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God and Grief
I want to understand it but don't. Unfortunately, God, faith and religion don't help me understand a tragedy like this any better. What happened in Newtown still grips me. I'm truly relieved that God and faith can help bring comfort and healing to many during times of suffering. But for me, I only experience the grief, sadness and bewilderment of the loss.
If the God exists which some religious people talk about, then why would God allow such a terrifying, horrifying death happen to such innocent souls? And why would God allow that pain to multiply so exponentially from parent to sibling to family, friends, all of us? It's so God awful.
I have a hard time hearing there's a message or a meaning in the event — for now anyway. Allow me time to grieve, please. Maybe the idea of God's message or meaning is comforting for some — and for them, I am happy — but it feels inauthentic to me in a way which trivializes the gravity of the loss. What I see are their faces, those angelic, petrified faces.
The tragedy in Newtown is not something horrible, to strengthen and prepare us for something more horrible. It doesn't get anymore horrible for those students, teachers, parents and loved ones. You can add to the numbers, but it's no more heartbreaking and no more explainable by any kind of divine plan that makes any kind of sense to me.
It's tragedies like this, in part, which sent me out into the world filming, "God in the Box." I met many people along the way, who are true believers. They believe deeply, that God has a plan and that behind everything in life there is God's meaning. Perhaps someone in that group has a story of wisdom to share which will resonate true to me and bring me the comfort they find. I've listened to the pastors, priests, rabbis, even the President. With respect to all, I have not found it yet.
Together as a community, trying to live in a safe, civilized society, there are some issues of fact, not faith that we have to address: mental health, easy access to guns, violence in our media, celebrity at any cost.
I want to believe in a God who would protect our little ones and our brave teachers, principals and moms. But I think it's up to us.
-Nathan Lang, director/producer, "God in the Box"


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Methods of producing compounds from plant material
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|The invention includes methods of processing plant material by adding water to form a mixture, heating the mixture, and separating a liquid component from a solid-comprising component. At least one of the liquid component and the solid-comprising component undergoes additional processing. Processing of the solid-comprising component produces oils, and processing of the liquid component produces one or more of glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid and propylene glycol. The invention includes a process of forming glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid and propylene glycol from plant matter by adding water, heating and filtering the plant matter. The filtrate containing starch, starch fragments, hemicellulose and fragments of hemicellulose is treated to form linear poly-alcohols which are then cleaved to produce one or more of glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid and propylene glycol. The invention also includes a method of producing free and/or complexed sterols and stanols from plant material.
|Werpy, Todd A. (West Richland, WA), Schmidt, Andrew J. (Richland, WA), Frye, John G. JR. (Richland, WA), Zacher, Alan H. (Kennewick, WA), Franz, James A. (Kennewick, WA), Alnajjar, Mikhail S. (Richland, WA), Neuenschwander, Gary G. (Burbank, WA), Alderson, Eric V. (Kennewick, WA), Orth, Rick J. (Kennewick, WA)
|10/ 980,927
|November 3, 2004
|[0001] The invention was made with Government support under Contract DE-FC36-00G10596, A000, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Government has certain rights in the invention.

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LSU's Mystery Man
LSU forward, Tasmin Mitchell, once a McDonald's All-American in 2005 and taught of to be a player that would be one and done, due to his already NBA body at 18 and his array of skills, has fell in obscurity. In the 2007-2008 season, three games into his Junior campaign, Tasmin suffered a stress fracture in his left ankle, which required him to have season ending surgery. He received a medical redshirt from the NCAA, which gave him two more years of eligibilty. In his "second" Junior season (this season), the 6'7 240 pounds forward, is averaging 15.6 points a game, 6.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.5 steals, while shooting 55% from the field, 50% from three point land, and 74% from the charity stripe (free throw line). Mitchell is definitely displaying his versatile game at hand this year. Alot of people don't know he was the third go to guy behind Glen "Big Baby" Davis and Tyrus Thomas, for LSU in the 2005-2006 season, the year LSU went to the Final Four. That season, Tasmin's freshmen year, he put up 11.4 points per game, 5.6 boards, 2.8 assists, and 1.5 steals per game. Hopefully NBA scouts can get back on the Tasmin Mitchell bandwagon, because he and fellow LSU tiger, Marcus Thornton, is surely carrying the Tigers on a ride, most likey ending up in the "Big Dance".
For those who may think I copied this from an article, think again. I'm a basketball junkie that reads about basketball news every single day, so eventually I just started writing like a journalist, and it doesn't hurt that English is my favorite subject, so yeah the post above is all me.
I though youre second post was kind of weird. I dont think anyone questioned that you wrote the first post, but anyway Mitchell is solid he should take a couple more threes too. 50% from the arch but only on 12 attempts more of an inside guy though.
Personally, I've always thought that Tasmin Mitchell was a great college player and a potentially good NBA forward. He is good at everything but not great in any one category although he has been shooting the lights out this season. I feel that both he and Marcus Thornton are two of the most underrated players in all of college basketball and are a great 1-2 punch on a much improved LSU team. I think that Don's analysis in the first post was very good, by the way man, im a newly registered member to the site but ive been reading posts for a while and for the most part I agree with just about everything you have to say and you give great insight, keep up the good work man
Mitchell will be a good pro he has all the tools you need in a quality 3 man.I like the fact that he has had to stick around the college game longer than expected to refine his game. His jumper is getting better and I like his physical nature. He has been a very hard worker and it shows because he has improved by leaps and bounds. Don anybody who blogs on this site knows you know your stuff. You that guy, just keep on blogging brother I''m also a basketball junkie so I enjoy reading your blogs.
To jorrye24: I see u have Iguodala as your display picture, so I assume u most watch the Sixers a lot. Well Marcus Thornton to me, reminds me of Willie Green. Their both undersized combo guards, that has a knack to score, don't really have long range jumpers, but goes to the rim at will to score.
Don, do you watch LSU play?
"Marcus Thornton to me, reminds me of Willie Green. Their both undersized combo guards, that has a knack to score, don't really have long range jumpers, but goes to the rim at will to score."
Marcus Thornton jacks up 5.2 3pt attempts per game. He shoots 40% from 3. Willie Green never shot that many 3's in a season in college and never came anywhere close to average 40% from 3.
50% of Marcus points come from the 3 or from the free throw line. 266 of his 528 points. Rim at will?
I don't know where ya'll are coming up with these comparison besides boxscores and height/weight measurements. LSU has been on ESPN twice this year, they had a regional coverage on one FSN game. Then there's been 4 games on CST which is local Cox Sports Television. Then there was a televised game versus Alabama on Raycom. So unless you're an LSU fanatic or an alum... and you're paying to see through LSU's Geaux Zone. You have only watched LSU twice if three times this year unless you live locally.
Don, usually agree with you, keep postin. Theres only a few regulars on here who aren't just lookin to curse people out, so I got love for all them. I haven't really seen either of em play, Just wanted to think more about that LSU final four team who made me an assload of money, because I was the only one In america who had them beating Duke in the sweet 16 in my bracket. JJ crying made me so happy, it really did.
Have any of you actually followed LSU this season?
Tasmin is playing more in the post this season because we lost Greg Monroe to Georgetown. Greg Monroe was going to be an LSU commit until John Brady got fired. LSU plays 3 guards with Tasmin at forward and Chris Johnson at center. There is absolutely no frontcourt depth on that team.
If you're questioning Tasmin's range, look at '06-'07 where he went 41-109 for the season. I'm pretty sure 109 attempts is a good sample size. He improved his 3pt% by 8% between his freshman and sophomore seasons. Tasmin has range for an NBA small forward.
Against Arkansas last night, LSU played 5 guards, 1 center, and 2 forwards. 2 forwards... you didn't read that wrong. Their 8 man rotation has 5 guards. Tasmin is playing out of position for the team. The rotation was larger at the beginning of the season but the top 8 has almost always been 5 guards. He's been one of the toughest and most unselfish players LSU has ever had.
Despite playing power forward and being enveloped by other teams' frontcourts, he's averaging career highs in rebounds, blocks, and FG%. He's so respected by LSU coaches, sports administration, and fans that he was selected to LSU All-Century (first 100 years of LSU basketball) team after just two seasons. He was the 20th best prospect of his class coming out of high school and his godfather is the longtime assistant coach at LSU. Basketball is in his blood.
If you think Marcus Thornton has the most potential on the LSU squad, you haven't watched them play this year. You haven't watched them play in the last 2-3 years. Tasmin is probably the only real deal on that squad. Chris Johnson has a long way to go. Marcus Thornton as an undersized 2 guard would be lucky to have Tony Delk's career instead of JJ Redick's... and both those guys were far better while they were in college than Thornton has ever been. And Marcus Thornton's handle and decision making is suspect as evidence in his 5 turnover game in a tight game with Mississippi State and his 6 turnover game in a tight game with Arkansas.


