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Walid and Madeline and all of your team here, thank you so much for welcoming us and thank you to our patients, Sandra and Duncan in particular with whom we spoke earlier.
It is often said that it takes a village to raise a child, but you know it also takes a team to look after a person's health. A team - doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, specialists, endocrinologists we were speaking with earlier is a good example. And it does take a team and what Walid and Madeline have been able to do here is bring together a team of professionals, each of whom is focused on the health of their patients and that's what, of course, Sussan and I and Alex are focused on.
The goal of all of our policies is Australians living more healthily, longer, happily. We want the health and happiness of Australians is the objective of our health care policies. Now, what you are seeing here is an integrated holistic approach to health care. The Medicare system, the medical Medicare Benefits Schedule, as you know, pays doctors on the basis of consultations, of one episode after another. And care is actually more complex than that, it is more integrated than that. And so what Sussan has developed, with Stephen Hambleton, with the AMA is a new approach which we have called Health Care Homes, and we are launching - Sussan will describe it in more detail in a moment - 10 of these as trial sites, trial areas today and one of them is in the Western Sydney Primary Health Care Network, which is where we are now. And this approach will allow doctors when they're treating chronic patients with chronic conditions who of course naturally have the most consultations and consequently have the most charges through the Medicare system, naturally, because they need more support and more health care, but these chronic patients will be able to be treated on the basis of a more holistic basis and the practices will be rewarded or paid on a quarterly basis.
So it is ensuring that the Medicare Benefits System, the payment system is better supportive of the type of practice that Walid and his team with Madeline here have here at this practice.
So we believe it is a very important reform. It will ensure a more integrated approach to health care. It will ensure that patients like Sandra and Duncan continue to get the type of integrated care they have to date. It will ensure that fewer patients present with acute conditions to hospitals, and of course that is by far the most expensive part of our health care system - so that is an important consideration, but it is also under pressure. So the more we can get done at the primary level, the better.
So this is a very important reform. It is focused on ensuring better health outcomes for Australians. That's the objective, and we believe it will, if this trial succeeds and Sussan hopes to have this underway in the first half of next year. We believe this will infect a very significant element of support for the type of practices, the type of integrated care we've seen here and that has been so successful here and in many other parts of Australia, too. So I will now introduce the Health Minister to speak in more detail about the Health Care Homes policy.
Thank you Prime Minister, thank you Alex. Thank you Walid and Madeline for having us here and thank you to your patients for allowing all of us in. It's often said that - well, I'm often asked what makes a world class health system and we want our health system to be the envy of the world. It is of course the clinicians, the doctors, the nurses, the allied health professionals, the people who patients sit and talk to, the people who deliver the care.
What we want to do in Government is to enable the system to deliver the best care possible for the patient, the best clinical care, the best wrapped-around consultation, ability for every individual to get what they need at the right time, and in the right place. So by having a Health Care Home, think of it as your GP family doctor - when I first met you Dr Jamal, you said: "I know all my patients and my patients know me." That stuck in my mind because that symbolises what we do want to achieve here.
As the Prime Minister said we are in the Western Sydney Primary Health Network. Ten Primary Health Networks across Australia will be the trial sites for our Health Care Homes model. 65,000 patients will be enrolled in about 200 practices. They will be part of the top 20 per cent of patients in Australia with chronic and complex conditions. They will be the first ones to deliver, to help us build the model with the doctors, with the practitioners, with the practices, build the model of care that works well, and I'm really keen for this to happen quickly. I've got my department and my staff and everyone I talk to really engaged with this because the sooner we can get there, the better off patients will be. This is part of us making the health dollar work as hard as it possibly can with one thing in mind, patient-centred care. So thank you again for having us here today.
Prime Minister, just on what has been announced today, how does that differ in terms of what's previously available for the care for patients?
Well, it is a very significant reform and I will ask Sussan to describe that.
As the PM said, we've got a Medicare system that is based on fee-for-service. That's not going anywhere, we will still have that. But as well, side-by-side we will have Health Care Homes delivering quarterly bundled payments to doctors to provide the level of care that we expect and that they actually want to do. So the system that we see here is quite close to what a Health Care Home will look like, but as the doctors and nurses will tell you, it's very clunky – it is practice incentive payments, there is Medicare payments, there is team care arrangements - there's an awful lot of forms to fill in. There's lots of work to do that actually isn't spending time with the patient. We want to simplify that. We want to say here is one quarterly payment bundled up for all of the patients' needs and allow the doctors the flexibility to do what they want. That might be outside hours. You might be receiving a newly diagnosed diabetic patient's blood glucose levels on your computer at home, you might spend half an hour in the same way many of us do of an evening doing something on your computer or iPad that involves patient care. At the moment doctors are not remunerated for that. It's very much 9 to 5, consultation-based. This is building on what we have and making it better.
Just considering that obviously Medicare is essentially Labor's baby, so to speak...
Oh, big premise there.
Was there any consultation or input from Labor on this plan?
Again, Sussan can say a little more about this but I know that this was developed with the AMA, with Steve Hambleton in particular from the AMA. We are working very collaboratively with doctors. What Sussan has described is and what we are seeking to do is to ensure that the payment system and the administrative system keeps up with and supports best practice at the primary health care level. So that's what we are basically - we are ensuring that the type of health care that Sandra has received - we met earlier - is that practice, that culture, that professional culture is one that is supported by the system as opposed to being a culture that has to sort of battle its way through the red tape and clunkiness of the system as it stands.
But in answer to your question about Labor - the answer is no. They have not endorsed this, they were advised by their experts in 2009 to go down the Health Care Homes model path and it is another one of their failures so we are bringing it to patients and we are doing it quickly.
And the press release mentions that this is something that doctors have campaigned for a long time. Can you just comment a bit on that?
The College of GPs, the AMA have all talked about the medical home model. It is known as international best practice and it is different in different countries but we what we are going to do here is bring the best of what we've seen internationally to Australian patients. It hasn't come from the bureaucracy. It hasn't come from Government. It has actually come from clinicians. Steve Hambleton led an advisory group that worked through most of last year and the recommendations are on the department's website, they make really interesting reading because they do tell us where we are, where we need to be and how to get there.
