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No tension over Pete Carroll's contract extension
Apr 3, 2014, 11:02 PM | Updated: Apr 4, 2014, 11:39 am
By Danny O'Neil
The most significant thing about Pete Carroll's contract extension isn't the length nor the size nor is it even the timing of the announcement.
The most important facet of this deal is the complete and utter lack of suspense.
Carroll wasn't going anywhere. This was as close to a multi-million dollar formality as you get in the NFL, which has everything to do with the way this job was structured upon Carroll's hiring and stands in stark contrast to the last time the Seahawks extended their coach's contract.
It wasn't nearly so easy back in 2006 when Mike Holmgren was coming off three straight postseason berths and a Super Bowl appearance, but still had a latent desire to have a say over personnel. It took a month and a half of uncertainty before he decided to accept a two-year extension to remain Seattle's coach and just the coach.
Carroll has his ideal job. It was the reason he cited for leaving USC in 2010, a position that was exactly what he wanted right down to the fact that he got to help hire the general manager he would work alongside.
Four seasons, three playoff berths and a Super Bowl victory later, there's no way that he can move up. The only question is how long he can stay on top.
Money is part of this, too. Just not necessarily the biggest part. Carroll's contract in 2010 was to pay him $35 million over five years, which already put him in the upper tier of coaching salaries. No word on the size of his next deal, but Paul Allen is the richest owner in the league, and a Super Bowl would seem to warrant a raise. Carroll's contract extension was first reported by the league's official website.
But money wasn't really the issue for Seattle's last coaching extension for Holmgren. The tension there regarded to power, Tim Ruskell having been hired a year earlier to serve as the president and general manager.
At the NFL's owner meetings that offseason, Holmgren confessed to feeling an itch to make personnel decisions again, something that wasn't going to happen in Seattle. At least not then.
Remember, Ruskell was riding high. The Seahawks reached the Super Bowl in Ruskell's first season as GM, a year marked by the drafting of linebackers Lofa Tatupu and Leroy Hill as well as the free-agent signing of receiver Joe Jurevicius.
The Seahawks' roster eroded considerably over Ruskell's final four years to the point that Seattle turned to Holmgren in hope he could return to the franchise in 2009. When the two sides couldn't agree on a contract, Seattle decided for a hard reset in its football operations.
Starting over in Seattle started with the hiring of Pete Carroll, and the way that job was structured in the beginning made his contract extension so very straightforward.
He has the job he wants, written exactly to his specifications.


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A year after Fujifilm introduced the first 3D camera to us, they've fine-tuned their encore act, the W3—which shoots 3D video in 720p resolution, taking it from VGA to HD.
Of course, like with the first model, you can turn off the 3D function so you're shooting in plain ol' 2D, but with that 3.5" lenticular screen on the reverse of the camera, you can see 3D photos and video popping out instantly—and without the need for glasses.
The 3D works by shooting a subject with two 3x optical zoom Fujinon lenses and CCDs, combining the two photos so they appear in 3D. A number of selections can be chosen when snapping photos in 2D, so one photo is shot in close-up, the other in wide-angle, or they can be shot in varying ISO ranges, and so forth. This could create a lot of different effects, and would quickly eat up your time fiddling with the options.
The addition of a miniHDMI port means 3D content can be viewed on 3DTVs and 3D laptops via HDMI, but also on an 8" Fujifilm 3D photo frame and in lenticular prints (bought separately). The latter two, like with watching the images on the 3.5" display, don't require glasses.
This second model is also smaller and lighter than before, weighing 230g.
On sale in September, only the UK pricing for the FinePix Real 3D W3 camera has been released for now—£399 (around $625, which is the same price as the W1 from last year). Still overpriced, in other words, but it certainly has a few extra tricks up its sleeve.
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I've always wondered what it's like to go on a blog break, though. I've been obsessed with the blog ever since I set it up nearly two years ago and always looked upon those who took long breaks with a mixture of curiosity, awe and jealousy. Yes, jealous because they seemed to be able to get away from their blogs, not miss them and I couldn't see myself doing that, which, as I knew somewhere, was somewhat unhealthy, as obsessions are. The only time I don't miss my blog nowadays is when I'm indulging in my other obsession - travel - and that, alas, is not as frequent an occurrence as I would like it to be.
As it turns out, the only way to beat one mania is to develop yet another (or two, or three) - and that's precisely how I came to stay away from blogging.
One of the last posts I read before I slipped away from the blogs was Jugalbandi's Click for Bri. While my photo's nothing to write to them about and I won't be posting any recipes for the dishes in them (except maybe the dosakaya chutney), I did want to participate in the cause. Here's what you can do to help Bri and here's wishing Bri a speedy recovery.
Sunday Meal is my entry for Click. It was my meal this past Sunday and features some traditional favorites in the parts I come from.
Clockwise from left: Dosakaya (melon cucumber) chutney, mudda pappu (plain, boiled toor dal with a bit of salt) and mamidikaya pulusu (mango in tamarind gravy with some jaggery). The dal and the gravy are good eaten together with rice and some ghee, if you like, or the dal can be mixed with rice, ghee and some mango pickle for yet another traditional combination.
Here is some summer bounty - pix taken on a road trip to and from home!
Palm fruit (taatikaayalu) and pot full of toddy (kallu). The mugs are probably what the toddy's served in!!!
The contents of the palm fruit are a favourite summer delight! Called taati munjalu, they are sadly missing in cities, or if they're available, they come all torn, crushed and wrapped in plastic. Supermarket-compatible, totally unappetising!
This is yet another gift of summer that I'm yet to see outside Andhra Pradesh. These are called kobbari mamidikaya (literally translates as coconut mango, probably because of the size) and are a great snack, sweet and sour even though they're green! Come to think of it, I'm yet to see one go ripe yellow, either on the outside or the inside. Each fruit cost Rs 25.
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LAREDO, Texas (Border Report) — More than two million northbound commercial trucks pass through the Laredo port of entry every year. Border Report wanted to learn why so many trucks and from where they come.
"All over Mexico," says Javier Vasquez, assistant port director for trade operations in Laredo.
Trucks might bring in steel from Monterrey, automotive components put together in San Luis Potosi, pottery or copperwork from Michoacan and Jalisco. Trucks also bring in any number of products assembled at the maquiladoras — foreign-owned assembly lines — in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas.
"It's basically anything that Walmart sells," says the official from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency in charge of ports of entry into the United States.
The truck movement at the World Trade Bridge that spans the two Laredos is non-stop. It's as if the same few thousand trucks were going around in circles, which they often actually do.
According to Vasquez, Laredo has traditionally been a huge transfer center, with Mexican carriers coming in, dropping off a load and going back to pick up another. That's reflected on the port's crossing stats, in which almost as many trucks go south every day as the number of those that enter the United States.
But whether the trucker is headed to a warehouse in Laredo and then back to Mexico to pick up another load or is ready to keep driving north to a U.S. destination, CBP and the Mexican government have taken steps recently to speed up commercial crossings.
Since 2017, CBP and Servicio de Administracion Tributaria (SAT), Mexico's customs agency, have been jointly inspecting northbound cargo. Previously, each country conducted a separate inspection, which added unnecessary hours to traffic flow, Vasquez said.
In addition, U.S. officials allow SAT officers to look at X-rays taken of each trailer, which also cuts down on redundancies.
Vasquez said part two of the Unified Cargo Processing program involves railroad traffic. Laredo processes almost half of all the rail cars from Mexico into the United States. The change involves pre-clearance of the crews that man the cargo trains. Right now, crews have to change at the border.
"Now the trains can go directly to the Union Pacific or Kansas City railroad yards, so that's another time savings for the importer," he said.
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Saudi King Names 78-Year-Old Nayef Bin Abdulaziz As His Successor
As expected, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has appointed his half-brother, 78-year-old Nayef bin Abdulaziz, crown prince. The news comes, after the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud died on Saturday.
According to a tweetfrom the Saudi embassy in the United States, Prince Nayef becomes deputy prime minister, a position traditionally held by the crown prince, and keeps his position as minister of interior.
