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Does anybody know of any interactive tree map examples for iPad ? I am not asking about libraries/APIs, etc. I am asking about actual applications.
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TreemapKit @ GitHub is one that works ok ... The only one written for iOS as far as I know. It works on the iPhone and iPad, but it doesn't redraw and rescale correctly when you rotate the device. I can't figure out how to fix that and the author is too busy to revisit
But you want applications ... There aren't any as far as I've seen, and I've been looking. This is largely due to the absence of a good ObjC library, save for TreemapKit. It does come with a demo though.
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There's little debate that AT&T customers are in line to get the new Nokia Lumia 1020 and we've received another sign to confirm just that. The Lumia 1020 is now being listed in AT&T product inventory and has been assigned a SKU number. Our anonymous tipster also noted that the Lumia 1020 has been seen in the hands of AT&T employees for testing.
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With all the attention that pumpkin has been getting lately, I decided to finally pick a recipe where apples are the star of the show. I'll admit that despite the abundance of beautiful, local apples during this time of year, apple recipes often get pushed to the bottom of my baking list. Why? Because I'm lazy. Peeling, coring and chopping apples just seems to take me so much time. It's much quicker and less messy to pop open a can of pumpkin. As an aside, I have an apple peeler/corer/slicer that I love. It's great for bigger jobs that require more than an apple or two.
Every time I make these bars, I tell myself that they are definitely worth the extra time and effort. Once the apples are prepped, everything comes together quickly. Your home will be filled with the tempting aroma of sugar, spices and baking apples shortly thereafter. The resulting apple bars are moist and tender and have a slightly flaky top. These apple bars are a delicious seasonal dessert that really let the simple flavor of apple, cinnamon and brown sugar shine through.
- 2 cup and 2 tbsp all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp allspice
- small pinch ground cloves
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 apples, peeled, cored and diced (a little less than 2 cups)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9x13 pan with foil and coat with baking spray.
- In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. Whisk to combine well and set aside.
- In bowl of stand mixer, combine sugars and butter. Beat on medium high until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well to combine. Add vanilla extract and beat to combine.
- Reduce mixer speed to slow and gradually add flour mixture, beating until just combined. Fold in apples.
- Spread mixture evenly into prepared pan. Bake for about 30 minutes, until cooked through and top slightly bounces back to the touch.
- Remove from oven and let cool completely on rack before removing from pan, cutting and serving. Bars will be very soft.
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Welcome to the only place on the Internet to find ALL of Turpster's WoW Parady songs! I have been making these songs since all the way back in 2007 and haven't stopped since; I should probably appologise for that...
This year I am going to BlizzCon 09 in sunny California but unfortunatly it isn't going to come cheap, as such I'm including a donation button on this page to accept any kind donations that can help fund me to get there. Flight costs alone are around about $1200. In the extremely unlikely event that any more money than this is raised then it will be donated to the great folks over at Child's Play!
Thanks goes out to WoW Radio, WoW.com and all the other folks who have been involved in helping to create these songs. And mostly thanks to you for coming to visit and enjoying/putting up with my singing!
A massive thank you to everyone's favourite World of Warcraft Comic Artist "SpiritWolf" for making the most winsome album cover in the history of Covers
1. The Weekend Report Intro
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4. Turp-st-er
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1. Tank it – Written and Performed by Turpster
2. Born To Spec Fire – Written by Turpster and TotalBiscuit Performed by TotalBiscuit
3. Owned - Written by Turpster and Eriyanna Performed by Eriyanna (YouTube Video of Voice Actress/Singer Genna Bain)
4. I Guess That's Why - Written by Turpster and Speedyf40 Performed by Speedyf40
5. The Duncor Song - Written by Turpster and Duncor Performhed by Duncor
6. Crossroads - Written by Turpster and TotalBiscuit Performed by TotalBiscuit
7. I'm Too IMBA - Written by Turpster and TotalBiscuit Performed by Leto
8. E-Peen - Written by Turpster, Maxmaps and Speedyf40 Performed by Maxmaps and Speedyf40
9. IMBA Buff - Written by Turpster Performed by Turpster and Alris
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This 'Album' contains all of my unreleased songs, expect it to grow as time goes on!
1. AFK, AFK, AFK - A Wintervale Classic!
2. Gief Gold Plx - We've all been there, just trying to save up for that Epic Mount!
3. More Black Ass - I don't think anyone really knows what this song is about
4. The Power of WoW - A challenge to two fellow Podcasters
5. Just Can't Wait - Mike Schramm, Big Bear Butt join me in excitement for Lich King's release
6. Classic Troller's Delight - The second incarnation of my favourite Parody ever!
7. Re-Roll Tauren - Made for the fine folks at HowIWoW
8. The WoW Insider Song - Mike, Mike and BRK join me for a celebration song! Video by NinthBatter found here!
9. Troller's Delight v2 - Exclusive, Here is the brand new version of the song!
**NEW** 10. Crit On My Pants - It's a true story that I felt needed to be put to song. **NEW**
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Dan Jackson doesn't understand the need for an Indian Land Fire Protection District.
Jackson, a Charlotte Highway resident whose family has lived in the same area for more than 150 years, told Lancaster County Council last week he was worried about the idea of creating a unified district.
"I haven't been one way or another about big companies coming in here," Jackson said. "But if we pack more people in here, there's more of a chance of fires."
County Councilman Larry Honeycutt shook his head when the topic of Haile Gold Mine came up Tuesday night.
