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These are billed as creepy Game of Thrones face swaps — and some are, don't get me wrong! Stannis looks like the Joker, yeesh! — but don't you think Jon Snow and Ygritte* look as fresh and lovely as ever? Or, er, as rough and tumble and rosy cheeked as ever?
Regardless, who's excited for the season premiere? Besides you and the entire internet. Who's gonna zoom who this season? And will Jon Snow ever work up the courage to ask us out? Will a universe outside of our space and time finally use something more interesting than a g-d raven to deliver messages (I've repeatedly suggested pterodactyls)? Stay tuned to find out!
*What's up, girl! You're no longer a maid in turn of the century England; you've really made it!
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Deviled Ham Spread for Stuffing Whole Wheat Pita or Celery
Deviled Ham Spread
(Makes about 1 1/2 cups, recipe slightly adapted from Deviled Ham Salad Sandwiches at Sweetnicks, original recipe from Gourmet Magazine.)
1 1/2 cups (1/2 lb.) coarsely chopped ham (for South Beach Diet, use low-fat ham or be sure ham is well trimmed of fat)
1/3 cup mayo (I used light mayo)
1 T Dijon mustard
2 tsp. horseradish
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. Green Tabasco (or other hot sauce of your choice)
Add mayo, Dijon mustard, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, and Green Tabasco and pulse a few more times, until mixture is well blended. (You can also remove it from the food processor and mix it in a bowl if you want to be sure the ham doesn't get over-processed.)
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South Beach Suggestions:
As I mentioned, ham has to be low in fat to be appropriate for the South Beach Diet. If you want to be sure it's South Beach Diet friendly, get low-fat ham in the deli. This ham spread stuffed into celery would be a nice treat for phase one, and with pita bread or 100% whole wheat bread, it would be good for phase two.
More Ideas for Leftover Ham:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Spicy Pinto Bean Soup with Ham, Tomatoes, and Cilantro from Kalyn's Kitchen
Split Pea Soup with Ham, Mushrooms, Carrots, and Wheatberries from Kalyn's Kitchen
Ham Fried Barley from Kalyn's Kitchen
Leftover Ham Recipes from Iron Stef
Five Uses for Leftover Ham from Sarah's Cucina Bella
(Want even more leftover ham recipes? I find these recipes from other blogs using Food Blog Search.)

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Samsung vs. Apple: Why Samsung Wins a Pyrrhic Victory
Dec 10, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Last week was defined largely by two interesting stories. One had Apple bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. (some interesting thoughts on this here), and the other revolved around the outcome of the latest trial between Apple and Samsung.
It shows you how hard it is to read a judge, though. I thought Judge Lucy Koh would likely raise the award from US$1.05 billion, but she signaled instead that she wanted to reduce it.
Samsung and Apple appear to be in a dance to the death. Though I'm a big fan of competition, I don't see this battle doing anything but hurting both firms and the buyers of their technology. And let's not forget the investors and employees of both firms -- they are suffering as well. In short, I think the entire ecosystem the surrounds both firms would like this to end ASAP.
I'll go into the latest developments in this battle and close with my product of the week: Nike + Kinect training is a game parents will like because it will get them and their kids off the couch.
Apple vs. Samsung: Why It Is Ugly
Apple has every right to be upset. Samsung is executing on a strategy very similar to the one Apple used to displace Sony at the top of the TV stack. Here's how it works: First partner, then emulate, then effectively steal the market from the company targeted.
I was meeting with the Sony managers when this was happening and they were beside themselves with concern about what Samsung was doing to their company.
Steve Jobs was a bit more combative -- and Samsung, looking at the trial disclosures, was far more aggressive in its emulation (read copying) effort. As a result, Steve Jobs -- and by proxy, all of Apple -- feels deeply violated.
What Samsung did was clearly unethical to my eye was, but whether it was actually illegal has varied from country to country.
In the end, you have a company that is better backed by its government going up against an iconic U.S. company where the government can't even balance its checkbook -- let alone provide any meaningful backup whatsoever -- and Apple is on the wrong side of that equation. These long fights in the courts rarely work out for either company. Consider the following, for instance...
Intel vs. AMD
Intel and AMD fought in court for more than a decade. While AMD generally won, Intel was never crippled.
Currently both firms are facing an onslaught by ARM vendors, and it's arguable that their focus on each other helped hand the tablet and smartphone markets to Nvidia and Qualcomm.
Microsoft vs. Netscape
Another iconic battle was between Microsoft and Netscape, with an offended Netscape providing testimony that Microsoft was doing really treating it badly.
Netscape even got the U.S. government involved in a massive attack on Microsoft, which was effective.
A few years later, Microsoft is under an antitrust cloud, Netscape is gone, and Google has effectively taken the place of both companies.
Pyrrhic Victory
These are called Pyrrhic victories -- that is, victories that are more costly than defeat. These kinds of "to the death" fights generally end with one vendor exiting the market and the other almost terminally crippled.
In short, the paid of the fight far exceeds the reward of the potential victory, and both companies would have been far better off had they found a way to compromise without fighting to the death.
Samsung Wins Ugly
It comes down to resources. Over the long haul, a company backed by a powerful government is going to survive a battle like this longer than a company -- no matter how powerful -- that doesn't have the same backing.
