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June 25, 2014, 02:41:05 pm »
Friday China Porn Site Closure Round-up
If it's Friday, it must be time to list the number of porn site closures by the Chinese government! This week in Fun with Dicktatorial Censorship, we have the announcement by the country's State Internet Information Office that yet another 1,222 porn sites have been shuttered by the government. At least we think it's a different 1,222 from previous closures, but who really knows for sure. The mystery is a part of the fun.
What we do know (because we were told) is that the government itself reports of these recent closures, via Global Post, "The websites including some on medical treatment and health, were closed for providing videos or photographs of a pornographic nature, or linked to porn websites abroad."
The government also claims that about "2,200 pieces of text containing pornographic information have been deleted in the 'Cleaning the Web 2014' campaign," and though we're not quite sure what that means, the Internet Information Office says the campaign has been effective and that "more efforts will be taken to curb the spread of pornography on the Internet."
This recent campaign to scrub the web of porn and porn information text reportedly ends in November.
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June 30, 2014, 03:13:51 pm »
Is Bing Really the King of Search Engine Porn?
Ever since it launched in 2009, Bing has been a very porn-friendly search engine, even though it was (and remains) dwarfed by Google in terms of the number of people using it and the number of adult sites that looked (and look) to it for traffic.
Via an OutOfTheLoop reddit from a few months ago that spawned a Daily Dot article from a few days ago, which further gave birth to a story on Bustle.com, a web conversation about the best search engine for porn has been revived, with an expected consensus in favor of the world's third most popular search engine, behind both Google and Yahoo. That fact alone was noted by Bustle writer Emma Cueto, who wrote, "Overall, between the search results, the video preview feature, and the fact that it seems to be way easier to turn off safe searching, Bing does seem to be better at bringing you porn. But really that's not so surprising—it's actually the sort of thing I'd expect from a search engine whose commercials strongly suggest Google-related daddy issues. No, the surprising thing is that Bing actually did beat Google at something. Who would have ever guessed it? I mean, I know that Bing is the world's third most popular search engine and all, but since that still means they're losing to Yahoo, that isn't saying much.
"But when it comes to porn," she added, "they seem to be number one."
Over at the Daily Dot, writer EJ Dickson notes the inescapable irony that "In the era of Pornhub and Redtube, griping about having trouble finding free online porn is a bit like complaining about how difficult it is to find shrooms at a jam band concert."
One very popular destination that became a "veritable shrine to the Bing porn search" was reddit, where users posted "informal paeans to the search engine's virtues in r/AdviceAnimals and r/GIFS. Here's a redditor imagining what life is like in the Bing offices (NSFW)."
Why does everyone say that Bing is great for porn?
"Google introduced filters a while ago that remove a lot of porn from search results, even if you have safe search turned off."
"Going on Bing and video searching gets you the porn you want. No one cares about text or image searching, it's all about the video searching."
"Also since no one uses Bing, they will never see your previous/recommended searches."
"I just assumed that if someone else checks my search history, they sure as hell aren't going to check my Bing search history. They'll check my Google one."
Dickson comments, "Basically, the consensus seems to be that unlike Google, which requires you to type insanely specific keywords to get the kind of results you're looking for, Bing's video search immediately calls up a well-organized series of short links and related search terms along with your search results."
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July 01, 2014, 04:30:57 pm »
Is Apple Allowing Adult Content Into App Store via Russian Apps?
Talking New Media has posted a new article that details the extent to which "Apple has been approving magazine apps from Russian developers that clearly violate developer guidelines."
Apple, according to writer D.B. Hebbard, is knowingly allowing the Russian app developers to engage in deceptive practices via the apps, by allowing them to "promote the name of one magazine [while giving the reader] access to magazines under other names" after the app has been installed.
What Hebbard says is a trend on Apple's part began in 2012, when he began writing about the Russian apps. "The apps in question," he writes now, "were from Sergey Rudnev for magazines with odd names like Magazine Father and Magazine Gun and Magazine Pick Up.
During this time, Hebbard says he contacted Apple more than once about content that "appeared to be far more 'adult' than what Steve Jobs had allowed when he was alive," but never got a response.
Then, in September 2013, "TNM wrote for the first time about the apps from ANASTASIYA RUDNEVA. These were something else altogether.
"In a series of four apps, all released at once, the developer was offering what appeared to be different digital magazines, but were in fact the same app when opened," Hebbard continues. "Each opened to a page where the reader could access the Oh! Yeah! magazines, plus video content." [Emphasis added]
"Why was the App Store team approving these apps, and why, after being told what was going on was Apple keeping them in the store," wonders Hebbard. "A month later I wrote about the apps again, comparing what was seen in iTunes with what the reader actually gets once the app is downloaded."
But the story of the Russian apps in the App Store was not over. "Now comes the new apps from a fourth Russian (presumably) developer, and these apps seem to believe they have nothing to hide anymore, brazenly advertising their wares: 'Sexy girls photos and video. Watch and enjoy…' the app description says."
The revenue model for the new apps has evolved as well, according to Hebbard. "The way these newer apps work," he writes, "the reader buys 'Coins' from within the app. The reader buys a few hundred of these 'coins' and then can buy the video and magazine content within the app. Rather than a magazine costing $2.99, for instance, it costs 100 coins, videos cost 20 coins. The reader gets credit by buying 5,000 at a time for $39.99, or a smaller amount for $9.99. Apple, of course, facilitates the transaction and gets its 30 percent."
Time will tell if Apple's apparent sneakiness in trying to make a few bucks on adult fare Steve Jobs would surely have forbidden on his network will come back to bite it in the ass. But one group of people who will not look kindly upon Apple's "sexual development" are adult producers who currently play a cat-and-mouse game that involves a far less direct method of laundering traffic through innocuous apps, hoping to ultimately drive the eyeballs to hardcore destinations. The revelation that Russians have been provided a deceptive fast-track to Apple-blessed income from adult content is bound to irritate them.
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July 02, 2014, 05:57:28 pm »
Google Reportedly Targeting Porn-Destined Shortlinks for Deletion
Last week, ZDNet columnist Violet Blue tweeted her concern that Google was disabling goo.gl shortlinks for Naked Sword without warning, and asked if it was happening to anyone else. Bacchus at erosblog.com responded with an article that expressed dissatisfaction with URL shorteners in general, but which especially took Google to task for its longtime practice of "letting an automated algorithm declare certain link targets to be 'spam' and then disabling the shortened links to them," and more to point, for expressing its opinion that all porn is spam through its shortlink algorithms.
Yesterday, the Google shortlink story got another boost when Bacchus published an update on the situation in a post titled, The Google Shortlinks #Pornocalypse In Action, where he wrote, "Remember last week when I blogged about rumors that Google was disabling certain shortlinks built using the Goo.gl link shortener, if the link targets were porn sites? Well, thanks to a pair of tweets from Rain DeGrey attempting to share a photo from HardTied.com, right now you can see that that little chunk of the #pornocalypse in live action."
Two tweets about 15 minutes apart from yesterday afternoon include one containing a goo.gl shortlink supposedly to the Hardtied photo. The second tweet states, "Evidently Google could not deal with the awesomeness that is @DarlingBDSM and disabled the link to her shoot
Fine." She also adds the full link to the site.
The HardTied shortlink was indeed disabled, and if clicked lead to a page with a message reading, "
– this goo.gl shortlink has been disabled. It was found to be violating our Terms of Service. Click here and here for more information about our terms and policies respectively."
He adds in conclusion, "The modern state of Google's anti-spam software: there's a rule in there that assumes that porn and spam are the same thing. Don't be evil? My ass."
What is disturbing about this situation is that whereas in the past, Google has defended its disabling of shortlinks when they were used inappropriately—say, in emails sent en mass to many hundreds of people—arguing that their terms and conditions are quite clear about their prohibited use as spam.
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July 03, 2014, 05:42:36 pm »
U.K. Porn Filters Censor 20% of Websites
The parental filters of U.K. ISPs are blocking 20 percent of the 100,000 most-visited websites on broadband and mobile phone, according to the Open Rights Group.
Even XBIZ.com apparently is being blocked by six U.K. ISPs, as seen by a new tool released by the group. So is SFW sister site XBIZNewswire.com.
