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Philadelphia, PA – "No room at the inn" is a quote that would apply when talking about the "Big Four" in men's tennis, but Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has not given up hope on reaching that elite club.
Crediting hard work over the last few months, the 27-year-old Tsonga has moved into his fourth Australian Open quarterfinal in six years and appears to be finding new motivation with top-flight coach Roger Rasheed, whom he employed starting back in October.
Tonga, who climbed to a career-high fifth in the world last February, revealed he is benefiting from the motivational energy emitted by his new Aussie mentor, Rasheed, who has coached the likes of fellow Aussie and former world No. 1 star Lleyton Hewitt and oft-injured but ultra-talented Gael Monfils, a French compatriot of Jo-Willy's.
"He's giving me extra motivation. It's great because he's always positive," Tsonga said of Rasheed. "He wants maybe more than me to win. He's incredible.
"I try to be at his level and have exactly the same motivation because I think he can move some mountains," joked the strapping 6-foot-2, 200-pound Le Mans native.
Note: The 43-year-old Rasheed is a former Australian rules football player as well as a former tennis player.
The currently eighth-ranked Tsonga reached his lone Grand Slam final in 2008, losing to current world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in four sets. And in the process, the flashy star took out a trio of top-10 players en route to the final, including 11-time major champ Rafael Nadal in the semis.
Tsonga's best rivalry on the tour happens to be with Djokovic. They've met 14 times, with the Serb winning nine of the meetings, including a 3-1 record for Djokovic at the Slams.
In addition to his typical fine play in Melbourne, Tsonga is also a two-time Wimbledon semifinalist (each of the last two years), a former U.S. Open quarterfinalist, and reached the quarters at the French Open for the first time last year. He also reached a final at the prestigious ATP World Tour Finals in London in 2011 and the quarters at last year's London Olympic Games.
"I'm practicing well," Tsonga said. "When you work hard and you're focused on what you're doing, I mean, you are obliged to improve again. Even if it takes time, for sure I will improve my game."
Tsonga's big game features a potent serve, a heavy forehand and exceptional touch at the net. You would categorize him as an offensive baseliner, but he's also able to mix his style by rushing the net, with very good results.
Jo-Willy is also one of the few remaining players to utilize serve-and- volley tactics ... but he's struggled to play consistently at important moments.
A seventh-seeded Tsonga is set to face the legendary Roger Federer in the Aussie quarters on Wednesday, and a nice upset would give him his fourth career victory against the Swiss master, who holds an 8-3 series advantage. The flashy Frenchman hasn't beaten the Fed since 2001, as the Swiss great has won their last four encounters, all at sexy tour events (the Tour Finals, the Paris Masters and the U.S. Open).
Note: When Tsonga beat fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the Aussie fourth round this week, it marked the first time in the Open Era that two Frenchmen ranked in the top 10 played each other at a Slam.
Could Tsonga be knockin' on the Grand Slam door? Rasheed's workin' on it.


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The Magic Bean
New Internationalist 353 Jan/Feb 2003
Food and farming / SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
When you gaze from the top of the Temple of the Giant Jaguar, 96 metres above the floor of Tikal, you look down upon the crowns of giant rainforest trees, the branches of which crack and snap as howler and spider monkeys leap and chatter. Had you been dropped here from afar, you might have been forgiven for thinking you gazed upon a wilderness.
The Petén rainforest of northern Guatemala is one of the world's hotspots for biological diversity, containing 200 species of mammals and 500 of birds. You would be right to be awed, but wrong about the wilderness. During the Mayan Golden Age, between 250 and 900 AD, the capital city, Tikal, supported a population of between 10,000 and 40,000 people.
Since the mystifying collapse of the Mayan civilization, people have farmed with slash-and-burn methods. Fields are cleared in the forest, cropped for a year or two and then abandoned as families move on to new sites. Over time, as population has increased and as others have come to log the forests, so farmers have had to reduce their fallow periods and thus returned to former fields too soon for natural fertility to have been restored. Both agriculture and the forest come under pressure - yields remain low or fall and the forest steadily disappears.
But on the edge of the Petén forest farmers are using a magic bean to improve their soils and to save the rainforest. The velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) spread to farmers when several Honduran and Guatemalan NGOs, in particular World Neighbors, Cosecha and Centro Maya, found that planting it between rows of maize substantially increased cereal yields. Mucuna can fix into the soil 150 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare annually - a free, natural fertilizer for farmers. For every hectare it also produces annually 50-100 tonnes of biomass, plant material that is allowed to fall on the soil as a green manure, suppressing weeds and helping to build the soil. In this bean lies the protection of the Petén rainforest. Build the health of the soil and farmers no longer want to burn trees to create new fields. It is, after all, difficult and dangerous work and farmers would love an alternative. An improvement to soil health changes the way that farmers think and act. They see the benefit of staying in the same place and of investing in the environment for the future.
Further west, along the border country of Guatemala and Mexico, lies the Usumacinta River. It is another area of extraordinary biodiversity. Inside the forest, this silent and eerie natural cathedral, the air is heavy with humidity and pierced with sunlight from the canopy far above. By some wonderful coincidence, this is the Cooperativa La Felicidad, or Happiness Co-operative. Here the whole community now grows mucuna in its fields and has begun a journey across a new frontier of thought - towards settled and sustainable agriculture.
I asked one farmer, Gabino Leiva, about the 'bean manure', as they call it. He said: 'The bean manure destroys the weeds, the beans simply kill them, and all the crops flourish much more. This is what we all need to do - manure our soil for increased production.'
It is technically easy. Improve the soils through low-cost, environmentally sound methods, and we can save the remaining rainforests and reclaim the land for the people who live there.
Fundamental principles
The conventional wisdom is that, in order to increase food supply to feed the hungry of the world, we need to redouble efforts to modernize agriculture. After all, it appears to have been successful. But there are major doubts about the capacity of such systems to produce the food where the poor and hungry people live, let alone to continue high levels of production in industrialized countries without harmful effects. Farmers worldwide need low-cost and readily available technologies to increase food production.
This is where sustainable agriculture comes in. A more sustainable farming seeks to make the best use of nature's goods and services while not damaging the environment. It does this by integrating natural processes such as nutrient cycling, nitrogen fixation, soil regeneration and natural enemies of pests into food-production processes. It also minimizes the use of non-renewable inputs that damage the environment or harm the health of farmers and consumers. It makes use of the knowledge and skills of farmers, thereby improving their self-reliance, and it seeks to make productive use of people's collective capacities to work together to solve common management problems, such as those associated with pests, watersheds, irrigation, forests or agricultural credit.
Sustainable agriculture functions in many different ways within landscapes and economies - it produces food and other goods jointly for farm families and markets, but it also contributes to a range of public goods, such as clean water, biodiversity, carbon sequestration in soils, groundwater recharge and flood protection.
As sustainable agriculture also seeks to make the best use of nature, so technologies and practices must be locally adapted. This is most likely to emerge from new types of social relations based on trust. Human abilities in the form of leadership, ingenuity, management skills and capacity to innovate are vital inputs for agricultural sustainability. Agricultural systems with high levels of social and human assets are more able to innovate in the face of uncertainty.
We looked at more than 200 projects in 52 countries. We calculate that almost nine million farmers are using sustainable-agriculture practices on about 29 million hectares, more than 98 per cent of which emerged in the 1990s. These methods are working particularly well for small farmers, as about half of those surveyed are in projects with an average of less than one hectare per farmer, and 90 per cent where farmers have less than two hectares.
We found improvements in food production are occurring through one or more of four different mechanisms.
The first involves intensifying a single component of the farm system, with little change to the rest of the farm. It might mean raising the productivity of home gardens with vegetables and/or tree crops, planting vegetables on rice bunds (embankments), the introduction of fish ponds or a dairy cow.
The second entails adding a new productive element to a farm system, such as fish or shrimps in paddy rice, or agroforestry (where trees are grown with crops as an important crop themselves), which boosts food production and/or income.
In the third, better use of nature increases total farm production. Examples of this might be water harvesting and irrigation scheduling or the reclamation of degraded land. These can lead to new dryland crops and increased supply of water for irrigated crops, allowing more intense cropping.
The fourth involves improving yields of staple crops by introducing new regenerative elements into farm systems, such as legumes or integrated pest management - or perhaps new locally appropriate crop varieties or animal breeds.
What is happening to food production? We found that sustainable agriculture has led to an average 93-per-cent increase in per-hectare food production. The relative yield increases are greater at lower yields, indicating greater benefits for poor farmers, and for those missed by the recent decades of modern agricultural development. The increases are quite remarkable, as most agriculturalists would be satisfied with any technology that could increase annual productivity by even one to two per cent.
It is worth emphasizing: these projects are seeing a close-to-doubling of productivity over several years - and this still underestimates the additional benefits of intensive food production in small patches of home gardens or fish ponds.
Changing whole systems
But what we are seeing is highly promising. There is also scope for additional confidence. The evidence indicates that productivity can grow over time: as people learn and share better techniques, there are stronger social structures supporting this kind of agriculture and the soil itself gradually gains in fertility.
The issue of asset accumulation is important. If agricultural systems are low in natural, social and human assets then a sudden switch to 'more sustainable' practices that rely on these very assets will not be immediately successful - or at least not as successful as they might be. But, given time, they do work.
