quarter of the company's revenue, he disclosed.
The group also published financial figures for Immediate Media London and Immediate Media Bristol for the year ending 31 March 2012, during which control transferred to Exponent.
Immediate Media London's revenues were £114.1m, down from £117.1m the previous year, while its pre-tax profits were £8.7m, up from £1.1m the previous year.
Immediate Media Bristol's revenues were £20.8m, down from £19.5m, while its pre-tax profits were £2m, up from £1.8m.
After the two businesses transferred out of the BBC Magazines stable on 31 October 2011 they took slightly different form.
BBC Worldwide retained ownership of the magazines and websites for Top Gear, Good Food and Lonely Planet, though Immediate Media generates revenue from publishing the magazines under contract and selling ads for the magazines and the websites on an agency basis.
The former BBC Magazines business reported revenues of £164.5m and operating profits of £21.6m in the year ended 31 March 2011, according to BBC Worldwide's annual report for 2010/2011.
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Blackhawks, Flames renew acquaintances
The last time the Blackhawks faced the Calgary Flames, they skated off the Pengrowth Saddledome ice following Game 6 of the Western Conference quarterfinals with the Hawks' first postseason series victory in 13 years.
The teams meet again Monday night at the United Center and the Hawks are hoping to continue their success against Calgary, which has started the 2009-10 season strong. The Flames won their first four games before losing to Dallas on Thursday night.
"It was a great series we had with them last year in the playoffs and hopefully we can take care of business here at home," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "[Calgary] has some consistency in their game, all their lines are contributing and they have six solid defensemen. Hopefully we can make them play some defense and try to keep the puck out of our end."
As expected, the Hawks recalled rookie winger Jack Skille from Rockford of the American Hockey League. He is expected to rejoin the fourth line with center Colin Fraser and winger Tomas Kopecky.
Skille was sent down for the off-day day because of financial considerations but figures to remain in the mix until Ben Eager returns. The way Quenneville was talking following Monday's skate, that could be a while.
"Ben has some symptoms that are typically related to concussions and ... he's not ready to go," said Quenneville, who added that there is "no timetable" for Eager to begin skating, let alone playing.
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Lowell man, 23, dies in fiery Nashua crash
February 01. 2014 2:22PM
NASHUA — A Massachusetts man died in a fiery crash on the F.E. Everett Turnpike early Saturday morning, authorities said.
Yan O. Denysenko, 23, of Lowell, was pronounced dead at the scene "based on injuries sustained as a result of the crash," the state police said in a statement.
Police said speed was a "contributing factor" in the crash based on witness statements and roadway evidence, authorities said.
A state trooper and a Nashua police officer removed the man from the fully engulfed 2001 Ford hatchback in the high-speed lane between Exits 5 and 6 around 4:15 a.m.
Traffic was temporarily delayed in the area for about two hours while authorities investigated, police said.
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Yahoo! is taking a leaf out of Netflix and Amazon's books and beefing up its media offerings with six original TV shows, including one about a bite-sized private detective. It has also partnered up with pro-wrestling outfit WWE in a bid to lure in internet TV watchers.
Just a week after bagging the exclusive rights to stream Saturday Night Live clips, the one-time web giant is continuing its march on telly with three original comedy programmes and three lifestyle shows.
Tech firms are increasingly interested in internet television as the next potential big thing to slap their brand on, whether it's in actual hardware boxes or media content.
Both Netflix and Amazon have started commissioning their own programming, the former scoring highly with Kevin Spacey-starring series House of Cards and a revival of cult comedy Arrested Development. Amazon is rumoured to have a set-top box in the pipeline and has auditioned a number of pilots - asking users to vote on which should be turned into a full original series.
Yahoo! is following suit with three shows coming in autumn (or fall, if you're across the pond) this year: Tiny Commando, about "a four-inch-tall private investigator who uses his awesome fleet of vehicles to fight crime", with The Hangover actor Ed Helms in the starring role; personal assistant comedy We Need Help; and Losing Your Virginity with John Stamos, in which the actor interviews celebs about their fateful first fumbles.
The ailing firm is also cobbling together three lifestyle shows for "later this year": Fashion Recipe, Cinema & Spice and Grill Girls.
As well as the new shows, Yahoo! is going to be the "premier global video distribution partner" for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from the summer, with a dedicated hub for all its WWE content.
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Jaime Hernandez: The 1996 $5 Uncirculated Smithsonian Commemorative Coin was issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is the largest museum in the world.
Obverse: The obverse of the coin features a bust of James Smithson, the donor and founder of the Smithsonian Museum. The obverse also has the inscriptions, "For the increase and Diffusion of Knowledge, In God We Trust, 1846-1996, James Smithson," and the word" Liberty."
Reverse: The reverse of the coin displays a large sunbursts which is also the Smithsonian's logo. Underneath the logo it has the word "Smithsonian." Encircled around the design are the inscriptions, "United States of America, E Pluribus Unum," and "Five Dollars."
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B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame salutes Kamloops Blazers, first female member, ex-Canuck, NHL stars
Bob Brown, now a scout with the NHL's Edmonton Oilers, at a news conference at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Brown was general manager of the WHL's Kamloops Blazers team that won consecutive Memorial Cup championships in 1994 and 1995. On Tuesday his Blazers were named inductees into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame.
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VANCOUVER — There are times when Bob Brown says it seems like only yesterday that the Kamloops Blazers were stringing together back-to-back Memorial Cup wins.
But there are other times, Brown added with a laugh Tuesday, when he is reminded that it was in fact quite some time ago.
Brown, now a scout with the Edmonton Oilers, was general manager and chief architect of the 1993-94 and 1994-95 Blazer teams that on Tuesday were announced as inductees into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame.
In recent years, Brown has found himself scouting some of the kids of the kids that were on some of the great Blazers teams during his decade-long tenure in Kamloops.
"That shows you how old I am," Brown said after Tuesday's announcement at Rogers Arena. "Dave Chyzowski, who played for me in Kamloops and was a high draft pick with the Islanders, his son (Nick) was drafted by Kamloops and played a game as a 15-year-old this season. And Mike Needham, who also played for us and was a Pittsburgh draft, his son (Matt) is in his second year with Kamloops. So it does make you feel old when you are looking at them."
Brown was GM in Kamloops from 1986 through 1995 and those were the glory years for the Blazers, when they won three Memorial Cups. He has particularly fond memories of the 1993-94 team that won the Memorial Cup because it was unexpected. The Blazers were building toward success in 1995 when Kamloops played host to the Memorial Cup.
"We just wanted to be competitive in 1994 because we were building for the 1995 team," said Brown, who was inducted into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009. "We had a good team, but we didn't think we'd be challenging for the Memorial Cup.
"But we made a trade for (goalie) Steve Passmore and I remember his first night in the dressing room. He stood up and said 'I'm not here just to be here, I'm here to win the Memorial Cup' and I think he just had that charisma with the team and he just dragged us along and sure enough we ended up in Laval in the Memorial Cup."
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Brown and Vancouver Giants coach Don Hay, who coached those two Blazers' teams, both attended Tuesday's Hall of Fame announcement.