The Open Rights Group embedded tool runs checks on all the major broadband and mobile filters of U.K. ISPs — 3, Andrews & Arnold, BT, Everything Everywhere, O2, Plusnet, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Vodafone — and allows users to query which sites are blocked.
U.K. ISPs have automatically been imposing filters on new customers since the beginning of the year unless specifically asked not to do so. Existing customers are next in the new policy under Prime Minister David Cameron.
Open Rights Group officials said that the ISPs, in many cases, are blocking sites that are not harmful to children.
"Sometimes, they are blocked by mistake," the group said. Sometimes, they are blocked deliberately. For example, many blogs and forums are blocked by default."
The group, which released its findings today, said that the problem of over-blocking is not going away
"Different ISPs are blocking different sites and the result is that many people, from businesses to bloggers, are being affected because people can't access their websites," the group said. "We've found that there is a lack of information about how to get sites unblocked."
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July 04, 2014, 04:28:56 pm »
US Airways Tweets Very Graphic Porn Image
Turns out companies really are people. News just broke that US Airways has done what so many humans do and sent out a tweet with porn attached to it. And similar to the way people tend to explain their own publicized porn tweets, the airline has a handy excuse.
According to the Baltimore Sun, "US Airways said the image was originally sent to the airline's account and US Airways tried to flag is as inappropriate.
The photo in question is a real doozy, and that's coming from AVN, a family friendly porn magazine. It's so graphic even we can't publish it, showing as it does a young lady on her back, legs over her head, with the nose of a 777 sticking into her vagina. Not a real 777, mind you, but a very nicely sized model of one, though too large by far to fit inside the entire shaft... er, fuselage. BuzzFeed has the graphic goods for those interested in exceptional in-flight entertainment.
It's sure to become a classic. "Although US Airways removed the tweet," reported the Sun, "the image has been posted throughout the Internet as a screen grab.
"The tweet that included the image," it added, "was directed at a Twitter user with the handle @ellerafter in response to her complaint about a delayed flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina to Portland International Airport in Oregon."
Sticking with its story, an airline spokesperson issued a statement today that said, "Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer. We immediately realized the error and removed our tweet. We deeply regret the mistake and we are currently reviewing our processes to prevent such errors in the future."
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July 07, 2014, 06:20:51 pm »
Global Traffic Said to Grow 3 Times in 4 Years
Global Internet traffic will grow nearly three times in the next four years due to an increase in Internet-enabled devices and better video streaming, according to a new report.
The CiscoVisual Networking IndexGlobal Forecast and Service Adoption for 2013 to 2018 said that the majority of IP traffic by 2018 will originate from mobile and portable devices other than personal computers.
Wi-Fi traffic will exceed wired traffic and high-definition video will generate more traffic than standard-definition video, the report said.
Global broadband speeds will reach 42 Mbps by 2018, up from 16 Mbps at the end of 2013.
The report said that in 2013, 33 percent of IP traffic originated with non-PC devices. But, by 2018, the non-PC share of IP traffic will grow to 57 percent. Wi-Fi and mobile-connected devices will generate 76 percent of traffic by 2018.
Wi-Fi will be 61 percent, and cellular will be 15 percent, the report said. Fixed traffic will be only 24 percent of total Internet traffic by 2018.
Gian Carlo Scalisi of adult mobile traffic specialist BitterStrawberry.com told XBIZ that for the majority of entertainment content the future is in mobile.
"The adult industry is no different," he told XBIZ. "The mobile is the most personal and interactive one, and the user 'addiction' to it will increase along with the technology development.
"The adult entrepreneurs need to follow the trends, predict and embrace the new technologies, in order to stay on top and evolve together with the market.
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July 08, 2014, 05:46:49 pm »
New Canadian Antispam Law Hits Violating Companies With $10M Fines
A new antispam law went into effect on Tuesday in Canada requiring email senders to verify that they have the recipient's consent.
Regulators note that the rules apply to senders in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world who want to communicate with Canadians through email for any service or product — not just sexually explicit material.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission said that consent can come in two ways — implied or express. When it is implied, a company can assume consent if they have an existing documented relationship with the recipient.
With the new opt-in law, which will be phased in over three years, sending just one commercial email without permission could result in fines of up to $1 million (Canadian) for individuals and up to $10 million (Canadian) for companies.
After three years of implementation, the law will make it be possible for individuals and class-action groups to sue companies, organizations and directors for sending spam.
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July 09, 2014, 07:04:24 pm »
Russian SMS Trojan Pushing Porn App Hits United States
For the first time, researchers have detected an active SMS trojan in the United States. The malware program, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef, "dates back to February 2013 and was originally designed to operate in Russia," reports PCWorld.
"According to Kaspersky," adds InfoSecurity, "FakeInst disguises itself as an application for watching porn videos, and is capable of sending messages to premium-rate numbers. Once installed on the phone, the trojan can intercept incoming messages and then perform various actions, including steal messages, delete them or even respond to them.
"As well as sending unauthorized text messages that cost around $2 each," it continues, "the trojan can send an SMS from an infected device with a preset text to a number specified in a command and intercept incoming messages."
Kapersky Lab Expert Roman Unucheck, in a blog post today, also noted that "14 various versions of [FakeInst] have emerged," and includes in a post the names of all the countries that appear on the versions' "support list."
More problematically, Unucheck writes of the sophisticated malware:
* "FakeInst disguises itself as an application for watching porn videos. The application asks the user to agree to send a text message to purchase paid content. However, after sending the message the Trojan opens a free-access website."
* "In order to send the message, the Trojan decrypts a configuration file which contains all phone numbers and prefixes."
* "From this list, FakeInst selects the appropriate numbers and prefixes for the user's mobile country code. For instance, for an MCC within the range 311-316 (which corresponds to the USA), the Trojan would send three messages to the number 97605, each costing about $2."
* "The Trojan also contacts its C&C server for further instructions. Of all the commands that it can receive and process, we'd like to highlight the ability to send a message with specific content to a number listed in the C&C command, and intercept incoming messages. The Trojan can do various things with incoming messages – steal all of them, delete them, or even respond to them."
He adds, "We believe that FakeInst was created by Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Firstly, its early versions were only designed to operate in Russia. Secondly, all its C&C servers are registered with and hosted at Russian providers.
"It appears that the cybercriminals have built up sufficient resources to expand their illegal business on a global scale," Unuchek concluded.
Image: The geographical distribution of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef infections, courtesy of securelist.com.
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July 10, 2014, 04:44:21 pm »
Report: Bad Bots on the Rise
Following a year-long study into the state of bot traffic, website security firm Incapsula found that "bot traffic went from consisting of 51 percent to 61.5 percent of all Internet traffic, a 10.5-percent increase," csoonline.com has reported. More worrisome, however, is the fact that data from the study indicates that thirty-one percent of the bots are malicious.
"For this story, a bot is a malicious mobile, social, porn, or spam robot that lives on the Internet and unsuspecting users' devices," adds David Geer for CSO. "People errantly install mobile bots on smartphones as hidden elements of software bundles or free apps from third-party app stores. Since phone vendors do not authorize these downloads, users typically jailbreak or root their devices in order to enable a wider selection of free apps.
Geer explains the different types of bots in his article, Bad bots on the rise: A look at mobile, social, porn, and spam bots, but we are of course mostly interested in the porn bots, about which he writes, "Porn bots include chat room spammers and bots that pop up on adult websites. Chat room spammers crawl the Internet looking for chat forums that use technologies such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and web-based chat. Porn bots invade these sites, messaging offers of free adult images via links.
"Porn chat bots," he adds, "live on free adult websites where they pop up chat windows with pictures of attractive people saying, I see you are from [your town here]. I live in your area. Would you like to chat?' The chat bot determines the user's location based on their IP address."
The whole point, explains security strategist Richard Henderson to Geer, is to lower an individual's defenses. "There's some rudimentary intelligence in those bots, designed to build familiarity with the user to entice them to click to another porn site, which will require them to pay for premium content," he said.
It could be argued that the other types of malicious bots actually represent more danger to the unaware surfer that the porn bots do, but because the use bots are put to is ever-evolving and can always become more dangerous, all bots, writes Geer, "increase the impact of malware, and social engineering through the sheer number of people they can reach almost instantaneously.
For that and other reasons, another security expert approached by Geer, James Brown from JumpCloud, suggested that firms not be complacent about trying to deal with bots. "Enterprises should monitor network traffic for all uncharacteristic, unexpected, and suspicious network behavior," he told Geer. "In particular, traffic leaving servers for anomalous locations such as countries where the enterprise does not do business."
