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Microsoft reportedly has a plan to avoid consumer confusion about the differences between Windows 8 tablets based on ARM and x86/x64 chips: Allow very few ARM-based tablets onto store shelves.
When Windows 8 launches, which is expected later this year, there could be fewer than five ARM-based devices available and only three of those would be one-panel touch tablets. Meanwhile, more than 40 different Windows 8 machines using Intel chips will be available at launch, according to Bloomberg. The report did not specify if Intel chips meant the x86/x64 chip architecture (also used by AMD) or actual Intel-branded processors.
Speaking with anonymous sources, Bloomberg said the reason there will so few devices using ARM technology is that Microsoft is holding Windows 8 ARM-based devices to "rigorous quality-control standards." Also, the company reportedly wants to control the number of ARM devices available during the initial Windows 8 launch.
New Territory for Microsoft
Microsoft is forging into new territory with a version of Windows designed for ARM devices. ARM-based chips are widely used in smartphones and tablets since they tend to be more energy efficient than x86/x64 processors, but Windows has historically been designed primarily for Intel chips.
Many critics, including myself, have wondered how Microsoft will differentiate between ARM- and x86/x64-based tablets since they offer different experiences. ARM-based devices will rely primarily on Microsoft's new touch-friendly Metro interface in Windows 8, although the devices will also include the traditional Windows desktop. The problem, however, is that legacy Windows desktop software will not work on ARM devices. So downloading AOL Instant Messenger for Windows 7, for example, should work just fine on an Intel-based Windows 8 tablet, but not a device using an ARM-based chip.
Who Will Produce Windows 8 ARM Tablets?
The fact that Microsoft is reportedly allowing just a few ARM-based Windows 8 devices onto store shelves (at least at first) suggests the company is being careful not to confuse users. But which companies will be producing those early ARM tablets is still an open question.
There are reports that Asus and Nokia are planning Windows 8 ARM tablets. Hewlett-Packard may also produce an ARM tablet, but will focus on Intel-based devices first. Dell, Lenovo and Samsung, meanwhile appear to be going with Intel-based tablets.
Bloomberg's report also says Windows 8 will be ready for launch "around October." That claim is in line with other reports, as well as Microsoft's past Windows release schedules. Windows 7 and XP were both released in October, while Vista was released to consumers in January.
[Go to PCWorld's Windows 8 special section for all the latest news on Microsoft's newest operating system.]
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Title: Spending Reduction Act of 2012
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Origins of Everything: The September Scientific American Magazine
Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the September special single-topic issue of Scientific American magazine, which covers origins, from the universe to the horse stirrup. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.thelongtail.com
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Steve: Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on August 31st, 2009. I'm Steve Mirsky. And in this episode, we''ll talk about the September issue of Scientific American magazine with Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina, and a little bit about one of the big questions of our time: Where is the money going to come from to support new media? Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. I spoke to Mariette in her office.
Steve: Mariette, the September—the big September issue, we always have a single topic issue. And our single topic this year is…
Mariette: Origins.
Steve: Like of the species?
Mariette: Like, you know, "origins of the species," but like origins of the species [and] everything else actually, which is one of the really fun things about this issue.
Steve: We've actually already done our Darwin issue for this special year of Darwin, so this is a lot of other origins. Let's real quick talk about some of the types of origins we are talking about, then we'll talk about how this issue originated.
Mariette: That sounds great. So some of the origins we have about, [well] we have more than 50 different origins in this issue and we go from the very large in cosmic from the origins of the universe and the origins of life itself to the origins of the human mind and computing and also to things that you might wonder about just in your everyday life, like where [did the stirrup] in horseback riding come from, where did the clock come from.
Steve: And we have two really different sides to the issue. There are few of our traditional feature pieces which run six or seven or eight pages and then we have a whole bunch of [these] little half page origin items.
Mariette: The terrific thing about single topic issues in general is they let you dive really deep. And Scientific American is so well known for diving deep in its individual feature articles, you mentioned there, six or eight pages, in long form writing and can really get into depth, and we have several articles that do that in this issue as well. But we thought it would be really fun to cover a gamut of other sorts of origins stories that you would necessarily have room to do the eight to ten page treatment on all of them, so we chose to do a variety of them instead over more than 20-pages. So the depth is in the number of pages there.
Steve: I am turning to page 74 actually, because there were a couple of things, I was just leafing through all of these shorter origins pieces, and I learned a couple of really interesting things such as, we have this half a page on the origins of insurance and the insurance industry's getting, they are getting batted around a bit during this whole healthcare reform discussion, but what's really interesting is that the advent for or the necessity for insurance wound up being a crucial driver to the advent of mathematics and probability.
Mariette: One of the [amazing] things about science isn't it, how one thing leads to another, the famous "shoulder of giants" response.
Steve: It was Newton who said, "If I can see farther, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants" and it was, I believe, Gerald Holton, the historian of science, who once commented at a dinner, "We are now privileged to sit side by side with the giants upon whose shoulders we stand".
Mariette: I like that one. Well, one of the fun things about [an] item such as that insurance one, or others, is in each case, we've zeroed [in] on some unique moment of insight for that origin story that we're telling and tried to connect it with a larger picture of science. And to do this in a half page as you mentioned is the trick, but it makes them all really very fun and exciting, kind of light, too. One of the other things I like in the issue too is it answers questions. For me one of my favorites, you know, I don't remember what page it was offhand, but they answer the perennial question about which was first, the chicken or the egg?
Steve: I think that's the next page.
Mariette: Find that page, Steve…
Steve: It is page 77.
Mariette: Okay on page 77, the chicken and the egg. So folks, the biological answer there is clear about, it's the egg, although the question itself is the problem there, where you know, the insight is eggs don't in one full fluff, I want to say, swell foop because my former geometry teacher used to say that.
Steve: Swell foop!
Mariette: Swell foop! He used to back it up all the time, so I still have this verbal hitch. But of course you can't—and this is also so appropriate in the Darwin year—Create a species with one egg, one jump, but in each succeeding generation, where mutations build up, eventually speciation occurs, so the egg first, the species itself though, took a little while longer than one egg.
Steve: And then in a larger biological sense, you had eggs way, way before you had anything resembling birds.
Mariette: True.
Steve: Right, so, clearly as a structural unit, the egg came first.
Mariette: As a structural unit.
Steve: But we've got these feature pieces as well, "The Origins of the Universe", "The Origins of Life on Earth", "Origins of Computing". I'm going to in a future episode have an interview, [I] have it plan[ned], with the actual author of the "Origins of the Universe" article, so why don't we talk just a little bit, just for a minute or two, about the "Origins of Life" article because fat is just [such] a dirty word in our current, you know, obesity-riddled society, but without fat there would have been no life on Earth.
Mariette: I love it that you're pointing that out, see, because I was just trying to think of how could I get rid of some of my own extra fat and lipid content. But let's back up to the origin of life on Earth, because, of course, it's really hard to pinpoint an exact moment, and it's very complicated how life works in general. There are these, you know, your DNA, and it needs to be broken down; and there's this essential mystery about how could one get started with DNA where you need enzymes to break the DNA up so that you can then replicate. It looks [like] a really classic paradoxical puzzle, where there's no beginning and no end. Scientists have through their research figured out that RNA, a close relative of DNA could have been a first step towards life but RNA needs to go or anything needs to go into something protected so that it can do its replicating thing; and here is where Steve's discussion of fat comes in. Fat, as it turns out, or lipids, in early primitive Earth could self-form enclosures that could keep that genetic material or keep that early primeval RNA version contained so that larger molecules couldn't come in and out willy-nilly and so that other strands of RNA could eventually connect and replicate inside that cellular, well, protocellular form.
Steve: Right. Lipids just naturally form spheres.
Mariette: Right. Lipids naturally form spheres and also they, kind of, naturally come together. So there is a mechanism for lipids to, for the lipid sphere to start to grow. If there are other lipids nearby, they can aggregate against the existing sphere forming filaments and then you need some really plausible, but you do need some outside mechanism to get them started to break apart, so that they could then become separate cells. That could happen with temperature changes; for instance, you could imagine a pond where one area is heated by the sun more than the other and that extra energy from the sun's heat could help to serve, break the material apart or some slight shaking from rock movement or other things. So some slight energy you could see how it could eventually get into a self-replicating system.
Steve: And the amazing thing is these researchers saw these filaments grow spontaneously from the spheres, and they had no reason to expect that, but it's also just a natural kind of structural formation that happens with these particular chemical compounds when they're in [a] certain shape.
Mariette: Right, what's really interesting about that article, one of the things I love about it actually; because you could look at life today and you could say, how could it possibly get started, it's just so complicated, what are the ways that could even happen and you can look at it and say, you could throw your hands up and say "Oh, it's just too complicated; there's no way this could happen'. Well, what these researchers talk about and one of them is the one that Steve just mentioned—you create the conditions that would exist in the primeval Earth and you see what the mechanism could be, you follow the chemistry. And really this is a wonderful chemistry story in many ways as it describes how if you create conditions that you know could have existed, that were plausible to exist, then you watch what comes out of it; and then you ask the next question, "Well then how could, for instance, you know, how could these lipid molecules we were just talking about break apart to form new cells?" So you ask, "Well what are the mechanisms there?" and then you look at them and it's like one big long mystery story of the beginning of life and it has many interesting threads that these scientist detectives are rolling along to try to uncover the clues.
Steve: And I think part of the effort there is not necessarily to pin down exactly what did happen because that may be unknowable, but to just find out a plausible scenario.
Mariette: Right and really that's how a lot of science theory works anyway. You come up with plausible scenarios, and then you test them. So in this case, what this article does, it starts with the material, let's call it the coding material, whether it's DNA, RNA, anything that can record life information and pass it on eventually, and the other materials such as the lipids that were needed to contain it, and create a, kind of, working framework for cellular mechanisms to begin to arise; and then trace how those could happen. And the story that comes up tells you the experimental evidence for each piece of those steps, [and] it is a multistep process for sure but each one of them has a plausible arc of theory and then experimental weight behind it.
