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T. Boone Pickens Energy Fund To Be Wound Up
TORONTO, Jan. 28, 2013 /CNW/ - Today, BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., the administrator of the T. Boone Pickens Energy Fund (the "Fund"), announced that it has decided to wind-up the Fund by March 15, 2013 or as soon as practicable after such date.
The administrator has decided that given the current size of the Fund, and the related expenses, it is in the best economic interests of the unitholders for the Fund to be wound up.
Pursuant to the declaration of trust governing the Fund, the administrator may, in its discretion, terminate the Fund without the approval of unitholders if, in its opinion, it is no longer economically feasible to continue the Fund and/or it would be in the best interests of unitholders to terminate the Fund.
Prior to the date that the Fund will be wound up, the administrator will convert the portfolio to cash to the extent practicable. Upon the wind-up date, all property remaining after paying or providing for all liabilities and obligations of the Fund will be distributed rateably among the unitholders based on the net asset value (NAV) per unit of the class held by the unitholders.
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What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
The professional critic has long been heralded as the gold standard for evaluating products and services such as books, movies, and restaurants. Analyzing hundreds of book reviews from 40 different newspapers and magazines, Professor Michael Luca and coauthors Loretti Dobrescu and Alberto Motta investigate the determinants of professional reviews and then compare these to consumer reviews from Amazon.com. Read More
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Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com
In just six years, Yelp.com has managed to crowdsource 20 million reviews of restaurants and other services by creating and leveraging an impressive social network of people who enjoy writing reviews. But can a bunch of amateur opinionators working for free really transform the restaurant industry, where heavily marketed chains and highly regarded professional critics have long had a stronghold? To answer this question, HBS professor Michael Luca combined Yelp reviews with revenues for every restaurant that operated in Seattle, WA at any point between 2003 and 2009. Applying a new method to tease out the causal effect of reviews (separate from the effect of underlying quality), the study shows that a one-star increase on Yelp leads to a 5 to 9 percent increase in revenue. Yet Yelp doesn't work for all restaurants. Chain restaurants —which already spend heavily on branding —are unaffected by changes in their Yelp ratings. This suggests that consumer reviews present a new way of learning in the Internet age, and are fast becoming a substitute for traditional forms of reputation. Read More
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Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
Why are the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings so influential? According to this paper by Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith, it's at least in part because U.S. News makes the information so simple. While earlier college guides had already provided useful information about schools, U.S. News did the work of aggregating the information into an easy-to-use ranking, making it more salient for prospective students. The authors show that these rankings matter in a big way: a one-rank improvement leads to a 0.9 percent increase in applicants. However, students tend to ignore the underlying details even though these details carry more information than the overall rank. Read More

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"Bored to death? It really could happen..." Nature gives life, shouldn't life aspire to / be inspired by Nature?
Science Shows You Can Die of Boredom, Literally
Monthly magazines from Reader's Digest to Cosmopolitan are inundated with tips on how to sleep better, find happiness, and weave seriously sexy hair. Taking nothing away from being happy and blowing your romantic partner's mind on valentine's day, there are few things as valuable as staying alive...Try to withhold your skepticism for a moment as I share a brand new scientific discovery:
The more bored you are, the more likely you are to die prematurely
Over 7,500 London civil servants aged between 35 and 55 were interviewed in the late 1980's. Among other questions, they were asked if they felt bored at work during the past month. These same people were tracked down to find out who died by April 2009. What the researchers found was that civil servants who reported being very bored were 2.5 times more likely to die of a heart problem than those who hadn't reported being bored. You might be asking yourself, what the %$#@ does this mean? To put this into perspective, consider this fact by the American Heart Association: Smokers are two to four times likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers. People with a molotov cocktail of obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar (that is, all three at once) are twice as likely to have a heart attack and three times more likely to die earlier than the rest of the population. This means that death by boredom is right up there with the favorite targets of media fear mongering, public policy, and pharmaceutical companies. Nobody is talking about boredom while people whine and die quietly at workplaces around the world. read more »
Again ocean defenders are arrested: New Zealand's Bethune, Tokyo Two, Australian Trio, Dutch Erwin.. Now Canadian Paul Watson
For over 30 years, determined ocean defender Captain Paul Watson has saved many wildlife, from seals, whales, dolphins, to blue tuna... but his enemies are also determined, and very "powerful, most notably the government of Japan." "Save Captain Paul Watson from a politically-motivated extradition to Costa Rica where he will not receive a fair trial, nor is it likely that he would even survive jail to see the inside of a courtroom. The Taiwanese shark fin mafia in Costa Rica have made threats on Captain Watson's life. Costa Rica is one of the world's largest exporters of shark fins, a trade thought to be worth millions of dollars and controlled by the Taiwanese mafia. In January 2011, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and his TV crew were allegedly held at gunpoint and dowsed with gasoline during the filming of his documentary on the shark-finning trade in Costa Rica." Newly released video evidence from the documentary "Sharkwater" proves Capt. Watson's innocence, but he is still being extradited from Germany to Costa Rica tomorrow (Fri), May 18. Filmmaker Rob Stewart joins the global call to free Paul Watson.
