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ARLINGTON - Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys are in the same situation they would have been if they had been able to complete their comeback against New Orleans.
With the New York Giants losing later Sunday, the Cowboys' 34-31 overtime loss didn't hurt their playoff chances.
"It is disappointing, but most anything that we were coming up with, we had to win the Washington game next weekend," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said minutes after his team lost.
"But that's not to say, as you saw, that we didn't do everything we could possibly to win this ball game. But we just have to see how it sorts out."
Well, for the third time in five seasons, the Cowboys can get to the playoffs by winning their regular season finale on the road against the NFC East rival - this time at Washington. They lost such games at the Giants last New Year's night, and at Philadelphia in 2008.
"Even if we would have won today, we would have needed that game next week obviously. There's easier places to go play than New York, Philly and Washington for the division every year," Romo said, even before the Giants lost 33-14 at Baltimore.
"I welcome that challenge. I think we've improved in some areas since those two years."
Romo threw two of his four touchdowns in the final 3:35 of regulation, including a 19-yarder to Miles Austin with 15 seconds left.
But Dallas (8-7) stalled after gaining only 16 yards its lone overtime possession.
The Saints (7-8), whose playoff fate was finally sealed despite the victory, got a game-ending 20-yard field goal from Garrett Hartley on the play after Marques Colston caught a pass, was stripped and the ball rolled more than 20 yards, recovered by New Orleans at the 2.
The Cowboys, who had won three in a row, had control of their own playoff destiny before losing to the Saints. They had it back about three hours later after the Giants lost.
Washington (9-6) beat Philadelphia 27-20. The Redskins have won six in a row, including 38-31 at Dallas on Thanksgiving Day.
The NFC East title last season, and the NFC's final playoff spot, was determined when the Giants beat Dallas 31-14. New York finished the regular season 9-7, then went on to win its second Super Bowl title in five seasons.
With a playoff spot on the line in their 2008 finale, the Cowboys lost 44-6 at Philadelphia.
Playing near the home of suspended Saints coach Sean Payton, Drew Brees threw for 446 yards and three touchdowns.
The Saints all but secured the win when Colston's fumble was recovered when Jimmy Graham won a scrum with Dallas defenders.
"It hurts. You scratch and claw the whole game," cornerback Brandon Carr said. "It's comes down a play like that. It's kind of frustrating."
The Saints, who started 0-4 after getting stunned by Payton's yearlong ban in the team's bounty scandal, saw their playoff hopes end with Minnesota's victory against Houston.
After New Orleans forced a punt in overtime, Brees moved the Saints to the Cowboys 33. He completed a pass to Colston, who took a couple of steps before Morris Claiborne stripped the ball, sending it rolling toward the end zone. The completion was held up on review, and Hartley made the winning kick on the next play.
"I got it out, but they recovered it. I wish it wouldn't have come out," Claiborne said. "I was just trying to make a play. Going to the ground, I didn't even know the ball was out. I was just praying it was incomplete."
The Cowboys pulled within a touchdown on a 16-yard pass from Romo to Dwayne Harris and got the ball back with 1:29 remaining. Romo led the Cowboys 64 yards in seven plays, with Austin catching the tying TD on his knees.
Romo also had a pair of 58-yard scoring passes to Dez Bryant, who had a career-high 224 yards receiving on nine catches
Dallas tight end Jason Witten had two catches in overtime, breaking Tony Gonzalez's NFL season record of 102 catches for a tight end set in 2004. Witten has 103.
But all that and Romo's fourth career 400-yard passing game (26 of 43 for 416 yards) weren't enough.
"It's just a very empty feeling," Romo said.
A few hours later, Romo and his teammates certainly were feeling better.
Notes: Bryant tied a franchise record with a touchdown catch in his seventh consecutive game, and he matched his career high of 145 yards receiving before halftime. ... Romo has three of his 400-yard passing games this season - all Cowboys losses. ... The Cowboys played their third overtime game their past five home games. Before that, they had never played an OT game at Cowboys Stadium, which opened in 2009.


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More than 100 European personalities from the worlds of education, art, literature, economics, philosophy and sport have signed an open letter to EU heads of state and government in support of the threatened Erasmus student exchange programme.
The signatories come from every member state of the EU and include Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar, the president of FC Barcelona Sandro Rosell, Nobel Prize winner Professor Christopher Pissarides and several Olympic champions.
They are responding to concerns that student places on the scheme, as well as grants, may have to be severely reduced due to wrangling over the 2012 and 2013 EU budgets.
The programme already faces a €90 million shortfall this year and it is feared the situation will worsen in 2013.
Over the past 25 years, Erasmus has enabled nearly three million young Europeans to study abroad. More recently, it has also supported job placements in companies abroad.
A whole generation has learned what it means to live and work alongside people from another culture, and to develop the skills and versatility which are vital for the modern labour market.
The letter warns that unless the 2012 and 2013 EU budgets are sufficient to meet pledges already made to students on the basis of previously agreed commitments, "thousands could miss out on a potentially life-changing experience".
The threat to the programme could not come at a worse time for Europe's young people. Youth unemployment among 15- to 24-year-olds has increased by half since the start of the crisis and, today, one in five young Europeans – more than five million – are without a job.
The letter calls for investment in education and training to be at the heart of Europe's response to the crisis. It also highlights the Commission's plans to increase opportunities for young people to boost their skills and employability under the new 'Erasmus for All' programme, due for launch in 2014.
The letter concludes: "Erasmus for All will cost less than 2% of the total EU budget. In the coming weeks, you, the EU's government leaders, will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to endorse the new programme and give it the resources it needs. Our youngsters deserve it. Our future depends on it."
Androulla Vassiliou, European commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, welcomed the publication of the letter. "The Erasmus programme has been changing lives and opening minds for 25 years. Long may that continue! Young people have had to bear the brunt of the crisis. They need our support more than ever now. I am proud and moved that so many people, from different walks of life, have come forward to declare their support for Erasmus."
