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Film noir Friday on TCM kicks off a new feature on FNB
By Mark Harrington
A noir-lover's schedule of film noirs on cable TV. First up: Friday, June 29, an all-noir day on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Times: Eastern Standard and Pacific Standard.
Friday, June 29
6 a.m. (3 a.m.): "The Letter" (William Wyler, 1940) Bette Davis, in her Bad Bette mode, strings along Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson (but not Gale Sondergaard) in the ultimate movie version of W. Somerset Maugham's dark colonial tale of adultery, murder and a revealing letter. Like most of Maugham's stories, this one was based on fact. Script by Howard Koch.
7:45 a.m. (4:45 a.m.): "High Sierra" (Raoul Walsh, 1941) "The 'Gotterdammerung' of the gangster movie," according to Andrew Sarris. Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino (both great) as outlaw lovers in Walsh's classic noir from the W. R. Burnett novel. Script by Burnett and John Huston; with Arthur Kennedy, Cornel Wilde, Barton MacLane, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull and Henry Travers. If you've never seen this one, don't miss it: the last shot is a killer.
9:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m.): "The Fallen Sparrow" (Richard Wallace, 1943) John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slezak in an anti-Fascist thriller, with a Spanish Civil War backdrop. From the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes ("In a Lonely Place").
11:15 a.m. (8:15 a.m.): "Johnny Angel" (Edwin L. Marin, 1946) Night-life murder mystery with George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso and Hoagy Carmichael. Too plain visually, but a nice script by Steve Fisher and Frank Gruber.
12:45 p.m. (9:45 a.m.): "Deception" (Irving Rapper, 1946) Bette Davis, Claude Rains and Paul Henreid in a stormy classical music triangle. Script by John Collier ("Evening Primrose"), from Louis Verneuil's play.
2:45 p.m. (11:45 a.m.): "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (Tay Garnett, 1946) John Garfield and Lana Turner make the screen blaze as the bloody, adulterous lovers in this hot-as-hell, cold-as-ice movie of the steamy James M. Cain classic noir sex-and-murder thriller. With Hume Cronyn, Cecil Kellaway and Leon Ames. Script by Niven Busch.
4:45 p.m. (1:45 p.m.): "Hollow Triumph" (aka "The Scar") (Steve Sekely, 1948) Crime and psychology and doubles and scars, with two Paul Henreids, Joan Bennett and Eduard Franz. Script by first-rate Brooklyn novelist Daniel Fuchs ("Low Company").
6:15 p.m. (3:15 p.m.): "The Bribe" (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949) Ace femme fatale Ava Gardner tempts Robert Taylor and Charles Laughton. Script by Marguerite Roberts ("True Grit"), from a Frederick Nebel story.
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): "Woman in Hiding" (Michael Gordon, 1950) Marital tension with Ida Lupino, real-life hubby Howard Duff (as the wry love interest) and bad movie hubby Stephen McNally (the villain). Script by Oscar Saul ("The Helen Morgan Story").
10 p.m. (7 p.m.): "Julie" (Andrew L. Stone, 1956) Doris Day is terrorized by hubby Louis Jourdan. With Barry Sullivan and Frank Lovejoy. Stone scripted.
12 a.m. (9 p.m.): "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" (Peter Godfrey, 1947) Humphrey Bogart, in Bad Bogie mode, has marriage problems with Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith. Nigel Bruce co-stars; Thomas Job scripted.

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Alleged Colorado shooter James Holmes, who appeared in court Thursday, appeared unfocused at times during the 90 minute proceeding. Legal experts say his defense team – who made multiple references to their client's mental illness – may be setting the stage for an insanity plea. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Updated at 7:14 p.m. ET: At a hearing Thursday in Centennial, Colo., lawyers representing movie theater mass shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes said their client is mentally ill.
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James Holmes, during his first court appearance at the Arapahoe County Courthouse in Centennial, Colo. on July 23.
Lawyers for Holmes made the disclosure at a hearing in which a coalition of news organizations argued for the judge to unseal documents relating to the July 20 shooting spree in an Aurora, Colo., theater that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.
Holmes is charged with 142 criminal counts, including 24 counts of first-degree murder in the attack at a midnight premiere of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" and possession of explosives. After arresting Holmes, police found his apartment was booby-trapped with a jumble of explosives and incendiary devices set to be triggered by tripwires. It took experts several days to disarm the devices.
Prosecutors pursue two-track strategy against Holmes in Colorado massacre
Scott Robinson, a Denver defense attorney not connected to the case and a legal consultant to NBC News, says references to Holmes' mental illness by his attorneys and their allusion to a university psychiatrist he had contacted signal that the defense team likely will pursue an insanity strategy.
"By alluding to Holmes' mental problems, it's clear the defense is sowing the seeds for a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity," said Robinson.
Appearing in court Thursday for the third time since his arrest, Holmes had the same dazed demeanor that he has had in previous court appearances, according to the Associated Press.
So far, nearly all court records on file in the case are under seal — off limits to the public — with just a few exceptions allowed by 18th Judicial District Chief Judge William Sylvester.
Sylvester did not rule Thursday on the motion to unseal the documents.
The 85-page motion argues that the public has "an obvious and legitimate interest" in actions being taken by government officials in the case.
"This status quo violates the public's constitutional right of access to the records of criminal prosecutions and undermines our nation's firm commitment to the transparency and public accountability of the criminal justice system," the document argues.
The media was also seeking Sylvester's clarification on a gag order that prevents attorneys on both sides and law enforcement officials and University of Colorado personnel from discussing the case.
The motion was filed on behalf of 21 media organizations, including NBCUniversal Media.
Opening the records would give the public a much more complete picture of the proceedings against Holmes, 24, who had recently withdrawn from a graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Colorado.
Attorneys for Holmes have argued to keep Holmes' case file under wraps, saying that wide release of information could affect their client's ability to get a fair trial.
Poll: Views on gun laws unchanged after Aurora theater massacre
On the other hand, Daniel King, one of Holmes' attorneys, also argued that the defense team need more information from prosecutors and investigators to assess their client, AP reported.
"We cannot begin to assess the nature and the depth of Mr. Holmes' mental illness until we receive full disclosure," he said.
At the university, Holmes had sought help from a psychiatrist, Lynne Fenton, King said.