"I think any time you can win back-to-back Memorial Cups it really tells of the quality of the players and organization," Hay said. "I think the groundwork kind of got going in 1993-94 when we had five 16-year-olds on our team, guys like Shane Doan and Nolan Baumgartner, that really led the way … I don't think we were expected to win in '94 and we just got better and better and beat a Portland team that was expected to win. And then we went into Laval, into the House of Pain, and were able to win there.
"In '95 it was all set up. We were hosting, we were rated No. 1 from start to finish, we added a young guy named Jarome Iginla in '94 that was a pretty good player for us. We had quality people."
That 1994-95 team was so good that Iginla's 71 points that season were only seventh best on the team. Darcy Tucker led the way with 137 points, Hnat Domenichelli added 114 and Doan had 94.
Those two Blazers teams will joined in the hall by five individuals, including the first female inductee. Nancy Wilson's long coaching career includes stints with the UBC Thunderbirds, Vancouver Griffins and BC Breakers. Wilson, who has also served as an assistant coach with the Canadian women's team at the Four Nations Cup and world championships, currently serves as a mentor coach with Kazakhstan's national women's team.
Two former NHL players, Kamloops native Mark Recchi and North Vancouver's Paul Kariya, will also be inducted, as well as former Vancouver Canucks coach Marc Crawford and longtime coach Colin Patterson of Cranbrook.
The 2013 class will be inducted July 26 at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Z has called close friend Kanye West to headline his "Budweiser Made in America" festival in Philadelphia.
Kings of Leon, Pharrell and Tiesto also will play the two-day event over Labor Day weekend on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Jay Z will expand the festival with performances also in Los Angeles for the first time since its launch in 2012. John Mayer, Imagine Dragons, Juanes, Kendrick Lamar, Afrojack and Weezer will perform in Grand Park in Los Angeles.
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text: Milfoil Progress made in Middleton milfoil fight By JOHN QUINNUnion Leader Correspondent October 14. 2013 10:51PM Throughout the summer and into the fall, divers pulled wilted Milfoil off the bottom of Sunrise Lake in Middleton in an effort to protect it from being taken over by the exotic, aquatic invasive weed. As the state considers whether to use herbicides again, about a dozen local volunteers keep watch for new outbreaks. (JOHN QUINN PHOTO) MIDDLETON — Although divers found a milfoil "infestation" around the cove near Pinkham Road, state and local officials are confident they made progress against the invasive plant in Sunrise Lake this year. "I think we got a good handle on it this time — it won't be completely eradicated," said John Mullen, who serves on the invasive species mitigation sub-committee of the Conservation Commission. After the state treated the lake with herbicide, Mullen said divers from AB Aquatics Inc., based in Henniker, returned to pull wilted milfoil from the lake bed six different times this summer. Most recently, Mullen said the divers targeted the area around Pinkham Road, where they found heavy infestation of milfoil — which spreads and takes over waterways across the region. He added they came back Oct. 7 to the shallow water "to find the largest bulbs they had ever seen in the state." "It was so infested, their hose wouldn't work," Mullen said. Bob Patterson, owner of AB Aquatics, said his company — which employs up to eight divers in the summer season — operates throughout the state. He said the roots must be removed to ensure they don't return. "It makes our job more difficult," Patterson said, adding they strive to remove the whole milfoil plant. Mullen said the divers pulled 13 ba0gs — which are probably about two bushels apiece — out of the water during a four-hour period. Mullen said they also targeted Warren's Cove — near Lakeshore Drive — "which is probably where the (milfoil) problem started." Based on the observations of local volunteers, divers from AB Aquatics targeted several coves and areas that were being threatened by milfoil this summer. As a result, divers removed 410 gallons of wilted milfoil from the bottom of the lake after the state used herbicide to treat about 20 acres of the 247-acre site. email@example.com Environment Outdoors Middleton Photo Feature


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I have been very frustrated in the type of coverage of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept 11.
I have been very frustrated in the type of coverage of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept 11.
Very little interest has been shown by most of our media in getting answers to the many questions surrounding the attack.
The questions pertain to the times prior, during and after the attack.
Why was security there inadequate even after prior attacks on the consulate and communications from the local diplomats expressing security concerns and requesting additional security? Instead, security was decreased.
During the attack was a serious effort made to help those under attack? After the attack the administration blamed an offensive video for days. Why? If it was a delay tactic to run out the clock until after the election, it worked.
The election is now over and the president has been re-elected.
Now, if the Republicans continue their investigation, they will be portrayed as political hacks who are wasting taxpayer money while diverting attention from more important issues such as the economy and job creation.
The Watergate coverup resulted in the resignation of a president, but no one died at Watergate. My concern is that the Benghazi attack resulting in the murder of four Americans will be swept under the rug and no one will be held accountable for anything.
Our Constitution provides for freedom of the press for a reason. The press is supposed to hold the government accountable to the people not provide a shield for the government. If the press becomes protection for the government, who will protect the people?


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HONG KONG (AP) — China's state-owned film distributor is making its first investment in Hollywood movies by taking a stake in two Legendary Entertainment productions.
China Film Co. will make an "eight-figure equity investment" in two upcoming films, "Seventh Son" and "Warcraft," the Chinese unit of Legendary Entertainment said Tuesday.
The exact amount of the U.S. dollar investment was not specified.
"Seventh Son" is a fantasy adventure starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore that's scheduled for release on Feb. 6, 2015. "Warcraft," based on a popular video game series, is slated for release March 11, 2016.
If approved for release in China, China Film would distribute the movies under current rules and regulations for foreign films, which are limited to just 34 a year. The deal calls for China Film to be credited on the movies.
China Film, which is planning to go public, owns stakes in movie theater chains that make up half of the country's box office receipts. Its parent, China Film Group, is the gatekeeper for foreign studios because it controls film imports and co-productions.
The projects are the first since Legendary and China Film teamed up about a year ago to produce global blockbusters. It's one of a number of recent tie-ups between companies in the world's two biggest movies markets.
As box-office revenue growth flattens out at home, Hollywood studies are keen to move into China, now the world's second biggest movie market with $3.6 billion in ticket sales last year. China's leaders hope that entertainment companies can benefit from the joint ventures by acquiring know-how to develop their own cultural industries in order to expand influence abroad.
Legendary Entertainment's films include "The Dark Knight" and "Hangover" trilogies and last year's sci-fi action adventure "Pacific Rim."


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Dogscrimination Strikes NYC
Has the greatest city in the greatest country on earth really succumbed to blatant dogophobia? Sadly, it appears that a "dog-hating regime" has been allowed to take control in a ritzy Manhattan con-dog-minium. Going to the dogs? Doggone!
At One Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side, the bitches (dog pun) in management have proposed a slew of hateful dogscriminatory new rules:
Saying the building has gone to the dogs, the condo board at One Lincoln Plaza will vote Tuesday night on a set of Draconian new rules that would hit violators with $250 fines and bar Rottweilers, Doberman pinschers and pit bulls from the building.
