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I've Become an Enemy of the People for Speaking the Truth About Islam
When it comes to the right to speak one's mind about Islam, the record of the last few years makes it clear which direction the West is moving in. In France and Italy, Oriana Fallaci is put on trial for disparaging Islam. In Canada, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are hauled before "human rights commission" tribunals for criticizing Islam in print. In Australia, an Islamic organization sues two pastors for "vilification of Muslims." In Britain, a Daily Telegraph columnist is arrested on charges of hate speech for having written negatively about Islam, and the Archbishop of Canterbury proposes that Parliament pass stronger laws against such speech acts. And in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, the head of the Freedom Party, which performed so well in the June 9 general elections that Wilders may end up in the governing coalition, still faces trial for having made a film about the Koranic foundations of terrorism.
Then there's Norway, where I live, and where the last few days have seen yet another dark development. By way of background, permit me to begin by quoting myself. On pages 230-31 of my book Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom I sum up the more alarming aspects of Norway's Discrimination Law, passed in 2005:
It forbids "harassment on the grounds of ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, skin color, language, religion, or beliefs," and, in turn, defines harassment as "actions, omissions, or utterances [my emphasis] that have the effect or are intended to have the effect of being insulting, intimidating, hostile, degrading, or humiliating."
In other words, it's illegal just to say certain things.
Defendants may be accused not only by the individuals whom they've supposedly offended but also by semiofficial organs such as the Anti-Racist Center and the Center against Ethnic Discrimination (both of which helped formulate the law, and both of which exist less to oppose real racism and discrimination than to oppose political incorrectness generally) or by the government's Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud.
Which means that a handful of far-left organizations have been given enormous power to silence those they disagree with.
Violations of the law by individuals are punishable by fine; violations by individuals in concert with at least two other persons (such as a writer conspiring with an editor and publisher, perhaps?) can be punished by up to three years' imprisonment -- this in a country where murderers often get off with less. Moreover, the burden of proof is on the accused: you're guilty until proven innocent.
And this in a supposedly free country.
Which brings us to the most recent developments. Over the years, I've had a close association with Human Rights Service (HRS), a small Oslo-based foundation that formulates and proposes government policies designed to combat the subjection and abuse of females in Muslim communities. I've translated materials for HRS and written pieces in Norwegian for the HRS website. Last fall, after suggesting that HRS expand its site to include articles in English by contributors from around Europe and elsewhere -- so that writers from different countries could compare notes, as it were, about their experiences with Islam, immigration, and integration -- I began working regularly for HRS, writing, soliciting, and translating pieces for their new international web pages.
Meanwhile HRS was going through a rough patch. Ever since its establishment in 2001, it has been despised by many people on the Norwegian left -- the same folks who hate Israel and who feel warmly about Hamas. The two women who run HRS, Hege Storhaug and Rita Karlsen, have labored tirelessly against monstrous practices like honor killing, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, and for doing so have won the lifelong gratitude of countless Muslim girls and women -- but as far as their PC enemies are concerned, to condemn any aspect of Islam is to be an Islamophobe, pure and simple. Last summer, a couple of newspapers, the far-left Dagbladet and the Communist Klassekampen, waged a brutal and breathtakingly mendacious smear campaign against HRS, the obvious intent of which was to bring it down once and for all.
Now, HRS receives its funding from the Orwellian-sounding Royal Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality, and Social Inclusion. Since last October, the ministry has been run by Audun Lysbakken, 32, a member of the Socialist Left Party (the furthest left of the three left-wing parties in the current governing coalition) and a former journalist at -- where else? -- Klassekampen. Lysbakken's contempt for HRS is palpable -- and that contempt is shared by a number of far-left organizations (including the above-mentioned Anti-Racist Center) which also receive funds from his ministry, and which plainly want to see HRS defunded and driven into bankruptcy. On June 10, the Anti-Racist Center (or, as it styles itself in English, the Norwegian Centre against Racism) issued something called the "NGO Shadow Report 2010." Produced in collaboration with nine other groups -- Amnesty International Norway; The MiRA Resource Center for Black, Immigrant and Refugee Women; The Norwegian Helsinki Committee; The Institution against Public Discrimination (OMOD), PMV (Primary Health Workshop); The Human Rights Committee of the Norwegian Bar Association; The Human Rights Committee of The Norwegian Psychological Association; The Union of Education in Norway; Norwegian People's Aid; and The Tenant's Association of Norway -- and written in English (although, it must be said, not very good English), this document was commissioned and funded by Lysbakken's ministry and purports to be a supplement to and commentary upon "Norway's combined 19th/20th Periodic Report Submitted by Norway under Article 9 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination." (Submitted, that is, to the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.) In short, this "shadow report" has official status.


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The number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year has been holding steady at about 50,000, according to a government report released Wednesday.
For many years, U.S. health officials put the annual number of new HIV infections at 40,000. But three years ago, they said their estimate had been too low. Using new methods and a better blood test, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised their estimate higher, to roughly 56,300 new infections in 2006.
The latest CDC report used the new methods to look at trends over four years, and found that there were about 50,000 new infections each year from 2006-2009.
Gay and bisexual men account for the majority of the new cases — nearly two-thirds in 2009. The only increase over the four years was in young gay and bisexual men, driven by a 48 percent increase among blacks ages 13 to 29.
The annual number of new infections peaked at 130,000 in the mid-1980s, said Dr. Kevin Fenton, the AIDS prevention chief for the CDC. He said the report presented a mixed picture. While new infections have plateaued, "stability is not acceptable" and the increase in young men is worrisome, he said.
The CDC report was published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. The figures were calculated from data from 16 states and two cities. Estimating new infections is complicated; it can take many years for an infection to cause symptoms and illness. The new blood test can tell how recent an infection occurred.
About 1.1 million Americans are living with the AIDS virus in the U.S. now. So the fact that the number of infections is stable is a "bit of good news," Fenton said.
"In a sense, we are holding HIV incidence at bay," he said.
New HIV Infections in US Hold Steady at 50,000
The number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year has been holding steady at about 50,000, according to a government report released Wednesday.


