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Approximately 46 percent of single, uninsured young adults living in 34 of the states with a federal Obamacare marketplace will be able to purchase basic health coverage — a bare-bones "Bronze" level plan — for less than $50 per month after factoring in federal tax subsidies, according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). An even greater number of young and uninsured single adults between the ages of 18 and 34 will be able to get coverage for less than $100 per month, according to government data. "Of [the 2.9 million] potentially Marketplace-eligible uninsured single young adults, approximately 1.9 million… may be able to pay $100 or less per month in 2014," wrote the report authors. That's nearly two-thirds of young adults who qualify for Obamacare marketplace coverage in the 34 states. An additional one million young adults will also now qualify for Medicaid coverage under Obamacare's expansion of the program. All told, the report finds that 40 percent of the 7.2 million young, uninsured adults living in the 34 states will be able to get coverage for $100 per month or less thanks to the health law. That works out to be 2.9 million people. If all of the 34 states had chosen to expand Medicaid, however, that number would actually spike to 6.2 million people. That's because many young adults earn little enough money to qualify for the program under Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. Advertisement Earlier independent studies have found that families who qualify for Obamacare's subsidies will get an average annual credit of $5,548 per year to help pay for insurance under the law. That would cover a full 66 percent of these families' health premiums. A September report by HHS also found that 6.4 million Americans across all ages can get insurance through Obamacare's marketplaces for less than $100 per month. Those figures provide a contrast with recent reports that the health law is driving up individual policy premiums and even causing consumers to get cancellation notices from insurers. These stories tend to ignore the reality that many of these plans allure customers with deceptively low monthly premiums, but offer skimpy benefits, fail to cover out-of-pocket costs, and come loaded with high deductibles that are of little help in the case of a medical emergency. Obamacare marketplace plans must offer a wider variety of benefits, cannot deny people based on having a pre-existing medical condition, and limit cost-sharing depending on a person's income.

This is the third installment of Rachel Breton's column, "After the Whistle Blows," in which the Sky Blue FC player explores the issues, emotions and tough decisions that soccer players and all athletes face when they're forced to retire from the sport that shaped them. Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. -Mark Nepo Sinead Farrelly is one of the greatest players women's soccer has ever seen. When she plays, she reminds us of why we play. With every touch of the ball, she exudes joy and happiness. Farrelly is truly an unsung hero—staying humble, she doesn't say much, but her feet certainly do the talking. Yet last December, at the age of 27, due to injuries she sustained from a car crash, Farrelly announced she was giving up the sport that had brought her so much joy. The accident took place over a year earlier in September 2015. Farrelly was driving when another car came speeding around the corner, skidded into her lane and hit her straight on the driver's side. The head-on collision deployed both airbags and totaled Farrelly's car, forcing her to climb through the back of the vehicle to get out. [More from Excelle Sports: After the Whistle Blows: Learning to love life when you're forced to say goodbye to your sport] "The accident was crazy because, at the time, I had no idea of the impact it would have on my future and my life," Farrelly told me. "At the time of the accident, I declined treatment from the ambulance—I just wanted to go home. In all honesty, I kind of regret not taking help from the paramedics. My instinct has always been to just pretend to be OK. That's what we learn as athletes and professionals—to push through it. That pain is weakness. I was hurting and I was too proud to admit it." When she retired, Farrelly was on Seattle Reign FC's roster, although she had yet to play with the team. The year before, she had been on the Boston Breakers' roster but had sat out the 2016 season with neck and back injuries from the crash. Eight months later, she learned she had also suffered a concussion. "All of a sudden, I just wasn't the person I had been for 25 years," she said of the effects of the concussion. "I felt so, so alone. Every moment was masked in this layer of fog that I could not seem to break through. I had no energy. I was depressed. I started distancing myself from everyone who loved me." Suddenly, Farrelly, who started playing soccer professionally for the Women's Professional League in 2011 after a decorated career at University of Virginia, found herself in a dark place. "My time since the accident has been the most difficult time of my life," she said. "Aside from losing my health and career, I was forced to face all of my demons. When I tell you that every single thing from my past came crashing down on me, I mean every single thing: family issues, sexual assault, abuse, a long history of an eating disorder … All of it. I felt like I was facing the wreckage without any clue of who I was. I felt like I had absolutely nothing." The situation became unbearable and deeply overwhelming, especially immediately after the accident. Farrelly says she couldn't sleep or read, suffered terrible migraines and was even unable to walk or run. Facing what seemed like insurmountable challenges, she felt beyond hopeless in her own skin. [More from Excelle Sports: Sinead Farrelly retires from pro soccer, one year after car accident] "I did not want to live anymore. I would wake up in the morning so panicked because it felt too heavy to have to go through an entire day all over again," she said. The accident turned out to also be a catalyst for Farrelly to question her real identity. The sport had been her fulcrum up to that point. She struggled, as many players do, to reconcile who she would be without soccer. Last December, she announced her retirement on Facebook. "Soccer was my outlet when times were hard," Farrelly wrote on her page of the decision. "It was a place I felt safe, yet it continued to push me past my comfort zone day after day. Losing soccer for me was losing my identity. And with the loss of that came the loss of everything." While Farrelly tried to come back to soccer, she knew she had to listen to her body. She knew she needed to rest, recover from her injuries and from her post-concussion symptoms. "I had no desire to retire any time soon," she said. "It still makes me really sad I had to go out the way I did.

(MOSCOW) — U.S. President Donald Trump has "lit the wick of war" with North Korea and his country will be made to pay with "a hail of fire," a Russian news agency quoted North Korea's foreign minister as saying on Wednesday. Tensions between North Korea and the United States have risen in recent weeks over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs. North Korea has test-fired several missiles and conducted what it said was a test explosion of a hydrogen bomb as it advances toward its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. Speaking to Russia's state-run TASS news agency, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said his country's nuclear program guaranteed peace and safety in the region and would not be a matter of discussion. "With his bellicose and insane statement at the United Nations, Trump, you can say, has lit the wick of a war against us," TASS quoted Ri as saying. "We need to settle the final score, only with a hail of fire, not words." Ri has previously called Trump "President Evil" and his comments are likely to fuel an escalating war of words between the U.S. President and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "We have almost reached the last point on the journey towards our final goal – to achieve a real balance of power with the United States," he said. "Our principal position is that we will never agree to any talks in which our nuclear weapons will be the subject of negotiations."

Yes, I've written an imaginary PR e-mail from Edwina Rogers, the controversial new Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, based on conjectures and false hopes and a little bit of AbFab. It seemed the thing to do. "I want to start off with an apology for something I feel like I, and the SCA, have done a poor job of. We've done a poor job of introducing me and an incredibly poor job of reaching out to opinion leaders in the atheist movement. Undoubtedly, the behind-closed-doors decision to make what was bound to be a controversial hiring decision should have been tempered by a more comprehensive and immediate introduction and explanation of why I, of all people, was chosen for this position. I have identified as a non-theist for a long time, but I am very new to this movement. This is not because I don't care about the issues you care about, I very much do, but they have not been my focus and, because of that, I really didn't realize how bad things were until recently. My career and my focus have been very issue centered, some of these issues overlapped with my own secular beliefs, but the fact is that issue-focused work tends to create a very insular worldview. So, in many ways, I am a recent convert, not to your beliefs, but to your cause. Which is where I have made another mistake. This community is very engaged and very well-informed and I have done my best to educate myself quickly, but there are things I have missed on the way. My recollection of statistics about Republicans from 20 years ago, for example, is not really the best gauge of Republicans now. Sometimes I forget that that was an entire generation ago, it doesn't seem that long to me. And I have to admit that my claims that the majority of Republicans are pro-choice, OK with gay rights, and for the separation of church and state were as much a result of wishful thinking as they were of ignorance. I have had statistics shown to me that do indeed prove I was dead wrong on this front. And I need your help on this front. I am trying, but I just am not as well-educated about this as those people who have focused on this cause their whole lives. I know the goals of the coalition and am well-versed in those goals and don't doubt my ability to execute them, but as for the wider culture of the secular movement and the less specific goals thereof, I will need more time to learn the nuances, and I hope you will help me rather than condemning me for my neophyte status. My final big mistake is that I've been trying to focus exclusively on my positives without acknowledging my negatives and without engaging with them openly and honestly. This is a fault of being in politics, it makes you quite the bullshit artist. I should have known better in this community than to think I could dance around questions without being called on it. So let me say that you are right. You are right that I've worked for and support a party that disagrees, in majority but not in totality, with many of your goals. But I was working for causes that I cared very deeply about, and I will not apologize for doing that. And I will not abandon my party because other people have taken it in a direction I disagree with. It is better for all of us if we can bring the party back in line with the goals of the secular community and I really do think that is possible. So, just to recap, I haven't done a good enough job introducing myself, I haven't had the time to educate myself as thoroughly as the community is educated, and I have not been clear on acknowledging that there were some negatives to my background. That said, I think I bring a lot to the table that I hope you can appreciate. I am an experienced lobbyist and I know the workings of DC very well. I have led coalitions in the past and had great success. Although my work with Republicans is difficult for many of you to accept, it gives me an in to people who might not otherwise be as interested in hearing what we have to say. And I am legitimately, passionately interested in promoting this cause. I did not simply apply because I needed a job — I had a job, one that was a lot less contentious — I applied because I have become aware of some of the horrible inequities in this country for people who are secular. I am just as horrified as all of you at the degree of influence the Christian Right has on the government, and I want to change that. I have the credentials to do the job from a strictly political side, but I promise you that I am here because I want to be, because this cause is important to me, and because I think that I personally can make a difference through this position with the SCA. The SCA chose me because I was, in

Guinea midfielder Naby Keita joined German Bundesliga side RB Leipzig in June 2016 RB Leipzig's coach Ralph Hasenhuettl said they are investigating why Guinea midfielder Naby Keita collapsed in the dressing room area following a Bundesliga game on Saturday. Having played the 90 minutes of Leipzig's 1-0 defeat to Wolfsburg, 22-year-old Keita lost consciousness shortly after leaving the dressing room and was taken to hospital once his condition stabilised. On Sunday, the club said his test results are in order and he may have suffered a circulatory collapse brought on by exertion but they want to find out the exact cause. "He spent the night in hospital and he's feeling better. All the test results are okay," said Hasenhuettl. "It seemed to be the fault of his circulation, he burnt himself out yesterday (during the game). "For sure, we will continue to look for causes in the next few days. "It was probably a combination of several factors. I am glad that there is no deeper disorder. His test results were all okay, that is why we have to look at what was the cause."

Analysis of Cincinnati shooting's aftermath reveals how multiple officers discussed claim – disputed as the basis of a murder charge – that Ray Tensing was 'dragged' by unarmed black man's car University police officer charged with murder for shooting of Samuel DuBose Read more Police officers in Cincinnati appear to have corroborated a false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in the immediate aftermath of the incident, a detailed analysis of body-camera video released on Wednesday shows. DuBose, an unarmed 43-year-old black man, was shot dead by white University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing on 19 July. The officer claimed he was "dragged" by DuBose's vehicle following an altercation during a routine traffic stop, and was therefore forced to open fire, shooting DuBose once in the head. On Wednesday, Tensing was indicted for murder after Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters said body-camera footage, which he released at a press conference announcing the charge, showed the officer was not dragged during the encounter. "It is our belief that he was not dragged. If you slow down this tape you see what happens, it is a very short period of time from when the car starts rolling to when a gun is out and he's shot in the head," Deters told reporters on Wednesday. 'Senseless' and 'asinine': prosecutor's words on Samuel DuBose killing a win for reformers Read more The footage shows that Tensing falls back, after DuBose is killed instantly by a single shot to the head and immediately chases after the vehicle. Deters said that DuBose's limp body probably caused the car to accelerate. A Guardian analysis of the nearly 28 minutes' worth of Tensing's body-camera footage released by the prosecutor's office also shows the aftermath of the shooting and reveals that on three occasions, two other police officers repeat Tensing's account that he was dragged by DuBose, and one of these officers claims to have witnessed it occurring. Tensing repeats, multiple times throughout the footage, the claim that he was dragged by DuBose's vehicle. But at five minutes and 44 seconds into the video, he states: "I think I'm OK. He was just dragging me." To which a second officer, who stands out of the frame, replies: "Yeah, I saw that." Tensing continues: "I thought I was going to get run over. I was trying to stop him." Then, at six minutes and 54 seconds into the footage, while Tensing is seemingly conversing with the same officer, he states: "He was dragging me, man." The officer replies, "Yeah." To which Tensing continues: "I got my hand and my arm caught inside." The officer then replies, "Yeah, I saw that." The identity of this officer is not immediately clear. A copy of the University of Cincinnati police division's information report on the shooting names university police officer Phillip Kidd as a witness to the entire event. The information report, written by UC police officer Eric Weibel, states: "Officer Kidd told me that he witnessed the Honda Accord [DuBose's vehicle] drag Officer Tensing, and that he witnessed Officer Tensing fire a single shot." Weibel's report continues: "Looking at Officer Tensing's uniform, I could see that the back of his pants and shirt looked as if it had been dragged over a rough surface." About 14 minutes into the video, while Tensing is still at the site of the shooting, but has now moved further away from DuBose's crashed car, he is instructed by a third officer to indicate where the altercation had started. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prosecutor announces charges against officer for Samuel DuBose shooting. WARNING: contains footage of the fatal incident. Link to video This officer appears to be a member of the Cincinnati police department and wears a sergeant's lapel on his arm. He states: "You can talk about anything you want except for what happened [sic]. The only thing that I ask of you is where did it start?" Tensing replies: "I initiated the traffic stop at Vine and Thill." The two officers then clarify the direction Tensing was driving. The sergeant then states: "And, it looks like you got dragged if I'm understanding, looking …" To which Tensing replies: "Yes." The Hamilton County prosecutor's office did not reply to a question from the Guardian after Deter's press conference over whether any other officers were being investigated in relation to the incident. A representative for the UC police referred all questions to the prosecutor's office. The Cincinnati police department did not respond to a request for comment. At a rally in Cincinnati on Wednesday night organized by Black Lives Matter, protester James Yaacov Delaney said he thought

- OUT NOW- (Please note this item is not available in Japan*) ................................... Album: Final Symphony Performed By: London Symphony Orchestra Release Date: 23rd December 2016 Artwork: Illustrations by Tom Baxter Additional Graphics by Caspar Newbolt Product Information: Triple Gatefold Vinyl Edition X3 180-gram Vinyl Discs Recorded and Mastered at Abbey Road Studios Presented in deluxe card gatefold sleeve Includes music from Final Fantasy® VI, VII & X ................................... Following the unprecedented, sell-out success of live shows across the globe, Laced Records have teamed up with Merregnon Studios and Square Enix to bring you the Final Symphony deluxe triple vinyl edition. Recorded, mixed and mastered at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra, Final Symphony features arrangements from Final Fantasy® VI, VII & X. The chart-topping Final Symphony features the talents of conductor Eckehard Stier and solo pianist Katharina Treutler, both of whom delighted audiences during the award-winning tour, with the entire production overseen by illustrious Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. ................................... All images shown here are mock-ups. ................................... TRACK-LISTING: Final Symphony Disc 1 - Side A - Fantasy Overture - Circle within a Circle within a Circle (4:08) FINAL FANTASY VII - Symphony in Three Movements I. Nibelheim Incident (13:43) - Side B - FINAL FANTASY VII - Symphony in Three Movements II. Words Drowned by Fireworks (13:38) Disc 2 - Side A - FINAL FANTASY VII - Symphony in Three Movements III. The Planet's Crisis (14:07) - Side B - FINAL FANTASY X - Piano Concerto I. Zanarkand (8:18) FINAL FANTASY X - Piano Concerto II. Inori (6:36) FINAL FANTASY X - Piano Concerto III. Kessen (4:21) Disc 3 - Side A - FINAL FANTASY VI - Symphonic Poem: Born with the Gift of Magic (18:08) - Side B - Encore: FINAL FANTASY VII. Continue? (4:36) Encore: FINAL FANTASY Series. Fight, Fight, Fight! (3:18) Encore: FINAL FANTASY X. Suteki da ne (3:43) CREDITS: Music composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Jonne Valtonen Music arranged by Jonne Valtonen, Roger Wanamo and Masashi Hamauzu Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Eckehard Stier Leader: Tomo Keller Piano: Katharina Treutler Creator, Director and Executive Producer: Thomas Böcker Music recorded and mixed by Simon Rhodes at Abbey Road Studios Music mastered by Simon Gibson and Sean Magee (vinyl) at Abbey Road Studios Music recorded, mixed and mastered December 2014 / January 2015 / April 2016 Special Thanks: Square Enix Co. Ltd. Final Symphony & Final Symphony II © & ℗ 2013-2016 Merregnon Studios. Licensed by Square Enix. FINAL FANTASY is a registered trademark or trademark of Square Enix Group Co., Ltd.

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"The actions of the U.S. warship have threatened China's sovereignty and security interests, jeopardized the safety of personnel and facilities on the reefs, and damaged regional peace and stability," China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website after the destroyer USS Lassen sailed close to the Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands. The "U.S. side [should] think twice, not ... take rash moves and stir up troubles," China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned in a separate statement. A U.S. defense official said the mission was part of an ongoing global effort to keep international waters open for navigation in the face of "excessive maritime claims." The official denied the U.S. was specifically targeting China. China says virtually all of the South China Sea belongs to it. Beijing's claims over the group of at least a half dozen dredged islands, one of which includes a recently completed two-mile airstrip, have angered the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan, which have overlapping claims in the waters. Related: China Builds Runway on Reef in Disputed Sea: Pentagon The Spratlys sit in an area potentially rich in oil and gas reserves. Along with other island chains in the South China Seas, Beijing claims the Spratlys as part of China's territory and argues that international law grants them a 12-mile exclusion zone. While the U.S. officially does not take sides in the dispute, it also does not recognize the exclusion zone. "We have been clear that we take no position on competing territorial sovereignty claims to land features in the South China Sea," a Pentagon official told NBC News on Monday night.

Yes, this is a cute little 5" TFT display with WVGA 800x480 resolution and it has a resistive touchscreen overlay. And yes it comes with an equally cute little driver board and USB-enabled 40-pin to 50-pin touchscreen adapter board. We tried to get the smallest display that would be good for embedded computing usage and at a good price. We also chose our favorite 5" touchscreen then paired it with a small USB powered driver board through our 50pin to 40pin + AR1100 Adapter. The screen itself is commonly seen in consumer electronics such as miniature TVs, GPSs, handheld games, car displays, etc. It comes with a 40-pin connector that has eight red, eight green, and eight blue parallel pins for 24-bit color capability. The driver board only has an HDMI input but for Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black and other computers. HDMI is the best quality output available so you'll get a great looking display. The display is very easy to use - simply connect the USB power cable to 5V power supply that can provide 500mA, then connect a digital video source to one of the HDMI port. Voila, a display! To demonstrate it, we took some photos with the display connected to a Raspberry Pi, but it will also work connected to any device with HDMI output. We also noted it does not work with a Raspberry Pi + Windows 10 IOT yet. The touchscreen controller shows up as a plain 'HID Mouse' device - and we do the touch screen calibration step here so you can plug and play. Works with any computer, just plug a mini B cable from the touch adapter to the computer USB port. If you want to calibrate it again, Microchip has Windows-only calibration software. For Linux users, check out xinput_calibrator which is the general-use X11 calibration software. There's a little wired PCB with little buttons that let you enter a menu system for adjusting brightness, color and contrast. It tries to auto-detect which input you have and switches to that one or you can 'select' from the menu keypad which to display. For use with a Raspberry Pi we suggest editing config.txt to set the HDMI to 800x480 in case it doesn't detect the resolution properly. You can see our suggested config.txt in the Technical details tab. The easiest way to edit the config.txt is to put the Pi SD card into an every day computer and edit config.txt with any text editor and save. For use with a Beagle Bone Black, we found it works when plugged in, no configuration required. We show the TFT above on a wire stand, which is not included. You can pick up one of these nice stands over here. A power adapter is not included or required! Use a 500mA-capable 5V USB port or you can cut the USB power cable and re-wire to another 5V source. You'll also need a MiniB cable to connect to the touchscreen sensor.

The real action is in the competition for second place in the Republican field, where CNN and RCP both have Rubio's support at 15 percent; all of the CNN polling and most of the RCP polling, though, was conducted before Rubio's already-infamous performance in Saturday night's debate. John Kasich, who seemed to do well in the debate and has picked up a number of New Hampshire endorsements, is in third in the FiveThirtyEight projections and in fourth, narrowly behind Ted Cruz's 13 percent, in both the CNN and RCP numbers.

Save their lives, or build a border wall? Donald Trump would like for the United States to spend $1.1 billion less on HIV-treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and $524 million less on contraception for the global poor. On the plus side, these cuts will make it easier to finance the president's border wall, which he hopes to spend $1.6 billion on in 2018. On the downside: At least one million people will die in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, researchers and advocates said on Tuesday, if funding cuts proposed by the Trump administration to global public health programs are enacted. … With a huge share of Africa's population reaching sexual maturity in the next four years, the virus could again imperil much of the continent if fewer people are treated, said Brian Honermann, deputy director at amfAR, a foundation that invests in AIDS research. AIDS treatment not only keeps people alive but prevents them from spreading the virus to others, Mr. Honermann noted. "If you cut the funding by this much, I think there's a real risk we will backslide, and a whole lot more people will become infected," he said. These cuts almost certainly won't happen. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) — America's primary program for funding HIV treatment — is one of George W. Bush's (only) signature achievements, and enjoys strong, bipartisan support. So, it's tempting to dismiss these eye-popping death-toll estimates as irrelevant — ultimately, the Trump budget is just Mick Mulvaney's (sloppily executed) math homework, not an actual governing document. But such nonchalance is wrongheaded. And not only because Trump's budget functions as an expression of his (monstrous) values. The president may be unlikely to cut $1 billion from AIDS treatment, but his budget makes it clear that he will not be adding any more money to such programs. And that latter fact is about as morally objectionable as the first. The Global Fund estimates that every $100 million invested in HIV treatment saves about 133,000 lives. Currently, the United States — the wealthiest country in human history — spends $6 billion annually on AIDS programs. The Pentagon recently spent $125 billion on (what its own internal study deemed) "administrative waste." Our nation could easily afford to save hundreds of thousands more people from preventable deaths. When we choose instead to cut taxes for the rich — and/or spend $1 trillion on the F-35 — we are choosing to let them die.

