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By using jQuery filter and jQuery sort plugins you will be able to have a great control over the order, placement and organization of your page / or table elements. Further some of these plugins include drag-able controls making it possible to offer a more dynamic and user friendly design. Sorting and filtering is very useful if you have large datasets such as table views, however you can also use them for managing list views e.g. for a portfolio page. The Quicksand plugin found below is an example of this. This post has just been updated, all links checked. It provides an overview of jquery plugins you can use to provide simple yet powerful functionality to reorder, filter, add drag and drop capabilities etc. Another way to organize content and make it look cool is to use jQuery Slider or jQuery Carousel plugins. Many sites today do so on sales pages, front pages etc.
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SortTables Responsive – MORE INFO / DEMO
SortTable is a mobile ready and fully responsive jQuery sort and filter plugin. It offers the following features: sorting script adds search, column averages and totals, record numbering, a view all function, and a reset function. In addition, there is alternate row highlighting, header class toggling, auto data type recognition, and selective column sorting.
jQuery Sort and Order Portfolio Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
jQuery Sort and Order os a script for adding the popular sortable portfolio grids we see all over the internet. This is done the smart ways and it look cool.
tQuery – Dynamic tables – MORE INFO / DEMO
tQuery makes simple HTML tables dynamic. The script combines power, flexibility and easiness. It offers great design customization, supports multiple formats for column sorting and make exporting and importing data easier. tQuery now support filtering. You can add a search box to your tQuery tables. The search feature give exact and instantaneous results.
Advanced tables – MORE INFO / DEMO
With this jQuery plugin you convert your flat html tables in nice datagrids in just a few seconds. The plugin will automaticly paginate your table and you can define a particular input field to use as search field for the table.
Beautiful Data – MORE INFO / DEMO
Beautiful Data is a great way to turn a boring HTML table into something that supports features like paging and sorting. This jQuery plugin can also access data from CSV and JSON just by specifying the source file.
Simple Content Sorting – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin allows you to sort your content in a clean and easy interface equipped with pagination feature. No page loading happens as the sorting takes place since its all done with javascript.
Ingrid – MORE INFO / DEMO
Ingrid is an unobtrusive jQuery component that adds datagrid behaviors (column resizing, paging, sorting, row and column styling, and more) to your tables.
jSorted – a plugin for sorting things – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin allows to sort an unordered list or a table using a value (number or date) attached to each item in ascending or descending order. It can be used for live data charts, sports widgets, news tickers, html5 games and a lot more. It's very easy to customize!
JQuery Table – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a simple jQuery plugin, to help create sortable table layouts of your data
Flexigrid – MORE INFO / DEMO
Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content. Similar in concept with the Ext Grid only its pure jQuery love, which makes it light weight and follows the jQuery mantra of running with the least amount of configuration.
Table Sorter – MORE INFO / DEMO
Table Sorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell. It has many useful features including multi-column sorting, parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats), time.
Animated table sort – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin allows you to animatedly sort a table based on a column's s, or on the content/value of a child/descendant element within those s. The various s fly to their new homes, giving a nice effect. It also supports sorting on REGEXP matches. You can also control whether row relationships are maintained, whether it sorts on ascii or numeric and ascending or descending.
JSquared – MORE INFO
This plugin allows you to organize advanced search user interface like in Google Squared.
TinySort – MORE INFO / DEMO
TinySort is a small and simple jQuery plugin that will sort any nodetype by it's text- or attribute value, or by that of one of it's children. The examples below should help getting you on your way.
jExpand plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
jExpand is ultra lightweight jQuery plugin that will make your tables expandable. Typical for line of business applications, this feature can help you organize tables better. This way, tables can hold more information such as images, lists, diagrams and other elements.
jQuery Interface Elements – MORE INFO
Interface is a collection of rich interface components which utilizes the lightweight JavaScript library jQuery. With this components you can build rich client web applications and interfaces with the same simplicity as writing JavaScript with jQuery. You will find functions for reordering/sorting lists and tabs, various types of drag and drop etc.
Using jQuery To Manipulate and Filter Data – MORE INFO
When a webpage is designed to display large tables of data, a great amount of consideration should be dedicated to allowing the user to sort through the data in a structured manner. This article will go through four techniques: hover effects, zebra rows, filtering, and sorting.
Creating a "Filterable" Portfolio with jQuery – MORE INFO
If you have worked in your field for a while, there is a pretty good chance that you have a rather extensive portfolio. To make it a little easier to navigate, you will probably be tempted to break them into different categories. This tutorial will show you how to make "filtering by category" a little more interesting with just a little bit of jQuery.
Quicksand – MORE INFO / DEMO
Whit this really cool plugin you can reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation. The demo is a must see!
Table Drag and Drop JQuery plugin – MORE INFO
Dragging and dropping rows within a table can't be handled by general purpose drag and drop utilities for a number of reasons, not least because you need to move the whole row, not just the cell that receives the mouse events. Re-parenting the row also requires specific code. Sadly also, effects like fadeIn and fadeOut don't work well with table rows on all browsers, so we have to go for simpler effects. This TableDnD plugin allows the user to reorder rows within a table, for example if they represent an ordered list (tasks by priority for example). Individual rows can be marked as non-draggable and/or non-droppable (so other rows can't be dropped onto them). Rows can have as many cells as necessary and the cells can contain form elements.
dragtable: Visually reorder all your table columns – MORE INFO / DEMO
Over the past several years, Stuart Langridge's sorttable Javascript library has found widespread use. It's easy to see why. Just add class=sortable to a table tag and its column headers automatically support click to sort. Pretty slick. But sometimes sorting just isn't enough. What if you want to focus on just one or two of the columns in a table? In a client-side application you could drag the columns you care about next to each other. Why not in a web application? Enter dragtable. Like sorttable, it teaches HTML tables a new trick through a simple class attribute.
Filtering Blocks – MORE INFO / DEMO
Really cool script to filter a list of blocks. Each block has a wrapping div. It has one class that it shares with all other blocks for common styling and a class unique to its "type".
jQuey ui Sortable – MORE INFO / DEMO
Enable a group of DOM elements to be sortable
dragndrop – MORE INFO / DEMO
Get Drag and drop in a easy way.
ppDrag – MORE INFO / DEMO
ppDrag is a Drag&Drop plugin for jQuery, which mimics the interface of jQuery UI's Draggable. Currently supported is a small subset of its options, but the implementation is different (ppDrag focuses on performance).
NestedSortable – MORE INFO / DEMO
NestedSortable is an extension to the original Sortable from the Interface plugin that allows you to both sort vertically and nest (make one item a child of other item) elements at the same time, using drag-and-drop. If can be set up exactly like a regular Sortable and allows you to use most options that are inherited from it.
jQuery UI multiple draggable plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
The jQuery multiple draggable plugin is an extension to the jQuery UI Draggable plugin. This plugin extends the current functionality to allow for elements to be grouped and dragged as a group.
jQuery List DragSort – MORE INFO
A lightweight jQuery plugin that provides the ability to sort lists using drag and drop.
Drag and Drop ordering in a TreePanel – MORE INFO
This example shows basic drag and drop node moving in a tree. In this implementation there are no restrictions and anything can be dropped anywhere except appending to nodes marked "leaf" (the files). Drag along the edge of the tree to trigger auto scrolling while performing a drag and drop.
Drag & Drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a collection of Direct Manipulation examples that work in modern browsers. Each example is a proof of concept. It is not based on jQuery but I thought it deserved to be here anyway…
jQuery columnManager plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
A jQuery-plugin to toggle the visibility of table columns (collapsing and expanding them) and to save the state until the next visit. It's supporting tables with colspans and rowspans, too!
SearchBox – MORE INFO / DEMO
SearchBox is a jQuery plugin that allows you to have reach search controls with filters on your pages (similar to GMail and Google Docs).
Finder, jquery drilldown plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
Finder is a jQuery plugin that replaces indented <select> elements creating a true hierarchical UI element for a much smoother user experience when navigating large sets of hierarchical data. It utilizes built-in jQuery ui icons when the library is present but falls back gracefully if not. This plugin requires jQuery 1.7+ as it uses the new .on() event handler as well as namespacing. This plugin is a drop-in replacement it also has extendable callbacks for event hooks.
jQuery Simple Content Sorting Plus Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin creates a simple content sorter for your content and allows you to control your content with pagination! Simple Content Sorting provides a clean and easy way to beautify your interface by providing a slick client side sorting mechanism. You heard correctly, no page loading happens as the sorting takes place since its all done with JavaScript.
PicNet Table Filter – MORE INFO / DEMO
This jQuery plugin adds real time Google-like column filtering capabilities to a regular Html table. This is an open source project released under The MIT License (MIT). The PicNet Table Filter is used in production in several PicNet projects so it has been tested production ready. The table filter was born out of our Visual Analytics (Mouse Eye Tracking) project and has received great feedback.
jQuery jPList Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
jPList is a flexible jQuery plugin for sorting, pagination and filtering of any HTML structure (DIVs, UL/LI, tables, etc).
Sortable Lists Using jQuery UI – MORE INFO / DEMO
Unordered lists have a number of useful applications. They are commonly used to structure a site's navigation. I have found, in a number of web applications, that the ability to reorder (sort) such lists would be extremely useful. There are 2 jQuery plugins that allow elements to be sorted. These are the jQuery Interface plugin and jQuery UI and this tutorial use the latter and also provides a solution for saving the lists.
Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for his readers.