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The San Antonio Brass begins their 2012-2013 season this Sunday at 2 p.m. with a program called "From Russia, with Love." David Hendricks, in the Express-News, has described the ensemble's playing having, "…laser beam clarity, searing high notes, warm low brass sounds and a fun filled spirit, the San Antonio Brass reaches the outermost realm of expression."
The members of the San Antonio Brass include:
John Carroll, trumpet and executive director
Kathleen Janert, trumpet
William Wiegard, horn and director of operations
Amanda Davidson, trombone
Mark Davidson, trombone
Lee Hipp, tuba and director of education
The San Antonio Brass web site describes the ensemble:
Comprised of some of the finest brass players in Texas, including the principal brass of the San Antonio Symphony, the San Antonio Brass has been South Texas's premier brass ensemble for over 25 years. Since its founding in 1982, the SAB has contributed to the cultural life of San Antonio, Bexar County and the state of Texas through its performances and educational programs. Past SAB projects have included world premieres of new compositions, an album of Christmas music, and collaborations with the Texas Music Educators Association, Children's Chorus of San Antonio, the Cactus Pear Music Festival, the Guadalupe Dance Company (video) and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. In recent years, the SAB has expanded its educational mission through the San Antonio Brass Camp at St. Mary's University and B.E.S.T. (Brass Ensemble Summer Training). These programs bring students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds together to explore music and develop as brass players. Additionally, the SAB (with a grant from the City of San Antonio) participates in the Neighborhood Arts Program, a project aimed at mentoring young artists and musicians from underserved segments of the community. This program, called "Brass in the Class", allows students an opportunity to work one-on-one with the city's top professional brass players.
San Antonio Brass 2012-2013 Season
From Russia with Love
Sunday, September 30, 2:00pm – Beacon Hill Presbyterian, San Antonio
Tuesday, October 2, 7:00pm – Abiding Presence Lutheran, San Antonio
Sunday, October 7, 5:00pm – St Mark Presbyterian, Boerne
Holiday in Brass!
Sunday, December 9, 2:00pm – Beacon Hill Presbyterian, San Antonio
Tuesday, December 11, 7:00pm – First United Methodist, New Braunfels
Sunday, December 16, 2:00pm – St Mark Presbyterian, Boerne
Tuesday, December 18, 7:00pm –Abiding Presence Lutheran, San Antonio
The Thrill of Victory & The Agony of Defeat
Sunday, February 24, 2:00pm – St Mark Presbyterian, Boerne
Tuesday, February 26, 7:00pm – First United Methodist, New Braunfels
Sunday, March 3, 2:00pm – Beacon Hill Presbyterian, San Antonio
Tuesday, March 5, 7:00pm – Abiding Presence Lutheran, San Antonio
The Sonic Arcade
Sunday, May 5, 4:00pm – St Mark Presbyterian, Boerne
Tuesday, May 7, 7:00pm – First United Methodist, New Braunfels
Sunday, May 12, 2:00pm – Beacon Hill Presbyterian, San Antonio
Tuesday, May 14, 7:00pm – Abiding Presence Lutheran, San Antonio
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Beacon Hill Presbyterian
1101 W. Woodlawn
San Antonio, Texas 78201
Abiding Presence Lutheran
14700 San Pedro Avenue
San Antonio, Texas 78232
St. Mark Presbyterian
208 West Bandera Road
Boerne, Texas 78006
First United Methodist of New Braunfels
572 West San Antonio Street
New Braunfels, Texas 78130
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The effects of a polarizing filter cannot be mimicked in digital post-processing.It is the most (potentially) useful filter in digital photography.Polarizers do have their issues: need to be used at 90 degrees to the incident light source, problems if used with wide-angle lenses, and 2-stop reduction in light - hence longer exposures required often needing a tripod or higher ISO or both.However, used wisely, polarizing filters achieve effects unobtainable in ANY other way.RegardsTony Jay
Great post guys. I usually get BW filters, very pricey though.for Canon 24-105, what do you recommend?
I'm thinking of buying a new polarizer for my Canon 24 - 105. It's not cheap, so I have to ask, is this still needed in the digital filter age? thanks.The purpose is to make the sky blue while shooting upwards at trees.


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Roots and Rambles" and specializes in the genealogy of houses in southeastern Massachusetts.
In her autobiography, "Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen", Lili'uokalani wrote about her 1897 trip to Boston. She was visiting members of her husband's family, my own relatives, and she was also preparing to visit President McKinley to discuss the annexation of Hawaii. She arrived on New Years Day, and was at the Parker House Hotel in downtown Boston for a few days. My great aunt, Mrs. Sara White Lee, was living at 1382 Beacon Street, which is at Coolidge Corner in Brookline. She found a nice boarding house nearby for the Queen and her attendants. Since the Queen was married to the son of another great aunt, Mary Lambert (Jones) Dominis, I was intrigued and wanted to find out more about her trip to Boston to visit the family.
The boarding house was called "Stirlingworth Cottage" and it was just around the corner from 1382 Beacon Street. I contacted the Brookline Historical Society and the Preservation Commission at the Brookline City Hall. They both told me the sad news that the building was no longer standing, but sent me the newsclipping above. The Historical Society also sent me a photograph of Temple Sinai, taken sometime in the early part of the 20th century (judging by the automobiles). I don't know when Stirlingworth Cottage, at 61 Sewall Avenue, was demolished or removed.
In the Queen's own words:
"At Stirlingworth Cottage I passed a most delightful month, although the frost often covered the window panes, the snow whirled around the house, and the icicles formed on the trees; the kindly greetings of my Boston friends and the warmth of their hearts deprived a Northern winter of all its gloom … during my sojourn in Brookline I attended All Saints' Church ... before leaving Boston, as it was my intention to do some time during the month of January, my cousin, Mr. N. G. Snelling, gave a family party at his house, to which my suite was invited, and I had the pleasure of meeting as many of the family as could be brought together. More than thirty relatives and a few of the most intimate friends of the kind host were present. .. To meet these relatives, and receive from the lips of each some cordial expression of welcome, was unusually grateful after my long, sad experiences; and it vividly recalled to me the previous family gathering [in Boston], when my dear husband greeted his family kin, and we, with Queen Kapiolani, were Boston's honored guests."
And so I asked Marian Pierre Lewis a few questions, and she suggested I use Google to find a few facts about the property on Sewall Avenue. I also used Ancestry.com and the databases at the New England Historic Genealogical Society to find a few facts about Stirlingworth Cottage.
I found Harriet A. Bullard in the 1850 Federal Census of Wayland, Massachusetts as the 11 year old daughter of Joseph Bullard and his wife Harriet. That would make her birth year about 1839. Her father is listed as a farmer, with seven children ages 1 to 16 years old. She is living there in the 1860 census. I couldn't find her in the 1870 census, and in the 1880 census she is listed as the sister-in-law of George Arnold of Boston, age 40, school teacher. This household consists of Dr. Arnold, physician, his wife, Anna, five children ages 1 to 17, three servants and Harriet.
In 1895 Harriet A. Bullard is listed in the Blue Book, page 206, at 61 & 63 West Newton Street in Boston. In Clark's Boston Blue Book of 1907, page 513, Miss H. A. Bullard is listed at 61 Sewall Avenue, and she is at this Sewall Avenue address in the 1900, 1910 and 1920 censuses as the proprietor of a boarding house. Many of the boarders were young ladies listed as nurses. . Unbelievably, she is in the 1930 census, age 90, still as the proprietor of a boarding house with three lodgers and two servants!
Other Google searches and Google Book searches turned up a plethora of results for Sewall Avenue, and many of its residents are listed in social registers, college yearbooks and alumni books, and club books such as the Appalachian Mountain Club, medical associations and fraternities.
It seems that this neighborhood has a long history of lodging houses. 92 Sewall Avenue is now the Bertram Inn bed and breakfast, built in 1907 by a wealthy tobacco merchant as his home. The same proprietors also run the Samuel Sewall Inn, around the corner, built in 1886 as a private residence. At 70 Sewall Avenue is the Family Inn, run by Children's Hospital for families supporting long term patients since 1988. The building at 109-115 Sewall Avenue is now an upscale condominium.
The site of the boarding house is now roughly about where the Temple Sinai synagogue sits across the road at 50 Sewall Avenue in Brookline. It was built in 1916 originally as the Second Unitarian Society of Brookline, and in 1944 the Temple Sinai congregation bought the building, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places. For the past sixty years, Temple Sinai had only three rabbis, and added the fourth in 2004.
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Mike Lombardi of National Football Post is keeping up his claims on the Jets and their salary cap status.
The 'Skins, Colts, Jets, Saints and Raiders will be doing a lot of restructuring of contracts and waiving players in the coming days. All those teams are in cap jail, and it will take some creative thinking to get them out. In the case of the Jets and Raiders, they were the two biggest spending teams in UFA last year. And they both had top-10 draft picks. In this system, it's very hard to have a top-10 pick and be aggressive in the UFA market. When you do that in one year, the next year you have to take off as the salary cap numbers become bigger.
Restructuring? Yes, but only if the Jets want to be serious players in FA. Cap jail? I'm not so sure.
I'm hearing that the Jets aren't exactly looking to make a big splash and move around a lot of contracts to do so come free agency this year, but at the same time, the term "cap jail" seems erroneous, there's room and they'll likely make more. The team is already under if even barely. The Star-Ledger's David Hutchinson has reported that the team is almost $17 million under the cap, meanwhile Rich Cimini says it's $10 million and ESPN's John Clayton says it's $7.5 million. Jason at NYJetsCap.com says it's close to the projected cap right now, but still under.
I emailed Mike Lombardi today, asking him the following:
I was hoping you could expand upon your assumption that the Jets are in "cap jail."
I've seen it mentioned on the AFC East Blog on ESPN.com that they were $34 million over in your interview on The Herd. Please note that my plan is to publish a reply on my blog about the Jets:
A few things I am trying to understand from your points:
1) According to Tim Graham, you have asserted that the $34 million is what the team is over ... is that correct?
2) My understanding is that the $34 million comes from guaranteed roster bonus money to players like Rhodes, Pace, etc. ... is that what you meant? If not, where did you get the $34 million over the cap figure? Please be specific.
3) By my and many around the team's best piecing together the data, the Jets are currently under the cap (but not by much) for 2009 with the cutting of David Barrett and the retirement of Brett Favre. More moves would need to be made if they want to be free agent players, but the assumption is that the team is already under the cap ... do you disagree?
Brian Bassett
Mike was kind enough to reply with this:
they are 34 million over, before they got back Favre's money. they have a lot of incentives that will have to carry forward and they might not be working with a 123 million cap. they will have cost that they occured this year that will be deducted from their cap. I am not makingn this up. they spend like crazy last year and they had a top ten pick. hard to spend money each year...


