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Report: The Last Guardian release date could be announced soonWritten by: / / 7 Comments
We're not going to revisit the tumultuous history of The Last Guardian, an epic-looking adventure game from the creators of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus… but we will say that we've so far been very disappointed by the distinct lack of the game's existence in a state that we can actually play.
According to respected Japanese game magazine Famitsu, however, Sony is looking to announce more news and a release date for The Last Guardian soon.
DualShockers reports that in a weekly edition of Famitsu, and in an article titled 'The Truth on 2014′s Rumors,' Famitsu editors received a comment from Sony Computer Entertainment regarding the state of The Last Guardian, confirming that the company is looking for a good opportunity to re-announce the game:
"In addition to that Sony also specified that if development continues as planned new information and a release date could be coming soon," the DualShockers report reads.
We've been waiting for The Last Guardian to reappear in the public sphere ever since its original announcement in 2009 – since then, all we've had to enjoy were a series of screenshots and promises (which you can follow along with in El33tonline's previous coverage of the game).
Irrespective of the game's release date (which has supposedly be on the way for over a year), which platform do you think The Last Guardian will eventually show up on? If you think the game is dead you would be mistaken, but the PlayStation 3 version may very well have been abandoned in favour of a PlayStation 4 version.
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Well, I've *begun* quite a few books out of a sense of duty, but I almost always finish them. Many past experiences have taught me that if a book has become well established as a classic, sticking with it usually pays off. New books with a lot of buzz are another story. I just couldn't get into Alex Ross's And the Rest Is Noise; but all my friends were talking about it, so I plowed through to the bitter end. It took me so long that by the time I finished, nobody was talking about it anymore!
Are there contemporary books that anyone has read out of duty? A best seller or widely praised book that everyone seems to be talking about?
Reading out of duty
Posted 01 May 2009 - 02:47 PM
Posted 01 May 2009 - 03:49 PM
You reminded me that this is on my Started but not Finished shelf.
I just couldn't get into Alex Ross's And the Rest Is Noise; but all my friends were talking about it, so I plowed through to the bitter end. It took me so long that by the time I finished, nobody was talking about it anymore!
It's one of those books that I enjoy reading out of chapter order. Skimming though my pencil underlings, I find that I seem to have begun with composers and movements that I actually know something about. My book mark has gathered dust at "Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties," which probably says more about me than it does about Ross.
Gathering dust on my New from Amazon shelf is the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote (all 940 pages). I've never been able to finish this classic. I can't even enjoy the Don Q ballet plot, possibly because it brings up memories of my failures with the original.
Posted 01 May 2009 - 09:05 PM
However, we both have the fondest memories of a summer replete with bed bugs, cutter ants (their bites made me miserable), poison toads, and Montezuma's Revenge. There's nothing like new love.
Posted 02 May 2009 - 06:27 AM
Indeed. And it feels even better without the nonstop, nagging accompaniment of Great Literature.
There's nothing like new love.
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Posted 02 May 2009 - 12:17 PM
An very interesting thought. I'm not one who enjoys fantasy fiction. I HAVE, on the other hand, loved a number of books about Cervantes, his period, the historical context, etc. Maybe your friend is right. Vagansmom, how about you?
I have a friend whose favourite books are Don Quixote and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Maybe DQ (which I've never read) requires a fantasy novel mind-set?
Posted 02 May 2009 - 02:15 PM
New books with a lot of buzz are another story. I just couldn't get into Alex Ross's And the Rest Is Noise; but all my friends were talking about it, so I plowed through to the bitter end. It took me so long that by the time I finished, nobody was talking about it anymore!
Often as not the 'buzz' is skillful marketing as opposed to real word-of-mouth. And the Rest is Noise is one of those books I've been meaning to get to, etc. Ross is a pretty good writer and it's one of those books that I would expect to like. What made it so hard to get through?
I couldn't make it through The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen when it seemed everyone was talking about it.
I know that certain members won't read any book I suggest except for the first few cursory pages, and I often do the same with one member's choices.
The politics of book clubs are an interesting subject. (I tried joining two, and dropped out quickly. In both cases the selections were much as you describe.)
Posted 02 May 2009 - 04:45 PM
The book is actually very well done. I think the problem for me is that it covers such a wide range of 20th century composers.. I just was not famililar with -- or attracted by -- the work of a number of them.
Ross is a pretty good writer and it's one of those books that I would expect to like. What made it so hard to get through?
Later, however, I learned that Ross has an "audio guide" to much of the music mentioned in the book. This was actually wonderfully interesting and useful. I confess, however, that I used it more for reminders of music that I already knew, rather than as an intro to music I did not know or had not enjoyed when I first heard it long ago.
Posted 02 May 2009 - 04:57 PM
Unlike you, Bart, I do love the ballet Don Quixote, but I think that's because my daughter danced it. However, I do like fantasy in dance a whole lot!
Posted 02 May 2009 - 06:13 PM
dirac, I guess part of my problem getting through Ross's book is that he can sound like a college student trying to prove he's a Writer, with Something Important to Say. He's clearly gifted, but the attitude is exhausting. (He's gotten much better in his column in recent years; though I still miss Andrew Porter every week.)
Posted 03 May 2009 - 10:31 AM
I also remember some big name in letters (George Steiner?) admitting somewhere that he couldn't swear to having read absolutely all of it. So I think you're all in good company. (Personally, I've never even tried to read DQ.)
I can't get very far with it either, and don't have future plans to try. Steiner comes up with all sorts of surprises, as in his book on Heidegger, or some weird ejaculation like 'the SCANDALOUS fact that EVERYONE has to die!'. Hilarious, that one. Just to add that Martin Amis's essay on the maddening aspect of 'Don Q' (may have mentiioned this before) is another example of what is obviously the case--lots of people having to plow their ways through it. Since that's true of a lot of 'duty books', as with Proust and Joyce, and others, I decided I couldn't live without Recherches nor Ulysses, but could live without Don Q, but also without Finnegan's Wake. I must be able to live without 'Moby Dick' to, because I got stuck in the first 50 pages in high school, and never went back to it. Realizing as I write this that it never has anything to do with intrinsic worth, since there really is not enough time to read all of the Great Books-I don't think even Susan Sontag managed, and she had already gotten a good start at U. of Chicago. maybe Harold Bloom, I don't know.
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Posted 03 May 2009 - 02:21 PM
Me too. But you can still read his opera reviews from London if you can get your hands on a copy of the Times Literary Supplement.
[ ... ] I still miss Andrew Porter every week.
Posted 03 May 2009 - 02:26 PM
Ach, Don Quixote! That's one I could never wade through either. When I first met my husband, he was a student at St. John's College, and Don Q. was required reading that summer. He and I embarked on a summer of hitchhiking through Central America, and I tried valiantly to read that book, hoping that spending time in Spanish-speaking countries would provide the right atmosphere, but to no avail. I hated it. My husband finished the book, but retains no fond memories of it. It was bitter medicine.
However, we both have the fondest memories of a summer replete with bed bugs, cutter ants (their bites made me miserable), poison toads, and Montezuma's Revenge. There's nothing like new love.
I think up until the mid 1950s, educated people in England might have been expected to have read Cervantes Don Quixote. It was considered to be the first modern novel and superior to most others. It took me the best part of a year to read in the 60s. I still love the memory of the reading of this great novel but doubt I could read it again. Later when I read about his extraordinary life I felt more attached to the man himself.
Being most interested in the development of ballet, another reason to love this novel is that even before Petipas 1869 production it had spawned 6 previous ballet productions the first by Franz Hilverding in 1740 who was from 1758 introduced ballet daction to St.Petersburg and developed the technique of the Imperial dancers. Don Quixote also inspired Charles Didelot perhaps the real creator of Russian Ballet who staged his version in St Petersburg 1808. Considering the number of published versions of Don Quixote available from antiquarian auctions around Europe published in the 17th and 18th century it is fair to say that its influence upon the development of the novel in Europe was extraordinary.
I think perhaps the general speed at which we receive new novels in the last 50 years and the way in which they are written and consume them, has had an affect on me at least, in respect of reading novels of the past with extensive exposition. I once enjoyed the highly influential Joseph Conrad but cannot imagine returning to read him again.
Posted 03 May 2009 - 02:58 PM
My husband completed the 100 Great Books - the 1970's list anyway. But it was required reading - he went to St. John's College which is the Great Books program. I haven't checked the list in years, but I'm assuming it's changed a little bit over the years, perhaps adding another female author or two?
Well, the 100 Great Books is still not going to include everything great, not by a long shot, although I think reading everytning on the list is an extraordinary accomplishment. Good for your husband, I certainly haven't done it (nor particularly want to, although I wish I could say I had...)
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Jacqueline "Jackie" M. Carter, 77, died Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012 at Trinity Manor Nursing Home in Dodge City. She was born Oct. 29, 1935 in East Meadow, New York, the daughter of John and Mary (Maerz) Jehle.
She married Wilmer "Will" Carter Nov. 9, 1952 in East Meadow, New York. He preceded her in death April 30, 2000. She worked at Kirby Meat in Dodge City for several years before retiring. She also served as mayor of Ensign for a few years.
Carter was a member of the Ensign United Methodist Church and a Ladies Bowling League.
Carter is survived by two sons, David Carter of Ensign and Mark Carter of Protection; one sister, Elizabeth Meade of Long Island, New York; eight grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and one son, John.
Graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 at the Ensign Cemetery with Rev. Dick Robbins presiding. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 at Swaim Funeral Home in Dodge City. Memorials are suggested to the Jackie Carter Memorial Fund in care of the funeral home. Thoughts and memories may be shared in the online guest book at www.swaimfuneralhome.com.
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That page shows off the NEMBA work and really sells that BB is a Mtn bike destination. I get that they are concerned about rogue trails as they should be, but they need to know they are preaching to the choir by *****ing at SNH Nemba. It seems like someone was in a pissy mood and felt like lashing out at the only "visible" presence they could get at.
What I think would be helpful is to have NEMBAfest come back to BB and really make sure it's generating massive revenue for the area. Invite the local restaurants and shops to have booths as well as the rolling circus tents from the manufacturers. With a large income from an established event that is lining the state's pocket every year, then we will have a lot more leverage. Cause as the saying goes, money talks and BS walks...
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My impression is that ales are typically best drunk within a couple weeks of brew day. It's my experience that letting them age in the bottles for 2-3 months yields the best beer, both improving body, head, and desirable flavours, and reducing estery flavours. Could there be something I'm doing wrong to make the beer mature too slowly?
You are doing absolutely nothing wrong. Many people are far too quick to drink their precious homebrew and most beers benefit a lot from aging. A few months for ales and simple lagers.
Beers with a high ABV should be aged much longer. I make a Chimay Grand Cru clone that I typically don't try for 4-6 months. Aging remove a lot of the "hot" taste from high alcohol beers and mellows them.
I think all of the BS from the megalager companies (Miller, Bud, etc) about "fresh beer" have given people the impression that a three week old beer is ready. Oh, you can drink it. It's just not at its best. I let bog-standard 5% ABV ales go at least six weeks before drinking. 1-2-3 Method.
Beer is about patience and many folks don't know how good their beer could be with a few extra weeks in a cool, dark cellar or closet. Mind you, I am not advocating you let a 5% Wit age for a year. It will lose a lot. But a month or two after bottling (or kegging) is a good idea. Rule of thumb is for me, the higher the ABV, the longer the aging.
Follow your instincts, Nick. You've discovered one of the most easily overlooked secrets of homebrewing all on your own. Kudos.
There could be a few things going on:
There's a common homebrewing joke that the best beer in a batch is the last remaining bottle. And it's somewhat true -- yes, you can drink that beer just a week or two after bottling, but if kept in a cool, dark place the beer should continue to develop (and hopefully improve) for quite a while.
Not all beer matures at the same rate, and not all beer drinkers have the same tastes. For some examples, I like to drink really hoppy beers while they're fairly young and the hops are still vibrant. An altbier I'll cold condition for a couple months. Something like a tripel I prefer with maybe a month or 2 of age on it. The best thing to do is experiment to find out how YOU like your beers.
You are doing nothing wrong at all. That is the beer, that is the culture, that is the code. It simply takes time. On Christmas day I have drunk my first imperial pilsner - it was stored for 1 year and the taste was delicious! The body was so smooth and great, nice head. One of the best beers from my production I have ever drunk. You just have to be patient and have some bottles for "sample tastes" - taste them after month, two, three and you will know when is the best time to drink it or give it to friends.
All big industry breweries are bottling it after 2-3 weeks after brewing, so no surprise it tastes like crap.
Give it a time and you will be surprised how sometimes potentially bad beer can become one of the best after some time.
However some beer styles needs to be drank fresh - witbier, weizen, some pale ales.
My first batch (if you ignore my efforts some 30 years ago) was put down in Nov 2011 and bottled in Dec; it consisted of a Cooper's Pale Ale + another 2 lbs of LME. The aroma during bottling was quite promising, but the first bottle sampled some 7-10 days later was... disappointing. But, I did tell myself to keep expectations low. Friends told me it was pretty good, so maybe I was just being too critical.
I had another bottle of it last night, and it definitely seemed nicer, which has been the general trend of impressions (myself, my wife, my friends) since that first bottle. That's about 5 weeks in the bottle.
Also check out this link; scroll down to the discussion under Maturing. Perhaps an extreme example, but helpful nonetheless: http://homebrewandbeer.com/howtobrew.html
That said, I've read that if you go the keggle route, the "best before" date seems to be 60 days after kegging. I'm unclear as to why this is.


