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Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California at Davis
How can nature and people coexist successfully in California's threatened wine country?
How can ecologists help to restore riverside habitats in Central California's agricultural Delta?
Earthwatch ecologist Dr. Josh Viers studies sustainable agriculture and conservation in the watersheds of California's North Coast, Sierra Nevada, and Delta
Californians - and people everywhere - need to prepare for a different relationship with this crucial resource. "For at least 20 years now, water scientists have impressed upon us the unavoidable effects of climate change already underway in California," he and coauthor Sarah Null wrote in a recent blog post. "The forecasts repeatedly call for reduced Sierra snowpack, earlier spring snowmelt, prolonged hot spells and droughts, warmer rivers stressing cold-water fish, wilder storms and sea level rise that threaten Delta water supplies for thousands of farms and millions of Californians."
Dr. Viers is also an Outdoor Adventures-trained whitewater rafting guide. He's interested in how climate change might affect this pastime: "Whitewater boaters require a sweet spot of flows. If the water is too low, rocks make safe navigation difficult, and if the water is too high, the river's power makes it too dangerous to run," he wrote with coauthor and fellow boater Scott Ligare. "The specific conditions necessary for whitewater boating makes it a seasonable sport vulnerable to changes in hydrologic conditions."
Earthwatch ecologist Dr. Viers studies sustainable agriculture and conservation in the watersheds of California's North Coast, Sierra Nevada, and Delta.
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Hotels in Penyiscola
109 Accommodations in Penyiscola
Gran Hotel PeñiscolaPenyiscola 3.3 km from city centre 783 reviews
This modern beach hotel is located on Peñíscola's popular beachfront, on the seafront promenade. The Ebro Delta Nature Reserve is a...
Hotel Peñíscola Plaza SuitesPenyiscola 3.9 km from city centre 0 reviews
Peñíscola Plaza Suites is on Peñíscola's seafront promenade, on the Costa Azahar, 1.5 miles from Benicarló. It has a large outdoor...
Apartamentos Turisticos Jardines del PlazaPenyiscola 3.9 km from city centre 123 reviews
Aparthotel Jardines del Plaza is right next to Peñíscola Beach, 1.6 mi from the historic town center. It offers air-conditioned duplex...
Apartamentos Surfing 3000Penyiscola 4 km from city centre 0 reviews
Apartments in Apartamentos Surfing 3000 can accommodate up to 6 people in 3 double rooms. They have a fully-equipped kitchen with a...
Resort Aparthotel-Hotel & Spa AcuazulPenyiscola 1.6 km from city centre 307 reviews
Aparthotel Acuazul is on the beachfront, 1.2 mi from Peñíscola Old Town and Castle. It offers a large spa with a floatarium, and free...
Hotel RH Casablanca SuitesPenyiscola 3 km from city centre 453 reviews
On Peñiscola's beachfront promenade, Casablanca Suites has terrace with an outdoor swimming pool, offering Mediterranean Sea views. Its...
Apartamentos Peñiscola Centro 3000 Sin PiscinaPenyiscola 751 m from city centre 0 reviews
All the apartments in Apartamentos Peñiscola Centro 3000 have 2 double rooms (one with camp beds) and a two seater sofa-bed; they can...
Apartamentos Peñiscola Playa 3000Penyiscola 996 m from city centre 1377 reviews
The studios each feature a lounge/ dining area with a double sofa bed and a single bed, an American-style kitchen, a bathroom and a...
Apartamentos Las Palmeras 3000Penyiscola 770 m from city centre
The Las Palmeras 3000 Apartments are been recently remodelled and have a capacity for 8 persons in 1, 2 or three double rooms with a...
Hotel Jaime IPenyiscola 857 m from city centre 66 reviews
Hotel Jaime I is a 3 minute walk from Playa Norte Beach in Peñíscola. It offers a 24-hour front desk, outdoor pool and air conditioned...
Apartamentos Font Nova 3000Penyiscola 5.8 km from city centre 10 reviews
Apartamentos Font Nova 3000 is in the heart of the Serra d'Irta, is set in a peaceful residential development less than 800 m from the...
Apartamentos Argenta Caleta 3000 Segunda LineaPenyiscola 2 km from city centre 0 reviews
Apartamentos Argenta Caleta 3000 can accommodate up to 6 guests in 1 or 2 double rooms with a sofa-bed in the sitting/dining room. All...
Hotel RH Don CarlosPenyiscola 946 m from city centre 127 reviews
Set 656 feet from Norte Beach, RH Don Carlos is located in Peñíscola, next to the city's convention center. This hotel includes a rooftop...
Aparthotel AcuasolPenyiscola 2.3 km from city centre 134 reviews
Aparthotel Acuasol is a 5-minute walk from the beach in Peñiscola, on the Costa del Azahar. It has a terrace and outdoor pool, which is...
Castillo de Peñíscola Hotel & SpaPenyiscola 1 km from city centre 152 reviews
The Hotel & Spa Castillo de Peñíscola, is the latest acquisition of the Mediterranean hotel chain. It is located in the center of the...
Hotel Prado IIPenyiscola 1.1 km from city centre 0 reviews
This hotel was renovated in 2002 and features 154 rooms spread over 8 floors. Facilities include a bar, an air-conditioned restaurant as...
Accommodations in PenyiscolaIn Castellon de la Plana we are with Peñíscola in one of the most beautiful and calm places Valencia, el Castle Peñíscola is the second most visited place in Spain after the Alhambra ....
Peñíscola consists of more than six kilometers sandy beaches and from the 15 coves are many virgins which you find in the area of Sierra dIrta. The area of the beach of the Widows next to the castle is one of the beaches that mixes sand with gravel, but the rest is all fine sand, very pleasant to walk along with an incomparable beauty.
Apart from the castle you can visit the Museum of the Sea, the Hermitage of the Mare de Déu d'Ermitana where the patron of the city is, the promenade and all areas inside the village where we can rejoice our stay.
En General is a very quiet place, but if you like the nightlife, it has a shopping center in the interior of Peñíscola which provides clubs that meets most of the expectation from the summer. At the Square of Santa Clara is where you can find most of the bars and restaurants that stay open late into the night. The youth stays often at the Square Borrull, at the Avenue of the Brothers Bou and at the Castellon de la Plana. Near the Castellón de la Plana is also Benic, where you can enjoy good places at night.
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Slow Computer?
I want to smash this thing!
How many times have we all said those
words? For some reason our computers seem run slower and slower the
longer we have them. Often times people believe they need a new
computer when actually, their computer just needs a tune up!
Why computers run slow
There are many reasons our computers run slower and slower. Here are the most common reasons.
- Malware (fake antivirus programs, viruses, spyware, trojans, etc.)
- Intrusive antivirus program
- Too many programs running at once
- Not enough hard drive space
- Hard drive is fragmented
Ways to fix a slow computer
1. Remove any viruses or spyware on your computer.
You may not even realize that your computer has a virus or spyware running on it. In fact, most malicious code writers don't want you to know you have a virus.
A good way to make sure you don't have a virus is have an antivirus program that is updating daily.
Avast! has a free antivirus for personal use and works well.
