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The Xbox Scarlett isn't just one singular platform, though, but a family of next-gen Xbox consoles, according to a report from Thurrott . While that may sound far-fetched at first - why would Microsoft be working on multiple Xbox consoles at once? - it's not that different from what the Xbox One is currently; there's the core Xbox One, the slimmer/more casual Xbox One S, and then the all-powerful Xbox One X. Sure, all three platforms didn't release at once, but it seems that Microsoft may be looking into offering a variety of platforms from the get-go to entice a wider audience of gamers. That would fall in-line with recent comments brand boss Phil Spencer made to Giant Bomb during E3 2018:
"There are billions of people that play video games. Our business, traditionally, has been focused on just the 200 million people that play console games, and I love those customers - that's what I am, that's where I play most of my games - but we are going to try to bring services and games to gamers on any device. Like, any game you want to play, anywhere you want to play, any friend you want to play with - we're going to try to take that point of view."
It seems that the Xbox Scarlett will be the next step in bridging the gap between console and PC players - and that doesn't just refer to technical prowess. Spencer and the Xbox team have been adamant about allowing players to play their games wherever they want and with whomever they want. Part of that gap has been filled with the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative, in which all first-party Xbox gamesare playable on both PC and Xbox One with cross-play support. That, coupled with the Xbox Game Pass (a subscription service that includes every Microsoft Studios-published game on the day of release), is a significant leap in closing that chasm.
And to take things even further, Microsoft is reportedly working on implementing keyboard and mouse support for the Xbox One . If Microsoft is thinking about doing that for their current-gen platform, it stands to reason that the Xbox Scarlett will ship with native support for the PC peripherals. Plus, with Windows 10 support and a potential streaming service, it certainly looks like Microsoft is trying to future-proof the Xbox brand. But that's not all.
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Console manufacturers tried reaching new heights with regards to resolution - consistently hitting 1080p (Full HD) and 4K - with the current generation of video game consoles, but that would sometimes come at a cost. Frame-rate and various other technical aspects were curtailed in favor of a higher resolution, and vice versa. It wasn't an ideal trade-off, but that's simply what non-first party studios had to deal with when developing titles for multiple platforms. But when it comes to gaming, especially for shooter titles, the higher the frame-rate, the better the experience... generally. So, establishing a solid baseline for frame-rate is one of Microsoft's primary goals for the next console generation, according to Spencer, though it already looks like they have the 4K part down with the Xbox One X (via Giant Bomb ):
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Although diatomic nitrogen is famously inert, a variety of transition metals can bind to it through a process termed backbonding. As the nitrogen weakly shares its own electrons, some electrons from the metal reach back out to it. Nonmetals would not seem to have the capacity for this type of bonding, but now Légaré show that conventionally electron-deficient boron can be coaxed into it (see the Perspective by Broere and Holland). The authors treated boron-based precursors with potassium under a nitrogen atmosphere to produce several compounds with sandwiched dinitrogen between two boron centers in reduced motifs reminiscent of metal complexes.
Currently, the only compounds known to support fixation and functionalization of dinitrogen (N) under nonmatrix conditions are based on metals. Here we present the observation of N binding and reduction by a nonmetal, specifically a dicoordinate borylene. Depending on the reaction conditions under which potassium graphite is introduced as a reductant, N binding to two borylene units results in either neutral (BN) or dianionic ([BN]) products that can be interconverted by respective exposure to further reductant or to air. The N isotopologues of the neutral and dianionic molecules were prepared with N-labeled dinitrogen, allowing observation of the nitrogen nuclei by N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Protonation of the dianionic compound with distilled water furnishes a diradical product with a central hydrazido BNH unit. All three products were characterized spectroscopically and crystallographically.
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With the smoke still rising from the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center, it seemed like an opportune time to throw some faggots on the fire. Or so thought Jerry Falwell, when, on Pat Robertson's 700 Club program, he proclaimed that God permitted the terrorist attacks because He was pissed off at those who have "tried to secularize America"– civil libertarians, abortionists, pagans and, his favorite bêtes noires, gays and lesbians.
Falwell's demagoguery, though disgusting, was predictable. But then something surprising happened. The rabid reverend was immediately engulfed by a tidal wave of denunciation, from virtually every segment of society outside the insular world of American fundamentalism. Not only mainstream and liberal voices weighed in; even fellow conservative Rush Limbaugh and the National Review and Weekly Standard added their reproaches.
Falwell wasn't the only right-winger to use the WTC catastrophe to bash gays. Groups like the Traditional Values Coalition and The Family Research Council have deplored as "antifamily" efforts to provide benefits to gay partners of people killed in the towers on September 11. The Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition commented that "this is just another example of how the gay agenda is seeking to overturn the one man, one woman relationship from center stage in America." But their meanspiritedness was rejected by public officials such as New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer and the state's Republican governor, George Pataki, all of whom have supported such assistance.
You could say that the distaste for Falwell's rant was one sign of a post-September 11 truce–at least momentarily–in the culture wars that had raged until the Islamist faith-based initiative brought us all together in one big patriotic group hug. I prefer to think that three decades of struggle since the Stonewall uprising have given gays and lesbians social visibility and, to a lesser degree, political clout, such that brazen appeals to bigotry don't go down as smoothly as they used to.
The homophobic rhetoric from America's Taliban and the general repudiation of same make a neat metaphor for the current status of gays and lesbians, and they illustrate one of the key arguments of Suzanna Danuta Walters in All the Rage. So many years after Stonewall, homophobes still attack homosexuals, often scapegoating them for the purported decadence of society. But the greater public profile of gay people has changed in the interim, along with the context in which such attacks are made. Not so long ago, few outside the gay community or liberal activist circles would have denounced Falwell, and certainly not his comrades on the right.
Walters, a sociologist and member of the Research Advisory Board of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), sees both opportunities and dangers in the new, heightened visibility of gay people. "Visibility is, of course, necessary for equality. It is part of the trajectory of any movement for inclusion and social change…. There is nothing worse than to live in a society in which the traces of your own existence have been erased or squeezed into a narrow and humiliating set of stereotypes." But, she cautions, "visibility does not erase stereotypes nor guarantee liberation."


