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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to rule on whether gay men and lesbians have a fundamental right to marry, it delivered an implicit message to those seeking such a right: Don't hurry back.
All nine of the justices, with their votes and rhetoric in a pair of cases, signaled they either would never be willing, or are not ready yet, to cut off the unfolding state-by-state legislative debate on gay marriage. The five-justice alliance that came together in one case to extend federal benefits to same-sex couples splintered in the other case to avoid facing a larger test on the constitutional right.
The dual actions revealed that even the liberal justices want to wait a little longer - perhaps for more state action. Thirteen of the 50 states allow gay marriage. More than 30 states do not recognize such unions. In the past, justices have demonstrated that they do not want to be too far out ahead of the country.
In some ways the lineup on the first case, which struck down a 1996 law that denied federal benefits to married gay couples that were available to opposite-sex couples, was predictable. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion. Kennedy had previously taken the lead in two cases, decided in 1996 and 2003, that favored gay rights. On Wednesday, he was joined by the court's four liberals.
Gay men and lesbians should not be relegated to a second-class status, Justice Kennedy declared as he announced the opinion in United States v. Windsor. Grounding the decision in principles of due process and equal protection, he said Congress cannot treat legally married gay couples differently. He said the disputed provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act "tells those couples and all the world, that their otherwise valid marriages are unworthy of federal recognition."
Just as he had in the prior two cases, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia issued a blistering dissent. On Wednesday, in a voice dripping with disdain, Scalia mocked Kennedy for saying federal law "degraded" gay couples and "humiliated" their children. Scalia spoke for 13 minutes, a full 5 minutes longer than Kennedy, while Kennedy looked straight out at spectators, stone-faced, rocking gently in his black leather chair.
More telling signals about the fate of a national right to gay marriage came in another decision announced by the court. Chief Justice John Roberts said the court would not intervene in a controversy over California's Proposition 8, which lower courts earlier invalidated. Challengers of that ban on same-sex marriage had hoped the justices would use the case to declare a constitutional right to marriage for gay men and lesbians.
By a 5-4 vote, the majority sidestepped the constitutional question and tossed out the case on procedural grounds. The issue on the table was whether the supporters of the Proposition 8 ballot initiative had legal "standing" to defend it in court once the ban was invalidated and state officials declined to appeal.
Roberts said no. He was joined by Scalia and three of the liberal justices who had just voted to extend federal benefits to gay married couples: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
Kennedy, meanwhile, countered that Proposition 8 supporters should have legal standing, but did not address whether they should prevail. Underscoring the unusual ideological alliances forged, Kennedy was joined in his opinion by conservatives Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas and liberal Sonia Sotomayor.
The split on a procedural issue may have exposed concerns among the justices as to whether conservatives or liberals would prevail if the court had to decide the fundamental gay-marriage dilemma.
Harvard law professor Richard Fallon said the shifting divisions showed that the five-justice coalition favoring gay rights was willing to go only so far at this point.
"Although a majority thought it was important to resolve the DOMA issue," he said, "a majority did not believe it was not similarly desirable to resolve the larger equal protection issue" posed by laws against gay marriage.
While centrist conservative Kennedy is often the swing vote on politically charged social issues, in this case one of the liberals may have been torn. Ginsburg, for example, has criticized the court for its controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, declaring a right to abortion, just as states were beginning to consider the matter. It is impossible to know what the liberal justices were thinking since none wrote a separate opinion.
Another dynamic that could give proponents of gay marriage pause and hearten opponents: The majority favoring gay rights is narrower than it was in earlier years. The 1996 and 2003 decisions were by 6-3 majorities. One of those six supporters, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, retired in 2006 and was succeeded by Alito, who on Wednesday was squarely in the camp against judicial action on gay marriage. He said the choice should be left to the states.
Lawyer Theodore Boutrous, on the legal team that fought Proposition 8 and seeks a national right to gay marriage, said the group was looking for a test case in one of the nearly 30 states that bans gay marriage. He said that might take a few years and predicted the court would be readier to change the national landscape the next time around.
Said Boutrous: "The court is taking it one step at a time."
(Reporting by Joan Biskupic; Editing by Amy Stevens and Stacey Joyce)


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding an ultrasound to annual mammograms for women at higher-than-average breast cancer risk helps catch more early-stage tumors — but also ups the chance that healthy women will get follow-up biopsies unnecessarily, according to a new study.
For most women who fit into an "intermediate-risk" category — including those with very dense breasts, or who have a family member with breast cancer — the extra chance of false positives and more testing is probably worth it, said the study's lead author.
That's because along with those women's higher chances of getting cancer, mammograms may not work as well on women with denser breasts, for example.
"The vast majority... of women who are well aware of these risks would still gladly choose to have the ultrasound, knowing that it increases the chance of finding cancer if it's present and finding it early," said Dr. Wendie Berg, from Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Still, one researcher not involved in the study questioned whether that was feasible, or even a good idea.
Recommendations from cancer and radiology organizations call for women who are at high risk of cancer, including those with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, to get magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in addition to annual mammography.
