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Submission Number:
560891-00175
Received:
8/24/2012 10:57:02 PM
Commenter:
Glen
Ritter
Organization:
Northwest La.Vet. Med. Association
State:
Louisiana
Agency:
Federal Trade Commission
Initiative:
Request for Comments and Announcement of Workshop on Pet Medications Issues, Project No. P121201
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Submission Text
In the state of Louisiana it is already in our practice act to provide a prescription for a pet if requested by an owner. To give the client a prescription, just to have them return it to us so they can have the medication to start treatment as soon as they arrive home, this is just extra paper work for us and requires more time for the client. This is not like having children. People can not stop on the way home to pick up the prescription, they can not leave the pet in a hot car. Children are allowed in stores. So they get home, feed the kids and forget to get their medication filled. This just isn't good medicine. Veterinarians have been at the top of most trusted professions for many years. We work hard to be price competitive with other sources and we carry products that have been tested and approved by the FDA. If you investigate the pharmacies that want us to provide these prescriptions you will find they only have human generics that are not approved by the FDA to treat any animal species. The FDA only allows approved drugs to be sold for use in animals unless there is not an approved drug to treat a condition. So what we have here is a Catch 22. Big Box Pharmacies want the prescriptions written but they do not carry legally acquired FDA approved drugs to treat animals. Note I said legally acquired, the major pharmaceutical companies want their products handled through licensed veterinarians. Where these pharmacies are currently acquiring product, no one will say. Is it diverted by unethical veterinarians, purchased over seas or from China. The FDA itself issued a Buyer Beware Warning about buying on the internet, because you do not know what you are getting. So it will be ok for Big Box Pharmacies to do this and I have to send a prescription for my client's pet, hoping they remember to get it filled on time and if they do, that it will be legally acquired product. Let the states govern veterinary medicine in their states and have them make the public aware that they can request a prescription. Let the veterinarians discuss the pros and cons on using approved FDA animal products verses human generics and illegally acquired products. Veterinarians only want what is best for the pet and are always willing to help a client get needed treatment for their pet. | http://ftc.gov/os/comments/petmedsworkshop/560891-00175.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
May 2013
One of those days...
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Some sex would be good right about now
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updates on my love life:
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April 2013
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Slater & Divine #PBBU #LS
No one can lay their head on Slater’s tummy except Divine. :))
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I don’t see Dennise as a threat, as far as Slater is concerned. And furthermore, Slater has confessed already for the whole televiewers to witness that he is attracted to Divine, and Divine alone, among all the girls housemates, so there’s nothing to worry about. :)
When Slater was safe from being evicted, Divine was the first one to run towards him and hug him…..
Morning tight hugs….
Yung totoo, bakit lagi sa same place sila nagmomoment? haha
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he hugged her in exchange! GRAVE AH! Mag bf/gf lang ang peg? <3 <3
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Slater: We just don’t know it yet!
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HALALALA! <3
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Bright ruby colour, very clean and not very dense. Bang, we’re in commercial red territory with the nose, and I mean that as only half an insult. Let’s face it, there’s something comforting about the easygoing aroma profile of a well made, mainstream red wine. This one has pretty aromas of sweet red berry fruit, grilled meat, an interesting medicinal note and subdued brambles, along with a hint of gentle oak. Everything in its place.
Not its best vintage by any means either. Better years have produced less confected characters and more savoury ones. At under $10 though, yep, its one of the perfect Bbq wines out there and not bad with pizza.
Interesting. I haven’t followed this wine with regularity but it would certainly be more interesting with a greater emphasis on savouriness.
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Return of The Walking Dead!
I finally got around to watching the new “The Walking Dead” episode and I must say it I was very happy. Most of last season I was like “get off the farm please” but I really hope that the jail is not a new farm. I wanted more zombie deaths and got them. I would really like to see the group push towards a city again but I am really happy it’s back.
I am watching “Dexter” as well. I am not real keen on this season of “Dexter” but it might be that this whole storyline has become cumbersome to me. I feel the season peaked with John Lithgow as the villain so now it more of closure and less of excitement.
I am not afraid to admit that I love “The New Girl” I think the characters play well off each other and I continue to be impressed. Schmidt posing as Tug Romney was pretty funny.
That is what I am currently watching right now. Oh and I am looking forward to the new “American Horror Story” as well.
I noticed people are starting to get their wristbands. I am so ready to kick it with y’all.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:58 AM, slyd said:
I totally agree! It is a good problem when you have too many shows to watch.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:51 AM, zombie313 said:
I thought the season premiere of Walking Dead was great. I was happy with the 2nd half of last season but I agree that they spent way too much time on the farm and the show was starting to lose me. It looks like this season will be pretty action packed.
I am also excited for American Horror Story tomorrow. I thought the first season was fantastic and it's interesting that the seasons will all be stand alone stories. I never thought I would say it but TV has definitely been better than a lot of the movies coming out over the last few years. | http://funfunfunfest.com/users/IsHVnkUH/blogs/3508153 | 2013-05-18T10:32:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Step 1. Make a fist with thumb on the side of the fist like the letter 'A' in sign language.
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Love this unusual take on handprint art. Very cute!
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"Why Honest Seduction is Important" or "A tale of two romances"
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I recently had an experience that reminded me why I started giving workshops on Honest Seduction, and now I feel an irresistible urge to write about it, so here we go. Shameless plug- the next Honest Seduction workshop will be in Philly on July 7 from 5-7 pm.
This week I sent an email to C & M, a really awesome couple who I am friends with, confessing that I have a huge crush on them (together and separately).
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Running into a Stonewall
E.Horowitz (?) vs. Amateur (?)
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This is a notable game of the 'Stonewall Attack' where where white sets up his desired 'Stonewall' pattern in impeccable form. Without depending on any major blunders on black's part, the game develops into a smahing attack on black's castled king orchestrated by Horowitz.
1. d4
More common is 1.e4
1... d5
Black replies symetrically also staking a claim for the centre.
2. e3
?! From a theoretical point of view, White's last move has certain advanatges and disadvantages. I think the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Now white can develop his King's Bishop. Thi is a big factor in this game as this bishop plays a large role in whites coming attacking plans. This move however blocks the development of whites queen bishop. This is the "Stonwall's Bad Bishop" Incidently in reaching the desired pawn pattern, it is essential for white to play his moves in the proper sequence, as indicated in this game. This has now become harder for white and has now seen the 'Stonewall attack' see little action even in club or internet games, let alone master games!
2... Nf6
This is a standard developing move which has the merit of controlling e4 and also prepares for castling. The alternative move here is 2..Bf5 which also controls e4 but leads to a totally different pattern.
3. Bd3
This is one of whites key moves in his desired opening pattern. This move develops a move prepares for castling, sets the bishop up on a strong attacking diagonal aiming at blacks prospective castled position, and disputes control of the e4. As we shall see from whites next move it is of utmost importance for him to have the the d4square in his power.
3... e6
Black follows suit, preparing to develop his King Bishop.
4. Nd2
! White intends to play f4 one of the characteristic moves of the 'Stonewall' pattern. once he has played that move black can play ...Ne4 with out inccuring any danger of having it driven it away by f3. therefore before playing f4, white first plays out his Queen Knight to prevent ..Ne4. I decided to give this move a ! becuase it is a clever thinking ahead move.
4... c5
This is a good move theoretically as it engages whites d4 pawn and therefore minimizes somewhat, white's pressure on e4. White can't reply with 5. dxc5 as that would relax his grip on the valuable square e4. In this opening control of the centre is absolutely paramount. Now there is a threatof ...c4, driving White's Bishop off the powerful attacking diagonal.
5. c3
This is another characteristic move of the stonewall pattern. White supports d4 and also creates a retreat for the Bishop along the powerful attacking diagonal in the event of the move i talked about earlier ...c4.
5... Nc6
This is another useful develping move, Black threatens, if permitted, to play ..e5with complete freedomand the intiative. In this we encounter a sharp tempo in the struggle for control of the centre. Where black develops systematically, there is a tense fight for the control of centre from the very beginning. At this point the fight for the centre must absorb both of the players thoughts. One negligent move could give the other player the intiative. In the event of 5...c4, trying to drive whites light squared bishop of that powerful attacking diagonal, white will not oblige by reacting passively with 6.Be2, when the bishop is left out of the attack with no aggressive prospects, Instead white will play 6. Bc2! so that his Bishop exerpts precisely the same aggressive effect as from d3.
6. f4
?! This move completes the stonewall pattern, ..e5 is permanently prevented, and white prepares to anchor his King Knight at the powerful outpost on e5. Here the Knight wil exert commanding influence on the enemys' terrain. The idea behind the 'Stonewall' is to keep the centre blocked and launch an attack on the wing. As you can see it is a fairly rigid pawn formation which can often leave little room for the pieces to operate. The e5 square is whites only central invasion point. This opening 'system' ( I say system because it can be played by both sides) is more popular with inexperienced players becasue they can be fairly certain that they're moving their pieces to their proper squares. I think this is the wrong way to learn chess as it does not teach you to think. I think you should learn more flexible opening.
6... Be7
This deve;ops a piece and prepares castling. This is slightly passive I would recomend 6...Bd6 with no attacking prospects but being able to defend or exchange the oncoming White Knight to e5. Now you will se how the stonewall pattern got its name!
7. Ngf3
The knight starts its journey to the formidable outpost of e5.
7... O-O
Black thinks he is getting his king into safety where he can then hope to develop his pieces and eventually attack whites formidable pawn formation. You will see this is the wrong choice because black has actually castled on the wing where all the action is going to take place. I think it would be a better plan for black to continue developing is pieces and castle queenside then pawnstorm the kingside .
8. Ne5
White has now achieved his opening objectives: he has set up the 'Stonewall' formation, which gives him a firm grip on the centre; he has posted his King bishop at d3 with strong attacking prospects; he has brought his King Knight to e5, emphasising his strong grip on the centreand his aggressive intentions towards Black's King.
8... Qc7
Black intends to fianchetto his Queen Bishop before he can do this, however,he must give his Queen knight additional protection. Once Black's Queen Bishop is developed, he can start thinking of finding the most favourable squares for the placement of his rooks. We cn now ask ourselves the question; What is White's plan in the middlegame? This requires a careful assesment of the position. Material is even in. In development Black seems to have a slight advantage; he has castled, moved his queen and is on the point of developing his Queen Bishop. White lags in most of these details. However White as you will see make up for his la in development. I conlude that white has better prospects. WHY? Whereas Black has not posted one man beyond the fifth rank, White's King Knight is powerfully placed at e5 well supported by two pawns. This factor alone is enough to outweigh any element which is at the moment in Black's favour. But there is another poin: Whites Bishop at d3 is aimed directly at Black's castled position. Black can't block the attacking diagonal by ...Ne4. Therefore Whites basic plan us to aim for attack.
9. O-O
While automatically bringing his king to safety, white enhances the force of the coming attack by bringing his King Rook into action. You may say that castling the same side that you prepare to pawnstorm is quite risky.hoever if white takes time to develop his Queenside pieces then castle Queenside then pawnstorm the Kingside Black will already of organized his forces to defend his King and may well be in the midst of attacking White's King!
9... b6
White has some alternatives wich are not satisfactory. If 9...cxd4 then 10. exc4 opening the diagonal for white's Queen Bishop, which can then move as soon as the Knight on d2 has moved. Another point in White's favour is the opening of the e-file for his Rooks. As the move 9...cxd4 gives Black no compensation advantage, the move must therefore be out of the question. Secondly if 9...c4 as has already been pointed out the bishop can just retreat to c2 remaining on the powerful attacking diagonal, still aimed at Black's castled King! Also Whites grip on the centre is extremely strong and he surely will benefit from black stopping the posibility of exchanging pawns in the centre or maintaining the tension. Thirdly is 9...NxN then 10.fxe5. At first sight you can be forgiven for thinking this idea is attractive, as it rids Black of a piece which is bound to be a thorn in his side. But the answer is still negative. After 9...NxN 10.fxe5, with the result that the f-file is opened for white. The power of Whites King Rook would be enhanced x1000, another equally convincing arguement that after 9...NxN 10.fxe5 Black's valuable protective Knight is driven away from f6. The result is the attack by White's d3 Bishop on h7 becomes more and more powerful! I think that arguement just about rules out any other move, no?
honeybrook
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on 30-Sep-08:
I'm guessing the first word in this paragraph should be 'Black.'
10. g4
Whites violent pawn thrust is made with a few objectives in mind. His basic idea is obviously to drive away Black's Knight on f6 from its key defencive post. Thereby building pressure on h7. Another reason for this move is after the pawn advance g4-g5 there are often the opportunities to exchange it. Pawn advances result in open lines. In this case this exchange of the pawn would give White the new line of attack the open g-file.
10... Bb7
Now Black actually threatens to play 11...NxN. But isn't this strange. A moment ago I said that 9...NxN would be bad. Now I claim that this this move would be good. What has happened to change my mind. The point is thi8s: After 11...NxN; 12.fxe5 Black would be able (after10...Bb7) to play 12...Ne4! establishing and maintaining an outpost os his own. whites attacking plans would be permanently disrupted as the attacking diagonal of his Bishop at d3 would be completely neutralized. N.B- Black's hope of killing the attack is contingent withon getting the upperhand in the centre (12...Ne4); and this in turn is the result of 10...Bb7, a move which exerts pressureon the centre. And so, it is a struggle for control of the centre which determines the success or failure of the attack!
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stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 00:51
15....Na7
I choose this move over Nd8 (see discussion above), because now white does not know the real intention of general Stalhandske's cavallery - is this to support an advance on the Q-side or is it to initiate the sequence for the knight to reach d6 (via c8)?
ptitroque
08-Jan-13, 04:05
What if white brings her f rook on h3 and the knight on f3 ang g5 ? (those two pieces don't seem to me necessary for white's left wing defense) ?
brigadecommander
08-Jan-13, 06:50
Black moves 15...Na7 and White plays 16.Rh3
In my assessment the Position is equal,with chances for both sides.
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 06:53
@ptitroque
shhhh, she might hear you
I think you might well have captured some of White's plan. I indeed anticipate Rh3 and Nf3 from White, but if you promise not to tell her, Black intends to put his knight on e4 (that was an original plan mentioned ages ago!), among other things to prevent intrusion of a foreign knight at g5. To do that the N at e4 needs another knight at d6 to back him up......(that's where Na7 is actually heading!). Remember that Stalhandske was a master of cavallery attacks
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 06:55
note (ouch!)
My above message was sent BEFORE the one by
brigadecommander
brigadecommander
08-Jan-13, 07:03
that's ok stal
i am cognisant of John Bufords Cavalry movements. And have them under observation.
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 07:07
@brigadecommander
Excellent! Young Buford was a good pupil of mine - 200 years later
brigadecommander
08-Jan-13, 07:18
black moves 16...Nc8 and Black plays 17.Nf3
Black begins a transfer of a Cavalry formation to the center and white does the same.
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 07:28
yes, I know, I know
that it is spelled cavalry, but in the goode olde days it was spelled cavallery
elyhim
08-Jan-13, 08:41
hit the pause botton! What has changed
Black to move
1.Material is equal no side has the advantage.
2.No direct threats yet though white's attack on the kingside is building, black has not direct threats but the queenside still remains to be an enduring possibility.
3.The safety of kings has yet to be of significant value. With white committed to a kingside attack the probability of further weakness on both king positions remain high.
4.There are no open files or diagonals. While the white rook sits on h3 bearing down on h7 the probability of forcing a weakness on the h-file is low due to the fact that white must sacrifice 1 or 2 minor pieces to gain access to the black king. This coupled with the black bishop x-raying h4 and g5 ensures that any invasion by the knight via h4 or g5 is easily met.
5.Black's pawn structure is slightly better than whites due to the bind on d3. This ensures that white's LSB remains behind bars. Futhermore, because most of white's pawns are on darks squares this ensures for the foreseeable future that white's DSB see no action. All the strong points of e4,e5, g4 and g5 are currently being contested by both sides. Which means that neither player has an advantage here. Though it would seem that the first player to secure a strong would have the advantage. As for weak squares neither side can do much damage to c3 or h7. However, the backward d6 pawn is much safer now that a white knight is not on e5.
6.It is here that the most significant changes have occurred. In order to secure the rook on h3 white had to give up his centrally dominant knight on e5 for black's less active LSB. Furthermore, Black's queen's knight is going to the strong post on d6 which will for the moment give black the greater influence in the center.
7.white by exchanging his Dominate knight for black's LSB has secured the Bishop pair. Which it the position opens up will become an asset. However, black does have the knight pair which in the current position and for the near foreseeable future is of greater value. As for space white has achieved to gain more space on the kingside which is necessary for a successful attack on the black king. As for piece harmony I would say that black is slightly better due to his connected rooks, knights and Queen+bishop. While white still has some considerable work to do in order to catch up to black in this regard.
General conclusion: As it presently stand black is better due to his greater central dominance. White can not hope to mount a successful attack if the center is not under his control. Futhermore, with a knight on d6 and f6 black dominates on both sides of the board. Plus, black still retains greater potential on the queenside. White must continue with his plan to make space gaining moves on the kingside. While black must counter this with controlling the center and if white does try to attack on the kingside black must exchange pieces while avoiding pawn weaknesses.
brigadecommander
08-Jan-13, 11:08
i agree more or less
with this analysis. I would only differ in that White can (if black does not block the the queenside with pawns) find employment for both Bishops in that theater. Having stated this small point, think your analysis is flawless. I haven't played this opening since i was 1750, as it has no bite against good play. But as a learning tool for 800-1700 rated players it can teach many useful stratagems. And these can spill over into other openings.Thank you elyhim for your concise evaluation.
brigadecommander
08-Jan-13, 11:55
black plays 17...Nd6 and White moves 18.Ne5
Black places both his Cavalry brigades in synchronous central positions and White places a Assault Helicopter formation on e5. The Tempo gain will be used by white to complete his development.
bwaa
08-Jan-13, 12:50
18...Qe1
seems indicated for Black, followed by perhaps 19.Ba3 and possibly a transfer of the Ra1 to the kingside. The issue I'd have as White here is that ...Ne4 will be very strong, and White will be forced to spend time defending the weak c3 pawn. So maybe 19.Bb2 is better, even though the Bishop is still badly stifled there.
