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CALGARY - The federal government is no longer allowing employers linked to the sex trade to hire strippers, escorts and massage parlour workers from outside the country.
"Frankly this should have been done a long time ago," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday.
"Why would we grant visas to girls that we have a strong suspicion are going to end up under the thumb of a criminal gang being exploited and trafficked? We're not going after the women — we're protecting them from what they might not know will happen to them when they get to Canada."
Effective immediately, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada will issue negative labour market opinions for all applications from employers linked to the sex trade, effectively preventing them from hiring temporary foreign workers.
Also, as of July 14th, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will no longer process new work permit applications from temporary foreign workers intending to work for sex-trade-related businesses.
Kenney said those at highest risk of being exploited are young women, with poor language skills, who are likely to come from Asia or Eastern Europe expecting they will make their fortune when they come to Canada. He said Canada issued about 180,000 permits for foreign workers last year and estimates a "very small percentage" of those ended up working in the sex trade.
Kenney said that's a far cry from the hundreds of exotic dancers that were allowed in during the previous Liberal administration — "many of whom ended up in the sex trade being controlled by organized crime. It was known as the Liberal stripper program."
In 2004, then-immigration minister Judy Sgro was criticized for granting a temporary residence permit to an exotic dancer who had volunteered for her election campaign.
Kenney said there will be some exceptions. Properly certified therapeutic masseuses who are working in clinics will not be affected.
The new restrictions will apply to other businesses if there is a heightened risk of abuse or exploitation of workers.
"We know that human trafficking is a growing aspect of organized crime worldwide, including in Canada," Kenney said.
"The victims of human trafficking, who are mostly women and children, are denied a normal life and compelled to provide labour or sexual services through a variety of coercive practices, for the profit of their controllers."
The measure is part of the government's plan to combat human trafficking.
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It seems only fitting that my latest post for 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks be about my father, whose 94th birthday would have been this week. My father, Thomas Melvin Batchelor was born on February 16, 1920 in Hamtramck, Michigan – a small city next to Detroit.
He was two months premature and had head full of pale blonde hair that would soon turn into the flaming red hair he was known for in his youth – along with a million freckles.
According to my grandmother, the doctor who delivered my dad said, "If he makes it through the night, he's got a chance". Fighter that he was, Dad not only made it through that night, but went on to survive a childhood of poverty and illness during the Great Depression.
Even though he grew up without material things, Dad never talked about how bad things were. He always focused on the good from those days. His nickname back then was "Hamtramck Red" and boy did he have some great stories.
I remember how he used to tell us about wearing "welfare" plaid flannel shirts (the exact same shirt every other boy in school had too) and having to eat chicken toes so that no food went to waste. I've always wondered if he was just pulling my leg about that.
When Dad was about 12, he injured his leg in a fall on the ice. Not having money for a doctor, my grandmother took my father to a faith healer. Whatever the treatment was, Dad ended up with a serious bone infection.
Luckily for my father, one of their neighbors was a nurse and she intervened to make sure Dad got proper medical treatment. But it was grueling and landed him in a convalescent home for a year.
Remember, back then there were no antibiotics. The ongoing treatment required his doctors to cut his leg open to the bone and pack the wound with chlorine, as I recall. I can't imagine what this must have been like but Dad recovered although he had to wear a built-up shoe because the infection stunted the growth in his leg.
My father's disability never kept him from being a straight "A" student and graduating from high school with honors. Many years later, I recall Dad's extreme interest in every report card I brought home and his annual display of every one of his own report cards from the first through the twelfth grades. All "A"s and one "B"! My father was truly a tough act to follow but we sure did try.
Dad went on to major in art at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan with a full scholarship and according to him – 2 pairs of pants he wore all through college until they were shiny and paper-thin from being ironed so much.
During the time my father was in undergrad, my grandmother was working as the "help" for the dean of the Wayne State medical school. One day the dean asked Grandma what her son was studying in college and she replied that he was an art major.
Then the dean asked how Dad's grades were. My grandmother said, "Excellent." And that's when the dean said –
There's not much money to be made by a young colored man in art. Do you think he'd be interested in medicine?
In fact, my father was interested. He applied, was accepted and offered a full scholarship – again. But there was just one little problem. At that time, the medical school had a rule. They only accepted two African-American students in a class. And the class was full.
So Dad waited a year for his "Black" slot. He continued his studies, received his masters in pathology and taught at the university. When he was finally admitted to medical school, my dad's life was full steam ahead. During that time though, racial tensions were heating up in Detroit.
One summer afternoon in 1943 while he was in med school, Dad went out on a date to Belle Isle in Detroit. Belle Isle is a small island and public park in the middle of the river between Detroit and Windsor, Canada. It's connected to Detroit by a bridge – the only way on and off the island.
That evening the racial tensions in Detroit reached a boiling point when a riot between Blacks and White sailors from the nearby naval armory broke out on the Belle Isle bridge. My father was still on the island when all of the riot started. (Here's a separate post with more about his experience in the 1943 riots).
The sad news is that my father's leg was injured again in the violence that night. But Dad got patched up and went back to his medical school studies. In 1944, he met my mother, Alice Vivian Dickinson at a picnic given by friends. These two brilliant and attractive people fell in love and married in 1945.
While my father finished medical school, Mom taught school. They had great plans for the future that were unfortunately derailed by an unexpected roadblock.
Dad was suffering from a persistent bone infection in his leg from his injury in the 1943 riots. Antibiotics still weren't widely available and he'd have to do another year of treatment in the convalescent home. Here he was in his last year of medical school with a coveted internship waiting, a new wife – and someone was telling him to sit on the sidelines.
Well Dad's response to this was –
No way!
Instead he made the decision to have the doctors amputate. Nothing was going to stand in the way of my father achieving his goals – not even his own leg!
Dad sped through his recovery and graduated with honors in the top 10% of his class – or so he thought. It wasn't until he retired from the practice of medicine many years later, that my father learned he had actually graduated first in his class – an honor we believe was denied him because of his race.
After medical school, my father and two other Black physicians built their first clinic in Detroit. That was the beginning of my dad's long career that would span 54 years of practice. Here's a photo taken at the opening of the Conant Gardens Medical Clinic –
I was the eldest of my parent's three children and I still claim to be my father's favorite. I'm sure my sister, Paula and brother, Thomas would argue that point! The truth is that he loved and inspired us all.
The 83 years of my father's life weren't easy. But he never let anything get in the way – racism, illness, poverty or the lack of confidence that he could do what he set his mind to. Dad lived a life filled with a unique blend of amazing goals, great achievements, laughter and wisdom that never seems to end, even though he passed away on October 24, 2002.
My father wanted to be cremated and we honored his wishes. Dad's ashes are interred next to my mother's at the Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan –
For those of us who knew him – and the generations to follow, my father left a rich legacy of wonderful memories, family history and life lessons; the most important one being that anything is possible. My dad's faith in "possibilities" was passed down to me and continues to be the beacon that lights my way through life.
I love you, Dad. Always, always.