I think Apple will win most of the battles -- particularly those in the U.S. -- but I believe Samsung will eventually outlast it. It's not just that Samsung is backed by the South Korean government; Samsung has a far more diverse product base, and it is far stronger than Apple everywhere but the U.S., where it is approaching Apple's strength.
In short, in a fight to the death, the nod goes to Samsung as the eventual survivor -- much like the cases of Microsoft and Intel. However, I expect it will survive as a crippled company, and the result will be that some other firm will be able to rise up and take its place.
LG comes to mind, because it has the potential -- should it ramp to fill Samsung's gap -- to get similar government support.
Wrapping Up: Looking Ahead
In watching the two companies, it appears clear that Samsung is able to compartmentalize this fight better than Apple is. I think this is likely because it isn't personal to Samsung.
Apple should be more interested in settlement, though, because the odds seem to favor Samsung surviving Apple. However, quitting a fight like this is nearly impossible, because both sides tend to focus on the battle and not really consider the chance that both firms are ultimately on a losing path.
Each company is powerful enough to at least cripple the other. In the end, the firm that survives may find itself mortally wounded in a less than forgiving market.
On the positive side, this battle should do wonders for LG, Nokia, RIM and even Microsoft, particularly if Google becomes collateral damage (Apple is pissed at both Samsung and Google).
So these companies are aren't rooting for either side to win -- they just love watching the fight and hope it never ends.
Product of the Week: Nike + Kinect Training
Kinect is a revolutionary product. What makes it revolutionary is that the computer truly can see you. When I say "see," I mean both recognize who you are and make judgments about what you are doing.
It is so revolutionary, it is being designed into the next generation of robots to let them better interact with humans.
One of the obvious uses for this technology on an Xbox is for exercise, and the first implementation was with Dance Central. This game, which became a personal guilty pleasure until my niece Karen kicked my butt (don't tell her) not only was -- it got your heart rate up, and it really did burn calories.
Well, Nike + Kinect Training takes this concept much farther -- it focuses directly on exercise. By monitoring you, it can see how hard you are working and factor that into the exercise routine.
It starts by making an assessment, then allows you to set goals. From there, Nike + Kinect takes you to personal routines that won't under- or over-challenge you. In short, much like a personal trainer, it can motivate you to work harder and better achieve your exercise goals.
It has provisions that allow you to exercise with friends who are remote, and it maintains a benchmark on your progress -- both best practices for maintaining an exercising routine.
I think this is truly the first real step in creating a true affordable virtual trainer, and because folks like me really need to work out more, and because our lives -- both quality and length -- will depend on that, Nike + Kinect Training is my product of the week.


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Writing Theories vary, and I am going to share a few ama-zing theories in the circle of life that is writing that Dan Harmon (American writer, performer, and creator and former executive producer for the NBC television comedy series Community, and, along with Rob Schrab, a founder of the alternative television network/website Channel 101.) created. Read MoreShare on Facebook
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Chef Alain Roby Profile
Chef Alain Roby studied and learned his culinary art in Paris from the world famous Pastry Chef Lenotre and is a Certified Master Chef of Pastry & Sugar Artistry. He also has been named as a permanent committee member of the exclusive Societe D'Escofier Chicago and has traveled all over the world. In his travels, he has served as the Private Pastry Chef to the Shah of Iran and has worked in London, Tokyo, New York and finally Chicago. Roby has served as the Private Pastry Chef for the Admiral of the Joan of Arc - the flagship of the French Navy.
In addition, he was a featured chef promoting classic All-American desserts on the culinary crossing of the Queen Elizabeth II from South Hampton, England to New York. Chef Roby has won more than 20 prestigious culinary awards including, The Grand Prize Gold Medal of Paris offered by the French First Minister Medaille Des nautes) and the Best of Show by the National Restaurant Association Culinary Salon 1988, in Chicago. At the National Pastry Team Championships in 2001 in Beaver Creek and in 2005 in Phoenix, Chef Roby's team proved they were among the country's finest pastry artists, as they impressed the judges with their themed array of pastry creations, including impressive sugar showpieces created by Chef Roby. Chef Roby's team was awarded the Bronze Medal both years.
Chef Roby has been featured in numerous acclaimed newspaper and magazine publications, including Food & Wine, Gourmet, Pastry Art & Design, Chocolatier, Architectural Digest, Traditional Home and Veranda. Alain also has been featured on The Learning Channel, as well as the Food Network's Extreme Pastry and Sugar Rush shows. He has been in three Food Network Specials: Unwrapped with Mark Summers, Mystery Birthday Cakes, and The World's Tallest Sugar Building. He also has been a judge in some Food Network Challenges. Recently, Alain was the celebrity guest chef on The Martha Stewart Show where he unveiled a 1,250 lb. chocolate devil's food cake! He also served as a celebrity chef during the Celebrity Chef Tour in Chicago.
Chef Roby has served as the head pastry chef at the NFL Commissioner's Super Bowl Party for the past 19 years. Alain's work has been seen all over the world, as The Guinness Book of World Records awarded Chef Roby the World's Tallest Cooked Sugar Building, the World's Tallest Chocolate Sculpture and the World's Longest Candy Cane, in 2013 . His award-winning cooked sugar building was 12 feet 10 inches tall and chocolate sculpture was 20 feet 8 inches tall. These creations took his world visibility to new heights. Chef Roby is the only pastry chef to hold two Guinness World Records. Alain's most recent achievement is the highest honor of his career.
