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The e-wallet space is blowing up. Isis — an NFC-based mobile-payment platform backed by Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile — is set to launch on Monday. Google Wallet, now almost two years old, is nicely maturing with partnerships with an ever-expanding list of big-name retailers. Apple's Passbook feature coordinates with existing apps so coupons and gift cards are collected in a single place. Square is hitting the mainstream through a partnership with Starbucks that begins next month. And there are dozens, if not hundreds, of mobile payment and e-commerce apps that threaten to render cash and credit cards obsolete.
So one month ago, that got us thinking: How long before we could get by using just our smartphones as our wallets? How long before we could ditch that fat piece of folded leather stuffed to the breaking point with credit cards, IDs, transit passes, cash, and printed coupons? How long before we could rely on just apps and NFC? Has the day already arrived? For the past month, I've been trying to find out.
Wielding an iPhone 5 and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, I loaded up on apps, got on board with Google Wallet, and left my real wallet at home. No cards, no cash. I've ordered everything from my Halloween costume to sushi to plane tickets — throughout the Bay Area and even for a vacation in Hawaii — using purely mobile means.
What I've found: Although we're a long way from where we were even a few months ago, being able to live completely walletless is still a long ways off. There are just too many entrenched forces — primarily government agencies, mom-and-pop stores, and anyone who requires an ID — for this change to happen quickly. However, on the mobile payments front, it's pretty darn doable (and in fact, enjoyable) — at least if you live in a major metropolitan area. And in a surprise consequence of this experiment, my effort to commute walletlessly re-introduced regular exercise to my routine, making me healthier and happier than before I began. If nothing else, those results made the whole thing worthwhile.
Lots of Options
Replacing credit cards and cash with mobile apps and services is surprisingly easy, though not without planning. Early in the month, particularly for breakfast, I'd forget that some of my go-to options (bagels in the Wired kitchen, for example) were cash-only and, thus, now off-limits. But I quickly adjusted. In general, I was pleased to discover a wide variety of mobile in-store purchasing and delivery options for restaurants and grocery stores. The only barrier when it came to food was my own laziness — but that's nothing new. I regularly eat bagels for breakfast un-toasted because it takes too long, and will order delivery from a Chinese restaurant that's only two blocks away.
Grocery shopping proved to be surprisingly easy. I used newcomer Instacart, currently a San Francisco-only option, to have bags of groceries delivered from Safeway straight to my door within three hours, all for a $4 delivery fee. Alternatively, I could tap my NFC-enabled Galaxy Nexus at the checkout at Whole Foods to grab my own organic foodstuffs using Google Wallet.
For in-restaurant dining, choices were more limited. LevelUp and Square Wallet were my main options. LevelUp, present at a few of some of my favorite dining destinations, quickly became a crutch when it came to in-store dining. And when it came to delivery or pick, the choices were overwhelming: GrubHub, Delivery.com, Eat24, GoPago, and OrderAhead were just few of the ones on my list. Participating establishments ranged from the family-owned taqueria around the corner to coffee shops, food trucks, and enterprising sit-down restaurants. Both the number of apps and the number of participating establishments seem to be growing daily.
Outside of the food industry, though, choices get a bit more limited. Large retailers like Macy's, the Container Store, and Office Max accept Google Wallet, but I didn't find any independent shops or local boutiques amid the myriad directory listings. Luckily, Amazon Mobile offers just about everything under the sun, shipped in a snap with Amazon Instant. For haircuts, Square Wallet's directory lists around a dozen San Francisco salons. And for socializing, there were a handful of bars where I could pay my tab with apps LevelUp and BarTab (you know, as long as they didn't card me). Services like Uber and InstantCab have you covered if you need a ride in a pinch, but I ended up primarily walking, biking, or driving.
Finding gas was a short-lived concern. Sunoco is the only gas station listed as a Google Wallet merchant, and there aren't any of those within at least a 50-mile radius of the Bay Area. I sweated two consecutive days when I needed to commute down the peninsula for events and appointments, eyeing my gas gauge like a hawk until I realized Chevron accepts MasterCard PayPass, and, thus, Google Wallet. You see, MasterCard offers cards with an embedded NFC chip — the exact same type as in Google Wallet. Since Google Wallet is a partnership with MasterCard, you can use Google Wallet wherever PayPass is accepted, which broadens the usefulness of Google Wallet considerably.
Making travel arrangements was dead easy using the Orbitz app. For other types of transactions, like rent and payments to friends, I used Venmo or PayPal. Venmo was actually far preferable since it does not incur hefty processing fees. It has an almost game-like aspect as you can make or request payments back and forth without it actually being processed as a transaction — that is done when you tap a button to "cash out."
Problems and Failing Points
I ran into only a few situations that were complete no-gos on the mobile front. Laundromats were one — they either take coins or a cash-filled card. I ended up hand-washing my clothes for the whole month. (A friend was quick to point out the irony in how my pursuit of future-leaning technology was setting me back 150 years in laundry care.) A planned visit to the doctor's office also necessitated a card swipe. And despite the fact that I was able to reserve rental cars from my phone, actually picking them up, as I had to do while on vacation, required a card and valid ID. That likely won't change anytime soon.
There were also issues with the technology as it currently stands. Multiple retail employees told me of issues with Google Wallet — sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I experienced this myself on two separate occasions, when NFC readers seemed to refuse to acknowledge my phone's chip.
I also had problems with the Square Wallet app. More than once, I came upon places that were listed in the app's directory but that did not actually accept it. One did not even have the card reader set up. The worst offenders were in Honolulu, where there was likely a discrepancy between the owner or manager who began setting up Square (or merely signed up for it) and employees who weren't informed about how it works. In the Bay Area, there are tons of cafes, coffee shops, and other businesses where Square Wallet works seamlessly. On Oahu, not so much.
For app usage, smartphone battery life and internet connectivity were definite concerns. If either failed, well, I'd have no way to search or pay for anything. While on vacation in Hawaii, where I was relying on both the iPhone and Galaxy Nexus very heavily, I would recharge whenever I could get to an outlet. And although I haven't had problems with LTE coverage, some businesses that use apps like LevelUp have had problems when they have no Wi-Fi connection, or if the app itself has server issues.
One thing I never mentioned previously was that I quit using the keycard that lets me into Wired for the whole month, it being a plastic card and all. With no mobile alternative, this meant I needed to call co-workers to let me in when I arrived in the morning, or rap on the door for someone to let me in at other points during the day. Funnily, this probably inconvenienced my co-workers more than it did me.
More seriously, the one thing in your wallet that is nowhere close to being replaced is your ID. For the full month, I tried to get by using only digital photos and videos of my real ID. As expected, bouncers were having none of it. During my airline travels, I was able to get through security without showing driver's license, credit card, or other alternative forms of ID. It's doable — I had checked with the TSA beforehand to make sure. But I certainly wouldn't recommend it; it means you spend an extra 30 minutes or so going through security, being handled by people who'd much rather be doing something else.
