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Put that way, it doesn't sound all that different from the drug trade.
There is a significant difference that Steam can't actually destroy our games. They can try, but If Steam would go under, your games would wait for you at the site of the sailing ship that's flag shapes x-bones.
But if this Xbone would would fail, or even if it would peacefully get retired, the exclusive games from it would literally disappear from the face of Earth. No one would be physically able to play Xbone games any more. Gone.
I'm not going to buy XBOX One because of how you cannot own YOUR purchases.
"This would effectively turn digital entertainment into the equivalent of a pet hamster that's been genetically engineered to only survive on food available from one specific store (and don't you dare think that PetSmart aren't dumping money into research for exactly that right now) ."
Did you know most corn or maize or whatever you call it in the US comes from seeds that have been mutated to NOT produce viable seeds? Farmers NEED to buy new seeds EACH year now, from ONE company. YES: A few years ago *CORN* was turned into a SERVICE, Bob!!! One that you need basically subscribe to if you want to make DAMNED food!!!
Google "Monsanto Terminator Seeds" for more...
This seems like people are hiding from the real issue here and that is the degradation of property in any sense. Many will point out that we still have the works of Shakespeare with us but few recognize that there were plenty of other playwrights in his time that he have nothing from anymore. Of course, we can all draw our preferred analogy (I think the used car market is the preferred on those wishing to have meaningful disks and GPS systems are the preferred analogy of those liking the licencing model). When we get down to it, we have to realize that all things are ephemeral.
We do not live in a world where we simply accumulate wealth (in any sense of the word). Things decay, get used and wear out. Whether we are facing the inevitability of the growth of entropy or the vagaries of corporate whim, things fall apart and we lose them over time. If you buy a house and simply live in it for twenty years, it may well lose value (unless the market has done some crazy crap) with the effects of weather, termites, a shifting ground and human traffic. A house made by a crap developer will deteriorate faster. Further, expectations in a home may change over time. People now want granite rather than wood counter-tops and hardwood floors are back in style now rather than carpeting.
The connection here is that art, as much as anything, decays. Most of it we lose over time. Some we preserve and reprint in order for others to be able to experience. Just as one can fairly easily have access to the complete works of Shakespeare, we will likely preserve some form of pacman as long as there are people to play it. This loss is inevitable, no matter how hard we try to stop it.
So now MS is selling games as licences. They are intentionally putting an artificial limit on the use of the intellectual property. I won't deny that it's a money grab but the answer is simple here. If this model does not work, MS will fail in this endeavor. However, let me suggest a different line of thought.
I've always played games on both consoles and PCs. I have had, in chronological order, a Apple IIe, an NES, a gameboy, an SNES, a Pentium based PC, a Pentium II based PC, a PS2, a Pentium 4 based laptop, 360, Wii, PS3, a Core 2 Duo based PC and a i7 based PC (current). That makes for 11 machines that were primarily used for gaming. When I got the NES, I stopped playing my games on the IIe and when I got the SNES I stopped playing on the NES. The gameboy never really interested me and the Pentium II was a fairly straight up replacement for the older Pentium. The SNES died when I got the PS2 and I gave the SNES games away to a friend. The 360 and PS3 replaced the ps2 and the laptop replaced the pentium 2 based machine. This keeps going till today when I only have the PS3 (mostly for blurays and netflix) and my i7 based machine. I have bought Baldur's Gate II, Morrowind and Oblivion on three separate occasions each and never once was I upset that I was buying them again.
Back in the day, I spent hours playing ExciteBike on the NES. It was one of the first games with a level creator built in. I remember playing it fondly however, I have no desire to go back and play it again. There are few games that I do have a desire to play again and most of those are still somehow available to me (still trying to find a way to play A Link to the Past in a satisfying way, but whatever). There are some who may wish to desperately hold on to everything they ever spent money on but I don't think this is as big a group as it's members may believe.
Yes what MS is doing is a power/money grab. Yes it's for perfectly greedy reasons. Yes it will screw with some gamers and some stores. However, I don't think it's going to matter. People buy consoles so that playing video games can be simple and the console business has already lost that portion of the market to tablets. With iOS devices dominating simple easy to play games, there isn't much room left for consoles anyhow, so they are trying to edge in on Steam's market: the more tech savvy gamers who want a more complex game to begin with. This is likely to fail also. Why would I bother with a PS4 or a X1 when I can have Steam and gog where I get access to titles old and new, by big publishers and indie devs. If MS or Sony want to sell me on a machine for the living room TV, it needs to provide something none of these "next gen" consoles are. I want all my TV streamed with everything in the quality of the film it was made on. I want fewer boxes and fewer remote controls for my tv. I want better quality sound for my high-end stereo system. Gaming is nice and all but I have a much better PC for that in a room better suited to gaming. Ownership vs licencing doesn't matter.
They all want to sell me another box but I simply want fewer boxes. I don't need to own a single game. I just want to enjoy playing them.
I see a solution to this problem, if you'd kindly listen (read 'read'): we fold our arms until they stop being twats. Simple as that. They want the customer to depend on them, we cut off their income (which comes from our desire to play games), so, yeah, basically a boycott. We have to remind them that money in business is like pussy in a stereotypical relationship: she (who has it) makes the rules, and he (who wants to get it) abides by the rules, otherwise he won't get it.
The way Bob put it, if we want to keep the games we like, we better make damn sure that their makers are well-fed and won't go bankrupt, otherwise we're in for a world of pain! The idea that gamers shiver at the thought of their beloved games dying because they failed to maintain the company that made them shows how low they think of us. We have to prove them wrong, we have to show them that this shit will not fly!
Seriously, the solution is in your hands/pockets/wallets/cards, and all you have to do is keep it to yourself. Buy the video games whose existence is independent of the makers' financial well-being, seek out new ways to entertain yourself, until the companies that want to make you their little bitch beg for forgiveness or wither and die, giving room to newer, purer game companies!
Please excuse the preachy tone.
50 points to Ravenclaw Mr.Chipman.
At the end of the day the issue with XbO is the sheer contempt it seems to be bringing to the consumers. Loathed to acknowledge the mass of nerds that have traditionally made up its player base they seem to be telling us to bugger off.
So, this club I am a part of exists?
So, this club I am a part of, exists?
Well, I agree with the title not described in the article. The Xbox is done. I love technology. But this technology is clearly being used at the detriment of the consumer. I can agree with technology, but not every use for it.
Also, you say futurist. Perhaps the more accurate word for what you describe would be "extropian", though.
In any case, I want to be able to own games, as well. And while what is considered "ownership" shifts. I want the right to be able to play games I have paid for. And not have that right to play dictated by people with more money than me. Upon me are being impressed things which incumber my ability to play even further than years passed.
Being one of the first groups try this, Valve actually has an apocalypse contingency plan, at which point they'll provide time for you to download and back-up your files, and they'll provide a universal unlock.
The real fear is if Steam got bought out by someone else, but their price is well beyond what EA offered.
Well done Bob.
The resident movie expert has given us the most level headed analysis of the video game console reveal debacle. Well done indeed sir.
This is the classic contrast between tangible and intellectual property.
Physical items are "rivalrous," if I am using an apple or a ferrari or any other object, then no one else can use it at the same time. That's not true of intellectual property, and its especially not true of digital data, where everyone in the world can theoretically possess an exact replica of the code for every video game for a ridiculously low marginal cost.
