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What You May Not Know About The Mandalorian
By Christopher Gates/Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 11:34 am EST
Over the past four decades (and counting), Star Wars has spawned close to a dozen movies, hundreds of tie-in novels, countless video games, stacks of comic books, action figures, radio dramas, tabletop RPGs, collectible card games, and pretty much every other type of media you can imagine — save one. While Star Wars has a number of cartoons to its name, live-action television remains that galaxy far, far away's one unconquered frontier.
Oh, there have been one-offs, like the spectacular disaster known as the Star Wars Holiday Special or the made-for-TV Ewok movies. As far as an ongoing series is concerned, though? Nothing. Remember, we live in a world where even Knight Rider's gotten four different shows. You'd think that the TV industry would show something as big as Star Wars at least a little bit of love.
In 2019, it's finally going to. It's been a long time coming, but we've finally got some information about the very first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, and we can't wait to share it with you.
A different type of Star Wars, but a very familiar story
In October 2018, Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau (more on him in a bit) posted a picture on Instagram that evoked the classic Star Wars opening crawl and laid out exactly what The Mandalorian will be about. The series will focus on "the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic," and will explore the rocky transition from the Galactic Empire to a brand new government.
If that makes The Mandalorian sound like a western, that's not an accident. At Star Wars Celebration 2019, Favreau and fellow producer Dave Filoni confirmed that The Mandalorian, like the original Star Wars, is heavily inspired by both spaghetti westerns and Akira Kurosawa's samurai films. Like the heroes in those stories, the Mandalorian is a lone fighter "of questionable moral character" who flies a ship called the Razor Crest and does whatever it takes to survive.
Plot specifics are still slim, but we know that actor Pedro Pascal is modeling the Mandalorian on Clint Eastwood, and that the gunslinger will run across a character named Greef, the head of a loose coalition of bounty hunters who has a special mission for the titular character. According to clips shown to the Star Wars Celebration audience, he'll also cross paths with an old Imperial loyalist who wants to see the Empire take back control of the galaxy — and it sounds like the Mandalorian isn't totally against the idea.
But what is a Mandalorian, exactly?
In Star Wars lore, Mandalorians are fierce warriors with a long, proud, and surprisingly complex history. You may not have seen them before, but you're probably familiar with their most iconic creation: Boba Fett wears Mandalorian armor, as did his father, the bounty-hunter-turned-clone-daddy known as Jango.
Mandalore hasn't played much of a role in the movies, but it's a big, big part of the Star Wars cartoon shows. In The Clone Wars, Mandalore has been ravaged after centuries at war, including an old and ancient conflict with the Jedi. When a Duchess tries to establish a pacifist government, a group of exiled warriors strike back, leading to a full-on civil war. Later, Darth Maul (who's not quite as dead as you think) conquers Mandalore, and uses the planet as a headquarters for his criminal syndicate, the Shadow Collective. So, yeah, Maul's brief Solo cameo isn't quite as random as it seems.
Sabine Wren, one of the main cast members on Star Wars Rebels, is Mandalorian through and through. When the series starts, Sabine's been branded a traitor for her role in the burgeoning Rebel Alliance, but politics end up bringing her back. With the help from her teammates, Sabine returns the fabled Darksaber to its rightful home and helps quell another Mandalorian civil war, bringing peace to the Mandalore at long last. Now, given its remote setting, The Mandalorian probably won't delve too deep into the planet's pulpy Game of Thrones-like politics, but hey! There's always hope for a spinoff...
The clothes that made the man (or the woman)
Here's a little secret: he might dress like one, but Boba Fett isn't actually a Mandalorian, at least not in the new, Disney-ified canon. In The Clone Wars episode "The Mandalore Plot," the Mandalorian Prime Minister tells Obi-Wan Kenobi that Boba's dad, Jango, is just a regular ol' bounty hunter who wears someone else's armor.
But, thanks to Boba, we knew what a Mandalorian looked like decades before we knew anything about them as a people, and The Mandalorian wouldn't be the same without him. Boba Fett debuted during the Star Wars Holiday Special, and while the rest of the program isn't worth your time, Nelvana Studios' animated short "The Faithful Wookiee" absolutely is. Not only does the sequence make Fett cooler than the movies ever did — no falling into man-eating pits here — but the design ended up influencing both how the Mandalorians looked on The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian's costume, too. That big ol' holster, the narrow visor, the natural color scheme, and the visible battle damage? Those are all Nelvana.
The Holiday Special short also gives an idea as to what The Mandalorian might look like. In fact, Nelvana's animators looked to westerns when storyboarding the short. "The Faithful Wookiee's" surreal landscapes and the dinosaur that Boba rustles and rides might be a little too fanciful for live-action TV, but if you want to see Star Wars reimagined as a spaghetti western, you don't have to wait for The Mandalorian's premiere. There's already an example out in the wild.
A galaxy of familiar faces — and you won't see any of 'em
As revealed at the Solo premiere, The Mandalorian will take place a few years after The Return of the Jedi, and a couple of decades before The Force Awakens. At this point, the Rebel Alliance has transformed into the New Republic, while the former Imperials who'd eventually form the First Order are still licking their wounds in the galaxy's Unknown Regions. Leia Organa is busy serving in the Galactic Senate. Her husband, Han Solo, splits his time between taking care of their kid Ben, i.e. the future Kylo Ren, racing spaceships, running his own shipping company, and teaming up with his buddy Lando for the occasional New Republic mission.
Don't expect to see them (or any of the other main Star Wars characters) in The Mandalorian. The new Disney television show takes place far from the New Republic's capital, and will feature new characters. The Mandalorian looks familiar, but he isn't Boba Fett. You might think you recognize The Empire Strikes Back's mechanical bounty hunter IG-88, but that's actually a different assassin droid named IG-11, who'll be voiced by filmmaker Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok).
However, The Mandalorian is full of tried and true Star Wars staples: Jawa sandcrawlers, lizard-like dewbacks, Return of the Jedi-style speeder bikes, and at least one familiar-looking droid will all appear. The Mandalorian's main cast might be brand new, but don't worry. You're still going to feel right at home.
I'm sorry, Jon... who?
You might've noticed that Jon Favreau's name comes up quite a bit when talking about The Mandalorian. There's a very good reason for that: the accomplished director is running the whole shebang. As Disney's initial press release states, Favreau is executive producing and writing The Mandalorian, and while he's not on the series' list of directors, we're confident that The Mandalorian is in pretty good hands.
See, in addition to flicks like Elf, Zathura, and Chef, Favreau directed a little something called Iron Man. You know, the movie that single-handedly launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, revitalized Robert Downey Jr.'s career, and made Tony Stark a household name? Yeah, that Iron Man. Favreau also served as a producer on The Avengers and helmed Disney's live-action Jungle Book and Lion King adaptations. In other words, he's got a flair for making special effects-driven dramas that are also full of humor and heart, and he's an old pro when it comes to launching franchises. Sound like a good fit for Star Wars? Yeah, we thought so too.
Not only that, but Favreau has already proven his Star Wars bona fides: as an actor, he's participated in not one but two separate Star Wars projects. If you saw Solo, you might recognize Favreau as the voice of Rio Durant, Tobias Beckett's multi-armed pilot. The Mandalorian won't be Favreau's first dalliance with the show's titular warrior race, either. On The Clone Wars, Favreau played Pre Vizsla, the exile who started the Mandalorian Civil War, helped the Shadow Collective conquer the planet, and ultimately met his demise at the wrong end of Darth Maul's lightsaber.
The big Rebels connection
If you're still worried that Favreau isn't up to the task of bringing Star Wars to the small screen, don't be. He's got some help. Longtime Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is listed as one of the show's producers, and all of the material will still go through Lucasfilm's story group, the organization in charge of keeping Star Wars canon consistent.
Favreau's also getting a big, big hand from the animated side of things. Dave Filoni may not be a household name, but if you're a modern day Star Wars fan, you know his work very, very well. Filoni directed The Clone Wars feature film (which, let's face it, isn't really something to brag about), and he worked side-by-side with George Lucas to bring the subsequent, superior animated series to the air. Filoni also co-created both Rebels and the newest Star Wars cartoon, Resistance.
