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My boy turns three soon and I have been racking my brain for where to take him on his birthday. In fact he will have two days out, one on his birthday with me and one we will all have as a family when his dad returns from Germany. The problem is that the bar is set quite high. Already at three he has had two international holidays and eats out most weekends. Our pre-nursery school days together have been filled with visits to the farm, aerodrome, and kids swimming centre, London markets, butterfly world and the zoo for which we have passes. He's been to the space centre, IMAX, national history and science museums as well as the aquarium and let's not touch on the topic of soft play centres or rainforest café-all done. I know there is an element of spoiling him here but the truth is that I am indulging myself in his childhood.
Turning three is a big deal. It is the birthday before nursery school and now that he has his place we are frequently talking about how exciting that will be. After he is three he will have birthday parties too, with his friends in attendance. Up until now, I have steered away from hosting parties for him as I didn't want to overshadow the special feelings with the complexities that grown-ups bring to parties. It will all be different next year.
The trouble is that these excursions aren't cheap and are often sinful for the vegetarian tummy. These days I have been looking out for ideas like the RAF museum in Hendon, which in my opinion is little talked about but utterly impressive (I am not being paid or sponsored to write this). It is a little boy's paradise with planes hanging off the ceiling and a few accessible for entranced exploration. There were old planes and newer planes and the whole place reminded me of that film, 'a night at the museum'. We worked up an appetite walking around several buildings full of planes and at lunchtime I ordered from the on-site restaurant a vegetarian burger and some chips for the boy; something I said I would never do (before I had him). The problem was that there was no vegetarian alternative and normally I take his food with us, but it was post-Christmas. Anyway, my burger was a couple of baps with some grilled peppers and courgette tumbling out of it. I could spiral into a discussion about why restaurants don't do vegetarian food so well, but that would be repetitive wouldn't it.
The next day, we had another excursion planned with my boy's cousin, to the national history museum in Tring. This time, I made burgers.
Now, I have tried innumerate versions of the veggie burger but none have made it onto the blog. Is a burger, 'special' enough to blog about? Besides, many of the iterations felt either too; wet, or eggy, dry and crumbly, or just doughy. I simply wanted a burger that's lean and an option for healthy vegetarian eating but I have been mindful about retaining the moisture and of course it has to have a crisp exterior. Otherwise what would be the point? I like colour and depth and succulence, as all burger lovers do. I am particularly pleased with recipe because I have managed to pack in some quinoa and even some iron-level boosting dried apricots. So, I am sharing with you this burger recipe because it really does the job.
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Justin Bieber and Usher Hit the Studio to Record 'Believe' Music
It would seem that Justin Bieber is in the 'tying up loose ends' phase of his new 'Believe' album, and he's called in his mentor Usher to make sure things are sounding swag-worthy.
Late Wednesday night, Usher tweeted to his 2.8 million followers that he was leaving the studio with the Biebs and that the 17-year-old 'Baby' singer's forthcoming release got his stamp of approval. "Just left the studio with lil bro…soundin good. URIV," he posted just after midnight. "I'm headed out tonight…the homie Diplo is spinnin' at Echo Plex…Let's go! URIV."
The Biebs shared the sentiment with his nearly 17 million Twitter followers, re-tweeting Usher's message and shedding just a little more light on what was happening behind the studio glass. "alot of good people in the studio tonight. been working hard. tomorrow morning #MjForever," he tweeted following a tweet about singing for people in the streets "just like old times."
It seems as though Usher wasn't the only big name in the studio with Justin yesterday, however. 15-year-old Aussie heartthrob Cody Simpson shared with his fans that he too was laying down some jams, though he didn't let on whether that was for the Biebs' 'Believe' record or his own. "chilled with the mate @justinbieber in the studio tonight. look for some great records coming. #AustraliaToCanada #CoastToCoast," he said.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's state-owned CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK) has accepted management and employment conditions set by the Canadian government to win approval for its $15.1 billion takeover of Nexen Inc NXY.TO, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.
The Canadian government has taken on board requests made by Alberta Premier Alison Redford last month, which include guarantees that at least 50 percent of Nexen's board and management positions be held by Canadians, the report said.
Earlier this month, CNOOC Chairman Wang Yilin said he was confident of winning regulatory approval from Canada this year for its bid for Nexen, despite Ottawa extending its review of the deal twice. (For a related story, click [ID:nL3E8M92A8])
Canada has been conducting a review to determine whether a takeover by the Chinese state-owned enterprise would bring a "net benefit" to Canada. Ottawa said on November 2 that it had extended the review by a month to December 10.
A CNOOC spokeswoman in Beijing declined to comment on the report but reiterated the company's pledge to retain all of Nexen's management team and employees.
CNOOC's Hong Kong listed shares were up 2 percent on Tuesday morning. Nexen shares ended down 0.4 percent on Monday.
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Just one of DARPA's many AI programs cost taxpayers $150M. Now basically considered a success, SRI who built "Siri" has now sold it to Apple for up to $250M. In effect, we've all paid $1 to help build a Skynet prototype. Since I don't agree with this type of research, for many reasons, I want my tax refund.
Siri is the product of DARPA's "PAL" program, which stands for Personal Assistant that Learns, or Perceptive Assistant that Learns, Cognitive Assistant that Learns (CALO), or even Reflective Agents with Distributed Adapted Reasoning (RADAR), depending on which DARPA person you talk to. Here's DARPA's "PAL" promo video:
They've in effect completed the program:
The software, which learns by interacting with and being advised by its users, will handle a broad range of interrelated decision-making tasks that have in the past been resistant to automation. A CALO will have the capability to engage in and lead routine tasks, and to assist when the unexpected happens. To focus the research on real problems and ensure the software meets requirements such as privacy, security, and trust, the CALO project researchers themselves are using the technology during its development.
Venture Beat just detailed article on the transaction. Along with telling people "you want the virtual assistant to be as smart as someone talking to you on the phone and doing Google searches to answer your questions", they also mentioned some important details:
Curt Carlson, the president and chief executive of SRI International, is very excited about the Siri intelligent agent technology that his organization sold to Apple in April for a rumored $150 – $250 million. He expects it will show up in future iPhones, but he also believes that SRI's additional technologies from virtual assistant research will become part of even more rich applications in the future.
SRI was spun out of Stanford University more than 60 years ago to commercialize research. First named Stanford Research Institute and later renamed SRI International, it became independent from Stanford University in 1970 and now has more than 2,200 researchers working on things such as the cool artificial intelligence, speech recognition, natural language processing, location information, and agent technology that is part of Siri.
Siri, spun out of SRI 18 months ago, is a virtual personal assistant technology. Its first application launched in February as a free iPhone app that lets you perform tasks such as making dinner reservations by speaking into your phone and letting a virtual assistant do the rest.
In 2003, SRI got a $150 million grant to start CALO — the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes — to develop virtual assistant technology over five years. The effort included 25 world class partners and it incubated ideas from government and commercial researchers.
One of the projects that the military is interested in is the Command Post for the Future. It is an assistant for generals in a command post that helps make decisions about how to fight wars or skirmishes.
Commercialization of ideas started four or five years ago under the lead of Norman Winarsky, vice president of ventures, licensing and strategic programs at SRI. In that process, SRI takes its ideas and finds an entrepreneur in residence to make the idea into a startup. If they can figure out a big market opportunity and a compelling business model, they launch it. That's what happened with Siri. Upon being spun out, Siri got another $24 million from Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures.
But Siri isn't the end of SRI's research. It is just one part of it. Another startup using the SRI technology is Chattertrap, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup that will apply the personal assistant concept to online content. The idea is to create a personal information service by figuring out what kind of news you like and delivering a personalized newspaper to you.
In 2007 WIRED Danger Room interviewed Tony Tether, then DARPA chief, and he covered both PAL and CPOF:
NS: Do you know of anything that Darpa's working on right now that's really game changing?
TT: Yes — our cognitive program. The cognitive program's whole purpose in life is really to increase the tooth-to-tail ratio [military-speak for the number of combat troops to the number of support troops].
… Our cognitive program's whole aim is to have a computer "learn you," as opposed to you having to learn the computer. We've got the technology to the point where we can now apply it in Iraq to a system that we also developed called CPOF, Command Post of the Future. It is a distributed command and control system.
NS: I mean, I don't have to tell you that people have been promising cognitive computers [since..]
TT: Well, a lot of time has passed. … Since the '90s to now, our ability to create algorithms that can reason — can more abstractly reason — about a problem and come up with answers, and also remember what they did using Bayesian techniques and changing values, has really advanced. I mean, it tremendously advanced in the past — from the '90s to, say, the early 2000s. At the same time, computers became more powerful. We're on the verge of having computers with densities approaching a monkey's brain, and it won't be long before we'll have a computer with the density of transistors, or equivalent to neurons and almost human. What we're missing is the architecture. So it seemed like it was time. We had great advances in algorithms for reasoning and in algorithms that learned in general. At the same time, the computers, the actual intrinsic hardware, was really approaching the density of a human brain. And so it seemed like it was time to try again. We've had some great success. This cognitive program I told you about is actually showing that it is learning, and it is learning in a very difficult environment. This is the program Stanford Research runs for us.
NS: Which program is this?
TT: It's PAL [Perceptive Assistant that Learns]. And we have other related programs. One major research issue has to do with learning. If you and I learn something, like baseball, and then we go play another sport, say golf, we somehow transfer that –?? we are able to transfer some of what we learned in baseball to golf. That's what makes humans very resilient and flexible. We have some research programs trying to come up with the same technique –?? that if you had something tackle a problem and then gave it another problem, it would do better on that second problem than if it had not had the previous experience.
PAL & CPOF are but 2 AI and Strong AI (AGI) programs DARPA is working on. In 2006, they had two offices that dealt with AI type research. IPTO dealt with "cognitive" programs, while iXo delt with "exploitative" surveillance type programs. The iXo section of the DARPA website had an animated interactive feature, for a time. I just so happened to video capture the entire thing. About 9 months later I noticed they had removed the interactive section, and immediately began work on a new video with that interface as the framework. From there I used all quotes from DARPA and related military documents, and all animations and graphics from the same sources along with the defense contractors doing the work.
I titled it "DARPA's iXo AI Control Grid: The Official Version", as it technically is official, being sourced entirely from their own words and displays.
See the film here, if you haven't already.
What sucks is by about a year later I noticed that they had merged the iXo office into the IPTO office, which kind of 'debunked' my title as iXo was no longer a part of the website.
So at that point the IPTO office had all of their AI programs under one banner.
Today AI programs have spilled out of the IPTO office, and are now found across most of their other 5 offices. Considering that Obama made Zachary Lemnios DoD Director of Defense Research & Engineering, which makes him the boos of all DoD sciece R&D. Zack is a major AI pioneer, and former Deputy Director of DARPA's IPTO office.
AI, including Strong AI, is quite literally the overarching agenda in Obama's Pentagon, and the $150 million spent on the Siri project is only the tip of the budget iceberg. I'm working on a massive "AGI Manhattan Project" post that details every facet, and with that I intend to finish a film project I started several years ago now.
'Skynet' is an easy to use popular culture reference. The thing is, what they're trying to build, makes Skynet look like played out Sega 8-bit.