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 12:53
position after 18.Ne5
Many thanks to
elyhim
for another very insightful analysis! I hope that he will do it later on again, because this is really what makes this match worthwhile to follow for everybody (and that includes me!). The only little detail that I don't agree with is that black would stand better, I mean significantly better. In my view the position is equal, where the opportunities and drawbacks that
elyhim
mentions for both sides balance each other. For example, whites DSB looks to be really "out of it", but moving via d2 and e1 it could easily be maneuvered to support a kingside attack. Exactly the same type of maneuvre that black's LSB attempted earlier before it got "neutralised".
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 13:13
@bwaa
I agree that it is now time for 18....Qe8 (which I'm sure is what you meant), which was a "natural move" already discussed much earlier with
myevilluck
. I do not agree with
brigadecommander
that the 18. Ne5...Qe8 sequence would constitute a gain of tempo for White (or a corresponding loss of tempo for Black) just because White's move forces the Black queen to move, because the latter was on her way to e8 in any case
I think we can all see how tension builds up now, especially on the kingside......
bwaa
08-Jan-13, 13:20
@stalhandske
Indeed, 18...Qe8 was what I meant. As you said, the BQ was headed there already.
I do wish you could edit posts in these threads XD
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 13:36
editing
I think that one can edit only up to the point when the "Preview" is over and "Post Now!" is executed. After that the only way is to delete the message altogether (and make a new one). At any rate, no harm is done whatsoever! On the contrary, it is very nice that this game is followed by others, whose contributions give colour and more value to the entire exercise !
elyhim
08-Jan-13, 15:43
Prehaps I should clarify
When I said that black stands better I mean that he stand not significantly better but between slightly and better. I do believe that black's greater central control balances the position and under estimated queenside potential gives him better chances. As for this game I(most likely because of the analysis) have a strong hunch on what white plans to attempt to do on the kingside. It will be interesting to see how the position develops. As for the semi forced 18. ...Qe8 it has a much great significance to white's plans than just sheer tempo and that is all I am going to say about that.
stalhandske
08-Jan-13, 23:20
18....Qe8 19. Bb2
brigadecommander
has by mistake posted these latest moves on a separate (new) thread. I am sure she will move it here as soon as she wakes up
Whilst 18....Qe8 was expected (see above discussion), 19. Bb2 comes as a surprise to me although it was mentioned earlier by
bwaa
. His motivation was that it may be better than Bd2 due to the expectation that black moves a knight to e4. The downside, however, is that white's DSB is completely "passé" at b2, whereas at d2 (which I had expected) it could be maneuvered to support a kingside attack (discussed above, too).
It would be interesting to hear
brigadecommander
's motivation, as well as comments from others.
At any rate, I think black can now continue with the original cavalry (spelling!) plan, and he moves 19...Nfe4
ptitroque
08-Jan-13, 23:57
19. Bb2
If white needs her Q for a kingside attack (ot whateverelse she has in mind....) and wants to keep a guarding rook on the a file, Bb2 is better.
stalhandske
09-Jan-13, 01:01
@ptitroque
Excuse my stupidity, but I don't understand why a bishop at b2 would be better for those purposes than a bishop at d2
ptitroque
09-Jan-13, 01:35
@stahandske
I might be wrong but It seems to me the Bd2 could be under menace of an eventual knight e4 and therefore needs support from the queen or the rook. With Bb2 you don't have this problem.
brigadecommander
09-Jan-13, 02:30
Black played 18...Qe8 and white,19.Bb2 and Black, ...19...Nfe4.
brigadecommander
09-Jan-13, 03:26
White now plays 20.Raf1
White having completed her development, transfers another Armored Formation to her right flank For 'Possible' employment in this theater of Operations.
stalhandske
09-Jan-13, 04:04
@ptitroque
OK, I understand now; the same concern that was also voiced by
bwaa
brigadecommander
09-Jan-13, 04:41
The Bishop on b2
If i had put the Bishop on d2 with the idea of moving it to the Kingside, the Black Knight on e5 would still be attacking c3 and my Rook on a1 would be blocked in on a1.
brigadecommander
09-Jan-13, 05:57
Black moves 20....g5
In order to win in this type of drawish position, one side had to take some chances. To this end Black sends an Infantry column forward with g5. White welcomes this advance. She will soon begin a War of maneuver. But first it must be planned. To be Announced shortly,
stalhandske
09-Jan-13, 06:34
20....g5
I agree with
brigadecommander
. The 60,000 $ question is, however, whether this advance was premature. At least so far I don't think so.
brigadecommander
09-Jan-13, 06:45
i have to look at 4 possibilities and there sub variations
fxg5 or Rh6 or g4 or a5. These alone create a huge number of variations. I will need time to evaluate. In any event it it adds life to a very drawish position.
brigadecommander
09-Jan-13, 07:08
White plays 21.g4
and the Battle commences.
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Dr. Walid Phares, the security expert cited by Russia Today in its report on Modern Warfare 2 and a recent Russian airport suicide bombing, has penned an editorial telling his side of the story.
The overall theme of his editorial is at least positive to video game proponents: video games do not create terrorists, Jihadi ideology does.
First he tackles the tenuous link that Russia Today tried to make between the bombing and the "No Russian" scene in Modern Warfare 2:
So far the report attempts to make a direct link between people who have played the game and those who have perpetrated the actual attack on Moscow's airport. Obviously such a charge is global, and generalizing, even though the scenes in the game and in the terror attack are at first sight, comparable. The critics, mostly from the US but many other countries counter-charged that a game by itself is not responsible for bloodshed in any particular country. This heated discussion has to be backed by research, data, psychologists and social scientists. The direct relation between a video about war, strikes, and in general terms violence, and acts of violence in the real world is a discussion that needs its own experts, assuming the equation is about individuals who play games and individuals who commit acts of violence.
He then sums up his opinion on this particular case, which basically is, if these terrorists were inspired by video games, then they were probably produced by groups such as Hamas. He does not discount the fact that some terrorists infiltrate certain online games to train among the world's masses (there is an extensive explanation of this in the article that is interesting to read).
In the first set, we're all very familiar with the computer games created by Hezbollah and Hamas. They are available online. Some Salafist groups have also produced theirs. These aren't commercial series but they are part of the organizations' propaganda machines. Children and young adults are encouraged to watch them and play so that they harden their convictions. This has nothing to do with regular videogames produced by companies for the purpose of entertainment. The Jihadi videogames are aimed at real world killing with very precise characterizations. While the war-like videogames such as "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare," "Rise of Nations" or "Counter-Strike," even though very graphic and in some cases silly, are just games played by teens and older people. They aren't directly and ideologically inciting and aren't connected to real world organizations.
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"Games (any warfare or violence game) could eventually influence a crazy guy who may go on a rampage, but games do not create terrorists. And those who attacked Moscow's airport (the people who decided, prepared, and executed) aren't isolated gamers but part of an ideologically motivated network. In several other interviews that evening I argued that Jihadists both originating from the North Caucasus and beyond are waging a war not just on Russia but on the US, Europe, India and parts of the Muslim world."
The abridged version of his interview was this:
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He closes his article with a swipe at the New York Times, because he feels that the article they wrote did not accurately reflect the views he espoused during the interview. He blames some of the misunderstanding on New York Times writer Robert Mackey, who wrote the article "Russian Media Points to Moscow Airport Attack in U.S. Video Game." More from Phares:
This branding of my statement as an "endorsement" of the RT argument, while I was arguing otherwise, triggered a chain reaction in the blogosphere –which was amusing and educational- with many video-gaming bloggers unhappy with my distorted comment, thinking wrongly that I am arguing that this videogame "Call of Duty" is an inspiration to the Moscow attack by some player. I wrote this piece to set the record straight and reiterate my point: games don't create terrorists; the latter are the ones who use games to enhance their capacities.
In this piece I also achieved two goals: One is to educate my readers about the real use by Jihadists of video and cyber training and two is to admonish the New York Times "trick" and warn readers from drawing conclusions too fast at the reading of this media's production.
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James David Fuller, 88, of DuBois died Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 at his daughter’s residence. Born Dec. 15, 1923, he was the son of the late Stanley and Grace (Gray) Fuller.
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Supreme Edgelight Devices, Inc.
B-295574, Mar 4, 2005
(202) 512-4800
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Supreme Edgelight Devices, Inc. protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPO470-04-Q-6455, issued by Defense Supply Center Richmond (DSCR), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for aircraft light plates.
We deny the protest.
B-295574, Supreme Edgelight Devices, Inc., March 4, 2005
Decision
Matter of: Supreme Edgelight Devices, Inc.
Darren Cuoghi for the protester.
Robert E. Sebold, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Saturday receipt of an agency-level protest decision by a clerk employed by the protester did not constitute actual or constructive knowledge of the initial adverse agency action on that date, where Saturday was a non-business day for the protester and the envelope containing the decision was not opened until Monday, the first business day after receipt.
2. Agency had a reasonable basis to cancel a request for quotations for an aircraft part, which the solicitation indicated was a critical application item and for which the agency did not have technical data, where the agency wished to investigate the impact of a change in revision levels for the drawing that controlled the manufacture of the part and determine whether the protester's quoted part would satisfy the agency's needs.
DECISION
Supreme Edgelight Devices, Inc. protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPO470-04-Q-6455, issued by Defense Supply Center Richmond (DSCR), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for aircraft light plates.
DSCR is responsible for buying and managing spare parts for United States military aircraft. On September 27, 2004, DSCR issued the RFQ for 174 light plates, which connect to the oxygen regulator panel on various military aircraft. The light plates were identified as Carleton Life Support Systems, Inc. part number 1611735-1, National Stock Number (NSN) 1660-00-967-3664. Vendors were informed that the light plates were a "critical application item" subject to configuration control and that DCSR did not currently have a technical data package available for this NSN. RFQ at 2. Apart from identifying the light plates as a Carleton Life Support Systems part, the solicitation did not specifically identify any approved sources for the light plates.
DSCR received quotations from Supreme and Derco Aerospace, Inc., an authorized distributor for Carleton Life Support Systems. Although Supreme had provided this item under prior contracts as an approved source, Supreme's name had been removed from the source approved list because the design drawings had been revised. DSCR rejected Supreme's quote and awarded a purchase order to Derco, whose quotation indicated that Derco would provide Carleton Life Support Systems Inc. part No. 1611735.
Supreme timely protested to the agency, arguing that it had previously provided the " exact item" to DSCR as an approved source and in accordance with drawings Supreme had legally received from Drgerwerk AG, a company that Supreme contends is strategically allied with Carleton Life Support Systems. Agency-Level Protest at 1-2.
In response, DCSR informed Supreme that Supreme was not considered an approved source because there was a new revision level for this item--that is, the drawing, upon which Supreme relies, is at revision level "AK" but that the more recent drawing for the item is at revision level "AL." The agency states that "DCSR does not at this time know whether an offer for material built to an earlier revision level is acceptable." Response to Agency-Level Protest at 1. The agency also noted that the RFQ inadvertently failed to include DLA's required clause No. 52.2179002, "Conditions for Evaluation and Acceptance of Offers for Part Numbered Items," which informed vendors that only the exact item identified in the solicitation is known to be acceptable and informs vendors who wish to quote parts from other sources what information and/or data must be submitted to demonstrate that the offered product is interchangeable with the listed product. Id. ; Contracting Officer's Statement at 4-5. Accordingly, the agency decided to terminate the award to Derco, cancel the RFQ, and resolicit this requirement. This protest to our Office followed.
DCSR requests that we dismiss as untimely Supreme's protest to our Office because, although Supreme admitted receiving a copy of the agency's decision on Saturday, December 11, it did not file its protest with our Office until December 23, more than 10 days after receipt of the agency-level protest decision. The protester responds that it is not open on weekends, and that although a clerk received the envelope containing the agency-level protest decision on Saturday, December 11, the envelope was not opened by the protester until Monday, December 13.
Our Bid Protest Regulations provide that where, as here, a protester timely files an agency-level protest, any subsequent protest to our Office must be filed within 10days of actual or constructive knowledge of initial adverse agency action. 4 C.F.R 21.2(a)(3) (2004). In an analogous case, we found that a protester's receipt on Saturday (a non-business day) by electronic mail of the agency's notification that the firm had been excluded from the competitive range should be considered as received by the protester on the next business day for the purposes of determining whether a request for a required debriefing was timely. See International Res. Group , B-286663, Jan. 31, 2001, 2001 CPD 35 at 5.
The agency argues that our decision in International Res. Group is inapplicable here because that decision did not concern the computation of time required to file a protest with our Office but only concerned when a protester was deemed to have received notice of its competitive range exclusion for the purposes of requesting a required debriefing. We do not agree that this difference distinguishes the rule stated in International Res. Group . In either situation, the time period for requesting a required debriefing or filing a protest with our Office commences with a protester's actual or constructive knowledge of initial adverse agency action. As we found in International Res. Group , the mechanical receipt of notice on a non-business day, where the notice is not actually read, does not constitute actual or constructive knowledge. With respect to receipt outside the protester's ordinary business hours (for example, a weekend), we find no practical difference between by e-mail or by the protester's clerical or security personnel for purposes of determining whether a protester has received constructive or actual notice of initial adverse agency action. [1]
Thus, we find that receipt of the agency's decision on Saturday by a clerk employed by Supreme, where Saturday was not an ordinary business day for the protester and where the decision was in fact not opened or reviewed, does not constitute constructive knowledge of initial adverse agency action. Rather, we conclude that Supreme had actual or constructive knowledge of the agency's protest decision on Monday, December 13, the next business day. Accordingly, Supreme's protest, which was filed within 10 calendar days of that date, is timely.
Supreme challenges the cancellation of the solicitation, complaining that "Form, Fit or Function does not seem to vary between" the various revisions levels of the light plates and that "[s]urely, this means we had our name removed from the source approval list based upon a false premise which DSCR surely knew about and complied with." [2] Protester's Comments at 1. Supreme contends that its removal from the source approval list and award to Derco was as a result of "collusion between the parties involved." Protest at 2.
A contracting agency need only establish a reasonable basis to support a decision to cancel an RFQ . So long as there is a reasonable basis, an agency may cancel a solicitation no matter when the information precipitating the cancellation first arises, even if it is not until quotations have been submitted and evaluated. SKJ & Assocs., Inc. , B-294219, Aug. 13, 2004, 2004 CPD 154 at 2-3.
Here, we find that the cancellation of the RFQ was entirely appropriate. It is undisputed that the drawings upon which Supreme would rely in producing the light plates is at a lower revision level--level "AK"--than the level currently specified for this item. [3] Although Supreme argues that the difference in revision level does not affect "fit, form or function," DCSR states that it does not know the impact, if any, of the difference in revision levels. In this regard, there is no information in the record regarding the difference between the two revision levels. Also, the RFQ failed to include the required DLA clause that instructs vendors offering alternate products to provide information and/or data to show that its product is interchangeable with the exact item specified in the solicitation. Under these circumstances, we find the agency reasonably cancelled the solicitation. Cancellation of the solicitation provides Supreme with an opportunity to determine whether it can offer the exact part sought by the agency--that is, a part manufactured to revision level "AL"--or to qualify an alternate part.
With regard to Supreme's contention that its removal from the source approval list and award to Derco was as a result of "collusion between the parties involved," we will not attribute bias or bad faith to an agency on the basis of inference and supposition. Chenega Mgmt., LLC , B-290598, Aug. 8, 2002, 2002 CPD 143 at 4. The record here simply contains no evidence --beyond the protester's speculation --that the removal of Supreme from the source approval list, the award to Derco (which has been terminated) or the cancellation of the solicitation was as a result of bias or bad faith .
The protest is denied.
Anthony H. Gamboa
General Counsel
[1] In contrast, actual knowledge of adverse agency action, even when received on a non-business day, commences the time for filing a protest with our Office. See Atkinson Dredging Co. , B-218030.2, July 3, 1985, 85-2 CPD 22.
[2] Supreme also requests that DCSR exercise an option under an indefinite-quantity contract that it had with DCSR for the light plate. DCSR states, however, that although the agency had ordered 189 light plates from Supreme under contract No.SP0470-03-D-1383, this contract expired in September 2004 when the agency did not exercise the first contract option period. Contracting Officer's Statement at 2.
[3] Supreme also argues that it was removed from the source approved list because of an allegation that Supreme did not have the right to use the drawings it received from Drgerwerk. DCSR denies this and stated in its decision on the agency-level protest that it "generally does not make a determination as to whether a company is in lawful possession of data" and that this "is an issue between the two companies." AR, Tab R, AgencyLevel Protest Decision, at 1-2. | http://gao.gov/products/A18838 | 2013-05-18T11:03:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Results-Oriented Government:
GPRA Has Established a Solid Foundation for Achieving Greater Results
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The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) has been in effect for 10 years. In that context, the subcommittee asked GAO to discuss our recent report, Results- Oriented Government: GPRA Has Established a Solid Foundation for Achieving Greater Results. Our testimony addresses the effectiveness of GPRA in creating a focus on results in the federal government.
GPRA's. In our report, we also found agency strategic and annual performance plans and reports have improved over initial efforts. Although a foundation has been established, numerous significant challenges to GPRA implementation still exist. Inconsistent top leadership commitment to achieving results within agencies and OMB can hinder. OMB, as the focal point for management in the federal government, is responsible for overall leadership and direction in addressing these challenges. OMB has clearly placed greater emphasis on management issues during the past several years. However, OMB has showed less commitment to GPRA implementation in its guidance to agencies and is not using the governmentwide performance plan requirement of GPRA to develop an integrated approach to crosscutting issues. In our view, governmentwide strategic planning could better facilitate the integration of federal activities to achieve national goals. | http://gao.gov/products/GAO-04-594T | 2013-05-18T10:53:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Wilmington: What to See and Do
Discover more on Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington City Portrait
Where to Eat and Drink
Meet the Locals
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Today, we're highlighting Coastal Craft, a popular Canadian yacht builder that we've been exclusive partners with for over 2 years. Coastal Craft yachts are built semi-custom and incorporate a great amount of input from the owner of the boat while being designed.
