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With the Winter Olympics about a week away, you can see how Western magazine covers are graphically setting the mood — as well as the table for more fomentation. With the exception of the Reporters Without Borders imagery, as you can see, the Russian "homosexual ban" (and Putin's sexuality) predominates. We can break down the lines of attack into three categories: Olympic ring modification; the mocking of Putin's macho preoccupation with his own bod, the typology also setting homo-erotic bells ringing; and finally, Putin's outright gay-ification.
Rainbow Hitler is particularly interesting for theorizing (without a word!) how Putin's harshness toward homosexuality is a way to protect himself from his own broader spectrum of feelings — ones that are (also) otherwise right under his nose. The Le Monde fishing pole cover becomes a lot more interesting, by the way, once the anchor text brings power and dictatorship into the narrative. The translation: "The dictatorship of the body." And then, Barry Blitt is on a real roll, isn't he? In one sweep (double or triple twist?), he packages the homoerotic Putin with Putin in the closet. Might he also be Boitano-izing?
I have to give special credit to the RWB image though. On one hand, it's a slap shot to light up Putin and Russia on culture war issues. Leaving little to the imagination, the brass knuckles take bloody aim at the authoritarianism manifesting in Olympic-scale corruption and violent repression. That's no game.
(Note: The images above are new with the exception of Rainbow Hitler which was published from an Instagram image by New Civil Rights Movement in late August, and the Reporters Without Borders campaign, which is about a year old. photo-illustration 1: Reporters Without Borders Sochi 2014 Campaign. illustration 2: Paul Dotey/Xtra. photo 3: Dmitry Astakhov/EPA. photo 4: photo undetermined. Director of Photograpy: Lucy Conticello – M Magazine, Le Monde illustration 5: Barry Blitt for The New Yorker. photo 6: adapted by Alexander Persson via Instagram via thenewcivilrightsmovement.)
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NEW YORK CITY - The woman seen in cell phone video verbally and physically assaulting a transgender woman on the New York City subway is telling her side of the story, saying "Don't judge me unless you know me."
Sarah Eldridge and Pearl Love crossed paths on a No. 4 train on April 28th. Eldridge used homophobic, transphobic and racist slurs during their encounter.
Love recorded the interaction and placed the video on Facebook.
"When I stepped on the train, I sat down and I had an attitude because I was robbed earlier that week in the Bronx," Eldridge explained to PIX 11 in an exclusive interview.
Eldridge admits she was wrong for becoming loud and aggressive, however, "I meant what I said. That person offended me in a way because she was to me, explicit."
"I couldn't stand it," Eldridge said.
The subway assault video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times; Eldridge says now she feels like a victim. "I've received death threats on Facebook, by several people, saying that they want to find me. They want to kill me and I have deactivated my Facebook. I've called police."
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Tech Creates Our Political Echo Chambers. It Might Also Be A Solution
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Alison Lu was in shock on election night. The Harvard Business School student had voted for Hillary Clinton, and she couldn't fathom how Donald Trump had managed to win the presidency.
She opened her Facebook page searching for answers, but she didn't find any Trump-supporting friends. "None of them [Trump voters] showed themselves on my Facebook feed," she says.
Lu, like many Americans, was living in a self-selected social media world of like-minded people. The Pew Research Center has found that about two-thirds of adults get news from social media. Analysts have blamed technology for creating an online echo chamber.
But if technology created this problem, can it also help fix it? That's the question the tech industry, including a couple of entrepreneurs and researchers, is trying to answer.
Connecting to find civil offline conversation
Henry Tsai had worked in Silicon Valley for the past few years before coming to Harvard Business School.
"The day after the election, it was clear that discourse in this country was maybe not where we want it to be," Tsai says. "There's a lot of either demonizing or dismissiveness."
He had this idea of bringing people together from opposing political views. In a burst of late-night inspiration, along with some help from a friend studying computer science at MIT, he created Hi From The Other Side.
The goal is to take two people from different sides of the political spectrum — a Donald Trump supporter and a Hillary Clinton supporter — match them up, introduce them and allow them to talk to each other in real life.
"It's not only to bring people together, but, more importantly, bringing them together in a way that's productive or civil," Tsai says.
And that's exactly what Lu wanted as she tried to make sense of things after the election. "At that time, there was a general sense of helplessness on my end," she says. "I just wanted to do something to try to help me just understand."
Lu, 27, was one of the first Hi From The Other Side users. She was matched up with Dennis O'Brien, a 26-year-old in New Hampshire working in IT security.
O'Brien had voted for Trump, in part, because he hates the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare.
But after the election, he remembers seeing young women crying. "All these people were legitimately terrified," he says. "And, I couldn't quite wrap my mind around why."
The next day, he saw a blurb about Hi From The Other Side on Facebook, and he clicked on it. O'Brien figured "what the heck" — he could meet someone new and learn what's going through that person's mind. Think of it as going on a blind date to talk politics.
Lu and O'Brien were introduced to each other over email and agreed to meet up in person on a Tuesday night at a burger place in Cambridge.
"We were there for like two hours," O'Brien recalls.
O'Brien didn't know what to expect.
"I was really hoping that I just wouldn't get an extremist to talk to, someone who's like 'Hillary or death,' " he says.
But luckily, he says, Lu "wasn't crazy."
"There was never a moment where I felt stupid or I felt like I was an idiot, and likewise, toward her — I never thought she was anything more than a normal person," O'Brien says.
Lu laughed and recalled her first impression of meeting O'Brien.
"He's not like a racist, bigoted [person] like I think the stereotype of some Trump supporters are," she says. "I think what helped was also we were able to find a little bit of common ground."
The two found a bit of common ground on climate change. But they both realized they also probably just have different priorities.
"I really wouldn't say that our conversation changed each other's minds at all, but it was valuable to have that new perspective," Lu says.
About 4,500 people have signed up to be matched, according to Tsai, and recently, his nascent startup formed a limited collaboration with Starbucks.
Tsai's project is essentially an online platform, but he admits that for it to work people have to move the conversation offline and meet in real life (or at least via video chat).
Lu and O'Brien agree.
"I think social media just helps reinforce the hate; it just pushes everybody apart," O'Brien says. "Because when I see something [online] I'm not talking to a person,
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The title track for British dubstep group KOAN Sound's recent EP Funk Blaster has an appropriately futuristic video, complete with a Transformer-like robot. KOAN Sound's Jim Bastow explains "the concept of this video was to create a sci-fi but colorful landscape to compliment the feel of the track. To do this we asked director Scott Pagano to design a robot-like character to represent the 'Funk Blaster,' and to construct a futuristic setting to house it in."
Just as making cutting edge music is important to KOAN Sound, they wanted their video to have a similar feel. "Most importantly though, we had wanted to come up with a video that was innovative and cutting edge, and really present something that people had never seen before," Bastow says.
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In the wake of the Great War, two visions of Scotland emerged - a nationalist cultural resurgence led by a band of writers, and a popular revival that appealed to the masses. The final film in this series examines the struggle between these two ideologies, charting the remarkable transformation of those who helped give birth to the modern Scotland we know today.
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Everyone likes buying stuff with a bunch of built-in restrictions, right? The things we "own" often remain the property of the manufacturers, at least in part. That's the trade-off we never asked for -- one pushed on us by everyone from movie studios to makers of high-end cat litter boxes and coffee brewers. DRM prevents backup copies. Proprietary packets brick functions until manufacturer-approved refills are in place.
Here's another bit of ridiculousness, via Techdirt reader techflaws. German news outlet c't Magazin is reporting that Xerox printers are going further than the normal restrictions we've become accustomed to. For years, printer companies have made sure users' printers won't run without every single slot being filled with approved cartridges. This includes such stupidity as disabling every function (including non-ink-related functions like scanning) in all-in-one printers until the printer is fed.
Xerox is going further. Not only do you need to refill the ink, but you have to fill it with local ink. techflaws paraphrases the paywalled, German-language article.
Xerox uses region coding on their toner catridges AND locks the printer to the first type used. So if you use an NA (North America) catridge you can't use the cheaper DMO (Eastern Europe) anymore. The printer's display does NOT show this, nor does the hotline know about it. When c't reached out to Xerox, the marketing drone claimed, this was done to serve the customer better, I kid you not.
I have seen hundreds of posts regarding the rejection of ink based on the location of purchase. I asume that Xerox does this to prevent the purchase of ink not manufactured by them. However - forcing a client to pay for a service for a snippet that needs to be installed in order to use the printer is ABSURD.
I changed from HP to Xerox because I thought it was a trusted name. I have instead learned that in the process of trying to protect against counterfeit - it is the paying customer that will get a non-functioning printer - with no help unless you are willing to pay for the printer to work as it should have to begin with.
As I live in the UK my ink blocks are for the European market. If I purchase from ebay, ink blocks for the USA or Asian market and insert them into my printer, the printer will stop with a contact your engineer code on the LCD. The printer is now unusable.
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Looks like the printer cartridge manufacturers will be borrowing techniques from Hollywood. HP introduced region coding for some of the newest printers sold in Europe. HP's US location and US dollar sliding lead to the situation, where cartridge prices in Europe are significantly higher than those in the States. In the Wall Street Journal article HP representative in Europe claims the company doesn't make any money off regional coding for cartridges, and that consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro.
Ah, the old "serve the customer better by limiting his/her options," as seen everywhere DRM/DRM-esque restrictions are applied.But while c't Magazin has only recently stumbled across this issue of region-locked ink cartridges, it's by no means aissue. Techflaws also points to a 2011 forum post by a user who ran into this problem with his Xerox printer.So, it appears that if you attempt to forcefeed a Xerox printer not-from-around-here ink, it will potentially brick the device. At that point, you're forced to ask for a Xerox rep to drop by and unlock your purchased printer for you. Here's another confirmation of Xerox's "locals only" ink limitations The rate charged to the person in the forum post quoted above was $596/hour. There's no missing decimal point there. Sure, it's only 10 minutes of work, but it's $60 being shelled out by a paying customer just so his printer will go back to printing. The only thing actually "broken" is Xerox's business model.This person notes they switched from HP to Xerox because the latter was supposedly more trustworthy. Apparently not. Printers aren't a business. They're a racket. HP is no better than Xerox. It too will lock your printer to a certain region to ensure youpurchase only most profitable ink cartridges.If dates are anything to go by, HP likely pioneered the bullshit that is region-locked ink. This is from a 2005 Slashdot post . (The internal link to the Wall Street Journal is dead, so it has been omitted.)Unbelievably, the rep says customers will "win" if an aspect HP can't control (currency exchange rates) happens to shift in the customers' favor. Why not just say consumers will be better off if those scratch tickets are winners? Or if the housing market rebounds
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Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants.
Racism amongst the rebels including at command level
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, journalist Sam Dagher pointed out the obvious fact that the Libyan war is aggravating ethnic tensions in that country. The article talks about the fate of Tawergha, a small town 25 miles to the south of Misrata, inhabited mostly by black Libyans, a legacy of its 19th-century origins as a transit town in the slave trade:
Ibrahim al-Halbous, a rebel commander leading the fight near Tawergha, says all remaining residents should leave once if his fighters capture the town. "They should pack up," Mr. Halbous said. "Tawergha no longer exists, only Misrata."
Other rebel leaders are reported as:
"calling for drastic measures like banning Tawergha natives from ever working, living or sending their children to schools in Misrata."
In addition, according to the article, as a result of the battle for Misrata:
nearly four-fifths of residents of Misrata's Ghoushi neighborhood were Tawergha natives. Now they are gone or in hiding, fearing revenge attacks by Misratans, amid reports of bounties for their capture.
Amid allegations of black mercenaries and stories of mass rape by the inhabitants of Tawergha, Sam Dagher reports on further evidence of the racism amongst the rebel forces:
Some of the hatred of Tawergha has racist overtones that were mostly latent before the current conflict. On the road between Misrata and Tawergha, rebel slogans like "the brigade for purging slaves, black skin" have supplanted pro-Gadhafi scrawl.
The racial tensions have been fueled by the regime's alleged use of African mercenaries to violently suppress demonstrators at the start of the Libyan uprising in February, and the sense that the south of the country, which is predominantly black, mainly backs Col. Gadhafi.
This information has already been publicised, in the WSJ and also in the Black Star News. Bryan Chan of the Los Angeles Times reports visiting a prison in Benghazi, where terrified black men were paraded for the cameras (with Human Rights Watch silently taking notes). One man bravely protested he was just a guest worker and the guards presented a Gambian passport as proof he was a Gaddafi operative. Chan's Libyan interpreter asked:
"So what do you think? Should we just go ahead and kill them?"
There is a lot of horrific video footage clearly showing public lynchings in Benghazi (link to graphic description of some of the footage). including at the rebel HQ, beheadings of blindfolded prisoners and interrogation of prisoners, including in hospitals.
The myth of black mercenaries leads to lynchings
Other evidence of the massacres of black people, which include the lynchings and murder of black soldiers of the Libyan army, guest workers from other African countries and dark-skinned Libyan civilians include a report from the BBC on 25 February which cited a Turkish construction worker as saying:
"We had 70-80 people from Chad working for our company. They were cut dead with pruning shears and axes, attackers saying: 'You are providing troops for Gaddafi.' The Sudanese were also massacred. We saw it for ourselves."
On 27th February Nick Meo of The Telegraph reported from Al-Bayda that he had been shown mobile phone footage of a 'captured mercenary' (presumably he means black person with a uniform) lynched from a street lamp as well as a 'black African hanging on a meat hook.'
Amnesty International crisis researcher, Donatella Rovera spent the period from 27 February to 29th May in Misrata, Benghasi, Ajabiya and Ras Lanouf. Yesterday she was interviewed by Austria's 'The Standard' and had this to say on the subject:
"We examined this issue in depth and found no evidence. The rebels spread these rumours everywhere, which had terrible consequences for African guest workers: there was a systematic hunt for migrants, some were lynched and many arrested. Since then, even the rebels have admitted there were no mercenaries, almost all have been released and have returned to their countries of origin, as the investigations into them revealed nothing."
Who spread the myth and why?
So what accounts for the widespread popularity of this myth? It is, to be frank, an example of highly successful propaganda, appealing to the basest of racial stereotypes. The myth was highly important in gaining consent for the operation in Libya, in order to cover up and justify the massacres of black
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Oct. 19, 2004 -- Traditional Chinese acupuncture helps people with knee osteoarthritis, new research shows.
Acupuncture uses fine needles inserted at precise points on the body. It's been used for centuries in Chinese medicine to restore health for a variety of conditions.
Traditional Chinese acupuncture is based on the theory that illness can result when the body's flow of energy (called "chi" or "qi") is blocked or imbalanced. The acupuncture needles are positioned to correct those problems.
Western medical practitioners have become interested in acupuncture, especially for pain relief. However, they often view acupuncture differently from their peers in traditional Chinese medicine, focusing on its biochemical effects instead of energy flow.
Since acupuncture has been noted for pain relief, University of Maryland researchers decided to test it on people with knee osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, involves the breakdown of joint cartilage and affects an estimated 21 million people in the U.S., according to the American College of Rheumatology.
The new study enrolled 570 people with knee osteoarthritis. They were studied by University of Maryland researchers including medicine professor Marc Hochberg, MD, PhD, who heads the rheumatology and clinical immunology division of the university's medical school in Baltimore, Md.
The knee osteoarthritis patients were randomly assigned to receive either 23 sessions of traditional Chinese acupuncture, 23 treatments of sham acupuncture, or a 12-week knee osteoarthritis education course. In the sham acupuncture group, guide tubes were tapped at two points on the abdomen but no actual acupuncture was given.
Osteoarthritis knee pain, function and stiffness were recorded.
Participants receiving traditional Chinese acupuncture group fared best. At the end of the 26-week study, they had the greatest decrease in knee osteoarthritis pain and the biggest improvement in knee osteoarthritis function.
No serious side effects were noted in any of the groups.
Traditional Chinese acupuncture is "effective" at reducing knee osteoarthritis pain and improving function in people with knee osteoarthritis, say the researchers, who presented their findings in San Antonio at the American College of Rheumatology's annual scientific meeting.
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The War for the Planet of the Apes isn't just between humanity and the apes — it's a fight for the soul of the leader of the ape rebellion, according to the man who plays him.
Talking at a fan event at New York Comic Con Thursday night, Andy Serkis — Caesar himself — introduced new footage from next year's third Planet of the Apes movie alongside director Matt Reeves and producer Dylan Clark. Of three pieces of footage shown, one was the digital billboard released by 20th Century Fox earlier Thursday (see below), while the second featured a spoiler-filled scene that's currently a work-in-progress, showcasing the work of Serkis and other motion-capture actors in the movie before digital rendering transforms them into photo realistic apes.
Reeves and Clark both lauded Serkis' role in creating the Caesar that audiences see on screen in the current Apes movies, with Reeves telling the audience that, before he started work on 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, he watched the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes in two different formats — the finished version audiences saw, and a version showing Serkis' performance without CGI effects added. "I realized, it was all Andy," he explained.
Serkis, impressively humble when faced with Reeves and Clark demanding an Academy Award for his performance, joined Reeves in talking about what to expect from next summer's third installment in the series. Serkis lauded the performance of Woody Harrelson as the Colonel, a fanatic leading the final charge for humanity in the war against the apes that will have lasted two years by the time the movie opens. Serkis said that War would push Caesar into a dark place where his empathy with humanity eventually dies.
Reeves called War of the Planet of the Apes an epic that takes the series to a "mythical" level, promising the audience that it is darker, more action-packed and also funnier than earlier movies.
The panel finished with the debut of the teaser trailer for the movie, which opens with a failed assassination attempt on Caesar before introducing the Colonel, who talks about the need for humanity to fight back one last time against the rebellion of the apes. The final shot of the trailer is a human army surrounding Caesar as he kneels before the Colonel, with a gun placed against his forehead. To lose the war, the Colonel warns, would mean that the world would "truly become a planet of apes." Nobody tell him what the name of the franchise is, in case he gets demoralized.
War for the Planet of the Apes is set to open July 14, 2017.
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WWE is set to crown an undisputed champion a dozen years after Chris Jericho celebrated a victory with a world title in each hand.
Will it be Randy Orton or John Cena who relives that moment? Does WWE instead plan on delaying the unification, ending Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013 with a non-decisive finish?
The storyline that ended with the first-ever undisputed champion was a narrative built on rivalries and high stakes and led to one of the most memorable nights in WWE history.
After buying out WCW in 2001, WWE had to not only find a way to manage an influx of wrestlers from the rival promotion, but its championships as well. Before that year's Survivor Series, 10 championships were contested in WWE.
Survivor Series trimmed that number down some with two unification matches, but it wasn't until Vengeance 2001 that the WWE Championship and the title formerly known as the WCW World Heavyweight Championship would become one.
Like with Orton and Cena today, the argument was that there couldn't be two top champions at the same time. Only one king shall rule.
The Alliance Falls
After March of 2001, WCW, in reality, was no more. It was nothing more than a collection of memories and set of archives in WWE's possession. In terms of storyline, though, WCW lived on as a faction.
Survivor Series' main event would pit members of that faction against WWE Superstars in a traditional elimination tag team match. The winning team would see their company live on; defeat meant dissolution.
The four men who would later fight for the undisputed title played major roles that night.
Kurt Angle and Steve Austin aligned with The Alliance, serving as the two most dominant forces on that team. Jericho and The Rock joined Kane, Big Show and The Undertaker to form Team WWF.
Jericho promised to not let his bad blood with The Rock get in the way of Team WWF winning. Hotheaded as he is, though, he broke that promise late in the match.
Frustrated with his temporary partner and upset over being eliminated, Jericho drove The Rock's face to the mat. That emotional flare-up nearly led to Team WWF losing.
The Rock managed to kick out of Austin's pin attempt and those two long-standing rivals brawled in and around the ring. Neither man was able to keep the other down. It was Angle's betrayal that finally decided the outcome.
In the heart of chaos created by a WCW referee refusing to count for The Rock and "Stone Cold" knocking that same referee to the canvas, Angle darted into the ring and clocked his own partner with a championship belt.
WCW's departure made the WCW world title superfluous.
Vince McMahon announced that due to Angle's part in saving WWE, he would give him the WWE Championship. It wouldn't be as simple as that, though. Ric Flair made a power play and booked the now-famous main event for Vengeance.
Shane and Stephanie McMahon had sold their stocks in the company to a consortium. Flair, in his trademark, manic delivery announced, "The consortium was me!"
Flair had The Rock defend the WCW title against Jericho, Austin defend his WWE Championship against Angle and the two winners would meet in a third match to decide the undisputed champ.
Dec. 9, 2001
Austin and The Rock were WWE's biggest stars at the time. It seemed inevitable that those two would be the men in the finals at Vengeance.
Even with many fans believing the first two matches to be predictable, anticipation filled the San Diego Sports Arena that night.
One wrestler would make WWE history. Two championships would merge into one.
Austin and Angle went at it first. The tension that the ending of Survivor Series created only added to a run of animosity between them.
Earlier in the year, they had headlined three straight pay-per-views as opponents, from SummerSlam to No Mercy.
That contentious past led to an intense showdown at Vengeance. Austin damaged Angle's arm, and Angle slammed Austin's leg against the ring post.
The Angle Slam wasn't enough to put Austin away. Austin's Stunner proved to be decisive, though. Austin retained his title, keeping the possibility of the marquee matchup against The Rock alive.
Jericho's battle with The Rock was the best match of the night. The action was aided by bad blood as well.
The Rock was Jericho's first WWE antagonist, being there for Y2J's memorable debut.
Despite being successful tag team partners, those two spent much of 2001 colliding over the WCW title. Jericho won it from The Rock at No Mercy thanks to hitting him with Breakdown onto a steel chair.
At Vengeance, with the chance to face Austin as
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Hey everybody! Well I have been busy and got some new pens prototyped and ready. I took every bit of the knowledge I have garnered from this project and took it into these. Similar ideas, but a ton of refinement in the process and the idea of taking a whole picture into how they are manufactured. Anyway, before I start writing too much I made a video to tell a little bit of where this whole journey came from, to where it is today.
I can't thank you guys enough for the support you have shown, and I also want to ask for your support on this new project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eimim/eimim-x-y-and-z-pens
Now that there are a bunch of the original EiMIM Pens on desks around the world I want to get some of the new EiMIM X, Y, and Z pens a part of peoples everyday carry. When you go get your keys and phone to leave the house one of these new pens is the perfect way to subtly let people know a little about your style and that you appreciate unique things that were made with heart. I can't tell you how cool the "lay" texture feels, you have to experience it for yourself.
To the few of you that don't have your pens yet, they are coming over the course of the next few days.
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In ranking our 10 Best Restaurants we asked: What experiences, as a whole, were most memorable? It's not only about the food, but the full dining experience: the food, drinks, service and setting. We expect this list to change a lot in the next few years, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Columbus is a dining scene on the rise. Stay tuned.
We all remember certain meals, and certain dishes, throughout our lives. This year, it was a chilled corn soup with blackberry "caviar" from Veritas Tavern that captivated our senses. In ranking our 10 Best Restaurants we asked: What experiences, as a whole, were most memorable? It's not only about the food, but the full dining experience: the food, drinks, service and setting. We expect this list to change a lot in the next few years, as icons such as Kihachi and Alana's go on the market and ambitious new restaurants open, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Columbus is a dining scene on the rise. Stay tuned.
How our rankings are determined(or how the artisanal list-sausage gets made)
Lists are opinions. It's only natural to wonder how we ended up with ours. Here's the key: Our rankings are not based on food alone. We take the full dining experience into account and break it down using four criteria–food, drinks, service and atmosphere.