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Tracking every case of COVID-19 in Canada
Coronavirus vaccination tracker: How many people in Canada have received shots?
Children 12 and older now cleared to receive Pfizer vaccine: Health Canada
Most Canadians favour vaccine proof for domestic travel, sporting events: Nanos survey
Canada sending ventilators, remdesivir to support COVID-19 response in India
Canada still weighing support for vaccine patent waiver after U.S. confirms it will
Some COVID-19 long-haulers are developing a 'devastating' syndrome
New Brunswick reports its first death due to blood clotting from AstraZeneca vaccine
Moderna booster increases antibodies against COVID-19 variants, early data shows
'She deserved more': Alberta reports first death linked to AstraZeneca
Canadian researchers developing 20-minute saliva test for COVID-19
Can we mix and match vaccines? One big question for two COVID-19 doses
Few Canadians contracting COVID-19 after first vaccine dose: PHAC
Yukon to lift requirement of 14-day self-isolation for arriving travellers May 25
Few Canadians contracting COVID-19 after first vaccine dose: PHAC
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In I Made You A Mixtape, we ask our favorite musicians, actors, writers, directors, or whatevers to strut their musical savvy: We pick a theme, they make us a mix.
The mixer: As Telekinesis, Michael Lerner crafts perfect little pop songs. He does it all by himself, too, playing every single instrument on his records, including the brand-new Dormarion. On tour, it's another story: Lerner plugs away as both the drummer and the vocalist while accompanied by a guitarist, bassist, and keyboard player. Considering Lerner's extensive experience as someone who simultaneously belts choruses and keeps time, it seemed appropriate to hit him up for some of his favorite tracks featuring singing drummers, everything Phil Collins ever did included.
Phil Collins, "In The Air Tonight" (1981)
Michael Lerner: This one's pretty straightforward. The thing that really gets me about that song is, when I watch him play it live, he wears a headset microphone. That's his thing.
The A.V. Club: There's this video where he just ominously walks around for the first three minutes.
ML: I feel like it's more like seven, eight minutes. They extend the song like crazy.
That song has one of the quintessential drum fills, I think. It's one of the most recognizable drum fills, which is pretty remarkable for a drummer to have a drum fill that everyone in the world probably knows.
I feel like now that Mr. Phil Collins is retired I sort of have to fly the flag of being a drummer a little bit higher.
AVC: Are you going to start playing that drum fill all the time at your shows?
ML: Yeah, I'm just playing that drum fill all the time. All the time. Have you seen that Cadbury commercial?
AVC: The one with the gorilla?
ML: Oh my God, I love that so much. I was living in Liverpool when that commercial came out and because it's a British commercial for Cadbury, it was on TV all the time. I loved it. It was awesome.
AVC: How do you think Phil Collins is technically as a drummer? Do you think he gets the respect he deserves?
ML: He definitely gets the respect in a really small community of people. He pigeonholed himself into this genre of music that makes people cringe a lot, which is unfortunate because he is just a really good drummer. All that Genesis stuff is crazy. It's crazy. He's totally skilled. It's scary, because he's good at everything. He's an excellent drummer, but he's also an excellent singer. He's sort of like a Dave Grohl figure to me, because Dave Grohl is a crazy-good drummer, but he's also a crazy-good singer and frontman and performer. And that's definitely something I struggle with for sure, trying to think of myself as a person who is a lead singer rather than just a drummer. Those are two people for me who have really bridged that gap.
AVC: It seems like singing and drumming simultaneously would be hard enough.
ML: Oh, it sucks.
AVC: If it sucks, why did you decide to be a singing drummer?
ML: It was literally the only thing I could do. For the first record, I totally faked my way through it. I could do the guitar and bass and all that stuff if I was sitting down and really focused on it, but then when it came time to tour, it was like, "Oh my God, how are we going to do that?" I can't play guitar and sing. So the only other option for me was to try and play drums and sing.
I remember the first week of trying to rehearse for our first show. It was bullshit. It sucked. I felt like I was pretty good at the drums, but then when I was trying to do this it was like, "Oh my God, I'm terrible at the drums." It was so bad. I was so bummed. It took a week of trying to figure it out. It was also really hard because the band was getting together for the first time, so everyone was trying to figure it out.
So it was a trainwreck, but after the first week it really started to come together and I was like, "Oh, this is kind of fun." We had to work a bunch on configuring the stage setup. At first it was like, "Okay, I'm just going to be in the back, like where the drummer usually is," but that didn't work at all. When we put the drums up at the front of the stage, that was kind of a eureka moment, and it actually felt like, "Okay, I'm the lead singer of the band, and I'm also sitting down."
The Band, "Up On Cripple Creek" (1969)
AVC: The late, great Levon Helm.
ML: The thing that really blows my mind about the footage of him performing is that they probably did not have monitors, which is crazy. Now you can use in-ear monitors and all these crazy powerful wedges and high-tech stuff where you can actually hear yourself sing. He's using this microphone, and I can't spot any monitor. Even if he had one, I don't think that it would work, because it would feedback like crazy with the microphone that he's using. He sings flawlessly, though, and I really don't understand how he does that. He might have been an alien of some kind, because it doesn't seem possible.
It's really weird to think about when we play a show. I'm always like, "I need more of this in my monitor." I feel like I'm kind of a pain to the monitoring engineer, but when I start to get down a rabbit hole of getting way too much stuff in the monitor to where I can't hear anything anymore, I always think of someone like Levon Helm and how he probably didn't have anything in his monitor and he just sang his ass off.
AVC: Maybe he just had the confidence to do it. As in, he knew how his voice felt when it was right, and so he could go by that.
ML: If you don't have a monitor, you don't have another option. So you just sing; you don't have to think about what's in your monitor or what's not in your monitor.
Sometimes that can be a real crutch, I think. I can't remember what show it was, maybe Sasquatch, but we were watching some band from the side stage and it seemed like every two seconds they would go over to the monitoring engineer and be like, "Turn us down, turn us up, turn it down, blah, blah, blah." It was actually distracting for me to watch the show because it can't actually matter that much.
Queen used to do "Bohemian Rhapsody" with that crazy interlude on a tape machine, and they didn't have crazy monitors. It's possible to do it.
AVC: But because it exists, people rely on it.
ML: There's so much more technology that a lot of times you start going backward a little bit because it's just too much. With that live footage of Levon Helm playing that song, it's just perfect. If he had an in-ear monitor or if he had a crazy microphone, it would not sound like that. It just wouldn't.
Queen, "I'm In Love With My Car" (1975)
ML: This song is so cheesy.
AVC: Roger Taylor's drum kit is just massive.
ML: He did have a big drum kit. I watched that "Classic Albums" documentary on this record. Have you seen that?
AVC: No, but I want to now.
ML: It was on Netflix. Anyway, it talks about him making this song. It cuts to footage of him and his crazy hot rod car. He's a total car nut. It's really endearing. It's such a singing-drummer song because it's like, "Oh, let the drummer sing about cars like you'd sing about a woman." You can just hear the people in the studio being like, "All right. Let him have his fun."
AVC: All of Ringo Starr's songs are also kind of dumb.
ML: It's totally like Ringo. Actually, Roger Taylor was probably the unsung hero of Queen as far as vocals are concerned, because he was the guy who did all of those high vocal parts, like on that song "'39." He has such an amazing voice and the band harmonizes so well together, but it's pretty rare that the drummer would have that range. It's not normal.
Foo Fighters, "My Hero" (1998)
ML: Dave Grohl played all the drums on that record [The Colour And The Shape].
AVC: Isn't the story that some other guy actually recorded all the drum tracks, and then Grohl just re-did almost all of them himself and only told the guy when it was too late?
ML: It's a really bad story. William Goldsmith played drums on that entire record, but Dave Grohl was either living in L.A. or finishing the record in L.A., and William Goldsmith still lives in Seattle. I guess the story is that he called Dave Grohl and was like, "Hey, man. Can I come listen to the record?" And Grohl was like, "Yeah, actually I just re-recorded all of your drum parts." I think still to this day, they don't really talk to each other. Goldsmith is really pissed off about it.
I can see that being a real dickish move, but at the same time, I think that The Colour And The Shape is one of my favorite records ever made. I think it's amazing, and I also think that it wouldn't have been the same record if William Goldsmith was playing drums on it. I think it probably would have sounded a lot different.
AVC: According to Wikipedia, which is only sometimes true, he is still on two of the tracks.
ML: That's definitely possible. That documentary about the Foo Fighters is really good. It's about the beginning of that band and it talks about this record. And they interview William Goldsmith, and he's pissed. He's still pissed to this day. And Dave Grohl is obviously really sad about it.
I've kind of been in that situation a bit myself, with having people play in my band and then for whatever reason—even though I'm not as good of a guitar or bass player as people that have played in my band live—I feel like I have to do all the parts or at some point I'm like, "Even though I'm worse than you at this instrument, it's what I hear in my head." I think as a person who makes songs where you play all the instruments yourself and write everything, you have this idea in your head. And it's hard to convey that to people sometimes. So I can kind of relate to that in a weird way.
I don't know if the way that he handled it was the right way. I don't think I would like to get a phone call that's like, "By the way, I just replaced everything you did but…"
AVC: "… it's my band, so screw you."
ML: Exactly. I love Dave Grohl, but he kind of strikes me as a super big egomaniac, which you have to be, probably. But I don't know if that was the right way to handle the friendship.
AVC: Have you met Dave Grohl?
ML: No. I've never met him.
AVC: Would you want to?
ML: Yeah, absolutely. That first Foo Fighters record was like, a crazy lo-fi record and I love it. Those first two records I think are really, really, really good. I would love to meet him for that reason alone, just to pick his brain about those two records.
I'm not a big fan of the more recent stuff they've done. There's something about the way you watch a rock 'n' roll band at a huge arena, like Wembley Stadium, and Grohl has the wireless guitar and he just runs up the corridor by himself with the guitar. It's a little too much mixing U2 with Foo Fighters for me, and I can't really get behind that for some reason.
AVC: This is kind of a philosophical question, but it addresses what kind of band you think you want to have. Do you think if Nirvana was still around, they'd be playing these big stadium shows, or do you think they'd be doing Sonic Youth-style intimate experiences? How do you find that balance between artistry and success?
ML: I don't know. For me, Radiohead does that. Every single time I see Radiohead, I feel like even though it's in a giant arena, I still love watching Thom Yorke dance around like a crazy guy. I don't feel like it has that "we think we're the coolest band ever" vibe, even though, to me, they are the coolest band ever.
If you look up footage of the Foo Fighters playing at Wembley, I think they sold out three nights in a row or something. It was like it had never happened before, and they made a DVD of it. They have one of those stages that has a huge walkway that leads way out into the audience and Dave Grohl literally just runs up to the end of it and then does a thing where he looks out into the crowd and wipes his hair and it's just like… I don't know.
To answer your question, I don't know. I mean, obviously his bandmate, Mr. Kurt Cobain, couldn't handle it. It seems like it's just something that can be in your system. Being involved in the music industry, if you have any ego to begin with, then it's a very slippery slope, because you're constantly getting adoration. It's a really dangerous thing if you already have that gene in your DNA. I kind of feel like that is happening with Dave Grohl, and that would be partially why I wouldn't want to meet him. I wouldn't want to be disappointed about that.
The Eagles, "Hotel California" (1976)
ML: This is a controversial one. I actually love this song a lot, and I also hate it a lot.
There's really not much to be said about it. Don Henley wrote one of the biggest songs ever and he's a drummer, and that's a pretty big accomplishment if you want my opinion. It's also one of the craziest songs I've ever heard and probably will ever hear, and I probably will hear it a lot more because I go shopping at stores. It's one of those crazy things where I don't know why, but that song really did something. And it's written by a drummer. To me, that's pretty cool. He's totally a headset-mic kind of guy, too.
The Beatles, "Octopus' Garden" (1969)
AVC: We talked about Ringo earlier, and this is a good song, but it's not super-challenging. People play it for their kids. It's a bit of a throwaway.
ML: Such a big part of a band is its image, and The Beatles' image was that Ringo was the crazy little funny guy, so they gave him those songs.
He had a good voice. He definitely sang and played the drums live really well. Again, I don't think they had monitors. He still played really well, especially when there were that many people screaming. He couldn't have heard anything. I'm always so amazed at how good that stuff sounds when you watch footage from that time.
AVC: Some people don't think Ringo's a great drummer. He has a lot of detractors.
ML: That is one of my biggest pet peeves ever, when someone is like, "He was such a bad drummer. Why would anyone think he's a good drummer?" It's total bullshit to say that. What does "good" mean? It's such a subjective term. Good can be playing some crazy solo on 48 drums, but good is also playing absolutely perfectly for the band that you're in, and that is what Ringo did. There could never have been any other drummer for that band, and that goes for a lot of bands. But was he technically a really good drummer? Absolutely not. Like, no way. There were way better drummers technically than him, even at that time, but it's something that you can't teach people, how to play a song or how to be creative, or how to do something as a mistake, even. I don't think anyone could have played the drum part on "Come Together" like Ringo.
I almost feel like Paul McCartney was probably a technically better drummer in a weird way. He is such a crazy gifted person, but he didn't have the same feel as Ringo. I don't think anyone really did.
AVC: You can make the same argument about Meg White. She's not a good drummer, per se, but she's good for The White Stripes.
ML: Absolutely perfect for them. It's the same with Patrick Carney from The Black Keys. He's not a talented, crazy-gifted drummer guy. He's sloppy and bluesy and awesome and perfect for Dan Auerbach. Those two are absolutely perfect together.
It's the same thing with The White Stripes. I love those White Stripes records, and then I listen to the new Jack White record and it really sounds like a different thing because his band is so much better. Those songs are a snapshot of Meg White and Jack White together, and if anyone else had played drums for them, it would have had different results.
She's not a good drummer at all, not at all. I don't think I'm technically a good drummer either, but I like playing songs, and I think that is sometimes more important than sitting in your room for 10 hours playing rudiments and learning drum fills and stuff like that. To me, playing drums is all about playing in a band. You're not trying to be in the spotlight as a drummer. You're trying to facilitate a song, and that's what all great drummers for me have done.
No Age, "Fever Dreaming" (2010)
ML: We were playing at Sasquatch three years ago, and Dean Spunt from No Age was in the crowd. And I remember being really nervous because I was like, "Oh my God, it's another singing drummer and he's really, really good." I think I said something onstage, and he walked away. That was a scary moment.


