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His recently concluded legal ordeal with the federal government – while on the receiving end of a Department of Justice prosecution and indictment over the past several years – lies at the nexus of national security, secrecy, overclassification, decision making, freedom of thought and innovation, civil liberties and the Constitution – and speaks volumes to the core question of just how much data is truly free (especially when it is digital), through data sharing (or hoarding), in what he calls the 'dark side' of data and decision making – the 'elephant' too often found in the boardroom and the executive suites. His case was highlighted in the 23 May 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine by Jane Mayer and on a 60 Minutes special with Scott Pelley on 22 May 2011.
From 2001 through 2008 he was a senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA) and served in various technical management and leadership capacities. While there he became a material witness and whistleblower for two 9/11 congressional investigations and a multi-year Department of Defense Inspector General audit of a failed multi-billion dollar flagship program called TRAILBLAZER as well as an operationally ready, highly innovative, revolutionary and breakthrough multi-million dollar intelligence data collection, processing and analysis system called THINTHREAD – that was specifically designed to handle the massive data volume and variety of the digital web with built-in 4th Amendment and privacy protection safeguards, but rejected by NSA.
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His particular area of expertise is the strategic and global perspective while placing events, people, trends, and movements in the larger context and finding the meaning and the connections and making sense of them such that one can take the practical action necessary to execute the mission and the business in challenging times, under adverse conditions and with constant uncertainty.
He has also focused on a key 'emergent' strategically competitive best practice of relationship leadership involving dynamically evolving social ecology and social network systems. This highly innovative approach involves real-time learning and feedback creating the very conditions for both individual and organizational well-being and accomplishment while also achieving sustainable results in the marketplace.
To that end, and while working as an Expert in a Washington, DC area Apple Store providing technical support and compelling experiences in one-on-one customer environments with retail or business needs, he is pursuing a PhD in public management and leadership with a dissertation focused on the paradox of power and politics in the 21st Century and the role of transpersonal leadership creating and sustaining psychologically healthy workplaces through social networks of performance and cooperation rather than power and control.
In the past, he has led seminars, tutorials and workshops covering software engineering, software metrics, testing, project management, organizational dynamics and change management, as well as 'high tech/high touch' information technology methods and approaches. He has written for IEEE Computer magazine (software and program analysis) and has been published in CRC Press, Addison-Wesley, Software Tech News and numerous national and international conference proceedings.
In addition, Mr. Drake has conducted multiple presentations, interactive seminars, briefings, and tutorials on Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Best Current Practices in Software Development, Project Management: Achieving Success and Avoiding Failure, Risk Management, Team Management, People Management, Making a Difference: Transforming Information Technology – The People Side of the Equation, Inventing from the Future: The 21st Century Organization, The Customer is Your Quality, and many others. He was also a Certified Software Test Engineer for a number of years.
He was also a visiting professor of strategic leadership and information strategy at the National Defense University with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Previously, he was a principal in a couple of dot coms, served in the military (both Air Force and the Navy), and has 12 years of industry experience in change leadership, senior management, organizational leadership and development, quality assurance, software and systems engineering (having analyzed over 150 million lines of code), learning strategies, acquisition and program management, operations and technology life-cycle integration as a contractor and consultant with both government and commercial clients including Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 companies. He was at Booz | Allen | Hamilton as a management, strategy and technology consultant and software quality engineer from 1991-1998.
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Red Sox success diverts attention from NH mayoral races
In the final week before Election Day candidates for mayor all around the state are begging for some attention from voters. They want to remind them to vote next Tuesday, share some political positions and ask for their support.
Doing this, in Red Sox Nation the past three weeks it has been a bit challenging.
"All anyone wants to talk about is the Red Sox," said Dover mayoral candidate Rocky D'Andrea. "I think all the focus on the playoffs and now winning the World Series will unfortunately lead to a lower turnout on Election Day."
The one good thing about the Red Sox success, according to D'Andrea, is that is makes for an easy to approach potential voters.
Kevin Hodges, the manager for Patrick Arnold's Manchester mayoral campaign agrees.
"Anytime a Boston team does well everyone in the community is jazzed up and excited," Hodges said. "It makes it so much easier to go up to someone say 'go Sox' and then hand them a bumper sticker or a flier."
In Somersworth, incumbent mayor Matt Spencer said he hasn't seen that much impact of the Sox winning on his campaign. Yes, he said, baseball is driving a lot of the conversations around the city, but people are still very much engaged in the campaign.
D'Andrea, of Dover, said that for candidates who are going door-to-door asking for the vote the New England Patriots games Sunday afternoons are the real struggle.
"You know better than to bother someone during those games, but the World Series games started so late it didn't impact how I campaigned," he said.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 7, 2011 –/PRNewswire/ — SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today launched its next generation of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions. Built from the ground up with an entirely new architecture, SonicWALL CDP 6.0 automatically preserves and protects business-relevant data assets against loss from file, device, and location based disasters. With support for Windows®, Linux® and Mac OS®, CDP provides granular, globally enforced policy controls over the entire backup operation. CDP 6.0 supports Microsoft applications including SQL, Exchange and SharePoint servers, Active Directory and Small Business Servers. Its unmatched flexibility enables IT administrators to dictate what information to backup, what to exclude and how the information should be maintained to adhere to recovery and compliance requirements.
