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Probably surprising supporters and opponents alike, the Food and Drug Administration proposed measures today that will light a fire under electronic cigarette sales, catapulting them to even greater heights. Instead of the wide-ranging and restrictive rules most people anticipated, the regulatory agency came out with proposals that seem measured and reasonable and ought to have Lorillard and Reynolds American getting on board behind them.
The FDA said it will ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, the first time the $2 billion industry is being subjected to government regulation, but given that the agency won't also restrict flavored products, online sales, or advertising, it amounts to a huge boost to the industry. E-cig makers have already voiced support for the ban on sale of their products to those under 18, so the new rule isn't any great imposition on them. But those opposed to the smoking alternative's proliferation will likely be upset the rules won't be going further, because they contend that flavors, for example, are one of the things that entice minors to try the product.
The agency did issue edicts that restrict marketing of the devices, though not in a way that appears particularly burdensome. For example, e-cigarette manufacturers would be prohibited from distributing free samples, are forbidden from using vending machine sales except in adult-only venues, and would be required to warn that nicotine is addictive, although no other health warnings would be required.
While the FDA also would prevent the companies from making any health claims in their advertising, there's at least circumstantial evidence that e-cigs are a healthier alternative than their combustible counterparts.
Because e-cigs heat up a liquid and don't burn tobacco, you're not inhaling smoke or ingesting tar, which is where the bulk of the health risks of cigarettes lie. Instead you're inhaling a vapor, which is said to contain 450 times lower levels of toxicants than cigarettes have in their smoke. With the American Lung Association saying smoking contributes to 90% of lung cancer deaths, you'd figure health advocates would want to promote a device that could eat into those numbers.
No matter, the e-cigarette manufacturers will undoubtedly support the proposals; considering the U.K. regulates e-cigs as a medicine, meaning the rules are far more restrictive, and the EU has discussed banning them altogether, this is a very satisfactory outcome for them.
Industry leader Lorillard reported earnings earlier this year that showed sales of e-cigs jumped 38% in the fourth quarter of 2013 to $54 million and hit $230 million in revenues for the year, a 30% increase from the end of the third quarter. Reynolds American, which had its Vuse brand of e-cigs in just two states last quarter (but will be rolling them out nationally in June) has negligible sales at the moment in terms of its overall results, but found that e-cigs captured market-leading share in both states immediately upon entering the market and that the entire e-cig category expanded as a result.
Altria was late to the e-cig game and only introduced its first product in August of last year, but it's quickly making up for lost time, having recently purchased the Green Smoke brand and announcing its intention to roll out its NuMark division's brands nationally in the second quarter as well.
Because the tobacco companies have quickly come to dominate the e-cig market, many expected the proposed rules would be a lot harsher than they seem to be. New York City, after all, banned the use of e-cigs in public because they could "renormalize" smoking. But it seems cooler heads prevailed at the FDA, and that means we should see e-cigarettes become an even hotter commodity than they already are.
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- A jarfile containing 37 classification problems, originally obtained from the UCI repository (datasets-UCI.jar, 1,190,961 Bytes).
- A jarfile containing 37 regression problems, obtained from various sources (datasets-numeric.jar, 169,344 Bytes).
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- A gzip'ed tar containing UCI and UCI KDD datasets (uci-20070111.tar.gz, 17,952,832 Bytes)
- A gzip'ed tar containing StatLib datasets (statlib-20050214.tar.gz, 12,785,582 Bytes)
- A gzip'ed tar containing ordinal, real-world datasets donated by Dr. Arie Ben David (Holon Inst. of Technology/Israel) (datasets-arie_ben_david.tar.gz, 11,348 Bytes)
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- A zip file containing 80 artificial datasets generated from the Friedman function donated by Dr. M. Fatih Amasyali (Yildiz Technical Unversity) (Friedman-datasets.zip, 5,802,204 Bytes)
- A zip file containing a new, image-based version of the classic iris data, with 50 images for each of the three species of iris. The images have size 600x600. Please see the ARFF file for further information (iris_reloaded.zip, 92,267,000 Bytes).
- Protein data sets, maintained by Shuiwang Ji, CS Department, Louisiana State University/USA
- Kent Ridge Biomedical Data Set Repository, maintained by Jinyan Li and Huiqing Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Repository for Epitope Datasets (RED), maintained by Yasser El-Manzalawy, Iowa State University.

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Hey everyone.
With Kony 2012 making the rounds all over Facebook, Twitter, and (late as usual) traditional media, I've noticed that nobody talks about Joseph Kony being the leader of a radical and violent Christian group.
Honestly, the most I've seen is some people saying that his movement is based on "his own interpretation of the Ten Commandments", which seems like the classic "oh, they're just misusing religion" argument so often put forward by apologists.
Does anyone else feel like if he was leading a Muslim group, that's all that would be said about him? And don't take that to mean that I see Islam as a poor demonized victim; I just see two equally insane and violent religions that aren't getting the same treatment.