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幽霊とは、死後あの世へ渡らなかった霊体の事であり、それに依る憑依は非常に惨めな、そして時には真に悲劇的な経験に繋がります。様々な理由があってこの現象は起きますが、主に以下の様な理由で起きます ー
1. 幽霊は人に負の感情の噴出から深い鬱症状迄、強い双極性の感情障害を惹き起こします。幽霊が憑くと、攻撃的になったり、暴力を振るったり等、その人らしからぬ行動パターンが出てきます。もし、憑かれた人に元からその様な性癖があったなら、幽霊に依ってその部分が助長されます。
2. 憑依した幽霊は大抵、宿主に自殺又は、殺人を示唆します。
3. 幽霊は人の精神に強い影響を及ぼし、精神病を惹き起こします。私は、殆どの精神病は人の中に入り込んだ幽霊が原因であると言っても過言では無いと思っています。
4. 幽霊の影響は人の挙動にも現れてアルコールや薬物の依存症又は、他の好ましからぬ素行へと人を導いて行きます。
5. 幽霊の持つ疾患は時として、取り憑かれた宿主にも現れる事があります。
この事については、私の著書である『幽霊に依る憑依〜21世紀の除霊』と、(未だ英語版は出版されていませんが) 四冊、二千ページから成る『人生の車輪の中で』、そして最新の『真実を知って自由になる』で詳しく解説しております。
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14.05.2015 Wrote user Johnk929
I am very glad to see such excellent info being shared freely out there.
13.01.2012 Wrote user J
The symptoms you describe above are accurate. There are people who don't think about suicide, but some force or urge disrupts their mind. Unexplained aggression and violence are good signs to pinpoint ghost possession. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for all you do and have done for my family and myself. Go with Gods Speed
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I believe that Wanda's wisdom and gifts will truly revolutionize the world as we know it, as well as save mankind from the terrible holocaust of pain and suffering that the majority of us have and are currently experiencing. What a revelation!!! Bless you Wanda and may God protect you and shower you with all the blessings you deserve!
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Dear Wanda, I've heard more about you than just your book. I think you're a brilliant healer and spiritual guide... Keep saving those babies!
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02.09.2008 Wrote user exorcisme.catholique
Very good sister! God bless you!
20.08.2008 Wrote user catholic_girl
This article is very interesting, please keep on writing I want to know more. Thanks for the info!
14.08.2008 Wrote user sorasonorei
I totally agree with you.
22.05.2008 Wrote user Stellar
This is a wonderful service to the thousands of human beings suffering from unknown causes which can't be detected or diagnosed by conventional medicine or other professionals. I was greatly impressed some years ago, when at the Holy Mass, the priest said: "Let us pray for all those who suffer from mental illnesses which in the time of our Lord Jesus Christ was said to be possessed by evil spirits". - all answered: "Lord hear our Prayers"
19.02.2008 Wrote user Sher
Very good website. Tells it like it is!
11.09.2007 Wrote user kyles
I really believe this and i think more people should as well because it does happen to people and they should be more open minded
15.05.2007 Wrote user mminard200
I believe this to be very true, especially concerning alcohol and drug addiction. Carry on my Friend. I believe in bad spirits or spirits who need a living body to inhabit...
06.12.2006 Wrote user Laurence
Right on! It is nice to see that there are still some open minded individuals left in the world not afraid to embrace the truth.
10.09.2004 Wrote user Christian
I am not a real supernatural type of person, but lately I think my opinion is rapidly changing. I fall asleep and have these terrible nightmares and wake up stiff. I know that is a normal condition for some people, but there is more... I feel something, strong, alive, and its next to me even though I can't see it I feel it. What advise can you give me, so I don't have to overdose on sleeping pills anymore?
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Please contact our office per email so that we can answer the question whether your problems are connected with the existence of ghosts in your life or not.
09.09.2004 Wrote user angbarajas
This is so interesting, I'm glad I came upon your website! For almost a year I've been having pains inside my stomach area, depression, bad mood, lack of energy, severe weight gain without reason and the list goes on.... I've gone to several doctors and been tested for several things and they can never find anything wrong with me, so that led me to believe aside from my other experiences, that I'm being possessed and not sure by whom. Most of my life I've had ghosts experiences and still have them almost daily. Sorry for this comment being so long, I'm going to look into your book, I've been searching for answers for a very long time.
09.09.2004 Wrote user leon
Yes I agree, I have had 20 years experience in this field.
08.09.2004 Wrote user John
I think that I am possessed and I need help. I went to the bathroom today and took a bowel movement and when I glanced into the toilet bowl afterward the feces were a revolting and unnatural bright green color. After that I realized that I had not been feeling good that day. I have heard that demons can cause sickness and am worried for myself. I don't know anybody so I don't know who to talk to about this and I am scared.
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04.09.2004 Wrote user Tara
Hi, I seriously need help. I am trying to sell my house but this thing (ghost) won't allow it ! Every time I go on holiday it plays up and my family that look after my house for me see it ! My husband has seen it - there is a woman and a man. Can you help please?
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26.08.2004 Wrote user Benika
Thanks so much for letting me know the truth of the outside world!
15.08.2004 Wrote user Kate
Thank you so much. This info was a help.
10.08.2004 Wrote user karmacal
My friend is totally possessed. That's why I am visiting this site to find help for her. It is so obvious that she has been possessed... She has had about 30 close friends and relatives die around her in the last 5 years. Her home is full of many entities (they don't like me) I know they are there! She and I have witnessed many strange phenomena there...
09.07.2004 Wrote user sushi_warashi
I really believe on it.
04.07.2004 Wrote user thuggy
Well I have a problem. I have a ghost that I have dreams about and yet he also comes through me when I get severly mad at a point of time. Sometimes I dont even have to be mad. He just comes through anyway and he causes my friends and family to be scared at certain times in the actions that occur. Do you have any advice for me? Anything would help. He also has been known to come through when a certain word or thing happens and my friend tells me what just happened when I come to myself. He is not really mean just VERY persuasive and he only gets mad when something bad happens or something that makes HIM mad. WHAT DO I DO? ANY ADVICE WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED! PLEASE HELP ASAP.
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Karl Blossfeldt: Working Collages
From a printer's standpoint one of the more interesting aspects is the ability to pry into another's contact sheets. They have their way of leveling the playing field. Even the greatest of practitioners fail over 95 percent of the time but even so, the near misses can be sobering - just check out the 80 some of Robert Frank's contacts reproduced in the Looking In tome from the National Gallery.
I have students who, after developing film the first few times on their own, jump straight to prints without making a contact - editing from the negatives. In my experience, the worst photographs look the best as negatives and vice versa so the contact is always a necessity and not only as a record of images. Gilles Peress used to say that they allow the ability to "recreate the walk;" a way of following process and perhaps understanding instincts, allowing potential insight for honing. I like that idea that contacts represent not only a chain of images but the ebb and flow of instinct. Even some things can be gleaned from bad photographs. Some, like myself however, guard their contacts as if secreting away a stash of porn - as if chance viewing by another would amount to being exposed, risk embarrassment, or discovered to be a fraud.
There are many uses for contact prints and a book I recently picked up examines a mysterious set of 61 "working collages" - essentially reconfigured contact sheets from the grandfather of German New Objectivity, Karl Blossfeldt. Karl Blossfeldt: Working Collages published by MIT in 2001 presents all of these sheets offering a new way of perceiving his life's work.
