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New Yorkers are serious about their coffee—and are very particular about how its brewed and where they are drinking it. Here are the best coffee shops in the Big Apple.
Luxury Attache Top 5: NYC Coffee Shops
1 Blue Bottle Coffee
Espresso drinks, pour-over coffees and deliciously addictive iced coffee beverages are all at the heart of Blue Bottle's loyal customer fan base. Next time your touring the Highline with friends or family, be sure to stop in and grab a cup of their New Orleans-Style iced coffee. Each cup is freshly roasted, perfectly executed and served with a beautiful, artisan touch.
2 Zibetto
Trained in Sosta, Stockholm and endlessly devoted to his craft, Zibetto owner Anastasio Nougos is said to serve one of the best espresso drinks customers have ever had. You wont find seats, pumpkin concoctions or drip coffee at this tiny neighborhood gem, yet if you're looking for a high-quality cup of fresh Brazilian Joe, this is the place to get it.
3 Joe
Whether you come here to visit the city's first "built-in, pour-over" coffee bar or simply to see some of the best-trained baristas around town, family-owned Joe coffee always provides customers with warm hospitality, cozy banquettes and a temporary escape from the hustle-bustle of the city.
4 La Colombe
Take in the scene of buzzing Lafayette Street as you indulge in the unique, culinary coffee experience that La Colombe has to offer. As a supplier of coffee to some of the City's top restaurants such as Daniel and Le Bernardin, this renowned artisanal coffee roaster describes their blend as "elegant-tasting, smooth, round and balanced."
5 Kaffe 1668
You can forget about adding milk to your coffee at this neighborhood bi-level gem - baristas are rightfully convinced that doing so would only mask the flavor of their delicious hand-selected brews. From lattes in paper cups for New Yorkers on the run to drip coffee from a Clover machine, head to Kaffe 1668 for yummy bites, drinks and plenty of seating in its sleek, minimalist ambiance.


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If you are visiting with a group, Danger Point can tailor your visit to what you and your group want to get out of it. For example, schools can have before and after sessions to track the increase in knowledge of the pupils and uniformed groups (Brownies, Cubs, etc.) can follow the syllabus of one of their interest or challenge badges. For individual visits, you get a clipboard and activity pack to work through as you travel around.
Teaching children about the often hidden dangers of life can be difficult as sometimes, I feel that they don't actually believe you that something bad could happen and you are just being a mean parent by not letting them have some 'fun'! At Danger Point the risks are shown to the children but in a measured and safe way. There were actually a couple of times that my youngest (6) was a little bit scared but with reassurance, he was OK but it did make him understand that there are dangers out there in the big wide world. Sometimes, a bit of controlled fear is a good thing as it really brings the danger and/or risk to life!
My daughter (9) loved all of the exhibitions within the centre, but her favourite was definitely The Co-Operative checkout! We felt that all of the sections were relevant to our lives, from the kitchen safety though to the beach and sea safety.
I would definitely recommend paying them a visit - we were there for a couple of hours so it was a lovely afternoon out. One good point was that there's no hard sell at the gift shop! This may sound a bit silly, but the gift shop is really quite small, situated near to the welcome desk. There's a nice selection of pencils, pens, stickers etc. but nothing extravagant that makes you feel that you HAVE to buy something!
Pop over to Danger Point's Facebook page here and you can also keep up with K-os and his friends here on Twitter. Why not have a little explore of their website too - there are links to useful resources covering all the different aspects of safety in everyday life.
If you do visit, make sure you say hello to K-Os for me!

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oh, p.s. - tip number four: high fives! all men love high fives!
The haps: Guys I got to co-write this week's Wonderella comic! It was a real pleasure. SO IS THE NON-ADVENTURES OF WONDERELLA, AS A MATTER OF FACT
I also came across a neat comic called Isotown, in which an isometric pixel town is built up, day by day. It's neat - unlike any other comic I've seen - and it's really cool to walk through and see how things grow. There's stories that are told as the town grows too, like this neighbour who was stealing building supplies and a family of blue birds! I recommend starting from the beginning.
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This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division,
J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our
reading room. None of the original documents in this collection are digitally available online at this time.
Collection (1794-1951, 1971, undated) including correspondence, deeds, statements, promissory notes, will, inventories, legal papers; poems, clippings, photographs, etc. relating to the Banks and Stacey families.
Papers (1936-1970) consisting of correspondence, orders, financial records, photographs, memorandums and certificates.
553 pages original typescript of memoir, 147 written/printed letters, 588 pages edited typescript consisting of memoir and letters, a pamphlet, and five biographical books. Memoir relates to the life of Brigadier General George Willcox McIver (1857-1947)
Correspondence, photographs, postcards and printed material documenting North Carolina history. Locations include Fayetteville, Elizabeth City, High Point, Wilmington, Atlantic Beach, Morehead City, Belhaven, Edenton, Pitt County, Camp Lejeune, Reidsville, Rocky Mount, St. Pauls Washington and New Bern. Subjects include the Askew Family of Hertford County, Greensboro College, Fayetteville flood of 1908, the Confederate Ram Albemarle and...
