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Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signed a measure into law Saturday that will make Illinois the 18th state to allow voters to register online.
Supporters say the move could increase turnout at the polls and cut down on paperwork costs, while critics question the security of an online registration system and say there is a potential for fraud in a state where Chicagoans have been known to vote from beyond the grave.
Under the legislation, anyone with a valid driver's license or state identification card can go online to sign up to vote online beginning July 1, 2014. That's the target date for the State Board of Elections to have the new system up and running.
The measure is backed by Cook County Clerk David Orr, who said the online option will be a "win-win" for voters and election officials that makes it easier to register and reduces processing time and the potential for errors since voters will be in charge of entering their own personal information. Orr also contends there are enough checks and balances to prevent wrongdoing.
In addition to a state-issued ID, those wishing to register online will be required to enter the date the ID was issued as well as the last four digits of their social security number. The information will be cross referenced with existing voter registration databases and one run by the Secretary of State's office that also catalogs the signatures of those who have received state IDs.
A voter's signature must match the one on file in order to cast a ballot. If there's a discrepancy, those who register online may be required to provide additional information before they can vote or they may receive a provisional ballot.
Quinn made online voter registration a priority during his annual State of the State speech in February, saying Illinois needed to adapt to the digital age. The move aims at appealing to younger voters who are more tech savvy and used to doing everything from banking to buying groceries online.
While the number of registered voters is expected to jump because of the ease of signing up online, Orr said only time will tell if it will lead to an actual hike in voter turnout. However, Orr said those who register online in other states have proven more likely to vote than those who register through more traditional routes. That's because they usually wait until closer to Election Day to sign up, when they are paying more attention to issues and candidates.
Orr said another benefit is cost savings. County clerks will have to hire fewer temporary workers to process applications during peak periods and less paperwork would be generated. Other states have reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings as processing an online registration can cost as low as three cents compared to 83 cents for those who opt for the hard copy route.
The legislation would allow voters to request mail-in ballots online, though county clerks will not be required to offer the service. Orr said he plans to have that system up and running ahead of the March primary election, noting the time saved by requesting a ballot online instead of through the mail could make the difference in whether a vote gets counted.
The changes are a part of a sweeping bill that makes a number of election law changes, including several controversial provisions that drew fierce opposition from Republicans as Democrats pushed the measure through the legislature as spring session ended.
One portion would strip election duties from the Lake County Clerk's office, instead transferring those powers to a five-member board appointed by a judge. Sen. Dan Duffy, R-Lake Barrington, contends the move is an attempt by Democrats to exert more control over the elections process in the county. The current clerk, Willard Helander, is a Republican.
"There are some good things in this bill, but I think there are more negatives than positives," Duffy said. "It's typical Chicago politics, coming in and overriding the voice and concerns of the people of Lake County."
Another part of the bill increases the number of signatures a candidate for Chicago alderman would need in order to run, doubling the requirement from 2 percent of the number of votes cast in the most recent election to 4 percent.
David Morrison, deputy director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, said that makes it more difficult for challengers to run against incumbents with more resources.
Morrison also raised concerns that lawmakers watered down campaign finance limits put in place following the ouster of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He points to a provision that would eliminate contribution limits for so-called super political action committees if their spending reaches a certain threshold.
Currently, limits on how much individuals and PACs can give are removed for all candidates if a Super PAC spends $250,000 on a statewide race or $100,000 on a lower office. Under the measure Quinn plans to sign, those limits would be lifted if total spending by all super PACs in a race reaches those amounts, Morrison said.
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Detection of Enterobacteriaceae Isolates Carrying Metallo-Beta-Lactamase --- United States, 2010
During January--June 2010, three Enterobacteriaceae isolates carrying a newly described resistance mechanism, the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) (1), were identified from three U.S. states at the CDC antimicrobial susceptibility laboratory. This is the first report of NDM-1 in the United States, and the first report of metallo-beta-lactamase carriage among Enterobacteriaceae in the United States. These isolates, which include an Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Enterobacter cloacae, carry blaNDM-1, which confers resistance to all beta-lactam agents except aztreonam (a monobactam antimicrobial) (1); all three isolates were aztreonam resistant, presumably by a different mechanism. In the United Kingdom, where these organisms are increasingly common, carriage of Enterobacteriaceae containing blaNDM-1 has been closely linked to receipt of medical care in India and Pakistan (2). All three U.S. isolates were from patients who received recent medical care in India.
Carbapenem resistance and carbapenemase production conferred by blaNDM-1 is detected reliably with phenotypic testing methods currently recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (3), including disk diffusion testing and the modified Hodge test (4). Carbapenem resistance in all three of these isolates was detected in the course of routine testing. Current CDC infection control guidance for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae also is appropriate for NDM-1--producing isolates (5). This includes recognizing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae when cultured from clinical specimens, placing patients colonized or infected with these isolates in contact precautions, and in some circumstances, conducting point prevalence surveys or active-surveillance testing among other high-risk patients. Laboratory identification of the carbapenem- resistance mechanism is not necessary to guide treatment or infection control practices but should instead be used for surveillance and epidemiologic purposes.
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- Yong D, Toleman MA, Giske CG, et al. Characterization of a new metallo-β-lactamase gene, blaNDM-1, and a novel erythromycin esterase gene carried on a unique genetic structure in Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 14 from India. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009;53:5046--54.
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- Deshpande P, Rodrigues C, Shetty A, Kapadia F, Hedge A, Soman R. New Delhi metallo-β lactamase (NDM-1) in Enterobacteriaceae: treatment options with carbapenems compromised. J Acad Physicians India 2010;58:147--9.
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Aileen Crowe Nandi is a Commercial Officer in San Jose California
As exporters' needs change, we at ITA must adapt with them. The U.S. government – and our clients – faces myriad issues on a daily basis that require customized solutions. From helping a shipment of apples clear customs in South India to resolving a biotech regulatory barrier in Europe to assisting a small cloud reseller land deals in Ghana, we regularly tweak our services to assist each company with its unique set of issues. A "one-size-fits-all" technique does not apply to international trade.
To capitalize on our entrepreneurial objectives and to share and communicate even better across the Commercial Service (CS) – an organization spanning 100 domestic offices and 72 countries– we launched the Crowdsource (CS2) initiative. CS2 is designed to engage more employees at all levels by enabling them to propose and vote on ideas to change and/or improve how we help U.S. exporters. The winning ideas are then brought to senior agency leaders.
We structured CS2 as a quarterly "Pitchfest" competition, taking a cue from the dynamic venture capital industry. Colleagues are encouraged to submit short written, innovative proposals which are subsequently "crowdsourced" in a democratic voting process. The top three ideas then move on to an oral pitchfest.
The CS2 team, comprised of two International Trade Specialists (Melissa Branzburg, Boston, and Shari Stout, Peoria) and two Commercial Officers (Marianne Drain and myself), represents both the international and domestic units of our organization. Additionally, we have a cross-section of colleagues from HQ and the field (as far as Australia) to serve as "Interested Innovators" to judge the oral pitches to determine the final winner.
We began with the "B2B" theme, as it impacts the very core of how we help U.S. exporters. With fourteen B2B proposals and over 200 voters, the winning idea from the B2B pitchfest was the "Initial Market Check" (IMC), submitted by Heather Ranck in our North Dakota Export Assistance Center.
The IMC entails a fee-based service that would enable exporters to gain critical market insights for individual American companies (in the form of a short report) to determine whether to further pursue export opportunities in a given market. Though Heather had already been innovatively undertaking IMCs for her North Dakota clients, we are working with HQ to formalize the service to allow all colleagues to conduct IMCs for all exporters. Stay tuned for updates!
Our next pitchfest on "Commercial Intelligence" will take place on April 29th. What kind of commercial intelligence do YOU want from ITA? Your input will ensure that we are well positioned to facilitate your success in international markets.
With your input we can better provide the services you need to help your businesses succeed. We look forward to hearing your great ideas!


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1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
3 Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
5 Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6 After this I saw, and, behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
7 After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
11 I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
13 I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
17 These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
26 But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole the sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.


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You're certainly not alone if you think that two pets are better than one, but bringing home a new pet doesn't always go smoothly when there's another animal already in the house.