In other words, he's the guy behind a lot of the best of parts modern Star Wars canon. According to The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Filoni is the brains behind Anakin Skywalker's beloved apprentice, Ahsoka Tano. On Rebels, Filoni and his staff raised questions about the Jedi's relationship with the Force years before Rian Johnson and The Last Jedi did the same. Heck, he even voiced Chopper, Rebels' scene-stealing droid. Naturally, Filoni will be bringing his informed, insightful, and nuanced take on Star Wars to The Mandalorian, too. He's one of the show's executive producers, and he'll make his live-action directing debut by helming The Mandalorian's very first episode.
The people who are going to make it all happen
The Mandalorian won't be short on star power, at least not behind the camera. Reports say the show has a 10-episode first series, and Disney shared a list of some of the people who'll be directing a few of the episodes. Buckle up. It's a doozy.
Dave Filoni's there, obviously, but by far the biggest name on the docket is New Zealand native Taiki Waititi. You know why that's exciting? Here are a few reasons: Eagle vs Shark. Flight of the Conchords. What We Do in the Shadows. Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Thor: Ragnarok. So, yeah, he's pretty good. On the other hand, Bryce Dallas Howard might be best known for her performances in projects like Jurassic World and Black Mirror, but she's wanted to get into directing for a while. In fact, Howard already has a number of short films under her belt, and besides, Star Wars runs in the family. Her Oscar-winning father, Ron, just directed Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Further down the list you'll find Rick Famuyiwa, director of the criminally underrated Dope, and Deborah Chow, a television veteran who's worked on shows like Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot, Better Call Saul, and The Man in the High Castle — y'know, just some of the best dramas currently on television. Honestly, it's hard to imagine a better lineup, but then again, it's not every day that you get to contribute to a cultural institution. We wouldn't be surprised if The Mandalorian has talent lined up around the block, just waiting for a shot at a galaxy far, far away.
Part of a very exclusive lineup
While The Mandalorian would be a hit on almost any channel — c'mon, it's Star Wars — you're not going to be able to watch it via regular cable. The show will air exclusively on Disney+, Disney's streaming service that's going to be the new home for, well, almost everything. The series launches on November 12, 2019, and The Mandalorian pilot will be available on day one. A subscription will cost $6.99 a month (or $70 if you subscribe for a full year), although that price will probably go up over time.
If you're a Star Wars fan, you're probably going to want to subscribe. In addition to The Mandalorian, Disney+ will host all of the Star Wars movies, a second live-action Star Wars show (see below), a new season of animated series The Clone Wars, and behind-the-scenes documentaries — and, reportedly, that's just the beginning.
Disney+ will also be crammed full of Marvel content, including all of the MCU movies, a Scarlet Witch-Vision team-up called WandaVision, a Loki solo series, a Falcon and Winter Soldier show, and the animated What If? adaptation. Every single one of Disney's animated films, even those initially relegated to the "vault," will be on Disney+, as will original Disney programming like High School Musical: The Series, a rumored Muppets revival, and more. Throw in all 30 seasons of The Simpsons and a National Geographic documentary series starring Jeff Goldblum, and Disney+, and you're getting a lot of content for your money. Watch out, Netflix. The Mandalorian is coming.
The end of one journey, and the beginning of another
Now, The Mandalorian isn't the first time that Lucasfilm has tried to bring live-action Star Wars to the small screen. The company has been working on this for a while. In 2005, George Lucas announced that a live-action Star Wars show was in development. The series, which was eventually known as Star Wars Underworld, was set between the prequel and original trilogies, and took place on the Imperial capital Coruscant, with a primary focus on the planet's seedy criminal underbelly. Allegedly, about 50 scripts were written before Underworld was put on hiatus.
The reason? It's all about the cash, baby. "The scripts were written as if money was no object," Battlestar Galactica mastermind Ronald D. Moore, who worked in Underworld's writers' room, told EW. According to Lucas, every episode would've been equivalent to a $20 million film, although he claimed he could produce it for a fraction of that by using his own facilities and digital technology. He wasn't willing to compromise his vision, either. If that meant postponing production until Underworld's special effects could be accomplished on a TV budget, well, then he'd just wait. That was 2011. In 2012, Disney bought Star Wars for $4 billion, and Underworld suddenly went into limbo.
In 2013, ABC's Paul Lee said that Disney, ABC's parent company, was reevaluating Underworld, and when Jon Favreau's series was announced, many fans wondered if some of Underworld (and 1313, Underworld's cancelled video game tie-in) would make its way into the new project. Given what we know now, probably not, although The Mandalorian inherited at least one thing from its predecessor: the price tag. Reportedly, every episode of the show will cost $10 million to make. Yikes.
A cast that's out of this world
The Mandalorian might be new, but the actor playing him isn't. Pedro Pascal, who you probably know best as the dude who had his head crushed by the Mountain on Game of Thrones, will be the man behind the Mandalorian's signature armor. He's not coming alone, either. For The Mandalorian, Disney and Lucasfilm have assembled a top-tier cast that's full of genre-fiction favorites.
Former MMA star and American Gladiator and current action hero Gina Carano will play Cara Dune (or however it'll end up being spelled), a former Rebel shock trooper who's having trouble reintegrating with society now that the war is over. Carl Weathers, Rocky's Apollo Creed, will portray Greef Marga. Critically acclaimed director Werner Herzog steps in as The Mandalorian's pro-Empire crime lord, while Star Wars Celebration footage revealed that Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul villain Giancarlo Esposito will play a caped TIE Fighter pilot.
But wait, there's more! The Mandalorian has tapped Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte for a currently unspecified role, and has fleshed out its cast with comedian Bill Burr, The Mentalist and Supernatural's Emily Swallow and American Gods' Omid Abtahi. That's a lot of star power, and chances are that it didn't come cheap. With The Mandalorian, Disney isn't messing around.
The Mandalorian is not the only one of its kind
With Disney reconsidering its approach to Star Wars spinoff films, the Skywalker saga coming to a close with 2019's Episode IX, and Rian Johnson's film series still years away, television looks like it'll be the go-to source for new Star Wars adventures in the near future. Thankfully, The Mandalorian won't be shouldering that burden all on its own. Not only is the Disney Channel cartoon Star Wars Resistance off to a strong start, but there are other Star Wars series coming to the Disney+ streaming service, too.
Unlike The Mandalorian, however, the other live-action Star Wars show will feature at least one familiar face. Diego Luna, who played Rebel spy Cassian Andor in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, will reprise his role in an untitled series set to debut at an unspecified date. The show will be set sometime before the events of Rogue One, and will reportedly focus on "the formative years of the Rebellion." Then there's the limited series focusing on Obi-Wan Kenobi's exploits after the fall of the Jedi, which will bring Ewan McGregor back to the role.
That means that The Mandalorian and the other shows won't directly overlap — they're set in two very different time periods — but it'd wouldn't be surprising to see one reference the other. Under Disney's stewardship, everything is connected. If a theme park, a novel, and possibly a movie can share a setting, it's pretty easy to imagine The Mandalorian picking up a character, vehicle, or planet from Andor's adventures. We'll just have to wait and see.
Seasoned with that old-school flavor
At Star Wars Celebration 2019, Jon Favreau repeatedly emphasized that The Mandalorian will be one giant love letter to the original Star Wars trilogy, and that tribute extends behind the scenes as well. Favreau wants to make sure The Mandalorian feels like our first visit to that galaxy far, far away, and that means embracing some old-school film production techniques. Naturally, green screens and CGI are necessary to deliver The Mandalorian on a TV budget, but Favreau says that the crew is also using puppets, animatronics, and special effects makeup wherever possible.
For example, while the dogfights in the modern Star Wars films are mostly computer generated, Favreau really wanted to make a model of the Razor Crest to use during production. Well, Industrial Light & Magic's art staff were so excited about the idea that they didn't just make a model. Unprompted, they went home and built a camera rig in their garages, recreating the hardware that was used to make Star Wars back in 1977. The end result looks just like classic Star Wars films. It's very cool.