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COOL GREENS: If you've ever watched a golf tournament on television you know there are a few hallmarks. Oh, we're not talking about the golfers or their caddies or their carts or the crowds. We're talking environs here. Tournaments often take place in cool, green places where magnolia flowers are popping out along the course and a low mist sits in the trees outside the lake. Rarer is the golf tournament that takes place in the middle of Death Valley in the middle of one of the hottest months of the year. How rarer? Well, so rare that there's just one and it has quite the memorable name: Heatstroke. The Furnace Creek Resort introduced the extreme tourney in 2011 and it was just announced that the sweat-and-swing-a-thon'll be back for another round from Friday, June 22 through Sunday, June 24.
LET'S TALK TEMPS: You could luck out and get a pretty temperate day and not feel like you might melt into the course. But let's be honest; Death Valley is not known for its marine layer or its beachy ocean breeze. The average June high is said to hover around 110, meaning you'll want to find some golf togs that have a lot of mesh and breathable fabric going on. The resort had some cheeky things to say about what the 50 golfers who joined in the inaugural year learned (for example, if you aim for the trees you'll have a cooler moment or two when you have to go retrieve your ball). Also? Practice swings and futzing around before getting down to the business of playing are not recommended. Sounds like a hearty, humorous time for people who love the game and don't mind chugging liters of water and slathering on the sunblock every few minutes as they play. Tempted to join in the merry, melty madness? Start here.
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Q. What are the ways to drop fear?
A. Take that pen. Raise it. Drop it. That's how. When you drop something, just drop it. There is no other way. Don't listen to the lies of people. No kriya can help you drop it. Only you can. Just drop it. (9/22/02)
Q. I have been celibate for several years but am now in a very intimate relationship. Is it possible that being in a sexual relationship will help raise the kundalini and I will become a sensory human?
A. Kundalini Yoga is one yoga that is for householders, so it does not require celibacy. But you have to have a legitimate, productive relationship free of guilt, and with sincerity. (Aquarian Times, Spring 2003)
Q. You have said that the emotions are the sensory system of the soul. Could you explain how we can use our emotions as the communication system of our soul and not as trauma inducers?
A. When emotions guide us they serve us; when we are ruled by them, they destroy us. Develop your sixth sense in meditation by concentrating at the tip of the nose with the eyes one-tenth open. It will all come to you automatically. (Aquarian Times, Spring 2003)
Q. My spouse and I are always arguing. What can we do?
A. How can you love somebody so much and then three or four years later start hating each other? A relationship is where your highest spirituality is tested by tolerance. Most fighting comes as a result of basic insecurity. We all want our security to be guaranteed. The other person cannot give you that guarantee. It has nothing to do with right and wrong. It is a matter of understanding. Understanding means stand under. In relationships you have to stand under each other. Do not try to be macho, or very wise, or to have the last word. Little in a relationship can go wrong if you inject humor and endure.
Q. What can I do when I feel angry?
A. When we are angry our body temperature rises. Body temperature is maintained by the breath. Breathing through the left nostril is cooling and breathing through the right nostril is warming. When you are angry and feel you want to do something terrible, start breathing through your left nostril. You will calm down in exactly one minute.
If you do not get rid of anger you are a candidate for cancer. Another way to get rid of anger: Sitali Pranayam. Breathe through an extended, curled tongue for exactly three minutes, then drink a glass of cold water. You will be surprised how you feel!
Q. How can I forgive?
A. The one power which is the greatest power in you, is to forgive. Minus forgiveness, you are a two-legged mammal with absolutely nothing to lean on. If you give, give forgiveness. Give with an open heart. Say, "Bless you! May God make you very strong and give you the courage to face yourself." What can anybody do after that?
Q. How do yogis view grief?
A. As humans we feel the loss of loved ones and grieve. As yogis we know everybody as a loved one and part of the Creator. How can we grieve when a loved one goes home?
Q.What is the role of emotions?
A. Emotions are very important, but any mistake you ever make will occur when you become attached to your emotions as reality.
Q. I want to learn to use my intuition.
A. You should never act out of fear or blind faith. You need to go within yourself. Fear is based on what you tell yourself. Blind faith is based on what others tell you. You have to depend on your own intuition, which God has given you, which always guides you truthfully. Your intuition is your best friend. Intuition takes one second. When you are in any trouble, simply think what you feel and know. Just close your eyes and think what you think. That will be best. Do not lean on others. Be strong in yourself so that you can help others.
Q. Why do I have so many problems in my relationships?
A. Insecurity is the main problem in any relationship. When you become insecure, you goof. The moment you are insecure, the other person knows you are not trusting, and fears that you are going to hurt him. One thing leads to another. Why be insecure? Breath is free! It is automatic! The Earth is rotating. You are living. If you are kind, compassionate, and caring, nothing can go wrong.
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Politics within South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is focused on the upcoming December party convention for the party presidency. The political maneuvering is focused on nominees for party positions, but also looks over its shoulder at the national presidency and vice presidency nominations for the 2015 elections. Voting in South African national elections largely remains a racial census. The ANC candidates for presidency and vice presidency can count on support from most of the country's black population, making victory for its nominees in national elections almost a foregone conclusion. Africa Confidential has published an excellent primer on the current state of play inside the ANC.