Now, I can't emphasize enough that I'm not belittling the movement to stop him (while it seems a bit more slacktivist than activist, anything is better than the usual nothing), I'm just pointing out that this is clearly a radical and violent religious movement based in a religion that many in the west feel uncomfortable accusing of such a thing.
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I'm not so sure Kony and his gang of thugs could be labeled modern day christians. That would be a stretch. He was heavily into so called "spirit possession" and other voodoo shenanigans at one time. Any affiliation with today's mainstream christians would be rebuffed I'm thinking. Nonetheless the man is certainly the epitome of evil and deserves some form of dismemberment.
I have little patience or forgiveness for someone who has no compunction when it come to killing children or using children to kill others.
A monster is a monster by any other name. Unless you can argue that his atrocities are solidly based on and consistent with Christian theology (they're not, as far as I can tell), Christianity is off the hook for this one.
Kevin, I think it is funny that they are conveniently NOT mentioning any affiliation. I have thought about blasting it on FB, cuz frankly, I tired of hearing about. However, I know the exact argument they will come back at me with. "Don't let one bad apple spoil the bunch" or "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." It's too easy to distance themselves from those who go off the reservation, just like the Westboro Baptist kook.
@Stephen What are you saying? Are you saying that Christianity bears some responsibility for Kony? The way I look at it is that if some avowed atheist was the head of his organization, I wouldn't accept any blame for it given that I would have no control over him and that even if he were to base his actions on his interpretation of atheism, he would be a rogue atheist. I'm no big fan of Christianity, but Kony is a rogue Christian if he's a Christian at all.
I have no problem labeling monsters like Robertson, Roberts, Falwell, Baker, Palin and Santorum with the moniker of Christianity, they epitomize the fraudulence and ignorance of the cult.
But a madman like this can throw the word Christianity around like a beach ball but shows no real adherence to its doctrines or dogmas.
Oh, I beg to differ. There IS someone who has been pointing out that Kony claims to be a Christian - Rush Limbaugh. Rush, in fact, praised Kony for his aggressive brand of Christianity. He also angrily condemned the Obama Administration for intervening to protect the non-Christians from Kony's genocidal purges. He even implied that Obama was intentionally killing Christians by opposing Kony. Nobody hates quite as deeply, virulently, and sanctimoniously as a good Christian, as Rush starkly demonstrates every day.
@Gary Bad as Robertson, Falwell, Palin, et al, are more ridiculous than anything else. Kony is in a different class entirely.
Dale, I never knew that drug addled fuck said that, not a big surprise though.
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I agree that Kony's 'theology' is a mishmash, BUT: While African Christianity does tend to incorporate local spiritual customs, but this does not make them something other than Christians. After all, that's how we got the Christmas tree, remember? Missionaries in Europe incorporated local practices rather than trying to ban them outright, knowing co-opting was an easier road than confronting. Consider, too the blend of voudoun and Christian practices in Haiti, or the distinctively Hispanic elements which infuse Christianity in Central and South America.
Christian missionizing has led to some odd manifestations in Africa. The 'kill the gays' bill in Uganda, as well as the recent rash of child-witch killings for example, have been directly motivated by Christian theology. Christianity in Africa generally tends to be heavily influenced by theology related to demon possession, ancestral curses, and witchcraft. However, this is increasingly popular in US Christianity, too. (Look up the NAR and spiritual warfare). I'm not sure that we can dismiss this as a Christianity-driven thing because it also maintains some indigenous influences, particularly when it is not all that different from some other forms of African Christianity. I think it is something of a no true Scotsman fallacy to claim that these influences invalidate Kony's own claim that his movement is a Christian one.
We can likewise not dismiss Kony's claims of Christian theology because what he does is eccentric and atrocious. HE claims he is acting as a Christian leader, establishing the Biblical 10 commandments, and doing Christ's bidding. Walks like a duck, prays like a duck - I tend to think 'duck.'


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Several new tools have been posted to security mailing lists that exploit the latest Windows RPC vulnerabilities. Experts say a worm is imminent.
Experts are warning that an attack tool is available for the latest RPC-DCOM vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and that it's likely just a matter of time before a worm will be created to exploit the flaws en masse.
The availability of the tool smacks eerily of the events leading up to the emergence of Blaster, the worm that exploited the first RPC-DCOM vulnerability. A couple of weeks before it arrived, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh warned the first RPC-DCOM flaw was being exploited in the wild.
There are at least three exploits in the wild. The most widespread one, discovered by Reston, Va.-based security vendor iDefense Inc. yesterday, allows attackers to gain authenticated access to the RPC-DCOM vulnerabilities. When exploited, attackers can create user accounts with administrator-level privileges and open command shells. Both the source code and a Windows executable are available for download on the Internet.
That exploit works on unpatched Windows 2000 machines with service packs 3 and 4. Trojan writers are already using it to infect machines, said Ken Dunham, iDefense's malicious code intelligence manager.
Writing such an exploit isn't particularly easy, but modifying one is not very hard, Dunham said. Over the next few days, the various exploits will likely be tweaked and improved. For example, the exploit iDefense found creates a user account called "e" on infected machines. The exploit can be tweaked so the name is more obscure.
