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It's that time of year again! The Great Brewers Gran Prix of Gloucester is coming up this weekend and it will be one of the season's biggest highlights. Not only is Gloucester a legend in its own right, but also this year marks the beginning of the Shimano New England Professional Cyclocross Series presented by Verge. The Shimano Series is a celebration of New England's racing heritage, and there's no better place to commemorate this new chapter in New England racing than at Gloucester. Located in the beautiful Stage Fort Park right on the Atlantic Ocean, Gloucester easily has one of the best venues in cyclocross, whether in the US or the world. The course will feature everything racers will remember from past years – well-designed fast corners, the barriers by the beer garden plus some special features that are new for this year that will step Gloucester up to an even higher profile.
As usual, Gloucester will be hosting one of the biggest and strongest fields in the country. The growing stature of cyclocross racing in the United States has continued to draw racers over form Europe and this weekend's racing in Gloucester will see the convergence of some of the biggest names. The Euopean contingent in Gloucester includes the British and French National Champions – Helen Wyman (Kona/FSA Factory Team) and Caroline Mani (BH – SuntourVienne Futuroscope), as well as a laundry list of top-tier racers including Belgians Tim Van Nuffle and Ben Berden. Cannondale prepped by cyclocrossworld.com's new addition of Christian Heule will be out along with his countryman, U-23 Lukas Muller. Many-times Danish National Champion Joachim Parbo (Challenge Tires) will be making his return to Gloucester in his long American campaign. The UK's Ian Field (Hargroves Cycles) will try to add another win to his already successful US trip while his countrywoman Gabby Day (Renner Custom Cyclocross) tries to get back on the top of the podium.
Of course, we will also be hosting a who's who of American and Canadian racers including Mike Garrigan (Lapierre Canada), Ted King (Liquigas-Cannondale), Adam Myerson (SmartStop/MOB p/b Ridley) and Justin Lindine (bikereg.com/Joe's Garage) for the men. The women will feature the likes of Maureen Bruno-Roy (Bob's Red Mill p/b Seven Cycles), Andrea Smith (LadiesFirst Racing), Rebecca Wellons (Quad Cycles) and Laura Van Gilder (C3 p/b Mellow Mushroom).
In something eerily similar to West Side Story, the Tim Johnson (Cannondale p/b cyclocrossworld.com) and Jeremy Powers (Rapha/Focus) cross clash will continue in Gloucester. This time, though, they've both brought reinforcements. With Johnson are Heule, Jamey Driscoll, Kaitlin Antonnneau and Nicole Duke. Powers comes with U-23 National runner-up Zach McDonald and Chris Jones. The battle is on.
Of course, Gloucester is about a lot more than just the Elites. While they put on a great show, all the races on both days feature full fields – nearly 2000 will be racing at Gloucester between the two days – aiming for the Verge New England Cyclo-Cross Series leader's jersey. Gloucester hosts the fourth and fifth rounds of New England's Amateur series. Up for grabs are three Masters Men's jerseys and one Masters Women's, two Junior Men's jerseys and an Amateur Men and Women's jersey. These races may not be the headline events of the day, but they are always competitive and feature the future of the front of the Elite races. Leadership in the Verge Series is one of the most coveted among amateur racers in the country.


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Philip Morris International Inc and Japan Tobacco Inc are buying 20 percent stakes for $750 million each in Russian distributor Megapolis, strengthening their grip on the world's No. 2 cigarette market after China.
Russia, a market worth about $20 billion a year and where 40 percent of people smoke, has helped foreign tobacco companies offset dwindling sales in other countries where government regulation is becoming stricter and smokers fewer.
Foreign companies - including British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco and Philip Morris - control more than 90 percent of Russian sales.
However, distribution has stayed mostly in Russian hands with Megapolis - majority owned by Igor Kesayev, who also controls the Degtyarev arms factory and food retailer Dixy - controlling about 70 percent.
"This is a milestone deal," said one buy-side analyst. "Tobacco producers have dreamed of breaking this monopoly."
Tougher regulations are lifting cigarette prices in Russia also, crimping sales and limiting product availability as President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin tries to stem a population decline that began after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Megapolis said the deal was the first time that the world's leading cigarette had access to local distributors and that the cash inflow did not mean the company would not resurrect plans for a $1.5 billion flotation, pulled in 2011.
"This deal is for Megapolis a step toward being more open; we are not giving up the idea of holding an IPO," a spokesman for the Mercury Group, Kesayev's holding company, said.
Marlboro-maker Philip Morris said the deal - expected to close this year - is expected to be accretive to its earnings as of the first quarter of 2014.