Pastry Art & Design and Chocolatier magazines inducted Chef Roby into their Hall of Fame. This achievement is a prominent recognition of Alain's contributions to the pastry industry.
Chef Alain Roby worked for the Hyatt Regency Chicago for 24 years, most recently as the Senior Corporate Pastry Chef for Hyatt Hotels over-seeing the Pastry Division for all Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Today, in addition to his role as a consultant within the food, dessert and hospitality industry, he is the creative genius behind Chef Alain Roby's All-Chocolate Kitchen located in downtown Geneva, IL. A portion of all proceeds at the shop benefit The Saving tiny Hearts Society, an entirely volunteer-based organization that was formed for the sole purpose of raising funds for congenital heart defect research.
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Lighting Innovator Ian Osborn calls it the "Fastest Heat Moving Technology on the market."
SinkPAD corporation's new thermal management printed circuit boards are a complete and effective solution to the challenges faced by the solid state lighting industry, specifically those with high power LED PCB applications.
SinkPAD™ conducts heat out of the LED system (LED cooling) by creating a direct thermal path between the LED and the surrounding atmosphere, which eliminates thermal resistance of the dielectric material in a traditional IMS PCB or MCPCB. SinkPAD™ still uses a dielectric, but this dielectric isolates the metal base electrically and leaves it thermally connected. The thermal path should be electrically neutral within the LED package, i.e. Cree XPG, XML, XTE, MK-R, Luxeon Rebel, M, T from Philips Lumiled, N219 from Nichia in order to solder the LED directly to the SinkPAD™. To find out how SinkPAD's technology can remove the heat in your LED application, contact us or visit the SinkPAD website, www.SinkPAD.com.
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David Wright held court this afternoon in Port St. Lucie, and among other things said the Mets' expectations are to win the NL East and the World Series. Well, I wouldn't have expected anything less from Wright.
Wright said offensively, he hopes to find something comfortable and stick with it, which translated should mean more home runs. Wright was in a mind funk all last season and only hit 10 homers.
Of all the things he said, I like this best: "I hope its not the underdog role that gets guys fired up, I hope its the embarrassment of last year."
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Who Lives Here: Rajiv Majumdar
Location: Bangalore, India
Size: 500 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? The wardrobes with it's glass back to the window that let in natural light.
What was one of the biggest challenges you faced in furnishing your small home?Fitting in the kitchen! I had to break down walls and finally settled on an open kitchen, right in the middle of the living room, with a blind that closes off the sink and hides off the dirty dishes when I have people over. The plus of course is being in the heart of action while cooking for friends (which is something that's not happening as often as I'd like!)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has introduced legislation to end sequestration and restore normal funding levels for the remainder of fiscal 2013.
The bill (S. 788) would use savings from "winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to prevent cuts that will harm our national security and our economy," Reid said when introducing the bill Tuesday on the Senate floor.
Reid said while many have focused on airport delays caused by employee furloughs at the Federal Aviation Administration, there are more significant reasons to reverse the planned automatic budget cuts.
"Nationwide these across-the-board cuts will cost 750,000 jobs," Reid said. "They will cost us investments in education that keep America competitive. They will cost millions of seniors, children, veterans and needy families the safety net that keeps them from descending into poverty."
Reid's bill would not end the entire sequestration program -- scheduled to take place over the next 10 years -- but delay its implementation through September. Postponing the cuts would allow Democrats and Republicans to negotiate a permanent solution, Reid said.
"We can do it for five months, and during those five months we can come up with something that is longer term," the majority leader told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Reid's office did not respond to a request for comment on the impact this bill would have on scheduled furloughs across most agencies in federal government, though agency heads have repeatedly pleaded with Congress to repeal sequestration so employees would not be forced to take unpaid leave.
The Democratic leader said the idea to use savings from post-war drawdowns -- which Republicans have called a "gimmick" -- was included in one of Rep. Paul Ryan's, D-Wisc., budget proposals. In a comment to Politico, Ryan's office denied the claim.


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Our Logo
The PEACOCK, the TRISHUL and the SUN are the symbols in the design of the Logo which represents unity, symbolizes strength, gentleness, pride, humility and the sustenance of life and growth
The PEACOCK with its plumage of vibrant and deep shades of LORD Krishnas rich greenish-blue expresses space and endless opportunities.The splendid feathers in its tail with "eye like" spots convey its vigilance and alertness in the true pursuit of learning.The plumes on its head are symbolic of high ambitions, aspirations and achievements of humanity.
The TRISHUL is the symbol of good overcoming evil and in the hands of the peacock articulates gentleness with the strength of character to use.
The eternal SUN is the center of our solar system provides inexhaustible cosmic energy to the world.
The design of the logo describes quintessentially - in the myriad colors of the PEACOCK, the TRISHUL, ancient weapons of the Gods and the eternal SUN - the Indian ethos blending together its traditions, culture, ideologies and philosophies.