Zuma faces a serious challenge for the party leadership from the vice president, Kgalema Motlanthe, and, possibly, billionaire businessman Cyril Ramaphosa. But neither Motlanthe nor Ramaphosa have yet declared themselves candidates for the party presidency. A possible deal between the Zuma and Motlanthe campaigns might have Motlanthe not run against Zuma for the party presidency in December in return for a promise of the ANC nomination to be president of the country in 2015. Many of Zuma's supporters, however, think they can deliver the party presidency in December without compromising Zuma's prospective 2015 nomination as the party's national presidential candidate. This is based on a consideration of how ANC delegates are likely to vote at the December convention. Under present circumstances, Africa Confidential thinks Zuma will prevail in December. I share that view.
The struggle between Zuma, Motlanthe, Ramaphosa, and a number of other ANC political figures for other top party positions appears to be an inside-the-party fight for power without much reference to principle, vision, or to South Africa's immediate challenges, such as unrest in the mining industry, the decline in the value of the rand, and the lowering of the country's credit rating. Party politics seem symbolic of the unfortunately increasing detachment of the ANC from the everyday concerns of most South Africans.
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VIRGIN Australia planes were delayed by up to 40 minutes on Monday on the first day of the airline's new booking and reservations system.
The airline's head of corporate affairs, Danielle Keighery, said on a network-wide basis the switch to Sabre's global distribution system had "gone reasonably well".
"Even this morning during peak hours the queues were not particularly long … when you consider this is the first time [the system has been operated] in a live environment," she said.
"While we have had some delays across the network, they have been minimal. We haven't had to cancel flights."
Some passengers had problems logging into Virgin's website on Monday morning but the problem was resolved.
So far, the biggest challenge has been a large increase in the number of passengers turning up at Virgin's counters at airports because they could not access the airline's website at the weekend to check in.
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The airline is still advising passengers to turn up for flights earlier than usual this week.
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Virgin has said the new system will allow it to better link its services to alliance partners such as Etihad and Singapore Airlines, as well as making its flights more visible to travel agents around the world.
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Timothy Bradstreet (born 16 February 1967; age 53) is an Eisner Award nominated artist. After graduating high school, the self-taught illustrator began doing illustrations for role-playing games before getting his break on the Dragon Chiang comic book in 1990. Since then, he has illustrated trading cards, comic books, and book covers, including Clive Barker's Age of Desire, Marvel's Blade, the X-Wing Rogue Squadron novels, and most notably, long runs on both Hellblazer and The Punisher, with more than seventy covers for each of those two titles.
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Doping, match-fixing a worldwide problem
Australian sports' reported links to drugs, match fixing and organised crime are emblematic of the dark forces afflicting competitions and players across the globe.
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) report into drugs in sport has illustrated that despite the tyranny of distance the country is not immune to the shadowy networks seeking to influence and profit from modern sport at all levels.
As disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong faces the prospect of jail time, Europol raised allegations of match-fixing in hundreds of games worldwide and Spain's anti-doping agency is investigating allegations doping practices have spread from cycling into football.
While in Switzerland, Pakistani cricketers Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, who allegedly colluded with illegal betting syndicates, are attempting to have their bans for spot-fixing overturned.
It is a situation that has evolved over the past 24 hours in a shocking parallel to events in Australia.
Italian soccer superstar Alessandro Del Piero, playing his first season with the A-League's Sydney FC said issues of doping and match-fixing are a global problem.
During his time at Juventus, that esteemed Italian football club was involved in a match-fixing scandal in 2006, when their punishments included being relegated and stripped of two Serie A titles.
Asked for his reaction to revelations from the ACC regarding widespread doping and possible match-fixing Del Piero said on Friday: "It is a serious problem".
"It's not only an Australian problem it's all the world a problem, it's not a good thing."
Asked if Australia could learn anything from Italy's experiences with corruption Del Piero said: "I don't know if there is corruption here.
"I don't know what is the level of doping, it's just the start of the situation now."
In Paris, tennis great Rafael Nadal has echoed the sentiments of the likes of senior rugby league figure Phil Gould here in Australia that all sportspeople are being tarred with the same brush of doping.
Nadal wants the names of those implicated in the "Operation Puerto" trial into blood doping to be provided to clear others of wrongdoing.
"I don't understand why we never get to the bottom of these things," Nadal said.
"We need to clean everything up. I believe this doctor has worked with foreign athletes but because he is Spanish it is Spanish sport that is being prejudiced.
"As an athlete that hurts me. Because of people like (US cyclist Lance) Armstrong, we all have a dubious image."


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Voice over IP performance is a function of:
a) Bandwidth
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Both components have to be within a certain tolerance in order to be usable and there are a multitude of factors that can adversely affect either. Many IT professionals who are first time VoIP-ers often think that given enough bandwidth, you can do anything – including voice. This is only half true. A lack of bandwidth can cause latency, but an abundance of bandwidth is not a guarantee of a clear conversation. Of the two, latency is not only a show stopper, it is also the hardest one to find and correct because there are many causes that are often times not within your control. Figure 1 is a great example of a company with a bonded 6M T-1 connection with such erratic latency – and jitter – that it is virtually unusable for
voice applications. In many cases like this, the most natural scapegoat is the carrier, however, in this case, hop 14 is the WAN side of the customer s router and hop 15 is a device behind it which implies a problem with the hardware. Here, the problem turned out to be one of the 4 T-1′s were in a permanent Admin Down mode and needed to have the WIC replaced.
