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i seem to always forget. like i'll be putting away my makeup and be all HOLYSHITIFORGOTTHEMOLE. O[]e;;; /RUSHES
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Wired Profiles John Brooks, the Programmer Behind Ricochet
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wabrandsma writes with this excerpt from Wired: John Brooks, who is just 22 and a self-taught coder who dropped out of school at 13, was always concerned about privacy and civil liberties. Four years ago he began work on a program for encrypted instant messaging that uses Tor hidden services for the protected transmission of communications. The program, which he dubbed Ricochet, began as a hobby. But by the time he finished, he had a full-fledged desktop client that was easy to use, offered anonymity and encryption, and even resolved the issue of metadata—the "to" and "from" headers and IP addresses spy agencies use to identify and track communications—long before the public was aware that the NSA was routinely collecting metadata in bulk for its spy programs. The only problem Brooks had with the program was that few people were interested in using it. Although he'd made Ricochet's code open source, Brooks never had it formally audited for security and did nothing to promote it, so few people even knew about it.
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It's that most important of questions for anyone attending the Glastonbury music festival - what's the weather going to be like? Will I be rocking out to the Arctic Monkeys stood in a foot of sloppy mud with raindrops trickling down my back? Or will I be chilling out, laid back on the grass with a pear cider in hand as the sun beams down? We'll keep a close watch on the weather for you and update this page daily in the run up to the festival. We do this every year so don't forget to bookmark this page or sign up to our mailing list for weather updates direct to your inbox.
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Modi takes on PM over Patel-was-Congressman comment
Kevadia: "We should not divide our heritage," Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday, criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for saying that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a Congressman. "To link Sardar Patel with any party will be a big injustice to him (Patel). That party (Congress) was a part of his life and both history and Modi cannot deny it," the BJP's prime ministerial candidate said.
Modi spoke at an event after Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani laid the foundation stone of a huge proposed statue of Sardar Patel here. Hitting out at Congress accusations that he (Modi) was trying to usurp Sardar Patel's legacy, Modi said leaders such as Rana Pratap, Bhagat Singh and Shivaji were not from the BJP but he respected them all.
Modi said though Mahatma Gandhi fought to free the country of untouchability, "political untouchability" still existed. "We should not also try and remove political untouchability." After Modi said Tuesday that he wished Sardar Patel had been India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh responded that the "Iron Man" had always been a Congressman and secular too.
"I appreciate his remarks that Sardar Patel was truly secular. We also say that this country needs secularism like Sardar Patel's and not the vote bank type," Modi said. "He (Sardar Patel) was secular but that didn't come in the way of his rebuilding the Somanth Temple."
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Sharing the stage with Narendra Modi, BJP leader L.K. Advani Thursday praised the Gujarat chief minister who has been chosen the party's prime ministerial candidate. Laying the foundation of a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Advani said the "Iron Man" was responsible for the unity and integration of the country following the country's 1947 independence.
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Advani said when Britain split India in 1947, 565 small and big princely states were given back their sovereignty. "I believe that if there was not a leader like Sardar (Patel), then India would not just have been divided but disintegrated," he said.
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How to Make a Castle in Minecraft
Four Parts:PlanningBuilding the Outer WallBuilding the Large TowerBuilding the Entrance
Castles are the ultimate defense. They can contain everything you need to survive, provide protection from the outside world, and can be built almost any way you like. Here you'll learn a few ways to make one type of castle in Minecraft.
Part 1 of 4: Planning
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2The best locations are close to things you need, and relatively clear of obstructions.
- Flat-ish mountain tops can be good choices.
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- Clear out what you need, but remember that castles in real life move with the landscape some.
4Build an outline of your wall around everything you need to enclose.
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6Redraw your boundary wall if necessary.
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3Build a small tower where two walls meet.
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4Build that tower at each big intersection.
Part 3 of 4: Building the Large Tower
1Choose a location for your large tower.
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2Build up 1 floor, and add a ceiling.
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1Choose where you want the entrance to be.
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- You can add moats or other things around the outside of your castle wall for extra defense!
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Catholic Charities Michigan City Cruise will be held to support programs in Northwest Indiana communities. The first hour of the event will include at social hour and buffet, followed by the cruise portion from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Boats are not handicapped accessible. Dress is casual with jacket or sweater and rubber sole shoes.
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When we came home from the hospital, Elliott was super excited to inspect his new sister. He had only seen her for a few minutes in the hospital, and there was a lot going on, so we enjoyed watching him hold her for the first time in the quiet of our home. He was smiling from ear to ear looking her over, touching her little hands and tiny toes. He kept saying over and over in his sweet little baby talk voice "aw my Julie-annie... my baby sister." It was precious!