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While the Fashion & Style section of The New York Times recently cast socialite Cornelia Guest into the spotlight (something she's indeed quite familiar with), it is her Old Westbury, New York property that is taking center stage this week. According to Curbed, Guest's estate is now up for grabs for a cool $6.9 million.
Guest, the only daughter of the late society bigwig C.Z. Guest and steel heir Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, is selling the 15-acre family property dubbed "Templeton." The New York Times reports that Templeton, led by Guest's mother, hosted dinner parties in the estate's heyday for luminaries such as Yves Saint Laurent, Rudolf Nureyev, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Guest's godparents), and Nancy Reagan. Today, Guest lives in the sprawling abode as she undertakes a career nobody would ever envision for the woman named "Debutante of the Decade" in 1986... catering.
While Guest herself is certainly fascinating, so is her amazing 15-acre property, which boasts a grand 17,000-square-foot brick manor. The ornate mansion comes with 28 rooms, including nine bedrooms, six full baths, and two half baths. Built in 1924, the property's jaw-dropping amenities don't end there. Guest's estate boasts a pool, tennis court, three greenhouses, cottages, rose gardens, a 17-stall barn (Guest no longer maintains horses), paddocks and a caretakers cottage.
For $6.9 million, potential buyers will not only score a piece of society history, but they'll own a pretty sweet property to boot.
A view of the sitting room, which features a wall of windows.
This room is covered in green, everything from the walls to the couch cushions.
A look at the idyllic property.