Introducing your new pet to resident pets that have already been in your life can be a tricky process, one that's going to require some patience, according to guidelines from several animal welfare groups. They and experts say pets can be territorial, defensive, attached to the hierarchies they know or temperamentally different.
You may want to make the introduction over a long holiday weekend or even take some time off work to ensure that your new friend gets along with other furry family members before leaving them alone together, according to Kenny Lamberti, acting vice president for companion animals at the Humane Society of the United States. And be aware that pets need some private space to take a break by themselves.
But the best way of ensuring that all-important introduction goes smoothly comes even before you find the new pet, according to Lamberti. Telling a shelter worker about the kind of pet you already have, like a picky pooch or a clingy cat, will help them figure out which animals to show you.
"I think of it like match.com for the pet. The more information you can go with to wherever you're acquiring your new pet can help minimize the possibility of it not going well," he said.
Once you do find a new pet and get them in the car, you may not want to head straight home, at least with a new dog. It's often recommended that you introduce them outside of the home, on neutral ground. And no matter what animal you bring home, get ready for what might be a days-long process.
"The one really important rule is you want to spend as much time ... before you start leaving them to themselves. You want to ease into that," Lamberti said.
The Humane Society's detailed guidelines for introducing a new dog to an old one boil down to do it on neutral territory, watch their body language, go at their speed and keep a close eye on them at home, reinforcing positive interactions with treats. Read more.
PAWS, the animal advocacy group, breaks down the neutral territory meeting further, suggesting using positive reinforcement and watching body postures in case you need to intervene. Read more.
For cats, the Humane Society recommends having realistic expectations — they just may not get along — keeping the new cat in confinement for a few days while introducing the cats' smells to one another before a face-to-face meeting. Read more.
Introducing a dog and a cat? The Animal Humane Society recommends these steps: Separate the animals at first, feeding them on either side of a closed door before starting to introduce them in a place that neither considers its sanctuary area and go through those face-to-face sessions before leaving them alone together. Read more.
Should something go wrong and the animals aren't getting along, bring in a trained behaviorist or trainer to facilitate, Lamberti said. You may also have to adjust your own house rules, too.
"The process can take a few days to several months, and as much as owners can consult trusted professionals like their veterinarians and trainers, the smoother the process should go," said Bob Vetere, chairman of the Pet Leadership Council.
But don't lose hope! Vetere took the recent movie "The Secret Life of Pets" as an example. (Disclosure: the move was produced by Universal Pictures, whose parent company NBCUniversal owns this station.)
"Max was none too pleased about his new 'brother' Duke's arrival at first, but eventually they become the best of friends," he said. "While understandably life isn't always like a blockbuster movie, this does happen often and things can get better with patience and persistence."
If it all sounds daunting, remember that there are plenty of rewards for getting through it — and not just for you.
Lamberti has owned several dogs and fostered more, he said. His current dog is "an old man" now at 14, but when he'd hit middle age, a foster dog Lamberti brought home made him feel like a puppy again.
"It kind of invigorated my dog, it gave him a play partner. He got this spark of youthful exuberance," he said.


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Complete Control Over Your Webforms Output
I like Regular Expressions... a lot. I know I'm not an expert with them, but even an amateur can do some pretty amazing things with just a couple Regular Expressions.
WebForms has always been a little... messy with it's output. Your page is normally littered with a bunch of excessively long ID's and name on content that doesn't really need it (for example, I saw a vendors program with this little gem in it
accounts_overview_body_quickAction_quickActionTitleLabel all for a span element).
You're also stuck with the ViewState, which can get out of control in a hurry. You can disable it, but it still renders some content no matter what. It might not be that much, but when you don't need it you may prefer it to be gone.
One of the last annoying things about WebForms is that you can't put additional forms within your Page level form. Some browsers don't mind, but others won't work at all. If you didn't need the WebControls to do anything (like persist their state) it would be nice to be able to drop them completely.
Get Control Over Your Page
Like I mentioned at the start, by overriding the Render event on a page you can have full access to your output before it gets sent down to the user. I posted some code about this before when I talked about minifying your content. If you read that post then you'll have a general idea where this is heading.
The first step is to actually render our content so we can manipulate it. Without getting into too much detail we're going to write our content to our own local HtmlTextWriter so we can manipulate it before we send it to the actual HtmlTextWriter. It's not hard to do...
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) { //render our output StringWriter output = new StringWriter(); HtmlTextWriter html = new HtmlTextWriter(output); base.Render(html); //get the rendered string string rendered = output.ToString(); //Make our changes //... discussed shortly //cleanup our writers html.Dispose(); output.Dispose(); //then write it writer.Write(rendered); }
Pretty cool, right? We've got our string, now we can get started making our changes.
Drop The ViewState
Some pages you have really just don't need the ViewState at all. Maybe it's some product information or maybe a few photos, but there aren't any controls on the page that the user is going to post back. It doesn't take much to write a regular expression to remove it.
rendered = Regex.Replace( rendered, "<input.*name=\"__VIEWSTATE\"[^>]*>", string.Empty, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase );
That little snippet of code will drop the ViewState completely from the page. You could modify it a little further to drop other things (like the __EVENTSTATE) by changing the expression to
Knock Out The Page Form
As I said earlier in the post, if you want to have other forms on your page then they have to be outside of the Page Form. Not all browsers work with nested forms.
With WebForms, you can have a Page Form, use all your controls inside and then drop the markup before it is sent to the client. That way you can use WebControls and nested forms.
This process is naturally a little more complicated.
//find all the forms and closed elements MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches( rendered, "</?form[^>]*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase ); //create the expression to match for the ID //master pages rename the form to 'aspnetForm' -- weird Regex expectedId = new Regex( string.Format("id=\"?({0}|aspnetForm)\"?", this.Form.ID), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase ); //expression to check for a close of a form Regex closeForm = new Regex( @"</\s?form\s?>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase ); //loop through and remove the page form Match open = null; Match close = null; int depth = 0; //we're checking for the open form THEN checking for the //matching close tag (checking for nesting) for (int i = 0; i < matches.Count; i++) { Match match = matches[i]; //check if this is the page form if (expectedId.IsMatch(match.Value) && !(open is Match)) { open = match; } //if we aren't tracking yet, just continue if (!(open is Match)) { continue; } //change the direction of the nesting depth += closeForm.IsMatch(match.Value) ? -1 : 1; //if the nesting is back to zero we can assume this //is the correct tag if (depth == 0) { close = match; break; } } //remove the tags - make sure to start with the close tag //since this will affect the index of the Matches if (open is Match && close is Match) { rendered = rendered.Remove(close.Index, close.Length); rendered = rendered.Remove(open.Index, open.Length); }
With this code we can remove the Page Form from the page, but preserve all of the other forms so they can handle their postbacks however the see fit.
It's worth noting though, like removing the ViewState, postbacks and WebControls that rely on these features will most likely no longer work (or at least as expected).
Shorten Your IDs
ASP.NET 4.0 is going to offer some nice features to help developers push meaningful ID's down to the client. Right now IDs are generated by using the parents, parents, parents, etc, ID. It's great to avoid naming collisions - but it's horrible if you're trying to do anything client side. Not only that, but sometimes you end up with IDs on elements that you have no intention of working with so it's just wasted space.
Again, with a little Regular Expression magic, we can make changes to the IDs on our page.
//lastly, drop any unwanted IDs MatchCollection extraIds = Regex.Matches( rendered, @"<[^>]*actualId=""(?<id>[^""]*)""[^>]*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase ); //loop backwards to avoid affecting indexes on the matches for (int i = extraIds.Count; i-- > 0; ) { Match extra = extraIds[i]; //drop the unwanted parts string newElement = extra.Value; string newID = extra.Groups["id"].Value; //lastly, remove the actual ID field newElement = Regex.Replace( newElement, @"actualId=""[^""]*"" ?", string.Empty, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase ); //if the ID is blank, just remove it newElement = Regex.Replace(newElement, @"(id|name)=""[^""]*"" ?", (str) => { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(newID)) { return string.Empty; } return string.Concat( str.Value.StartsWith("id", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ? "id" : "name", "=\"", newID, "\" " ); }); //finally, replace the new string rendered = rendered.Remove(extra.Index, extra.Length); rendered = rendered.Insert(extra.Index, newElement); }
Clearly, this is a custom solution to say the least. The idea here is that we can now add the property "actualId" onto our controls and the id and name attributes will be updated to reflect that value. Additionally, our actualId attribute will be removed completely from the element.