It's unclear if Fenton's conversations with Holmes will remain protected and confidential in court. A hearing was scheduled for Aug. 16 to establish whether there is a doctor-patient relationship between Fenton and Holmes, AP reported.
The university confirmed to NBC News that the school has hired an attorney for Fenton and for an unnamed campus police officer whom Fenton may have spoken to about Holmes.
Prosecutors have argued that releasing documents could jeopardize their investigation.
NBC News' Miguel Alamguer contributed to this report
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The Padres have possibly suffered their first significant injury of the spring.
"He's got a foot issue and we're going to stay away from it for three or four days," Padres manager
Forsythe, 26, who figures to be prominent at second and short as well as serving as a possible backup to
Last spring he had the sesamoid bone in the ball of his left foot surgically removed after suffering a stress fracture. He had the same bone in his right foot removed while at the University of Arkansas in 2007.
He missed the first two months of the 2012 season on the disabled list, delaying his promotion to the Padres. He hit .273 with six homers and 26 RBI with the Padres in 91 games last season after joining the Padres on June 3.
Forsythe started 73 games for the Padres at second base last season. With rookie
Speaking of Gyorko, the 24-year-old had a double in three at-bats Saturday to snap a 2-for-17 slump that followed his first start to the exhibition season. Gyorko had four hits, including three homers, in his first 10 at-bats of the spring.
Blanks, who also struck out three times Saturday, entered the day leading the Cactus League in on-base percentage (.545) and runs scored (nine) while ranking third in batting average (.458) and fourth in slugging percentage (.792). Blanks is now hitting .429 with a .514 on-base percentage and .821 slugging percentage.
Black said he liked what he saw of starting pitching candidates Eric Stults and Anthony Bass, although each surrendered a homer to the Rangers.
Stults allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits in three innings. Bass allowed two runs on five hits and a walk in two innings with three strikeouts. Stults threw 43 pitches, Bass 41.
"My change was good, my cutter was good," said Stults. "I threw more off-speed pitches today and I felt comfortable throwing my fastball away to right-handed hitters. I left a couple of fastballs up to left-handed hitters. I felt good."
"I thought Eric threw some good pitches down in the strike zone," said Black. "He was down and away to right-handed hitters. He was efficient. Bass was fine, too."
B squad bombs
Because of Friday's rainouts, the Padres and Seattle played a "B" game Saturday to give pitchers the work they missed.
Left-handed starter
Jonathan Galvez hit a two-run, inside-the-park homer for the Padres, who lost 5-3 in the six-inning game. Carlos Quentin appeared the B game as the designated hitter and went 1-for-3 in his second straight game. Center fielder Rico Noel was 3-for-3 with a stolen base.
Padres Notes
--Catcher Austin Hedges, the 20-year-old who was a second-round pick in the 2011 draft, and left-handed starting pitcher
--Padres minor league players will have their first full-squad workout Sunday.
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Charlie Sheen has finally addressed reports that he could be leaving his hit CBS show, "Two and a Half Men."
"Much speculation and rumor has arisen from my current status surrounding 'Two and a Half Men,'" the star said in a statement to People – the mag that first reported Charlie would be leaving the show. "All of the numbers reported in the press are false. Claims from 'inside sources' regarding offers from the studio as well as my salary, on their best day, are without merit."
The star added that his current salary requests aren't last-minute demands.
"Approaching the start of the current season and as far back as June '09, I submitted my terms for season eight to Warner Bros. and CBS respectfully," he continued. "Both parties have known the score for over a year. In no way, has this been a hasty or negligent eleventh hour surprise. I offer this information out of love and respect to my crew, my on-set family, my writers, executive staff, as well as my real family, my dear friends and my loyal fans."
If he does leave the show, Charlie's final episode will be taped tonight.
"If tonight's show is the end for me as Charlie Harper, so be it. Another journey has begun," he concluded. "I take from the experience 161 shows filled with a kaleidoscope of amazing experiences, memories, friendships and gratitude. I remain humbly inspired. – C. Sheen"
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Access previously learned that Charlie was asking for $2 million per episode and had been offered $1.2 million by CBS, which he turned down – numbers which the star's statement said are "false."
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We just wanted to take a quick moment and congratulate SongPop for their amazing debut this year! They were recently named by Facebook as the #1 game in 2012 among some very stiff competition. Since launching the game in 2012, FreshPlanet has amassed more than 60 million users and secured the honor of the #5 game downloaded in the Apple App Store this year.
We're happy that FreshPlanet choose Adobe Gaming technologies, including Adobe AIR, to deliver this wildly popular game. For more on SongPop, check out our previous blog post, which links to their full Adobe Success Story.
We'll be showcasing lots of other great games in future posts as well as some holiday-themed ones to get you in the spirit. Stay tuned!


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When working with Flash based applications, there are issues with fonts since the specified fonts might not exist on the user machine. The problem is compounded when you have international users each of whom might be working on multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac), multiple versions (Win XP, Win7, Win8, Mac 10.6, and Mac 10.7), multiple locales (French, Italian, Spanish, Russian etc) and thus having different available system fonts. One option to streamline the experience would be to embed fonts – entire fonts or specific subset of characters from a font. The other option would be to use the operating system's default fonts.
Adobe' installer and licensing components (which goes out with Master Collection and almost all point products like Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator) uses the later approach. The component identifies user's locale from OS locale and then picks up a font from a prioritized list of pre-defined list of fonts for that locale. The font specification file has been externalized so that any future changes around font names could be easily verified and accommodated without making a code change. Further the list has been segregated based on font fall-back for text appearing in software UI and for text fields in the application.