Do you mind if I move onto another topic in terms of the AFP raids today? Were yourself or anyone else in the Government given early warning about the raids today?
The Justice Minister normally is advised prior to raids occurring. He sent me a message very late last night. I have to say that I had an early night because I had an early start, so I learnt about it early this morning. Can I just say that it's very important to remember that the Australian Federal Police act independently of government. I've been very disappointed not for the first time to hear Senator Conroy this morning attack the integrity of the Australian Federal Police. He has accused the Australian Federal Police of acting under political direction which is an outrageous suggestion, he knows that is untrue, and he even went so far as to say that they were acting illegally. Really, Mr Shorten has to step up and pull Senator Conroy into line.
Senator Conroy is a member of his frontbench. We've seen him in the past, you've seen him, too - we've all seen him - disrespect senior military officers in the Senate, we've seen him attack the integrity of the Australian Federal Police before and now he is doing it again. Now, he really - he knows - he knows absolutely as well as we do that the AFP are thoroughly independent of the Government. There is no political direction at all. A complaint was made by the NBN Co and the Federal Police made a decision - their decision as to investigate it, which is what they are doing, but really, Senator Conroy should know better, and he should be supporting our law enforcement agencies. These are the men and women that keep us safe. And I can tell you, speaking on behalf of my Government and I believe the overwhelming majority of Australians, we support our police and security forces because they know, we know they stand between us and danger, and as for him trying to use political influence to stop an investigation - well, really, again, he should know better. The course of justice, the administration of justice takes its course and it's not for politicians to try to meddle in it or bully the police or any other security service into one action or another.
You mentioned that the Communications Minister was notified last night?
Well, I believe the Justice Minister was notified last night, yes.
So when did he receive the notification?
Oh, you would have to ask him. You would have to ask him.
The reason for my question is that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the lower House have to be notified under law before the police can come in. Is that your understanding that that's happened?
Well, I don't know whether the police notified - I'm sure that the police are very familiar with these practices and requirements, but again you would have to address those questions to them or to the Minister.
Is it your understanding that...
No, you would have to address your questions to them or the Minister.
And you've spoken about the Opposition's position on this, they are maintaining this is the Government pressure on the NBN to fight this. Has there been any contact at all between you and the Communications Minister with the board of the NBN on this matter?
Well, the investigation as I understand it, began last year. That's what I've read about. But the board of the NBN or the NBN management made that decision independently. It is a very highly qualified board of directors with a very experienced chairman, a very experienced chief executive and they've done an amazing job.
Again, Senator Conroy this morning was showing yet again that he operates in a parallel universe. I used to describe it as 'Conrovia', another sphere, another universe. He claimed that the NBN project was being mismanaged.
Let me set a few facts straight for you. When we took Government, when we came into Government in 2013, about 50,000 people had been connected to the NBN in 6 years of the Labor Government. The project had come to a grinding halt in four out of six states, and indeed in two of those states - SA and WA - virtually no progress had been made at all. Work had stopped in South Australia. As well, work had stopped in the Northern Territory. It was a completely and utterly failed project.
Now, we changed the management, we changed the board, we put competent people in charge, we gave them the ability to build the project in the manner that would deliver a completed NBN as quickly and at as least cost as possible. Now, the approach they are taking will see the project completed by 2020, 2019/20. They have met every target the new management has set, they have met every target so far. It is available at over 3 million premises. There is well over 1.1 million people who have been connected. If you look on the NBN Co's website, they put all of these figures up every week. See when I inherited the project as Communications Minister, Senator Conroy had a practice of releasing statistics and numbers irregularly and often they were quite done in a misleading way.
Since I became the Minister, the NBN Co puts up the roll-out figures and connection figures every single week. Every week they are updated, you can look it up yourself. Google 'NBN Co weekly report' and you will see the report and you can
see the growth, on my account, about 80,000 premises have been activated in the last month or so. So you can see the rollout is moving quickly. There's well over a quarter of Australian premises have now got a connection. By 2018, the company expects that to be three-quarters. So it is moving on well at much greater pace and at much lower cost than if the Labor government's approach had been taken. So this is a big turnaround story, the NBN it's something the Government is very proud of, the management should be very proud of. I'm very proud of it, as the first Coalition Communications Minister to be responsible for the NBN, and Senator Fifield is doing a very good job in his stewardship of it too.
Prime Minister, today Labor is going to be proposing an $8 billion saving budget, have you had a chance to look at this list and if so what do you think of the proposals.
No I haven't seen the list, but what I understand is that Mr Shorten is - so far, at any rate - not agreeing to support savings measures of ours which he had during the campaign supported, and indeed built into his own costings.
So all we are asking him to do is to support measures that during the campaign he said he would support, and indeed he assumed he would support, because he built them into his costings. So he has basically said to the Australian people: "here is my alternative Budget and I'm going to adopt these $6 billion and more measures of the Coalition Government" and if he was elected he was committing to implement them. So all we are asking him to do is to be true to his word.
What I understand he is asking us to do is to support tax increases that we have always opposed. You can you see there is a very big difference. We are asking him to support things he has previously supported. He is asking us to support things that we have always opposed. Now the reason we have opposed those tax increases, the reason we oppose them, is because they are additional taxes on investment and if you increase the taxes on investment, you will get less investment. You know what happens when you get less investment? You get less economic growth. You know what happens when you get less economic growth? You get fewer jobs.
What Australia needs is more investment, more growth, more jobs.
Business growth remains relatively high. Economic growth remains relatively high, compared to other developed economies, but we cannot be complacent about that. There are plenty of headwinds and risks in the economy. So we need the strong economic leadership, the clear economic plan that we took to the election, every element of which - from Budget repair to innovation, to ensuring we have the funds to guarantee support for Medicare and our health care services, for investment, for our business tax cuts, right across the board - everything we are doing is designed to ensure we have more investment, more growth and more jobs because everything depends on that. What Labor took to the election, as we know and they seem to want to prosecute now in Opposition, is a plan that had higher deficits, higher debt, higher taxes which meant less investment and fewer jobs.
That's a recipe for disaster, it's not a recipe to secure our future, our prosperity in the years ahead.
Thanks very much.


