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Famous crazy person, Sagarika 'Shouty' Ghose, who screams from inside your teevee every night, also has a twitter machine, which is full of comedic gold.
Here are a few selected classics:
Here, Ms. Ghose appears to be apologizing to a movie, for leaving a stain on it's coffee table, perhaps?
She loves Dan Brown. Now her whole 'reporting' makes sense.
OMG, she JUST discovered the subject for the next Dan Brown best-seller!!1! The HOLY GRAIL of Global Warming! It's almost orgasmic, for Dan Brown fans!!!
Yes, because the temperature changes are only happening in the West. Having a heat wave and a cold wave in the same frikin year signifies that mother nature is simply trying to be fair in choosing the method with which to kill homeless people. And who knows better about the science behind global warming than an economist?
Yes. And Ms. Ghose, who is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, famous I&B secretary, and wife of Rajdeep Sardesai, her boss, is clearly against nepotism. Well, done maa'm. Well, done.
Those goddamn poors do not know how to behave. They should just behave like good poor people and be happy that they have got the opportunity to study in a "foreign" University. A "journalist" like "Sagarika" "Ghose" will not "stand" for such "behaviour". ( I might have "overdone" with the quotation marks. "Sorry".)
She will single-handedly kill Haldirams and all it's thousands of branches, by not gracing it with her benign presence.
I am willing to bet good money that she talks to her plants. And by talking I mean SHOUTING ON THE TOP OF HER VOICE. Her plants are not not growing because of the season, THEY ARE SCARED & AFRAID THAT SHE WILL TALK TO THEM, EVERYDAY!
I hadn't read this tweet before I posted the previous one. Honest!
Yes, bollywood is famous for such Bohemian and Liberal movies such as DDLJ, HAHK, K3G etc. Because nothing says liberal like movies which 'empower' woman by portraying them as pawns in the hands of men. And those crazy Bohemian movies, which portray children who don't obey every single directive from their parents as evil! Also, Alok Nath's career, for some reason.
Yes, it's so great that she can win a debate against a straw man. It's such an accomplishment to offend people that are looking for something to be offended at!! Bravo, Ms. Ghoss! Bravo!!
Childish name calling and generalising is such a great way to win an argument. Grouping and stereotyping your opponents on the basis of religion is the same bullshit tactic that is used by the very people she pretends to stand against. Using your soapbox to score brownie points against people with whom you have a political disagreement with is simply the way of the coward.
Oh! Oh!! Oh!!! Comparisons!! My turn! If Sagarika Ghose is India's Sarah Palin. then Rajdeep Sardesai is it's John McCain. If Sagarika Ghose offends you, then you probably must be stupider than she is. If you watch Sagrika on teevee everyday, there is a 1000% chance of you becoming suicidal.
[Tweets via Sagarika Ghose's Twitter feed]


text: BUSINESS Judge Rejects Shakira Ex's Plea to Access Bank Account 7/4/2013 by Associated Press FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Getty Shakira performs during the 188th 'Wetten dass ...?' show on March 27, 2010 in Salzburg, Austria. A judge in Geneva has rejected an application from Shakira's ex-boyfriend seeking rights to one of her bank accounts.Antonio de La Rua claims he should have access to one of Shakira's accounts because it holds most of the assets from their business partnership.In documents dated June 17 and obtained by The Associated Press, the judge said that Shakira is the sole owner of the account.De La Rua has worked as one of Shakira's business advisers. He said he and Shakira established an oral agreement to work professionally following their romantic split in 2011.Shakira Sued By Ex-Manager For $100 Million The judge said that de La Rua does not have enough evidence to prove the two reached a professional agreement and that there are no written agreements.De La Rua has been waging an international fight against the Colombian singer, saying he shaped the "Shakira brand." He has filed lawsuits in New York and Los Angeles.De La Rua is the son of former Argentine President Fernando de la Rua. He dated Shakira, whose songs include "Hips Don't Lie," for more than a decade and worked on some of her business deals.Lawyers for de La Rua's didn't immediately respond to emails seeking comment Wednesday. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME

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Full-size pickup trucks drove the Detroit 3 to their best April vehicle-sales numbers since 2007.
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all posted double-digit sales increases compared with the same month last year. Ford posted the greatest sales gain, 18 percent, largely crediting the sales of its popular F-Series pickup brand, which increased 24 percent in April, selling more than 59,000 units.
The F-Series pickup has been the best-selling vehicle in the US for 31 years.
GM and Chrysler posted sales increases of about 11 percent each. GM reported a 28 percent gain of its Silverado brand, while its Sierra truck brand jumped 12.8 percent. Sales of Chrysler's Ram pickup truck increased 49 percent from last April, helping make it the best April for the company since 2007. The
Trucks are typically sold at higher price points than cars; profits this season are also coming from an overall decline in incentives, which means that companies are turning a higher profit. Total industry incentives dropped 3 percent in April from the previous month; Ford and GM spent less on incentives, 7 and 4 percent respectively, while Chrysler incentive spending increased 3 percent.
"What people are actually paying for trucks is actually higher than last month. More people that need to buy trucks are buying trucks and they are not buying on discount," says Jessica Caldwell, a senior analyst with Edmunds.com. "The fact that prices are not only holding, but getting a little higher on trucks is good news for the domestic car companies because it helps with their profits.
Overall, total light vehicle sale totals are expected at 1.28 million in April, a 9 percent increase from the same month last year, but down 11.5 percent from March. Analysts say they expect year-end sales to end up between 15 and 15.5 million units.
Ms. Caldwell explains that April is considered a "weird" month in the automotive industry because it is sandwiched between March, usually considered a robust sales month as it kicks off spring, and May, which benefits from the Memorial Day holiday and the start of summer – factors that generally drive people to car showrooms.
A convergence of factors is helping drive sales early this year: Improved consumer confidence, which rose to 68.1 from 61.0 in March, rising home prices, continued pent-up demand from last year, and low financing rates.
"These wealth effects have spurred consumer spending this year, including on car sales," says Lacey Plache, chief economist for Edmunds.com. "Even as tough fiscal issues at home and abroad continue to crop up, consumers have not been derailed.
Leading foreign automaker Toyota reported sales fell 1.1 percent in April compared with the same month last year. Bill Fay, Toyota's group vice president and general manager, released a statement saying that "continued retail sales growth indicates the underlying strength of the market, which is a great sign for the month ahead.
Honda sales increased 7.4 percent, largely due to its CR-V utility vehicle, which hit an all-time April sales record. Hyundai sales increased 2 percent. Nissan Motor Co. reported the largest sales increase for a foreign automaker at 23 percent.
Volkswagen tallied the largest decline for any automaker in April. The company's 10 percent decrease in sales compared with the same month last year is partially blamed on the fact the company does not have a large truck brand in its portfolio, plus its Passat brand has failed to remain competitive with best-selling midsize brands, the Honda Accord, Ford Fusion and Toyota Camry. The April decline broke the Volkswagen's 31-month string of year-over-year growth.
"While it was a challenging month, particularly in the compact and midsize sedan segments, we remain solidly focused on our long-term growth strategy," said Volkswagen Group of America CEO Jonathan Browning.


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Christie in 2016? Ask again later
Is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie running for president in 2016? He didn't deny it.
Christie is up for re-election next month, and during a debate Tuesday evening with his opponent Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono, the Republican didn't promise to serve out a second term or issue any boilerplate about having no plans to seek the presidency, a standard phrase that precludes nothing.
"I am not going to declare tonight for you or for anybody else that I am or I'm not running for president,'' he said when asked directly by moderator Kristine Johnson if he will run. "I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I can do this job and also deal with my future.''
Christie did say "there's no greater honor and privilege I could ever, ever ask for in my life'' than to be governor. But ask him again in 2016: "I don't think anybody in America or in the state of New Jersey expects anybody three years away to tell them what they're going to do. Life's too long. I won't make those decisions till I have to.''
