The Hunger Games DVD Teaser: Behind the Scenes

With all the casting chatter surrounding Catching Fire - Jena Malone! Philip Seymour Hoffman! - let's not forget about the movie that started it all.

The Hunger Games comes out on DVD August 18, and the following teaser for the release takes fans behind the scenes with the film's stars and teases the three hours of bonus footage you'll receive if you purchase the box set.

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The Hunger Games DVD: First Look

Special features include:

• An interview with author Suzanne Collin.
• A Conversation with director Gary Ross.
• A faux propaganda from the Capitol.
• Looks at Jennifer Lawrence and company training for the Games.

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/07/the-hunger-games-dvd-teaser-behind-the-scenes/

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Armstrong sues to block doping charges

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Lance Armstrong filed a federal lawsuit Monday aimed at preventing the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency from moving ahead with charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his record-setting career.

Armstrong's lawsuit says USADA rules violate athletes' constitutional right to a fair trial, and that the agency doesn't have jurisdiction in his case. It also accuses USADA's chief executive, Travis Tygart, of waging a personal vendetta against the cancer survivor who won the Tour de France every year from 1999 to 2005.

The lawsuit is an aggressive ? and expected ? move as Armstrong seeks to preserve his legacy as one of the greatest cyclists ever and an inspiring advocate for cancer survivors and research. Armstrong wants a judge to bar USADA from pursuing its case or issuing any sanctions against him.

Armstrong asked the court to issue an injunction by Saturday, the deadline he faces to formally challenge the case in USADA's arbitration process or accept sanctions. He could receive a lifetime ban from cycling and be stripped of his Tour de France victories if found guilty.

Armstrong insists he is innocent.

"The process (USADA) seek to force upon Lance Armstrong is not a fair process and truth is not its goal," his lawsuit says, calling the USADA process a "kangaroo court."

Tygart said Armstrong's lawsuit is "aimed at concealing the truth" and predicted a judge will rule in the agency's favor.

"USADA was built by athletes on the principles of fairness and integrity," he said in a statement. "We are confident the courts will continue to uphold the established rules which provide full constitutional due process and are designed to protect the rights of clean athletes and the integrity of sport."

USADA, created in 2000 and recognized by Congress as the official anti-doping agency for Olympic sports in the United States, formally charged Armstrong in June with taking performance-enhancing drugs and participating in a vast doping conspiracy on his Tour de France winning teams, some of which were sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service.

The charges came after a two-year federal criminal investigation into doping allegations against Armstrong ended in February with no charges filed against him. The anti-doping agency says up to 10 former teammates and associates are willing to testify against him and that it has blood samples from 2009-2010 that are "fully consistent" with doping.

Armstrong, who retired in 2011, says he has passed more than 500 drug tests in his career and was never flagged for a positive test.

Armstrong's lawsuit amplifies public complaints he made about USADA and Tygart in recent weeks and makes several arguments. It says:

? The agency's rules and arbitration are designed to find athletes guilty. Athletes are not allowed to subpoena documents or compel witnesses to testify in a hearing. USADA has so far withheld the names of most of the witnesses against Armstrong, saying it is protecting them from potential intimidation.

? The International Cycling Union, cycling's governing body which licensed Armstrong to ride professionally, should have jurisdiction over the allegations. Armstrong says allegations of doping by him and his team that were first raised by admitted drug-user Floyd Landis in 2010 should be addressed by UCI.

? USADA may have violated federal law if it coerced witness testimony against him with deals to reduce punishments for riders facing doping charges. Media reports last week said former Armstrong teammates George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, David Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde, who are all riding in this year's Tour de France, may be witnesses against him.

? Tygart and officials with the World Anti-Doping Agency have recklessly pursued Armstrong for several years in a personal quest to catch him despite Armstrong's hundreds of negative drug tests. Tygart was named a co-defendant in the lawsuit.

Also charged by USADA are former Armstrong team manager Johan Bruyneel and several team doctors and associates. None of them are included in Armstrong's lawsuit.

Armstrong's lawsuit says he faces irreparable harm if the case is allowed to go forward to arbitration because USADA rules prevent him from being able to mount a legitimate defense.