Again, Prince Nayef was expected to become crown prince and by most accounts, that means Saudi Arabia's close relationship with the U.S. and position on geopolitical issues will remain the same.
In a story previewing the choice, Reuters does point out that Prince Nayef is more conservative than the king:
Conservative even by Saudi Arabia's austere standards, Nayef is sometimes portrayed as putting the brakes on the king's cautious political reforms. Earlier this year he publicly admonished a member of the mainly consultative Shura Council who had called for a review of the ban on women driving.
However, some diplomats and analysts say Nayef, who was born in 1933 and has served as interior minister since 1975, may show a more pragmatic side as crown prince — and eventually as king.
Perhaps the more interesting part of the story, however, is that the choice reveals that the royal family is aging and not in a hurry to hand over power to a new generation. Time reports that could cause tension in the long run:
With most of those directly in line to the throne hobbling about with canes, hip replacements or in wheel chairs, one could be forgiven for thinking of Saudi palaces as particularly well-appointed old age homes. The next few decades in Saudi Arabia are likely to be marked by a succession of funerals and coronations as the top position in the world's largest oil exporter cycles through a generation that had more to do with the Kingdom's foundations than it does with the country's future. As the crown passes from head to head, it is likely to slow the process of reform and progress in a kingdom that in many ways still feels mired in the last century. The ruling family's authoritarian grip on power may provide stability in the short term, but with half the population under the age of 18, and with a leadership almost entirely above the age of 70, it seems inevitable that tensions will rise.
"These demographics are a warning bell no matter how old or young the leadership is," [says Gregory Gause, International Relations professor at the University of Vermont]. "This time the Saudis dodged the oncoming train of the Arab spring, but its not because they don't have problems. They do. Unemployment is high in Saudi, just like it was in Egypt and Tunisia."
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"Reciprocating Saw" is two samples of a reciprocating saw being revved up and put to sustained use. While these samples do not loop, it might be possible through some creative editing to achieve a shorter or longer sample if desired.
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Melky Astacio Cabrera (born August 11, 1984, in Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic) is an outfielder for the Atlanta Braves, a Major League Baseball team.
Cabrera was signed by the New York Yankees on November 13, 2001, at age 17. In 2002, at age 18, he made his professional debut with the Yankees Rookie League affiliate in the Dominican Summer League.
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Hewlett Packard Company
Claimant, a computer manufacturer, makes donations of sophisticated computers or scientific equipment to educational institutions and other qualified nonprofit organizations located both in California and out of state. Claimant's gift documents include a provision which states that title to the donated property does not pass to the out-of-state donee until delivery by common carrier and that claimant retains the ability to recall the gift before it reaches the out-of-state destination. The agreement between claimant and its donees includes warranties which become effective upon delivery to, and acceptance by, the donee; and claimant does not take an income tax deduction until the donee receives the gifts. Thus, the gift was made out of state, and the gift is not subject to tax. (Rev. & Tax. Code, § 6009.1.)
However, when the risk of loss and damage pass to the donee at claimant's California plant, a taxable use is made in this state and tax applies with respect to those donations. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 18, § 1670.)
In the Matters of the Claims for Refund under the Sales and Use Tax Law of HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY
For Claimant:
|Mr. Joseph A. Vinatieri
Attorney at Law
|Mr. Jason C. DeMille
Attorney at Law
For Appeals Section:
|Mr. John Abbott
Supervising Tax Counsel
For Sales and Use Tax Department:
|Mr. David H. Levine
Acting Assistant Chief Counsel
|Ms. Janice Thurston
Senior Tax Counsel
This opinion considers the merits of claims for refund under the Sales and Use Tax Law for the period January 1, 1989, through October 31, 1991, for unspecified amounts. The Board heard this matter on March 15, 2000.
Claimant, a manufacturer of computers, makes donations of electronic equipment and software to educational institutions and other qualified nonprofit organizations located both in California and out of state. Typically, claimant receives a request from a professor of an out-of-state university for sophisticated computers or scientific equipment. The request is reviewed by a committee of scientists and engineers before a decision is made to approve the grant on its merits. Once approved, the professor signs the "Terms and Conditions of Gift" (Terms) and the order is processed. These donations are not the type of gift that are given just to enhance sales, rather the gifts support education and research. The donated equipment is removed from inventory in California and shipped to the universities. The claims for refund of the use tax relate to taxes paid for donated scientific equipment shipped via common carrier to out-of-state educational institutions.
Claimant contends that the gift is given outside of California and that there is no use of the donated property in this state. In support of its position, claimant states that it self insures its products during delivery and that it does not transfer title of the donated property to the donee until the common carrier delivers the equipment to the donee. Claimant states it has numerous business reasons for making the gift out of state.
Claimant states that the gift is governed by a document (Terms) which provides that "title to hardware products and risk of loss and damage will pass to Recipient at destination. However, when products are shipped under Recipient's shipping instructions, title and risk of loss and damage shall pass to Recipient at HP's plant." Claimant's purpose in retaining title until the common carrier delivers the property includes claimant's ability to recall the property before it reaches the donee. Claimant also points out that since title to the donated property does not vest in the donee until after delivery, claimant does not take an income tax deduction until the date the gift is completed.
Claimant states that its contracts include warranties against defects in materials and workmanship. Claimant further contends that because the computers and instruments are scientific in nature, they are often tested and calibrated after delivery so that they are working properly before they are accepted. With respect to claimant's donated products, the warranty period begins either on the date of delivery or on the date of installation if claimant installed the product.
An excise tax is imposed on the storage, use or other consumption of the property in California purchased from a retailer (Rev. & Tax. Code, §§ 6201 and 6202). "Use" is defined as exercising any right or power incident to ownership, except sales in the regular course of business or subsequent use solely outside the state. (Rev. & Tax. Code, §§ 6008 and 6009.)
"Storage" and "use" do not include the keeping, retaining, or exercising any right or power over tangible personal property for the purpose of transporting it outside the state for use thereafter solely outside the state (Rev. & Tax. Code § 6009.1). Claimant's withdrawals of inventory items purchased for resale, but donated to out-of-state donees, will not be subject to California use tax if the gift is completed outside of California.
In order for us to find that the gift was made outside of California, claimant must demonstrate that the gifts at issue were not completed until delivery to the donee out of state. In coming to our conclusion that the gifts in this case were completed out of state we gave the following facts significant weight:
(1) The gift documents include a provision which states that title does not pass to the out-of-state donee until delivery by common carrier and that claimant retains the ability to recall the gift before it reaches the out-of-state destination;
(2) The agreement between claimant and its donees includes warranties which become effective upon delivery to, and acceptance by, the donee; and
(3) Claimant does not take an income tax deduction until the donee receives the gift.
We also considered other factors that indicated the intent was to complete the gift outside California, including the fact that the gifts required the donor's personnel to install, test or calibrate the equipment at the donee's out-of-state location.
It is our opinion that claimant demonstrated that the gift was completed out of state and that the gifts claimant made to out-of-state universities are not subject to the use tax pursuant to section 6009.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
This case can be distinguished from Yamaha Corp. of America v. State Bd. of Equalization (1999) 73 Cal.App.4th 338. In Yamaha the court found that Yamaha intended to make the gift when it delivered the property to the common carrier. There was no written agreement between the parties as to when title to the goods given away was to pass, and there were no business reasons to indicate that Yamaha's gifts were made on delivery to the out-of-state location.
Not all of claimant's gifts meet the requirements of Revenue and Taxation Code section 6009.1. When claimant ships products under the donee's shipping instructions, the "Terms and Conditions of Gift" provide that title and risk of loss and damage shall pass to the donee at claimant's California plant. In those cases, claimant's donations are made in California when it places the property in the hands of the common carrier. Therefore, a taxable use is made in this state and the use tax applies with respect to those donations. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 18, § 1670.)
We conclude that, pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code section 6009.1, a gift is not subject to use tax when claimant demonstrates that the gift was in fact made outside California in the manner described in this opinion, or in a manner substantially similar to that described in this opinion.
Done at Sacramento, California this 15th day of June, 2000.