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Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by director Hal Hartley's Possible Films website, not the current Blu-ray edition under review.
Joseph Fulton (D.J. Mendel) is the least troubled of writer/director Hal Hartley's typically down-on-their-luck leading men, a gallery that ranges from Martin Donovan's suffocated genius in 1990's Trust to Thomas Jay Ryan's...suffocated genius in Hartley's masterpiece, 1997's Henry Fool. Fulton, too, is a genius whose ample gifts go underappreciated and barely paid, but, though the shagginess of Hartley's dogs has often been consciously exaggerated to create his hallmark blend of dry-ice-deadpan hilarity and odd pathos, Joe's particular qualities makes this an atypically (but frequently delightfully) light foray into human nature, behavior, and society for Hartley; of all the sardonically put-upon, sometimes truly down-and-out protagonists Hartley has drawn, this one seems most capable of seeing the humor in the abyss that divides his potential from his accomplishment. It's this appealing, quirky, but levelheaded figure, a Brooklyn-dwelling modern-day Renaissance man, around whom Hartley spins Meanwhile, his latest tale and first full-length (or at least nearly so, with its hour-long running time) narrative feature since 2006's Henry Fool addendum, Fay Grim.
The compact film (originally conceived as the first installment of a TV miniseries, though it stands alone just fine) spans an unusually packed day-in-the-life, or at least what would be for most people; it would seem that the perpetually occupied Joe has days like this all the time, since he has a dozen ambitions running at once and seems quite accustomed to being in a state of incredibly nonchalant multitasking. Joe has talents: He can play the drums at the professional level (Mendel's actual occupation when he's not in front of the camera, and it shows in a scene where Joe performs an intimidating audition for a successful indie band), and a peripheral character not even prone to liking the couch-surfing Joe becomes immersed in the galleys of his huge, "nearly-published" novel, Meanwhile. Joe has projects: We're let in on his sometime vocational activity directing videos for an online-advertising concern when an unpaid actress (Kanstance Frakes) from the shoot accosts him (revealing to us in the process that Joe also has principles, and in spades; he'll ensure she gets paid, and gives her the last of his meager cash as a token of good faith), and he can't stop pitching his great, very well-considered business idea for importing German-made green-technology windows for use in Brooklyn's condo-construction boom. And Joe has a way with the ladies, whether he's having the most amicable and kind breakup ever with a half-clad girlfriend (Danielle Meyer) in the film's first scene or revisiting an ex-wife (Anais Borck) for a touching and hilarious exchange (she's an actress, a semi-regular on Law and Order, rife with an actress's insecurities; she wants to be Mary Magdalene in a gospel-based film Joe might be producing, not the "matronly" Mary, mother of God), or giving a put-upon maid (Soraya Soi) the most miraculous, literally spine-tingling massage of her life in a scene that revisits Hartley's paradoxical talent for near-slapstick.
Most of all, Joe is a people person; he almost compulsively helps his fellowman and seems incapable of unkindness or dishonesty, whether he's taking very personally an attractive woman's idle musings about jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge (an early exchange that haunts him and sort of ties the film together as a through-line recurring concern), dropping everything to watch a lost and harried fellow New Yorker's cartload of stuff so he can retrieve his truck 40 blocks away without the burden, or fixing a famous novelist's special typewriter in a bar with spontaneous, impressive expertise and alacrity. (The constant motion in which Hartley keeps Mendel engaged is a gratifying reminder of the physicality of actors the director has for so long visibly appreciated and celebrated; Mendel's crackerjack, minutely choreographed disassembly, cleaning/repair, and reassembly of that typewriter, all while seamlessly delivering Hartley's characteristically artificial/rapid-fire dialogue, could've been conceived and performed by Buster Keaton.) And Hartley, cinematographer Daniel Sharnoff, and longtime editing collaborator Kyle Gilman have in present-day Manhattan the perfect playground in which to set eager-beaver, un-showily self-sacrificing Joe loose: One slowly develops a clear, sure sense that Joe's action-packed life of (mis)adventure and high-aptitude/low-income subsistence couldn't really happen anywhere else, and Hartley uses his photographer's eye for composition and mise-en-scène (often in gorgeous shallow focus; the blurred, twinkling lights of the cityscape in the background at night visually render Joe, foregrounded against an apartment window, a sort of secular saint) to make a showcase/tribute to the Big Apple so vital to and well-integrated with the story, you don't even realize until midway through that it comes damn close to rivaling Manhattan as a letter of undying love to New York.
The film has a real depth and richness to it, but not a whole lot of any great consequence; it feels like a purposely "minor" work, almost a lark, its 10 or so mini-episodes (each demarcated with a chapter-header intertitle, not the first time Hartley has paid stylistic tribute to primary influence Jean-Luc Godard) rich in detail and interest but light on momentum or cumulative force. It's therefore unusually light fare for Hartley, not because the big philosophical/ethical/aesthetic matters he's often concerned himself with are absent (NYC's economic injustices and post-9/11 Orwellian-authoritarian feel come into play as part of Joe's day, as do treatises, readings, and musings on love, life, and art), but they're not so desperate, not so make-or-break as they have seemed when he's in more ambitious mode; nothing, one has the impression, could really break Joe Fulton, who bears his unfair lack of big success with no signs of letting it stop him from getting up and trying again ad infinitum. This is a modesty the film wears very well, though; its lightness of step, its ultimately carefree air despite Joe's cavalcade of setbacks and frustrations and failures, is the key to its success. It's not thought-provoking or emotionally intense and elevated enough to rank with Hartley's more major contributions, but it's a worthy shedding of light onto the sweeter, kinder, more relaxed side of Hartley's particular vision -- an amusing, diverting comedy about doing the right thing in contemporary, multitasking big-city life, a perfect little breeze of smart, funny, tender, minor-key cinematic uplift that never strains itself or wears out its welcome.
The film's transfer, presenting it a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1, does beautiful justice to the high-def digital video on which it was shot, Hartley's and cinematographer Daniel Sharnoff's simply but beautifully lit scenes and shallow-focus framings coming through with wonderful crispness, clarity, vividness, and surprising depth and texture, with virtually no compression artifacts (save for the barest hints of virtually unnoticeable edge enhancement scattered here and there).
The disc's DTS-HD Master Audio surround track delivers the film's sound with great resonance and fidelity, all the dialogue, music, and multitude of city sounds (particularly memorable is the multidimensional soundscape of a scene which an elevated train roars by in the background) full, deep, rich, and clear, with no imbalance, muffling, or distortion at any point.
--The Everyday (15 min.), a making-of documentary featuring interviews with Hartley, Mendel, and editor Kyle Gilman, all of whom describe the process of how the film came about (creatively, at least, it seems it's an extension of Hartley's work during his recent few years as an expat in Berlin, where he made shorts meant to be about moments as "everyday" as possible, some of which are excerpted here), contextualizing it within Hartley's body of work and noting its subtle but thorough status as a cinematic love letter to every part of present-day Manhattan.
--The film's theatrical trailer.
Meanwhile is former American-indie wunderkind Hal Hartley's return to long-form narrative filmmaking after a sojourn doing shorts and stage work in Europe, and it's a modest but quite pleasing success -- an economical, lightweight, somewhat diffuse but quite charming and endearing crystallization of the aesthetic, dramatic, and philosophical concerns that engendered the string of New York/Long Island films (from The Unbelievable Truth to Henry Fool and beyond) that made his name back in the day. The real-life drummer New York-based drummer D.J. Mendel, Hartley's latest nonprofessional-actor protégé, is an affable shaggy-dog presence, playing a sort of version of his own Renaissance-Man self as Joseph, a Brooklynite who can do, fix, or create a great many things very well, yet whose generous nature, indefatigable integrity, and insatiable curiosity about his fellowman perpetually sidetrack him from realizing any of his own ambitions, all of which he is fully capable of though they range from consummate musicianship to film directing/acting/producing to international green-technology entrepreneurship. The film, only an hour long, is just an explicitly episodic day in the life of this peculiarly good man in his rich and vibrant city (the film is equally a celebration of New York as of this very moment, economic struggles and Orwellian tinges and inconveniences and all), but it agilely encompasses all the stuff of which life and drama are made -- vocational yearning and striving; love, lust, and romance; promises made and either kept or betrayed; and, not least, the choice we all make daily of whether to go on living, Joseph being a firm, hearty, and wise endorser of an affirmative response to that niggling, troubling question. Meanwhile finds an older, more relaxed and expansive Hartley leavening his classic, cooler intellectualism with more straight-ahead, unmitigated warmth and affection, for both people and places, than he's ever shown before. It's a purposely "little" film, but it's beautifully and passionately crafted, and it wears its slightness well, very proportionately; like its protagonist, it's handsome, smart, tough, and somewhat sardonic, but consummately good-humored and cheerful in a way that shows the rare thought and conviction underlying that rare but heartening and well-deserved attitude. Recommended.


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Each day, the newspapers in California ask: how close are we to a budget deal? The question is always whether we'll get such a deal. No one asks whether a deal is, well, a good deal.
The failure to get a budget deal is frustrating. But recent budget deals have been worse than frustrating. They've been dangerous.
The current situation -- with a governor pushing desperately for a handful of Republican votes to gain a compromise -- is reminiscent of the last two, big budget deals that involved the possibility of votes on accompanying ballot measures. Both of those deals have proven to be, by general consensus, failures. Though, this being California, everyone wants a big compromise deal like those.
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The first of these failed deals came in late 2003, in the weeks after Gov. Schwarzenegger left office. Schwarzenegger said he wanted to balance the budget, using $15 billion in general borrowing to do so. Democrats were OK with the borrowing. But Republicans wouldn't go along unless there was "budget reform" attached -- the same demand the GOP is making now. The budget reform in 2003 turned out to be a constitutional amendment that required balanced budgets in California. That requirement was approved by voters in the spring of 2004, along with the borrowing. But the reform has meant very little. As the current situation demonstrates, passing a measure that requires a balanced budget isn't enough to balance the budget.
The second big failed deal came in 2009, when Schwarzenegger and the legislature agreed on temporary tax increases -- the same increases Brown is pursuing now -- as part of a package of a half-dozen ballot measures that had to go to voters for approval. The voters said no to the five most substantive of those measures -- all of which were designed to limit budget deficits. In effect, they ended the temporary taxes two years early -- which is why Brown is backing demanding an extension of the same taxes.
Despite these two big deals, the budget remains a mess. And even if Brown and the legislature reach another big deal, the budget almost certainly will remain a mess. One budget deal can't solve a budget problem as complicated and difficult as California's. The entire budget process has to be redesigned from top to bottom. Such a redesign is exactly the kind of thing that can't be produced by one big budget deal.


