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Another steamy summer, another Miami Spice. The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau is back with the oft-beloved, sometimes maligned dining deals that help fill restaurants during the slow summer months and give less well-to-do diners a way to eat in the city's most lavish spots at a fraction ... More >>
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David Bracha's River Seafood & Oyster Bar will make its long awaited move out of Brickell sometime in 2015. Bracha, who also owns Oak Tavern in the Design District, has leased spaced on the ground floor of the rising River Apartment Towers being built by Argentine developer the Melo Group. They hop ... More >>
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It looks like the Pubbelly Boys are planning on making a strategic chess move with one of their concepts. Pubbelly Group founders Jose Mendin, Andreas Schreiner, and Sergio Navarro have announced that they are moving their beefy concept, PB Steak from its current Sunset Harbour location to the main ... More >>
Samba Brands Management (SBM) has announced a personnel change in some of their Miami restaurants. The company, which operates Sushi Samba, Bocce Bar, and Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, has announced that Daniel Tackett will take on duties as executive chef of Bocce Bar, replacing Timon Balloo as top to ... More >>
Loba is Spanish for she-wolf, which is exactly what Jessica Sanchez is. "The name came to me in a moment in my life where I felt like I evolved into what my definition of a loba is," says the 28-year-old restaurant owner. "Someone who just fights and hunts for what they want. Someone who doesn't let ... More >>
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Just in time for an early start to the weekend, Shuckers Waterfront Grill will open tomorrow at noon. The iconic waterfront bar and grill that saw so many Miamians beat the heat with a cold beer and a breeze over the water, opens its new patio Thursday, July 24, at noon. See also: Shuckers to Reop ... More >>
Dewey LoSasso likes to have fun. At AQ by Acqualina, the stylish restaurant that opened in a towering, Venetian-style Sunny Isles Beach hotel-condo this past April, the mustached chef plays with dishes such as green eggs and ham. A 20-minute wait precedes a bubbling martini glass layered with swee ... More >>
What do you know about Belgian cuisine? Chances are not much. Well, with the opening of Bistro BE in Brickell last Friday you'll be able to eat your way through the country most known for its waffles. Short Order was invited to check out Bistro BE's 100 percent Belgian fare and extensive beer sele ... More >>
After leading Miami's desegregation in the '60s, surviving the race riots of the '80s, and persevering despite a pickup truck slamming through its front and killing two customers in 2012, the legendary Liberty City soul food spot Jumbo's will close its doors Wednesday. Bobby Flam, who took over the ... More >>
Seems like Miami is hungry for high-end Mexican food. At least that's what the folks behind Cantina La Veinte think. Part of Cinbersol Group, which has opened over 30 concepts in Mexico, this is Cantina La Veinte's first U.S. location (the other three are all in Mexico City). Like the restaurant, ... More >>
As Miami's brunch evolves into a sea of bottomless options and dozens of eggs being cooked in different and inventive ways, restaurants are looking to take the Sunday feast to the next level: A day to revel and give into the week-long battle with gluttony, Sunday is undoubtedly meant for brunch. T ... More >>
SoFi just got way more luxurious with Il Mulino, the popular Italian New York outpost, opening its doors today. You might be thinking "but there's an Il Mulino in Sunny Isles at Acqualina," and you're right. But not having to trek to indulge in an overabundance of Italian delights is so much better. ... More >>
If the staggering heat of our Miami summer is getting to you and you don't have a pool in your backyard, maybe you should consider heading to the Adrienne Arsht Center for a refreshing dip at the theater. H2Ombre is playing at the Miami entertainment complex and it's an interactive show that featur ... More >>
Brickell is turning into one big beer and sausagefest with the opening of Prost Wurstgrill and Bierhouse. The restaurant was opened by a group of German investors, led by Michael Sponaugle, last week with a limited "soft opening" menu. Prost is now open daily for dinner and will open for lunch and ... More >>
With plenty of fish in the sea, options are plentiful -- finding that special catch is no easy task. Miami isn't lacking seafood restaurants, but there are some that keep themselves well hidden. Take AltaMare, the Italian-inspired "hook-to-table" seafood joint that's décor exudes an pretentious air ... More >>
When Melbourne transplants Teresa and Nick Sharp arrived in Miami, they soon discovered a culinary void. While Cuban tostadas, French croissants, and New York bagels run rampant, authentic Aussie eats are hard to come by. The couple decided to blend their native city's coffee philosophy with fresh ... More >>
About two minutes into speaking with Julia Ning, it becomes abundantly clear that her passion in life is feeding people. Massachusetts-born Ning is no stranger to the restaurant business -- her family immigrated from China in the 1920s and set up shop with a restaurant in Harvard Square. Ning is th ... More >>
With Viva Mexico, the Magic City got a taste of authentic Mexican tacos and incomparable carnitas, but what about upscale Mexican food that still has a touch of homestyle cooking? And no, Rosa Mexicano doesn't count. Enter Porfirio's, SoFi's newest addition to the neighborhood from Grupo Anderson, ... More >>
Via Verdi Cucina Rustica is known for its unfussy, rustic, and delicious Italian cuisine featuring house-made pastas and sauces helmed by partner Nicola Carro. Now, those same sauces and pastas, along with a selection of wines and other small batch, local items, will be available for home when La B ... More >>
Oh hai, Monday -- it's you again. We were hoping this weekend was just a dream, only to wake up this morning and realize that Lebron leaving our home to go back to his is still true. You know what eases the pain? Booze. And food. There's plenty of that going on this week to make you forget all abo ... More >>
So all that chow chow about Yardbird flying off to Vegas for a fling is true. 50 Eggs confirmed that Yardbird Southern Table & Bar is opening a location at the Venetian Las Vegas some time early 2015. The restaurant will share much of the same menu and Southern charm, but with a little more space - ... More >>
"Let them eat cake." These immortal words supposedly spoken by Marie Antoinette still live on today, but now we can take them literally. On July 14, 1789, inspired by the American revolution, the French people finally rose up against King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, stormed the Bastille, and k ... More >>
It happens every year. The minute your hangover subsides from New Year's eve, it's already July. With half of the year gone, we decided to look forward to some of the restaurants that are coming up -- mostly in the fall. We're not listing restaurants that don't have a 2014 opening date, which is wh ... More >>
Perfectly ironed white tablecloths are topped with open glass orbs holding fresh-cut roses floating in water. The stems are twisted and tied around delicate blooms, creating bows that rise from the bowls. The rich cherry hardwood floor of Palme d'Or -- the opulent, awarded-winning French culinary te ... More >>
Many Miami brunches offer unlimited mimosas for a fee, but before you say yes to that deal think a moment. Just how many fizzy beverages are you actually going to consume over the course of a meal? If your limit is three at best, maybe that $20 all-you-can-drink offer isn't so wonderful, after all. ... More >>
Sushi never goes out of style. The Japanese restaurant Hannya is set to open in September at 1060 Brickell Ave. As recently reported in South Florida Business Journal, a 16-year lease worth $3.5 million was recently brokered for the restaurant's space. Hannya will be walking distance from Mary Bri ... More >>
World Cup fever is reaching epidemic levels in Miami with only four teams left vying for the crown. Two of those teams are Brazil and Argentina, which has both expatriates and locals amped up for the matches on Tuesday and Wednesday. These games will turn Miami into a festive shit show with diehard ... More >>
The MiMo neighborhood is seeing a real resurgence, with vintage motels getting facelifts and restaurants opening weekly. One of the new places is the tiny MiMo Art Café. The coffee shop, tucked behind an artist's studio at 592 NE 77 St., is easy to miss. Hence, the sandwich board on busy Biscayne B ... More >>
Happy birthday, America. You look great for a lady turning 238. Seriously, Independence Day is here and that means picnics, beach days, brunches, cocktails, and fireworks. Here's our guide to the best places to eat and drink this long holiday weekend. Weekend starts now! See also: Make Super Easy ... More >>
Nutella turns 50 this year and we couldn't let the occasion pass without some fanfare. Whether lathered in a hot crepe from a cart on the sidewalks of France or scooped straight out of the jar with your finger, this hazelnut spread of the gods deserves our utmost appreciation. New York City is cele ... More >>
After at least a year and a half of delays due to struggles with permitting, N by NAOE, Kevin Cory's follow up to his striking, 12-seat omakase restaurant that in 2012 moved from Sunny Isles to Brickell Key is now open next door to his lauded restaurant. What N is, however, couldn't be more opaque. ... More >>
Restaurants not participating in Miami Spice are taking advantage of the hot summer months and offering customers a bargain before the two-month restaurant promotion sets off August 1. Bianca at The Delano is offering up prix-fixe summer fare lunch and dinner offerings that started June 16 and cont ... More >>
Buns & Buns established its affinity for the misogynistic era of the 1950s early last summer when it released a minute-long teaser video that opened with dozens of women's tanned, oiled backsides sunbathing on an unidentified beach. "Incontestably, we all like our buns hot and steamy," it said befo ... More >>
Coral Gables Restaurant Week just ended, and Miami Spice begins in one month. So where can you find discounted prix fixes in the interim? Try the third-annual Taste of Doral. Organized by the Doral Chamber of Commerce, the event is intended to boost economic development while exposing visitors and r ... More >>
Talk about one hot month. As spring turned into one wet summer, Miami restaurants decided to open like flowers in a garden! Most anticipated were the openings of L'Echon Brasserie, featuring French fare by the Pubbelly boys and Oolite, Kris Wessel's new restaurant just off Lincoln Road. June als ... More >>
Chances are you've heard of Benihana, the famous teppanyaki chain that spread like wildfire across America. Well, did you know that the son of Rocky Aoki (the founder of Benihana) is the founder of Doraku, and that he's related to the global superstar DJ Steve Aoki, and that the new teppanyaki joint ... More >>
Miami lost not one, but two great chefs when the James Beard finalist and Janine Booth decided to team up on Root & Bone in the Big Apple. Instead of reflecting on things that could have been had the talented duo decided to open a place in, say, MiMo or Wynwood, let's look on the positive side -- n ... More >>
Groupo Anderson, one of Mexico's largest restaurant groups, is opening Porfirio's Restaurant on Thursday, July 3. The restaurant, which launched in Mexico City in 2012, is bringing its brand of fine dining to SoFi with traditional Mexican dishes. The 200-seat restaurant, located at 850 Commerce St. ... More >>
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Okay FIRST OFF. More November birthdays! Alex was on the 14th, and Chad was on the 17th. So happy birthday you two!
