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For Pete
Born: 3 May 1919, New York City, NY
Died: 27 January 2014, New York City, NY
Please have a look at these photos I took of Pete Seegerhttp://wp.me/p2Mr2B-TX last year during this performance in Buffalo, NY. I believe this was the second to the last performance by Pete Seeger.
I thought it would be appropriate to release them in remembrance of what would have been his 95th birthday, this Saturday, 3 May 2014.
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It was pretty cool swimming in the ocean with Mr Scruff playing tunes through a giant PA on the beach. Great festival. Cat Empire were terrible!
Trinity Roots were great, the new lineup with Ben Woods taking over the drums and Ed Zuccollo adding extra keys works great.
Russell Brown, in reply to
It was pretty cool swimming in the ocean with Mr Scruff playing tunes through a giant PA on the beach. Great festival.
It was a shame our little public conversation couldn't go ahead, but apart from that, Sunday was a sunny, happy day for me.
Cat Empire were terrible!
What even are they? I don't get it.
Trinity Roots were great, the new lineup with Ben Woods taking over the drums and Ed Zuccollo adding extra keys works great.
Gah. And I missed them ...
Dismission creep…?
Too bloody zany for me, mate.
What even are they? I don't get it.Careful Russell, that way lies Mike Hosking / Paul Henry territory…
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so on board with you re Cat Empire, utter utter kak. and (boo) I missed Roy, was busy threading LEDs through some angel wings, bloody Splore, which promptly fell out when the missus shrugged them on. I was well happy.
my best time was catching MC Slave's DJ set at the beach hut, that was a jolly good time for people needing a jolly good time. and I enjoy Earl, but sometimes really wish he'd shut up. we know what dub section of a 12'' when we hear it without the lecture. v pleased I saw him at Conch a few days earlier.
as for Scruff, my tune of the day was Quincy Conserve's, Alright in the City. at volume.but mate, I was over dragging myself up hills and standing at the back of queues all night. and a big board with the program on would be mighty handy. good vibe to the place though, very kiwiburnish.
Trinity Roots were very very fine. Warren Maxwell is some kind of serious muso, I'd imagine he and Roy Ayers would have a lot in common. He certainly seems to have jazz sensibilities.
Missed Phoenix Foundation alas (in fact, part of the challenge of Splore is the impossibility of trying to see all the things you want to see).
And really, often the most delightful things are the less expected (like watching the young boy doing his best to sync in with the Wet Hot Beauties).
Was OK with Cat Empire - sound wasnt great for sure, but thought they did a good job of readying the crowd for later, better acts. A bit lite.
Thought the Correspondents were outstanding. Sheer infectious energy, and the right thing at the right time for many.
Also enjoyed Earl Gateshead's banter "heavy yeah yeah, this one is warrior reggae, but dont see too many warriors out there"
Spent a lot of time in the Living Lounge this year as opposed to the Beach Bar. Saw some reasonably strange and wonderful things in there.
Our teenagers were totally enthralled by Tinashe. Not quite my thing, but they were all completely buzzing and grinning from ear to ear after spending the whole gig right up against the front barrier.
And Mr Scruff worked - as you say, a great soundtrack to the end of the festival.
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Also enjoyed Earl Gateshead's banter "heavy yeah yeah, this one is warrior reggae, but dont see too many warriors out there"
His rewind style was a laugh -- just push the needle back across the record to roughly where that "amazing" bit was.
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Our teenagers were totally enthralled by Tinashe. Not quite my thing, but they were all completely buzzing and grinning from ear to ear after spending the whole gig right up against the front barrier.
I wish I'd seen her! Heard lots of good things.
and Earl's salemanship – this one's eight minutes long, you might find it boring…yeah yeah, that's it, that's all there is…is it boring? yeah yeah.
Oh, and Roy Ayers, was in front of that and someone shouted at me "its like being at a Commodores concert". Ten minutes later, "its more like a James Brown concert". etc etc, He sure fits in a lot of references.
Forgot to mention, Mr Scruff is offering a download of his Splore set via his Facebook page.
Can't say I agree with ANY of that but hey, there was enough other stuff to keep me happy.
Most ironic moment for me was getting sick of innocuous but clever mixing from Mr Scruff so headed up to the gypsy caravan only to hear his actual song Get a Move On being played by another Dj.
That was better. Dj sets often don't really do it.
Earl Gateshead, a mad, brilliant, chatty old white guy steeped in sound system culture.
A visiting English friend found his "yeah yeah" refrain really annoying, didnt bother me tho.At Ruapuke highlights were Jungle Fari, Table Suede(yay funk!) Jonathon Crayford Trio who was joined on stage by Brian guitarist from Cornerstone Roots. And those Sound Systems.Lion Rockers especially. Love those horn designed box's all facing inwards creating a dance/dub arena, the morning yoga. And limited tickets meant just enough people. Cool.
Then back in the unreal world saw Brains son on X Fuckta who was really good, who had those non entities who call themselves judges simpering over him. Well hardly surprising with that musical background. But good on him anyway giving those morons credibility they dont deserve.
While the population is insulted and assaulted with those oversized bus ads of them looking all serious and smouldering. Just EFF OFF wuld ya! -
Tinashe was there? She's pretty hot poop right now. A bit urban for Splore I'd have thought but that's no bad thing. All we get down here is Ciara.