But guidelines haven't specified whether extra tests are also the best option for those in the intermediate-risk category — which may include up to 30 percent of women, Berg said.
"Anything that we propose to be extra in them, that's a lot of women," she told Reuters Health.
Berg said adding annual MRIs — which start at about $500 each — isn't such a practical or cost-effective option, and many people feel claustrophobic during the procedure or just don't like it. So she and her colleagues wanted to see if ultrasounds, which are less bothersome and run for under $100, might be an alternative addition to mammography.
Their study involved about 2,700 women seen at 21 different sites. More than half of those women had a history of breast cancer themselves — which also puts someone in the intermediate-risk category.
Every year for three years, women had both a mammogram and an ultrasound to check for signs of cancer. Finally, the researchers offered participants one MRI as a final check.
Over the study period, there were 111 new cases of breast cancer, 59 of which were picked up during mammography. Another 32 tumors that weren't spotted on mammograms were found with ultrasound — 30 of which were invasive cancers, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Out of 612 women who opted for MRI, nine more cancers that hadn't shown up on other screening tests were detected. Eleven cancers were diagnosed at some point during the study through means other than screening.
Despite the additional cancers caught with ultrasounds and MRIs, there were downsides to the extra tests. One out of every 20 women had to have a breast biopsy because of ultrasound results, though only a small fraction of those ended up having cancer.
"It is a substantial risk," Berg said.
"We are always in a quandary because we don't know what to do with these intermediate-risk patients," said Dr. Regina Hooley, who studies breast cancer screening at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven.
"MRI is costly and it's invasive," Hooley, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
"I think (ultrasound) is actually a very, very good alternative for these patients and I would probably recommend that they just get ultrasound."
But Dr. Susan Roth, a radiologist from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said the rate of false positives with ultrasound was concerning.
"Even if you believe in screening ultrasound, the dilemma I have is the number of biopsies I'd have to do to find those cancers," said Roth, who also wasn't part of the research team.
Ultrasounds are time-consuming, she said, and many facilities that do cancer screening are strapped as it is. And insurance companies may not want to pay for annual ultrasounds, given how many women qualify as intermediate-risk.
"The more tests you add, we'll find more cancers, and they're real," Roth told Reuters Health. "The question is, what are we willing to pay for that, in terms of the downsides and the dollars?"
Hooley pointed out that neither ultrasound nor MRI can replace annual mammography in women with higher-than-average cancer risk.
For women at normal risk of breast cancer, the government-backed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says evidence supports mammograms only, done every other year between age 50 and 74.
Regarding the chance of false positives when other screening methods are added to the mix, Berg said women who fully understand the risks, including the need for further invasive testing, should be able to make an informed choice about what test or tests are best for them.
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This time of year, things are mostly winding down in our garden. Yesterday I finally did a last big tomato pick. The yellow bowl is filled with ripe and almost-ripe tomatoes that can hang on for a little while. The blue colander has tomatoes that need to get used up ASAP. We had a crazy heat wave a little while back and you can see that some of the tomatoes got totally burnt on the sides where they were facing the sun. Crazy! There are still a few lonely straggler tomatoes left on the plants... I'll see if they ripen at all, or maybe I'll just pick them and have some green tomatoes.
I also finally harvested my garlic recently. I still need to give them all haircuts (cut off the roots). Then I'll pick out the largest cloves from the largest heads of garlic - and plant those for next year. This year I finally bought a nice little tupperware to hold all my garlics.


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Belinelli chimes in with another game-winner
LeBron James worked out with Hakeem Olajuwon last summer to learn some post moves.
Maybe this summer, James should head to Italy for some tutoring from Marco Belinelli.
Obviously, there's not much Belinelli could teach the three-time MVP. But James made news Wednesday by scoring his first-game winning basket in the final 10 seconds since joining Miami in 2010.
Belinelli, meanwhile, delivered a late-game, go-ahead bucket for the third time in less than two months on Friday. His corner 3-pointer with 5.9 seconds on the clock lifted the Bulls to a tense 89-88 victory over Utah at the United Center.
The Jazz took the lead with 51.6 seconds left on a jumper by Al Jefferson (23 points). Coach Tom Thibodeau has made a habit recently of putting Belinelli at point guard and the Bologna, Italy, native started the go-ahead possession by missing a wild running bank shot.
As usual, the Bulls were working hard on the boards and the rebound bounced off about six players before finally being corralled by Jimmy Butler. Mired in heavy traffic, Butler had the vision to find Belinelli standing open in the left corner.
"I was ready to shoot the ball," Belinelli said. "I think we were lucky and Jimmy got a great rebound, so he did a good job to find me in the corner. I scored the ball, but I think the best move Jimmy made there."
Yes, but producing three game-winning shots is an achievement few NBA players accomplish. There's got to be more to it than simply being in the right place at the right time.
"I don't want to think about that," Belinelli said. "I just like to do my job and win a game, that's most important. Especially right now, they have a lot of confidence in me. So I just try to go on the court and play hard. It was a big shot for me, but that was a team win."
