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This is one of those sci-fi interactions that seems simple when you view it, but then on analysis it turns out to be anything but. So set aside some time, this analysis will be one of the longer ones even broken into four parts.
The Eye of Agamotto is a medallion that (spoiler) contains the emerald Time Infinity Stone, held on by a braided leather strap. It is made of brass, about a hand's breadth across, in the shape of a stylized eye that is covered by the same mystical sigils seen on the rose window of the New York Sanctum, and the portal door from Kamar-Taj to the same.
We see the Eye used in three different places in the film, and in each place it works a little differently.
- The Tibet Mode
- The Hong Kong Modes
- The Dark Dimension Mode
The Tibet Mode
When the film begins, the Eye is under the protection of the Masters of the Mystic Arts in Kamar-Taj, where there's even a user manual. Unfortunately it's in mysticalese (or is it Tibetan? See comments) so we can't read it to understand what it says. But we do get a couple of full-screen shots. Are there any cryptanalysists in the readership who can decipher the text?
The power button
Strange opens the old tome and reads "First, open the eye of Agamotto." The instructions show him how to finger-tut a diamond shape with both hands and spread them apart. In response the lid of the eye opens, revealing a bright green glow within. At the same time the components of the sigil rotate around the eye until they become an upper and lower lid. The green glow of this "on state" persists as long as Strange is in time manipulation mode.
Once it's turned on, he puts the heels of his palms together, fingers splayed out, and turns them clockwise to create a mystical green circle in the air before him. At the same time two other, softer green bands spin around his forearm and elbow. Thrusting his right hand toward the circle while withdrawing his left hand behind the other, he transfers control of the circle to just his right hand, where it follows the position of his palm and the rotation of his wrist as if it was a saucer mystically glued there.
Then he can twist his wrist clockwise while letting his fingers close to a fist, and the object on which he focuses ages. When he does this to an apple, we see it with progressively more chomps out of it until it is a core that dries and shrivels. Twisting his wrist counter clockwise, the focused object reverses aging, becoming younger in staggered increments. With his middle finger upright, the object reverts to its "natural" age.
Pausing and playing
At one point he wants to stop practicing with the apple and try it on the tome whose pages were ripped out. He relaxes his right hand and the green saucer disappears, allowing him to manipulate it and a tome without changing their ages. To reinstate the saucer, he extends his fingers out and gives his hand a shake, and it fades back into place.
Tibet Mode Analysis: The best control type
The Eye has a lot of goodness to it. Time has long been mapped to circles in sun dials and clock faces, so the circle controls fit thematically quite well. The gestural components make similar sense. The direction of wrist twist coincides with the movement of clock hands, so it feels familiar. Also we naturally look at and point at objects of focus, so using the extended arm gesture combined with gaze monitoring fits the sense of control. Lastly, those bands and saucers look really cool, both mystical in pattern and vaguely technological with the screen-green glow.
Readers of the blog know that it rarely just ends after compliments. To discuss the more challenging aspects of this interaction with the Eye, it's useful to think of it as a gestural video scrubber for security footage, with the hand twist working like a jog wheel. Not familiar with that type of control? It's a specialized dial, often used by video editors to scroll back and forth over video footage, to find particular sequences or frames. Here's a quick show-and-tell by YouTube user BrainEatingZombie.
Is this the right kind of control?
There are other options to consider for the dial types of the Eye. What we see in the movie is a jog dial with hard stops, like you might use for an analogue volume control. The absolute position of the control maps to a point in a range of values. The wheel stops at the extents of the values: for volume controls, complete silence on one end and max volume at the other.
But another type is a shuttle wheel. This kind of dial has a resting position. You can turn it clockwise or counterclockwise, and when you let go, it will spring back to the resting position. While it is being turned, it enacts a change. The greater the turn, the faster the change. Like a variable fast-forward/reverse control. If we used this for a volume control: a small turn to the left means, "Keep lowering the volume a little bit as long as I hold the dial here." A larger turn to the left means, "Get quieter faster." In the case of the Eye, Strange could turn his hand a little to go back in time slowly, and fully to reverse quickly. This solves some mapping problems (discussed below) but raises new issues when the object just doesn't change that much across time, like the tome. Rewinding the tome, Strange would start slow, see no change, then gradually increase speed (with no feedback from the tome to know how fast he was going) and suddenly he'd fly way past a point of interest. If he was looking for just the state change, then we've wasted his time by requiring him to scroll to find it. If he's looking for details in the moment of change, the shuttle won't help him zoom in on that detail, either.
There are also free-spin jog wheels, which can specify absolute or relative values, but since Strange's wrist is not free-spinning, this is a nonstarter to consider. So I'll make the call and say what we see in the film, the jog dial, is the right kind of control.
So if a jog dial is the right type of dial, and you start thinking of the Eye in terms of it being a video scrubber, it's tackling a common enough problem: Scouring a variable range of data for things of interest. In fact, you can imagine that something like this is possible with sophisticated object recognition analyzing security footage.
- The investigator scrubs the video back in time to when the Mona Lisa, which since has gone missing, reappears on the wall.
- Show me what happened—across all cameras in Paris—to that priceless object…
- She points at the painting in the video.
- …there.
So, sure, we're not going to be manipulating time any…uh…time soon, but this pattern can extend beyond magic items a movie.
The scrubber metaphor brings us nearly all the issues we have to consider.
- What are the extents of the time frame?
- How are they mapped to gestures?
- What is the right display?
- What about the probabilistic nature of the future?
What are the extents of the time frame?
Think about the mapping issues here. Time goes forever in each direction. But the human wrist can only twist about 270 degrees: 90° pronation (thumb down) and 180° supination (thumb away from the body, or palm up). So how do you map the limited degrees of twist to unlimited time, especially considering that the "upright" hand is anchored to now?
The conceptually simplest mapping would be something like minutes-to-degree, where full pronation of the right hand would go back 90 minutes and full supination 2 hours into the future. (Noting the weirdness that the left hand would be more past-oriented and the right hand more future-oriented.) Let's call this controlled extents to distinguish it from auto-extents, discussed later.
What if -90/+180 minutes is not enough time to entail the object at hand? Or what if that's way too much time? The scale of those extents could be modified by a second gesture, such as the distance of the left hand from the right. So when the left hand was very far back, the extents might be -90/+180 years. When the left hand was touching the right, the extents might be -90/+180 milliseconds to find detail in very fast moving events. This kind-of backworlds the gestures seen in the film.
That's simple and quite powerful, but doesn't wholly fit the content for a couple of reasons. The first is that the time scales can vary so much between objects. Even -90/+180 years might be insufficient. What if Strange was scrubbing the timeline of a Yareta plant (which can live to be 3,000 years old) or a meteorite? Things exist in greatly differing time scales. To solve that you might just say OK, let's set the scale to accommodate geologic or astronomic time spans. But now to select meaningfully between the apple and the tome his hand must move mere nanometers and hard for Strange to get right. A logarithmic time scale to that slider control might help, but still only provides precision at the now end of the spectrum.
If you design a thing with arbitrary time mapping you also have to decide what to do when the object no longer exists prior to the time request. If Strange tried to turn the apple back 50 years, what would be shown? How would you help him elegantly focus on the beginning point of the apple and at the same time understand that the apple didn't exist 50 years ago?
So letting Strange control the extents arbitrarily is either very constrained or quite a bit more complicated than the movie shows.
Could the extents be automatically set per the focus?
Could the extents be set automatically at the beginning and end of the object in question? Those can be fuzzy concepts, but for the apple there are certainly points in time at which we say "definitely a bud and not a fruit" and "definitely inedible decayed biomass." So those could be its extents.
The extents for the tome are fuzzier. Its beginning might be when its blank vellum pages were bound and its cover decorated. But the future doesn't have as clean an endpoint. Pages can be torn out. The cover and binding could be removed for a while and the pages scattered, but then mostly brought together with other pages added and rebound. When does it stop being itself? What's its endpoint? Suddenly the Eye has to have a powerful and philosophically advanced AI just to reconcile Theseus' paradox for any object it was pointed at, to the satisfaction of the sorcerer using it and in the context in which it was being examined. Not simple and not in evidence.
Auto-extents could also get into very weird mapping. If an object were created last week, each single degree of right-hand-pronation would reverse time by about 2 hours; but if was fated to last a millennium, each single degree of right-hand-supination would advance time by about 5 years. And for the overwhelming bulk of that display, the book wouldn't change much at all, so the differences in the time mapping between the two would not be apparent to the user and could cause great confusion.
