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The new year, as well as a New Congress, is always full of fresh hope, possibilities and opportunities. And after all of the complaints about gridlock, deadlock, padlocks or whatever other types of locks you don't like, 2013 opens the door for a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation in DC and the Getting Done of All the Things. One such issue is the upcoming discussion over the debt ceiling, and as Andrew Malcolm reports, the President is coming out of the gate raring for some good old fashioned wheeling and dealing and bipartisan goodness.
And as I said earlier this week, one thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. The last time Congress threatened this course of action, our entire economy suffered for it. Our families and our businesses cannot afford that dangerous game again.
Yep. It sure sounds like Barack Obama is ready to sit down for some traditional give and take, finding a middle way to work across the aisle and reach a mutually agreeable resolution. And it's good to know that he'll have the full support of his party in Congress as willing partners in finding a deal. Take it away, Chuck!
Echoing President Obama's refusal to negotiate on the debt limit, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Republicans on Friday that Democrats have no intention of giving in to any of their demands in exchange for lifting the nation's borrowing limit to pay its bills.
"I think that risking government shutdown, risking not raising the debt ceiling, is playing with fire," Schumer told reporters in the Capitol, in response to a question from TPM. "Anyone who wants to come and negotiate, and say 'we will raise the debt ceiling only if you do A, B, C' will not have a negotiating partner. And if then they don't want to raise the debt ceiling, it'll be on their shoulders. I would bet that they would not go forward with that."
The No. 3 Democrat declared that Obama and congressional Democrats have learned their lesson from the 2011 fiasco that nearly led to a default. He predicted that Republicans will give in and cleanly raise the country's borrowing authority — which expires around March — if Democrats stonewall and give them no other option.
It's an interesting tactic to be sure. Not that long ago I would have laughed this off as a bit of preening for the cameras, but given the events of the past couple of months, I'm not so sure. I can, with very little difficulty, imagine the Senate Democrats putting up a "clean" bill to raise the debt ceiling and Obama hitting the trail with his, "I have my pen right here ready to sign" schtick. It worked for them on the tax rate deal, after all. The new strategy seems to be one of demanding what you want and daring the GOP to not go along with it, trusting that the story will be spun well enough in the press that the media will dutifully predict that Republicans will be blamed if a worst case scenario comes to pass.
In this case it would be a government shutdown, with far more immediate and drastic symptoms being felt all across the nation than sliding off the fiscal slope. Would this really work? And more to the point, will we even find out, or is Obama right and the GOP will cave on this before they have to start turning off lights on the Hill? You make the call.


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Gheese Aelbrechtsdochter (d. 1539)
Gheese Aelbrechtsdochter, an Anabaptist martyr, wife of Lambrecht Duppijns of Haarlem, Dutch province of North Holland, was arrested there on 23 May 1539 when a meeting of Anabaptists in their home was surprised by the officials. She was severely tortured and was executed by drowning on 29 May 1539. Like her husband and the group meeting with them, Gheese was probably a follower of David Joris, for in their home were found about 500 copies of a book by David Joris.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Gheese Aelbrechtsdochter (d. 1539)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 10 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gheese_Aelbrechtsdochter_(d._1539)&oldid=127527.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Gheese Aelbrechtsdochter (d. 1539). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 10 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gheese_Aelbrechtsdochter_(d._1539)&oldid=127527.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 513. All rights reserved.
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Comment on A Critical Analysis of There Will Be Blood: Intensional Godhood by anonymous.
friz writes:
yes great summary of the film,i bought a pirate copy(tut tut very bad) while on holidays in bali and the bloody thing stop working at the bowling alley scene thus i find myself here wondering if someone nicely could tell what happened at the end of the film???
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Anonymous writes:
After watching the movie for my third or fourth time I came across your analysis. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for your insights.
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Brian writes:
So glad to see this thread still running. I was fortunate to watch the movie again and loved it just as much. It has to be up there in my top 3 favorite movies along with Revolutionary Road and Black Swan, yet more movies to draw endless conclusions from.
I have skimmed most all the comments and have gained insight and opinions from these and of course the movie itself. I would love feedback on my observations/questions.
*Mary plays a mysterious character to me. It is intriguing how often Daniel Physically touches her. Much can be drawn from this but her character baffles me.
*I don't see Eli as a fraud, or one who is fake in his Christian beliefs. At the town meeting his authenticity of asking about the road leading to the church seems sincere. What I see most with the Eli/Daniel spat is the Power struggle. Eli is Daniel's only threat (competition). Daniel doesn't want respect from the town, simply complete control. At the opening of the well Eli is expected to get the big stage in front of the towns people but is blown off by Daniel. Notice Eli does not ask really, it's more of a demand with specifics on how and when to introduce him. We know later that no one tells Daniel what to do and how to do it (standard oil confrontation). When Daniel goes to church and sees Eli's control over the congregation it makes him furious. Eli acts as competitor to the threat of the town worshiping something other than oil. Remember the speeches Daniel gave of what oil could do to a community? This was his version of a Prophecy but using Oil as worship instead of religion. The last power struggle attempt to "leverage" Daniel came in the final scene where Eli assumed he could name a price for the final piece of land. Not only does Daniel "win" by not needing the land but he was able to exploit the fault of Eli. Eli was money hungry and would alter his beliefs because of it. When Eli admitted to these things of being a fake he does not believe this but is under complete control of Daniel in order to get the money.
* Lastly, Daniels "brother form another mother." What is everyone's take on the scene before his death. They appear to be in some kind of Brothel in which he asks Daniel for money, and then has to ask again. Why the repetition and what is the significance in the Brothel.
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Hello from 2012 (Odd how great games can have such lasting impacts, huh?)! I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation of this very thought provoking game! In support of one argument of Ryan casting aside his morals for the best in Rapture, there is a tape in the Farmer's Market of Ryan deciding to use the ADAM to make people open to suggestion, which is one reason he's able to control the splicers himself. Upon my first playthrough, I agreed with most of your ideas presented here. However, I saw a connection between Ryan and Fontaine as a conflict between Capitalism and Socialism. Ryan clearly presented a capitalistic idealism through his following of both Smith and Rand. Fontaine was the people's man, he fought for the working class. However the game shows the horrid atrocities of both. In a socialist society, we have the splicers who've gone crazy and often fight each other for any and all ADAM. On the other hand, we have capitalists that established monarchies in business because others could not feed off another's idea, these elitests let the working class suffer. Either side they chose, the splicers suffered through the greed and selfishness of others. In a society that was ideally selfless as people worked for themselves which, in turn, benefited society, selfishness reigned true as people like Fontaine abused the system. In addition, Fontaine's world made people think they had a choice, that they could choose to better themselves through exploitation of others, yet they only made him stronger and hurt others. Ryan alike, made people think they had many choices, yet the elites forced the layman to work for them and made it impossible for their choice to lead anywhere but to the bottom of the ladder. Sorry if my ideas seem a bit off, I'm not sure how to phrase it other than the faults of Capitalism versus Socialism. Perhaps the faults of government today would be better. One side proposes free market, the actual outcome is one of exploitation. Was Hobbes or Locke correct? I think the game argues for human nature being "tainted". Bioshock isn't just a political critique but a human one, too.
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The meaning i got from this nightmare is "Your choice is never truly your own. Your will is tainted by even existing. To have true free will would to not exist."
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Cyrgaan writes:
I completly agree with your deduction. Free will unity is the option I've missed from the whole picture, yet I couldn't explain the plot on the level you did.
Lack of this option (method, more likely) in the ending is the main inconvenience for me, because that was the way I always walked on in the whole story. There was one other point in the game, when this method was not present: at the choice you erase/rewrite the heretic geth. Though with Legion's explanation about the rewrite way is acceptable for the greater good, it's still a renegade method. There should be a way to communicate with the heretic geth, for example using Legion as an interpreter, and persuade them with reasons to bridge over the schism without forcing. Though, in fact, the lack of this option is logical because of the presence of the Reaper code (it can be seen as "indoctrination for synthetics").