Serge Falck, actor
Peter Hofbauer, theatre director
Uwe Kroeger, musical star
Vera Russwurm, TV moderator
René Kremser, Erasmus ambassador, Institute for Social Service
Jonathan & Kevin Borlée, Olympic athletes
Axelle Red, singer
Lien Van de Kelder, Intellectual Property-consultant, actress and former Erasmus student
Stefka Kostadinova, chair of national Olympic Committee, world record holder in high jump
Professor Rumyana Todorova, Erasmus ambassador, Vice-Rector of Science, Research and International Relations, Shumen University
Boryana Klinkova, Erasmus ambassador, International Programmes Coordinator, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
Czech Republic
Ji?í B?lohlávek, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
Pavel Nedv?d, ex-footballer, board member at Juventus
Eva Ji?i?ná, architect and designer
Martin Wichterle, entrepreneur
Professor Christopher Pissarides, 2010 Nobel laureate in economics
Michalis Sarris, economist and former Finance Minister
Pavlos Kontides, sailor, 2012 Olympic silver medal winner
Cyprien Katsaris, pianist
Vivian Kanari, TV presenter
Professor Marlene Wind, Director of Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen
Professor Gerard Byrne, Artist, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art
Helen Lokuta, opera singer
Johannes Tralla, TV journalist
Tuomo Martikainen, Professor Emeritus of the University of Helsinki
Paula Pietilä, Erasmus ambassador, Disability Coordinator, University of Turku
Lilian Thuram, ex-footballer, World Cup & Euro winner, director of anti-racism foundation
Professor Pierre Joliot-Curie, biologist, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, grandson of Marie Curie
Michel Serres, philosopher and author
Cédric Villani, mathematician, vice-president of EuropaNova
Detlev Buck, producer and actor
Daniel Brühl, actor
Cornelia Funke, author
Peter Scholze, professor of mathematics
Sia Kosioni, journalist
Maria Farantouri, singer
Giannis Tsimitselis, actor
Dionisis Tsaknis, composer
Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis, 2012 Marie Curie Prize winner, University of Oxford and University of Athens
Áron Szilágyi, fencer, world champion and 2012 Olympic gold medal winner
Eszter Ónodi, actress
Mick Galwey, former Irish rugby captain
Gerry McLoughlin, mayor of Limerick and former rugby international
Noelle O'Connell, executive director, European Movement Ireland
Jessica Gough, Erasmus ambassador, National University of Ireland, Galway
Beppe Severgnini, journalist, columnist and writer
Margherita Hack, astrophysicist and science writer
Federico Taddia, radio DJ and TV anchor
Elisa Di Francisca, fencer, 2012 Olympic gold medal winner
Juris Šteinbergs, professor of molecular biology and TV personality
Lauris Reiniks, Latvian singer, songwriter, TV presenter and actor
Aleksejs Naumovs, Erasmus ambassador and rector of the Art Academy of Latvia Lauris Reiniks, Latvian singer, songwriter, TV presenter and actor
Madara Apsalone, Erasmus Student Network Vice National Representative, Ministry of Finance
R?ta Meilutyt?, swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold medal winner
Martynas Levickis, concert accordionist
Erica Jennings, singer songwriter
Liz May, triathlon athlete
Jean Muller, pianist
Patrick Weimerskirch, President of the Youth Parliament
Joseph Lorent, journalist and Secretary General of the Press Council
Ranga Yogeshwar, author, scientific journalist and physicist
Valerie Vella, TV presenter
Pierre Mejlak, author
Ira Losco, pop singer
The Netherlands
Bram Peper, Erasmus ambassador, assistant professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Désirée Majoor, Erasmus ambassador, Vice-President of the Executive Board, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
Wojciech B?ach, actor
Jerzy Baczy?ski, editor-in-chief, Polityka
Wilhelm Sasnal, artist, winner of the 2006 Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art
Ma?gorzata Ludwisiak, curator and deputy Director, Art Museum of ?odz
Vasco da Graça Moura, President, Centro Cultural de Belém
Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues, scientist and former NATO Director
Teresa de Sousa, journalist
Professor Manuel Jose Santos Silva, Beira Interior University
Ivan Patzaichin, sprint canoe champion
Vlad Petreanu, journalist and blogger
Luca Niculescu, journalist and TV anchor
Mojca Mavec, journalist, TV show host, publicist
Eva and Nika Prusnik, singers, Youth on the Move ambassadors
Emília Vašáryová, actress
Karin Habšudová, tennis player
Adela Banášová, TV presenter
Pedro Almodovar, film director
Sandro Rosell, president, FC Barcelona
Fernando Savater, philosopher and writer
Enrique Pérez Vergara (Flipy), TV presenter
Javier Marías, writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy
Anders Wijkman, senior advisor Stockholm Environment Institute and President, Club of Rome
Staffan Nilsson, President, European Economic and Social Committee
Rolf Gustavsson, journalist
Hans Åhl, Erasmus ambassador, Mid Sweden University
Karl-Fredrik Ahlmark, Erasmus ambassador, University of Gothenburg
United Kingdom
Rhodri Morgan, former First Minister for Wales
David Hare, playwright
Larry Lamb, actor
Sian Lloyd, TV weather presenter
Dr Claire Belcher, 2012 Marie Curie Prize winner, University of Exeter
Cornelia Parker OBE, sculptor and installation artist
John Stezaker, artist
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Pattie Porter Firestone is a sculptor working in metal, wood and stone. She uses flat sheets of metal as her vocabulary in a language about energy, movement and rhythm for both indoor and outdoor sculpture. She served as President of the Washington Sculptors Group a nonprofit in Washington, DC 2004-2009 and has experience in a cooperative gallery, directing a public interest law center, teaching art and art history to children and other community activities. In 1981-1993 Firestone co-founded the Westside Arts Center, a nonprofit arts organization of artists teaching children in Santa Monica, California.
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With a view to streamline the functioning of the monolithic Directorate of Public
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I read a lot of blog posts - a LOT. Sometimes it's interesting to sit back and evaluate all of the reading that I'm doing to try to glean ways of improving my efficiency. One thing that has enormously improved my efficiency is installing a Google plug-in RSS reader. Now, all the blogs that I read come into one sidebar where I can easily keep track of what's new.
So here are some of the posts I've been reading in the last couple days primarily covering SQL Server and also my other interests to a lesser degree:
http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/default.aspx - The SQL CAT (Customer Advisory Team) are simply awesome.
http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/bobb/2008/03/04/FeatureSynergyInSQLServer2008.aspx - Bob Beauchemin's blog is always a wonderful site for great new information. This particular article talks about the interplay of PowerShell and SSMS, which I'm trying to get up to speed on.
http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/archive/2008/03/07/getting-started-with-powershell.aspx - Dan Jone's nice entry on getting started with PowerShell.
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/ssqanet/archive/2008/03/04/pre-order-the-kalen-delaney-sql-server-internals-course-on-dvd.aspx - Kalen has been an expert in SQL Server since before it was a Microsoft product. This DVD is very much worth it. It's actually really cheap considering how much information it contains.
http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/2008/03/05/TechNetRadioInterviewWithPaulAndKimberlyOnSQLServer2008Part1.aspx - Kimberly Tripp was the first person I ever took a SQL Server class from. Her content has always been top-tier and now that she and Paul are working together, it's only gotten better.
http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2008/03/05/how-it-works-sqliosim-checksums.aspx - SQLIOSim is very useful for stress testing, but notoriously hard to interpret the results. (I wrote about this free tool some months ago in my SQL Server Magazine column, Tool Time.) This blog post from the PSS team helps you decifer checksum error messages that might appear in the SQLIOSim log.
http://blogs.msdn.com/benjones/archive/2008/03/05/store-your-data-in-the-cloud.aspx - Okay, so Microsoft has plans to allow you to host your SQL Server data in the cloud. That means that small businesses (or small teams inside of big businesses) can easily pop up SQL Server without the infrastructure or management headaches. I'm not sure how much traction this will get, but it shows that Microsoft now considers Google to be its biggest competitor IMO.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlperf/ - I was intrigued by a posting from the SQL Server Performance Engineering team that not only did SQL Server 2008 launch at February party for Windows 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, it launched with exceptionally good TPC-E numbers. This surprised me because, afaik, there's still a lot of debug code in the CTPs. I know this because my own TPC-C test were disappointing. So I was wondering what the secret sauce was so that they could post strong numbers with a straight face. I haven't yet read the TPC disclaimers, but rest assured that I will soon.
http://blogs.technet.com/wardpond/archive/2008/03/06/are-you-paying-to-read-this-post-you-don-t-have-to.aspx - I like to keep up with what Ward Pond is up to and, at the moment, he's ticked off at a variety of websites that are aggregators for other people's content, including his own. These websites charge monthly fees, but often create very little of their own content, instead repackaging what other people have written. This is what my Google RSS reader does for free.
https://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2007/02/14/wow-lots-of-blogs-from-the-sql-product-team.aspx - I always go back to this web page from time to time to make sure that I'm checking in on all of the SQL Server team blogs. Right now, I'm making sure that all of the blogs with RSS feeds are in my reader so that I don't have to go out and pull down their latest postings manually.
http://statisticsio.com/ - This is a new (to me at least) blog from Jason Massie that I found to be fun and interesting. I think the SQL All Stars competition is what caught my eye.
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1296396,00.html?track=sy200&asrc=RSS_RSS-3_200 - I feel like I never seem to know enough about how the SQL language and XML interact on SQL Server. This is a good article by Michelle Gutzait examining XML on SQL Server, compared to simply using VARCHAR(MAX).
http://benchmarkfactory.inside.quest.com/index.jspa - I use Benchmark Factory (from my employer, Quest Software) to do my large-scale SQL Server testing. I was on the discussion forum reading some tips for doing a 3000 concurrent user TPC-C test.