In Cuba, for example, newly established urban organic gardens produced 4,000 tonnes of food in 1994. After just five years this had grown to more than 700,000 tonnes, partly because of an increase in numbers of gardens, but also because the productivity of those gardens has steadily risen over time.
Sustainable systems become more productive when human capacity increases, particularly in the form of farmers' capacity to innovate and adapt. Sustainable agriculture is not a concretely defined set of technologies, nor is it a simple model or package. It needs to be conceived of as a process for social learning. Lack of information on agro-ecology and the skills needed to manage complex farms is a major barrier.
We know much less about these resource-conserving technologies than we do about the use of external inputs in modernized systems. How farmers learn about technology alternatives is vital. If they are coerced then they may only adopt them for a limited period. But if the process is participatory and enhances farmers' ecological literacy, then the foundation for redesign and continuous innovation is laid.
As Roland Bunch and Gabino López put it, writing about central American agriculture: 'What needs to be made sustainable is the social process of collective innovation itself.'
Successes are still regrettably in the minority. But time is short and the challenge is simply enormous. We must now take seriously the opportunities offered by this revolution in agricultural and food systems. There is already promising evidence that it can work. We should ask: what would be achieved if we all realized another future was possible? The state of the world and its communities is at stake.
Sustainable agricultural and food systems can right many wrongs, but salvation will not come from these sources alone. Ultimately, if there is to be change centred on both individual transformations in thought and collective changes in action, then it is a question of politics and power.
When governments or policy-makers hesitate, those who believe in this vision will have to organize and show the strength that comes from collective will. Most people have something to gain by supporting a sustainable agricultural revolution. Some will feel they have too much to lose. Others will progress beyond the boundaries that limit our thinking about what is possible. There is nothing to suggest that only certain sorts of people are able to make such a transformation. Equally, there is nothing to say that everyone will.
This millennium offers all kinds of opportunities to make the future sustainable for life on earth. Putting the culture back into agri-culture, the wonder and magic back into nature, and connecting up food systems around agro-ecological, knowledge-based and community-oriented principles can, I believe, help in these wider transformations.
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3 charged in 2011 Jonathon Bacon murder all have gang ties
Three men with gang ties have been charged with first-degree murder for the August 2011 shooting death of Jonathon Bacon.
Bacon, a Red Scorpion gang member, was gunned down in a Porsche SUV outside of the Delta Okanagan resort alongside three other passengers.
Two of Bacon's associates, Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach, were wounded in the shootout, as was Leah Hadden-Watts, then 21, who was shot in the neck and left paralyzed.
Police say Bacon, Amaro and Riach were in Kelowna that weekend as part of crime alliance dubbed the "Wolf Pack."
Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, 25, Jason Thomas McBride, 37, and Michael Kerry Hunter Jones, 25, are now charged with first-degree murder. Each are also charged with four counts of attempted murder in the incident.
The announcement was made by members of B.C.'s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit at a press conference in Delta, B.C.
Khun-Khun is well known to police, and was the target of a gangland shooting in 2011. He was critically injured in a Surrey shooting as he picked up a gangster from their Surrey home. Khun-Khun was shot again last month, in an incident that saw gangster Manjinder Singh Hairan executed, police added.
The three accused were arrested last week in simultaneous raids across Canada. Khun-Khun was picked up at his home in Surrey, McBride was arrested in Toronto and Jones was arrested in Vancouver.
Sgt. Lindsay Houghton, spokesperson for the CFSEU, said more than 100 police officers contributed to the 18-month investigation, dubbed "E-Nitrogen."
Houghton said all of the men charged are linked to the late gangster Sukh Dhak, 28, a member of the Duhre crime group who was killed in a targeted attack with his bodyguard Thomas Mantel, 30, in Nov. 2012. Before his death police regularly warned that Dhak, who was on trial for drug trafficking, could be targeted by rivals following the fatal shooting of his brother outside of Metrotown Mall in 2010.
Duhre gang leader Sandip Duhre was gunned down in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Vancouver on Jan. 16, 2012.
Monday's arrests could usher in another spat of retaliation gun violence, said CFSEY Supt. Dan Malo.
"Whenever we disrupt the regular organized crime activities of these violent individuals there's always some flow that comes from that, and we need to with our police intelligence community pay particular attention to that," Malo said.


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However, it was too late to do anything. I went ahead and surprisingly, I could blend the whites into the batter quite easily. I was expecting the cake to fall flat like a piece of flatbread, but to my delight, it manage to rise and puff up upon baking :)
Apricot Tray Bake
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100g unsalted butter (softened at room temperature)
30g caster sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 egg whites
60g caster sugar
80g cake flour
40g + 30g ground almond (almond powder)
9 apricot halves (canned apricots)
some almond flakes
- Wash the canned apricots to remove the syrup, drain, pat dry with paper towel and set aside.
- Place butter in a mixing bowl, beat with a wooden spoon or a balloon whisk till smooth. Add the sugar and continue to beat until the mixture turns pale, light and fluffy.
- Gradually add in the egg yolks (a teaspoon at a time), whisking after each addition.
- Add in the vanilla extract, whisk to combine. Set aside.
- In a clean, dry mixing bowl, beat egg whites with a handheld electric mixer on low speed until mixture becomes frothy and foamy. Add half of the sugar and turn to high speed and beat the mixture. Continue to add in the remaining sugar and beat until the egg whites reaches the soft peak stage. The soft peak stage is reached when the peaks of the whites curl over and droop slightly. The egg whites should appear smooth and glossy.
- Add the beaten egg whites into the butter and egg yolk batter in 2 separate additions, each time folding gently with a spatula until just blended.
- Sieve over the flour and 40g of ground almond (almond powder). Fold with the spatula until just combined.
- Spoon half of the batter into a 18cm square pan (lined with parchment paper). Spread and smooth out the batter evenly. Arrange the apricots, cut side down.
- Add 30g of ground almond into the remaining batter. Fold with a spatula until just combined. Place batter into a piping bag (I used a plastic grocery bag). Snip off the tip of the piping bag and pipe the batter horizontally and vertically along the edges of the pan and in between the apricots. Sprinkle almond flakes on the surface of the piped batter.
- Bake in preheated oven at 180 degC for about 30-35mins or until the surface turns golden and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Remove from oven, leave to cool for about 5 mins. Unmould and transfer to wire rack, leave to cool completely.


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Power Drops
Today we define "cocktail" as just about any drink that contains alcohol. A very broad descriptor and not necessarily correct, at least in a classic sense.
Back when cocktails were first being written about, the early 1800s, the term was applied to drinks that contained a distilled spirit, water, sugar and bitters. There was usually an additional taste and that was citrus, and often, even today, the sugar is added in the form of a sweet spirit, maybe it was the base spirit, or maybe with a piece of fruit.
Yet, even in those early days, bitters were the "secret" ingredient. Just about everything else about a drink is well known and widely available. The alcohol was readily available and labeled. Citrus and fruits were as close as the nearest stand, cart or market. Bitters was where the drink's creator stood his (in those days it was nearly always a "him") ground, holding the true secret of the drink so it could not be replicated by just anyone.
Heaven forbid Tom, Dick or Harry comes along and does a drink as well as the bartender. If you think that attitude is silly, ask any chef to share the true recipes of their self-created specialties. Maybe yes, likely no.
And so the aromatic and flavor mysteries of a great cocktail were often wrapped up in the bitters. This was further proven by the fact that many early bartenders and saloon keepers made their own bitters, never revealing what exotic ingredients were present in the little bottles of magic elixir.
The definition of bitters, according to Imbibe Magazine, are "concentrated tinctures combining herbs, spices and botanicals, such as cardamom, aniseed and dried orange peel, their flavors typically (but not always) expressed in high-proof alcohol, with a bracing bitterness from gentian, quassia bark, dandelion or wormwood."
What the heck? Did you know that Angostura and Peychaud's, two of the world's leading brands of bitters, contain alcohol? About 45%. No wonder we love them so much. And no wonder the medical profession of the 1700 and 1800's used bitters to reduce headaches, settle the stomach, resolve body aches, and enliven a depressed mood. No wonder.
Bitters never cured anything but they made you feel better about having the condition.
These two brands of bitters are primarily made in the Caribbean and the Peychaud family is from New Orleans. On certain islands are the base ingredients of herbs, spices and flowers used in the manufacture of bitters. The precise recipes for these bitters are known to only a few.
The role of bitters in a drink is to excite you. Bitters are the equivalent of foreplay. They appeal to both olfactory and palate-feel. Carry that analogy as far as whatever makes you happy.
The use of bitters is always sparing. It does not take much to get the aromatics moving in a most delightful direction. And on the palate the herbs and floral characteristics offer you a layered effect, taking the limited dimensions of the other ingredients to new places. (Okay, it's about time now for you to get that sexual reference in the last paragraph off your mind.)
There are two categories of bitters, aromatic and citrus. Aromatic bitters work on that important sense, putting your nose in the proper mood to appreciate what your mouth is about to experience. Citrus bitters fell out of favor for many years in the past century, but are now making a major comeback, with modern cocktail writers, like Gary Regan, creating their own brands and featuring the pleasures of oranges, limes, and lemons.