Previous 10 Best lists are, of course, a good starting point, but not a given. We make note of other contenders throughout the year and make anonymous visits to both veterans and shiny new things. We have discussions with food writers and insiders, and end up with a basic data set. There's math involved. And in the end, we ask: Which dining experiences were the most memorable this year and why?
We expect some readers to disagree with our 10 Best. That's not a bad thing, either. We'd love to hear your Top 10. Share it with us at letters@columbusmonthly.com.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- A man who died after being hit by a driver early Friday morning in Washington, D.C. has been identified as Arlington resident David Narvaez, according to D.C. police.
The police are investigating the traffic fatality, which occurred Friday at approximately 2:40 a.m., according to police.
Narvaez was crossing the street in the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and M Street, NW when he was struck by a vehicle that was heading southbound on New Hampshire Avenue, NW, according to police.
NBC-4 reports that Narvaez was a popular bartender and waiter at a restaurant near the scene of the hit and run.
The driver of the vehicle involved failed to stop and continued driving, police said. Narvaez was transported to an area hospital, where he died.
Detectives are looking for a dark-colored vehicle, which can be seen in these photos and video (which just shows the car) released by police:
DC police are asking anyone with information to call police at 202-727-9099. Anonymous information may be submitted to the department's TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411.
The hit and run location, according to police (Google map):
PHOTOS: Photos of car courtesy of Metropolitan Police Department; police lights/Shutterstock
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The New Hampshire secretary of state is warning that that the state's same-day voting registration process could be open to abuse.
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On Nov. 4, almost 35,000 people in New Hampshire turned out at the polls to register and cast a ballot. It was a record turnout for same-day registrations, but Secretary of State Bill Gardner said he has concerns there are not enough safeguards in place.
Despite repeated attempts by the legislature recently to require a valid identification at polls, all that's needed to cast a ballot in New Hampshire is a signature swearing you are who you say you are.
Gardner said he believes that's not enough.
"We've had two elections now with action taken by the Legislature overturned by the courts," Gardner said.
Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Nashua, is drafting a pair of bills to address the issue. One would require someone to live in New Hampshire for at least 30 days before voting.
"We have a problem," Carson said. "We have a problem with what Gardner called 'drive-by voting' -- people coming here for the day, voting and then leaving."
Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, said he believes the effort is little more than sour grapes by a party that has failed to navigate what he calls the sophisticated process of getting out the vote.
"You get the data, you go to the people, you get them to vote -- it's a basic principle of the new politics," D'Allesandro said.
Election oversight falls to the Attorney General's Office, which said that while there are complaints under investigation, voter fraud is not an epidemic.
"There's always a challenge when you have to balance the fundamental rights of voting with the state's interest in making sure those who are voting are who they say they are," said Assistant Attorney General Steve Labonte.
A case that could have an impact on the state's voter eligibility requirements is pending in the state Supreme Court.
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I went month to month in September. Bought the N6 in November. In December I lost my discount. I called and they applied it. I tried again in Jan and Feb, was told that because I have a Non-VZW device the discount can no longer be applied. I have a GPS 64GB N6
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dtolnay released this Jan 25, 2017 · 1102 commits to master since this release
In the six months since Serde 0.8.0 we have learned a lot about how people use Serde, how people wish they could use Serde, and the common failure modes when people try to use Serde.
The primary focus of 0.9.0 is on using Rust's type system to enforce contracts that were implicit and fragile in previous Serde versions. All four of the Serialize, Deserialize, Serializer, and Deserializer traits have been redesigned to use ownership as a way to enforce that implementations are correct.
Another exciting improvement is a redesigned error-reporting API that produces substantially more helpful error messages. The new API supports no_std as a first-class citizen, meaning no_std users are now able to receive the same helpful messages as std. Speaking of no_std, #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] now works within no_std crates.
Serde 0.9.0 is a huge release compared to previous ones. Thank you to dozens of people who have contributed improvements, opened issues, provided help to others, or expressed their frustrations with Serde in a constructive way. We appreciate your continued support as we pin down what a 1.0.0 data structure serialization library for Rust should look like.
This release includes serde_codegen for Rust 1.14 and earlier users. With Macros 1.1 custom derives being stabilized next week in Rust 1.15, we will not be releasing any further 0.9.x versions of serde_codegen. Please migrate to serde_derive at your convenience. See the manual for steps.
There are no silent breaking changes in this release. As you work to update your libraries, the compiler will tell you everything that needs to be changed.
Users of serde_json should read also the serde_json 0.9.0 release notes. This is a great release for serde_json, including a powerful new json! macro.
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"We are challenged by the paradox of having so many resource riches, but the population is very poor," Muyej said.
The industry should be a boon for a country that the United Nations ranks among the least developed. But it hasn't worked out that way.
This informal army is big business, responsible for an estimated 10 to 25 percent of the world's cobalt production and about 17 to 40 percent of production in Congo. Artisanal miners alone are responsible for more cobalt than any nation other than Congo, ranking behind only Congo's industrial mines.
The worst conditions affect Congo's "artisanal" miners — a too-quaint name for the impoverished workers who mine without pneumatic drills or diesel draglines.
"This issue, I believe, we are not the only ones," he said. "We believe there are many companies in similar situations as us."
Chen said he expected controversy surrounding how cobalt is mined in Congo to ripple far beyond Huayou Cobalt.
Companies are unlikely to abandon Congo, for a simple reason: The world needs what Congo has.
"The government is not a beggar," Muyej said. "These companies have an obligation to create wealth in the area where they operate."
But, he said, his government is too poor to tackle these issues alone.
"It is true, there are children in these mines," provincial governor Richard Muyej, the highest-ranking government official in Kolwezi, said in an interview. He also acknowledged problems with mining-related deaths and pollution.
But this comes at an exceptional cost.
Smartphones would not fit in pockets without them. Laptops would not fit on laps. Electric vehicles would be impractical. In many ways, the current Silicon Valley gold rush — from mobile devices to driverless cars — is built on the power of lithium-ion batteries.
Lithium-ion batteries were supposed to be different from the dirty, toxic technologies of the past. Lighter and packing more energy than conventional lead-acid batteries, these cobalt-rich batteries are seen as "green." They are essential to plans for one day moving beyond smog-belching gasoline engines. Already these batteries have defined the world's tech devices.
In fact, a small piece of cobalt is inside the you may be using to read this story right now.
In fact, a small piece of Kolwezi cobalt could be inside the smartphone you may be using to read this article right now.
But how such serious problems could persist for so long — despite frequent warning signs — illustrates what can happen in hard-to-decipher supply chains when they are mostly unregulated, low price is paramount and the trouble occurs in a distant, tumultuous part of the world.
Chen said Huayou planned to change how it buys cobalt, had hired an outside company to oversee the process and was working with customers such as Apple to create a system for preventing abuse.
Chen said Huayou planned to change how it buys cobalt, had hired an outside company to oversee the process and was working with customers such as Apple to create a system for preventing abuse.
"That is our shortcoming," Chen said in an interview in Seattle, in his first public comments on the topic. "We didn't realize."
In September, Chen Hongliang, the president of Congo DongFang parent Huayou Cobalt, told The Post that his company had never questioned how its minerals were obtained, despite operating in Congo and cities such as Kolwezi for a decade.
Bottom right: A boy carries a bag used to transport cobalt-laden dirt and rock at the Musompo market.
Bottom left: A man pushes a bicycle laden with charcoal, which is used for cooking and heating, past Musompo, a mineral market outside Kolwezi.
Top right: "Creuseurs," or diggers, work in the mine at Kawama. The cobalt that is extracted is sold to a Chinese company, Congo DongFang Mining.
Top left: Digger Sidiki Mayamba, left, puts on his shoes in the room he shares with wife Ivette Mujombo Tshatela and their 2-year-old son, Harold Muhiya Mwehu, in Kolwezi, Congo, in June.
Top left: Digger Sidiki Mayamba, left, puts on his shoes in the room he shares with wife Ivette Mujombo Tshatela and their 2-year-old son, Harold Muhiya Mwehu, in Kolwezi, Congo, in June. Top right: "Creuseurs," or diggers, work in the mine at Kawama. The cobalt that is extracted is sold to a Chinese company, Congo DongFang Mining. Bottom
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The Iron Lady stuck to the same do from the 1970s until her death
True Lady: Margaret Thatcher was many things, including always well quiffed
It's certainly not the kind of legacy many prime ministers can expect to have.
Since Baroness Thatcher's death earlier this month, scores of women have been paying tribute to her in a rather unexpected way – by adopting her hairstyle.
One hairdresser, in Chelsea said he had been inundated by requests for 'The Thatcher', as the iconic style has become known.
Celebrity stylist Maximiliano Centini says his salon has been inundated with demands for the style and bookings are full.
'I have not known anything like this for many years,' said Mr Centini.
'We have now done the style for over 100 women, it is a surge. I experienced something similar when the Jennifer Aniston style became popular but that surge built slowly - this has come completely out of the blue.'
Thatcher's famous hairstyle originated in Chalmer's salon in Mayfair during the early 1970s.
The Iron Lady's first modern look was adapted slightly as she aged but the cut never lost its unique power.
'I decided to recreate the early look on one of my actress clients,' reveals Mr Centini.
'It blossomed from there. The cut looked striking on her, other models and actresses that she knows were soon calling asking for the 'Thatcher'. At first I found it amusing but now the domino effect has become serious, the demand is too much to cope with.'
'I immediately fell in love with the cut,' said the actress.
'It is the perfect mix of feminine style with a hint of masculine power. I think for a modern woman that is now an ideal balance. When my other model and actress friends saw it they were immediately intrigued. I have been turning a lot of heads.'
Margaret Thatcher's powerful image - steely and professional, yet always feminine - was a key part of her status.
However, few women replicated the look during her time in office. Now, in a time perhaps of greater equality, women have happily embraced the look.
Maggie tributes: The former Prime Minister's famous hairstyle is now requested in salons as women want to copy 'The Thatcher'
The impact has now echoed into Hollywood. Sharon Stone caused a stir at the weekend when she arrived at the White House sporting a 'power statement' style.
Her famous blonde hair was swept tightly to her head, adopting the same lines as the 'Thatcher'. Her look at the Obama hosted event made headlines across the world.
Italian-born Christina Bellucci, 37, a digital consultant, said she felt the look reflected a modern attitude.
'This is a strong style and gives me authority,' she said.
'When I walk out the door I feel a few inches taller, it gives me power without sacrificing any of my femininity.'
'We've done over seventy of the styles since the news broke of Margaret's death,' reveals Centini.
This lady is not for turning! From her days running the country to her later years, Margaret Thatcher's hairstyle never changed
'It is a steady flow at the moment. What I like is that women are using it to give their lives and general attitudes a boost, many of them tell me that they step out of the chair with more confidence.
It started with younger girls adopting the style - now they have started sending their mums in! What I find interesting is that every women will have a different image of Thatcher in their mind depending on their age.'
Achieving the look is initially a complicated process. 'Margaret Thatcher paid a surprising amount of attention to her style,' says Centini.
Holly Carpenter, a 32-year-old mum of two, said she appreciated the style's practicality. 'She was a busy lady, and so am I. Once the cut is done, the 'Thatcher' is quick and easy to knock into place and I can run out the door.'
Celebrity clients of the salon range from Sophie Dahl to the 'Made in Chelsea' stars; we may be seeing 'The Thatcher' on our screens soon.
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Gordon Hayward, a key part of the Celtics' 2017-18 campaign, suffered a fractured left ankle on opening night in Cleveland.
The 6-8 swingman, who signed with Boston as a free agent during the summer, came down awkwardly after a mistimed alley-oop. The injury was immediately apparent and play was stopped so medical staff could attend to him.
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Science-based games
The list is essentially about educational based games that nailed entertainment (with a focus on scientific phenomenon). - mettamage on HN
Here is a collaborative notepad with educational/science games, i.e. games that are:
capturing parts of real scientific phenomena (including social science, medicine, etc),
actually playable (you can play them for fun, not ones "for classroom only").
So in general, ones that may make you say I played X for its own sake, yet I've learnt how Y works! for Y being advanced enough.
This is a collaborative list dedicated to the public domain (CC0), where everyone is welcomed to contribute! See: how to contribute. It was started, and is being maintained, by Piotr Migdał (the author of Quantum Game with Photons).
A mini table of contents: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Health, Mathematics, Sociology and economy, Humanities
Games
Physics
Velocity Raptor
www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
special relativity theory contraction, time dilation, Doppler shift
2D arcade / puzzle
on web (Flash) (free of charge)
Agent Higgs
www.testtubegames.com/higgsflash.html
elementary particles charges, antiparticles, neutrino oscillations, decay
puzzle (Atomix-like)
iOS game (2 chapter free of charge, on web (Flash))
A slower speed of light
gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light
special relativity theory Doppler shift, geometric distortions
3D first person perspective walking
free of charge
MIT license: github.com/MITGameLab/OpenRelativity
Chromatron
silverspaceship.com/chromatron
geometric optics
puzzle
warning: a few elements are unreal (most are real, though)
MacOS, Windows (free of charge)
Kerbal Space Program
kerbalspaceprogram.com
Newtonian physics, space program
strategy
GNU/Linux ($), MacOS ($), Windows ($)
Delta V
deltav.corpsmoderne.net
Newtonian physics, orbital mechanics
simulation
on web (free of charge)
Bond Breaker
testtubegames.com/bondbreaker.html
electrostatics, chemistry
2d puzzle/action
web, Android, iOS (free of charge)
Meqanic
www.meqanic.com/app
quantum computation and quantum information
puzzle / blocks
web (free of charge), iOS ($)
Relativity Wars
www.fungameco.com/relativity-wars.php
space arcade / RTS
some parts of relativity
Android ($), iOS ($), MacOS ($), Windows ($)
Quantum Game with Photons
Quantum Marble Maze
Quantum Moves, Quantum Minds
www.scienceathome.org/games
adiabatic processes for quantum states
puzzle / action
citizen science
Quantum Moves (free of charge): GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS
Quantum Minds (free of charge): MacOS, Windows
The Electric Shocktopus
testtubegames.com/shocktopus.html
electromagnetism
platformer
web (free of charge), GNU/Linux ($) , MacOS ($), Windows ($)
High Frontier
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172737/high-frontier-3rd-edition
models space mission logistics
living game board and rules incorporate actual data as it is discovered
realistic resource usage and physics modeling
board game ($)
Osmos
www.osmos-game.com
gravity and conservation of momentum
puzzle / action / strategy
GNU/Linux ($), MacOS ($), Windows ($), Android ($), iOS ($)
HelloQuantum
Interplanetary Postal Service
github.com/s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service
Fluid dynamics
Lunar Lander genre
web (free of charge)
Chemistry
Covalence
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184663/covalence-molecule-building-game
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Paul Ryan endorsed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on June 2, but the two haven't always seen eye-to-eye. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) ended a month-long holdout by formally backing his party's presumptive presidential nominee: Donald Trump.
On Thursday, the speaker penned a guest column for his hometown newspaper in which he trumpeted the controversial real-estate mogul as someone who could support the speaker's conservative agenda. The move consolidated Trump's backing from Republican congressional leaders and most party leaders, leaving a small-but-influential bloc of conservatives who have vowed to never support the real-estate mogul isolated and without a significant leader carrying their flag.
Like many senior Republicans, Ryan's endorsement came with its share of caveats about the speaker and the presumptive nominee's remaining policy differences. It did not signal any level of comfort with Trump's sometimes bombastic style compared to the Midwestern values the speaker tries to embody. Instead, Ryan's decision came down most squarely to attempting to prevent another Democrat from claiming the Oval Office.
"It's a question of how to move ahead on the ideas that I—and my House colleagues—have invested so much in through the years. It's not just a choice of two people, but of two visions for America," Ryan wrote, citing the "bold" policy agenda that he will begin rolling out next week and contrasting that with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's platform.
"Donald Trump can help us make it a reality," Ryan said.
[How Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell took such different approaches to supporting Trump]
The move marks a big about-face for Ryan, who four weeks ago declared he was "not there yet" in terms of endorsing Trump and questioned whether the controversial businessman was even a conservative. According to Ryan's team of advisers, the speaker made the decision to support Trump earlier this week — and by late Wednesday, his senior staff began working on the op-ed for the Gazette in Janesville, Wis.
Trump responded to the announcement on Twitter:
So great to have the endorsement and support of Paul Ryan. We will both be working very hard to Make America Great Again! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2016
Ryan and Trump met once in person in mid-May when the billionaire crisscrossed Capitol Hill for meetings with House and Senate leaders. The speaker's advisers said they spoke by phone several other times, with the last call coming last week. Senior Ryan advisers have also remained in close contact with Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, a Republican lobbyist with longtime ties to influential GOP leaders.
Throughout the talks, neither side agreed to switch any of their policy positions, Ryan's advisers said, and one aide suggested that Thursday's endorsement should not be construed as the sort of "real unification" of Republicans that Ryan has called for repeatedly since first announcing he was not ready to endorse Trump.
Indeed, it's still not clear if Ryan will ever campaign side-by-side with Trump — his focus remains on helping elect House Republicans. And at the moment, Ryan still has no formal speaking role at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in late July, beyond his job as convention chairman, which has been a largely honorific role in recent years.
But Ryan's move may also signal that the speaker and other top Republicans are worried about keeping the House and Senate in Republican hands come November, and believe the best way to do that is to unite the party.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was among the first top leader to say he would back Trump.
With his support, Ryan became the last senior Republican congressional leader to throw his weight behind Trump's candidacy. While the speaker did not use the word "endorse," he tweeted that he would vote for his party's nominee in November.
I'll be voting for @realDonaldTrump this fall. I'm confident he will help turn the House GOP's agenda into laws. https://t.co/LyaT16khJw — Paul Ryan (@PRyan) June 2, 2016
And Ryan's chief communications adviser, Brendan Buck, said reporters need not mince words to figure out what it all meant.
We're not playing word games, feel free to call it an endorsement. — Brendan Buck (@BrendanBuck) June 2, 2016
His decision may also surprise some of his closest associates, one of whom said as early as this week that Ryan and Trump could not be more different.
"Paul Ryan in many ways is the antithesis of Donald Trump; he's everything that Donald Trump is not. He's a decent human being. He is a conservative. He is steeped in public policy. He cares about ideas. He's a person who conducts himself with civility and grace in public life. He doesn't put down his opponents," said Peter
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New PS4 Video Teaches How to Use Voice Controls on Sony's New Console
Sony Computer Entertainment UK released a new video showcasing the usage of voice controls on PS4 via the camera or the mono headset provided with the console.
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Rio 2016 officials came under criticism on Tuesday after a 'decreased akalinity' caused the Olympic diving and polo pools to turn green. Officials say the colour change poses no health risks to competitors, while some athletes believe the colour change has actually helped their performance
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Since the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore police, many commentators have stressed the need for peaceful protests, while others have expressed empathy for the violent unrest that soon followed. It wasn't long before some in the former camp invoked the ideas of an iconic civil rights leader: "I just want to hear you say there should be peaceful protests, not violent protests, in the tradition of Martin Luther King," Wolf Blitzer told DeRay McKesson, an activist and community organizer he interviewed on CNN on Tuesday.
But what did MLK really think about urban riots? "They may be deplored, but they are there and should be understood," King said in a speech at the American Psychology Associations' annual convention in Washington, DC, in September 1967. Here's what else he had to say:
Urban riots must now be recognized as durable social phenomena. They may be deplored, but they are there and should be understood. Urban riots are a special form of violence. They are not insurrections. The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or to attain control of institutions. They are mainly intended to shock the white community. They are a distorted form of social protest. The looting which is their principal feature serves many functions. It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse. Often the Negro does not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking. But most of all, alienated from society and knowing that this society cherishes property above people, he is shocking it by abusing property rights. There are thus elements of emotional catharsis in the violent act. This may explain why most cities in which riots have occurred have not had a repetition, even though the causative conditions remain. It is also noteworthy that the amount of physical harm done to white people other than police is infinitesimal and in Detroit whites and Negroes looted in unity.
A profound judgment of today's riots was expressed by Victor Hugo a century ago. He said, 'If a soul is left in the darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.'
The policymakers of the white society have caused the darkness; they create discrimination; they structured slums; and they perpetuate unemployment, ignorance and poverty. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also demand that the white man abide by law in the ghettos. Day-in and day-out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; and he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions for civic services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them but do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison. Let us say boldly that if the violations of law by the white man in the slums over the years were calculated and compared with the law-breaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. These are often difficult things to say but I have come to see more and more that it is necessary to utter the truth in order to deal with the great problems that we face in our society.
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Annabel Smith was the first woman beer sommelier in Yorkshire. She tells Neil Hudson what it's like to taste beer for a living
It sounds like one of those plum jobs people sometimes fantasise about, like being a video games tester or someone who gets paid to sleep, but there's more to being a beer sommelier than meets the eye.
Annabel Smith, from Horbury, has spent her entire life working in the pub industry, starting off pulling pints behind the bar a her local, the Brewer's Pride in Ossett, in 1990 - it was a 'stop gap' job while still at university. But it was while she was there, she caught the beer bug and found her calling in life.
"I loved the interaction with people," she explains. "After a couple of years doing it, I became the manager and I stayed there for seven years before going to work for Whitbread."
That job took her to Harrogate, Doncaster and Glasgow, after which she went to work for Di Agio in another job some might fantasise about: training people how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness.
After that, she took up a position at Cask Marque, tasting beers and training bar managers.
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You might say Annabel eats, sleeps and drinks beer. She can certainly tell you a thing or two about the industry and its history.
"Guinness is a good example," she enthuses. "A lot of people associate it with a shamrock in the foam but Guinness doesn't endorse that at all and it's a cultural thing. It began in the 1930s in Dublin when there were a lot of Americans coming to the area and one of the way they ended up being marked out was with a shamrock on top of their beer. A lot of people think Guinness was invented in Ireland, too, but it was actually first made in London."
Or how about the origins of IPA: "That started in the 18th Century in England, as a lot of men went out to India as part of the textile trade but because they were often hanging around for months on end, many ended up getting smashed on the local drink, made from fermented palm rice, which was lethal. Only a third of them were coming back alive, which led to the creation of a beer which would be strong enough to survive the six month journey out there and still be safe and they added hops to it partly as an anti-bacterial agent. It was one of the first golden beers, no beer had ever tasted like it before."
She goes on: "Traditionally, every village had a brewster and it was women's work, she was known as an ale-wife. One of her jobs was whenever someone was getting married, she would make a particularly strong batch beer and it was known as the 'bride ale', which is where we get the word bridal from."
Her knowledge of her field is matched only by her passion, which was put to the test during her training to become a sommelier.
She had to undergo a number of training modules from the Beer Academy and then blind taste 20 beers and be able to speak about their ingredients, flavours and faults. She qualified just before the real ale revolution, which she saw coming.
"I saw the change coming where beer was changing, partly because off the job I was in at the time. I was a beer taster and training manager for Cask Marque. It was becoming less of a 'poor man's drink'. I was seeing more and more of the cask and real ales coming through. I saw a lot more US beers coming over here. The market was changing and beer was no longer just that warm, flat bitter drunk by old men.
"When I got the chance to become a beer sommelier, I jumped at the chance. People are familiar with wine sommeliers and our job is similar. They tend to work in the catering industry and use their knowledge to pair wines with foods. While we can do that with beers, our main role is to educate people and change their attitudes."
After working for Cask Marque, she decided to take the leap and strike out on her own.