Imagine if you could plug an external graphics card into your MacBook, then use it for for virtual reality or other gaming. You'd never need a dedicated gaming computer again. That's the dream behind The Wolfe, an external graphics card for the Mac that hits Kickstarter tomorrow. Two versions of this Thunderbolt accessory, The Wolfe and The Wolfe Pro, offer an Nvidia GTX 950 and GTX 970 respectively. The card fits into a case that's a 7.8 inches deep by 5.4 inches wide and 2.6 inches tall, which weighs between two and 3.2 pounds. Stick this in your bag with your laptop, the theory goes, and you've got a portable gaming MacBook. Related: No Rift support for Mac until 'Apple releases a good computer,' says Oculus founder Macs, shall we say, do not have the best reputation among gamers. Apple builds its laptops with portability and battery life in mind, not graphical performance. And in general, laptops built specifically for gaming tend to be heavy with awful battery life. The Wolfe could offer a third path, if it works well. It gives you graphics when you need it, but leaves the MacBook highly portable the rest of the time. Road To VR is reporting that the Wolfe is compatible with the following laptops: MacBook Air 11-inch, Mid 2011–2015 MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2011–2015 MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012–2015 MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012–2015 MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011–2015 MacBook Pro 15-inch, Early 2011–2015 Mac mini, Mid 2011–2015 iMac, Mid 2011–2015 Mac Pro, Late 2013-2015 Indeed, VR is part of the product pitch. The website for The Wolfe shows a user using Oculus Rift alongside a MacBook. Since Oculus doesn't support Mac officially, we believe it is only possible if the laptop is boot into Windows using Bootcamp. No official word has been given as to how the Rift compatibility would be enabled. It's not clear what The Wolfe and Wolfe Pro will cost, but we can read the tea leaves. The Nvidia GTX 950 costs around $160, and the GTX 970 costs around $250. We'd expect The Wolfe to mark those costs up considerably. We'll get more details tomorrow, when The Wolfe pops up on Kickstarter. Stay tuned.

A little about me My name is Jen or "Jennifer" if I piss my parents off enough. I am born and raised in Ontario, Canada and no, you don't get used to the winters, at least I haven't yet in my thirty something winters here! I have always had a magnetic pull towards creative endeavors. My earliest activities were drawing, sculpting (horrendously) and painting whatever I could. At the age of 6 or 7 I decided that my father was completely wasting his tool shed with such nonsense as lawnmowers and gardening tools, and took it upon myself to take over and make it my painting studio. Let me tell you, it was hot as hell in that little wooden shed at the back of our yard, but I was determined to make my art and my dad didn't complain, in fact he was my very first customer, and still has the misshapen, heat stroke induced portrait of our family dog somewhere. I went to school for photography, and while that is still a major passion and hobby for me, I quickly realized that I didn't have the drive or will to deal with the horrors of wedding photography and the like, and that my resting bitch face wasn't helping the situation any. I spent a lot of years making my art for friends and family, or mostly just for my own amusement. I toyed with the idea of selling on Etsy for YEARS. Once I began to create things for my shop I found that I could not stop. The ideas are streaming in almost constantly and I have since branched out into soaps, bath products etc, which was a whole new art form for me and something that I am finding to be immensely satisfying. Soap making is like art and science rolled into one and the possibility for creation is endless! Another passion I picked up in the last couple years has been Pyrography or "wood burning" and it quickly became not only an obsession, but the most sought after art I have ever created! I have no doubt in my mind that creating and expanding my artistic horizons will only continue on and on, thus my little shop has become something of a "general store" featuring plenty of different items and products, and as much as online advice tells us to stick to one item per store, this works for me and I love the variety! I hope you will enjoy scrolling through and will come back often if only to see what this mad girls mind has concocted next! Cheers, Jen

Rep. Robert Hurt Robert HurtDemocrat defeats controversial chair of House Wall Street subpanel Republican groups launch final ad blitz in key House battlegrounds Armed protester stands outside Dem's office for 12 hours MORE (R-Va.) will retire at the end of next year, according to multiple reports. Hurt first won election in 2010 to represent the central Virginia district, when he unseated the incumbent Democrat Tom Perriello. Two Democrats have already declared candidacies for the seat: Former Perriello aide Ericke Cage and Albemarle County Supervisor Jane Dittmar. ADVERTISEMENT The seat will likely remain in the GOP column despite Hurt's retirement. Mitt Romney won the district by 7 points in 2012 over President Obama. Hurt is the second House Republican to announce his decision not to seek reelection after Congress adjourned for the holidays. Centrist Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) announced over the weekend he will retire in 2016, which may offer Democrats a pick-up opportunity.

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Thanks for the Feedback here and on Reddit – a few updates below: Anytime Star Trek Online introduces an entirely new set of STF's (Special Task Force), there is a period of adjustment that the community goes through to absorb the new mechanics and establish teamwork to overcome the new challenges. Sometimes they are relatively easy and reward well enough that they become popular. Other times it takes significant effort and planning just to get through an STF, and those queues get ignored by most of the community. One thing is for sure, a queues popularity will change over time, as do the techniques used to get through them. The best example is "I've got Kang!" has evolved from being a job you took out of necessity, to something that's little more than a speedbump in the race to complete a CSA in under 30 seconds. The new missions have their fair share of confusion at the moment that's impacting not only the normals but advanced and elite queues as well. I've had greater success with runs set up privately through Redditchat or the various DPS channels – but at the same time, I've also watched Elites fail in the first 30 seconds with a highly-skilled team, just because someone pushed a Battleship to close to the Starbase with a mistimed tractor beam repulsor. One last point before the briefing: these techniques represent the efforts of many players, and while they worked for us, they may not be the only way to beat this STF. If you've come across other methods, don't hesitate to share them in the comments below. Mission Brief: The Tzenkethi Front Regardless of the difficulty (normal, advanced and elite), the mission parameters remain essentially the same. A Tzenkethi invasion force has moved five small staging bases into the Eta Serpentis system, and are launching waves of attacks against the planet's defences (Klingon Starbase). Your goal is to intercept the Tzenkethi Battleships – marked by the Protomatter Bomb warning sign on your main viewscreen. In the process of destroying the battleship, you recover the Protomatter Bomb and then use it against one of the five Tzenkethi staging bases. The STF comes with voice prompts and reminders, letting you know when a player has picked up the bomb, and when a base is destroyed. When you pick up the bomb, your ship will be given a visual cue identifying that you have the bomb. If you are destroyed, the protomatter bomb you carry is destroyed with you. The Football (Protomatter Bomb) While in Tzenkethi hands, the protomatter bombs are targeted at your station. They can be deployed fairly close to the station, and the bomb itself cannot be intercepted by weapons or space magic. At about a 2km range, a Battleship can easily deploy the device and hit your station. (It's instantaneous) For Normal and Advanced runs, the optional objective is to prevent damage to the station for additional marks. For Elite runs, failure to stop this attack on your station is an auto failure. When the football is in a players hands, your ship becomes impacted by the bizarre effects of protomatter. The first thing you will notice is that your ship is unable to go to full impulse, and you appear to be covered in a type of exotic radiation. This becomes problematic as you try to get to the Tzenkethi bases quickly. Warning: If you use a teleport ability like Trajector Jump you will drop the bomb and a Tzenkethi group will immediately warp in and claim the bomb. (TY ElectrumLeopard) Additionally – if you carry the bomb with a Romulan ship, do not use the singularity jump or you will lose the bomb; same thing with the singularity shadows. (TY Nandos) Some players will experience a visual glitch in that the bomb may appear to 'drop' along the way. This appears to be a coding problem in the game, or if you prefer, a false image caused by temporal distortion (a QA happy accident). As long as you have the main marker showing you have the bomb, it will not release until you are in range when you are offered an interaction button to drop the bomb. Deploying the bomb takes a short amount of time, and if you're taking damage, the bomb will not drop. A second visual glitch appears to happen when you switch alts and make multiple runs – occasionally the bomb identification will not show. There is no easy fix other than restarting the game after you complete the mission. The Tzenkethi The Tzenkethi battle groups operate in waves. You will encounter groups of frigates on an ongoing basis, while the bomb groups consisting of a battleship, and a cruiser to provide support. The higher the difficulty,

Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series London 26-27 October, 2013 Important Information regarding Registration What happens at a Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Event? If you are attending YCS London or the MCM ComicCon that is taking place alongside the YCS, please click here to read important information regarding registration for the event. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series events are big, exciting 2-day tournaments where hundreds of Duelists from around the globe compete for fame, glory and all sorts of exclusive prizes. These events are also the perfect opportunity to Duel, trade and hang out with hundreds of other Yu-Gi-Oh! fans. In addition to the main Championship Series tournament there are numerous Public Events, including tournaments specifically for Duelists born 2001 and later. Competitive or casual, there is something for everyone to do at a Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series weekend event. Who can participate in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series? The Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series tournament is an open event. No invite is required - everyone can participate! Image credit: ExCel London Date: 26-27 October, 2013 Location: ExCel London, 1 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London E16 1XL, United Kingdom. Location on Map | Location Website What is the Format for YCS London? Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series London will be an Advanced Constructed format event, using the current Forbidden & Limited List. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series will consist of a number of Swiss-style rounds, followed by one or more top cuts, as follows: Up to 512 Duelists: 6 rounds of Swiss on Saturday, 3 rounds of Swiss on Sunday (open to Top 64 AND everyone with 12 points or more), then Top 16 Single-Elimination 513 to 1024 Duelists: 7 rounds of Swiss on Saturday, 3 rounds of Swiss on Sunday (open to Top 128 AND everyone with 15 points or more), then Top 32 Single-Elimination 1025 or more Duelists: 8 rounds of Swiss on Saturday, 3 rounds of Swiss on Sunday (open to Top 256 AND everyone with 18 points or more), then Top 32 Single-Elimination Preparing for the event: Be prepared to present your COSSY ID number along with your name at registration. If you don't have a COSSY ID number, you can receive one at registration. You should bring any tournament supplies you will need; paper and pen to track Life Points, dice or counters if you are using cards which require them, extra sleeves to replace any that become damaged, and so forth. Players participating in these events are expected to be familiar with KONAMI's tournament policies. These can be found in the "Gameplay" section of this website. Please note that you will have to submit a Decklist when you register for the event! You can only register with a complete Decklist. You will fill this out by listing all of the cards included in the Deck you want to use. You can get a Deck List form at the registration area, or you can download it here. Entry fee: Entry fee for the main event is GBP 20. Schedule: Friday 14:00 - Early Registration begins 19:00 - Early Registration ends Saturday 08:00 - Venue opens / registration begins 10:00 - Registration ends 10:00 - Seatings posted; player meeting, Round 1 Begins 11:00 - Public Event registration begins 19:00 - Public Event registration ends 22:30 - Venue closes Sunday 08:00 - Venue opens 09:00 - Main event begins 14:45 - Top 8 begins 18:00 - Awards ceremony 19:00 - Venue closes Main Event Prizes: Winner Trophy Netbook Ultra Rare YCS prize card: Number 106: Giant Hand Paid travel and accomodation to WCQ: European Championship 2014 2nd 32GB Tablet PC Super Rare YCS prize card: Number 106: Giant Hand 3rd 32GB Touch-Screen MP3 Player Super Rare YCS prize card: Number 106: Giant Hand 4th 32GB Touch-Screen MP3 Player 5th-8th Xbox 360 9th-16th 24 booster packs of Judgment of the Light All Top 32 YCS Top Cut Game Mat Qualification to WCQ: European Championship 2014 Public Events: Event Name Entry Fee Players Format Time Participation Prize Prizing YCS London (Main Event) GBP 20 Unlimited

Spotting that a certain other cycling publication has provided tips on how to make your commute more like the Tour de France, we threw a few ideas round road.cc towers regarding what else you might want to consider. Here's what we came up with. Make your commute more like the Tour de France by ... ... taking a 2,000-mile, circuitous route to the office (starting abroad every two or three days) ... only riding to work for three weeks each July, but cycling to the office at weekends and leaving the bike at home for the second and third Mondays ... having a friend drive a van ahead of you while chucking sweets and cheap keyrings at passers-by ... getting Chris Boardman to do a Periscope pointing out key features of the route such as potholes, badly parked cars and woeful infrastructure ... riding with eight pals and 190 other people, with mates and spouses following you in their cars ... waiting at the traffic lights just after you've punctured and grabbing the bike from the next cyclist who stops there ... throwing your jacket into the open window of a car once the rain's stopped ... watching a Wiggle advert at every traffic light ... pulling up at the side of the road if you're caught short and whipping it out from under your bibshorts while balancing the bike between your thighs ... bouncing off a car, losing loads of skin and carrying on to the office anyway rather than going to A&E like a normal person ... belting into Parliament Square at top speed, whacking mobiles out of the hands of Big Ben selfie-taking tourists as you go ... asking passers-by to spit on you and throw piss in your face (granted, this may be more like a normal commute in some areas) ... passing an old lady on a sit up and beg before you crest Cambridge's Hills Road railway bridge, then changing into a polka dot jersey when you get to work ... shepherding a colleague along the route then leaving them for dead once the office comes into sight, thereby avoiding the need to ever talk to them again (though your partners may have words) ... standing on a step and objectifying two female colleagues when you arrive, then taking a cuddly toy to your desk ... retreating into your cubicle in a sulk after a tough ride to work and chucking your helmet at any colleague who approaches ... undergoing a blood transfusion by the photocopier ... having all your commutes from a seven-year period deleted from Strava and replaced by a blank space and an asterisk ... watching highlights of it at 11.30pm every night, commentated on by two blokes who know bugger all about cycle commuting but can point out interesting buildings en route. Do you have any more tips to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks to Cycling Weekly for the inspiration.

Photo Daniel Grayson is the associate director of undergraduate admissions at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. The task, as colleges and universities around the country have assigned it, is to describe yourself in 500 words or less. Sum up all of who you are — your aspirations, perspective, strengths, intellect, personality, all of it — in one page, single spaced. Hit the panic button. You know what I do when faced with a problem? I ask the Internet. So do a Google search — I dare you — for the phrase "admissions essay advice" and see the mess you get. One list on a prominent Web site includes the following suggestions (in order, with some paraphrasing): be cautious and then, immediately afterward, be controversial. O.K. Got it: Say something risky without taking chances. That's not helpful. Neither is the advice you get from most admissions officers when you ask them. "Just be yourself," they say. Is there an alternative to that? Were you supposed to lie and pretend to be your smarter and more interesting older brother? Here are your deceptively complicated essay goals, as I see them: Show us how you think. Tell us what matters to you. I'm not going to sugarcoat this: That is a really difficult task. It demands that you understand yourself in a way that perhaps no one has ever asked of you. It demands that you ask yourself questions perhaps no teacher has ever asked. Questions like: What invigorates/inspires/angers me? What do I wish we talked or learned about in school? What are my most strongly held opinions and where do they come from? What are the differences between how I see myself and how others see me? What pieces of my life transform my thinking (whether I want them to or not)? What ideas fire me up just when everyone else is cooling down? These aren't easy questions. They are dangerous questions. They are questions with teeth, questions that require you to stake out a position, to have an opinion and to express something of substance. You don't need to literally answer one of those questions to write a good admissions essay (though you could); think of the list as a set of examples. Being honest and forceful about yourself may make some adults around you nervous; it's not "safe." They will worry that you are being too controversial or informal. You should listen carefully and try to see your writing from their perspective. But you should feel comfortable ignoring advice that does not feel right. If you are not interested in thinking about the big issues (or the small ones) around community service, here is some radical advice: Don't write about it. If you love your sport, but it isn't what you are itching to talk about when you get out of bed, don't write about it. Writing about service or determination reflects important qualities, but no one in our applicant pools writes about how quickly they quit or how much they hate helping society. If you write the "safe" essay, how will you stand apart? I wrote of your goals, now here is ours: to build the most interesting and intellectually diverse class we can. We want to fill our seats with students who have things to say, who will challenge conventions and advance conversations, who will learn from each other. The answers to those dangerous questions define who you are. They reflect what you value and how you think, as well as how you will enhance our community and classrooms. You need to be confident and proud enough to stand behind those ideas because if you won't, why would an admissions officer choose to stand behind you? As a reader, I want to be in your corner, to fight for your cause in a hypercompetitive applicant pool. Can you fit all of who you are into 500 words? Of course not, but you can pick out a couple of important pieces. Tell me what matters, and give me a reason to fight.

Honda's first tiller, the F150 launched in 1959, was distinguished by a bright red body. Unfortunately there is no surviving documentation to indicate who chose the distinctive color for the product. Interestingly, the Cub F Type auxiliary bicycle engine, a compact and lightweight reliable motor with a striking design that was released in 1952, was marketed as "the red engine with a white fuel tank," suggesting that the choice of red was already popular with consumers. Honda had firmly established itself as the company that made red engines. At one point Soichiro gathered his agricultural machinery engineers together and said, "There are plenty of products other than motorcycles that people would find useful. So I want you to think of ways that we can use science and technology to reduce heavy labor in the farming and fishing industries in particular." The result was the F150 tiller, painted in the distinctive red color referred to in-house as R2. With its many user-friendly innovations, the F150 proved to be a massive hit product in what was a relatively crowded market segment. And from then on, Honda tillers have always been red.

Get daily updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A furious farmer got his own back on a group of travellers by barricading them in with a dozen tractors when they refused to leave. Chris Awdry, 53, took direct action when the travellers - who had arrived with six caravans - told him he would need a court order to shift them. He turned to police but they said it was a civil matter and refused to get involved. So Chris called in his staff to drive the tractors around the edge of the 1.5-acre site and block them in as police watched. And less than three hours after arriving the travellers decided it was time to leave the land in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Mr Awdry, who rents the land, said: "They went in and they were ruining the land and we wanted them out. "The owner of the land didn't want them there and we did what we could to protect the land. "I had asked them nicely to leave but they said they wouldn't and that I would have to get a court order to move them on. (Image: SWNS) "I then contacted the police and they said it was a civil matter. "We then decided to barricade them in until they went, with the police in attendance the whole time to keep the peace. "I was glad we managed to sort it quickly and peacefully. "Luckily, it happened on a day when we were not so busy harvesting, so we were able to act straight away, although even if it had been a busy day we would have still dealt with it." One farmhand said motorists beeped their horns in support as they saw the gypsies leaving. Police told the travellers they had to go under section 61 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. They can invoke the law where they are satisfied two or more people are trespassing on the land and the landowner has taken reasonable steps to make them leave. One traveller claimed they had only stopped off for food and to allow the children to rest. Inspector Alan Lumley said: "They were peacefully dispersed without the necessity of us using police powers. "The local land controller has been spoken to and no offences have been disclosed. "We always try and resolve such matters peacefully, although we do have powers to remove them if needed to."

It's a game about curse words. Really really filthy curse words. Just awful curse words. Soap in the mouth level. So? What does it play like? It's not apples to apples. It's not cards again humanity. It's not mobscenity. It's just a $1 game. It's a party game where people put dirty words into a hat. And then people rank those words and vote on them. I'm kind of giving away the game here. Now you won't give me a dollar. It's so simple, you'll wonder why YOU didn't make it. I don't recommend playing with people who don't like dirty words. I am not responsible for people writing awful things down. Let's be clear about that, right now. Um. How much more do you need to know? Want to see the cover art again? No? Fine. Here's a picture of some cats. what do you mean you don't like cats? What are you doing on the internet, then? Look. I'll make it really clear. We've all purchased or played games we thought were absolute #&%! Don't lie to me. You have. (You can lie to yourself. But not to me.) So, this time, I've made a game devoid of all that ludicrous veneer bull#&%! and gotten right to the heart of it all. #&%! I even broke out the comic sans for you. That's how little I care about veneer this time. Stretch Goals At 1,000 backers (not dollars) we throw out everything on #&$! 1 and we put all of our energy into a new improved #$&! 2.... with even more filthy words. 50% more! At 2,000 backers (not dollars) every backer gets a second free scoring sheet! Everyone! Not only backers. But everyone. At $3,000 (not backers) every backer (at $25 or more) gets an impersonal message e-mailed to them. If this gets to 10,000 backers (not dollars), I will write a variant of the game that's already in my head, but not on paper. The variant is harder to play and less fun. So I'm not sure why'd you want it. But there you go. The variant will be 1 more page, bringing the page total to 4 pages in the pdf. Custom $2 backers will not receive this variant. **** I hope this made you laugh. If it did, pledge $1.

WASHINGTON ― The Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico expired Sunday night, and "it is not being extended at this time," Department of Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan told HuffPost on Monday. DHS had temporarily waived the Jones Act ― an arguably outdated law that imposes exorbitant shipping costs on the U.S. island ― on Sept. 28. The waiver had meant that Puerto Rico had the option of importing food, fuel and supplies more quickly, and for half the cost, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. With the 1920 law back in effect, the island is now required to pay much higher costs to import supplies. The Jones Act requires that all goods shipped between U.S. ports be carried by U.S.-owned and operated ships, which are more expensive vessels than others in the global marketplace. That's meant that Puerto Rico pays double the costs to import goods from the U.S. mainland compared with neighboring islands ― and that U.S. vessels are making bank. The return to higher shipping costs won't help Puerto Rico as it tries to climb out of economic devastation. Nearly half of the 3.4 million Americans on the island still don't have drinking water since Maria hit nearly three weeks ago. Just 15 percent have electricity. Many people still haven't heard from loved ones, and at least 39 deaths have been attributed to the storm. Lapan said DHS is "always prepared to review requests on a case-by-case basis and respond quickly" to possible waivers of the Jones Act. But those decisions have to be related to national defense, he said, and are not driven by cost-related matters. "We believe that extending the waiver is unnecessary to support the humanitarian relief efforts on the island," Lapan said. "There is an ample supply of Jones Act-qualified vessels to ensure that cargo is able to reach Puerto Rico." Mario Tama via Getty Images Maria Chiclano, who has no running water or power in her home, washes clothes with her sons in the Espiritu Santo river during heavy rains, more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Despite DHS' position, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Monday night that he wants another extension of the Jones Act waiver. "I think we should have it," Rossello told CBS News' David Begnaud. "In this emergency phase, while we're looking to sustain and save lives, we should have all of the assets at hand." President Donald Trump, who is spending Monday golfing, had originally hedged on waiving the Jones Act for Puerto Rico at all, saying "a lot of shippers" didn't want him to do it. He eventually caved to pressure from lawmakers including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). McCain has been pushing to get rid of the Jones Act altogether. It costs Puerto Rico hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and he recently introduced legislation to nix the law. "Now that the temporary Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico has expired, it is more important than ever for Congress to pass my bill to permanently exempt Puerto Rico from this archaic and burdensome law," McCain said in a statement to HuffPost. "Until we provide Puerto Rico with long-term relief, the Jones Act will continue to hinder much-needed efforts to help the people of Puerto Rico recover and rebuild from Hurricane Maria."

