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Obama team fires back at Putin op-ed on Syria
The White House fired back at Russian President Vladimir Putin for his op-ed article Thursday, saying Russia's own actions prove that the United States is an "exceptional" nation.
"Unlike Russia, the United States stands up for democratic values and human rights in our own country and around the world," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Carney said The New York Times publication of Putin's column underscores the American commitment to freedom of expression, and "that is not a tradition shared in Russia ... And it is a fact freedom of expression has been on the decrease over the past dozen or so years in Russia."
Putin challenged the notion of American exceptionalism in a Times op-ed in which he said that a military strike at Syria "would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism."
An attack could also "undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa." Putin added.
Putin also said his relationship with President Obama "is marked by growing trust," but he criticized Obama's claims of "American exceptionalism."
"It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation," Putin wrote. "There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too."
Playing to American opinion, Putin also referenced recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:
"It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America's long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan 'you're either with us or against us.'"
Back at the White House, Carney said the op-ed underscores the fact that Russia's "prestige and credibility" is on the line as Putin calls for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons to international control.
"It is also worth noting," Carney said, "that Russia is isolated and alone in blaming the opposition for the chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21."


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File system start-up PolyServe has secured another $20m in funding that should keep it going after the Linux and Windows cluster markets for some time to come.
The latest cash infusion was led by Fidelity Ventures, but contributions were also made by past investors, including Greylock and New Enterprise Associates. The extra cash comes as PolyServe tries to carve out a place for itself in what has moved from a niche to a highly competitive market for powerful file systems. Companies such as Veritas, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat are all attempting to show customers that databases and other pricey business software products can run safely and cheaply on clusters of commodity servers.
"We'll use this latest funding to aggressively accelerate our sales efforts, fully capitalizing on our unique position in the marketplace and leveraging our customer and technical proof points," said Mike Stankey, CEO at PolyServe. "With this investment, we have built a significant operating cushion that will sustain us well beyond profitability and allow us to fully fund strategic initiatives that we could not otherwise pursue."
A couple of years back, PolyServe and Sistina looked set to capitalize on the growing interest around using Linux clusters to run business software. Numerous vendors suggested that Linux clusters would make a quick move out of the scientific realm and into corporate data centers. This transition, however, has taken much longer than the vendors first predicted - big surprise - giving established players time to catch up with start-ups.
Sistina, for example, gave up on its go-it-alone approach and was acquired earlier this year by Red Hat for $30m. Veritas also recently souped up its line of file system and volume manager products for Linux, putting them on par with its own Unix code. Add Oracle, IBM and Sun into the mix on varying levels, and PolyServe faces the stiffest of competition.
With all the software acquisitions that have been made by IBM, HP, Sun and EMC over the past two years, you have to wonder how PolyServe has avoided being bought - that is unless interest in its products has passed.
The company does boast a list of over 300 customers, including Wells Fargo, SBC, the US Department of Defense and Nike. Dell is also rumored to use PolyServe's software.
Earlier this year, PolyServe brought its Matrix Server product over to Windows, giving it access to a small but likely growing Microsoft clustering market. Its products are generally used to help administrators spread a database over numerous servers. The PolyServe software makes sure this cluster can handle failures, keep performance high and expand as needed to keep the database running without flaws. In general, the company pitches this is a low-cost alternative to large Unix servers that run databases inside a single box. ®
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Any sound recording created away from the studio in a specific space or sonic environment. The aim of field recording might be to capture a particular element of this space (as is the case, for example in documentary nature recordings), or to capture the totality which may be thought of as soundscape, auditory scene, or ambience. Field recording may also be referred to as 'on-location recording'; however this term is also used to describe commercial recording of performances in specific venues and acoustic settings. Field recording is integral to Soundscape Composition.
Most frequently used in the sense of technique(s) i.e. sound recording 'in the field' it has also claimed artistic status in relation to music and radio. With the advent of online communities of shared interests, the distribution and sharing of soundfiles across the web, some use the term in the sense of a genre of electroacoustic music, with its own aesthetic as well as technical concerns.


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This is a one day course that allows the student to write the registry exam to get the Q endorsement on their Alberta Drivers License. This course is a prerequisite for the Class 1 MELT training as well as any Class 1 driver.
Please note there is a 72 hour cancellation required for this course. If you fail to provide adequate notice we reserve the right to refuse refunds. This fee is non-refundable.
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Our team at Cannes Lions last month had the opportunity to meet and chat with someone from our developer community – 12-year old Jordan Casey. If you've had the chance to play Alien Ball vs Humans or its sequel, Alien Ball vs Humans 2: Holiday, you've experienced a Casey-developed app. If not, you can get to know this young Irish prodigy, who has made headlines as one of Europe's youngest iOS developer below. Between teaching himself game design, his schooling, and working on upcoming content for his own game studio – Casey Games – Jordan found some time to participate in a Q&A on his youthful rise in the world of game development.
Adobe: When did you first start developing and what inspired you to get started?
Jordan Casey: I first started developing when I was nine, I was playing a Flash multiplayer game called Club Penguin and saw that other kids were building websites and blogs about it, and I saw that this could be fun, so I learned 3 languages: HTML, ActionScript 2.0 and CSS and went ahead and made my site.
How do your ideas come to you? While riding your bike, playing with your dog, from your friends…?
Both of my grannies have a wall in their back garden so I get a football (soccer ball) and start kicking it at the wall, and I just start thinking and I could do this for an hour and when I'm finished I have a couple of game concepts or what to look up online that night when I get home.
Who are your "creative heroes" or role models?
My creative heroes would have to be Apple founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and independent game developer Markus Persson (or Notch) the creator of Minecraft who showed me that you don't need a big team to make a successful game.
How did you come up with the idea for 'Alien Ball vs Humans?' Was it based on game mechanics, the concept, or just the fun factor?
For Alien Ball, I was just in my granny's house again just kicking the ball. I had just gotten my iMac and was thinking of ideas for my first app. I didn't want my first app to be a massive thing and take years to make, but I didn't want it to not be fun either, so I was thinking of a retro game remake and made a Pac Man, Space Invaders and Mario clone. I looked at them all, and I published the Space Invaders one and made a couple of changes and also made Alien Ball, who was the main character of my previous Flash games, the main character of my app. When you think about it, it is kind of the opposite of Space Invaders, because in space invaders you are the human destroying the aliens but in Alien Ball vs Humans, you are the alien killing the humans.
What was the transition from HTML to game coding like? Any tips for other young developers?
When I started developing web games, I already knew Actionscript 2.0, so making Flash games wasn't that hard. But when I was starting to develop gaming apps it meant learning Actionscript 3.0, which wasn't that hard but it did take a bit of time.
What's next for Casey Games?
I am currently working on a Flash game, which I plan to publish to AIR for Mac and PC. Then, I will make some changes and publish to iOS. In September, I am speaking at a summit in Germany and after that I am starting a new school. So, I plan on taking a break and just study for a while but I will be developing, just not as often as the summer, maybe 20 minutes a day.
You can check out Alien Ball vs Humans in action below, and get in touch with Casey Games on Twitter @Casey Games.