They also want to make dogs take separate elevators, and ban dog-walkers with outside dogs from the building. Are dogs second-class citizens now? Are dogs not even human? What would Ma-dog-ma Gandhi or Martin Dogther King think about this? There's nothing sadder than the death of a pet—except knowing that your pet is not being guaranteed its equal rights, explicitly guaranteed in the US Constitution (note to self: check this).
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Morengal is a realm of sword and sorcery.
Although other magics have been rumored to have existed in the past, the only known type of magical energy in this realm is necrotic. Magic doesn't come from any innate talent. Instead it comes from stone shards the size of a human fingernail. These shards store the necrotic energy however it is a limited supply and as a result there is a mad frenzy between the upper class to get these shards. The shards are kalled the Surugat.
Morengal was divided into seven city-states however recently during the War of the Stones one of the city-states was destroyed, the ruins of which are clouded in mystery. As of late kings have been acting out of character, their advisors dying under mysterious circumstances, and lower class citizens disappearing. Something may be going on but none of the upper class seem to know what and none of them see fit to inform the lower class. In reality the upper class are kidnapping members of the lower class to serve as laborers in their quests for the shards. Someone however has been assassinating the city-states' political leaders and reanimating them so no one knows the difference. That person is biding his time, building his army until none will be able to resist him or the hordes he possesses.
The temperature in this world is colder then normal as a result of the permafrost ritual that is done on the winter solstice every year. It is like this because the temperature helps with the use of the Surugat shards and it preserves the dead bodies for the necrotic magic.
Lower and mid class citizens are all trapped inside their selective city-states. None have seen the outside of the city and none but those who are kidnapped ever will. Due to strip mining and mistreatment of the land in their quest for Surugat shards, the surrounding lands have been charred. No lumber or trees exist on the mainland due to this so lumber is shipped in from the other continent.
Due to the cold temperatures there is a large furnace about two street blocks large in every city-state. All of the lumber goes to this furnace to be burned. Small, square tunnels stem from the furnace under the streets and lead into all of the buildings as a heating system. As a result a black smog exists over all of the city-states.
Abominations and Corpse Carriers roam the realm mindlessly. They frequently band together attacking captured labor forces of the citizens. All of the slain bodies of the labor workers are taken from this site by the Corpse Carriers.


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Amazing Folded Cardmaking
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Professor of History
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M.A., Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Philosophy, 1995.
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy, 1986.
Medieval and Early Modern intellectual and religious history.
Denery, Dallas. "Lying." In Speculum 93:1 (January, 2018), 72-77.
The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)
Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages. Dallas G. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh and Nicolette Zeeman, eds., forthcoming (Brepols).
"Uncertainy and Deception in the Medieval and Early Modern Court." In Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages, Dallas G. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh and Nicolette Zeeman, eds., forthcoming (Brepols).
Seeing and Being Seen in the Late Medieval World: Optics, Theology and Religious Life. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, paperback 2009).
"Christine de Pizan on Misogyny, Gossip and Possibility." In Jason Glenn, ed., The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), forthcoming.
"Protagoras and the Fourteenth-Century Invention of Epistemological Relativism." In Lisa Bitel, ed., Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Techniques in Religious and Cultural Contexts, a special issue of Visual Resources XXV, nos. 1-2, March/June 2009: 29-51.
"Christine de Pizan Against the Theologians: The Virtue of Lies in The Book of Three Virtues." Viator 39:1 (2008): 229-47.
"The Preacher and His Audience: Dominican Conceptions of the Self in the Thirteenth Century." In Laurie Postlewaite and Wim Huskens, eds., Public Performance/Public Ritual (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007):17-34.
"Biblical Liars and Thirteenth-Century Theologians." In Richard Newhauser, ed., The Seven Deadly Sins: From Individuals to Communities (Leiden: Brill, 2007): 111-28.
"Nicholas of Autrecourt on Saving the Appearances." In Stephan Caroti and Christophe Grellard, eds., Nicolas d'Autrécourt et la Faculté des arts de Paris (1317-1340) (Cesena: Stilgraf, 2006): 65-84.
"From Sacred Mystery to Divine Deception: Robert Holkot, John Wyclif and the Transformation of Fourteenth-Century Eucharistic Discourse," Journal of Religious History, June 2005:129-44.
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"The Appearance of Reality: Peter Aureol and the Experience of Perceptual Error." Franciscan Studies, 55 (1998).
Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye, Richard Newhauser, trans. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012). In Isis, forthcoming.
Stuart Clark. Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). In Journal of the History of Philosophy, 48:1 (January 2010): 103-04.
Samuel Y. Edgerton. The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009). On H-German (October 2009).
Sarah Stanbury. The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), On H-Albion (December, 2008).
Roberta J.M. Olson, ed. The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006). In Sixteenth-Century Journal XXXIX (Winter 2008): 1124-25.
Lina Bolzoni, The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004). In Speculum 83:3 (2008): 666.
Elizabeth Eva Leach. Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006). In The American Historical Review, 112.5 (December 2007): 1596-97.
Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner, ed. and trans., Dominican Penitent Women. New York: Paulist Press, 2005. In Speculum, 81.3 (July 2006): 877-78.
Christophe Grellard, Croire et Savoir: Les principes de la connaissance selon Nicolas d'Autrécourt. (Paris: J. Vrin, 2005). In Journal of the History of Philosophy 44.1 (January 2006): 119-20.
"A History of God's Lies"
Colloquium on Religion
Stanford University, November 2013
"A Brief History of Lying, 395-1723"
Consortium for the Study of Religion
University of California, Berkeley, November 2013.
"Vision and Skepticism before Alberti"
Science, Ethics and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 2013.
"Rhetoric, Skepticism and the Disunity of the Middle Ages."
Oxford University, January 2013
"The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Beginning of the Enlightenment."
Work-in-Progress Seminar, King's College, Cambridge University, January 2013
Organizer, Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Cambridge University, Cambridge, April 7-9, 2011
"What the Devil Doesn't Know"
Meeting of the College Art Association
New York City, New York, February 11, 2011
Organizer, Faith, Reason and Evolution: A Public Colloquium.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 23, November 7 and 14, 2008.
"From Adam and Eve to Extra-Terrestrial Reptilian Astronauts: Making Sense of Genesis."
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, October 9, 2008.
Organizer, Medieval Relativism and its Legacy: An international conference sponsored by Bowdoin College and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris, June 5-7, 2008
"Preaching the Perils of Perspective"
Art and Morality in the Italian Renaissance
The National Gallery, London, November 2007.
"The Virtuous Lie: Christine de Pizan Against the Theologians"
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, March 2007.
"Vision and Relativism in the Fourteenth Century"
Medieval Association of the Pacific
University of California, Los Angeles, California, March 2007
"The Moral Eye and the Natural Appearances: Some Religious Contexts For Nicholas of Autrecourt's Philosophy of Vision."
Colloque: Nicholas d'Autrécourt et la faculté des arts de Paris.
Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, May 2005.
"Liars, Hypocrites and Priests."
International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo,
Western Michigan University, Michigan, May 2005.