Pictured is Coastal Craft's newly released 56' yacht, commissioned this
past summer. They also make a 40' and 45' version as well. Also shown are a few shots of our marine line custom fit into the helm of the yacht.
We're proud to be showcased in these luxurious yachts and look forward to being partnered with Coastal Craft for years to come. Happy Sailing! | http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2012/12/setting-sail-with-coastal-craft.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel
After more than a month, the LA Times, after much criticism, has finally decided to run a story about the San Francisco murder case in which an illegal alien gang member with two felony convictions is accused of murdering a family of three this June. The story ran Saturday.
The Times story was little more than a re-write of previous articles reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and AP, plus an interview of a family member of the murder victims. As for any independent inquiry by the Times or new information not already known to the public, the was nothing added.
Yet, the Times had to insert the following paragraph to suit their own liberal agenda:
"Immigration activists have embraced the grieving family using the June 22 deaths of Anthony, Matthew and Michael Bologna to call for change. Conservative broadcasters have vilified the city and its officials all week."
Read what you will into that paragraph. Yes, conservative broadcasters have vilified the city and its officials. Why not? The three victims would be alive today if not for San Francisco's Sanctuary policy. The accused, Edwin Ramos, a 21-year-old member of the vicious Salvadoran gang, MS-13, should have been turned over to ICE after his previous violent felony convictions when he was 17-or after he was detained on a gun investigation this past April.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. It has recently been disclosed that the city has been shipping illegal alien juvenile offenders to "youth homes" in other parts of the state such as San Bernadino County, from which they walk away. One case involved a group of Honduran crack dealers.
And as the Bologna family grieves, and Danielle Bologna, the widow of the murdered father, tries to put her life back together, San Francisco's playboy mayor, Gavin Newsom, who is largely and unapologetically responsible for this disgrace, tied the knot for the second time this past weekend, this time with some actress named Jennifer Siebel at her father's ranch in Montana. A quiet affair it was not. Numerous high-flyers attended, including none other than Nancy Pelosi and others who arrived on the Google jet. Participants reportedly rode to the service on horseback. Honeymoon? You bet, in Africa no less. Nothing but the best for San Francisco's narcissistic mayor.
And nothing for his law-abiding citizens like Danielle Bologna.
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Gary, why do you intend on making me sick first thing in the morning?
Seriously, I don't understand the phoniness and indifference of our "ruling class" at all. | http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2008/07/la-times-finally-reports-on-san.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Object of the Week
Police Badge 1890-1930
May is also national police month! This sheriff’s badge was used by Sheriff George Rhyne here in Gaston County between 1890-1930.
According to the donor, Sheriff Rhyne only lost one election. This was when the "republicans" took over the county. During the lapse of being a county sheriff, George became a U.S. Marshall and served as a "revenuer" in the North Carolina mountains. Marshall Rhyne was shot once by a moonshiner, but the bullet hit his Marshall’s badge and saved his life.
Click here to explore all previous Object of the Week entries | http://gastoncountymuseum.org/objectotw.asp | 2013-05-18T10:12:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
11 a.m. After a breakfast of pit roasted goat in Tijuana, the Baja culinary blitz crew was whisked seventy miles south to the coastal town of Ensenada. Following a quick visit with the tourism board, we were taken to the corner of First and Alvarado, the site of Sabina Bandera Gonzalez’s tostada stand.
La Guerrerense has been serving up the freshest seafood tostadas imaginable to local Mexicans and visiting beach bums for the past thirty-three years. Of the eighteen dining destinations I visited during my forty-eight hours in Baja, this bare bones seafood stall topped them all.
Growing up on public school lunches, I had the most dreadful introduction to tostadas. Thankfully, Ms. Sabina’s creations had nothing in common with the mushy pinto beans and wilted iceberg lettuce of yesteryear. My first tostada consisted of sea urchin on one side and sea cucumber on the other. The fruits of the sea were freshly caught and incredibly vibrant in color.
One bite of the tostada and I was completely enraptured in its deliciousness. The intensely briny flavors of the sea had me swooning and sighing. I’ll forever remember La Guerrerense as the place where I finally understood the complexity and goodness of sea urchin.
Even though the tostadas were flawless on their own, a selection of unique homemade salsas was available to dress them up. My favorite contained whole peanuts and dried chilies in a spicy oil.
I was tempted to order another sea urchin for my second tostada, but braved up and branched out to cod (bacalao) and sea snail. Both were fantastic, but with thoughts of sea urchin still dancing in my head, I couldn’t quite give this tostada my full attention.
Instead of a third tostada, I opted for a Pismo clam prepared two different ways. On one side was a clam cocktail, and on the other was a ceviche with ketchup and avocado slices. Freshly caught seafood served without fuss is one of the finest pleasures ever. A drink of cebada (barley, milk, cinnamon, and sugar) was on hand to keep us hydrated and to offer a sweet counterpoint.
La Guerrerense is open every day except Tuesday from 10 AM to 4 PM.
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La Guerrerense
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I think this is the definitive sea urchin dish.Just enjoyed some more tostadas a few weeks ago!!
Mmmm salsa with peanuts? Sign me up!
My goodness, that looks freaking amazing! Bookmarking and planning trip…
greetings from Chicago, I’m homesick, I wish I could it those tostadas and by the way she is my mom. I’m proud of you mom! see you soon
OMG. Must have that sea urchin!
Hola , ustedes me pueden enviar salsas a Guadalajara?
Es que la de cacahuate es mi pasión .
Ojalá me puedan contestar gracias.
That looks delicious! I’d add avocado to anything in my kitchen. That drink also is similar to horchata I think. | http://gastronomyblog.com/2009/09/17/la-guerrerense-ensenada/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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While I’ve shared quite a bit about my great aunt Bà Sáu (left) on the site [See: here, here, and here], I’ve yet to mention my awesome aunt Loan (right). She is Bà Sáu’s youngest daughter and has an encyclopedic knowledge of anything and everything worth eating in Saigon. From street food to fancy dining rooms, she’s my go-to source for local haunts worth seeking out.
On my trip to Vietnam this past September, she pointed me to her favorite spots for bánh mì, xôi gà (chicken sticky rice), and chuối nếp nướng (glutinous bananas). All three were smashingly good.
For the choicest banh mi in Saigon, my aunt sent me to Bánh Mì Huynh Hoa in District 1. The fluorescent lit storefront does brisk takeout business from four in the afternoon until late into the night.
According to my friend Lien, the establishment is run by a family of transgendered individuals, but truth be told, I hardly noticed when I stopped in. All I could focus on was making my way through the crowds and snagging a sandwich as soon as possible.
Every banh mi dac biet is made on a fresh and crisp baguette with a heady smear of pork pate and mayonnaise, slices of head cheese and ham, a tangle of pork floss, pickled vegetables, and deadly hot chilies. When taken all together, the flavors and textures meld, enhance one another, and seduce.
Another hoppin’ hangout that my aunt led me to was Xoi Che Bui Thi Xuan, a shop specializing in xoi (sticky rice) and che (Vietnamese sweets) on Bui Thi Xuan Street. The Vietnamese have a knack for naming restaurants, I tell you! The restaurant is modern as heck, but I get the feeling that things weren’t this shiny when it first opened back in 1977.
Be prepared to sit thigh to thigh with Vietnamese teens because this place is crazy popular. The dish to order here is the xoi dui ga, which is comprised of a meaty drumstick atop a bed of sticky rice with plenty of fried shallots. Whole hunks of meat still aren’t very common in Vietnam, so this was a tremendous treat to dig into.
The final gem that my aunt introduced me to was a corner spot in District 3 specializing in banana based desserts. Similar to Bánh Mì Huynh Hoa, this nameless establishment only opens for business in the early evening and sells late into the night. Is it just me or are late night street food shacks the best?
Here, ripe baby bananas are packed in glutinous rice and grilled slow and low over a flame. The result is a crisp and golden exterior with a slightly chewy interior and a pleasantly warm and sweet filling. To serve, the bananas are snipped into bite sized pieces and doused in sweetened coconut milk. I visited this stall every chance I got because it’s just that good. And it was located around the corner from our hotel.
With family by my side, fabulous food finds taste even better.
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Bánh Mì Huynh Hoa
26Lê Thị Riêng
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Xoi Che Bui Thi Xuan
111 Bui Thi Xuan
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Chuoi Nep Nuong
376 Vo Van Tan
District 3, Ho Chi Minh City
oh wow, I’ve never seen glutinous nanas, such delicious sounding goodness… your aunts look rather formidable on the scooter!
I’d love to sit down with all 3 plates at eat them all at once!
Thank you for writing this wonderful post. We just landed in HMC and we can’t wait to try all these goodies. | http://gastronomyblog.com/2011/12/02/banh-mi-glutinous-chuoi-nep-nuong-xoi-ga/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The 2007 James Beard Awards, as the NYT's food reporter Florence Fabricant noted in the Times, are taking place at Lincoln Center on May 7th. Yup, that Lincoln Center, the one without a kitchen. This, clearly, presents a quandary for an awards ceremony ostensibly honoring the nation's top chefs by inviting them to cook. Chef-turned-reality star Anthony Bourdain, one of this year's non-honorees, really no like.
For an organization that exists (purportedly) to " honor" the craft and profession of cooking, the Beard Foundation continues to send a message of continued cluelessness and disregard. With their most recent strategic accommodations.
Stroke the Chef/Fuck the Cooks | http://gawker.com/247579/beard-awards-a-flameless-fiasco-in-the-making | 2013-05-18T10:43:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Bill O'Reilly has been harassing George Tiller, the Kansas abortion doctor murdered at the church where he served as a deacon earlier today, for some time now, both with incendiary rhetoric and by dispatching producers Jesse Watters and Porter Barry to ambush him, his lawyer, and the Governor of Kansas.
O'Reilly began his jihad against Tiller back in 2005 and, according to Salon, Tiller's been mentioned on 28 separate occasions on his show. In addition to dubbing him "Tiller the Baby-Killer," O'Reilly has referred to Tiller's clinic as a "death mill" and called his work "Nazi stuff" for which he has "blood on his hands."
On November 3, 2006, O'Reilly had women's rights activist Amy Richards as a guest on his show to discuss Dr. Tiller. Over the course of the interview, O'Reilly repeated the claim that he had "inside information" and "incontrovertible evidence" that Tiller had been "executing babies about to be born" because the mothers were suffering from depression, which led to rampant specualtion that someone had provided O'Reilly with Tiller's patient records. He also made a further quantum leap of logic by saying that because Tiller was performing abortions on young rape victims between the ages of 10-15 that he was, in effect, protecting and encouraging rape. Over the course of the interview Richards remained unflappable despite O'Reilly's constant badgering, and you can clearly see him growing more and more agitated by the second, eventually blasting Richards, "So you're okay with this man executing babies about to be born because the woman says she's depressed?" Richards remained remarkably unfazed throughout even after O'Reilly sarcastically remarked, "We'll let the audience decide who the noble person is here" and then got one last dig in about people like her not caring if babies were being murdered or not.
In July of last year O'Reilly dispatched ace buttboy Jesse Watters, who our John Cook is still hot on the trail of, to ambush Kansas Gov. Katheen Sebelius at a Governor's Conference in Philadelphia. The purpose of the "interview" was supposedly to get Sebelius' opinion of Tiller, noting at the end that Tiller had donated money to her campaign for governor.
In November of 2006 Watters confronted Tiller's attorney, Pedro Irigonegaray, outside of his law office in another ambush interview. Then in 2007, O'Reilly Factor producer Porter Barry caught up with Dr. Tiller himself on his way to work and carried out another ambush interview. We've spent a considerable amount of time tonight searching for these videos and have come up empty-handed. We're unsure if that's just a coincidence of if they've been scrubbed after Tiller's murder earlier today, but if any of you happen to run across is either of them, please send them along to us.
It will be very interesting to see how O'Reilly handles this whole situation on his show tomorrow. We're sure he'll denounce the violent act against Dr. Tiller and express sympathy for his family, but we doubt anything he says will be enough to pacify the many who will almost certainly claim that O'Reilly is now the one with "blood on his hands." | http://gawker.com/5273612/bill-oreillys-holy-war-against-george-tiller?tag=Waters | 2013-05-18T10:13:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Today at Gawker.TV, Stephen Colbert gets a spot on the Olympic team, Simon Cowell seems to have gone soft, the premiere of Toddlers & Tiaras, Steven Seagal's still patrolling the roads for crime, and Bear Grylls hijacks an oncoming train.
Simon Cowell Might Be Sabotaging This Season's American Idol
The only people who make it through the Idol screening process are freaks, people with borderline talent, and people with actual talent. This year Simon seems to be saying yes to the first two at an alarming rate.
Stephen Colbert Makes the Olympic Speed Skating Team
After being called a 'jerk' by Shani Davis late last year, Colbert takes to the ice with one goal: To prove that with only two hours of training he can beat the three world records holder at his own game.
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Steven Seagal Loses His Grip on Reality on Lawman
As Steven Seagal: Lawman nears its season finale, it's pretty apparent Seagal will not be placed in any dangerous situations. But that doesn't mean he can't speak to the camera like he's the baddest man on the force.
Bear Hijacks a Train on Last Night's Man Vs. Wild
Bear Grylls has no trouble stomping on and over nature. Last night he ran into trouble when a rapidly moving train trapped him in a tunnel. He proceeds to climb train that nearly killed him and presumably hijacks it. | http://gawker.com/5453948/gawkertv-the-five-best-videos-ever-of-the-day?tag=Toddlers-%26-tiaras | 2013-05-18T10:43:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
New York rapper and banjee-pride purveyor Le1f is the talk of the Internet after last week's release of his "Wut" video. It's an outrageous clip, in which Le1f sits on the lap of a built, oiled-up dude wearing a Pikachu mask, among things. How is that for unabashed queerness?
While Le1f and "Wut" are vibrant enough to go viral, there is nothing novel about his skill — check out the breathless and tongue-twisting second verse of "Wut" as proof. His voice is cartoonishly deep to the extent that it might all seem like a joke if his flow weren't so damn serious. "I'm getting light in my loafers," he says, and it sounds like he's immediately swallowing back every word that comes out of his mouth. There is a terrific balance of individuality, talent, gayness and taste here. That we live in a time that could give birth and positive attention to Le1f is a beautiful thing.
Not all of the attention has been positive, though. Both World Star Hip Hop and Bossip posted this video last week with a jeers suggesting that Frank Ocean's queerness is contagious and it is infecting hip-hop. "See What Frank Ocean Started?: Gay Rapper Le1f "Wut" Music Video" read Bossip's headline. "This Is What Happens When Rappers Start Admitting Their Gay? Hip-Hop Artist Le1f - Wut" is World Star's perfectly brain-dead take. To Bossip, Le1f tweeted, "He started it? Or are you just late." In response to all of the other predictably intolerant feedback, he said, "YO HOMOPHOBES: LAST TIME I CHECKED I WAS STILL A BROKE NIGGA LIVING IN THE PROJECTS, THO. EXPLAIN THAT ONE." Props for perspective.
On his vision, Le1f told." "Wut" is not good; it's great, and Le1f's view of his place in music is as seductive as it is idealistic. Get into it. | http://gawker.com/5928307/rapper-le1f-is-very-good-and-very-gay | 2013-05-18T10:41:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Happy Birthday, Tiny Dancer.
Happy birthday Tiny Dancer!
In The Game Of Aging, you just Ding!'ed!!! Grats on the living-up-till-now thing!!!
Happy Cakeday :D
HAPPY EFFEN B-DAY MAN!!!!
Level up!
Happy b-day Tiny!
Hip-hip-hooray!
Happy TinyDay!
Hope this year serves you at least as well as the last
Mmmm, chocobo cake...that sounds awesome. Just don't over"wark" yourself or go "kweh"zy on your special day!
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
Happy birthday, Tiny! :)
Happy Birthday TinyDancer! YAY!
Happy birthday. :)
Happy Birthday Dr. Mr. Tiny Dancer!
Happiest of Happy Birthdays to you Tiny Dancer!
Happy RL Ding!
Happy birthday, you petite prancer you!
I vote to make this Tiny Day! Congrats. :)
I hear there are some libations? Count me in!
Happy Birthday~
better late than never :) Happy B-Lated Birthday Tiny! Or if you want you can look at it as the first to wish you happy birthday for next year eh?! Big Hugs and Kisses!
Hooray, happy birthday, T to the Dancer! | http://gaygamer.net/2009/11/happy_birthday_tiny_dancer_3.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Three neighbors build putting greens in their backyards
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JANESVILLE It's a golfer's ultimate backyard toy.
Imagine walking out of the house with a wedge and a Scotty Cameron in hand to pitch and putt on your own putting green.
East side Janesville neighbors Darrin Ott, Mark Stuckey and Victor Herbst all built putting greens in their backyards, and together they share the joys of golf and over-the-top yard work.
The greens had humble beginnings.
"At first, it was just normal grass that we mowed short," Ott said.
The biggest setback was a gas pipeline project that ran through their backyards and wiped out the budding mini golf course, but they rebuilt.
The threesome took the project up a notch, building a proper foundation and planting bent grass.
"We put in two greens in a weekend and a third one after that," Ott said. "It's not like a golf course where they put in drain tiles. We threw seed on them and watered the heck out of them.''
They used regular lawn equipment to start but eventually bought used specialty equipment, including a machine with small knife-like blades for top dressing. Jeff Rottier, course superintendent at the Janesville Country Club, provided the expert advice.
"If it wasn't for Jeff's cocktail, that really helped our greens come in," Herbst said of Rottier's mixture of ingredients.