WARNING TO THOSE JUST GETTING INTO VoIP – Voice is real time – using primarily UDP packets – and therefore much more affected by things like dropped packets, jitter and high latency than regular data. If there are issues on your Internet connections with these items, you will probably not realize it unless you specifically – and continuously – test for it. Most carriers only guarantee bandwidth and NOT latency. Trust me, the CEO, CFO, Customer Service manager and Sales manager will get upset if the email server or Internet is a little slow, but they will absolutely FREAK if their phones don't work.


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Stephen Gerald Breyer ( /ˈbraɪər/; born August 15, 1938) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, and known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court.
Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, Breyer became well-known as a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School starting in 1967. There he specialized in the area of administrative law, writing a number of influential text books that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated for the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, and assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973.
In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer made his first attempt to systematically lay out his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues to encourage popular participation in governmental decisions.


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The headline of this recent blog post by the U.S. government promises to answer the question of why you should do some social media estate planning. But the post falls short of providing a compelling reason to plan for how your social media accounts and other digital assets should be handled in the event of your demise. So I've come up with my own list of reasons why this might be good both for the individual and for our culture:
Security. People commit identity theft on both the living and the dead. (See, for example, the story of the Tennessee woman who collected her dead aunt's Social Security checks for 22 years.) While the living can run credit checks and otherwise monitor the use of their personal information, the deceased are not so diligent. Ensuring that the dataset comprising a person's social media identity is accounted for and monitored should reduce the risk of that information being used nefariously.
Avoiding sad reminders. Spammers have no qualms with commandeering a dead person's email account. As one Virginia family knows, putting a stop to that form of "harassment" can be painful and inconvenient.
Keeping social media uncluttered. This reason lies more in the public interest than in the interest of the deceased and his or her relatives. The advertising model for social media revenue generation relies on the accuracy and effectiveness of information about the user base. The presence of a bunch of dead peoples' accounts, which are orphaned, so to speak, dilutes the effectiveness of the other data points in the social graph. So it is a good thing to prune the accounts of the deceased, or otherwise see that they are properly curated.
Preserving our heritage for posterity. Think of the ways you know about your family members that came before you. Stories and oral tradition are generally annotated by photo albums, personal correspondence and other snippets of everyday life. Social media is becoming a preferred substrate for the collection of those snippets. To have that information wander off into the digital ether unaccounted for is to forsake a means of knowing about the past.
How big a deal is this, anyway? This Mashable article commenting on the U.S. government post says that last year about 500,000 Facebook users died. That's about 0.0006% of the user base. (Incidentally, Facebook users seem much less likely to die than the general population, as 0.007% of the world's entire population died last year. Go here if you want to do the math yourself.)
I say it's kind of a big deal, but a deal that's almost certain to get bigger.


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- fat32g
- saturates18g
- carbs49g
- sugars25g
- fibre0.9g
- protein6g
- salt0.8g
For the cake
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 4 eggs, beaten
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- 1 tsp baking powder
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- 284ml double cream
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If you are interested in Role Playing Games, or RPGs, Alys does have some experience in that forum as well as in the Scriptorium, if you want to share your poetry or prose.
One of the best places to start is with Blackwood's excellent New Comprehensive Introduction thread in the Welcome Forum. There is a tremendous amount of information there and you might find some of your basic questions already answered. There is also an FAQ thread in this forum which has more commonly asked questions.
- Please familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service (TOS). These are guidelines of behavior for members of TORC. Much of it is common sense, but it helps to know what the rules are. You can find a link to the TOS in the upper right hand of the screen, no matter what page you are on in the message board.
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Make sure you are posting in the correct forum. If you post a chat thread in the Philosophy forum, it will probably be locked. If your thread does get locked, the moderator will usually explain why it is being locked. You may not always agree with the reason, but the mods are there to keep order.
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You just interviewed for a job and you haven't heard anything. Sometimes this is a sign of bad news, and sometimes it isn't. You want to follow up and find out what's going on, but you don't want to be annoying. Here's how to handle this situation effectively.
A friend of mine is currently in this position, and asked me how I'd word a follow-up email. When I tried to come up with something, I realized I hadn't written one in many years and my skills were a bit rusty. So, I asked the internet for some help and got some good advice. Most agreed on a very simple process.
Send a Thank-you Note Immediately After the Interview
Most people suggest sending a thank you note right away, via snail mail, as it takes a few days to arrive and serves as a positive reminder to get back to you. My sister, Ali, had a few good suggestions for its content:
I almost always will send snail mail to thank them for their time and let them know how nice it was to meet them. I say (if I believe it to be to true) what a nice environment they created for the interview/audition. And I say simply at the end, "I hope to see you again soon."
It's pretty simple, but very effective. The problem with calling or writing to ask for more information is that you're essentially reminding them that they forgot to do something. Although it is legitimate to send this reminder, there's a decent chance they'll be annoyed that they have to deal with you (if they didn't like you) or at least feel bad for ignoring you (if they did). A thank you note is simply a polite and positive reminder that you exist. It will help your interviewer(s) want to get back to you.
Still need some help writing that thank you note? Here's one quick and effective method.
Send a Short, Polite Email to Check In
When you've finished your interview, you'll often be told when you can expect to hear back. If not, that's a question you should ask before the conversation is over. If that amount of time passes and you haven't heard anything, it's reasonable to call or write to check in. An email is less-intrusive and won't put your interviewer on the spot, so it is generally a better way to ask the question. David Hill suggests that email contain two things:
I usually confine it to email and make it a quick note - thank them again for the interview and ask if there's been an update/any movement on the position. If they respond, you can usually get a feel for whether you're annoying the shit out of them.