AVG also has a free antivirus for personal use and works just as well as Avast! in my opinion.
Windows Live One Care is another free antivirus and malware scanner from Microsoft.
There are antiviruses out there however which are very invasive and can slow your computer down. One has to make the assessment themselves whether they are happy with their computer's performance and safety when they choose an antivirus.
If you think you computer might be infected already, run a scan with your antivirus. It would be a good idea to check for malware also (many
antiviruses don't detect malware). Malwarebytes has a free version of their software for personal use and works very well.
2. Stop programs from running as soon as you start your computer.
There are usually a lot of programs that start running as soon as you turn on your computer, but there's really only a couple that you need to run. One is your antivirus, and the other is Windows Search if you choose to have search indexing on your computer.
To check which programs are running when you boot your computer:
For Windows XP
Go to Start > Run > and type in msconfig and hit enter
For Windows Vista and 7
Go to Start > and type in msconfig and hit enter
This window will open
Click on the Startup tab on the top right
You will then see this window
This is a list of all the programs that are going to run as soon as you turn your computer on. This is whether you need them or not. Most of the time you don't need them to run in the background.
If you don't know what one of the applications is, I advise against turning it off. Make sure you google the Startup Item name first if you're unsure. I turn everything off in my startup tab except for my virus scanner since I always want that to run.
Once you're finished, click Apply.
Windows will ask whether you want to restart your computer now or later. That is up to you, but the changes wont take effect until you reboot your computer.
Once you reboot, you will see this window pop up first thing
This is just saying there were changes made to your system. You know this already because you made the changes.
Put a check mark into the box by the line that says "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts"
3. Free up hard drive space
Many times, music, videos and the like can fill up hard drives so there's no room for our computers to work efficiently.
Go to Start and open My computer or Computer if you're using windows Vista or 7
Right click on the (C:) and click on Proporties.
A version of this window will open
The pink peice is free space, and the blue is used space. If you're free space is under 15% of the total drive space, you should consider cleaning up your hard drive.
Start with Temporary Internet Files by opening Internet Explorer or whatever web browser you use and clicking on Tools > Internet Options > and then Delete which is in the section marked as Browsing History > then delete Temporary Internet Files
You can also go through your files and get rid of anything you might not be needing anymore, like old videos.
There is a fantastic program that tells you exactly what folders are using the most space called Tree Space Free. Feel free to install that and check where your drive space is being used up.
4. Defragment your drive
Windows Vista and 7 defrags your computer automatically, however if you're using Windows XP, this can be a real problem. To defrag, go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmentor > Then click Defragment
You may have to run that several times, and it will take a very long time at first. Possibly hours, however if your computer is running sluggish,
you will notice a big difference once it's been defragged a few times.
This should be done regularily to keep your computer performing at it's best.
I hope you've found this article useful. Check back again for updates and more helpful tips!


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Horn Trios at Kings Place
Endymion presents a poignant and varied programme
A concert boasting both Brahms and Ligeti's horn trios is an all-too-rare occurrence. These two masterpieces stand as lonely miracles in chamber music history, rather as Schubert's Trout does for its particular instrumental combination. Endymion's Krysia Osostowicz, pianist Michael Dussek and horn-player Stephen Stirling were performing them as part of Endymion's 35th birthday celebrations and Chamber Classics Unwrapped at Kings Place.
At first, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 10 seemed an unwelcome guest at such a feast, until the subtle threads that linked all three pieces became clear. It was Ligeti who described the influence of Brahms on his own trio as 'perhaps only a certain smilingly conservative comportment – with distinct ironic distance,' a phrase with keen resonance in Beethoven's final sonata, which is remarkably sunny and well-behaved after the storm of its predecessor, the Kreutzer. Dussek and Osostowicz delivered an earthy, cheerful performance of this consoling work, giving due weight to its lavishly lyrical Adagio espressivo.
That 'certain smile' Ligeti recalls in Brahms is actually hard to detect in his trio, which veers between elegiac dream and comic frenzy. Osostowicz highlighted a more concrete link between all three works in her lucid introduction to the Ligeti, playing their shared motif, associated with the horn, of falling third, fifth and sixth intervals. Stirling explained the techniques required of him during the trio, though he hardly needed to forewarn us of 'uncorrected' unstopped notes sounding out of tune since Ligeti's alchemy is utterly convincing. The first movement had a still poignancy, while the groovy, polymetric scherzo proved a furious tour de force. Close your eyes and you could be facing an orchestra such is the pitch range from driving piano and high violin ostinati, busy mid-range horn to the inkiest piano bass-line. The nightmare March in which the violin gets out of step with the piano was suitably demented, though Osostowicz's sound was often swallowed up; Stirling's wild interruptions set the piano strings ringing even after it had finished. The lamenting Adagio is peculiarly devastating, plumbing depths far beyond those even Shostakovich reached.
Such a pain found an echo at the centre of Brahms's own trio, forever associated with his mother's death. As those magical, billowing minor chords sweep into the Adagio, Brahms lead us down to somewhere very dark. Osostowicz captured the dead stillness of that inner sanctum, and the grief-struck irregular song which seems to have no beginning and no end, while Dussek lent a velvet depth of tone. The clarion confidence of the hunting horn's call comes to the rescue in that dazzling bright finale, which here galloped past on a wave of energy. While Stirling's sound glowed, one misses the narrow-bore natural horn in this work, though it wasn't favoured by Brahms (hear the wonderful recording by Faust/Melnikov/van der Zwart/Harmonia Mundi). Here its sinew and variety of tone would have better complemented Osostowicz's darkling, occasionally wiry, violin sound, particularly in the ardent opening melody.
Chamber Classics Unwrapped continues on 19 February with Adrian Brendel, Andrej Bielow and Aleksander Madzar performing Ravel's Piano Trio; the Navarra Quartet (20 Feb) and London Sinfonietta (21 Feb)
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Two men plead guilty in string of bank robberies including one in Oneida
SYRACUSE >> Two 21-year-old men have pleaded guilty to committing a string of bank robberies.
One of them admitted to the Jan. 13 robbery of the Alliance Bank on Genesee Street in Oneida, in which he netted $2,240.
United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian said on Wednesday that Zachariah Edwards, of Frankfort, and Nicholas Ferrone, of Utica, admitted robbing:
o Chase Bank in Syracuse of $2,156 on Jan. 14
o Berkshire Bank in Guilderland, of $2,566 on Jan. 23;
o Chase Bank in Dewitt, of $4,681 on Jan. 28;
o Trustco Bank in Guilderland, of $1,930 on Feb. 13;
o Bank of America in Chicopee, Mass. of $3,300 on Feb. 25;
o Key Bank in Schenectady, of $3,700 on Mar. 1;
o M&T Bank in Syracuse, of $3,446 on March 4.
Ferrone also admitted the Oneida bank job; all the crimes happened in 2013.
Although no weapons were displayed, the robbers told the tellers they were armed during the course of several of the robberies.
Edwards has been held without bail since his arrest on March 8. Ferrone has likewise been held without bail since his arrest on March 11. They will both continue to be detained until their sentencing, scheduled for Oct. 1 before Senior U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.