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Haiti In-Kind Donations Container: Overwhelming Support by Houstonians
The Muslims and the South-Asian communities this past Saturday and Sunday did something for humanity that was not directly related to one of their own home countries. They came together at the International Courier Services (ICS) located at 6160 Westview Drive under the guidance of Helping Hand For Relief & Development (HHRD), to send a 40-Feet long container from Houston for the dire needs of Haitians. Since there are many useful things from USA, which are not readily available around Haiti, this was indeed a much needed campaign to launch, so as to involve the kind-hearted Americans in the service of fellow human-beings in Haiti, who are in living dire situation.
For the last one month, HHRD team in Haiti has been working, taking care of injured Haitians in six rotational clinics.
HHRD has termed this $1.50-Million Campaign as Muslims for Haiti (www.MuslimsForHaiti.Org) to unify the community under the platform of providing human services at global level and so that world can view this as the work of people of Mercy Unto Worlds Messenger Muhammad Peace Be Upon him and at the same time, opening opportunities' to all Americans (not just Muslims) to join in the good work.
Other than HHRD, the supporting organizations of this effort include: The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA); The Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH); The Houston Police Department (HPD); The Nigerian Muslim Association of Greater Houston (NMA – Masjidul-Mu'mineen); The Haitian Multi-Cultural Association; The Darul-Arqam School of North Houston; The Omair-Sana Welfare Foundation (Dr. Kashif Ansari); The Young Muslims of North America (YM); and The Houston Shifa Foundation.
The event got good coverage from Mainstream American and South-Asian & Spanish Community Media, which resulted in several non-Muslim donors coming to the ICS with their in-kind donations. For more information, one can call Maaz Adil 281-468-2238 / ILyas Hasan Choudry 832-275-0786, or visit HHRD office at 11945 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77099; or visit www.MuslimsForHaiti.Org
Representative Al Green Inaugurated Quaid's Exhibition at the Houston Consulate of Pakistan
Most unique exhibition of photographs of the founder of Pakistani Nation Quaid-e-Azam (The Great Leader) Mohammad Ali Jinnah was launched this past Saturday 02-13-2010 at the Houston Pakistani Consulate, by US House of Representative Honorable AL Green. Present on the occasion were His Excellency Consul General of Pakistan Aqil Nadeem; Commercial Attaché in Houston Consulate of the Government of Pakistan Zia Ahmed; Consulate of Pakistan Team Salient Members Manzoor Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad, Mohammad Arshid, Ali Mohammad, & Tanveer Siddiqui; President of Pakistani-American Association of Greater Houston (PAGH) Khalid Khan; Honorary Investment Counselor Faisal Amin; Executive Director of Joseph Educational & Outreach Ministries Reverend Dr. Afzaal Firdous; Community Liaison in Rep. AL Green's Office Badar (Bobby) Rafaei; and many others.
US Representative AL Green (TX-09) said he is aware that Quaid was born on a most joyous day of December 25th in the year 1876 and passed away on one of the saddest days for Americans 9/11 in the year 1948. He admired the constitutional battle with no military weapons, that was forged by Mohammad Ali Jinnah to achieve Pakistan. He chose the picture of Quaid with Mohatama Gandhi, which he plans to put in his office.
Later on Mr. Green met with the community members in the consulate and discussed about issues related to Pakistanis in USA like immigration, small business financing & taxes, healthcare, etc.; as well as issues facing Pakistan in terms of national sovereignty, democracy, educational uplifting, national security, terrorism, etc.
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The Canadian dollar declined against its U.S. counterpart amid signs lawmakers may find a compromise to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, bolstering prospects for the American economy.
Canada's currency rallied against the U.S. dollar by the most in five days yesterday after the federal statistics agency said foreign investors had their fourth straight month of net investment in the nation's securities. Further gains for the so-called loonie may be limited as a technical measure shows it may have rallied too much, too fast. The currency trailed the majority of its 16 most-traded peers today along with the fellow commodity-related dollars of Australia and New Zealand as oil pared earlier gains.
"Anything relating to the fiscal cliff, any positive developments, are certainly going to help the U.S. dollar," said Blake Jespersen, managing director of foreign exchange in Toronto at Bank of Montreal, in a telephone interview from Toronto. He said currency flows have declined recently as market participants go on vacation.
The loonie fell 0.2 percent to 98.51 cents at 10:26 a.m. in Toronto. One Canadian dollar buys $1.0151. The loonie has gained 0.9 percent this month, paring it quarterly loss to 0.1 percent.
Canada's dollar fell after the 14-day relative strength index versus the dollar touched 33 yesterday, approaching the level of 30 that indicates a currency may have strengthened too rapidly and is due for a reversal.
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Futures on crude oil, the nation's largest export, rose 0.3 percent to $87.49 a barrel in New York after rising as much as 0.8 percent. The Standard & Poor's Index of stocks gained 0.3 percent.
The loonie has lagged behind other majors amid "a lack of interest to add to what are already fairly aggressive long position in both the Canadian and Australian dollars," Jack Spitz, managing director of foreign exchange at National Bank of Canada, said by telephone from Toronto.
Futures traders have increased their bets that the loonie will gain against the U.S. dollar, figures from the Washington- based Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. The difference in the number of wagers by hedge funds and other large speculators on an advance in the Canadian dollar compared with those on a drop -- so-called net longs -- was 62,533 on Dec. 11, compared with net longs of 57,071 a week earlier.
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Global finance chiefs handed Japan leeway to reflate its stagnant economy by indicating its fresh round of monetary stimulus doesn't contravene a pact to avoid a currency war.
Meeting for the first time since the Bank of Japan unleashed new measures aimed at delivering 2% inflation within two years, Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers said today in Washington that those actions are "intended to stop deflation and support domestic demand." They echoed their promise of February that nations will refrain from "competitive devaluation."
The language suggests international policy makers are willing to stomach a sliding yen so long as Japan remains focused on domestic steps to rally its economy and doesn't seek growth at the expense of trade partners by driving its currency down. The yen has slid 20% against the dollar in the past six months and 6% since the BOJ said April 4 it would buy more bonds and double its monetary base within two years.
"Monetary policy should be directed toward domestic price stability and continuing to support economic recovery according to the respective mandates of central banks," the G-20 said in the statement.
The yen weakened for a fourth day after the statement, falling 1.4% to 99.56 per dollar at 2:22 p.m. New York time.
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In a nod to concerns that stimulus in one country can create challenges elsewhere by forcing up other exchange rates and propelling capital flows, the G-20 said it will "be mindful of unintended negative side effects stemming from extended periods of monetary easing."
BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said today the group's statement gave him confidence to keep easing.
The G-20 missive made no mention of the Chinese yuan, although it repeated countries are committed "to move more rapidly toward more market-determined exchange rate systems."
The yuan had its biggest weekly gain in six months after the central bank signaled plans to widen a trading band that's been limiting appreciation since October. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew this week reiterated there's a need for further gains, and UBS AG says the next move may well be announced in coming days.
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Alaska Appetizer
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I have started to edit my Alaska footage and i´m absolut amazed about the first scenes that i would like to share the first 1 1/2 minutes with you.
There will be the full movie on my website soon: www.globaldivemedia.com
Cheers, Alex.
Posted 17 June 2011 - 01:39 AM
Nice work
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I like it Alex! How do you get so much magnification?
with the BluefinPro housing diopter
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WOW, i like the way you play with the lights!
Thank you!
I was inspired by uw stills, where the strobe were put behind the object to get the silhouette. The Sea Pen was perfect for this. I´ll keep trying.
I like the black background in photography too. Alaska was great to experiment whith that and often very easy because of the prevailing twilight underwater.
Posted 19 June 2011 - 12:22 PM
Well done, where you using a tripod?
No tripod no Mercalli.
The surroundings i put my housing are rocks, sandy bottom,... So i avoid damages to the enviroment.
I don´t go for critters sitting in corals or on other fragile uw stuff.
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Posted 30 June 2011 - 01:58 AM
Absolutely stunning work, very professional. What are you shooting with. The back lighting really created some extraordinary images. Congrats
Hi Steve,
thank you very much! I´m shooting with a Sony HC 7 with the Sunrays LED1000 ( LED2000 do you remember??) :-)
A short and a long version of Alaska is already on my website www.globaldivemedia.com
ciao, Alex.
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Ariel Hyatt's Social Media Food Pyramid
With social media growing at such a rapid pace, I decided it was a good idea to revisit my social media food pyramid and update it for 2012.
Here's Your Social Media Food Pyramid
It happens to me all of the time when I teach artists social media.The face goes blank, the frustration begins to settle in and then the artist says it:
"I just don't have anything interesting to say."
I'm shocked by this every time. You are an artist; you do things we mere mortals are totally enamored by: you PLAY MUSIC, you write songs, you perform them in public!
So PUHLEEASE, do not tell me you have nothing interesting to say. I ain't buying it.
All you are missing is a System for Social Media Success.
Luckily, unlike sheer god-given musical talent, social media is a learnable skill.
The inspiration for this hit me while I was teaching my system to a client in my kitchen…
Now, I've been told they don't actually teach this in school anymore… but for those of you old enough to remember, do you remember that chart they brought out when we were in 2nd grade to show us how to eat well-rounded meals? I have re-tooled it for you so you can now participate on Social Media healthily! And you won't even have to think about it – just follow along…
You wouldn't eat only bagels all of the time. They are a treat once in awhile, but they are not healthy to eat every day - and a diet of only bagels would be boring!
Most artists are only serving their audiences bagels all of the time. Plain bagels. Over and over again.
We want a burger, or a giant green healthy salad, we want some candy.
We want the protein, but you keep serving bagels, bagels, bagels!
These are five things that when used in concert with one another can help you ratchet up your social media effectively and manage it easily.
Use these as a guide to mix and match them to suit your comfort level (just like your diet, eat what feels right for you)
Like: BREAD, CEREAL, RICE & PASTA
Servings (Recommended Frequency): 3 - 4 out of every 10 posts
Make sure you're in a two-way conversation with people consistently
Facebook: See something interesting on a fan, friend or band's Facebook pages? Don't just "like" it, write a true comment about it and get more involved.
Twitter: Send messages to people or mention you are with them by using the @ sign and their username (For Example: I'm @CyberPR). Retweet (RT) comments you like by others.
Blog Reading: Create a Google Profile and join communities of blog readers. Leave comments on blogs you like. Google Profiles are now attached to your Google+ account so make sure you get set up with a Google+ account as well!
Tumblr: Tumblr is a simple to use blogging platform that will allow you to comment on and re-blog others' links, quotes, videos and songs with a click of a button.
Youtube: Bonus! Make custom video comments or greetings with a smartphone; post them as comments or contributions. Subscribe to other people's channels, and comment on their videos. A brand new service called Viddy which allows you to capture quick, 15 second videos that can be posted to Facebook or Twitter. Jason wrote a Musician's Arsenal Guide to Viddy that will better explain how it works.
Foursquare: Create fun spots that relate to your band/ music and check in, interact with others when you are out and about. Of course, Facebook now has Facebook Places which functions quite similarly, though it doesn't have nearly as much functionality in terms of making lists and engaging as it's own stand alone platform.
Like: FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Servings (Recommended Frequency): 3 out of every 10 posts
All the best social media users know this and use it well. This takes all of the attention off of you and puts it onto others, and people will appreciate your kindness because you are recognizing them in front of new potential fans and followers and therefore helping them get known.
Quote people you like by sharing their profiles and videos on Facebook and re-post on your blog. Link to articles and interesting things that catch your attention such as videos, photos etc.
#FF (Follow Friday), #MM (Music Monday) and RT'ing on Twitter - Reprint pieces of things that they've written, or link to music players. Review albums - talk about why and how those albums influenced you by using http://www.bit.ly to track the effectiveness and to shorten your tweets.
Like: MEAT, POULTRY, FISH, BEANS, EGGS
Servings (Recommended Frequency): 2 - 3 out of every 10 posts
Content may be king, but content curation is queen!
The best part is you can set up an RSS reader to pull interesting content for you so you don't have to come up with anything brilliant – just select what you like and share it. And if it's interesting to you, it's probably interesting to your community.
Ask yourself: How do I spend time online? What do I read? Are there sites I visit daily? Add them to the RSS reader (here is a brilliant Commoncraft video that will teach you how to set one up. Then all you have to do is grab the content you like and share (remember to always give credit where credit is due).
Music: Use Spotify to share songs, albums and playlists on Facebook.
Recipes: Post links to foods you like from Epicurious or TheFoodNetwork
Media: Post book reviews, music reviews or film reviews
Blogs: News, politics, celebrity gossip, parenting, fashion, art, sports – all make good topics for people to connect around
Like: MILK, CHEESE & YOGURT
Servings (Recommended Frequency): 2 out of every 10 posts
Visuals are extremely effective. And they mix up your strategy nicely.
Take photos using your mobile and post them to Facebook and Twitter. If you have an iPhone, the best way to do this is using the Instagram app.
I love Twitpic & YFrog because they are so easy to use and create instant Twitter integration.
Pinterest is a wonderful way to share photos of anything you are passionate about, and create some boards for your music and your merch too.
Post videos on your custom Youtube channel, embed them on your blog and link them to your Twitter. They don't even have to be videos that you necessarily make on your own. They can be videos of artists you sound like or play with, videos that make you laugh, or subjects that are thematic to your music and important to you like a charity.
Like: FATS OILS & SWEETS (Use Sparingly!)
Servings (Recommended Frequency): 1 out of every 10 posts
Of course these are OK to do once in a while, not in an over-hypey, annoying way. Just like treating yourself to a great pastry or some fries: it's OK – but not too often!
It is after all, vital to tell people if you have an album coming out, a new track, a show, or anything that's newsworthy, noteworthy, and important for your fans and followers to know about.
Don't forget about your specific calls to actions or these won't be fruitful.
So – Choose from Groups 1-5 and mix it up and soon you will be fully engaging people easily and naturally, without thinking. Just like eating!


