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CONTEST: Win 'War Horse' on Blu-ray!
CONTEST: Win War Horse on Blu-ray!
— April 4th, 2012
Paramount Home Entertainment is debuting War Horse in a four-disc Blu-ray combo pack, two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, and DVD today, April 3. We have a special contest lined up for director Steven Spielberg's Best Picture nominee, where we are giving away copies of the four-disc Blu-ray combo pack to our readers, and a copy of the new book War Horse: The Making of the Motion Picture. These prizes will surely go fast, so enter today. Details are below.
War Horse four-disc Blu-ray
War Horse four-disc Blu-ray combo pack
War Horse: The Making of the Motion Picture
War Horse, the Academy Award-nominated Best Picture, is a story of incredible friendship, loyalty, courage, hope and tenacity. Based on the Tony Award®-winning play, and set against the sweeping canvas of World War I, this deeply heartfelt tale begins with the remarkable friendship between a feisty colt named Joey and his young trainer Albert (Jeremy Irvine). When they're forced apart by war, the film follows Joey's extraordinary journey as he changes and inspires the lives of everyone he meets. No matter where they go or what they experience both boy and horse keep forging ahead, driven by devotion and the hope of returning home. Filled with spectacularly rich visuals, War Horse is one of the most powerful and moving stories of friendship and love ever filmed.
4-Disc Combo Pack (2-Disc Blu-ray + 1 Disc DVD + Digital Copy)
A Filmmaking Journey - Academy Award-winning Director/Producer Steven Spielberg provides a unique and unprecedented look into the making and filming of War Horse.
- Editing & Scoring - Multi-Oscar winners Michael Kahn (film editor) and John Williams (composer) discuss specific aspects of editing the film and composing music for War Horse, as well as the secret to their long and successful collaborations with Steven Spielberg.
- The Sounds of "War Horse" - Seven-time Academy Award-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom takes us through the sophisticated sound design he created for War Horse.
- Through The Producer's Lens - Producer Kathleen Kennedy shares the photos she took during filming and recounts how she discovered the source material, as well as her appreciation of Steven Spielberg's vision, the team that sounds him, and why War Horse appealed to her.
- War Horse: The Look - Director/Producer Steven Spielberg introduces us to his creative team of production designer Rick Carter, costume designer Joanna Johnston and director of photography Janusz Kaminski, who discuss what it took to design the look for the film.
- An Extra's Point of View - Film extra Martin Dew explains how and why he was brought in--along with a hundred other men--to be featured alternately as both German and British soldiers.
2-Disc Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD)
War Horse: The Journey Home
An Extra's Point of View
1-Disc DVD
War Horse: The Look
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Commentary by Jim Brase
Neural Networks Search for the Nuclear Needle in a Haystack
Exascale Software Lays Foundation for Discovery of New Materials
Shining a Bright Light on Plutonium
Johnny Foster: Pushing the Boundaries of Science
As the nation's adversaries move to close the gap in weapon capabilities, Lawrence Livermore's mission remains focused on supporting stockpile stewardship. Assessing weapon readiness becomes more challenging, however, with an aging stockpile and a workforce decades removed from the last live nuclear weapon tests. Computer simulations can model weapon behavior but require accurate experimental data on the behavior of the materials at the heart of the warhead.
Scorpius, a 125-meter-long linear induction accelerator diagnostic tool, is designed to generate high-speed, high-fidelity radiographic images of contained subcritical experiments with fissionable nuclear material, specifically plutonium. Once deployed underground at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), Scorpius's multipulse flash x rays will offer researchers a view of the late stages of a nuclear weapon implosion. As a diagnostic, Scorpius will help identify the effects of aging and manufacturing methods on stockpile performance and inform future stockpile changes, including modernization programs and incorporation of enhanced security features. As a type of scientific classroom, Scorpius will offer training and knowledge for the next generation of experimentalists and weapon designers in the way underground testing experience and data enlightened designers decades ago.
"Scorpius represents a significant step forward in the diagnostics supporting the nation's nuclear stockpile modernization," says Mike Zika, deputy for Transformational Weapon Science in the Weapon Physics and Design Program of the Laboratory's Weapons and Complex Infrastructure Principal Directorate. "The use of plutonium rather than non-fissile surrogate material will set Scorpius apart in enabling modern certification and assessment of the current and future nuclear stockpile."
A Powerful Partnership
Scorpius will be delivered by the Advanced Sources and Detectors (ASD) project within the National Nuclear Security Administration's Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments portfolio. Los Alamos National Laboratory leads the joint effort to design and build Scorpius, leveraging expertise from NNSS and Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories.
The advanced diagnostic tool will consist of four main components. Its injector will generate high-energy electron beam pulses, and accelerator cells will boost the injected electron beam energy to over 20 mega electron volts. In the downstream transport region, the high-energy electron beam will collide with a metal target generating x rays that penetrate test objects. Finally, a detector will convert the x rays into images recorded by a sensitive, high-speed camera. Because plutonium is very dense and moves very fast during the experiment, a short burse of intense x rays is required for the best image resolution.