Buono, who trails by more than 25 percentage points in opinion surveys, said Christie's presidential ambitions are behind his opposition to same-sex marriage, his cuts to funding for Planned Parenthood and the cancellation of a proposed $9 billion rail tunnel to New York. Christie killed the tunnel in 2010, saying the state would be financially vulnerable to cost overruns.
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Meeting Notes 2012 05 01
- 1 Instructions
- 2 Agenda
- Delete these instructions section before posting completed minutes.
- Pick a moderator and a note-taker.
- Optionally: pick a membership-binder-wrangler; otherwise the moderator can take care of it.
- Open a text editor to take notes on the major points of the meeting, using this page at the template.
- Project the draft meeting notes and agenda in real time throughout the meeting.
- Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
- Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.
- Post the meeting notes to this page, and email out a summary with a link.
- Tell firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com if there are new members.
- Understand the structure of Noisebridge decision-making
- Make sure everyone gets a chance to speak.
- Speak only minimally yourself.
- Keep the meeting moving, and avoid getting bogged down.
- Identify discussion items, arrange times limits for talking about each item.
- Identify and summarize consensus, suggest things that need to be done.
- Get the membership binder and ensure that it is returned safely.
- Say your name before you talk.
- Remain on-topic, and speak as concisely as possible.
- Assist the note-taker with any links or corrections that are needed.
- Remain respectful of other participants, their time, and the consensus and moderation process.
The 214th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: Nic
Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE
Introduction and Names[edit]
- Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain what Noisebridge is about:
Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give a brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
- Introduce any new or unusual moderation techniques that you may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
- Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
- What's your name,
- are you a member,
- what do you do, and
- if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?
Noise bridge is a collaborative space that umm... (people lying) err. where the how to? 501 c3 provides space, powertool, infrastructure etc. exists on membership fees and donations. and enthusiasm.
- leif: moderating
- carl pro huker
- liz writer electronics, organizing library
- hype writing software for work. and fun sorting bolts
- sean- secret agent
- someone needs a nut
- nick- likes lua in c. possibly has death wish
- eric is sitting in
- mike - working on deep hack project digital sperlunking getting deep and mike is getting dirty with his pc
- michel -
- za is not a hacker
- jesse likes to do projects
- nic taking notes
- snail! is a snail
- tom between fixing peoples websites and such
- will is working on working on website,
- Martin
- kevin here to learn about networking
- weev representing black homosexuals
- robert is a product of DARPA
- kayla
- levi getting an idea of whats going on here.
Short Announcements[edit]
- Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short!
- Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
carlos has some servers with good graphics cards. possible donation to noisebridge hackers from germany - sebastian and daniel - took analog data writer thing and microcontroller that sebastian had created and designed himself. it draws images. and hes donating the plane that we flew in Deloris park.
appointment at score.org, they provide good feedback on business ideas
brewing night tuesday at 9:30
Tom can help people fix their websites/ mentor on html css username: flamsmark
send stuff to fuckyeah.noisebridge.tumblr.com or something
New or Stale Events[edit]
- Is there anything new happening at the space?
- Is there anything that has stopped happening at the space?
- If this is the first meeting of the month, review all the events at the space and try to weed out stale events.
gamebridge is no olnger on wiki mushroom thing on monday should be taken off . no one is there to run the evennt even though people show up.
Membership Binder[edit]
- Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe membership, and the application process.
Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community better than it is today.
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.
- Anyone eligible to join this week should
- introduce themselves,
- answer any questions members may have for them, then
- leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
- The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
- Remember to applaud new members when they return.
Monad thinks this place is an interesting experiment. He is applying for membership. Sean is applying for membership as well. Just waiting for people to vouch for membership. Two signatures is min, more os better. Sean is a long time it tech vet. security, sysadmin. multicolored head gear. "this is an extremely cool collection of talent and ideology"
Financial Report[edit]
- Funds in bank:
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
Consensus items[edit]
You may wish to invite a knowledgeable volunteer to repeat a brief primer on the consensus process.
Proposals from last week[edit]
(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)
Proposals for next week[edit]
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Discussion Items[edit]
If an item of discussion drags on too long, further discussion may be postponed until after the meeting ends.
During discussion, it is not necessary to write down exact what each person says. Record the topics of discussion, and any items of consensus or controversy here. Detailed descriptions of the conversation should go on the discuss page for this meeting.
Should we (more formally) formalize the way we introduce new ppl to the dangerous equipment in the shop? ~hipe
Also, door buzzer? ~hipe
currently no door buzzer at the door. buzzer was removed because it was loosened from cable ties. someone may have clipped wire. want to fix buzzer. does anyone else want to help?
Ashin also working on buzzer. faceplate in storage.
some time ago there was a method for allowing the buzzer to open the door upon depression. It was only used for mass events. but for some reason that circuit doesnt work. during 5mof and circuit hacking, what is the state of the door buzzer?
buzzer is landlords responsibility. but we broke it. we did/did not? get permission to screw around with buzzer.
most likely expired.
the original birth of the box, it was birthed by the landlord.
there was also some jerry rigging of a mouse.
1. the last person who worked on the buzzer said the problem was originating at the place where the sound was made. 2. this is a very important place to discuss this.
how to fix problem: stand in front of the buzzer with a tool in your hand and try to look intelligent.
end of discussion
people messing with keycodes and stuff should nt mess with this. what are their names? they should geton the build list.
more to say about buzzer. there are rumors about who cut the line.
it costs about 50 bucks to run to the dump. is anyone interested in helping with the removal of waste from noisebridge? this is with a zip car. somebodys mother had a truck that she would kindly let us use to move our garbage from on place to another
The police were called yesterday.
Also, should there be an ongoing nominal fund for first aid kits? ~hipe
Za would like to talk about violence at noisebridge
on redord: he would rather eat his fingers than come toecause recipient is /o one of these meetings
yesterday za came to nb got a face full of violence.
not a hacker. not a radical pacifist.
would like to put notions on the table as to what violence is
someone orders another to do something= violence. because recipient is without choice someone asks another to leave= non-violence because they still have agency
imposing sense of aestheitic on another is not good. za observed people imposing aesthetic on another through violence. we should discuss protocol for what to do in the face of violence.
should we use violence to describe when a person tells someone else to do something?
community discussion about incident that had transpired.
what the fuck happened: by james
was in space teaching sysadmin calss. Cynthis was in the space, she spends a lot of time in kitchen, associates with occupy movement. arrived through elevator and two members immediately confronted her and told her that she was not a good part of the community. this was not a space for her to be at for any arbitrary reason. they wanted her to leave and come back during this meeting. she did not want to leave. the situation became more tenuous. someone decided that they needed to call the police. the police ended up coming and removed her from the building and it was awkward. Miloh talked her down. jesse was talking to her., members were talking to her. eventually i went on for a really long time.
done. questions?
jesse was one of the poepleinvolved. was part of decision to call police. it was very stressful situation. no one wanted to heighten the situation. could have handled without calling police. now we are developing better tools to handle this type of situation without calling the poilice.
Za came in the door. cynthis was next to door. jesse and weev wanted her to leave right there and then. za wanted to be agnostic, but assumed that she had something violent. but that was not the case. tried to moderate. cynthis asked interrigators why she was being kicked out. violence was not an issue. got whole list of issues, asked guys to back off and za will talk with her. caution is the better part of valor . retreat, come abck tomorrow. she did not want to be a pushover. that was a need, she did not want to allow herself to be trampled on. Za thinks people were using force to get her out of here because of her aesthetics.