Collection (1862-1865) including correspondence, military orders, loyalty oaths, an invoice, a voucher, and a medical certificate.
Papers (1907-1955) including correspondence, World War I military records, photographs, financial records, estate papers, clippings, business letters, bank loans, and miscellaneous.
Papers (1864-1944) consisting of correspondence, financial papers, an account book, nine scrapbooks, and miscellaneous.
Papers (1862-1863) consisting of correspondence, commentaries, letters, shipping, etc.
Letterbook (1861-1864) consisting of handwritten transcripts of letters.
Papers (1782-1956, undated) related to the John Gideon Taylor family of Pitt County, North Carolina, including correspondence, legal papers, estate papers, financial papers, post cards, photographs, newspapers, advertising ephemera, World War II ration books, genealogy information, Bible records, and miscellany.
Papers (1926-1953) of Brig. General Paul A. Putnam, U. S. Marine Corps, an aviator, who was captured at Wake Island and was a POW in Japan, 1941-1945, consisting of correspondence, diaries, a photograph, clippings, citations, orders, recipe book, copies of awards, citations, publications, newspaper articles.


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In the oldest of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, adverse-event rates were lower with drug-eluting stents than with bare-metal stents, researchers found, despite the fact that use of those stents declined significantly in that population.
When compared with bare-metal stents, drug-eluting stents were associated with lower adjusted mortality risk in those 85 and older (29% versus 38%, adjusted HR=0.80, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.83), according to Tracy Y. Yang, MD, of Duke University, and colleagues.
However, the adjusted mortality difference narrowed with increasing age (P<0.001 for interaction), they reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Although the population of the U.S. is becoming older, there have been few studies that looked at the comparative effectiveness of drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in those 85 years and older. This leads to uncertainty about the risk-benefit balance in this population that the researchers hoped to address in this study
The authors evaluated patients from the CathPCI Registry, the largest U.S. registry for patients undergoing PCI. The final study included 471,006 patients, ages 65 and up, from 947 sites who were successfully matched with Medicare fee-for-service data between 2004 and 2008.
Long-term outcomes were compared between users of drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents at a median follow-up of 640.8 days.
However, rehospitalization for myocardial infarction was significantly lower in the drug-eluting stent group compared with the bare-metal group as age increased, coming in at 9% versus 12% for those ages 85 and up (HR=0.77, 95% CI 0.71 to 0.83).
For those 75 to 84 years, the rates were 7% for drug-eluting stents versus 9% for bare-metal stents (HR=0.81, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.84). For those 65 to 74 years, the rates were 7% versus 8% (HR=0.84, 95% CI 0.80 to 0.88, P<0.001 for interaction).
Use of the drug-eluting stent was not associated with lower revascularization risk in the oldest age group, and bleeding risk was similar between the two stent types across all age groupings.
As this was an observational design, the authors noted that the association between treatments and outcome do not prove causality. Despite multivariate adjustments, there still may be unmeasured factors that skewed the benefit toward the drug-eluting stents.
Other study limitations included the use of claims data for event classification, which may have resulted in the increased risk of under-reporting or misclassification of risk. They also did not have access to longitudinal medicine use, which the researchers noted is key to the prevention of adverse outcomes over the long term.
"Several insights emerge from this study which represents, to the best of our knowledge, the largest report of PCI patients age ≥85 years to date," the authors wrote. First, an increasing proportion of PCIs is performed in patients ages 85 and up, they pointed out. Also, drug-eluting stent use has declined significantly since 2005, with the largest decrease in that older population.
Finally, drug-eluting stent use was associated with lower mortality and myocardial infarction risks across all older age groups without significant difference in repeat revascularization risk, they said.
Wang has received institutional research grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb/sanofi aventis Partnership, Schering-Plough/Merck, The Medicines Company, Heartscape Technologies, Canyon Pharmaceuticals, and Eli Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo alliance; and consulting or honoraria from Medco Health Solutions and AstraZeneca.
Co-author Frederick Masoudi, MD, has received salary support from the American College of Cardiology; is senior medical officer for the National Cardiovascular Data Registry; and is a consultant for the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality.
Co-author Kevin Anstrom, PhD, has received research and salary support from Alexion Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Bristol- Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Innocoll Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic, Pfizer, and Proctor & Gamble; serves on the data safety monitoring boards of Pfizer and Vertex Pharmaceuticals; and provides consulting services to Pacific Therapeutics, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca.
Co-author Eric Peterson, MD, has received research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb/sanofi aventis Partnership, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly.