There is no perfect solution to the problem of ensuring that developers get reasonable, but not usurious, compensation for the making video games. but I would much rather see the US adopt the relatively new standard in Europe. In 2012, the European Court of Justice ruled that when software companies sell permanent licenses to their software, those licenses are effectively property (the case is UsedSoft v. Oracle). They can be bought and sold on the secondary market, but only so long as the original licensee actually gives up their license. This is a really sensible balance between the interest of software developers in adequate compensation, and the interest of consumers to dispose of their possessions as they wish. I would really really like to the US legal system move towards this standard, but worry I think the IP-intensive industries are too powerful and lobby too effectively for this ever to happen legislatively (e.g. the perpetual extension of copyright protections at the behest of Disney). Everyone call their congressperson and voice support for the doctrine of first sale!!!
Crap! That could actually happen.
I don't want to have to go back to the times when you HAD to support the company, or all your games go away forever!
I also switched to Team PC about a year or so ago. It has its own issues & problems, sure, but while PC gamer problems are progressively being solved, consoles seem adamant to claim each and every PC drawback as its own.
Required installs, activation codes, connectivity problems; PC gaming keeps getting better & lessening these issues, while consoles chew at the bit to adopt them
P.S.: Sony, now's your shot to reclaim console supremacy. Don't screw it up
That would worry me if Valve wasn't posting consistently insane growth every year through Steam.
OT: And I stand with my assessment of this generation, I'm not buying anything but more stuff for my PC, consoles are dead to me.
Aaaah, they said I was mad when I bought my WiiU *bwahahaha* :P
OT. I'm not looking forward for the Xbone because all the reasons people had said so far plus I live in México and actually we don't get to use like 90+% of the apps of the Xbox 360 and I can foretell the same will happend with this new console :S
Thanks Bob, for writing down my fears so accurately. It's been creeping up on us so slowly and that makes it more scary.
I'd say it's more that people have relied on the used market to game on a budget, and while Steam has taken the right of resale (though is there anything stopping you from just selling your Steam account?) they've greatly increased a gamers ability ability to stretch their wallet.
You also don't seem to properly understand how Steam pricing works. It's not a cut and dry retails game = $60 and digital game = $10-20. New AAA games released on Steam also go for $50-60. The key is if you're patient and keep your eye open within a 1-2 years you'll be able to find that game on sale for $5-10. If you can't afford it then don't pay the premium new sale price. Let a backlog build up and buy the games when you can afford them. For example I still haven't gotten Skyrim yet.
Then there's one tiny little tidbit that seems to always get overlooked in regards to Steam: before Valve stepped in there was a major trend of retailers abandoning PC games in favour of the more lucrative console games. If you walked into a Gamestop/EB Games in 2000, you'd have an entire wall dedicated to new and used PC games. 2005, the used games are all but gone and PC games only take up a small section of a wall. 2010, maybe you'll find a couple of new games on one of shelving units in the middle of the store. Buying PC games through retail was falling into a void. Steam did not cause this void, rather they stepped in to fill it and basically saved PC gaming.
And I guess one more little thing... to create a retail copy you basically need a publisher, and requiring a publisher to make a game would have prevented all sorts of great indy games from ever being made.
Yes... Well, this is just pretty much the worst way for this to happen I can think of.
At least communist/socialist ideals that require the forfeiting of some ideas about private ownership had some ideals behind them related to it being for the greater good. - It might not ever work that way in practice, but at least the reasoning behind it was to make people's lives better as a result.
Meanwhile, we now have private ownership being eroded, not for any idealistic cause, or misguided attempt to make the world a better place, but purely for a cynical and blatant attempt by corporations to be as greedy and power-hungry as they possibly can be. - With pretty much a total disregard for the consequences it has for anyone else.
So... Why does the world seem to be determined to try and turn into a corporate-led, dehumanizing dystopia exactly?
Actually the real fear for Steam is if Valve goes public. Right now Valve is a privately held company with Gabe Newell owing a majority of the stock, meaning he can run the company whichever way he likes. But if Valve were to ever go public, they'd be susceptible to all the other short term monetization scheming that all the other big publishers have to deal with.
I bought a 360 because back in highschool my friends all had 360s, I bought a PS3 because the 360 didn't have a blu-ray player (and because of Studio Ghibli was coming out with a game...) but other than that, my console days are pretty much done. I have a PC if I want to play a tripple A game, and unless we get a 2nd Studio Ghibli game, I can't think of a Sony title that I want that I can't get on PC.
That said, I do have a lot of money tied up in Steam.... So TBH it isn't much different than what Xbox One is offering. The difference is, that I can upgrade my PC when I want to, and I can put Steam on any new PC I build. I don't have to be tied to a certain companies machine, and technically if I wanted to use a service other than Steam, I could. Now, try telling Microsoft you want to use your Xbox to buy games off of the PSN.... NOT gonna happen....
My answer to the Xbox One is to not to rant, rave, complain, or otherwise bitch across the internet. My answer is simply to not buy it. I have repeated this mantra far too many times, but I repeat it again here: a company hears and understands only two sounds, the creak of your wallet opening and the slap of your wallet closing; all other sounds are just noise to be ignored. I can live quite fine holding onto my money; I don't feel any burning need to constantly give it away. There are other means of obtaining and playing video games other than Microsoft's anti-consumer box. There are other things I can purchase and enjoy for entertainment should the game industry finally implode under its own stupidity. And if all else fails, there is still always my own imagination. I'm still free to just make shit up to entertain myself. Can always learn to make my own movies, write my own books, or create my own games.
We've all let ourselves become to emotionally dependent on this crap; that's why these companies think they can just pull this garbage and get away with it. However, people need to wake-up that they need and want our money more than we do. We're really the ones with the power, not them. If we aren't willing to give them our money because we are tired of their shit, I guarantee they'll suddenly change, and those that don't will simply face the cold horror of natural selection.
ADDENDUM: In case it's not clear, JUST DON'T BUY IT, PEOPLE! Quit squawking about it and just refuse to buy the damn thing. It's not worth the words we keep throwing at it. If it's a piece of shit, note it as such, refuse to buy it, and then move on. We really don't need to waste any more time and energy on garbage.
Well, Bob, have you heard of a gaming platform called "personal computer"?
People forget that the game Monopoly was created to demonstrate the negative aspects of capitalism (specifically regarding land monopolies, but the lesson still applies) that profits trickle upwards until only property owners have any money. And Monopoly only took into account market forces, not more sophisticated economic concepts such as regulatory capture or anti-competitive practices. While we haven't achieved the situation in which the affluent have all the wealth and the impoverished have one, we are approaching such where the comparison is billionaires to people who live on less than $20,000. The differences in wealth are negligible.
But this is not the first time Big Micro has tried to pull this kind of licensing bullshit. The Zune was also contingent on ever advancing DRM, and part of its failure was due to the MS policy that when an old DRM was phased out and you couldn't play your old tunes, your license would just end, and you'd have to buy your new tunes all over again. One would expect that holding a license means that you are entitled to your media no matter how often it changes platforms, but big media has always enjoyed (and now takes for granted) treating such "licenses" as products when it suits them. DVD dies to Blu-Ray? You gotta buy all your movies all over again. Sorry, chum. But if you rip a tune from a CD and share it with your buddies, BY GOD THAT'S STEALING!