Are you guys ready to see the winners of the 2012 Dickerdoodle contest? If you're not then you should probably stop reading because that's what this post is about. 3rd Place These were inadvertent Dickerdoodles which makes them especially funny in my book. This young man's parents came downstairs in the morning to find he had bitten off the arms of all these little gingerbread men. The resulting photo was priceless. 2nd Place The Girls are Geeks ladies have outdone themselves again this year. I'll just go ahead and post the christmas letter that accompanied this card: Happy Holidays from the Knob Family! It's been a pretty good year for the Knobs. We put a lot of work into our house, including the new chimney and walkway. Got all the work done just in time for the snow! Hugh and I have have quite a handful with the kids. Dick and Harry are both in school and doing well, and little Pecker is potty training, finally.The family also got a new dog this year; we named him Willy. With love from Ivanna & Hugh G. Knob 1st Place This year's winner is "Game of Bones" and it is marvelous. From the penis throne to the icing lettering this is a masterpiece. Congratulations to the top three entries! I'll be contacting you shortly to get all your info so that I can send each of you a big Penny Arcade prize pack. As usual I have collected some of the other honorable mentions from 2012 into a very NSFW gallery. Thanks to everyone who entered! -Gabe out

★ Top Developer (awarded 2013 / 2015) ★ Google Play's strongest Go/Baduk program! To coincide with the AlphaGo - Sedol match, AI Factory has released a substantially updated product. This new version has been 3 years in preparation and improves the top play strength by 10 grades from 8 kyu to 3 dan. This is based on the new Aya program, which was the winner of the KGS World Computer Go Championship November 2014 and EGC Computer Go Tournament 2015. It is consequently a substantially bigger program, but offers much more. With its rich strategy and simple rules, the ancient game of Go (Wei-chi/Baduk) is widely regarded as the ultimate thinking game. This product will allow you to learn and master this game! - Full 9x9, 13x13 games (19x19 limited to 180 moves. Paid version allows whole game) - 10 Difficulty levels from 18 Kyu to 3 Dan - Aya Go Engine (International Gold Medallist) - 2 Player Hotseat - Go Rules, Handicaps. Chinese and Japanese rules supported. - Hints at 1 Dan level to help you develop. - Help includes a walk-through and links to teaching resources. - Designed for both Tablet and Phone This free version is supported by 3rd party ads. Ads may use internet connectivity, and therefore subsequent data charges may apply. The photos/media/files permission is required to allow the game to save game data to external storage, and is sometimes used to cache ads.

WeAreBorg here one last time as HASCON wraps up and everypony is headed home. Discovery Family had a booth at the con and we're doing fun silly little social media things but where also showing off a commercial real. I got a few images for you to preview before you see it on the channel.Grab your commercial alerts below!Okay let me break some of these down for you and his the episode they are from.So I'll start out with least site but I think this is a scene from "Once Upon a Zeppelin" or "Uncommon Bond". I could be wrong.Fluttershy is on top of Twilight in this scene. Likely from "A Health of Information".You missed Applejack falling here into Pinkie's party dungeon. Rather sure this is from "Secrets and Pies".This is clearly from "It's Not The Mane Thing About You" with Rarity here hosting in Twilight's castle.This here where Twilight is cringing from a brony encounter is from "Once Upon a Zeppelin".These have have to be from a "Health of Information". Which doctor Fluttershy. I need a toy of this..."Once Above a Zeppelin" which should air right after the My Little Pony Movie.And put course the scene before the Zecora Hut clip we saw from INTMTAY.

For the first time, scientists have studied clouds and wind on the night side of Venus, and they've found that it's very different from the day side, IFL Science reports. That data comes from the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft, which entered orbit around Venus in April 2006 before being crashed into the planet in December 2014. Led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the study was published in Nature. We already knew that Venus has a weird super-rotation, where its winds can rotate 60 times faster than the planet. But it seems that on the night side, this process is even more chaotic than on the day side. "This study challenges our current understanding of climate modelling and, specifically, the super-rotation, which is a key phenomenon seen at Venus," said Håkan Svedhem, ESA Project Scientist for Venus Express, in a statement. The team found that night-side clouds form large, irregular patterns, dominated by waves that appear to stand still in the atmosphere, called stationary waves. In January of this year, a huge stationary wave was seen on Venus by the Akatsuki spacecraft, stretching for more than 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). In this study, the scientists used data from the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) to study the night side, using infrared to study the clouds. They found they did not move with the atmosphere, an unexpected discovery that was later confirmed by Akatsuki. Stationary waves are thought to form over mountains or other high-elevation regions. Weirdly though, in this data stationary waves were missing in the intermediate and lower cloud levels, up to about 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the surface. "We expected to find these waves in the lower levels because we see them in the upper levels, and we thought that they rose up through the cloud from the surface," co-author Ricardo Hueso of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, in the statement. "It's an unexpected result for sure, and we'll all need to revisit our models of Venus to explore its meaning." Akatsuki is continuing to orbit Venus, so it may be able to shed some light on some of the weird things going on with the planet. WN.com, Jim Berrie

How to Make My Favorite Beers Visualization How to Make My Favorite Beers Visualization 8/18/2015 Since I seemed to get quite a bit of interest about how to make My Favorite Beers Viz on Reddit, I thought I'd go ahead and create a post explaining the process. I'm going to first outline how to create it from scratch, then explain how to just update mine with your data (less work involved this way). Creating the Full Viz Step 1: Get the Data in Your Desired Format Step 2: Creating the Top 5 Chart 1 Star Rating: 2 Star Rating: 3 Star Rating: 4 Star Rating: 5 Star Rating: Position of 1/2 Star: Position of 1/4 Star: Position of 3/4 Star: Index: Step 3: Creating the Breweries Map Step 4: Creating the Breweries Table Step 5: Putting It All Together on a Dashboard Updating My Viz with Your Own Data I mentioned in my original post how I got the data, but I'll go ahead and explain it again. On Untappd's Website , you are able to become a "Supporter". Once you do that, you get access to all of your data in an .xls or .csv format. Please note that it costs $5 to become a supporter. Also, if you don't cancel your subscription, they will charge you that $5 every month. So, I just paid the $5, downloaded my data, then canceled my subscription so I don't get charged again. Once you download the data, go ahead and open it up in Excel.Once you have the data opened up, you will see there are fields for the Brewery State and Brewery City. What we need to do is copy both of those and paste them into this Batch Geocode Website so we can create our Brewery Map later. You could try to just use the Brewery State and City to map in Tableau, but a lot of times, Tableau either won't recognize the city, or it will come back as an ambiguous location. So, just paste the city and state into the box on that website, choose Batch Geocode Output Options to be only Latitude and Longitude, then click Geocode. This may take a little while (its best to do about 100 at a time), but it will eventually spit out all of the Latitudes and Longitudes. Then, create two new columns in your spreadsheet and paste the values into there. You will have to use Text-to-Columns with a comma delimiter to split these out. Then you will be good to go ahead and load the data up into Tableau.The only manipulation I did of the data once inside Tableau was a little bit of grouping for the Beer Type field. Untappd uses a lot of different beer types and I just wanted to group some of the similar ones up, so I wasn't stuck with 100 different groups. An example of this is combining all of the different IPA sytles into one over-arching category: IPA. This step is completely optional, but I think it looks much nicer only having 15-20 different groups when looking at the Style filter on the visualization.Doing this is pretty easy. Just drag out the Beer Type field, then Ctrl-Click multiple styles you think would be grouped well together. Once you have multiple types selected, right click and choose "Group". You can see an example photo to the right. Then, you can right click your new group and choose "Edit Alias" to rename your group. Do this to all the styles you feel necessary to group. I used this website as reference.This is probably the toughest part of this whole visualization. This is primarily because of using the stars to signify ranking. Thinking about it, you need not only a full star image, but you also need fractions of that star (1/2 of a star, 3/4 of a star, etc.) I learned how to do this by downloading this workbook . They did a really great job of getting this star rating system to work correctly in Tableau. So, to do this, you are going to need 9 calculated fields:Next, we are going to right-click our index measure and choose "Convert to Discrete". After doing that, you can drag it out to Rows. Now, we are going to create a combined field of Beer Name and Brewery Name. To do this click on Beer Name, then hold ctrl and click on Brewery Name. Then, right click -> Create -> Combined Field. The reason we have to do this is because some beers have identical names across breweries. For example, Bell's, Mt. Carmel, and West Sixth all make a beer named Amber Ale, so creating this field allows us to differentiate between the three Amber Ales. Next, you

AUSTRALIA has won its latest international tug-of-war for a promising young sportsman, pinching WA teen Cameron Burgess from Scotland's grasp. The Fulham defender has starred for Scotland's youth sides for the past year, playing as recently as June, but has officially pledged his future to the Socceroos. FIFA this week officially granted Burgess a clearance to switch allegiance from Scotland to Australia, which binds him to Australia forever. A central defender who can play left-back or defensive midfield, Burgess will now be considered for the two November home friendlies by Socceroos coach Ange Posetcoglou. Football Federation Australia yesterday confirmed the capture of Burgess, who played for Scotland's U19 and 20s and whose granddad Campbell Forsyth was capped by Scotland in the 1960s. "Cameron Burgess is a talented young footballer making positive moves in his football career and we're delighted he has confirmed his desire to play for Australia,'' an FFA spokesperson said. delighted to make my professional debut today! gutted about the result but a positive season ahead #COYW #FFC — Cameron Burgess (@CamBurgess95) August 9, 2014 "He is a young player we have been watching and we will continue to do so knowing he is committed to the Socceroos.'' Burgess has been a bolter for Championship side Fulham, playing four full games this season after making his senior debut last month, age 18 years and 10 months. Standing at 194cm, the stopper has been deployed mainly as a defensive midfielder by Fulham boss Felix Magath. Born in Aberdeen, his family moved to Perth age 11, where he was an ECU Joondalup junior and played for Perth Glory's youth team, before signing for Fulham in 2011. It's believed Postecoglou considered calling Burgess up to the current camp for the Belgium and Saudi Arabia games, but was unsure if the clearance would be granted on time. The same clearance was required for Liverpool's Sydney-born and raised left-back Brad Smith, who's represented England's youth sides for the past four years but made his Socceroos debut against Belgium on Friday. Having been picked in an Australian U20 camp earlier this year, Burgess is now likely to be selected for the Young Socceroos' U20 World Cup qualifiers in October in Myanmar (October 9-23). Cameron Burgess made his debut for Fulham this season. Source: Getty Images With the Socceroos due to play UAE and Qatar on October 10 and 14, a senior call-up beckons in November, which will be Postecoglou's final camp before picking his squad for January's Asian Cup. Burgess' capture is a two-pronged win for Australia - it gives Postecoglou another long-term option in the problematic defensive third, where depth has been tested since the retirements of Craig Moore, Tony Popovic and Tony Vidmar while Lucas Neill appears to have played his last game. Curtis Good and Rhys Williams missed the World Cup through injury, as did WA product Trent Sainsbury, who started in the loss to Belgium. It's with great irony that Australia secured Burgess the same way it lost fellow left-footed stopper Ersan Gulum to Turkey. The Melbourne-born Australian youth international switched allegiance to Turkey after overtures from Guus Hiddink, but having been uncapped in 2013 he and FFA tried to overturn his change. But FIFA's steadfast rules prevented him from doing so, though the Besiktas defender has since become a Turkey regular.

WASHINGTON -- New documents reveal that a high-ranking official in the administration of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) knew that Fort Lee, N.J., had issues with traffic congestion around the George Washington Bridge, long before he authorized a seemingly unnecessary study that closed down lanes to the bridge and made traffic even worse. Fort Lee is an essential access point to New York City, serving as the gateway to the George Washington Bridge, which is the busiest bridge in the United States. In November 2010, Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) wrote to Bill Baroni, deputy director of the Port Authority of New York and Jersey, and complained of traffic problems in the borough. The letter was obtained by The Record in a public records request. "On approximately 20 occasions in the last forty days, our Borough has been completely gridlocked," wrote Sokolich to Baroni, who was Christie's top official at the Port Authority. "Traveling from the south to the north end of our Borough takes upwards of one hour. Our safety vehicles are unable to traverse our own thoroughfares to attend to emergencies which place our residents in harms way." Despite these concerns, on Sept. 9, 2013, Sokolich woke up to find that two of the three local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge had been closed, causing dangerous traffic jams in the borough on the first day of school. Neither he nor Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye -- who was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) -- were given any advance warning. The closures were ordered by David Wildstein, then the director of interstate capital projects and an ally of Christie's. They came just weeks after Sokolich refused to endorse Christie's reelection bid. On Sept. 12, Sokolich said he believed the closures were "punitive," although he later backed off that accusation. Baroni has stated that the closures were part of a traffic study, implying that Fort Lee may not need three access lanes. "Every one of you, every one of you on this committee has people in your communities who sit in longer traffic every day because of the special lanes for Fort Lee," Baroni said in November. But he acknowledged that no one ever sought approval for the study, which, without an alternative route, was guaranteed to create traffic congestion. According to The Record, a bridge official said Wildstein also specifically instructed him to keep the lane closures secret from Fort Lee officials. And records indicate, according to the paper, "that traffic engineers predicted it would lead to 600-vehicle back-ups during the morning rush hour that would not subside until noon." Wildstein and Baroni have since resigned and hired attorneys to represent them. In a Dec. 17 press conference on the controversy, Christie stood by Baroni's explanation for the closures, saying that while his appointees did not go through the proper channels for the closures, there was no malicious or political intent in what they did. Still, the controversy has continued to dog Christie, who is considered a possible 2016 presidential contender. Sen. John "Jay" Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has asked the Transportation Department to review what happened in Fort Lee. "While this type of decision tends to be local in nature, I am concerned about the larger federal implications of what appears to be political appointees abusing their power to hamper interstate commerce and safety without public notice," wrote Rockefeller in his letter to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The inspector general of the Port Authority is also investigating the closures, and several state legislators continue to look into the matter. Last week, Christie said the controversy was "not that big a deal" even though reporters were "obsessed" with it.

New household formations finally seem to be picking up, but it's not because young people are moving out of mom and dad's house, according to a study released Monday by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. In fact, "age groups younger than 55 collectively had negative household formation between 2014 and 2015, while 65- to 74-year-olds accounted for more than two-thirds of overall household formation," the report said. A separate report released Monday by Zillow found that first-time home buyers today are older, renting longer, are less likely to be married and are spending a lot more of their income on homes today versus first-time buyers in the 1970s and 1980s. Both reports add to the growing body of research on why Millennials are taking so long to strike out on their own, which is of great interest to Realtors, home builders and economists. Historically, population growth alone results in the formation of about 1.2 million new households per year on average, said Jed Kolko, author of the Terner Center report. During the recession, this number "got down into only a few hundred thousand" as more people stayed with parents longer or found roommates. Recent census data suggest that the rate of new household formation has started to improve, although there is conflicting data as to the start and size of the increase. The data cited most often showed a big year-over-year increase in the fourth quarter of last year, with gains continuing into this year. It was assumed that Millennials, having found jobs, are now getting their own places. But a recent report from the Pew Center showed that's not true. Even though unemployment among 18- to 34-year olds has dropped dramatically — to 7.7 percent early this year from 12.4 percent in 2010 — people this age are less likely to be living independently. Only 67 percent were living independently early this year, compared with 69 percent in 2010 and 71 percent in 2007, the Pew report said. If young adults are not increasingly striking out on their own, then what accounts for the increase in new household formation? Kolko attempted to answer this question by adding up the population growth between the first half of 2015 and the first half of 2014 for various age groups and multiplying by each group's headship rate. Headship is the percentage of adults who head a household. Like the Pew study, his analysis found that despite the job recovery, the percentage of young adults living with their parents continued to rise, even through June 2015. He found that the headship rate fell or remained flat for all age groups from 20 to 64. "The only notable increase in headship rate was for 65- to 74-year-olds," he said. His conclusion: "Household formation is being driven by overall population growth and the aging of the population, but not a broad increase in headship rates. The recent gain in household formation appears to be due to basic demographic shifts rather than the economic cycle." What the data can't explain is why young adults are living at home even after they get a job. "One contributing factor is that 25 to 34-year-olds are decreasingly likely to be married or cohabitating with a partner, and — unsurprisingly — married or cohabitating young adults rarely live with their parents (just 2% do), compared with 31% of those who aren't living with a spouse or partner," Kolko wrote. The decline in marriage among young adults predates the recession. Another possible factor is that "rent affordability is worsening broadly," Kolko said. "When young people move out, it is usually to rent, not to own." After the bubble burst, home prices fell precipitously, but rents did not. "Demand for renting rose as people lost homes to foreclosure or couldn't get a mortgage," he said. Saving up for a down payment on a home is harder when rents are rapidly rising. A third possible reason is that "the quality of jobs being created" is not good enough to let young people move out on their own, at least in the style they have become accustomed to. First-time home buyers: Zillow's report on first-time home buyers echoes some of the same themes. It found that: •First-time buyers are older than than they were in the past. The median age was about 32.5 in 2010-14, versus 29 in 1975-79. •Americans are renting longer before buying a home. The median was 6 years between 2010 and 2014, versus 2.6 years in 1970-74. •They are less likely to be married. Only 40 percent were married in 2010-14, versus 52 percent in 1985-90. •They are spending a lot more of their income on a home. In the early 1970s

First used in a memo dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language" and mock-threateaning, "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot." Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise. Another word for it, coined about the same time, was bafflegab (1952).

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a North Carolina law that required voters to produce photo identification and follow other rules disproportionately affecting minorities, finding that the law was intended to make it harder for blacks to vote in the presidential battleground state. The Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the measures violated the Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act by targeting black voters "with almost surgical precision." It marks the third ruling in less than two weeks against voter ID laws after court decisions regarding Texas and Wisconsin. Friday's opinion from a three-judge panel states that "the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history" when it rewrote voting laws in 2013. The appeals court also dismissed arguments by Republican lawmakers that the law was aimed at preventing voter fraud. "Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist," the opinion states. Opponents of the law say the ruling should increase participation by black and Hispanic voters on Election Day in the state that also has closely contested races for U.S. Senate and governor. The U.S. Justice Department, state NAACP and League of Women Voters were among those who sued over the restrictions. "This is a strong rebuke to what the North Carolina General Assembly did in 2013. It's a powerful precedent that ... federal courts will protect voting rights of voters of color," said Allison Riggs, who served as the League of Women Voters' lead lawyer. The Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, said the ruling was "a vindication of our constitutional and moral critique and challenge to the constitutional extremism of our government." The decision was lauded by Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, but decried by Republicans including Gov. Pat McCrory as an effort to tilt the electoral balance in the November elections. North Carolina legislative leaders Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, both Republicans, issued a statement that they would appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court and blasted the judges as "three partisan Democrats." "We can only wonder if the intent is to reopen the door for voter fraud, potentially allowing fellow Democrat politicians ... to steal the election," they said. All three panel members were appointed by Democratic presidents. However, it's unlikely that the evenly divided and short-handed Supreme Court would take the case or block Friday's ruling from governing elections this November, said election-law experts Ned Foley of Ohio State University and Richard Hasen of the University of California at Irvine. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas' strict voter ID law is discriminatory and must be weakened by November. That followed a ruling by a federal judge in Wisconsin that residents without a photo ID will still be allowed to vote. Hasen said the Obama administration took on the North Carolina and Texas cases as a bulwark against voting restrictions. "If North Carolina and Texas could get away with these voting restrictions, it would have been a green light for other states to do so," he said. "I think this is a hugely important decision." North Carolina's voting laws were rewritten in 2013 by the General Assembly two years after Republicans took control of both legislative chambers for the first time in a century. It was also shortly after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling changed the requirement that many Southern states receive federal approval before changing voting laws. The voter ID mandate, which took effect in March, required people casting ballots in person to show one of six qualifying IDs, although voters facing "reasonable impediments" could fill out a form and cast a provisional ballot. North Carolina legislators imposed the photo ID requirement, curtailed early voting and eliminated same-day registration and voters' ability to cast out-of-precinct provisional ballots in their home counties. The appeals court cited data that these methods were used disproportionately by black voters, who also were more likely to lack a qualifying ID, and it blocked the contested provisions of the law. The judges wrote that in the years before the North Carolina law took effect, registration and participation by black voters had been dramatically increasing. "We recognize that elections have consequences, but winning an election does not empower anyone in any party to engage in purposeful racial discrimination," the panel said. The Rev. Moses Colbert, a 61-year-old pastor at a church in Gastonia, said the elimination of same-day registration ensured that he couldn't vote on Election Day 2014 shortly after moving within North Carolina. He'd sought to change his voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the update didn't get to county officials by the election. He was told his name wasn't on the rolls where he'd just moved. But when he drove 20 miles back to the county

EL SEGUNDO – The Los Angeles Lakers have exercised their team options for the 2018-19 season on Brandon Ingram and Larry Nance Jr., it was announced today by General Manager Rob Pelinka. Ingram, the second overall selection in the 2016 NBA Draft, appeared in 79 games (40 starts) as a rookie last season, averaging 9.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.1 assists, en route to All-Rookie Second Team honors. Ingram has started all three games this season, tallying 14.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 28.8 minutes. Selected 27th overall in the 2015 NBA Draft, Nance Jr. played in 126 games (29 starts) over the last two seasons, notching 6.3 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game. In three games (three starts) this season, Nance Jr. is averaging 11.3 points (.556 FG%), 7.0 rebounds, 1.0 blocks and 1.0 steals in 22.0 minutes.