Although I hope there will be some sort of verified mobile ID we could use in the future, I fear this will be the main barrier in being truly walletless for some time to come.
How and Why Retailers Go Mobile
Over the course of the past month, I wondered why some establishments jumped on the mobile bandwagon while others remained staunchly 20th century.
The benefits for businesses are twofold. Mobile options enable speedier, simpler transactions and more opportunities to gain revenue through a wider dining audience. In my experience, whipping out a phone instead of digging a card or cash from a purse or wallet can shave up to 10 or 20 seconds off the payment experience.
Indeed, local cafe Coffee Bar will use an employee armed with an iPad "as kind of a pressure-release valve," operations manager Nathan Downs told Wired. Using Square and the Square Wallet app, anyone willing to pay for their lattes to go using Square and the Square Wallet app can hop into a mobile express check during peak hours, minimizing wait times for themselves and others.
But getting businesses on board is still a hurdle. San Francisco is the easiest place to go walletless because so many of the companies in this space are based in the Bay Area, meaning company representatives can go out to businesses in person to get them on board. Frjtz, a Belgian eatery in the city, is listed on GrubHub, GoPago, LevelUp, Stamped, OrderAhead, Seamless, Eat24, and LivingSocial, but for all but two of those (GrubHub and Seamless), someone met with Frjtz owner Santiago Rodriguez to set things up. Hawaii, far removed from Silicon Valley, seemed years behind when it came to mobile payments.
The End?
When I realized I'd reached the end of my month-long experiment, I asked friends and co-workers what I should do to commemorate my momentous final day. A big blow-out lunch, using Uber to go to a nicer, more distant LevelUp restaurant I hadn't yet visited? An after-work gathering at a compatible bar? But something felt odd about having an "it's over" party, and it took me a few hours to realize why: Although the 30-day experiment was over, I had already decided that I wasn't going back to the way I was living before. I'm happier and healthier living this way.
As long as I have a compatible Android phone on hand, I'll use Google Wallet for coffee, gas, groceries, and other purchases. For pick-up and delivery dinners, I'll continue to tap through the apps on my iPhone to place orders, rather than call-in or pay with cash. For a lot of activities, living walletlessly is not only doable but more convenient. I also still plan to bike instead of bus for my daily commute to work. Indeed, one of the most unexpected outcomes of this experiment was an improvement in the quality of my overall lifestyle. Since I'm regularly exercising now, I've lost weight, feel more energetic, and am better controlling portion sizes in my meals.
Would I do it all over again? Absolutely. In fact, I'd love to repeat this purely walletless experience again in a year's time, when some of these startups have grown or dropped off, and with NFC options getting more robust and Isis entering the mix.
For now, though, I'm going to the laundromat.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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In doing so, we can take advantage of a number of pieces of advanced PostgreSQL functionality to provide a much richer and more secure application environment. At the same time there are limitations with this system which must be taken into account as well.
Basic Design Requirements
The LedgerSMB Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing system was designed to offer real security even as the older codebase inherited from SQL-Ledger did not admit of any real security controls, as well as offering an extensible set of authentication options, and an ability to flexibly and consistently apply security permissions across several databases in a cluster.
The basic use cases are as follows:
- A single business will only have one database. The system shouldn't be unmanageable for such a business.
- An accountant/bookkeeper might access books for several businesses, and would need consistent access across databases.
- A midsize business with several subsidiaries might need some people to have access across databases, and others to have permission only to specific databases. Such a business might also need some sort of single sign-on technology, or even integrated authentication.
Overview of Design
The current design uses PostgreSQL roles for managing permissions. On the most basic level every user is a database user. Roles with the nologin attribute is set are used to assign permissions to underlying relations and functions. Generally, the simplest permissions are favored over the most complex. This means that operations that correspond exactly with relational operations are granted relational permissions, while those that do not are granted functional permissions.
Some of these roles are granted to other no-login roles to serve as larger aggregations of permissions. Users may be granted either sets of roles. A set of administrative functions are provided by the software to manage user accounts, permissions, and reset passwords (if applicable).
Obstacle 1: Roles are global to a cluster
This is both an obstacle and a useful tool. This allows users to be consistent across databases, but also poses a challenge regarding the larger database clusters because the roles which grant specific permissions end up being cluster-global as well.
We resolved this by making the db-specific roles prefixed with lsmb_[database_name]__ (note the double underscore after the database name).
Obstacle 2: Authentication methods
Authentication necessarily requires a few specific pieces of information to be passed to the database server, and these must be obtained from the user. The first is a username, and the second is some sort of authentication token. Any intermediary framework must then be able to pass these credentials on to the database in such a way as to properly log in. This can consist of three basic types:
- Password based authentication, where the authentication is a memorized password, typed into a terminal,
- Token-based authentication, where the token is supplied from an external source, and
- Two factor authentication, where the both of the above methods are required.
The other two break down into two questions:
- What can the web server pass on to the database server? and
- What methods can the database server use to authenticate the user?
On the web server, for password authentication, the re-use requirement means that the only possible method for authentication is HTTP-Basic.
On the database server, client-side SSL certificates can only be used to authenticate the web server to the database server. They cannot be used to authenticate users, and so are a not a possible choice for database authentication for a web app of this sort.
Security Tradeoffs
Security, it could be said, is an endless series of tradeoffs. These tradeoffs not only include usability vs security, but also how mitigation of concerns are prioritized.
This approach prioritizes mitigating SQL injection and privilege escalation issues in the web application above possible flaws in the PostgreSQL authentication mechanisms and misconfiguration of the web server.
We believe that there is general benefit in pushing authentication back to methods which are better tested and have more peer review. The PostgreSQL community has been, in our experience, extremely professional regarding security, further raising our confidence. So this first trade-off is easily justifiable.
The second tradeoff is a little harder to justify at the outset. If passwords must be re-used by the web server, zero-knowledge authentication systems cannot work. This means the password must be passed in clear text to the web server. This leads to several kinds of attacks, including malicious admins logging passwords, use of the web server without SSL allowing passwords to be overheard by an eavesdropper. We address the second type of attack by requiring SSL in the default configuration of LedgerSMB.
The issues with malicious system administrators can never be completely mitigated using password authentication. If this is a consideration, it's best to look to something like Kerberos (which could be supported on 1.3 with a little bit of effort). With Kerberos support, the web application, the database, and the user can all maintain a healthy distrust of eachother.
Other Implementation Details
A few other basic things are worth mentioning here.
The first is that PostgreSQL allows passwords to expire. We make use of this to differentiate between user-set passwords (valid for a configurable length of time) and administrative set password (valid for one day). Users can reset their own passwords.