ILM's staff aren't the only Star Wars fans who got in on The Mandalorian action, either. One day, The Mandalorian's crew realized that they were short on stormtrooper extras and costumes. To fill in the scene, the show's producers reached out to the 501st Legion, a group of Star Wars aficionados who make their own, highly detailed stormtrooper outfits. Lucasfilm has teamed with the 501st before for promotional events, but The Mandalorian marks the first time that the 501st has appeared onscreen in an official Star Wars production.
A trailer that delivers on every promise
The first trailer for The Mandalorian dropped at Disney's 2019 D23 Expo, and while it's only a minute and a half long, it's crammed full of good stuff. Gorgeous cinematography that evokes old spaghetti westerns? References to Star Wars films from every era, even the made-for-TV Ewok movies and the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special? First looks at a whole bunch of colorful new characters, as well as some nods towards old favorites? It's all here.
Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau promised a series exploring the "darker, freakier side" of the galaxy, and even going by the trailer, it's clear that he wasn't kidding. Pablo Pascal's masked bounty hunter doesn't utter a single line during the video. He doesn't have to. Actions speak louder than words, and The Mandalorian trailer is full of action, including one of the most gruesome deaths in Star Wars history. (It involves a closing security door. You'll know it when you see it.)
If the rest of the series is that good, Star Wars fans are in for a treat when the first of The Mandalorian's eight episodes arrives.
Where and when you get to watch The Mandalorian
Unlike original series on services like Netlix and Amazon Prime, The Mandalorian isn't going to drop all at once. If you want the full Mandalorian experience, you're going to have to tune in to Disney+ each and every week. Thankfully, the broadcast schedule for all eight episodes of The Mandalorian has leaked early. You want to plan your week around Star Wars? Now you can.
The first episode of The Mandalorian airs on November 12, a Tuesday, which not-so-coincidentally happens to be Disney+'s launch day. The next episode arrives the same week on Friday, November 15, the same day as the newest Star Wars video game, Jedi: Fallen Order. From then on out, episodes will hit on Friday throughout the rest of November and December, with one big exception: episode seven will hit Disney+ on Wednesday, December 18.
What makes episode seven so special? Why, a little something called Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, which comes out the same week. With advance screenings of Episode IX taking over theaters on Thursday, December 19, Disney wants to keep the weekend free for moviegoers, so it's releasing that week's installment of The Mandalorian a little early.
The George Lucas connection to The Mandalorian
All of Star Wars owes a huge debt to George Lucas — after all, the man created the entire darn thing — but The Mandalorian has some specific ties to Star Wars' great maker. For one, the show is heavily inspired by the first Star Wars movie, especially the opening act and the cantina scene, which Lucas directed (Lucas was creatively involved with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but didn't actually helm the features). The Mandalorian also uses technology originally developed for the Star Wars prequels, with 20-plus years of technical advancements added in.
However, as Breaking Bad and Mandalorian villain Giancarlo Esposito has revealed, Lucas' input on the series goes a lot deeper than that. According to Esposito, Lucas actually contributed some creative ideas to the show. While discussing The Mandalorian's impressive roster of directors with Collider, Esposito said that Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau " figured it out with George Lucas" himself, and was "working with George Lucas" directly.
Lucas and Favreau must've gotten along, because Lucas stopped by The Mandalorian set to surprise Favreau for the showrunner's 52nd birthday. Disney might be calling the shots at Star Wars these days, but Lucas' contributions certainly haven't been forgotten.
Video games helped bring The Mandalorian to life
From the original Star Wars arcade game to '90s classics like TIE Fighter and Jedi Knight to Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars and video games have always enjoyed a healthy relationship. The Mandalorian pushes it to the next level. While Jon Favreau and his team used practical effects as much as they could to capture the original Star Wars' hand-made charm, digital wizardry was key to bringing The Mandalorian's exotic worlds to life.
Favreau already has a fair amount of experience working on primarily digital movie sets — he's the man behind Disney's live-action The Lion King and The Jungle Book remakes — and he brought all of that know-how to The Mandalorian, which was filmed largely using green screens. So, how did Favreau and the actors know what their fictional locations were supposed to look like?
By using a game engine, of course. Video game software is great at rendering detailed 3D environments in real time, and The Mandalorian team used that tech to create digital sets that the cast and crew could "film" and see the results in real time. Not only did that speed up production. It let The Mandalorian's creative minds get an excellent read on what the finished product would look like and adjust accordingly. The results should speak for themselves.
From The Mandalorian to Ben Kenobi
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The Mandalorian isn't the only live-action Star Wars series coming to Disney+. In addition to Jon Favreau's neo-western, Disney is also prepping a Rogue One prequel starring Diego Luna's Cassian Andor and a six-episode miniseries in which Ewan McGregor will return to usher Obi-Wan Kenobi into middle age.
Technically, neither of these shows will cross over with The Mandalorian, but The Mandalorian has already had a direct effect on Disney's Obi-Wan series. Director Deborah Chow, who helmed two episodes of The Mandalorian, impressed Lucasfilm so much that the company gave her the complete Obi-Wan show to call her own.
Chow certainly has the chops to bring Obi-Wan to the small screen — in addition to The Mandalorian, she has directed episodes of Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot, and Better Call Saul. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy seems to agree. "We really wanted to select a director who is able to explore both the quiet determination and rich mystique of Obi-Wan," Kennedy said. "I'm absolutely confident Deborah is the right director to tell this story."
Enough about The Mandalorian season one. What about season two?
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The Mandalorian isn't even out yet, and it's already a hit — or, at the very least, Disney seems extremely confident that it'll be one. Months before The Mandalorian debuted, Jon Favreau got the greenlight to start writing season two. By the time that the cast and crew started making the rounds to promote the first season, filming on the second was already underway.
The Mandalorian season two adds a couple of new directors to its already stacked lineup, which includes Star Wars: The Clone Wars director Dave Filoni's first-ever live-action gig. For one, Favreau will actually get to helm an episode or two of the series this time around. During season one, he was too busy on Disney's The Lion King to take a direct role behind the camera. The Mandalorian cast member Carl Weathers will also direct a season two installment. In fact, his interest in sitting in the director's chair was one of the main reasons why he joined the series.
Otherwise, details about season two are as scarce as they are about season one, but don't worry. Favreau promises that there are plenty of surprises — and a few old "Legends" characters — in the pipeline. Don't give up on The Mandalorian when season one ends in December. The show is just getting started.
The Empire is gone, but not forgotten
The Mandalorian takes place about five years after Return of the Jedi and 25 years before The Force Awakens, making the galaxy a very different place than what you're used to. The ragtag Rebel Alliance has transformed itself into the New Republic, a representative democracy that spans many known planets. At this point in Star Wars canon, the New Republic is in full swing, with a headquarters on the planet Chandrila. It has also passed the Military Disarmament Act, which drastically scaled back the New Republic's military, leaving behind only a small peacekeeping force.
The Galactic Empire, on the other hand, hasn't been as fortunate. After the Battle of Jakku brought the Galactic Civil War to a close, what remained of the main Imperial fleet retreated to the mysterious Unknown Regions, where it will eventually reform into the First Order. Not yet, though. The First Order is still years away.
It's a time of transition. Out on the Outer Rim, where The Mandalorian takes place, former Imperial warlords are scrambling to hold on to power. Former rebels are trying to figure out where they belong now that the fighting has stopped. Criminals try to profit off of the confusion, and The Mandalorian's main characters are all caught right in the middle of it.


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Survey Shows Employees Would Compromise Company Data
A recent report published by nCipher confirms what many business owners have known for a long time. Their employees are the weakest link when it comes to data security.
The nCipher report, however, adds a disturbing exclamation point to the data with a few details you're likely to find shocking.
First, fully 71 percent of C-Suite employees surveyed in the UK would knowingly and willingly cover up a data breach if doing so meant escaping the fines associated with it. This, contrasted with just 57 percent of managers and directions. The latter number is still distressingly high, but nothing compared with the C-suite.
Second, don't make the mistake of thinking that it's just the people you have installed in the corner office that are willing to put your business at risk. A disappointing 25 percent of office employees indicated that they'd be willing to sell corporate information for as little as £1000, with 5 percent of office employees saying that they'd simply give it away for free. 10 percent said they'd need at least £250 to make it worth their while.