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I'm absolutely loving the look of these new collections by British designer Tom Dixon. Launching officially at Maison & Objet in Paris later this month, but I couldn't wait to share them with you. I am planning to go back again to M&O this year, but in September. I'm also planning to go to the inaugural Singapore event in March. Anyone else going?
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It's that time of year when digital pundits are busy making their picks for the year ahead.
A variety of terms have been bandied around across the last decade: The year of mobile (over and over again), the year of social, the year of gaming, the year of online video etc
So what does 2012 hold in store from a digital perspective?
Mashable recently published their predictions for 2012. They expect to see growth for Smart TV's and TV apps, big moves in motion gaming, Google + to break 100m users and mobile to become a key media channel and payment tool.
You can view the full article here: http://mashable.com/2012/01/05/mashables-digital-predictions-for-2012
Forbes.com interviewed 15 US based CMO's of top consumer brands to get their digital predictions for 2012. They expect to see mobile become a much more important part of the overall media mix, social media to become a cornerstone of brands' marketing strategies, and 'good content' to become much more important to digital campaigns:
The full article is published at the following address: http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2012/01/05/cmo-predictions-for-2012-part-1-dominos-motorola-progressive-radioshack-say-its-mobile-mobile-mobile/
Millward Brown also expect mobile to become increasingly important and predict that the mobile wallet and mobile 'location based marketing' will become a reality in 2012. They also expect to see strong growth in social TV (effectively social tools, technologies and platforms that allow people to interact with TV programmes, and other viewers of those programmes) and changing attitudes to online privacy.
A link to the article is as follows: http://www.litmanlive.co.uk/blog/2012/01/top-12-digital-predictions-for-2012-by-millward-brown/
As you can see mobile is again a common theme for 2012. This is understandably so given the growth in smartphone/tablet penetration, the fact that mobile data is becoming more affordable and media owners are getting better at adapting their content to mobile devices.
If NZ media owners and adserving providers can continue to invest in their mobile offering it could become a key part of the overall media mix.
Who knows, the year of mobile may not be so far away after all.
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The Wales international midfielder failed to keep tabs on Ander Herrera as the Spaniard fired home the Red Devils' third goal to put the result beyond doubt at Old Trafford.
And former Arsenal defender Keown was not impressed by Ramsey's lack of awareness in the build-up to United's third strike in the game.
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The test flight which lasted about 2 hours is the final items that needed by the FAA in order for order for them to certify the battery fix. In the next few days Boeing will turn over all the remaining data that is needed. The FAA and Boeing will have a continuous dialogue over the next few weeks and the FAA may even require more tests before giving its approval but the general consensus is that the FAA will give its approval to the fix and approve of Boeing's Service Bulletin & amend the emergency Airworthiness Directive it issued in mid January grounding the 787. Boeing has teams in place to start implementing the fix once the FAA (and other international aviation regulators like Japan's JCAB and Europe's EASA) have approved.
The fix will take 4 to 5 days to install on each aircraft though I think it's reasonable to assume that multiple aircraft will be worked on at the same time. Assuming that Boeing has (according to reports in the media) 8 teams ready to implement the fix along with the associated hardware at the ready, it will take Boeing about 6 weeks to return all 50 delivered 787s to service. If the approval is given by middle of April then it is reasonable to assume that the 50 787s that are grounded can resume regular revenue service by early June depending on the individual airline's readiness to do so.
So how long until deliveries begin? Boeing will have 30+ 787s ready for delivery but waiting for the battery fix to be installed. I don't have any information as to how many of these service ready 787s can be modified each week but I think it is reasonable to assume that Boeing can have up to 3 ready each week to continue the standard pre delivery ground and flight test regimen once the FAA has given its approval. I am also assuming that Boeing will start ground and flight tests from scratch given the new equipment that is being installed would also need to be tested out on each aircraft. Thus I'm assuming about 5 weeks for all pre-delivery ground and flight tests to be conducted prior to delivery. This would translate to roughly 6 weeks before Boeing resumes regular 787 deliveries. This would mean that deliveries can resume as early as the beginning of June. It still uncertain how many 787s Boeing can deliver this year until deliveries actually re-start and the rate of battery modifications are determined but at the moment they're maintaining their 787 delivery guidance at 60+. It is still possible to reach that goal but it would mean that Boeing will have to undertake an aggressive rate of production testing on the 30+ 787s that are on the lines at Everett and Charleston.
An added complication are the NTSB hearings scheduled for the second half of April concerning the lithium ion battery technology as well as the FAA's certification of the 787's battery system along with Senate hearings into the FAA approval process for the 787. While I don't expect any earth shattering news out of any of these three hearings pundits wondered aloud if these hearings will have any bearing on the timing of FAA approval, with some saying that the FAA won't give its approval until after the hearings are done. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood even said that the fix that Boeing has proposed appears to be good. Whenever the FAA gives its decision, it does appear that Boeing in on the verge of overcoming yet another issue related to the Dreamliner.