These sheets are mysterious because Blossfeldt during his lifetime apparently never mentioned their existence to anyone let alone explain his method or intended use. They are not typical contact sheets on the whole but cut up and reorganized groupings of his now famous plant studies. From a historical standpoint, many questions arise; were these used to categorize various species or types (not always)? Were they used to coordinate negatives and prints (the numeric notations belie this)? Were they used to create a working model for planning books (could be)? Or, as the essayist Ulrike Meyer Stump asks, "could they be showing us a forerunner of conceptual art?"
Created between 1926 and 1928, the "collages" contain all of the images that later appeared in Art Forms in Nature, his book from 1928. The numeric systems and notes often contradict the various theories as to their intended use. The thought that these represent types is sketchy since Blossfeldt often dissected his specimens into unnatural shape and form, he didn't seem as interested in finding archetypal plant life. From this we may presume compared to the final images that these sheets reveal groupings which might be reducing the objects down to their most basic decorative design.
Seeing these apart from guessing Blossfeldt's intentions, the sheets, like in other grid systems, force the individual images to give way to formal arrangement and more sculptural dimensions. We are much less interested in the subjects but with the new order and effect of the system that has taken over. The visual experience taken as a whole brings to mind scrapbooks and other imperfect orderings or material where there is both elements of the personal mixed with the public. They tease our desire to make sense of method - why some are cyanotype and others are in sepia - and at the same time we accept the whole as a beautiful and unique unified work of light and shade, form and content set upon a cardboard backdrop.
Richter had his Atlas and Lewitt his photogrids. Divorced from their practicalities, sketchbooks, guides for process, source material reveal undeniable works of art. This book begs the question of where that "art" first appeared.


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Vivarium isn't a fun watch, and not just because it's generally claustrophobic and insistently bleak.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Chaz Ebert essay about the cancellation of Ebertfest 2020 and presenting an exclusive video of Ebertfest 2019.
A whimsical ode to the comic book character She-Hulk, who will be receiving her own Disney+ series.
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Recommendations from Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho about films other than Parasite that represent the best in modern South Korean film.
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Named after the David Cronenberg film, this is the blog of former RogerEbert.com editor Jim Emerson, where he has chronicled his enthusiasms and indulged his whims since 2005. Favorite subjects include evidence-based movie criticism, cinematic form and style, comedy, logical reasoning, language, journalism, technology, epistemology and fun. No topic is off-limits, but critical thinking is required.
"Skyfall" is a theatrical film in the same way that its director, Sam Mendes, is a theatrical filmmaker. That is, its approach to organizing space for an audience (the camera lens) is noticeably stagey. I mean that in a "value-neutral" way. I just mean the frame is frequently used as a proscenium and the images are action-tableaux deployed for a crowd -- whether it's the designated audience surrogates in the movie (bystanders or designated dramatis personae), or the viewers in the seats with the cup-holders. That's not to say it's uncinematic (it's photographed by the great Roger Deakins!), but many of the set-pieces in "Skyfall" are conceived and presented as staged performance pieces.
I packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour, 9 a.m. And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then. -- Elton John & Bernie Taupin, "Rocket Man" (1972)
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. Others see it more like "action painting," and we've seen a lot of discussion in recent years about what J. Hoberman and others have called "post-photographic cinema," in which computers have replaced cameras, and animation has replaced photography, as the primary means of creating images on a screen. (Hoberman: "With the advent of CGI, the history of motion pictures was now, in effect, the history of animation.") "Flight" is Robert Zemeckis's return to live-action photography for the first time since "Cast Away" (2000), after a series of IMAX 3D animated adventures: "The Polar Express" (2004), "Beowulf" (2001) and "A Christmas Carol" (2007). It's also a return to making movies aimed at an adult audience -- and one that proved to be a different, and more interesting, than the movie I'd seen advertised in the trailer.
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I sure do miss David Lynch movies. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, when he appeared as Jack Dall, the CBS late-night talk show producer and relative of his FBI man Gordon Cole, on a couple episodes of "Louie," and again when I read this piece by Roger Ebert about movies and meanings, featuring the fantastic interview clip (from the Japanese DVD of "Mulholland Dr."), below. Lynch hasn't made a movie since his deeply disturbing internal epic "INLAND EMPIRE" in 2006. Lynch works in multiple media, and in 2011 released his "debut solo album" with the delightful title of "Crazy Clown Time," the title song for which accompanied by a hellish video that would not have been out of place in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (the Road House after-party, perhaps), "Lost Highway" or any number of other Lynchian nightmares.
Oh my. Here we go again with all the deathiness. Movie criticism keeps dying deader and deader. Film itself has keeled over and given up the ghost. Cinema ist kaput, and at the end of last month "movie culture" was pronounced almost as deceased as John Cleese's parrot. Ex-parrot, I mean. Then the movie "Looper" came out, posing questions like: "What if you could go back in time? Would you kill cinema?" Or something like that.
People, this dying has gotta stop.
Is "Room 237" some kind of crazy joke? Rick Ascher's much-discussed "subjective documentary" features five people who present their theories/interpretations of the "hidden meanings" they say they've found in the rooms and corridors of Stanley Kubrick's Overlook Hotel, the setting of his chilly 1980 horror film, "The Shining." I'm asking a question; I don't know the answer. I haven't yet had the opportunity to see the picture, which has played a number of festivals (Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, NY, London, Karlovy Vary) and has been picked up by IFC Films and is slated for release in 2013. I have seen Ascher's 2010 short, "The S from Hell," however, which the "Room 237" web site says "in many ways laid the groundwork" for the new film. That one is satire.
The story of Ben Affleck's "Argo" concerns the real-life rescue of six fugitive American embassy employees from Ayatollah "Salman Rushdie Fatwa" Khomeini's Iran in 1980. The Canadian ambassador, Ken Taylor, hid them in his home until they were smuggled out of the country 79 days after the takeover of the embassy by Iranian militants. But the movie is more substantially interested in the nature of movies themselves, and how stories get turned into them. Since its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, "Argo" has been praised as "a crackerjack thriller" (the kind of argot movie reviewers use) and criticized for downplaying the Canadians' considerable efforts and not being, you know, "historically accurate. I'm sore-y, we know it's Based On A True Story and all, but that's not really what this movie is aboot.
Maybe it's a DC vs. Marvel thing. But it's all over the Internet: Wally Pfister, ASC, BSC, the Oscar-winning cinematographer best-known for his work with director Christopher Nolan (the "Dark Knight" movies, "The Prestige," "Inception") took a swipe at rival superhero blockbuster "The Avengers," while admitting that he doesn't much care for the genre anyway. In an interview with the Sarasota Herald Tribune, Pfister was asked "What's most important in shooting a film?" He responded with... something that has since been removed from the newspaper's website but still shows up in the Google Cached version (screenshot below):
Everything reminds me of movies. And movies remind me of everything. My life has been divided into roughly three states of consciousness: the time I've spent awake; the time I've spent asleep (and dreaming); the time I've spent in-between, in the dark, inhabiting movie-worlds. They're all essential, holistic components of what you might call my Total Life Experience. And I find that in some respects they all run together, aspects of one seeping into another: images, patterns, metaphors... So, when I read this re-evaluation of the new Apple iPhone 5 -- the feel of the thing -- it struck me as also being about a quality of certain movies that we don't discuss very often.