And now for something completely different, I'm a big fan of the book Freakonomics and the accompanying blog hosted by the New York Times. In this book (and on their blog), the authors look to interprete the data as it really is, rather than the data as we wish it meant. The results are sometimes shocking and always interesting (social conservatives beware). In this particular blog post ( http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/when-journalists-gripe/), they point to a website where journalists gripe about being a journalist. I was interested in this because I think old world journalists today are what icemen were in the 1920's, on the verge of extinction. So I'm curious to see what's happening in their world.
I'm also very concerned about the current state of the economy, which has been brewing for quite a long time now, and the dire straights we're now in:
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Hanging out with James Trainor, talking about climate change and where we are all going to live in 30 years. Guess my part of the desert isn't at the top of that list?
October 30th, 2014
Oh wow, just finished reading Kip's latest selection "Burro Bill and Me" for the HDTS desert book club. Was expecting a standard settler's memoir, but this book was super intense and even harrowing at times… in a great way. Also there was a personally relevant subtext throughout Edna's story that describes the various ways that they slowly departed with all of their material possessions and in exchange accumulated freedom, resilience and self sufficiency. Book club meets next Monday at Copper Mountain Community Center in North Joshua Tree. Kip says you don't have to read the book – but it's a winner, and you still have a few days to take it all in! #highdeserttestsites #hdts


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Monday, November 7, 2011
The 5 Crore Man....
This appeared in Bombay Times today...
The Five Crore Man..
Sushil Kumar from Bihar has joined the ranks of the 'most-recognised' celebrities in India after winning 5 crores on Amitabh Bachchan's KBC. Excellent timing ( Diwali ) and superb marketing have propelled the young man from a life of total obscurity to an entirely different world under the spotlight. So far, Sushil Kumar remains delightfully underwhelmed by the attention and the moolah. I happened to share the same flight to Delhi last week, and have to confess I didn't recognize the non-descript young man who was minding his own business and reading a Hindi newspaper. The story changed as soon as we landed. Several co-passengers gheraoed him , asking for autographs. He posed for pictures and chatted away without the slightest self-consciousness. Someone brought him over for an introduction and he disarmingly stated that since he didn't speak any English, we'd have to converse in Hindi . He spoke sensibly and sincerely about his win, neither boasting nor underplaying its significance in his life. At the swanky New Delhi terminal, once again Sushil Kumar was enthusiastically mobbed by passengers and staff. The last I saw of him,he was in the middle of a large crowd getting clicked on several cell phones. He appeared cool and unfazed by all the attention. This is true celebrity.
Contrast Sushil Kumar's attitude to that of nobodies parading as celebrities. Especially B- and C- grade Bollywood types who refuse to take their shades off inside the aircraft, and strut up and down the aisle strenuously trying to attract attention. It's easy to spot these wannabes from a mile as they collar Page 3 photographers at splashy events and insist on being photographed with the Chief Guest. If a pesky kid is stupid enough to ask for an autograph, these delusional people display the worst attitude and a basic lack of good manners by playing hard to get. Quite forgetting that their 15 minutes of fame got over years ago. Perhaps a few months from now, not too many people will remember Sushil Kumar ( someone else may win 10 crores by then!). But chances are, it won't matter to this down to earth man. He is clear about his objectives and wants to spend his win on educating his brothers and continuing his own education. Married less than six months ago, he smiles shyly when asked what he'd like to gift his wife. For now, Sushil Kumar is in a happy space, soberly enjoying his fame and good fortune . He isn't likely to buy the latest designer shades to hide behind. Nor does one expect him to go for a fancy car. But while his moment of glory lasts, Sushil Kumar is all set to enjoy every minute of it! Good luck to the 5 Crore Man!
Driving back from Pune recently, I had to pinch myself several times. The skyline has changed so dramatically it's possible to believe one is in some futuristic city. Those towers! The mad architecture that mimics the best and worst of Singapore or Dubai. The gigantic shopping complexes that cover several acres! Mumbai is beginning to look like a poor cousin of Vashi and Belapur! Some irony, that!
Happy Birthday Bombay Times! Those who made it to the Anniversary Mad Hatter's Party confirm they had an absolute blast. Nothing less was expected. Get ready to devour Page 3 to Page 20 crammed with wall-to-wall coverage of the event that saw the city's Most Terrific at their party best.
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- November 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM
- Unknown said...
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- November 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM
Even SRK was not recognized by a security guard at posh delhi locality as per his published interview I read few days back.
- November 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- Harish said...
awwww... thank you so much De. :)
i love you.
chotta correction though... it is the (CNN IBN/ IBN7/IBN lokmat) TV18 network ka award .. not NDTV.
aparna... :) the way to de's heart is through her stomach.
hai naa... de?
the best thing about sushil kumar was his heart full of gratitude. after every question, he would look at his parents, his family, he thanked his friend, his villager... was not shy to be in his own skin... he never tried behaving sophisticated. he was raw, he was untamed, he was fearless.... and the one thing that stands out - HE WAS GROUNDED.
it is the heart full of gratitude that won him 5 crores.
yesterday, i was at We The People, i was amazed at people mobbing vidya balan, abhay deol and mahesh bhatt for photographs and autographs...
vidya was earthy and suave, we have some family connection... and she was NOT like "I am a star of a different galaxy"... she greeted acknowledged and was mast
so was abhay deol.. mashaalaah.. boy next door types...
the rest of bollywood one-film-chick and dumb-dudes need to get their feet on ground, for that's where the skies fall.
- November 8, 2011 at 1:03 PM
- ekta khetan said...
Stars first struggle to get notice...then behave so suave as if sunlight will hurt them.
A men who won 5 crore is ecstatic and may not bask in limelite now.,...let him win few more n see how dies it corrupts him.
Moreover, he must be shy n scared of unwanted eyes on his prize money- a la local goon etc..
- November 8, 2011 at 4:40 PM
- Ashwini Sane said...
M'am,The interaction sounds really great! Am so glad you do these things.Congrats and Best wishes to Harish Iyer and Aparna Velankar.
- November 8, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Im loving how all the people who actually need the kbc platform are benefiting from it this time around...they deserve an applause for providing such an opportunity to the people from villages and small cities. Knowledge=wealth afterall!
Kudos to Sushil Kumar and KBC...
- November 8, 2011 at 9:22 PM
- चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसाद said...
A man uplifted is a family uplifted. Hope he doesnt lose his sleep and brain.
- November 8, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Tsomo85 said...
Congratulation to the winner! Shobha De, how do you always manage to come across the achiever just like that? I mean seriously, who doesn't want to see the happy eyes of that genius soul in face to face? Wow! Thank you for sharing this with us! Always, enjoy your blog no matter what.
- November 8, 2011 at 11:40 PM
- Desi Babu said...
Dear Mrs. De,
Finally, a post by you appreciating the "Desi Cool" trait! After Mr. Dhoni and Mr. Paanch Karor ka Pati , do you have any doubts left that Desis are cool?
BTW, I seemed to have missed a post by you talking about Saif Khan's "crowning". The hilarious incident made waves on Indian media, and I finally caught up with the circus a few days ago. We would have loved one of your sarcastic posts on the "birth" of a new "Nawab".
In case you missed it, I wrote my own take on it yesterday: Of Nawabs and Kebabs
Desi Babu
- November 9, 2011 at 12:28 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
congrats to Aham and Aparna.
i liked your post on sushil kumar the winner.
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- November 12, 2011 at 3:01 PM
- julie said...
I like your views about those Page 3 b, c grade bollywood socialites types. Nice to know that insiders of the industry think the same as the average person. Love the part of them wearing sunglasses inside the aircraft. Sometimes i wondered if they sleep with it.
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'SNL' recap: Eli Manning, Rihanna
I know close to nothing about sports (except when I throw a balled-up piece of paper into the trashcan and know that it's customary to shout "Kobe!" while doing so). But one of the few things I do know is the name Eli Manning. After all, here's an athlete who has managed one of the rarest of feats in pop culture: being so high-profile in the zeitgeist that not only does an athletics layman like myself know his name, but he gets to step onto the Grand Central set and host Saturday Night Live.