Co-author John Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, is the chief science officer for the National Cardiovascular Data Registry.
All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
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Well it has certainly been a while since my last update, but since I got this spiffy new app on my phone I can start blogging again.
This October the "Wings over Houston" airshow came to town. Held every year at Ellington air force base in Houston Texas, its pretty big doings. Attracting some of the top airshow acts in the industry like the Blue Angels, The Snowbirds, The Thunderbirds, Kirby Chambliss, and this year, finally, Sean D Tucker. For those who havent seen Sean at work, it is truely a sight to behold. His mastery of flight is unsurppassed, and his innovative "power aerobatic" style is thrilling to say the least.
My mission this year was to get a hat signed by Mr Tucker, this would come to be, though not the way I expected it. About an hour before his slot, my wife and I made our way down to the Oracle booth to try to meet Mr Tucker. We were instead, met by a pr woman who told us Mr Tucker was shmoozing clients right now and that we wouldnt be able to see him till after his show, if at all. She also told us that Oracle hats are promotional items given to clients only. So we left.
At this point I gave up, I assumed my hopes were dashed and resigned myself to enjoying the rest of the show with my family. We saw Sean fly and it was everything I had imagined it would be and more. About the time Sean landed after the finale, my wife, daughter, and mother went to go play on some inflatable slides that were setup for children. My father and I stayed in our spot to watch the WWII heritage flight. After about an hour mom, the wife, and daughter returned from play time with one helluva story. My wife had talked mom into headin over to the oracle booth again and when they got there they said they walked right in and right up to the man himself. My wife then described how I was a big fan and she said Before she could finish her sentence Sean said "we got a big fan, lets get a hat for this guy". My wife said he then posed for photos and hugged everyone and was as genuine and nice as they had ever known someone to be. Upon hearig this my father and I b-lined it for the Oracle tent hoping to meet Mr Tucker but we missed him by just a few minutes. However, the lady(a different one) let us pilliage all the promotional swag(which included Oracle lanyards and extremely nice hat pins) and we were allowed full access to Seans plane.
Needless to say, I love my wife, and it was a helluva day.


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Hevin, the Missing Gene that Might Help Stop Cancer
What does fetal development have to do with cancer? More than you might think. Although one process is healthy and good, and the other is harmful, both involve intense periods of growth. The big difference is that in cancer, certain switches that should be able to stop cells from dividing either aren't there, or are not working as they should. And, in cancer — when it starts, and also as it progresses — some pathways that were designed to do their main work before birth are reactivated.
One of these is a switch called Hevin. It's a gene that is "dynamically regulated during prostate development, but it's disrupted in prostate cancer," says Paula Hurley, Ph.D. She is interested in learning more about Hevin because it can help keep tumors from forming, "and in many forms of cancer, it is significantly reduced or lost." Hurley is working to trace the molecular pathways that Hevin uses to stop cancers from forming, and to find out whether the shutdown of this gene makes a man more susceptible to prostate cancer forming and advancing. "Understanding the molecular underpinnings contributing to prostate cancer will help us develop targeted therapies," she says, drugs specially designed to work with these pathways to stop prostate cancer in its tracks.


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Going Meta on the Data
You leave digital footprints when you do research. Scott McLemee listens to the librarians who follow them.
In a passage surely written with tongue in cheek, Friedrich Nietzsche states that a scholar of his era would consult 200 volumes in the course of a working day. That's far too many, he suggests: a symptom of erudition's decay into feeble bookwormery and derivative non-thinking. "During the time that I am deeply absorbed in my work," he says, "no books are found within my reach; it would never occur to me to allow anyone to speak or even to think in my presence." A noble modus vivendi, if not quite an admirable one, somehow.
Imagine what the philosopher would make of the 21st century, when you can carry the equivalent of the library of Alexandria in a flash drive on your keychain. Nietzsche presents the figure of 200 books a day as "a modest assessment" – almost as if someone ought to do an empirical study and nail the figure down. But we're way past that now, as one learns from the most recent number of Against the Grain.
ATG is a magazine written by and for research librarians and the publishers and vendors that market to them. In the new issue, 10 articles appear in a section called "Perspectives on Usage Statistics Across the Information Industry." The table of contents also lists a poem called "Fireworks" as part of the symposium, though that is probably a mistake. (The poem is, in fact, about fireworks, unless I am really missing something.)
Some of the articles are a popularization -- relatively speaking -- of discussions that have been taking place in venues with titles like the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserves and Collections Management. Chances are the non-librarians among you have never read these publications, or even seen them at a great distance, no matter how interdisciplinary you seek to be. For that matter, discussing the ATG articles at any length in this column would risk losing too many readers. They are peer communications. But the developments they address are worth knowing about, because they will undoubtedly affect everyone's research, sooner or later, often in ways that will escape most scholars' notice.