Bank robbery carries a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 on each count.
The investigation has been a multi-agency effort, including participation by the Dewitt Police Department; the New York State Police; the Guilderland Police Department; the Oneida City Police Department; the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office; the Chicopee, Massachusetts Police Department; Schenectady Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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Each year brings us the promise of something new, incredible, wonderful, spectacular or simply optimistic. For every person there is a different adjective, but I ask. How do you classify the gathering of NINE urban fantasy authors together on one blog? I can see shrieking fans in ecstasy and grandeur unlike any other. Note that I didn't choose this art randomly. It represents what happened when "The Deadline Dames" launched.
The "Deadline Dames" and like their smoldering heroines, these femme fatales in the hottest new genre to be at to kick ass. And they do. It has been a week since the official launch of the site and you can see incredible and ranging number of comments, swelling at each post in the range from 3 to about 200. Cosmic numbers for any blogger and quite the launch. But shall we cover why "The Deadline Dames" have achieved such success.
We have the founding holy trinity plus one in urban fantasy and namely Jenna Black, Keri Arthur, Lilith Saintcrow and Jackie Kessler. Then we move on to Rachel Vincent, my personal queen of shapeshifter novels; Toni Andrews and Devon Monk, whose debut has been released last year. Last but not least we have Karen Mahoney and Rinda Elliott, both amazing people as well as writers and by both being represented by Miriam Kriss, success is inavoidable. I like to call them Generation Next in the urban fantasy scene. For me this grouping in experience is going to add some diversity and unexpected dynamics in the blog.
Second, and I think as equally important to the fans, "The Deadline Dames" are generous party girls and in order to celebrate their smooth start, for two weeks they are giving fantastic prizes as well as their insight on a matter of topics: deadlines being on top of their priority right.
I also would like to speak a few words about the site itself. Stylish and fashioned with the trademarks of urban fantasy such as dark colors, knives, guns, tattoos and the necessary femme fatales, "The Deadline Dames" is easy on the eye in more than one way. We have a rotating schedule for weekly posting and several pages for the visitor to explore. All in all, as a reader and writer in the genre, I have to say pretty darn good.


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"Proud band of brothers form their own rebel platoon and take the family fight to Assad's Syrian forces"
"The platoon is Ghoul family only because the fighters do not trust others…."
no hipsters this time, alas, alack. although maybe the brother third from the right is trying (but if you've got to try, then you're not a hipster, are you…?).
see also: aleppo.
previously: clans in the news: the lebanon and syria and syrian tribes and more on syrian marriage and family types
(note: comments do not require an email. hipster rebel.)


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text: feature The Next Generation of Enterprise On the day of the NVC finals in May, David Rabie, '15, and his team stood in front of a panel of judges in a Booth classroom and passed out samples of Thai chicken curry, quinoa, and ginger soy broccoli. The meals had been cooked in a futuristic countertop device—similar to a crockpot—called Maestro. Rabie's vision of simple, healthy meals calls for customers to pop pods of raw vacuum-sealed vegetables, grains, and proteins into the machine and scan the QR-coded cooking instructions on the package. In a half hour, a well-rounded meal is ready to go. The judges tossed out plenty of questions: How did Rabie plan to grow the company? Who would develop the recipes? Rabie had answers, which is why the judges awarded Maestro first place in the Edward L. Kaplan, '71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), Booth's signature startup program. With a cash prize of $70,000, business services, and enviable industry connections, Maestro has a good start in life. Four months later, the start up is fine-tuning the product, building a


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Blue Valentine - Review
Review by Rob Carnevale
IT'S tempting to describe writer-director Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine as a contemporary take on Revolutionary Road given its intense portrait of the break-up of a marriage.
But it's much more than that: a deeply romantic celebration of love as much as it is a heartbreaking examination of break-up and loss. Hence, it's both happy and sad, pulling you emotionally this way and that without ever resorting to easy sermonising or patronising ideology.
At its beating heart are Ryan Gosling's Dean and Michelle Williams' Cindy, a married couple whose marriage seems to have reached crisis point following the death of their beloved dog.
Cianfrance's film jumps between the events following this tragedy and those leading up to the couple's union, juxtaposing moments of tension and anger with sweetness and naivety.
In doing so, easy judgements give way to fierce re-evaluation as the missteps towards their current predicament paint a complex picture of two lost souls striving to do the right thing in the most trying of circumstances.
Early on, for instance, a breakfast sequence finds Gosling's playful dad Dean encouraging his daughter to eat sultanas off a table, while criticising Cindy for not allowing the cereal to soak properly in water. She bemoans the fact that his actions will force her to clean up after two kids.
Is it the case that Dean has never been able to grow up that irks her? Or maybe it's his lack of ambition, slowly revealed, or his addiction to alcohol that sees him intoxicated before work each day.
But then Cindy is no saint, either, and as Cianfrance's screenplay peels away the layers of their relationship we see a different side to both characters, with Dean emerging as a stand-up guy and hopeless Romeo whose early decision-making takes place amid the throes of courtship.
It's during a couple of pivotal moments that viewers may well re-assess their feelings – but judgements still never remain easy as Cianfrance refuses to supply easy answers or resolutions.
And every scene feels justified, whether it's the juxtaposition of a playful sex scene with a more volatile one that almost descends to rape later on, or the various conversations and possible 'outs' that are offered, but seldom accepted, along the way.
These are tragically flawed characters, painfully real and we feel every emotion along the way. As such, Blue Valentine is seldom easy viewing, while its final shot is a true heartbreaker guaranteed to leave you emotionally shattered.
Performance-wise, both Gosling and Williams are on Oscar form – their respective transformations effortlessly conveyed so that we feel every laugh and tear, every heartfelt decision and loss of dignity. It's raw, honest acting that's tailor-made for the term warts and all!
In the US, Blue Valentine has been threatened with a dreaded NC-17 rating, presumably for some of the more graphic sex scenes. But festival screenings (both here and at Sundance) would appear to have opted to show the more toned down version.
No matter what it's fate, though, the film demands to be seen and has already captivated audiences at Sundance and Cannes. It's one of the most powerful, moving and tense films of the year, with tour-de-force performances from everyone concerned.
Certificate: 15
Running time: 114mins
UK Release Date: January 14, 2011
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If only your 12th grade American history book was like "Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston," a graphic anthology of memorable events dating from the 1600s to the present that was created by 35 local writers and artists, including three from Beverly.
If only your 12th-grade American history book was like "Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston," a graphic anthology of memorable events dating from the 1600s to the present that was created by 35 local writers and artists, including three from Beverly. The book was put out last December by the Boston Comics Roundtable.
In fact, four North Shore artists and writers — Ron LeBrasseur, Dirk I. Tiede, Joshua Santa Cruz and Eric Boeker — were major contributors. These hometown artists wrote and illustrated stories ranging from the odd history of Dungeon Rock in Lynn to the tragic drama behind the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and the Busing Crisis of the 1960s, to a funky, punky tour of the Boston Modern Rock scene. Hub history never looked so good.
In its fourth release, the Inbound series is the bi-annual collection of stories written and drawn by the artists who make up the BCR, but this is its first venture into nonfiction.