"It's not so much fertilizer," Rottier said of his mix. "It's like a sunscreen made with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. You find it in Banana Boat sunscreen.''
The threesome usually spends a day a week on cutting and maintenance.
"You have to be pretty dedicated," Rottier said. "It's all the work of a garden and then some.''
The backyard greens are cut to 3/8 of an inch, as opposed to the country club greens that are shaved to 1/10th of an inch.
The threesome is looking to cut the greens shorter next spring, which would make them roll like professional putting surfaces.
The shorter the grass, the more work to keep the grass healthy and prevent fungus and disease.
"By next year, we will be able to mow them down," Stuckey said. "But when you go shorter, you open another can of worms."
With all of their work, there should be rewards, but as with the development of a mature putting surface, the returns of better golf come slowly.
"I use (the green) as a target for chipping," Otte said. "I don't do a lot of putting.''
Herbst, a teacher and varsity baseball coach at Craig High, said his time in limited.
"I am gone most of the time with school," Herbst said. "I hit a little bit.''
Stuckey, who works for Beloit Memorial Hospital, said his game has not improved by leaps and bounds.
The three may not play a whole lot better golf, but they enjoy the fruits of their labor.
"It's fun," Herbst said.
Ken Veloskey is a sports writer for The Gazette.
Oct 26, 2012 at 7:24 a.m.
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I saw these 3 greens yesterday across for Johnson tractor off by pass hwy 14 on the east side of town. I am sure there will neighbors whom they never met bring over beer on a sunday afternoon to hit the ball a few times. The greens looked awsome as one drives by on hwy 14.
Oct 24, 2012 at 1:12 p.m.
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Where would one get a can of worms ?
Oct 23, 2012 at 8:04 p.m.
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I would love to build a high power rifle range in my backyard, but I don't think my neighbors would like it.
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U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, Northeast Pacific
Project Description. GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS, NORTHEAST PACIFIC
GOAL:
-To understand the effects of climate variability and climate change on the
distribution, abundance and production of marine animals (including
commercially important living marine resources) in the eastern North Pacific.
-To embody this understanding in diagnostic and prognostic ecosystem models,
capable of capturing the ecosystem response to major climatic fluctuations.
APPROACH: To study the effects of past and present climate variability on the
population ecology and population dynamics of marine biota and living marine
resources, and to use this information as a proxy for how the ecosystems of the
eastern North Pacific may respond to future global climate change. The strong
temporal variability in the physical and biological signals of the NEP will be
used to examine the biophysical mechanisms through which zooplankton and salmon
populations respond to physical forcing and biological interactions in the
coastal regions of the two gyres. Annual and interannual variability will be
studied directly through long-term observations and detailed process studies;
variability at longer time scales will be examined through retrospective
analysis of directly measured and proxy data. Coupled biophysical models of the
ecosystems of these regions will be developed and tested using the process
studies and data collected from the long-term observation programs, then
further tested and improved by hindcasting selected retrospective data series.
U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific (NEP) Homepage:
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Contributing Authors: Lou Brown, Cheryl Eavey, Richard Greenfield, Eric Itsweire, Anthony Janetos, Jack Kaye, Ants Leetmaa, Joel Levy, Michael MacCracken, Les Meredith, Lynn Mortensen, Richard Moss, Rick Piltz, Robert Schiffer
Departments and agencies, through their representatives to the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, provided FY99 program highlights.
AbstractOur Changing Planet: The FY 1999 Global Change Research Program is a report to Congress supplementing the President's FY99 budget, pursuant to the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The report describes the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP); presents highlights of recent and ongoing scientific research on key global change issues; presents highlights of current developments in integrating activities supported by the USGCRP; outlines a National Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Change for the United States, initiated as a core USGCRP activity; and provides a detailed view of the FY99 USGCRP budget, including FY99 program components and program highlights by agency. Achieving the goals of this program will require continued strong support for the scientific research needed to improve understanding of how human activities are affecting the global environment, and of how natural and human-induced change is affecting society.
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If iPhone battery cases for several years. Now they are branching out with their first non-iPhone case, for the hot-selling Samsung Galaxy SIII. Mophie sent me one to check out – let’s take a look!
The Hype:
Get the most out of your Samsung Galaxy.
The Reality:
When I got the Mophie JuicePack, I had three immediate questions: ease of use, bulkiness, and battery life. Well, I would also have had concerns about appearance, but the Mophie looks almost identical to the Galaxy S3, making the real question whether the size is a concern.
Let’s take a look at each of my concerns:
Installation
The Mophie Juice Pack is a simple two-piece unit that has a small join point about a quarter of the way down from the top. The unit comes apart easily, and then you simply slide your Galaxy S III into the Juice pack where it mates up with the micro-USB connector.
Then you slide the top over your Galaxy S III and mate it into the bottom. The mating point includes joining up the entire back around the camera area for extra stability.
Once installed, you still have access to all of the functionality of the Galaxy SIII – the Juice Pack provides buttons for the power, volume up & down, as well as access to the micro-USB port, microphones and 3.5mm jack. The home button is uncovered, as is the speaker. And as noted, the camera, LED flash and rear speaker are all uncovered.
Size & Weight & Price
As noted in the video, by feel the Juice Pack weighs almost as much as the Galaxy SIII. In reality the SIII weighs 4.69oz and the Juice Pack weighs 3.5oz so they are not the same – but the combined unit weighs in at over 8oz! That is pretty hefty for a phone at this point – more than my ‘brick’ Droid 4 by 25%.
As for size, I would say that Mophie did the best they could in bringing a battery pack to a thin device like the Galaxy SIII – but it adds considerable bulk to an otherwise svelte frame. For me, it was the difference between being pocketable and NOT being pocketable. For my wife, she puts the Galaxy S III in her bag anyway, so it made no difference.
The price for the Mophie JuicePack is $99.95, which is the same as the JuicePack Pro for the iPhone and delivers about the same charge as that accesory. This makes it a relatively expensive accessory, but one justified by the design, build quality, attention to retaining the original device design ethic, and of course the core functionality of doubling your battery life.
Battery Life
Boasting a 2300 mAh battery, the Juice Pack bests the 2100mAh built into the Galaxy S III – so it should deliver ~100% added battery life.
We tested this out on my wife – she was using the Galaxy S III and getting 1.5-2 days battery from the system, but would always be dead by the end of the second day (i.e. not including the evening). At first we just attached the Juice Pack and had it switched on all the time, which definitely extended the battery to at least 3 days. But we had a hard time getting much more accurate read than that.
So we fully charged both the Galaxy S III and the Juice Pack, put the Juice Pack in standby mode, and ran down the battery in ~1.5 days. Then we switched on the Juice Pack, and were able to use the Galaxy S III for three FULL days, just charging again overnight. We repeated this process three times, with similar results each time.
Based on that small sample, the Mophie Juice Pack delivered on the promise of ~100% additional battery life.
Conclusions
The balance between size, weight and battery life is a constant struggle for mobile device developers. But with the availability of accessories like the Mophie Juice Pack suddenly you can have your gorgeous thin device and then add on some bulk for double the battery life when needed. In that way it is the perfect compromise – and Galaxy S III users should be thrilled to have an option that allows them to get up to three days of life from their device … and certainly more than one day of even the heaviest usage.
The only issue we had was that my wife found that the lip of the case near the ear speaker at the top messed up her ability to properly place the device to hear the other person on the phone. I have found that the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II are both rather finicky about positioning relative to your ear, so the added lip certainly wouldn’t help.
At almost $100 the Mophie Juice Pack isn’t the cheapest accessory available, but it delivers on the same promise Mophie has done for years: tremendous extension of battery life in an only somewhat obtrusive package. And if you have the critical need to extend your device battery life, neither the price nor the added weight and bulk will matter.
Here is my hands-on video of the Mophie JuicePack for Galaxy S III:
Review: Mophie JuicePack for Samsung Galaxy S III
Where to Buy: Mophie.com
Price: $99.95
What I Like: Solid design; great battery life extension; easy to install and remove.
What Needs Improvement: Can be diffficult to hear correctly based on lip extending out near speaker.
Source: Publisher provided review sample
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After a successful start as a trusted curator of other brands, JackThreads ventured into the design business with their own private label, dubbed the goodale collection, and hasn’t looked back. Now in its third line, the Fall 2012 collection is built around staples from previous seasons that customer’s loved, encapsulating a blend of American sportswear that’s both sophisticated and easy to wear — perfect for the cooler months to come.
Lead designer Adam Gianotti, who previously held positions at brands like Nike and Ralph Lauren, keeps things simple and interchangeable with a variety of essentials including denim, chinos, sweaters, button downs, henleys, hoodies, jackets, belts, and even a new series of travel accessories including passport cases, carry-on travel bags and dopp kits. Sound like anything you need?
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Wii U may be less than a week away, but Nintendo’s still got time to squeeze out a few more Iwata Asks segments in between now and then, right? Mr. Iwata’s off to a good start with today’s new interview, which focuses exclusively on Wii U Chat, Nintendo’s new “TV phone” system.
If you don’t know anything about Wii U Chat, I recommend you check out this introduction video to the service, then read through my bullet-point breakdown of this new interview after the break.
- Mr. Iwata’s guests today are Mr. Fumihiko Tamiya, the director of Wii U Chat, and Mr. Atsushi Watanabe, who was in charge of the library that allows Wii U Chat to be accessed on a system-wide basis. Mr. Iwata says that Mr. Watanabe is part of a division that researches technologies that might be used in future games.
- The team says that the idea of a video call was actually born about 15 years ago when Nintendo 64 had just debuted. Mr. Miyamoto was also thinking about a “caricature” avatar system, which Wii realized through Miis.
- When they put a camera in the Wii U GamePad, they started looking at various video conferencing technologies from companies like NTD and Vidyo and decided that they could make video calls work with Wii U.
- They wound up working with Vidyo for their call system. Mr. Genyo Takeda had some connection there, so it made it easy to partner together.
- Vidyo was especially helpful in thinks like lowering block noise (pixelation) due to higher Internet congestion. With Vidyo’s help, Nintendo was able to dynamically adjust the bitrate and resolution to minimize these interferences.
- “Within Japan, there’s been an increase in areas with a good network environment, so you may not notice it as much. But overseas there are still a lot of areas with older lines, and it enables you to be able to keep a certain level of quality to all video chats, even those with someone in one of those areas.”
- Once the connection between systems has been established for Wii U Chat, communication becomes P2P and doesn’t rely on the server. This helps avoid server load and ensures that Wii U Chat can be offered at no additional cost.
- The idea to finally pursue video chat actually came from North America. Nintendo of America has said that Next Level Games had an open line and wanted to do something with it, so they decided to finally introduce video chat.
- Before working on Wii U Chat, Mr. Tamiya worked on the Nintendo Zone Viewer for Nintendo 3DS, which was codeveloped with the Product Engineering Department at NOA. This team came back on board for Wii U Chat.
- Tamiya: “I may be exaggerating, but I think feelings that can come across between emails and an actual visit are quite a bit different. A video meeting would be right in between the two.”
- Because Wii U Chat was largely developed by NOA, they actually had to localize it back into Japanese! NOA’s NST division helped with the reverse localization. This is the first time Nintendo has brought in the overseas teams for this kind of work on new Nintendo firmware.
- While Vidyo’s software is modular, making it easy to drop in elements one at a time, this is the first time it’s been used for a game console. They had to keep working on it as they finished developing the Wii U OS and network functionalities.
- Silicon Studio helped with middleware development.
- Both the TV and GamePad will display the same images. They wanted to make it simple enough that it’d be easy for anyone to use the service. The idea is that if you’re with your family, you’ll want to use the TV, but if you’re by yourself, you might prefer the GamePad.
- Tamiya on incorporating Wii U Chat as a game console-based service: “I thought that the most important thing was not what you would do during the video chat, but the step leading up to it. Before you start a chat you’re waiting with bated breath, and the moment you’ve connected and you meet the other person’s eyes, you feel so glad. So I wanted to offer that experience directly, without any annoying fiddling around.”
- The process of linking up on Wii U Chat has two main steps: “First, when you boot up Wii U Chat, you’ll see a list of all the Mii characters you have registered as a friend. Step one, you pick the friend you want to talk to. Step two, push the Call button, and then you’re connected!” Yep, it’s just that easy.
- In your address book, Miis will be ordered in terms of video call frequency so you can find the friends you chat with most quickly, without having to flip through. This will replace a “speed dialing” or strictly alphabetical sorting system. The idea is that you will typically call only the people you’re closest to or need to communicate with most often.
- Before beginning development, they held an “Ask Takeda-san How He Feels Meeting.” They got things like “I want this console to bring families happiness,” and “Wii U Chat must offer some form of play, since we’re Nintendo,” as well as “let’s make it available from day one!”
- In terms of making families happy, they wanted to design Wii U Chat so that families could be “together” through this TV or GamePad-based connection in their living rooms.
- We’ve already confirmed this, but if you’re playing a game and you get a call, the Home Button will flash. If you press Home, you can access Wii U Chat. This will require that you leave the game…but it seems as though it’ll be suspended, not totally terminated (TBC).
- There’s a dedicated messages list for Wii U Chat so you can get in touch with people even when they’re not online.
- Iwata: at a home living room felt very fresh.”
- Wii U Chat is a good way to offer video chat that many people can use together, whereas smartphones are more personal and optimized for one-on-one interaction.
- They responded to the “element of play” request by adding in the feature where you can draw on the chat screen.
- Iwata: “Normally you can never doodle on your bosses face, but we were able to do so during development. In fact, when you’re doodled on, it actually makes you happy.”
- Originally this feature would bring up an on-screen “whiteboard,” but this didn’t test well. It would distract people from conversation and people would feel pressured by their drawing skills (or lack thereof). Plus, you couldn’t gauge the other person’s facial reactions as well.
- The staff from 3DS’s Swapnote came on board for this feature.
- They were having a serious conversation with Next Level Games at one point, and the mood became unpleasant. But they were able to draw out a few things to lighten the mood.
- The “haze” that surrounds the drawn lines was developed by Yu Kitai, one of the Swapnote developers. It’s there to help the drawings be distinguishable against any background. Mr. Iwata believes this is out of the box thinking thanks to the popularity of instant photo booths that allow you to personalize your photos. “I feel like that’s the sort of attention to color coordination that you might not get with an all-male team.”
- They had a bunch of other ideas, but didn’t add any of them. They wanted to keep things simple, and adding too much would take away from that. “There were a lot of capabilities that had a lot of impact, and that I thought were really good, but I tried to think about what was really necessary when it came to using this long-term as a part of your daily lives.”
- They decided early on that Wii U Chat needed to be built-in so everyone could use it. They couldn’t install its final software in time for manufacturing, so you’ll perform a system update the first time you connect your Wii U to the Internet.
- The way Wii U works as a TV phone device, you don’t necessarily have to show a full view of your living room, so if it’s messy or otherwise out of sorts, people don’t have to see it. Iwata hopes the portability of the GamePad camera will help people be more comfortable video chatting with each other.
- Iwata: “If you set it on the Wii U GamePad Stand or the Wii U GamePad Cradle, you can chat without holding the GamePad. I really hope that people don’t just use it one on one. I hope they use it in a group.”
Source: Iwata Asks at Nintendo | http://gengame.net/2012/11/iwata-asks-wii-u-chat/ | 2013-05-18T10:33:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Cloud storage service market was set on fire when Google decided to jump into the field with introduction of Google Drive. It would be safe to presume that many of our readers would have either opened multiple accounts or sign up to multiple services by now. The perplexing problem of getting yourself a decent amount of free space had been resolved by such service providers. Now comes the real life problem, how do you manage all accounts from one place? Of course, there is a solution for that and we have enlisted some of the best tools to manage multiple cloud storage accounts (includes otixo, joukuu and primadesk) on PC.
Smartphone users, especially those using Android may ask, Is there any way to manage multiple cloud storage services on Android? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back covered. There are multiple apps that will let you exactly do that. Disadvantage of using numerous service is increase of fragmentation problem. Your storage is fragmented and you would need to memorize which files you’ve synced to which service. The problem is aggravated if you don’t segregate the files according to plan. The best part of major players in cloud hosting service is that most of them offer dedicated mobile application (like Google Drive for Android). But it is not feasible for all to download multitude of apps just to manage files on cloud. So, what is the solution then?
Manage Cloud Storage Services on Android
In such case, users would have to rely upon third-party developers to utilize APIs of different cloud service and combine them into single app. Luckily, there are few options available to Android users. Following are some of the apps which let you manage multiple cloud storage service on Android.
SanDisk
SanDisk is the best Android app that will let you mange different cloud storage and local memory on the go. It is an all-in-one solution to all your memory related need. You can manage as well as backup your files on local disk (SD card) and cloud. Even you can download files from cloud service on your device memory with once click. Sounds intimidating? Users can move their apps, games and other data from internal memory to memory card and then you can decide what to do with them. For added security, it allows you to password protect your files. Thus users can upload their personal files, pictures, videos and more without getting exposed in the wild.
Supported service are: Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, Picasa, SugarSync, SkyDrive and Facebook.
You haven’t heard the best part yet. All these features are available in a single package from Google Play, at absolutely no cost. SanDisk is available for free from the marketplace.
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SMEStorage lets you upload file, photos, videos directly from Android device to omnifarious cloud services. You can move files back and forth from one service to another, delete them, edit them and do much more with it. There is also a provision to share files using link shortening service to twitter, email and more.
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Also while knowing the resolution of P v. NP is very important, knowing the details of the proof, especially if it requires deep and complex mathematics, is not nearly as important. I was excited to see Fermat's Last Theorem resolved in my lifetime but I have no desire to actually understand the proof.Although I have a hard time imagining how someone could say this and mean it (after all, P vs NP is not Fermat's theorem in either impact, breadth or importance), and even more so how someone steeped in complexity theory could say it, I think the larger point he makes is essentially reasonable. Namely, (and I paraphrase),
if you want to lead people to the top of the mountain, you have to show them the way, or give them some hope that they can get there.What would make the whole GCT program more plausible (and I think that people would like to believe in it) are some intermediate results. Maybe some weaker lower bounds using more primitive techniques that suggest that more powerful statements are lurking underneath. I don't think more surveys will help, frankly. I've read the Regan survey, and even the initial parts of GCTflip, and it's really heavy going. In fact, I was talking with a professor who spent an entire semester, together with students trained in complexity theory AND representation theory, trying to work through some of the early GCT papers. It was definitely more than a month's worth of effort.