Myself, I have no cart in this race. My experiences with PSone-style controllers have soured my interest in console games. I love mouse and keyboard, and cannot stand the fairly uniform controller scheme, especially when I'm trying to look around or maneuver a camera. I also resent that many many console games don't have customizable keys, an issue on which PC gaming has spoiled me rotten. I've heard nothing good about Kinect and when I play games want to be able to do the most with the least amount of movement. When Sony PSN and XBox LIVE started killing accounts (and their associated consoles) arbitrarily without accountability, I was so relieved I wasn't a part of that. (I don't have a Origin account for the same reason.) Anyway, my own grievances are about Windows 8, its poor security, its invasions of privacy and the Windows Certification process which is already a vehicle for censorship. But I suspect that these will either be fixed or will kill Windows 8, and I digress.
My hope is that the Bone is going to be a spectacular flop. I hope that Microsoft loses money in 2013 for daring to release a consumer-unfriendly "all purpose" game console after releasing such a consumer-unfriendly OS. I hope that "xbone" becomes a colloquialized verb, meaning to make a grievous mistake that everyone foresaw but you, as in don't xbone this, or wow, the new Star Wars got totally xboned! I want Sony, Nintendo and the new owners of Microsoft to be completely penitent to their consumer base the way that EA now has to reassure us that new titles do not require a persistent online connection and can completely be played offline OH GOD PLEASE GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE!
I don't think anything less will get to Big Micro's bean counters. They really do think of us as walking brainless wallets.
I'm not going to go as far as to say I disagre with Bob but it seems to me that in many cases when purchasing a game, you are basically purchasing your way into a service. I mean, its not like the old days when you bought the software on a medium, like a cartridge, and played it on the system and that was the end of involvement of the manufacturer/publisher. Most games have some kind of internet enabled feature now, be it multiplayer or content delivery or leader boards, or a peristant gaming world in the case of mmos and such. Now you're not just buying the software from the vendor and each going seperate ways, you're buying the software and counting on them to provide the service that underlies it that enables it to be used, or updated, or patched, or expaned, or played with other people. Buying the game for a one time price should entitle you to all that at no additional expenditure?? That would be one thing if you were willing to shell out a larger admission price for the game, but people complain that games are too expensive as is.
So we want larger, deeper, richer gaming experiences, that require more work and time in development, and we want updates and additional content, but we don't want to pay any more when we purchase the game. When would this all get paid for? Yea, I miss the days of no DRM. I remember installing the orginal "starsiege tribes" on every computer that would run it in my Marine barracks after buying one disc. And the hours of enjoyment 12-16 marines had on that one purchase. I can't blame the companies for wanting to put an end to that even if It was great for me. Maybe when it comes to games that are not stand alone experiences we need to adjust our notions of ownership and recognize what we're buying when we buy that disc.
Won't happen. If your connection to the steam cloud fails, for whatever reason, you can still play your games online, as long as they are installed to your P.C.. Not a problem.
Gotta buy a new Hardrive to hold all 186 of my steam games. lol
If I'm paying for their machine, their service and they have trouble trusting me!? A customer? They don't pay me anything and yet even after buying, they expect us to jump through hoops? No thanks, it's a machine I will not get. The problem I have with the once a day online check, is that if you buy the machine, you're telling them it's okay to do this sort of thing.
Once they think it's okay, then what's to stop them thinking twice a day is okay with a patch/update to the machine, they make you agree to a terms of service or your machine is bricked. People agree to that, then eventually it's always online, because that's how corporate ass-hats think.
For me, it's a moral thing, I buy it, I should be able to use it however I want. If someone was to pirate games etc, if they log on to XBL then they accept the consequences when that is detected, but to assume we won't be using the machine as intended shows me a lack of trust for the people buying it. Now I do not trust them at all and they have to earn that, which now will a lot harder. Even if they were to remove the DRM the fact is, they wanted it there, so I will not trust them.
Every time I see the Cloud advertised as a benefit I shudder. Yeah it's convenient, but I don't want it to be the only thing, you know? I try not to think about it when I use Steam but the "danger" is there, so it's scary to think that at some point it might be the way all media is experienced.
Here's a question I want answered.
When the Xbox One's time in the sun is over, and the new system is on the horizon, and Microsoft stops supporting it... what happens when this system can no longer go online to authenticate its games to grant me "permission" to play the library I've spent years and hundreds of dollars acquiring?
Because it needs that daily online check to function... so what happens when, 10 years from now, the servers to the system have been turned off and the system is effectively a non-functioning brick?
Agreed, all Sony have to do is be less evil than Microsoft and then they can take my money.
Although I don't buy second hand games I like the option. I like physical things, so if comes down to owning rather paying for a service I know who I'll side with.
That being said perhaps PCs are the answer, Steam I think they offers enough for me to not mind paying for downloads over disks although my internet being slow means anything in the region of the usual disk capacity these days could take hours.
So, welcome to the world of PC gaming I guess? Steam, Origin, hello? No comparisons? Hello? Do I live in an alternate universe where we have no digital-only distribution services for the PC, locked down, online-only and with no possibility for resale?
Really, in this universe, the Xbone is the first system ever with such a system?
Didn't Adobe introduce a software rental system, where if you stop paying or Adobe goes under, you're cut out not just from games, but from your work and your files?
Nah, I must have been sleeping for the past decade. Hey wake me up so I can also badmouth Microsoft, as it is the first and the worst, yea!
Oh, no need for that. If somehow Steam goes bust, the rest of the internet flying the cross-bone flag has your back on acquiring games you already paid for, without bricking your computer. The Cloud, basically. :P
I mean, you bought the license, right?
Some of your games. Anytime you try to play some of them offline, they mystically need to update, but work the second you connect to the internet. Without updating. See: Civ V.
I agree completely. And I've been saying the same thing to whoever will listen. The idea that things you buy are no longer products but services that you pay only a license for is idiotic and I can't grasp how people can be so stupid to buy into that idea. There are actually a few of those corporate apologists on this very forum. I hate them and I would show them no mercy.
I think that another industry crash is our only hope. It must happen.
[shrugs] all any of this really makes me think about is : this connecting to the cloud to improve your gaming experience really worked out well for Simcity, right?
My real concern that if this is as bad as I am going to imagine, Sony will be basically forced by the big developers to adopt this strategy (if they haven't already and just haven't said anything) if this is even remotely successful. Of course now I have to pick if I want to go for the Cloud based ideas of Microsoft which people have been using on the PC for years to some extent or another, or go with Sony who I won't trust with any personal information.
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Russians, Chechens deny ties to bombing suspects
- Two suspects in Boston Marathon bombings were ethnic Chechens
- Law enforcement official said suspects were not tied to Chechen Islamist Umarov%27s group
- A foreign government had given FBI information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev being a follower of radical Islam
MOSCOW — Russians appeared shocked and bewildered by the revelation that the Boston bombing suspects have ties to the region.
"(Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) was just a boy, I felt sorry for him, and I don't believe that he came up with all this on his own," said Tatyana Ivanova, a Moscow entrepreneur in her 30s. "When I found out about it, my first thought was that it was a provocation, or that these two guys became really confused, or simply went insane."
The two suspects in last week's Boston Marathon bombing were identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, ethnic Chechens who had lived in the United States for the last decade. Before immigrating, they had lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and had also traveled to Russia's restive North Caucasus region.
A Russian law enforcement official, speaking with the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency, denied a direct link between the Tsarnaev brothers and Chechen extremist groups, such as the Caucasus Emirates, headed by a Chechen Islamist Doku Umarov.
The official, who didn't want to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said the suspects' names did not appear in a law enforcement database tied to Umarov's group.
FIRST TAKE: Don't blame Chechnya for Boston bombings
U.S. investigators were looking into a potential connection to North Caucasus extremist groups, such as the Caucasus Emirate, after discovering the contents of slain suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's YouTube account, Fox News reported.