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ExoClick 'Big Data' Infographic Looks at World Cup Porn Traffic
ExoClick has used its ability to analyze "big data" by releasing a lighthearted infographic that looks at the "World Cup 2014 vs. Porn."
The analysis was culled from data that the company has been collecting before and during the tournament's group play rounds and quarter finals held between June 13 and July 5.
ExoClick said it examined adult traffic data from all of the countries playing in the football [soccer] championship and was able to pull out some fascinating and fun facts about the adult viewing habits of those countries during the build up to the World Cup final.
The categories include: "Porn views per capita" that examined each country's adult traffic prior to the tournament; "Top five football addicts" — countries where porn traffic decreased during the games; "Half-time happiness," that gauged if porn traffic rose during breaks; "The top sites" watched during the World Cup; and "USA becomes addicted to soccer" — showing porn consumption dropping as the games went on.
"We wanted to have some fun with our big data assets and so we selected a global event like the World Cup to demonstrate how useful big data can be," said Benjamin Fonzé, CEO and founder.
He added, "The ExoClick network has access to a global network of traffic, which enabled us to have a pretty accurate figure of the habits of each countries porn viewing activities."
The "World Cup 2014 vs. Porn" infographic can be seen
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Texas Man Charged After Sending Dick Pic With Job Application
A Texas job-seeker made the unconventional decision Friday to include a photo of his penis with an application submitted to the Texas Workforce Solutions in Dallas. According to the Dallas Observer's Eric Nicolson, however, "TWS is not the proper launching point for your porn career; its bureaucrats aren't paid nearly enough to stare at your junk. And if the caseworker is anything like the 25-year-old worker at TWS' Alpha Road office who found a client's dick pic waiting in her email this morning alongside his job application, she will promptly call police, who will know from the personal email address who sent it and thus gets a ticket for 'obscene display or distribution.' That's a class C misdemeanor."
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Apple: Leaked 'Sex Tape' Scenario Not Possible on iCloud
While Hollywood's comical take on the whole leaked porn tape scenario, titled "Sex Tape," may rely on a surprising villain — a haywire iPad used by Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel to film a home blue movie — Apple says its product would never do such a thing in real life.
In the film, Diaz and Segel play unassuming couple Annie and Jay, who decide to "spice things up" in their languishing marriage by shooting a homemade porno. But things turn from well and spicey to horribly awry when the iPad they use to record their sexcapade uploads the video to iCloud, and accidentally sends the video to all of their friends and family who they gave iPads to for Christmas — which even includes the mailman.
The concerned editorial staff at GQ contacted Apple headquarters to see if such a technological aberration could actually happen — and apparently it can't.
"Videos can be backed up to iCloud, but what that means is the video would be saved as, like, a backup," an AppleCare specialist told GC. "But you wouldn't be able to share it with anyone. No one can go into the iCloud and watch the video."
The Apple rep also pointed out that a video can't accidentally be uploaded to the iCloud like it is in the zany romcom, explaining, "You would have to make special settings for anyone to be able to see that — like a shared stream."
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Japanese Woman Arrested for Selling 3D Printable Files of Her Vagina
A 42-year-old woman, Megumi Igarashi (AKA Rokudenashi-ko), was arrested today by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for allegedly selling and distributing 3D printable design files of her own vagina.
Ironically, a vagina activist of sorts, Igarashi said she was selling her 3D design files to raise money to make a life-size boat that looks like a vagina to sail around the world. Ultimately, she hoped her art would decrease the Japanese taboo and prejudice surrounding female genitalia, which baffles her.
"I cannot understand why the police recognize the 3D data as obscene material," Igarashi told the Tokyo police.
"As an artist, I focus on my own vagina as the motif for my art," Igarashi worte on her website (translated into English from the original Japanese). "My work is against discriminative/ignorant treatment of the vagina. I thought it was just funny to decorate my vagina and make it into a diorama, but I was very surprised to see how upset people got when they see my works or even hear me say the word Manko."
The Japanese public remains divided on the issue of vaginal mainstreaming, with some condemning Igarashi and others demanding her release, including a group that has launched an online petition to have her released from custody.
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UK Begins World's First Experiment in Public Wi-Fi Censorship
The United Kingdom has begun what The Mirror is calling "the world's first scheme to stop hardcore porn being accessed in public wi-fi area.More specifically, the article adds, "In November, The Mirror tested 129 free Wi-Fi hotspots around the country and found 32 of them did not block access to pornhub.com, a website where thousands of hardcore pornographic videos can be viewed for free."
As AVN reported at the time, The Mirror survey found that "Places where children could access the site through free Wi-Fi included Waterstones bookshops in Birmingham and Southampton, The Cardiff Story museum, the play area at the At-Bristol Science Centre, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Coffee Republic and Esquires Coffee House in Doncaster and the Odeon cinema at the Liverpool One shopping centre."
As a result, beginning today, "Parents who see a 'Friendly Wi-Fi' sign in cafes, restaurants, hotels and museums will know their children cannot access explicit content," reported The Mirror, which proudly listed Tesco, Starbucks and Samsung as having signed up for the "scheme."
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If I may step up on my metaphorical soapbox for a moment, on the heels of James Gunn's firing from the Guardians franchise, I just want to caution the universe about this massively toxic Court of Public Opinion we've created. James Gunn tweeted some things ten years ago that were pretty repugnant. I'm not saying that's okay, but I challenge you to find anyone who lives a life within or adjacent to the entertainment industry with a pristine record. I know mine's not perfect. If we start dragging the river for sins of decades past, we'll be left with very few idols to worship.
I question Disney's motives here. Something smells rotten in the state of Denmark. Johnny Depp has long been accused of horrible things by multiple sources and yet hangs onto his Jack Sparrow role in their Pirates franchise. Roseanne was quote publicly tweeting and touting horrible offensive garbage long before they finally fired her last month. John Lasseter was never actually fired for his behavior — he saw the writing on the wall and stepped down himself. So why was James Gunn made the Donna Martin of their studio?
I'm particularly incensed by this whole thing because James Gunn is someone I follow rather loyally on social media. He is often outspoken on behalf of the little guy, often anti the right, anti-Trump, and has a dry sense of humor that appeals to me. Of course, I'm a fan, but I can't say with 100% certainty he's a good person based on Twitter — the same way I don't think Disney should be condemning him.
Anyway, off the soapbox, onto this weeks antics….
- Even though it airs in reruns in seeming perpetuity, I am still excited a box set of "Saved by the Bell" is coming.
- Um…. this thread on Reddit is fascinating. I can't tell you what it's about here. I'm too shy. But go look.
- This dude has been to more than 14,000 Starbucks and it's still going. Because life goals.
- Guys, there is a colossal Jeff Goldblum balloon in London. I would like to go Selfie there.
- My friend Alyssa is about to embark upon a life-changing journey. Follow her!
- Raquel bequeaths us this recipe for easy cheesy garlic bread. YUM! (And by the by, speaking of cheesy…..)
- Oh Twitter. I love you but you make it so hard for me to stay loyal. Now touting they simply don't have the bandwidth to fix their verification system.
- A handful of online activists have taken to the internets to manipulate the Google algorithm and now, when you Google image search "idiot," you get nothing but images of the biggest one:
- Some tips to perfect those Instagram captions, kids.
- Instagram is testing a feature that will allow public accounts to remove followers. I love this.
- I AM SOMEHOW UNBANNED FROM YOUTUBE! It's a MIRACLE! I don't know how or why, but I don't care. I can sign in and subscribe now. I can rate. I can comment. It's a whole new world. (Don't know that story? Click here.)
- Recode's Kara Swisher conducted an EXCELLENT interview with Mark Zuckerberg. I said as much on Twitter and she thanked me for it, which was very flattering.
- Tony Award winner Gary Beach passed away this week. He is particularly special to me as I saw him in the original Broadway cast of The Producers and in Beauty & the Beast way back in previews before it was on Broadway. He also gave a phenomenal performance of iconic song "I Am What I Am" in La Cauge Aux Folles. All videos below are in his honor.

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The ads are out, and many of us are now making our Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping plans.
But before you start shopping, make sure you know whether you are getting the name brand item or a lookalike, which could leave your loved ones (especially young children) disappointed the day after Christmas.