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They see me,
they always see me,
with or without eyes,
they see me,
and when they do,
they see right through me.
I wish to escape,
and hide away,
in a secluded corner,
where they will not be,
but they gaze follows me,
to the depths of hell
and the heights of heaven.
A whisper,
I hear a whisper in my ears,
faint but clear,
elevating me from my despair,
stop caring,
and you can hide,
in plain sight,
controlling all their sight.


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Toodles! :)


text: Heath Fogg: The Epiphone Interview 10.31.2013 The Boys and Girl from Alabama who brought back R&B The story of the Alabama Shakes, the little band from Alabama that took over the world, is the kind of classic rock and roll story that gives one hope for the future. The group was formed by singer Brittany Howard and bassist Zac Cockrell, classmates at East Limestone High School near Athens, Alabama. They soon took on drummer Steve Johnson, who worked at the local record store, and began assembling a set list of covers by James Brown, Otis Redding, and AC/DC as well as a few originals to play at parties. Local guitarist Heath Fogg, who had been actively playing in other bands around town (including his own), joined up after hearing the trio's demo. After only a handful of shows (originally billed as The Shakes and then the Alabama Shakes) and a homemade EP, their world exploded. NPR and the New York Times hailed their EP and live performance after the group debuted at the CMJ festival in New York. Last year, Jack White invited the band to open his first solo tour. White's label Third Man Records also released a vinyl 45 featuring "Hold On," surely one of the best singles of the best decade. In the spring of 2013, the quartet performed with Steve Cropper and other Stax alumni at the White House. For the last year, the Alabama Shakes have been touring the world to support their debut album, Boys and Girls, which features an original blend of classic rhythm and blues grooves, rock and roll, and gospel. Their live shows are explosive and inspiring and their on-stage camaraderie is palpable. We've been fans from the beginning as the Alabama Shakes' guitarist, Heath Fogg, is rarely seen on stage without his Epiphone Sheraton-II. Epiphone.com spoke with Heath from his home in Alabama. Thanks for speaking with Epiphone.com, Heath. It's rare to find you at home these days, right? Yeah, we're just at home today. We leave Wednesday for a three-day run. It seems like the Sheraton-II has been your main guitar over the past couple of years. Yeah, that's the main guitar I play usually. I bought that guitar on ebay about 10 years ago. I had seen Nick from the Strokes. He played an Epiphone and I thought it was cool and I really was trying to find one like he plays. But I found the Sheraton-II and I thought: you know what? I'll try it. And I fell in love with it. A semi-hollow archtop is actually a great guitar for R&B. Many of the session players at American Studios in Memphis and Muscle Shoals used them. Right. That's what I like most about that guitar is that it's the most versatile guitar I've ever played and for what I do with this band. I like Teles too, which is a classic R&B sound and sometimes I play them live. But I don't like switching guitars live. The less I have going on the better. I get confused easily--too many variables for a mistake. I feel like I can get so many sounds out of my Epiphone. And with the amp I play--I play an Ampeg Gemini 1 from the mid to late 60s--it's just so dynamic and versatile. I can get those thin Tele sounds and then I can get it thicker and warmer. We just cut a song for the soundtrack of 12 Years A Slave and we did this jazz song--a Max Roach song--called "Driva Man." I played the same guitar and the same amp on that. So you can warm it up to play more mellow jazz stuff on it. Not that I consider myself a jazz player but with that guitar, you're able to do that. What was your style before you joined the Alabama Shakes--what kind of music were you playing? Before I joined the Shakes I was playing in this band and we would try to write our own songs but we didn't have much luck doing that as a group. But we would play like... Glam Rock covers--that's what we loved; David Bowie, T-Rex, KISS, AC/DC--I don't consider them glam rock! But we would play a lot of that stuff. But I was playing the Sheraton-II back then, too. I've had it for ten years or something like that. I was about 19 and we were playing these bars where you had to be 21 to get in. And I was playing a Marshall at the time so I would just go in with a Tube Screamer and my Epiphone and that was all I needed. Like a Mick Ronson sound or something like that. What were you listen to when you started learning guitar? Classic rock mainly. My Dad played guitar so he would show me stuff. I think the first song he ever showed me was "Cat Scratch Fever"--I mean, that was just like a pretty simple blues thing really. I didn't know that at the time but now I do. I was playing Classic Rock stuff on the radio because that's what I liked listening to. And then I would get my Dad to show me a song. I think this was a reason why I started playing music more and really got a love for it. I just had friends who did too. We would get together and play when we were like 10 years old. We would get together on Saturdays and play AC/DC songs. My buddy Cory had an older brother named Pat. He would kind of make us be his backing band. He would wanna play AC/DC--they were always kind of big for me. We had a group with bass and drums and rhythm guitar. That's just kind of how I started falling in love with it. Now that you're playing every day, what have you been listening to for inspiration? I think anybody who is playing guitar is always learning. I play along with records. And now it's so easy to get just get on YouTube and watch an instructional video to learn any song you can think of. And sometimes it's the guitar player who wrote the song showing you. And I do that a lot--I love doing it. It's a hobby of mine. What's weird though is trying new things out in the public's eye. I think: well, should I try that out or not, you know? Usually with the songs from the last album, I try to play them as true to the recordings as possible. I don't like using a lot of effects and trying new things out. But, when we're recording in the studio, I always try new things. I think that anybody that's playing guitar is always trying new stuff or taking stuff away. It just seems like a never-ending process for me. In England, for instance, there has always been a strong audience for classic American R&B and rock and roll. Do you notice any difference between how American audiences and UK or European audiences react to your shows? I think it changes night to night but I don't think it's a matter of countries or regions that matters. I think it's a matter of venues. If we're playing a theater--that's our venue. We have more freedom to do what we want and present the show as we envision it. We don't really stray too far from the songs. We don't improvise that much. But we might try out new stuff--stuff that we wouldn't try out at a festival show. Festival slots, which we play a lot of, we're only on for 45 minutes or an hour or however long. The crowd usually just wants to hear the record. Even then, our record is so short that we have to play new stuff. I think a lot of people know our live show and know we play some songs that we really love but also use to fill out the show. Perhaps songs that didn't make the record. The theater shows give us more freedom to do what we want. And like you said, I think the crowd is more appreciative of that in those situations. Are you ready to work on a new record? We've been writing but we've been taking it pretty slow. With the record deal we had for the last record, it was just a one-off. In North America it was put out on AGO and everywhere else it was out on Rough Trade. And both of those record labels are really great. And we were really lucky to get a one-off record deal with them. Now, we're just in downtime--it's like off-season--and we're just taking our time, writing slowly. But you know, I think we're going in the studio the second week of November for a few weeks. I got a feeling a lot of things will happen then. Will you be recording in Nashville again? Yeah, I think that's actually going to be in Nashville. Where we live in north Alabama is just so close to Nashville and Nashville just has so much to offer. And now we know a lot of people there and it just makes sense to go there. Do you have a sense of direction for the new album? Lately I've been into a lot of the Meters songs, stuff I've heard for a long time but have never dug into until recently. We're going into the studio and we're trying out a co-producer named Blake Mills. And I've been listening to him over the past couple of years a lot. Every time I see a new video of him on YouTube or hear him play, it always raises the bar. He's a pretty amazing guitar player that I think everyone can learn something from. I know I can. Is there any one person in the band who sparks the songwriting? Do you write as a band? I think all of us come up with ideas and complete songs--riffs, sketches. We all have recorders on our iPhones and I think we use those a lot. Everybody is bringing stuff to the table. I have songs that I have written that the 'Shakes will never play. That's just the way it is. I'm sure someday I'll do something with them. The songs that I write with the 'Shakes, it's always a group effort. We all have to play multiple roles. The classic R&B artists that you covered in your early days tended to focus on singles rather than albums. Did you approach Boys and Girls that way--as a collection of individual songs? Yeah, I think that if you think of our record in terms of singles, I think that theory fits into the way we're working now. Each song is an accomplishment. Each song is different. We're not the most profound songwriters and we're not the most productive. Each song we write is just a new and different experience it seems like. In that sense, we're not thinking in terms of albums. We just want each song to be a little different.


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First up, we should tell you that there's an emoji movie happening.
It sounds like the punchline to a questionable joke, but there IS a movie coming out next summer that is solely based around those little faces that you put on the end of a text.
And now, James Corden has been announced as the voice of Hi-5, a character that is literally a human hand with a face and some oddly disproportionate legs.
There he is on the right – looking like he's primed to burn nightmarish images into your cerebral cortex for the rest of eternity.
Anyway, James will be joined by Deadpool's T.J Miller, who plays lead character Gene (the guy in the middle with the terrifying grin), who was born without a 'filter' – and enlists the help of Jailbreak, played by Broad City's Ilana Glazer.
Unsurprisingly, the whole thing is set in the imaginatively named Textopolis – and will see the characters going on an 'app-venture'.
Here's the official Sony synopsis.
"Emoji unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions.
Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Ilana Glazer). Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene.
But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it's deleted forever."
We can't wait.
MORE: Everyone's loving Apple's new single parent family emojis
MORE: Want the old sassy girl emoji back? Here's how to downgrade to iOS 9


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But...I think it doesn't look bad for a first attempt at it. I will love wearing it. The clasp is hand-made too. I have attached 2 Labradorite beads to the chain as well. The piece is made with sterling silver all the way.
Next time it will be better :-).


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Every night since I have moved all mym dreams I've had I want to come true... especially one from last nite... but I know for a fact it never will, for I already tried. So my only happiness is in my dreams anymore.
Ryan Mercer's thoughts, mostly random musings, spanning form 2001 to present. Freemason, geek, nutter, Whovian, 8-bit Atari enthusiast, SciFi fan.