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Google Search Tools button not displayed on Firefox for Mobile
When using Google on Firefox for Mobile, the option to show the Search Tools which has the date range option in it is missing. Is the exclusive to Chrome based browsers?
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Search Tools absent on Firefox for Android http://i.minus.com/ibw8Jyrg4y3hlv.png
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Google Chrome showing the Google.com in classic mode.
Firefox Showing Google.com in Mobile mode..
Scroll down and click classic and you can see the search tools in left side of the Google.com webpage.
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Thanks for responding but that is incorrect. Both screenshots I posted have the Google search set to mobile mode. Classic mode is bascially the desktop version, which places the Search Tools box on the left. In that mode it is difficult to use because of the size.
Google provide minimum option to mobile version
So only you unable to see the search tools option..
I checked in opera in that also there is no search tool option on Google Search..
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I experimented more with user agent strings with a desktop PC. The user agent string is strictly what causes Google to show or hide the extra options. As a temporary fix I installed the 'phony' adding for Firefox for Mobile and set it to iPhone.


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Situated in a narrow gorge at the farther end of Lidder Valley, Amarnath cave stands at 3,888 m. and is 46 Km.
From Pahalgam and 141 Km. from Srinagar. Though the original pilgrimages subscribes that the Amarnath yatra be undertaken from Srinagar,
the more common practice is to begin journey at Chandanwari,
and cover the distance to Amarnath and back in five days.
Pahalgam is 96 Km. Srinagar.
Amarnath is regarded as one of principal Hindu Dhams. The holy cave is the residence of the holy trinity, Shiva lord. The guard of the absolute, lord Shiva, the destroyer, is present in the form of ice Lingam in this cave located at a more remote end of the valley of Lidder. This lingam is made naturally of a stalagmite of ice which awakes and weakens with the moon.
The trek to Amarnath Yatra begins at Srinagar
on the panchami day of the bright half of the month. The next
halt enroute is Pampur, 9 miles south east of Srinagar. Subsequent
halts are at Avantipur, Brijbihara and Martand. Martand is
known for its ancient temple dedicated to the Sun God - now
in ruins. Enroute to Martand are Anantnag and Gautamnag.
Martand is known as the architectural lion of Kashmir. It
is a temple with a colonnade of 84 columns full of artistic
work. This temple dates back to Lalitaditya of Kashmir of
the 8th century. The next halt is at Aishmukam, and the next
is Pahalgam, which is reached on the day of Dasami, the tenth
day of the bright half of the month. At Pahalgam is the confluence
of the rivers Seshnag and Liddar.
Next the enroute of stop is Chandanwadi, from where the confluence of the rivers Asthan Marg and Seshnag. Promote is to the top Pishu Ghati, thought to be the site where the demons were crushed by the gods. Promote is to the top the lake Seshnag with a size of approximately 12000 feet above sea level. The next halt is at Wavjan before to raise it stiff with the passage of Mahagunus to a size of 14000 feet, after which there is to the bottom a slope carrying out to Panchatarni. From here, the cave of Amarnath is reached the day of full moon, and the pélerinage is complete.
The cave of Amarnath was where Shiva lord reported the secrecy of immortality, Amar Katha with his Wife Parvat. Shiva hesitated initially but finally gave inside.Shiva wanted to reveal the secrecy in a place of isolation far from any life being and thus chose the cave of Amarnath.
In preparation, Shiva left
his Nandi (the Bull), which he rode at Pahalgam. At Chandanwari,
he released the moon from his hair and on the banks of Lake
Sheshnag, he released the snakes. Son Ganesha was left at
Mahagunas Parvat and at Panjtarni, Shiva left the Five Elements
behind - earth, water, air, fire and sky - that make life
possible. As a final precaution, Shiva created Rudra named
Kalagni and ordered him to set afire and eliminate every living
thing in and around the Holy Cave. Finally, Shiva and Parvati
entered the Amarnath Cave where he began meditating on a deerskin.
He then narrated the Amar Katha to Parvati. Unknown to them,
a pair of mating doves eavesdropped on this conversation and
learned the secret. Reborn again and again, they have made
the cave their eternal abode. Today, pilgrims claim seeing
the pair of doves when they trek the arduous route to pay
their obeisance at Shivalinga formed naturally of an ice stalagmite.
The story narrated by people about the
discovery of this Holy Cave is of a shepherd Buta
Malik. He is given the credit of discovering this Holy Cave. Story goes like this, that a saint gave Buta Malik a bag
full of Coal. On reaching his home when he opened the bag
, to his utter surprise the bag was full of gold coins. This
made him overwhelmed with joy. He ran to thank the Saint.
But, what he found was that the Saint had disappeared. Instead, he found The Holy Cave and Shiv Lingam there in. He announced
the discovery of this to the Villagers. Then onwards this
has become the sacred place of Pilgrimage.
The ancient epics narrate an other story which goes like
this. The valley of Kashmir was under water. It was a big
lake. Kashyap Rishi drained the water through number of rivers
and rivulets. In those days Bhrigu Rishi came that way on
a visit to The Himalyas. He was the first to have Darshans
of this Holy Cave. When people heard of the Lingam, Amarnath for them became Shiva's abode and a Centre of pilgrimage.
Since then Lacs of devotees perform the pilgrimage through
tough terrain and avail eternal happiness. The trek to Amarnath,
in the month of sharavan (July August) has the devout flock
to this incredible shrine, where the image of Shiva, in the
form of a Lingam, is formed naturally of an Ice Stalagmite,
which waxes and wanes with the Moon's cycle. By its side
are fascinating, two more Ice Lingams, that of Maa Parvati
and of their son, Ganesha.
The climatic conditions are very uncertain. Rain or snowfall may take place at any time or place during
the Amarnath Yatra. It is to be particularly noted that abrupt changes
in temperature might occur. Sunny weather may turn into rain
/ snow fall in a short time . The temperature may fall up
to -5 degree C.