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Nollywood actress Chika Ike, who only turned 31 about 2 weeks ago has come out in an interview with The Nation to talk about her failed marriage.
She told the Newspaper, "I think it has to do with so many reasons; one of them might be being young. Some people get married that young and have been able to make their marriages work. But if you're young, you're young.
"There are some things you've not experienced. You might not be able to stay calm when you're supposed to stay calm, understand when you're supposed to understand or leave what you're supposed to leave.
"I think it has to do with age and so many other things like compatibility and not being true to yourself in the marriage. Everybody has a limit. There are some things in marriage that you might not be able to stand. Some people's limit might not be my limit; my limit might be somebody's starting point."
On rumours she is planning to walk down the aisle again,she said:
"Marriage is a beautiful institution. I will never talk down on marriage because it's something I still look forward to. It's what every woman hopes for. Though I'm focused on my career right now, I do have a very special person in my life."


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The operation identified international cyber crime rings that are linked to multiple variants of the Yahos malicious software, or malware, which is linked to more than 11 million compromised computer systems and over $850 million in losses via the Butterfly Botnet, which steals computer users' credit card, bank account, and other personal identifiable information.
"Botnet" is short for robot network; botnets are made up of compromised computer systems and can be utilized by cyber criminals to execute distributed denial of service attacks, send spam e-mails, and conduct underground organized criminal activity, to include malware distribution.
Facebook's security team provided assistance to law enforcement throughout the investigation by helping to identify the root cause, the perpetrators, and those affected by the malware. Yahos targeted Facebook users from 2010 to October 2012, and security systems were able to detect affected accounts and provide tools to remove these threats.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI's Cyber Division, International Operations Division, and the following field offices: Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, El Paso, Honolulu, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New Haven, New Orleans, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, San Diego, San Juan, St. Louis, Tampa, and Washington Field; the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section; the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii; the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania; and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
The FBI received invaluable international cooperation, assistance, and response from the following partner organizations: Bosnia and Herzegovina's Republika Srpska Ministry of Interior; Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Interior General Police Directorate, National Police Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime; New Zealand Police; Peruvian National Police; and the United Kingdom's Serious Organised Crime Agency.
It is recommended that computer users update their applications and operating system on a regular basis to reduce the risk of compromise and perform regular anti-virus scanning of their computer system. It is also helpful to disconnect personal computers from the Internet when the machines are not in use. Computer users who believe they have been victimized should file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov.


