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The case against computer-based voting systems
Following the 2000 presidential election, the nation paused to reflect upon how poorly a modern-day election could go so wrong, so quickly. Instead of the nation focusing their efforts on the hard questions surrounding the all-important human angle, Americans focused on the technology associated with managing elections. That little deviation set us on a potentially devastating disaster for democracy.
Instead of identifying the obvious human element that created the fiasco in Florida, 2000 and later in Ohio 2004, the media pushed forth its opinion that technology was the culprit. For days, months and years that followed the elections, those paper ballots or more specifically, those butterfly, paper ballots became the root of all that was wrong in the election process. And the solution came in the form of electronic or computer-based voting. As if to say, the guy with the shaved head, soul-patch and loose pants that created your website is more credible than the simple elegance of a stylus poking through a perforated ballot.
The human element, we forget, whether it's the person counting the ballots, punching the ballots or tallying the ballots, is always the chink in the chain, not the technology.
Since technology solutions are put forth as the panacea for the savior of our election process, let's break down that actual way that such a transformation would take place. We all know, by know, how computerized systems function. Computerized systems function by a complex relationship between independent platforms working together to produce a desired result. Whether the result is a spreadsheet tallying your expenses or a greeting card for your niece's birthday, all systems behave in a standard systematic way.
Software is installed onto a medium that the hardware system acts upon to produce and deliver the final result. If we break down a greeting card: software is installed onto the computer's hardware, usually a fixed disk or hard-drive that is recognized by both the hardware operating system (CMOS) and the operating system of the particular environment (for example: Window XP). A person uses the installed application through a user interface to create the greeting card. Once the person has accepted the result and the results meets their needs; they print the greeting card for distribution. In order to print the card, the application uses the operating system to talk to a subsystem managing peripherals, such as printers, for the actual printing. The result is: the digital version of the greeting card is electronically sent from the operating system subsystem to the printer and the printer acts on the data that the particular peripheral (printer) receives and prints the card.
Sounds simple; right?
Now let's examine the greeting card application if we apply a couple of standards, say accuracy and secrecy to how the application must behave.
That would complicate and already complicated process. You would have to verify that the greeting card was exactly as the person created. That there was absolutely no difference between what was developed, on screen, to that was printed via the printer. The font size, color and camber would be exactly the same. The content, both in placement of text and graphics would be an exact match as bit by bit comparison. Then after you were clear of the accuracy, you would need to see that the privacy standard had been met. And that there were absolutely no copies of the data existing after the printed result. Making sure that all cache, whether in active RAM or video RAM or serial cache or printer cache or anything that related to the spooler files that the printer subsystem uses to manage the transportation of the material, is completely gone. Anyone that knows anything about fixed disk drives, know that one can always retrieve data from a storage medium such as a fixed drive.
And that's just with a greeting card application. How about your right to vote?
A computer-based voting system that manages the process of recording, tabulating and disclosing the results of the tabulated votes cannot succeed. Here's why:
First we have to breakdown the system in the very same fashion we broke down the greeting card application.
One would have to make the assumption that standardized hardware platforms will be used in the gathering or recording of votes. For, it would be much too cost prohibitive to develop an entirely new hardware platform that uses proprietary CPUs, memory and storage devices, as well as video display devices. Not only is there significant research and development costs to develop such a hardware platform, but the support requirements would be cost prohibitive as well, requiring a specialized hardware support group for this system. It's for that reason that I believe any voting system developed would be done so on standardized hardware platforms such as motherboards, CPU, memory, video display controllers, fixed-disk controllers and a host of other readily available hardware platforms.
Since it's now plausible to believe that the election system applications would be developed on these standardized hardware platforms, we must believe that these hardware platforms are not secure by any possible measurement. For these standardized platforms (video cards, fixed-disk storage and associated hardware, CPU, RAM, etc…) have evolved over the years through a community and standards-based process. Volumes of recorded documentation pertaining to the schematics of both the specific hardware platforms and the architecture are available for anyone smart enough to understand them. These volumes are not secret, they are just complicated. And inherent complication is not a method to protect the secrecy of a voter's ballot.
So let's for the sake of discussion assume that the extra smart people developing these systems have devised a method to protect these hardware platforms so much that when data is stored onto the storage device, no unsuspecting individual can hack the hardware platform and retrieve and manipulate its results. Let's say they got past this hurdle.
Software is developed through various levels of abstraction away from the hardware. Gone are the days that computer scientists develop machine language to crunch numbers. No, applications are developed now in a way that gives a tremendous amount of control over to the environment to which it is developing. To be clear, the applications will have to be developed to a standardized operating system for the very same reason that standardized hardware platforms will be used; cost and resource availability.
So it's perfectly okay to assume that the applications will be developed in common operating systems currently commercially available. In fact, if you add a little bit of capitalism to the mix, you'll see some active competition for this market. Microsoft and desktop Linux will battle for the business ensuring that a common operating system will be used.
Pick one: Microsoft or Linux on Intel. It really doesn't matter the same reasons will abuse will still apply. Each environment, more so on Microsoft than Linux, have robust development environment ripe and ready for the application to be built upon.
If the governing body picks Microsoft, the application will live within Microsoft's popular Windows development environment. They will reuse years and years of readily available code for everything from form processing to database connections to on-screen display. This repository of reusable code libraries called Microsoft Foundation Classes has evolved over the course of many, many years with volumes of documentation. In fact, Microsoft was sued a few years back by competing software development companies complaining that Microsoft wasn't releasing enough application libraries that exploit the full capabilities of the Windows operation system, thereby creating an unfair competitive advantage. Microsoft was forced by the court to release all application programming interfaces (API) for the Windows operating system. The release of these internal APIs opened up the guts of the operating system including many key areas locked from third-party developers before.
So now Windows developers gained access to everything that Microsoft Windows operating system had to offer. Gaining access to underlying code to communicate to the various peripheral devices, display controls and the guts of how Windows deals with data and its cache.
Now let's look at the raw data. How and where would the data be stored, if it in fact were stored onto the computer? It's obvious that a fixed drive will be used to store the voting data. This storage mechanism will be standard; that's absolutely for sure. And one thing that's also for sure, the data stored onto the computer can be retrieved no matter how much you think you deleted the data.
But let's say that the application use a database. Normally applications are built in a tiered architecture, each functional layer abstracted from one another. Usually the user interface is separate from the business logic which, in turn, is separate from a data access layer. If we dissect where the data would be stored we will find, for all of the same reasons about proprietary designs, that a standardized platform for the storage of the data will be used. As in many databases, whether they are multi-user relational databases, like Oracle or single-user desktop solutions like Microsoft Access, all have significant problems with regards to the safety and security of the data stored within its system. All rely on standard networking protocols and integrate system services for authentication. This would mean that if you can break into the security subsystem for the platform, it's easy to break into the security subsystem for the database management system. Additionally, all common relational database management systems (RDBMS) use a common way to access their database system and provide APIs for developers for such access. If a person wants to hack into the database, there's plenty of ways to do so; just do a Google search on the subject. This is simple because all RDBMS are to adhere to a level of government security known as C2 level security. C2 level security is the watermark for which they are to match for protecting the data contained within the machine and the database. But the problem is that C2 was developed in 1985 and hasn't been updated since. Sound's secure, no? The point is that any database that the voting application uses will most likely be a common platform with plenty of supported documentation. In other words, it's open because it's designed that way.
But that's just what the problem with casting the vote electronically. We have to tally and report that vote, don't we?
When tallying and recording the results of the election, we must make certain that the ballots that we are counting are, in fact, the ballots that are actually cast. With paper ballots, we have that level of expectation. For once the ballot goes into the ballot box; the ballot is sealed until it is tallied. And when the ballot is tallied, it is done so under the eyes of the election officials. In a computerized solution, it's assumed that the tallying portion of the process would be done from the system itself, removing a necessary check and balance. By streamlining the process you relinquish ever important checks for accuracy.
So let's say we have tallied the results, now what? As part of the process we have to record and publish the results. How do you publish the results of the election?