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Appearance:The tea ball is oval in shape and is made by tying Yin Zhen tea leaves, Jasmine and Globe Amaranth flowers together with fine strings. When infused, it slowly opens up and blooms into the beautiful flower display tea.
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The eighth day of competition at the Beetle Kitesurf World Cup brought on the continuation of the men's and women's freestyle and airstyle double eliminations.
With only two days of competition left, remaining competitors welcomed the day as the ultimate opportunity to showcase their best skills with as much consistency as possible. After their much-needed day off, all competitors returned to the event village, eager for what was to come.
The day began with side shore winds, which later shifted to more on-shore in the later heats of the day. Measuring around 11-25 knots, the conditions proved challenging, yet well-suited to the continuation and completion of both disciplines – allowing for the crowning of the official champions at the Beetle Kitesurf World Cup.
Starting off with face-offs between Christophe Tack (BEL) and Reno Romeu (BRA), as well as Hannah Whiteley (GBR) and Therese Taabel (DEN), onlookers were treated to a full array of on-the-water action. Tack pulled off a Front Blind Mobe and Back Mobe in the middle of his heat, while Romeu's highest scoring trick was a 6.44 KGB.
Going on to compete against Patrick Blanc (ESP), Tack advanced once again with a higher score of 39.3 to Blanc's 35.43. For the women, Bruna Kajiya (BRA) did incredibly well in her heat against Karolina Winkowska (POL) in the semi-finals, wherein she executed a well-scored Blind Judge 3 and an Loop 1. In the women's final, Kajiya and Pulido battled once again in a very close heat. Bruna's best tricks proved to be a strong 313 and S3, which she completed in the middle of her heat, while Gisela's top scoring moves included a Blind Judge 3 and 313. Eventually, Pulido came out on top, with less crashes and a higher overall score.
By the time the last four men's heats were in sight, the bulk of the beach gathered to the shore to watch the excitement unfold. Alex Pastor (ESP) emanated confidence and near perfect wake-style technique in his high performance heat against Stefan Spiessberger (AUT), and advanced with a solid lead. Pastor then went up against Youri Zoon (NED), the defending 2011 champion of this event, eventually losing in the last minutes of the heat. Finally, Kevin Langeree (NED), the winner of the single eliminations, and Zoon met up again in the final freestyle heats of the Beetle Kitesurf World Cup.
With the ominous feel of the dark clouds moving overhead, and rain beginning to dot the huge windows of the elevated judging tower, Zoon and Langeree entered the water for the final showdown. All of the anticipation of the event culminated in the following minutes of this battle. For Kevin, a win would mean a return to his former glory as the three-time champion of this event, while for Zoon, it could mark the continuation of his winning streak with the PKRA.
In heat #47, Zoon took his 10-meter straight into a powered SH5, while Langeree initially threw down a Back Mobe. As the winds began to increase with the front pushing through, each competitor gained more speed and power in the tricks they executed. At first, Langeree was in the lead, with a high-scoring Slim, Blind Judge 3, and KGB; however, Zoon came from behind with a very powerful S3 and Slim to win the heat.
As Zoon defeated the singles winner, the two went head to head once more. This would be the final deciding heat. Amazingly, both of the competitors stepped it up once again, and earned the highest heat scores of the day. Zoon started off with a huge Front Mobe, which gained a gasp from the judging tower, while Langeree solidly executed a Late to Back Mobe and big Slim, among other tricks.
Zoon, however, may have sealed the deal with the highest scoring trick of the day, an 8.13 Blind Judge 5. This put him over the edge into the winning position, which he held onto until the very end.
When asked about the day and his solid heats, Youri commented, "It has been an amazing day. The conditions were pretty hard to ride but I made it into the final after a challenging heat with Alex. I really wanted to win the doubles, so I pushed it and rode with lots of power and took some risks, which paid off."
After announcing the freestyle champions with much applause and excitement, the Airstyle World Championship double eliminations began. Top placers in the single eliminations such as Alvaro Onieva (ESP) and Gisela Pulido returned to hold onto their singles titles. Throughout the late afternoon, a myriad of big air moves, board offs, and even can-cans were showcased, leaving many to smile and watch in amazement at this new yet different discipline. Perhaps most impressively, Reno Romeu (BRA) was able to climb up through the ladder the ladder, consistently exhibiting crowd-pleasing moves such as the YMCA and Triple Board-Offs.
In the end, the winners of the singles – Onieva and Pulido – remained victorious, gaining the 2012 Airstyle World Championship for the first time ever. Reno Romeo, Ariel Corniel (DR), Kristin Boese (GER), and Katja Roose (NED) earned podium placements as well (respectively).


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Find when a branch was created in svn
If you merge between branches and HEAD in subversion, you most likely need to know at what revision the branch was created at. Assuming you don't have the luxury of the new merging features in subversion 1.5, here is a trick I learned from the svn docs.
svn log --stop-on-copy http://server/svn/myapp/branches/myapp-1.0
This will stop once it hits the revision the branch was created at, verses continuing on until r1. Previously I would log the entire branch, and do a grep for the comments I inserted when I created the branch. Not ideal but it worked. Now I use the --stop-on-copy option and I know real quick the revision the branch was created at. Giving me the revision I need to use in the merge.
svn merge -r 546:767 http://server/svn/myapp/trunk
Can't wait until we upgrade to subversion 1.5 or a DVCS.


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The Zboard is a dedicated gaming keyboard whose oh-so-clever name probably works a lot better when said in a thick American twang. The Fang, powered by the same FPS-bothering technology, is its one-handed little brother, but we're struggling to tell if it's more than just a gimmick.
Sure, you can use it with either hand, and all of the buttons are placed within the reach of any human boasting the common five-digits-per-hand configuration. But those same buttons are soft to the point of being spongy, not the sort of firm, tactile response we're used to when ploughing through hordes of on-rushing polygonal enemies, and this clearly takes a while to get used to.
The Fang's other problem is that most bog-standard keyboard's buttons are more responsive and predictable than the squishy keys on offer here, so why would most hardened gamers make the switch to the Fang in the first place? PC Format Staff


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SELEGILINE (se LE ji leen) is an monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI). It is used with levodopa-carbidopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It is usually added to therapy when there is a decrease in response to levodopa.
Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Do not stop taking except on the advice of your doctor or health care professional.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
angry, excitable, panic attack, mania, restless
breathing problems
chest pain
difficulty passing urine
eyes more sensitive to light, enlarged pupils
feeling faint or lightheaded, falls
fever, clammy skin, increased sweating, sore throat
high blood pressure
irregular heartbeat
muscle or neck stiffness or spasm
suicidal thoughts or other mood changes
trouble sleeping
yellowing of the skin or eyes
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
change in sex drive or performance
constipation or diarrhea
increased appetite or weight increase
increased sensitivity to sunlight
muscle aches or pains, trembling
nausea or vomiting
swelling of the feet or legs
tired or weak
Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications:
other medicines containing selegiline, like Emsam
certain medicines for depression, anxiety, or psychotic disturbances
herbal medicines like ginseng, green tea, guarana, SAM-e, and St. John's Wort
local anesthetics
MAOIs like Marplan, Nardil, and Parnate
medicines for migraine headaches
methylene blue
stimulants like amphetamine, dextroamphetamine or methylphenidate
This medicine may also interact with the following medications:
medicines for high blood pressure
prescription pain medicines
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
frequently drink alcohol-containing beverages
kidney disease
liver disease
an unusual or allergic reaction to selegiline, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. It can take up to 4 weeks to see the full effects of this medicine. Do not suddenly stop taking your medicine. This may make your condition worse or cause withdrawal symptoms. Ask your doctor or health care professional for advice about gradually reducing your dosage. Even after you stop taking this medicine the effects can last for at least two weeks.
Patients and their families should watch out for depression or thoughts of suicide that get worse. Also watch out for sudden or severe changes in feelings such as feeling anxious, agitated, panicky, irritable, hostile, aggressive, impulsive, severely restless, overly excited and hyperactive, or not being able to sleep. If this happens, especially at the beginning of antidepressant treatment or after a change in dose, call your health care professional.
This medicine can interact with certain foods that contain high amounts of tyramine. The combination may cause severe headaches, a rise in blood pressure, or irregular heart beat. Foods that contain significant amounts of tyramine include aged cheeses, meats and fish (especially aged, smoked, pickled, or processed such as bologna, pepperoni, salami, summer sausage), beer and ale, alcohol-free beer, wine (especially red), sherry, hard liquor, liqueurs, avocados, bananas, figs, raisins, soy sauce, miso soup, yeast/protein extracts, bean curd, fava or broad bean pods, or any over-ripe fruit. Ask your doctor or health care professional, pharmacist, or nutritionist for a complete listing of tyramine-containing foods.
You may get drowsy, dizzy or have blurred vision. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you know how this medicine affects you. Do not stand or sit up quickly, especially if you are an older patient. This reduces the risk of dizzy or fainting spells. Alcohol may increase dizziness or drowsiness. Do not drink alcoholic beverages while taking this medicine.
Your mouth may get dry. Chewing sugarless gum or sucking hard candy, and drinking plenty of water may help. Contact your doctor if the problem does not go away or is severe.
Do not treat yourself for coughs, colds, flu or allergies without asking your doctor or health care professional for advice. Do not take any medications for weight loss without advice either. Some ingredients in these products may increase possible side effects.
This medicine may affect blood sugar levels. If you have diabetes, check with your doctor or health care professional before you change your diet or the dose of your diabetic medicine.
Tell your health care professional that you are taking this medicine if you are scheduled to have any surgery, procedure or medical testing.
There have been reports of increased sexual urges or other strong urges such as gambling while taking some medicines for Parkinson's disease. If you experience any of these urges while taking this medicine, you should report it to your health care provider as soon as possible.
You should check your skin often for changes to moles and new growths while taking this medicine. Call your doctor if you notice any of these changes.