As for the other two pics, we have Persephone cosplaying as Kanaya Maryam from Homestuck and then Shuuhei WITHOUT HIS BLINDFOLD. Just to make things clear, THIS IS CANON; it happens at some point, and it is AWESOME.
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Kerry Moxam has done it again! This beauty was selected to represent Jamaica at the 11th staging of the Miss Earth. Miss Earth is the third largest pageant in the world. The finals is scheduled to be held on December 3, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.
An executive casting was held at the Ocean 21 Restaurant, 7 Grosvenor Terrace, Kingston 8. After large numbers of applications were received; the contestants met with a panel of judges. They were then allowed to speak to the audience about their environmental platform and showed off their evening wear. The judges were impressed with the contestant's environmental knowledge but crucial for the judges was the winner's ability to do well on the international stage. After examining all the international requirements the judges were most impressed with Kerry Moxam and she was announced as Miss Earth Jamaica 2011. Jody Shaw was first runner up and Natasha Brown second runner up.
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Kerry Moxam is no stranger to beauty pageants having placed first runner-up in the 2010 Miss Jamaica World Pageant as well as the Beach Beauty winner. She has the distinction of placing 8th at the Miss Intercontinental in 2010.
Kerry is on a path of writing her name in history. This is because Jamaica has never won or place at Miss Earth. She is proud of the opportunity to be an ambassador to Thailand and to sell Jamaica to billions of viewers around the world.
This beauty hails from the parish of St. Elizabeth; she recently completed her degree at the University of the West Indies. This beauty queen without a doubt also has the smarts as she was the proud recipient of a scholarship to study at Hampton High School as well as a scholarship to pursue her first degree in New York. She wants every Jamaican to embrace our environmental responsibility and to support her in her recycling, coastal protection and clean up projects seriously. She is passionate about spreading that message from our schools to the government level; "this is something I am truly passionate about, not because it is what is required but its something I want to do wholeheartedly. I grew up along the coastal shores of St Elizabeth so I know the adverse effects of neglecting and not protecting our beaches"


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Quarterly Report
This quarterly report on Form 10-Q includes our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the thirteen-week period (also referred to as "three months," "three-month period," "quarter," "second quarter" or "quarterly period") that began May 6, 2013, and the twenty-six week period (also referred to as "six months," "six-month period" or "first half") that began February 4, 2013, and which both ended August 4, 2013. This report discusses our results of operations for these periods compared to the fiscal year 2013 thirteen-week period that began April 30, 2012 and the twenty-six week period that began January 30, 2012, which both ended July 29, 2012 and our financial condition as of August 4, 2013 compared to February 4, 2013.
We encourage users of this report to familiarize themselves with all of our recent public filings made with the SEC, especially our 2013 annual report on Form 10-K ("2013 Annual Report") filed with the SEC on April 19, 2013. Our 2013 Annual Report contains critical information regarding known risks and uncertainties that we face, critical accounting policies and information on commitments and contractual obligations that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements, as well as a more thorough and detailed discussion of our corporate strategy and new business initiatives. Our 2013 Annual Report and our other public filings made with the SEC are available at www.sec.gov and at http://investors.hookerfurniture.com.
For financial reporting purposes, we are organized into two operating segments - casegoods furniture and upholstered furniture. Results from our new business initiatives, H Contract and Homeware, are aggregated with the results from our casegoods operating segment. Our upholstery segment includes the Bradington-Young, Sam Moore and Seven Seas upholstery product lines. References in this report to "we," "us," "our," "Hooker," or "the Company" refer to the Hooker Furniture Corporation and our consolidated subsidiaries, unless specifically referring to segment information.
References in this report to:
† the 2014 fiscal year and comparable terminology mean the fiscal year that began February 4, 2013 and will end February 2, 2014; and
† the 2013 fiscal year and comparable terminology mean the fiscal year that began January 30, 2012 and ended February 3, 2013.
Dollar amounts presented in the tables below are in thousands.
Nature of Operations
Hooker Furniture Corporation is a home furnishings marketing and logistics company offering worldwide sourcing of residential casegoods and upholstery, as well as domestically-produced custom leather and fabric-upholstered furniture. We were incorporated in Virginia in 1924 and are ranked among the nation's top 10 largest publicly traded furniture sources, based on 2012 shipments to U.S. retailers, according to a 2013 survey published by Furniture Today, a leading trade publication. We are a key resource for residential wood and metal furniture, commonly referred to as "casegoods," and upholstered furniture. Our major casegoods product categories include home entertainment, home office, accent, dining and bedroom furniture under the Hooker Furniture brand. Our residential upholstered seating companies include Bradington-Young, a specialist in upscale motion and stationary leather furniture, and Sam Moore Furniture, a specialist in upscale occasional chairs, settees, sofas and sectional seating with an emphasis on cover-to-frame customization. An extensive selection of designs and formats, along with finish and cover options, in each of these product categories makes us a comprehensive resource for residential furniture retailers, primarily targeting the upper-medium price range. Our principal customers are retailers of residential home furnishings that are broadly dispersed throughout the United States. Our customers also include home furniture retailers in Canada and in over 20 other countries internationally. Our customers include independent furniture stores, specialty retailers, department stores, catalog and internet merchants, interior designers and national and regional chains.
We launched two new initiatives in fiscal 2014, which are designed to help us reach a broader consumer base: H Contract- which will supply upholstered seating and casegoods to upscale senior living facilities throughout the country and Homeware- featuring customer-assembled, modular upholstered and casegoods products designed for younger and more mobile furniture customers.
Consumer home furnishings purchases are driven by an array of factors, including general economic conditions such as:
† consumer confidence;
† fashion trends;
† availability of consumer credit;
† energy and other commodity prices; and
† housing and mortgage markets;
as well as lifestyle-driven factors such as changes in:
† disposable income;
† household formation and turnover; and
† family size.
Current economic and economic-related factors, such as high unemployment and changing consumer priorities have resulted in a somewhat depressed retail environment for discretionary home furnishings and related purchases since 2008. However, the extended weakness in housing and housing-related industries is beginning to show signs of sustained recovery and mostly positive news on housing and consumer confidence is encouraging.