It did not sound like there was a particular action taht resulted in people asking her to leave. it was a do-ocratic banning. in the past, this is tradditionally discussed in meetings. she has a role, she may be annoying and mentially ill, but that is not a reason to kick her out.
reasons you might get kicked out: being violent, creepy, scary.
does not like that it was not discussed and that people called the cops into the space.
when i first came up to cynthia,impression from initial discussion from jessee that she was there was a discussion taht had taken place. she was very aggressive and in your face.
there has been a lot of discussions on this subject. on the discuss list. but she may not have been aware of this.
called police, told cynthia that police were called. about an our later they arrived. there were about 7 people around her arguing. she locked herself in the toilet. a police woman had to talk her out. cynthia asked to talk with miloh, they didm then he walked her out.
situation did not seem safe for anybody involved. The best time to call police is before this type of situation escalates.
there was a huge meeting before 5mof in the church classroom discussin taht this is not a resource center to use the internet or a place to come and find shelter. How do we get the poeple who are not using the space for what its for, how do we get them out of the space in a comfortable, do-ocratic way. (indirect quote from mitch?)
what i think about cynthia is irrelivant. what the main this is how do we cultivate open space. question: to waht extent was she notified that she is not welcome? people have talked with her, but she may have not received that information/
would she go get coffee with miloh to talk about how she is not welcome?
she may have put noisebridge down as her space for residence.
she was never told to leave perminately. she was told to leave now and come back to get a better understanding of the situation.
look at the mediation and conflict resolution pages on the wiki
what do we want to achieve in this discussion? this is a problem that we run into often. people are not contributing, people do not appreciate, but nobody acts on it until there is an incident.
people dont like situation, eventually someone do-ocratically boils over and band someone.
used to think this was totally wrong. but this may be the only catalyst that keeps people from being passive aggressive and inactive.
what if two people try and tell eachother to leave the space?
should we make a formal acceptance process to avoid the situation. that is the opinion of one individual.
there could be a lower threshhold for non-members to get a lesser membership.
What are definitions for what is a "hacker" because it basically boils down to a popularity contest. what are signals that can show people that they are about to get kicked out? there is a culture of fear at noisebridge. people have fear based projects. people are really afraid of being kicked out so they start these fear based projects. and the third thing: cynthis was accused of being overbearing and using authority to control the kitchen.
one time race said it was members only time at 2am
Cyntia should not come back to the space because her behavious is not excellent, does not try to be more excellent, and does not understand how her actions are unexcellent
indirect response to previous statement: this place is for education and collaboration.
1) is it appropriate for people in this space to decide taht someone else should be here, not because they are violent, but because they are not good for the space? if people are degrading the quality of the space, consistently over time, that person can be asked to leave. it was appropriate to ask her to leave. 2) was this the best way? no. it was the bay of fucking pigs. the only positive result was that cynthia wasnt here anymore. there were cops.
the above perception of the general concensus is not completely right. its about 80% right. if someone is part of the community and someone decides to do-ocratically ban an individual, then lots of poeple will be angry. the best thing to do is to bring it up at a meeting.
other discussion items: (omg, no)
someone got drunk and started throwing things. immediate safety was violated and person was physically removed. we have mediation methods for this and they should be used outside of the meeting
did we not just have an hour long talk on how to remove crazy homeless women who just want to clean the kitchen? drunk people throwing things and making threats on peoples personal safety is a reason to call the cops... but he left on his own accord.
Also, 6-7 workstations and tons of servers are potentially available. power inefficient. 5 years old. 2 have intel dual core graphics cards. could be used for laser cutter, cnc. also lots of scuzzy drives. or something you know what i mean.
if we dont want any of this, there is a loving home where it can go. It would be cool to give hacker moms a first pick because they are a new space. we dont really have policies around this, but public terminal tend to get beat up. 3 public terminals set up in past, used for facebooking (not hacking) (social hacking?)
it would be cool if we could get a better machine for the laser cutter. What do we do with the servers. Dan, the kid with the roller blades said we could do something with them.
It would be a great idea to email rack list. figure out what their opinion is. servers represent liability because we dont want to host poeples web sites here.
servers draw more energy, we dont really need them. if desired you can VM a server and it will work just fine.
in conclusion: hacker moms get first dibs. If we could get machines for laser cutter, cnc that would be cool.
background: hackerspace in ann arbor they had liability release form. flashback to yesterday: youre in a room. theres 150 poeple. college kids in room want to make a thing. they have pliers on a bolt. they strip it. next thing you know the bolt is stripped AND reverse threaded. We do not have any mechanism to train people on proper power tool use. poeple in the shop should be aware that these are dangerous machines. propose: we need to be certified to use these machines. noisebridge token or facebook credits or sometjing
tech shop does not face these same legal issues.
this topic could benefit from discussion list. not any clear solutions. but its a good discussion
Eric has taken on a role in the shop. has experience. repaired tools, educates people who use the tools. open to communicating with people who are interested in this area.
four basic rools: no lose clothing always use giude to push piece dont use your hands always turn off when youre done always wear goggles.
BUT theres no rules at nosebridge. maybe we could look at these as recommendations.
In the past, there was a safety committee. but it died. we cant really stop pepople from being damned fools, but we could have signs. if we had a sign at the entry way that says " by coming in you agree that you are responsible for your own safety. as you should be anywhere in this world.
whats at stake here? steak? we dont want a personal injusy lawsuit taht could end nbz as we know it.
we have really nice insurance and plenty of warnings about how this place could potentially be dangerous to your health. NBURLs for every piece of equipment. videos of how to use stuff. would be great for learning
legality? we cant make poeple sign forms because we cant monitor whos using the shop. we can give warnings before people go in but theres no guarantee that "we" can watch them as they go in.
sign: "please read every sign when youre here"
killer rating: probability taht this machine will kill you. for example, 4.3
someone cut themselves. it was a gusher. they needed medical paraphernalia. and didnt know where to find it. they went to the kit at pillar 7 but the supplies had been ravaged. we need standards for what is in a medical kit. rachel spent a long time trying to get the first aid kit more functional
it is a reasonable thing to spend money on? in reference to a medical kit.
this is something that a collection would be appropriate.
(someone donates $20 on the spot)
were going to talk with rachel about the needs for this kit.
also, proper layout for fire extinguishers and medkits and stuff. this has been started but its not finished
people seem to be into this. New safety committee!?
theres a wiki page about safety committees somewhere on the wiki. from a really long time ago.
End of Meeting[edit]
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Return the membership binder to it's rightful location.
- Clean and tidy the meeting notes, then save them to the wiki.
- Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
- Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker or robot.
- Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.


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Fugitive DRC policeman accuses chief of rights activist's murder
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A fugitive policeman has accused DR Congo's former police chief of ordering the assassination of a human rights activist. Paul Mwilambwe says he witnessed Floribert Chebeya being suffocated by colleagues in early June 2010 and accuses then chief of police, General John Numbi, of giving the order. Mwilambwe is one of four police officers to have been sentenced to death for the murder but he alleges that it was in fact the General behind the killing, acting on President Joseph Kabila's orders.


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Blowing past the distant Civil War history of "Lincoln" and the more controversial recent history of "Zero Dark Thirty," director and star Ben Affleck's rousing, reassuringly apolitical thriller "Argo" won Sunday's Academy Award for best picture.
This was a rebuke to the very academy bestowing the prize: Affleck failed to receive a directing nomination for "Argo," joining "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow as the evening's most conspicuous snubs.
MORE OSCARS: Red carpet pics | Winners | Backstage
In their place, Ang Lee scored his second directing Oscar (following "Brokeback Mountain") for the formidable technical achievement that was "Life of Pi," which won four Oscars in all. Widely considered an unfilmable novel, Lee's supple handling of the story of a boy, a tiger, a lifeboat and a slew of digital visual wonders has led to a picture grossing nearly $600 million in worldwide. box office receipts.