So setting extents automatically is not a simple answer either. But between the two, starting with the extents automatically saves him the work of finding the interesting bits. (Presuming we can solve that tricky end-point problem. Ideas?) Which takes us to the question of the best display, which I'll cover in the next post.


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Hulu Said to Receive At Least 3 Final Bids
The bidding war over Hulu is nearing completion, with three groups reportedly submitting final offers for the online video site.
DirecTV (NYSE:DTV) was one of the final bidders, according to several news reports. The Chernin Group, led by former president of the old News Corp., Peter Chernin, partnered with AT&T (NYSE:T) to submit an offer. Private equity firms Guggenheim Digital Media and KKR (NYSE:KKR) teamed up for a final bid as well.
Meanwhile, Time Warner Cable offered to buy just a stake in Hulu and join current owners 21st Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA), Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) and NBC parent Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA).
Spokespeople for Hulu, Time Warner Cable, Guggenheim Digital Media and KKR declined to comment. DirecTV, AT&T and The Chernin Group didn't respond to requests for comment.
The price for Hulu remains unclear, but earlier reports said bids were at least meeting the site's $1 billion asking price.
Hulu is said to be eyeing a decision within the next two weeks. A definitive agreement to sell the streaming video provider would include plans for the current owners to continue licensing their content to Hulu.
The site has garnered interest from companies in a variety of industries, from pay-TV to mobile.
Time Warner Cable and DirecTV, the second-largest pay-TV operator in the U.S., could be interested in Hulu to help expand its subscriber base and digital offerings. Many subscribers to the Hulu Plus premium service, which has about four million subscribers who pay $7.99 a month, use the site as a lower-cost alternative to cable or satellite television packages.
Hulu offers a limited free service on computers, while Hulu Plus gives users access to more content on various devices.
DirecTV's satellite TV rival Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) recently partnered with Slingbox, which makes a set-top box that streams home video content over the Internet, to offer its customers the ability to access their television packages on the Web and mobile devices.
Los Angeles-based Hulu was previously put on the block in 2011. The site is up for sale again amid disagreements between the owners over how to generate revenue. 21st Century Fox is said to prefer paid subscriptions for Hulu, while Disney has pushed for free video streaming and generating revenue from ads.
According to Hulu's website, it generated $700 million in revenue last year, including advertising sales.
Disney and News Corp. each currently own about one-third of Hulu. Comcast owns most of the remaining third but had to give up control after acquiring NBC Universal.
Shares of DirecTV were down 7 cents at $63.39 in late morning trading. AT&T was up 14 cents at $35.72, KKR ticked up four cents to $19.98 and Time Warner Cable rose $2.49, or 2.2%, to $114.49.

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Second Try: LanzaTech Grabs Failed Biofuel Refinery in Georgia Pine
A new chapter begins in the effort to brew advanced biofuel in the "Million Pines City" of Soperton, Georgia, with a startup's purchase of a failed U.S. government-backed biorefinery.
The sandy soils of central Georgia nurture growth of bunchy wiregrass and longleaf pine. Here between the blackwater Ohoopee and Oconee rivers, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta, a fortune has been sunk in hope of converting the abundant local biomass into fuel.
One of the more spectacular failures in the renewable energy industry—the Range Fuels collapse—played out here. Less renowned than the bankruptcy of Solyndra last September, Range's failure that same month similarly involved the loss of millions of dollars in U.S. government funds and private investment, all wagered on an innovation that promised to propel an old technology to an exciting new level.
(Related Quiz: What You Don't Know About Biofuel)
But where bankruptcy seems to have spelled the end for Solyndra and that California solar company's technology, a new chapter is now being written in the effort to brew advanced biofuel in the "Million Pines City" of Soperton, Georgia.
Earlier this month, a New Zealand-based carbon-capture and energy startup called LanzaTech bought Range Fuels' idle biorefinery in a foreclosure auction for just $5.1 million. That's a bargain basement price, considering the money that Range Fuels had attracted from private investors and from both the Bush and Obama administrations for its cellulosic ethanol plant here: more than $160 million in venture capital, a $76 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2007, a $6.25 million grant from Georgia in 2008, and an $80 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2009.
(Related: "Storage, Biofuel Lead $156 Million in Energy Research Grants")
LanzaTech says it has a business plan and technology that can coax success out of the Range Fuels plant. And one of the primary backers of LanzaTech's efforts here is the same venture capitalist who helped bankroll and promote Range, technology investor Vinod Khosla. It's now up to LanzaTech to see if it can turn the promise of Soperton into a real success for advanced biofuels and investors like Khosla.
High Hopes for Cellulosic
Producing ethanol from cellulosic plant sources has been seen as the Holy Grail of the renewable fuel industry. The U.S. corn belt may have perfected the art of fermenting its crop to produce fuel alcohol, but controversy abounds over the water use, the energy input for cultivating corn, and the limits and long-term viability of turning an edible product into fuel. That's why President George Bush, in his 2006 State of the Union address, pledged to fund research to commercialize ethanol from non-edible plant material by 2012. Cellulosic ethanol companies also were in the first wave of alternative energy technologies backed by President Obama.
Although cellulosic ethanol can be produced in the laboratory and at pilot scale, the genetically engineered enzymes or heat needed to break down the plant material into sugars is expensive. Not a single company has succeeded in scaling up commercial cellulosic ethanol production in the United States six years after President Bush's vow.
Oil companies in fact were fined $6.8 million in 2011 for failure to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's requirement that 6.6 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol be blended into gasoline and diesel last year. Indeed, that target marked a dramatic scaling back of the goal Congress set in 2007. Lawmakers originally envisioned that 250 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel would be helping to fuel U.S. vehicles by 2011. Although that goal proved overly ambitious (in part because Range Fuels failed to meet production estimates), it would have displaced only a small fraction of oil dependence in a nation that burned 8.8 million barrels, or 370 million gallons, of motor gasoline per day in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
(Related: "Ethanol Future Looking For More Fuel")
If things had gone as planned when Congress was setting cellulosic ethanol goals, a large volume of that advanced biofuel would have been produced in Soperton, the only incorporated town in Treutlen County, Georgia.
Range Fuels (formerly called Kergy, Inc.), of Broomfield, Colorado, set out to establish a biorefinery here that would produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. There would be plenty of feedstock in the "Million Pines City," named after a local plantation where, in the late 1920s, a cotton farmer pioneered the cultivation of pine trees as a crop. Today, pine tree plantations dominate the landscape, and forestry makes up some 80 percent of all land use.
Range had a two-step process. First, it would use heat, pressure, and steam to produce synthetic gas from biomass. Step two would be converting the gas to ethanol using chemical catalysts.
Construction began in an industrial park here in November 2007, but by 2009 Range Fuels had fallen behind and dramatically reined in production goals. In August 2010, the company squeezed out its first batch of methanol, a wood alcohol fuel used in racing and some industrial applications. (Range Fuels said at the time that its methanol would be used to produce biodiesel.) But the facility ran into technical problems with the gasifiers and the system for feeding in biomass, and it never did produce any cellulosic ethanol that would substitute for the corn ethanol now used in cars and trucks.
Range Fuels closed the plant in January 2010, and filed for bankruptcy in September 2011. At the time of its failure, it had received only half of its expected federal grant and loan guarantee monies, amounting to a loss of more than $85 million in public funds. The USDA required the foreclosure sale this month to recoup some of its losses. "LanzaTech is just looking to capitalize on a bargain, really," said Andrew Soare, an alternative fuels analyst with the research firm Lux Research.
The fact that Range Fuels and LanzaTech share a lead investor—Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures—has raised eyebrows because LanzaTech bought the Soperton site for a fraction of the amount spent developing the facility. And both companies have talked about big dreams for the site. "Right now the equipment is sized on the order of 4 million gallons," LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren said in an interview. "But, you know, some day I'd like to build bigger units there. It's a lot of land. It's a lot of wood residue. That site's really not meant for a little facility. I can imagine making 100 million gallons of fuel there," perhaps within five years.
A New Approach
However, the companies differ when it comes down to the process for transforming the biomass of Treutlen County, bordered by the Ohoopee and Oconee rivers, two tributaries of the mighty Altamaha. LanzaTech, which has named the old Range Fuels site Freedom Pines Biorefinery, plans to use a gasifier to produce synthetic gas from biomass. That much is the same. But while Range Fuels planned to use chemical catalysts for the next step, LanzaTech's technology uses microbes (specialized through genetic modification and arrested evolution) to ferment the syngas.
