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so in theory it shouldn't be extremely hard to reverse-engineer
On my system, snd-usb-audio modules (including snd_usb_audio, snd_usbmidi_lib, snd_rawmidi) are probed automatically as soon as the minibrute is plugged in. You may have to rmmod these module (sudo rmmod snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi) before launching the app... As a consequence, it's not possible to use the MIDI interface at the same time as the configuration panel...
cd <DownloadLocation>tar xvfz minibruteUI-0.0.1.tar.gzcd minibruteUI-0.0.1./configure --prefix=/home/<YourUsername>/usr makemake install
Two other workarounds that probably would be feasible for Arturia to implement would be, one, to allow the parameters to be edited via the hardware MIDI port, and two, to somehow make a method to change the settings on the synth itself. The first one should be an easy thing to do, the second, maybe a little less so, but that would be the ideal solution IMO.
Attachments awaiting approval * minibruteUI (54.72 kB - downloaded 0 times.) * minibruteUI-0.0.1.tar.gz (105.29 kB - downloaded 0 times.)
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
claim interface failed: Device or resource busy.
The app recognizes my Minibrute now, ("Minibrute Found !" or "No Minibrute :-(" if it's not connected) but after that a error displays, which I can't fix:Code: [Select]claim interface failed: Device or resource busy.Anyone any ideas?


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Prosciutto-wrapped chicken & leek terrine
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal322
- fat17g
- saturates5g
- carbs4g
- sugars2g
- fibre2g
- protein39g
- salt1.09g
- 4 leeks, sliced
Like garlic and onion, leeks are a member of the allium family, but have their own distinct…
- 4 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing
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- 400g mixed wild mushroom, cleaned and sliced if large
- 2 whole garlic cloves
- few thyme sprigs
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- 4 gelatine leaves
- 300ml strong chicken stock (see Know-how, below)
- 10 slices prosciutto
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- 800g cooked skinless chicken meat (see Know-how, below)
While it's the traditional Christmas bird, turkey is good to eat all year round, though…
- 2 handfuls of a mix of chervil, flat-leaf parsley and tarragon leaves, chopped
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- small salad leaves, to serve
- spiced pears, to serve (see recipe, below)
Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
Gently cook the leeks for 15 mins in 2 tbsp olive oil until soft, then set aside to cool. In the remaining oil, fry the mushrooms with the garlic and thyme for 2 mins, then set aside to cool. Soak the gelatine in cold water, then heat the stock. Dissolve the gelatine in the stock, season, then set aside. Gather all the ingredients so you have them to hand when you start to assemble the terrine.
Line a terrine dish or loaf tin with cling flim. Line with slices of prosciutto so that they overlap to cover the base and sides, and overhang the edges.
Wet the bottom of the dish with a drizzle of stock. Arrange a single layer of chicken so that everything is even – don't worry about any gaps – then pour over a little more stock.
Scatter over a layer of mushrooms (discarding the garlic and thyme). Season with salt and pepper, then moisten again with a little more stock.
Add more chicken followed by a layer of leeks, another layer of chicken, then the herbs. Drizzle stock between every layer and season with salt and pepper as you go. Repeat until all the ingredients are used up or the terrine is full to the brim. Finish with a final scattering of herbs, a last ladleful of stock, then tap the dish down a few times so that the stock gets into all the gaps.
Fold the prosciutto over to encase the terrine. Fold the cling film over and press down gently. Sit the terrine in a dish to catch any juices. Lay a tray on top, weigh it down with a can and chill overnight. Twenty mins before serving, remove the tray. Put the terrine in the freezer to firm. Just before serving, lift it out of the dish. Wrap it tightly in more cling film.
Carefully slice the terrine, still wrapped in its cling film. Remove the cling film and place a slice in the centre of each plate. Arrange chunks of spiced pear (recipe below) around terrine. Drizzle a little chicken poaching liquid around the plate, then drizzle with a tiny bit of oil. Neatly scatter a few baby salad leaves over the pear, then season the terrine with some sea salt and pepper before serving.
Recipe Tip
Spiced pearsBring 200g light muscovado sugar and 300ml cider vinegar to the boil with 4 bay leaves, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Peel and cut 750g firm pears into small chunks, then simmer for 5 mins until just starting to soften. Turn off the heat, then leave to cool until ready to serve. Keeps for a week in an airtight container.
Recipe Tip
Know-howPlace 1 large chicken in a stockpot with roughly chopped carrot, leek, onion and celery plus sprig each thyme and parsley. Cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 hrs, skimming off any froth. Once cooked, leave to cool, then remove chicken. Strain stock and pick chicken meat off the bones. The stock will need to be reduced further by two-thirds to reach the required level of flavour, for 300ml strong stock you will need to start with about 1 litre of light stock.