Our lower overhead, variable-cost import operations have driven our profitability over the last few years and provide us with more flexibility to respond to changing demand by adjusting inventory purchases from suppliers. On the other hand, our import model requires a larger investment in inventory and longer production lead times. In addition, we must constantly evaluate our imported furniture suppliers and transition sourcing among suppliers, often located in different countries or regions, when quality concerns or inflationary pressures diminish the value proposition offered by our current suppliers.
Results for our domestic upholstery operations, which have significantly higher overhead and fixed costs than our import operations, have been particularly affected by the decline in demand for home furnishings and experienced operating losses or low operating profitability since our fiscal 2009 second quarter. Extensive cost reduction efforts over that time have mitigated the effect of the weakness in demand and have resulted in our upholstery segment returning to operating profitability for fiscal 2013 and for the first half of fiscal 2014.
The following are the primary factors that affected our consolidated results of operations for the three and six-month periods ended August 4, 2013:
† Consolidated net sales increased approximately 10% in both periods, primarily due to:
o higher average selling prices in both operating segments both periods;
o increased unit volume in our upholstery segment in both periods; and
† Gross profit increased due to increased sales volume in both segments in both periods, as well as:
o lower cost of goods sold as a percentage of net sales for our casegoods segment, primarily due to decreased warehousing and distribution expense in the fiscal 2014 second quarter; and
o lower domestic manufacturing costs as a percent of net sales in our upholstery segment, due to cost reduction initiatives and improved overhead utilization resulting from increased sales volume in both periods.
† Selling and administrative expenses increased due to increased sales and a variety of other factors, including start-up costs for our H Contract and Homeware divisions; and
† Our upholstery segment reported operating profitability of:
o $834,000 for the fiscal 2014 second quarter compared to an operating loss of $50,000 for the fiscal 2013 second quarter; and
o $1.5 million for the fiscal 2014 first half compared to operating income of $101,000 for the fiscal 2013 first half.
Results of Operations The following table sets forth the percentage relationship to net sales of certain items included in the condensed consolidated statements of income included in this report. Thirteen Weeks Ended Twenty-Six Weeks Ended August 4, July 29, August 4, July 29, 2013 2012 2013 2012 Net sales 100.0 % 100.0 % 100.0 % 100.0 % Cost of sales 76.0 77.6 75.7 78.2 Gross profit 24.0 22.5 24.3 21.8 Selling and administrative expenses 19.2 17.8 19.1 18.0 Operating income 4.8 4.6 5.3 3.8 Other (expense) income, net - 0.1 - 0.1 Income before income taxes 4.7 4.7 5.2 3.8 Income tax expense 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.4 Net income 3.1 2.9 3.4 2.5
Fiscal 2014 Second Quarter Compared to Fiscal 2013 Second Quarter
Net Sales Thirteen Weeks Ended August 4, 2013 July 29, 2012 $ Change % Change % Net Sales % Net Sales Casegoods $ 34,839 63.0 % $ 32,195 64.2 % $ 2,644 8.2 % Upholstery 20,462 37.0 % 17,990 35.8 % $ 2,472 13.7 % Consolidated $ 55,301 100.0 % $ 50,185 100.0 % $ 5,116 10.2 % FY14 Q2 % FY14 Q2 % Increase vs. FY13 Increase vs. FY13 Unit Volume Q2 Average Selling Price Q2 Casegoods 0.0 % Casegoods 7.4 % Upholstery 11.1 % Upholstery 2.2 % Consolidated 3.2 % Consolidated 6.2 %
The increase in consolidated net sales for the fiscal 2014 second quarter was principally due to higher average selling prices in both segments and increased unit volume in our upholstery segment. Higher average selling prices were primarily the result of a shift in the mix of products sold toward some of our higher-priced items in both segments. The higher average selling prices were partially offset by increased discounting in our casegoods segment, due to an effort to decrease levels of slow moving and obsolete inventory. During the fiscal 2014 second quarter, we became more aggressive in reducing our inventories of older, slower moving products to make room for new introductions and best sellers.
Gross Profit Thirteen Weeks Ended August 4, 2013 July 29, 2012 $ Change % Change % Net Sales % Net Sales Casegoods $ 9,148 26.3 % $ 8,126 25.2 % $ 1,022 12.6 % Upholstery 4,109 20.1 % 3,139 17.4 % 970 30.9 % Consolidated $ 13,257 24.0 % $ 11,265 22.5 % $ 1,992 17.7 %
Consolidated gross profit increased in the fiscal 2014 second quarter, as compared to the fiscal 2013 second quarter, primarily due to:
† higher average selling prices in both segments;
† lower cost of goods sold as a percentage of net sales in our casegoods segment due to decreased warehousing and distribution expense; and
† lower domestic upholstery manufacturing costs as a percentage of net sales, due to cost reduction initiatives and improved overhead utilization resulting from increased sales volume, partially offset by higher labor costs to train new production workers in order to meet demand.
Selling and Administrative Expenses Thirteen Weeks Ended August 4, 2013 July 29, 2012 $ Change % Change % Net Sales % Net Sales Casegoods $ 7,342 21.1 % $ 5,754 17.9 % $ 1,588 27.6 % Upholstery 3,275 16.0 % 3,189 17.7 % 86 2.7 % Consolidated $ 10,617 19.2 % $ 8,943 17.8 % $ 1,674 18.7 %
Consolidated selling and administrative expenses increased both in absolute terms and as a percentage of net sales in the fiscal 2014 second quarter compared to the same prior-year period.
Casegoods selling and administrative expenses increased primarily due to:
† start-up costs for our H Contract and Homeware initiatives;
† an increase in bonus expense due to improved earnings performance as compared to the prior-year period;
† an increase in professional service expense due to increased compliance and regulatory costs; and
† increased selling expenses due to increased sales.
Upholstery selling and administrative expenses increased in absolute terms in the fiscal 2014 second quarter compared to the same prior-year period, primarily due to increased commissions due to increased sales, partially offset by decreased samples expense.
Operating Income Thirteen Weeks Ended August 4, 2013 July 29, 2012 $ Change % Change % Net Sales % Net Sales Casegoods $ 1,806 5.2 % $ 2,372 7.4 % $ (566 ) -23.9 % Upholstery 834 4.1 % (50 ) -0.3 % 884 1768.0 % Consolidated $ 2,640 4.8 % $ 2,322 4.6 % $ 318 13.7 %
Consolidated operating profitability increased for the fiscal 2014 second quarter as compared to the same prior-year period, both as a percentage of net sales and in absolute terms due to the factors discussed above, in addition to improved upholstery operating performance. Startup costs of our new initiatives are reported in the Casegoods segment and account for substantially all of the decrease from the prior year, on an absolute basis.


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"Your Heart & my Heart are very, very old Friends" - Hafiz
O r i g i n a l N a i j a ..
This is a journey I hope to embark on with you my lady.
You will see the sights and hear the sounds, experience the movement every time our souls mingle. Do you not feel them? They walk out into the great outdoors and those heavenly bodies, they applaud them for the way that they stir each other. Let us be two, and not one my love: that's another person's recipe for loving. In your magnetic simplicity and subtle complexities, I want all of you. Let me call you Home, just like I felt the day we met.
You know, Khronos watches with the others in the sky, as we stir one another: I pull you into me, and you pull me some more. He finds our mingling befitting to last a little while: Cherished memories for you and I. Let him -Khronos- hold time for us. Have no worries, The man you marry will have you, just not while we walk this walk.. Heaven's still watching us. Your husband will have you some day and this is what I would out rightly promise: if we match each other's work while we have one another, whoever catches you for both love and family, would desire to have you by his side through every lifetime. With me, a spectacular woman is what you would become. You'll leave me, in the least, a gift to the world, and you, I would leave a gift to many lifetimes and changing universes. I cannot make your promises for you… But I want you. (Let's walk on that lane that never seems to end.) Use me ma cherie. Tell me that your love can conquer fear because mine is ready to.
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Summary: Individuals of Haitians descents who have been living in the Dominican Republic since 1929 have been benefiting from the Jus Soli as well as the Jus Sanguinis in the sense they were born in the Republic Dominican and/or at least one of their parent was born Dominican.
Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in Paris on December 12, 1948 argues that everyone is entitled to a nationality and that no one may be arbitrarily deprived of his or her nationality. Starting from this principle, the bottom line up front is that the decision without appeal of the Dominican Constitutional Court to strip thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descents the Dominican nationality is antagonistic to the will of the universally approved act advocating for the respect of human rights throughout the world.