Winston-maker Japan Tobacco has a 36 percent share of the Russian market and runs factories in St Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad Region and Yelets. Philip Morris has a 26 percent share and has facilities in Krasnodar and near St Petersburg.
Megapolis - exclusive distributor for Japan Tobacco, Philip Morris and Imperial Tobacco in Russia - delivered more than 260 billion cigarettes in 2012.
The purchase price of the combined 40 percent stake does not include a possible additional payment of up to $100 million by each of the companies depending on Megapolis' performance. (Reuters)


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Salad Nests with Ume Plum Dressing
This unusual, light and pretty salad is a delightful reminder of the returning birds and nesting activity everywhere. Salad Nests have been a hit at many parties and public gatherings, and even children find them both tasty and charming. The dressing has all the piquant delicacy of a springtime Japanese watercolor.
Instant edible art, and a breeze to make!
1 generous handful alfalfa sprouts
1 tablespoon scallions, finely chopped
Several whole, blanched almonds
Ume Plum Dressing (see below)
1. For each serving, take a generous handful of alfalfa sprouts and gently form them into a nestlike shape.
2. Fill each nest with scallions, then top with several almonds (these look charmingly egglike).
3. Drizzle each nest with Ume Plum Dressing.
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons ume (or umeboshi) plum vinegar (available at your local natural food or Asian specialty store)
1. Combine the olive oil and plum vinegar in a jar with a tightly-fitting lid.
2. Put the lid on the jar and shake until dressing is smooth.
Adapted from Witch in the Kitchen by Cait Johnson (Inner Traditions, 2001). Copyright (c) 2001 by Cait Johnson. Reprinted by permission of Inner Traditions Press.
Adapted from Witch in the Kitchen by Cait Johnson (Inner Traditions, 2001).


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Originally posted by antar
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Well the daughter is the one who they will need to question. The medical exams will speak for themselves as well as any DNA taken at the time of exam.
Originally posted by antar
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You could not state that he needed killing, that would be taking the law into your own hands, Judge , Jury and executioner.
No this was not murder, this was an act of compassion to protect his daughter and most probably an accident that the man died during the beating.
It can not be premeditated or the Dad would have to be charged. Premeditated could be years or in this case seconds.
Originally posted by fallow the light
I feel that pedophilia is a medical issue since it is a sexual offense and sexual urges are created chemically in the body. The mental status of that human being needs strong evaluation as well as that persons physical status.
Pedophiles need help not death. Death is so extreme when it comes to issues where these people are obviously over whelmed by their sexual urges and can not control them selves. Its compulsory. Like kleptomaniacs or people who bite their finger nails. No matter how bad they mentally don't want to, they physically have no choice.
Its all mind over matter. I think the world should have a pedophile rehab.....
If that does not work I think the next best step would be to put them in cages with gorillas that have an extremely high sex drive..... Paybacks a bitch lol
We will wait and see but I have no place in my heart for those that prey on kids. If he did it, he got what was coming to him. If he didn't....then they sure are trying to discredit this man in the worst way.
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TextWell, for me. GOOD RIDDENCE you sick bas...d! One thing for sure. That sicko won't be preying on any other innocent vicitms. Regardless if this was the first or last one.
(CNN) -- A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.
The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon. Neither has been publicly identified. The girl was left inside the family's house during the social gathering, while other members of her family were tending to horses, the sheriff said.
The alleged abuser was known for his horse-grooming abilities, Harmon said. The father returned to the house, caught the man in the act, and stopped him by striking him in the head several times, Harmon said.
The man was pronounced dead on the scene, while the daughter was taken to a local hospital in Victoria, Texas, for examinations before being released.
The incident took place Saturday. Harmon described the girl as "OK besides the obvious mental trauma."
Asked whether they would press charges against the father, the sheriff responded, "You have a right to defend your daughter. He acted in defense of his third person.
Once the investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him."
Harmon described the dad as "very remorseful," adding that he didn't know the man was going to die.
Authorities were withholding the deceased man's name while they notified next of kin. Officials did not know immediately if he has a prior criminal history.
Originally posted by antar
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Have better sense than to say he needed to die if you ever find yourself in this terrible position. That is all I am saying.
I wish someone had loved me enough to protect me as a little girl when I was sexually abused.
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If this man is convicted of a crime, our society is truly and disgustingly sick and without hope.
Hope the guy suffered terribly before he died.
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Global Game Jam 2013 game: Eat Your Heart OutSubmitted by Earok on Sun, 01/27/2013 - 23:32
The Auckland Global Game Jam is over for another year. It's late and I'm sleep deprived so this blog post might be a bit rambly, but I wanted to get it out of the way with before I go to bed.