It wasn't final reading of a fee-in-lieu-of-tax agreement between the county and the Kershaw mine that worried him. Instead, he was more concerned about where the headquarters for the company that owns the mine will be located.
Romarco Minerals Inc., a Canadian gold development company that owns about 4,000 acres of land at the mine, has been mining for gold at the site since 2007.
Before he assumes his new role in Congress, Mick Mulvaney had to go back to school.
Mulvaney, who bested longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. John Spratt for the 5th District seat, headed to Washington, D.C., last month for his freshman orientation.
From Nov. 14 to Nov. 19, Mulvaney joined more than 100 incoming members of Congress as they learned the ins and outs of their new roles, including choosing offices, meeting staff and attending how-to seminars.
County Council will hold nine public hearings during its Tuesday night meeting.
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• Creating a sewerline easement for the new county courthouse
• Approving a fee-in-lieu agreement between Haile Gold Mine and the county
• Creating the Brookchase special tax district
County officials are asking the public to weigh in as it begins to gather information for a strategic plan.
Deputy County Administrator Jeffery Naftal said county officials have developed a survey as part of the county's strategic planning process. He said it's important council members hear directly from residents about the needs of the county.
The survey, which features about 20 questions, asks about county services and departments, sales and property taxes and county funding. The idea is to learn which priorities the public deems the most important.
INDIAN LAND – An Indian Land businessman is considering running for the District 16 state Senate seat.
Brian Carnes, a lifelong Lancaster County resident and former school board member, is looking at possibly running for the seat, which is soon to be vacated by Republican Mick Mulvaney.
Mulvaney bested Democratic incumbent John Spratt for the 5th Congressional District seat earlier this month and will soon be heading to Washington, D.C.
More than 50 current and past Lancaster County Emergency Medical Services workers are suing the county for overtime pay they say they're owed.
In a suit filed in federal district court last month, EMS workers claim the county violated the national Fair Labor Standards Act. The class-action suit claims the county owes EMS employees money for years of unpaid overtime compensation.
Mark Knight hopes a new water storage project will protect Lancaster County during a water emergency.
Knight, manager of the Lancaster County Water and Sewer District, is promoting the creation of a new raw water storage reservoir in the county. The reservoir will be built at the site of the Catawba River water treatment plant, as part of a joint venture between the district and Union County, N.C.
Knight said the district realized the need for more water storage after severe drought conditions affected the area in recent years.
A new ordinance may soon allow more planned development districts in the county.
County Council gave first reading on Nov. 9 to an ordinance to decrease the minimum acreage amount for PDDs from 150 to 2 acres. A PDD, such as Sun City Carolina Lakes in Indian Land, is a zoning designation that combines both residential and commercial properties.
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Veteran FBI Director Robert Mueller sat before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, as representative after representative fired tough questions at him on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Benghazi to Boston Marathon bombing to the recent IRS scandal.
Five Texans on the Judiciary Committee — Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, Ted Poe, R-Humble, Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston — were in attendance. All but Farenthold questioned the 11-year FBI boss.
Poe focused his questions on the IRS scandals, as his constituent, Catherine Engelbrecht, had been directly targeted. Poe brought up the fact that Engelbrecht and her husband had been contacted by not only the IRS, but also the FBI, ATF, and OSHA after starting two non-profit organizations: True The Vote and the King Street Patriots.
However, because the information was part of the ongoing investigation, Mueller could not comment on the many aspects of the case.
Gohmert's questioning got especially heated when he focused his questions on events surrounding the Boston Marathon attacks. Gohmert claimed that the FBI did not canvass a certain Boston mosque that the Tsarnaevs attended until four days after the April 19th attacks, of which Mueller disagreed, saying "Your facts are not all together."
"Sir, if you're going to call me a liar, you need to point out specifically where the facts are wrong," Gohmert said.
Mueller went on to explain that the FBI had been in the mosque in question before the bombings as part of the FBI's outreach efforts; when questioned further, Mueller admitted that the FBI did not know that the mosque had been started by Al-Qaeda fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi.
Mueller did not challenge the claim that the FBI did not go to the mosque until four days after the bombing.
Representatives from other states posed even more tough questions for the director, though many could not be answered due to ongoing investigations regarding those topics.
In response to Michigan Rep. John Conyers' inquiries about the balance between secrecy and national security, Mueller responded, "the terrorist threat against the U.S. remains our top priority."
He cited several types of terrorism, perhaps most notably cyber terrorism, in which terrorists gain access to online records. Mueller also touched on how the sequestration will have an effect on the FBI.
"The impact of the sequestration will be significant," he said. "Our budget was cut by more than $550 million in 2013." Mueller then mentioned that FBI budget cuts increased even more for the year 2014.
Multiple representatives inquired about the key Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act that has played a key role in the email monitoring that has been recently conducted.
Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott asked, "Is it true that this data can be used for things other than terrorism?" To which Mueller replied, "No." Scott also questioned whether or not these records could be used for criminal prosecution, two which Mueller once again replied, "No." When asked if the program could be used only for investigating terrorism, Mueller finally replied, "Yes."
North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt had a similar question.
"What is you found something that related to serious criminal activity? Can it be used in a criminal investigation if you decide that it is not terrorism but is a threat to national security?" he asked.
Mueller explained that the program has a very narrow, limited purpose, which is to target terrorist activity. He also said that if an agent obtained records that would help in a criminal prosecution, they could not be utilized in that respect without approval from the court.