[My mom was a huge help the first week. She kept E for us for most of the week. He came to visit, but we needed a little time to get settled, and learn Julianne's personality before we were ready to really dive into life as four. She made sure to give him lots of extra attention to help balance all the attention we were having to give Julianne.]
When we had Elliott, we were re-admitted for jaundice after our first night home. I was a wreck. He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't use the bathroom... he was either screaming or lethargic. I cried when they re-admitted us. (see here.) It was terrifying for a first time mom. I was totally caught off guard. He ended up loosing almost a pound, and we had lots of trouble nursing and gaining weight for the entire first month. (see here.)
So, when they told us as we were being discharged with Julianne that we would need to go for blood work the following morning because her bilirubin levels were borderline for needing photo therapy, I felt much more prepared. I spent our first night home working hard to get her to use the bathroom to bring her levels down. We nursed every two hours, I pumped, and gave her anything I got from a syringe, in addition to some formula. We went in to see our pediatrician the next morning for blood work, and despite my efforts, her levels had increased and her weight was dropping. So back to the hospital we went. My parents had to go to Arkadelphia early the next morning for my sister-in-law's college graduation, so Gary stayed home with Elliott and I spent the night at the hospital with Julianne.
It was a terrible night. We weren't able to be re-admitted on the maternity floor like we were with Elliott. Instead, we were in the main hospital, with nurses who weren't accustom to working with newborns. Julianne hated not being held, and refused to take a pacifier, so she screamed most of the time she was under the lights. It was heartbreaking for a hormonal momma to watch. I worked hard again that night to triple feed - nursing, pumping and supplementing every two hours, listening to my screaming baby in between. (On top of all that, I was having painful contractions as my body was working to pass a 3 inch clot!) I got very little sleep.
The next morning three different nurses attempted to draw blood from Julianne to check her levels. As I mentioned before, they weren't use to drawing blood from an infant. It was painful to watch, and the final nurse was extremely rude. I was on the verge of tears, when Gary and Elliott arrived. They brought donuts and coffee and gave me a much needed boost of encouragement. They couldn't stay long, because a hospital is not the ideal place for a two-year-old to hang out for an extended period of time, but it was just what I needed.
Shortly after they left, I was relieved to find that my hard work had paid off! Julianne had gained 3 ounces over night, and her bilirubin level dropped from 17 to 12. We were discharged and instructed to start weight checks with our pediatrician on Monday until she got back up to her birth weight.
We were finally all home as a family of four! Within a couple of hours, Elliott had picked Julianne up out of her swing and was carrying her across the living room. I almost had a heart attack, but we can laugh about how cute it was now.
The first night went much better than I expected. It almost felt natural. I continued to work hard triple feeding to help Julianne gain weight and continue to flush out the jaundice. It didn't seem nearly as stressful this time. She nurses quickly and efficiently, and I feel more confident as a mother having done this all before. We find we can sooth her much quicker that we could Elliott. We are both much more relaxed, and I think it's rubbed off on her.
Elliott had colic/ reflux and spent most of the first six weeks screaming if we weren't standing up bouncing him while he was wrapped tightly in a swaddle blanket. It was rough. It took time to learn how to soothe him, and we were stressed and exhausted in the process. This time around it has been much easier. Julianne nurses and then goes right back to sleep. She doesn't seem to notice all the chaos around her, she just snoozes away. She rarely cries, and when she does, it's likely because she's ready for a diaper change and wants to eat.
I'd say adjusting to life as 4 has been a much easier adjustment than adjusting to life as 3. Maybe it's because Julianne is more laid back than Elliot was, or maybe we are, or maybe it's both. Either way, you know what to expect the second time, and you know how to handle most of what your newborn throws at you. I've been pleasantly surprised.
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He's very protective of her too. He does't care for other people holding her. He often insists that she be with me, like he knows that's where she belongs. The only time I've seen him jealous is when his Pia holds her. He's not ok with sharing her :)
The other night we were in the car heading to Sonic for milkshakes, and Elliott was talking to a crying Julianne in the backseat. He said "It's ok Julianne, we're going to Sonic, it's gonna be fun!" Another time she was crying and he asked her "Julie-Annie, are you trying to tell me something?" I hope he'll always look after his little sister like he does now.
Life as four has been great. Julianne is bringing all kinds of new joys to our family. Watching Elliott interact with her has been one of the greatest joys. Sure, our house is a mess, and we're always in need of a cup of coffee, but we wouldn't have it any other way.


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Regarding using the current classes....holy paladins make the most sense.
They wear plate, they're in the action...and they could put a healing buff on the NPC to have their damage heal the group. :D
So group healing is fine, but they'd need a single target heal for main tanks. Like putting focus on the tank and then a smashing special ability against the boss to do a full heal.