(Sorry, if my bad english rendered my explanation to something uncomprehendable. I hope you can understand what I've tried to explain.)
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Max Payne writes:
1hundred stars to this
I can agree with this
this make sense,
Inet is full of nonsense "indoctrination theory"
Too much people are persuaded to it and using 2sided blade arguments, ignoring facts, on first look you can see that they are justifying themselves that "destroy" is right choice and other are you loose and be full indoc.
Our race is still too young
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Ruffian writes:
very good fix, in my opinion, This is more along the lines of what I was actually expecting. This and an actual final mission of some sort, where your intergalactic fleet did something or some kind of decisions to make regarding your crew. The lack of the latter wouldn't have been so bad though with the inclusion of the former.


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If you enjoy a BG or two…. Mmmm let me rephrase that…
If you would like to enjoy a BG or two, there is a good chance that you have played with people that have not read the various "How to win" BG guides out there, produced by the likes of Cynwise, WoWInsider or even myself.
No, more likely you have played with people that have studied the "How to Lose" range of guides.
Yet you are perplexed. You have googled "How to lose X Battleground", yet you haven't been able to fin them.
Just to make your life easier, I am going to write just such a series of guides. Today's installment is:
How to lose: Battle for Gilneas.
Don't talk
To be honest this is a rule for all BGs you intend to lose.
Don't even say hello to your team mates
If you talk to your team mates, you might form a temporary bond, become more than just a collection of individuals with disparate goals.
Worse yet, you may be breaking the ice and encouraging them to speak out when it's important.
Do your best to discourage communication!
Don't suggest a strategy
Whatever you do, don't suggest a strategy, not even an intentionally fail strategy. If you do you may fail in your objective and by complete accident forge the group into a coordinated group of winners.
Don't support a strategy that has been suggested
To do so might inadvertently suggest your tacit agreement with the idea of winning the BG and enlisted others to follow said strategy.
Even to call them out as a fool may encourage others to talk… Don't let this happen!
Don't call Incs
Occasionally calling out incs produces an unwanted result – support. Much better to keep quiet, let the node get capped and hasten the end of the BG.
If one of your team mates does call out incs, it's time for drastic action… communicate, something like:
WW clear
WW under control.
That should turn them around.
Don't inform people you are responding to their pleas for assistance
Whatever you do, don't give any indication that you will support a node.
- the player under attack may hold on till you get there
- others may rally to your show of support.
Anyway, this would break the first rule of not communicating.
Silly me… you weren't really going to support them were you?
Don't call out healers
Healers slow down loses (if they are on your side) and speed it up if they are the enemy.
Your team mates are probably looking for healers to progress the win, but they are hard to see in the heat of battle, don't draw attention to them.
Don't use a mod to identify healers in a crowd.
If you see one CC'd, break it quickly with some white damage.
Ignore your healers
Let them die!
Better yet, drag the whirlwinding enemy to your healers to bring them down.
Don't mark your healers
…you might feel guilt if you knowingly let them die.
Marked healers draw your team mates attention. They will protect them, they won't leave them at nodes by themselves.
Don't give your healers a sliver of a chance!
Make sure you leave your healer to guard the node
You want your healer by themselves at a node for two reasons.
- they are easy targets for enemy dps, which will speed up the turnover of the node.
- a healer without allies to heal is a waste of a player in a BG – you want this. A healer is only good when they are in the thick of the action, keeping your allies alive, assisting them, your team, to cap and win the BG.
In addition to these two reasons, the healer may be aware of both of these points and leave the node. FREE CAP FOR THE ENEMY!
While you are at it, ignore their healers
Remember, don't call them out and don't hit them, unless and only if they are CC'd and your white damage can break it.
Ignore the plan
Someone offered a plan that might promote some group coordination? Ignore it, you know better!
Once a plan has been suggested and accepted, it is your task to ferment dissent. They want you to go left – GO RIGHT! Watch as a portion of your team follow you like lemmings to the cliffs of humiliating loss.
Make sure you pause 2/3 of the way to your destination, hesitate, head in a different direction, turn about, do loops. The game is now nearly lost.
Whatever you do, don't subscribe to the concept that even a coordinated group with a bad plan can win, don't let it happen.
Ineffectively soloing nodes will usually drag a couple of team mates to their death as well.
Wait until you are dead to call incomings
Being a smart player, you will be careful to ensure you aren't caught for the weak willed traitor… errr Heroic Loser you really are.
So call out incs occasionally, but not as you see them approaching the node. Not as you engage with them. No you want to wait until it's all to late, preferably long after you have died (you aren't releasing are you!).
All being well, the first your team mates know of the node under challenge is your…
inc WW
…followed by…
WW has been assaulted by the winners!
You are the hero, solo them
A node protected by 5 enemies… They are no match for your heroics and all being well you can ruin the surprise attack and die so you don't distract the enemies from your team mates.
It's about you, not the flag
Even if the enemy have left the flag and you have a clear Ninja Cap opportunity, ignore the flag and engage the enemy.
Flag = team win = personal fail!
If they hadn't left you at the node, there wouldn't be an issue
If you are the one left at the flag, feel no guilt as you ride off into the sunset. They left you there so they could have all the fun, so really it's their fault that the node is unguarded.
If it really mattered that much, they would have guarded themselves.
Fight away from the flags
Always, ALWAYS, fight away from the flag giving an avenue for an enemy ninja cap.
Never, NEVER, place AoE over the flag. This will destealth ninjas and interrupt capping.
Don't ignore that guy baiting you off the flag
Remember, give the ninja capper room to operate.
Hopefully your team mates will follow you and forget the flag.
Chase the guy leaving the flag
This will ensure no incidental AoE interrupts the ninja cap, as well as encouraging your team mates to follow.
Ignore the guy capping your flag while there is that guy teasing you
Teasers always take priority over cappers, I can't stress this enough!
Split evenly between the 3 nodes
There are 10 of you… Plenty to go around, so spread out. If there are three of you at each node, each can easily be overcome with a Zerg of as small as 5 players.
Thin you numbers.
Divide and be conquered!
Strategic numerical advantage is an illusion that must be avoided at all costs, pull out of a fight if there are more of you than them, hover on the outskirts to soak up any honor, but don't tip the balance in your teams favour!
Better a static defeated force than a mobile victorious force
This whole fast response, quick assult team rubbish… when are you going to get a chance to do your crafting?
Encourage your team to sit at nodes in pointless combat with overwhelming numbers rather than sending an assault team to their barely defended node.
Aim for 2 nodes, settle for one
Cap 2nd and defend
Wiser words have never been spoken.
For one it drags out the battle and most importantly, you just need to loose control of one of your bases to turn a lazy victory into a frenzied defeat.
You can't lose BFG with 3 bases, so make sure your team badly defends two!
Get two bases and enjoy the slaughter of your team, while the enemy losely defends their one based (ready to return to defend with that fearsome three letter call "inc") and sends the rest of their team to assault your divided and overwhelmed team.
One base can win can't it?
Better yet, encourage everyone to relax when you only have one base.. why try harder?
Relax when you are ahead 1600 to 1000
Make sure your team relaxes when you are ahead 1600 to 1000. Convince them you can't lose… you can be sure you will!
You are already a head, why try harder.
What's the chance that they could win at this point?
Sure they could turn their one cap into 3 and win in just moments, or settle for 2 and still outpace your points to win comfortably.
Chase the rainbow
Meaningless achievements > nodes
Not your fault, everyone does it
Best if you do it 1st right?
Don't offer BG supplies
Mage food, health stones, soul shards and buffs are for winners – no thank you
They unfortunately lend the impression that you want to run as a team, you care that people survive and can perform at their best.