The Scorpius accelerator (pictured above), part of the Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE) portfolio, will enable high-fidelity, multipulse radiography for subcritical experiments at the U1a site at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site by 2025. The accelerator will be driven by Lawrence Livermore's novel solid-state pulsed-power technology. (Image courtesy of ASD Technical Development and Communication Arts and Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory.)
Livermore's innovative solid-state pulsed-power technology will drive the Scorpius accelerator and energize the injected electron beam. With pulsed power, energy gradually accumulates into capacitors and is quickly released, maximizing energy over time to reach exceptionally high power levels. The difference offered by the Livermore technology is its reliance on solid-state integrated circuits to create an electrical pulse rather than the separate generator bank used in older technologies. The Livermore pulsers are designed to make at least four 25,000-volt pulses, providing Scorpius unique flexibility to program pulse width and spacing and optimize the number of x rays imaging an object as a function of time.
"Scorpius will provide an unprecedented ability to tailor the radiographs to individual experiments," says Zika. Dave Funk, the Los Alamos lead for the project, adds, "We've made a bold choice by choosing solid-state pulsed power. The Livermore technology gives us the opportunity to develop a machine like no other. This will enable transformational experiments, gathering the data many of us have long desired to see."
A short burst of intense x rays will pass through a plutonium test object, and the Scorpius detector will convert the detected x rays into high-resolution radiographic images. (Image courtesy of ASD Technical Development and Communication Arts and Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory.)
Livermore has already built prototype pulsers to perform integrated testing of the accelerator and injector cells designed by partners at both Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. Once the pulsers are tested with prototype accelerator and injector cells, Livermore will build all 984 pulsers specified for Scorpius. Flash x ray (FXR), a Livermore radiographic tool with double-pulse capability for high-speed imaging (S&TR July 2018, X-Ray Machine Does Double Duty), will evaluate selected components of the accelerator's hardware and diagnostics during the design and build process.
A True View of Plutonium
Multipulse flash x rays made possible by Livermore's pulsed-power approach will enable Scorpius to radiograph the late stages of nuclear weapon implosion when plutonium is under the most extreme conditions and pressure from explosively driven shocks. By using plutonium rather than non-fissile surrogates, Scorpius will provide more accurate data for computer simulations modeling weapon behavior.
While using the fissile material found in nuclear weapons, Scorpius experiments will remain subcritical. Subcritical experiments, using high explosives and plutonium, are carefully designed to ensure that the release of neutrons in a fission reaction decreases, rather than increases, over time so the chain reaction stops. When incorporated into sophisticated simulations, the data from Scorpius experiments can inform new safety design features factoring in the effects of aging and manufacturing methods on plutonium's performance.
Scorpius will perform contained implosion experiments of fissionable nuclear material in its underground location over a 30-year operations lifecycle. (Image courtesy of ASD Technical Development and Communication Arts and Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory.)
Bright Source, Underground
As the successor to the Cygnus radiography capability, which was named for an x-ray source in the Swan constellation, Scorpius is named for Scorpius X-1, the brightest extra-solar x-ray source. The name also reflects Scorpius's underground location in Nevada, just like the desert scorpions that burrow beneath ground. Construction of the accelerator's home in a corresponding U1a Complex Enhancement Project, led by NNSS, will require the excavation of a 130-meter-long tunnel 963 feet below grade, as well as the infrastructure to power, cool, and sustain the Scorpius machine throughout its 30-year lifecycle.
The project started in 2014 with the identification of a capability gap in fully understanding the late stages of explosion of a nuclear weapon. The following year, the project team agreed that multiple pulse technology at high energy—offering many images of implosions—would be the top priority. Work on the design of a multipulse machine with the initial plan focused on conventional pulsed power started. Then, the opportunity to consider a new pulsed-power technology developed by Livermore arose. "Looking for new ways to use technology allows people to be challenged and creative," says Funk. The team changed design direction to incorporate solid-state pulsed power, and all partners agreed to the updated conceptual design for Scorpius in February 2019.
The Nevada National Security Site is the only place where subcritical experiments using plutonium and high explosives can be conducted. The U1a laboratory at the site, pictured above, is constructed nearly 1,000 feet underground. (Image courtesy of ASD Technical Development and Communication Arts and Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory.)
Now that the prototype pulsers have been delivered to partner laboratories and support Livermore's integrated testing of the Los Alamos accelerator cell prototype, the team is looking ahead to equipment purchases and fabrication steps that will bring Scorpius to life. Commissioning of the injector at the Integrated Test Stand, planned for 2023–2024, will help establish and train an operations team of NNSS employees while providing a first systems-level demonstration of the technology. The multi-lab team expects Scorpius will be commissioned at full energy in U1a by 2025. "Anticipating national needs is our mission, and drives our timeline," says Zika.
One of the first experiments planned will confirm the viability of Livermore's modernization programs to lengthen the service life of an existing warhead while enhancing its safety, security, and reliability. Scorpius will also serve as a training tool for pulsed-power engineering—a technology with a limited pipeline of researchers, particularly in terms of understanding an all-solid-state machine, according to Zika. "Scorpius is the first of its kind in the world," he says.