Administrators of the application can issue temporary password resets. The way this works is that the administator makes up a password for the user, and the user logs in, and is prompted to change it.

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I just got lucky, says Suraj on 'Life Of Pi' role
The boy from Delhi who has played the lead in Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel "The Life Of Pi" was 17 when he signed the film. At 19, Suraj Sharma now feels like a different person.
"My entire life has undergone a change during these last two years. I feel different from inside. I think I've become a better human being. But I still don't now whether I can act or not," says Suraj, who feels he is more passionate about filmmaking than acting.
"The past year has changed me completely. I think I kinda grew up. I've learnt a billion things. It might sound melodramatic. But it's the truth. The most important thing I learnt is patience and endurance.
"Initially when we started preparing for the film, I used to grumble about all the intense physical training I had to go through. Then one day I went up to my instructor who had also become my very good friend and said: 'I know what you were trying to teach me. Most things are possible if you stop thinking whether you can succeed or not.Stop pressurising yourself. Just do what you have to do.'"
Suraj still looks back on the experience of shooting a script that features exotic animals and even more exotic actors like Irrfan, Tabu and Adil Husain with wonderment.
"I just followed them blindly. I was the only one in the cast and crew with no experience. Everybody around was knowledgable. Honestly, all I did was to listen to them. What else could I do? When you don't know what you're doing you might as well listen to those who do."
In September at the New York Film Festival, Suraj saw himself on screen for the first time. "It was the first time I saw the film in any other colour except blue. When we were shooting the whole film was being done in the blue colour.
"When I walked into the theatre, I thought: 'Oh my God, finally I'll be exposed. 'Kafi' awkward 'hoga' seeing myself for the first time. I had no experience in acting when I was signed. So I was naturally nervous. But when I saw the film, I suddenly saw all these vibrant colours and these stunning visuals.
Suraj thinks acting is no big deal. "Given the right circumstances, anyone can act. It's just about feeling the right emotions on cue. I think I'm okay in the film.
Folklore has it that Suraj was chosen out of 3,000 candidates for the role of protagonist Pi Patel.
Suraj is nonchalant. "'Mere ko pataa tha'. I had heard about that. In Delhi, I had just gone to the audition as moral support to my brother who's an actor. I was just sitting around in the couch.
"Dilip Shankar, who's my brother's acting teacher advised me to give it a shot. I guess I just got lucky. I was finally told I had to go to Mumbai to meet Ang. Then I did my audition and I thought I had flunked.
"'Main apne lines bhool gaya, ha ha!'. I was pretty nervous. I thought Ang would kick me out then and there. Then I did the scene again. And I started crying. Yeah, I teared up during the scene. And I guess they liked it."
Thereafter Suraj was called to Taiwan for training before the shooting. After being signed, he read the novel.
"Initially I didn't know what I was auditioning for. But the minute I found out what it was for I read up the novel, not once but thrice.... By then the script had arrived. So I turned to the script for a clearer interpretation."
Suraj says his equation with his family and friends remains unchanged. "Everyone around me is excited about the film. It's reassuring to come back to my normal life and to know they're still there for me, still the same. I try not to project myself as being someone different from what I was before I went into this film."
Because of the shooting, Suraj's studies got affected. "But in a strangely positive way. I finished shooting came back and did my Class 12 all over again. Before the movie I was a 50 percenter. Now after I came back from the shooting I scored 90 percent. The movie taught me to concentrate and work hard."
So a career in the movies? Suraj is unsure. "Let's see what comes my way. But I do know I want to be a filmmaker. I want to tell stories to the world."
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Multibillion-dollar pipeline expansion in Mexico means money for Texas
MEXICO CITY - Mexico may someday realize its potential as a natural gas superpower, but in the lengthy meantime the country's gnawing energy craving may feed off Texas pipelines.
Mexico energy planners are pressing ahead with an $8 billion expansion of the country's 5,500-mile natural gas pipeline system, focusing on central and northern industrial cities. And for the foreseeable future, they intend to fuel that network with U.S. natural gas, including from South Texas and Eagle Ford Shale fields.
"Mexico has a unique opportunity, we have access to the world's cheapest gas," Mexican Energy Minister Jordy Herrera said of the U.S. supply in announcing the new pipeline plans earlier this year. "This is competitiveness for the industry of our country."
Already, Kinder Morgan and other Houston-based pipeline and gas companies are lining up to be of profitable assistance.
"Kinder Morgan continually looks for ways to optimize its existing pipeline system and expand deliverability," the company said in a statement Friday. "In Mexico, there is a growing need for additional supplies."
Consumption soaring
Incoming President Enrique Peña Nieto's economic team vows to push for the rapid development of northern Mexico's shale gas fields - said to hold the world's fourth-largest reserves of the unconventional fuel - with the help of U.S. and other foreign investors. But those plans hinge on far-from-certain constitutional changes debated by the new Congress that begins Sept. 1.
In the meantime, Mexico's natural gas consumption continues climbing - at times in the past decade at four times the pace of overall economic growth. New supplies of gas have to be found and more pipeline laid to carry them to consumers.
Herrera and other officials say taking advantage of that supply - most of which will come from Texas - first will mean a dramatic build-out of the country's pipeline grid, which under-supplies many of the fastest growing industrial cities of the heartland of Mexico.
"This network is clearly and notoriously insufficient," Herrera said.
Mexican officials will award contracts to U.S. and Mexican companies in October for construction of $3 billion worth of new pipelines from just below the Rio Grande deep into industrialized central Mexico and still more in Mexico's northwest.
Kinder Morgan already has proposed building an extension from its pipelines near Tucson to the Arizona border town of Sasabe, which will connect to Mexico's planned 600-mile duct running to the Pacific port of Mazatlan.
The company said the pipeline would initially export 160 million cubic feet of gas a day to Mexico.
The U.S. side of the project awaits regulatory approval.
Mexican officials announced this month that the government's petroleum monopoly - Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex - will use a Cayman Islands subsidiary to help finance that pipeline as well as another connecting the Agua Dulce gas hub near Corpus Christi to Mexico's pipeline system on the border outside McAllen.
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The Agua Dulce duct will feed South Texas gas to the planned Los Ramones pipeline, which will run some 700 miles from the border near McAllen through Monterrey and on to Aguascalientes state, supplying Mexico's rapidly developing automotive manufacturing heartland.
Kinder Morgan currently supplies Texas gas to Pemex through a cross-border pipeline in Starr County, which goes to a power plant in Monterrey and connects to Mexico's national gas pipeline system.
U.S. gas exports via pipeline to Mexico have tripled in a decade, to some 500 billion cubic feet last year, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Further increasing that supply will depend upon market conditions on both sides of the border.