Deanna Parkton suggests asking the interviewer if they need any additional qualifications or information so your message has an additional, helpful purposes as well.
Regardless of what you decide to do, be sure to keep it short. Here's an example (based on a suggestion from Lifehacker intern alumni Aaron Martin):
I just wanted to follow up in regards to my interview on [date — or "last week"]. Do you have an update, or do you need any further information from me? Please let me know when you have a free moment.
Thank you,
[Your Name]
Of course, this might be a bit formal. You'll want to make the note sound like you and be as formal or casual as is appropriate for the situation. Either way, the content is pretty straightforward and only takes a few seconds to put together.
It can be a little nerve-wracking to ask for an update when you were supposed to hear back, as it feels like you're asking for bad news, but that isn't always the case. If you get bad news, there will be other job opportunities, but sometimes you'll find out that the company needed an extra day because another interview was postponed or they simply haven't had time to get back to everyone. You never know, and that's why you ask.
Special thanks to everyone on Facebook who helped answer this question!
Photos by pjcross (Shutterstock), woodlywonderworks, and Elena Elisseeva (Shutterstock).


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Remember Frenchie Davis? The season two "American Idol" contestant who blew the judges away with her mighty pipes, only to be disqualified when topless photos she had taken earlier in her career surfaced and threatened the then-fledgingly show's squeaky-clean image? Well, she's back.
During last night's premiere of "The Voice" - NBC's new reality competitive reality series starring Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, and Adam Levine - Davis lent her voice to Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" during the Blind Auditions (where the judges can hear but not see the contestants).
The song may have been a poor fit for Davis, who went unheralded by the judges until Aguilera chose her for her talent "roster."
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When her identity was revealed, Green was the first to recognize her - greeting the former Idol contestant with a "What's up, Frenchie?" The singer seemed surprised that she was recognized.
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If you want to skip the stuff below just read this as 'I am impressed with it and took some pictures of my 'retail' unit'.
The Raspberry Pi is yet another community focused development/education ARM board in the mould of many a Gumstix, BeagleBoard and others before it.
That in itself is not overly remarkable but the Raspberry Pi foundation managed to keep one little trick up their sleeve. It's well priced coming in at around the £25 for the basic 'Model A' and £35 for the 'Model B' (The 'Model B' giving you a highly useful Ethernet port, driven off USB, and extra USB host port). Neither model features a connector for a serial console but it is put out on the GPIO header at 3.3v so easy enough to convert if you need it (like I do ). There is also an abundance of other I/O to play with on the headers.
Considering you get 256MB of RAM mounted over a Broadcom BCM2835 ARMv6 SoC (more commonly used in things like STB's and media streamers from people like Roku) and access to a beefy, admittedly closed source, GPU/video decoder it is pretty damm impressive and rather hard to complain. Ok, some might say an v7 ARM core would not have hurt and more of this and that but if your going down that road you are completely missing the point of this little budget device. Just pay a little more and get something like a BeagleBone or it's big brother the BeagleBoard-XM to hack on and enjoy it (I already enjoy hacking on them).
This neatly brings me on to my interest in the Raspberry Pi. It's low end by todays ARM standards, but it's still got a hell of a lot of power to play with, cheap, quirky (another way of saying full of interesting features that may blow up in your face ) and with a little luck it will bring out that wonderful streak of madness in people.
Hopefully it will become ubiquitous in the lower end of this market and bring in more and more hobbyist developers, hardware hackers and students. Take a few of these devices and mix with a liberal helping of Arduino's and you have some awesome options for cheap experimentation.
All that makes this a pretty appealing platform to hack on and fits well with the other stuff I like to mess about with.
Hardware pictures (click for larger jpeg's):
Here are a few random pictures of the 'early release' retail model B unit the Raspberry Pi foundation have kindly provided me for some hacking (the logoed shipping label on the package was cute by the way). Rather than overly comment on the workings (the specs are well known) I'll just provide some soft-core hardware p0rn pictures and comment on the physical build.
Not a huge amount say on this but I'll note that it is nicely built, soldering seems precise and of good quality and no diff joints I can see. There is no solder in the test points (handy), most connectors are well attached and there is a only a little flex in the board.
The HDMI port does seem a lot more fragile than I would like and it's a tight fit but I guess the cost of battening connectors would push the board outside its price envelope and consume board space, just don't yank cables out or it will end in tears.
All in all, it seems a lot like the earlier boards in respect of the build and layout and that's quite a good thing just remember the price constraints when considering that.
A big concern I have is how well these will last uncased but I understand the educational units are cased (Raspberry Pi, please make sure that case provides some battening for connectors) and that is surely going be be where the boards see most abuse. In fairness the uncased concern could be levelled at any of the development boards I have.
I know the foundation is going for a model that will see several manufacturers turning out boards under license but as long as they all hit this quality level or get above it I can't envisage that many build problems as long as people are gentle with them and understand what they are buying.