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Pelagic gillnets or 'set nets' are fine-filament nets that are kept at or below the surface by numerous floats and weights and held in position by anchors. If a fish's head goes through the net but its body can't follow, it is 'gilled' or entangled in the netting when it tries to get out. Gillnets are used either alone or in large numbers placed in a row. Drifting gillnets or driftnets float freely with the current or with the boat to which they are attached, usually across the path of migrating fish schools.
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Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI, has shipped and commissioned a completely integrated blanking line to the automotive-stamping plant of Toyotomi America in Springfield, KY. The line features a 400-ton Aida press with a heavy-duty servo-roll feed, a threading table designed for a 12-ft.-long loop pit, a precision straightener with a 40-hp drive and peeler-threader holddown station for hands-free threading. Also included is a coil reel and coil car. The line can process material to 90-ksi yield strength, to 0.1 in. thick by 48 in. wide, at speeds to 150 ft./min.
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In this aerial photo, people walk amid the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, on Oct. 31 in Seaside Heights, N.J.
The federal government is facing significant financial risks related to extreme weather events, and states and cities can no longer depend on it for extra help after such events occur, the Republican chairman of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Friday.
The warning from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., came at a press conference about the release of a new report by the Government Accountability Office, which identified "climate change" on its 2013 list of items presenting high risk to the federal government.
The report said the federal government faces financial challenges from climate change, including the costs of weather-related damage to property it owns, losses through flood insurance and crop support programs, and costs of emergency aid in disasters.
"These events are primarily the responsibilities of the cities and states," Issa said at the news conference. "And I will point out that we can no longer assume that the federal government will come in with an emergency supplemental [funding] every time there is an [extreme weather] occurrence. We have a responsibility to be proactive: Proactive in asking the states and the cities to be prepared to meet more of these requirements. Proactive in making sure that we withhold the funds, either through insurance funds or through actual appropriations, that are appropriate for the real anticipated events."
The GAO noted that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the hook for more than $80 billion in aid for disasters declared during the 2004-2011 fiscal years -- and the White House asked for more than $60 billion in aid to help the East Coast recover from Hurricane Sandy.
Read the GAO report in PDF form
And yet, the report says, the government has not been coordinating a response to climate change among its agencies --- partly a problem of the complexity of the issue. The report advises that a strategic plan be developed, directed at common goals for all federal agencies.
The report is a biennial assessment of government operations it deems at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement or as otherwise "needing broad-based transformation." Some of its other recommendations:
- Develop a better understanding of how a changing climate will affect the large federal flood and crop insurance programs. For instance, the report said, sea-level rise and long-term erosion should be considered when flood maps are updated.
- Develop a federal approach to providing climate data to state and local governments so they can make better decisions.
- Develop better criteria for FEMA to assess a jurisdiction's ability to recover on its own after a disaster.
In a related issue, the report also says looming gaps in coverage by polar-orbiting weather satellites could affect forecasts and "warnings of extreme events."
The satellites provide a global perspective each morning and afternoon. The report said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has acknowledged there could be a gap of 17 to 53 months between the time the current afternoon satellite fails and the time a new one can be launched to replace it.
The report also noted that the risk of a gap exists in coverage by the satellite in the morning orbit -- if the Department of Defense's next satellites don't work as intended.
The report said NOAA officials believe these gaps "would result in less accurate and timely weather forecasts and warnings of extreme events, such as hurricanes, storm surges and floods."
After the report's release, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a news conference at which both Democrats and Republicans acknowledged the government's significant fiscal exposure as a result of weather related disasters.
Issa called it a "nonpartisan" issue, while ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., labeled the GAO report "a wake-up call" for Congress to start paying attention to impacts of climate change.
In total, the GAO report listed 30 federal programs and operations on its high-risk list. Climate change risk and the weather satellite gap were both new additions. Management of interagency contracting and IRS business systems modernization both were removed from the list because the GAO decided that sufficient progress had been made to address past vulnerabilities.
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A Tale of Two Suites: Do We Still Need OpenOffice.org?
May 17, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter?
That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today.
Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice as well?
In the wake of Apache OpenOffice's new update, that's been the question du jour down at the Linux blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Cafe.
'OpenOffice Is Long Obsolete'
"LibreOffice has demonstrated that it's the right way to do IT/office suites," offered blogger Robert Pogson.
"There has been vigorous growth of contributors and a high rate of production, whereas it has taken Apache nearly a year just to change the license of OpenOffice.org," Pogson added.
"OpenOffice is long obsolete," agreed consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack. "Oracle waited far too long to free the software for it to be relevant any longer."
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In fact, "Apache OpenOffice is not only obsolete, it's annoying -- if not offensive," suggested Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza.
"Having a single primary fork of the OO.o codebase would benefit the community most at this time," Espinoza added, "because code can only go in one direction between the two projects due to license incompatibilities."
'A Dinosaur'
Indeed, "OpenOffice is a dinosaur," Google+ blogger Linux Rants concurred. "It's just another example of Oracle's modus operandi."
There's actually "a current version in the Google vs. Oracle case," Linux Rants pointed out. "With OpenOffice, the community rebelled, and Oracle was forced to concede.
"Unfortunately, they did so too late, and now OpenOffice is the appendix of office suites," he concluded. "Still there, but it wouldn't cause any major problems if it was just removed."
'Monoculture Is Unhealthy'
All of the energy today is in LibreOffice, Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien opined.
Still, "I think a little competition here can be healthy," he added. "If we've learned anything at all over the last 30 years of computing, it is that monoculture is unhealthy."
In fact, "I think it would be too early at this point to write off OpenOffice," said Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
'It Could Bring More Innovation'
"If LibreOffice and OpenOffice develop side by side with most being feature-identical, then I think two are not needed," Lim asserted. "On the other hand, if it develops the way Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Unity and other desktop UIs have developed, it could bring more innovation as developers differentiate and experiment.
"The same engine underneath with a new interface would not be a bad thing," Lim added.
For that matter, "I think LibreOffice might really need some competition to improve more," he suggested. "I have no complaints about the functionality of these two office suites, but with every new version I hope for a nicer, neater user interface."
'Let's See What Apache Does'
What would be refreshing is "a simple office suite interface like the old 1.x version of AbiWord (before it became the more complicated looking version it is today) or something like Google Docs' nice clean interface," Lim said. "Basically, hide more things in the drop down menu. Maybe revise the drop down menus to display more graphical cues and in general be friendlier to smaller screens."
A lite version would be nice as well, he added.
"LibreOffice and OpenOffice are no speed demons when it comes to launch times," Lim explained. "Removing rarely used features in exchange for a lighter, faster program would be great, I think.
"Maybe one could aim at being a lighter, consumer-oriented program and the other could target institutions and larger businesses," he suggested.
In any case, "let's see what Apache does with OpenOffice over the next few months before writing it off," Lim concluded. In the meantime, "I am sticking with LibreOffice. No problems running it on my Mac and Ubuntu PCs."
'They Are No Longer on Top'
Actually, "an open source program doesn't have to be directly competitive to be relevant," suggested Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project.
"It isn't clear yet whether OOo will be relevant, but I hope they will be," he added. "I think it is quite possible that they will develop relevance over time."
Meanwhile, "the key challenge for OOo to get over right now is the fact that they are no longer on top," Travers advised. "This gives them freedom. They can say, "hey look, if you want the standard stuff you can go look at LibreOffice, but here are some really cool things we are working on.'
"This is often what defines relevance in open source," Travers concluded.
'It's a Safer Bet'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet saw other reasons OpenOffice might remain part of the picture.
"I wouldn't count OO out just yet simply because of ONE reason... the license," hairyfeet explained.
"It's common knowledge that NOBODY in business will go near GPL after the V3 debacle," he noted. "Apache on the other hand is MUCH more business-friendly, and the Apache server is used all across the business landscape, so I can see businesses getting behind OO for that reason alone.
"I can also see the up-and-coming app stores being more likely to go for something with an Apache license than GPL or LGPL, simply because it's a safer bet," hairyfeet predicted.
"You'll have to do some extra work if you want to use OpenOffice," warned Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"I hopped over to distrowatch and started going through the distros, beginning with the most popular, to try to find one that doesn't use LibreOffice by default," she noted. "Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Mageia, Arch, CentOS, Puppy, PCLinuxOS, Lubuntu, Ultimate Edition, FreeBSD, Sabayon, Chakra, Pear, Slackware, Gentoo, Bodhi, Fuduntu, Zorin, Vector, Mandriva ... no OpenOffice. "Perhaps it should be renamed GoingOutOfBusinessOffice," Hudson suggested. "For bonus points, they could change the birds in the OpenOffice logo to a dead Norwegian Blue nailed to its perch: 'It's not dead -- it's just pining for the Sun (Microsystems).'"