Some argue that with natural gas prices as much as four times higher in Asia and Europe, selling it to Mexico at near historic bottom U.S. prices might not make sense.
"Pipelines are expensive," said Bill Gwozd, vice president of gas services at Ziff Energy, a consulting firm with offices in Houston and Calgary. "Why not throw that money into a liquefied-gas facility and get $12 for your gas?"
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Thief gets next-gen face-off treatment from Digital Foundry
Thief has been given the comparison treatment by Digital Foundry. To see how the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions stack up against each other, and for information on PC comparisons, watch the video below and read the full report over on Eurogamer. Also, don't forget we're giving away a copy of the game on […]
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Thief screenshots and concept art show the game's first mission Lockdown
Thief screenshots and concept art taken from a mission at the beginning of the game called Lockdown have been released by Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal. Plus, if you are curious as to how DualShock 4 features have been implemented, there's news on that as well.
Thief 4: Master Thief Edition is a digital download option on PC and available for pre-order
Thief 4: Master Thief Edition is a digital download option on PC available for pre-order, Square Enix has announced.
Thief 4 pre-orders net you the Bank Heist mission as a bonus
Those who pre-order Thief 4 will get the Bank Heist mission as a bonus. Video and details are below.
Thief 4 producer details how DualShock 4 will be used on PS4, how AI component and stealth are intertwined
Thief 4 producer producer Stephane Roy has discusses the game's AI component with the PS Blog, stating that thanks to PS4 architecture, the team could push the immersion further than with PS3.
Here's a trailer for a trailer for Thief 4 -- big reveal next week
It looks like Thief 4 (aka Thi4f) will have some sort of reveal on April 2, which is in five days, and right now we have a teaser for whatever that reveal is. In this instance, the teaser isn't a complete waste of time, as it was made in-engine, apparently. Still, there's very little here. […]
Thief reboot out on PC, PS4, and "next-gen" in 2014
Thief 4 has been revealed, and its a reboot titled "Thief".
PS4: every rumour ahead of tonight's reveal, right here
PS4 is rumoured for a big reveal at Sony's PlayStation meeting event tonight, and you can watch it live here on VG247. To keep track of the rumour mill's madness so far, I've compiled all of the big game and hardware rumours so far into a handy little crash course on the matter.
Eidos Montreal to reveal unannounced project in 'coming months' - rumour
Thief 4 has been rumoured as in-development at Eidos Montreal for some time, yet there hasn't been a peep about it for ages. The LinkedIn CV of an employee at the studio may hint at an upcoming reveal.
Thief 4 to launch on Xbox 720, PS4, says mag report
Thief 4 will miss out on the current generation of console hardware, according to a new report in the latest issue of OXM.
Rumour - Thief 4 cinematic trailer caught in the wild
Don't get too excited but there might just be a Thief 4 trailer through the br- hey, I wasn't done talking.
Eidos Montreal - "Thief 4 needs to be as good if not better than Human Revolution"
Eidos Montreal boss Stephane D'Astous has finally decided to break ice regarding the progress made by the studio on Thief 4, comparing the anticipated sequel with the studio's debut effort Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Rumor - Eidos hiring for next-gen Deus Ex title
A "major Canadian company" has various vacancies available for a "semi open-world action adventure title that responds to player choice and interaction." Superannuation, which posted the link on Twitter, believes the company to be Eidos and suggests the title could be Deus Ex 4.
Eidos going the Deus Ex route with Thief 4, treating it like a "new IP"
Eidos Montreal GM Stephane D'Astous has said Thief 4 will be about more than "just stealth," as the game is being developed much the same way as Deus Ex in that it contains classic gameplay elements mixed with new features.
Rumour - First Thief 4 trailer complete
In the absence of any hard news about Thief 4, we present to you this possible evidence of news soon to occur.
CVs: Thief 4 to use Unreal 3, feature online functions
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Thief 4 storyboards pop up online
Four storyboard slides all related to Thief 4 have appeared online, showing series main character Garrett sneaking through what appears to be a house. There's a second person as well, but that about it. Get the slides here. Not much is known on the sequel besides acknowledgement on its development at Eidos Montreal, but expect […]
Thief 4 development begins winding up
The Deus Ex: Human Revolution team has been ousted from its comfortable digs in the Eidos Montreal studio, to make room for the Thief 4 group.
VG247's GDC 2011 - What's happening and what to expect
The 2011 tradeshow roadshow is officially go, with GDC the first to take place this year and Battlefield 3 the star in a relatively sombre games line-up mixed with some must-watch sessions.
Rumour - First Thief 4 screen appears
Deus Ex: Human Revolution may be on the home straight, but Thief 4 is set to kick off by the looks of it.
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Daily activities STS-122
This is a summary of the daily activities during the Shuttle phase of the mission. ESA astronauts Léopold Eyharts and Hans Schlegel also undertook experiments as part of the Columbus mission though these are not shown in the timeline below.
Flight Day 1 - Launch
- Launch
- Configure Shuttle for on-orbit activities
- Checkout of Shuttle robotic arm
- Switch on Columbus laboratory 'Launch-to-Activation' heaters
Flight Day 2
- Shuttle heat shield check using robotic arm and robotic arm extension
- Spacewalk preparations including EVA suit checks
- International Space Station rendezvous preparations
Flight Day 3 - Docking
- Rendezvous and docking including Shuttle backflip manoeuvre
- Preparations for first spacewalk
- Unberth robotic arm extension to provide clearance for unberthing Columbus during first spacewalk
Flight Day 4 – Spacewalk preparation
- OBSS focused inspection of Atlantis' OMS pod blanket begins
- Spacewalk #1 crew procedure review continues
- EVA astronauts 'campout' in Quest Airlock to help remove nitrogen from bloodstreams
Flight Day 5 – First spacewalk
- Attach Power and Data Grapple Fixture to Columbus; Prepare and unberth Columbus from Shuttle cargo bay; Prepare P1 truss Nirogen Tank Assembly for removal.
- Attach Columbus to Node 2 with Station robotic arm.
- Check out Node 2 docking mechanism for Columbus.
Flight Day 6
- Columbus commissioning - Connect utility cabling (power, data etc.) and ventilation ducting between Node 2 and Columbus; Replace launch to attachment pressure valves with on-orbit air distribution valves.
- Leak check on Columbus.
- Hatch open and Columbus ingress.
- Shuttle heat shield check
- EVA 2 preparations.
- EVA astronauts 'campout' in Quest Airlock to help remove nitrogen from bloodstreams.
Flight Day 7 – Spacewalk 2
- Remove and replace failed Nitrogen Tank Assembly on P1 truss section with new Nitrogen Tank Assembly in Shuttle cargo bay.