"We've had themes before," explains Beverly resident and professional illustrator Tiede. "We were finishing up Inbound 3 which came out around Valentine's Day last year, so naturally the theme was 'romance.' When we started thinking about what to do for our next release, a 'Boston' theme came up and we all jumped at the idea."
In fact, so many BCR members, whose total numbers over 100, "jumped" that strict parameters had to be set on the length of the story — only four or five pages per submission.
"There was so much to write about — Boston and all of these areas have so many amazing stories to tell," commented LeBrasseur, also a resident of Beverly and a native of Lynn.
Another Beverly artist, Boeker, agreed with Lynn's Santa Cruz in saying, "I could have done a hundred pages more." Comic proposals poured in through a Wiki submission page online and were slowly honed down to the final 35 contributions through a rigorous selection and review process.
This thoroughness seems to have paid off. Larry Harrison of Harrison's Comics & Collectibles on Essex Street in Salem called sales of the comics anthology "phenomenal. To have people calling the store for a graphic novel is pretty incredible. It's flying off the shelves."
Beyond Aquaman
The BCR was started in 2006 by Dave Kender, who had posted an ad on Craigslist for possible comics collaborators. As Kender cheekily states on the group's Facebook page, "As we gradually stumbled across each other, one by one, we were amazed to discover — despite our firm beliefs — that we were not working in utter isolation. In truth, there are many of us, and it only seems natural that we should meet up and take over a small cafe once a week."
The weekly meetings are free and participants are encouraged to show their latest work, plan joint projects or just talk about what comic book people love to talk about — comics.
Originally from Chicago, Tiede, the illustrator of Inbound 4's "The Great Boston Molasses Flood" stumbled upon the BCR through comic conventions. He has been self-publishing his own volumes of stories called "Paradigm Shift" since 2003. Describing the premise behind his work as "a cop story with a supernatural twist," Tiede is about to release the third in the series.
It is through Tiede's wife, who works at OSRAM Sylvania, that Eric Boeker, author and illustrator of "The Great Sordid History of Boston Punk Rock" as well as his own Web comic, "Commute of the Living Dead," found the BCR. Boeker, an engineer, has lived in Beverly for the past five years after a "slow escape from the Midwest."
Originally hailing from Missouri, Boeker admits that the discovery of the group was a serendipitous situation: "Within one week, I had picked up the first issue of Inbound out of an artist's curiosity and my wife and I went to a music festival and there was Dirk." Boeker's Web comic was recently translated into popular holiday cards.
Creator of "The Lost Pirate Treasure of Dungeon Rock" and illustrator of "Factory Town," LeBrasseur, when he found the group in 2007 at the Boston Zine Fair, confesses that he assumed that the BCR was like other comics groups he had been to: "I had met up with a couple other comics-interest groups before that, but they were always of the 'What's Aquaman doing this month?' variety. I wanted to meet other people who were interested in creating new stuff."
After discussing the BCR with another artist who happened to be a member, he happily found his assumption to be wrong. LeBrasseur is working on a new graphic novel as well as contributing to the Potlatch anthology, put out by Angry Dog Press.
More to come
Santa Cruz began his work on "American Confusion" about three months after a meeting with BCR member Dan Mazur at the Boston Comic Con 2009.
"I gave him a copy of my latest work at the time. (It was a 15 page adaptation of James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues.') He gave it a read and contacted me three months later to do a story for the next Inbound. I was ecstatic that he wanted me to participate and so we brainstormed a bit about a story that he thought would be appropriate, 'The Soiling of Old Glory.'" Santa Cruz is currently working on creating a Web site for his work.
Our local artists have a lot to look forward to: The original artwork for "Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston" is still on view at the Atomic Bean Coffeehouse on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge until the end of January. Tiede will be giving a talk about his Inbound contribution at the Arisia science fiction and fantasy convention at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge this Saturday, Jan. 16, at noon. There will be a book signing and discussion at Porter Square Books, also in Cambridge, at 7 p.m. on Jan. 21st. And LeBrasseur will be helping to coordinate an exhibition of BCR members' work at the Marblehead Arts Association in March. With a little luck, these four talented North Shore artists will be making their own history very soon.
For more information about the Boston Comics Roundtable, to purchase a copy of "Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston" or for news on when the BCR's science fiction anthology will be released, visit bostoncomicsroundtable.com. Copies of Inbound 4 are also available at Jerry's Comics & Collectibles, 296 Cabot St. in Beverly, and Harrison's Comics & Collectibles, 252 Essex St. in Salem.


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Saturday, Oct. 27
5:11 p.m. — Ian Parsons, 42, of 6 Townsend Lane, is charged with drug possession.
5:59 p.m. — Jason Colle, 20, of 144 North Main St., Apt. 5, is charged with three counts of simple assault, false imprisonment and drug possession.
11:56 p.m. — Tiffany Arlene Emerson, 22, of 5A Dora Drive, is charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after a disturbance is reported at Frisbie.
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1:58 a.m. — Michael Marquis, 54, of 183 Range Road, Wakefield, is charged with driving under the influence and driving after suspension.
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4:30 p.m. — A 16-year-old is taken into protective custody from East Rochester.
Tuesday, Oct. 30
9:18 a.m. — Raymond L. King, 39, of 439 Route 108, Somersworth, is arrested on a bench warrant.
7:56 p.m. — Scott Haskins, 18, of 31 Knight St., is charged with two counts of simple assault, and two counts of criminal threatening.
Thursday, Nov. 1
1:48 p.m. — A 17-year old is charged with three counts of receiving stolen property.
5:32 p.m. — Nora A. Cutter, 43, of 26 6th St., Dover is charged with willful concealment and criminal trespass at Walmart.
7:55 p.m. — Tyler David Lowell, 27, of 5 Hickey St., is charged with conduct after an accident.
9:07 p.m. — Todd D. Miller, 43, of 195 Washington St., is charged with three counts of simple assault.
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2:52 .a.m. — After a traffic stop near Pine Street, Zachery Thomas Brock, 22, of 37A Pine St., is charged with driving after suspension and suspended registration.
11:48 a.m. — Darlene Washburn, 44, of 34 Periwinkle Drive, is charged with unsworn falsification.
10:27 p.m. — Jonathan Flannery, 20, of 26B Prescott St., Sanford, Maine, is charged with driving under the influence.
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LONDON -- The secret of "Pottermore" has been revealed -- Harry Potter's wild wizard adventures are going digital.
Author J.K. Rowling announced Thursday that her seven Potter novels will be sold as e-books starting in October -- ending the boy wizard's status as one of the highest-profile holdouts against digital publishing.
"You can't hold back progress," Rowling said. "E-books are here and they are here to stay."
The magical stories that conquered the world in print form will be available as audiobooks and e-books in multiple languages exclusively through a new interactive website called "Pottermore" -- an announcement that delighted fans but deeply disappointed booksellers.
Rowling, one of the world's most powerful authors, is bypassing established online retailers like Amazon, although the creators of Pottermore say the books will be compatible with popular e-readers including Amazon's Kindle, Sony's Reader and Apple's iPad.