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Here's a checklist of information to gather before you apply for health coverage at $EXCHANGE.
- Social Security numbers for you and other members of your household who will be covered by your insurance plan
- Policy numbers for any current health insurance plans
- Documents to help you calculate your annual income. Include all sources, such as employment, pensions, alimony, rental property, or other income. If you have a job, gather together pay stubs or W-2 forms. If you're self-employed, have last year's tax return handy, as well other records that can help you estimate your yearly income.
- If you or anyone in your household is eligible for job-based health insurance, a completed Employer Coverage Tool for each available plan
- A good idea of your budget for health insurance, so you know how much you can afford to spend each month. This will help you choose the best plan from among those offered to you.
HealthCare.gov offers an Application Checklist you can print to help you keep track of everything you'll need to sign up.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Carrion Farm 2010
Posted by Rot at 6:25 AM
Labels: atmosphere, carrion farm, corn stalks, corpses, farm, gore, lighting, yard haunt, yard haunts
3 comments:
- NoahFentz said...
NICE! I love it!!There's nothing more creepy than a good ol' farm haunt.
- February 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM
- Rot said...
And you can't beat the name Carrion Farm. Love it.
- February 14, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- ShellHawk said...
Great find, Rot!
Carrion Farm is awesome. I like the Body Farm, too, though the name seems to have been taken for awhile, now! ;o)
- February 14, 2011 at 10:59 AM
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It's obvious that the motives of Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown were political when they passed a bill, as part of the budget, to move initiatives that amend the constitution to the top of the November ballot, ahead of statutory initiatives.
The main beneficiary of this policy change would be Brown's temporary-tax-hike initiative, which is backed by the Democratic establishment, because it's one of only two constitutional amendments on a ballot dominated by initiatives that merely change statues.
The state is going to face lawsuits for this political trick. But leave the politics aside: sometimes good things can happen for bad reasons. Is there policy merit to moving constitutional amendments to the top of the ballot?
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My answer: yes and no. There is a good argument for such a change -- and two good arguments against it. Let's look at all three.
The Pro Argument
Constitutional amendments are a big deal, and they should get serious, special consideration, because California's constitution is so hard to change. But previous to this bill, the ballot design did not distinguish between initiatives that merely change laws and initiatives that change the constitution.
This change, by putting constitutional amendments at the top of the ballot, provides a little more clarity. Because initiatives at the top of the ballot are perceived as receiving more scrutiny (though the political science is far from conclusive on this), putting constitutional amendments there makes some sense.
Of course, this change is a half-measure. The ballot initiatives will still be listed by number, and it may not be apparent to voters that the top measures are constitutional amendments.
It would be better to make it plain on the ballot -- perhaps by separating the measures from each other, instead of keeping the measures in a long list, with the constitutional changes first.
The Con Arguments
Putting constitutional amendments first is considered a political advantage, particularly on a long ballot. Conventional wisdom is that people are more likely to vote no the further they go down the list of measures.
But should California be giving advantages to constitutional amendments? No, it shouldn't. It's already too easy to amend the constitution -- it's a big reason why the document is one of the longest constitutions in the world, and why the document is so convoluted.
Indeed, giving an advantage to constitutional amendments could encourage some initiative sponsors who previously were content to change the law to attempt constitutional change instead. In other words, this change would be an incentive to pursue constitutional amendments -- at a time when California needs to make it harder to pursue constitutional amendments.
The change makes things easier for the richest people and interest groups, who are already have too much power in the initiative process. Qualifying a constitutional amendment is much more expensive than qualifying a statute. So giving an advantage to constitutional amendments -- in ballot order -- simply gives an additional boost to the richest initiative sponsors.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
April 28, 2012
Goldman Sachs – via economist Jim O'Neill – invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the "Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept."
Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world's top five economies.
Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea and, yes, nuclear Iran: BRIIICTSS? Despite its well-known problems as a nation under economic siege, Iran is also motoring along as part of the N-11, yet another distilled concept. (It stands for the next 11 emerging economies.)
The multitrillion-dollar global question remains: Is the emergence of BRICS a signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?
Yale's canny historian Paul Kennedy (of "imperial overstretch" fame) is convinced that we either are about to cross or have already crossed a "historical watershed" taking us far beyond the post-Cold War unipolar world of "the sole superpower." There are, argues Kennedy, four main reasons for that: the slow erosion of the US dollar (formerly 85% of global reserves, now less than 60%), the "paralysis of the European project," Asia rising (the end of 500 years of Western hegemony), and the decrepitude of the United Nations.
The Group of Eight (G-8) is already increasingly irrelevant. The G-20, which includes the BRICS, might, however, prove to be the real thing. But there's much to be done to cross that watershed rather than simply be swept over it willy-nilly: the reform of the UN Security Council, and above all, the reform of the Bretton Woods system, especially those two crucial institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
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You did a complete uninstall of the installer version and deleted the xampp folder before extracting the zipped version?dominicsayers wrote:Well, instaling from the .zip was no better. But I did at least read the README this time. There it says "There it must be on the highest level like E:\ or W:\"
My install was to E:\apps\xampp
I guess this is why it doesn't work. I'm disappointed. This didn't seem to be a problem in 1.7.3 and before. It seems a little bit of a backward step for it to be a problem now.
FWIW, I don't really want an xampp folder in the root of my drive. I'm a tidy person. All my other non-native apps are quite happy in E:\apps.
Your welcome jfpannone, and thanks for the feed back.jfpannone wrote:I'm glad to see this post generated a lot of discussion...since "installation" without the installer (unzipped to top level (D:) drive) I haven't had a single issue. Thanks for all the help Sharley!
1.7.5 (next version) is in beta and can be downloaded and tested from the beta web page here:jfpannone wrote:hopefully the next version will fix this and any other issues relative to win7 x64.
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Iv recompiled my program now, after about 500 edits ;-) and is working, but...
Im getting some strange comparison results.
I have a pretty low level text comparator that also does a little parsing on some of the input.
Dotted throughout the comparator is code like the following:
if( temp[pos] == 'p' || temp[pos] == 'P' ){
Is it necessary for me to prefix _T() or L on character literals too?
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Last month's column was devoted to the numerous British actors and actresses whose American accents in films can be described as, to use American lingo, awesome.
In the interest of fair play, this month's column will be devoted to the far from numerous American actors and actresses whose British accents in films can be described as, to use British lingo, smashing.
But first, let me digress.
While researching this column, I found an article by Rebecca Shuman that appeared in the Sept. 15, 2016, edition of Slate, a daily Web magazine.
In the article, Shuman wonders why Brits do such a spot-on job with American accents in movies while Americans' attempt at British accents leaves a lot to be desired. Exhibit A: Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins." Exhibit B: Kevin Costner's alleged accent in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." Exhibits C through Z: Keanu Reeves' unholy accent in "Bram Stoker's Dracula." To avoid these embarrassments, American thespians often prefer to not even try to affect an accent. Even if the film's setting is in the UK and their character is British and everyone else in the film is British, they'll speak like they were born in Dubuque.
In the article, dialect coach Bob Corff provides an answer to this American axing of accents.
"Trained English actors," Corff explains, "learn very early on that if they can't do standard American accents, they will not have an international career. A lot of their training is much more intense than the training in America."
Since this "international" market is often an American market, why should Americans bother learning accents outside their borders?
Then there's the haughtiness factor.
"Americans," Corff says, "often 'just can't believe' that getting a new accent down 'would be something that difficult that it would be a problem for them.' They'd be wrong," Shuman writes.
"Mastering an accent takes a veritable (British swearword here) of work," Shuman continues. "American actors," Corff said, "'could do' British accents—but the parameters of their careers usually mean they're 'not as compelled to have to.'"
The good news is that a handful of American thespians have been compelled to execute proper British accents. Due to space limitations, we'll randomly list our Top 10, though assuredly there are more.
MERYL STREEP in "The Iron Lady." The Queen Mother of accents, Streep won her third Oscar playing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Not bad for a lass born from Summit, New Jersey. We should point out that Streep was classically trained, receiving an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. As did Paris Hilton. OK, maybe not.
RENEE ZELLWEGER in the "Bridget Jones's Diary" films and "Miss Potter." In the former film, to play Miss Jones, she not only had the perfect British accent she had to gain 20 pounds. She received an Oscar nomination for the performance. In the latter film she played British writer Beatrix Potter, author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit." Zellweger would win an Oscar for her role in "Cold Mountain." Perfecting a North Carolina accent for that film probably came easier for the Texas-born actress.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. in the "Sherlock Holmes" films and "Chaplin." He was nominated for an Oscar for the latter as he portrayed the famed British director. The New York-born Downey was also nominated for an Oscar for his performance in "Tropic Thunder" where he played an Australian actor playing an African-American in black face. Totally offensive yet hysterically funny. If Downey doesn't win an Oscar one of these days, it would be "a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham," to quote Sir Woody Allen.
GWYNETH PALTROW in "Emma" and "Shakespeare in Love." In the former, she played the title character from the Jane Austen novel. In the latter, she won an Oscar playing a character who falls in love with the Bard. Nice literary connections for the L.A.-born actress. She also played the American poet Sylvia Plath in "Sylvia." Her next role will be as William F. Buckley. OK, maybe not.
JOHNNY DEPP in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, "Finding Neverland, "Alice through the Looking Glass" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." He received Oscar nominations for every film listed here except "Alice through the Looking Glass." In the "Pirates" series, the Oscar nod was for "The Curse of the Black Pearl." He even sings with a British accent in "Todd." To say the Kentucky-born Depp is versatile is like saying a tidal wave is wet. An Oscar better come his way, too.
ANGELINA JOLIE in the "Tomb Raider" films and "Maleficent." The L.A. born Oscar-winning actress can play swashbuckling Brits and spell-casting Brits with equal aplomb. Her accent in "Alexander," however, can prompt some head-scratching basically because no one knows what accent it really is. At least it's better than her father's Spanish accent in "Anaconda" where Jon Voight channels Ricky Ricardo and definitely has a lot of 'esplanin' to do.
HARRY SHEARER, CHRISTOPHER GUEST and MICHAEL McKEAN in "This is Spinal Tap." As members of the eponymous British heavy metal band, this American-born trio leaves no rolling stone unturned as they mercilessly lampoon rock 'n' roll's predilection for pretentiousness. When watching this mock doc, set the volume of the laugh meter at 11.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON in "The Other Boleyn Girl." In this aristocratic drama, the New York-born Johansson plays the more fortunate sister of Anne Boleyn, who is portrayed by Israeli-born Natalie Portman. There's no distinguishing whose British accent is head and shoulders above the other's, so to speak.
LAKE BELL in "Man Up." The British newspaper The Telegraph praised Bell's British accent in this film. Say no more, to quote Eric Idle, say no more.
SEAN ASTIN in "The Lord of the Rings" films. From "Goonies" to Gollum, there's a career trajectory for you. The California-born Astin comes by his acting chops honestly – and naturally - as his New York-born mother was the late actress Patty Duke, who tried her hand at a British accent on "The Patty Duke Show." Ready to sing the theme song? Sure you are:
Meet Cathy, who's lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Patty's only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights -
What a crazy pair!
Get Reel: With accents, it's no thanks, yanks
Last month's column was devoted to the numerous British actors and actresses whose American accents in films can be described as, to use American lingo, awesome.