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- the order that led to the american revolution -- 9/17/19 September 17, 2019Today's selection -- from Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn. By the late 1700s, the trickle of immigrants from Britain to America had turned into a flood, depopulating many British villages and adversely impacting the rental income of powerful British landowners. The British blamed the availability of so much land in America, which brought […]
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- Trojan Warrior– An Attempt To Make a "Super" Soldier September 11, 2019When I was in 10th Special Forces, we tried a program that was called Trojan Warrior. 2 A-Teams were chosen to participate in this, while my team took all the tests, but didn't get the training, as the measuring mark. Those teams were taught meditation, proper diet, biofeedback and more. They had sports experts come […]Bob
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- 36 Truths from 36 Years August 23, 2019Today I turn 36! Age is just a number, they say, and the older I get, the more I realize the truth in that statement. With every year, I feel both changed and exactly the same. There are parts of me that will always be and there are parts that will shift over time. One […]positively present
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- Link Love: Romance Gems Giveaway September 16, 2019Romance Gems, my group blog, is having a great Giveaway in September so I'm sending some Link Love their way.It's all about getting back to you as an individual, not just a parent taking care of the kids on summer vacation.So the prizes in the September Back to School? Back to YOU! Giveaway are sure […]Joan Reeves
- Wisdom for Today: Change September 15, 2019Life is change. How many times have you heard that?I was at a party Friday night, and a friend and I were talking about some things happening in our community that are unsettling and puzzling.I think one of the problems is that change is coming with the election of new officials. This change means following […]Joan Reeves
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- Lucile Doll Wise, 43-7 | August 2, 2018 August 17, 2018"Jacqueline Cochran was looking for WASP. They told me I would have to be interviewed and they would contact me when they came to the Wichita area. But I didn't wait for that. I went down to Houston for my interview, to speed things up. And I think that's one of the smartest things I […]Unknown
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- The Minstral Show – (Episode 075) September 2, 2019The Minstral Show – (Episode 075) Welcome to the Minstral Show, the podcast that spotlights the very best music from around the world, made exclusively in the 21st century. Today's episode brings you great new music by The Rembrandts, James Parker, Smoke Stack Rhino, Peter Buffett, The Claim, Gandalf's Fist and Fink; along with exceptional […]Stewart
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- Fall in love! #mgtab September 11, 2019Ahhhh, as much as I adore summer and can never get enough of the lovely warm months in my cold hemisphere, there is something about falling into autumn that is lovely too. The crisp air is invigorating, and the excitement of the kids going to back to school is contagious. I always feel ready to […]Ev Bishop
- $20 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway October 4, 2015We are excited to give away an Amazon Gift Card worth $20 to one of our lucky visitors. We will be doing many more of these in the future. This is the first one we have done in a while. To enter, please follow the instructions on the giveaway app below. Good luck! a Rafflecopter […]Murphy
- See It First: Allison Rose, John-Clement Gallo, and Amy Sumida June 27, 2019We love introducing Prolific Works readers to great stories and big ideas. Take a chance on new authors and try great stories from old favorites. See it first every day with Prolific Works and be free to discover authors you'll love. We're thrilled to share the latest and greatest from our teen and young adult […]Dalia Sadaka
- Rancho Glutinous: 1941 September 17, 2019August 1941. "Harvesting wheat with combines on Schnitzler Corporation ranch at Froid, Montana. There are about 2,800 acres on this part of the ranch and they are getting over forty bushels to the acre. It is one of the largest wheat ranches in the West." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the […]Dave
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- Best Budget Anniversary Gift Ideas September 16, 2019The best anniversary gifts do not need to cost a lot of money. Gifts that are meaningful hold as much importance as monetary value, particularly if you have spent time and effort to find the perfect gift. Your anniversary is a celebration of the two of you as a couple, so a gift could be […]Sarah Paulsen
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- A Closer Look at IKEA Bedding September 17, 2019We looked at IKEA bed frames in a previous post so it's a natural follow-up to take a closer look at bedding. After looking at dozens of items the conclusion is the same; IKEA takes admirable steps to limit the use of harsh chemicals but in most cases the products are not completely non-toxic. This may […]Lisa Powers
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- Hot Pepper Plant September 13, 2019So I'm officially jealous of the Eustis High School hot pepper plant. I grow lots of peppers–hot, sweet and Hungarian–and my plants have NEVER grown larger than 18″ in height. Ever. Imagine my surprise when I visited the high school this week to discover this enormous pepper plant! I stopped. Blinked. And double-checked the fruit […]gardenfrisk
- Vegetable Gardening with Pressure-Treated Lumber? August 8, 2019Among homeowners, there has been some debate over using pressure-treated lumber when building raised beds for the home vegetable garden, specifically regarding the safety of our food consumption. As a mother, I completely understand the concern. I'm an organic gardener because I want the best for my family–no toxic chemicals, pesticides, GMOs, etc. While my […]gardenfrisk
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- Coffee Rose Undereye Serum (Botanical Skin Care Recipe) September 13, 2019Moisturizing, astringent, and stimulating to circulation, this all-natural undereye serum can be helpful for dark circles and puffy skin. The recipe was discovered within the pages of the Botanical Skin Care Recipe Book. Created as a companion to the Herbal Academy's lovely Botanical Skin Care Course, the recipe book is also sold separately on their […]Jan @ The Nerdy Farm Wife
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Food Writer Pledges to Eat Chinese Food Every Day for a Year
(NEW YORK) -- Chinese food is one of America's most popular takeout options, but would you eat it every day for a year?