"It's very important to Jo to make the books available to everybody, not to make them available only to people who own a particular set of devices, or tethered to a particular set of platforms," said Tom Turcan, chief operating officer of the new venture, Pottermore Ltd.
He said prices for the e-books would be announced closer to October.
The website is a partnership with Sony Corp. and its online shop is described as "a potential outlet for Sony products." Rowling spokesman Mark Hutchinson said Sony was selected as "the most appropriate partner."
Booksellers who have sold millions of Potter books reacted strongly to the news they will be shut out of the electronic version. Jon Howells, spokesman for Britain's Waterstone's chain, said the Harry Potter book launches "have become the stuff of legend at Waterstone's and other booksellers."
"We're therefore disappointed that, having been a key factor in the growth of the Harry Potter phenomenon since the first book was published, the book trade is effectively banned from selling the long-awaited e-book editions," he said.
The Potter books have sold about 450 million copies worldwide and spawned a hit movie franchise and a theme park. Forbes magazine has ranked Rowling as one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated wealth of $1 billion.
"Pottermore" has been the subject of intense speculation among Potter fans since it appeared on the Internet with the words "coming soon."
Rowling also has written 18,000 words of new Potter material for the new site, which promises to immerse users in her world of wizards, combining elements of computer games, social networking and an online store. She says the site includes "information I have been hoarding for years" about the books' characters and settings.
The project unveiled in London lets Potter fans delve into the world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Sections let users shop for wands in Diagon Alley, travel to Hogwarts from the imaginary Platform 9 3/4 at London's King's Cross train station and be sorted into Hogwarts school houses by the perceptive Sorting Hat.
Along the way are wand fights, games and new information about characters beloved around the world, including Harry's reviled relatives, the Dursleys.
The site goes live July 31, when 1 million registered users will be chosen through an online competition to help flesh out the Pottermore world. It will be open to all users from October, in languages including English, French, German and Spanish.
Initially the site will follow the plotline of the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," with the six other adventures added later.
"(It's) a way I can be creative in a medium that didn't exist when I started the books back in 1990," Rowling told reporters, adding it allowed her to incorporate the thousands of "stories, drawings, ideas, suggestions" she still receives from fans four years after the last Potter book was published.
Harry Potter fans who have been sharing their enthusiasm online for years should be delighted by the new digital world, but Rowling said she wanted to keep the emphasis of the site firmly on the written word.
"We've had a lot of requests for online games," she said. "I wanted to pull it back to reading."
The last book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," was published in 2007, and Rowling said she still has no plans to write an eighth. But she said Pottermore was a way to reconnect with a character and a universe she loved.
"It is exactly like an ex-boyfriend," Rowling said. "Finishing writing Harry -- I have only ever cried in that way and that much when my mother died. I have never cried for a man the way I cried for Harry Potter."
There may yet be another Potter book -- a long-anticipated encyclopedia. Rowling said she was still considering compiling one, with the proceeds going to charity.
"Will there ever be an encyclopedia?" Rowling said. "Possibly."
The final Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," has its world premiere in London on July 7. Hutchinson said timing of the website announcement had nothing to do with the Warner Bros. movies.
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Japanese health officials have found radioactive cesium in packaged beef, CNN reports—beef that in all likelihood's been eaten by now. The source of the contamination lies in hay from the agrarian Fukushima Prefecture, and the Japanese government doesn't yet have a handle on how widespread the tainted meat has become. They are, of course, downplaying the danger of the radioactive meat, despite the fact that cesium isotopes are among some of the worst to ingest. Luckily, a bolstered screening process will be implemented on Japanese farms, replacing the previous (and highly superficial) self regulation. [CNN, Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty]


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2008 PARALYMPIC GAMES: Three Medals for U.S. Track & Field Team; Jamison and Galli Win Gold, Forber-Pratt Comes Away with Bronze
BEIJING, China - It was a banner night for the stars and stripes - two golds, a world record and a bronze.
Tonight, in his Paralympic Games debut, Josiah Jamison (Chula Vista, Calif./Vance, S.C.) won gold in the men's 100m (T12), and set a personal best time of 10.89.
Jamison, along with guide runner Jerome Avery (Chula Vista, Calif./Lemoore, Calif.), was extremely pleased with the outcome of the race.
"I got out a little slow but turned it around," said Jamison. "I got the gold, that's what I came here to do. One down, two to go."
Jamison will also compete in the 200 and 400m events.
Wheelchair racer Jessica Galli (Savoy, Ill./Hillsborough, N.J.) pulled out all the stops tonight - winning gold and setting a new world record in the women's 400m (T53) with a time of 54.88.
"My intention and focus was to break the world record, but I had no idea I could go under 55-seconds," said Galli. "This is my third Games and this is my first Paralympic gold medal, so it means a lot to me."
Anjali Forber-Pratt (Natick, Mass.) wasn't far behind Galli; she crossed the finish line in 57.07 for the bronze.
"It was unbelievable - such a challenging race," said Forber-Pratt. "I just had to run my race and set a goal to do the best I could. It was a personal best for me and I could not be happier."
Cheri Blauwet (Palo Alto, Calif.) came in fourth with a time of 57.07.
Additional U.S. Results:.
Men's 200m final (T52) - Josh Roberts (Morris, Ala.) - 36.85 (9)
Men's 400m final (T13) - Royal Mitchell (Chula Vista, Calif./Ridgeland, S.C.) - 51.23 (8)
Men's Shot put (F42) - Matt Brown (Idalou, Texas) - 12.46m (8)
Women's Discus final (F32-34/51-53) - Robyn Stawski (Tampa, Fla.) - 11.24m (15)
Women's 100m final (T54) - Tatyana McFadden (Clarksville, Md.) - 16.62 (6)
Women's Javelin final (F35-38) - Julie Crisp (Portland, Ore.) - 18.84m (17)
Competition Schedule for Thursday, September 11
Session One
9:10 Men's Pentathlon, Long Jump (P44)/first event - Jeremy Campbell (Chula Vista, Calif./Perryton, Texas), Jeff Skiba (Chula Vista, Calif./Seattle, Wash.), Casey Tibbs (San Diego, Calif.)
10:00 Men's 200m (T11)/prelim - Elexis Gillette (Raleigh, N.C.)
11:00 Men's Pentathlon, Shot put (P44)/second event - Campbell, Skiba, Tibbs
11:12 Women's 200m (T52)/final - Mallerie Badget (Oxford, Ala.), Cheryl Leitner (Toms River, N.J.), Kerri Morgan (St. Louis, Mo.)
11:20 Women's 100m (T53)/prelim - Anjali Forber-Pratt (Natick, Mass.), Jessica Galli (Savoy, Ill./Hillsborough, N.J.), Maggie Redden (State College, Pa./Jersey City, N.J.)
11:34 Men's 800m (T54)/prelim - Tony Iniguez (Aurora, Ill.), Tyler Byers (Washington, D.C.)
12:20 Men's Pentathlon, 100m (P44)/third event - Campbell, Skiba, Tibbs
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17:05 Women's 100m (T37)/prelim - Sabra Hawkes (Rockport, Mass.)
