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Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, a 36-year-old attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, will be nominated by President Obama to become the nation's 19th surgeon general.
In a White House statement, Obama announced his intention Thursday to name Murthy to the position. If approved by the US Senate, Murthy, who helped found and run a number of medical organizations, would assume the role of America's chief doctor at a trying time for the Obama administration's health care policy.
The federal website established under the Affordable Care Act, healthcare.gov, continues to be plagued by bugs, and the administration has struggled this week to address complaints that citizens with health insurance that does not meet the act's standards are losing their policies.
Just hours before Murthy's nomination was announced, Obama said in a press conference that he will allow health insurance companies to provide coverage that falls short of the new standards for one year, giving some relief to those losing out.
Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, a fellow and managing director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, said Murthy had long supported health care reform.
"For years, really, on his own time, he has dedicated himself to health insurance, to health coverage for people who are needy, and been a tireless advocate for the president's Affordable Care Act," said Sanghavi, a Brookline resident.
Sanghavi said Murthy would be an adept spokesman for the plan, which had been reviled by congressional Republicans before its recent setbacks.
"I think that, especially given where we're at now, the difficulties with the rollout of the exchange, [Obama is] looking for somebody who is an effective advocate for his health care plan," Sanghavi said. "[Murthy] understands the act very well. He's hugely supportive of it, and he has some of the real skills to bring together patients and physicians to support it, even in tough times."
Murthy, a Brookline resident originally from Miami, was vacationing with family and could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Dr. Betsy Nabel, president of Brigham and Women's, said in a statement that Murthy would be "an exceptional surgeon general."
"We share a belief that access to quality health care is a basic human right," Nabel said. "I am confident that he will be a passionate advocate and that he will have an extraordinary impact as our nation's surgeon general."
Dr. Allen B. Kachalia, associate chief quality officer for the hospital, said in response to e-mailed questions that Murthy had devoted much of his adult life to building coalitions and improving access.
"Not only is Dr. Murthy a great clinician, he has long been organizing efforts to help improve health care since he was in college," Kachalia said. "He has repeatedly shown that he can build grass-roots efforts and bring people together to create meaningful change."
In 2009, Murthy founded Doctors for America, which is composed of 16,000 doctors and medical students across the country and states that its mission is to improve the quality of health and health care.
The organization has been a strong advocate of the Affordable Care Act both before and after its passage, according to the group's website. Murthy, who has served as president of Doctors for America since its inception, was present when Obama signed the bill into law, the group said.
On Wednesday, the organization's executive director, Dr. Alice Chen, reasserted its support for the law after its controversial rollout.
"We know there is still much work to be done to reach the millions of uninsured Americans who are not aware of the new options now available," Chen said in a statement.
She congratulated Murthy for the nomination in a statement Thursday.
"He has a tremendous dedication and commitment to improving the lives and health of Americans," Chen said. "He brings two decades of experience as a champion in improving health, building coalitions, and bringing diverse people together to bring better health to communities."
Murthy also serves on the US Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, which was created by the Affordable Care Act. He was appointed to the group by Obama in 2011, the White House said.
Murthy attended Harvard University as an undergraduate. He has a doctor of medicine degree and a master's degree in business administration from Yale University.
In 2007, he founded TrialNetworks, a technology company, the White House said. The company designs applications for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to use in clinical trials, according to the its website. Murthy is chairman of TrialNetwork's board.
In 1995, Murthy founded VISIONS Worldwide, a nonprofit dedicated to education on HIV and AIDS in India, said the White House statement.
A spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health could not be reached for comment on the nomination late Thursday night.
The nomination was one of five announced Thursday. In a statement, Obama praised the nominees.
"I am confident that these outstanding individuals will greatly serve the American people in their new roles, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years to come," the president said.
The nominations included Marc Kastner, dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be director of the Office of Science in the US Department of Energy.
Travis Anderson of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at jeremy.fox@ globe.com. Nicholas Jacques can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bantering: Now You Can Get Women, Be Social and Have a Blast at the Same Time
What's up guys. Today I want to talk to you about banter. Banter is awesome in every way, and I want to show you how you can use it to experience amazing things in your own life.
Banter is often confused with flirting, but the two concepts are not exactly the same. Banter would be defined as a playful conversation, where as flirting is more of a sexual interaction. You can banter with your friends, but you most likely wouldn't flirt with them.
So this post is not about flirting. It's about bantering, and bantering only.
You can banter with someone in any situation imaginable. At the office, at the bus-stop, at the party, at a restaurant… Where there are people, there is a banter possibility.
Why banter just works
Banter is by definition lighthearted and fun – and it should definitely be kept that way. When you banter with someone, you are having fun. You are getting out of your head and into your body. And so are they!
This is where the magic happens. You start thawing that natural barrier that exists between two human beings that do not know one another yet. When they start having fun, laughing and smiling, the whole atmosphere warms up. You create less friction and resistance – and as you may know, most people are like water… They take the path of least resistance!
When you create this positive energy around yourself, it will be very natural for others to join in on your conversation, and everything will just seem to glide smoothly.
Before you know it, there will be people all around you doing just one thing: having fun. Now that is what I call magic.
I know this all sounds very easy to do, but you probably also think that it can't possibly be. Bantering really is easy though – you just have to learn it J
How to banter successfully (and how I did just a few days ago!)
Think about the last time you had a really fun conversation with someone. The jokes were flying and so were the big grins. Think hard. How was the energy and the mood?
Let me tell you about the last time I had a really good conversation with someone. It was at the postal office, and I was there to ship a big Christmas present filled with sweets to one of my really good girl-friends.
I arrived with a mate of mine, and when we stepped in, we were already in a damn good mood. The postal office was about to close, so there weren't many folks around.
We wrapped the present in present-paper, and taped the whole thing up. Problem was, I am not a good taper and neither is my friend. To be frank, we're horrible tapers. So we got some help. We were in such a good mood and the whole scene was so hilarious that we had a fantastic time with the girl helping us taping the thing up because we couldn't do it ourselves. It was a huge mess, but since all the employees at the postal office didn't have any other customers to take care off, we got a lot of attention. It didn't take long before everyone working there were helping us wrapping our present and taping it. It was a huge huge mess, but we had a ridiculous amount of fun.
When it was time to pay for the shipping, we also bought what in an English translation from Danish would be called 'Christmas marks'. This is something we usually put on our Christmas-presents when we send them by mail here in Denmark, and the price of them goes to charitable organizations. Usually, you would buy them for about a dollar. We bought for at least 10 dollars, and we plastered them all over the already well-taped present. This just reinforced the amazing atmosphere in the place, with the employees praising us for helping the kids with these Christmas marks, etc. etc.
Even though some of the details of this little story might have passed over your head, since some of the things included might have been very Danish (I don't know how you ship presents by mail in the U.S!), the take away lesson is this:
Have fun. Smile. Joke. Banter! To break the ice, ask some 'easy' questions like how the business has been for the day or something similar. When you start having an actual conversation, it's much easier to poke at something he or she said, joke with it a bit and take it from there.
