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Tornadoes Kill Dozens; Relief Groups Move in
Deadly storms that ripped through the Midwest and South on Friday left at least 34 people dead in four states.
Kentucky reported 17 fatalities as of Saturday. Tornadoes also killed 14 in Indiana, two in Ohio and one in Alabama.
"I want the people of Indiana, Kentucky, and other states that were impacted to know that our prayers are also with them following these storms," said Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Saturday. "The people of Alabama can identify with you and stand with you during this difficult time."
The thunderstorms on Friday spawned dozens of tornadoes, flattening towns and leaving thousands without power.
Andy Bell told The Associated Press that his town of Henryville in Indiana is literally "all gone."
In Chelsea, Ind., Teri Kleopferi told WTHR that her husband's aunt, uncle and 4-year-old granchild were killed. Their bodies were found in a field.
"I tried to gather my thoughts last night about the family," she said as she held back tears. "It's been hard."
While she said the homes and possessions lost in the tornadoes were "just things," she noted, "We can't replace them (family)."
Officials in each state are touring devastated areas on Saturday to assess the damage. Nonprofit orgnanizations including The Salvation Army and Samaritan's Purse have also dispatched relief units to the newly affected areas, though many are already providing aid in states (such as Illinois and Tennessee) where tornadoes touched down earlier in the week.
Samaritan's Purse, headed by evangelist Franklin Graham, announced that it is sending out Disaster Relief Units from its headquarters in North Carolina to Henryville and Madison in Indiana, West Liberty, Ky., and another location.
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief leaders have also begun assessing the devastation to determine the best way to respond. Coy Webb, state DR director for Kentucky Baptist Convention Webb, reported plans to deploy chaplains and chainsaw teams. Meanwhile, volunteers in other states such as Florida and Georgia where a tornado watch has been issued are on standby.


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It's late afternoon as the members of Good Charlotte arrive at New York City's Irving Plaza for soundcheck.
Although the group isn't due to hit the stage for five more hours, a throng of 20-something fans (many of them female, clutching CDs, posters and various other merch items they hope to have signed) have been camped outside since morning. On their way inside, the band stop and greet their admirers, eliciting screams and "Oh my God!' cries. Yeah, being a rock star sucks alright.
"We're having a good time on this tour," says guitarist Billy Martin. "We're playing a bunch of songs off our new album, Cardiology, and we're doing all the old hits, of course. I've always liked playing New York City. It's a great crowd, and we still see a lot of our original fans from Maryland who make the trip up here. I'm looking forward to tonight."
With minutes to spare before soundcheck, Martin graciously provides MusicRadar an exclusive walkthrough of the guitars (including his own Paul Reed Smith SE signature model), effects and amps he's been using on tour.
"It's not the most crazy setup in the world," says Martin, "but it's very functional and dependable. After you do this for a while, you learn what works and what doesn't. A lot of trial and error goes into being a touring musician. Sometimes it takes a while, but eventually you get things right."

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This week's shooting incident in Lake City makes me glad that the Northfield School District has an Emergency & Crisis Management Plan, revised in 2010.
However, there's one big problem with it.
Section 2.29 of the District's plan, Post-Crisis Intervention Procedures, advises that district leaders consider interventions known as Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) or Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).
CISM is "designed to help people deal with their trauma one incident at a time, by allowing them to talk about the incident when it happens without judgment or criticism" (Wikipedia reference).
It turns out, "CISD doesn't do what it is supposed to do and may even prolong people's distress," according to a new book I'm reading, Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change by Timothy D. Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. (See Timothy Wilson's blog, follow him on Twitter, and see the book's Facebook page.)
Neither Carleton College nor St. Olaf College have CSID as part of their crisis management plans but it's evidently not by design, according to those I contacted. I think it's safe to assume that if there were a traumatic event of some kind at the colleges, post traumatic event counseling would be made available.
I'll invite some Northfield area psychologists, therapists and counselors to chime in here with their comments and questions in hopes that we all can get smarter about this issue and be better prepared should something bad happen.
Here's an extended excerpt from Wilson's book about CISD:
The premise of CISD is that when people have experienced a traumatic event they should air their feelings as soon as possible, so that they don't bottle up these feelings and develop post-traumatic stress disorder. In a typical CISD session, which lasts three to four hours, participants are asked to describe the traumatic event from their own perspective, express their thoughts and feelings about the event, and relate any physical or psychological symptoms they are experiencing. A facilitator emphasizes that it is normal to have stressful reactions to traumatic events, gives stress management advice, answers questions, and assesses whether participants need any additional services.
Numerous fire and police departments have made CISD the treatment of choice for officers who, like Gary Felice, witness horrific events—indeed, some departments require it. It is also widely used with civilians who undergo traumatic experiences. Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more than nine thousand counselors rushed to New York City to help survivors deal with the trauma and prevent post-traumatic stress disorder, and many of these counselors employed psychological debriefing techniques. Psychological debriefing sounds like an effective intervention, doesn't it? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and surely getting people to talk about their feelings, instead of bottling them up, is a good thing. Or is it?