Everybody knows that murder has no statute of limitations. So although it may seem a little late to bring criminal charges against George W. Bush for his conduct in office, the evidence against him is is overwhelming and undisputed. The facts aren't in question, but now that he's no longer president the matter of what to do about them remain: How should he and his administration be held accountable for their deceit? Should Bush be prosecuted? Who has the jurisdiction to do so? And what are the proper charges? Vincent Bugliosi, the celebrated prosecutor who convicted Charles Manson, believes Bush should be tried for murder. And from the sound of it, he'd rather have a beer with Manson.


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Many law schools forgive the loans of students who serve in public interest or non-profit positions. For more information, contact Equal Justice Works. The American Bar Association (ABA) also has a summary of Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAP), Directory of Law School Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAP) and State Loan Repayment Assistance Programs.
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The US National Institutes of Health's NIH Loan Repayment Programs repays up to $35,000/year of student loan debt for US citizens who are conducting clinical medical research.
The US Department of Agriculture's Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP) offers loan forgiveness of $25,000 per year for three years for veterinarians who commit to work in a veterinary shortage area for three years.
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The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) maintains a database of state and other loan repayment programs for medical school students.
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See the US Department of Education's pages on Cancellation/Deferment Options for Teachers. Also, the US Department of Education maintains a database of low-income schools eligible for teacher loan cancellation for Perkins and Stafford loans.
Visit the HRSA web site for information on Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program
The Federal Student Loan Repayment Program allows federal agencies to establish loan forgiveness programs to help recruit and retain employees. This is technically a loan repayment program and not a loan forgiveness program, as the agencies make payments directly to the loan holder and the payments represent taxable income to the employee. The agencies can repay up to $10,000 in Federal student loans per employee per calendar year, with a cumulative maximum of $60,000 per employee.
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Chicago-based Groupon reported a fourth-quarter adjusted loss of 5 cents a share on $638.3 million in revenue. Analysts polled by
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Included in the adjusted loss was a loss of 7 cents a share from discontinued items, making the net loss attributable to shareholders 12 cents a share.
The main culprit driving the net loss to shareholders was a 61% decline in operating cash flow. Operating cash flows during the fourth quarter were $65.7 million, compared to $169.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Free cash flow fell 83% year over year to $25.7 million. At the end of the quarter, Groupon had $1.2 billion in net cash and cash equivalents.
CEO Andrew Mason tried to put a positive spin on the results. "Record billings growth this quarter is a clear signal that customers love Groupons," he said, in the release. "We will continue to invest in growth through 2013 as we see new opportunities to give our customers what they want."
The company provided first-quarter guidance that was sharply below Wall Street expectations. It expects sales to be between $560 million and $610 million, a year-over-year increase of between 0% and 9%. Wall Street analysts are expecting $647.7 million. Operating (loss) income for the first quarter 2013 is expected to be between $(10) million and $10 million, compared with $39.6 million in the first quarter 2012.
Groupon did note that operating income is expected to increase year-over-year in 2013, but did not say by how much. The company will hold a conference call at 5 P.M. EST to discuss the results.
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Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still," which runs Aug. 16 to Sept. 15 at Hartford's TheaterWorks, began on a Metro-North train trip from Connecticut to Manhattan.
The Brooklyn-born playwright, who has made New Haven his home for the past 30 years, was having trouble moving forward on a script he was writing. Margulies decided it was time to clear his head. He took out his spiral Japanese notebook, and, without knowing where it would lead, wrote two words: "A loft."
"Then I began to ask questions such as 'Who lives here?' " said the 58-year-old playwright over a recent luncheon interview at a New Haven cafe. "I imagined that a photographer lived on the loft. Then I thought, 'What if it was a woman photographer and what if she covers conflict and what if she's been injured covering conflict and is returning home?' By the time I reached Grand Central Terminal I had already the setting, the characters and had even cast it."
The play premiered at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles before making it to Broadway in 2010 in a production that starred Laura Linney, who received a Tony Award nomination along with Margulies for best play. Also in the cast were Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone. Daniel Sullivan, Margulies' frequent collaborator, directed. It has since been one of the most produced plays in regional theaters. The TheaterWorks' production, staged by artistic director Rob Ruggiero is its Connecticut's bow. It features Erika Rolfsrud, Tim Altmeyer, Matthew Boston and Liz Holtan.
At first glance it might seem like a play brimming with au courant issues: returning war wounded, the responsibility of journalists, the mess in the Mideast.
But at the play's center is the subject that is a large part of Margulies work: Marriage.
The show could be seen as the third four-character play in what could be described as his "relationship trilogy" that includes "Sight Unseen" and his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner with Friends."
"It's a love story more than it is any expose about modern journalism. That just happens to be the setting and the world of these people."
At the play's beginning James is easing Sarah's arrival home into their loft apartment in Brooklyn. Sarah had recently been horribly injured and defaced while covering Iraq. James, a journalist, had also felt the wounds of war, suffering a breakdown there and returning to the U.S. — before Sarah's accident.
Their uneasy relationship is in contrast to their good friend Richard — Sarah's former lover and mentor, who is also a photo editor at a magazine — and his new and much younger girlfriend and their happiness.
As Charles Isherwood writes in the New York Times: "The new play explores the relationship between two couples at a crucial juncture in their lives, when their desire to move forward clashes with the instinct to stay comfortably — or even uncomfortably — in place."
Another theme also threads itself in this and other of Margulies plays: The role of the artist-observer and the conundrum in finding him or herself isolated from others
"It's something that's always interested me. In [the 2005 play] 'Brooklyn Boy' Eric [the novelist-protagonist] goes home to Brooklyn and encounters a childhood friend who is very ambivalent about his having been used by Eric in the novel that catapulted him to fame. His friend both loves that he's been immortalized this way but also feels violated and exploited."
The same theme echoes in "Collected Stories," "Sight Unseen" and again in "Time Stands Still."
"I've had a very long career — more than 30 years— and these things occur even without my being aware of it," says Margulies. " Many of my protagonists are artists in one form or another, whether it's Sarah in "Time Stands Still" or Jonathan who is an artist in "Sight Unseen" or Eric in "Brooklyn Boy." ' It seems to be a role I'm drawn to over and over again. How do you reconcile your role of the observer/chronicler with being a moral citizen at the same time?"
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Margulies also has two major revivals slated for the 2013-14 off-Broadway season: "The Model Apartment" goes into rehearsal at the end of August at Primary Stages, the theater that originally produced it 18 years ago. It will be directed by Evan Cabnet, who staged Margulies' "Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself)" at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre several seasons back. The play centers on two Holocaust survivors who embark on what they hope will be a peaceful retirement in Florida. Margulies said in an earlier interview that the play is about "the legacies that parents instill in their children."
At the beginning of the year, the Roundabout Theatre Company also will produce a revival of his "Dinner with Friends" at the Laura Pels Theatre, directed by Pam MacKinnon, who earned a Tony Award for her staging of last season's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."
Last month Margulies was at Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Massachusetts Berkshires working on his new play, "The Country House," which is set in Williamstown. It will first have its premiere at the Geffen Playhouse and then play at New York's Manhattan Theatre Club — Margulies' Manhattan artistic home for decades — for the 2014-15 season. Sullivan will direct the new work.