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Most academics loathe metrics. I've seldom attracted so much criticism as for my suggestion that a citation-based metric might be used to allocate funding to university departments. This suggestion was recycled this week in the Times Higher Education, after a group of researchers published predictions of REF2014 results based on departmental H-indices for four subjects.
Twitter was appalled. Philip Moriarty, in a much-retweeted plea said: "Ugh. *Please* stop giving credence to simplistic metrics like the h-index. V. damaging". David Colquhoun, with whom I agree on many things, responded like an exorcist confronted with the spawn of the devil, arguing that any use of metrics would just encourage universities to pressurise staff to increase their H-indices.
Now, as I've explained before, I don't particularly like metrics. In fact, my latest proposal is to drop both REF and metrics and simply award funding on the basis of the number of research-active people in a department. But I've become intrigued by the loathing of metrics that is revealed whenever a metrics-based system is suggested, particularly since some of the arguments put forward do seem rather illogical.
Odd idea #1 is that doing a study relating metrics to funding outcomes is 'giving credence' to metrics. It's not. What would give credence would be if the prediction of REF outcomes from H-index turned out to be very good. We already know that whereas it seems to give reasonable predictions for sciences, it's much less accurate for humanities. It will be interesting to see how things turn out for the REF, but it's an empirical question.
Odd idea #2 is that use of metrics will lead to gaming. Of course it will! Gaming will be a problem for any method of allocating money. The answer to gaming, though, is to be aware of how this might be achieved and to block obvious strategies, not to dismiss any system that could potentially be gamed. I suspect the H-index is less easy to game than many other metrics - though I'm aware of one remarkable case where a journal editor has garnered an impressive H-index from papers published in his own journals, with numerous citations to his own work. In general, though, those of us without editorial control are more likely to get a high H-index from publishing smaller amounts of high-quality science than churning out pot-boilers.
Odd idea #3 is the assumption that the REF's system of peer review is preferable to a metric. At the HEFCE metrics meeting I attended last month, almost everyone was in favour of complex, qualitative methods of assessing research. David Colquhoun argued passionately that to evaluate research you need to read the publications. To disagree with that would be like slamming motherhood and apple pie. But, as Derek Sayer has pointed out, it is inevitable that the 'peer review' component of the REF will be flawed, given that panel members are required to evaluate several hundred submissions in a matter of weeks. The workload is immense and cannot involve the careful consideration of the content of books or journal articles, many of which will be outside the reader's area of expertise.
My argument is a pragmatic one: we are currently engaged in a complex evaluation exercise that is enormously expensive in time and money, that has distorted incentives in academia, and that cannot be regarded as a 'gold standard'. So, as an empirical scientist, my view is that we should be looking hard at other options, to see whether we might be able to achieve similar results in a more cost-effective way.
Different methods can be compared in terms of the final result, and also in terms of unintended consequences. For instance, in its current manifestation, the REF encourages universities to take on research staff shortly before the deadline – as satirised by Laurie Taylor (see Appointments section of this article). In contrast, if departments were rewarded for a high H-index, there would be no incentive for such behaviour. Also, staff members who were not principal investigators but who made valuable contributions to research would be appreciated, rather than threatened with redundancy. Use of an H-index would also avoid the invidious process of selecting staff for inclusion in the REF.
I suspect, anyhow, we will find predictions from the H-index are less good for REF than for RAE. One difficulty for Mryglod et al that it is not clear whether the Units of Assessment they base their predictions on will correspond to those used in REF. Furthermore, in REF, a substantial proportion of the overall score comes from impact, evaluated on the basis of case studies. To quote from the REF2014 website: "Case studies may include any social, economic or cultural impact or benefit beyond academia that has taken place during the assessment period, and was underpinned by excellent research produced by the submitting institution within a given timeframe." My impression is that impact was included precisely to capture an aspect of academic quality that was orthogonal to traditional citation-based metrics, and so this should weaken any correlation of outcomes with H-index.
Be this as it may, I'm intrigued by people's reactions to the H-index suggestion, and wondering whether this relates to the subject one works in. For those in arts and humanities, it is particularly self-evident that we cannot capture all the nuances of departmental quality from an H-index – and indeed, it is already clear that correlations between H-index and RAE outcomes are relatively low these disciplines. These academics work in fields where complex, qualitative analysis is essential. Interestingly, RAE outcomes in arts and humanities (as with other subjects) are pretty well predicted by departmental size, and it could be argued that this would be the most effective way of allocating funds.
Those who work in the hard sciences, on the other hand, take precision of measurement very seriously. Physicists, chemists and biologists, are often working with phenomena that can be measured precisely and unambiguously. Their dislike for an H-index might, therefore, stem from awareness of its inherent flaws: it varies with subject area and can be influenced by odd things, such as high citations arising from notoriety.
Psychologists, though, sit between these extremes. The phenomena we work with are complex. Many of us strive to treat them quantitatively, but we are used to dealing with measurements that are imperfect but 'good enough'. To take an example from my own research. Years ago I wanted to measure the severity of children's language problems, and I was using an elicitation task, where the child was shown pictures and asked to say what was happening. The test had a straightforward scoring system that gave indices of the maturity of the content and grammar of the responses. Various people, however, criticised this as too simple. I should take a spontaneous language sample, I was told, and do a full grammatical analysis. So, being young and impressionable I did. I ended up spending hours transcribing tape-recordings from largely silent children, and hours more mapping their utterances onto a complex grammatical chart. The outcome: I got virtually the same result from the two processes – one which took ten minutes and the other which took two days.