Proudly presenting my 5th Global Game Jam game: Eat Your Heart Out
Play it on my Dropbox, preferably with as many players as you can find.
It's a multiplayer JavaScript game with Gamepad API support (ie, you can use the XBox 360 controllers for Windows if you're using Chrome. We playtested with four XBox controls to great effect). The theme is Dark Fantasy, and the gameplay involves three players trying to find the fourth before he/she turns into a monster and goes on a rampage.
The gameplay is a little hard to describe since it's asymmetric multiplayer that takes place across several phases, but here goes:
- The player that is the "Heart Bearer" (chosen at random at the start of the game, but the winner of the previous rounds later in the game) chooses their starting location on the screen. The first button press sets the location under the cursor, the second starts the game (this is necessary to disguse the starting location from the other players).
- The other three players (the "Seekers") try to capture the Heart Bearer. The one that does becomes the Heart Bearer in the next round. While the Heart Bearer is disguised as an NPC, a number of cues give hints to their location. For instance, the Seekers flash rapidly as they approach the Heart Bearer, and the Heart Bearer itself will flash once a Seeker has almost reached it.
- If, after a certain amount of time the Heart Bearer has managed to evade capture, the Heart Bearer becomes an enormous monster and can kill the Seekers (killing NPCs gives the Heart Bearer more time to do so). If it manages to kill all of the Seekers, it wins the round and becomes the Heart Bearer again for the following round.
- However, if the Heart Bearer takes too long to finish the Seekers, it'll die leaving behind it's heart. The seeker that captures it's heart becomes the Heart Bearer for the next round.
The idea was the brainchild of lead designer Barnibus Soon, imagined as kind of a multiplayer variant of Pacman (specifically, the part where Pacman eats the Power Pill to reverse the gameplay). Coding duties were split between myself and Michael Schaeffers (former colleage that I also worked with on Noah More Heroes). We wrote the game in Monkey, specifically for the HTML5 target.
Unfortunately we had to take a lot of shortcuts with the project, there wasn't a single artist or sound engineer on the team (forcing us to look for Creative Commons licenced work to use), and the AI is lackluster, I didn't have as much time to spend on it due to several appointments on Saturday, but otherwise I'm really happy with what we came up with - definitely head and shoulders above my attempt at a game last year!
Gameplay with four players was a riot, there's definitely a lot of replayability to it, even after hours of testing and tweaking we were still having fun honing our skills. The balance between the Heart Bearer and the Seeker Team is reasonably good too, it doesnt' feel as though there's a large advantage to either side which is difficult to achieve when the gameplay style is different. If there are less than four players an AI substitutes, it's still reasonably fun 2-3 players but 1 player is rather easy and only really useful as training for the multiplayer game.
I definitely recommend you check out the games made by the other teams. I think this year's crop was easily amongst the finest to come out of the Auckland Global Game Jam. These are four in particular that took my fancy.
A JRPG type game with a curious and original twist - instead of fighting monsters and trying to rescue the girl, you're a socially inept nerd that tries to shirk out of awkward conversations (generally by trying to weird out the other person). While there's no violence per se, conversations that turn out badly will raise your heart rate to the point where you could suffer a heart attack.
A short remake of McPixel (one of my favourites from last year) except that it's a multiplayer game - three players use Keyboard, Mouse and XBox Gamepad - and they have to co-ordinate their actions to prevent disaster. I thought it was a brilliant concept that could definitely work as a full length game.
Heart Beat Box 5: Heart of the City
A stylish and fantastically well drawn game about a rap battle in "Nega Toyko" in the future(?) year of "20FF". To advance through the rap battle you have to sing the last words of each rhyme. The "game" itself is short and I found the voice recognition awkward (apparently an English accent is required for optimum recognition), but worth checking out for the aesthetic alone.
A Puzzle/Stealth game that features an interesting look, feel and mechanic. Your "character" emits a heart beat pulse that lights up the surrounding area. The slower your heart rate the more you can see, but you'll often need to run to escape dangerous situations, which will increase your heart rate. The game is nicely polished and it's already available on Kongregate.
And, that's it! have fun.
(P.S. If you didn't catch it, the theme this year was the Heart Beat. Specifically, the sound a Heart Beat makes.)
(P.P.S Should I do one game a month and count this as my first game?)
Well done!
I think I can improve the recognition by adding phonetic variants to help with accents. For example the word list for "done" is "done" "dun" or don".
Hrm. The game didn't work quite righ on my PC. I get music, and a whitebox on a black background. :(
Ubuntu - latest. 64 bit. Chrome - latest. Then when I open it to get javascript errors, none occur and the game works.. Maybe it was a resource loading issue.
Possibly, it does take a tad long to load all of the media due to file sizes (also I guess it didn't help that there's no loading screen per se!)