You could adjust the code a little more to grab up all IDs that aren't flagged in some way to retain their ID.
It is fun to get in to your rendered output and make changes to what is sent to the client. You have a lot of power to completely change what your content looks like. But be careful - the more you change, the more likely you are to break the way ASP.NET works.
If you come up with some cool ways to use this, let me know!


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The PSAde is a vodka Aperol refresher with rounds of tangerine, blood orange, and cucumber muddled in for the brightest freshest flavor.
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The Octavio Pause, a pun that is meant to pay made homage to Mexico's legendary poet, philosopher, and author, Octavio Paz, is Miss Flighty's effort to make a Mexican Mojito. Cilantro takes the place of the mint and the tall summer refresher has a bit of heat, lime, zesty tangerine, the rhubarb spice Italian bitter Aperol, and the award-winning 100% blue agave tequila Gran Centanario as the drinks driving force. With a festive feel of afternoons at a seaside Mexican village, the Octavio Pause is a tasty alternative to the Cuban Mojito.
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Providence, R.I.-based Teespring, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows anyone to outsource the production and distribution costs involved with selling their own custom T-shirts, has raised $20 million in new funding in a round entirely led by Andreessen Horowitz. The funding, which closed around a month ago, will also see the firm's Lars Dalgaard joining Teespring's board.
First launched in 2012 by Brown grads Walker Williams and Evan Stites-Clayton, the idea for Teespring originally came about after Williams tried to save a local bar from shutting down by selling a "save the bar" custom T-shirt. He threw together a website to help with the effort, and soon became inundated with emails from other organizations who asked if he could build something like that for them, too.
Recalls Williams, "I didn't know entirely what it was at that time, or why it was that people were emailing me, but now I understand," he says. "It's about this evolution of e-commerce – to eliminate all of those barriers to entry that have kept people away from bringing their ideas to life."
That core idea is still embodied by Teespring today, he adds. The company aims to offer a so-called "frictionless" selling experience by handling things like production, distribution and customer service. "Our goal is to boil down selling to its most basic elements: great ideas and the people who will support them," Williams says.
Currently, Teespring is used by those who want to create and sell their own t-shirts or other apparel (like hoodies, for example) which the company's network of screen printers then produces. Teespring works with just a small handful of U.S.-based printers, Williams notes, including those that are also used by brands whose apparel is sold by larger retailers today.
"We want people to have the exact same quality as a Nike or a Reebok," he explains.
Longer-term, the company's vision is to allow anyone to create their own brand using Teespring – including products that will eventually extend well beyond apparel.
It's an idea that's about flipping e-commerce on its head essentially. Instead of having products produced that end up as overstock sold at discount or in outlets, Teespring lets customers create a shirt, then crowdfund its way to production by setting a goal (similar to a site like Kickstarter), which would be the minimum number needed to get the items printed.
Today, there are hundreds of entrepreneurs using the site to make a living, but the company declined to detail the overall size of the customer base, only noting there are "thousands" of campaigns launched daily.
Asked what prompted the investment (which Andreessen Horowitz was hoping to keep under wraps indefinitely), Dalgaard explains: "Any consumer walking off the street can now make a brand happen – anyone who has an idea can literally start manufacturing," he says.
And Dalgaard adds that he sees Teespring's potential as something that could eventually compete with the Amazons and eBays of the world, too, not just because of this idea of how e-commerce should work, but because of what Teespring does on the backend to consolidate all the different parts of e-commerce – logistics, supply chain, production, distribution, service, etc. – into a single electronic interface.
But despite his enthusiasm, the idea for custom-printed products crowdsourced their way into existence is far from a sure-fire success. Case in point – Teespring competitor Threadless just announced it had to lay off over a fourth of its staff in what founder and CEO Jake Nickell described as "one of the most difficult decisions in the 13 years since Threadless began." The company reportedly had grown revenue to $30 million by 2012. Meanwhile, another competitor, CustomInk, is approaching $200 million in revenues, operating in a similar space as Teespring.
Williams declined to provide an update on Teespring's revenue or growth, which would have been useful data points to put the new funding in context with the rest of the industry. However, back in October 2012, the company told us then they reached over half a million in sales following their April debut, and were quickly growing month-over-month. A later report from March 2013 said the company was seeing a 50 percent month-over-month growth rate, and had hit $750,000 in monthly revenue.
And by May 2013, the founders were telling The New York Times they had a larger goal than being a "$30-, $40-, $50 million business" – they were thinking more along the lines of becoming a billion-dollar company. Dalgaard thinks it can be bigger than that still.
Notably, this is Dalgaard's first investment with Andreessen Horowitz; he was previously founder and CEO at SuccessFactors. Now an a16z partner, he says he's looking for bigger ideas that could completely transform the way the world works today, not those from entrepreneurs "trying to catch a wave." The investment comes at a time when Andreessen Horowitz is doubling down on commerce and apparel, apparently, having just put $18.5 million into online fashion marketplace Twice, which also announced funding today.
As for Teespring, over the next year to 18 months, the plan is to grow the company, now a 70-person team working in both Providence and San Francisco, by adding more engineers, customer service reps, fulfillment personnel and more. Williams says the company will add new features to the service over the next year, including a way to become more "mobile-friendly" for sellers. He declined to discuss specifics around Teespring's forthcoming plans, talking instead about the company's high-level goals.
"In three years, two years, or whatever it might be, I hope we're an underlying layer in all of e-commerce," says Williams.


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Fire officials: Manorville wildfire has been extinguished
The Brookhaven brushfire that claimed more than 1,000 acres and nine properties over the past 24-plus hours has been extinguished, Manorville firefighters confirmed Tuesday night.
Local fire departments were called off the scene late Tuesday, though officials did not confirm when the fire was put out. Volunteers had spent the day containing the blaze and battling smaller flare ups in the area.
The evacuation order for Manorville residents south of Route 25, east of Wading River Manor Road and west of Edwards Avenue was lifted about 6:30 p.m. and the Long Island Power Authority restored power to the area, officials said.
Riverhead police have also "increased patrols in that area" to look out for further flare ups, said Riverhead Lt. David Lessard.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone expressed optimism that the fire would be extinguished at a media briefing in Calverton Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Bellone said earlier Tuesday that three homes and one commercial structure were destroyed in the fire, which began at Brookhaven National Laboratory Monday afternoon and spread southeast with several small fires popping up along the trail. About 1,000 acres burned, he said.
The Town of Riverhead announced Tuesday it would expedite any permits needed for homeowners who suffered damage in the fire. Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter said the town's Building Department has already begun to visit victims' homes.
"[If anybody submits a permit from the area] we'll put it to the top of the pile," Mr. Walter said. He also said the town will look into other forms of disaster relief, including potentially waiving permit fees.
Most of the structures damaged in the fire were in Riverhead Town, Mr. Walter said.
Rescue workers began dropping buckets of water from helicopters Tuesday morning to prevent the fire from spreading.
By Tuesday morning three fires remained, including two west of Shultz Road and one on Mill Road in Manorville, officials said. Mr Bellone said Tuesday afternoon that while those fires had been put out, firefighters continued to battle small flare ups.
Mr. Cuomo said that if not for the efforts of local volunteer firefighters "it could have been worse."
The fire started on an undeveloped part of Brookhaven National Laboratory, in the lab's northeast corner, according to Michael Bebon, deputy director for operations. He said no structures were damaged at the Lab and no Lab operations were interrupted.
Jerome Hauer, state Commissioner of Homeland Security, commended the quick response of thousands of volunteers Monday in attacking the fire.
"It was certainly a significant brush fire," he said. "It's because of their quick action that it has not grown further."
Mr. Bellone commended Manorville fire chief Elio Zapparata, who was in a dentist's chair when he got word of the fire and told the dentist to just pull the tooth out so he could go.