An example from my little story from before could be that we had taped the present with enough tape to run around the Great Wall of China or to the moon. You could also say that the present would now weigh a ton because of all the excess wrapping!
(I'm sorry for not taking a photo of the present… It really was a monster. It was big beforehand, but when we finally shipped it, the size of it had literally doubled just from wrapping and taping!)
What you need to have success bantering
You need very little to banter successfully. You just a need a good mood and an open mind.
Bantering should be very natural and should not in any way be forced. If you feel that you or the other person is not in the mood for bantering at all, don't do it. You can only thaw a person up to the temperature in the room, if you get my figure of speech…
A crucial thing when bantering is to not in any way expect any result. The only things on your mind (if anything!) should be fun, fun, socializing and more fun.
It's really about coming from an 'enjoying myself – entertainment' mode, more than a 'creepy pick up' mode. If you do so, people will genuinely want to hang out with you, because people always want to hang out with people who are having fun and and make them feel good.
So when I say that you should be open minded, it really means that you should not be attached to any outcomes. Don't worry about that cute girl too much and don't freeze up all of a sudden.
When it comes to girls! Yeah baby
The most amazing thing about bantering is that you don't have to be particularly good with girls to have success with them. They will come to you.
If you banter successfully at a party or at a similar venue, and you end up having a whole crowd around you just having fun, you will be very attractive to girls… Not just because you seem popular and stuff like that, but also because you will have a vibrant glow around you from being so much in your own body and being so carefree and being so happy.
On top of this, bantering will also in a quick way make you more open and vulnerable, simply because you from being in such a good state will worry less about your insecurities and about what you are saying. Ka-ching!
To conclude
Bantering is freakin' awesome. It makes you feel good, it makes others feel good and ain't that just beautiful?!
To banter, be in a great mood. We'll talk about how to get in a great mood very soon, so don't worry too much about that. Actually keep all worries out of your body and mind.
Joke around and try to get everyone involved. Introduce people to each other. Be unattached to any outcome and be open to anything.
That is basically it.
In the comments…
I would really like to hear a story about when you last were in a really great mood and had a lot of fun with a lot of people (preferably people you didn't know at that time!)
Looking forward to hearing from you below,
Bonus: if you feel up for it, try introducing yourself as 'Sexy Yourname' the next time you meet a girl and you are already in a good state. For example, I would say "Hi, I'm Sexy Alex". If you are a whole group and you are doing this, it's even better. The girls will definitely think that there is something interesting and intriguing about you if you pull this one of right.
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From a Dodgers press release:
The Los Angeles Dodgers will maintain its $10 parking price in 2014 to those fans that purchase parking in advance for the upcoming season. The charge for those without an advance parking pass will be $15.photo by Richard Hartog/LA Times
"The fan experience is of paramount importance to the Dodgers," said Dodgers' President & CEO Stan Kasten. "We have been examining ways to improve our traffic flow at Dodger Stadium. We feel one of the best ways to expedite movement through the auto gates is for fans to have a prepaid parking pass when they arrive at Dodger Stadium. Transaction times will be improved."
The Dodgers also will offer premium parking in advance at $35 and for $50 at the gate.
Dodger fans that have bought individual game tickets are encouraged to go online to purchase parking for the games they are planning to attend. Season ticket holders and mini-plan holders who did not purchase parking can take advantage of even a more reduced parking price by calling 323-DODGERS.
The Dodgers are continuing to study other transportation improvements and parking enhancements to improve ingress and egress and will have a few new initiatives in place at the opening of the season. Among the changes for the 2014 season are:
- Restriping the many lots, modifying circulation patterns and improved on-site signage.
- Added bike racks to encourage bicycles as an alternative mode of transportation to Dodger Stadium
- Enhance and promotion of the use of public bus on Sunset Boulevard and better marketing at the Metro Gold Line Chinatown and Red Line Hollywood Stations
- More and clearer way-finding signage directing traffic to underutilized gates
- Additional on-site parking spaces
The Dodgers are working closely with LA Metro and the city of Los Angeles on the many transportation alternatives that serve Union Station and that will connect fans to the Dodger Stadium Express. Last year, the Dodgers, the City of Los Angeles and LA Metro added a dedicated bus lane on Sunset Boulevard from Union Station to Elysian Park Avenue. Dodger game day tickets are honored as payment to ride the bus service and the shuttle operates 90 minutes before the game and 45 minutes after the game. For specific route and schedule information, fans can visit www.metro.net or call 323.GO.METRO.
For further information on Dodger parking, visit www.dodgers.com/parking or call the Dodgers' ticket office at 323-DODGERS.


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It has been but five weeks since Live 8. I thought this a reasonable time period to wait before reminding people about Africa.
I was horrified at how much the media bought into the concept, especially the broadsheets, who can usually be depended upon to speak up with a level of baulk or at least have an opinion beyond the press release. Alas, the line was duly toed by all and sundry. Something was amiss.
Few of my generation will remember anything of the original Live Aid and as such can not really compare it to its recent successor but what is known is that twenty years ago the event saved thousands and thousands of lives through direct aid.
The money raised was spent on emergency supplies to slow the famines of the time and then more long-term plans were implemented, involving water programmes and other amenities such as the implementation of school and hospital systems.
There are many that are opposed to concept of 'aid', claiming that it is ultimately disruptive and causes further dependency in the future but, in the case of Live Aid, that means bugger all because lives were saved. Surely that matters?
Live 8, on the other hand, held a more major, more contemporary weapon against famine in The Petition. Eh? EH? How many lives are a few thousand signatures going to save? Oh no. These aren't actually going to save lives, but they will "raise awareness" to the problems that Africa is facing right now. Right?
This obviously means that everyone now knows the names of the countries that are in trouble? Any sort of trouble: famine; war; drought; poverty, debt. Name me five. Name me one.
Don't forget that the main target of this War On Ignorance was the G8 summit. Did the world leaders have revelations of magnanimous proportions? Is everything out in the open? Did anything happen? Was there even any backlash from the media against these reckless political martyrs? Do you remember any?
The levels of sycophancy and self-gain attitudes surrounding this debacle were simply astounding. In the wake of the news that Bob Geldof is now receiving up to £50,000 to go give talks wherever he is hired it is not difficult to see who was in it for what purpose.
Sure, Geldof does plenty more charity work and apparently 'raises awareness' over a number of topics but nothing comes for free. The rather dishevelled face of Live 8 is testament to that.
And what of those who performed at the event? Why were they there? What did they really believe in? Was it merely shameless self-promotion with the amiable aside of helping the poor Africans. Did they really believe that singing a couple of golden hits from their heyday would help?
This was all merely a façade for the furthering and prolonging of this current level of capitalism. The strong lefties have long campaigned against aid for poverty because they know that the only way for capitalism to survive is in the presence of poverty elsewhere.