"Vision, Image and Perspective During the Later Middle Ages."
Meeting of the College Art Association of America
Atlanta, Georgia, March 2005.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship - Center For Human Values, Princeton University, 2012-13
Fletcher Family Research Fund, Bowdoin College, 2007
Course Development Award, Bowdoin College, 2007
Kenan Fellowship, Bowdoin College, 2005-2006
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Seminar, 2004
Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2000-2001
Mellon Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, U.C Berkeley, 1997-98
Koret Chair Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1994, 1996-97
Summer Mellon Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1995
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In this edition of the All-In Podcast, Jeff and Eunice talk the Fire's 2-1 victory over New England, the validity of Chris Rolfe's penalty kick and the Eastern Conference playoff race. Then they welcome Fire midfielder Daniel Paladini to preview Wednesday's game at DC United, discuss stepping in for injured captain Logan Pause and what he's set to wear for Thursday's White Party.
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Yvonne injects color and vivacity into every single thing in her life. Her exuberance and love of home bursts through everything she touches like pure sunshine.
Can you tell us about some of the things on your board?
They are little things that make me happy. I have a color chart from the Paper Source up there with little descriptions of all the colors and I just love it. There are some photos from happy times, cards that make me happy, and photographs of my two heroes Pippi Longstocking and Coco Chanel.
Who or what is inspiring you right now?
Interior magazines and books, blogs, and TV shows inspire me. I like to re-watch Sex and the City and The Gilmore Girls. I get inspired by the clothes, accessories, and the set design.
What do you do to "refill the well"?
What are some of your current projects?
Looking for a house is a big project. What inspires you when you're looking for a new home?
Everything needs to be right — the outside, the inside, the neighborhood, the pavement, the scenery, old elements, the smell, and the sound. I could never ever buy a house on paper because I cannot touch or feel how the house is corresponding to me.
Which of your projects are you the most proud of, and why?
It's the house I'm living in right now. I've been moving around the world most of my life and since I've met my husband we've been buying and selling but never really finished a house. This is the first house that is actually completely finished and it's decorated the way I always pictured it in my head but never really knew how to do it. I've been dreaming of having my home featured in a magazine ever since I can remember. Like some girls want to get married to the perfect guy or have the perfect kids, I always wanted to have the perfect home. It happened this year; I was featured in a magazine and that made my circle complete. I'm ready to move on to my next project.
Your house is filled with color. I love it. Does your decorating inspiration come from the same places as your art inspiration?
I feel that my house is an ongoing art project, so the answer is yes. Speaking of color, I filled my house with a lot of color but if I'd take everything out it's just a white house. It's a very small house so I decorated using the Swedish philosophy to make everything white because it makes your house bigger when the sun comes in.
Is there something new you want to try?
What place inspires you?
London. When I'm in London I get super charged. The architecture is beautiful, the shops are great, the food is delicious and the people are fantastic.
What other talents do you possess that we might not know about?
I'm quite musical. I play the guitar, I've been singing in a choir since I was seven years old, I've started taking violin lessons just recently and I'm considering learning to dance the flamenco.
Do you remember something that really inspired you back in the beginning?
Do you listen to music while you work? If so, what kind?
What's your favorite color? Has it always been the same?
Oh it's so boring but it's pink ... always has been, always will be.
What's your favorite thing in your studio and/or house?
Do you have a favorite spot in the world?
Yvonne's blog
Yvonne's shop
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How impossible is it to be able to order and/or keep up with these, general?
R2-D2 and C-3PO character keysSweet.
Done. Contemplating unloading the Clone Wars stuff now though and just going OT, because all I have left to track down is the big stuff from CW.
A G note for a piece of cardboard. It's tough having an addiction.
Kit Fisto arrived today #0196/1250.
More info on the Slave Leia character key which will be on sale online soon over at scum.
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It's been a disorienting week, weather-wise. It was warmish, then it got cold, then we got a slushstorm that quickly froze, and on Friday I found myself walking in shirtsleeves while a sultry rain fell on large, filthy ice drifts. If God makes the weather, He's become a little unglued.
The boys and I were trapped indoors on Friday, so we watched "Return of the Jedi" on cable. Which was exhausting, because of all the questions. Why did Yoda vanish when he died? Why is there a big wormthing buried with its mouth open in the desert? Why does that general look like a squid? Why are the Evil Emperor's eyes so baggy? Did he not get enough sleep? Et cetera.
Then came the biggie: "If Darth Vader is Luke's father, why did he try to kill him?"
Initially, I was dumbstruck, and I ermed and ahhed for a while, hoping to disabuse my son of the idea that a father can turn evil and try to slice is boy to kibble with an electronic sword. (I thought of saying "Because Luke always spit bathwater at his brother in the tub," but I thought better of it.) I eventually said something like "it's only pretend, because it's only a movie and in real life all daddies love their children and wouldn't ever cut them open at all." And he bought it, reassuring me that if I ever turned evil, he would save me. "But I wouldn't kill you, I don't think."
Tomorrow I'm off to Disney World with Robert and my parents for five days. (We are also going to the huge Lego store, and I am bringing a spare duffel bag to bring all the purchases home.) I have no idea if I'll have wireless access, or the strength to use it, so this might be my last post for a bit.
Therefore, in the meantime (and inspired by Eden and Dutch), here are a two more pictures of famous cartoon characters defecating:
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Still Photography: NED MATURA
COLORS (at its best) IN OPTICS
Crayola as a brand in children's eyewear teamed with Colors in Optics. How perfect is that?! Even the colors match the Crayola palette as do the color names. This 20/20 cover is a perfect matchup for sure.
CRAYOLA 123 from Colors in Optics
The Silver and Gold Brush
Metal will forever make a demand stand in eyewear for boys and girls. And that burnished finish brings it to a new, modern moment.
From left: TMX BY TIMEX Flipshot from Kenmark Group; NINE WEST 1003 by Marchon Eyewear
From top: PAWS 'N' CLAWS 615 from Eyedeals International; SELIMA FOR CREWCUTS Scout from Selima Optique; IZOD BOYS 610 from ClearVision Optical; TC CHARTON ASIAN FIT Adrian from Prologue Vision
Club Girl
Need we say more? The hot adult clubman style translates to one of the hottest kid frames of the season.
DB4K Hipster from Europa International
Prep School
He loves his P3. So do we. And… so does the world these days. Preppy is the once and future eyewear shape icon.
Y-SPORT BY DAKOTA SMITH Genius from Signature Eyewear
From top: PEACE Solid from i-dealoptics; ESPRIT KIDS 17373 from Charmant Group; KONISHI KS1631 from Clariti Eyewear; WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE 011 from Revolution Eyewear
Strong Sense of Self
The days of generic, interchangeable unisex styling are total ancient history. Boys and girls want frames that make striking statements about every aspect of a child's personality and identity. These frames proudly clarion that pride of eyewear ownership for both him and her.
From left: FLOAT KIDS 35 from Match Eyewear; POUR LES ENFANTS Ilona from Lafont
Call in the cateye and make some gal magic as marvelous marble red fades richly into a tortoise tone.