Underprovisioned troops will perform worse, have to rely on the spirit healer for life, health and mana!
Start with a losing attitude and you are guaranteed to be right – you are always right, right?
Everyone's favorite player is the…
lol noobs, Alliance always lose
Com'on, give up, get it over with, lets get the next queue faster
Stop trying for the node ffs, just let them win
L2P pplz
.. who says this even before the 1st node has capped.
Sure this sort of behaviour might just make me more determined, but there are many players out there that take this as the signal to let go using a simple calculation
(Trying to win + effort) < (Queue time + free honor)
Break your teammates spirit early and often!
Edit: As often seems to be the case, Cynwise and I are working on a similar project at the same time. So if you want to know How to Win: Battle for Gilneas, rather than my How to Lose, go read his excellent work, which includes his trademarked topological maps (you know, the ones that I have a coffee mug with all the way over here in Australia): The Battle For Gilneas
Gnomer and Out!
Disclaimer: Many BFG's were lost in the making of this guide.
PS: Apparently I am the most hugged blogger at this years The Pink Pigtail Inn Awards of 2010 – The Blogosphere. Line up.. naaah stuff it, I'm wearing enough resilience gear…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.


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A brain surgeon walked six miles through a snowstorm in Alabama on Tuesday to perform life-saving surgery.
Dr Zenko Hrynkiw was at Brookwood Medical Center in Tuesday morning when he was needed for emergency brain surgery miles away at Trinity Medical Center.
The problem was the sudden snowstorm had locked down traffic, and the neurosurgeon didn't get farther than a few blocks by vehicle.
'The cell service was bad so we were fading in and out,' said Steve Davis, charge nurse in the neuro intensive care unit at Trinity. 'At one point, I heard him say, "I'm walking."'
Davis had alerted authorities, and they were looking for him. There were supposed sightings, but no one could find him.
The police were looking for him,' Davis said.
Hours had gone by since the initial contact in the morning.
'He finally called me and said, "Where's the patient? What's the status?"' Davis said. 'He spoke to the family and went off to surgery.'
It was an emergency surgery for a traumatic brain injury. Hrynkiw is Trinity's only brain surgeon, Davis said.
'Without the surgery, the patient would have most likely died,' Davis said. 'But he is doing well.'Davis said he and colleagues at Trinity were estimating the hike to the Montclair Road hospital at about eight miles, although Google Maps puts it at about six. The extreme weather Tuesday has been blamed for five deaths statewide and it stranded untold thousands away from their homes.
'This just speaks volumes to the dedication of the man,' Davis said. 'When I saw him, all I could say was "You are a good man."'
Davis said Hrynkiw takes good care of himself and frequently walks for exercise.
The doctor was hardly the only person to talk miles through the storm. Roads around metro Birmingham were still lined with thousands of abandoned cars and trucks on Thursday.
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Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution.
Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the Almeida Theatre in 2016-17, Robert Icke's new adaptation of Mary Stuart transfers to the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End from 13 January for a limited run.
Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of some of British history's most crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Juliet Stevenson (Hamlet) and Lia Williams (Oresteia) trade the play's central roles, decided at each performance by the toss of a coin.
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Here is another interesting design by Yu-ri Lee. For cooking on the go, why not build the heating element directly into the stand? And a tripod is a simple, folding solution to hold your pan/soon to be ruined camera.
With the level of resources large corporations have at their fingertips, why isn't there more interesting design in everyday products? Just look at the lower right of this diagram - not only can you cook up some hot dinner, but you can fight off hordes of vampires while doing it.
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Managing payroll for remote employees
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Your business may be part of a growing trend where employers choose to hire remote employees. There are lots of advantages to this approach, but it's important to understand how it will work in practice – especially when it comes to payroll. So how do you handle payroll with remote staff?
One business, many locations
It's increasingly common for businesses to use remote workers. There are good reasons for hiring employees who don't work in your office:
- If your staff work from home then you don't need such large premises, so you save money.
- Without the daily commute, remote staff can be more productive – if they are managed properly.
- Salaries vary from one location to another, so you might save on your payroll bill.
But there's a downside to having remote employees too. Depending on where they live, they might be subject to different payroll legislation. This can be an issue for staff who split the working week between their home and your office.
There are other potential hurdles too. In this guide we'll cover what they are, and how to manage payroll for remote workers.
Make sure you know the rules for each type of worker
Not everyone who works for you remotely will be classed as an employee. Some may be sole traders with their own businesses. Others may be consultants or contractors, serving several clients.
If you know the rules for each type of worker, you can plan your payroll properly. But if your staff member says they are a contractor, don't simply take their word for it. It's easy for someone to claim to be an independent consultant, for example. But in some countries they will be classed as employees if they spend most of their time working for you. If you have any doubts, talk to your accountant.
Remote worker or new branch manager?
When you hire a remote worker, are you hiring a new employee who will be working from home? Or are you opening a branch of your business in a new location?
The difference might be clear to you, but the tax office might think your remote worker is running a separate branch of your business. If so, you may have a lot of paperwork to deal with. As a rough guide, someone is a remote employee if they:
- supply completed work directly to your office
- don't transact locally with the public or other businesses
- work solely for you.
Make sure you double-check this, as the rules vary from one jurisdiction to another. They aren't always clear, so get professional advice before you hire a new remote worker.
It's increasingly common for businesses to use remote workers. There are good reasons for hiring employees who don't work in your office.
Understand your obligations
If you're sure that the people you're employing are classed as remote workers, what are your payroll obligations?
The main one is that the income tax you withhold from each employee must be based on where they work. That sounds simple, but it can quickly become complex.
Let's say your business is based in one country, but your employees work in another. Generally you must comply with the income tax laws of their country when paying them. That means you must withhold income tax at their local rate.
There are exceptions. Some countries may have reciprocal taxation agreements with others. In that case your payroll calculations will be simpler. However, it's not just income tax rates that vary. Different tax rules may apply to:
- superannuation schemes
- health care plans
- minimum wage laws
- overtime laws
- and other benefits.
You'll also need to make salary payments into your employees' bank accounts. If some of your employees live in other countries, you need to take extra care. Try to find a way to transfer money without losing out due to exchange rate fees.
Finally, it's not enough that you withhold the right amount of tax for each remote employee. You also have to ensure the right amount of tax is paid to each separate tax office. The logistics can quickly become hard to manage.
Make sense of the numbers
If you hire remote workers, it can lead to payroll complications. Yet the potential business benefits are significant, so it's often still worth doing. The important thing is to minimise the work involved.
As with any member of staff, you have choices when it comes to managing payroll for remote employees:
- Outsource payroll to a dedicated payroll company
When you outsource payroll, this takes the complex work away from you. You hand the work over to a company that's used to managing remote employees. You will have peace of mind, but you will have to pay for the service. And you will have to give up some control over your business and its financial data.
- Hire someone in-house to do the work
If your organization is large enough, it can make sense to hire dedicated payroll staff. They can look after the complexities of your remote workers' payroll. The advantage here is you keep all your financial data in-house. This can give you insight into the way your business is running, and it reduces the risk of data loss. Just make sure you use good online accounting software to manage your payroll. It will save a lot of time and reduce data entry.
- Ask your bookkeeper or accountant to do the work
Both will charge for the service, but that may be a price worth paying. Make sure your accountant or bookkeeper uses the same accounting software as you. That will make it easy to share data, by giving them secure, remote access.
Prepare for payroll to get great results
Managing payroll for remote employees requires effort and planning. So make sure you have a strategy in place before you start the hiring process. Understand the issues involved and think about how you'll approach them.
Although this guide only covers payroll, there are other things you should consider. Contract law and employment regulations are just two of them – ask your lawyer for advice.