Since then, she's never been busier, with events booked at Bishop Aukland, the Blacksheep Brewery and John Lewis in the Bluewater shopping centre, Kent.
"The thing I was most worried about setting up on my own was not getting any work. But I've not stopped working. It's a growing market and companies are keen to invest in training their staff, because part of the resurgence comes from having an understanding of beer and how it goes together with food."
Now she also trains other beer sommeliers, of which there are now about 100 in the country.
"If there's a change, it's not
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2.2.4 **Thanks for being one of the 700,000 people using JigSpace around the world!**
This update introduces new features and the latest in AR technology, making it a much richer Jig experience. We're also preparing for the imminent launch of Jig Workshop, the app that lets you create your own Jigs!
- Realistic reflections and lighting to anchor your Jigs in the world
- Better, faster tracking
- Higher resolution images
- Laying the groundwork for major upcoming features!
- As usual, bug fixes and performance improvements
More coming soon, stay tuned! If there are Jigs that you would like to see in the app, get in touch with us using the Facebook / Twitter / Email buttons at the top and we'll add them to our list!
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2.2.3 **Thanks for being one of the 700,000 people using JigSpace around the world!**
This update introduces new features and the latest in AR technology, making it a much richer Jig experience. We're also preparing for the imminent launch of Jig Workshop, the app that lets you create your own Jigs!
- Realistic reflections and lighting to anchor your Jigs in the world
- Better, faster tracking
- Higher resolution images
- Laying the groundwork for major upcoming features!
- As usual, bug fixes and performance improvements
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- New look: We've made the Jig tiles bigger, brighter, and more fun!
- Hero panel: When selecting a Jig you now get to read a short intro before you decide to jump in.
- Under the hood improvements that you won't notice until you do. It will allow us to create much prettier Jigs.
- As usual, bug fixes and performance improvements.
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2.2.1 **Thanks for being one of the 300,000 people using JigSpace around the world!**
- You can now create a JigSpace account, and we'll let you know when new Jigs are released.
- What's that? Jigs with sound? Check out the gramophone in the Featured category ;)
- Some of you requested that we support proxies. We listened! You can now enjoy your Jigs like everybody else.
- New cool looking panels for the app settings and permission requests.
- Under the hood improvements that you won't notice until you do. It will allow us to create WAY prettier Jigs.
- As usual, big fixes and performance improvements.
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2.2.0 This is the first step of a major update we've been working on!
- We've redesigned the Jig library so it's easier to find what you're looking for. Scroll up, down, left and right!
- We've added a new "Featured" category for special Jigs. Check out the ones we made for Valentine's day and share them with someone special <3
- We have a couple of really fun Jigs in the works that we will be releasing very soon.
- As always, bug fixes and performance improvements!
More coming soon, stay tuned! If there are Jigs that you would like to see in the app, get in touch with us using the Facebook / Twitter / Email buttons at the top and we'll add them to our list!
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2.1 Jig Packs - In addition to the Jigs we're regularly releasing, you can now purchase Jig Packs: series of high quality Jigs around a common theme. We're starting off with humanity's greatest inventions! This first pack includes Jigs about the crystal radio, Hero's steam engine, the microwave oven, and more! There will be many more packs to follow: ancient Egypt, mission to Mars, incredible machines, greatest battles, etc.
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Vampires: They're just like us! That is, if you don't count the crippling allergy to sunlight or the questionable liquid diet. Films like What We Do in the Shadows (2014) have also shown us that, as neighbors, they might not be all that bad. But according to a recent article on Atlas Obscura, there are some in academia who believe that a shared existence with vampires would be short-lived, and they've done the math to prove it.
In one 1982 paper quoted by Atlas Obscura from an issue of the RAIRO journal, the authors classified the different types of vampires, then used equations such as "bloodsucking rate per vampire at time" to conclude that the "resource" of humans would diminish as the vampire population increases (vampire bites human, human becomes vampire).
Atlas Obscura also quotes a 2013 paper published in Applied Mathematical Sciences, whose authors use information from comic books, films, and popular literature to identify and "draw models of vampire-human confrontation" based on a predator/prey mathematical model. The researchers concluded that living with vampires would "lead to great imbalances in the ecosystems." In one model, based on works by Bram Stoker and Stephen King, the numbers show that the rate of growth in the vampire population "would lead to exterminating 80 percent of the human population on the 165th day of the first vampire's arrival." Another model, based on the work of Anne Rice, gives humans 48 more years than the first model before total extinction, while a third, more hopeful, estimation says that humans and vampires could coexist if we adopt a system similar to that in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels.
To read more about these completely logical approaches to solving this pressing issue, click through to Atlas Obscura.
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Timing Issues w/ USB Communication through CDC
Interrupts Atmega32u4's built in CDC driver for USB communication can have timing issues when messing with the watchdog timer, sleep modes, and timer interrupts. I am unsure of how to fix this issue if you continue to use code that interferes with the CDC. I recommend trying a different method than using the interrupt timers.
Wrong Bootloader It's possible to brick your Pro Micro 5V/16MHz if you used the wrong board selection with the wrong frequency. If you upload the wrong frequency, the IC will not be able to understand any new code that is being uploaded. It expects to have code that is compiled for another bootloader, instead of using the 16MHz frequency with the oscillator.
When either of these cases happens, the device manager is not able to recognize the device and is usually seen as an "unknown device" when the microcontroller runs the sketch. There are ways to recover the an Atmega32U4 (i.e. LilyPad Arduino USB - Atmega32U4 board, FioV3 - Atmega32U4, Pro Micro 5V/16Mhz, Pro Micro - 3.3V/8Mhz, etc) if this happens. Check below for more information:
A.) Upload when LilyPad USB with Atmega32U4/Pro Micro/FioV3 is still in Bootloader Mode
You can try the double reset method by tapping the RST pin to GND twice (since there is no reset button on the board) as explained in the Troubleshooting sections labeled as Reset to Bootloader and How to Revive a "Bricked" Pro Micro => https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pro-micro–fio-v3-hookup-guide/troubleshooting-and-faq.
1.) Open the Arduino IDE.
2.) Choose a simple code to upload on the Arduino. I used the blink test code from the hookup guide [ https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pro-micro–fio-v3-hookup-guide#example-1-blinkies ] to upload.
3.) Check your Tools>Port menu for the list of COM ports when the Arduino is connected. You will probably not see it in the list.
4.) Click somewhere else to stop viewing the list of COM ports.
5.) Ground the RST button 2x as stated in the Troubleshooting and FAQ [ https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/6/d/¾/a/523c8e23757b7fbe5f8b4584.png ].
6.) Re-open the Tools>Port menu to view the list of COM ports again to see what the Pro Micro enumerates to when its in its bootloader. There is an 8 second window to view the COM port when the board is in bootloader mode.
Note: Feel free to use the device manager at this step. Opening up the device manager on your operating system will help to see when the Arduino pops up and disappears.
7.) Select the COM port that the Pro Micro is on before it disappears again.
8.) Hit the Upload button to compile and upload.
9.) Wait a few seconds for the Arduino IDE to compile code. The progress bar should be just over the halfway mark.
Note: On Windows, this takes about 20 seconds to compile and upload. The device will show up as "SparkFun Pro Micro (COM##)". Trying this on a Mac seemed a little faster to compile and upload.
10.) Hit the reset button twice again to place the Pro Micro in bootloader mode while the Arduino IDE is uploading.
11.) If successful, you will have no error messages the Arduino IDE will tell you that it is "Done uploading."
After selecting the correct board definition and timing the double reset method correctly, I was able to upload successfully. It took me a couple of tries before I could get this right because of the timing. You should not need to go through this recovery procedure for subsequent uploads unless you brick the Atmega32U4 again.
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B.) Outdated or Corrupt drivers
If board is showing up as Arduino Micro (COM##) or Pro Micro (COM##), try the double reset method and updating the drivers while still in bootloader mode:
1.) Use the double reset method while having the device manager open.
2.) When the board entered the bootloader mode, I right-clicked on the Arduino board in the device manager as shown in this screen shot: [ http://puu.sh/iaYYC/d45153914c.png ]
3.) I updated
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Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, held a reception for independent Alaska gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker this week at their home in Wasilla, Alaska. (Reuters/Chris Keane)
During her tenure in office, Alaska's then-Gov. Sarah Palin (R) worked closely with her lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell (R). Now, as Parnell seeks a second full term in the governor's mansion, Palin wants to see him booted from office.
On Tuesday, Palin held a reception at her Wasilla home for former Valdez mayor Bill Walker, the independent candidate running neck and neck with Parnell. Palin told the 100 or so guests that she backs Walker and his running mate, former Juneau mayor Byron Mallot.
Palin has had her feuds with Parnell: Last year, Parnell signed legislation that cut taxes for oil and gas companies, reversing one of Palin's signature legislative accomplishments. Palin backed a ballot measure in August that would have reinstated those tax hikes, but the measure failed.
Walker and Mallot formed a unity ticket earlier this year after Mallot, the Democratic nominee for governor, agreed to take the lieutenant governor's spot. Private polling has showed Walker running close to Parnell, though there are few reliable public polls in Alaska.
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Shimano M530 SPD Trail Clipless MTB Pedals
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"The fantasy and mystery that is central to nightlife has a lot of appeal for me," says drag goddess David Richardson. "You can be a different person every night, even if only in appearance. That was the impetus for the Schizophrenic Photogenic series."
David Richardson, as model and muse for photographer Chris Buxbaum, creates looks of extreme bodily modifications using everyday objects as makeup and accessories. In their collaborative photo show Schizophrenic Photogenic, Richardson presents himself as dozens of creature-characters for the camera. Echoing the legacy of club-kid artist and fashion impresario Leigh Bowery, this body of work celebrates the act of transformation of the male body.
"Changing wigs, adding more makeup, altering lip shape and layering accessories would change me into another persona," says Richardson. "The tight close-up allowed me to concentrate only on the shoulders up, so in most of the shoots I was wearing cargo shorts and tennis shoes below."
Richardson's looks for Schizophrenic Photogenic were not expensive couture creations. Look closer at the photos of him and you'll see duct tape lips, Sharpie marker-drawn eyebrows, and detritus turned into accessories. Richardson first learned to create these everyday opulent looks as an Atlanta club kid, and this project was a way for him to relive his fabulous past as drag queen Babydoll Schultz.
"I've been an avid club goer since the early '80s, when I first discovered the fun of transforming my appearance to fit my mood. In those days I was going out seven nights a week, and each night I aimed for a different look. Being on a limited budget, I became very adept at making something out of nothing. I've sported a garbage look on more than one occasion," says Richardson.
Photographer Chris Buxbaum comes from a similar background in his home country of England. "The clubs we went to at the beginning were pretty much exclusively gay because they were the only places you could go dressed like a peacock and not get beaten or attacked. It was really, truly underground – people would arrive dressed quite plainly, then emerge from the bathrooms 30 minutes later as these divinely decadent creatures."
Buxbaum cites the club scene of both England and Atlanta as his inspiration, and Schizophrenic Photogenic retraces the punk aesthetic he fell in love with three decades ago.
"When I moved to Atlanta in 1983, I expected the scene to be duller and a little bit behind, but luckily I was totally wrong," says Richardson. "This was a time when you could go to Weekends, dance your ass off, and then see RuPaul perform, cross the street to Illusions for champagne and an upscale drag show then on to the 24/7 Backstreet then finally finish at the Majestic Diner, which would be packed with club goers at 5am and looked something like a Fellini movie being filmed inside an Edward Hopper painting."
Although the two of them partied in overlapping circles, they never met until the Atlanta scene died down. Schizophrenic Photogenic was a way for them to recreate and honor their respective underground past—the photos evoke the extravagant fashion and peacock makeup that captivated both of them. Every Tuesday evening for two years, Buxbaum would show up at Richardson's home for a photo shoot, never knowing what strange look Richardson had come up with.
"It's my favorite moment, when I open his door and see what he has cooked up for me this time," says Buxbaum. "Then we shoot two or three looks in a session. Then I go home and edit for hours on end. I always go for extreme close-ups with the color punched up high. David is a walking work of art – the rest is just point and shoot."
This is the third show the duo has collaborated on; previously Richardson modeled in drag for a show called "Transformers" and for a photo installation for the MODA Design Challenge in 2012. Buxbaum, along with designer Caryn Grossman, created a punk-Victorian living room—featuring chrome-tinted early portraits from the Schizophrenic Photogenic series. The astounding installation, complete with Richardson as Babydoll Schultz in a birdcage headdress, won Buxbaum and Grossman first place.
Schizophrenic Photogenic at Luckie Street Gallery marks the end of this current project. The two are planning their next collaboration, which will push them both to their creative extremes.
"In 'Deities – Gods Real and Imagined,' David will portray Shiva, Ganesha etc.," says Buxbaum. "Half the deities will be from real religions, half of them will be straight from David's slightly twisted imagination. This new show will put Richardson's transformative abilities to the test; his punk, DIY aesthetic will be vamped up to create these
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Montana Retreat After a major renovation, a lackluster vacation home better reflects its rugged habitat in Big Sky Country
Buying real estate was not on Tom Gilday's agenda when he took a family ski trip to Montana back in 2004. But on a drive to see a friend's new vacation property, he spotted a split-level home for sale at the edge of a pristine lake with an idyllic view of the Swan Mountains—and was smitten.
"It was breathtaking. You look across the lake and the mountains are right there," recalls Gilday, vice president of Silver Spring-based Gilday Renovations. "The house is on a peninsula. If you stand in the living room and look right and look left, there's nothing but water."
Gilday and his wife Karen considered the possibilities and commitments of owning a vacation getaway 2,700 miles away from their Maryland residence. The idea of skiing and ice skating in a winter wonderland and spending summers hiking in nearby Glacier National Park won them over. They bought the property and have gone West—with four kids and their dog in tow—once or twice a year ever since.
Though lackluster in style, the 1990s-era, five-bedroom house had good bones, was well insulated and made a perfect base for the family's outdoor pursuits. But over the years, Tom Gilday studied architecture prevalent in the area and gathered ideas for a future renovation. "The original house didn't take advantage of the views," he says. "I kind of knew what was possible but it took me a while to figure out how to do the transitions."
A few years ago, the Gildays decided the time was right to update the house in order to improve the views and also to create an aesthetic that would better reflect its surroundings. While Gilday's design would add about 108 square feet to the existing structure, it would ultimately create a more spacious feel by reconfiguring rooms and introducing more windows.
First, he eliminated the raised front entry door and split-level staircase and landing. A new front door on the ground level now opens to a streamlined staircase, making room for a large closet in the entry foyer and built-in bookcases in the living room above.
On both gabled ends of the second floor, walls with modest windows were traded for great expanses of glass. In the living room, Gilday added a large fireplace—curiously missing in the original home, given its location—and bumped out new glass windows to offer unencumbered mountain views. A new covered porch on the west-facing dining room side helps eliminate solar gain and offers a perfect outdoor perch.
Gilday also shifted the master bedroom to the mountain side of the house for better views, expanding it by four feet. A new master bath built into the bedroom left space for a home office in the bedroom's former location. He completely gutted the kitchen, replacing it with new cabinetry, Silestone countertops and updated appliances.
Gone are the builder-grade drywall and painted masonite exteriors, replaced by a rugged material palette that lends the home authentic Western style inside and out. Working with J. L. Halverstadt of Wild Wood Eccentrics in Whitefish, Montana, Gilday selected a wide range of reclaimed materials to be used throughout the property for style and sustainability. "All the lumber, siding, stone, everything used in the house was reclaimed—the beams, the siding on the inside and the outside and the horizontal logs. This is about as green as you can get," he says.
Montana-based Brian Quay oversaw construction on-site for Gilday, who managed the project remotely. One of the most challenging details was executing Gilday's window design: The glass was installed into notches in massive reclaimed-wood beams. "It looks like the glass comes out of the beams themselves," explains Gilday.
Karen Gilday furnished the interiors in comfortable, rustic style and selected all of the kitchen and bath cabinetry and materials to complement the home's new look. Artwork the couple has acquired in the region also reflects a Western theme.
The family now enjoys vacations in the newly completed home more than ever. In the summer, they gather with neighbors around the fire pit and enjoy meals on the new porch. "The family is always together out there," says Gilday. "We play chess, read—and there's not as much emphasis on TV.
"The first time I went out there when it was all done," he recalls, "I remember sitting on the porch and looking through the house towards the mountains at dusk. They turned purple, then they turned golden when the sun set. It's a magical place."
Photographer Heidi Long is based in Kalispell, Montana.
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Wolf and the Sea
A Haida Legend
Once a man found two wolf pups on the beach, he took them to his home and raised them.
When the pups had grown, they would swim out in to the ocean, kill a whale, and bring it to shore for the man to eat.
Each day they did this, soon there was too much meat to eat and it began to spoil.
When the Great Above Person saw this waste he made a fog and the wolves could not find whales to kill nor find they way back to shore.
They had to remain at sea, those wolves became sea wolves (Orca).
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We love it!! I have had biscuit type cobblers, cake type cobblers, and pie crust (I know...not really a cobbler but my Mamaw called it that so....to me it was a cobbler) type cobblers. This is a...
With all the high ratings, it looked like this was going to be a winner. I followed this recipe exactly. I felt like there was too much milk called for in the topping, but I went ahead and put i...
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Thanks to all who tried and reviewed my recipe. I made it the other night with peaches and used 7 total. I should have used 9. It was still good though. Life does change doesn't it. When I ... Read more
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I made this for dinner on 8/5/11...in the crock pot. It turned out so well and was so easy. I was concerned about the quantity of sugar (I don't care for dishes too sweet) and had intended to ... Read more
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With all the high ratings, it looked like this was going to be a winner. I followed this recipe exactly. I felt like there was too much milk called for in the topping, but I went ahead and put i... Read more
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This cobbler was good, but not the best we've had, we like another cobbler recipe on this site better (blackberry cobbler II). I used blackberries that I had in the freezer from last summer and... Read more
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I got a flat of blackberries at the farmer's mrkt. today and decided to make this. It was good and very easy. I made it as written and my only change next time will be to add about 2 more cups o... Read more
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I loved this recipe, Baron. The topping I can also use with other fruit. Most toppings have rolled oats and I am not keen on that flavour. Thanks for sharing. Read more
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The ingredients scream this is a cake-like cobbler and it does not disappoint. This is a wonderful nontraditional cobbler, and if you're not into blackberries you can substitute other fruit and ... Read more
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The ghrelin hormone not only stimulates the brain giving rise to an increase in appetite, but also favours the accumulation of lipids in visceral fatty tissue, located in the abdominal zone and considered to be the most harmful. This is the conclusion of research undertaken at Metabolic Research Laboratory of the University Hospital of Navarra, published recently in the International Journal of Obesity.
Ghrelin is a hormone produced in the stomach and the function of which is to tell the brain that the body has to be fed. Thus, the level of this secretion increases before eating and decreases after. It is known to be important in the development of obesity, given that, on stimulating the appetite, it favours an increase in body weight, explained Ms Amaia Rodríguez Murueta-Goyena, doctor in biology and main researcher of the study.
However, researchers at the University Hospital of Navarra have discovered that, besides stimulating the hypothalamus to generate appetite, ghrelin also acts on the tabula rasa cortex. They observed how this hormone favoured the accumulation of lipids in visceral fatty tissue. In concrete, it causes the over-expression of the fatty genes that take part in the retention of lipids, explained Ms Rodríguez.
It is precisely this accumulated fat in the region of the abdomen that is deemed to be most harmful, as it is accompanied by comorbilities, visceral obesity being related to higher blood pressure or type 2 diabetes. Moreover, being located in the abdominal zone and in direct contact with the liver, this type of fatty tissue favours the formation of liver fat and increases the risk of developing resistance to insulin. Normally, on being associated with hypertension, high levels of triglycerides, resistance to insulin and hypercholesterolemia, visceral fat favours the metabolic syndrome, the researcher pointed out.
Ghrelin can show itself in acylated or deacylated form, the difference being in the octanoic acid present in the composition of the former, according to Ms Rodriguez. Previously it was thought that only the acylated form was active in the process of weight increase, but many studies point to both hormones being biologically functional.
Future development of pharmaceutical drugs
This discovery of the twin action of ghrelin on the organism opens the door to future treatment for obesity and which, for the time being, is limited to in vitro studies in cell and animal models, the University Hospital researcher pointed out. This inclusive perspective of the functioning of a hormone is necessary in order to design effective pharmaceutical drugs. There are many hormones that intervene in the control of appetite in the hypothalamus and, at the same time, can act on other organs, such as the liver, the muscles or fat, for example. Thus, the medication developed should block the action of ghrelin both on the hypothalamus and on the accumulation of abdominal fat.
At the same time, stated Ms Rodríguez, it has to be taken into account that this hormone also acts on the liver and favours the capturing of glucose in the muscle. They observed that the concentration of acylated-form ghreline in the blood increases amongst obese persons and particularly when these, moreover, suffer from diabetes. Thus, obese persons with diabetes have greater tendency to accumulate visceral fat than normoglycemic obese persons. This is a little-studied field which has to be investigated in order to develop pharmaceutical drugs which annul this action of ghrelin.
Blood analysis and stimulation of adipocytes
The research undertaken at the Metabolic Research Laboratory of the University Hospital of Navarra principally involved the analysis of the blood of 80 patients, both obese and thin, and in the stimulation with ghrelin of the fatty cells from surgical operations. First they analysed the ghrelin levels in the blood. Then, based on the biopsies of visceral fat obtained from 24 patients subjected to various operations, the adipocytes or fatty cells were separated and subsequently stimulated with hormone, which enabled the researchers to evaluate the changes generated in the genes that favoured the lipid accumulation in these isolated adipocytes, explained the researcher.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Wednesday that congressional Republicans will aim next year to reduce spending on both federal health care and anti-poverty programs, citing the need to reduce America's deficit.
"We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit," Ryan said during an appearance on Ross Kaminsky's talk radio show. ". . . Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health care entitlements - because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking."
Ryan said that he believes he has begun convincing President Donald Trump in their private conversations about the need to rein in Medicare, the federal health program that primarily insures the elderly. As a candidate, Trump vowed not to cut spending on Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. (Ryan also suggested congressional Republicans were unlikely to try changing Social Security because the rules of the Senate forbid changes to the program through reconciliation - the procedure the Senate can use to pass legislation with only 50 votes.)
"I think the president is understanding that choice and competition works everywhere in health care, especially in Medicare," Ryan said. ". . . This has been my big thing for many, many years. I think it's the biggest entitlement we've got to reform."
Ryan's remarks add to the growing signs that top Republicans aim to cut government spending next year. Republicans are close to passing a tax bill nonpartisan analysts say would increase the deficit by at least $1 trillion over a decade. Trump recently called on Congress to move to cut welfare spending after the tax bill, and Senate Republicans have cited the need to reduce the national deficit while growing the economy.
"You also have to bring spending under control. And not discretionary spending. That isn't the driver of our debt. The driver of our debt is the structure of Social Security and Medicare for future beneficiaries," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said last week.
While whipping votes for the tax bill, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, attacked "liberal programs" for the poor and said Congress needed to stop wasting Americans' money.
"We're spending ourselves into bankruptcy," Hatch said. "Now, let's just be honest about it: We're in trouble. This country is in deep debt. You don't help the poor by not solving the problems of debt, and you don't help the poor by continually pushing more and more liberal programs through."
Trump has not clarified which specific programs would be affected by the proposed "welfare reform," though congressional Republicans are signaling that they aim to impose work requirements on food stamps and direct cash assistance for the poor.
