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What Is a Buk Missile? – At A Glance
U.S. Ties Russia to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
U.S. intelligence indicates that Moscow likely provided pro-Russia separatists with the SA-11 missile systems, also known as the Buk-M1, bolstering charges that Russia was the source of the weapon that shot down the plane, killing 283 passengers and 15 crew members. U.S. officials also believe the systems were moved back across the border into Russia after the plane was shot down.
The Range of a Buk-M1
MH17 was flying at about 33,000 feet when it was likely shot down. Developed by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, Buk missiles can strike targets above 70,000 feet and fly at three times the speed of sound.
The Power of a Buk-M1
The antiaircraft system can fire roughly 18-foot-long missiles that carry a large high-explosive warhead weighing more than 120 pounds guided by a ground-based radar station, and can bring down an aircraft with a single hit, but they aren't accurate enough to tell the difference between a passenger airliner and military aircraft. A Buk launcher takes roughly five minutes to warm up and 12 minutes to reload. The vehicle is typically run by a highly trained three-man crew.
How Did the Pro-Russians Separatists Get the Buk Missile System?
Ukraine has released videos allegedly showing the Buk missile systems traveling through eastern Ukraine near the site where the plane went down. Reports that rebels had possession of a Buk-M1 came as early as June 29, when separatists overran a Ukrainian armed-forces base in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.
The counterintelligence chief at Ukraine's national security service, Vitaly Nayda, said that his agency became aware that the rebels possessed three Buk-M1 antiaircraft systems as of July 14. Photographs and electronic intercepts, compiled by Ukrainian intelligence operatives, show that three Buk-M1 systems were shipped out of eastern Ukraine in the early morning of July 18, just hours after MH17 was shot down, according to Mr. Nayda. He said that a system missing a missile crossed the border in a flatbed truck to Russia at 2 a.m. on July 18, and two other missile systems with a complete set of missiles in their battery crossed at 4 a.m.
Where Does Russia Stand?
Russia has denied it has any control over the rebels. Armed groups kept monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from gaining full access to the crash site. Outrage grew Saturday over the rebel hold on the site, with European leaders calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to do more to use his influence to get them to hand it over.
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Daly snatches point for United
Jon Daly earned Dundee United a 3-3 draw in their Clydesdale Bank Premier League match with Kilmarnock as the Taysiders mounted a second-half fightback.
United looked out of things after Cillian Sheridan fired Killie into a 2-0 first-half lead and Paul Heffernan (53) had made it 3-1 after Gary Mackay-Steven (48) reduced the deficit.
But captain Daly struck in the 56th minute before Sheridan crucially had what would have been his hat-trick goal ruled out for offside in the 77th minute. And Daly made the most of that reprieve when he stooped to head home from Barry Douglas' perfect cross to send the home fans away happy and with their money's worth from a thrilling encounter.
The visitors began the brightest and came close early on when Borja Perez tried his luck from 30 yards with a shot which Radoslaw Cierzniak was relieved to see clear his crossbar.
Minutes later, John Rankin was short with a header back which led to Sheridan crossing for Heffernan, but he could not keep his shot down and fired well over the top with his left foot.
Killie took the lead after eight minutes when Sean Dillon fouled Sheridan 30 yards from goal and the striker curled an inch-perfect free-kick beyond Cierzniak and into the top corner.
Sheridan doubled his tally on the half-hour mark when Gary Harkins produced a deftly weighted pass which split the United defence, allowing Sheridan to run in behind and dink a left-footed finish beyond Cierzniak and into the opposite corner of the net.
Within minutes of the restart Mackay-Steven sparked a comeback with an unstoppable strike from 30 yards, but Heffernan struck minutes later when Cierzniak failed to deal with a ball into the box and the Irishman looped home a 16-yard header.
Daly then headed past Killie goalkeeper Cameron Bell from Douglas' 56th-minute cross to make it 3-2, before Sheridan was denied a hat-trick when he was ruled offside.
And United made the most of that decision in injury time when Daly produced a typically brave diving header from another Douglas cross to round off a courageous fightback.


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I ride an RT and I just wish BMW would have real colors. Grey and silver don't do it for me. How about colors in the red/blue/green spectrum? Show some creativity for god's sake.
I agree they do tend to favor drab ? colors...My Roadster is one of their nicer offerings..{IMO} It is Ferro blue , I removed the black graphics....looks better, again..{IMO}.
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My name is James, I currently run iLoveMacApps and MacTricksAndTips. I am not a big time blogger by far and my income is quite small in comparison to some of the blogs on the web today. But I have found a service that has managed to triple my monthly income. It is called BuySellAds (BSA).
In a nutshell it is a direct banner selling serivce. As a result you can charge as much as you want for an ad slot and you can move away from the 2cent clicks on Adsense and start charging more. I am not affiliated with the service in any way before any one starts asking. I just like the service so much I thought it deserved more attention than it is currently getting.
Setting up BuySellAds
Using the BuySellAds system is really easy. The program is currently in beta so you may have to wait a couple of days before they accept you, but they accept most sites. Once as you are in, you have to enter your website details. The system works by adding your site and then adding advert zones to that website. Then you sell those ads for profit!
To set up a website you have to add your website URL and name. As well as this you also have to enter a description. Each site goes into a big pool where other people can find your site in the directory. As a result you may want to spend a small amount of time writing a good description. Include some statistics, what your site is about make it interesting for the advertiser. An advertiser will want a website where they are going to get good returns you want to try and fulfill that role so they keep coming back month after month. The final section of the website setup is to add some tags these are used when someone searches your site. Once as you have entered all of your details you are done and ready to add some ad zones.
Once as your site is submitted into BuySellAds, the service will automatically gather details about your Alexa and Compete rank, as well as Google Page and Technorati Rank, Del.Icio.us Bookmarks and Yahoo Inbound links. Theses are the type os statistic your would normally give an advertiser, BSA automatically pull all this information for you. One less thing you have to worry about.
Once as you have set up your site. You have to add a zone. This is an area on the page where the adverts will reside. Zones are customizable. You can have has many individual adverts in a zone as you want. In the zone section setup there is a couple of areas which you can customize. For example you add a description and a location. The most important area if the price. BSA take a 25% cut of what ever the advert price is. For example if you charge $100 an ad, BSA will take $25 and you will keep the rest. This cost covers hosting of the adverts, website and all the other bits and bobs associated with the service. You can set the number of banners in total and the number of banners show at one time. (E.G you can have 6 slots, but only show 1 on a page load). As a result you have to think quite closely how much you think advertisers are willing to spend.
If you have a high paying advert slot but an advertisers advert is only shown once in four page loads, this could put advertiser off. Picking a good price point can be a completely different post in itself. Once as a zone is setup data will be gathered from the Javascript you insert in your website, the most important factor is page views, on your listing page an up to date monthly view for that adblock is displayed. Most advertisers will want to see how many views there ads will get, as a result this is displayed for them and is very useful. The listings page can actually take over from a page you would normally create on your blog, it has that much useful information.
Once as you have set everything up you will end up with a listing page. Mine, for example, looks like this, you can search through the directory and see all of the available listing if you want more inspiration. It has information about my website at the top, and the advert units at the bottom. A buyer can now come along purchase an advert, as long as the Javascript code is on my page, the advert will appear immediately without having to ever speak to me. The money will be deposited into my account and everything will be good to go. You are slowly on your way to a big payout. I would also like to point out that adverts will also be set to renew, so advertisers can automatically get the same slot each month, giving you a nice stable income and removing the need for advertisers to keep having to setup and advert slot.
Payments are paid when ever you want, as long as you have earnt some money. Since this service is still in beta you have to email the support staff to send your check or PayPal, automatic payout is coming in an update. Although I usually get paid a couple of days after I have emailed them. You can have as many adverts as you want. If you have 3 or 4 ads at $50 you can easily earn $150, way more than I was with Adsense. As your site gets more popular you can charge more for a slot, giving you control of exactly how much you want to make a month.
Getting advertisers
The one problem with BSA, from a webmasters point of view, is that adverts will not automatically appear. Unlike Adsense, you have to go out and get advertisers directly. They don't come from a big pool of people. This can be quite hard for anybody that doesn't have a high traffic site, but it can be done. This is the method I used originally to build up a small base of advertisers.
The first step is to make sure that you have set up your adverts and they are being displayed on your website. They will appear as a grey "Advertise Here" box. This "Advertise Here" box has become quite iconic since I always know that it is from BSA. As it grows in popularity I expect these boxes to appear all over the web. You can,if you want, customize the placement and colour of these images with a bit of CSS to match the theme of my site.
The next step is to make sure the price of your ad is right. Too high and advertisers won't pay. Too low and you may be giving yourself a cheap deal, as well as this an advertiser may not pay because the price point is too cheap and it won't be a worthwhile investment (you can never win). I find it is best to start slightly lower than you are worth, get advertiser to bite and then increase the price over the months.