Psychologists evaluate their measures in terms of how reliable (repeatable) they are and how validly they do what they are supposed to do. My approach to the REF is the same as my approach to the rest of my work: try to work with measures that are detailed and complex enough to be valid for their intended purpose, but no more so. To work out whether a measure fits that bill, we need to do empirical studies comparing different approaches – not just rely on our gut reaction.
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Alexa enabled Retro-gaming
Many adults remember the times playing Arcade, Nintendo, Gameboy, Atari or Sega games at either at a Arcade game place, on their own console or at their friends house. Some of those games have been ported to Platforms like Xbox or Playstation but only a few games can be found and most certainly not Nintendo games. If you think that the adults are the only ones playing retro-games you should think twice as today's kids will not miss an opportunity to play any console games – retro or not.
You could go to places like Dave & Busters or Chucke E Cheese for Arcade games but those places have mostly embraced racing simulators and shooting arcades and you won't find Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda in those places. So unless you visit Japan where Arcade halls are still trendy, you won't find real retro games.
You can create your own console to play all those game brands listed above. What you need is a Raspberry PI, SD card, HDMI cable, Power adapter, a case and how many controller pads you want. There are 2 popular solutions out there. One is called RetroPie and the other one is called RecalBox. In this blog I am going to post how to create your own console using RecalBox but the same concept applies to RetroPie.
Hardware to purchase
- Raspberry PI 3 $30
- Raspberry PI Heat sink set $5
- SD Card (at least 16GB, recommended 32GB or more) $20
- Power Adapter for Raspberry PI 3 $10
- Raspberry PI 3 case or custom case (more about this later) $7
- HDMI cable $7
- Bluetooth/Wired game controller pad(s) $13 for wired $40 for wired and bluetooth combined
- Bluetooth keyboard and touchpad (optional) $25
Total cost: $79 + cost of game controllers
You can buy the Raspberry Canakit for $69 on Amazon which includes USB card adapter micro SD card.
I bought the kit and I bought two game controllers with bluetooth and wired, so in case the batteries run out, I can plug them in and continue playing. My total cost was: $160 running 758 NES Games and numerous other games from other consoles
You can buy the NES Classis bundle for $350 on Amazon which includes 2 controllers or go to Ebay and bid for home made look a likes. In November NES will release again a $59 or $69 version of the NES Classis, which will be sold out immediately and then offered on Amazon and Ebay for hundreds of dollars like last year before Christmas.
So instead of copying the step by step instructions on how to install Recalbox, I will simply put the link here on where to obtain the software and how to install the operating system.
Visit https://www.recalbox.com/diyrecalbox and follow the instructions to get your Raspberry PI running the Recalbox OS. Download the SD Card formatter software and the Recal OS. Extract the ZIP file and then copy the complete contents of that folder onto the SD card. Once that process completes you can power on your retro-gaming console.
Configure your WiFi settings and run the auto updater. Please be patient during the WiFi setup as it will look like the system is hanging. I do recommend to reserve an IP address in our router settings for your Recalbox.
I used my Bluetooth keyboard and the game controller to setup the WiFi settings as typing in password with a game controller is non-trivial. Once you apply the updates the system will tell that it will reboot. You might have to restart the Recalbox yourself if the screen doesn't come back online and then the system update will start.
Adding Games to your console
The good news is that once your Recalbox joined your WiFi network it will be visible under your Windows Explorer network. It will show up as Recalbox or any other hostname you have given your Recalbox in your settings.
Once you double click that network device it will ask for a login. The username is "root' and the password is "recalboxroot". Now you have access to all the folders. You will find a folder called ROMS and within that folder each emulator will have its own folder. Go to the NES folder.
Now it is time to download some games. There are various places to download the ROMs and I will provide one for now. http://www.mediafire.com/file/5pe60avkiglc94r/758NS.rar This package will contain 758 NES games. Extract the folder and copy the content from the NES folder on your PC into the network share from your Recalbox. Once uploaded go into your Recalbox settings under Game settings and refresh the game list or simply reboot your Recalbox. Congrats! Now you have 758 Games to play!
Integration of Recalbox into Alexa
In this scenario I am going to demonstrate how to power on/off the Recalbox via your smart home hub, integrate this into your Logitech Harmony hub and then control the whole setup via Alexa with one simple command.
The first task is to attach the Recalbox power supply to a Z-wave enabled outlet or any outlet which can be controlled by Alexa. The reason why you want this is because you don't want your Recalbox to run non-stop even if the TV is powered off.
Next task is to go into your Harmony hub (if you don't have one yet you should buy one for $99 on Amazon) software (Desktop or Cell phone) and create a new scene. Give the scene a name you will recognize easily e.g. "Retrogame scene". In this scene you define which device should be powered on in which order and to what channels those devices should be configured to.