Dan Turner, the CEO of Deep Secure, had this to say on reading the report:
"The cost of employee loyalty is staggeringly low. With nearly half of all office workers admitting they would sell their company's and clients' most sensitive and valuable information, the business risk is not only undisputable, but immense in the age of GDPR and where customers no longer tolerate data breaches.
Given the prevalent use of digital and cyber tactics to exfiltrate this information, it's critical that businesses invest in a security posture that will help them both detect and prevent company information from leaving the network."
Wise words indeed. Unfortunately, given the realities above, that means keeping a closer eye on your own people.
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Home News Sheriff & Prosecutors Denied Immunity in "Operation Candy Crush" Case
Sheriff & Prosecutors Denied Immunity in "Operation Candy Crush" Case
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, on May 15, denied the majority of the immunity arguments from Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh and prosecutors regarding the events around "Operation Candy Crush," which took place in February 2018.
Background on "Operation Candy Crush"
Law enforcement officials in Rutherford County executed "Operation Candy Crush" in February 2018. Officials raided certain stores within the county selling CBD products and arrested their store owners.
"The seventeen store owners alleged that law enforcement violated their constitutional
rights to be free from false arrest, unlawful seizure, and unlawful prosecution, as well as their right to equal protection. They also alleged a civil conspiracy to violate those rights," Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons wrote in her decision.
According to the Judge Gibbons' decision, the plaintiffs revealed communications between law enforcement officials leading up to Operation Candy Crush in which officials expressed doubts about the CBD products' purported illegality and concerns regarding the planned arrests and raids.
The defendants (Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh, District Attorney John Zimmerman and Assistant District Attorney Jennings S. Jones) moved to dismiss the claims, claiming absolute and qualified immunity. The district court denied their motions.
Read more on the background of "Operation Candy Crush" here.
Immunity Claims
The court of appeals has:
Denied absolute and qualified immunity for Jones and Zimmerman
Affirmed the district court's denial of quasi-judicial and qualified immunity for Fitzhugh on the Fourth Amendment claim
Reversed the denial of qualified immunity for Fitzhugh on the plaintiff's equal protection claim
Decision Process
Jones and Zimmerman
Absolute and qualified immunity was denied for Jones and Zimmerman because, as the judge states, Jones and Zimmerman "acted outside their role as judicial advocates during the investigative phase of 'Operation Candy Crush' and were objectively unreasonable in pushing the operation forward without probable cause."
The judge's decision also states that Zimmerman and Jones "erroneously advised the RCSO that the plaintiffs were selling illegal CBD products even though the prosecutors knew or should have known that they had no evidence of the products' illegality."
Fitzhugh is not entitled to quasi-judicial immunity "because he has not shown that absolute immunity extends to the execution of a tainted court order based on false information, as the complaint alleges. Fitzhugh, moreover, is not entitled to qualified immunity on the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment claims because the complaint alleges that he knew or should have known that probable cause did not exist to arrest the plaintiffs."
The judge's decision also states "the only justifications Fitzhugh offered for the arrests were allegedly fabrications. He claimed the plaintiffs would take candies out of their packaging, 'spray them' with an illegal substance, and repackage them for sale. He also claimed the products were derived from marijuana, even though the TBI never indicated—because it could not test— whether the products were derived from hemp or marijuana. Similar false statements were made in securing the indictments and nuisance orders. Although Fitzhugh made his false comments in a press conference after the plaintiffs were already arrested, they suggest he conducted himself in
the investigation with a reckless disregard for the truth—a truth of which he was likely aware, based on the complaint's allegations about communications from his subordinates and the TBI. Thus, Fitzhugh is not entitled to qualified immunity for the alleged unlawful arrests, seizures, and malicious prosecution against the plaintiffs."
However, Fitzhugh is immune on the equal protection claim "because the complaint does not allege facts showing that he participated in the decision to selectively target the plaintiffs' stores."
"Although the plaintiffs sufficiently allege that the investigation improperly targeted them based on malicious, financial intent….Fitzhugh was not present in the meetings where these comments were made," the decision reads.
Read the entire court decision here.
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"In the future, the only artwork that will survive will have no gravity at all" maintained Nam June Paik, the acclaimed father of video art, in1980. He speculated that the art of the future, once liberated from the gravity of its material, will lack a "preservable" aspect. Paik's prophetic statement seems to reflect the reality confronted by the many institutions collecting, displaying and preserving media. But how to grapple with well-rooted paradigms of material authenticity that for centuries embodied the artwork's value? Or, in other words, what is the future of media art?
Media artworks based on film, video and computer code that incorporate playback and display technology confront us with the vulnerability and instability of their physical carriers and visual contents. Being in the process of continuous reinterpretation, rescription, and remediation, these artworks move between formats and platforms, seemingly unconcerned with the gravity of their physical carriers—the vehicles, as it were, of the artistic concept, a floating synthesis of the artist's mind and the minds of all actors engaged in the work's genesis. Media artworks—hybrid combinations of display and playback technologies— differ from traditional media such as painting and sculpture by not conforming to the traditional collecting, archiving and musealization processes. Changeable by nature, these works question the established views considering what an artwork is, or might be, what is being exhibited and preserved, and what enters the realm of cultural memory.
The future of ever-expanding digital memory comes upon us, an immortalization gesture of sorts, directed against forgetting and oblivion. The digital cloud, multi-nodal, networked internet, and the web-based platforms have already commenced generating—and forced us to get accustomed to—a multiplicity of artworks' versions, variations, and clones. They lack reference to any of the familiar object-based (or objectified) strategies that for decades formed theories of traditional museum and conservation. In this new world, how can we ensure these works' existence without fixing them in time and forcing them into the straightjacket of physical preservation? How can we avoid arresting them in time and simultaneously ensure their survival?
Nam June Paik's legacy in the history of twentieth-century art rests on his introduction of the television and video as artistic media in the 1960s. His oeuvre encompasses global communication systems and combines elements of obsolescence and chance with the most sophisticated technical solutions of his time. At the time of this writing, only a few works by Paik remained in their original form and condition, and almost none of Paik's works that still function are displayed with their original playback equipment.
It is, therefore, surprising that there was no major examination of the issues of the continuity of his media to date. Paik's Virtual Archive strives to fill this gap. But rather than being a contestation with what is left there to be preserved, it encourages the reader to reflect on the preservation's alternative futures and on the nature of the artworks (following the premise that to conserve an artwork signifies first and foremost to understand what it is). Paik's Virtual Archive explores the way in which materiality can be conceived on the basis of the archive as inherently social and temporal construct: social because created in a network of people who collaborated with Paik on the creation, presentation, archiving and perpetuation of his artworks; temporal, because the kind of change his artworks experience is always bound with time—with its index manifest in the processes of decay and obsolescence and with the time of the artwork, its duration.
Read reviews for Paik's Virtual Archive, which released this week.


KOCHI/MUMBAI — Joby Pathrose, a farmer living a kilometer away from the usually languid Periyar river in southern India, was woken in the night by the sound of rushing waters. Hours later his plantations and everything he owned were completely submerged.
More than half a dozen experts who Reuters consulted were divided on the extent to which dam water spills contributed to the flooding, but almost all, including India's Central Water Commission (CWC), said reservoir levels were too high ahead of the disaster.
"Because of this carelessness the disaster proportions were multiplied," said Himanshu Thakkar, coordinator of the South Asia Network of Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP), a non-governmental body that advocates for better water management practices.
Reuters has learned the two largest reservoirs in Kerala – Idukki and Idamalayar – have been operating for years without any emergency action plans – a basic requirement for major dams worldwide. The reservoirs also lack "rule curves," another key safety protocol that dictates the level of water that can safely be maintained behind a dam at any point given seasonal factors.
N.S. Pillai, chairman of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), a state-run body that manages most of Kerala's big dams, said that was a "highly hypothetical and imaginary conclusion." Heavy rain had not been forecast and blaming the dams for the flooding was "not justifiable," he said.
While opposition parties in Kerala have demanded a judicial probe into the release of dam water, state officials have blamed the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for poor forecasts and the release of water into Idukki reservoir from Mullaperiyar – a dam managed by next-door Tamil Nadu state – for exacerbating the flooding.