Black Friday is all about saving money, of course, and off-brands save even more. Just look at prices of Apple wireless AIrPods, and similar devices:
- Apple AirPods: $145.
- Lookalike wireless ear buds: $30 - $75.
If you are on a budget, you may also be enticed by inexpensive Androids tablets.
- iPads: Roughly $300.
- Cheap Android tablets?: $29 - $79.
But every January, moms like Stephanie Pence complain about $75 tablets that failed when their child tried to use it.
"We noticed the speaker is busted on this," she said. "It has a real tinny sound."
Pamela Gibbons bought a $79 tablet two years ago, and she said after a couple of weeks, "it wouldn't hold a charge."
Other tablets have come with batteries that swelled like a balloon. Cheap can be good, too cheap not so much.
Read reviews before you buy
And from the "doesn't that stink" file, knockoffs that are so fake, they may not work at all.
MacWorldordered seven AirPod lookalikes online, most of them inexpensive Chinese knockoffs.
Some looked nothing like the photos (which were showing real Apple devices), while others had Bluetooth or sound problems. One order never showed up at all.
A few were acceptable, MacWorld says.
AirPods, headphones, or tablets that don't work will have you saying "doesn't that stink?" Before you buy an off brand, Google for reviews of that brand. It might save you time ...and a headache.
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House Republicans are bringing their health care bill back for a vote on Thursday. The American Health Care Act was pulled from the House floor just minutes before an expected vote in March, which was seen as a stark failure of Republicans on a key campaign promise.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday evening that they are confident in having enough votes to pass the bill in its latest form early Thursday afternoon.
As they have tried to gather enough support to get their health care bill passed, Republican lawmakers keep adding pots of money to the proposal to pay the costsof people with high medical costs. The cash would very likely go to "high-risk pools," which pay the expenses of the very sick so that insurance companies don't have to.
The AHCA is the latest in a long line of attempts to transform the health care system. Those that have passed include Medicare, then Medicaid, and then Obamacare. Now we move to Trumpcare, or whatever it eventually is labeled, which seems to be turning into another big federal program to pay the bills for people with expensive illnesses.
House Speaker Paul Ryan made the case for high-risk pools on the Charlie Rose television show in January.
"By having taxpayers, I think, step up and focus on, through risk pools subsidizing care for people with catastrophic illnesses, those losses don't have to be covered by everybody else [buying insurance] and we stabilize their plans," Ryan said.
The original version of the House bill, called the American Health Care Act, includes a "Patient and State Stability Fund" with $100 billion over 10 years that would allow states to help defray their citizens' health costs or lower their premiums.
Later amendments added an additional $30 billion to create a federal "invisible" high-risk pool, with money to reimburse insurers who cover patients with expensive illnesses and to pay for prenatal and childbirth care.
And on Tuesday night, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., proposed adding an additional $8 billion over five years to ensure that sick people get adequate coverage through high-risk pools.
"It's our understanding that the $8 billion over the five years will more than cover those that might be impacted," Upton said Wednesday after a meeting at the White House. "And as a consequence, [it] keeps to our pledge for those that in fact would be otherwise denied because of pre-existing illnesses."
Ryan says the goal of the Republican bill is to offer more and cheaper health insurance choices. By separating out those who have expensive medical conditions, the remaining customers for individual insurance could buy stripped-down policies with fewer benefits at a lower price.
Several states have tried high-risk pools in the past, but they were typically underfunded, leaving millions of people with no access to adequate health care. Lawmakers hope that by putting the heft and money of the federal government behind them, they may work better.
The federal government is already in the business. It pays for the health care of more than 40 percent of the population, through Medicare, Medicaid, the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the Census Bureau.
Medicare is essentially a giant high-risk pool. The program, which pays for health care for people over 65, was created in 1965 because that population couldn't get affordable private health insurance precisely because their health costs were too high.
Last year the federal government spent about $591 billion on Medicare, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Medicaid, which covers the poor or disabled, is essentially another high-risk pool, paid for with about $550 billion in tax money in 2016.
And then there's the Veterans Health Administration, which pays for the care of many people who have served in the military.
Covering the people that commercial insurance left behind was also the goal of the Affordable Care Act.
The law was designed to ensure that people in the individual insurance market who have pre-existing medical conditions, who were often shut out of traditional insurance plans, could get coverage. Obamacare tries to achieve that goal by requiring everyone, sick and healthy, to buy insurance so that the cost is spread among a broad population.
That led to higher premiums for many people who are young and healthy because they subsidize those who are sicker and older, and also because they have to buy insurance with a generous menu of benefits mandated by the government.
The Republican plan aims to cut those premiums by getting rid of Obamacare rules requiring that policies offer a broad menu of benefits, including prescription coverage and maternity care; limit how much more companies can charge older people; and require insurers to charge the same price for people with existing medical conditions.
But many Republican members of Congress, including Upton, aren't willing to see those with more medical needs shut out of the system once again.
"We're talking about some way to finance a social goal that was established by the Affordable Care Act," says Joe Antos, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "I don't think Republicans want to go back on that. They agree that we've turned that corner."
Antos says the big difference between what's being contemplated by the House Republicans this week and Medicare or other government health programs is that high-risk pools or subsidies would very likely still be run through private health insurers, which have incentives to save money and be efficient.
Zack Cooper, a professor of health policy and economics at Yale, agrees.
"Once you've decided to cover everybody, you're sort of arguing over where the money comes from," he says. "The ACA makes me subsidize you. The high-risk pools are simply doing that through taxation."
So far the House GOP bill doesn't require states to create high-risk pools, but some of the money is allocated specifically to that purpose. Such pools could be separate state-run insurance programs similar to traditional Medicare or Medicaid, or "invisible" systems where individuals buy their insurance on the regular market but the government pays the expenses of the people deemed high risk.
Maine has an invisible risk pool where insurance companies have to turn over to the state 90 percent of the premium paid by anyone the company deems high risk. That prevents companies from abusing the high-risk status, Antos says, because insurers would be forgoing income from patients who don't have high medical costs.
After Maine established its high-risk pool, premiums for people in their 20s fell an average $5,000 a year, and people in their 60s saw their costs decline by about $7,000. At the same time, enrollment in private insurance rose, according to a study in Health Affairs.
The Republican bill doesn't mandate a Maine-like system. And the flexibility in the bill, combined with limits on the money available, could be a problem, says Linda Blumberg, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Urban Institute. Especially since the pot of money is limited.
"We're going to provide X dollars, then we'll let the states figure out what benefits they can get for these people for the money that we're providing," Blumberg says.
Emily Gee, a health economist at the Democrat-allied Center for American Progress, says the Republican proposal needs about $20 billion more per year to adequately pay the costs of high-risk patients.
And that's a real risk, says Yale's Cooper.
Government has a track record of creating programs to help the needy but not funding them adequately to ensure that they offer quality services, he says. It's a common complaint about Medicaid, where lawmakers frequently point out that it doesn't pay doctors enough.
"This is trying to get people off the books," Cooper says. "The fear is once you get them off the books, you forget about them."
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From the butterflies in your stomach when you're crushing on someone to the anxiety you feel about life after high school — every emotion can be heightened when you're a teen.
Sometimes even minor inconveniences can make you feel as if the world is ending, which is how it was for 19-year-old Iman Vellani.
But there was one thing she didn't have to worry about: what she was going to do next. Her future was Ms. Marvel.
Before the end of her senior year, Vellani had gotten the news she was going to star as Kamala Khan, Marvel's first Muslim superhero to headline her own comic, in the new Disney+ show.
For Vellani, whose childhood was spent reading comics and watching Marvel movies, this was a dream come true. But her new reality as a star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe still feels surreal.
"It's like when you walk into a room that you're not supposed to be in, but no one kicks you out. That's what's happening here," she tells NPR's All Things Considered.
Scheduled to premiere Wednesday, the show follows Khan, a Pakistani-American 16-year-old from Jersey City who spends her free time making online videos about the Avengers – and soon discovers she has powers of her own.
Like her character, Vellani's parents emigrated from Pakistan, and the actress is happy to see – and be part of – a superhero show that represents her culture and community.