New to the aromatic group is Dale DeGroff's Pimento Aromatic Bitters. Dale, a great friend of New Orleans and known throughout the (cocktail) world as King Cocktail, partnered with New Orleanian Ted Breaux, of Lucid Absinthe fame, to concoct this bitters at the historic Combier distillery in Saumur, France, in the Loire.
You ask, "why pimento?" Dale answers, "Locked in the heart of this single berry is the essence of cinnamon, ginger, clove, and nutmeg." I would simply have answered "why not?" but Dale is a much nicer guy than I.
Bitters today are enjoying a renaissance, much like the entire category of cocktails, and they are an important part of what is going on behind the bar. There are even cocktail aficionados who collect the many small-batch bitters being marketed today. And many lovers of cocktails even create their own bitters.
To my way of thinking that's having way too much time on your hands, but heck, I do enjoy a well-crafted cocktail with several drops of the right bitters, so maybe I should merely applaud, and quit being a smart-aleck.
Drops in Power
We need to do something. And it has to be everything in our power. The Saints are not looking good, and just as importantly, they are not making us feel good.
The free-fall has to end. Since darn few of us are willing to suit up, and I doubt if that would help in any way, we should do what we can to show the guys that the WhoDat Nation has not lost the faith.
One of the things you can do is to drink and eat things that are black and gold. You know, like we do at Carnival. A true New Orleanian is someone who thinks the colors of purple, green and gold look well together, and is willing to eat foods with those colors.
In this case, a true Saints fan knows how outstanding Black and Gold looks together, and we should be willing to drink something in those colors. Whiskey Blue in the W Hotel on Poydras (maybe on the way to the Dome Sunday?) has created The Saint.
In a rocks glass with ice:
1 ½ oz. Anejo Tequila
Slowly add 1 ¼ Black Sambuca
The two spirits will separate on their own. I don't know how. Specific gravity, I guess. Ask your science teacher. You will have a drink that is Black & Gold. It's going to make a difference the rest of the season.
Geaux Saints!


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March 29, 2009
Translate Gmail Messages
"Google will announce the next step in Gmail's evolution, a new product with a European multilingual angle on Monday. At an event in Brussels to mark Gmail's fifth birthday, Google will look at the impact of cloud computing on how people manage their daily tasks, review Gmail's evolution to date and announce the next step in its progression, the company wrote in an invitation."
Most likely, the new product is a Gmail Labs feature that lets you translate messages written in a foreign language. I've found the screenshot that will be used for the feature, which will probably be another great use of the Google Translate API.
Similar features that use Google Translate have been implemented in Google Reader, YouTube, Google Maps, Picasa Web Albums, but the future is a powerful client that translates pages on the fly.
Update: Gmail Labs is now available in 47 languages, but the translation feature hasn't been released.
14 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2009 at 4:16 PM
A neat little feature, but not one I would use often...ReplyDelete
I was hoping for something a bit better, even a GMail 3.0 or something big. This seems kinda "meh" to hold an event for, it seems like something Google would just roll out in a blog post...
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2009 at 5:40 PM
then you have to see what Joke on the 1st they try to pull... LOLReplyDelete
I think this feature are not sexy!ReplyDelete
This feature if rolled out, would assume the nature of a language translator, which would lead to communication between two people knowing different languages..ReplyDelete
Isn't this something we would like to have? It is just like I can communicate with any person in the world without the need to know his/her language..
I think, this would be a revolutionary tool...
> I was hoping for something a bit better, even a GMail 3.0 or something big. This seems kinda "meh" to hold an event for, it seems like something Google would just roll out in a blog post...ReplyDelete
Getting gmail out of beta would be a nice birthday present.. :P
I think it's about time they did this. Living in a foreign country as I do, it would be indispensable!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2009 at 6:33 AM
I have family members that don't speak English so this feature could be useful but I don't know if this is the feature I wanted.ReplyDelete
Live tweets from the event at http://twitter.com/tejindersingh:ReplyDelete
"Gmail labs being launched in 47 languages" (source)
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2009 at 8:06 AM
That it?ReplyDelete
Something that we can do when need it (me, once a year, if that) with one or two extra clicks on a regular translator? yawn.
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2009 at 2:26 AM
There is a long-term non-technological solution to the language problem - and that lies in wider use of Esperanto. Take a look at www.esperanto.netReplyDelete
Did this ever come out?ReplyDelete
Not yet, Seth.ReplyDelete


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ITV boss Michael Grade is forming a 'war cabinet' that will challenge the UK government's plans to sell off the analogue TV spectrum. Instead Grade wants the bandwidth to pipe terrestrial high definition TV content into millions of UK homes.
Grade has called for a meeting with members of the HD For All campaign to come up with a battle plan. HD For All comprises of leading broadcasters and consumer electronics companies. The aim is to challenge the government's planned spectrum sell-off, wresting it from the hands of UK mobile phone networks who are currently the most likely recipients.
"Retailers, manufacturers and rival broadcasters are determined to get the government and the regulator to understand ... the level of consumer anger they are going to face after analogue switchover when the public realise that they will be unable to receive their favourite channels in HD on Freeview on the HD-ready TV sets they are buying in their millions," Grade told the Sunday Telegraph .
UK public will be deprived for a generation
Grade has been joined in his criticism by Sony UK boss Steve Dowdle who said the government is "currently heading for a disastrous outcome that will deprive the majority of the UK public of HD for at least a generation if not more". His statement comes in an open letter to government culture secretary Tessa Jowell.
Dowdle also said that Freeview faces an inevitable demise and that the government will create "a two-tier TV society for the first time in our broadcasting history."
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A few months back, Late Model Racecraft of Houston, Texas showed us what it was like to go 231 mph in a twin-turbo, 1,500-hp Corvette. Now they're schooling us again, doing the quarter mile in 9.68 seconds at 147 mph. Great butter pecan, that's quick.
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T-Mobile announces Jump, an early upgrade program
T-Mobile will allow customers to pay $10 a month to get early upgrades to new devices twice a year.
NEW YORK -- T-Mobile announced a new device upgrade program for its no-contract customers Wednesday. The program allows these customers to get their hands on the latest and greatest phones at subsidized prices.
The upgrade program, called Jump, makes it easier for people to upgrade to new devices and pay a lower price instead of replacing their current devices at full price. To participate in the early upgrade program, customers will pay $10 a month. Customers can get their first upgrade after being enrolled in the program for six months. The company will then credit the remaining cost of the device. Enrollment will start this Sunday.
"Two years is too long to be locked into a phone," said T-Mobile's CEO John Legere."You should decide when you upgrade, not your wireless company."
The program also works as device insurance and includes protection against malfunction, damage, or theft. Legere said device insurance already costs between $8 and $12 a month, so the upgrade program is virtually free if you think of it that way.
Legere went on to say that the Jump program will finally allow people to upgrade their device when the screen cracks or they drop their phone in the toilet.
"If your phone malfunctions or it becomes possessed," he said. "If it's stolen or you drop it in the toilet or run it over with the car. Or if you just don't like it anymore, you are covered."
Legere pointed out that competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless are actually lengthening their upgrade cycles to 24 months.
"That's not what customers want," he said. "What will they do next? Extend it to 36 months?"
Earlier this year, T-Mobile announced new no-contract plans that require customers to buy devices at full price. Customers also can pay for devices in monthly installments. But if they leave the T-Mobile service, they must pay the full price of the device.
Some consumers complained that buying devices at full price made it more difficult to get newer devices. CNET first learned of this concept in March, when CEO John Legere said it was still an idea that the carrier was tossing around.
Family share plans with no-contract
T-Mobile also announced Wednesday a less expensive family plan for no-contract customers. Now a family of four can get a plan for $100 per month with unlimited talk and text messaging. Each member of the family on the plan can also get 500MB worth of wireless data at full speed. The big bonus for families is that there are not contracts or credit checks, said Mike Seivert, T-Mobile's chief marketing officer. That said, people will have to put down a deposit instead of the credit check to get the family plan. The deposit is the cost of one month of service, which is $100 for four people.
T-Mobile lights up more LTE markets
In addition to the new Jump early upgrade program and an expansion of the family plan, T-Mobile also announced it now has deployed 4G LTE service in 116 cities covering a total of 157 million people in the U.S. with the new faster speed service.
Neville Ray, T-Mobile's chief technology officer, said that company beat its midyear goal of reaching 100 million people with the service. By the end of the year, the company expects to have LTE available to 200 million people in the U.S. in 200 cities
Cities where 4G LTE is now available include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, and Miami. Ray also talked up the company's expansion using spectrum it got from its acquisition of MetroPCS. The deal closed in May and T-Mobile is already using spectrum in areas where MetroPCS had begun deploying its own LTE service. Specifically, he pointed to Las Vegas as an example of where the companies have combined spectrum for LTE service. And he claims the customer experience has greatly improved with faster speed service due to the added capacity.
"T-Mobile's network will get stronger and stronger, as we add more spectrum from MetroPCS," he said.
In an effort to give these new LTE markets better handset selection, T-Mobile also announced new LTE devices to its line up. It is adding the Windows Phone 8 Nokia Lumia 925 and it will be the exclusive carrier in the U.S. for the Xperia Z. The Xperia X debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. T-Mobile also said it will offer the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 users an LTE software update.