Dean Andal, Chairman
Claude Parrish, Member
John Chiang, Member
Marcy Jo Mandel, Member*
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The girls, ages 17 and 15, threatened the intellectually disabled victim with a knife, kicked him in the groin and dragged him around by his hair, said St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Cara Grumbels. They coerced him into walking on a partially frozen pond and then refused to help him out of the frigid water, she said.
Grumbles said the boy got out himself, but the prank could have turned deadly.
"You're dealing with somebody who doesn't have the mental capacity of you and I," she said. "Somebody like that could go into a kiddie pool and may not be able to get themselves out. That's what's really kind of disturbing to us, among the other allegations in this case. The whole thing's just very disturbing."
She said investigators haven't found any of the video online.
The 17-year-old, Lauren A. Bush, of Mechanicsville, was charged as an adult Tuesday with first- and second-degree assault, false imprisonment and solicitation for child pornography. She was released on her own recognizance.
The 15-year-old was charged as a juvenile with the same offenses and referred to the state Department of Juvenile Services. The sheriff's office didn't release her name.
Grumbles said both girls acknowledged they committed the offenses. A call to Bush's home wasn't returned. No defense attorney was listed in court records.
Grumbles said the boy's parents told police he is autistic.
She said all three teens attended Chopticon High School in Morganza.
Police learned of what happened from a parent of the younger girl who had seen the video on her daughter's phone, Grumbles said. The parent showed it to a sheriff's deputy who works in the school, she said.
Grumbels said there is no evidence other students joined the bullying.
She said more charges are likely as investigators list offenses for each episode that authorities say occurred from early December to early February.


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VirtualMIDISynth is a software MIDI synthesizer implemented as a Windows multimedia user driver, accessible as a standard MIDI Out device.
It works on Windows XP (SP3) / Vista (SP1) / 7 (SP1) / 8.x / 10 (both x86 and x64), and is based on the great BASS library from un4seen.
Brief intro
If you are a MIDI/karaoke fan like me, you know that MIDI play quality on Windows systems was not really good out of the box. The bundled "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" MIDI Out device is just... ehm... simple: poor samples, mono sound, no effects (reverb, chorus) support.
On 32bits systems some better alternatives exist, like the well-known YAMAHA XG SoftSynthetizer S-YXG50 and Cakewalk-sfz+ (both unsupported now).
Upgrading to an x64 system was a pain for me: S-YXG50 doesn't work at all, Cakewalk-sfz+ was unusable.
One day Ian Luck (un4seen) added to his BASSMidi library a great feature: the possibility to render a live MIDI stream, including SysEx messages. I quickly realized that, if only I could intercept that MIDI stream and drive it through Ian's library, well, we would have got a great MIDI Synth.
The challenge was to create a good quality synth and keep the end user away from complicated virtual MIDI chains (ever tried VanBasco -> MIDI Yoke/LoopBe1 -> SynthFont chain ?).
User only needs a new virtual MIDI Out device, select it as output on his preferred player settings and... start playing, nothing more.
Here we are, VirtualMIDISynth is the answer: an user mode multimedia x86/x64 driver that works on XP / Vista / 7 / 8 (both x86 and x64), implemented as a MIDI Out virtual device.
Main features
- User mode multimedia driver, no reboots, no BSOD
- Directly accessible as MIDI Out device, no need for virtual MIDI cables (like MIDI Yoke, LoopBe1)
- MIDI mixer to set track mute/volume, accessible through systray icon while playing
- Compact size (setup is ~900 KBytes)
- No DLL cluttering, everything is self contained in System32/SysWOW64 subfolder
- Clean installer, won't affect other MIDI devices
- Efficient RAM usage (allows using large SoundFonts, > 1GByte)
- Virtually unlimited polyphony (limited only by CPU)
- Load up to 30 SoundFonts and chain them
- Load all of your soundfonts into list and enable/disable them at your will
- Configure MIDI Mapper default device (this feature is already available in XP, but missing in Vista / 7)
- Multilanguage dialogs.
If you want to help in translation, see here for status then get in touch to have access to the online translation system.
What now?
Well, having a better MIDI experience is easy as 1-2-3:
- Download VirtualMIDISynth following the link you find at the bottom of this page and install it (you need administrative privileges)
- Download a SoundFont (you'll find a list of free high quality files below) and add it to VirtualMIDISynt
- Run your favourite MIDI application and configure it to use VirtualMIDISynt or, better, set VirtualMIDISynt as your default MIDI Out device (see screenshot below)
- Donate to CoolSoft ;)
oops, this step was not mandatory, anyway... thanks for doing it!
Maxime Abbey wrote a really detailed documentation on how to setup and configure VirtualMIDISynth; you can find it here.
Why are you still playing MIDI files? Have you ever heard of MP3?
Well, first because MIDIs are cool and compact; in a few megabytes you can store thousands songs.
Second, I love Karaoke; VanBasco is one of my preferred MIDI/KAR players.
Third, with MIDI you can silent some tracks, change tempo and pitch easily.
I tried playing a MIDI file on my PC, and it sucks!
I agree, that's why I wrote VirtualMIDISynth!
MIDI only contains "instructions" on what should be played: instruments, notes, their length, power and so on. It's up to the synthesizer to generate sound from these "commands".
The bundled Windows synthesizer, "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth", is the worst.
Which players work with VirtualMIDISynt?
VirtualMIDISynt works with Windows Mediaplayer and MPlayer classic. Since these players cannot change their MIDI out device, you must set VirtualMIDISynt as your default device.
I suggest you to try VanBasco player, which is one of the best MIDI/KAR players around.
How much does it cost?
VirtualMIDISynt is freeware, you can use it as you like.
Why are you releasing it for free?
Because the greatest part of MIDI synthesis is done by BASS libraries from un4seen; I only wrapped them in a Windows driver and gave them an easy to use interface.
That's great, how can I thank you?
Send me a comment and tell about this software to your friends / forums / social networks.
You could also support its development with a donation.
Is there a tutorial available?
Don Allen wrote a great setup tutorial on MIDIKAR Yahoo group, freely available here.
That group is full of great MIDI experts and enthusiastics, please follow it.
--> See more FAQs here.
VirtualMIDISynth is freeware, use it as you like.
Donations are welcome.
Here you'll find a list of some free and quality SoundFonts available on the net.
Please let me know if I miss something or if any link dies...
Some fonts are compressed with sfArk or sfPack.
This page contains links to decompressors: http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-soundfonts.php#compressors
- FluidR3_GM
Still my preferred, the one I test VMS with (about 71Mb sfArk compressed, 141,5 Mb after decompression)
- Timbres Of Heaven
By Don Allen (219 MB uncompressed).
Also take a look at midikar Yahoo group, where you'll find a lot of MIDI fans; Don is really active there.
- Arachno SoundFont
By Maxime Abbey (80 MB SfArk compressed).
It also have a detailed documentation on how to install it on VirtualMIDISynth.
(about 240 MB, need 7zip to uncompress)
- ChoriumRevA
(about 19.6 MB)
- WeedsGM3
(about 26,5 MB)
- CrisisGeneralMidi 3.01
The largest I've ever seen (about 1,57 GB uncompressed).
Use the menu at the top of page to find download link.
- TimGM6mb (SourceForge download link)
By Tim Brechbill (about 4MB)
- Merlin Vienna Soundfont
(about 16MB, sfArk compressed)
- GeneralUser GS
By Christian Collins (about 27MB)
- Keppy's Steinway Piano
Piano only soundfont by KaleidonKep99 (100Mb compressed, 350 uncompressed).
WARNING: this SF is on GitHub, to download it click on "Releases".
- Good list of soundfonts, suggested one is 084.0mg ALL In ONE GM V1.1 Bank.sf2
(sorry, I can't read Japanese so I can't categorize its licensing)
- Princess Soft SF2 (by Giovannino Imperi)
NOTE: Soundfont author will devolve part of his donations to VirtualMIDISynth project.
If you like this SF2, please let him him know you're a VirtualMIDISynth user.
If you're experiencing problems using VirtualMIDISynth, here's a list of common issues already solved.