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SHERMAN, TX - Summer vacation is over for many children in Texas and Oklahoma. Abby Powell is here to highlight that first day of school for some Texoma students.
We spent the morning at Neblett Elementary in Sherman to get a look at how the first day of school is going and some advice that will help in making it a productive, fun school year.
As many local students begin the school year today, children and parents have a mixture of emotions. Some children are experiencing their first day of school ever, while some have a few years already under their belt, like Jordan Gossett.
"I'm going into sixth grade," he said.
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Another issue that everyone should be aware of when returning to the classroom is the importance of not only being a good student, but also being a nice, polite friend to others.


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Can I add Ubuntu 12.10 repositories to 12.04 to have the latest software and updates? If, yes, how can i do this? I know that by adding PPAs I can have latest software, but really, I do not like to use PPAs. So is there any way to use 12.10 repositories in 12.04?
If you want you can add them in
If you wanted to have an upgraded version of some apps only (and wanted to remove the 12.10 repos after doing that), then I strongly advice you not to do that. Because upgrading to an updated version will/can put your system forward and after removing the 12.10 repos, you'll face numerous problems with dependency from the non-upgraded packages.
You can add other repositories, including for future and past versions of Ubuntu, to your
However, this is not recommended. Ubuntu does not do testing of packages across versions and you are very likely to encounter undocumented conflicts and errors if you do this. If you want to mix and match repositories I would recommend starting with debian testing as your base OS and then adding Ubuntu or other distros' repositories on top of that.