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A month and 1/2 ago i started feeling constantly spaced out, and cognitively deficient. A couple of days after i started feeling a constant dull headache... almost like it's brain pressure. A week after that i realized how the dull headache would radiate from the base of my skull / top of my spine and spread through out my head. Now my whole neck aches and the the dull ache at the top of my spine / base of my skull and head intensified slightly.
i use to enjoy intellectual conversation but now find it somewhat difficult because of frequent brain ****s, memory gaps and I feel mentally slow. I constantly have to wrestle with a shortened attention span and a spaced out feeling with passive meditation. I also feel like everything in my head registers things much more slowly... verbally and visually. Sometimes i make really stupid decisions like looking for milk in the co bard... as if i'm so spaced out that i do things without before i think about it..
some history:
I use to be a gym freak until 6 months ago. 2 years ago, While working out i use to feel a pinched nerve in my neck... one time i got really sick after immediately after a gym session where i was lifting heavy overhead. I was in the Navy so they just handed me Tylenol and sent me back to work. I was so sick i could barely move and my neck was aching... I had a lot of cold sweaty nights. It lasted about 5 days and i lost 20 pounds. i thought it was the flu but my two overweight friends saw how skinny i was and ( I s**t you not) decided to lick the rhym of the cup i was drinking out of but never got sick. When i got somewhat healthy I went back to the gym and the same less intense symptoms showed up again.. but i felt my neck hurting first. so i stayed out the gym for a month.
also, i expirimented with Pot this year from June till September.. then again in the beginning of November for a week. But i know people with who smoked for a decade and don't share my symptoms.
unfortunately i can't go to the doctor at the moment because i don't have health insurance. (No you don't get it once out the Service) Can anyone help me out, i've been reading forums all week and didn't get a diagnosis. Does anyone have any information or know where i can ask around?
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£1,000 reward offered to help collar Royston raiders
PUBLISHED: 10:54 09 May 2012
A £1,000 reward has been posted for any information that will help convict burglars who raided a Royston home.
The masked criminals helped themselves to jewellery worth thousands of pounds after breaking in to an isolated house shortly after 10.15pm on, April 1.
Among their haul were military medals, including one from 1941, and a 1922 gold pocket watch with an enamel face engraved with "EPP" in Gothic script.
Other distinctive items include a chunky silver necklace made by a Thailand hill tribe, a Cherbellin ladies watch, a collection of antique and 1930s silver including seven Georgian snuff boxes, a Victorian gold sovereign, and a gold Vesta matchbox for wax matches
Detective Constable Colin Troll, investigating, said: "Many of the stolen items are very distinctive and were of huge sentimental value to the victims.
"I would urge anyone who has any information about who is responsible, or has been offered the items for sale, to call police."
The payment of the reward is subject to information being received before June 8 and the validity of any claim will be determined by the victim of the burglary in conjunction with police.
Anyone with any information should call DC Troll on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.
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Technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The Virgin Earth Challenge is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges' satisfaction a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases so as to contribute materially to the stability of Earth's climate.
Among the 11 shortlisted organizations are:
- biochar (Biochar Solutions, Black Carbon and Full Circle Biochar)
- carbon capture, particularly from ambient air (Carbon Engineering, Kilimanjaro Energy and Climeworks)
- enhanced weathering (Smart Stones)
How effective each technology is in one area is an important consideration; importantly, each such technologies can also have effects in further areas.
Further areas
Global warming is only one out of multiple areas where action is required; an example of another area is the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica; effective action has already been taken in this area, but the growing hole in the ozone layer over the Arctic shows that further action is necessary.
A safe operating space for humanity is a landmark 2009 study that identifies nine essential areas where sustainability is stressed to the limits, in three cases beyond its limits.
The inner green shading represents the proposed safe operating space for nine planetary systems. The red wedges represent an estimate of the current position for each variable. The boundaries in three systems (rate of biodiversity loss, climate change and human interference with the nitrogen cycle), have already been exceeded. From: A safe operating space for humanity, Rockström et al, 2009.
Areas and applicable technologies
The table below shows these nine areas on the left, while technologies that could be helpful in the respective area feature on the right.
As said, each of technologies may be able to help out in multiple areas. As an example, by reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, biochar and carbon air capture can also indirectly reduce carbon dioxide in oceans and thus help out with ocean acidification. Enhanced weathering could additionally reduce carbon dioxide in the oceans directly, thus presenting itself even more prominently as a proposal to achieve sustainability in this area.
Similarly, algae bags located in the mouth of a river could help out in multiple areas. They could produce biofuel and thus help reduce aviation emissions, while in the process catching fertilizer runoff, thus reducing emissions of nitrous oxide (the largest ozone-depleting substance emitted through human activities in a 2009 NOAA study) and also reducing depletion of oxygen in oceans.
|1. Climate Change
|CDR: biochar, carbon air capture, enhanced weathering, algae bags, EVs, renewable energy, clean cooking & heating, LEDs, etc.
SRM: surface and cloud brightening, release of aerosols
AMM: methane capture, oxygen release, river diversion, enhanced methane decomposition
|2. Ocean acidification
|enhanced weathering
|3. Stratospheric ozone depletion
|oxygen release
|4. Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles
|algae bags, biochar, enhanced weathering
|5. Global freshwater use
|desalination, biochar, enhanced weathering
|6. Change in land use
|desalination, biochar, enhanced weathering
|7. Biodiversity loss
|desalination, biochar, enhanced weathering
|8. Atmospheric aerosol loading
|biochar, EVs, renewable energy, clean cooking & heating, LEDs, etc.
|9. Chemical pollution
|recycling, waste management (separation)
Implementing the most effective policies
Policy support for such technologies is imperative. Just like some technologies can help out in several areas, some policies can cover multiple areas. As an example, a policy facilitating a shift to cleaner energy can both reduce greenhouse gases and aerosols such as soot and sulfur. Sulfur reflects sunlight back into space, so reducing sulfur emissions results in more global warming, but conversely global warming can be reduced by releasing sulfur over water at higher latitudes.
How many different policies would be needed to support such technologies? What are the best policy instruments to use?
Traditionally, government-funded subsidies and standards have been used to contain pollution, sometimes complemented with levies and refundable deposits; this can also work for chemical pollution. Standards have also proven to be effective in reducing the impact of CFCs on the ozone layer, while - as said - policies could at the same time also be effective in other areas, in this case reducing the impact of CFCs as greenhouse gases.
However, standards don't raise funding for support of such technologies, while taxpayer-funded subsidies make everyone pay for the pollution caused by some. Hybrid methods such as cap-and-trade and offsets are prone to corruption and fraud, which compromises their effectiveness. Local feebates are most effective in facilitating the necessary shifts in many areas.
Two sets of feebates
To facilitate the necessary shift away from fuel toward clean energy, local feebates are most effective. Fees on cargo and flights could fund carbon air capture, while fees on fuel could fund rebates on electricity produced in clean and safe ways. Fees could also be imposed on the engines, ovens, kilns, furnaces and stoves where fuel is burned, to fund rebates on clean alternatives, such as EV batteries and motors, solar cookers and electric appliances. Such feebates are pictured as yellow lines in the top half of the image below.
Support for biochar and olivine sand could be implemented through a second set of feebates, as pictured in the bottom half of the image below. Revenues from these feebates could also be used to support further technologies, as described in the paragraph below.
Further technologies should be considered for their effectiveness in specific areas, including:
- release of oxygen to help combat methane in the Arctic and to help combat loss of stratospheric ozone
- use of plastic sheets to capture methane
- use of radio waves to enhance methane decomposition
- diversion of water from rivers to avoid warm water flowing into the Arctic Ocean
- release of aerosols over water at higher latitudes
- surface & cloud brightening to reflect more sunlight back into space
Professor Schuiling proposes olivine rock grinding
Dutch Professor Olaf Schuiling has been working on rock grinding for many years. Remember the Virgin Earth Challenge, launched early 2007 with the promise to award $35 million to the best method to remove greenhouse gases? Schuiling said: Let's grind more rocks! Last thing Schuiling heard was that he was among the final ten contenders.