Let's put CISD aside for a moment and consider another approach. Instead of asking Officer Felice to relive the trauma of Tommy Schuppel's death, suppose we let a few weeks go by and see if he is still traumatized by the tragic event. If so, we could ask him to complete, on four consecutive nights, a simple exercise in which he writes down his deepest thoughts and emotions about the experience and how it relates to the rest of his life. That's it—no meetings with trained facilitators, no stress management advice—just a writing exercise that Felice does on his own four nights in a row.
Which approach do you think would be more effective—CISD, in which people express their thoughts and feelings right after a traumatic event with the help of a trained facilitator, or the writing technique, which people do in private weeks after the event? If you are like me (and the hundreds of police and fire departments that use it), you would put your money on CISD. Surely early interventions are better than later ones, and offering people the services of a trained professional is better than asking them to sit and write by themselves.
But we would be wrong.
It took research psychologists a while to test CISD properly, in part because it seemed so obvious that it was beneficial. When they did, they found something unexpected: not only is CISD ineffective, it may cause psychological problems. In one study, people who had been severely burned in a fire were randomly assigned either to receive CISD or not. Over the next several months, participants completed a battery of measures of psychological adjustment and were interviewed at home by a researcher who was unaware whether they had received CISD. Thirteen months after the intervention, people in the CISD group had a significantly higher incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, were more anxious and depressed, and were less content with their lives. Similar results have been found in studies testing the effectiveness of CISD among emergency workers.
It turns out that making people undergo CISD right after a trauma impedes the natural healing process and might even "freeze" memories of the event. (This may have been the case with Gary Felice—according to a journalist who interviewed him four years after the fire, Felice seemed unable to get rid of the mental image of Tommy Schuppel lying dead on the floor.)
In 2003, after reviewing all tests of the effectiveness of psychological debriefing techniques, Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and his colleagues recommended that "for scientific and ethical reasons, professionals should cease compulsory debriefing of trauma-exposed people."
Unfortunately, this message has not been widely disseminated or heeded. In 2007, after a disturbed student at Virginia Tech University killed thirty-two students and faculty, students and emergency workers underwent stress-debriefing techniques similar to CISD.
What about the writing exercise? This technique, pioneered by social psychologist James Pennebaker, has been tested in dozens of experiments in which people were randomly assigned to write about personal traumas or mundane topics such as what they did that day. In the short run, people typically find it painful to express their feelings about traumatic experiences. But as time goes by, those who do so are better off in a number of respects. They show improvements in immune-system functioning, are less likely to visit physicians, get better grades in college, and miss fewer days of work.


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Here we are, with a spartan digital audio player that costs 840 Euros. Let's take a look at the features:
- No screen display, only buttons.
- Only WAV support, nothing else.
- No EQ, no bass boost, no "sound enchancement" features of some sort.
- Tank-proof build quality.
- Exceptional sound quality (supposedly).
- Extra long battery life.
If you do a conversion rate, that €840 price tag equals to a staggering $1,099 price tag in the US dollars. Much protests have been thrown at the pricing of the Altmann Tera Player, which is reasonable given the features people are used to having with their lower priced DAPs. Obviously we all know that it's entirely Charles' right to charge whatever he wants on a product that he developed from scratch and hand build one by one. But still, the question is "how good is this $1,099" digital audio player really is?
It was really interesting to read through the process that he went through when developing the Tera player. The choice for an R2R D/A chip rather than the more common sigma-delta. How he went to write the instructions for the ARM controller chip in an assembly language (a really basic form of computer programming, and a very complicated one to learn). How he discovered jitter even when reading from a static SD card memory, and how he rewrote the instructions to eliminate that jitter.
This guy, in his frustration of not being able to find a good digital player, used all the know how he has and set out to create the very best player he's capable of. And I'm pretty convinced that Charles is nothing short of a genius just by reading his websites. But is Charles' best attempt good enough to take on the best players we have on the market?
Sound Impressions
The Tera is not a toy, nor a gimmick. No, it's also not a scam. This tiny player impresses me as much as big dollar amplifiers such as the RSA Dark Star. Whilst portable DAC units like the CLAS and the Fostex HP-P1 are really nice, I think the Tera is in another step up. This player has got to have the lowest jitter number from all the other players I've reviewed. The background is very black, the sound totally unfatiguing. Details, instruments, vocals, are all distinct and real due to the super-black background. The sound is quite dark, but the frequency response is very linear from top to bottom. Something this good should be coming from a big desktop rig, not a pocket size player smaller than my wallet!
So, while everybody was out there posting why a player with such limited features can't possibly worth $1,099, I just kept my mouth shut. When people asked, I told them that I'm loving the Tera and that they should wait until the formal review is published. Yes, it's very expensive and personally my wallet is not thick enough to justify a purchase. But so are a lot of things in audio including $1K+ custom molded IEMs. And yet, people can justify those $1K IEMs because they know that the sound quality is real.
Or consider a typical iPod + outboard DAC solution like the CLAS or the Fostex HP-P1 stack. By the time you finish the package with a good amplifier, it's easily over $1,000. Of course you get a far more powerful amplifier in the process, but at the same time that stack is barely portable anymore. With the Tera-Player, I have a true pocketable DAP with a source quality that makes the Fostex HP-P1 sound congested. I would definitely buy one if I can afford it.


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This was published 11 years ago
Adelaide not feeling blue after winning a lenient penalty
By Jake Niall
IN COMPARISON to what happened to the last club to be convicted of salary cap rorts, Adelaide has been treated leniently by the AFL.