Dan Ingevaldson, team leader of Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc., said that a Chinese hacker group known as Xfocus released an exploit last night. He said the exploit, like many coming from Xfocus, doesn't work very well. But, as with Blaster exploit code, the Xfocus exploit could be tweaked.
"They wrote the exploit that ended up turning into Blaster. All it took was a couple of hours by someone else before a working version was posted," Ingevaldson said. "This one does have some functionality. It can crash an RPC server."
Now that public exploit code is available, it will be easier to make a worm that exploits the flaws. Generally, creating the exploit code is the most challenging part of making a network worm. The actual delivery mechanism is easier to write. It can also be copied from sources on the Internet. For example, someone could just pop the new exploit into the source code for the Blaster worm, which is publicly available. "If someone did that, then we could see the worm today," said Mikko Hypponen, manager of antivirus research for Helsinki, Finland-based F-Secure Corp. He noted that it's impossible to predict when or even if a worm will be created to exploit a vulnerability.
Users of vulnerable systems should patch them as soon as possible. If patching isn't possible, then there are some ways to minimize exposure. For example, users can block UDP ports 135, 137, 138 and 445, as well as TCP ports 135, 139, 445 and 593 at the firewall. Also, disabling COM Internet Services (CIS) and RPC over HTTP, which listen on ports 80 and 443, would also protect against the flaws being exploited.
Such patching alternatives could come at a price for some companies, since software that relies on DCOM and RPC may be affected. But experts agree that it's just a matter of time before a worm will take advantage of the vulnerabilities. "There's no reason to believe it will be different this time," Dunham said.
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9:00 a.m. – Family Fun Walk/Run/ Ride. Registration at 8:30 a.m. Free t-shirts to the first 100 kids.
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Entertaining discussion. My vote goes to C-kites.
Fully agree, tested Crossbow 12 and Shockwave 9, but will stick to Raven 2 9-12-16!niko wrote:my vote goes to C-kite-types:
+ more fun within kiteloops
+ more fun doing unhooked moves
+ linear power releasement (not suddenly like all bow typed kites)
+ better bar feeling
+ direkt kite feeling (all bow kites use one or more pulleys)
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Japanese toy company Kotobukiya will be at this week's San Diego Comic-Con, offering attendees first dibs on this new Tekken piece from the company's bishoujo line.
It's Alisa Bosconovich, who as a 1/7 scale figure will be selling at the show for $US65. Kotobukiya says there are "only" 1500 of them being made available, so if you're not in San Diego this week, don't sweat it, you'll be able to get one at an online retailer pretty easily.


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Central Dauphin, Canon-McMillan, Franklin Regional, Easton and, take your pick, either McDowell, Parkland, Owen J. Roberts or Delaware Valley.
Wherever your allegiance may lie, whatever wrestling intelligence you may be blessed to have, there's absolutely no debating they're the top eight teams in Pennsylvania this year.
Hats off to each and every one of them.
And that includes Owen J. Roberts.
No one in the Pioneer Athletic Conference except for Upper Perkiomen's run in the early 2000s (and, please, no bickering about recruiting this or illegal that), and no one in District 1 except for Council Rock South's run after that, has been as competitive or entertaining from the Southeast Region as Owen J. Roberts has been the past two seasons.
Last year, the Wildcats fell short of a medal, going 2-2. This year, without three leaders (Andrew Kinney, Mike Lenge and James Warta) who happened to be pretty darn good on the mats, too, or good enough for 100-plus combined wins in their senior season, the Wildcats fell short of a medal again, going 2-2.
But as unhappy and unfulfilled as the Wildcats may have been this time around, and as disappointed for them as head coach Steve DeRafelo and his staff were, there was also a sense of pride… in their performance against not only some of the best teams in Pennsylvania but arguably in the entire nation. And, most important, there was that pride in their resiliency, bouncing back from that first loss of the season - a one-point heartbreaker to Franklin Regional on Friday; and, in the end, the never-give-up stance they took throughout the second one - an uphill, five-point setback to Parkland on Saturday.
Unfortunately, that intestinal fortitude - or guts, as we'd prefer to call it - doesn't show up in the scorebook or on the scoreboard. If they did, most if not all of the 28 matches contested from Thursday through Saturday would've been draws. No one gets to the Giant Center in the second week of February without that true grit.
And no one had more of it for OJR than Kyle Shronk, wrestling with a shoulder that pops more than a freshly opened Coca-Cola; Gordon Bolig, taking on a returning state qualifier instead of an opponent he likely would've easily pinned; and Dominick Petrucelli, showing some mighty mettle the entire time he was on the mat.
The difference in the scorebook and on the scoreboard in the Pennsylvania state team duals is talent - from 106 on up through 285 pounds - with match-ups and a wee bit of luck mixed in. Owen J. Roberts didn't get many of the matchups it needed, and little if any luck. And the Wildcats didn't quite match up with their opponents' talent, though one-point and five-point losses aren't all that convincing, or enough to suggest the final results would be the same from one day to the next.