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Tet (Lunar New Year Festival) is never complete without spring flowers.
In the north, when the spring comes and hundreds of species of flowers come into bloom, it is time to buy flowers and bonsai to welcome the New Year.
Hoang Hoa Tham Street in Hanoi is at its most lively just before the Lunar New Year, with hundreds of flower and bonsai shops setting up on the pavement. The air is filled with the scent of roses, lilies, cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms, water rain and other spring flowers.
Located near Ngoc Ha flower village, this street is known to Hanoians as the place to get seasonal flowers and bonsai. Setting up next to the numerous professional shops, many local vendors deliver trees and flowers from their own gardens, boasting the most competitive prices.
Hoang Hoa Tham Street is the place to find Tet holiday flowers at reasonable prices. If you are looking for some special decoration for the living room, a kumquat tree, or cherry and apricot blossoms would be a good option. There are also many trees and creeper plants on offer, including bamboo trees and jasmine shrubs and vines.
"I am looking for a kumquat tree for the New Year," says Le Van, a student doing his shopping on the famous street. "I need a tree with yellow flowers and healthy green leaves and buds, so we can keep the tree for at least a month during Tet."
And just in case you've bought more than you can carry, you don't need to worry about how to take your trees home. There are numerous xe om(motobike taxi) drivers waiting and willing to help you. Reported by Tina Pham.