A key part of T-Mobile's strategy has been getting more of popular handsets on its network. After years of waiting, the company finally starting offering the iPhone.
Success not just about the iPhone
While there is no question that T-Mobile had to get the iPhone in order to stay competitive against the other three major wireless operators -- AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint--Legere said the company's recent success in reducing customer churn and attracting new customers is not only due to the iPhone.
He noted that iPhones have been 29 percent of sales -- or 39 percent in April, the month the device launched at the carrier -- but the device never became 50 percent of T-Mobile's base.
"The iPhone isn't everything," he said.
Legere noted that many people are leaving other carriers for T-Mobile. He took the opportunity to take a few shots at competitor AT&T and said that customers "fed up with AT&T" are leaving the company's service in droves and heading for T-Mobile. Another indication that customers are considering T-Mobile more than they have in the past is the fact that T-Mobile's store traffic has virtually doubled in the past couple of months.
"We're changing this business," Legere said. "We're going to redefine a stupid, broken, and arrogant industry."
Update, 2:13 p.m. PT: This story was updated with additional information and executive quotes from the press conference.
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C.1798-1865 Betsey Stockton was born into slavery, and emerged as a religious and academic pioneer. She was instrumental in bringing formal education to indigenous Hawaiians and Native Americans, and in establishing numerous schools. A Young Missionary Sets Sail Stockton was born sometime in 1798, into childhood slavery in Princeton, New Jersey. The identity of her
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Results of a new poll that shows sportsmen prioritize protecting public lands with support even as strong as that for gun rights really came as no surprise to Ken Theis.
"There is an awareness creeping into the ultraconservative community that has been supporting gun rights forever as they realize that if they don't start looking at the environmental conditions of habitat that the only reason to have firearms is for self-protection," said Theis, Utah coordinator for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
"We have destroyed a lot of habitat and hunting and fishing opportunities are diminishing as a result. It is encouraging to see an attitude that habitat matters."
The National Wildlife Federation last week released a national public opinion poll of 800 hunters and anglers that illustrates sportsmens' attitudes about public lands, conservation, global warming and habitat restitution for environmental disasters.
• Forty-seven percent said conservation is just as important as gun rights. Thirteen percent believe conservation is more important than gun rights.
• Fifty-nine percent believe global warming is occurring and two in three sportsmen believe there is a moral responsibility to confront global warming.
• Forty-nine percent feel protecting public lands should be given priority, even at the risk of limiting the amount of energy supplies such as oil, gas and coal. Thirty-four percent favor development of energy supplies even if public lands suffer.
• The largest numbers in the poll showed 81 percent of sportsmen believe British Petroleum should be fined the maximum amount allowable for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and that the funds should be used to restore fish and wildlife habitat along the Gulf and not for infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, ports and convention centers.
The poll was taken Aug. 27-Sept. 1 of self-identified hunters and anglers who are also registered voters. It has an error margin of 3.2 percent.
"Hunters and anglers are the original conservationists," said John Gale, Utah representative for the National Wildlife Federation. "They have an intimate level of understanding that when you take care of fishing and hunting habitat, hunting and fishing can largely take care of themselves."
Sportsmen, particularly hunters, tend to be classified on the conservative side and usually vote Republican; 42 percent of those polled said they were from that party.
"It is great to see political partisanship doesn't really play a role here," Gale said. "Hunters and anglers are putting conservation and public lands stewardship first, at least in this poll. They are increasingly upset about impacts on their opportunity to hunt and fish and the issues that threaten the future of hunting and fishing for their children."
Gale hopes the numbers in this poll will help more sportsmen get involved in efforts to protect the hunting and fishing heritage in North America.
After years of decline a recent survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showed a national increase in hunting (up 9 percent) and fishing (up 11 percent) from 2006 to 2011. Overall, 37 million Americans hunted or fish, or both and spent $90 billion doing it.
"Through shifting political winds, sportsmen have not flinched in their conservation values," Larry Schwiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, said in a prepared statement. "Candidates at all levels should answer this simple question: 'What's your plan for protecting our outdoor heritage for our children's future?' These are ethics that sustain America's wildlife, outdoor economy and healthy families."


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Samuraj Jack - watch tv series with matching subtitles.
In the distant past, a Japanese samurai embarks on a mission to defeat the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. Before he can complete his task, though, he is catapulted thousands of years into the future. He finds himself in a world where Aku now enjoys complete power over every living thing. Dubbing himself "Jack," he sets out on a new quest--to right the wrongs that have been done by his enemy and to find a way back to his own time so he can destroy the evil for good.


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Title: The Importance Of Atrial Fibrillations Associated Comorbidities as Clinical Presentation and Outcome Contributors
Credits: James A. Reiffel
Title: Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device Embolization (The LAAODE Study): Understanding the Timing and Clinical Consequences from a Worldwide Experience
Credits: Ghulam Murtaza, Mohit K. Turagam, Sharan P. Sharma,Tawseef Dar, Krishna Akella, Bharath Yarlagadda, Steffen Gloekler, Bernhard Meier, Jacqueline Saw, Jung-Sun Kim, Hong-EuyLim, Nietlispach Fabian, James Gabriels, Lucas V. Boersma, Martin J. Swaans, Mohmad Tantary, Sibghat Ullah,Apostolos Tzikas, Rakesh Gopinathannair, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy
Title: DynamicLate Activation Mapping in Heavily Scarred Left Atrium andPersistent Atrial Fibrillation; A Proof of Concept Case Report
Credits: Benjamin Mac Curtain, James Mannion, Santhosh David, Roger Byrne, Usama Boles
Title: The Link Between CHA2DS2-VASc Score and Thromboembolic Risk in Patients Without Known Atrial Fibrillation: Are We Missing a Silent Culprit?
Credits: Stephanie M. Kochav, M.D., James A. Reiffel, M.D
Title: Intra-Atrial Block: Definition and Relationship to Atrial Fibrillation and Other Adverse Outcomes
Credits: James A. Reiffel
Title: Propensity-Score Matching: Optimal, Adequate, or Incomplete?
Credits: James A. Reiffel, M.D.
Title: Complexities in the Atrial Fibrillation-Stroke Relationship: Improving Comprehension of Temporal Discordance, Magnitude Synergism, and Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation -- Three Sources of Consternation for Physicians Who Care for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Credits: James A. Reiffel, M.D.
Title: Clinical Impact of Saline Volume Infused Through Irrigated-Tip Ablation Catheter in Low Acuity Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Patients
Credits: Nagesh Chopra, MD, Anish K Amin, MD, Anand Gupta, MBBS, MPH, Eugene Y Fu, MD, Allan J Nichols, MD, Steven D Nelson, MD, James M Kleman, MD, Gregory A Kidwell, MD, Sreedhar R Billakanty, MD,
Title: Rate versus Rhythm Control in Patients with Normal to Mild Left Atrial Enlarge-ment: Insights from the AFFIRM Trial
Credits: Talal Alzahrani, MD, MPH1, James McCaffrey, MD1, Marco Mercader, MD, FACC, FHRS1, Allen Solomon, MD, FACC, FHRS1
Title: Management of Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Bleeding on Oral Anticoagulation Therapy-Role of Left Atrial Appendage Closure, Octreotide and More
Credits: Tawseef Dar1 MD, Bharat Yarlagadda MD1, James Vacek MD, Buddhadeb Dawn MD, FACC, FAHA, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy1MD, FACC, FHRS
Title: Surgical Closure of the Left Atrial Appendage: The Past, The Present, The Future
Credits: John J. Squiers, MD, James R. Edgerton, MD
Title: Ablation of Complex Fractionated Electrograms Improves Outcome in Very Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Credits: Claire Martin, James Curtain: Parag Gajendragadkar, David Begley, Simon Fynn, Andrew Grace, Patrick Heck, Munmohan Virdee, Sharad Agarwal
Title: Time To Revisit the Time in the Therapeutic Range
Credits: James A. Reiffel
Title: Screening for Atrial Fibrillation in a High Risk Population: Update on the REVEAL AF Study
Credits: Sergio Conti, James A. Reiffel, Bernard J. Gersh, Peter R. Kowey, Rolf Wachter, Jonathan L. Halperin, Rachelle E. Kaplon, Erika Pouliot and Atul Verma
Title: Impact of Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation on Pulmonary Vein Cross Sectional Area: Implications for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
Credits: Mohammad-Ali Jazayeri, Subba Reddy Vanga, Venkat Vuddanda, Mohit Turagam, Valay Parikh, Madhav Lavu, Sudharani Bommana, Donita Atkins, Jayanth Nath, Thomas Rosamond, James Vacek, Y. Madhu Reddy, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy
Title: Misleading Advertising by Attorneys Concerning NOACs is Adversely Costly to Our Patients and Our Society
Credits: James A. Reiffel
Title: Does the FDA Owe Us an Explanation?
Credits: James A. Reiffel
Title: Non-Invasive Estimation of Left Atrial Dominant Frequency in Atrial Fibrillation from Different Electrode Sites: Insight from Body Surface Potential Mapping
Credits: Marjan Bojarnejad, James R Blake, John Bourke, Ewan Shepherd, Alan Murray, Philip Langley
Title: Non-inducibility or termination as endpoints of atrial fibrillation ablation: What is the role?