Of course, there is one example of "a weaker lower bound using more primitive techniques": KM's result separating P and (NC without bit-wise operations). This paper appeared in STOC 1994, and was subsequently published in SICOMP in 1999. I've always wanted to read this paper, for one thing because of its intriguing way of mapping computations to algebraic sets (if that isn't cool geometry, I don't know what is).
So since summer is here, and semester is out, I've decided to forcibly inject some content into this blog. I'm going to read the P vs NC paper and blog about it as I go along. I don't know how many installments it will take, and there might be digressions along the way, but at the end I hope to understand this paper, and with it maybe even get a glimmer of the general direction KM is pushing in the GCT work.
For anyone interested in following along, I'll be mainly using the SICOMP paper as a reference, and will tag all posts with the tag 'p-vs-nc'. As far as possible I'll try to do one post a week (more if time permits). Let's see how this goes. | http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/should-we-care-about-geometric.html?showComment=1209514920000 | 2013-05-18T10:40:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 13, 2008
President Bush Participates in Joint Statement with Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy
Rose Garden
In Focus: Welcoming Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy
11:05 A.M. EDT
PRESIDENT BUSH: Good morning. Prime Minister Berlusconi and I just had a very good discussion. That's exactly the kind of meeting that you would expect when good friends get together.
Mr. Prime Minister, I appreciate your leadership. I want to thank you for your gracious words earlier today. I want to thank you for giving the American people the honor of celebrating Columbus Day with the leader of Italy.
For more than 60 years, the United States and Italy have worked together to
strengthen transatlantic alliances and to help freedom expand across
Europe. Today we're addressing global challenges with determination and
vision and with confidence. America and Italy are working to stabilize
global financial markets. People all over the world are understandably
concerned about the global financial crisis and about how it will affect
their families and their businesses.
I appreciate Italy's participation in the meeting of the G7 and G20 finance ministers over the weekend. Both the G7 and G20 issued important statements committing to work together to help resolve the crisis. I welcome the bold and specific follow-up actions by European nations to pursue the G7 action plan. And the United States is also acting, and we will continue to implement measures consistent with the G7 action plan to help banks gain access to capital, to strengthen the financial system, and to unfreeze credit markets and restore confidence in our financial system.
These are tough times for our economies. Yet we can be confident that we can work our way through these challenges. And America will continue to work closely with the other nations to coordinate our response to this global financial crisis.
America and Italy are working with other nations to fight terror and maintain stability and secure their democratic future. More than 8,300 Italian troops are deployed in regions of conflict around the world. They're helping to fight extremism and to defend liberty and give more people the hope of a better future. About 2,100 Italian troops are supporting the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Italy leads Regional Command West, as well as a provincial reconstruction team.
I appreciate the Prime Minister's willingness to modify restrictions on where Italian forces can operate in Afghanistan. Italy has deployed carabinieri to support the NATO training mission in Iraq. They're doing a fine job. These are highly professional, highly skilled folks that are helping the Iraqi people.
In Lebanon, Italy is the single largest contributor to the United Nations peacekeeping mission. We discussed the need for Syria to respect Lebanon's sovereignty, to cease its support for terror, and to open full diplomatic relations with Lebanon's elected government.
Italy has deployed more than 2,300 troops to maintain stability in the
Balkans. Our two nations support an independent and democratic Kosovo, and
we're working to ensure that the new European Union mission deploys
throughout that country. We agree that all Balkan nations should be
invited to join the EU, and other transatlantic institutions as they
qualify for membership.
We discussed Iran. We agreed that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. We discussed the importance of full implementation of United Nation's sanctions on the regime in Tehran.
America and Italy are working closely to end the conflict in Georgia. We firmly support Georgia's democracy and sovereignty and territorial integrity. The United States and the EU agree that the territory of Georgia includes the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. We're working to meet the humanitarian needs of the Georgian people and help displaced families return to their homes.
To earn the respect of the international community, Russia must show respect for the sovereignty and territory of its neighborhoods. Russia must accept the responsibilities and obligations of international leadership.
Mr. Prime Minister, Laura and I are looking forward to our dinner with you tonight. We look forward to celebrating the enormous contributions that the sons and daughters of Italy have made in America. And we look forward to honoring the strong alliance that binds our two nations together. Welcome.
PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI: (As translated.) Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you for this extraordinary invitation. My presence in Washington today is also the tribute of a friendship, personal friendship which binds me to President Bush, as well as the friendship between our two peoples.
And the fact that I'm here on your special celebration of the Columbus Day gives me opportunity of paying homage not only to America, but also to Italian Americans. It is also a thanks to that America which has welcomed and made them part of this country, which offered them the opportunity to enjoy wealth, and offered them the opportunity to give a contribution, which I think has been an important one. Many of the Italian Americans now are leading the country. They sit in Congress and the Supreme Court, in the state government buildings, and key roles of this administration, the administration of the biggest democracy in the world.
Our two countries have tackled together also, recently, the challenges and the problems. Our friendship is a special friendship which has its roots in common values, in sharing a world which is inspired by love for democracy and freedom. This is the deep meaning of this bond -- not only a personal bond which I have for President Bush, but also the bond which unites our two countries and our two peoples.
Today, more than ever, values do matter, in a moment when two visions, opposing visions of the world are confronted -- the vision of ignorance, of prevarication, violence on the one hand, and the vision of freedom, of respect of rights and equality of all human beings on the other side.
Over these years we have shared a difficult historical moment -- the tragic September -- 9/11, which has changed the world. We have been called upon to tackle difficult challenges, being aware of the fact that enemies must be defeated with every means available, with the strength of our beliefs and our heritage of ideals. The globalized world continues to test us by submitting us to bigger and new challenges that we can't but give concrete answers to these challenges.
And once again was the fact of being concrete and the efficacy of the actions we agree upon which is helping us to solve one of the most recent crises which have affected our countries, that of the financial crisis, which we must absolutely prevent from being a crisis affecting real economy, as well.
Upon indication of the other leaders of the countries which in Europe share the single and the same currency, I reported and briefed President Bush about what we decided yesterday during the summit meeting of the Euro-area countries. This proposal will be then submitted to the European Council meeting, which will be held on Wednesday. And I also informed President Bush that today at 3:00 p.m. in various countries -- Germany, U.K., Italy, France -- council of ministers meetings were held, which have concretely implemented through low regulations provisions, the decisions which were made yesterday, in order to support real economy, in order to make it possible for liquidity to be guaranteed to our banking systems so that banks can continue to play their role and do their job -- that is support investment by businesses and companies and support consumption.
I think this is really the objective we must pursue with a coordinated and concerted action -- that is, what has been developed over the world, in the world of markets, which have moved away from reality should not affect the reality of economies. And the concerted and common action between the United States and Europe will certainly have chances to make the real economy -- to prevent real economy from being affected by what has happened all over the world in the financial markets.
So we will continue to work together. President Bush has also expressed the intention to have a meeting among the leaders within the G8 in the next few weeks. I absolutely agree with him. I think that everything which can be done for a coordinated action, just to pursue a common method and behave in the same way, versus this global crisis, is something which is positive.
I would like to close my statement by telling President Bush and expressing my appreciation, my friendship, my congratulations and my love and esteem. I've been working with him very well. There has never been a moment when I saw in him interests which are not general interest. I never saw biased interest. There has never been a moment when I saw in him something different from a very sincere and pure feelings and sentiment.
He is a person -- he is a man of vision. He is an idealist. And also he has the courage of implementing what he believes is right, what he thinks needs to be done to pursue the ideals which he considers to be right for himself, his people, and the world. The United States has taken over the responsibility of taking care of the world.
I would like to express a special thanks to President Bush and to his people for what America and United States have been doing over these years. And not only did they save us, save Europe from Communism, Nazism many years ago, but also, the United States has helped us to achieve welfare, wealth and well-being. They were next to us all through the Cold War years. Every time a wound opened in the world, the United States sent its troops, paying a very high price, in terms of human lives, to guarantee freedom of not only the United States, but the rest of the world, as well.
And I think we, all European citizens must be grateful to the United States for this. We must be grateful to the American people. We must bow in front of the sacrifices, and the sacrifices of so many lives, and we have to state and say that never, ever -- the U.S. troops continued to stay in countries where they had intervened to help people save their lives. So they never stayed there to occupy out of interest. And this has to be remembered by all Europeans.
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for being here. And believe me, believe me that my feelings are shared by the great majority of Italians and European citizens, as well.
Thank you very much. Thank you again. (Applause.)
END 11:17 A.M. EDT
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Normal People Have Abnormal Brain MRIs
A recent research study suggests that as many as 7% of adults over 45 have had a stroke without even realizing it. Researchers performed brain MRI scans of 2000 “normal” (asymptomatic) Dutch men and women between the ages of 45 and 96, and found that 7.2% of them (145 people) had evidence of an infarct (stroke), 1.8% (36 people) had small aneurysms, and 1.6% (32 people) had benign tumors (usually a small malformation of the blood supply to the brain).
Interestingly, they also found one person with a primary brain cancer, one person with a previously undiagnosed lung cancer that had metastasized to the brain, one person with a life-threatening subdural hematoma (brain bleed), and one person with an aneurysm large enough to require surgery. So altogether, they found 4 people out of 2000 who needed urgent medical intervention.
Although the authors of the article emphasized the point that many “normal” people have harmless brain abnormalities – I was a bit surprised by the fact that they found 4 asymptomatic people unaware of a ticking time bomb in their brains.
Keep in mind that the study was conducted on middle class Caucasian adults in the Netherlands – so we cannot generalize these findings to more diverse populations. But I do think it’s a bit of an eye-opener.
MRI scans are quite expensive (well over $1000 in most cases) and are therefore not offered to the general population as a screening test. But it does make you think about saving up for one. Your radiologist may find something unimportant, or she may find something that you hadn’t bargained for. Or maybe one day the technology will be inexpensive enough to offer as a screening test in a primary care setting. But that’s not going to happen any time soon.This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com. | http://getbetterhealth.com/tag/radiology/page/19 | 2013-05-18T10:31:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
To prepare this informative article, THE Journal surveyed principals from across the U.S. to identify the attributes they think a principal must demonstrate in order to be an effective technology leader. THE Journal then spoke with three highly effective technology-leading principals to see how these attributes have led to successful ed-tech implementations in their schools: Patrick Larkin of Burlington High in Vermont, Eric Sheninger of New Milford High in New Jersey, and Lyn Hilt of Brecknock Elementary in Denver, Pennsylvania.
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If you do front end development with Drupal, you are certainly aware of the many classes that Drupal applies to elements. All blocks have at least one class that contains the word 'block' and views include many class names with the word 'view' attached. You can take advantage of CSS class chaining to differentiate your styles depending on what area of the page they appear.
Class chaining is two or more classes connected together without a space, such as .class-one.class-two or similar. If there is an element that has both of those classes that selector will override any other single named class that may be in your stylesheet. Lets take a look at a typical example of an elements classes that was generated by views.
<div class="view view-viewname view-id-viewname view-display-id-page_1 view-dom-id-1>
This element appears in the main content area of your page, but you may have a block in a sidebar that is created with the same view. And it will typically look something like this:
<div class="view view-viewname view-id-viewname view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-2">
Notice that the block view includes classnames that include the word 'block', now you can chain these classes together to make the same view style differently depending on the area of the page with code similar to this:
.view-viewname.view-display-id-page_1 li {float: left;}
.view-viewname.view-display-id-block_1 li {float: none;}
The IE6 Problem
Of course, there is a problem with browser compatibility with IE 6. IE 6 will apply the last class in the chain without regard to the previous classes. But you can also use this to your advantage to apply browser specific styles without using a conditional stylesheet. Just make your selector with the chained classes like you normally would and then apply an IE 6 specific style immediately after the chained selector. Since IE 6 doesn't recognize the chaining, the chained selector will have the same specificity as a selector that has only one class name. As long as your override style is lower in the cascade, IE 6 will pick that up while all other browsers will use the chained class. Here is a typical body class from a blog page:
<body class="not-front logged-in page-node node-type-blog no-sidebars tableHeader-processed">
Looking at this, we could use the page-node and node-type-blog classes chained and then use one of those classes by itself for your IE6 fall back. Just add the rest of the descender to target the element you want to style after the body class you're using.
.page-node.node-type-blog div#example {background: orange;}
.node-type-blog div#example {background: yellow;}
If you're viewing this page in IE6, it will have a yellow background, all other browsers will have an orange background.
Class chaining is a good tool for front end Drupal work, but make sure you have fall backs if your clients depend on legacy browser support.
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Been busy riding (sorry dudes on the East Coast) and now trying to catch up with reviews and other stuff for GOM. I also just wanted to post the pic of Dan I took with my iPhone. No photoshop just a strange reaction between the lens and sun. | http://getoutsidemore.com/?cat=8 | 2013-05-18T10:53:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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to take a break from nail polish and talk about something serious:
"Swine" flu.
I know the press is inundated with doom and gloom about H1N1 swine influenza. Some people debate that it's overhyped, but I, however, am genuinely concerned about this outbreak. For those of you new to this blog, my degree was in community health education and thought about continuing my masters' in epidemiology. There's always been some "new" disease in the press, be it bird flu, Ebola, West Nile, mad cow, etc. However, I don't think we've seen the likes of swine flu in years (with the exception of HIV/AIDS, the hidden pandemic). The scary part to me is the human-to-human transmission which leads to community-wide outbreaks.
What can you do, as Jane or John Doe?
- While interning, I taught handwashing classes for local kindergarten classes. The same rules apply: wash your hands with soap frequently, especially after sneezing, coughing, working or playing outdoors, before and after eating and preparing food, after using the bathroom, touching public surfaces, and touching animals. Using soap is much more effective than washing with plain water since it prolongs the time taken to wash your hands, which promotes friction that helps alleviate germs.
- Avoid touching your face, eyes and nose. This is a frequent entry for infection.
- When coughing or sneezing, use a tissue and wash your hands afterwards. If a tissue isn't available, don't use your hands but use the crook of your elbow, which reduces your chances of transmitting germs to others.
- Pork is safe to eat, so dig into that pork chop.
I'm holding out hope that this will pass through soon and smoothly. I'm hoping our advanced technology and years of research will help out in these tough times.
Wish you all the best!
The Asian Girl
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Asian Girl would like to take a moment...
to take a break from nail polish and talk about something serious:
7 comments:
Thanks for the advice. I know I'm careful about washing my hands and sneezing. It's the other people that I don't know. Very scary to think about. I have a doctor's appointment on Monday, just a checkup. I was thinking about the people in the office coughing and sneezing.
Thankyou for that - it is best to be careful.
I don't know to what extend the news feeds around the world are talking about this, but something deep down in my cynical soul is making me wonder whether the government here in the UK is making a huge deal out of it to alleviate from banging on about the most recent budget (which was not well received).
Having said that, one of my colleagues is in Cancun at the moment and this is making everyone in the office somewhat nervous. So your advice could not be better timed, thankyou.
Thanks for the info!
Completely agree! Thanks for the info and reminding us to be careful to be "clean"!
Thanks for the good-health reminders. Swine Flu or not, I think most of us (myself included) forget to wash our hands enough.
Thank goodness Swine Flu (so far) doesn't look to have nearly as high a kill-rate as Avian Flu or HIV. More like SARS, perhaps, but hopefully it will be over faster than SARS was.
I know I'll be stocking up on tissues and hand sanitizer, just in case. :)
Lucy--It's usually others we have to worry about. Hope your appointment goes well!
Helen--A lot of people are a bit skeptical about the timing; I think that goes for the US government as well. I hope your colleague will be fine; it seems to be centered in Mexico City.
Brooke--You're welcome :)
Velvet--If anything, at least we'll have less common colds!
The Glitterati--I'm really hoping it doesn't have such a high mortality rate. A friend of mine picked me up a pack of travel tissues; it came in handy in a port-a-potty that lacked toilet paper!
I'm hoping this whole swine flu thing will pass soon, too! There shutting some many school districts down here. :( | http://gettinnailed.blogspot.com/2009/04/asian-girl-would-like-to-take-moment.html?showComment=1241143620000 | 2013-05-18T10:52:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ice Fishing Access
Ice fishing is a popular winter activity and anglers need access to the popular ice fishing waters across the state. Throughout the winter, weekly snow removal will be conducted at the sites listed below. When snow conditions persist, GFP will attempt to clear snow prior to noon each Friday. Because South Dakota's weather and winds are unpredictable, access cannot be guaranteed throughout the week. Vehicle travel on the lake will be dictated by snow and ice conditions.
Practice Safety!
Ice anglers should be cognizant of ice depths before venturing onto any frozen body of water. Water movement, vegetation and snow cover will cause ice thicknesses to be extremely variable, especially during the early part of the winter. Like all outdoor activities, however, ice anglers must assume personal responsibility for their own safety.
Ice-Thickness Guidelines for Anglers
- Less than four inches of ice - Stay off!
- Four to six inches - Ice fishing via foot travel in single-file lines should be safe, assuming the ice is clear and clean of snow.
- Six to 12 inches - Snowmobiles and ATVs can travel safely on good ice that is at least six inches thick.
- Twelve to 16 inches - Small cars and pickups can venture onto the ice once it is a foot or more thick. However, anglers are generally encouraged to avoid driving on ice that is less than 16 inches thick.
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Chocolate, Blueberry & Ginger Scones? Now that's my kind of goodie!!!