"It is a testament to USADA's brazenness and callous disregard for its own mission that it seeks to strip Mr. Armstrong of his life's work," the lawsuit says.

There was no immediate indication when a judge would rule. The case was filed in U.S. District Court in Austin.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/armstrong-sues-block-doping-charges-134603425--spt.html

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Apple granted patent for accelerometer-aided theft-detection system

Despite the added risk brought on by Apple's Find My iPhone feature, the iOS handset remains a frequent target for smartphone thieves, thanks to the device's resale value and compatibility with networks around the world. There's not much you can do to deter sticky fingers short of keeping your iPhone or MacBook in view at all times, but the issue does appear to have crossed the desks of Apple's design team, which was just granted patent number 8,217,792 for a sophisticated anti-theft scheme. The acceleration-based system would detect a "known theft condition" based on acceleration characteristics, sounding an alarm and disabling the device. The smartphone or laptop would ignore vibrations from passing cars or those caused by items being dropped onto a nearby surface, instead focusing on undisclosed scenarios that likely involve direct movement. The device owner would use a GUI to configure and disable the system, at which point the handset or computer would return to its pre-disturbed mode. Overall, it sounds like a fairly straightforward hardware/software solution, with the added benefit of a technique to filter out regular motion in an attempt to reduce the number of false alarms. You'll find the full patent at the source link below.

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Avnet takes on distributing Oracle Primavera in Middle East, North Africa

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Plenty of high growth potential

Enormous global distributor Avnet will begin offering Oracle?s Primavera Enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) into the Middle East and North Africa region.

Avnet claims it was selected for the full portfolio distribution because it has a strong track record in selling complete Oracle packages across hardware, software and services.

Primavera is used for mission critical PPM in industries such as engineering, construction, public sector, aerospace, defence, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing, IT, and services ? so the customer base is enormous.

Avnet promises to offer pre-sales and technical support along with marketing and logistics services, which the company says will really help its partners gain a lead on the competition.

Group senior director for Oracla business in the Middle East and North Africa region, Avnet?s Hani Barakat, said that next to its rivals, Oracle has been at the forefront of developing enterprise technology for specific verticle industries.

Barakat said Avnet will support partners in sales and technical enablement, as well as demand generation and financial services, so that they can ?take advantage of the high-growth potential? that is sitting in the MENA region.

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Source: http://www.channelbiz.co.uk/2012/07/09/avnet-takes-on-distributing-oracle-primavera-in-middle-east-north-africa/

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5 New Meeting Venues in Orlando/Central Florida

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Looking for a space to host your next meeting? Here's a look at five venues in Central Florida: hotel ballrooms, private rooms in restaurants, entertainment venues, and more. Whether your meeting is for 10, 100, or even more, you'll find all kinds of sizes, locations, room styles, and amenities to best fit your needs.

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Source: http://www.bizbash.com/5_new_meeting_venues_in_orlando-central_florida/orlando/story/23583

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Retailers sue Pfizer, charge generic Lipitor delay

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ? Five large drug and grocery chains are suing Pfizer Inc. and a second drugmaker, alleging they conspired to delay sales of cheap generic versions of the blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.

Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug ever, had peak sales of nearly $13 billion a year several years ago. Sales dropped sharply after it got U.S. generic competition on Nov. 30.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by Walgreen Co., the Kroger Co. and three other retailers in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., claims generics should have been available nearly two years earlier, when Lipitor's original patent expired.

The suit accuses Pfizer of patent fraud as well as "illegal, anti-competitive conduct" with generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories of India to block other generic drugmakers from selling versions of Lipitor, called atorvastatin calcium, until recently.

The suit also accuses New York-based Pfizer of making deals with companies that manage prescription benefits, giving them big discounts on brand-name Lipitor in exchange for those companies limiting sales of generic versions. Generic pills generally bring pharmacies higher profit margins than brand-name medicines do.

Pfizer denies the lawsuit claims and said Friday that it "will defend itself vigorously." A spokesman for Ranbaxy said the company had not been served with the lawsuit and has a policy against commenting on pending litigation.