OGI KIDS 300 from Ogi Eyewear
From top: K12 KA4073 from Avalon Eyewear; SPX ART KIDS 4242 from Silhouette Optical; OIO 830026 from Tura; ECO KIDS 513 from Modo Eyewear
From top: JUICY COUTURE 901 from Sàfilo USA; PEZ Jump Rope from A&A Optical; VIVID BOUTIQUE Petite 6006 from Vivid Eyewear; SIGHT FOR STUDENTS 4003 from Altair Eyewear
Coloring Book
Kids beat adults to this trend by a zillion miles: COLOR! And… it works in most any shape from geek to sleek with a nifty two-tone clubman thrown in for good measure.
From left: GEEK Rad 09 Jr. from LBI; CONVERSE Zoom from Rem Eyewear; MENIZZI MA2096K from Menizzi Eyewear
From top: VERA BRADLEY GIRLFRIENDS Katrina from The McGee Group; HELLO KITTY 215 from Eyewear Designs; VEGGIETALES 3014 from Eyes of Faith Optical; NICKELODEON VICTORIOUS Spotlight from Nouveau Eyewear
Narrow Road Ahead
This sleek, slim and nifty elongated horizontal takes any boy to the best blue horizon. Look around: Boys love this frame shape almost as much as they love the thought of one day owning a Harley.
HARLEY-DAVIDSON WILD CHILD 407 from Viva International Group


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Parry-Romberg syndrome is a rare, acquired disorder characterized by slowly progressive shrinkage (atrophy) of the skin and soft tissues of half of the face (hemifacial atrophy). In rare cases, both sides of the face are affected. In some cases, atrophy may also affect the limbs usually on the same side of the body as the facial atrophy. The severity and specific symptoms of Parry-Romberg syndrome are highly variable from one person to another. Additional symptoms can potentially develop in some people including neurological abnormalities or abnormalities affecting the eyes or teeth. Parry-Romberg syndrome usually becomes apparent during the first decade of life or early during the second decade. The majority of individuals with Parry-Romberg syndrome experience symptoms before the age of 20 years. The exact cause of Parry-Romberg syndrome is unknown; cases appear to occur randomly for unknown reasons (sporadically).
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ESPN The Magazine devoted its most recent issue to Michael Vick.
And the one item getting all the attention today carries the headline: What if Michael Vick were White?
The subhead reads: Since the day he was arrested, people have asked. The answer isn't what you think.
But the most controversial part of the story is the photo (pictured with this post) that shows Vick as a white man.
The essay is written by author Toure, who Tweeted earlier today:
I wrote an essay about Vick & race. ESPN the mag titled it & added art without me (normal procedure). Judge me on the story not the art.
In the piece, the way I understood it, he argues that asking What if Michael Vick were white? is unfair and impossible to address because there's much more to it:
Ultimately, there is no separating Vick from his circumstances: his race, parents, economics and opportunities. Alter any of those elements and everything about him and how the world sees him would be unrecognizable.
So let's look at him a different way. Let's see him as someone in the third act of the epic movie that is his life, leading a team that many expect to see in the Super Bowl. Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" is playing underneath because the humbled protagonist has finally overcome his personal demons and has begun living up to his athletic promise. And to those who believe we should judge a man by how he responds when dealing with the worst life has to offer -- with how he climbs after he hits rock bottom -- Michael Vick has become heroic.
And that has nothing to do with race.
Here is the link to the full article, along with the photo.
For a look at some other Vick Photoshops that cropped up on Twitter in response to the "white Vick" image, check out the Storify feature created by Philly.com's Daniel Victor that's embedded below.
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And join me tonight at 7:30 for a live chat from the Linc as the Birds take on the Browns.
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We all know that data warehouses aren't "real time," right? I mean, a warehouse is there to store data for historical analysis, after all. But the struggle to separate operational reporting against an ODS or a reporting schema from BI reporting against a data warehouse continues to confound IT and business organizations. The "real time" data warehouse and analytics can be PowerPivot, after all, or smaller functionally-confined data marts.
But if your data warehouse has a business requirement to be more "real time" than, say, the classic nightly load or even hourly, then I typically recommend using the "trickle-feed" or incremental update approach. In SQL Server 2008 R2, there are 2 mechanisms built into the product that you can use to accommodate this, provided that your data sources are SQL Server databases. So, let's take a brief look at Change Tracking and Change Data Capture or CDC:
Change Tracking
This is a feature that is built into the query engine in SQL Server and is available in both the Standard Edition and Enterprise Editions of SQL Server. You do not have the kind of control over the tracking mechanisms that CDC provides and SQL Server performs some behind-the-scenes magic by adding flags to your rows once you've enabled tracking on. You can see the difference in the bytes per row on your tables when you enable change tracking on a table using sp_spaceused. Before you start building out your data warehouse ETL, you will enable change tracking on your database and then on each table to track with these commands:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON ( CHANGE_RETENTION = 2 DAYS, AUTO_CLEANUP = ON ) GO ALTER TABLE dbo.Products ENABLE CHANGE_TRACKING GO
As you can see, you can tell SQL Server how long to retain the changes, to automatically cleanup after itself (I recommend setting that) and then which tables to track changes on. Very simple, low maintenance.
What you would do in ETL is to have an SSIS workflow that will periodically check for the latest net changes in a table using the CHANGETABLE function in SQL Server 2008. You can get the latest version of a row using the VERSION table or the changes since that last synch'd version using CHANGES. In most cases, you use LEFT OUTER JOIN with this change table function and the application database table that you are tracking so that you can grab the field values and make sure that you do not ignore deleted rows. Here is an example:
SELECT SYS_CHANGE_VERSION, SYS_CHANGE_OPERATION,c.product_id, p.name FROM CHANGETABLE (CHANGES Products, @last_sync_version) AS C LEFT OUTER JOIN Products p ON p.product_id = c.product_id
You should be sure to store the version # in a package variable or in a table. That is what you will use for the @last_sync_version variable so that next time you run the CHANGE function, you will only get what has changed since the last run. Then use the SYS_CHANGE_OPERATION value to determine what to do with the data. This would include marking a fact or dimension record as obsolete in the case of a delete or an update that could trigger a SCD workflow.
Change Data Capture (CDC)
CDC is also only for SQL Server and only in the 2008 & 2008 R2 products. But as our reporter-on-the-spot Derek has already reported, the next version of SQL Server (Denali) may very likely include an OEM of the Attunity CDC product which would be able to do more than just read from the SQL Server log. The current CDC is an Enterprise Edition-only feature and uses the same Log Reader that transactional replication uses. It is a bit more complex than Change Tracking, but gives you much more flexibility. For example, when you enable CDC on your database, 2 new agent jobs will be created: one to kick-off the Log Reader process and one to do the clean-up. Instead of adding trackers on your schema table objects, CDC creates a new scheme in your database called CDC for storing objects like the functions used to get changes. You can modify the agent jobs, but just be sure to use the stored procedure that they give you to do this, sys.sp_cdc_change_job, to modify things like the polling interval and retention time.