Just saying...I think a dps to heal model would work and it would possibly work for paladins if they were to use an existing class.
I already see some paly healers regen some mana by hitting on a boss. They could be transformed to regen mana by actively attacking then switching to healing.
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The 5D Mark II (reviews, diary) was announced in September 2008, while the 7D (Mark I) (reviews) was announced in September 2009. You can check the "age of DSLRs" (sounds like a video game waiting to happen?) at our most recent Age of DSLRs chart-a-thon (these charts are live, they "age" over time, but because of the scale you can't see changes on a day-by-day basis).
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In what promises to be a horrendous attack on the nostrils, Dutch conceptual artists Lernert and Sander have created a work of art entitled "Everything," a combination of the nearly 1400 fragrances launched in 2012. That means everything from Gucci Première to Girlfriend by Justin Bieber are housed in the same 1.5-liter, hand-blown bottle, an amplification of the teeny glass samples handed out in shopping malls worldwide. This is all very reminiscent of our childhood fascination with melting chapstick and candle wax together, then pouring them into tubes that we had innovatively branded "Lipwax." Though that brainchild never quite took off, we'd love to give the beauty mashup another go. If we mixed all our favorite scents of last year, it'd smell faintly of Khal Drogo, Momofuku Milk Bar's Crack Pie, and Pitch Perfect. We'd call it "Lifebooker Clusterf*ck."
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Former US president Bill Clinton (L) greets supporters prior to the start of the Iowa Brown and Black Forum, where his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton participates, in Des Moines, Iowa, USA on 01 December 2007. The Iowa Brown and Black Forum was founded in 1984 and is the nation\'s oldest continuous minority presidential forum in which candidates answer questions concerning issues affecting African-Americans and Latino-Americans. EPA/STEVE POPE
ABC News' Eloise Harper reports that Sen. Hillary Clinton faced an unfriendly crowd in Iowa.
At the Heartland Forum in Des Moines, IA, Clinton, who called in to speak to the crowd of thousands because of weather difficulties, took questions on topics from healthcare to illegal immigration.
Clinton was asked if she would "make a decision to give undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship" during her first 100 days in office.
Clinton said, "I have been favoring a plan to citizenship for years. I voted for it in the Senate, I have spoke out about it around Iowa and the country and in my campaign. And as president comprehensive immigration reform will be a high priority for me."
This answer elicited booing from the audience.
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Louder boos came from the crowd.
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DWF reports 84 per cent growth to £188m
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Turnover up 84%
Net profit up 41%
Profit per partner up 4%
turnover up 84%. Wow.
net profit up up 41.3%. Wow.
PEP up, erm, 4% to £429k. So the partners go a bit of above an inflationary pay rise.
Wonder how much of that increase in profit/PEP came from increase in WIP and therefore accrued income year on year?
Bet the silver circle boys are really worried.....
Net margin down from a worrying 14.2% to a frightening 10.9%.
An extra £86 million in turnover gives each partner an extra £17,000 in income. So, on this basis, if they want an extra £170,000 each, they've got to increase turnover by £860 million.
Wow! 84%. Stunning. Well done to all those involved.
I note the grumbles about the PEP, but isn't this expected? Don't shareholders usually wait until the growth to stabilise until before they take huge dividends?
DWF marketing/ social media team are pretty slow off the mark today. Not a single post (yet) dismissing the neysayers as jealous....
Probably too busy giving Gerard Starkey at legal week a nice little exclusive briefing in more detail about their expansion plans as they "refuse to stand still".....
Andrew Leaitherland is a genius. He's taken a small firm into the big time. With success, come the critics.
I'd be interested to see how much turnover has risen in the Newcastle office (since they corrected the mistake of appointing John Flynn as office manager).
Anonymous @ 1:19: You jinxed it, now they're everywhere (1:22 and 1:11)
How much money have the partners had to put in to fund the growth? Is all of that worry worth 17k especially as those numbers will likely fall back next year but the firm's capital requirements will stay the same or possibly increase.
Frightening stuff.
Anonymous at 1.11 needs to learn the difference between profit and drawings.
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Read comment 1.22 again. I hardly think DWF's marketing team are going to want to highlight DWF's biggest management blunder of the last five years!
The comments regarding margin and profit are interesting, but this is on the face of it a good performance. Job losses are to be expected after consolidation and will be only one of the integration challanges faced.
Would be interesting to know how the 84% growth is broken down - is it just the sum total of all of the individual firms being counted as one, rather than sepeately? - or - has the combined firm increased turnover, with the sum total being more than the individual parts?
Will be interesting to see how the next year develops and how successful the integration is. Good luck to them.