At Freedom Pines, LanzaTech intends to initially produce chemicals such as butanol and propanol, rather than ethanol, which sells in high volume but is a product that results in a relatively low profit margin, Soare said. This is new ground for LanzaTech. Since its founding in 2005, LanzaTech has concentrated its efforts mainly on capturing carbon monoxide from industrial flues, and using its proprietary microbes to convert the gas into ethanol fuel.
"Our organism gets carbon and energy from a carbon monoxide molecule," Holmgren said. "One of the best places to find carbon monoxide is in steel mills," where the gas would normally be flared and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. And one of the best places to find steel mills, she added, is China, which produces about half the world's steel.
In Shanghai, LanzaTech recently started up a 100,000-gallon-per-year demo with Bao Steel. Speaking in a phone call from New Zealand, where 50 of LanzaTech's 85 employees are based, Holmgren said LanzaTech's first commercial facility would most likely be in China, with construction beginning as early as next year. LanzaTech also has industrial partners in India, where it's using municipal solid waste as a feedstock. And in partnership with Virgin Atlantic, Swedish Biofuels, Boeing, and others, LanzaTech has also begun developing a renewable jet fuel using its microbe-based carbon-capture system.
(Related: "As Jet Fuel Prices Soar, A Green Option Nears the Runway" and "First Green Supersonic Jet to Launch")
LanzaTech's acquisition of the Soperton facility will give the company a new measure of independence, according to Holmgren. "Imagine our situation," she said. "We're very excited about our work in the chemicals area, but the demos and commercial facilities are controlled by partners. And so we would have to ask them for permission. We would have to come to an agreement," to begin proving LanzaTech's technology for biochemical production at any significant scale. "Why would somebody operating this big ethanol plant care about us showing our technology or doing all the process that's required to deliver a chemicals play, right? We feel that as a company, we need to have the ability to control the larger asset."
It's a Gas
At the Freedom Pines Biorefinery, LanzaTech will be tackling a whole new process: the gasification step, which was such a headache for Range Fuels. Through its steel mill partners, Soare said, LanzaTech has "access to free feedstock. So it's surprising to see them go after this. But in the context of how cheap it was, it did make sense."
LanzaTech plans to try fixing the Range Fuels gasifier. If that fails, Holmgren said, LanzaTech will bring in a new gasifier from a partner. As Soare put it, "They're not a gasification company. If they can't get the gasifier to work, they'll move on." Soare expects that LanzaTech will spend no more than a few million dollars working on the old gasifier.
Either way, moving into chemicals production strikes Soare as a shrewd strategy that could position LanzaTech for some lucrative deals down the road. "Syngas to ethanol is a very challenging step," he said. About a dozen companies are working on syngas to ethanol globally, and a few dozen are working on cellulosic ethanol generally. "If gasification companies are unsuccessful, like Range, and if LanzaTech shows its organism works, there could be licensing or acquisition opportunities. Competitors will likely look to LanzaTech to help them switch to chemical production if LanzaTech can demonstrate its technology works at the Soperton plant."
As for the U.S. government's hopes for cellulosic ethanol to enter the fuel market this year, the EPA's analysis is that there are six U.S. companies—each with a differing technology—that could produce the advanced biofuel in 2012. Therefore, the EPA set a goal of blending 8.65 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol into motor fuel this year, over objections from the oil industry that technology wasn't available for producing that volume. The EPA said the goal was important to ensure a viable market for cellulosic ethanol, and the growth of the industry as Congress intended.
At this point, not a drop is expected to come from Range Fuels' former biorefinery, which the EPA had projected would contribute 1 million gallons of cellulosic fuel to the U.S. energy mix in 2011. The agency is counting on no fuel production at Soperton in 2012.
(Related: "Brazil Ethanol Looks to Sweeten More Gas Tanks")
This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge.


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In this interview, Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation's Michel Bauwens talk to David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work developing a multinational worker cooperative, Las Indias, that is a culmination of his community's thinking and work for the last decade. Las Indias is the manifestation of a unique socio-economic philosophy that synthesizes many strains of thinking and culture including cyberpunk, anarchism, network thinking, and cooperatives – all with a Spanish twist. It's important because it points to a possible future for those who think outside of national boundaries and desire or need to take control of their own economic destiny. It's a possible future that takes the centuries old logic of cooperatives and remixes it for the urban-centered, global network society we live in today.
Michel Bauwens: Explain to us what Las Indias is, and where it comes from, and what makes it distinctive?
[image_1_small_right]David de Ugarte: Las Indias is the result of the Spanish-speaking cyberpunk movement. Originally a civil rights group, during the late 90s it became strongly influenced by Juan Urrutia's "Economics of Abundance" theory. Very soon, we linked "abundance" with the idea of empowerment in distributed networks. We are very clear on this point: it is not the Internet by itself, it is the distributed P2P architecture that allows the new commons. As one of our old slogans put it: "Under every informational architechture lays a structure of power." Re-centralizing structures – as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Megaupload, etc. do around their servers – weakens us all. The blogosphere, torrents, freenet, etc. are tools of empowerment.
Cyberpunk was mainly a conversational / cyberactivist virtual community. It became transnational quickly and contributed some very good discussions and theories that helped us understand the social impact and possibilities of distributed networks.
But in 2002 three of us founded Las Indias Society, a consultancy firm focused on innovation and networks dedicated to empowering people and organizations. Our experience soon became very important in understanding the opposition between "real" and "imagined" communities, and the organizational bases for an economic democracy. After the cyberpunk dissolution in 2007, the "Montevideo Declaration" openly stated that our objective will be to construct a "phyle," a transnational economic democracy, in order to ensure the autonomy of our community and it members.
Now, we define ourselves around five main values:
Distributed network architectures as a way of generating abundance, empowerment, and to ensure the widest plurarchy – the maximum of individual liberties – for the members of our community.
Transnationality (which means a rejection of national identities as well as universalism) as a consequence of putting the real community of persons who live and work in Las Indias at the center of our work
Economic democracy as the way to build personal and community autonomy through the market
Hacker ethics as a way to foster community knowledge generation, common deliberation, personal passion, and a collective pleasure in learning
- Devolutionism: all our production of knowledge – books, software, contents, even recipes – is returned to the commons, generating more abundance
[image_2_small]Neal Gorenflo: What is the vision of Las Indias? What would the classic, most developed form be in the future? What are you after in terms of how it can transform individuals, interpersonal relationships, and the world?
Our vision is not a universalist one. We don't proselytize and we really believe that diversity is a desirable consequence of freedom.
But we have a vision for us – the phyle – and a wish: to see the birth of a wider, transnational space of economic democracies. We imagine networks of phyles generating wealth, social cohesion, and ensuring liberties for real people rather than the governments' power and their borders and passports.
We are not naive nor utopian. Distributed networks gave our generation the opportunity to build a new world. But this new world, based on the commons, communities, economic democracy and distributed networks isn't complete at birth. And the old world, based on the artificial generation of scarcity, corporations, inequality, and centralized networks isn't dead.
It is very symptomatic that European crisis manifests as a debt crisis. Governments are suffocating society in order to feed privileged groups – big corporations, some sectors dependent of public money – who have captured state rents or ensured it through monopolistic law. So, the main objective and the main vision now is to stop these decomposing forces in our environments.
[image_4_small_right]MB: How does Las Indias work internally? How is it funded?
There are different levels of engagement and commitment. As a phyle we are really a network. In the periphery there are individual entrepreneurs with their initiatives. In the core there are the associated cooperatives, and at that core. the indianos.
We differentiate between the community (the core of the phyle) and the Cooperative Group.
Indianos are communities that are similar to kibbutzim (no individual savings, collective and democratic control of their own coops, etc.). But there are some important differences like the lack of a shared national or religious ideology, being distributed throughout cities rather than concentrated in a compound, and not submitting to an economic rationality.
[image_3_small]John Robb: What kind of coops are in the Las Indias network? What are the synergies between the cooperatives?
At this moment we have four coops: Las Indias (a consultancy dedicated to innovation and network analysis); El Arte (a product-lab where we develop products from books to beer to software); Fondaki (global and strategic intelligence for small businesses) and Gaman (educational tools and campaigns).
All of them are expressions of our members' different passions that answer different needs of our community and environment.
MB: How do you position yourself vis-a-vis the current global capitalist system? What alternative are you proposing?