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SAN DIEGO — Authorities in San Diego say a married couple in their 80s were killed when he backed a pickup truck over her, then was hit by the truck himself as he scrambled to help her.
The San Diego County Medical Examiner says in a statement Monday that 80-year-old Setsuko Yada was hit by her 87-year-old husband as he was trying to park their pickup truck on Sunday night.
The man was hit when he got out in what appears to have been an attempt to help his wife.
Paramedics declared the woman dead at the scene.
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It's been a few months since Taylor posted a rumor about the Tegra 3 powered HTC One X heading to T-Mobile. Since then, there's been nothing but silence, but a new report out of TmoNews may finally prove that HTC and T-Mobile are prepping to launch the device later this fall.
Based on what we can gather, the HTC Era 42 device reference which showed up in a leaked T-Mobile inventory system is actually a device which will launch as the HTC One X+. Specs and software are still a mystery at this point, but we have a feeling the plus may be a lot more than a differentiator to distinguish T-Mobile's HTC One X from AT&T's variant.
According to the original T-Mobile HTC One X rumor, the handset will launch with stock Android rather than HTC's Sense UI. Another plausible reason for the plus is that the HTC One X+ could be the first device to be powered by Qualcomm's new quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 processor or even the 1.7 GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3+ . Unfortunately, we do not have any evidence to back that up, but we do know that Qualcomm and NVIDIA are expecting commercial devices powered by their new chips to hit the market later this year.
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Beyonce's 10 Most Explosive Live Performances
Say what you want about Beyonce. Lord knows, plenty of you do. But, you absolutely can not say that she doesn't know how to put on a show. And, she proved it once again yesterday when she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama and killed it despite experiencing some pretty major technical difficulties. Even in the freezing-cold weather down in Washington, D.C., Bey managed to cause quite an uproar on the Internet for her electric performance of the nation's anthem.
"The camera picks up Joe Biden smiling a big open-mouthed smile," a critic wrote on Gawker after the performance. "The U.S. Marine Band closes us out. And Beyonce is now the President."
Pretty much. When it comes to performances, Beyonce runs the world. It's one of the reasons that, in addition to the Presidential Inauguration, Beyonce will also be making headlines in less than two weeks following her performance at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. And, how do we know this? Well, because just about every single time Beyonce performs in front of a large crowd, she steals the show. Just check out our list of Beyonce's 10 Most Explosive Live Performances. This is why we're not even surprised anymore when she does it.


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Advocacy in Jesuit Refugee Service
In JRS, advocacy involves empowering forcibly displaced people to claim the rights to which they are entitled, and assisting them to exercise those rights. This involves promoting the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced persons; lobbying for governmental and institutional action to address root causes of forced displacement; and working towards sustainable and durable solutions. Advocacy also includes activities to enhance public perception of refugees and forcibly displaced persons, and their integration.
JRS advocacy draws on the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, widely acknowledged to be the cornerstone of refugee protection. However, to guide its advocacy and service, JRS uses a wider definition of 'refugee' than that of the Convention. In a 1992 document entitled Refugees: A Challenge to Solidarity, the Catholic Church expanded its understanding of the term 'refugee' to include 'de facto refugees', encompassing victims of armed conflicts, erroneous economic policy or natural disasters, as well as internally displaced persons (IDPs).
JRS advocacy builds upon synergies among forcibly displaced people: JRS team workers and others who serve refugees; academics; human rights advocates; the public who support our work; and, in some instances, government and UN officials. We share the common hope that all those who have been forced to flee may regain the opportunity to live in freedom and dignity.
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Advocacy principles
Advocacy is an integral part of the JRS mission and of our daily activities around the world. Addressing the root causes of human displacement and striving to change unjust policies are fundamental to the JRS mandate.
JRS advocacy is characterised by the following key principles:
"I think that the Christian faith is very strong on justice for the poor. If you are helping people who have been injured by landmines, justice demands that you also advocate that the cause of the suffering be stopped; that you ban landmines and call producers to account. Mercy requires that we serve the poor, the sick and the ignorant. Some people think children are ignorant, but I think ignorant people are those who make weapons and don't know, or block from their minds, the consequences of what they are making money from. Faith-inspired organisations can help align the interests of the people with the political interests of the leaders".
Denise Coghlan RSM, JRS Cambodia Director
Advocacy methodology
JRS carries out advocacy by:
Accompaniment becomes advocacy when an appeal is made by a JRS staff member, on behalf of a refugee, to an outside party that can provide help. Some examples: helping a refugee to enroll in a camp programme from which he/she has been mistakenly excluded; helping a refugee with a disability to access specialised care; arranging legal representation for a refugee in trouble. Observing a wide pattern of needs can lead to field advocacy on behalf of certain categories of refugees as, for example, when JRS staff approach camp managers, local government officials or the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to ask for changes in policy or practices to better protect vulnerable people.
Apart from being a spontaneous part of the daily work of JRS staff, advocacy for individuals is also a structured aspect of many JRS projects, especially in urban areas, where lawyers are engaged in casework related to asylum applications and other issues.
JRS advocacy also takes place a country level: when changes in national law or policy affecting refugees or IDPs are called for; when national resources could be directed towards better meeting refugee needs; to promote integration and combat xenophobia. Since refugees and the political, social and economic issues relating to them cross national boundaries, JRS can be organised on a regional basis.
Our advocacy has a significant regional component, with advocacy staff at this level charged with monitoring the situation of refugees and IDPs in the region, collecting information on developments, and helping to draft organisational positions on relevant issues. Advocacy personnel also work with communications staff to inform national offices of developments that could provide opportunities for advocacy.
Finally, JRS advocates at international level. Our offices in Rome, Geneva, Brussels, Nairobi and Washington present the concerns of the JRS network to governments and institutions that can improve conditions affecting refugees, and put pressure on other actors to do so as well. These offices work closely with the JRS regional advocacy officers on areas of broad concern, such as education, detention and urban refugees.