As deputy for Transformational Weapon Science, Zika, who serves in a newly created role and is responsible for the development of capabilities and partnerships to transform the nuclear security enterprise. Scorpius falls squarely in the categories of both capability and partnership development. "The technology is remarkable, and the Scorpius team never loses sight of its mission to fill a critical capability gap," says Zika.
—Suzanne Storar
Key Words: accelerator, Cygnus, Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), nuclear weapons, plutonium, pulsed power, radiography, Scorpius, solid-state pulsed power, stockpile stewardship, subcritical experiment, U1a.
For further information contact Mike Zika at (925) 423-5249 (zika1@llnl.gov).

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By Kate Ponsford14 December 2020December 22nd, 2020Who's Moving | Knowledge Page
Home » Who's Moving December 2020
Who's Moving December 2020 tracks who has moved careers across the healthcare, academic healthcare, life sciences, not-for-profit, human services and digital health sectors, globally. At Ccentric we have had the pleasure of working with an excellent group of candidates over the last month and would like to congratulate the following on their new positions.
Dr Christina Igasto has joined Western Sydney Local Health District as Chief Digital Health Officer, leaving Customer Crunch as Director Digital Transformation & Innovation.
Other People on the Move
Ms Helen Kemp has moved to Benetas as General Manager Community Care and Health. Ms Kemp has a wide range of experience in healthcare most recently helping Central Adelaide Local Health Network as Interim Lead Workforce Management and Reform.
Ms Bettina McMahon former COO and Interim CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency will commence as the Chair of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health in November 2020.
Professor Shitij Kapur has been appointed as the new President & Principal at King's College London. He will be leaving his post at The University of Melbourne to join them in June 2021. Professor Sir Edward Byrne AC whom Professor Kapur is replacing, is moving back to Australia where he is taking up a part-time position at the Australian National University as Distinguished Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in February 2021. Professor Byrne has also been appointed Group Chief Medical Officer at Ramsay Health Care following the retirement of Dr John Horvath AO.
Mr Mike Weiss has been appointed CEO of Clanwilliam Health in New Zealand. Mr Weiss has been Deputy CEO since January 2020, and was Managing Director of Konnect Net prior to that.
Professor Mike Wilson has joined Charles Darwin University as Provost. Professor Wilson has recently been Provost at Zayed University and was previously Pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculties of Science, Engineering, Architecture and Design at Victoria University of Wellington.
Ms Kimberley Pierce has left her role as COO at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service to join Healthscope as Chief Executive Officer of Gold Coast Private Hospital, Tweed Day Hospital and Pacific Private Day Hospital.
Ms Jackie McLeod has commenced as Chief Operating Officer at Melbourne Health, where she has been the Executive Director EMR Project across all Parkville Hospitals since 2017.
Mr Kemsley Fairhurst has joined Austin Health as Chief Financial Officer. Kemsley has been in senior finance roles across health services in Melbourne for the last eight years.
Ms Jae Redden is joining the Health Information Management Association of Australia as Chief Executive Officer. She has most recently been CEO of Medical Journal of Australia publisher AMPCo.
Ms Amanda Hagan has joined Alinta Energy as the Executive Director Retail Markets, leaving her position at Australian Unity. Ms Hagan has been with Australian Unity since 2006 most recently as Group Executive Customer, Digital & Technology.
Dr Terry Sweeney has joined the Digital Health CRC as the Chief Executive Officer, he was most recently Global Managing Director of IBM Watson Health.
Ms Sandy Gillies has been appointed as the new CEO of Western Queensland Primary Health Network, commencing in January 2021. Ms Gillies has been the Executive Manager Service Provider Commissioning at the PHN since May 2017.
Mr Robin Moore has joined the Northern Territory Primary Health Network as Executive Manager Strategy Implementation and Partnerships. Mr Moore is currently a board director of Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, and previously was CEO of Northern Queensland PHN.
Mr Brett Winn has been appointed as Chief Information Officer at Healthscope, leaving his position at Blackmores Group at CIO.
Ms Rachel Green has been appointed as Chief Executive Director at SANE Australia, leaving her position as CEO at Independent Community Living Australia.
Mr Chris Sullivan has joined Central West Hospital and Health Service as Executive Director Finance, Infrastructure and Support Services, leaving Mater Group where he has most recently been Director of Business – Surgical, Neuro, Cancer and Acute Services.
Professor Belinda Tynan will be joining Australian Catholic University in the new year as Provost, leaving her position at RMIT where she has been the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) and Vice President.
Mr Geoff Smith former Group Chief Financial Officer of Virgin Australia has been appointed CFO at Queensland University of Technology.
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How Mike Pence embraced ACA Medicaid expansion in Indiana.
Mike Pence successfully expanded Medicaid in Indiana. He would have rather torpedoed the law—and hurt his former constituents—than admit that it works.
Then–Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana holds a press conference March 31, 2015, at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana.