Steve: And one of the authors of that "Origins of Life" piece is Jack Szostak who was a guest on the podcast, I can't remember if it was a year ago or two years ago, but at the end of this interview I will be back to let you know exactly what date he was on, so that if you are interested, you can access that podcast from our archives and listen to the interview with him. Now one of our perennial or monthly, it's both, favorites is, the "50, 100 and 150 Years Ago".
Mariette: Always a favorite.
Steve: Always a favorite.
Mariette: Everybody loves this.
Steve: Now there are a couple of good things in here, but I want to share something from 1859's August issue or September issue of Scientific American. And this is a quote from that issue: "The common earthworm, though apt to be despised and trodden on, is really a useful creature. According to Mr. Charles Darwin, they give a kind of under tillage to the land, performing the same below ground that the spade does above for the garden, and the plow for arable soil. Fields which have been overspread with lime, burnt marl, or cinder, become, in time, covered by finely-divided soil. This result, usually attributed by farmers to the 'working down' of these materials, is really due to the action of earthworms. Mr. Darwin says, 'A field manured with marl has been covered, in the course of 80 years, with a bed of earth averaging 13 inches in thickness.'" The reason I really like this is back in early July, I went to Darwin's house and I walked around the fields behind his house, and I stepped on the worm stone. He and his son, I believe it was, put this big round stone, they kind of screwed it into the earth, so that they could track how the action of the earthworms raised up the soil around the stone because the movement is imperceptible to our eyes, but if you put that reference stone in there, you can see how everything else is moving in relationship to it, and that's how they came up with that number and so, you know, I got to stand on the worm stone just you know, six weeks ago.
Mariette: That piece mentions that worms are sort of despised. I think one of the ways that we have changed in a hundred and how many years since then is we have a better appreciation today for these amazing creatures [and] a self-interested one, not just in terms of natural services; but earthworms are a terrific way, as any composter can tell you, and here it is August and lot of us are composting to help digest peels and tops and things like that from out of your vegetable garden and put [it back out], add some more earth to the top of the soil.
Steve: And make some tomatoes.
Mariette: Make some tomatoes.
Steve: Here's a really, this is also a great item again from September 1859's Scientific American. "Professor Hamilton says: 'Gentlemen have adopted as a national costume a thin, tight-fitting black suit of broadcloth. To foreigners, we seem always in mourning: we travel in black, we write in black, we work in black. Even the day-laborer chooses always the same unvarying, monotonous black broadcloth. It is too thin to be warm in the winter, and too black to be cool in the summer.'" [He] must have walked down a street in Manhattan yesterday.
Mariette: I was thinking also that must have been the origin of the phrase "Black is the new black".
Steve: Manhattan has never changed, apparently.
Mariette: Black all the time.
Steve: So we have a new columnist who has joined the family here.
Mariette: We do. We have Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist, and, as it happens, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, where they are; we mentioned before, Steve and I were, when we were talking about origins as the issue, one of the reasons why origins is so intriguing is not just because, we can all say, well where did life come from. But these very questions—where did life come from, where did the universe come from, where did people come from, how did language begin—these are some of the most profound driving questions in science today. In Dr. Lawrence Krauss' initiative, he is seeking to address this in a cross-disciplinary way. In his essays for Scientific American he is also looking in a sense at interfaces of things. The column is called "Critical Mass" and he will be looking at topics that arise at the interface between science and society. And most appropriately, in his inaugural column, in the Origins special issue, he is looking at C. P. Snow, the discusser of the unfortunate "Two Cultures," on the one hand the very literary people, on the other hand the science-educated people, and we are still 50 years later after C. P. Snow's column trying to figure out a bridge between the two, and Dr. Krauss has some interesting things to say about that in this issue.
Steve: And you can also access in our archives an interview or a press conference that I recorded where Lawrence Krauss is one of the astrophysicist who is speaking. This was definitely this year at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. So it is in our archives and it should be late February or early March and you can find that at www.SciAm.com/podcast and I am back on the back page for anybody who is looking for me and you can read all about my take on rifling, riffling, raffling, on reading books, on the Kindle and the various pitfalls and advantages thereof. There's another thing I wanted to bring up, and it's mixed news but it's important, and that is some of our content is going back behind a pay wall on the Web—just want to alert people who have been used to accessing all the content for free over the last year that we have taken this step. So what's going to be available free, what's going to be available at a premium and why did we do this?
Mariette: Well, I should tell you that first of all www.ScientificAmerican.com puts up 15 or so new original items every day. Some of them are breaking news, some of them are features, some of them are lovely podcasts by our own Steve Mirsky and others. And some of them are slide shows and other sort of multimedia videos, other sort of multimedia presentations that I am delighted we can offer our viewing audience. As many publications have explored different methods of publishing or different models of publishing so have we. For many years the magazine was not available on the Web site and then only pieces of it were available on the Web site and again we are going to the model where just a few—it's the feature articles, the long form feature articles—are behind the pay wall. What happens if you visit one of those long from articles, you'll still get a good several hundred words of an overview of what's in the article, the first couple of paragraphs and you have a great sense of what else is available should you wish to dive in and get the full presentation; of course it's also available in print form as well. So we have the original material, we have the departments that run in the magazine, such as Dr. Lawrence Krauss' new column that we talked about and other columns, Steve's column, still remain available on the Web site for free.
Steve: And it's important I think we are still feeling out what this whole new journalism is going to look like and behave like through the various modern modes of transmitting the information but I have to tell everybody out there that as much as I like things to be free when I am the consumer, I also recognize that, this for the professional journalists, this isn't a hobby and if you want quality journalism, I think we are going to have to get used to paying for it. And it's still going to be relatively inexpensive compared to what used to be like, when everything was disseminated on, you know, with dead tree technology. But one of the best ways I heard somebody explain it was, you know, if you want to be able to send reporters to Iraq to find out what's going on there, some money has to flow in to that journalistic enterprise, so that you are not just getting restaurant reviews from people about what's in their neighborhood. I mean that's great too and if it's free, that's wonderful. But there has to be at some point a commitment to professionals examining truly important situations. Now I am not saying that's what I am doing, but every once in a while we touch on something resembling that, and, you know, if you want to keep that kind of thing around, you know, [a] couple of nickels out of the pocket has to actually go into making that product viable.
Mariette: You remind me of a famous quote which people usually only quote the first half of.
Steve: The Chris Anderson quote.
Mariette: No, not Chris Anderson, this is by an M.I.T. researcher and it was several years ago. The quote is "Information wants to be free."
Steve: And that's where Chris Anderson stops when he quotes it, that's right.
Mariette: So, not Chris Anderson.
Steve: Right.
Mariette: The other half of that quote is "Information also wants to be expensive," and it goes on to explain that because if you want quality information, that takes time to produce and it is thus very precious; and I think it's with that half of the quote in mind that Scientific American and other publications need to make these step-by-step choices to find out what ultimately will be best for you, our readers, because if the magazine does not have a working model of providing good quality material, then no one is served.
Steve: Yeah, when I said the Chris Anderson quote, that's the quote I was referring to, but he only quotes the first half.
Mariette: And he is wrong.
Steve: And he is wrong.
Mariette: Because he sells his book.
Steve: He also gives it away.
Mariette: Online, yeah.
Steve: But you know what's really interesting the unabridged recording of the book is free. The book Free and it is free; the abridged recording of the book, they charge for because apparently the less of it you get, the more valuable it is.
Mariette: The more its worth. It was Pascal this quote. I am so sorry this is not a direct quote, "But I am so sorry this letter is so long, I did not have the time to make it short."
Steve: Exactly.
Mariette: Of course it takes effort to make something readable and enjoyable rather than blather.
Steve: But by the same logic if you actually don't read Chris Anderson's book at all it should cost you an infinite amount of money.
Mariette: It's the new math, folks.
Steve: Some bookkeeping, the Jack Szostak podcast was posted on May 7th, 2008, and the Lawrence Krauss podcasts came out on February 18th and 19th of 2009. They are all archived at www.ScientificAmerican.com/podcast; and the information wants to be free/expensive quote is from Stuart Brand's book, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T., although older and other versions of the quote do exist.
Now it's time to play TOTALLY……. Y BOGUS. Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALL……. Y BOGUS.
Story number 1: Hearing insults when lying down is less insulting than hearing them while sitting up.
Story number 2: The mission commander of the space shuttle flying right now started out doing lube jobs at an International Harvester dealership.
Story number 3: Nitrous oxide, dentists' laughing gas, has been found to actually promote tooth decay.
And story number 4: As part of the year long recreation of Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, an olfactory scientist that is a smell researcher will explore how people respond to smell at each of the ships ports of call.
Time is up.
Story number 1 is true. If you are lying down when insulted, you don't seem to take it as personally as if you are sitting up; that's according to research published in the journal Psychological Science. Too bad we can't drive lying down.
Story number 2 is true. Future marine pilot Rick Sturckow described himself as a lube boy greasing trucks, changing oils etc. when one day he saw a truck pass that said Cal Poly on it; he found out that it was built by Cal Poly engineering students and decided to go there. For more stories about some of the other astronauts currently in space, check out the August 31st episode of the daily SciAm podcast.
And story number 4 is true. A researcher from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia will take part in the recreation of Darwin's voyage and ask locals to smell 12 different things including onions, chocolate and turpentine at some 25 ports of call. The researchers hope that the findings will provide insight into how our response to odor is influenced by culture and gender. One thing was known even back in Darwin's day, if you cut off a fish's nose, it still smells.
All of which means that story number 3 about nitrous oxide promoting tooth decay is TOTALL……. Y BOGUS, but what is true is that nitrous oxide seems to be promoting global warming and decay of the ozone layer. Most of it comes from manure and chemical fertilizer as well as industrial processes. For more check out the August 27th episode of our weekly environment podcast, 60-Second Earth at www.ScientificAmerican.com/podcast.
Well that's it for this episode of Science Talk. Check out www.ScientificAmerican.com for the latest science news including lots of stuff on the space shuttle mission to the international space station. They are up there right now zipping around over your head, unlike this podcast. For Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American, I am Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.