Yet another law firm, not "getting it" , nor having a proper handle on the crucial numbers. Turnover for vanity, profits for..... The margins , are tight to put it mildly. They are only going to get worse, by reason of the fact DWF, have a large "churn em and burn em" defendant PI practice. Awful rates, made worse by the MOJ reforms , which will result in them being instructed to defend, possibly as much as 50% less litigated cases, than they were before, given Portal Increases and the likely increase in the small claims court threshold. Moreover , with such thin margins, all it takes is for a profitable team(s) within the firm to go to leave and join a PROPER top 20 firm, for those margins then beginning to look more worryingly than one can possibly imagine. Once all these mergers have bedded down, and the full acquisition cost been made known in H1 of their next years accounts, you can be assured that these figures will fall, ( that is the figures that matter) And Mr Leitherland the figure is "GENUINE PROFIT" These acquisitions are funded by a large and ever growing tranche of debt. Given the cultural sensitivities in all these mergers, egos, and equity being held tightly, there will be teams leaving in droves in the next 12/24 months, of that you can be rest assured!
In closing all that increase in turnover is almost certainly merger derived and not organic. Anyone can do that. As the poster above quite properly said, all that hassle for an extra £17,000 extra per EP! Mr Leaitherland is a genius... I doubt it , however time will tell. Now watch out DLA, DWF, are coming at ya! (reverse take over!)
I always assumed that when the numbers went up, that was good.
In response to Anon's post at 5.01. Not necessarily , the numbers need to be considered in context! When debt grows is that good!?
Gray going straight from Eversheds to DWF must have gone down really well with Eversheds senior partner Brian Hughes. Hee hee.
Normally, when there's been a merger, you do like-like figures.
Anyone want to gather up Cobbetts, Biggart Baillie and Fishburns results from last year and add them onto that £102m and £14.5m so the comparison is like-like?
According to the figures here: http://www.thelawyer.com/news-and-analysis/market-analysis/analysis-on-dwf-self-assembly-or-the-diy-law-firm/3001962.article £188 million represents no non-merger growth at all.
Have the trainee retention figures for DWF (and I guess Cobbetts) been published?


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I'm tired of saying this, but for the eighth week in a row, Rihanna's "What's My Name?" is the most played song on Atlanta radio.
The good news for folks tired of that song: it's finally losing steam, down 49 spins week over week. Hot pulled back a bit (52 spins) while V-103 (47) and Wild (95) stubbornly kept it at the top of their rotations the past week. Q100 (550 has kept it in mid-heavy rotation for a second week. Majic played it twice, too. So it's at 249 spins, 14 spins ahead of Katy Perry's "Firework."
Perry is at top rotation on three stations: Star (47), Wild (94) and Q100 (93). Third place, jumping from 10th a week ago, is Britney Spears, who is also at the top on Wild (95) and Q100 (95) but getting only 12 spins from Star 94.
I anticipate the new Lady Gaga song "Born This Way" that sounds suspiciously like Madonna's "Express Yourself" will be up there pretty soon. It got more than 100 spins on three stations (Star, Wild, Q) since last Friday.
It was a relatively robust week for adds on many radio stations:
V-103: Jamie Foxx's "Best Night of My Life," Kem "Share My Life"
Hot 107.9: Kirko Bangz's "What Yo Name Iz" Nicki Minaj "Did It On'em" (Big drops: Fabulous' "You Be Killin' Em" and Wiz Khalifa's "Black & Yellow")
Wild 105.7: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (73 spins since last Friday's debut!), Dr. Dre's "I Need a Doctor" (added just yesterday, Feb. 15) Big drop: Rick Ross's "Aston Martin," from 49 spins to just 3.