Is the publishing going to take place to an electronic audience, say a larger computer for further computation? It's safe to say that the system would transfer the results electronically in a digital format. I'm sure that most people would feel it a futile exercise to record the tallied results of an election and create a report and present the report to be entered into another computer system. No. That's just plain dumb.
Because it's safe to say that the counties that receive the precinct results would like the process streamlined as well. They would like to have the election officials merely validate the results and distribute the results electronically. That's what is commonly referred to as an 'integration point'. This integration point is the county's computer system receiving the digital precinct data and feeding into a larger county election system.
Since larger county-wide computerized election systems already exist (they take the paper ballots and count them) the new system would have to be developed to integrate the two. It would be implausible to believe that anyone would go to the extent of computerizing the precincts and not integrate the results with a larger computerized system.
So how would this happen? Would this happen the same way that most computers talk to each other, through Internet technologies? It makes sense. The infrastructure is large. There's a large install base and all the available hardware for this communication is readily available at any office superstore. But that produces a significant security risk. Using the public network to transfer these results would be down right insane. There's the initial Internet service provider that would be needed to provide the hookup. And with all of the same competition, companies like AOL, Earthlink and NetZero would be salivating for this business. But would they be ready for this type of traffic? Could say, Earthlink, provide this service without caching any data as it passes through their computer systems? That's improbable. The Internet Service Providers would have to cache everything and therefore would retain a copy of everything that passes through its servers. Let me reiterate that point. Once a precinct uses an Internet connection to upload its data to the main computer, a copy of that data will be retained onto hardware and software platforms of the Internet Service Provider. The servers and routers are designed to handle this for this event, because of the security risk they have for every customer that passes through their computer systems, not just the precinct.
So if they can't use the Internet, how about another method to transfer the data. How about if they use the little, USB jump drives to transfer the data and just hand it off to the county when the precinct arrives? That sounds slick, but would it work. Well, not really. Those devices, although inexpensive are known to fail. Published failure-rates for these jump drives vary from 5% to 30%. So I can't imagine disenfranchising a host of voters, 50,000 to 300,000 per million, because the technology method chosen happen to fail. The point being that any method for the transmission of the election result data must be secure and safe and when you're dealing with technology, nothing is 100%.
We must ensure that every vote has had the opportunity to be cast, counted and published. Real-time financial systems have this level of fault-tolerance, but they used a hard-wired network to communicate and transmit their results. This gives them the ability to distribute the load of the request and have automatic failover systems in advent of a error. But even if your transaction doesn't go through, the person will not be adversely affected because they have a way of tracking the transaction and remedying the situation. In the financial transaction world there are audit trails; plenty of audit trails. Something that the electronic election system cannot, by design, have. For one of the fundamental principles of our voting process is the secrecy of the cast ballot. Audit trails, whether paper or electronic, must not exist to ensure the privacy of each vote and the voter who cast it.
Companies that design the electronic voting systems would have to verify, through computer forensic verification, that the votes cast are wiped clean after the ballot is cast. The companies would have to verify that there is no connection between the voter's identity and the cast ballot.
Ensuring that each company upholds the trust of every American voter is a daunting task. Given the allegations about companies like Diebold donating significant amounts of money to political campaigns, additional safeguards would need to be put in place to guarantee that the companies in charge of developing the applications have no political ties.
It's time we take the hard look at the human element of the election process and shy away from replacing existing voting methods. It is the human element that will always fail regardless of the implementation. No method, whether paper, mechanical or electronic ballot will protect against a person or a group of persons bent on affecting the outcome of an election.
It's time to look for a solution to the problem; not the symptom.Posted by john trevisani at November 18, 2005 8:00 AM


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Credit spreads have compressed to cycle lows, while covenant quality erosion has hit cycle highs. The rise in covenant-lite bonds exemplifies how much the credit market has shifted bargaining power to the borrowers instead of the creditors in this mature phase of the credit cycle.
Functioning like traction control in modern cars, covenants are aimed at keeping the issuers' creditworthiness on track by limiting (or preferably reducing) net debt to EBITDA, capital expenditures or interest expenses as a proportion of income. These safety measures for credit investors are now becoming scarcer in parts of the junk bond market as shown in the graph.
Would you like to read the full report 'Playing in extra time'?
On the face of it, the road ahead does not seem to be getting slippery at all. After all, the global recovery has firmly taken root, producer confidence metrics have surged recently and overall market sentiment is upbeat. It is logical that positive economic data has partly taken away investor concerns about the future of the business cycle as EBITDA and interest coverage are trending up, requiring less compensation for taking on credit risk. Who needs traction control anyway?
So investors have decided to keep the traction control mostly switched off. According to Moody's, 40% of the global high yield market now consists of covenant-lite issuers. It has happened far too often this cycle that investors have been burned by betting on a crashing credit market and or suddenly capitulating by entering the market from the long side. Betting against beta has become too painful. This 'go with the flow' behavior is not uncommon in a late phase in the credit cycle, perhaps out of fear of missing out.
A closer inspection of the credit market shows that there are risks on the horizon, despite a favorable outlook for corporate earnings. Central banks in developed markets are gradually moving away from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening. This brings about a landmark shift in orientation as market participants will have to start guessing what central banks will sell instead of what they will buy. Of course, central banks will have no incentive to unsettle markets and will prepare market participants for this new episode to the best of their ability, but even if forward guidance is executed flawlessly, there's no guarantee it will have the desired effect.
Moreover, the impact of misfiring central bankers is aggravated in a low credit spread world. Another credit-unfriendly development could be brought about by increased capital expenditure spending now that capacity utilization rates in the global economy have increased and CAPEX intentions are rising.
It is not unthinkable that the global cyclical upswing will sustain spreads and cause them to grind even lower well into 2018. Sustained profitability in an environment of rising rates would then still favor high yields compared to investment grade bonds. But with yield-hungry investors gearing up to harvest every last bit of credit risk premium in a market that is already tilting towards covenant lite, the impact of an accident in the junk bond market could very well be rising.
Mounting risks and falling spreads indicate we are already playing into extra time. This period of extra time could end up being less rewarding from a risk-reward perspective than the enjoyable start would suggest. Yes, initially, the road ahead will be clear, but what will happen miles down the road is unknown.
This article forms part of the Robeco 2018 outlook entitled Playing in Extra Time.
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Re-inventing Aid
Autor: William Ryrie
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
If the international development task must now consist primarily of helping developing countries to run successful market economies, the question is how this is to be done. International aid has mostly taken the form of financing governments and the change in the role of governments which the move to the market economy requires must also mean a change in the activities which aid finances. At the same time, if the private sector is to play the leading role in economic growth, much more attention needs to be focussed on aid to the private sector — a task which also needs careful definition. Aid needs to be re-invented.


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Since his childhood, President Xi Jinping has been a passionate fan of soccer.
He wants China to host and win the World Cup.
Since he became president in March 2013, he has put this passion into practice across China.
The impact has been dramatic, not to say unbelievable.
In the winter transfer window that closed on Friday, clubs in China's Super League spent nearly US$300 million on signing big players from Europe and South America, more than the amount spent by teams in England's Premier League, the richest in the world, during the same period.
These are not players at the end of their careers – the kind who used to go to China – but those at their peak, like Alex Teixeira, 26, a Brazilian midfielder at Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine.
Both Chelsea and Liverpool wanted to sign him – but he chose Jiangsu Suning, who paid US$56 million. He is earning a weekly salary of US$210,000.
Guangzhou Evergrande — the Chinese and Asian club champions — paid US$46.7 million to Atletico Madrid for Colombian Jackson Martinez.
These enormous salaries are not restricted to the players.
Of the 16 teams in China's Super League, 13 have foreign managers, including Luiz Felipe Scolari at Guangzhou Evergrande; he is the former coach of the Brazilian and Portuguese national teams.
Manager of Shanghai SIPG is Sven-Goran Eriksson, who used to coach the British national team.
The new season begins on March 4; all the 16 teams are owned by Chinese companies.