Like anything else in business, the more you prepare, the better the result will be. Talk to your accountant or a financial advisor before you start, and get the right payroll system in place. Then you can enjoy the benefits of remote employees – without worrying about payroll.


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Beware Scams Tied to 9/11
Security experts say crooks may use 10th anniversary for ID theft
As Americans mark the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, security officials are trying to head off a different type of attack — a surge of scams tied to mass remembrance of the tragic day.
Watch out for online links that attempt to steal your personal financial information by making false promises of enticing video, photographs and news related to 9/11 if you click on a link.
If past patterns play out again, the come-ons will be in online ads, social network postings and emails. Email subject lines may contain "anything and everything related to the attacks," according to the blog of Ondrej Krehel, chief information security officer for the security firm Identity Theft 911. "That includes bin Laden footage, 'secret' videos, conspiracy theories."
At best, the links will lead you to ads for shady products. But the Department of Homeland Security warns that poisoned attachments on these emails could contain secret software that logs each keystroke you make and sends the data to hackers who extract your sign-ins and passwords from it. The attachments might also contain "malware" that gives crooks remote access to your computer.
Computer cons
Officials at Homeland Security's cyber-security center have issued a warning to federal, state and local officials, as well as private-sector computer network administrators.
"Malicious cyber-actors commonly seek to leverage high-profile news events by posing as a trustworthy source and enticing users to open links or files," DHS spokesman Chris Ortman told the Bulletin.
"For example, a phishing scam may send an email that looks like it's from a reputable news organization with links to photos or video when, in fact, it takes you to a malicious website or downloads harmful viruses onto your computer."
Ortman would not comment on whether the warning is a proactive measure or signals there is specific intelligence that cyber-attacks are planned. But keep in mind that after the May 2 shooting of Osama bin Laden, scammers almost immediately sent out a flood of email keyed to the event. Many included links claiming to show "exclusive" or "unseen" pictures and video of the raid by Navy SEALs.
Charity cons
In addition to these scams, beware of charity cons tied to the anniversary. They could also come via email or by telephone and door-to-door solicitations.
"9/11's ten-year anniversary is sure to evoke emotions, memories and, of course, philanthropy," says Dale Mingilton of the Better Business Bureau in a press release. "It could also, unfortunately, serve as a platform for scammers and those who conduct irresponsible fundraising."
Last week, an Associated Press investigation found that some nonprofit groups that were started after the attacks never delivered on their promises. For instance, one charity raised more than $700,000 for a giant memorial quilt but never produced a quilt. Another raised more than $4 million supposedly to help victims, but couldn't account for how it spent that money.
And in January, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) took aim at 10th-anniversary coins being sold for $29.95 apiece by National Collector's Mint, a private company.
"Profiteering off of a national tragedy will not be tolerated," the two lawmakers said in a statement. The company, which has said it contributes part of the proceeds to charity, no longer offers the coins on its website.
Your defense for a safer 9/11 remembrance:
- For online videos related to the anniversary, rely on websites run by TV networks and other reputable news organizations.
- Don't click on links in emails or advertisements related to 9/11 — even if the emails appear to come from friends. These messages might actually be spam sent by cybercrooks who've hijacked your friends' online address books and turned their computers into remotely directed "botnets."
- Suspect a hacker attack if your computer prompts you to download a plug-in or other software to view a photo or video. If your computer is less than 10 years old, odds are that you already have everything you need to see multimedia content, says Krehel.
- Set your privacy settings as tight as possible on Facebook and other social networks so you are the only person who can post content to your page.
- Make sure your computer is up-to-date with the latest security patches. With Windows, run a Windows Update. With a Mac, run a Software Update. As always, run scans with your antivirus software several times a week.
- Before donating to any 9/11 (or other) charity, check that the charity is legitimate; here's how.
Also of interest: Ways to volunteer, make a difference. >>
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling.
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Many schools, libraries and workplaces have firewalls that prevent you from accessing certain websites – even when you're using your own device.
Many social media networks are blocked at schools, colleges and universities. While this may be done to prevent cyberbullying and ensure that students remain focused on their studies, it ultimately restricts access to content as a whole.
It's commonplace nowadays that Facebook and other social networks are banned in the workplace to encourage productivity and ensure that employees are concentrating on their work, rather be distracted by social media on company time.
Facebook might be blocked in your country for cultural, political, or religious reasons. Some countries that have region-wide bans on Facebook include China, Syria, Iran, Vietnam and North Korea. These governments believe that Facebook can spread banned information that is harmful to their regime.
A VPN unblocks Facebook by changing your virtual location and encrypting your Internet connection.
A VPN is an extraordinarily simple and useful way to access blocked or censored content. The two main reasons it's so successful are encryption and location variability. A VPN turns your traffic into scrambled data that can only be decrypted by the service's own servers. This, combined with your new foreign IP address makes it easy to fool filters so you can access anything you want.
Proxies and free VPNs are not the answer.
While proxies spoof your IP address and help bypass geo-restricted content, they do not have any encryption features to protect your online activity. What's more, both proxies and free VPNs store your data, making it easily traceable.
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text: Environmentalism is such a downer, with all the doomsaying and finger-wagging. So maybe it's a good thing that globalization's cheerleader, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, has turned his upbeat, can-do goshdarnit style to green issues with his latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution — And How It Can Renew America. Friedman faces up to the downside of a global surge in the energy-guzzling middle class, and offers a variety of solutions, including using the U.S. Army's experience in "out-greening Al Qaeda." But my favorite Friedman gee-whiz idea: the "Energy Internet." Hey, the Internet is awesome, right? It's like a magic fruit machine, except instead of fruit, it dispenses information. And blogs, which are like the nasty seeds inside the fruit. But anyway — what if we could have an Internet, but for electricity? Hook up all of your appliances to the information superhighway and ensure that they talk to the grid and figure out how to use the least amount of electricity possible? Or only guzzle electricity during non-peak hours? This will lead to "clean electrons" because they'll be SMART electrons. They'll be electrons with their own MySpace page. Our cars, our dishwashers, our xBoxes, will all be talking to each other about ways to reduce their carbon footprint. ("Hey xBox," I can just hear the refrigerator saying, "I'm about to make some ice. Can you generate fewer pixels for a minute?") To be fair, Friedman's book also does call for hard steps amongst all the gee-whiz awesomeness. He wants the government to impose a whole new regime of taxes and incentives, including cap-and-trade schemes, to give everybody the incentives to make those electrons as smart as they can be. Electrons don't educate themselves, you know. [IHT and Free Press and Business Lexington]


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The Sex Offender and Crimes against Minors Registry program is statutorily provided through Chapter 9, of Title 9.1 of the Code of Virginia.
The registry, including the Public Notification Database, is based on the Virginia General Assembly's decision to facilitate access to publicly-available information about persons convicted of specified offenses. The Virginia State Police has not considered or assessed the specific risk of re-offense with regard to any individual prior to his or her inclusion within this registry, and has made no determination that any individual included in the registry is currently dangerous. The main purpose of providing this data on the internet is to make the information more easily available and accessible, not to warn citizens about any specific individual.
Adult individuals found within the registry are included solely by virtue of their conviction record and applicable state law. Offenses which require registration can be found at Statutes
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Mann, Thomas. The Oxford Guide to Library Research. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
I don't recall ever having any formal training about how to do research, but I started learning about the subject many years ago while in high school. As I continued my studies at the University of Utah, I gained a number of additional insights into the research process. I have recently written a couple of posts on the subject, but I keep getting more insights and decided it was an important subject and key to advancing in our own quest to learn about our ancestors' history.
One key phrase from the book at page 61 struck me a good summary of something I have taught in classes many times:
The most efficient way to do library research is to match your retrieval technique to the library's storage technique, for in this way you will be exploiting the internal structure of the system. (emphasis in original).The idea here is that knowledge of the library's internal structure is an important key to retrieving information. This concept does not just apply to libraries however, it is also key to finding information online. Unfortunately, this particular edition of this book was published back in 2005, years ago in the online world and practically ancient history, but the concepts apply even if the author's views on searching online are woefully outdated.