17:20 Men's 400m (T12)/prelim - Josiah Jamison (Chula Vista, Calif./Vance, S.C.)
17:30 Men's Pentathlon, Discus (P44)/fourth event - Campbell, Skiba, Tibbs
18:38 Men's 400m (T53)/final - Adam Bleakney (Champaign, Ill.), Joshua George (Champaign, Ill.)
18:48 Women's 400m (T54)/prelim - Jennifer Goeckel (Seattle, Wash.), Tatyana McFadden (Clarksville, Md.)
19:20 Men's Pentathlon, 400m (P44)/fifth event - Campbell, Tibbs, Skiba
20:51 Men's 400m (T52)/prelim - Steven Toyoji (Tucson, Ariz.), Josh Roberts (Morris, Ala.)
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Learning to dive
While sailing around the Fiji Islands, I signed up for diving lessons. There were two dive instructors on board (Kim and Dan) and the course was 3 days long. The first thing Kim said was that my beard and moustache would hold me back. That night I shaved. I'd had the beard for 16 years so seeing my chin was a bit of a shock. In the last 10 years it has gone quite white so the general consensus it was an improvement.
We were given the course materials and told there would be a written exam on the last day. Most of the instruction was practical and we dived twice a day. We also practised some emergency procedures in the ship pool and in 5 feet of water just off the beach.
In diving you always have a buddy who will keep an eye out to see that you are OK. There were four people getting their certification; me, Harry and Eli (brother and sister from Australia) and Laurence from PNG. After the first dive our instructor, Kim, checked our air levels and assigned us buddies based on rate of oxygen consumption. Eli and I were fairly efficient so we were buddies. Harry and Laurence burned through their tanks more quickly. This meant Eli and I could stay down longer while the others had to surface earlier.
We spent the first few days learning the equipment and practising emergency techniques like how to find your regulator if it is lost and how to clear your mask if it fills with water. This reminded me of getting a pilot's license. It is important to learn the material but it is critical to remain calm in a crisis. I suspect some percentage of people panic during these simulated emergencies. Everyone in our group passed with flying colours.
We also learned hand signals for communicating under water. The most important thing is to remember that thumbs up is not OK but instead means you are heading for the surface. Using thumbs up instead of OK costs you a beer, payable to the instructors. Thanks to our diving diligence, Kim and Dan remained sober for the entire course. Sorry guys.
Even out of the water our instructors Kim and Dan communicated with hand signals.
After we graduated we had the pleasure of seeing our instructor Kim performing a hula dance. Hand gestures underwater were terse and to the point: I'm OK, I'm out of air, Don't touch that! Hula hand gestures on the other hand are complex and mesmerizing.
Once we had learned these basics we did several open water dives and even some simple cave diving. Swimming into a cave with the only a tiny light in the distance takes a certain nerve but underwater caves and canyons give a strong sense of flying.
The best dive was at Sacred Island. Legend has it that this was the home of the first Fijians. It is forbidden to walk on the Island but there is excellent diving off the shore.


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How to Make Your App Stand Out in the Crowd
What's that? You have a shiny new app you want to tell people about?
Join the club: There are more than 900,000 apps in Apple's App Store. Google's Play store has a similar number.
And there are plenty of people who say they can help you get some exposure for your app. Some want to sell you advertising in other apps, others say they can help you get better reviews, or even improve your download rankings.
The good news is that the most effective app-distribution strategy doesn't cost a dime.
So says Appnation, an app-centric conference producer that is branching out into research. All you have to do is make sure that everyone who uses your app loves it and tells their friends about it, and presto! You've got word of mouth, which is the way most people discover most of their apps:
That data comes from an online survey that Appnation and partner Reticle Research conducted in May. And if you like that, there's plenty more where that came from.
For instance, Appnation thinks that the younger you are, the more likely you'll be influenced by stuff you see in the App Store itself, like download rank, or reviews for individual apps. If you're really young, that stuff could be nearly as important as what your pals say:
Given that the results are self-reported, there could be some wiggle room in the way you interpret this stuff.
And, alas, I don't think the data will do anything to slow down the torrent of unsolicited emails I get each day asking me to promote/review/"consider" someone's app. Which I'm sure is a very nice app, but is not something I'm going to look at, let alone write about.
Unless you are pitching me some sort of spam-filter app that works better than Google's miserable Postini and its replacement. Then I'm all ears.


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Stand Up And Be Counted–Enough is Enough
Two months ago, I saved this quote on my desktop. At the time, I didn't know why. Now I know. Events and comments made during this 2008 presidential campaign season have illuminated why we need to heed these words by Harry S. Truman:
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. -Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)
Our government is not there yet, but if we allow hate slogans, catcalling, intolerance and elected representatives to question opposition as "unamerican" can we be far from that path? Opposition by all Americans to these types of intimidation needs to be strong and united. If we silence dialogue, if we eschew diversity, how do we become the innovative economy and country we need to be? My computer has just told me that the word unamerican does not exist. Is AI is more intelligent than humans? By the way, I am not adding it to the dictionary.


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Second hand sofas are not at the pinnacle of interior layout. However, it is some thing that a number of humans have in their homes. This is some thing that you may have inherited whilst you first got an apartment. It might have even been within the apartment whilst you moved in. You can still get a totally unique design style simply by taking note of a few design principles.
If you are in love with the material then take into account how you could alternate it out. Really patterned sofas have long past out of fashion. Now its all approximately the neutral shades of sofas and strong fabrics. However, a few decades in the past floral prints and stripes were all of the rage. This is very common while you go together with secondhand sofas. You can just destroy this up genuinely by converting out quite a few the throw pillows and neutralizing the couch with strong shades of pillows and throw blankets.
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I watched the first season of Heroes. Liked it but didn't love it. And then it sucked the 2nd season. And now I just don't care. And from what I understand a lot of other people don't care either. Ratings are down, the buzz is over, and more importantly, Hayden P isn't cool anymore. She so wants to be.
Check her out, front row at Tommy Hilfiger (do they wear Tommy Hilfiger?) at NY Fashion Week yesterday sitting beside Ed Westwick with so much Try on her face. It's just not the same. She's not them. But you know she'd kill for a spot on Gossip Girl. She wants to be that girl. But there's always been something about Hayden, among young Hollywood, the popular kids in that class, she doesn't quite have a full membership. I wouldn't issue one to her either.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Monday it will install charging stations at more than 50 of its U.S. and Canadian offices and plants so that employees can refill their electric vehicle batteries at work.
The second-largest U.S. automaker said it will start installing the charging stations and their 200 chargers in November, at nearly every Ford facility in the United States and Canada, and roll them out through 2014.
"We know that a growing electrified vehicle infrastructure is key to making plug-in vehicles a viable option for more consumers," said Mike Tinskey, Ford global director of vehicle electrification and infrastructure.
"We're trying to be on the leading edge of a trend to offer employees the ability to have a second charge so they would charge at night (at home) and then charge at work," he said in a telephone interview. This would allow them to drive their cars' in electric mode nearly all the time, he noted.