"We have a welfare system that's trapping people in poverty and effectively paying people not to work," Ryan told Kaminsky on Wednesday. "We've got to work on that."
Liberals have alleged that the GOP will use higher deficits - in part caused by their tax bill - as a pretext to accomplish the long-held conservative policy objective of cutting government health-care and social-service spending, which the left believes would hit the poor the hardest.
"What's coming next is all too predictable: The deficit hawks will come flying back after this bill becomes law," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democrat on the finance committee, during a speech on the tax debate. "Republicans are already saying 'entitlement reform' and 'welfare reform' are next up on the docket. But nobody should be fooled - that's just code for attacks on Medicaid, on Medicare, on Social Security, on anti-hunger programs."
On the Senate floor during the tax debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., asked Rubio and Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa., to promise that Republicans would not advance cuts to Medicare and Social Security after their tax bill. Toomey said that there was "no secret plan" to do so, while Rubio said he opposed cuts to either program for current beneficiaries. However, neither closed the door to changing the programs for future beneficiaries.
"I am not going to support any cuts to people who are on the program and need those benefits. But I want this program to survive," Toomey said. To which Sanders responded: "He just told you he's going to cut Social Security."
Many conservatives have long argued for cutting and changing social safety net programs, arguing that anti-poverty programs have failed and that Social Security spending is growing at an unsustainable rate.
Still, members of both parties have long been reluctant to cut benefits, especially for seniors, due in part to the potential political cost of doing so. And in discussing changes, Republicans, including Rubio, have largely confined their ideas to plans that would affect new beneficiaries, rather than current ones.
But it
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US aerospace command moving comms gear back to bunker
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) April 8, 2015
The US military command that scans North America's skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said Tuesday.
The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.
The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command.
Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that "because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain's built, it's EMP-hardened."
"And so, there's a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there," Gortney told reporters.
"My primary concern was... are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody who wants to move in there, and I'm not at liberty to discuss who's moving in there," he said.
The Cheyenne mountain bunker is a half-acre cavern carved into a mountain in the 1960s that was designed to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. From inside the massive complex, airmen were poised to send warnings that could trigger the launch of nuclear missiles.
But in 2006, officials decided to move the headquarters of NORAD and US Northern Command from Cheyenne to Petersen Air Force base in Colorado Springs. The Cheyenne bunker was designated as an alternative command center if needed.
That move was touted a more efficient use of resources but had followed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of modernization work at Cheyenne carried out after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Now the Pentagon is looking at shifting communications gear to the Cheyenne bunker, officials said.
"A lot of the back office communications is being moved there," said one defense official.
Officials said the military's dependence on computer networks and digital communications makes it much more vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse, which can occur naturally or result from a high-altitude nuclear explosion.
Under the 10-year contract, Raytheon is supposed to deliver "sustainment" services to help the military perform "accurate, timely and unambiguous warning and attack assessment of air, missile and space threats" at the Cheyenne and Petersen bases.
Raytheon's contract also involves unspecified work at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
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Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact discs and other items, a few hundred protesters in Bossier City, La., referring to themselves as backers of U.S. President George Bush and Barksdale
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Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact discs and other items, a few hundred protesters in Bossier City, La., referring to themselves as backers of U.S. President George Bush and Barksdale Air Force Base, lashed back at Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Texas-based country act the Dixie Chicks, over a recent comment.Maines reportedly told a London audience last week, in reference to Bush's push for military action against Iraq, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."The protesters Saturday night in Bossier City were largely country music fans, some of them recent fans of the Dixie Chicks. "Until they made that statement, I was glad to listen to them," said Rusty Sullivan, adding that his company has been flooded with requests to strip Dixie Chicks songs from the jukeboxes it operates.Radio stations nationwide are boycotting the Dixie Chicks, even though Maines publicly apologized for her statement in London. In Kansas City, Mo., WDAF-AM set trashcans outside its offices for listeners to toss their Dixie Chicks CDs. Its Web site displayed more than 800 listener E-mails, most of them in support of the station's boycott.After more than 250 listeners called Friday to complain about Maines' comments, WTDR-FM in Talladega, Ala., dropped the Dixie Chicks."The emotion of the callers telling us about their fathers and sons and brothers who are overseas now and who fought in previous wars was very specific," said Jim Jacobs, president of Jacobs Broadcast Group, which includes WTDR.
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No hope was offered to public library workers in the provincial budget announced today by Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Cathy Bennett. Workers anticipated a definitive answer on what the province intends to do with the 54 libraries slated to be closed – or if they will continue to have a job. Those questions remain unanswered.
CUPE has been calling on the province to reverse the decision to close 54 of the province's 95 public libraries and restore funding at least to 2011 levels.
In the 2017 budget, the operating grant was restored to the Provincial Information and Library Resources Board, bringing the funding level to $10.7 million, however this is a temporary measure and less than 2011 levels.
"Why does the province want to delay their decision at all?" asks Dawn Learning, CUPE national representative. "The people in these communities have clearly spoken about what they need. They want to keep their public libraries."
"The new budget doesn't do anything it should do to stabilize the economy," says Wayne Lucas, CUPE NL president. "And it does not address any of the damage done by last year's budget."
"All economic indicators are still pointing to challenging times for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in terms of job certainty, the unemployment crisis, being able to pay the bills, quality of life, and the security needed to build a future here."
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption President Maduro, seen here on his TV programme, welcomed delegates more than 100 countries while his region's trading bloc threatened to suspend Venezuela
The South American trading bloc Mercosur has threatened to suspend Venezuela if it does not comply with a series of trade and human rights rules.
Paraguay's foreign minister said demands included protecting human rights and enacting a law guaranteeing free movement of Mercosur citizens.
The group set a deadline of 1 December.
The four original Mercosur members - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay - blocked Venezuela from assuming the rotating presidency in June.
Venezuela's Foreign Minister, Delcy Rodriguez, tweeted that the country rejected the announcement and that the other countries were trying to destroy Mercosur.
She said the bloc was supposed to make decisions by consensus.
Meanwhile Venezuela is hosting more than 100 nations at a meeting of "non-aligned" countries - those who did not back either the US or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
President Nicolas Maduro said on his TV programme on Tuesday that the start of the summit would "stay in the annals of Venezuelan diplomacy for centuries to come".
Venezuela will take on the rotating presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement, which has been held by Iran since 2012.
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n.
mid-13c., kukewald, from Old French cucuault, from cocu (see cuckoo) + pejorative suffix -ault, of Germanic origin. So called from the female bird's alleged habit of changing mates, or her authentic habit of leaving eggs in another bird's nest.
In Modern French the identity is more obvious: Coucou for the bird and cocu for the betrayed husband. German Hahnrei (13c.), from Low German, is of obscure origin. The second element seems to be connected to words for "ardent," and suggests perhaps "sexually aggressive hen," with transferal to humans, but Kluge suggests rather a connection to words for "capon" and "castrated." Related: Cuckoldry.
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Microsoft Word is a desktop suite with offline access, so real-time Save or Sync not available. This means that if a mishap happens, like power failure, corrupted system or anything that could force the closure of your document in progress, the document may get lost.
Fortunately, Microsoft added some safeguards in its office suite to recover losts documents. There are more than one way to recover a lost Word document depending on the version of Microsoft Word you are using. In this tutorial, we are going to list down the easiest methods to recover a lost word document.
Recover Lost Documents in Word 2010 and Above
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With Word 2010, Microsoft introduced a draft feature in which Word creates a temporary draft of all the documents created in it. The draft is available for up to 4 days, after that, it will be deleted. So if you are using Word 2010 or above and the lost document is still under the 4 days period, follow the following instructions to recover the lost document:
Open Microsoft Word, and click on "File" option. Here, navigate to "info" and then, click on "Manage Versions". You will see a dropdown menu here, click on it and select "Recover Unsaved Documents".
Microsoft Word will provide all recent drafts from which you can select the lost document to open and save it. If this method doesn't work for any reason, you can also try the methods below.
Recover Lost Documents in Word 2007 and Below
Word 2007 and below don't come with any reliable document recovery system by default. So we will have to depend on unreliable sources and hope that you find your lost document in one of the areas.
Method #1: Recover from Autosave
By default, Word auto-saves a document every 10 minutes (this can be decreased or increased, see below) that it will automatically recover if the document closed due to a malfunction. Word will not auto-save a file that has been closed willingly using the Word close button. So this method works best when you have lost the document in an accident.To change auto-save time, click on the word menu on the top left side, and select "Word Options" from it. Now navigate to the "Save" tab and enter the time after which Word should save a document in the empty field next to the option "Save AutoRecovery information every".
The process is simple, if your system breaks down just restart it and launch Microsoft Word. While opening, Word will search if it has any autosave file. If it found any, you will see them on the left side of the blank document. Just click to open in Word and save using the standard save method.
The autosave feature will not always be able to recover the file, so keep that in mind and don't depend on it. Furthermore, by default, the document will autosave after every 10 minutes, so there is a chance you may lose work done in the last 10 minutes (unless you changed the time).
Method #:2: Recover from Temporary Files
When you are working on a document, a temporary file is also created that contains the same data. There is a chance that when your system failed, that temporary file didn't get deleted and you can recover data from it.Temporary files have ".TMP" extension with them and you may have to open them with Notepad if Word doesn't work. They may contain lots of other codes along with your document content, so you need to copy only the required data.You can access temporary files in the following directory:C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Word You can also search in the Windows Start menu search bar for ".TMP" to find all files with ".TMP" extensions.
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In this part I want to add tiles for the walls.
There are two vertical walls on the sides of the bricks area and one horizontal at the top. Instead of using images covering full length of the walls, I use short repeating segments. The segments for the vertical walls are slightly different in thickness from the one for the horizontal wall. Besides, two separate tiles for the corners are used.
Wall tiles: vertical, horizontal, top-left and top-right corners.
The tileset description and quads creation are placed in the walls.lua
local image = love. graphics . newImage ( " img/800x600/walls.png " ) local wall_vertical_tile_width = 32 local wall_vertical_tile_height = 96 local wall_vertical_tile_x_pos = 0 local wall_vertical_tile_y_pos = 0 local wall_horizontal_tile_width = 96 local wall_horizontal_tile_height = 26 local wall_horizontal_tile_x_pos = 64 local wall_horizontal_tile_y_pos = 0 local topleft_corner_tile_width = 64 local topleft_corner_tile_height = 64 local topleft_corner_tile_x_pos = 64 local topleft_corner_tile_y_pos = 32 local topright_corner_tile_width = 64 local topright_corner_tile_height = 64 local topright_corner_tile_x_pos = 128 local topright_corner_tile_y_pos = 32 local tileset_width = 192 local tileset_height = 96 local vertical_quad = love. graphics . newQuad ( wall_vertical_tile_x_pos, wall_vertical_tile_y_pos, wall_vertical_tile_width, wall_vertical_tile_height, tileset_width, tileset_height ) local horizontal_quad = love. graphics . newQuad ( wall_horizontal_tile_x_pos, wall_horizontal_tile_y_pos, wall_horizontal_tile_width, wall_horizontal_tile_height, tileset_width, tileset_height ) local topright_corner_quad = love. graphics . newQuad ( topright_corner_tile_x_pos, topright_corner_tile_y_pos, topright_corner_tile_width, topright_corner_tile_height, tileset_width, tileset_height ) local topleft_corner_quad = love. graphics . newQuad ( topleft_corner_tile_x_pos, topleft_corner_tile_y_pos, topleft_corner_tile_width, topleft_corner_tile_height, tileset_width, tileset_height )
Each wall is drawn a bit differently. The top one uses different quads and different number of segments than the right and left. Unlike the left, the right needs to change it's appearance when the "Next Level" bonus is active. It is possible to define separate drawing functions for each wall. Instead, I add an unique tag layout to each one, which I'll later use in the walls.draw_wall function to distinguish between them.
function walls.new_wall ( position , width , height , layout ) return ( { position = position, width = width, height = height, layout = layout } ) end function walls.construct_walls () local left_wall = walls. new_wall ( vector ( 0 , 0 ), walls. side_walls_thickness , love. graphics . getHeight (), " left " ) local right_wall = walls. new_wall ( vector ( walls. right_border_x_pos , 0 ), walls. side_walls_thickness , love. graphics . getHeight (), " right " ) local top_wall = walls. new_wall ( vector ( 0 , 0 ), walls. right_border_x_pos , walls. top_wall_thickness , " top " ) walls. current_level_walls [ " left " ] = left_wall walls. current_level_walls [ " right " ] = right_wall walls. current_level_walls [ " top " ] = top_wall end
In the walls.draw_wall function check of the layout field is performed.
function walls.draw_wall ( single_wall ) if ( single_wall. layout == ' top ' ) then ..... elseif single_wall. layout == ' left ' then ..... elseif single_wall. layout
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02211209
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CLOSE Governor John Bel Edwards (D-LA) joined the LSU Tigers football team for practice on Tuesday. An LSU spokesman says Edwards talked with the team and joined in on a few plays. David D'Aquin
LSU Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron against the Syracuse Orange during the second quarter of a game at Tiger Stadium. (Photo: Derick E. Hingle/USA TODAY Sports)
BATON ROUGE — It appears LSU tight ends coach and veteran offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger may replace Matt Canada as LSU's offensive coordinator soon after the Tigers' Citrus Bowl game against Notre Dame on Jan. 1, according to contacts at LSU.
LSU head coach Ed Orgeron and Canada, whom Orgeron hired after the 2016 regular season from Pittsburgh, have not completely "mended" fences, and Orgeron has been leaning toward Ensminger for several weeks.
LSU offensive coordinator Matt Canada (Photo: Hilary Scheinuk, AP)
After being asked about Canada possibly leaving for a head coaching job during the Texas A&M post-game press conference on Nov. 25, Orgeron said he would consider Ensminger, 59, to replace him and would likely not use Canada's offense.
Canada has not gotten another job.
On Wednesday, Orgeron was asked how his relationship with Canada "kind of mended" throughout the course of the year after a disagreement over the game plan against Troy, which upset 20-point favorite LSU, 24-21, on Sept. 30. Orgeron had Canada use some of the offense Ensminger had run in 2016 as interim offensive coordinator with little success. A meeting followed two days later involving Orgeron, Canada, defensive coordinator Dave Aranda and athletic director Joe Alleva.
"I don't know what you mean by mended," Orgeron answered tersely Wednesday.
"You wanting to do something in the Troy game that he (Canada) didn't want to do," the questioner responded at the press conference.
"Well, I'm the head coach. We're going to do what I want to do," Orgeron retorted.
Asked if he was pleased with the progression he and Canada have had, Orgeron answered without mentioning Canada's name.
"I think it's been fantastic," he said. "The offense has done what we want to do. I think it's been good. For us to win nine games and go 6-1 after the Troy game, I think things have been great."
Orgeron had no comments on Canada's future at LSU. Ensminger and Alleva could not be reached for comment. The four coordinators from both LSU and Notre Dame are scheduled for a press conference Friday morning in Orlando, Florida, at the Citrus Bowl, which kicks off at noon Monday on ABC.
Despite playing true freshmen amid injuries and the departure of projected starter Maea Teuhema on the offensive line, Canada improved in 2017 LSU's much-suffering pass offense to No. 8 in the Southeastern Conference and to No. 85 nationally with 201.3 yards a game from No. 12 in the SEC and No. 101 nationally in 2016 with 190.1 yards a game. Total offense went from No. 9 in the SEC and No. 59 nationally with 423 yards a game in 2016 to No. 7 and No. 53, but with fewer yards at 412.
Canada, 45, found success with a finesse attack amid the offensive line deficiencies via a myriad of motion and shifts, which Orgeron criticized early in the season.
"We've had that discussion about simplifying things," Orgeron said on Sept. 25 — the Monday before the Troy game. "And we're going to. We're going to streamline what we're doing. Do what our players can do best: play LSU football."
Later in the 2017 season, Canada could be heard by players at practice saying, "It's not my offense."
Senior quarterback Danny Etling thrived statistically in Canada's offense, which apparently included Ensminger influences judging from the above comment, as he finished No. 4 in the SEC and No. 12 in the nation in efficiency at 155.3 on 146-of-242 passing for 2,234 yards and 14 touchdowns with two interceptions. It is the highest rank in the all-encompassing passing efficiency statistic by an LSU quarterback since Zach Mettenberger finished No. 4 in the nation and No. 2 in the SEC at 171.4 in 2013. Etling was sixth in the SEC and 53rd nationally in passing efficiency in 2016 at 135.6 (160 of 269 for 2,123 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions).
Nate Peterman finished No. 8 in the nation in passing efficiency under Canada at Pittsburgh in 2016 at 163.4 before being drafted in
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A mysterious force called T-Energy is the source of all life and magic in Ancaria. It was originally solely under the control of the ancient race of Seraphim. However, over time as they lost interest in the world, they gave some of their control to the High Elves. With this power, the High Elves quickly became the dominant race of Ancaria. A power struggle is raging between two factions within the High Elves. The nobility and clergy are each trying to gain control over the T-Energy. Other races take advantage of the distraction the conflict provides and try to gain control of the T-Energy themselves, so they can become the dominant and most powerful race. As these events unfold, the T-Energy goes increasingly out of control and changes into a destructive force. A force that mutates creatures, destroys cities, and renders entire regions uninhabitable. The campaign selection you make will determine whether your story involves healing the land, or intensifying the chaos.
Versions: Currently out on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 as of May 12, 2009.
Campaign
A piece of the world map (explored areas lit)
The game features a very-large, open-world map with two campaigns, one called "Light" and the other called "Shadow." Throughout the chosen campaign it will crossover with the other, in one example in the Light campaign you are asked to defend a town whilst in Shadow you are asked to attack that same town.
The player can choose whether their character follows the Light or Shadow path, except for Seraphim and Inquisitor. Those two have their paths set and cannot follow the other. Meaning, a Seraphin can only play through the Light campaign while an Inquisitor can only play through the Shadow campaign.
Classes
There are 6 classes in the original Sacred 2, the expansion Fire and Ice adds another extra class:
The Seraphim is an ideal all-around character well suited for beginners and veterans alike. They can use most weapons and wear heavy armor. Their aspects of Exalted Warrior, Celestial Magic and Revered Technology reflect a mix of offensive combat arts and solid protection spells. Efficient buffs like Warding Energy comple the profile of a versatile, strong character class. The Seraphim fights for the light and can only therefore only choose the Light Campagin and may not chose a dark God for her Divine Devotion spell. Her unique mount is a Sabertooth.
The Shadow Warrior is a robust, hard to kill and skilled fighter, making him perfect for beginners. He is able to use the largest swords and heaviest war axes and maces. His strikes are deadly and is especially a proficient killer in close quarters. His link to the undead allows him to call on fallen comrades to aid him in battle, including summoning up to four skeleton soldiers to fight along side him. His unique mount is the Hellhound.
Of all the character classes in Sacred 2, the High Elf comes the closest to being a "classic mage" She has three magic-based aspects at her command. Arrant Pyromancer which is especially useful for learning fire spells. Mystic Stormite, which grants her access to a number of ice-based spells, and Delphic Arcania which contains special protection spells such as a teleport spell and a banishing circle. The High Elf's constitution is relatively weak and therefor she is easily wounded by melee attacks. In a fight she is dependent on the use of her combat arts, so playing her requires more strategy than that of a melee class. Her unique mount is the Wind Serpent.
While the High Elves work mainly with elemental magic, their enemies, the Dryads, focus on nature. Capricious Hunter, Cabalistic Voodoo, and Nature Weaver are the aspects used by the Dryad. She is also the ranged combat specialist among the character classes and starts off with a blowgun and a better than average dexterity value. No one can beat this character when it comes to bows and blowguns. At the same time, her magic is relatively weak initially and as such, is recommended more for advanced and veteran players. Her unique mount is the Monitor Lizard.
The Temple Guardian is a special character who can access T-Energy directly. In contrast to the other characters, one of his most important weapons - his weapons arm - is already built in, meaning his left arm changes with whatever combat art is used at the time. He is always able to fire a bolt of energy
for this arm, but as such cannot dual wield, use two-handed weapons, or use a shield. Due to his unique abilities, he makes an excellent support character in co-op play, but is better suited for experienced players in single player campaign. His unique mount is a Mobiculum. He is also the only character that can be only played in the 'good' campaign.
The Inquisitor is the complete inverse of a the Seraphim and is to the powers of Darkness what the
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Russian officials steamrollered tonnes of Western food outside the city of Novozybkov in August 2015 (AFP Photo/)
Moscow (AFP) - Russia will introduce a food embargo against Ukraine next month over Kiev's trade deal with the EU, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday, extending punitive measures already in place against Western countries.
"These measures will be extended to Ukraine too," Medvedev said at a government meeting. "I have just signed the relevant decree."
A free trade deal between Ukraine and the European Union is set to enter into force from January 1 as part of a broader agreement that helped sparked the current crisis between Kiev and the West on one side and Moscow on the other.
Russia has repeatedly expressed concern that Ukraine's free trade agreement with Brussels may flood its market with European goods, and months of three-way talks with the EU to smooth the transition have yielded no results.
President Vladimir Putin last week ordered a suspension of Russia's 2011 free trade agreement with Ukraine.
The move will effectively raise customs tariffs for Ukrainian exporters to Russia by seven percent.
"We must protect our market and our producers and to prevent import of products masked as Ukrainian that are from other countries," Medvedev said.
"There have been several rounds of talks. They did not bring any result," he added.
"Neither Ukraine nor the European Union are ready to sign a legally binding agreement which would take into account Russia's interests."
Moscow's slapped a ban on a large array of agricultural produce from the EU and other nations inluding the United States in 2014 in retaliation for Western sanction against Russia over its meddling in Ukraine.
Medvedev's announcement came as European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom was engaged in the latest attempt to reach common ground on the issue with Russia's Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Brussels.
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ST. LOUIS, SASK.—RCMP in northern Saskatchewan say thieves who stole an ATM dragged it out of town behind a truck after failing to get it into the back of the vehicle. Police say witnesses in St. Louis watched early on Sunday as the suspects backed a white Dodge truck up to a credit union and dragged the machine down the street.
Saskatchewan thieves drag ATM behind truck after failing to get it into the back. ATM thefts have become so rampant in Alberta that the RCMP have dedicated a team of officers to investigate them. ( Shutterstock )
The truck stopped and the suspects tried to load the ATM into the back of the truck, but couldn't do it, so they drove away with the machine still dragging behind. Police say at that point, the suspects were joined by a second truck and were last seen heading east on Highway 25 towards Birch Hills, Sask. Earlier this year, Mounties asked for help solving nearly a dozen ATM thefts in rural Saskatchewan, and ATM thefts have become so rampant in Alberta that the RCMP have dedicated a team of officers to investigate them.
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RCMP say they're reviewing surveillance video as part of their investigation into Sunday's case. Police are also asking anyone with information about the case to call them.
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Hindustan Unilever Ltd. plans to return 21.9 billion rupees ($324 million) to shareholders, signaling a lack of investment options at India's largest consumer goods company, as revenue from selling shampoos, soaps and detergents grew at the slowest pace in more than 10 years.
Local sales of Dove soaps, Surf detergents and Fair & Lovely skin cream grew 3.3 percent in the three months ended Dec. 31, India's largest consumer goods maker, said on Friday. That's the slowest growth since at least 2005, according to company filings. Net income fell 22 percent in the quarter, according to the filings.
Slowing growth at the unit of Unilever Plc belies government data that shows economic expansion in India is outpacing China's. Demand in the South Asian nation's villages, which was increasing at about 1.5 times the rate of cities until two years ago, has slowed "significantly", and that has had an adverse effect on the entire consumer goods industry, Hindustan Unilever Chief Executive Officer Sanjiv Mehta said.