At this point, you have setup your site and have a well priced advert. You now need to write your sales letter. I find if you email a couple of potential advertisers that meet your niche you can get them to advertise although your results may different, just don't spam everyone since this will really annoy people. Your email needs to be short, too long and people get switched off. It must clearly explain what your site is about, what you are offering and how to buy an advert. You can then link directly to your listing pages on BuySellAds. For example I would include an email along the following lines. Change it as you see fit, make it unique and interesting. Explain what you do and what BuySellAds is (since it is quite a new service that a lot of people may not know about).
"Dear X
My name is James and I run X. I am emailing you to see if you would be willing to advertise on my site. I offer X and I think this would be valuable to your product/service because of Y.
My site currently gets XYZ over a month
If you are interested and advert slot costs $XX and it runs for a month, this appears, here, here and here. If you are interested please visit my listing page on BuySellAds (URL), they offer the hosting for your advert. They handle everything and you can have your advertisement up in no time at all.
If you want more information just ask. Thanks
The final step is to email your letter. You need to find companies and products that meet you niche. There is no point in emailing a dog center if you sell fish. I generally look at Adsense adverts, as well as advertiser on a similar niche to myself. Send them off the email and hope they are interested. Nearly all my advertisers I have found this way.
To conclude. BuySellAds is great in my opinion. You can set up an advert block which will automatically serve your adverts. It makes selling adverts much easiler. There is no need for them to email you. Its always a surprise when a new advertiser has bought advert in the night. It takes the hassle out of selling advert and enables you to write great content. Personally all the load of trying to manage when adverts are running and payment options is taken off my shoulders and given to someone else. I don't mind spending 25% of my earnings. At my currently level its worth while, if you were earning thousands it may be a different story.
One last note this type of service is also great for would be advertisers. Although this post has been focused on selling adverts, buy ads is also really easy if you want to buy adverts. All of the payment processing and set up of the advert is done for you. You advert is automatically displayed and it automatically run. The pool of advertisers is also getting bigger meaning that there should be someone relating to your nice already on the service.
Like I say to my readers, try this program out. It doesn't cost you anything to run. It does take a little time to get going, but once as you build a reputation and have a couple of advertisers on your site, your earnings can increase I have seen great results with this program and so may yourself.


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Arduino → ARDUINO MEGA Known Issues
Last Updated 5/11/2012
Currently Known Issues
- Digital Pints 51-53 may not generate Motors and Sensor #Pragma Code correctly
- Arduino MEGA 2560/ADK requires a bootloader upgrade before it can be used with ROBOTC.
- Using Analog Ports as Digital I/O is not currently supported.
- Changing UART0 from "System Comm Port" will cause the debugger to no longer work.
- Changing UART0 from "System Comm Port" may require re-downloading ROBOTC firmware to load a different program.
- I2C port does not currently work - no firmware functions yet to use native I2C messaging.
- The "Variable Intensity LED" and "Analog Write" pin options do not work. It is currently possible to use the "Ext. HBridge - Single PWM" option as a work around.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs doesn't intend to let a torn right biceps keep him out of Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins.
``We kind of live by the creed of, if you can breathe then you can play,'' Suggs said Wednesday. ``We just got to check it out. We got to see how it holds up throughout the week. (It will) definitely be a game-time decision on Sunday.''
The injury occurred last weekend in the fourth quarter of a 23-20 loss to Pittsburgh.
Another injured Ravens linebacker, Ray Lewis, returned to practice Wednesday - the next stage of the 37-year-old's attempt to come back from a tore right triceps. Lewis was hurt Oct. 14 against Dallas and placed on injured reserve, designated for return.
``I'm making progress and will practice some today,'' Lewis said in a statement. ``But the story shouldn't be about me right now. We're playing the Redskins Sunday, and I am not eligible to play. If I can help prepare my team in some way for that game, I will. When I know I will play in a game, or when I play in a game, I will say more then.''
Suggs, on the other hand, will be on the field for the Ravens (9-3) against the surging Redskins (6-6) if his ailing right arm won't hinder his effectiveness.
``I don't want to be out there and can't make a play because I'm unhealthy and I don't have a full biceps,'' he said. ``It's more if I will help us or hinder us by playing.''
After missing the first six weeks of the season with a torn right Achilles tendon, Suggs returned sooner than expected and has 19 tackles and two sacks in the last six games. Given his remarkable recuperative powers, Suggs appears to be a good bet to be among the Ravens chasing Robert Griffin III at FedEx Field on Sunday.
``That's Suggs,'' Baltimore defensive back Corey Graham said. ``He comes back from everything, so nothing would surprise me with him.''
Defensive tackle Terrence Cody added, ``The guy is really tough. He came off an Achilles. Now, he's got this injury. You really find out about guys in situations like this. It means something to him. It's always good to have a guy like that on the team that's going to play through everything, loves to play football, loves to go to war like that.''
The 30-year-old Suggs missed only three games in his first nine seasons before this year. He played in all 16 games last season, had 14 sacks and helped the Ravens reached the AFC title game before being named NFL defensive player of the year.
Baltimore appears on course for another trip to the playoffs, but nothing is assured - yet.
``We got a job to do and we've got to get a win,'' he said. ``...If I can play with it, we're going to do everything we can to protect it so I don't injure it anymore.''
Playing with a torn biceps is not unprecedented.
``I've been told a couple of guys in the NFL are playing with torn biceps and that it may get better, it may not, you may need surgery, you may not,'' he said. ``We're going to go over it and decide what's best for the team and myself.''
Baltimore is 4-2 with Suggs in the lineup, and his presence has been a factor in the improved play of outside linebacker Paul Kruger, who has five sacks in the last four games.
``Players like Terrell Suggs do make everybody around them better, so that's probably part of it,'' coach John Harbaugh said.
Lewis is another player with that quality. There is no timetable for his return, but the Ravens don't seem to be the Ravens without No. 52 in the middle of the defense.
``This will be part of his rehab, and we'll see how he does,'' Harbaugh said. ``Whether he gets back soon, late, at all, what he's done to work through the injury, the rehab he's put himself through ... it's really impressive.''
Having him on the practice field wasn't the same as having him in the huddle, but it was an encouraging sign.
``He's Ray Lewis. Everybody knows how much it means,'' linebacker Jameel McClain said. ``Whether it adds up to something in the long run, we don't know that yet. Only Ray knows that. But having him here is definitely a plus for all of us.''
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Texas City Brings Back Paddling in Schools
Temple, Texas, now allows — nay encourages — teachers in its 14 schools to paddle any unruly kids. Apparently in Texas, as in 19 other states, corporal punishment is not illegal. Those states are (almost) all southern.
This Washington Post article has some quotes along the 'a bit of discipline never hurt anybody'/'puts hairs on your chest' line. And then casually drops this bombshell.
A joint American Civil Liberties Union-Human Rights Watch report last year found that students with disabilities were disproportionately subjected to corporal punishment, sometimes in direct response to behavioral problems that were a result of their disabilities.
The Post add that "parents also pushed for the change because many paddle their children at home and wanted consistent discipline in the classroom." Which raises the question: where does one go about buying a child-paddle? Are there child-paddle stores, with racks of gleaming peacemakers? Because it seems extra-specially wrong to use any of the discipline tools that Google turns up for 'punishment paddle' on children.
UPDATE: Regina Corley, a spokesperson for the Temple Independent School District emailed to point out that there are stringent standards applied to the physical beating of children with a paddle. Classroom teachers cannot themselves beat children with a paddle. They must send any serious offenses — not mere unruliness — up the chain so that, after careful consultation, someone more senior can take a specially designed piece of wood and beat a child. She adds that "to date, there has been ONE administration of the literal definition of corporal punishment. It was at the parent request and the parent was present."


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They got their scalp, but not the one they wanted. Background here. AP has the latest:
The interim head of the Gallaudet University board of trustees has resigned, saying she was overwhelmed by the protests that greeted the selection of a new president to lead the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf.
"The presidential search and the controversy that has ensued have put enormous strain and stress on me," Celia May Baldwin wrote in a memo Tuesday. "I simply could not ignore the numerous aggressive threats that I have received over the past weeks."
Baldwin's memo did not elaborate on the kinds of threats that were made against her.
There's an open question here about what the real issue is. Fernandes and I. King Jordan, the outgoing president, insist it's the perception on campus that she's not "culturally deaf" enough. Some news reports quote students and faculty as saying it has less to do with that than with her allegedly poor administrative skills, but aside from the D.C. Examiner, they don't provide concrete examples. Here's a rambling op-ed by a Gallaudet student in Inside Higher Ed that's representative insofar as it's long on empty phrases — "she's an administrator, not a leader," "students weren't listened to at all" — and maddeningly short on particulars.