We think cooperatives and economic democracy (a rent-free market society), hand in hand with a liberated commons as the alternative to capitalism can be made possible through distributed networks.
But we are economic democrats, so we don't want the state to provide the alternative to crony-capitalism and accumulation. Indeed, we think it can't. We have to build it by ourselves, and demand the state to remove the obstacles (as IP, contracts for big politically connected corporations, etc.) that protects privileged groups' rents from competition in the market.
The alternative will not be build through government regulations, but inside our own networks. It will not defeat the corporate organization through courts or elections, but through competition.
NG: We live in a world saturated in corporate media. How do you maintain a culture of cooperation at Las Indias in the face of this onslaught of atomizing, consumerist messages? What spiritual or cultural practices and artifacts can you point to that are especially helpful?
All of us spent many years sharing small apartments downtown, walking or going to work by bus, working in bad jobs through school and after finishing our degrees. It is not a particular condition, it is the reality of the job market in Spain, Portugal and, many Latin American countries for a wide group of middle class children of our generation.
The result of this experience for many people was a particular culture that mixed a lot of inmaterial, cultural consumption – some of it provided free by the state – with a reduced access to consumerism compared to older people.
In 1996 I was 26 finishing a degree in economics in Madrid. I worked in a call center earning 450€ a month working eight hours a day from four to midnight. I spent 300€ on the rent, around 100€ for food, electricity, telephone and public transport and 48€ on an Internet connection. As you can imagine, my "leisure" time was spent around the public library, museums, the public filmotheca (60 cents for a ticket to a classic movie), at cheap potluck dinners and, of course, online.
My experience was not extraordinary at all, and it's even more common now.
This mode of cultural consumption based on public cultural goods, cheap second-hand or popular edition books and "cocooning," the P2P world made sense in our everyday culture.
So, some years later our incomes increased, we earned autonomy, but for us a good living still means good broadband, access to cultural works, good museums, and good meals in comfortable but not very expensive flats downtown.. None of us has a car or has bought a house.
But please don't get confused. We don't make of austerity a cult. We simply have a different culture, we enjoy different things. None of us has a TV neither, but many of us have projectors for watching videos off the Internet.
NG: In Spain, you're often associated with the cyberpunk movement, which was born in the US in the early 80s. How has cyberpunk influenced you and Las Indias? And how is cyberpunk relevant today?
Cyberpunk activism was strongly influenced by cyberpunk literature. Even today classic cyberpunk works like Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net or Green Days in Brunei and post-cyberpunk like Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age provide models for discussing subjects we think are important at this moment: distributed vs centralized networks, economic democracy vs corporate power, etc.
Cyberpunk taught us to discuss in a mode outside the political tradition: not around theses and programs, but around models and myths, where auto-criticism and irony were easier and dogmatism almost impossible.
MB: For me, some of the most innovative concepts in the Las Indias books were the concepts of phyles and neo-venetianism. What do these mean?
Phyle is a community that develops an economic structure based in economic democracy in order to ensure its own autonomy. The order of the terms is important: phyle is a community with firms, not a community of firms, nor a community of people who own some firms. The firms are tools for the autonomy of the community, a mean, not and end, and are always less important than the needs of community members.
Neovenetianism is the ideology of those who see phyle-making as the natural evolution of their communities in order to make its conversation, its deliberation, autonomous of the political or economic decomposition of the states and the markets they live in.
Virtual communities are by nature transnational. If they have borders, these are the borders of language. A few days ago I saw a Tweet saying "When the Canadian border crossing guards asked me where I was from, I was really tempted to say 'the internet.'" Many people feel like that Twitter. But that causes a kind of schizophrenia: their life becomes divided in two, the virtual life and the working life. Phyles reunify our lives around our intentional virtual community.
MB: What do the new concepts of the sharing economy (Shareable), p2p (P2P Foundation), the commons, and resilience (Global Guerrillas) evoke for you, and how does Las Indias relate to them?
P2P means distributed networks, commons, abundance. It's the meaning of life!
The sharing economy means community, autonomy, commons, gift, joy, abundance again. It is the real sense of our core, the "how-to" of abundance, the way we live.
Resilience is at the same time the golden rule and the consequence of building community on a shared economy under a P2P architecture. It is our main virtue and the only thing that can guarantee survival even under increasing global decomposition.
JR: Any plans for micro-finance or a bank to speed cooperative growth?
Yes! We have signed an agreement with the main credit cooperative in Uruguay – which is based on microfinance – in order to do it in Uruguay. We hope it will start having results this year.
But in a way, Las Indias Cooperative Group through its "Cooperative Investment Funds" works like that with less funding but in a wider area (Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities). We want to invest in new coops as a way of helping communities to gain autonomy, but there are few cooperative entrepreneurs, or at least fewer than we would like there to be. So we are considering making the diffusion of cooperative values and its possibilities our main strategy for the coming year.
And we are also betting on "Bazar" a free piece of p2p software that will be released in the next weeks. Bazar is dedicated to creating trade and collaboration networks between groups of coops, small firms, etc., as we believe that collaboration between and globalization of "the small" is a key issue.
JR: How long does it take to train a regular person in cooperative business practices? Are there plans for teaching cooperative thinking online to grow it faster?
It takes a time! Unfortunately almost everything in the mainstream culture teaches us that the world is a zero-sum game, and that markets must be ruled by jungle law, but the simple truth is that they shouldn't be and we, people, can make the difference.
Until now, we have focused on online courses, books, papers, documentaries, and novels for the new "indiano" to read and discuss on their blog. New indianos spend six months on P2P culture – from Sterling and Bey, to Stephenson and Urrutia – and around three months more on cooperative practices.
JR: How do Las Indias cooperatives tie into the physical community?
Our sense of community is indeed very physical on all levels. The inner circle, los indianos, try to work together as much as possible, sharing offices or houses.
The wider community, the aggregation of our families and close friends, is at the center of our concerns. I mean, it is not only the question of time management, the possibility of spending more time with your people than in a "normal job." The kind of security you build in a model like ours it is not only about yourself, you know that all the common resources will be ready for your family and your people if they will need it.
MB: Where will humanity be in 20 years?
I hope we will see big transnational spaces with freedom of movement and trade, instigated by networks of economic democracies building wider commons accessible to everyone.
I hope we will know a society where capitalism will be marginal but with a market that will not allow rents nor privileges, where the mix of small and ubiquitous tools of production will be furthered by big global repositories of public domain designs as innovative and popular as free software is now.
I hope we will be living in a transitional society in twenty years but it is not historically determined. There are a lot of agents pushing towards recentralization: IP lobbies, big Internet firms, rent seekers, state machinery, financial interests, global mafias, etc. So the possibility of terminal nationalism and statism with its social decomposition is also there.
The choice between a society of freedom, based in an egalitarian market and robust commons, and global decomposition depends of our actions in this decade.
Check out these free books by David de Ugarte, which further articulate his unique vision:
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Their rescuer's name is Virgil, and he—along with his older brother, Davy, and their father, Jeff—are part of the Pokémon Rescue Squad, dedicated to helping others in need. The squad consists of several teams, and Virgil's team is called Team Eevee because it includes Eevee and all seven of its evolutions!
Soon, the squad receives a distress call from a nearby dam. Davy flies there to investigate and discovers that the entire lake and the dam's control room have been frozen, knocking out the power and trapping a worker in the elevator. He evacuates the other workers, but a wild Cryogonal's attack traps him inside the control room with the door frozen shut!
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Journal entry: January 1, 1998 (age 28) — New Year's Eve
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Amanda and I wanted to have everyone over to see our first apartment, but didn't want our guests to feel obligated to bring gifts. (What does one bring to an "apartment-warming?") So we decided to host a New Year's Eve party instead. We mailed out invitations, including snazzy clip art from Microsoft Word 97 and directions to our place in Rosslyn, Va. We were excited to show off our high-rise location, with its terrific view of the Iwo Jima Memorial.
We were also looking forward to sending guests on a quest to find our oddly obscured bathroom. We point digestively needy visitors to the hallway leading to our bedroom. The hallway is filled from floor to ceiling with mirrors and mirror-covered doors. The absence of traditional doorknobs makes the mirrored doors almost indistinguishable from the full-length mirrors on either side of each doorway. We find cruel amusement in listening to the sounds of panic, as the hapless guest opens a series of clothes closets before discovering the elusive water closet. We call this area of our home "The Partially-Hidden Passageway to the Secret Pooping Place."