After all that fluff lets move on to what I actually plan to use this device for…
As the hardware is at the lower end proper optimisation is highly important to get the most out of the device and this is where OpenEmbedded comes into the mix. I have put together an OpenEmbedded-Core based BSP layer for the Raspberry Pi A and B hardware that ensures every package built for the machine is tuned for both the ARMv6 architecture and the ARM 1176jzf-s core. This was actually fairly easy to get going bar the time consuming mess that is the usual platform specific quirks, hacks and munges. However as the OpenPandora has used OpenEmbedded/Angstrom since its inception (and has it's own set of quirks) I should be pretty familiar with it by now .
Currently the layer it has a number of rough edges but the basics. kernel, bootloader and supporting bits and bobs are building and if you so desire it can be used to (almost, needs a small fix) create you a pre-configured SD card image file (currently setup for a 4GB > SD card) with the kernel and bootloaders on a vFAT partition and the RootFS on EXT4 all ready to write onto an SD and boot the unit.
Some more work is needed to clean up the recipes, fix a few bits and currently there is no support for the GPU libraries (coming as soon as I clean up some of the more obvious hacks and get confirmation of licence and redistribution terms). But you can already use this layer to boot an Angstrom (my OE based distribution of choice) console image or some of the more interesting image flavours (Xfce/E17 etc.) up on actual hardware.
Just don't expect everything to work yet, ok, being honest don't expect a lot to work yet!
Building OpenEmbedded/Angstrom packages for the RaspberryPi
If your interested in trying this (and assuming your familiar with OpenEmbedded-Core and have a build setup) you can just add the meta-raspberrypi layer ([email protected]:djwillis/meta-raspberrypi.git) to your build setup and use MACHINE = "raspberrypi" in your local.conf.
If you have never tried building an operating system from scratch using OpenEmbedded/Angstrom you can find a really good guide on the Angstrom site. With a few little tweaks you can get a build going in no time (just be prepaired to use a LOT of disk space and waiting many hours for it all to build, not to mention having to deal with the odd snags that come along).
Following the above guide if you change:
git clone git://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/setup-scripts.git
git clone git://github.com/djwillis/setup-scripts.git
This will ensure you grab a fork of the setup scripts with the RaspberryPi layer already added.
Then if you proceed to use 'raspberrypi' as the machine you should be off the starting blocks and on the journey to getting something built.
What happens next?
Once things have settled down a little and the GPU libraries are all working my aim is to get the meta-raspberrypi layer into a state that can be included by default in the upstream Angstrom distribution. That would bring lots of nice benefits like ARMv6 and RaspberryPi optimised software feeds and use of the Angstrom online image builder to put RaspberryPi images together.
I'll also find a way, if I can, to distribute images all setup with binaries for the GPU and ready to go. People can then grab it and write to an SD just like other distributions.
It would be great to get some input into this as it is just something I have been hacking on in my (limited) free time for a while, if anyone wants to help with this work this please fork and send over pull requests.


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Marilyn Monroe stands as one of Hollywood's most iconic figures, a woman who helped lay the groundwork for the sexual revolution, was married to the most beloved baseball player in New York, as well as one of our greatest playwrights. But does she really warrant two concurrent biopics? Apparently so.
"My Week With Marilyn," starring Michelle Williams, is based on the diary of Sir Laurence Olivier's employee Colin Clark. The film will recount the time the two stars spent together in London to shoot "The Prince and the Showgirl."
The film, which is to starts shooting in September, according to Deadline, will be directed by British TV veteran Simon Curtis.
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Racing "My Week" to the big screen is "Blonde," starring Naomi Watts and based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional Monroe memoir.
Director Andrew Dominik, who made a name for himself in 2000 by writing and directing "Chopper" -- a film so good it made Eric Bana famous -- plans to start shooting in January.
We're torn as to which of these films were pulling for. Williams has been knocking us out lately, but Dominik's done some great work.
Both Williams and Watts have films at Cannes right now, with the former starring in one of our early favorites of the year, "Blue Valentine," and the latter in "Fair Game," about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame.


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In many ways, Cole MacGrath, the protagonist of Sony and Sucker Punch's latest title, follows the Spider-Man model of being a superhero. You have to have amazing powers, and the people have to hate you for it. To be fair, at the beginning of inFamous, the people have a good reason to hate you. You see, the city has been reduced to piles of rubble by the explosion of a bomb. Untold numbers of people are dead. The government has quarantined the area. The police are outgunned, and the gangs control the streets with very little to fear.
So why are you stuck in the middle? Simple. You delivered the bomb.
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Things aren't that simple though: Cole also survived the blast, even though he was literally on top of it. After waking up, bruised, bloody, and near death, bad things start to happen to things around him. Somehow, Cole now has the ability to control the power of electricity, although everyone in the city wants his blood. "Let's see the freakshow," his best friend Zeke says, asking Cole to use his power to charge the home-rigged batteries that power the rooftop hideaway they share.
Cole realizes that even if he jumps off the roof, he won't be hurt. He begins to realize that he can control what's happening to him. There is no electricity in the city. The gangs are becoming more violent. There is no help coming. As Abraham Lincoln famously said—and the game quotes—"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man, give him power."
The city is yours
Cole isn't a normal superhero. He doesn't wear tights, preferring instead to stick to his daily wear from when he was a messenger. He can't fly, although his love of urban exploring and enhanced strength give him the ability to scale walls with little problem. He's also burdened with a populace that wants him dead, a girl that won't talk to him, a friend who wants his help to get laid, and the knowledge that he may be the only one who can help stop the anarchy the city has fallen into.