The bottom line was that this year's state team duals field out in Hershey was absolutely packed, maybe as strong as any in recent memory.
Upper Perkiomen, which even head coach Tom Hontz felt was a .500 team at best back around Christmas, represented itself, the PAC-10 and District 1 well by reaching the quarterfinals and finishing 2-2 overall.
Owen J. Roberts did the same, and also proved - without question - it was among the top eight teams in Pennsylvania.
Not bad. Not bad at all. * * *
Last week's combined four wins and five losses in the PIAA-Class AAA Team Duals by Owen J. Roberts, Upper Perkiomen and Boyertown brought the PAC-10's overall record in the state team duals to 21-28 - which broken down shows a 21-22 mark in AAA and 0-6 mark in AA. … Upper Perkiomen, with the most appearances, owns the most wins (13) as well as the most losses (8).
* Don Seeley is the sports editor of The Mercury. His wrestling column runs Tuesdays through the PIAA Championships. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The first and second I set to openDNS and the third and fourth to scrubIt.
Cablemodem connect
41 Enable caching DNS server (y/s/n/e) [s]?
411 Number of URL's to cache [600]?
412 Enable DNS requests logging (y/n) [y]?
413 Edit your DNS file (y/n)? [n]
These settings will usually be overwritten in your DHCP lease,
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414 Primary DNS address (your provider's DNS) [126.96.36.199]?
415 Second DNS address (otherwise -) [22.214.171.124]?
415 Third DNS address (otherwise -) [22.214.171.124]?
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But we got Squid aren't we? Why don't squid do the job as well. I remembered when I use 027, squid filtering by key words. This is perfect to block sites containing mother tangue list of word. Could anyone tell me the link to Official Freesco Old Forum. I remembered that I asked a lot about this in that forum. Thank you.


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A few posts back I posted about setting up your own spin. Things got moving quickly and we decided to overhaul the way we maintain our iso's server-side.
Sabayon 5.4 will have everything based on the SpinBase iso and all applications on top off this will be placed in sets. A KDE set is going to be written soon.
A first result of the reorganization are the LXDE and XFCE spins released today!
Some important recent changes:
– On amd64 we moved to 32bits flash.
If you have a problem with it consider reinstalling nspluginwrapper. I know it is not the most elegant solution, but keeping users with a potential security risk was worse. And upstream Adobe did NOT provide a 64bits version.
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Greenland ice sheet albedo continues dropping at highest elevations
With the most recent update to our near-real time monitoring of ice sheet albedo, we observe that the ice sheet albedo continues dropping into unprecedented low values especially at the higher elevations where there is little melting.
I wonder:
- Are the widespread wildfires, for example in Siberia or in Colorado adding to the albedo reduction?
- Or given that "Since 2000, global coal consumption has grown faster than any other fuel. " … "Around 6 Gt of hard coal were used worldwide last year and 1 billion tonnes of brown coal. " source: http://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-of-coal/ Is coal combustion part of the problem?
Specialists in snow impurities and albedo are on this problem. But, what are their results?


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A $2.4 billion nuclear reactor deal between China and Pakistan aimed at reducing Pakistan's chronic energy shortage has cast light on the decades-old strategic partnership that Chinese President Hu Jintao described as "higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans."
The agreement, announced last week, would see the construction two 650-Megawatt nuclear reactors, and it reaffirms the longtime alliance between the two nations particularly as their shared rival India and the United States also deepen ties.
But the proposed deal reignites concerns surrounding Pakistan's history of nuclear proliferation – most notably through its former top nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, who confessed in 2004 to leaking nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran, and North Korea.
Beijing has repeatedly dismissed such concerns. "Civilian nuclear energy cooperation between China and Pakistan is completely in line with international obligations of nonproliferation, and is completely for peaceful purposes," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Tuesday. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari will make his fifth official visit to China next week.
Fears of proliferation
Nonetheless, the agreement has caused concern particularly in the United States and India. Although the two signed their own landmark civilian nuclear deal in 2005, they did so after gaining an exemption by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a group of 46 member countries that oversee the export of nuclear technology.
The NSG cautions against sharing nuclear technology with countries that have a record of proliferation, as Pakistan does, or that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Neither India nor Pakistan has signed the NPT, but India was granted a waiver after undergoing international inspections.
"The Indian example is not a precedent since India's exemption had to go through the US legislative scrutiny and the NSG exemption," wrote K Subrahmanyam in the Times of India. "Pakistan cannot compare its non-proliferation record with that of India. The exoneration of A.Q. Khan by the judiciary of charges of unauthorized nuclear trade clearly implies that Pakistani proliferation had the approval of successive governments in Islamabad."
Last month, the US State Department sought to "clarify" details of the arrangement, while iterating nations' obligations to nonproliferation.
China claims the two reactors were in the pipeline before it joined the NSG in 2004 and should thus be exempted.