Credits: Matthew Baker, Prabhat Kumar, James Hummel, Anil Gehi
Title: The New Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Dogma, Dilemmas, and Decisions on Dosing
Credits: Dr. James A. Reiffel, MD
Title: Age-dependent Impact of Fluoroscopic Radiation on the Gender of Off-spring: An International Survey of Cardiologists
Credits: Jayasree Pillarisetti MD, Sowjanya Duthuluru MD, Hari Sayana MD, Haley Goucher BA, Akshar Patel BA, Mazda Biria MD, James Vacek MD, Loren Berenbom MD, Sudharani Bommana M.Phil, Jayant Nath MD, Mark Wiley MD, Ajay Nangia MD, Luigi Di Biase MD, Andrea Natale MD, Madhuri Reddy MD, Buddhadeb Dawn, MD, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy MD
Title: The prevalence of low left atrial appendage emptying velocity and thrombus in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation on uninterrupted peri-procedural warfarin therapy
Credits: Neil Herring, Stephen P. Page, Mohammed Ahmed, Melanie R. Burg, Ross J. Hunter, Mark J. Earley, Simon C. Sporton, James D. Newton, Nikant K. Sabharwal, Saul G. Myerson, Yaver Bashir, Tim R Betts, Richard J. Schilling, Kim Rajappan
Title: Dronedarone: Where Does it Fit in the AF Therapeutic Armamentarium?
Credits: James A. Reiffel, MD
Title: The Use of Ranolazine in the Management of Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation After Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation. A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Credits: Angelo Biviano MD, Cristobal Goa MD, Sam Hanon MD, James Reiffel MD.
Title: The Concept of Burden in Atrial Fibrillation
Credits: Gregg F. Rosner, M.D., James A. Reiffel, M.D., Kathleen Hickey, R.N., EdD, FNP.
Title: Preoperative Statin Use is not Associated With a Reduced Risk of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery
Credits: Brian J Barnes, PharmD, Scott Solomon, MD, Patricia A Howard, PharmD, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, Jeffrey B Kramer, MD, Gregory F Muehlebach, MD, Emmanuel Daon, MD, George L Trip Zorn III, MD, James L Vacek, MD, MS
Title: The Power of One: a Highly Detailed, Log-Based, Case Example that Clearly Demonstrates the Effective Use of Ranolazine for the Control of Progressive Atrial Fibrillation.
Credits: James A. Reiffel MD
Title: The Conversion of Paroxysmal or Initial Onset Atrial Fibrillation with Oral Ranolazine: Implications for a New "Pill-In-Pocket" Approach in Structural Heart Disease
Credits: David K. Murdock, MD, James A Reiffel, MD, Jeff Kaliebe, MT, CCRC, German Larrain, MD
Title: An Update on the Energy Sources and Catheter Technology for the Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Credits: Pawan K. Arora MBBS, James C. Hansen MD, Adam D. Price MD, Josef Koblish, Boaz Avitall MD PhD, FHRS
Title: Dronedarone For Atrial Fibrillation: Unbridled Enthusiasm Or Just Another Small Step Forward?
Credits: James A. Reiffel M.D.
Title: The Utility of Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring for Detecting Silent Arrhythmias and Clarifying Symptom Mechanism in an Elderly Urban Population with Heart Failure and Hypertension: Clinical Implications
Credits: Kathleen T. Hickey, James Reiff el, Robert R. Sciacca, William Whang, Angelo Biviano, Mau-rita Baumeister, Carmen Castillo, Jyothi Talathothi, Hasan Garan
Title: Evolution of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation to Persistent or Permanent Atrial Fibrillation: Predictors of Progression
Credits: Jayasree Pillarisetti, Akshar Patel, Kenneth Boc, Sudharani Bommana, Youssef Sawers, Subbareddy Vanga, Hari Sayana, Warren Chen, Jayanth Nath, James Vacek, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy
Title: Esophageal Dilatation Post Gastric Banding and Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Case Report
Credits: Simon Townsend, Andrew James, Nicholas Daunt MBBS, Karen P. Phillips MBBS
Title: Scenes from a CFAE: Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrogram Map in a Woman with Longstanding Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Following Mechanical Mitral Valve Replacement
Credits: James C. Hansen, MD, Abraham G. Kocheril, MD, FACC, FACP
Title: Is Cryo A Better Energy Source Than Radiofrequency For AF Ablation In Preventing Esophageal Injury?
Credits: Pawan K. Arora MBBS, James C. Hansen MD, Rakesh Latchamsetty MD, Boaz Avitall MD PhD FHRS
Title: The A That Did Not Fib: Two Roads Both Traveled By
Credits: James C. Hansen, Abraham G. Kocheril
Title: Underutilization of Warfarin Therapy in Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Fear or False Sense of Security!
Credits: Mazda Biria MD, Ahmad Batrash MD, Jayasree Piallarisetti MD, James Vacek MD, Loren Berenbom MD, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD
Title: GIANT Flutter Waves in ECG Lead V1: a Marker of Pulmonary Hypertension
Credits: James A. Reiffel, MD
Title: QT Prolongation Following Ectopic Beats: Initial Data Regarding the Upper Limit of Normal with Possible Implications for Antiarrhythmic Therapy and Concealed (Unexpressed) Long QT
Credits: Alyssa J. Reiffel, James A. Reiffel
Title: The Anticoagulated Atrial Fibrillation Patient Who Requires Curative Therapy for Prostate Carcinoma: a Bleeding Conundrum
Credits: James A. Reiffel MD
Title: Skin Burn at the Site of Indifferent Electrode after Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of AV Node for Atrial Fibrillation.
Credits: Subba Reddy Vanga, MBBS, Mazda Biria MD, Loren Berenbom MD, James Vacek MD, Dhanunjaya R Lakkireddy, MD
Title: Rate versus Rhythm Control Pharmacotherapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Where are We in 2008?
Credits: James A. Reiffel, MD
Title: An Improved QT Correction Method for use in Atrial Fibrillation and a Comparison with the Assessment of QT in Sinus Rhythm.
Credits: Deepak Saluja, Jason A. Guyotte, James A.Reiffel
Affiliation: Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending Physician, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Campus, The New York Presbyterian Hospital; Director, Electrocardiography, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Staff Electrophysiologist, Division of Cardiology, Dept of Medicine.
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; and, Attending Physician [Emeritus] at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Section of Electrophysiology.
Affiliation: The Heart Hospital
Affiliation: Ujjwal Rastogi is currently the congestive heart failure fellow at the James J Peter VA Medical Center affiliated with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Saint Peters University Hospital, New Jersey.
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Battleship is fun, if fluffy entertainment, and it's hardly the works of Shakespeare. But what if a scene from Battleship was, in fact, penned by the Bard?
Yoni Brenner provided this Shakespearean parody, which actually functions as a pointed review of Battleship rather than straight satire. Instead of earnestly translating Battleship into iambic pentameter (which, would have been pretty funny in and of itself), Brenner uses the framework of a Shakespearean play to skewer the movie's ludicrous premise and distractingly recognizable actors:
Space robots? Art thou sure sweet Rihanna?
For yea, I cannot recall any such
Robots in the original board game.
Only a grid of numbers and letters,
And cheap plastic pegs with which for keeping score.
Thou rememberest correctly O Captain
But the gods at Hasbro hath recognized
Long ago that the Battleship brand
Couldst not survive on grids and pegs alone.
Hence the space robots.
I see thy logic.
What say'st thou Riggins from Friday Night Lights?
Pray let me defer to the True Blood Guy,
For alas, I have forgotten my lines.
I'm just waiting for someone to perform Shakespeare's Battleship in the park.
Excerpts from William Shakespeare's Battleship [McSweeney's via Neatorama]


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"In ColumbiaGrid, we now have the ability to resolve the three fundamental transmission questions: What transmission facilities should be built? Who should build them? Who should pay for them? With ColumbiaGrid's independent staff and process to resolve disputes, we can answer these questions effectively and in a timely fashion to facilitate our region's new resource development needs."
~~ Jeff Schlect, Manager, Transmission Services, Avista


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Amazing Grace
This devotional was written by Kelly McFadden "Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven--for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little." Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." —Luke 7:47-48
John Newton, the author of the hymn "Amazing Grace," found faith in Jesus onboard a ship as it was floundering in a storm. This was not just any ship; the ship he was on was a slave ship. In the mid 1700s, Newton's professional trade was the trafficking of human life.
Newton and his crew would sail from England to Africa where they would pick up men, women and children who had been captured in tribal raids. They would trade arms and other goods for the finest of the prisoners. They would then chain them to prevent suicides, and lay them below deck side by side. As many as 600 people were crammed together on the ship as it made its three week voyage. Due to the inhumane conditions, at times, up to 20% of those captured would die.
After becoming a Christian, Newton left the sea for good and became a priest. He then wrote this hymn. You have probably sung it before, but read these words carefully knowing now why he wrote them.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come.