Live 8 managed to allow The People to believe that they've really done something about ridding the world of horrible poverty by watching their favourite band play a couple of numbers and buying a white wristband. Now they've done their bit, they can forget about Africa.
Just as you had done before you started reading this article. Live 8 will have been heralded a resounding success, whereas all it has actually achieved is allowing Africa to continue in the same poverty as before, just with fewer people talking about it.


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Calpian Receives Funding for Expansion of U.S. Residual Purchases
Calpian Receives Funding for Expansion of U.S. Residual Purchases
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Calpian, Inc. (OTCQB:CLPI), a Dallas, Texas-based publicly traded company in the payments processing industry with emerging market mobile payment operations in Mumbai, India, announced today it has entered into a $5.0 million, 43-month term loan facility with an unrelated lender to refinance existing debt and acquire additional credit card residuals in the U.S. The lender, Granite Hill Capital Ventures, LLC (GHCV,) is a private debt fund based in Silicon Valley.
According to Calpian CFO David Pilotte, the credit facility was structured to provide for a syndicate of additional lenders, and the Company anticipates this is the first step in building a larger credit facility as additional lenders are identified.
"Being involved with Granite Hill is particularly valuable to Calpian as GHCV Managing General Partner, Mr. Shailesh Mehta, also manages the Granite Hill India Opportunity Fund (GHIOF), and thus understands the nature of our business both in the U.S. and in India," said Calpian CEO, Harold Montgomery. "Granite Hill sees our U.S. credit card residual business as a terrific cash flow generator with solid returns. With this facility we will be able to grow the U.S. part of our business, complementing our efforts to grow our Indian-based subsidiary, which offers the Money-on-Mobile product - a prepaid mobile payments service. We could not have found a better lending partner at this exciting stage of Calpian's development."
Shailesh Mehta is the former chairman and CEO of Providian Financial. As a long time key player in the payments industry, Mehta has served on the boards of companies including Providian, MasterCard, Hannover Direct and PayPal, and currently serves on the board of payment startup, Accounts Now. He also serves on boards of several private and public companies in India including First Source Solution (Chairman), Manappuram Finance and Safari Industries Ltd. With his experience in both the U.S. and Indian markets, Mehta appreciates the Calpian strategy and adds, "We are pleased to have entered into an agreement with Calpian and are impressed with the quality of team. "
About Granite Hill:
Granite Hill Capital Ventures, LLC is a debt and special opportunity fund with portfolios in both India and the U.S. The debt deals funded by GHCV include, among others, Three Bears of Alaska, OSI Consulting and Smart Furniture. Private equity deals in India include ASG (India) Ltd., Safari Industries (India) Ltd. and Account Now. Granite Hill is distinguished by its deep operating experience, its U.S. and Indian investment track record and the strong business network of its partners.
About Calpian:
Calpian, Inc. (OTC:CLPI) is a publicly traded company with corporate offices in Dallas, Texas and mobile payments emerging-market operations through its subsidiary in India. Calpian's U.S. business focuses on the 10,000 Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) that serve approximately two million small merchants across all industries in the U.S. who pay an estimated $1 billion in annual residuals. Calpian's Indian subsidiary offers Money-on-Mobile, a pre-paid mobile payment solution, to more than 110,000 Indian retail locations. Calpian's management team has over 70 years in combined experience in the payments business. Calpian's CEO, Harold Montgomery, is a recognized industry leader who has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and Federal Reserve Bank on payments-related issues and regularly appears in numerous industry publications, such as Transaction World Magazine. Please visit our website at www.calpian.com for more information.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release are forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or to the Company's future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Investors should not place any undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects the Company's current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to operations, results of operations, growth strategy, liquidity, and building a larger credit facility. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could impact the Company and the forward-looking statements contained herein are included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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Release Date: 9/23/2014
Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
Actors:Jerzy Trela,Agata Kulesza,Agata Trzebuchowska,Dawid Ogrodnik,Adam Szyszkowski,Halina Skocznska
Description:From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes IDA, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. 18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. In this beautifully directed film, Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, IDA is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment IDA is also personal, intimate, and human. The weight of history is everywhere, but the scale falls within the scope of a young woman learning about the secrets of her own past. This intersection of the personal with momentous historic events makes for what is surely one of the most powerful and affecting films of the year.


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Clive Hamilton is an author and Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Stuart University and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia. He has been writing about the ethics of climate change, and climate denial.
In his interesting talk, Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change, one of the points he makes is the importance and difference of a social-ecological perspective:
Developments in climate science have revealed a natural world so influenced by human activity that the epistemological division between nature and society can no longer be maintained. When global warming triggers feedback effects, such as melting permafrost and declining albedo from ice-melt, will we be seeing nature at work or human intervention? The mingling of the natural and the human has philosophical as well as practical significance, because the "object" has been contaminated by the "subject".
Climate denial can be understood as a last-ditch attempt to re-impose the Enlightenment's allocation of humans and Nature to two distinct realms, as if the purification of climate science could render Nature once again natural, as if taking politics out of science can take humans out of Nature. The irony is that it was Enlightenment science itself, in the rules laid down by the Royal Society, that objectified the natural world, putting it on the rack, in Bacon's grisly metaphor, in order to extract its secrets. We came to believe we could keep Nature at arms-length, but have now discovered, through the exertions of climate science, something pre- moderns took for granted, that Nature is always too close for comfort.
For more see his book, Requeim for a Species, or his related talk at the UK's RSA – Facing up to Climate Change.


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Emma Creighton gives us the download from a disappointing leg 1 of her and partner Dan Dytch's Les Sables – Horta – Les Sables Race in their new Class 40, Momentum Ocean Racing. Track them here. And follow Emma's fun Facebook page here.
We'd stayed too far north at Finistere, so were already behind. Rather than just following the rest, we took a bit of a gamble and went south afterwards. Our weather forecasts showed more wind down there later on, plus a big left shift. Neither of those things really happened, so by the time we got to the islands, we were still holding down 12th or 13th place, and had lost even more on the leaders. Not great, but we knew where we'd gone wrong, and had come to terms with it.
The race committee sends out position reports to the fleet at 0600, 1000, 1400, and 1800, and at the 1800 report on the 9th, Seb, Jorg and Earwin were almost to Horta, with Halvard and Miranda and Red close behind. Then there was a big cluster north of Terciera.
Well, that's that, we thought. They'll all be there by the morning report, we won't, we've caught back up a bit, but not enough.
But at 0600, we were coming in south of Terciera (we'd decided to go south of the islands days before, as part of our setting up to the south plan, and thinking there might be more breeze down there, cause the forecasts said there might be), and there was a big pack parked north of the Island, and no one had finished yet.
We knew not to get our hopes up, but we did anyway. No matter what, we'd compressed back on the fleet a lot, and as the overall race score is a combination of time from both legs, we thought maybe if we got a bit closer in finish times, we'd have a shot at the next leg….