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With the announcement of the Nikon 1 series of compact interchangeable-lens cameras, Nikon became the first of the "big two" DSLR makers (the other being Canon) to introduce a mirrorless-system model. Rumors and a countdown clock amped up the excitement surrounding Nikon's camera announcement, which finally happened in New York earlier this week.
After Nikon's unveiling, journalists left with early production units of the Nikon 1 J1 (the Nikon 1 V1 is still in preproduction) and a trio of lenses. I tested the J1 at a shoot set up by Nikon, complete with glam models and a dancer.
The Nikon 1 J1's core hardware specs
The J1's sensor—a 12-megapixel CMOS sensor that measures 0.52 by 0.34 inches—is smaller than those in the Micro Four-Thirds System cameras made by Olympus and Panasonic (0.68 by 0.5 inches), as well as the APS-C sensors in interchangeable-lens cameras made by Samsung and Sony. However, the Nikon 1-series sensor is significantly bigger than the one in the interchangeable-lens Pentax Q (0.24 by 0.18 inches).
Like the Pentax Q, the Nikon 1 J1 is amazingly pint-size, measuring 4.2 by 2.4 by 1.2 inches. Despite the fact that it has neither a physical grip nor an electronic viewfinder (the Nikon 1 V1 does have an EVF), the J1 is small and light enough to hold and operate comfortably. A 3-inch LCD on the back lets you compose and review your shots.
A number of different kit configurations are available, including a standard $650 one-lens kit, two separate two-lens kit configurations for $900 each, and a two-lens kit with a pink camera body for $930.
Using the Nikon 1 J1
Because the J1 is geared toward ease of use, I didn't read the reviewer's guide before shooting with the small but well-constructed camera (no user manual was available, either). The J1's operation is pretty straightforward, although consumers will want to at least browse the user manual to understand what lies beneath the mode dial's four modes, Motion Snapshot, Smart Photo Selector, Still Image, and Movie. The occasional tip or hint will appear on the LCD, suggesting a trip to the F (function) button for mode-specific options.
I didn't take long to get up to speed on the J1, although initially I overlooked the tiny F (function) button. But the menus are easy—if a little long—to navigate. Fortunately, using the camera's command dial to scroll through the options speeds up the process.
Below the mode dial on the camera's rear panel is the typical control layout found on the majority of compact cameras, including display, playback, and menu buttons, as well as a dial for navigating, adjusting exposure compensation, accessing AE/AF lock, and setting the flash and self-timer. The top panel is home to the camera's tiny pop-up flash, on/off button, shutter button, and movie-recording button.
Although the control layout is pretty standard, the J1 requires a bit of menu-diving for anything beyond the basics, namely choosing exposure modes (full manual, shutter-priority, aperture-priority, scene auto selector, and program auto); switching between JPEG, RAW, and RAW + JPEG; selecting frame rates for video; and choosing from standard, neutral, vivid, monochrome, portrait, and landscape picture controls, among other options.
The camera is nicely kitted out with unique features, and a few of them piqued my interest.
Perhaps one of the most interesting, and potentially useful, functions is the ability to take stills while shooting video—without any breaks in the video. The camera's high-definition video mode maxes out at a 1920-by-1080-pixel resolution at 60 interlaced fields per second (1080i/60fps), saving the results as MOV files.
Another still/video combo mode is Motion Snapshot, which produces a hybrid file. In Motion Snapshot, the camera buffers video and saves about 1 second of 1920-by-1080 video captured just before the shutter snaps. In this mode, video plays back in slow motion (so the clip is a little over 2 seconds long) and fades out, upon which the accompanying still image displays, with one of four themed music soundtracks.
Since I have no chance of ever owning a high-speed Phantom camera, I was happy to see the slow-motion video options on the J1, with frame-rate choices of 400 frames per second at 640-by-240 resolution or 1200 frames per second at 320-by-120 resolution. Yes, the files are physically small and low resolution, but they are fun. In fact, the models at the Nikon shoot—who were having as much, if not more, fun than the photographers using the J1—conducted a few impromptu shoots of their own using the slow-motion video option, with great enthusiasm and some creative results.
During the test shoot, I switched between the camera's 10mm and 10-30mm lenses. With the camera's 2.7X crop factor (10mm=27mm, 10mm-30mm=27mm-81mm), I elected to leave the 30mm-110mm in my camera bag since it was too long for the studio setup. The 10mm-30mm zoom lens, although small when retracted, extends out farther than I anticipated, but it's lightweight and it zooms smoothly.
The only drawback is that I found it too easy to lock the lens when trying to zoom to its widest field of view. Like the lenses of Olympus Pen cameras, the Nikon lens locks when it is retracted, and you must unlock it again before the camera will operate. If you don't get the hang of the procedure, it may make you miss a shot.
Unlike the V1, the J1 doesn't accommodate an external flash, although it should operate as a master and trigger a small third-party flash attached via the tripod mount. Unfortunately, I didn't discover the J1's flash-compensation option until after I tried to use the tiny pop-up flash as a fill flash. The specs indicate that the flash can reach up to 16 feet at ISO 100, but that didn't seem to be the case in my trials. Next time I'll bump up the flash intensity via the menu.
In addition to the J1's 71-point autofocus system, Nikon touts very fast autofocus, thanks to a hybrid autofocus system that switches between phase-detection and contrast-detection AF, depending on the lighting conditions. In low light, the camera uses contrast detection, because it activates an AF illuminator lamp.
True to Nikon's claims, the autofocus is generally pretty fast. Unfortunately, during the test shoot it sometimes locked AF in the wrong place, but I have to say that most of my shots were sharply focused. Face detection worked fairly well when I stepped closer to the models, and it kept the face-detection brackets on a model's face even when I moved the camera.
Continuous shooting starts at 5 frames per second at full resolution, and can zip along as fast as 60 frames per second when you use the camera's Electronic Hi mode. The Smart Photo Selector, similar to Nikon's Best Shot Selector, captures a burst of up to 20 frames and then saves the five best based on various criteria, including exposure and facial recognition.
The bottom line, as always, is image quality. During the studio session, I alternated between the Nikon J1 and my Nikon D3s DSLR (with a 70-200mm VR II lens). Of course, it's not fair to compare images between the two—we all know which camera would win—but I did see some shots from the J1 that exhibited the same spot-on exposure and rich, vibrant colors when the lighting was good.
I kept the J1's ISO as low as possible, pushing it only to around ISO 400 on a few occasions, with noise reduction turned off. Again, judging from a quick look, some shadowy areas exhibited image noise, even at lower ISOs. That isn't surprising considering the camera's physically small sensor, but according to Macworld's chart of the best point-and-shoots for image quality, Nikon does know how to make a small-sensored camera that performs well.
I found the Nikon 1 J1 a lot of fun to shoot with, and I think the J1 has the potential to be more than just a cute camera for snapshots. The real deal-sweetener for existing Nikon owners will be when the FT-1 F mount adapter comes out in the coming months, allowing those with a selection of Nikkor lenses to use their existing DSLR lenses with the Nikon 1-series cameras.
As for formal results, we'll tell you what we find out in the upcoming full review.
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Szczur's football roots ring familiar at Cubs camp
Samardzija, Sveum can relate to former Villanova wideout's adjustment
MESA, Ariz. -- Football took priority over baseball for Cubs prospect Matt Szczur. Manager Dale Sveum and pitcher Jeff Samardzija can relate.
"Football, you need to learn the plays, you need to be in shape, so that would always take precedence over baseball," Szczur said. "Baseball, I could just suit up and play. Here and there in high school, I would take hitting lessons, but not too often. I didn't play summer ball at all. It was all football."
A wide receiver, he helped lead Villanova to the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Subdivision tournament in 2008, then an FCS national title in '09 and the semifinals in '10. The Cubs made him their fifth-round pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft.
"I have a lot of catching up to do," Szczur said. "That's why being here, being around these guys, I gain more knowledge."
Samardzija is the Cubs' most well-known former football player after his days as an All-America wide receiver at Notre Dame. He also had a gridiron-heavy schedule.
"You get 20 hours a week [to play sports], and I was doing 16 for football and four for baseball," Samardzija said. "One hour for a bullpen counted as practice. Any time you start a game, it counts as three hours. Those were my four hours for baseball.
"You don't get time for baseball until the football team leaves after school in mid May and then you get the second half of the baseball season and the playoffs," Samardzija said. "It's really about a month and a half to fully do baseball in college."
Sveum had no intention of playing professional baseball when he was attending Pinole Valley High School in California.
"It was football, basketball, baseball, and in the summer, it was football practice," Sveum said. "In my town, it was football all summer long.
"My whole thought growing up was that I was going to play football in the NFL, not play Major League Baseball. That's one reason why I put all my efforts into football. I played the other sports because I was a good athlete and bigger than everybody else, but my mind was set on always playing football. It kind of changed when I got drafted in the first round."
Sveum earned All-State and All-America honors at quarterback in high school but turned down a football scholarship at Arizona State to play professional baseball.
"He knows what I went through," Szczur said of Sveum, adding that the common background helps when the two talk hitting.
"He's a young man who hasn't played tons of baseball in his life," Sveum said of Szczur. "He's another kid who you can't teach that hand strength. The ball comes off his bat like a Major League player. But there's just adjustments that have to be made to understand what's all valued in his swing.
"His upper body wants to lift out of his swing, and that's why he chops balls to shortstop and third base. He's got power, he can hit a ball a long way. That guy's a really, really strong kid with Major League hands when he has a bat in his hands."
Szczur showed that at Class A Daytona last year, when he batted .295. He hit .210 in 35 games at Double-A Tennessee, then was added to the Mesa Solar Sox roster for the Arizona Fall League, where he batted .264 in 24 games.
"I tell everybody the Fall League was huge for me," Szczur said. "I was able to be around different players and learn from different players. I feel like it clicked for me in the Fall League."
He just needs to play more baseball. Just ask Samardzija.
"I played [baseball] my freshman year [at Notre Dame] and probably had a better year then than any other time," Samardzija said. "I had more time in baseball freshman year because I wasn't in the mix for football -- I was fourth string, fourth on the depth chart [for football].
"I ended up being a freshman All-American, which really kick-started my baseball career in college, to tell you the truth," he said.
Which is why he picked baseball over football when he was drafted by the Cubs in 2006.
"I was excited to come and play baseball and put all my time into it," Samardzija said. "I knew the success I had [in baseball] with not practicing. It was always intriguing to see where the ceiling was when you put all your time into it. I'm sure [Szczur] feels the same way."
Sveum had been so football focused, he didn't expect to be drafted in 1982. That year, the Cubs had the first-overall pick, and selected Shawon Dunston.
"I was all football, and I even told everybody, 'Don't draft me, I'm going to play football,'" Sveum said. "Then the Brewers drafted me. It caught me off guard. I was actually visiting a friend of mine in a hospital who got stabbed. It was our senior year and he had graduated. I walked into his hospital room and he told me, 'Hey, you got drafted, the Dodgers drafted you.' I'm like, 'Yeah, right.' It actually was the Brewers in the 25th round."
Right now, Szczur is trying to find his way.
"I need to create more rhythm," Szczur said of the adjustments Sveum was suggesting. "I was kind of pushing instead of going back and swinging. I need to create rhythm by getting a little energy."
When he talks to Sveum, it's as if the Cubs manager was in the dugout, watching all of Szczur's at-bats.
"He said, 'Just by watching you take [batting practice], I know where most of your outs are,'" Szczur said. "He said, 'Probably short and third.'"
Sveum was right.
"He said, 'That's because when you make a bad swing, your shoulders go up and your bat lags and you try to catch up with your arms because you're strong enough,'" Szczur said. "It's a bat path, but not the right one. Your shoulders go up and you try to muscle over, but when you stay down, that's when you stay through the ball."
Once Szczur gets his bat to catch up with his body and in sync, he'll be fine. It's all baseball all the time now.
"That's why I come down early [to Arizona]," Samardzija said of his pre-Spring Training workouts. "I have to make up for what I missed in college and high school. Baseball takes time, and grinding out work and just rolling your sleeves up. ... A lot of times, it's just the fact of getting out there and putting the ball on the tee and throwing off the mound."