Belinelli is in his second extended stint of starting in place of injured shooting guard Richard Hamilton. In 17 games as a starter this season, Belinelli has averaged 15.3 points.
It's becoming clear that Thibodeau trusts Belinelli with the ball in his hands late in games more than maybe Nate Robinson, who sat for the final 7:51 on Friday.
"Marco, he's playing at a very high level right now," Thibodeau said. "Pick-and-roll game, catch-and-shoot game, making plays for us, doing a little bit of everything."
After the game, Belinelli freely admitted the biggest reason for his slow start this season was he wasn't prepared for the sort of defensive intensity Thibodeau preaches.
"I love to play for this team," Belinelli said. "When you play a lot of minutes and you win the game, you're happy. I just need to keep going, play hard and win all the games we can."
Belinelli and Carlos Boozer each scored 22 points to lead the Bulls. Joakim Noah got into foul trouble trying to guard Jefferson, but managed to grab 13 rebounds.
Both teams have aggressive front lines, but the Bulls managed to squeak out a 21-17 edge on the offensive glass. Because of Utah's size, veteran backup center Nazr Mohammed posted season-highs in points (9) and minutes (20).
The Bulls now head out on a three-game California swing, playing the Lakers, Sacramento and Golden State while the Big Ten tournament moves into the United Center.
For Utah, this was its third straight road loss by a combined 5 points. The Jazz lost at Milwaukee in OT and blew a late 8-point lead in Cleveland.


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I initially saw one of these at Home Depot for $50 which was too much as im budgeting on this trip (nov 11) but then I saw this little thing at Walmart and so I had to buy it. Also, my neighbour has one and they do look pretty good although its yet to survive.
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The Congressional Research Service has released a new report by Jane Gravelle and Thomas Hungerford called "The Challenge of Individual Income Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Tax Base Broadening." In a nutshell, the report could be called "Base Broadening Is Hard to Do." The Washington Post's Lori Montgomery summarized it nicely on Friday, including getting this Republican staffer's reaction to it:
Republican tax aides dismissed the report as unhelpful.
"Reports suggesting tax reform isn't easy are greatly appreciated. We look forward to future reports on water being wet," said Sage Eastman, a senior aide to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), whose panel drafted the principles for tax reform laid out in the Ryan budget.
The CRS report emphasizes that although the 200+ tax expenditures under the federal income tax (individual and corporate) are worth over $1 trillion per year, the largest 20 of them represent 90 percent of that revenue loss. When you look closely at that "top 20″ list, copied here from the table in the CRS report, it is easy to get discouraged about the prospects for substantial tax base broadening. As I explained last November in Tax Notes (subscription-only access here), the largest tax expenditures look a lot more like "entitlements" than "loopholes":
Consider the biggest of the big tax expenditures: the exclusion for employer-provided healthcare and itemized deductions. Economically, there is little rationale for subsidizing those particular activities, especially for handing out the largest subsidies to people with the highest incomes. But politically they are untouchable. They clearly benefit real people, not just individuals or corporations of questionable reputation, and they are far from "loopholes" that are easy to cut.
Those individual income tax expenditures sound a lot like entitlement spending, defined by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law as "a government program that provides benefits to members of a group that has a statutory entitlement." Those groups are employees with health insurance, households with mortgages, people who donate to charities, and so on.
And that's why the CRS authors conclude that "It appears unlikely that a significant fraction of this potential revenue could be realized." Instead of the more than $1 trillion that could be gained if all tax expenditures were eliminated–which would support substantial marginal tax rate reductions including getting the top rate down from 39.6% to 23%–they believe "it may prove difficult to gain more than $100 billion to $150 billion in additional tax revenues through base broadening."
I think I'm slightly more optimistic than CRS, because their conclusion assumes we can't touch (at all) those top 20 tax expenditures. I think we could actually do better. For example, in his latest budget the President himself has proposed to touch (or hammer?) a lot of these tax expenditures by limiting the benefit of those tax expenditures to the richest households to the levels of benefits that would be obtained at lower marginal tax rate brackets. It's an ambitious amount of base broadening, although only for a narrow group of taxpayers (the familiar households with incomes above $250,000). (The limit of the broadening to that small group results in a revenue gain of $584 billion over ten years–which is like broadening the tax base by about 1/20th the total value of tax expenditures.) But my point is there are ways to substantially reduce the cost of the most expensive tax expenditures to both make the proposals more palatable and to raise enough revenue to support a decent amount of rate reduction or at least "rate preservation." It still isn't easy to do, but that's still mostly a political obstacle rather than an economic or administrative one.


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The TV show "60 Minutes" recently focused on companies that track you for marketing purposes. Their website, 60MinutesOvertime.com, gives tips on being virtually invisible.
Our readers are so savvy that one of them had already told us a few of those tips, such as using DuckDuckGo.com instead of Google to browse the Web. Google saves and lists all your Web searches, DuckDuckGo doesn't. He also uses a Firefox extension called "No Script," to stop trackers. No Script stops sites from depositing little software scripts, mostly "cookies," on your computer.