Vellani discussed the filming of Ms. Marvel, how it helped her get back in touch with her roots and why representation in TV and film matters.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
On how filming Ms. Marvel helped her reconnect with her heritage:
I was born in Pakistan, and we moved to Canada when I was 1. But my parents really did try to make me as connected with my culture and religion as possible because they were in touch with that part of themselves. But growing up in Canada and being so enamored by American pop culture and Hollywood, I was super dismissive of being Pakistani. It was never something I saw value in up until filming the show, where my eyes were opened. I was meeting so many Muslims and South Asians that are so in touch with their roots, and that really made me go back and reconnect with mine. It's so cool [that] I can kind of find myself again.
On what it means to have Kamala Khan as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
Marvel is one of the most accessible franchises in the entire world, and film and TV totally shape how we see people in this world. I think it's so wonderful to show a child of immigrant parents who's proud of their culture and doesn't neglect it. I think it's great that we're showing Muslims on screen having fun. Every time you picture Brown people, it's either they're super serious or they're a terrorist. So it's really great that we can bring some humanity to this culture.
On what advice she would offer other teens:
I really think it's important to find a passion and explore it. You don't have to have everything figured out at 16. You're not supposed to. And I think young people should hopefully be comforted by Kamala as a character and see that even a superhero doesn't have her life figured out.
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In our get the job done we endure many of the phases belonging to the everyday living cycle of making a mobile app and that i would want to share our know-how with this subject. Under certainly is the tale about bases of mobile development: the selection of the system ahead of development, inserting in store and then the subsequent checking. So, let us get started our tale from Mobitech.
Trends. Exactly what are mobile cellular phone house owners?
- More than fifty percent (53%) use downloaded apps.
- Approximately identical amount of money (52%) through mobile mobile see the sites.
- Over a 3rd of individuals (38%) use social networking sites from a mobile cellphone.
- A tiny fewer women and men, participate in game titles (34%).
- Approximately three-quarters of folks converse by using mobile mobile phone (moreover phone calls): it might be SMS, a social networking app, quick messengers etc.
Statistics. What would you spend money on?
If we glance with the studies of sales and profits of smartphones by running devices, we are going to begin to see the next:
- 62% of smartphones offered is definitely an Android gadget.
- In the next position Symbian – 15% within the sector.
The remaining share is split bada, iOS and Home windows Mobile phone (at any time you require this chart only in Moscow, the distribution will most likely change in direction of rising the share of Apple services).
If you search for the equivalent timetable around the world, we are going to see that below Android from the forefront with ? from the advertise. The way in which from the specific situation Mobitech Studio.
For the next quarter of 2012, the entire world has marketed 104 million Android telephones – given that the inhabitants of the rather sizeable nation. But we as mobile builders have an interest in not simply smartphone, but in addition ideas on how to do the job with him. A substantial proportion of homeowners of products on Android works by using them as usual telephones: SMS, phone calls and all. They don't activate the system in Google Enjoy, not downloading apps.
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What does one use? Not all citizens received the cellphone in 2012, and so the true distribution of forces between mobile working programs demonstrates our interior figures. This statistic features Russia also, the CIS nations around the world: Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.
- 73.five p.c could be a Java telephone.
- Android is in next area with eleven.6%.
- The legacy of Nokia, Symbian, a great deal driving Android mobile phone with 11%.
- Apple items have got a three.5% of Runet end users.
- The most attentive will see around the chart of Microsoft with Home windows Cell phone ( under 1%).
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Installation of applications. Once you pick out a system below which the application are manufactured, it really is vital to know the studies on presently present applications. Graphics study business enterprise App Annie through the September 2012 demonstrate you the way to mature two competing Apple and Google. There is certainly foolish to check Mobitechstudio.
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By number of downloads on the first destination Google Perform: a little more units, additional downloads, greater traffic and a growth of 66% compared with January 2012. The growth of iOS were two times considerably less, about 30%. But the main chart – what kind of revenue customers bring. And listed here the problem is radically different. It is always easier to make on iOS, but the money is there and in Google Participate in, should you know why you should pick them up.
Types of mobile apps. In practice, we can divide mobile apps into 3 types.
Mobile sites, web applications. This certainly is the most common type of applications for mobile gadgets. Modern smartphones are able to display usual website. They can do anything that we are accustomed to seeing in desktop applications – support for HTML5 is doing its job. mobitechstudio.com.Remember that web applications are ideal for start-UPS: they allow you to obtain a great result for very little money and for a short time. Another advantage of the mobile website compared with other mobile apps is cross-platform. However, there are negative, though weighty, is relatively difficult to make.
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Hybrid apps. With this approach you get access to most of the advantages of functioning system APIs: the app is cluttered with push notifications and other pleasant buns, also, now your product could in fact be placed in stores. The main content still is mostly a platform-independent page layout, hosted about the server. www.mobitechstudio.com. This allows you to make cosmetic changes inside product without releasing a new version: it really is enough to upload changes to the server. Hybrid application is truly a appropriate solution for those who are starting a business or wants to test their idea, indicate it to your investor friends.
A native app. These kind of applications are probably the most resource intensive, but it allows the maximum use from the opportunities offered by each specific working system. As a result, native apps win as being the functionality and speed of other types of mobile applications. It is really to this approach now come to those companies who did combined application. For example, Facebook started with the combo app: native controls (switches, tabs and the like) and then the web page as content. http://mobitechstudio.com/Несмотря that this is a really good solution, the problems with performance lead to the fact that the builders are moving away from combination with the web.
Statistics. The figures in the downloads on our apps.
First, we have an app that is constantly developing: amid the recent changes it happens to be worth noting facetime audio. The main difference between the apps is who their audience is. The first is undoubtedly an international product. The program is downloaded don't just in CIS, they are actively used by residents of Europe and Latin America. The next application originally was made in Russia and for people of CIS.
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It is interesting to check the studies of downloads within the stores. A enormous part in the 62% of foreign audience goes to Google Enjoy. About 1/5 is inside AppStore, 14% in Ovi Store. And previously the remaining 5% share for Home windows Cellular phone (4%) and Samsung Bada (1%). With the Agent circumstance is radically different: the share of Google Engage in and Ovi are about the identical. Well, 10% belonging to the AppStore demonstrate love for "Apple" solutions within our state.
The process of making a mobile prilozheniy so, let us get to by far the most delicious: the process of developing a mobile application.
A User Tale. First of all, you need to determine what and for whom we write. The answers to these questions are documented in a User Tale. On the picture you can begin to see the genuine ticket within our tracker.
mobitechstudio.com. He describes how an current ICQ user can log in to the app, and what challenges it could meet. At this stage it happens to be imperative that you give good results out all possible scenarios to avoid unpleasant surprises at later phases of development.
It is significant to understand that each item on your to-do sheet is hiding a huge iceberg of functionality. Try to fragment and specify tasks. Major wishlist ultimate split into several levels (releases in stor). However is a really topic for another discussion, back to the levels of application development.
Design and design. After writing from the User Tale is to begin designing and design development.
At this stage, we use prototypes that we hang about the Board as well as the arrows demonstrate how the navigation will occur.
The design necessarily used guideline.
The guideline on the General sense is known as a document which is issued by the organisation, and that designers and builders understand the principle of building the application communicates with the user. Relatively speaking, on iOS the buttons need to do the round, and for Home windows Mobile phone – square. However, we use interior guidelines for builders. Thus the result on the designer's perform often consists of models, guidelines and slicing graphics.
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Layouts most suitable served "linked urls", for example, using the Prototype to understand the logic transitions. The guidelines contain information about the padding, sizes, visual effects, mechanics, animations, etc. you can skip This step if your project is one designer and one developer sitting next to each other. The 3rd part from the result – cutting charts – must contain a minimum of needed graphic resources (care about the weight of your app), have versions for different screen resolutions. Most often we draw for retina and xhdpi screens. Next is most likely the preparation for Neretina mdpi and automated tools (if appropriate their use). Often the hands have to cook hdpi resources.
Transfer in development. Discussion and necessary corrections with the description.
After receiving the models, guideline and slicing begins the operate belonging to the developer. We share inside the development of everything that came up, and expect an early result. This does not mean that the deliver the results about the architecture also, the user interface is finished. Mobitechstudio.com. Sometimes the builders develop interesting ideas that will make adjustments to the original plan. When development is complete, comes the testing stage.
Testing. There are a number of ways to test the application.
In mobile development tester is a person around whom some telephones. We possess a huge wardrobe, which are as old telephones, plus the latest novelties. Inside we try to test in test cases. Should you implement a new feature, in her description from the prepared test plan.