The Manorville Fire Department lost one truck in the fire, and a firefighter who was on that truck suffered burns and was taken to the Stony Brook University Medical Center.
Mr. Bellone said Tuesday morning that the firefighter, William Hille, 35, was "doing well and is in good spirits."
A hospital spokesperson said Mr. Hille was likely going to be discharged Tuesday night.
Manorville firefighter Andrew Preli said the fire was like nothing he's ever seen in his three years of volunteer service.
"I've been on a bunch of brush fires," he said. "Nothing this crazy, nothing this big.
"It sounded like a train coming through. Everywhere I looked something was on fire."
About 35 fire departments were still fighting the fire Tuesday afternoon, and more than 100 were on scene Monday, Mr. Bellone said.
The American Red Cross also was at the scene, operating an emergency shelter at the Riverhead Town senior citizen center in Aquebogue, according to John Miller, their Suffolk County director. He said 14 people used the shelter Monday and about four remained there Tuesday.
American Red Cross volunteers also brought "thousands of water bottles" and meals to fire fighters, he said.
"Most of all, I want to thank our volunteer fire fighters, who have been out here non-stop, fighting this fire since yesterday afternoon, and they are still out there working hard," Mr. Bellone said Tuesday morning. "They have been inspirational in what they have done."
"We've learned a lot of lessons from the wildfires of 1995 and post 9-11 about how we communicate and coordinate," he added. "And this effort here has been a perfect example of the importance of that coordination and effectiveness of the lessons learned."


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5 List handling
5.1 Creating a list
Lists can only be built starting from the end and attaching list elements at the beginning. If you use the ++ operator like this
List1 ++ List2
you will create a new list which is copy of the elements in List1, followed by List2. Looking at how lists:append/1 or ++ would be implemented in plain Erlang, it can be seen clearly that the first list is copied:
append([H|T], Tail) -> [H|append(T, Tail)]; append([], Tail) -> Tail.
So the important thing when recursing and building a list is to make sure that you attach the new elements to the beginning of the list, so that you build a list, and not hundreds or thousands of copies of the growing result list.
Let us first look at how it should not be done:
bad_fib(N) -> bad_fib(N, 0, 1, []). bad_fib(0, _Current, _Next, Fibs) -> Fibs; bad_fib(N, Current, Next, Fibs) -> bad_fib(N - 1, Next, Current + Next, Fibs ++ [Current]).
Here we are not a building a list; in each iteration step we create a new list that is one element longer than the new previous list.
To avoid copying the result in each iteration, we must build the list in reverse order and reverse the list when we are done:
tail_recursive_fib(N) -> tail_recursive_fib(N, 0, 1, []). tail_recursive_fib(0, _Current, _Next, Fibs) -> lists:reverse(Fibs); tail_recursive_fib(N, Current, Next, Fibs) -> tail_recursive_fib(N - 1, Next, Current + Next, [Current|Fibs]).
5.2 List comprehensions
Lists comprehensions still have a reputation for being slow. They used to be implemented using funs, which used to be slow.
In recent Erlang/OTP releases (including R12B), a list comprehension
[Expr(E) || E <- List]
is basically translated to a local function
'lc^0'([E|Tail], Expr) -> [Expr(E)|'lc^0'(Tail, Expr)]; 'lc^0'([], _Expr) -> [].
In R12B, if the result of the list comprehension will obviously not be used, a list will not be constructed. For instance, in this code
[io:put_chars(E) || E <- List], ok.
or in this code
. . . case Var of ... -> [io:put_chars(E) || E <- List]; ... -> end, some_function(...), . . .
the value is neither assigned to a variable, nor passed to another function, nor returned, so there is no need to construct a list and the compiler will simplify the code for the list comprehension to
'lc^0'([E|Tail], Expr) -> Expr(E), 'lc^0'(Tail, Expr); 'lc^0'([], _Expr) -> [].
5.3 Deep and flat lists
lists:flatten/1 builds an entirely new list. Therefore, it is expensive, and even more expensive than the ++ (which copies its left argument, but not its right argument).
In the following situations, you can easily avoid calling lists:flatten/1:
- When sending data to a port. Ports understand deep lists so there is no reason to flatten the list before sending it to the port.
- When calling BIFs that accept deep lists, such as list_to_binary/1 or iolist_to_binary/1.
- When you know that your list is only one level deep, you can can use lists:append/1.
Port example
... port_command(Port, DeepList) ...
... port_command(Port, lists:flatten(DeepList)) ...
A common way to send a zero-terminated string to a port is the following:
... TerminatedStr = String ++ [0], % String="foo" => [$f, $o, $o, 0] port_command(Port, TerminatedStr) ...
Instead do like this:
... TerminatedStr = [String, 0], % String="foo" => [[$f, $o, $o], 0] port_command(Port, TerminatedStr) ...
Append example
> lists:append([[1], [2], [3]]). [1,2,3] >
> lists:flatten([[1], [2], [3]]). [1,2,3] >
5.4 Why you should not worry about recursive lists functions
In the performance myth chapter, the following myth was exposed: Tail-recursive functions are MUCH faster than recursive functions.
To summarize, in R12B there is usually not much difference between a body-recursive list function and tail-recursive function that reverses the list at the end. Therefore, concentrate on writing beautiful code and forget about the performance of your list functions. In the time-critical parts of your code (and only there), measure before rewriting your code.
Important note: This section talks about lists functions that construct lists. A tail-recursive function that does not construct a list runs in constant space, while the corresponding body-recursive function uses stack space proportional to the length of the list. For instance, a function that sums a list of integers, should not be written like this
recursive_sum([H|T]) -> H+recursive_sum(T); recursive_sum([]) -> 0.
but like this
sum(L) -> sum(L, 0). sum([H|T], Sum) -> sum(T, Sum + H); sum([], Sum) -> Sum.


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A couple of days back, panties were bunched, fits were thrown, and "tiffs" were had in the Twitter-sphere of loyal fans to the neo-funk goddess Erykah Badu after the release of her very not safe for work video with friends and infrequent collaborators The Flaming Lips for their cover of "The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face)". The proverbial "shit" hit the fan after Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tweeted what looked like Badu in her birthday suit. Miss Badu was quick to clarify that the beautiful, glitter glazed naked body, in fact, was not hers, but that of her younger sister and best friend Nayrok. Although, she is undeniably naked in the soft-core sense in a few cut away scenes.
More important is the music. In this electric rendition on the Roberta Flack-made classic (the song was originally written by British songwriting couple Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger), the Lips turn the ballad into an ambient psych-rock drone-out with Erykah's reverberated soul as the cherry on top.


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Oscar Niemeyer
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- Born:
- December 15, 1907 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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- Praemium Imperiale (2004) Pritzker Prize (1988)
Oscar Niemeyer, in full Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho, (born December 15, 1907, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—died December 5, 2012, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian architect, an early exponent of modern architecture in Latin America, particularly noted for his work on Brasília, the new capital of Brazil.
Niemeyer studied architecture at the National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro. Shortly before he graduated in 1934, he entered the office of Lúcio Costa, a leader of the Modernist movement in Brazilian architecture. He worked with Costa from 1937 to 1943 on the design for the Ministry of Education and Health building, considered by many to be Brazil's first masterpiece of modern architecture. The design reveals the influence of the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier, who was a consultant on the construction. Niemeyer also worked with Costa on the plans for the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939–40.
Niemeyer's first solo project was the plan for a complex within Pampulha, a new suburb of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Commissioned in 1941 by Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, then mayor of Belo Horizonte, the scheme included a church, casino, dance hall, restaurant, yacht club, golf club, and the mayor's weekend retreat, all situated around an artificial lake. The complex's buildings are notable for their free-flowing forms. One writer described the facade of the church as resembling "the trajectory of a bouncing ball." In 1947 Niemeyer represented Brazil in the planning of the United Nations buildings in New York City.