Please check all of them before contacting me.
Links to sites that talk about us:
- Setup tutorial (english by Don Allen, the author of Timbres Of Heaven soundfont)
- Setup tutorial (italian by Giovanni Pioggine - ChimeraRevo)
- Il blog del Salmo 69 blog (ita)
- Synthesia
- Musink (free music-composition software)
- Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (opensource and multiplatform MIDI keyboard)
v.1.17.1 - 2016-04-24
- NEW: Added Arabic (Saudi Arabia) language, thanks to Abdullah Mohammad.
v.1.17.0 - 2016-03-29
- NEW: New advanced option to enable sinc interpolated sample mixing instead of the default linear one.
This increments sound quality but also CPU usage.
- NEW: Added Comodo internet security to blacklisted processes.
- NEW: Updated BASS to version 220.127.116.11 and BASSMIDI to version 18.104.22.168.
- FIX: Fixed setup to properly update x64 driver dll when in use.
v.1.16.1 - 2016-03-03
- NEW: Added Serbian (latin) language, thanks to Rastko.
v.1.16.0 - 2016-01-25
- NEW: Added Thai language, thanks to suwisit.khlaewprayoon and rainny.ohm.
- FIX: Uninstaller doesn't ask for language anymore but defaults to the one selected during installation.
v.1.15.2 - 2015-12-01
- FIX: Updated BASS.dll to 220.127.116.11 and BASSMIDI.dll to 220.127.116.11.
- FIX: Fixed setup build procedure to include the correct BASS* versions.
v.1.15.1 - 2015-11-09
- FIX: Untranslated strings will fallback to English again (1.15.0 regression).
- FIX: Completed Spanish translation (thanks to Juan López).
v.1.15.0 - 2015-09-28
- NEW: Added support for .SFZ soundfonts (see here: http://drealm.info/sfz/plj-sfz.xhtml).
v.1.14.1 - 2015-09-17
- FIX: Updated BASS.dll to 126.96.36.199 and BASSMIDI.dll to 126.96.36.199 to fix crashes in some games (like Simutrans 120.0.1).
v.1.14.0 - 2015-09-16
- NEW: Added Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) language, thanks to CW Wang.
- NEW: Driver will now show an error if one or more SF failed to load.
- FIX: Fixed SF preload error message.
- FIX: Updated translations.
- FIX: Fixed x64 pointers in x64 build, leading some programs (like TeamSpeak Client 3 and possibly other x64 MIDI players) to crash under Win8.1 and Win10.
v.1.13.2 - 2015-05-03
- FIX: Setup missed the BassMidi 126.96.36.199 library update.
v.1.13.1 - 2015-05-02
- NEW: Configurator and Mixer dialogs now can be snapped to all other windows.
- NEW: Added Brazilian Portuguese language support (thanks to Carlos Eduardo).
- NEW: BassMidi library updated to version 188.8.131.52 that improves MIDI rendering.
- FIX: Setup now correctly detects WinXP-x64 and won't require SP3 for it.
v.1.13.0 - 2015-03-29
- NEW: Added "reset/mute all/unmute all" features to MIDI Mixer. Right click over the MIDI Mixer to show the new popup menu.
- NEW: Setup now detects x64 processes locking files being installed/updated.
- NEW: Updated BASS to 2.4.11 and BASSMIDI to 2.4.9.
- NEW: Added turkish language (thanks to Hakan ATEŞ).
- FIX: Crash when driver is opened and closed quickly, before initialization completes.
v.1.12.1 - 2015-01-07
- NEW: Added Finnish language support (thanks to Jussi Bergström).
- FIX: Crash when driver is opened and closed quickly, before initialization completes.
v.1.12.0 - 2014-10-31
- NEW: MIDI Mixer and configurator dialogs now "snap" to desktop borders when moved (press SHIFT while moving to disable snap).
- FIX: Rewritten and optimized driver dialogs handling to avoid MIDI client hangs and memory leaks (1.11.0 regression).
- FIX: Fixed hangs and crashes on x64 systems.
v.1.11.0 - 2014-10-11
- NEW: Added Chinese (simplified) language support (thanks to Magsom).
- NEW: Updated BASSMIDI to version 18.104.22.168.
- NEW: Added support to 22050Hz output frequency.
- NEW: Max simultaneous MIDI voices limit (polyphony) increased to 1000.
- FIX: Some MIDI clients hang on close (mostly games emulators, like eduke32).
v.1.10.1 - 2014-07-06
- FIX: An installer bug prevents installation on systems where VirtualMIDISynth has never been installed.
v.1.10.0 - 2014-07-04
- NEW: Added support for MIDI running status.
- FIX: Wrong parsing of MIDI System Real Time Messages.
v.1.9.2 - 2014-06-20
- NEW: Added Korean language support (thanks to heocurly)
v.1.9.1 - 2014-05-15
- NEW: Updated BASSMIDI to 220.127.116.11, now supports these SF2 parameters (see here for details: http://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=15746.0)
+ Keynum to hold (for Volume & Modulation envelope)
+ Keynum to decay (for Volume & Modulation envelope)
+ Fixed key
+ Fixed velocity
(thanks to kinwie for reporting and testing)
v.1.9.0 - 2014-04-10
- NEW: Configurator settings for Reverb & Chorus effects level.
- NEW: Configurator setting to override Reverb & Chorus SYSEXes received from MIDI (and force our custom levels).
- NEW: Updated BASS to version 2.4.10 and BASSMIDI to 2.4.8
- NEW: Added Magyar language support (thanks to Nádasdi Zsolt)
- NEW: New setup commandline option "/skip_os_check" to let it run on misdetected systems.
v.1.8.2 - 2013-11-10
- NEW: Added Dutch language (thanks to Tim Hoekstra)
- FIX: Some errors message were not shown with full detail
- FIX: Windows Media Player default device MIDI setting doesn't create keys correctly
- FIX: Improved OS detection during setup
- FIX: Improved detection of other VirtualMIDISynth instances
v.1.8.1 - 2013-04-22
- NEW: Added Portuguese (Portugal) language (thanks to Gonçalo Ferreira)
- FIX: Fixed a bug with DosBox (and maybe other MIDI Clients) that caused crashes and hangs during play
(many thanks to "drivetheory": sending me saved games and instructions on how to reproduce the bug was a great help, really appreciated)
v.1.8.0 - 2013-03-30
- NEW: Added Windows Media Player default MIDI device setting (see here for details)
- NEW: Vietnamese language (thanks to MyNa VN)
- NEW: Danish language (thanks to Heine Svendsen)
- NEW: Czech language (thanks to Vaclav Muller)
- NEW: Improved update checker messages
- FIX: Clicking on hotkey balloon error will now open the configurator shortcut keys tab
- FIX: Hotkey balloon error will now show the shortcut that can't be created
v.1.7.0 - 2013-02-07
- NEW: Polish language (thanks to SuperGod)
- NEW: Indonesian language (thanks to Latiful)
- NEW: Swedish language (thanks to Magnus Johansson)
- NEW: Added support for GM/GM2/GS/XG instrument names, now correctly shown on MIDI Mixer
- NEW: Added an activity indicator on each MIDI channel, useful to quickly see which channel is actually playing
- NEW: MIDI Mixer can now be moved by clicking (and dragging) anywhere on it
- NEW: Added support for MIDI running status bit (some players call it "redundant MIDI data")
- FIX: Fixed a small memory leak in Mixer drawing functions
v.1.6.3 - 2013-01-10
- NEW: German language (thanks to Markus Stein)
v.1.6.2 - 2012-11-24
- NEW: Japanese language (thanks to yukinodsyouid)
v.1.6.1 - 2012-11-01
- NEW: Russian language (thanks to Boris Petrov)
- NEW: French language (thanks to Aziz Lallouche)
- NEW: Spanish language (thanks to Pedro López-Cabanillas)
- FIX: Fixed BASS initialization in case of already initialized BASS library
- FIX: Language files are now UTF-8
- FIX: Better language file memory management
- FIX: Soundfont listbox doesn't enable Apply button on checkboxes state changes
v.1.6.0 - 2012-10-21
VirtualMIDISynth is now multilanguage, English and Italian for now.