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Blog 6 - A different day
Day Two of field work was a day out of the water, staying dry and filming samples on the sea bed. Besides feeling sick today in the rough water it was a great day.
|Team Tender - Team Leader Andrea, Teacher Sophie and guest Jill.
|A sea cucumber in the screen of the camera on the seabed
|Boating Team going out to place cameras - they saw a herd of dugongs.
Each team rotates between the three boats giving us all a different experience and also a rest!!
|Lovely light on the water
|Hanging out on the big boat
|View of Brisbane from the middle of Morton Bay
|Enjoying the sun, the wind and the scenery
|Andy fixing the camera to the sled to view the sea bed
Breakfast view.
Lunch view


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Cold Pack
Just fill a large freezer bag about half way with uncooked rice and freeze. The rice will retain the cold and make an effective ice pack when you need one to cool an injury.
Heat Pack
Just fill the bottom of a cotton sock with uncooked rice and tie off the top. Microwave until hot. It may only take 30 seconds to 1 minute to reach your desired temperature so keep a close eye on it the first time you heat it up.
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Naomi: British for Narcissa?
If you're not a Harry Potter geek, I'm sorry for the references. Less than 3 months away from the premiere of Harry Potter 5 and the release of the final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows…can't f*cking wait.
And now UK gossip are buzzing about casting possibilities for the upcoming film version of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – none other than Naomi Watts to step into the role of Narcissa Malfoy nee Black? Narcissa is Lucius Malfoy's wife, Draco's mother, Bellatrix Lestrange's sister, both cousins of Sirius Black – needless to say, "Cissy" is a raging bitch with a key scene at the beginning of The Half Blood Prince and rumour has it, Naomi is being considered to play the part…which explains a lot.
Naomi was born in England but raised in Australia. Legend has it, as supposedly decreed by JK Rowling herself, only British actors are to be cast in the Potter movies. Naomi has gone on record recently to say she feels more British than Australian…
So could this be the reason?
Coincidence or conspiracy?
And isn't it kinda ironic? That her frozen witch of a former BFF Nicole Kidman would probably make the perfect Narcissa Malfoy?
PS. This photo from this year's Oscars – in a strange way, do they remind you of the GMD & Katie Holmes? With a height reversal? Just asking…


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The Canadian pop star and R&B sensation, Justin Bieber, has made waves in the headlines for his fashion choices, singing ability, and especially his signature hairstyle. It's no wonder that people would be curious as to how much the teen idol weighs.
He's still a growing teenager trying to fill the shoes of industry expectations, but according to an episode of Chelsea Lately that aired on April 1, 2010, Justin Bieber revealed that he weighed 110 pounds [1].
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko44vu7Zkbc&feature=player_embedded#at=12


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Fathers Day Gift Ideas for Beer Lovers
I'm about to say what most dads are afraid to admit but want to. Father's Day gifts are lame.
Sure, it's cute when our daughter sees us wearing the tie they picked out with little pink duckies on it, but we stuff it in our briefcase as soon as we get in the car to avoid embarrassment at work. And no, we don't need another box of golf balls. We buy these regularly under the household budget to replace the ton we sent into water hazards over the past year. Don't even get me started on Olly Oxen "college" attire. We wear it because you make us.
Instead, get us something we actually want and will use. To help, I've compiled a list of Fathers Day Gift Ideas for Beer Lovers.
Wooden Growler Beer Caddy
Even with the cutesy personalization you can add to these Wooden Growler Carriers, Dad will still love it. He can use it to carry fresh filled growlers to poker nights or store it in his car to keep growlers from banging around and glass from breaking.
Yeti Growler
Dad doesn't have a growler? Might as well get him the Cadillac of growlers – a Yeti Rambler. He'll make all of his friends at the neighborhood brewery jealous.
Wooden Six Pack Beer Caddy
Maybe Dad prefers sixers to growlers. Order him a personalized Wooded Six-pack Caddy complete with a built-in bottle opener for added convenience.
Marine Corps 50 Caliber Bottle Opener
I have a Marine Corps 50 Caliber Bottle Opener and love it! It's the one bottle cap I never lose, and it's a great conversation piece.
Personalized Beer Flight Paddle
This personalized Beer Flight Paddle is perfect for bottle shares. Dad and his friends can pretend like they're at their favorite bar while sharing their highly coveted beer collections with friends.
State Beer Flight Paddle
On the topic of beer flight paddles, if Dad isn't that into personalized stuff (because he's a man), order him a State Beer Flight Paddle in the shape of your state. These paddles are available for all 50 states and make great Fathers Day gift ideas for beer lovers.
StitchFix Subscription
Help Dad look good at the brewery with a subscription to StitchFix. I told my stylist to make me look brewery cool and love the "fixes" she's been sending me. StitchFix is a great gift idea for Dad for so many reasons. The main one though is because we hate to shop (and no, we don't like those coral shorts you buy for us, either). So yes, StitchFix is a great Fathers Day gift ideas for beer lovers.
United States Beer Map
Let Dad celebrate his beer conquests with a United States Beer Cap Map. He can show off his beer travels by inserting caps into the empty slots. Help dad make American great again one beer at a time!
State Beer Cap Map
For those of you from awesome beer states like me (North Carolina), there are State Beer Cap Maps available for all 50 states.
Tasting Beer, 2nd Edition: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink
Help Dad talk the talk with THE beer tasting book – Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink. Go for the hardback version as it makes a great bar display item.
Brew Bracket Beer Tournament Hosting Kit
Pair Tasting Beer with the Brew Bracket Beer Tournament Hosting Kit. The blind tasting, March Madness style beer tournament is the most fun way to learn about beer that I've encountered.
Wall Mounted Bottle Opener
My friend has a Wall Mounted Bottle Opener, and it's super useful. Never again will Dad have to scramble to find a bottle opener again. He can pop a top right from the wall.
Homebrewing Starter Kit
I looked long and hard for this Home Brewing Start Kit because it has everything Dad needs to brew his first batch of beer (most don't come with the brew kettle or a recipe kit). Dad will have no excuse to get started on the new hobby he's been dreaming about.
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is the home brewers bible. It's the tool that will take Dad from brewing with beer kits to creating his own recipes.
Pico Craft Beer Brewing Appliance
Maybe Dad likes the idea of brewing beer but thinks the process will take too much effort. Then Pico's Craft Beer Brewing Appliance is the perfect option for him. The tiny appliance that can fit on your kitchen counter and fully automates the brewing process. No muss, no fuss, and Dad can still brag to his friends that he brews his own beer.
Drink Beer from Here T-shirt
Dad can show his state pride the way he wants to – through beer – with a Drink Beer from Here T-shirt. Perfect for times when your state college team is sucking… Hint – this is a good substitute for Olly Oxen…
Complete Dad's man cave with the piece it's been missing – a kegerator! Yeah, this is the ultimate Fathers Day gift ideas for beer lovers! I liked mine so much I bought a second one! This stainless steel kegerator from Nostalgia will look great in any man cave!
Custom Beer Tap Handle
My man cave needs one of these – a Custom Beer Tap Handle. The perfect finishing touch for the home kegerator.
Hop Scented Candles
Is the man cave starting to smell like sweaty socks and stale farts? Liven it up with freshly scented Hop Candles. It's a scented candle even Dad will like.
An IPA T-Shirt
Dad can celebrate his love of IPAs – America's beer – with a My Blood Type is IPA+ T-shirt. Way better than yet another baby blue dress shirt.
Which of these Fathers Day gift ideas for beer lovers will your Dad enjoy the most?
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Great Affordance for Large Interactive Spaces Kickables are tangibles that users manipulate with their feet. While they maintain the affordance of traditional tangibles, kickables scale to arbitrarily large spaces as kickables reside on the ground. This affordance makes kickables well-suited for large-scale walk-up installations, such as tradeshows or museum exhibits, as illustrated by our prototype installation …
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Personal Clipboards
Personal Clipboards for Individual Copy-and-Paste on Shared Multi-User Surfaces The copy-and-paste functionalities provided by clipboards are omnipresent on today's computing devices from desktops to tablets to mobile phones. Despite this success, clipboards did not make their way to multi-user surfaces until now, because most surface computing devices cannot distinguish input from different users. To them, …
A New Approach to Tracking People and Objects Based on a Pressure-Sensing Floor GravitySpace is a new approach to tracking people and objects indoors. Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor is limited to sensing objects in direct contact with the ground, GravitySpace reconstructs contents above …
In everyday environments, we are increasingly surrounded by a growing number of electric devices. At the same time, many of these devices are shrinking in physical size. Both developments come along with their own challenges when it comes to controlling these devices. On the one hand, a plethora of devices imply that not all of …
IdWristbands for User Identification on Multi-touch Surfaces
IdWristbands are designed to enable user identification for camera-based multi-touch surfaces. In this approach, users wear wristbands equipped with infrared LEDs, to provide touches with identities. The LEDs transmit coded light pulses as an identifier. We are using a specific blinking pattern to determine the orientation of the wristband in order to reliably associate corresponding …
HandsDown and IdLenses
Biometric User Identification for Multi-touch Surfaces Based on Hand Contours HandsDown is a novel technique for user identification on interactive surfaces. It enables users to access personal data on a shared surface, to associate objects with their identity, and to fluidly customize appearance, content, or functionality of the user interface. To identify, users put down their hand flat on the …
Conducting a Virtual Orchestra
In the context of my Diploma thesis I developed new means of input for an existent system allowing users with any skill to conduct a virtual orchestra in realtime. The eWatch, a wearable computing and sensing platform, was selected as input device. It is worn like a regular wrist watch and transmits acceleration data via …
Indirect Multi-touch Interaction
Most current multi-touch devices use direct input, especially larger surfaces. In this context, we asked how much the advantages of multi-touch depend on the directness of input. An indirect multi-touch device has several potential advantages, such as interaction from a distance (remote control), different control-display ratios (allowing for larger screens), more ergonomic settings (looking straight …
Multiuser-aware Surface Computing
The above video shows a working prototype which allows users to identify by simply putting down their hands on the surface. This is related to a topic I became recently more and more interested in: the topic of multiuser-awareness, or user identification respectively discrimination, for interactive surfaces. Of course, there is DiamondTouch which can distinguish …
Touchlib Gradient Filter
Background Touchlib is a open-source "library for creating multi-touch interaction surfaces" based on computer vision. It uses a filter chain to process the incoming camera image and detect blobs corresponding to fingers on the surface. Motivation Currently, Touchlib applies a filter to every single pixel of an image with the same intensity. For example, if …