- Turn on Yahama Surround Sound Receiver
- Set Yahama Surround Sound Receiver to HDMI3 (Recalbox is attached to HDMI3)
- Turn on Samsung TV
- Set Samsung TV to HDMI1 (Yamaha is connected to HDMI1)
Next task is to go into the Amazon Alexa app and discover devices. 2 new things should show up. A) is the new scene from the Harmony Hub and B) is the switch to power on/off the Recalbox. Now create a new group in the Alexa app and call this group "Nintendo". Add both items to that group (the scene and the device). Et Voila! Congrats. You have now a voice controlled Retro-gaming console with 758 Games!!!
Retro-case for retro-gaming console
To make this experience really "retro" I decided to print a case and replace the Raspberry PI standard case with a Nintendo style casing. I found this https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1887826 casing online, which is a modified version of the original casing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:307832. The difference between the original and the one I chose is that you can choose how to install your Raspberry into the case.
I tried the sideways one and I have to say that this was a complete failure as the USB ports are within the case with no access to it. I recommend to use the upside down version of the 3D STL file, which will expose the HDMI, Power, 3.5mm sound jack, all USB and the Ethernet port. You can print it in the original Nintendo colors or chose a different color scheme like I did. To finalize the design I printed the Nintendo logo and glued it on.


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The government's official scorecard shows a rebound in economic growth during the late summer and early fall. But analysts say it overstates the strength of the U.S. economy, just as earlier figures painted an exaggerated picture of weakness.
A report from the Commerce Department released on Thursday shows the nation's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.6% in July, August and September. That's in contrast to the first six months of the year, when GDP figures showed the economy shrinking.
The apparent improvement, however, is largely the result of fluctuations in things like international trade, which don't reflect the underlying health of the economy. They made GDP look artificially weak in the first half of the year, while pumping up the most recent figure.
"If you take a step back and look at GDP, it's gone effectively nowhere over the last year," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "One quarter or two it's down a bit. This quarter it's up a bit. But net-net, we're kind of treading water."
The Federal Reserve is trying to hit the brakes on inflation, and curbing growth
While the labor market has been robust — adding nearly 3.8 million jobs in the first nine months of the year — high inflation and rising interest rates are expected to weigh on future economic growth.
That's already evident in the slumping housing market, a major component of GDP. Residential investment fell sharply in the third quarter.
"We still have a lot of people that want to buy new or even existing [houses], but they're completely getting squeezed out of the market," says Paul Schwinghammer, a home builder and president of the Indiana Builders Association.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed home loan has more than doubled in the last year — to around 7% — putting homes out of reach for many would-be buyers. As a result, builders broke ground on 8% fewer homes in September than the month before.
"As we finish homes, we're not going to be starting as many in the coming months and the next year as we had been in the last two years," Schwinghammer says.
That's not an accident. The Federal Reserve is deliberately raising borrowing costs in an effort to tamp down demand and curb inflation. Fed policymakers are expected to raise interest rates by another 0.75 percentage points when they meet next week.
Consumer spending, another big driver of GDP, has held up well so far, even though prices are climbing faster than most people's wages. Spending rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the most recent quarter.
"Consumers are doing their part," Zandi says. "They're not spending with a lot of gusto, but they're out spending."
In some cases, people have been able to finance that spending by tapping extra savings that they piled up during the first two years of the pandemic when they weren't able to travel or eat out as much, and when the federal government was distributing lots of additional cash.
Average account balances are significantly higher now than they were in 2019, before the pandemic, with lower-income households seeing the biggest percentage increase, according to the JPMorgan Chase Institute, which tracks millions of personal checking accounts. Bank balances have begun to fall, however, so those savings won't prop up spending indefinitely.
As the Federal Reserve continues to hit the brakes, many forecasters expect the economy to slide into recession in the coming year. Zandi hopes the United States can avoid that, but he acknowledges it won't be easy.
"We need to catch a break," he says. "We've been pretty unlucky. We got nailed by a global pandemic, which is still creating havoc in many parts of the world. And the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which wasn't even on the radar screen a year ago. So we just need a little bit of luck."
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John Marson was born in 1932 and died in 2007. He studied the harp with Marie Goossens at the Royal College of Music in London, and in 1958, while still a student, began his professional career with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. A week after leaving college he joined the London Symphony Orchestra for two years before embarking on two decades of freelance work, during which he played solos, chamber music and concerti, worked with all the London orchestras and spent much time in recording studios. He played in many outstanding feature films including the original 'Star Wars'. In 1982 he was appointed principal harp of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and subsequently resumed his freelance career while increasingly engaging in composition, both for the harp and for other instruments and voice. He played for many West End and National Theatre productions including over three years as harpist in Lloyd Webber's 'Aspects of Love'.
The roll call of artists with whom John has worked include the Beatles, Richard Rodney Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Charlie Chaplin, Bing Crosby, John Dankworth, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Liberace, Martha Graham, Hans Werner Henze, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Zoltan Kodaly, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Pierre Monteux, Jessye Norman, Laurence Olivier, Luciano Pavarotti, Gennadi Rozhdestvenski, Frank Sinatra, George Solti, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, George Szell, William Walton, John Williams, Stevie Wonder and countless others.
In 1964 John was one of the two founders of the United Kingdom Harp Association, edited its magazines for many years and became President of the Association in January 2005. His book 'The Complete Guide to Harp Glissandi', is published by Lyra Music of New York, while his other major work 'The Book of the Harp - techniques, history and lore of a unique musical instrument', was published by Kevin Mayhew Ltd. in 2005.