On 26 October 1520 a genial young man named Charles, who was already King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, and Lord of the Netherlands, was also crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. This guy, whom I am prone to call The Human Chin, had basically inherited a big chunk of the planet, and this one chin man "brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets". The title of Emperor was basically icing on the cake. Charles was born 24 February 1500, the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile. This means he was Katharina of Aragon's nephew, and Mary I's cousin, and he would later give Henry VIII a hard row to hoe over the English king's attempt to divorce his Spanish wife in favor of Anne Boleyn. In fact, he would keep meddling in English politics for the next several decades, culminating in his son's marriage to Mary I. However, that bedevilment was still years in the future when Charles was crowned, so Henry VIII was probably pleased as punch to have an Imperial in-law. In fact, Charles was betrothed to Mary, his cousin and future daughter-in-law, for a while. Ah, the amusing incest of the royal families! Anyway, Charles went on to have many, MANY historical things happen during his reign that did not (surprising as it is to a Tudor historian like myself) involve either Henry VIII or his children. Charles's armies humbled several powerful men, including the King of France, Pope Clement VII, the Duke of Cleves, and the Ottoman Empire's Suleiman the Magnificent. Strangely, for such a powerful man he was not very power-hungry. When he was in his early 50s, Charles started abdicating his various thrones and giving rule of his territories to his eldest son and his younger brother. Charles retreated from court life to live in seclusion at the monastery of Yuste in Extremadura, where lived alone in a small room with multiple clocks on every wall. Although reclusive in person, the former Emperor maintained correspondence with heirs and acted as a sort of unofficial advisor. Charles died six years after he retired, on 21 September 1558, from what is believed to have been malaria. His mortal remains now lie in the Royal Pantheon of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

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About Description C.U.B.E.S is a VR-Puzzle Game developed for the HTC-Vive. The player finds himself in a cryptic labyrinth of rooms and riddles. The goal is to complete each room and their tasks, in order to maybe find a way out of the complex. The gameplay consists of various rooms, which represent in themselves a puzzle. Every one of them uses a different gameplay features. Logic, combinatorial skills and stamina are necessary to solve the tasks and move forward from room to room. The diversity ranges from rooms in darkness and light over Laser barriers up to gravity and time. Each puzzle or room consists of its own paradigms The game is designed for an immersive roomscale experience and relies on interaction and diversity in its gameplay. Brief History We are Students of Multimediatechnology at the University of Applied Science in Salzburg and C.U.B.E.S is our graudation project. Technical Information This game was made with Unity The target VR hardware is HTC Vive.

by Borgna Brunner The Confederate battle flag, called the "Southern Cross" or the cross of St. Andrew, has been described variously as a proud emblem of Southern heritage and as a shameful reminder of slavery and segregation. In the past, several Southern states flew the Confederate battle flag along with the U.S. and state flags over their statehouses. Others incorporated the controversial symbol into the design of their state flags. The Confederate battle flag has also been appropriated by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist hate groups. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, more than 500 extremist groups use the Southern Cross as one of their symbols. Confederate Flags of the Old South A history of Confederate flags during the Civil War period Confederate Flags of the New South How those flags were adopted, and in most cases eventually abandoned, in the 20th-century South

There are well over half-a-million licensed Certified Public Accountants in the US according to a recent study performed by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. This is roughly the population of El Paso, TX! This data was assembled from NASBA's interstate database that holds records from all 55 state boards and licensing authorities except four: Hawaii, Wisconsin, Utah, and Delaware. These four states have approved the interstate information sharing process, but have yet to be implemented into the system. How Many CPAs are in the US? I know what you are thinking. If this is the total of all CPA licenses in all states, won't it be double counting the CPAs who are licensed in multiple states? Great question, but they already thought about that and made sure not to double count individual licensed in more than one state. This 2016 figure is up since the 2006 data that showed 646,520 licensed and active CPAs in the United States. This increase is a good sign for the profession and a good sign for the financial industry overall, but it is not that impressive. What Does This Trend Mean? Generally, the growing trend of people becoming CPAs and entering in the profession would be a good thing, and it is. But, the growth has become stagnant over the last few years, only growing at a rate of 1 percent. This isn't a large boom by any means. Actually, if you look back to the 1990s, the total number of first time CPA candidates in the US has declined about 20 percent. This means less people are taking the exam each year as compared with prior years. In other words, people are becoming CPAs at a lessor rate than in previous decades. It's unclear as to what is causing this decrease in people becoming certified, but it is clear that several things in the certification process have changed since the 1990s. For example, most states now require additional work experience requirements and 150 college credit hours to become licensed. These increased requirements most likely have contributed to this decline. Plus, there are many other career options available than in the 1990s. For example, computer science engineers and programmers were not nearly as big as they are today. These careers might be pulling potential future CPAs away from the profession. Keep in mind that just because the rate of people becoming a CPA for the first time is slowing down, it doesn't mean that accounting jobs are going anywhere. How Many Accountants are CPAs? Accounting jobs in the US and internationally keep increasing year over year according to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics. There are roughly 1.3M accountants in the US and only about 650,000 CPAs. Thus, approximately 50 percent of all accountants are licensed CPAs. No Better Time to Become a CPA There's no better time to become a CPA than right now. The worldwide demand for certified public accountants is at an all time high. The overall growth might be slowly slightly, but the total demand is still growing. The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimates that the demand for accountants will increase upwards of 10 percent in the next 5 years. With all of the new government regulations from healthcare to retirement savings, there is no question that number will be even higher. Business Insider reported that accountants will be the number 1 demanded career over the next 10 years. CPAs are not only needed domestically, they are needed internationally too. Candidates from more than 100 countries around the world are taking the CPA exam, so they can prepare SEC filings for international companies among other things. If you aren't a CPA yet, you should serious consider joining the profession. But before you can become one, you will have to pass the CPA exam. Here are the most helpful study courses that candidates have used to pass the exam. Check them out.

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paternoster A 2D programming language with arrows. The documentation is very spartanic, but I hope you can get all the information you need from it. This is a little programming language that follows arrows around the file. The program starts at: ↤, ↥, ↦ or ↧ and then follows the given direction. If ←, ↑, →, ↓, ↖, ↗, ↘, ↙ are hit the program will follow their direction. The code can also modify itself. There are operations, which are basically commands. Some have results, some do actions. Let's look at a little program. ↦ M 2 2 "+" M 2 8 "X" ↓ ↑ P ← Okay, there's a lot going on in this. Let's start at ↦, which tells the program to start there. Now, M is called. M is the modify operation. It modifies the character at [2, 2] to be a plus. This changes the M into a +. + is an add operation, and it takes two arguments, like this: 1 3 => 4 After that, there is another modify operation which modifies the character on [2, 8] to be a X. X simply terminates the program. The program would now look like this: ↦ + 2 2 X+" M 2 8 "X" ↓ ↑ P ← Now there's an arrow which redirects the program. Now we hit P, which prints the result of the next operation. The next operation is + 2 2, so it will print 4. X terminates the program. These are the current operations: A assigns a variable to a value. A example 5 will assign 5 to example. P prints a value. P example will print 5. p example will print 5 without linebreak. "" is a string. P "Hello World!" will print Hello World! The operations +, -, /, * and % work as you would think they do. =, < and > are conditional operators. They work like math operations, and return 1 for true and 0 for false. ! inverts 1 to 0 and 0 to 1. ? is an if operation. After testing, they follow the arrows ↿, ⇃, ↼, ⇀ if the condition is true. ? = x 1 ⇃ P "x is not 1." X will only print "x is not 1" if x is not one.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago mother thought she knew when it was safe to take her children outside, that she could protect them by sizing up and avoiding the people whom trouble seemed to follow. Then a bullet fired from a gun that D'Antignay Brashear never saw pierced the cheek of her 4-year-old son, Kavan Collins. It fractured the boy's jaw and shattered some teeth before it went out his other cheek, all while he held his mother's hand. "He was with his mother, and it wasn't like I was doing something wrong, having him out after hours," said Brashear, a 21-year-old single mother of two, referring to the shooting that happened before sundown June 28 on Chicago's South Side. "I thought he was safe." Kavan is part of a growing roster of children who have been shot in the city this year amid a spike in killings and shootings. More than 330 killings have occurred in the city. So far, no child has died from the gunfire that's often connected to gangs. Children have been struck while doing normal kid things like playing with sparklers, drawing on the sidewalk or holding a mother's hand. Statistics that The Associated Press requested from the Police Department show children ages 10 to 17, who make up more than 260 of the victims so far this year, are at greater risk than those younger than 10. But police records through the end of June showed 15 children younger than 10 had been shot, which is seven more young shooting victims than the same span last year. Four more young children have been shot since the start of July, including a 6-year-old girl who was sitting on a porch Tuesday with her mother and grandmother when a bullet — one of more than 40 fired a block away — struck her in the stomach. Police are trying to determine if the gunfire that struck Tacarra Morgan in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side was an exchange between people inside a caravan of cars and a group of men on the street. They say another possibility is that someone in one of the vehicles sprayed the area with a high-capacity assault weapon. Tacarra's condition was upgraded from critical to serious, a hospital official said Wednesday. The shootings, mostly in neighborhoods on the South and West sides, underline what the residents already knew: It's a dangerous time for the city's children as well. But since the recent shootings of young victims haven't been deadly, they have received little attention outside Chicago. The children haven't become national symbols of the city's violence like 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, who was lured into an alley last November with the promise of a juice box and shot to death, allegedly by gang members out to punish his father. Other children besides Kavan have been struck by gunfire while doing nothing other than being kids, leaving their families to wonder if there's anything they can do to protect them. The victims include: — Six-year-old Jaylene Bermeo, who was drawing with sidewalk chalk on the evening of June 6 in the Logan Square neighborhood on the city's northwest side when she was shot in the back. The bullet punctured her lung and lodged near her heart. Police say a 17-year-old boy accidentally shot the girl when he opened fire on rival gang members as he drove down the block. — Three-year-old Devon Quinn, who was with his dad on Father's Day in a car in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side when someone pulled up and fired at least 10 shots at the vehicle. Prosecutors say the gunman was a gang member who opened fire in a rival gang's territory to pay tribute to a dead member of his own gang. At a court hearing, prosecutors said the boy was left paralyzed from the chest down and that he will never be able to move his limbs or even breathe on his own. — Five-year-old Taniyah Williams and her 8-year-old cousin, Corey Bondurant, who were playing with sparklers on the evening of July 4 in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side when someone sprayed the area with bullets. Taniyah was struck in the leg, as were a 19-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man. After the commotion, relatives discovered that 8-year-old Corey was also shot in the leg. Since her son Kavan was wounded, Brashear struggles with how to talk to him about the shooting, even as she continues taking him to doctor appointments and trying to determine what can be done about his facial scars. "I don't know how to explain it to him," she said of the boy who has been afraid to fall asleep since the incident and experiences nightmares when he does. "How do you tell a kid, 'Oh, you got shot

In this new ITS Podcast we have a really interesting three way interview with scientists from Karlsruhe Technical University and Daimler on their amazing autonomous driving acomplishment, a new milestone, through Bertha Benz Memorial route in the south of Germany. As a preparation for that interview we have a Transportation in History minisection about that historical route Carl Benz's wife drove, making the historical first long distance car drive 125 years ago. As usual, we also have a news minisection, this time about the autonomous electric four seats pods they are using in London's Heathrow airport, and their plans on using them on an actual british city, Milton Keynes. Download Mp3 (30.4 MB – 42′:12") Downloads: 815 For those willing to jump straight to the interview, it starts at 6′:10″ Property of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Interview Related Links: News Minisection Source: http://www.electric-vehiclenews.com/2013/10/battery-powered-driverless-cars-to-be.html Transportation in History Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz_Memorial_Route http://www.bertha-benz.de

Fees & Financial Aid :: Full-time Studies Please note the Payment Options for BCIT. Ensuring your fees are paid on time reserves your place in your chosen full-time program. Here's what you need to know about paying for your full-time studies. Please note: Each year BC post-secondary institutions may raise tuition by 2 per cent. In April each year, BCIT posts the new rates that take effect on August 1. If you pay your tuition prior to April using the old rates, you are required to pay the difference within 10 business days from the start of your program. Please see the Ministry of Advanced Education's Tuition Limit Policy for more information. Tuition for full-time studies programs Tuition for 2018-2019 full-time studies programs includes: BCIT Student Association Activity fee BCIT Student Association Extended Health & Dental Plan fee BCIT Student Association Capital Levy fee BCIT Student Association Building Centre fee (Burnaby Campus only) Learning Resource fee BCIT ID Card fee Student Services fee Building fee Total tuition for Trades and Technical studies programs also include a tool deposit and lab or flying fee. Coveralls fees are included for applicable programs delivered at the following campuses: Annacis Island, Aerospace, and Marine. Students are required to supply their own coveralls for programs delivered at the Burnaby campus. Total tuition for Technology programs includes an optional co-op fee and a mandatory clinical and practicum fee. U-Pass: Total tuition cost listed in the full-time tuition schedules does not include the U-Pass BC fee. The U-Pass BC fee will be charged upon registration and is a mandatory fee for all eligible students. Transfer Credit: Where academic credit has been granted within a full-time studies program a student's course load will be reduced, however full-time tuition will not be reduced. Tuition for individual courses 2018-2019 Full-time technology and degree studies students who are registering for courses on a course-by-course basis, pay fees calculated on the basis of a certain amount per credit, depending on the course type: Course type Amount per credit Maximum per level or term Business $178 $2,481 Engineering & Computer (including Broadcast and Media Communications) $200 $2,805 Health and Degrees $232 $3,225 Specialty Health (Diagnostic Medical Sonography and Medical Radiography Technology) $242 $3,384 Tuition for individual full-time courses will also include the following ancillary fees, which will be assessed when you register on a course-by-course basis: BCIT Student Association Activity fee BCIT Student Association Extended Health & Dental Plan fee BCIT Student Association Capital Levy fee BCIT Student Association Building Centre fee (Burnaby Campus only) Learning Resource fee BCIT ID Card fee Student Services fee Building fee Application and late fees Students will be subject to withdrawal for non-payment of fees. Description Amount Application Fee - Domestic $90 Application Fee - International $154 Reinstatement Charge $200 Paying full-time tuition Once you receive your offer of admission, BCIT will reserve a seat in the program for you when you submit your commitment fee. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. Fees are payable on a term basis. First-term tuition is due 60 days prior to the start of your program. Returning and continuing students must pay their tuition in full within 10 business days from the start of classes or have an approved fee deferral in place. Ensure your payment is on time to avoid penalty fees and to keep your place in the program. We accept the following forms of payment: Cash or debit card (in person only) Cheque or money order payable to BCIT - please include your BCIT ID (student number) Online banking (bill payment) through your financial institution using BCIT - Tuition as the payee Please note: BCIT does not accept credit card payments for tuition or rent. BCIT will no longer be providing support or assistance with dispute resolution to students who choose to use Plastiq as a third party payment service provider in order to pay for tuition, rent, and other services. Please note that BCIT will not be responsible for any fees incurred for such payments or returns. If paying by online banking, please use your BCIT ID (student number) as your account number. Please allow up to 3 business days for online bill payments to be posted to your account. Note: BCIT accepts payment from all Canadian banks and credit unions and it is the recommended method for paying your fees. For more information view Payment Options at BCIT Ref

It's an odd time in the DC Extended Universe. Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman has made a huge amount of money, and became an example of how to bring a hero to the screen with style and substance. We're awaiting Aquaman's first movie and the new Justice League film, a long-held dream for DC fans, with a sense of quiet anticipation. The sequel to Suicide Squad is being fast-tracked, and there's a Martin Scorsese-produced Joker movie on the way… Strange things are afoot at the circle DC… Yet with a roster of the most recognisable (and profitable) comic book characters on its books DC appear to be having trouble finding their feet. We're post-Logan, post-Deadpool and each new direction a comic book movie succeeds with could well become a template for all that follow. So, all eyes are on DC for the foreseeable future. Today we received confirmation that Matthew Vaughn is in talks with DC about the sequel to Man of Steel, and it could be a whole new take on the cinematic Superman. The Kick-Ass director was in the mix at Warner Bros. when they were looking to bring about the new cinematic DCEU. The studio ultimately went with the Christopher Nolan/David S. Goyer re-invention of Superman and the visually impressive, yet emotionally cold Man of Steel was the first step into a wider franchise. Commenting on his 2010 pitch, before Man of Steel went into production, Vaughn offered his opinion to MTV on what a new Superman film should be, "I think that's the one thing not to do with Superman, trying to do the serious The Dark Knight version. Superman is about color and fun, or it should be, for me." Speaking to us at the press junket for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Vaughn confirmed to Scott Davis, "I am planning another Kingman, I've written the treatment and some of the scenes…I don't know what I'm going to do next but I have had chats about Superman, I love Superman. "If somebody asks me to do Indiana Jones, most of the superheros or Star Wars the fanboy in me can't help but be excited." See the interview below, Matthew Vaughn on the new Superman film Tone has been a very difficult element for the DCEU. Though it came in the shadow of The Avengers, Man of Steel, and the follow-up Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, were cast firmly in the, often mocked, 'dark and gritty' mould. At the time it was an understandable decision. Let the tone serve the story, and comparisons to the Marvel films would be moot. However the reaction to Batman v Superman gave the DCEU a stumble on its second step, and the trailers for Suicide Squad subsequently focused heavily on the film's humour. There were dozens of news stories dedicated to how the Justice League film would be lighter and tone, and funnier. If Vaughn, and his long time collaborative partner Jane Goldman, are on board for a new Superman film it could be a bold, stabilising step for the ongoing franchise. When the X-Men franchise from Bryan Singer (another Superman director) faltered with the execrable Last Stand, it was Vaughn and Goldman who reinvigorated the series with X-Men: First Class. They could well do the same with Superman.

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There are, as the cops would say, several facts "pertaining" to Mr Khan's kidnapping. Firstly, his son Hafiz Zaenullah, his brother Asif Iqbal and another man – a stonemason called Khaliq Dad – were killed by a drone attack on Mr Khan's home in December 2009. Secondly, he had filed a legal case in Pakistan against the American drone strikes, arguing that they constituted murder under domestic law. And thirdly – perhaps Mr Khan's most serious crime – he was about to leave for Brussels to address European Union parliamentarians on the dangers of American drone strikes in Pakistan. In Madiha Tahir's recent documentary film Wounds of Waziristan, Mr Khan had talked about his family loss. His son Hafiz was a security guard at a local girls' school, and also studying for Grade 10. Asif, who had a Master's in English, was a government employee. Karim Khan saw what was left of their bodies, "covered in wounds". He found some of their fingers in the rubble of his home. Thanks to constant reports of his kidnapping in the courageous Pakistani media and to the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court who ordered the Pakistani government to produce Karim Khan by next Thursday, the anti-drone campaigner is safe. For the moment. But this is going to set the world on fire. The "drone war", as American journalists inevitably call it – after all, it's not as if al-Qa'ida or the innocent victims are firing back with drones of their own – started under George W Bush, but most of the attacks, 384 of them since 2008, have been authorised by Mr Obama. The statistics of civilian deaths fluctuate wildly since most of the missiles are fired into the Pakistani frontier districts in which the government has little power. The minimum figure for civilian victims is almost 300 dead – some say almost 900 – out of a total of 2,500 killed. At least 50 people are believed to have been killed in follow-up strikes which slaughtered those going to the rescue of the wounded. Of course, the drone syndrome has spread across the Middle East. The missiles rain down on al-Qa'ida and civilians alike in Yemen. The Israelis fired them into Lebanon in 2006; when a youth on a motorcycle fired at a night-time drone over Beirut, it fired back a missile that destroyed a downtown civilian apartment block. In Gaza, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported 825 deaths from Israeli drones during the 2008-09 war, a large percentage of them civilians. Pakistani witnesses have told me that the missiles don't just appear suddenly in the sky. The drones arrive in clusters – 10 or 12 at a time, circling villages for an hour or two – a looking for targets on behalf of their "pilots" in the United States. Until at least 2009, the Americans flew drones – the most impressive was called the Reaper – from air bases inside Pakistan. Hence the sensitivities of the boys from the ISI and their irritation with Karim Khan. The ethical disgrace of the drone syndrome is not that Mr Obama – or some US officer near Las Vegas – decides on the basis of satellite pictures, mobile phone calls, numbers dialled and the speed of vehicles, who should live or die. The really shameful aspect is that the drone war has become normal. It has gone on so long – and been the subject of so much protest, so regularly – that it has become banal, boring, matter-of-fact. It was just the same in the 1990s when the US and Brits went hunting for Iraqi targets over the so-called "no-fly zones" in Iraq. For years they bombed and missiled "military targets" that supposedly threatened them. In the eight months up to August 1999, US and British pilots had fired more than 1,100 missiles against 359 Iraqi targets, flying about two-thirds as many missions as Nato pilots conducted over Yugoslavia during the 78-day bombardment of the same year. As well as anti-aircraft batteries, oil pipelines were blown up, storage depots destroyed and dozens of civilians killed, including several in a Basra housing estate. But each air raid was merely "nibbed" in our newspapers – a nib is a single paragraph in an inside-page News in Brief column – so that an entire air campaign was effectively carried out behind the backs of the US and British public in the years before the 2003 invasion. In southern Lebanon, the Israelis controlled for 28 years a torture prison at Khiam for insurgents and their families – women as well as men – and electricity was frequently used on inmates by Israel's "South Lebanon Army" thugs. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross complained. But I will always remember the words of a Swiss Red Cross official when I asked him, within sight of Khiam, why the world did not condemn this dreadful place.

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Coors Light Truck Hits Cyclist in Cambridge The cyclist suffered leg injuries but no head injuries, according to police. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! A Coors Light truck struck a bicyclist this morning in Cambridge near the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Sidney Street. The bicyclist suffered leg injuries but no head injuries and has been taken to a nearby hospital, according to Jeremy Warnick, a spokesman for the Cambridge Police. The incident occurred at approximately 8:21 a.m. Warnick said the department's traffic enforcement investigation unit was investigating the scene and working to reconstruct the accident. Warnick did not immediately have data available on the number of accidents involving cyclists that have occurred this year. According to the city's Community Development Department, "the crash rate in Cambridge has been decreasing with the steady increase in numbers of people bicycling." Cambridge is often ranked as one of the more bicycle-friendly cities in the U.S. At the end of 2015, People For Bikes, a national non-profit, declared the city's bike lane on Western Ave. to be the best new bike lane in the country. Still, accidents happen too frequently, including a 2015 fatal collision that claimed the life of Marcia Deihl. An hour or so after the incident this morning, the Coors Light truck was still at the corner, cordoned off by caution tape. A badly damaged bicycle frame was wedged underneath the passenger's side of the truck. An officer on the scene said the injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. As noted on the Cambridge Police Department's website, May is Bike Safety Month.

Singapore's economy grew much faster than initially estimated in the third quarter, and blew past analysts' expectations, buoyed by strength in manufacturing activity. The economy grew 8.8 percent in July-September from the previous quarter on an annualised and seasonally adjusted basis, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said in a statement on Thursday. The government's initial estimate, released on Oct. 13, had shown that the economy grew 6.3 percent.