No part of that claim is true, and Pence surely knows it. As governor of Indiana, he implemented the ACA's Medicaid expansion to great success, modifying the program to address what he perceived to be his state's unique needs. Now Pence is championing a bill that would undo much of what he accomplished in Indiana, stripping insurance from the very people who received it under his plan. Graham-Cassidy redistributes federal funds from blue states to some red states—but not to Indiana: The bill would slash federal funding for Indiana by $7 billion between 2020 and 2027, denying health coverage to nearly 500,000 Hoosiers over the next 10 years. It is, in other words, another version of the same concept that Republicans have pushed for months: a massive cut to Medicaid under the guise of ACA repeal.
As vice president, Pence has unceasingly promoted measures that would undo his signature achievement as governor. (As of this writing, Graham-Cassidy appears to be dead, but recent history suggests the repeal effort isn't truly over until the Sept. 30 reconciliation deadline passes.) More pointedly, he has promoted these measures using a rationale he has already himself disproved. Why? Pence obviously wants to remain loyal to his boss and the GOP agenda—but he's also boxed in by his own past success. If the vice president told the whole truth, he'd have to admit that as governor he showed that the ACA already allows states to "innovate" with "new ideas" about health care. According to Republicans, Graham-Cassidy seeks to solve the alleged inflexibility of Obamacare toward states that want to color outside the lines. But Pence's own record proves that this problem is simply nonexistent.
The story of how Mike Pence briefly lurched leftward on health care is well-known in Indiana but rarely discussed outside the state, where about 400,000 people gained Medicaid coverage because of him. It's a story of how even though Pence entered the governor's office in 2013 stringently opposed to Medicaid expansion, he was able to change his mind and sign a bill that he touted as rebelling against the ACA, even though it was part of the ACA. And it is, at bottom, a story about how, for Pence, ideology will always overrule governing principles in the long run, no matter how effectively they had once served him.
This story begins in June 2012, when the Supreme Court modified a key provision of Obamacare. As written, Obamacare had compelled every state to extend Medicaid eligibility, but the court found this provision unconstitutionally coercive and made Medicaid expansion voluntary instead. (States could still modify their programs with federal approval.) As of 2017, 19 states still haven't expanded the program.
At the start of his governorship, Pence argued that Medicaid was broken and that its expansion would only compound existing problems. But even this initial logic had a flaw: Indiana had already expanded Medicaid before the ACA, through a popular program called the Healthy Indiana Plan, now known as HIP 1.0. Designed by the administration of Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels in 2007, HIP 1.0 was initially meant to plug gaps in coverage for childless adults and those who lost coverage during the recession. It wasn't progressive, exactly: The program included a lifetime cap on insurance benefits, for instance, and excluded maternity care.
By 2013, now–Gov. Pence had several options: Continue to reject expansion, accept it wholeheartedly, or apply for a waiver that would qualify Indiana for a modified expansion. A coalition of hospital associations, religious entities, minority-serving organizations and health care advocacy groups began lobbying Pence to expand Medicaid in some way. Most of those at the table had worked with Daniels to create HIP 1.0.
Once again, Verma—this time as Pence's chief health care guru—crafted a compromise solution. It's unclear exactly what ultimately convinced the Pence administration to take this path; most likely, Pence believed that the ACA was here to stay, and decided to adapt it to Indiana with as conservative a spin as he could muster. HIP 2.0 had to abandon lifetime caps and extended essential health benefits, a non-negotiable requirement under the ACA. And, like all Medicaid expansions, it dramatically enlarged the group of people who qualified for coverage. But the program also maintained features of its predecessor that Pence referred to as "skin in the game," a qualification that became crucial to his ability to describe HIP 2.0 as "better" than anything Obamacare could do.
It works like this: HIP 2.0 requires enrollees to pay into "POWER accounts" on a sliding scale based on income. These function like health savings accounts: The state contributes most of the money, but the individual also contributes, and uses the funds to pay deductibles. Most individuals pay very little into their POWER accounts, often just a few dollars a month. If they miss a premium payment, however, they are punished. Enrollees below the federal poverty line are bumped down to a less generous plan with more copayments. Those above the federal poverty line are locked out of coverage altogether for six months. HIP 2.0 includes other punitive provisions meant to nudge individuals toward healthier habits. Enrollees are required to make co-payments on emergency room visits, for instance, and may be charged a fee if they go to an ER for non-emergency treatment.
"HIP 2.0 is not intended to be a long-term entitlement program," Pence declared. "It's intended to be a safety net that aligns incentives with human aspirations." Pence often bashed "traditional Medicaid" before championing HIP 2.0, as though it were entirely novel and distinct. He spoke at hospitals to tout the plan in front of approving doctors and discussed it with President Barack Obama.
Naturally, Pence had a strong political incentive to overstate the extent to which HIP 2.0 departed from traditional Medicaid expansion. But his creation really did include a number of unusual adaptations, adjusting Medicaid to fit Pence's own vision of reform. To obtain federal matching funds, Pence had to apply for a Medicaid waiver from the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS could only grant the waiver if it believed that HIP 2.0 furthered the key goals of Medicaid expansion. In January 2015, the agency issued the waiver. The Obama administration was satisfied that Pence's "skin in the game" would not significantly detract from the program's effectiveness.