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Not just because it is Christmas, but because we love to encourage reading, we invited some friends to recommend to our readers in very few words a favorite book and author—specifically a book that would help a younger person in high school or college develop his or her own character.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Literary Editor
The Plunge
Giving a book is an occasion to tell a story. I'd give a young person James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man saying that I was assigned it by Mr. Pontrelli, my Saint Peter's College 1957 freshman English teacher. Before Pontrelli I thought people read books for entertainment. But Pontrelli taught us that literature is not escape but a plunge into our depth. So I'd write on the gift card, "Time to take the post-adolescent plunge with Stephen Dedalus?"
James R. Kelly is a professor emeritus of sociology at Fordham University.
Wolff Boy
Living in Washington's hill country, Tobias Wolff, in his This Boy's Life, A Memoir, grows up in the 1950s with his quirky mother and sadistic stepfather. Wolff survives by acting out and putting on a tough-guy exterior. He escapes his troubled youth through his talent for writing, which shows on every page of this eloquent memoir.
Diane Scharper is a frequent reviewer for America and a poet.
No Rival
I suggest Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, in conjunction with the great new film "Lincoln," directed by Stephen Spielberg, which is based on it. The book shows, of course, one of the great heroes of American political life at work, but also demonstrates for our politically fractured age how rivals can work together for the common good.
Jeffrey Von Arx, S.J., is president of Fairfield University.
Before Twilight
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a grotesquely horrifying tale of a supernatural evil among Victorian England's unsuspecting people of privilege, creating fitting parallels for our times. The sheer volume of sex, violence, greed, madness and carnage handily challenges any caricature of Victorian prudery.
Laura Chmielewski teaches history at State University of New York—Purchase.
Unbroken,by Laura Hillenbrand, is the story of a juvenile delinquent who escaped a life of crime by becoming an Olympic gold medalist. Endurance later enabled WWII airman Louis Zamperini to survive 47 days afloat in the Pacific, followed by two years on Execution Island, where a psychopathic guard excelled in tormenting him. He escaped his past and saved his marriage by forgiving his enemy.
Camille D'Arienzo, R.S.M., is a frequent commentator on New York News Radio WINS.
Pre-emptive Parent
Why ask an ancient to recommend a book for the "young"? Since I can't imagine bridging the gap, I recommend a book about the gap: Marilynne Robinson's 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead. John Ames, a rural pastor who has become a father in his old age, is dying. He writes daily reflections for his young child to read later in life, blending family history with poignant justification for his own life and theology.
George Dennis O'Brien, a philosopher, is the former president of the University of Rochester.
Letters Carrier
Eliza Peabody is the central character of Jane Gardam's The Queen of the Tambourine. The story develops through letters Eliza writes to Joan, who may or may not exist. Humorous and poignant, with a conclusion you won't learn here. I predict you will then move to other Gardam novels. There are many.
William Neenan, S.J., is well known at Boston College for his reading lists.
Plain Jane
Students find Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre stirring. I think this is because of Jane's honesty, beginning in Chapter 4, when she confronts that pious fraud Brocklehurst and her mean old aunt, who gives way before the force of that honesty with startling timidity, and later refuses to surrender to Rochester (who is married) her independence and integrity.
Robert McCarthy, S.J., teaches English at Saint Peter's University, Jersey City, N.J.
Heroic Lives
I recommend Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed, Phillip Hallie's warmly told account of Le Chambon, the Protestant village in Vichy-controlled France that harbored thousands of Jews, saving them from certain death. Stories of the strong crushing the weak abound. Here is a history of goodness filled with everyday heroes who possess an aggressive conviction of the preciousness of life.
Claire Schaeffer-Duffy lives and works at the Saints Francis and Therese Catholic Worker of Worcester, Mass.
My first exposure to the theory of evolution in sophomore biology class triggered my interest in Charles Darwin and compelled me to read his seminal book, On the Origin of Species. From his keen observation of unique endemic species on the Galapagos Islands came the theory of evolution by natural selection—the foundation of modern biology.
Mark Aita, S.J., M.D., teaches medical ethics at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pa.
Unending Witness
Who says that Republicans and Democrats can't agree on anything? Not one but two administrations have sanctioned an unending global war essentially fought in secret. There is no accountability, even for torture. In such perilous times, Daniel Berrigan, S.J.'s Essential Writings (ed. John Dear) bears witness to a lifetime of discipleship and advocacy for peace.
Luke Hansen, S.J., is an associate editor of America.
Radical Catholic
Dorothy Day: Selected Writings (ed. Robert Ellsberg) is a wonderful entree into the world of the radical journalist who embraced Catholicism even as she challenged the church and "the system." This collection allows the story of Day's life to unfold through her writings. I own many books about Day, but I return to this one again and again to be inspired and held accountable.
Julie Hanlon Rubio is associate professor of Christian ethics at Saint Louis University.
Mountain Climber
Ask me to recommend a book and I will instinctively reach back for a classic before pointing to something new. In that spirit, I believe every college-bound reader could do no better than spend a couple of days poring over Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, a bestseller in the years after WWII, when it was published. When he gave up the world to become a Trappist monk, Merton became rich; and he writes about it fervently in ways I don't think any writer could do today.
Jon M. Sweeney is author of The Pope Who Quit.
Patient Traveler
I recommend Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe not for the adventure but for its silence and solitude. Crusoe is alone. He spends nine years hollowing out a tree trunk to make a canoe—nine years! In our age of distraction, his days and years are a revelation.