Here is how you enable CDC on your database and tables to be tracked:
USE AdventureWorks2008 EXECUTE sys.sp_cdc_enable_db; GO EXEC sys.sp_cdc_enable_table @source_schema = N'dbo', @source_name = N'Products', @role_name = N'cdc_Admin'; GO
Since the CDC function is outside of the SQL engine, you use SPs to activate and de-activate tracking. Unlike Change Tracking, there is no GUI support for this, it's all T-SQL. The role name parameter above, gives you the option of having a role that can own that CDC schema that the feature creates. It will create the role for you if it is not already existing in your database, or you can just leave it NULL.
After you run this command, you'll get new functions in your database with the names of the schema and tables appended as such: fn_cdc_get_all_changes_dbo_Products. You are now ready to start adding this to your ETL.
In SSIS, you'll want to have your task poll using the get NET changes passing it the starting LSN and ending LSN from the log that you wish to capture. Since CDC is using Log Reader, it is all based on LSNs, not version #s like in Change Tracking. So you'll need to store that LSN value in a variable or in a table (or file for that matter), the ending LSN from this iteration. That will become the starting LSN on the next run. A sample of what the T-SQL command will look like is:
-- Get the last LSN in the log select sys.fn_cdc_map_time_to_lsn('largest less than or equal', getdate()) -- Get net changes on a table with CDC SELECT * FROM cdc.fn_cdc_get_net_changes_dbo_Products ( --starting LSN 0x00000018000001880039, --ending LSN 0x0000001C000001C20005, 'all' ) GO
At first, the CDC method may sound daunting compared to the built-in change tracking. But my experience has been that it is more robust and provides you as a developer or DBA more control over the process. You should also note that CDC is asynchronous which provides the same benefits and traps that asynch in other transactional scenarios does: the transaction don't have to wait for the tracking to complete, but your tracking can start to fall behind if the Log Reader is very busy. Also, since this is reading from the log, beware of a few things that you need to account for in terms of back ups and log shipping. Change Tracking is synchronous but makes your rows a little bit bigger.
Also, with CDC, you can always go to Attunity now and buy their SSIS component for CDC, which you can use to add to your SSIS workflow. And you don't need to use SSIS at all with CDC (or with Change Tracking, either) for data integration. I have a quick article that I wrote when SQL Server 2008 was released that shows you most of the T-SQL that you need to wire it up here if you prefer to integrate with T-SQL procedures instead.
One more thing … If you are going to use SSIS with CDC for incremental data loads into your data warehouse to short load times and create more real-ish time reporting, then take a look at a very good free sample from the SSIS team that is posted on Codeplex. It is part of the many good samples in the SSIS samples package and uses AdventureWorks as the OLTP database and AdventureWorksDW as the target data warehouse. It has the prebuilt tasks and procedures to set-up CDC, log changes and add just the changed rows into your data warehouse. It even mimics live updates to show you how it's done. I put a simple screen shot below of the main package to show you that it really isn't so bad. Just follow the instructions on how to load the T-SQL scripts and then give a whirl. For me, it really helped me to better understand how to integrate CDC into my SSIS-based ETL processes.
Take Care! Mark


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The Washington Demon baseball team struggled to produce hits in their 3A state semifinal game against Harlan. In a game heard on KCII, the three seed Demons faced a seven seed Harlan Cyclone team that got a complete game from Sophomore David Ratigan. Ratigan had only given up one hit through five innings, held Washington to just four hits and struck out seven in the game.
Meanwhile Harlan scored their eight runs with only one extra base hit which was a double. The Cyclones scored two in the second and one in the third to go up 3-0. They added four more in the sixth to lead 7-0. The Demons scored their two runs in the bottom of the sixth. Head Coach Nathan Miller felt they didn't play poorly, they just seemed flat at the plate.
Brad Weatherman pitched the first three innings, gave up four hits, struck out two and walked one. Josh Moore pitched two and two thirds and Colin Steele pitched one and a third. With the loss the Demons end their season 30-8 and match the schools deepest postseason run.
Harlan now moves to 21-14 and faces Solon for the 3A title. Solon beat Marion yesterday 11-2. Solon won the 2A title last year and his 38-4.


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Anyone have any dimensions or pics for this?
I always thought it had a cool, Pre-Columbian look to it, and visitors would never know it was a Trek prop.
Anyone have any dimensions or pics for this?
I always thought it had a cool, Pre-Columbian look to it, and visitors would never know it was a Trek prop.
Isn't this the one that Picard makes a big deal out of in the episode in the screencaps, then it shows up in Generations and he picks it up and tosses it back on the floor? LOL
I always thought that was strange as well. The only thing he takes from the wrecked room is the photo album.
'redlettermedia' has an amazing review of this very topic in his 'Generations' review on YouTube. His TPM review is high art as well...
at ex-astris-scientia.org there's a good represetation of the Naiskos from Fact Files. Just google "Kurlan Naiskos" and you'll get there.
Is this the one you're thinking of?
I got this one awhile back, but didn't post it here because of the size. That's actually a great pic! Thanks!
I know some castings of the little ones made it out into fandom, does anyone have one they could snap some pics of with a ruler?
Yeah, the bit in "Generations" flustered me too. All I can figure was the director was trying (hamfistedly) to say something about memories being more important than possessions or something.
My own google search turned up this page http://www.michael-parrish.com/kurlan_naiskos/
Do the smaller statues also open?
Someone came up with the non-canon explanation for Picard's behaviour in Generations... Realising the value of the Kurlan Naiskos, he donated the real one to a museum, but kept a facsimile as a reminder of his mentor. So what he threw away wasn't a priceless antique, just a replica.
@Sarge: Yes, it's the pic. Well, if you look at the 2nd pic you've posted, the small Naiskos could be triple in the volume of a combadge. There you've got a idea of how big those figures are. 10 are possibly in a big Naiskos, the second pic show only nine, if I haven't miscounted and the FF has 10 drawn in. So you work up to the height and width.
Michael Parrish also shown a inofficial Naiskos from the experience - practically you can do your Naiskos as you wish - it could be passed as a 1st or 2nd dynasty Naiskos or later ones, like what Michael did. This Naiskos represents only the work of the famous nameless Master of Tarquin Hill as stated in the episode. AFAIR, the small ones didn't open. Rick Sternbach designed the Naiskos, he may have all your answers.
Oh yes, before I forget the Interactive Tech Manual has 2 pics of the Naiskos in the Ready Room, the closed and opened one.
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They were made of Hydrocal FGR 95 Gypsum Cement to give them an authentic look. The small pieces did not open,they were cast solid. The FGR 95 was reinforced with fiberglass cloth.
Chris Bergschneider and Mark Sisson did the original scuplts, molds and castings.