This is how, in HIP 2.0, politics and policy reached an (increasingly rare) happy marriage. The program allowed Pence to frame it in free-market and personal-responsibility terms while he was actually strengthening the social safety net. HIP 2.0 began enrollment as soon as Pence announced its approval, and today it covers about 400,000 Hoosiers—a tenfold increase in coverage from HIP 1.0. It is widely regarded as a success that has increased preventative treatment, decreased ER visits, and relieved the burden on rural hospitals by reducing uncompensated care. Progressives occasionally criticize its punitive rules, which do trip up enrollees: Thousands of people have found themselves temporarily denied coverage because they forgot to pay their premiums just once. But on the whole, the program has not proved to be unworkably harsh.
I asked Republican state Rep. Ed Clere—an early proponent of Medicaid expansion and former chairman of the House Public Health Committee—whether he felt, as Pence claimed, that HIP 2.0 triumphed because of Pence's "skin in the game" tweaks.
"I certainly support the desire to promote personal responsibility," Clere told me, "as do folks on both side of the aisle. But the personal responsibility requirements of HIP 2.0 are not what has made it successful." Instead, Clere highlighted two related reforms. First, the state assigned enrollees to one of four Managed Care Entities, which are paid a flat monthly rate for each participant. Because of this capitated rate, the MCEs only make money when they keep patients healthy. This profit incentive encourages MCEs to work directly with patients to improve health outcomes, coaxing them into preventative care to save money down the road.
By fostering this proactive approach to health care, HIP 2.0 frees up funds for its second key reform: The program reimburses health care providers at Medicare rates, which are substantially higher than Medicaid rates, a genuine innovation that the federal government approved. And, as Clere put it to me, "when you pay providers more, more providers participate." In traditional Medicaid programs, rural enrollees frequently struggle to find doctors who accept Medicaid, while urban enrollees are stuck with just a few perpetually overbooked providers. But in Indiana today, most HIP 2.0 patients can find care with little trouble. Pence had promised market-based Medicaid reform. And in a very real way, he delivered.
Pence and Verma are responsible for proving the flexibility of Obamacare, and they are currently attacking Obamacare on the grounds of its ostensible inflexibility. This disingenuous reversal makes it difficult to understand why they bothered with HIP 2.0 in the first place. But bother they did, to the benefit of hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers. Now, a few years later, Pence has stood poised all summer to break a potential Senate tie and send Obamacare to its grave. Pence embraced HIP 2.0 begrudgingly, only after reframing it as a conservative opportunity. ACA repeal, on the other hand, is a seven-year political promise that aligns perfectly with his anti-government instincts. HIP 2.0 was a pragmatic Republican experiment; ACA repeal would complete an ideological Republican mission.
On one level, this is just Washington. On another, it is a vivid illustration of the vice president's uniquely cynical approach to health care. Pence has known all along that states have plenty of flexibility under the ACA, and that the Trump administration could give them even more. But he would rather blow up the law, and gut Medicaid in the process, than admit that the law is working as intended. Pence may not get the chance to break a tie on ACA repeal—but he has already proved himself to be Washington's biggest hypocrite of health care reform, a saga notorious for making monsters out of men.


Although we love finding new places when you are travelling there is also a wonderful sense of enjoyment when you find old favorites that draw you back time and again. This is true of the entire Oregon coast for us. The Florence area is one that we can visit time and again.
We stayed at Carl Washburne State Park, and as always it didn't disappoint us. The five miles of beach is a few minute walk from the camper, and once there you can easily view the Heceta Head Lighthouse. When the need strikes you to shop, or eat at Mo's, or wander bookstores, Florence is just a few miles south. It has a great waterfront(ish) street to discover, nice shops and a bookstore.
We really vegged out here, and that is quite obvious because you will not find any new photos on file. LOL But we truly enjoyed our time, filling it with walking the beaches and doing what we do best "Driving Miss Donna".
Here are two photos from the State Park site. And yes it's as beautiful as it looks.


MetCon// Main-site from Wednesday with a KB rather than Barbell. BTW how much time do you waste at work looking at crossfit.com, reebok.com or other stupid crossfit sites? if you want to waste some more time, there's always mobilitywod.com gymnasticswod.com crossfitendurance.com strongmanwod.com. If you're wrecking your hips and back sitting at a desk, you might as well be looking at cool and interesting stuff!
TABATA Tuesday! 12.16.14//It's kinda like Taco Tuesday but oh so much tastier!


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Month: September 2011 (Page 3 of 3)
Spud Sunday: Those Other Potatoes
Sunday, September 4, 2011 / Daily Spud
It may surprise, or even shock you to learn that, in almost three years of writing this blog, and with its avowed affection for all things potato, that sweet potatoes have never been called for in any of the recipes published herein. Yep, that's right, not once. Ever. Have a looksee and you'll find that those other potatoes barely even warrant a mention.