Eileen Markey is a freelance writer in The Bronx, N.Y..


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Hours of operation, mission, and vision. How to make public information requests. Community outreach.
Human Resources home page
Lists open positions with the court, benefits, about working with us, and downloadable application forms.
The Grand Jury section lists current and past reports for the group that investigates county matters of civil concern.
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I'm confused, how is immortal business ever finished?
When the Immortal empire and their loyal allies inevitably conquer the brik-verse.


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First comes the notification that your personal data have been compromised in a data breach. And as sunset follows sunrise, increasingly that notification is followed by actual dollar losses in fraud on personal accounts, said Javelin Strategy and Research in its recently released 2013 DATA BREACH FRAUD IMPACT REPORT: Mitigating a Rapidly Emerging Driver of Fraud.
Wrote Javelin: "A single massive data breach can result in billions of dollars in consumer fraud losses. Data breach victimization has been increasingly correlated with fraud incidence over the past three years, with a walloping 23% of data breach victims in 2012 becoming fraud victims."
Worse news: data breaches are multiplying as cyber crooks recognize that credit and debit card numbers are as good as cash and, increasingly, they are easily stolen from poorly protected data caches.
In an interview, Javelin risk expert Al Pascual said that, generally, financial institutions are doing a good job protecting account numbers and the rest of the information coveted by cyber crooks.
But other kinds of businesses – from online merchants to bricks and mortar retailers, hotels and restaurants – are not necessarily as thorough in safeguarding their account data and they are under attack by skilled hackers.
Usually, said Pascual, the company whose data cache is hacked may suffer reputational losses but the hard dollar losses are suffered by individual consumers and also by financial institutions that, in many cases, absorb their customers' losses.
Advised Pascual: "You have to make it more difficult for the fraudster. We are not saying you can stop every breach. But big breaches often are the result of simple mistakes."
Mistakes – careless handling of data – are commonplace, observed Pascual. He noted that 80% of the 25 largest banks "still allow use of Social Security numbers for authentication," a practice he advised be discontinued.
"The Social Security number is the key to the kingdom for criminals. It can lead to account takeover and identity theft," Pascual said.
Javelin recommended that enterprises take simple steps to better protect account data. Included in the recommendations are: Conduct regular security audits; don't store data unnecessarily: encrypt data; and assess risk annually.
"The fixes for the data breach problem are fairly obvious," Pascual said.


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To Kentarou Miura,I am a longtime fan and devoted reader. I operate Skullknight.net, a website for fans of Berserk. We have grown into an international community of about 6,000 members that has been faithfully following your work since about 1999. Over time, we have accumulated several questions about the series and your views on the Berserk world. Several of our members voted on which questions would be addressed to you in this format. We would all be deeply humbled if you could answer these unobtrusive questions, which we feel would give us a deeper understanding of the series.1 ) To the readers, Guts as a character has grown tremendously in the past few years, but how much time has elapsed in the Berserk world since the end of the Golden Age arc in Volume 14? (i.e. Lost Children - Millennium Falcon)2 ) Regarding the kanji "Taka," do you intend that to be Falcon or Hawk? Was there ever a conscious change in its usage, such as after Griffith's reincarnation, or has it always been "falcon" to you?3 ) Just before the launch of the Millennium Falcon arc, you were quoted as saying now you felt you were truly on the starting line of the series. Is that accurate? If that is the case, how far along are we in the story at this point?4 ) It's been years since the last art book release. There may now be enough content for 2-3 additional books. Do you plan to release any more based on your sketches and paintings?5 ) What portion of the story was the most difficult in terms of making hard decisions about where to take the direction of the series? Any regrets?6 ) You've talked of post-Berserk projects in the past. Do you still expect to do it, or will you be enjoying retirement after having spent so long working on Berserk?7 ) Do you feel a sense of achievement at what you've accomplished over all those years? Was it worth the sacrifices to your life and health it has required?8 ) Could you describe an average day in your studio? How many hours each day do you work?9 ) Can we have some more details on why Episode 83 was left out of the collected volume? Do you consider the events in the episode to be canon? Can we expect to see or hear from the Idea of Evil again before the end of the series?10 ) Rumors of a second season, or new animation of Berserk have been persistent since the first animation's conclusion. These have all been proven false, in time. But to be perfectly sure, are there plans for a continuation of the animation?- Frank ("Walter") Smith & the Skullknight.net community.
A note: Something should be added after the questions... something encouraging and friendly, maybe less formal. Something... witty.
We (someone on SK.net) compose an excellent list of questions. Formal, respectful, mature, insightful. Then we send it! But to where? A physical letter or email? YA? Miura's Studio?
get a little Sk.net seal made up, stamp it that piece.
I just think they receive these types of questions/requests often and we might be overlooked.
Keep in mind most of the letter will have to be rephrased not to sound supremely rude in Japanese anyway (it's pretty much inevitable), so you can forget about being witty.
This is actually a very exciting prospect. I'm actually stoked at the very notion Miura will learn (if he hasn't already) about SkullKnight.net (AKA my homepage on EVERYTHING!!!!!)
Miura spending his time to join this community, or spending his time to write more Berserk. A tough choice indeed.