Victoria Bekiempis, food writer for The Village Voice, has taken the Chinese food pledge, vowing to eat it every day for the next year.
Currently on Day 42 of her pledge, Bekiempis is chronicling her experience in her food blog, Year of the Takeout. There, you can see images of her selections, such as scallion pancakes or vegetable dumplings, along with the name of the restaurant.
Bekiempis is on her way to finding some fantastic restaurants in her expedition, and she shares these insights in her blog: "While the dumplings in this $6 offering weren't stellar -- they were great, but there was nothing crazy-special-unique-zomg! except the dough, which had a beautifully buttery vibe -- the broth made the pick a true winner, " she wrote about M Noodle Shop's vegetable dumpling soup.
While Chinese menus boast many healthy options, like steamed tofu and vegetables, other items can be loaded with salt and fat. Chicken lo mein can carry up to 1,000 calories, depending how it's made, and fried egg rolls can sometimes house 12 grams of fat.
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The Continuing Disaster Of Open Government In Germany
from the surprising-failures dept
Recently, Techdirt noted that the European "database right" could pose a threat to releasing public data there. But that assumes that central governments are at least trying to open things up. A splendid piece by Sebastian Haselbeck on the Open Gov Germany blog, with the self-explanatory title "German government screws up open data," underlines that things can fail because the government itself sabotages transparency moves.
As he recounts, things began so well. The German government commissioned a study on open data, which was published in August last year. It's a massive, 572-page document put together with commendable thoroughness. A key section is the introduction from the German Interior Minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, who made the following comments:
The [German] federal government has set itself the goal of a more open government and administration. The basis for this is freely available data and information that must be available for others and in standardized formats.
That all sounds great -- open data made freely available in standard formats to promote open government. But then things started to go downhill, culminating in the horribly symbolic decision to name a new site not "Open Government Portal Germany" as originally planned, but just "GovData -- the data portal for Germany". In other words, some data, but without the openness. As Haselbeck comments:
Following the development the last few weeks it seemed clear that the conservative elements in the higher echelons either just did not get what it means to finally go "open government" in the data dimension, or they were just too scared to follow through.
What's worrying is that this high-profile retreat is part of a larger failure to improve transparency in Germany. Haselbeck explains:
Experts can but shake their heads, and sigh at the squandered opportunities of this government, which would love to be very innovative in economic dimensions, but is actually a very backwards cabinet with lots of conservatives in key positions and a liberal coalition partner that is mostly occupied with its own ultra-low poll numbers.
All this adds to a series of disasters in open government in Germany. One is the stubborn denial to join the Open Government Partnership (OGP), along with the partners in crime Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein. As an act of spite, they formed the "DACHLi" (the acronym for the countries' licence plate IDs) initiative, a series of workshops and cooperation agreements to mostly push information exchange and open data cooperation in a way that they have nothing to fear from it, and provide ample platforms for lobbyists to talk CIOs into purchasing proprietary IT solutions for "open" government. All the while, you can count the actual attempts for more cultural and managerial change towards openness with one hand. Another of those disasters is the government's battle against a community-built Freedom of Information platform (fragdenstaat.de) and its failure to make publicly accessible studies produced as part of the parliamentary research service (after all, paid by the taxpayer). A third thing comes to mind: the failure to ratify the UN Convention against Corruption, along with a handful of other rogue states, because it would require reform of the federal criminal code that would tighten rules for politicians' leeway to accept campaign donations and stricter transparency on their side-jobs. Look it up, Germany is in good company there, even Myanmar is ratifying the convention.
It's sad to see such a generally tech-savvy nation fall behind here, as other countries open up their government and its data ever-more deeply. That's a loss not just for German society, through diminished political transparency, but also for the burgeoning number of digital start-ups in cities like Berlin, which are deprived of a key 21st-century raw material: government data.
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Congratulations on a successful trade
Due to New York being over the cap and having a post-trade Team Salary under the Tax Threshold and trading out more than $19.6M in salaries, the 25% trade rule is invoked. New York could not receive more than 125% plus $100,000 of the salary given out for the trade to be accepted, which did happen here. Due to Orlando being under the cap and choosing to invoke the Cap Room rule, Orlando could not go over the cap by more than $100,000 of post-trade Team Salary, which did happen here.
This trade satisfies the provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Trade ID
Trade ID #7013581
New York Knicks Trade Breakdown
Change in Team Outlook: +29.2 ppg, +7.3 rpg, and +1.1 apg.Incoming PlayersEvan Fournier
25 year old, 6-7, 205 lb SG from Poitiers Basket 86 (France)
17.9 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 2.9 apg in 32.5 minutes in 2017-2018
Aaron Gordon
22 year old, 6-9, 220 lb F from Arizona
18.4 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 2.2 apg in 34.0 minutes in 2017-2018
Outgoing Players
Joakim Noah
32 year old, 6-11, 230 lb FC from Florida
1.7 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 0.6 apg in 5.7 minutes in 2017-2018
Frank Ntilikina
19 year old, 6-5, 190 lb PG from Strasbourg IG (France)
5.4 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 3.4 apg in 20.5 minutes in 2017-2018
In addition NY will send thier lottery pick and both 2nd rounders to Orlando and Orlando will send NY pick no.33 in the second round.
Orlando has been looking for a way to trade both Fournier and Gordon, this trade allows them to reset gaining Frank, another lottery pick and 2 first rounders in exchange for taking on Noahs contract.