I have always been puzzled why so many people come to me and complain that they can never find what they are looking for online. On a recent Skype message concerning the FamilySearch Research Wiki, one of the participants asked a rather simple question that she could not answer. I looked up the answer and got a comment back a few minutes later wondering how I could find the information so quickly. My thought on the comment was why she couldn't do the same thing in the same amount of time?
Research is skill. I have learned that there is a huge difference between watching someone do something and trying to do it yourself. You can sit on the shore and watch people swim all day, but until you get in the water and start swimming none of the examples mean anything at all. It is same with research. But unfortunately, you don't get to watch others do research very often. You can learn by trial and error, like I did, or you can learn the principles and try to apply them by practicing. Most of the instruction on how to do research focuses on the Research Cycle or similar types of training. What is missing from this type of instruction is a basic understanding of internal structure of the library, the Internet or archive or repository or whatever the location of the information to be researched.
One thing I have said many times in the past is that to be able to do research on the Web you need to understand how programmers think. What I mean by that statement is that you need to understand what happens when you type a search term into a search engine and why getting a million or more results is irrelevant to your search. The number of results reflects a lack of focus. It is fairly easy to search for something and get no results whatsoever, even when you are using Google.
To illustrate this, try searching for a single word, such as genealogy, for example. I just searched on the word genealogy and got 313 million responses. This is entirely useless. Why is that the case? For one thing, the word genealogy is used in a lot of different contexts other than our use of the term for family history. In fact, this general search on Google brought up paid-for advertisements from online genealogical database programs such as Ancestry.com. If you were really trying to find a general idea of what genealogy is all about, then you might be quite frustrated. But there is a simple way, if you know how Google works, to get started with an understanding of genealogy. Change your search for the word "genealogy" to search for "define genealogy."
This simple change makes a world of difference in the results of your search and there were no ads. It also illustrates the internal structure of the Web and how it operates. Now things get complex and that is the real problem with learning how to do research in any context. It is not a simple task. Research is a challenging, yet very rewarding pursuit. In some subsequent posts I will continue to explore the inner workings of research. Stay tuned.


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"Many of them thought it's Tagalog but actually it's not Tagalog, it's Filipino because Tagalog is one of the dialects," Cabrera explained. (Travis Golby/CBC)
Filipino? Tagalog? Pilipino?
A blog by Tagalog Lang
The basis for the Philippine national language is Tagalog, which had primarily been spoken only in Manila and the surrounding provinces when the Commonwealth constitution was drawn up in the 1930s. That constitution provided for a national language, but did not specifically designate it as Tagalog because of objections raised by representatives from other parts of the country where Tagalog was not spoken. It merely stated that a national language acceptable to the entire populace (and ideally incorporating elements from the diverse languages spoken throughout the islands) would be a future goal. Tagalog, of course, by virtue of being the lingua franca of those who lived in or near the government capital, was the predominant candidate.
By the time work on a new constitution began in the early 1970s, more than half the Philippine citizenry was communicating in Tagalog on a regular basis. (Forty years earlier, it was barely 25 percent.) Spurred on by President Marcos and his dream of a "New Society," nationalist academics focused their efforts on developing a national language — Pilipino, by that time understood to be Tagalog de facto. Neologisms were introduced to enrich the vocabulary and replace words that were of foreign origin. A much-remembered example is "salumpuwit" (literally, "that to support the buttocks") for "chair" to replace the widely adopted, Spanish-derived "silya." Such efforts to nativize the Philippine national language were for naught, however, since words of English and Spanish origin had become an integral part of the language used in the everday and intellectual discourse of Filipinos.
This reality was finally reflected in the constitution composed during the Aquino presidency in the latter half of the 1980s. The national language was labeled Filipino to acknowledge and embrace the existence of and preference for many English- and Spanish-derived words. "Western" letters such as f, j, c, x and z — sounds of which were not indigenous to the islands before the arrival of the Spaniards and the Americans — were included in the official Filipino alphabet.
The aforementioned evolution of the Philippine national language is taught as part of the school curriculum in the Philippines, such that when you ask a Filipino what the national language of the country is, the response is "Filipino." In the same way that there are English (composition, literature…) classes in American elementary, secondary and tertiary schools to teach the national language of the United States, there are Filipino classes (not Tagalog classes; Filipino literature classes, not Tagalog literature classes) in Philippine schools.
So what is the difference between Filipino and Tagalog? Think of Filipino as Tagalog Plus. Filipino is inclusive of the contributions of languages other than Tagalog. For instance, it is quite all right to say diksyonaryo (from the Spanish diccionario) in Filipino, whereas a Tagalog purist (or someone stuck in the "Pilipino" era) might insist on a native Tagalog word like talahuluganan. It is also more politically correct to refer to Filipino, not Tagalog, as the Philippine national language. For Filipinos from other parts of the country, Tagalog is not their first language; they learn to speak Filipino because it is constitutionally the national language and taught in schools.
In practical terms, most people, especially Filipinos overseas who have come to realize that foreigners favor "Tagalog" to refer to the Philippine national language, don't strictly differentiate among the words Filipino, Pilipino and Tagalog, and have learned to adapt to how Americans or Canadians perceive the meaning of each word. That is why when you go to a bookstore in North America, for example, you are more likely to find a "Tagalog (or Pilipino) dictionary" than a "Filipino dictionary."
Postscript: Philippino, Philipino and other such misspellings are unacceptable and are jarring to Filipino eyes. Remember: Filipino is the noun that refers to the Philippine national language and to the Philippine people (Filipinos); it is also an adjective to describe people, things and such from the Philippines (the other adjective being Philippine).
The country itself is called the Philippines (currently the Republic of the Philippines; formerly, and actually still, the Philippine Islands) in English, Las Islas Filipinas or simply La/Las Filipinas in Spanish, and Pilipinas in Filipino (Tagalog).
Cultural Note: Although the word "Filipino" is acceptable in Filipino (the Philippine language), most Filipinos will still say Pilipino when referring to a Filipino person while speaking in Filipino/Tagalog.
For example: "Ako ay Pilipino." ("I am Filipino.")
Why? Primarily because a "p" sound is easier for a Filipino to pronounce than an "f" sound. In fact, even though the letters c, f, j, x, z, etc. have formally been included in the Philippine/Filipino alphabet, there is still an overwhelming tendency to transliterate foreign words into native pronunciation forms.
Examples: kompyuter, kwalipikasyon, okasyon, kendi, indibidwal, sipilis…


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Have you missed me as much as I've missed you? Maybe you haven't noticed it all but I was away earlier this autumn but if you follow me on Twitter, you know that I was away for three months in Angola. Angola? The country between Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo? The country which was in a civil war for nearly 30 years which just ended in 2002 and the country which is still full of landmines? Yes, I'm talking about that Angola! A country which is the second largest oil exporter of Africa, rich of diamonds, unfortunately still full of landmines with Luanda, the capital, which is said to be the most expensive capital of the world, where a simple pizza can easily costs over US$ 35 or a beer in the supermarket up to US$ 5 or more!
On my way to Angola
Well, end of July I was asked if I want to participate in a project at a local company which would like to benefit from my knowledge (all I can say it was in the telecom industry but I'm not disclosing any further info - for given reasons) and if I could imagine to work there, in Luanda, for around 2 - 3 months.
I have to admit that I was a little bit skeptical because I didn't knew too much about Angola, a country where they speak Portuguese what I don't speak at all. But after a meeting and some discussions, I accepted the consultancy offer and after I received my first visa, I flew down to south Africa in early August; fully packed with some gadgets and gear which should help me to stay alive and connected to the rest of the world.