When in 1956 Kubitschek was elected president of Brazil, he asked Niemeyer to design the new capital city of Brasília. Niemeyer agreed to design the government buildings but suggested a national competition for the master plan, a competition subsequently won by his mentor, Lúcio Costa. Niemeyer served as chief architect for NOVA-CAP, the government building authority in Brasília, from 1956 to 1961. Among the Brasília buildings designed by Niemeyer are the President's Palace, the Brasília Palace Hotel, the Ministry of Justice building, the presidential chapel, and the cathedral. In 1961 Niemeyer returned to private practice and for a time lived in Paris and Israel. In 1966 he designed an urban area in Grasse, near Nice, France, and a building for the French Communist Party in Paris. From 1968 he lectured at the University of Rio de Janeiro.
Niemeyer's other architectural projects include the Ministry of Defense building in Brasília in 1968 and Constantine University (now Mentouri University) in Constantine, Algeria, in 1969. In the mid-1980s he began rethinking and renovating some of his former designs in Brasília. He changed the shape of the exterior arches on the Ministry of Justice building and replaced the windows of the cathedral with stained-glass panels. He continued to design new buildings, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Brazil, which opened in 1996. Even after celebrating his 100th birthday and despite criticism that his newer work lacked the elegance of his earlier projects, in 2007 he began designing a cultural centre for Avilés, Spain, where in 1989 he had received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. The building was inaugurated in 2011.
Niemeyer was the recipient of many other international awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963, the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1988 (cowinner with Gordon Bunshaft), and the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture in 2004. The Oscar Niemeyer Foundation, dedicated to architectural preservation and research, was founded in 1988, and a new headquarters designed by Niemeyer opened in Niterói in 2010.


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Walking plays a fundamental role in our transportation system, with 11 percent of all trips made on foot, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Neighborhoods that rank high for walkability (where walking is safe and convenient) enjoy a greater sense of community and higher property values, note recent studies.
Another benefit of walking is better health. Studies document that moderate physical activity like a daily stroll can cut rates of heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and colon cancer by at least 40 percent, and save more than $100 billion a year in health care costs according to the American Public Health Association.
So why don't Americans walk more? We take about half as many steps each day as Australians.
It's not that we're lazy. In the decades after World War II an historic transformation of America's population occurred as millions of Americans moved from walkable cities and small towns to suburbs. By the year 2000 the average American adult was driving about 14,000 miles per year and spending more than 212 hours per year commuting in a car -- the equivalent of five work weeks. At the same time we redesigned our communities based on the notion that walking was an outmoded activity. Walking for both transportation and recreation went into decline.
The result is that today traveling on foot can often feel unsafe or unpleasant. Walking is a basic human instinct, but climbing into vehicles has become second nature to most Americans of all ages for going to work, getting to school, seeing friends, shopping, even exercise.
This automobile-dominated way of life has triggered some ominous consequences. Obesity and related diseases escalate. Social connection and community vitality decline. Greenhouse gases disrupt our climate. Families are forced to devote a high percentage of their income to own two or more cars, while those who can't afford one miss out on economic and social opportunities. Many children, seniors and differently-abled people live under a form of house arrest.
Fortunately Americans are now rediscovering walking and our communities are becoming more walkable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Americans walked six percent more in 2010 than in 2005. The Millennial Generation (people born between 1980 and 2000), in particular, show a strong desire to live in communities where they can get around easily on foot.
The public health and urban planning professions are now joining forces to promote health by creating more walkable communities, just as they did in the late 19th century to improve urban sanitation. Meanwhile grassroots efforts are growing in cities, suburbs and small towns to make communities safer and more comfortable for all of us to walk. Numerous health and community organizations from across the U.S. are gathering in Washington D.C., this week for the national Walking Summit to launch a full-fledged walking movement.
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The Detroit Lions' offseason of arrests continued this weekend as Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press confirmed that cornerback Aaron Berrywas arrested and charged in Harrisburg, Pa., on Saturday morning on three counts of simple assault.
Harrisburg Police Cpl. Lydell Muldrow told the Free Press that Berry brandished a gun at three people after the driver of his rental vehicle nearly backed into them as they tried to cross the street.
"They jumped out of the street, the back window came down and a person that they described as Aaron Berry pointed a handgun with a laser sight at them and then pulled off," Muldrow told the Free Press. "We located the weapon. The weapon was in close proximity to him if not on him –- that I can't confirm whether he actually had it on his person –- but it was in the vehicle and it was registered to him. It was his weapon and it was the only weapon in the vehicle described by the independent witnesses who did not know who he was or anything about him."
Berry also was arrested in Harrisburg less than one month ago on suspicion of DUI. Berry was scheduled to enter a diversionary program that could have resulted in having the DUI charges expunged from his record. As Birkett notes, this weekend's arrest jeopardizes that deal.
Berry's latest charges pull him even with teammates Mikel Leshoure and Nick Fairley with two arrests each this offseason. Leshoure wrapped up his legal proceedings for his two marijuana-related arrests and was suspended two games and fined two additional game checks. Thus far, Fairley and Berry haven't been disciplined by the NFL. The collective bargaining agreement stipulates that should another player be suspended without pay, the Lions will send a portion of the lost money to the NFL, according to NFL Network's Albert Breer.
Signed by the Lions as an undrafted free agent out of Pittsburgh in 2010, Berry made the team's 53-man roster as a rookie and was a Week 1 starter, totaling three tackles and an interception in his NFL debut. However, Berry was injured in that game and placed on season-ending injured reserve the following week.
In 2011, Berry started three of 11 games, playing in nearly 36 percent of the Lions' defensive snaps and recording 30 tackles and 11 passes defensed. With Eric Wright moving on in free agency, Berry was penciled in as a starter opposite Chris Houston this season.
Multiple arrests and the NFL discipline that will come with it could keep Berry from making that next step in his career, particularly with the Lions. Weary of multiple arrests this offseason, the Lions could step in and discipline Berry themselves, measures that could include placing him on waivers to send an "enough is enough" message to the rest of the team.
"We are extremely disappointed by the reports involving Aaron Berry," the team's statement read, via the Lions' official website. "We are currently gathering more information and will have further comment when appropriate."
Corky Goldstein, Berry's lawyer, told The Associated Press: "I would just hope that everybody just holds their judgment on this matter. There's a lot more to this situation. ... I know Aaron is very upset over this whole situation. Let's give the opportunity for all the facts to come out."


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When Five Sixty first opened in Reunion Tower about 3 1/2 years ago, I was blown away by the food — tender pork-belly dumplings; juicy morsels of suckling pig; crisp-hot salt-and-pepper calamari with pea shoots; gingery Shanghai-style Maine lobster. The outsized, bursting-with-flavor Asian fusion plates, brilliantly executed by then-chef Sara C. Johannes, clearly amounted to five-star cooking. Only serious service issues stood between Five Sixty and a five-star review.
Now, with a different chef in charge (Patton Robertson, who's been running the kitchen since 2010), a general manager who took over last year (Bruce Wills) and a menu that continues to evolve (a dim-sum brunch will be launched Sept. 16), it feels like the moment to check in again.
It's hard not to get excited going to Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck. First there's the dizzying ride up 560 feet in a glass elevator, then the spectacular views of Dallas as the dining room slowly revolves and then plates that, at their best, can dazzle. It still adds up to one of the most compelling nights out to be had in a Big D restaurant, whether you're a Dallasite celebrating a special occasion or a visitor looking for the best of what the city has to offer.
Surprisingly, that includes some of the best cocktails in town. If, like me, you suspect the craft cocktail movement may have run its course, that things are getting too complicated, too precious, too sweet, the drinks at Five Sixty will have you thinking again. They certainly have pizazz, as in a Pepino's Revenge — Patron Silver tequila with Japanese cucumber, basil, lime juice and a wee touch of simple syrup, or a Rolling Fog, which blends 12-year-old Hibiki whiskey with Aperol, lemon juice and egg white. Careful mixing keeps them sophisticated and polished, and both are served on a crystal-clear hunk of hand-chipped ice. They're beautiful drinks, and they pair well with house-made Japanese pickled vegetables from the sushi menu, or a trio of sashimi, all expertly cut from top-quality fish. We chose albacore, snapper and hamachi — a good sampler, the first two sauced gently with yuzu ponzu, the hamachi naked. They came with a frilly seaweed salad.