Our bathroom is just one of many things that seem to amuse only Amanda and me. Apparently, a New Year's Eve party at our place is another one of those things. The RSVPs had been anemic, so we had some forewarning that this was not going to be a blowout. But by the party's 10 p.m. mark, we knew we had crossed into the zone of fiesta fiasco. Amanda's best friend, Diana Litzinger, had made it, but was clearly suffering from a horrible head cold. My brother Bob, his girlfriend, and a few of my friends had already left. My brother, Dan, and his wife, Mary Jean, were no-shows. The total number of New Year's Eve partygoers never reached double digits.
The low point occurred around 11 p.m., when an excited Amanda went into the kitchen to serve her very first batch of Binghamton spiedies. Amanda's parents followed her into the kitchen, to suggest that we eat in there and keep our voices down. It seemed that Amanda's grandfather, "Papou" Sigalas, had fallen asleep on our couch. His devoted wife, who we call "YiaYia," was holding his hand and reading a book as Papou gently snored. Soon, our few remaining guests began to shuffle toward the door. They said their goodbyes with the sympathetic tone of close ones who had sat Shiva with us through a long and painful night. The party had had good intentions, but it had passed on now, and that was probably for the best.
That was last night, and today Amanda and I are still feeling grumpy. A party that Mary Tyler Moore would have considered a new low was not the way to start the new year. To purge the destructive energy we felt, we decided that we should throw something off our balcony. An egg seemed like a harmless, biodegradable choice, so we each took one from the fridge. On the count of three, we hurled the delicate ova into the sprawling parkland below. We found the tandem splat of eggs on tree bark deeply cathartic.
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Nevada Has Head Start as States React to Federal Gambling Decision
The Internet gambling business has always been a lucrative one, but federal law has kept states on the sidelines, barred from tapping into an estimated billion that Americans spend every year to gamble online illegally.
Not anymore.
Now that the U.S. Department of Justice has reversed its outright ban on Internet gambling, states are scrambling to figure out what the decision might mean for them.
"Every state will be asking its AG: tell us what this opinion means," says Mark Lipparelli, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board . California, Illinois, Iowa, New York and New Jersey are among other states that are expected to act quickly to get in on the action. That is precisely what Nevada has done, but Nevada put some pieces in place before the ruling in a way that some of the other states have not done. It has also been in the full-fledged gambling business for more than 70 years.
No one really knows for sure how many Americans gamble online or how much revenue states will be able to collect if it is legal. The American Gaming Association figures that worldwide, online gambling generates billion a year. The group figures that states could collect up to billion in tax revenue if online poker were legalized.
Fed reversal a stunner
For years, the federal government has construed the 1961 Federal Wire Act as a prohibition against online gambling. But in a ruling last month, the Justice Department indicated that law only restricts sports wagering. "It's a big surprise," says Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling .
The ruling doesn't automatically legalize Internet gambling. States still have to pass legislation allowing for it and develop regulations overseeing it. And to many, it's unclear whether the decision legalizes only online gambling within a state's borders or also gambling that occurs across state lines.
Some experts interpret the decision to mean that states that pass their own online gambling laws could enter "compacts" with other states that have similar laws to allow online wagering on an interstate basis. Gambling expert I. Nelson Rose writes that the decision means "almost every form of intra-state Internet gambling is legal under federal law, and so may be games played interstate and even internationally."
But the uncertainty has state officials like Lipparelli in Nevada worried. "We need Congress to make clear" what is legal, he says.
The American Gaming Association , which represents the commercial casino industry, agrees. It says the December ruling "validates the urgent need for federal legislation to curb what will now be a proliferation of domestic and foreign, unlicensed and unregulated gaming websites without consistent regulatory standards and safeguards against fraud, underage gambling and money laundering."
Online lottery sales
The Justice Department's ruling, drafted last September but not publicly released until late December, came in response to a request from New York and Illinois. Both states had asked Justice whether it would be legal for them to use the Internet and out-of-state vendors to sell lottery tickets to in-state adults.
"We conclude that interstate transmission of wire communications that do not relate to a 'sporting event or contest' … fall outside the reach of the Wire Act," Justice said in the opinion . "Because the proposed New York and Illinois lottery proposals do not involve wagering on sporting events or contests, the Wire Act does not, in our view, prohibit them."
New York , which has the country's most profitable lottery, already had online "subscriptions" for its Mega Millions and Lotto games, and the ruling is expected to provide the state with the green light it was waiting for to do the same for other games. The way New York's current subscriptions work is that players can log on, sign up and pick and save their favorite numbers, combine entries with friends, and have winnings automatically sent to "prize accounts."
Illinois state officials had always thought their plan to let the Illinois Lottery offer Mega Millions and Lotto online was legal and now that Justice has agreed, "we are proceeding as fast as we can," says Illinois Lottery Superintendent Michael J. Jones. Lottery officials plan to ask the legislature to give them authority to also offer Powerball online.
Lotteries provide states with substantially more revenue (.9 billion) than commercial casinos (.5 billion). Lucy Dadayan of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government , a specialist in state gambling revenues, says the ruling almost guarantees that "most states will consider expanding their lotteries in the hopes of generating more revenue in tough economic times." But she says that "even if the sale of online lotteries is in compliance with the Federal Wire Act, state officials should not jump into legalizing online lotteries and should carefully assess long-term social and financial costs of online lotteries."
Nevada is one of the few states that doesn't offer a lottery. But the Justice Department ruling is expected to give the state the final go-ahead it was waiting for to launch online poker. In fact, the state has had an online gambling law on the books for the past decade, delaying its implementation only out of fear it might be running afoul of federal law. With online betting taking off in Europe and efforts in the U.S. Congress to legalize online poker, the Nevada Legislature last year ordered its Gaming Commission to write a set of online gambling rules . Just last month, Nevada became the first state to adopt online poker regulations. Gamblers could be playing Nevada poker games on the Internet in as few as nine months, with the state taking a cut of the revenue.
"It's good news for Nevada, which now establishes itself as the leader in U.S. online gaming regulation," writes David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada , who has summarized the new online regulations.
Action in D.C., New Jersey
While Nevada may have an edge on the online poker front, it will compete with the District of Columbia, which last year became the first U.S. jurisdiction to approve an online gambling product known as iGaming , with plans to offer Texas Hold 'Em Poker, Black Jack, e-scratch games, and Bingo.
New Jersey state Senator Raymond J. Lesniak hopes his state is not far behind. He has vowed to reintroduce his Internet gaming measure in the next legislative session. "This isn't a question of 'if' New Jersey gets Internet wagering, but 'when.' My money's on 'soon,' " he said in a statement , noting that he has already spoken with Governor Chris Christie on the matter.
Other states that could act quickly on the online gambling front include Iowa , which late last year developed a framework for regulating intrastate online poker if the state decides to go that route. California lawmakers have debated online poker for years, and a new proposal is being drafted.
The Justice Department ruling came as something of a shock after a crackdown by federal prosecutors last year against three of the largest online poker websites. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan last April charged Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling. But online gambling, particularly online poker, has received considerable attention from members of Congress looking for ways to balance the federal budget. The online poker industry also got a boost when former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge joined a new coalition called Fair Play USA that is lobbying for a new "regulatory framework for online poker."
But not all states are that enthusiastic about the chance to offer online gambling. Utah state Representative Stephen Sandstrom has already vowed to introduce legislation in the coming session that prohibits online gambling in Utah, one of just two states without any kind of legalized gambling. Hawaii is the other. "This bill is a referendum on the DOJ's decision and some in the U.S. Congress such as Senate Leader Harry Reid to proliferate online gambling," said Sandstrom.
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Driving home after a day of clearing underbrush in the Sitgreaves National Forest, seven loggers came upon a 40-foot wide shiny disc hovering on the crest of a ridge. As if spellbound, one of these loggers, Travis Walton, jumped from the passenger side of their work truck and ran toward the craft for a closer look. That decision on November 5, 1975 would change these men forever.
Travis' story became a book and movie called, "Fire in the Sky" (1993). The Paramount Pictures feature film enhanced his "close encounter of the third kind," (a term coined by ufologist J. Allen Hynek denoting human observations of actual aliens or "animate beings").
Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton, recounts the experiences of the work crew that day in the forest and the weeks that followed this incident. Travis and the rest of the crew struggled to make sense of the event, enduring humiliation and job losses. Travis has encountered lifelong ridicule regarding his experiences.
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Judi here again. Thanks for you help.