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Citizenfour (2014): Directed by Laura Poitras. Starring: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, Ewen MacAskill, and (very briefly) Julian Assange. Running Time: 114 minutes.
Rating: 4/4
By a twist of circumstance, I had the chance to see Citizenfour the day after I saw The Imitation Game, and I was immediately struck by the parallels between the subject matter of the two movies. Both ultimately conclude that the key to real power in this world is not, in the end, manpower, economic growth, or military strength, but information. This can be and is heavily debated, obviously, but the cases presented here are overwhelmingly strong. Have access to enough information, and you can win a war against all odds. Have the means to obtain enough information, and your ability to rule, and even to oppress, can not only go unchallenged, but practically unnoticed. Seeing both back-to-back was also a powerful reminder of the ripple effects of key events throughout history. Even if its original purpose was to defeat Nazism, it cannot be forgotten that the modern means of spying revealed to such a stark degree by the Snowden documents would be impossible without the prevalence of digital communication, whose genesis can be found in the wartime work of Alan Turing. The one would not, and indeed cannot, exist without the other.
Citizenfour is, hands-down, the most important film, documentary or otherwise, to come out this year. Maybe in years. It is literally watching history in the making, consisting in large part of on-the-spot recording of Edward Snowden's first meetings with the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill (both working for The Guardian at the time). These scenes alone will be primary source materials for years for anyone studying this particular aspect of early 21st-century history. The issues and questions it raises regarding whether and how the relationship between governing and governed has been fundamentally altered by modern digital communication are ones that my generation especially ignores at its own peril, because events that already spin by us at top speed are only going to get faster. It is also one of the straight-up best films of 2014, documentary or otherwise. It can and should provoke endless debate and discussion over what Poitras chose to focus on, what she left out, how she portrays Snowden, and how bias- hers, Snowden's, and ours- affect how each of us interprets the film's key moments, and on top of all that, it's quite simply an incredibly slick and expertly crafted thriller. The use of closeups on Snowden, Greenwald, and MacAskill in that fateful hotel room in Hong Kong, smooth editing and establishing shots between scenes, and the eerie undercurrent of the film's soundtrack can easily make one forget that we are watching actual historical events unfold in real-time, and not a mashup of the Bourne Trilogy and a David Fincher film (the comparison to Fincher is not without merit- the tracks heard were taken from a Nine Inch Nails album written by Trent Raznor and Atticus Ross).
The movie informs us right at the beginning that the film was already in the process of being made when Poitras was first contacted by Snowden. One of the original main players in the film, and who is still in the final cut, is another NSA whistleblower named William Binney, who actually had his house raided in response to his leaks. Obviously, the contact with Snowden and everything that followed greatly changed the nature and scope of the final product, which moved from focusing on a general look at post-9/11 government policy to focusing mostly on the revelations of the documents Snowden leaked and its immediate aftermath. The title is drawn from the codename that Snowden used in his first contacts, to be able to preserve his anonymity as long as possible. A few of their most important mails, all sent via encryption programs, are read out loud by Poitras as an effective way to set a scene; the standout is her reading the mail with instructions on how she and Greenwald were to find and identify him in a restaurant near his hotel in Hong Kong. Even without seeing what happened, we are transported into the world of a spy thriller, except this time around we know it actually happened, and just knowing that makes the viewer tense up. But then they are in the room, the camera is on, and the first conversations begin.
Poitras herself is only glimpsed briefly in a mirror, but you can feel her gaze through the camera, in how close she films people and how distantly she films everything else, creating the sense of a large, immutably cold world threatening to crush the individuals on-screen. Also of note is the use of the term "they" when describing the US government in general and the NSA in particular. The viewer is reminded acutely of how much of our modern world cannot actually be seen or felt or heard, and yet is still there, all around us. It is thrilling and unsettling all at once.
There are no new revelations contained in this film; everything discussed has been reported before. What is important to recall though, and what makes this movie such riveting viewing, is to be reminded of how the affair played out on a day-by-day basis, and to see everything placed in its larger context, which is of course the purpose of a documentary film. It is hard to say whether or not minds and hearts will be softened or hardened towards Snowden upon viewing this work. It is ironic or fitting (or both) that, despite Snowden's insistence that he does not want the focus to be on him, but rather to be on the extent of civil rights abuses he is revealing, both the film and the broader discussion over the past year have centered on him regardless. Perhaps this was naiveté on his part, but in a way, in was also the inevitable result of any such individual reaction to a given situation. Humans will always seek a face to place on an event, era, or movement, because it humanizes everything for us, and makes it smaller and understandable. The Civil Rights movement was far more than MLK and Rosa Parks, but those are the figures we remember and honor the most. Nelson Mandela was one of many activists who suffered for their opposition to Apartheid. None of the others got a state funeral the likes of which the world has never seen. Such is the nature of man.
Or perhaps he really did (or does) have a sinister agenda. Maybe he really did just want the attention. The respect (and some might claim adulation) that Poitras and Greenwald have for him is clear- they take him at his word. Many others do, many do not, and some are indifferent, which is really the worst option of the three, because as the Snowden affair (and Snowden himself) makes clear, indifference is no longer an option in our world. We must, inevitably, be either active in shaping it, or we surrender any claim to freedom and independence. My own views on the man and his actions have been mixed, but if he is concealing some malicious intent he hides it expertly when the cameras are rolling. Like it or not, in a world where large organizations can ever more easily oversee and control the means of communication at our disposal, we will continue to need people like Snowden, the occasional shock to the system that can tear through veils both known and unknown to allow us a glimpse of the truth.
I do not agree with every point the film implies, and there are sins of omission everywhere. That hardly matters though, at least in terms of whether or not I like and respect the film. It is, as another reviewer noted obliquely, "history written in lightning." Its bite is all the sharper for how clearly and unapologetically it presents itself and Snowden as something big, something important, and something necessary. It is its biggest strength and its greatest weakness- perhaps Poitras wanted just as much as Snowden to shift focus onto the greater issues at stake, but could not resist the urge to turn him into another figure of civil rights history. The details on how she came into contact with him are scarce, and there is no mention that she and the others had already received the bulk of the documents he had collected. Remember, this was not like the Pentagon Papers, which had to be passed along by hand. Every bit of this is digital.
One point within the film invited a greater skepticism on my part. In a final scene between Greenwald and Snowden, they discuss new leaks by another whistleblower apparently inspired by Snowden's example (something else he had hoped would follow from his public admittance of guilt). Included in the new leaks is a chilling number- 1.2 million- specifying the number of people on NSA "watch lists." They scratch out the figures and info on sheets of paper, to avoid any eavesdropping, but a few are permitted to slide across the screen long enough to read, including a rough diagram of the line of decision-making regarding who is targeted by drone strikes. At the top is a small box that says "POTUS," and as Greenwald begins to rip up each sheet systematically for disposal, the camera lingers for just a bit on the torn scrap with the top box, the 5 block letters staring out like an accusation.
Scratch the "like" part, it IS an accusation, and its intent is clear, but is it a fair one? To be sure, unless he takes a major shift over the next two years, the lack of action on Obama's part to substantially reform or alter the post-9/11 intelligence systems he inherited from Bush outside of ending the torture program will go down as one of his greatest failures as President. However, when you look at the bulk of the Snowden documents, and compare them with what we already knew or guessed and also a few general laws of physics, the picture that comes out is less that of a top-down, tightly organized campaign of terror and oppression, and more that of a bloated bureaucratic system that's a little too used to going unchallenged that it's developed an attitude of, "Why do it? Because we can. I guess." And like all such organizations (and the list of similar cases would be damn near endless), it instinctively seeks to protect and preserve its authority, be it actual or perceived, at all costs.
Not that that makes the current state of affairs any less dangerous or unacceptable. And the importance of these events and of the threats inherent in our current system has only grown more pressing and relevant with time. Just last week, a bill that would have ended the bulk data collection programs detailed in the leaks was defeated in the Senate by, what else, almost universal Republican opposition. Senator Rubio (R-Florida) even went so far as to call allegations that the program was being abused a "theoretical threat." With the country now facing two entire years of Republican Senate control, it is to be severely doubted that any progress in this area will be made in the near future. This makes viewing Citizenfour even more of an imperative for each and every person, US citizen or otherwise, who is not content to just be handed a future they are unable to shape or effectively take part in. The future need not be bleak. All it takes is our active participation. And despite the controversy it will incite in viewers and the many points of contention that can be found within it, Citizenfour is a powerful call to attention and action. It is one of the few films of 2014 that truly is, in every sense of the word, a must-see.