It's not that I don't like sweet potatoes – quite the contrary – but, not being a common vegetable in these parts, they tend to be a bit of a rarity in my kitchen. The truth of the matter, frankly, is that I don't think of them as potatoes at all. That, in turn, may have something to do with the fact that, botanically speaking, the two are not even closely related.
No, not the kind of potato I'm used to...
The Future Is Food
Friday, September 2, 2011 / Daily Spud
The food sector is the main driver of growth in the economy.
Simon Coveney quoting Michael Noonan.
It seemed that everyone started scribbling or typing when Simon Coveney, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, let us in on what his colleague, Michael Noonan, the Minister for Finance, had said at that morning's cabinet meeting. For once, it appeared that the importance of our native Irish food industries was being recognised at the highest levels.
The Minister's address closed out the first Bord Bia Taste Council Food Summer School. The event had been billed as the first national symposium on the current and future contribution of artisan and speciality food producers to the Irish economy and was held in the lovely surroundings of Brooklodge, Co. Wicklow last Tuesday.
The attendees were a veritable who's-who of movers and shakers in the Irish food scene: from Ballymaloe's legendary Darina and Myrtle Allen to Bridgestone Guide author John McKenna, from Georgina Campbell of the Ireland Guide to Margaret Jaffares of Good Food Ireland, from Kevin and Seamus Sheridan of Sheridan's Cheesemongers to Pat Smith, general secretary of the Irish Farmer's Association (IFA). There were butchers, bakers and fine food makers, and there was, as is only right and proper, plenty of that fine food to eat.
John McKenna poses with a bountiful array of local foods at the Food Summer School


Ballerinas in bridalwear pirouette across polished floorboards in the natural light-flooded rooms of a grand Geelong property. The beautiful concept of flowing gowns and dancing silhouettes is the vision of photographer Sara Taylor, who encourages couples to personalise their wedding photos. "It is amazing to walk away with images that mean the world to you," she explains. The models wore Pearls & Roses dresses and were guided by Geelong Ballet Centre director Natalie Horman. Fittingly, the restored property's name Narbethong is the Indigenous word for "happy place".


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Big Little Lies Returns For Season 2
When Big Little Lies came to HBO, it boasted a cast full of stars: Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz and Laura Dern. For season two, they upped their game by adding Meryl Streep. The end of season one solved a mystery the show had been circling, and season two is about the aftermath.
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Summary An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters, related to the mailboxes command associated with an automatic subscription.
description An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Mutt is a low resource, highly configurable, text-based MIME e-mail client. Mutt supports most e-mail storing formats, such as mbox and Maildir, as well as most protocols, including POP3 and IMAP. Security Fix(es) : * mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox (CVE-2018-14354) * mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters (CVE-2018-14357) * mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
description According to the versions of the mutt package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox (CVE-2018-14354) - mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters (CVE-2018-14357) - mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14353 ,CVE-2018-14357) It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to access or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14356, CVE-2018-14351, CVE-2018-14362, CVE-2018-14349). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description USN-3719-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mutt. Unfortunately, the fixes were not correctly applied to the packaging for Mutt in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update corrects the oversight. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details : It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14353 ,CVE-2018-14357) It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to access or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14356, CVE-2018-14351, CVE-2018-14362, CVE-2018-14349). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:2526 : An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Mutt is a low resource, highly configurable, text-based MIME e-mail client. Mutt supports most e-mail storing formats, such as mbox and Maildir, as well as most protocols, including POP3 and IMAP. Security Fix(es) : * mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox (CVE-2018-14354) * mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters (CVE-2018-14357) * mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
description Upgrade to 1.10.1 Security fix for CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14353, CVE-2018-14356, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14362, CVE-2018-14357, CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14349, CVE-2018-14351 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description Security fix for CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14353, CVE-2018-14356, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14362, CVE-2018-14357, CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14349, CVE-2018-14351 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-07 (Mutt, NeoMutt: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mutt, and NeoMutt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted mail message or connect to malicious mail server using Mutt or NeoMutt, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or directory traversal with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
description This update for mutt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-14352: Fix imap_quote_string in imap/util.c that does not leave room for quote characters (bsc#1101582). - CVE-2018-14353: Fix imap_quote_string in imap/util.c that has an integer underflow (bsc#1101581). - CVE-2018-14362: Fix pop.c that does not forbid characters that may have unsafe interaction with message-cache pathnames (bsc#1101567). - CVE-2018-14354: Fix arbitrary command execution from remote IMAP servers via backquote characters (bsc#1101578). - CVE-2018-14356: Fix pop.c that mishandles a zero-length UID (bsc#1101576). - CVE-2018-14355: Fix imap/util.c that mishandles '..' directory traversal in a mailbox name (bsc#1101577). - CVE-2018-14349: Fix imap/command.c that mishandles a NO response without a message (bsc#1101589). - CVE-2018-14350: Fix imap/message.c that has a stack-based buffer overflow for a FETCH response with along INTERNALDATE field (bsc#1101588). - CVE-2018-14357: Fix that remote IMAP servers are allowed to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters (bsc#1101573). - CVE-2018-14359: Fix buffer overflow via base64 data (bsc#1101570). - CVE-2018-14358: Fix imap/message.c that has a stack-based buffer overflow for a FETCH response with along RFC822.SIZE field (bsc#1101571). Bug fixes : - bsc#936807: On entering a 70 character subject line in mutt, a tab is added to the text after 67 characters. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, potentially leading to code execution, denial of service or information disclosure when connecting to a malicious mail/NNTP server.
description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mutt, a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent, resulting in denial of service, stack-based buffer overflow, arbitrary command execution, and directory traversal flaws. For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.23-3+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.