And then we parked South of Terciera for a few hours.
We finally got some breeze, and had a beautiful sunny upwind sail across to the gap between São GEorge and Pico, averaging 8 knots, feeling smug as we watched the AIS. Strangely we could see boats 60 miles away (like Halvard and Miranda, Red, Jorg and Earwin), but closer boats that we could see with our eyes weren't showing up on there. Anyway, Seb finished at 10-something AM, and the other leaders were struggling, never doing more than 4 knots.
Earwin had gone between Pico and São George, and ended up third, so we had hopes that maybe, just maybe, we could get through there too, while the rest of the northern pack stayed parked north of São George… but as soon as we got to the channel, the breeze shut off completely. We had more than a knot of current against us, so slowly made our way to the cliffs of São George, where we found a little bit of breeze, and some pretty waterfalls. These islands are amazingly beautiful, and sometimes I was able to appreciate that as we drifted along next to the black rocks and green cliffs, with dolphins all around.
At this point, the main battens started to be a problem. In order to have any shape in the main at all, we have to have the top three battens tight enough that they don't like light air jibes and tacks. In the past, we've tried sending Dan up to kick them through, without a lot of success. We've found more recently that the best method is to just drop the main, and then hoist it again, pushing the battens to the right side as it goes. I'm just guessing, but I'd say we dropped and hoisted the main about 20 times in the final 24 hours.
At one point the breeze filled into the middle, and for a beautiful hour we were sailing absolutely in the right direction, with 5 knots of boat speed in 7 knots of wind, wing on wing with the code zero.
But that was only an hour.
As it started to get dark, we made our way to the Pico shoreline, figuring thereºd be land breeze there, and watched sadly as most of the other boats arrived to the north west tip of são george and started turning the corner to Horta. By the time we finished short tacking up the Pico coast in the tiny band of 6 knots of land breeze, we knew we hadn't caught anyone, and were just getting on with it.
We had a nice little sail across from Pico to Horta, code zero in 7 knots of wind and the sun coming up, and finally finished in 13th at 0611, half an hour behind 12th.
So. onward. We start tomorrow for the return leg to Les Sables. It looks like light air, upwind. It should be a real nailbiter to watch on the tracker… Not. But it could be itneresting to see who goes right to the Portuguese coast for more wind, and who stays closer to rhumb line. We hope to have a better second leg, and maybe finish a bit closer to the front of the pack…we'll just see what happens and try to create our own luck! Thanks for checking in. – Emma.


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San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr held a news conference Wednesday mainly to ask for the public's help in solving the cold case. He released photographs of the person of interest hoping to jog peoples' memories. Homicide detectives at the briefing released information about his criminal history. It's a past that convinced investigators that this man may be responsible for the disappearance of Kevin Collins.
He was a man of many names and police say that's why they had such a tough time investigating him. He had at least five different aliases. "On April 16, 1981, Jackson was arrested under the name Wayne Jackson, in the Fisherman's Wharf area in San Francisco, for kidnapping and lewd acts on a child," said Lt. Tim Plyer said.
Jackson bailed out and never showed up for his court appearance. He was arrested six months later and spent six months in jail for that offense. Police say he used another one of his aliases when he was arrested in Canada nine years earlier. "Jackson was wanted in Canada under the name Raymond Williams Stewart for a 1973 incident where he allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted two juveniles," Plyer said.
He was released. Then, he fled the country. He successfully eluded arrest because he had changed his alias again once he returned to the Bay Area. He lived in the area mostly under the name Dan Therrien, the name he had when he died of natural causes in 2008.
Kevin vanished in February of 1984. He left basketball practice at the St. Agnes school gym and waited for a bus at Oak and Masonic, just one block away from Therrien's house. A nationwide search ensued. Kevin's picture was on the front of Newsweek and milk cartons. Volunteers scoured the city.
Two witnesses told police independently that they saw Kevin talking to a man with a dog. The first man said Kevin was at the bus stop. The second witness, who saw Kevin later, said the boy was in front of Therrien's home. Therrien, who had a pet dog, was question and his flat was searched a week after Kevin's disappearance, but police did not look in the backyard or the basement.
Last week, cadaver-sniffing dogs found some bones buried in the basement floor of the house. They were sent to the state lab for analysis although investigators from the medical examiner's office say they were probably from an animal. Still, Collins' family is stunned police never connected all these dots before.
"For the individual with five names who we now know had a history of molesting young boys," said Kevin's brother, Stephen Collins. "It seems like he should have been a stronger suspect back then."
ABC7 News learned Wednesday that at the time, police knew about the Fisherman's Wharf arrest which is why they questioned Therrien and searched his home. A subsequent photo spread produced no matches from the witnesses. It was also learned Wednesday that police only recently found about the arrests in Canada when the cold case unit began looking into the case.
"They said he was a person of interest in '84," said Kevin's aunt, Jackie Deasy. "Why didn't they connect that with the arrest made in 1981? Alias or no alias, they'd have fingerprints."
Kevin's uncle, Michael Deasy, added, "I'm not disparaging what they're doing now, they're doing everything they can, but we had an office right next door to where this guy was, we were there six months, and he was living there that whole time probably laughing at us."
Police say they are still analyzing the bones that were unearthed. Meanwhile the family says they've got to move on with no real closure.
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Exhibit on US Jews who helped refugees from Nazis
An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era.
NEW YORK (AP) — An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era.
The exhibition, "Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe's Refugees, 1933-41" will be on view for a year at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, located on Battery Place.
The museum says the show is one of the first major exhibits about the subject, including images, rare documents, first-person accounts and interactive presentations.
Strict quotas on U.S. visas made it difficult for refugees to get into the U.S. during the Nazi era. A debate has raged for decades about whether the U.S. Jewish community did enough to get Jews out, and whether the U.S. government policies that impeded their immigration were the result of anti-Semitism among U.S. officials, ignorance about the Jews' likely fate if they were not rescued, or, as some historians have argued, a matter of misguided wartime priorities.
But more than 200,000 Jews did leave Europe for the U.S. during the Nazi era, and the exhibit tells the story of how some of them made it out thanks to the ingenuity and resources of the American Jewish community.
Stories include that of William B. Thalhimer Sr., a Richmond, Va., department store owner who turned an old tobacco plantation into a working farm in Hyde Park, Va., where 36 Jewish immigrants lived and worked. Also featured in the exhibit is Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, who came to the U.S. from Laupheim, Germany, and helped bring many individuals from the Laupheim area to the U.S. The exhibit includes Laemmle's 1937 letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull expressing sympathy for German Jews.
The show includes a 1941 letter from Albert Einstein to Eleanor Roosevelt as well, in which Einstein condemned the State Department's "wall of bureaucratic measures alleged to be necessary to protect America against subversive, dangerous elements." Einstein helped found an organization that later became the International Rescue Committee.