I looked over the info I got from you, the link
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/onhp/ is no longer operational.
I apologize, the correct URL new Canadian regulatory authority for medicinal herbs and herbal products, the Office of Natural Health Products, is http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/onhp .
The "hpb" stands for "Health Protection Branch". The Office of Natural Health Products is one of three directorates subordinate to the HPB; the other two are the Food Directorate and the Drug Directorate (now known as the 'TPP').
Now, I have
another question. I want to grow cooking herbs, will the new medicinal
regulations affect the cooking herbs? Is there anything else that I can
look at? I want to supply restaurants, grocery stores, etc.
It is not expected that the new regulations from the ONHP will have any effect on culinary herbs. Culinary herbs are considered foods and as such are subject to the regulations of the Food Directorate at Health Canada.
In general, fresh foods, including fresh cut herbs, do not come under much scrutiny by Health Canada. There are no special licenses that are required and no special testing that is required. There are standards that foods must meet, but the assumption is that they are being met even if no testing is being done.
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Add a Go compiler
- Name: Brandon Lozza
- Wiki page: [1]
- Email: brandon AT pwnage DOT ca
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora ?
- Last updated: 2010-07-06
- Percentage of completion: 50% (Official Compiler Works)
Detailed Description
Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit support for concurrent programming. Programs are constructed from packages, whose properties allow efficient management of dependencies. The existing implementations use a traditional compile/link model to generate executable binaries. (From: [2])
- There are currently two implementations:
- Official Go (GC) 6g(64-bit)/8g(32-bit) Compiler
- Official Go (GC) 6g(64-bit)/8g(32-bit) Compiler
6g (64-bit) and 8g (32-bit) are compilers for the Go programming Language. Go is an open source project, released under a BSD-style license. [3]
The gccgo compiler is a new frontend for gcc, the widely used GNU compiler. Although the frontend itself is under a BSD-style license, gccgo is normally used as part of gcc and is then covered by the GNU General Public License. [4]
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora will take some benefit to increase its community of developers with the inclusion of this feature. And an easy way for people who want to try this language.
Required steps are:
- Official Go Compiler (6g and 8g)
- Guideline for package Go application
How To Test
- Ensure that the 'Hello World' Application on Golang.org compiles and runs. Possibly use some of the examples listed in 'Effective Go'.
- Lots of software is available [5] (Libraries, Software, Bindings)
- Collect feedback from volunteers regarding their experience with Go programming
- Currently Google Go (8g) works on x86 and 6g works on x86_64.
- Conrad Meyer has Source RPMS for F12 go-0-0.YYYYMMDD.fc12.src.rpm [6]
- Brandon Lozza has Fedora 13 Source RPMS from latest snapshot (based on Conrad's Work) (June 21 2010) [7]
- Google Go has been proposed as a Fedora package [8]
Contingency Plan
None necessary. We should get Google Go or GCC-Go packages into the distribution in order to help the Community. We should also monitor upstream development process for potentially discovered issues and proactively apply patches.
- Effective Go: [9]
- Official Go Compiler Installation: [10]
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- Go Language FAQ: [12]
- Language Design FAQ: [13]
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Release Notes
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Konami is giving its side-scrolling shoot 'em up classic Contra a makeover and it's doing so with Guilty Gear and BlazBlue makers Arc System Works, resulting in the downloadable game Hard Corps: Uprising.
It doesn't bear the Contra name, but the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade game is apparently "spiritual sequel" to Contra: Hard Corps, the entry released on the Sega Genesis in 1994, according to IGN. If the downloadable game is possessed by the spirit of Contra: Hard Corps, expect the run and gun action to be intensely difficult, only made softer by Arc System Works' new anime art style.
The rest of the Contra staples appear to be intact—sidescrolling, spread beams, alien infestations—from the limited amount of info available. We'll hopefully be able to share more about Hard Corps: Uprising at E3, just a few weeks away.


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Teddy Bridgewater the new Heisman betting favorite
Is it way too early to begin talking about the favorite for the 2013 Heisman Trophy? As 2012 Geno Smith would say, it absolutely is. That won't stop us, however, from making a note as to which way the gambling public is leaning.
In its latest odds released Tuesday afternoon, Bovada.lv has Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater as the favorite at 5/1. The Cardinals quarterback was at 9/1 two weeks prior to the start of the new season, but his monster season-opening performance apparently opened some eyes a little further.
Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller, the preseason favorite at 9/2, was up next at 13/2. Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was the prohibitive favorite prior to the mini-drama over payment for autographs, checked in at 15/2. Johnny Football had been a 4/1 favorite before the off-field issues dropped him to 15/1; those odds jumped back up to 7/1 after his "situation" was resolved with a half-game suspension.
Two more quarterbacks, Clemson's Tajh Boyd and Oregon's Marcus Mariota, come in at 8/1. The first non-quarterback listed is Miami running back Duke Johnson at 10/1.
Jameis Winston, a redshirt freshman coming off a breathtaking performance in his collegiate debut Monday night, is tied with Johnson at 10/1.
Below are all of the latest odds, again courtesy of Bovada.lv:
Teddy Bridgewater (QB Louisville) 5/1
Braxton Miller (QB Ohio State) 13/2
Johnny Manziel (QB Texas A&M) 15/2
Marcus Mariota (QB Oregon) 8/1
Tajh Boyd (QB Clemson) 8/1
Duke Johnson (RB Miami) 10/1
Jameis Winston (QB Florida State) 10/1
AJ McCarron (QB Alabama) 12/1
De'Anthony Thomas (RB Oregon) 15/1
Jadeveon Clowney (DE South Carolina) 15/1
T.J. Yeldon (RB Alabama) 15/1
Todd Gurley (RB Georgia) 15/1
Stephen Morris (QB Miami) 20/1
Aaron Murray (QB Georgia) 25/1
Devin Gardner (QB Michigan) 25/1
Lache Seastrunk (RB Baylor) 25/1
Sammy Watkins (WR Clemson) 25/1
Marquis Lee (WR USC) 33/1
Kevin Hogan (QB Stanford) 33/1
Taylor Martinez (QB Nebraska) 40/1
Ameer Abdullah (RB Nebraska) 50/1
Brett Hundley (QB UCLA) 50/1
Stefon Diggs (WR Maryland) 50/1
Jordan Lynch (QB Northern Illinois) 50/1
Jeff Driskel (QB Florida) 66/1
Ka'Deem Carey (RB Arizona) 66/1


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Macbeth - Royal Opera
- Royal Opera House
The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth and his wife to horrific acts. Murder makes Macbeth king, and intrigue and butchery are the hallmarks of his brief, doomed reign. The witches make another prediction, which also comes true: Macbeth and his lady lose their lives, and justice is restored.
Varaa liput
Various dates and times
Ensimmäinen esityspäivä
Varaus päättyy
(3 mins) The Royal Opera House is off Covent Garden piazza, which is visible from the tube station exit. There is a revolving door entrance at the piazza.


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Terrence Roberts
*Terrence Roberts was born on this date in 1941. He is a Black Psychologist, sociologist, author, and member of the Little Rock Nine.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to William and Margaret Roberts, Terrence James Roberts is the eldest of seven children; His father was a World War II naval veteran who worked at the Veteran's Administration (VA) hospital in North Little Rock and his mother ran a catering service from home. Roberts was a Horace Mann High School sophomore who volunteered to integrate Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.
Despite daily harassment from some white students, Roberts completed his junior year at Central. The city's high schools were closed the following year to prevent further desegregation. As a result, he moved to Los Angeles, California, and graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1959. The National Association awarded Roberts the Spingarn Medal for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1958.
Following high school, Roberts attended California State University in Los Angeles and earned a BA in sociology in 1967. He attended graduate school at the University of California at Los Angeles and received an MS in social welfare in 1970. In 1976, Roberts earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He served as co-chair of the department of the Master of Arts in Psychology Program at Antioch College in Los Angeles, California, and also taught several graduate courses there. In addition to serving as CEO of Terrence J. Roberts and Associates Management Consulting Firm, he maintains a private psychology practice. He is a desegregation consultant to the Little Rock School District.
In 1979, Roberts met former Arkansas governor Orval Faubus face to face on ABC's Good Morning, America. He said, "I really feel it was a violation of public trust to practice your own personal policies of racism in that position. You endangered not only my life but the lives of hundreds of other people, both black and white." In 1999, President Bill Clinton presented the nation's highest civilian award, the Congressional Gold Medal, to the members of the Little Rock Nine. In 2009, he published a memoir, Lessons from Little Rock. The following year, he published Simple Not Easy: Reflections on Community Social Responsibility and Tolerance.