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Snow White and the Huntsman trilogy
Snow White and the Huntsman is set to be a trilogy, producer Joe Roth has revealed.
The film hasn't even begun filming, but already boasts a stellar cast with Kristen Stewart is as the eponymous heroine, Charlize Theron as the Queen and Thor's Chris Hemsworth as the huntsman, who could be called upon to reprise the role.
Roth told Entertainment Weekly: "It's meant to be the first in a series of films. This story will end, but there will be questions remaining for these three characters."
He went on: "We retain the basic story, a young girl meant to be the queen who is cast out. The huntsman is a mercenary, in the sense that he's a guy who is very able in the woods, more able than almost anyone. His job is to capture runaway girls, who are all fleeing the kingdom because of the queen. He's a nondescript bounty hunter, as we first meet him."
Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Toby Jones, Bob Hoskins, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Graham and Ray Winstone have been cast as the seven dwarves, and LIly Cole also has a role in the film.
Hossein Amini is rewriting the script and Rupert Sanders is directing, with production scheduled to begin in August in Europe, in time for a June 2012 release.
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The Man in the Iron Mask continues the adventures of the dauntless heroes of The Three Musketeers - Aramis, Athos, Porthos and d'Artagnan. In old age their swashbuckling ought to have been replaced by a more gentle way of life, but the veteran warriors find themselves at the center of a plot in which both hearts and heads are broken, and the very throne of France is at stake.
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"Great book"
Great book.Very well read. far far better than the film ever could hope to be.
"An odd place to start"
Bill Homewood is a wonderful narrator and has done thrilling versions of books by Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo. And his narration here is first-rate. But the text itself is a puzzle. The Man in the Iron Mask is actually part of a much larger novel by Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Different editors divide the book up in different ways. The particular version selected for this recording begins incoherently: Aramis is visiting Philippe in the Bastille, but all indications of context have been lopped off the front. For example, the first sentence is: "Since Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man." What order? Who is Baisemeaux? The next sentence goes on to talk about the "the place which Aramis held in the worthy governor's estimation." Governor of what? Is he still talking about Baisemeaux or someone else? The narrator mentions "the turnkey, the same who, on Aramis's first arrival, had shown himself so inquisitive and curious." Wait - this isn't his first visit? Which turnkey? Is Baisemeaux the turnkey? What was he curious about? "In this wise they reached the basement of the Bertaudiere." Um.... OK.... what's the Bertaudiere? And why are they in the basement?
Continued listening will clarify the context, but I found myself irritated by this unnecessarily rocky start. Granted this is a widely available "editor's cut" of the novel, but there ARE other versions that begin in a less confusing way. Naxos usually takes more care in choosing editions of non-English works.
For those who are interested, all parts of the massive Vicomte de Bragelonne have been recorded in an excellent version by Simon Vance.
"False Title: It is rather - The Drawn Out Tragedy of the 4 Invincibles"
Do not think that is anything like the movie or that it has much of anything to do with the plot concerning a young man in an iron mask. Much like the scene of Me Lady and her Jailor in The Three Musketeers, the focus draws to long upon dismal ill fate. The overall feel of the book could be expressed, "Oh no! - Well, at least I can remember back when they had good fortune and comradery.
"Dumas /Homewood 2016!"
This has been amazing! The Count of Monte Christo, The Three Musketeers, and now this story. Homewood is more than equal to the task!
"Beautifully written, but very hard to follow."
The only other book in the series I've read is the first one, so perhaps that's why I felt so lost while listening to this. I enjoyed the Marvel Illustrated adaption of this and thought this would be a fun listen. While the writing's vivid and poetic, the story's hard to follow. There are so many characters, so many intrigues, so much that's happening that I had to reverse numerous times just to get a clue about what's going on.
Also, I never got why Philippe would be considered a better king than Louis. This is probably delusion speaking, but it feels like Dumas failed to fully develop his great premise.
"Bill Homewood is excellent. The book, not so much."
A story with an interesting plot. There was a good beginning followed by hours of pointless and unrelated events.
Maybe the ones like the Three Musketeers.
When the narrator said "the end."
Bill Homewood is excellent. The story has no redeeming qualities.
Get something else.
Loved this classic, but... what happened to the man in the iron mask? I suppose it's left to our imagination.
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The Medford Water Commission on Thursday unanimously rejected the idea of joining surrounding cities who are seeking to delay a $70 million expansion of a water treatment plant.
The Medford Water Commission on Thursday unanimously rejected the idea of joining surrounding cities who are seeking to delay a $70 million expansion of a water treatment plant.
"As a board we don't belong in a cooperative of this nature," said Lee Fortier, a Water Commission member.