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From World Heritage to Literacy, Philadelphia Embraces UNESCO
World Heritage and literacy were bookends to a day where Philadelphia opened its arms to UNESCO, during the second day of Director-General Irina Bokova's visit to the United States on Thursday.Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined the Director-General to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention at morning ceremonies held at Independence Hall, where in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. Two centuries later, the Hall was the first U.S. site on the list of World Heritage in 1979. "World Heritage sites are not only about places, but also ideas," said Salazar. "Independence Hall was added to the list for its universal principals of freedom and democracy."
Secretary Salazar also emphasized the important role that the 21 World Heritage Sites in the U.S will play as the Obama Administration launches America is Open for Business, an effort to make the U.S. the number one tourism destination in the world. According to the Secretary, 7 million tourism related jobs are created every year in the U.S.
Also in attendance were U.S. Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State Nerissa Cook and Congressman Chaka Fatah, who praised UNESCO for its work in preserving cultural heritage. In her comments, the Director General emphasized world heritage as an ongoing responsibility. "Heritage is a powerful force for social and economic development and tourism, worth several billions of dollars in capital, trade, and visits. All of this requires commitment. The protection of sites of outstanding universal value is a shared responsibility," she said.
In order to assist other countries in their work on preservation, conservation and restoration, the National Parks Service has taken the initiative to create a World Heritage Fellowship program. The program brings individuals responsible for world heritage in their own country to the U.S. where they work alongside American counterparts. The U.S. was the first country to sign the World Heritage Convention.
Later in the day, the scene shifted to the University of Pennsylvania where the Director General participated in a series of events related to the Organization's strong partnership on literacy with the university. This included the inauguration of Professor Dan Wagner as the newest UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy and giving the keynote address at a symposium on "Global Literacy in the 21st Century: Problems and Prospects." The Director-General said while progress has been made, there are numerous challenges that must still be overcome. "The fact is gender disparities remain persistent, with little change over time. There are over a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa where the female literacy rate is under 50 percent. In several cases, it is under 20 percent. Imagine what this means in terms of deprivation, in terms of vulnerability to poor health and exploitation, in terms of mothers sending – or not - their daughters to school."
UNESCO and UPENN also formalized a summer internship program that that will give students an opportunity to serve and learn at UNESCO field offices, supporting all of the Organization's mandates.
The Director-General is on a 10 day mission to the United States addressing three major themes:
- Women and girls' literacy.
- The 40thAnniversary of the World Heritage Convention.
- Freedom of expression across all media platforms.