I'm going to reword the letter so it's easier for translation and less rude to Miura. Things are moving forward.I'll repost the new draft of it in my next post for you guys' review.
I can hardly wait. I think you know exactly what's going to be coming when you post it though.
Berserk isn't really "dark fantasy" either. It's plain fantasy
Miura has been very protective of Berserk
I think question number 5 is definitely the most pertinent of the bunch. I would love if he'd answer it. On the other hand, question 10 is probably the only one that feels too forced.
Maybe he has a thing for western girls!
What's not pertinent about question 3?


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Starting today, photos uploaded to SkyDrive that feature text will be able to have an optical character recognition (OCR) tool scan them. This OCR tech is powered by Bing and should be super useful for those times you take a photo of some text in order to remember it later. The feature is rolling out to users right now, but didn't load for me. The text will show in the properties section of images when viewing images on SkyDrive a web browser.
At launch, the feature will support English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German. It doesn't matter what country you're in, so long as your browser is set to one of those languages we just listed. It should also work with most common picture formats.
Don't forget on Windows Phone you can hit the Bing search button the front of your device for some similar functionality. Hit search, click the eyeball icon on the bottom right, and you can scan barcodes, books, CDs, and more. You can also "scan text", from there you can copy and paste it, search, or translate right there.
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In Figure 1, the 12V is the Source pin of the P-channel MOSFET.If the Gate is low, the P-channel MOSFET is switched on.If the Drain is 12V, the Load is powered. But the Gate is still low and the Source is still 12V, keeping it switched on. To slowly switch the load on, the Gate voltage has to be lowered slowly from 12V to a lower voltage.Does that answer your question ?
For example with a resistor from Gate to Source to keep the Gate at 12V. If the Load is switched on slowly, the Gate should be slowly lowered from 12V to a lower voltage. Perhaps with a NPN-transistor with its collector to the Gate.
Sorry, I was thinking about schematics like this: http://circuit-zone.com/index.php?electronic_project=438
Using N-channel on high side would be possible if a voltage for the gate is available that is higher than the source or the drain. Like I wrote, that is almost never the case.


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The Steinheimer gate tower at the northern edge of Old Town in "Seligenstadt" was built in the years 1604 to 1605. Originally there were four city gates. Three were demolished. The roads have been modernized. These sins were held in the 19th century. Supposedly the towers were too dilapidated for another solution.
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) celebrates his game winning touchdown pass to Randall Cobb over the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL on December 29, 2013. The Packers beat the Bears 33-28. (Todd Rosenberg/NFL)After missing seven games with a collarbone injury, during which the Pack went 2-4-1, Aaron Rodgers is back under center. And he was magnificent. Couple early interceptions, but he shook them off and finished strong with a come-from-behind touchdown drive in the final minutes.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) drops back to pass against the Chicago Bears during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)The Packers' defense continues to worry, but the offense is finally back on track. And what a game! Soldier Field in late December, Packers/Bears for the divisional title, loser starts the off-season. The Packers began their run of knockout games last night, and were definitely up to the challenge.
Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy (27) gets spun around as he works for red zone yardage in the first half of the Packers' 33-28 victory over the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL on December 29, 2013. (Todd Rosenberg/NFL)Love Coach McCarthy's Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man jacket. Just the thing for a cold Chicago evening.
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When the Iraqi who could be considered more responsible than any other for the US invasion six years ago quietly returned last March to the land his lies helped shape, Iraq was entering one of its most stable and promising phases in six years of turmoil
Rafid Ahmed Alwan – otherwise known as Curveball – slipped back into Baghdad after 10 years of exile in Germany.
Before the invasion, Curveball had become the CIA's most valuable source on Iraq's fictitious chemical and biological weapons programme, a man who underscored the White House's push for war through a litany of lies that later claimed the careers of the former secretary of state Colin Powell, and CIA chief George Tenet.
Both were forced to admit they had gone to war partly on the word of a collaborator whom no American agency had even debriefed until one year after Baghdad fell.
Curveball was a trained chemical engineer, who had been taken straight from university to work in a division of Saddam Hussein's intelligence services, known as division four, which dealt with the former dictator's pet projects. That much was true. But he also harboured illusions of grandeur; a life in a new land with riches, unveiled women and a new Mercedes.
The Baghdad he returned to in March must have seemed almost unrecognisable. Curveball stayed with a nephew in Baghdad's north-east who he told he was planning to return for good from Germany, which has continued to offer him sanctuary.
The plump 42-year-old saw none of his old friends or colleagues during his visit; nor did he bother the alumni of Baghdad University of Technology – a campus still reeling from the conduct of its former student.
"Are you here to talk about uncle coming back again?" his nephew asked expectantly last week, believing the Guardian was facilitating Curveball's travel. "He hasn't been gone long and we are expecting him soon."
Had he gone near his old workplace, the Saad State Company for Housing and Construction, Curveball would have found his former colleague Dr Abdul Salam Jeber at his desk. He agreed to talk for the first time about his three months in CIA custody, which he now knows were caused by Curveball, a man he barely knew, but never trusted.
Two months after Baghdad fell, Jeber was approached by his boss who told him a group of Americans wanted to meet him. At the time, the American military was scanning Iraq intensively, looking for proof of a chemical and biological weapons programme. They were building their case on the word of Iraqi collaborators who had filled in the dots when United Nations weapons inspectors could not.