Arrest of Capt. Watson lawful? A 10-year-old case: no one injured, no property damaged; "the charges were originally dropped once the authorities saw the footage (from Sharkwater Film by Rob Stewart)"?
Sharkwater Film by Rob Stewart Proof Sea Shepherd Captain Innocent -
Fact 1. The event happened in Year 2002, when Sea Shepherd tried to stop illegal shark-finning;
Fact 2. During the event in Year 2002, "no one was injured and no property damaged"; read more »
Olympic flame to be lit in ceremony in Greece before 1800-mile torch relay and the London 2012 Games
The ceremony comes amid political and economic turmoil in the home of the Ancient Olympics, where a week-long leg of the relay will be held.
The flame flies to Britain on 18 May for a 70-day relay around the UK.
The lighting ceremony takes place in front of the ruins of the Temple of Hera from 11:30 local time (09:30BST).
The flame - an Olympic symbol meant to represent purity because it comes from the sun - is then placed in an urn and taken to the stadium where the ancient Olympic Games were staged.
There, it will light the London 2012 torch of Liverpool-born Greek world champion 10km swimmer Spyros Gianniotis, who will carry it on the first leg of the relay around Greece. He will pass it on to Alex Loukos, 19, the first British torchbearer, a boxer and, in 2005, one of a delegation of east London schoolchildren who travelled to Singapore as part of London's final bid for the Games.
The torch is due to travel 2,900kms (1,800 miles) through the country, carried by 500 torchbearers, on a route circling the country and traveling out to Crete. read more »
6th Annual Endangered Species Day: Friday, May 18, 2012; one in four of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction
Endangered Animal Photos For Earth Day - On Earth Day, it is important to not only recognize cute animals, but also those whose species may be in peril. For many species across the globe, extinction is a legitimate threat. A 2008 IUCN study found that one in four of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction.
Several of the species seen at above link are what the World Wildlife Fund calls "flagship species." Protection of these species "influences and supports the survival of other species" and "offers opportunities to protect whole landscapes or marine areas," according to the organization. read more »
Hubble celebrates 22nd anniversary in orbit with stunning mosaic space image of several million stars 650 light-years across
Happy Birthday, Hubble! A Stunning New Picture for a Special Day
Things didn't look too bright for the Hubble Space Telescope when it first went into orbit back in 1989: the $1.5 billion eye on the universe had gone into space with its light-gathering mirror polished to perfection, which was very good, but the mirror was also the wrong shape — which was very bad. It wasn't until 1993 that the shuttle Endeavour went aloft with a set of corrective optics — essentially space telescope glasses — that sharpened Hubble's blurry vision and allowed it to begin conducting the stargazing work it was built to do. Since that exercise in orbital optometry, Hubble has been sending home one astonishing photo after another — and one scientific breakthrough after another too.
This week the telescope celebrates its 22nd birthday in orbit, and the folks at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are handing out party favors in the form of a dazzling new space image. Even by Hubble standards, it's pretty extraordinary. read more »
Oceans of trash? >9 million volunteers remove 153 million lbs of trash from >312000 miles of coastline and waterways in 26 years
New Data Shows What Trash is in Your Ocean and Waterways
New data released by the Ocean Conservancy highlights the need for humans to clean up their acts. The numbers, generated during the 2011 International Coastal Cleanup last September, are staggering.
With 598,076 volunteers around the world who picked up 9,184,428 pounds of trash from 20,776 miles of shorelines, rivers and lakes, it's not surprising what is the most prolific item found – cigarette butts. If you are wondering how Ocean Conservancy knows down to the last one, how many butts there were, each volunteer is issued an inventory control sheet to keep tabs.
By now you are probably feeling a little ill, seeing just how much junk is floating around and landing on the world's shores. But what about the damage being done to our wildlife? We know better — they don't.
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Extreme weather: 2012 kicks off with record heat, tornadoes & drought; 'strange spring' is 'climate change we're seeing'
Extreme Weather USA: 2012 Kicks Off With Record Heat, Tornadoes & Drought
Yesterday, a dozen tornadoes ripped through Dallas, spurring panic in a highly populated, 6 million-strong metropolitan area. The footage captured by news helicopters was dramatic—semi trucks and trees were hurled into the air like newspapers tossed from a malevolent paperboy.
But the fleet of Texan tornadoes only marks the latest in a year that has already been packed with extreme weather—we've had record-hot winter months, unusually early tornadoes in the midwest, and states wracked with drought. Here's a closer look.
There was nothing tremendously out of the ordinary about the tornadoes that hit Dallas, but climatologists were concerned about the spate of twisters that swept through Kentucky, Indiana, and three other states in early March. Those tornadoes killed 39 people and exacted untold property damage to homes and buildings across the region.
And tornado season doesn't usually begin until April, leading climate scientists to link the warmer weather to earlier (and potentially longer) seasons. Here's Joe Romm: read more »


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I found some duplicate content on my site.... but in my SEOMOZ campaigns account. It says that I do not have duplicate content...
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Go into your Google Webmaster Tools account to see what Google says.
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I ask because there appears to be a threshold, an invisible line in the sand if you will, that will tell the SEOMoz crawler and the Google bot. Some duplicate content is always to be expected - after all site navigations are replicated on every page. With my current client as well, we need to have a risk warning and an FSA disclaimer on each page of our website for legal reasons. We've not been flagged for duplicate content because we add as much rich and unique content to the page as possible. So you have some degree of leniency.