The cities of Talent, Phoenix, Central Point, Eagle Point and Jacksonville want to form the cooperative to look at conservation programs that could cut down on water use and consequently delay expansion plans.
"We just don't see a downside to such cooperation," said Talent Councilor Darby Stricker.
The Water Commission said it already has undertaken many of the conservation programs being looked at by the other cities.
The commission said its primary mission is to supply water to the citizens of Medford.
The Water Commission has been looking at the looming issue of a major upgrade at the Robert A. Duff Water Treatment Plant to keep pace with increased water consumption. The expansion, known as Duff II, is expected sometime between 2025 and 2030.
Phoenix Mayor Jeff Bellah said most of the surrounding cities had done a better job at conservation than Medford.
"It's a fact that you're using a lot more per capita," he said.
But Jason Anderson, Water Commission chair, said he "takes issue" with Bellah's statement because Medford has a different kind of user base with more industrial and commercial customers, which skews the number higher.
On a per capita basis, Medford uses 278 gallons a day. Phoenix uses 128.
However, for residential customers, the gallons used per day averages 120 in Medford and 97 in Phoenix. Medford comes in second highest for residential consumption after Jacksonville's 148.
Bellah said the cities just want a more collaborative relationship with Medford because the cities are collectively the Water Commission's biggest customer, using about 25 percent.
"I can't see why you would be against this valley being more efficient," Bellah said.
Medford Councilor Chris Corcoran also took issue with Bellah. "The largest customer is the city of Medford," he said. "This whole thing is about politics."
Water Commission member John Dailey said there was a lot of politics and "emotional baggage," but he said the commission is always open to suggestions and recommendations from the surrounding cities.
"Nobody wants to build Duff II if we don't need it," he said.
Larry Rains, general manager of the Water Commission, cited a number of reasons why joining the cooperative doesn't make sense.
He said the commission was formed for the citizens of Medford, so its mission sometimes runs counter to the surrounding cities.
He said the surrounding cities and the commission have already run into conflicts.
Joining forces could involve more time and money for the Water Commission.
Rains said the Duff II project will be based on water usage by the city of Medford and surrounding cities. Delays in building the expansion could mean a need to limit water supplies during hot summer months when usage is high.
"Staff feels the status quo makes sense," he said.
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Economic justifications of a backstop procurement arrangement in a capacity mechanism
9th Intl. Conf. on the European Energy Market
This presentation aims at showing that a backstop procurement arrangement is fundamental for a capacity mechanism to ensure power security of supply. We rely on the analysis of capacity mechanisms implemented in the USA, in particular in the PJM and ISO-NE areas.
We show that a backstop procurement arrangement has two main advantages over a decentralized design. First the centralized forecast error on global peak demand, by the SO for instance, is necessarily less than the sum of the errors by suppliers in forecasting demand level of their own portfolio at peak time. Second, the missing amount of capacity is provided by a centralized auction when suppliers have failed to commit long enough in advance so that new capacity has enough time to be built and ready for delivery. European countries currently debating about the implementation and design of capacity mechanism should be aware of these advantages of a centralized capacity mechanism.


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Starbucks recently introduced the "duffin," a muffin/doughnut hybrid in the United Kingdom.
Then all hell broke loose.
"Huffin and puffin over a duffin" is the headline in the UK's Independent.
"Bun fight erupts" said The Daily Mail.
The Guardian is calling it "cake rage."
Why are British knickers in a bunch?
Well, it's the David (small business) vs Goliath (Starbucks, big business and yes, an American business) aspect of it all.
The duffin — OK, it sounds like something Homer Simpson could dunk in a beer — didn't originate with Starbucks.
There have been other makers. One — an American, of all things — is Bea Vo. She's been selling duffins in her four Bea's of Bloomsbury tea rooms and on her website.
The company that's making the duffin for Starbucks has trademarked the name.
So the worry is that Bea is out of luck. You can imagine the fears: Big evil corporation tells heroic small-business woman to stop calling her wares "duffins."
Vo told the Guardian:
"I never trademarked the name duffin because I didn't think it was necessary. We are a tiny independent – can we afford to fight this trademark and any future cease-and-desist letter? No."
She even has put up signs in her cafes, warning that Starbucks "could prevent us from using our own creation that they copied in our own stores!"
And the sign asks for the names of good trademark attorneys, support and thoughts through Twitter at #Duffin and — our favorite — #Duffingate.
Starbucks responded on its UK website by saying it has not intention of taking on Bea.
We've seen a lot of interest in the recent launch of the Starbucks Duffin, and would like to set the record straight for all lovers of the Duffin. Since launching, we have discovered there are other Duffins out there in the UK including at Bea's of Bloomsbury, which is great news for muffin and doughnut fans across the country.