So how did the Giants quarterback do as a primetime player?
If you had optimistically high hopes for Manning's opening monologue on the third most exciting night of his life (after two Super Bowls), you may have been slightly bummed by the fact that Manning couldn't read the audience and thus made no effort to pause for applause or laughter (there was a lot of the former, but not so much of the latter). The brunt of the monologue was Manning's self-proclaimed expertise about New York City, which included recommendations to get tickets to Cats and eat New York cuisine at Olive Garden.
Thus began the theme of the night: Manning as dimwitted doofus. Whether this reflects something about Manning's public persona or if it's simply an easy approach to writing for a gawky jock, I don't know — but Manning was up for it, and in any case, he delivered on what he was given (although his cue card reading skills could use some polishing).
A fake advertisement for Fifty Shades of Grey on Amazon's Kindle e-reader will most likely make its viral way through the Internet this week. Usually SNL's commercial parodies can be counted on for some hearty chuckles, but the send-up of the "mommy porn" erotica novel was thoroughly spot on. When a real Kindle ad followed after the next commercial break, all I could think of was Vanessa Bayer's rubber glove.
The show wasted no time in giving sports fans a football-themed sketch. Dressed in a skin-tight motion capture suit, Manning played himself, tasked with performing a victory dance that his video game representation would reenact inMadden NFL '13. His creative moves included dribbling a basketball, dribbling two basketballs and eating a sandwich, all of which played up some bizarre boorishness that still seemed too mean for poor Manning. (Andy Samberg's hilarious one-liner as shaggy-haired Troy Polamalu salvaged the sketch's otherwise oddball ending.)
The night's first solid skit featured Manning as an accused murderer and Jason Sudeikis (another MVP of the night, appearing in nearly every sketch) as the lawyer who uses his client's flirty texts — including "You up?" and "What are those big boobs of yours doing right now?" — to exonerate him. Manning knocked the goofy, hopeless flirt act right out of the park, showing no fear as he posed with a banana, demonstrated his emoticon impressions and eloquently pronounced the word "kewl." If nothing else, the sketch made everyone realize just how awful texts are when they're read out loud.
Another commercial featured Manning as a for-hire Big Brother bully, which was a thinly veiled jab at the rivalry between the host and his older brother Peyton, who hosted SNL back in 2007. Following that, Bill Hader reappeared as gruff reporter Herb Welch, who was sent to cover Occupy Wall Street (Manning played an enthusiastic protester). As always, Hader's Welch had only one or two funny lines, which usually stem from his blatant racism towards Nasim Pedrad's anchorwoman Wanda Ramirez. "As always, we apologize for everything Herb Welch said and did," said Killam's newscaster. Apology accepted (for now).
Ah, and then came Rihanna. Singing "Birthday Cake/Talk That Talk" in front of a giant spider web, the pop star delivered one of SNL's weirdest performances in a long while, falling somewhere between Lana Del Rey's narcoleptic gyrations and Ashlee Simpson's infamous JigGate of 2004. 90% of the performance was a pre-recorded vocal track and Rihanna patting her privates, and the other 10% was Rihanna muttering something and singing the occasional "ooh." Her second song "Where Have You Been?" featured another transformed stage that held chaise lounges, giant curtains and veiled dancers (whom I'm sure offended someone, somewhere).
Weekend Update was particularly weak, after some throwaway jokes about Obama and Bin Laden and an appearance from Kristen Wiig (her first of the night) as Patricia Krentcil, the New Jersey tanning mom with an awesome toast-making party trick. Update took a turn for the bizarre when Seth Meyers welcomed his second guest from The Dictator, or "what many people are already calling the film of the year." (I'm pretty sure nobody is calling it that.) Sacha Baron Cohen took the stage as Admiral General Aladeen from the upcoming comedy, although the stunt played of like a desperate plea for attention for the May 16 release. Cohen essentially recycled almost every one of his jokes from CinemaCon until Martin Scorsese popped up out of freakin' nowhere, an amusing act which managed to save the publicity-begging debacle from sinking further.
Two one-joke sketches followed: "What Is This?", a game show in which Abby Elliott played a host who took advantage of the show's format to question her boyfriend (Manning) about the current state of their relationship; and "Helga Lately," a Swedish spoof of Chelsea Handler that was as unnecessary as it was unexpected. Newcomer Kate McKinnon held her own as Helga Handler, who spouted gibberish for three minutes while peppering in key words like "vodka and red bull" and "Twitter." Occasional giggles were to be had from Fred Armisen's Chooveoeuf, Killam's @Jomosexuell_Snarken, and another insta-hit, "Catch Up Mit Du Khlardashians." Both sketches started out strong, but screeched to a halt about halfway through.
The rest of the evening's sketches weren't any better. The first featured Manning as a Velma Von Tussle-meets-Big Bird drag queen who breaks down after being eliminated from Miss Drag World 2012 (because "her junk fell out twice"). The second was an utterly unfunny Turner Classic Movies installment that explored a scenario in which Cheech and Chong were joined by a third member, Richard, who would bizarrely grow up to become Mitt Romney. Neither sketch really got any laughs, and rightly so, because neither sketch was very funny.
And that's the show. Despite the unimaginative dumb-meathead approach, Manning was game for whatever silly scenarios were thrown at him — and unlike other hosts, he appeared in almost every sketch that made it to air. Even in a noticeably weak episode, the man showed he had courage, if not an exceptionally strong proclivity for comedic timing. Manning may not have completely scored, but at the very least, he was a good sport.
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William R. Smith, a career railroader who rose from coach cleaner to head the Canton Railroad Co. and was also a strong advocate for the port of Baltimore, died Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The longtime Ruxton resident was 83.
"Bill was an energetic, detail-oriented person. He was a man who enjoyed new ideas," said Helen Delich Bentley, former maritime editor of The Baltimore Sun, who later became a congresswoman and federal maritime commissioner.
"He expended a lot of energy trying to improve business in and through Baltimore. He never hesitated in going after a possible customer. He was there," said Mrs. Bentley. "When he assumed a task, he gave it his all."
The son of an oil company worker and a vaudeville booking agent, William Richard Smith was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated from West High School.
He served in the Army, where he attained the rank of corporal, and worked from 1947 to 1948 as a medical laboratory technician.
Mr. Smith then enrolled at Ohio State University, where he studied business administration on the GI Bill. He worked his way through college as a coach-cleaner for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
"He saw the power of the railroad industry and railroads became his transportation niche," said a daughter, Catherine Durkin of Ruxton.
After earning his bachelor's degree in 1953, Mr. Smith went to work in the freight traffic department of the Pennsylvania Railroad where he rose to sales manager.
He held freight traffic assignments in Cincinnati, Chicago, Fort Wayne, Columbus and Milwaukee before coming to Baltimore in 1958, when he was named foreign sales manager.
While working for the Pennsy, Mr. Smith honed his business acumen.
"I had a boss in Milwaukee who used to say, 'Use your imagination, use your imagination,'" Mr. Smith told The Baltimore Sun in a 1998 interview.
"Finally, one day I went to the library and got out a book on imagination. It's funny how much you can learn. I try to find out everything about a problem and then figure out what the practical solutions are. Then, I set out to do it."
He left the Pennsy in 1961 when he joined the Canton Railroad Co., a 39-mile industrial railroad that began operating in 1906. Canton Railroad was an offspring of the Canton Co. that was founded in 1828 by some of the same businessmen who established the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1827.
Mr. Smith's first job for the Canton was foreign sales manager, a position he held until 1970 when he left to become vice president of sales for the Dickinson-Heffner Real Estate Development Co.
He returned to the Canton in 1974 as vice president, a position he held until 1980. In 1976, he was elected to be a director of the Canton Co. and its three subsidiaries: Canton Railroad Co., the Cottman Co. and Canton Agency Inc.
Mr. Smith left the Canton in 1980 and for the next decade was associated with TDRC Corp., sales agents for an Atlanta rail car leasing firm that he founded with Robert W. Dale Jr., another Canton executive.