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|Motto: "Uzdaj se u se & u Ruse"
Real motto: "Srbija do Tokija (preko Milvokija)."
Real motto 2:"Jebeš Ustaše!"
Motto: Kosovo za opanke
|National Anthem: Bože nema Pravde
|4 out of 5 Americans surveyed will agree the map below is correct:
|[location of Serbia]
|Official language
|Serbian (Ekavian version, not the gay Ijekavijan), Šatro (Troša), Nihongo, Nihon-to-Serubiago, Srpskonipponski, English, Engloserbian, Serboengleski.
|Den Haag (de facto)
|Tribe leader
|National Hero
|Miša Tumbas and Kašljimir Kijavić
|National Pastimes
|Moonwalking Meat
|Territorial aspirations
|From Baltic to Adriatic Sea, including Tokyo, Milwaukee, Karlovac, Karlobag, Virovitica and Ogulin
|Orthodox Alcoholism Šabanism
"Milošević? I hate him, the bastard lost Kosovo. String him up. No wait. That was me. Shit."
"Milošević? No, he was from Yugoslavia"
"Yes, Serbia has many many old churches and monasteries. No Balkan land has so many old churches than Serbia. Serbia is also fantastic; the land is very different, no country in the Balkans is as different as Serbia."
"LOL mate, we beat you 2-1"
Serbia had a plan to be a huge sprawling nation compromising of large chunks of Southern and Eastern Europe within its historically recognized borders of Karlobag, Karlovac, Virovitica, Ogulin, and Tokyo. As legend tells us, this scam reached back to many many millenniums BC when a Slavic-Klingon tribe settled in the area. Way in those days, tribesmen built Byzantium-style churches on the holy soil of Kosovo(and Metohija too), marking the onset of human civilization.
Historians still argue how did this tribe end up in the Balkans for centuries before actual Slavic migration, or just why would they build Byzantine-style churches more than 5 millenniums before actual Byzantium and Christianity. It's probably an internal joke between the tribesmen which modern historians don't really get. Only historical documents mentioning Serbs in this period were written by members of tribe themselves.
Glorious History[edit]
Serbia Today[edit]
... is the name of a particularly boring agricultural show that goes weekly on Serbian national television, but is also a term for what's going on today in Serbia.
Today, Serbia is rebuilding after 1999 attacks by cruel and merciless Americans, British, German, and all others who have helped them (and vice-versa) in the long years after World War 2. Serbia is no longer a communist country, it is now a democracy, which means more McDonald's restaurants per sq. kilometer (a fictional unit made to show off in front of British: we don't have feet, we have meters, we don't have yards, we mostly live in apartments...).
Serbia's newfound prosperity can be fully explained by almost-winning the Eurosong contest a few years ago. The country's main export are Serbian pop-folk songs, sang by busty Serbian divas who were possibly born as men (no one knows for sure). Nowadays, its main economic exports are raspberry juice, war criminals and basketball players you can bring into the game a minute before the end if your team is leading by 30 points. If you want a look at Serbia, and possibly money, go to Belgrade, rent-a-plane, and enjoy your view. We have mountains with trees and grasslands, honest. Churches, too!
At first, linking the terms "Culture" and "Serbia" together might seem like a special kind of moron, an oxymoron. Nevertheless, this section will be completed as soon as there is something to write about.
All vegetarians and non-smokers have been permanently expelled from Serbia. Serbians not seen eating more than 500 kilo's of beef at any one time or those that do not have the necessary minimum of three packs of cigarettes on their person at all times will be executed on the spot by the culture police.
Under no circumstances should you allow a Serbian to die in your country. If that happens, expect that thousands of Serbs appear next day on your doorstep shouting: "THIS IS SERBIA! THIS IS SERBIA!" For some obscure reason Serbs believe that wherever there is a grave of one of them, they have the right to claim the land. Be very suspicious about Serbs traveling in pairs. It might very well be that they just wait for an opportune moment to kill one of them and claim your country. If you need to kill a Serb, it makes sense to take it outside.
Also, Serbs have similar believe regarding beer: "Wherever there is a Serbian beer - there are Serbian lands!". Therefore Serbs never had serious export of beer, no matter the traditional high quality.
People from Montenegro are known to be very lazy, slow and untalented (see No Name). In other words, these Monteniggers are Serbs who act and talk like Bosnians, and don't like to be called Serbs. If you call them "Hey, you Serb!" most likely the answer will be "Oca ti jebem!" (I fuck your father). This is to demonstrate their greatest difference from Serbs: when offended, Serbs, by contrest, snap back "Majku ti jebem" (I fuck your mother). The famous poet from Montenegro,Goga Sekulić, appear in Big Brother,and claim it's part of property on the camera,which is probably a Montenigger nationality, in the living room. More information about this scandal,you can read in SCANDAL, Serb-Monte-BiH-Cro encyclopedia.
Most people think that Serbs hate Croats. But that's not true, no! Serbs love Croats as Croats make-up funny cartoon character's names, like "Spužva Bob Kvadra Hlače" and "Zekoslav Mrkvić", and run Star Trek on their national television.
- Proper attire: Young and attractive females should wear miniskirts as concealing your legs and breasts may be interpreted as a form of deceit and lack of character. Conversely, instead of shamelessly bearing your face around, it should be modestly covered with generous amounts of make-up. Men should properly tuck their sweaters into their jeans (don't ask why, it's just the way it is) and wear generous amounts of gold chains adorned with crosses to signify that your devotion to God is "worth your weight in gold."
- "Polite" conversational topics: glorious history, tennis, kind Dutch peace keepers, Kosovo, epic heroic struggle, pre-2003 basketball, politics (yeah, f$%#ed up, I agree), medical procedures (among middle-aged women in crowded buses), offensive gay-pride parades... Anyone of Croatian descent will go by the name of "Ustaša" or "You There!"
- "Impolite" conversational topics: work of any sort, gay rights, Kosova, disbelief in astrology, post-2002 basketball.
- Behaviour in the pub-lic: It is expected that you drink up your "špricer" (50:50 mixture of wine and bubbly water) or rakija bottoms up and then smash the glass against the pub's (kafana's) floor (patos). Especially if "cajka" (fat-legged, over-siliconed, scarcely clad female) is singing, in which case, you are also entitled to start a brawl. If you carry a knife, you are encouraged to use it. If you carry a gun, aim for the head (even yours, if your buddies are moving too fast) if you dont at least make it to the hospital people will think you timid and weak.
- If you see, or happen to run across a modern day Serbian, you will notice how incredibly good looking they are (except for the men - for more information, see Neanderthal).
- American flags Albanian flags and European Union flags are found to be very good for cleaning windows, silverware and your ass and are common fuel for campfires. Their smoke, however, may be a bit toxic, so be cautious around them.
More famous villages and other settlements[edit]
- Užice - Inwires
- Negotin - Notnakedteen
- Subotica - Littlesaturday
- Peć - Heater
- Sjenica - Littleshaddow
- Gornji Milanovac - Upper Dearmoney
- Donji Milanovac - Lower Dearmoney
- Obrenovac - Ohwellmoney
- Mladenovac - Bridesmoney
- Bor - Pine
- Sombor - Catfishpine
- Vršac - Topper
- Topola - Thathalf
- Prijepolje - Wasfield, and it will be field, and free!
- Valjevo - Rollingox
- Novi Sad - New Now
- Nis - Notevens
- Pancevo - Panwillox
- Šabac - Whassupbro
- Ruma - Rumville
- Kikinda - Croatiancandyyeahright
- Vrbas - Pinetreefrom
- Čačak - Whawhak
- Bujanovac - Thrivingmoney
- Dušanovac - Soulmoney
- Dobanovci - Agemoneys
- Buđanovci - Moldymoneys
- Ugrinovci - Heatthemoneys
- Požarevac - Fire'saccount or Fire'sacc
- Ripanj - Jump
Serbia and the names of other countries[edit]
- Sirija - Cheeseandme - Syria
- Bosna - Barefooton - Bosnia
- Paragvaj - Steamgoesgvaj - Paraguay
- Albanija - St.Albansandi - Albania
- Srbija - Serbandi - Serbia
- Japan - Mestump - Japan
- Crna Gora - Blackforest - Montenegro
The Greatest Sons and Daughters in Serbian History[edit]
- Milka Canić, the shadow ruler
- Our lord Nikola Tesla
- Nikola Šećeroski
- Miloš Obrenović (better known as The Horse)
- Saša Matić (a.k.a. "The Blind Prophet")
- Gavrilo (iz principa)
- Slobodan Milošević (Freeman Gentlefuck)
- Comrade Neil Clark (involved in clandestine gay partnership with Milošević)
- Željko Mitrović (Friends with Satan)
- Lothar Matthaeus
- Džej Ramadanovski
- Martina Navratilova
The Great Šaban Council[edit]
- Stoja
- Seka
- Ceca
- Piksi
- Pile
- Keba
- Boban
- Žika
- Baja Mali Knindža
- Sava Licimur (aka Sava iz Kikinde)
- Nole Seksoman
- Miša Tumbas
- Šabans (all kinds of)
- Nedeljko Bajić Baja
- Adam & Eve
See Also[edit]
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On Tuesday the 11th and Wednesday the 12th of October, Matthew Roberts is thrilled to be representing Riela at the Superyacht Technology Conference.
After being the headline sponsors of the event in 2021, Riela continue to support the efforts of the event and its mission which aligns with that of the whole Riela Group, including Riela Tech and Riela Cyber – to increase the innovative technology within the yachting industry.
This year's event will be held at the Word Trade Centre in Barcelona. We look forward to seeing you there!
Alexandra Hernández is Riela Yachts' Yacht Manager. As part of this, Alexandra is the initial point of contact for our vessels; working closely with our other specialists to provide support and service coordination. Alexandra supervises crew management and plays a heavy involvement in the development and maintenance of our award-winning electronic Safety Management System (eSMS).
Born and raised in Colombia, Alexandra completed her degree as a Lawyer, and she is on track to receive her diploma in Superyacht Management.
Alexandra's legal background and experience within the Marine & Aviation industries cover a wide range of roles, helping to gain invaluable knowledge, develop communication skills and actively cultivate solid industry relationships to deliver the highest of standards in every project.
Jay Houghton is the Riela Group Finance Director. Jay is responsible for overseeing the Financial Strategy of the Group alongside the financial reporting and control structure of the Group and its companies.
As a qualified accountant with over 30-years in the financial and service industries, Jay has built a wealth of experience in business analysis, investment appraisal, financial control and reporting.
Cameron (Fin) Findlay is Riela Yachts' Trainee Yacht Safety & Compliance Assistant. Fin works alongside Giuseppe and George on the implementation of Riela Yachts' Safety Management System and operational compliance across the fleet of yachts at the company.
Fin has over a decade of dinghy sailing experience where he developed a keen interest in the yachting industry. He also has a varied employment history which combined with his sailing experience he is hoping to apply his own knowledge and skills to the role.
Christian Crompton is the Riela Yachts' Product and Development Lead responsible for translating the requirements and operations of the Safety and Compliance team and implementing this into the forefront of the electronic Safety Management System (eSMS).
Since graduating with a first-class honours degree in Computer and Information Security in 2018, Christian has worked on designing and developing superyacht solutions using Laserfiche in the Maritime Software Industry.
With Christian's security background and software experience streamlining business processes, Christian applies his knowledge into the Riela Yachts strategy and innovates new systems for both Riela and their clients.
Tony Partridge is a Product and Development specialist at Riela Yachts where he will be working closely alongside Mark Bridson and Christian Crompton. Tony's main focus is building an innovative client focused dashboard, whilst providing a new outlook and perspective to our current processes, policies and procedures.
Before joining Riela, Tony started his own web development business where he built applications and websites for a large group of different sectors, growing a strong and long-lasting clientele base. With over 10 years of experience, Tony brings a depth of knowledge and expertise to the Riela Yachts team which will be used to help progress the company's development through the innovation and development of Riela Yachts solutions.
Daniel Oram is a qualified ACCA accountant who brings just under 10-years' experience in accounting to Riela Yachts.
Daniel brings a wealth of experience to the team as he takes on the role of Senior Accountant for Riela Yachts. Across his career, Daniel has specialised in audits, fund accounting, property investment accounting, shipping and more recently, yachting.
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Rob Tobin is the Managing Director of the Riela Group of Companies and is responsible for overseeing our business operations, our people and driving excellence in all we do.
Robert brings over 25 years of successful leadership and entrepreneurial experience across a range of industries including Family Office, corporate services, construction engineering, Superyachts, cyber security and information technology development to our Group, and to our customers.
In the past 15 years Rob has gained a prominent reputation within the Superyacht industry for his passion, integrity, innovation and achievements to date.
"Being part of an awesome, capable and forward-thinking team that have a shared passion for Superyachts, people and the environment is the highlight of my career and puts a smile on my face and a spring in my step every day".
Clive Harrison is a Director at Riela Yachts and leads the Operations Team.
After a 22 year service as a Deck Officer in the UK Royal Navy, Clive moved ashore and is enjoying a second career, spanning over a decade, in the yachting industry and relishing the challenges that this brings.
Clive brings a wealth of expertise and experience to our Company and has earned a reputation for providing a professional and pragmatic approach to the delivery of our services.
Giuseppe Corrado is a Safety & Compliance Manager / Deputy DPA, CSO and Director at Riela Yachts UK. Giuseppe ensures that our Safety Management System is fit for purpose and correctly implemented across the fleet of superyachts.
After 8 years in the cruise sector Giuseppe moved ashore to further his studies at university attaining a Bsc (Hons) degree in Marine Operations Management. Since joining in 2015, Giuseppe is very much enjoying the new challenges that the yachting industry brings
Having worked both onboard and shore-based, Giuseppe brings a range of skills, knowledge and contacts to our company and has earned a reputation for supporting a strong safety culture and providing a practical and professional approach to the delivery of company services.
George Self is a Safety & Compliance Manager and responsible for the implementation and development of operational compliance for yachts at the company.
Accruing a 10-year service of sea time, beginning as a deckhand before respectfully concluding her career as a Chief Officer, George now contributes a wealth of first-hand practice and insight into the support she now provides to yachts daily. George also brings shore side experience from her time working at a number of established Ship Management firms on the Isle of Man.
Ken Hickling is a company Director at Riela Yachts (UK) Ltd.
Ken has spent over 30 years working in the Yachting industry at Boatyards and materials manufacturers, and more recently as a Specialist Business Advisor. During this time Ken has served as International Superyacht Society (ISS) President and is currently on the Superyacht UK Executive Committee. He also works as a project leader on the ISO work group focused on Superyacht Quality.
The experience that he brings to The Riela Group in optimising our internal business processes helps to ensure that the quality of service we provide to our clients is at the highest level.
Louise Gimson is a Director, Senior Administrator and in-house HR Manager and is responsible for the day to day running of the company and client accounts at the Riela Yachts.
With an extensive background in finance, Louise brings almost twenty years' experience in accounts within the ship management industry to Riela Yachts, where she is dedicated to implementing dynamic solutions to benefit clients.
Louise has diversified her responsibilities by taking on data handling duties within the company and in 2016 began assisting the Operations Team with internal compliance procedures.
As the Head of Group Sales at the Riela family of companies, Matthew leads the company's sales strategy, execution, and growth.
Matthew has a successful record building trusted client relationship and delivering upon set expectations. An accomplished sales leader, he delivers a sales process that provides clients with the information and support they need to make the right decisions for their organisations and their constituents.
Matthew has significant experience within the maritime industry having previously worked across various sectors including insurance, security, satellite communications and managed IT. Matthew's most recent experience encompasses almost 5 years spent with the leading satellite communications and managed IT provider in the maritime industry, focusing on their superyacht clientele.
Mark Bridson is a Product and Development specialist and responsible for the integration of Laserfiche within the company and the developing of an electronic Safety Management System.
Marks career started in the Royal Air Force as a data analyst maintaining Aircraft engineering records and the provision of Aircraft statistics.
Returning to the Island Mark spent the next 25 years working in IT for an aircraft design company. In this role he provided Computer Aided Design and document management support for offices within the UK and Europe.
Moving from the Aircraft industry to Maritime, Mark has spent two years with a Yachting software solutions company using Laserfiche to design purchase ordering systems for Superyachts.
René Otto is the Financial Manager at Riela Yachts and responsible for overseeing the financial and accounting systems at the company.
René is a qualified chartered Accountant with over 18 years' experience in administering finance and corporate services within the shipping, telecommunications and property maintenance industry.
Specialising in arranging financial and corporate service solutions for clients, René can provide the tools to ease the administrative load and bring peace of mind to our clients.
Tina Dahn is a Crew Officer and responsible for the administration of yacht crew contracts, monthly payroll and crew certification at Riela Yachts.
After a 12 year service in the Royal Navy undertaking various administration and PA roles, Tina began working for the NHS in 2001 and was responsible for duties including managing payroll, recruitment and HR administration.
Tina returned to the Isle of Man to undertake the role of Crewing Officer in the superyacht industry in 2011, where she oversaw a portfolio of clients whom she provided crew employment, administration and payroll services.
Christian is involved across the Riela family of companies with particular attention to the technology businesses, Cyber and Tech.
Christian gained a postgraduate Master in Finance degree at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and completed his MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Before joining us, Christian worked for six years at Argosy Capital, an Isle of Man-based private equity and venture capital business focusing on early-stage growth businesses. At Argosy, he focused on managing investment companies, research and financial analysis and served as a director on several boards.
As a Marketing Executive, Alex is responsible for all marketing duties spanning the Riela Group.
Alex joined the Riela Group in August 2020, shortly after graduating with a 1st class degree from Nottingham Trent University. Since graduating, Alex has gained her Distinction grade Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and she is currently working towards achieving her Diploma.
With past work experience in content marketing, event management and web design, Alex is able to apply her creative and analytical skills into the Riela strategy.