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Teen girls placed on house arrest
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STEUBENVILLE — Two teenagers who allegedly made threats to the victim in the Steubenville High School rape case were released under house arrest after the girls made appearances Wednesday before......
DogLoverBR: Who is repeating lies about what happened to her??? I haven't heard any and I don't think anyone would need to lie considering how horrible the truth is. The girl was sexually assaulted by more than one boy and humiliated by many others because of the photos. The next time one of these boys pass out from drinking too much, someone should use a broom handle on them and take some pictures just for fun. How would you like that? If the boys can assault the girl, let them experience the pain and humiliation that she feels.
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shouldnt others have been tried and convicted as co conspirators.This was a premeditated crime,meant to humiliate and abuse the victim for dumping her boyfriend.He set it all in motion by asking his friends to carry out his evil wishes.He should be held as a co conspirator,but I understand he got off in some back room negotiations,which is why the public is so outraged by what is happening in that town.I agree that the Parents of these abusers should be apoligizing for the actions of their sons rather then condoning their despicable deeds.
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As for the lowlife with the disgusting name...what does the community have to apologize for? The boys and the parents did apologize in court but why would people in the community with absolutely no connection with the case have to apologize about to anyone? Has the media apologized to the victim for running this story nonstop and showing her picture every five minutes? Her home? Repeating lies about what happened to her,making it worse than it actually was? How about releasing her name? Her parents name? Insisting the trial be public when that was not her wish? Maybe some in the community do owe her an apology for being so obsessed with this case that she can't move on or heal in private. But it is mostly out of town people that won't let it go and let her move on...yes, she is owed THAT more than a trip to Disneyland.
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Michael...maybe if you actually took the time to read you would know they were discussing the girls NOT the boys! You would also be aware of certain Ohio law specifications for prosecuting minors as adults. The minors in this case did not fall under those guidelines. The law is the law. It has been explained before but the only thing people read or remember is what they want to and that is usually not facts. Especially when rumors and speculation is much more juicy!
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I still want to know why these kids were not charged as adults, and how in the name of God, did they ONLY get a 1 year and 2 year sentence? I know plenty of people who recieved more for 1st time drug possession charges. @Johnson2616 yes, they do deserve that? IF not that, they at least deserve to be in adult prison, no early release for at LEAST 4 years. I mean, they were convicted of RAPE. Plain and simple.
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Again we see leniency on a serious crime by a Steubenville Judge. He should have turned this case over to the specially appointed retired judge from Summit County. She would have left those two felons in juvenile detention until their trial. The government leadership like Judge Kerr in Steubenville just doesn't get it - Rape is Rape, and anyone involved in any aspect of this criminal case needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Wow bendtheboysover, what would you suggest, sending them to Rikers Island or Sing Sing in New York? Remember, this was a pre-trial hearing, not a sentencing so your "slap on the wrist" remark is premature and uncalled for.
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One more question. Have any of the boys' parents or these girls' parents ever apologized to the victim's family for the deviant behavior of their sons or for the threats their daughters made? Wouldn't that be a sensible thing to do to start the healing process?
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What has the community done to apologize and assist the victim and her family? Has anyone offered them a trip to Disneyland? Has anyone written letters of apology? Has anyone done anything to say "we feel your pain and understand your grief but the victim has nothing to be ashamed of." The boys, on the other hand, have much to be ashamed of and I wonder what they have done to apologize and demonstrate they understand what they did wrong.
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The 2 teenagers are charged with one felony and 2 misdemeanors and yet they get home detention. Sounds like a slap on the wrist.
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Let $A$ be a $2\times2$ matrix with real entries such that $A^2=0$.Find the determinant of $I+A$ where $I$ denotes the identity matrix. I proceed in this way :Note that $(I+A)A=A+A^2 \Longrightarrow (I+A)A=A$ (Since $A^2=0$).
Now taking determinant both side we get $|(I+A)A| = |A| \Longrightarrow |(I+A)|\cdot|A|=|A|\Longrightarrow |I+A|=1$.
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SMOLESKI, Annette, 94, of Niceville, FL, formerly of Weirton, passed away Dec. 8, 2012.
Born on Nov. 13, 1918, in Yorkville, OH, she was a devoted Catholic all of her long life.
Annette was preceded in death by her parents, Michael and Antoinette Zagula; and two brothers, Chester and Sigmund, as well as a great-grandson.
Annette Smoleski is survived by brother, Frank (Barb) Zagula of New Cumberland, WV and two loving daughters: Kathy Moore and husband, Ron Moore of Cairo, GA, and Toni Hammet and husband, Ben Hay Hammet Jr. of Destin, FL. Annette also is survived by nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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Geneseo senior Bridget Dunn interned between semesters at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of David Price, National Museum of Natural History)
GENESEO, N.Y. - Bridget Dunn was amazed at the seamless coordination of effort among the scientists and staff at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., one of 19 museums administered by the Smithsonian and the most visited. Dunn, a senior anthropology major at the State University of New York at Geneseo from Marcellus, N.Y., spent three weeks between semesters as an intern at the museum. She did everything from update documents in the invertebrate zoology department to getting a close-up view of the mummy vault containing specimens from Egypt, Peru and other countries. The museum contains more than 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks and human cultural artifacts.
"The most interesting aspect of working there was discovering the great amount of activity and coordination involved in preparing the numerous displays," said Dunn. "The staff and scientists were all very friendly and supportive and encouraged my input. The experience helped me clarify how I want to be involved in the museum field. It was a tremendous networking opportunity."
Dunn has a keen interest in cultural resource management, the practice of managing cultural resources such as the arts and heritage, and she is considering graduate programs in either museum studies or archeology. Her interest grew in the field when she began volunteering in her hometown at the Marcellus Historical Society. She also spent a semester in a study abroad program in the Netherlands.
"Whether it's a town historical society or major national museum, the purpose is to connect the public to our history," said Dunn. "It's important to know where we came from to get a better idea of where we can go."
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Just ran through some tests and came up with these settings - figured I would post in case it helps anyone. (Also: feel free to double-check/validate these settings!)
Lower rail: 6.2 (measured at the tip of the longer "toe," pointing inward toward the base)
Upper rail settings by lens/focal length (measured at the tripod screw mark):
Nikon 28mm f/1.8G: 9.0
Nikon 50mm f/1.8G: 5.8
Nikon 16-35mm f/4G
@16mm: 14.4
@20mm: 13.8
@24mm: 13.7
@28mm: 13.7
@35mm: 14.1
Nikon 24-120 f/4G
@24mm: 11.3
@28mm: 11.0
@35mm: 10.5
@50mm: 9.6
@70mm: 8.0
@85mm: 7.0 (?)
@120mm: 6.5 (?)


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I have successfully built both
libfreenect (driver for Xbox Kinect) and
libusb (which is a dependency).
However, if I try to open the Kinect using the
freenect_init(...) function, it returns
I tracked down the error to the funtion
libusb_init(...) which is returning this error,
As I use a minified custom kernel configuration (version: 2.6.37) I think I missed to enable an important config option. Kernel config is available on pastebin.com.
The Kinect gets successfully recognized (reported in dmesg including correct product/vendor information).
Does anyone has an idea how to get rid of this error?
After setting the
LIBUSB_DEBUG environment variable to
3 I got the following message:
[op_init] could not find usbfs


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In Modern warfare 3, is the Juggernaut in support pointstreak package only for defensive, IE you can't shoot or attack? I got it briefly but that's what it looked like it only was for, but wanted to verify....
No; you can attack, but obviously less effectively than the Assault Juggernaut. The Riot Shield has a melee attack (bashing), and you also get a USP .45 pistol as a secondary weapon.
The shield is mostly useful for defending (say, a control point), but if you get a couple of team mates to follow you, you can also provide an nigh-invincible distraction and cover for an offensive front.
The Support Juggernaut also has it's own portable radar that goes with it wherever it goes. This is something the Assault Juggernaut does not have. The Support variant is aimed at helping the team, hence why it has a riot shield and a portable radar equipped. The pistol isn't as useful but it can get one or two enemies out of the way at a time. If you and a number of your team mates have Assassin Pro equipped, the Support Juggernaut can become a big threat to the enemy team, because even if your team gets EMP'd or a Counter UAV from the enemy team is put up in the air you can still see enemies not using Assassin because you never lose your radar.