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Shift of services part of data-center consolidation plan
Customs and Border Protection officials are moving the agency's collaboration software and e-mail services to a private cloud located in one of the Homeland Security Department's new state-of-the-art data centers.
Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and Exchange e-mail services will be hosted by Hewlett-Packard starting in January at a DHS location, Kenneth Ritchhart, deputy assistant commissioner at CBP's Office of Information and Technology, told attendees at the Oracle Federal Forum in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 20.
The move toward shared managed services aligns with DHS' overall strategy to provide e-mail as a service through a private cloud platform to its various components and agencies as part of data-center consolidation efforts. Richard Spires, DHS' CIO, announced those plans last month.
DHS is on track to move 24 data centers into two large-scale centers by 2014, Spires said. One data center, located at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, is managed by Computer Sciences Corp.; the other is located in southern Virginia and hosted by HP.
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DHS offers e-mail services via private cloud
CBP is facing a $216 million reduction in its IT budget for fiscal 2011. As a result, IT officials have to find ways to be more productive with fewer resources, Ritchhart said. CBP is the largest law enforcement agency in the government and spends $2.2 billion on IT annually, he added.
CBP looked at public cloud-hosting services from Google and Microsoft but decided it would be cheaper to use DHS' private cloud because of availability, security and service-level agreement issues associated with the portal and e-mail services.
Google had a very effective solution, but its personnel did not have security clearances and CBP couldn't vet them. Plus, Google does not do actual deletes of data. Instead, it does logical deletes, and the services are co-mingled on the same infrastructure with other organizations' data, Ritchhart said.
CBP plans to move 10,000 employee e-mail accounts every month to the new environment. The agency has more than 58,575 workers. CBP is looking to derive more efficiency out of its own 40,000 square feet of data-center space in Newington, Va. The agency has another 30,000 square feet of data-center facilities spread across the country.
To that end, CBP is deploying prebuilt server and storage appliances.
"Prebuilt appliances come ready to use — [they've] got the servers, storage, software, network, interfaces, management, [original equipment manufacturer] and systems tuning already done," Ritchhart said. "You have to do a little bit of tuning with your data."
CBP has implemented Oracle's Exadata unified platform for transaction processing and data warehousing and the Exalogic application infrastructure. The agency installed two Exadata systems for testing because there were concerns that the systems would not perform as Oracle claimed. CBP now has 15 Exadata systems.
Performance is 10 times faster than with traditional servers. Batch queries went from 45 minutes to 35 seconds, and no major code changes were required, Ritchhart said.
Installation was relatively swift and performed within seven days. But there were challenges in the areas of power, cooling, network and data loading, he said. Some of those issues will be addressed with the latest version of Exadata, which sports new 10-gigabyte cards.
Some work still needs to be done to improve the patching process, but Oracle is working to iron out any bugs, he added.
Exadata is not a magic bullet, but it delivers the value and performance as promised. CBP will migrate all its Oracle databases to Exadata with the exception of financial systems, Ritchhart said.
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To your point about the Mitre white paper. Companies like Mitre add value to the government by performing services that the Federal Government does not have the staff and expertise to complete on their own. Conversely these companies also make large profits off managing highly complicated desperate IT systems. Consolidation and greater efficiencies will save the tax payers money at the cost of profits from large system integrators. I do not mean to malign Mitre and companies like it, but one cannot over look the underling motivation behind why large SI's would push back on IT consolidation efforts as it means fewer opportunities for them to win lucrative long term services engagements.
Excerpt from Mitre white paper,
A Decision Process for Applying Cloud Computing in Federal Environments
"Creating an infrastructure for a private cloud of a size that will realize economies of scale analogous to those shown in contemporary commercial offerings, and that will effectively satisfy requirements common to mission critical Government systems, is a major undertaking, requiring substantial capital investment and comprehensive project management and systems engineering."
So basically more cost to the government.
Well this seems like a step in a positive direction for DHS and as a government agency it adds to improving government agency do-it-ourselves better hopes for the future. Now let's just hope as citizens that DHS hasn't messed up and not secured their Cloud properly. If they have we will all know it soon. I was sorry to see that MS and Google's solutions were so weak in data deletion.
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Date: Oct 28, 2012
Press Release Number: 149-2012
Due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Sandy, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will suspend all PATH service beginning tonight at midnight. The decision follows an announcement by New York Governor Cuomo to suspend MTA subways, buses and commuter rail system beginning at 7 p.m. tonight.
The PATH system is being closed to passengers so that trains and stations can be secured in advance of the storm, and protected against damage from high winds and water. PATH service will resume as soon as conditions permit.
At the Port Authority's five major airports, the Port Authority expects all carriers to cease operations tonight. American Airlines and United Airlines already indicated they will cease flight activity and Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, USAirways and other carriers are expected to make announcements later today. Air travelers are strongly encouraged to call their carriers to make sure their flight will be departing before going to the airport. There are no plans at this time to close any of the airports.
The Port Authority is bringing in a full complement of airport operations and Customer Care Representatives to assist passengers who may become stranded at the airports. All airports also will be equipped with a sufficient supply of cots and other essentials to assist passengers. In addition, at least one food service vendor will remain open in all airport terminals around the clock through the duration of the storm.
At the Newark AirTrain and JFK AirTrain systems, airport officials will closely monitor wind conditions and close both systems if a wind threshold of 30+ mph is reached. However, with the MTA subway and commuter rail service suspended as of 7 p.m. tonight, air passengers will not be able to access the JFK AirTrain system after 7 p.m. this evening.
At the agency's tunnels and bridges, Port Authority staff will closely monitor the wind and flooding conditions. Closures will be determined on a case-by-case basis based on high winds, rainfall and roadway conditions, however closures are highly likely beginning tomorrow. Motorists are urged to drive at reduced speeds when roadways are wet, and pay close attention to posted electronic messages for important information.
Passengers are reminded to check http://www.panynj.gov/ for updated information about PATH, the airports, the tunnels and bridges and all other Port Authority facilities. For further information about safety precautions, evacuation routes and best practices for New York State, visit http://www.governor.ny.gov/stormwatch; and for New Jersey, visit www.ready.nj.gov.
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Gorgeous and a tiny bit bubble-headed, full of ancient ruins and marvelous faces and time-lapse landscapes of crazed LA freeways in action, "Samsara" takes its title from a Sanskrit word that translates, roughly, to "the ever-turning wheel of life."
The wheel spins; humankind's stewardship of Earth continues to provoke debate and wonderment and gradual or rapid ruination. If there's a moral here, it is simply: Be careful. "Samsara" -- which opens today (Nov. 30) at the Prytania Theater -- may not give audiences much more than an expansive nonverbal variation on the old Yakov Smirnoff catchphrase. But honestly: What a planet!
They are not all the same movie, but "Koyaanisqatsi" (1983) and its sequels "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002), all from director Godfrey Reggio, work in a similar imagistic key to "Chronos" (1985) and "Baraka" (1992), directed by "Samsara" helmsman Ron Fricke (also a key collaborator on "Koyaanisqatsi").
Fricke and his producer/co-editor/co-writer Mark Magidson continue what they started in earnest in "Baraka," a pictorial exploration of mind-boggling extremes within both the natural world and the world as it has been adjusted for industrialization. The new film was photographed over a period of several years, beginning in 2007, in 25 different countries.So what do we see? I mean, what don't we see? A clothes-iron assembly line (location, unspecified; nothing is stated or labeled directly here, by design), staffed by anonymous workers. Chickens, cows, pigs, ready for slaughter. Overweight fast-food consumers, observed dispassionately. An obese man goes under the surgeon's knife (for weight loss, or something else?). The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is juxtaposed against the arrogant elegance of Versailles. Simple, blunt contrasts rule the day in "Samsara."
This is cinema as "guided meditation," in Fricke's words, "on the cycle of birth, death and rebirth." Magidson has said it's all about "impermanence," how ancient cultures and traditions persist against the odds, in the realm of handicrafts, performance, visual art. The makers of "Samsara" declined to shoot digitally, preferring the texture and sheen of 70-millimeter cameras -- not easy to lug around the world but worth it.
The movie's impressive, whether it's observing garbage pickers in a miserable landfill or taking in the power of an active Hawaiian volcano. The movie's also a series of generalities and surface connections. The cutting rhythm is rather indistinct, as well as far less conventionally meditative than was "Koyaanisqatsi" a generation ago. Once heard, composer Philip Glass' bone-rattling musical scoring for that picture (which really knocked me out when I was in college) was never forgotten, and it suited that film's free-form essay approach with magical rightness. "Samsara," by contrast, has music that serves the immediate atmospheric purpose and no more. It sounds like nothing in particular, and musical score aside I don't know if it's a movie to rattle around in your brain or your soul.
I do know this: "Samsara" is gorgeous. And sometimes, depending on expectations, looks are enough.
Note: Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune wrote this review.
3 stars, out of 5
Snapshot: A documentary dedicated to the wonderment of life on Earth.
What works: It's positively gorgeous at times.
What doesn't: There's not much there beyond the visuals.
Director: Ron Fricke. Rating: PG-13 for some disturbing and sexual images. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. Where: Prytania.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents are elected not by national popular vote but by an 18th century constitutional compromise called the Electoral College.
When framers were drafting the U.S. Constitution, there were two competing ideas on how to elect the president. One group said Congress should do it; the other said it should be a national vote of eligible citizens. There also were disputes over how much slaves should count in representation in Congress and over how power would be distributed between small and large states.
The compromise became part of the second article of the Constitution, although the words "Electoral College" are not included. The electors pick the president and vice president.
Each state gets one electoral vote for each of its representatives in the House and Senate. The District of Columbia gets three votes. All told, there are 538 votes in the Electoral College. A candidate must have at least 270 to win.
Except for Maine and Nebraska, states award all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the state. In Maine and Nebraska, votes are apportioned by congressional districts. So in 2008, even though John McCain won Nebraska's statewide popular vote, Barack Obama won the 2nd Congressional District and earned one of the state's five electoral votes.
Each state's electors will meet on Dec. 17 in their home states and cast their votes for president and vice president. Congress will meet on Jan. 6, 2013, to conduct an official tally of the electoral votes. Vice President Joe Biden will preside and declare the winner.
If no candidate gets at least 270 electoral votes, the election goes to the newly elected House of Representatives. Each state delegation in the House gets one vote, and a candidate must win a majority of the states to be elected president. This happened in 1824, when Andrew Jackson won the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, but four candidates split the electoral votes and no one received a majority. The race went to the House and John Quincy Adams, who came in second, was chosen as president.
Three other times, candidates won the Electoral College even though they lost the popular vote — in 1876, 1888, and 2000.