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Domestic Revenue Aircraft Departures (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Average Domestic Flight Stage Length (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Frequency of aircraft departures, the number of connections required for a single trip, and the match between available flights and travelers desired origin and destination points are all important determinants of scheduling convenience. Because data on connections are currently not available in a suitable format, flight stage length is used here to supplement the information on departures.
Flight stage length is the distance between take-off airport and landing airport. If the mix of origin and destination points are held constant, then an increase in flight stage length implies fewer connections are required for a trip and, therefore, higher quality of air passenger services.
The key relation is that departures and flight stage length will tend to move in opposite directions when changes are due to changes in the number of connections. For example, a trip from city A to city B with a connection in city C will have two departures, but generally a shorter average flight stage length, than the direct flight from A to B with a single departure.
|Domestic Flight Availability
|Revenue aircraft departures (thousands)
|Revenue aircraft departures percent change from same month previous year
|Flight stage length (miles)
|Flight stage length percent change from same month previous year
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
The data have been adjusted to have a standard 30-day month by multiplying the data for each month by the ratio: 30/(actual days in month).
The data do not include international flights by U.S. domestic carriers or domestic flights by foreign carriers.
The dramatic changes in the September 2001 data reflect the impact of the terrorist attacks on Sept.11, 2001, on aviation, including several days in which commercial air operations were suspended.
Alaskan carriers that began reporting T100 data in January 2002 are excluded from this report to retain comparability for comparisons with the previous year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics Monthly, May 2002.


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March 7th, 2011
CMOS-based QUARTZ series, 2-megapixel OPAL series highlight camera leader's latest product offerings. Production-ready CoaXPress support to be demonstrated.
BOSTON, Mass. -- March 7, 2011 -- Adimec (www.adimec.com), a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, will showcase its latest high-end camera innovations at the largest machine vision trade exposition in North America, Automate 2011 (March 21-24 in Chicago, Ill.) Among the highlights of Adimec's demonstrations and participation are:
Adimec will showcase its products in Booth #324.
Marcel Dijkema, Adimec's Strategic Product Manager, will also provide a detailed overview of the company's QUARTZ product line and roadmap at a session on Tuesday, March 21 at 11:00 AM, in the New Product Theatre.
Quartz: High-speed CMOS imaging with no compromises available now
Adimec will demonstrate the latest version of its Quartz Q-4A180 cameras that features extra NIR sensitivity. These cameras combine global shutter CMOS technology with the proprietary Adimec True Accurate Imaging® approach for unmatched speed, accuracy and consistency comparable to CCD-based solutions. The QUARTZ series provides the highest acquisition speed by combining high frame rate sensor technology with high data rate connectivity. The camera features up to 180 frames per second (FPS) performance, large field of view (FOV) with excellent uniformity, 2048 x 2048 resolution and low noise performance, making it the most advanced CMOS camera available for performance-critical applications.
The new NIR-capable QUARTZ camera uses leading-edge CMOS image sensor from CMOSIS that delivers NIR sensitivity in a high-performance, low noise solution. Compared to the standard Q-4A180, the NIR enhanced version significantly increases the sensitivity above 650nm. NIR is an important element in the move from 2D to 3D inspection technology, and has applications in other visibility-constrained product areas such as outdoor imaging as well.
Opal: First production camera supporting the CoaXPress standard
The flagship OPAL series of cameras is Adimec's most versatile family, delivering unparalleled channel matching, linearity and dynamic range at resolutions between 1-8 megapixels at more than 120 FPS. It is the first production camera available to support the CoaXPress standard version 1.0, which allows it to deliver transmission performance up to 3x faster in a single coaxial cable that combines power, GPIO, commands and image data and can extend up to 140 meters. Its CoaXPress support adds to existing support of Camera Link and GigE Vision interface options.
For more information on Adimec at Automate 2011, or to schedule a meeting with company representative, please e-mail .
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Adimec specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-performance cameras that meet the application-specific requirements of key market segments, including machine vision, medical imaging, and outdoor imaging. Founded in 1992, the company partners with major OEMs around the world to facilitate the creation of industry-leading cameras. Its products meet a wide range of performance, size, cost, interface and application requirements and its Adimec True Accurate Imaging® technology provides new levels of precision and accuracy to vision systems. Adimec has offices around the world focused on creating customer value and satisfaction through local, personalized support. For more information, got to www.adimec.com.
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Veggie lasagne
A light but luscious veggie lasagne to tickle your taste buds - it contains just 13g of fat compared to the more usual 19g
Nutrition and extra info
- Can be frozen
- Healthy
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal279
- fat13g
- saturates4g
- carbs35g
- sugars15g
- fibre6g
- protein9g
- salt0.63g
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 onion, sliced
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 garlic clove, sliced
- 1 aubergine, cut into chunks
Although it's technically a fruit (a berry, to be exact), the aubergine is used as a…
- 1 red pepper
- 8 plum tomatoes, halved
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 350ml passata
- 200g ready-cooked lasagne sheets
- 6 tbsp half-fat crème fraîche
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan (or vegetarian alternative)
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Toss oil and vegetables together and roast in a large, shallow tin for 35 mins until lightly charred. Spoon a layer of roasted veg over the bottom of a medium-size baking dish.
Pour over some passata and cover with a layer of lasagne sheets. Repeat layers to use up all the roasted veg and passata, finishing with a layer of lasagne. Use a spoon to dollop over the crème fraîche, then sprinkle with the Parmesan. Return to the oven for 25 mins, until the lasagne is heated through and the top is golden and bubbling.


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Homemade Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting
I saw this recipe in the December issue of Southern Living and knew I had to try it. I had never heard of red velvet brownies – red velvet cake but not red velvet brownies. I was intrigued.
I took last Friday off and had a chance to give these a try. OMG! These are unbelievable!! This is my new favorite Christmas treat. I've made it so many times this holiday season that I have the recipe memorized! These are super easy to make (maybe too easy), and I love that it only uses one bowl! (less cleanup for Chicken Legs)
This is the kind of dessert that calls to me in the middle of the night. I had to get up last weekend and eat one for breakfast. I gave these away to friends and co-workers instead of a pound cake this year. These will be a new holiday tradition in our house.
Red Velvet Brownies
- 1 (4-oz) bittersweet chocolate baking bar, chopped
- 3/4 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 (1-oz) bottle red liquid food coloring
- 1-1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- 3 Tbsp butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottom and sides of a 9-inch square pan with aluminum foil, allowing 2 to 3 inches to extend over sides; lightly grease foil.
- Microwave chocolate and butter in a large microwave-safe bowl at HIGH 1 1/2 to 2 minutes or until melted and smooth, stirring at 30-second intervals. Whisk in sugar. Add eggs, 1 at a time, whisking just until blended after each addition. Gently stir in flour and next 4 ingredients. Pour mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake for 44 to 48 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely on a wire rack (about 2 hours).
- For frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and salt, beating until blended. Stir in vanilla.
- Lift brownies from pan, using foil sides as handles; gently remove foil. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting on top of brownies, and cut into 16 squares. Garnish, if desired.


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City of Punta Gorda, FLHome Menu
Calendar Meeting List
Historic Preservation Advisory Board
- Date: 11/21/2019 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Location: City Hall
326 West Marion Avenue
Punta Gorda, Florida 33950
Meets the 4th Thursday at 8:30 a.m. in City Council Chambers. City residency required. Seven member board with two alternate members. Appointment of three (3) members shall be made by City Council on the basis of experience or interest in the fields of architecture, general contracting, finance or banking, real estate, law, history, archeology or any other related profession. The remaining four (4) members should be residents of the City of Punta Gorda, one of them being a resident of one of the designated historic districts. Three year terms - maximum of three terms.
Identifies for the City Council historically significant structures and sites that should be considered for designation as a "Local Historic Landmark" or be nominated for listing on the Florida Master Site File and the National Register of Historic Places. Makes policy recommendations for the protection of historically significant structures and sites. Makes recommendations to staff regarding certificates of appropriateness for any demolition, variance, sign or relocation of structures. Promotes public awareness of historic archaeological preservation and its community benefits.