Some of the refugee sponsors were well-connected individuals of means who were able to guarantee that those they brought to the U.S. would be provided for and not become public burdens. They helped find jobs for them and set up charities to pay for their medical care and other needs.
But there are also stories of average folks who stepped in to help. In one case, a European Jewish composer named Erich Zeisl wrote a letter to someone he found in the New York phone book with a similar name. They were not related, but the New Yorker, Morris Zeisel, a plumber, wrote back immediately and got the paperwork necessary to bring the composer and his wife over.
"We hope that 'Against the Odds' dispels misconceptions about American Jewish passivity during the Nazi period," Anita Kassof, the museum's deputy director, said in a press release. "It's true that American immigration law restricted the number of people admitted to the U.S. But within those limits, it was sometimes possible for dedicated and persistent people to bring refugees to safety." Some of the rescuers managed to save hundreds of people, but "each started out by bringing an individual or a single family to America," she added.
Not all of those who sought to get Jews out of Europe succeeded. "Against the Odds" also describes some of the failed efforts and those left behind.
The show also includes artifacts like photos, diaries, seed packets from the Virginia farm, and a beaded bracelet that refugee Lotte Henlein made as a Girl Scout in North Dakota. Henlein's uncle, Herman Stern, lived in North Dakota and encouraged all young immigrants to join the Scouts as a way of learning American values.
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AGAINST ALL ODDS: http://www.mjhnyc.org/againsttheodds . Exhibition through May 21, 2014 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place, Manhattan. Adults, $12; seniors, $10; students, $7; children 12 and under free. Closed Saturdays. Open Sunday-Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Perched on the banks of Lake Union and the edge of Portage Bay, this Seattle waterfront home for sale was quite unique! Seattle lakefront cottage with dock, Lake Union moorage, parking, a yard, and a Seattle floating home for sale – all on one lot! Listed By Seattle waterfront Realtors at Cooper Jacobs, this waterfront property sold last month for $600,000. From the listing in the NWMLS:
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Tonight's come-from-behind win was truly a team effort. Every member of the starting lineup got at least one hit (Will Middlebrooks led the way with three, and Che-Hsuan Lin got the first hit of his career) and eight of the nine starters scored a run. The Red Sox have won nine of their last 11 games.
After the Red Sox wiped out a three-run deficit and tacked on some insurance, the bullpen trio of Andrew Miller, Vicente Padilla, and Alfredo Aceves held the line. Padilla and Aceves were both working for the third game in a row.
Clay Buchholz (5.1-6-5-4-2, 94) retired the first six Orioles, but he imploded in the third, allowing three singles and three walks (two of which came with the bases loaded) before recording an out.
David Ortiz began the comeback in the sixth with a mammoth home run to right-center. Adrian Gonzalez doubled, but he had to stay put as Middlebrooks reached on an infield single to shortstop. A grounder to the right side moved the runners up and Evil Bert scored on Daniel Nava's sac fly. WMB took third on the sac and his gyrations along the third base line caused Tommy Hunter to balk him home, tying the game at 5-5.
Buchholz left in the sixth with one out and two Orioles on base, but Miller got two quick outs on only three pitches.
With one out in the top of the seventh, Mike Aviles singled to left, Dustin Pedroia doubled to right, and Ortiz was walked intentionally to load the bases. Gonzalez's fly out to left scored a run and Middlebrooks's hard single to center scored another, giving the Red Sox a 7-5 lead.
Lin grounded a single to left with two down in the eighth, went to second as Aviles reached on a strikeout-wild pitch, and scored on Pedroia's single.
In the bottom of the eighth, the Orioles singled three times off Rich Hill in the bottom of the eighth, cutting the lead to 7-6, but Padilla stranded two runners by getting a popup to shallow left and a strikeout of Nick Johnson. (Padilla has stranded all 15 inherited runners this season.)
Aceves got three groundballs in the ninth. The win improved the Red Sox's record to 21-21; it's only the third time they have been at .500 this year. Boston is now tied for fourth place with the Yankees, who were shutout by the Royals 6-0.
Aviles, SSI'm not sure if Games 42-44 can be termed as big games in a 162-game season, but this feels like an important series to me. A Red Sox sweep would put the team only 3.5 games out of first.
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Ortiz, DH
Gonzalez, 1B
Middlebrooks, 3B
Saltalamacchia, C
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The Department of Natural Resources and Environment reminds hunters that the early Canada goose hunting season opens statewide Wednesday, Sept. 1.
Early goose season, designed to target resident giant Canada geese, runs through Sept. 10 in the Upper Peninsula and in Huron, Tuscola and Saginaw counties, and through Sept. 15 elsewhere in Michigan.
Prospects for the upcoming goose season are excellent; the resident Canada goose population is estimated at 300,000 birds, the second highest population ever recorded. Hunters may take five Canada geese daily during the early season.
Wildlife officials remind hunters that a number of Canada geese in Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties within the Kalamazoo River watershed were covered with crude oil following the Enbridge pipeline rupture in late July. Hunters who observe oil-covered geese or other oiled wildlife should report them to 800-306-6837, the Enbridge wildlife response hotline.
Geese that were rescued, cleaned and released sport double leg bands, one of which reads: "Oil Spill Bird Contact Michigan DNRE 1-517-336-5030." Hunters who harvest the birds can call the phone number to get more information. The Michigan Department of Community Health suggests that adverse health effects from consuming these birds are unlikely.


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[Lars] shows you how to get a perfect score on the first four levels of BIT.TRIP RUNNER by using an Arduino to time and send button presses. This is a pretty simple game that uses a couple of buttons to jump or slide past obstacles. The constant speed of the character makes it quite easy to time these movements without any input from the game. This means that the pixel sampling which some web-game bots use isn't really necessary here. Just work out the timing and hard-code it into the sketch. As you'll see after the break, it works perfectly
The real value of this hack is the guide he wrote to send key presses from the Arduino hardware. It's not hard at all, but there are several steps and this will get you up and running in no time. Where might you go from here? It wouldn't take much to turn this into a keyboard prank that misspells all your words.


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A rancher must sell out after losing a court case against a gas company
It was a hot day in the summer of 2009, and Dow Rippy was out on his four-wheeler in western Colorado, checking on his cows.
As he drove, tracing the southern edge of his property, Rippy followed the route of a gas pipeline that the Houston-based gas company, SG Interests, was building across the ranch.
Dow and his wife, Kathy, owned about 1,900 acres of hilly oak brush south of Silt, Colo., near the heart of Colorado's gas patch. They had acquired the land over 15 years, though Dow's family had been ranching in the area since they originally emigrated from Scotland in the late 1860s, after the Civil War.
In 2007, Dow signed a contract allowing SG Interests to build a pipeline across his land. The agreement established a 30-foot-wide corridor for the pipeline and required the company to repair fences and slopes along its route. Yet as Dow reached the southeastern edge of his ranch on that day in 2009, he noticed not only that a section of pipeline had been left unburied; it also appeared to be well outside of the boundary allowed in his contract.