A decade ago, the AFL Commission smashed the Carlton Football Club for its systematic cheating of the salary cap. The Blues lost Brendon Goddard and Daniel Wells, plus second- and third-round picks and their first two rounds the following year; they were fined $931,000 and barred from trading back into those drafts. This vicious penalty was meted out at a time when the Blues a) had a massive debt, b) were on the bottom of the ladder and c) had a Brisbane Bears-standard playing list brimming with overpaid veterans and virtually no young talent, besides Brendan Fevola.
Today, Carlton reckons it took until 2009 or 2010 to fully recover - seven or eight years - and even then vestiges of the severe beating linger, such as sizeable debt and a stadium deal that isn't in Essendon or Collingwood's league. If not for Richard Pratt's arrival in 2007, the Blues might still be walking with a limp.
The Crows have no such worries. They have a talented young playing list, healthy balance sheet and will not be weakened much by losing pick 20 this year, or greatly their first two selections in 2013; the $300,000 fine is inconsequential. Brad Crouch, their 17-year-old recruit from last year, is rated a top-three pick. Only Kurt Tippett has suffered a penalty that really hurts - 11 games is a fair chunk of next season. But the generous contract he will get in Sydney should soothe the pain for his part in this stupid scandal.
There is a strong case to say that the Crows also should have been barred from the first round of the 2014 national draft. Unlike Carlton of 2002, they were a top-four team this year, with strong prospects. ''They're clearly going to be a force to be reckoned with,'' said AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick, as he handed down the penalty.
As a list manager from a rival club noted, the Crows can still acquire seasoned players as free agents - a mechanism that wasn't available to Carlton - that can help them remain in premiership contention over the next few years. In yet another contrast to the slaughtered Blues, they have been allowed to trade back into the draft's early rounds next year and can receive draft compensation for losing free agents.
They have lost Tippett, but his inflated salary - further enlarged, as it was, by the shonky third-party deals - has disappeared, opening up salary-cap space for free agents. They only have to find someone decent who's willing to live in Adelaide.
The AFL verdict exposes a weakness in a punitive system that uses the draft - that a club that finishes in the ladder's lower reaches will be hit far harder than one that is playing finals; imagine if Melbourne had lost one, or both, of its top-four draft picks this year (a fate the ''tanking'' Demons averted). One cannot say where the Crows will finish next year, but it is likely to be around the top eight.
So Adelaide has fared well, given its guilt for the twin charges of draft tampering and salary-cap evasion. While the Crows' crimes were opportunistic - ''not systematic'', as Fitzpatrick put it - modest compared with Carlton's wholesale rorts, and they gained virtually no benefit from them (keeping Tippett for three years aside), this is not the late 1990s or early 2000s.
It's an old-school crime that belongs in a different age, like robbing stage coaches.
As Adrian Anderson and Fitzpatrick made plain, the Crows have been rewarded for their cooperation with the AFL (which happened only once they were caught) and for their well-timed decision - prompted by a not-so-subtle prod from headquarters - to quit the opening two rounds of this year's national draft before the AFL Commission hearing.
On the other hand, the AFL had to offer Adelaide something in order to get its co-operation. Uncovering these type of deals is very difficult and could easily have ended in legal quagmire. The AFL and its investigators would not have found such detail without Adelaide's willingness to disclose. Anderson's stocks will be enhanced. Adelaide argued that a severe sentence would mean no other club would ever 'fess up.
Adelaide's chief executive Steven Trigg, too, has received a relatively scant sentence. An effective suspension of six months doesn't prevent him from continuing in his role if the Crows decide to keep him. A suspension of 12 months would be tantamount to the sack.
Trigg's high regard in the football community and strong relationship with Andrew Demetriou, who hailed Trigg's hitherto unblemished record, worked in his favour. That said, this investigation has broken new ground by singling out officials for punishment, instead of just hitting the club.
Previously, the executives involved in such scandal were punished only by their clubs. Often they're gone by the time rorts are uncovered. Tippett is slightly stiff in that there is little precedent for players receiving serious penalties for their part in draft or salary cap offences.
But Tippett's former club is blessed. It could have been far worse, and should have been somewhat worse.


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Hi there! It's been a while, hasn't it? I attempted to blog the other day, but I just wasn't feeling it. So I unplugged from the blog, Facebook and Twitter for a few days. I need to do that more often. Then I tried to blog earlier today, and decided I'd rather go shopping. And so I did. For art, pillows, tablecloths, vases and lighting.
Anyway, this past week has been full of shopping, fishing trips (I caught eight fish!), birthday parties and new nephews.
I baked this cake a while back... I think for my sister's birthday? It's delicious! It's a chocolate tres leches cake. It's a basic chocolate cake made from cocoa powder and melted chocolate chips, baked in a 13x9-inch pan.
After baking, the cake is poked with a wooden skewer, and sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and coconut rum is poured into the holes. Did I catch your attention with the coconut rum? Yes, I know, I love coconut rum, too.
The milks make the cake extra moist. Chilling the cake in the refrigerator allows the cake to soak up all of that moisture. Whipped cream sweetened with dulce de leche and cinnamon is spread on top of the cake, and sprinkled with toasted coconut.