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Has anyone done a Mediterranean cruise? If so, what is the best time to go during the year? We are thinking either May or September.
I try to provide a general-applicable answer to this broad questions:
From April to November you will have the widest selection of cruise ships. End of October the holiday season in Europe comes to an end and a lot of small cruise lines and tourist locations in the whole Mediterranean sea just shut down. Note that a few cruise lines operate in the Mediterranean year round. So cruise ships will be available nevertheless during the winter. From June to August it is the high season. Prices are the highest then.
The temperatures during the summer can really be very hot. It is not uncommon to reach almost 40 degrees even on the ocean. On the other hand, in winter the temperatures are sometimes so low that you can go outside without a jacket and you can't really enjoy the sea. So the best time based on the temperatures is in the spring and autumn.


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I feel like the blur is not natural. Looks like it was Gaussian Blurred with the couple as the center. What do you guys think?
The bokeh behind the couple looks normal, the sides seem to have had a gaussian blur applied to give a fake tilt shift effect.
The telling factor is the highlights. The light coming from the windows is much brighter and ought to have a sharp cutoff when rendered out of focus. Gaussian blur gives a soft edge to such highlights.
edit: reading the text of the image, the photographer states that this was created as a "bokeh panorama" (otherwise known as a panorama) hence the apparent shallow depth of field. This doesnt quite wash as there are elements of the background that are the same distance as the couple and hence ought to be in focus.
My guess is now that the photographer took a tele shot of the couple and a wide shot of the surround and blurred the latter to match, the blur in the corners just doesn't look like lens blur to me.
I don't think either field curvature or a T/S lens could reasonably account for what I'm seeing here. A T/S lens can change the orientation of the plane that's in focus, but you still get a plane. Field curvature can warp that so it's no longer planar, but it still defines a virtual "surface" that's focused.
If we look at the floor (for one example) a few feet to the left or right of the couple, there's simply no transition from out of focus to in-focus to back out of focus. Perhaps a comparison would be in order:
This shows a distinct line across the floor that's in focus. With field curvature, that line would be curved instead of straight. With a T/S lens, it could be an an angle instead of perpendicular to the camera. The subject picture has nothing of the sort -- no ling across the floor that comes into focus at all, straight or curved.
I suppose if you wanted to badly enough, a combination of extreme tilt with field curvature and focus stacking could almost produce this effect. You'd basically have to tilt the lens so much the focus plane would normally be almost parallel to the floor, but have a lens with lots of field curvature. You'd then do a stack, moving your focus from slightly above the floor up toward the head of the couple.
Offhand, the only lens I know of that would even be sort of close to producing that amount of field curvature would be the old, long-since discontinue Minolta VFC (variable field curvature) macro. With one of those on a T/S mount in front of something like a u4/3rds, I suppose you might be able to at least get sort of close. Even then, of course, Matt Grum's point about the windows would still stand though.
I think this was achieved with the "Brenizer method".
You can always tell if blur was added in photoshop by trying to find the plane of focus. Look at the couple, everything in front of them and to the sides is OOF. To get that kind of effect w/o post processing you'd have to somehow throw the plane of focus in an extremely weird way. Optics don't work like that, even with a technical camera.
This could be achieved without "fake blur" by shooting a series of photos with focus point bracketing and combining them, picking chosen areas focused and chosen out of focus a'la hand-made HDR (except picking focus instead of contrast ).
Is this is the case here... doubtful.


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I just bought some grape must - it's a must on spinach salad! I am thinking of turning some of my own homemade concord grape juice into the same. Any advice, other than to reduce by slow boiling? Can I can the results in a hot water bath? Will the acid level change by reducing the liquid?
Based on the wikipedia article, it sounds like you want the pulp and skin as well. It sounds like you won't get the same texture, consistency or sweetness by only reducing grape juice.
However, I found this cool how-to page on how to make grape must jelly. I think the hand-crushing grapes part will be the most relevant to you.
You could use some kind of pressing machine, such as an OJ squeezer, to get the same effect without red hands. I'd stay away from blenders and puree machines, as cutting foods doesn't have the same effect as crushing them.
I don't think I've had grape must, so you'll have to be the judge on how much or how little of the pulp goes into your final product.
When grapes are pressed for wine, the results of the first gentle pressing go into the wine. "Grape must" is the second, more violent pressing, which may include adding a little water to get the "virtues" out. The must has a range of uses. The French convert the best must into a brandy-like distilled drink called "marc", which is rarely exported.
A lot of the Italian grape must goes into a condiment described as "aceto balsamico di Modena IGP" - it is not the true "balsamic vinegar that chefs love, and in my local "German supermarket" three varieties are sold, red, white and brown. Tell me that the brown color owes more to caramel than to balsam, and I will believe you. Whatever, the stuff is no substitute for "real" balsamic vinegar, but if you want to make a salad dressing it works well when involved with mustard and olive oil. I think that's what you've discovered.
More of the Italian grape must goes into fizzy wine-like stuff called Lambrusco. If Lambrusco gets above 9.5% alcohol, it has been made from grape juice. Below that, it usually is mostly fermented must that has been mucked about with to give a product of acceptable taste, and is usually about 5.5% alcohol.
I'm not saying what the Germans do with it beyond asking if you've ever tried Asbach brandy? That's the good stuff, it gets worse.
That's about as much as I must know.
A postscript - the point I was making is that the must is the second pressing juice. What I didn't mention clearly is that the concentrated must is formed in the same way that fruit juices are concentrated for transport, in large industrial plants fitted with pumps etc. to exclude the air.


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Can I get your feedback on the best tools to build an auction website with the following features:
- The site takes a commission (like 5%) on each transaction
- Each user can assign a rating (like 4.5 stars) to his completed transaction,
and comment on the seller's profile.
- Accept payments in paypal and credit card
I've been looking into Joomla! and JomSocial but they haven't convinced me much so far.
I have some programming experience in C, Python and Java. If no CMS tools are of use I'd appreaciate if you could tell the best route to take in programming to get the auction site done.


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A surreal number $\{x_L\|x_R\} \in No$ is a number when for all $\xi\in x_L$ and all $\eta \in x_R$ we have $\eta > \xi$. All the things $\{x_L\|x_R\}$ which are not of that form are called "pseudo-numbers" and usually ignored (except in certain game-theoretic applications).
- Is it possible (in an algebraic, analytic or topological sense) to make sense of these pseudo-numbers ?
- Can one obtain a "filling of the gaps" of $No$ by extending $No$ with pseudo-numbers ?
- Is there research in which the pseudo numbers are studied ?
- When you study $\mathbb{A}^{1,an}_{No}$ as the set of (bounded, non-archimedean) seminorms on $No[T]]$, is there a connection between pseudonumbers and the set $\mathbb{A}^{1,an}_{No} - No$, also known as the "hyperbolic space" $\mathbb{H}^{1,an}_{No}$ among those who a acquainted with the Berkovich terminology ?