Employees will get free charging for the first four hours, enough to top up a fully depleted battery on any Ford vehicle. Tinskey did not disclose the installation costs for Ford.
Ford estimated it will cost the Detroit-area company about 50 cents to fully charge a vehicle, while saving each employee up to $2 in gasoline a day.
Consumers have been slow to gravitate toward electric vehicles (EVs) as a result of their high cost and fears about driving range, but automakers continue to develop the technology because it is seen as a primary driver in meeting rising fuel-efficiency requirements globally. To further boost sales, several automakers have slashed prices on their EVs in recent months.
While the number of public charging stations in the United States and Canada has grown to more than 20,000 from 3,000 in 2009, the ability to charge at work is key for driving down costs and making EVs more convenient, Tinskey said. The company has no plans to install chargers in public places, he said.
Ford already has more than 1,700 charging stations at Ford dealerships and company facilities in North America. The company sells the all-electric Focus Electric as well as two plug-in hybrids - the Fusion Energi and C-Max Energi.
Other automakers have EV charging stations as well.
General Motors Co (GM.N), which sells the Chevrolet Volt plug-in and all-electric Spark EV, has 795 charging stations at its U.S. facilities, 395 of which can be accessed by the general public. It has another 4,300 stations at its U.S. dealerships.
Nissan Motor Co (7201.T), which sells the all-electric Leaf, has a total of more than 160 level 2 chargers and 10 quick charging units installed at 12 of its major U.S. facilities, and a total of more than 3,100 located at its U.S. dealerships. It also has a dedicated team of employees that helps the Japanese automaker invest with others to install stations at companies and in communities.
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors (TSLA.O) has installed almost 30 superchargers in the United States and parts of Europe to allow its customers to replenish their cars batteries quickly on long drives.
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Nice to see that Hasbro is thinking ahead on this. This is a clear indication that this must be Luke's tauntaun, since this one doesn't feature the opening belly. And I think it's pretty obvious that we'll get a new Hoth Luke Skywalker with this release, and a Hoth Han Solo with the opening belly release. I'm just wondering how far Hasbro will space the two releases apart.
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Corruption-fearing Western executives are still squeamish about investing in Africa, but as the continent's economies take off, legal firms hope to make big bucks from assuaging those concerns.
As debate rages about the sustainability of Africa's economic rise, there is little doubt that the continent today offers investment returns that cannot be matched in most developed markets.
The IMF projects that sub-Saharan Africa will grow at 5.7 percent this year, outpacing most regions and rivaling Asia's boom markets.
According to a recent KPMG study, private equity firms got a record US$3.03 billion back from African investments in 2011.
"As growth in other economies have slowed in recent years ... investors have been looking to emerging markets and economies that will provide higher return rates," KMPG's Dapo Okubadejo said. "Africa is continuously proving its business case for investment."
Home-grown African firms are expanding and, notably, China's state-backed extraction companies have piled in to the continent.
However, US companies in particular have been slow to jump in.
One reason for the delay is corruption, according to a recent survey by law firm Dentons and business advisory firm AlixPartners.
Their poll of 200 senior executives at multinationals based in the US showed a quarter of respondents cited corruption as a reason they avoid the continent.
"There is a perception gap among a number of US companies as to both the opportunities on the African continent and a perception gap as to the underlying risks," Dentons partner Thomas Laryea said.
Of those firms that already do business in Africa, 75 percent said there was a need for more transparent local business culture.
"Concerns about corruption are clearly shaping companies' decisions to invest in Africa," the authors said.
Dentons and AlixPartners have their own business reasons for drawing wary investors to continent, but the paucity of Western law firms active in a Africa is cited as one reason for low rates of investment.
However, the lack of trusted local interlocutors may not be a factor for long.
It took around six decades, but in May last year Baker & McKenzie — by some measures the world's largest law firm — opened its first office in sub-Saharan Africa.
The office, in Johannesburg, hopes to tap rich interest in the country's energy, mining and finance sectors.
It is just one of a host of big-name legal firms making the leap.
Dentons already has ties with 19 associated firms in Africa, but Laryea said competition is heating up.
"Every other day we hear stories and announcements of other law firms that are establishing Africa practices," Laryea said.
Services in the energy, infrastructure, resources and agriculture sectors, as well as financial sectors are in particular demand.
However, navigating government services, where perhaps most corruption pitfalls lay, may offer the broadest possible opportunities.
"Even if I'm doing a private sector deal on the African continent there is nothing that is purely private sector in that context," Laryea said.
For legal services firms, at least, navigating red tape and corrupt administrations in Africa may prove to be big business.


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We have seen before on this blog that many transgender activists think lesbians should have sex with penises because the owner of the penis feels like a woman inside. It's a girl's dick, after all! People should think about their sexuality really deeply, so that they can realize that they want to have sex with penises after all!
When the topic comes up online, even the most extreme transactivists reassure us that it's okay to not be attracted to certain genitals. But you should make absolutely sure by trying anyway!
(from this thread on reddit)
You are also not allowed to refuse someone sex because they are transgender.
It's also wrong to not want penises, because you can have sex in other ways than penis in vagina!
If you absolutely don't want penis then okay I guess, but you should think about why and analyze why you don't like penises!
Not even if you have a "literal phobia" of penises are you excused from being obligated to sleep with dicks:
In fact, there should not even be a word for "lesbian", because the entire concept is so problematic, according to transactivists:
People who are only into people with vulvas? Let's call them "shallow creepy fetishist of vaginae".
In fact, calling people who prefer female bodies fetishistic has become very popular.
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A simple question, but (I'm quite sure) not a superficial one: is the basic distinction between algorithms and much of the rest of math that algorithms try to tackle problems for which we lack global information, or alternatively, lack a complete, instantaneous understanding of the structure of the problem?
A concrete example: consider any simple quadratic polynomial function. If I wanted to know its zeroes, I could just solve for x. Boom: instant analytic solution. Or I could use the Netwon-Raphson method, algorithmically getting closer to the final solution, step-by-step, in accordance with a simple rule.
Obviously there are more complex problems where I can do something like the second approach (use some algorithm), but nothing like the first approach (no clean, instant analytical solution). So is the implication of this that the basic point of algorithms are the problems for which we lack complete, global information, which in turn prevents us from quickly producing the clean analytical solution?
This question is motivated by a recent encounter with the subject of non-convex optimization. A peer explained to me that non-convex optimization is so difficult (and requires difficult algorithms) because basically, you never know if a local optimum is also a global optimum. This remark confused me, because if you had global information, aka the functional form of whatever you were trying to optimize, you could just get an analytical solution. The only way I can make sense of this remark is if we just don't have the functional form -> we don't have global information -> we have to try to screw around with algorithms.


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VANCOUVER — More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered at a Vancouver beach on Saturday afternoon to protest Enbridge's controversial $6.5 billion Northern Gateway pipeline.
The rally, held at Sunset Beach, was one of 60 similar events held in cities across the country, as part of a national day of action against climate change.
It was the second large-scale demonstration against the pipeline, after an estimated 5,000 people attended a similar event at Science World in November.
Some protesters said they'll do anything to stop the project — even chain themselves to trees and machinery — if it gets the green light from the Stephen Harper government in June.