This has happened with Lee before. His "Brokeback Mountain" directing Oscar didn't come attached to a best picture win for the same movie; the big prize that year went to "Crash" instead.
Sunday night's "Life of Pi" win for Lee marked the second time the director went up against industry lion Steven Spielberg, nominated for "Lincoln," and won.
Spielberg's film won just two Oscars, for Daniel Day-Lewis's towering lead performance and production design. It was instead the night of "Argo," which won three Oscars, and "Life of Pi."
A couple of months ago the best picture Oscar seemed like "Lincoln's" to lose. But after receiving top prizes from the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America, as well as the Screen Actors Guild ensemble award, "Argo" officially became the front-runner. No movie has ever won the Globes, the DGA, the PGA and the SAG without eventually picking up the Oscar.
In the academy's 85-year awards history, "Argo" is only the fourth to secure best picture without an accompanying directorial nomination. The other three: "Wings" (1927, the first best picture winner), "Grand Hotel" (1932) and "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989).
"Lincoln" seemed to lose its Oscar mojo the second the nominations were announced Jan. 10, even though Spielberg's superb slice of historical fiction (scripted by the dramatist Tony Kushner, who lost the adapted screenwriting Oscar to "Argo's" Chris Terrio) pulled down 12 nominations in all, the most of any film.
The best actress race was widely considered one of the evening's tough calls. Emmanuelle Riva, at 86 the oldest-ever leading actress Oscar nominee (for "Amour"), made the trip all the way from Paris to attend the academy's prom night Sunday. Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, was the youngest-ever best actress nominee, cited for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
But it went to Jennifer Lawrence, queen of several news cycles' worth of magazine covers. This was her first Oscar (she was nominated previously for "Winter's Bone "), recognizing her performance as a young widow dancing her way to a better place in "Silver Linings Playbook."
When Affleck got squeezed out of a directing nomination (owing, perhaps, to the heartening inclusion of Michael Haneke for "Amour") invisible waves of "not fair!" sympathy starting rolling Affleck's way last month. People like "Argo"; it's a good time, triumphantly rousing in its depiction of a CIA success story free of nagging elements such as waterboarding or other forms of enhanced interrogation techniques depicted in "Zero Dark Thirty."
A vote for "Argo" was a vote for Hollywood, and for America. Inspired by a real-life CIA mission, "Argo" told a gripping story of Americans in hiding and their savior, CIA "exfiltration" expert Tony Mendez, posing as a Hollywood film crew scouting locations in Tehran for a "Star Wars"-type adventure movie, the "Argo" of the title.
Affleck, who plays Mendez in the picture, cast the beloved character actors Alan Arkin (nominated in the supporting actor category) and John Goodman as the mission's Hollywood connections. Their deceptions help save the day. "Argo" is a bigger valentine to the film industry than even last year's big Oscar winner, "The Artist."
People just plain like Affleck's movie. Its confident, propulsive craftsmanship plays well no matter how little sleep you had the night before (can't say the same about "Amour" or "Lincoln," excellent films both). Oscar voters relished Affleck's evocation of such 1970s thrillers as "Three Days of the Condor" or "All the President's Men."
The movie is a throwback, but it feels vital. And it's a good time —triumphantly rousing in its depiction of a CIA success story free of nagging elements such as waterboarding or other forms of enhanced interrogation techniques, the ones depicted in "Zero Dark Thirty."
In the feature documentary category "Searching For Sugar Man," an irresistible portrait of a nearly forgotten singer-songwriter, aced its weightier competition, chiefly the superb Israeli doc "The Gatekeepers."
The "In Memoriam" segment of Sunday's Academy Awards paid tribute to film industry talents who died last year. We lost beloved character actors: Charles Durning, Jack Klugman, Ernest Borgnine. Even avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker got his (fleeting) due, along with film critic Andrew Sarris. And Barbra Streisand sang "The Way We Were" in honor of that infernally durable song's late composer, Marvin Hamlisch.
I always like the looking-back part of the Oscars best, but Sunday's show looked back in something like adoration adoringly at the old days throughout. Like "Family Guy," the animated snarkfest on which host Seth MacFarlane made his fortune, the Oscar bash worked on alternating currents of ethnic, misogynist and/or "Star Trek" wisecracks and Ggolden Aage movie and Broadway standards. Strange mixture. But "Family Guy's" is still running.
The evening's first surprise: Christoph Waltz. Over such contenders as Robert De Niro (for "Silver Linings Playbook") and Tommy Lee Jones (for "Lincoln"), the droll character actor scored his second Oscar in four years, both times for bringing a voluble Quentin Tarantino character to life. First time, a Nazi, in "Inglourious Basterds"; this time, a dashing bounty hunter riding through Tarantino's spaghetti-Western version of the Civil War era.
The evening's least surprising win, next to Day-Lewis: Anne Hathaway, winning the supporting actress statuette for singing her dying guts out as Fantine in "Les Miserables." Even those who detest "Les Miserables" and its overbearing attack on the audience's tear ducts have to concede: Hathaway's the best thing in it. As widely predicted, given her various wins in recent weeks leading up to the Oscars, Hathaway's fervent portrayal scored the actress her first win Sunday. Her big number, "I Dream a Dream," was filmed by director Tom Hooper in a single-take, full-bore close-up, thereby enshrining the performance and the performer for academy sanctification.
After which New York magazine's Frank Rich tweeted: "God is dead."
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Government begins education blitz for uninsured
The campaign is designed to educate people about health insurance marketplaces coming in 100 days.
WASHINGTON — A week after a Government Accountability Office report said new health insurance exchanges may not be fully ready to launch in October, the government Monday began a 100-day public education blitz by releasing a new website, call center and publicity campaign.
The campaign is designed to educate those who do not have insurance about how the marketplaces will work and how to obtain health insurance. Most Americans who do not have insurance now will need to purchase insurance to avoid paying a fine. The health exchanges, or marketplaces, are meant to provide less expensive, but better, insurance options that are easy to understand.
Consumers will go to either a state or federal website, compare and contrast plans from several insurers based on benefits and costs, and purchase insurance. Those making less than 400% of the federal poverty level will receive financial help with the insurance, which will automatically be applied when they sign up online.
"We're ready," Marilyn Tavenner, director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), told USA TODAY last week. "In our minds, with the launch on Monday, it really moves us to the next step."
As she talked, Tavenner spread a Virginia Commonwealth University calendar out on her desk. Each day contained a number signifying days until launch, and big black Xs marked the days already passed. Her staff talked excitedly about the campaign – and about the late nights and weekends that have led to it.
Last week, the Government Accountability Office released a report saying the federal government has missed deadlines for the exchanges and is behind schedule on making sure consumers can get their federal subsidies, making sure health insurance plans are eligible to be sold through the marketplaces, and hiring people to help consumers enroll in the exchanges.
"Much progress has been made, but much remains to be accomplished within a relatively short amount of time," the report said. The study said progress had been made on finishing the major elements needed to make the exchanges work.
Over the past several months, the administration has repeatedly asked for more funds to set up and promote the Affordable Care Act, and, each time, Congress has refused the requests. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius then went to industry officials and asked for help. Members of Congress objected to her asking the people who stood to benefit -- or to lose money, should the exchanges fail --saying that those asked don't have any choice but to give.
Starting Monday, visitors to healthcare.gov will be asked questions about their age, sex, disability status and income. How they answer could provide them with detailed information, such as:
• Whether a participant is eligible for help paying for insurance.
• What would be covered if a woman becomes pregnant.
• What plans are available with benefits that fit a person's needs.
• Whether insurance would come through a federal or state exchange.
• How small businesses can use the exchanges for insurance for their employees.
The site also contains features that allow visitors to sign up for Internet updates or instant chats with a call-center operator to answer questions.
"There are lots of visual cues," said Julie Bataille, director of CMS's office of communications. "People asked for that."