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St. Margaret's ruled this division with an iron fist last year, taking out 40% of the De Anza League en route to the division and, eventually, the small-school state title. Can anyone take them out this time around?
No. 1 St. Margaret's 38, Santa Paula 6
Chatsworth Sierra Canyon at Aquinas
This is basically a coinflip, as Sierra Canyon was second in the Alpha League with an 8-2 record while Aquinas won its third straight Christian League title in thrilling fashion over Ontario Christian. It's been a bit of an up-and-down ride for the Falcons thus far this season and I'm not quite sure if they'll be able to outfight Sierra Canyon.
Sierra Canyon 27, Aquinas 20
Los Angeles Brentwood 31, Bishop 14
Yucca Valley at No. 4 Fillmore
Yucca Valley doesn't have a pretty record, but it does have another berth in the East Valley playoffs. The Trojans opened some eyes in the playoffs a year ago, winning their first-round game and giving St. Margaret's a struggle in the second round, but I have a hard time seeing them repeating that trick this year.
Fillmore 33, Yucca Valley 13
Oak Hills at No. 3 Kern Valley
Oak Hills isn't your typical first-year program – or your typical at-large freelance cannon fodder squad. The Bulldogs are 8-2 and have some pretty big wins, so they won't be intimidated by a 9-1 Kern Valley squad. And quite frankly, I think Oak Hills is too young to realize that it shouldn't be doing this well. I smell an "upset".
Oak Hills 38, Kern Valley 27
Newport Beach Sage Hill 23, Simi Valley Grace Brethren 21
Ontario Christian at Twentynine Palms
How quickly can the Knights recover from their heartbreaking loss to Aquinas? That's the million-dollar question for Ontario Christian, as Twentynine Palms has been a Christian League-killer over the past few seasons. The Wildcats are surging, winning six in a row and went to the finals a year ago. I don't see Ontario Christian doing well here.
Twentynine Palms 34, Ontario Christian 13
No. 2 Pasadena Maranatha 40, Lebec Frazier Mountain 7
St. Margaret's over Sierra Canyon
Brentwood over Fillmore
Oak Hills over Sage Hill
Maranatha over Twentynine Palms
St. Margaret's over Brentwood
Maranatha over Oak Hills
St. Margaret's over Maranatha


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Parade of Lefties
The boys of Manuel are back home and good there is no game scheduled today because the weather is cold and rainy.
Trip (3-4) ended yesterday with back-to-back losses, the first since April 18-19. Dropped the first series in the last six.
Time to regroup as the Braves come to town tomorrow night, the first of three night games. First, Atlanta has two games in Pittsburgh tonight.
Going into that twinbill, Atlanta is 4-13 on the road, last in the majors. At home they are 14-4, best in the majors.
Atlanta is scheduled to parade out three lefties, Jo-Jo Reyes, Tom Glavine and Chuck James. Prior to the same rotation on May 8-9-10, the last time they did that (started three consecutive lefties) was June 4-5-6, 1997, Glavine, Denny Neagle and Terrell Wade. Eleven years later, Glavine is still going and going and going.
The Phillies are 8-6 against lefties but hitting only .235. Ken Mandel has documented their offense struggles versus LHP in a separate story on this site.
Wednesday night's game will be on national TV, ESPN.
Crowds are expected to be in the mid-to upper 30s.
Minor League Notes
Phillies pitching prospects are among the top strikeout pitchers in all of the minor leagues.
Going into tonight's minor league games:
1. RHP Drew Naylor, Lakewood 62
2. LHP Antonio Bastardo, Clearwater-Reading 58
4. LHP J. A. Happ, Lehigh Valley 56
June Draft
The annual first-year player draft is 23 days away. The Phillies have three picks in the top 50 and six in the first 107.


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I'm a sucker for historical places. I love seeing old architecture. One of the best places to see well preserved Edo Period architecture is in Kawagoe, Saitama. The city is sometimes called Koedo, or Little Edo, because it has so much Edo Period buildings. There are also many temples and shrines. I didn't have enough time to see everything I wanted to see, so I'll have to go back again to see more. Please enjoy the pictures!
If you have a chance to visit Kawagoe, I definitely recommend it. The street that most of this is on goes north from the east side of Honkawagoe Station. The following map should help. The street I was on goes from Honkawagoe Station up to just west of the Motomachi area. Kashiya Yokocho is west of Motomachi.
This post is also participating in "Show Me Japan #27!"


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'The Walking Dead' Season 5 First Look: Rick Grimes Goes Cage-Free
This past season of 'The Walking Dead' left us on the most cliff-hangery finale yet with the ravenous "A," but we mustn't wait until Comic-Con 2014 for a first look at the fifth season, right? Hooray! Check out Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes looking ready to give the people of Terminus what-for in the first official photo from 'The Walking Dead' season 5!
Granted, there isn't very much to see beyond the knowledge that Andrew Lincoln will once again portray Rick Grimes and carry his usual gruff determination about it. What's interesting, however, is that Rick seems to be emerging from the "A" car in which we last saw the survivors locked at the behest of Terminus leader Gareth, but has he found a means of escape or is Rick being led out to slaughter?
We know of 'The Walking Dead' season 5 that existing stars Christian Serratos (Rosita), Alanna Masterson (Tara) and Andrew J. West (Gareth) have all been upgraded to series regulars, while 'The Wire' vet Seth Gilliam also joined in the regular mysterious role of "Michael Todd," speculated to be a cover for comic character Father Gabriel Stokes. The fifth season of AMC's monster-drama is expected to pick up immediately after the events of season 4 finale "A," and eventually divulge the fates of missing characters Beth, Carol, Tyreese and Judith.
You can check out the full shot from 'The Walking Dead' season 5 below, and tell us what you think in the comments! Will Rick find a way to outthink the (allegedly) human-hungry folk of Terminus?