"We are sitting in a deflationary environment," Chief Financial Officer P.B. Balaji said, referring to the drop in commodity prices that has led companies to cut prices of most products. "Price growth is a challenge."
Competition in the consumer goods sector has increased substantially in the past year, and that combined with the pressure to cut prices makes it "very difficult" for entrenched companies to expand the market, said Naveen Trivedi, an analyst at Trust Financial Consultancy Services Pvt. The fact that they are returning money to shareholders suggests there are few avenues to invest it, including in acquisitions, he said.
Excess Money
Hindustan Unilever will seek court approval for the cash transfer, and will then decide whether to return it as a dividend or in some other form, Balaji said. The payout, which comes three years after it increased royalty payments to its parent, should be complete within six months to an year, he said. Parent Unilever, with its 67.2 percent holding in the Indian company, will get the biggest share of the cash.
"Only after we forecast our current needs, foreseeable future needs, business plan, we then realized this is just pure surplus cash," Balaji said. Returning the money to shareholders is "sign of confidence that we can run the business quite comfortably."
Hindustan Unilever's shares fell 2.8 percent to 804.25 rupees in Mumbai, the biggest drop since Aug. 24. Net income fell to 9.71 billion rupees in the quarter ended Dec. 31, missing analysts' estimate of 10.4 billion rupees. That's the biggest drop in profit since the three months ended June 2013. However sales volume, considered the most important metric among analysts, grew 6 percent partly because the company passed on the benefit of lower commodity prices to buyers, Balaji said.
India's government reported growth accelerated to 7.4 percent in the three months through September from 7 percent in the prior quarter. Mumbai-based brokerage Ambit Capital Pvt. estimates a deceleration to 6 percent from 6.3 percent. Factory output recorded its first contraction for 2015, shrinking 3.2 percent in November, data showed Tuesday.
"About 85 percent of the capital expenditure in India is by the private sector and we're not seeing much of a pick up," said Saurabh Mukherjea, chief executive officer of institutional equities at Ambit. "The banking sector is under stress. The economy is losing steam."
— With assistance by Rajhkumar K Shaaw
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Single-sensor cameras fall into two camps: those that are sensitive to far red, and those that are sensitive to infrared. The Canon C300 is sensitive to far red, which means that IRND filters will work–and hot mirrors won't. Come see the difference…
RED cameras are the only cameras that are truly sensitive to a form of infrared light–near infrared–which falls at around 800nm on the electromagnetic spectrum. All other single sensor cameras are sensitive to far red, which comprises wavelengths around 700nm. (The visible spectrum runs from violet, at 400nm, to dark red, at 700nm.) Far red is on the very edge of the visible spectrum, and while our eyes respond to it somewhat they don't respond in the same way that a camera does.
Long the bastard stepchild of the NTSC color world, modern cameras reproduce red more faithfully and vibrantly than any SD camera ever could. This ability comes at a cost, though: cameras can't really see the world the way we do, so we must expect some variability.
This is my fabric IRND chart, made with common materials found at the U.S. chain store JoAnn's Fabrics. Some of the fabrics reflect far red/near IR and some don't. I've been using this chart for years now. (As you can see it's getting a little beaten up. Infrared will do that.)
Near IR and far red contamination typically show up when using standard neutral density filters, because NDs block visible light but allow far red/near IR to pass. The heavier the ND, the less visible light is passed, and opening up the stop to compensate for this lets in a lot more far red/near IR. Typically far red/near IR isn't visible when shooting without ND filters, but we'll see an example in a moment where that's not the case.
I chose Cine1 matrix as it's representative of the color response of the C300's "Cine" matrices. The camera "matrix" is the bit of software that bends the sensor's raw color into a form that we find pleasing. There are nearly infinite ways that this can be done, and this bit of math is a large part of every camera manufacturer's "secret sauce."
This is the EOS color matrix. It is, by far, the most saturated matrix in the camera, and therefore the least likely to be used. (Strong, saturated colors tend to appeal mostly to children and those who are not terribly sophisticated visually. I don't know a single cinematographer who would find this matrix appealing except as a special effect.) What's interesting is that we can see some far red contamination in the middle patch on the top row and the two leftmost patches on the bottom row in spite of the fact that I've not changed anything optically. It appears that far red contamination is present even without adding any ND filtration–but it's only visible if you opt to use the most saturated color matrix in the camera.
If you can't see it, it doesn't matter.
I've added a Schneider ND 1.8 filter to the mix. Far red contamination is dramatically obvious here. I've switched back to Cine1 gamma, which is why the color is a bit on the subtle side. I used a Schneider ND simply because that's what most rental houses seem to carry. (I shot these tests at Chater Camera.)
I've replaced the regular ND with a Tiffen IRND 1.8. The IRND line has a green dye that absorbs far red between 680nm and 700nm, eliminating far red contamination. This is different from a hot mirror, like the Tiffen Hot Mirror or Schneider Tru-Cut IR 750, which cuts much higher in the spectrum. The C300's sensor has a perfectly functional hot mirror in front of it, so adding another hot mirror will have no effect because the on-sensor hot mirror is already removing near infrared wavelengths from the optical path. Doubling up on hot mirrors does nothing more than what a single hot mirror can do.
While the IRND removes obnoxious far red contamination from fabrics it can also cause flesh tones and red fabrics to lose a bit of lustre. This is not a filter issue, but simply a fact of life: the sensitivity of modern sensors to far red creates a much richer red palette than we've had before, so removing some of that to compensate for unwanted far red contamination will most likely affect other things in the frame.
The Schneider Platinum IR (PtIR) ND 1.8 filter does much the same job as the Tiffen IRND 1.8 did. I chose ND 1.8 for this test as ND filters pass less than 1% of visible light at that strength and manufacturing defects, in the form of color shifts, tend to show up fairly quickly. I don't see any issues in either the IRND or PtIR filters. When in
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The new vulnerability allows a complete Java Virtual Machine sandbox escape in Java 7 Update 7, researchers from Security Explorations say
Security researchers from Poland-based security firm Security Explorations claim to have discovered a vulnerability in the Java 7 security update released Thursday that can be exploited to escape the Java sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying system.
Security Explorations sent a report about the vulnerability to Oracle on Friday together with a proof-of-concept exploit, Adam Gowdiak, the security company's founder and CEO said Friday via email.
The company doesn't plan to release any technical details about the vulnerability publicly until Oracle addresses it, Gowdiak said.
Oracle broke out of its regular four-month patching cycle on Thursday to release Java 7 Update 7, an emergency security update that addressed three vulnerabilities, including two that were being exploited by attackers to infect computers with malware since last week.
Java 7 Update 7 also patched a "security-in-depth issue" which, according to Oracle, was not directly exploitable, but could have been used to aggravate the impact of other vulnerabilities.
The patching of that "security-in-depth issue," which Gowdiak calls an "exploitation vector," rendered all of the proof-of-concept (PoC) Java Virtual Machine (JVM) security bypass exploits previously submitted by the Polish security firm to Oracle, ineffective.
According to Gowdiak, Security Explorations privately reported 29 vulnerabilities in Java 7 to Oracle back in April, including the two that are now actively exploited by attackers.
The reports were accompanied by a total of 16 proof-of-concept exploits that combined those vulnerabilities to fully bypass the Java sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying system.
The removal of the getField and getMethod methods from the implementation of the sun.awt.SunToolkit class in Java 7 Update 7 disabled all of Security Explorations' PoC exploits, Gowdiak said.
However, this only happened because the "exploitation vector" was removed, not because all vulnerabilities targeted by the exploits were patched, Gowdiak said.
The new vulnerability discovered by Security Explorations in Java 7 Update 7 can be combined with some of the vulnerabilities left unpatched by Oracle to achieve a full JVM sandbox bypass again.
"Once we found that our complete Java sandbox bypass codes stopped working after the update was applied, we looked again at POC codes and started to think about the possible ways of how to fully break the latest Java update again," Gowdiak said. "A new idea came, it was verified and it turned out that this was it."
Gowdiak doesn't know when Oracle plans to address the remaining vulnerabilities reported by Security Explorations in April or the new one submitted by the security company on Friday.
It's not clear if Oracle will release a new Java security update in October as it previously planned. The company did not immediately return a request for comment.
Security researchers have always warned that if vendors take too much time to address a reported vulnerability it might be discovered by the bad guys in the meantime, if they don't already know about it.
It happened on multiple occasions for different bug hunters to discover the same vulnerability in the same product independently and this is what might have also happened in the case of the two actively exploited Java vulnerabilities that were addressed by Java 7 Update 7.
"Independent discoveries can never be excluded," Gowdiak said. "This specific issue [the new vulnerability] might be however a little bit more difficult to find."
Based on the experience of Security Explorations researchers with hunting for Java vulnerabilities so far, Java 6 has better security than Java 7. "Java 7 was surprisingly much easier for us to break," Gowdiak said. "For Java 6, we didn't manage to achieve a full sandbox compromise, except for the issue discovered in Apple Quicktime for Java software."
Gowdiak has echoed what many security researchers have said before: If you don't need Java, uninstall it from your system.
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Ubuntu and Programming
Ubuntu is a great development platform. You can easily program in C/C++, java, fortran, python, perl, php, ruby, tcl, lisp ... and many more.
Scripting Languages
Scripting languages are usually easy to learn and use. They are called scripting languages because they are interpreted instead of compiled to machine language like C/C++ for example.
Perl
Perl is very popular with web programmers and system administrators. One of Perl's main features is regular expressions. Most languages now include regular expressions but Perl is particularly powerful when processing a lot of text. Perl is already installed on your Ubuntu system by default. Visit the Perl website for more information. Perl has a large number of extensions written for it; visit cpan.perl.org to find them.
PHP
PHP is the language that put the "P" in LAMP, which is the technology that runs most of the internet (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP). PHP is a powerful and flexible language, it is used extensively to run high performance web sites such as Facebook and Yahoo, however it is also great for writing system admin scripts too. It has full support for Perl Regular Expressions as well as Object programming. PHP is much newer than Perl so it has not seen as much use by system administrators, it is not pre-installed on Ubuntu but you can easily add it using the Synaptic Package Manager to Install PHP5. There are 3 versions of PHP available, PHP5-cli is for running programs on the command line, you can use this to create ncurses programs and even daemons. PHP5-cgi and libapache2-mod-php5 are for web servers. There are a huge number of libraries and extensions along with excellent documentation available on the www.php.net web site.
Python
Out of the box Ubuntu comes with Python and many extension modules. Python is very powerful and easy to use. In fact it is the preferred language by most of the Ubuntu developers. You can easily play with python interactively. Start a terminal and type python[enter]. For a more elaborate tutorial and other useful information about Python, visit http://www.python.org
Ruby
Ruby is a "dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write." Check out http://www.ruby-lang.org for more. Ruby is also installed by default on your system.
You might want to install the irb package to use the ruby interactive interpreter.
Others
This is a collection of other extremely useful languages.
C and C++
C is not usually a great language to begin programming with but it is the most powerful programming language in popular use. If you need speed and efficiency, C is the best choice. The Linux kernel, the heart of the Ubuntu operating system, is written in C. C++ is mostly an extension of C. C++ has the main advantage of being an Object Oriented language. (With some talent C can also be used for OOP). To use C and C++ you will need to install the build-essential package.
sudo apt-get install build-essential
You can now compile C and C++ programs with gcc and g++. Read their respective man pages for more information.
Gambas
Gambas is similar to Microsoft's Visual Basic (and almost compatible), but example with object extensions. With Gambas you can very easily and quickly develop programs for GTK+ and Qt4 environments. Gambas has very easy to use Visual Basic like IDE for building graphical user interfaces. And Gambas includes many example programs to ease learning.
With Gambas you can easily develop programs using:
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC and SQLite
OpenGL (fast 2D and 3D graphics)
CGI web applications
D-Bus
Webkit
SDL
V4L (Video 4 Linux can be used to control example webcam)
External libraries
etc etc
Gambas has comprehensive localization features, like build in translation application. Also Gambas programs are faster to execute than equivalent Python and Perl programs.
More info from: gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
Java
Java was created by Sun Microsystems and is now used all over the place. The beauty of Java is its power, combined with its portability. Programs written in Java can usually be run across multiple operating systems on multiple machine architectures without a need to recompile like C/C++, as long as there is a Java Virtual Machine available on the desired OS and platform. Java is a popular language
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The Graphs Tab
This tab tracks and graphs basic statistics about your car as a line chart. The x-axis represents the time at which the stats were gathered and the y-axis represents the values. A Show Items drop down list allows you to select which statistics are displayed. It also gives a color-coded legend so you can tell which line represents which value. If you deselect a particular item it will not be displayed, but the statistics for that item will continue to be gathered.
Note that these statistics are only collected while VisibleTesla is running. If you quit the app the statistics will not be collected until the next time you restart it. If you have selected Options→Allow Sleeping and you don't use the app for 15 minutes, it will stop collecting stats. VisibleTesla stores the statistics it collects. If you quit the app and restart it later, it will display the old statistics and newly gathered ones.
The statistics collected are:
Item Description Exported As Voltage (Volts) Volts into the car C_VLT Current (Amps) AC current into the car C_AMP Range (mi or km) Rated Range C_EST State of Charge (%) Battery percentage remaining C_SOC Rate of Charge (mi or km per hour) Distance replenished per hour C_ROC Power (kW) DC power to/from the battery pack S_PWR Speed (mph or km/h) Speed in mph or km/h S_SPD Battery Current (Amps) Current flowing to/from the battery C_BAM
You can interact with the line chart in several different ways:
Panning: If you wish to move the view forward or backward in time, simply grab the chart (mouse-down) and drag it to the right or the left. To pan the chart up or down, press the CTRL button while dragging the mouse. If you want to pan in both directions simultaneously, hold the SHIFT key while dragging.
Zooming: If you wish to change the time-span that is displayed (zoom in on a small range of time or zoom out to a large range of time) spin the scroll-wheel on your mouse up or down. To zoom in or out on the value (y) axis, press CTRL while scrolling. To zoom both axes simultaneously, press SHIFT while scrolling. When zooming, the app does so relative to the current mouse location. That is, the chart will seem to expand around the point under the mouse pointer.
To select which statistics are displayed, click on the arrow to expand the Show Items dropdown. Select or deselect the statistics as desired.
dropdown. Select or deselect the statistics as desired. The app remembers which variables you have selected. For example, say you start the app, deselect Voltage, then quit the app. Next time you launch, it will remember that it shouldn't display Voltage. Statistics are collected for all items whether they are selected or not.
In the lower left corner of the chart there is a reset button (backward pointing arrow icon). Clicking the button will recenter the chart with the current time at the center. This can be useful if you scroll way out and loose track of where you are in the chart.
To see more data at once, simply the grow the window. The graph will expand and scale to fit.
To determine the specific value at any point in the graph, move your mouse over the spot to be measured. A readout in the upper left corner of the chart is updated to display the time and value corresponding to the location of the cursor.
The Graphs tab also allows you to select how you would like the information displayed. It can display a line chart, a line chart with markers (dots) at the points where readings were taken, or both. The default is to display both. You can choose your display option by bringing up a context menu on the chart. To do this, press the secondary mouse button (usually the right button) when the mouse is over the chart. A menu will appear with the three display choices (lines, markers, or both). Once you choose an option it will be remembered and used the next time you start the app. You'll notice that if you choose the "both" option, the lines will be thin and semi-transparent to make the markers more visible. If you choose to display only lines, the lines will be more pronounced.
You can export the collected statistics to an Excel file using the File→Export Stats Data... menu item. For details on the process, please see the section: Exporting Your Data
The following screen shots show the Graphs tab in a number of different states. The first displays the Show Items dropdown list open with some items selected and others deselected.
The next screen shot shows the context menu which controls the appearance of the graph.
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It all happened so quickly, about a year ago today. One minute, hardly anyone had heard of the ad-free social network Ello. The next, it was a viral sensation, spawning countless think pieces on its chances for survival. Then, as quickly as it appeared, Ello faded from the spotlight. Now, only a year later, Ello is nearly forgotten, filed away with other would-be Facebook killers like the open source Diaspora and the near-dead Google+.
All three are still around, but needless to say, none has managed to lead a mass exodus away from Facebook. Meanwhile, the conversation among Facebook's critics seems to have shifted from trying to replace the service with something better to pressuring the company to improve its privacy protections and ditch its real-name policy.
But one service has quietly emerged as the go-to alternative to Facebook and other big social media sites: the email newsletter service TinyLetter.
Your list of email addresses is yours in a way few things online ever are.
The site, owned by email marketing company Mailchimp, has managed to avoid two of the biggest pitfalls of other Facebook alternatives: technical complexity and the empty room problem. First of all, it's incredibly easy to use. Sending a newsletter is as simple as posting a status update to Facebook. Secondly, you don't have to convince people to install yet another app in order to build an audience. Anyone with an email address—which is pretty much everyone, despite many efforts to kill email—can subscribe to your newsletter.
Journalists and techies have flocked to TinyLetter in recent years, slowly building its reputation as the hippest place to publish online. But it's also starting to catch on outside the media and technology bubbles with newsletters dedicated to yoga, poetry and music, among other things. Today it has more than 161,000 users creating newsletters and more than 14 million subscribers to those newsletters, says Mailchimp's Kate Kiefer Lee.
Yes, this means TinyLetter isn't about to catch up with Twitter and its 316 million active monthly users, let alone Facebook's 1.5 billion. But it doesn't actually have to displace social networks to succeed. Rather, it provides a viable way for people to reach an audience without depending exclusively on Facebook or anyone else's closed platform.
Just a Newsletter
Mailchimp doesn't bill TinyLetter as a Facebook replacement, nor was it ever meant to be. When entrepreneur Philip "Pud" Kaplan created the site in 2010, he told TechCrunch he thought of it as an alternative to blogs. In the early 2000s, Kaplan ran Fuckedcompany, a site that tracked the demise of tech companies during the dotcom crash of the early 2000s. Fuckedcompany had an email newsletter that reached thousands of people, and Kaplan wanted a way to reach a large audience without the work that goes into maintaining a personal blog.
Of course many other mailing list applications also exist, but Kaplan was frustrated by their complexity. What sets TinyLetter apart is its simplicity. TinyLetter offers limited analytics and doesn't include advanced features such as the ability to send messages to a select portion of your audience. But this lack of options also makes it far easier to use.
"TinyLetter appealed because I didn't want to start, you know, a mailing list," explains Fusion editor-in-chief and former WIRED contributor Alexis Madrigal, who publishes a newsletter called RealFuture. "I wanted to start a newsletter."
The service soon attracted high-profile users such as Digg co-founder and former Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose. It was sold off to Mailchimp. But there was no real "viral moment" for the site. Instead, it's been a slow, steady build. Journalists like Ann Friedman and Madrigal boosted the service's visibility, as did programmer Rusty Foster, whose daily newsletter on the best and the worst of the internet, Today in Tabs, became a Newsweek online column before being picked up by Fast Company. But none of the newsletterists we talked to for this story could remember exactly where they heard about the service.
"Somehow, my fingers knew to type in that URL when I woke up one morning and decided to make the thing," says Madrigal.
Why Email
"Why TinyLetter?" is an easier question to answer than "why email newsletters?" For many users, social media has become impersonal. Facebook algorithmically curates what we see, while Twitter overwhelms us with a firehose of fast-moving content, and LinkedIn is, well, LinkedIn. The most important part of the email newsletter's appeal is that it still feels intimate—even if you are sending emails to total strangers. "Email is a weird medium, it's both personal and massive," says Foster.
Though it's harder to get people to sign-up for an email newsletter than it is to follow your Twitter account
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This section introduces some basic cube theory. Understanding a little about the cube's properties will help you to realise what is possible and what is not, as well as help you to see more elegant ways to solve Rubik's Cube.
Basic definitions Learn about pieces, permutations and orientations. Laws of the cube Learn what a "legal" move is and why certain positions are not reachable by legal moves. Symmetry Learn why positions that look different may in fact be the same. Group theory Become familiar with various subgroups of the cube and their properties. Cycles Learn what a cycle is and where cycles can be used. Parity Learn about parity and some problems it may cause.
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From http://www.karldenson.com/dentaping.html Audience Taping is HIGHLY recommended at all times!!!Audio Taping Audio cassette and DAT taping is permitted at shows for personal, non-commercial, home use only. We recommend that you bring microphones and portable tape machines. Soundboard patches will not be given out. Do not expect power; be prepared for everything. Please stay out of the way of the working crew at all venues. Some things that are never allowed at Tiny Universe shows are: CD-R's, large mixers, reel to reel, home decks, long extension cords, etc. Live tapes are a big part of why the Tiny Universe are growing so rapidly, and we want to continue to provide as cozy taping environment for everyone as possible. Please respect the wishes of the band and the crew and feel free to ask questions and make comments. It's always been a goal of ours to make taping as much a part of the show as possible, please help us by following common sense at all timesNote: Madison House does KDTU's booking, and I spoke with Reis Baron to confirm that Madison House is aware of the Internet Archive's project. -- Jon Aizen
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"There is a quiet, covert war being waged on Social Security. The tactic? Divide and conquer. Today, detractors try to use Social Security Disability Insurance as a back door to cut the program as a whole. And, we will organize and fight back against today's attacks aimed at some of the most vulnerable Americans: the disabled." Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Divide and conquer politics is certainly nothing new in Washington. From Ronald Reagan's mythological nation of "welfare queens" to Alan Simpson's "greedy geezer" myth of hordes of seniors driving Lexus' to their gated communities – politicians love to create villains, even if the facts simply don't back up the political spin.
"It hangs together as a good story because it's consistent with people's perception of the real world," says Craig R. Smith, who was a speechwriter for former President Gerald Ford and a consulting writer with President George H.W. Bush. "Like in any good mythology, you need heroes and villains and in the Welfare Queen, you had a villain who was taking advantage of the system."
And so it goes with conservatives' latest target – disabled Americans receiving Social Security benefits. No doubt, you've already heard the messaging: Social Security disability fraud is rampant because it's so easy to receive benefits and people would rather collect a hefty check from the government than work. It's the 2014 incarnation of "our nation is full of 'welfare queens' and 'greedy geezers.'" It also suffers from the same basic problem…it's simply not true.
So let's break down a few of these Disability Myths.
MYTH: "Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness, or mental issues, or pain issues." Nina Easton, Fox News commentator
Not that hard? So, why are the vast majority of claims denied?
FACT: "Nearly 80 percent of applicants are denied at the initial level, and fewer than 4 in 10 are approved after all levels of appeal. Underscoring the strictness of the disability standard, thousands of applicants die each year while waiting for benefits. And one in five male and nearly one in six female beneficiaries die within five years of being approved for benefits. Disability Insurance beneficiaries have death rates three to six times higher than other people their age." Center for American Progress
It's seems pretty ridiculous to claim the system's being widely-abused when so many die just years after receiving benefits or while they're still waiting for an answer.
MYTH: Growth in disability claims is "astonishing", an "epidemic" and "startling."
Actually, it's called demographics. Ever heard of the baby boomers? Former SSA Commissioners from both Republican and Democratic administrations have taken issue with this fact-free, hysteria-laden portrayal of the disability program's growth.