The two faces of Luanda
The average income in Angola is said to be something around US$ 300 per month but for sure you can also find the extremely rich upper-class and a growing middle-class - at least in Luanda. Angola has two GSM/UMTS carriers, Unitel and Movicel, and thankfully - as part of my project - I received a HSPA-enabled SIM card from Movicel right on the first day. Unlike let's say 98 % of all SIM cards which are prepaid in Angola, this one was one of the seldom postpaid SIM cards.
HTC Sensation with Movicel SIM card
Movicel, the former state owned telco, is rather new in the GSM and UMTS business since it just launched both networks late last year. Before Movicel was (and is still) running a CDMA network. Interesting enough Movicel is using 900 MHz for both - GSM (which also features GPRS) and UMTS (which is already HSDPA 3.6 Mbps enabled). So I was pretty fine with all the smartphones I brought, as long as they were dualband UMTS.
In the first week I looked a little bit around what the mobile telecommunication market was in Luanda and I found entry-level phones, most of us have never seen in Europe or North America. Sure, if we keep in mind that the average income is around US$ 300, it makes a lot of sense that there are phones on sale which cost around 2,500 Kz (Kwanza), around US$ 25. And as my colleagues told me, the most important mobile phone features (but this is all over Africa the same, not just typical for Angola) are a torch and the FM radio.
Typical mobile phones on the streets of Luanda
The torch makes a lot of sense since Luanda as well as the rest of Angola has to fight with heavy power outages which roughly hit you every second or third night. Thankfully, the guest house I lived at had a power generator which therefore turned on every second or third night but unfortunately the generator was in front of our sleeping room windows; so you can imagine that it was hard to grab any sleep during such a night, with a Diesel running in front of your Window.
Devices can make a real differenceLet us come to the interesting question which gear I carried? As a matter of fact, I wasn't in Angola the whole three months in a row but I had the chances to travel back to Europe in between. Therefore my gadgets changed during the time. In the beginning I had two Android smartphones and one tablet with me, the HTC Sensation, the HTC ChaCha and the HTC Flyer as well as the Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7. Also with me was my Apple MacBook Air 11" (which I had to use for my work there).
For security reasons, I decided to use my mobile phone cameras only because of the portability and to better not to carry expensive gear around the streets. And as it turned out, I was right with this decision. As my colleagues told me, they were robbed a couple of nights before I arrived and not to far away from our guest house. All their laptops were taken but well, what else would you do if someone with a Kalashnikov comes along your way and kindly asks for your equipment? That's one reason why our guest house was protected by other guys - also with Kalashnikovs (which was as a matter of fact my first contact with a Kalashnikov).
Security guard with Kalashnikov
After the first third, when I flew back to Germany, I had to sent the Sensation and ChaCha back to HTC but got a Sony Ericsson Xperia ray which fit my needs even better than the Sensation. Because it's so unbelievable small for a smartphone, it's so easy to carry and for is the camera quality of Sony Ericsson smartphones out of any discussions. As a back-up I also took a Samsung Galaxy S II with me which was - funny enough - just officially launched in Angola at the time I was there.
It's also about the services not just the devicesBefore I left to Angola the first time, I've checked and compared the quality of Google Maps and Bing Maps and had to realize again, that the Bing Maps coverage is as bad in Angola as it was in Uzbekistan where I was earlier this year as well. Bing Maps has virtually no footprint in non American or European countries while Google Maps has very detailed maps including point of interests. Therefore, Windows Phone wasn't a real option at all and unfortunately Nokia hasn't launched its Lumia 800 with its excellent Nokia Maps at that time.
Google Maps vs. Bing Maps vs. Nokia Maps
Nevertheless, another reason to use Android with Google Maps was the fact, that Google just launched map area download a couple of weeks before which allows to have maps pre-downloaded to have them available offline. Since I wasn't sure how my mobile connectivity would look like this was another important fact for me to use Android instead of Windows Phone. Furthermore I decided to enable Google Maps Latitude to allow selected friends to track me. I thought it might be a good idea for a case of emergency where I would be able to call or text them and they would be able to see where I'm, to inform the local authorities or embassy. Thankfully nothing happened at all but better is better I prefer to be prepared.
Google Maps Latitude and Go Weather on Android
In addition I decided to install Google Translate and Google Goggles on my Android smartphones. As I've initially said, Angola is a Portuguese speaking country and I don't speak a single word Portuguese, which is - for my ears - fairly different from Spanish or Italian. Google Translate and Google Goggles were handy tools in restaurants, where I used Goggles to translate the menu, or in other situations, where I used Translate. Google Translate even allowed me to translated Portuguese text messages, which I've received from my carrier (just to found out that these were marketing SMS only and nothing important).
Google Translation in action - translating a Portuguese text message
While the typical working day was something around 12 - 14 hours, I had some good spare time in the evenings as well as on the weekends and thankfully my SIM card had a HSDPA flat-rate. Therefore I used my Android smartphones all the time as hotspots for all the other devices; especially because I hadn't had network access at the office but had to also use my mobile broadband connection for work.
Using Android as a mobile hotspot
And while I used the connection during the day for E-Mail, research, chat with colleagues, etc., in the evening I was listening my music via Google Music (Beta) or I watched German TV through my Slingboxes at home and the installed SlingPlayer Mobile for Android. Later on, I've also brought a MHL HDMI adapter to Luanda which allowed me to connect the Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Flyer to the common room flat screen as well as to my sleeping room flat TV.
For sure I've also installed Skype on the Android phones and tablets because Skype was used in the office for chat. But for sure I've also used it to stay in contact with home. Nothing compares to a video call if you are far away for such a long time and calling home was even free of charge. Furthermore I've installed Pinger, which was just released in Germany. For some reasons, I was able to send text messages from my Movicel number to Germany but I never ever received a German SMS on that number. However, Pinger fixed this problem and did it as a workaround since it receives and delivers text messages through a gateway in between. While I received the text messages as a kind of IP push message, my friends and family were able to send messages to a German mobile number.
Final Conclusion
All together I can say that all the (mobile) technology made the trip to Angola very easy for me and my family. It helped me to get my work done there, it entertained me in the evening and it kept me connected to my local colleagues, my friends and my family. Don't know how generations before us did the same without these little helpers but I don't want to miss this kind of mobile technology in my life anymore.
However, it was also a great use case to compare different platforms and as much as I (still) like Windows Phone, it proved how far it is behind Android today and shows that Microsoft has still a long way to go. Mobile technology, mobile phones and smartphones aren't about a simple mobile OS anymore but about the overall packages a user get. Since I had only one SIM card, I had to share the SIM card's data connection with my devices like my Notebook and tablet. And since Windows Phone wasn't supporting tethering at that time (which it is supporting now with Windows Phone 7), it was relatively fast out of the scope for me. Furthermore, Google Maps, Google Translate and Google Goggles are services which are either not available on Windows Phone or not as useful as on Android. And maybe you understand now why I like niche technologies like wireless DLNA and MHL HDMI that much. For me it was way more than just a geeky piece of technology but something really useful!
Now I'm back in Germany which I missed a lot while I was in Angola. However, now I'm also missing Angola a little bit since I made great friendships there and really hope that I will return sometime again. Nevertheless, until I will return, I'm back on duty here at the::unwired to bring you the latest news and views from the mobile world.
Cheers ~ Arne
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June 22, 2009
How Good Should an Artificial Intelligence in an Electronic Catan Game Be?