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An analysis of Ibn al-'Arabi's al-Insan al-Kamil, the Perfect Individual, with a brief comparison to the thought of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Brock University, 2008-05-21)This thesis analyzes four philosophical questions surrounding Ibn al-'Arabi's concept of the al-iman al-kamil, the Perfect Individual. The Introduction provides a definition of Sufism, and it situates Ibn al-'Arabi's ...


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Did you know that we have forty-two pages of unanswered posts on this site? I discovered this today… there is a link at the very bottom of the Forum Index page (the one that defaults to newest posts on top) that shows all posts that have never received a response. They date back to October 2005. I'm thinking there may be some undiscovered gems there.
Anyway, I thought I'd share my serendipitous find with everyone and see if some of these old submissions might stir up some discussion.
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Feeling quite combobulated.
Well, let's not let this become one of them!
That's interesting—sometimes I see a post, and think, "that's interesting," but I don't really have anything to add, so I don't. Add anything, that is.
(not that I've been here that long, or have any importance)
I understand what you mean by the "Hmm, that's interesting" response. I often don't know what to say either. :-) But we have lots of newbies coming in who may not be aware of this rich treasure trove, and sometimes when I search for one thing, I find something else that I can respond to.
Feeling quite combobulated.
Sometimes what I'd say is, "that's definitely an eggcorn," but, well, what does that add?
I feel goofy.
But I'll have to go look at the postings using that filter; good for some basic amusement.
I feel sort of like a dope, but I enjoy RE-reading eggcorns. Sort of like reading a book you've read before but still find interesting.