Dialogs and messages can be easily translated into other languages. If you like to help
in translating VirtualMIDISynth into your native language please get in touch at
- NEW: Multilanguage setup, UI dialogs and messages
- NEW: Option to select language into configurator
- NEW: Configurator Soundfont chain list items now have a checkbox to allow disabling them while keeping on the list
- FIX: Increased soundfont list count limit to 30 elements
- FIX: Increased configurator dialog width to better accomodate translated strings
- FIX: Added accelerator keys to dialogs
v.1.5.0 - 2012-09-29
Most of VirtualMIDISynth features can now be controlled by PC keyboard.
- NEW: MIDI Mixer keyboard shortcuts:
(selected channel has its number underlined)
LEFT/RIGHT => move selection to left/right
0 => select master channel
1..9 => select channel 1...9
CTRL+0..6 => select channel 10...16
UP/DOWN => increase/decrease channel volume
HOME/END => quick set volume to max/min
M => toggle mute state
- NEW: VirtualMIDISynth keyboard shortcuts:
CTRL+ALT+M => show/hide MIDI Mixer
CTRL+ALT+SPACE => MIDI panic (note off to all MIDI channels)
- NEW: Increased max notes limit to 500
- NEW: Updated BASS library to version 220.127.116.11
- NEW: Updated BASSMIDI library to version 18.104.22.168
- FIX: Optimized MIDI Mixer memory usage
v.1.4.0 - 2012-07-20
Lot of new features and fixes in this (long waited) first release of the 1.4.x series.
- NEW: Added support for 64bit MIDI client applications (on 64bit OS)
- NEW: Better compatibility with BASS based MIDI clients, like Karafun and Synthesia
- NEW: Default systray context menu item is now mixer which can be opened by double clicking icon
- FIX: Increased sound buffer efficiency and better threads management
- NEW: Rewritten configurator with a new tabbed interface; now it could contain the new options in a more clean GUI
- NEW: Lot of new settings added:
- "advanced" settings to reduce CPU requirements disabling some features (like effects, polyphony, ...)
- output audio device selection
- automatically open MIDI Mixer while playing
- raise MIDI player process priority to "High priority"
- enabling audio hardware mixing
- audio output buffer size (default 250ms)
- NEW: Option to preload the whole soundfont file into memory before play (enabled by default). It increases the required memory and adds a small delay at start, but also gives a smoothest play because samples are already available in memory.
- NEW: Horizontal scrollbar into soundfont list to allow reading long filenames.
- NEW: Better loking mixer VUMeter bar, it now appears like a LED stripe
- NEW: Mixer level meter now shows the running average of output level instead of the instant value, making it more realistic and "analogic"
- NEW: Increased channel name font size and enabled cleartype drawing
v.1.3.1 - 2011-12-10
- NEW: Post setup actions are not preselected by default.
"Show readme.txt" option has been removed and this file is now shown during into setup (while still available through Start menu link).
"Run configurator" and "Open website" checkboxes are blanked if a SoundFont is already configured.
Clickthrough users should now be happier during updates.
- FIX: Fixed updater code causing VirtualMIDISynth device to disappear on some localized WinXP versions.
(thanks to user "exit" from kvraudio forum who helped pointing out compatibility issues under his localized XP)
v.1.3.0 - 2011-10-25
- NEW: Added update check feature; you can configure VirtualMIDISynth to automatically check if an updated version is available.
Default check frequency is 14 days (can be changed with configurator). If an update is available, a balloon notification appears on systray when VirtualMIDISynth is loaded (but no more than once a day).
- NEW: Mixer window position is now clipped to the nearest screen, avoiding it to open out of screen when switching from dual-screen config to single.
- NEW: Updated bassmidi.dll to version 2.4.8.
- FIX: Fixed an important memory leak on Mixer window that causes hosting process memory to continuously increase when the Mixer is shown.
- FIX: MidiMapper now creates the whole registry path if not exists.
- FIX: Configurator now checks if another instance is running.
WARNING: this version is not supported anymore.
Please upgrade to VirtualMIDISynth 2.
Latest stable version included languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Greek, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Czech, Dutch, Magyar, Chinese (simplified), Chinese Traditional (Taiwan), Korean, Turkish, Serbian (latin), Arabic (Saudi Arabia).
If you want to help in translation, VirtualMIDISynth has an on-line translation system that's really easy to use: see here for current language status then get in touch, I'll create a "translator" account (or allow your existing account to access the translation system) and you're ready to go.
VirtualMIDISynth automatically notifies its updates (if enabled), otherwise you can subscribe here to be notified.
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Kremlin says it expects Putin-Trump meeting to go ahead
The Kremlin said Wednesday it still expects a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to go ahead as planned despite a suggestion from Trump that it could be canceled.
Trump, in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, said he might cancel the sit-down with Putin in Argentina following Russia's seizure of three Ukrainian naval ships last weekend.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that the meeting is on and that Russia has not received "any other information from our U.S. counterparts."
Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, noted that the meeting, which is set for Saturday, has been prepared through official channels and Moscow expects Washington to notify it of any changes in the same way.
"This meeting is necessary for both sides," Ushakov said. "It's important in view of the developing situation in the world."
The long-simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine burst into the open on Sunday, when Russian border guards fired on three Ukrainian vessels and seized the ships and the crew.
In a phone call Wednesday, Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed their concern about the incident, said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She said the two will further discuss it later this week during the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Trump said he would be receiving a "full report" from his national security team on Russia's recent actions in eastern Ukraine and the Black Sea. He said he would decide on a course afterward.
"Maybe I won't have the meeting," he said. "Maybe I won't even have the meeting."
Trump added: "I don't like that aggression. I don't want that aggression at all."
The comments were Trump's strongest to date in condemnation of Russia's recent actions in Ukraine, where tensions are flaring. But White House aides were still planning for the Putin meeting after Trump's comments.
Ushakov, Putin's aide, said the naval encounter between Russia and Ukraine likely will be on the agenda of the planned meeting, which will start with the two presidents meeting privately before being joined by senior officials.
He said the Kremlin expects that the talks will touch on nuclear arms control, noting that it's particularly important to discuss them in view of the U.S. intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
"It's extremely important to prevent an uncontrollable and senseless arms race," he said.
Ushakov said the two presidents also are to discuss regional crises, including the situation in Syria, the Iranian nuclear deal and North Korea.
The meeting between Trump and Putin is set to be just one of several high-profile foreign-policy engagements for the U.S. leader on the whirlwind two-day visit to Argentina. Trump also is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping over dinner, in what may be a pivotal session to determining if and how the ongoing trade dispute between their countries could be resolved.
The White House on Tuesday warned Xi against trying to wait out Trump in the ongoing talks, suggesting the Chinese economy was not as resilient to a trade war as the U.S. economy.
The warning from Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, came ahead of the two leaders' high-stakes sit-down on Saturday evening. Over the last year, the two countries have levied a series of tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of imports from each other, with the latest round of U.S. duties set to go into force in the new year.
Xi said on Wednesday the international community needs to build consensus to solve the conflict between free trade and protectionism. In a speech to lawmakers in Spain, where he is conducting a state visit before attending the summit in Argentina, he said the world is facing "instability, uncertainty and hot topics without precedents in our history."
"I think we are at a crossroads," Xi said. "In economic terms we need to decide if we are going to follow the economic globalization and free market or if we are going to choose unilateralism and protectionism."
National security adviser John Bolton said Trump will also be meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Argentine President Mauricio Macri, South Korea's Moon Jae-in and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sanders called the trip an opportunity for the president to cement relations with other world leaders and advance a global economic system based on "free, fair and reciprocal trade."
The Trump-Xi meeting would be the first since the two countries began hitting each other with import taxes earlier this year. The United States targeted $250 billion in Chinese products, and Beijing lashed back by slapping tariffs on $110 billion worth of U.S. goods. The two sides have been in negotiations for months, but Kudlow described them as being stalemated until just a few weeks ago.