If someone had asked me this question roughly half a year ago, I would have answered: Of course it has to be as good as possible. A computer opponent can never be a substitute for a human player in a Catan game on a real game board, so it should at least be able to play well. What's missing in a game against computer opponents are emotions: …
June 16, 2009
The Vikings and Catan
When I started developing "The Settlers of Catan" in the early nineties, I was inspired by the Vikings. The story of the men and women of early medieval Scandinavia had already captivated me as a child. Maybe those high-quality plastic Viking figures manufactured by the company Hausser were to blame for it; I received them as a gift when I was 10 or 11 years old. …
April 17, 2002
Two brothers: "Entdecker" and "The Settlers of Catan"
Early in my childhood, I was extremely fascinated by discovery stories. Since I began designing board games, I felt the desire to experience the elements of discovery and development (settlement) in a game. I began to explore these themes with increasing intensity. Finally, in the early Nineties I started out with the development of my first prototype. …
April 5, 2002
How Obelix Turned into a Squirrel
I am a huge Asterix fan, so you can imagine that 10 years ago, I was very proud when Ravensburger Verlag published one of my games under the title "Asterix und die Römer" (Asterix and the Romans). And of course, the objective of the game was to beat up as many Roman soldiers as possible - did you expect anything else? …


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Wondering if my following question is an application of information theory:
Lets say we have a factory and ship boxes of stuff outside. If a competitor stands outside my factory, observes the stream of boxes coming out of a factory and note their sizes, he can get valuable information about my manufacturing process. So in order to hoodwink him, I manually expand the boxes to sizes different than the original ones. In order to make sure that I am doing a good job at masking the original size distribution from the resultant distribution, I must make sure that I maximize relative entropy between output distribution q and input distribution p, given that I cannot just create a uniform output distribution. Is this premise correct? Do you find any flaw in the question?
The constraint, of course, is that we must use minimum amount of box material. In other words, sum of box sizes for a unit period of time must not exceed a threshold B.
i.e. $\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{i}{BS_i}}{T} \le B$
Other constraints are:
1] Both p and q must be probability distributions i.e. sum up to 1
2] $BS_i \le MS$, where MS is the maximum size of a box.
If we take $BS_i$ as the size of the $i^{th}$ box, then we have an optimization function applying Lagrange multiplier $\lambda$:
$ \Lambda(BS_i,\lambda,p,q) = D(q||p) + \lambda (\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{i}{BS_i}}{T} - B) $ $ = \sum_{S=1}^{n}{q(S) \log \frac{q(S)}{p(S)}} + \lambda (\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{i}{BS_i}}{T} - B)$
$ = \sum_{S=1}^{n}{q(S) \log q(S)} -\sum_{S=1}^{n}{q(S) \log p(S)} + \lambda (\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{i}{BS_i}}{T} - B)$
To proceed: Lets say we at the $i^{th}$ iteration. We know the actual box sizes that we already sent out for 1...i-1 iterations, and the actual size of the present box. i.e. $BS_0..BS_i$ are known, and hence p(BS) can be calculated and hence is a known value. We know the output box sizes till the $i-1^{th}$ iteration.
So, we have,
$ \Lambda(BS_i,\lambda,q) = \sum_{S=1}^{n}{q(S) \log q(S)} -\sum_{S=1}^{n}{k*q(S) } + \lambda (\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{i}{BS_i}}{T} - B) $
How do we now solve the optimization function, in order to get the output box size for this $i^{th} iteration?
We have, $\frac{\partial\Lambda}{\partial BS_i} = 0$, $\frac{\partial\Lambda}{\partial q(S)} = 0$, and $\frac{\partial\Lambda}{\partial \lambda} = 0$
The pertial differentiation wrt $\lambda$ results in a trivial solution. Since q(S) is dependent on $BS_i$, we will get a factor of $\frac{\partial q(S)}{\partial BS_i}$ in the other two equations.
How do I proceed from here? What I am thinking wrong?


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3-27-09 Travel Day
I have landed in Tampa, FL after a hectic day of traveling.
My dad and I are planning on attending some Spring Training games this weekend in the Tampa area. This will be the third consecutive year we've come to Spring Training games here. However, this will be the first year that I attempt to snag anything.
Our plane was scheduled to leave Pittsburgh at 7:36pm and land in Atlanta at 9:20pm. Then, we would catch our connecting flight at 10:05pm and arrive in Tampa at 11:30pm. However, upon checking in, we were told that our plane would be delayed, and we likely would not land in time to make our connecting flight. We were told that if this happens, we would have to stay over night in Atlanta and catch a plane Saturday morning. Thanks a lot Airtran. I was pretty mad.
I sat in Pittsburgh International Airport and watched the minutes tick away. I got on the internet and listening to the Pirates and Blue Jays game on mlb.tv. Eventually our plane arrived. We had to wait for everyone to disembark from the plane and for the plane to be serviced. Our plane ended up taking off over an hour late. One positive to come of the situation was that the plane was half full, so we were able to move our seats so we could have plenty of room. When I boarded the plane, I heard, "Hey Jabs! What's up!" It was Audell, who as a high school kid I used to play basketball with every day at the YMCA and Welty Street School. Back in the day, I used to be a great basketball player. I had a mean inside game and could easily dunk. I didn't recognize him at first, but it was cool to see an old friend after 10 years.
Our plane landed in Atlanta around 10:35ish. Our connecting flight was due to take off at 10:05. We rushed off the plane and found that our connecting flight was at gate D4. Luckily, gate D4 was only 2 gates away from where we disembarked. However, not a soul was to be found.
The plane had already boarded, and I guess they were waiting for us. As we were hustling to the desk by the boarding entrance we heard them paging "Customer Jabs to D4" over the loudspeaker.
We had made it. Our time in Hartsfield International Airport: maybe 2 minutes.
We arrived in Tampa around midnight, picked up our rental car, and got to the hotel at 1:16am. It is a Days Inn and it's kind of dumpy. There are cigarette burns in my blanket. It doesn't matter though. I'm here to see some baseball games and snag some balls.
By the way, spring training balls do not count in my season totals.


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The IAEA concludes there is no evidence of a weapons programme. 2004 June - Iran is rebuked by the IAEA for failing to fully cooperate with an inquiry into its nuclear activities. November - Iran agrees to suspend most of its uranium enrichment under a deal with the EU. 2005 August-September - Tehran says it has resumed uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant and insists the programme is for peaceful purposes. The IAEA finds Iran in violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 2006 January - Iran breaks IAEA seals at its Natanz nuclear research facility. February - IAEA votes to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities. Iran resumes uranium enrichment at Natanz. April - Iran says it has succeeded in enriching uranium at its Natanz facility. 31 August - UN Security Council deadline for Iran to halt its work on nuclear fuel passes. IAEA says Tehran has failed to suspend the program. December -UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology. Iran condemns the resolution and vows to speed up uranium enrichment work. 2007 Ahmadinejad confirms Iran's ability to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale [GALLO/GETTY] February - IAEA says Iran failed to meet a deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, exposing Tehran to possible new sanctions. April - President Ahmadinejad says Iran can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale. IAEA says Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant. It also says that Iran has started up more than 1,300 centrifuge machines. May - IAEA says Iran could develop a nuclear weapon in three to eight years if it so chooses. June - Protests erupt after government imposes petrol rationing amid fears of possible UN sanctions. Iran agrees to allow inspectors to visit the Arak nuclear plant following talks with the IAEA. 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August - Informal deadline set by western officials for Iran to respond to package of incentives in return for halt in nuclear activities passes without reply. Iran says it has successfully launched a test rocket capable of carrying a satellite into space. September - UN Security Council passes unanimously a new resolution reaffirming demands that Iran stop enriching uranium, but imposes no new sanctions. The text was agreed after Russia said it would not support further sanctions. November - In an unprecedented move, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulates US president-elect Barack Obama on his election win. Obama offers to open unconditional dialogue with Iran about its nuclear programme. 2009 February - Speaking on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, Ahmadinejad says he would welcome talks with the US as long as they are based on "mutual respect". March - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei tells anti-Israel rally that Obama is following the "same misguided track" in Middle East as Bush. May - Iran rejects a US state department report saying it remains the "most active state sponsor of terrorism" in the world. September - Iran admits that it is building a uranium enrichment plant near Qom, but insists it is for peaceful purposes The country test-fires a series of medium and longer-range missiles that put Israel and US bases in the Gulf within potential striking range. October - Five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany offer Iran proposal to enrich its uranium abroad. November - Iran refuses to accept the international proposal to end the dispute over its nuclear programme. UN nuclear watchdog IAEA passes a resolution condemning Iran for developing a second uranium enrichment site in secret. 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The European Union announces a ban on Iranian oil, along with sanctions against Iran's central bank. February - Ahmadinejad unveils what is said to be Iran's first domestically produced, 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel for Tehran's research reactor and says 3,000 more centrifuges had been added to the uranium enrichment effort. Iran also activated a new generation of centrifuges that it said increased its enrichment capacity by three times. The chief UN nuclear inspector returns from a second visit to Iran, saying his team was not given access to the Parchin military site where Tehran is alleged to have carried out tests aimed at developing nuclear warheads March - Global powers offer to resume talks with Tehran. April - World powers and Iran meet again in Istanbul to discuss Tehran's promised "new initiatives" on its nuclear activities. May - Talks among Iran and six world powers stall. 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Pine Hill Hutterite Colony (Penhold, Alberta, Canada)
Pine Hill Hutterite Bruderhof near Penhold, Alberta, belonging to the Dariusleut branch, was a daughter colony of Lakeside Hutterite Colony. In 1950 the population was 86 with Peter Hofer as head preacher.