Dow had always been a fierce defender of his property rights, and this made him angry. He ordered SG pipeline workers to leave until he had spoken to the company's managers, and then he closed his gate, locking their equipment inside.
Dow didn't know it then, but that day marked the beginning of the end of his ranching career. This past October, he put his ranch up for auction to settle a court battle with SG Interests. He'd lost that battle, and was ordered to pay the company more than $700,000 in damages.
It started with a shouting match. When Dow accused SG executives of mislaying the pipeline, they denied the error and threatened to sue if the couple didn't let them keep working. The parties negotiated for months, but ultimately the Rippys opted to sue, both for trespassing and for breach of contract.
At the trial, held in Grand Junction in 2011, SG presented a slew of land title documents showing that the Rippys didn't actually own the land where they thought the pipeline should go. New surveys showed that SG was correct. SG also filed a counter-claim, alleging that Dow's decision to lock workers out of his property had cost the gas company upwards of $400,000 in lost productivity.
In a devastating decision for the family, the jury ruled in favor of SG Interests and awarded the company damages and attorney fees. In a scramble to raise the cash, the Rippys considered selling their mineral or development rights, but neither transaction could close fast enough. And selling only part of the ranch, Dow said, would cripple its bottom line.
"The problem is, the ranch is a whole, and if you split it up, then you take away the ability for the ranch to be financially sound," he said.
When auction day came last month, several of the couple's neighbors were there to bid on it. Some parties also bid online, including SG Interests, which bought the very parcel, in the southeastern corner of the ranch, where its pipeline dispute with the Rippys began. The company's land manager, Eric Sanford, told me the firm had a compressor station nearby and needed easier access.
It was a stinging end to the couple's life as ranchers: They'd been forced off the ranch to pay the gas company, and now the company owned a piece of the ranch, too.
It may be that the very trait that made Dow such a good rancher -- his defense of private property rights and minute attention to the condition of his land -- was what drove him to take legal action, a decision that sparked the disintegration of his ranching career.
In the last 60 years, Colorado's ranchlands have shrunk by about 7.5 million acres, according to the Colorado Conservation Trust. Ranchers sell out for many reasons, but it's especially heartbreaking when they have to do it against their will. Nowadays, Dow Rippy says he wishes that he had never gone to court to defend his property rights.
"This was something that should have been settled with a handshake," he said. "In court, the way they talk doesn't fit your ears."
Today, Dow runs Burning Mountain Bowl, a bowling alley in the small western Colorado town of New Castle. On a given day, above the din of crashing pins and rock music, Rippy oversees about 20 employees, making sure that the lanes are buffed, the customers are happy and the bills are paid.
He still wears a cowboy hat and wrangler jeans.
Nelson Harvey is, a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a freelance print and radio journalist based in western Colorado.


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Queen Elizabeth, any one of three ships belonging to the British Cunard Line that successfully crossed over from the age of the transatlantic ocean liner to the age of the global cruise ship.
The first Queen Elizabeth, which was the sister ship of the Queen Mary, was one of the largest passenger liners ever built. Launched in 1938 and used as a troopship during World War II, it entered the regular transatlantic service of the Cunard Line in 1946. The ship was 1,031 feet (314 metres) long and 118.5 feet (36 metres) wide and had a draft of 38 feet (11.6 metres) and an original gross tonnage of 83,673. The Queen Elizabeth was retired in 1968 and sold for conversion to a seagoing university, but it burned and sank in January 1972 during refitting at Hong Kong.
Its successor, the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), was launched in 1967 and made its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York in 1969. The ship, 963 feet (294 metres) long and displacing 70,327 tons, was slightly smaller than its predecessor so that it could pass through the Panama Canal and operate as a cruise ship in addition to being a transatlantic liner. Its steam turbine engines gave it a top speed of 32.5 knots (though its service speed was 28.5 knots). In 1982 the QE2 was briefly requisitioned as a troop carrier in the Falkland Islands War. In 1986–87 the turbines were replaced with diesel engines. The QE2 made its final voyage between New York and England in 2008, after having become the longest-serving ship in Cunard's history. Later that year the ship sailed to Dubai, where it was handed over to new owners for refitting as a floating hotel.
Cunard took delivery of a new Queen Elizabeth in 2010. Known variously as the QE and the QE3, that cruise ship was approximately the same length as the QE2 but with a slightly greater displacement, of more than 90,000 tons. Designed in Art Deco style to evoke memories of its predecessors and the great passenger liners of the pre-World War II era, the luxury ship could accommodate 2,000 passengers and 1,000 crew members on cruises to the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and other destinations around the world.


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This was actually adapted from Gordon Ramsay's Angel Hair Pasta with Crab, Chilli and Lime. I made his original version many times and it always turns out absolutely delicious! This afternoon, I thought of making it for lunch but realised I had no lime, no parsley and not crabmeat :(
So what I did was substitute lime with lemon, parsley with onions and crabmeat with…well, crabsticks :D The result was a fresh, light, sweet (from the onion) and lemony pasta, perfect for a satisfying lunch. And the best thing about this dish? It's so easy to cook!
# – You may notice that my lemons look a bit ghetto, that's because they were zested a couple of days ago. No wastage in this kitchen! Hehe.
The ingredients:
- 140 grams of angelhair pasta
- 4 pieces of crabsticks
- 1 chilli, sliced
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 4-5 cloves of garlic, chopped roughly
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Around 6-7 tablespoons of vodka
- Salt for season
# – First, boil the angelhair pasta according to instructions on the package. Then drain, toss with olive oil and set aside.
# – In a large saucepan, heat up some oil and fry the garlic.
# – Dump in the chillies.
# – Followed by the chopped onions.
# – And then, the chopped crabsticks.
# – Stir everything for a bit till the crabs are slightly browned and the onions have wilted slightly.
# – Then you pour in the vodka, w00t!
# – Season with salt and stir…
# – After the vodka had reduced a bit, remove pan from heat. Dump in the drained angelhair pasta. Mix and toss till everything's combined.
# – Serve on a plate and lightly drizzle with olive oil. This recipe serves 2, by the way.
# – And finish it off with juice of half a lemon for each plate.
# – Easy onion chilli angelhair pasta with crabstick.
This is perfect for when you don't have to cook for so many people. Portions are easily controlled and ingredients are easily available. Most of them are probably in your pantry already.
You can always substitute crabsticks with fishpaste or fishballs or better real crabmeats. I guess you can probably use chicken or pork too, but make sure they are tenderised properly (try marinading them in lemon juice with a drizzle of olive oil) otherwise they might not go so well with such a light tasting pasta.