The list of fonts for each locale is listed towards the end of this blog post. Getting to this list has not been an easy task and there has been a huge effort from multiple teams for this. Some of the hurdles that the team had to clear were –
- Getting an exhaustive set of fonts used in each locale and OS
- Segregating the fonts according to UI and Text fall-back
- Putting those fonts and fall-back logic together in an xml file
- Identifying the font's priority so that same logic works across all OS platforms and versions
- Working with linguists to test each screen with applied fonts for readability and aesthetics
- Iterating #3 and #4 based on linguist' response and ultimately arriving at final font fall-back xml file
|UI Font Fall-back
|Text Field Font Fall-back
|Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN W3, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3, Meiryo UI, Meiryo, MS UI Gothic, MS Gothic, _sans
|Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN W3, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3, Meiryo, MS Gothic, _sans
|AppleGothic Regular, Malgun Gothic, New Gulim, Gulim, _sans
|AppleGothic Regular, Malgun Gothic, New Gulim, Gulim, _sans
|Chinese Traditional
|Heiti TC Light, Lihei Pro, Microsoft JhengHei, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, _sans
|Heiti TC Light, Lihei Pro, Microsoft JhengHei, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, _sans
|Chinese Simplified
|Heiti SC Light, STXihei, Microsoft YaHei, SimSun-18030, SimHei, SimSun, MS Song, _sans
|Heiti SC Light, STXihei, Microsoft YaHei, SimSun-18030, SimHei, SimSun, MS Song, _sans
|Russian, Ukrainian
|Lucida Grande, MS Sans Serif, _sans
|Lucida Grande, MS Sans Serif, _sans
|All others *
|Lucida Grande, Segoe UI, Tahoma, _sans
|Lucida Grande, Segoe UI, Tahoma, _sans
All others include French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Netherlands, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Croatian.
P.S: These font fall-backs were defined and tested for Flex 4.5.1 SDK with Spark components (using TLF, Text Layout Framework)
One caveat to note here is that system fonts keep changing from time to time, which usually amounts to new fonts, or new versions of existing fonts, but sometimes results in existing fonts becoming deprecated. In general, though, linguistic support in OSes, in terms of glyph coverage in bundled fonts, gets better, not worse.


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A five-year eGovernment Action Plan has just been presented by the European Commission to deliver innovative online public services to citizens and businesses and increase the take-up of these services across Europe (see IP/10/1718 and MEMO/10/680). It sets out concrete actions and priorities to make access to public services more efficient and cost effective. The new Action Plan builds on experience gained with the 2006 European eGovernment Action Plan (see IP/06/523). The availability of online delivery of basic services like company registration and tax filing has so far been a success, going up from 21% in 2000 to 71% in 2009 in EU27. But take-up does not match this trend, with only 42% of the EU population using online public services in the past year. The Commission is committed to supporting Member States in developing eGovernment services based on users' needs. Here are some practical examples of exactly how the measures outlined in the Action Plan stand to benefit citizens and businesses.
Only 42% of the EU population used online public services in the past year. The services themselves are rarely, or not easily, available across borders. The eGovernment Action Plan therefore aims to increase the take-up of online public services to 50% of EU citizens by 2015 and to make available online a number of cross border services.
In a true digital Single Market, people should all be able to apply on-line to study, reside or retire anywhere in the EU. Information and communications technologies (ICT) are meant to make our lives easier, yet in this respect it is still at times easier to go down the paper route than use the internet. The eGovernment Action Plan foresees actions to strengthen personal mobility in the Single Market thanks to digital services.
This Action Plan also aims to make public administrations more transparent for the benefit of the citizen. One objective is to provide citizens with electronic access to their personal data, in strict compliance with data protection requirements, and to enable them to follow on-line each step of the administrative procedure as well as to complete an administrative task online anywhere in the EU.
It will also give citizens a greater say on how on-line public services are designed, produced and delivered. This also means that all kinds of public data such as geographical, meteorological, legal, financial, economic and traffic information should be made available for innovative products such as geo-information systems for cars, on-line weather forecasts, or travel information applications which could, for instance, be downloaded on smart phones or other electronic devices. Actions in this area will include reviews of the Public Sector Information (PSI) rules and of the Commission Decision on the re-use of Commission information (see IP/10/1103), along with closer cooperation between Member States.
The Action Plan calls for innovative services to be accessible not only through the Internet, but also through TV, mobile phones or other electronic devices.
The Commission will work with Member States to develop the electronic means to support citizens initiatives (whereby one million EU citizens can call on the European Commission to bring forward new legislation) as foreseen by Article 11 of the EU Treaty.
By the end of 2011, Member States are due to agree on a number of key cross-border public services to be rolled out between 2012 and 2015 and identify how they could be introduced.
The eGovernment Action Plan is committed to meeting the expectations of 'digital natives', the young people who have been online since they were small children, use the internet more frequently and often have more digital know-how than previous generations.
A key priority for students is to be able to enrol online for any European school or university from any Member State. This will save time and money for both students and public and education services. Already, the STORK (see MEMO/10/680) Large Scale Pilot is applying a solution for student mobility in five countries (Austria, Estonia, Italy, Portugal and Spain) giving foreign students access to online services offered by universities (e.g. online enrolment, access to online courses or tutorials, access to computing infrastructures, etc).
The Action Plan aims to ease and secure the transfer of pension rights across the EU. The objective is that retiring citizens will be able to arrange their pensions online not only in their home country, but also in other countries where they may have worked or reside.
Socially disadvantaged people
The eGovernment Action Plan aims at ensuring, together with Member States, that services are designed around the needs of users and that access to public services is available through various channels. These include the internet, TV, telephone, mobile devices and intermediaries (which can be helpful to those who either do not have an internet connection or do not have the skills to access these services), as well as websites accessible to persons with disabilities.
eGovernment aims to ensure that businesses, and especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) spend less time on administrative procedures and gain new business opportunities. By way of example of the potential advantages for businesses, the time taken to register a new business in Belgium has fallen from 56 days to just 3 days following the introduction of online company registration, according to the Belgian authorities.
Since eGovernment services are of great importance for business, the aim of the Action Plan is that 80% of enterprises will be using online public services by 2015.
Businesses should be able to sell goods and services to public administrations all across the EU, through easy electronic public procurement. By 2015, a number of key cross-border services, such as eTendering, should be available online and enable entrepreneurs to set up and run a business anywhere in Europe more quickly and easily, independent of their original location.
Public administrations
ICTs can help the public sector to develop innovative ways of delivering its services to citizens more effectively and at lower costs.
The Action Plan will encourage the exchange of best practices between Member States. There is a wealth of valuable experience and solutions all over the EU and the Commission will help administrations to learn from each other's successes.
For its part, the Commission will implement an ambitious eCommission Action Plan for 2011-2015, including full electronic procurement, a public sector information strategy and a transparency policy. By end of 2013 the Commission, in close cooperation with Member States, will set up a programme for staff exchanges between administrations in different Member States.