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Yang's No Longer Playing Hard to Get but Is Microsoft Playing?
Nov 6, 2008 11:38 AM PT
In what's become the equivalent of watching a fish flop around outside of water, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has now come forward with a new plea for Microsoft to purchase his struggling company. Just hours after Google announced it was pulling out of its planned search advertising partnership with Yahoo, Yang spoke at a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco and displayed what's widely being interpreted as a new level of desperation.
"To this day, I have to say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo," Yang stated. "At the right price, whatever the price is, we are willing to sell the company."
Really? Again?
If you're thinking, "You've got to be kidding me," you aren't alone. A scan of headlines on the news finds phrases such as "Jilted Yang Begging," "Why Google Put Another Nail In Yahoo's Coffin," and "Yahoo: Poor, Alone, and Sad." Remember, Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo many moons ago -- but Yahoo failed to accept its offers. At this point, the backtracking strikes some as practically comical.
"I actually burst out laughing when I saw the headline this morning," David C. Logan, a lecturer at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, told the E-Commerce Times. "This happens a lot when a company doesn't know who it is, or what its key strategy is. It mistakes activity for strategy," he said.
One can view it, Logan believes, as an identity crisis. And until Yahoo figures out where it fits into the modern economy, it can't possibly succeed. In that context, Yang's actions make a lot more sense.
"He's trying to appease or convince the board that there's movement and direction, and capital is on its way in," Logan suggested. "So he says things like that that seem to come out of nowhere, and the truth is it kind of does come out of nowhere."
Rough Realities
Yang, who has defied calls to step down as CEO since the Microsoft talks first fell through, is now facing some rough realities. Now, he may have a tough time cleaning up the mess.
"He's sort of playing a bad hand that he dealt himself," Michael Goldman, managing director of TM Capital, told the E-Commerce Times.
Even if Microsoft were to take his remarks seriously and reinstate discussions, Yang has a serious problem: The ball is no longer even remotely in Yahoo's court, and everyone knows it.
"They had a moment where they had multiple alternatives -- both Microsoft at the table and also Google interested in this venture. That was a moment of maximum leverage, if you're looking at it from Yahoo's perspective," Goldman pointed out. "What's so critical in the deal business is to know when that moment is and to hit it, and they failed to do that."
Microsoft, then, should be in no hurry to move forward. Odds are the company will take its time to consider any proposal, Goldman explained, and will be able to emerge victorious.
"I think the thing that's certain is that if they do decide to do a deal, they will be able to achieve it at a dramatically lower price than they would have had to pay back when there was competition. That's a real reflection on how Yahoo has handled this," he commented.
Game Plan
Ultimately, there may be few "good answers," so to speak, left for Yahoo. More and more, it appears to be just trying to dig itself out of an increasingly deep hole.
"We're at the end-game, and it's hard to evaluate what a good end-game solution is," USC's Logan noted. "The goal is to not get into the kind of end-game that they've gotten into."
In an ironic twist, Yang's recent statements may only be digging the hole even deeper. In the months that have passed since the company's "revitalization" began, little measurable progress has been reported -- and, despite the proud public claims and marketing ploys that have periodically popped up, its ongoing identity crisis seems to be far from solved.
"When you make comments like that, essentially it says, 'We don't know who we are, we don't know where we're going, and so partnering up with somebody big would be easier than answering the questions that we seem to have no answer for,'" Logan said.
"We're just watching the slow decline of what was once a great company," he added. "It's really sad to see. And it's completely preventable."