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This is the time of year that North American monarch butterflies are migrating south for the winter. Many of us GeekMoms have enjoyed butterfly gardening, visiting butterfly habitats and attending butterfly tagging events in our respective communities.
I had a wonderful butterfly garden when I lived in Melbourne, FL from 2002-2005. We had many varieties visiting our backyard, and the neighborhood kids enjoyed coming over to see the entire life cycle: eggs, larvae, chrysalis, butterfly! I also enjoyed my neighbor's butterfly garden in North Carolina, as well as in eastern Nebraska.
As for my current community, the Panhandle Butterfly House in Navarre, Florida is only about 3 miles up the road! I had a good time testing out my new Nikon camera there earlier this summer. The butterfly house will be hosting the Panhandle Monarch Madness Festival this coming weekend! So for you eastern Gulf Coast readers, come check out the event and see monarch tagging in progress as the butterflies prepare for the final leg of their migration!
This week WBUR's radio program Here & Now featured a story about Dr. Fred Urquhart, a scientist who spent 40 years learning the monarch butterfly's migration patterns. An IMAX film dedicated to his story and the beautiful images of the migration was released this week throughout the United States. Check here to see if it's playing near you!
Do you want to learn more bout monarch butterfly migrations? Journey North's butterfly migration website offers numerous resources to help monarch fans of all ages track this year's migration and learn more about the tagging process.
Do you live along one of the U.S.'s monarch butterfly migration route? You can do your part to help replenish the natural habitats and resting places by planting native plants and flowers that monarchs love: milkweed (for the eggs and larvae), sunflowers, daisies, asters and goldenrod are all popular choices. It's important to stick to native species to your locale.