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Depew, N.Y. — Kaylin Corbran has cerebral palsy. However, that doesn't stop the 25-year-old Buffalo, New York native from pursuing her dream.
"I want to be the first woman with CP from Buffalo to do (body building)," she said.
It all started on a whim. When Corbran was 20 years old, she asked her physical therapist if she could try going to her local gym. Corbran's physical therapist told her to give it a shot.
Fast forward five years and now she's at Catalyst Fitness every week with her trainer Trey.
"Anybody that has any excuse ever just needs to stop," her trainer said. "Kaylin is the most positive inspiring, kind, wonderful person I've ever met."
To Corbran, body building means more than just lifting weights and getting big muscles.
"(It) helped me overcome my insecurities of my body physically because I always used to feel like the outcast in school," she said.
And her goals extend far beyond body building. Corbran said, "my goal is to hopefully walk by 30."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — They come from different worlds — the buttoned-down political culture of Washington and the entrepreneurial, socks-optional, let's-do-this-faster ethos of Silicon Valley.
But where those worlds overlap, that's where you find President Barack Obama and a wealthy segment of his Democratic donor base.
Obama was to attend two high-dollar Democratic Party fundraisers Thursday hosted by Silicon Valley executives, drawing attention to the complicated relationship between the president and the high-tech industry.
The revelations of National Security Agency data collection made public by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have created an outcry from tech companies whose data have been gathered by the government. Obama has had to reassure Internet and tech executives that he is committed to protecting privacy.
Still, Obama remains a popular political figure in Silicon Valley, and the wealthy tech entrepreneurs appear willing to part with their money to support the party, especially if the president is making the pitch.
Obama was to attend a fundraiser hosted by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who founded the personal-genomics startup 23andMe. The event is advertised as a tech round table, with 30 guests and tickets set at $32,400 — a nearly $1 million potential haul for the Democratic National Committee.
He also was scheduled to be the featured guest at an event hosted by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Sam Altman, the 29-year-old president of Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that seeds tech startups.
"One of the dynamics that people on the East Coast and particularly in Washington, D.C., may not fully appreciate is that these folks are in a space that is growing," said California-based Democratic consultant Chris Lehane, a former aide to President Bill Clinton. "That adds an entire pool of fresh donor blood into the mix."
Obama was spending two nights in California. On Wednesday he was the star attraction at a fundraiser for House and Senate Democrats at the Los Angeles home of Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. On Thursday he attended a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles that was closed to the media and was headed to another DNC event at the La Jolla home of billionaire and former Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs.
The role of the computer and Internet industry in politics has grown sharply over the past 10 years, increasing political contributions and expanding its lobbying presence. Executives and employees in the industry favor Democrats, yet the political action committees set up by individual tech firms tend to split their money more evenly.
So far this election cycle, computer and Internet industry political action committees have contributed about $3.5 million, with about 54 percent of it going to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political money. Counting political action committees and individual donors, the industry has donated more than $14 million to federal candidates, giving $3 to Democrats for every $2 to Republicans, according to the center.
In addition to cybersecurity, Silicon Valley executives also have been pushing for an overhaul of immigration laws, partly to secure more H1B visas for high-tech workers but also in support of giving immigrants who are living in the country illegally a chance to achieve citizenship. They have also weighed in on new "net neutrality" regulations being fashioned by the Federal Communications Commission and have raised fears that the rules would allow telephone and cable Internet providers to impose fees on Internet companies.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the tech executives were donating because they support Obama's policies, and he rejected suggestions that the tech executives were getting financial leverage to affect Washington issues of concern to the industry.
"There's no reason to think that that the policy-making process is affected by those involved," Earnest said.
Among the major tech players, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has been an especially high-profile figure. He launched an advocacy group that has been among the most active on the immigration issue.
And he has been a vocal critic of the NSA's data collection, calling Obama to voice his alarm. Shortly after, Obama met with Zuckerberg and CEOs from Google, Netflix and other tech and Internet companies, pledging to safeguard privacy rights.
The administration has since issued recommendations asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would provide broader data protections for Americans from both the government and the private sector.
Bill Carrick, a Democratic political adviser also based in California, says he doesn't see Obama suffering any permanent political damage with the tech community over the NSA revelation but concedes that "obviously there was concern, and it got expressed pretty vocally."
Still, Russell Hancock, the chief executive officer of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a policy organization focused on regional issues, says the gridlock in Washington is hard to comprehend in a region that is constantly upgrading and acting on ideas. On the other hand, he said there is a libertarian streak in Silicon Valley that eschews government.
"There are different sets of sensibilities, there's a different set of priorities and they're not shared," he said.
"We like the president. We want to like him even more," Hancock said. "We wish he would spend more time here and not just to raise money."


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It's my friend's birthday this week and I wanted to make something suitably delicious and gifty to mark the occasion. Celebrations would be taking place in a bar after work which slightly dictated the format my baking could take; I wanted something fairly dainty so people could stand and chat without having to manage too many stray sticky crumbs, but also something with strong enough flavours to still pack a punch several vodkas into the evening.
I'm always slightly unsure about cupcakes. I find them a little bit style-over-substance in the baking stakes, and, if offered the choice, would generally opt for a big gooey brownie, slab of cake or chewy cookie over the frothier children's party classic. But cupcakes do look so pretty all lined up in a box, and it's not really a proper birthday unless you have cake, so I decided to find a recipe to confound my expectations.