Amazing. My only criticism is I think I would have liked more chocolate in the cake. So feel free to bump up the amount of cocoa powder or chocolate chips if you decide to make this. You can never, never have enough chocolate.
4 large eggs, separated
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3/4 cup granulated sugar, divided use
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup cake flour
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1 tablespoon coconut rum
1 3/4 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup caramel sauce or dulce de leche
1/3 cup sweetened flaked coconut, toasted
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 13x9-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, using a mixer on high speed, beat egg white and cream of tartar until soft peaks form; add 1/4 cup sugar, and beat until stiff peaks form.
In an additional large mixing bowl, beat together butter and remaining 1/2 cup sugar until creamy. Beat in egg yolks, 1 teaspoon vanilla, baking powder and salt until combined. Beat in cocoa powder and melted chocolate until well combined. Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in 1/4 cup cream and flour until JUST combined. Fold in egg whites until just combined. Place batter into prepared baking dish.
Bake 30-35 minutes or until well risen and no longer wobbly. Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack. Stir together sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and rum in a liquid measuring cup. Poke holes all over cake using a wooden skewer. Pour half of milk mixture all over top of cake. Wait 1 minute to allow the milks to soak in. Pour the remaining milk on top. Chill cake for 1 hour before spreading whipped cream on top.
To make the whipped cream, in a large mixing bowl, using a mixer on high speed, beat together 1 3/4 cups heavy cream, vanilla and cinnamon until stiff peaks form. Beat in caramel syrup until well combined. Spread caramel whipped cream on top of cake. Process coconut in a food processor until finely ground; sprinkle coconut crumbs on top of whipped cream.
Cover and chill overnight.
Makes 10 servings


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50mm (2") Wheel Spacers for Scion FRS Subaru Impreza BRZ | 5x100 | 56.1 Hubcentric |12x1.25 Studs |
50mm (2") Wheel Spacers for Scion FRS Subaru Impreza BRZ | 5x100 | 56.1 Hubcentric |12x1.25 Studs |
Space out your wheels for a more aggressive stance or increased suspension and brake clearance.
These Titan Wheel Accessories 2 Inch hubcentric wheel spacers are designed with a 5x100 bolt pattern, 56.1mm hub bore and 12x1.25 thread pitch for Saab 9-2x, Scion FR-S, Subaru Baja, BRZ, Forester, Impreza, Legacy, Outback and Crosstrek. They are machined from T6 6061 billet aluminum, making them both lightweight and durable. These spacers will improve the stance of your vehicle, providing a more aggressive look while also adding additional clearance for aftermarket brake and suspension parts. They also allow for larger wheel and tire combinations to be installed, giving you more options for customization. These spacers are easy to install and come with all necessary hardware.
- Vehicle Bolt Pattern: 5x100
- Wheel Bolt Pattern: 5x100
- Hub Bore: 56.1
- Thread Pitch: 12x1.25
- Thickness: Each spacer measures 2 Inch (50mm) thick
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- Black finish
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1990-2014 Subaru Legacy
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TroyLeeDesigns A1 Helmet je špičková helma na kolo pro freeride / enduro mtb / all mountain použití z nabídky TLD 2021.
Decetní design v matovém provedení.
Technical beauty and design were on the minds of the designers at Troy Lee Designs when producing the all new A1 helmet. Troy Lee has not had an all mountain bike helmet in years and felt it was time to get back to the roots of where it all started. The A1's aggressive lines and superior venting make it a truly unique helmet in today's mountain helmet world.
Sixteen large vents coupled with a specially designed air channeling visor, surrounded by dynamic graphics, keep your noggin cool in more ways than one. The sleek speed shape of the A1 was developed to suit all types of road or off-road cycling. Whether you are an all mountain dirt junkie, or a cross country racer, the A1 was developed for you and the love of your sport.
Polycarbonate Shell
High Impact polypropylene visor
Full spectrum adjustable visor with +/- 1"/25mm range of motion
Large visor air scoops for maximum cooling efficiency
Deep air passages for direct flow ventilating
Impact absorbing EPS co-molded
Comfort lining with nanowick material (moisture wicking + CoolMax)
Front air intake passages
6 pressurizing intake passages
6 rear vacuum vortex outlets
4 multi-directional vents
3 position adjustable stabilizer baskets
Multi-position cam-lock adjustable stabilizer +/- 20mm movement
Anodized aluminum hardware
Weight 360 g
Velikost helem TLD A1 Helmet ( obvod hlavy v cm ) :
XS 50-53 cm, XS/SM 54-56 cm, MD/LG 57-59 cm, XL/XXL 60-62 cm


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Apple released iOS 7 to the public this week, providing a new design and a handful of cool features to iPhone- and iPad-lovers everywhere, but some of the best stuff lurks beneath the surface. Apple failed to advertise quite a few awesome features. These are our top 10.
10. You Can Wipe Your Device After Too Many Failed Password Attempts
Want to protect your data on your phone? You need a password. People can crack passwords, however, so if you want to be extra safe you need to wipe the data from your phone after they fail to enter your password correctly too many times. 10 times, in fact. Jump into Settings -> General -> Passcode Lock to find and option called Erase Data all the way at the bottom. If you enable it, your phone will wipe itself out if someone tries to access it and fails 10 times.