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Bagdogra Airport Director Mr. Sahay Awarded with International Airport Professional Cert today
International Airport Professional (IAP) - It's awarded to select a professional every year by Airports Council International (ACI) from each country around the world.
This year from India Bagdogra Airport Director Mr. Rakesh R Sahay was the chosen one.
This year IAP will be given to 50 officials from all across the globe. The certification will be handed over by Ms Angela Gittens the head of ACI.
ILS spoke with Mr. Sahay who is in Montreal Canada a while ago. He said:
"It's a huge privilege and a big responsibility. It means AAI expects a lot from me. Will have to double my efforts."


The CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) highlighted the range of CC-Link IE development options at this year's SPS/IPC/Drives Italia, which included a variety of industry-standard development solutions for CC-Link IE, CC-Link IE Field Basic and its fieldbus counterpart CC-Link.
The Hilscher solution is an extension of its netX platform. The options available include embedded modules that make it simpler for Hilscher customers to add CC-Link IE or IEFB compatibility to existing products already using the netX platform.
"Hilscher is a long-time partner of the CLPA and we have offered CC-Link fieldbus options for many years," said Christof Hunger, product manager at Hilscher. "However, with the rising demand for Ethernet based systems and the continuing growth of the CC-Link IE installed base, we knew it was time to offer our extensive global customer base the option to add CC-Link IE and IEFB to their products too. We expect these new products to become a successful part of our general offering with strong sales growth expected."
In addition, TI offers a reference design to assist in the design of a CC-Link IE Field Basic master and slave based on its Sitara processor portfolio.
"Since the rise of Ethernet in the automation space, TI has sought to be a provider of leading-edge processors and industrial communication expertise to automation equipment manufacturers by leveraging the power and flexibility of our Sitara processor and complementary analogue portfolios and system insight," said Ellen Kou, product manager at TI. "CC-Link IE Field Basic is an exciting networking protocol for the future of industrial automation and we are looking forward to working with the CLPA to increase its installed base across many different device types."
The Hilscher and TI platforms were displayed alongside existing options from other CLPA partners HMS, Mitsubishi Electric and Renesas.


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Relativity Media Sets Release Dates for Untitled Raven Project and Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy
by Matt Goldberg May 3, 2011
Two upcoming Relativity Media films may not have titles, but they now have release dates. First up, James McTeigue's Untitled Raven Project (previously titled The Raven) will open on March 9, 2012. Per the press release, "The film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders." The untitled movie also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Relativity has also set the date for the Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy that has an absolutely ridiculous cast starring in a series of interconnected stories. Just some of the names on board include Johnny Knoxville, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Seann Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Stephen Merchant. Hit the jump for the full press release.
Here's the press release, which includes the full bonkers cast list for the Farrelly/Wessler comedy:
Relativity Media continued to build its 2012 release slate today, announcing it will release the Untitled Raven Project, directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) and starring John Cusack (Being John Malkovich) on March 9, 2012 and the Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy on April 13, 2012. These two films join previously announced thriller, House at the End of the Street, which is set to hit theaters next Spring on February 3, 2012.
The Untitled Raven Project also stars Luke Evans (Immortals, Clash of the Titans), Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter Series) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster). The script was written by Ben Livingston (Bruce Almighty) and Hannah Shakespeare (Loverboy).
The film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders.
Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans are producing for Intrepid Pictures, alongside Aaron Ryder for FilmNation Entertainment, who brought the project to Intrepid. Galavis Films' Jesus Martinez is executive producing. FilmNation is selling international distribution rights to the film.
Following in April, comes the Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy which boasts the greatest cast ever assembled in the most dangerous comedy ever made. The star-studded cast includes Johnny Knoxville, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, Kieran Culkin and Chris Pratt in a series of interconnected stories, each one more outrageous than the last.
The film is being produced by Peter Farrelly (Something About Mary), Charles Wessler (Dumb & Dumber), GreeneStreet Films' John Penotti (In the Bedroom) and Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh (Immortals). Executive producers are Tim Williams (Swimfan) of GreeneStreet Films and Tucker Tooley (Immortals) of Relativity Media. Co-producers are Tom Gormican and Marc Ambrose. Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko also serve as associate producers.
Relativity currently has the box office hit Limitless in theaters. Looking ahead, Relativity will release Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer based on the popular kids book series on June 10th, 2011, followed by David Ellis' Shark
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Hugh Jackman May Reteam with Shawn Levy for FANTASTIC VOYAGE Remake
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To improve the quality of life of families and seniors that are food needy within our reach by offering basic sustenance, food education and self-sufficient training.
The Madera County Food Bank was established in 1999. We are an organization who tries to meet the food needs of Madera County. Our organization operates on a great number of volunteers. Volunteers are very important to the success of the food bank. Individuals who volunteer gain a great understanding on many of the programs that we offer. As a food bank we try to reach out to any person or family in need of food. We also have programs that are intended to reach out to our senior citizens of Madera County. There are also different food give-a-ways that are held at the food bank. The food bank holds a Thanksgiving and Christmas food give-a-way every year. We here at the Madera County Food Bank, also try to partner up with agencies and organizations to assure that the residents of Madera County do not go without food.


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Obama cancels smog regulation opposed by big business
Joseph Kishore
The Obama administration on Friday rejected a proposal from its own Environmental Protection Agency to tighten air standards for smog. The regulations, which scientists project would prevent thousands of premature deaths and health problems, were intensely opposed by energy corporations.
Obama's decision is part of a campaign by the administration to remove restraints on corporate profits, using the jobs crisis in the United States as a pretext.
The EPA regulations would have revised standards set by the Bush administration for ground-level ozone, or smog. The EPA proposal was in line with the unanimous opinion of its panel of scientific advisers and followed statements from Obama in 2010 indicating support for tightening the standards.
The proposal was itself very conservative, phasing in a reduction of ground-level ozone over a period of two decades. Areas with heavy smog levels would have even more time to comply.
In rejecting the standards, Obama made clear that his principal consideration was the profit interests of the energy corporations. "I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover," he said in a statement.
Cass Sunstein, Obama's administrator of regulatory affairs, explained in a letter to EPA head Lisa Jackson that the president was pursuing deregulation throughout the government in order "to minimize regulatory costs and burdens… The president has instructed me to give careful scrutiny to all regulations that impose significant costs on the private sector…"
The standards would have required factories and energy corporations to cut emissions of nitrogen oxides and other chemicals that contribute to the formation of smog. At the same time, the EPA has estimated that the new regulations would reduce health care costs by as much as $100 billion.
According to the Clean Air Act, which covers the regulation of pollutants, the EPA is forbidden from considering costs as a factor in determining air quality standards. For this reason, the administration claimed that its decision to reject the new standards was based on the fact that there is ongoing scientific research, justifying a delay of new standards until 2013.
This is "a real dodge," said Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, in a phone interview. "Nobody, including the administration, is going to suggest that there is going to be new science tomorrow to say that these pollutants are not a danger to human health. It is a poor smokescreen for what is really going on. Obama is responding to industry pressure to the harm of the American public."
A statement released by the CBD noted, "The National Association of Clean Air Agencies says that EPA's own data shows that today's delay will result in more than 8,500 premature deaths, more than 45,000 cases of aggravated asthma, at least 1.5 million missed work or school days, and more than 5 million cases where citizens will need to restrict their activities."
The American Lung Association issued a statement Friday calling the decision "outrageous." Charles Connor, president of the association, commented, "For two years the administration dragged its feet in delaying its decision, unnecessarily putting lives at risk. Its final decision not to enact a more protective health standard is jeopardizing the health of millions of Americans."
The American Lung Association said it plans to revive legal action against the existing standards that it had suspended when Obama took office.
Obama announced at the beginning of the year a review of all existing regulations. Last month, the administration released a list of proposals that it said would save corporations $10 billion over ten years. Business groups praised the move, but said it did not go far enough. The EPA proposal on ozone was cited as one measure that had to be scrapped.