What China wants
Pakistan sought a similar nuclear deal from the US in 2005, but was denied. "Pakistan and India are different countries with different needs and different histories," then-President Bush said at the time.
On Wednesday, however, US joint chiefs of staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen sought to down play the idea that Pakistan is a loose cannon when it comes to nuclear proliferation. Unlike Iran and North Korea, he said, Pakistan makes "extraordinary efforts" to protect its arsenal.
"These are the most important weapons in the Pakistani arsenal. That is understood by the leadership, and they go to extraordinary efforts to protect and secure them. These are their crown jewels," HE said.
Pakistan may have turned to its long-term ally and sponsor China as a result, says Anatol Lieven a Pakistan analyst at the Department of War Studies at King's College, London.
"Traditionally, the Pakistani establishment has in the back of its mind that it can play China off against the US," he says.
The deal would double the number of Pakistan's civilian nuclear reactors, and help it ease an energy shortfall of about 3,000 Megawatts, or 17 percent of demand.
China may be eager to cement an alternative power nexus in the region, and gain one-up on regional rival India according to Christine Fair, a security analyst at Georgetown University.
Pakistan and China have maintained good relations for six decades. In 1951 Pakistan was among the first countries to recognize the People's Republic of China founded in two years earlier by the Communist party, which still governs China today.
China has steadily supplied arms to Pakistan over the decades – motivated in part to curtail India's power – and is widely believed to have helped develop its nuclear weapons program. It is also the biggest investor in Pakistan's new Gwadar Deep Sea Port.
At the same time China has avoided the financial commitments to Pakistan that the US has made, most recently in its $7.5 billion aid package. It refused President Zardari's request for a financial bailout in late 2008. And, despite its military support, China refused to aid Pakistan during its 1999 Kargil conflict with India.
"It benefits China that India and Pakistan are locked into this security complex even though it's not in their interest that it comes to blows," Ms. Fair says, adding that China is likely to seek a quid pro quo in terms of commercial opportunities in Pakistan.
US's loss?
Fair believes the US may have missed a "key opportunity" to forge its own conditions-based nuclear deal, which would give the US greater leverage to force Pakistan to crack down on domestic militant groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, and mend relations between the two countries. The US has grown frustrated in recent months at Pakistan's unwillingness to tackle the Haqqani militant group based in its northwestern tribal area of North Waziristan.
A report published this week by the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think-tank, makes a similar case, noting that a US-Pakistan nuclear deal could be "biggest game changer in terms of public perception" in Pakistan.
"That will treat it on par with neighbor India," the report said. "But at the same time begin to draw it into the safeguards network of the International Atomic Energy Agency and thereby dissuade it from any recidivist tendencies toward proliferation."
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MAXroam's iPad-friendly microSIM will let you take your coffee-shop wankery from Starbucks to streetside cafes in Milan. Their microSIMs cost an extravagant €75/$95 for 50MB of data, but at least you'll be able to tweet smugly from your iPad, right?
It's launched under the umbrella of Cubic Telecom, and thanks to the iPad being of the GSM flavor, their 3G microSIM cards will work across Europe. And of course, if the iPhone 4 uses the same microSIM cards as the iPad, then it will also allow you to hotfoot it over to the continent for iPhone-based smug-tweetery too. [MAXroam via TechCrunch]


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Two Years with Jumby/
Two years ago, on Feb 16, I was told I would be bringing home my fourth child.
Luck intervened and we were able to bring him home a few days earlier, but Feb 16 marked the day I was first legally responsible for another child.
It's been two years.
Two years ago, I held a strange child in my arms and promised myself that one day I would love him like I loved my other kids. That I would feel as completely and wholly his mother as I do the three that came before him.
I worried that I may have bit more off than I could handle, may have made promises I couldn't keep.
Two years have passed and it seems like forever this child has been mine. I can't imagine my life without him in it.
Today marks the day we first became Jumby's legal guardians, and then a year later his official parents. And today is the Jumbster's day.
Today is the day his past can officially no longer come back to haunt him or threaten to take him away.
Today is the first day, in two years, he is absolutely and forever, mine.
Today is a good day.
The first ever snuggles Jumby and I had, only hours after first meeting.
The first time Fric got to meet her new little brother. Tensions were high all around, wondering if this was going to work. One look was all it took to assure us this would turn out okay.
Frac meeting his little brother moments later. We introduced them separately, one at a time, to make sure everyone's feelings were being properly looked after. My heart was in my throat the entire time.
Just weeks after bring Jumby home he had his first major health challenge and spent the next three weeks in hospital. It was trial by fire, learning to parent in a hospital all over again.
Jumby, however, is very resilient and recovered beautifully. He then proceeded to come home to explore his new home and get stuck under every piece of furniture we had.
Jumby's standing frame. We call him Hannibal when he's in it. He spends time in this generally while I cook or bake, so he can help get right in there and make a big mess. Like little boys are supposed to do.
Jumbster exploring his world and learning that occasionally there are soft things on the floor that purr when you roll into them.