Isn't it hilarious how kids choose their parks. My grandkids do the same thing. Curious isn't it?!?. :)
Aww it sounds like you might have a little baker on your hands there! :D Those energy snacks really remind me of something that Mr NQN's family makes!?) :)
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Several years ago, I was considering buying Toast, a DVD authoring tool. But I decided I was not prepared to pay the full price of $99 for a tool that may prove to be less and less useful over time as Apple was removing optical drives from their Macs. But when I saw that it was included in a bundle of software for $49, I decided to pull the trigger. App or software bundles are a great way to get good deals on high-quality software.
The following will explain the methods I’ve used over the past few years for finding some great deals on Mac software past few years, through app bundles, price tracking, and clipping the right digital coupons.
Independent app bundles
Bundled software — when five, 10 or even more apps — are sold together for one low price is a great opportunity to try out a new piece of software that you may not have thought to buy in the first place. There is typically one (or more) big ticket or well known item in each bundle along with several smaller and lesser known items. And sometimes you get something really good you didn’t even know you’d use: a few months after I bought that Toast bundle, I found an opportunity to use Live Interior 3D, one of the apps included. I ended up using it to model a couple of rooms in my house before purchasing new furniture. So think of app bundles as a way to buy the one app you want, while getting fully licensed versions of several additional software titles you may like — you just don’t know it yet.
MacUpdate Promo (macupdate.com). More of a full-featured app store on its own, MacUpdate has been offering some very compelling software bundles in recent years. One such title that I am always keeping up to date is Parallels. At least one each year I will find a $49 bundle with Parallels included, and get access to some other great titles that I would not otherwise have purchased. The great thing about MacUpdate is that it will also manage all of your license keys online, and alert you via email when any of the software you have purchased has been updated. There is even a MacUpdate desktop app that you can install that will keep your purchased software titles in check and notify you instantly when updates are available. It works very much like Apple’s Mac App Store on OS X, only MacUpdate has been doing this long before the App Store ever existed.
MacHeist Loot (macheist.com). When it first launched, you were not exactly sure if you were participating in an actual heist or not. MacHeist has made purchasing software fun by introducing a secret agent gaming element which provides even deeper discounts and access to additional software titles referred to as “loot.” With the first round of online hijinks, you had to hack your way into websites in order to unlock secret codes. This of course was all staged and now there are iOS games like The Heist that you can download and play instead. These games will link to your MacHeist account to unlock the same discount codes. At the end of a series of missions, you are exposed to a great bundle of software for a very low price.
The rest of the pack. It’s not that any one of these other bundle sites do not offer equally as good of deals as either MacUpdate or MacHeist, they just are not nearly as well known and offer more of a no-frills shopping experience. MacLegion, BundleHunt, StackSocial and ProductiveMacs have each proven to be a valuable source of great software for a great value. Another such example is Micromat’s TechTool Pro. I can usually pick this up for $49.99 along with some other great apps in teh bundle.
Mac App Store price trackers
Nothing is more frustrating than buying anything, including an app from the Mac App Store only to see the price drop the next day. While none of these services can actually predict the exact day when a developer will decide to drop their prices, some will at least alert you when they do. Once alerted, you can take advantage of the sale before its too late and you miss yet another great opportunity.
AppShopper (appshopper.com). While you may be familiar with this site for iOS apps, it also covers OS X apps in the Mac App Store as well. With AppShopper, you can look at the pricing history of each app you are interested in and see if the developer has ever offered a discount. You can also set up an account and be alerted via email when one of the apps on your wish list provides an update or changes its price.
Two Dollar Tuesday (twodollartues.com). The name says it all. While not exclusively limited to Tuesdays, this site will list current deals for apps that are on sale in the Mac App Store. They have a Twitter feed that you can follow, or if you like you can subscribe to their mailing list and get weekly email updates on deals.
Appy Fridays (appyfridays.com). Very similar to Two Dollar Tuesday, Appy Fridays will track different software deals. They also have a Twitter feed you can follow and an email distribution list you can join.
Shopping cart coupon codes
There are still third-party software developers that sell their software directly from their own online stores. Some of the larger ones rarely, if ever, participate in software bundle opportunities. That does not mean that they do not offer discounts from time to time on their software in the form of coupon codes.
RetailMeNot (retailmenot.com). Taking coupon and promo codes from both merchants and customers alike, RetailMeNot is one of the top coupon code sites online. It is easy to find the company you are interested in, just search for the company name or the domain name that the shopping cart is hosted on. One of my favorites is TheLittelAppFactory, seems like there is always an active coupon code for their great assortment of software. These codes are legitimate and most time are actually listed on the site directly by the online merchant that sets them up in the first place.
Even more coupon code sites. It never hurts to look everywhere before you give in and pay full retail price. There are many other coupon sites out there, such as CurrentCodes, CouponCabin and CouponChief to name a select few.
While there are other promotions, app trackers and social coupon code sites out there, I have used each of the sites referenced above at one time or another. Some sites that I haven’t listed here may offer great deals, but they don’t have the big ticket software titles that I am looking for. Each of the sites listed here have proven to be a valuable source for both great software titles and even better deals.
Very helpful. Thanks!
Caveat: If you buy outside the App Store, it’s possible you may have repurchase when and if the app goes into the App Store. Some apps never will, those that work outside the store’s technical limitations. Doesn’t mean they are bad; just playing outside the sandbox.
AppyFridays is not really a price tracker. It actually negotiates with developers about certain apps to go on sale.
The difference is that they handpick every app, and feature only worthy ones.
Wanted also to add that AppyFridays has launched a new promo called March Madness, in terms of which they will negotiate about 3 apps to go free every Friday for a weekend in March. And this makes it different from similar services.
Same thing with Two Dollar Tuesday, which has better apps, IMO. They don’t really have free apps, though.
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Here’s my friend and colleague Dr. John Tanacci checking on the still to make sure everything is bubbling away nicely. He came out to the gallery to set up the apparatus and has been a great teacher as I have been bumbling about in the laboratory recreating alchemical experiments that were practiced hundreds of years ago. John rocks! In the flask you can see the oak leaves boiling and the steam rising into the tower above the flask.
I took life very slowly and easily today. I walked fifteen miles or so up and down a mountain on Saturday night and Sunday morning, so this morning I ached all over. It was completely worth it – after the opening reception I hiked in the moonlight down an abandoned road in the middle of the Angeles Crest National Forest to the Northeast of L.A. occasionally using a headlight to pick out my way past landslides and fallen trees; to my right, towering cliffs, to my left sheer precipices.
I slept in a flat gravel area in my super-warm and comfortable mummy bag, waking at dawn and disturbing a bighorn sheep on the path as I paced back up the mountain to return to my car – I have never seen an animal move upwards so fast! With every leap it took this beautiful creature let loose an avalanche of rocks, stopping occasionally as he leapt up the cliff to stare down on me, gravity-bound to the road.
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Perhaps the most memorable moment of the Democratic National Convention for some Christians and conservatives will be the night "God was booed" and Jerusalem became a party platform afterthought, say some political observers, including Christian pastors and leaders.
Still, a quick poll by The Christian Post of some church leaders on Thursday showed that a few were reluctant to make a public comment on the loudly divisive action that took place on Wednesday.
The Rev. Austin Miles, a chaplain in Northern California who is a writer and historian, was one of the first to publicly respond to the controversy with his blog post, "God Booed By Dems at Convention! Incredible!"
"In what must be a first in American History, the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, N.C. took an ugly turn tonight when Dems booed God," Miles wrote..
The vote came amid some criticism over the DNC platform, which was approved by delegates on Tuesday, not including a reference to God.
Miles described it this way: "Loud boos were heard when the name 'God' was spoken and the cameras picked up angry objectors reacting. The reference to God and the name, 'God,' was booed by more than half the Democrats in the filled to capacity arena."
When asked about the uproar, Summit Ministries President and leadership expert Jeff Myers said his first reaction was "shock."
"I have many Democrat friends who believe in God and I guess it was a big wakeup call that the leadership of the party, those selected to be its representatives at the national level, are so anti-God," Myers told CP. "It answers a lot of questions about why faith-based organizations are receiving such hostility from the administration. People are policy."
He added, "If I were a Democrat and a Christian, I think I would feel like Ronald Reagan did when he became a Republican exactly 50 years ago, in 1962: 'I didn't leave the Democratic party. The Democratic Party left me.'"
LifeWay Research President Ed Stetzer said that while watching the explosive DNC moment on TV live he thought it was "a powerful reinforcement of the negative feelings held by many people of faith."
"Democrats are often seen as anti-faith – the 'God gap' has been widely polled and reported," Stetzer told CP. "That DNC floor moment did not help, particularly if the campaign desires to reach out to the evangelical community. They were very aggressive in reaching out to evangelicals in 2008 but much less so now – and this will make it harder."
Stetzer felt it was important to note that the vote to reinstate the position that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel should not be confused with adding the phrase "God-given" back into the text of the Democrats' party platform.
"The vote was for both amendments at the same time – addressing God and Jerusalem – so it wouldn't be fair to say that it was one or the other. Jerusalem is not God and God is not Jerusalem. Christians see Jerusalem as important, but they don't confuse the city with the deity," he said.
Still, as the election season heightens, the sentiment from many pastors appears to be one of calling on Christians to not place a lot of worldly hope in either candidate or party.
"Jesus rides neither a donkey nor an elephant. Christians would do well to remember that their ultimate loyalty is not to a party but to a Kingdom that is not of this world," Stetzer said.
Pastor Brad Johnson, who leads Life Change Community church in Agoura Hills, Calif., said priorities can't really be drawn from the DNC platform.
"I would say that far more than having God written in one's platform is to actually have God inform the decisions of our leaders," he told CP. "More than a party declaring the capital of Israel, is the deeper issue of understanding what it truly means to be the people of God and live by the principles of His kingdom."
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"Honestly, I believe Christians should weigh candidates individually more than they view a convention or a conference," Edmondson said. "My question is which candidate will best support my right to freedom of religion and democracy. Which will most serve to advance our country forward?
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State of New Jersey Is Insolvent.
The Star Ledger is reporting New Jersey pension funds lost $23B so far this year.
New Jersey's pension fund has lost more than $23 billion this year, dropping to its lowest level since 2003 as a collapsing financial market battered its investments, a new state report shows.Q & A on the state pension fund
The latest losses -- nearly $9 billion in October, and another $3 billion so far this month -- mean the fund is now worth $57.8 billion, or less than half the $118 billion in benefits it is due to pay out over time.
Sen. Bill Baroni (R-Mercer), whose district includes many state workers covered by the fund, called the drop in value "a historic breakdown," and demanded a legislative review and criminal investigation of the state's investment policies.
While Clark delivered his report to the State Investment Council in Trenton, Gov. Jon Corzine was in Atlantic City promising a convention of local government officials that he would let them postpone about a half-billion in payments they are scheduled to make to the pension funds in April.
Specifically, Corzine proposed letting local governments skip paying $541 million of the $1.1 billion due. They would gradually work their way back to full payments by 2012 under his plan.
Cutting the payments in half may avoid a big surge in property taxes, but it also will add to the shortfall in the pension accounts dedicated to local government workers, police and firefighters.
"As much as I prefer another course, I proposed this deferral simply as a practical bridge over today's economic circumstances while reflecting the state's reduced fiscal capacity for direct aid," Corzine said, winning applause from those gathered to hear him at the New Jersey State League of Municipalities Convention. "Taxpayers deserve the help. And they are demanding it."
Lawmakers would have to approve the "pension payment holiday" Corzine proposed. Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden) said it "will get serious consideration."
"Property taxpayers will shoulder an even greater tax burden in the three years following the gubernatorial election as municipalities raise taxes to pay for this year's pension obligation," said Sen. Kevin O'Toole (R-Essex).
Inquiring minds are considering Financial insecurity: Q & A on the state pension fund
The fund that bankrolls retirement benefits for 700,000 public employees and teachers in New Jersey has lost more than $23 billion this year, falling to its lowest level in five years.New Jersey drawing heat for hedge-fund foray.
Reuters is reporting New Jersey drawing heat for hedge-fund foray.
New Jersey's pension fund is under fire over a series of hedge-fund investments, the Wall Street Journal said.What Happens Now?
New Jersey made the investments last month, to funds run by BlackRock Inc (BLK),.
At $49.5 million each, the investments came just below the $50 million threshold that requires the fund to explain an investment to an oversight board before moving forward, the paper said.
New Jersey is burning $5.2 billion a year. If the market is flat over the next 5 years, New Jersey will have a minimum of $118 billion in obligations and will be sitting on $31.8 billion. But what happens if the S&P falls to 450 or 600?
S&P 500 at 600 would be a drop of 24% from here. Assuming the pension plan assets dropped the same, plan assets would fall to $44 billion. On a drop to 450 on the S&P, plan assets would fall 43% from here to approximately $33 billion.
At $5.2 billion a year, New Jersey's pension plan would be completely out of cash in about 6 years in my worst-case scenario of a drop to 450 on the S&P.
However, even on a drop to 600 or 700 on the S&P (highly likely in my estimation), New Jersey, would run out of cash rather quickly putting in $1 billion a year and taking out $5.2 billion a year while assuming growth rates of 8.5% that are totally unrealistic.
Can The Market Recover?
Many expect the stock market to be blasting back to new highs once the bottom is in. This too is an unrealistic expectation. It's all about earnings and risk taking, and both earning and risk taking have peaked. Please consider a snip from Peak Earnings.
One of the implications of Peak Credit is that financial earnings have peaked. And because of reduced leverage, earnings in the financial sector are not coming back for decades. Those earnings were all a mirage in the first..
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Think That Can't Happen Here?
For more on the Nikkei compared to the S&P 500 including an analysis of why it can happen here, please read the section on S&P 500 fundamentals at the bottom of S&P 500 Crash Count Compared To Nikkei Index.
What Has To Happen
- States have to dramatically raise taxes to pay for unrealistic promises
- A voluntary reduction in pension promises will be negotiated
- Cities, municipalities, and states declare bankruptcy or find other ways to default on promises made
Choice number one will lead to a taxpayer revolt, and choice number three will have every school district and government employee hopping mad. Yet, to expect number two to happen voluntarily is highly unlikely. The most likely thing that will happen is governors like Corzine will put the problem off, just as Schwarzenegger has done in California, and in fact every governor in every state has done.
Pension problems are rampant. Most states were way underfunded even before this 45% selloff in the stock market. I selected New Jersey to look at because they have disclosed the numbers as well as the future assumptions.
The point of pension crisis has now arrived. Yet few even recognize it and fewer still want to propose doing anything about it.
Get Involved.
Pick up a copy of the books for your representatives as well. Congress is woefully uneducated and the process has to start with you first.
Right now you can Get Involved via the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. David Walker, former Comptroller of the currency, and one of the good guys, is President and CEO of the foundation.
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Is Debt-Deflation Just Beginning?
Last Thursday I received an email from David Meier, Associate Advisor at the MotleyFool concerning Debt-Deflation.
David asked if I had any comments on his article Debt-deflation: Just the beginning? Here is a partial listing:
The debate rages on.Dave's research is a 70 page Slideshow On Debt-Deflation that is easy enough to read or download from Scribd.."
And just to make sure I am not being one-sided, I am countering my fears of deflation with "Monetary Regimes and Inflation" by Peter Bernholz, which should arrive next week.
Without further ado, below is my research on debt-deflation.
Dave
Here is my response ....
You should not be afraid of deflation.
You should be afraid of policies attempting to fight it.
Deflation (rather price deflation) is actually the natural state of affairs. As productivity increases, more goods and services are produced relative to the population and prices would therefore be expected to drop.
It is the Fed, along with misguided Keynesian and Monetarist economists who think falling prices are a bad thing. Who amongst us does not like falling prices (except of course on things we own like houses, but even then who is not sick of higher property taxes that result)?
The reality to money easily, it was far too late to buy.
Given that inflation benefits those with first access to money, any targeted inflation at all is morally wrong.
Note that Congress has passed 300+ affordable housing measures over the years and all of them failed. The irony now is Congress has simultaneously passed measures hoping to prop up the price of homes while seeking still additional money to create affordable housing.
Home prices need to fall (and will fall) to levels of affordability based on wages and wage growth regardless of what the Fed does. Thus, efforts to prop up prices are triply stupid: They are costly; They they will not work (prices will fall to where they are headed anyway); and they will delay a recovery.
Deflation is only bad in the context of the short-term pain it will involve. Moreover, it is important to remember that the pain of deflation is relative to the inflation party that preceded it. That party must be paid for either in terms of time or price.
Following the Footsteps of Japan
The irony is Greenspan and Bernanke repeatedly criticized the Bank of Japan for not writing off bad bank debts. So what do we do?
We are Following the Footsteps of Japan even though we have proven without a shadow of a doubt it is economic insanity..
Indeed Economic Madness Is Repeatedly Endless
Bernanke's Deflation Preventing Scorecard
In case no one is keeping track, Bernanke has now fired every bullet from his 2002 “helicopter drop” speech Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here.
Misunderstanding Japan's Lost Two Decades
Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit.
I say U.S. Faces Second Lost Decade "Because" of Misguided Stimulus
Real Lesson of Japan's Lost Decades
The real lesson is no matter how much money you throw around, economies cannot recover until uncollectible debts and malinvestments are written off. That is why you have “zero interest rates and still nothing’s happening.”
The moment fiscal stimulus stops economies are virtually guaranteed to relapse until asset bubbles deflate, and malinvestments and bad debts are written off..
Illusion of Stimulus
Recoveries based on stimulus are nothing but an illusion. Here is a snip worth reading from U.S. Faces Second Lost Decade "Because" of Misguided Stimulus written by my friend "HB" about Christina Romer, chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
I know Christina.Understanding Velocity'.
David had several slides on velocity. The important point he missed is that velocity of money is a result not a cause of anything to come.
Velocity is falling because the Fed is printing hoping to stimulate the economy but banks are not lending because
1) credit risks are high
2) there is rampant overcapacity everywhere, thus businesses have no reason to expand
3) credit worthy consumers do not want to borrow
The attitudes of lenders and potential borrowers have changed. Under these conditions, the more Bernanke prints, the lower velocity will go.