Last year, the league had an average attendance of 21,800 a game.
This means the clubs cannot cover the costs of the transfers and salaries from ticket income, advertising and television rights.
Most Chinese prefer to watch televised soccer from Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy.
The major clubs in Europe have millions of fans in China and carry advertising in simplified Chinese on electronic boards around their fields.
So it is the owner-companies that must pick up the bill.
Guangzhou Evergrande, the most successful club, is partly owned by Jack Ma Yun, founding chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the biggest e-commerce company in China.
The club was founded by Xu Jiayin, a billionaire construction magnate.
Jiangsu Suning is owned by Suning, one of China's largest private retailers, with 1,600 stores in the mainland, Hong Kong and Japan; it is also one of the top three business-to-consumer online retailers in China.
Shanghai SIPG is owned by Shanghai International Port Group.
Beijing Guoan is owned – not by the Ministry of State Security, which has that name – but CITIC, a state-owned investment conglomerate.
Why are these companies willing to sink millions of yuan in businesses that will yield them no profit?
One reason is to build brands, like companies in Europe that sponsor soccer teams and put their names on the team shirts.
Another is build guanxi (connections) with the local government and Communist Party, which want their city to have a rich and successful team.
The companies can expect favours in return and also earn credit with the local population, which appreciates their support.
A third is a bet that the Super League will continue to grow and attract more Chinese away from the foreign games and become a major global league.
Guangzhou Evergrande, for example, plays in the city's Tianhe stadium with 58,500 seats.
Beijing's Workers Stadium, with 66,000 seats, is the home of Beijing Guoan.
If these stadiums were full for every game, the revenue would be substantial.
But the most important reason is to please Xi Dada and his passion for the game.
This is especially the case for private companies like Alibaba and Suning, which are always vulnerable to falling out of political favour.
As a Chinese saying goes: "A man fears fame as a pig fears fat."
What better policy than to show their support for this national initiative, backed by the president himself?
In November, the government announced it would build 20,000 soccer-themed schools to provide more opportunities for students to exercise and to prepare the stars of the future.
An Olympic giant in many sports, China has never produced a strong national soccer team – unlike neighbours Japan and South Korea, which have, over the past 20 years, produced excellent national and club sides from a modest beginning.
This substantial and unprofitable investment by the companies is evidence again of the extraordinary power and influence of the party chief and how the personal interests of a single person can shape national policy and change the lives of people in China and abroad.
No wonder Chinese call the party chief "Emperor Xi".
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The game of 'hats'
Anyone know this game, probably by other names:
Split into two teams and everyone puts ten names of famous people or famous characters into a hat.
Each team takes it in turns to spend a minute taking names from the hat and trying to get their team to guess them without saying the name, obviously. Any correct names are kept and you can't pass on one you can't get. (A different person should be picked in each team each time it's their turn.)
The round ends when all the names in the hat have been guessed and then the teams total up how many names they've got before the names are put back in the hat and the next round starts.
There are only four rounds:
Round 1: You can use as many words as you like to describe the person, short of actual 'sounds likes', i.e. for David Banda, "sounds like 'aphid panda'" is really taking the piss.
Round 2: You can only use three words to describe the person to your team so they can guess the name. Hopefully the previous round should make this fairly easy.
Round 3: You only have one word to describe the person for your team to guess, but they've heard all the people twice now so it shouldn't be too hard.
Round 4: You can't use any words so it's now a case of charades.
The other team can't guess while one team is guessing, obviously.
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it's the pride of the ITV winter 2009 schedule
Is this like the game 'cups' from Friends?
It sounds about as robust as that
No, it is not
He should have called it TheoBall, which would at least give advance warning of how bad it is in advance.
it's not as good as the
write-a-famous-person's-name-on-a-post-it-stick-it-on-someone's-head-then-they-have-to-guess-it game
Every Christmas without fail I have an argument with my mum over my refusal to take part in games like this. I still don't understand why in this day and age we're still doing things like this to ourselves.
Get out.
Last New Year was spent playing the 'Eat the chocolate bar with a knife and fork whilst wearing hat, scarf and gloves' game, followed by the 'Pass an orange down the line under your chin' game.
It ended with a quick round of 'Shove a 50p piece up your arse, waddle across the room and try and drop it in a pint pot' game.
We need more games like this
my mum buys a new game every year.
this year, it was a game for 8 players. 7 of the players have whistles, each a different note of a scale, numbered 1-7. 1 of the players is the "conductor" and has a sheet with numbers written on it.
imagine the whistles making the worst noise in the world, and then try to imagine the "conductor" (who uses a pointy stick to tell who should be playing a note) making this all sound like an actual song....
she wheeled it out on boxing day as well, but amazingly, noone wanted to play
Ugh! There was an obscene subversion of this two years ago when my little cousin got a Wii and all the adults hogged it the entire day so they could play endless fake-bowling, fake-golf and fake-boxing - which of course led to me actually being hassled by my mum for refusing to play computer games.
we play wii bowling all week at xmas.
it actually gave me a bad arm
I've got to be honest
drunk and with friends this game was a hit.
We play this sometimes
we call it 'The hat game'
It passes the time.
guys in my work play 'Tell her' and 'cock or balls'
They are Rugby guys..............
''that girl is really hot i would love to muff her out'' someone else will say ''tell her'' and that person has to go up to the girl and say whatever it was. Even if its really horrible.
Cock and Balls................
Pulling a part of your cock or you ball sack through your hole in your trousers and everyone at the bar as to guess what it is.
shoot me now!! *sigh*
oh wait
i thought you said they did that in work
not that it's much better in bars, but y'know
actually, ''i really want to muff her out'' was one of our managers
he told her on a work night out!
same guy asked me on a drink, i said no, so he decided to come down to my office and make a scene.
Just came down and told everyone that he had asked me
and that i had said no, and oh how could i, never been turned down for a drink before yada yada! not that i liked ye anyway! yada yada. He is a big rugby guy. i like my men thin and gangly :D
he has my mobile number and for a week straight was ringing my phone at the same time every night.
I have attracted some amount of freaks since ive become single :(
Pay attention Meths
he works upstairs.
He would if i let him!
He would work like a fuck. But has finally given up (i think)
"He would work like a fuck"
sounds nice...


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After six years at SMU�s Ford Stadium, the Tom Landry Classic is on the move.
Because of a scheduling conflict with the school, Waxahachie will play Highland Park at Texas Stadium in Irving.
It�s a move executive director Kris Cumnock said should make Waxahachie fans happy.
�We aren�t across the street from Highland Park this year,� he said. �By being in Texas Stadium, Waxahachie will have a chance to make it not feel like a home game for Highland Park.�
Waxahachie and Highland Park will be playing each other for the second straight year, but scheduling teams for the TLC goes beyond just making phone calls.
Officials with the Tom Landry Classic have to project years in advance when deciding which teams to invite to the annual event.
It isn�t an exact science, but Cumnock does have a formula when choosing the teams. It�s a formula that has been very effective, as only one team invited to play in the TLC has missed the playoffs since the event�s inception in 2000.
�We look at how the sub-varsity teams are doing, consistency in the program and we want a community that�s going to support the team,� Cumnock said. �I�ve always heard that Waxahachie supports its athletic teams and that played a lot into it.�
By moving the game to Texas Stadium, Cumnock believes it opens doors to more than just the communities involved.
�Regardless of where we have the games, communities from each of these schools are going to support their teams,� he said. �What Texas Stadium does is open it up to the rest of the Metroplex that don�t have an affiliation to any of the schools.�
The first game, scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. kick-off, is between Garland and Allen. Cumnock is intrigued by the matchup because of Allen�s prolific offense and Garland�s defense.
He expects the nightcap with Waxahachie and Highland Park to come down to the defenses.
�Highland Park and Waxahachie both have really good defenses this year,� he said. �I don�t think anyone is going to score a lot of points on Waxahachie this year. The first thing coaches I�ve talked to say is you have to figure out a way to block Gary Mason, or he�ll mess everything up from the beginning.�
Last year�s game ended with a 59-23 win for Highland Park, but the 36-point margin-of-victory was out of character for the TLC.