If memory serves...all the coloring was done in the mold. The green patina was brushed in, not covering the entire surface. The mold was then backed with fgr95 with the terra cotta color mixed in and backed with fiberglass and more fgr95 I don't recall anything being done to it once it came out of the mold.I'll check with Chris but he's out the rest of the week on another job. History does repeat itself, Chris is back working here on various projects. I called him in to help with my Morlock mold and he hasn't left : )
I'll post up some photos later, we have a complete set of the Kurlan Naiskos in the lobby of our office. Funny thing, I woke up this morning thinking about this prop, trying to remember where we bought the patina and Terrra cotta colors.
Whoa! Amazing pictures!
I've always wanted one of these!
Double post. Oops. Got excited!
Do you happen to know what size the little guys are, by the way? An auction listing I've seen has them at 3"x3", but that seems markedly too large, and the wrong proportions.
They are 2" wide, 2 " tall and aprox 1 3/4" deep.
Need any other photos? Taking a four day weekend but will be back in the shop on Tuesday. Guess I should have put the top on and taken a photo of it together. I will on Tuesday.
More photos and measurements!!!
I can measure it when I go back in on Tues


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Here is a link related to current discussion on the color virtues of Olympus EM-1:http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/12/20/daily-inspiration-478-by-luke-carl-thompson/To my eye the skin tones look "real" and flattering; so much so that I am about to call B&H and place an order.For those with experience, how does EM-1 do with studio strobe for beauty and portrait work?Thank you,Richard
Edmund,No, no.Not crappy color, color of the moment, color as guide like a instant film (and not an instigram film).I've always said how cool would it be to have knobs on your camera and make the film you wanted in the camera. Now we can do it and see it as we frame and shoot.This doesn't make it easier or take the skill away, this allows the photographer to see design what they're shooting in regards color, tone, composition and lens.Isn't that total control?The 1ds3 you use shoots pretty color, but it's global and it's limited until you go through layers and layers of post at least with the gazzilion images I shot with those cameras.With the em-1 you set your look and use the jpeg as your guide.To me this is an amazing plus, but not crappy color, but a specific film, just the film you can see until your ready to present.Everybody that doesn't like evfs finds fault and I'm saying with the em1, there are four advantages. The ability to see "your" film look, adjustable formats from 4:3 to 16:9, a refresh rate that has less blackout than and ovf and the ability to view a huge viewfinder and manually focus a lens and in light and dark even without the magnifying setting.When was the last time we could do that?This is as Nikon says, puts the photograph back in the hands of the photographer, literally.In regards to pixels, frame size, whatever . . . well I've explained it and except for two lenses I'd like in the 43 system most is more than covered, from f.95 manually focus, to 400mm equivalent primes.The downside is small, but no I don't see this camera as good enough, just the opposite and when I combine the olympus with the pana gh3's, there is little you can't do in modern imaging at bargain prices compared to where we were just a few years ago.Once again, I really am not dissing the Sony A7 (know nothing about the R), but I'll bet few people tested the em1 next to the A7, from shoot to final post production.If they did I bet they'd see things differently.IMOBCP.S. I'll agree 50% that some editorial and commercial photography is c__p and the new economic new has knocked the poot out of production, but I also see some beautiful imagery and the thing I like is it's not all normal or safe, or just post production effects.There is a new look of believable but unique, a combination of planned real and I like it, in fact I like it a lot.When life throws you lemons, make lemonade. Or as you would say a Lemon Pressee.
Jim, The Mr.X bit is an in joke - think of it as standing in for "The Artist who wishes to be called Cooter". You and Dave do make some interesting points about the EVF - essentially you use it to preview the shot with the color and curves dialed in - it becomes a creative polaroid. And of course video is not something you will do with a 1Ds3.However, I am curious about how well the actual *still images* compare between the full frame Canon and its fast lenses and the 43 device. Because after all everyone was in love with the *idea* of all those 36 luscious megapixels of Sony sensor, and now suddenly they are talking not file quality but preview convenience. And BTW, I don't say the 1Ds3 is a marvel, it's just the "old" 35mm state of the art, and Cooter and Associates used to shoot it.Edmund
I have to admit that I do still love my 1Ds3. The picture quality of course is superb. But mostly as a tool it just works. After six years and many hundreds of thousands of pictures it feels like an extension of my brain (except after using the M43 and forgetting how to use the viewfinder!). It is impossible to accidentally press anything, and I can use it instinctively. Which is why for shooting location portraits it is still my favourite - paired with either an 85mm 1.8, or Zeiss 50mm f2. But I would love to have a similar camera in the size of the Olympus - I can accept the EVF - in fact I embrace the EVF.Jim
jim the gh3 though kind of a mini 5d2 is more intuitive to me than a 1d series and I've owned every 1d and 1ds/x series made. If only it shot the stills of the olympus, but if only the olympus shot the video of the gh3. At least they use the same lens mount.
Edmund,Your spiking the Lemonade again or just doing the Edumund causes trouble deal. I never know with your French guys.Your talking about a camera that turns everyone into a human blade runner clone and I'm talking about a camera that I can make an analog film look.Lot of difference in the intent.IMOBC
James, I think it's that time of the year again when it's allowable to both post and drink - so I've just raised a glass of port wine to your health You are right - I want a camera that can mine bitcoin and make coffee, and whisper sweet nothings to make the model smile The look - I want to do that meself, new every time. Edmund
Hi BC,Thought this might interest you: http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/my-first-result-with-a7r_topic102199_page1.htmlThis is closer to your style of shooting. I see no evidence of shutter blur and do see some decent tones. Perhaps you could give the A7R a try some time?
If your going to test the A7 with a thought of buying, do yourself a favor and try the em1. Michael has a good write up about it and I agree with most of what he says, especially in usability and build quality...
For reasons I still can't fathom, m43's don't suit 'adapted' lenses. I haven't tested M-glass on the OM-1 (BC has) but did on the Panasonic GH2. The results weren't even in the same ball park.
I suspect that all non-native lenses, either primes or zooms, will give poor(er) results on bodies that use an AA filter. It's not just ray angle, exit pupils et al. It's probably what the OLPF does. Cameras that are are OLPF free have consistently given better results there are reports both on this site and elsewhere that QED this**. Doesn't mean that there won't be issues with corner resolution, smearing etc there may well be. It's a question of degree. I suspect this is the main difference between the m43 OMs, Panasonics et al v the Fuji (and other) AA-less CSC's - without discussing high ISO and file quality.
The problem investing today in m43, is twofold. The lenses are good, very good. They're also expensive. But you're buying and committing to that format for the foreseeable future. The lenses are not adaptable, at least not to APS-C and FF. That's an expensive gamble - 35mm (ff) lenses and up, with the arrival of the mirrorless, game changing CSC's - potentially are.
I don't know if the OM has focus peaking
you might think a 17.3x13mm sensor
it is not 17.3x13mm sensor... you can see some actual spec's from manufacturers for 43/m43 sensors and 2x crop is a myth as well as 4 times lesser imaging area... it is 3.7 lesser imaging area and bigger crop and that is if you actually believe that FF gets the data from 36x24mm (instead of it being just the sensor size w/ a smaller imaging area)


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BEIJING—China's economy strengthened in November, as leaders turned to their old infrastructure-spending playbook to boost growth.