There are hundreds of data brokers out there looking for your info. Julia Angwin, a Wall Street Journal reporter, has a book about it called "Dragnet Nation." She found 200 companies were tracking her but was only able to disconnect from half of them. In some cases, they wanted her credit card information before they would let her go. She refused. Her solution is to use a free Web extension called MaskMe, to help hide her email address, credit card numbers and phone numbers as she browsed the Web.
Another way to go is FreedomPop's Privacy Phone, a re-configured Samsung Galaxy S2 that sells for $189. It comes with unlimited text and voice calling. Might be useful for the criminal class.
If you want to see how many people are tracking you when you go on the Web, get a copy of "Disconnect," which is free from Disconnect.me. The result will be something of a shock. The software is offered on a "pay whatever you want" situation, so you don't have to pay anything if that's your inclination.
Because people, companies and government agencies can track your location by "pinging" your cellphone, you can prevent that by putting it in a Faraday bag ($32 at Amazon, for example). This is named for Michael Faraday, the 19th-century scientist who invented the electric motor and generator. A Faraday cage, which is what's in the Faraday bag, uses a conducting screen, like copper mesh, to ground any wireless transmission. He was a clever guy.
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Most of the stuff that comes out of a 3-D printer looks like really low-quality plastic toys. We'd call it junk, but that would produce a huge outcry from the hobbyists who love it. OK, we're calling it junk anyway.
Another approach to making stuff is to use a milling machine to cut things out of wood and metal. This raises the possibility of making things that are actually useful. The prices are close to what you would pay for so-called 3-D printers.
You can get free software from Easel.com that can control a small desktop milling machine like the new Shapeoko. This takes a design made by you with the software and feeds into the machine to carve out objects in wood, plastic or metal. The software is still in the testing phase, but if you go to the site you can sign up for early access. Other 3-D design software should work as well.
The much-touted Facebook Paper is a news app for the iPhone, but it only works if you have the latest iOS 7 operating system. If you have an older iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, it won't install.
No need to cry over crumpled Paper, as there are many alternatives. Flipboard lets you create your own magazine of news sources.


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On December 7, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she met with Northern Ireland officials and discussed the peace process, the trilateral U.S.-Ireland Research and Development Partnership, and economic opportunities for Northern Ireland.
While in Belfast, the Secretary also attended an event hosted by The Ireland Funds -- a global fundraising network supporting programs of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education, and community development in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In her remarks to The Ireland Funds, Secretary Clinton said: "...Democracy is a challenging form of self-government, but it is the best that has ever been invented by any human being, and therefore we have a lot to be both proud of and very careful to continue nurturing.
And for me, it is a reminder as well that we have to continue to make sure that the promise of peace is delivered. Because the progress in a democracy can never be taken for granted, even progress so hard-won as here. "I remember very well when Bill and I came 17 years ago this month. He was the first American president ever to set foot in Northern Ireland.
We stood behind a bulletproof screen to turn on Belfast's Christmas lights in front of a vast crowd that stretched so far I could not even find the end of it in any direction. And it was a moment of such hope. And it has been that image that has kept me going through any challenges that have come across my mind when I think about what lies ahead. I said this morning in Stormont that a little girl, Catherine, who was there that night, said that her Christmas wish was that peace and love would last in Ireland forever. That is an appropriate Christmas wish for this season as well."
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The annual Mexican Folk Art Weekend, which takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Maloof Foundation in Alta Loma, commemorates the passion for Mexican folk art for which the late famed furniture maker Sam Maloof was well-known.
The free event includes displays and demonstrations, as well as entertainment.
On Saturday, from noon to 2 p.m., lunch catered by Cuca's is free for those who RSVP. The meal includes enchiladas, tamales, beans, rice, chips and salsa.
This year a dozen Mexican folk artists will display creations in a variety of genres including weaving, yarn, copper, sculpting, pottery and wood working.
"Sam had a deep appreciation for Mexican folk art," said Nick Brown, who founded the show with Maloof 14 years ago. "We traveled to Mexico many times to see the art and meet the artists."
Bulmaro Mendoza, a weaver from Teotitlan, a village in Mexico, will demonstrate how he uses natural resources to dye his yarn.
Jacobo and Maria Angeles Ojeda, from the village of San Martín Tilcajete, are wood carvers and will be displaying and creating their art.
Porfirio Gutierrez, a weaver, has roots in Teotitlán del Valle, but now lives with his family in Ventura. He will bring his loom to demonstrate the technique of traditional Zapotec weaving.
Other artists include metal artist Ignacio Punzo, Angelica Vasquez, whose clay and ceramic pieces are heavily influenced by Mexican history and legend, and master potter Jorge Quintana.
About 700 people are expected to attend the weekend's festivities.
Fifteen percent of proceeds are donated to the villages of the artists.
"We've helped a lot of villages," Brown said. "Sam would have loved that we have kept it up. We wanted to keep it going because we wanted people not only to understand Maloof but his passion for the Mexican people, their culture and their art. He loved these people."