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Graham Readfearn
Graham Readfearn is an independent journalist based in Queensland, Australia, with 20 years experience as a reporter and writer on newspapers, magazines, radio and online.
In Australia, Graham's features, stories and commentary on climate change and sustainability issues have been published on The Guardian, G Magazine, ABC Environment, The Drum and Crikey.
In his native UK, Graham worked on daily regional newspapers for five years at The Gazette in Blackpool and The Yorkshire Post in Leeds. His campaigns highlighted major malpractices at a chemical reprocessing factory and helped secure better payments for war pensioners.
A long-running campaign to increase the levels of physical education in UK schools was quoted in British Parliament and won him the regional sports writer of the year award from Britain's Sports Writers' Association.
He moved to London and the BBC's national 24-hour news and sport radio network FiveLive to work as a broadcast journalist, script writer and producer.
During two years there, he was part of the team producing the live rolling coverage of the New York September 11 attacks and was studio producer as news broke of an IRA bomb in London's Ealing suburb. In the wake of British race riots, he conceived and co-produced a live three-hour programme on multicultural issues from Europe's largest Indian curry restaurant.
After a career-break to travel the world he returned to the UK as a freelance feature writer covering social affairs, youth issues, regeneration, social enterprise and sustainability for national magazines and newspapers.
After moving to Australia in 2005, he was a feature writer for Queensland's main daily newspaper, The Courier-Mail, where he launched his first environment blog, GreenBlog, writing more than 650 posts and moderating in excess of 14,000 comments.
He likes chickens (he's got six), his kids (he's got two), his wife (just the one), coffee and other things – although not necessarily in that order.
Graham writes the Planet Oz blog on The Guardian and occasionally blogs at www.readfearn.com


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Stifler isn't going anywhere.
Actor Seann William Scott will begin shooting a fourth "American Pie" film May 24, despite having just entered treatment for "health and personal issues," his rep told People.
According to The Wrap, the new film will be called "American Reunion."
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On Tuesday, Scott's rep told news outlets the 34-year-old actor known for portraying doofus jock Steve Stifler in the raunchy comedy franchise had "voluntarily admitted" himself to a treatment center.
He did not elaborate on what drove Scott to seek help, but told E! News the screen star "appreciates the support of his many fans at this time."
Scott is known for his often over the top rolls in comedies like "Role Models" and "Dude, Where's My Car?"
He was last seen in the Bruce Willis-Tracy Morgan comedy "Cop Out."
Selected Reading: People, Entertainment Weekly, E! News, The Wrap


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Release: 6.60 TN-B for Urbanix and Mad Blocker Alpha
Total_Noob just released an update to his eCFW for the Vita, CEF 6.60 TN Hen. The game makes compatibility with previous exploits easier to achieve, brings some bug fixes, but more importantly, brings compatibility with the game Mad blocker Alpha.
We organized a Ninja Release for the game, and hopefully many people were able to buy it in time, but sadly, the name of the game was leaked by a handful of people, and got pulled from the Sony PSN (this is at least confirmed for Europe, people in the US might have better luck) before we could do this public announcement. 15'000 members of our forums were part of the Ninja release, and in all honesty I wouldn't expect all of them to keep their mouth shut, but it is sad to see that some major scene websites contributed to the leak, in the form of "rumor" articles and falsely naive posts. In the long run, those things hurt the scene more than necessary.
That being said, hopefully all the people who were looking for the ninja release got the info in time, and, well, if you missed the Monster Hunter exploit AND the Urbanix exploit AND the Mad Blocker alpha exploit, maybe the world wasn't ready for your Vita to be hacked. There might be other opportunities in the future, but to be honest, a Kernel exploit has that "once a year" kind of feeling to it, if you ask me. And the "extra opportunity" for those who missed the release was actually the Mad blocker Alpha one, which really wasn't planned initially.
For people on previous exploits who haven't updated to one of the 3 exploits mentioned above, I'd say stay tuned. At some point TN's work will be made open source (as he said a few days ago), and porting the eCFW to your exploit will become possible at that point.
Lots of things to say about this, but for now I have to catch a bit of sleep.
Credits go to Total_Noob for the CFW, and to Frostegater for the Mad blocker alpha usermode exploit. A Paypal link to donate to Total_Noob can be found in the readme. Additional credits in the readme as well.
Download here, as usual
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text: The book first guides readers through an in-depth exploration of indoor and outdoor cultivation. Covered skills range from integrating wood-chip beds spawned with king stropharia into your garden and building a "trenched raft" of hardwood logs plugged with shiitake spawn to producing oysters indoors on spent coffee grounds in a 4×4 space or on pasteurized sawdust in vertical plastic columns. For those who aspire to the self-sufficiency gained by generating and expanding spawn rather than purchasing it, Cotter offers in-depth coverage of lab techniques, including low-cost alternatives that make use of existing infrastructure and materials. 400 pages, 8" x 10". Softcover.


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Updated 3:30 p.m. ET - Senate Republicans pressed for more answers Thursday on what led to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi – with their focus squarely on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who will testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next month.
At a committee hearing Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R- Fla., a potential 2016 presidential contender, said it was "puzzling" that the report from the Accountability Review Board Clinton appointed to investigate the attack places blame only on lower-level officials for giving insufficient attention to the security risks in Benghazi.
In the attack Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Sean Smith, were killed.
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Rep. Jane Harman talk about the attack on the U.S. consulate and why the host country needs to protect the United States' diplomats. They also debate how the U.S. can fix the security in these embassies. The panel then turns the conversation to the campaign to discredit Sen. Chuck Hagel as a potential pick for Defense Secretary.
"There's a lot of questions to be answered, including some that only Secretary Clinton can answer," Rubio told NBC News after he left the hearing. "We need to know beyond the assistant secretary level -- where the report places most of the blame -- what did these senior officials know after the repeated meetings (with the Libyan prime minster and other Libyan officials). Libya was not some remote outpost somewhere… It was a place that the U.S. was heavily engaged in militarily."
He said the possibility that the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi did not come up in meetings between Clinton and the Libyan officials or in meetings between other State Department officials and the Libyans "is deeply troubling to me."
Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security has resigned and three other officials have been relieved of duty, the department said late Wednesday.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said "accountability has been brought to bear with regard to four individuals who are very senior" at the State Department. But he added, "they're not taking the fall" for the attack.
Clinton has been out of the public eye for several days due to illness and a concussion she suffered after fainting.
Substituting for Clinton in testimony before the committee Thursday was Deputy Secretary of State William Burns.
"All of you who know Hillary know that she would rather be here today," said committee chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who is likely to be President Barack Obama's nominee to replace Clinton. "I assure you it is not her choice she is not here today and she looks forward to appearing before the committee in January. I want to make that clear."
At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Benghazi attack Thursday afternoon, Chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R- Fla., said Clinton "has every intention of testifying before our committee by mid-January as soon as she gets the go-ahead from her doctor."
And Ros-Lehtinen said the State Department's claim that Congress had not provided sufficient funding was not persuasive. "Perhaps it should take a closer look at the (State Department) money that is being lavished on global climate change, a culinary diplomacy program, and other favored projects," she said. "This money could have been used for providing diplomatic security….."
Ros-Lehtinen said that the State Department was spending nearly $1 billion on global climate change programs. And she said that just the day before the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Clinton was "engaged in launching a new program called the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, where Americans chefs will travel the world to engage in 'culinary diplomacy.' Certainly this is an example of misplaced priorities."
Burns told the committees that report by the Accountability Review Board (ARB) "takes a clear-eyed look at serious, systemic problems. Problems which are unacceptable. Problems for which – as Secretary Clinton has said -- we take responsibility."
He said told the State Department has "already begun to fix" the security lapses that allowed the Benghazi attack to succeed.
On Tuesday the ARB report blamed State Department officials for "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies" that led to the protection for the Benghazi facility that was "grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place."
Kerry said that "the report pulls no punches." He said that "clearly mistakes were made" and that "there were clear warning signs" that the US facility in Benghazi was in danger in the weeks leading up to the attack.
"We get this right about 99 percent of the time," Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides told the committee. "We would like to be at 100 percent."
Kerry said that for years the Congress had underfunded the State Department and noted that the international affairs budget is less than one-tenth that of the Defense Department.
Kerry noted that the ARB report calls for spending $2.3 billion a year for 10 years to protect State Department personnel overseas.
But Sen. Bob Corker, R- Tenn., slated to be the senior Republican on the panel in 2013, vigorously dissented from that view. He told the hearing "he was "dismayed that this hearing has already focused on the need for additional money, which may well be needed," but since the committee had not done a thorough review of how the State Department spends its approximately $50 billion in annual funding, "we have no idea whether the State Department is using its money wisely or not."
He also asked why Clinton had not asked Congress before the attack to allow her to re-allocate State Department funding to ensure the Benghazi facility was secure.
He added later that there was a 16-person Defense Department security team in Libya who could have been shifted from Tripoli to Benghazi – and at no cost to the State Department other than lodging. "This has nothing to do with money," he said.
Kerry said that American diplomats need to engage personally with the people in the nations where they are stationed, especially in the Middle East. "We have to be on the ground, outside the wire, reaching out to those people," he said.
"Bad things have happened before and bad things will happen again unfortunately in the future," he said. "We do not want to concertina-wire America off from the world."
Rubio told NBC News that there was larger lesson in the Benghazi attack: "One of the factors that led to the Sept. 11 attack was "the inability of the Libyan central government to have any control over militias" and that, he argued, was "a direct result of a policy decision made to 'lead from behind.'"
He said the Obama administration got engaged "too late" and "not decisively enough" in Libya. "The reason why there are all these multiple militias in Libya is because this was a protracted conflict that created the opportunity and the space for these militias to form – similar to what we're seeing now in Syria."
If the United States had gotten decisively engaged in Libya, Rubio contended, the conflict "would have ended a lot sooner and the opportunity for these militias to form would have been diminished."