Let's just say this. If the problem genuinely has nothing to do with her being a "traitor to deafness" or whatever, if it's really a simple matter of people on campus not liking her — then they really don't like her. More from from WaPo:
The 750-seat auditorium was full to overflowing, mostly with students, and the crowd soon turned angry as people stood on stage to sign questions to board members Celia May L. Baldwin, interim chairman, and Tom Humphries, who emphasized that they have heard the concerns but that the board will not change its decision.
"I beg of you," Baldwin signed, "to put your trust in us. Give us a chance. Give us an opportunity to prove to you that the selection was accurate."
People in the audience shouted "No!" over and over, waving arms in the air and signing.
The meeting ended with people walking out, just as they had when Fernandes's appointment was announced last Monday.
Here, via Goldstein, is Cathy Young's piece in Reason from 2002 on the militancy of the "deaf pride" movement. Cochlear implants? Those are for sellouts, man.


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When Tracy Tarnowski was diagnosed with breast cancer, she opted to have a double-mastectomy, even though her malignancy was confined to only one breast. But the tumour was widespread and aggressive – and she wasn't about to take any chances.
"I did it because I was only 40," said Tarnowski, referring to her 2007 surgery. "The decision I made was so I couldn't have any what-ifs or look back and have any regrets. I did everything I could possibly do to make sure it was gone and wouldn't come back.
"I had a lot of living to do as far as I was concerned," the mother of two said from her home in Embrun, Ont., outside Ottawa. "I might have made a different decision had I been 75."
Age of diagnosis appears to be one factor behind the decision to undergo a mastectomy instead of a less invasive lumpectomy, says a report on rates of breast cancer surgeries across Canada released Thursday.
The joint report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer show the annual rates for the two treatments vary widely from one province to another.
The rates for women having a cancerous breast removed instead of a lumpectomy, known as breast conserving surgery, was lowest in Quebec, at 26 per cent, and highest in Newfoundland and Labrador, at 69 per cent.
Because figures are in an inverse ratio, the rate for lumpectomies in Quebec was 74 per cent and 31 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador.
In Saskatchewan, the mastectomy-lumpectomy split was 65 per cent versus 35 per cent, while in Ontario the ratio was 37 per cent for mastectomies and 63 per cent for lumpectomies.
Several factors could explain variations in treatment rates from one jurisdiction to another, including physician practice patterns and patient preferences, said Anne McFarlane, CIHI vice-president for Western Canada.
"It's important to note that there are two surgeries for people with breast cancer – mastectomy and lumpectomy," McFarlane said in a telephone interview from Victoria. "Lumpectomy followed by radiation has been shown since the mid-1980s to have equivalent outcomes as mastectomy."
But, of course, mastectomy is a much more invasive procedure, she said.
"You lose your breast. So from a cosmetic and from a recovery point of view, it would be a more difficult procedure to come away from feeling like you were the same person after the mastectomy as you were before."
This year, about 22,000 women will have a mastectomy or a lumpectomy followed by radiation.
The report found that a woman's age seems to play into the choice to go with mastectomy over a lumpectomy.
Rates were relatively high – 44 per cent – for women age 18 to 49. Rates dropped to 35 per cent for those age 50 to 69, then rose again to 45 per cent for women age 70 and older.
"And we think for younger women, that's because in that age group they're outside the formal screening (mammogram) programs, so women tend to be diagnosed with more advanced disease and younger women tend to have more aggressive disease," said McFarlane.
For older women, opting for mastectomy over a lumpectomy could relate to difficulties getting to centres offering followup radiation, as well as less concern about body image.
"We really don't know the answers for that, but it's an interesting phenomenon," she said.
The distance one needs to travel to and from a radiation centre does appear to be a factor.
The 2007-2010 report shows increased numbers of mastectomies corresponding to travel time, with rates exceeding 50 per cent for women who had to drive three hours or more for treatment.
"Radiation following lumpectomy is typically five days a week for between three and six weeks," said McFarlane. "So although each session of radiation isn't very long, you have to go to the radiation centre four or five days a week for three to six weeks.
"And if you have a job, if you have little kids, if you have a spouse who's not well that you have to be there to provide care for – all of those could be barriers to spending that kind of time away from home."
Dr. Heather Bryant, vice-president of cancer programs at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, said the report should help doctors and health-system planners in various jurisdictions "optimize breast cancer care and the experience of women who receive surgery as part of their treatment."
McFarlane said the report allows physicians to see the bigger picture and how rates differ from province to province.
"It's only when you can see these analyses done at the national level, where you can see the variations by jurisdiction, that it comes out in such stark relief," she said.
"I think surgeons and women in Newfoundland, for example, have the expectation that there's a high mastectomy rate. It's only when they see that mastectomy rate in comparison with, say, Quebec that they can ask the question: 'Is this the way that we want it to be? Are we doing the best that we can here?' "And similarly in Quebec they can also ask that question."
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It's been eight years since Shania Twain's last performed in public, but the country-pop megastar showed she is most definitely "Still the One" during the debut of her Las Vegas residency this past weekend.
Titled "Shania: Still the One" (in reference, of course, to her double-Grammy-winning 1998 hit single "You're Still the One"), Shania's series of shows kicked off Saturday night (Dec. 1) at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The Canadian country star will go on to perform there on select nights over the next two years.
According to an extensive review of the debut performance by New York Times critic Jon Caramanica, Shania didn't waste any time with the spectacle. She entered the stage on a motorcycle suspended from the air, dressed in a form-fitting catsuit, and "for about an hour and a half revisited the over-the-top glitter of her arena tours."
In a review in the Las Vegas Sun, critic Robin Leach said the show "packed a high-octane wallop that would've KO'd many a UFC fighter." Yowza!
Caramanica called portions of Shania's show "busy" and "rotely dizzying," but noted that "when things calmed down" she "sounded comfortable and strong."
That apparently included the moment toward the end when she sang straight into the eyes of a white horse (during the signature ballad "You're Still the One"). Caramanica described her voice during that number as "milky and resonant."
And the appearance of a horse during her stage show isn't out of nowhere. She has a lifelong love of horses, and she told Leach during an interview last month ("Horses calm me. I love being around them"); she even rode down the Las Vegas Strip on horseback a couple weeks back, to promote the opening of her show.
Shania, for her part, was apparently emotional during her splashy, high-profile return to the stage. At one point, Leach reports that Shania spoke directly to the audience, saying that Saturday's show was "an overwhelming night for me. It's been a lot of years since I was out here. I realize what I have been missing, and I am very humbled to be invited here on the same stage as my icons Rod Stewart, Elton John and Celine Dion."
To get the full affect you'll have to see the show for yourself. Tickets start at $55 and are on sale for additional days in December as well as March of 2013.
– Kurt Wolff, CBS Local


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The Year-in-Israel program is mandatory for all first-year rabbinical, cantorial, MARE, and MAJE students. Matriculation into the Year-In-Israel program is conditioned upon passing a Hebrew language competency examination. The program begins in early July and culminates in May of the following year.
Studies are full time with classroom study 5 days a week, Sun thorough Thursday, divided between core courses, professional courses and a weekly First Year Seminar. Other requirements include tefillah, inquiry groups, field study trips, a mid-year colloquium, and community service project.
Core Courses:
Professional Courses
Rabbinic, MARE, and MAJE:
MARE and MAJE:
First Year Seminar - Israeli Society: Its multiple voices and search for solidarity: For one day a week, Israel is the classroom, as students explore aspects of Judaism and the Jewish State as part of the Richard J. Scheuer Seminar. Some days studies take place on campus and many others there are site visits of various kinds. Learning techniques include text study sessions, film, independent research and more. Two of the extended field study trips are part of the wider course. Requirements include two research papers and active participation. Sessions tend to run from 8:30am until 4:00pm throughout the year. Subjects include Religion and State, Life Cycle and Zionism.
The Mandel Initiative for Visionary Leadership provides structured opportunities in the curriculum for students to integrate their academic and clinical learning in a more meaningful way and to build on that integration in shaping their personal Jewish identities and their professional aspirations. During the Year-in-Israel, the focus is on Israel and Jewish Peoplehood, reflecting the centrality of those ideas and ideals in the learning and experiences of students spending their first year of studies in Israel.


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James Murdoch's departure from BSkyB on Tuesday may spell the end to his succession hopes at the parent company, News Corp.
This is not merely the latest distancing of Rupert Murdoch's chosen heir from the mess over which he presided in the United Kingdom. It's death by a thousand cuts.
Also read: James Murdoch Stepping Down as BSkyB Chairman
Murdoch, 39, already resigned as head of News International, parent company of the disgraced News of the World, in February.