Maloof died in 2009.


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King T'Challa returns home from America to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantel to join with girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Martin FreemanEverett K. Ross
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Letitia WrightShuri
Winston DukeM'Baku
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Angela BassettRamonda
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What is Star Command Galaxies?
In Star Command: Galaxies (SG:C) the universe is your playground. From your ship, you are able to explore and fight your way around planets. IN SC:G, your ship is like a mobile home base. Players will develop their ship to keep their crew happy, expand their reach by venturing out in the galaxy, and even explore or inhabit different planets. SC:G will be more open based and less restrictive then the mobile version. There are additional resources (no more tokens!), expanded content, and new features like diplomacy.
What can I do with a ship?
Ships will be fully customizable. No longer will players be locked into a few rooms with a few upgrades. You will be able to place the floor, walls, doors, right down to the lighting in each room. The amount of items, both interactive and decorative, is increasing daily.
Radiation and heat will affect certain rooms based on the objects in them. Players will have to create separate rooms to stop these from leaking out and hurting your crew.
Players will be able to invade other ships, but be cautious as some alien ships maybe toxic to your crew.
What is the crew system like?
Your crew will have some basic needs:
Players can create new interactive objects that crew will move to automatically to satisfy these needs. The better their needs are being met, the more effective in combat, away missions, diplomacy. Things like bathrooms, showers, and beds are needed to keep your crew in tip-top shape.
Wait, did you say I could visit planets? What else can I do?
Yes! It is possible to not only visit a planet but you can and will have to create bases on them. There will be different resources that can only be found on planets that are vital for your crew to survive.
Will SC:G have an over-arching plot?
SC:Galaxies will be open base space exploration with quests and an over arching goal for your crew. Will you ignore your mission to gain power and wealth? It's really up to the player how their game plays out! SCG features no narrative, like SC:Mobile's campaign mode, it's a completely different game. The focus i on you creating the narrative, weather you have a peace time ship or a war time ship, there are tools in place for you to create your own unique story. There will be no hand holding with stories that once you beat it once will be the same each time, we want to make it open ended.
Will there be multiplayer?
There will be no multiplayer in SC:Galaxies. The focus is on an expansive single player experience and is the most requested feature from our players.
Can we have multiple ships?
No, one ship will be so involved that you will not want to command multiple ships. Think of yourself as a captain of a ship, not the commander of a fleet.
Why is this different then the second Kickstarter?
The second Kickstarter was for an expanded Star Command. With the expanded team size and funding we are able to add much more content then we were expecting. SC:G has become far larger then the original Kickstarter visioned with more focus on away teams, diplomacy, and building over the combat focused mobile version (there will be a ton of combat too!)
What is the anticipated price?
SC:G will be priced like similar games and based on the content provided.
ets. price - $15-50
This information was taken from the SC:G Twitch live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trFql5AIyU
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Quick question: Will I need to buy the actual game release if I buy the alpha?
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Conferences in Arithmetic Geometry
This site used to track conferences in arithmetic geometry; it has been mostly replaced by this dynamic list generated using the MathMeetings.net back end. An archive of the material from the old list can be found here.
Going forward, this site will be maintained solely as a "rumor tracker" for the purposes of advance planning. For the purposes of this site, any conference with a web site is considered a fact rather than a rumor, and should be posted to MathMeetings (and then removed from this list). Note that MathMeetings includes conferences in all areas of mathematics, tagged by arXiv subject codes; use the tags for "algebraic geometry" and/or "number theory" to make the result visible in my dynamic list.
Here are some other conference lists, with overlapping but distinct areas of focus. (I admit to swiping listings from all of these sources; the converse is encouraged!)
- Number Theory Web conferences page: more number theory, less algebraic geometry.
- Ravi Vakil's conference page: more algebraic geometry, less number theory.
- Topology Atlas: topology.
- Sage wiki: Sage computer algebra development conferences (on various themes).
- IACR: cryptology.
- AMS Mathematics Calendar: general.
- L-functions and varieties over finite and global fields, February 5-9, Moscow
- Varieties: arithmetic and transformations, November 25-December 1, Będlewo
- Francophone Computer Algebra Days, February 4-8, CIRM, Luminy
- Arizona Winter School (topic TBA), March 2-6, Tucson
- AMS Central/Western sectional meeting (special sessions TBA), March 22-24, Honolulu
- Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups Lattices and Number Theory: Geometric and Computational Viewpoint, March 25-29, CIRM, Luminy
- Reinventing rational points, April 15-July 12, IHP, Paris
- Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography, and Coding Theory, June 10-14, CIRM, Luminy
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text: London - England will make a last-minute decision over the fitness of Jonathan Trott after scans showed the batsman did not fracture his hand in Sunday's one-day victory over South Africa. Trott, England's No 3 batsman, suffered a painful blow on his right hand after being hit by a short ball from Dale Steyn during his side's six-wicket win at Lord's. With the 31-year-old showing obvious signs of discomfort during a century stand with Ian Bell, there were fears the South African-born Trott might have broken bones. That would have forced England, who lead the series 2-1, to call up a replacement for the fifth and final one-day international at Trent Bridge on Wednesday. But an England and Wales Cricket Board update on Monday revealed there was no break and Trott and the team's medical staff will wait 24 hours before deciding if he is fit to feature against the Proteas. "X-ray of hand rules out any major fracture," the ECB statement said. "Further medical assessment required tomorrow (Tuesday)."