Earlier it emerged that a foreign government had given the FBI information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev being a follower of radical Islam, according to an FBI news release. According to two law enforcement officials cited by the Associated Press, the information came from Russia's security service, the FSB.
"I don't think it's realistic for Doku Umarov to consider attacking America, he is relatively weak right now," said Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Society, who has worked extensively in Chechnya. "But on the other hand, they position themselves as part of a fundamentalist Islamic movement. Ideologically, there could be some sense of unity" with the Tsarnaev brothers.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia staged two wars to rein in the predominantly Muslim, separatist province of Chechnya, located in the mountainous region of the North Caucasus. But if the first conflict in the 1990s was staged primarily against nationalist separatists, the second military operation in 1999-2000 and the insurgency that followed largely fought against militant Islamist cells that included various nationalities in the region, such as the Dagestani and the Ingush, experts say.
"It's not really appropriate here to draw on the Chechen ethnic identity. What's important is not that they are Chechens, but that they are (radical) Muslims," Orlov said. "This jihadist movement doesn't really differentiate between (North Caucasus nationalities). This is the difference between the former Chechen separatism movement."
Extremist groups denied responsibility and condemned the attacks.
"The command of the Dagestan Vilayat states that Caucasian mujahedeen do not engage in military action with the United States of America," said a statement from the extremist Dagestan Viyalat group, which was reportedly linked in Tsarnaev's YouYube account.
The statement was posted on the Kavkaz Center website. "We fight with Russia, which is responsible not only for the occupation of the Caucasus, but for heinous crimes against Muslims. Even in regards to the enemy state of Russia, with which the Imarat Kavkaz (Caucasus Emirate) does battle, there is an order in effect from the Amir of the (Imarat Kavkaz) Doku Umarov, which forbids attacks on civilian targets."
However, Umarov, a warlord who has earned the nickname of Russia's Osama bin Laden, has in the past taken responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks on Russian soil, most notably the January 2011 bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, and the subway bombings in Moscow in March 2010, which claimed the lives of 40 people.
"For me, there's no clear link between (the Tsarnaevs) and the terrorist underground," military expert Vladislav Shurygin told Russkaya Sluzhba Novostei (Russian Radio Service), a radio station in Moscow.
"But it's clear that the terror attack was connected to them wanting to play. The Internet (is) responsible. They just started browsing the Internet, found some sites connected to extremist activity, and decided to show off."

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Eligible senior citizens can work in a town department for 62.5 hours and receive $500 off their property tax bill.
l To be eligible for this program an applicant must:
l Be 60 years or older
l Be a homeowner or current spouse of homeowner
l Reside in the town of Dracut
l Occupy the property for which the property taxes are paid
l Be retired and not working as of January 1, 2013
l Not be receiving any other abatement or exemption from the Town of Dracut
l Present a copy of a current property tax notice upon application to the program
l Be deemed income eligible based on the 2012 Massachusetts State Circuit Breaker Credit Income Levels
l Total income cannot exceed: $53,000 for a single individual who is not head of household: $67,000 for a head of household: $80,000 for married couples filing jointly.
Income verification will be determined by 2011 income tax returns or if you do not file taxes a Form 4506T will need to be submitted to the IRS. Form 4506T are available at the Dracut Council on Aging
Application period for the program will be the month of December. Applications will be taken at the Dracut Council on Aging 951 Mammoth Road Dracut


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I found out only yesterday that my company is sending me to Japan to Kobe this Saturday, for two weeks. I'll be working all day but in the evenings I'll have some time to sightsee. What would you recommend to see in Kobe?
Also after my work is done there I have a few days off and I'm planning to go to Tokyo. Again what would you recommend to see there?
Do you think I shouldn't go to Tokyo or rather go somewhere else in Japan? Any suggestions are welcome.
Sorry for being too vague I'll try to narrow it down.
I think the "standard tourist" rules should apply here. I wanted to see things that are specific only for Japan like their temples, castles as they're a lot different from European ones. Is there a museum with Samurai's armours? What's the highest/best view spot to overview the hole city? I Googled something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Luminarie which I think would be amazing to see.
I hope that makes sense to you.


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Manchuriamăncho͝or´ēə [key], Mandarin Dongbei sansheng [three northeastern provinces], region, c.600,000 sq mi (1,554,000 sq km), NE China. It is officially known as the Northeast. Manchuria is separated from Russia largely by the Amur, Argun, and Ussuri rivers, from North Korea by the Yalu and Tumen rivers, and from Mongolia by the Da Hinggan (Great Khingan) Mts. It includes the Liaodong peninsula. Until 1860 it included territory now in Siberia and until 1955 territory now in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. Provincial divisions have changed frequently, but since 1956 Manchuria has comprised Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning provs. Much of the region is hilly to mountainous. The Da and Xiao Hinggan (Great and Lesser Khingan) in the north and the Changbai in the east are the greatest ranges.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Land and Economy
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Today's real estate sampler features a charming 1880's home in historic downtown Mount Dora, Florida. The home sold last year (a great short-sale deal at $269,000), however I feel it is still worth sharing regardless because...well...just look at it.
The palette is certainly not for everyone, though I do love a turquoise exterior when it works, as evidenced by my favorite home of the seven that we have owned/renovated.
While I'm impressed with the last owner's fearless use of bold color, I do find the wall color to clash terribly with the kitchen, which is quite suburban-bland and out of character with the style of the home.
Suggested kitchen fix for the new owner: a couple of coats of white paint on the cabinets and soapstone countertops would make it quite lovely.
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To be very mindful or cautious about what one says; to keep a check on one's language or control what one says. You'd better watch your tongue around these parts, mister, or you'll find yourself on the wrong end of someone's fist! After being threatened with expulsion for my vulgar remarks in class, I knew had to watch my tongue for the rest of the semester.
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Gartner names Isobar a Leader
Position Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed Isobar in the Leaders quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies[1]" for the third consecutive time.
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Cevisama Fair 2019 Review
Thanks for visiting us at our stand in Cevisama Fair 2019, an event in constant growth that has gathered more than 90,000 professionals from different parts of the world. We are grateful for having this unique opportunity to get in touch with all of them, learn the latest trends and introduce our new collection in the global market.
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Flow cytometric analysis of Jurkat cells, untreated (green) or LY294002 and wortmannin treated (blue), using Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor® 647 Conjugate).
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This Cell Signaling Technology antibody is conjugated to Alexa Fluor® 647 fluorescent dye and tested in-house for direct flow cytometric analysis of human cells. The unconjugated Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb #4058 reacts with Phospho-Akt (Ser473) from human, mouse and rat. CST expects that Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor® 647 Conjugate) will also recognize Phospho-Akt (Ser473) in these species.
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NOTE: Optimal centrifugation conditions will vary depending upon cell type and reagent volume. Generally, 150-300g for 1-5 minutes will be sufficient to pellet the cells.
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NOTE: Antibodies targeting CD markers or other extracellular proteins may be added prior to fixation if the epitope is disrupted by formaldehyde and/or methanol. The antibodies will remain bound to the target of interest during the fixation and permeabilization process. However, note that some fluorophores (including PE and APC) are damaged by methanol and thus should not be added prior to permeabilization. Conduct a small-scale experiment if you are unsure.
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Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor® 647 Conjugate) detects endogenous levels of Akt only when phosphorylated at Ser473.