- Columbus commissioning – Additional audio, data connections; Install panelling in vestibule (between Node 2 and Columbus hatches); Install handrails and foot restraints; Install portable workstation and video cameras; Relocate European Physiology Modules facility from launch to on-orbit location and attach cabling.
Flight Day 8
- Columbus commissioning – Install interfaces for racks; Connect nitrogen lines from Node 2 to Columbus; Relocate European Drawer Rack from launch location to on-orbit location.
- Spacewalk 3 preparations.
- Spacewalk astronauts 'campout' in Quest Airlock to help remove nitrogen from bloodstreams.
- Crew off-duty time.
Flight Day 9 – Spacewalk 3
- Install SOLAR and EuTEF on Columbus External Payload facility from Shuttle cargo bay; Install failed Control Moment Gyroscope from External Stowage Platform 2 to Shuttle cargo bay for return to Earth.
- Columbus commissioning - Relocate Biolab from launch to on-orbit location; Install items in Biolab (power switches, DC converter); Remove launch locks from different Biolab assemblies; Install items on European Drawer Rack (smoke detector, partitions and air ducting).
Flight Day 10 - Columbus commissioning
- Columbus commissioning – Remove launch lock from Biolab Glovebox; Outfit Biolab; Biolab power data and cooling lines mated; Power data and cooling lines connected on European Drawer Rack; Water and data connections from European Drawer Rack to protein Crystallisation Diagnostics Facility; European Physiology Modules checkout procedures.
- Station reboost.
- Transfer operations between Interntional Space Station and Shuttle.
- Columbus vestibule leak check.
Flight Day 11 – Undocking
- Crew farewells, Shuttle crew into orbiter and close hatches.
- Orbiter Docking System leak check.
Flight Day 12
- Undocking
- Station flyaround
- Shuttle heat shield survey
Flight Day 13 - Landing
- Landing preparations
Flight Day 14 - Landing
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CIO…the Missouri Valley ConferencePosted by Brian Goodman on January 8th, 2013
Patrick Marshall is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference. You can also find his musings online at White & Blue Review or on Twitter @wildjays.
Looking Back
- MVC Race Already Heating Up–What a wild first week in Missouri Valley Conference play. Creighton, as expected is sitting at 3-0. Gregg Marshall doesn't get enough credit for reloading Wichita State and the Shockers are at 3-0 as well. After that, things get really interesting. Indiana State, Evansville, Bradley and Missouri State are all sitting at 2-1. None of those four teams were mentioned in the top echelon at the start of the season, but each of them have wins over others that weren't expected. The biggest surprises are Northern Iowa sitting at 1-2 and Illinois State sitting at 0-3. The Panthers were expected to be a sleeper in the league this year, but after a tough non-conference slate where they did not win as much as they had hoped, they started off MVC play at 0-2 before defeating Illinois State on Saturday. The Redbirds were expected to be league contenders along with Creighton, but they have had a lot of things go wrong for them this season. While it is still early, some of these situations may build upon themselves making for another crazy season. What it may hurt in the long run, though, are the number of NCAA bids come March.
- McDermott Still Reaping Rewards–Doug McDermott has been playing very well since Thanksgiving. As a result, he has continued to be recognized for his talent. He received the Lute Olson Midseason Player of the Year award, and ESPN recognized him as its Player of the Month in December. He's third in the country in scoring at 23.1 points per game, is averaging 7.3 boards per contest, and is shooting 49 percent from beyond the arc. Those are numbers that are hard to ignore. Through his first three conference games, McDermott has also averaged 23 points a game while fighting off sickness over the past two games. He is on the verge of carrying Creighton on his shoulders, but luckily he has not had to since the Bluejays have been pretty balanced and different players have stepped up when needed. He should remain in the National Player of the Year conversation throughout, but it may become tougher to put up the same outstanding numbers in conference play that he did in the non-conference season.
- Drugs Become Problem–A few weeks ago, Illinois State's Geoffrey Allen was indefinitely suspended from the team and was soon after arrested for trying to sell marijuana. The newest incident involving drugs now surrounds Bradley's Will Egolf. The sixth-year center was arrested as the year rolled over to 2013, accused of possession of a controlled substance. It turns out that he was purchasing Vicodin to help him manage the pain resulting from knee injuries he has suffered over the past few years. Those knee injuries ultimately allowed him to gain a sixth year of eligibility. He did not make the trip to Wichita this past weekend and it now appears that he will be suspended for a minimum of three games, but this transgression could ultimately end his career. These two incidents should raise a red flag to other MVC schools to remain vigilant and aware of what their players are doing and what may be affecting their play. I hope this doesn't become a trend because it sort of gives the league a black eye.
Reader's Take
Power Rankings (conference record and last week's ranking in parentheses)
- Creighton (14-1) (3-0) (1)–If you don't know by now, Creighton is not just a one-man show with Doug McDermott. McDermott sat on the bench during a key stretch in the second half against Indiana State and the Bluejays were able to come back from a deficit and take a lead with the play of Gregory Echenique and Ethan Wragge. Avery Dingman has stepped up with the loss of Josh Jones and everyone is doing their part to contribute to the Bluejays success. Probably the biggest development has been the play of Austin Chatman who took over the point guard duties this season. In the first three conference games, Chatman has 21 assists to only 6 turnovers. A 3.5/1 assist-turnover ratio is pretty good. Read the rest of this entry »


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Hi Frank,Thanks. Interesting. So do the coins mentioned all have both circulating and proof issues? Aside form features like the coins finish, are there any other ways to distinguish between Proof and circulating? Any distinguising marks?
The ranking list of the Chinese proof circulating coins from Sun Keqin has been translated: http://modern-chinese-numismatic-info.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-early-circulating-proof-coins-rarity.html
Mr. Sun wrote his article in 2006 prior to the discovery of the existence of Shanghai version of 1984 35th anniversary of the founding of PRC in 2007. IMO, this Cu-Ni proof coin is one of the top 5 key coins in the proof circulated commemorative series (total 68 coins from 1984 to 2014, pattern not included).http://china-mint.info/forum/index.php?topic=6501.0
Dandan's post on fan shaped coins translated: http://modern-chinese-numismatic-info.blogspot.com/2014/05/dandans-comments-on-chinese-coins-6-fan_23.html
wassergeist's example showing how the puzzle goes together was stunning.
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As the Deer Thirsts - CD
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As the Deer Thirsts is an inspired collection of prayerful songs by E. Louis Canter. Each song flows from a heart that longs to see the Peace of Christ penetrate and transform our broken and fallen world. Some of the works are specifically written for choir, while others are written for the singing congregation.
E. Louis Canter drew inspiration from the writings of St. Francis of Assisi, Scripture, and the tragedy of the Orlando shooting to create this beautiful collection of music. The Pie Jesu is from his work Requiem for the Innocents, which examines the pain of abortion and offers the hope of reconciliation for those suffering its effects.