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Well so after introducing the gmap maps earlier this week, I spent a lot of time cleaning up the style once again. I threw out some not really needed stuff like entrances or farmland and made some symbols smaller.
Currently I'm still not sure what I should do about restaurants and shops. On the countryside the POI are very useful, in a city they much rather clutter the map too much. On the Desktop using Garmin Basecamp, it's easy to disable showing any restaurants, or shops via the options menu (and creating a second profile that shows them, if one want to switch). However - how many people know such functions and use them? On the GPS the declutter works quite fine, again - how many people activate this function?
I of course wouldn't throw them out of the map, but rather just give them small dots instead of a proper symbol.
Besides I implemented the shelter_type key and added man_made dam & pier also as area and not only as a line. Actually there were many more changes, but I muddled up the SVN commits, and no cannot really remember all of them. Mostly are many small details however.
Next week I'll again update the Europe map. As for gmap/mac OSX full Europe map, I'll have to monitor the traffic for a few weeks, to decide about it...


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Same dug out.
Dear Em.
I have just finished a letter to Katherine, and sent it back to the base with the ration wagon that brought up two letters from you today dated Jan. 19 and Jan. 29 which I tell you is going some for Uncle Sam's Mail Service after all. When you realize where we are and the extra amount of energy and work to forward mail to the front line trenches, and that, in the space of time between Jan. 29 and Feb. 22, well it is well, thats all. Your letters are great Em, I can assure you. Like water to a man that is ready to give up. If you could see the bitter disappointment shown by the boys here who fail to receive a letter you would consider me very fortunate that I had you and others to get mail from.
We have been under a very heavy fire all day so please excuse all mistakes. I beleive I told you that I wouldn't write much for reasons not my own but I just can't help it. Every spare minute I get I write to some one, and it is not a bad fault I tell you for the result is a very rich harvest of letters. You see some of the boys dont think of writing at all and they call me a lucky dog in receiving so much mail. I forgot to state that I also got two cartons of Lucky Strikes from the shipper at the shop. Just think of how Uncle Sam is looking out for us. Sending packages clear up to within pistol shot of the Boshe. The best part of these cigaretts is that Id just got down to my last package although Ive still got that pipe and some of the Dills that came in your Christmas Package. I think I wrote and told you I got this package, and probably before this you have received this letter. You see this means another letter to the shipper but its great to get a lot of smokes for a letter.
It has cleared off cold, the moon shines very brightly, the Boshe still plays a tune with the big boys over our heads trying to find our artillery, and our artillery is hitting a good tenor as the machine guns play to time by sweeping the opennings around and between the dug outs. You can call it music, rag time or any thing you want to but really now Em it isnt pleasant for the nerves. Play us that Soothing Melody on the machine will you, or Temple Bells.
Im glad you like the picture. The fellows all said I look like a girl in that "Hat Over Coat Picture" so I guess the Hollands top it off as a sure thing. I wonder if they ever saw me in a bathing suit. OH you Babe at that music box. Im glad Henry is over his cold, and by the way Em tell him to excuse me for failing to answer his letter also Bert. They can read yours and get as much Im sure as they would were I to write to them. Ill thank them for some letters though. Im some bloke what?
By this time I hope the cold weather you speak of is a thing of the past and warmer weather the rule. You say you dont go to dances on account of the cold weather. "Say Em I just aint getting old thats all." Sometimes my bones creek and Im lame all over due to the continual dampness but say little one, one good two step would fix me up in fine shape Id be willing to bet. Things must be pretty hard to get over there all right when you can only buy ½ ton of coal at a time and sugar and flour etc. We are scoffing very well and get three squares a day so far.
You open up you letter of Jan 18-18 with Harrah, three letters today. Well Em this is a holiday in the States and although all the holidays that you have there are not even thought of here Ive had a holiday every time Ive received letters from you. Im telling Lena that if she ever had this hat to wear she nead never fear a windy day, and as for the coat, it was an order to have them cut off to two inches below the knee and a belt made; the belt to be two inches wide. For the trenches.
You say you would like to see the Sammies in France. And I will tell you that you would never think they were the boys that came back from the Border. (For the Army in France is the self same Sammies that were willing to Hit the Trail for Villa as well as they are now willing to Hit the Trail for the Kaizer.) You say I take a crack at the draft men every chance I get. Just like the draft men took a crack at us every chance they got. At the same time Em we are here on the firing line now, and it didnt take Congress, and the President months of voting, it didnt take a lot of politicians, it didnt take thousands of dollars worth of paper, it didnt take a lot of weakening in the knees nor exemptions board, to put us here. Yet we were tin soldiers in the eyes of these same millions of driven men for after all draft means driven. Im laughing too Em, so dont think Im mad. The draft army is going to win this war but we will lead the way. If you saw some of these chaps, all in, from loss of sleep, and chilled from continual duty in the advanced posts, you also would draw some distinction between those who chose it and those who had to be shown their duty some of which after being shown denounced even Missouri. It is well that I am drawing to a close in this letter for my eyes are very tired from the flicker of this light. Im still well and hope this letter finds you all well…
© Copyright 2008 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Some wines are for everyday… you knock them back without a care or thought. Those are freeing and ephemeral days. But then, there are wines that give pause… stay in your memory like your first dance with a sweetie. They grab you and hang on for the ride. I recently experienced a sexy slow dance . Tasted back in November, I still remember the wine's sensations and flavors. But not necessarily when I drank it alone — it's really too sweet for my palate. But when I paired it with some salty, creamy, thick-veined blue cheese, it transformed. My tweet read: "Blue cheese + Foreau Demi Sec is freakin' unbelievable". Not sure I need to say more.
Read more: Food and wine pairing heaven: Sweet Vouvray and blue cheese