FACT: "It is true that DI has grown significantly in the past 30 years. The growth that we've seen was predicted by actuaries as early as 1994 and is mostly the result of two factors: baby boomers entering their high -disability years, and women entering the workforce in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s so that more are now "insured" for DI based on their own prior contributions." Open Letter from former SSA Commissioners
"…four-fifths of the program's total enrollment in 2013 — and over two-thirds of the growth in enrollment since 1980 — stems from five easily quantifiable factors: growth in the overall working-age population, the aging of that population, growth in women's labor force participation, the rise in Social Security's full retirement age, and the growth in DI receipt among women eligible for benefits to match men's rate of receipt. In short, the factors driving DI's growth are reasonably well understood, were long anticipated, and do not depict a program that is 'out of control.'" Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
"As Baby Boomers retire, the program's growth has already leveled off and is projected to decline further in the coming years." Center for American Progress
MYTH: The entire system is "broken," rife with "fraud" and "rubber-stamping judges" bankrupting the entire Social Security program.
FACT: The Government Accountability Office found that improper payments of Social Security benefits that include Disability Insurance had an error rate of just 0.6 percent. Government Accountability Office An investigation by the Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General looked at the 10 states with the highest increase in disability applications from 2007-2011. That report found that while the number of applications increased…approvals declined. Social Security Administration OIG
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is a leading promoter of the Disability Myths. . His committee has zeroed in on the casework of just four out of 1
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Dell Inc. has filed confidentially for an IPO for its SecureWorks cybersecurity unit, TechCrunch has confirmed. The IPO is anticipated to happen before the end of the year.
First reported by the Wall Street Journal, SecureWorks could be valued at up to $2 billion. The report said that SecureWorks is working with Bank of America and Morgan Stanley to manage the IPO.
Dell acquired SecureWorks for $612 million in 2011 for its security software and consulting businesses, in an effort to expand beyond its computer hardware focus.
As part of the Jumpstart Our Business Act, companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue are able to file confidentially for public offerings, revealing their financials just 21 days before the investor roadshow.
Dell was taken private in 2013 after being bought out for about $25 billion by Michael Dell and private equity firm, Silver Lake.
Texas-based Dell is also rumored to be in merger talks with EMC, the data storage company.
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Solar panels in orbit could generate round-the-clock green energy and beam it down to Earth. Has the time for this epic feat of engineering come round at last?
Essy May
PG&E, one of the world's biggest utilities, has an unusual deal on its books. It has pledged to buy all the solar power produced by a tiny, secretive California start-up. But you won't find these panels laid out in orderly rows across a baking desert – they will be in orbit 36,000 kilometres above Earth. There, they will collect the sun's limitless energy and beam it down to power grids.
This isn't just California dreaming. A surprising number of space solar projects are under way around the world, with some heavyweight backers. China is in on the act, and aims to have prototypes in orbit in the 2020s. Russia has already built a prototype, and Japan is so committed to the idea that it has launched a national space solar programme and plans to have operational satellites by the 2030s. The US Navy and several aerospace firms are interested too. So are we seeing the start of a second space race?
It's not hard to see the appeal. In space, solar power overcomes three obstacles that frustrate terrestrial producers. There are the obvious issues of night and clouds, but also a less discussed problem. Namely, even on the clearest, longest, brightest day, the atmosphere scatters and absorbs the sun's incoming energy until only a fraction of its original strength remains. "How much it's reduced depends on your location," says Paul Jaffe, who is working on space solar modules at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. Once through the atmosphere, the power intensity can be anywhere between …
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CLOSE Chris Ballard, Colts General Manager, announces that quarterback Andrew Luck will go on injured reserve as he rehabs a shoulder injury, Indianapolis, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. The move means he won't play the rest of the season. Robert Scheer/IndyStar
In October, Andrew Luck was throwing during practices with the team. Now he's shut down from practice and Thursday was placed on injured reserve. He won't play this season. (Photo: Matt Kryger/IndyStar)
INDIANAPOLIS – The biggest question facing the Indianapolis Colts in 2018 will be the same question hovering over the franchise in 2017:
How's Andrew Luck?
In these parts, if you've heard that question once, you've heard it a million times. And buckle up: Because you're going to hear it again and again and again.
The Colts placed Andrew Luck on their injured reserve list Thursday, ensuring the Pro Bowl quarterback won't play in 2017.
His season, which never really got started, is now officially over.
And, now, here come the questions. Will he need more surgery? Is his career in jeopardy? Will he be ready for the start of next season?
Lately, there seem to be more questions than answers around this franchise. Whether the issue is Luck's health, the future of coach Chuck Pagano or how long the ongoing roster makeover will take, the Colts face many unknowns.
As it relates to Luck, a few preliminary answers were offered by General Manager Chris Ballard on Thursday. There is no surgery planned, Ballard said. Luck has seen several doctors recently after soreness in his shoulder persisted for more than two weeks. Luck previously had returned to practice and seemed on track to return to the lineup, as previously planned.
CLOSE Stephen Holder, IndyStar Colts Insider, breaks down the news about Andrew Luck being put on injured reserve, ending his playing season, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. Robert Scheer/IndyStar
The good news is the doctors, Ballard said, were in agreement on how to address Luck's current soreness. They recommended more "hard rehab," as Ballard put it, a different regimen than the one previously used. This time it's aimed specifically at relieving the current soreness.
"The shoulder's tied in a bunch of different ways, from the scapula to the other muscles around it," Ballard said. "And getting them all to work together properly is a little bit of the issue. Trying to get them to work together could be causing the soreness issue. So, continue to rehab, continue to strengthen and continue flexibility. … We'll continue down that path and get them all working together and get him going in the right direction."
Ballard said there is no indication Luck's career is in any jeopardy.
"That's not the case here. I've not got that from one doctor," Ballard said. "Career-ending is putting him out on the field before he's ready to play. That's where you should be concerned."
So, back to the training room Luck goes, mere weeks after he talked about finally seeing "the finish line" following months of working toward a return.
And, back to the same ol' same ol' for Colts fans. Which is to say back to the question everyone wants to answer, but can't: How's Luck doing?
The Colts' entire 2018 offseason will be dominated by that question. Until Luck takes another snap in an NFL game, the avalanche of questions will persist.
Oh, the Colts are working under the assumption Luck will suit up for the start of 2018. Then again, they also thought he'd play at some point in 2017.
"We'll take the approach that he's going to be there," Ballard said regarding Luck's availability for the start of next season.
But Ballard was careful to not predict exactly how long Luck would be back in rehab mode before starting to throw again. The Colts will resume offseason work in April as they begin working toward the 2018 season.
By then, the Colts likely will have undergone major changes. A coaching change could be in the cards. The draft will be approaching with, presumably, a very high pick for struggling Indianapolis. And the Colts' roster overhaul will be still be in full swing, with everything from the offensive line and receiving corps likely to be addressed in a significant way.
Add to all that the uncertainty about Luck and you can go ahead and pencil in the Colts as a team experts will again pronounce to be an also-ran heading into next season. The rebuilding effort is already looking like a process that could take a couple more years, based on the sporadic talent currently on the roster. Throw in Luck's situation and what reason could there possibly be to expect much of the Colts in 2018?
Remember, this is a Pro Bowl quarterback, not some random slot
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Experience 1999, the latest tape from Joey Bada$$. It dropped on Tuesday, June 12th, 2012. Joey Bada$$'s odds keep getting better with each new leak, and 1999 will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since Joey Bada$$ debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.
These artists are featured on the project: Chuck Strangers (Prod By Chuck Strangers Scratches By Statik Selektah), Capital STEEZ (Prod. By Vin Skully), Capital STEEZ (Prod By Knxwledge), CJ Fly (Prod By Lewis Parker), T nah Apex (Prod By J Dilla), CJ Fly, Kirk Knight (Prod By J Dilla), PRO ERA Capital STEEZ CJ Fly Chuck Strangers Dyemond Lewis NYCk Caution Kirk. These producers contributed to the project: Chuck Strangers, Freddie Joachim, MF DOOM, Lord Finesse, Statik Selektah, Bruce LeeKix.
Let us know what you think, folks.
Hit up our mixtape section to stream and/or download by Joey Bada$$'s new Rejex project, dropped on Thursday, September 6th, 2012. It features such tracks as Summer Knights (Prod By Chuck Strangers), Waves (Prod By Freddie Joachim), FromdaTomb .
If you dig this, visit Joey Bada$$'s profile for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Remember to follow Joey Bada$$ on Facebook and Twitter.
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Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the only child of former U.S. President Bill ... The Clintons wanted their daughter to have a normal childhood, and they hoped to shield her from the media spotlight. ... In a 1993 CBS This Morning town meeting, Bill defended the choice, stating that Chelsea did not like ...
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What's the best way to store yeast?
We recommend transferring yeast to an airtight container (glass or acrylic), and storing it in the freezer for up to a year. If you buy yeast in bulk (e.g., a 1-pound vacuum-packed brick), open it up; divide it into 3 or 4 smaller portions, and store each in a tightly closed container. A zip-top freezer bag works well. When you're ready to use yeast, remove the bag or jar from the freezer, spoon out what you need, and quickly return it to the freezer. Yeast manufacturers say you should let frozen yeast rest at room temperature for 30 to 45 minutes before using; frankly, we're usually too impatient to do that, and have never experienced any problem using yeast straight from the freezer.
Can I use active dry and instant yeasts interchangeably?
Yes, they can be substituted for one another 1:1. We've found that active dry yeast is a little bit slower off the mark than instant, as far as dough rising goes; but in a long (2- to 3-hour) rise, the active dry yeast catches up. If a recipe using instant yeast calls for the dough to "double in size, about 1 hour," you may want to mentally add 15 to 20 minutes to this time if you're using active dry yeast. When dough is rising, you need to judge it by how much it's risen, not how long it takes; cold weather, low barometric pressure, how often you bake, and a host of other factors affect dough rising times, so use them as a guide, not an unbreakable rule. Remember, bread-baking involves living things (yeast), your own personal touch in kneading technique, and the atmosphere of your kitchen; there are so many variables that it's impossible to say that "Dough X will double in size in 60 minutes." Baking with yeast is a combination of art, science and a bit of magic; stay flexible, and your bread (and you!) will be just fine. One time when you might not want to use instant and active dry yeasts interchangeably is when you're baking bread in a bread machine. Since bread machines use a higher temperature to raise dough, substituting instant for active dry yeast 1:1 may cause bread to over-rise, then collapse. When baking in the bread machine, and substituting instant yeast for active dry, reduce the amount of instant yeast by 25%.
How much is a "packet" of yeast?
You may find older recipes calling for "1 packet active dry yeast." A packet used to include 1 tablespoon of yeast; currently, it's closer to 2 generous teaspoons, a tribute to improved manufacturing methods that produce stronger, more active yeast.
Can I vary the amount of yeast in a recipe to quicken or slow down how my dough rises?
The amount of yeast you use in your bread dough has a significant bearing on how quickly it'll rise, and thus on your own schedule. By reducing the yeast, you ensure a long, slow rise, one more likely to produce a strong dough able to withstand the rigors of baking. The more yeast in a recipe initially, the quicker it produces CO 2 , alcohol, and organic acids. Alcohol, being acidic, weakens the gluten in the dough, and eventually the dough becomes "porous," and won't rise; or won't rise very well. By starting with a smaller amount of yeast, you slow down the amount of CO 2 , alcohol, and organic acids being released into the dough, thus ensuring the gluten remains strong and the bread rises well—from its initial rise in the bowl, to its final rise in the oven. Remember that this slow rise extends to the shaped loaf, as well as dough in the bowl. Once you've shaped your loaf, covered it, and set it aside to rise again, it may take 2 hours or more, rather than the usual 1 to 1 1/2, to rise fully and be ready for the oven. Keep in mind, also, the characteristics of your own kitchen. If you bake bread all the time, your kitchen is full of wild yeast, and any dough you make there will rise vigorously. If you seldom bake bread, or are just beginning, your kitchen will be quite "sterile;" your dough won't be aided by wild yeast, and will rise more slowly than it would in a more "active" kitchen. Here are some guidelines to get you started. If you're an occasional bread baker, cut back the usual 2 to 2 1/2; teaspoons of instant yeast to 1/2 to 1 teaspoon, depending on how long you want to let the dough ferment before the final shape-rise-bake process. 1/2 teaspoon would give you lots of flexibility, such as letting the dough "rest" for 16 to 20 hours; 1 teaspoon would be a good amount for an all-day or overnight rise (
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Surya, thank you for such detailed information in the Ebook. It really opened my eyes on the income potential in the USA for stress engineers, I had no idea. I spent a lot of time on the blog posts, very useful posts. I am definitely thinking about the FEM course.
Emoni Metumba, Senior Engineer, UK
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Actress Marlo Thomas tells this story about a trucker and a feminist sitting next to each other in a bar, getting drunk and arguing over women's oppression, equal pay and whether a woman should be president. They agree on nothing. But one thing they have in common—they both are men. The feminist, Thomas says, is "a guy who gets it."
The story is instructive when thinking about Amar Singh, the 28-year old straight Harvard graduate Indian royal, born and raised in Britain, who is passionate about art, investments, targeted philanthropy—and aggressively but smartly championing women and LGBT rights. Without intention, Singh encapsulates the charismatic concern of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy during his trips to long-neglected Harlem—that family sense of noblesse oblige tossed to the wind as RFK humbly grasps the outstretched hand of a poor black woman desperate for someone to do something, not just pontificate on the hell of poverty.
Singh gets that, too. "There are three tiers of suppression: female, LGBT, and caste—which is actually meant to be illegal but prevails very heavily in India," Singh, a member of the Kapurthala Royal Family, told The Los Angeles Blade recently over tea at SoHo House in West Hollywood. No matter one's talent, education, or aspiration, the caste system dictates work and social relationships. It perpetuates the notion of the "untouchables" common during colonial imperialism.
Singh wants to change that—along with the oppressive state of women and LGBT rights. And here's where Thomas' story is again instructive: he's working to change the culture—and with it, the political landscape—through one-on-one conversations.
For the past several years, the art collector and dealer has simultaneously created his boutique Amar Gallery in London and funded a clandestine campaign in India to educate and change people's minds. He says he's building "an army of love."
"My grassroots group in India helps spread a message of peace in support of LGBT and women's rights because the reality is the majority of the country is being suppressed," Singh says. "A population of 1.1 billion and the majority of the country is suppressed. Now imagine if they were championed. We could have one of the greatest forces on earth. We certainly have the resources but when you have 800-900 million people who are downtrodden—how can we progress?"
Singh says he hasn't yet spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi about women's and LGBT rights—but he would like to. Modi assumed power in 2014, shortly after India's Supreme Court reinstated the repealed British colonial anti-gay law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, that forbids "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" with punishment up to 10 years in jail.
There was cause for optimism at the prospect of the law being overturned during the recent pride parade in New Delhi, VOA News reported Nov. 18, after word spread that the court may review the ruling.
"Five out of the nine judges, it was a nine judge bench, actually questioned the validity of 377. To me that is amazing. I feel a little easier after the privacy judgment," Anjali Gopalan, founder of the Naz Foundation, told VOA, adding that the gay community felt "abandoned" in 2013 when the law was reinstated.
Singh, normally a very optimistic guy, is only cautiously optimistic. "I hope the prospect of abolishing the 377 penal code is not another false alarm," he says. "I hope the drums of India's pride parade beat louder and faster until the voices of hate are drowned out."
He is very confident, however, in "the power of conversation." As a parallel example of his initiative, he refers to the PBS documentary "Accidental Courtesy," the story of blues musician Daryl Davis' journey to convert KKK members from racism to at least friendship with a black man.
"Daryl Davis is an inspiration because he befriends over 200 members of the Ku Klux Klan," says Singh. "He actually, through conversation and education, asks the question: 'how can you hate me when you don't even know me?' And they transform and realize their ideals were wrong because their ideals encroached upon human rights. And these former Klan members are better people for that." Davis, he says, "did it so masterfully, I think I could learn a lot from his example."
But unlike Davis who can put his journey on television, Singh says his grassroots movement "is secretive because if people knew the individuals championing and spreading the message of peace and LGBT rights, their lives would be in danger. It's as simple as that."
And yet, they speak to thousands of people a year, sometimes at rallies, sometimes door-to-door, sometimes in their shacks.
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Casey Primm:
Details on Galaxy Nexus vehicle mount.
Call accepted by operator Agent 2. Currently in room: Agent 2, Casey Primm.
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Hello, how may I assist you today?
Casey Primm:
I have a question regarding the Galaxy Nexus car mount listed on the site
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There are two different models, the Verizon and the GSM, which are very different
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The description is of the GSM dock, but the part number seems to be from the Verizon dock
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I would like to know whether this is the model I am looking for before ordering
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This dock is designed to work with both the GSM and LTE versions of the Galaxy Nexus. Samsung has yet to issue a new part number for this product which is the reason for this discrepancy
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Is this the version with the pin connectors, or the one that requires the charger to plug directly into the phone?
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This has the 3-pin connector on the mount
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If it somehow turns out to be the wrong model, will it be eligible for refund?
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"Peavey Grind Bass 5 BXP NTP 5-String"
Sound: Has a wonderful sound. I use with a " Direct-In Box" into a PA system for performing and recording. If you like playing jazzy, contemporary rock I feel it excels. Over all I have played everything from country, Grunge, and mainstream with no problems. If anything other Bass players have picked it up, played it and were amazed how nice it sounded. Some tried to talk me out of it. Yeah, nice try. Feature: I feel the components that were matched with it work very well. If any changes were made, would be with the resister / Capacitor network to give it just a wee more volume at full setting. The Tone Controls are right on for what ever balancing needed for Bass / Treble. I am very impressed with the craftsmanship and construction. The wood grain finish gives it a sexy look. Ease of Use: I do not see how anyone, even at a most basic novices of knowledge, could make bad music with this. The tones are smooth with zero back ground noise even at higher amp settings. The design of the neck and fret board makes it easy to play. No need to press hard anywhere on the fret board. No tricks needed to learn. It will spoil you. Quality: It is made very well and I suspect It will be my main instrument for many years to come. Value: Yes it is worth twice the price. I have picked up other Basses that cost more and better known and was astounded they did not play as well or sounded as good. Manufacturer Support: I have not needed to contact them. But it would concern me if they do not quickly respond to a need or question only they can answer. The Wow Factor: 10 out of 10. For me, picking it up and playing it stuck in my mind. I went in three times and it drew me like a magnet. I had to take it home. It just looks, sounds, and plays awesome Overall: I love this Bass. I also have a Ibonez 4 string that is a little better for edgier / Grungier sound. But this Peavey plays so smoothly and has a great tone balance for most all music I play which is hard and soft Contemporary . It is a steal for the price and I feel it would be a great deal at twice the price. Lucky for me it wasn't
Style of Music: Christian Rock, Rock, Blues, Lil Country.
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Three of the Fifa executive committee members who will decide the fate of the 2018 World Cup were tonight accused of taking bribes in a corruption scandal involving around $100m (£64.2m) of secret payments. The BBC's Panorama documentary, the timing of which had been branded "unpatriotic" by bid executives before broadcast and "frustrating" by the prime minister, David Cameron, also contained fresh allegations against the Concacaf president, Jack Warner, concerning a ticketing scandal linked to the 2010 World Cup.
Warner and the three votes he controls are seen as key to England's hopes of progressing beyond the first round and Prince William, David Beckham and Cameron – the bid's "three lions", as the chief executive, Andy Anson, called them – will be called upon to try to limit the damage. Cameron will arrive in Zurich tomorrow and is expected to meet Warner, who has been scathing in his criticism of the BBC documentary.
Critics of the timing of the programme tonight insisted that the strength and topicality of the new allegations did not justify broadcasting it three days before the vote – particularly as the claims had nothing to do with the bidding process.
England 2018 also condemned the programme, calling it "an embarrassment" to the BBC. They said in a statement: "We stand by our previous position that the BBC's Panorama did nothing more than rake over a series of historical allegations none of which are relevant to the current bidding process. It should be seen as an embarrassment to the BBC."
Warner, embroiled in an earlier ticketing scandal at the 2006 World Cup, was tonight alleged to have ordered tickets costing $84,240 from the Fifa ticket office for the 2010 tournament, only for the deal to fall through.
On the back of the Sunday Times investigation that led to the suspension of six Fifa officials but created a climate of suspicion among the electorate, the Panorama allegations are likely to lead to further hostility against the British media.
The claims will lead to renewed calls for Fifa to answer outstanding questions over the International Sports and Leisure (ISL) affair, which triggered one of Switzerland's biggest criminal fraud cases, and justify the continued presence of the individuals concerned on its executive committee.
One of the three, Cameroon's Issa Hayatou, who has never been named before in connection with the affair, appears on a detailed list of 175 alleged secret payments, made betweeen 1989 and 1999, from the defunct sports marketing company ISL, routed via a series of front companies in Liechtenstein to top Fifa officials. Hayatou, once seen as a key target for England, was understood to have reacted furiously to the earlier Sunday Times investigation and the three‑year suspension handed down to Adamu and will be further angered by the latest allegations.
The Paraguayan head of the South American football federation, Nicolás Léoz, also on the list, was named in connection with two ISL payments totalling $130,000 during court proceedings in 2008 but Panorama alleged that he received three further payments of $200,000 each. He was lobbied only last week by the England bid team. The payments list shows that a Liechtenstein company, Sanud, received $9.5m. Ricardo Teixeira, head of the Brazilian Football Confederation, the third executive member named, was linked to Sanud by a 2001 Brazilian Senate investigation which found it had secretly channelled money to him.
Six ISL managers were tried in 2008 for misusing company money, but they were not tried for commercial bribery as it was not an offence in Switzerland until 2001.
The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, already under fire over the opaque bidding process, declined to comment on the three Fifa executives alleged to have taken bribes.
ISL was declared bankrupt in May 2001 but the fallout continued until last June, when the second of two Swiss court cases ended with an agreement to pay £3.5m to settle the case anonymously. At the time Fifa said: "It is important to recall that the decision was made on matters which took place prior to the year 2000 and that there has been no court conviction against Fifa. In addition, the Fifa president has been cleared of any wrongdoing in this matter." Fifa refused to comment tonight.
BBC insiders said that there was a strong public interest rationale in showing the film before the vote took place and that they had been editing it right up until the last minute, having acquired the key document only in recent weeks. Anson insisted that although England were "underdogs" he was confident that there was a credible "path to victory" as the last‑minute lobbying intensified. He reiterated his concerns about Panorama. "Of course I'm disappointed with the timing and it's certainly not going to win any votes," said Anson, who said he would not be watching the programme.
"It's a reality, it's a small group of 23 people; in a way it
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Let the UK Independent introduce us to contemporary conspiracy theories. Nick Harding writes:
"The number of people who believe conspiracy theories is staggering. According to various recent surveys, a third of Brits believe Princess Diana was murdered (a Daily Mail survey), a quarter believe the moon landings were faked (from Engineering and Technology magazine), nearly half of all Americans do not believe global warming is man-made (a Yale University survey) and 84 per cent of them believe 9/11 was an inside job (a New York Times/CBS poll)."
I must confess to being sceptical about most – nearly all - conspiracy theories. Relatively sceptical, that is (as will become clear).
Take this very common problem just to begin with. What does the conspiracist do when he discovers that there are various mutually-contradictory theories about the very same conspiracy (as is the case with 9/11, AIDs, J.F. Kennedy, Jack the London Ripper, etc.)?
However, it's also the fact that particular conspiracy theories are particularly suited to advance a specific political cause (or justify a political obsession, or confirm already-existing belief/biases/prejudices) that causes me the most problems. Scratch the average political conspiracist for a while and one will often find that he's a thoroughly political animal furthering a specific agenda – whether of the Right or Left.