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In this new post to his blog Anthony Ferrara looks at a common idea that comes up when the discussion of encryption of passwords in PHP - the global salt (or "pepper").
The other day I announced the release of my new password hashing library, PasswordLib. As I've come to expect, Reddit was full of interesting commentary on the topic. Some was good, some was bad and some surprised me. What surprised me was the insistence on a global salt (otherwise known as a "pepper"). So, I started thinking about it some more, and I figured I'd write a post on why I don't use peppers in my hashing algorithms (and why you may want to rethink it too).
He starts with an explanation of what a salt is (and isn't) to lead naturally into the idea of a "pepper", a single unique value that's used across an entire site/application for password encryption. He covers four flaws inherent with this method:
- There's no proof that using them increases your security.
- There are no publicly vetted hashing algorithms that accept a pepper as an argument.
- Using a block cipher instead of a pepper provides a stronger level of encryption and protection.
- The entire concept of a pepper is based around a flawed premise. [...] The flaw in that premise is that it's often not just your database that's leaked.


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Saugatuck Real Estate Welcome to Saugatuck:
Escape to another place where you can kick back and relax after a long workweek. Just a short drive from Chicago or Detroit yet just far enough away that you can breath a sigh of relief as you begin to unwind.
Saugatuck and Douglas, rich in art and history are beautiful Villages that adorn the coastline of Lake Michigan. The sandy beaches, waterfront homes and majestic dunes call you. The beauty of our Kalamazoo River Harbor offer water recreation in all ways. The yachts, the kayaks, the fishing charters, the paddle wheel boats all say come and play. Fine golf courses, succulent fresh fruit markets, Saugatuck Dunes State Park and Oval beach offer further outdoor activities. On those rare days that the weather does not cooperate, the towns offer some of the finest dinning, galleries, shops, theater and evening entertainment to be found.
The diverse quirkiness of the people of Saugatuck make it never a dull moment and always a comfortable place for everyone to enjoy. We love it here and we know you will too. Come make Saugatuck a part of your life.


text: The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, announces the launch of the OpenGL® 4.6 Adopters Program to enable implementations to become officially conformant to the latest generation OpenGL specification. The significantly enhanced OpenGL 4.6 Conformance Test Suite used in the Adopters Program has been released in open source on GitHub to enable industry participation in testing and ongoing conformance test suite improvements. General information on Khronos Adopters Programs can be found here.


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3 Men Convicted In Riverdale Synagogues Plot Learn Their Fates
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Three men convicted of plotting to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes have been sentenced to 25 years in prison in federal court in Manhattan.
WCBS 880's Marla Diamond: They Could Have Received Life Sentences
James Cromitie, David Williams and Onta Williams were convicted last year of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
Their lawyers argued that they deserved a break because the plot was part of an elaborate sting and never posed a threat, but prosecutors described the men as "ticking time bombs" who needed to be taken off the streets for good.
1010 WINS' Juliet Papa With Reaction From The Defendants' Families
During sentencing, Judge Colleen McMahon said the government "created acts of terrorism out of (Cromitie's) ... fantasies of bragadicio and bigotry and then made those fantasies come true.'' But she said she "cannot condemn'' the defendants enough and blamed their motives on their hatred for Jews.
"All the evil in this world is due to bigotry and mindless hatred that is rooted in human beings ridiculous and unjustified suspicion of anyone we can categorize as the other on the grounds of race or ethnicity or religion or nationality,'' McMahon said.
Their lawyers had argued that they deserved leniency because they were under the spell of a paid FBI informant posing as an Islamic extremist and promising a big payday, and that they never posed an actual threat.
Before sentencing, Cromitie said, "I've never been a terrorist and I never will be a terrorist. ... I'm very sorry for letting myself get caught up in a sting like this one made up by the government.''
Prosecutors argued that by law it didn't matter that the men never had access to real weapons and were under close watch the whole time. They called the defendants "ticking time bombs'' who agreed to do "horrible things'' and needed to be put behind bars for life.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Raskin had argued for a life sentence, saying: "This would have been a colossal terrorist attack and the fact that it was all fantasy really doesn't matter because in their minds, they thought it was real.''
The men's trial in federal court in Manhattan had featured 13 days of testimony by undercover informant Shahed Hussain, a Pakistani immigrant the FBI assigned in 2008 to infiltrate a mosque in Newburgh, about an hour north of New York.
After meeting Cromitie at the mosque, Hussain told him he was a representative of a Pakistani terrorist organization that was eager to finance a holy war onU.S.soil.
Prosecutors alleged that in meetings with Hussain, Cromitie hatched the scheme to blow up the synagogues in the Bronx with remote-controlled bombs and shoot down cargo planes at the Air National Guard base inNewburghwith heat-seeking missiles.
They said he also recruited the other men to be lookouts with promises of money. Onta and David Williams are not related.
Agents arrested the men in 2009 after they planted the devices -- fakes supplied by the FBI -- in Riverdale -- while under heavy surveillance.
In one of several videos played at trial, the men were seen inspecting a shoulder missile launcher in a bugged warehouse in Connecticut two weeks before the planned attack. At the end of the tape, Cromitie, two of his cohorts and the informant bow their heads in prayer.
Jurors also heard tapes of Cromitie ranting against Jews and U.S.military aggression in the Middle East.
"I'm ready to do this damn thing,'' Cromitie said on one tape. "Anything for the cause.''
Defense attorneys argued the FBI overreached by targeting desperate, down-and-out dupes who were in it only for the petty cash and meals the informant gave them.
Cromitie, they said, constantly wavered and even purposely disappeared for six weeks before finally agreeing to go forward with the plan.
But prosecutors said that in the end, Cromitie "showed up again with renewed vigor'' to carry out the plot.
Lawyers for the men had sought to get their convictions thrown out because of entrapment, arguing the government had "created the criminal, then manufactured the crime.''
U.S. District Judge McMahon, in her ruling, said, "There is some truth to that description of what transpired here.''
But the motion was denied.
The sentencing of a fourth man convicted in the case, Laguerre Payen, has been put off pending the results of a psychiatric evaluation.
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March Storm of 1962
The winter storm of March 6-7, 1962 pummeled the East Coast. In Atlantic City, 50 mile-per-hour winds and nine-foot tides led to flooding and damage. Flooding was so bad that during high tides, more than half of Absecon Island was completely underwater, with the bay meeting the ocean.
Three Atlantic City residents lost their lives in the storm: Clarence Brown, George Brown and Marritt Colding.
The Atlantic County Chapter of the American Red Cross set up shelters in Atlantic City at the Ohio Avenue Junior High School, All War Memorial Building, and Union Baptist Temple, where they served more than 10,000 meals following the storm and provided shelter to 6,152 people.
Destruction to homes and businesses was estimated at $10 million (1962 dollars). Eighty-five homes in Atlantic City were destroyed and 2,075 sustained damage. When a drifting barge crashed into it, Steel Pier suffered $2 million in damages; it was cut in half as a 150-foot center section washed away. The famous Water Circus portion of the Pier also washed out to sea.
Always resilient, Atlantic City was "open for business" 2 days after the storm passed, welcoming tourists and conventions that weekend. George Hamid, Jr. promised that Steel Pier would reopen by Easter 1962, which it did.