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I have put my site in copyscape.com for a full duplicate content check...
there are 2 pages duplicate... oops I remember those... the legal policy I was bored to write and sorry sorry got too much from other sites but my fault... i was just too lazy for that page...
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The spectacle of Venus transiting will be visible in India between 5.55 and 10 22 am on Wednesday 6 June 2012.
'A transit of Venus will begin to be visible in the Western Hemisphere on Tuesday evening, and will be visible for people in the Eastern Hemisphere on Wednesday at sunrise.
At 6:04 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, the planet Venus will begin to cross paths between the sun and the Earth.
By 6:22 p.m., our sister planet will appear as a black dot moving across the face of the Sun for six hours. The further west you live in the states, the longer you'll be able to view the transit.
As long as clouds don't ruin the view, most of the world will be able to watch the celestial event. The entire transit will be visible for people in the Western Pacific Ocean, northwest North America, northeastern Asia, the Philippines, Oceania, and high Arctic locations such as Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland. But the transit will never be visible for those in east South America, West Africa, Portugal, and Spain.
Transits of Venus occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, in which a pair of two transits is separated by eight years and each pair itself is separated from others by alternating periods of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. Although we last saw one in 2004, this year's transit will be the last transit of the century. The next one will be in 2117, so it's your last chance to watch our sister planet dance across the largest stage in our Solar System.
PolicyMic will be providing LIVE updates on the event.
Tuesday 8:51 AM: Scientists will be watching the transit to draw information about exoplanets, planets outside of the Solar System. The dips in a star's brightness, caused by a known planet transiting a known star, the diameter of Venus during the transit, and the atmosphere of the planet can give clues to astronomers studying exoplanets.
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Vote to pass a bill that amends the Business and Professions Code and the Penal Code to apply the same reporting requirements for handgun and non-handgun firearm sales.
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Should Paramount get pissed? Top Gun vs Top Gun.
Here's a case of "Logo inspiration" where it's obvious that they meant to do that, the company is after all named "Top Gun Entertainment".
Yes, just like that movie "Top Gun". An exactly like that U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Course which is called "Top Gun".
I feel like ripping this logo one more time and launching "Top Gum" with minty zest!
Compare Logos inside. Looks like two minutes in photoshop to me.
Top Gun Entertainment above is clearly tipping their hat on both name and design to that iconic 80's movie with Tom Cruise.
...Which in turn borrows its name - or perhaps only popularized it - from the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School where "TOPGUN" is the code name and common name of the U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Course.
Question is, who owns the trademark? Paramount films? US Navy? Or the late-comer Top Gun Entertainment?
I'm 90% sure that Top Gun patch isn't an actual one in use by the Navy, but one created after the movie. TOPGUN was the codename for the fighter school--the actual logo patch is significantly different.
I was thinking the same thing about the "Top Gun" logo shown on the patch. I have a book with an actual "United States Navy Fighter Weapons School" shoulder patch in it and it looks nothing like the "Top Gun" patch.
If you look closely at the aircraft (F/A-18s) in this video, you will see "TOPGUN" on the side of (at least) two aircraft. Note that it is written as one word, not two. All the official military references I have seen write it as "TOPGUN" and not "TOP GUN".
Your probably right, the "Top Gun" logo patch was created after the movie. I would say Paramount owns the trademark to the "Top Gun" logo.
Trivia: The United States Navy Fighter Weapons School has been part of The Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center since 1996.
P.S. I hate the "Top Gun" movie.
Who doesn't? I never liked that movie.
And yes, I think you gusy are right about the patch being created after the film, making the original trademark Paramounts, and we all know that movie studios like to protect their stuff, right? So unless the Top Gun (sports) Entertainment company is somehow affiliated with Paramount/blessed by Paramount - I really don't see how they can use that logo...
Wasn't the TOP GUN the highest earning U.S. movie of 1986? I still think it is a terrible movie.
The Top Gun Entertainment logo looks too much like the movie logo. I would think that if Top Gun Entertainment had permission from Paramount to use the logo, there would be something in the fine print saying that it was a trademark of Paramount. I think you're exactly right, a ripped off logo and, "...two minutes in photoshop."
Dabitch - TOPGUN. A terrible movie? What on Earth are you talking about?
It's got it all. Love, sex, cars, bikes, fighters jets, violence, great one liners, Val Kilmer in nothing but a towel and most importantly - the coolest hand shake of all times (remember the beach volley scene).
Besides from perhaps laying it on to thick this could be the script for "Blockbusters for dummies".
Or something....
Yeah, ok, I'll give you the "Val Kilmer in nothing but a towel" bit. I'll admit to paying attention to that! ;)
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The Hill's Sam Baker reads through the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) letter on the consequences of defunding the Affordable Care Act and discovers that the GOP's efforts could "lead to the end of Medicare coverage for prescription drugs":
Although the Medicare drug benefit predates healthcare reform, the new law made changes to the program — most notably eliminating the so-called "doughnut hole," in which seniors must pay for their drugs out of pocket.