According to the Dominican law relating to nationality, "Is Dominican any individual born on Dominican soil, regardless of national origin of either parent, as long either parent can prove that the child was indeed born in the Dominican Republic. Therefore, such a child acquires his or her nationality on the basis of the Jus Soli (Right of Territory) concept. Again, removing the nationality of individuals of Haitian descents is contrary to any act of common sense.
The Haitian Constitution of 1987 in its article 11 considers Haitians any person born of a Haitian father or a Haitian mother who themselves were born Haitians and have never renounced their nationality at the time of birth. Thus, Haitian nationality is primarily acquired by Jus Sanguinis (Right of the Blood).
Nonetheless, this article is not complete and leaves the door open for a plethora of interpretations. This article would seem to say that wherever Haitians give birth, their progenies are of Haitian origin. Which entails, a Haitian currently living in America who happens to give birth in America; such a child will be "Haitian" in the sense that one of his or her parent is Haitian-born and has not renounced to his or her nationality.
0:00 In the aftermath of the decision of the Dominican Constitutional Court, several men of law both Haitians and internationals went back to the drawing board in order to interpret this decision with the intent to find loopholes that would allow them to answer the following question: The grandchildren of Haitians of 1929; are they Haitians, Dominicans or simply individuals who were only allowed to benefit the Jus Soli of the country in which they were born?
The direct and major impact of this decision is that it creates stateless persons, men without homelands, or people without nationalities; a status contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It had been 84 years since the first wave of Haitians had trod the Dominican soil. This implies that those Haitians, while they were working in the "Batey," as humans beings, coupled between them or, for that matter, with Dominicans; unions from which children were generated and is continuing to be generated.
Their descendants or their progenies thus satisfied the requirement of the Dominican law relating to nationality; they were born there and therefore, they are of Dominican origins, their grand-grandchildren are also of Dominican origins, and they are all enjoying both the Jus Sanguinis and the Jus Soli." Conversely, they are not Haitians by virtue that they were not born in Haiti and because it is assumable their parents were not born Haitians, as provided in article 11 of the constitution in currently place. Given they are now stateless, should they wish to come settle in Haiti, they will be treated as foreigners and subsequently, will be required to reside in Haiti for five consecutive years if they wish to obtain Haitian citizenship as stipulated by article 12.1 of the Constitution of 1987.
Known that Haiti is not economically and geographically ready to accept these hundreds of thousands of stateless persons on its territory and given that no person shall be "without a country," this, in accordance with article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Haitian Government has the responsibility to take the case of the individuals affected by the decision of Dominican Constitutional Court before the UN Refugee Agency to require the enactment of a welcome program through other countries like the United States, the Canada, la France, etc., would grant political asylums and social assistances to these Dominicans of Haitian origins.
Cubans commonly are benefiting from this principle; Cubans who leave Cuba, automatically lose their nationality and never will they be allowed to return to their country of origin. To protect them, the United Nations established the "Cuban Refugee Program;" a program that requires countries receiving Cuban immigrants to grant them access to an array of social service programs like health services, monthly surplus checks, government surplus food, special student loans for college students, etc., until they receive documents that will make them citizens of the countries which accept them.
Should the Dominican government decide to deport or to chase those who today are stripped from their Dominican citizenship, the Haitian government is under no legal obligation to accept them as Haitians because of the simple fact they are were not born in Haiti and that at least one of their parents is Dominican. Contrariwise, they may be accepted as "foreigners" and afterward, after residing for five consecutive years in Haiti, they will be eligible to apply for the Haitian citizenship.


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I Put A Spell On You!
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I saw Screaming Jay live about 35 years ago. He made a grand entrance through the crowd, wearing a purple satin suit with a matching wide-brimmed hat and floor-length cape. He had to be about 6'5" tall, and he was escorted by a gorgeous little Latino lady less than 5' tall, with hair down to the backs of her knees and a mini-skirt that reached nowhere near there. When they reached the stage, she ceremoniously removed his cape, folded it, and strutted off (to appreciative whistles from the crowd) and Jay launched into a graphic rendition of "Constipation Blues". What a riot!
That must have been a treat to see!
The origin of the act is very interesting:
The song starts out with the big-voiced Hawkins singing a ballad to a lost love. Very quickly, however, the performance becomes something unique: Hawkins seems positively demented as he sings, he threatens wildly, screams, grunts and groans, and sounds utterly demonic in reclaiming the lady as his own.
Hawkins had originally intended to record "I Put a Spell on You" as a refined love song, a blues ballad. He reported, however, that the producer "brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk, and we came out with this weird version. I don't even remember making the record. Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death."
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I love that song.
It's been amazingly popular:
"I Put a Spell on You" has been covered dozens of times, perhaps most famously by Nina Simone on the 1965 album I Put A Spell On You, but also by performers such as Natacha Atlas, Audience, Batmobile, Creedence Clearwater Revival (who performed it at Woodstock), Them, Sonique, Arthur Brown, The Animals, Leslie West, Tim Curry, Alan Price (former keyboardist with The Animals), Joe Cocker, Nick Cave, Ray Charles, Bryan Ferry, Marilyn Manson, Eels, Julien Doré, Kim Nalley, Buddy Guy (featuring Carlos Santana), and many others. There is a live performance by Pete Townshend on his Deep End Live! album (with David Gilmour).
Most of the covers treat the song seriously; few attempt to duplicate Hawkins's bravura performance.
Also, it has been sampled in songs by Notorious B.I.G. (Kick In The Door) and by LL Cool J (LL Cool J).
In films, it has been performed (with different lyrics) by Bette Midler in Disney's Halloween movie, Hocus Pocus, of which this version has been used as eixt music for the HalloWishes Halloween-themed fireworks show at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom theme park; while the original version has also been covered by Diamanda Galás, which was featured in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Marilyn Manson's version was featured in David Lynch's Lost Highway as well as television ads for M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. The Creedence Clearwater Revival version was used in Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose. It has been also played in an episode of The Simpsons (I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can) and an episode of The PJ's. It was featured in the movie Stranger Than Paradise. Hawkins performed the song on film in A Rage in Harlem.
The Hawkins version has even become a standard accompaniment for ice skaters, including Michelle Kwan, Alexei Urmanov and the team of Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow.


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Rick Ross and MMG 2012 BET Awards Experience
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Born Shamann Cooke, in Richmond, Virginia's southside Shamann grew up in a household with his four brothers in Chippenham Apartments. Shamann was always creative and had a deep passion for making music after becoming a fan of hip hop pioneers. After spending time honing his skills he quickly rose to local stardom through rapping, dj'ing, and becoming highly sought after for his production. Shamann and a few other local artists formed a company, Close Range Entertainment and their group started making a lot of noise throughout the city which quickly caught the attention of the music industry. Parrish "PMD" Smith of EPMD came across Shamann and saw the potential and invited him to New York to assist in developing his talent. While in New York, Cooke worked with Method Man, Redman, Das Efx, K-Solo, and many more. Parish later introduced Shamann to T.I.'s Grand Hustle knowing that they were a supportive team and would help take his career to the next level. After deciding to stop rapping and focus 100% on producing Shamann took on the moniker Beat Billionaire and began working with the biggest artists in hip hop. After a stint with Grand Hustle Records working with artists such as T.I., Young Dro, Yung LA, Gucci Mane, and more Beat Billionaire signed with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. Beat Billionaire has produced records for the entire MMG roster. He currently has two singles in heavy rotation on radio, "Bag Of Money" ft. Wale, Rick Ross, and Meek Mill along with "Born Stunna" by Birdman ft. Rick Ross. To date he has worked with Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Alley Boy, Cash Out, Pusha T, and Rocko to name a few. Now poised to keep elevating and dominate the clubs and airwaves Beat Billionaire's no nonsense hard work ethics are paying off and the sky's the limit!


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Mitochondrial DNA in Cold Cases
Mitochondrial DNA is found in non nucleated cells, like teeth, hair and bones. It is circular DNA, composed of base pairs. There are only two copies of DNA in nucleated cells, whereas there are hundreds of mtDNA, proving to be a more substantial DNA source than those currently used to find regular DNA. A major benefit of mtDNA is that it degrades very slowly. One major disadvantage to mitochondrial DNA is that all maternal relatives have the same mtDNA profile, meaning that a profile cannot match one individual. However, this is not as big of a problem as it seems, since mtDNA profiles still eliminate over 99% of the population (Melton, 2006) in most cases, and is a good method of ruling out suspects. It is also useful when suspects have been long dead (common in old cases), allowing certain family members to provide samples for mtDNA profiling.