Obama's decision has broader significance for environmental regulations, particularly the Clean Air Act, long a target by energy corporations. Suckling noted that there has been a sharp increase in corporate litigation against the EPA over the regulation of greenhouse gasses, which cause climate change. "Obama is sending a message that the entire Clean Air Act is up for sale. Industry will be emboldened by this," Suckling said.
Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, hailed Friday's decision. "The president's decision is good news for the economy and Americans looking for work. EPA's proposal would have prevented the very job creation that President Obama has identified as his top priority," he said.
The claim that scrapping the regulation has anything to do with jobs is a fraud. Corporate America is sitting on a record cash hoard, and corporate profits are back at pre-2008 levels. The administration has rejected any serious measures to address the jobs crisis, instead using it as an opportunity to intensify the attack on the working class.
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@browncj7 idk my lab mice don't fight back much compared to rats.
I think it is hit and miss on some, but overall I think they do a good job. There are a few people on here to say autobuy - I know it is a sure thing. Either they have identical taste buds and likes, or they are just geniuses. They might be both, which is ok too!


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2. Played and pretended everything from house, restaurant, under water tea party (he was too nice to ever refuse an invitation from me and his little sister), office, cops and robbers, mermaids (don't worry, I'm sure he was a "merman" or a crab or something), school, and over 1,000 rounds of Marco Polo and TV tag.
3. Created, directed, designed, and performed- in front of an audience- a full rendition of the Nutcracker Suite (costumes and everything) though none of the participants involved knew anything about ballet. If I remember correctly, we did a great job of skipping, rolling, crawling on all fours, and sword fighting, all with pajamas and capes on…. you know, typical ballet stuff. We have a video of it somewhere, though I believe my dad got bored and turned the camera off after the first 10 minutes.
So as you probably can tell by now, Jeff and I grew up together.
He's my 1st cousin and 3rd brother. Meaning, he was my cousin who was around enough that he was like another brother of mine. Oh and in case you were wondering whatever became of our fire hazard fort, the next generation of kids in our family somehow convinced everyone that a rotting Christmas tree wasn't good enough for their fort and were able to enlist adult help (including my carpentery master of a husband) to make a full on real tree house! Kids these days… so spoiled!! Since when is a molding fort with a bee hive next door not a good place for kids to play?!
As you can see, Jeff and I had a ton of fun growing up together. The coolest part of this whole story is that Laura is way more fun than Jeff.
Just kidding, but they are at least even! So now, the fun continues as we live our adult lives! We've already made Laura perform in front of audience when we put on a family dance party one night to teach the next generation of kids how it's done… and she totally stole the show!
She plays dress up really well too… if you haven't seen their AH-MAAAAAZING retro airplane engagement session, you HAVE to check it out, she looks incredible (you do too, Jeff!)!! I haven't gotten to invite her to an underwater tea party yet, but there's no doubt in my mind that it will happen one day. In other words, she fits right in with our family!
I'm totally serious about that. I love Laura and I was so so so happy when Jeff called to tell me he was going to marry her and make her stick around with us!
Due to their fun loving spirits, Jeff and Laura had only one condition to us being their wedding photographers… we weren't allowed to do it if we couldn't have fun while doing it!
…and at that point, we'd turn over the photography responsibilities to other photographers we hired while we partied it up as guests!
So that's exactly what we did! In other words, all the awesome reception photos you see here- like the one above and below- are not ones either Scottie or I can take credit for!
Scottie and I love shooting weddings for people we already know well because it's so fun feeling like we're such a part of something so huge in the lives of people we care about. It's also so fun hanging out in the getting ready rooms with our friends!
Not to mention, it's nice to be working with a couple who's so comfortable with us.
It's just fun all around!
(Ha ha, we could see both of them, but they weren't allowed to see each other yet!).
…and throughout everything in between!
Then we lifted all the responsibility from our own shoulders and passed it to Josh and Kelley Johnson while Scottie and I hit the dance floor!
(Look it's us! We're actually dancing at a wedding AND in a photo!!!).
Josh and Kelley are another married photography team in the Phoenix area (who also happen to be freaking cool people!!) and we've been semi/sort of mentoring for awhile now. When we came up with the idea to have someone else shoot the reception, we immediately knew that Josh and Kelley were the people for the job! And they did not disappoint!
They both have a phenomenal artistic eye, they excel at capturing real emotion, and they are hyper aware of everything going on around them at all times so they're ready with less than a moment's notice to catch anything that happens in front of their cameras!
This is not the only Radiant wedding that Josh and Kelley will be in on, so stay tuned for more from them in the future!
As you can see, Jeff and Laura's wedding was amazing from beginning to end! It was a fabulous day, everything went smoothly and there was just an overall feeling of joy in the air.
Congratulations Jeff and Laura, I'm so glad the day was so great for the two of you and I'm so excited to have one of the coolest girls around as the new addition to our family.
(Another amazing Josh and Kelley creation… do you know how hard it is to get a good sparkler picture?! Awesome job guys!).
Click to see the rest of the photos from Jeff and Laura's wedding.
I always thought it was weird when people pinch themselves in movies to see if what they're seeing is real. I mean, I've never thought to pinch myself when I'm in a dream and then said "well that didn't hurt so I guess I'm dreaming". But I take back my skepticism on the whole pinching thing because I was really tempted to do it several times during the week that we were hanging out with Katy and Shaun and all their friends before their wedding in Hawaii.
(Katie is on the far right and Shaun is sitting to the left of her… and he's the only boy in the picture).
Let me start by saying this blog will be different than our normal posts. We usually write from the perspective of impartial outsiders who are there to capture a visual record of what's happening around us.
But Katy and Shaun were cool enough to allow us into their circle of friends and invited us to be just as much guests as we were "hired help", "vendors", or whatever other cold and isolated word you could put on it. Throughout the week we were anything but isolated from this astounding couple and their equally wonderful friends.
So instead of writing this blog from the view of 2 photographers who watched all the amazingness happen from the outside, we're going to write as 2 people who's lives were affected greatly by Katy and Shaun's and the beautiful people they've surrounded themselves with.
Scottie and I (Breanna) spent 2 weeks vacationing in Hawaii before Katy and Shaun's showed up with their crew which signified the start of our official "job". And yet despite the fact that we were working during our 3rd week in Hawaii, it was at least twice as fun as our first two weeks were! (This picture totally cracks me up. She decided to get her snorkel because she was getting too much water in her eyes. Genius!).
The factor that changed and made all the difference was that we were surrounded by a bunch of hyper-intelligent, creative, fun, and ultra cool people (aka Katy & Shaun and their wedding guests).
And really, I'm totally not exaggerating when I say that with the exception of our own wedding week, I think this past week was one of the best in our lives.
I turned to Scottie at least twice and said, "you know, I really can't ever remember a time where I was happy at this ridiculously high level for such a crazy long amount of time before!" I know we were in one of the most beautiful places in the world, doing all kinds of fun stuff, but it didn't turn into the best week of my life until we input the new relationships into the equation.
In order to understand why this was a wedding week instead of just a wedding day, you have to understand Katy and Shaun.
These are two people who's lives revolve around their friendships. In fact, they are known in their group for their huge annual theme parties (which are amazing by the way) that they go through a ton of work to host… and they love every minute of it.
When we were meeting with them at various points throughout their wedding planning, the main thing we heard repeated over and over again with unending enthusiasm, was that this wedding was about the people involved in it all.
… and I think that's exactly what happened.
…and a bunch of their guests rented other houses all along the same beach to share with one another.
So basically it was a 24/7 party, overlooking one of the best views you can imagine, in absolutely perfect weather.
To kickoff this week of heaven that Katy and Shaun put together, we had a potluck on the beach in front of one of the houses the guests rented.
Since our job was to capture the whole feel of the week (not just the wedding day), we got to join in on this party (and many others) and reap all the benefits that being guests at a Hawaii wedding has to offer!
For Scottie, one of these main benefits was volleyball. A bunch of Shaun's friends (including Shaun himself) have either played professional volleyball at one point, or have played so well for so long that they might as well be professional.
This was great news to Scottie who has been looking forward to the day for awhile now where he could play with serious volleyball players again. So of course he saw his chance and jumped in for like a 4 hour or something volleyball showdown (that happened to take place in front of this beautiful mountain backdrop of course).