Star 94: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," Adele's "Rolling in the Deep"
Q100: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," Black Eyed Peas "Just Can't Get Enough," Jennifer Lopez "On the Floor"
94.9/The Bull: LeAnn Rimes "Crazy Women," Josh Thompson "Won't Be Lonely Long" Keith Urban "Without You" Randy Montana "1,000 Faces"
Kicks 101.5: Steel Magnolia "Last Night Again" Tim McGraw & Gwyneth Paltrow "Me and Tennesse" Kenny Chesney "Live a Little" Justin Moore "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away"
Dave FM: Jack Johnson "From the Clouds" David Gray "Only The Wine"
Project 9-6-1: 3 Doors Down "When You're Young" Art of Dying "Die Trying"
Fish 104.7: No adds
Top 10 songs in Atlanta
1. Rihanna – What's My Name? 249 (-49)
2. Katy Perry – Firework 235 (+21)
3. Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me 202 (+55)
4. Bruno Mars – Grenade 201 (same)
5. Nicki Minaj – Moment 4 Life 185 (+20)
6. Lil Wayne – 6 Foot 7 Foot 172 (+19)
7. Ke$sha – We R Who We R – 154 (+1)
8. Pink – Raise Your Glass – 153 (-14)
9. Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands 141 (-29)
10. Keri Hilson – Pretty Girl Rock 136 (+17)
SOURCE: Mediabase 24/7
Top 5 songs on R&B/hip-hop and rock stations
Project 9-6-1
1. My Darkest Days – Porn Star Dancing
2. Rise Against -Savior
3. Three Days Grace – World So Cold
4. Avenged Sevenfold – Welcome to the Family
5. Stone Sour – Say You'll Haunt Me
Dave FM
1. Fitz & the Tantrums – MoneyGrabber
2. Adele – Rolling in the Deep
3. The Decemberists – Down By the Water
4. Florence & the Machine – Dog Days are Over
5. Amos Lee – Windows are Rolled Down
1. My Chemical Romance – Sing
2. Cage the Elephant – Shake Me Down
3. Rise Against – Help is on the Way
4. R.E.M.- Mine Smell Like Honey
5. Middle Class Rut – New Low
97.1/The River
1. Journey -Lights
2. Rod Stewart – You're in my Heart
3. The Kinks- Lola
4. Supertramp – The Logical Song
5. Foghat – Slow Ride
Rock 100.5
1. AC/DC – Moneytalks
2. Neil Young – Rockin' in the Free World
3. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. The Rolling Stones- Miss You
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
1. Trey Songz- Love Faces
2. Nicki Minaj – Moment 4 Life
3. Keri Hilson – Pretty Girl Rock
4. Jamie Foxx – Fall For Your Type
5. Twista – Let's Make a Movie
Kiss 104.1
1. Lenny Williams – Cause I Love You
2. Glenn Jones – We've Only Just Begun
3. Con Funk Shun – Love's Train
4. Gregory Abbott – Shake You Down
5. Michael Jackson -Got To Be There
Majic 107.5/97.5
1. R. Kelly – Love Letter
2. Charlie Wilson – You Are
3. Fantasia – I'm Doin' Me
4. Kem – Share My Life
5. Eric Benet- Sometimes I Cry
Hot 107.9
1. Twista – Let's Make a Movie
2. Trey Songz- Love Faces
3. Nicki Minaj- Moment 4 Life
4. Jamie Foxx – Fall For Your Type
5. Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands
Wild 105.7
1. Rihanna – What's My Name?
2. Wiz Khalifa – Black & Yellow
3. Bruno Mars – Grenade
4. Kay Perry – Firework
5. Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands
Praise 102.5
1. Forever Jones – He Wants It All
2. Hezekiah Walker – God Favored Me (Part 1)
3. Wess Morgan – I Choose to Worship
4. Marvin Sapp – The Best In Me
5. Maurette Brown Clark- It Ain't Over (Until God Says It's Over)
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February 17th, 2011
12:00 am
What is it with Lady GA Ga stealing every song from Madonna , has she no shame?—sarcasm
February 17th, 2011
1:03 am
I dunno if anyone knows the answer to this or not, but am I the only one who has most trouble with Hot 107.9? Does that station just have a weak signal or should I switch to 102.9? I live in Smyrna and am amazed at how much static I get from an atlanta based station, I expect it from the rome 107.1 station,but from an atlanta station?
February 17th, 2011
6:38 am
There's nothing wrong with cranking out pop music superstars, but there it is a disservice to culture when that's the only type of artist that exists.
February 17th, 2011
6:40 am
Esperanza Spalding's win serves as a reminder to listeners everywhere that good music isn't just determined by what's played on your local top 40 station.
February 17th, 2011
8:41 am
Sad time in music when a no singing bird is lifted while real deep singers of all genres are looked over.So glad that I exercise my free will to listen to good music.music like Anthony Davis/Algebra.She is a disgrace to real music.
February 17th, 2011
8:42 am
Sad time in music when a no singing bird is lifted while real deep singers of all genres are looked over.So glad that I exercise my free will to listen to good music like Anthony Davis/Algebra.She is a disgrace to real music.
February 17th, 2011
9:30 am
Consider yourself lucky, Kevin. Terrestrial radio is horrible, as these "ratings" show.
February 17th, 2011
10:06 am
My view is…. Anthony DAVID/Algebra is on constant repeat on my IPOD. very hot song. If you like that check out the song from Dira feat. Omar.
February 17th, 2011
10:26 am
I can't believe this song is number one again. It is a horrible song, and it repeats the same line over and over. Is Atlanta that full of morons?
February 17th, 2011
10:33 am
Hopefully Esperanza Spalding's win will encourage execs to take risks and promote artists who have talent, not just star power. Bring something interesting to the cultural conversation — not just a Ke$ha to piggyback off of Lady Gaga's album sales.