He returned to the Canton a third time when he was named president of the line from 1990, a position he held until retiring in 1997.
During Mr. Smith's tenure, made marketing and improving customer relations "top priorities," wrote Gary W. Schlerf in his 1996 book, "The History of the Canton Railroad Company: Artery of Baltimore's Industrial Heartland."
"His real estate and development background strengthened the Railroad's new policy of preserving or acquiring access to any property which has development potential, particularly port facilities," Mr. Schlerf wrote. "Smith's vision includes looking at new opportunities and directions for the Railroad to grow."
In 1991, the Canton purchased CSX's Canton Branch, and a year later, introduced freight service that operated at night on the former Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad, now the present day Light Rail Line, from the city to Ferndale.
Mr. Smith's management style allowed him to make decisions swiftly.
"We don't have the committee system that large companies have," he told The Sun in 1998. "This is more satisfying and a lot more fun. You can make decisions quickly, and you get to know all of your customers.
"He had out-of-the-box thinking," said Mr. Magness. "He always said, 'Don't take no for an answer,' and I took that from him.
"He did a lot of business on a handshake, which he felt was as important as a written contract," he said. "The only thing he wanted was not to be disappointed."
In addition to his professional life, Mr. Smith had been active in Republican politics and had served as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee and had been active in the campaign of Mrs. Bentley and George Price.
Mr. Smith had been president of the old Merchant's Club and had been on the board of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum and the German Children's Home, and chairman of the advisory committee of the Baltimore Maritime Museum. He also had been president of the Bykota Senior Center.
Mr. Smith, who moved to the Glen Meadows Retirement Community in Glen Arm in 2008, was an avid collector of model trains. He also liked traveling to the Southwest and spending time with his family at a second home at Deep Creek Lake.
He was a longtime communicant and vestryman at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Boyce and Carrollton avenues, Ruxton, where a memorial service will he held at 11 a.m. Monday.
In addition to his daughter, Mr. Smith is survived by his wife of 58 years, the former Ann E. Pierce; a son, Ralph E. Smith of Buffalo; another daughter, Libby Benet of Monroe, Conn.; a sister, Margery Dowler of Columbus; 10 grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.


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Gluten-free Vegan Breakfast Tofu Saute Recipe with Nutritional Yeast
Susan of the Fat Free Vegan Kitchen recently wrote a great post introducing readers to the joys of nutritional yeast. This ingredient is wonderful for any vegan looking to boost their B vitamins or just add some tasty umami flavor to their recipes. It can add a cheesiness to recipes that is very satisfying. Ironically, I read her post as I chowed down on a big plate of gluten-free pasta, topped with homemade tomato pasta sauce, pine nuts, and a generous dash of flaked nutritional yeast. My first encounter with nutritional yeast as a college student was on popcorn, and it left me wanting more. Luckily there are a lot of ways to use nutritional yeast. Recently I made a great tofu scramble/saute for breakfast along with some home fries. I devoured the tofu scramble and Toddler Yum couldn't get enough of the home fries, so it was a success all around.
I have lots of recipes using nutritional yeast:
Un-chicken Roasted Vegetable Soup with nutritional yeast
Nutritional yeast gravy
Yum nutritional yeast sauce
Nutritional Yeast Coated Baked Tofu Strips
Pan Fried Southern Fried Nutritional Yeast Tofu
Mashed Cauliflower with Nutritional Yeast Cheesiness
Dairy-Free Cheesy Nutritional Yeast Spinach Pie
Have you tried nutritional yeast? What is your favorite recipe using nutritional yeast?
My friend Alisa of Go Dairy Free has also Written about Nutritional Yeast
My favorite cookbooks with Nutritional Yeast Recipes (not strictly gluten-free but largely adaptable):
Vegan Tofu Saute Breakfast Recipe
1 tbsp. Grapeseed Oil
1/2 firm tofu block sliced horizontally in half and pressed between towel for 30 minutes or overnight kept in the fridge
1/4 large onion, diced
1 large carrot, peeled and grated
handful of chard or kale, washed, de-veined and sliced into thin strips
favorite herbal seasoning blend, especially a dill or shallot based one like Penzey's Sunny Paris
dash of gluten-free soy sauce
nutritional yeast to taste, from 2-4 tbsp.
Dice your pressed tofu into small cubes.
Preheat a nice pan and add your grapeseed oil. Sautee your onions until they lose their crunch and then move them to the side. Add a little more olive oil if necessary and heat before adding your tofu cubes. Pan fry until golden brown on one side and then turn. Season tofu with your herbal seasoning blend and herbamare if desired. When both sides of tofu are golden brown, Add your grated carrot and chard or kale. Cook until softened, taste, and drizzle a little gluten-free soy sauce on your tofu if desired. Add generous amount of nutritional yeast on top, heat and then flip over tofu mixture so nutritional yeast is evenly distribute. Taste. Adjust seasonings as needed. Add pepper. Those who have grown-up taste buds can dab with srirachi hot sauce as they like. Avocado cubes would also be tasty on top.
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Warnings about Camp Lejeune's tainted water unheeded for years
By BARBARA BARRETT | MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Published: April 18, 2010
RELATED: Camp Lejeune water contamination timeline
WASHINGTON — For 30 years, thousands of Marines and their family members at Camp Lejeune, N.C., drank, cooked with and bathed in water that was laced with dangerous chemicals, but when outside contractors began raising questions about the toxic water, documents show, base officials rebuffed them and ignored the warnings or ordered more tests.
The worst-offending wells finally were shut down in November 1984, more than four years after the first warnings. In that time, more than 2,500 babies may have been carried in utero on the base or born at Camp Lejeune hospital, according to estimates by federal scientists.
Strung together, thousands of pages of documents tell the story of how the contamination was allowed to continue. They show that Camp Lejeune officials had been told consistently that something very foul flowed through the base's pipes.
The Marines say they closed the wells within days of learning details about the contamination.
"The kind part of me wants to say (the Marines) took a while to figure it out," Mike Hargett, an outside contractor who raised questions about the toxic water in 1982 and 1983, said in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers. "The unkind part says somebody was sloppy and negligent," said Hargett, who now lives in Rutherfordton, N.C., about an hour west of Charlotte.
The Marine Corps says it's difficult to know what might or might not have been done in response to the warnings, because the record of thousands of related documents is exhaustive but not necessarily complete.
"Just because it's not in the record doesn't mean something wasn't done," Marines spokesman Capt. Brian Block said.
The water contamination has launched years of scientific inquiry, spurred a congressional investigation and, many think, sickened thousands of Marines and their family members.
There may be more to be learned.
Last month, federal scientists sent the Department of the Navy and the Marine Corps a letter indicating that the military still hasn't turned over all documentation. The Marines deny withholding documents and say they've done their best to make sure scientists have what they need.
The scientists, working for the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, are trying to find out whether the toxic water is connected to ailments suffered by thousands of former Marines and their family members.
In February, a congressional oversight subcommittee led by Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., began its own investigation.
The congressional investigation follows a report by McClatchy showing that benzene — a component of fuel and a known cancer-causing agent — might have been much more responsible for the contamination than had been known previously.
A new document shows that as much as 1.1 million gallons of fuel might have been spilled into Camp Lejeune's groundwater over the years. As many as a million people are estimated to have been exposed to the water from 1957 to the mid-'80s.
The Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery had issued drinking water rules in 1963. They banned any chemicals from a base's water in concentrations that would be hazardous to human health.
In 1980, Camp Lejeune began testing for chemical compounds called trihalomethanes, byproducts of chlorine produced during water treatment, in response to new Environmental Protection Agency rules.
Documents show that the first warnings about Camp Lejeune came that year, when an Army laboratory chief began scrawling notes about chemicals that were showing up in the routine water tests.
The lab chief, William Neal Jr., who was working for the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency, tested the water at Hadnot Point, an area with wells serving the base hospital, some barracks and officers' housing, and close to a massive underground fuel tank storage farm.