Human, Mouse, Rat
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues around Ser473 of mouse Akt. The antibody was conjugated to Alexa Fluor® 647 under optimal conditions with an F/P ratio of 2-6. The Alexa Fluor® 647 dye is maximally excited by red light (e.g. 633 nm He-Ne laser). Antibody conjugates of the Alexa Fluor® 647 dye produce bright far-red-fluorescence emission, with a peak at 665 nm.
Akt, also referred to as PKB or Rac, plays a critical role in controlling survival and apoptosis (1-3). This protein kinase is activated by insulin and various growth and survival factors to function in a wortmannin-sensitive pathway involving PI3 kinase (2,3). Akt is activated by phospholipid binding and activation loop phosphorylation at Thr308 by PDK1 (4) and by phosphorylation within the carboxy terminus at Ser473. The previously elusive PDK2 responsible for phosphorylation of Akt at Ser473 has been identified as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in a rapamycin-insensitive complex with rictor and Sin1 (5,6). Akt promotes cell survival by inhibiting apoptosis through phosphorylation and inactivation of several targets, including Bad (7), forkhead transcription factors (8), c-Raf (9), and caspase-9. PTEN phosphatase is a major negative regulator of the PI3 kinase/Akt signaling pathway (10). LY294002 is a specific PI3 kinase inhibitor (11). Another essential Akt function is the regulation of glycogen synthesis through phosphorylation and inactivation of GSK-3α and β (12,13). Akt may also play a role in insulin stimulation of glucose transport (12). In addition to its role in survival and glycogen synthesis, Akt is involved in cell cycle regulation by preventing GSK-3β-mediated phosphorylation and degradation of cyclin D1 (14) and by negatively regulating the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors p27 Kip1 (15) and p21 Waf1/Cip1 (16). Akt also plays a critical role in cell growth by directly phosphorylating mTOR in a rapamycin-sensitive complex containing raptor (17). More importantly, Akt phosphorylates and inactivates tuberin (TSC2), an inhibitor of mTOR within the mTOR-raptor complex (18,19).
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Pale moon and dark Nordic skies are the inspiration behind designer Martin Bergström's first jewelry collection for Lapponia, named after the Finnish word for moon. "I've always been attracted by the Moon - this mystical element that greatly affects our daily lives. the Moon orchestrates a constant circle of tides, seasons and moods that affect Life on Earth more than we realize", states Bergström. The Kuu Collection is a crossover of organic shapes and contemporary fashion. The collection is composed of several separate pieces, all combinable in multiple ways. The collection is available from www.lapponia.com and selected Lapponia Jewelry retailers. Oxidized silver.
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Please keep in mind that proper storing and usage are essential to maintain the jewelry in good condition. Silver is a fairly soft material and has got a tendency to become easily scratched. To achieve the best possible outcome of cleaning of the jewelry, we recommend you to send the piece of jewelry through our retailers to our Lapponia production for cleaning.
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Striker Light Mine Professional Hands-free Task Light
Description: Based of the hugely successful original, the Magnetic Light Mine, Striker has created a bigger, brighter, and more powerful version called the Light Mine Professional. The functionally-designed protruding posts can be used as tripods or quad-pods creating a 360 degree freestanding light. Eleven powerful neodymium magnets are located the end of each post, allowing the user to attach and aim the light accurately and securely in any direction. The Light Mine Professional has four electronic light functions; low power spot, high output flood, red night vision, and a high visibility signal beacon. The Light Mine Professional easily fits into your car's glove compartment as a roadside repair light or into your saddle bag to be used as a hazard light for your motorcycle. Attach a lanyard and use it as a magnetic pickup tool for a dropped screw. Use one in the garage to stick to your car's hood for engine repairs or on a creeper when sliding under a car. Keep one in your home for repairs in small tight spaces, such as under the counter, behind a stereo, or when upgrading computer equipment. Have one as your 'go-to' light. The potential uses are endless!
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July 23, 2010 -- An extended-release form of the pain medication tapentadol has fewer gastrointestinal side effects than oxycodone when it's used for pain relief in people with osteoarthritis or chronic low back pain, a new study shows.
The painkiller, called tapentadol ER, could provide a new alternative for the relief of chronic pain if approved by the FDA.
Researchers say they examined the safety and tolerability of the drug in people with chronic knee or hip osteoarthritis pain or pain in the lower back, compared to people taking the better known and older oxycodone CR.
The study, published in the journal Pain Practice, shows that tapentadol ER is associated with a lower overall incidence of adverse gastrointestinal problems than oxycodone CR. Fewer patients taking tapentadol ER tablets suffered constipation, nausea, and bouts of vomiting than people on oxycodone, the study shows.
The incidence of gastrointestinal side effects including constipation, nausea, or vomiting leading to discontinuation in the study was 2.5 times greater in patients taking oxycodone than those taking tapentadol ER, researchers say.
Also, tapentadol ER provided sustainable relief of moderate to severe chronic knee or hip osteoarthritis pain or chronic low back pain for up to a year.
"We are encouraged by these study results as they illustrate the tolerability of tapentadol ER compared with oxycodone CR, a standard chronic pain treatment," Bruce Moskovitz, MD, of Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, says in a news release. "We are pleased about the possibility of bringing this important investigational compound forward to patients in the future."
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The objective of the study was to determine the safety of taking tapentadol ER in strengths of 100 milligrams to 250 milligrams two times a day over a one-year period and comparing its effectiveness and safety to oxycodone CR.
The researchers say 894 patients took tapentadol ER and 223 oxycodone. The overall incidence of patients having at least one adverse gastrointestinal event was 85.7% in the tapentadol ER group, compared to 90.6% in those taking oxycodone CR.
The most common side effects included constipation, nausea, dizziness, somnolence, vomiting, headache, fatigue, and pruritus, an unpleasant sensation that makes a person feel a need to scratch.
Chronic pain affects an estimated 100 million Americans, and osteoarthritis pain and low back pain are particularly prevalent, researchers say, affecting 27 million people in the U.S.
In developed countries, chronic low back pain is the most common cause of disability.
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Tapentadol is a product of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development in Raritan, N.J., and Grunenthal GmbH of Aachen, Germany, which conducted the study.
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Teide National Park
Home to the highest peak in Spain – Mount Teide, which also happens to be an active volcano – this remarkable national park is a must-visit.
Cueva del Viento
Book a tour of the magnificent Cueva del Viento (Cave of the Wind), which boasts the largest system of lava tubes in Europe.
Playa de Los Gigantes
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Hilfenhaus and evergreen quick Brett Lee combined to reduce India to 36 for four wickets within 11 overs. India finally stumbled to 178 all out in the 44th over in reply to Australia's 288 for five.
Australia took over from India at the top of the standings after the seventh match of the tournament which also features World Cup finalists Sri Lanka.
Dominant with both bat and ball, the only fly in Australia's ointment was another failure by stand-in captain Ricky Ponting, who scratched around for seven runs from 26 balls before flicking a Zaheer Khan ball off his pads straight to Irfan Pathan at square leg.
The 37-year-old has endured a nightmare series, scoring two, six, one and two in his previous four innings and will be under huge pressure to retain his place in the side with regular skipper Michael Clarke expected to return from a hamstring strain.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat in baking hot temperatures and rode their luck on a rock-hard pitch as India dropped catches and bowled waywardly in a largely woeful effort in the field.
Rohit Sharma dropped opener Matthew Wade from the second ball of the innings, leaping across from second slip to grass a one-handed attempt that should have been left for Sachin Tendulkar at first slip.