For NY we give up on tanking somewhat but land two pretty good players who are young themselves but slightly more established. We get Orlando's pick 33 and better scout well.
For now
But I'd probably be looking for another trade that could flip Kanter and Lee for an upgrade at PG. This way I can play....


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Panel Seeks to Overhaul Spy Practices
If Adopted, Moves Could Rein In NSA
WASHINGTON—A presidential panel called for broad changes to both foreign and domestic U.S. spy practices that, if adopted, would significantly curtail the National Security Agency's activities.
The 46 wide-ranging proposals present President Barack Obama with a test of how far he is willing to go in the pursuit of changes to U.S. intelligence-gathering. The review's broader message is that post-Sept. 11 spy operations have gotten out of hand and need to be brought under control....


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In 1987, WK Real Estate recognized the value of an independent relocation department. Since its inception, WK Real Estate has served a long list of local and national companies with careful, personal attention to maximize the experience of moving to Boulder County. As we celebrate 27 years of service, our Boulder area Relocation Team is recognized as the local leader in individual and corporate relocation services. In fact, our Team, along with all the WK Real Estate sales associates, was instrumental in achieving the "Crown of Excellence" award for the Leading Real Estate Network of brokers -- a prestigious award given to only seven real estate firms in the nation!
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US to send food and medical supplies to Syria; Thailand signs deal with militant Muslim group; China signals new foreign policy focus; Tony Blair defends Rwanda's role in Congo; Bulgaria announces election; and more
Top of the Agenda: U.S. Non-Lethal Aid to Syria Marks Major Policy Shift
In a significant policy shift, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that the United States plans for the first time to provide non-lethal aid (Reuters), including food rations and medical supplies, to Syrian opposition fighters battling Bashar al-Assad's regime. The Obama administration will also provide an additional $60 million (BBC), adding to the $385 million of humanitarian aid already given and $54 million in equipment, medical supplies, and other non-lethal assistance. Speaking at an international conference on Syria in Rome, Kerry said that the decision was the result of "the brutality of superior armed force propped up by foreign fighters from Iran and Hezbollah" (AP).
"If the Obama administration is to lead on Syria, it must commit itself to steps that can bring about the early collapse of the regime and its replacement by a representative and responsible alternative. Only direct political and military intervention on the side of the opposition can make that happen," writes a Washington Post editorial.
"If Mr Kerry is to have any diplomatic force in discussions he must be able to threaten an alternative. Mr Assad has cynically exploited the west's reluctance to intervene to stay in power. This bluff has to be called. This applies equally to the EU, which last week rejected a UK call to lift its arms embargo to allow shipments to rebels. If western powers continue to stand on the sidelines, the war will drag on," writes a Financial Times editorial.
"[If] the past is prologue, and more arms proved insufficient, advocates of arming the rebels would soon argue for direct U.S. intervention. The only strategy that stands a chance—and not even necessarily a very good one—is for the United States, the post-Assad Alawites, and the secular Syrian Sunnis to focus relentlessly on the common goal: stopping the victory of Islamic extremists," writes CFR's president emeritus Leslie H. Gelb for the Daily Beast.
Thailand Signs Historic Deal With Militants
Thailand signed a landmark deal with the militant Muslim group Barisan Revolusi Nasional, agreeing to hold talks in a bid to end the nine-year insurgency (PTI) in the country's restive south that has claimed more than five thousand lives. The deal was brokered by Malaysia.
CHINA: China will likely appoint two officials with deep experience in the United States, Japan, and North Korea to its top diplomatic posts (Reuters), signaling its foreign policy focus.
This CFR Timeline takes an interactive look at U.S.-China relations.
Tony Blair defends Rwanda's role in Congo
Bulgaria announces elections
This is an excerpt of the CFR.org Daily News Brief. The full version is available on CFR.org.


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A team from The University of Texas have, along with Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu, won a competition for the "BotPrize", which is awarded to whoever can come up with the most "human-like" piece of artificial intelligence in Unreal Tournament 2004.
Why UT2004 and not, say, Counter-Strike? Because the competition was sponsored by UT's publisher 2K games, that's why!
The contestants were judged by a panel of experts according to their "humanness". The average actual human being scored around 40% on this scale, while the winning AI, UT^2, scored 52%, matching the score of Polceanu's MirrorBot.
If you're wondering just how a bot can be tailored to act human, the winners programmed their AIs to do things like hold a grudge (pursuing an enemy if it's not the "optimal" thing to do), move like a human and even act irrationally.
Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary [EurekAlert, via Reddit]


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Mcoupe.com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Fun Logo Project with 80% of the concept provided already. Design a simple logo using wireframe outline of rear-angle of car and domain name integrated into logo.
This concept should be very simple. The BMW M Coupe is a fairly rare car with a cult like following. I have the exact angle (see link for picture below) of the rear right of the M Coupe, which needs to be "wireframed" and Mcoupe.com integrated into the logo.
- Wireframe of the very unique body style of the BMW M Coupe. The entire car wireframed is not necessary, as the rear of the car is very distinctive and should be the focal point. A picture of the M Coupe is listed below and the wireframe should have at least up to the side door, with the "4 tailpipes, rear brake light area, fenders with some tire/wheel outlines, rear and side windows.
- The wireframe should use thin and thick lines to capture the curves of the rear of the car.
- Mcoupe.com integrated into the logo. Wireframe should be on the left, and domain name on the right side of the logo, but well integrated into the wire frame... almost like the Mcoupe.com is part of the car, or the frontend of the car/logo.