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Christopher L. Blackford, 39, of Apt. 811 at 131 Fifth St. NE, was also injured,
A man indicted last month on felony domestic violence charges was arrested after he was accused of breaking into a home and assaulting his girlfriend and everyone else there early Tuesday morning.
Christopher L. Blackford, 39, of Apt. 811 at 131 Fifth St. NE, was also injured, Stark County Jail records show.
Jail records said he broke into a home and assaulted the woman and an undisclosed number of other people who were there.
He was arrested at 1:16 a.m. in the 800 block of 12th Street NW and taken to an area hospital to be "medically cleared" before he was jailed, the jail records said.
Blackford already had been wanted on warrants charging him with felony domestic violence and disrupting public services.
Stark County court records show he was indicted on those charges Oct. 16 and a capias warrant was issued for his arrest Nov. 11 when he failed to show up in court.
The court records show he went to prison in 2002 for felony domestic violence and felony inmate harassment, and in 1999 for felony retaliation. He also has been to jail several times for aggravated menacing, the court records show.
Blackford remained in jail early Wednesday, held without bond on felony charges of aggravated burglary, disrupting public services and counts of domestic violence, one of which was the capias warrant issued last week.
Reach Lori at 330-580-8309 or on Twitter: @lmonsewiczREP


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Deep into the bloated innards of the festival season and DiS is headed in a north easterly direction to Norway – again – this time for the arrestingly-titled Øya Festival in Oslo.
The five-day event, which is expected to draw around 60,000 revellers, takes place from August 7-12 in the grand old setting of Oslo's Medieval Park, in a site surrounded by water with three open-air stages. Øya can also lay impressive claim to being Norway's most environmentally sound festival, and ambiguous claim to being Scandinavia's first to offer 100% ecological food. Whatever, we're sure the burgers are lovely.
Among concerns about how exactly one packs a suitcase for Norway in the summer, we're very excited about seeing a range of top-drawer acts from an impressively eclectic bill, including The Jesus & Mary Chain, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Devendra Banhart, Justice, Architecture In Helsinki, Low and Primal Scream, as well as an embarrassment of Scandinavian talent we probably haven't heard of yet but very much hope to get ourselves acquainted with.
Here, then, is random smattering of the acts that will be weaving their aural magic for grateful ear-possessing punters from Tuesday. At the time of writing there is no guarantee that Lily Allen will be guesting onstage with Tool, but we wouldn't bet against it.
For more information, click to the Øya Festival website here and its MySpace page here
Amy Winehouse: Is she too thin? Was she pissed at Glastonbury? Is she currently living under a table in The Hawley Arms? Ms Wino will be answering none of these questions and more as she attempts to prove what all the fuss is about beyond the tabloid feeding frenzy with a hard-hitting set of potty-mouthed soul.
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Fresh from their high profile performance at Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown and a Scarlett Johansson-assisted set at Coachella, and with a loooooong overdue album allegedly in the pipeline, the brothers Reid and co. will bring their unique brand of fuzzy logic to Norway in what should prove a shoe-in for a festival highlight. Who knows, Bobby Gillespie might even show his face.
Devendra Banhart: With rumours of a particularly fine fifth album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, in the offing, we're salivating, nay Slobbering for a definitive dose of wyrd-byrdie roots-ridden majesty from Venezualan warbler Banhart to make our festy. Test Icicle bloke be warned, there's only one Dev in the eccentric folk stakes.
Battles: Their avant-techy-glam-WTF stylings may have divided opinion somewhat among the DiS-readership massif but live is where it's at for the New York four-piece, well allegedly it is anyway, as this sorry-ass scribe failed miserably to beat the queues at ATP to catch 'em play. Still, won't be making that mistake again.
The Go! Team: With a second long-playing dose of heady rock 'n' soul mash-ups due to drop in the very near future (now with added Chuck D!), Brighton's most excitable should prove the prefect tonic for flagging sleep-deprived souls in need of some good old-fashioned booty-shaking action.
Get all the action from the frontline with DiS' blog this week, with a full review of this excellent festival to follow just as soon as we've recovered...