I spent hundreds of dollars on buying therapy tools and new toys to help amuse and educate my new son. He prefers to wear a bucket on his head.
It's always a party in the kitchen.
Fric spoils Jumby rotten.
Brotherly love. I hoped the boys would take to one another but I underestimated how attached my kids would become to their newest sibling. My kids rock so hard it hurts sometimes.
Two years I've been able to look at this face and call him my son.
It's been two of the best years in my life, kid. We love you.
Coincidentally, I'm celebrating Jumby's second anniversary as my son by guest posting over at Aiming Low. I'm talking mullets, minivans and wheel chairs and everything in between. Hop on over and check it out.


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I wanna feel the heat with somebody
Oh I wanna dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me
Somebody (x2)
Yeah I wanna dance dance dance
with somebody
Somebody who loves me
I wanna dance dance dance
I wanna dance dance dance
Yeah yeah
With somebody who loves me
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Somebody who loves me
To hold me in his arms oh
I need a man who'll take a chance
On a love that burns hot enough to last
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My lonely heart calls
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The risk that the Federal Reserve starts winding down its asset purchases sooner rather than later could spark another emerging market (EM) sell-off, analysts told CNBC, with some countries better placed to deal with higher real U.S. interest rates than others.
EM funds made a comeback in July - posting gains for the first time since March, according to Morningstar research – after taking a battering on uncertainty surrounding the end of the Federal Reserve's massive stimulus program. .
While Friday's disappointing U.S jobs data helped ease fears of an imminent end to asset purchases, Luis Costa, emerging markets strategist at Citi, said that the possibility the Fed might start the tapering process after its next meeting could cause another EM sell-off.
"We are still seeing outflows in EM funds, albeit at a decelerated pace to what we saw 2 or 3 months ago," Costa told CNBC on Monday. "While I do believe the tapering call in September is definitely questionable, we do know that we are talking about a scenario where the Fed are willing to change QE [quantitative easing] dynamics over the next 6 months."
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Paragliding Africa
How one photographer captured the continent from the sky—with a fan strapped to his back.
Flying in a motorized paraglider over one of the most diverse continents in the world, George Steinmetz captures in his photographs the stunning beauty, potential, and hope of Africa's landscapes and people. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/african-air
Steinmetz's fascination with Africa began with what turned into a two-and-a-half year trip in 1979. Since then, he has visited almost all the countries on the continent.
Grassroots food activist Fatou Batta on why the question of agricultural sustainability is also a question of equality.
Thousands of grassroots, African-led efforts are building locally rooted alternatives to the chemical agriculture promoted by the Gates Foundation and Monsanto.
The late Dennis Brutus, an elder in South Africa's long struggle against apartheid, shares his story, his poetry, and why he's optimistic about the global justice movement.


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Oracle OpenWorld 2019 has just wrapped yesterday, and if there is a single word that can describe my impressions of it, that would be "different". Immediately noticeable was the absence of the traditional Oracle Red spilling into the streets around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and the reason behind it is the new corporate design system called Redwood. You can already see its colors and patterns applied to the company's website, but more importantly, it defines new UI [...]


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Escaped cobra captured near Los Angeles
An escaped cobra that attacked a dog in a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood was captured Thursday.
The 5-foot-long albino monocled cobra was found around 3 p.m. PT in Thousand Oaks, not far from where the dog's owner said it bit his 7-year-old dog in the neck Monday night. The snake was spotted by a mother driving to pick up her daughter from school, KNBC-TV reported.
The dog, variously described in media reports as a whippet or a greyhound, was not given anti-venom, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control told the Los Angeles Times. That raised the possibility the snake had been defanged or had its venom glands removed.
A veterinarian told KNBC the dog's injuries resulted from trying to escape the snake's strike.
A bite from a monocled cobra, which is native to Southeast Asia, can kill a human in about an hour.
The cobra's owner has not been identified.
KCAL-TV noted that a company that rents exotic animals for film and TV shoots is located 10 miles away, but authorities did not elaborate.


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WASHINGTON, March 28, 2008--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is treating 77,688 trees susceptible to the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) with the insecticide imidacloprid in New York and New Jersey this spring.
Treatments will start on March 27 on Staten Island and Queens. Treatments in Carteret, Linden and Roselle, New Jersey will begin on April 21. Treatments in Brooklyn, New York will begin on April 18 and continue into late June. Program officials, through the use of contracted certified pesticide applicators, will treat Asian longhorned beetle host trees primarily by injecting insecticides in the soil around the base of trees, or by trunk injection using hand-held application devices. Mauget capsules inserted into tree trunks to deliver insecticide over time will be used in parts of New Jersey. USDA will monitor treatment applications.
Regardless of the treatment application, the imidacloprid is dispersed through the tree's vascular system. This enables the insecticide to reach Asian longhorned beetle adults feeding on small twigs and leaves and any larvae feeding just beneath the bark of host trees. Imidacloprid is currently used in the lawn care industry to kill lawn grubs and in some domestic pet treatments to kill fleas.