Wade and David Warner survived to compile a first-wicket stand of 70 before the latter was out for 43, poking at an innocuous delivery from Irfan Pathan that sent the ball straight to Tendulkar at mid-wicket.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Wade was also out with a loose shot for 43, scooping a ball from Rohit Sharma straight back to the part-time spinner, before Mike Hussey and Peter Forrest took control with a 100-run stand.
Hussey scored his 5000th ODI run before being deceived by a slower ball off Pathan to be caught at midwicket by Suresh Raina on 59.
Forrest was out shortly after for 52, well caught by Virat Kohli at deep mid-wicket but there was to be little relief for India as David Hussey and Dan Christian plundered 65 runs from the last six overs.
India's chase began disastrously, with Gambhir caught behind for five off 35-year-old paceman Lee and number three batsman Kohli very nearly followed three overs later when he slapped a shot to Xavier Doherty at third-man, only for the spinner to spill the chance.
Farcically, Tendulkar, on three, slashed at a wider delivery on the next ball off Hilfenhaus which went to exactly the same fielder who made no mistake the second time round.
Lee had Sharma caught behind for a duck and Hilfenhaus coaxed a nick from Kohli for 12. India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni attempted to mount another fightback after helping India cobble a tie against Sri Lanka in their previous match in Adelaide on Tuesday.
The wicketkeeper-captain scored a defiant 56 and shared a 46-run stand with Raina before a 32-run partnership with all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Brian Boyle scored his first goal of the season and Ryan Callahan added his first since returning from a broken thumb as the New York Rangers matched a season high in goals with a 5-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night.
Pittsburgh had won four straight and defeated New York eight times in nine meetings, but Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan scored 1:05 apart late in the first period to put the Rangers ahead.
Boyle and Callahan connected within a 2:28 span of the second to send New York to its fourth win in five games.
Derick Brassard made it 5-1 at 9:57 of the third, and Brad Richards had two assists for New York, which rebounded from a 2-1 loss to Anaheim on Monday and completed a 3-1 homestand. Henrik Lundqvist made 28 saves.
Kris Letang's power-play goal pulled the Penguins to 3-1 with 5:26 left in the second, but Callahan's fourth goal of the season -- in his second game back in the lineup -- restored the Rangers' three-goal lead 1:04 later.
Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who sat out Pittsburgh's 3-0 win at Columbus on Saturday, stopped 20 shots.
The Rangers (7-8) scored more than three goals for the second time this season but reached five for the second time in three games. Pittsburgh (11-5) fell to 4-3 on the road and allowed more than two goals for only the sixth time.
New York led 2-0 when Richards found Boyle streaking down the middle of the Pittsburgh zone for a shot that got past Fleury with 6:50 remaining in the second.
For the opening 18 minutes of the game, the Penguins had everything going their way. But despite controlling the puck and having multiple scoring chances, Pittsburgh remained locked in a scoreless tie.
Then, in just more than a minute, the Rangers cashed in a pair and skated off with a stunning 2-0 lead.
Boyle won a puck battle behind the Pittsburgh net and backhanded a pass into the left circle that McDonagh gathered before snapping off a shot that beat Fleury with 1:52 left in the first for his third goal.
The Madison Square Garden crowd was still buzzing when the Rangers quickly made something out of nothing for another goal.
The puck came out of the Pittsburgh zone, and Mats Zuccarello forced a Penguins turnover at center ice in front of the penalty boxes. Chris Kreider got the puck and gave it back to Zuccarello, who saw Stepan streaking into the Penguins end. Zuccarello flipped a lead pass back into the zone that Stepan chased down and deftly roofed into the net with 46.3 seconds left for his fourth goal.
The Penguins finished the first with a 12-9 edge in shots, including a drive by defenseman Matt Niskanen that was deflected by teammate Pascal Dupuis and through Lundqvist. The goalie desperately reached behind him as the puck fluttered and rolled toward the goal line, but it was swept out of harm's way by Callahan with 6:32 left.
About four minutes later, Craig Adams rang a shot off the right post behind Lundqvist.
NOTES: Penguins D Paul Martin played in his 600th NHL game. LW Dustin Jeffrey appeared in his 100th. ... C J.T. Miller returned to the Rangers' lineup after being scratched against Anaheim. LW Brandon Mashinter sat out. ... Fleury was 6-1 in his previous seven starts against the Rangers. ... Pittsburgh held New York to two goals or less in seven of the previous nine meetings, including three shutouts.


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tado° News: Nest acquisition by Google
Munich, January 14th, 2014 - We would like to congratulate Google on the acquisition of Nest. Nest has done an amazing job educating the market with its smart thermostat. We are thrilled by how fast they have developed. They have moved the awareness of home automation from technology enthusiasts into the mass market.
Having started at about the same time on a different continent, tado° is the intelligent heating control
leader in Europe. Since its foundation in early 2011 tado° has been on a rapid growth track. Now that
Nest is leveraged by Google's power it becomes even more important to grow fast in Europe before Nest
hits the continent with its learning thermostat.
tado° and Nest share the vision of a future in which the intelligence of the web will move into the physical world to enable a better life.
tado°s focus is on being an automated assistant for its customers using the smartphone as the primary user interface. We believe in building an internet of things around devices people are already familiar with and love. This product differentiation from Nest will help to gain market share.
Our dedicated team is driven more than ever to deliver a great product made in Germany, and will continue to keep privacy and security as a core part of tado°s product strategy. We care about growing a happy customer base and deliver the best possible service.
Official Google announcement: http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0113.html
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The British like cows. We like to see them in fields and regard the dairy industry as much more than merely a part of our food system. Rolling green fields filled with the familiar dots of black-and-white Friesian hide are a key part of our cultural identity. Which explains why, late last week, Twitter came alive with demands from far beyond the farming community for us all to get behind the nation's dairy farmers in their fight for a fair deal. The announcement by the major processors of a 2p per litre cut in the amount they would pay for milk has pushed the farm gate price well below the average of around 30p per litre cost of production. Dairy farmers, who have been suffering for years, are being pushed to the edge of bankruptcy.
The irony is that too many of the problems in the British dairy industry have been caused both by patterns of consumption by those very same consumers who are leading the charge and by the way they have connived, albeit passively, with the supermarkets to keep prices low. But that is only a part of the story. For the problems experienced by British dairymen are actually representative of something much, much bigger: it's about the way our national food supply has been left at the mercy of huge international pressures from increasingly volatile food markets.
If the dairy industry were simply a vertical business model involving the retailers paying the cost of production to farmers plus a little bit more, these issues would not exist. Unfortunately it isn't. The price of milk is dependent on the European market price for its cream component and it's the value of that which has collapsed. In June of 2011, it was £1,800 a tonne. Now it's just over £1,000 a tonne. A sudden surge in demand for dairy in the past few years as a result of an emerging, milk-loving, middle class in China resulted, almost inevitably, in global over-supply. Few of us drink whole milk these days and the skimmed-off cream – sold to the cheese, butter and yoghurt markets – has become a vital part of the business model for the processors, which needed it to offset the brutal deals offered by the likes of Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons. It is the collapse in the value of cream that those processors are now passing on to the farmers.
Of course, in an ideal world, dairy farmers would break their contracts with those processors and find a different model, but they can't. They have nowhere to go. The savage, grossly irresponsible way the supermarkets have forced dairy farmers down on price has also put independent processors out of business. And consumers, apparently delighted to pay £1.18 for a four-pint bottle of milk, haven't helped. Indeed, for all their talk, consumers show huge reluctance to pay more. For 15 years, Booths, the small, family-owned supermarket chain in the north west, has offered Bowland Fresh, a brand of milk sold at a premium – 52p a pint as against 49p – all of which goes back to the farmers. It accounts for just 10% of sales and has never gone beyond that.