If the new healthcare law is defunded, the changes to the prescription drug program could not be implemented and Medicare would be unable to offer the benefit, CBO said. [...]
A permanent ban on using appropriations to implement the law could prevent Medicare from signing contracts to administer the drug benefit, known as Medicare Part D. It also wouldn't be able to set rates for Medicare Advantage, so that program might also end.
"As contracts expired on December 31, 2012, there would probably be nothing to replace them and therefore no MA and Part D plans for Medicare beneficiaries," CBO said. "If there were no Part D drug benefit, federal spending would decline."
The federal government also wouldn't be able to collect its share of drug rebates from pharmaceutical manufacturers that service Medicaid beneficiaries. As a result, "the federal government would therefore not realize savings from increased rebates or from other policies that would reduce drug spending in Medicaid," the CBO report concludes.
A permanent prohibition on the use of discretionary funding could also undermine increases in physician reimbursement rates. Doctors would not be able to qualify for bonuses and other incentives included in the new law and "the effective result would probably be that payment rates would remain at current levels."
In March, the CBO released a report that found that defunding the ACA piece by piece "would increase spending by $3.1 billion in fiscal year 2012 and by smaller amounts in each of the fiscal years 2013 through 2021." "Net additional costs would total $3.9 billion over the 2011- 2016 period and $5.6 billion over the 2011-2021 period."
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Mission among the Elderly
Not an area many of us immediately turn to when we think of outreach – yet the truth for many churches is that our church contain largely (sometimes wholly) old(er) people.
The question is this:
Should we actively engage in mission opportunities for the elderly?
Here are a few thoughts to get you thinking – get back to me if you would like to explore this aspect of mission further.
The Revd Malcolm Raby
Diocesan Adviser in Mission & Evangelism
"In an ever expanding ageing population where youthfulness is fashionable and trendy, older people must be given a higher profile …"
- They make up a significant percentage of our existing church congregations and so we have a responsibility to nurture and develop their spiritual life. Nationally there are 200,000 more older people in church than teenagers and children.
- We are not keeping up with the massive population growth of older people in general. In the next 20 years older people will represent a significant percentage of the population. Where are the "specialists" in work with older people? (There are some 7,000 salaried youth workers in the Church of England)
In 1951 there were 13.8 million people over 50; now it is 20 million, which is a 45% increase. We certainly don't have 45% more older people in church than was the case in the 1950's. The fact is that we are falling behind in ministry to older people and so are colluding with the undervaluing and overlooking of this part of society. - Because older people are a significant percentage of church attenders, they represent a huge asset in terms of people resource. Many older people are not passive receivers, but people with gifts, wisdom and skills to share with others.
- Older people do not represent one single "group", but at least three cohort groups – and our strategies will differ for each cohort:
- Pre-Senior (55-64)
- Working independent
- Senior (3rd Age) (65-80)
- Retired independent
- Older Frail (80+)
- Dependent
Increasingly we will be ministering to "younger-old" who have never had any meaningful contact with church in their lifetime. Research carried out by Peter Brierley (2001) showed that across a century of steady decline, by 1940 only one-third of the nation's children were attending Sunday School regularly.
Some possible ways forward:
- A presentation (lasting 30-40 minutes) for PCC, Deanery Synod etc.
- A half-day conference
- Encourage churches to run training course. For example, Church Army has produced a training course on working with older people. Each stand-alone module is intended to span four or five weeks for church groups:
- Ageism and attitudes towards older people (5 sessions)
- Engaging with older people (4 sessions)
- Practical evangelism in partnership with other agencies (5 sessions)
- A welcome pack for newcomers (could include everyone)
- Special services for older people – although we do need to consider whether older people prefer to be part of an all-age Christian community.
- An annual "Celebration of Age" Service
- Local care homes and Day Centres
- Holiday at Home" week (an excellent programme runs at Haslingfield)
- Visiting and befriending
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i am a sun chaser, a visual adventurer, image-maker, admirer of the dust, lover of simple, beautiful things. i'm inspired by light and fascinated by the invisible pieces of life. my work stems from an appreciation for things superior in quality and experience, a world beyond the mainstream culture, the moments in between. i fall for genuine, down-to-earth people, with good energy. i'm allergic to bullshit. i reduce, reuse & recycle. i have a passion for the humble and the handmade, things that are nostalgic, well-crafted, earthy, and romantic, expansive landscapes, great adventures, a good live band, mellow wines, great food, laying in the grass, sticking my hand out the car window, documenting vanishing life moments.
i grew up in a small town in france with rivers, old castles, and oak tree forests. there i slid down the wooden stairs of our house on mattresses, and built blanket forts on my bunk bed with my sister. we listened to stories from tapes and played with snails and newts. i doodled in my margins, played for hours in suitcases full of costumes, and named a bald black baby doll goldie locks. i went on adventures. i learned to dance, ride horses and play classical piano. i was a quiet observer. i pined magazine perfume ads all over my bedroom walls. i was captivated by images of people before i knew it was called photography.