Industrial output, the key monthly measure of China's growth, rose 10.1% year-to-year in November, up from 9.6% in October and the strongest since March. Electricity production, a widely watched proxy for China's economic activity, accelerated to 7.9% growth from 6.4%.


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Making their second Major League Soccer trip of the season to Southern California, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (4W-13L-10D) take on top MLS club LA Galaxy (15W-3L-10D) on Saturday evening.
The Blue and White head back to Carson, California, looking to build on a two-match unbeaten streak after claiming a home win over Houston Dynamo and an away draw with New York Red Bulls. They visit a Galaxy side that - despite a busy schedule of MLS and CONCACAF Champions League matches at present - have already claimed a spot in this year's MLS Cup Playoffs. Saturday's game is the second league match that Tom Soehn's side will play at The Home Depot Center this season. On June 1, the 'Caps earned a 1-1 draw with Chivas USA at the soccer-specific stadium.
Saturday's match between Whitecaps FC and LA Galaxy from The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, kicks off at 7:30 p.m. PT and is live on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific and Bell mobile devices. 'Caps fans can also listen to Saturday's contest live on TEAM 1040 radio and teamradio.ca, starting with the pre-game show at 5:30 p.m. PT. TEAM 1040 will also have a two-hour post-game show, which will begin following the match at around 9:30 p.m. PT.
A draw in one of the league's tougher venues is usually considered a good result, but Soehn's squad were a frustrated bunch after seeing a fine first-half effort at New York Red Bulls conclude in a 1-1 draw against the hosts, who earned a point with ten men in the second half. Such is the desire among the 'Caps to claim that first away win in MLS that the fact Vancouver have bounced back well from tough away defeats to D.C. United and Portland Timbers was not enough to hide their disappointment in Harrison, New Jersey, last weekend.
Nonetheless, Whitecaps FC head into arguably their toughest road trip of 2011 with plenty of confidence after showing good form and resiliency in their last two games. The 'Caps will need to put in a complete performance versus the Galaxy on Saturday, with LA the only club in MLS not to lose a single match at home this season. While the task of getting a result against the Galaxy may look challenging, the 'Caps should enjoy the confines of the Home Depot Center pitch, having looked comfortable on the large playing surface against Chivas USA earlier in the season, as well as on a similar pitch at Red Bull Arena last weekend.
Whitecaps FC are still without striker Atiba Harris and young goalkeeper Brian Sylvestre (both knee), as well as midfielder Russell Teibert (toe laceration). Michael Nanchoff (iliotibial band syndrome) and John Thorrington (groin) are listed as doubtful, while playmaker Davide Chiumiento (ankle) is probable for the trip to LA.
For much of the 2011 campaign, the Galaxy have lived up to their much-publicized billing as favourites for the 2011 MLS Cup title. Bruce Arena's side have every incentive to reach the final on Sunday, November 20, as this year's match takes place at The Home Depot Center. With six games left to play, LA look on course to claim their second straight MLS Supporters' Shield title as regular season champions, with nearest challengers Seattle Sounders FC seven points adrift of LA. They come into Saturday's contest with an impressive 9W-0L-5D home record and an unbeaten run of four straight league matches (3W-0L-1D).
The Southern California outfit are also staking their claim to be the top club side in CONCACAF, with the Galaxy in currently involved in the CONCACAF Champions League group stage. In fact, LA come into their clash with Vancouver off the back of a controversial 2-1 away defeat to Monarcas Morelia on Tuesday. Despite leaving star midfielder David Beckham (back spasms) and talented Brazilian Juninho (hamstring) out of the trip to Mexico, LA played a strong line-up in Morelia, with their Designated Player signing in Republic of Ireland international captain Robbie Keane finding the scoresheet in a losing effort. Keane's arrival in LA is looked upon as the last piece in the Galaxy's puzzle to see their aspirations of another MLS Cup title become reality in late November. Before Thursday's MLS roster freeze, LA also acquired former Chicago Fire defender Dasan Robinson from Toronto FC in exchange for defender Kyle Davies.
The Galaxy will be without Sean Alvarado (knee), Gregg Berhalter (foot), Sean Franklin (knee), and Leonardo (knee). Beckham and Juninho are listed as questionable for Saturday's home game with the 'Caps.
This will be the second competitive meeting between Whitecaps FC and the Galaxy. On July 30, LA ran out convincing 4-0 winners over Vancouver on Bell Pitch at Empire Field. Two goals by Landon Donovan led the Galaxy to victory, with Sean Franklin and Adam Cristman also finding the scoresheet for the visitors. Both clubs also met twice in preseason at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The Galaxy defeated Whitecaps FC 2-0 on February 21 before LA repeated that scoreline against Vancouver the following day on February 22. The two clubs have also met twice in the MLS Reserve League this season. On June 20, the Galaxy reserves defeated the 'Caps second string 2-1 in California before both reserve sides drew 2-2 at Empire Field on July 31.
Prior to this season, Whitecaps FC and the Galaxy faced each other in two recent friendly contests when Vancouver were a North American second division club. On November 7, 2007, a crowd of 48,172 filled BC Place to see the 'Caps draw 0-0 with LA, while on May 13, 2008, Vancouver defeated the Galaxy 2-1 in front of 37,104 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta.
During the days of the North American Soccer League, Whitecaps FC played Los Angeles Aztecs 19 times between 1974 and 1981. The 'Caps registered 10 wins and nine defeats during that time. This included seven wins and two defeats against the Aztecs at home. Carl Valentine was Whitecaps FC's all-time leading scorer against the Aztecs with four goals, while Bob Lenarduzzi scored two goals against LA during that era.
Saturday's match also sees two Whitecaps FC players in goalkeeper Joe Cannon and midfielder Pete Vagenas face their former club. Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders, meanwhile, played Vancouver during his days in the old United Soccer Leagues First Division.
Following the weekend trip to Southern California, Whitecaps FC return home to play their final match on Bell Pitch at Empire Field on Saturday, September 24. For the first time in MLS, the 'Caps will host Pacific Northwest rivals Seattle Sounders FC in an important Cascadia Cup derby clash at 7:30 p.m. PT. Individual match tickets start at $20, plus applicable service charges, and are available at all Ticketmaster Ticket Centres, online at ticketmaster.ca, and Charge-by-Phone at 1.855.6.GO-CAPS (1.855.646.2277).
Whitecaps FC's home match versus Seattle Sounders FC can also be seen live on TSN and Bell mobile devices at 7:30 p.m. PT. 'Caps fans can also listen to the September 24 contest live on TEAM 1040 radio and teamradio.ca, starting with the pre-game show at 5:30 p.m. PT. TEAM 1040 will also have a two-hour post-game show, which will begin following the match at around 9:30 p.m. PT.
MLS single match tickets are also available for our 2011 matches on Bell Pitch downtown at BC Place, ranging from $20 to $55 (including HST). All tickets are subject to applicable service charges and fees. Fans can purchase these tickets at all Ticketmaster Ticket Centres, online at ticketmaster.ca/whitecaps, or Charge-by-Phone at 1.855.6.GO-CAPS (1.855.646.2277).