The way a little-known international market in cream is impacting upon dairy farmers here is not a one-off. Our food supply system is now entirely global and exactly the same shocks are being felt elsewhere. In May, as the G8 met at Camp David to talk about plans to tackle chronic malnourishment in the developing world, concerns were expressed that commodity prices were heading towards historic highs not seen since the food price spikes of 2008, which resulted in murderous riots and export bans across the world.
Late last week, those historic highs were breached. In 2008, corn spiked at $287 a ton; last week, spurred on by drought conditions in the American Midwest, the futures price went to $340 a ton. In 2008, soyabeans hit $554 a ton; last week, a ton was costing just shy of $660. For the moment, the prices of the primary food security crops – wheat and rice – remain down on historic highs, but there are fears that if the corn harvest suffers further, then prices in wheat and rice will follow.
These are not abstract issues for money men and markets. They affect people at the bottom of the economic heap. Right now, for example, there is an acute food deficit problem in Yemen. People are starving in their millions. Children are dying. The problem is not a lack of food. There is food in the country. It is that the economy has collapsed to such a degree and food prices have risen so high that people cannot afford to feed themselves. Aid groups such as Oxfam say they are as likely to be handing out hard cash in Yemen right now as they are food aid.
In Britain, we will also feel these shocks. For example, corn and soyabeans are primary livestock feed and with the Chinese and Indians ramping up their meat consumption the cost is bound to shoot up.
The real issue is that, just as with the dairy industry situation, we have no protection from this price instability because of the behaviour – once again – of the British supermarkets. In the early 90s, the UK was more than 70% self-sufficient in food. Today, many experts believe we are down to just 50% self-sufficiency. The reason: the major supermarkets have been so vicious on prices paid to farmers that huge numbers have left the industry.
Pressed on the issue, the British Retail Consortium, speaking for the multiples, points to a recent report listing the grants they have made to fund studies on environmental sustainability and waste-reduction. This, they say, proves supermarkets are investing in British agriculture. Nonsense. It's pennies compared to their vast profits and nothing compared to the imperative of paying British farmers a fair price so they can genuinely invest in British agriculture for the future. This may mean price rises for the British consumer, and in a week when we have heard more than we may ever wish to about the boom in food banks, that may sound unpalatable.
But if it doesn't happen, if Britain doesn't do more to feed itself, if it doesn't do more to support struggling sectors such as the dairy industry, we will be left at the mercy of the international markets. The food price rises we would see then would be excruciating.
Be in no doubt: the current crisis in Britain's milk business is not an isolated incident. It's a warning.


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Premier League: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho wants Juan Mata to show more consistency
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has reiterated that Juan Mata needs to work harder and find more consistency.
By Tim Oscroft
Last Updated: 22/09/13 10:41am
The midfielder was omitted from the Chelsea squad for Saturday's 2-0 win over Fulham, which followed the defeat by Basel on Wednesday when some Blues fans expressed their unhappiness that Mata did not feature until the 67th minute.
However, Mourinho is adamant that the Spain international, who has started two games this season, can play in the same side as Oscar, whose goal spurred Chelsea on to the victory over the Cottagers.
"The evolution of the team is that I want Oscar and Mata to play together," Mourinho told Sky Sports. "I want that but for that (to happen) one has to adapt and to work to a certain way of play because I am not ready to change Oscar's position.
"Oscar as a number 10 is a player that gives us creativity, but at the same time when we press up, Oscar is a runner, a player capable of pressing. We have our ideas and we stick with our ideas.
"Juan has to learn to play the way I want to play. He has to be more consistent, has to participate more when the team loses the ball. It's not his fault, it's just the consequence of the way he has played in the last years."
The result puts Chelsea at the top of the Premier League, and Mourinho is baffled by talk of problems at the club despite the two defeats, to Everton as well as Basel, earlier in the week.
He added: "I still think that they played much better against Everton than they did today but points are also important after a bad start - a start that everybody keeps telling me is the worst start in about a decade.
"But today I could go to bed and I look at the table and nobody is in front of us."
Mourinho has not been too dispirited by Chelsea's struggles at the beginning of his second spell at Stamford Bridge although he added he needs time in order to make his mark.
"I'm in football for a long time and I'm not expecting when the results are not good, people to speak well about our work and about our team," he added.
"I also think my career is made of this, other people have and deserve time, other people can not win one, two, three, four, five years and they keep having a peaceful life and won't get in any kind of pressure.
"With me, maybe because normally I win in the first season, people demand a lot and don't understand I'm building a different team.
"The most difficult thing is first of all to change the philosophy and that takes a little time.
"I understand at this moment we are not playing very, very well, the results are not especially good.
"But the beauty of the Premier League is that in other championships, and I've played some of them, when one of the big teams lose a match, it is catastrophic because nobody loses points and they win, win, win.
"The difference of the Premier League is that everybody loses matches, everybody loses points, the six top teams have already had a defeat so no dramas."


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2-Step Verification Code Generator for UNIX Terminal
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I have been using a time-based one time password (TOTP) generator on my phone with my clod-based accounts at Google, Amazon AWS, GitHub, Microsoft — every service that supports it — for years now. I have over a dozen of these and dragging my phone out every time I need a 2-factor token is a real pain.
I spend a lot of my time working on a trusted computer and I want to be able to generate the TOTP codes easily from that without having to use my phone. I also want to have reasonable confidence that the system is secure. I put together an old-school Bourne Shell script that does the job:
- My OTP keys are stored in a file that is encrypted with gnupg and only decrypted momentarily to generate the codes.
- The encrypted key file can by synchronized between computers using an untrusted service like DropBox or Google Drive as long as the private GPG key is kept secure.
- I'm using
oathtoolfrom oath-toolkit to generate the on-time code.
Pro Tip: Most sites don't intend you to have more than one token that generates passwords. Their enrollment process typically involves scanning a QR Code to enroll a new private key into Google Authenticator or other OATH client. I always take a screen shot of these QR Codes and keep them stored in a safe place.
Save this script as an executable file in your path such as
In order to use my script you need to already have gnupg installed and configured with a private key.
You then need to create a plain text file that contains key:value pairs. Think of these as an associative array or dictionary where the lookup key is a memorable name and the value is a base32 encoded OATH key.
Encrypt this file of name and key associations with gpg in ASCII-armor format with yourself as the recipient and save the output file as
$ gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient email@example.com otpkeys
$ mv otpkeys.asc ~/.otpkeys.asc
Now the script will start working. For example, generate a code for the "fake" key in the sample file (your result should be different as the time will be different):
$ otp fake
Extracting keys from QR Codes
At this point you may be thinking, "OK, but how the hell do I get the OTP keys to encrypt into the .otpkeys file?"
The ZBar project includes a binary
zbarimg which will extract the contents of a QR Code as text in your terminal. The OATH QR Codes contain a URL and a portion of that is an obvious base32 string that is the key. On rare occasions, you may need to pad the '=' at the end of the string to make it a valid base32 string that works with
oathtool becuase
oathtool is picky.
My favorite package manager for OS X, MacPorts, doesn't have ZBar so I had to build it from source. Homebrew has a formula for zbar. If you are using Linux, it is probably already packaged for you. Zbar depends on ImageMagick to build. If you have ImageMagick and its library dependencies, Zbar should build for you. Clone the Zbar repo with git, check out the tag for the most recent release — currently "0.10" — and build it.