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — We've been watching that countdown to tipoff clock on the front of NBA.com for days, weeks even, just staring at the numbers ticking away.
With the ground beneath our feet seemingly changing by the second in the final days leading up to Tuesday night's start of the regular season, the one constant we thought we could be sure of is the teams that make up the league's 1 percent.
But we're not completely sure how to rank the elite now that James Harden and Jeremy Lin will share a backcourt in Houston after Oklahoma City Thunder traded the reigning KIA Sixth Man of the Year to the Rockets Saturday night. It was the most shocking and final blow in a week that left us punch drunk from stunning (some more than others) news.
The balance of power hasn't been shifted or anything. We all know that the Miami Heat, Thunder, Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs and Boston Celtics make up the theoretical 1 percent. They'll all kick this season off in the same positions in which they finished the last one.
Sure, it was a drama-filled last week before the start of the regular season. From the news that NBA Commissioner David Stern would be stepping down on Feb. 1, 2014 after 30 years on the job, and will be succeeded by Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, to the weekend stunner from Oklahoma City, the hits just kept coming.
On the eve of one of the most anticipated seasons we can remember, so much seems to be in flux.
For months the Lakers worried that Dwight Howard might not be ready to play in the opener as his lower back healed from April surgery and yet it's Kobe Bryant (foot) who could watch from the sideline in street clothes, more from Dave McMenamin from the ESPNLosAngeles.com:
"I don't know, I have my doubts," said Pau Gasol, Bryant's longest-tenured teammate on the roster. "I hope we (have him in the lineup). … He hasn't been able to practice for six days. He's been off that foot for six days, and it's no joke. I don't remember the last time that he took that many days off exercising. He might do stuff in the weight room and might do stuff without putting weight on the foot, but it's a little bit concerning."
Bryant did not speak to reporters Sunday, but Howard said the lingering injury had Bryant in a bad mood.
"He hasn't really talked about it," Howard said. "I know he's a little down right now. He seems down because he can't get out there and practice with us. He's trying to nurse his foot."
As planned, Bryant was re-evaluated by team trainer Gary Vitti and the rest of the medical staff over the weekend, including undergoing an MRI, according to Lakers coach Mike Brown. The MRI merely confirmed a strain and contusion of Bryant's foot, Lakers spokesman John Black said.
"We'll see how he is (Monday) and what he cannot do or can do out on the floor and then kind of go from there," Brown said.
That unsettling feeling extends to the rest of the league, particularly the other teams challenging to join that elite fray. The Knicks were supposed to be making a move up the Eastern Conference food chain this season, but that was before Amar'e Stoudemire's knee injury became an issue.
Stoudemire's injury is a dark cloud for a Knicks team fighting for supremacy in its own town, now that the Brooklyn Nets are competing for headlines and eyeballs in and around New York City.
The news that Stoudemire is headed for a second opinion on his knee doesn't bode well for the Knicks, as Ian Begley of ESPNNewYork.com explains:
The Knicks' original timetable stated that Stoudemire would miss anywhere from the first four to 11 days of the season.
Tweeted Stoudemire's agent, Happy Walters, on Saturday: "To all of the Knicks fans sending me messages… Stat will be fine. He's working w/ team trainers – will b back ASAP.
"No 1 wants to b out there after working all summer on his game more than Stat, himself."
The Knicks open the regular season on the road Thursday against the Brooklyn Nets.
Stoudemire first injured his knee in a practice collision with teammate Chris Copeland. The Knicks originally called it a bone bruise but following an MRI, it was later determined that Stoudemire had ruptured a popliteal cyst behind his left knee.
Stoudemire's left knee has been an issue in the past. He underwent microfracture surgery in October 2005, but bounced back well from the procedure.
One NBA team doctor told ESPNNewYork.com that Stoudemire was the best example of a player regaining his form after microfracture surgery.
Still, the procedure can be a red flag for teams. Stoudemire's contract with the Knicks — a five-year, $100 million pact — is uninsured because of his history of knee issues.
We won't even get into all of the uncertainty in Chicago and when Derrick Rose will return to the court for a Bulls team that we can no longer keep among the league's elite.
None of this diminishes our excitement for the start of the regular season. As always, we're more than ready for the real games to get started.
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Feng Shui Research Center
London United Kingdom
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Feng Shui Futures
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Crowborough Road, Nutley, TN22 3HY United Kingdom
01825 713836
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The Feng Shui Lab
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Feng Shui Element
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Feng Shui Experience
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252 Goodwood Avenue, Hornchurch, RM12 6DH United Kingdom
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Soothing Spaces
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European College of Feng Shui (ECOFS)
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Howard Choy has devoted more than 30 years of his to Feng Shui and Feng Shui architecture. He was born in China and had his early education there; after [...]