There has been a lot of social media conversation on the topic and it's true that our supplier Rich Products, who created our fabulous Duffin has trademarked the name in the UK. However we'd like to make it clear that neither Starbucks nor Rich Products has suggested to Bea's of Bloomsbury that they will attempt to stop them selling their own Duffins.
Those who commented on Starbucks UK site aren't pleased:
Stop being a Caricature of a Global Entity attempting to swallow up the world. Bea's of Bloomsbury, Bea's of Bloomsbury, Bea's of Bloomsbury!
Wrote another:
Whoever is in charge of Starbucks marketing is clearly a fool. Didn't they teach you not to plagiarise at school? Think I will try this but at Bea's of Bloomsbury, definitely not at Starbucks.
Starbucks, by the way, describes the duffin this way:
Step forward the Duffin: taking the best of a muffin: that moist texture, the iconic shape and then mixing it up with elements of a traditional jam filled doughnut. Our Duffin is filled with a raspberry jam; we've added just a hint of nutmeg to our buttermilk base and then covered it in sugar once baked.
From the beginning, the commenters on the Starbucks site were not impressed:
Come on now we all know you stole this from an independent and amazing tea shop called Beas if Bloomsbury. How you have the nerve to steal their idea and claim it as your own is beyond me. If you want some proof just use the internet to find out who invented the Duffin!!
As they've been known to say over there, all's well that end's well.
Bea is thanking all her supporters on her website and offering them a deal:
We've been so overwhelmed with the support and really are so grateful for our lovely loyal customers! It was you guys that named the duffin and we hope you keep enjoying it! To say thanks we'd love to give you 15% off our dozen duffins in our online store!


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Westminster College officials joined city officials in Mesa, AZ, this week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding that would bring the first ever new campus of Westminster to downtown Mesa in fall 2013. The initial announcement was made Monday, April 23, and the City of Mesa approved the MOU on Thursday, April 26.
View video clips from Monday's ceremony in Mesa announcing intent to sign the Memorandum of Understanding. Officials from the City of Mesa and Westminster College president Barney Forsythe weigh in on the value and mutual benefit the partnership offers to Westminster and to the City of Mesa. Also - see what others are saying about the Mesa venture and get answers to frequently asked questions.


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The sales-tax-free shopping is nice. But the many cultural attractions, three rose gardens and pedestrian-friendly downtown corridor make Portland an attractive city to visit for a day, or even a week.
The Seattle-to-Portland Amtrak train is a popular transportation alternative to the three-hour drive. Get departure and arrival times on the slick Amtrak Web site or by phone. Travelers can order tickets online and then pick them up at the station. 800-872-7245; amtrak.com. Bus transportation from Portland's train station is free in the downtown corridor.
The Pearl District, which consists of 50 city blocks of industrial warehouses, has been transformed over the past few years into upscale condominiums, art galleries and restaurants. Powell's City of Books, the Northwest's premier bookstore, has always been one of the main attractions.
Public transportation on the MAX light rail system and the 4.8-mile-long streetcar system, all tied in with the bus routes, makes Portland one of the most tourist-friendly cities on the West Coast. 503-238-7433; trimet.org
Downtown showcases the recently remodeled Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Zoo and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. OMSI on the Willamette River is a hands-on educational adventure for the whole family. 800-955-6674.


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Go through the list of phones powered with ultra-fast and latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor with 8-core and 64 bit computing.
Snapdragon 810 processor specifications –
- Quad-core ARM® Cortex™ A57 and quad-core A53 with 64-bit support
- Adreno 430 GPU
- Hexagon™ V56 DSP (up to 800MHz) DSP
- 4G LTE Advanced Cat-6 connectivity supporting LTE FDD, LTE TDD, WCDMA (DC-HSPA+, DC-HSUPA),
- CDMA1x, EV-DO Rev. B, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE.
- LTE-Modem support of LTE-Broadcast, LTE multimode dual SIM.
- Qualcomm® VIVE™ 2-stream 802.11n/ac with MU-MIMO
- Qualcomm® IZat™ Gen8C GPS
- NFC Supported
- 4K Ultra HD on-device display concurrent with 4K Ultra HD output to HDTV
- 1080p and 4K external displays
- 4K video capture and playback with H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) formats
- Camera Up to 55 mega pixel Dual ISP
Snapdragon 810 Phones
The following is the list of Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 powered phones -
LG G Flex 2
LG Electronics at CES 2015 unveiled G Flex 2 smartphone, the first Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 phone.