The plaintiffs, which include Safeway Inc., Supervalu Inc. and HEB Grocery Co. LP, claim the original patent for the active ingredient in Lipitor expired in March 2010 and that Pfizer fraudulently got the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to grant a follow-on patent that extended Pfizer's monopoly on Lipitor sales.

According to Pfizer, Lipitor has additional patents that run until 2017, in addition to the patent in question in the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs also accuse Pfizer and Ranbaxy of striking a deal to delay competition from other generic versions of Lipitor. Ranbaxy got a six-month window through the end of May when it sold generic Lipitor and the only other generic version on the market was an authorized one ? pills manufactured by Pfizer and sold by its partner, Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.

"We are confident that Pfizer's procurement and enforcement of its Lipitor patents was at all times proper and lawful," Pfizer said in a statement. "The Lipitor patent settlements, including the settlement with Ranbaxy, were submitted for review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and are proper and lawful in all respects."

The lawsuit claims that due to the defendants' "scheme to delay and suppress generic Lipitor competition, in whole or in part, plaintiffs have paid hundreds of millions of dollars more for atorvastatin calcium than they would have paid absent such conduct."

Pfizer's revenue from brand-name Lipitor fell about 40 percent in the first quarter of this year, to $1.4 billion. That amount likely would have dropped more, if Pfizer had not offered the discounts to prescription benefit managers, along with copayment cards that helped about 750,000 patients to stay on brand-name Lipitor for just $4 per month.

The plaintiffs are seeking triple damages plus court and attorney costs. Their attorney, Deborah S. Corbishley of Miami, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Pfizer shares closed Friday trading down 13 cents to $22.54. The stock has changed hands between $16.63 and $23.30 in the past 52 weeks.

Associated Press

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Leadership Victoria volunteers build community tool shed

For a tool shed built by a gang of white-collar workers, it looks unexpectedly sturdy and cleanly designed.

It?s walls are lined with all manner of tools ??pliers, screwdrivers, pliers, grips, extension cords, levels, rakes, shovels and hoses, and even has earthquake kits. It a handyman?s dream and a first shot at making a community tool shed within a Capital Region Housing Corporation townhouse complex.

The community tool shed was conceived and built by a six-person team within a Leadership Victoria 2012 class, modelled on a similar tool sharing project out of Portland, Ore.

In partnership with CRHC, the LifeCycles non-profit group was starting a community garden at the Cloverdale Avenue site, so a community tool shed seemed a perfect fit for 26 families in the complex and 26 seniors in an adjacent building.

Over the course of the project from September to May, the Leadership Victoria team fundraised money, had the tools donated, and even had time and expertise donated from a contractor and building designer. The six, who are mainly managers and professionals, also put in sweat and labour.

?There were a lot of weird snags,? said Blair Spencer, a provincial probation officer and who speaks for the team. ?There is kind of an underground stream here. You dig holes and they fill with water. There was a lot of trial by error.

?It was an ongoing joke about six white-collar workers choosing a gritty construction project,? he added. ?It definitely took us out of our comfort zone, but part of the program was meant to push our comfort zones.?

Residents at the complex supported the project and were keen to have gardening tools available, but the uptake on borrowing has been slow. Dawn Kennedy, a resident and one of the four people who volunteered to oversee tool checkout, expects when and if warmer weather arrives, people will start doing more home and garden projects.

?It?s really good for the people around here who don?t have a lot of stuff.? I don?t carry a lot of tools in my house ,? Kennedy said. ?It helps fosters a sense of community. And my kids love digging in the gardens, digging for the worms.?

Amy Jaarsma, a senior manager with CRHC, said community tool sheds is something they?d like to see at other housing sites.

?This is the first tool shed for our properties,? Jaarsma said. ?We might try it again once we get a feel for it. It would be great to try out in a different location.

?We need to have a site that is big enough that people will use it. It?s got to be something driven by tenants. It?s got to be something they want to do.?

Other Leadership Victoria teams also completed community projects, including healthy cooking classes with youth connected to Big Brothers Big Sisters; a Stigma Stomp Day with Bipolar Disorder Society of B.C. at Centennial Square on May 14; a program to teach youth the sources of food, how to purchase healthy food from grocery stores and how to prepare it, in collaboration with local chefs.

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Source: http://www.saanichnews.com/community/161452545.html

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