- Text Font should be simple as it will be used on the web site and some wearables (caps, shirts). One example should include font "Crille", as this is being used on some other items for MCoupe.com
- One example should use all black for wireframe and font. Other examples should use all white incase background of site is dark.
- Crille Font Example: http://www.fireballgraphix.com/viny…crille.gif
- Example M Coupe for wireframe of car: http://www.rfdm.com/HC05/pics/08.30/4620.jpg
- Colors in the (///M) three stripes can be used. These three particular colors are very important in the brand of the ///M cars, so please use these colors in some examples: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/…sigxn6.gif
- I don't want a one-dimensional logo
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Samuel Gregory, a Jasper County School District employee and former Jasper County Council chairman, was charged Friday with third-degree assault and battery related to an April 24 incident at Hardeeville-Ridgeland Middle School, according to the Hardeeville Police Department.
The incident was captured on video.
Gregory, 59, was released on a $1,092 personal recognizance bond and is not allowed to have contact with the child or child's family.
Gregory works as a paraprofessional for the district's in-school suspension program. According to the district, he's worked with the district for more than 20 years in the same capacity. The district said it could not release Gregory's salary because it does not meet the state's $50,000 or more requirement for public release.
"After learning of the allegations, the district placed Mr. Gregory on paid administrative leave and is in the process of conducting a thorough investigation," said Shellie Murdaugh, a school district spokesperson. "We are working to conclude the investigation as expeditiously as possible. In light of the confidentiality rights of employees, the district is not at liberty to offer further comment on this matter at this time."
According to an arrest warrant, on April 24, Gregory grabbed a juvenile and wrestled the child in the middle school's hallway.
The report said Gregory forced the child into another hallway and "became aggressive" when the child did not obey.
A teacher who witnessed the event wrote a statement that noted as Gregory held the child, he punched him in the stomach. That incident was not captured on video.
Officer Arnold Middleton said the child's grandmother pursued an investigation. He said the school's school-resource officer provided the Hardeeville Police Department with the video.
Middleton said the video shows the child walking past Gregory as Gregory attempts to talk with the child.
Gregory grabbed the child's arm and Middleton said the child began to back away and went toward the other side of the hallway.
Middleton said Gregory then went to the child, grabbed him and wrestled with him.
According to the Middleton, after viewing the video footage, the charges were "more than justified."
An investigation is ongoing.
Gregory recently served a four-year term on County Council and was elected county chairman in January 2012. He was defeated in last June's Democratic primary runoff for the at-large seat.


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Regional harmonisation is enhanced as South Africa and Botswana sign MoU on standards regulations...
The winners of the annual Pentawards, a prestigious packaging design competition, were recognised at a gala ceremony held on 12 September in London. Microsoft scooped the top Diamond prize...
16 Sep 2019
Kantar CEO Eric Salama presented an update on the new ownership structure and the opportunities under, Bain Capital during a press call held on Thursday...
Juanita Pienaar 5 Aug 2019
The results of the second annual BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Global Retail Brands have been revealed. The research shows that the world's most valuable retail brands are worth $339 billion more...
14 May 2019
Instagram has launched a @shop account, essentially a curation of posts from online merchants that sell products through the image-sharing app.
14 May 2019
The winners of the 2019 International VM Awards were announced at the RetailExpo in London...
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LONDON, UK: Here are the nominations for the D&AD Awards. See this year's In Book winners and Nominations below. Yellow Pencil winners will be revealed on Wednesday 12 June at the Awards Ceremony.
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CUPERTINO, US: Apple has announced it has sold three million of its new iPad, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a new Retina display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics for capturing photos and 1080p HD video, and the same all-day 10 hour battery life*.
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NEW YORK, US: Global consumer confidence increased one index point last quarter to 89, while Europe led confidence declines in 24 of the region's 27 measured markets, according to fourth quarter 2011 global consumer confidence findings from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy.
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NEW YORK, US: Global online consumer confidence fell for the seventh consecutive quarter as confidence in 31 of 56 global markets measured declined, according to from Nielsen, a leading global provider of insights and analytics into what consumers watch and buy.
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NUREMBERG, GERMANY: The overall market for Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) in Western Europe recorded a sales volume of €41.8 billion* in the second quarter of 2011. This is a decrease of 5.1% compared to last year's figures.
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LONDON, UK: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released results from a study of online shopping in Europe. In January 2011, 270.6 million unique visitors in Europe visited sites in the retail category, representing a market penetration of 74.5% of Internet users, up 8.5 percentage points versus last year.
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NEW YORK, US: media control GfK International, a leader in international media and entertainment tracking servicing the global entertainment industry, has announced the release of its 2010 Year End Home Video Retail Sales Report.
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NUREMBERG, GERMANY: At a press conference held this week in Nuremberg, GfK presented a review of private consumption in 2010 and an outlook for 2011. As forecast by GfK, private consumption rose last year by 0.5%. For 2011, the market researchers are expecting private household expenditure to increase by a significant 1.5% and therefore make a strong contribution to the economic upturn.
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LONDON, UK: More than 7% of all phones bought during 2010 in Europe were purchased online according to the latest research from GfK Retail and Technology. This represents a growth in excess of 10% over the same period (Jan-Oct) in 2009.
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There is no agreement to build, and it's not $40-billion
In her early campaign appearances, Gov. Sarah Palin has repeatedly boasted about her role in advocating a new natural gas pipeline in Alaska.
And she has not always stuck to the truth, as we explain in a story here .