�About 70 percent of our games have been decided by less than two touchdowns,� Cumnock said. �It�s the first game of the year so you never know about penalties or turnovers, but I expect this year to be a lot closer.�
Waxahachie head coach David Ream is excited about the opportunity to play in Texas Stadium and expects there to be some nerves rattling before the game.
�I don�t think you can prepare them for Texas Stadium,� he said. �We�ve played in nice venues before, but Texas Stadium is unlike any high school stadium around. We�ll just go enjoy the atmosphere, the big crowd and hopefully, once the game is over, we would have enjoyed the game.�


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It's the weekend once again! How's everyone doing? I can't believe the first week of December flew by so quickly =( Sometimes I wish time would slow down when we're having fun! Apart from watching (and finishing) Boys Over Flowers, Jeffrey and I spent some time meeting up with good friends at Sweet Salty Spicy during one of the weekdays!
Sweet Salty Spicy: Food Market & Thai Canteen is located at Rail Mall and it isn't very crowded during lunch time on weekdays so it's quite a good place to chill and catch up with friends.
The interior decor is simple and classy, which befits the restaurant's modern Thai concept.
One reason why I prefer dining out during lunch instead of dinner is because there usually are set lunches/ lunch menus which offer quality food at more affordable prices. Although the a la carte dishes at Sweet Salty aren't too pricey, we still opted for their set lunches because we felt that they were more worth it. You can choose to have either a two course (~$14) or three course (~$18) meal.
Since two of our dining companions came late, we didn't manage to capture photographs of their dishes but I'll just put up whatever that Jeffrey managed to take (: We chose to try different dishes so that we could taste a variety of their dishes.
We had a generous serving of crispy squid and green mango salad for one of our appetizer dishes. I thought that this dish was very well done because it was sour and spicy enough and it met my expectation of what Thai mango salads should taste like.
Another starter was fried chicken wrapped in leaves. The chicken has a "nice Thai flavour" but it wasn't spicy at all so people who can't really take spicy food should order this dish =)
Perhaps the most disappointing starter was the Tom Yam Soup. Not only was it bland, it only had mushrooms and tomato chunks for condiments =( I wouldn't recommend ordering this.
Green curry with jasmine rice. The green curry wasn't spicy but it had a very thick texture. I would have preferred it if it wasn't so thick but I guess that's their style of cooking. Their jasmine rice tasted like normal white rice so there wasn't anything special about it as well.
Traditional Thai fried rice with chicken. Jeffrey thoroughly enjoyed this dish so I guess it wasn't too bad.
Pad Thai. My "default" Thai dish because I always order this whenever I don't know what else to order. It must have been pretty tasty because our friend finished all of it! (:
Jeffrey & I had a HUGE slice of chocolate cake EACH because it came with our sets. The chocolate sponge cake was pretty hard and the fudge tasted more like chocolate cream instead of chocolate fudge so on the whole, it was decent but not fantastic.
Sweet Salty Spicy is definitely an attractive place to go to because of its relaxing ambience and affordable lunch sets but the quality of food served lacked the wow-factor. In fact, I think you'll get a wider range of Thai food if you were to dine at Thai Express. Nevertheless, it was great being able to have a relatively good meal with friends without having to jostle with the lunch time crowd for seats or to speak loudly in order to be heard (:


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- Adam Sappington semi-finalist nomination for 2012, 2013 and 2014: Best Chef Northwest
- HEARTLANDIA: Heritage Recipes from Portland's The Country Cat nominated in 2015 for BEST AMERICAN COOKING Cookbook
Food Network
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- Guy's Grocery Games
- Chopped: Double Trouble
- Welcome to Portland: A Newcomer's Eating Tour
Time Magazine's Josh Ozersky
- "I would call Adam the preeminent butchering chef in America."
- Meatopia"Best Pork"
- PDX.Eater.com
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FYI Network
Esquire's Knife Fight
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- Knife Fight: Sappington vs. Smith – Carving the Cow
The Oregonian
- Chef Feature: "Adam Sappington, chef, owner and butcher at the Country Cat, pursues next goal"
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- "An amazing chef and butcher, Chef Sappington marinates his tri-tip in a Dijon and hazelnut coating for at least three hours before cooking ."
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- Best Restaurants 2011: Maximal Meat
- Q&A: The Country Cat's Adam Sappington
- "Adam Sappington is evangelical in matters of meat and a master of American vernacular cooking – somewhere between a nose-to-tail preacher and a Southern granny."
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Hi Les, I made a small sync.xml (Which I added to this mail) When I run ant -buildfile sunc.xml -verbose I get : >Ant version 1.3 compiled on March 2 2001 >Buildfile: sync.xml >Detected Java Version: 1.3 >Detected OS: Linux >parsing buildfile /home/erik/square/src/sync.xml with URI = >file:/home/erik/square/src/sync.xml >Project base dir set to: /home/erik/square/src >Build sequence for target `sync' is [sync] >Complete build sequence is [sync] >sync: > [p4sync] Execing sync > [p4sync] Execing [Ljava.lang.String;@3753f8 > [p4sync] Unknown command. Try 'p4 help' for info. >BUILD SUCCESSFUL >Total time: 8 seconds It looks like the build has succeeded (BUILD SUCCESSFUL) but I am a bit worried about the messages that p4sync gives me. Is this normal? Regards Erik -----Original Message----- From: Les Hughes [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: donderdag 28 juni 2001 10:58 To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com' Subject: RE: P4 Optional Tasks The p4 tasks are taskdef'd as <p4xxx> not <P4Xxxx> Try <p4sync> (all lower case). Failing that, run ant with the -verbose or -debug switches and post the results. Bye, Les > -----Original Message----- > From: Kazandjian Erik [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: 28 June 2001 07:23 > To: 'Ant User' > Subject: P4 Optional Tasks > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use P4Sync in my ant script to synchronise all > my source files > before starting to compile. I already downloaded the > optional.jar and put it > in my lib directory under my ANT_HOME. However every time > when I try to call > P4Sync I get the following message > > /home/erik/square/src/build.xml:25: Could not create task of > type: P4Sync. > Common solutions are to use taskdef to declare your task, or, > if this is an > optional task, to put the optional.jar in the lib directory > of your ant > installation (ANT_HOME). > > The complete P4 command I call is the following > > <P4Sync user="${myenv.P4USER}"></P4Sync> > > Does anybosy know what I'm doing wrong > > Erik >
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How much power does it take? In a hover, two types are necessary - induced and profile
power. Induced power, which can be thought of as "pumping power," is power associated with
the production of rotor thrust. This value is at its highest during a hover (60 - 85% of total main
rotor power) and decreases rapidly as the helicopter accelerates into forward flight. The increase
in mass flow of air introduced to the rotor system reduces the amount of work the rotors must
produce to maintain a constant thrust. (This concept will be explained in greater detail in a later
section). Therefore, induced power decreases to ¼ hover power with an increase to maximum
forward speed.
Profile power, which can be thought of as "main rotor turning power," accounts for 15 - 45%
of main rotor power in a hover and is used to overcome friction drag on the blades. It remains at a
relatively constant level as the helicopter accelerates into forward flight due to the compensatory
effect of the decrease in profile drag on the retreating blade and the increase in profile drag on the
advancing blade.
In forward flight, parasite power joins forces with induced and profile power to overcome
the parasite drag generated by all the aircraft components, excluding the rotor blades. Parasite
power can be thought of as the power required to move the aircraft through the air. This power
requirement increases in proportion to forward airspeed cubed. Obviously, this is inconsequential
at low speed, but is significant at high speed and is an important consideration for helicopter
designers to minimize drag. This is a challenging task due to design tradeoffs of the high weight
and cost of aerodynamically efficient designs versus structural requirements dictated by required
stiffness, mechanical travel, and loads.