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On 24 June 2018, the award ceremony of the Best Moments in video of the Saint John´s Festival 2018 of the IIM in Macau took place at the St. Lazarus Church, with the support of the Macao Foundation.
The main award was delivered to Mike Wang, and the 2 consolation awards were delivered to Isabella Lou and Gilberto Camacho.
Congratulations to the winners!
The videos can be viewed in the following links:
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Issue: HASH-TABLE-REHASH-SIZE-INTEGER
Reference: Draft 8.81, p.19-3
Category: CLARIFICATION/CHANGE
Edit History: Version 1, 06/16/91, Kim Barrett
Version 2, 09/26/91, Steve Haflich, add Franz current practice
Version 3, 01/10/91, Steve Haflich, Lucid & Chestnut
current practice
Problem Description:
The semantics for the :REHASH-SIZE argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE are unclear.
The description in the draft says it can be
"an integer greater than zero, which is the number of entries to add, or it
can be a floating-point number greater than 1, which is the ratio of the
new size to the old size."
When the :REHASH-SIZE argument is an integer, it is unclear whether it is
expected to be scaled as the size is increased or if it is supposed to
indicate an expected additional number of entries to add.
At issue is whether a programmer can use the type of value provided for the
:REHASH-SIZE argument to give the implementation a hint as to the expected
growth rate for the table, with an integer indicating an additive growth rate
and a float indicating a multiplicative growth rate.
Specify that if the :REHASH-SIZE argument is an integer then the
implementation may assume that the expected growth rate for the table is
additive, and that if the argument is a float then it may assume that the
expected growth rate is multiplicative.
Clarify that the value of the :REHASH-SIZE argument does not constrain the
implementation to use any particular method for computing the new size when
the hash table is enlarged. The actual method for computing the new size is
implementation dependent and the :REHASH-SIZE argument only provides hints
from the programmer to the implementation.
Editorial Impact:
An isolated change to MAKE-HASH-TABLE and HASH-TABLE-REHASH-SIZE.
Provides a means for the programmer to reliably provide to the implementor a
particular piece of information about the programmer's intent, without
constraining the implementor to any particular implementation technique.
Current Practice:
Symbolics Genera and IIM appear to use the :SIZE and integral :REHASH-SIZE
arguments to produce a ratio which is then used as the effective rehash size
in the same way as if a float with the same value had been specified for the
Lucid, Franz, and Chestnut conform to the interpretation of
:REHASH-SIZE here suggested.
Only the application programmer knows whether new elements are expected to
arrive in an additive or multiplicative way. All the implementation knows at
the time growth needs to occur is that there isn't room. It can't tell how
many extra elements are coming. And just because the computation on the size
is allowed to be slightly fuzzy, that doesn't mean it doesn't matter whether
the input to that computation should be allowed to be fuzzy.
Control of memory growth is a frequently cited reason for preferring C over
Lisp. In some places, fixing the problems that underlie this is virtually a
research topic because no one can even figure out what they'd want to write
down in order to advise the program about what to do. Controlled growth as
in vector-push-extend or hash-table-rehash-size is not in that camp. To the
extent that we have a linguistic facilities begging for the opportunity to be
properly expressive, I see no reason to be vague--even if we're going to let
implementations do something a little different than what was asked for, we
should still define the language in such a way that the implementation at
least knows what was asked for. Both of the possible values (integers and
floats) are potentially meaningful in distinct ways, and trivial to
implement, so why blur their intent?


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CHEM 347W Experimental Biochemistry II (2)
Theory and practice of chemical and biochemical analysis in the laboratory. Students design and carry out qualitative and quantitative analyses using electrophoretic and spectroscopic techniques, as well as the polymerase chain reaction, and protein purification. Biochemical phenomena explored include gene expression, protein function, and tRNA structure, dynamics, and ligand binding. Emphasis on formal scientific writing.


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This site is intended to provide a resource for chemists using Apple Macintosh computers. The links in the sidebar give access to a variety of resources that I hope you will find valuable.
Have a look at the MacInChemBlog for the latest news, tips and comments.
One particularly population section is Comparing a MacBook Pro Apple M1 max with Intel MacBookPro for Cheminformatics/CompChem, this includes comparison using RDKIt, OpenBabel, MOE, Jupyter notebooks and Vortex. Full details are here.
You might also be interested in an article I wrote on my thoughts on scientific software and a listing of open-source cheminformatics toolkits and Open Source Python Data Science Libraries
If you have any comments or suggestions please contact me.
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AppleScripts - A variety of Applescripts that might be useful for chemists together with a series of tutorials. For more information on Applescript have a look at the Applescript Resources Page.
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Use the chain rule to find the derivative of the composite of two functions--the derivative of the "outside" function multiplied by the derivative of the "inside" function. The chain rule is related to the product rule and the quotient rule, which gives the derivative of the quotient of two functions.
I want to talk about
the chain rule.
The chain rule is how we differentiate
composite functions.
Now let me remind you what
composite functions are.
I have three examples here.
Composite functions are basically when you
take one function and stuff it inside another.
Like here, I have the function X squared
plus 3X plus 4 and then I'm taking
that whole function and raising it to the 12th power.
Here, I have 4X squared plus 9 and that's
being put inside the square root function.
And this last function has 2X cubed minus
5 inside the function E to the X.
It's really important to recognize with
composite functions that there
is an inside function and an outside function.
So to highlight those differences between
inside and outside, I've made the
inside functions always blue here.
And the outside functions are always red.
Each of these functions could be expressed
as F of G of X where G of X is sort
of a general name I'm giving
to the inside function.
F of of X is the outside.
How do you differentiate these?
The answer is the chain rule.
This is the chain rule.
So the derivative of F of G of X is going
to be F prime of G of X times G prime
of X. That's the rule we're going to use.
You differentiate the outside function first,
leave the inside function alone,
then multiply by the derivative
of the inside function.
Let's try that out on this problem.
H of X is -- it's the first
of our examples over there.
So H prime is going to be -- and according
to this formula I differentiate the
outside function first.
Here the outside function
is something to the 12th.
So the derivative is going to be 12 times
something to the 12 minus 1 or 11.
Now, the inside remains unchanged.
The G of X is unchanged
in this first part.
So I just write X squared
plus 3X plus 4.
But we're not done.
We still have to multiply by the
derivative of the inside part.
This is the inside part.
Its derivative is 2X plus
3. Now we're done.
So this is the chain rule.
You differentiate the outside function first,
leave the inside alone, and then
multiply by the derivative
of the inside function.