The city is split into three large sections that you explore as the game moves along, each area opening up when you've completed enough story missions. As you explore the city you'll also be presented with the problem of how you want to maintain order. Do you sacrifice others for your own safety? Leave behind a man to hang? Do you use your power to heal people, or to steal their energy? Every battle becomes a tight-rope walk; you can't use your more destructive attacks without causing flipped cars and explosions, taking out innocent lives.
The game is beautiful, with a detailed, crumbling city and dark, quiet sewers to explore. Your electrical attacks cause crackling energy to spark between metal surfaces, and you can shock large groups of enemies if they're foolish enough to stand in water. Speaking of water, don't go near the stuff; it's a quick death when you can't control the power rushing from your body to the liquid. Don't worry about guns, since you can't use those either. The game explains what happened the one time Cole tries to touch a gun after the explosion: the spark from his hand ignited the gunpowder.
Don't worry, you have plenty of attacks to discover and level up. You can send shock waves through the air, causing bodies and cars and dumpsters to fly this way and that. You can use a precision electrical strike like a sniper rife. You can throw electrical grenades that can stick to bad (or good) guys. All of these powers, outside of your standard shot and melee attacks, use electrical power. You have to recharge by finding sources of electricity and tapping them, and this also heals you. Yes, this is one of those games without a real health bar, meaning you have to look for the blood splatter on the screen to see how close to death you are. You'll want to move away from the light if things start going black and white, if you get what I mean.
You can use the experience you gain from doing story and side missions to level up your powers and reduce the damage you take, but even with your amazing powers your body is rather frail when it comes to bullets. The gangs are everywhere, and they have an annoying habit of completely covering an area with gunfire, leading to some deaths that feel a little cheaper than they should. Don't feel bad if you die... a lot.
Is this just Crackdown, revisited?
In many ways, yes, this is very reminiscent of Crackdown on the 360, but don't say that like it's a bad thing. Instead of the pristine future city of the Xbox 360 title, you have a gritty urban setting. You may not be able to jump as high as you could in Crackdown, but a few hours into the game you gain the ability to slide across power lines, grinding them like a skateboarder and building up speed.
In one memorable scene, you use your electrical power to keep a train car moving. As someone in the game points out, your power makes you a living third rail. If you don't want to wait to catch a ride with the train, you can simply ride the rail itself, sparks jumping from your body, hands out for balance. It's a thrilling way to travel, and gets you to where you're going quick and easy. You may not have webs to sling or a cape to help you fly, but you'll be moving around the city like the hero—or villain—you hope to become.
The game continually throws moral challenges your way, and while the choices are binary, the writing does a good job of making the evil choices seductive. In many ways they make sense, even if you know it will make you more of a villain. If you go bad or good, it changes your powers, it changes how you look, and it changes how people see you. Start killing innocents and the people will jeer you, throwing rocks your way. Do good things and they're cheer you or take your picture. Posters will begin to be hung in your honor, and they show either a savior or a demon, depending on the choices you make.


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You may be aware that some breeds of dog and their crosses can be susceptible to inherited disease. Of course you want to be sure that the dog you choose is as healthy as possible, and you would like to know that it has not inherited any undesirable disease-causing genes from its parents. There is some help in that DNA tests for diseases in purebred dogs are available for some conditions in some breeds, but there are not very many such tests just yet! There are also, however, a number of clinical veterinary screening schemes that dog breeders can use to increase the probability of producing healthy puppies.
Details of the various screening schemes, both veterinary and DNA, that are available to breeders in the UK can be found at www.thekennelclub.org.uk/doghealth
Potential dog owners should be aware that, at present, the application of various health screening results to breeding programmes is not always straightforward, and breeders may make choices for various reasons. A responsible breeder though, will always be willing to discuss relevant health issues with you. Breed clubs are often useful sources of breed-specific information.
Dogs come in many different shapes and sizes. Having such a varied appearance is one of the many fascinating things about dogs. Regardless of what each dog looks like, it should be able to lead a happy and healthy life and be able to breathe, walk, hear and see freely without discomfort. Sometimes extreme examples of a breeds physical characteristics can lead to health problems.
Dogs with a flat, wide shaped head, are said to be brachycephalic (brachy, meaning short and cephalic, meaning head). This particular skull shape will often give these dogs a characteristic flattened face and a short muzzle. Muzzle length may vary, even amongst a particular breed, with some dogs having shorter muzzles than others.
Some brachycephalic dogs may be at higher risk of certain health conditions, such as:
The soft tissue in the nose and throat of some brachycephalic dogs may be excessive for the airways, making it difficult for them to breathe normally (causing heavy panting or noisy breathing). Some dogs may also have narrow nostrils making it even more difficult to breathe.
For more information, why not watch our film on Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome on www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd3_s_hC7G4&t=1s or register on the Kennel Club's Academy to access additional resources www.kcacademy.org.uk/shop/all-courses/brachycephalic-breeds-health-and-research/
Additional information about brachycephalic breathing problems can also be found at www.vet.cam.ac.uk/boas/about-boas
Dogs with a shortened skull will often have a shortened jaw, but the number and size of teeth will stay the same. This can mean that the teeth become overcrowded and can cause dental and gum problems.
For more detailed information on brachycephalic health please visit www.thekennelclub.org.uk/health/for-owners/brachycephalic-health/.