"It's my Chekhovian pastoral," he says. "It's centered on a contemporary theatrical family who has summered for 40 years in Williamstown and I'm really proud of it. It's a pastiche of Chekhovian archetypes with my own resonance.
He is working on the book of his first Broadway-bound musical based on the film, "Father of the Bride" for Disney Theatricals. Joshua Schmidt (off-Broadway's "The Adding Machine") is the composer on the project with lyrics by Michael Korie (Broadway's "Grey Gardens") and direction by Bartlett Sher (Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza"). The show is currently "in development."
"The very process of being in a room with other people is new to me," he says.. "It still requires some adjustment.:"
Also on tap — and still in development — is his adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Middlesex" into a five-hour mini-series for HBO. There is also another film project in the works that he said was premature to discuss.
After three decades in the Elm City, is there a New Haven play in his future?
"Well, 'Dinner With Friends' is set in Connecticut though not specifically in my home here," he says. "And in 'The Country House' the young woman is a Yale student who gets a ride from New Haven to Williamstown. But there may be. I don't know. But New Haven is definitely part of my writing world.
"I think the decision to build a life here — and not New York — [with his physician-wife Lynn Street and son Miles, 21, now in college] was a really seminal and very smart choice. My social circle is not just theater people. It's much more eclectic, more academic, with friends with a wide range of occupations and interests. I think it's been very good for me. New Haven has been a very good place in which to work."
"TIME STANDS STILL'' is in previews and opens Friday, Aug. 16 at TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St. in Hartford. The show runs through Sept. 15. Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 to $63. Pay what you can Wednesday is on Aug. 14. Student rush tickets are $17. Seniors pay $35 at Saturday matinees. Information: 860-527-7838 and www.theaterworkshartford.org.
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The addition of mung bean sprouts made in your own kitchen really fills out this meal. I did a bit of research, and I found this post rather helpful. My method was to rinse and soak the mung beans overnight. Then I transfered the beans to a stainer, covered with plastic wrap, placed over a bowl, and put them in a cool place on my cupboard. I washed the with cold water every 8 to 12 hours, being careful not to shake up the beans, and replaced the plastic wrap. I repeated this for 4 days and ended up with tender, plump and delicious home-sprouted mung beans ready to eat.
Raw vegetables and herbs are such a treat and pair so well with these fried pancakes. The sauce is simply divine. And yes, mushrooms too. I shared with friends but I was tempted to be greedy and eat these all myself.
I am sharing this with Jac's Bookmarked Recipes, an event started by Ruth's Kitchen Experiments. I am also submitting this to May's My Legume Love Affair, a truly popular event started by lovely Susan of The Well Seasoned Cook and hosted this month by Priya of Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes. We can never have enough delicious recipes including a healthy dose of legumes.
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|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes From London's Ottolenghi
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Published on May 2, 2012
An astonishingly delicious light savory Vietnamese pancake stuffed with raw vegetables, herbs and mushrooms, and served drizzled with a fragrant spicy light sauce — Bánh Xèo (literally "sizzling cake") is an extraordinary dinner to serve special guests
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Note on making mung bean sprouts at home: Rinse mung beans and soak overnight in water. Drain and transfer to a strainer, cover with plastic wrap, and place over a bowl. Store in a cool place and rinse every 8 to 12 hours with cold water for 4 days, replacing the plastic wrap after every rinse. Rise gently without shaking the beans. You may also want to line the strainer with cheese cloth.
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Quinoa and White Bean Salad with Wasabi and Roasted Asparagus
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
We have already published some interesting findings about the power usage of the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics cards when used for crypto mining and recently we have built a 6-card GTX 750 Ti mining rig. We have taken some time to also measure the power usage of the individual cards as well as the total power usage of the whole system in order to give you some additional details about what you can expect in terms of power consumption from such a mining rig. We have used Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti video cards (N75TOC-2GI) that do have an external onboard PCI-E power connector and we started by measuring the total power that goes to a single video card both trough the PCI-E slot as well as through the external PCI-E power connector with the help of a watt meter that is attached directly to the power lines going to the video card (using a powered extender).
As you can see on the photo the total power used by the video card is about 31W (with the card running at +135 MHz for the GPU and + 610 MHz for the video memory). Note that this power measurement is on the 12V line from the PSU going to the video card, so it does not take into account the power efficiency of the power supply and as a result the total power used by the video card from the mains will be higher by something like 15-20% (depending on the PSU). Note that we have used a powered PCI-E extender with USB 3.0 cable for the data lanes. This extender takes all the power provided to the PCI-E slot of the video card through a 4-pin molex connector and supplies both the 12V and the 3.3V power that the card uses drawing only power from the 12V line (there is a voltage regulator to output 3.3V from the 12V input on the extender's board). So what the wat tmeter shows is the total power going from the PSU to the video card and in the case of the Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti it was 31W. Again the total power usage from the mains will be higher as this measurement does not take into account the power efficiency when converting 220V/110V to 12V.
So what is the situation with the total power usage per GTX 750 Ti video card from the mains? The easiest way to check that is to measure using a watt meter connected between a power socket and the power supply of the computer the total power consumption of the system with 6 cards and then disconnect one card and to measure again. The difference we got using this method was about 79W, though this is not for the video card only as it also affects a bit the overall power consumption of the whole system. Also note that the measured 374 Watt for the 5-card and 453 Watts with the 6-card setup are with the video cards overclocked to +135 MHz/+610 MHz. The results we've got with the cards running at the stock frequency were 367W with 5-cards and 432W with 6 cards or a 65W difference per card (total power used from the mains). This difference of 14 watts between stock and overclocked frequencies brings roughly about 40 KHS more in terms of hashrate for Scrypt mining (per card). Have in mind that our power supply used had an efficiency rating of about 80-85%, so this means that 15-20% of the total power used at the mains is actually wasted in the conversion between 220V/110V and 12V.
Another interesting thing that we have noticed while testing the power usage and overclocking capabilities of the 6-card GeForce GTX 750 Ti mining rig was the total power consumption that we got for the system with the power target limit changed from the standard setting of 38.5W to the 65.5W. The watt meter showed an increase of power from the 453W with the 38.5W power target limit to 556W with the 65.5W power limit – about 100W increase with the same operating frequencies with a slight increase in performance of about 90 KHS total from the 6 cards or roughly a bit over 1W per KHS and in our opinion this is not worth the extra increase in power usage, so raising the power limit may not always be a good idea!
Today we have built a 6-card mining rig using Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti (N75TOC-2GI) video cards that are based on the latest Nvidia Maxwell architecture promising very good performance for mining with low power usage. Our own initial tests of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti as a single card for mining have shown very promising results as well, so we've decided to see what we can expect from a mining rig and put together 6 cards with PCI-E x1-x1 extenders on an AsRock H81 Pro BTC motherboard with Intel Celeron G1820 CPU and 4GB of RAM running Windows 7.
The result we've got from the 6-card mining rig for mining Scrypt with CUDAminer was a total of 1480 KHS as hashrate. Then after overclocking the video cards to the maximum stable result we managed to get (+135 MHz for the GPU and +610 MHz for the video memory) we've managed to increase the total hashrate to about 1615 KHS. We went as far as to increase the power target limit from the default 38.5W by modifying the video BIOS of the cards. With the modified video BIOS we have managed to get slightly more than 1700 KHS with a lot of extra power used by the whole system that made it not worth it the so little extra increase in the hashrate. Just to be sure that the x1-x1 PCI-E risers (not powered) might be the cause of slight performance drop we've replaced them with x1-x16 USB 3.0 powered extenders, though that did not change the performance we got from the cards.