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The First Tuesday in August
The next scheduled National Nite Out is Tuesday, August 2, 2016. National Night Out is designed to:
National Night Out Registration Form
How do we start our own National Night Out Celebration?
Getting a National Night Out program off the ground is not that difficult. Before beginning, get yourself a notebook. Here, you will record names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of everyone you deal with while planning your event. This will help keep you organized.
Form a NNO Planning Committee:
Even the simplest event requires some planning. The easiest way to get off to a great start is to meet with interested neighbors. You should schedule your first meeting about 8 week before the event. Remember that the NNO celebration is always held the first Tuesday in August.
Some things to discuss at the planning meeting:
Recruit Volunteers:
NNO works best when community members share the work!
Location for National Night Out:
Set Up Activities and Events:
Once you have chosen the activities for your event you should draw a diagram of the area where the event is being held. Pencil in where the activities are going to be held.
Activity ideas for all ages:
Event ideas:
Promote, Promote, Promote:
Your hard work will have been wasted if no one shows up. Promote early and promote often. Local newspapers, radio stations, and flyers around town are some ideas to help get the word out. In your community you can use a message board, pass out flyers, use a "calling tree", community website, and community newsletter. Get the kids involved by making posters and yard signs to post within the community.
Getting to know your neighbors:
The use of name tags is a great way to get to know your neighbors. Display photos of past block parties and activities you have held in the community. Create a neighborhood directory which includes name, address, phone number, email address, and special talents/hobbies.
National Association of Town Watch
If you would like more information on the National Night Out Program please contact Officer J.E. Frisk by email:


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Given that some software nowadays is so powerful you can easily stitch images together for a really wide view (either with panorama mode on camera or something like photoshop), is there still a point in bring ultra wide angle lenses on a trip?
Great question. A little over a year ago, I bought an ultra-wide (10-24mm f/3.5) lens with an eye toward landscape shots and quickly saw that generally, I can stitch images taken on a longer lens and produce more satisfactory panoramas. So, as you ask, what's the point of an ultra-wide?
Well, to answer it, the best approach is probably to discuss what an ultra-wide does, so you can decide how to make it work for you. I'll include a couple examples - not the best examples of my best work, but that will make my point.
First, an ultra-wide gets LOTS of stuff onto the same size sensor. This is why it fails for panoramas, and was never an excellent choice for them. It doesn't actually produce a bigger picture - it just makes stuff smaller.
Second, it tends to distort so that things on the edges look much bigger than they really are, proportionately to how the other things look. The wider the angle, the more this is true. Things in the middle tend to look normal, things on the edges, not so much.
Thirdly, it tends to exaggerate proportions. Whatever I want in the foreground, I have to get real up close to - like, within INCHES - everything else looks miles away. This is why it can fit big things in up close.
If you just want a panorama, then don't bother with the wide-angle. In my experience, the distortion means cropping and photoshopping and you end up with an image that captures just a bit more than a longer lens (say 24mm or 35mm), so what was the point?
But if you want to be able to get cool architectural features or interesting shots, then on vacation or anywhere, bring your ultra-wide.
I squeezed in a frigate from about 5 meters:
In this example, I am able to squeeze the whole church in (the tower is about 200 ft tall) by zooming way out to 10 mm and sitting inches from the family. Dad didn't think I could possibly get all of them in, let alone the church.
Because of the distortion, it isn't great for standard portraiture, but can be great for fun shots, like this one:
And cool special effects with the sky and clouds:
You can do things with a wide angle that can't be done with photo stitching. This photograph could not have been stitched; whilst I had time to take a few shots, I would never have had the chance to stitch it together.
Also the wide angle has a distortion effect, and this can be used for its specific composition effect and to draw attention to something in the foreground. The much greater depth of field it offers gives many advantages; candid photography and landscape scenes, for example.
If there is anything moving in the shot, then there isn't a substitute for a good wide angle lens. In addition, the difference in angle of the lens is going to result in a characteristically different feel from multiple shots at a longer focal length than a wide angle lens would have given on it's own unless you use a specially built mount that can rotate the camera body while keeping the center of the front element in the same location and then adjust for distortion caused by the lens.
There is also the simple time consideration that taking one shot with a wide angle doesn't require stitching and a wide angle lens really doesn't take up that much room, even for something like an L series lens.
For distant scenery, you are right you can stitch.
About point 1: it is possible to do a mathematically correct job. You need a linear lens, and the stitcher has to know the angles at which the pictures were taken so it can do the backward projection and then transform it into the perspective of the virtual viewer, and then resample to the combined wide angle picture. Take Google Streetview for instance. They take pictures with lenses that are mounted at 90 degrees, and the must also be a particular type of lens. The pictures then just have to be projected on the inside of a virtual cube, and then from there the cube is rendered, thereby resampling the pictures to re-create the view from the original perspective. Stitching would be used only to smooth out any minor artifacts in the overlap, not to do any major warping.
About point 2: you could shoot multiple view simultaneously with multiple cameras. Again, Google Streetview does exactly that. So at any one point in the data, you can look around 360 degrees (as well as up and down) and it's all consistent.
photo stitching is a useful skill that all photographers but it is not viable for most plants, animals, people, or cars. it does however have a use for landscapes and time progression photography
If you're doing 360 Virtual Tours, you need BOTH wide-angle lens and stitching.
I use a 180-degree fisheye lens on a full-frame camera, then stitch the photos together to create a 360-degrees panorama.
You can do this with a less wide lens, but it will be so tiresome and error-prone.


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Shoulder exercises
The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that attach to the bones of the shoulder joint, allowing the shoulder to move and keeping it stable.
The tendons of the rotator cuff pass underneath a bony area on their way to attaching to the top of the arm bone. These tendons join together to form a cuff that surrounds the shoulder joint. This helps keep the joint stable and allows the arm bone to move on the shoulder bone.
Injury to these tendons may result in:
These injuries often lead to pain, weakness, and stiffness when you use your shoulder. A key part in your recovery is doing exercises to make the muscles and tendons in your joint stronger and more flexible.
Your doctor may refer you to a physical therapist to treat your rotator cuff. A physical therapist is trained to help improve your ability to do the activities you want.
Before treating you, a doctor or therapist will evaluate your body mechanics. The therapist may:
After testing and examining you, your doctor or physical therapist will know which muscles are weak or too tight. You will then start a program to stretch your muscles and make them stronger.
The goal is for you to function as well as possible with little or no pain. To do this, your physical therapist will:
Before doing exercises at home, ask your doctor or physical therapist to make sure you are doing them properly. If you have pain during or after an exercise, you may need to change the way you are doing the exercise.
Most exercises for your shoulder either stretch or strengthen (make stronger) the muscles and tendons of your shoulder joint.
Exercises to stretch your shoulder include:
Exercises to strengthen your shoulder:
Matsen FA III, Fehringer EV, Lippitt SB, et al. Rotator cuff. In: Rockwood CA, Matsen FA III, Wirth MA, et al., eds. The Shoulder. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2009: chap 17.
O'Brien MJ, Leggin BG, Williams GR. Rotator cuff tendinopathies and tears: surgery and therapy. In: Skirven TM, Osterman AL, Fedorczyk JM, Amadio PC, eds. Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2011: chap 88.


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November 19, 2012
Jessica Mason, an alumna of New York University's Silver School of Social Work, has been named a Marshall Scholar for 2013. As a Marshall Scholar, she will pursue two consecutive Master's degrees in the UK – first the MSc in Global Politics at the London School of Economics, and then the MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford.
The Marshall Commission names up to 40 Marshall Scholars from the US each year. Marshall Scholars receive full funding for one or two years of graduate study in the UK. Applicants compete in one of eight geographic regions. Mason competed and won in the New York region, which includes the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the Fairfield County section of Connecticut.
Mason was a double major in Social Work and History. Among many recognitions during college, she was named a Catherine B. Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship, and won the grand prize in the Ashoka/Youth Venture "Be a Changemaker" challenge; both of those awards recognized her work on housing initiatives for homeless youth.
After her graduation in 2010 – at which she served as the all-University commencement speaker – Mason directed relief efforts for an international NGO in Haiti and was later a fellow with the Global Poverty Project. She currently works at YouTube/Google, concentrating on communications and policies regarding free expression.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
NYUToday-feature, Alumni, Reynolds Foundation, Students, Undergraduate, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
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Is there a possibility to load .adf files to Quantum GIS?
Arcinfo .adf files can be raster or vector.
Try Quantum's Add Vector Layer, select source types of Directory and ArcInfo Binary Coverage, and then select the directory containing the .adf files. There will be second dialog asking which sub-layers to add; coverages are a composite datatype that can contain any combination of points, lines, polygons, and annotation.
You can also add the .adf file directly, without choosing the directory type, but then you don't get to choose which geometry to load.
For background info see Arcinfo Binary Grid format and Arcinfo Binary Coverage format pages.