Schuiling's method is simple. Crush olivine rock to small pieces and it will bind with carbon dioxide. This process - called weathering - happens in nature but takes a long time. Crushing and grinding olivine rock will speed up the process and is therefore often called enhanced weathering. It works best in wet tropical countries, but can be done everywhere around the world.
Schuiling proposes to cover beaches, levees and railway tracks with the material, and proposes olivine to be added to building materials like pavement and concrete. It can also be added to soil and water. Adding olivine can fertilize the soil and improve its ability to retain water, and can work well in combination with biochar and other ways to increase organic carbon in the soil. When added to the sea, it can reduce acidification, and stimulate growth of diatoms and other forms of biomass in the sea.
This is a win-win solution, Schuiling says, as it helps grow more food, while combating global warming. To add another win, it can also produce drinking water that is healthier than rain water. Schuiling recommends cities to build olivine hills, to remove carbon dioxide from the air while filtering water.
There's is a video with more background, in Dutch with English subtitles. Also have a look at this poster.
What works best is implementation of feebates that put in place combinations of local financial incentives and disincentives, as illustrated by the image on the right.
Energy feebates, working in a parallel yet complimentary way, can clean up energy supply within a decade, while feebates as pictured above can continue to bring carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere back to 280 ppm, as well as bring down carbon dioxide levels in the oceans.
Rock grinding should be part of a comprehensive policy that also includes replacing fuel with renewable energy and support for biochar. The latter is also discussed in the posts Biochar and The Biochar Economy.
As the above diagrams try to show, biochar and olivine sand can be combined in soil supplements, to help bring carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere back to 280ppm. Rebates could be financed from fees on nitrogen fertilizers, livestock products and Portland cement.
Enhanced weathering is possible with other types of rock, but more easily done with olivine. The paper Olivine against climate change and ocean acidification includes the map below with the global distribution of dunite massifs. By removing their lateritic overburden, the underlying dunites (rocks that consists of > 90% olivine) can be mined.
As the image on the right shows, there's no need for long distance transport. One dot often represents several dunites and olivine is available in abundance at many places across the globe.
The benefits are great and this looks like one of the most economic ways to bring down carbon dioxide levels.
The energy can come from wind energy, which is clean, price-competitive and available in abundance in many places. Rock grinding, the transport and distribution can be largely automated, and take place predominantly at off-peak hours, while wind energy can be supplied very economically at off-peak hours.
Olivine sand can also be combined well with biochar, as soil supplement. Have a look at the post the Biochar Economy.
Further reading:
Carbon Air Capture and Algae Bags
Enhanced weathering
Oxygenating the Arctic
Ozone hole recovery
Enhanced methane decomposition
Vortex towers could vegetate deserts
Carbon-negative building
LEDs: When will we see the light?
Thermal expansion of the Earth's crust necessitates geo-engineering
Towards a Sustainable Economy
The way back to 280 ppm


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Anthony and I are not going to tell Isobel about Santa. We are the type of asshole parents that approach child-rearing with the aim to be as open and truthful (and developmentally appropriate) with our child as possible. That's not to say she won't find presents waiting for her under the tree on Christmas morning, or that we are going to squash other children's belief in the big guy. She'll know all the myths and stories about him, but they will remain just that: myths and stories. Besides, lots of people this time of year are so keen on telling everybody that Santa isn't the reason for the season anyway, so I don't think this deviation from the parenting norm should really be all that big of a deal.
To reiterate, though: I do not care if you wholeheartedly encourage your child to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Loch Ness Monster or the viability of a Republican candidate for the presidency. Santa is small potatoes in the big scheme of parenting and it's not worth making a fuss over. I truly believe that in this regard parents make their own rules for the household and it's not my place to judge. Or care. So why don't we focus on what matters: presents.
If Isobel asks why we don't believe in Santa we are going to tell her about the universal spirit of generosity and goodwill Santa represents. It sounds better than saying, "Honey, we believe in science!" but it means the same thing. "Yes, we believe in science. That's why this year you're getting Quantum Presents this Christmas, my dear! This one's from someone named Schrödinger. Your present may or may not be a dead cat. Don't open the box, sweetheart! That ruins the mystery."
Since we are embracing the Handmade & Vintage Christmas this year I have been saving up thrifted items for her since this summer. I can't wait for her to discover these gifts under the tree:
BAM! You just got Care Bear Stared IN THE FACE! You now possess the uncontrollable urge to share.
Can you believe I found the vintage 1983 Care-A-Lot for thirty cents? Thirty cents! I nearly died. After I found that I won Funshine, Tenderheart, Cheer Bear, and Friendship Bear on eBay for seven bucks. Earlier in the year I made a major CB faux pas when I failed to remember the correct name is "Funshine Bear" instead of "Sunshine Bear." Multiple people came forward to tell me what's what. This lead Anthony and I to have a discussion about The Care Bears Cousins. Remember them? If you don't I'll jog your memory: their names, according to my perfect memory, were Lion-O, Trumpet Face, and Hippo. Since that incident I've collected several stuffed Care Bees (as they are known in my household) at thrift stores and yard sales.
Isobel spends about 90% of her daily vocalizations requesting I turn on the Care Bears. Of those times it's an even split between asking if she can watch "Care Bears," meaning the Big Wish movie, or "Different Care Bears" meaning any of the newer Care Bee movies that are out. Big Wish is by far her favorite, and I've had it on so often that I've unconsciously started singing the songs only to be found out and heckled by Anthony. LET YE WHO HAS NEVER SUNG 'I LIKE FISH' IN THE VOICE OF TOODEE CAST THE FIRST STONE, ANTHONY.
Before our household underwent a freeze on any non-crucial spending I did pick up a few other things while thrifting and out and about at Michael's. These presents are for Isobel's stocking. Er, except the globe, which won't really fit. But damn, three dollars for a vintage globe that still includes Rhodesia and the USSR? That shit is coming home with mama.
I bought her two kazoos because she's going to need one each for her and Kingston when he comes over to play. Last summer we got her together with the neighbor kids and made an impromptu marching band with their musical instruments. Imagine the melodious sounds of seven kids, all under the age of 11, banging on drums, wailing on the recorder, and clashing the cymbals as they marched down the street. A ruckus like that is a surefire way to make our property values skyrocket.
That train whistle in the photo above is supposed to be for ages 5 and up. This confuses me as it has no small parts and my child can exhale just as well, if not better than, your average five year old. That's my baby! She sure can breathe out good.
The teapot we found while thrifting is going to make an excellent addition to her Thrifted Toy Kitchen.
I know many of you are participating in Handmade Christmas. Any one else out there doing a Thrifted Christmas as well?


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Heavy rains cause problems in construction zones
Homeowners worry about flooding
The rain this week has already created some problems on area roadways, slowing traffic and stalling construction projects.
By mid-day, traffic was moving, but not much else in the Interstate 94 westbound construction zone was. Rain had brought the work to a halt and put the projects completion deadline in jeopardy.
"We were hopeful that we would be able to get the third lane open by the end of this week. Certainly Mother Nature is going to make that a little challenging for us, but we're still making that effort," Department of Transportation spokesman Michael Pyritz said.
Pyritz said road projects around the area are being impacted by this week's spring storms.