My friend is a huge Nutella fan so this seemed like a good place to start. When doing some research into macarons a couple of weeks back (delicious salty snickers macarons recipe here), I'd bookmarked a recipe on Tartelette's website for Nutella cupcakes with Nutella cream cheese frosting. So far, so good. On reading for a second time however, I discovered that this recipe was actually a tweaked version of her Tamarind Coffee cupcakes, which in turn were an adaptation of a Dan Lepard recipe (here). Dan Lepard is one of my all-time favourite bakers and I've not yet made a recipe of his which hasn't turned out perfect. As Jay Rayner says, 'Dan Lepard is to baking what Lewis Hamilton is to Formula One'. I'm sometimes a little nervous about trying recipes from blogs I've not used before, but with the tried and tested assurance of one of my baking gurus behind these cupcakes, I decided to get cracking.
The result is a beautifully light, crumbly cupcake with strong coffee notes. I'm not sure Dan would approve of the Nutella frosting – it's sickly sweet in the way only Nutella combined with copious amounts of butter and sugar could be – but it's totally delicious and an absolute must-try for any Nutella fan. It also contrasts nicely with the strong, almost bitter, coffee taste of the cupcakes, meaning that icing and cake work beautifully together for an all round tastebud hit.
The recipe below makes around twelve medium sized cupcakes. Leave to cool completely before frosting, or eat them warm out the oven for a lighter breakfast or afternoon snack.
For the cupcakes (adapted from Tartelette's recipe):
125g unsalted butter, room temperature
60g light brown sugar
50g runny honey
1/2 tbsp ground coffee
2 tbsp milk
60g Nutella
2 large free range eggs
150g plain flour
50g corn flower
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 350F/175 C. Place 12 muffin liners inside a muffin pan and lightly brush with melted butter.
Using an electric mixer or hand held whisk, whip the butter, sugar and honey until fluffy at medium speed, 2-3 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and add the coffee, milk and Nutella. Still on low, add the eggs, one at time.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt then fold this in with the chocolate mixture until smooth. Divide evenly among the muffin liners and bake 20-25 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
For the frosting:
150g full fat cream cheese
150g Nutella
350g icing sugar
1/2 tbsp butter, softened
Splash of milk to loosen if necessary
Whizz all the ingredients in a Magimix or blender until smooth, adding a little milk to loosen if necessary. Fill a piping bag with the mixture and pipe over the cupcakes using medium nozzle. Pop in the fridge to firm up, but remove at least 15 mins before serving to allow the flavours to develop again.


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Thanksgiving Open, GM Norm Tourney in Saint Louis |
By Mike Wilmering | |
November 23, 2011 | |
SAINT LOUIS, November 22, 2011 -- Chess players across the country will be gathering in Saint Louis this week to give thanks for tournament chess. The Thanksgiving Open, scheduled to be held November 25-27 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, features a prize fund of $10,050, and 10 titled players have already signed up to compete: GM Timur Gareyev GM Ray Robson GM Gregory Kaidanov GM Sam Shankland GM Mesgen Amanov GM Alexander Shabalov GM Andre Diamant IM Danny Rensch IM Angelo Young WIM Iryna Zenyuk The tournament is a FIDE-rated, six-round, G/120 tournament in three sections (Open, U1800, U1400), and it also features two-day and three-day options with the option for re-entry. The first three rounds of the two-day option are G/65, and then the fields merge for round four. Click here for more information or to register. Following the Thanksgiving Open, the CCSCSL will host its first-ever GM norm tournament. Nine of the ten players have already been confirmed with one spot still remaining. The tournament is scheduled to run November 29 through December 3, and will be a nine-round, round-robin tournament with a standard FIDE time control. Find full details and stay posted on http://www.saintlouischessclub.org/ccscsl-invitational 1 GM Kacheishvili Georgi 2590 GEO New York NY 2 GM Amanov Mesgen 2524 TKM Chicago IL 3 GM Diamant Andre 2505 BRA Lubbock TX 4 IM Arnold Marc 2504 USA New York NY 5 IM Krush Irina 2476 USA New York NY 6 IM Shahade Greg 2459 USA New York NY 7 IM Yang Darwin 2442 USA Dallas TX 8 IM Rensch Danny 2416 USA Phoenix AZ 9 IM Young Angelo 2350 PHI Chicago IL 10 WGM Abrahamyan Tatev 2264 USA Los Angeles, CA |


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With over 400 million active users monthly, Instagram could be a great opportunity to showcase your business. It's a mobile app where you can share photos and videos. Instagram is owned by Facebook and is considered one of the major social media platforms.
Instagram is a natural app to share photos of your products, team, customers, or office in order to promote your business. Since more than half of all Google searches are now mobile, it just makes good business sense to maintain a presence on a major mobile social platform like Instagram.
The average Instagram user is female, urban, under 30, has some college hours, and makes $60K a year. So if that's your customer demographic, you're sure to find her on Instagram.