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In the absence of anybody else asking, I thought, Well, why not?Stanley Kubrick exhibit opens in Frankfurt Jun 01, 2004
Wires in the eyes. They numbed my eyes. (Director) Steven (Spielberg) was very nervous and wanted to shoot that as quickly as possible. It was wild. It didn't hurt because my eyes were numb, but it was a little uncomfortable afterwards. But I liked how it lookedInterview of the week: Tom Cruise Jun 20, 2002
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, his reluctance to talk about his films, and his reclusiveness regarding his personal life. He maintained almost complete artistic control, making movies according to his own whims and time constraints, but with the rare advantage of big-studio financial support for all his endeavors.
Kubrick's films are characterized by a formal visual style and meticulous attention to detail. His later films often have elements of surrealism and expressionism that eschews structured linear narrative. His films are repeatedly described as slow and methodical, and are often perceived as a reflection of his obsessive and perfectionist nature. A recurring theme in his films is man's inhumanity to man. While often viewed as expressing an ironic pessimism, a few critics feel his films contain a cautious optimism when viewed more carefully.
The film that first brought him attention to many critics was Paths of Glory, the first of three films of his about the dehumanizing effects of war. Many of his films at first got a lukewarm reception, only to be years later acclaimed as masterpieces that had a seminal influence on many later generations of film-makers. Considered especially groundbreaking was 2001: A Space Odyssey noted for being both one of the most scientifically realistic and visually innovative science-fiction films ever made while maintaining an enigmatic non-linear storyline. He voluntarily withdrew his film A Clockwork Orange from Great Britain, after it was accused of inspiring copycat crimes which in turn resulted in threats against Kubrick's family. His films were largely successful at the box-office, although Barry Lyndon performed poorly in the United States. Both living authors Anthony Burgess (over time) and Stephen King (immediately) were unhappy with Kubrick's adaptations of their novels A Clockwork Orange and The Shining respectively, and both authors were engaged with subsequent stage or TV adaptations. All of Kubrick's films from the mid-1950s to his death except for The Shining were nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTAs. Although he was nominated for an Academy Award as a screenwriter and director on several occasions, his only personal win was for the special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey.


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Name: LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
Genre: Action
RAR Size: 4.4 GB
From the DC Universe heroes join up with the Caped Crusader to root out evil in LEGO Batman 2: Super Heroes. The Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin join other famous super heroes from the DC Universe Including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to save Gotham City from destruction at the hands of the Notorious villains Lex Luthor and the Joker. Batman fans of all ages will enjoy a new and original story filled with classic LEGO videogame action and humor as players fight to put the villains back behind bars.
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Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ - 2x 2000 MHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 10 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA 7600, 7800, 8xxx or better, ATI 1950 or better
DirectX®: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible Audio Device
Experience an adventure That original LEGO Batman and Robin has teaming up with Superman to defend Gotham City from The Joker and Lex Luthor.
Discover a new storyline That introduces a massive Gotham City hub full of fun exploration, collection and vehicles.
Traverse Gotham City's open realm by walking, flying or unlocking and controlling a variety of cool vehicles Including the Batmobile, Batwing and Batboat (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PC).
Experience for the first time in a LEGO videogame, talking LEGO minifigures.
Master new suits and gadgets, Such as Batman's Power Suit and Robin's Hazard Suit equipped with a Pressure Cannon That can absorb hazardous liquids and Dispense.
Collect 50 DC Comics characters, Including The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and many others.
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This is Day 1 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, a group project 50+ other bloggers are doing together in an effort to help each other become better bloggers. You can read more about it and still sign-up to participate here.
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Day 1's lesson and assignment is all about writing an "elevator pitch" for your blog. It's a great place to start this series because it forces each of us to give our blog an identity.
What is an Elevator Pitch?
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"Playing CookiePussTeroids!"
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Combined Force Captures Taliban Facilitator
Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 – A combined Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban facilitator and detained several suspected insurgents during an operation in the Lashkar Gah district of Afghanistan's Helmand province today, military officials reported.
The facilitator distributed weapons and explosives to insurgent fighters and coordinated roadside bomb attacks against Afghan forces throughout the area, officials said.
In other Afghanistan operations today:
-- A combined force in the Jalrayz district of Wardak province captured a Taliban facilitator who distributed homemade explosives and weapons to insurgent fighters throughout the Maidan Shahr district.
-- In the Khost district of Khost province, a combined force confiscated weapons and ammunition and detained several suspects while searching for a Haqqani leader. The leader constructs roadside bombs and distributes weapons to insurgents in the Bak and Terayzai districts.
-- In the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, an Afghan-led and coalition-supported force captured a Taliban facilitator and detained a suspected insurgent. The leader conducted direct-fire attacks in the Nahr-e Saraj district and distributed ammunition and bomb-making materials to insurgent fighters throughout Helmand province.
-- Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, condemned a suicide car bomb attack in Helmand's Lashkar Gah district that reportedly killed four innocent civilians and injured at least 30 others.
"On behalf of the entire ISAF coalition of 50 nations, I extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of today's attack," Allen said.
"ISAF will continue to work alongside our Afghan National Security Force partners to pressure the insurgency to end these acts of terror, and to support the development of an increased security environment to promote peace in Afghanistan," he said. "This is what the Afghan people want and deserve."
In operations yesterday:
-- In the Chahar Darah district of Kunduz province, an Afghan-led and coalition-supported security force detained several suspects and seized a prepared suicide improvised explosive device vest and about 4.4 pounds of homemade explosives during a search for insurgent suicide bombers. The targets were suspected of planning attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout the Chahar Darah district.
-- A combined patrol discovered about 440 pounds of marijuana seeds in the Panjwa'i district of Kandahar province.
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Regional Compliance Officer (Anglophone Africa) Job at MoneyGram, Monday 16, April 2018 – MoneyGram is a monetary association for loved ones. Every representative has an influence in helping the world exchange almost $600 billion every year for everything from life's basics, to crisis needs and even investment funds.
Our multicultural organization works in excess of 200 nations and regions all through the globe and gives testing and compensating chances to all representatives.
We are enrolling to fill the situation beneath:
Title: Regional Compliance Officer (Anglophone Africa)
Job ID: 18010337
Location: Lagos
Schedule: Full-time
Job Description
- The Regional Compliance Officer is responsible for working directly with MoneyGram agents within assigned territory.
- The incumbent is a primary compliance resource with responsibilities of: measuring Agents' Compliance and Anti-Fraud programs; driving training and awareness initiatives; and providing guidance and support to Agents.
- The incumbent will also be responsible for driving Agents to implement or enhance compliance and anti-fraud policies and procedures and assist in the development of Compliance and Anti-Fraud programs, as required.
- The Regional Compliance Officer will partner and liaison with business unit representatives to ensure that Agent policies and controls are practical, efficient and workable; captures MoneyGram policies and expectations, as well as regulatory requirements.
- The incumbent will be tasked with proposing corrective action measures to mitigate any risks identified throughout the execution of tasks.