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Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 United Kingdom
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62 Mill Hill Road, London, W3 8JH United Kingdom
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Feng Shui Research Center
Richmond, TW9 2PE, United Kingdom
020 3286 1888
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533 Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 3JS United Kingdom
07541 111 899
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17 Taunton Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA9 3LP United Kingdom
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Fairfield, Conneticut, 06825 USA
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3 Marlow House, Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JL United Kingdom
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Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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0161 962 3745
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text: Jack, It looks like you're missing a compile-line include. I've only worked with hpl as part of hpcc, but in that situation they do all of their includes by relative paths. Make sure that when you are trying to compile this code, you either see something like -I/usr/local/hpl/include, or something like -I../../include that makes sense for the place where the code is. If you've shifted the directory structure around at all while setting it up, this could very easily be the problem. In such a situation, you can either add to the makefile an absolute path include, or try to fix the structure to work with their assumed relative paths. Hope this helps! Kevin Ball kball at pathscale.com PathScale Inc. On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:06, jack at crepinc.com wrote: > Hello all, > > Sorry to bother you with a lame question, but I've tryed all I know, and > "The Oracle" (Google) provides me with no more information. > > I have a thrown together cluster of on SuSE 9. I put BLAS in > /usr/local/blas, and cblas in /usr/local/cblas. I downloaded the HPL > version from the site and untarred it into /usr/local/hpl. I copied the > Makefile "Make.Linux_PII_CBLAS" into that dirrectory, and typed "make > arch=Linux_PII_CBLAS". After several lines that look fine to me (but no > compiling, just copying files), I get this: > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/hpl/src/auxil/Linux_PII_CBLAS' > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/root/hpl/include/hpl_misc.h', > needed by `HPL_dlacpy.o'. Stop. > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/hpl/src/auxil/Linux_PII_CBLAS' > make[1]: *** [build_src] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/hpl' > make: *** [build] Error 2 > > It appears that the makefile is wrong? I doubt this is the case because > a zillion people use this, but I don't know how to make this work. > > Thanks a lot for all your help, > > -Jack Carrozzo > jack {[at]} crepinc.com > http://www.crepinc.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Author Notes: Summertime comfort food, perfect after a day of digging in the dirt and planting things and swimming ... - aargersi —aargersi
Food52 Review: All the commenters on this recipe are right—it's wonderful! A perfect summer pasta that is light and easy, but still very satisfying. Be sure to use perfectly ripe corn to get the full effect of sweet corn with smoky bacon and a pop of scallions and lemon. —Stephanie Bourgeois
Serves: 4
ounces egg noodles
cobs of corn
strips of bacon
tablespoons butter
basil leaves
a pinch of fresh marjoram
zest from 1 lemon
salt and pepper
In This Recipe
- Cut the corn off of the cob, then milk the cobs as well. Thinly slice the scallions, and chop the herbs. ** to milk the cob - set the cob on end in a bowl and run the back side of your knife down it to get the juices and kernel tidbits out - this adds extra corny goodness to your dish! **
- Start a pot of water boiling for the noodles. Cut the bacon into lardons and crisp it in a large skillet. When it is nice and crunchy, remove it to a paper towel and drain all but a thin coating of bacon fat. Put the heat on medium add the butter and the corn to the skillet. Season with a pinch of salt and a couple of grinds of pepper.
- Your water should be boiling so put the noodles in, they probably take 6 minutes. Add the corn "milk" and the noodles to the skillet, then toss in the herbs and green onion and the bacon. Zest the lemon into the pan, toss, and serve!!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Corn
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dish with Meat as a Flavoring
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Before he took off for a tour of Asia in mid-November, President Bush played host to the leaders of the Big 2.5 American automakersGeneral Motors, Ford and the U.S. half of the multinational conglomerate known as DaimlerChrysler. The automakers had been hoping for an S.U.V.-sized summit conference on the state of American automaking, but the White House, after avoiding the topic during the midterm election campaign, decided on a more modest face-to-face session. If we did not know better, we might conclude that the White House was trying to send a message to the Big 2.5: Smaller is better. Get it?
The automakers had lots on their minds, but their chief talking point was currency policy. They told the president that the weak yen is wreaking havoc with the U.S. auto market and giving Japanese giants like Toyota an unfair advantage.
Blaming the yen for shocking losses at a time when the signature U.S. automobile product is a sport utility vehicle is a bit of a stretch, and word has it that the president was not overly impressed with this line of reasoning. He might have been more impressed, though hardly likely to act, if the Big 2.5, spurred by patriotism, had pressed for an end to the tax advantages that come with buying a gigantic gas guzzler rather than a sensible sedan. The Big 2.5 apparently did not make such a request.
Ford lost $5.8 billion in the most recent quarter. Chrysler lost $1.5 billion. G.M. managed to lose a scant $91 million. At the same time, Toyota turned a nice profit of $3.5 billion, while Honda made a $1 billion profit. Perhaps this astonishing difference really is a matter of currency inequity. But overwhelming evidence suggests that the almighty consumer has spoken.