The smaller horizontal force, H-force, is produced by the unbalanced profile and induced
drag of the main rotor blades. Tilting the rotor disc forward from a fraction of a degree at low
speed to about 10° at max speed compensates for this.
In the interest of better effectiveness and safety, different flight regimes are performed more
efficiently at different forward speeds. The bowl-shape of the power required curve graphically
illustrates the reason why (figure 3-3). Optimum speeds determined by this curve are maximum
loiter time, minimum rate of descent in autorotation, best rate of climb, and maximum glide
Figure 3-3
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- NVIDIA Does Not Support SOPA
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- Audi, Tesla, Lamborghini Bet On NVIDIA Processors In Las Vegas
- NVIDIA Tegra 3 Coming To Audi, Closing Gap Between Consumer and Auto Electronics
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:00 PM PST
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Get Your Game On with 3D Vision at CES
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 10:44 AM PST
We're brimming with 3D goodness at the NVIDIA CES booth, showcasing a range of custom-made 3D gaming systems with the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX and 3D Vision technology built by Origin, Digital Storm, Maingear and Falcon Northwest.
Here's a snapshot of what's on display:
3D Racing Simulators
Not one, but two full-motion 3D Racing Simulators from VRX are available to take for a test drive. Both feature iRacing, a driving simulation that is so realistic that real pros, such as Dale Earnhardt, Jr., use it to practice before big races. The simulators feature 3D Vision Surround on three 27'' 3D LightBoost monitors from Asus and three 27-in 3D LightBoost displays from Acer.
Ultimate Gaming PCs
There are two GeForce GTX 580 SLI gaming systems you can test that are running Batman: Arkham City and Battlefield 3 in 3D on the newest 3D Vision monitors with LightBoost technology from BenQ.
We are also showing a sneak peek of Origin's upcoming Eon 17 3D Vision notebook, which features the GeForce GTX 580m GPU, and it is the fastest NVIDIA-based laptop on the planet. It features a stunning 17-inch HD display and can run Battlefield 3—with Ultra settings—in 3D.
3D Streaming
Visit NVIDIA's booth in the South Hall, number 31431, to see all of this—and more!
Can't make it to the show in person? Stay tuned to this blog, our Social Media Newsroom, Facebook and our Twitter feed for more photo and video updates from the CES 2012 show floor.
NVIDIA Day Two CES Recap – All Roads Lead to Automotive
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 07:56 PM PST
Day Two of CES for NVIDIA was all about automotive.
I'm one of the lucky NVIDIANs who gets to spend the show in the company of some very slick supercars. We have three different vehicles on display at CES: the Lamborghini Aventador, the Audi A7 and the Tesla Model S. You can read about them and watch a quick vid in this blog post. These are just 3 of the 35-plus car models that feature NVIDIA processors.
As the sun sets and temperatures drop here in the desert, I wanted to give a recap of today's news, including our announcement at Audi's press conference, that the German carmaker will be using the Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor in its full line of vehicles next year. Watch the video below, and visit our website for more automotive info.
Audi, Tesla, Lamborghini Bet On NVIDIA Processors In Las Vegas
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:20 PM PST
The vast Las Vegas Convention Center is bursting at the seams with every consumer-electronics device imaginable, but right outside is an airy oasis in the NVIDIA Automotive tent.
Even there, though, a steady crowd is passing through to see how NVIDIA processors aren't just helping to change the mobile landscape. They're also driving extraordinary innovation in auto technologies.
NVIDIA is using CES to demonstrate our in-vehicle prowess in the recently launched Audi A7; the Tesla Model S sedan which goes on the market at mid-year; and the eye-popping Lamborghini Aventador supercar. Watch this video and read on to get more details on these NVIDIA-powered cars.
Audi A7
Tesla Model S
Lamborghini Aventador
Automotive technology concepts
Also being demonstrated there is the NVIDIA UI Composer – which allows manufacturers to rapidly iterate cluster designs – as well as a prototype instrument cluster.
Check out this photo gallery for more on what NVIDIA Automotive is doing at CES 2012.
NVIDIA Tegra 3 Coming To Audi, Closing Gap Between Consumer and Auto Electronics
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST
The seven-year lag it once took for consumer-electronics technology to find its way into your car is being cut to about a year, through a deep collaboration between Audi and NVIDIA.
At Audi's press conference at CES 2012, Ricky Hudi, head of electrics/electronics development, announced that the Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor — which powers tablets and phones that are just hitting store shelves – will be in next year's Audi models.
Consumer-electronics products have a lightning-fast development cycle. But it generally takes years to get new technology into cars, due to a meticulous engineering process that requires many thousands of parts to be seamlessly integrated.
"Audi stands for progressive luxury and our new aim is to adopt the benchmarks of consumer electronics," Hudi said. He called NVIDIA a "strategic partner" that is enabling this to happen.
Coming on stage as Audi's only guest, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that the secret behind the extraordinarily fast incorporation of NVIDIA's latest technology into Audi is NVIDIA's Visual Computing Module (VCM). The 3×3-inch automotive-grade board contains a Tegra processor, memory and I/O controller, as well as a connector, which enable it to be easily integrated into the vehicle.
"Audi is the first car company in the world to keep up with consumer electronics," Huang said. Gesturing to the VCM being held by Hudi, he added, "What you're seeing is the latest and greatest architecture from NVIDIA. It's truly unbelievable for a car company to move this fast."
Tegra 3's ultra-low power consumption is one of its key attractions to Audi because it translates to lower fuel consumption. Just as the processor's fifth "ninja" core enables mobile devices to stay updated when they're turned off, it will enable cars to sync data – such as music, map destinations or weather forecasts—even when the engine's switched off.
Hudi called VCM a great example of the kind of collaboration that stems from the companies' six-year extensive collaboration.
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Discover the cities of the United States
The United States of America covers the greater majority of the North American continent. This means that there are plenty of great cities in the US that are just waiting to be discovered. You can concentrate your travels around just a few cities, or you can spread out and discover as much of this great country as you possibly can in just a few short weeks. Whatever you decided, make sure that you visit at least these three USA cities.
New York is a definite must see. The largest city in America and one of the largest in the world, this city has it all. As you travel this impressive city, you should make sure that you don't miss out on famous New York landmarks, such as the Empire State Building, The Bronx Zoo, the Queens Zoo, the Astroland Amusement Park, the Atlantis Marine World and the Staten Island Botanical Gardens and Zoo. These are just a few great attractions to get you started. When you start planning your trip you will discover that there are so many great attractions in New York that you can easily spend a few weeks in the city and enjoy a new activity every day.
If you want to visit a posh, sun-bathed city in the states, Miami should be your first stop. Miami has great beaches, nightclubs, shops and hotels - to start with. There are also a number of great other attractions, such as the Miami Metrozoo, Parrot Jungle Island and the Miami Art Museum. Miami is a great place to see the sun and surf of the USA.
Of course, not trip to the USA would ever be complete without a stay in the famed Las Vegas. Whether you enjoy gambling or not, you will find that there is plenty to do and see in Las Vegas that will keep you entertained. Besides multimillion-dollar casinos and hotels, you will find theme parks, national parks, museums and a number of other entertainment facilities, amongst other things.
If this is your first trip to the United States, our brief USA city guide is a great place to start. The country is so big that you simply wont be able to see it all in one go. So take our advice - start with a couple of the best cities and work in your favourite attractions. You wont regret it!
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The Rightard as Junkie
A wonderful psych profile at the link below... to whit:
So what is the last lie a Conservative tells himself? The last lie that the junkies and their suppliers both fight like hell to keep alive and twitching?
That, whether or not their ideology is depraved or deluded, it doesn't matter because:
"Both side are always equally wrong about everything all the time."
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Filming Day With HGTV
Hello all. Filming for HGTV was completed last Thursday, so I thought I'd share the highlights. It was a fun process.