Kudlow said the administration has been "extremely disappointed" by China's engagement in trade talks but the meeting between Trump and Xi on the sidelines of the G-20 summit could be a game-changer.
"Perhaps we can break through in Buenos Aires or not," he said.
Kudlow added that if the U.S. doesn't get "satisfactory" responses to its trade positions more tariffs will be imposed. He said Trump is "not going away."
"I hope they understand that," he said.
China's foreign ministry has said a recent phone conversation between Xi and Trump about trade and other issues was "extremely positive."
Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Aritz Parra in Madrid contributed to this story.


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Over the past few years, we have witnessed an unprecedented evolution in the laws regulating the healthcare industry. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), its Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issue a huge amount of guidance every year regarding their programs, policies and initiatives. While much of this guidance is technical and difficult to read, it is important for providers to become acquainted with these policies to ensure that they follow the directives for billing and timely file appeals for overpayment audits. Information is key when undertaking compliance initiatives or defending your claims in the Medicare appeal process.
The main page for the Department of Justice:
The main page for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:
Additional information about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:
A searchable database of the United States Code:
The Medicare Coverage Database to search for specific LCDs and NCDs applicable to your claims:
A list of Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs):
More detailed information on CMS guidelines, regulations and directives:
Medicare manuals which can be displayed online:
Below are PDF links to some important Medicare revisions called Program Transmittals:


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Malachi 4:1-6 — A Day is Coming
Though Malachi characterizes Judah's words against Yahweh as "harsh," we might find ourselves rather sympathetic with them. It does appear that evil often wins and that abusers go unpunished. We might wonder whether, in fact, evildoers are "blessed." Or that God is indifferent, or that faith is worth the journey.
Malachi, however, is quick to reorient our vision. He counsels that we should view the present circumstances–even if they are overwhelmingly negative–through a different lens. Focusing on the present reality can be overwhelming but an eschatological lens provides another vantage point from which to see the world. Malachi points us to the looming horizon of the eschatological day of Yahweh.
A day is coming, Malachi announces, when "all the arrogant and all evildoers" will burn as stubble. He calls it the "great and awesome day of the Yahweh" (4:5). It is a day of judgment for evil itself–both those who arrogantly accuse God of blessing the wicked and those who actually practice evil. Malachi uses two metaphors to describe this destruction: fire and trampling. When they are burned up, the righteous will walk on their ashes. This image is not so much a picture of arrogant superiority but rather the reality that righteousness will shine in that new world while wickedness will disappear like ashes.
Yahweh envisions a new world. It is a world where the "sun of righteousness" shines in the darkness of a broken and depraved world. It will illuminate the earth and burn away its evil. Though it burns away the evil, the sunshine will heal the broken world and the righteous will leap for joy as they explore the new reality before them (as calves do when released from their stalls).
While some see a Messianic reference in the "sun of righteousness" that ties this to Jesus (possibly Luke 1:78 alludes to this text), the text is probably a more general reference to the divine act where God will burn away the evil from his earth and a new dawn of righteousness will appear when God renews heaven and earth. This is foreshadowed in Jesus and the Lord of righteousness will certainly accomplish this when he comes again. Most explicit, however, is the contrast between the present wicked world where the "arrogant and evildoers" leave the earth in darkness and the coming reality where the "sun of righteousness" will burn away evil even as it illuminates the earth. The day is coming when God will destroy the wicked and heal the righteous.
In light of this coming day, Malachi exhorts Judah to remember the Torah of Moses. This is the path of righteousness. Throughout his oracle, Malachi has alluded to and reminded his audience of Torah ethics (e.g., Malachi 3:5). This righteousness–the practice of the Torah–will fill the earth. The Torah, enacted in the lives and hearts of God's people, will illuminate the darkness and transform the world, and this will be led by the Messiah himself.
This Torah-righteousness, however, is not self-actualization, and neither is the rise of the "sun of righteousness" produced by human obedience. Rather, God will inaugurate this transformation by sending Elijah before the great, eschatological day of judgment.
This is a missional act on the part of God. He intends to "turn the hearts" of Israel from evil to righteousness. The prophet Elijah will announce the coming day and call for a repentance (a turning) which will avert the land from "utter destruction." Elijah will precede the day of Yahweh, the day of judgment.
Reading this text through a Christian lens, the Gospel writers all identified John the Baptist as this Elijah. He appeared in the wilderness proclaiming a "baptism of repentance" and calling Israel to repentance to avoid the coming wrath of God (cf. Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:2-8; Luke 3:1-17). Jesus identified John the Baptist as Elijah who prepared the way for his own coming and for the coming of the day of Yahweh (Matthew 17:9-13).
The arrival of the Messiah is not the "day of Yahweh." Rather, the Messiah himself heralded a message of repentance: "Repent and believe the good news" (Mark 1:15). The good news is that the kingdom is coming. The "sun of righteousness" will yet dawn upon the earth. One day God will clear the brush and purge the earth with fire so that it might become a home of righteousness (2 Peter 3:13) where the "sun of righteousness" will bring healing and renewal.
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This stereoscopic anaglyph image was created from a left and right stereo pair of images of the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity. The scene appears three dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left.
The image was taken May 26, 2011, in Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The rover was shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on June 22, 2011. The mission is scheduled to launch during the period Nov. 25 to Dec. 18, 2011, and land the rover Curiosity on Mars in August 2012. Researchers will use tools on Curiosity to study whether the landing region has had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and for preserving clues about whether life existed.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.


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DefCON 17 will run from July 30 - Aug 2nd this year at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Although rooms are being advertised at $89/night, at this time a call to hotel reservation line shows that the Riviera is nearly full-up and that there are very few rooms left at that price.
Proposals for DefCON meetup. The Toxic BBQ is Thursday night, and might be a good meetup place. We might also consider meeting up somewhere where all of us can hack/play/decompress/etc.
Who is going?
Martyn ceren ieatlint aestetix
Events that are known so far:
Thursday July 30th
- Morning : DefCON Shootout ( starts as early as we can rally, open the range around 08:00, outta there absolutely by 12:00. (preferably back at hotel by then) )
- DefCON 101 : ( 13:00 - 15:00 ) HighWiz, The Dark Tangent, Russr, DJ Jackalope, Deviant Ollam, Thorn, ThePrez98, LosT, Siviak
- Pre-Con Introduction to Lock Picking : Alek Amrani
- DEFCON 1 - A Personal Account : Dead Addict
- Con Kung-Fu: Defending Yourself @ DEFCON : Rob "Padre" DeGulielmo
- Hardware Black Magic - Building devices with FPGAs : Dr. Fouad Kiamilev
- DCFluX in: The Man with the Soldering Gun : Matt Krick "DCFluX"
- Effective Information Security Career Planning : Lee Kushner and Mike Murray
- DC Network Session : Lockheed
- So You Got Arrested in Vegas... : Jim Rennie ( USEFUL INFORMATION! )
- Hacking with GNURadio : Videoman
- Toxic BBQ : ( 15:00 - 17:30 Titanium Chef contest -- open grills 17:30 - 20:00 )
- DefCON Forums Meet-up in Room #111 : 7:30pm to whenever (BYoB -- or more beer than that)
- THE SUMMIT is Hosting in efforts as a fund raiser for the EFF and Make a Wish Foundation! THURSDAY NIGHT (July 30th) - TOP OF THE RIV (3 DJ's / Early party)
Friday July 31st
- Pool Party : ( ??->23:00 w/ DJ, then -> 02:00 quiet )
- Email firstname.lastname@example.com to get on the list for the hackerpimps defcon party.


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It's interesting that my 1970s edition of the Joy of Cooking says of fruit fools that "long ago the word 'fool' was used as a term of endearment." Others claim it comes from the French word "fouler," which means to mash or crush, while according to The Food Timeline, citing the Oxford English Dictionary, a more accurate explanation of its origin is likely its link to the "trifle," or "a bit of foolishness."