This is her at a campaign appearance in Fairfax, Va., on Sept. 10, 2008: "I'm ready to join John McCain in Washington so we can end the corrupt practices of the abuse of earmarks once and for all. We'll do that. Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline. That's going to help all of you."
A commitment to build new natural gas pipeline from Alaska's remote but resource-rich North Slope would indeed be quite an accomplishment. Alaskans have been seeking it for some three decades.
As Palin campaigned for governor, she sharply criticized her predecessor's plan to have major oil companies build the pipeline. After she was elected governor, she sought competing proposals. In August 2008, the Legislature accepted one from TransCanada Corp., a Calgary-based company.
Under a plan Palin spearheaded, TransCanada will get $500-million in state funds to design and seek approvals for the pipeline. But they are not obligated to build it. Financing and approvals are far from certain, and the company can back out even if those contingencies come through.
Several experts we spoke to were skeptical that TransCanada's plan would come to fruition.
"I'll believe it when I see it," said Sarah Ladislaw, a fellow specializing in Western Hemispheric energy issues at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Palin has repeatedly mischaracterized the agreement with TransCanada. In a news conference in Alaska on Aug. 1, 2008, she said the state never before had "commitments to build this line. Now we do."
In its news story the next day, the Anchorage Daily News wrote: "That's incorrect. TransCanada has not promised to actually build the gas line, one of the state's grandest and most frustrated economic development dreams. The state license ... is not a construction contract and does not guarantee a pipeline will be built. Rather, it's an exclusive deal under which the state will provide up to $500-million plus other incentives, such as a coordinator to speed up permits, in exchange for TransCanada doing its best to secure the customers, financing, and U.S. and Canadian regulatory clearances."
Palin also frequently says the pipeline would cost "nearly $40-billion," as she did in this claim. We're not sure where she got that figure — neither her office in Alaska nor the McCain campaign returned our calls to tell us. TransCanada estimates the cost at $26-billion.
Yes, there could be cost overruns. But experts were skeptical the price could reach Palin's estimate.
Palin's accomplishment sounds impressive in her words — far more than it actually is. The agreement she reached — with the help of the Alaska State Legislature — is not a commitment to build, but rather a commitment to begin planning the massive project. Palin's claim suggests that construction is assured, but that's just not true. And if it were, it wouldn't be a $40-billion pipeline. Those are two significant flaws in this claim Palin makes repeatedly.
Still, there is a new agreement that was forged with Palin as governor, so we rate her boast as Barely True.
Editor's note: This statement was rated Barely True when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to Mostly False.


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Honolulu Waldorf School was founded in 1961 by a group of friends who shared a deep interest in the work of Rudolf Steiner. Zena Schuman, Betty C. Wilson, Eric Wakefield, J. Edwin Whitlow, and Peter Lee had the vision, intentions, generosity, and actions to bring the school into existence and nurture its growth. It was through Zena's friendship with Clorinda and Charles Lucas that the group acquired the parcel of Niu Valley land that is the lower school campus. During this time, the late Reverend Abraham Akaka gave the school its Hawaiian name: Kula Ho'o Mohala Pua, which translates appropriately to "school of the developing child."
by Rudolf Steiner College,
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The first Waldorf School was founded in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany, when Emil Molt, a wealthy industrialist, and owner of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Factory, asked Dr. Rudolf Steiner to help him create a school for the families of his workers. Dr. Steiner was well-known at this time for his ideas in education and for his spiritual-scientific research leading to an understanding of the nature of man and the world. This path of knowledge he called anthroposophy, from the Greek, anthropos (man) and sophia (wisdom).
Waldorf Education is designed to develop the full spectrum of human wholeness — hand and heart as well as mind. It aims to support a harmonious development of the three soul faculties — willing, feeling, and thinking — taking full account of the physical and emotional growth phases of the child. There is a particular emphasis on the development of the will during the first seven years. The children learn most by what is worthy of imitation, through activities. During the lower school years (Grades 1-5), the feeling life of the child is nurtured through the guiding authority of the teacher who integrates artistic, imaginative elements into the learning process. During the middle school years (Grades 6-8), the thinking capacity is just starting to develop. Math and sciences meet the budding intellect which later develops in high school. During the upper school years (Grades 9-12), the faculty of thinking is more directly emphasized by challenging the adolescents to individual judgment and to more conscious participation in their education.
Through Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner hoped to cultivate in young people the capacities of heart, mind, and the strength of will that will enable them to meet the challenges of their own time and the future. He laid the foundation for an art of education in which the teacher, ever aware of the inherent dignity and individuality of each child, would strive to awaken and draw out the child's individual gifts. This is in keeping with the true meaning of "to educate" from the Latin, educere, which means "to draw out" rather than to put in.


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DailyDirt: In Money, We Trust (Sometimes)
from the urls-we-dig-up deptMoney is an interesting concept. Government institutions create a supply of money and try to control the value of it within some acceptable ranges. But when the value of money goes out of control, the solutions for getting it stabilized seem a bit illogical. Still, if you can get enough people to switch their faith from one money to another, it seems to work. Here are a few more stories on the topic of money and currency.