Filming began on Monday afternoon and consisted mainly of me and David walking them through the kitchen, talking to them about the design, details, and what we liked best about the new kitchen. We also were filmed answering some interview questions. Of the 4-person crew, we mostly interacted with the camera man, and the producer. The walk-through was a bit awkward as they directed to say or not say certain things, say them shorter (usually me!) or differently, or "can you do that again - exactly the same way - without looking at the camera". After a couple hours of that, THEN they tell us that HGTV prefers that they film more "organically" - meaning point the camera at us and capture just our ad-lib comments on film - so they wanted us to edit/condense the previous 2 hours of dialogue into a 5 minute non-stop filming with no direction whatsoever. After giving them blank stares, David and I took the plunge and finally got it in a few takes. During the shooting, we learned more about the premise of the show....the kitchens featured on our episode will be evaluated by design expert Lisa LaPorta (referred to as "the talent") and a real estate expert and one will be selected as adding the most value to the house and therefore named "Best Bang for the Buck".
On Thursday morning at 7 AM, the previous crew was joined by 4 more people and they took over the carport as their staging area - food table, camera equipment, etc. By the time I left for work, the house was a frenzy of doing hair and make up, and setting up equipment. It took them 10 minutes to blow a circuit breaker, so I helped them with that before leaving. They spent the entire day shooting our neighborhood, the front of the house, the approach from the front door to the kitchen, but mostly they focused on "the talent" doing a critique of the kitchen. David and I had to be back home late afternoon for more filming. But this time we were airbrushed with make up (that airbrush just melted away my stress - I want one!). They filmed the final evaluation wrap up of the three kitchens here at our house, so David and I waited outside quite a while until "the talent" got finished - because we couldn't hear the final results. (By the way, "the talent's" black limousine sat out in front of the house - driver at the wheel with the car running....for at least 3 hours. And it was a beautiful day in the 70's. Could NOT figure that out.)
When they brought us in, the scene was a bit of a shock. The furniture in the living room and family room was completely rearranged for them to set up cameras and lighting, and stage the interview segments. We watched them film the "beauty shots" with a huge camera that swung around on a boom, sweeping up, down, and through the kitchen. Very cool.
I also sat in the family room and chatted with Lisa LaPorta and learned that she graduated from UCLA school of architecture and she was a cofounder of the HGTV show "Design to Sell" - as well as this new show that we will be on. Very interesting woman. She said she loved our neighborhood and we had a great house - and I got the impression that we MAY have won "best bang". Won't know until the episode airs.
After Lisa sped off in her black limo, the crew sat me and David down in front of a laptop, filming us while showing us the video of the critique of our kitchen. They wanted us to exaggerate and ham up our responses to their comments - most of which were positive - but especially when they made any criticisms. That was really fun. We had some fun at the expense of these "experts" that seemed to contradict themselves on a few things....which we were all too happy to point out. "So they do they 'get it' or don't they? They can't make up their minds."
And then the crew helped us put all the furniture back in place, cleaned up their mess, and they were off to dinner about 7 PM. They invited us along, and though they were a great bunch, we decided we needed time to decompress over some good sushi! Specifically, I needed to decompress a little because the next day I knew that I had to participate in laying off 8 people at the office.
So that's our big adventure. They believe the show will air in April on Thursdays, but we don't know what order the episodes will be shown - so Tivo the series! Should be a real hoot.
My apologies to our contractor Steve Shinn of Homework Remodels and Shelley Barclay of TDC Cabinetry. They wouldn't let us mention any brand names installed, or companies that participated in the remodel. I was hoping to mention both of you - but please know how much I appreciate your help in making our kitchen a reality.
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While some countries require only a passport to enter, others require a travel visa. Whether or not you need a visa depends on your nationality, the duration of your stay and the purpose of your visit. To find out if you need a visa and how to obtain one, visit the website of the embassy or consulate of the country you want to visit. The website should have the most up to date requirements. While visa requirements and the application process vary from country to country, below you find answers to some of the most commonly asked visa questions.
The type of visa you are required to obtain depends on the purpose of your trip. Visas fall into one of two general categories—immigrant and non-immigrant. You need an immigrant visa if you plan to move to a different country permanently. If you are jut visiting or living there temporarily, you need a non-immigrant travel visa. There are a variety of non-immigrant visas available, including tourist, business, student and many more. For example, if you are enrolling in an undergraduate or graduate program at a college or university, you need a student visa. If you are traveling for business purposes, you need a business visa. For a complete list of the types of visas available and the requirements for each, including a [China travel visa, other country travel visas listed here if you want each of them linked to this article] you should refer to the website of the embassy or consulate of the country you want to visit.
The documents you are required to submit when you apply for a visa vary based on the country you are visiting and the type of travel visa for which you are applying. In general, you can expect to provide:
No. Even if you provide all of the information required during the application process, there is no guarantee you will be issued a visa. Visas are denied for many reasons, including:
The length of time your visa is valid depends on where you are traveling and the type of visa for which you are applying. Visas can be valid anywhere from the length of your trip to 10 years. The validity of a travel visa begins on the day the visa is issued, not the day you arrive at your destination. It is important that you take this into account when applying for your visa, so you do not apply too far in advance of your trip. You must enter the country before your visa expires or you will not be permitted to enter.
Again, it depends on where you are traveling and the type of visa for which you are applying. The duration of your visa indicates how long you are permitted to stay in a particular country.
The number of times you will be permitted to enter a particular country depends on the type of travel visa you have. If you have a single entry visa, you can enter the country only once. If you have a double entry visa, you can enter the country twice. If you have a multiple entry visa, you can enter the country the number of times indicated as long as your visa is valid.
The time it takes to process a visa application varies from country to country. If you apply in person you could have your visa within a few days. If you apply by mail, it could take several months.
If you want someone to guide you through the application process, you can work with a visa expediting service like "company name." They will help ensure you have met all of the entry requirements of the country you want to visit, so you can get a fast visa and be on your way to your destination.
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Safe Families for Children of Lane County seeks to "Make a Safer Place for Children" by enlisting and training faith-based host families to provide respite care to children whose families are experiencing a temporary emergency.
Our aim is to engage the faith community to meet the immediate needs of a child thru respite care, so that Child Welfare intervention is not needed to keep the child safe.
We Believe that parents may go through times in which their ability to meet the needs of their children change. When factors like housing, finances, employment, health and lack of extended family support prevent a parent from providing a healthy home, we are here to offer temporary help. Parents retain legal custody and caring volunteers provide the safe environment for the child so the parents can get back on their feet. Our role is to provide resources and support for the child as well as to encourage and motivate. It is not about looking back, it's about looking ahead.
We have volunteers ready to serve in South Lane County and are presenting to churches in the Eugene/Springfield area Fall 2016. Please Email firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in becoming a Safe Family or believe your church should be involved.
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Edgar Wright's filmography so far has aged incredibly well, but if there's one film that has remained a favorite for many it's his 2007 cop action parody feature "Hot Fuzz" starring regular cohorts Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
This week, out doing press for "Baby Driver," Wright was asked by Movieweb if there any chance we could see a "Hot Fuzz" sequel? He replied:
"I've definitely had some ideas and me and Simon have even talked about it at points, but it's that thing of, do I want to spend three years of my life doing that? Or do I wanna, if I have the opportunity to tell a new story, would I do that? If somebody said to me, if Baby Driver 2, if that kind of came up, it would be like, "I have ideas." I would never say never, and you're not wrong to say that that's the one that you could do further installments.
I think the thing with sequels is that I've always been looking for what's next? And the thing with any movie is, it's going to take up at least two years of your life. Maybe three. So, when you've got youth on your side, and I'm already in my forties now, it's like, I guess I would rather be telling new stories than revisiting old ones.
Hot Fuzz I think is the only one of the Cornetto trilogy that you could do a follow-up. The tricky thing with a lot of sequels, and especially comedy sequels, is once characters have finished an arc. You know, in Hot Fuzz Danny Butterman especially, Nicholas Angel becomes less of an automaton and becomes more human and Nick Frost's character becomes less of a simpleton and more of a badass. So then the thing is like, when that's your starting point for the next one, where do you go from there?"
"Hot Fuzz" grossed $80 million at the box office and, like many of Wright's films including "Baby Driver," has scored very strong reviews.