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Marilyn Monroe Coloring Book With 64 Original Line Drawings!
Description: MARILYN MONROE Coloring Book! "COLOR ME MARILYN" – Classic Hollywood Moments BY ARTIST/AUTHOR EMANUEL EMANUELE AVAILABLE AT ALL ONLINE BOOKSELLERS AND FINE STORES NATIONWIDE FROM RUNNING PRESS www.ColorMeMarilyn.com 64 Original Line Drawings Commemorate Moments in Marilyn's Life "Color Me Marilyn" – Classic Hollywood Moments is a unique and entertaining coloring book from artist/author Emanuel Emanuele was released August 3, 2010 from Running Press and has become an entertainment/collectible best seller online. An introduction and captions for each of the 64 drawings by Emanuele tell the story of Marilyn Monroe in chronological order. Emanuele, a Hollywood artist and author who specializes in drawing Hollywood icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, is an ardent Marilyn fan and serious collector of Hollywood memorabilia. Each page is printed only on one side and perforated for easy framing and sharing. The coloring book will provide hours of activity, entertainment, creativity and fun! Color Me Marilyn – Classic Hollywood Moments is available online at all major book sellers' websites and in local bookstores and major book store chains as well as gift and card shops. For more information please visit: www.ColorMeMarilyn.com ### Press Contact: David Roberson Roberson Public Relations [email protected] 310-925-8786
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The Laundry Man
What is his secret? What separates Thomas Keller from the rest? What makes him one of the most gifted chefs creating in America today?
His kitchen offers clues, even at 11 in the morning. The place is immaculate, every burnished silver pot and pan is in its place, every sous chef and every preparer is trained, coiffed and busy at his station. Thanks to large skylights and windows that open out to the distant vineyards, the light coming in is natural and soothing, and even with all the activity, the kitchen is remarkably quiet, almost reverential. Immediately you know that this is a place for serious work, and you also know that nothing here is left to chance. It is all part of a single guiding ethos, a quest for perfection, a place where second best will never do.
And then there's the man himself. At 46, Keller is tall and handsome, with a strong build and a rugged jaw. As he moves in and out of the kitchen, overseeing preparations for the day's performance, Keller's demeanor is calm and focused; he seems completely in command and at ease in his domain. In conversation, too, he is tightly focused and surprisingly self-effacing, despite his towering reputation and the fabled finesse of his creations. He comes across, instead, as a regular guy, a man's man, a fellow who nine times out of ten would skip the Kir Royale in favor of a hearty, honest Beaujolais. But there is a whole other dimension to Keller, and it comes to the fore when he moves into the garden and starts talking about his love affair with the French Laundry.
It began back in 1992. A friend told him the place was for sale, and Keller drove to Yountville, in the heart of the Napa Valley, to have a look. "It was a Monday and the place was closed," Keller recalls. "There was nobody around; I didn't go inside. But I walked along the walkway and saw an antique rosebush. Further along I saw antique wooden benches in front of a window. I immediately had an emotional contact, an emotional experience with the place. It was one of those days—you see them in movies—when things get kind of cloudy and you get teary-eyed; that was what was happening inside me. I was going, 'Wow. This is it. This is where I should be.'"
As he recalls that moment and what he then did to make the French Laundry his own, Keller's businesslike demeanor peels back and you see what's pulsing inside: the heart of an impassioned, driven and unbending artist—fiercely uncompromising when it comes to his vision and his standards. Every culinary artist obsesses about taste, color, originality and getting the tiniest detail exactly right. Keller has mastered those elements and moved into a different realm: he obsesses about feeling. The feeling of the setting, the building, the lighting, the plates, the glasses and, of course, the look, taste and feel of each delicacy he sets before his guests. As Keller explains, his goal is not just to create a magnificent meal; he wants to engender in his guests enduring feelings of contentment, conviviality and well being.
"Our food is serious, but we want people to have a good time with it, we want our food to be part of a wonderful social experience," he says. "I hate that description 'making a pilgrimage to a gastronomic temple.' That's absurd. It's a restaurant. It should be enjoyed. My hope is to bring people here and give them one continuous, wonderful experience."
Fine cigars help engender those feelings of contentment and well being. Keller invites his guests to complete their dining experience with a cigar and a Port, or a single-malt Scotch, in the garden. To that end, he keeps a well-stocked humidor in a place of pride, with some serious smokes inside. Bolivars and Hoyo de Monterrey Double Coronas from Havana. Macanudo Vintage 1993. A. Fuente Gran Reservas. Montecristos. Royal Jamaicans. Ashtons. And more. On summer nights, if he finishes early in the kitchen, Keller likes to join his guests in the garden. "It's a wonderful place to smoke, especially in the summertime. Cigars are also a real opportunity to bond. As much as you see females now starting to smoke cigars, it's still kind of a man's thing. And I don't think there's enough bonding going on, certainly not in my life. I have a few friends, but I'm not able to spend enough time with them. I'm always so immersed in what's going on here."
Keller began smoking a decade ago. "One day a friend of mine who really appreciates cigars said to me, 'Thomas, I'd like to give you something that I think is a wonderful thing. Try it.' At first, it was like the first beer you have, or the first Scotch. You ask yourself, 'What's this about? OK, I have to learn about this to really appreciate it.' I prefer Cubans and Dominicans. My favorite cigar is a robusto, because it's not a big commitment. The cigar I choose if I have a lot of time is a Hoyo de Monterrey No. 2. That's my cigar of choice. I used to smoke Cohibas when I went to Europe, but I don't find them as satisfying as Hoyo de Monterreys."
Keller and his girlfriend, Laura Cunningham, who helps run the French Laundry, live in a house behind the restaurant; off their living room is a nook where Keller keeps his private humidor. Beside it is a magnificent portrait of Madelaine Largenté, the original French "laundress." The portrait means a lot to Keller: he believes that part of his personal mission is to preserve the spirit and cultural integrity of the French Laundry, a place with a long and colorful history in California wine country.
The French Laundry was built in 1892 with local rock and timber, in the middle of Yountville, a rustic, somewhat raffish hamlet located between the town of Napa to the south and St. Helena and Calistoga to the north. The place started, as the name suggests, as a French steam laundry. It later had other lives as a private home, a salon, a brothel and finally a restaurant run by an endearing Yountville couple, Don and Sally Schmitt. It was the Schmitts who sold the place to Keller, sensing it would be a magical match.
By the time he came to them, Keller had a wealth of knowledge and feeling about food. His mother, Elizabeth, gave him his first job in a kitchen, as a dishwasher in her restaurant in Palm Beach, Florida. He then apprenticed at restaurants in Florida and Rhode Island, and by 1983 he was in Paris, working in the great kitchens of Taillevent, Guy Savoy and Le Pré Catalan. For Keller, this was a joyous immersion in the passion, artistry and guiding ethos of French cuisine, and he came away with a lifelong love of foie gras, truffles and other delicacies that he would later bring to the French Laundry. Then came New York. Keller worked as a chef at La Réserve and Restaurant Raphaël, and influential food critics, from The New York Times on down, hailed his dazzling culinary gifts. Keller and a partner, Serge Raoul, then launched Rakel, a restaurant in Manhattan. The critics again raved and business was good—until the stock market plunged in 1987. Rakel went under three years later.
In 1990, Keller moved to Los Angeles to be executive chef at the Checkers Hotel. That, too, soon went sour. Thomas the uncompromising artist couldn't get along with the suits. "By then I had very clear ideas about how a restaurant should be operated," he explains. "Taking care of your purveyors, taking care of your staff. But this was a corporate world and the hotel was not doing well. So they kept cutting back, to save money, and they did things that I did not think had a lot of integrity." After months of bickering and bad blood, the suits sent him packing. And worse was still to come.
"I started an olive oil company, Evo, with a little bit of money I'd saved, and I thought, maybe I'll go into retail." Fulfilling it was not. "I'd be in a supermarket, at the end of the counter, shouting: 'Wanna try some olive oil?'" For a chef who had known the glories of Paris and New York, hawking olive oil in L.A. was a miserable comedown. But Keller did not lose his moorings; he just kept telling himself, over and over, "This is not what I can do."
A few months later, in the fall of 1992, destiny reached down and sent him to the French Laundry. The artist had finally found his place, the canvas on which to create his masterpiece—with no one insisting he cut costs or corners, and no one stifling his freedom to create. The results are legendary. In 2001, Time named Keller the best chef in America, and critics routinely name the French Laundry one of the best restaurants in the country. No wonder it takes two months to get a reservation. And no wonder the French Laundry Cookbook has become an instant classic.
Five years after acquiring the French Laundry, Keller launched Bouchon, a fun little bistro down the street in Yountville, featuring simple, hearty fare. Soon to come is the Bouchon Bakery, which will provide fresh bread for his restaurants and the public. But Keller has something even more ambitious in the works: a small inn, to be located across the street from his pride and joy.
"It's really a natural extension of the French Laundry," he says. "You have a wonderful restaurant; where do you want your people to stay? You want them to stay close by, so they can have a wonderful three-hour meal here and drink two or three bottles of wine and then sit out here in the garden, smoke cigars, then walk across the street and go home. It will be very small, 18 or 20 rooms, and most of the people who stay there will be eating here. That is the philosophy of what I have in mind: just a wonderful place to stay."
Keller is also creating a restaurant for the new AOL Time Warner Building going up in New York City. "We'll bring in elements of the French Laundry—the wood, the stone, the brick, the fire. Very basic elements. But we will bring all of it into an urban style." The New York venture will mean time away from Napa, but Keller sees a silver lining: "If I don't break the ties with the kitchen now, I'm afraid I'm going to end up, in a few years, resenting what I do. Physically I just can't do it. I just went for my third knee operation. Being a chef is like playing a sport; it's a very athletic thing to do. You know, 14 or 15 hours a day for 23 years, it starts to wear on you. So that's one reason for going to New York, to pull me out of the kitchen. Otherwise, I'd never leave."
As Keller contemplates what's ahead, his thoughts naturally turn to passing on the torch. "Sooner or later you realize, 'OK. I have to inspire. I have to teach. I have to create a great foundation for somebody else to come in.' Not to do exactly what I do, because we're all individuals and we all have our own things we do. But for somebody who will maintain the tradition, maintain the standards, and maybe raise the standards.
"Defining success for me is not a personal thing. The restaurant has become the standard-bearer for itself. And that is what I want to leave as the legacy here, after I leave. It's not Thomas Keller's French Laundry. It's just the French Laundry. And as such, it will have a set of standards that other people will aspire to and expand on. That's my goal."
Paul Chutkow is the author of Depardieu, a biography of French actor Gérard Depardieu, and coauthor of Harvest of Joy, the autobiography of Robert Mondavi.