- It's intriguingly difficult for any country that currently uses the euro to try to stop using it and switch to some other form of currency. So difficult, in fact, there's a $400,000 prize for anyone who can figure out a process that would actually work and not create monetary chaos. [url]
- Some Brazilians are using locally-printed currencies instead of its national reais -- such as the capivari, which is just one of the 63 local kinds of money. The capivari is a printed bill (with a picture of a rodent on it!), equal in value to the reai, but retailers give customers discounts for using capivaris (making these local bills into fancy coupons, essentially). [url]
- Last year, the IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn proposed an alternative to the dollar in central banks' foreign currency reserves. A system of special drawing rights (SDRs) for central banks would be priced according to international trade instead of any single nation's currency. (It's not an entirely new idea, but it's never caught on.) [url]
- In Vietnam, there's a penalty for posting prices in dollars instead of the local currency. The local currency suffers from high inflation rates, so they might want to look into Brazil's monetary history for some lessons.... [url]
- To discover more stuff on economics, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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This is a picture of the footstep fireworks which isn't actually from the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony:
This is a picture of the girl who didn't actually sing at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (The actual singer who wasn't cute enough for TV is in the inset):
This is a anatomical gift form provided by Union Station that none of the cured and sliced Chinese on display at Bodies Revealed actually signed in their lifetime.
The form above was provided to The Catholic Key by Union Station months ago with the representation that it is a translation from Chinese and that all the bodies on exhibit at Union Station had signed it.
In fact, the form belongs to a legitimate medical donation non-profit called Anatomy Gifts Registry. Their name has been excised from the form provided by Union Station. The Key spoke with an official at AGR who wrote the form in English well after the bodies on exhibit at Union Station were deceased and diced. AGR is not affiliated with Bodies Revealed producer Premier Exhibitions and did not provide the form to them.
Brian Wainger, General Counsel for Premier, told The Catholic Key the he specifically explained to Union Station that Premier was not in possession of consent forms for bodies in the Bodies Revealed show. How then did Union Station President Andi Udris get hold of this form and tell the Kansas City Star that it was used for the bodies at Union Station? Here's what the Star reported February 16 (and has not retracted):
"I have no reason to believe these people (in "Bodies Revealed") didn't willingly donate their bodies," Udris said. "It happens every day."
But anticipating a meeting with local Catholic officials -- and before the ABC report -- Udris already had decided he wanted a greater comfort level.
"I went back to my people and said, 'OK, what we need here is some additional evidence,' " Udris said. "And what they have provided us is the donation form, in English, explaining this is what these people supposedly signed off on. What they have not revealed to us is the actual copy signed by the person."
Udris isn't sure Union Station can demand that information.
Roy Glover, chief medical adviser for Premier, has previously told The Star that privacy considerations prevent the company from identifying the donors.
Wainger told the Key that he never represented to Union Station that a consent form was used. Rather, an employee of Premier, perhaps Dr. Roy Glover according to Wainger, had shown the form to an employee of Union Station as an example of a form that can be used for body donations. Glover himself has signed such a form, Wainger said.
Somehow that message got garbled in translation by the time it hit the Star.
What Premier does have, Wainger said, is an affidavit from their supplier of the bodies, Taiwan-based Genlife Biomedical, stating that the bodies are of willing donors.
But Genlife neither acquired the original corpses nor plastinated them. They acquired the already plastinated bodies from Nanjing Suyi Plastination Laboratories in Nanjing, China. So it is difficult to see how an affidavit from Genlife has any probative value.
Other material provided to the press by Union Station claims that the bodies received from Nanjing Suyi Plastination Laboratories came from "accredited medical universities in the People's Republic of China."
However, in response to an inquiry from the Key, Dr. Jiong Ding, Chair of the Department of Anatomy at Nanjing Medical University, wrote:
I declare seriously, the bodies of volunteer donors we received are only used for anatomy teaching in our Nanjing Medical University. We have never provided any body to any companies for making plastinated bodies or for any commercial behavior. The plastinated bodies showing in the United States from Nanjing has no relation with our university.
In fact, Dr. Jiong Ding recently wrote an article in a peer-reviewed anatomy journal lamenting the shortage of bodies available for the teaching of anatomy at all Chinese medical universities.
There is plenty here to be investigated and body shows are being investigated by the press, law enforcement and legislatures in other states. Following an investigation of another Premier Exhibitions show in New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo concluded:
The grim reality is that Premier Exhibitions has profited from displaying the remains of individuals who may have been tortured and executed in China. Despite repeated denials, we now know that Premier itself cannot demonstrate the circumstances that led to the death of the individuals. Nor is Premier able to establish that these people consented to their remains being used in this manner.
Despite repeated representations in the pages of Bodies Revealed co-sponsor, The Kansas City Star, the level of proof available as to the origin of bodies in the Kansas City show is no better that the New York show.
Bodies . . . The Exhibition in New York must now offer refunds to patrons who were misled to believe there was consent for the bodies they paid to view. Premier also must provide this disclaimer for the show:
-This exhibit displays human remains of Chinese citizens or residents which were originally received by the Chinese Bureau of Police. The Chinese Bureau of Police may receive bodies from Chinese prisons. Premier cannot independently verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were incarcerated in Chinese prisons.
-This exhibit displays full body cadavers as well as human body parts, organs, fetuses and embryos that come from cadavers of Chinese citizens or residents. With respect to the human parts, organs, fetuses and embryos you are viewing, Premier relies solely on the representations of its Chinese partners and cannot independently verify that they do not belong to persons executed while incarcerated in Chinese prisons.
If Kansas City had an independent secular media that was in the business of investigation instead of sponsorship, you might be reading about this there, instead of a last minute push to boost ticket sales.
NEW UPDATE - If you came to this post directly, please visit a newly updated post on this story. The Key will be posting additional updates throughout the week.