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This material possesses quality and individuality. With an acoustic instrumentation of guitars, flute, piano and violin along with the members, Viola and Federico's own technique, spirit and presence, All My Faith Lost create an openly honest sound that is hard to come by these days, with a purity that is almost painfully intense. Italian melancholic ethereal as we know from bands such as Gothica, Ordo Equitum Solis and also even some of the calmer dark-acoustic sets of Ain Soph, interwined with influences of the darkwave bands heard on the American label, Projekt. This is sound-balm for the ears, far away from daily stress and the disturbing noises of today. Volumes are low, lyrics are whispered - it's sparse, soft and dangerously seductive.
上边这段转自他们的官网,不用我翻译大家还看的懂吧。意大利的新民谣乐队,1999年由Federico 和Francis组建。大家听吧,我不多说。厂牌是我们熟知的CMI
01. come close my lover
02. your silent tears
03. rain has fallen all the day
04. she came to me
05. at that hour
06. triste quiete
07. all day i hear your voice
08. disclose your eyes
09. sleep now
10. autumn
11. silent lady
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MONTREAL (AP) The Montreal Canadiens and restricted free-agent Alex Galchenyuk have agreed to terms on a two-year contract.
Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed Thursday.
Galchenyuk had career highs with 20 goals, 26 assists and 46 points last season. The 21-year-old Wisconsin native has 42 goals and 62 assists in 193 regular-season games and four goals and six assists in 22 playoff games.


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Last Thursday, my colleague and I worked furiously through the morning to finalize some items, and then we gathered up our small overnight cases, headed to a big box store parking lot, and boarded a charter bus with 54 other people – women and men, all races, all ages, although most of them were college students and most of them were black. 18 hours later, we arrived at a hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was about 10 in the morning when we arrived, but luckily we were able to check in early and take long showers. We ate delicious sandwiches made on real, boiled bagels for lunch, and spent the afternoon touring Monticello. When the young and handsome (in a UVA bro way) tour guide asked us what we thought of when thinking of Jefferson (a BRILLIANT tour guide tactic, I now see – lets him know how to set the tone for the whole tour), one of the white students chirped "systemic racism!" This phased him not a whit – he smiled, nodded, and said – "Absolutely. None of this would be here without slavery. For all Jefferson's accomplishments, he owned people, he fathered children with a woman he owned who couldn't say no. His children by her were slaves. He was able to build this plantation because he didn't pay the people who did the work here. That's something we will keep in mind throughout our tour today." And then he did just that. The tour was extremely informative, interesting, fair, and sensitive. It paid homage to Jefferson's brilliance, the breadth of his myriad skills, the contributions he made to the Republic – and also gave juicy details of his quirks (of course a brilliant guy like that has odd tendencies, including spending wayyyyy more than he earned, putting the whole place in pretty bad debt), and was open and bracing about his slaves and about enslavement at the time. Really, I can't say enough good things about it. The house itself was much smaller than I expected – I've seen pictures of Monticello my whole life. It was beautiful, but also not large. I suppose I've been to too many European castles – I'm spoilt.
That evening, we headed home and met several of the students at a Chinese place for a really fun dinner. A couple of them are pre-law, so I gave them some advice about pursuing a law degree. They were all great kids, funny, kind – all students of an HBCU in town here. It's a small college, and I was surprised how many of them came from really far-flung states to attend – Minneapolis, Chicago, California.
After dinner, we went back to the room. My colleague is a news junkie – she watches CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, even Fox. I stick to NPR and the BBC, mostly, but she watches it all, and knows all the anchors and shows. She's actually a former conservative who now identifies as independent. And she's a black female lawyer, so she, like me, finds this administration's goals antithetical and a threat to her continued existence. Just ask her about the frou frou over the slaves who built the White House, and how "nice" their lives were. I dare you.
Anyway, all this to say I was ready to go to bed at 8pm that night, after our long bus ride and the next morning's early wakeup call (4:00 am!), but she put on the networks and we watched the coverage of the inaugural balls for a while, as well as the commentary about the inauguration itself. We went to sleep at 11 ish, and the alarms woke us up five hours later. We were on the bus at 4:30 am, ready to go.
Several hours and a few wrong turns later, the bus parked in a kind of creepy, dirt lot by Nationals Park, and we filed out. I did not wear a pink pussy hat, but many of the group did. I didn't carry a poster, either – I didn't want to have to hold it for 12 hours. We walked to the metro and boarded our train with ease, but when we got off at L'Enfant Plaza, it was an absolute crush. I got a little nervous, thinking of the Hillsborough football disaster (I used to date a British guy whose birthday was April 15, and this disaster really captivated and horrified him, which is why I even know about this). It was extremely slow going to get out via the turnstiles, but full trains kept stopping and letting more folks off, so slowly but surely we were being packed in tighter and tighter. I had no reason to fear – D.C. is used to huge crushes of people marching, and they had it together. They simply paused travel to the station for a while, parking trains on the tracks, until the pressure eased off.
In any case, it was a crowd. Whole families with small children were there, people young and old, wheelchairs and strollers and everything in between. There were thousands upon thousands of men, too – many men carrying daughters. One of our bus compatriots brought her 12 year old daughter, and told me that after the Access Hollywood footage leaked, she'd already had to explain to her the slang use of the word "pussy" and how Trump was using the term.
We got split up from them very quickly, however. There was no way our group of 55 was staying anywhere near together, so I clung to my colleague and she to me, and we ended up losing everyone else over the course of the day. Once released from the L'Enfant Plaza metro station, we made our way through absolute throngs of people – well over half a million of us were there, and it certainly felt like it. My colleague and I ended up very near the stage – to the side of it. We were right by a jumbotron and speakers, and so we were able to see and hear everything. The rally went on way too long, but even so, it had some pretty amazing speakers. Sophie Cruz, a 6 year old immigration activist, gave her speech in English and then Spanish. The crowds chanted her name – So-PHIE, So-PHIE, So-PHIE. The Mothers of the Movement did a piece with Janelle Monae, where she asked them to shout their dead children's names into the microphone as we shouted back. It was so raw – I can't describe how it felt to listen to it. Alicia Keys was a surprise guest, as was Madonna. Ashley Judd read a poem by a 19 year old, one line of which struck me as so true – something like "I walk around studying my shoes, lest you mistake eye contact for wanting physical contact." In my life, it was a long time before I realized how much effort I made to avoid the male gaze, since so unfathomably many times a mistaken shared glance led to a man following, grabbing, hounding me, convinced my looking up was meant as some sort of invitation. I stare 'em down now, older and more dominant.
So we stood, packed like sardines, unable to sit, pee, or eat or drink, listening to Gloria Steinem and Angela Davis and Linda Sarsour and various women, many carrying their babies onstage with them, for about seven hours. And then we started to march, which was essentially just a giant sea of people walking a few miles at a snail's pace, to eventually stand like sardines once again, packed in before the White House with our signs, while President drove by in his motorcade. All of his sexual sins come back to haunt him.
It was wonderful. It was a moment of clear-eyed resolve, solidarity. Though since then, hateful and discriminatory executive orders rain down that are throwing my business clients into a tailspin, as none of it makes much legal sense and all of it is vague and leaves them not knowing what the hell is legal anymore (most of these try to implement things that the President does not have constitutional authority to do, for example, and some do flow from executive authority but are completely unclear – it's almost as if the President has no idea how complicated governing is?) There is a multi-billion dollar wall that we are totally fine with Americans paying for, even though it is not practical (we don't own the land it would be built on, and the estimates don't even include cost for purchasing all of that land and the legal fees to structure those deals), it is ineffective, and has now caused Mexicans to boycott U.S. businesses. However, investing in universal healthcare, which would help the middle class consumer, is "too expensive." So investment in government services that have real impact on improving the lives of taxpayers is ridiculous, but investment in government follies that have zero impact on anything is totally fine!