(Scottie is the giant in the back there).
(There's Scottie again… the one who looks like he's about to get beat down!).
He held his own too I might add, I was pretty proud of him for busting out all his latent sporting skills (we've both re-discovered a lot of our forgotten skills since we've been out from behind our computers for over 3 weeks straight now)!
After Scottie played a game involving Katy he said "When she was playing all I could think about was that scene in 'Meet the Parents' where the bride gets hit in the face with a volleyball the day before her wedding." Thankfully, Katy's nose was still in tact by the end of the game… but I thought that was pretty funny commentary all the same!
Scottie also jumped into another event that I politely declined (more like bolted in the other direction and pretended not to hear as soon as the words "5:30 am" came out of Shaun's mouth) and that was a spectacular sunrise hike.
Scottie didn't escape as quickly as me and since Shaun is one of those people who could convince you to get up at 5 am for a root canal you don't need, Scottie found himself lacing up his boots and heading up a mountain in the dark early the next morning.
For as good of a "motivator" as Shaun is, he proved to be every bit as honest because once they were at the top, Scottie saw as much beauty as Shaun had promised and more.
In fact I almost (almost being the key word here) wish I had gotten up that early just so people could at least think that there's a chance that some of these amazing pictures are mine!
Alas, they are not. I slept through a chance of a lifetime and Scottie's pictures of perfectection will forever be known as Scottie's pictures alone.
And yet, I can say in all honesty that I'm still glad I slept in that morning (am I lame or what?!).
…and again Scottie got some great shots.
But that's OK I'm holding on to my pride because of my volleyball shots… and just wait until you see my wedding pics!
We have a little healthy competition going on between us if you can't tell. Good job Scottie, I'm proud of the freaking amazing pictures you took this week… and the next 3 photos are my favorite series from our entire trip.
Ha ha, those crack me up. :-) Oh and to end the story, don't worry… brown shirt guy changed his shirt the next day and found he had friends again!
Anyways, I heard the golfing was a ton of fun and everyone came back with awesome raccoon eye sunburns to prove it!
So now that you all think I'm stupid and lazy for missing such cool morning events… I will say that I got my fill of late night activities! Starting with a "beach crawl" which is basically a pub crawl but with beach houses instead of pubs.
Each house that the guests were staying at had a different theme for their drinks and appetizers that somehow fit the story of Katy and Shaun (for example the last house was occupied by all Katy's college friends so the theme was "college" and they served lots of beer, jungle juice, and pizza). The grand finale of the beach crawl was to end up at the bar where Shaun's band was playing that night.
Shaun says that when he thought about what he wanted to do in Hawaii the week of his wedding the first thing he thought was, "well I'll do what I love… I'll play with my band".
(Two very different faces that both show how much he loves what he's doing).
He told us this months and months ago and he's been looking forward to it ever since.
There are no words to describe how much I loved this band.
(By the way, you can like our page on Facebook to tag yourself in some of the photos).
…I had another moment where I considered pinching myself to make sure this incredible moment in life was really happening.
So even with all the amazingness that gushed out of these events, I'm still not done telling you about this week of wedding events. Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you everything since including all of it would work better for a great book rather than one measly blog post and I know you are probably all reading this at work and are starting to get nervous that your boss might walk in…that's right, we have analytics that tells us you all look at our stuff during work hours!
Scottie is actually going to write about the final event (so it will be much shorter!) which is the Groom's dinner that was held on deck of the U.S.S. Missouri. If you do a quick scan of your brain to find your old high school history lessons (it's right there past the lyrics to every Bon Jovi song ever written and the phone number to your secret crush's parent's house) you'll find that this is the ship on which the Japanese soldiers stood 65 years ago when they signed the document of their surrender at the end of WWII. It's a huge piece of history that most people tour during the day… but we got to party on it at night! Of course an experience like this doesn't slip past us without some once in a lifetime photos coming out of it (and I didn't sleep through this one!)! See the photos on our blog about the Groom's Dinner HERE.
If I had to sum up all the events of this week would be to say that even If I decided to make up this entire blog with a fictional story about the week, I couldn't have written this week any better than it actually happened.
The people, the places, the activities… all of it was just so so SO perfect!
Katy and Shaun, you were the incredible dreamers behind all this and I hope that it was all you wanted and more! We tried all week to tell you how much your wedding meant to us (and there is still so much to that story that we'll have to tell you when we come visit you in Venice one day soon) so we hope this blog has helped at least give you some idea about how much we really do mean that!
We love you guys and we're so excited to post the blog about your wedding day very, very soon!
A tour around Venice and a party to beat all parties… Katy & Shaun are working their way towards the alter!
Oh wow, I LOVE Katy and Shaun!
No, not just because their flying us to Hawaii to photograph their wedding… although I do admit that does bias me towards them a bit!
If you've ever met Katy and Shaun, you know what I mean when I say that there's no way to NOT like them!
We first met Katy and Shaun when we went to visit them at their home in Venice, California.
My first impression of Shaun was of someone who threw open the door with his arms spread as wide open as the door, ready to greet us with giant hugs.
And Katy followed suit with the kind of warm hug that you thought only your grandma could give (Katy, when your old enough to actually be a grandma, I think your hugs will probably win world records).
See, I told you it was impossible to not like them! Who doesn't want to hang out with someone that warm and friendly?!
That first night, we stayed at their house way past their bedtime (which we're so bad about doing because we keep pretty ridiculous hours, just check the time stamps on some of our Facebook updates! And by the way, if you're not a fan of us on Facebook do it now before you miss any more of the good stuff!). So maybe we're just rude, but we really felt like we couldn't leave because we were having such a great time with them!
They showed us all around their house and told stories about practically every item in the place because it all has so much meaning to them. We got to meet all their friends that will be at the wedding in Hawaii with us via photographs and hear hilarious stories about all of them (that's right, we know all about you already!) as we toured their life in photos. Shaun's an excellent story teller by the way, I could listen to him all night!
The next time we hung out with them went the exact same way… this time we were meeting up to do their engagement session (aka, these photos here).
When we asked them about their lives and what kinds of things represent them best, they again directed us to their home that is filled with so many sentimental memories.
Shaun spends a ton of time working on and hanging out in his garden, so we decided it only seemed appropriate to start out their session in their home and showcase his pride and joy (it really is a STUNNING garden!).
Next, we headed down towards Venice beach, making a stop along the way at the Spinning class they first met in (Shaun declares to this day that he never would've been caught dead in one of those classes, but was forced into it due to physical therapy, or by what some would call "fate").
Again, we LOVED hearing all their stories about the city history and culture, as well as the parts of their lives that are interwoven into it all.
When they talk about Venice, you can tell they feel like they're the luckiest people in the world just because they have the privilege of living there.
I can't say I disagree with that either, I (Breanna) am a little jealous! Phoenix has it's perks, but it doesn't hold a candle to Venice. If you know people who live in the LA area who are getting married, make sure you tell them about us! You can help us slowly make our way over to the thrilling life that awaits us there! We don't even charge travel fees to shoot weddings in Southern California! (End commercial here).
After the session, Katy and Shaun treated us to one of the best dinners we've ever had in our lives! It was at a cool little place called The Tasting Kitchen and as to be expected, we had such a great time hanging out with them there!
We sat there at the table laughing with them late into the night once again (sorry we always leave you guys so sleep deprived!). If we weren't convinced from our first visit to their house that we'd made great new friends, we were beyond certain after hanging out with them this night!
Luckily, we still had one more Katy and Shaun adventure to go during our visit that weekend!
Katy and Shaun are known amongst their friends (and the friends of their friends) for their spectacular annual parties. They have several regularly occurring theme parties that people are ready and waiting for each year with costumes in hand.
Lucky for us, we happened to be in LA on the very same weekend that one of these parties was sweeping through. This party was entitled "Bourgie Fashion Prepster Buenos Aires Hollywood Palermo Gringo Polo Summer Solstice Party". If it gives you any clue to how lucky we were that we actually got invited to such a trendy shindig… I had to google like every other word in the invitation (the only part I understood was something about the "John Stamos Fashion Mullet").