The information can then be quickly shared through social media, e-mail or by printing it out in a format designed so people can sit down and study it. Then, in 100 days, they'll be able to choose and enroll in insurance plans online. There's also a site specifically for Spanish-speaking Americans, cuidadodesalud.gov. The call center number is 800-318-2596.
"We know how important this audience is," Bataille said, explaining that though most Spanish speakers will read the information in both English and Spanish, they'll relate to it better in Spanish.
The government has also only conducted initial testing on the system's ability to connect with the states and the Internal Revenue Service, the GAO report said. Despite those concerns, Tavenner said the government will be ready.
The new site, Bataille said, "is one demonstrative example that shows we're going to be ready. ... People have been working on this for more than a year."
Tavenner said they've had to taper the roll out as Congress has reduced funding for publicity.
"We've kind of quietly gone on about our work," she said, adding her theory about why people seem so confused by what the law contains: "I think it's the fact that people can't see and touch the marketplace until it goes online."
Skepticism about the law is normal, she said, just as it was for other programs, such as Medicare Part D. But the successful experience with projects such as that makes her confident the exchanges will be up and running on time, Tavenner said.
"Now do I feel like we'll make modifications as we go? Yes," she said. "We're really changing the way the United States looks at insurance and coverage."
States with their own exchanges have a budget for marketing, so the government is focusing on other states. Government officials had expected more states to create their own marketplaces, and the increased number who decided not to has eaten into the government's budget.
"Obviously, we're prioritizing," Tavenner said, but she added that "this is not a sprint" because after the markets open Oct. 1, people will be able to sign up for insurance until March 31.


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PCKeeper Live. A new way to care of your PC PCKeeper Live introduces a brand new approach to your PC system optimization, offering a blend of cold precision of a software product with care of a real human expert.PCKeeper Live contains a bundle of useful utilities for your computer: automatic hard drive cleanup, file duplicates finder, security tools for personal files, startup time optimizer, anti-theft protection for laptops, and more. Even the most advanced optimization software cannot replace a real human expert. That's why the most groundbreaking feature of PCKeeper is Find & Fix, which brings real human analysis of your computer problems. This revolutionary feature implies cooperation between a user and technical specialist. PCKeeper Live scans your PC system, and generates a report on detected PC problems, which is sent to remote specialists for further research. They analyze your PC scan results in the report and within 24 hours send an optimizing solution back to your computer. All you need to do is to apply this solution, designed specifically for your PC. One click, and your computer is optimized. PCKeeper consists of 13 utilities designed to keep the user's personal computer in a top-notch condition.


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Kartopu Ak-Soft Knitting Yarn, Purple - K712
Recommanded for all sort of knitting project. Offers convenient and fast work with extra soft touch and sheeny colours
*Please note down the 'lot' number on the label of product. The same colour coded products may bear different 'lot' numbers. For this reason, if you order the same color coded yarn next time again, for continuing project, inform the 'lot' number to avoid a slight discrepancy between unfinished and resuming work. .
Knit Gauge: 26 stitches and 33 rows to 10 cm x 10 cm


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This beautiful lace up one piece maillot from Seafolly's Water Garden features a beautiful botanical print and is sustainably printed on recycled nylon fabric
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Stéphane Suisse
AQUALORÉE #3About this photograph
A symbiosis of the aquatic world and colour. A study of undiscovered spaces and time which places its mark on the group of photos. The rivers are shaped, the clouds unravelled, the spaces lit and the light favoured. A metamorphosis of our world.Read more Read less
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Over the last few years, photography has played an important part in his life, offering him the possibility to question the world. He comprehends photography through ephemeral moments which are revealed during unusual long exposures. A large part of his work is composed of blackand white landscapes, colour appearing more recently within aquatic landscapes in the Aqualorée series.


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Jul 11, 2006 | ISBN 9781400078714
"Entertains from beginning to end. . . . Clark is a superb storyteller" —The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant, from the weekend idyll when a young Becky and William first fall in love to William's Libyan retreat " —The Boston Globe
"Diamond-sharp social observations inspirit a literary romance. . . . Erudite evocations of time, people and place, all delivered in a dry, old-world voice." —Kirkus Reviews
"With great good humor and empathy, Nancy Clark creates a remarkable group of characters and conveys their real longing for home with all of its multiple meanings. . . . An exuberant romp."—Roanoke Times
"Once again Clark demonstrates her consummate talent for yeasty prose that rises to every occasion . . . loaded with original takes on universal human experiences." —Bookpage


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Hey, This Cake Tastes Like Cardboard!
We've all been there: you order something special, wait weeks for it to arrive, and then discover the hard way that you're allergic to latex. Dang it.
My point is, we've all faced disappointment. And itchiness. But mostly disappointment.
Case in point: Eagle-eyed wreckporter Leigh attended a graduation party last month where the cake turned out to be, well...a little dry.
First the hostess commented how hard the cake was, as she couldn't get a balloon pick to stick into the cake
Then they tried to cut it.
Emphasis on tried:
Hey. Waaaaait a second. Is that...?
It's a frosted cardboard box!
This would be a brilliant prank, of course, if it hadn't come straight out of the refrigerated display at their local big-chain store bakery (you can see the price tag in the first photo). OOPSIE. I guess now we know where all those display cakes end up!
A big thank you to Leigh W. for forever redefining "box mix." You know, between this and that time Amy found a pair of scissors in her birthday cake, I'm starting to see why some folks prefer homemade.


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The National Security Agency, which collects Internet metadata in bulk, has processed 1 trillion pieces of that data — and the premier covert intelligence gathering organization is getting better at it by the day.
On Thursday we pointed out that the newest reports Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman of The Guardian corroborate claims made by NSA whistleblower William Binney.
Binney, one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in National Security Agency (NSA) history, oversaw a program called ThinThread and then quit the agency in 2001 after members of his team were being used to spy on millions Americans to spy on virtually every U.S. citizen under the code-name Stellar Wind. ThinThread, according to Binney, was built to track electronic activities — phone calls, emails, banking and travel records, social media , etc. — and map them to collect "all the attributes that any individual has" in every type of activity and build a real-time profile based on that data.
On December 31, 2012, an official with the NSA's Special Source Operations (SSO) described a surveillance program codenamed ShellTrumpet that "began [five years prior] as a near-real-time metadata analyzer… for a classic collection system," according to documents obtained by The Guardian.
The official noted that ShellTrumpet had just "processed its One Trillionth metadata record" and was being used "across the Agency."
Basically, the NSA is collecting bulk Internet metadata — Greenwald and Ackerman note that " it is hard to distinguish email metadata from email content" (emphasis ours) — and then processing it to spy on American citizens.
"I can pull your entire life together from all those domains and map it out and show your entire life over time," Binney told documentarian Laura Poitras in "The Program." Binney added that the purpose of the program is "to be able to monitor what people are doing" and who they are doing it with.
And here's the kicker: the NSA is getting better at this data-mining by the day.
The December 2012 document stated that almost half of those trillion pieces of internet metadata were processed that year.
Russ Tice, the original NSA whistleblower, told Business Insider that in 2005 the NSA "didn't have the capability to go after every American's communications. There were three things they didn't have: the computer processing capability, the power grid — they didn't have enough electricity to go after everyone, and the biggest thing they didn't have was the storage capability."
Now they have those things in the form of the Titan supercomputer (processing capability), the expansion of NSA headquarters at Fort Meade (electricity), and the new Utah Data Center (storage.)
A source inside the NSA today confirmed to Tice that increased capabilities allow the spy agency to copy "every domestic communication in this country, word for word, content, every phone conversation, every email — they are collecting everything in bulk and putting it in databases."
And Binney recently told Zero Hedge that the government believes it can gather and use any information (including content) about American citizens living on U.S. soil if it comes from " any service provider … any third party … any commercial company - like a telecom or internet service provider, libraries, medical companies - holding data about anyone, any U.S. citizen or anyone else."