Secure eUse
Electronic identification (eID) technologies and authentication services are essential for the security of electronic transactions (in both the public and private sectors). Today the most common way to authenticate such transactions is by means of passwords, but more secure solutions protecting privacy are increasingly needed. Europe needs better administrative cooperation to develop and deploy cross-border public online services, including practical eIdentification and eAuthentication solutions.
The Action Plan will contribute towards the mutual recognition and acceptance of eID, allowing citizens and businesses to identify themselves electronically throughout Europe.
Green Government
Europe's global leadership to tackle climate change has paved the way forward with an ambitious energy and climate change policy that sets out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020.
eGovernment helps to reduce the carbon footprint of administrations in Member States, for example by implementing electronic archiving or using videoconferences instead of travelling. The Commission, on its side, will conduct a study in 2012 on the potential of eGovernment to further reduce the carbon footprint of governments.
To find out more:
STORK (Secure Identity Across Borders Linked)
PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online)
SPOCS (Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services)
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SCHIEFFER: Until then, you will remain opposed to her nomination?
MCCAIN: Under the present circumstances, until we find out all the information as to what happened, I don't think you would want to support any nominee right now. Because this is very very serious and it has even larger implications than the deaths of 4 Americans. It really goes to the heart of this whole light foot print policy that this administration is pursuing.
So that's it then. McCain is now committed to blocking any nominee for Secretary of State until he gets his "answers" on Benghazi, once and for all proving it was never, ever about Susan Rice, and that it was really all about the fact he despises Barack Obama, and has never gotten over losing to the man.
John McCain is a shallow, petty, thin-skinned baby. He just proved it today. He will obstruct America's business until he gets his way, like the enfant terrible he is.
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Lizard Fish - In the beginning
Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about the research they are conducting.
It was about 1997 when I first came to Lizard Island with Jeff Leis reseaching larval fish behaviour. Since then I have been fortunate enough to return about 6 or so times, but no matter how many trips you make it still takes your breath away when you fly into the remote and mostly deserted Island (even if it is in an 8 seater plane in turbulent weather). It always feels like coming back to our second home.
We are back again after all these years armed with a wealth of knowledge about larval (baby) fishes, but somehow there are still more questions than answers. We know larval reef fishes hear, smell, see and swim exceptionally well, plus they are often oriented in their swimming. They have all these seemingly supernatural abilities (considering they are often less than 2 cm long) but how does all this help them find a reef to call home?
Quick bit of background information - reef fishes spawn pelagic eggs and larval fish hatch from these eggs often 10's of kilometres away from a reef in the open ocean. Orientation in ocean currents is challenging for tiny fish larvae, yet is essential for finding adult habitat and completing their life cycles.
With a little help from our friends at the University of Queensland we aim to try and find out how the larvae orient in blue (open) water, in particular whether they are using celestial (such as the sun) cues for orientation and navigation. Understanding the role of orientation behaviour in larval dispersal can be used as a tool in determining the geographic size of marine fish populations – knowledge essential for fishery management and the design and operation of marine parks.
So that's the introduction sorted, soon I'll be back with more fish tales to tell (hopefully).
I've included some Lizardfish pictures (right) for your enjoyment.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Last night I donned my best 40s dress and ventured forth for a party. It wasn't until I was halfway down Farfara Way (our steep and endless driveway) that I realized that the fog had rolled in. As I made my white-knuckled way along the half hour of coastal roadway, I became, really, quite a connoisseur of fog. There's the spectral mist that makes you feel like you may be driving straight through faded imprints of another time, the clinging fog that whirls around you as you flee its longing affections, and of course the pea soup fog that makes you hope you know the driveway's turns and ditches by heart, lest you become a spectral imprint before your time. What should my eerie iPod choose as the ideal accompaniment to such a wooded, murky venture, lit only by noirish sweeps of headlight?
So Hitchcockian was the moment that I began to laugh uncontrollably, by my lonesome, crouched squinting over the steering wheel of the Barge She Sat In (which is, um, the name of our new {blush, shamefaced eye aversion} SUV). Then I stopped abruptly: Pull it together, Sycorax, I told myself. This cackling isn't improving the ambiance.


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CAMP FOSTER, Japan - Leg sweeps and hip and shoulder throws are not the first things to come to mind when one hears the job title logistics chief, but Master Sgt. Kenneth A. Roberts dedicates much of his time to teaching those techniques.
When Roberts is not working as the logistics chief for G-4, supply and logistics, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Marine Corps Installations Pacific, he is committed to teaching Marine Corps martial arts.
"I have been a Marine Corps martial arts program instructor since 2003," said Roberts.
Roberts' face lights up as he reminisces about his past and the beginning of his time as a MCMAP instructor.
"When I was a sergeant, I asked my gunnery sergeant to train me to be a tan belt because I did not want to go to the sergeants course with a web belt," Roberts said. "That gunnery sergeant had just come back from the drill field, and he inspired me. While he was training me, I realized that I wanted to be like him, and that is what I aspire to do."
After earning his gray belt, Roberts continued on his path to be an instructor and then to become an instructor-trainer.
"The requirements to become an instructor are to be trained to gray belt, achieve a 1st class physical fitness test, and have the rank of at least corporal," said Roberts. "Once you meet those requirements, you attend a three-week course, that covers MCMAP techniques, teaching styles and combat conditioning."
Roberts is a great instructor because of his dedication, motivation and pure love of the program, according to Master Sgt. Fernando Llanos, the operations chief for Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.
"I have known (Roberts) since 2010," said Llanos. "We worked together at the MEF and did martial arts together. His courses are outstanding. They are well planned and coordinated, and he is knowledgeable about what he does. As a martial arts instructor-trainer myself, it is great to be able to take things away from him to teach in my own courses."
Giving back to his Marines is the best part of being an instructor, according to Roberts.
"When I was younger, I wanted to do it because it meant that I could do more than just normal physical training," said Roberts. "Now that I am older, I know that it is much more than that. In my eyes, MCMAP keeps the warrior ethos alive, is a way to maintain and earn your eagle globe and anchor every day and, if you train them correctly, you can keep the fire in your Marines alive."
The most important thing Marines can take away from MCMAP courses is to think outside the box, according to Roberts. MCMAP is not just about fighting techniques, but also growing as a person. MCMAP is a synergy of mind, character and physical discipline.