Not all brachycephalic dogs will have the health issues described, but it is important that if you are thinking of buying a puppy, that you:
• Contact your local breed club for more information on the breed you're considering
• Always do your research and find out about any special requirements that the breed that you're thinking of buying may have. Some brachycephalic breeds may require extra care and attention, such as keeping any facial wrinkles clean and dry, for example
• Buy from a responsible breeder, such as a Kennel Club Assured Breeder (www.assuredbreederscheme.org.uk)
• Make sure you ask the breeder about the health of the parents and ask to see any certificates for any health screening tests that the parents may have had (see below for recommended tests).
• Make sure you see mum (and dad if possible) to decide if they look and sound healthy.
It is strongly recommended that both Kennel Club Assured Breeders and non-Kennel Club Assured Breeders should use the following schemes, tests and/ or advice.
The list above is not necessarily comprehensive, other available health tests can be found at http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/health/breeding-for-health/dna-screening-schemes-and-results/ or for further advice please contact your local breed club.
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Living in the past is never a good idea--unless you're on one of these dance shows, apparently.
"Dancing With the Stars" tasked its 11 remaining all-stars with reinterpreting so-called iconic routines from seasons past, meaning dances harkening as far back as season one, a Carson Kressly cha-cha, a "Magic Mike" comparison and a battle between the brothers Chmerkovskiy were all on the menu for tonight.
And while ballroom redos sound like risky business, guess what? The scores soared--and the season's first 9.5 was given!
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Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson were proud of their final dance
Or, at least the soars scored for the competitors who didn't kick off their rehearsals by accusing their partners of being disappointed to be dancing with them.
"I know you're bummed that you don't have Sabrina or Shawn," a dejected-sounding Bristol Palin told Mark Ballas as they rehashed last week's low score. (Maybe she doesn't remember that, though Mark won with Shawn Johnson, he got further with Bristol than he did with Sabrina Bryan.)
"What does Sabrina or Shawn have to do with this?" Mark wondered. "Why would you say that? What have I done to make you feel that way?"
Can you blame Bristol for being a little tense on the set of Dancing With the Stars?
According to Bristol, Mark didn't show up for rehearsal the other day, and the remembrance of that left her in tears as she accused him of being "not there."
"Can you not be like that? Come on, don't be like that," he tried to comfort her, but she got up and walked out of the rehearsal room before they at some point got it together and rehearsed for tonight's paso doble.
Which, good news for Bristol, Len Goodman called "easily [her] best dance." (She still finished up in last place, but her numbers did improve.)
Gilles is dancing through pain
Drew Lachey paid homage to fellow boy-bander Joey McIntyre's cha-cha and ended up being praised for his "power drill"-reminiscent booty.
"It worked for Channing Tatum, it's going to work for you," purred Bruno Tonioli.
After respectable showing (he should've done the worm!), the numbers started ticking upward, starting with Gilles Marini's three-8.5 twist on a tango Maks Chmerkovskiy (ultimately the most borrowed choreographer of the night) did with Erin Andrews.
Sabrina scored the first nine of the season last week
"Fifty Shades of Gilles," growled Bruno (ultimately, as always, the most quotable judge of the night).
Melissa Rycroft returned to front-runner form, earning a season-high 27 on her J.R. Martinez-originated samba, only to be joined at the top a little later by none other than Kelly Monaco, whose partner Val Chmerkovskiy couldn't pass up the opportunity to put his own stamp on brother Maks' paso doble wtih Laila Ali.
Sabrina also borrowed a page from Maks' paso doble playbook, the chapter titled "Mel B," but--and get this--the judges found her dancing exceptional, but Carrie Ann Inaba said Sabrina and Louis van Amstel "didn't bring anything new" to the routine.
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So. was Sabrina a little miffed perhaps when she earned the same score as Hlio Castroneves, who stumbled over Chelsie Hightower's dress during his Apolo Anton Ohno-inspired quickstep? (She'll never say, now will she?)
Apolo, meanwhile, earned himself one 9 with an homage to Gilles' "Fever" fox-trot, and fellow past champ Emmitt Smith earned his best marks yet with a pounding paso doble first danced by the guy he beat for the season-three mirror ball, Mario Lopez.
Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough closed the show with Hlio's famous banana-man quickstep--but with a trampoline! "One of the best dances I've seen, if not the best dance, in 15 seasons," Bruno raved of their rule-flouting (lifts, ya know?) routine.
Apolo talks Bristol: "It's all about controversy"
Here's how the leaderboard stacked up tonight:
Kelly Monaco &Val Chmerkovskiy: 27
Melissa Rycroft &Tony Dovolani: 27
Shawn Johnson &Derek Hough: 26.5
Apolo Anton Ohno &Karina Smirnoff: 25.5
Gilles Marini &Peta Murgatroyd: 25.5
Hlio Castroneves &Chelsie Hightower: 25.5
Sabrina Bryan &Louis van Amstel: 25.5
Emmitt Smith &Cheryl Burke: 25
Drew Lachey &Anna Trebunskaya: 24
Kirstie Alley &Maks Chmerkovskiy: 24
Bristol Palin &Mark Ballas: 22.5
There's a double elimination tomorrow, so this could spell the end for Bristol thinking Mark is bummed, but...you never know! Also, Paula Abdul will be a guest judge next Monday, when the all-stars pick out styles for each other.
Take a look at all the injured star dancers through the years