To top it off, Greenwald and Ackerman note that the NSA's Special Source Operations (SSO) directorate has " ongoing plans to expand metadata collection," according to the document.
Welcome to the surveillance Thunderdome.
No wonder Binney told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker that felt like he "should apologize to the American people. It's violated everyone's rights. It can be used to eavesdrop on the whole world."


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Are New Streaming Royalty Rates A Way To Backdoor DRM Into Copyright Law?
from the dangerous deptWe recently wrote about how different parts of the music industry -- the RIAA, NMPA and DMA -- had come to an agreement on new royalty rates, as well as designating royalties for "new classifications" of services. While the groups celebrated this solution for being "flexible" for new providers, the details suggest a different story. We already expressed concerns about what are apparently licensing requirements for services that shouldn't need any license (i.e., personal music lockers). However, that was just based on the press release. When you look at the full details (pdf and embedded below), it gets even more troubling -- to the point that the whole agreement should probably be rejected.
Here's the big concern. This is a settlement among a few parties, who certainly don't represent the entire industry. Yet, if the Copyright Royalty Board and their (typically out of touch) judges accept the settlement, the details of the settlement become law. And that's problematic, because this thing is pretty crazy with restrictions -- some of which are nearly impossible to understand. If you think the tax code is confusing, you haven't tried to figure out what you have to pay to license certain services. Let's just say you want to set up a locker service that allows users to buy music which automatically goes into the locker. Well, among a ton of other rules, try this sucker on for size:
In the case of a purchased content locker service, the percentage of subpart C service revenue applicable in step 1 of &sec;385.22(b)(l)(i) is 12%. For the avoidance of doubt, paragraph (l)(i) of the definition of subpart C service revenue shall not apply. The minimum for use in step 1 of &sec;385.22(b)(l)(ii) is the appropriate subminimum as described in paragraph (b) of this section for the accounting period, where the all-in percentage applicable to &sec;385.23(b)(l) is 18%), and the sound recording-only percentage applicable to &sec;385.23(b)(2) is 22%, except that for purposes of paragraph (b) of this section the applicable consideration expensed by the service for the relevant rights shall consist only of applicable consideration expensed by the service, if any, that is incremental to the applicable consideration expensed for the rights to make the relevant permanent digital downloads and ringtones.That's on page 40 of 44 pages. And is just one paragraph. Good luck figuring out the rest of the rules without a cadre of lawyers (oh wait... perhaps that's the idea).
But the bigger issue is that this agreement is a way to actually sneak DRM into copyright law. While existing copyright law has anti-circumvention rules, it makes no statement on how DRM actually impacts royalties or requirements (beyond anti-circumvention). Yet, this "agreement" has multiple sections that define types of DRM and with different rules for those specific cases. That is, the agreement defines the idea of a "limited download."
Limited download means a digital transmission of a sound recording of a musical work to an end user, other than a stream, that results in a specifically identifiable reproduction of that sound recording that is only accessible for listening for—Is this really what we want in the law? A specific legal definition of DRM that applies to others despite not being a part of the negotiations? The main issue is that this is a standard contract between private parties. That's fine if it only applied to those parties who were subject to the negotiation. But thanks to the CRB process, the end result may be to stuff this private contract between private parties directly into the law, and that will expand copyright in highly questionable ways.(1) An amount of time not to exceed 1 month from the time of the transmission (unless the service provider, in lieu of retransmitting the same sound recording as another limited download, separately and upon specific request of the end user made through a live network connection, reauthorizes use for another time period not to exceed 1 month), or in the case of a subscription transmission, a period of time following the end of the applicable subscription no longer than a subscription renewal period or 3 months, whichever is shorter; or
(2) A specified number of times not to exceed 12 (unless the service provider, in lieu of retransmitting the same sound recording as another limited download, separately and upon specific request of the end user made through a live network connection, reauthorizes use of another series of 12 or fewer plays), or in the case of a subscription transmission, 12 times after the end of the applicable subscription.
(3) A limited download is a general digital phonorecord delivery under 17 U.S.C. 115(c)(3)(C) and (D).
There are lots of other concerns about the document as well. It has lots of "this or that" calculations -- all of which default to the "greater of" option -- meaning that the rates are going to keep going up. Also, the agreement repeatedly defines "minimums" but we'll be waiting a looooooong time for you to come back with where the "maximums" are. The whole thing is crazy confusing, and while it may be perfectly fine if it were just a contract among a few players, the second it becomes part of copyright law, we should be concerned.
Filed Under: copyright royalty board, drm, royalties, streaming
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Pinto has two primary goals. First, Pinto seeks to address the problem of instability in the CPAN mirrors. Distribution archives are constantly added and removed from the CPAN, so if you use it to build a system or application, you may not get the same result twice. Second, Pinto seeks to encourage developers to use the CPAN toolchain for building, testing, and dependency management of their own local software, even if they never plan to release it to the CPAN. Pinto accomplishes these goals by providing tools for creating and managing your own custom repositories of distribution archives. These repositories can contain any distribution archives you like, and can be used with the standard CPAN toolchain. The tools also support various operations that enable you to deal with common problems that arise during the development process.
Over the last few years, I personally used various combinations of those modules to create custom repositories at several organizations. But they always required some wrapping and/or glue to make them usable in the development process. And none of them seemed to be designed for extension. I wanted a tool that would work out-of-the-box, would accommodate a wide range of use cases, would scale to a large number of users, and could grow in unexpected directions. And so, Pinto was born.
The Pinto suite consists of several components, which are all included in this distribution. For most use cases, you should treat Pinto as an external application rather than a library that is integrated with your own application code. I strongly recommend reading Pinto::Manual::Installing for tips on installing Pinto in the manner that is most appropriate for your needs. pinto pinto is a command line application for creating and managing a Pinto repository. It works transparently with both remote and local repositories. However, repositories can only be created locally. pintod pintod provides a web service interface to your Pinto repository. This allows multiple (possibly remote) developers to manage a central repository. pintod also functions as the back end HTTP server for installer clients like cpan, cpanp, and cpanm. Pinto and Pinto::Remote Pinto and Pinto::Remote are the backend libraries for the pinto application. These are fairly stable, but not officially public and not documented. If you want to hack on Pinto's internals, or create a new application around Pinto, you should start looking at these. Pinto::Server Pinto::Server is the backend library for the pintod server application. It is still immature, and subject to radical change. It is based on raw Plack, so if you are brave you could wrap it with various middlewares to do interesting things.
Some of the terminology related to the CPAN is overloaded, which can lead to some confusion. So I'll try to define some of the key terms that I use throughout the documentation and the code. Archive An "archive" is the file that developers ship, which contains all their application/library code, test cases, build scripts etc. Conversely, the archive is the file that users must fetch to install the application/library. Sometimes I also refer to these as "distributions". Package A "package" is something inside a distribution archive that provides some unit of functionality. In Perl, packages are declared with the "package" keyword. Some folks call these "modules" but I try to avoid that term because it is frequently misused. Prerequisite A "prerequisite" is a package that must be installed for the sake of another distribution archive. Sometimes I call these "dependencies". Pinto does not currently distinguish between different flavors of prerequisites, such as "build-time" or "run-time" prerequisites.
Stack All CPAN-like repositories have an index which maps the latest version of each package to the archive that contains it. Usually, there is only one such index. But with Pinto, there can be many indexes. Each of these indexes is called a "stack". This allows you to create different stacks of dependencies within a single repository. So you could have a "development" stack and a "production" stack. Whenever you add a distribution or upgrade a prerequisite, it only affects one stack. Pin Only one version of a package can exist within a stack. So when you upgrade a package in a stack, the newer version replaces the older one. But sometimes, you discover that a newer version of package is incompatible with your application, and you want to stay with the older version until you have an opportunity to fix the problem. In those situations, Pinto allows you to "pin" a particular version of a package to the stack. This prevents the package from being upgraded (either directly or as a prerequisite for some other package).