The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti video cards we used for the mining rig do have an external PCI-E power connector, however it seems that unlike AMD graphics with OpenCL, when using Nvidia-based GPUs with CUDA for mining the use of a x1 PCI-E lane to access the video card does introduce slight performance drop and if you multiply the 10-15 KHS less per card for a 6-card mining rig it is not so little. So it is important to know that if you are going to build a GTX 750 Ti-based mining rig you will be getting slightly lower hashrate if you are using PCI-E extenders as compared to what you will get with cards inserted in x16 PCI-E slot directly. Also there is some variation between cards in terms of the maximum overclock supported that results in different maximum frequencies that you can achieve, for example if one card is able to do +135/+700 MHz for the GPU/VRAM the second one could be maximum +100/+600. This means that in a 6-card mining rig you will need to either sync all of the cards and use the same lower settings for overclocking the GPUs to ensure they will run stable or to not have the settings synced and find the maximum for each of the cards.
Another interesting thing we have noticed is that while the use of T5x24 kernel for a single card with CUDAminer for best results, for a 6-card mining rig the use of T10x24 might sometimes provide slightly higher hashrate than T5x24, so you should try with both and see what works better in your individual case. Tomorrow we are going to be doing some more testing of the 6-card GTX 750 Ti mining rig that will be focused mostly on the power consumption as this is also a very important thing when talking about crypto currency mining.


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A recent study by Ohio State researchers has concluded that air pollution may be one of the causes of obesity. A few months ago, we wrote about the link between soot and diabetes; Since obesity often leads to diabetes, this finding comes as no surprise.
The study found that young mice exposed to air pollution had higher blood sugar levels, larger fat cells, and more fat cells in their abdominal area than a control group of young mice on the same diet, who were not exposed to air pollution. Inflammation and changes in fat cells both increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes.
Even more frightening is the finding that air pollution may also increase the risk of autism…
At first glance, the results of this study seem to discount personal responsibility as a factor. After all, we can try to eat healthy and exercise, but if air pollution turns out to be the main culprit, then in the end, there's not much we can do, right?
The majority of Americans spend most of their time indoors. Protecting the air you breathe starts in the home and office environments. You can help fight obesity by eating healthy, exercising, and changing your AC filters regularly. Make sure you use high-efficiency furnace filters to capture those really small particles circulating through your HVAC system. The best place to buy air filters? Why, Filters Fast, of course. 😉


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Oil and gas field inspection ensures the safety of pressurized equipment while minimizing oil and gas operating company downtime by finding and repairing problems before catostrophic failure. There are inspection and audit activities that ensure companies are following their programs while the companies benefit from minimizing lost profits. They also promote the minimization of environmental impact by preventing unplanned releases of chemical and petroleum products. The largest area of inspecion activities conducted are around corrosion, identifying corrosion, root cause analyisis of failure due to corrosion, and various mechanical impacts upon operating equipment. There is an organization on the web NACE.org or North American Society of Corrosion Engineers or Google Corrosion Doctors that may give a few more ideas. If you need to picture a gas plant or pressure vessels just think of the chemical plants on the east coast of the US or those plants Tony Saprano drives by in the opening credits.
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This may emcompass some esoteric qualities meeting pratical engineering type practicallity. British Petroleum's Beyond petrol and harm no one (a wiccan tenant) are a brilliant mix of this concept. An avatar is a representation of one's self on the internet. This company is a small two person show so it very much is a representation of ourselves, and our work will be our emassary. In eastern religions an avatar is an incarnation of god or gods with some suggestion of crossing over to the spirit world. That being said the customer base is a very practically minded or scientifcally skeptical bunch with their heads in real impact and budget sheets. Our clients won't tolerate new age fluff directly. It has to appeal to their emotions without them being aware of it.
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If you sometimes use old GTK1 apps (like xmms), you probably know they don't look nice. This is because they use ugly default theme. To change it, you need to:
- download and install some nice theme
- change the theme
Some nice themes are in [extra]. To install it:
# pacman -S gtk-smooth-engine
To change the theme you can use gtk-theme-switch:
# pacman -S gtk-theme-switch
then run it with 'switch' command. That's all. Isn't it better looking now? :)
GTK2 Apps
For GTK2 apps (e.g. Pidgin), methods to change theme include:
gtk-chtheme or
gtk2_prefs. There is also
lxappearance, a DE independent configuration tool from the LXDE project. It doesn't require any other parts of LXDE. So once you have made your mind do one of the following:
# pacman -S gtk-theme-switch2 # pacman -S gtk-chtheme # pacman -S gtk2_prefs # pacman -S lxappearance
You probably would like to install some themes too. The popular Clearlooks theme is included within the
gtk-engines package:
# pacman -S gtk-engines
Further themes can be found in AUR e.g. by
# yaourt -Ss gtk-theme gtk2-theme
Now run either
switch2 or
gtk-chtheme or
gtk2_prefs, depending on what you chose before and change the theme to your liking.
If you want to change the icon theme of GTK2 Applications, then you have to modify or add in the file
~/.gtkrc-2.0 the following line (here the icon theme is set to Tango):
gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango" ...more gtk2 settings...
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Tee Collins was an animator who created several animated skits or Sesame Street, notably Wanda the Witch, Nancy the Nanny Goat, and the "X-Xylophone" skit. He recalled that "it was hard to come up with a happy word for X."[1]
Collins, born in Harlem, was the first African-American animator to establish his own studio in New York. He produced television commercials, notably the Piel's Beer commercials starring Bert and Harry Piel. When queried by Phyllis Feinstein for the 1971 book All About Sesame Street as to how he enjoyed his Sesame Street work in contrast to commercial advertising, Collins' response was, "Great! Everything you do doesn't have to come out at precisely 58 seconds as most TV commercials do. You have more latitude, much more freedom."


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I was lucky enough to be nominated by the great Leslie – THANK YOU ❤ If you haven't already, you should definitely check out her blog BOOKS ARE THE NEW BLACK.
- Thank the blogger who nominated you by linking their blog.
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- Nominate 11 blogs with 11 questions.
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Most anticipated book coming out?
Well, until three days ago I was so excited for Two Kingdoms to be released. But after devouring it in a few hours, I'm now focusing all my attention into hoping & praying, that Queen Takes Checkmate (the last book in the Their Vampire Queen) is coming soon. And of course, One Apocalypse (the last book in the Dark Side series).
Your favorite book of the year, so far?
Well, I have to agree with Ned Stark on this one. I cannot just choose one book, one series or even, one author. My mind simply doesn't work like that. But some of my favourite series, that I've discovered this year is:
Last book that made you ugly cry?
That would be Just Be You. This gay romance is so hauntingly beautiful. It made me cry and had me feel like, my heart was shattering into a million pieces.
Name two books that you would/do recommend to everyone?
Locked modern spin on the fairy tale Rapunzel, with the added bonus of her having her own hot harem.