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Preview | Recap | Notebook Lakers-Timberwolves Preview By ALAN FERGUSON Posted Jan 29 2012 1:13AM It's been nearly five years since the Minnesota Timberwolves have had a chance at a .500 record this late into a season. However, it's also been almost as long since they've beaten their next opponent. The Timberwolves will attempt to snap a 15-game skid to the Los Angeles Lakers by taking advantage of their struggles on the road Sunday night. For the third time this season, Minnesota (9-10) is close to evening its record. In the most recent attempt, the Timberwolves were 7-8 before a 108-98 loss at Utah on Jan. 21 but have gotten another chance after two wins over teams from the Lone Star State. After a 105-90 victory in Dallas on Wednesday, they topped San Antonio 87-79 on Friday when Ricky Rubio scored nine of his 18 points in the fourth quarter. Kevin Love also had 18 points in his first home game after signing a four-year extension worth more than $60 million, and was one of three Minnesota players to record double-doubles along with Rubio and center Nikola Pekovic. "It's a terrific win for our guys," coach Rick Adelman said. "Hopefully it's really a step forward for us." Minnesota will try to use take another step by improving to .500 after 20 games for the first time since it was 22-22 on Jan. 30, 2007, and by beating the Lakers for the first time since March 6, 2007. The 15 consecutive losses to Los Angeles (11-9) since that 117-107 double overtime victory at home is the league's second-longest active losing streak to one opponent. Minnesota has dropped 16 in a row to Northwest Division rival Portland. The Timberwolves, though, might have one of their best chances to snap that skid as the Lakers are 1-7 away from home. They opened a road-heavy stretch Saturday with a 100-89 loss in Milwaukee. A Kobe Bryant jumper put Los Angeles within four points of the Bucks with 4:52 remaining, but Milwaukee responded with a 15-4 run. The Lakers, who are playing seven of their next eight on the road, are off to their worst start on the road since dropping eight of their first nine in 2002-03. They're also seeking to avoid their first five-game road losing streak since March 4-15, 2007. "There's concern and determination that we want to fix things. If we solve that issue, then we'll be all right," Bryant said after his team lost for the fourth time in five games overall. Los Angeles can help itself by scoring 100 or more points for the first time in 14 games. The Lakers, winners of seven in a row at the Target Center, haven't surpassed 96 in any of their eight road contests. They're averaging 89.6 points away from home but have topped the century mark in seven of their last nine in Minnesota. This time, though, Los Angeles will face a Timberwolves team that's made impressive strides defensively in its first season under Adelman. Minnesota is allowing 93.5 points per game after giving a league-worst 107.7 per contest in 2010-11. The Timberwolves, though, could use more help from Love against the Lakers. The California native has averaged 12.2 points in 11 all-time matchups, his lowest against a Western Conference opponent. He's averaged 10.0 points on 33.3 percent shooting in five home games and had one of two scoreless starts in his career during a 112-95 loss Nov. 19, 2010. Bryant, who broke Jerry West's franchise record for free throws made Saturday, is four field goals shy of surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's team mark of 9,935. Copyright 2012 by STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited Copyright 2012 by STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited Bryant, Lakers outlast Timberwolves 106-101 By JON KRAWCZYNSKI Posted Jan 29 2012 10:54PM MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Los Angeles Lakers were reeling and the Minnesota Timberwolves were rolling, turning an 18-point deficit into a one-point lead with three minutes to go. Just when it looked as though the Lakers were going to let another road game slip away, Kobe Bryant showed these young pups just how it's done in closing time. Bryant had 35 points and 14 rebounds and Pau Gasol scored 28 to give the Lakers a much-needed road victory, 106-101 over the Timberwolves on Sunday night. Andrew Bynum added 21 points for the Lakers, who won for just the second time in nine road games this season. But it was Bryant who slammed the door, slithering through the holes

Copy selected text into clipboard. Take quick notes for later use. And a whole lot more... (EDIT 05 mar 2012: New version 0.6.96 is out!!! A bunch of new features have been added lately (print, notifications, shortcuts, GDocs export folder, ...). If you have problems try to go to the options page and click on "Defaults" and then "Save". Please report any issues mailing to my Google+ profile's address or to clickboard.test [at] gmail.com. Cheers ;) What is ClickBoard? It's a one-click web clipper! Copy selected text into clipboard. Take quick notes for later use. And a whole lot more... Watch the video (2nd snapshot on the left) for an overiew of all the features (still have to update this to show the new features as well)! • Copy selected text or page title, url, image links, alt text, html values... • Create and manage notes with a simple interface. • Organize notes in tabs so that your "Movie Notes" don't get mixed up with your "Wiki Notes" or "To Do" things. • Sync and export notes to Google Docs™ in various formats. • Ability to star and choose a speficic folder when exporting a document to GDocs. • Option to automatically expand current selection to include whole words. • Automatically save the page url along with the note. • Enable/disable the extension in textboxes and https pages. • Ability to create a note when hitting CTRL+C (you can disable this feature from the settings page). • Copy all or only selected notes to clipboard. • Paste notes in text boxes via context menu or keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+SHIFT+1-9). • Search notes (CTRL+F). • Print notes (CTRL+P). • Quickly enable/disable extension with CTRL+SHIFT+E shortcut. • Autosave note's textarea content and caret position. • Switch theme and layout of the extension for a better experience. Check the settings to see other options (wrench icon in the popup)! It works in GMail™ too!!! (remember to check the "https" setting first) Never get stuck again in loops like Select text -> Right Click -> Copy -> Switch to Notepad -> Right Click -> Paste -> Switch back to Chrome ->... Boost your productivity online with this extension and feel free to comment, request features, or report bugs (contact me at clickboard.test [at] gmail.com). • Intercept copy event Automatically create a note when you copy text via context menu or by hitting CTRL+C (you can disable this functionality unticking "note on copy" in the settings). • Google Docs™ features. As of version 0.5.9 you can save all your notes on Google Documents and restore them with just one click whenever you want from wherever you are. Now you can also export your notes to Google Documents as html, spreadsheet or plain text. From 0.6.96 you can choose the destination folder and have the option to star the exported document. Remember to give the authorization first (don't worry, the extension doesn't have access to your password or private data). • Context Menu & Search/Filter features. As of version 0.6.0 a 'ClickBoard' entry will appear in the context menu when you right-click on a page. From it you have access to other copy options to quickly send title and url of page, links and images to the clipboard. You can also copy text from any html element you click on. And you can paste your notes into text boxes or any other html editable element right from the context menu too. A new search/filter feature has been added. Just click on the magnifying glass icon and enter the text you want to search for. If a note doesn't contains that text it will be greyed out (NB: the search is case-insensitive and is performed also on the url and date fields). Give it a try... It's free!!! -- Once enabled, it will work only on new tabs (and by the way NOT in the Extension Gallery), so please refresh your tabs or open new ones in order for the extension to operate properly -- Please rate it. ChangeLog: ver 0.6.98 · autosave note's textarea content · export to specific folder (as Manfred P. requested ;) · option to star exported document · chrome-like in-popup shortcuts (CTRL+P, CTRL+F, CTRL+T, CTRL+F4, CTRL+N, ...) · changes/fixes (jQuery 1.5, new autoResize, ...) ver 0.6.90 · print notes feature · paste notes via keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+SHIFT+1-9) · enable/disable extension shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+E) · desktop notifications · redesigned settings panel · improved

Dallas officials have confirmed the first case of Zika virus in the US being transmitted locally via sexual intercourse. Just one day after the World Health Organization deemed the virus as an international health emergency, officials in Dallas County said the patient had contracted the virus via sexual contact and not through a mosquito bite, as reported by NBC. Dallas County Health and Human Services said the patient was infected after sexual contact with a person who had the virus and had returned from a country where the virus is known to be present. The patient, their condition and address have not been identified. Officials said this is the first case of the virus to be transmitted locally in Texas, although there are seven others in Houston and Harris County who have confirmed cases of the virus after traveling abroad. Common symptoms include fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis or red eyes. The virus is usually mild with symptoms lasting several days to a week. However, there is thought to be a link between the virus and a rise in cases of microcephaly – a birth defect, which causes abnormal smallness of the head in babies – in the affected countries. "Now that we know Zika virus can be transmitted through sex, this increases our awareness campaign in educating the public about protecting themselves and others," said Zachary Thompson, DCHHS director, to NBC. "Next to abstinence, condoms are the best prevention method against any sexually-transmitted infections." There is currently no medication or vaccine for Zika virus. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that the evidence of the disease spreading via sexual intervourse is insufficient to warn all travelers, not just pregnant woman, of the potential danger. Dr. Márcio Nehab, a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Fiocruz, a research institute in Rio de Janeiro, told The New York Times: "At the moment we need to be more concerned with the mosquito, the vector known for transmitting the virus."

March 17th, 2010, 10:47 pm #1 2010-03-18T02:47 At the 2008 Child Neurology Society meeting in San Jose, California, I presented six children with a unique syndrome I called "Exorcist Syndrome" 1. Hyperacute onset - parents point to hour of change 2. Ballistic tics - forceful, unrestrained, violent - can put holes in walls, etc. 3. Disinhibition - expletives, capable of serious physical harm to self or others 4. "Falsetto" vocal change - voice is clear, no aphasia but change in quality of voice - gruff/demonic, Bugs Bunny, infantile 5. Symptoms seem to turn on and off like a switch. At times appear completely normal, then symptoms above suddenly rage. These previously normal children acquire this illness suddenly and appear to be demonically possessed. It is not an encephalitis or encephalopathy as the sensorium remains clear, there is no significant cognitive dysfunction. Every one of these children was fully alert, could recall the episode entirely. Video EEG normal in all. MRI was not done in all, but where done show significant reversible basal ganglia swelling LP was not done in all, but where done was normal. No antibiotics or meds (such as neuroleptics) helped significantly. IVIG works - but loses effect in 2-3 weeks. Only PEX produces lasting changes So the lowdown is don't putz around with antibiotics or drugs, go straight to the big immunosuppressive guns. What causes it? You guessed it .... Every one of these kids have SKY HIGH strep markers, ASO 800-1000 range, anti-DNAase B >1:2720. At this time, I wasn't thinking about other PANDAS triggers .... these children were never tested for Mycoplasma or other triggers In my view, this is the most severe PANDAS variant and is a neuropsychiatric quasi-emergency due to the risk of violence. It's a central catecholaminergic storm ... We never measured Cunnigham panel on these kids, but I'll bet they show anti-neurotransmitter receptor antibodies. If left alone, it resolves spontaneously in months-years. Resolution is often sudden. Amazingly, outcome is excellent. Cognitive ability is preserved. This is one of the reasons why I believe the outcome in PANDAS, long-term, is good.

The Caligula Effect delayed to May 9 in Europe New set of battle screenshots released. The Caligula Effect, which was previously set to launch digitally for PS Vita in Europe alongside North America on May 2, has been delayed to May 9 in Europe, publisher Atlus announced. Read more about the game here. Visit the official website here. View a new set of battle screenshots at the gallery.

Karol and Aleksandra have been traveling the world for the past 6 years. See what it takes to visit 55 countries and 5 continents in a '89 Vanagon. Can you describe your journey for those who did not follow you in the last 5 years ? We are Karol "Charlie" Lewandowski and Aleksandra Ślusarczyk, and we are young travel bloggers from Poland, authors of Bus Around The World blog, who did not have a lot of money but wanted to see the world. We bought an old van for $600 an painted it. We brought our tent, food and just took off. In 6 years we visited more than 50 countries and we traveled more than 100,000 miles on 5 continents. So far we never paid for accommodations and we almost always cooked our own meals. Our car broke down at least 50 times, but we learned how to repair it during the trip. Followers from our blog helped us along the way and people even supported fuel costs. It feels like people from all over the world traveled with us! For the past 6 years we showed through our blog that even with limited budget it is possible to make dreams come true. Our blog is very popular among young people – we have over 80,000 fans on Facebook. Our blog has been voted Best Blog of the Year in 2014 in Poland, and we appeared on major TV stations! We wrote two books about our trips (in Polish) – Bus Around The World. The first expedition and Bus Around The World. America for $8. What is your bus ? Tell us more about it, did you restore some parts yourself? We are traveling in a '89 Vanagon T3. We have our own electric shower, bed, kitchen, 220V power converter and pretty much everything we need! With over 50 breakdowns with the bus, would you say you're a good mechanic now? And could you tell us about the worst breakdown you had and how you've been able to keep going? When we started traveling I didn't know much about mechanic. Now I can fix most things in our freedom vessel, but with a different car it would probably be a different story! In our van probably everything broke down so I know everything about it. One of our worst breakdown was when we had to change the engine in Norway without any access to a garage! But THE worst breakdown occurred in Australia when we lost a wheel. We got stuck in the middle of the desert (obviously our phones would not work), hundreds of kilometers from civilization and with limited water supplies. It's hard to drive a car without a wheel but we were able to move very slowly – somebody had to run next to the wheel and hit it with a stick! How many countries total did you visit ? How many with your van ? We visited about 55 countries, 52 with our van. We shipped the van from Australia to the United States. When we couldn't use the van because transportation was too expensive, we hitchhiked and used local transportation or hire another camper (as we did for example in New Zealand). Can you give us a unusual tip to travel cheap with a van? It depends where you are traveling. In Australia it is a good idea to install WikiCamps app to find free campsites. With the same app in Ukraine and Romania you can ask people if you can park in their driveway! People are very friendly over there and will almost always invite you into their home and tell you amazing stories. Which countries were your favorite to explore with a van ? Australia for their free campsites, beautiful nature, free electric grills and cheap kangaroo meat! It is a paradise for people who want to travel cheaply with a van 🙂 Follow Karol and Aleksandra here:

Advertisement Is the cost of proof of work in bitcoin mining fair? Tomaso Aste of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies at the University College London's Department of Computer Science thinks the current cost large and wasteful, but nonetheless, fair. Aste recently examined the factors that determine the current proof of work cost in a study titled "The fair cost of Bitcoin proof of work." Aste noted that bitcoin has proven that untrustful peers can exchange value over the Internet without any third party intermediary or trusted authority, as bitcoin has surpassed $10 billion in capitalization and processes tens of thousands of daily transactions with any serious challenge of attack. Computationally Intensive Process The verification and cryptographic sealing mechanism that is critical to the bitcoin network involves a computationally intensive process. A large number of nodes in the bitcoin network engage in the verification process. The process provides a mechanism that avoids false duplications of voters and forces voters to demonstrate computational capacity. To secure a qualified majority, the system employs a cryptographic sealing process that is computationally intensive. The process includes a challenge called "proof of work." The first node that solves this challenge receives a bitcoin reward. This mechanism, called "mining," enables new bitcoins to be created. Miners worldwide generate several billions hashes (10^18 or one Exahash) every second. With existing hardware, the computation of a billion hashes consumes between 0.1 to 1 Joule of energy. Hence, roughly a billion watts (1GW/sec) are used globally every second to create a valid proof of work. The amount of energy for this process accounts for about $50,000 per hour, although electricity costs change worldwide. Miner Reward: 12.5 Bitcoins Since the system currently processes under 10,000 transactions hourly, the per-transaction cost exceeds $5. The user does not pay the cost. The miners pay the cost and are rewarded with the accreditation of new bitcoins. The individual proof of work reward was 25 bitcoins leading up to the halving, equating to about $15,000 at current change. The mining community is estimated to consume an average of around $50,000/6, equaling $8,333 in electricity every 10 minutes to create a block, receiving around $15,000 in remuneration. This makes the mining operation profitable, even taking into account the infrastructure and hardware cost. The electricity cost for one year of mining totals more than $400 million. This can be viewed as a significant waste. The reward, now cut in half to 12.5 bitcoins, will leave smaller profit margins, Aste noted. Proof Of Work Benefits Proof of work allows the blockchain to remain "pure" and lets an entire community compete to verify the validity of transactions and make attacks to the system costly. Is the cost justified? Aste claims the cost should make a double spending attack too expensive to be executed. A double spending attack would occur when someone tries to gain more bitcoin by spending the same bitcoin with different users. The attacker would attempt to double spend the highest amount of bitcoin possible. The amount is limited to that which is normally exchanged within a block, which is currently about $1 million. A transaction that includes a higher sum than the total transaction value in a block will attract attention from the network. This reality limits double spending to about $1 million. While the duplication can be repeated serially or in parallel several times, it does not affect the present computation's outcomes. Protection From Attacks The attacker can try to gain a fraction of $1 million. To do so, the attacker has to be sure both the duplicated transactions are validated. This requires a fork with two blocks attached to the previous block. If the attacker has sufficient computing power, it is possible to generate two valid hashes to seal both blocks to create the impression that both transactions were verified. For a final transaction settlement, it is necessary to wait for six new blocks to join the blockchain to ensure the transaction is unlikely to be reverted. The attacker has to generate six valid hashes before the double spend transaction can be considered settled. The attacker only has to artificially validate one of the two forks, the shortest. The system will consider the other to be valid and let to propagate by other miners. The attacker can propagate it as well. It is unrealistic to assume no one will notice the propagating fork, Aste noted, but this assumption is made for the purpose of this hypothesis. Also read: How proof of work…works How Attacks Are Discouraged The fork's artificial propagation cost is the proof of work cost times six. The attacker will profit if the cost is less than the gain. The break-even point is represented by the following equation: the fair equilibrium cost of proof of work equals the duplicated fraction of the value of a block divided by the number

While 13,255 refugees were admitted in August, that number plunged to just 2,070 in March. So far during the 2017 fiscal year, 45,732 people have been admitted, just a few thousand short of Mr. Trump's proposed cap. Refugee groups now predict that entries into the United States could increase so rapidly that the total number of refugees admitted by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, could exceed 70,000. That is well below the 84,994 refugees admitted in fiscal year 2016, but not by nearly as much as many advocates had feared. Refugee advocates were delighted by the State Department's decision. "This is long overdue, but we're very happy," said Mark Hetfield, president and chief executive of HIAS, an immigrant aid society. But many of the advocates said they were worried that any reprieve would be temporary. "The president's proposed budget cuts for 2018 would mean we would have a much smaller program next year no matter what happens with his executive orders," said Erol Kekic, executive director of the immigration and refugee program at Church World Service. Perhaps even more worrisome, refugee advocates said they had seen a slowdown in security screenings by the Department of Homeland Security, whose checks are required for refugees to enter the United States. Still, even Republicans in Congress have said that few of Mr. Trump's proposed budget cuts to foreign aid and the State Department's budget would be adopted into law. In a visit this week to Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, Nikki R. Haley, the United Nations ambassador, all but urged Congress to reverse Mr. Trump's proposed cuts in aid to refugees. "It's starting the conversation," Ms. Haley said of Mr. Trump's proposed budget, according to The Associated Press. "It doesn't mean that's where it will end up. He's going to have that conversation with Congress on where we should fall on this."

6/16/2014 – by James Fedewa I moved to Pacific Beach in San Diego about 2 months before I turned 21 years old (April 1993). My initial San Diego experience was at a very impressionable time in my life. I only "liked" professional baseball and football, but the San Diego community (and local teams) only enhanced that "like" and grew it into a love. I quickly grew into a diehard San Diego Padres (and Chargers) fan and I have been a fanatic of those two teams for the last 22 years. Tony Gwynn was the superstar for the Padres and he became my favorite baseball player the more and more I watched and listen to him. Living in San Diego, I went to as many baseball games as I could. Back in my early twenties, the Padres played at Jack Murphy Stadium, and the cheap tickets in right field were only $7 (back when baseball was considered the affordable sport), so we went to a lot of games. The best games were the Dodger/Padres of course, and Tony Gwynn always showed up and played great. Back then the Padres and Tony Gwynn were known as The Dodger Killers, as they always managed to beat their biggest rival L.A (the Giants on the other hand were quite opposite). It was Tony Gwynn's team for 20 years and San Diegans loved their perennial all-star. No matter how terrible the Padres were, San Diego always had Tony Gwynn… In the 2001 season, the last season of Gwynn's career, was my most remembered of him. How he lasted on the same team his whole career made me admire him more, as he taught sacrifice. Tony did not start that season, as he had a knee injury and he was primarily used as a pinch-hitter. Most Padres fans knew it was going to be Gwynn's final season, and since he did not start that season, it made attending every game even more important (just so you can get that final glimpse of the Mr. San Diego legend). As most pinch-hitters are used, in the latter innings of close games, fans would be anxious (at a warm idle) in hope the Padres could get a runner in scoring position, then Padres fans could "possibly" see Tony Gwynn come in for a pinch-hit. I got to see one of those close games, might have been his last too, and Tony hit a pinch hit single, drove in the winning run and the crowd went haywire. I think the older we get, the more emotional we get, or we can actually recognize what we can lose even more (especially when we can relate our own experiences with those reminders of our past). The story of my favorite baseball player had so many chapters of Tony Gwynn's 20 year career, with each year (or Chapter) being so different. From a young kid and growing into the man I am today, I can feel and empathize what Tony Gwynn did then, and related it to me, and what I was doing then. Being just a fan of a guy lets me combine his career and achievements, to where I've been in my own life. I was always a fan of Tony Gwynn (the player, the person, the coach and the broadcaster). These "links" of history that we tie with the players we admire the most helps us look at ourselves (by reminding us of our own past and where we are now). I was only a fan of Tony Gwynn and I never met him, but he was Mr. San Diego and everyone in San Diego (and beyond) loved him. The moments of Tony Gwynn's career are joined and bonded together through my life, as well as other fans across the globe. Remembering what he did makes me think of where I was, when he did it. When I was 20, 30 and 40 years old, Tony Gwynn's career accomplishments remind me of several moment of my own life. When Tony Gwynn spoke, people were drawn to him. Aside his baseball accomplishments; his gift of gab, his charisma, and his smile were mesmerizing and he will truly be immortalize in my heart and with all baseball fans alike. Tony Gwynn, Mr. San Diego, died today from cancer. He was 54 years old. Advertisements

Django or Drupal for Content Management: Which Fits your Needs? If you're building or updating a website, you're probably wondering about which content management system (CMS) to use. A CMS helps users — particularly non-technical users — to add pages and blog posts, embed videos and images, and incorporate other content into their site. CMS options You could go with something quick and do-it-yourself, like WordPress (read more about WordPress) or a drag-and-drop builder like Squarespace. If you need greater functionality, like user account management or asset tracking, or if you're concerned about security and extensibility, you'll need a more robust CMS. That means using a framework to build a complex website that can manage large volumes of data and content. Wait, what's a framework? Put simply, a framework is a library of reusable code that is easily edited by a web developer to produce custom products more quickly than coding everything from scratch. Django and Drupal are both frameworks with dedicated functionality for content management, but there is a key difference between them: Drupal combines aspects of a web application framework with aspects of a CMS Django separates the framework and the CMS The separation that Django provides makes it easier for content managers to use the CMS because ... Read this post in context python django (django template language) Django Template Language Tags forThe for loop over each item in an array for example to display a list of athletes provided in athlete_list:<ul>{%for athlete in athlete_list%}<li>{{athlete.name}}</li>{%endfor%} </ul>if ,elif,and elseEvaluates a variable and if that variable is true the contents of the block are displayed {% if athlete_list %} Number of athletes: {{ athlete_list|length }}{% elif athlete_in_locker_room_list %} Athletes should be out of the locker room soon!{% else %} No athletes.{% endif %}in the above if athlete_list is not empty the number of athletes will be displayed by the {{athlete_list|length}} variable . Otherwise if athlete_in_locker_room_list is not empty the message "Athletes should be out..." will be displayed if both lists are empty "No athletes " will be displayedyou can also use filters and various operators in the if tag:{% if athlete_list|length > 1 %} Team: {% for athlete in athlete_list %} ... {% endfor %}{% else %} Athlete: {{ athlete_list.0.name }}{% endif %}most templates will return string so mathematical comparisons using filters will generally not work as you expect Length is an exception Commentsthe comment out part of a line in a template use the comment syntax{# #} for example this template would render as 'hello':{#greeting#}helloa comment can contain any ... Read this post in context Utrecht (NL) python meetup september 2018 Data processing using parser combinators - Werner de Groot He collaborated with data scientists from Wageningen University. The scientists did lots of cool programming stuff. But they did not use version control, so they introduced git :-) They also had lots and lots of data, so they introduced Apache Spark. Their data sets were in ascii files, which are huge. So the ascii files need to be parsed. He showed an example of a file with DNA data. Ouch, it turns out to be pretty complex because there are quite some exceptions. Fields (in this example) are separated by semicolons. But some of the values also contain semicolons (quoted, though). So the generic python code they used to parse their DNA data was littered with "if" statements. Unmaintainable. You probably heard that hard problems need to be split up into smaller problems. Yes, that's true. But the smaller parts also need to be combined again. So: smaller parsers + a combining them again. A parser takes an input and returns the part that matched and the part that remained. He showed parsy as a library for "parser combinators". Many languages have such libraries. He demonstrated how to combine those input/match/remainder ... Read this post in context Believe the Buzz: 3 Use Cases that Show Why Good UX Is Good for Business In recent years, user-centered design (UCD) has become widespread well beyond the design field. Companies and organizations ranging from NASA to IKEA and everything in between have benefited from adopting UCD. The post Believe the Buzz: 3 Use Cases that Show Why Good UX Is Good for Business appeared first on Distillery. Read this post in context Bringing FeinCMS and django-content-editor/feincms3 closer together Bringing FeinCMS and django-content