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A look at some facts and figures about Alzheimer's disease, the only illness among the top 10 killers of Americans for which there's no cure or even a way to slow disease progression:
HUMAN TOLL: About 5.4 million Americans are suffering with Alzheimer's disease, including 200,000 under age 65. The total is expected to skyrocket to 16 million by 2050. Alzheimer's deaths jumped 66 percent from 2000 to 2008. Worldwide, Alzheimer's accounts for half to three-quarters of the roughly 35 million cases of dementia.
PREVALENCE: One in eight Americans aged 65 or older has Alzheimer's; nearly half those 85 or older have the neurodegenerative disease. Every 68 seconds, another American develops Alzheimer's.
ON THEIR OWN: About 800,000 U.S. Alzheimer's patients, or more than one in seven, live alone, and many don't have a regular caregiver. That puts them at higher risk than other Alzheimer's patients for falls, malnutrition, wandering off unattended, untreated medical conditions and accidental death.
FAMILY BURDEN: Last year, about 15 million family and friends provided more than 17 billion hours of unpaid care — valued at about $210 billion — to people with Alzheimer's and dementia. Many caregivers suffer from depression and high emotional stress, and that physical and emotional toll led to nearly $9 billion in additional health care costs for those caregivers in 2011.
FINANCIAL BURDEN: Direct costs to care for U.S. Alzheimer's patients are estimated at $200 billion this year, including about $140 billion covered by Medicare or Medicaid. Unless treatments to slow, stop or prevent Alzheimer's are developed, care is expected to cost $1.1 trillion, in today's dollars, by 2050.
RELATED COSTS: Most Alzheimer's patients have at least one other serious medical problem, and dementia makes treatment for those conditions more complicated. For example, among seniors with diabetes, it costs Medicare 81 percent more to care for one who also has Alzheimer's.
Source: Alzheimer's Association, www.alz.org/facts .


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Michael J. Chamberlain, Vice President, and Audrey Gallien, Associate, Catalyst, deliver a luncheon keynote, "LGBTQ Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace", at Metropolitan Hospital Center, as part of a week-long campaign to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning inclusion in a full-service, community hospital context. This event is closed to the public.
LGBTQ Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
In Person
Invite Required
Speakers Bureau
New York, NY
Price: Free


text: Reading through The Independent Online last night, I came across this article by Alice-Azania Jarvis on the art of dressing for work. As she states, "the thing about getting dressed for work – the thing that makes it so very difficult – is that work is definitely not about clothes. On the contrary: in the world of earnest employment, such frivolities are almost frowned upon."


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"Microsoft and copy-protection company Macrovision have struck a deal that will add a new layer of anticopying defenses to video content being swapped between home devices.
The two companies said that Microsoft had licensed Macrovision's technology, which aims to stop people from making copies using analog connections between devices, such as those that typically link a set-top box to a television.
The deal could make it harder for consumers to make permanent copies of TV shows and movies without permission, if they use computers running the Windows operating system. It should also help convince movie studios and other content producers to release their products in new ways online, the companies said."
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Michel Gondry's acid trip of a movie is such a visual stunner you might well forget how humdrum a story it encompasses.
I don't think it's what Hemingway had in mind when he called Paris a moveable feast, but the dancing food in "Mood Indigo" is something you'll never forget. Same for the rest of Michel Gondry's acid trip of a movie in which joy and tragedy are vividly expressed through color, form and imagination. It's such a visual stunner you might well forget how humdrum a story it encompasses.
Culled from Boris Vian's fantastical novel, the movie is a through-the-looking-glass parable about life, love and the transformative power Duke Ellington holds over two free-spirited Parisians on course for a nasty dustup with fate. The couple, played by the appealingly quirky Audrey Tautou (in full "Amelie form") and the handsomely disheveled Romain Duris ("The Beat My Heart Skipped"), meet cute, fall in love, get married and soon find their wedded bliss cruelly interrupted.
It's touching to the point it becomes maudlin and twee. Then, it goes completely off the rails, as Gondry and his co-writer, Luc Bossi, shamelessly surrender to cliches and predictability in a third act that grows as tedious as the first act is mind-bending. It would be easy to accuse Gondry of running out of ideas, but I think it has more to do with money. In the first 15 minutes alone he nearly exhausts the budget on candy-colored special effects so elaborate and inventive they inspire childlike wonder. Bodies contort, tiny men dressed as mice disperse bubbles, and bits of Vian's text are pecked out on an assembly line of typewriters riding on tracks as Ellington's "Take the A Train" plays. That's just the beginning. Later, Tautou's Chloe and Duris' Colin are lifted high into the air on a cloud attached to a construction crane. And, my favorite, the dancing food, prepared by Colin's lawyer, friend and chef, Nicolas (Omar Sy).
But once the film passes its midway point and becomes a slave to plot, much of the fizz goes out of it, as does the color and invention. It's neat how Gondry does a reverse "Wizard of Oz" by beginning in Technicolor and ending in stark black and white, but it feels too much like a heavy-handed metaphor. Ditto for a water lily growing in a character's lung like a cancer, and the ensuing treatments that shrink the couple's wallet along with the floral growth.
It's meant to be deep, but comes off as silly and trite. And what purpose do the grandiose visuals serve if there's nothing of substance behind them? My only guess is that its to entertain stoners and art fans like Gondry, who's always been more of a painter than a filmmaker. That doesn't mean his films, like "The Science of Sleep" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," aren't lovely to behold, because they are. But if he could match those awesome visuals with an equally compelling story, like Scorsese did with "Hugo" or Alfonso Cuaron did last year with "Gravity," he'd really be onto something. But for some reason, Gondry, unlike his contemporary, Spike Jonze, can't escape his music-video origins. Perhaps that's why "Mood Indigo" feels more like an elongated Bjork video than a feature film.
At least the acting is superb, from Tautou and Duris down to the supporting turns by Gondry himself, playing a quack doctor, and Gad Elmaleh as the close pal who introduces Colin to Chloe. The biggest kudos, though, go to set director Stephane Rozenbaum, costumer Florence Fontaine, cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne and, last but not least, Duke Ellington, whose marvelous music fills the soundtrack, and whose spirit is deeply entwined in both the book (Vian, a big fan, even named his novel after an Ellington tune) and the movie. His music not only gives the film its jazz, but also its soul.


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MONTREAL, March 1 (UPI) -- David Desharnais scored the only goal of the shootout in the second round Thursday, lifting the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-4 victory over Minnesota.
The Canadiens let a three-goal lead get away in the third period but Desharnais rescued Montreal by avoiding a poke check attempt by goaltender Josh Harding and then flipping a backhander into the net.
Montreal halted a five-game losing streak.
Desharnais scored 8:50 into the third period to give Montreal a seemingly comfortable 4-1 lead.
Minnesota then produced three goals in the span of 3:43 and tied it on Devin Setoguchi's slap shot with 10 seconds left in regulation. Matt Kassian and Dany Heatley also scored in the late flurry that at least salvaged a point for the Wild in their bid to make the playoffs.
Minnesota is five points out of the eighth and final post-season berth in the Western Conference.
P.K. Subban and Lars Eller scored for the Canadiens in the opening period and the lone second-period goal from Max Pacioretty gave Montreal a 3-1 advantage.
The win went to Carey Price, who made 26 saves. Harding replaced Niklas Backstrom after the Minnesota goaltender left the game in the first period with an apparent leg injury.