Four Psychos absolutely amazing for anyone who enjoy a sassy, snarky, funny and kick-ass female lead.
Show me a picture of your bookshelf!
I cannot do that! We recently moved and due to the seriously old walls, they couldn't hold my books 😦 so, I need to get one of those standing-shelves-thingy, which IKEA promised to deliver two weeks ago. Needless to say, that my books are all sad and on top of that, they're still packed in boxes.
Three words to describe what books mean to you.
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Okay, maybe not meant quite so literally. But it's hard to describe the things you love, or at least it is for me.
Your favorite book friendship?
The majority of books I read are romance books, so any friendships are usually between main and secondary characters, unless it's friends-to-lovers. But I think I have to mention again. The friendship between Scott & Marshall is almost as beautiful, as their relationship.
Have you discovered a new author that you loved, this year?
I've discovered quite a few:
- Eva Chase
- Joely Sue Burkhart
- C.M. Stunich
- C.M. Owens and her other pen name Kristy Cunning
Bookmarks or dog-ears?
I'm guilty of dog-earing my books even though, I totally think bookmarks are the better option. Lately, most of my reading have been done on my tablet or phone which only leaves the option of bookmarking, so at least they're safe.
Do you prefer one POV or multiple POV's?
Multiple POV's any day. It helps me bond with different characters and, if there's a chance of anything shady going on, it also makes it easier for me to trust new characters.
Buy books, borrow or both?
One of the reasons I love Kindle Unlimited is so I can read a book for free, and then if I love it, I'll purchase it later on. However, if it's a book I don't really like it's a great way of reading the book without wasting my hard earned money. So, for me it's both.
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A handcuff escapist named Ray gave a presentation at Dutch hacker camp HAR about how to quickly make a plastic key that will break you out of Dutch police handcuffs. He did it with a homemade 3D printer, and tested it on actual handcuffs. It's not clear how he got the schematic to make the keys, though some have suggested it might be as easy as photographing the keys, which Dutch police wear dangling from their belts.
Reports the lockpicking blog Black Bag:
At first the police officers at HAR were a little reluctant to event try out the plastic key he printed. But he found another way to verify the key he printed was the correct one. I guess these officers never thought about wearing keys concealed, especially when talking with Mr. Handcuff himself. Given the megapixel camera's on the market today it was not so difficult to verify the key he printed was the correct one.
At the end of the day he talked the officers into trying the key on their handcuffs and ... it did work! At least the Dutch Police now knows there is a plastic key on the market that will open their handcuffs. A plastic key undetectable by metal detectors....
Nice. Combine that with your scramble suit and away you go!
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On 07.09.09 06:08 AM posted by James Phillips
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, often described as the U.N.s nuclear watchdog, criticized NATO earlier this week for encouraging nuclear proliferation. He urged NATO to drop any reference to nuclear deterrence in its new strategic statement, saying it encouraged proliferation: "You are sending a message to anyone around the world who reads your concept that they too need nuclear weapons," he said. "The idea that nuclear is the supreme guarantee should be dropped because it's absolutely the wrong message to the rest of the world." ElBaradei also questioned the consistency of policy by NATO, which has committed troops to Afghanistan but has been unable to supply a single helicopter to help refugees in Darfur.
This criticism is all the more galling coming from an official who has bent over backwards to avoid criticizing Iran, which presumably would be a higher priority, given its failure to fully cooperate with his agency to resolve the problems that led to three rounds of sanctions at the U.N. Security Council. But last month, ElBaradei himself encouraged proliferation by suggesting that Iran may be seeking nuclear weapons technology in order to enhance its prestige and deter external enemies: My gut feeling is that Iran definitely would like to have the technology… that would enable it to have nuclear weapons if they decided to do so, he told the BBC. [Iran] wants to send a message to its neighbors, it wants to send a message to the rest of the world: yes, don't mess with us, we can have nuclear weapons if we want it, said ElBaradei. But the ultimate aim of Iran, as I understand it, is that they want to be recognized as a major power in the Middle East and they are. This is to them the road to get that recognition to power and prestige and…an insurance policy against what they heard in the past about regime change, axis of evil."
Never mind that the Ayatollahs nuclear program dates back to the late 1980s, long before President Bush gave his axis of evil speech, which ElBaradei suggested may have motivated Irans nuclear ambitions. Never mind ElBaradeis egregious criticism of NATO nuclear policy (and even its policy on Sudan!) in contrast to his kid gloves treatment of Iran. That is only to be expected from an officious, politically-correct U.N. functionary. One can only find hope in his much-belated gut feeling that Iran seeks nuclear weapons. After all, it was not too long ago that he said: My gut feeling tells me that Iran has responded positively to my repeated demands that it scale back the program.
Perhaps in the future Mr. ElBaradei will develop a gut feeling that he should focus his attention on nuclear proliferators, especially Iran, rather than on extraneous issues like*NATO statements or Sudan. Unfortunately, on Irans nuclear program, he long has been the watchdog that didnt bark.
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U.S. builders started construction last month on the most single-family homes and apartments since July 2008, more evidence that the housing recovery is gaining momentum.
The Commerce Department says housing starts jumped 3.6 percent in October from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 894,000. Single-family home construction dipped 0.2 percent.
Apartment construction, which is more volatile, rose 10 percent.
Applications for building permits, a sign of future construction, fell 2.7 percent to 866,000, after jumping 12 percent in September to a four-year high. Still, permit applications to build single-family homes rose to their highest level since July 2008.
Housing starts are 87 percent above the annual rate of 478,000 in April 2009, the recession low. That's still short of the 1.5 million annual rate considered healthy.


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With the pro bono efforts of Structure Interactive (S:I), the GRAM's gift collection is now available for secure online ordering 24-hours a day, seven days a week. And in the words of S:I art director, Amanda Haschke, "open for business in the 21st Century."
The original online shop required the user to phone in an order, email an order or print out and fax an order form.
"The online gift shop had many visitors, but few orders," explained Rachel Allen, retail manager for GRAM. "We suspected that the order process was a big part of the problem. S:I met with us and explained how we could use the latest web technologies to make the user's life easier, and ours as well."
The new site uses a sophisticated database to provide a seamless e-commerce experience. Online gift shop visitors add items to a shopping cart, and submit payment and shipping information through a secure server.
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Visitors are not the only ones enjoying the site's increased functionality. The supporting technology for the online gift shop makes it easy to keep the sites content up to date. An administrative tool allows Art Museum staff to quickly add or change products by simply filling out an online form.
With the upgrade, the Art Museum's e-commerce capabilities now exceed those of many larger museums. This upgrade is part of an overall effort to use the Internet to make the museum accessible to a wider audience.


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If you can't win in the marketplace, try stopping the competition in the courts. That seems to be Hopkinton-based data storage giant EMC's strategy for stopping Mountain View, Calif.-based upstart Pure Storage.
This spring I met with a group of venture capitalists at the Cambridge Innovation Center and asked Bruce Sachs, general partner of Charles River Ventures, whether he thought EMC was a pillar company � a term I use to refer to a local, publicly traded company that supplies capital and talent to a startup company and adopts the startup's product in its own business.