Before we get into the deliciousness above, let me thank you all for making this year's NEDA week post—sharing your ED story with a partner or friend—so lovely. I appreciated all of the comments, especially those from people who are just on the brink of sharing with their partners. I hope you all find strength and support in the CR community! NEDA week is still up and running, so please keep these issues fresh in your minds. And, fellow bloggers, let me know if you write NEDA posts of your own! I don't think I have to say too much about the deliciousness above. Guacamole. Sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes grilled with a spice rub. What more could one ask for, except seconds and thirds? Seriously, sweet potatoes are one of my favorite foods: they're one of the more healthy and natural ways to get your carb attack on, and their sweetness gives them tremendous versatility. They're standard dinner fare for me, but I can easily eat them for breakfast, as we all just learned when I posted my sweet potato breakfast salad with almond butter protein dressing: Today's recipe is quick and easy, but it's also an impressive appetizer dish to share at parties or as a first course for dinner at home. I grilled my sweet potato rounds on my Cuisinart indoor grill/griddle (this year's holiday request), but baking them will work every bit as nicely. And of course, if you have an outdoor grill, have at it. Grilling sweet potatoes brings out their caramel flavors, and it's a great opportunity to crack out a spicy, smoky mixture of seasonings. Chili-Rubbed Sweet Potato Rounds with Guacamole (vegan, gluten free, soy free) Serves 4 For the chili spice rub: 2 tbsps chili powder 1 tsp paprika (I use regular here, but use smoked paprika if you want a smoky flavor!) 1 tsp coriander 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp sea salt Dash cayenne pepper (omit if you don't want the heat) For the dish: 1 large sweet potato, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds Coconut oil (optional) 1 recipe classic Choosing Raw guacamole 1) If you're baking your sweet 'taters, pre-heat oven to 425 degrees. If you're grilling them, first prepare a pot of boiling water with a steamer insert. 2) Mix spices together for the rub. 3) Oven method: Brush or spray potatoes lightly with coconut oil (you can omit this if you're avoiding oils). Sprinkle them with the spice rub. Roast round for about 12-15 minutes, or until golden on the bottoms. Flip and roast for another 12-15 minutes. Grill method: Steam sweet potato rounds for about eight minutes–you don't want them cooked through, but you do want them to be most of the way there. Remove from steam heat, spray or brush lightly with coconut oil (totally optional), dust with chili rub, and transfer to grill. Grill for about 4-5 minutes on each side, until nicely browned. 4) Whip up a batch of classic CR guacamole. Transfer it to a plastic bag, and snip one corner of the bag so that you can pipe out the guac (I almost wrote "pipette out" the guac–too much biochem lab). Pipe the guac onto the rounds as if you were frosting cupcakes. (NB: My guac didn't look much better after piping than it might have if I'd used a spoon. So this step, while nice, is definitely optional). 5) Serve, savor, swoon. The light, bright, lemony guacamole pairs perfectly with the dense, sweet, and smoky sweet potatoes in this scrumptious recipe. Added bonus? Lots of complex carbs and healthy fat make this an incredibly satiating—as well as a supremely delicious—snack or appetizer. Healthy, simple, and satisfying. The best kind of party food. Hope you keep this recipe in mind for either winter or summer entertaining; one of its benefits is that it features produce from both seasons, and it's very versatile! With that, it's back to a long day of biochem lab and Orgo reports. Happy hump night. xo

Ok, so this is a fairly short and not all too in-depth TL;DR this week for a couple of reasons. 1) If you watched our Music Monday on B.A.P.'s "Power" you'd remember that Martina lost her voice. It's still lost. Slowly coming back, but she sounds like a 439 year old witch whose lungs are made of dust. So, I had to do this TL;DR by myself. Also 2) I'm kinda sick. Not voice-losing sick, but coughing up randomly and uncontrollably. So, the less talking the better. Kinda can't do that when your only job is to talk on camera! Ah! So, like the shorter and easier Music Monday, we've got a shorter and easier TL;DR. But it's good that I did this one on my own, because it's a question that's geared at me specifically, about being a tall guy in Korea, which Martina can't really answer. Though she did remember a lot of the things that I don't remember about being tall in Korea, like almost bumping my head on low-hanging signs. Some of these things you get so used to that you just don't think of anymore! I definitely can say that I feel like Korea is a smaller country than Canada. Geographically, obviously, since Canada's the second biggest country in the world, but in terms of real estate and architecture: things in Korea are a lot more crammed, and so – being a big guy – I feel it a lot more than other people would, I think. Or maybe I don't? Maybe short people feel cramped more than I do? Maybe all of the people ricocheting off my body affect you more than it does me? I don't know. Sometimes I feel like flipping a car over to try to get some room. Also, just in case you forgot, this picture is and always will be relevant. Just in case you don't know where this is from, it's from long time ago when we did an episode of Star King with Super Junior. Super Junior, and everyone else for that matter, were quite short compared to us. People theorized that the picture was doctored, or that I'm 7 feet, 32 inches tall, or that the lens barrelled and warped people into being taller/smaller. Not the case. Totally undoctored. Just…an awesome picture. One of my favorites ever :D

WASHINGTON—Hedge funds and other rapid-fire investors can get access to market-moving documents ahead of other users of the Securities and Exchange Commission's system for distributing company filings, giving them a potential edge on the rest of the market. Two separate groups of academic researchers have documented a lag time between the moment paying subscribers, including trading firms, newswires and others, receive the filings via a direct feed from an SEC contractor and when the documents are publicly available on the...

John Goossens scored his first MLS goal against San Jose to earn the Fire a 1-0 win at home. The Dutchman sits down with Paul Tenorio to discuss his return from an early season injury, his first MLS tally, and a confident Fire side.

This event occurred to me at least twelve years ago, and I still don't know what happened. Driving home from a Friday night shift at the newspaper, my car's cruise control set on 55 mph, I drove by a road sign I've driven by hundreds of times. It reads, "Orrick: 5 Miles." Just as I went by, the Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" came on the radio. Perfect. I lived in Orrick, Missouri, at the time, and "Gimme Shelter" was not only my favorite Rolling Stones tune, it was also four minutes, thirty-seven seconds long, which would last me all the way home. Then my drive fell out of reality. A pull on the car engine snapped me out of the road hypnosis that had overtaken me. It took me a few seconds to realize that pull was the cruise control trying to keep the speed steady up a hill. The trouble was there were no hills between that road sign and my turnoff. Looking out the window didn't help; a thick fog had enveloped the car and I could barely see the dotted line on the road. I slowed the car and drove up two more hills before I saw a light piercing through the fog. Turning onto a gravel road toward the light, I found myself in the parking lot of a Jehovah's Witness church and knew where I was – five miles on the other side of my turnoff. As I sat in the parking lot, my car in park, trying to figure out how I missed the exit, I heard something I couldn't believe. "Gimme Shelter" still played on the radio. It continued to play for another minute and a half. After I calmed a bit, I put the car in gear, pulled back onto the highway and went home. The fog quickly dissipated. I'd driven ten miles in three minutes at 55 mph. That wasn't possible. What happened to me? Cases of missing time and distance are as common as they are confusing. The Internet is littered with tales of travelers entering a fog only to discover they're suddenly 300 miles away from home, or they've gone nowhere, but it's inexplicably hours later. Explanations range from time slips, to dimensional slips, to alien abduction. Whatever the case, Brandon White of Maryville, Missouri, has experienced missing time and distance; more than once. "The first time I was about ten and I was walking out in the front yard," White said. It was just after lunch. As White went toward a thick ring of pine trees that surrounded his family's farmhouse, he saw something floating on the other side of the tree line. "It was pale, sort of translucent," he said. "It was passing between our house and the neighbor's house. I thought it was a blimp." His afternoon suddenly disappeared. "The next thing I remember was coming in for dinner; 5 or 5:30," he said. "I didn't think about it at the time. As a kid, time was nothing." But five hours of his life were just gone. In his teens, his life got stranger. "At 13 or 14 I stopped sleeping. I was deathly afraid of sleep," he said. "I would fall to sleep, get into an REM sleep, and start screaming. I would wake up in strange places. In the yard, on the porch, upside down hanging from my bunk bed." White said he doesn't remember when he's been able to catch more than four hours of sleep a night. "I had very vivid nightmares," he said. Those nightmares often included a bird. "A big black crow. It would flap over my face, trying to take my breath." Later in his teens when White worked at Long John Silver's in a town 38 miles away, he experienced more missing time. "I was riding my motorcycle. I remember that night very specifically. I worked a double shift," he said. "Before I left town, I filled up my (gas) tank." As he pulled onto a gravel road toward his parent's house, he saw an orange ball hanging low in the sky. "I stopped and thought, 'the moon's a weird color,'" he said. "Then I saw it was not the moon. The moon doesn't block the landscape." As he got closer, he saw this orange ball was thirty to forty feet in diameter, and hovered five or six feet off the ground. He got off the motorcycle three hours simply disappeared. "It's the last thing I remember," he said. "It was 7:35 p.m. At 10:30 p.m. I pulled into Dad's driveway and something zoomed over me and disappeared into a valley." He stopped the bike and got off, leaving it running as he dashed to a fence to look for the light. It had gone

LOS ANGELES -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler wants consumers to be able to say goodbye to their cable set-top boxes. In a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece published Thursday, Wheeler is proposing a new rule that would require cable and satellite video companies to offer consumers the option to receive their channels through apps that provide streaming video over the Internet. Consumers have long chafed at having to pay for set-top boxes to get a cable signal. "If adopted, consumers will no longer have to rent a set-top box, month after month," Wheeler wrote. "Instead, pay-TV providers will be required to provide apps -- free of charge -- that consumers can download to the device of their choosing to access all the programming and features they already paid for." Wheeler's proposal comes six months after the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to begin crafting rules intended to spur competition in the set-top box market by developing technology standards so that third-party devices and apps could decode pay-TV signals. Such a service would enable consumers to watch cable channels over on an Internet-connected television or device such as an Xbox, Roku or AppleTV. Cable and satellite companies collect a combined $20 billion annually in rental fees, adding to the overall cost of cable or satellite service. Wheeler cited an analysis that said consumers pay an average of $231 annually for the use of a box. Wheeler's plan was praised by consumer groups but met with strong criticism by the cable industry. The companies and their trade group, the NationalCable and Telecommunications Assocation, characterized Wheeler's plan as an act of government overreach that goes beyond the FCC's authority. "This proposal would far exceed the Commission's legal authority and improperly insert the government into private contract negotiations between payTV distributors, content creators and device manufacturers," the NCTA said in a statement. Wheeler, who has long been an advocate of bringing down the cost of video service to consumers, said studies have shown that 84 percent of consumers believe their cable bill is too high. About 99 percent of the nation's 100 million pay-TV subscribers rent at least one set-top box. "We keep paying these charges even after the cost of the box has been recovered because we have no meaningful alternative," he said. Wheeler also believes the industry needs to adapt to the technological changes that have already upended the television industry through the increased number of programming choices they have provided. A rapidly growing number of consumers, especially in the 18 to 34 age group, are turning to online streaming for their video content and want more options through Internet platforms. "This proposal is an important step in giving consumers new, innovative choices in a market that's had limited -- if any -- competition for years," Consumers Union said in a statement. Wheeler's plan gives large pay TV providers, such as Comcast and DirecTV, two years to offer streaming apps to their customers. Medium-sized companies would have an additional two years while smaller providers would be exempt. About 90 percent of cable and satellite customers are served by the companies that will have to adopt the service in two years. Cable companies already have the technology that offers their channels through apps, but the rental of a set-top box is required. Opposition from the cable industry, which has been anticipating Wheeler's move, came quickly after his official announcement. Comcast, the largestcable provider in the U.S., said the proposed regulation would hurt the technological development of apps. "Heavy-handed government technology mandates have a long history of failure," the company said in a statement. "The Chairman's approach would likely meet the same fate, while causing real damage to the thriving apps marketplace and real harm to consumers." Charter Communications called Wheeler's plan "a valid goal," but argued the marketplace is already meeting consumer demand for apps that provide video service. "The FCC's mandate threatens to bog down with regulations and bureaucracy the entire TV app market that consumers are increasingly looking to for innovation, choice and competition," the company said in a statement. It's not clear whether Wheeler's proposal will be approved by the FCC. Comissioner Michael O'Rielly echoed the concerns of the industry. "I will review this proposal carefully over the coming days and weeks, but at the outset it appears to exist within a fantasy world of unlimited Commission authority," he said. "The Commission is and must remain in the business of licensing spectrum and infrastructure, not content." MPAA Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Dodd said he will need assurance that an FCC mandate to provide streaming apps does not interfere with the ability of program producers and creators to negotiate issues related to online usage of their content. "The FCC must not encroach upon copyright holders' discretion in how they exercise or license the exclusive rights," Dodd said. Wheeler's proposal did receive praise

Different cuts of beef Nutritional value of each cut Recipes for each cut And much more Background For bodybuilders, beef is an important part of a healthy diet. Shopping for the different cuts of meat can be difficult sometimes, especially if you don't know the nutritional value of the beef. In this section, we will show you the following: Most American cattle breeds are descendents of animals imported, possibly by the Vikings, during the early 1000s. Columbus and other early explorers also brought cattle on board their ships. Today, over 100 million head of cattle live in the United States and Canada. Beef is available in many different cuts, including steaks, roasts, brisket, stew meat, and ground beef. Tender cuts come from the ribs and loin. Tougher cuts come from the rump and shoulder. Prime beef has thin layers of fat, called marbling, running visibly through the muscle. Choice beef has little or no marbling but a layer of pinkish fat on the outer edges. The Importance Of Beef Many of us are trying to eat healthily. We are adding more whole grains and fresh vegetables to our diets, and eating less saturated fat. Beef is part of a healthy diet. Beef makes a meal filling, satisfying, and festive. Think back to the wonderful standing rib roasts of Christmas past, those made-to-order steaks for the annual 4th of July barbecue, or mom's famous spaghetti and meatball special. Beef is what makes the meal memorable. You can still enjoy these classics. Remember, while red meat does contain a fair amount of fat, it is also a concentrated source of protein, vitamins, and minerals. Eaten in moderation, it can be a part of a well balanced diet. Beef is divided into primal cuts. From these larger sections, your butcher makes smaller cuts suitable for individual or family size portions. Different cuts require different treatment. For instance, chuck makes an excellent roast, but will be tough and chewy if pan-broiled. With this in mind, we have prepared this handy chart. The following is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible divisions of each section, but will give you some idea of the special characteristics and uses of each area. Besides being a simple anatomy lesson, it will help you make sense of that long meat counter. Nutritional Breakdowns - Which Cut Is Best? Each cut has a different amount of calories, protein and fat. As a bodybuilder, the choice you make can make a big difference. Check out the table below. Highlights of the best from this table are below the table. NOTE: Beef does not contain any carbohydrates. Cut Type Grams Protein Grams Fat Calories Chuck, 3 oz. 23.2 h20.2 282.2 Ribs, 3 oz. 18.6 25.1 306.1 Short Loin, 3 oz. 19.7 19.8 262.6 Sirloin, 3 oz. 23.6 13 219.3 Flank, 3 oz. 22.4 10.6 192.1 Round, 3 oz. 25.6 8.1 183.6 Beef Brisket, 3 oz. 21.3 24.2 309.4 Corned Beef Brisket, 3 oz. 15.4 16.1 213.3 The Winning Bodybuilding Cut? Although most of the beef cuts are pretty good when eaten in moderation, the Round cut is by far the best! It has the highest protein AND the least fat. Learn more about each type below and find great recipes! Chuck Meat is muscle. Meat that has been heavily exercised tends to be tough, and chuck fits this description. However, chuck does have a saving grace. There is a lot of connective tissue in this area, in particular collagen. Collagen melts during cooking, making the meat intensely flavorful. Cuts from this area benefit from slow wet cooking methods, such as stewing, braising, or pot-roasting. Blade Roast - This inexpensive cut lies next to the ribs, and is more tender than most chuck. It makes an excellent roast. Alternatively, you can be cut the roast into a rib-eye steak, and use the meat above and below the bone for stir-fry dishes. Chuck Steak - A good choice for kabobs if well marinated. Nutritional Highlights Chuck roast (fat trimmed to 1/4 inch [0.6cm], braised),, 3oz. (85.05g) Calories: 282.2 Protein: 23.3g Carbohydrate: 0.0g Total Fat: 20.2g Fiber: 0.0g Learn buying & storing tips Varieties of this meat Availibility Preparation use

What IT: Chapter 2 Should Do With The Book's Most Psychedelic Parts, According To Bill Skarsgard By Eric Eisenberg Random Article Blend SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains certain spoilers about the end of Stephen King's IT, and therefore potential spoilers for the developing IT: Chapter 2. If you have not read the book, and don't wish to know how it all ends, please bookmark this page and save it until you're ready to read! Prior to Andres Muscheitti's film, there were a few reasons why Stephen King's IT was considered unadaptable in the medium, and only one of them was the extreme length of the story. Another is the fact that the end of the book winds up getting extremely trippy and weird in its third act, with both the kids and adults' storylines leading to confrontation with the titular monster on an inter-dimensional battlefield. Obviously this element was entirely left out of the recently released movie, but star Bill Skarsgard really wants to see IT: Chapter 2 fully embrace it. Discussing the nature and mind of Pennywise in the novel, he recently said, It's hardly answered in the novel, either. I mean, it's very abstract. And I kind of like that. It could be almost a sort of surrealistic sort of psychedelic trip if you go into the mind of Pennywise. And if you've read the novel you know that they do actually go into his mind. Or they go into this trans-dimensional place, and they sort of beat him in this place. Which might be interesting, what that place would be, and what would it look like. There's opportunities, I think, and I'm excited for it. Bill Skarsgard is currently promoting his second Stephen King adaptation of 2017, the new Hulu series Castle Rock, but while speaking with IGN at New York Comic-Con this past weekend he also took the time to talk about what he would like to see in IT: Chapter 2. The actor was asked about the possibility of the sequel delving deeper into his monstrous character's mind, and Skarsgard noted that he thinks there are some fantastic visual opportunities to explore with that idea in the source material. In the novel, there are a couple chapters that dive into the nature of Pennywise, and it's revealed that he is an ancient, interdimensional entity who feeds on fear for sustenance so that he can last through his 27-year hibernation periods. Defeating IT requires the fight being brought to ITs own home turf - in a "ceremony" called The Ritual of Chud - and how it's described in the book would be a sincere challenge to directly adapt on screen. The Losers Club performs the Ritual of Chud when they are both children and adults, but just because it wasn't featured in Andres Muschietti's IT doesn't mean that it won't wind up in IT: Chapter 2. In fact, Bill Skarsgard argues that the sequel actually should be a very different film, as what scares children and what scares adults are two very different things, and that deserves exploration. Said Skarsgard, The first movie worked so well at what it is trying to do, I think, and ultimately that is the kids' story, and you follow these kids and you sort of fall in love with these kids. And the second one will be the adult story. And I think the right way to do it is to make that movie actively different. ... I think there might be worth exploring sort of the psychological aspects of horror, but also maybe the sort of cosmological existence of this being. What is he, and where does he come from? When didn't actually know when we would be getting IT: Chapter 2 for what felt like a long time to an impatient mind - but that mystery was solved a few weeks back. Warner Bros. has officially dated the follow-up for September 6, 2019, and we will keep you up to date with all major updates! WATCH: The Avengers: Infinity War Gag Reel - Blu-ray Bonus Feature Blended From Around The Web Facebook Back to top

The bug has been confirmed on Windows 10, with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 working as of now. A bug has been discovered in Windows 10 which causes files copied from one location to another on a PC-connected Android to vanish completely if the built-in file manager File Manager is used for the operation. The issue affects only files that are being moved or copied from an Android folder or storage device to another location on the same Android phone or tablet using an MTP or PTP USB connection, and it does not seem to impact copying data on a Windows 10 PC. This means, when users connect an Android device to a Windows 10 PC and try to move files with File Explorer from the phone to an SD card or vice versa, this will result in data vanishing completely. The transfer appears to be working, but the files do not reach the destination folder, with no recovery possible for the time being. The bug has been confirmed on Windows 10, with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 working correctly as of now. Also, there are a number of Android phones which appear to be affected, including OnePlus and LG models, Google's Nexus and Pixel, HTC 11, Nokia phones, and several Xiaomi and Sony models. On the contrary, Samsung's and BlackBerry devices are working correctly, user reports indicate. While Microsoft has not yet acknowledged the bug problem, the easiest way to save your data right now is to create a backup which will allow you to restore files at any given time. Also, this issue is affecting only Android-to-Android transfers, a possible workaround is to copy data from the Android device to the PC first, and only then move it back to the new location on Android. This would be beneficial to the user as they would be creating a backup of their data as well at the same time.

Apart from cultural illiteracy and hate campaign in public space, such announcements also have some dynamics in the hyper-connected digital worlds of memes and social networks. Hence, the current wave of anti-Brahmin actions has to be understood in that context. Linguistic Ethnic Nationalism + Marxism = Secessionist Nazi Cults Dravidian polity has consistently used the term Aryan as a racist slur against Tamil Brahmin communities. The official magazine of Dravidian movement proclaimed on 28-09-1955: "If we are to lynch the Aryans in the middle of the roads in broad day light all day long, today none shall care to question that". However, in reality that was not the case. The Tamil Nadu government, then led by K Kamaraj as chief minister, did not hesitate to take action against Dravidian propaganda demeaning the sacred thread. Subsequently, the cultural reality and strains of real politics made even Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) refrain from rabid anti-Brahmin rhetoric. In 1955, C N Annadurai, who later became chief minister, explained that if they could destroy caste system by destroying Brahmins – the same way Hitler did with the Jews – it would be "sensible to an extent". But, he explained that the caste system, which he described as 'Aryanism' had become a part of Tamil society at large, and hence they had to resort to campaigning without violent means. Deep down they had strong hatred for Hinduism, which despite all social stigmas, still provided a democratic religious system, and hence it was an obstacle to their totalitarian ideologies and theologies. So, anti-Brahminism is aimed not just at Brahmins, but its ultimate aim is to destroy Hinduism and Hindu communities. Naturally, institutional and anti-Brahmin political movements get support from Christian and Islamic expansionist forces. In 1950s, a bishop from Madurai, in his book on church and Dravidian movement, called the movement a time bomb that they have developed to destroy Hinduism. In 2017, Mathimaran, a rabid anti-Hindu Dravidianist, who calls Subramania Bharati a 'Brahmin-Hindu supremacist' is a guest in Christian institutions. The remarkable consistency in supporting the worst forms of anti-Hindu racial hate ideologies by Christian institutions is telling. Soon after Tony Joseph wrote a distorted report in The Hindu on the Aryan invasion and migration question as being settled through genetics in favour of the invasion/migration hypothesis, WhatsApp messages started spreading in many groups. In one of the groups of my old collegemates, a friend shared a message she had received. It went like this: "The report of Tony Joseph had struck terror in the hearts of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu as it conclusively exposing them as aliens to this land. The report proves Tamils to be the original inhabitants of the land." And it ended with the usual call to share: "If you are born a true Tamil share this message with other Tamils and spread the awareness."