There are solutions to help in testing. We use HockeyApp – an application that allows you to distribute our product to beta testers. We write in social networking sites: "Guys, we have got a new cool app. Who wants to try?" I wish to receive a build, use the app, and it collects stats, makes a crash report and sends it to us.
There are also expert services that allow you to test your app on different working units – for example, all Android firmware version 2.one or 2.three. You give the application, products screenshot the entire path that you set, sends pictures to you inside mail, and you check if everything is in order.
checking Companies and tracking of application data.
Monitoring. So, you have developed, tested application, filled it in stor. To track stats of downloads you can use the service Distimo. It shows data on end users who come to the store to download applications, and aggregates the comments.
It is critical to understand that people today are much more likely to leave negative comments. If a person is doing well, he usually just utilizes the application, not commenting. Inside the stable operation of our applications we get 40-50 comments daily. Over the day of error the number of records can reach up to 400 on a single system. So keep in mind that comments are not a full evaluation of your job, rather another bug tracker.
To change the specific situation could very well be rather a common "hack" – window Rate Us. Offer to leave a positive review inside store, and in case of problems, email developer. The effect is strong enough, the main thing is to consider the algorithm of showing the dialogue to the user.
In addition to the review Distimo shows the number of downloads, earned money, and just where are downloading your apps.
Another interesting checking service Flurry. It helps to collect the client data. Flurry provides a report about what the user does in your application: how many times he pressed the button, how many times have returned to the app and greater General settings – audience, geography, gender, age, etc. Mobitechstudio.com.
In some mobile merchandise we also use counting client stats using Google Analytics. Difference when compared with the Flurry has almost no. Disadvantages in speed and processing with the logs is, in both cases, however, any time you are used to working with Google release a user interface can use this tool.
Despite the major number of third-party companies, we have our own studies. No matter how good was not external sources, they need to be checked. We are able to evaluate the stats, but it can be necessary to build infrastructure for report generation, weekly reporting by using email and other things that simplify lifestyle. Therefore it's always easier for us to use providers such as Flurry and Distimo, and then the inside logs to contact those that have any questions. Our practical knowledge shows that this approach is justified: periodically our data and expert services are slightly different. Any time you are inclined to check the stats, use different sources.
Specific. You need to remember?
On each new system the user expects to begin to see the rich application. He argues as follows: "I sat on bad Java mobile, thus could use ICQ. I bought a new cell phone, go to Marketplace, and there's no ICQ? Are you doing something?" The user does not consider into account the fact that you have to do the app from scratch. The new system can be a new equipment, new documentation, new resources.
The far more popular the system, the extra you have competitors. With the moment there are two Stora, which is perfectly clear: AppStore and Google Perform. Should you have an idea of an application that is easily monetized or just get a lot of downloads, type keywords into the search and chances are you'll find that this app exists. The extra popular the system, the way more competition. In such cases it really is necessary to carefully study the analogues to begin to see the studies, trying to understand what the parameters of your current solutions could be bettered.
It is crucial to understand how consumers choose the apps. Regular people are not going to decide to buy a specific app, it just looks a list. For example, the query "free music". Icon along with the first two lines in the description is what a person sees and evaluates on the first put. If the icon is decent, it truly is possible to pick up, so a bad icon reduces the number of downloads.
to get to the top belonging to the app store is very necessary
It is very vital that you get to the top in the app store. To get to the top, stores very well, to gain a foothold there – the key to success. Why is it necessary? When the user wants to download something, it comes into the chart and see which application is now in first put during the number of downloads. It truly is very necessary to get there because it's kind of the vicious circle. Mobitechstudio.com. The app hits the charts, it's always seen by buyers, they download it, it re-enters while in the first area, and therefore the next iteration continues. Therefore by all means get horse racing and rating: ask mothers, grandmothers, neighbors put the app five. It will be worth saying that the marketplace is full of solutions with the guaranteed program output during the top. However, organic people, this brings a little bit, that does not prevent to continue the experiments.
Remember that the publication time can certainly be up to several weeks. Suppose you have developed and tested the app, called all bloggers or the media and said: "I Have got a new application, come to the press conference". You send it in to the AppStore and have to wait up to seven business days. In this particular case, Google Engage in – Paradise for live updates, wherever publishing takes several hours.
The fragmentation within the working system. Should you are developing Android applications, consider the fragmentation plus the existence of the whole zoo of equipment. This affects the time development at all levels: planning, design, development and especially testing.
Within the store it truly is impossible to converse with consumers
In the store its impossible to connect with end users. For example, the user says that he don't go to ICQ messages. He is unhappy and is expressed in a very colorful, but not very informative. We have no way to contact him and learn a little more about the issue. All we can do is to get into the monitor and see do we use a message. Maybe him blocked anti-spam.
Now some within the tale get a admin panel wherever you can ask questions to the user, to find out his contact information to see what nations are downloading your app, but the specific situation is not too improved. Mobitech Studio. It will be worth noting that Google Participate in continues to add this option to some builders, like our specialist it is always available.
The time to test it. There are several ways to test the application. You can have testers on test cases, test-plans, which they must pass. In addition, you will find a service for testing – you pay with the found bugs. You put up the application it is really tested 20 thousand regular people. In such a approach, of course, there are pros and cons.
Shots inside of the mobile industry solves everything. Good mobile builders are difficult to find even good sized companies, such as Mail.Ru Group, Yandex or Google. That is why we are working with the trainees – because sometimes it's easier to choose an intelligent student and to teach him.


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Generations of children knew Emilio Delgado as Sesame Street's fix-it shop owner, Luis Rodriguez. This week, Delgado died at age 81, having been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer two years ago. He played Luis for 44 years, starting in 1971. The Sesame Street Workshop noted in a release that his was the longest running role for a Mexican American actor in a TV series.
Delgado was the coordinator of the Sesame Workshop's Bilingual Talk Force, helping to add bilingual content to the beloved children's show. As the first human character in the Muppet world, he introduced young audiences to Spanish words and Latino culture. Along with the Sesame Street puppets, Luis often played his guitar and sang in English and Spanish about being happy.
His storyline also helped teach children about love and family. In 1988, children watched Luis get married to Maria, played by Sonia Manzano. Grover, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch attended the wedding, and so did Elmo, as the nervous ring bearer. Later on the show, Luis and Maria had a daughter, Gabriela, who they raised on Sesame Street.
Delgado was born in Calexico, California, and spent his childhood crossing the border to Mexicali, Mexico, where his grandparents lived. As a boy, he shined shoes and worked at his uncle's bicycle repair shop, according to his IMDb profile. He acted in high school productions in Los Angeles, and studied theater at California Institute of the Arts, while performing as a guitarist and singing traditional Spanish boleros with Mexican trios.
He got a break on the PBS series Canción de la Raza. In his early years, he was the artistic director of the Barrio Theatre of East L.A. In a 2021 interview on the YouTube series "Famous Cast Words" he said when he began on television, "Most of the roles that I went out for were either for bandits or gang members."
That changed when Sesame Street cast him in a positive, ordinary-guy role in a diverse cast of children and Muppets.
"The first time that I saw Big Bird walk on, my line was, 'Big Bird!' But I didn't say 'Big Bird,' I said, 'pájaro!'" he said in the interview. After explaining that "pájaro" meant "bird," the producers let him keep it in. "I called him 'pajaro' from then on every time I saw him," Delgado said.
Many credit Delgado for his pioneering work as a Chicano actor. He also guest starred on TV shows like Hawaii Five-O, The Lou Grant Show and The Get Down. More recently, he was in a Chicano adaptation of Don Quixote.
Delgado also continued to sing, performing with Pink Martini at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. He even recorded a duet of the song "Sing" for the band's album Splendor in the Grass. He was also an activist, supporting organizations such as the United Farm Workers and Head Start, and serving on the Board of Directors at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, an LGBTQIA safe-space and community activist center. In 2019, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed October 15as Emilio Delgado Day in NYC, honoring him as a trailblazing Mexican-American artist.
In a statement, The Sesame Street Workshop wrote that Emilio Delgado's "warmth and humor invited children to share a friendship that has echoed through generations."
In this 1987 riff on "La Bamba," Luis sings with sheep, a cow, a duck and a cat.