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
God's mercy and grace drastically changed John Newton's life. He understood God's unconditional love better than most. When I read those words through the eyes of someone who truly realized he did not deserve grace, I am humbled. Too often I chalk up all the good things I have done and wait for what I think I deserve. However, according to the Scriptures, the truth of the matter is that I deserve judgment. And, I don't really want that! I am thankful for God's generosity and that He sent His one and only Son to die for us so that we would not get what we deserve, but His generous love instead. This is truly amazing grace!
Think of an experience in your life when God's grace was particularly apparent in your life. Thank God for His amazing grace!
Matthew 20:13-16; John 1:5-14; Ephesians 2:4-10
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Here are a few videos of Randy Komisar talking about Entrepreneurship. He wrote one of the best books I have ever read on business… "The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur"
Click Here is watch the rest of Randy Komisar's talk on Stanford's ecorner.
and here is Randy in a talk with Intuit's Bill Campbell (we do their intranet law resource center with Nolo :) and Fenwick's Gordy Davidson.
and here Randy is being interviewed for video podcast in Kleiner Perkins offices. Part 1 of 8.
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Experts from the offshore energy industry around the world came together 6-9 May for the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference at Reliant Park in Houston. Attendance at the conference reached a 30-year high of 104,800, the second highest in show history and up 17% from last year.
Attendance surpassed the 2012 total of 89,400 and the sold-out exhibition was the largest in show history at 652,185 ft², up from 641,350 ft² in 2012. The event had 2,728 companies representing 40 countries, including 244 new exhibitors in 2013. International companies made up 39% of exhibitors.
"We had a terrific conference with deep and broad technical coverage, supported by excellent panels and executive keynote presentations," said Steve Balint chairman of OTC. "Technology is at the heart of the offshore industry and it was all here on display at OTC 2013."
This year's event featured nine panel sessions, 29 executive keynote presentations at luncheons and breakfasts, and 298 technical papers. Speakers from major IOCs, NOCs, and independent operators presented their views on the current challenges and future directions of the industry.
OTC's Spotlight on New Technology recognized 15 technologies for their innovation in allowing the industry to produce offshore resources.
Governors (Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina) from the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition participated on a panel discussion on offshore energy development and the need for improved cooperation between the states and the Federal government.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell toured the exhibition floor and held a press conference where she discussed her commitment to work with industry leaders to ensure safe and environmentally responsible offshore oil and gas operations.
Energy ministers and national oil company senior executives participated on a panel where they shared their perspectives on how the industry and its partnership models should adjust to address future supply challenges and what role companies and governments should play to shape the energy future.
Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and his wife, the Crown Princess Mette-Marit attended the Annual OTC Dinner on Sunday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Norway's participation in OTC. The royal couple toured the exhibition floor where more than 60 Norwegian companies were part of Norwegian Pavilion on Monday.
More than 100 Houston-area classroom teachers and 200 students attended the Energy Education Institute where teachers learned how to teach scientific concepts of energy and its importance in a fun and exciting way. Participating students saw firsthand the exciting opportunities the oil and gas industry can offer.
The Annual OTC Dinner was attended by more than 1,000 industry leaders and conference attendees, and raised $250,000 for the Offshore Energy Center. OTC also presented its 2013 Distinguished Achievement Award to Ken Arnold; OTC Heritage Awards to James Brill and Dendy Sloan; and the Distinguished Achievement Award for Companies, Organizations, or Institutions to Total's Pazflor deep offshore development at the sold-out event on the floor of Reliant Stadium.
OTC 2014 takes place 5-8 May 2014 at Reliant Park.
Founded in 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference is the world's foremost event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection. OTC is held annually at Reliant Park in Houston. For more information, visit http://www.otcnet.org/2013.


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SDN startup Plexxi this week unveiled its products, which attempt to re-engineer data center networks for new applications and cloud traffic patterns.
The company's first two products -- Plexxi Control and Plexxi Switch 1 -- are designed to make network topologies more efficient and supportive of current workload needs for big data, mobility and service-oriented architectures. Plexxi Control is server-based software that computes connectivity to support workload needs. Plexxi Switch provides low-latency 10G and 40G Ethernet access connections, and interconnect with each other using the company's LightRail optical interface.
SPLINTERED: Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs
Plexxi Control has algorithms that provide network orchestration, management and control based on the needs of the workloads. The SDN controller uses distributed processing at the edge of the network for scale, and centralized knowledge for topology planning and optimization, Plexxi says.
The Plexxi Switch (below) uses high-density optical multiplexing to create single-tier programmable networks, the company says. The LightRail interconnect system provides 400Gbps of assignable core capacity per switch, scaling linearly with each switch to achieve 100Tbps in a 250-switch network, Plexxi claims.
The result is a system that creates a "workload-optimized" physical network that delivers what applications need when they need it, the company claims.
Plexxi, which has raised over $48 million, has plenty of company in software-defined networking. On the startup side, Big Switch Networks, PLUMgrid, Midokura and Embrane, among others, are attacking enterprise/data center SDNs from various angles; and among the established players, Cisco, VMware, HP, Juniper, IBM, Arista, Brocade, Extreme, Alcatel-Lucent, et al, have disclosed plans and partnerships for programmable networking in data centers, clouds and campus networks.
Plexxi calls its strategy Affinity Networking. The concept behind this is that physical and virtual servers, storage and networking devices need to be connected to each other as directly as possible, and that groups of these devices work together as part of an application workload -- exhibiting "affinity" to each other.
The Plexxi system then distributes network capabilities proportionally to these affinity groups rather than evenly to all such devices so that workloads are allocated what they need, and services are attributed to application needs, the company says. This helps guarantee service levels, Plexxi says.
Plexxi Switch 1 starts at $64,000 including all inter-switch optics and cabling; Plexxi Control starts at $5,000 per switch. Monthly pricing options are also available.
Plexxi said it will disclose its Affinity Networking application and API strategy early next year. Last summer, the company explained that the Plexxi devices will have software tools that include northbound and southbound interfaces for feeding network information to applications that can then manage the devices based on that information.
The southbound interface is not OpenFlow, but "OpenFlow-like," Plexxi said. This is because OpenFlow lacks all of the capabilities needed for Plexxi's controller-to-switch interaction, the company explained.
Plexxi said its northbound interface, for orchestration and automation, is intended to be open and published. Plexxi is working with other players in the compute, storage and analytics fields on the northbound API.
Plexxi's investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and Northbridge Venture Partners. The company, whose founders hail from companies such as C-Port, Arbor Networks and Acme Packet, is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.
Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 25 years, 21 at Network World. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy.


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Joe Simpson (Jessica's dad, duh) was arrested August 4 after taking a voluntary breathalyzer at a checkpoint on Ventura Blvd. He spent a night in jail and today was charged with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence. If convicted, he could face six months of jail time, a fine, and probation.
"He had had a couple of glasses of wine at dinner with his wife. They were driving home and he went through a check point a few blocks from the restaurant," a source close to Joe Simpson tells PEOPLE. "He took a breathalyzer voluntarily thinking nothing of it. He was surprised to know that he was over the limit. He learned a very important lesson from it all."
The only thing I can ever think about when I hear the name "Joe Simpson" is that time he rhapsodized about the magnificence of his daughter's gigantic teenage breasts. Remember that? Did I make that up? It was gross. [People]
Abby Elliott is leaving Saturday Night Live after four seasons. A second-generation SNL'er (her dad is Chris Elliott, in case you didn't know that AMAZING FACT), Elliott is maybe best known for impressions of Angelina Jolie and Zooey Deschanel. NBC has "no comment" on her departure. Here she is bein' quirky. [NYT]
Irrepressible flaxen-haired dicksack Dave Mustaine told an audience that he believes Barack Obama staged the recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin because he is "trying to pass a gun ban." YES. GREAT POINT. Mustaine continued, "I don't know where I'm gonna live if America keeps going the way it's going because it looks like it's turning into Nazi America." In closing, here is a really fantastic piece of writing about Dave Mustaine being a dicksack. [TMZ]
You guys! Blossom got in a car accident and her finger came off!!! I think I speak for all of us when I say, "WHOA." Seriously, this is awful. Actress Mayim Bialik was driving through the intersection of Hollywood and La Brea when she was involved in some sort of frightening vehicular kerfuffle. A spatial misunderstanding, if you will. A witness says there was "'tons and tons of blood everywhere' and that Bialik's 'finger was almost completely severed ... it was just hanging there'." Oh dear. Speedy recovery, MB! I shall be thinking positive, tissue-fusing thoughts about your endangered finger. :( [DailyMail]
- Fancy Hollywood hair stylist Ted Gibson is outraged about the criticisms of Gabby Douglas's hair: "I couldn't believe it and still can't. You have this young girl doing amazing things, and the conversation becomes about her hair? It was ridiculous and shameful." Then he...completely changed her hair so it's exactly how her hair critics wanted it to be. So. 'Kay. [Us]
- Britney Spears was "all smiles" today and wore a "peach knee-length top with the sleeves rolled" but was "not wearing the 4-carat round Neil Lane diamond given to her by her fiance Jason Trawick," says this article accompanied by a large photo of Spears not smiling, clad in a gray tank top, and very clearly wearing her gigantic engagement ring. GOOD JORNALIZMS GUYS. [E!]