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Yuh-Jong, Thank you for taking the time to provide us with feedback. Yuh-Jong Hu wrote: > As a privacy protection and digital rights management policy researcher, I > am happy to see RIF working group delivers the RIF BLD (Basic Logic Dialect) > working draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-bld/ ) and other related working > drafts, such as RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD) and RIF RDF and OWL > Compatibility. This indicates an important step for standardizing the rule > exchange language for semantic web technologies and related applications. > After quick examing the RIF BLD working draft, I would like to provide some > comments that need to be clarified: > > > 1. Do we need to webize the terms from rule module as well as ontology > module in the RIF BLD? This webizing issue for both condition language and > rule language can be further enhanced in the near future. For example, in > EBNF grammar, it does have IRI (extension of URI) to refer to the original > sources of FORMULA and ATOMIC terms. The naming prefix in the document/group > preamble also provides the rule modules import sources. But it is quite > possible some of imported terms in both the condition language and the rule > language might come from ontology modules specified as RDF(S) and OWL > ontology langauge. In that case, these terms and expressions might need to > be webized. I am wondering whehter RIF BLD spec. itself already has this > capacity to declare and webize the ontology related terms? Maybe, we can > refer to the RIF RDF and OWL compatibility working draft to resolve this > issue (I check this draft and it only very briefly discuss in section 5). On > the other hand, we might said this is a rule interchange specification so we > do not have to consider webizing the terms from ontology. But both condition > langauge and rule language do have member and subclass terms in their > respective EBNF grammar, I am not quite sure how these terms will be applied > in the rule language expression because the membership and subclass term > relationships usually happen in the ontology schema. Therefore, this also > reflects the necessarity of webizing ontology terms in the condition/rule > language. I'm not sure what you mean by "web-izing". Do you mean assigning a URI to constants (e.g. individuals, predicate & function names)? If so, then yes, BLD allows you to use URIs as terms. However, if these URI terms are also defined in an ontology (RDFS or OWL), then you have to specify how to combine the two kinds of semantics. The details and parameters of such combinations are specified in the RDF&OWL Compatibility document. > 2. Does the RIF-BLD provides the power to resolve the semantics > discrepancy from underlying different logic program-based rule systems? As > mentioned in RIF BLD working draft 1 overview, for those people who need a > direct path to implement but are not interested in extensibility issues, > they choose RIF-BLD. Otherwise, they choose a specifialization of the > RIF-FLD. In this case, I am not sure whether RIF-BLD might be quite limited > when we need to consider a variety of rule systems which might have the > expressive power beyond RIF-BLD. The decision for people to choose RIF-BLD > or RIF-FLD might need to be more clear and specific in the working draft. > For example, if one rule interchange system is based on RIF-BLD and another > rule interchange system is based on a specialization of extensible RIF-FLD, > can those respecitve underlying rule systems with RIF-BLD and RIF-FLD as the > RIF language in their hub centers and interchange their rule modules without > worrying any semantic ambiquity problem after integration? You have the right idea. BLD is intended to be able to express the kinds of rules that are expressible in most (logic-based) rule languages. Thus BLD does not have the power to resolve semantic discrepencies between different LP systems, quite the opposite - it avoids that by providing syntax&semantics only for the kinds of rules for which there are no discrepencies in different systems. So if you have a rule language more expressive than BLD (as most rule languages are), then even if it is specified as a specialization of FLD, only certain rules will be interchangeable through BLD. It's important to realize that BLD does not solve the general problem of rule interchange, it takes a step in that direction. > Overall speaking, all of RIF-BLD and related working drafts do consider the > semantic web cutting edge technology and development status and I am > expecting these RIF standards can be finialized in a near future. Thank you for the comments. -The RIF WG -- Dr. Christopher A. Welty IBM Watson Research Center +1.914.784.7055 19 Skyline Dr. email@example.com Hawthorne, NY 10532 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/weltyReceived on Monday, 29 September 2008 02:08:56 UTC
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In addition to all the leveling, rep "grinding", gear gathering and raiding going on, I've been pretty big on leveling my professions with this expansion. I've been able to do pretty well so far with a few exceptions here and there. Here is what I have so far:
- Fimlys (85): 525 Skinning, 525 Leatherworking
- Fyra (85): 525 Herbing, 525 Alchemy
- Fizz (80): 525/540 Engineering (Gnome), 507 Inscription
- Fhuun (82): 525 Mining, 473 Tailoring
- Freez (80): 501 Enchanting, 505 Jewelcrafting
- Furis (80): 490 Blacksmithing, 408 Enchanting (not really working on this)
So, There it is. Things that were generally easy: Skinning (simple), Herbing, Mining, Alchemy.. Leatherworking is a pain in the butt. You have to make blue PvP items for the last 15 points. BAH! Engineering wasn't horrible, but takes a bunch of mats to do it. A lot less than Blacksmithing though! Tailoring I really haven't been working on significantly. For Inscription, I am up to the point where I am making Forged Documents once every cooldown (really once a day).. The mats for Jewelcrafting are pretty expensive right now too since I'm using my ore for Blacksmithing! The flood of greens from leveling professions and just plain leveling has dried up a bit, so my Enchanting has stalled at 501 so far. The Enchanting on Furis is just a secondary talent I took just so that I could disenchant the BoP crap I got from questing.
One of the things that is really bugging me this time around is the requirement for some professions that you level them to 84 to get certain recipes that aren't "drop" ones. The "trade-in" vendors, unlike last expansion, are not located in a main city (like Dalaran). They are in the Twilight Highlands behind a phase curtain. You have to be 84 so you can get the quest that moves the phase forward to where they are there. This is causing me grief with my Enchanter since he can't make the rod he needs for certain recipes and I can see it causing issues with my Blacksmith too since there is a vendor for that one also in TH.
Cooking is maxxed out on Fimlys but I still do the daily because I don't have all the recipes yet. I also try to do the daily for Fishing because I haven't maxxed that one out yet. So, I'm still working on the professions. Leveling Fhuun has helped a little with Tailoring since he picks up cloth, but the amount of cloth drops he's getting seems low so far. And I have been trying to work on Enchanting and JC each day a little too. Doing the JC quests is nice any easy this xPac at least. Additionally, at some point I want to get my Engineering up. In reality, I believe I am at 510 because of the +15 engineering racial.. So I still have 15 more points to go to get the achievement! Wish me luck..


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This Just In: USA NETWORK STAR SARAH SHAHI GOES TO COMIC-CON
Critical Favorite Sarah Shahi, Star of USA's Original Series,
FAIRLY LEGAL, to Appear at Comic-Con Thursday, July 21 for Press Interviews and Autograph Signing
Don't miss the beautiful Sarah Shahi, star of the hit USA original series FAIRLY LEGAL,
in her first visit to Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center next week!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM – Press Room # 33B
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM – Autograph Signing – Quantum Mechanix Booth 2944
(Main Exhibition Floor)
Shahi also stars in and is currently filming "Headshot," the Walter Hill film starring
Sylvester Stallone that is based on Matz and Colin Wilson's |
graphic novel "Bullet to the Head."
FAIRLY LEGAL centers on Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi), a top litigator who has grown frustrated with the endless bureaucracy and injustice she has witnessed on a daily basis and decides to become the ultimate anti-lawyer---a mediator. FAIRLY LEGAL is produced by Universal Cable Productions.
Season two of the show is set to premiere in 2012.
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The winners of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's global film competition, Faith Shorts, were announced at BAFTA last night. The films were based around the premise of 'Let me show you how my faith inspires me'. Ironically, the overall winner was created by an atheist.
The competition aims to counter prejudices and extremist views by building understanding about different religions and cultures through short films produced by young people. The three winning filmmakers from Israel, the Philippines and India received their award from Tony Blair in front of an audience that included members of the judging panel, the film industry and religious figures.
The overall winner was Death Bed the Musical by Liat Har-Gil from Rosh Ha'ayen, Israel. The first stop-motion 'claymation' entry the competition has received, the film features a dying man and his nurse debating the existence of god and the meaning of life. Death Bed the Musical also won the category for 18-27-year-old filmmakers.
"I myself am not a religious person but I believe that promoting an understanding between different religions is very important and should be celebrated," says Liat. "I am grateful that the Foundation understood the message of my movie: the dangers of religious intolerance and selected me for this award. Building bridges between different religious communities is important. We must show the different sides of faith through a new medium, like film."
15 year old Mudit Muraka from Apeejay School in New Delhi, India won the Face to Faith category for his film The Mirror (below), which explores the social pressures that many young people face each day.
16 year old Charles Flamiano from General Santos City, Philippines won the 14-17 year old category for his film Letting Go, Letting God (below), which is a story about faith in the face of adversity.
"Through these excellent Faith Shorts films, we can help build understanding about different faiths and cultures and help combat ignorance and fear, so creating a strong basis for peaceful coexistence," said Tony Blair at the event. "It is vital that we nurture a generation of young people who embrace and respect difference."