$ git clone email@example.com:Zbar/Zbar
$ cd Zbar
$ git checkout 0.10
$ make
$ sudo make install
Once you have ZBar installed, you should have
zbarimg in your path and you can use it to extract the otpauth URL from your QR Code screenshot.
$ zbarimg ~/Documents/personal/totp-fake-aws.png
scanned 1 barcode symbols from 1 images in 0 seconds
I hope you already have screen shots of all your QR Codes or else you will need to generate new OTP keys for all your services and take a screen shot of the QR Code this time.
Syncing OTP key file with other computers
otp script looks for an environmental variable OTPKEYS_PATH. You can use this to move your otp key file database to another location than
~/.otpkeys.asc. For example put it in Google Drive point the
otp script to it by setting
OTPKEYS_PATH in
#path to GPG-encrypted otp key database
export OTPKEYS_PATH=~/Google\ Drive/otpkeys.asc
Now you can generate your OTP codes from the terminal in your trusted computers whenever you need them and enjoy a respite from constantly dragging your phone out of your pocket.


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"Old runners never die, we just look that way." -Ben Benjamin
Tom Pelsor running in Arizona.
We'd be remiss if we didn't recognize two recent and outstanding performances by two of the older representatives of the Rogue Valley Runner ultra community. Tom Pelsor, 64, of Yreka, California, escaped the winter of northern Cali and found the Arizona sun to his liking. Tom traveled to the southwest and turned in some awesome results for the Across the Years 72 Hour Footrace (Yup, that's three days!). Tom covered 161.246 miles in that amount of time. Tom was quoted on the ATY web site as to his ultra roots.
"I ran track in high school. I started running again in the 80's - 10k's and half-marathons. Some friends got me hooked on trail running in the late 90's when I was training for a marathon. Since then I've been running slower and enjoying it more. Finished 4 JJ's and 2 Rocky Raccoon's with a best time of 27 hours. Last year was my first ATY, and I did 93 miles in the 24-hour. What a great event!"
Ben Benjamin doing what he loves.
A few weeks ago, Ben Benjamin, 61, of Ashland, Oregon, headed to the woods outside of Huntsville, Texas for the Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile Trail Race. Ben beat the trail for more than a day and finished the race in 25 hours, 9 minutes and 31 seconds. 84th place out of 239 starters!
Ben said, "The trail had a lot of roots. I fell four times! It was scenic; 5 loops around a lake."
We should all be so lucky to be doing what these fellas are doing at their age. Congratulations gentlemen!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Old Guys Do It With Style
Posted by Rogue Valley Runners at 5:21 PM
2 comments:
- DK said...
You guys are an inspiration to us all. I hope I'm that cool when I'm in my 60's. Nice work gentlemen!
- Monday, February 16, 2009 9:04:00 PM
- saschasdad said...
Plus, they're two of the nicest guys out on the trail! Great running, guys.
- Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:17:00 PM
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Blizzard is looking at offering a service to buy an option to bolster a single character to level 90. It's a pretty decent deal, likely more expensive than buying a faction change or a server transfer alone, but cheaper than buying both.
One problem is that it could mean people run around with a level 90 they didn't earn and don't know how to play.
I'd argue, that is a recognized problem with WoW already. People that level to 90 typically solo and so they have no experience working in a group or raid.
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Roy D. Mercer's latest book is all about the State Fair. As anyone who has ever lived in or near a trailer park can tell you, the State Fair is a big event and it requires plenty of planning and not a little fundraising to properly celebrate the fair!
Lucky for us, Roy keeps a little journal just for himself. It started as an attempt to keep track of all the many secret fishing holes and bait recipes he discovered over the years. Roy also takes a few notes about major events in his life, like the coming of the State Fair every fall.
We pulled all his Fair observations together and created a small book for a quick read. It's only 99 cents over at the Amazon.
Here's an excerpt to wet your whistle.
Heard a great new song on the radio today. Something 'bout, "It's a mighty good life when you gotta good wife that's honeycured."
We's doin' the best we can with what we got, I reckon. All in all I'd say we had us a good week. Got me a new satellite dish. Well, actually, it ain't a real store bought one. It's one me and Raymond pieced together out of the guts of an old dish and one of the 57 triple-D fiberglass cups Sharon Gene wears under her chest protecter when she's umpin' softball. Gets 57 channels, but for some reason all of 'em are Fox. Maybe it needs some adjustment.
Speakin' of Sharon Gene, she's been a-fastin' this week. Doin' perdy good, really. Now she's down to just two in-between-meal snacks. Tryin' to shed her a few pounds off before the fair starts next weekend. Last year she got so big from the weight she gained down there she made the punkin on her Halloween sweatshirt look like a nectarine.
And Lateesha's gettin' ready for the fair, too. She started buyin' them generic cigarettes about two months ago and savin' the extry money so she could get on that mechanical claw and win us enough turquoise jack-knives to give all the nieces and nephews for Christmas.
Got out and fished a time or two this week. First time I got out was back on – I know it weren't Monday 'cause that was the day Bon Jovi ate one of the neighbor's Guinea hens and spent the afternoon howlin' tryin' to pass all the feathers. So it musta been Tuesday.
Went down to a pond on Lou Smoltz's place. Lou's the little wirey old feller that used to have the hogs down there. And then he went up north for a while and had some kindy fight with the Irish up there. Now he's down here tryin' to train a bunch of fightin' gamecocks.
Done perdy good at his pond. Caught three or four bass big as a Sunday newspaper down there on nothin' but BBQ Corn Nuts that had soaked overnight in buttermilk.
Then Wednesday, I went over to Cousin Doyle's house to get his share of the money we're collectin' to send Mammaw Upshaw to a Winston Cup race next year for her 70th birthday. Got to talkin' and me and him ended up down there on Lake Hershey-Squirta. That's Crow. It means "brave who gathers many leaves." Went down there and run Doyle's trotlines. Caught two mud cats and then had to come in cause of all the drizzlin'. Doyle's boys are all talented. They've got them a singin' group called End Stink.
And yesterday, I's havin' a cup a coffee and a maple log down there to C.C. Berryman's Cafe. C.C. was tellin' me how he was draggin' brim the size of truck batteries from down there off the middle finger of Divorce Creek. For some reason it's kindy like real divorce, except when you're fishin' in Divorce Creek, after your bait's dead, the fish'll finally quit bitin'.


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Some marriages don't last as long as this musical group. The Manhattan Transfer has been together for almost 40 years. They've played clubs and concert halls. They've done commercials. And they've won eight Grammy Awards.
Their first was for 1980's "Birdland" which remains their most popular song and one of my personal favorites. But whatever they do, wherever they do it, it's always with that signature sound: four-part harmony, tight and precise.
Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel and Alan Paul have been around from the start. Cheryl Bentyne is the newbie - she signed on in 1978.
Once Janis Siegel said, "People see in us something that they wish there was more of in the world, which is harmony. "And no matter how technologically advanced the music business becomes, I think people will always still want to hear the sound of the human voice, especially raised in harmony." I agree as I am producing this underwriting spot here in Studio E. Digging this music and makin' my day an awesome one.
They've harmonized with gospel and all kinds of jazz, including vocalese where they improvise to instruments like trombones and saxophones and add new lyrics.
I saw them in Vegas years ago and fell in love with this awesome group. They will be performing at Disney Hall on Tuesday, December 21. http://www.laphil.com/tickets/performance-detail.cfm?id=4496
(Audio clip is an underwriting spot for The Manhattan Transfer Christmas Show featuring an excerpt of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Announcer is SCPR VO talent, Rita Pardue.


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