February 17th, 2011
1:55 pm
If this person can't remember her name, she needs to check into a hospital.
February 18th, 2011
5:31 am
If a Lsdy Gaga song plays in the forest and nobody hears it, does it still suck?


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So, for a bit, I kept messing up nested list comprehensions when I tried to use them. Since I'm usually writing in Python to Get All The Things Done, my usual response is, "Oh, I should figure out what I'm doing wrong sometime, but I'll just do a
while loop or use
reduce or whatever for now."
But the other day, I happened on a nice concrete example that clarified things for me, so I figured, maybe I should link it, and share another such example.
Suppose we have an XML file that contains results from timing how long requests to groups of URLs that are grouped together (I have such a file from my attempts to perform benchmarks on a rewritten server at work). In this case, there are two levels of groups, one for requests that correspond to a particular geospatial location, and one that corresponds to two related queries for two different types of information about that location (specifically, KML requests, and requests for the imagery corresponding to the particular KML file). The XML looks like sort of like this:
<request type="kml" duration="100000" bytes="3150">
<request type="img" duration="102500" bytes="5316">
(Duration is in microseconds, if you're wondering why it's so freaking huge.)
Well, suppose I want to load all that data into Excel or Matlab or something. The easiest way to do that is to convert all that data into CSV. But I want to make sure to preserve an easy way to keep track of the location grouping and the tile grouping, since the whole point is to allow arbitrary analysis of the data set, and those attributes may be important to some particular statistics the analyst may want.
I can do something like the following to generate the appropriate CSV file:
from lxml import etree as ET
def make_csv(xmlfile):
locations = ET.parse(xmlfile).findall('.//location')
return '\n'.join( [ csvline.format(i, j,
req.text if req.text else ''
for i,loc in zip(xrange(1,len(locations)+1), locations)
for j,tile in zip(xrange(1,len(loc)+1), loc)
for req in tile
] )
I'm not sure this is necessarily the most efficient way for me to do this, but oh well. Hopefully, this will both help me remember how to use nested comprehensions, and make it easier for someone else trying to figure out nested list comprehensions in the future (via the linked post if nothing else).
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Danny pushes both of their now-empty plates to the side. She asks him if he's going to do a magic trick. He tells her that he has no idea if what he's about to say will come out right, and she reassures him that she'll forgive any mistakes he makes. He tells her, "Incrementalism is not an option. I'm forced into a heroic posture." She reassures him again that things will be fine. Nervously, he starts what sounds like a pre-planned speech: "We're both about to fall off a cliff. And I don't know what I'm going to do with the rest of my life, except I know what I don't want to do. And on Inauguration Day, you're going to be released from that glorious prison on Pennsylvania Avenue with…" C.J.: "No human skills?" He thinks that sounds right. He continues, "So, if I'm gonna jump off the cliff, and you're gonna get pushed off the cliff, why don't we hold hands on the way down?" Thud. Oh, sorry, I just swooned again. There's a long pause, and suddenly C.J.'s beeper goes off. Danny, frantic, tells her, "Oh, turn it off." She can't, of course, and when she looks at it, she solemnly says, "Oh my God." She has to go, and immediately stands up and starts heading for the door. He tells her to go, and after she's gone, he looks at her empty chair and says, "I'll see you later." He quietly repeats himself, seeming near tears.
C.J. walks into the West Wing. There are a lot of generals and other important-looking people standing around. C.J. finds Kate and asks what's going on. Kate tells her, "Some kind of nuclear accident." It happened at a power plant. C.J. asks if it's a plant in Russia, and Kate responds, "San Andreo, California. They think it might blow up." Credits.


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For now, I fish. I catch. I catch and I release.
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In 1971, he caught a 36-pound cod off the coast of Massachusetts. That wasn't simply a grand-looking fish that deserved to be photographed, then quickly returned to the over-harvested Georges Bank to procreate. To my father, that cod represented a week's worth of Portuguese chowder and a pile of fish cakes.
He probably would not have bothered to fish Father's Day Creek -- small water and small trout. "Dinky fish," he'd say.
But I found the place irresistible. A few times a year, I'd make a few casts to spots where experience told me I should have found a feeding trout. I found very few, and none more than 6 inches.
Finally, I decided to leave Father's Day Creek alone, making only one stop there a year.
Then in 1994, something important happened. Someone put up signs by a bridge: "These waters not stocked. Catch and release encouraged."
Apparently, the landowners had complained about the behavior of the bait-dunking spring fishermen who hiked through their woods to the river. The commonwealth had decided to stop stocking my favorite section of Father's Day Creek. And when word of this got around, the hunter-gatherers took their appetites elsewhere. Pierre said, "There's no trout there anymore," and he went off to pillage some other Pocono creek.