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A chain-reaction crash over a North Texas lake involving as many as 15 vehicles left Interstate 30 over Lake Ray Hubbard closed most of Friday.
Texas Department of Transportation officials said multiple vehicles were involved in the crash on the I-30 bridge over the lake, prompting the closure of both directions of the highway at Dalrock Road.
The bridge was closed for about 17 hours until TxDOT officially reopened the bridge at about 8 p.m. on Friday.
The latest news from around North Texas.
At about 2:30 p.m., the westbound lanes remained closed to traffic while some drivers are being allowed to pass on the eastbound side. About 4:30 p.m., a third lane going eastbound was opened to traffic.
Police said trucks and other vehicles blinded by fog likely collided with a vehicle that hit the concrete median and eventually caused the pileup.
Police reports found by the Dallas Morning News indicated 23-year-old Christopher Anthony Sosa was charged with intoxication assault after he too was involved in the crash. Police told NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff that Sosa's vehicle was not the first involved in the crash.
At the scene before dawn Friday, NBC 5's Jeff Smith observed six semi trucks with front-end damage. Tony Hartzel, with TxDOT, said those trucks will require specialized wreckers to remove them from roadways. Some of those trucks carrying heavy loads may need to be unloaded before emergency crews can remove them.
Dallas Fire-Rescue's Jason Evans said the damage to vehicles was severe enough to require a Hazmat response to clean up vehicle fluids, including oil and fuel, from the roadway.
Officials said eight people were injured in the crash, most of whom suffered minor, non life-threatening injuries in the crashes. One person remains in intensive car Saturday at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas.
TxDOT officials said around 500 feet of concrete barrier in the median of the lanes was damaged in the crash and will need to be repaired. Dallas police said that while several lanes in each direction will reopen Friday afternoon, the lanes in each direction closest to the concrete median could remain shut down for several days due to repairs.
A time line for repairs has not been confirmed, though the center lanes may be closed for several days while the barrier walls are replaced.
While officials have not revealed the cause of the crash, dense fog in the area is believed to have played a role. Drivers across North Texas should use caution Friday, as The National Weather Service has extended a dense fog advisory for the Dallas area through 9 a.m. Friday.
NBC 5's Jeff Smith and Ben Russell contributed to this report.
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These are some of the hats being featured.
|PETA's on the way.
The next picture is a cute one that I put together several years ago when I found that I had loads of red and black accessories. Hats are mostly Fashion Royalty with a La Boutique, a Mattel and a Tonner.
Then there's always the tiniest hat.
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There's no way to compare Passover to the overwhelming pastel-ness of Easter and the supplies available. I love Peeps and I love the colors in the supermarket aisle prior to Easter. The foil wrapped eggs, crinkly grass, giant chocolate rabbits, baskets filled with Easter joy...hippity, hoppity...and all that. It's quite the distraction from the origin of the celebration.
For Passover one sees paper covered shelves in the markets, sliced fruit jellies, matzo meal or potato flour based pastries (blech) and mountains of matzoh boxes.
Here are three items being offered by Amazon.Com. This item comes up in 90% of the results of a Google search for Passover dolls. This is a doll?
|The Dancing MATZAHMAN
Jewish VooDoo dolls.
You can even get your plagues in a reusable mesh bag! Yay.
An essential Passover toy with which you can display Matzah Man is the Deluxe Soft Seder Set. It contains all your Passover needs. Visit friends. Travel. Have plush seders year round.
Contains: plush kiddush cup, 3 matzahs, ke'arah (passover plate), zro'ah (shank), beitzah (egg), karpas (vegetable), charoset (mixture of crushed fruit represented here as an apple), maror (bitter herb), and chazeret (another bitter herb represented here as lettuce) all in a handy plastic carrying case.
Don't make me call you chametz.