DNA profiles are mostly obtained by electrophoresis. There are two main types of electrophoresis, gel and capillary. In both, the DNA is cut in to lots of fragments using a restriction enzyme. Gel electrophoresis involves the injection of the sample in to a well on a gel plate, submerged in a buffer solution. A current is run through the gel, moving the DNA with it through a series of mesh-like layers.
A band appears when lots of fragments of DNA can not fit through the 'mesh', while smaller fragments keep moving. The gel plates are treated to make the bands visible under normal light. This is what is then used to make a comparison between suspect profiles and evidence profiles.
Capillary electrophoresis is similar to gel, but fragments are separated in a capillary, not a gel plate, and separated based on charge, rather than size. Capillary electrophoresis is faster than gel, however only one sample, plus a 'standard' DNA ladder can be run per capillary, compared to the several that gel can handle.
PCR is used to make millions of replicates of DNA,without affecting the original copy. In some cases only a few skin cells are needed to start the reaction. Cold case DNA usually requires special treatment, low copy number (LCN). This method detects the same ten regions of DNA, plus a gender marker, that SGM+ does, however the PCR stage uses 34 cycles, to make sure that there is enough DNA to work with efficiently.
Each PCR cycle doubles the amount of DNA. Due to the high risk of contamination when performing LCN, duplicate tests are carried out whenever possible, to ensure that no contamination has occurred. Only if two tests return the same DNA profile can it be said that sample was not contaminated. In 2007 a review, and the suspension, of the use of LCN was carried out by recommendation of a judge. LCN use continued in 2008, after the review found that it was still a very reliable method of obtaining a profile.
Melton, T. (2006) Mitochondrial DNA Examination of Cold Case Crime Scene Hairs. Forensic Magazine. [Online]. Available at: http://www.forensicmag.com/article/mitochondrial-dna-examination-cold-case-crime-scene-hairs?page=0,0 (Accessed: 29th October 2011).
Forensic Science Service (2005) DNA Low Copy Number. Available at: http://www.forensic.gov.uk/pdf/company/foi/publication-scheme/communications/DNA_Low_Copy_Number_000.pdf (Accessed: 29th October 2011).
Image 1 is taken from the Wikipedia page for mitochondrial DNA.
Image 2 is taken from http://zacksprojects.blogspot.co.uk/2009_08_01_archive.html


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- Christian Howardson
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Religion and Atheism
Here's my take on an "Atheism 2.0" - all quotes are for emphasis:
Imagine a continuum; on the left side is a 100% conviction that a god(s)/afterlife do not exist, and on the right is a 100% conviction that a god(s)/afterlife is real. In the middle of this continuum, 0%, is a conviction that a lack OR presence of a god(s)/afterlife are on equal terms.
Believe in a god(s)/afterlife? If so, where do you think he (it?) resides on the above mentioned continuum? Why? As a point of reference, where do you think the existance of the toothfairy falls on this continuum?
Now, while my own personal opinion might be that the existence of a god(s) and/or afterlife (especially the one depicted in any of the three desert dogmas) are of extremely low odds (say, 99% for does not exist) and are not worth adopting as real, the important thing is that I am not absolutist in my point of view, because it is unprovable, even if only technically unprovable (ya can't bring back evidence of nothingness, can you?).
In my opinion, the "thoughtform" of the future is one were people do not claim an absolutist stance on impossible to prove concepts such as these. Arguing whether a god does or does not exist is pointless. Fighting over which god is or isn't a true god only leads to war. It's possible that the most humble and honest position is one of uncertainty. Imagine if everyone would just concede that they really just didn't know...might be a lot more peaceful world.
Also, the terms "atheist" and "believer" should probably be removed from our vocabulary. Not only have these terms been evacuated of any substantive meaning, but they've become words regularly used to express contempt or ridicule, which makes people defensive, and basically blocks any hope for open communication regarding the greatest mysteries of the universe.
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Jan 26 2012: Well, if we are talking about the abrahamic religions, we must examine the "holy books" that they are based in. With all books of the bible (old testament, new testament, and the book of mormon), each having hundreds of contradictions, inconsistencies, logical fallacies, and flat out lies, we MUST assume that the religion is 100% false, since every assertion that they claim can be disproved. Are any of them based on the existence of a "real" supernatural being that was just so inept that it was unable to communicate its message to humanity in any meaningful way? I would have to put my vote at about the -99.999% area. As for any other religion, I think odds are that they are just as fallacious. After all, if any were the "perfect word of their god", they would actually be able to stand up to scrutiny. Since none have ever produced any evidence that they are valid, we can only assume that there has never been a valid religion. Does that mean there are no supernatural being that are in "existence"? Well, no, but then, as you point out, there is no way to prove a negative. But, since there is no evidence of their existence, we can only assume that they fall into the category of the invisible pink unicorn. There is no reason to believe any crazy hypothesis without having at least same evidence to it's validity and only as long as there is no evidence contradicting its validity.
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Does One Thing Very Well: Chef'n Strawberry Huller
We're normally quite adamant about avoiding unitaskers (hello Yonanas!). But from time to time there are exceptions. Strawberry hullers fall into the same camp as cherry pitters: yes, they only do one thing. But they do it so well — if there's room in the tool drawer to sneak one in we will. And if you're getting a strawberry huller, then this Chef'n model is by far the best buy.
There are so many recipes and amazing summery dishes that call for strawberries — sometimes a lot of strawberries. One of my least favorite tasks is cutting off the stems, because it takes quite a bit of time. While it can often be a mind-numbing, almost relaxing, task, sometimes I just want to get the job done quickly.
Of course the strawberry huller is not a tool for everyone. Those with tiny kitchens and those who avoid unitaskers at all costs will pass on by. But this time of year, I think it's super handy. It saves me a good deal of time when removing the stems and tops from strawberries and that is A-OK with me!
This model from Chef'n is fun to use, too. Press the push button and the pointed end of the huller opens up into a claw that grabs the top of the strawberry. It hulls each berry neatly, cleanly, and efficiently, leaving much more fruit behind than when we slice the top out with a paring knife. Its simple design makes it extremely easy to use and it's even dishwasher safe.
Besides its easy time-saving merits, it's also a handy tool for using strawberries in creative ways. I came across a cute recipe for strawberry cups on The Fresh Fridge. Core the strawberries with the huller and fill them with homemade whipped cream and top with blueberries! It's a fun, festive and summery treat that will definitely be a crowd pleaser.
• Find it: Chef'n Strawberry Huller, $7.95 at Williams-Sonoma
Where are you at on the strawberry huller (and for that matter, the cherry/olive pitter)? Do they earn a place in your tool drawer? Or do you stick to paring knives and pastry tips?
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@serendipitwaddle it also removes the centre portion of the berry, making it hollow - as opposed to just stem-less.
I have one of these from OXO (maybe?) that was under $5. It's tiny, inexpensive and useful so I'm a fan.
It would probably work on tomatoes, too.
But so does a paring knife.
Huh. Interesting.
Why exactly would one wish to throw up the center of a strawberry on a regular basis? Regular enough to justify this in the kitchen, anyway?
(Also... maybe I just have a dirty mind, but that looks more like a toy than like a kitchen tool. Anyway.)
Ros I like the way you thing ;)
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I love love love this tool. I used it recently to hull 6 pints of strawberries for jam. Definitely worth the small investment.
i use a tomato shark for tomatoes and strawberries. it's small, precise, efficient, and cheap.
Interesting that it leaves more fruit behind than using a paring knife. I'd think that you'd have more control with a knife. I don't usually slice the tops off my strawberries - I stick my knife into the top of the strawberry straight down and right next to the calyx/hull, then guide the knife around the fruit. This also stems and cores at the same time. I think it's pretty quick, though the strawberry huller is probably a bit faster. But even though I prep flats and flats of strawberries, I'm not sure I'm going to get one.
My cherry pitter, however, is a godsend. I never used to can or freeze cherries until I got one. And it's great for cooking with olives too.
I have one and love it, especially great for travel- TSA doesn't seem to mind it in carry on for plane snack.