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While on vacation in Nassau, Bahamas, parents Elana and David Barnes took a video of five-year-old Anaia on a snorkeling trip where she swam with sharks, reports ABC News. They then posted it on YouTube to share with family and friends. Since then, the video has gone viral and has provoked a wide range of responses, from the utterly disapproving to the surprisingly supportive of the parents' decision (comments have since been disabled by the Barnes).
The first part of the video shows a man throwing cut fish into the water feeding a frenzy of sharks. You hear mom, Elana, say to her daughter, "I don't want you in the water until they are done feeding the sharks. 'Cause the sharks are hungry and you have to wait until they are full."
Plus: Olympic Swimmer Cullen Jones on Nearly Drowning as a Child
After a few minutes, the video cuts to the family snorkeling in the water, where they see a shark that has a rope in its mouth, apparently still connected from an earlier part of the event.
Plus: How to Make a Super Cool Shark Birthday Cake
Check out the video below, and tell us: would you let your five-year-old swim with sharks?


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This is the lite version of iGuardian. It has the first mission of the full version for you to try out.
iGuardianLite is a classic 2D shooter in which you will guard the safety of your people.
The world has gone mad and several countries have combined to invade your country.
Your job is to fight them off and stop them.
You will have the choice to fight them with a Apache Attack Helicopter, a modern fighter jet or the good old HellCat, but beware : All planes have their advantages and their disadvantages.
You will fight all sorts of enemies as well as in air as on the ground.
At the end of each level a huge endboss will arise to fight you one on one.
To make life a little more easy on you you can collect bonuses to upgrade your machineguns, health and even pick up heat-seeking missiles.
You can submit your highscore via your iPhone/iPod and compare it with other players worldwide.
Compete to be the best iGuardianLite player in the world.
Controlling your plane is done by touch/swiping your iphone/ipod touch or by using the accelerometer.
Difficulty settings can be adjusted using a slider bar (100 different difficulty levels) so you can set the difficulty to your own personal preferences.
Increasing the difficulty level will also increase the maximum available highscore, so you will always be challenged to set that score.
After finishing a level you wil get an overview of your killed enemies and a "KillPercentage". The higher your percentage the bigger your bonus.
If you like old-school arcade 2d shooters, give it a try.
Good Luck.


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This is a collection of tips and information regarding blueman, a GTK+ bluetooth manager. The information here was originally collated from the AUR thread at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13870.
# pacman -S blueman
Be sure to add the bluetooth daemon to rc.conf and start blueman with blueman-applet.
Blueman and pulseaudio
Users who want to use pulseaudio with a bluetooth headset may want to activate the pulseaudio plugin of Blueman. This automatically loads pulseaudio bluetooth module after audio device is connected and plays all audio through the bluetooth headset.
Blueman and Thunar
As long as you have gvfs-obexftp installed, you can use thunar from blueman to browse files remotely. Open up the blueman services configuration window and replace
nautilus --browse obex://
thunar obex://
NOW obsolete! >> Workaround for a Bug with obex and gvfs
To browse mobile phone via nautilus with blueman you need a patched gvfs. Install gvfs-rar from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23861
obex-data-server package is broken for now and needs to rebuild with:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
Just grab it from ABS and rebuild.
>>For me now with actual obex-data-server and standard gvfs all is working fine (Yes obex-browsing too) the only thing is delete files on remote storage do not work.
Workaround a bug with network manager in bluetooth networking
Some distributions show all bluetooth interfaces as net.80203, which can cause strange behaviour in network manager, for example NM trying to get dhcp address for an incoming connection.
This is for versions <= 1.01, versions 1.02 and up will include this patch.
Put this in
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.category" string="net.80203"> <match key="net.interface" contains="bnep"> <merge key="info.category" type="string">net.bluetooth</merge> <merge key="info.product" type="string">Bluetooth Interface</merge> <merge key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">net, net.bluetooth</merge> <merge key="net.bluetooth.mac_address" type="copy_property">net.80203.mac_address</merge> <remove key="net.80203.mac_address"/> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>
Can't receive files
You have to edit /etc/conf.d/bluetooth file and uncomment this line:


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Get ready to soar with the Space Racers! ...as Eagle, Robyn, Hawk and the rest of the Stardust Space Academy cadets soar through the stratosphere with a staggering burst of power and speed, breaking free of Earth's orbit and screaming into space toward the exciting missions that lie ahead. Come along on their extraordinary adventures in the exciting world of Stardust Bay, a familiar yet fantastic place populated by all sorts of talking spaceships.
There are no upcoming air times for this episode.
Spot the International Space State Overhead!
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Ok, so the Pop Art spotlight is very much on Roy Lichtenstein at the moment what with his retrospective at the Tate Modern in London.
But when it comes to a style/art crossover then there's only one pop art name that counts, and that's Andy Warhol.
There are literally hundreds of Warhol's prints available on t-shirts – check this lot out – but if you want something different how about this Pepe Jeans jacket which I spotted at Atom Retro and is part of the The Andy Warhol Collection from PJ.
It is a very striking looking blue jacket with a zip, 60s style collar and side pockets, But best of all is the lining which is a very cool reworking of the famous Campbell Soup Warhol print.
It sells here for £129.99.
Click on for some more Warhol inspired clothing


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Conns : Ring the register on this electronics retailer's stock, Cramer said, adding it's just a "tough industry."
The Manitowoc Company : Wait for strong economic growth before buying shares of this farm and construction machinery maker, Cramer said.
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I feel pretty unhappy that this Wiki appears not have a licence, despite a claim to the contrary that brought me to this page. What's wrong with the standard licence?
Roger Williams
Yes, the confusion should be cleared up. The note at the bottom of this editing page says that the GNU Free Documentation License is used, altho elsewhere in this wiki it suggests it is not decided. Clarity is needed.
Fred Swartz
Can you nail down this license issue with the wiki. I want to make sure everyone feels comfortable with adding content to the wiki and knowing their work won't be exploited.
Thanks !
I hadn't noticed that there was a GFDL license statement at the bottom whenever a page is edited. This means that all the existing content is already under the GFDL and that adding or changing licenses at this stage is probably impractical.
This is fine, the GFDL license is good enough. I've modified the text in License and PanoTools:Copyrights to point this out explicitly. If you find time it would be useful to put a statement in the footer of each page.
By the way, the one thing that is common with all these 'Open Source' licenses is that exploiting the work is encouraged. There is nothing to stop somebody taking the whole thing and repackaging it as a book for sale.
How about adding it to the "Disclaimers" page? This shows up at the bottom of each page.