Pinto is a name that I sometimes use for my son Wesley (as in "pinto bean"). Daddy loves you, Wes!
Pinto::Manual::Tutorial Presents a narrative explanation of how to use Pinto. Pinto::Manual::QuickStart Presents a condensed summary of pinto commands.
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <email@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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One journalist after the next purports the same point about hybrid gas-electric cars: they are not worth the extra cost. The writers' lack of originality is only surpassed by their inability to get all the facts. When they proclaim that the extra cost of buying a hybrid will not be recouped in savings at the pump—as if they were the first person, rather than the thousandth, to "discover" a nefarious plot against American car buyers—the writer usually fails to consider tax credits, reduced maintenance, and historically excellent resale value. But nothing conjures up more fear and hysteria than these two words: hidden costs.
In June 2005, the L.A. Times reported that hybrid battery replacement costs dropped from $10,000 in 2001 to about $3,000 today. But three months later, Car and Driver's Brock Yates—no fan of hybrids—wrote, "battery replacement will cost $5,300 for the Toyota and Lexus hybrids, and the Ford Escape replacements run a whopping $7,200." Yates compared hybrid's rechargeable batteries to the "dry cells in your flashlight…[which] have finite lives and store less power with age." He also insinuated some kind of cover-up, writing that "industry types are not talking about total battery life."
They're talking—but Brock's not listening. Jim Francfort, principal investigator at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, which is operated for the Department of Energy, has been talking about it. His hybrid battery tests showed that 160,000 miles of use had no effect on fuel economy. Andrew Grant, the Vancouver, Canada, taxi driver who drove his Prius for more than 200,000 miles in 25 months, tells all about his Prius, which has taken a pummeling and kept on humming. At industry conferences, engineer after engineer will tell anybody who bothers to ask that hybrid batteries are, in fact, over-manufactured for their task.
The Plot Thickens
The one item that nobody has been talking about is the replacement costs for batteries—because nobody is replacing them. That's what I thought until I received an email from Ray Molton, who works in the real estate industry in Houston, Texas. Ray wrote, "My 2001 Toyota Prius lasted five years and 113,000 miles. And then the batteries seemed to die. My dealer estimated the replacement cost at $7,000. They recommended scrapping the car for parts."
Ray told me that Toyota had been "no help whatsoever on this issue." He called another dealer only to discover a larger estimate of $8,000 to $9,000. Even worse, Ray discovered that the Toyota shop had another 2001 Prius with a bad battery. Maybe there is a conspiracy brewing, after all. In a follow-up email, Ray wrote, "Toyota doesn't want these battery issues to get out to the public. How could there be two 2001 Priuses in the same shop at the same time, if they have had no problems with the batteries?"
To make matters worse, Ray bought a salvage Prius battery to soften the damage to his pocketbook—only to discover that the salvage battery's #13 cell was corroded, the same #13 cell that had a problem on his Prius.
All of this threw me for a loop. Apparently, it had the same effect on Toyota.
Ray continued to appeal to Toyota's corporate offices, and finally got through to a customer care representative who promised to look at the Ray's expenses. He persisted at the local level, and finally got Metroplex Toyota in Houston to clean the corrosive cell on the salvage battery and install it—at half their normal price—in his Prius. The total bill, including rental car, salvage battery, service, and gasoline during the entire ordeal, was $1,345. Ray's Prius runs like a top again.
One month and three unreturned phone calls later, Ray gave up on getting any financial or emotional support from Toyota's Customer Care Department.
Making the Connection?
I shared Ray's story with my friend, Craig Van Batenburg, a master hybrid technician who conducts workshops with independent service shops around the country. "This is exactly why I am training indy techs to work on these cars," Craig said. "It is not a problem with the nickel metal hydride cells, but a corroded connection. This is common with any electrical connector on any part of any car. The dealerships don't fix the connections. They replace the entire hybrid battery."
So Ray's ordeal wasn't caused by a failure of new hybrid battery technology—those batteries will last the life of the vehicle and will help save hundreds of gallons of gasoline for their owners. And the next generation of lithium ion batteries may be one of the keys to weaning America off its dependence on oil. The root of Ray's problems stemmed from an ordinary corroded connection, the failure of a huge corporation to respond to one of their customers, and the willingness of a local car dealership to profit handsomely from a problem rather than fix it at a reasonable cost. Unfortunately, these stories are just as hidden in the media as all of those so-called "hidden costs" of owning a hybrid.


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Oracle V1.3 Speaker Cable
Don't they mean £20.00 pounds! Looks like someone as added one to many figures to this device. I bet when you open it up its not all that impressive.
$20 grand are they $%)kibng kidding!
Oracle V1.3 Speaker Cable
Don't they mean £20.00 pounds! Looks like someone as added one to many figures to this device. I bet when you open it up its not all that impressive.
$20 grand are they $%)kibng kidding!
Well things didnt start to change till around early 1980s with newer JBL components. The 4675-A has been around since 82. Wow blimey I guess that is still one of JBL best cinema loudspeaker products, even to this day.
Altec theyve also introduced new cinema PA loudspeakers around the early 80s?
While "the popping" has been isolated from the refrigerator it hasn't been isolated from the mains in the living room enough so that if I was to switch off one of the other amps it causes a small popping sound on the same left front channel.
Oh, well can't have it both ways. Since I power down the amps first rather than processors first which would cause a few issues. I'm not particularly bothered as long as it doesn't sound from, the refrigerator.
I could look it over again and see what part of the mains is sending the spike popping to the Marnatz 1050 amp. It can't be passing though the DCX2496 otherwise I'd see the one of the LED lighting up.
The issue lies with Marantz 1050 that powers the left and right HF. I could switch the HF left and right over to the other Marantz 1050 and re-plug/wire the centre channel HF to the other Marantz 1050 and use the right input/output. sigh undoing the whole thing. sigh
It's returned! Hmm, elusive, but I feel the issue down to the (Marantz 1050) I guess I'd have to save up for some more Alesis RA300 or maybe an RA150 doesn't support the XLR inputs.
I get the feeling it's down to a rather simple filter placed inside the RA300 that prevents or suppresses the noise with some type of anti-noise filter?? Where it's possible the Marantz 1050 doesn't have one?
I switched off the HF over the LCR and kept the LF active and switched off one of crossover filters (not that it would make difference) I switched the kitchen florescent light ON/OFF no crackling sound head.
And yes the kitchen (florescent light) sounds on the HF or the Marantz 1050.
What can you say? Gremlins!
It's not worrying me, one single bit anymore. I think I know what to do now. Save up and get a few more of the (original plan) matching new amplifiers long overdue!
Amp1, Alesis RA300 LF left and right front
Amp2, Alesis RA300 LF centre / full range surround back
Amp3, Alesis RA300 bridge mode JBL sub LFE.1
Amp, 4 Marantz 1050 HF left and right front
Amp, 5 Marantz 1050 HF centre / (not in use)
Amp, 6 Marantz 1030 full range left and right surrounds
Amp, 7 Processor/Dolby stereo decoder for (surround-EX), Pioneer VSP-200 overheard matrix surround
So I need to replace three Marantz amps (I am not selling so don't ask) I'll use them for something else maybe the bedroom?
Yes, replace the amps with newer Alesis RA300 and one RA500 for the JBL sub.
Three amps should be okay to start with, and few more later on for the extra (inner left and inner right fronts).
I'd have to re-plug the decoder for the surround-EX and use the Yamaha DRS-70Pro, if I want to use a Alesis RA300 on the, Overheard Matrix Surrounds.