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Who Stands Where In A Crowded Elevator And Why? She's in Finland now, getting her Ph.D. at the University of Jyvaskyla, but before that, when she was in Adelaide, Australia, she studied elevator behavior. Rebekah Rousi hung around two tall office towers in town, riding elevators up and down day after day, looking for patterns. When a bunch of people get into an elevator, she wondered, do they segregate in any predictable way? Do tall ones stand in the back? Do men stand in different places than women? Who looks where? She says she wasn't expecting or even predicting a particular configuration, but she found one. Over and over, she noticed that older "more senior men in particular seem to direct themselves towards the back of the elevator cabins." Younger men took up the middle ground. And in the front, facing the doors, backs to the guys, stood "women of all ages." She's not sure why. It wasn't segregation by height. It wasn't age, since older and younger women co-mingled. Clearly, the people in the back had the advantage of seeing everybody in the cabin, while people in the front had no idea who was behind them. Could there be a curiosity difference? A predatory difference? There was a second pattern, one that broke along gender lines. "Men," she wrote, "looked in the side mirrors and the door mirrors" to openly check out the other passengers, and/or themselves. Women didn't do that. "Women would watch the monitors and avoid eye contact with other users (unless in conversation)." They would only look at the mirrors (where they could check out the other passengers) when they were with other women. Eye-wise, the guys were roving, the ladies weren't. "That's where I started thinking of power," Rebekah wrote me. The men who flocked to the back, who had a better view of their fellow passengers, were consistently older, more "senior" (I'm not sure how she knew that, but it's in her posted paper) and many of them "weren't concerned with 'getting caught' looking in the mirror." They gazed freely, suggesting a sense of privilege. Younger, less powerful men seemed to avoid that space, choosing a middle ground. The back of the box, (unlike the back of the bus in Alabama civil rights days) she decided, might be the elevator power zone. Or ... Perhaps a gender analysis is too easy. Power hierarchies in elevators, she wrote, "almost seemed too cliché." This could be about shyness. Bold people choose the back; shy people the front. Does that mean she thinks Australian women are more self-conscious than Australian men? She wouldn't go there, except to say, "I don't really want people to know how vain I am, so looking in the mirror (as a woman or not) when others are in the lift ... is highly avoided." By this analysis, the back of the elevator is the Vanity-Unleashed zone. Basically, she's still puzzled. A pattern shows up. But the explanation, she said, slipping into academic shyness, "awaits further analysis." Then she added, "I'd be really interested to hear what your listeners (she means you, you reading this) have to say about the issue." The always mischievous Latif Nasser (who is, I should mention, a regular contributor to Radiolab) read this post and sent me a video that describes a very different kind of elevator behavior. What happens if you step inside and everybody around you is doing something odd? Do you do it too?

Joe Gomez's return to first-team training has gone well, according to Jurgen Klopp, but he now must adjust to Liverpool's tactical outlook. Gomez spent a year on the sidelines with an ACL injury, and returned to the training field at Melwood in November. This saw him take part in a behind-closed-doors friendly victory over Accrington Stanley during the international break, providing Klopp with his first glimpse of Gomez's talents firsthand. Addressing Gomez's transition back into first-team football on Thursday morning, Klopp stressed that the 19-year-old must be given time to adapt. "He's good. But there's absolutely no rush. We should stay cool," he said. "I'm really happy to have him back. It was the first time I've seen him in a match live. "It wasn't the most difficult game for a centre-half, but he did well. "Training is good, now we have to work on the tactical things. For this he'll have match time, I don't know when we'll start this. "He's a really physical talent, he's in really good shape but we want him for the long term. The education starts now." At 19, Gomez is in the perfect position for Klopp to mould him in his vision of a top-level centre-back, developing within the German's defensive system. Crucially, Klopp clearly sees Gomez turning out as a centre-back immediately, having filled in at left-back in his first months at the club under Brendan Rodgers, before injury struck. In the long term, Gomez swells Klopp's options at the back, joining Joel Matip, Dejan Lovren, Ragnar Klavan and Lucas Leiva, with Mamadou Sakho and Tiago Ilori left in the Liverpool U23s squad. He could be earmarked for his first outing in the new year, with Liverpool set to take part in the FA Cup third round in January, providing a solid test of his credentials. But Klopp won't be rushing Gomez back into his starting lineup, and with Matip and Lovren performing well as a duo, there is no need to.

I am proud to have been a recurring guest on Kumail Nanjiani's The X-Files Files, the podcast that helped get the ball rolling for the X-Files revival we are about to enjoy on Fox. I was actually the very first guest, so I have a real affection for this show. Kumail is hosting a marathon of The X-Files at the Cinefamily on Saturday January 16th - he'll be showing a bunch of his favorite episodes and then he's going to give us a sneak peek at the first episode of the new season. Let me give you some insider info here: the episodes Kumail plans on showing are not obvious ones, and any X-Phile will be intrigued by his choices. It would be really damn exciting if this event was just some old episodes and one of the new ones, but there's more! Kumail will be recording a live episode of The X-Files Files, and he's bringing in folks from the show as guests. It's going to be a killer event. And it's going to be FREE. Yes, free. It'll be first come, first served, and they would like you to register at this link, although registration is not a ticket! You're still going to want to get there a early to get in line. I'll be there, and so, I suspect, will The Truth. I can't wait.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Wednesday called on FBI Director James Comey to resign over his recommendation not to press federal charges against Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonSenate panel subpoenas Roger Stone associate for Russia probe Webb: The new mob: Anti-American Dems Clinton to hold fundraiser for Menendez in NJ next month MORE for her use of a personal server while secretary of State. The demand from Perry, who suggested Comey might have a political motivation for going soft on Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is a step across a line that no other prominent Republican has so far been willing to take. ADVERTISEMENT "For a man who prided himself on being a top law official in this country, I would suggest the man ought to resign," the two-time presidential candidate and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant said on Fox News. "Comey has a lot of explaining to do, because those of us who understand what was going on here — the Clintons were clearly trying to hide this server," he said. "They did not want that information in, and for Comey to stand up and make excuses for Hillary is absolutely and totally unacceptable. "I think [Comey] has some skin in the game here somewhere," Perry said. "To protect the Clintons at this particular juncture is an extraordinary failure on his part." Comey is three years into a 10-year term as head of the FBI and is not scheduled to leave office until 2023. Other prominent Republicans have notably refused to demand that Comey, who himself is a Republican, resign because of his recommendation in July that the Obama administration not file charges for Clinton's mishandling of classified information through her use of a personal email server. In an unprecedented public announcement, Comey claimed that Clinton and her aides had been "extremely careless" but did not show an intent to break the law. Top Republican lawmakers have questioned the department's judgment and demanded that the bureau release an unclassified version of its case file, which could be public as soon as this week.

Nate Parker brings the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner to the screen in 'The Birth of a Nation.' (Photo: Elliot Davis, via Sundance Institute) UPDATE: The Birth of a Nation set a new sales record Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival, netting a $17.5 million distribution deal from Fox Searchlight. According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, an overnight bidding war included escalating offers from The Weinstein Co., Netflix and Paramount. PARK CITY, Utah — The Birth of a Nation got a standing ovation, and it hadn't even started yet. Monday afternoon, the crowd rose to salute director/star/writer Nate Parker before it had seen a frame of his slavery drama, which centers its powerful story around a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in 1831. The timing was nothing short of incredible. Diversity discussions had dominated Sundance Film Festival for five days, after the Academy Awards announced all-white acting nominees for the second year in a row. Then The Birth of a Nation arrived, starkly and thoughtfully excavating the roots of American racism. "I made this film for one reason — in the hope of creating change agents," said Parker during the film's Q&A. "You can watch this film and see there are systems that were in place that were corrupt and corrupted people. And the legacy of that still lives with us." Born a slave in Virginia, Turner was taught to read as a child and grew up to become a preacher. He had an affable relationship with his master, Samuel (Armie Hammer), and was able to marry a slave, Cherry (Aja Naomi King). But slave abuse increased as plantation owners became more paranoid, including an increasingly savage Samuel. No longer able to justify their world through Bible verses, Turner ignites a slave rebellion, ultimately leading a 48-hour bloody attack. "A labor of love pursued by Parker for seven years, the film vividly captures an assortment of slavery's brutalities while also underlining the religious underpinnings of Turner's justifications for his assaults on slaveholders," wrote The Hollywood Reporter. Birth is "certain to be the most widely discussed and rousingly received film in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance this year," Variety said. On stage, Parker described most films dealing with slavery in the South as "desperately sanitized." Despite success found by recent films 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained, he spoke of an ongoing "resistance to dealing with this material. So when the script goes out, people read it, they say, 'People won't want to see this. Another slave movie? Haven't we seen those?' " So will rapturous applause at Sundance turn into a mega-million distribution deal? The Wrap reported that a bidding war had reached $16 million. Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1Vn4BXI

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By Mike De Souza OTTAWA — The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20% increase in annual pollution from Canada's oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations. The numbers, uncovered by Postmedia News, were left out of the report, a national inventory on Canada's greenhouse gas pollution. It revealed a 6% drop in annual emissions for the entire economy from 2008 to 2009, but does not directly show the extent of pollution from the oilsands production, which is greater than the greenhouse gas emissions of all the cars driven on Canadian roads. The data also indicated that emissions per barrel of oil produced by the sector is increasing, despite claims made by the industry in an advertising campaign. "The oilsands remain Canada's fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas pollution, and they're the subject of a huge amount of attention and scrutiny in Canada and internationally," said Clare Demerse, director of climate change at the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based environmental research group. "So it's very disappointing to see Environment Canada publish a 500-page report that leaves out these critical numbers — especially when last year's edition included them." Overall, Environment Canada said that the oilsands industry was responsible for about 6.5% of Canada's annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2009, up from 5% in 2008. This also indicates a growth in emissions that is close to about 300% since 1990, which cancel out many reductions in pollution from other economic sectors. The report attributes the 6% decrease in Canada's overall emissions to the economic slowdown, but it also credits efforts by the Ontario government to reduce production of coal-fired electricity as a significant factor. Environment Canada provided the oilsands numbers in response to questions from Postmedia News about why it had omitted the information from its report after publishing more detailed data in previous years. A department spokesman explained that "some" of the information was still available in the latest report, which still meets Canada's reporting obligations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. "The information is presented in this way to be consistent with UNFCCC reporting requirements, which are divided into broad, international sectors," wrote Mark Johnson in an email. He was not immediately able to answer questions about who made the decision in government to exclude the numbers from the oilsands or provide a detailed explanation about changes in emissions. An industry spokesman said it favoured more transparency from the government, suggesting that some of the figures may be misleading because of changes in methods used to identify and calculate emissions. "It's just too bad you weren't able to get a hold of (Environment Canada) on this one, because here I am telling you my understanding of what's going on, but really it's best to hear directly from them," said Greg Stringham, vice-president of oilsands and markets at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. "We report the information to them, and they choose to pass it on — they must pass it on the UN. But then they choose how to disclose it and put it out there." Although Stringham said that the industry figures did not show any significant growth in emissions per barrel of oil produced, the full report noted an intensity increase of 14.5% from 2008 to 2009, "mainly the result of a new integrated mining and upgrading facility as well as a new integrated in-situ bitumen extraction and upgrading facility," that were not operating at "peak efficiencies." Emissions from a mining category, which includes oilsands extraction, saw a 371% increase in greenhouse gas pollution, according to the report. But other categories showed significant decreases due, in part, to the recession, but also because of changes in use of fuel and manufacturing operations. Environment Canada's report recognizes that climate change is occurring, mainly due to an increase in heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize these emissions in order to prevent dangerous changes to the climate. Critics have suggested the Harper government is deliberately trying to delay international action to fight climate change, following revelations, reported last fall by Postmedia News, that it had set up a partnership with the Alberta government, industry and several federal departments to fight pollution-reduction policies from other countries that target the oilsands through lobbying and public relations. Environment Minister Peter Kent has said the federal government is committed to reducing Canada's greenhouse gas emissions and will introduce its plan to regulate pollution from the oilsands within months. But he has also acknowledged that existing federal and provincial policies would still result in an increase in emissions over the next decade. Although the report was due in April, during the last election campaign, Canada was the last country to file its submission. Environment Canada even filed its submission after earthquake-stricken Japan, and was unable to explain in detail why its report was late.

The Underground Reservoir is a watery underground location in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. Most of the area can be accessible by gaining dominance over Skula's soul, Deep Seeker, which allows Soma to breathe and walk underwater. This stage is connected to the Castle Corridor, the Underground Cemetery, the Forbidden Area and the Arena. Contents show] Overview Edit Like in the Floating Garden, the Underground Reservoir doesn't contain a boss, although a Big Golem can be encountered here. Many of the enemies here are water-borne. This area is the also the only place where the Sky Fish can be found. In one of the rooms, Soma will witness Graham Jones stabbing Yoko with a dagger. Arikado arrives at the scene and sends Soma after Graham, while he stays to take care of Yoko. Behind the big waterfall located in this stage, lies the entrance to the Forbidden Area. The trick to access it, is to equip Undine's soul (to be able to walk on the water's surface), and then equip and activate either the Curly's, Manticore's or Devil's soul to dash through the waterfall. The player will receive the Eversing armor along the way and find the door leading to the Forbidden Area on the other side. Gallery Edit Notes Edit Besides the Arena, the Underground Reservoir also connects to the Underground Cemetery. This last area is completely optional and not visiting it won't affect the game's continuity in any way. The Underground Reservoir also connects to the Forbidden Area, another optional location. It's advisable to visit this stage to obtain some very powerful items, like the Claimh Solais, one of the most powerful weapons in the game. Related locations Edit

The concerns center on the extent of foreign investment in a series of finance entities Mnuchin helped manage, including one based offshore in the Cayman Islands, aides tell CNN. It's an issue -- which Democratic aides and lawmakers say hasn't been addressed in subsequent follow-up questions in the weeks since -- that has raised concern about the extent of the influence those investors may hold, and the potential for conflicts of interest not unlike what has tailed Trump throughout his campaign. On its face, it echoes a prime point of contention for Democrats probing all of Trump's Cabinet picks, many of whom boast extensive private business and finance ties. But Mnuchin is slated to be the Trump Administration's top economic official, making those ties even more susceptible to potential conflicts, aides say -- the types of potential conflicts Mnuchin himself appeared to draw attention to inadvertently during his confirmation hearing. The focus has trained on a series of finance entities, all offshoots of the hedge fund run by Mnuchin up until he was selected as Trump's pick to be the country's economic point person. Foreign investors Asked specifically about the investment makeup of the offshore entity during his hearing, Mnuchin repeatedly said it was created to provide opportunities for pension funds and non-profits to invest. There were also "a small number of foreign investors," Mnuchin told lawmakers. But the offshore entity and a series of other finance vehicles, some of which weren't originally disclosed by Mnuchin during the financial disclosure process, hold gross assets of more than $240 million, according to an SEC filing reviewed by CNN. Significant percentages of each were held by foreign investors, according to the filing, and one was 100 percent owned by foreign investors. JUST WATCHED Steve Mnuchin in 60 seconds Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Steve Mnuchin in 60 seconds 01:03 Mnuchin's failure to initially disclose his relationship with the funds, along with his minimizing the scope of foreign investment in them during the hearing, has Democrats questioning whether it was part of a deliberate effort to steer them away. "Misleading -- and that's the most charitable way you could say it," Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said of Mnuchin's explanation during an interview. "You walked away thinking that almost the only people were churches and pensions (investing in those entities.)" One fund, Dune Capital International LTD., listed a gross asset value of $35.1 million in the 2013 disclosure. The disclosure, which identifies Mnuchin as one of three "Partners and Directors" of the Cayman Islands-based entity, claims 28% of the underlying fund ownership came from foreign investors, according to the SEC filing reviewed by CNN. A second US-based entity with $18.4 million in gross asset value, DE International Holdings LLC, is listed as 100% owned by "non-US persons," according to the SEC filing. Dune Entertainment Holdings LLC, which had a gross asset value of $124.8 million, listed 43% of its ownership as coming from foreign persons or entities. Two additional entities, Dune Entertainment International and Dune Entertainment LP, held in total nearly $62 million in gross asset value. The underlying assets were 100% and 43% beneficially owned by non-US persons, respectively. The portfolio played a role, at least in part, in the financing of Mnuchin's extensive financing of Hollywood projects. "We're talking about foreign investors," Wyden said. "I don't have a lot of evidence right now that all these non-profits and pensions were interested in investing in movies." The foreign investment in the offshoots was entirely legal and isn't required to be disclosed. But Mnuchin's role in the entities was supposed to be disclosed to the committee. It wasn't. At least not until the Democratic investigative staff on the panel discovered the SEC document. Missing paperwork Mnuchin, for his part, blamed the missing paperwork on the byzantine nature of the disclosure process. In a private interview with committee staff, aides said, Mnuchin acknowledged that his responses to the committee had not, as he had stated, been "true, accurate and complete." He twice was forced to revise his initial disclosure questionnaire. He stated his role in the entities was "inadvertently missed" during the disclosure process. Mnuchin's confirmation spokesman didn't respond to multiple requests for comment for this story. A White House official said the SEC filing, along with the rest of Mnuchin's extensive financial documentation, is now available for anyone to see. "Mr. Mnuchin has followed all the necessary rules and regulations for his confirmation process," the official said in a statement. "All of this information is now publicly available and can be found by anyone who wishes to look at Mr. Mnuchin's financial records." Mnuchin, as it currently stands, is on track to be confirmed.

Military forces were deployed Sunday to help thousands of displaced people in Malaysia's northern state of Penang, officials said, as floodwater rose from more than 24 hours of incessant rain. At least 2,000 people had been evacuated and 80 percent of the state was hit by typhoonlike winds and heavy rain, chief minister Lim Guan Eng said in a statement. He said floodwater had risen to 3-4 meters (10-12 feet). Lim also warned in a Facebook post that more rain was expected and advised residents to stay at home. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the National Security Council was coordinating with police and the military to assist flood victims after a request for assistance from Penang. Hundreds of trees were toppled and roads were submerged, leaving many areas practically paralyzed, Malaysian news agency Bernama reported. At least two people had been killed, it said. "We remain fearful that there may still be untoward incidents because of the strong winds, the like of which have never been experienced before, and flash floods might recur," Lim told reporters in Penang, according to Bernama. Hundreds of people had been placed in temporary shelters after their homes were flooded or destroyed by the storm.

Montgomery Inn closes Dublin restaurant Copyright by WCMH - All rights reserved Video DUBLIN, OH (WCMH) -- Montgomery Inn announced Monday that it will be closing its Dublin restaurant, effective today. The Montgomery Inn restaurant located at 4565 West Dublin-Granville Road in Dublin is closed for business effective January 2, 2017. The Cincinnati-based restaurant chain opened the location in 2009. In a statement, the Gregory family expressed their appreciation for the restaurant's loyal customers, "We want to thank the community of Dublin and the entire Columbus area for their loyalty and support. We have enjoyed serving you and we invite you to visit our other locations when traveling to the Cincinnati area." Montgomery Inn gift cards will continue to be honored at all Cincinnati area locations. They also may be redeemed online at the restaurant's internet store, CincyFavorites.com. Or, if you prefer a refund, Montgomery Inn gift cards may be redeemed for cash at the Dublin restaurant only. Refunds will be distributed Monday through Friday, between 9 am and 5 pm through the end of January. If you have any questions you can call the Dublin location at 614-791-7427 or the corporate office in Cincinnati at 513-791-1942.

EA has confirmed that EA Sports UFC will run at 1080p and render at 30 frames per second on the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. In an interview with Gaming Bolt, EA Canada Creative Director, Brian Hayes, said that in previous projects, 60FPS "didn't have a hugely beneficial impact on gameplay." In fact, during focus-tests the team discovered that more players actually preferred the experience when the game ran at 30FPS with motion blur. "As opposed to arbitrarily jumping back to 60 FPS for little discernible benefit, we decided to put those resources towards improving the visual presentation of the game in other ways," said Hayes. This comes after some outcry from gamers about the resolution of next-gen games. EA Sports UFC is currently expected to release on May 5, 2014 on Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Thanks, IGN.

Release Year: 2013 The sadistic Joan Ferguson takes over as governor and immediately targets Franky. Meanwhile, Bea is determined to get revenge against Brayden. 1. Born Again 46m Hoping to end Franky's stranglehold on Wentworth, new governor Joan Ferguson breaks up her contraband operation and brings Bea back to H Block. 2. Whatever It Takes 46m Bea agrees to Harry's request for a divorce on the condition that he kill Brayden Holt. Meanwhile, Franky tries to get heroin from a new drug mule. 3. Boys In The Yard 45m Brayden Holt's godmother returns to Wentworth, giving Bea hope for revenge. But Franky is troubled by her arrival, as she once worked for Jacs. 4. The Danger Within 45m Bea learns of the Holts' plan to avenge Brayden and asks Franky to get her a weapon. But the attempts on her life come from an unexpected source. 5. Twist The Knife 46m Bea uses the news that Simmo's daughter is working for the Holts to her advantage. Meanwhile, Wentworth is turned upside down when Boomer vanishes. 6. The Pink Dragon 47m Simmo can't bring herself to kill Bea and attempts suicide, only to be saved by Bea. Meanwhile, Ferguson makes use of Franky's illicit drugs. 7. Metamorphosis 47m Ferguson cancels the garden project, Maxine tries to escape when she learns Gary is headed overseas and Franky confronts Ferguson over Simmo's death. 8. Sins Of The Mother 46m Franky is determined to find the snitch in Wentworth, and her evidence points to Bea, who's getting special privileges. 9. The Fixer 46m Ferguson attempts to force Doreen into a lie about the father of her baby. Meanwhile, Will feuds with Harry, who he thinks has been harassing him. 10. Jail Birds 46m Liz is released from Wentworth but finds life at the halfway house difficult, especially when Boomer threatens to have her attacked. 11. Into The Night 45m The battle lines are drawn between Bea and Franky for domination of Wentworth, and Fletch believes a new inmate may be his key to ousting Ferguson.