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In the latest twist in the ongoing feud between the Pokémon Go community and the app's creators, The Pokémon Company has sent out at least one cease and desist letter to an independent developer threatening prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The letter, sent to GitHub user Mila432 and reposted online, contains a detailed breakdown of how the developer violated Pokémon Go's terms of service with a reverse-engineered application programming interface (API). It also says the developer may be subject to legal action if he or she does not comply with the company's demands.
"Your actions … potentially violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a statute that prohibits the unauthorized access of servers and access which exceeds authorization as well as similar state statues," the letter reads. "And your inducement of others to violate numerous terms of service provisions violates the CFAA." It's unclear if The Pokémon Company could actually bring a CFAA lawsuit against someone for breaking the terms of service in this case when there is no material harm done. But it's certainly not the most outlandish use of the law.
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Cassadee Pope returns to The Voice on Monday night (April 2), ready to help Team Kelly contestants in hopes she'll have the Season 14 winner. It's only fair to remind her what it's like to win, right?
Pope — the Season 3 winner and now "Take You Home" singer — relived her winning moment from 2012, sharing what was going through her mind as the third place contestant was named and then, finally!, when host Carson Daly announced she'd won.
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steelhammer wrote:mikey287 wrote:steelhammer wrote:mikey287 wrote:Yuck, Brodeur hiding behind the trap argument again...nasty business that. All I want to say (because I'm very tired of that nonsense) is that the Devils didn't really "trap" as their main method of forecheck since probably 2003 or so...but let's call it 2006 for your sake...Brodeur won two Vezina's out of his prime, without the trap, without Stevens AND Niedermayer (and one without Rafalski too I believe) and all that guff...
One would expect a noteworthy statistical turn-for-the-worst once the Devils opened up and lost two future HHOF, #1 d-men nearly consecutively...but, not only did it not happen, he also won two more Vezina's...and at 40 years old, he has his team in the Stanley Cup Finals with his #1 d-man being the error-prone Marek Zidlicky...
Not sure why you would rate Hiller so high, especially with that rebound control...yikes, it's bad...not a big fan of his, maybe if Allaire didn't get to him I'd think more of him...
I won't take anything away from his 06-07 season, and he DID do better later in his career, but all of those other Vezina's have asterisks beside them as he wasn't the best goalie in the league in any of those seasons (but GM's look at win totals and vote on reputation). I just don't see how you can write off other goalies and claim that they benefit from playing behind a defensive team, and here is the goalie that has benefited from that more than any other goalie in history and all of a sudden it's meaningless?
It's more than just the trap though, he also greatly benefits from his team taking so few penalties throughout his career. Take a look at 2000 through 2009:
Brodeur's teams: 232 goals, 25.9 shots against/60, 298 power plays against
Luongo's teams: 207 goals, 31.4 shots against/60, 403 power plays against
League average: 229 goals, 28.3 shots against/60, 370 power plays against
Imagine having to face 100 less powerplays per season than the goalies you are competing against? Those frequency distributions can obscure which goalie actually played better. During the 06-07 season, Brodeur ended with a .922 save percentage to Luongo's .921.
"A closer look shows that this was not because Brodeur played better, but rather was caused by a large discrepancy in special team play between the Canucks and Devils. Here are the save percentage splits for Brodeur and Luongo for each game situation (even strength / penalty kill / power play):
Martin Brodeur: .927 / .904 / .888
Roberto Luongo: .928 / .906 / .910
Luongo ranks ahead of Brodeur in every game situation. How can he possibly end up behind Marty in overall save percentage? The reason is that Vancouver took more penalties, meaning Luongo had to face 199 more shots on the penalty kill than Brodeur. If Luongo had faced Brodeur's shots, and vice versa, and both of them stopped the puck at exactly the same rates, Luongo's save percentage would have been .923, and Brodeur's would have been .920."
Finally, I think you are really overlooking the talent of Hiller. He has the best lateral movement in the league and is an absolute pleasure to watch play live in person. He chased both Giguere and Bryz out of Anaheim despite coming out of nowhere in Swiss league. His numbers speak for themself. Anyone who could play behind the Anaheim defense last season while actually trying to recover (not induce) vertigo deserves at least a little of your respect.
Respectfully, I'm kind of sick of defending Brodeur, but without reading it yet, I'm sure you have at least thought of a different angle...you're a goalie and you think and then speak...unlike most, who just talk out of various orifices...I'll just take it bit by bit and see what comes of it...
- "He did better later in his career", which I'm supposing is statistic based. In which case, it sounds like the trap was holding him back statistically. As he was out of his prime, on worse teams, in worse situations defensively and yet excelled more. Not expected results for someone that was "hiding".
- Asterisks next to Vezina's because...? The general managers vote on the Vezina, not the media, the guys that put together these 30 teams. While not infalliable, you'd like to believe they know more than the media...for perspective purposes during Thomas' "OMG, best evar" season in 2011, nearly half of all GMs didn't consider him the best goalie in the league and 4 didn't consider him top-3 in the league...so you know they have some sense in the sense that they aren't swept up by stats and media hoopla...but during Hasek's absolutely dominant 1998 season, he captured 24 of 26 first place votes (two 2nd place votes, thus appearing on all 26 ballots). So it seems like they can generally recognize greatness when they see it - generally.
Brodeur has a decisive victory in 2003 and then somewhat split decision victories in 2004, 2007 and 2008...but to that point, he was always punished for being on those Devils teams, sometimes even getting more or similar Hart love than/to Vezina love. I think he was runner-up to Hasek 3 times and I think (just going off of memory from previous debates) he has 6 top-4 finishes that are NOT wins. An impressive record. First or second-team all-star 7 times, not too shabby either.
He's always got skimped over for the Vezina in the heart of the trap years, but when it finally started to fall apart around him and all that was left was Brodeur and he actually statistically improved, then he started to get some real recognition. It kind of justified it all in the end. Are you suggesting that Brodeur should have won 0 Vezina trophies?
- I was hoping you would go here (re: goalies behind defensive teams). See, here's the thing, defensive systems aren't created equally. A coach doesn't have a menu in front of him and he clicks "defensive" and then the players go out and do it. Different systems are designed in different ways. It's advanced, but it doesn't give anyone an excuse to use their ignorance (no offense to you in particular) to their benefit.
Let's take the dreaded neutral zone trap. Briefly, clog up the neutral zone, prevent stretch passes and speed, force wide, force dump, puck retrieval (usually Brodeur), up the boards, out. Since the bulk of the defense occurs between the defensive blueline and the center line, shots are not taken. Low shot totals means lower save percentage, because the goals that do go in (breakdowns, power plays, etc.) are "worth more", so to speak. Also, generally speaking, when chances were given up, they were of high quality because it involved a breakdown (bad line change, bad read, etc.) and since it wasn't a collapse-first system, the defensive zone (attack team's offensive zone) wasn't quite as hard to navigate because the bulk of the players will be very, very high in the offensive zone or in the neutral zone. Which jives with Brodeur's modest career save pct. vs. other elite tenders (Hasek, for instance).
The reference to me railing against other goalies behind defensive systems but giving Brodeur a pass is explained as follows. Some defensive systems are designed to give up shots - as crazy as it sounds, shots against is not a measure of defensive prowess in today's game. Take the Bruins (who would have guessed) from last year (and years before) under Claude Julien. Look at where the action is, deeper in the defensive zone, lower in the neutral zone. Think about the changes to the game. Two-line pass rule is gone, obstruction is reduced (some chuckle, but it's true, even today). For the first time since 1942, a pass from your own goal line can be onside at the far blueline! It's too much pressure on the defensive players to try to stick with the rigidity of the traditional neutral zone trap if players are allowed to receive passes behind the "1" and the first "2" of the 1-2-2.
So now you "protect the house" and you'll hear a broadcaster or two refer to the house. Essentially, your goalie lives in said house. The Bruins set up in the mid-defensive zone, low neutral zone because they are set to collapse. Channel wide in the neutral zone just like the traditional NZT, but the difference is, the dump-in is no longer the forced play because the attacking team has gained the offensive blueline before the last line of defense closes the gap. Once the zone is gained, the far side winger is often charging towards the net (almost by default in today's game) - the play? Throw the puck on net low, hope to beat the last line of the defense back to their house and score on the rebound. Think about the cycle of a game. Think about how many shots are coming from way out there, 50, 55 feet out...and how many rebounds are swept away by a 6-foot-9, future HHOF defenseman. Scoring is down because, well, shots from 55 feet on the left wing boards don't go in (well, unless you're Paul Martin or Alex Burrows on Tim Thomas, if memory serves) and the rebounds are seldom gotten to. The design is to yield easy, low-quality shots, you (goalie) make the first save, we'll do the rest. Thus, a high save percentage. The old neutral zone trap (which, of course, pre-dates the Devils - and I don't mean the 90's Devils, I mean the Devils existence as a team) didn't necessarily have a goalie that could always stop the first shot...so, the idea of the old NZT was to not allow shots, period. Because shots could be goals at any time. Today, shots are likely not goals (I think to the tune of 92% of the time they are not going in on a starting goalie)