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OverviewPersonnel in Property and Evidence are responsible for the storage, record keeping, and disposition of all property and evidence submitted to them by the Blue Earth County Sheriff's office, as well as the contract agencies of, Eagle Lake, Lake Crystal, Madison Lake, Mapleton, and the Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force.
ResponsibilitiesThe Property and Evidence division provides safe storage for all items seized by Deputies/Officers. Our property room currently stores over 5,000 items of evidence, found property, and property held for "safe keeping."
Civilian Evidence Officers are responsible for the preservation, destruction, and release of all items placed in their care. The evidence specialists are trained in storage techniques to ensure that the integrity of evidence is maintained. Detailed records of transactions involving items of evidence are maintained in order to preserve the "chain of evidence." The "chain of evidence" is the documentation of the continuous custody of items submitted as evidence.
The Property and Evidence Specialist is responsible for receiving, cataloging, storing, and maintaining all evidence collected during an investigation. Evidence may include:
- Blood samples
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- Found property
- Items collected as part of an investigation
- Personal property
Returning Property
The property and evidence specialist is also responsible for returning property according to Minnesota state statute.
The Property and Evidence Specialist is only responsible for property / evidence collected by the sheriff's office and our contracted agencies. If your property was collected or seized by another law enforcement agency within Blue Earth County, you will need to contact that agency directly for the disposition of your property.
The evidence specialists do not always have sole authority to release property taken as evidence and may need prior authorization from the:
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- Department supervisors
Evidence and property that is no longer needed for court proceedings may be released to the owner, if known. The evidence technician will send a letter stating the property can be picked up to the owner's last known address. The following regulations are followed in the property release process:
- Evidence and property used in the commission of a crime, such as controlled substances, related instruments, or contraband that is unlawfully used or possessed, will be destroyed.
- Property is released by appointment only and will not be released to the owner without photo identification (driver's license, state ID card, passport, etc.). You may also be asked to supply proof of ownership.
Sadly, some property stored in our evidence facility can never be returned to its owner. This property was found or recovered with no owner identification and ultimately will be destroyed or auctioned.
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Every time I think the Republican National Committee is going to give me a break and not do something insulting, they give me another reason why neither I nor any other conservative should have any confidence in the RNC. While RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has done nothing, I repeat nothing, but talk for six months about how he's going to attract more minority voters to the party. He thought he would keep up the charade at the RNC's spring meeting in Los Angeles.
In a move meant to pander to blacks, the RNC invited black actress Stacey Dash to its meeting, to pose for pictures with Priebus. I guess Priebus wanted to prove he's down with brown people. As a reminder, Dash supported Mitt Romney for president in 2012 and was attacked by black liberals for endorsing him.
Dash tweeted:
"@REALStaceyDash Excited to meet @reince tonight with my partners @patrickmillsaps & @ashleybellr at@GOP #RNC #GOP pic.twitter.com/t02KSuFBbV"
Dash calls Patrick Millsaps, former Newt Gingrich 2012 chief of staff and Ashley Bell, 2012 former Romney aide her "partners" so she knows them. But it's unclear why Dash was meeting with Priebus because the RNC is doing NOTHING to take the conservative message to black voters. There's no evidence of any grassroots outreach effort in urban cities where large populations of minorities live or incorporating minorities into the RNC's media surrogates' program. Dash is stunning and was celebrity eye candy for conservative men to drool over at the RNC's Reagan Library dinner Friday night, April 12, 2013. Consultants were downright gleeful to meet Dash.
Patrick Millsaps tweeted:
"Patrick Millsaps Looking forward to meeting with @Reince with friends @REALStaceyDash & @AshleyBellRtonight at #ReaganLibrary. @GOP pic.twitter.com/1OW2a6bjF3"
Ashley Bell, who also attended the RNC spring meeting in LA along with Millsaps because the RNC can't get enough Romney consultants, tweeted his enthusiasm in meeting Dash with a photo:
"@Ashley D. Bell @SharonDay great seeing you today at the Reagan Library! @REALStaceyDash@PatrickMillsaps #rnc #tcot #bcot pic.twitter.com/jitIOgNpSp"
What were all these consultants doing at the RNC's spring meeting? Getting paid by the RNC to run their same game plans for losing candidates as they did in 2012?
RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, who unapologetically told me during a meeting in 2012 he had no blacks working in the RNC communications or political departments, tweeted this about meeting Dash:
"Sean Spicer @seanspicer 12 Apr Very cool to have Stacy Dash at @GOP dinner at Reagan Library -@jameshohmann is clueless pic.twitter.com/FwnO9ARx45"
Gee Whiz! Spicer thinks it's cool to snap photos with a black actress but apparently very "uncool" to hire any blacks to work in his department at the RNC or use blacks in its surrogate program. Until now.
I recently lunched with newly hired RNC Deputy Press Secretary Raffi Williams, son of Juan Williams, tasked with "coordinating" the RNC's new outreach plan to minorities. I'm guessing Spicer finally checked the black box, now counting Raffi as the lone black hire in his department I asked Williams how the $10 million budget Reince announced to support the outreach plan would be allocated. Williams told me he didn't know because they wouldn't let him see the budget. I also asked him "What's the plan for black outreach?" He explained he was in the process of writing it.
Shocked and amazed I told him I thought that's what the 100 pages of the "Growth and Opportunity Project" report was. "No," Williams said and told me the RNC wants him to write a plan for every activity he proposes. I looked at him dumbfounded and said, "So, it will be June before you guys do anything?" No response.
Instead of inviting Stacey Dash to cocktails at the Regan Library, Reince and his band of consultants should have asked Dash and some other prominent black Republicans like Allen West, Senator Tim Scott, Mia Love and Dr. Ben Carson to take the conservative message to the predominately black neighborhood of Compton in L.A. The RNC could have hosted an open house with lunch at a church, community center or library inviting blacks to learn more about conservatism. But that would actually mean doing something.
In a recent Daily Caller article on the Romney campaign paying digital advertising firm Targeted Victory $94.5 million to produce ads which helped Romney lose, the writer sums up the problem facing the GOP. "There's a new culture war brewing in the GOP: Claims vs. results."
In another tweet about his "friends," Bell tweeted:
"Ashley D. Bell @AshleyBellR 12 Apr @REALStaceyDash @Reince @PatrickMillsaps together the future is bright for our Party & Nation. Stay tuned everyone! pic.twitter.com/d2MQ3fJM9h"
I have a feeling we'll have to "stay tuned" until 2016 to see any future changes from the RNC. Priebus and others seem to be happy recycling consultants, who have a track record of working with losing candidates. Pictures say a thousand words and so does a 100-page report called the "Growth & Opportunity Project". No conservative should hold his or her breath the RNC is going to do anything different than it did in 2012. Time to do things ourselves.


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According to my Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition book, if you live for 65 years or longer, you will have consumed more than 70,000 meals and disposed of 50 tons of food.
Yikes, that's a lot of food.
Okay—one ton is 2000 pounds. In that case, the average (whatever average means) person consumes 100,000 pounds of food in 65 years (give or take a few pounds). So, 500,000 pounds of food would keep 5 people nourished for 65 years. Very cool.
Andy Grant (hard-working farmer, soil scientist, and plant guru) and Grant Family Farms (my organic CSA) donated almost 500,000 pounds of fresh food to the community last year via several food banks in Colorado and Wyoming. Over the past few years, Andy and the gang have donated over 2,000,000 pounds of food (you read that right—6 zeros). They even shipped food to communities in need after hurricane Katrina.
That's how it's done. People helping people.
Andy hates to toot his own horn, so I'll toot it for him. I'm so impressed (and humbled) at how hard the folks at Grant Family Farms work to support the community and I'm over-the-top grateful to have their organically grown, local food grace my table and boost my health. Join a CSA and help support this grass roots movement to reclaim our food supply. It starts at home.
Farm-fresh frittata
what you need
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups chopped squash (zucchini or yellow)
1 tomato, seeded and chopped (drain the juice)
1 cup spinach, chopped
6 organic pastured eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons Simply Organic All-Purpose Seasoning
Sprinkling of Parmesan cheese (optional)
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper
what you do
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. In a heavy skillet (I use a cast iron skillet to prepare and bake the frittata in), heat the butter over low-medium heat. Make sure you coat the bottom and sides of the skillet with butter. Sauté onions for about 5 minutes. Add garlic, stir and cook another 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Add the squash and continue cooking for about 5 more minutes. Don't let the veggies burn, cook until slightly tender. Remove from heat. Add chopped tomatoes, spinach, and herbs. Mix well.
3. Pour eggs over top and gently stir to blend ingredients.
4. Place skillet on center rack of preheated oven and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and return to oven for an additional 5 to 7 minutes until eggs are firm and top is slightly browned.
5. Season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Serve immediately.
For more information about Andy Grant and why we need to support our local farmers, please watch this short video.
"Dammit, we're doing the right thing." – Andy Grant
Yes, you are Andy, and I love you for it!
Peace, joy, and farm-fresh veggies!


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First it was Russell Westbrook, and now it's Dwyane Wade rocking a pair of glasses without lenses in the postgame locker room. Wade may be a fashionable man, but you can't pull off this look after you got your ass beat. LENS-FREE GLASSES ARE FOR CLOSERS. I'm not gonna go as far as Yahoo's Dan Wetzel or anyone else who might use Wade's glasses as some kind of impeachment of his character or his ability to win. That's a real stretch.
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What is not a stretch is to say that he looks like a fucking idiot. "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side!"