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A new poll has revealed that Americans don't want to be next door neighbours to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
The poll, which was conducted by real estate website Zillow as part of their annual Celebrity Neighbor Survey, found that 25 percent of the Americans put the celebrity couple at the top of their "worst neighbors" list, Radar Online reported.
18 percent of the people said that they would not like to live next door to the cast of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo', while 16 percent said that they would avoid being neighbours with Justin Bieber.
Worst neighbors of 2013 are
1. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West – 25 percent vote
2. Cast of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" – 18 percent vote
3. Justin Bieber – 16 percent vote
4. Miley Cyrus – 16 percent vote
5. Lady Gaga – 4 percent vote
6. Alex Rodriguez – 2 percent vote
7. LeBron James – 1 percent vote
8. Other – 2 percent vote
9. None of the above – 14 percent votes


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The stock markets surged to record highs on Tuesday — with the Dow Jones industrial average closing above 19,000 for the first time — amid optimism about the impending Donald Trump presidency.
HP on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that included sales that topped Wall Street forecasts as the company's personal-computer business improved over the same period a year ago.
Students from middle school to high school might be social media savvy nowadays, but they're easily fooled by biased sources, ads that resemble news articles and even bogus social media pages, a study released Tuesday by the Stanford History Education Group showed.


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How to watch Free PBS Blue Ridge PBS - regional simulcast on three stations: online with Virginia vpn
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This is a list of member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service, a network of non-commercial educational television stations in the United States. The list is arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the stations city of license, and followed in parentheses by the designated market area when different from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
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Last night I went to hear Dr Spencer Wells speak at Benaroya Hall. He is the leading geneticist and director of The National Geographic Genographic Project. If you have not yet heard of his project, it is quite fascinating. By collecting DNA samples from every corner of the Earth, he is creating a very detailed family tree that reveals how every one of us is related. His data has shown that we were all related to each other through a common ancestor only 2000 generations ago. Last night, he gave an update on the data that he and his colleagues have collected so far over the past 2 years. One important theme he stressed was how the migration pattern of DNA responded to climatic change. He showed several slides of how the earth appeared over the past 50,000 years, showing how the African deserts as well as Asian coast lines were significantly affected by the 20,000 yr cycle of the Earth's axial shift. He also showed how this time line corresponded to the time when our human ancestral "Adam" and "Eve" first migrated out of Africa. Another interesting story was how a Hungarian woman who participated by supplying her DNA, complained that her lineage analysis must have been incorrect because it showed that she was from Asia. That led him to further analyze all the Hungarians in the data pool which confirmed the early Asian origins of at least 5% of the Hungarian population.
Although analysis is currently limited to only the Y and mitochondrial DNA, perhaps migration patters will be sufficient to help explain some of the interesting patterns of disease incidence found in some populations but not others. For example, the Inuit Eskimos and ethnic Chinese share a high incidence of angle closure glaucoma, where as the Japanese population does not. An early separation of the Japanese population from the ethnic Chinese might explain this. This information might help clinicians to better asses risk for diseases that might be more common in certain populations but that we do not have a specific genetic test for yet. Especially for patients who are Hapa or of mixed ancestry, this type of individualized ethnic background data could help patients at least receive more optimized preventative medicine.