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I have previously shared Naysa's and Phlanker's opinion on rogues.
While as a general rule I treat rogues like mosquitoes, slap randomly at the air and they pop their Cloak of Noob, there are times when I find myself reduced to inarticulate Rogue Rage myself.
I had two of those moments over the weekend in quick succession. In fact it was the proximity of the battles and the juxtaposition of their performance that has me still raging days later.
Act I
We enter Arathi Basin to find our team stacked with rogues… Seven of them, 7!
I'm not above using an unfair advantage and 7 rogues in AB is an unfair advantage.
The gates open, the rogues disappear, as they do, they are stealth after all.
The problem, it turns out, is that while masters of stealth, they were masters of not very much else.
Two of them stealthed at Gold Mine the whole time. They were active in BG chat so obviously not AFK, yet for the purposes of AB objectives, might as well have been. The others.. well I saw a couple defending the roads…
Rogues are born ninja cappers, I'm pretty sure that is the definition of a rogue somewhere on Blizzards website.
Sure they can be handy at guarding a node, but that just isn't the best use for this BG resource.
If they were there to AFK bleed honor, then they might as well have stepped away from their keyboards. If they were there to get real honor, they could have joined in.
We lost that BG miserably and I admit I was mildly annoyed, but then we had the next BG.
Act II
Ahhh relief, we aren't a team of AFKing rogues… thank god for…
Ohhh shit, the Horde has nine, 9 rogues!
Damn it, they had read Blizzard's website, they were a nightmare.
Roving Rogues, in hunting packs of 2-3, they just dominated.
They didn't need to ninja cap, they just sliced and diced us to minced meat.
- One rogue tapping ineffectually at your back is one thing.
- Two rogues slicing appropriately sized fillets is a pain.
- Three Rogues butchering you post haste is a insane.
Sap, Blind, Destroy
Sap, Blind, Destroy
Sap, Blind, Destroy
Sap, Blind, Destroy
That was the flow of the battle. I felt like Dr. Who hearing the 4 knocks.
I knew the outcome, there was little I could do but call out in BG chat
ST… rogues… ST gone… Stay away from the rogues.
But there was no escape from the Horde rogues.
They were playing their class, playing to win, playing to demoralize and humiliate.
I would have traded all of the Alliance rogues for one of the Horde rogues.
So after these BGs Warlocks have lost their top KoS position replaced by rogues. My list now goes like this.
- Rogues – Alliance
- Rogues – Horde
- Warlocks (because it's right to hate on Warlocks when you are a Mage)
- Paladins (actually their death isn't necessarily, but I want their buffs… I want their wings!)
Speaking of Warlocks.
I was speaking (well playing BGs) with Keredria over the weekend and she mentioned the resurgence of Warlock rerolls. I know we have gone from one inactive Warlock to 3 active ones recently (in a guild of about 10 active players). How about you guys?
edit: Cynwise tells us Warlocks are on the decline… mmm…
Luckily Bear is holding up the Mage end of the rerolls.
I had the honor of doing BGs with Keredria, Bear, Pugnacious Priest and a few of their guildies over the weekend.
Bear was concerned about his lack of resilience gear, I was just concerned that he was getting more killing blows than most of us.
Although there was that one Resto Shaman, even with both of us going all out we couldn't get him below 50%.
It was fun.
It was an honor
It will be repeated.
Thanks to all of you that participated. I had a blast, it felt more like a single group of guildies than a muddled up conglomeration of 4 guilds.
Gnomer and Out!
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has picked up two important endorsements in South Carolina for his 2012 presidential campaign.
Longtime state legislator David Wilkins, who played a big role in George W. Bush's White House races, says he's signing onto Perry's bid. And Harvey Peeler, majority leader in the state Senate, is jumping on the Perry bandwagon, too.
Wilkins, who rose to House speaker before Bush named him ambassador to Canada, and Peeler are the most notable backers to announce their support for a candidate in early primary-voting South Carolina.
Both endorsements even though U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint of encouraged fellow leading Republicans in South Carolina to hold off for now on making endorsements.
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Bulger: Government must honor alleged immunity deal
Boston mobster charged in 19 killings
Federal prosecutors are again saying that reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's claim he had immunity from federal prosecution in exchange for cooperating with the government is "absurd."
Prosecutors responded in a brief filed Tuesday to one the day before by Bulger's attorneys that said he should be able to present evidence about the alleged deal during his trial over his role in 19 killings.
The prosecution said they have nothing to support the claim and Bulger also hasn't provided any proof. They say it would be a waste of time to bring it up at trial.
The 83-year-old Bulger, who is allegedly a former FBI informant, is accused of committing his crimes in the 1970s and 1980s, when he ran the Winter Hill Gang. He fled Boston in 1994 and was captured in California in 2011.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger kept his end of a bargain to cooperate with the government in exchange for immunity from federal prosecution, and now the government should keep theirs, Bulger's attorneys say.
Bulger should be able to present evidence about the alleged deal during his trial over his role in 19 killings, his attorneys argued in papers filed Monday in federal court in Boston.
They said Bulger has never claimed — as prosecutors have said — that he had "a license to kill," only that he can't be prosecuted for federal crimes committed while the deal was in effect. They concede he could be prosecuted by state authorities.
"The defendant did not possess a license to kill but rather an agreement with the Department of Justice," they wrote. "He seeks only that the DOJ honor its promise to refrain from prosecution."
Prosecutors have said Bulger's claim about an immunity deal is baseless.
The 83-year-old Bulger, who is allegedly a former FBI informant, is accused of committing his crimes in the 1970s and 1980s, when he ran the Winter Hill Gang. He fled Boston in 1994 and was captured in California in 2011.
Bulger's deal with the prosecutor, the late Jeremiah O'Sullivan, was valid until O'Sullivan left the U.S. attorney's office in 1989, Bulger attorneys J.W. Carney Jr. and Henry Brennan argued.
"The Department of Justice is therefore barred from prosecuting the defendant for any crimes that occurred prior to 1989," they wrote.
The defense argued that the court can't invalidate the agreement because it has no legal basis to review a federal prosecutor's decision not to prosecute someone.
The defense also said Bulger performed "his duty" throughout the deal but weren't specific about what that duty was and have said Bulger will testify he was never an informant.
In court documents, prosecutors have said 700 pages of FBI reports prove Bulger was an informant. And they've called Bulger's argument that he was free to commit crimes, even though he wasn't an informant, "strange and unsubstantiated."
A message requesting comment was left with a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney. Prosecutors have until Monday to respond to Bulger's arguments on the immunity claim.
In a separate filing, Bulger's attorneys moved to have a previous judge's rulings on the immunity claim vacated and reconsidered by "a judge of unquestioned neutrality."
The previous judge, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns, was removed from the case because he worked in the U.S. attorney's office when Bulger says O'Sullivan gave him the immunity deal.
Stearns had barred Bulger from claiming he received immunity for future crimes but requested more information about the alleged deal clearing him for past crimes.
And in a third filing Monday, prosecutors said it would be "unnecessary and ill-advised" to force them to turn over an informant's name, as Bulger has requested.
Bulger's lawyers argue the informant could help discredit a key witness against Bulger, his longtime associate Kevin Weeks, by contradicting Weeks' story that he, Bulger and two other men legitimately won a $14.3 million lottery prize that they split. The informant told an FBI agent the prize was part of a money-laundering scheme.
But prosecutors say the informant's identity is irrelevant to Bulger's case because Bulger isn't charged with any crime related to the winning lottery ticket. They also argue disclosing the name would endanger the informant.
"(Bulger) is charged with killing a number of government informants and, if freed, would undoubtedly seek revenge on anyone who assisted the government in making a case against him," prosecutors wrote.