"Each one, based on what they were doing at the time, parts of the project are still moving full-speed forward, other parts are being put on hold until we get the appropriate weather in place," Pyritz said.
Standing water is also posing a pressing problem for drivers in freeway construction zones. It shut down part of the interstate in Kenosha County for a while on Monday and continues to be a concern anywhere roadwork is being done.
"Anytime you have an active construction zone, you're going to have situations where the water flow is not normal. There's not curb and gutter and the drainage that you would normally have in a standard roadway," Pyritz said. "Pooling water can happen. If there are orange barrels in the area, pay even more attention."
The rain is causing problems on city streets as well. Standing water flooded many intersections. The problem, in most cases, is sewer grates clogged with leaves and branches, or in some cases, garbage and debris.
Something else that's contributing to the standing water around construction sites is the mesh filters required on sewer grates. They keep construction debris out of the sewers but can also block some of the water flow.
Homeowners also have concerns.
Streets, sidewalks and lawns were already overflowing in parts of Whitefish Bay on Tuesday afternoon.
"We know there's going to be a lake, and there's times when we see ducks swimming in it," homeowner Gary Lang said.
Homes in Lang's neighborhood suffered severe flooding a few years ago, and he said people there can't help but worry that it could happen again.
"A former neighbor lost her furnace and water heater with the first bout of that, and the second time around, she also lost both those items again, so it was significant to many homeowners," Lang said.
"They're just wanting to make sure their pumps are working," plumber Sebastian Bellante said.
Bellante handled a couple of service calls, even before the heaviest rainfall, from homeowners wanting to make sure their sump pumps were ready for action.
"When you get weather like this, and the pump's not kicking on, you're going to get flooding," Bellante said.
"What should people be doing right now?" WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott asked.
"They can even pour some water in their pits, their crocks, to make sure the pump is going to turn on by itself," Bellante said.
The rain is also exposing gutters that are clogged. Clearing those and the area around downspouts can help alleviate problems, but around the area, concerns keep mounting as the rain keeps falling.
"So when you see water filling up the street in front of you here, that's a concern for a lot of people around here?" Wainscott asked.
"Yes, it is. Who knows what's next?" Lang asked.


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Beer Pairing: What to Drink with Honey Glazed Ham
Beer and food are better together.
Editor's Note: We're trying to find the best beers to drink with our favorite foods. Certified Cicerone Michael Agnew is here to help.
In many households it's turkey at Thanksgiving and ham at Christmas. For my family that nearly always means a ham that's succulent and honey-glazed. The sweet/savory combination of salt, smoke, porcine richness, and caramelized honey make for a pretty delicious meal. Of course, I like to make it even better with beer.
Which beer, though? My primary advice is to steer toward lighter flavors, but not so light as to be beaten down by the meat. Choose beers with some body and sweetness to stand up to the pungent pork. Fruity and spicy yeast flavors are ham's best friends. They partner well with the glaze and the smoke. A light touch of roasted malt will emphasize smoke and umami, but a light touch is all you want.
Pairing Pointers
Wheat beers are an excellent partner for ham, especially the yeasty European varieties like witbier and hefeweizen. Wheat malt gives these beers a soft, bready sweetness that latches onto the honey glaze and also pulls a bit of sweetness from the pork. And you won't find a better counterpoint to the salt. The characteristic clove-like flavor of these beers is closely related chemically to the flavor of smoke. The two play off each other without quite being the same. Effervescent carbonation and the lightest touch of acidity clear your palate, setting you up for your next bite.
Belgian Tripels absolutely sing with honey glazed ham. Sweeter versions of the style often have flavors reminiscent of the syrup that comes with canned peaches, so drinking a tripel with ham is like putting sweet fruit compote on the meat. It's a stellar complement to the glaze and an even better contrast to the salt. Like with the hefeweizen, spicy yeast flavors give a tasty tie-in to the smoke. Alcohol gives these beers added palate-cleansing power.
Schwarzbier offers a different approach to this pairing that tastes so quintessentially "German" it will have you donning dirndls and lederhosen. The graham-cracker sweetness of pilsner malt emphasizes the salty, cured character of the meat. Subtle smoky flavors from the judicious use of roasted malts are a perfect match to those same flavors in the meat. A clean, crisp lager finish leaves your mouth feeling fresh.
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Wheat Beers
Franziskaner Weissbier: The sweetness of wheat malt in this beer both counters the ham's saltiness and complements the honey glaze. It really sings with bites of ham that have an extra bit of glaze. The spicy, clove-like flavors from the yeast are awesome with the smoky ham.
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen: Does it get any better than this? I don't think so. This beer has all the best character of hefeweizen with an ample dose of smoke. When you eat the ham, you think of the beer. When you drink the beer, you think of the ham. They are the liquid and solid state of the same thing. Try this pairing!
Belgian Tripel
Dark Horse Sapient Trip Ale Belgian Tripel: This sweet-leaning beer has nice canned-peach fruitiness that grabs hold of the honey glaze of the ham while giving a nice contrast to the salt. A dry finish combined with lively bubbles and a bit of alcohol clears away any lingering fats.
Tripel Karmeliet: An unusual tripel in its airy lightness and orange-citrus overtones, Karmeliet is a less forceful match. The cotton-candy and spice yeastiness still does the job tying into the smoke and the honey on the ham.
Köstritzer: Schwarzbiers are like pilsners, but with a touch of roast. Lacking the sweet honey hook to catch the glaze, it works instead with the smoke and the salt. The pairing emphasizes umami, and it works.
Sprecher Black Bavarian: This beer is a wee bit richer and roastier than Köstritzer, but every bit as good with the ham. It's got the same smoke and salt to start out, with a crisp, lager finish to cleanse your palate.
Those are my picks, but clearly there are more great options. What's your favorite beer to drink with ham?
About the Author: Certified Cicerone Michael Agnew is the lead educator and owner of A Perfect Pint. He conducts beer tastings for private parties and corporate events. His beer musings can be read in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, his own Perfect Pint Blog, The Hop Press at Ratebeer.com, the City Pages Hot Dish Blog, and in respected national beer magazines. Follow him on Twitter at @aperfectpint
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The first day of open enrollment for the insurance marketplace didn't go very smoothly. The marketplace was established by The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which became law in 2010. Now, consumers are able to go shopping for insurance coverage for the first time, if they can get online.
Haley Cassar and Anna Shepherd work at Luigi Bruni in Birmingham. Cassar is 28 years old and already buys her own health insurance. She admits she learned some expensive lessons the first time around.
"Just like car insurance of anything else you buy, I didn't do the legwork to see what my best options were," she said. "I didn't really know what I was looking for and ended up paying $200 a month."
Later, Cassar received some help from her boyfriend and found a plan for $99 a month. However, she says that rate was just raised to $154 a month. She was hoping to get online today at HealthCare.org to shop around and see if there are better deals available in the marketplace.
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Ruth to the Rescue stopped at the salon to see if Cassar and Shepherd could get online and start shopping for coverage. They ran into trouble.
"I haven't been able to log in or create an account just yet," said Haley Cassar as the Ruth to the Rescue camera was rolling. When she tried to create an account, she kept getting stuck on the page that asked people to choose some security questions. The Ruth to the Rescue producer tried to start a "live chat", but could not get answers right away.
There were reports nationwide of delays in signing up. Even President Barack Obama acknowledged the rollout wasn't flawless. Although, he said some glitches are to be expected when a new product is rolled out.