9. Siri Can Handle Your Calls
In addition to her (or now his, if you prefer) new voice, Siri can manage your call log for you. Need to listen to a voicemail? Just ask. Want to call back whoever just rang and you missed? Siri can handle that, too. Just make the request and she (or he) will take care of the rest.
8. You Can Change Your AirDrop Visibility
AirDrop makes it super easy to share files with other iOS 7 users in your vicinity, but perhaps you don't want everyone knowing you're ready and willing. If you want to place restrictions on who can send you files, you can just bring up Control Center and click on the AirDrop section towards the bottom left. You can decide if everyone, no one, or only contacts can see you. That way you'll only get file requests from the people you want—even if that's nobody.
7. Night Mode for Maps Avoids Blinding You While Driving
Sometimes you don't want a bright white screen in your face, like when you're driving somewhere at night. Apple's Maps app automatically adjusts based on the time and provides you with a darker interface so you don't blind yourself while driving. You get this feature whether you like it or not, so there's no need to figure out how to turn it on.
6. The Compass App Includes a Spirit Level
Got a few crooked picture frames? The built-in Compass app now has a secret second page with a spirit level. Just line it up against the wall until you get a balanced zero degrees and then you'll know you're hanging things straight.
5. Messages Provides Time Stamps
Ever need to know when a specific message arrived? You can now find out by checking its timestamp in the Messages app. Just swipe on over from the right side of any conversation and you'll see when each message came in.
4. iPhones Automatically Join Trusted Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
iOS 7 makes joining free, trusted Wi-Fi hotspots much easier because you don't have to do anything at all. If you come in contact with AT&T Wi-Fi, for example, your iPhone will connect automatically and save you the hassle.
3. Mail Can Mark All Messages as Read
Remember how you used to have to exploit an iOS bug to mark all your emails as read? Now you don't! You can just tap the "Mark All" text at the bottom of your mail list and tell iOS 7 what you want.
2. You Can Make Audio-Only FaceTime Calls
You don't have to make a call with just your face. If you want to reach another iOS or OS X user without burning up your cellular minutes, or you just look like crap and don't want anyone to see you, then you can ring them via FaceTime. Just initiate the call the same way you would with video but click the phone icon instead.
1. You Can Block Calls and Messages
For quite some time you couldn't block calls through iOS, allowing annoying people to bother you unless you could get your carrier to handle the task. Harassment sucks in any form, and we're very happy to see Apple taking measures to stop it. If you want to block someone from sending you a call or message, you just need to hop into Settings -> Phone and/or Settings -> Messages and find the Blocked section toward the bottom. Tap it and add any people you don't want. You can always remove them if you change your mind.


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Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of.
His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome with high cheekbones and dirty blond, collar-length hair. Next to his name is one of social media's most prized possessions, Twitter's blue "verified account" checkmark. Beneath it are numbers to make many in the online world jealous: Santiago Swallow has tens of thousands of followers. The tweets Swallow sends them are cryptic nuggets of wisdom that unroll like scrolls from digital fortune cookies: "Before you lose weight, find hope," says one. Another: "To write is to live endlessly."
Swallow is a pure product of the Internet: a "speaker and thinker," who specializes in "re-imagining self in the online age," an apparent star of the prestigious TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference, and a hit at Austin's annual art, technology and music event, South By South West (SXSW).
His Wikipedia biography explains why: Swallow is "a Mexican-born, American motivational speaker, consultant, educator, and author, whose speeches and publications focus on understanding modern culture in the age of social networking, globally interconnected media, user generated content and the Internet," who has "dedicated himself to helping others know more about how media and personality can be manipulated in the 21st Century." Famous for its "neutral point of view," Wikipedia also reports that Swallow's opinions are controversial in some quarters, especially his prediction that "the disassociation of self would lead to a revision of the standard definition of Multiple Personality Disorder to include selves that only manifest in the online world." He can be expected to take up this argument in his book, Self: Imaginary Identities in the Age of The Internet, due out later this year, something that his Wikipedia biography, his official web site (santiagoswallow.com) and his Twitter feed all confirm.
There's just one thing about Santiago Swallow that you won't easily find online: I made him up.
Everything above is true. He really does have a Twitter feed with tens of thousands of followers, he really does have a Wikipedia biography, and he really does have an official web site. But he has never been to TED or South By South West and is not writing a book. I – or rather he – flat out lied about that.
Creating Santiago and the online proof of his existence took two hours and cost $68. He was conjured out of keystrokes in a matter of minutes. I generated his name on "Scrivener," a word processor for writers and authors. I turned the "obscurity level" of its name generator up to high, checked the box for "attempt alliteration," and asked for 500 male names. My choices included Alonzo Arbuckle, Leon Ling, Phil Portlock and Judson Jackman, but "Santiago Swallow" just leapt out as perfect. I gave Santiago a Gmail account, which was enough to get him a Twitter account.
Then I went to the web site fiverr.com, the online equivalent of a dollar store, and searched for people selling Twitter followers. I bought Santiago 90,000 followers for $50, all of whom would, he was assured, appear on his Twitter profile within 48 hours. Next I gave him a face by mashing up three portraits from Google images using a free trial copy of Adobe's "Lightroom" image manipulation software. I gave Santiago his "Twitter verified account" check box by putting it onto his cover image right where his name would appear. It will not fool many people, but might give him a little extra credibility with some. By the time I uploaded these images to Twitter, Santiago had developed a large "following," even though he did not have a profile and had never tweeted anything.