"The best advice I can give someone who wishes to become an instructor is not to work for yourself," said Roberts. "You work for your commander, and you work for the Marines you are training. The Marine Corps sends you to a course for three weeks, but you are committing to a three-year obligation to teach what you learn to others. Remember not to focus on what you are given during the course, but on what you can give back."


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So. For those of you who maybe don't know, Chuck was a character from a TV show (Pushing Daisies) which is (sniffsniff) no longer on TV. Pushing Daisies was one of the verybestTVshowseverinthehistoryofTV. Everything about it was delightful and charming; the premise, the characters, the storylines, the dialogue, the music, the art direction, and (especially!) the wardrobe. In particular, Chuck's wardrobe.
Chuck wore mostly dresses (yay for dresses!), all of which had a modernized vintage feel; lots of classic (40s, 50s, & 60s) shapes with whimsical details, bold prints, and vibrant colors. She actually wore bright yellow all the time, which is a rarity to see on TV, and actually in life, too. I suspect that if more people wore bright yellow, it would raise the global percentage of smiling and humming and waving hellos. Yellow just does that. It happifies things. Cutesy accessories do that, too. And Chuck had tons of darling little hats, scarves, bows, pins, headbands, bags, sunglasses and gloves. Yes, even gloves!
I miss Pushing Daisies.
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Douwe Egberts' latest addition to its range is Café Blanco - a high quality milk granule made from 100% pure skimmed milk, which has simply had the moisture evaporated off. The result is an easy-to-use, great tasting milk granule that preserves all of the nutritional value of fresh milk.
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Gossip Girl Fashion: Jennifer Behr Releases Blair Waldorf Headband Collection
The Gossip Girl series finale is less than two weeks away! And, thanks to accessories designer Jennifer Behr, we're counting down to The End of an Era with Queen B's very own pizzazz—Behr released a gift set featuring the most memorable pices Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) wore on the show. "Gossip Girl stylist Eric Daman did such a great job emboldening customers to start wearing some of our more fantastic pieces as everyday wear," Jennifer Behr exclusively told InStyle.com. The set includes nine styles, including her neon pink orchid skinny band, the Arielle Swarovski piece, and the infamous "Queen B" headband—the embellished piece that Blair passed down to Little J (Taylor Momsen) when she relinquished her power at Constance at the end of Season 3. "Think of headbands as jewelry for the hair and to select a piece that matches your style and just mix it in," Behr advised. Shop the limited-edition set or individual pieces at jenniferbehr.com. The series finale airs Monday, December 17th at 9/8c on The CW.
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This is the greatest scene in cinematic history. A dystopian overlord is getting his face whacked with a flogger by his personal dominatrix, when a hapless underling interrupts him. So the dominatrix teaches him a lesson... with fists and nipples.
This priceless moment of cinematic greatness comes from the movie Battle Queen 2020, which might just be the Mad Max of low-budget softcore porn films. A meteor has struck the Earth, plunging us all into a new ice age. Everybody lives in terrible squalor (in what looks like the director's garage), except for a handful of lucky guys who are Teh Rulerz of this post-apocalyptic world. They have a handful of gorgeous women on hand to cater to their whims, including Priscilla the Dominatrix.
Sadly, this scene does not have the movie's star, Julie Strain, in it. But it does have one of the most hilarious exchanges ever, between Evil Overlord and Hapless Flunky. "You KNOCK at the door! Do NOT apologize! DEFEND yourself!" It's all so beautiful, the final nipple impalement is just sort of the cherry on top.


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What's there names, and where to get them, and/or how?
On the Xfce homepage, presently at the top there is a 6 image slide-show. On the 4th image it shows 5 Terminal windows, each with a different Title Bar/Window border theme.
Could someone tell me what (names) those themes are, where to get them, and/or how to get them. All of em :-) Please.
Mint Xfce 13 here, and thank you,
Assuming mint is similar in its package names to debian, use synaptic and search for
gtk2-engines-xfce, and possibly
Then look in settings->appearance and settings->window manager. Choose a combination that you like. (I like kokodi with xfce-smooth, which looks a bit like the left most of the terminals you mentioned, I recognize one of the others as either crux or cruxish.)
Thank you!
xfwm4-themes from synaptic worked, the gtk2 & gtk3 engines were already installed
For any others interested the themes being discussed from left/rear to right/front are:
I believe, Kokodi with a blue finish (don't know how that was done, yet) followed by;
Agualemon, B6, Crux, and finally Elberg
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Automated cleanup tool to remove the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5
I have posted an updated version of the .NET Framework cleanup tool that now contains support for automatically cleaning up the .NET Framework 1.0, the .NET Framework 1.1, the .NET Framework 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.0 and the .NET Framework 3.5.
This tool automates the manual cleanup steps for the .NET Framework 2.0 that I posted a while ago. These steps have helped solve most of the known .NET Framework 2.0 beta uninstall issues that I know of. In addition, the tool can be useful to return your system to a known (relatively clean) state in case you run into any .NET Framework 2.0 installation failures so that you can try to install again.
The updated version of the cleanup tool contains options to clean up the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 separately and all versions simultaneously in a single step. The cleanup tool contains logic so that if it is run on an OS version that includes the .NET Framework as an OS component, it will not offer the option to clean it up. This means that running the cleanup tool on Windows XP Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition will not offer the option to clean up the .NET Framework 1.0, running it on Windows Server 2003 will not offer the option to clean up the .NET Framework 1.1 and running it on Windows Vista will not offer the option to clean up the .NET Framework 2.0 or the .NET Framework 3.0.
There are a couple of very important caveats that you should read before using this tool to cleanup .NET Framework bits on your machine :
- This tool is designed as a last resort for cases where install, uninstall or repair did not succeed for unusual reasons. It is not intended as a substitute for the standard uninstall procedure. You should try to perform an uninstall from Add/Remove Programs before using this cleanup tool.
- This cleanup tool will delete shared files and registry keys used by other versions of the .NET Framework. If you run the cleanup tool, you will need to perform a repair or reinstall for all other versions of the .NET Framework that are on your computer to get them to work correctly afterwards.
I have been using this tool for a while, and it has proven reliable, but there may still be bugs in it in certain scenarios. Please contact me if you run into any issues while using the cleanup tool or if you are still unable to install the .NET Framework (or any service packs or hotfixes) after running it.
The tool has a command line switch that allows it to be run in silent mode if needed. There is more information about how to run it in silent mode in the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool User's Guide.