"The reason is because more than one million people visited HealthCare.gov before 7 in the morning," said President Obama while making comments on the government shutdown. Once the website catches up both young women are looking forward to getting more information.
"I think its nice that you'll be able to compare and get an idea of what your options are," said stylist Anna Shepherd. "It's like Travelocity for health insurance."
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In my previous post, I explained the difference between opening a commentary in a pane alongside your Bible text and opening it in a separate zone. In brief, opening a commentary in a pane has the advantage of automatically scrolling with the text, while opening a commentary in a separate zone lets you search and navigate the commentary itself. I also showed how you can manually tie the scrolling of a commentary in one zone with a Bible text in another: effectively giving you the best of both worlds. In today's post, I want to show you an even easier way to do that.
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1970 Plymouth Superbird - Guilt-Free Driving
John Balow Puts His Low-mileage Super Bird on the Road
Musclecars with scant mileage on their odometers are an oddity in this hobby. More than that, they exude an almost museum-like quality-especially if they've remained essentially untouched since rolling off the assembly line. The wealth of information they contain in their stampings and assembly procedures alone deliver tangible value. When lucky buyers manage to get their hands on one of these gems, the last thing they tend to think about is treating the car to a ground-up restoration.
Not John Balow of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. When John snagged the title to this '70 Plymouth Super Bird (an oddity in its own right), his mind was already formulating the restoration sequence even though the car had only 4,700 miles on the clock.
Now, before you preservation buffs start looking for a rope and tree to hang John by, hear his story out.
John fully understands and appreciates the historical and financial value of survivor cars as well as OE Certified iron. As the owner of Muscle Car Restorations, John and his crew have built a lot of OE Certified cars, won the Mopar Nationals twice, and developed seven Gold Certified restorations in the last 10 years as part of his business. So don't tie the hangman's noose just yet.
You might be wondering how a car like this came into John's possession with so few miles on it to begin with.
For the first 11 years of its life, the 440-4V Super Bird hung out at a dealership near Jay, Maine. John's not sure exactly of the car's use during all those years, but his best guess is that it was driven minimally around town and was used as a promotional car for the dealership, participating in parades and such. In all that time, the dealership never sold or even titled the car.
That happened in 1981, when the "original owner" pulled it out of the dealership's hands. Some years later, a friend of John's bought the car from the first owner through the Internet. His intentions were to restore the car, but after further review, he decided that it wasn't exactly the right piece of Mopar iron for him. The friend offered John the car, and John didn't hesitate to buy it sight-unseen.
Now you would think that a car with only a few thousand miles on the odometer would be in tip-top condition. You'd also be wrong in this case.
"It wasn't really stored in a good location," says John, "and it was just rough around the edges. They weren't really nice brand new anyway. I mean, those cars weren't really well put together. They were slapped together by [the subcontractor].
"[This car] wasn't really in the survivor category. Belts and hoses and all had been changed. It didn't have the original carburetor on it; it was with the car, but someone very early in its life just changed the carburetor for whatever reason. I think that it sat around so long that it just...the gaskets dried out, seals dried out...cars really do deteriorate with lack of use."
With all of that, plus the fact that the original Lemon Twist paint was far from presentable, John figured a full-on rebuild would be the best alternative for bringing the Super Bird back into the light of day. Another reason is that John loves to drive his cars.
Being in the upper echelons of the car restoration business has its advantages-not the least of which is networking. When John's acquaintances at Year One heard of his acquisition, the company figured this would be a great project to get involved with and illustrate the breadth of Year One's parts offerings for the ever-popular Road Runner. Pretty soon the Mopar Performance Parts folks also fell into the loop, as well as a number of other companies (see sidebar), and an image-building project based on John's Super Bird was under way. But before the wrenches would start to turn, the group wanted folks to see how to take a restoration from "here" to "there" in high style.
After mapping out the project and its sponsors, John hauled the Super Bird, in its unrestored form, to Year One's Atlanta facility. From Atlanta, the Year One folks piloted the car on the '01 Mopar Muscle Return to Brice Road caravan to Columbus, Ohio. The plan was to let Mopar Nationals attendees see the car in its "before" condition, then see it at the 2002 Nationals after the restoration was completed-a perfect way to showcase the many varied parts available for these cars through the participating sponsors.
Once the Mopar enthusiast world had taken a good look at the unrestored Plymouth, John took the car back to Chippewa Falls, where he and the Muscle Car Restorations crew set to work.
"[This Super Bird] didn't have the big [restoration] challenges," says John. "What it has is a lot of rare parts. All the parts were there, so we had to seek out special people to help us restore certain [Super Bird-specific] parts. We had to keep real close track of those when we would send them out...like stainless polished [steel]. A lot of the stainless on a Super Bird is Super Bird-specific. [And] it's always a challenge to restore the nose cones on these things. It's always a challenge to get the vacuum system to work well when you're done. Other than that, it's just a Road Runner.
"The one thing that does separate this car from all the rest is that it's one of three known to exist with factory power windows. Aside from that, yellow is one of the most popular colors, [and] the 440 four-barrel engine is the most common engine. It does have bucket seats with a console, which is somewhat rare, and a six-way, manual-adjustable driver's seat, which is very rare. It's the most ingenious thing you've ever seen, and it's an extremely rare option."
Aside from dealing with the quirky anomalies of this particular car, the Super Bird's restoration proved to be fairly straightforward. And with a large crew working towards its completion, the project moved along at a healthy clip, with Year One components providing the bulk of the replacement pieces. As for the engine....
"Everything is stock," John tells us, "with the exception that when we did the valve job and rebuilt the heads, we [installed] hardened seats and stainless steel valves. We just prepared the heads for unleaded premium gas, and we rebuilt the motor at about 9.7:1 compression so it would run good and not overheat on pump premium. We used the stock Mopar Performance cam, lifters and pistons, and all the parts Mopar Performance sells to rebuild a factory engine. We [also] upgraded it to the Mopar Performance electronic ignition."
True to the mission plan, John and the folks at Muscle Car Restorations finished up the Super Bird in a quick 10 months-just 30 days before the Mopar Nationals. Folks who saw the unrestored car at the '01 event got to see first-hand in '02 what a lot of hard work, quality reproduction parts, and restoration skills can do in short order. But if you think this is going to be a perpetual show field queen, you'd better think again. When we asked John what his plans were for the car, he was quick to respond.
"Drive it. Enjoy it. And take it to car shows. Since the Mopar Nationals my wife and I have already put almost 1,000 miles on it. Just the week before last she and I took off on a Sunday and put 300 miles on it in one day. I mean, it's a rare and quite valuable car, but my mission is to enjoy the car and drive it. If we get a nick, we'll fix it. My enjoyment comes from driving the car and showing it...letting people see it and not just let it sit in the garage and polish it.
"I've sort of coined the phrase to describe the mentality, or to explain the mentality, and that's guilt-free driving."


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Sean Gittins partied with friends from boat after work, authorities say
A 23-year-old Gateway Clipper Fleet worker drowned in the Monongahela River near Station Square early Sunday morning.
Sean Gittins was on the wait staff of the Duchess, one of the boats in the fleet, and worked until 11:30 p.m. Saturday, owner Terry Wirginis said.
Gittins was off the clock when authorities say he partied with friends, both on and off the boat.
"And it's not unusual for them to all go out together. I just think it's more unusual that they were back on the boat after hours," said Gittins' mother, Suzanne Benedict.
Gittins either jumped into the river or fell in around 4 a.m. Benedict said Gittins was "terrified of water. He would've never jumped in the water."
A Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman said Gittins dove into the Mon to swim but had trouble. People on the boat tried to help, throwing out a rope and trying a second unknown method. River Rescue later found the body, and he was pronounced dead at UPMC Mercy shortly before 6 a.m.
Benedict believes something isn't adding up and she wants answers.
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St. Nectarios (1846-1920), Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina, was officially recognized as a Saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1961. His Feast Day is celebrated every year on 9 November.
Three years after becoming a monk he was ordained a Deacon, taking the name Nectarios. He graduated from the University of Athens in 1885. During his years as a student of the University of Athens he wrote many books, pamphlets, and Bible commentaries.
Following his graduation he went to Alexandria, Egypt, where he was ordained a Priest and served the Church of Saint Nicholas in Cairo with great distinction. In recognition of his piety and brilliance as a preacher, as well as his administrative ability, he was consecrated Bishop/Metropolitan of Pentapolis (an ancient diocese in Cyrenaica, in what is now Libya) by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Sophronios in 1889.
He served as a Bishop in Cairo for one year, and was them unjustly removed from his post by jealous clerics who envied his popularity with the people. Lies were made up against him by the jealous clergy. Patriarch Sophronios refused to listen to St. Nectarios. He was sent away from Egypt without trial or explanation, and was never given an opportunity to defend himself.
After his dismissal, he returned to Greece in 1891, and spent several years as a preacher (1891-1894). He was then appointed director of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School for the education of priests in Athens, where his service was exemplary for fifteen years. He developed many courses of study, and wrote numerous books, all while preaching widely throughout Athens.
In 1904 at the request of several nuns, he established a monastery for them on the island of Aegina. The Monastery was named Holy Trinity Monastery.
In December of 1908, at the age of 62, St. Nectarios resigned from his post as school director and withdrew to the Holy Trinity Convent on Aegina, where he lived out the rest of his life as a Monk. He wrote, published, preached, and heard confessions from those who came from near and far to seek out his spiritual guidance.
While at the monastery, he also tended the gardens, carried stones, and helped with the construction of the monastery buildings that were built with his own funds. He was also the Metropolitan of the island of Aegina.
St. Nectarios died on the evening of 9 November 1920 at the age of 74, following hospitalization for prostate cancer. His body was taken to the Holy Trinity Convent, where he was buried by a Priest-Monk named Savas, who later painted the first icon of St. Nectarios. The funeral of St. Nectarios was attended by multitudes of people from all parts of Greece and Egypt.
Many people regarded St. Nectarios as a Saint during his lifetime because of his prayerful life, his humility, his purity and other virtues, his writings, as well as the miracles he performed. St. Nectarios also had the gift of prescience.
The relics of St. Nectarios were removed from the grave on 2 September 1953 and gave out a beautiful fragrance. Official recognition of Nectarios as a Saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople took place on 20 April 1961.
The Feast Day of St. Nectarios is celebrated every year on 9 November. Thousands of miracles have been attributed to his intercession.
External Links
Biographical Accounts
- http://www.serfes.org/spiritual/november2000.htm
- http://www.st-seraphim.com/nectarios.htm
- http://tserkovnost.org/articles/nectarios.html
- http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/saint_nektarios_egina_e.htm#_Toc60879398
Selected Writings
- http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/saint_nektarios_egina_e.htm#_Toc60879402
- http://www.serfes.org/writtings/stnectarios.htm
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Spotting signs of cancer
Changes to your body's normal processes or unusual, unexplained symptoms can sometimes be an early sign of cancer.
Symptoms that need to be checked by a doctor include:
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But in many cases your symptoms will not be related to cancer and will be caused by other, non-cancerous health conditions.
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Making some simple changes to your lifestyle can significantly reduce your risk of developing cancer.
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Surgery is the first treatment to try for most types of cancer, as solid tumours can usually be surgically removed.
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Preheat oven to 350º F.
In large bowl, combine sweet potatoes, pineapple, bourbon, brown sugar, raisins, coconut, walnuts, pumpkin pie spice and salt.
Pour mixture into 2-quart casserole dish that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.
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"The Poverty Lab" in the May 17 New Yorker brings aid effectiveness further to the public discussion. It is a profile of Ester Duflo, who is one of the co-founders of the Poverty Action Lab.
TED presentation on social experiments too. Largely an intro into randomized trials.
I don't think the article's selected metaphor from Angus Deaton is really substantial. It recalls his powerpoint presentation with two people jumping out of an airplane, one with a parachute and one without - Do we need to test the idea that parachutes are useful to people who jump out of planes?
Over simplistic. I like Duflo's response to Deaton's criticism of randomized trials tendency to generalize.
"We are not just evaluating a program and attaching some larger thoughts at the end, but finding ways to use evaluation to explore theories."
By explore theories, I understand this to mean "challenge assumptions", which is really useful, albeit not as prone to silver bullet solutions and sexy campaigns that make rock stars out of economists and vice versa.
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Reflections on Big 5 Basketball in Philadelphia…Posted by rtmsf on December 5th, 2011
Joe Dzuback is an RTC correspondent. He filed this column after Villanova's win over Pennsylvania Saturday, reflecting on the history and importance of Big 5 basketball in Philadelphia.
Five schools all within a 12-mile radius of center city Philadelphia square off each season to play a 10-game, round-robin series that decides who has the bragging rights to the city's collegiate basketball scene. There is a Crosstown Shootout, an Iron Bowl (for both basketball and football), Oaken Buckets, Backyard Brawls and Border Wars, but no single city has five schools willing to set aside so much of their 29-game allotted schedule to settle a local rivalry. The Big 5 is not an informal agreement (this is Philadelphia we are talking about, everything is in writing), as the first agreement, a five-year deal that ran from the 1955-56 season through the 1959-60 season has been renegotiated (and modified) and re-signed at regular intervals since.
Over the last 56 years, from the first game played under the joint agreement on December 14, 1955 (Saint Joseph's beat Villanova, 83-70) to the last game last season (on March 5, Temple defeated La Salle, 90-82), the five Philadelphia schools played 520 games using the original round-robin format, except for the years between 1992 and 2000 when each school's four-game slate was reduced to two. What is the tie that binds one of America's most prestigious private colleges, founded by one of the country's Founding Fathers (Penn), to three Catholic universities founded nearly a hundred years later (St. Joe's, Villanova and La Salle), and a public university with an alumni base of 270,000 (Temple)? "It began… as a loveless marriage," wrote Rich Hoffman in his introduction to The Big 5-0, a commerative to the 50th anniversary of the Big 5 published in 2005. "Everybody walked to the altar while trying to figure out exactly what angle the other guys were working."


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Ten Seconds to Hypertext Oblivion
Before reading this, you may as well play the game. It's only ten seconds long. But, I recommend that you do it late at night, and all by yourself. OK, here's the link.
Blue helvetica typeface displayed on a black background. You click, and a timer appears on screen, counting off ten seconds.
In the end, like you always said, it's just the two of you together. You have ten seconds, but there's so much you want to do: kiss her, hold her, take her hand, tell her.
This is game designer Anna Anthropy's queers in love at the end of the world (2013), a work made using the Twine interactive storytelling platform that is as much video game as it is hypertext fiction. In keeping with hypertext tradition, one navigates the work by clicking on highlighted words to choose among narrative threads, playing out one of several imagined end-of-the-world interactions as quickly as possible, from biting to fucking to handholding, before time runs out.