On Oct. 31, 1980, at the bottom of a one-page table of testing results, the lab chief wrote: "Water is highly contaminated with low molecular weight halogenated hydrocarbons," chemical compounds that can include many industrial organic compounds.
More warnings followed.
In January 1981, he wrote: "Heavy organic interference. ... You need to analyze."
In February 1981: "You need to analyze for chlorinated organics."
In March 1981: "Water is highly contaminated with other chlorinated hydrocarbons (solvents)!"
One of the samples came from a tap in the hospital's emergency room.
Chlorinated organic solvents, also known as volatile organic chemicals, or VOCs, permeated the water. They include trichloroethylene, known as TCE, and tetrachloroethylene, known as perclene or PCE. Both are used as industrial cleaners.
The Environmental Protection Agency thought that both chemicals caused liver and kidney damage and disrupted the central nervous system. The EPA had issued recommendations in 1979 and 1980 on keeping the substances out of public drinking water, although it didn't have federal standards set in law at the time.
However, documents indicate that after 1981 there was no further testing in response to the lab chief's warnings.
In fact, more than a year later, the assistant chief of staff facilities, Col. J.T. Marshall, wrote in an internal memo that he thought the accuracy of Army laboratory results was questionable. Marshall suggested that the results of the trihalomethane testing be de-emphasized in a sweeping report to the EPA about potential hazards on the base.
The Army lab chief's notes ended, but documents show that months later, another scientist began raising concerns about the water.
In April 1982, a Raleigh, N.C.-based contractor was hired to conduct the same routine tests for trihalomethanes, the chlorine byproducts, again at Hadnot Point and the housing community of Tarawa Terrace.
Mike Hargett, a co-owner of Grainger Laboratories, couldn't do the tests he wanted to do. Organic solvents were interfering with his readings. They were the same poisons that the Army laboratory chief had warned about.
Alarmed, Hargett began issuing repeated warnings to base officials that the wells appeared to be pumping out contaminated water.
"If that water had been the effluent of a wastewater treatment plant, that plant would have been in violation and fined," Hargett told McClatchy.
No such standards yet existed for drinking water, but the EPA had made it clear that the chemicals posed a threat.
Hargett first picked up the phone in his Raleigh office on May 6, 1982, and called Lejeune's base chemist, Elizabeth Betz, according to documents. He told her about the TCE and the PCE.
Betz passed the news up the chain of command, documents show. A week later, she was summoned to brief a colonel and a lieutenant colonel about the routine water testing.
According to a memo she wrote after the briefing, neither officer appeared to have been told about the poisons in the water, meaning that the chain of command hadn't reached to their level.
"I didn't inform them," Betz wrote. The memo doesn't indicate why not.
In a report that the Marines commissioned two decades later, however, outside reviewers say Betz told them that she didn't realize the significance of the contamination's threat to public health. The review was published in 2004.
In July 1982, Grainger Laboratories conducted follow-up tests to the earlier warnings. The lab again found TCE and PCE contamination in water samples from Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point.
Reports that Grainger sent to Camp Lejeune show that one test of water drawn in May — in response to his warning to Betz — indicated TCE levels of 1,400 parts per billion. The recommendation from the EPA was 75 parts per billion for long-term exposure.
Hargett said he was growing increasingly frustrated. He remembers standing at one of the wellheads and advising Betz to turn off at least one of the wells at Hadnot Point.
He went with Betz to meet the lieutenant colonel who was the deputy director of base utilities.
"I basically said, 'This is a problem with your water,' " Hargett recalled. " 'People should not be drinking this water.' "
The scientists spent less than five minutes in front of the Marine officer's desk, Hargett recalled.
"He did not want to discuss it," he said. "I was amazed at how unimportant this discussion was for him."
That August, Grainger Laboratories wrote to the base's commanding general, Maj. Gen. D.J. Fulham. Grainger chemist Bruce Babson warned that the base's water system contained dangerous levels of poison, and that it appeared to be coming from water in the well field.
"These appear to be at high levels and hence more important from a health standpoint than the total trihalomethane content," Babson wrote.
A week later, however, Betz, the base chemist, told Fulham in a memo that on average, the chemical amounts fell within the EPA's recommended levels for what a human could tolerate.
She called one test, the TCE levels at 1,400 parts per billion, an unexplained anomaly, documents show.
Block, the Marines spokesman, said he couldn't say why more wasn't done at the time.
"We sitting here today are not going to say what should or should not have been done 30 years ago," he said.
Documents indicate that in 1982, the North Carolina Water Supply Branch hadn't been told of the dangerous chemicals in the water, even though it was the regulatory agency that was responsible for Lejeune's water safety.
Hargett warned the military about the contamination again in December 1982, according to documents. And again in March 1983. And in September 1983.
"That's the disheartening part of this," Hargett said recently. "They continued to distribute the water for others to drink."
In the spring of 1983, the Marines gave the EPA a report — required in preparation for the new Superfund law — on cleaning up significant hazardous-waste sites at Camp Lejeune. The report said that no sites on base "pose an immediate threat to human health."
No mention was made of poisons in the Tarawa Terrace or Hadnot Point water systems.
Sometime around then, Hargett tipped state environmental officials to take a closer look at Lejeune.
Also, by mid-June 1983, as part of its ongoing monitoring of the base's trihalomethane levels, North Carolina's water supply agency asked Lejeune to supply Grainger Labs' original reports. Those reports would have shown the TCE and PCE levels and, Hargett thinks, might have led to a state investigation.
Records indicate the Marines didn't turn over the lab reports.
Newly revealed Navy documents from a 1997 meeting about the contamination show that the water also might have been laced with benzene, a known carcinogen and a component of fuel.
At the time, however, Hargett didn't know it.
Benzene is a slightly different compound, and it wouldn't have shown up in Grainger Lab's routine tests, he said.
Even without the benzene, knowing what the Marines did about the TCE and PCE, should the military have shut down the wells?
"Yes. Absolutely," Hargett said.
In December 1983, Lejeune officials asked to reduce the frequency of their routine water tests for Hadnot Point.
In January 1984, the chief of North Carolina's water supply agency agreed.
Six months later, a contractor who'd been hired as part of the EPA Superfund review of hazardous sites found benzene in Camp Lejeune's water, along with TCE and PCE.
In November 1984, the first of the contaminated wells finally was shut off.
Marine spokesman Block said this year that base officials had shut down the wells within a week after they learned the details of the contamination from the July 1984 test.
Records show the Marines first notified the state of the contamination in a phone call in December 1984.
Lejeune shut the other contaminated wells in early 1985.
News reports at the time quoted a base spokesman downplaying the TCE and PCE contamination. The EPA, he said, doesn't "mandate" unacceptable levels of the chemicals, meaning that the Marines hadn't broken any laws.


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* {{App|[[Wikipedia:QuteCom|QuteCom]]|A softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place. (formerly Wengo Phone)|http://trac.qutecom.org/|{{AUR|qutecom}}}}
* {{App|[[Wikipedia:QuteCom|QuteCom]]|A softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place. (formerly Wengo Phone)|http://trac.qutecom.org/|{{AUR|qutecom}}}}
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- 1 Internet
- 1.1 BitTorrent Clients
- 1.2 eDonkey Clients
- 1.3 eMoney
- 1.4 Chat Clients
- 1.5 Softphone
- 1.6 Pastebin Clients
- 1.7 Email clients
- 1.8 Network Managers
- 1.9 News Aggregators
- 1.10 Web Browsers
- 1.11 Microblogging Clients
BitTorrent Clients
- aria2 — A lightweight download utility that supports simultaneous adaptive downloading via HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE) protocols and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.
- Deluge — A user-friendly BitTorrent client written in PyGTK that can run as a daemon.
- MLDonkey — A multi-protocol P2P client that supports BitTorrent, HTTP, FTP, eDonkey and Direct Connect.
- rTorrent — A simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client.
- Transmission — A simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version, GTK+, Qt GUI, web and CLI front-ends.