Some of the things you can share on Instagram include:
- Photos of your customers with their new merchandise
- Product photos
- Your logo image
- Inspirational quotes and sayings
- Client testimonials made into a text graphic
- Photos of events
- Photos of your customers
- Photos of you and your staff
- Photos of your store or office
- Photos of your merchandise being worn, used, eaten, or whatever
- Images of any awards your company has garnered
- Photos of your ads, trade show booth, or other marketing materials
- Sales announcements made into a text graphic
- And videos of all of the above
Building a following on Instagram will help you build brand awareness so you can generate new traffic and new customers. It can also help with hiring if you are looking to hire millennials, which now outnumber any other generation in the workforce.


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As recent as Jan 9, 2013 Singapore has been found in respected international surveys to have earned the dubious distinction of being the saddest country in the world. Please see article in Forbes magazine, 1/9/2013/ "The Happiest and Saddest Countries in the World" http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/01/09/the-worlds-happiest-and-saddest-countries-2/2/
If that wasn't enough they also have the double honors of being the least emotional people in the world, please see Guardian newspaper article of 11/21/2012, Guardian newspaper reports "Singapore is the world's least emotional country in the world" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/21/singapore-least-emotional-country-poll
But here is where the advantage of having a state controlled media comes in. You can literally not only write anything you want, in Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship, you can instantly turn the saddest people into the happiest in the world as well!
And not unexpectedly, Singapore state controlled newspaper the Straits Times of Oct 31, 2013 reports "Singaporeans seen as happiest among residents in four Chinese majority countries". Please see http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/singaporeans-seen-happiest-among-residents-four-chinese-majority-terri.
I quote "More than half of all Singapore respondents saw themselves as the happiest while a third chose Taiwan".
And as proof of their astounding claim they have conveniently published a picture of beaming faces of ethnic Chinese Singaporeans at the last national day parade proudly waving Singapore flags and grinning from cheek to cheek. What they have forgot to tell as is that these convenient characters are all card carrying members of Lee Kuan Yew's ruling party and they would have got up that very instant and done the foxtrot on the spot if that was what was demanded.
And what is not conveniently mentioned of course is the perks that go with such performance in the orchestra; perhaps more secure jobs, career promotions and more money and benefits all around. Surely for such benefits, it is not too much to ask to smile broadly for the camera and wave a few flags!
I remember seeing such happy faces carrying their state flags in unison in another place. It was a picture of North Koreans on their republic day. They too appeared very happy indeed and I am sure they would have no problem claiming that their citizens are the happiest in the world too.
Since no mention is made of the other races who also happen to be living in Singapore, I am confident that if it is necessary to prove that they too are the happiest, that too can be arranged by lining up the necessary Lee Kuan Yew card carrying ethnic Malay and Indian members with the necessary photograph to prove the point.


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Who is DJ Bogtrotter?
I'm a married guy called Noel who has a full-time job, 2 kids and is in his 40s (hence only 1 cartoon a week – for now anyway). He's really should be old enough to know better, but as a midlife crisis goes, it's certainly a lot cheaper than the whole motorbike/affair/divorce route.
Why Bogtrotter?
Although now living in the north of England, I come from Ireland (the land where the bog is trot)
Why DJ?
I'm a child of the 90s (I should have been a child of the 80s, but was a late developer)
So what's the comic about?
It's about whatever random thoughts I'm having that week. I find it hard enough to think of anything funny without tying myself to any particular theme or style.
Is it all just cartoons then?
No, there's a blog too, where I'll be writing about whatever random thoughts I happen to be having that week.
Can DJ Bogtrotter be printed in our magazine/newspaper/other publication?
If it's a not-for-profit publication, you need no permission — just print them with attribution to djbogtrotter.co.uk. If it's a for-profit operation, please contact me first. You can post DJ Bogtrotter in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to get my permission.
Are there any rules on commenting?
Not really, but any unnecessarily abusive comments (directed at either me or other comments) will be removed.
What are your contact details?
Why are you asking yourself questions?
Because I'm a delusional paranoid schizophrenic.
No, I'm not.
Yes, I am.
Ah, you may have a point there…..


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Many default Liferay services are available as web services. Liferay exposes its web services via SOAP and JSON web services. If you're running Liferay locally on port 8080, visit the following URL to browse Liferay's default SOAP web services:
To browse Liferay's default JSON web services, visit this URL:
These web services APIs can be accessed by many different kinds of clients,
including non-portlet and even non-Java clients. You can use Service Builder to
generate similar remote services for your projects' custom entities. When you
run Service Builder with the remote-service
attribute set to true
for an
entity, all the classes, interfaces, and files required to support both SOAP and
JSON web services are generated for that entity. Service Builder generates
methods that call existing services, but it's up to you to implement the
methods that are exposed remotely. Let's use Service Builder to generate remote
services for the Nose-ster Event Listing portlet example project. You'll
implement a few methods for the Event Listing portlet that can be called
remotely via SOAP and JSON web services.