Liquid Crystal Palace: Jeremy Blake and his new peers
Jeremy Blake, Liquid Villa, 1999 Digital C-print 29 x 84 inches Edition of 3 + 1AP
Rhizome Editor and Curator Michael Connor, in his prior capacity as an independent curator, co-organized Liquid Crystal Palace, opening on March 1. Because of its relevance to the Rhizome community, we felt it was worth publishing Michael's writing about the show. Rhizome.org will also present Blake's Liquid Villa as a front page exhibition on March 6 from 3pm to 5pm EST, courtesy Kinz Fine Art and Honor Fraser Gallery.
Jeremy Blake's work seemed to be everywhere in the early 2000s. At the time, I was aware that he was successful in a commercial context, and that he didn't really see himself as a new media artist. (Blake always described himself as a painter.) Both of these things annoyed me about him, because I liked new media art, and I took some perverse pride in its lack of market recognition. It was therefore somewhat annoying that I liked the work. It seemed unsettling and druggy and dangerous, and it felt funny and good in my brain.
Since Blake's tragic death, I've rarely seen the work anywhere, and it sometimes pops into my head. So last year, I decided to look at it again, or as much as I could get my hands on. I was living near LA, and I brought my 2-month old daughter to the highly accommodating Honor Fraser Gallery to go through a stack of DVDs. This time around, Blake suddenly seemed closely connected with a number of other artists working today. The connections that emerged in this new viewing began a thought process that culminated in the exhibition Liquid Crystal Villa, opening tomorrow at Honor Fraser and co-curated with Nate Hitchcock.
Hey: Your data-driven headlines are probably just drivel after all, but that's OK
A few years back, a writer friend who worked at a prominent blog explained to me that her employer's sensationalist, runon headlines were crafted with the help of a cutting-edge A/B testing system. Each article would go live with multiple versions of the same headline; the version to draw the most clicks would become the canonical version. This, I thought, this is the future: algorithms drawing on user feedback to adjust our texts on the fly for maximum impact.
In 2012, I was among the millions of Americans who noticed that Barack Obama and his campaign staff had started writing some kinda weird messages to me. They'd arrive with subject lines like "Hey" or "Would Love to Meet You." They got talked about at dinner parties. After Election Day, explanations were offered in the press. These weren't the brainchild of a mad creative subject line marketing genius. No, they were carefully tested beforehand among multiple variations sent to smaller groups of supporters, and only the most successful versions made it to the full campaign email list. Obama's campaign raised hundreds of millions of dollars through email direct marketing.
Welcome to the Internet Smoking Room
Following the conclusion of This is the ENDD and Pinar&Viola's front-page exhibition, this project can be found here permanently.
This weekend, to coincide with This is the ENDD: a Forum on the E-Cigarette, the front page of Rhizome.org will present The Smoking Room, created by Pinar&Viola and programmed by Gui Machiavelli. In this lush chatroom, you can wield strange new kinds of e-cigarettes and blow virtual smoke shapes while talking to friends and strangers.
I know. Vaping is not smoking. This is rule #1 of vaping culture, a distinction of paramount importance for vapers (who rightfully want to avoid the social stigma of the cigarette) and e-cigarette manufacturers (who want to avoid tobacco-style regulation). Therefore, in their marketing of this emerging technology, the manufacturers have trodden a fine line between reminding potential users of the good, old-fashioned "benefits" of smoking, and establishing their product as something new and hi-tech and detached from bodily consequence. In a word, as something virtual.
Getty Images: Still Kinda Sexist?
Portrait of a confident businesswoman
This week, LeanIn.org and Getty teamed up to release a new collection of 2,500 stock photos that aim to "represent women and families in more empowering ways." The need to do this was quite clear; stock photographs had become something of an internet sensation for their lingering embrace of a range of visual clichés, many of them sexist, such as the notorious "Woman Laughing Alone With Salad." As depictions of broadly-applicable situations and people that could be used in a wide variety of publications, particularly for marketing purposes, stock photographs claim to represent generic ideals for easy illustration. Their effect is, in fact, the inverse—it is specific ideologies they illustrate, in order to continue their reproduction.


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Mekhi Phifer is a married man!
The actor, best known for playing Dr. Greg Pratt on ER, said "I do" to Reshelet Barnes on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the Montage Hotel, E! News reports.
The couple made it official on an outdoor terrace in front of 100 family and friends, including Mekhi's son, who walked down the aisle with an adorable Chihuahua on a leash!
Mehki was welcomed by friends waving as he walked in to Stevie Wonder's "Ribbon in the Sky," donning a white suit as he made his way to the front.
The bride stunned coming down the aisle to "Here Comes the Bride." An eyewitness tells E! News: "When she made her entrance into the courtyard, Mekhi was completely overcome with emotion and you could tell she took his breath away. He had to wipe tears from his eyes for several minutes."
The ceremony lasted a sweet 15 minutes as they exchanged rings and participated in a sand ceremony beneath an altar of yellow flowers. The union concluded with a standing ovation from the crowd.
Congrats to the happy couple!


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Promoting Responsible Fatherhood
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The mission of our fatherhood program is to significantly increase the number of children in Illinois that grow up with a responsible father in their lives.
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We recently had a Switching to Mac Workshop for those Mac users who needed to brush up on their Mac skills and for others who needed help from the bottom up, the beginners or the want-to-be Mac owners looking for some lessons before they entered into the new frontier of the Mac OS X simplicity. We were told it was very informative.
The next day however, I was approached by an attendee who needed more in-depth help. I showed some basics with our Mac's at the Apple Desk in the Bookstore and then sent the individual to Mac 101- the Grand Tour Introduction. You can actually start with Mac 101 which is a Getting Started with Mac tutorial assistance link provided by Apple. There is also a Mac 101- Mac Essentials which includes helpful pictures.
After you're more comfortable with the basics, you can visit Mac 101- All Work and Play for help with different applications like TextEdit, Safari, File sharing, iChat, VoiceOver and many other fun apps. So for those of you out there, who would like more tutorial instructional assistance, just follow the links provided for a look into the other world, allusive to some, the world of Mac OS X.


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"Frenkel versus charge-transfer exciton dispersion in molecular crystals", Phys. Rev. B, vol. 88. American Physical Society, p. 195152, 2013.,
"Role of localized electrons in electron-hole interaction: The case of SrTiO3", Phys. Rev. B, vol. 87. American Physical Society, p. 235102, 2013.,
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A term used in Criminal Law to refer to the superficial running of the hands over the body of an individual by a law enforcement agent or official in order to determine whether such individual is holding an illegal object, such as a weapon or narcotics. A frisk is distinguishable from a search, which is a more extensive examination of an individual.
v. quickly patting down the clothes of a possible criminal suspect to determine if there is a concealed weapon. This police action is generally considered legal (constitutional) without a search warrant. Generally it is preferred that women officers frisk women and men officers frisk men.


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Despite the Rhetoric, Research Shows Decline in Gun Culture, Gun Violence
The recent shooting massacre in Aurora, Colo., has fed into a perception that America is becoming increasingly violent amid a gluttonous gun craze. Actually, the opposite is true, Patrick Egan, assistant professor of politics and public policy at New York University, points out in a post for The Monkey Cage, a political science blog.
In the wake of the national tragedy in Colorado, Egan wrote that pundits have reached for explanations, with some blaming weak gun laws or the power of the gun lobby, while others talking about a cultural decline.
Over the weekend, for instance, PBS' Bill Moyers posted a video in which he called the National Rifle Association "the best friend the killer's instinct could ever have" and "the enabler of death – paranoid, delusional and as venomous as a scorpion."