<update date="8/22/2007"> Added information about removing the .NET Framework 3.0 because the tool now supports this version of the .NET Framework in addition to 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. </update>
<update date="9/13/2007"> Added information about removing the .NET Framework 3.5 because the tool now supports this version of the .NET Framework in addition to 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0. </update>
<update date="12/3/2007"> Added a link to the silent install instructions for the cleanup tool </update>
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Snowboarder Elena Hight's Olympic recipe: good food, training and meditation
At 24, professional snowboarder Elena Hight is already a two-time Olympian and in training for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Raised near the mountains in California, she began hitting the slopes as a child and competed in her first Olympics at age 16. Hight, now a full-time boarder, is also passionate about surfing and cooking. Here, she discusses how she stays in shape mentally and physically.
How did you learn to snowboard and develop it as a passion?
I was born in Hawaii, and my family relocated to the mountains in Lake Tahoe when I was 6 years old. My dad was a surfer his whole life, and the first thing he did when we relocated was teach my whole family to snowboard, and I just took to the sport real quickly, and it took off from there. I started doing amateur events at our local mountains at 7 years old, and I competed in my first professional event at 13.
What kind of workouts do you need to do to be in the right shape for snowboarding?
My training regimen goes in a year-round cycle. In the winter, I spend around three hours a day on the mountain and about an hour in the afternoon either doing yoga or at the gym doing some light strength training, keeping up with my core and upper-body training. I do a lot of dynamic core exercises. I use stability balls, do a lot of kind of side planks and side rotation exercises that involve your hip flexors and deeper abdominal muscles, because that really helps with spinning when I'm in the air. As far as leg stuff goes, I do a lot of split squats, lateral squats and jumping activities to help with my reaction time.
In the spring and summer, I spend some time strength training at the gym, but I also do a lot of surfing, mountain biking and hiking as my conditioning. In the fall, I really spend a lot of time in the gym, focusing mostly on strength training, specifically plyometric training, to get in shape before the season starts.
You also love to surf. Does that give you good cardio exercise?
Surfing is one of my favorite activities to do other than snowboarding. It's great cross-training, because it's a very similar board sport. Just being on a board and the balance that it takes to surf is a huge exercise that crosses over with snowboarding, and just the general feeling of riding a transition. A wave is a transition similar to the halfpipe — smaller, but it's definitely a fun transition to do when it's not wintertime.
You're passionate about cooking. How did that come about, and how do you make sure that you're cooking healthful meals that will give you enough fuel for your active lifestyle?
I started cooking when I was about 16 or 17. I was inspired by so many places that I had been traveling for snowboarding, all these amazing foods I had in these amazing countries, so I started experimenting in the kitchen. It's something that makes me feel like I'm home when I'm on the road, and it's a nice getaway from the snowboarding. I focus on clean eating and try to always choose organic, local foods when I can.
I eat a lot of produce. I base my meals around fresh produce and lean meats and that sort of thing. I also don't eat any gluten or dairy. And I love to cook Thai food — stir fries, curries, that sort of thing.
How do you stay mentally focused and prepared?
The mental side of snowboarding is a huge part of it. I do a lot of meditating, and yoga is something that I use for my body and my mind to be centered and calm. I meditate on a daily basis — almost every morning and every evening. It's something that I recently got into; I've been into yoga for a while, and the meditating thing is kind of the next step. I feel like it helps me a lot in my snowboarding, just being able to keep a clear mind and stay calm even when I get in nervous situations before a contest.
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For two days, as the ESA Council at ministerial level met to decide on the future of ESA and its programmes, Lucerne, Switzerland, became the capital of European space.
Ministers and delegations from all 22 ESA member states, associated state Slovenia, cooperating state Canada, representatives of the European Union (EU) and of those EU member states not members of ESA together with observers from a number of European organisations, all met in the Lucerne at the Culture and Convention Centre (KKL) to participate in what turned out to be lively discussions.
The first important step came when Council gave its backing to my strategy proposal "Space 4.0 for a United Space in Europe", outlining how to move ESA forward while taking into account the shifts in paradigm occurring in the space sector and how to further develop the European dimension of space.
Although the strategic direction of the Agency is of the utmost importance, it immediately became clear that the real focus of the discussions would be the subscriptions, the amounts committed to the different programmes. In exhausting meetings conducted both day and night, solutions had to be found that would take into account national interests while also securing the substance of the various proposals. To do so required multiple rounds as member states held out for their respective interests while presenting their mutual demands. Tactical manoeuvres dominated the discussions while issues of national affordability were never far from the surface. Subscriptions were announced and then withdrawn again, making it almost impossible to identify a clear way forward. In the end, more than 10.3 billion euros were put on the table, constituting a major success overall.
However, there was one aspect which detracted from the otherwise positive mood: AIM (short for Asteroid Impact Mission) failed to get the financial support it needed. AIM had been intended as a learning exercise that would form part of a joint NASA-ESA activity to evaluate the technical possibilities of changing the flight path of a tiny asteroid moon. It was an example of ESA at its absolute best: daring, innovative and ambitious all at once.
Although, in the beginning, very promising subscriptions were given, the withdrawal of the biggest single amount at the very last minute proved devastating to an important mission with great potential for worldwide visibility. Following on from Rosetta, AIM had the ability to inspire the public by investigating how to deal with an object hurtling towards the Earth. The overall mission costs were estimated to be just about 2.5% of the overall subscriptions; the direct needs were only 1%. Ultimately – and this I very much regret – the difficult discussions among member states and a focus on direct applications and short-term return led inevitably to a situation in which I had no choice but to announce the proposal's cancellation. The door was slammed shut but as I am convinced of the necessity of such a project, I will try to find a way back in through a window again. It is simply too important.
Regardless of the specific issue with AIM and some regrettable instances of undersubscription, this Council meeting at ministerial level showed us two things:
- The special ESA model involving the direct definition of programmes and "geographical return" clearly remains attractive to member states
- There is still some more to be done before we can say we have truly achieved a United Space in Europe in terms of comprehensive understanding and behaviour.
In any case one can state that, in terms of the big picture, the Ministerial was a success and I would like to thank everyone who contributed to that. For me it was a special challenge to represent the ESA Executive in such an environment but, due to the excellent support I received from a great many individuals, in many respects my task was ultimately made very much easier.