fast forward a couple of decades, i still go on adventures and now i get to make images of people. i enjoy the creative outpouring and the inspired possibilities. i'm a constant learner and enricher of my craft. though i'm not your traditional photographer, even less a vendor. i try to see my couples not as strangers, but as someone's daughter, sister, son, best-friend, and that they want to be seen, heard and known, to recognize they're adored by someone, and that there's something irrevocably precious about them. my camera is merely a tool that helps me deliver what it is i see, hear and know. i like that.
that's my story.
i would love to hear yours!
pieces of life.
my heart is big. there are many things in it. these take up the most space.
brandon aka. mon amour is my partner & lifelong heartthrob, loves jammy bluegrass funk, rock music, a frosty amber lagger, and is oddly obsessed with the mysteries of quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. on a typical night he's either playing blues-y licks on his guitar, antagonizing our cat nala, or working his magic in the kitchen.
we're tenacious and we work hard, but we love it – the pain and glory, the highs and lows – and let it shape us into what we are. we like to move in the opposite direction of the status quo, to connect with like-mind people, and the privilege of being invited to tell a wedding and make new friends in the process. our vision is based on principles of human connection, authenticity, personal stories, and adventure. we are people-conscious and environmentally-aware. we're pretty sure our souls have more mileage than our bodies. we like simple pleasures – the understated and unpretentious things in life. the indoors & outdoors, board games with friends, road trips, good tunes, making photographs, natural sciences, documentaries, creating good food from scratch, and then eating it. we try to love wildly, live simply and beautifully. we are supporters of local artists, hole-in-the-wall music venues, mom n' pop food joints, apple products.
more about us and other personal thoughts here.
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My girlfriend and I are trying to find a way to watch movies together. The problem? She's currently in Canada and I'm in California. I'm looking for a way to stream movies - either from my hard drive or a Dropbox account or any other way - so that she and I can watch simultaneously. I'm not terribly tech-savvy, so the more user-friendly option the option, the better. Any help would be appreciated.
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I should say... I know connection speeds is going to be an issue. A PERFECT solution would be to find a way to host the movies online so that we can point our browsers to the same page and watch that way. But streaming off of my computer is a good secondary option.
I don't think you will find an easy or simple way to do this. Before you could stream a video from your computer, you would need to process it a fair amount to get the streaming bitrate low enough to go across the net. And the quality will suffer. A lot depends on the internet throughput at your two locations.
Unless you have specific videos in mind, I would consider one of the sites out there that do streaming commercially. Hulu, Netflix and several others come to mind. It wouldn't be that hard to roughly synchronize the start time of a video at two locations.
But don't let my opinions dissuade you from looking into this a bit further. But you may have a bit of a steep learning curve to do as you described.
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Just send her the complete video file. You could do it with a private torrent or DropBox, or whatever cloudy method.
Then you call her and say "3-2-1 press PLAY".
You can both have high quality with no buffering or dropouts or other issues from trying to stream. -
Or, after downloading it and an accomanying script, you run the script. The script is written to start the movie player at a particular time (or open the movie in the player and then start the movie at a particular time).
I just did a google search on "start movie player at a certain time" and got a number of hits, so it looks quite doable.
Even so, depending on your clock settings and the relative speed/power of your respective PCs, you still might not get things to work EXACTLY at the same time, nor maintain the sync. To do that, you would have to use a commercial streaming service.
Scott -
Unless both ends have stable fast connection, they could end up buffering and getting out of sync.
Anyway, even doing it manually you should be within 1 second, good enough to chat over the phone while you're watching.
Then you can synchronise toilet breaks as well.
However you do it, use headphones so you don't hear the other film over the phone. -
i haven't tried over a long distance but a program like Ultravnc may be a good solution.(..or may not)
You basically allow a computer to view your desktop so if you play a video the client pc will see it aswell but i don't know if it's smooth playback -
No. Unless every link in the chain's round trip from source PC to destination PC is VERY HIGH BANDWIDTH (we're talking >~10Mbps sustained, just for the payload) and can tweak the networks to give QoS priority to the video, it will definitely have both LAG and SKIPPING/STUTTERING on the destination end. Even with those hurdles fixed, you'd still have the LAG, so it wouldn't be "synced" with the source in terms of a movie scene occurring simultaneously at both sites. Plus many VNC/RDP connections don't even use full color palette, which would SUCK for video.
(If you are wondering how Netflix, etc do it, they put out multiple multicast servers on the high-speed backbone, or even at local/lastmile distribution sites - which fulfills most of the first requirement, and use a specific IP protocol - which fulfills the 2nd, leaving the remainder up to the consumer's link).
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10 May 2012MINI United: Fans on the road.
All set for MINI United 2012, the largest MINI community festival in the world. Tens of thousands of MINI fans and many MINI drivers are looking forward to the lifestyle event in France.
MINI Mania hits southern France. Around the "Circuit Paul Ricard", where MINI United 2012 will open its gates on Friday, the MINI brand already dominates the townscape of Le Castellet. Thousands of expectant fans are already making their way through the streets of Europe on their way to the biggest MINI community festival in the world. Some have already arrived in the region. Many fans have brought their beloved cars with them. Whole convoys of MINIs of all shapes and sizes are flocking towards southern France. Many fans from the most far-flung regions of Europe have not been put off by the journey, and are already on their way to the MINI Mecca of Le Castellet.