The latest resignation comes with an official statement from CEO Rupert Murdoch and COO Chase Carey, insisting that James Murdoch would continue to make "substantial contributions" to News Corp.
But what exactly will that be? Murdoch is now based in New York as deputy COO, a third-tier job overseeing the company's pay-TV businesses and international operations.
News Corp. watchers tell TheWrap that the BSkyB move calls into question James Murdoch's role in the family media empire over the longer term. He may hold on to power, but months of media scrutiny and Parliament testimony have taken their toll.
For some time, James Murdoch has been the heir apparent to the News Corp. media empire. With Rupert Murdoch in his 80s, the succession plan has long been to hand the reins to a family member. Wall Street hasn't necessarily liked it. And neither did Peter Chernin, the former president and COO, who left the company in 2009 after decades in the trenches when it became clear that he would never hold the top job.
Also read: Can Chase Carey Steer News Corp. Out of Scandal?
But the scandal in the United Kingdom has been slowly eating away at James Murdoch's stature both within the company and outside it. In one photo opp after another, he has become the public face of the scandal that has uncovered deep rot in at least one part of the News Corp. kingdom.
BSkyB has always been a critical element in the News of the World phone hacking scandal. When the scandal broke last summer, Rupert Murdoch pulled the family firm's bid for government approval to attain full ownership of the satellite company.
Moreover, James Murdoch's leadership at the company was seen as a resume-building stint as News Corp. continues to devote more of its attention to its cable assets and turns the page on his father's beloved newspapers.
By all accounts James Murdoch has done an admirable job in that capacity. He has helped turn BSkyB from a money-losing company into the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland, boasting more than 10 million subscribers.
But that success did not override the further damage that could have occurred by keeping him tied to News Corp.'s United Kingdom properties.
It was only last July when the BSkyB board of directors unanimously endorsed the junior Murdoch's leadership.
Things have changed: Rupert Murdoch has recently made no secret that Chase Carey is now seen as the man most likely to take over the reins of the company once he steps down.
"Chase is my partner and if anything happened to me I'm sure he'll get it immediately — if I went under a bus," Rupert Murdoch said during a call with analysts last summer.
Despite the moves on Tuesday, a News Corp. executive said James Murdoch will continue to be fully involved in the company.
If he keeps his head down, analysts say that he could eventually regain his favored status.
"I don't think this move presages James leaving the company," Matthew Harrigan, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities, said. "Barring something unforeseen, James isn't going anywhere, but I do think Chase will be the CEO."


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Postmedia's death will be a catastrophe — and nobody knows what to do about it
iPolitics Insights
Paul Adams
Thursday, June 15th, 2017
There's a civic disaster brewing in Canada with its news industry. The public doesn't understand it. Policy makers dare not speak its name.
Many close observers think it is quite likely Postmedia will go into bankruptcy, or some kind of bankruptcy protection, within the next year — if not sooner. In the meantime, the chain is stripping its newsrooms of reporters and editors.
This week, the Columbia Journalism Review remarked that the failure of Postmedia would be the equivalent of the top three U.S. newspaper chains going down at once. Outside of Toronto and Winnipeg, Postmedia controls all the paid daily newspapers in the ten largest English markets, and it controls scores of titles in smaller communities.
Yet in this week's report on media from the House of Commons heritage committee, there was no direct reference to this looming crisis. Similarly, the recent 'Shattered Mirror' report by the Public Policy Forum, commissioned by the government in an effort to figure out what to do, made only oblique references to the dying elephant in the middle of the room.
It's a problem.
A poll conducted for the PPF report by Earnscliffe Strategy Group suggested that three-quarters of Canadians think — correctly, in my view — that democracy would be threatened if news outlets were no longer able "to fulfill their civic news function." Yet the easy access we all now have to news online has convinced most of us that we are getting more news than ever before. The fact is Canadian media outlets have shed thousands of workers in recent years.
Many Canadians, the polling suggests, don't think the loss of local newspapers and broadcast news would affect them. They think online and social media would pick up the slack. Those people are wrong — and they're wrong in part because few people outside the industry understand how central newspapers are to the local news ecosystem.
When I was a local CBC television reporter in Edmonton at the start of my career, the news director sometimes demanded in exasperation at the morning editorial meeting: "Does anyone have a story idea that isn't on the front page of the [Edmonton] Journal?"
He may have been exaggerating, but he captured a truth: Most local journalism in any other medium is to some extent parasitic on newspapers.
Read the full story at: http://ipolitics.ca/2017/06/15/postmedi ... -about-it/


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1894 African-American Voter Registration at Ray's Mill, GA
Given the history of slavery and racial discrimination in the United States, researching African-American genealogy can be a challenging puzzle. Slave names were not often recorded. Even after Emancipation, civil records of African-American citizens were often neglected. Further complicating matters, most of the 1890 census records were lost in a fire and through a series of tragic missteps in the record handling. Fortunately, an 1894 record of the Poll Tax collection in the Rays Mill District (now Ray City, GA) helps to document early African-American residents of the town. Many of these men were born in slavery and became "Freedmen" after the Civil War and Emancipation. A few were born in northern "Free" states. After the War, they came to south Georgia, primarily to work in the naval stores industry, collecting turpentine in the piney woodlands of the Wiregrass. Some lived in turpentine camps, some rented farms or houses, a few became property owners, business men and employers in their own right.
Poll Taxes
After the Civil War, the poll tax evolved regionally to be a complex legal device to disenfranchise African-Americans. Georgia led the way in 1868 (effective in 1871), and by 1900 in every formerly-Confederate state had poll taxes aimed at preventing black citizens from voting.
According to Today in Georgia History,
The poll tax, a bulwark of the Jim Crow era, was one of many roadblocks thrown up to keep African-Americans from exercising their right to vote. Although the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1870, guaranteed former male slaves the right to vote, the poll tax, which all voters had to pay was designed to prevent voting. Georgia's 1877 constitution authorized the tax, which limited voter participation among both poor blacks and whites. But most whites got around the provision through exemptions for those whose ancestors fought in the Civil War or who could vote before the war.
Georgia's "grandfather clause" allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax. Georgia created a cumulative poll tax requirement: men 21 to 60 years of age had to pay a sum of money for every year from the time they had turned 21, or from the time that the law took effect.
Tax Payers
Ray's Mill District, Colored, 1894
Peter Burges
Thomas Burges
Saul Brown
William Brown, Sr.
John Black
B. B. Brown
Joe Brown
Walter Curt
Jesse Coleman
Len Coleman
James Davis
David Ellison
S. M. Eady
Sam Eady
Brister Hufman
Henry Gowdine
Henry Gilliard
William Grayham
William Gerald
West Kelley
John Livind
Joe Medlay
Carter Moore
William Mathis
Alex McKnight
S. J. Myers
Sandy Murphy
William McGowin
Richard McGowin
Henry McCoy
Preston Richardson
E. L. Rias
Ebb Ross
Randolph Ried
William Smith
Mack Spights
Gilbert Sloan
Wiley Tarrell
A. Vandross
John Wamble
George Williams
Ed Wilson
John Wade
Alex White
James Whitfield
W. D. Williams
Dixie Alston was an African-American born during the Civil War, in March of 1862. He was born in South Carolina, as were both his parents. In 1883 he married Amelia [unknown], also a native of South Carolina. It appears that Dixie and Amelia moved to south Georgia sometime in the early 1890s. In 1894, Dixie Alston registered to vote in the Ray's Mill (now Ray City) District of Berrien County, GA. He subsequently appears in the census of 1900, enumerated as Dixie Aulston, in the 1148 Georgia Militia District, Berrien County. His household in 1900 included his wife Amelia (age 46), and children, Sarah (18), Lillie (17), Dixie (10), James A. (7), William (5), and Orie B (1). The Alstons were living in a rented house, and Dixie was working as a turpentine laborer. In 1910 Dixie Alston and family were enumerated in the 1157 Georgia Militia District where Dixie continued to work as a turpentine laborer. Whereabouts of Dixie Alston after 1910 are unknown, but his son Dixie Alston, Jr. later lived in Nashville GA where he worked for the Keefe and Bulloch turpentine operation.
BB Brown was born in South Carolina about 1856 he married Corinna, a South Carolina woman, about 1875 and they made their home in South Carolina until some time after 1881. By October 1886, the Browns moved to Georgia. BB Brown paid the poll tax in 1894 to vote in the Rays Mill District of Berrien County, GA. The census of 1900 shows the Browns owned a farm in the Rays Mill District free and clear of mortgage. They were neighbors of Levi J. Clements, Alfred Hill, and Ben Knight. In 1910 their neighbors on nearby farms were John Miles Clements, Georgia Cooper, Jeff Williams and James W. Williams. The 1920 census shows the Brown farm was situated at Rays Mill on the Willacoochee Road. Their immediate neighbor was Robert E. Lee and his family. Corinna Brown died sometime before 1930. By this time the Brown farm had been cut into Lanier County. The widower Brown continued to work his farm with the assistance of his children.