Generally, though, Five Sixty's appetizers don't have the same impact they used to. Those morsels of suckling pig, cooked to the point of falling apart when you pick them up with chopsticks, are not the succulent little miracles they used to be, though a dusky-bright flavored plum purée revives them somewhat. I feel the same way about the pork belly pot stickers that used to burst with juiciness. Now they're satisfying, if not exciting, mouthfuls, enveloped in wrappers more supple than fragile, browned to just-crunchy and set on a nice little black vinegar sauce flecked with Fresno chiles.
A row of crisp sesame cones filled with spicy tuna tartare and topped with a flurry of shaved bonito and delicately crunchy tobiko (flying fish roe) arrives in a metal holder. The presentation feels dated, and the cones are sweet enough for dessert — not the way I'd spend $17 in the future. "Chinois-style" chicken salad is just as nostalgic, recalling the dish from Puck's iconic Santa Monica, Calif., restaurant Chinois on Main, founded in 1983 and still going strong — that's slices of roasted chicken on Asian greens dressed in a lively Chinese mustard vinaigrette and flanked by mounds of candied cashews. Nothing exciting or forward-looking, but it's nicely done.
Lamb samosas are bolder — tender pastries filled with beautifully spiced sautéed lamb that are even better when pulled through the two sauces mingling on the plate, a cardamom-scented cucumber raita and emerald-green chile-mint oil.
It's disappointing that the starters don't make a stronger impression, especially as appetizers are usually the course with which chefs express their creativity most freely.
Here the ideas play out more convincingly on a larger canvas: the main course. Take the wok-fried whole sea bass. What an incredible presentation! A waiter, not our regular server but a specialist in the art of filleting, presents the gorgeous whopper of fish (about 2 pounds), fried to a lovely, pale gold. He then fillets it tableside, somehow managing not to compromise its wonderful crispness, and putting the two perfect sides back together minus the bones. It's a tremendous performance, and a great dish, the fish delicately sweet, infused with ginger and cilantro. It's even better with its shallot-chile-ginger sauce spooned over. It does, however, deserve an accompaniment more interesting than plain rice.
That's true too for the lacquered Chinese duckling, whose lo mein noodles in plum wine sauce are a shrug. The duck's crisp, crackling skin is superb, but I wish the flesh — which has terrific flavor — could be a little more succulent.
No such reservations with the quail, carved into manageable pieces, crisply fried in a super-light batter, set on a fruity chile-soy sauce and topped with a lively Asian slaw. Go ahead — pick up one of those perfectly sized, juicy pieces by the bone with your fingers and go to town.
Of course there's beef, but Five Sixty's grilled New York strip was considerably less compelling than Assam curry prawns, one of my favorite dishes. These huge shrimp are stunningly good quality, swimmingly fresh, perfectly cooked; they luxuriate in a rich, lightly coconutty curry sauce. Jasmine rice to soak up all that wonderful sauce makes more sense with this dish.
The formal, highly orchestrated tableside service has improved at Five Sixty, but it's still uneven. One night there's a wait for everything — menus, cocktails, appetizers, main courses. Another night, the timing's right on the money and the service is outstanding. One night there's no one available to explain a wine we're curious about; another night a sommelier appears with well-considered advice after a server fakes his way through a description. It's an interesting list, offering not just whites that work with the Asian flavors but also some more unusual light reds, like a 2009 Joguet "Cuvée Terrroir," a Chinon from France's Loire Valley.
And huge though the main courses are, you don't want to skip dessert: Isla Vargas, who has served as pastry chef from Day One, provides some very persuasive endings indeed — a baked Alaska surrounded by brilliant sautéed strawberries, a delicately flavored coconut cream pie on a flaky crust. But best of all is a bittersweet chocolate soufflé, which stands tall and proud even as the waiter pours in chocolate sauce and adds a scoop of gianduja gelato.
It's just the kind of climactic finish you want in a place that's not just a Dallas landmark, but one of the city's finest and most engaging restaurants.
Follow Leslie Brenner on Twitter at @lesbren.
Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck (4-stars)
Price: $$$$ (sushi menu $8 to $39, appetizers $14 to $19, main courses $35 to $63, desserts $13 to $15; seven-course tasting menu $135 per person, $200 per person with wine pairings)
Service: The formal, highly orchestrated service can be quite impressive, but it's very uneven. Tableside filleting of fish, priming of wine glasses or serving of a soufflé can be quite a show.
Ambience: The striking, contemporary dining room at the top of Reunion Tower slowly revolves, offering dazzling views of the city.
Noise level: Pleasantly buzzy, with music playing at a reasonable level, so normal conversation isn't difficult. The choice of music can be perplexing, though: On one visit, Pink Floyd played all evening.
Location: 300 Reunion Blvd., Dallas. 214-741-5560. wolfgangpuck.com/restaurants.
Hours: Dinner Monday-Thursday 5:30 to
10 p.m., Friday-Saturday 5:30 to 11 p.m. Bar and lounge are open Monday-Thursday 5:30 to 11 p.m., Friday-Saturday 5:30 to midnight. Brunch Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Reservations: Accepted up to two months in advance. Please see restaurant's website for business casual dress code.
Credit cards: All major
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Alcohol: Full bar. The craft cocktails are some of the most polished and sophisticated in town. A pricey, 18-page wine list offers interesting whites and light reds that work well with the Asian flavors, along with sakes and the expected big-ticket trophy wines.


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It sure beats playing as another damn space marine. Overview: To fully understand Prey we must take a look at the engine it's built on. Prey runs on the Doom 3 engine. It is common knowledge, though many of you won't admit it, that id Software hasn't made a good game since Quake 2. Sure, we all bought Quake 3 because, hey, we still owe them for Doom. But shooting rockets at each other's feet over and over again is as much fun as swimming in an above ground pool, let's be honest here. That arena shit gets old fast and Unreal Tournament did it better anyway.
John Carmack is the smartest guy on the planet and will someday be the first civilian to build a rocket and blast himself off into space. He builds great game engines. The thing they actually release for sale is the tech demo. It takes another company to come along and make a good game with those engines.
The Quake engine begat Half-Life. The Quake 2 engine paved the way for, uhm, never mind... The Quake 3 engine gave birth to Call of Duty. And now the Doom 3 engine has spawned Prey.
I've been waiting for this game for nine years. I first saw it in a PC Gamer in 1996 and the talk of portal technology made my little 13-year-old pecker rock hard. Unfortunately, technical problems put the brakes on development and my boner went flaccid.
As it turns out, getting cancelled was the best thing for Prey. These days, games have graphics that actually look like the things they are supposed to look like. Can you imagine what would have happened if this game came out when it was supposed to? It would have been a disaster bigger than Sin if you could believe that. Just what in the hell is this? Everybody complains about overused bloom and HDR effects today but do you really think that's worse than badly done colored lighting? Give me a break!
Well, good news, Prey is back and so is my raging erection! Read on to find out what I thought about the demo because my opinion is just so important to you.
Story: The demo begins with an impressive display of positive comments about the game from gaming publications such as Gamespot and Game Informer. I know I'm convinced! Getting a magazine or web site to say nice things about your game is as easy as making a game and planning to release it sometime in the future. It's not uncommon to see a magazine talk about the next Star Wars game that's "going to revolutionize the franchise" and then four months later when the review comes out it's "Surprise surprise, another shitty Star Wars game!"
Prey tells the story of a disgruntled Native American named Tommy who becomes abducted by an advanced race of alien creatures. Contrary to popular belief not all Native American peoples are rolling in that sweet, sweet Indian casino cash. On a recent episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit the fat one revealed that the annual 18.5 billion dollar take from Indian gaming is only going to a small percentage of Native American tribes, and the one who doesn't talk made funny faces at the camera while wearing an Indian chief hat. This sorry state of affairs causes Tommy to beat up strangers with a wrench and whine about his terrible life to his grandfather and girlfriend (played by Nelly Furtado).
This is how they pick up on bar chicks in space. Before we can get another dose of Tommy's exciting personality the entire bar is engulfed by an alien space ship, the pilot of which saw a really wicked pickup truck and just had to have it. Soon everyone in the bar is riding on an alien roller coaster ride.
While everyone here at Something Awful is cynical and we're supposed to hate everything I must say that I was really impressed by the introduction to the space ship. The guys at Humanhead really outdid themselves this time by creating an exciting and believable alien world. Though anything short of shitting in a CD sleeve and sticking it in a box would have outdone Dead Man's Hand.