To get him tweeting, I used a trial copy of TweetAdder, which automatically tweets, follows and retweets on Santiago's behalf. His breezy platitudes come from half a dozen "mad-lib"-like phrases of the "if this, then that" variety, coupled with a list of nouns from the new age TED/SXSW hipster vocabulary: dolphins, phablets, Steve Jobs, mobile, Tom's shoes, stevia and so on. To get his Tweet count up as fast as possible, I set TweetAdder to spit out these jewels every minute or two and hooked him up to retweet select other Twitter users, mainly from the "religion and faith" category – plus, of course, Quartz.
Last, I wrote Santiago's Wikipedia biography – trying for something that would not attract the immediate attention of Wikipedians on the lookout for scams and self-promotion. I borrowed the biography of management thinker Peter Drucker, deleted most of it and rewrote the rest, making Santiago an expert in the fake TED-ish field of "the imagined self." His web site cost $18 from WordPress.
Making up – or at least "enhancing" – an identity like this is something real people do to increase their reputation, look popular, and sell themselves. There are equally real people who profit from this by selling fake followers created by software at the push of a button. Twitter is awash with fakers with fake friends, many with self-created Wikipedia biographies and most of whom position themselves as "professional speakers," "experts," or something similar. The people in the middle – the rest of us – get duped into thinking someone is more popular than they are.
On social media, it is easy to mistake popularity for credibility, and that is exactly what the fakers are hoping for. To most people, a Twitter account with tens of thousands of followers is an easy-to-read indication of personal success and good reputation, a little like hundreds of good reviews on Yelp or a long line outside a restaurant. Looking online to learn more about somebody has become a reflex – blind daters do it, potential employers do it, potential customers do it.
Specialist social media analytics companies do it too. These businesses claim they can analyze somebody's social media behavior and accurately evaluate their level of influence. One of the best known is "Kred," a service provided by San Francisco company PeopleBrowsr. PeopleBrowsr says its customers include consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble and Budweiser and major advertising agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Wieden + Kennedy.
Less than a day after he was invented, Santiago Swallow had a Kred influence score of 754 out of 1000. According to a free white paper Kred sent him, Santiago is living in a "new era of consumer influence: when nobodies become somebodies."
If companies like PeopleBrowsr are so easily fooled, it is easy to see how other people might be taken in too. How can thousands of Twitter followers be wrong?
Consider Sandra Navidi. According to Wikipedia, Navidi is a "frequent media contributor," who has "a global network with access to key decision-makers," "frequently appears as a keynote speaker and panelist all over the world," and "provides financial markets analysis that has resonated in the financial community." On Twitter, Navidi has an impressive 5,000 or so followers. Which key decision-makers in the financial community follow Sandra Navidi's resonant analysis? Mitch Tan, a "girl with simple dreams," who only ever retweets and from three accounts; Kathleen Culver, who has 13 tweets to her name; and Vanessa from "Midwest, USA" who has tweeted 17 times, but only says things like "2eme jour sur twiiter =D." According to Status People, a web site that analyzes Twitter users, 96% of Ms. Navidi's followers are fake, and another 3% are inactive. Only 1%, or 50, of her followers are really following her.
Scott Steinberg, rather like Santiago Swallow, is a "keynote speaker and bestselling futurist," and also a "business management, technology and digital lifestyle expert." He has more than 27,000 Twitter followers, including "Buy TW Followers," "the world's No. 1 Twitter followers seller," and Meg McEachin, a young woman with two followers and no tweets whatsoever. As a digital expert, Steinberg may be surprised to learn that, according to Status People, 75% of his followers are fake and another 4% are inactive.
Or maybe not: we can assume he knows his "bestselling" books, are not actually bestsellers – his "Modern Parent's Guide To Kids And Video Games" ranks two millionth on Amazon's sales list and his "Business Expert's Guidebook" is three millionth. They are both published by "Tech Savvy Global" – whose CEO is Scott Steinberg.
Twitter faking is not only for would-be experts and speakers. Last year, the technology blog Kernel caught a CEO named Azeem Azhar purchasing 20,000 fake followers for his Twitter account. This was potentially awkward for Azhar, as his company, Peer Index, is – like his competitor Kred – in the business of measuring online influence and reputation. (Azhar told Kernel he did it to show how easily it could be done, and that such tactics didn't affect Peer Index rankings.) A few months later, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney received national attention for gaining 117,000 new Twitter followers in a single day. More recently, Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, who Foreign Policy dubs one the "10 Most Influential Latin American Intellectuals" and Time says is "One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World," has also fallen under fake follower suspicion. Sanchez's Twitter account has 475,000 followers, but according to Status People, 19% are fake and 41% are inactive. Although this still leaves her with real 230,000 followers, it also makes her vulnerable to doubters: in February, Mexican independent newspaper La Jornada used a detailed analysis of Sanchez's Twitter account to raise the question "¿Quién está detrás de Yoani Sánchez?" – Who is behind Yoani Sanchez?