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One of our lovely readers, Sunflower, writes to ask if she should move in with boyfriend who says he loves her, but whose actions may tell a different story ...
Here's what she wrote:
I met this guy 12 years ago, he loves me, but he is commitment phobic.
After 5 years, I gave him an ultimatum, knowing it was the wrong thing to do. I told him since other women are calling you it seems to me that you want to have an open relationship, let's do that.
I will date other guys, too.
He said fine, but when he saw me having dinner with someone else he totally changed and got really upset. He called me everyday, wanted me back.
I refused for a month.
One day I gave up. I left a guy with great potential, and went back with him hoping he would change.
It didn't last long. He moved 85 miles away.
I was happy, because it was easy to let the relationship go.
Hoped we'd find someone else. He found other women, he told me, but they never worked out. He was here every other weekend, or I was there, for 2 years. He again moved, this time far away from Florida to Texas.
Again I said, this time we will let it go...
He flew one week a month or sent me a ticket to go there.
He said he loves me but marriage is not necessary. Wants me to move with him.
I am afraid of moving with him with no commitments. He is very educated. He has a teacher, engineering, and a medical doctor degree. I only have 2 years college that I never finished.
I am a registered medical assistant. I make 30 thousand a year, he makes 200 thousand. He also is very frugal, on the other hand.
He really trusts me, he tells me his weaknesses, his problems at work, his childhood problems with his dad, every job. He is like my husband but we're not legally married.
He is moving back and I'm confused even more. I don't know what to do.
I also lost my job of 21 years 4 months ago. I found other jobs but not what I really want or not on my background. He never ask me if I was doing OK monetarily. He knows I don't have a mortgage but there are other bills to pay.
I'm afraid what is going to be if I move in with him.
His mom lives in another country and visits him 6 months a year. He treats her bad, yells at her, tells her to go to her room because he has company when I visit. I always include her and encourage her to stay with us, she doesn't have to go.
I worry that he will do that to me too.
Shall I move with him? Even without promises? We are not young any more we are in our 50's.
- Sunflower A.M.
My Response:
Listen to your fears, Sunflower. There's a reason you have them.
You have every reason to be afraid of moving in with him! Look at his track record. Look at how he treats you. Look at how he treats his mother. Look at just how clear his behavior is making this decision for you.
Ask yourself what you would say to your best friend if she was asking you these questions. In your heart of hearts, you will always find your answers.
You're a beautiful soul. You listen to him, you hear what he needs. You hear his stories of his problematic childhood with his dad whose approval he undoubtedly wanted so badly but could never get, and it tugs on every single one of your heart strings.
If he can get what he needs from you with no commitment, consider what incentive he has to give you that commitment? What motivation does he have to do anything different if he can have you on his terms, without any consideration for yours?
I can't get these words out of my head, Sunflower. "I lost my job of 21 years 4 months ago", you wrote. "He never asked me if I was doing OK." That's concerning. Is this what you want from someone who says he loves you?
Yes, Sunflower. You have every reason to believe he is going to do that - all of that he's done to the other woman in his life - his mother - to you, too.
Words are cheap – and so easy to say. It's the actions that tell you whether it's love or something else.
Marriage is not necessary? Do you believe it's necessary? How you feel about marriage matters just as much as what he thinks about it. If it matters to you, it is necessary.
Even the way he's suggesting it could be necessary or not, shows you the way he's compartmentalizing your relationship to minimize his emotional investment.
It begs the question, might love not be necessary, too? And then what else? And more concerning, doesn't it matter what might be necessary for you?
Listen to your fears. They're not unfounded. They're supported by actions and behaviors that are giving you a glimpse into what your life would be like if you move forward with this man. This is your intuition telling you everything you need to know.
Not even with promises! Promises mean absolutely nothing without consistent behavior over a long period of time to back them up. At any age!
Without knowing more details about your situation, I can't tell you what you should do, but I hope this helps you make your decision. In the end, it has to come from you. It has to be a decision you can live with.
But whatever you decide, choose YOU first, Sunflower.
Choose the most loving thing you can do for yourself – let that be your guide in everything you do - and everything else will fall into place. You know far more than you give yourself credit for. You always can trust what you know in your heart to be true.
What advice do you have for our beautiful friend, Sunflower? Share your words with her below in the comments.


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|Thomas Walskaar - My Hard Drive Died Along With My Heart
- Thomas Walskaar (My Hard Drive Died Along With My Heart)
- Petr Kazil (The Materiality of Cloud Technologies)
- Sijing Zhang (Translation Intuition)
Below is some background material for the cloud talk.
|Picture credits Oana Clitan and Berenice Staiger
James Bridle has several interesting essays on the materiality of the Internet:
And he has a longer and more detailed description of traceroute:
|Amsterdam datacenter tour with Tijmen
These are nice books on the materiality, economics and power-relations of the Internet:
This is a great site on High Frequency Trading and its microwave towers. There are many parts to this story, among them:
A few relevant weblogs about cloud and mobile technology:
Idea for projects - if anyone thinks this is fun, then contact me through Facebook:
Idea for projects - if anyone thinks this is fun, then contact me through Facebook:
- Visiting the landing sites for the undersea cables - probably nothing to see there
- Finishing the tour of Amsterdam datacenters - more boring steel boxes
- Publishing the "26 Amsterdam datacenters" booklet
- Visiting the Rotterdam telecom substations - more boring utility buildings


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If being a cop wasn't life-threatening enough, they now have a whole movement that is actively executing them one-by-one.
Overnight while we were sleeping peacefully in our beds, another law enforcement officer was brutally gunned down.
According to NBC News, " 31-year-old Kentucky State Police Trooper Joseph Ponder was fatally shot after a nine-mile pursuit late Sunday, sparking a manhunt.
"A pursuit ensued with the suspect stopping abruptly around the 49 mile marker, causing the front of Trooper Ponder's police cruiser to make contact with the rear of the suspect vehicle," Trooper First Class Jay Thomas said in a statement.
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Titus Software announced today that sales for its 3D action title Superman for Nintendo 64 continue to go through the roof. The game has garnered respectable positions as the third best-selling Nintendo 64 title, third top-renting videogame and seventh best-selling videogame since its release in late May, according to data gathered by the NPD Group.
Consumer feedback collected in the form of a mail-in registration was overwhelming positive, Titus reassures. More than 70% of Superman's target audience, that of 6 to 11-year-olds, rated the game as an 'A' title.
"We are extremely happy that we received such a positive response from consumers," said Herv¿ Caen, CEO of Titus Software. "This feedback, combined with the encouraging market results that we have seen, demonstrates our success in satisfying our target audience."
IGN64 would write something snide in response to the news, but this baffling announcement has rendered us at a loss for words.


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posted by Seema Chugh, last updated on September 8th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
There is something uniquely special about the core in our lives called family. This week JDJ9 surprised the Dance Maestro and JDJ9 judge, Ganesh Hegde, by getting his kids on the show.
It was the cutest moment on JDJ9 to watch Giaan and Hriyaa share the stage space with their father.
Keep watching JDJ9, every Saturday at 10 PM.
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This Bagels and Lox Benedict recipes serves one generously when served with hasbrowns or tater tots which I prefer and a side of fruit such as grapes. The key to this recipe I think is using an everything bagel with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, cracked pepper, onion and garlic. It adds a lot of flavor to this great breakfast dish. If you have never poached eggs before, it does take some practice, so try a couple times, you will get it. It took me a little bit of practice too.
Bagels and Lox Benedict- serves 1
1 Everything Bagel, sliced in half, 2 oz. of smoked salmon, 4 thin slices of red onion, 2 poached eggs
Lemon Caper Sauce – 1/2 C vegetable broth, 3/4 TB cornstarch, 1/4 C sour cream, 3/4 TB lemon juice, 1 TB drained capers, fresh dill and salt and pepper to taste.
Whisk vegetable broth and cornstarch until smooth. Stir over medium heat until boiling for 2 1/2 minutes. Whisk in sour cream, lemon juice and capers. Stir often until steaming until 2 1/2 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Keep on low until ready to serve.
Poached eggs – Recommended method, if you do not want to buy a poacher. In a sauce pan big enough for two eggs that do not touch, simmer about 2″ of water(not boil, but heavy simmer). Add a small splash of white distilled vinegar to the water. Crack one egg into a soufle cup or small bowl. Do the same with the second egg in a second bowl. Gently swirl the water as it is simmering to make a whirlpool. This helps the egg stay together(trust me). SLOWLY add 1 egg to the whirlpool water. With a slotted spoon, keep egg off the bottom of the saucepan by sliding slotted spoon underneath egg every few seconds. Do this for about 3 1/2 minutes more or less depending on you like your eggs. When done take your slotted spoon and gently lift egg out of water onto a strong paper towel that won't stick to the egg, to absorb any water.
Cut bagels in half horizontally and toast. Put bagel halves on a plate and top each with onion and then smoked salmon. Add poached eggs on each half of the bagel. Spoon sauce over eggs and garnish with dill.