I could have done without the chick though. I mean, how dumb could she be? "Tommy, what are those things?!" How in the hell is he supposed to know? "Tommy, those things, did they call ahead? Do they happen to know you?! Do you owe them money?" And her incessant praying. Tommy, the mechanic hero, is trying to think here! Man, remind me to never get abducted by aliens with a woman.
Luckily a mysterious stranger comes along and throws a wrench in the aliens' plans by blowing up the track. Down falls Tommy into the half-solid, half-colon spaceship. I'm not kidding folks, this is one advanced alien species. Aliens scientists have once and for all harnessed the power of the sphincter. More on that in the gameplay section.
Though unusually long for a demo it ends all too soon and we are left to wonder what will become of Tommy and his chatty elfen she-male girlfriend. Will she be grinded into a tasty alien stew? Will Tommy ever tell Jen he loves her? Or will they Halo 2 us out of a proper ending and set it up for a sequel set for release in 2015?
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Hidden Netflix Gems: The Baader Meinhof Complex
This week's Hidden Netflix Gem: "The Baader Meinhof Complex" (2008)
Rebels? Radicals? Criminals? Heroes? Martyrs? Murderers? Victims? Villains? Icons?
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" is a 2008 film detailing the early history of a West German far-left extremist group who named themselves the Red Army Faction. To the public however, the group was generally known as the "Baader Meinhof Gang." The nickname was a media invention centered around two of the group's foremost members: ringleader Andreas Baader and former journalist Ulrike Meinhof. Both the film and the 1985 non-fiction book by Stefan Aust on which it is based altered the label to include the word "Complex" because they focus not just on the gang itself but on the tangled labyrinth that was the collective German psyche just 20 years after the death of Adolf Hitler—a volatile environment that was as instrumental in the eventual creation of the group as its members themselves.
The Red Army Faction was founded in 1970 (although the film begins three years earlier) by the radicalized "children of the Nazi generation who had grown up in the ruin their parents created." The group's early goals were strikingly similar to those of the American counter-cultural (or "hippie") movement, on paper anyway. They spoke out against Western imperialism and its chief contemporary example, the war in Vietnam. But what makes the RAF so intriguing is that while the American peace movement sputtered out with a whimper, the gang refused to die, with a bang or otherwise. Its members do not give up when its goals cannot be met through peaceful protest—they saw that as a foregone conclusion. Rather, they are always willing to fight, always willing to take it to the next level. And that's where the intrigue comes from. First it's destroying property, all the while ensuring that no one comes to harm. But before you (or the more cautious characters) know it, it's shootouts with police, killing innocent civilians, even hijacking a plane, and all in the name of justice and equality. As such, "The Baader Meinhof Complex" is a look at the most slippery of slopes, how one thing leads to another, how the goals you're fighting for and your principles regarding what you're willing to do to accomplish them can be crystal clear one day and so terribly confused the next.
Up there in bold is a quote from the film's trailer (see it below). It asks which, if any of those words, correctly describes the Red Army Faction. Of course, all that asking is very much rhetorical. Anyone who's heard of the Baader-Meinhof Gang is likely to have a different opinion of them. Whether they were rebels or criminals, heroes or villains and so on, is all in the eye of the beholder.
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" has been certified fresh and currently sits at an 85 percent on the Tomatometer. Furthermore, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards. Although anyone who's not a big fan of German cinema is unlikely to see any familiar faces (the only actor I knew was Bruno Ganz, having seen him play Adolf Hitler in "Downfall"), the film is still highly enjoyable. The real world tends to be a tad more boring than the movies, so often historical filmmakers must sacrifice reality for drama or vice-versa. "The Baader Meinhof Complex" is the rare film that refuses to forfeit either, blending historical accuracy with intrinsic excitement value and characters so well-developed you're almost able to understand their thinking by the end. Almost. Despite its two and a half hour running time, "Baader Meinhof" is incredibly fast paced, I suppose it has to be when attempting to squeeze ten years of intimate detail into a feature film. It might be hard to keep up at times, and you will have to read subtitles, but it's well worth it at the end, when you've earned the right to make the decision about which (if any) of those bold words correctly describes the RAF.
Check out the trailer below and follow the writer on Twitter @NateKreichman.
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November 7, 2012—After Hurricane Sandy ripped through the New Jersey coast, the Manasquan United Methodist Church was left without power, but the Rev. Reggie Albert was determined that her church wouldn't be powerless.
She started with the simple act of opening the doors. "I wasn't sure what I would do, but I knew I wanted to open the church."
The next day, she set up a generator, and four people gathered at the church before dawn to make a "simple breakfast" for a dozen or so people.
It grew into a feast for the masses. "We fed 300 people that morning," she said, "and food just kept coming in."
Was it a miracle? It's the miracle of volunteers who are in the right place at the right time. That's sometimes hard to come by, particularly in the emergency phase of a disaster, when it's too early for trained Early Response Teams to deploy, too early to organize and house out-of-state volunteers, and too early for hurricane survivors to even know exactly what they need.
During this chaotic phase, faith-based response depends on churches that open their doors because the volunteers behind those doors are reaching out, said Tom Hazelwood, UMCOR's assistant general secretary for US Disaster Response.
"There is never any reason for neighbors not to help neighbors," he said.
At the same time, it's often complicated in the emergency phase to even attempt to match up rapidly-changing needs of disaster survivors with volunteers who are aching to help and become frustrated when they can't, he added.
"Volunteers are the lifeblood of the United Methodist response," he said. "It is key for long-term recovery that you are set up to be able to receive volunteers."
The Greater New Jersey Conference is doing just that, said Bishop John Schol, who consulted with Hazelwood as he mapped out a response plan.
The conference is in the process of setting up a website on which volunteers can register and sign up to travel to New Jersey, said Schol, who got power back in his own home only a day ago.
Sending the right message to volunteers is never easy. Sometimes, especially in the first few weeks after a disaster strikes, a spontaneous local response reaches disaster survivors at just the right time.
"This is the way it's going to be for a while," he said. "We're in a crisis. There are no easy answers and no quick fixes."
But the hurricane survivors will get there, he said. Meanwhile, out of the chaos, the miracles emerge.
At St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Bay Head, volunteers are serving meals for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Rev. Scott Bostwick had no idea his church would be asked by local emergency management officials to become the meal provider for the town.
As he watches trays of food being carried off of vans into the church, Bostwick said he has relied on volunteers to help his church become the town's relief center.
"Half my congregation can't even get into town," he said. "But these volunteers are helping the whole town of Bay Head. "I have no idea who they are, but they're helping."
Your gift to UMCOR US Disaster Response, Hurricanes 2012, Advance #3021787, will help UMCOR to be with storm survivors over the long term of their recovery.
*Susan Kim is a journalist and a regular contributor for www.umcor.org.
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Samsung NP370R5V
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Reviews for the Samsung NP370R5V
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Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/11/2013
Rating: Total score: 78% display: 60% mobility: 100% workmanship: 90% emissions: 70%
It has come a long way for Samsung in the Laptop market and Samsung is now one of the biggest names out there. Hence it isn't a surprise to see Samsung pushing out laptops in all sizes available. The series-3 is one of the examples of Samsung's strategy to gain its market share in the laptop category. With a 17-inch display, it serves well for those who tend to use their laptop as a desktop replacement. However, unlike its competitors, Samsung has decided to offer the series-3 in many variants, stretching the price range of this series. It serves well for those who use it just as a multimedia device or even for gamers. The good thing about this laptop is the choice of hardware customization it offers. The Samsung series-3 laptop can be purchased with a AMD processor or even with Intel's i3, i5 or i7. At the price Samsung is selling it for, it is definitely a better choice over its competitors.
However, it does have some downsides to it. Being a budget friendly device, it doesn't really offer any kind of luxury look or even anything remotely close to class. We've seen much cheaper laptops with lower spec which manages to push better looks. The built quality also shouts budget. They've tried to make the plastic exterior look like brushed metal but they seem to have failed at deceiving our eyes. Another huge let down is its low quality display. When all other competitors have started fitting full-HD displays for laptops this size, the series-3 only comes with a 1600 x 900 pixels display. A full-HD display would cost more and only comes with the higher range models. Nonetheless, the Samsung series-3 is still something to consider when you're choosing a bigger, budget-friendly laptop.