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More Debate Over the Need for Alt-Golf
'Hack Golf' is the latest effort to bring in new players
Orlando, Fla.
The kickoff event at this year's PGA Merchandise Show was a slick, TED-like presentation in a hotel ballroom that drew about 1,000 people.
The topic, not uncommon at PGA Shows, was how to reverse the slow decline in the number of golfers. The core concept was that since nothing industry insiders come up with ever works, it's time to "hack" golf.
How? By using social media and other means to crowdsource new ideas, no matter how crazy. Then, experiment with the most promising. The term "hack" refers not to how most golfers make their way around the course, but to the idea of bringing in outsiders and listening to their fresh ideas.
Funding for the initiative, Hack Golf (hackgolf.org), comes primarily from TaylorMade, the industry's largest equipment maker. Like the 1,000 other exhibitors and 40,000 attendees at the PGA Show, the company is desperate for more golfers to buy its products and services.
It's hard not to wonder why, year after year, similarly well-thought-out initiatives, many based on the work of high-price management- consulting firms, have largely failed to have much impact.
One possibility is that golf always will be a niche sport, incapable of growing as the shareholders of highflying manufacturers demand. David Fay, the former executive director of the U.S. Golf Association, dared to suggest as much from the stage Wednesday at the State of the Industry Forum. "The industry got bamboozled," he said.
In his view, the hype surrounding the build-out of golf courses in the 1990s through the mid-2000s, coupled with Tiger Woods's ascendance, spurred false hope. "I've always been skeptical that the number of golfers people talked about was real," he told me after the forum. Golf's failure to become a mass-market sport and the huge oversupply of courses have spun a pessimistic aura around the game. In 2013, for the eighth consecutive year, more 18-hole equivalent courses closed in the U.S. (157.5) than opened (14), according to the National Golf Foundation. Between 1986 and 2005, 4,500 net new courses were added.
Other explanations for golf's dwindling supply of players include increasing time pressure, two-earner families and the poor economy. Whatever the cause, golf in the last five years has lost 25% of its core players, defined as those who chalk up eight or more rounds annually, and 30% of those in the treasured 18- to 34-year-old demographic.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the Hack Golf initiative is its unsparing criticism of previous efforts. At a media breakfast Wednesday, Mark King, TaylorMade's chief executive, characterized one panel he served on as "the most wasteful hour of useless conversation ever." Leadership stalls, he said, "when you get the same guys looking at the same problem through the same lens year after year."
Hack Golf's renegade notion is to collect ideas from almost anyone else, especially former golfers or nongolfers with prejudices against the game, to try to identify some with disruptive potential. "Innovation is always a numbers game," said Gary Hamel, an author and management consultant who is working with Hack Golf. The most successful companies, he said, may cycle through 1,000 ideas to come up with 10 worthwhile ones.
TaylorMade has pledged $5 million over the next five years to fund experiments. The first will be King's personal hobbyhorse: 15-inch cups. The company has already signed up a dozen courses to host tournaments with the gigantic holes. The object is to speed up putting and reduce the frustration for beginners. Players will also be able to use a set of four super-forgiving, and super-illegal, clubs that the company has manufactured in limited quantity, and balls nearly twice the normal size. "If it works, it works. If it doesn't, we'll move on to something else," King said.
King and Hamel take pains to insist that alt-golf forms like this are no threat to the traditional game. Greenkeepers could cut both 15-inch holes and regulation 4¼-inch holes into the same greens. Each group, or even players within the same foursome, could choose which version of golf to play, King said.
This is where theory and practice may come into conflict. Three years ago at the PGA Show, a well-connected group from Silicon Valley floated some strikingly similar ideas under the name Flogton, or "not golf" spelled backward. But that would-be movement fizzled.
"The main problem we encountered," said Pat Gallagher, a longtime executive with the San Francisco Giants, "was that the major stakeholders in golf, the ruling organizations, didn't really need the game to grow. Their interests, when push came to shove, were primarily to protect the interests of the five million core golfers at the expense of the 20 to 40 million people who might conceivably want to play, or play more, if the game were more fun and less frustrating for them."
Those core golfers, though dwindling in number, still account for 80% to 90% of the money spent on golf. "No one in the industry—not the course owners, not the manufacturers, not the club pros—can afford to alienate them. And core golfers love golf the way it is," Gallagher said. Many are devoted to the game's traditions and impatient with novices clogging up courses.
Take King's pet 15-inch hole concept, or other possible alternative-golf possibilities such as teeing up every shot or encouraging far livelier, less stuffy standards of on-course behavior. It's unclear how easily traditional golfers' style of play—solemnly but happily sweating every 3-foot putt—would mesh with that of the shirttails-out crowd, hitting goofy clubs and whooping and hollering.
One often encounters at PGA Shows an analogy to skiing. Snowboarding, when it first appeared on the slopes, was anathema to traditional skiers, but it is now widely credited with saving the ski industry by attracting a new breed of skiers. So it could be with alternate forms of golf.
Gallagher doesn't buy it. "The difference is that skiing and snowboarding can coexist on the same slope. In golf you've got a single track, and it's not so easy," he said. That single track is also the root cause of slow play: Every group on the course is effectively reduced to the speed of the slowest group ahead.
"We came to the conclusion that alternative forms of golf cannot expect to develop at the same time and in the same space that accommodates traditional golf," Gallagher said.
These days, he has moved on, but as a parting gift he self-published a book called "Golf is Dying. Does Anybody Care?" (it's available at Amazon). The best chance Hack Golf has, he said, may be to experiment with alternate forms of golf and equipment on some of the courses that are closing or underutilized. New golf-like games might emerge and become popular on their own, the way softball and Little League grew out of baseball, without the major leagues having to bend or get involved at all. Already popular in Texas and elsewhere are TopGolf ranges, which draw families and many nongolfers, often at night, for range games that are scored electronically, like bowling.
New golf-like games might not be real golf, and they might or might not feed players into the traditional game. But for those in the golf business, if it means new customers, that would be quite all right.
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We recommend this Under Armour tank for those yogis looking for light to moderate support and lots of figure-flattering style.