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Native Orchids
Minnesota's orchids will grow in almost all types of habitats - wet prairies, coniferous forests, boreal forests, spruce tamaracks bogs and many other areas. I think that this is one of the reasons that I spend considerable amount of time from spring to fall pursuing these delicate flowers. All images were taken in Minnesota with a few from Western Wisconsin.Read More
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Vending Machines Are So Freaking Unpopular Now
Vending machines—those metallic friends which got you through many a long afternoon of jury duty or school or waiting for your wife to have that stupid baby, already—are having a hard go of it, these days. Americans just don't love them as they used to. From the WSJ:
Traditional vending machines disappeared from 134,000 locations between 2007 and 2010, according to the latest available data from Vending Times, an industry publication. Sales from vending machines sank more than 11%, to $42.2 billion in the same period.
Gee. First you people stop liking soda. Then you stop liking vending machines. What is next for crying out loud, you stop liking Cheez™?
Has anyone tried putting soda inside a vending machine? Maybe that would help.


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text: Hey everyone! This is Laurie from RecipeTips.com. Today I am going to show you how to seed a tomato. To do this, it is really easy. Just take your knife, and you are going to want to slice the tomato in...widthwise: not this way; you want to do it this way. Slice it straight down the center. Now the reason why you are going to want to take the seeds out is if you are going to make fresh pico de gallo or anything where you want the tomatoes not to have so much juice, you are going to want to remove these seeds. See the little areas of the tomato where the seeds are? Slide the spoon right in and then just pull out, and the seeds come right out. You can also just use your thumb if you want to. Some people prefer to do it that way. Slide your thumb in and pull the seeds out. When you are finished, you have all the seeds removed and you are left with just the flesh of the tomato. For more great information on tomatoes, visit RecipeTips.com.


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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...
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Էջ 373 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Էջ 378 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Էջ 384 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him...
Էջ 380 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Էջ 236 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Էջ 381 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Էջ 248 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heaven, 'twas all he wish'd, a friend.
Էջ 243 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Էջ 382 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
Էջ 276 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...


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Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease is covered by Medicare
Patients do yoga, eat a plant-based, meatless diet and meditate regularly
Kathy and Frank Korona have lost 85 pounds on the program
Frank Korona lives near the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border with his wife Kathy, in a house that he built with his own hands, on the same property where he grew up.
He served in the Army Special Forces in Vietnam. The Koronas have a long, proud tradition of military service, but their family's greatest losses have been to heart disease.
"Our family has shrunk tremendously. We've lost so many people through death," Kathy says.
In 1992, Frank's brother Bob died in his arms, suffering a heart attack on their kitchen floor. Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins have all died from complications from heart disease, too. The Koronas point them out in a graveyard near their home.
Frank and Kathy have both had heart attacks, and both have stents holding their blood vessels open. The birth of their grandson Caleb led them to try harder to extend their lives. So last year, the couple joined the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease.
Medicare, the government health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, covers the Ornish program, which teaches a plant-based, meatless diet, meditation and regular exercise. The program was officially declared an intensive cardiac rehab program in 2010, and the first patients started in May 2011.
Ornish is a persistent advocate within the halls of government. There are mountains of scientific evidence that his recommended lifestyle changes do reverse heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States and worldwide.
Helping patients make these lifestyle changes costs Medicare about $70 per hour, and patients can receive up to 72 one-hour sessions. Proponents of preventative medicine point out that that cost is still much less than operations and medications.
Ornish believes that fear cannot motivate lifestyle change in people long-term. Change has to be about feeling better and having more zest for life. The greater the change, the better the feeling, he says.
That seems to ring true for the Koronas. Despite the grim history of heart disease, they say it's how good they feel that keeps them living the lifestyle that their neighbors sometimes find strange.
"If I was going to be able to participate as a grandparent in his life, that gave me another incentive, that really did," Kathy explains. "But in order to do that, I needed to feel good about myself first."
The Koronas' favorite yoga positions are "cobra" and "fish," and their favorite pizza is meatless meat-lovers, made with soy pepperoni and soy "ground beef."
"Usually at the end of the session, the instructor will say, 'Now the reward, get into the total relaxation pose,' and we do that, and it just feels so good," Kathy says.
Together the Koronas have lost 85 pounds on the program, and Frank is off of four medications.
Hospitals can now bill Medicare for their patient's yoga and group discussion sessions because the Ornish program is an approved intensive cardiac rehab program, a new class of cardiac rehab created by Congress in 2009.
Traditional cardiac rehab, developed in the 1950s and covered by Medicare since 1982, focuses almost exclusively on exercise – getting patients out of bed and the blood flowing again.
But in the 1970s, Ornish and others began leading experiments to test whether improving diet and stress levels could make a difference for those with heart disease. In the following decades the researchers published volumes of studies in peer-reviewed journals that became the basis of the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease.
There are four components to the program: nutrition, stress management, moderate exercise and group support.
Part of the underlying cause for widespread heart disease, explains Ornish, is chronic loneliness and isolation, which lead to stress and bad habits. When people feel emotionally close to others, they're physiologically healthier, too, so Medicare is paying for it.
"The reason that I spent 16 years working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to achieve Medicare coverage for our program is that I knew that most insurance companies follow Medicare's lead. In other words, if Medicare covered our program, most other insurance companies would, as well," explains Ornish, who also says he was once naive in thinking that solid science alone would be enough to change health care policy.
"Reimbursement as well as science are primary determinants of medical practice. If it's not reimbursable, it's not sustainable."