AMD Radeon HD 8750M: Mid-range graphics card based on the GCN architecture.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
3110M: Ivy-Bridge-based dual-core, 2.4 GHz core clock (no turbo), includes HD 4000 GPU» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2 kg:
This weight is typical for very old and big tablets, subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 11-13 inch display-diagonal; nowadays, rather typical for 15 inch laptops.
Samsung: The Samsung Group is composed of numerous international businesses, all united under the Samsung brand in South Korea. The meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "tristar" or "three stars". The Samsung brand is one of the most important brands of South Korea. Samsung is an international notebook manufacturer of medium size according market shares and reviews.
In 2015 and 2016, Samsung had a market share of around 24-25% in the global smartphone market and was undisputed market leader. In the laptop sector, Samsung is on the 8th place in the global manufacturer rankings from 2014-2016 with 1.7-2.7%.
In 2016 Samsung slipped into a crisis due to exploding smartphone batteries and a failed recall action.
78%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
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President Barack Obama today returned to the South Side and cast an early vote near his Kenwood home.
While at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Bronzeville, Obama bantered with the election judge when he presented his ID.
"Now ignore the fact that there's no gray hair on that picture," the Democratic president told the elections official. He added: "I'm just glad I renewed my driver's license."
Obama then made a pitch for early voting that was clearly aimed at voters in states where the outcome will be tighter than in his home state.
"For all of you who have not yet early voted, I just want everybody to see what an incredibly efficient process this was thanks to the outstanding folks who are at this particular polling place," the president said. "Obviously, folks in Illinois can take advantage of this. But all across the country we're seeing a lot of early voting."
"It means you don't have to figure out whether you need to take time off work, figure out how to pick up the kids and still cast a ballot," he added. "If something happens on election day you will have already taken care of it. If it's bad weather you won't get wet. Or in Chicago, snowy. But this was really convenient."
"I can't tell you who I voted for. But I very much appreciate everybody here. It's good to be home back in the neighborhood," he said.
Obama also stopped at a campaign office in Hyde Park this afternoon. He told campaign workers in the office at the corner of Harper Avenue and Hyde Park Boulevard that voter turnout will determine the presidential election.
"Now the good news is, if our voters do turn out, we will definitely win the election," Obama told volunteers. Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have both shifted into "get out the vote" mode as Election Day nears. The president's special stop in Chicago to cast an early ballot was an opportunity for him to urge supporters in swing states to do the same.
The president then spoke on the phone to a campaign volunteer in Iowa.
It was a short stay. The president departed Chicago on Air Force One two hours after he touched down. The president's plane left O'Hare international Airport at 5:30 p.m.
Obama is the first sitting president to cast an in-person early ballot.
Democrats have been aggressively trying to gain an advantage over Republicans in states that allow early voting. When Obama announced that he would be voting early, he said on Twitter, "If your state has early voting, join me," and directed followers to a link with more information about early voting.
Obama dominated early voting in 2008, giving him an edge over Republican John McCain well before Election Day.
In Colorado, Florida, Iowa and North Carolina, for example, Obama banked so many votes early in the process that he won each state even though he lost the Election Day vote, according to voting data compiled by The Associated Press.
Obama has repeatedly urged supporters to vote early, placing an emphasis on absentee and early voting during recent rallies in battleground states such as Florida, Iowa and Ohio. The strategy aims to free up campaign workers and volunteers on Nov. 6 to focus on a smaller number of potential supporters and make sure they get to the polls.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign has targeted supporters who don't typically vote in every election, placing a premium on getting those voters to cast early ballots. Most of Romney's remaining supporters would be people who are much more likely to vote, regardless of whether they are contacted by the campaign.
Obama's campaign has tried to bolster in-person early voting in states where that is already under way and reduce Republicans' typical advantage in absentee voting. Democrats lead Republicans in Iowa in vote-by-mail ballots and in-person early voting; in Ohio, Democrats have requested and cast more ballots than Republicans. In Florida, Obama's campaign has cut into the GOP's advantage in absentee ballots.
Analysts estimate that about one-third of all voters could cast their ballots before Election Day.
Contributing: Associated Press


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25 HP US Motors Close Coupled Pump Motor 3600 RPM 284JM Frame TEFC with Removable Base
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For the specific requirements of centrifugal pumps where the pump impeller is mounted directly on the motor shaft.
Used in damp, dusty or dirty environments.
- Class F Insulation, Class B Rise At Full Load On 60 Hertz Sine Wave Power
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- 40°C Ambient, NEMA®† Design B Performance On 60 Hertz Sine Wave Power
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Valve has been keeping track of the people currently playing the beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Not just who's winning and who's losing, but really interesting stuff, like where everyone is standing when they pull the trigger.
The Week In Games: What's Coming Out Beyond Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
The result of that kind of data-tracking is this glorious map (of de_train), showing exactly where players were when they decided to up and shoot somebody. As you can see, some spots are relatively tranquil. Others, well, they're battlegrounds. Or, to be more correct, since this is tracking where people were standing, campsites.
The Science of CS:GO [Valve, via PC Gamer]


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Today I read about a free iPhone app called Email 'n Walk. There are tons of iPhone apps out there, of course, many of them for free or super cheap. But this one caught my eye, in an oh-no-they-didn't kind of way. The app's goal is to make it possible for you to see the ground you're walking on (via the iPhone's camera) as you type an e-mail on your iPhone and walk at the same time.
No word yet when this app will automatically cause the iPhone to ring as you approach an open manhole cover. While we wait for that functionality to be added, let's move on to three iPhone apps I actually find useful, especially for mobile professionals and other frequent travelers.
1. Jott
I've raved about Jott before. Reason: It's one of the most useful productivity tools for those times when you're on the go. And the iPhone app is a nice complement to the service.
In a nutshell, the Jott Assistant service ($4 to $13 monthly; $7 for 5 minutes in a pay-as-you-go plan) allows you to create a quick voice memo to yourself, or to someone in your contacts, over the phone. The message is quickly, and most often accurately, transcribed and sent to you (or others) as an e-mail or text message. Jott lets you maintain to-do lists, add appointments to your Microsoft Outlook or Google calendar, create a Twitter tweet, and a lot more–all by phone.
The free Jott iPhone app puts an easy-to-use interface on the Jott Assistant service. You can start a new voice recording with just a couple of taps on the screen, for instance, which is ideal if you're moving around. I subscribe to the $4 monthly Jott Assistant plan, and I highly recommend it, though I wish you could leave messages longer than 15 seconds. (For that, you have to upgrade to the $13 monthly plan, which feels a bit too pricey for me.)
2. WiFi Directory
Frankly, none of the Wi-Fi hot spot finder iPhone apps I've tried do a consistently fantastic job. But WiFi Directory ($2) is fairly comprehensive and relatively up-to-date, which is more than I can say for JiWire's free Wi-Fi Finder app.
Both apps use your current GPS location to show you a list of nearby hot spots. Of course, you can get this information just by opening your iPhone's Settings, clicking Wi-Fi, and viewing the list of available networks. However, WiFi Directory also shows you at a glance which nearby Wi-Fi hot spots are free, which is the main reason why I rely on this app when sniffing out a wireless connection on the go.
3. White Noise Lite
I've become addicted to falling asleep to white noise. It's soothing, and it blocks out ambient sounds. I'm especially in need of my white noise when on a plane (I've got to block the sounds of the inevitable screeching toddler) or staying in a hotel. The free White Noise Lite does the trick for me.
The app comes with ten sounds, some of which I love (White Noise and Oscillating Fan), and a few of which I loathe (someone stop that tick-tocking Grandfather Clock!). There's also a White Noise Lite Storm Edition (99 cents), which lets you control the volume level of various storm elements (wind, rain, and thunder), and White Noise ($2), which offers more sounds, such as Cat Purring, Frogs, Pink Noise (seriously!), and Brown Noise (I don't want to know).
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Aside from games and entertainment apps, what are the iPhone apps you can't live without? Which ones make your life easier on the go? Tell me about them.
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