Director: Kelly Reichardt. Cast: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Rod Rondeaux, Paul Dano, Will Patton, Shirley Henderson, Zoe Kazan, Tommy Nelson, Neal Huff. Screenplay: Jonathan Raymond.
Twitter Capsule: (2011) Academy framing a treat, as are visual and sonic textures. But dramatic opportunities get missed. Perfs a bit off?
Second Capsule: (2019) Uneven by some usual standards of acting, arc, or none-too-subtle messaging. Still: kind of an audiovisual miracle.
VOR: ④ The characters drift but the film lays down brave, determined stakes in a tricky borderzone of independent narrative and avant-garde immersive cinema.
Here's one thing I recall about seeing Meek's Cutoff the first time, in the spring of 2011: I remember entering the theater having heard several critics I respect framing it as an allegory for our then-current national aimlessness, badly off-track even from journeys and missions that invited critique at the best of times, and now failing to function on their own suspect terms. I shared that sense when watching Kelly Reichardt's film, which is immersive and unprescriptive enough to invite multifarious responses, but you do catch it whispering some persistent mantras throughout. We cannot trust our leaders. We don't even recall what fiat or vote installed them as our leaders. We have no idea where we're going. Our resources are dwindling. We have choices to make bewteen our bigotries and our basic survival. How did we arrive at a point where those are our options? Of course, from the perspective of 2019, my mind partly reels to imagine that things felt so bleak then, midway through Obama's first term and before so many domestic and global problems escalated tenfold. But one of our most urgent responsibilities at present is to resist idealizing the recent or distant past just because we wake up in a world that's so manifestly ill and corrupt. Certainly Meek's Cutoff is nothing if not anti-nostalgic—all the more reason to nip these impulses in the bud.
I don't love everything about the movie. I rarely do with Reichardt's films, as thrilled as I am that she's out there making them, hewing to such rare sensibilities about how movies should be built, and whom or what they should be about. For sure, Meek's Cutoff is largely a mood piece, environmental, historical, and political. Analytics regarding the acting or the story construction don't seem especially essential. Still, I'm not convinced the film would suffer if Bruce Greenwood seemed a little more restrained in his role as Stephen Meek, the arrogant leader of this eight-member party traveling the Oregon Trail in the mid-19th-century, promising that he and only he knows the path toward some more hospitable homestead, or at least to some drop of water. I'm not much more taken by Rod Rondeaux as the unnamed, tribally ambiguous Native American who initially poses (or is seen to pose) a violent threat to this all-white, tight-lipped, but deeply agitated caravan, but who might constitute their best hope of rescue, as predicated on his own captivity. He's the only figure in the movie that seems like a romantic device, "idealized" not in the sense of being a gleaming paragon but of feeling more tropic than embodied, someone whom the filmmakers may not know much about beyond the aloof portrait they've furnished on screen. Elsewhere, Reichardt has cast her small ensemble with a disproportionate number of actors who habitually leave me cold. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, for example, often strike me as playing on top of their lines and their scripts, flagging beats and tones in fairly obvious ways, instead of inhabiting their characters and letting the camera and the audience lean toward them. Michelle Williams, by contrast, has few peers at doing exactly that, and though Meek's premiered during the period when I was still getting a bead on her particular brand of onscreen restraint, this performance helped me get my bearings with her (pun truly unintended). I particularly appreciated the atypical nastiness she emanates as a resentful, impatient traveler with a hostile and racist imagination, even as she stitches those qualities to her gendered indignation and, within this tiny traveling polis, her civic rage at being led so palpably astray by a charlatan, and being expected to shut up about it.
Am I any more skilled a tour guide than Stephen Meek? I've just subjected you to a paragraph of misgivings about a film I'm here to celebrate, privileging evaluative criteria that most commercial U.S. films invite but which, as I've said, Meek's Cutoff asks us to set aside. I apologize for that, though I'd also say that my experience of Meek's Cutoff, especially on an even-more-enthusiastic second viewing, involves admitting and then ignoring its least finessed elements, which often seem designed to frustrate: for instance, the temporal distention of individual shots, which succeed by design in making the movie seem longer than it is. The refusal of a standard beginning/middle/end arc contributes to that sensation as well, though that's another area where I think Reichardt and screenwriter Jonathan Raymond might have allowed for more inflection without sacrificing the austere integrity of their concepts. Indeed, any lingering reluctance I have about Meek's Cutoff and any tetchiness I feel while watching it concern how it sometimes feels like a smart, defiant, principled mission statement for a movie to follow. A teaser trailer that keeps teasing in its grimly poker-faced way. A couture show on themes of Frontier Counternarrative that's challenging and exciting to ogle but even harder to wear than it needs to be.