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986.
Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. New York: Washington Square Books, 1994.
Jacoway, Elizabeth, and C. Fred Williams, eds. Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Visitor Center. Little Rock, Arkansas. http://www.nps.gov/chsc/ (accessed April 18, 2006). Roberts, Terrence. Lessons from Little Rock. Little Rock: Butler Center Books, 2009.


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There was even a party attendee wearing what looked like Pucci. Evidently, these women have $$$$$$!
The dress Peggy wore to Don's birthday party was 5 years out-of-date and could have been worn by Betty in Season 1 or 2. But that's OK. It's Peggy.
What was your favorite look from the show?


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I start with a brief introduction into Window licensing and have put together my recommended mechanisms for downloading Windows installation media and activating your product depending on your license type.
There are some more in depth notes which explain in more detail how to determine your license type and explain how the activation mechanisms and if necessary workarounds work.
For all intents and purposes Windows 8.0 Service Pack 1 is Windows 8.1 so anything mentioned below that applies to Windows 8.1 also applies to Windows 8.0 unless specifically differentiated.
The older revision of this page got extremely popular due to previous issues where I compiled a working convoluted set of workarounds that are no longer necessary, Microsoft have simplified their Windows Deployment and hence made installation of Windows 8.1 far easier.
Brief Introduction – Windows Licensing
Microsoft Windows 8.1 is sold via many different channels and there are a number of different activation mechanisms for Windows 8.1 depending on the type of license you are utilising.
There are 5 different license types:
- Major OEM License – Windows came licensed with your Dell, HP, …
- Download Windows 8.1 .iso* Won't work for Bing Editions
- Activate Windows Online
- Retail License – You Bought a Full Windows 8.1 License
- Retail "Upgrade Only" License – You Bought a Full Windows 8.0 Upgrade License
- OEM System Builder License – You Bought a Windows OEM System Builders License
- Volume License – You are using your organisations Volume Licensing and you should contact your IT department.
In Depth – Windows Licensing
- Major OEM License
- Retail License and Retail "Upgrade Only" License
- OEM System Builder License
- Volume License
Major OEM License
The Windows 8.1 OEM license should be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 for a promotional period of 1 year after its final release.
Because no installation media is provided for Windows 8.1 RT (a crippled version of Windows 8.1 essentially equivalent in functionality to Windows Phone) and Windows 8.1 with Bing or Windows 8.1 SL with Bing. I do not recommend purchase of any of these devices.
The Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM licenses uses OEM 3.0 system locked preinstallation keys for activation. OEM 3.0 SLP activation inputs a unique 25 digit product key into the systems UEFI BIOS and hence has no need for a COA which have been removed due to piracy issues and due to the multiple problems users had when they peeled off or faded.
This part mainly concerns OEM product keys as there are more Editions and the product key (SLP key) resides in the UEFI BIOS. Many that will advise you on Windows installation on Microsoft Answers will say the choice is very easy and that there are only two "Editions" to choose from in accordance to your sticker and are wrong… there are actually 8 OEM editions users have made me aware of…
Unfortunately there is no way for the user to distinguish between some of these Editions and it should be stressed that are not interchangeable:
Windows 8.1 (Core/Home) ≠ Windows 8.1 N (Core/Home) ≠ Windows 8.1 SL (Core/Home) ≠ Windows 8.1 with Bing ≠ Windows 8.1 with Bing SL ≠ Windows 8.1 Professional ≠ Windows 8.1 Professional N
Home Editions
If you have this sticker which says "Windows 8" you likely have one of the following three editions:
- Windows 8.1 Most Common
- Windows 8.1 Single Language Common
- Windows 8.1 N Rare
In the vast majority of cases the "Home Edition" is "Windows 8.1" or "Windows 8.1 Single Language". If your system has this sticker try downloading these two .isos and if one of the .isos takes you to the license agreement during installation you have the correct "Edition".
The "N" Editions are rare so try these only if the regular .isos don't work.
Home with Bing Editions
I had a look at a few shops BestBuy, PC World, Staples in the US, CA and in the UK. I checked the sticker at the base of the system and compared this with the Edition in system properties. I was looking in particular for a difference in the with Bing systems. Although all the systems have a sticker which just says "Windows 8" similar to the other 3 Editions which the Media Creation Tool Supports it was a different sticker.
If you have this sticker which looks like the following you likely have one of the with Bing Editions which are unfortunately not supported by the Microsoft Windows 8.1 Media Creation Tool:
- Windows 8.1 with Bing Most Common
- Windows 8.1 Single Language with Bing Common
Pro Editions
If you have this sticker you likely have one of the following 2 editions:
- Windows 8.1 Pro Most Common
- Windows 8.1 ProN Rare
In the vast majority of cases the "Professional Edition" is "Windows 8.1 Pro". If your system has this sticker try downloading this .iso and if the .iso takes you to the license agreement during installation you have the correct "Edition".
The "N" Editions are rare so try these only if the regular .isos don't work.
RT Edition
If you have this sticker you have Windows RT:
A Windows RT device has hardware in particular a processor that is non-Intel/AMD using instead Arm processors. These devices were made to compete with Chrome Books as budget devices and prolonged battery life.
However in reality Arm processors do not scratch the potential of Intel/AMD processors because of the magnitude of third party applications written using either the Intel x86 or AMD x64 architectures (Intel and AMD have an agreement – Intel use AMD x64 and AMD use Intel x86).
These means the overwhelming majority of third party applications will run fine on Windows 8 but not on Windows RT. This gives Windows RT essentially the capabilities of Windows Phone…
This Edition was terribly marketed and sold often by shops as Windows 8. As a consequence of being sold and marketed as a broken variant of Windows 8 with the end user seeing it as a device with Windows 8 but with nothing working, Windows RT was highly unpopular. In turn as it was unpopular, developers never felt the urge to write programs which would run on Windows RT therefore making it redundant.
Windows RT is unfortunately unsupported by the Windows 8.1 Media Creation Tool and you have to procure installation media from Dell.
Determining Edition from System
If your system is working you can determine your Windows Edition and the easiest way of determining what edition your product key is for is by right clicking the start button (or pressing [Windows] and [x]) and then selecting system:
Your Windows 8.1 Edition will be listed at the top.
Determining your UEFI OEM SLP Product Key
The product key can be obtained using RWEverything but this is unecessary if the correct installation .iso is utilised from the Windows 8.1 Media Creation utility:
- RW-Everything: http://rweverything.com/download/
To find out the OEM BIOS Embedded System locked Product Key select ACPI Tables and the MSDM tab, copy down your product key.
Note RW-Everything is the preferred utility to obtain your BIOS embedded product key because it will give you the product key regardless what version of Windows is installed. Other utilities can give bogus keys from the Windows registry.
For example this can be important if you have downgraded to Windows 7 and wish to migrate to Windows 8.1.
Legacy Issues with Installation Media
Important note, in the past Microsoft had a substandard deployment of both Windows 8.0 and 8.1 but listened to user feedback. Older installation media had the following problems and even if you have procured them from Dell I recommend never using them:
- Discrimination between Windows 8.0 and Windows 8.1 Product Keys
- Windows 8.1 media rejected 8.0 keys
- Windows 8.0 media rejected 8.1 keys
- Could be bypassed by use of Generic Keys and Change Key after installation.
- Windows 8.0 involved a convoluted forced upgrade to Windows 8.1 via the Microsoft Store. This was problematic at best. The download is practically the same size as the full .iso.
- Windows 8.1 media with this fault did not contain update 1. The update to update 1 was also problematic.
Use the Windows 8.1 Media Creation Utility to get Windows 8.1 with Update 1 Media.
Retail and Retail Upgrade
The Windows 8.1 Retail licenses should be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 for a promotional period of 1 year after its final release. This is not applicable to Vista or XP licenses.
If you purchased Windows separately from your computer:
- Windows 8.0 is "Upgrade Only"
- Windows 8.1 is "Full"
However Windows 8.0 → Windows 8.1.
These licenses will come with a unique 25 digit product key affixed to the box with the installation media or were sent to you via email. Its recommended to email yourself a copy of the 25 digit product key in case you misplace the boxed media.
The Full version of the license can be installed and transferred from one computer to the other without any problems provided that it is only installed on one computer at a time.