Power plays certainly have a major impact, good point. And it's a disadvantage for Luongo (who I'm not a hater of) to face all of those power play opportunities. But both goalies were able to stop them when faced with them (they finished 1-2 among starters in 2007 for PK save pct.; as opposed to Thomas who was ~15th in the same stat among goalies who played a quarter of the games or more in 2011). When Marty faced power play chances and stopped them, so did Luongo. The votes acknowledged this, it was nearly a split decision in 2007 for the Vezina. I'm not sure if it warrants an asterisk, so much as it asterisked itself by being so close (though, you seldom hear of an asterisk for Pronger's Hart in 2000, Theodore's Hart in 2002, Carey's Vezina in 1996 - but that could be attributable to no one caring but me )
Ah, I see you already did the leg work on the numbers (next time I'll read ahead). So basically what you've concluded is that it's as close as the stats look and justified the voters' near-split decision. Good show, but the same basic conclusions could have been rendered without any tinkering I feel. I think Luongo missed it by 1 first place vote (15 to 14) or so...not the crime of the century by any stretch...casual fans that count stats and trophies won't notice but won't be in a position to speak logically about it; historians will see clearly how close Luongo came to a Vezina and the legitimate beef he had for one was taken up by the league's GMs...it'll come out in the wash when we look back on it analytically, rest assured...not unlike Brad Park's 6 runner-up Norris jobs vs. Bobby Orr - we got it.
Re: Hiller. He's a solid starting goalie in this league, I don't view him as much more. The best lateral movement in the league notion is a little much I feel. Even if I don't know how much you watch the game, I can make two assumptions: you're watching these playoffs and have taken notice of Jonathan Quick...you post on LGP and are likely a Pens fans and have seen Marc-Andre Fleury...like him or lump him, he ranks highly in lateral movement and probably has the league's best shuffle ability. While it's noted that he chased both Giguere and Bryzgalov (more so, Giguere and more so, financially [plus his GM moved to a team that needed a goalie, but I'll concede the general point]), since chasing those two, have the Ducks made the playoffs? I don't believe so. Calling him an elite goalie would suggest that he could at least pilot a team to being 16th best in a league of 30 in any one of the past 3 seasons. Is there an instance where a certainly-elite 'tender has failed to qualify for the postseason in the last 3 straight seasons? I'm not trying to trash the guy, he's a fine goaltender, but I can't think of a way to really put the "elite" tag on him...he's a starter in this league (respect), he's not an elite one (no disrespect).
It's hard to say the trap was "holding him back" and at the same time acknowledge how many shutouts Brodeur the team was able to produce in that time period. No, I truly just believe that he became a better goalie later in his life. He never fully embraced the butterfly, so his style was much easier on his body (despite the number of games played) and he just used the experience to develop into a good goalie. What irks me is that people use that to just assume that he was always great, when really he was an above-average goalie playing in a very favorable defensive style for years. I'm sorry, but I can't buy that "trap holds back goalies stats" argument. There are simply too many cases of other goalies thriving those systems. That brings up a great point for his 2003 Vezina win, which I'm surprised you can use the word "decisive" with a straight face (though I know you were referencing the voting). I know you are not a stat guy, but consider his numbers vs Turco that season:
Brodeur: .914, 2.02, 9 SO
Turco: .932, 1.72, 7 SO
Those aren't even close. That GAA was an NHL record for the season. Brodeur got the Vezina simply because he played a lot of games and thus got a lot of wins. Could another goalie have filled in and had a similar numbers? The first time he missed significant time was 08-09 and here is how the season numbers ended up:
Brodeur: 19-9-3, 2.42, .916, 28.8 SA/60
Backups: 32-18-1, 2.40, .918, 29.3 SA/60
You'd think one of the supposedly greatest goalies of all-time could do a little better than Scott Clemmensen (yeah, that Scott Clemmensen). Honestly though, even though the 2007 may have been the most disputed, I don't have AS much of a problem with him winning that Vezina. It was close and he played excellent that season, and very well for a few seasons around that time. Again, just no need to pretend that he always played at that level. The team effects did nothing but give him every advantage possible in those earlier years. They were still a relatively defensive team after the lockout. Te brief crackdown on clutch n grab (dont forget how much blood the devils got from that turnip as well) and the new rules just changed how they could execute it.
Oh, and I for one will never forget about that Pronger Hart trophy or Theodore's. Total garbage. Instead though, it just taught me me to respect the Hart trophy that much less.
Yes, it's hard to deny Quick's lateral ability. Hiller's is something different though and Fleury doesn't even belong in the discussion to be honest. If you pay attention to Hiller live in person, he just floats across the ice like a ballerina (a complement, I hope). I can't even explain it much better than that, but he certainly has the most fluid and efficient movement in the butterfly. I can see why you would not take to him though as he fully embraces the robot goalie role.
Really unfair to judge him or most any goalie on the team's inability to make the playoffs. What more could Luongo or Vokoun do in Florida other than skate up the ice and try to score goals on their own? Like those goalies, Hiller has played about as well as he possibly could given the circumstances.
(sorry if I missed anything, tried to get this all typed out before work. did appreciate your response very much.)
Sorry, didn't get around this until now, let's see where we're at.
- Well "holding him bacK" was tongue-in-cheek against his statistical betterment at 35 or whatever when you'd expect any player to decline (especially one that's been in the league as long as he has and played as many games as he has (all time leader in games played by a goalie, he's played 10,000 more minutes than any other goalie ever, he's faced over 1500 more shots than any goalie ever, etc.). I don't believe he got better - in fact, I think his later years he wasn't quite as good as he was in the 1990's and early 2000's but faced more shots and like any other historically great goaltender - stopped them.
- Again, I thought he was far better than above average in his prime. Daren Puppa might have been above average, ya know...Martin Brodeur was a terrific performer for a long time. I wonder how much of this sentiment is statistic based, because I know you saw his career. Is it just psychological that you saw a team playing such good defense and just made it a point to make him out to be not as good? As a goalie yourself, I would expect one to marvel at his excellence and maybe the finest style since the merger plus being the finest puckhandler in history...he was a third defenseman and a goalie, terrific player.
- Well, then you know how I said it with a straight face if you knew I was referencing voting . Obviously the voters felt that 55 games simply wasn't enough. Also, Turco wasn't exactly playing behind a wide-open system - his coach was Dave Tippett that year. They only had one player with more than 55 points. But Turco was behind some tight D himself, look at these forwards: Mike Modano, Jere Lehtinen, Jason Arnott, Ulf Dahlen, Niko Kapanen, Rob DiMaio, Stu Barnes, Claude Lemieux, Kirk Muller, Manny Malhotra...you got some backchecking there or what?
- I figured this was coming. 37 year old Martin Brodeur matches numbers with a former starter and a current split-time goaltender. I'm not fans of Weekes or Clemmensen, but Weekes is trying to keep his career alive and Clemmensen is basically trying to start his (this was an audition for his future), it's so inconceivable they squeaked out a decent half a year? At least one that's in line with a 37 year old goalie? While the numbers were equal, Brodeur did register a shutout every six starts when he played that year...those other two numbskulls combined for 2 in 52 combined starts. Worth anything?
Maybe if you had something in his prime with a good sample size I'd be more inclined to go down this road. But I don't see how half of the 2009 season has anything to do with Jacques Lemaire and the trap and his being protected a decade before...it seems like a non-sequitur argument...the beef with Marty was he benefitted from playing behind the trap in the late 90's and the proof is excavated out of the 2009 season? [Law & Order "dun, dun" sound effect] I think it's a cold case here, Barnaby Jones...
I mean, look at Patrick Roy when he was 37: 1.94 GAA, .925 save pct. --- David Aebischer: 1.88 GAA, .931 save pct. I mean, it's a fun game to play, but I'm not sure what it's proving exactly, to be both honest and respectful.
- Not respecting the Hart Trophy because Pronger (who was otherworldly that season) won it over a guy that missed a quarter of the games (how valuable can he be in games that he didn't play?) and Theodore tying Iginla for it when it was debated then and still debated to this day which one deserved it (even the voters themselves didn't distinguish) seems like a strange way to neglect a prestigious trophy that has been presented since 1923 if memory serves...but I can't say that I don't have my own quirks about things too...
- You're the goalie guy, I'm not going to try to microscope the pushing off of each goaltender in the league - to be perfectly honest, the finite technical things in goaltending are above my pay grade. I feel I have a decent grasp of the basics, I feel I have a decent eye for goalie talent at a base level (good prediction rate for guys making the show) but a goalie coach I am not. I'll concede the point.
- The only thing I will say about Hiller is that it's not goal scoring preventing him from making the playoffs, in the years he's failed to get his team into the postseason the Ducks were 8th, 11th, and 24th (yeah, this year they laid an egg) in goals for. By definition, that's above average offensive support.
Contrast that with Luongo who got (rank in terms of goals for): 24th, 27th, 29th, 23rd, 22nd; Vokoun got: 20th, 17th, 28th, 27th. So, roughly no offensive support.
Interestingly, two players that are not well-respected in this thread (Scott Clemmensen and Jose Theodore) worked the Panthers into a playoff team and division winner with a 25th ranked offense! That's statistics for ya, huh?