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Bron-y-aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Last Played
AlbumLed Zeppelin III
Average rating
5 star rating.
Other songs on this album
Other songs by this artist
- Celebration Day
- Kashmir (Live at O2 Arena)
- Coda
- Ozone Baby
- Poor Tom
- Wearing And Tearing
- Houses of the Holy
- D'yer Mak'er
- Dancing Days
- No Quarter
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- The Ocean
- The Rain Song
- The Song Remains The Same
- Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid
- In Through The Out Door
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The new plant houses the largest steam methane reformer (SMR) built by Praxair to date. It will supply hydrogen and up to 450,000 lb/hour of steam to Valero's new 57,000 bpd hydrocracker.
Praxair on Monday started up its new 135 million
standard cubic feet/day (scfd) hydrogen plant serving the
Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas,
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The new plant houses the largest steam methane reformer
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At about 9:45 Wednesday night, Bowling Green Police say the Family Dollar on Glen Lily Road was robbed.
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I have noticed when user clicks on a link with, say middle button, or shift/ctrl+left button, click handler attached to hyperlink is not called.
I have seen solutions to track mousedown event, but what I'd like is to track exact event of following a link.
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Associated Press file photo Education Secretary Arne Duncan is likely to stay on for President Barack Obama�s second term in office.
Associated Press file photo Education Secretary Arne Duncan is likely to stay on for President Barack Obama�s second term in office.
WASHINGTON � President Barack Obama�s education agenda for next four years may look less like real reform and more like tying up loose ends, experts say, with practical budget issues and an age-old power struggle between Congress and the administration getting in the way.
Campaign-year aspirations for Obama�s second term included closing the educational achievement gap and boosting college graduation rates to the highest in the world. But those lofty goals may have to wait, as lawmakers and Obama tackle a number of gritty funding-related issues that just can�t wait.
First up is sequestration, the automatic, government-wide spending cuts set to knock out 8.2 percent of the funding to almost all of the Education Department�s programs � unless Congress acts before the end of the year to avert the cuts.
Programs intended to reduce educational inequities will take a hit of $1.3 billion, according to the White House�s Office of Management and Budget. Special education, already funded far below the levels Congress originally promised, will be slashed by more than $1 billion. Most of the reductions won�t take effect until next fall, when the 2013-14 school year starts, but Impact Aid, which helps districts that lose revenue due to local tax-exempt federal property, would be cut immediately.
Education advocates are optimistic a plan will be hashed out that will leave most major education programs relatively unscathed.
�Even Republicans understand that cutting education spending is not something that is popular with voters,� said Michael Petrilli, a former Education Department official and executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank.
What comes next is less certain. The Education Department refused to comment on its agenda for the next four years, but Secretary Arne Duncan has hinted at the administration�s focus. Petrilli and others closely watching the administration�s signals on education say it�s likely the focus will be on early childhood education and higher education.
Pre-kindergarten was a major focus for Obama in his first term, when he strengthened Head Start�s accountability rules and expanded his Race to the Top program to include pre-K.
In Congress, both parties agree that college costs are spiraling out of control, but there�s not much government can do to control that. What it can control is student aid, and the debate about federal loans raises a familiar disagreement about the role of government. In 2010, when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, the federal government cut banks out of the process and started administering all loans directly. Many Republicans favor restoring the private sector�s role in issuing federally backed and subsidized loans.
Higher education also comes with a delicate set of ticking time bombs. Student loan interest rates, capped at 3.4 percent for new subsidized Stafford loans, are set to double July 1, the expiration date for a stopgap Congress passed last year. Pell Grants, the main source of federal aid for low-income students, face the same type of crisis as entitlements like Medicare and Social Security: a cost curve that�s become difficult to contain as more people take part.
When it comes to K-12 education, the prospects increase for a tug of war between Obama and Congress.
Lawmakers are more than half a decade overdue to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Education Department has been copiously granting waivers to No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era iteration of the act, giving states flexibility with performance targets.
There�s bipartisan agreement in Congress that the law should be fixed and reauthorized. �While the administration�s efforts to grant waivers are helpful for states operating under the tenets of No Child Left Behind, these fixes are temporary and piecemeal,� Sen. Tom Harkin, the Democrat who is chairman of the Senate committee responsible for education, said in an email.
But the Obama administration has shown little desire to put the policy back in lawmakers� hands. Duncan didn�t mention reauthorization in a lengthy speech in October laying out his agenda.
�Waivers are not a pass on accountability, but a smarter, more focused and fair way to hold ourselves accountable,� Duncan said in that speech.
Lawmakers also are eager to reclaim control of Race to the Top, the multibillion-dollar grant competition program Obama created in 2009 to prod states into changing laws and raising standards. The administration opened the competition to school districts this year, but with stimulus funds exhausted, the size of the program shrank dramatically.
�With Race to the Top, and then these conditional waivers, it is bypassing Congress and the process we�re supposed to have, adding to uncertainty,� Republican Rep. John Kline, the House Education and the Workforce Committee chairman, said in an interview.
Lawmakers from both parties may be more timid next term about embracing Common Core, a set of uniform benchmarks for math and reading adopted by almost every state, after the defeat of Tony Bennett, the Indiana schools superintendent whose surprise loss in this month�s election was largely attributed to his support for the curriculum.
Teacher assessments are at the heart of another potential flashpoint. Chicago teachers walked off the job for more than a week in September, largely over demands that their evaluations be tied to student test scores. Teachers unions enthusiastically backed Obama�s re-election, but Obama�s Education Department stayed neutral on the strike, and his former chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, led the fight against striking teachers.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said there�s a fixation on top-down, testing-based evaluations that marginalize teachers while holding them responsible for the effects of budgetary decisions far beyond their control.
�If all those things happen at the same time, then we�ll have the problems we had in Chicago,� Weingarten said. �If we�re serious about working together to help all kids succeed, giving them the coursework and wraparound services and great teachers they deserve, then it will be different.�


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Maps have been used to find our way from point A to B for thousands of years. In the past 20 years, maps have been migrated online but it's essentially for the same use. Most companies use online maps as a bridge between their online presence and physical presence - providing directions to get to their business when they are searched for online.
CityMaps is a novel new online map. At first look it appears similar to any other online map: streets, check; transport routes, check; geographic features, check. So, what sets it apart? Well, when you zoom in on a neighbourhood you don't get a fancy street view, or outlines of buildings, you get a map populated with businesses.
What is CityMaps?
Think of those city maps that we've all used while on vacation, the ones with restaurants, shops and tourist attractions, and that's the basic idea of CityMaps. When you zoom in on an area, you will see icons and logos of businesses. Click on one and a popup window will open with the business name, contact information, pictures, related tweets, reviews, and more.
Essentially, it's a tool to help you plan your next adventure in the city. If you're out with your friends and looking for a place to go for dinner, you can search for nearby restaurants, look at reviews and deals, and finally: make a reservation, all from the app.
How will this help my business?
With social integration, a business like yours can post a special offer on one of the many deal websites, and it will show up in CityMaps as an unobtrusive blinking green dollar sign. If someone tweets about your business, the tweet will show up on the map as well.
This program is a great example of good integration across social media and business. If a review is posted online, it'll show up on the map. This can also be beneficial to your business as you will get near real-time feedback. CityMaps also encourages businesses to develop and maintain an Internet presence, while giving them a practically free way to literally put their name on the map.
Currently, the map is only available for New York, San Francisco and Austin. There'll be more cities soon, but it'll be a few years before every city in the US is on the map. So keep your eye on this program if you're not in the three cities, as you'll soon be able to take advantage of it.
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What different types of security do there exist? Why and when should they be implemented?
Example: SQL Injection Prevention
What different types of security do there exist? Why and when should they be implemented?
Example: SQL Injection Prevention
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Preventing Buffer overflow
I cannot count exploits that are based on this.
I am no expert, but in my experience, there are several well-known attack vectors for systems:
Unvalidated user data
This is the classic buffer-overrun, SQL injection, drive-by-download mechanism and is caused by insufficient planning or education on secure coding practices. It is important to ensure developers understand how any insecure code can be leveraged to exploit a zero-day attack on a computer. Just because your website doesn't do anything particularly secret/important, doesn't mean that getting root access on your webserver can't harm the other parts of the organisation.
Weak security
This can be a blend of poor security infrastructure, policy or just bad passwords. The worlds most popular password is 'password1' since most email providers started insisting on alpha-numeric passwords - previously it was 'password'. If a dictionary-based attack can guess a users' password, the policy was insufficient.
Some enterprising programmers leave quick-access backdoors in code in case they need to jump in and 'fix' the system. If you have any of these, deliberate or otherwise, your system is a ticking time-bomb.
What to do about it
Web applications:
Based on the number of attacks - see stats by Verizon, OWASP, WHID and others - the single biggest thing you can do to improve the security of a web application is implement solid input validation. Do not trust anything the client/browser sends you. This will pretty much sort your SQL injection issue, and help out in a number of other areas including field/buffer overflow.
It depends completely on the type of app, what a potential exploit might accomplish and the expected environment.
If you are running in an environment assumed to be safe then you could argue few to none.
If you are writing a web app that is publicly exposed, or an app that involves a publicly exposed API you would have to think through the likely scenarios like defacement, false submissions, authentication exploits, getting access to data not belonging to you, etc.
If you are building an app that stores data locally you might need to be concerned with the security of that data, keeping it separate between users on a multi-user system, etc.
IMHO there are not any security concerns that are ALWAYS applicable in every situation.