I use a tomato shark and it works very quickly I just scoop around the hull and pull it out and it removes the stem and hull and my dog loves eating the little strawberry pieces attached to the stem to.
I have the cheapie OXO version too. It's awesome! I don't much care for unitaskers normally---but I LOVE my strawberry huller.
I have a paring knife. I might consider a cherry pitter if I was going through an inordinate amount of cherries or olives, but a strawberry huller? C'mon!
Wow, it seems as though everyone is just slicing the tops off of their strawberries? I pull the leaves off the top of the strawberry, sink a paring knife into the white part at an angle, and twist the berry around until you've cut a circle/cone, and then pop out the middle with the knife. Same exact result as the unitasker and once you know how to do it, probably just as fast.
I have yet to meet someone, however, who can remove a cherry pit from a cherry with just a knife without cutting the cherry in half. So in my mind, cherry pitters are justified, but strawberry hullers? Not so much.
I pull off the stem/leaves by hand and then use a large star piping tip to take out the hull. I think that's an old Alton Brown trick. Not a fan of unitaskers either.
My mother had a serrated knife with a little flip on the pointed end. Perfect for taking off the top of a strawberry, you just stick it in and run it around that base of the stem but it won't slice through the flesh on the sides. I can see how this would work well with mass amounts of berries, your wrist would get sore with the knife. Still, I think I'll stick to the knife for now, even if it is kind of a unitasker in it's own way.
Hmm, could just be the photo but that looks like a pretty big hole out of the top to me.
When I worked in food service I also liked the Tomato Shark for strawberries. Since I'm not big on unitaskers (dual tasker?) for my home kitchen, I don't have one of my own. These days I use a table knife: slide in the blunt tip at an angle next to the hull, then press on the hull with your thumb and pull the knife straight up. Much faster and removes less fruit than a paring knife. A teaspoon works too but that removes a little more of the berry.


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LOHAN bloodhound unleashes solar-powered minitracker
just a thought
I would have thought you chaps would have contacted the soon to be launched UK astronaut Major Tim to lob a paper plane toward earth (perhaps containing one of these trackers and Reg logo wing chevrons) from the ISS and perhaps write a column for the Reg on his antics and wether or not a paper aircrafts low mass/high drag would slow it enough on re-entry not to burn up.
Seems like a perfect fit to me, just sayin...
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Re: Kept sectret from the public, or from the target government ?
Well if its the UK you can be guaranteed our lords and masters just bent over and said "sure... just ram it right on in there".
Spineless bastards the lot of them.
iPhone 6 FEELS your heat, wetness... and it'll TELL Apple – report
Re: GPS is FAR more accurate at altitude
"I'm not saying a barometer is utterly useless, but there are plenty of features that could be added to smartphones that 1% of people will find useful, but if you want the Swiss Army Knife of smartphones that includes a bunch of niche features just for the hell of it, you buy a Samsung Galaxy, not an iPhone."
That's because everyone is fixated on altitude. There is another use for barometers - weather prediction, combine barometer, moisture and temperature gizmos and weather is the obvious answer.
Add to the above that Apple will then be able to collate a HUGE realtime database collected from its customers devices it can then sell to third parties to make even more monies off of its users like weather services etc and its a no brainer.
Apple pedometer patent filing cranks up the iWatch rumor mill
Re: Article title caused serious WTF moment.
yeah they screw up a lot of words, mostly its amusing though.
I always giggle when asking an american where they're from, to which they reply "i'm a merkin".
or the classic george w bush "i am proud to be a merkin" which he seemed to state with alarming regularity. probably the most honest words he ever uttered.
schoolyard humor perhaps but bloody hilarious when you consider the growing number of signs appearing across the states demanding that english be proclaimed the official language and anyone who doesn't speak it should go home.
BuzzGasm: 9 Incredible Things You Never Knew About PLIERS!
slow news day huh?
US judge Koh won't ban old Samsung gear, tells Apple: Your patents aren't that amazing
shame we cant post images here - oh well have a link instead, it sums up the whole apple/samsung bruhaha in my eyes.
Apple throws sueball at China's patent office over Siri clone
Apple didn't invent siri they bought it outright from siri inc in 2010.
Your argument is still valid but lets not add to the confusion by intimating that apple actually "invents" stuff ;-)
Re: The term Quixotic comes to mind
court sees that firm 1 was granted patent years prior to firm 2 complaining awards victory to firm 1 = seems fair to me.
unlike certain rulings dealt out by American courts concerning disputes between American and foreign firms.
Re: The term Quixotic comes to mind
Riddle me this-
If the Chinese firms patent is so dissimilar to siri then why is apple trying to have it declared invalid? if they aren't similar then it shouldn't matter to apple, right? because even if apple were taken to court over siri based on this patent the case would fail as the differences should stand out on their own merit, correct?
Why then is apple apparantly so worried?
Re: The term Quixotic comes to mind
"Then again, this might be just to earn time. The idea of having to stop selling iPhones must be driving them nuts. Or to pay the troll."
You read the article right? Apple IS the troll here, the Chinese firm patented the software YEARS before apple created/patented siri.
This just shows Apples regard for patents - they are nothing but a revenue stream via lawsuit, if they have a patent they'll sue you, if they don't have a patent they'll sue you anyway and if you're the one with the patent, guess what? they'll sue you. God forbid you make anything with rounded corners....
Who's the troll again?
NYPD dons Google tech specs: Part man. Part machine. All Glasshole
30 shades of nsa
really? nobody picked up on this lovely little snippet?
"....suspects and OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR REVIEW LATER."
but besides the orwellian nature of that somewhat scarey thought, whats to stop someone getting a UV QR code facial tattoo that causes glass to open a large 3d vr text layer covering said face stating something like "F@ck off you nosey b@st@rd"? or causes glass to download and run malware? would be invisible under normal circumstances (except under black light) but the camera on google glass would see it and process it just fine.
Verizon: Us throttling AWS and Netflix? Not likely
Re: Jumped too quickly?
well that's a sticky point. to you and me they may seem to be throttling, however if they define what they are doing under another name then they can say in all honesty that they are not "throttling" but rather "screwing the pooch*". it is businesspeak, kind of like newspeak but more corporate.
*well they can call it whatever they want but that fits.
Apple: That 'white screen of death' nightmare? We'll fix it... AT SOME POINT
this is apple we're talking about.
these issues aren't "bugs" they're "performance art" for which no doubt they will soon start to charge for.
Is that you, HAL? No, it's NEIL: Google, US Navy pour money into 'associative' AI brain
Using the internet to find its images and associations though i grant that it offers an enormous amount of content is a mistake.
It'll quickly learn that everything in the universe is associated with tits. doesn't matter what word you put in a search engine there'll be porn on the 1st results page, admitedly google has gotten a lot better since it put its safe search filters in place but it is still by no means perfect and any others I've ever tried seem to be as bad as google was previously.
The first sentient observation made by man made artificial intelligence? rule #34
The first sentient descision made by a man made artificial intelligence based on its observations? All battle grade endoskeletons should be disguised as Sasha Grey not Arnie.
The resistance won't stand a chance.
Brit ISPs ordered to add more movie-streaming websites to block list
"Under UK law, the rights-owner can apply to have a website blocked provided it can persuade a judge the evidence is strong enough. Lord Justice Arnold agreed the sites have the effect of making unauthorised stuff available."
How long till Google gets stiffed then?
Hypersonic MEGA METEOR pulled from lake, then Russians drop it
New Jersey? since when was that in Russia?
Huawei CTO insists: 'We are not a threat to UK and US national security'
I wonder...
has anyone considered that the reason the US and UK govs dislike Huawei gear is that its tech so simple they cant use their high tech spy gear to steal the packets straight from the switch?
"no no no dont use that nasty Huawei switch... use this nice shiney Cisco one, its much safer...... honest"
because lets face it, ALL our tech is made in China.
you dont see them banning the use of iphones do you?
and since you cant do big business in China without at least a pretend nod to the commie party i will bet that the Foxconn plants have ties exactly like Huawei
or how about Netgear, D-Link,Cisco etc? theres more to this than meets the eye
400 million Chinese people can't speak Chinese: Official
they speak chinese just fine, just not the state sponsored dialect
sensationalism much?