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When I first played Final Fantasy VI, I wasn't even holding the controller. I watched my older brother play through the Super Nintendo game beneath the glow of the bulbous cathode ray tube in our living room, after school, after dinner, after homework, sitting cross-legged on the carpet.
I felt like I was a part of the experience as a spectator; I coached him, suggesting maneuvers as he played, following the story, not really understanding the significance of its themes—isolation, identity, self discovery, egomania, death. I was in grade school and the impressionistic fantasy game was a dark, baroque epic in the last years of the 16-bit era.
Square—Squaresoft at the time—had a few more games in development for the console, Chrono Trigger arriving a year later, but Final Fantasy VI was the high-water mark and everything afterwards was the in the receding pixel tide. Lofty words, but the medium changed dramatically when polygons arrived and storage space was cheap.
We were borrowing the game from a friend who had a wealth of Super Nintendo cartridges; these games cost as much as $70 and it took months and months of savings for a single purchase. We used to wander the neighborhood collecting cans! Like good little hobos, raising money for games. It was probably some time in 1995, maybe early '96, six months or so after Final Fantasy III's (as it was known in the US) October 1994 release date. But we still couldn't afford the game. So thanks for that, Bobby down the street, in the house upon the hill.
And I recently decided to replay it, with ZSNES and a Logitech controller. The game is of course a menu-based role playing game with a fairly linear storyline. I don't need to dwell on the specifics of the game mechanics—you know all that, more or less, because the Final Fantasy series was essential in defining the JRPG genre. It features more character customization that previous entries into the series, via relics that gave characters unique abilities, Espers that taught magic, and the usual armor and weapon options. This was all elaborated upon in the follow up, Final Fantasy VII, the most common entry point to the series for slightly younger millenials than myself.
But none of that is particularly important. What matters is the story, and how it was conveyed on a system with the processing power a fraction of today's smoke alarms.
The protagonist Terra serves as an automaton to an evil empire, a rare specimen that knows magic in a world where magic is just something talked about in silly stories of older times. When she's freed from her servitude she has no memory of her past, why she has her abilities, and why she is alone in that harsh world. The rebel forces take her in.
All of the subsequent characters struggle with their own questions of identity and isolation—Locke and his long lost lover, Shadow's inability to connect with anyone besides his dog, the royal brothers Edgar and Sabin and their reluctant responsibilities, Cyan and the fall of Doma (spoiler alert, yeah). It goes on and on, with all of the characters being forced to find and forge their identities in an uncertain world. The story plays out over the first half of the game, graciously never really forcing players to do the leveling up grind.
The second half consists of more wandering—a little more tedious, and when I replayed it recently I consulted online guides because I wasn't interested in investing hours just to find what to do next. As a child, though, that wasn't a problem; it was an adventure. It was an adventure when my brother and I wandered down drainage pipes with sharpened sticks to find beer cans to raise some spare change, and it was an adventure when we bought games like these. In typical Final Fantasy fanfare, it culminates in a battle with a baroque god, featuring one of the greatest final boss themes ever by Nobuo Uematsu. And that's not even the most memorable song of the game.
(Is it hypocritical to include these remastered versions when I wax about the "impressionistic" beauty necessitated by Super Nintendo's limitations? Maybe, but it still kicks ass.)
We had a subscription to the monthly magazine Nintendo Power and I poured over Hideaki Amano's artwork before I ever played the game. In fact I didn't really like his style, at the time—it's perplexing, disturbing, almost grotesque, and I wanted clearly defined cartoons. Amano, like the game, was not interested in simple clarity of form, instead letting his lines and shapes run mad. He still cites it as one of his favorite projects.
Maybe it's just because I was young and impressionable, but the game and its characters practically burned their images into the back of my skull. Such a huge world in so few megabytes. When I replayed it weeks ago, twenty years later, I still knew all the story beats, I knew all the spells, I knew all the tricks. (Admittedly I did buy the Playstation re-release too—for the CGI cut scenes! FMV!—but the subtle load times drove me crazy and I never finished that version.) Yes I consulted some guides to ease the process, but I knew all the broad strokes like a map of my old neighborhood.
I like to think of it as a golden age of impressionism in video games, along with the early N64 and PSX games that followed; the technical constraints requiring imagination to evoke deep sentiments from the blocks and triangles on the screen that showed so little and conveyed so much. I know I sound like an old man—we had to imagine the pictures!—but I saw gods and sorcerers fight for the world on a 256x224 screen with baroque flourish, and afterwards nothing else really lived up to that.
So what I'm saying, you knuckleheads, is that you should play it some time. Five stars, A plus, drinks all around.
We are Games On Delay, a non-professional gaming blog by and for filthy casuals. Read more about us here.
Images via Fantasy Anime, Final Fantasy Wiki, and Overclocked Remix.


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Wednesday, 03 November, 2010 - 22:15
- on dwelling in the being of a thing.
Looking for the moment the gap closes: being in the flow of the moment; sincerity; dialogue; thinging. Theoria, praxis and poiesis are the three Aristotelian "activities" of man: theoria - the contemplative, analytical mode; praxis - the mode of action; and poiesis - the conjury, the making, or (after Heidegger) the 'bringing-forth'. But how do these modes play together? Are we entrapped in one or the other, only ever switching between them as we might change gears? Or are they like polyphonic tones, playing together, merging with each other, alternately moving back and forth in dominance and recession, but always humming along at the same time?
I quote Richard Sennet at length here because when I read his account of craft (butchered here), I am thinking of these modes, and noticing the opening and closing of the gaps between thought and action, mind and world, being and withdrawal.
We could find no better guide than Erin O'Connor about how the hand and eye together learn how to concentrate. A philosophical glassblower, she has explored the development of long-term attention through her own struggles to fashion a particular kind of wineglass. She reports . . . that she has long enjoyed the Barolo wines of Italy and therefore sought to fashion a goblet big and rounded enough to support the fragrant "nose" of the wine. To accommodate this, she had to expand her powers of concentration from the short- to the long-term . . .
In learning to make a Barolo goblet O'Connor . . . had to "untape" habits she'd learnt in blowing simpler pieces in order to explore why she was failing . . . develop a better awareness of her body in relation to the viscous liquid, as though there were continuity between flesh and glass . . . Now she was better positioned to make use of the triad of the "intelligent hand" - co-ordination of hand, eye, and brain . . . But she still had to learn how to lengthen her concentration.
This stretch-out occurred in two phases. First, she lost awareness of her body making contact with the hot glass and became all-absorbed in the physical material as the end in itself . . . The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes what she experienced as "being as a thing". This philosopher Michael Polanyi calls it "focal awareness" and refers to the act of hammering a nail: "When we bring down the hammer we do not feel that its handle has struck our palm but that its head has struck the nail . . . . I have a subsidiary awareness of the feeling in the palm of my hand which is merged into my focal awareness of my driving in the nail." If I may put this yet another way, we are now absorbed in something, no longer self-aware, even of our bodily self. We have become the thing on which we are working.
This absorbed concentration now had to be stretched out. The challenge O'Connor met was the result of further failure . . . The problem, she came to understand, lay in dwelling in that moment of "being in a thing." To work better, she discovered, she needed to anticipate what the material should next become in its next, as-yet nonexistent, stage of evolution. Her instructor called this simply "staying on track"; she, rather more philosophically minded, understood that she was engaged in a process of "corporeal anticipation," always one step ahead of the material . . .
The rhythm that kept O'Connor specifically alert lay in her eye disciplining her hand, the eye constantly scanning and judging, adjusting the hand, the eye establishing the tempo. The complexity here is that she was no longer conscious of her hands, she no longer thought about what they were doing: her consciousness focussed on what she saw; ingrained hand motions became part of the act of seeing ahead . . .
The Craftsman by Richard Sennet
The materials of life require a master to give them form, while dwelling in the being of a thing is anarchic and free-wheeling. Hmmm. Ahhh. Hello, and welcome to the tropes of mastery and freedom . . .


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Mid-Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries has said she will learn next week whether she is to be restored to the Conservative Party whip following her appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.
The MP, who returned from Australia on Monday, said she had had a "good-natured" meeting with Government Chief Whip Sir George Young.
Ms Dorries expressed confidence that the party whip - which was suspended by Sir George after she left the country to appear on the ITV reality show - would be restored.
"I think we will be fine with the whip," she said. "We had a very good-natured, a very happy meeting. We have adjourned the meeting and we are reconvening this time next week, if not before.
Ms Dorries, who will not be able to stand again as a Tory candidate unless she regains the whip, insisted that she wanted to carry on in Parliament.
"Of course I want to be an MP," "An MP is not doing a job, it is a life choice. If I didn't want to make that life choice I wouldn't be doing it, I can assure you."


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