Solomon Brown was born about 1862 in South Carolina. He apparently came to the Rays Mill, GA area some time before 1894. The 1910 census shows him in Rays Mill, widowed, living alone in a rented home and working as a farm laborer.
William L. Brown was a farmer from South Carolina. He was born in May of 1862. About 1882 he married Lessie. They were in Berrien County, GA by the 1890s where William paid the poll tax in the Rays Mill District in 1894. The census of 1900 shows he was working a rented farm near the homes of Richard Eady, William Revell, and Frank Gallagher.
Peter Burges, or Burgess, was an African-American born in August of 1865 at the conclusion of the Civil War. He was a native of South Carolina, as were both his parents. By 1894, Peter Burges made his way to the Ray's Mill (now Ray City) District of Berrien County, GA where he was registered to vote. In the census of 1900, he was enumerated in the 1144 Georgia Militia District, the "Ray's Mill" District, Berrien County. He was single, living alone in a rented house, and working as a turpentine laborer. He subsequently appears in the 1144 G.M.D census of 1910 as a farm laborer, and in 1920 he was renting a farm on the Willacoochee Road.
Tom Burges was born about 1850 in Georgia. He was enumerated in 1910 in the 1300 Georgia Militia District. At age 60 he was widowed, living alone in a rented house, and working at a sawmill. He was a neighbor of African-American teacher William M. Clark, sawmill employee Burris Hall, turpentine teamster David Story, turpentine employee John Merritt, and washerwoman Sallie Sanders.
Jesse Coleman appears in the Berrien County tax records of 1884. His taxable property included $5 worth of livestock and $5 worth of furniture. In 1890 Jesse Coleman paid the poll tax in the 1329 Georgia Militia District, the Connells Mill District just west of Rays Mill. He had $57 in livestock, $15 in furniture, $10 in tools, and $2 in other property.
John L. Lavind was an African-American farmer from South Carolina. He was born in 1868. About 1886 he married Sarah Sloan, a woman from South Carolina. John and Sarah appear in the 1900 Census in Berrien County where they were neighbors of Arch Parrish. The Lavinds were working a rented farm in the 1145 Georgia Militia District, the Adel District. Living with the Lavinds and assisting with the farm labor were Sarah's siblings, Alicia A Sloan and Davis Sloan. It appears that Sarah Sloan died sometime in the early 1900s. Census records indicate that John Lavind (enumerated as John Lavine) married a second time in 1908 to a widow woman named Kerene. In 1910, he was making payments on a farm at Adel and working as a self-employed farmer. His neighbors were sawmill workers Beacher Ward and Charlie Beland. In 1920, John and Karene were renting a farm on the Adel and Nashville Road which John was working on his own account. The were neighbors of Theresa Devane Hutchinson, widow of James Henry Hutchinson; her son, Vaude McIntyre Hutchinson was a school teacher.
Henry Melvin was born in North Carolina about 1863. He apparently came to live in the Rays Mill, GA district some time before 1894. In 1900, he was enumerated in the Mud Creek District of Clinch County, GA where he was renting a house and working as a turpentine laborer. On September 14, 1901 Henry Melvin and Delia Jenkins were joined in Holy Matrimony in Clinch County, GA in a ceremony performed by Joseph Powell, Justice of the Peace. The 1910 census shows Henry and Delia were renting a farm in the 586 Militia District of Clinch County, where they raised crops and children. Some time before 1920 Henry Melvin returned to Ray City, bringing his family to live on the Ray City & Willacoochee Road, on a rented farm which he worked on his own account. Henry Melvin died November 1, 1920 in Berrien County, GA. Anna remarried, probably about 1921, to Emanuel Smith. The Smiths rented a farm near Ray City, where they were neighbors of Walter H. Knight, John S. Fender, J. Mancil Ray and James F. Ray, James R. Johnson, and Lucian H. Grissett. Sometime before 1935 the Smiths moved to Lakeland, GA
Henry McCoy was born in October 1859 in North Carolina. About 1886 he married Anna. Some time before 1894 they came to Rays Mill, GA where Henry rented and worked a farm. Most of the McCoy's neighbors were turpentine workers including Odum Wiley, D.D. Oxendine, Peter Burges, and Isham Hill. In 1910, Henry and Anna owned a home on North Street in Ray City. Henry worked as a drayman; Anna worked as washerwoman. Among their neighbors were hotelier Wilson W. Fender, merchant Louis Levin, telegraph operator Ralph E. Spear, blacksmith Rollie N. Warr, policeman Henry Hodges, carpenter Gordon J. Knight, and postmaster Charles H. Anderson. Henry McCoy died sometime after 1910. His widow married Sam B. Cooper on April 22, 1918 in Berrien County in a ceremony performed by Justice of the Peace J. W. Moore. Sam Cooper worked in a shop as a tailor and owned a home in Ray City, in the "Negro Quarters" according to 1920 Census records.
Richard "Dick" McGowan was born a slave in North Carolina in the 1840s. He was brought to Berrien County (then Lowndes) as a young man, and lived most his life near Ray City, GA. Freed after the Civil War, he continued to live for a while on the plantation of his former owner, Hardeman Sirmans.
Joseph Medley was born about 1856 in the state of New York. In 1883, he married a Virginia woman named Jane. By 1885 The Medleys had moved from New York to South Carolina, and by 1888 they were in Georgia. Joseph paid the poll tax in the Rays Mill District of Berrien County, GA in 1894. The 1900 Census shows the Medley family in the neighboring Georgia Militia District 1300, the Milltown District, where Joseph owned a farm free and clear of mortgage. The census appears to show that the Medleys also rented a farm in addition to the farm they owned. Joseph farmed while Jane worked as a laundress. Both were enumerated as literate. They were neighbors of Joseph Dedge, Edwin Powell, and John Ed Thigpen brother of Robert Silas Thigpen. In 1910, the Medleys continued to farm in the 1300 GMD. Their son, William Medley, worked as a sawmill fireman, and son Aulie Medley assisted with the farm labor. Next door were Elmore Medley and Rainey Medley who were both employed in turpentine production. Other neighbors included John D. Patten and Matthew G. Patten. In 1920, Joe Medley, age 76, was no longer working. The Medleys rented a house at Milltown on the the Nashville Road. Their son William worked as a farm laborer and Henry worked as a truck driver at a cross tie camp.
Sam Julian "Jim" Myers was born October 1870 in South Carolina. By 1894 he came to Berrien County, GA to work as a turpentine chipper. He paid the 1894 poll tax in the Rays Mill District. In 1897 he married Rosa Sloan and they acquired a home on payments in the 1145 Georgia Militia District of Berrien County. Rosa's brother, Sydney Stone, lived with them and also worked as a turpentine chipper. Also boarding in the Myers household was Dr. Ervin Green; the 1900 Census taker added the notation "Quack" by Green's occupation. By 1910 Jim Myers took up the ministry in the Methodist faith and moved his family to Adel, GA to a home on Maple Street. By 1920, Reverend Myers took his family to Fitzgerald, GA where they lived on Lemon Street.
Eliott Rias was an African-American citizen of Rays Mill, GA for 40 years. He was a son of Pompy and Clarender Rias, born about 1863 in South Carolina. After the Civil War and Emancipation, he and his brothers and sisters grew up helping his parents work their farm in Laws Township, near Kingstree, Williamsburg County, SC. Some time after 1880, Eliott left South Carolina and came to Georgia to work as a turpentine laborer. He appears in the property tax digest of Clinch County as a Freedman, paying the poll tax for 1887 in the 586 Georgia Militia District, the Mud Creek District. About 1892, Eliott married a South Carolina woman named Henrietta. By 1900, Eliott and Henrietta were living at Rays Mill with their four children. They were renting a house and Eliott was working as a turpentine laborer. In 1910 Eliott Rias was renting a farm, which he was farming on his own account. Henrietta was keeping house and minding their seven children. Pauline Hodges, an African-American school teacher, was boarding with them. Among Rias' neighbors were John L. and Cassie Hall, Babe Baldree, Barney Chism, John Whitfield, Tom Burgess and Mack Speights. By 1920, Eliott and Henrietta were working a rented farm at Rays Mill on their own account. Some time before 1930, Henrietta Rias passed away. All of Eliott's children were grown and moved away. Eliatt Rias was left alone, living in Rays Mill in a home he rented for $3.00 a month. He worked as a carpenter. He was a neighbor of Sherrod Fender, Henry Studstill, Arrin H. Guthrie, Perry Guthrie, Herman Guthrie, and Ivory Wright.