LG G Flex 2
|Display:5.5-inch 1080x1920 touchscreen display
|2.0 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor
|GPU:Adreno 450
|Software: Android 5.0 Lollipop OS
|Dual SIM: No
|Main Camera:13 MP rear camera with LED Flash
|Front Camera:2.1 MP front facing camera
|Storage: 16/32 GB Internal + Micro SD card slot support up to 32 GB
|Connectivity:4G LTE, 3G HSPA, NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi tether, WiFi,Bluetooth
|Battery:3000 mAh Li-ion battery
|aGPS, FM Radio, 3.5 mm audio jack
Xiaomi Mi Note Pro
Soon after LG G Flex 2, Xiaomi came up with Mi Note Pro powered with Snapdragon latest chipset to provide unmatching speed.
Xiaomi Mi Note Pro
|Display: 5.7 Inch 2560 x 1440 touchscreen display
|2 GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor
|GPU:Adreno 430
|Software: Android 5.0 Lollipop OS with MIUI
|Dual SIM: Yes
|Main Camera: 13 MP rear Sony IMX214 sensor camera with LED Flash
|Front Camera: 4 MP front facing UltraPixel camera
|Storage: 64 GB Internal Memory
|Connectivity: 4G LTE, 3G HSPA, Bluetooth, WiFi tether, WiFi,Bluetooth
|Battery: 3090 mAh Li-ion battery
|GPS, FM Radio, 3.5 mm audio jack
Snapdragon 810 Windows Phone
The first ever Windows Phone running Snapdragon 810 processor is expected to come in 2015 as the partnership between with Qualcomm and Microsoft will take a new leap. With the announcement of Windows 10 as the unified platform across all Microsoft products, Snapdragon 810 definitely looks a logical choice and we might see new Windows Phone with Snapdragon 810 at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2015).
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The Arts Council would like to thank everyone who helped to make our
2017 Champions of the Arts Gala a success.
Check out the photo gallery. (photo credit: Richard Green Photography)
Click on more photos (photo credit: Enid Blader Ryce)
Saturday, January 14, 2017, 5pm – 9pm
Portola Hotel and Spa, Monterey
Thank you for joining us in honoring our Champions of the Arts!
2017 Official Printed Program Guide — Click for Champions Bios, sponsor listings and Arts Council Program Details
ALAN SILVESTRI – Lifetime Achievement
In his decades-long career as a composer, Alan Silvestri has scored some of the most revered and profitable films in Hollywood history, amassing more than one hundred credits, while garnering two Oscar nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, two Emmys and three Grammys.
MELISSA CHIN-PARKER – Luminary
Melissa has been a driving force in The Western Stage's leadership for over twenty years, helping develop a theater company that presents stories that reflect our complex, multicultural, multi-generational community.
XOCHITECPATL VICTOR JUAREZ – Volunteer Leader
Dedicated to Salinas community enrichment through Aztec dance, music, song and culture, Victor Juarez leads 30 members and 50 students of Yaocuauhtli Cultural Dance.
PEGGY CARROLL – Educator
Building a strong music program and giving students the chance to succeed has been central to her life's work as a band leader and teacher for more than 32 years.
SOUTH COUNTY STRINGS (YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY) – Nonprofit
South County Strings music teachers bring free instruction and low-cost instrument rentals to students in the southernmost communities of Monterey County, giving students the chance to perform at school and community venues.
RICHARD BAINS – Professional
Richard has been Chair of the Music and Performing Arts Department at CSU Monterey Bay since the University's founding in 1994 and a leader for emerging professionals, developing the Heritage Festival and Corrido Project, and passionately supporting music for youth throughout the region.
DON AND LOIS MAYOL – Philanthropists
The Mayols have been visionary supporters of our region's most prestigious classical music organizations, dedicated to ensuring that all children and youth have access to the highest quality musical experiences.
Thank you to our past sponsors and auction donors!