"Upgrade Only" installation media as the name suggests only lets you install on top of an old Windows version. There are two main problems with this:
- This method of installation always leads to detrimental performance
- Many users have lost their installation media for their old license or didn't get installation media for their old license if its OEM.
- The OEM will be unable to ship installation media for the original Windows XP license as its reached End of Life.
- The cost of procuring media for an out of Windows Vista system is higher than a new license.
It is therefore recommended you toss any Windows 8.0 installation DVDs in the bin. You may download a Windows 8.1 .iso using the Windows 8.1 media Creation Tool and this does not discriminate between Windows 8.0 and 8.1.
For the Retail Full licenses input your product key during installation and it should automatically activate online.
The Retail license is supported by Microsoft and not Dell. Dell may therefore not provide drivers for systems users have upgraded themselves but Windows 7 drivers will suffice in most cases. I have some additional notes mentioned here regarding system drivers:
Windows 8.1 retail can be evaluated by use of generic product keys:
- Core/Home=334NH-RXG76-64THK-C7CKG-D3VPT
- Core/Home N=6NPQ8-PK64X-W4WMM-MF84V-RGB89
- Core/Home Single Language=Y9NXP-XT8MV-PT9TG-97CT3-9D6TC
- Professional=XHQ8N-C3MCJ-RQXB6-WCHYG-C9WKB
- Professional N=JRBBN-4Q997-H4RM2-H3B7W-Q68KC
- Professional with Media Centre=GBFNG-2X3TC-8R27F-RMKYB-JK7QT
OEM System Builder License
This is easily the most understood license because Microsoft's intended use of the license was different to the bulk number of cases where the license was used.
This license is designed for smaller system builders to sell e.g. for local computer shops to purchase that build custom systems and sell them on to the end user with preinstalled Windows and installation media. Because such shops only sell a low volume of systems (compared to Dell or HP) there is no custom BIOS to include the markers for OEM SLP activation. The computer shop are meant to be the ones to support the license and since they can only support their own configuration there is the same OEM inability to transfer the license; it is tied to the original mainboard. The installation and activation for this license type is therefore more similar to a retail license. Phone activation may be required if Retail media is used for installation however.
In reality however it is seen by the end user as a cheap "Retail" license and users purchased it as it was significantly cheaper than the Retail Full or Retail "Upgrade Only" licenses. Experienced end users accepted that they got the license for cheaper and their only limitation was that they couldn't transfer the license or get Microsoft support. Naturally less experienced users also followed this trend and didn't understand the limitations.
Volume Licensing
The Volume License is essentially a volume "Upgrade Only" License although it can be utilised for clean installation.
The point is organisations purchase maybe >25 or more systems with OEM licenses from Dell. IT departments will struggle deploying custom Windows installations on possibility 100's or 1000's of systems with OEM licenses.
The Volume License gives them the flexibility to deploy Windows throughout their entire organisation without having to waste time phoning Microsoft to activate every system or separately clean install each system with a Dell Windows 7 OEM Reinstallation DVD.
If you are the end user, you likely have a dedicated IT department handling this. If you are the dedicated IT department and want to know more about it, then contact Microsoft who will give you a custom quote:


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Offering a complete care, the Clinique de l'Infirmerie Protestante in Lyon takes care of pathologies in more than 50 specialties. It brings together liberal health specialists, physicians and surgeons, who are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for their interventions.
CHP Saint-Grégoire (Saint Gregory Private Hospital), the first Breton hospital in France specializing in Surgery, was established in 2004 when three medical facilities -- Saint Vincent Clinic, Volney Polyclinic, Bréquigny Maternity -- merged into a single site.
In 2006, the clinic was acquired by an independent group Hexagone Hospitalisation, expanding and doubling its capacity to more than 200 beds.Clinique Ambroise Paré is a leader in chemotherapy, dialysis and In-Vitro Fertilization and is the first private facility
This information is intended for general information only and should not be considered as medical advice on the part of Health-Tourism.com. Any decision on medical treatments, after-care or recovery should be done solely upon proper consultation and advice of a qualified physician.
Colon cancer also called as colorectal cancer when caught in the early stages is curable.What are the treatment options for colon cancer?
Treatment options for colon cancer depend on the stage at which the cancer is discovered. They include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Surgery is the best approach for early stages of colon cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy is required, particularly in later stages to prevent the recurrence of cancer. A combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation is required in the advanced stages of colon cancer.
1) Surgery: Surgery may either be done as total colectomy or subtotal colectomy. It is the only treatment required in the early stages of colon cancer (stage I and most cases of stage II) in which cancerous part of the intestine is removed and remaining ends are joined. Sometimes patient may require a surgically created opening between the intestine and abdominal wall called as colostomy. A small bag called as colostomy bag is applied in which contents of the intestine are emptied. Colostomy can be permanent or temporary.
2) Chemotherapy:In addition to surgery, chemotherapy is required in stage II or above to reduce the risk of recurrence of cancer. It may be palliative, adjuvant or neoadjuvant. Palliative is used when cancer has spread to other body parts and surgical removal is not possible. Palliative chemotherapy helps to shrink the tumor, alleviates the symptoms and prolong life. Adjuvant chemotherapy is used once the surgery is done to remove any left out cancer cells. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is given prior to the surgery. It reduces the size of the tumor and helps in efficient removal during surgery. 5-fluorouracil is the most commonly used drug in colon cancer. It is used in association with a vitamin called as leucovorin. Various new chemotherapy drugs such as avastin, vectibix and Erbitux are used along with 5-FU for the treatment of colon cancer which has already spread.
Bevacizumab, cetuximab, and panitumumab, and regorafenib are newer chemotherapy agents that target specific aspects of the cancer cell which may be more important to the tumor than the surrounding tissues. They also have fewer side effects than traditional chemotherapy.
3) Radiotherapy: Radiation therapy is typically given under the guidance of a radiation specialist called a radiation oncologist. Its primary use is in the treatment of rectal cancer. Multiple cycles may be required. It may sometimes be used to alleviate the pain associated with recurrent or metastatic colon cancer.
With surgery, more than 90% stage I and 65-80% of stage II colorectal cancers are curable.
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"For beginners who want to grow stronger, Starting Strength is the best program. You found it. Stop looking for a better program. There isn't one."
- Black Iron Beast
Starting Strength Makes the Entire Body Strong
Starting Strength is a strength training system designed to safely and efficiently improve strength, health, and athletic performance
Starting Strength answers the question – how do I get strong? And the answer includes how often to train, what exercises to perform, how to perform them, how many times to perform them, and everything in between. It makes the complex simple.
Starting Strength started as an observation that to become strong, full body movements must be used, over a complete range of motion, with weight that increases over time. With these criteria in mind It's obvious that a bicep curl machine will not make you strong. Yes, it may make your arm stronger, but not all of you. Which is why we use barbells, because they require that your body work as a system. And since the body is working as a system, more weight can be used, and that weight can continue to increase over time, resulting in continual progress.
Although the program is simple, the execution of it is precise. To lift weights three times per week, and increase the weight on the bar each time, the program needs to be applied specifically to you as an individual. Reps, sets, frequency, and exercise selection will vary based on age, sex, fitness level, and health status. Recovery tactics will vary depending on a variety of factors. And executing the lifts with perfect technique is critical to making continued progress. Which is why training under the guidance of a coach that has a deep understanding of the Starting Strength method is critically important.
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This "Teacher helping hand" pin back is a great way to show off your unique personality. Our Magnetic Pin Back bases are designed to be interchangeable with any of our buttons. Our buttons are made of durable materials and are easy to wipe clean. Feel free to mix and match your favorites. Order yours today!
- Professionally printed on premium paper
- Hand-pressed using a professional machine
- Unique designs.
- Great gift idea for your favorite person.
- 1.5 inch round button and button base with a magnet.
- Magnetic Pin backs are great for your clothing, backpack, coats, etc.
- Made of durable materials and are easy to wipe clean


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White Smart Polo Shirt
The Smartness of a Button-down with the Comfort of a T-shirt.
Unlike regular polo tees, our polo tees have been designed with a shirt collar that won't roll or stretch out after each wash.
- 3x thinner than regular flat knit polo collars - more 'cooling' effect
- Won't stretch after each wash
- Flattering modern fit
- Made from a soft, high-quality lacoste knit.
Style suggestion:
Throw it over your pair of jeans and white sneakers for a weekend-ready look that's smart, comfortable and casual all in one.
Model wears Size M.