This meant the brown trout would be left alone. I suddenly felt, even in the height of spring, that I was the only person on Father's Day Creek. I may have been the only man who still believed in it. I had been given the privilege of watching what happens when people leave a natural trout stream alone.
Months went by, and years. The meadow trail into the woods to the river became overgrown with thorns and brush; each time I used it I had to clear it. In all my trips to the stream since then, I've encountered only four other fishermen, and they used fly rods and returned any trout they caught.
I kept notes in a fishing journal. Each year there were more brown trout in the feeding lanes of the river, and each year they were longer and fatter. In this delicate and beautiful place, progress was measured in inches.
In 1993 I caught only six-inch browns; in 1997 I caught 12-inch browns and, in 1999, I caught one at 14 inches. In 1994 I hooked only two trout on Father's Day; in 1998 I caught 10. I caught native brook trout, too, and small, stream-bred rainbows. I released them all.
This little renaissance made me feel even more protective of the stream. I made a point of never telling Pierre about the river's comeback, lest he plunder with brass and bait what had become a great river for fly-fishing.
Fly-fishing involves a lot of thinking about fish and their habitat, and many dismiss it as arcane, too expensive and too much trouble. The attempt to precisely and delicately cast a tiny artificial fly that imitates the size, shape and movement of the insects that trout crave can be a daunting exercise. The process looks to bait fishermen -- the descendant spirits of my father's generation -- like a lot of work for little reward. "All that for that?"
But one can get lost in the challenge, the geometry of the cast, the attempt to drop a fly on the current for a few precious seconds, hoping a wild brown trout sees it coming, recognizes it as food, rises to the surface and attacks it. They are exquisite little creatures, and they spend a moment in your net or hand before returning to their holding spot.
Last Father's Day I rose at 7, drank some coffee and drove from my in-laws' home to the small, overgrown parking area by the bridge. The signs had faded but the words were still legible: "These waters not stocked." I pulled on my waders, dropped my fishing vest over my shoulders and, with my fly rod in one hand, pushed and chopped my way through the meadow trail to the woods and the stream.
The water was higher than normal because of recent rainfall. I stepped carefully into the stream to avoid spooking trout. I know all the spots where trout hold. I know this river. If I could, I would live in a small hut with a Franklin stove along its banks and ask everyone who comes there to fish it gently -- fool the fish, then let them go.
I dropped a fly known as a prince nymph into the stream above a subtle riffle and let it drift with the current. It sank slowly. I held the rod over the river with my right hand and held the yellow fly line with my left. Suddenly the line stopped. Had I snagged bottom? Perhaps the spot wasn't as deep as I'd thought. When I tugged on the line, something tugged back. Something started swimming.
You'll have to trust me here. It's my memory that sunlight fell through the gloomy hemlocks and hit the stream precisely on the spot where this trout tried to shake the fly from its lip. And so I could see the silver flash.
I had hooked a rainbow trout.
A large one.
The largest fish I had ever seen in Father's Day Creek.
He swam hard behind a rock and held there until I could gently pull him away. I reached for my net. I was in mild shock as I squatted and scooped him out of the river. The net could hardly contain him. The fish seemed too big to be true, out of scale with the 20-foot wide section of water in which I'd found him.
I stepped to the low bank, placed the rainbow on ferns and measured him against my net, notching a spot in its wooden handle with my fingernail. (I later measured the notch at 17 and a half inches.) I then picked the rainbow up and looked him over. He was not a stocked fish from a hatchery because he had the bright colors and full dorsal fin of one that had grown up in the river.
I spoke to the river and congratulated it on its endurance and its resilience, thanked it for its gift to me on Father's Day. I heard my own excited voice echo in the hemlock gorge. I held the trout for a moment so that my father, stirred by my shout, might appreciate it. "I've got the frying pan ready," I heard him laugh. Then I leaned down and returned the fish to the water, feeling the muscle in its tail. He was still strong, but he did not dash away when I released him. Instead, he seemed to look back at me for an instant as he drifted slowly sideways, before darting into the dark folds of the creek.


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After Mattel abandoned the Intellivision following the 1984 videogame "crash," Intellivision Inc. (aka INTV Corp.) bought the rights to the system, selling old Mattel stock, newly manufactured copies of Mattel games (these are the white-label variations), some new games that had been in development at Mattel but unreleased, and (in a few cases) totally new games. The catalogs shown on this page were used to promote the sale of old stock and new games, first through third-party mail-order companies Triton and Enterprise, and finally by Intellivision Inc. itself. The later catalogs, in particular, are interesting because they show screenshots of some of the highly rare Intv games like Stadium Mud Buggies and Body Slam Super Pro Wrestling, not to mention descriptions of games that never made it off the drawing board (e.g. Karateka). At least ten different post-Mattel catalogs were sent from the U.S., and at least one more variation is known to have been sent by a Canadian distributor.