I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Switzerland and the Swiss Delegation for their great hospitality as well as their efforts in co-organising this important event with us, and to Spain for chairing the 2016 Council meeting at ministerial level and agreeing to be the host in 2019.


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We have all seen those cute, sometimes funny Terra Cotta Pot people on Facebook, Pinterest, or even in a Garden or two. How in the world are they put together. This Blog is designed to show you how, step by step to do just that, so you can have one of these unique creations in your garden to astound your neighbors with your ability to create unique garden art.
Step 1: Cut two long ropes for arms, and two longer ropes for legs.
Step 2: Arms – String 4" squat terra cotta pots through holes, knotting between pots for spacing.
Step 3: Legs – string 4" terra cotta pots through holes, knotting between pots for spacing.
Step 4: Thread both arm ropes through the bottom of a 6" pot for the head.
Step 5: Thread both leg ropes through bottom of a 8" pot for the body.
Step 6: Continue leg ropes though second 8" body pot.
Step 7: Attach two body pots with outdoor-grade glue and let dry. Tie off the leg ropes extending Through the top hole.
Step 8: Glue the head and arms to the body
Step 9: Glue moss between the pots as needed
Step 10: Ad scarf, hat, glasses and or a plant head.


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Crazy crazy crazy. This is some true awesomeness right here. I have no idea who/what Triode is, except this tape came from, appropriately enough as you'll soon discover, a live WRIU set in 1998. Freshly dubbed by the caretakers at False, One Way Voice Link is a standalone piece of noisy radio brilliance. Deep rumblings laying waste to the landscape with hideous mechanical crunching, haunted caustic drones, faded ethereal voices, heaving electromagnetic swamp acid, clips of radio transmissions steamrolling through the airwaves. The best part of this hour long mess is the 20 minute mid section of the B side. I couldn't tell you if this was recorded straight from a numbers station or if Triode coated it in a thick brown fuzz afterwards, but it's a recording of male & female vocalists singing something beautiful and dramatic but blown into oblivion so the lyrics and language are obscured, and they've been chopped up into about 10 second long segments, maybe 4 or 5 different "verses" that cut short and start up again without keeping the tempo they're singing in, subtly but undeniably jarring, and looped without variation for about 20 minutes, so long that you hyper analyze everything, wondering what's been altered, what's intentional, what's unavoidable, and WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON, but it's so beautiful and hypnotic, a disintegrated loop halted in its deterioration, locked in lo-fi forever. 100% worth the tape for that part alone, but the rest is amazing and the packaging is downright ridiculous. Each False tape comes in a brown jewelry box with cotton padding, a printed velum insert, and obi strip. Way classy and over the top, just the way I like my tape packaging.
Triode – One Way Voice Link (False, 2012)March 20, 2012
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Blades slicing through the morning heat, the helicopter rose from the tarmac and swept into a cobalt sky, high above Rio's Guanabara Bay.
It powered north-east over deserted beaches, dense Atlantic rainforest and fishing boats that bobbed lazily in the ocean below. Then finally, 80 minutes on, the destination came into view: a gigantic concrete pier that juts nearly two miles out into the South Atlantic and boasts an unusual nickname: the Highway to China.
Dotted with orange-clad construction workers and propped up by dozens of 38-tonne pillars, this vast concrete structure is part of the Superporto do Acu, a £1.6bn port and industrial complex that is being erected on the Rio coastline, on an area equivalent to 12,000 football pitches.
Reputedly the largest industrial port complex of its type in the world, Açu is also one of the most visible symbols of China's rapidly accelerating drive into Brazil and South America as it looks to guarantee access to much-needed natural resources and bolster its support base in the developing world.
When Acu opens for business in 2012, its 10-berth pier will play host to a globetrotting armada of cargo ships, among them the 380-metre long Chinamax – the largest vessel of its type, capable of ferrying 400,000 tonnes of cargo.
Millions of tonnes of iron ore, grain, soy and millions of barrels of oil are expected to pass along the "Highway" each year on their way east, where they will alleviate China's seemingly unquenchable thirst for natural resources.
"This project marks a new phase in relations between Brazil and China," Rio's economic development secretary, Julio Bueno, said during the recent visit of about 100 Chinese businessmen to the port complex, which is being built by the Brazilian logistics company LLX and should receive billions of dollars of Chinese investment.
This new phase of engagement with Brazil and South America, is part of China's "going out strategy" – an economic and, some say, diplomatic push for Chinese companies, many of them state-run, to invest abroad, snapping up access to minerals, energy and food by pouring the country's colossal foreign reserves into overseas companies and projects.
China is expected to overtake Japan as the world's second largest economy this year and may already be the world's greatest energy consumer. Now it is set to become Brazil's top foreign investor, with its companies plowing $20bn into the country in the first six months of 2010, compared with $83m in 2009. A recent study by Deloitte predicted that Chinese investments in Brazil could hit an average of about $40bn a year between now and 2014, with companies throwing money at sectors ranging from telecommunications, infrastructure and farming, to oil, biofuels, natural gas, mining and steel manufacturing.
"Relations with Brazil in all areas have entered a new era," Qiu Xiaoqi, China's ambassador in Brazil, recently told the state news agency Xinhua.
The surge in China's South American spending is not just a Brazilian phenomenon. Ecuador has already signed around $5bn of bilateral deals with China this year, including $1.7bn to help build a hydro-electric dam and $1bn investments for oil exploration and infrastructure projects. That compared with Chinese investment of just $56m in 2009.
Chinese companies have sunk $1.4bn into mining operations in Peru this year, while in April Hugo Chávez announced that the Chinese, already major sponsors of Venezuelan oil exploration, had agreed to open a $20bn credit-line for the "Bolivarian revolution".
Michael Klare, author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, a book about the growing tussle for global resources, described today's China as "the shopaholic of planet Earth".
"The Chinese authorities understand that to sustain the country's continued growth, they will have to ensure that its industries are provided with adequate supplies of energy, minerals, and other basic raw materials," he said. But the "going out" strategy went far beyond business transactions, he added.
"They seek to fashion a multipolar world in which no single power – read the United States – plays an overwhelmingly dominant role. To this end, they seek to bolster ties with rising regional powers like Brazil and South Africa."
In Sao Joao da Barra, the city nearest to Acu and one of Rio state's poorest regions, the Chinese presence is being felt even before Brazil's Highway to China is complete.