- http://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli transmission-remote-cliAUR transmission-remote-gtkAUR (remote clients work with the daemon in the -cli package)
- KGet — A download manager for KDE that supports HTTP(S), FTP and BitTorrent.
- KTorrent — A feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.
- qBittorrent — An open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client that strongly resembles µtorrent.
- QTorrent — A BitTorrent client written in PyQt.
- Transmission — A simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with daemon version, GTK+, Qt GUI, web and CLI front-ends
- Vuze — A feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).
- https://www.vuze.com/ || vuzeAUR
eDonkey Clients
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- aMule — A well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK+, web, and CLI front-ends.
- KaMule — A KDE graphical front-end for aMule.
- Armory — A Bitcoin client with with features such as support for multiple wallets, importing keys and backups.
- Bitcoin — The official tool to manage Bitcoins, a P2P currency.
Chat Clients
Multi-Protocol Clients
Many clients listed here (including Pidgin and all it's forks) support multiple IM networks via libpurple. The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multiprotocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.
- BarnOwl — An ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter protocols.
- Bitlbee — An IRC client that provides a gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Twitter).
- CenterIM — A fork of CenterICQ, a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.
- Finch — An ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols.
- naim — An ncurses chat client with support for AOL, ICQ, IRC and the Lily CMC.
- Carrier — A Pidgin fork providing minor GUI enhancements (formerly FunPidgin).
- Emesene — A PyGTK instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network, also compatible with Jabber, Facebook and Google Talk.
- Galaxium Messenger — A messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop.
- Instantbird — A multi-protocol chat client using Mozilla's XUL and libpurple.
- Kopete — A user-friendly IM supporting AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and other IM networks.
- Telepathy — A KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.
- Licq — An instant messaging client for UNIX supporting multiple protocols (currently ICQ, MSN and Jabber).
- Pidgin — A multi-protocol instant messaging client.
- Pidgin Light — A light Pidgin version without GStreamer, Tcl/Tk or XScreenSaver support.
- qutIM — A simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.
- http://qutim.org/ || qutimAUR
Jabber/XMPP Clients
- Freetalk — A console-based Jabber client.
- jabber.el — A minimal Jabber client for Emacs.
- MCabber — A small Jabber console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR, and UTF8.
- Gajim — A Jabber client written in PyGTK.
- Jabbim — A Jabber client written in PyQt.
- Psi — A Qt-based Jabber client.
- Psi+ — An enhanced version of the Psi Jabber client with many new features.
MSN Clients
- aMSN — A MSN client written in Tcl/Tk with webcam and conferencing support.
- Emesene — A PyGTK MSN Messenger client.
- KMess — A MSN Messenger client for Linux with support for custom emoticons, nudges, winks, file transfers and many others.
IRC Clients
- ERC — A powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
- ii — A featherweight IRC client, literally
tail -fthe conversation and
echoback your replies to a file.
- Ircfs — A file system interface to IRC written in Limbo.
- http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs || not packaged? search in AUR
- Irssi — A highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.
- ScrollZ — An advanced IRC client based on ircII.
- sic — An extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.
- WeeChat — A modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.
- Konversation — A Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.
- KVIrc — A Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.
- Loqui — A GTK+ IRC client with only one dependency: GNet.
- LostIRC — A simple GTK+ IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.
- pcw — A frontend for ii that opens a new terminal for each channel.
- Quassel — A modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.
- XChat — A GTK+-based IRC client that works on both Linux and Windows.
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- Blink — A state of the art, easy to use SIP client.
- Ekiga — A VoIP and video conferencing application with full SIP and H.323 support (formerly known as GNOME Meeting).
- Empathy — A GNOME instant messenger client using the Telepathy framework with SIP support (using the Sofia-SIP library).
- iaxComm — An open source softphone for the Asterisk PBX (using the IAX protocol).
- http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Jitsi — An audio/video SIP VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java (formerly SIP-Communicator).
- https://jitsi.org/ || jitsiAUR
- Kiax — A Qt-based IAX/2 Softphone.
- KPhone — A Qt SIP User Agent with voice, video and text messaging support.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphone/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Linphone — An VoIP phone application that allows you to to communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.
- Minisip — A SIP User Agent with focus on security (supports TLS, end-to-end security, SRTP, MIKEY (DH, PSK, PKE)).
- Mumble — A voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.
- Psi — A Qt-based Jabber client which supports video conferencing (since version 0.13).
- http://psi-im.org/ || psi psi-plusAUR
- QuteCom — A softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place. (formerly Wengo Phone)
- SFLPhone — An open-source SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone with PulseAudio support.
- http://sflphone.org/ || sflphoneAUR
- Skype — A popular P2P application for high-quality voice communication.
- TeamSpeak — A proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.
- Twinkle — A Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
- X-Lite — A proprietary freeware VoIP soft phone that uses SIP.
- Zfone — A softphone application for secure voice communication over the Internet (VoIP), using the ZRTP protocol.
- Gladstone — An educational ITU-T G.729 compliant codec with a GStreamer plugin.
- SIPp — An open source test tool and traffic generator for the SIP protocol.
- Sipsak — A small command-line tool for developers and administrators of SIP applications.
- http://sipsak.org/ || sipsakAUR
Pastebin Clients
Template:Wikipedia Pastebin services are often used to paste information into IRC channels to help with troubleshooting. There are services for both text (e.g. sprunge.org, pastie.org, codepad.org) and images (e.g. imgur.com, picpaste.com). Pastebin clients allow you to post directy from the cli without using a web browser.
<command> | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.usThere is also a sprunge plugin for oh-my-zsh (a configuration tool for the Zsh command shell).
- Curlpaste — A utility to post text files to a number of pastebin sites using curl and Lua. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and fpaste.org.
- Elmer — A pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us, ompldr.org.
- Fb-client — A client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.
- Gist — A command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.
- Haste — A universal pastebin tool, written in Haskell. Servers: hpaste.org, paste2.org, pastebin.com and others.
- Hg-paste — A pastebin extension for Mercurial which can send diffs to various pastebin websites for easy sharing. Servers: dpaste.com and dpaste.org.
- Ix — A client for the ix.io pastebin.
- http://ix.io || ix
- Npaste-client — A client for the npaste.de pastebin.
- Pastebinit — A really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see
pastebinit -l).
- Vim-gist — A Vim script for gist.github.com.
- Vim-paster — A Vim plugin to paste to any pastebin service using curl.
- Wgetpaste — A bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.
Email clients
- Gnus — An email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
- Heirloom mailx — A full-featured command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail.
- mu/mu4e — An email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.
- Mutt — A small but very powerful text-based mail client.
- Sup — A CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
- http://sup.rubyforge.org/ || supAUR
- Wanderlust — An email client and news reader for Emacs.
- Balsa — A simple and light email client that is part of the Gnome project.
- Claws Mail — A lightweight GTK+-based email client and news reader.
- Evolution — A mature and feature-rich e-mail client used in GNOME by default.
- Geary — A simple desktop mail client built in Vala.
- Kmail — A mature and feature-rich email client part of the KDE project.
- Manitou Mail — A database-driven email system.
- Sylpheed — A lightweight and user-friendly GTK+ email client.
- Thunderbird — A feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK+.
- Trojitá — A Qt IMAP email client.
Network Managers
- netcfg — A simple and robust network configuration application that uses profile scripts.
- NetworkManager — A manager that provides wired, wireless, mobile broadband and OpenVPN detection with configuration and automatic connection.
- Wicd — A wireless and wired connection manager with few dependencies and GTK+, KDE and command-line interfaces.
News Aggregators
- Canto — A ncurses RSS aggregator
- Gnus — An email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
- Newsbeuter — An ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.
- Rawdog — An "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.
- Snownews — A text mode RSS news reader.
- Akregator — A news aggregator for KDE, part of KDE PIM.
- BlogBridge — An excellent Java-based aggregator, which gives users the option to synchronize their feeds across multiple computers.
- Liferea — A GTK+ news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.