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Keep It Creepy For Halloween With These iPhone And Galaxy Cases
Halloween is next week, and while you're finalizing your party plans, you might want to add a little horror pop to your phone. In the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, we dug through quite a few horror-inspired cases for iPhone and Galaxy users! We admittedly had way too much fun finding these cases, so enjoy the long list!
Note: A vast majority of these cases are for iPhones, with just a sprinkle of Galaxy in there.
Keep its simple and to the point with this Jack O' Lantern iPhone case [Buy]
Who doesn't love bats hanging from a string? Yeah, we're not sure we get it either, but it's a pretty cool case! [Buy]
You've probably seen it before, but now you can communicate to the dead and your friends with this iPhone case! [Buy]
Fan of American Horror Story will dig this case, even if it's a season late. [Buy]
Go time travel with Frank so Halloween comes sooner with this Donnie Darko case. Cellar Door. [Buy]
You Scream, we Scream, we call scream for this Ghostface case! [Buy]
If you get this reference without hitting this link, you're my new favorite person. [Buy]
Why have one horror icon on your phone when you can have them all? Just remember to burn, stab, decapitate, and drop it into the bottom of a lake before you go to bed. [Buy]
You'll be raising more than an eyebrow with this Evil Dead Necronomicon case. The lesson here is to never read latin you don't know out loud. [Buy]
If the Necronomicon isn't your style, give yourself an undead hand with this Evil Dead case. [Buy]
What's more puzzling (and hilarious) than having Saw's iconic Jigsaw character on the back of your phone? The video below. That's what. [Buy]
Back to the classics. As long as you don't drop this case in Crystal Lake, you should be fine. [Buy]
There are a ton of these cases around, and these are just some of our favorites. Check out RedBubble to find out even more great cases!
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Big Brother: What the Contestants Won't Be Doing in the House This Summer (Video)
After a season of scandal, the new cast of Big Brother says they will be a classier bunch maybe
The Big Brother casts have always been known for their outrageous characters and big personalities, but last season the show also became known for scandal.
After season 15 contestant Aaryn Gries sparked a controversy by making racist remarks, the entire house was placed under a more-scrutinized microscope, and several contestants were let go from their jobs.
And the season 16 contestants – including Ariana Grande's half brother Frankie – understand more than ever that America is watching (and judging) their every move.
As the 16 contestants prepared to enter the Big Brother house, they told PEOPLE the things they hoped America would not be seeing them do this summer.
Their answers were at times earnest but mostly hilarious.
Big Brother premieres June 25 on CBS.
See the full list of Big Brother 16 contestants below:
Amber Borzotra, 26
Hometown: Knoxville, Tennessee
Current City: North Hollywood, California
Christine Brecht, 23
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona
Current City: Tucson, Arizona
Cody Calafiore, 23
Hometown: Hackensack, New Jersey
Current City: Howell, New Jersey
Sales Account Executive
Nicole Franzel, 21
Hometown: Ubly, Michigan
Current City: Ubly, Michigan
Recent Nursing Graduate
Frankie Grande, 31
Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida
Current City: New York
YouTube Personality
Derrick Levasseur, 30
Hometown: Providence, Rhode Island
Current City: Providence, Rhode Island
Police Sergeant
Brittany Martinez, 29
Hometown: Long Beach, California
Current City: Torrance, California
Event Coordinator
Jocasta Odom, 33
Hometown: Griffin, Georgia
Current City: Lovejoy, Georgia
Victoria Rafaeli, 22
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York, and Holon, Israel
Current City: Weston, Florida
Zach Rance, 23
Hometown: Palm Beach, Florida
Current City: Palm Beach, Florida
Recent College Graduate
Caleb Reynolds, 26
Hometown: Dallas
Current City: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Adventure Hunting Guide
Paola Shea, 27
Hometown: East Hampton, Connecticut
Current City: Astoria, New York
Devin Shepherd, 26
Hometown: Santa Barbara, California
Current City: San Antonio
Former Professional Baseball Player/Motorcycle Sales Manager
Donny Thompson, 42
Hometown: Albemarle, North Carolina
Current City: Albemarle, North Carolina
School Groundskeeper
Joey Van Pelt, 27
Hometown: Seattle
Current City: Seattle
Makeup Artist
Hayden Voss, 21
Hometown: Marlborough, Massachusetts
Current City: Long Beach, California
Pedicab Driver
Big Brother After Dark starts Thursday on TVGN.


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Oh my. So much time with so little posting.
I went to my annual Alt Knitting Camp with my regulars at Devils Lake State Park. While there, I started knitting a basic top-down raglan for myself so that I'd have something relatively mindless to work on. It's dark brown, from Jo Sharp Classic DK. It's the kind of sweater that doesn't look all that great on the needles, but I will probably wear all winter long.
We had visits from my parents in May, Scott's brother in July, and my sister and niece in August. Here is the younger son with his cousin:
I spun a bunch of 3 ply yarn. I'm not exactly sure what it will be good for, but it was fun spinning.
I sewed a one strap back pack and then I sewed a two-strap backpack. The pictures of the two-strap one, which I sent off in a swap, seem to have been deleted from the camera card without being saved to the computer. D'oh!
I took my younger son to the city pool a couple of times and to Devils Lake several times.
I spent most of July hiding out indoors, in the air conditioning. I spent too much time on Facebook.
I took my kids to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago to see the Jellies.
Then we went to Millennium Park to see the Bean.
I don't know of any other sculpture that seems to invite so much public interaction.
On the way back to the car, I saw a Maserati parked near the school of the Art Institute.
I guess art students have more money now than they did in the old days.
I finished a sweater for publication and it'll be appearing this fall. Had to do pictures twice. Also knit something smaller for an upcoming book, but I'm not sure when that will be public.
I've been thinking about sewing, about weaving, about spinning, and not as much about what to knit next. But now school has started and I can finally get my brain focused on my stuff, I hope that will change. There's a creative zone I seem to be most able to tap into when I know I won't be intruded on for at least 4 hours. I wonder what will happen next?


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Working: Engineers find 'soft skills' hard
One of the final requirements before landing a coveted engineering internship this summer was a presentation to corporate recruiters.
And Vita Como, senior director of professional development at the University of Houston, told the three students who work for her at the Cullen College of Engineering Career Center to practice theirs 10 times before taking the stage.
There was grumbling, recalled Como, who coached her student workers to elaborate and not just read the slides in their presentations. But the practice paid off when all three got paid internships — a point not lost on other applicants in the room who bumbled and fumbled their way through their own presentations.
Word spread quickly among the engineering students about how coaching and practice can turn a dull recitation into a polished presentation - and maybe land them a job. "I had a line out my office," Como said.