Spending Collapses In All Generation Groups
Please consider Spending Collapses In All Generation Groups
It's no secret that boomers fearing an underfunded retirement have sharply cut spending. However, it's not just boomers cutting back. Consumer attitudes toward debt have changed across all age groups..
In a debt-based economy, it is extremely difficult (by monetary policy) to produce inflation if consumers will not participate. And as noted above, demographics and attitudes strongly suggest consumers have had enough of debt and spending sprees.
Government bodies like Congress can theoretically produce inflation but Japan tried and failed for years.
Uncharted Territory
In the US and globally we are in uncharted territory. Odds are we will see many things we have never seen before as stimulus after stimulus fails to produce desired results.
I ask you to consider Twelve Reasons For A Job Loss Recovery.
Humpty Dumpty On Depression Conditions
The conditions now are very similar to what happened in the great depression, discounting for the moment this reflationary effort by the Fed that is doomed to fail.
For more on the conditions one would expect to see in deflation please consider
Humpty Dumpty On Inflation.
Some of those conditions have changed since December. However, bank failures, total bank credit, and short term treasury yields near 0% have not. Moreover, long term yields have ticked up but they are still at historic lows compared to anything but the lows last December.
It is important not to confuse a recovery in the stock market with an economic recovery.
Don't just take my word for it. Please consider Leading indicators and the shape of the recovery by Paul Krugman?
Michael Shedlock has an awesome takedown of ECRI’s claim that its indicators (a) have successfully predicted turning points in the past (b) point to a sold recovery now. I’d add that this is a really, really bad time to be relying on conventional indicators..
This is a once in several generational event. I bet the ECRIs leading indicators applied in April of 1930 would have looked quite similar.
One thing is for sure, is that Krugman does not hold any grudges. I sure have to give him credit for that. I also happen to agree with Krugman when it come to free trade for which we are both strong proponents.
Unfortunately however, there is a rising tide of protectionism in Congress and this Administration. Note that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is one of the things that made the Great Depression much worse.
States are repeating another mistake by raising property taxes.
Keynesian Model Broken Beyond Repair
The Keynesian and Monetarist models are broken beyond repair. case you fail to understand the implications, Keynes is arguing one cannot have a recession and inflation at the same.
The amount of global monetary stimulus thrown at curing the deflation problem is staggering. Yet here we are with the same debt overhang, no jobs, and no way to pay off that debt. Deflation looms larger than ever because of Central Bank efforts to fight it.
Let's return to the beginning. It's important to remember that inflation and deflation about not about prices but rather about the expansion of money supply and credit. Concern over prices is putting the cart before the horse.
Fantasizing In Academic Wonderland
Keynesian academic models do not work in a real world, with real people, where attitudes and global forces such as global wage arbitrage are in play. The Fed cannot force consumers to borrow or banks to lend. Nor can the Fed create jobs. Congress can create makeshift jobs but as we have shown above, makeshift jobs cannot possibly create a solid economic foundation.
In response to the above someone is sure to tell me how negative interest rates could be used to force banks to lend. My response is forcing banks to lend cannot and will not work in actual practice.
One reason Bernanke wanted to pay interest on reserves was to slowly recapitalize them over time. One cannot achieve that while forcing them to lend. Moreover forcing banks to lend will do nothing but increase further writeoffs.
Again, it is important to look at how things operate in a real world model, with real consequences, as opposed to fantasizing in academic wonderland about how to force banks to lend.
Fiat World Mathematical Model
Logically speaking, when the problem is debt is to high, it is insane to think a spending spree will fix the problem. Even a 6th grader would be able to understand this, but Keynesian and Monetarist academic wonks just cannot manage the task.
Greenspan stimulated the economy in 2002 and all we have to show for it is a collapsing housing bubble and still more debt.
Instead of following a Keynesian model that does not work, please consider a Fiat World Mathematical Model.
I believe Steve Keen and I have it correct. In a credit-based, fiat-currency model, deflation will always manifest itself as debt-deflation. Price deflation is a meaningless sideshow.
I am not sure how far along we are with debt deflation given that much depends on how far and how long the Fed and Congress attempts to fight it. The preliminary results however, do not look very good. I expect a second lost decade in the US, just as happened in J. | http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/is-debt-deflation-just-beginning.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The EARCOS Global Issues Network conference 2012 will be held at the International School Manila during the period 17-19 February 2012.
Those with knowledge of the Global Issues Network will be aware that it is a loose collaboration of individuals and organizations inspired by the ideas of the former VP of the World Bank Jean Francois Rischard as expressed in his book High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 years to solve them, written 10 years ago.
Rischard’s key idea is that population, economic and technological growth curves are exponential but the global institutional capacity to manage these phenomena are not. Rischard proposed the establishment of Global Issues Networks; organic, flexible and dynamic collaborations of the private, public and non governmental sectors as a means to better keep pace with global trends.
The Global Issues Network is a manifestation of Rischard’s ideas. Born out of a collaborative service project involving several international schools in Europe, GIN has blossomed into a truly global network with representation in every major region of the world. EARCOS is the administrative center of GIN in SE Asia and for the past 5 years an EARCOS member school has held an annual conference for students and teachers from within the region.
GIN Manila 2012 aims to support the vision of Rischard and the mission of GIN by making this academic year’s conference action based and sustainable in method, hence the theme ‘Compassionate Action’. Those aware of Compass Schools will no doubt notice the purposeful reference to the ideas of Alan Atkisson, founder of the Atkisson Group, our opening keynote speaker and methodological guide.
As well as featuring keynote speakers and global issues workshop presentations from all GIN delegates GIN Manila 2012 will include sustainable action planning workshops (SAPs) that will be facilitated by ISM students who have been trained in the use of Atkisson’s ‘Pyramid‘ strategic planning tool. Furthermore, GIN Manila 2012 will have a day of action in Manila during which delegates will have the opportunity to participate in projects, such as PCF, geared towards addressing the global issues that they discuss during the conference.
Teacher delegates of GIN Manila 2012 will not be left out as they will have the benefit of a series of sessions with Michael Furdyk, the founder of TakingITGlobal, our closing keynote speaker. Michael’s organization may just provide the platform through which the sustainable action plans developed by the student delegates during the conference can live, breath and come to fruition post conference.
Finally, the most exciting part of GIN Manila 2012 is that it continues to grow and evolve. Alan Atkisson has been so inspired by our conference vision that he is using GIN Manila 2012 as a launch pad for a truly global event, Pyramid2012. During the weekend of the conference organizations all around the world will be developing SAP Pyramid’s of their own. Although this project is still in it’s infancy there are confirmed events occurring in 9 other countries; Indonesia, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Iceland, UK, Senegal, Thailand and Germany. Each of these events will revolve around the ‘hub’ in Manila and all will feature on a web platform that connects them.
If you are not fortunate enough to come to GIN Manila 2012 then sign up to Pyramid 2012 and be part of its global influence.
We look forward to your involvement in person or virtually!
Tom McLean
International School Manila | http://globalengage.ibo.org/eng/node/1277 | 2013-05-18T10:12:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Rihanna is known to be one badass chick, so of course it's typical to see the swag run in her family.
Rihanna’s younger brother Rajad Fenty recently had a wild night out with some friends, and he was even snapped lying on top of a chick!
DETAILS: Rihanna Set To Get Fast & Furious!
While the girl looks like Rihanna, being that she has a similarly brown curly hair style from earlier this year, it turns out to be a lady friend of Rajad’s!
The Bajan beauty tweeted the picture of her little bro and definitely seemed like she had a few words of wisdom for him since she captioned the photo, “As for YOU lil nigga…”.
VIDEO: Rihanna "Where Have You Been"
Rajad isn't too happy about the picture being posted tweeting: "my life is over now .-."
Don't worry, it's not the end of the world Rajad!
Rihanna is very close to both her younger brothers, so maybe she is feeling a little protective of them. Watch out for big sis RiRi, ladies! | http://globalgrind.com/entertainment/rihannas-brother-rajad-instagram-twit-pics-photos?gpage=6 | 2013-05-18T10:54:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The latest in a string of “zombie” like attacks happened in a Manatee County, Florida home Wednesday night, after a man under the influence of bath salts went into a fit of rage and bit a piece of someone’s arm off during a visit with his children.
STORY: Stop With These Bath Salts Already! N.Y. Mom Dies On Drug After Tasing
According to ABC News, Charles Baker, 26,. He knocked on the door, then barged in, began yelling and taking off his clothes.
He was screaming and wouldn’t calm down, then began throwing furniture around the home.
Jeffery Blake, 48, who lives in the home, attempted to restrain Baker, but the suspect bit him, taking a chunk of his flesh from his bicep.
Blake was able to get Baker to the ground and keep.
Deputy Wildt deployed his an electronic control device after giving a verbal warning.
Baker fell to the ground, and then tried to get back up, so Deputy Wildt deployed the device again. Baker pulled the probes out, so deputy Blake deployed his electric shock device.
Similarly, in Miami they instituted a ban on bath salt. Y'all losing your mind with this bath salt nonsense. | http://globalgrind.com/news/miami-face-eating-bath-salts-charles-baker-zombie-attack-florida-video | 2013-05-18T10:22:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tragedy struck this weekend when 11-year-old Kile Glover, son of Tameka Raymond and Ryan Glover, and stepson to Usher Raymond, was struck by a jet ski while tubing in Atlanta, GA.
As Kile was left brain dead from the incident, a source close to the family says Usher is "torn up."
PHOTOS: Things To Know About Kile Glover
Us Weekly reported:
“Tameka and Usher don’t get along, but in this circumstance Usher is coming to her side...Usher practically raised Kyle as his own. He’s known him for seven years. It is so sad what happened.”
Adds another source:
“He grew close to Kyle and, of course, that has nothing to do with the situation with Tameka...He loved Kyle. This is a terrible, awful tragedy. Usher is torn up.”
DETAILS: Family Friend Of Kile Glover Being Investigated For Jet Ski Incident
Since the tragic incident earlier this week, dozens of celebs have reached out via Twitter to lend their love and support to the family.
We continue to pray for Kile and his family during this tragic time. | http://globalgrind.com/news/usher-reacts-stepson-kile-glover-jet-ski-accident-tameka-raymond-details?gpage=13 | 2013-05-18T11:05:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Fashion label DKNY unveiled all the images for their Spring 2012 campaign featuring gorgeous Twilight actress Ashley Greene.
PHOTOS: Bella Who? Ashley Greene Scores Another DKNY Campaign
Famed fashion photography team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shot Ashley on the roof of the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. In some of the sensual pics she flirts with male model Garrett Neff - it must be hot up there in that sweltering NYC sun!
Flip through the gallery for the variety of images produced for Donna Karan.
PHOTOS: Twilight's Ashley Green Unveils DKNY Ad Campaign In NYC
Plus click the video where Ashley poses as seductively as she can for the cool and casual looks! | http://globalgrind.com/style/ashley-greene-twilight-dkny-spring-2012-campaign-photos?gpage=3 | 2013-05-18T10:56:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Beyonce believes in sharing!
The most beautiful woman in the world is giving up some of the secrets of her beauty regimen—including her dirty little mascara secret.
In her recent interview, the most beautiful woman shares the secrets of what exactly makes her so darn beautiful.
PHOTOS: Jay-Z Is Loving Beyonce's Post Blue Ivy Body!
In the People Magazine interview, Bey talks about the beauty regime that keeps her glowing.
Many would be surprised to know that Queen Bey doesn’t have a glam squad primping her every morning, instead she relies on the skills learned in mama Tina Knowles’ salon as young Bey, but she does admit to having a dirty little mascara secret.
PHOTOS: Beyonce Dropped 50 Pounds Since Giving Birth To Blue Ivy!
In the interview, Beyonce says she remembers playing in her mother’s makeup when she was just 6 years old.
"I was playing in my mother's makeup, I had blue eye shadow and red lips, and I put crazy blush on. I looked like a clown, but I thought I was so beautiful.”
Then Beyonce spoke about how she sparks up her makeup routine to look awake after spending a night awake with Blue Ivy Bey said:
"Lip gloss – I love L'Oréal's Infallible 8 HR Le Gloss in Coral Sands – and a little bit of blush."
She then talks about the skills she learned in her mother Tina’s salon growing up:
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She also shares the secrets that she plans to pass on to Bluy Ivy:
"My biggest thing is to teach [Blue] not to focus on the aesthetic," she says. "It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful." with all the beauty secrets aside, Beyonce admits, "I have embraced my flaws," she says. "And I feel more confident."
Beyonce? Flaws? No way!
The People magazine interview with is seriously the gift that keeps on giving for Beyonce fans.
SOURCE: PEOPLE Magazine | http://globalgrind.com/style/beyonce-reveals-beauty-secrets-does-own-hair-make-up-photos?gpage=3 | 2013-05-18T11:03:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The Global Citizen: Current Campaigns
Last week, planet earth reached a landmark! CO2 emissions exceeded 400 parts per million. So why aren’t scientists celebrating? Well, this is nothing to celebrate. Al Gore expressed a common sentiment among global warming sympathizers, tweeting that the event was “a sad milestone.” Action must be taken to reduce carbon emissions and the burning of fossil fuels.
The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii has been monitoring CO2 emissions since 1958. On Thursday, May 10th, it released a report that stated a new, unprecedented level of CO2 had been recorded in the atmosphere. Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere and has been linked to rising temperatures, ice melting and sea level rising.:.
No one will blame Kofi Annan for a lack of effort. Over the past few months, the former UN Secretary-General has worked tirelessly to peacefully resolve the ongoing turmoil in Syria. And yet, with the bloodshed continuing to escalate, Annan's peace plan has not come to pass.
The Syrian government's continued defiance of Annan's six-point peace plan, coupled with its ongoing brutality towards its enemies at home, clearly indicates that this regime values power above all else, even if it comes at the expense of its own people. In light of this reality, it is time for the United States and the international community to take firm steps to bring about the end of violence in Syria and secure a transfer of power from the Assad regime before the violence in Syria truly spirals out of control..
CGS has also created a petition urging the U.S. government to speak out and tell Bahrain to free Al-Khawaja, which has so far drawn nearly 18,000 signatures. Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for over two months and his health is rapidly failing, making his release from prison a matter of great urgency. To sign CGS's petition for Al-Khawaja's release, click here..
For the last two and a half days I have been attending the Social Good Summit at the 92nd Street Y in New York City (on the Upper East Side). The event is a collaboration between the United Nations Foundation, Mashable and Ericsson (the CEO of whom I leave the Summit with a rather large crush on), a unique partnership of a large scale non profit, a social media expert and a ground breaking mobile company. The conference focused on highlighting individual and small group actions that have made significant changes to save the world. I've been live tweeting my experiences and I can barely contain my excitement during some of the panels (i.e. Connecting the Unconnected: 43 million Displaced People Around the World) - but it calls into questions something that was asked of Ted Turner in the very 1st session: is the UN still relevant?
Our friends at the Better World Campaign recently launched a new website,, to educate and engage people across the country and inspire them to take action against the latest anti-UN bill introducted by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Peter Yeo, Executive Director of the Better World Campaign explains the need for this website best: "The UN is playing a greater role in promoting American interests than ever before and we strongly oppose H.R. 2829, which threatens America's leadership role at the United Nations and undermines our national security. The Let U.S. Lead campaign calls on Congress to respect the will of the American people and oppose the passage of this ill-conceived bill."
To sign our petition opposing this extreme anti-UN bill, click here.) | http://globalsolutions.org/blog/Current-Campaigns | 2013-05-18T10:21:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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My old man has been complaining as long as i can remember about his colt .25 that he sold in the 70's. I've been on the lookout since i was 21 & finally found one new in the box. The gun is mint, the box is showing some age. He was so thrilled to have it back & it certainly felt great to give it to him. | http://glocktalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1434557.html | 2013-05-18T10:35:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
OAKWOOD — State transportation officials held a public information meeting at Oakwood City Hall last night to gather public comments on the T-SPLOST referendum scheduled to go before voters on July 31.
Srikanth Yamala, the planning manager for the Gainesville-Hall Metropolitan Planning Organization, focused her presentation on road improvements over the next 10 years, which included the widening of Spout Springs in South
Hall and Cleveland Highway in North Hall.
Some attendees complained about a lack of proposed improvement in local transit systems provided for in the T-SPLOST.
There are plans for improvement, Yamala said, but “we need additional transit dollars to make those plans happen.”
The sales tax will be voted on statewide, but will be approved or rejected in each of 12 established regions throughout the state.
Hall falls in the 13-county Georgia Mountains region, where a $1.25 billion revenue haul is projected. Hall County would receive some $300 million for nine regional projects and another $60 million for projects as determined by local governments.
But those improvements will mean an increase in taxes from 7 to 8 percent in Hall County. | http://glory1330.com/glorynews/state-officials-host-t-splost-forum/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
WASHINGTON – Embattled Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s position on the limited ability of the Fed to stimulate the nation’s sluggish economy was vigorously defended today by a homeless and badly undernourished former expert on monetary policy.
Arthur Peterson, a 58-year-old unemployed economist who is unable to remember the last meal he ate, said he agrees with Bernanke’s assessment and doubts that any attempt by the agency to bolster short-term economic growth would be sufficient to prevent him from starving to death by the end of this week.
“Besides continuing to hold interest rates near zero in the short term, it is difficult to imagine any new intervention by the Fed which could effectively forestall the systemic failure of my bodily functions resulting from my sustained lack of food intake,” the emaciated Mr. Peterson commented while grasping his midsection in what appeared to be excruciating agony.
Attempting to make himself heard over the loud growling noises emanating from his stomach, Mr. Peterson said he also concurred with Bernanke’s analysis that the U.S. economy is slowly recovering and the nation’s long-term prospects remain strong.
“Unlike my alimentary canal and esophageal sphincter,” Mr. Peterson added, “which are both irreversibly rupturing as we speak.”