Ebenezer "Ebb" Ross was an African-American farm laborer born in Georgia about 1857. The 1870 census shows Ebenezer, age 23, and his wife Fannie, age 17, living in Berrien County, Georgia Militia District 1144, the Rays Mill District. Ebenezer Ross had a net worth of $30. In the 1870s and 1880s the Rosses were neighbors of William and Frances Giddens, Mary and Richard Anthony, Jesse and Margaret Carroll, John T. and Catherine Carroll, Peter and Josephine Best, and Nancy Parker. The 1875 Berrien Property Tax Digest shows Ebenezer Ross paid the poll tax, and his entire taxable property was valued at $20.00. The following year the value of his estate had dropped to just $2.00. In 1880, the Rosses home enumerated in the 1300 GMD. Living next door with the Carrolls was mail rider Everet Roberts. The 1890 tax digest shows the Rosses were faring slightly better. Eb was working for J. H. Wright, one of 58 freedmen employed by Wright.
Mack Speights was an African-American turpentine laborer who lived for about 40 years at Rays Mill (now Ray City), GA. According to family members, he was born June 14, 1867 in Ridge, Williamsburg County, South Carolina, a son of Elias McBride Speights and Norah Speights. He married Martha Ellen Cooper in South Carolina on August 14, 1889. He apparently brought his young family from South Carolina to Rays Mill about 1893 and appears on the list of voters in the Rays Mill District in 1894. Like many young African-American men, he came to work in the naval stores industry, turpentining the piney woodlands of the Wiregrass. By 1910, Mack Speights was renting a farm at Rays Mill where he and Martha were raising their eight children His oldest sons, Elias and William, worked as farm labor. The Speights were neighbors of Joseph S. Clements, Brodie Shaw, Bruner Shaw, Bryant Fender, and Frank Gallagher. By 1930, Mack and Martha had moved to Gainesville, FL with several of their children and grandchildren.
Abraham L. Vandross , an African-American turpentine laborer, was born about 1867 in South Carolina. He was on the list of voters in the Rays Mill District in 1894. About that same time he married a woman named Hannah. By 1900, Abraham and Hannah had moved to the Dry Lake District of Brooks County, GA where they lived in a rented home. By 1910 Hannah and Abraham returned to Berrien County to the 1300 Georgia Militia District, where they acquired a home which they owned free and clear of mortgage. Abraham continued to work for wages as a turpentine worker; Hannah worked as a washerwoman. They also took in a boarder, Albert Johnson, who was a sawmill employee. In 1910, the Vandrosses were neighbors of William M. Clark, an African-American school teacher. The 1920 Census shows Abraham and Hannah's home was on Oak Street, Milltown (now Lakeland), GA. Their boarder in 1920 was Reverend Jordan R. Gay.
John Wamble was a widowed African-American farmer. He was born about 1850 in Georgia. At the time of the 1900 Census, he was living near Rays Mill, GA with his two teenaged sons. The Wambles were neighbors of Richard Morehead, Benjamin Moorehead, David C. Clements and Rubin Knight. His son, Horace, married about 1907 and made his home on the Nashville & Valdosta Road near Cat Creek.
John Wade was a Freedman living in Rays Mill, GA with his wife, Emma, and their large family. John Wade was born about 1824. The property tax digest of 1887 shows his taxable property consisted of $7 dollars worth of livestock and $20 in household and kitchen furniture. The 1880 census shows the Wades living and farming in Lowndes County, GA.
James Whitfield may have been an African-American farmer who later lived in Grooverville, Brooks County, GA. He was born about 1868. This James Whitfield cannot be definitively placed in Rays Mill, however, his son, James Whitfield, Jr. lived in Nashville, GA in the 1920s.
The 1900 census shows George Williams in the 1145 Georgia Militia District of Berrien County. He was working as a log turner at a sawmill. He was born in North Carolina about 1858. In 1900, he was living alone, apparently in housing at the sawmill.
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Machine Learning in Kyoto
24 hours after landing in Munich from another long-haul flight, and a quick laundry trip later I was back on a flight to Osaka, to attend the Machine Learning Summer School in one of my favourite cities, Kyoto. I'd spent about six weeks in Kyoto before and had found it not only beautiful but also one of the most relaxing cities on Earth. I had spent an extremely constructive few weeks working late into the night in cafes and the Yukawa institute, where somehow the surrounding temples brought and amazing peacefulness to my work, and while it was feverish at times (waking through the night thinking in code) it was always in a zone which I've achieved on very few other occasions.
This time was also amazing, but not peaceful in the same sense as before. With 300 participants from 50 countries, the machine learning summer school was a boot camp in theoretical machine learning, with 7-8 hours of intense lectures every day. I was there to pick up some new skills to add to my arsenal to solve complex computer problems. It was a fascinating couple of weeks and while the lectures were far less applied than I was hoping, I still picked up a lot of useful new information, many great academic contacts and a few good friends along the way.
Kyoto was a balmy 35 degrees most days and cycling around by bike was the best way to tame the humidity and temperature with a good breeze. I was reminded once again how much I love to cycle around unknown streets and I did a good deal of sightseeing at the weekends and in the evenings, when I wasn't simply exploring the food.
Having read The Hare with Amber Eyes last year I was keen to see the Netsuke museum which was near to the flat of the couchsurfer that I stayed with for the first two days. Sadly it was closed, but nearby there was a fascinating gallery detailing the history and techniques behind the kimono, a more intricate artistry than I had ever imagined, and something that is worth checking out if you're ever there.
The one temple I most wanted to get back to was Kinkakuji, the Golden Temple, nestled into the hills on the outskirts of the city. I'd been there twice before but the sheer ridiculousness of this place requires a good few viewing to really take it in.
I spent a couple of hours happily snapping away as tourist groups piled past. Sadly the opening times and sunsets in Kyoto didn't coincide but still, the conditions were pretty good for some HDR shots from under the trees:
The end of the summer school saw a rather fine Italian/Japanese banquet as well as a cultural performance. I was expecting to enjoy it as the traditional artforms I've seen in the past, Kabuki in particular, I've enormously enjoyed. However, this was a performance of Geiko (Geisha from the West of Japan) and Maiko (trainee Geiko). As soon as it started however I felt incredibly uncomfortable. This may partly be that I was projecting my own cultural perspective on it and not appreciating the details of this important part of Japanese culture, but the movements and looks felt so incredibly subservient from the women dancing in front of a crowd of mostly men, that I felt immediately wrong to be watching it. I went outside to think for a while as the performance continued but I haven't yet come to terms with quite what was going on. I'd be very interested in hearing the thoughts of a Japanese person with a good exposure to Western culture for them to be able to tell me how they see it. This time in Japan there were a few things that felt very strange, from the incredibly sexualised hello kitty young girls to the immediate hierarchy you feel when going into a shop where everybody greets you and bows to you. I like to be as open to cultural habits and ideas as I can be, but while I love many things about Japan, there are some things that do make me feel uncomfortable - this is a strange position for me to find myself in.
After the two week Machine Learning school it was straight into a few days at the Yukawa institute where I was giving some talks about my research (hopefully coming out this week!) and a colloquium on atmospheric optics. A good time talking with Shin Nakamura and Tadashi Takayanagi and I was back on the plane to Munich again, another couple of weeks in Munich and then off to China, but China will have to wait till next time...


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With about 7.5 million Bitcoins in circulation, the highly decentralized system relies on public-key cryptography and a peer-to-peer network to record who is the rightful owner of each individual piece of currency. When Alice wants to pay Bob 50 coins, she signs the transaction with her private key and broadcasts the details to other nodes. Other participants then receive a small fee in return for verifying the payment, which is done by inverting the cryptographic hashes generated by in the transaction record.
As the currency grows into maturity and an ancillary scheme that allows Bitcoins to be created out of thin air is phased out, the verification of other transactions will be Bitcoin's sole reward scheme. And therein lies the flaw that could represent a chief stumbling block.
With each participant rewarded only for verifying a proposed transaction, there will be little incentive for participants to broadcast transactions to others. Instead, they will want to keep the deals secret so they don't have to share the rewards with others.
"The consequences of such behavior may be devastating," the researchers wrote in a paper (PDF) that they recently submitted to a peer-reviewed conference. "As only a single node in the network works to authorize each transaction, authorization is expected to take a very long time."
Shahar Dobzinski, one of the paper's authors, told The Register the security of Bitcoin isn't likely to suffer as a result of the flaw. The use of private encryption keys ensures that each transaction is authorized only by the entity everyone else already agrees is the rightful owner of a given Bitcoin. That helps prevents theft and also keeps a user from spending a unique coin more than once.