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If you intend to follow Tibetan Buddhism then you will need to read the Lam Rim. This is the essential text.Could any of you recommend anything to read about Tibetan Buddhism. I have obviously read quite a few Dalai Lama books and found them very helpful.
If you could suggest anything on the internet or any books I would appreciate it.
I highly suggest this book also. It was one of the first books I read about Buddhism and it did really change how I view things. Although I am not a member of the Tibetan tradition, I would love to study with the author a bit as he has great insight."Good Life, Good Death" by Gehlek Rinpoche
I've included a link to the amazon.com listing, and you can read some of the reviews.
It is both an easy read and a deeply profound read ... little tidbits here and there that sink deeply into your psyche and help change the way you see things.
Couldnt agree more.The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism by Robert Thurman is absolutely my favorite! it has given me a MUCH greater understanding of the Tibetan Tradition. Also, one of his older books, Essential Tibetan Buddhism is a good choice.


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Everything in life is made of prana (energy). Nature mysteriously coordinates the flow of this energy in our systems with the flow of the breath. Pranayama (Yoga breathing) practice has astonishing benefits—from dramatically increased energy, powerful digestion and nerves of steel all the way up to directly experiencing the energy that makes up everything.
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PIERRE — South Dakota officials on Monday urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to halt plans to charge for water taken from the six Missouri River reservoirs in the Dakotas and Montana, saying the proposal is unfair and violates states' rights to manage the water.By: Chet Brokaw, The Associated Press
PIERRE — South Dakota officials on Monday urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to halt plans to charge for water taken from the six Missouri River reservoirs in the Dakotas and Montana, saying the proposal is unfair and violates states' rights to manage the water.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard argued that upstream states have the right to manage the river's natural flows, or water that would flow through the system without the reservoirs. States should continue to have authority to manage that water by granting water rights to users, he wrote in a letter read at a Corps of Engineers hearing in Pierre.
The corps' plan also appears to propose requiring contracts and payments from users who take water from the reservoirs, while people downstream of the dams would not pay anything while benefiting from flood control, water supplies and electricity generated by the dams, the governor said.
"Requiring upstream states to pay the entire cost with people in the downstream states enjoying these benefits at no cost is not equitable," Daugaard wrote.
The Corps of Engineers has proposed a storage fee system that would designate some water in the reservoirs as surplus because it has not been used for purposes authorized when the dams were built.
Municipal and industrial users would have to enter into contracts to purchase the water. They now only need to get an easement from the corps to install an intake, and the state issues a water right.
The charges would not take effect unless the corps passes a rule to do so, a process that could take 18 months.
The corps, which manages the Missouri River reservoir system, held hearings on the proposal last week in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, all states downstream of the reservoirs. Hearings were scheduled for Tuesday in Bismarck, N.D., and Wednesday in Glasgow, Mont.
South Dakota officials have said they believe that at least seven existing cities and water districts would have to begin paying for water under the corps' plan. They are the Randall Community Water District, the Aurora Brule Rural Water System, the B-Y Water District, and the cities of Springfield, Chamberlain, Oacoma and Mobridge.
Attorney General Marty Jackley said the corps plan would violate federal laws that recognize states' rights to control water uses. He has said South Dakota will challenge the proposal in court if the corps goes ahead with the plan.
"While it is neither just nor legal for the corps to demand that we receive permission to use water that naturally flows through our state, it borders on insult to demand that we pay for it," Jackley wrote in a letter submitted at the hearing.
The corps is taking written public comments on the proposal until Sept. 10. Daugaard asked the agency to extend the comment period another 60 days because South Dakota has to review reports on four reservoirs.
Daugaard said the corps has no authority to charge fees for existing city and industrial uses of water because they use less than the natural flows through the river.
In addition, South Dakota was promised extensive irrigation would be developed to offset the more than 500,000 acres of land that was flooded when the dams were built, but only 3 percent of that irrigation has actually been developed, the governor said.
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Last week felt like the calm before a very big summer storm. It seems as if both Marvel and DC are arranging chess pieces for their big summer strategies. But there were plenty of standout moments to enjoy. Click on the thumbnail images for a larger view of each.
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JLA: Cry for Justice #2
The scene opens with Green Lantern and Green Arrow, standing on a Gotham City rooftop (the ubiquity of which is discussed in the ensuing panels). Hal tells Ollie that he has a confession to make.
"If it involves you, the Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, and a bottle of Grappa, Dinah already told me. And all I have to say is 'Well played, sir.'"
OK, that's a pretty dandy little bit of dialogue, but like a well-trained comic, writer James Robinson brings it around two panels later.
Ollie: "everybody heard about it -- from Man-bat to Metamorpho..."
As if the mental image of a kinky tryst among GL, Huntress and Lady Blackhawk wasn't enough, now we have the additional image of the likes of Man-Bat and Metamorpho gossiping about it.
It's a moment like that that makes the superhero community feel more real.
Mr. Robinson, our hats are off to you, sir.
Worst Gossip
Lethal Legion #2
Oddly enough, it's the same ability to create a clear mental image that makes for the Worst Gossip moment from last week
Absorbing Man is filling in some of the backstory about the Lethal Legion (it looks like the entire series is going to be told in flashback).