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The chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is being investigated for possible conflicts of interest, sources tell NBC 4 New York.
Law enforcement officials confirm David Samson, a lawyer and ally of Gov. Chris Christie, is being investigated by the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and the FBI.
His name emerged in the news in January, when The Bergen Record reported that as Port Authority chairman he backed a plan to renovate a train station located closed to a planned housing complex proposed by a builder represented by his law firm.
U.S. & World
The Port Authority had no immediate comment.
Samson was also recently pulled into the scandal engulfing Christie's administration over traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge.
His name surfaced in an email during the lane closures, when a Christie ally at the Port Authority emailed a then-Christie aide, noting that the jams had been cleared up.
"We are appropriately going nuts. Samson helping us to retaliate," the email said.
Samson has denied any involvement in the scheme.


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By LARRY HINES
We are blessed to have sugar-white sand beaches and the East Pass inlet. East Pass provides an outlet for boats to go from inland waterways to the Gulf of Mexico. The channel through the pass fills in with sand and must be dredged on a regular basis. This is a natural process controlled by Mother Nature.
The placement of sand dredged from East Pass is controlled by the East Pass Inlet Management Plan. The state Department of Environmental Protection approved the plan in 2000.
The current plan requires that sand dredged from the pass be placed on beaches west of the pass. This requirement was based on a prediction that beach currents would move the sand consistently from east to west. Under this prediction, the sand moving west would pile up against the rocks that go out into the Gulf and form the east jetty. As this happened, beaches on the east side of the pass, the Destin beaches, would increase or accrete. Simultaneously, beaches on the west side of the pass, the Okaloosa Island beaches, would decrease or erode.
So, what actually happened in the past 20 years to the beaches of Destin and Okaloosa Island? Did Mother Nature perform as predicted? The answer is a resounding no. In fact, Mother Nature did just the opposite of what was predicted. Destin beaches eroded and Okaloosa Island beaches accreted.
This should not surprise anyone. If you look at pictures, drawings and surveys going back to 1900, it�s obvious the predominate current on our beaches has changed directions several times. For example, the official position of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s, when the jetties were installed, was that the current on our beaches was from west to east. In the 1990s, it was the DEP�s position that the current moved from east to west.
The only thing that can explain the erosion of the Destin beaches and the accretion of the Okaloosa Island beaches over the past 20 years is that the predominate current changed to move the sand from west to east.
The proposed plan is based on the DEP studying numerous inlets and concluding that Mother Nature changes her mind on current direction frequently. As a result, a statute was passed requiring the beaches on both sides of an inlet to be monitored for several years prior to dredged sand being placed on the adjacent beaches. When the inlet is then dredged, the sand is placed on the beaches that have eroded.
In other words, you place the sand where it�s needed, based on actually observing and monitoring the beaches, not on a prediction of what Mother Nature might do.
This concept now applies to all inlets in Florida; it�s not applicable just to East Pass. The proposed plan is not a plot between Destin and the DEP, as some people have suggested.
The proposed East Pass Inlet Management Plan should be approved because it�s clear Mother Nature is constantly changing her mind on which way she moves sand along our beaches. No plan should be based on predictions.
You would think this logical, fair, technically sound engineering plan would be universally endorsed. Well, the writer of the July 21 guest column, �Government-level malpractice, East Pass style,� opposes the proposed plan and has expressed his opinion to Okaloosa County commissioners. He believes that we should stick with the current plan, which was based on predictions made in the 1990s, and that Mother Nature is still moving sand from east to west.
Think back to the oil spill of 2010. Oil was gushing from a pipe 200 miles southwest of East Pass. Did the oil move east to west toward Texas? No. It moved west to east toward our beaches � just as the sand is moving today.
Although the evidence is overwhelming that Mother Nature is moving sand along our beaches from west to east today, I am not advocating a plan that requires dredged sand to be placed on Destin beaches. In fact, I would oppose that. It would be just as illogical as the current plan requiring dredged sand to be placed on Okaloosa Island beaches based on predictions made years ago.
Let�s unite our community and support approving the proposed East Plan Inlet Management Plan. It�s based on what Mother Nature is actually doing, not on a prediction, and allows dredged sand to be placed where it is most needed.
Larry Hines is a chemical engineer and retired Air Force pilot who lives in Destin.


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Consensus Report
Shellfish Mariculture in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California (2009)Ocean Studies Board
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Drakes Estero, 25 miles northwest of San Francisco, is a marine estuary home to harbor seals, waterfowl, fish, and other marine organisms. Congress designated the estuary a Potential Wilderness in 1976, signifying the intention to incorporate the area into an existing Wilderness area in Point Reyes National Seashore. Drakes Estero is also the site of commercial oyster farming since the 1930s, and Drakes Bay Oyster Company continues to operate today under a permit. The permit is set to expire in 2012, which would effectively close the oyster farm unless it is extended by congressional action. As the expiration date approaches, the Park Service has issued a series of reports presenting scientific information that describes negative effects of the oyster farm on the Drakes Estero ecosystem.
Key Messages
- Ecological impacts of enhancing benthic/pelagic coupling. Oysters have a prodigious filtering capacity that can provide resilience in the event of an algal bloom or increased sedimentation from stormwater runoff.
- Effects of the mariculture on birds. The oyster farm likely has some impacts on birds caused by culture bags lying on intertidal sand flats, which limit access to and availability of soft-sediment invertebrate prey.
- Effects of the mariculture on economics, recreation, and aesthetics. The effect of oyster farming in Drakes Estero on the aggregate economic values generated by PRNS is likely to be small relative to recreational value (on the order of $100 million per year) and value of ecological services (on the order of $20 million to $30 million per year).
- Effects of the mariculture on eelgrass. Limited observations of eelgrass in Drakes Estero demonstrate absence of eelgrass directly under oyster culture racks and from propeller scar damage attributable to boats operated by the oyster farm.
- Effects of the mariculture on fishes. No statistically significant differences in species richness, abundance, or community composition of fish were detected among samples taken in eelgrass adjacent to oyster culture racks.
- Effects of the mariculture on harbor seals. Statistical analyses of Drakes Estero harbor seal count data during the breeding season suggest a possible relationship between mean counts at two of three subsites where seals haul out on sand bars in the upper estero and the combined signals from the 1998 El Ni�o and oyster production level.
- Past, present, and future effects of mariculture on nonnative species. The oysters and clams cultured in Drakes Estero are nonnative species that have some risk of establishing self-sustaining populations.