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Above: A student takes part in a simulation during UIS' annual Disability Week.
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The Office of Disability Services (ODS) helps students by providing an environment that enriches the educational experience through inclusion, advocacy and support. You can help our students by giving to the Office of Disability Services Fund.
This fund provides for long-term benefits such as:
- Transportation needs: Your gifts will help students pay for public transportation (many do not have cars).
- Food items: Many of our students go without meals due to financial needs or the time it requires to go from our office to the cafeteria; your gifts will help us provide healthy and sustaining food items for them.
- Mentoring supplies
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A VERY Special Program: Journey2Jobs
Thanks to donor support, ODS is offering Journey2Jobs, a new program which focuses on employability. Students can sign up for special mentoring, service opportunities, seminars, and more, all designed to help them become more employable. An anonymous trust has given funds to initiate the program. If you are interested in helping to sustain the program through your gifts or by mentoring students, please contact Sarah Weaver, the Office of Disability Services director.
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May 27, 2013
My Good Food & Wine Show experience in Instagram
Allison Foat
I live and work in Cape Town, a place that inspires me on a daily basis with its beauty. I try and capture its exceptional uniqueness and that of other fabulous cities around the world, as best I can, as often as I can, through one lens or the other. I'm probably addicted to Instagram.
It's fair to say that I'm in search of amazingness wherever I can find it, and find it I shall.
I work as a Publicist in the entertainment industry, and am the founder and owner of DIVA PR (@AllisonFoat on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook / www.capetowndiva.blogspot.com).
My motto: seize the day.
I confess this was my first visit to the Good Food & Wine Show in a long time.
With more than 200 stands in the vast Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) venue over four days from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 May, 2013, I was amazed at the event's growth over the last few years. The stalls, some far more fabulous than others in both product and appearance, offered everything from food and wine to everything in between that relates to the home.
My highlight was definitely watching celebrity chefs in action at the Checkers Celebrity Chef Theatre, with the charismatic UK gourmet star Gordon Ramsay creating a sautéed squid and crayfish salad and tarte tatin; the charming master patissier Eric Lanlard whipping up salted butter caramel biscuits, and the delightful Bliss twins, 15-year-old Sofia and Isabella, winners of Junior Masterchef Australia in 2010, whose chocolate chestnut ravioli looked totally irresistible.
I'd have loved to have seen one of our own junior food heroes strut his stuff at the Theatre as well, like 10-year-old Josh Thirion, whose book Cook With Josh won a prestigious Gourmand Award this year.
In between these theatrical culinary presentations, I browsed around the vast venue, where well-known foodies and bloggers were sharing their expertise, among them Nina Timm making marvellous soups with fabulous Philips gadgets, and Sam Linsell showing aspiring chefs how to make a Moroccan serpent apple pie at the Woolworths Real Food Theatre. The key comment throughout from these big names was "use the best, freshest ingredients at all times for the best results" – a mantra by which to abide if you are aiming for optimum results in your kitchen.
I'm a "green" girl, so anything with an eco-conscious and urban agriculture focus is key for me, like exhibits created by Pick n Pay and Food and Trees for Africa, and the Woolworths venue that looked at the latest trends on responsible growing, eating and blogging.
I'm always seeking out organic foods (this is the GOOD food show after all), so it was great to meet Karen Slater from Curds & Whey and taste her amazing homemade yoghurt (stocked by Melissa's), free of stabilisers and preservatives.
I had an outstanding seared tuna kebab with dill mayonnaise at the Halaal Tunisian Delights stall; sampled some slightly bitter chocolate chili spiced tea at Lady Bonin's beautifully styled mini-parlour, and enjoyed a very well brewed cup of organic fair trade coffee from Satemwa, a Malawian blend.
On the confectionary front, I loved Sweet Temptations' soft caramel gourmet toffee and Giggling Gourmet Jenny Morris' red velvet cake at the Pillsbury and Haagen-Dazs Decadent Desserts Theatre.
On the wine front, there was an impressive choice of bubbly and blends, from new estates like Baleia Bay, just four months young, to the more established brands like Morgenster Wine Cellar and Solms-Delta.
On the whole I enjoyed the 2013 Good Food & Wine Show. It's a chance to "explore your inner foodie'' and see some of the world's finest chefs in action, and it gives South Africans the chance to promote necessary everyday products and showcase some of the finer fare life has to offer, created locally and proudly by talented artisans. You could say it's a case of so much food, so little time.
The annual Good Food & Wine Show was presented by Fiera Milano Exhibitions at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. For more information please visit www.goodfoodandwineshow.co.za or www.fieramilano.co.za, or follow @goodfoodsa on Twitter.


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"Iron Man 3," starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, took in a whopping $175.3 million during the weekend.
"Pain and Gain," starring Mark Wahlberg and The Rock, was a very distant No. 2 with $7.6 million.
All studio estimates of gross box office receipts are via Box Office Mojo.
"42" was third with $6.21 million; "Oblivion" fourth with $5.797 million; "The Croods" fifth with $4.225 million; "The Big Wedding" sixth with $3.875 million; "Mud" seventh with $2.15 million; "Oz The Great and Powerful" eighth with $1.822 million; "Scary Movie 5" ninth with $1.435 million.
And "The Place Beyond the Pines" was 10th with $1.298 million.
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I would like to set myself weekly target list, monthly target list and yearly target list to accomplish for both my professional and personal life, so that i can track it down with ease. I also wanted to track my list of things which i needed to do everyday.
Is there any best freely available web app for such task. I know about Google calendars provides an option adding task list. But im looking for much better option available.


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I'm wondering if this is possible or if there is some schedule conflict between some side quests.
This is impossible. For a start, to win the lottery side-quest you have to go back in time at least once to know what the numbers are going to be/were.
To get the lover's mask side-quest completed you need to return to the first day and show the lover's mask to the major to get a heart piece.
To answer the original question and the edit at the same time:
No, it is impossible.
To get the All-Night mask at the Curiosity Shop, you must save the old lady in North Clock Town on the first night. This causes Sakon not to visit the Curiosity Shop, stopping the Kafei-Anju quest, meaning you cannot get the Keaton mask, or the Lover's mask.
This walk through of the Kafei and Anju side-quest states it can be completed in two different ways, one of which gives a bottle, the other the postmans hat:
The lottery isn't a sidequest, really, since ever doing it isn't logged anywhere. You need to do at least 2 cycles to fully complete all sidequests.
However, it is possible to beat the game itself (ignoring all sidequests) in just one cycle (after the initial 3 days needed to get your Ocarina and human self back, of course).


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Holy cow! I am still alive... If anyone is wondering. My apologies for stepping away from the blogs for a minute. I sold my house, my wife sold hers. We were homeless for three months looking for a work/live home which we have finally found. Moved all of our stuff in, including my whole t-shirt shop. We also knocked down a load bearing wall and installed sufficient electrical for all of the shop equipment, all around the holidays. That = exhausting! We still have a ways before it gets to where it needs to be.
Now for the good news. We are operational again with 25 mbps cable speeds (two to three megs a second downloads!) and my customers will now come to me instead of driving to work so hopefully that means more time for the concept art blogs. Sorry for not having a new header for January but I just had to concentrate on the live/work situation. I would love to make these sites my full time job but that is just not realistic at this time. Look for a bunch of cool stuff this year though, including a new header for February.
Thanks to all of you guys for submitting art and to you who are dedicated readers... I seriously could not do this without you. Here is to 2012... Let's go!!!
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