Universities across the country are giving their engineering and science students extra help navigating the "soft skills" that may come more naturally to liberal arts students. In some schools, the communication and leadership training is woven into the traditional curriculum; in others, faculty and staff reinforce the skills informally through career seminars.
Engineers don't just deal with machines and models, said Samuel Frimpong, who chairs the mining department at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. They need to interact with their co-workers and subordinates and managers as well as industry groups and regulatory agencies. They need to know how to lead, communicate and work with others.
Too shy?
But many incoming engineering students are "big time" deficient in those social skills, said Frimpong, whom my husband and I met earlier this summer on a college tour with our teenage son, Benjamin. Many are shy and unable to make an effective presentation standing in front of peers.
"And they have all those tubes in their ears," he said, referring to the earbuds that seem to be surgically attached and connect adolescents with their smartphones and music players.
But Frimpong knows the importance of soft skills and launched a yearlong seminar for undergraduates that requires them to make weekly presentations. That class began after a survey of industry leaders and alumni suggested the school should boost students' skills in written and oral communications.
One mining executive who recruits told Frimpong that he assumes all the graduates are technically qualified, and that it's communication, presentation and other soft skills that make some students stand out.
Shaking hands
At the University of Houston, engineering students can attend seminars on how to shake hands and introduce themselves, create a good first impression, and navigate a business lunch. They don't always absorb this information easily.
Students assume a business meal is about eating, said Como, whose instruction includes the basics - be gracious to the waiter when ordering - and details about which napkin and water glass to use.
In earlier times, engineering recruits were supervised by other engineers and didn't meet customers for years, Como said. New engineers now are expected to come on board with the social skills needed to meet and greet clients.
But it's not always easy to teach the rules of napkin use, bread buttering and fork selection to students inclined more to efficiency and rationality rather than toward esoteric dining customs.
'They argue with me'
"They argue with me," she said. They also argue that their grade-point average should be the only factor that counts in whether they get a job, said Como, who said she finds herself explaining that is not how the corporate world works.
Michael Wong, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Rice University, looks for opportunities to point out errors and then quietly - and gently - explains how to do better.
He often gets that opportunity when he brings in visitors to his lab and introduces them to the students working there. Some know to stop what they're doing, introduce themselves and explain their work. For others, it's not so easy.
Wong said he goes back after visitors leave and explains, for example, the importance of maintaining eye contact. He explains that someone looking at his shoes or around the room sends the message he's not interested in the conversation or that a visitor is imposing on his time.
Other times he corrects students on their handshaking skills. A limp handshake is a sign of timidity, he explains, then has students practice until they get it right.
Everyday stuff
One of his colleagues teaches a class that focuses on teamwork, report-writing and presentation skills.
As students, the future engineers don't much like the non-technical training.
But in surveys two and five years after graduation, students report that the soft skills were among the most valuable in their entire education, Wong said, because it's the stuff they have to use everyday.


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Important details missing
This book is missing a lot of very important details.
First of all, it doesn't even mention the necessity of residual analysis of the errors, and how regression is useless unless that fundamental element is checked.
Second, on page 91 how does equation/function 3.8 come about with the information provided?
And right below that, why does the function that is minimizes the ML have a
-(1/N)? As in, where did this (1/N) come from? We can go from a product to a sum of the logs, but we can't just add a 1/N and use the words "We can equivalently ..." to describe the transition.
Can someone clarify these issues?
Re: Important details missing
No one seems to have answered this. I figured I would clear this up a bit so that possible future readers do not get the wrong impression.
Let me skip the first point for now.
Regarding getting (3.8) out of the information on page 91, this comes about exactly as the authors pretty much spell out. When y=1, we want to get h(x) = theta(wt x) = theta(y wt x) since y =1. When y=-1, we want to get 1-h(x) = 1- theta(wt x) = theta(- wt x) by the properties of the function theta, and finally we can write this as =theta(y wt x) since y =-1. This is nice because we can now combine the two cases in one formula.
Regarding the second point, the authors write that they can "equivalently minimize a more convenient quantity", taking a logarithm and putting a 1/N in front. If I want to minimize A, I might as well minimize 2A or 1/2 A, hence the 1/N is not a problem. It is just there for "convenience" (e.g. the typical scale of the resulting numbers), as the authors state.
Regarding the first point I have nothing meaningful to say, as I know next to nothing about the subject, but based on the other two points I would take the criticism expressed here by TLMFQS with a rather large grain of salt.
Re: Important details missing
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Quick Look: SORCERER on Blu-ray
Still an editing nightmare that spends its first hour elliptically globe-hopping to introduce four losers we never get to know, William Friedkin's SORCERER arrives on Blu-ray with jungle foliage newly the color of a Jelly Belly Green Apple bean. Unlike Clouzot's original THE WAGES OF FEAR, this not-a-remake isn't an exercise in unbearable suspense so much as an attempt (to paraphrase Franju) to "twist the audience's head off" with extended scenes of miserable cyphers enduring the worst a South American Mother Nature can deal out as they run a fool's errand. Hardly the best film Friedkin ever made, as he claims, but probably not the worst film ever made by someone pretending they were Werner Herzog. The harrowing bridge scene still makes the misguided trip moderately worth taking, and the original emerges from its shadow all the more impressive. No extras, but the BD Book packaging includes a 40-page chapter about the film from Friedkin's autobiography. There is also a letter from the director, in which he basically admits that the film came about because his new house in Bel Air was getting to him. (Warner Home Video, $27.98)
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014
My First Animated Skeleton
This bizarre artwork is a detail from the dust jacket of the US hardcover edition of Ngaio Marsh's 1949 mystery novel A WREATH FOR RIVERA. When I was a kid, my mother and grandmother sometimes took me to Salvation Army thrift stores in our neighborhood, where I was turned loose in the used book department while they did their own foraging and rummaging. One day, they took long enough at their shopping that I exhausted the store's supply of comics and children's books and began browsing outside my usual perimeters.
I found this.
A WREATH FOR RIVERA became the first adult novel I ever owned - the beginning of a life-long collection. I remember having to talk Mom and Granny into it; they said it was too grown-up for me, but something in me responded to this cover art and I had to have it. I'm sure I saw this before I ever saw Ray Harryhausen animate skeletons in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS - and I didn't see 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD until its 1970s reissue - so this was the first animated skeleton, so to speak, in my experience.
Long story short, I was allowed to have it - it was only a quarter or something. As it happens, I never did read it, probably because I couldn't find any passages about a skeleton drummer inside, but I kept it for a long time. from that day forward, whenever we returned to the local Salvation Army store, I went straight to the book department in search of more cool covers. As a result, I acquired a fairly sophisticated collection of fiction (mostly paperback) at a young age; one of my favorite childhood memories dates back to a visit from my out-of-towner Uncle Larry, who looked through my collection and called out to my mother, "Hey, Bones! This boy of yours has good taste!" I think I must have become a critic then and there. (Yes, my mother's nickname was Bones. Interesting, isn't it?)