There were about six high value informants, used by the US and Britain, none more so than Curveball.
As the ultimately fruitless search intensified, Curveball remained under the protection of his German handlers, who drip-fed reports to the CIA throughout the lead-up to the invasion and the increasingly desperate months that followed.
Their man was sticking to his story. He had provided highly detailed and technically specific information about several facilities around Iraq that apparently masqueraded as agricultural plants. Jeber worked at one of them, the al-Hakem plant, south-west of Baghdad.
"They were expecting to find information about fermentation projects for bacterial weapons. I was the chief of the fermentation section of the company at the time," he said. "I know exactly what all the facilities were used for and there was no dual purpose for any of them.
"The Americans interrogating me didn't understand that if a project like that was to be started, a minimum of 200 people would know about it; there would be technical reports, chemical process designs, mechanical design, installation, then operation. Any one of the 800 employees in Saad Company may well have known about it."
Jeber was moved around Iraq from American-run prisons at Baghdad airport, to Camp Bucca near the Kuwaiti border, desert tents nearby, Abu Ghraib, and a small room in one of Saddam Hussein's over-run palaces. He estimates he was interrogated at least 50 times – always the same questions.
He was blindfolded and sleep-deprived for days then enticed with fruits and family visits. It was a classic counter-espionage routine designed to break defences that didn't exist.
"They said I had signed an agreement not to disclose information to foreigners, which is totally true. We all had to do that," he said.
"I now know that the 15 July date they kept talking about was a date in which Rafid had told them about an important moment in the so-called dual purpose facility. They also asked me about the three tucks that he talked about."
Jeber was given $1,000 and released in September 2003. Within eight months Tenet and Powell had resigned. He is, however, satisfied at a serendipitous achievement that he lays at Curveball's feet. "It was very important to get rid of Saddam," he said. "I never expected he would be removed from Iraq.
Should Curveball return, he faces a highly uncertain future in Iraq. Ba'athist militias still see him as an enemy. His friends seem to have largely disowned him and his family has scattered to the four winds. The wife he abandoned when he fled to Germany will have nothing to do with him. Tracked down at her home in Baghdad, she sighed and, holding her three-year-old son said: "My life with him was lie after lie after lie."


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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
The Wall Street Journal Reports: Fred Fillmore Wants to Make YOU Rich!
Is it my imagination, or does the new, thinner, Wall Street Journal look less like the Wall Street Journal and more like Parade Magazine?
Sure, there's some great content in today's new, thinner paper—first and foremost a behind-the-scenes look at how Abbott jacked up the price of an AIDS drug by 400% for no other reason than to get people infected with AIDS to switch to a new Abbott AIDS drug, and also to hurt Bristol-Myers.
Not for science, not for their customers, not for people's lives, but because it helped their P&L.
Plus there's a timeless quote from Henry Kravis about the perils of doing private equity deals simply for the sake of doing private equity deals in an era of almost-endless private equity deal-making:
"Any fool can buy a company," says Mr. Kravis. "You should be congratulated when you sell."
But for some reason my eyes have a hard time focusing on the real stuff, like Abbott's shenanigans and the wisdom of Kravis, because everything is so scrunched together—like Parade Magazine, which people only notice because it comes in the thick stack of color inserts that makes your Sunday newspaper heavier than a car.
Even the legit stories in today's B Section have that cheap, desperate appearance of one of those "Fred Fillmore Made a Fortune in Mortgage Backed Securities…and Now He Wants to Make YOU Rich!" fake testimonials in Parade.
So now I have even less reason to read the physical copy and more reason to do what I've been doing for the last year or two. Which is to say, read the online version.
Progress marches on.
Jeff Matthews
I Am Not Making This Up
© 2007 Jeff Matthews
The content contained in this blog represents the opinions of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Matthews also acts as an advisor and clients advised by Mr. Matthews may hold either long or short positions in securities of various companies discussed in the blog based upon Mr. Matthews' recommendations. This commentary in no way constitutes a solicitation of business or investment advice. It is intended solely for the entertainment of the reader, and the author.
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- dkman said...
As another longtime reader of the WSJ I too was surprised at the magnitude of change in the print edition.
Change like this is very hard to pull off without making quite a bit of your readership angry as it is equally hard for all of us to adjust to the new format.
However, I do think the change was for the best and I applaud their effort to focus more on analysis and perspective rather than reporting news and data. I was also impressed how they had a whole section yesterday explaining the why-what-how of the whole process.
It's almost impossible to have a profitable and successful newspaper business nowadays and I think the WSJ guys are doing a great job not becoming the next Encyclopedia Britannica.
- SiamTwin said...
looks more like Investors Business Dialy to me. progress indeed...
- Lee_D said...
Honestly, who has time to read a hardcopy newspaper? Aside from the fact that old print media is only accepting the reality of a digital world in a half-assed manner, the time factor alone makes the print option less attractive.
My info matrix is an agglomeration of blogs, news sites, and the dozen or so industry newsletters I get in my email every week. All of these sources get quickly skimmed to find items of greater interest, often while I have three or more other activities rolling on my desktop. The actual act of reading a newspaper or magazine is much more time consuming, and not an option for me most of the time.