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SKF to demonstrate industry focussed solutions at Agritechnica
2013 November 05, 08:00 CET
SKF will showcase a series of innovative technologies that will improve reliability and performance in agriculture machinery and equipment applications at the Agritechnica 2013 Exhibition
Gothenburg, 5 November 2013: SKF will be demonstrating how solutions from its Off Highway segment helps to improve efficiency for agriculture machinery and equipment applications at Agritechnica 2013.
The SKF stand will show a range of offers that enhance the performance of farm machinery and equipment including: Specialist design and development expertise and innovative application solutions including hub units for Agriculture attachments, eletro-mechanical actuators, patented sealing solutions, Y-bearings & housings and novel oil and grease lubrications systems for agricultural applications.
Global expert engineering capability and knowledge of agriculture machine market is combined with key products that can deliver specialised solutions to the challenges faced by industry OEMs. SKF knowledge and engineering tools can help machine manufacturers expedite product design. Unitised solutions such as the SKF agri hub range help reduce assembly times and improve machine operations. These innovative solutions increase productivity and provide other benefits including lower total cost of operation achieved by increased reliability, reduced environmental impact and increased operator safety.
SKF will also launch a new campaign in support of our distribution partners at Agritechnica. Focussing on SKF's successful agricultural Y-bearings and hub units for independent tillage discs, SKF will present a range of materials specifically designed to support our specialist agricultural distributor community.
*The SKF stand will present three new products for the Agricultural segment at Agritechnica
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Agritechnica 2013, the The World's Leading International Exhibition for Agricultural Machinery and Equipment takes place from 12- 16 November at Hanover Messe, Germany, SKF will be in Hall 1 on Stand B227
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Schroders Quickview: Japan election result endorses Abenomics
Whilst a huge win for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the result of Japan's election for the Lower House of the Diet was in line with opinion polls and essentially a confirmation of the status quo. The only significant changes were gains on the far left and losses on the far right, though neither grouping is large enough to have any meaningful impact on policy.
In 2015 the focus will be on whether deflation is convincingly vanquished, and the trend in real incomes will be an important indicator here.
There had been some speculation that the LDP might win an even greater landslide, with two thirds of the vote. In the event they did not, but do retain a two thirds majority together with their much smaller coalition partner, the Komeito. All other things being equal, this should remain the case until the latter half of 2018.
Given how little the political landscape has changed, it's reasonable to ask what the point was of calling the election in the first place? Indeed, to judge by the record low turnout, many Japanese seem to be asking themselves that question. Ostensibly the election was called to get the public's verdict on the postponement of the next consumption tax increase but in practice this was never really a point of contention. In reality the election was an act of political pragmatism; the campaign centred on whether two years of Abenomics has been a success or not. For the Japanese who voted, representing a little over half the electorate, the answer was in the affirmative.
The LDP's election manifesto did not contain any eye-catchingly new policy initiatives. Accordingly, the short term focus of Abenomics is likely to be the implementation of previously discussed initiatives, such as an economic stimulus package, corporate tax cuts and trying to push ahead with nuclear restarts. Longer term, the extent to which Mr. Abe uses his renewed mandate to introduce economic reforms to raise the underlying rate of growth, will be an area of focus.
The fall in the market of around 3% during the two days immediately after the election, as well as the strengthening of the yen seems more to do with softer global markets than anything specific to the result. There may also have been an element of profit taking, following a period of positive Japanese macroeconomic news flows, which included additional monetary easing, a postponement of the consumption tax increase and lower oil prices.
In 2015 the focus will be on whether deflation is convincingly vanquished, and the trend in real incomes will be an important indicator here. Furthermore, there will be a great deal of interest in whether, at the micro level, moves toward better corporate governance and balance sheet efficiency are sustained.
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Conlon Nancarrow at the Southbank
Elizabeth Davis enjoys a highly unusual concert of mechanised music of a very human kind
The house lights come down, quiet falls in the audience, but no performer arrives. In the middle of the stage there is a piano which looks like its best days are long behind it. A red light comes up on the stage and the piano begins to play – the notes move up and down, the instrument shudders with the force of the music – but still there is no performer.
The piano is, in fact, a reproducing piano – an instrument which produces music based on the pattern of holes punched into a paper roll inserted into its centre. And the music emanating from it was written specifically for the instrument by American composer Conlon Nancarrow – whose work was celebrated last weekend in a series of concerts, installations and a conference at London's Southbank Centre.
Nancarrow was writing in the second half of the 20th century – and reproducing pianos were already going out of fashion. He decided to compose music for these instruments largely because he wanted to write music that was impossible to play. He wanted to experiment with impossible rhythms, layers of music, textures that were beyond the capability of a human pianist.
Listening to two short programmes of his Player Piano Studies in the Southbank's Purcell Room – presented by two experts on Nancarrow, Rex Lawson and Wolfgang Heisig – was a fascinating experience. The first concert was a showcase for his jazz-inspired works – as the piano sang out jaunty rhythms and frenetic bass patterns it seemed to be possessed with the spirit of a honky-tonk Harlem pianist – you could almost inhale the smoky atmosphere. The second concert looked at Nancarrow's experiments with canon which use mind-boggling tempo ratios ranging from the relatively straight-forward (3:5) to the downright ridiculous (1/√π / √2/3).
The music was exhausting to listen to – it demanded every iota of your attention but what was striking was the amount of human effort and passion that had gone into creating these short pieces performed on a machine. Wolfgang Heisig had punched out the music, working in measurements as small as an 18th of an inch, Nancarrow himself had spent hours, months, years creating his complex Studies, a piano tuner had spent hours hammering drawing pins into the reproducing piano's hammers to create Nancarrow's trade-mark metallic sound and Rex Lawson, who presented the concert, has devoted years to studying this music.
Despite the suction motor that powered the machine, despite the whirring cogs and valves – despite the apparent absence of humanity, it felt only right to applaud.
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Of course, I think my own mother is the world's best. She has unfailingly supported me in all my endeavors, offered gentle guidance when she thought that the choices I made (especially the romantic kind) were not the best, and was there to help me pick up the pieces when I didn't heed her advice. As I go deeper into this creative life I'm ever-so-slowly building, she's there, offering encouragement. I love and honor my mother deeply, as a mother and as a best friend.
My second mother is my mother-in-law. I want to be like her when I grow up. She is in her mid-80s and volunteers at least 40 hours each week with Olney Help, the hospital, her church. She went down south to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and for the last three years, she's gone to either Uruguay or Chile to help rebuild churches. She's not going this year, although I think she wants to. But on the last trip, the people in village didn't let her do the work that she wanted to do (hauling cement and brick, and painting). Instead, they assigned her gentler work, like watching after young children. Family is very important to her and every year she travels to Minnesota to visit her family there, and every year, she rents a house at the Outer Banks for her children and their families. She's the glue that holds us all together.
And my third mother? She is the mother of a dear friend of mine, my Persian sister. She is my Persian mother. I saw her twice about eight or nine years ago and there was a connection that I can't explain. After she returned to Iran, she would always ask about me when she talked to her daughter. And whenever Shirin and I talked, I would always ask about her. She was so devout in her faith that I knew that any prayers she made would be answered. I wanted to knit her a prayer shawl. But I didn't. And now it is too late. My Persian mother passed out of this world last week. I wish I could have seen her one more time before she left. I commend her soul to Allah.
And so ends the tale of the three mothers. I truly am blessed.


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Eagles' Super Bowl Win Results In Philly Baby Boom
NFL fans in Philly are calling it the Eagles baby boom. Nine months after the Philadelphia Eagles upset victory over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl local hospitals are reporting a surge in deliveries. Nurses in the City of Brotherly Love have taken to calling the new arrivals Super Bowl babies. The trend seems to support the notion that winning cities can expect to see an increase in birth rates nine months after Super Bowl Sunday.
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"Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation takes place during the same time frame as Assassin's Creed III (prior to, during, and slightly after the American Revolution), but focuses on a female African assassin named Aveline.
Oh, and it's in New Orleans, Louisiana, my home State.
Liberation is a complement to the main game, but is a separate, diversified, and arguably better game."
I've got to get a PS Vita now! It looks great. I just needed a good excuse. Now I've got 2: Uncharted and AC!
A portable game that looks as good as and possibly has a better story than a console game?
Actually there have been a few instances where I've enjoyed portable gaming more. I'm glad this is a more focused game and look forward to playing it.
Really interesting review... makes me want to go to New Orleans :(
Wow, I'm pumped for this! Vita is finally getting a solid library ;)
The game's alright. Just don't expect a storyline that fills in any of the gaps in AC3. Their stories are completely different; co-existing with each other.