So, are you prepared to accompany me as I finally right the course of this response and say that none of the above matters all that much to me? Not as much, anyway, as the tougher, rarer, more innovative things the movie gets so singularly right? Partly they have to do with content. I'm impressed at the way Meek's Cutoff refuses to get too bound up in specificities of individual character and presents whiteness, settler colonialism, frontier nationalism, whatever you want to call it, as an encompassing enterprise in panic, endurance, and desperation, equal parts entitlement and disillusion, plagued by deep internal divisions only eclipsed by what it collectively fears and demonizes. But what really amazes me about Meek's Cutoff are its stylistic and formal convictions, carried to the screen in an uncompromising way, albeit in a movie that's highly agnostic about what it means to refuse compromise. Reichardt's and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt's decision to shoot the sprawling American plains through a cramped frame is a gutsy choice that's even more rewarding (i.e., not simply a dogmatic gesture) because the framings themselves are so articulate. Many images seem to be captured at the fabled "magic hour" when the incipience of dawn or dusk gives the light an especially radiant, roseate quality. It's a fruitful complication, not just a reflex or a sop to viewers, for a film so sternly conceived to offer us so much beauty, in constant, semi-seductive tension with all the cruelty, hardship, and dismay it encapsulates. Furthermore, that beauty is not unqualified. Twilight's last gleaming often has a dusty quality in Blauvelt's lensing; the aridity of the environment is palpable throughout, the temptation toward visual escapism always checked. This isn't Days of Heaven, although that masterpiece has its own ways of ironizing and undermining its sensory sublimity.
I also want to acknowledge the range of photography within Meek's Cutoff, since its firm commitment to its own aesthetic can make a falsely uniform impression. By contrast to that crepuscular quality of so many images, whether dreamy or dusty, Blauvelt lenses other shots with an almost disarming clarity, refusing any of the customary visual habits for building an antique patina of "pastness" into the light, the color-grading, or the depth-of-field. I think these aspects of photography, not just the allegorical potentials engrained in the script, are crucial to how Meek's Cutoff keeps prompting its spectators to contemplate our own present. That we keep doing this, despite the unfussily meticulous mise-en-scène designed by David Doernberg (Junebug, Gummo, Jesus' Son) and despite the period-specific, sun-blasted costumes of Vicki Farrell (High Art, Boys Don't Cry), testifies to the nuances in the film's aesthetic and historical imaginations. I floated my most churlish reactions to the actors higher up in this review, but the admixture of contemporary and period-realist registers in their performances also feel complicit in this interesting dimension of the film.
And how about that sound mix? How about it, indeed. Sometimes you want to say something in a review that feels impossible to extract from decades of hyperbolic cliché, but nevertheless: you could turn off the image of Meek's Cutoff and, based on audio alone, not only have a deep, detailed artistic encounter but glean pretty accurately the movie's story, and its ideas about that story. The creaking of all those wheels and axles are at once a plot point (they're not gonna hold up forever), an ambient constant, and an apt externalizing of the psychological stresses of this trip—especially as the gears and wheels in several travelers' minds are turning more and more toward mutiny. The manner and volume of location-specific sound, the blowing of the wind, the restrained but evocative role of Jeff Grace's score, the way that soft dialogues sometimes get mixed loud, the way full-throated speeches sometimes get muffled by environment: this soundtrack never stops working, without violating the generally ascetic pitch of the project. That Martin Scorsese's garish and cacophonous Hugo won the Oscar for Sound Mixing the year Meek's Cutoff was eligible, that a Transformers movie was also nominated, that popular discussions and industrial referenda on sound as an art so consistently favor what's conspicuous over what's complicated is an ongoing failure of movie discourse, broadly construed. Years and years ago, sound designer Leslie Shatz should have become a household name, at least to #FilmTwitter types, and what he and his colleagues achieve here is august and creative, even by his close-to-peerless standards.


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Jokowi asserts Indonesia's sovereign rights in Natuna
Batam / Wed, January 8, 2020 / 09:01 pm
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (right) seen laughing while talking with officials of the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry during his visit to Natuna regency in Riau Islands on Wednesday. (Presidential Palace Press Bureau/Laily Rachev)
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has insisted that Indonesia has sovereign rights over natural resources in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Natuna Sea while allowing foreign vessels to pass peacefully. "I am here to ensure the enforcement of our sovereign rights over maritime natural resources in our EEZ," Jokowi said as quoted in a press release issued by the State Palace on Wednesday. "Why do we have the Navy and the Bakamla [Maritime Security Agency] here? They are here to enforce the law." Speaking at the Lampa Strait Fishing Port in Natuna regency, Riau Islands province, Jokowi was commenting on the presence of Chinese fishing vessels in the North Natuna Sea – on the southern fringe of the South China Sea and whose name has yet to be internationally recognized. The Chinese fishing vessels were escorted by China Coast...
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