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(WMC TV) - Here's another example of why you should deal only with established, credentialed investment firms -- ones licensed with your state's financial institutions agency.
Retired business owner Loran Dalton thought he could trust his long-time accountant Barry Korcan. They had been colleagues for years.
Then Korcan stabbed him in the back, stealing more than $900,000 from him in a phony investment scheme.
"He did my income taxes and later he came up with this investment - guaranteed - never dropped below eight percent," said Dalton. "It wasn't worth the paper it was on."
U.S. postal inspectors said Korcan urged his clients to put their money into his company, ironically named Guardian Investments.
"They would get these statements, thinking their money was growing," said Postal Inspector Randy Hayden. "At the end of the day, these people lost their entire investments."
Inspectors said in all, Korcan stole more than $7 million from his clients. He spent it on a golf course, lake homes and office buildings.
His clients, like Dalton, lost everything.
"I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I went through," Dalton said.
Korcan eventually got what was coming to him. Hayden said Korcan pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges.
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WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 — Will newly appointed England coach Roy Hodgson surprise us when he names his 23-man roster for the 2012 European Championship on Wednesday? He's already delighted many of us by naming former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, 37, to his coaching staff.
It might be time for Hodgson to bring in some new blood on the backline and leave the feuding John Terry and Rio Ferdinand behind. However, that would leave a lack of experience in the middle of the defense, so it's likely Hodgson will bring one of the two, and the pundits think its going to be Rio Ferdinand.
I argue that Hodgson should take Andy Carroll as a striker. Carroll seems to be finding his form at the right time and often plays well in the big games.
See my choices below as well as those who should start against France in the opening group game on June 11.
1. Joe Hart - Finally England has a solid number one goalie. Hart has been excellent for Manchester City (Starter).
2. Ben Foster - Has the experience to come in and replace Hart if needed.
3. Paul Robinson - Best to have some experience on the bench rather than a youngster just in case there's an injury or a red card.
Left Back:
4. Ashley Cole (Starter) - Still one of the best in the world. Hard working and experienced.
5. Leighton Baines - He is coming off a great season at Everton.
Center Backs:
6. Gary Cahill - The Chelsea player is coming off an injury but has done well learning from John Terry.
7. Joleon Lescott (Starter) - He has been a big part of Manchester City's success this season.
8. Rio Ferdinand (Starter) - Having been ruled out of the 2010 World Cup with an injury, this could be the last chance for the vastly experienced defender to play in a major international tournament.
Right Back:
9. Micah Richards - A talented overlapping player with great speed and the potential to get a shot on goal. It's a tough call between him and the experienced Glen Johnson.
10. Kyle Walker - He maybe peaking just at the right time and could easily start.
11. Glen Johnson (Starter) - Solid defender who has good attacking skills.
Center Midfielders:
12. Scott Parker - A solid workhorse in the middle of the park. The kind of player every team needs.
13. Steven Gerrand (Starter) - Can be brilliant at times. Still working his way back to top fitness.
14. Frank Lampard (Starter) - Still a very wise and smart player who scores goals and makes excellent passes. Good player to bring off the bench. Has notched 11 goals in the league this season.
15. Gareth Barry (Starter) - Consistent and practical. He does all the right things.
16. Phil Jones - A good utility player who leaves it all on the field.
Attacking Midfielders:
17. Ashley Young (Starter) - Has the speed and ability to make the killer pass.
18. Theo Walcott (Starter) - Is this the event where Walcott finally breaks out and proves to us he has the talent? The speed is there, but he must finish off chances.
19. Adam Johnson - Didn't get a lot of playing time this season at Manchester City, but he can hold the ball and cause problems at the top of the 18-yard with his nifty dribbles and cuts across the box.
20. Wayne Rooney - The key striker on the team with 27 goals this season in league play, but he will miss the first two games due to suspension.
21. Andy Carroll - We are still waiting to see the best form this player but he turns up in the big games. He can also defend. Also a good player to bring off the bench.
22. Danny Wellbeck - (Starter) Landed a starting role at Manchester United and scored nine goals this season. Holds the ball up very well.
23. Daniel Sturridge - This is one hungry player with great speed and a nose for the goal. He needs a chance to prove himself and this could be the moment.
The England team will gather on May 21 and travel to Malaga, Spain for a five-day training camp. and then plays a friendly against Norway in Olso on May 26. The team then plays before a friendly, a sold-out Wembley Stadium on June 2 before the team heads to their base in Krakow, Poland on June 6.
For over 20 years John Haydon wrote a weekly soccer column for The Washington Times. He has covered two World Cups and written about Major League Soccer from the league's inception in 1996.
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