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Tom Thibodeau said the Bulls
have to play to their strengths, and I'm wondering, do they have any left?
After that miserable Game 2 of the Bulls' playoff series with Philadelphia, Luol Deng repeatedly said "Derrick's not here,'' meaning this is not the Derrick Rose-led team that piled up the NBA's best record and don't expect it.
Question was, what kind of team would the Bulls be?
Answer: Ugly.
Game 2 of this playoff series turned ugly in the third quarter. Game 3 turned ugly at the same time and only got worse at the end. That's the way it will be the rest of the way, however long the Bulls' postseason lasts, and it does not appear it will be very long after the 76ers slapped the Bulls with a 79-74 loss to take a two-games-to-one lead in this series
It was ugly enough with Rose out. Then, with less than five minutes left in the third quarter, Carlos Boozer picked up his fourth foul and went to the bench with his team-leading by 16 points.
Then Joakim Noah rolled his ankle and eventually left for the locker room. He tried to return, but forget it. You want to talk ugly. The Bulls' most energetic player was hobbled badly.
Oh, and don't forget that Deng has been playing with a torn ligament in his left wrist.
Somehow, the Bulls blew it out to an 11-point lead and eventually went up by 14. No lie.
For most of the game, the Bulls defended the 76ers into a halfcourt offense that they can't execute if they're left in the gym alone. That was the plan. Make the 76ers play ugly. Ugly was the way to go.
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Unfortunately, the Bulls would out-ugly the 76ers. The Bulls committed 17 turnovers and shot just 37.3 percent. They missed 13 of 14 shots at one point down the stretch. C.J. Watson, Richard Hamilton and Deng -- the Bulls' 1, 2 and 3 -- combined to shoot 6 for 26. Talk about ugly.
But wait, There's more. The Bulls would try to win the game with a lineup of Boozer, Deng, Hamilton, Omer Asik and John Lucas III. Forget it.
The Bulls managed just two field goals in the last 9:34. They missed critical free throws. The 76ers ripped off a 23-5 run. Ballgame.
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Pirates, Locke shut down reeling Dodgers
Pirates 3, Dodgers 0
Jeff Locke allowed just two hits over seven innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 on Friday night.
Locke (6-1) struck out five and walked one to win his sixth straight decision while shaving his ERA to 2.19. Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run double in the third inning off Stephen Fife (1-2).
Jason Grilli worked out of a two-on, no-out jam in the ninth for his National League-leading 24th save.
The Dodgers played without manager Don Mattingly, who served a one-game suspension for his role in the brawl with Arizona earlier in the week.
Bench coach Trey Hillman filled in for Mattingly. Los Angeles has lost five of six to fall a season-worst 10 games under .500 (28-38).
Los Angeles had chances in the eighth and ninth innings. Pittsburgh reliever Mark Melancon struck out pinch-hitter Juan Uribe with runners in scoring position in the eighth.
Yaisel Puig and Nick Punto hit consecutive singles off Grilli to start the ninth. Grilli then retired Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez and Mark Ellis to remain a perfect 24 for 24 in save opportunities.
Puig finished 2 for 4, including a bunt single leading off the game. He was quickly retired on a double play as Locke continued his unlikely ascension into the role of ace.
The 25-year-old left-hander began the season as the fifth starter and lost his first game of the year, a 6-2 defeat in Los Angeles on April 10. He hasn't been beaten since and appears to be growing stronger each time he takes the hill, a welcome development for a starting rotation in tatters.
A.J. Burnett, Wandy Rodriguez, James McDonald and Jeanmar Gomez are all on the disabled list, leaving Locke and veteran Francisco Liriano as the top-end starters for one of baseball's biggest first-half surprises.
If the spotlight is getting to Locke, it doesn't show.
Deftly changing speeds and working both sides of the plate, Locke needed just 75 pitches to get 21 outs. The Dodgers didn't even get a runner to second against him, every baserunner either stranded at first or getting forced out in a double play.
McCutchen gave the Pirates all the offense they would need when he doubled to the corner in right field in the third, scoring Alex Presley and Russell Martin. Fife, making just his fourth start of the season, settled down and escaped without further damage when McCutchen was gunned down at home trying to score on a ground ball and Clint Barmes flew out to left with the bases loaded later in the inning.
Fife gave up six hits in five innings, walking three and striking out four.
Locke had little trouble getting through seven before turning things over to Pittsburgh's dominant bullpen, though Melancon ran into trouble during his first appearance in a week.
Andre Ethier singled with one out and Jerry Hairston Jr. doubled to the gap in left-center one batter later. Ethier held up at third rather than try to score, and it cost the Dodgers when pinch-hitter Juan Uribe struck out.
Pittsburgh added an insurance run when McCutchen singled leading off the bottom of the eighth and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Neil Walker.
Grilli made it stand up against the meat of Los Angeles' lineup.
NOTES: Locke singled off Fife in the third to end an 0-for-30 skid dating to last season ... Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis went 0 for 3 with 3 strikeouts in his return from the disabled list. He also threw out two would-be base stealers. Ellis missed 14 games with a strained oblique. To make room for Ellis, Los Angeles designated C Ramon Hernandez for assignment. Hernandez hit .208 with three homers and six RBIs in 17 games with the Dodgers ... The series continues on Saturday when rookie Brandon Cumpton makes his major league debut for the Pirates, replacing Burnett. Clayton Kershaw (5-4, 1.88 ERA) starts for Los Angeles ... Dodgers reliever J.P. Howell pitched two perfect innings in relief. Howell is appealing a two-game suspension for his role in the brawl with the Diamondbacks. Reliever Ronald Belisario sat out to serve his one-game suspension.


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[[Rockstar Games]] divide the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series into three distinct universes. These universes are completely separate to each other, no characters or storylines can ever pass from one Universe to the next.
[[Rockstar Games]] divide the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series into three distinct universes. These universes are completely separate to each other, no characters or storylines can ever pass from one Universe to the next.
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Rockstar Games divide the Grand Theft Auto series into three distinct universes. These universes are completely separate to each other, no characters or storylines can ever pass from one Universe to the next.
|2D Universe
|3D Universe
|HD Universe
|GTA 1 Era
|GTA 2 Era
|GTA III Era
|GTA IV Era
|GTA V Era
GTA Advance is a 2D game, but is part of the GTA III Era and thus the 3D Universe.
A universe can be considered a completely separate 'canon' of places, people and events that do not exist in the other universe. Locations that appear in multiple universes are completely rebuilt, rather than just updated. A previous universe would be like a mythical universe that never really existed. However, some things do exist appear in multiple universes, including company brands, vehicles and weapons.
Games being in the same universe means that they exist on the same planet, and theoretically characters could occur in multiple games across that universe. However, that does not mean that many characters will do so, nor that the games are similar or closely related at all.
Comparison to Eras
Universes are closely linked to Eras, which are logical groupings of the games based entirely on their number (i.e. GTA III starting the GTA III Era). It is possible for universes to contain more than one era. The 2D Universe contains the GTA 1 Era and GTA 2 (which is its own separate era). The HD Universe contains the GTA IV Era and GTA V (which is starting its own era).
The difference is that games within an era are very closely related, often with many characters and storylines appearing in multiple games. Also, the visual style and most features are replicated within an era.
In contrast, games within the same universe (but in separate eras) might be completely different and almost totally unrelated. The futuristic GTA 2 is not similar to the 1960s GTA London games.
An era can be thought of as a group of closely-related stories (like a trilogy), told through several games within one universe. Different eras may be set in the same universe, even with a bit of crossover, but they are completely separate stories with different styles and a different feel.
As GTA V and GTA IV are in the same HD universe, that gives Rockstar the ability to continue some characters or even storylines into the new game, but Dan Houser has said this would only happen sparingly. GTA V is a completely separate game, with different features and a very different feel - it is not "GTA IV: Los Santos", and is not part of the GTA IV Era.
Dan says that no one before GTA IV will be in it – the move to HD created a schism in this fictional universe, rendering CJ, Tony and co, as mythical characters from a bygone era. But will we see stories from the previous game looping into this one? "I think that might be too mannered," says Houser. "Nico had a particular kind of story and we're trying to make this different. We might allude to things from that world, but we didn't want it to feel like, well, here's the opposite of an immigration story – we wanted a fresh take on what it means to be a criminal in this world of hyper-real Americana".
Interview with Dan Houser in The Guardian
- The band Love Fist appear in GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas, indicating the band exists only in the 3D Universe. However, the band's name appears on some artwork for GTA V in the HD universe. These may be the only characters to cross over between Universes.


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(Reuters) - A sinkhole swallowed a car as it was traveling down a street in Toledo, Ohio, and the 60-year-old driver climbed out of the hole using a ladder supplied by rescue workers, a fire department spokesman said Thursday.
A water main break or heavy rains may have caused the sinkhole to open up under the street on Wednesday as the woman was driving down it, fire department Lieutenant Tom Kuhman said.
"She saw the car in front of her kind of almost go in but her car, being already in motion, was unable to avoid it," he said.
The hole was at least 8 feet deep "and quite large," he said.
The woman was unhurt and climbed out of the hole using a ladder, helped by a firefighter.
The Toledo Blade newspaper quoted Mayor Mike Bell as saying it would take city crews four or five days to repair the road.
Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Sandra Maler


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Larry has spent most of his life wrenching on his rides, and after almost 60 years of working, he's just not able to do it anymore. So when he saw this '70 Opel at a car show in Pro Street trim, he had to jump on it. It was exactly the way he would have built it if he was still physically able. He hopes to make Goodguys Columbus in Ohio this year, and it will be the Opel's biggest show yet.
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Please come join us as we work toward this vision in the joy of the Risen Christ!
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According the the introduction to Mazur's Rational Isogenies of Prime Degree the following question was open in 1978:
Let $N$ be one of the integers 39, 65, 91, 125, or 169. Does the modular curve $X_0(N)$ possess noncuspidal rational points?
It seems likely that this should have been resolved in the past 32 years. Does anyone know of a reference for this?