- RSS Guard — A (very) tiny RSS and Atom news reader developed using Qt framework.
- RSSOwl — A powerful aggregator for RSS and Atom feeds, written in Java using Eclipse Rich Client Platform and SWT as a widget toolkit.
- Thunderbird — An email client from Mozilla which also functions as a pretty nice news aggregator.
- Tickr (formerly News) — A GTK+-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your Desktop, as known from TV stations.
- Urssus — A cross platform GUI news aggregator.
Web Browsers
- ELinks — An advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser. (Links fork, barely supported since 2009)
- Links — A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx, but with CSS-based rendering.
- Lynx — A text browser for the World Wide Web.
- w3m — A pager/text-based web browser.
- Abaco — A multi-page graphical web browser for the Plan 9 OS.
- Arora — A cross-platform web browser built using QtWebKit.
- Chromium — A web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework, the open source project behind Google Chrome.
- Conkeror — A highly programmable web browser, with Emacs-like keybindings, based on Mozilla's XULRunner.
- dwb — A lightweight, highly customizable web browser based on the WebKit engine with vi-like shortcuts and tiling layouts.
- Epiphany — A browser which uses the WebKit rendering engine, the Gnome default.
- Firefox — An extensible GTK+ browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.
- Hv3 — A minimalist web browser based on Tkhtml3.
- Jumanji — A highly customizable and functional web browser.
- Kazehakase — A much lighter, but rather feature-lacking alternative to other browsers, based on GTK+ and Gecko.
- Konqueror — A web browser based on Qt and KHTML, part of the KDE desktop
- Luakit — A highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license.
- Midori — A lightweight web browser based on GTK+ and WebKit.
- Opera — A highly customizable browser with focuses on an adherence to web rendering standards.
- QupZilla — A new and very fast open source browser based on WebKit core, written in Qt framework.
- Rekonq — A WebKit-based web browser for KDE.
- Sb — A very lightweight WebKit-based browser that uses keybindings to perform most things the URL bar would usually do.
- Surf — A lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless ideology (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
- Uzbl — A group of web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy.
- Vimprobable — A browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine and uses the GTK+ bindings.
Microblogging Clients
- Choqok — A microblogging client for KDE that supports Twitter.com, Identi.ca and opendesktop.org services.
- Gwibber — A GTK+-based microblogging client with support for Twitter, Identi.ca, StatusNet, Facebook, FriendFeed, Digg, Flikr and Qaiku.
- Hotot — A lightweight and open source microblogging client with support for Twitter and Identi.ca and integration with various image sharing services and URL shorteners.
- http://hotot.org || hototAUR
- Pino — A simple and fast client for Twitter and Identi.ca. written in Vala.
- Polly — Linux Twitter client designed for multiple columns of multiple accounts.
- Qwit — A cross-platform client for Twitter using the Qt toolkit.
- tyrs — A simple client for for Twitter and Identi.ca supporting virtually all its features with nice console UI.
FTP Clients
- CurlFtpFS — A filesystem for acessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.
- FatRat — A download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, RapidShare and more.
- FileZilla — A fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
- fuseftp — An FTP filesystem written in Perl, using FUSE.
- gFTP — A multithreaded FTP client for Linux.
- LFTP — A sophisticated command-line FTP client.
Some file managers like Dolphin, Nautilus and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.
FTP Servers
- vsftpd — lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
- Pure-FTPd — A free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.


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The concept of energy plays such a central role in all of physics.
Man's natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
Shannon's definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
God is shown as the source or sender of biblical information.
According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
To rise above Shannon's information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
What is the reason that such a system can function?
A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
No results found in .
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.


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Impart Your Loss Lyrics
Back again for round two, we're still not done, we've just begun.
What you hear is not a lie, it's the truth, it's the truth.
You'll regret what was said, by the end of this song.
Bright minds come forth, not blinded by the shit, of all that's meaningless, but who's to blame.
Called to arms.
Gather your troops.
Be sure to strike with intent.
It would be a shame to only make a dent.
Called to arms.
Gather your troops.
We've asked for just one more chance, but you're backed up to the edge, you're backed up to the edge. Open your eyes and do not fear, intensions are pure and words are clear. I'm afraid to let this go, I'm afraid to let this go.
When I'm broken and I'm gone.
When I'm broken and I'm gone.
When it's all said and done I'll still be my gathers son.
All we ask for is just one more chance to make everything clear.
Open your eyes our dreams are clear.
You'll regret what was said by the end of this song.


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Leonardo DiCaprio WINS Best Actor (Comedy) at Golden Globes 2014!
Leonardo DiCaprio has another award to add to his mantlepiece after a win at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 12) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 39-year-old actor won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for his work in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street.
Leo beat out American Hustle's Christian Bale, Nebraska's Bruce Dern, Her's Joaquin Phoenix, and Inside Llewyn Davis' Oscar Isaac.
After earning ten Golden Globe nominations over his career, this is the second time Leo has won the prize. He previously won for The Aviator in 2005.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Leonardo DiCaprio winning Best Actor at the 2014 Golden Globes?
Leonardo DiCaprio's Acceptance Speech


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It's hard to say exactly when it's the right time to celebrate a high-tech birthday, because high-tech ideas are not born, they develop. So finding one specific day is a bit disingenuous.
YouTube sort of turned five over the weekend, though even the site itself doesn't declare one specificday its birthday. Conceived by a couple of guys who made their first millions at PayPal, San Bruno, Calif.-based YouTube reserved its web URL in February 2005. The first video, called "Me at the Zoo," was uploaded in April. The website went into public beta -- the first time people could see it -- in May 2005, what most people would consider the website's "birthday."
After five years, much has changed at YouTube. It's been bought by Google, it's moved offices, it's started to offer movie downloads and other features. Today, it announced that that it has exceeded two billion video views per day.
The most significant change, however, may be best illustrated by Lady Gaga.
Gaga's bizarre "Bad Romance" video recently hit the number one spot on YouTube's most-watched with a flabbergasting 206 million times. The music video, part of YouTube's licensed video program called VEVO, is part of a new push by Hollywood and the recording industry to take control back from illegal uploaders.
Bad Romance takes the number one spot from "Charlie Bit Me," one of the most charming home videos ever shot. Wikipedia says the video was uploaded back in 2007 by a British father who wanted the children's godfather to see the video -- but it became a viral hit.
In the video, Charlie bites the finger of his older brother, Harry. Harry's response is classically British -- he never strikes his baby brother or even removes his finger. He just expresses baffled outrage. Then there's a giggle, a smile and all is forgiven.
So what to make that Gaga has supplanted Charlie? The parents of Harry and Charlie write on their blog "While I don't have a problem with music videos and I enjoy a great many. It is such a shame that they dominate everything. I feel sorry for everyone who will eventually simply be shown premium content and the home video will pale into insignificance."
Of course, life at the top can be fickle. Ironically, a home video of a cute kid covering a Lady Gaga song is quickly climbing the charts.
Here's a compilation of YouTube's beginnings.


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Protor necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Redesign of home page, the new theme will then be used by us across the site, a design that shows a smart and professional company.
Increased prize money for contest,
Please use either current logo, or just ignore logo, trying to concentrate on site design rather then logo.
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
3 - column, professional, Creative
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I need a non-coded redesign of the homepage that will be coded into css by myself,
looking for a layout with a much wider 3-column look then the current design,
It doesn't have to look like current site, open to all ideas.
the current site can be found here, http://www.cookerudling.com
The company is a chartered surveyors firm who deal with commercial property, so it needs to look professional as most of it's clients are business people and will want reasurannce of a professional up-to-date company and we feel the current site isn't up to scratch design wise,
I'm happy for stock photos to be used where appropriate these will be purchased afterwards. Commercial buildings, Business people, large properties etc, preferable UK, england buildings.
some images that can be used in the design are here
Color schemes, open to creative ideas as nothing is set 100% at this moment.
Logo, can be taken from current site,