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The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
Sunday May 25, 2014
The president is right to be upset over the mistreatment of US military veterans, especially those who return home with so many physical and mental injuries. Veterans should not be abused when they seek the treatment promised them when they enlisted. But his outrage over military abuse is selective.
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Even though the altitude in Bhutan is higher than most people are used to, altitude sickness is rare in Bhutan as most valleys are under 2,500 metres, and mountain passes are generally only just over 3000 metres. Our cultural tours do not reach altitudes higher than 3,500 metres (except the 'Journey Across Bhutan').
Our entire range of trekking programs reach an altitude of a maximum of 3,500 metres, with some going as high as 5,000 metres. It is recommended that visitors avoid any trekking or climbing until at least day 3 of their itinerary unless they are moderately fit and do not suffer from any lung related condition such as asthma.
If you have concerns about experiencing altitude sickness during your visit to Bhutan, we suggest that you carry Diamox which can be taken in advance as a precaution.
If you suffer from severe altitude sickness during a trek, please advise your trek leader as soon as possible, begin descending form your current altitude and drink plenty of fluids. Diamox (Acetazolamide) maybe combined with Ibuprofen or paracetomol after commencing treatment symptoms may last for a few days.
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CHESTERTOWN, Md. -- Senior attackman Jim Cusick scored five goals, including the game-winner with 22.5 seconds left, as fifth-ranked visiting Washington (Md.) knocked off third-ranked host Stevenson 12-11 in a thrilling NCAA Division III quarterfinal game on Wednesday at Mustang Stadium. The Shoremen improved to 18-1 with their 13th consecutive win, tying their single-season record for victories, and advanced to the NCAA Division III semifinals for the first time since 2004. The Mustangs (19-3), who were the defending NCAA Division III national champions, suffered their first NCAA tournament at Mustang Stadium in 10 games since the facility opened.
Stevenson opened the scoring 1:34 into the game when Tony Rossi scored. The Shoremen evened things up with 7:06 to go in the first quarter as senior attackman JD Campbell scored off an assist from senior midfielder Kodie Englehart. Rossi then found Josh Rufolo in transition to give the Mustangs a lead with 5:23 on the clock and Chris Dashiell assisted on a goal by Billy Burgoyne with 3:17 to go in the first to push the lead to 3-1.
Cusick opened the second-quarter scoring for the Shoremen with a goal with 12:54 left in the second quarter. Cusick then scored an extra-man goal off an assist from senior midfielder Hunter Nowicki with 10:50 to go to even the score at 3-3. Cusick then scored his third consecutive goal, this off an assist from sophomore midfielder Sid Looney with 6:44 left in the period, to give Washington its first lead of the game at 4-3. Junior attackman Stephen Luck extended the Shoremen's run to four unanswered goals when he scored off a Nowicki assist with 4:20 to go in the quarter. Sophomore attackman Casey Kermes pushed the lead to 6-3 for the Shoremen with an extra-man goal off a Nowicki feed with 2:09 left. Washington scored another extra-man goal when Campbell found the back of the net off a Cusick feed with 39.6 seconds to go before intermission to push the lead to 7-3 and complete a 6-0 quarter for the Shoremen.
Washington's 6-0 second quarter saw the Shoremen outshoot the Mustangs 15-9 despite losing all seven of the period's face-offs. It also broke a streak of 31 consecutive quarters in which Stevenson scored at least one goal.
The Mustangs ended their drought just 34 seconds into the third quarter as Colin Dabney scored the cut the lead to 7-4. Dabney then scored an extra-man goal off a Dashiell assist with 11:11 to play in the third, pulling the Mustangs to within two goals at 7-5. Cusick then found the back of the net for the fourth time in the game off a feed from Nowicki on an extra-man with 10:04 remaining in the third. The Mustangs scored a pair of back-to-back goals to trim the margin to 8-7 as Burgoyne scored an extra-man goal off a Dashiell feed at 8:55 and Dashiell scored on a loose ball seven seconds after the ensuing face-off. Englehart countred for the Shoremen with a goal with 7:21 to go in the third, pushing the advantage to 9-7. Rossi scored an extra-man goal off a Dashiell feed with 5:31 left in the period and Glen Tompkins scored an extra-man goal off a Dashiell pass with 4:03 left in the period to knot the score at 9-9. Looney put the Shoremen back in front, 10-9, with an extra-man goal with 55.1 seconds left in the third off an assist from Nowicki.
Nowicki opened the fourth-quarter scoring with a goal in transition with 12:45 on the clock, but Burgoyne scored off a pass from Stephen Banick eight seconds later to trim the margin back to one at 11-10. Dashiell found Rossi for a goal with 3:26 left to tie the game at 11-11.
After Washington senior goalie Ted DiSalvo saved a shot by Rossi with 2:13 to go, the Shoremen maintained possession of the ball until Cusick's game-winner, which came off an assist from Englehart. The Mustangs won the ensuing face-off and called time-out with 18 seconds to go. When play resumed, Banick turned the ball over in front of the goal, where it was picked up by junior midfielder Luke Birnbaum and successfully cleared down the field as the Shoremen ran out the clock and held on for the victory.
Cusick's five-goal, one assist night led the Shoremen offense, which also got one goal and five assists from Nowicki. Campbell finished with two goals, while Englehart had a goal and two assists. DiSalvo came up big in goal for the Shoremen, making 17 saves.
Dashiell paced Stevenson with two goals and five assists for a game-high seven points. Burgoyne added three goals, while Rossi had two goals and two assists. Dimitri Pecunes made 10 saves in the loss for the Mustangs, who squandered and outstanding night on face-offs by Brent Hiken. Hiken went 21-for-27 and scooped up 15 ground balls.
The Mustangs held a 55-44 advantage in shots in the game and a 40-31 advantage on ground balls. The Shoremen were outstanding on clears, going 26-for-27, while the Mustangs were 15-for-18. Both teams were sharp on extra-man opportunities as the Shoremen went 5-for-6 and the Mustangs were 4-for-6.
In addition to handing the Mustangs their first NCAA tournament loss at Mustang Stadium, Washington also scored more than 11 goals as a visitor at the facility for the second time, a feat no other Stevenson opponent has accomplished in the three seasons the stadium has been open. The Shoremen netted 13 goals in a 17-13 loss to the home-standing Mustangs in the second round of last year's NCAA Division III tournament.
The Shoremen advance to play second-ranked Salisbury in a semifinal game Sunday. Salisbury handed the Shoremen their only loss of the season 12-7 back on March 19th. The Sea Gulls were 15-5 winners against fourth-ranked Denison on Wednesday. Salisbury was the Shoremen's opponent the last time Washington advanced to the semifinals as the Sea Gulls defeated Washington 13-11 on May 23rd, 2004. That Shoremen team finished the season 18-3, establishing the team's single-season record for wins.
Top-ranked RIT will host sixth-ranked Tufts in the other semifinal Sunday.


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I haven't included any articles about the Facebook IPO because I don't care much about it. I would only buy IPO shares if offered the "friends and family" discount. Even then I might not buy them.
The Blunt Bean Counter says that additions to your cottage's adjusted cost base may be CRA's new target.
Where Does All My Money Go? explains the advantages and disadvantages of holding your own mortgage in an RRSP. I had no idea there were so many fees involved. The idea of having to pay CMHC premiums to protect your RRSP against yourself seems strange. Presumably you'd raid your RRSP to avoid defaulting.
Big Cajun Man says that the only time you get taxed on the value of something you own rather than your income is with property tax. If MERs were a tax, then they would fall into this category too.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Short Takes: Cottage ACBs Under Scrutiny and more
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Thanks for the inclusion, I only mention facehole in passing this week. It will be good to joke about soon enough.ReplyDelete
- The Blunt Bean CounterMay 25, 2012 at 7:51 AM
Michael, thx for link. I await your next attempt at finding a tax loophole :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the link Michael - I particularly liked yesterday's post.ReplyDelete
Sorry, meant to say this...ReplyDelete
Inflation is also a kind of asset tax paid to banks and debtors.
@Patrick: Good point. I tend to focus on real returns with my investments so that inflation becomes invisible to me. Sadly, most people focus on nominal returns but are blind to inflation.ReplyDelete
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One of the most fascinating (and fun) books in the Museum's rare book collection is a set of books by the artist Victor Vasarely.
Vasarely's four-volume set Plastic Arts (1970), which features numerous color plates, foldouts and loose plastic overlays, not only exemplifies his unique approach to art, but equips the viewer with a finite set of colors and forms to play with and manipulate.
See our combinations below.
Hailed as the co-founder of optical art, or Op Art, the Abstract Painter Victor Vasarely (French, b. Hungary, 1908-1997) produced vibrant optical illusions through the manipulation of color, line, and shape.
Inspired by the psychology of perception, Vasarely employed his training in graphic art and typographic design to develop a precise palette of colors and forms as a guide to the systematic organization of space on a flat surface. From this strict palette of colors and forms, his assistants produced an endless variation of dazzling, shifting, and sometimes flickering optical illusions.
"[Volume II] is my tribute to the multitude, my sly salute to the youth … my hope of seeing fulfilied (sic) the right of all to material, sensorial and intellectual goods, and finally my conviction that to make men see is to make them joyous and civilized."
–Victor Vasarely
By empowering the viewer to create their own optical illusions (and to enjoy the process of doing so), Vasarely proved a significant influence on contemporary graphic and popular arts.
You can find this book, and many more, in the Museum's Library/Archives.


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Military coup "to resolve the 'Obama problem' " is not "unrealistic"
September 29, 2009 5:57 pm ET by Terry Krepel
From John L. Perry's September 29 Newsmax column:There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.UPDATE: Newsmax has removed the column. More here. And here's a copy of the column Newsmax removed.
America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about that later."
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.


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Kinfolk Volume Six...
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Rue's Holiday Gift Guide has arrived...
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Monday, November 26, 2012
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Embroidered Correspondence...
I am completely fascinated with these pieces by artist Helen Roberts.
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Playing with scale...
A wonderful example how playing with scale can make all the difference.
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Black Friday Sale at Finderskeepers Market...
Join us Friday, November 23rd from 11 - 5 p.m. for black Friday special 20% off pricing on ALL Christmas decor and selected gift items (candles, throws, photo frames) throughout the shop.
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For my friend Kay...
You need this. When do we break the news to Dan?
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Friday, November 16, 2012
A Few Moments at Finderskeepers Market via Tiffany Mitchell...
Big thanks to Tiffany Mitchell of Offbeat & Inspired for taking these wonderful photographs at Finderskeepers Market.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Holiday Postcard Promotion at Finderskeepers Market...
Join us Friday, November 16 (6-9 pm) and Saturday, November 17 (11-5) for our Winter Wonderland Open House at Finderskeepers Market. Print this postcard to receive 15% off any single item during open house hours.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The always inspiring talent of Steven Gambrel...
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