Carl "Absorbing Man" Creel shares a little tidbit about Nekra, love interest of fellow Legionnaire, Grim Reaper.
Creel: "...That lunatic Hyde, what was goin' on with him and Nekra..."
Lawyer: "Hyde and Nekra? what was going on with Hyde and Nekra?"
Creel: "Well, I ain't one to tell secrets out of class, but ya know... And if the Reaper had ever found out, hoo boy!"
Nekra and Hyde? See, that's a mental image I didn't need.
That, coupled with Creel's nose and chin in that panel? Yikes.
Worst Moment of Self-Realization
Power Girl #3
Count on Jimmy Palmiotti to write a healthy dose of superhero commentary into the Power Girl series, and usually, it's tremendously entertaining.
But sometimes you can take a good joke one step too far.
After thwarting Ultra-Humanite (See VQ rating: Ultra Humnanite for details), Power Girl drops in to the maximum-security prison to check on him. As she walks down the hall, other, supposedly meta-human criminals, comment from behind bars with such quips as:
"I love that they never wear pants."
"Cupcakes!" (Someone's gonna have to explain that on to me, though.) And...
"Wanna put you in a fridge."
Ugh. This seems to be a reference to the infamous fate that befell Kyle Rayner's girlfriend in Green Lantern #54. Yeesh.
As for me, I choose to believe that the person delivering that particular jibe was Mr. Freeze, and putting her in a fridge is just his natural way for showing affection. See? All better.
OK. That. And the fact that the guard sneaking a peak from way down the hall cracks me up every time I look at that panel.
Best Moment of Self-Realization
Fantastic Four #569
Ever since Captain Kirk threw that first punch against the goateed parallel-universe Kirk, we fanboys have lived for little moments like this.
And writer Mark Millar knows it.
So when Reed Richards battles a legion of Misters Fantastic, we tingle with anticipation until the moment finally arrives:
"Do I really talk like when I'm fighting?"
Worst Dialogue
Sorry, Len. You've been taking a drubbing, and as much as I love you for bringing back Plastic Man, it has to be said: That "Vegas" line was a stinker.
See, part of it was just plain trite. The "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" line is tired.
But the real clincher was how it was unceremoniously crammed into the overall dialogue for no apparent reason. Here's the exchange: The Royal Flush gang is holding hostages and demanding ransom from all of the major casinos in Las Vegas. One hostage asks the King of Spades (ugh) what happens if the ransom doesn't get paid.
King: "They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, so if the other casinos don't pay -- you'll all get to stay in Vegas permanently!"
Len, we love you. You're the legend. And you're bringing Plastic Man back to the JLA. You've got to do way worse than that to really upset us.
Just don't push it, eh?
Best Dialogue
Fantastic Four #569
It's back to FF #569 for the best dialogue of the week -- and maybe one of the most touching moments in comics in a loooong time.
Ben Grim has just left his bride-to-be at the altar.
Ben: "I can't do it to ya, Debs. I thought I could, but I can't... When I saw them all together, that's when it hit me."
The next panel shows Daredevil, Spider-man, Bruce Banner and Prince Namor -- visions of the women in their lives who are dead -- some at the hands of the heroes' foes.
"Their girlfriends never came back."
Fearing a super-powered smack-down, a cadre of metas track Grimm and his fiancee to a bar only to find a situation far beyond their super powers: Two breaking hearts.
Deb implores Spidey, DD, Banner and Namor to convice Ben that he's wrong.
And they... can't.
The heroes depart, leaving Ben, Johnny and Reed alone in the bar.
Ben asks Reed if he made the right decision.
And here's where artists Wade Von Grawbadger, Scott Hanna and Paul Mounts hit one waaaaaay out of the park. The look of sheer love, compassion and pain mixes over Reed's face. Really. It's a heart-stopping moment.
Reed throws an arm around his lifelong friend:
"I'm buying."
I haven't stared down at the last page of an FF book for so long since FF #267.
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"No matter how careful you are, every sexual encounter poses a risk of HIV infection."
That's a lesson I learned long ago in sexual education campaigns in my country of origin, Brazil, which are considered some of the world's best.
Whether you're gay or straight – or anything in between – if you have had sex, there's a real possibility you might be infected. That is the reason my heart starts beating a bit faster the second I enter one of the testing rooms at the Center on Halsted, in the Boystown enclave of Lakeview.
Last time I had been tested was about a year and a half ago (health organizations recommend tests every 3-6 months for sexually active and/or drug using individuals), and even as I try to be good (almost) every time, frankly you can never know for sure what your sex partners have been up to.
The person who conducted the test, Health Educator Kimberly Fisher, was extremely calm and pleasant, and did help me feel comfortable and relax. She assured me I would live through it.
After a tiny (but scary) needle poke on my finger – it barely hurts, but I have needle-phobia – a first drop of blood is removed and the second one is used for the test. Kimberly sets a timer for 15 minutes, the time it takes for a safe result.
She explains one line on the test display would mean a negative result, and a double line would mean a preliminary positive.
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Kimberly notices me looking and checks on the test but doesn't reveal the result to me just yet. Although I'm tense, I knew I had to wait the full 15 minutes.
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At this time, my result came back negative, but I know because of the window period I should get tested again in a few months.