Moyers decried the number of gun owners and the amount of violence in the United States.
"We have become so gun loving, so blasé about home-grown violence that in my lifetime alone, far more Americans have been casualties of domestic gunfire than have died in all our wars combined," Moyers said.
On ABC's "This Week" Sunday, Time Magazine political columnist Joe Klein complained about "the incredible pornographic violence that has crept into our culture in terms of the entertainment business," noting that the shootings in Colorado happened in a theatre showing "The Dark Knight Rises," which contains much violence.
Pundits, though, "would do well to keep in mind two fundamental trends about violence and guns in America that are going unmentioned in the reporting on Aurora," Egan wrote in a guest post on the political science blog.
The two trends that Egan points to are that violence is at a 40-year low and gun ownership is at or near an all-time low.
Using the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, Egan shows that the violent crime rate is the lowest it has been since 1972, and the murder rate is at its lowest since the early 1960's (see graph, Violence in America, 1960-2010). Additionally, the General Social Survey shows a significant drop in the proportion of Americans who say they are afraid to walk alone at night in their neighborhood.
Gun ownership is also at or near all-time lows, Egan shows using GSS data and Gallup polls (see graph, Gun Ownership in America, 1959-2010).
In the 1970s about half the nation lived in a home that had at least one gun. Today, only about one-third do.
"Thus long-term trends suggest that we are in fact currently experiencing a waning culture of guns and violence in the United States," Egan concludes. "This is undoubtedly helping to dampen the public's support for both gun control and the death penalty.
"There are growing partisan gaps on attitudes regarding the two policies, but enthusiasm for both has declined recently in lockstep with the drop in crime and violence. The total effects of these trends on opinion and policy remain to be seen, but one thing is clear: they defy easy ideological explanation."


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Jamie Foxx is firing back at Spike Lee for calling his film Django Unchained disrespectful to his ancestors.
"The question for me is: Where's Spike Lee coming from?" Foxx said to London's The Guardian. "He didn't like Whoopi Goldberg, he doesn't like Tyler Perry, he doesn't like anybody, I think he's sort of run his course. I mean, I respect Spike; he's a fantastic director. But he gets a little shady when he's taking shots at his colleagues without looking at the work. To me, that's irresponsible."
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Last month, Lee told VibeTV he wasn't going to see the Quentin Tarantino-directed film about a former slave (Foxx) who becomes allies with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz), as they try to rescue Django's wife (Kerry Washington) from a ruthless plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). The movie has already made $129 million since opening Christmas Day, making it Tarantino's highest-grossing film.
"All I'm going to say is that it's disrespectful to my ancestors to see that film," Lee said. "I can't disrespect my ancestors. That's just me. ... I'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else."
Foxx says that just because Tarantino is a white man making a film about black history, that doesn't mean he can't do it accurately.
"You got to look at the individual cases," he said. "When Pat Boone covered Little Richard, you think, 'Huh?', he's got no affinity for it. Good Golly Miss Molly? I don't think so. But you can't tell me that Eminem ain't hot] he's white or that Elvis Presley isn't a bad motherf-----, or that Quentin Tarantino can't do whatever he likes, [because] damn straight he can."
And if there are parts of the film that make audiences angry, Foxx has three words to say: "They're supposed to."


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How to set up reverse tethering over USB?
We all know as to how to connect our android phone with our laptop so as to use our laptop's internet connection in our android phone.
But my question is how to be directly connected to internet on the laptop and connect my Samsung Galaxy Y mobile to it, so as to use the laptop's internet connection in the mobile.
Reason: Why I need to do that. I Live in the country of India. MTS was the first country to launch 3G Plug-and-Play Modems in India. I have one of those. The device has a direct connection and does not requires insertion of a SIM card. I can connect it to my Laptop and use the internet service, but it is not possible to connect it to the mobile phone.
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I want a solution without doing to much edits to the flevel (I already have done this). The problem with it is that we don't have a tool to patch the flevel.lgp and every huge overhaul tends to use its own flevel. A program which works in the background looks for me as the best solution for it. I also think it is easier to set up as the partial broken sound system. As I have mentioned there are channels which kill other active channels (the alarm after you set the bomb disappear after the battle swirl sound). It looks like that they have accidental swapped the channel set (the first set of the channels kills all other active channels and the second set plays all channels fine along side. If this makes an sense to you).The random sound is more interesting for the battle module, because there it is the only possibility to edit the battle script, for which we have neither a good tool nor do we understand it entirely (also NFITC1 is presumably the only one who could do it).
EDIT: And I've only just realised that - unlike some of the other project forums ; the FF7Voice forum is private, so it's not visible globally. Is it worth throwing an open topic onto one of the other forums to gather support / interest?
Not sure why it was set like that, but that problem has been fixed.
Isn't it possible to check the text ID of the field instead of the text?
Well I'm looking forward to it.The programmer of the tool wasn't active here since a few days so he hasn't seen your post. I haven't tested the tool by myself expensively, means I didn't played around with the scripts and how to set them up properly. In theory it should work and like the way it operates it is very independent from the flevel.lgp. I guess you should make a preview scene with the tool I think the big scene when the player enters the 7th Heaven bar the first time is a good scene for a preview and to test the tool.It also would help to find early a working structure so we can set up the mod manger 7th Heaven for it properly.
Hey Aussieroth!I was planning on starting the casting for this project, but the past several weeks have been hectic for my FF8 voice project, so I wasn't able to begin it. Now that the main cast is figured out and settling in, I'll have time to write up the audition threads for this one.I was going to ask if other directors/VO managers would be willing to help, but since you're already here I guess I'll ask you. I probably won't have the time to do everything required to get the FF7 project finished in a reasonable amount of time, but if I teamed up with someone like you, I think it would go much more smoothly. If you're interested, shoot me a PM and we'll talk about it in more detail. Meanwhile, I'll be writing up the audition threads.I was also going to ask ficedula if he could release whatever script he uses to generate those XML files. I'm going to eventually modify DLPB's translation a little (to standardize how multiple-choice dialogues behave) and we're going to use that for the lines.
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Did you know that every year at the Y10 we provide a 5 mile split time. We often wondered if athletes found this information on our website. Whenever you view results in our searchable and sortable grid there is a printer icon to the leaft of the race header. Click that button and the splits will apear for everyone who used the timing checkpoints. We also do this for the Buffalo Marathon on Mermorial Day weekend. We have checkpoints every 5K, plus the half marathon split, announcer mats and primary and secondary mats at the start and finishline all being tracked live with the Buffalo Marathon app.
Check out the Y10 results and then click the printer icon to get the splits:
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Update: Rose did not play Thursday...
Derrick Rose confirmed he plans to play Sunday in New York if he doesn't make it on the court Thursday after a groin injury held him back.
It comes just in time -- for the team and the player.
"It's killing him to not be playing," said Robert Smith, head coach at Rose's Simeon High School alma mater. Smith won back-to-back Illinois State Championships when Rose was a junior and senior at Simeon.
On the Jarrett Payton Show recently, Smith said not playing has made Rose feel very down lately. People in his inner circle have done their best to try and keep his spirits lifted and help him remain in a positive state of mind.
That's not to say people actually do, but the playing career of a professional athlete is by and large a very short time, and at any given moment something could happen that takes it all away. Remember what happened to Jay Williams?
For now, Rose said he'll warm up with the team Thursday for practice and make a game-time decision.