Yeah, I can admit that I (Breanna) was definitely not cool enough for this party! So thanks Katy and Shaun for taking a chance on us Arizona geeks and risking us embarrassing you in front of all your Fashion Prepster Buenos Aires friends! Ha ha!
Even with all the amazingness flowing through the Buenos Aires-esque breeze at this party, one of the best parts was getting to hang out with their friends/ future wedding guests (in real life this time, not via photos).
Of course these perfect little hosts couldn't just have a one day, amazing and beautiful wedding in Hawaii, they have to make the entire week a fantastic party for all their friends to enjoy! So we are headed over there in September for 5 days of planned out fun with their guests! All kinds of tournaments, tours, etc. are happening in Hawaii and we get to be hanging out with many of the same people from the party, just snapping our cameras away at it all!
So now that we've met their close friends, heard background stories about why they're all important to Katy and Shaun, we feel like we're headed over to Oahu to hang out with our own friends (instead of strangers).
Seriously, could there be a more perfect way to go to Hawaii than to get to share in peoples lives, wedding, and relationships like that?! Not to brag, but sometimes I think we have the best job in the entire world. How else would we get to meet and work with such beautiful people as them?!
THANK YOU Katy and Shaun for bringing us into your world so early on and letting us get to experience life as you see it so that we can better capture it and reflect back the true stories and emotions behind your wedding day.
Your gracious, honest, and humble attitudes will serve you very well when it comes to your wedding pictures because we really feel like we've been set up well to tell the true story of your wedding day with heartfelt honesty.
I mean, look at how intense the story of just your engagement session is! I might have to write your wedding blog in like 3 parts! Thanks and we can't freaking wait to see you there!!
Click to see the rest of the photos from Katy and Shaun's "Tour of Venice" engagement session!


Ever wonder what it takes to achieve your ultimate goal? Well World Series hero and Chicago Cubs Outfielder, Kyle Schwarber, teamed up with Gatorade on a video just in time for the Cubs' home opener. The video shows that winning is a reflection of the work you put in when you're not playing and that you can't #FlyTheW without putting in the work first. Schwarber, who has already persevered in the face of adversity, embodies the idea that sports performance is driven from the inside.
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Watch the best action from week nine of the NFL season as Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Martavis Bryant avoids three tackles to score a touchdown.
Also featured is Delanie Walker of the Tennessee Titans who takes advantage of a defensive mix-up to score a 61-yard deflected touchdown while Omar Bolden runs in an 84-yard punt return for Denver.
It was also a rollercoaster week for Dallas quarterback Matt Cassel against Philadelphia as Jordan Hicks scored from an interception but he connected with Dez Bryant for a superb 18-yard touchdown.
You can watch the best of the action from week nine of the NFL in Race to Super Bowl 50 on BBC Two at 00:15 GMT on Wednesday November 11.


I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving ! Today, my dog wake me just in time to see the opening of the Blitsy's Black Friday sale. So I got my hand on a wonderful stamp by Tim Holtz and few ink pads plus some other things. I can't wait to receive them ! If you want to have great prices on scrapbooking stuff, especially Tim Holtz lines, try Blitsy.


Overview Iliopsoas abscess (IPA) is a rare condition defined by a collection of purulence in the iliopsoas compartment. IPA is classified as primary when a causative organism from a distant occult site spreads to the iliopsoas compartment by a hematogenous or lymphatic route, or secondary when a contiguous extension of an intra-abdominal infectious or inflammatory process causes the condition. Diagnosis and treatment is often delayed secondary to nonspecific features at time of presentation and outcomes from this disease are potentially poor or fatal without early and effective clinical management. Literature on this topic is limited to case reports and relatively small case series. IPA has classically been associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, but this etiology is increasingly rare. In current practice, Staphylococcus aureus is the most common organism isolated from primary IPA, with an increasing incidence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). In addition to S. aureus, enteric organisms are commonly isolated from secondary IPA. Anatomy The iliacus muscle and psoas major muscle comprise the retroperitoneal muscle group referred to as the iliopsoas, which functions as the primary flexor of the hip. An accessory psoas minor muscle may be present in 10% to 65% of patients. The psoas major arises from T12 and the five lumbar vertebrae, passes along the posterior abdominal wall under the inguinal ligament, and inserts on the lesser trochanter of the femur. The iliacus arises from the superior portion of the iliac fossa and passes under the inguinal ligament to insert on the lesser trochanter as well as the femoral shaft. The muscles are often referred to as a single muscle, the iliopsoas, since both muscles contribute fully to the tendinous insertion at the femur. The psoas fascia invests the muscle group and runs from the lumbar vertebrae to the iliopubic eminence.
Iliopsoas abscess. / Kodadek, Lisa M.; Lipsett, Pamela A.
Clinical Infectious Disease, Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2015. p. 464-469.
AU - Kodadek, Lisa M.
N2 - Overview Iliopsoas abscess (IPA) is a rare condition defined by a collection of purulence in the iliopsoas compartment. IPA is classified as primary when a causative organism from a distant occult site spreads to the iliopsoas compartment by a hematogenous or lymphatic route, or secondary when a contiguous extension of an intra-abdominal infectious or inflammatory process causes the condition. Diagnosis and treatment is often delayed secondary to nonspecific features at time of presentation and outcomes from this disease are potentially poor or fatal without early and effective clinical management. Literature on this topic is limited to case reports and relatively small case series. IPA has classically been associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, but this etiology is increasingly rare. In current practice, Staphylococcus aureus is the most common organism isolated from primary IPA, with an increasing incidence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). In addition to S. aureus, enteric organisms are commonly isolated from secondary IPA. Anatomy The iliacus muscle and psoas major muscle comprise the retroperitoneal muscle group referred to as the iliopsoas, which functions as the primary flexor of the hip. An accessory psoas minor muscle may be present in 10% to 65% of patients. The psoas major arises from T12 and the five lumbar vertebrae, passes along the posterior abdominal wall under the inguinal ligament, and inserts on the lesser trochanter of the femur. The iliacus arises from the superior portion of the iliac fossa and passes under the inguinal ligament to insert on the lesser trochanter as well as the femoral shaft. The muscles are often referred to as a single muscle, the iliopsoas, since both muscles contribute fully to the tendinous insertion at the femur. The psoas fascia invests the muscle group and runs from the lumbar vertebrae to the iliopubic eminence.
AB - Overview Iliopsoas abscess (IPA) is a rare condition defined by a collection of purulence in the iliopsoas compartment. IPA is classified as primary when a causative organism from a distant occult site spreads to the iliopsoas compartment by a hematogenous or lymphatic route, or secondary when a contiguous extension of an intra-abdominal infectious or inflammatory process causes the condition. Diagnosis and treatment is often delayed secondary to nonspecific features at time of presentation and outcomes from this disease are potentially poor or fatal without early and effective clinical management. Literature on this topic is limited to case reports and relatively small case series. IPA has classically been associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, but this etiology is increasingly rare. In current practice, Staphylococcus aureus is the most common organism isolated from primary IPA, with an increasing incidence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). In addition to S. aureus, enteric organisms are commonly isolated from secondary IPA. Anatomy The iliacus muscle and psoas major muscle comprise the retroperitoneal muscle group referred to as the iliopsoas, which functions as the primary flexor of the hip. An accessory psoas minor muscle may be present in 10% to 65% of patients. The psoas major arises from T12 and the five lumbar vertebrae, passes along the posterior abdominal wall under the inguinal ligament, and inserts on the lesser trochanter of the femur. The iliacus arises from the superior portion of the iliac fossa and passes under the inguinal ligament to insert on the lesser trochanter as well as the femoral shaft. The muscles are often referred to as a single muscle, the iliopsoas, since both muscles contribute fully to the tendinous insertion at the femur. The psoas fascia invests the muscle group and runs from the lumbar vertebrae to the iliopubic eminence.


An intermediate scaffolding ticket enables a person to erect, alter and dismantle tube and coupler scaffolds including tube and coupler covered ways and gantries, install a cantilevered crane loading platform and a mast climbing work platform.
The course will culminate in an assessment of competency in accordance with the intermediate scaffolding national assessment instrument.
A $200 deposit payable in advance to confirm your booking, then the balance is payable before completing the course.