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Louis Vuitton's sales in Korea slump
SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN) - Luxury brand Louis Vuitton has fallen behind its rivals in the South Korean market, with sales dipping into minus territory this year, industry data showed Monday.
The sales growth rate of Louis Vuitton has backtracked this year at the nation's major department stores, losing its market prestige as one of the most desired luxury brands, industry sources said Monday.
According to market insiders, sales of the French luxury brand at a department store between January and October slipped 5.3 percent from the same period last year, while that of its rival luxury brands, Chanel and Hermes, rose 11.2 percent and 16.5 percent, respectively. At another department store, sales of Louis Vuitton dropped 2.1 percent while Chanel and Hermes respectively surged 13.7 percent and 17.1 percent. The department stores were not identified.
Louis Vuitton Korea, the local importer and distributor of the French fashion and jewelry brand, operates as a limited company here and is therefore not required to disclose its sales records. Chanel Korea and Hermes Korea are also not obligated to do so. Louis Vuitton Korea was launched as an incorporated company, but it became a limited company in 2012 in the face of public criticism over its low corporate outreach despite considerable profits here.
The French fashion house has enjoyed popularity in the recent past, targeting young women with its monogram series. Market insiders say Louis Vuitton appears to have lost some of the brand value from its rarity, focusing on bags priced 2 million won ($1,790) that have become an affordable range for customers in the luxury segment. Meanwhile, Hermes and Chanel have targeted the higher end segment, keeping their price range within the highest level of the market.