The system also doesn't consider a transaction to be fully approved until nodes controlling the majority of the network's CPU power have accepted it, rather than a majority of the nodes themselves. This largely forecloses the likelihood of "Sybil" attacks, in which large numbers of fraudulent identities are used to subvert reputation-based systems.
"This is different problem," Dobzinski, who is a computer scientist at Cornell University, said of the flaw his paper identifies. "We're afraid the majority of the CPUs might not be able to know about the transaction."
The paper goes on to propose a modified reward scheme that shares a small portion of the verification fee with participants who forward it to other nodes in the network. Attached to each transaction would be a chain of its forwarding nodes. When a participant solves a discreet block of the transaction, all nodes in the chain that would receive a cut. To prevent additional Sybil attacks in which a single participant forwards himself the same transaction multiple times, the paper proposes canceling rewards when the number of links in the chain reach a certain threshold.
Besides Dobzinski, the researchers included fellow Cornell University computer scientist Sigal Oren and Microsoft researchers Moshe Babaioff and Aviv Zohar. They compared their solution to the winning entry in the 2009 DARPA Network Challenge, in which participants competed to locate 10 red weather balloons that were dispersed across the United States. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collected the $40,000 prize using a rewards system that created incentives for individuals not involved in the competition to help.
Hunters who found a balloon received $2,000 per discovery, while those who directly recruited a successful hunter received $1,000. A recruiter of a direct recruiter received $500, and so on. The Register's coverage of the competition is here.
Nils Schneider, a developer who works on the Bitcoin project, said the transaction propagation problem described in the paper isn't considered a problem now. In an email to The Register he wrote:
"The paper describes a very interesting theoretical problem but I doubt there will be any need to implement their solutions anytime soon." ®


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Brek Shea and Jackson Gonçalves continued their rampant form on Saturday night, as each scored second half goals to help FC Dallas defeat the Columbus Crew 2-0 to take home the 2011 Pioneer Cup.
Shea scored his eighth goal of the season in the 58th minute and Jackson added his tally in the 76th. The Crew, who went down to 10 men when defender Andy Iro received a second caution in the 82nd minute, were unable to get their own offense going.
With the win, FC Dallas extracted revenge upon their foes from the Eastern Conference after falling 2-0 in Columbus in early April.
The game between soccer legend Lamar Hunt's two teams was physical from the opening whistle, as referee Jorge Gonzalez issued four yellow cards in the game's first 30 minutes and six cautions in total, including the two to Iro.
The Crew opened up strong, with big forward Tom Heinemann skying an attempt from the top of the box six minutes into the match. Ten minutes, a defensive slip from FCD's Ugo Ihemelu allowed the Crew's Andrés Mendoza to enter the box with control of the ball. After sidestepping a slide tackle from Zach Loyd, the Peruvian striker poked a shot towards goal, but it was blocked by an on-rushing Kevin Hartman.
Slowly but surely, Dallas' speed on the flank began proving too much for Columbus, as Shea and Jackson kept the visitors on their heels for the full 90 minutes.
Shea issued his first warning in the 56th minute, but curled a shot just high and wide of Will Hesmer's goal. However, the winger finally broke through for his side two minutes later, as Hesmer spilled a Marvin Chávez shot from close range that Shea forward to clean up.
The tally was Shea's fourth in his last four games and eighth of the season, tying him for the league lead.
But the 21-year-old didn't stop there. He nearly increased FCD's lead in the 61st and 62nd minutes, first driving a shot wide of the net and then just barely unable to get at the end of a Jackson cross before the Crew's Sebastián Mirano slid to clear it away.
Fourteen minutes later, Jackson took matters into his own hands to gives Dallas a well-deserved second goal. The 23-year-old Brazilian worked more of his summer magic, running towards the middle of the Crew box and chipping Hesmer to put aside any chance of a Crew comeback.
For Jackson, it also marked his fourth goal in his last four games since returning from his June wedding in Brazil and being shifted into the flank midfield position.
With the win, FC Dallas are unbeaten in 12 of their last 13 games and sit only one point behind the LA Galaxy in the Western Conference standings. They next travel on Saturday to face Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium.
The Crew, meanwhile, kept their third place spot in the Eastern Conference ahead of fourth-place Houston Dynamo's Sunday evening game. They'll take to the road once more, as they travel to Vancouver, where they will play a Wednesday night game against the Canadian side.
DAL -- Brek Shea 8 (unassisted) 58
DAL -- Jackson 3 (Andrew Jacobson 5) 76
CLB -- William Hesmer (caution; Handball) 7
CLB -- Emmanuel Ekpo (caution; Tactical Foul) 20
DAL -- Jackson (caution; Reckless Foul) 24
DAL -- Ugo Ihemelu (caution; Tactical Foul) 29
CLB -- Andy Iro (caution; Tactical Foul) 57
CLB -- Andy Iro (caution; Tactical Foul) 82
CLB -- Andy Iro (ejection; Second Caution) 82
Columbus Crew -- William Hesmer, Sebastian Miranda, Chad Marshall, Andy Iro, Josh Gardner (Robbie Rogers 60), Eddie Gaven, Rich Balchan (Danny O'Rourke 69), Emmanuel Ekpo, Bernardo Anor, Tommy Heinemann (Jeff Cunningham 65), Andres Mendoza.
Substitutes Not Used: Julius James, Justin Meram, Dejan Rusmir, Andy Gruenebaum.
FC Dallas -- Kevin Hartman, Zach Loyd (Andrew Wiedeman
89), George John, Ugo Ihemelu, Jair Benitez, Jackson, Eric Alexander
(Ricardo Villar 60), Daniel Hernandez, Andrew Jacobson, Brek Shea,
Marvin Chavez (Milton Rodriguez 83).
Substitutes Not Used: Bruno Guarda, Ruben Luna, Bobby Warshaw, Chris Seitz.
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez
Referee's Assistants: Bill Dittmar; Paul Scott
4th Official: Mark Declouet
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I was not going to preview the Leadville 100 course this year. I mean, I previewed it last July and raced it in August so I thought I had a pretty good grasp of what to expect. But when Marcos finally got his "Yippee!" card, it became a must-do event. Since we were already scheduled to ride the Triple Bypass in July, it made sense to head to Leadville and extend that trip a couple of days.
Getting an idea of what to expect on race day will be a huge advantage for Marcos and I went along if just to share my experiences and maybe have the most epic bike trip ever with my Dirt Bros. I accomplished all that and still got something very valuable.
The Leadville Trail 100 MTB race is really hard.
The human mind has a funny way of forgetting the suffering and focusing on the glory. Over the past year, the Leadville course (in my mind) has gotten easier and easier, almost to the point of becoming "just a tough day in the saddle." Our trip to Leadville two weeks ago was a much needed wake-up call.
Leadville is hard, not just because of the distance (103.4 miles) and not just because of the climbing (10,938' by my Garmin). It's hard because of the distance and the climbing and most importantly, because of the elevation. It's hard to explain what it's like to ride hard above 10,000', especially for a flatlander like me – I can smell the ocean from my house!
I did not arrive in Leadville with the freshest legs, having ridden the Triple Bypass as hard as I could the day before. We started out early the next morning to ride the first and last 25 miles of the course, from 6th and Harrison to the bottom of the Powerline and back. The idea was to get as much of the 50 miles and 5,500' of climbing in before the inevitable afternoon thunderstorm attacked. It can get pretty crazy at 11,000' in the Rockies during a thunderstorm, even in July.
My legs felt pretty good as we rolled down 6th Avenue, from the race's Start/Finish line. We took it easy on the early dirt roads and I pointed out where the cows were in the opening scenes of "Race Across the Sky". We settled into a steady rhythm up St. Kevins where a pattern emerged that would often repeat itself on the two-day course preview. Mickey goes off the front with Marcos hanging on for as long as he can while I sit up and let them go. We'd arrive at the top, not far from each other, but almost always in that 1-2-3 order.
The course on Kevins was in really good condition. I remembered it being a lot more cut up last July. It should be super smooth by race day next month after hundreds more riders preview the course. We rounded the big left on St. Kevins and waited a few minutes for Cecil who was struggling with the impact of cycling at high altitude. We were already well above 10,000'.
We descended Turquoise Lake Road and the climb to Sugarloaf Pass went easily in the same 1-2-3 pattern. I was content with being third and had joked earlier that we would be awarding reverse-KOM points for the trip. You get more points for being last than first. It was my goal to get that reverse polka-dot jersey.