As his mind fluctuated between consciousness and unconsciousness, Mr. Peterson also endorsed the Fed chairman’s optimistic view that the growth fundamentals of the United States do not appear to have been permanently altered by the various economic shocks over the past several years.
“As Chairman Bernanke has correctly pointed out, what we are facing is primarily…yow, excuse me… I just needed to apply some pressure on my throbbing epigastrium, sorry… what we are facing is a combined challenge of high unemployment and an unsustainable federal debt,” Mr. Peterson groaned.
“Allow me to draw a comparison, if I may,” he continued, doubling over as he spoke. “Imagine the nation’s economy as if it were my body in its current famished state. The flow of capital, like my blood circulation, is growing feeble. The employment sector, like my respiration, is shallow, slow and irregular. The gridlock in decision making by the government’s legislative branch is similar to the constipation in my vacant bowels caused by prolonged sustenance deprivation.”
“In looking at my physical and mental deterioration, you can basically see the embodiment of our current fiscal predicament,” Mr. Peterson explained. “Muscular action is no longer possible. The mind becomes dull, listless and even idiotic. Finally, hallucinations and dreams generally occur, in which scenes of plenty are often pictured.”
“Hence, the Tea Party,” Mr. Peterson concluded, before collapsing to the ground.
As for what interventions the Fed might conceivably take despite their limited impact, Mr. Peterson struggled to lift his head slightly and said that he expected the agency to commit to maintaining the size of its investment portfolio for a fixed period and perhaps buying bonds with more distant maturities to increase the downward pressure it is exerting on longer-term rates.
“I guess we’ll see what happens at the next meeting of the Fed’s policy-making board in late September,” Mr. Peterson gasped.
“Or, rather, I should say, you’ll see,” he corrected himself.
Brilliant!
With the exception of the Tea Party comment it puts the focus on where a lot of the trouble started- on the ‘experts’.
Not to mention it’s also funny too.
I concur fully with my colleague Rfreed. | http://glossynews.com/top-stories/201109100550/homeless-economist-doubts-change-in-fed-monetary-policy-can-save-him/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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It was a busy weekend for hip-hop stars Rihanna and Chris Brown: First, Rihanna tweeted a shirtless photo of what appears to be ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, followed by her own topless photo. Then Brown launched into a vulgar attack on comedy writer Jenny Johnson before deactivating his Twitter account altogether.
It all started Saturday with Rihanna's posting a photo of what looks to be a half-naked Chris Brown lying face-down, his highly recognizable tattoos visible, on a bed covered with "The Simpsons" memorabilia and a handbag. The "Diamonds" singer posted the photo on Twitter, along with the hashtag "BartObsessed."
Hours earlier, Brown had posted a photo of himself wearing a Bart Simpson jacket.
The following day, Rihanna posted her own topless photo, along with the hashtag, "LondonNightLife." Wearing tiny black spandex shorts, the singer posed with her bare back facing the camera while shooting a "come hither" look over her shoulder.
Although Brown and Rihanna have yet to confirm that they are back on, their latest antics continue to fuel the rumors.
Rihanna was photographed Thanksgiving night getting into a car with Brown in Berlin, after attending his concert in the German capital, followed by a nightclub after-party.
Not everyone is pleased with the possibility of their getting back together. Brown got into a Twitter feud Sunday with popular comedy writer Jenny Johnson, who tweets under her handle @JennyJohnsonHi5.
Johnson has poked fun at Brown since his 2009 arrest for beating Rihanna, for which he pleaded guilty to assault, but the comedian caught his ire over the weekend after responding to his tweet about how old he looked.
"I know! Being a worthless piece of s*** can really age a person," she tweeted in response.
Brown then hurled sexually graphic insults at her, but Johnson did not back down, even correcting Brown's spelling, saying: "It's 'HO' not 'HOE.'"
"I have zero respect for a person who seems unapologetic for the terrible crime he committed and shows no signs of changing," she wrote at the end of the exchange.
"Just ask Rihanna if she mad??????" Brown wrote, before he deactivated his account, which was then restored minus the worst tweets.
Also ReadAlso Read | http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/chris-brown-rihanna-heating-173214955--abc-news-celebrities.html | 2013-05-18T10:42:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Car after car came down the New York Avenue hill, only to stop and turn around at Observer Highway, with two to three feet of water an imposing obstacle.
Hurricane Sandy: Full Coverage.
As Rosado pulled away in the back of the Army truck, a sign became visible across the street. "Welcome to Hoboken," it said, as floodwaters rose three feet at its base.Also Read | http://gma.yahoo.com/hoboken-n-j-residents-spend-another-night-cold-092948168--abc-news-topstories.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Episode 40.5–Miniatures in games with Sandrine Triache
Posted in RPG Podcast on Apr 28th, 2012 Comments
This is a very special episode. It is special because I am joined by Vickey Beaver to co-host this episode. Vickey has a TON of experience in games and it was an absolute blast to get to talk with her. We talk miniatures in Role Playing Games and whether they are necessary or not.
And is also special because we don’t have one interview. We have two!
The first interview is with Sandrine Triache, the lead 3d modeller for Mongoose Publishing. Since miniature making is something I know very little about it, I thought it’d be interesting to have an expert around and she didn’t disappoint. At all! Her insight in how Mongoose’s workflow and practices was really tremendous and the interview very informative.
On the subject of miniatures, Vickey and I talk about Salute 2012 and a specific company I stumbled upon in that convention, BaneLegions. I don’t exaggerate when I tell you they have some of the most incredibly detailed and gorgeous miniatures I have ever seen. The craftsmanship is just stunning and the design of the creatures incredibly original. No wonder the sculptor works for Weta International, and has participated in movies like Avatar and The Hobbit!
The second interview is with Brendan Davies, from Bedrock Games. He is the author and publisher of a really interesting selection of role playing games, of which Servants of Gaius is the latest and a very compelling and well crafted game based in ancient Rome.
However it is very interesting to see they have a very varied selection of games, from horror based to historical setting. Brendan gives an insight on the background of the company, as well as the philosophy of their games and game creation.
As always, your feedback is very welcome and you can get in touch by emailing the show on podcast@gmsmagazine.com. Very much look forward to hearing from you!
Hope you enjoy the show!
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Yeah it’s been nerfed, limited to 3 targets, but still the joy of the delayed kill is all mine now.
It used to be an issue in PvE, and to be honest it probably still is, if only I would get off my skinny (yet surprisingly cute) Gnomish arse and spec for PvE and run an instance or two.
I’d throw up a few living bombs, quietly Pew Pew away (yeah OK, Flame Strike, Blizzard, Pyroblast, I’d go nuts). The tank would keep everything under control, maybe use a taunt to keep the mobs in good shape, then…
BOOM!
hehe… all good, tank still has the mobs…
BOOM!
haha… this tank is good…
BOOM!
Ohh shit, where did I put that Ice Block again?
PvP is da BOMB!
In PvP, it’s a bit different (and how I miss the days where you could just sit on the outside and Living Bomb the entire enemy team and just rotate around them).
No one is controlling the “mobs”, the healers always have higher threat than those that can actually soak the damage, and it is so frenzied that one extra debuff dot really isn’t anything to worry about… or is it.
I’ve been scoring a ton of killing blows lately. Previously I would do a heap of damage, but when the dust had settled, I would be face down in the dirt and the damn Horde would still be healthy, still engaged.
But Living Bomb can change all that.
I may be a ghost at the spirit healer, but I still get to watch my damage scroll down the screen.
I may get taken down by 3+ Horde on the wrong side of the map (Hey, I figure I can keep 3+ Horde very busy for a good few minutes… which is about the time required for our flag carrier to pick up the flag, return it and head back for more).
The thing is that my premature death (well, they might not consider it premature) will be avenged.
While I know I should be popping immediately to get back to the fight, there are times where I just have to lie in my corpse and watch the celebrations.
What is it with these people, all jumping about celebrating the death of one annoying Gnome, High Fives everywhere? I know when I beat a bunch of Horde, I wander off a good 10-20 yards, just in case my team mates are infected with some disease that will haunt me for the rest of my short life.
No, these guys jump about, practically hugging, sharing the glory and the…
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
So sad, too bad!
So beware the green haired Gnome (I’ve still got my hair, even if I now have a ferret face without my beard), that likes to rub against your in night clubs and battlegrounds.
Make sure you are using protection, because this loving Gnome wants to share his STDs, his living bombs. He wants to cackle from the grave.
Remember Silly Transmitted Deaths are my forte.
Living Bomb is my tool
Just hope to all that is Gnomish I don’t manage to get a Combustion and an Impact off before I go as well, cause that is a whole new level of party disease and death.
Gnomer and Out!
PS: I’d like to thank John (ha, bet you don’t know who I am talking about do you!) and Rebecca for coming through as Mo Bro’s and Mo Sista’s. Spreading the word about men’s mental health and prostate cancer is as awesome as participating in Movember.
As for the rest of you, feel free to spread the word, or spread the Mo, or just splash the cash ($1, $2, $5, $10, $1,000 I don’t care how much you give to save lives).
Consider this, 1 in 5 people will suffer from depression at some point in time. Many families are 5 member families. That means one of your family (or at the very least friends, work colleagues, or maybe that fella that sells you a coffee in the morning) is thinking the “unthinkable”.
Remember…
Gnomes get the blues too!
Think of it this way… it costs you nothing to join the team. Once you join the team, you get all sorts of options for spamming those you know and love with the message of Movember. some of them will give, some of them will learn, some of them will be saved.. and it hasn’t cost you anything!
I wont even mention that the Movember sponsors actually throw freebies at you (which may not be of benefit to you if you live overseas… but it’s the message that counts!)
You can give via Visa, Mastercard, Amex or Paypal.
Paypal, perfect for those abstained coffee donations
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Ha. <3 reaching out of the grave for HKs. Or LoS'ing the bloke and cackling as they get whittled away. So. Much. Evil.
Sorry we couldn't find the article. /Sad Face. I suppose that'll happen though.
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WASHINGTON — A young man in a yellow polo shirt stood in the middle of the futsal court, surrounded by his family, and even with his sunglasses on, you could tell that he was crying.
On the same court stood Kobe Bryant, Pep Guardiola, Mia Hamm, Nomar Garciaparra and various other celebrities. The young man was there to meet his hero. But his hero did not emerge in Yankees pinstripes or a United States women’s national team jersey. Instead, an unassuming man strolled casually down from the stands in cargo shorts and a tank top. The two embraced emotionally with everyone looking on.
No one in the crowd had heard of Jeffery Santana before that day, but I doubt that anyone will forget what they saw. At 16, Andrew Vickers, the young man in the yellow polo, received a diagnosis of lymphoma. Santana was tested as a possible bone marrow donor. Fifteen years after being tested, Santana got a call that he was a match for someone in need of a transplant. On that futsal court, Andrew Vickers came face to face for the first time with the man who had saved his life. | http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/mia-hamm-foundation/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Last week, I finally made it to the Baccarat Maison.
No, not to dine in the Cristal Room (next time, mes amis!), but just to admire the insanely decadent chandeliers, sculptures, vases and other sparkly objects.
(Though some of them, owing to the current exhibition, were more hairy and feathery than sparkly.)
It was a quick and nice visit. But next time I would skip the relatively modest entry fee for the Maison and just go to the store.
It had a wilder and glitzier exhibition that really shone beautifully.
I've been/dined there too, it's so lovely! I also live in Paris. I just started following your blog on Bloglovin, so I've missed the reason why you are leaving Paris... So why? And if you feel sad about if, why can't you just stay? :-)
Lovely Amy ! I have to remind myself ( once the heat is passed) to start seeing Buenos Aires as if I am leaving soon .. Who knows, there are all sorts of likelihood's that you and I will run into each other in another hemisphere :)
Getting distracted by shiny things is a huge downfall of mine. I'd never get out of that gorgeous place!
Amy & Candice, I hope you're looking forward to all things shiny and sparkly this evening and especially 2011!
Anon, I'm returning to NYC after nearly two years of working on Louis Vuitton's digital advertising here in Paris. It's been a dream (most hours), but I miss home. Family, friends, knowing the language, dating, feeling understood... little things like that. I feel sad about leaving, but also really excited and ready. Happy 2011! | http://godiloveparis.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-maison-baccarat.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626015.post3653011326039147344..comments2010-02-22T07:48:25.878-08:00Comments on God Shot: The Baristas' Baristaschris! It's an honor be included in such a line ...Wow! It's an honor be included in such a line up - thanks to those who considered me.sLucey'll leave the question of who is and who is n...I'll leave the question of who is and who is not a "barista" up to others to decide.<br /><br />But I would be very interested (and I think it would be more informative) to see the verbatim answers of the baristas you queried. It seems that disseminating or distilling the responses you received down to those who received two or more votes amounts to a psuedo "best" barista list, or at least a popularity contest.<br /><br />I'm guessing that you queried some respected baristas for their opinions and considering the geographic dispersion of those baristas, I'm guessing that many of their answers would lead us towards remarkable and noteworthy baristas deserving of a little recognition and a visit.<br /><br />Othewise, the experiment comes off as a popularity contest because it doesn't tell us anything that James, Stephen, Mike or Tim will pull us a nice shot of espresso.onocoffee has long been a certain awkwardness about de...There has long been a certain awkwardness about describing me as a barista. I had been training more than anything else in the run up the the WBC win, and training more than anything else after.<br /><br />That isn't to say that I didn't make a lot of drinks for people in between, or that I don't regularly make drinks for people still. I spent most sunday's for a year borrow a spot on the current world champs bar to make coffee for people, because I enjoy high volume, high quality work and the challenges therein.<br /><br />However, I will concede that you can't just drop in to a cafe where I supposed to be behind the machine. <br /><br />Yet.James Hoffmann understand your confusion - but given that a lar...I understand your confusion - but given that a large number of professional, working baristas nominated James... I mean, if other baristas think he's a barista - he's a barista. Right?<br /><br />To further validate I asked myself (as an ex bar manager), if James asked me if he could pick up some bar shifts at a place I was managing - would I be comfortable with the idea? The answer would be hell yeah. As a current bar manager I also asked responded, "damn - I'd ask him if he could start right now and then I'd leave for the day (after first telling the whole world that he'd be working the bar for us)."<br /><br />A ton of the baristas who are respected and admired by other baristas have a breadth of skills beyond being a barista. As such, many of them have roles that extend beyond being a barista - and in some cases mean they're no longer a production bar barista with any frequency. That doesn't mean they are not a barista as far as I'm concerned.<br /><br />And in terms of the opportunity for having a shot from James.... my guess is that it's easier than you might think. You'd just probably have to ask him when the next time he might be pulling shots would be - and be there. It might be at some sort of event, or at a roastery. But I would guess it's easier than you seem to think. Of course... here comes James to first curse me for volunteering him and then correct me (grin).chris'm a bit curious as to what constitutes a ...I'm a bit curious as to what constitutes a 'barista' because, I'm not quite sure how to say this, ... I've never really thought of James as a Barista. <br /><br />Is that fair to say?<br /><br />I get that he's, undoubtedly, a coffee professional, a wonderful ambassador, and even a barista champion but the opportunities for non-coffee folk to happen upon an espresso pulled by James have been (and currently are) very limited.<br /><br />With that being said, I'd absolutely love to receive an espresso pulled by Mr. HoffmannPublic Coffee House | http://godshot.blogspot.com/feeds/3653011326039147344/comments/default | 2013-05-18T11:03:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
These days, cell phones, texting, and Skype (online video calls) increasingly help build the global friendships that draw us all closer together. The following excerpt from Glenn Clark’s 1955 Fellowship Messanger article seems to predict the invention of Skype and cell phones, which allow us to connect with each other without effort. This concept soon leads us into a discussion of how to pray for “world friendship,” making it doubly relevant to Spirit in Action’s worldwide network of partners.
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A Great Future Looms Ahead
At a meeting of Telephone and Telegraph executives recently it was secretly announced that within a few years every child at birth will be given a number and when he comes of age he will be given a “walkie-talkie” or a “trans-ceiver” in the form of a pocket instrument by which he can dial the number of anyone he wishes to communicate with and talk to him immediately. By looking into the instrument he can even see the one he is talking with, and can be shown whatever he is doing if the received wishes to show him.
At the Camps Farthest Out we have already been doing that in a spiritual way. The “trans-ceiver” we carry (not in our pockets, but in our hearts) is the Holy Comforter and is instantly available whenever we give obedience to the eleventh commandment: “This commandment I give unto you, that ye have love one for another.” Get on that wave length and we are in immediate communication with both God and anyone we love.
I propose that this year we all make use of this “trans-ceiver” that God has prepared for us; that we cease trying so hard to do things with our own wills, and let the will of God have full sway within us. When we receive a radio message from someone a thousand miles away it is through no power of our own. When this new invention is perfected we shall communicate with our friends who are far away through no virtue of our own. Paul besought us not to depend on ourselves in prayer, but to turn it over to this wonderful gift, the “Comforter,” bequeathed to us by Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit.
McDonald Kajan (Malawi) holds up kale for sale and shows me the new cell phone he bought with his farm profits.
Don’t for a moment think that [we] have learned all that there is to know about prayer. Every year, every month, every week, every day we learn more. Let us this year make special use of this way of praying, letting the Holy Ghost make the intercession through us. Because the need of the world is great, and because the right pathways to world friendship and to world peace are so difficult for most nations to follow, one hardly knows how to pray. Now is the time when we an with great confidence get still and let the Spirit itself make “intercession for us with the groanings that cannot be uttered.”
- From the Fellowship Messenger, Volume 17, February-March 1955; Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Camps Farthest Out
Wow. I don’t remember reading this article from Glenn before. We are living in amazing times of communication. Let’s use it for peace!
It’s a wonder that cell phones have enabled instant communication between folks who may not have running water or electricity in their homes. Families and communities can be in closer contact now, thanks to technology. Prayer is the ultimate NEXT dimension ~ not even requiring technology.
Thank you for this 1955 piece from Glenn Clark. He really was a forward thinking man!
Blessings and peace,
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