Daughter colonies of Pine Hill include: Box Elder Hutterite Colony (Maple Creek, Saskatchewan); Leedale Hutterite Colony (Rimbey, Alberta); and Rainbow Hutterite Colony (Innisfail, Alberta).
In 2012 the Pine Hill Hutterite Colony was a Dariusleut colony. The minister was Peter Hofer and the manager was Sam Hofer.
Additional Information
Location: Penhold, Alberta (coordinates: 52.149722, -114.076111 [52° 08' 59" N, 114° 04' 34" W])
Address: R. R. 4, Red Deer, AB T4N 5E4
Telephone: 403-886-2184
Map:Pine Hill Hutterite Colony, Penhold, Alberta
|Nanne van der Zijpp
|Bert Friesen
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|April 2013
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van der Zijpp, Nanne and Bert Friesen. "Pine Hill Hutterite Colony (Penhold, Alberta, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. April 2013. Web. 2 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pine_Hill_Hutterite_Colony_(Penhold,_Alberta,_Canada)&oldid=67148.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne and Bert Friesen. (April 2013). Pine Hill Hutterite Colony (Penhold, Alberta, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 2 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pine_Hill_Hutterite_Colony_(Penhold,_Alberta,_Canada)&oldid=67148.
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Dinner Tonight: Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe and Goat Cheese Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Whenever the words "orecchiette" and "broccoli rabe" appear together in a sentence, my mind always races to the inevitable "sausage" addition. There is a reason for this: the bitter greens need some fat for balance and sausage does a really good job at this. I've written about the pairing before, so I was intrigued when this recipe from Saveur didn't end with sausage, but with goat cheese. How would that work out?
The goat cheese is added towards the end, so it looks all delicate and beautiful. It hangs together for a couple of minutes before eventually breaking down into the pasta, forming a creamy sauce.
The result is somewhere between the traditional sausage-based recipe and mac and cheese, multiplied by vegetables. My wife loved the creamy texture and the hint of lemon zest. I found it, honestly, a little heavy and pined for the lighter touch of sausage. That's probably the first time "lighter" and "sausage" have been in the same sentence together.
- Yield:3 to 4
- 1 pound broccoli rabe, chopped
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 6 garlic cloves, chopped
- 3/4 teaspoon crush red chile flakes
- 12 ounces orecchiette
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest
- 4 ounces goat cheese, sliced
- Salt
Pour about 8 quarts of water into a large pot, add a few tablespoons of salt, and bring it to a boil. Toss in the broccoli rabe and cook for 4 minutes. Remove it with a pair of tongs and immediately toss it in some ice water. Chill for a few minutes then drain and pat dry.
Meanwhile, bring the pot of water back to a boil and cook the orecchiette according to the directions on the box. Taste the pasta with a minute left on the timer. If al dente, turn off the heat, drain the pasta, and transfer it to the skillet. Turn the heat to high, add the lemon zest, and season with salt. Cook for a minute, stirring constantly.
Transfer the pasta to bowls or plates. Add a bit of goat cheese to each one. Serve.
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An alligator was seized from an alleged Jessup gang member's home after Anne Arundel County police executed a search warrant in a drug investigation.
The three-foot American Alligator, along with $3,000 worth of marijuana, cash and other items were taken from a home in the 7500 block of Gleneagle Drive on Friday.
Alligators are not permitted in a residence and animal control was called to the home. Police said the alligator was healthy and was taken to a facility for exotic animals.
Police believe the resident, Michael Golden, 32, is associated with the Dead Man Inc. street gang.
He was charged with possession with intent to distribute and possession of marijuana. He could face additional charges pending related to the other unknown substances taken from the home.


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EPA Coal Regulation Listening Tour Accused of Skipping Coal Country
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, October 23, that it would be holding listening sessions across the U.S. to get feedback on proposed coal plant regulations. The problem, according to a press release from the Montana Attorney General's office, is that the tour "skips coal country altogether."
The cities with listening sessions are all large urban centers that occur almost entirely in states without a significant coal extraction base. The itinerary includes New York City, Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC, Dallas, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Chicago, but leaves out major coal states like Montana and Wyoming altogether.
"Montanans care about proposed federal regulations impacting their livelihood, their public schools, their utility rates, their communities, and their environment, and they deserve to be heard on this," Attorney General Tim Fox said. "It's mind boggling that the EPA isn't holding a single session in a state that relies directly on coal for affordable energy, family-wage jobs, and economic development. It's as if the regulators don't want to hear from the hardworking folks who will suffer most under the onerous regulations they're considering. The EPA needs to come here to Montana – to a place like Colstrip or Billings – and listen to what our citizens have to say."
Fox has sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting a listening session in Montana.
According to an EPA spokesman, the reason why only certain cities were chosen is that they happen to be the 10 regional EPA headquarters and Washington D.C.
The EPA Region 8 (Montana is Region 8) listening session will occur on October 30 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If Montanans would like to listen in they can call 1 866 299 9141 after which they will need to use the password 539 21 073 # in order to stay on the line. There is supposed to be a line for callers to also voice their opinions between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m., however, the EPA did not yet have the line number finalized.


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Kulfi can be called the Indian Summer sweet. Every one relishes it specially with falooda (sweet noodles) and Khus or Rooh-Afza. There is another type of kulfi I came across, the matka kulfi. As a lot of relatives are coming over to visit me, I decided to give Matka Kulfi a try to ease the Chennai May heat. All you need are small matka which are clay pots. They are easily available at any pot maker. Just make sure the mouth of the pots is big enough to scoop out the ice-cream.
Preparation Time – 30 mins (4-5 hours for freezing)
Servings – 20
1 liter milk
3-4 Alphonso mangoes
4-5 tbsp sugar
½ can condensed milk
¼ cup milk powder
¼ cup almonds, chopped
¼ cup pistachios, chopped
Boil the milk and let it simmer at low flame. Add sugar, milk powder and condensed milk and let the milk cook till it becomes thick (approximately 15-20 mins) while stirring continuously. Turn off the heat and let the milk cool.
Peel the mangoes and separate the pulp. Blend in a mixer. Add the almonds, pistachios and mango puree to the milk. Pour in the matkas. Cover with aluminium foil and tie with a rubber band or a thread.
Chill for 4-5 hours till kulfi is set. Serve chilled.
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