Ben West, a spokesman with ForestEthics Advocacy, which organized the Vancouver event, said he is not surprised that people are prepared to take drastic measures.
"I hope it doesn't come to that. I think it's important we try all the traditional means before those tactics," he said, at the rally Saturday. "I'm still holding out hope that our prime minister will listen to the thousands of people who are against this."
If the project goes ahead, West said first activists will call on Premier Christy Clark to act on her government's opposition to this project and ask her to do everything in her power to stop the pipeline.
He said they are also launching a Stop Harper Fund, seeking donations which will be used for political efforts to help defeat the Conservative government in the next election.
"We still live in a democracy and the people are saying no to Enbridge."
The pipeline proposes to carry heavy-crude oil to a port at Kitimat from the oilsands in Alberta to be shipped overseas. The federal government is expected to make a final decision on the pipeline in June.
In December, a federal panel led by the National Energy Board approved the pipeline, but only if Enbridge meets 209 conditions. Those conditions include Enbridge carrying $950 million in spill insurance coverage, putting in place a plan to offset losses in Caribou habitat and putting into effect its promised enhanced tanker safety plan. That plan includes the use of escort tugs, a new advanced radar system, and an increased spill-response system.
The project still faces other major hurdles, including public opposition, legal action by First Nations and the B.C. Liberal government's five conditions for heavy-oil pipeline support.
Speakers at Saturday's rally included First Nations representatives, federal, provincial and municipal politicians, union leaders, scientists, youth, environmentalists and musical guests.
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The Contrast In Ideas Between Romney and Obama on Entitlements?
The official, head-to-head debates begin next week, but Sunday's "60 Minutes" appearances by President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) provided a contrast in the ideas offered on the nation's entitlements and spending crisis.
For his part, the President punted on a serious question about the nation's concern over spending—blaming everything on President George W. Bush. Instead of addressing the spending question, he waited for the next question about the national debt, which has increased more than 50 percent since he took office. Then came the familiar refrain of why he's not responsible for Washington's overspending or the country's abysmal fiscal situation:
When I came into office, I inherited the biggest deficit in our history. And over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of two wars that weren't paid for, as a consequence of tax cuts that weren't paid for, a prescription drug plan that was not paid for, and then the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
These continued excuses ignore the massive increases since the President took office. According to Heritage expert Emily Goff: By fiscal year 2008, the deficit had reached $458.6 billion. The deficit was increasing as Obama came into office, mainly driven by the recession and the first wave of TARP bailouts. But his Administration's massive stimulus bill sent spending into overdrive and led to a record $1.4 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2009. Deficits have stayed at more than $1 trillion each year since then.
America's entitlement programs are the major driver of out-of-control spending. Without reform, they would push federal spending to nearly 36 percent of the economy within a generation. Debt held by the public would explode to nearly 200 percent. Serious structural reforms are inevitable—it is merely a question of how we change what we are doing.
In his "60 Minutes" interview, Obama glossed over Obamacare's cuts to Medicare and the resulting costs for seniors.
Romney, when asked how he would change Social Security, first made clear there should be no changes to benefits for those in or near retirement.
But he went on:
What I'd do with Social Security is say this: that again, people with higher incomes won't get the same high growth rate in their benefits as people with lower incomes. People who rely on Social Security should see the same kind of growth rate they've had in the past. But higher income folks would receive a little less.
As Heritage expert Alison Fraser explains, Social Security is already income-adjusted today. This is called means testing. Benefits are capped for high-income earners, and the calculation of initial benefits a new retiree receives is based on his or her past income. Upper-income retirees pay a much higher tax than those with lower incomes. Romney proposes to extend this income adjusting so that upper-income retirees receive a bit less than they do now.
While many politicians claim that the only way to address entitlements is to raise taxes or cut benefits, expanding means testing is a serious and sound way to pursue reform.
These kinds of solutions can be found in Saving the American Dream, Heritage's blueprint for solving our spending and debt crises. Saving the American Dream lays out solutions like slowly moving to a flat Social Security benefit that keeps seniors out of poverty, means testing Social Security so that very affluent seniors have a reduced benefit, and moving to a more robust means-tested premium support mechanism for Medicare that offers seniors choice and control over their health dollars and better health outcomes.
Without reforms, entitlement programs will push spending to untenable levels and put undue pressure on vital areas of government such as national defense. The Obama Administration's comments about reform, like "now is not the time" for fixing Social Security and the need for a "balanced approach," have been proven hollow by its push for tax hikes on job creators. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and the longer Washington wastes time, the harsher the changes will have to be.
This debate is vital. To save the American economy and sustain the safety net for those who need it, spending must be reined in and entitlement programs must be reformed.


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If the QNAP TS-419P II looks somewhat familiar to you, that's because it's really the TS-419P+, but with a faster processor. While the latter came with a Marvell 6282 1.6GHz processor, the former comes with a 2.0GHz chip from the same line. Otherwise, almost everything else in terms of hardware specifications remain the same - from the 512MB of DDR2 memory on-board, to the four USB 2.0 and two eSATA ports, as well as dual gigabit Ethernet jacks which support load-balancing as well as link-aggregation.
Externally, the TS-419P II is quite compact given that it has space for four drive bays. The four drive bays mean you can throw in anything from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch SATA2 disk drives, with the latest 3TB hard drives already on the compatibility list, for a potential top-end storage capacity of a whopping 12TB in total. While there's no door to hide the drive bays from view, installing the four hard drives is simple: just unlatch the individual racks and screw on your hard drives.
As mentioned previously, you have both USB and eSATA ports for added external storage, though it must be noted that external drives don't have any power management to spin them down after extended periods of inactivity (the internal drives do spin down to save power, of course). One USB port is front-mounted, inside a handy button which also initiates data copy to or from connected USB storage. The USB ports can also be used to hook up printers for sharing across the network, though support for multifunction printers is out of the question at the moment.
The external 2-line LCD does come in handy for quick viewing of any error messages that may pop up, or for useful bits of information such as the IP addresses of the NAS (network-attached storage), as well as how much storage is left.
Benchmarking with the Intel NAS Performance toolkit produced HD Video playback and record scores of 49MB/s and 8.8MB/s respectively, while the content creation and office productivity tests resulted in 3.6MB/s and 5.5MB/s each. File transfer tests to and from the NAS averaged 6.6MB/s and 38.5MB/s respectively, while directory copying to and fro averaged 3.4MB/s and 8.6MB/s each.
At the end of the day, the TS-419P II is a little bit of a mixed bag. On one hand, the feature set is superb. Take away the cheaper Marvell processor, and this NAS has features that rival that of high-end SMB NAS boxes. While its performance is admittedly a few steps behind other NAS solutions powered by much faster Intel Atom processors, it is by no means a slow and sluggish NAS. (For those interested, do check out our reviews of the 5-bay Thecus N5200XXX and the affordable 4-bay Synology DiskStation DS411j.) QNAP's management software too, has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years, being very easy to use and administer to. Overall, if you don't mind slower disk transfer rates, this is one NAS to consider for the SOHO or home setup.
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