The U.S. auto industry, one of the signature successes of postwar corporate capitalism, seems on the verge of going the way of that other industrial icon of bygone years, steel. The Big Three shrank to its current configuration when Germany's Daimler bought Chrysler and merged the two companies several years ago. Perhaps it's just a matter of time before Toyota and Honda do the same to G.M. and Ford. If, or when, that time comes, it will be hard not to conclude that the S.U.V. gamble of the 1990's, which produced handsome profits at first, wound up being the last desperate act of a dying industry. With luck, the S.U.V. craze will not have similar repercussions for American national security or the global environment.
My point, however, is not to throw dirt on the grave of U.S. automaking. In fact, as a bondholder in G.M.A.C., the credit arm of General Motors, I would be delighted to see the company prosperous and profitable again. Instead of beating up the Big 2.5 for sins against the planet and common sense, I'd like to praise them for another topic they raised with President Bush: national health insurance.
The automakers, in their heyday, were among the most enthusiastic proponents of welfare capitalism, a phrase that today prompts sneers from the free-market brigades. Autoworkers, represented by one of the nation's most aggressive unions, the United Auto Workers, enjoyed a health benefits and pension package the likes of which young workers today cannot imagine. This was the age of the Great American Job, a time when a young man or woman with a good but basic education could dream of home ownership, decent wages for an eight-hour day, health coverage at minimal out-of-pocket expense and a pension in return for years of loyalty to the company.
Those days, of course, are just about gone in the private sector. But the automakers, like some other old-line companies, have not completely dismantled the corporate welfare state. They still provide health benefits and pensions for millions of retired workers. In fact, according to the automakers' estimates, the cost of pensions and health benefits for retirees adds more than $1,000 to the cost of an automobile. There are about 2.6 retired G.M. workers for every current worker.
Company executives have begun to realize that the competitive advantage enjoyed by Toyota and Honda may have little to do with the yen and more to do with Japan's system of national health care. The Japanese companies do not have to shoulder the huge costs of health care.
So these titans of private enterprise have begun to mention the unmentionable: national health care, known to a certain sector of the American public as socialized medicine.
Many voices, of course, have called for national health insurance over the years. Most were dismissed as kooky lefties who reside in privileged urban settings on either coast. Now, however, the sensible leaders of the American automobile industry have begun to talk aboutcan it be?some form of, yes, socialized medicine.
A cynic would argue that this is the only way the United States will ever move to a single-payer, European-style health insurance system: If the leaders of capital, in essence, beg to be relieved of the cost of providing private insurance. That may be about to happen, if, for the first time in a very long time, the U.S. automakers are actually on the cutting edge of the next new thing.
The new Congress can continue this conversation with hearings on the nation's health care dilemma from the point of view of employers. Free-marketeers may be surprised by what they hear. In the end, private business leaders, not nutty lefties, may become the loudest advocates for government-supplied health care.
One of my daughters and I both have differnt Toyota brands made in the United States, by American workers in plants 2000 miles apart. We both have them serviced by Toyota dealers using American staff.
Toyota's advantage is in updating the Hawthorne Experiment and giving its employees decision making responsibilities in all aspects of the business, quality being a top item.It provides competitive wages and health care to its American employees also.
No doubt the diminishing 2.5 would like to dump its cost problems dating from past mis-management onto the American taxpayers, but it won't hsppen.
One of my daughters and I both have differnt Toyota brands made in the United States, by American workers in plants 2000 miles apart. We both have them serviced by Toyota dealers using American staff.
Toyota's advantage is in updating the Hawthorne Experiment and giving its employees decision making responsibilities in all aspects of the business, quality being a top item.It provides competitive wages and health care to its American employees also.
No doubt the diminishing 2.5 would like to dump its cost problems dating from past mis-management onto the American taxpayers, but it won't hsppen.


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Lady Godiva and 'Peeping Tom'
A peeping Tom is a person who secretly watches someone else, so how is it possible the expression has its roots in taxation?
The phrase stems from the legend of Lady Godiva, a noble woman who lived during the 11th century, and, sorry to say, was not the founder of Godiva Belgian Chocolates.
As it turns out, the good lady was upset at the heavy tax burden her husband had placed upon the impoverished people of Coventry, England. She implored her husband to reduce their taxes. Growing tired of her pleas, he decided to make her a bargain. If she rode through the town buck naked, he would do as she asked.
Lady Godiva took up her husband's challenge, although he probably thought she would never go through with it. Before her revealing ride, she warned the townsfolk to stay inside their homes and close their shutters and doors. Only one man disobeyed her decree, and his name was Tom.
Peeping Tom tried to catch a glimpse of Lady Godiva as she rode by, clothed only in her long flowing hair. And now his name is synonymous for a naughty voyeur. Unfortunately for him, or so the legend goes, Tom was also struck blind for his misdeed and Lady Godiva was the last woman he ever laid his eyes upon.