Worst of all, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a hastily signed Executive Order banned travel from all Muslim-dominant countries [that don't have Trump hotels in them], meaning that Syrian children whose families have spent upwards of 2 years jumping through hoops, the most extreme of extreme vetting processes, in order to travel here and start a life were literally sent back on their planes, on the day they were to finally begin a new hope. Literally nobody qualified thinks this is a good idea or will reduce terrorism, but it's red meat to throw to the supporters, who get more brutal by the minute.
So I guess you could say my fizzy joy has fizzled somewhat. But not my resolve. Make America Kind Again. We shall overcome.
**Meal Planning Portion**
This is what I plan to make this week. We are also grilling out on Sunday afternoon for mah babeee's third birthday – just a few friends, some burgers and beers and a birthday cake. Happy birthday, Craig!
Easy One Pot Quinoa Corn Chowder – I bought the industrial sized quinoa from Costco, and this soup looks super delicious (or "souper" delicious – rimshot!)
Chicken broccoli and mushroom stir fry – I've made this before and it's good stuff
Fried pork chops, potatoes, and peas – except we'll probably have mixed veg since that's what I have
Chicken and sausage jambalaya – not a NOLA recipe
Lemon butter chicken and baked potatoes – I bought a giant bag of potatoes at Costco so we gotta eat 'em up


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I saw some similar felt Christmas trees on Pinterest this week and immediately fell in love with their whimsical Dr. Suess-esque quality. I thought they would be perfect to recreate for my coffee table which is sadly barren of any holiday decorations. They fill the space quite nicely and were simple to put together.
To make your own felt trees, you'll need: Felt, bamboo skewers, pom-poms, wine cork. Start by cutting a 1-inch circle from your felt, and then continue cutting gradually larger circles (approximately 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch larger). I used 11 circles for the large tree, 8 circles for the medium tree, and 5 circles for the small tree. But you can definitely add more if you would like a fuller look. Once your circles are all cut, skewer them on to the bamboo stick through the center. Space out the circles to your preferred look. Add a pom pom on top, and use a cork cut horizontally as the base. To make smaller trees, cut your bamboo stick to your preferred size. That's it!
Happy holiday crafting, DIY'ers!


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Somethings are best unsaid,
Some emotions shouldn't be spelt,
But what if they can no longer hold
Back themselves like a famine outbreak,
Fierce and cold?
I know it had been too late,
But I did try to apologise, no?
Although not as sincerely you would have…
I would have forgiven and forgotten all the rues, honestly,
Both, your errs and mine too,
Had you ever tried to talk to me.
If only things could revert upon a hope,
Alas! I was just mending a broken clock,
I know you'll be hurt if I say I'm gloomy,
But believe me , I am fine,
This post is in response of THE DAILY POST – APOLOGY


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The 2018 Eastern division will feature tournaments from Lorain to Ashtabula Harbor. These tournaments allow teams to fish multiple locations when the fish are biting at there best, and allow Northeast Ohio anglers a cost effective way to qualify for the 100% payback championship, by participating in a minimum of four events. The season's championship will have thousands of dollars of sponsor product given away to participants, in addition to the $5,000 minimum first place prize. All sponsored Eastern Division tournaments guarantee a minimum $1000 first place prize with at least 20 boats participating.
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Gosh it has been a busy crafty week for me: workshops, tidying, card making and sewing.
I haven't see the rest of the worlds desks yet this week, they could be just as busy/messy/tidy as mine but I bet they are all inspirational.
Check them out at the stamping ground, Julia says keep it short.... I will try, so here goes.
this is my desk today ....lots of projects mixed together
Stamps and dry foam from a quick card, a prototype watch strap and leather scraps. brads and lots of glues. On the left under the foam is the lace book I started last week at ART VAN GO with my friend Lee.
Here is the view from our bedroom window at Art Van Go
Oh! ok, you got me, its a picture on the wall .... a girl can dream cant she!
Lee and I had such a blast I haven't laughed so much for ages.
There were 12 of us on the course here are our books at the end of the 2 days ... not finished but fabulous anyway.
I learnt lots of new techniques from JuliaTriston our tutor including this one made with hessian
This is her piece not mine I am still practising.
Just before I left I finally finished my latest quilt for Jo at lillybo quilts. I know it has arrived so I can show it now. I started with the outside as it was some bunting from last year.... it was quite a challenge to get the middle to fit !
Finally this week I had to do some tidying up! My handyman brought me a pressie from his office which is in the process of relocating and getting rid of furniture.
I had to make room for this little baby.
Well done if you made it to the end, I'm exhausted too, especially in this wonderful heat.... Ooo! just seen an advert for ice cold cider... sounds perfect, if only I had some ;)
please leave a comment so I know you have called by and I can visit it back..... eventually.
so I can find you quickly please leave your Mr Linky no.
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Pin Up Tattoo. Pin-up woman tattoos originally became popular in the military. As nose-art (pin-up art on the top of fighter and bomber planes) gained popularity, therefore did these tattoos. Troops and sailors, lonely males isolated from women, experienced these tattoos done to keep in mind what they left back home. Typically the inspiration for these designs generally came from female starlets like Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, as well as fantastical works together with themes like 'Devil', 'Angel', or 'Cowgirl'. Designs of present day aren't so different; Celebs like Scarlett Johansson or maybe Megan Fox still encourage pin-up tattoo artists, along with original themed works.
You do not need to design the images of Goule for your tattoo. You can also employ images like bleeding chew marks, a vampire head or a fanged bat. An additional interesting design; is a goule coming through a mirror. You may also try to design female strige. Pin Up Tattoo These designs are similar to the actual gothic versions of a pin-up tattoo. The one interesting, women vampire that you can design will be the Victorian lady with darkish rings around her eye and fingers with paws that gives you an interesting goule look. The other feminine ghosts that you get tattoo; is a light faced lady with a decrease of blood falling by her lips. You can associate yourself to some of the strange figures of the vampire. Anyways, strige tattoos are a great way of conveying your strange qualities.


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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25th Leaving the church at 9:00 a.m. Cost is $3 for bus expenses plus lunch money
Whether you are a history enthusiast, a country music fan, or just like to experience interesting things, you will really enjoy this trip! The Woodie Guthrie Center in Tulsa's Brady District is dedicated to preserving Woody Guthrie's body of work and celebrating his life and the continuation of his legacy. Come with us and discover Woody's important role in American history and his advocacy for social justice.
By visiting the fourth Thursday instead of our usual third week, we will be there for a special feature: "Marty Stuart's Way Out West: A Country Music Odyssey," curated by the GRAMMY Museum® in Los Angeles. Items that highlight the West Coast impact on country music, including memorabilia from Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Stuart himself will be on display. All of the items in the exhibit come from the private collection of Stuart, who also served as guest curator.
After soaking up all that "Americana," we will travel back home through Catoosa where at Flo's Burger Diner, we will enjoy some of the most delicious burgers you can find around this area. YUMMO!
Meet at 9:00 am that morning and bring $3.00 to help with bus expenses plus lunch money for the diner.
Don't forget to reserve a seat on the bus! There are three ways to sign up for the trip: (1) Sign-up Book at the Welcome Desk, (2) online, or (3) contact Linda Pollock at firstname.lastname@example.com.
SAVE THE DATE ~ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 2018 F.U.M.C. WINTER OLYMPICS! Games ~ Prizes ~ Food!!
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Student removed from school after city police called twice
A 16-year-old student was removed from North Hagerstown High School Monday afternoon following two disturbances that twice drew Hagerstown City Police to the Pennsylvania Avenue campus.
"The first call, we responded for a student who was being disruptive," said Sgt. James Robison. In that incident, school personnel took care of the situation, he said.
At 3:50 p.m., police again were called to the school when the same student sprayed the assistant North High principal with a fire extinguisher and pulled the school's fire alarm, Robison said.
The principal and several teachers restrained the boy until police arrived again, Robison said.
No school personnel were injured or needed medical care in the incidents, Robison said.
Only one person was taken from the school to Washington County Hospital and that was the student, according to a dispatcher at Washington County Fire and Rescue Communications.