I was riding a bike rented from the guys at Cycles of Life which I have to say might be the coolest bike shop ever. Brian was super helpful outfitting us and I was excited to try the hardtail 29'er I rented. Many people claim that a hardtail 29'er is the best riding platform for the Leadville 100 and I've been wondering if I could go faster on one. I quickly learned that the answer was a definite, "No." Sure the hardtail was stiffer on climbs, which might translate to a small amount of additional power transfer, but it also required a LOT more control, even on relatively smooth sections. Getting bumped out of the saddle is not good on a long climb. And the descents are terrible compared to my full-travel bike. Maybe I just don't have the proper bike-handling skills, but descending on a hardtail takes a lot more energy and focus. My legs got sore from holding myself off the saddle – on my Trek I can recover, sitting on the saddle as I descend. It was good to discover all this before buying a hardtail and regretting it later…
We started down the Powerline and I remembered cold rain, buzzing transformers and acrid smell of brake pads from the race last year. We were lucky to be descending in warm sunshine. Even though I was careful on the descent, I still got "rutted out", having to stop and walk my bike laterally to a new line. It was a good reminder to take my time and parse the trail for the best line. I certainly won't win Leadville on this descent, but I sure could lose it by endo'ing into one of these caverns.
We stopped at the bottom to discuss race-day bridge strategies for the creek. Last year, a lot of fans shouted at racers to try and ride the creek, I just don't think it's a good idea to rinse your drivetrain and risk falling in the water at mile 25 of a 100 mile race. I showed Marcos the "alternate" bridge in case there is a backup on the planked crossing then we turned around to go back up the Powerline.
On race day last year, I had been exuberant at the bottom of the Powerline and charged up the lower sections only to blow up when it got steep and then freak out cause I was going so slow in the hike-a-bike section. Once the grade settled, I pushed too hard and blew up again on the upper parts because I hadn't eaten properly. This year, I settled into a steady pace and walked the hike-a-bike at a normal clip. Again I let Mickey and Marcos go up the trail ahead of me. As a result, I climbed faster than race day and felt much, much better at the top. Last year, I was blown at the top of the Powerline and didn't fully recover until the final Aid Station on St. Kevins. This year, I felt great and set a much faster pace back up Turquoise Lake Road, gaining time. I'd learned a valuable lesson – pacing and proper nutrition make the day.
Soon we were back on St. Kevins again and I remembered hammering these final miles of the race last year. I was really wishing I had my Trek with me instead of the lumpy hardtail as I picked my way down. I caught up with Marcos and Mickey on the fire roads and I guided them to the Boulevard climb – that final kick in the ass at mile 100 when you're still over three miles from the finish. It seemed a lot easier this year, but still fairly loose and rocky. Last year, I rode past many who were walking their bike and I vowed ride it this year again.
The final gravel roads back into Leadville are much longer than you'd expect and I had trouble holding Mickey back. That kid is on terrific form. Finally, we made the last right turn onto the pavement of 6th Avenue and rolled together to the finish line. I could see in my mind the hundreds of fans and the cheers from the crowds from last year's race – I really can't wait to be on that last half mile again this year.
After an evening of focused recovery that included a delicious High Mountain Pie, some vino and a few beers, I found myself staring at the Fruit Loops in the breakfast room of the Super 8 – ah, what the heck. After kitting up, we drove out to Twin Lakes at the base of the Columbine climb and discussed feed zone strategy before saddling up and heading towards the high country again.
Based on what I had learned on the Powerline, I refined my strategy for the penultimate climb on the Leadville course. I will not attack Columbine, I will sneak by. It won't even know I was there. I paced myself evenly, letting Mickey and Marcos go up the road, focusing on eating at regular intervals and not over-exerting on the steeper sections. I walked the steep, loose sections without worrying about losing time or falling back. The higher I climbed, the better I felt instead of bonking and needing to rest like last year. I ignored the voice in my head that said I was going too slow and instead slowly ate a GU and kept my hydration on track. In the end I climbed Columbine 5 minutes faster this year AND felt much better. All this after two really hard days in the mountains.
Miraculously, I arrived at the high point of 12,600' on the Leadville course first. I came to a stop and turned back to see where Mickey and Marcos were. Small, colored dots in the distance told me they had taken the bonus spur on the GPS course I had loaned them to a spectacular overlook of Twin Lakes over 3,500 feet below. I waited a few minutes while their dots grew back into life-sized mountain bikers and then we rolled down to the turnaround point of the Leadville 100 MTB course together.
After rolling into the Columbine Mine turnaround point, Marcos, Mickey and I all stopped and got off our bikes. Marcos' comment summed it up, "That was really hard." Yeah, got it.


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well, i believe you, but our subconsciousness is a bitch
i noticed copying something i liked in some way or another many times by myself
i`m not sure it`s a bad thing
and glad you appreciate my little criticism
well, i believe you, but our subconsciousness is a bitch
i noticed copying something i liked in some way or another many times by myself
i`m not sure it`s a bad thing
and glad you appreciate my little criticism
For anyone who's interested, not like it REALLY matters, and I have no issue with youtube... but
Thanks for the vimeo link, and of course for making a damn fine video. Cheers.
Somehow, I overlooked this music video until today. Great job, sir! I enjoyed the hell out of it.
My only complaints, which are really nitpicks, are that the glitch effect might be slightly overused, and the female actress outdoes the male one ! She's surprisingly fantastic. The especially impressive thing is that you used her even though you probably always planned to post the finished product to forums like this -- where fans would recognize the lack of Mariqueen doing her own lip sync immediately.
Point being, you cast someone good enough to really make the case for hiring actors to replace the actual recording artist for professional music videos. The only other good example I can think of this is in the video for Royksopp's "What Else Is There?" and even that actress/model isn't as compelling as yours. However, I love that in that video, the actual singer still makes an appearance. If I were How to destroy angels_, I would ask you to film some new shots of the band in the same locations (or use the LA equivalents) and make a new edit of the video with band members now inserted into the existing narrative... with or without them lip syncing, but definitely keeping the original actress as the star.
Wow, what a video! That was extremely well put together, major amounts of respect and kudos to you and everyone involved in making it. That genuinely made me feel more excited about that particular song than anything else has managed to do so. I'm actually a little speechless, I suddenly feel like I 'get' this song now, where before I wasn't too sure about it. About three quarters of the way through I realized what I like so much about your video: you've made HTDA feel edgy, eerie and perhaps even a little bit dangerous, where before they felt a little too 'safe' for me. Bravo!
This is way better than the official video. My only complaint is that it's not the official one.
as far as narrative goes, this video would have been so much better if the tv was a printer. SMASHING PRINTERS IS NEVER CORNY! they're the evil!
i don't really know what it takes to make a video like this one, other than cash, but you seem pretty talented to me. a lot of good stuff (and some that made me cringe, but that's not really important).
I haven't yet lurked in the thread for the new video, but I'd imagine that's a common complaint. There's some visual fatigue no doubt, but it's still gratifying to see that effect in motion. My favorite part is seeing Atticus sing along - he kinda got the shaft in the incredible 'Ice age' video.
Overall, I favor this 'Keep it together' fan film over the official 'Loop closes' clip, but that might change. Currently, 'Ice Age' is my favorite Destroy Angels visual aid. I like it even more than 'The Space in Between' video. 'Ice age' didn't click for me until I watched it a second time on an big screen HD TV.
I hope the amazing output from both fans and band alike continues!
It's been a while since I've checked back here, and the new surge of comments are all too-fucking awesome! If Rob Sheridan ever considered he idea of looking to hire an assisstant, or an intern... or a slave.. I'd sign up without hesitation. [editted this out]
I'm cooking out a new thing as I type this - for anyone interested in the making/production process of this project. Will update with a link when it's ready ;]
edit:: Here's the embed, enjoy! [Note, youtube forces ads for these kinds of videos, so apologies in-advance for popup ads]
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BRAVO!!!! This is so professional looking. Very well done!
I don't know how I missed this. Fricking fantastic!


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There's nothing a coach likes better than telling his players they're impossible underdogs.
It's harder to sell when you're the defending Super Bowl champions, but Giants coach Tom Coughlin is sell it anyway.
Because the 49ers are on a bit of a roll, and because they're six-point favorites at home for Sunday's NFC Championship Game rematch, Coughlin said he could "sense" that people thought the 49ers are the best team in the NFC.
"Nobody gives us a chance to win," Coughlin said, apparently with a straight face, via Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News. "We'll see."
Coughlin's been singing a familiar song all summer, reminding his players that other teams were getting picked to win the NFC East while his team was picking out rings.
"I may take the occasion to remind them," he said of his players.
Yeah, maybe once or twice this week.
Asked why he thought so many were picking against his team, Coughlin had no answers.
"I'm not going there," he said. "Sorry. I don't have an answer for that. Why do I think they feel that way? Probably because they think the other team is playing very well."
The 49ers have won their last two games by a combined score of 79-3, and they have a 651-yard margin in those two games (1,000-349).
Nevertheless, the Giants are the Giants, you know, winners of two of the last four Super Bowls. Maybe somewhere, someone in the world gives them the slightest chance.


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