There are also a few – or many? - conspiracists who quite literally believe all the conspiracy theories they come across. Of course not many people believe all conspiracy theories. Many will believe a couple or even just one.
So let's think about the term "conspiracy theory" itself. Taken literally, these two words shouldn't really be seen as judgemental or critical. If we were to say, "theories about conspiracies," then that would make things clearer. As it is, though, the term is almost always used critically or sarcastically. (I believe one "conspiracy theory" in the list above; or, at the least, I partly believe it.)
Mitigated Scepticism
There are at least two books on conspiracy theories which conveniently tackle each conspiracy theory at a time. They also take fairly divergent views on conspiracy theories as a whole; which, in itself, is worth looking into.
The first book, The Little Book of Conspiracies (by Joel Levy), accepts a degree of truth in many well-known conspiracy theories. The second book, A Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories (by James McConnachie and Robin Tudge), downplays most of them. Up to a point this is strange because their analyses of conspiracy theories are often similar in style and content. However, the fact that Joel Levy's book has the word 'Conspiracies' in the title, rather than McConnachie and Tudge's 'Theories', partly explains their divergences.
Despite that, even the conspiracy theory sceptics - James McConnachie and Robin Tudge - are more than happy to admit that
"all too frequently the term 'conspiracy theory' has provided those in power with a convenient way of brushing serious allegations aside, with the result that the official version of events prevails" (xi).
So it's clear that even sceptics allow the possibility that at least some conspiracy theories portray the facts. In tandem with this, it's also true that some critics of conspiracy theories (at least in government form) do indeed have a lot to gain from retaining the "official version" of events.
The sceptics McConnachie and Tudge clearly don't accept the theory that all conspiracists are loons who're locked-up in their bedrooms with nothing but a computer to pass the time with. Instead, "the official version of events is subject to ever-increasing scrutiny" (xi).
Thus, in this day and age, conspiracists "stoke fear and outrage in the Middle East". They also "inspire homespun 'patriot' movements in the US." In addition:
"They make liberal Europeans cynical and apathetic. They influence the politics of the entire Italian nature. They spawn computer games... hip-hop albums... films... and a whole sub-genre of fiction..." (xi)
Surely amongst all the above there must be at least some truth. Perhaps a lot of truth!
Joel Levy, as I said, tends to be far less sceptical than McConnachie and Tudge. Indeed Kenn Thomas (the editor at Steamshovel Press) says that Levy "does not embrace every theory as absolute truth, but neither does he dismiss them as total bunk." This hints at a progression from conspiracy theories deemed to be "total bunk" to those which Levy largely accepts as true (or at least largely true).
When it comes to 9/
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After nearly four months of StarCraft 2 inactivity since their failed Kickstarter, satire publication Esports Express has announced intentions to return for the Legacy of the Void Beta along with several other notable currently SC2-inactive personalities.
"I am returning after my hiatus for the quick LotV cash grab," said Sean "Day9" Plott, who recently hired Matthew "looknohands" Fink as a dedicated moderator for his Twitter account. "My first Daily will explain the most efficient strategy to extract maximum value from one of the LotV free money stations."
He added, "I learned about value from Hearthstone personalities like Trump and Artosis."
Sources inside Blizzard have indicated that if it were not for Plott and other notable figures' relentless positivity as SC2's viewership stagnated, the video game company would have fixed every single issue the community had with StarCraft 2.
"Day9 came back for the money while I came back for the passion," said Steven "Destiny" Bonnell. "I'm like, five steps ahead of him. I returned before he even left."
StarCraft 2 fans have urged commentators and personalities to remain faithful and monogamous to their initially declared game (unless it's Brood War) like a traditional marriage, rather than stray to multiple games, like regular sports or other interests in literally anything else.
"I have not watched any True Blood because I am a loyal Game of Thrones fan," said one StarCraft player. "Though maybe I can watch both shows and not Mad Men because I'm an HBO fan and not an AMC fan. Or maybe I can watch all of them and not The Avengers Age of Ultron because I'm a TV fan. Wait maybe I can watch all of that and not read books because I'm a digital media fan. Or maybe I can do all of that but not listen to music because I am a fan of things I see with my eyes. I have decided to watch all shows with the sound off because I am very loyal to my sense of sight."
The StarCraft 2 community quickly recognized the inherent hypocrisy of supporting content "creators" who return to consume StarCraft's fan resources and move on, like the aliens from Independence Day, a movie that many loyal SC2 fans surely have not watched because it is not a StarCraft tournament.
"Imagine what NBA fans must have felt when Michael Jordan left for baseball and then returned for a quick basketball cash grab," said r/StarCraft fan who angrily emailed Jordan's sponsors Nike and Gatorade. "I think MJ might be viewbotting."
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Hi All,
I performed an in place upgrade of Horizon View 6.2 over the weekend and have been very happy with the performance and features. However, I am having a bit of an issue with Windows 10 Enterprise. The VDI desktop does not resize/scale as expected. It seems that whatever the Windows 10 desktop setting is set in vSphere, seems to remain when connecting with the View Client.
I had this issue in Horizon View 6.1.1 with the 3.4 client, but didn't sweat it until this recent release.
I wanted to eliminate my Windows 10 Enterprise image as being the culprit, so I installed a fresh version of Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit with the latest VMware Tools and View Agent and the issue persists.
I am running vCenter 6.0.0.b and ESXi 6 with the latest patches. I can validate the screen resize/scale issue occurs on multiple endpoints, so I do not believe the issue is with the endpoint device and the client.
Any ideas?
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The Images are composed of high-resolution digital images of approximately 12,000 individual visual items, primarily prints, but also illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects, which display aspects of the Revolution. These materials were selected from across the BnF's departments, and include thousands of images for the important collections entitled Hennin and De Vinck. Detailed metadata exists for the images, so that researchers can search by artist, subject, genre, and place.
The FRDA provides access to the most complete searchable digital archive of French Revolution images available. Images de la Révolution française is a benchmark image-base undertaken by the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the occasion of the Revolution's bicentennial in 1989. It aimed to "allow the reader to explore the relationships, articulations and confrontations between the ideas of the Revolution and their metaphorical embodiment, the constant cross-fertilization of ideology and make-believe…" For this project the BnF created over 38,000 separate views of over 14, 000 individual images, showing closeups and dividing documents with discrete iconographic materials into appropriate sections. The Images, which were originally offered in analog format on laserdisc, had become extremely difficult to access due to rapid technological change. Within the framework of its digitization programs, the BnF rescanned at high resolution almost half of the images on the laserdisc from the original materials. New JPEG files were created from the original videodisc for the remaining images in the corpus. Now all of these images are available online as part of the FRDA.
Over 14,000 image-based items, primarily prints from the Departement des Estampes et de la Photographie, but also illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects, were selected for inclusion from across the BnF's departments. Many originally entered the BnF on legal deposit, but others come from important collections acquired in the 19th and early 20th century. Two of these collections deserve special attention. The collection of Michel Hennin is notable not only for its size, but because it includes many prints omitted from the legal deposit that Hennin amassed during his time in Italy working for the Viceroy, Prince Eugène de Beauharnais. The print collection of Carl de Vinck, a Belgian diplomat, grew out of his father's infatuation in Marie-Antoinette and expanded to focus more generally on visual representations of France during the century from Marie-Antoinette's marriage to Louis XVI in 1770 until the Paris Commune of 1870.
The images selected for the digital archive concentrate solely on the period from 1787 through 1799, from the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Revolution through the emergence of Napoleon. Only visual materials directly tied to the Revolution itself are included. While the texts of the AP are primarily of interest to serious students and scholars of the Revolution, these images expand the FRDA's audience to the general public. The creators of the initial incarnation of the Images anticipated that scholars would use them for their research and teaching purposes, and that the public at large would find in them an important way of learning more about this foundational moment for the French nation.
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Bill Johnson's Big Apple closed its Mesa location but kept its original Phoenix branch open. (Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic) Story Highlights "GateWay Community College needs parking space and this property will be used for that purpose in the future," the consent decree action item says.
Bill Johnson's Big Apple Restaurant at Van Buren Street and Gateway Drive, a Phoenix staple since 1956, will be paved over into a parking lot in two years, according to an agreement reached with the Maricopa Community Colleges Governing Board.
The board plans to purchase the storied eatery for $945,000, lease it back to the tenant for up to two years, and then turn the space into a parking lot, according to an agenda item Tuesday for a board meeting.
"GateWay Community College needs parking space and this property will be used for that purpose in the future," according to the agenda.
Related: Top 10 shuttered restaurants in metro Phoenix
Because the board plans to purchase the place for $75,000 less than the appraised price of $1.2 million, the board plans to charge the tenant $1 for the first year. The second year, the price would go up to $12 per-restaurant-square-foot a month, according to the agenda.
The Phoenix location is the last remaining Bill Johnson's Big Apple Restaurant. The locations in Goodyear, Mesa and north Phoenix already closed.
During the past several years, the nearly 60-year-old chain had financial troubles and filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan in November 2012 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Previously: Bill Johnson's Big Apple in north Phoenix closes
Related: Bill Johnson's Big Apple closes Mesa location
Founder Bill Johnson has passed away, but the restaurants carry his name. According to the restaurant website, Johnson and his wife, Gene, arrived in Phoenix in the mid-'50s with a "hope and a dream, plus Gene's BBQ recipes for success."
At the time, the location near 37th Street and Van Buren streets was on the outskirts of Phoenix. As Johnson put it then, "where the pavement ends and the West begins."
An entrepreneur, pilot, actor, stuntman, hypnotist, inventor and cowboy, according to the website, Johnson had his driver loudly announce as he opened the door to Johnson's longhorn-hooded Caddy, "This is Bill Johnson!," even if no one was around to hear.
Restaurant management had not returned calls for comment as of press time.
Reporter Jennifer McClellan contributed to this report.
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Hamilton admitted that tweaks needed to be made to the design
Anthony Hamilton's 'Info Wing' is to undergo a few design tweaks after a successful maiden track test in Abu Dhabi.
Force India ran the LED display system on top of one of their cars on the second day of the final two-day test of the season at the Yas Marina circuit.
Using information provided from race control, the aim of the concept is to provide to the viewing public positional data, along with other information such as tyre strategy and on-track flag condition.
The Info Wing was tested by Force India in Abu Dhabi, it was placed above the driver's head
The test at least highlighted to Hamilton, whose son Lewis was crowned Formula One world champion for a second time last Sunday, where areas of modification are required.
Hamilton said: 'As I suspected the bright sunlight made it a bit difficult to see the LEDs when the cars were out on track.
'In the garage it looked like it was going to be bright enough, and at particular points on the circuit it looked bright enough.
'But we're probably going to need to change the LEDs, make them slightly larger and slightly brighter.
Problems appeared when it proved difficult to see the LED lights in the bright sunshine
'Overall (Force India) thought it looked quite good and think it's going to work well if we can just brighten it up slightly.
'You can do as much testing here in the UK you think is viable, but obviously we don't have the bright sunshine like in Abu Dhabi.
'Nevertheless it was a good test, and it bodes well for the new version.'
The next version of the system will incorporate a new-shaped camera mount and a double-LED display showing not only race position data, but also the first three letters of a driver's surname.
The technology will be able to display a variety of information once it is fully operational
'Based on the feedback we're going to be designing the new unit right now, and I hope to have the new circuit board ready in the next three weeks,' added Hamilton
'I'm going to persevere with it because based on the story that emerged last week there has been a huge amount of interest.
'People love the idea, although of course there are the die-hard fans who say 'we understand racing, we don't need that'.
'But it's not just for the die-hard fans, it's for fans generally.'
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Date(s): June 18, 2016 at 12:00pm - July 15, 2016 at 6:00pm
Location: Index Art Center
Cost: Free
Exhibition Features Artists Sculpting with Light THE PARTICLE AND THE WAVE
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 – FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 18 – 7 TO 10PM
Index Art Center is pleased to present "The Particle and the Wave," a group exhibition featuring artists who create work using the properties of light to evoke wonder.The exhibition brings together multi-media installations, sculpture and wall works in which light is both medium and subject. Curated by Wavelength, a collaborative project by Gianluca Bianchino and Jeanne Brasile,their curatorial model brings attention to the relationship between art and science via immersive exhibitions. Featured artists include Stanley Casselman, Andrew Demirjian, Sunil Garg, Jain Kwak, Greg Leshé, Ryan Roa, Christine Soccio – Romanell, Carol Salmanson, USCO & Eric Valosin.
"Beyond creating imagery, the works are unified through their use of light to draw attention to events in space and time."
Stanley Casselman's "Deep Field" is an immersive electronic window into a subtly shifting field of colors and light that envelopes the viewer. Eric Valosin's "Hyalo" series implicate viewers in projected tableaus that are activated by the audience. Christine Soccio-Romanell's art uses reflective materials in site-responsive works that refract color and light. These, and the other works in the show,situate the viewer in a series of immersive experiences as they move throughout the exhibition.
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When a series goes on for as long as Ys has, you'd expect it to have lost steam and lost the magic it was once known for. My time with the Ys franchise started just earlier this month with the re-release of Ys Seven, but I've explored the rest of the series since then and what stuck out to me the most about Ys is that, as time goes on and technology advances, the developers at Falcom have never been afraid to grow and advance the Ys games to keep up. In making these changes and upgrades, they've never lost the core appeal of Ys, the heart of the franchise that has been maintained since even the very first entry into the series.
After seven years and a few console generation leaps, Nihon Falcom have delivered the next entry in their flagship action JRPG series. Ys VIII continues the tradition of following the fable-esque journeys of the adventurer Adol Christin. Much like Sinbad the Sailor, every game in the series sees Adol embarking on a fresh adventure in foreign lands, discovering new people, places, and mysteries, all sprinkled with a healthy serving of deadly beasts. The comparison to Sinbad is especially apt with this entry, as Ys VIII sees Adol and his longtime partner Dogi working as sailors and ship-hands on a luxury cruising vessel.
Most Ys games see Adol exploring towns and villages, taking requests from kings, and plenty of other rote JRPG narrative elements. Ys VIII takes a risk with its story by abandoning nearly all of that. As a sailor on The Lombardia, Adol gets a chance to briefly meet all of the passengers onboard before an enormous sea creature attacks the vessel, capsizing it and washing everyone ashore on a mysterious island thought to be a mere legend. From here, Adol and the closest survivors have to juggle tracking down the rest of the passengers, building a settlement to survive on the island, and figuring out how exactly to get off said island. All of this begins to blend in with a series of mysteries and secrets tied to the island itself.
While the narrative does eventually build into a grand tale as expected of most Ys experiences, the bulk of the games story is anything but. The setup of a shipwrecked group of strangers trapped on an island together is such a fresh JRPG tale, and it gives way for unique character interactions and personal development that constantly kept me engaged. I was always wondering which passenger I would find next, and getting excited when it seemed like it might be a notable character I met at the beginning. Finding these new passengers always meant not just a new vendor or party member, but a new set of stories and character interactions for me to explore.
My love for the story also comes from how much the improved visuals and cutscenes help flesh out Adol as a protagonist. Ys VIII is the sharpest looking game in the series by far. Despite some environment details being held back by it being a joint PS4 and Vita release, character models, lighting, and colors all complement each other beautifully. The game runs perfectly on PS4, and while Vita visuals are obviously a bit more pixelated, the framerate and clarity are still top-notch for the system.
All of these elements feed into the cutscenes of the game wonderfully, most notably the detailed character models. In Ys Seven, I never really got a feeling for Adol's personality or emotions; he had no voice and only rarely gave dialogue responses. In Ys VIII, however, not only does Adol have voice acting sprinkled throughout all his actions, he also has an emotive face and body that characterize him as a veteran adventurer who's been through this kind of thing way too often to be surprised. I felt a lot more invested in him both as a character in the story, and as my personal anchor to this world.
As interesting and refreshing as the story of Ys VIII is, the gameplay is largely unchanged. Of course, that really isn't a bad thing at all. Ys games have always had fast, frantic, and satisfying real time combat, and it's a tradition that Lacrimosa of Dana only builds on. Like previous games, you have a party of characters who each have different attack styles and attack types. Different enemies have different type weaknesses, and you'll need to switch characters in real time to play to those advantages. Along the way you'll also learn and equip a variety of special moves, which use a replenish-able meter to dish out powerful attacks. There's also a bullet time styled flash dodge/guard system that lets you slow down time and deliver rapid attacks if your timing is just right.
As you move across the world, exploring dungeons and looking for new survivors or bosses, you'll sometimes be stopped in your tracks by an attack-alert. Enemies will often attack your home base and trigger a tower defence mini-game. While most of the time it's optional, there are a few times when it's a mandatory encounter. Being deep into
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(Reuters) - A Canadian National Railway train carrying propane and crude oil derailed and caught fire on Tuesday in northwest New Brunswick, Canada, the latest in a string of train accidents that have put the surging crude-by-rail business under heavy scrutiny.
No one was injured but about 45 nearby homes were evacuated when the train derailed near the village of Plaster Rock at about 7 p.m. local time (2300 GMT), local officials and the railroad said.
The train originated in Toronto and was headed to Moncton, New Brunswick, which is about 300 km (186 miles) east of the site of the accident, said Jim Feeny, director of public and government affairs at CN.
This latest derailment comes a little more than a week after a train carrying crude oil in the booming oil state of North Dakota derailed and exploded.
A series of disastrous derailments has reignited the push for tougher regulation. A surge in U.S. oil production has drastically increased the number of oil trains moving across the continent as pipelines fail to keep up with growing supply.
In Tuesday's accident, 15 cars and one unmanned locomotive appeared to have derailed, mostly toward the rear of the train, including four loads of propane and four loads of crude oil, said Feeny.
"At this point, we cannot confirm that they're involved in the fire. They are in the fire area. Because of the fire, emergency responders can't approach too closely," he said.
The train had a total of 122 cars and four locomotives.
Feeny could not say what kind of crude oil the train was carrying and declined to say which customers were involved.
Feeney said CN crews have begun arriving and senior executives were also en route.
Fire officials say the cars appear to have been mostly empty except for some propane residue, said Sharon DeWitt, emergency measures coordinator for Plaster Rock.
"They'll in all probability burn themselves out by morning," said DeWitt. "We'll monitor it." She said there is no danger to residents as the wind is blowing away from Plaster Rock, a village of about 1,000 in a mainly wooded area about 50 km (31 miles) from the U.S. border and Maine.
There have been five major accidents in the past year involving a train carrying crude oil. The most devastating occurred in Quebec in July last year, when a runaway train derailed and exploded in the heart of the town of Lac Megantic, killing 47.
Some U.S. politicians have called for a phase-out or retrofit of old tankers that do not meet current safety standards and are prone to puncture.
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Big Bird will not be anyone's political puppet.
Sesame Workshop has asked the Obama campaign to take down a new TV ad that prominently features the famous talking bird, in a satirical spot mocking Mitt Romney for calling for an end to PBS subsidies.
"Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down," Sesame Workshop said in a statement.
An Obama campaign official said it has received the request and "will review their concerns."
The statement follows a week of Big Bird saturation in the media and on the campaign trail.
Romney touched off the frenzy when he said at last week's debate he wants to "stop the subsidy to PBS" even though "I like Big Bird."
The line took off on Twitter. "Saturday Night Live" included a Big Bird bit. Obama has repeatedly mocked Romney for the line in his post-debate stump speeches. And the Obama campaign ad released Monday featured a menacing voiceover warning of Romney's anti-Big Bird agenda.
"Big, yellow, a menace to our economy. Mitt Romney knows it's not Wall Street you have to worry about, it's Sesame Street," the voiceover says. "Mitt Romney, taking on our enemies no matter where they nest."
The Romney campaign said its rivals were distracting from bigger issues.
"Four years ago, President Obama said that if you don't have a record to run on, 'you make a big election about small things.' With 23 million people struggling for work, incomes falling, and gas prices soaring, Americans deserve more from their president," spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said.
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By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog As if their current governor and his predecessor have not done enough damage to Texans' reputation for Constitutional acuity, nearly 1 in 3 Texas voters think that their state has the legal right to secede from the Union, according to a new Rasmussen Poll . Umm, no. On the bright side (such as it is), only 1 in 5 Texas voters would actually like to break off from the Union. Fully three quarters of Texas voters are content to remain part of these United States. Gee, thanks. This discussion was sparked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry's assertion that Texas has the unique right to secede from the U.S. of A. (Side question: Why the quiescence of the hyper-patriotic right? Why are they not demanding that Perry love this country or leave it—and reminding him he can't take his state with him?) It is of course an old urban legend that since Texas entered the Union as a sovereign Republic, it has reserved the right to reclaim its old status. Horse-hockey. Two points to consider. First, there's this brief history of the Lone Star State's 1845 entry into the Union, emphasis added:
When all attempts to arrive at a formal annexation treaty failed, the United States Congress passed—after much debate and only a simple majority—a Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States. Under these terms, Texas would keep both its public lands and its public debt, it would have the power to divide into four additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so desired, and it would deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the United States government. (Neither this joint resolution or the ordinance passed by the Republic of Texas ' Annexation Convention gave Texas the right to secede.)
That paragraph comes from what I can only assume to be an authoritative source on the matter: the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. (Tip of my cowboy hat to an old college pal—from Texas—who posted the link on Facebook.)
Second point: We fought a war over this. Lots of Americans died. The secessionists lost—including the ones in Texas. Secession is no more legal now than it was then.
And while talking about secession undoubtedly plays well among the 3 in 10 Texas voters ill-informed enough to think it's a serious political statement, it also makes the rest of the country (and likely the rest of the state) roll our eyes in bewilderment at the Lone Star Clown.
On Facebook? You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook's Networked Blogs.
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Gene Myers , Founding Director, Systems Biology Center, Max Planck Institute Bio and Contact Info
Listen (6:10) What have you been up to since the Celera days?
Listen (4:08) Last decade more about technology than science
Listen (3:53) Wanting to do science not medicine
Listen (4:10) Not many saying it, but short reads have given crappy results
Listen (4:43) Near perfect assemblies now possible
Listen (3:19) Future of sequencing
Gene Myers is an algorithmicist best known for his time at Celera where he developed BLAST, perhaps the most widely used bioinformatics tool ever.
But then Gene got bored with sequencing projects.
"There was this focus on trying to make sequencing the human genome cheaper," Gene says in today's interview. "And we knew that eventually technology would win that one. You didn't have to be much of a visionary to see that."
Gene argues that it's been simply a matter of "turning the crank" over the past decade since the first human genome was sequenced. Scientists have been going from organism to organism, and staring at the human genome for genotype-phenotype correlations. Yes, sequencing has gotten much cheaper, and that is important for medicine. But Gene wasn't interested in medicine. He wanted to move on to new science.
So what has Gene been up to? And why is he getting back into sequencing after a decade on the outside?
The answer has to do with long reads.
Podcast brought to you by: Pacific Biosciences - providers of long read sequencing solutions based on their Single Molecule Real Time technology.
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1 Timestamp What is your username? What is your secret code? What do you write on the walls? Link to an appropriate comment or post:
2 9/28/2017 12:41:27 Option 1 test test
3 10/1/2017 0:52:33 frolicking_elephants security Oh no, I'm evil again...