Modmail is the shared messaging system that moderators use to handle incoming requests from their users. Enabling Modmail Modmail is enabled by default for newly created subreddits. To enable it for an existing subreddit, click the 'Enroll' button on the subreddit settings page. Accessing Modmail Modmail is accessed by clicking on the green shield icon in the user area in the header. It can also be accessed directly by navigating to mod.reddit.com Folders Modmail is comprised of several folders: All Mail New In Progress Archived Highlighted Mod Discussions Notifications The location of a conversation is shared between moderators. For example, if you archive a conversation, it will appear in the archived folder for you and all the moderators of your subreddit. All Mail The All Mail folder is a combined view of the New, In Progress and Notification folders. New The New folder contains incoming conversations that have yet to be responded to by a moderator. Once a moderator responds to a conversation in new, it will move to the In Progress folder. Once a conversation leaves the New folder, it cannot be put back. In Progress The In Progress folder contains conversations that have been responded to by a moderator, but have not yet been archived. Unarchiving a conversation will move it back to the In Progress folder. Archived The Archived folder contains conversations that a moderator has deliberately archived. If an archived conversation is responded to or Unarchived it will move to the In Progress folder. Conversations in the archived folder are marked as read for all moderators. The following message types are automatically routed to the Archived folder: Ban Notification Mute Notification Highlighted Highlighted contains all the messages that your moderation team have chosen to highlight with the Highlight action. A conversations highlighted status exists across folders, so for example you can highlight an archived message for future reference and it will also appear in the highlighted folder. Whenever viewing conversations in the Highlighted folder, we will also display an icon indicating which folder it currently resides in. Mod Discussions Mod discussions contains conversations that are only visible to you and other moderators of the subreddit. These conversations will always remain in the Mod Discussion folder and never appear in New, In Progress or Archived. Notifications The Notifications folder contains conversations that were automatically generated from your subreddit. If a conversation in the notifications folder receives a reply it will be automatically moved to the In Progress folder. Message types that will appear in Notifications include: Messages from AutoModerator Add moderator messages Remove moderator messages Any message with the subject that begins with [Notification] Reading Modmail Messages The main modmail view displays a list of conversations. Each conversation is composed of messages. Only the most recent message is shown in this view. To view the entire conversation you click on it to be taken to the message view. Subreddit Selector By default we'll show you modmail from all of the subreddits you moderate. You can use the subreddit selector to filter to messages from specific subreddits. Read States The background color of a conversation or message indicates whether it contains a message that you have not read. Read-states are specific to each moderator. If one moderator reads something, it will still appear as unread for other moderators. A moderator can mark all conversations in the current folder as read using the 'mark all as read' button in the conversation view. A moderator can mark all messages in a conversation as unread by clicking on 'mark as unread' whilst in the message view. Conversations in the archived folder are marked as read for all moderators. User info panel When reading a modmail conversation you will see information about the user in relation to your subreddit in the sidebar. This includes: Account standing (banned, muted, etc) Recent posts in your subreddit Recent comments in your subreddit Recent modmail conversations with the user This sidebar also allows you to take actions such as muting. Read Counts The number of conversations that contain messages that have not been read is displayed alongside each folder name. Sending Messages Replying To Conversations When responding to a conversation there are three different reply options available via dropdown menu: Reply as myself Reply as the subreddit Create a Private Moderator Note Reply as myself This is the default option. It adds a message to the conversation that will be visible to the user and other moderators. Your username will be visible as the sender. Reply as the subreddit This will add a

I had some issues getting MathJax running smoothly alongside Markdown. The main issue stemmed from Markdown not providing a way to temporarily escape from its text transformations, so some L A TEX would get interpreted as Markdown. The only way I know of to prevent text transformations in Markdown is through the code block (prefix with 4+ spaces) and inline code (surround with ` ) features. However, both of those wrap the result in some HTML tag ( <pre> for the first, <code> for the second). I decided to use the inline code feature as the basis for inserting my math. I can insert math by typing, for example \`\\\( \\del \\cdot \\vec{B} = 0 \\\)\` . To make this work, I had to use the following MathJax configuration: MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre'] } }); This prevents MathJax from skipping <code> tags. This could potentially cause issues if I used the sequences \\\( , \\\[ , or $$ in a normal (non-math) code block, but I think it's safe to say that those sequences won't show up in most of my code. The next step was to make sure MathJax <code> tags weren't actually styled like "normal" <code> tags. To do this, I added this to my MathJax configuration: MathJax.Hub.Queue(function() { // Fix <code> tags after MathJax finishes running. This is a // hack to overcome a shortcoming of Markdown. Discussion at // https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/199 var all = MathJax.Hub.getAllJax(), i; for(i = 0; i < all.length; i += 1) { all[i].SourceElement().parentNode.className += ' has-jax'; } }); with this in my CSS:

Death and the Lightning Bolt: Capital Punishment On The Ropes? Oct. 5, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The jury returned its verdict and the judge, as judges pretty much all do, thanked them for their service. It is, he said, a difficult thing the county asked you to do, and it is grateful. Then he – Oh, wait, sorry. I left out the crime. It was ugly. Edgar Allen Poe stuff. Hoffner and his co-defendant Archie Dixon wanted to get hold of their buddy Chris Hammer's car. So they, with the assistance of Kristen Wilkerson (Dixon's girlfriend) . . . Feh. Don't make me tell it. Here's the official version, from the Ohio Supreme Court's opinion in Hoffner's appeal. In the early morning of September 22, Hoffner, Dixon, and Hammer went to Wilkerson's house. Once there, Hoffner and Dixon attacked Hammer. Hoffner restrained Hammer in a headlock while Dixon beat him. Hoffner tried to break Hammer's neck, and Dixon struck Hammer in the head with a wine bottle. Hoffner and Dixon then tied Hammer to a bunk-bed ladder, and Dixon went through Hammer's wallet, taking out his money, birth certificate, and Social Security card. Then Hoffner and Dixon discussed how they should dispose of Hammer's body. While Hammer remained tied to the bunk-bed ladder, Hoffner and Dixon left Wilkerson's house to dig a grave. Hoffner and Dixon returned to Wilkerson's house and they, along with Wilkerson, drove Hammer, blindfolded, to the gravesite in Hammer's car. Wilkerson stayed at the car while Hoffner and Dixon walked Hammer into the woods, where they permitted Hammer to smoke a cigarette. Then they gagged and again blindfolded Hammer, tied his hands and feet behind his back, grabbed him by his arms and legs, and dropped him into the grave, still alive. At one point, Hammer was able to remove the gag from his mouth and free one of his legs. Hoffner jumped into the grave and placed his foot over Hammer's mouth when Hammer yelled for help. Hoffner and Dixon then held Hammer down and covered him with dirt. After Hammer was completely buried, Hoffner and Dixon walked back and forth across the grave, packing down the dirt. Hoffner, Dixon, and Wilkerson then returned to Wilkerson's house in Hammer's car. OK, got that? Now, let's start again. The jury returned its verdict recommending that Tim Hoffner be executed, that he should be killed in the name of the people of the State of Ohio. And the judge, as judges pretty much all do after any jury trial, thanked them for their service. It is, he said, a difficult thing the county asked you to do, but a vitally important thing. Then he added that if any of the jurors needed therapy as a result of performing this service, the county would pay for it. There were three executions scheduled for last week. Kelly Gissendaner, on death row in Georgia, didn't kill anyone herself though she arranged for the 1997 murder of her husband, Douglas Gissander. Gregory Owen, the actual killer, was her lover at the time. He's doing life with a chance of parole. Whatever, whoever Gissendaner was then, she'd changed, showed remorse, provided support and counsel for other prisoners. Richard Glossip, on death row in Oklahoma, didn't kill anyone, either. It was Justin Sneed, serving a life sentence for the crime, who murdered Barry Van Treese, the owner of the motel where they both worked. The state's theory is that Glossip put Sneed up to it. The evidence supporting that claim, never strong, has pretty much completely unraveled. It's pretty clear that Alfredo Prieto, on death row in Virginia, did kill people himself, at least three and maybe half a dozen more that he's been linked to. He was on death row in California for the 1990 rape and murder of Yvette Woodruff when DNA tied him to killings in Virginia. He was extradited there, tried and again sentenced to be killed for the 1988 murders of Rachel Raver and Warren Fulton, III.[1] There's a fair chance that Prieto was mentally retarded. If so, his execution would be unconstitutional. The courts showed no interest in finding out. Gissendaner was to be executed Tuesday, Glossip Wednesday, Prieto Thursday. In each case the Pope, who'd made a point of calling for abolition of the death penalty when he spoke to Congress, made a specific request that the sentence be commuted. None of the sentences were. In each case, last minute litigation raised questions about what would happen. None of it staved off the executions. Lit

** FILE ** This July 16, 2004 file photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has filed a formal rule to remove gray wolves from the federal endangered list in Montana and Idaho while leaving them on the list in Wyoming. The agency filed the rule Wednesday, April 1, 2009, a day ahead of Thursday's publication of the delisting in the Federal Register. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, file) (Photo: Dawn Villella, AP) Story Highlights Current Michigan law would allow for a wolf hunt in 2015. Proposals 14-1 and 14-2 will have no authority unless current law overturned via legal challenges. There will be no Michigan wolf hunt in 2014. Michigan voters who care whether the state should allow wolf hunting can have their say next week on the general election ballot. Sort of. Two proposals are on the Nov. 4 ballot that would either allow or prohibit state officials from holding another public hunting season for wolves. However, both proposals are essentially null and void -- regardless of how Michiganders vote on them -- because of action taken by the Legislature over the summer. Advocates on both sides of the issue want voters to have their say because the proposals could become important in the future. The proposals are the result of a complicated political chess match between those who oppose public wolf hunting and those who think it's an important tool for managing the former endangered species. To help you understand what you're voting on, we talked to the non-partisan Citizens Research Council to put together a primer on both proposals and why they may not matter until the future. The history First, Wolves are native to Michigan but were nearly wiped out in the 19th and early 20th centuries by hunting and state-sanctioned bounties. In 1973, when Congress created the federal endangered species list, only six wolves were known to still exist in the Michigan wild. Under federal protection, wolf recovery was slow. But starting in 1989, the numbers began to rise in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, along with the hope that one day the animals would rebound enough to return to state control. To prepare for that possibility, the state convened a task force in 2005 to create a wolf management plan. Members of the task force included all stakeholders in wolf management, including biologists, representatives of Michigan's Indian tribes, sporting groups and wolf advocates. An overview of wolves in Michigan By 2007, the wolf population in the Upper Peninsula topped 500 -- far exceeding the recovery benchmark of 100 set by the federal government, making the Great Lakes gray wolf one of the most successful recovery stories in the history of the endangered species list. At the same time, however, some Upper Peninsula residents began to complain that wolves were edging too close for comfort. Some farmers reported that wolves were killing livestock, and U.P. citizens reported wolves encroaching on towns and yards. In 2007, U.S. Fish and Wildlife sought to remove Great Lakes gray wolves from federal protection, but the Humane Society of the United States sued to delay the move. A federal court ruled in favor of the Humane Society, and wolves remained under endangered species protection for several more years. Finally, in 2012, Great Lakes gray wolves were removed from the endangered species list, putting the state of Michigan back in control of its wolf population. The conversation - or the debate Michigan's wolf management plan highlighted several methods for controlling the wolf population once they were removed from the endangered species list, including a potential public wolf hunt. Read the wolf management plan In December 2012, less than a year after wolves were removed from the list, the Legislature passed a bill designating wolves game animals. It was signed by Gov. Rick Snyder and became Public Act 520. The new law cleared the way for the Natural Resources Commission -- a seven-member body appointed by the governor -- to establish a hunting season for wolves. Proponents, including the state Department of Natural Resources, cited several reasons for backing wolf hunts. The DNR told lawmakers at a hearing that hunting would be one of many tools used by wildlife officials to control the wolf population. "While the wolf population offers benefits, it also poses significant costs and concerns to some Michigan residents," Trevor VanDyke, the DNR's legislative liaison, told a Senate committee. "This would be another tool that would allow for proper management and implementation of the wolf management plan, and we think we'd use this as a tool to reduce those negative impacts and conflicts with livestock and humans." Opponents believed it was too soon to talk about a hunt. At the same hearing, wolf advocate Nancy Warren of the National Wolfwatcher Coalition questioned the scientific need for hunting as a management tool. "There is no scientific evidence or research to support the need for

Lambdas are now available within Java 8 in the form of JSR-335 - Lambda Expressions for the JavaTM Programming Language UPDATE: JDK8 has now been released which contains project lambda. It's worth grabbing a copy of Java 8 in Action currently still MEAP. Have a read of Brian Goetz articles relating to lambdas for a decent understanding of how lambdas are implemented within JDK8 while also gaining an understanding of streams, internal iteration, short-circuiting and constructor references.. Also check out the JSR's above to get further examples. I've written a blog on some of the advantages of using lambdas in JDK8 called The Power of the Arrow, also NetBeans 8 has great support for converting constructs to JDK8 which I've also blogged about Migrating to JDK 8 with NetBeans.

[Updated 4/2/2007 - follow-up article here] For the last three years, I've been meaning to put to rest once and for all the urban legends and myths on wireless LAN security. Every time I write an article or blog on wireless LAN security, someone has to come along and regurgitate one of these myths. If that weren't bad enough, many "so called" security experts propagated these myths through speaking engagements and publications and many continue to this day. Many wireless LAN equipment makers continue to recommend many of these schemes to this day. One would think that the fact that none of these schemes made it in to the official IEEE 802.11i security standard would give a clue to their effectiveness, but time and time again that theory is proven wrong. To help you avoid the these schemes, I've created the following list of the six dumbest ways to secure your wireless LAN. Wireless LAN security hall of shame MAC filtering: This is like handing a security guard a pad of paper with a list of names. Then when someone comes up to the door and wants entry, the security guard looks at the person's name tag and compares it to his list of names and determines whether to open the door or not. Do you see a problem here? All someone needs to do is watch an authorized person go in and forge a name tag with that person's name. The comparison to a wireless LAN here is that the name tag is the MAC address. The MAC address is just a 12 digit long HEX number that can be viewed in clear text with a sniffer. A sniffer to a hacker is like a hammer to a carpenter except the sniffer is free. Once the MAC address is seen in the clear, it takes about 10 seconds to cut-paste a legitimate MAC address in to the wireless Ethernet adapter settings and the whole scheme is defeated. MAC filtering is absolutely worthless since it is one of the easiest schemes to attack. The shocking thing is that so many large organizations still waste the time to implement these things. The bottom line is, MAC filtering takes the most effort to manage with zero ROI (return on investment) in terms of security gain. SSID hiding: There is no such thing as "SSID hiding". You're only hiding SSID beaconing on the Access Point. There are 4 other mechanisms that also broadcast the SSID over the 2.4 or 5 GHz spectrum. The 4 mechanisms are; probe requests, probe responses, association requests, and re-association requests. Essentially, youre talking about hiding 1 of 5 SSID broadcast mechanisms. Nothing is hidden and all youve achieved is cause problems for Wi-Fi roaming when a client jumps from AP to AP. Hidden SSIDs also makes wireless LANs less user friendly. You dont need to take my word for it. Just ask Robert Moskowitz who is the Senior Technical Director of ICSA Labs in his white paper Debunking the myth of SSID hiding. LEAP authentication: The use of Cisco LEAP authentication continues to be the single biggest mistake that corporations make with their wireless LAN because they leave themselves wide open to attack. Cisco still tells their customers that LEAP is fine so long as strong passwords are used. The problem is that strong passwords are an impossibility for humans to deal with. If you doubt this, try a password audit of all the users in your organization and see how long it takes to crack 99% of all passwords. 99% of organizations will flunk any password audit for most of their users within hours. Any attempt to enforce strong passwords will result in passwords written on sticky notes. Since Joshua Wright released a toolthat can crackLEAP with lighting speed, Cisco was forced to come out with a better alternative to LEAP and they came up with an upgradeto LEAP calledEAP-FAST. Unfortunately, EAP-FAST still falls short in security with its default installation. Although Cisco makes LEAP and EAP-FAST freely available to partners for the client end, the same is not true for Access Points.LEAP and EAP-FAST are essentially two proprietary protocolsthat Cisco employs as a strategy to monopolize the Access Point market. There are open standards based EAP mechanisms like EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, and PEAP which are all much more secure than either LEAP or EAP-FAST and they work on all Access Points and client adapters, not just Cisco. Cisco does support open standard EAPs just like everyone else so you should always use open EAP standards to get better security and avoid the hardware lock-in. Disable DHCP: This is much more of waste of time than it is a security break. DHCP allows the automatic assignment of IP addresses and other configurations. Disabling DHCP has zero security value and just wastes time. It would take a hacker about 10 seconds to figure out the IP scheme of any network and simply assign their own IP address. Anyone who tells you that

A LOT has changed since our last update.. Anthony got MARRIED to the love of his life (we love her to death)! Watch their beautiful wedding video here:vimeo.com/112371211We are fundraising money, because Anthony is not working anymore & is taking care of his health & spending time with family full time. On average, ALS patient care can be upwards of $200K a year. Although Anthony is currently not at that point of dependency, ALS only gets worse & is a progressive disease...we know it too well. This is why we're attempting to prepare for a financially stress free life.Anthony will ultimately need a wheelchair accessible home... he will need help paying for health insurance, future medical expenses, food, phone, car, rent, basic living costs... etc and hopefully a little room to enjoy his healthier years...We sincerely appreciate any and all support. We love each and every one of you! Words can not describe how incredibly grateful our family is for your support... today and always.How do I contact Anthony?Letters of encouragement:31915 Rancho California Road, Suite 200-400, Temecula CA, 92591Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/carbajalphoto twitter: @carbajalphotoemail: [email protected] research organization we support:ALS Therapy Development Institute - www.ALS.net ...............................................................................................................Anthony Carbajal is an AMAZING human being.Anthony is kind-hearted, generous and an inspiration to us all. He radiates joy, love and compassion. He loves to laugh, takes the most gorgeous photographs, has mad skateboarding skills, plays the acoustic guitar and is an artist at heart. He is LOVED by all, and he is a miraculous gift to our family and everyone else who knows him.On Monday, January 27th, Anthony received the devastating news that he has ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS runs in the family. His grandmother died from it, and his mother currently has it. Ironically, Anthony had been helping to take care of his mother and is a dedicated advocate and voice in the fight to cure ALS when this all happened. In his own words:"During the past six months, my hands became noticeably weaker, and both arms began twitching constantly. My last few weddings, I had difficulties changing my camera settings, because my hands were so weak. I tried to convince myself it was carpal tunnel, even though I knew these were the same symptoms my mother and grandmother experienced before they were diagnosed with ALS. I finally got health insurance and was seen by a neurologist. I was diagnosed soon after."To attempt to preserve the muscle that's left in his hands and arms, he can no longer work as a wedding photographer. The equipment is too heavy, and the days are too long. Once muscle is lost, it cannot be regained, and the risk is not worth it. He is liquidating his camera equipment to raise funds to pay for his medical insurance and costs, as well as his business expenses and taxes that he currently owes, but it will not be enough since he can no longer work... So, we are fundraising for him. All contributions go directly into Anthony's PayPal account, and you do not need a PayPal account to contribute. When the payment request comes up, you have the option to use PayPal or credit card.Share & contribute through this website. - or –Mail a check to his address:31915 Rancho California Road, Suite 200-400, Temecula CA, 92591Spread the word about ALS and/or pray for him.Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed. To learn more, visit:ALS Therapy Development Institute - www.ALS.net * This fundraiser was initially held on a now closed site called YouCaring. YouCaring joined GoFundMe, and this GoFundMe is a record of the original fundraiser.

Just when you think you've heard it all, a Kansas man finds an unexpected way to get out of his crumbling marriage.Lawrence Ripple, 70, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to a September bank robbery. According to court documents, Ripple entered the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money and saying that he had a gun.But after the bank teller handed over several thousand dollars in cash, Ripple didn't flee the scene -- he sat down and waited for police to arrive and arrest him.An FBI agent revealed in court that Ripple had argued with his wife earlier, telling her that he'd rather be in jail than with her. Authorities say he wrote her a note saying he "no longer wanted to be in that situation."Ripple faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.The Kansas City Star reports that Ripple's wife accompanied him to court Monday.

Share. According to a new report, a former intern is demanding back pay from his time working at the company. According to a new report, a former intern is demanding back pay from his time working at the company. A former intern working at Marvel Entertainment is suing the company for unpaid wages, a new report is claiming. According to documents obtained by The Wrap, Kenneth Jackson claims he was "wrongfully" classified as an intern while working for Marvel from August through December 2008, and is now seeking minimum wage back pay. Jackson has reportedly filed a class action lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment, LLC in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, seeking to "recover unpaid minimum wages owed." The recovered documents claim that all of Marvel's interns - "in excess of 100 individuals" - during the period were similarly owed. The lawsuit says that "during his employment with Marvel, the Named Plaintiff worked from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. five days per week" in the second half of 2008. The following year, Marvel was acquired by Disney for a cool $4.64 billion dollars. Exit Theatre Mode Lucy O'Brien is Entertainment Editor at IGN AU. Follow her ramblings on Twitter.

WASHINGTON, Sep. 12, 2017 - The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Canada of ten (10) F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, with F414-GE-400 engines; eight (8) F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft, with F414-GE-400 engines; eight (8) F414-GE-400 engine spares; twenty (20) AN/APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars; twenty (20) M61A2 20MM gun systems; twenty-eight (28) AN/ALR-67(V)3 Electronic Warfare Countermeasures Receiving Sets; fifteen (15) AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods; twenty (20) Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems–Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS-JTRS); thirty (30) Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS); twenty-eight (28) AN/ALQ-214 Integrated Countermeasures Systems; one hundred thirty (130) LAU-127E/A and or F/A Guided Missile Launchers; twenty-two (22) AN/AYK-29 Distributed Targeting System (DTS); twenty-two (22) AN/AYK-29 Distributed Targeting Processor (DTP); one hundred (100) AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Block II Tactical Missiles; thirty (30) AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Block II Captive Air Training Missiles (CATM); eight (8) AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Block II Special Air Training Missiles (NATM); twenty (20) AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Block II Tactical Guidance Units; sixteen (16) AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Block II CATM Guidance Units. Also included in this sale are AN/AVS-9 Night Vision Goggles (NVG); AN/ALE-47 Electronic Warfare Countermeasures Systems; AN/ARC-210 Communication System; AN/APX-111 Combined Interrogator Transponder; AN/ALE-55 Towed Decoys; Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS); AN/PYQ-10C Simple Key Loader (SKL); Data Transfer Unit (DTU); Accurate Navigation (ANAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Navigation; KIV-78 Duel Channel Encryptor, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF); CADS/PADS; Instrument Landing System (ILS); Aircraft Armament Equipment (AAE); High Speed Video Network (HSVN) Digital Video Recorder (HDVR); Launchers (LAU-115D/A, LAU-116B/A, LAU-118A); flight test services; site survey; aircraft ferry; auxiliary fuel tanks; aircraft spares; containers; storage and preservation; transportation; aircrew and maintenance training; training aids and equipment, devices and spares and repair parts; weapon system support and test equipment; technical data Engineering Change Proposals; technical publications and documentation; software; avionics software support; software development/integration; system integration and testing; U.S. Government and contractor engineering technical and logistics support; Repair of Repairable (RoR); repair and return warranties; other technical assistance and support equipment; and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated total case value is $5.23 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on September 11, 2017. This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the security of a NATO ally which has been, and continues to be, a key democratic partner of the United States in ensuring peace and stability. The acquisition of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft, associated weapons and capability will allow for greater interoperability with U.S. forces, providing benefits for training and possible future coalition operations in support of shared regional security objectives. The proposed sale of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft will improve Canada's capability to meet current and future warfare threats and provide greater security for its critical infrastructure. Canada will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces. The proposed sale of this equipment and support does not alter the basic military balance in the region. The principal contractors will be: Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO; Northrop Grumman, Los Angeles, CA; Raytheon, El Segundo, CA; General Electric, Lynn, MA; and Raytheon Missile Systems Company, Tucson, AZ. The Government of Canada has advised that it will negotiate offset agreements with key U.S. contractors. Implementation of this proposed sale will require the assignment

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