In the 132-square mile New York quarantine, USDA will treat a total of 47,640 trees, including 34,441 trees in Brooklyn and 13,199 trees in Queens.
USDA will treat 30,048 trees in a 32.8 square mile quarantine area in New Jersey and Staten Island. This includes parts of Staten Island (7.8 square miles) as well as Middlesex and Union counties in New Jersey (25 square miles). USDA will treat 231 trees in Carteret, 10,301 trees in Linden, and 1,271 trees in Roselle as well as 18,245 trees on Staten Island, New York.
Potentially, the Asian longhorned beetle is one of the most destructive and costly invasive species to enter the United States. These insects threaten urban and suburban shade trees and recreational and forest resources valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. The Asian longhorned beetle also might impact such industries as maple syrup production, hardwood lumber processing, nurseries and tourism. If these insects became widely established, the impact would be felt in urban, suburban and forested parts of the country. Treatments are part of the Asian longhorned beetle cooperative eradication program's effort to prevent further infestation of this invasive insect and reduce beetle populations.
The larvae of the Asian longhorned beetle bore into healthy hardwood trees and feed on living
tree tissue and heartwood. Later, throughout the summer, adult beetles emerge from exit holes and briefly feed on the leaves and small twigs of host trees.
Adult Asian longhorned beetle, which are about 1 to 1.5 inches long, have a shiny jet black body with distinctive white spots and long antennae that are banded in black and white. The insect was first found in New York in 1996. Subsequent infestations in New Jersey were discovered in 2002 and 2004.
APHIS and its cooperators undertake eradication by imposing quarantines, conducting visual inspections around confirmed sites to determine the scope of infestations, removing infested and high-risk exposed trees and chemically treating host trees as part of an areawide integrated pest eradication strategy. The goal is to eliminate this destructive insect from New York City, Long Island and New Jersey before it can establish itself elsewhere.
The public can assist the eradication effort by allowing program officials access to their property to evaluate susceptible trees for any signs of Asian longhorned beetle infestation and/or to treat trees that are susceptible to Asian longhorned beetle infestation.
The Asian longhorned beetle Eradication Program is a cooperative effort among various federal, state and local agencies including, USDA's APHIS, Forest Service and Agricultural Research Service; the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and Department of Environmental Conservation; the New Jersey Department of Agriculture and Department of Environmental Protection and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
For more information on the treatment program, call in New York 1-866-265-0301 or 877-STOP-ALB and in New Jersey call (732) 815-4700 or 866-233-8531. For more information about the Asian longhorned beetle Cooperative Eradication Program call or visit the APHIS Web site at www.aphis.usda.gov/ALB.
Note to Reporters: USDA news releases, program announcements and media advisories are available on the Internet. Go to the APHIS news release page at /newsroom. Also, anyone with an e-mail address can sign up to receive APHIS press releases automatically. Send an e-mail message to email@example.com and leave the subject blank. In the message, type
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Cowboys owner Jones: QB Romo will get new deal soon
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is confident a new contract for Tony Romo will be brokered soon and that the quarterback will respond to the extension with superior play.
"He's not going to be paid to be a bus driver," Jones said Tuesday.
Speaking at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix, Jones also touched on a number of other subjects, including the future of beleaguered right tackle Doug Free.
But it was Romo's contract that dominated the conversation.
The 10-year veteran is set to enter the final year of his deal with a team-high cap number of $16.8 million. But an extension would lower it and give the team much-needed cap relief to sign its draft picks and possibly some mid-level free agents.
Fans fear negotiations will stall, preventing Dallas from entering the market. But Jones said he doesn't expect talks to be drawn out.
"We are involved in negotiations," Jones said. "It's just not the thing to do for him or me to say we ought to have something done by midnight or tomorrow unless it's that imminent."
Romo turns 33 in April, but Jones suggested his best years are ahead of him, especially if the coaches better utilize his talents.
"I expect our offensive staff to deploy Romo according to his pay scale. ... I expect him to be used," Jones said. "... I feel good about making (a commitment to Romo). I feel good about where he is in his career. ... With (offensive line coach) Bill Callahan (more) involved ... I do expect some new wrinkles relative to what Tony contributes."
Moving on to Free's fate, Jones said a decision doesn't have to be made before the draft. If the Cowboys make him a post-June 1 cut, they would trim $7 million from their payroll.
Hall of Fame Game set: With Cowboys offensive line great Larry Allen scheduled for induction into the Hall of Fame, Dallas will play Miami on Aug. 4 in Canton, Ohio, the NFL announced.
The addition of the Hall of Game to their preseason schedule means the Cowboys will play five games, a perceived plus for the club with the defense transitioning from a 3-4 scheme to a 4-3 look.
The Cowboys open training camp July 19 in Oxnard, Calif.


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Etymology 1Edit
over- + lay. Compare overlie.