I was relieved, yes, but I try to tell myself and others that even if the result had been different, it's not the end.
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Chicago has more than one hundred places where you can get tested for HIV – most of them anonymously and free of charge. All you need to do is walk in or set up an appointment at one of the testing sites. Click here to find a location near you.
Today it is possible to know your status within 15-20 minutes, by getting your levels of antibodies measured through a saliva or blood sample. That's how the majority of tests are done. They're inexpensive and very accurate.
There are three possible results when you get an antibody-based HIV test: negative, preliminary positive and invalid.
Most people develop detectable levels of HIV antibodies within 6 to 12 weeks of infection, so to avoid a false negative result tests are recommended three months after potential exposure to HIV.
A positive result is only conclusive after you get a second confirmatory test, which had to be sent to a laboratory. So even if an individual gets a positive result, it's not considered definite until a more sophisticated lab test confirms it.
Before taking an HIV test, an individual has to sign a consent form, which can be confidential or anonymous.
A confidential test means the result will be put on your medical record and shared only with the Illinois Department of Public Heath. An anonymous test does not require your name or any other identifying information – test results are not added to your personal medical record but are shared with the government for public health reasons.
At Center on Halsted, while someone waits for the 15-20-minute test result to be revealed, a health educator may ask questions about personal sex and drug use behavior. Responding is optional.
After the result is revealed to the patient, they get orientation on what the next steps are to seek medication and achieving health.
"A positive HIV result is no longer a death sentence," said Jill Dispenza, director of HIV testing and prevention at Center on Halsted.


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Global shame: 60,000 more and dead in Syrian uprising
World community refuses to act, fearing to be drawn into prolonged war
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Cheyenne, Wyoming the number of people that could fit inside Dodger
Stadium, more than the 50,000-plus U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam. The
official estimate of people who have died in the Syrian uprising is now
set t 60,000 - with only more on the way in the coming New Year.
The vast majority of people that have been killed in Syria have been male, meaning that when and if the uprising ends, there will be a definite problem in rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay blames the international community its failure to act. "Collectively we have fiddled at the edges while Syria burns," she said. "While many details remain unclear, there can be no justification for the massive scale of the killing highlighted by this analysis."
While both Western and Arab nations have strongly denounced President Bashar al-Assad's regime, they have been hesitant to intervene in hopes of ending the warfare.
Opposition to sanctions against the regime has come from Russia and China, both of which have long had friendly relations with and economic ties to Damascus. The larger world community has avoided being drawn into a war, similar to the Vietnam War for the U.S. or the invasion of Afghanistan for the Russians.
"I fear thousands more will die or suffer terrible injuries as a result of those who harbor the obstinate belief that something can be achieved by more bloodshed, more torture and more mindless destruction," Pillay said.
"This massive loss of life could have been avoided if the Syrian government had chosen to take a different path than one of ruthless suppression of what were initially peaceful and legitimate protests by unarmed civilians," she said.
"As the situation has continued to degenerate, increasing numbers have also been killed by anti-government armed groups, and there has been a proliferation of serious crimes including war crimes, and -- most probably -- crimes against humanity, by both sides."
The new figure of 60,000 dead she says "is likely to be an underestimate of the actual number of deaths . The number I think is far greater than this, and lots of people are missing.
"The recording and collection of accurate and reliable data has grown increasingly challenging due to the conflict raging in many parts of the country," Pillay said.
The greatest number of reported killings have occurred in Homs (12,560), rural Damascus (10,862) and Idlib (7,686), followed by Aleppo (6,188), Daraa (6,034) and Hama (5,080), the analysis found.
"This massive loss of life could have been avoided if the Syrian government had chosen to take a different path than one of ruthless suppression of what were initially peaceful and legitimate protests by unarmed civilians," Pillay said.
Rupert Colville, a U.N. spokesman, agrees that the number "is probably a minimum.
"There's not a shadow of doubt now that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed. That said, in each individual case, the final judgment has to be made by a court. It's hard to quantify at this point," he said.
"This is a classic case of a conflict that's spiraling downwards, becoming ever more ghastly. We've seen this before in the Balkans and other places. The worse it becomes, the more difficult it is to resolve."
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It is interesting, is it not, that world leaders and political ideologues define terms according to subjective perspectives. Politicians, systems, structures, judiciaries; they seem to honor soldiers fighting so called just wars and yet in every country I have worked it seems all these leaders tell their citizens that their side is on the good side. If politicos love war, bloodshed, death, so much to then give high flying speeches honoring soldiers dead because of often nationalistic political ideologies; why deny politicians from being honored by their citizens? Put them on the front lines, the politicians, the world leaders, and then after they are dead the common citizens can attend their funerals giving speeches thanking them for their bravery (as opposed to courage, that is peaceful) and offering up their lives for them. Then? The politicians will be passed off as heros. If these are the examples of bravery politicians wish to teach younger generations, then have them bring along their children and all genetic downlines and relatives and put into laws the requirement that leaders lead by example. Therefore? Whenever there is fighting, all politicians on the front lines first with their families, relatives, and friends. The rest of us will watch and take notes, write the honorable speeches, attend the funerals, instead of peacocking world leaders filled with testoterone and no heart and brains!
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