4 10/1/2017 1:31:11 testing testing testing
5 10/1/2017 4:59:02 jilliefish monitor I'm so jealous of my leader's ability LOL
6 10/1/2017 7:02:45 Nascarfreak123 arcade Hi Scott
7 10/1/2017 8:25:55 Shadowghostalex hide I like pineapple on pizza
8 10/1/2017 10:59:47 eauxpsifourgott bite Well, here we go. Will I make it to the end of the night or are the rumors true that I could get killed? My employers have been curiously quiet about details. I know that I'm on a combat medic team, but I don't even know who my team leader is. I'll just need to keep an eye on the others and make sure we can catch up.
bodompidompi immediately arouses my suspicion. Unlike most of the others, he's very outspoken about his role and background, which leads me to think that there may be more to him than meets the eye. If something happens, I might draw others' attention to him... I also don't want to stand out too early, however.
Well, let the games begin!
9 10/1/2017 12:35:56 K9moonmoon Door I think I'm gonna try and convince my dad that my secret goal is to get married to add someone to our family. Which means if he also wants me dead, he might be convinced that letting me stay alive to make the family bigger would be a good strategy for a while.
10 10/1/2017 14:14:15 RavenclawRoxy Puppet I'm really annoyed, as a teacher, that you're encouraging people to write on the bathroom wall. :P
11 10/1/2017 14:28:14 RavenclawRoxy Puppet So it says in the rules most security guards will come in as groups with their friends... I'm wondering if that's just flavor or if the teams are actually based (for veterans) off of people who have associated in the past. Because Bubba and I are definitely friends, and I know she's on my team. Only time will tell . . . There are a lot of newbies, though. Who knows.
12 10/1/2017 18:46:28 testing testing testing
13 10/2/2017 4:00:52 Bonetrousler Oxygen Shoutout To Simpleflips https://www.reddit.com/r/hogwartswerewolvesB/comments/73rbie/freddy_fazbears_phase_05_the_voice/?st=J8A2DALL&sh=56a1c592
14 10/2/2017 13:26:04 Nascarfreak123 arcade What do you do on Halloween?
15 10/2/2017 13:45:51 K9moonmoon Door Check out my sweet role playing as a child murderer https://www.reddit.com/r/hogwartswerewolvesB/comments/73rbie/z/dntfpz3
16 10/2/2017 23:20:37 siriusly-sirius nightmare A large drawing of a penis
17 10/2/2017 23:34:27 /u/frolicking_elephants security I can't believe this! The dream team is back, baby. Frock + Mrrrrh 4eva! https://www.reddit.com/r/FreddysBackstage/comments/73rcdl/freddy_sub_phase_05_the_first_attack/dnsjw8o/
18 10/3/2017 0:16:16 siriusly-sirius nightmare A drawing of a vagina
19 10/3/2017 2:07:10 sharon-carter camera inb4 icetoa's actually a good guy but people think the leader comment is suspicious and lynch them https://www.reddit.com/r/hogwartswerewolvesB/comments/73ytlv/freddy_fazbears_phase_1_the_dismantler/dnu7n7w/
20 10/3/2017 2:21:58 sharon-carter camera Hey i wonder if anyone noticed that i put "Clearly someone has no friends, if you took the time to translate this."
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EDIT: Here comes the downvote fairies! Went from +20, to +7 in 4 minutes...keep protecting your little puppet and doing the bitch work shills 😂
EDIT: I was given gold by an angry anonymous user, who sent me this charming PM (below). He gave me gold, in an attempt to make me look "stupid", by his own admission. I have never given gold, and didn't want gold on this post. I've been skeptical of the way gold is used to add credibility and creedence to certain posts/comments, and it is money that goes towards Reddit. They are desperate now...
Keep posting about Trump and raising awareness for his sexual abuse allegations. For a sub that claims to be non partisan, we need to hold our own president accountable for the same crimes we pursue others for.
Obviously the MO of the social engineers is to protect his "anti establishment" image on conspiracy forums and make him look trustworthy to us so he can do corrupt shit without criticism. They created a cult essentially, and we need to burn that stupid mentality and naive pro government mentality to the ground here.
Keep sharing about his Epstein relationship and his sexual abuse allegations. If the posts don't go anywhere (usually vote brigaded I assume), at least it proves the point that it's being censored and covered up from being a popular topic here.
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Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
The judge who oversaw a bond hearing for a man accused of fatally shooting nine people at a historic black church in Charleston was previously reprimanded for using a racial slur while on the bench.
Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr., who presided over confessed gunman Dylann Roof's bond hearing on Friday, made the comments in a courtroom over a decade ago.
Gosnell was reprimanded by the state Supreme Court in 2005 for telling a black defendant in 2003, "There are four kinds of people in this world: black people, white people, rednecks, and n******."
RELATED: Families of Victims Address Dylann Roof at Bond Hearing
The state Supreme Court announced prior to the bond hearing that Circuit Court Judge J.C. Nicholson would preside over Roof's criminal charges, not Gosnell, per standard procedure in South Carolina. Circuit judges are the ones that oversee trials, while magistrates preside over bonds and 30-day misdemeanors.
Roof confessed to killing nine people at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday night, sources told NBC News. Police say they believe the attack was a hate crime.
RELATED: Dylann Roof Hinted of Attack, Friend Says
A racist website showing photos of Roof that contains a long white supremacist screed was discovered Saturday registered under the name Dylann Roof, using Roof's mother's home address. NBC News could not confirm the site's authenticity or whether Roof was its creator.
RELATED: Racist Website Appears to Belong to Charleston Church Shooter
According to a disciplinary order posted by the court about Gosnell's choice of language, the judge claimed he was quoting a statement made to him by a veteran black sheriff's deputy. He said he repeated the statement to the defendant in a poorly executed attempt to encourage him to change the path he had chosen for his life.
Gosnell also said that he personally knew the defendant, as well as the defendant's father and grandfather.
Lionel Lofton, Gosnell's longtime lawyer, downplayed the incident, telling NBC News that the national media was trying to make a big deal out of something that happened 13 years ago. He added that Gosnell was disciplined by the court for it, and said it's now a "non-issue."
An earlier version of this story was incorrect. Magistrate James Gosnell was not removed from the case. The Supreme Court ordered that a Circuit Court judge would preside over the case in the future, per standard procedure in South Carolina.
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My family was just about to embark on a car trip when the mail came. I could not resist opening the package before we left, and it was a good thing I did, because it was my plushy exchange gift.
My daughter immediately claimed the Tepig keychain, as she loves Pokémon. Lumpy Space Princess got to join our Jake and Finn plushies (gifts from another exchange), making our Adventure Time play more fun for me, since I love doing her voice.
My son claimed the (hand-made!) platypus, and he gave it the highest honors a new toy can get (pictures below).
I grabbed the milk chocolate macadamias and dry-roasted macadamias for the trip. as you can see in the picture, they are unopened. late into the trip it seemed like a good time to break them out, when I discovered somebody had already tried to open them. luckily whichever child had done it was not able to completely open them, so we all got to enjoy them. The milk chocolate macadamias were a real treat for us, as we rarely have them. My daughter often speaks of going to Hawaii for vacation, so getting a package from there made a big impression on her.
Thanks, Classy_brontosaurus. your package really made the weekend extra-special.
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The Refinery [錬結] is where you can use swords that you no longer want or need to strengthen the stats of other swords. Refining can only strengthen Impact (打撃), Leadership (統率), Mobility (機動), and Impulse (衝力).
The stats added depend only on the sword used for Refining.
The first page lets you choose the sword you want to Refine, and the second page allows you to choose up to 5 swords as Refining material.
This can be considered an alternative to scrapping the swords in the [刀解] tab in the Forge.
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Notes Edit
You will lose all bonus stats after a sword reaches upgraded (特) status (Level 20 or 25) or achieves Kiwame (極) status. Try not to waste a lot of time and spare swords from refining if your sword is close to upgrading into their Toku form.
Try not to waste a lot of time and spare swords from refining if your sword is close to upgrading into their Toku form. For every sword there is a maximum cap on the bonus stats gained from refining, for both their normal and upgraded forms. The absolute maximum stats for Toku and Kiwame swords can be found on the Sword Stat List.
Swords must fulfill the following conditions to show up as a sword to consume: Be unlocked from the Formation menu (by default) Are unassigned to any parties Are not in Internal Affairs
Swords that are consumed will have any equipped troops and horses automatically removed and returned to the inventory.
Refining Values Edit
Each sword provides different bonuses to stats for refining. Kiwame swords give double the stats of their standard forms when refined.
Tantou Edit
Wakizashi Edit
Uchigatana Edit
Tachi Edit
Ootachi Edit
Name Impact Leadership Mobility Impulse Ishikirimaru +3 +2 +1 +1 Hotarumaru +3 +3 +1 +1 Taroutachi +3 +2 +0 +1 Jiroutachi +3 +3 +0 +1
Yari Edit
Name Impact Leadership Mobility Impulse Tonbokiri +1 +0 +0 +3 Nihongou +1 +0 +0 +3 Otegine +1 +0 +0 +3
Naginata Edit
Name Impact Leadership Mobility Impulse Iwatooshi +2 +1 +0 +2 Tomoegata Naginata +1 +1 +1 +2 Shizukagata Naginata +1 +1 +1 +2
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Skin Installer Ultimate + LGG Skin Installer Ultimate (SIU) is a program made to help you
easily install and uninstall skins in the League of Legends video game. Read the forum post for help and support. See here for other helpful links. Download Version 4.35 Now! Change Log: #257 (4.35) Fix issue with compatability with new LoL client #256 (4.34) Fix issue with % signs in urls #255 (4.33) Fix bug that could happen if a file was downloaded fast (Thanks Yurixy) #254 (4.32) Fix crash on files without extensions (thanks Rens) #253 (4.31) Fix false warning on garena (Thanks Nguyen) #252 (4.30) Remove Riot File Corruption Warning #251 (4.29) Fix issue with download zip files from the web. #250 (4.28) Revert bad change to zip library (thanks Alessandro) #249 (4.27) Rewrite Zip Lib for Garena Users #248 (4.27) Add instructions for no files found message #247 (4.27) Add better information when no relman can be found #246 (4.27) Improve raf manifest file detection (Thanks Bradley) #245 (4.26) New Icon (Thanks Adet) #244 (4.26) Spelling fixes (Thanks Adet) #243 (4.26) Crash fix on start #242 (4.25) Potential fix for some garena installs (Thank Nguyen) #241 (4.25) Fix issue with path detection and zed files (Thanks Alexandru) #240 (4.25) Fix issue with popup box breaking url download (Thanks Yurixy) #239 (4.25) Fix issue with correct path being updated in registry (Thanks Yurixy) #238 (4.24) Fix bug in file scanning (Thanks Damien) #237 (4.24) Add option for allowing test files (Thanks Chewwy) #236 (4.23) Fix script timing issue #235 (4.22) Fix errors in tree view #234 (4.21) Add tree ability to right click and view relman info #233 (4.21) Try out ad funding. (click >> to remove them forever if you want) #232 (4.21) Make the file search for release manifest files not return duplicated #231 (4.20) Another fix for blue textures! (Thanks NearEdge!) #230 (4.19) Fix for blue textures! (Thanks Cosmic!) #229 (4.19) Better support for 7z extraction #228 (4.19) Add progress bar and threading to skin download #227 (4.18) More fixes for Garena (cap file names) #226 (4.18) Progress Bar loading improvements #225 (4.17) More fixes for Garena #224 (4.16) Garena Support!!! #223 (4.16) Grafical changes to refer to blue texture fix #222 (4.16) Add progress bar to uninstall process #221 (4.16) Add support for .lolmod extension (thanks Damien) #220 (4.16) Fix author and title setting thread issue #219 (4.16) Fix error messages when path isnt set right #218 (4.16) Potential fix for sounds and uncompressed files (Thanks Shadoewedgex) #217 (4.16) Fix bug when there is a empty version folder (Thanks Golden!) #216 (4.15) Fix for air file detection and add warning (Thanks Chewwy!) #215 (4.13) Absolutely Last fix for brush?(Thanks Chewbacca) #214 (4.12) Really last fix for brush DXX (Thanks Yurixy) #240 (4.11) Last fix for brush XD (Thanks Yurixy!) #239 (4.10) Make brush from non sr maps not ruin sr (Thanks Chewbacca!) #238 (4.09) Make web and click add work on any tab (Thanks Yurixy!) #237 (4.08) Better fix for maps with brush #236 (4.07) Fix older map skins with new brush name (Thanks Yurixy) #235 (4.06) Fix colors in tree view #234 (4.06) Fix remaining blue textures (Thanks Ionut and Brad!) #233 (4.05) Fix registry detection for file (Thanks Yurixy) #232 (4.05) Enable auto add after file and url paramter click (Thanks Yurixy) #231 (4.04) Make install progress bar more accurate (Thanks Yurixy) #230 (4.04) Add yurixy
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According to the QEMU about page, "QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer."
When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your x86 PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.
QEMU can use other hypervisors like Xen or KVM to use CPU extensions (HVM) for virtualization. When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU.
Installation
Install the package (or for the version without GUI) and below optional packages for your needs:
- extra architectures support
- Glusterfs block support
- iSCSI block support
- RBD block support
- SMB/CIFS server support
Graphical front-ends for QEMU
Unlike other virtualization programs such as VirtualBox and VMware, QEMU does not provide a GUI to manage virtual machines (other than the window that appears when running a virtual machine), nor does it provide a way to create persistent virtual machines with saved settings. All parameters to run a virtual machine must be specified on the command line at every launch, unless you have created a custom script to start your virtual machine(s).
Libvirt provides a convenient way to manage QEMU virtual machines. See list of libvirt clients for available front-ends.
Other GUI front-ends for QEMU:
AQEMU — QEMU GUI written in Qt5.
QtEmu — Graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4.
Creating new virtualized system
Creating a hard disk image
Tip: See the See the QEMU Wikibook for more information on QEMU images.
To run QEMU you will need a hard disk image, unless you are booting a live system from CD-ROM or the network (and not doing so to install an operating system to a hard disk image). A hard disk image is a file which stores the contents of the emulated hard disk.
A hard disk image can be raw, so that it is literally byte-by-byte the same as what the guest sees, and will always use the full capacity of the guest hard drive on the host. This method provides the least I/O overhead, but can waste a lot of space, as not-used space on the guest cannot be used on the host.
Alternatively, the hard disk image can be in a format such as qcow2 which only allocates space to the image file when the guest operating system actually writes to those sectors on its virtual hard disk. The image appears as the full size to the guest operating system, even though it may take up only a very small amount of space on the host system. This image format also supports QEMU snapshotting functionality (see #Creating and managing snapshots via the monitor console for details). However, using this format instead of raw will likely affect performance.
QEMU provides the qemu-img command to create hard disk images. For example to create a 4 GB image in the raw format:
$ qemu-img create -f raw image_file 4G
You may use -f qcow2 to create a qcow2 disk instead.
Note: You can also simply create a raw image by creating a file of the needed size using dd or fallocate .
Warning: If you store the hard disk images on a If you store the hard disk images on a Btrfs file system, you should consider disabling Copy-on-Write for the directory before creating any images.
Overlay storage images
You can create a storage image once (the 'backing' image) and have QEMU keep mutations to this image in an overlay image. This allows you to revert to a previous state of this storage image. You could revert by creating a new overlay image at the time you wish to revert, based on the original backing image.
To create an overlay image, issue a command like:
$ qemu-img create -o backing_file=img1.raw,backing_fmt=raw -f qcow2 img1.cow
After that you can run your QEMU VM as usual (see #Running virtualized system):
$ qemu-system-x86_64 img1.cow
The backing image will then be left intact and mutations to this storage will be recorded in the overlay image file.
When the path to the backing image changes, repair is required.
Warning: The backing image's absolute filesystem path is stored in the (binary) overlay image file
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Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. Rush Limbaugh is normally provided to affiliates in exchange for running several minutes of national advertisements provided by Premiere each hour. These ads are called "barter spots." These spots are how Premiere makes its money off of Rush Limbaugh and other shows it syndicates.
But without explanation, Premiere has supended these national advertisements for two weeks. Radio-Info.com calls the move "unusual." The development suggests that Rush Limbaugh's incessant sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke have caused severe damage to the show.
From the memo:
Attention Traffic Managers of Premiere News/Talk Affiliates:
We are suspending the requirement to run barter spots for two weeks, March 12th and March 19th, for our News/Talk affiliates only.
Please replace/re-traffic any Premiere barter spots immediately. Contractual requirements to run barter spots are being suspended for these two weeks only. Replace them with Lifelock and Lear Financial or a local spot of your choice.
Earlier today, ThinkProgress exclusively reported that 140 advertisers, including dozens of major national corporations, had requested their ads no longer air on Rush Limbaugh. Lifelock and Lear Financial are among the only companies standing by Limbaugh.
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Over the last several days much of the advertising time during the Rush Limbaugh show on his flagship station, WABC, has been filled with free public service announcements.
Update:
In addition to the "barter spots," many Limbaugh affiliates also pay a fee to run the program.
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The smog enveloping parts of the mainland, the severest so far this winter, will persist in eastern China until today, according to the National Meteorological Centre.
A cold front was expected to sweep across central and east parts of China starting last night, which would gradually clear the smog that has lingered in parts of the country for more than a week, the centre said yesterday.
Smog in Beijing and elsewhere in the north started to disperse yesterday. Revising the smog alert from "orange" down to "yellow" in the afternoon, the centre said haze would remain severe in parts of Zhejiang , Jiangsu , Anhui , Shandong , Henan and Hebei provinces until this afternoon.
The air quality indexes in nearly 80 cities yesterday were above 200, meaning the air was "heavily" or "severely" polluted.
Video: Eastern areas of China cloaked in smog
The country's three city clusters around Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have traditionally been the major victims of episodes of persistent smog. But the pattern has changed, with other inland cities being affected in provinces including Anhui, Hubei , Hunan and Jiangxi , according to Professor Chai Fahe, vice-president of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.
"Locally generated emissions remain the prime cause of the severe smog, but it is exacerbated by the static atmospheric condition that traps the pollutants," Chai said.
The smog in Jiangsu and Zhejiang combined with thick fog yesterday morning. Visibility was reduced to less than 50 metres in the provincial capital of Nanjing and the city maintained its red alert for pollution for the fifth consecutive day.
About 250 flights from Hangzhou , Nanjing and Zhengzhou were delayed or cancelled, according to local media reports. Highways were also forced to shut down.
In Beijing, strong northern winds began to blow away some pollutants. Also, Shanghai's meteorological centre lifted its pollution alert, as the smog "has considerably lessened", although the air quality was still rated as "medium polluted".
The city has been among the hardest hit in the recent week by pollution, with the concentration of PM2.5 particulate matter, or tiny particles in the air that are the most hazardous to health, going beyond the index. The Ministry of Environmental Protection said the smog was the result of unfavourable weather conditions, motor vehicle exhausts and coal consumption for heating.
But most cities are hoping to devise a detailed break down of their local pollution sources, which may still take months to produce, if not years, Chai said.
"The breakdown is different from region to region and from time to time. Though we do know the general pollution sources, a more detailed breakdown will make pollution treatment measures more efficient."
For instance, the burning of corn stalks in the Yangtze River Delta was blamed by some as a major cause of this round of smog, but there is no detailed data available yet of how much the practice has contributed.
"We must face up to the realities," said Yan Naiqiang, a professor of environmental science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. "The treatment of smog will be a long battle."
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Missing Tia Sharp's step-grandad Stuart Hazell, who is being hunted by police after a body was found, gave a TV interview last night.
Officers searching the home he shared with 12-year-old Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp, 47, made the grim discovery this afternoon.
Yesterday criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas spent more than an hour with Hazell, 37, at their home in New Addington, near Croydon, south London.
Tonight Mr Williams-Thomas wrote: "Such sad news - I stayed downstairs yesterday.
"The other members of the family were all upstairs. I was not allowed to go into Tia's room."
A second tweet read: "When I last spoke to the family last night around 8pm Stuart Hazell was in the background & thanked me for the interview."
Shortly after recording the interview for ITV News, Mr Williams-Thomas had written: "Spent time with nearly all the family today very emotional."
Mr Williams-Thomas revealed tonight that Hazell had given his own theories about where he thought Tia might be.
He told Sky News: "He actually spent some time talking to me, very clearly wanting it to be off the record, when we spoke in the kitchen away from everyone else.
"He spoke about his thoughts and what he thought had happened to her."
Mr Williams-Thomas and Hazell had a conversation for about half an hour before a television crew entered the house to film the interview.
He added that Hazell had given some "very clear answers" about his movements last Friday.
In the interview, Hazell, 37, insisted he would not do anything to hurt the girl he "loves to bits".
Mr Hazell, who previously dated Tia's mother Natalie Sharp, 30, said: "Did I do anything to Tia? No I bloody didn't. I'd never think of that."
Describing her last words before she vanished, he said: "She said 'goodbye'.
"And I said 'well, make sure you're back at six', she went 'yeah yeah yeah' and that was it and the door closed and she walked out."
He said Tia is "a happy-go-lucky golden angel" adding that she had not had any problems at her "loving home" before she vanished.
Speaking publicly for the first time he said the pair were alone in the house on Thursday night playing computer games and eating pizza and chips.
Christine had been working overnight as a carer and did not see Tia on Thursday or Friday.
On the day Tia disappeared, she had been playing on her Nintendo DS after coming downstairs at "around 10.30 or 11" while he cleaned the house.
Mr Hazell said: "She'd been going on about going to Croydon and getting up early.
"She came downstairs, sat down, watched telly, played the DS.
"She had toast, then wanted a sausage roll – she was always eating sausage rolls – then she didn't take her washing up out, so I did.
"I start doing a bit of washing up and she was telling me what she was doing but I wasn't really logging it."
(Image: Jim Bennett)
He said at exactly 12.10pm, she got up and left having previously told him she wanted to buy some new shoes.
She did not take her mobile phone which was charging or a travel card and had no bag when she left.
He said: "As I was hoovering, she walked past me, from the front room to go out the front door and that's all I knew and she left her bloody phone on charge.
"She's responsible enough to go to Croydon by herself, she knows buses and trams.
"She's done it all on her own, it was just an everyday thing but the one time you wanna bloody listen to her and you can't."
She did not have a set of keys but Mr Hazell said he had planned to be in when she returned.
Mr Hazell sat on the sofa with her uncle David Sharp. Both wore white "Find Tia" T-shirts and a large picture of her was pinned to the wall behind them.
Mr Hazell said he had given Tia £10 for doing a few chores around the house and tidying up the garden.
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He pleaded: "Just come home babe, come and eat your dinner.
"I want
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Even This 600-Pound Pig Showed Up to Vote in the NH Primary
Jeb Says 'Reality Star' Trump Isn't Proposing 'Serious Solutions'
Many Republican presidential candidates had to dig deep in their wallets for yesterday's first-in-the-nation primary, but some enjoyed a better return on their investments than others.
According to ad buy data from Morning Consult, Jeb Bush's campaign and the super PAC backing him spent a staggering combined $36.1 million on ads in New Hampshire.
With his fourth-place finish, that ultimately comes out to about $1,200 per vote, Garrett Tenney reports.
To put things in perspective, that was more than double of what Chris Christie, the second biggest spender, dropped.
Analysts now estimate that each vote cost Christie about $852 and Marco Rubio about $508.
On the other end of the spectrum, Donald Trump's victory became even more impressive considering the fact that data shows he only spent $3.7 million on ads.
That amounts to only about $40 per vote for the GOP front-runner, who's traditionally favored social media over more conventional platforms.
Meanwhile, Ted Cruz still managed to come out in third despite only spending about $18 per vote, Tenney reported.
Watch him break down all the math, above.
Trump Hits Back After Daily News Calls His NH Voters 'Mindless Zombies'
Chris Christie Heading Home to Evaluate Campaign
Kasich Speaks After 2nd Place NH Finish: 'Light Overcame the Darkness'
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