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The question of whether innovation or copying is a more effective social learning strategy was tested a few years ago in an online tournament. The result may surprise you.
In 2010, New Scientist magazine published an article entitled "You are what you copy", with the tag line "Forget free thinking, a talent for imitation is what really makes us smart".
This describes an experiment (actually an online tournament) to test out various social learning strategies. It tested variables such as the choice between copying and innovation, whether to copy the expert vs following the crowd, or whether to rely on what you know. The contest looked for "agents" who's chosen learning strategy gave them the greatest survival rate.
You can read the online summary for yourself, but here are some quotes from the magazine article.
"It seems a successful strategy rests primarily on the amount of social learning involved, with the most successful agents spending almost all their learning time observing rather than innovating"
"Avoiding spending too much time learning either socially or individually was
just as important. Between a tenth and a fifth of their life seemed to be the
optimal range. If they did more learning than that it seemed that life was just
passing them by."
"Successful strategies were also good at spacing out learning throughout the agents' lives. The winning strategy, Discount Machine, submitted by PhD students Daniel Cownden and Timothy Lillicrap from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, stood out because it did just this. It seems packing all your learning into the early part of your life is not a great idea - we need to keep updating our knowledge as we go along".
"You don't need any clever copying rules. You can just copy anyone at random. Other individuals are doing the filtering for you. They will have tried out a number of behaviours and they will tend to perform the ones which are reaping the highest rewards."
"To become the winner of the tournament you .... have to weigh up the relative costs and benefits of sticking with the behaviour that you have, versus inventing a new behaviour, versus copying others. That requires assessing how quickly the environment is changing, as this gives you an idea of how quickly information will become outdated".
"In variable environments (the winner) placed a higher value on more recently
acquired information and discounted older information more readily".
"Another attribute of the most successful strategies is that they are parasitic. This is the essence of social learning - somebody has to do the hard graft to find out how to do things before other people can copy them, so it only pays to learn socially when there are some innovators around. Indeed, in contests where (the winning) agents were able to invade the entire population, they actually ended up with a lower average pay-off than they did in contests where the conditions allowed some agents with more innovative strategies to survive, so providing new behaviours to copy".
For the knowledge manager, this is really useful and interesting experimental input. Given the emphasis on innovation you often see, it is good to be reminded of the value of copying as an effective competitive strategy. I remember a senior engineering guy telling me that his principle was "No Versions 1.0". He never wanted to be the guinea pig for new technology - innovation is risky, and sometimes the best strategy is to let others take the risks, and copy the survivors.
The need to adjust strategy depending on the variability of the environment is also interesting, suggesting that the variability of the knowledge context can affect the strategy needed to deal with it.
The ideal learning percentage is an interesting statistic, also the fact that learning seems to be something that needs to happen constantly, rather than just at the start of your career.
The final learning point for me from all of this is that if we are looking at internal practices rather than competitive practices, then an organisation needs a knowledge management strategy that is strong on internal copying, leavened with a proportion of innovation. You need both - neither all copiers nor all innovators, but a blend of both (and the blend weighted towards the copiers). Also you need to ensure that the innovators capture or share enough knowledge that they can be copied!


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Hi mom, question can I change my 68Deville to Caddy? Nesta
Hi Mom, I know this is not ethical but why not? "Well Another Locked Thread I guess I missed out on the name calling, but just like DeadBlog, more locked threads...and you wonder why no one posts here..... " So much of that, what can I say about that??? Nesta
Hey thanks Paul for the 3D post
Hey Weird Guy, In the post "How-about-an-update-on-Mid-America-Raceways" the #6 posting is Laura Schmitt asking for help locating assets in the on going divorce battle between Roger and Laura, Roger has asked me to ask you to please remove that posting. It seems that the divorce battle is really hot and heavy. I heard that the judge gave a ruling and Laura said no way and the battle continues! :-) I'm not really sure what the policy on this is for the OWH forum. I am just passing on a request from Roger. thanks, Owl
Hi mom, I had a conversation with John Tore Anderson and he can't get on the forum? I guess he forgot his password and username? Please let me know how we can get him back on line? He is a good asset for OWH, don't you think so? lol PM me how it should be done. Nesta
mom; i'm not able to send zippity a message even though i'm logged in. have had this kind of problem before. i'll pay to play, BUT b/s walks & money talks works both ways, get my drift ? ~~~~ dr. nuke ~~~ [FLOYD]
Paul, I def want to donate, but I have no PayPal or Debit or Credit cards ! -m-
Hi MOM, I just sold my old track and tried to post in heading that it is sold, if you can help me out, I'd appreciate it. Upon sale, I made a 10% Donation to the CAUSE! Thanks for having a great place for us slot nuts! Thanks, Andy "BEACH OVAL"
Hi Paul, Very coincidental, but I had a peculiar interest in the Philippines during the 90's. I spent two years in Manila, QC, Alabang areas. The southern islands were always considered hot spots for political trouble. The Abu Sayaf are still active, but their activities are located even further south of Davao evidently. Looks like your dialed in with the local Baranguy there. Very important to have friends in high places. I miss P.I. in many ways. I drove an old Cortina and could tell you some stories. -m
Hi Paul, I'm joining OWH for the 2nd time. I had lost my previous contact info, so I'm starting over again. Anything from my past membership that's taking up any space can be deleted. To let you know (no news) I've been excommunicated from SlotBlog. I consider it my fault over a very ugly comment I made, but it was about time I left. It was bound to happen sometime. I'm here for fun. I'm very opinionated, but I don't use slurs or name calling. I didn't do that on SlotBlog and it won't happen here. Cool, there is an alternative to stay in touch with the Slot World. Thanks for having this venue for us odd balls. -m
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Mermaid Fade Color Kit
This listing is for one "Mermaid Fade Color Kit".
This set comes with the following colorways in your choice of base:
Midnight Violet
Saltwater Taffy
Mermaid Lagoon
This listing is dyed to order!
Color kits are great gifts for the special knitter in your life!
Please choose from the following luxurious bases:
Moonglow Merino DK
100% Superwash Merino Wool 100 grams, 231 yards, 211 meters
Moonglow Merino Nylon Sock
75% Superwash Merino 25% Nylon 100 grams, 463 yards, 423 meters
Please read before purchasing!
Your yarn will be dyed with care just for you. Current processing time for dyed to order yarn is 2-3 weeks.
About Moonglow Yarns
Moonglow colorways have beautiful light and dark tonal shading that will add depth and dimension to your project. Color tone and placement will vary from skein to skein due to the nature of hand-dyed yarn.
I photograph Moonglow yarns outside in natural lighting and do my best to accurately depict each colorway on screen. Please keep in mind that indoor/outdoor lighting, the screens of our computers/mobile devices and even the human eye all vary color perception, so color may differ slightly from what you see on screen.
Every effort will be made to color match sweater quantities but there will always be variation from skein to skein in hand-dyed yarn. Therefore I always recommend alternating skeins when knitting with hand-dyed yarn. It is an extra step you will never regret taking.
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Windows 10 was recently released, exciting the many Microsoft users who were eager to wash out the bad taste that Windows 8 left in their mouths… but this much-anticipated release has attracted some attention from cybercriminals as well.
You may receive an email, as many people already have, that contains a link that supposedly directs you to free upgrade to Windows 10.
Don't follow that link.
That link will actually end up infecting your computer with CTB-Locker, yet another one of the many ransomware programs that have made ransomware one of the fastest growing trends in the cybercrime threat landscape.
So, what is ransomware? What does CTB-Locker do, exactly?
First, CTB-Locker will encrypt your important files. Documents, photos, videos, databases: the works. Then, your screen will display a message that explains why you can't access your files, shows you all of the files that have been encrypted, and tells you that if you don't send over a ransom (usually somewhere between a few hundred and a couple thousands dollars) in the next 96 hours (4 days), all those files will be lost forever.
Microsoft actually does offer free upgrades to Windows 10, on the condition that you already have Windows 7 or 8. But they're not going to send you an email about it. For that free upgrade, follow these instructions from Microsoft (and we assure you, that link is actually safe).
This recent scam highlights a much larger issue: to keep your network secure and avoid ransomware (as well as the class-action lawsuits and regulatory fines that often result from an online security breach), don't follow any links or download any attachments from any source you're not 100% sure is legitimate.
Give us a call at (888) 505-8215 or send a message over to email@example.com for more information about our IT services.