- Michael Jackson's dad, Joe Jackson, has dropped his wrongful death lawsuit against wayward anesthesiologist Conrad Murray, "so he, his wife and children can focus on Michael Jackson's life instead of the circumstances of his death." [Yahoo!]
- Apparently Hollywood is getting "hot for fanfic." HOLLYWOOD. STOP. Get hot for something less terrible, like bee stings. Or gluten intolerance. I am literally begging you. [ONTD]
- Jimmy Kimmel is marrying his head writer and he proposed to her in Africa. [Yahoo!]
- Chad Ochocinco is super grateful to his fans for sticking with him even though he head-butted his wife and ruined her face: "I haven't had to tread water in a long time...special thank you to my fans...family...friends for keeping me afloat..." Yes. This must be very difficult. For you. And your intact face. [E!]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger is apparently going "all out" for the Expendables 2, and by "all out" he means his penis. [Express]
- "Victoria Beckham is comfortable in rollerskates." So quit spreading your disgusting lies. [Express]
- "It's also been nice being able to thrust food into my mouth." - Benedict Cumberbatch, on thrusting [Express]
- If it were legal I would marry this photo of Jennifer Garner hugging Victor Garber and weeping with joy—and I don't mean that in, like, a cutesy ha-ha fake-marriage kind of way. I mean that I would literally fuck it. [E!]
- Ryan Gosling coloring book. [E!]


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Neighbor*hoods (Zip Codes) pays homage to all the surrounding neighborhoods that make up America's Finest City. We do it with a clean and classic collegiate feel made famous in high schools and college back in the 60's and 70's. We coined the phrase "Your Friendly Neighborhood SDBX" back in 2009 and I expanded on that phrase.
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After six months since the last beta 1, the Aircrack-ng Team releases the second Beta of version 1.2.
It improve WEP cracking speed using PTW, fix WPA capture decryption when WMM is used, add running tests using 'make check', fix on Airbase-ng the Caffe Latte Attack for all clients, fix compilation with recent version of gcc, on cygwin and on Gentoo hardened and more.Read more for detailed changelog on Aircrack-NG 1.2 Beta 2 Released.
Yesterday Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a Open Source password-cracking for security auditing which supports Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, OpenVMS and also used and recommended combined with Aircrack-ng Suite for the creation/mangle the wordlist for dictionary or bruteforce attack using --stout.
Same the last release has been sponsored by Rapid7, a leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions.Read more about this on John The Ripper 1.8.0 Released.
hosted in Moscow at Digital October and is finished today.
Two days where they meet the elite of Russian Hackers, researchers around the World, Government, business representatives, information security experts, and students.
Well !!
BackTrack 5 R2 with new kernel has arrived today, and it's now available the fresh ISO image or upgrade for R1 version from BackTrack repositories.
Back|Track 5 R2 will provide a more stable and complete penetration testing environment than ever before.Read more about this on Back|Track 5 R2 Released.
FBI announced that it has successfully completed Operation Ghost Click, two year investigation of a criminal organization that operated from Estonia. The long-lived botnets made up of more than 4 million machines (bot) had been hijacked by the malware was dismantled by the FBI and Estonian Police in collaboration with a group of International Partners. Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8.Read more about this on Operation Ghost Click.
Hydra is a very fast (multi-threaded) network logon password brute forcing, similar to the famous Medusa Password Cracker.
It was tested to work on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris 11, FreeBSD 8.1 and OSX and supports a lot of services and protocols: TELNET, FTP, HTTP-GET, HTTP-HEAD, HTTPS-GET, HTTP-HEAD, HTTP-PROXY, LDAP2, LADP3, SMB, SMBNT, MS-SQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, REXEC, SOCKS5, VNC, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, PCNFS, ICQ, SAP/R3, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, SMTP-AUTH, SSH2, SNMP, CVS, Cisco . . . . .Read the release notes and more about THC-Hydra 7.2.
OclHashcat-plus is the GPU accelerated version of Hashcat password cracker.
OclHashcat-plus v0.06 is able to use up to 16 GPUs and is available in two versions: OpenCL (oclHashcat) and CUDA (cudaHashcat) and now also implement the WPA/WPA2 cracking using Aircrack-ng capture file.Read more about this on OclHashcat-plus support Aircrack-ng.
W3af is a free Open Sourcer GUI tool written in Python for Web Application Attack and Audit Framework.
This web vulnerability scanner is easy to use and extend, allowing the execution of more than 130 plug-in, check for SQL injection, cross site scripting (XSS) inclusion of local/remote files, and more.
Version 1.0 adds significant improvements of the framework, including: . . . . . .Read the release notes and more about w3af 1.0 stable.
FeedingBottle is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Aircrack-ng, similar in functionality to Spoon applications (SpoonWEP/SpoonWPA), the old GRIM WEPA and the most recent WiFite project.
This tool is included in Beini (GNU-Linux distribution) based on Tiny Core Linux and used to test the Security of Wireless Networks.
Some versions have already been packaged for various different distributions dedicated to Pentesting, which now are almost all based on Ubuntu, so I decided to create a Debian package for it, also compatible with other generic Debian based Distributions.More details, download, and installation procedure can be found on


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Online game developer Funcom revealed today that it's signed a deal with LEGO to make an online game based on LEGO Minifigures.
LEGO Minifigures, of course, are the little inhabitants of the LEGO universe: whether that is knights or policemen, Minifigures have been a LEGO mainstay for decades.
According to the release, "The massively multiplayer online game that Funcom will develop based on the LEGO Minifigures franchise will focus on maximum accessibility. Funcom and the LEGO Group will work together to make the game available to consumers in their online channels and will be coordinating activities to provide a broad and enhanced experience for the product line."
Back in 2010, game developer NetDevil released a LEGO MMO called LEGO Universe. The game's servers were shutdown earlier this year.
"The market for family-friendly online experiences intended for children and youngsters is brimming with potential," says Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. "Being able to work with a world-renowned brand such as the LEGO brand to develop an MMO for this audience is incredibly exciting to us as game developers and for Funcom as a company. This is source material we all know and love and we simply cannot wait to get started working with the LEGO Group on realizing this exciting project."
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Download Aural Trainer
For iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad®
This page provides dedicated guidance and technical support for Aural Trainer users. Assistance with the main functions of Aural Trainer is provided and common queries and technical problems are addressed, including a simple guide to operating the app, tips for specific exercises and answers to frequently asked questions.
If you cannot find the assistance you need here, please get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page, making sure to include all of the details requested.
If you have not yet downloaded Aural Trainer and would like to find out more about the app, return to the main page.
Refer to the following sections for instructions on operating the Aural Trainer app and brief summaries of how best to approach each exercise.
Go back to the previous menu.
Try some preparatory tasks to help you practise and improve.
Begin an exercise once you've read the introduction text and are ready to go.
Stop the audio playback.
Finish listening to the extract if you're ready to give an answer (for example, if you're trying the same question again).
Move on to the following part of the exercise.
Re-read the introduction to help you with the exercise. You can return to the question you've already started.
Return to the question you're answering.
Listen to your answer and reflect on how you've done.
Try Another
Start a different question in the same exercise.
Try Again
Restart the same question in the exercise.
Some tests provide different feedback tools for self-assessment:
Grade 1-3 Echoes
Hear the phrase followed by your echo.
Hear the phrase followed by your echo and the phrase together.
Grade 1-5 Melodic Repetition
Hear the melody followed by your response.
Grade 6-8 Melodic Repetition
Hear all parts followed by your response.
Hear the individual part followed by your response.
Grade 6-8 Sight-singing
Hear yourself with the accompaniment.
Hear yourself with the correct response.
Grade 8 Musical Features
Hear the extract with an exemplar text answer.
Hear your recorded response with an exemplar text answer.
We offer some useful advice below to enable you to make best use of each element of Aural Trainer.
Take a moment before starting and watch the instructions carefully during the exercise. The switch to either rhythm or pulse is displayed two bars before you need to change your response.
Start tapping within two bars of the piece starting to have a chance of getting all the beats correct. You can tap anywhere on the screen but try to stay on the same spot on the screen. Don't leap about too much.
Echoes and Melodic Repetition are not auto-assessed, but the exercises provide excellent tools to help self-assessment using a combination of useful feedback mechanisms.
Come in promptly to keep in time. In Echoes, the gap between the phrases is exactly the right length if you start and sing each phrase in time.
Press the blue button as soon as you hear the change. The extracts are very short so you need to press this very quickly to confirm you heard the change in the correct place.
At Grade 2 and Grade 3 practise with the preparatory tasks Change in pitch and Change in rhythm for a while, before moving on to Differences so that you can get used to the response buttons.
Sing confidently into the microphone of your device to ensure better pitch detection. Using headphones with a built-in microphone will reduce ambient noise and increase pitch detection reliability.
You can sing the notes at any octave but the app needs to identify which octave by analysing the first note you sing. If this first note is not recognised as a pitch (e.g. some background noise was recorded instead of a pitch) the remaining notes will not be detected.
The tuner is quite sensitive. Remember that if you disagree with the tuner (auto assessment) use the self-assessment tools to check for yourself. We are continuing to develop the quality of the Sight-singing tuner.