So, in summary, they can make it free, but I'm still not going to read it.
- gvtucker said...
I hate the new WSJ with a passion. Every single person I've spoken with does not like it at all.
It isn't a coincidence that I spend a good deal more time reading Financial Times this year. I don't know if the content of the WSJ has changed or the format just makes it seem like the content has changed, but the feel is wrong.
- hundredyearstorm said...
My first thought was that it's a cross b/w USA Today and you're local community newspaper. It's got the useless pie charts / bar graphs that USA Today has pioneered for people who like to look at their paper, not read it plus the crappy font, thin paper and reduced size of your local community paper. The best (worst) of both worlds.
- Brian said...
My gripes about the new format:
1. smaller size of paper looks really funny, compared to other newspapers, eg) Chicago Tribune, that have transitioned to another smaller size. They made the WSJ more narrow from left to right, but kept the same length.
2. the new design sacrifices too much white space, making the layout hard to navigate. The previous design did a far better job physically separating columns on the page.
- Old Crow said...
The WSJ print version was convenient when I was commuting on the train - I kept getting it when I began consulting for no good reason other than habit. I won't renew it again though. I'm down to one print version magazine - the Economist is the sole survivor.


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(Reuters) - The connections of Kentucky Derby winner Orb have already set their sights on trying to complete the Triple Crown after their colt pulled up well from his victory in the first leg.
Shug McGaughey, the Kentucky-based trainer of Orb, wasted no time declaring his intentions to run the three-year-old in the remaining two legs.
Speaking to reporters outside the winner's barn at Churchill Downs on Sunday morning, McGaughey said he was already thinking about the next two races, the Preakness Stakes on May 18 and the Belmont Stakes on June 8.
"I'm looking forward to getting the process going again and seeing what happens and go from there," McGaughey said.
"I said last week that I wished it had happened to me earlier so I didn't have to worry about it anymore, but I'm not sure I believe that now.
"Yesterday was quite a day and today's been quite a day so far. It's been quite, quite a thrill."
McGaughey said Orb was being flown to New York on Sunday and would remain there before being moved to Baltimore next week to finish off his preparations for the Preakness.
It has been 35 years since a horse last completed the Triple Crown. That was Affirmed in 1978 and the wait for another horse to win the three races has been agonizing.
Last year, I'll Have Another won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness to renew hopes, but was scratched on the eve of the Belmont and never raced again.
What makes the Triple Crown so difficult to win is the makeup and timing of the three races.
They are each held in different states, over different distances, during a span of five weeks. And the winner invariably faces different opposition each time.
It is not uncommon for the horses which finish close behind the winner in the Preakness (1 3/16 mile) to save themselves for the 1 1/2 mile Belmont, the longest and most grueling of the three races. The Kentucky Derby is 1 1/4 miles.
The field for the Preakness will not be decided until just a few days before the race but only a handful of the 19 horses who contested the Derby are expected to back up.
Trainer Dallas Stewart, who prepared the Derby runner-up Golden Soul, said his horse was unlikely to race in the Preakness.
"At this point, I think we will pass on the Preakness and look at the Belmont," Stewart said. "That would give us five weeks and hopefully we can get one of the three (races in the Triple Crown series)."
Revolutionary, which finished third for trainer Todd Pletcher, was also skipping the Preakness to save himself for the Preakness, as was his stablemate Overanalyze.
Normandy Invasion, which led the field turning for home and finished fourth, will not race in the Preakness either and was being aimed at the $1 million Travers at Saratoga.
Mylute, which finished fifth under jockey Rosie Napravnik, was a strong possibility to take on Orb in the Preakness as long as the horse was not fatigued.
"We need a couple more days to think about it," said Todd Quast, the general manager of the farm which owns Mylute.
"When he came out of the Louisiana Derby he was so high that we worked him back eight days later. If he comes back with that kind of energy we have to seriously look at it."
Doug O'Neill, who won last year's Preakness with I'll Have Another, said he would saddle up Goldencents in the Preakness even though the colt was well beaten in the Kentucky Derby.
Goldencents, which won the Santa Anita Derby, was among the favorites to win the Run For the Roses, but struggled in the wet and muddy conditions and finished 17th.
"We're a go for the Preakness," O'Neill declared.
Reporting by Julian Linden in New York, Editing by Gene Cherry


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Baking my first sourdough with a weak starter!!!
I just started a sourdough starter last week. At first it smelled like rotten cheese, then went to vinegar, and now it smells like fruity wine. I just kept on feeding it twice a day. I made the most basic sourdough starter using just whole wheat and water. I didn't want to buy pineapple juice and decided that flour and water was a good way to first try it out. Now my starter gets bubbles, but nowhere near doubles in size like I read about. I use equal amounts of water and flour to feed it. It seems to rise some, but then falls. so I know that it has a little rising power. I would like to bake a basic white loaf just to try it out for flavor. Should I use some instant yeast along with the starter the first time, or just make the bread with the starter and just expect a longer than usual rise. It smells so good, that I don't want to wait and risk it changing into something else. i like the way it smells now. I am scared it will change again. Also, if anyone has a recipe for a basic bread using the equal amounts of flour and water starter, I would love to try it! Thanks!