So that's, 4 amps I could cheat and use 3 amps because the centre back is monaural same as the overhead surround and would only need a stereo amp to power the loudspeakers, thou, (I'm thinking of way to piggyback the normal stereo surrounds or monaural discrete to matrix mono) onto the back half surrounds for, regular surround. A stereo amp for the back surrounds will be preferable. Same with the matrix overhead surround, got think ahead!
You might say, was it all in vain? No, because I got an extra power mains socket in the kitchen now.
I remember in days on the CB radio there was an anti-noise filter that was used to suppress of reduce engine spark noise that often make a crackling sound as some cars passed by produced an electrical nose that was being picked-up on my Snake, Cobra 148 GTL-DX
(ANL) Anti Noise Limiter, I think was the name for it? I just kept it switched ON all times.
Maybe I could buy a Snake, and patch to the Marantz 1050. I'd then have an extra pair of boots on Snake, >65watts LOL Somehow I don't think that would work.
Just heard a small popping from the refrigerator.
What I can't figure is why only the 1050 and not the 1030 amps? It only sounds on the 1050 and wasn't the 1050 not produced later in the Marantz range?
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Now this is kinder of eluded me! Even the CRT Panasonic when I switch it ON only produces a mild popping (kinder like crackle effect very soft in level but audible due to being a high frequency sound, hmm? What frequency I wonder? I guess its no higher than 8Hz so its narrow or a bit lower down away from peaking at 8KHz, I guess.
Its not a worrying popping loudness. Now oddly so, it doesn't spark across the Marantz 1050 that is powering the centre channel HF. The fridge sparks and kitchen florescent light does however spark across the centre HF as well as the left and right HF (or on the other Marantz 1050 amp)
Well Ive had a look but that is as far as Im going. Im not going to upset the balance of the amp by making any adjustments unless Im absolutely certain.
Here are a few pictures I took a short while ago of the inside of the lower amp in the rack.
Update on snap crackle and pop.
The interference is still here and I tested the difference of Marantz 1050 muted at amp! Turned the crossover level right up on the DCX2496 for left front for LF so, it now gets highs. Went to kitchens switched ON the fluorescent light, listened out for the crackling sound, nope not a peep! So the fault solely lies in the Marantz 1050 circuitry, which will be on the next on the list for replacement for another Alesis RA300.
Essentially the noise is still there, yet the Alesis RA300 is filtering it. Fact is it is still there! Might as well test with cheap amps first to see if any electrical noises are present, and if that's the case the whole electrical system needs to be first sorted out, to virtually eliminating any of the electrical Gremlins.
Then after it's sorted you know for sure its going to be free from any of the household electrical appliance noises.
And as to silly overpriced devices a few posts up at £20grand now way! After you stuck so many of those in the home, you might as well take out a second mortgage on the home.
Listening to some Ennio Morricone, music this morning stating with "Chi mai" and then the opening tittles to "The Untouchables" and the popping sound from the fridge came in after a few seconds! The SPL db meter picked up fairly well!
Playing this back in mono from the stereo mix, I only used the left/right fronts and the music was a bit bright on the top end then again it was around -3db on the fader.
The lows are captured nicely without boomy distortion! The SPL db meter can handle it fairy well depending SPL db range setting and the level of the sound in the room. The SPL db was set at 80dbc.
I like the score for this, so I set the sub bass extension mode to ON for the JBL which gave a so, so okay sub bass the music mix did have some compression on the percussion instruments as they slammed banged and away.
But I felt I'd post my solution to the issue and the pictures . This picture was before the sheetrock was reinstalled (which I just found in an archive file)
I previously posted;
I isolated all my equipment by adding an isolated 15 kVA transfomer. That'll give you 5 to 6 20A circuits. it requires a 60A 240V amp breaker off the mains, feeding a primary coil (in us=120/240V). The 2nd transformer has its own isolated ground (to an 8' grounding rod through my garage floor) with its own 100A 120V breaker and 5 20A secondary circuits each at 120V.
Once plugged in to the 2nd transformer, the audio equipment is COMPLETELY isolated from every mother loving fan ,computer, clock, or electrical device on the main breaker box.
Results>>>>bingo all hums eliminated, and I have 15 amps, so it works. It also helps to use balanced audio connections only. But the you knew that.
I worked on these problems for two years, this solved all issues associated with hum and electrical interference, and is sure fire >> at a cost of 400US.
See the attached picture. This completely eliminated any ground loop hum, although running the #4 wire through the conduits was tough. The 15kVA transformer was goof to 125 amps (6 x 20A) ; but as stated I'm only using 5 x 20A. You'll notice this picture was taken when 4 of the 5 20A circuits still needed to be wired in, as the yellow 12G romex going up the right side of the larger(mains) breaker box is the 5 isolated 20A circuits in the room above. You'll also notice the bottom plate hadn't been placed on the transformer either when this picture was taken.
My only comment is I might have saved a few $ by doing it myself; when when the wife & I head for retirement in Oklahoma in 9 years; I'll hire this done next time, as it occupied the better part of two weekends when I did it.
Integra DHC80.1,3x 4636LF, 2360-2446J 2404H,12 x 8340 Surrounds, 2 x4645B, BGW 250D's,250E's,& 750B's 16 amps...7600 watts
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Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they're iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they're fair game.
So who's on deck this week and what are our picks? Find out after the break!
Chad's Pick: Doom Resurrection
I was a little apprehensive about this on-rails First Person Shooter (FPS) but id did a great job with it. It controls great, has a nice environment and all the weapons you love from the original. The ability to dodge adds an extra level of immersion as well. This is a fine hold-me-over until Doom Classic gets released soon...[$9.99 - iTunes link]
Chris' Pick: iTunes Movie Rentals
I was just out in the field, and my hotel didn't have a TV or anything. Luckilly I had planned in advance and rented some movies through iTunes, so I was able to watch them on my iPhone while in the hotel room. [Variable - <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre?id=33&at=10l3Vy&ct=UUimUdUnU4099YYw"" rel="nofollow">iTunes link]
Jeremy's Pick: Tap Tap Revenge 2.6
I scored 428,486 on Wrong by Depeche Mode, in Tap Tap Revenge 2, the hot music rhythm game for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you are on your iPhone or iPod touch and have Tap Tap Revenge 2 installed, click the link below: Open Tap Tap Revenge 2 and play the challenge! [free - iTunes link]
Leanna's Pick: IM+
I've been hesitant to spend the money on an IM client, but IM+ won me over with the integration of Twitter push. Now, I'm not going to say that IM+ perfectly pushes Twitter, because it doesn't, but it's an impressive first attempt. Every direct message and @ mention gets pushed to me 1 to 4 minutes after it was sent. Every once in awhile some random tweet gets pushed through as well, but not often. What about normal IM? It's works great! I will have a full review of IM+ soon, so stay tuned! {$9.99/month - iTunes link]
Matt's Pick: Appshopper.com
Appshopper.com has recently updated their site so that you can now log in to your own account and add apps that you have bought. Appshopper.com will then notify you (optional) when updates come out for your apps. You can also create a wish list for apps that you want to purchase in the future (an also receive updates about price changes). The website also allows different sorting options and rankings of your apps in your collections. [Web link]
Rene's Pick: Autostich
My photographic aspirations far exceed my talents, and while my experiments at iPhone 3GS HDR are still resulting in misaligned ghost worlds, my iPhone 3GS panoramas have taken a step towards... well, if not the better, at least the easier. Previously, I would take my shots and bring them into Photoshop to assemble a pano. Now, I just use Autostich right on the iPhone, and the results have been excellent. If they could add a cropping feature, my on-device workflow would be complete. [$1.99 - iTunes link]
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You're part of team TiPb too, so what's your pick? What app was your absolute fav last week? Let us -- and everyone -- know in the comments!
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