This is another way Twitter fakers do real harm. Just because you have fake Twitter followers, it does not mean you paid for them. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Barack Obama have all made headlines for having fake Twitter followers – many millions of them. On average, only 28% of people following the 20 most popular Twitter accounts are real. The remaining users are either fake or dormant. According to Status People's estimates, Justin Bieber has 15 million true followers, not the 38 million his Twitter profile shows, and Rihanna, not Lady Gaga, has the second highest number of users at 9.6 million, followed by Instagram – No. 12 in the official Twitter statistics – with 9.5 million.
People with large real Twitter followings, from celebrities to activists like Yoani Sanchez, are made to look guilty when they are in fact innocent. Fake followers created for sale to impostors like Santiago Swallow follow real users in an attempt to outwit Twitter's generally very effective spam management systems. The more followers you have, the more likely it is that a fake follower will follow you. By trying to inflate themselves with the electronic equivalent of silicon implants, fakers make the system noisy for everyone.
But it seems to work: a few hours after Santiago was invented, Scott Steinberg proudly tweeted that he was "Thrilled to be giving keynote speech at Arizona Board of Nursing's 2014 CNA Educators Retreat." I know because Santiago Swallow retweeted it.


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Swap Up for Big Game Day
11/10/2022 04:40AM ● By Brian HatleyChicken wings, guacamole, and cheesy dips are America's top choices for most Big Game day menus, but the same recipes year after year can get tiring. Forget the same-old spread and surprise your guests with a little more taste and pizazz this year.
Put these tips into play for a winning combination your team can celebrate.
Swap Up with Sausage. Transform typical dishes, by swapping sausage into recipes, such as chili and nachos, which typically incorporate ground beef. The built-in flavor lends great taste and convenience to these dishes. Instead of chips and queso, add brat sausage to your nachos to make brat-chos. Or give this MVP Chili recipe a try!
MVP Chili:
- 2 packages of Johnsonville Hot Italian Sausage Links (use mild links for less spicy chili)
- 1 large onion
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons chili powder (use mild chili powder for less spicy chili)
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) dark beer (OK to substitute light beer or 1 cup beef stock)
- 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 can (15.5 ounces) red kidney beans
- 1 can (15.5 ounces) black beans
- 1-1.5 cups corn (frozen or fresh off the cob)
- salt and pepper
- De-case sausage and sauté in large pot; use wooden spoon to crumble sausage as it cooks.
- Once sausage is nicely browned, stir in onion, garlic, chili powder and cumin and continue cooking until onion softens, about 5 minutes.
- Add beer and allow it to simmer for an additional 5 minutes scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the pan.
- Stir in tomatoes and tomato paste and allow it to simmer, uncovered for an additional 10-15 minutes on medium-low, stirring occasionally.
- Taste and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper.
- Finally, stir in beans and corn.
- Let this come to a simmer and it's ready to serve! (Can be prepared a day ahead.)
Use Unexpected Ingredients. Many dips and sides prominently feature the gooey goodness of cheese. Put a fresh spin on these dishes with high-quality, sophisticated options that feature more robust flavors, such as pungent blue cheese, smoked Gouda or tangy goat cheese.
Sweeten Up Your Spread. To mix in sweet with the savory options, find a spot on the table for some fresh fruit flavor. Favorites such as fruit salad, fruit pizza or fruit kabobs can make for a delectable treat to accompany the rest of your game-day fare.
Mix it Up. Smoky flavors and bourbon are trending upward in kitchens, backyards, bars and restaurants across the country. Combine the two for a creative spin to your beverage spread. Seep Johnsonville Fully Cooked Smoked Brats in bourbon for about a day to extract smoky and savory flavors, and mix the bourbon for a modern twist on the Manhattan cocktail.
Smokey Sausage Manhattan:
- 2 ounces Sausage-Infused Bourbon
- 1 ounces Sweet Vermouth
- 1 dash Angostura Bitters
- 3 Cherries
In ice filled mixing glass, add all ingredients and stir for at least 30 seconds. Strain into martini glass and garnish with 3 cherries on a pick.
Sausage-Infused Bourbon
- Cut Johnsonville Fully Cooked Smoked Split Rope Sausage into 1/2-inch slices.
- In glass jar with tight lid (canning jar is ideal) add sliced brat with 6 ounces of bourbon and let sit for 24-48 hours.
- Strain through coffee filter into clean container.
- Discard sliced brats.
Find more creative recipes to spice up your game-day spread at Johnsonville.com.


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NEW YORK -- You get the feeling that Darrelle Revis will always be the one that got away for Rex Ryan.
The coach knew exactly what he had in Revis during the cornerback's six seasons with the New York Jets. Contract squabbles poisoned the relationship between player and team, leading to Revis' trade to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last April.
Revis' name came up Friday as Ryan spoke to reporters from the inside of a New Era-branded ice cream truck on the corner of 39th and Broadway. (These are the kinds of things that only happen during Super Bowl week.)
Ryan was asked if he'd rather have Revis or Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman on his team. Ryan believes that Revis -- or the Revis who led the Jets' defense in 2009 and 2010 -- played the position at an unmatched level.
"I think when you look at it, Sherman's probably a guy that has played about as well as any corner in the league this year," Ryan said. "So that's great. But overall, I think the year that Revis had -- the first two years that I was here -- I don't think, not Richard Sherman or anybody -- can compare to the years Revis had."