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Baking and cooking can be many things to many people; A way to relieve stress, get out aggressions, or soothe sadness. The simple act of slowing down and creating something from scratch with your own two hands can just be such a catharsis in this busy, maddening world. It isn't, however, something to plow through, rushed and uninterested in the process itself, eyes only focused on the end result. Baking is less about the cakes and the cookies that come out of the oven, but more about the sifting of the flour, careful measuring, and skillful work with the knife. Or in my case, disastrously clumsy and painful use of the knife.
Waking up late and hastily throwing together the base for my Passover dessert to be served at seder later that night, everything was going as planned… Until I pulled out those fateful oranges. Without thinking, I began hacking away, paring off strips of zest when the blade slipped and… Well, I think you can guess what it began paring after that. This was quite possibly the worst injury I've sustained in the kitchen yet, and yes, it was all from a careless mistake.
Things kept going downhill from there- The crust for my tartlettes fell apart in the oven, and my iSi cream whipper refused to work in more than spurts and splats, making for a rather Picasso sort of presentation. Taking a deep breath, slowing down a bit, and thinking things through more was the only way out of this mess.
The orange curd meant to fill my tartlettes went into the bottom of some clear glasses instead, to be topped with chopped strawberries and strawberry mousse. Much simpler than my original plans, but working with only one hand definitely limited my options this time around. At least there will still be a dessert to serve tonight… And I don't think I need stitches, I consoled myself at the time.
Thank goodness those verrines were so well received after all of that drama! It's one thing to be able to think on your feet, but another to think ahead enough so that you don't need to. Just in case you're thinking about speeding through your next culinary endeavor, consider how much less time and pain it may take if you go about it mindfully in the first place.


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Cosby case demonstrates complexity of race, gender, and justice
Bill Cosby – a once-beloved actor and philanthropist – was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for a 2004 sexual assault. Some call it the first legal victory of the #MeToo era, while others consider it evidence of racism in the United States' justice system.
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A publicist for the once-beloved Bill Cosby complained that his conviction and three- to 10-year prison term for sexual assault stem from a racist and sexist justice system, as the defense vowed to appeal the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Mr. Cosby spent his first night alone in a Pennsylvania prison after being accustomed to a life filled with handlers and household help. He could eventually be sent to a state prison that has separate units for geriatric prisoners and programs for sex offenders.
Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said Tuesday after the comedian's sentencing that Cosby was "one of the greatest civil rights leaders in the United States for over the past 50 years," while decrying the trial as the "most sexist and racist" in the country's history.
The judge, prosecutor, and jury saw it differently.
"No one is above the law. And no one should be treated disproportionately because of who they are, where they live, or even their wealth, celebrity, or philanthropy," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said in sentencing Cosby to an above-average sentence for a 2004 sex assault.
Cosby's defense team has raised the racial issue before, in 2016, before quickly scrapping it.
"We prosecute where the evidence takes us and that was done in this case. When [US] Judge [Eduardo] Robreno released the deposition and said that this is perhaps criminal, we're obligated to look at that and we did and we worked through the case and we got to where we are today."
Cosby was found guilty in April of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate in 2004 after being barraged with similar accusations from more than 60 women over the past five decades.
"It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come," O'Neill said. He quoted from victim Andrea Constand's statement submitted to the court, in which she said Cosby took her "beautiful, young spirit and crushed it."
In her statement, Ms. Constand wrote of Cosby: "We may never know the full extent of his double life as a sexual predator, but his decades-long reign of terror as a serial rapist is over."
On NBC's "Today" on Wednesday morning, prosecutor Kristen Feden reflected on the difficulty of the case, which included a first trial in 2017 that ended in a hung jury, and said Constand told her she was happy with the sentence.
"I always look for my strength in the victims, and Andrea Constand was amazing," Ms. Feden said. "Her courage and her strength was enough for me to say, 'Let's keep going.' "
Cosby declined the opportunity to speak before the sentence came down, and afterward sat laughing and chatting with his defense team. His wife of 54 years, Camille, was not in court. Constand smiled broadly on hearing the punishment and was hugged by others in the courtroom.
In a blistering statement, Mr. Wyatt said the comedian was subjected to the "most racist and sexist trial in the history of the United States." Wyatt said all three of the psychologists who testified against Cosby were "white women who make money off of accusing black men of being sexual predators."
Women's advocates hailed Cosby's sentence as a landmark #MeToo moment.
"Bill Cosby seeing the inside of a prison cell sends a strong message that predators – no matter who they are, from Hollywood to Wall Street to the Supreme Court – can no longer be protected at the expense of victims," said Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women of New York.
Cosby's lawyers asked that he be allowed to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction, but the judge ordered him locked up immediately, saying that "he could quite possibly be a danger to the community."
Cosby – who is legally blind and uses a cane – removed his watch, tie, and jacket and walked out in a white dress shirt and red suspenders, his hands cuffed in front of him. He appeared downcast, his eyes failing to meet the camera, in a mug shot released by authorities.
Cosby must serve the minimum of three years before becoming eligible for parole.
Cosby's punishment, which also included a $25,000 fine, came at the end of a two-day hearing at which the judge declared him a "sexually violent predator" – a designation that subjects him to monthly counseling for the rest of his life and requires that neighbors and schools be notified of his whereabouts. A psychologist for the state testified that Cosby appears to have a mental disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to have sex with women without their consent.
Once known as America's Dad for his role on the top-rated "Cosby Show" in the 1980s, the actor was convicted of violating Constand, Temple University women's basketball administrator, at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.
Constand testified that Cosby gave her what she thought was a herbal supplement for stress before sexually assaulting her while she was impaired. Cosby claimed the encounter was consensual, and his lawyers branded her a "con artist" who framed the comedian to get a big payday – a $3.4 million settlement she received over a decade ago.
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, which Constand and other accusers have done.
Five accusers took the stand at the trial as part of an effort by prosecutors to portray Cosby as a predator. His lawyers asked for house arrest, saying he is too old and vulnerable to go to prison. Prosecutors asked for five to 10 years behind bars, warning that he could still pose a threat to women.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said Cosby could be sent to Laurel Highlands, a state prison for lower-risk inmates on the other side of the state, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Constand went to police a year after waking up in a fog at Cosby's estate, her clothes askew, only to have the district attorney pass on the case. Another DA reopened the file a decade later and charged the TV star after stand-up comic Hannibal Buress' riff about Cosby being a rapist prompted other women to come forward, and after a federal judge, acting on a request from The Associated Press, unsealed some of Cosby's startling, decade-old testimony in Constand's related civil suit.
In his testimony, Cosby described sexual encounters with a string of actresses, models, and other young women and talked about obtaining quaaludes to give to those he wanted to sleep with.
This story was reported by The Associated Press. AP writer Claudia Lauer contributed to this report.


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The Starbucks passwords-in-the-clear boo-boo has begun to fade now that the company has fixed the errant mobile-payment app. But it's clear that the situation is a major heads up, not for Starbucks security, but for all developers of mobile apps.
It looks more and more like Starbucks committed a sin of omission. The coffee chain tested its app before it was released back in May 2013, but it didn't look at everything that was being saved. It primarily was checking that everything worked as it was supposed to.
That kind of security sin of omission is one that a huge number of large companies are guilty of, especially when it comes to mobile apps.
Starbucks' official stance is that management did not know that an app-crash analytics program -- called Crashlytics and purchased by Twitter last year -- was storing passwords in clear text when it captured data to facilitate recovery after a crash. As spokesperson Linda Mills said, "We knew in May 2013 of the existence of the temporary crash log file for crash diagnostics, but did not know that the clear text contained account user name and password." I have talked to a person who is familiar with the early testing, however, who told me that management knew that passwords were being retained in clear text. What's the truth? I don't know. It could be that there were people in IT who knew about the password problem but didn't communicate that properly through channels.
But there's a bigger issue here, and it's about a lot more than just Starbucks. I'm talking about an assumption that I believe a lot of companies are prone to make when developing apps: There's no reason to suspect that sensitive information is being captured and displayed. With that assumption, no one looks for that sort of thing. And then it comes as a big surprise that, hey, yeah, that very thing is in fact happening.
Here's my message to all companies that might take that attitude: You have to view mobile apps as the informationally dangerous critters that they are. That means a lot more testing, including deeply peering to see what these apps are doing.
You say you don't have the time or money to do that? I disagree. When security researcher Daniel Wood examined the Starbucks files and performed static analysis, he didn't have a large budget, and it didn't take a huge amount of time. "This type of testing focuses on what type of data elements are being stored on the disk, whether in temporary cache files, memory, or permanent data files that are used for normal operation," Wood said. "It also includes analyzing application files for improper programmatic methods or functions being utilized and usually includes what is called secure code review to determine if an application is sanitizing input and output properly, among other concepts."
And you have ample reason to come up with the time and money to do this sort of testing. Failing to do so can lead to embarrassment and customer anger. So start thinking about what you need to check. First, how does your code interact with the mobile OS on the devices it will be available on? What about third-party code, the supposed culprit in the Starbucks situation? It did a few things it wasn't supposed to do, and that caused other parts of the app to do things -- like revealing passwords -- that no one had apparently considered possible.
But you have to assume that sort of thing is possible, and you have to specifically look for it.
You have to look for things that would be in conflict with industry and government regulations like PCI, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley. You don't want to release an app that reveals payment-card data, restricted healthcare information or sensitive financial data. Until you run the kind of exhaustive tests Wood is talking about, you can't be sure that those things aren't happening.
Wood, who is now working closely with Starbucks as a consultant (unpaid for the moment), has talked with a lot of Starbucks people involved in this, and he has come to his own conclusion about how it happened. "From my review, I could tell that they tested the application and ensured that there were security protections in place. Unfortunately, whether it was a miss or oversight on their part, the application exposed those sensitive user data elements. This is where I reference how the business just doesn't understand the IT or security side of the house. This is the norm in almost every organization, small or large. Having a security architect/engineer brought into the project from the beginning during the planning and initiation phases of the life cycle would ensure that mishaps like these won't occur as much. Conducting a security impact analysis on something like including a third-party service should have been conducted and security testing should have focused specifically on this piece. If it was, it most likely would have caught something like this. Since I wasn't in the room when this decision and others were made, this is only conjecture, however, I believe this was probably the case."
So, no, this isn't really about Starbucks. "This is the norm in almost every organization, small or large." Ask your team today about the level of security testing that they perform for their mobile apps. Not functionality testing, but true security testing. You just might save yourself from a very big headache.
Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek and eWeek. Evan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and he can be followed at twitter.com/eschuman. Look for his column every Tuesday.