I picked up a papaya from the supermarket today, but it is nowhere near ripe, so I decided to make a mango fool instead. It is also hard to get ripe sweet mangos here in central Pennslvania, so I substituted mango pulp from India (see the can in the photo), which also meant eliminating the preliminary steps of peeling chopping, pureeing, and cooking the fruit. However, the canned pulp also has sugar added, which made for a somewhat sweeter fool than would be common in Ghana. Today I'll just go step by step with the process I used, and later, when it ripens, I'll explain how to use fresh papaya to make a "pawpaw" fool.
Recipe #31: Step-by-step Mango Fool
1 3/4 cups canned mango puree
3 1/2 Tablespoons custard powder
about 3/4 cup water
1/2 cup evaporated milk
In a separate pan, slightly heat the remaining 1/4 cup of evaporated milk, then stir it into the water/milk/custard powder mix to prevent the custard from forming lumps.
Turn a burner on the stove to medium low and begin heating the mango puree. Stir it to make sure it does not stick.
Place the custard pan over another burner and cook the custard several minutes on medium low heat, stirring constantly with a wire whisk until it thickens. Remove from the heat. If it seems very thick, stir in a few Tablespoons of water (I needed to do this today), and let it cool for about 10 minutes.
Using a whisk, gradually mix the custard into the heated mango puree, stirring vigorously and letting it cook for a few minutes. Do not add any additional sugar.


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Businessman Donald Trump's plan for the H-1B visa is to make it harder and more expensive for tech companies to replace U.S. workers with foreign help.
Trump's immigration plan, released Sunday, includes the ideas and thinking of some of the Senate's strongest H-1B critics. It was immediately endorsed by one senator.
"This is exactly the plan America needs," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), the chair of the Senate's Immigration subcommittee, said in a statement Sunday regarding Trump's overall immigration policy proposal. "Not only would the plan outlined in this paper work, but more quickly than many realize."
The key things Trump is proposing for the H-1B visa include, first, an increase in the prevailing wage, making it more expensive to use H-1B workers. Many visa holders are paid the lowest prevailing wage level set for entry-level positions. Trump doesn't spell out his specific action plan, but some have argued for eliminating lower prevailing-wage levels altogether.
"Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas," wrote Trump.
Second, Trump wants a requirement that companies hire U.S. workers first. Critics says without this requirement, visa workers can be used to replace U.S. workers. "We need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed," wrote Trump.
Trump said his proposals will also "improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program."
Trump's immigration policy paper is far from dry reading. He calls Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), "Mark Zuckerberg's personal senator," because of Rubio's support of the I-Squared bill.
The I-Squared bill would raise the base H-1B visa cap from its current 65,000 to 195,000, a move the IEEE-USA has said will help destroy the U.S. tech workforce. Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, is a principal behind FWD.us, a lobbying group seeking expansion of the H-1B program.
Trump, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, may be closer to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in his criticisms of the H-1B visa than any of his fellow Republicans seeking the presidential nomination. Sanders, an Independent who is seeking the Democrat presidential nomination, says the H-1B program is being used to help ship jobs overseas.
Trump's H-1B proposal is clearly aligned with the ideas of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chair of the Judiciary Committee, and Grassley's longtime ally, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) -- not to mention Sessions.
The intellectual roots of Trump's H-1B views can be found in its links, which includes the testimony and work of two of leading academic critics, Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Howard University, and Hal Salzman, professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University, who studies the science and engineering workforce.
In previous presidential campaigns, the H-1B visa has been notable mainly by its absence. By making it major part of his immigration platform, Trump is clearly raising the issue's profile and may force other candidates to engage on it. That alone could lead to a much broader debate about the H-1B visa than ever before.


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Sept. 24, 2013— -- It's another strike for the probability of life on Mars.
Curiosity, NASA's rover on the red planet's surface, has failed to detect any significant amount of methane in Mars' atmosphere, contrary to what was observed by telescopes on Earth, according to a recent paper published in the journal Science.
Scientist use the presence of methane as a possible indicator of life.
Lyle Whyte, vice-chair of the Canadian Astrobiology Network, said that it was a bad day for the search for life on Mars. "It's not a definitive sign saying that there is no life on Mars, but it's not a good sign," he told ABC News. "We have a problem."
Whyte, who was not involved with the paper but collaborates with NASA on other projects, said that methane is like a smoking gun for microbial life. "Ninety percent of the methane of Earth's atmosphere originate from microbes," he said. "That's why people got excited about methane in Mars' atmosphere."
"It's not a definitive sign saying that there is no life on Mars, but it's not a good sign."
The main evidence for methane on Mars comes from Michael Mumma, a planetary scientist at NASA. One of his papers combined methane observations from the Keck Observatory and the Infrared Telescope Facility, both in Hawaii. "When we saw the methane plumes, we saw values range from 20 to 60 parts per billion," he said. "Curiosity's upper limit is only 1.4 parts per billion."
Paul Mahaffy, one of the authors of the new paper, said that Curiosity's instruments are more sensitive than what observatories have to offer. "It's much more sensitive than the best measurement done from Earth's surface," he said. "If there were a strong source of methane on Mars, we would have seen it by now."
Mumma's original observations also say that methane in the atmosphere isn't always there. "The concentration of methane changes with location, the time of day, and even the season on Mars," he said. "It's actually rare when we do see methane."
Curiosity made its methane observations at six different locations along its journey. Though the evidence seems to be pointing to the absence of methane, Mahaffy said that it's still worth doing more measurements. "Every few weeks, we'll sample the atmosphere for methane," he said. "From our point of view, it's still an interesting story."
While Mumma and Mahaffy are eager to determine what the relationship is with the planet and methane, they still say that it's not the deciding factor for determining whether life currently exists on Mars. The gas can also be created geologically, if hot water buried deep beneath the planet's surface reacts with hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide.
"We aren't able to distinguish biological production from geological production," said Mumma. "But that's where we are, and we're still continuing our research today."


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So you heard a long time ago about some programming language called QBasic. This language isn't used much anymore except in its new incarnation as visual basic. If you learn QBasic, vb is quite simple. So what am I going to show you today? How to write a simple program in QBasic. First of all Basic stands for "Quick Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" and was developed in the 1960's as a simple way to learn programming. This first simple program will use multiplication to find the area of a room.
First of all the program in its entirety:
INPUT "Please enter the length"; Length
INPUT "Please enter the width"; Wdth
LET Area = Length * Wdth
PRINT "The area is"; Area
QBasic is a very simple language, and for those programmers who are reading this that have never dealt with QBasic, this is an unstructured programming language meaning that you can use the GOSUB command to jump around to any place in the program at any time. Many experienced programmers do not like this feature, but when I took a class for this, it saved my life while writing programs. Also in this language there is no need to declare variables. Now I will explain the program line by line.
This command tells QBasic to clear the screen. Often times this is needed because old data from the same program doesnt automatically disappear.
INPUT "Please enter the length "; Length
This tells Basic to accept input from the user, and displays a message with the text in it. This user input is then assigned to the numeric variable "Length".
INPUT "Please enter the width "; Wdth
This is the same as the "Length" variable except one thing. If you havent noticed Ive been misspelling the variable "Wdth". This is because the word "Width is a word that is reserved.
LET Area = Length * Wdth
This is the mathematical function in the program. Once again since the variables don't have to be declared, it is easy to use "Area".
PRINT "The area is"; Area
Shows on the screen the sentence followed by the results of your calculation.
After you are finished you must tell QBasic that the program is finished. This is accomplished using the "END" command.
A program of a similar nature written in java, or C++ would have taken a longer to write and more code. There is a lot more to QBasic, but this should get you started on your way. I feel that QBasic still has use as a teaching aid and that it is important to learn. If you need a QBasic compiler, Microsoft has a small one known as QBasic. There isnt anywhere free to find it except inside a textbook at the public library. If there are any mistakes in my post feel free to correct them.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge awarded a Muslim-American radio host $4.1 million in monetary damages Wednesday after he successfully sued a neo-Nazi website operator who falsely accused him of terrorism.
SiriusXM Radio show host Dean Obeidallah filed the civil complaint against The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin, who hasn't responded to Obeidallah's libel lawsuit. Anglin's whereabouts are unclear.
Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus Jr. agreed to enter a default judgment against Anglin and his company, Moonbase Holdings LLC. Sargus announced the award after a Wednesday morning hearing.
The judge said he was convinced nothing in Anglin's statements were protected speech under the First Amendment. He also issued an injunction ordering the materials about Obeidallah taken down from the website and forbidding Anglin from discussing them further.
During the hearing, Obeidallah explained the shock he felt after Anglin published an article about him in June 2017, alleging that he was responsible for the May 2017 terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in England.
In his lawsuit, Obeidallah alleged the site embedded fabricated messages in the post to make them seem like they had been sent from Obeidallah's Twitter account, tricking readers into believing he took responsibility for the Manchester attack. That mix of real and fake tweets made the article all the more insidious, Obeidallah testified Wednesday.
Afterward, he received death threats and now worries about his safety and that of his family, he testified. In the lawsuit, Obeidallah said Anglin libeled him, invaded his privacy and intentionally inflicted "emotional distress."
After the hearing, Obeidallah praised the ruling and the message it sends to Anglin "and others of that ilk."
"That you're going to be held accountable in our court system if you try to smear people, and try to destroy their reputation because they speak out against your hateful ideology," Obeidallah said.
Among those who testified Wednesday was Andrew Anglin's father, Greg Anglin of suburban Columbus. Obeidallah's attorneys, who were allowed to subpoena Greg Anglin, have said he previously testified that he helped his son collect and deposit between $100,000 and $150,000 in readers' mailed donations over a five-year period.
Greg Anglin acknowledged helping file paperwork to set up the website and to receiving donations at a post office box. He said he last spoke to his son by phone about two weeks ago, but they didn't discuss the lawsuit. Afterward, he declined to talk to a reporter about his son or his whereabouts.
Anglin's current whereabouts are a mystery. The Ohio native has said he's lived abroad for years and claims it would be too dangerous for him to travel to the U.S. because he gets credible death threats.
Anglin's site takes its name from Der Stürmer, a newspaper that published Nazi propaganda. The site includes sections called "Jewish Problem" and "Race War." For months, the site struggled to stay online after Anglin published a post mocking the woman who was killed when a man plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
Anglin now faces possible default judgments in four federal cases, including separate lawsuits filed by two other targets of his site's online harassment campaigns.
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It's a Party Lyrics
Yea...vanillas' stand the world on a chair, yea!
Vanilla 'll knock 'em down on their rear, yea!
Vanilla 'll make 'em all stand up and cheer, yea!
He's the vanilla! break, break, break down
[Verse 1]
Sparklin' like a towerin' inferno
You want to' learn my songs, this ain't no journal
It blemished my rhyme, because I'm drawin' the line
Don't celebrate too soon, 'cause I'm goin' for mine
Just a character in a made up cartoon
Like witchel and hazel, boy, you're pushin' a broom
So get a new life or come equipped with the best
Mark another one for ice, let the microphone rest
Just listen to my groove, the beat is strong
And i'll rock it now, I need a microphone
I'm in the mood to dance, I'm in the mood to prance
You tried me once but now you're takin' a chance
Because I rock with flavor, hard as lifesaver
You asked for dope, ha...that's what I gave ya'
A chance to go but now you move too slow
My juice is pumped and I'm ready to go
Go...it's a party...come on...let's do this...come on..
[Verse 2]
Real good...into a new phase, jumpin' up the airwaves
And now you're amazed 'cause it's hip hop that you crave
because I'm hyped like an addict, there's no drug involved
The only thing I need is my record revolved
Def comin' strong, hard like a matador
I saw my style, my soul, up on the dance floor
I want to' see ya' shake, shake and shiver
You're a charity case, and ice is the giver
I'm givin' you what you want but you're dumb and naive
You can't cope with the dop ice has concieved
Which is a dope jam, hotter than the third degree
You tried my style but I burn you see
I'm ice and I'm cold, I'm buildin' igloos of gold
You want to' bite my style, you gotta' have soul
'cause a dope like this is not easy to come by
You don't buy it on, it comes out your hi-fi
It's a party...come on...'let's do this..
[Verse 3]
You think it's funy to lack but I'm a brother to mack
The 808 kickin' base from a dope drum track
I'm the coolest of cool, kickin' cools silly fools
You are posse's takin' a dip and vanilla's the pool
Get ready for my ritual, it's at its' peak
Silly punks bow down 1st the lyricist speak
Intruders get slayed, my pockets get paid
The girlie is jockin' it and just got laid
See I'm the press you elect, keep the record erect
In effect, damn, ain't that what you expect?
Earthquake is on the funk, my homie's not a punk
Take you antique rhymes and self 'em as junk
You see, we won't come front' and sellin' drugs and all that shit
Fake caddies, mack daddies, ain't even legit
So, get a beeper, you're a sleeper and you need to wake up
So make the record transform so carwin vegas
It's a party...come on...let's do this..
Do it! we don't need no music
Cause all we want to' do, is sing and dance and party down
I'm the best, he's the vanilla
It's a party...come on...let's do this..
Writer(s): KHAYREE D SHAHEED, ROBERT VAN WINKLE
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I won't go into one of the many rants I have stored up on how damaging the mere premise of Steve Harvey's Think Like A Man, Act Like A Lady book can be to women attempting to maneuver through already confusing dating and relationship rituals. That ship has sailed, we all watched it make its bon voyage. Over wine the other day, though, a group of sister-friends and I had a chit-chat about one segment of the book that we felt was worth exploring: the three-month rule. Harvey has notoriously (or victoriously, depending on who you ask) stated that women should wait at least three months before sleeping with a new partner.
As a feminist and one who advocates for women to be released from all rules that govern how, when, where and why we sex, I am totally against blanket guidelines being provided to women (who obviously have had unsuccessful relationships and are looking for answers) that may or may not be beneficial to them as individuals. Meaning, one woman can decide that she is ready to have sex after an initial meeting, and another may need years of contemplation before taking such a step; neither method of thinking is right or wrong.
As a divorcee well into her thirties with plenty of "dating the wrong guy" experience, and as someone who studies and discusses women, desire and relationships often, I won't count out a woman's need to investigate her own feelings about sharing sex and the expectations that follow- AND how those expectations will affect her feelings of self worth and esteem. A woman who understands that she becomes extremely emotionally attached to her partner post-coitus may need significant time to determine who her potential partner is and where the relationship may go after sex. There is nothing wrong with wanting to feel secure about such a thing, and many women with fewer dating and sexual experiences find making and negotiating "wait" rules helpful. To them, cementing rules make them feel powerful and in control of their bodies and their sex. I'm not mad.
Many of the women in my circle, who share my age and experience, completely dismiss the ninety-day dating rule as pure and utter bullsh*t. Hey, these women are veterans- many are married (or divorced) with children and mortgages, and know better than to rely on rules that ultimately inhibit them from doing what they want. One friend commented, "If I wait three months for sex and its wack, I'm going to be pissed. Who has time for that?" For a woman who has limited time to date and frolic, trying to uphold rules surrounding desire can be viewed as repressive, and plain nonsensical. But again, as one ages and learns to trust her inner-voice, she quickly figures out what will work for her and what won't. I know women who can have a fifteen-minute bar conversation with a guy and determine whether said guy is datable and sex-able. It truly can be that easy, for some.
Again, when to sex varies from woman to woman depending on a slew of criteria, but what is constant is the exhausting thought process that many women face attempting to determine whether or not to they should lay it down- both literally and figuratively. Often, instead of women meditating on whether or not they want to have sex and how that sex will affect THEM, they are caught up in trying to determine how having sex will make them look in the eyes of their lovers, families and friends. What is lost in translation is pleasure and freedom, which is really what sex is all about anyway, yes?
Want a male perspective? Listen to what Steve Harvey himself has to say about why women should practice the three-month rule here. Also, check out Jason Hairston as he offers a rebuttal to Harvey's assertion.
Josie Pickens is a writer, educator and activist who blogs at www.jonubian.com. Follow her musings on twitter at @jonubian