Click on previous Champions of the Arts Gala for photos and more information


text: sourcecode malloc <code> #! /usr/bin/perl -i =head1 NAME netswap.pl =head1 AUTHOR Daniel Kelemen =head1 SYNOPSIS netswap.pl [FILENAME]- Scan the configuration file and setup local networking parameters based upon contents. nconf files should be of form: hostname: foo domainname: bar.com ip: 192.168.16.42 subnetmask: 255.255.0.0 gateway: 192.168.1.1 dns: 192.168.2.1 =head1 DESCRIPTION Switch local network parameters =cut my $line = my $param_name = my $param_val = ""; my $filename = shift || die "Usage: netswap.pl CONFILENAME\n"; open(FH,"$filename") || die "Could not open network configuration file: [$filename] for reading.\n"; while(<FH>){ $line = $_; next unless ($line !~ m/^\s*$/) or ($line !~ m/^\s*\#/); $line =~ m/^(.*):(.*)$/; $param_name = $1; $param_val = $2; $param_name =~ s/^\s*//g; $param_name =~ s/\s*$//g; $param_val =~ s/^\s*//g; $param_val =~ s/\s.*$//g; ${$param_name} = $param_val; } close FH; print "new hostname = [$hostname]\nnew domainname = [$domainname]\nnew ip = [$ip]\nnew Subnet Mask = [$subnetmask]\nnew DNS = [$dns]\nnew gateway = [$gateway]\n"; # We do /etc/hosts: my %pass = ("^.*$hostname.*" => "$ip\t$hostname.$domainname\t$hostname"); # Replace the whole line for this hostname. file_edit("/etc/hosts",\%pass); # We do /etc/sysconfig/network: %pass = ("^GATEWAY.*" => "GATEWAY=\"$gateway\"","^HOSTNAME.*" => "HOSTNAME=\"$hostname\"","^DOMAINNAME.*" => "DOMAINNAME=\"$domainname\""); file_edit("/etc/sysconfig/network",\%pass); # We do /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0; %pass = ("^IPADDR.*" => "IPADDR=\"$ip\"","^NETMASK.*" => "NETMASK=\"$subnetmask\""); file_edit("/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0",\%pass); # We do the /etc/resolv.conf: %pass = ("^nameserver.*" => "nameserver $dns","^SEARCH.*" => "SEARCH $domainname"); file_edit("/etc/resolv.conf",\%pass); `/etc/init.d/network restart`; # FIN ########################file_edit################### =head1 file_edit(@) accepts: list containing filename to edit as first item, hash reference as second item. Hash should contain search expressions as keys, replacement expressions as values. eg. file_edit("/etc/hosts",(foo => bar)); will replace all occurrences of 'foo' with 'bar' in /etc/hosts. =cut sub file_edit(@) { my $filename = shift; my $hash_ref = shift; my %lines = %$hash_ref; die "File [$filename] cannot be found!\n" unless (-e $filename); @ARGV = ($filename); # put the filename where perl can find it. while(<>){ $line = $_; foreach $search (keys %lines){ if ($line =~ m/$search/i) { # not sure about insensitivity here. $line =~ s/$search/$lines{$search}/ig; } } print $line; } # End while line read for file } # End file_edit. </CODE> This little script swaps out all of your linux network parameters based upon the contents of a configuration file, the structure of which is shown in the pod. It is intended mostly for use by people who use linux on a laptop, and frequently hop between networks where they have static IP's, as I do often, so i just keep a config file for each network. It works fine for me, and I hope some others will find it useful. Please feel free to comment on it, especially style/coding practices. Thanks for lookin, --malloc linux/networking malloc Daniel Kelemen email@example.com


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Repeating Horizontal Lines Appear on Pages Printed from the Lexmark CS310, CS410, CS510, CX310, CX410, and CX510
Document ID:SO7202
Usergroup :External
|Lexmark CS310
|Lexmark CS317
|Lexmark CS410
|Lexmark CS417
|Lexmark CS510
|Lexmark CS517
|Lexmark CX310
|Lexmark CX317
|Lexmark CX410
|Lexmark CX510
Two or more horizontal lines or bands of toner appear on the printed pages, as illustrated in the image below. The lines are evenly spaced apart and may consist of one or more colors. They may be darker or lighter in color than the rest of the page.
NOTE: The lines run horizontally across the page, but will appear vertical when you print in landscape mode.
Print Defect Sample
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This article will help you confirm the problem. Please refer to the directions in the table below to help determine which hardware part is causing the issue.
Steps Actions 1
For a print quality defect of this type, it is always advisable to print the following:
- Print Defects Guide – These guides will allow you to determine the cause of the repeating defect based on the distance between the original and the residual image(s).
Note: The User's Guide provides detailed instructions for navigating through the printer menus.
To determine the source of the print defect, refer to the Print Defects Guide to determine the cause of the issue by measuring the defect frequency on the print sample.
Note: The first page of the Print Defects Guide contains a set of rulers you can use to indicate which particular part is causing the issue. Replace the part that matched to the defect frequency if it is a supplies item.
3 If issue persists after performing the steps mentioned above, an issue may exist within the machine's hardware. Please contact Lexmark Technical Support for other troubleshooting suggestions.
Contacting Lexmark
Please contact Lexmark Technical Support if you need additional assistance. NOTE: When calling for support, you will be asked for your machine/model type and serial number (SN). If you need help locating your printer's model type and serial number, click here.
Please call from near the printer in case the technician on the phone asks you to perform a task involving the printer.