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President's address outlines opportunities, challenges (09-30)
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End-of-life decisions and the Terri Schiavo case explored (09-27)
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Family's musical monologue to raise breast cancer awareness (09-24)
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Your ticket to Margaret Atwood (09-24)
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Keating archives at Emory (09-23)
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Professor supports scholarships (09-22)
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Issue No. 05 - September/October (2002 vol. 14)
pp: 1078-1094

Abstract—Materialization is a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern for conceptual modeling that relates a class of categories (e.g., models of cars) and a class of more concrete objects (e.g., individual cars). This paper presents materialization as a generic relationship between two classes of objects and describes an abstract implementation of it. The presentation is abstract in that it is not targeted at a specific object system. The target system is supposed to provide: 1) basic object-modeling facilities, supplemented with an explicit metaclass concept and 2) operations for dynamic schema evolution like creation or deletion of a subclass of a given class and modification of the type of an attribute of a class. The presentation is generic in that the semantics of materialization is implemented in a metaclass, which is a template to be instantiated in applications. Application classes are created as instances of the metaclass and they are thereby endowed with structure and behavior consistent with the generic semantics of materialization.

Conceptual modeling, generic relationship, object orientation, metaclass, materialization, inheritance.
M. Dahchour, A. Pirotte and E. Zimányi, "Materialization and Its Metaclass Implementation," in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, vol. 14, no. , pp. 1078-1094, 2002.


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In that same year, the College Board used the December 2012 exam internationally in January of 2014, an exam that previously had been recycled on at least two occasions both in the U.S. and elsewhere, even despite overwhelming evidence obtained from the South Korean Prosecutors' Office of South Korea, District of Yeok-sam-dong (Prosecutor **** oversaw the confiscation and seizure of illegal materials from at least 44 teachers/academies in South Korea, 2013 and this exam was one of many included in that blacklist) that the exam was seriously compromised and should never be used again.
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As I've mentioned before, I love Tilapia. It is such as easy fish to prepare and so versatile. This recipe is one of my family's favorites. I found this online some time ago but I really am not sure where I found it out.
You will need:
4 Tilapia Filets (fresh or thawed if frozen)
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 Tablespoons Honey
2 Tablespoons Lime Juice
2 Garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup of flour
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil (for frying)
Season the tilapia fillets with the salt and pepper. Place them in a large baking dish or ziplock bag.
Mix together the olive oil, honey, lime juice, and garlic and pour over the fish. Allow to marinate for 1 hour.
In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat the oil. Dredge each fillet in the flour until coated. Making sure the oil in the pan is hot, place the fillets in the pan and cook until flaky and crisp on each side. It took about 3-4 minutes per side for mine.
Remove Tilapia from the pan and place on a plate with a paper towel to absorb the oil from the fish. I mixed up some more of the honey and lime juice to drizzle over the fish.
Serve and enjoy!
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's lead role in Snowden is a dramatization of the documentary Citizen Four, a semi-autobiographical movie of Edward Snowden's journey from his time as a CIA/NSA employee to private contractor to whistleblower who is forced to take exile in Russia. Snowden is quite the movie, though it is not a replacement of Citizen Four by any means. It is an interesting dramatization of Snowden's journey that sheds light on his cause differently than perhaps Snowden would want.
The movie, for example, brings out some elements which Snowden himself presumably wanted left untouched. One example of this is the omission of his relationship with his girlfriend who is constantly and purposefully left out of his battles "for her safety". Though Edward Snowden's decision to leave her out of it, "for her protection" as he details in his documentary, is understandable, the movie teases out the tension resulting from his decision not to involve her in the form of the constant fights they have over his "odd" and "secretive" attitude as well as his paranoia. Other times it is more obvious, such as the moment Snowden decides to go off the grid in preparation for contacting journalists and going public about the US mass surveillance program of the world at large. Yet his girlfriend surprises him when he tells her she should go stay with her parents; she replies that if he is going to be gone it would only be noticed faster if she goes to her parents' house. It turns out that she can think in the same way he does, and can come up with helpful suggestion. This form of comradery stands out as opposed to Snowden's decision to go on his crusade alone with his patronizing attitude in order "to protect" his girlfriend. Perhaps had she known all along they could have shared more moments together, and perhaps she could have even helped Snowden where he least expected it. The movie – as opposed to the documentary – does a good job at problematizing the idea of the self-righteous genius whistle-blower on his lonely crusade.
Though the dramatization of the movie is sure to give away some of the documentary's own zealous message, there are instances where it was worth it. In the documentary it is made clear that the system is rigged in favor of the government's decision to spy on the whole world. In the movie there is a patriotic element to the CIA that engages in a lesser of two evils argument that supports preemptive mass surveillance in order to prevent the next 9/11; this of course makes it seem like the US does not have an imperial agenda of its own. Yet what was welcome, however, was the dramatization of the inaccessible technical details of the mass surveillance program in the documentary. This was achieved through a climactic scene when Snoweden is having sex with his girlfriend and he notices her laptop is still open with the front camera pointed towards them. He is aggravated and is reminded of that spying program that taps into devices and turns them on to use their camera and microphone, while mimicking that the device is still closed.
Another interesting dramatization was the portrayal of the labyrinth bureaucratization of spying on the entire world. The viewer gets a sense of how these genius programmers go about their lives, spying on any unsuspecting victim they target. It casts this act of spying as banal and day-to-day; one sees the 'bro' with his mullet hair, goatee and cargo pants walk around normally on a US military base designed solely to spy, the US base being the Kunia Regional Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) Operations center in Hawai. This sense of day-to-day regularity of such an intrusive job is not without complication; at a barbeque party an interesting discussion plays out where these spy-bureaucrats reflect on their job. One begins talking about how he was disturbed to know when he was running technical support mission to a drone strike in the Middle East, it turned out that the successful 'hit' actually took the lives of innocent village dwellers. This results in a discussion of whose fault it is, and whether these technicians have any responsibility, at which point a toy drone at the barbeque malfunctions and begins to descend rapidly. Snowden, who throughout the entire discussion was nervous and sweating, falls and has a seizure when the drone hits the ground. The parallel of Snowden experiencing this sort miniature version of a drown strike helps the viewer appreciate the point that these bureaucrats are not without responsibility. Technology fails.
While the movie is Hollywood's version of Snowden's odyssey, it is nonetheless worth seeing, if only for Congress's attempt to halt its screening by releasing the first glimpse into the investigation of the fallout from Snowden's revelations one day before the movie's opening.