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"Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up."
Pablo Picasso
As a Specialist Arts College, awarded Gold three consecutive times by the Arts Council, we are very proud of our art department. We allow pupils to express their own feelings, beliefs and creativity through the experiencing and creation of their own and others' art work.
The school showcases our students work through Art Shows and has strong links with visiting artists who run workshops for both GCSE and A-Level students.
We also offer a lively extra-curricular programme which is well attended by all ages and abilities.
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Lizards and Skinks do live in Indiana County, although they are rarely seen. This is the Five-lined Skink; the lizard that is known to occur in Indiana County is the Eastern Fence Lizard.
Skinks forage for food under rocks and in leaf litter, one reason why they are so seldom seen. The one in the photo has lost a portion of its tail. Skinks are known to shed their tails to avoid being caught by a predator. The blue tail end in this juvenile is thought to aid in distracting predators away from their more vulnerable body.


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Commentary: Canada Is a Port of Call for North American Algos
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In today's commentary written by CIBC and NYSE Technologies, authors discuss the rationale behind sending successful U.S. algorithms to Canada for a second life. The Canadian equity markets are similar to the U.S., they said, saying algorithms can work in the Great White North thanks to the mart's depth of liquidity, sophistication and technology.
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Bitter Orange for weight loss is a natural supplement that is said to be very effective in helping to shed excess weight. Bitter orange is a medicinal plant which grows in different parts of the world such as Florida…


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Oracle's ambitions to conquer the enterprise-software space are well-known. Its colorful CEO, Larry Ellison, has stepped before audiences to proclaim his company's sights focused on IBM and other big-game competitors.
While the company occasionally paints itself as the underdog in certain market segments, it fully intends to use the sheer scope of its products and resources to help carve out share in the enterprise cloud market.
In an April 12 interview with eWEEK, Steve Miranda, Oracle's senior vice president of application development, suggested that the company had three different angles in the cloud: one as a cloud-infrastructure provider, another as a cloud-application vendor, and a third as a cloud host.
"We think where we're unique is the ability to provide all three," he said.
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Oracle offers Fusion Applications via on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, or some combination of those. The applications offer capabilities with more than 100 modules in seven product families, including Human Capital Management, Customer Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management.
The company has also moved to introduce cloud-based APIs for interoperability, ensuring that workloads can be moved between clouds. The Oracle Cloud Resource Model API, a subset of Cloud API, relies on standard HTTP methods to interact with available resources to provision machines and modify configurations. It encourages standardization across the standard building blocks of the cloud, i.e., machines, storage volumes, and networks.
In September 2010, Oracle also announced a new system that allows companies to operate a private cloud within a self-contained system. The Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "cloud in a box," features 30 servers with 360 cores, in addition to networking and storage, married to Oracle's virtual machine (VM) technology operating in conjunction with Solaris and Linux assets.
Even as it moves aggressively into the cloud space, Oracle finds itself competing for business dollars with the likes of tech giants such as IBM, which provides similar services, and smaller companies like Salesforce.com which have centered their competitive strategy on the cloud. Microsoft's increasing interest in providing cloud services for business is another area of potential concern for Oracle.
"We've been in this situation a long time. We're sometimes a supplier, a customer and a competitor," Miranda said. "We know [customers] have a choice, it's a highly competitive market and we have to be best in class." Another Oracle advantage, he added, is its ability to provide integrated and complete systems tailored to very specific company needs.
Some of those companies have reservations about what the cloud can do for them, although more are deciding to leap in. "I'm seeing increasing questions and decisions," Miranda said, "about what's available for them in the public cloud and the private cloud." The overwhelming theme, though, "is more questioning." Of those business segments participating in the cloud, sales automation and some core human resources are apparently leading the charge, although others continue to hold back.
Should cloud adoption pick up, though, Oracle's breadth of offerings sits at the center of the company's strategy for squeezing past its competitors. "No other SAAS vendor is also on-premises," Miranda added, as another example of Oracle's reach.
In a space as complicated and fast-moving as the cloud, though, it could be some time before winners become apparent.


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High-End Audio Ground Separator helps to isolate your computer from ground loops allowing you to connect the 2 channel audio output of your computers sound card into your hi-fi system.
The Supra AGS-10k is a hum blocker which is connected between (say) the audio line-level outputs of a computer/laptop and the audio inputs of a hi-fi amplifer. Or it can be used between any two line-level items to avoid ground loop hum. Different to "common ground" separators, the Supra AGS-10k is of a high-end design using toroid transformers with wide frequency range and low distortion, even at the lowest frequencies.
The chassis is made from extruded aluminium, which helps prevent any RFI pick-up.
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The winter of 1979/80 had left the pitch at City Ground in a dire state. And it had left Nottingham Forest chasing the leading pack of the First Division. As March 1980 rolled around Forest sat in eighth, twelve points off the pace Liverpool had set. But they still had the European Cup to defend.
Under the guidance of Brian Clough Forest won the coveted trophy in '78/79 beating Malmö FF in the final. Their '79/80 campaign had started promisingly enough. Picking up three wins in their first three matches Forest were leading the league in September. Come November Forest started bleeding goals. Trips to The Dell, The Baseball Ground, Selhurst Park and Old Trafford all proved fatal. Southampton and Derby each put four past Peter Shilton. Manchester United helped themselves to three goals while Crystal Palace needed just the one to keep the points in South London.
Nottingham Forest look towards Europe
By boxing day Nottingham Forest were out of the title chase. Sitting in tenth even the drop loomed ominously. Well, at least it was closer than the top of the table. Alas Forest were able to turn their attention towards Europe. As holders of the European Cup they met Barcelona who had picked up the Cup Winners Cup the season prior. At stake: the 1979 European Super Cup. A glitch in the scheduling matrix saw the sides vie for the trophy in January and February of 1980 with Forest running out victors in a 2:1 aggregate win. Continue reading