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I am sustained by the Love of God.
1 Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the "right" people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.
2 All these things are your replacements for the Love of God. All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification. They are songs of praise to the ego. Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you.
3 Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.
4 Put not your faith in illusions. They will fail you. Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. Tell yourself this often today. It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself.
5 For ten minutes, twice today, morning and evening, let the idea for today sink deep into your consciousness. Repeat it, think about it, let related thoughts come to help you recognize its truth, and allow peace to flow over you like a blanket of protection and surety. Let no idle and foolish thoughts enter to disturb the holy mind of the Son of God. Such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Such is the resting place where your Father has placed you forever.
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The midfielder has set his sights on an all-German final, but has insisted that BVB will have to focus on their quarter-final tie versus Malaga first
Borussia Dortmund star Ilkay Gundogan is dreaming of a Champions League final against Bayern Munich, but realises the Bundesliga champions still have a long way to go.
BVB were paired with Malaga in the draw for the quarter-finals after seeing off Shakhtar Donetsk in the first knockout stage, and Gundogan is hopeful of going all the way in European club football's elite competition.
"We have the quarter-final against Malaga coming up first. It will be hard enough to overcome that hurdle," Gundogan told TZ.
"But of course, I hope to lock horns with Bayern Munich in the final."
Dortmund are currently trailing the Bavarians by 20 points in the Bundesliga, but Gundogan refuses to congratulate Bayern on a title success just yet.
He added: "We will only congratulate Bayern with the title when we can't catch them any more mathematically. Not before then."
Bayern need only two more wins in their remaining eight games to secure Bundesliga glory.


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From the team of filmmakers who introduced cool young adult blockbuster franchises such as "The Twilight Saga," "The Fault in Our Stars" and "The Maze Runner," producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen along with Haim Saban and Brian Casentini bring the latest young adult movie franchise to watch out for – the new "Power Rangers" movie.
The latest "Power Rangers" movie follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it's too late, band together as the Power Rangers.
Directed by Dean Israelite ("Project Almanac"), Saban's Power Rangers stars Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, Ludi Lin, featuring Bill Hader, with Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Banks. The screenplay is by John Gatins ("Kong: Skull Island," "Real Steel") from a story by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless ("Dracula Untold") and Michele Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney.
A truly unforgettable 1990s phenomenon, "Power Rangers" became the most-watched children's television program in the U.S. More than that, it became a cultural hit around the globe. Now a new feature film based on the show, Saban's "Power Rangers," re-envisions the Power Rangers as five ordinary high-school teens who discover they have acquired unique super powers and must join forces to save the world.
The film's director, Dean Israelite, grew up watching "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" in South Africa. "It became a phenomenon there, just as it did all around the world," he says. "What I remember most is how empowered the show made you feel. When it emerged that this project was going to re-imagine the show, I was very excited. I knew if I could tap into the feeling of the original it would be an incredible adventure."
Remaining true to the spirit of the television series has been fundamental to every decision made by the production team, says Israelite. "We are here because of the fans who have sustained the series for over 23 years. It's imperative that they come out of this movie feeling like we have taken what they love — and we love — about the series and brought it to life in a contemporary way while respecting the mythology."
"Power Rangers" opens March 22 in cinemas nationwide from Pioneer Films. Trailer link here:


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Fresh, "Not Frozen" and Similar Terms when Labeling Meat and Poultry Products
This guidance document lists specific product types in which fresh cannot be used to describe. It helps firms in labeling meat and poultry products.
The word "fresh" may not be used to describe:
- Any cured product, e.g., corned beef, smoked cured turkey or prosciutto.
- Any canned, hermetically sealed shelf stable, dried, or chemically preserved product.
- Any raw poultry, poultry part, or any edible portion thereof whose internal temperature has ever been below 26 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Any injected, basted, marinated poultry, poultry part or any edible portion thereof whose internal temperature has ever been below 26 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Any other finished processed poultry product (including cooked poultry products) where its temperature has ever been below 26 degrees Fahrenheit, e.g., turkey sausage, chicken meatballs, cooked breaded chicken nuggets, etc.
- Any uncured red meat product permitted to be treated with a substance that delays discoloration, such as, ascorbic acid, erythorbic acid, or citric acid.
- Any product treated with an antimicrobial substance or irradiated.
- The phrase "never frozen" or similar verbiage is not permitted on an unprocessed or processed poultry product where the internal temperature of the product has ever been below 0 degrees Fahrenheit or on any red meat product that has ever been frozen. Further, the phrase "never frozen" or similar verbiage is not permitted on refrigerated secondary products where the meat or poultry component has ever been frozen, e.g., multi-component meals, dinners, etc.
Generally, trademarks, company names, fanciful names, etc., containing the word "fresh" are acceptable, even on products produced in a manner described in one through seven above, provided the term is used in such a manner that it remains clear to the purchaser that the product is not fresh.
Secondary products, e.g., pizza, multi-component meals, dinners, etc., sold in the refrigerated state, i.e., not frozen or previously frozen, may be labeled as "fresh" when the term is used to describe the product as a whole even when made from components processed in a manner described in one through seven above.


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Kung Fu Panda 2
Now known as the Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black) protects the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, the Furious Five. However, a dangerous villain threatens Po's awesome new life with plans to use a secret weapon to wipe out the martial art and conquer China. In order to defeat the new enemy, Po finds he must recall his past and unlock secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he find the strength to vanquish his foe.
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I have just signed up for a one year standard subscription of Pluralsight Hardcore Developer Training. I'm focusing on SQL Server and Business Intelligence. My training goal is to improve my technical knowledge and gain new industrial skills to get myself ready for opportunities now and the future.
I actually have an access to the full Pluralsight library. The other two courses I am interested in are Powershell and SharePoint. I'll tackle those two right after finishing the SQL Server and BI courses.
I should mention that this subscription, worth $300.00, is courtesy of the Friends of Redgate Program. Contact Redgate if you want to avail of the 1 year complimentary Pluralsight training.
Self-studying without the aide of a training program can be difficult. Lack of organization makes self-studying cumbersome.
My usual tools for studying are technical books (affiliate link), magazines, and blogs. Free videos from SQL pros are also in the mix. But you have to organize these materials in a certain way so you can get the right flow.
My greatest challenge in that setup is getting easily overwhelmed by the sheer volume of materials that I have to consume. Jumping from one topic to another in no logical order makes it harder to comprehend things.
This is where a solid online training does its magic. Just like any other types of training, online courses are organized and presented in very effective manner by focusing on a particular theme and delivering the content within reasonable amount of time.
Courses on Pluralsight are authored by authorities in their respective fields, so you're quite sure you're getting real value.
There are other legit SQL Server and Business Intelligence online training offerings out there: Linchpin People LLC, Brent Ozar PLF, SQL Skills, PragmaticWorks, and many others.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to the Pluralsight site to continue my training. I'll share all the knowledge I gained in future posts. Stand by.
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Outerknown | Costa Shirt
Regular price
$ 82.60
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$ 118.00
- The perfect button-up to pair with jeans. Throw one on over a bikini, or add a blazer on top and head to work.
- Crafted in a lightweight organic cotton gauze—a little wrinkle is part of the charm.
- Matte mother of pearl buttons add to the coastal cool vibe.
Size, Fit & Care
- 26 1/2" Body Length on size S.
- Katie (studio model) is wearing a size S - Height: 5'10", Bust: 32B, Waist: 23", Hips: 34" Kristin (lifestyle model) is wearing a size S - Height: 5'9.5", Bust: 32C, Waist: 25", Hips: 35"
- Hand wash cold. Do not bleach. Lay flat to dry at room temperature. Cool iron if necessary. Dry cleanable.
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Conventional cotton accounts for 25% of the world's pesticide use. We choose organic because it keeps chemicals out of nature and requires 90% less water to grow.


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- Your jewelry is handcrafted to order, but we try to get orders shipped within 3 business days. If you are hoping for a production rush, please contact us ahead at firstname.lastname@example.com or leave us a note at checkout. When you order ships, you will receive an email with tracking.
What shipping methods do you offer?
- We ship with the USPS, and generally use first class, unless you upgrade to priority mail at checkout. We are happy to offer $5.95 flat-rate domestic shipping as well as complimentary shipping for all $75+ orders.
Do you ship outside of the U.S.?
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