Primary Responsibilities
- Provides guidance and support to the Regional business through participation in new product/service or channel projects.
- Provides support for Agent due diligence activities.
- Provides guidance, policy interpretation and support to Agents within the region.
- Actively participates in management discussions on risk and participates in governance and risk committee meetings as appropriate.
- Provides content messaging for new policies as rolled out.
- Ensures training materials are in-line with policy expectations.
- Provides Agent and employee training.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Executes on established MoneyGram Compliance and Anti-Fraud programs, principles, standards, policy, and oversight expectations within assigned territory.
- Implements policies and procedures designed to mitigate exposure and enhance compliance activities.
- Ensures program is maintained and relevant.
- Consults with internal and external experts to identify risks, best practice and expectations.
- Analyzes internal and external information to gain additional intelligence regarding emerging risk.
- Communicates policy goals for area of expertise, ensuring application across the enterprise.
- Facilitates policy, risk and control discussions with Stakeholders.
- Ensures policy objectives are met.
Any combination of relevant education and experience and/or related professional designations/certifications in this field is highly desirable.
- Minimum Required: Post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of educational and work experience
- 3-5 years' work experience within the financial services industry.
Essential Skills:
- Working knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act and AML Regulations, USA Patriot Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control (strongly preferred outside of US; required US).
- Ability to operate multi-nationally with internal business partners and Agents.
- Ability to work in a self-directed and remote environment.
- Experience communicating with regulators and law enforcement agencies.
- Experience in public speaking and making clear and persuasive business presentations.
- Excellent demonstrated organizational skills, including time management, record keeping, self-scheduling, and follow-up.
- Must be a self-starter and be able to act independently.
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Additional language skills (as appropriate to the region).
- Demonstrated understanding of the MoneyGram's business practices, organizational structure and general policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to draft clear and professional correspondence and other documents of a legal, compliance and business nature.
- Excellent analysis and problem solving skills.
- Excellent customer service skills and the ability to resolve customer complaints.
- Demonstrated ability to appropriately work with confidential information.
- Ability to facilitate the collection of information through interviews, meetings etc.
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Ivermectin is used to treat strongyloidiasis (threadworm; infection with a type of roundworm that enters the body through the skin, moves through the airways and lives in the intestines). Ivermectin is also used to control onchocerciasis (river blindness; infection with a type of roundworm that may cause rash, bumps under the skin, and vision problems including vision loss or blindness). Ivermectin is in a class of medications called anthelmintics. It treats strongyloidosis by killing the worms in the intestines. It treats onchocerciasis by killing the developing worms. Ivermectin does not kill the adult worms that cause onchocerciasis and therefore it will not cure this type of infection.
Ivermectin comes as a tablet to take by mouth. It is usually taken as a single dose on an empty stomach with water. If you are taking ivermectin to treat onchocerciasis, additional doses 3, 6, or 12 months later may be necessary to control your infection. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take ivermectin exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
If you are taking ivermectin to treat strongyloidiasis, you will need to have a stool exam at least three times during the first 3 months after your treatment to see if your infection has cleared. If your infection has not cleared, your doctor will probably prescribe additional doses of ivermectin.
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Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, continue your normal diet.
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Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of these symptoms, call your doctor immediately:
Ivermectin may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while taking this medication.
Keep this medication in the container it came in, tightly closed, and out of reach of children. Store it at room temperature and away from excess heat and moisture (not in the bathroom).
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B&N mulls spinning off Nook biz
E-reader could also head across the pond to Blighty
US bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook e-reader business into a separate entity as it forecast a drop in full-year earnings.
Although the retailer claims record holiday sales of its pocket-sized gadget, up 70 per cent from last year in the nine-week period up to December 31, B&N is still citing its Nook business as the reason for its reduced forecast.
B&N now expects full-year earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (a US accounting metric generally known as EBITDA) to be in the range of $150m to $180m.
"The change in guidance is due primarily to a shortfall in the expected sales of Nook Simple Touch, as well as additional investments in growing the Nook business, such as advertising to support new products and international expansion in the back half of the year," the retailer said in a canned statement.
Nook sales were up across the board because of the Nook Tablet rather than the Simple Touch, B&N said.
The company added that the "increased significance" of its Nook business was leading to a "strategic exploration" of the unit.
"In order to capitalise on the rapid growth of the Nook digital business, and its favourable leadership position in the expanding market for digital content, the company has decided to pursue strategic exploratory work to separate the Nook business," B&N said.
The bookseller is also "in discussions with strategic partners" about expanding the business abroad - which could be good news for UK residents looking for a bit more competition in the e-reader aisle. ®


text: LAS VEGAS -- Businesses need to look at security as a military exercise and can benefit from strategies that have proved useful in battle, a former military security expert told an Interop audience this week."This is a chess match," says Barry Hensley, a retired U.S. Army colonel who was in charge of the army's global network operations and security center. He is now vice president of Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit. "Can you lock down a network? Probably not. Can you defend a network? Yes you can."ALSO FROM INTEROP: HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage\u00a0He recommends using a military combat concept called observe, orient, decide and act (OODA) that can give businesses a framework for detecting attacks quickly, figuring out what to do about it, doing it and moving on to deal with the next attack. "If you can OODA before the enemy can, I believe you can defend a network," Hensley says.Enemies planning network attacks perform the same type of preparations that military commanders do before troop engagements, what he called operational preparation of the battlefield. In networking, that preparation translates into countries that are building cyber arsenals infiltrating networks in targeted countries.The purpose is to have a place from which to launch some form of attack when it is deemed an opportune moment. "You get a foothold in as many networks as possible so they can use it at the time and place of their choosing," he says.The analogy spreads outside international cyber conflicts he says. In the United Kingdom, he says, SecureWorks has had banks as customers that have departments named cyber warfare that ponder what the worst-case would be if a cyber attack occurred. The idea is for these departments to develop plans for coping with such attacks, he says.He says some attackers test out their tools against one industry to see how well it does before going after their actual targets. For example, adversaries might try a certain form of malware against a healthcare provider, but really have as a primary target a financial services business.He says he investigated a case of an attack launched from a cloud provider network against five contractors all working on the same project for the U.S. Department of Defense.Hensley says he is uncertain how malware infiltrated the target networks, but they did so with instructions to find certain files. Once they did they contacted a command and control server hosted in a cloud provider's network which downloaded HTML files instructing the malware to send the data to six Internet drop sites, two in the U.S. and four in China, where they were picked up.CISOs should perform internal penetration testing to find whether employees are engaged in attacks against their own employers, Hensley says. He cited the case of the hacker activist group Anonymous that called for a volunteer-based distributed denial-of-service attack against specified targets using a tool called Low Orbit Ion Cannon.He says a client of SecureWorks found that employees downloaded LOIC to their work PCs and let it launch distributed DoS attacks. SecureWorks notified all its other customers about the case so they could be on the lookout. "Needless to say, the people who did it were fired," he says.Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.