Use the preparatory tasks to warm up and approach the practice exercise.
At Grades 6-8 Sight-singing uses audio recording and synchronisation to let you hear yourself back with the accompaniment or with the correct response. Keep in time with the accompaniment when you sing so that you are able to review your pitch and rhythm more clearly.
The text phrases presented are not exhaustive and some are quite subjective. Over time you will begin to notice patterns in the description of different musical features. They are just suggestions – in an exam you may use any description that is appropriate.
Don't worry about trying questions again. The app is a trainer and is designed to encourage repeat attempts to help you develop your aural skills. It is not an exam application. If you are finding Musical Features difficult try listening to the extract once before attempting to respond to the features.
This is often a difficult exercise. The metronome click is there to help the app track the timing of your tapped response. Remember there is no metronome click in the exam.
We cannot, at this stage, confirm for definite when an Android release might be available or provide any further information about potential compatibility for specific devices.
Aural Trainer was built specifically as a mobile app. The design of the application and its exercises is founded on use of mobile and touch-screen technology, both of which enable the patterns of use and types of interaction required for this particular mode of learning. In many cases, mobile and tablet apps are unique strands of technology that are quite distinct from desktop and laptop software.
When identifying a change in rhythm the change to and from dotted rhythms can be a little ambiguous. For example, making an even rhythm dotted involves lengthening a note but also shortening another. The response expected by Aural Trainer is the one that best matches the 'feel' of the change in line with expected responses to be given in an exam.
There are a few possible reasons for Sight-singing misreading your sung notes.
You can sing the notes at any octave but the app needs to identify which octave by analysing the first note you sing. If this first note is not recognised as a pitch (e.g. some background noise was recorded instead of a pitch) the remaining notes will not be detected.
'Leaping' octaves can lead to incorrect feedback from the sight-singing exercises.
Ambient noise can affect the recording of any note. To reduce ambient noise problems:
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Updated: July 2016
1. Users with bluetooth speakers or bluetooth headphones may find that the app loses connection with these devices during or between exercises. Aural Trainer does not currently support audio playback via bluetooth speakers or bluetooth headphones. We are currently investigating the viability of supporting bluetooth playback but, due to the complex audio processes used within the app, we cannot guarantee whether or when this might be available.
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The Q Testament
Xulon Press, 2007 - 272 pages
Read all the words of Jesus in the New Testament in half the time! Draw closer to him! What is it? It's the QT - it's all about Jesus. It's all about him: from the Gospels to Revelations in one small book. It combines traditional red- letter sayings in your bible, and the Q Hypothesis, with minimal editorial summations. "Q" is a German word (Quelle), which means source. Jesus is the source! Critical scholars hypothesize that the oral sayings of Jesus: miracles, healings, preaching, parables, and ethical lessons, and so on, were first written down in a collection, before the discovery of the four Gospels. Furthermore, they postulate Mark is the oldest; Matthew and Luke used Mark as their source; and in addition to Mark-Matthew and Luke drew on the so-called Q document. KEY FEATURES Gospel introductions Tabulated genealogies Bullet highlights Sub-titles Brief summations Dr. Robert J. Gomes is a professor, author, ordained minister in the American Baptist Church, and a family man. He holds three degrees: BA, MA, and Doctorate in Ministry. Has earned the Masters in Religious Studies from Harvard University. Pastored rural and urban churches, and engaged in foreign missions in the West African Islands of Cape Verde. As an adjunct instructor at David Lipscomp University, Dr. Gomes taught: New Testament courses; bio-medical ethics; business ethics; and biblical ethics courses. Published and co-authored Special Words with his wife Linda, and has two un-published books at Harvard and Memphis Theological libraries: Religion and Politics in the African American context, and Religion and Culture in the American Cape Verdean Context. Dr. Gomes was a recipient of Harvard's Derek Bok Prize for a paper on Parting Ways: the Monument in the Making, and a Lilly Endowment Foundation Grant recipient.
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The Sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
The Sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew used Mark Q 47
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Frida Giannini, Gucci's creative director, described the Spring collection as being for "modern amazons; an intellectual tribe of exotic women, seen through an urban lens." What this translates to, apparently, is "tribal" detailing, equestrian styles, and lots of color.
The amount of handwork on these evening pieces was truly over-the-top.
The women of this "exotic, urban tribe" are apparently quite high-concept.
And girded for battle! Although these trousers are a gorgeous take on the shape.
And either not interested in walking or rather too interested in the upcoming Mr. Popper's Penguins.
The inticate work, paired with rich jewel-tones, was at times really spectacular.
This is one Bird of Paradise more suited to captivity than the real world.
This is gorgeous...
...but it's the back view that makes it!
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Kathmandu: A plane flying 19 people towards Mount Everest went down in flames on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital Friday, killing everyone on board including seven Britons and five Chinese, police said.The twin-propeller Sita Air plane had just taken off from Kathmandu and was headed to the town of Lukla, gateway to the world's highest mountain, when it plunged into the banks of a river near the city's airport around daybreak.
Witnesses described hearing the screams of passengers and seeing flames coming from one of the plane's wings moments before it hit the ground, while airport authorities said the pilot had reported hitting a bird shortly after take off.
"We could hear people inside the aircraft screaming, but we couldn't throw water at the plane to put out the fire because we were scared that the engines were about to explode," Tulasha Pokharel, a 26-year-old housewife who said she one of the first on the scene, told AFP.
Emergency workers lined up the 19 corpses — which included seven Nepalese along with the Britons and Chinese — near the smouldering wreckage as they picked through passengers' belongings to identify the dead.
The British group, the youngest of whom was 27 and the eldest 60, were travelling to the Khumbu area, their agency Sherpa Adventures told AFP, and they were due to go on a 16-day trek to three high passes and the Everest Base Camp.
A crowd of thousands quickly gathered around the riverbank less than a kilometre (half a mile) from the airport, with many shocked bystanders clutching prayer beads and wailing in anguish as they surveyed the devastation.
"The pilots seem to have tried to land it safely on the banks of the river but unfortunately the plane caught fire," police spokesman Binod Singh told AFP, adding that the accident occurred at around 6:30 am (0045 GMT).
Although the exact cause of the crash was still unclear, the manager of Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu said the pilot had reported hitting a bird moments before the crash.
"Immediately after the take-off, the air traffic controllers noticed the aircraft making unusual manoeuvres," Ratish Chandra Lal Suman told reporters.
"When the traffic controller asked the pilot about it, he said the plane had struck a bird," he added.
The crash was the sixth fatal air accident in Nepal in the last two years and it raises fresh questions about safety in the impoverished Himalayan country, home to challenging weather, treacherous landing strips and often lax safety standards.
Ninety-five lives have been lost in air accidents in the last two years, according to an AFP tally, with 15 people killed in the latest crash in May when an Agni Air plane carrying Indian pilgrims went down near northern Jomsom airport.
Six people made a miraculous escape from that accident, including a 30-year-old Danish traveller who survived with nothing more than a bruised leg.
"The record on aircraft flying hours is lax," said Toya Dahal, an air safety specialist with the Initiative for Aviation Safety in Nepal, a lobby group promoting air safety.
"Also, the airlines don't conduct routine maintenance," he added, explaining that they also take risks by flying planes during poor weather conditions.
He cast doubt on the idea that a bird strike had brought down the plane.
"This plane with double engines would have landed safely even after it was struck by a bird. If one engine is damaged, another engine can support the aircraft," he told AFP.
"It looks like the pilot, after noticing technical problems, took the best possible decision to force-land the plane."
The crash is the second disaster to hit mountaineers in Nepal this week at the start of the autumn climbing season, which is the peak time for visiting Nepal, which has eight of the world's 14 highest mountains.
On Sunday, at least eight people were killed in an avalanche on Mount Mansalu in northwest Nepal. The search for three other missing climbers was abandoned on Thursday.
The British embassy in Kathmandu and the foreign office in London confirmed that some of the dead on Friday were Britons but would neither confirm how many nor release their identities.
Nepal has a poor road network meaning that large numbers of tourists, pilgrims and professional climbers often rely on the country's 16 domestic airlines and 49 airports to reach remote areas.


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WWE.com has published an article looking back at Halloween Havoc, WCW's annual October pay-per-view event.
Former WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page remembers Halloween Havoc as one of WCW's biggest events, second only to Starrcade.
"All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc, it was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam," he tells WWE.com. "We held the last five Havocs in Las Vegas and the fans were electric. There were celebrities visiting us backstage. It was the closest we got to the feeling of today's SummerSlam without being at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles."
Page vividly recalls his Havoc confrontations with Eddie Guerrero in 1996, "Macho Man" Randy Savage in 1997 and Bill Goldberg in 1998. He feels his match with Goldberg was especially great.
"I challenge anyone to find a better match than me and Goldberg at Havoc '98," he says. "There are few matches that were as physical, exhausting and psychological as that one. I just remember us both hurting and visiting the chiropractor after that."
Halloween Havoc is often brought up among fans as one of the top events of the 1990s. Page attributes the "high-octane" matches and fan interest as the major factors in making it WCW's second biggest event of the year.
"It was a great show for everyone involved, fans and competitors alike," Page feels. "I say WWE should bring it back!"
The full article can be accessed here.