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Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" was originally self-published.
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Stones have been valuable for humans since time immemorial. They were one of the first tools for defence when we were evolving and surviving the wild. Some of our oldest monuments are built by stones, no wonder, because they may have seemed formidable as well as eternal to our ancestors. And some of them stood out in this function. The pretty gemstones with their tenacious strength as well as the quality to attract light may have seemed like something divine.
And they continue to fascinate us. Even to this day we assign them names, and have seemed to have developed a science describing how they affect us. Whether they really do so or not may be a matter of debate. But here is an entire website describing qualities of gemstones and their healing qualities as described in a branch of Ayurveda.


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Arcade Cabinet
As a kid growing up, I was a big fan of video games. I came across a slew of DIY forums that explained how enthusiasts were building their own arcade cabinets and playing thousands of classic games on them. So, I designed a plywood cabinet to house an old computer, CRT monitor, spare arcade parts, PC speakers and connected them all with a plug and play USB circuit board to read retro arcade game files. The result was too much fun that consumed too many evenings, so I sold it…..but there plans for a new LCD version.


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Ah business cards. We get them, but what the heck do we do with them?
You can scan then with a document scanner of course, but there are some great mobile apps to capture cards on the fly. For example, at a conference, it's nice to be able to have everything captured in your hotel room.
The nice people at IntSig hooked me up with a review copy of CamCard for iPhone, their business card scanning app. It is in the App Store and seems to vary between $2.99 and $6.99, but there is a free Lite version to try it out. For you Androids out there, there is also an Android version available.
With that out of the way, how does CamCard work?
Like all business scanning apps, CamCard uses your phone's camera to take a picture of the card, and then it processes it.
For best results, you line up the card in the targets as shown below.
The software has a super helpful Batch Mode. When you set this, you can quickly go through capturing a stack of cards, and then it processes them all later. I raced through my stack this way, and it was great.
After you save the captures, it goes through and processes them. All the processing happens on the phone, and your cards don't get sent to the cloud or anything (unless you want them to – more on that later).
OCR is never 100% perfect, but I found the results of CamCard to be quite good. On "traditional" business cards with a standard layout, it was almost perfect.
With some of my business cards that do not have a normal layout, it did a good job capturing most of the information, but sometimes I did need to go in and fix the names. It is certainly better than having to type all that stuff in by hand.
The Help says that for best recognition results, have lots of light and have the card fill the screen inside the target areas.
Cloud Sync
CamCard isn't just an app. The company provides an optional Cloud Sync server. If you sign up for it, all your cards are synchronized up to their server, and you can access your cards on any iOS device, Android device, or online.
Unfortunately CamCard doesn't seem to be compatible with my Samsung Galaxy Player so I couldn't test the Android part, but here is the information on their site:
If you are going to use CamCard, I recommend either using their Cloud Server or exporting the card information some other way. If something happens to your iPhone or iPod Touch, you don't want to lose your contacts.
Contact Export
Speaking of exporting, when you are saving your cards you can have them export to your Address Book on your phone, to iCloud, to Gmail, or to Exchange.
From the list of cards, you can also export one or multiple cards to CSV, Excel, or vCard.
Card Holder
When your cards are in CamCard, they are saved in what they call the Card Holder.
From the list of cards, if you long-tap one of the cards you can instantly phone, SMS, or e-mail the contact.
When you drill down into a card, you can do the same as well as open up their website, and search LinkedIn or request to add them as a contact.
The LinkedIn thing works quite well. I feel sad for those other guys that are stuck with my name.
I am (thankfully) not someone who has to deal with a lot of business cards, but if I was, I quite like CamCard. It is polished, easy to use, and the OCR is pretty good for something that is not done by humans.
Do you use a business card app on your mobile device? Which one and how do you like it?


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Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.
Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini, whose vocalist and saxophone player, John Parish, would become her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional career. The trio released two studio albums, Dry (1992) and Rid of Me (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further six studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including John Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.
Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and Let England Shake (2011) respectively—the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice—eight BRIT Award nominations, six Grammy Award


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Letter, James R. Mead to My dear Mother
December 25, 1860
In this letter addressed to his mother, James Mead wrote about his life out on the frontier near the Saline River, Kansas Territory. He assured her that he had plenty of groceries, including sugar, meal, flour, beans and apples, as well as coffee and tea. He also informed her that he had sent the family a load of buffalo meat and robes, and he discussed the local fur trade, listing different animals in the area. Mead spoke briefly of his long term plans, stating that he would ultimately like to go into stock raising. Throughout the letter, he emphasized the flourishing trade going on in Kansas, in one instance writing that "everybody trades."
Keywords: Bison; Food; Holidays; Hunting; Kansas Frontier; Mead, James R.; Prices; Salina, Kansas Territory; Saline County, Kansas Territory
Authors: Mead, James R.
Letter, James [Mead] to My dear Father
January 11, 1861
In this letter, James R. Mead wrote to his father concerning his buffalo hunting and trading. He had just returned from a trading trip, but he did not know what to do with all of the robes, so he planned to send them to his father. He included some advice about the best way to care for and sell these robes. He was hoping to come home to Davenport, Iowa for a visit in the spring, but only if the fur prices were on the rise; in a few days he was heading north to get more furs.
Keywords: Bison; Business enterprises; Clothing and dress; Indian traders; Kansas Frontier; Mead, James R.; Prices; Salina, Kansas Territory
Authors: Mead, James R.
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