"What we did with him. How we played defense -- put him on the No. 1 guy and locked him down and rolled our coverages, ran loaded zones away from him constantly. I'm not sure that's ever been duplicated."
This is not an oversell on Ryan's part. Revis was a remarkable weapon for the Jets before suffering his knee injury. Sherman has become the popular choice as the game's best corner, but a fully healthy Revis could change minds in 2014.
*Live from New York, it's the NFL "Around The League Podcast" Super Bowl Preview! *


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One could say that I "grew up Disney." My Dad started working for Disney when I was two years old and my earliest childhood memories revolve around Disney. Growing up in Orlando, Florida, with a parent that was a Disney "cast member" definitely had its perks. I got to go to the Disney parks all the time for free, I got in to advance screenings for Disney movies, my summer camps were at the Disney resorts, and I had special opportunities like going to live tapings of The Mickey Mouse Club. I bring this up because Disney was and always has been a MAJOR influence in my life and has definitely shaped the person I am today.
Being immersed in the Disney culture at such a young age taught me to dream big and to believe that my dreams could come true. Everything at Disney was always so big and grand and perfect! Everywhere you would turn, there would be examples of imagination coming to life, yet instead of just imagining the impossible, Disney made it real and tangible. Being exposed to such greatness and an early age, my imagination knew no limits. My parents definitely harvested such imagination with positive encouragement, teaching me that when I made my wish upon a star, if I worked hard enough, my dreams would come true.
As a young girl, I knew I wanted to be an actress. You could say that my very first screen test was at Disney's Hollywood Studios. The week the Studios opened I got to make a "movie" with my siblings in one of the shops on Hollywood Boulevard. Yes it was cheesy and we had to pay for it, but hey, I could put it in the VCR and watch it...it was "real." My next door neighbor was a cameraman for The Mickey Mouse Club and I got to go to a few live tapings when I was in elementary school. I got to see a real live TV show being filmed right in front of my eyes and then I would go home and watch it on my television. It made the dream of being on a TV set tangible. From that moment, I dreamed that one day I would be on a Disney Channel show too. That was my goal, and if Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake could do it, so could I. In high school, when I turned 16, it was my turn to be a Disney cast member. I wanted to work for Disney SO badly that I turned in my application on my 16th birthday. After several auditions, I finally got my big break and I was cast as a cheerleader in the Hercules Parade. I got to dance down Hollywood Blvd. Thanks to Disney, I was able to perform in front of thousands of people on the weekends and it made my dream, again, feel tangible.
Several years later, I moved to Los Angeles and was cast as a character named Muffy on a TV show called That's So Raven. Finally, my dream of being on The Disney Channel came true after several years believing it could happen. At the same time, I met my husband David Eckstein; he played for the Anaheim Angels, who were owned, at the time, by Disney. We met in California, but it turns out that we grew up 30 minutes apart from each other in Orlando. He shared my love of Disney and proposed to me at one of the Disney resorts. We had a Disney wedding reception...but I digress...are you getting the drift of the role Disney has played in my life?
Shortly after That's So Raven ended, I was cast as this "new" character on the "new" Star Wars animated series for Lucasfilm. I didn't realize it at the time but I was entering the Jedi Temple of life and I was now Dave Filoni's Padawan. This "new" character that we now know as Ahsoka and this "new" show that we now know as The Clone Wars has truly changed my life. My outlook on life has always been more like a Disney fairytale. Wish upon a star, sprinkle a little pixie dust and have a magical day. Well...life isn't always like that! The stories in Star Wars helped me learn how to handle the cruel, dark side of the world. There is evil and everyone has to deal with it. However, just like Ahsoka has grown up during The Clone Wars, so have I, and Star Wars has not only taught me to believe in the good but it's taught me to never lose hope. Good will prevail and I have become a student of the Force. Using this newfound hope and belief, Lucasfilm has made so many of my wildest childhood, Disney dreams come true, which brings me right back to Disney for Disney's Star Wars Weekends. I've had the honor and privilege to be a co-host for this amazing event for four years now. Once again, I return to Hollywood Boulevard, in yet another parade hoping to show a new little girl with big Disney dreams that anything is possible because, gosh darn it, if Ashley Eckstein can do it, so can she.
Believing in your dreams and never losing hope...two powerful messages that I take away from two powerful companies that have shaped my life. Many people have been asking me my thoughts on Disney buying Lucasfilm. For me, it's a natural partnership. Two companies that have already been doing amazing work together for years, who both have similar standards for excellence, messages, and fans are now coming together to tell more stories and make fans happy for years to come. I'm not sure what the future holds in all of this, but my Padawan journey keeps bringing me back to Disney. I'm going to keep on dreaming, believing, and I will never lose hope that great things are ahead!
Ashley Eckstein is the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and also the founder of Her Universe, the first merchandise line made exclusively for female Star Wars fans! You can follow Ashley on Facebook and Twitter.


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But they did.
Superstition has it that to change a boat's name invites bad luck, the logical explanation is that the ship's name was carved into the keel, so to change the name would entail cutting out the old name and carving a new one, all of which might weaken the keel.
In this case I'd take the risk either way.
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Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha?) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel. Eventually, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington. According to Nintendo's Touch! Generations website, the name "Nintendo" translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven". As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units.