Keen to impress, LLX staff at the Açu port lay on hot water and Mandarin interpreters for visiting Chinese dignitaries. Sao Joao da Barra's town hall, meanwhile, has started offering free Mandarin lessons to locals interested in working with the wave of Chinese guests that is anticipated.
"You should see a 10-year-old boy saying, 'I understand … the Chinese are coming and when the Chinese industries come I want to work for them and if I speak Mandarin I'll have a competitive advantage on the others'," beamed Eike Batista, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the superport and one of the most vocal cheerleaders for Chinese advances into Brazil. "[It is] wonderful."
Leonardo Gadelha, LLX's CFO, said during a recent tour of the port: "This is part of a Chinese strategy of going to the market more and more. They are already a very considerable presence in Africa and we are now going through this moment in Brazil."
The Highway to China lay "in the middle" of this blossoming relationship with China, he said, adding: "We are betting that … this will continue growing."
Not all Brazilians, or indeed western governments, share such enthusiasm.
"There are many in Washington who worry about China's growing presence in Africa and Latin America and claim that this poses a threat to America's long-term strategic interests," said Klare, noting, however, that the US' "fixation" with Afghanistan and the war on terror meant there had been virtually no reaction.
In Brazil meanwhile China's arrival has prompted cries of neo-colonialism. "The Chinese have bought Africa and now they are trying to buy Brazil," the prominent economist Antônio Delfim Netto complained in a recent interview with the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper, warning that it was a "grave mistake" to allow a foreign state to buy "land, minerals [and] natural resources" from another sovereign power.
Batista, Brazil's richest man, rejected such criticism, saying: "The association between Brazil and China is a two-way highway." Chinese companies such as Wuhan Iron and Steel had committed to helping build a $5bn steel mill at the port complex, rather than always shipping out primary resources to process at home, he pointed out. "You want to get three tonnes of raw iron ore, [so] produce one tonne of steel in Brazil," he said. "That philosophy is sinking in and is great for both sides."
Neither would Chinese companies be allowed to flood the complex with hordes of foreign workers as had happened in Africa, said Gadelha, the CFO.
"If it was up to them they would bring lots of Chinese workers as they are used to doing," he admitted. "[But] Brazil's legislation is very strict in this sense."
Batista suggested that rather than complaining about China's courtship of Brazil, western powers should urge their own companies to pay more attention to the region themselves.
"In the last 15 years or so the [American and European] CEOs have stopped coming here and that is why they are a little bit behind," he said. "We are pushing European companies and saying: 'You're not really understanding what is happening in Brazil'."
"Don't put Brazil in the same bag as our neighbours," he added. "We are not Central America. We are not Venezuela. We are not Argentina."
• This article was amended on 17 September 2010. The original refferred to the 380-metre wide ChinaMax. This has been corrected.


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Over the weekend, Linus Torvalds's talk at his alma mater—Aalto University in Finland went viral for his sharp and blunt criticism of nVidia for their Linux support. While I wanted to watch the talk, I kept putting it off until the boredom of the slow weekend got to me and I had nothing else to do. So I decided to listening and realized after 10 minutes into the talk that it was boring. I fast forwarded by 20 minutes and it got entertaining.
Around 40 minutes in, someone mentioned to Linus that both Linux and GitHub were accidental, so what's the next "accidental" project Linus has in mind. Linus started answering the questioning by talking about mobile and desktop kernel convergence, mentioned Apple's 2-OS approach, said Microsoft has the same approach and BAM! Linus said Microsoft was lying and they're full of shit. After a boring day I finally laughed out.
According to Linus, Microsoft is not converging the mobile and desktop OS with Windows 8 which technically might be true as of now but is strategically incorrect. Time and again there have been reports of Microsoft working on unifying the underlying tech in Windows and Windows Phone, and Apollo is expected to be the first step towards that goal. You can watch Linus calling out technology giants (and showing nVidia the finger) below:


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The e-permitting system was developed using software from Accela, Inc., which facilitates shared services approaches for state and local governments.
The Building Department strives to make more services accessible 24/7 online. Such services limit the need for contractors, developers and citizens to come into the Building counter at City Hall during the hours we are open.
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As A Muslim , I think Obama's administration managed to mend the gap between the Muslim world and the United States after Bush and this has nothing to do with Obama's roots as much it has what I believe a change in perspective.
As Middle Eastern I feel and see that Romney is just even the more sick version of Bush.I do not want wars with Iran or Syria or any other country.
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The company Swissteach produces a Learning Management System (LMS) called Global Teach ®, which lacks a good search engine. This project is about the implementation of a search engine for an LMS, focusing on iteratively designing and evaluating the search interface. Two search interface prototypes with different approaches were tested by users of Global Teach. The first prototype is focused on ease of use and mimics the Google search interface, while the second prototype concentrates on supporting the user if the search fails to produce useful results. Based on the feedback of the testers, both prototypes were combined into one. The resulting search interface is initially simple, and provides features which can be enabled to refine the search results. These features aim to give the user the impression of being in charge, which can lead to a positive search experience.


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At dawn one day last week, in the Lima Maternity Hospital, Hilda Trujillo gave birth to a daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds. The mother took no anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school.
Hilda's mother, a servant, noted something odd about the girl in July, told her mistress, who took Hilda to the doctor. Astonished, he reported that Hilda was five months pregnant. Tearfully, the mother cried: "Let God's will be done." Hilda's father, however, rushed to the police, and they arrested a 22-year-old orphaned cousin who lived with the Trujillos in their one-room shack, charged him with rape.
In November Hilda entered the Maternity Hospital as the patient of Obstetrician Rolando Colareta, underwent examination by a team of 16 obstetricians, gland specialists, radiologists, psychiatrists and general practitioners. They reported her to be normal, only a little older-looking than other girls of her age.
Explained Colareta: "The rape of minors is nothing so unusual here or anywhere else. But of course rape does not mean pregnancy in children so young except in rare cases." In 30 years as an obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME, May 29, 1939).
Last week Hilda's case rekindled interest in Lina. Now 24, short, stocky and reclusive, she works as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Dr. Gerardo Lozada, the doctor who performed her Caesarean. Lozada gave her an education, is now putting her son through high school, reports: "Lina's boy is normal and intelligent. He wants to take up electronics."