I remembered this old book and its cover art out of nowhere a couple of nights ago and went looking for a scan of the dust jacket. The picture isn't exactly how I remembered it - for some reason, what I told myself in memory was that the cover showed a dozen or so skeletons firing Lugers at each other - but nope, this is definitely the book that nudged me into the wonderful world of vintage used hardcovers at the age of five or six.
Update April 2, 2014:
Reader John Seal writes: "You may be interested to know that LA art punks Monitor cribbed the Marsh book cover for their 'Beak/Pet Wedding' single in 1979. Great band – I saw them open for Cabaret Voltaire in late 1980."
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BEIJING - The Chinese government on Thursday criticized a U.S. decision to release three members of an ethnic minority from China who had been held at Guantanamo Bay to the Central European country of Slovakia.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China had sought the repatriation of the Uighur men, who are considered by Chinese authorities to be terrorist suspects. The U.S. said earlier this week it had released the men to Slovakia.
"They pose threats not only to China's state security, but also to the security of the country which receives them," Qin said. "China hopes the relevant countries can earnestly perform their international obligations, refrain from offering asylum to terrorists, and transfer them to China at an early date."
The men were among about two dozen Uighurs captured in 2001 after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and kept at the U.S. base in Cuba. U.S. authorities did not turn them over to Beijing on fear they could be tortured.
The other Uighurs had been released to different parts of the world, but the last three men - Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper - had insisted they be sent to places where they could be closer to Uighur communities, according to Rushan Abbas, a Uighur-American translator who worked on the case.
Their release is a step toward the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.


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Let me quickly wish you all a Very Merry Chirstmas because we will be busy tomorrow and I am not sure when can I update this little space again :-) Now onto the wonderful dish...I would at any point cringe at the idea of making a Chinese dish with coconut Oil. Infact, one of my friend's mom used to make Fried Rice in coconut oil and to be honest, it was a cross between a very Malayali pulao and something which I couldn't recognise. It was tasty, I agree but I couldn't agree to the fact that it was a fried rice.All said and done, this chicken fry has the most weirdest combo of soy sauce,coconut oil and curry leaves!!!
This is the way Amma sometimes made a quick chicken fry for lunch and she always made it with bone-in chicken pieces.Today, I am making it with boneless skinless chicken thighs which is my favourite part of the chicken especially for boneless preparations. The meat,no matter what remains very soft till the end even if you overcook it. I hate chicken breasts to cook with because no matter how careful I am,it overcooks and no flavour gets into it.To be honest, I like dark meat :-D
Now that Christmas is just a blink away,we are invited over for appetizer and dinner parties. Everytime we go over to parties, we volunteer to get something so that it adds one more dish to the big table full of wonderful things.Therefore, I made this chicken stir fry for an appetizer party we are going to tonight. If you want it to be really dry, you can cook for a few more minutes .This is the perfect one pot dish!
Recipe: Amma
1 kg boneless skinless chicken thighs (can use full chicken too), cut small
1 1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric powder2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1/4 c dark soy sauce (can use regular soy too)
Salt to taste
2 tsp coconut oil
1 sprig of curry leaves
1/2 red onion,chopped fine
1 tomato,chopped fine
Black pepper powder, optional
Take a pressure cooker and marinate chicken pieces in it with red chili powder,turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, soy sauce and salt to taste. Leave it aside for 10 mins. Pressure cook it for 1 whistle, exact and switch off the heat. Let the pressure go down on it's own.
Open the lid and if there's water in it, let it evaporate on high heat for 3-4 mins. Add the remaining ingredients and saute till the pieces are dry and coated well with sauce.
Add black pepper powder if you think is needed.
We adore this chicken fry, especially Jobin. Also,once you transfer the pieces to a serving bowl no matter how much you scrape the pan you will still have some saucy bits stuck here and there. DO NOT throw that away instead use your fingers to enjoy that goodness! It's just so so so good!! :-) Also, I wouldn't dream of making this in any other oil other than coconut oil :-D If you are not like me, go ahead and use vegetable/canola oil.


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A couple months ago, I found myself drooling over a tea mug owned by a fellow tea blogger and aficionado. Chris Giddings also known as the Tea-Guy could not stop singing the praises about his new Libre Glass. I knew then that I needed to try one!
Is it possible to steep and enjoy quality loose leaf tea while on the go? Or should I say, is it possible to easily steep and enjoy quality loose leaf tea while on the go mess free? The Libre Glass makes that promise. After making numerous cups of tea using the Libre Glass, I was convinced.
Using the Libre Glass is simple. The first option is to place loose leaf tea leaves in the body of the glass, add water, twist on the double lids and steep. The first inner lid contains a removable stainless steel filter, the second outer lid is beautifully adorned and holds in steam during the steeping process. When the tea is ready to sip, simply remove the second lid and drink directly from the Libre Glass or pour its contents into your tea-cup or mug of choice. Either way, the stainless steel filter does a great job containing the tea leaves within the mug. If using the second option, pour water into the body of the glass and twist on the inner lid. Place loose leaf tea leaves in the stainless steel filter, twist on the second outer lid and invert to begin the steeping process. When the tea is ready to sip simply turn the Libre Glass right-side-up, remove the double lids and enjoy either directly from the Glass or pour the liquor into your tea-cup or mug of choice.
So what do I like about this product? First the Libre Glass is produced in two versions – glass'n glass or glass'n poly. I own the glass'n poly version which has a durable polycarbonate exterior and glass interior. No matter how hot the water, the exterior of the glass remains comfortable to the touch. The glass'n poly model is 7.5 inches in height and 2.5 inches in diameter and holds approximately 9oz. or 260 mL. The size is perfect for transporting tea wherever I go and is easily placed in my purse, computer bag or gym bag. What do I love the most? The ability to easily steep my loose leaf tea no matter where I go without the hassle of carrying around tea, a mug, and separate infuser. Of all the things I love about the Libre Glass, there is one problem. My preferred steeping method is the inversion process, however, I found that the lid has a slow leak. Even though I twist the lid on tightly, it is difficult to ascertain if the lid is on tight enough. I get it right about 50% of the time.
Overall, the Libre Glass is a great product for the price. For $24 I have a tea mug and infuser all in one – considering I have paid $15 for an infuser alone. I love the portability of the product and the ease of use. When at home, I use the inversion process, but when out, I place the tea leaves directly in the body of the glass – I'd rather not take a chance with the lid possibly leaking.
If you own a Libre Glass, please stop by and share your experience. Until then… Happy tea drinking!
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