Mr. Sachs said EMC is not a pillar company because it enforces tightly written non-compete agreements. As he explained, EMC demands that an employee who wants to start a company must sit on her hands for a year before starting the new venture. According to the Wall Street Journal, EMC's non-compete agreements require employees to "return any EMC proprietary documents, refrain from soliciting EMC employees to leave the company and targeting customers they called on for EMC."
And in October, EMC proved that it is not afraid of using the courts when it believes that those non-compete agreements have been violated. That's when it accused "44 former employees hired by Pure Storage," according to a Nov. 5 blog post by Pure Storage Chief Executive Officer Scott Dietzen.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts alleges that a former EMC salesperson, Chadwick Johnson, illegally took "confidential and sensitive EMC information to technology startup Pure Storage of Mountain View, Calif."
EMC spokesman Dave Farmer said on Nov. 12: "Pure Storage has waged a deliberate, unlawful and sustained campaign to steal EMC's confidential and proprietary information. We are simply taking the necessary legal action to protect EMC's rights."
Mr. Dietzen does not agree. In his blog, he wrote that "there is no merit whatsoever" to the charges. "Mature companies risk forgetting the golden rule � they are happy to recruit great people to join their companies from competitors (indeed they aggressively solicit such hires), but then resort to onerous non-compete agreements and lawsuits to deter the same employees from exercising their freedom to seek employment elsewhere," he wrote. "At Pure Storage we don't put non-compete clauses in our employee agreements � we simply don't believe in them."
And there is no question that Pure Storage is trouncing EMC when it comes to winning over customers. As I have learned from three interviews with Mr. Deitzen, what customers want is to save money by speeding up data storage and retrieval. In August, Pure Storage � a purveyor of "all-flash enterprise storage" � was worth $1 billion, thanks to its growing share of a huge and fast-growing market. That's when Pure Storage raised $150 million, bringing its total capital raised to $245 million, with hopes of further enriching its owners through an IPO.
While traditional storage � EMC's bread and butter � consists of metallic disks that spin as a stylus stores and retrieves data, flash is a kind of semiconductor that lacks the mechanical complexity of its traditional rival. In a data center, Pure Storage claims it can save companies time, space and money.
As Mr. Dietzen explained when I most recently interviewed him, "When compared to traditional disk-centric arrays, Pure Storage's all-flash enterprise arrays are 10 times faster with 10 times more space and power efficient, at a price point that is less than performance disk per gigabyte stored."
One of Pure's customers, Paylocity, a payroll and HR services provider, converted from traditional disk to flash. Brian Palmer, vice president of information technology at Paylocity, says that Pure boosted the performance of its storage network. According to Palmer, "We have realized eight times gains in performance, five times reduction in data center space and eight times reduction in power, which has enabled us to deliver a vastly improved end-user experience."
A blend of profit-hungry public market and venture capital investors is betting $150 million that Pure Storage will turn that customer value proposition into public market equity. Those investors include T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management and other public market investors, with participation by its previous venture capital investors, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures, said Mr. Dietzen.
T. Rowe Price has done its due diligence, investing its resources based on its analysis of Pure Storage's technology, management team, growth and customer satisfaction. Henry Ellenbogen of T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., said, "We are very selective in the private companies that we choose to invest in. In our view, Pure Storage represents a rare combination of disruptive innovation, strong leadership and strong growth. In particular, customer references were excellent." Mr. Ellenbogen is betting that Pure Storage will go public.
Pure Storage is growing much faster than EMC. For example, in the last year, EMC's revenues of $23 billion rose 8.5 percent � the comparable figure for Pure is more than 50 percent. Part of the reason for that is that EMC charges a much higher price than Pure does. Two years ago, Mr. Dietzen said, "EMC sells flash for between $20 and $50 per gigabyte, whereas Pure Storage sells it for under $5/GB." In August 2013, he said, "We are growing at 50 percent a quarter sequentially, and started 2013 with more than 125 people and expect to end the year with 325."
And Pure Storage wants to delay its IPO to help recruit the best talent. As Mr. Dietzen explained, "We have the advice of investors with public markets experience and can recruit top talent before an IPO. This gives comfort to potential customers and current ones."
EMC's efforts to use non-compete agreements to stop startups is not only ineffective, but it is hurting EMC's shareholders � its shares trade about 77 percent below their 2000 high � by inhibiting its ability to innovate. By abrogating the role of pillar company, EMC is sending away fast-growing winners like Pure Storage � costing Massachusetts jobs and tax revenues.


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Headin east from Portland along highway 84, we raced the rising summer sun. Warming from the tip-top cliffs of the river valley down to the curving road that hugs the waters' shore, the sun kissed the Columbia River Gorge as we set off on a day-long adventure.
Following the Historic Columbia River Highway (highway 30), from just east of Troutdale, we dotted our way slowly along the winding road in search of the scenic byway's many waterfalls – and boy did we discover our fair share of tumbling water!
The drive started with a quick stop at the Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Viewpoint to take in the dramatic landscape from the mouth of this scenic byway. From here we could see the jagged cliffs of the Gorge, the shimmering blue river and our second stop, Crown Point Vista House, an octagonal shaped observatory built in 1916.
Escaping deeper along the highway, we rounded the corner to our first waterfall, Latourell Falls. Located within Guy W. Talbot State Park, this thin stream of water left both our mouths hanging open in awe. Plunging 224-feet from a wall of basalt, the white water impressively contrasted with the dark rock and neon green lichen that highlighted its face.
From here we continued along highway 30 to Shepperd's Dell Falls. A series of trickling plateau, this grouping of falls took you down below the highway to catch some cool spray before hopping back in the car to take off to Bridal Veil Falls. Elegantly streaming like a wedding veil in two separate falls, this waterfall gushes with glory before it descends into the Columbia River.
Next up, cascading also in two folds, Wahkeena Falls steps down 242-feet through a crack in two rock outcroppings surrounded by the forest's lush greenery – making it quite the sight. Originally known as Gordon Falls, this waterfall was re-birthed Wahkeena – meaning "most-beautiful" in Yakima Indian – in 1915 with the completion of the highway.
Following the dirt trail from Wahkeena Falls for a half-mile, we finally made it to the granddaddy of waterfalls along the Columbia River Scenic Highway, Multnomah Falls. Oregon's tallest waterfall, Multnomah cascades 620-feet in total and is fed by natural underground springs that originate at Larch Mountain. Spanning over the second fall, Benson Bridge offers visitors a unique viewpoint of the upper falls in all its glory.
But the fun didn't end there! Before taking the westward journey back to Portland, we cruised down the end of the scenic highway past Horsetail Falls and finally ended the day exploring the mouth of Oneonta Gorge (can't wait to return and do this whole hike – looks epic!) as the sun started to fall in the sky.
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It appears that Randy Moss' Hall of Fame playing career is over, although the wide receiver is not so sure of that yet.
CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman writes that Moss still hasn't decided if he wants to play next season. Freeman reported a few months back there was interest in Moss, although we haven't heard a peep about him since.
Moss certainly appeared willing to return to the San Francisco 49ers, but they moved on without him. While he was a positive influence by all accounts with the 49ers, he racked up only 434 yards despite seeing a lot of single coverage last season. The deep speed just wasn't there. We'd be surprised if Moss wound up in a training camp this year.
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Teaching Ella that Money is equal to Debt and Value is created from Productivity.
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