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Kevin Christopher Bollaert has been convicted of 27 counts of felony extortion and identity theft in connection with his operation of revenge porn site YouGotPosted.com and its extortionate partner, ChangeMyReputation.com. Bollaert was acquitted of conspiracy and one charge of identity theft. More than thirty women testified to payments demanded by Bollaert's operation.
This is the first conviction — anywhere — of a revenge porn site owner. Casey Meyering, another site owner with a scheme identical to that of Craig Brittain, who reached a settlement with the FTC last week, also faces trial in California on extortion charges. Hunter Moore, the progenitor of so-called "revenge porn" sites, faces trial in March for alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. None, including Bollaert, have been charged under California's "revenge porn" statute, which was both (1) passed after Bollaert's arrest; and (2) is inapplicable to the people running revenge porn sites by operation of CDA § 230.
I first identified the extortionate and fraudulent practice of Bollaert and his partner, Eric Chanson, almost a year before Bollaert's indictment. 1 The state's evidence — which I will detail in an update to this post later this evening — demonstrated that Bollaert operated both the revenge porn site and ChangeMyReputation, which purported to be an independent company that could remove the photos from YouGotPosted.com. Chanson, at some point — apparently after my initial post — asked Bollaert to disassociate Chanson's name from the sites, but Chanson's accounts were used to establish the means of soliciting payments through ChangeMyReputation. My research demonstrated that, among other things, emails sent from both YouGotPosted and ChangeMyReputation originated from the same San Diego IP address, and that the "ChangeMyReputation" operator could not identify a single other site from which photos could be removed. At the time, I called this practice "extortionate."
Please forgive this moment of schadenfreude: 2
After a friend — who shall remain nameless, but to whom much gratitude is owed — assisted in terminating the site's PayPal account, Bollaert began demanding that victims pay him in Amazon gift cards. Bollaert shut down the sites almost immediately after law enforcement contacted him.
I won't pretend to have an educated guess as to the amount of time Bollaert faces, but it's safe to say that it's substantial. While I could not attend the trial, I do hope to attend the sentencing.
Bollaert did raise what appears to be a defense based, in part, on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I would be surprised if this verdict were not appealed, as it's circumspect as to whether the extortion and, in particular, identity theft charges impermissibly treat Bollaert as a publisher, which would prevent prosecution at the hands of state authorities.
- I don't know whether law enforcement relied on my research in targeting Bolleart. I can only hope. ↩
- Perhaps inappropriately so. My contribution amounted to writing a blog post. The real credit goes to the law enforcement officers and prosecutors who were willing to listen and try a difficult case, the attorneys who sued these guys pro bono, and, most importantly, the dozens of victims who were willing to speak up. ↩


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Keep it classic. These three year-round neutrals work in almost every interior.
Teal and Coral are perfect complements on the color wheel. The Eggshell keeps them humble.
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We make our plate with a slight upward lip for spill-proof serving and easy stacking.
Cake Plate
a piece of tres leches cake,
a few cookies,
a thick slice of buttered sourdough
Side Plate
a turkey sandwich,
a bánh mì,
a slice of lasagna,
tacos al pastor
Dinner Plate
kebabs with rice,
coq au vin over potatoes,
a burger and fries,
a whole 9" round cake
The bowls in this series are wide slung, have a trimmed foot, and nestle nicely within each other.
(to the brim)
Breakfast Bowl
granola with yogurt,
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daal and rice,
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a bag of lemons,
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A man jailed for life for the murder of an underworld rival six years ago has been condemned to serve out his sentence after top judges swiftly rejected his Appeal Court bid to clear his name.
Kevin Andrew Spires, 43, spent the evening playing pool in a pub with 44-year-old Neil Orton, but within minutes of arriving back at Mr Orton's home had inflicted fatal knife wounds.
In April 2008, Spires, of Cuffley Court, Hemel Hempstead, was found guilty by a jury at St Albans Crown Court of Mr Orton's murder in June 2007 and jailed for life.
Yesterday at London's Court of Appeal his barrister Joel Bennathan QC argued that the jury's guilty verdict was "unsafe".
But Lady Justice Hallett, Mr Justice SIlber and Mr Justice Lewis rejected the appeal, prompting cries of "I love you" from Spires' supporters at the back of court.
"We are not persuaded that the applicant has even arguable grounds to undermine the safety of his conviction," said Lady Justice Hallett at the end of a one-day hearing.
"Not only was there a strong case against him, he was ably represented and he was convicted after a full and fair investigation into the facts, and a trial."
The court heard Mr Orton turned up at Hemel Hempstead Hospital on the night of June 14, 2007, having been stabbed several times.
He did not name his attacker and, despite receiving prompt medical attention, died because he had lost so much blood.
The prosecution case against Spires was based not only on a long history of bad blood between him and the victim, but also "confession" evidence, the judge said.
Three witnesses at the trial said that Spires had admitted murdering Mr Orton, she continued.
Mr Bennathan argued that the failure of the prosecution to disclose the details of one prosecution witness' previous convictions undermined the safety of the conviction.
Although the defence knew the witness was a thief, they did not know that the theft involved a serious attempt to deceive the police, he said.
"If the star witness implicating the applicant actually had a proven record of telling quite elaborate lies, then we do say that's highly relevant and that should have been disclosed," said the QC.
"That is sufficient by itself to cast doubt on the safety of the conviction."
But Lady Justice Hallett said: "This trial was, on any view, awash with evidence of bad character.
"The jury can have been under no illusions as to the kind of witnesses before them."
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Recovering Ramos takes five swings with bat
WASHINGTON -- Catcher Wilson Ramos, who is on the disabled list because of a broken hamate bone in his left hand, began gripping the bat and took five dry swings on Friday.
"I was swinging easy, swinging the bat," Ramos said. "Right now I'm working hard with my hand. My hand feels good. It's a just a matter of getting my wrist strong. That's what I'm working right now."
After getting the stitches out of his hand on Monday, Ramos started exercising the wrist and hand in a bucket of rice. He also puts the hand in a bucket of ice and hot water, while it gets massaged. Ramos also squeezes a ball to make the hand stronger.
Ramos has had plenty of bad luck over the past three years. He missed most of the 2012 season because of a devastating injury to his right knee, and he missed half of the 2013 campaign because of hamstring issues. Now he has to deal with the hand injury and he is eager to get back on the field. Ramos is expected to return to action sometime in May.
"After last year and 2012, too, right now, I'm trying to do everything right. I want to be on the field," Ramos said. "During Spring Training, I was feeling great, healthy. After that, I was down a little bit. I keep my head up [now], I keep working hard and I'll try to be back soon."


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