Remember: local service methods are implemented in EventLocalServiceImpl
Similarly, you'll implement remote service methods in EventServiceImpl
. Add
the following methods to the EventServiceImpl
public Event addEvent(
long groupId, String name, String description,
int month, int day, int year, int hour, int minute, long locationId,
ServiceContext serviceContext)
throws PortalException, SystemException {
getPermissionChecker(), groupId, EventListingActionKeys.ADD_EVENT);
return EventLocalServiceUtil.addEvent(
getUserId(), groupId, name, description, month, day, year, hour,
minute, locationId, serviceContext);
public Event deleteEvent(long eventId)
throws PortalException, SystemException {
EventPermission.check(getPermissionChecker(), eventId,
return eventLocalService.deleteEvent(eventId);
public Event getEvent(long eventId)
throws PortalException, SystemException {
EventPermission.check(getPermissionChecker(), eventId,
return EventLocalServiceUtil.getEvent(eventId);
public Event updateEvent(
long userId, long eventId, String name, String description,
int month, int day, int year, int hour, int minute, long locationId,
ServiceContext serviceContext)
throws PortalException, SystemException {
EventPermission.check(getPermissionChecker(), eventId,
return EventLocalServiceUtil.updateEvent(
userId, eventId, name, description, month, day, year, hour, minute,
locationId, serviceContext);
Each remote service method performs security checks to determine whether the caller has permission to add/update/delete events. We cover Liferay's security and permissions system in Chapter 12. To see how the Event Listing portlet is integrated with Liferay's permissions system, browse the Event Listing portlet project available in the Dev Guide SDK at https://github.com/liferay/liferay-docs/tree/6.1.x/devGuide/code/devGuide-sdk. The project is in the SDK's portlets/event-listing-portlet. folder.
Notice the calls to the eventLocalService
field's addEvent
, updateEvent
and deleteEvent
methods. The eventLocalService
field holds a Spring bean of
type EventLocalServiceImpl
that's injected into EventServiceBaseImpl
Service Builder. See EventServiceBaseImpl
for a complete list of the Spring
beans available in EventServiceImpl
. These include the following:
Notice also that we modified the deleteEvent
method of the
class passing it an event ID as a parameter instead of an
entire event object. The method is now ready to call as a remote web service.
After you finish adding imports to EventServiceImpl
, save the class and run
Service Builder again.
Liferay uses Apache Axis to make SOAP web services available. Axis requires a
Web Service Deployment Descriptor (WSDD) to be generated in order to make the
SOAP web services available. Liferay provides a build-wsdd
Ant target that
generates the WSDD. In Liferay IDE or Developer Studio, when viewing your
file in Overview mode, there's a button in the top-right
corner of the screen for calling the Build WSDD target. Liferay Portal makes
your service's Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) available after you've
built its WSDD and deployed your portlet project. Let's learn how to call your
remote services next.
Calling Remote Services
Service Builder can expose your project's remote web services both via a JSON
API and via SOAP. By default, running Service Builder with remote-service
to true
for your entities generates a JSON web services API for your project.
You can access your project's JSON-based RESTful services via a convenient web
interface. To view the JSON web services available for the Event Listing plugin,
visit the following URL:
Each entity's available operations are listed on the plugin's JSON web services API page. If you've been implementing the Nose-ster Event Listing example portlet used throughout this chapter, you'll be anxious to try out its remote web services. You can invoke JSON web services directly from your browser. For example, to bring up a test form for your Event entity's delete-event operation, visit the above URL and click on its delete-event link.
The only parameter required for the delete-event
operation is an event ID.
Since there's no UI yet for the Event Listing application, you probably don't
have any events in your database. But if you did, you could check for an event's
ID in your Event_Event
database table. Then you could enter the value into the
eventId field in the test page's Execute section and click Invoke to delete
that event. Liferay returns feedback from each invocation.
Finding a portlet's web services is easy with Liferay's JSON web service interface. Invoking a portlet's web services via Liferay's JSON web service interface is a great way to test them. You can also examine alternate equivalent methods of calling the SOAP and JSON web services via JavaScript, Curl, and URLs. If you'd like to learn more about how to invoke remote services from a client application, visit the JSON Web Services tutorial. Next, we'll consider how to implement custom SQL queries in your portlet, so you can easily leverage information from multiple entity types.
Service Builder can also make your project's web services available via SOAP using Apache Axis. After you've built your portlet project's WSDDs and deployed the project as a plugin, its services are available on the portal server. It's easy to list your Nose-ster Event Listing plugin's SOAP web services. You have two options: you can access them in Liferay IDE or you can open your browser to the URL for its web services.
To access your SOAP web services in Liferay IDE, right-select your portlet from under it's Liferay server in the Servers view. Then select Test Liferay Web Services….
If you'd rather view your SOAP web services from a browser, go to the following URL:
Liferay Portal lists the services available for all your entities and provides links to their WSDL documents. Clicking on the WSDL link for the Event service takes you to the following URL:
This WSDL document lists the Event entity's SOAP web services. Once the web service's WSDL is available, any SOAP web service client can access it.


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The CMATool is simple to complete. You will be asked a series of questions, and you will be asked to select an answer. You should answer as fast as you can because questions are time based and will fade out after a period of time. However, dont worry: we have found that most people have no trouble answering the questions; and, if you havent answered all questions, the computer will come back and prompt you again.
There will be four sections. At the beginning of each section, you will be given specific instructions. Each time you complete a section, your answers will be automatically saved. If you fail to answer a question, the computer will come back and prompt you.
It is important that when you are filling out the CMATool, you should go with the first answer that seems right to you. Do not think too long or hard about any answer. And, rememberthere are no right or wrong answers. Just be as honest as you can be and trust your first response.
A group is a number of questionnaires that can be compared to each other. A group can be any size you want and is determined by how many questionnaires you want to compare.
For example