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On July 2008, Michael Simmons marched in the tenth annual Budapest gay pride parade, just as he had in previous years. Established in 1998, Hungary's pride parade is one of the longest established in Central and Eastern Europe, and for the first nine years of its existence it was marked by the festivities – transvestites dancing in flatbed trucks, loud music, colorful floats – familiar to inhabitants of most Western European and American cities. Back then, the conservative and skinhead counter protesters were a joke.
That changed in 2007 when large groups of right-wing thugs attacked the marchers with vegetables, rotten eggs, rocks and bottles. Some people who left the parade were beaten. The police response was inadequate, as they were unprepared for the sudden violence. In 2008, Simmons experienced the same thing, "well-organized and well-orchestrated attacks" by crowds of counter protesters.
"It was four hours of sustained attack and it never let up; there was never a breathing period," said Simmons, a lifelong human rights activist, who took part in the civil rights movement in the American South and has worked extensively in Eastern Europe since the late 1980s. "Their [faces were so full of] hate. And their children were there. It reminded me of those pictures you see of lynchings, where young men are holding their girlfriends' hands."
Although police protection for the marchers improved after the first couple of years, the general situation of Hungary's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has worsened. The extreme right-wing party Jobbik, which is often associated with such hateful attacks, has grown rapidly. (They even have a paramilitary wing.) In 2007, Jobbik could be dismissed as a fringe group with no parliamentary representation. Today, Jobbik is the nation's third-largest political party, with 47 of 386 seats in the Hungarian Parliament.
The nationalist conservative Fidesz Party, which controls two-thirds of the parliamentary seats and has been widely condemned for authoritarian tendencies, is less overtly discriminatory. But before Fidesz's 2010 electoral sweep, LGBT rights in Hungary were rapidly progressing. Today, the new Constitution that Fidesz wrote and implemented unilaterally stipulates that marriage must be between a man and a woman. For the last two years, the Fidesz-controlled city government of Budapest has tried to ban the Pride March, citing traffic concerns and the presence of small children on the city streets. In both cases, the ban was challenged by LGBT groups and overturned by the courts.
"We are working in a context of rising extremism, which not only targets the LGBTQ community, but also the Roma and Jewish community," said Dorottya Karsay, one of the organizers of Budapest Pride. "We've seen a number of hate crimes, hate attacks in recent weeks, both in Budapest and in the countryside…. Extremism has been on the rise in the region for the last few years; it definitely has something to do with the crisis."
In this way, Hungary shares much with its neighbors in the former Soviet bloc. Both extreme right-wing and conservative nationalist parties have been a noticeable presence in the region since the collapse of Communism, but the economic crisis has granted them new strength. The European Union (EU), which requires a human rights baseline from member states, is unpopular, and rising homophobia can be understood in this context. For political actors seeking scapegoats, the LGBT communities – and other marginalized groups, like the Roma and Jews – make tempting targets.
Multiple polls have found that Eastern European attitudes toward "homosexuality" are far worse than those of other members of the EU. An intensive 2011 poll entitled "Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: European Report" found, "Prejudices against homosexuals…. are widespread, especially in Eastern Europe." Eighty-eight percent of Poles and two-thirds of Hungarians (the two Eastern European nations analyzed) opposed same-sex marriage, while over 75 percent of Poles "find homosexuality immoral" – as do two-thirds of Hungarians.
The recession didn't spirit these forces into being. The Communist regimes routinely punished or outlawed same-sex desire. Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in Romania was particularly brutal, instituting the notorious Article 200, which criminalized same-sex intercourse. There were still Romanians imprisoned through the 1990s due to Article 200, which wasn't repealed until 2001 when the nation began the process of applying for EU membership. (Romania has since instituted a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation from the workplace.)
"Police authorities continue to act as if being gay is a crime," said Iustina Ionescu, a Romanian lawyer who works with the LGBT advocacy group Accept (Romania just had its first pride march in 2006). "In terms of legal recognition of same sex couples, we are very much behind Hungary. We don't have that or any recognition for same sex rights."
But it is Russia that is spearheading a new form of legislative homophobia. A wave of disturbing laws has been passed in polities across the country, most recently in Saint Petersburg. These laws fine anyone found to be taking part in "public activities to promote sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transsexuality" that could be observed by minors. The wording of the laws is vague and they are often passed in tandem with similar laws regarding pedophilia. Russia's Parliament is considering a national version.
Other regional right-wing governments and political parties have copied the idea. This May, the European Parliament condemned a spike in regional homophobia, specifically citing the new Russian laws, their counterparts in the Ukraine and similar legislation introduced in Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary.
In Hungary, Jobbik is behind the Russian-style legislation that would ban the positive portrayal of "disorders of sexual behavior – especially sexual relations between members of the same sex." Fidesz seems leery of such extremes and has expressed no support for the bill. Or as Tamás Dombos, of the Háttér Support Society for LGBT People, puts it, "the government is homophobic, but on a different scale."
Fidesz's policies are a regression for a nation that once boasted the region's most progressive LGBT laws – including a recognition of same-sex domestic partners that dates back to 1996 (these partnerships were granted the same rights as married couples in 2006, except in areas related to children). In 2003, Hungary went above and beyond EU standards by passing an anti-discrimination law that extended beyond the workplace to education, housing and social benefits. Since Fidesz took power, progress has ended and hope for future gains looks bleak.
"[LGBT people] see all these homophobic groups on the streets, they see all these homophobic legislative initiatives and they really feel uncertain about their future," Dombos said. "People come to our legal aid and ask if they should enter into registered partnership because [they fear] Jobbik [attaining] power and having a list of all the gays."
Dombos sees hope, for Hungary at least, because of the prominent place LGBT groups have taken in the left-of-center anti-Fidesz opposition. But that will do little in the immediate future. And with the economic crisis looking unlikely to forsake Eastern Europe anytime soon, the forces of reaction won't be losing momentum in the near future.
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When watching tonight's Game of Thrones episode, you can try smacking King Joffrey every time he says something petulant, but replacing your TV screen gets expensive after awhile. Instead, fire off a few spit balls at this King Joffrey target.
Vizio's Latest TVs Go All Quantum
The target, which you can purchase through RedBubble, is also available as a t-shirt, although I might worry that the sight of Joffrey with a bullseye over his face would be a little too tempting for some Game of Thrones fans. It might be safer to hang him on the wall.
The Perfect Target [RedBubble via Fashionably Geek]


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For years I've been using Zoneedit's free service to forward mail for accounts @ocallahan.org to various destinations (currently GMail accounts). Unfortunately Zoneedit's service seems to have deteriorated lately; many mails are delayed by half an hour or more inside Zoneedit's system, and I suspect one or more may have been dropped, although I can't prove that yet. Any readers have tips for a more reliable but free service to achieve the same thing? "Google Apps For Your Domain" is close, but apparently overkill for what I want since it seems to give you fresh GMail mailboxes for the domain email addresses, and I just want forwarding to existing accounts.
The Firefox Summit was fantastic. I met literally dozens of people I've worked with for years but never met face to face, and I had lots of fun. I'll probably write more about it soon.
Update! On the advice of an anonymous commenter, I tried using Google Apps For Your Domain, setting up one "email list" per firstname.lastname@example.com, each containing one recipient, the address I want to forward to. It works great! Email propagation time is reduced from 10-30+ minutes to about ten seconds, and I only have had to create one extra GMail account (firstname.lastname@example.com, the administrator). Thanks Anonymous (and Google)!


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