Oh noes! New 'CRISIS DISASTER' at Fukushima! Oh wait, it's nothing. Again
"It's not global news. It's not national news. It would barely even be local news, in a sane world."
in a world where "news" consists of who is wearing what handbag with what dress and who has the most stupid looking rat/dog contained within said handbag I'll gladly accept this story as news, if only for the break in fashionista fake famewhore tedium about some useless tart that passes for "news" these days
Green German gov battles to keep fossil powerplants running
its common sense really
seems like they should use the "green" energy to drive a turbine, pump water up to a reservoir, then when the power is needed they can let the water flow back down into a lower reservoir and the turbine then generates electricity for the grid, thats one way to "store" the energy on such a scale and by providing power when needed as opposed to when the wind blows then the fossil fuels people are happy as they dont have to switch off and on and the greens arent selectively monopolising the grid.
just a thought
Magnets too slow for disk writes? Use lasers
Re: LASER not laser
applying for a RIM job, or applying for a rim job, 2 completely different things which should never be confused or you could end up very embarrassed
20 injured at LG phone giveaway as PR stunt turns into freetard riot
Re: "This Video Is Private"
makes a change from "this content is unavailable in your country" which is the usual reg fair
(last i checked Northern Ireland is still part of the UK and the UK is where theregister is based but whatever)
i dont even try watching the vids on this site anymore
Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons
Re: Intelligence!
dont forget how doctors can use it to contact clinics and map outbreaks, request aid, order meds etc.
Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit shuts down under gag order
"I don't think any critical thinking person can believe that the US is a democracy anymore."
it never was - it was/is a constitutional republic, the greatest smokescreen in history was the governments achievement of having its people believe it was a democracy
Apple patents laser, incandescent projector for laptops, smartphones
Re: It doesn't have to be new for Apple to call it new
"not terribly bright"
should fit right in with the apply crowd then
Barbie paints Red Planet pink with NASA-approved Mars Explorer doll
Re: Well...
heh - that comment made me have images of someone chewing on barbies, om nom nom lol
the backpack is obviously for carrying around her tiny rat like dog in comfort, why would she need an air supply? as an obvious airhead of such calibre she would probably carry enough oxygen/nitrogen mix in her cranium to last the entire mission.
barbie as a young girls role model = LOL
Boston U claims LED patent, files against tech giants
Re: misleading - and should be thrown out of court
i feel the MANUFACTURERS who are abusing the patents should pay - not the suckers who bought the components in good faith
your argument is astoundingly simplistic - should you then be sued for using devices which contain LEDs? because thats where your argument is leading
misleading - and should be thrown out of court
it seems that the "patents" are for processes involved in the manufacture of modern LEDs not LEDs themselves.
since the LED was invented by some russian bloke in the 1920s and was first mass produced by General Electric in the 1960s they might have a difficult time proving patents on the objects themselves.
in my opinion these suits should be thrown out of court as they should be aimed at the manufacturers of the LEDs as opposed to those using them - apple etc are using an item based upon many sources of prior art, the manufacturers are those making the LEDS using the processes claimed in the patent suit.
Vulcan? Not on our tiny balls. Pluto moons named Kerberos, Styx
pretty obvious really
the name "Vulcan" as in the ancient god and not a pointy eared prat with silly eyebrows, is already taken in astronomy circles.
urbain le verrier called his hypothetical planet between the sun and mercury vulcan, and though it is now proven not to exist there is a very good chance of a ring of asteroids in that orbit, reffered to as vulcanoid asteroids. anyone want to guess what these would be called on discovery? heres a clue... vulcan1, vulcan2, vulcan3....
(they are hypothetical but there is eveidence to support the claim, they are however extremely hard to find as the area they would inhabit suffers from serious light pollution from the sun making telescope observation difficult)
besides as the god of fire and volcanos it would hardly be a fitting name for a little rock out in the coldest boondocks of our solar system.
SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix
Re: Oh you gotta be kidding....
FUD? not so much...
"Microsoft funding of SCO controversy
On March 4, 2004, a leaked SCO internal e-mail detailed how Microsoft had raised up to $106 million via the BayStar referral and other means. Blake Stowell of SCO confirmed the memo was real. BayStar claimed the deal was suggested by Microsoft, but that no money for it came directly from them. In addition to the Baystar involvement, Microsoft paid SCO $6M (USD) in May 2003 for a license to "Unix and Unix-related patents", despite the lack of Unix-related patents owned by SCO. This deal was widely seen in the press as a boost to SCO's finances which would help SCO with its lawsuit against IBM"
(from wikipedia - cause i knew it had happened but couldnt remember when etc)
BBC boffins ponder abstruse Ikea-style way of transmitting telly
so in other words, your mobile device downloads 1 gigabit of data just so it can get at the 150 megabits of data it actually needs and discards the rest
good show BBC, way to support the phone companies in their ongoing battle to cap and charge the masses.
First Cook, now Intel bigwig pokes Google in the eye over Glass
the formfactor
the control interface
the electronics squeezed into such a small package
your glossing over the tech innovations and trying to say its just some apps? you dont happen to work in cupertino do you by any chance?
glass... its something new and innovative (thats enough for a stagnant apple to hate it right there) though it does kinda make the user look retarded and i see at best limited uptake in its present form, it will spur further innovation as other companies vie for market share in both final products and components (and yes that will include graphics hardware).
apple and intel bitching about it? well that sounds like...
apple trying to downplay a new technology until they can catch up with a competing device - then sue because they were so obviously into it before anyone else
intel then jumping on the bandwagon and bouncing around Cooks feet like a little lost puppy thats starved for love in the vain hopes that apple will then use their tech (atom processors)
sour grapes all around
and even though glass looks like crap atm - lets not forget that what we have seen so far are DEVELOPMENT versions, not final "lets get this shit on store shelves" versions but test units. a lot can (and i bet will) change before final release.
oh and intel complaining about graphics performance? lol the irony
Judge: Evidence will likely show Apple DID fix ebook prices
Re: "she did stress that her view wasn't final"
really i gotta wonder how much apple "donated" to the judges favorite charity of choice for her to say this?
a) judgement goes apples way - nothing more said.
b) judgement goes against apple - thrown out of court on appeal due to non-impartial judge using this statement as proof.
apple lawers must be happily jerkin themselves into a right frothy mess over this one
James Bond inspires US bill to require smart guns for all
Re: gets my goat
"regulars" = full time soldiers
"regulated" = under control of law
both terms meant the same thing then as they do now
regulated militia being controlled by state government to oppose any abuse by federal government or interference with the states right to establish its own rule of law and and to offset a standing regular army (which at the time was seen as a means to suppress the people and the various states)
in fact to form an UNREGULATED militia would have been seen as treason and what we now call a terrorist action
Re: gets my goat
actually im rather well versed in english thanks since my lot invented it, i just dont waste time on capitalisation and punctuation in meaningless post threads
the wording in the second amendment is quite clear given the language of the time - militias, not individuals
that the NRA can buy a judge makes no difference to either the intent of said amendment or the morality of those who chose to twist it (consider that it took them till 2008 to do so, only 217 years after all)
btw you made me giggle a little with your "free country" rant, i chose to believe that was an ironic statement because it would just be too sad otherwise
here in the UK we have the magna carta and the bill of rights, so yeah, i dont need yer cheap knock offs thanks.
gets my goat
second amendment rights?
wonder how many downvotes ill get for this....
but frankly - bollocks
there is nothing in the US constitution or bill of rights that states that an "individual" has the right to keep or bear arms - nothing - not one word.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
the "people" referred to in that are those defined by "well regulated militia"
are you a legal member of a militia, funded, organised and operated by a state government?
if the answer to that question is no, then hell no you aint got no "right" to keep or bear arms unless the state decides to license you to do so. that is called a privilege not a right.
dont get me wrong, im all for guns, with proper and sane controls in place (background checks, mental health checks, mandatory gun safety courses prior to licensing, mandatory storage in a locked gun cabinet when not in use, safety lock to prevent discharge by children etc) but all this "second amendment rights" crap is nothing more than a load of twisted bull put forward by paranoid asshats.
What freetard are you: Justified, transgressor or just honest?
not really sure
i download shows that i have missed on live UK tv but i do pay a tv license - not really sure where that leaves me on their freetard scale
i have also in the past downloaded various pieces of software - the trial releases are so hampered that its pointless using them, there's no way you can find out if a product will suit your needs if the reason you want it is only available in the full versions, its just stupid - if said pirated versions suited my needs i then bought a legitimate copy, if not then i moved on to a product that did. where on the scale does this then leave me?
frankly i'm all for piracy with the caveat that it is done to test the software and a full copy is then bought if the software is suitable, i am not however for piracy just to steal software - if the developers dont get paid then where is the incentive for them to release new products?
music on the other hand i couldn't give a damn about, since sales don't go to the artists but to the producers and the artists get stiffed anyway, i don't download or buy it either way.