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ō'və-lāʹ, IPA(key): /ˌəʊ.vəˈleɪ/
- (General American) enPR: ō'vər-lāʹ, IPA(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈleɪ/
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ōʹvə-lā', IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/
- (General American) enPR: ōʹvər-lā', IPA(key): /ˈoʊvɚˌleɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
overlay (third-person singular simple present overlays, present participle overlaying, simple past and past participle overlaid or overlayed)
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply something over or across; cover.
- Edmund Spenser
- as when a cloud his beams doth overlay
- Milton
- framed of cedar overlaid with gold
- Edmund Spenser
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- when any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- (transitive, now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate. [from 14th c.]
- Bible, 1 Kings iii. 19
- This woman's child died in the night, because she overlaid it.
- Dryden
- a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire
- 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 371:
- Prostitutes, thieves, girls who 'overlaid' their babies, abortionists who stuck their knitting needles into something vital – did they really need to be here?
- Bible, 1 Kings iii. 19
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
to lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover
overwhelm — see overwhelm
to smother with a close covering, or by lying upon
to put an overlay on
overlay (plural overlays)
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- 1994, Roger Frost, The IT in Secondary Science Book (page 56)
- The keyboard overlay can be a memory jogger and a great help with spelling. In this way the keyboard makes word processing more accessible to younger as well as special needs children.
- 1994, Roger Frost, The IT in Secondary Science Book (page 56)
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- 1986, Noel M. Morris, Computer Graphics and CAD Fundamentals: BBC Micro Version
- This concept can be extended further by allowing a primary overlay to call a secondary overlay, and so on. However, we will limit ourselves here to the use of primary overlays. Before proceeding further, you need to understand the memory map of the computer, which is a diagram showing the use to which the memory of the computer is put.
- 1986, Noel M. Morris, Computer Graphics and CAD Fundamentals: BBC Micro Version
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
printing: piece of paper
betting: odds which are higher than expected
horse racing
Etymology 2Edit
- simple past tense of overlie


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|Original title
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|2 August 2010
|Production year
|Production Country
|Benny Chan
|Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Jaycee Chan, Wu Jing, Andy On, Elanne Kong, Dominic Lam Ka-Wah, Sam Lee, Candy Liu, Ken Lo, Vincent Sze, Wang Xue-Mei, Kenny Wong Tak-Ban, Philip Ng, Wu Hao-kang
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The rise of Ronin Gang, a band of notorious robbers affected the lives of three policemen drastically. Each of the three policemen: Fang (starring Shawn Yue), Jing Hau (starring Jaycee Chan) and Chen (starring Nicholas Tse) have their own stories but are motivated to achieve a common goal: to bring Jiang (starring Wu Jing), the leader of the Ronin Gang to justice. Time is running out as Jiang's influence grew and the gang's ruthless acts are getting out hand. With Fang's wit, Jing Hau's courage and Chen's dexterity, the three vowed to capture Jiang. However, it was also during the intense period of tracking the Ronin Gang that the three learnt about the presence of a prominent figure in the police force who is in cahoots with Jiang… With all these against them, they are even more determined to rid the evil doings of Jiang and his accomplice…


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Battery Park needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Battery Park Bar & Lounge / http://www.batteryparkboston.com
A brand new vision for the downtown Financial District of Boston. Soon to be Boston's newest lunch, dinner, happy hour and nightlife spot fully equipped with a patio that seats 110 people! We will be an upscale sports bar serving traditional American fare with a decor of mahogany and earth tones along with textured walls. The ambiance we are trying to create is comfortable, clean and classy with a fun vibe.
Our target market is the 25-45 year old Financial District crowd that goes our for lunch, dinner and happy hour. Most of our customers between 11am - 10pm will consist of business men and women looking grab lunch or to unwind after work and socialize with their coworkers and friends. We plan on hosting many corporate events, fundraisers, alumni events and private parties We will also focus on the 25-35 year old nightlife crowd that tend to be looking for a more low key atmosphere but can still let lose and dance after 10pm. Our hope is to have a mature nightlife crowd.
We are looking to have a logo created for Battery Park Bar & Lounge. The name is derived from our address (33 Batterymarch Street, Boston, MA) and the fact we will have a 110 person seasonal patio that will include seating, a bar, landscaping/vines and wooden trellis's that create a "park" like feel.
Our logo should reflect the fact that we are a sports bar at heart but that we have some class. We would like a simple design and also like the idea of having a "BP" icon of some type included.
Be as creative as you want but in terms of color we would like to stick with earth tones. Our store front will be black and we plan on using the logo on the front of the building. I included a schematic drawing of the store front that our architect drew up. We do not like the signage pictured but this will give you an idea of the space available.
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Our Favorite Cocktails of 2011
Best of Drinks
The best stuff we've sipped lately.
With the exception of Serious Eats Overlord Ed Levine, who really only likes what he calls "wussy drinks", most of us at SEHQ tend to enjoy sampling a cocktail or two when we're at a new restaurant or visiting a different city. And this year has been an amazing one for cocktails—we've tasted lots of delicious classics and innovative new creations at bars and restaurants alike all over the country. Here's a look back at some of the best cocktails we tried this year.
What were the most memorable cocktails you tasted in 2011?