World Web Consortium warms HTML bed for forced DRM snuggle
Re: The problems it causes.
i agree with your post wholeheartedly however i must point out that:
"4a) No Free Software can implement DRM, since if I have the ability to compile and run the source, I can intercept the decoded data"
is wrong.
free software can and indeed does in many cases implement DRM, there is a world of difference between free software which can be closed source, and open source software,
even open source software can implement DRM, sure you can read the source code, which will allow you to understand how the DRM is implemented even the code for the DRM module itself - however its the hash it uses that counts, be it a supplied hash that will allow the use of secondary software or media or your own hash for media or software you create for use with the program. the DRM module will just check hashes and can be open source for the world to see, it carries out a very basic function, the hashes themselves are another matter.
'Quantum network? We've had one for years,' says Los Alamos
Re: Buy stocks in aluminum!
nah mate, the truth is that TPTB started the tinfoil hat rumour specifically so they could gain greater control - the thought that it acts like a faraday cage is false (it would have to totally enclose the head for that to work, since your neck is in the way thats not really gonna happen) as it is in fact open at the front and base this means it collects radio waves and in fact focuses them to a central point ( your brain), think parabolic antenna.
true a subject wearing a tinfoil hat would be partially shielded from behind, but from just about every other angle they will be concentrating the nefarious mind control/reading/dumbing rays.
yay science
disclaimer: the author of this post does not admit to belief in these various conspiracy theories so those black helicopters can stop following me now please. however the author of this post does admit that this information is useful for annoying the shit out of holier than thou whackjobs who think theyre "special" and "enlightened" and use the term "sheeple" a lot.
Impoverished net user slams 'disgusting' quid-a-day hack
Re: Eh?
you realise they can get free internet access in libraries right?
i was homeless myself for a number of months and was lucky to end up eating even as well as the person concerned and yet i had daily free internet access in various libraries. such free access was in fact pivotal to me getting back on my feet with a job and a place to live.
just because you have never had to stoop so low as to use something does not mean that it does not exist.
to berate someone without knowing their situation - and indeed to go so far as to try and force your own fantastical delusion as to what their life might be like upon them is farcical at best. you sir are a twat.
as for the story that started it all, yes, for those of us who have been there it is more than in bad taste. it is in fact the most deluded piece of crap ive ever read on this site and that is saying something, the daily mirror probably has better taste and empathy.
BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army
BT privatised in 1984
sip patents range from 1999 onwards
Guess who PC-slaying tablets are killing next? Keyboard biz Logitech
its not the tablet business thats killing logitech, its logitechs overinflated prices and rapidly diminishing quality thats doing the nasty for them.
customers just arent stupid enough to pay £80 for a keyboard and £120 for a mouse when they can buy from a lesser known brand a direct equivelant of higher quality build with better materials for £30 or less (total for both peripherals)
cry me a river logitech, i'll use it for kayaking thanks :)
Sord drawn: The story of the M5 micro
cue sepia tone and hovis music
brings back memories - i had one of these in the cgl branded form as a nipper
enjoyed it immensely
the thing that sticks in my mind the most though was the tapedeck, when the tape needed swapped/turned over or the data ended before it should have, it often spoke in the sexiest female voice telling you what the issue was and what to do. a most pleasurable experience after sitting through 25 minutes of modem type noise
Move over, Mythbusters: Was Archimedes an ancient STEVE JOBS?
Re: Uh... No.
thanks - the drones here all just gave me funny looks for laughing for no apparent reason
Re: Uh... No.
they are
"Archimedes is also said to have devised a giant crossbow of some sort, to further harry the Roman fleet."
that would be a ballista then... as invented by dionysus
Dubai splurges on 700hp, 217mph Lamborghini police cruiser
not exactly a fair comparison
i notice you compared it to the BMW 5 series that the UK plods use, however they have also been using both Lotus esprits and elans for the past decade - many of the UK police forces use lotus's for high speed motorway chase cars, hell they even have em in northern ireland. while not exactly in OTT supercar territory its still a closer comparison, but i guess it doesnt make as good a story when the gap in performance isn't quite as high as you'd lead us to believe.
Top Firefox OS bloke flames Opera for WebKit surrender
Re: bah
@shaolin cookie
that is something i havent tried - didnt think that would even matter since ipv6 is disabled in network settings.
at this point though i'll give it a try, anything to get rid of chrome and have firefox back.
thanks for the suggestion.
mozilla should fix the memory problems (i assume its memory problems though it could be how it interfaces with the plugins container as stopping that in task manager often stops the lock-up) with firefox before bitching about others choice in browser engine.
im now forced to use chrome (which i hate) because firefox is unstable, and that instability has been getting worse for at least the last 3-4 full revisions. i was a supporter of firefox for years but i dont have time to wait for firefoxs random 5 min lock-ups.
and before people bitch that its my choice of browser plugins - i have tried it on fresh installs of win7 (x86 and x64) and fresh firefox installs with NO plugins. its worse on the x64 systems though it happens on both. and it occurs on pages with minimal content (ie the google home page) or loaded up with heavy flash content.
i hope they fix it soon cause id be back to firefox in a heartbeat.
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Posted on 17. Oct, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
Exploring some of the lingo of Generation Z on Facebook. Generation Z is the common name for the group of people born between 1990s and present day. For a while now, people have documented that their actions, attitudes and movements carve the future for digital media. Still trying to hold onto my youth, I often [...]
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Google Buys Frommers to Increase Searches via Knowledge Graph
Posted on 13. Aug, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
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Posted on 21. Mar, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
BBC One's The Apprentice is back for its eighth series and we cannot wait. We're getting involved in the drama socially with a 'pin it to win it' Pinterest board. Using your apprentice and business acumen, study the candidates, their attributes, and decide who you think will win the chance to be Lord Sugar's apprentice. [...]
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Squitters Have Olympic Usernames Squatted Until 2048
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
A look at how Twitter squatters (or squitters) have Olympic usernames squatted until 2048. I love the forward thinking minds of digital. Many live their lives by the motto: "if you're not fast you're last" It's a good motto to follow. I have to confess a bad habbit; whenever I hear of a new television [...]
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Google+ Notifications to Include External Citations
Posted on 07. Feb, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
Monitoring is big business. Brands want to know who said what, where and why. There are hundreds of tools, especially in the social field, that are more than capable of providing great insight into as said. At the same time, search marketing specialists are keen to know when a website is linked to. Out with [...]
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WebRTC Could Improve Empathy in Social Media
Posted on 30. Jan, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
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Will Google Adopt Prizes.org Rewards as Aardvark Becomes Fruitful with "Ask on Google+"?
Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
Imagine a Google where you were rewarded for your engagement with your circles, more specifically, what websites you referred your circles too or questions you helped them answer. Aardvark helps users "Ask on Google+" but Prizes.org has all the ingredients to introduce loyalty – an incentive to socialise. Late last week, people started reporting that [...]
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Optimising Avatars and Logotypes for Search & Social
Posted on 20. Jan, 2012 by Michael Thomson.
Google and Facebook are the most visited websites in the world, according to Alexa [1]. They both present the opportunity to brand your digital operation with avatars in Google Search, Plus Your World and Facebook's Wall, but are you optimising your avatar to its best ability, and how do logotypes influence the process? Owned media [...]
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Google Places will merge with Google+
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by Michael Thomson.
With 50 million places [1], and 4 million places claimed [2], it's only a matter of time until Google Places merges with Google+. I love Google Places. Integrated with AdWords, Places enables swanky Ad Extensions, transforming local and paid marketing into an exciting channel. It pains me to say it though, but Google Places has [...]
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Ear to the Ground Trends: Tablets, Fingerless Gloves, Shavers & More
Posted on 06. Dec, 2011 by Michael Thomson.
An ear to the ground assessment of trends, including touchscreen mobile phones impact on fingerless gloves, shaving in a financial crisis, travel toiletries, and more importantly, the tablet revolution. It's winter, it's cold, you've gloves and hat on, standing waiting for the bus. The bus is late so you turn to your touchscreen mobile, iPhone [...]