Most of us are aware that the prominence and influence of scholarly publications can be quantified, more or less. The Social Science Citation Index, first appearing in 1956, is an almost self-explanatory case.
As an annual list of the journal articles where a given paper or book has been cited, SSCI provides a bibliographical service. Counting the citations then yields bibliometric data, of a pretty straightforward kind. The metric involved is simplicity itself. The number of references to a scholarly text in the subsequent literature, over a given period of time, is a rough and ready indicator of that text's influence prominence during said period. The reputation of an author can be similarly quantified, hashmark style.
A blunt bibliometric instrument, to be sure. The journal impact factor is a more focused device, measuring how often articles in a journal have been cited over a two-year period relative to the total number of articles in the same field, over the same period. The index was first calculated in the 1970s by what is now Thompson Reuters, also the publisher of SSCI. But the term "journal impact factor" is generic. It applies to the IDEAS website's statistical assessment of the impact of economic journals, which is published by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. And there's the European Reference Index for the Humanities, sponsored by European Science Foundation, which emerged in response to dissatisfaction with "existing bibliographic/bibliometric indices" for being "all USA-based with a stress on the experimental and exact sciences and their methodologies and with a marked bias towards English-language publication."
As the example of ERIH may suggest, bibliometric indices are not just a statistical matter. What gets counted, and how, is debatable. So is the effect of journal impact factors on the fields of research to which they apply – not to mention the people working in those fields. And publication in high-impact journals can be a career-deciding thing. A biologist and a classicist on a tenure committee will have no way of gauging how good the candidate's work on astrophysics is, as such. But if the publications are mostly in high-impact journals, that's something to go by.
The metrics discussed in the latest Against the Grain are newer and finer-grained than the sort of thing just described. They have been created to help research libraries track what in their collections is being used, and how often and intensively. And that, in turn, is helpful in deciding what to acquire, given the budget. (Or what not to acquire, often enough, given what's left of the budget.)
One contributor, Elizabeth R. Lorbeer, associate director for content management for the medical library at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that the old way to gauge which journals were being used was to look at the wear and tear on the bound print volumes. Later, comparing journal-impact factors became one way to choose which subscriptions to keep and which to cancel. But it was the wrong tool in some cases. Lorbeer writes that she considered it "an inadequate metric to use in the decision-making process because sub-discipline and newer niche areas of research were often published in journals with a lower impact factor."
From the bibliometric literature she learned of another statistical tool: the immediacy index, which measures not how often a journal is cited, but how quickly. In some cases, a journal with a low impact factor might have a higher immediacy index, as would be appropriate for work in cutting-edge fields.
She also mentions consulting the "half-life" index for journals – a metric as peculiar, on first encounter, as the old "count the footnote citations" method was obvious. It measures "the number of publication years from the current year which account for 50 percent of current citations received" of articles from a given journal. This was useful for determining which journals had a long-enough shelf life to make archiving them worthwhile.
Google Scholar is providing a number of metrics – the h-index, the h-core, and the h-median – which I shall mention, and point out, without professing to understand their usefulness. Lorbeer refers to a development also covered by Inside Higher Ed earlier this year: a metric based on Twitter references, to determine the real-time impact of scholarly work.
One day a Nietzsche specialist is going to be praised for writing a high-twimpact paper, whereupon the universe will end.
Other contributions to the ATG symposium paint a picture of today's research library as a mechanism incessantly gathering information as well as making it available to its patrons – indeed, doing both at the same time. Monitoring the flow of bound volumes in and out of the library makes it relatively easy to gauge demand according to subject heading. And with digital archives, it's possible to track which ones are proving especially useful to students and faculty.
A survey of 272 practicing librarians in ATG's subscriber base, conducted in June of this year, shows that 80 percent "are analyzing [usage of] at least a portion of their online journal holdings," with nearly half of them doing so for 75 to 100 percent of those holdings. It's interesting to see that the same figure – 80 percent – indicated that "faculty recommendations and/or input" was used in making decisions about journal acquisitions. With book-length publications entering library holdings in digital form, the same tools and trends are bound to influence monograph acquisition. Some of the articles in the symposium indicate that it's already happening.
Carbon-based life forms are still making the actual decisions about how to build the collections. But it's not hard to imagine someone creating an algorithm that would render the whole process cybernetic. Utopia or nightmare? I don't know, but we're probably halfway there.
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Girl, 15, escapes would-be abductor
Berrien County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who approached a 15-year-old girl and tried to talk her into getting into his vehicle just after 7 a.m. Thursday. The girl was walking toward a bus stop at the intersection of Napier Avenue and Nichols Road in Bainbridge Township, according to police. The vehicle, described as an older, two-door, blue GMC Jimmy or Chevy Blazer with a maroon swooping stripe, pulled up to the girl, and the driver opened the passenger door and tried to talk her into getting into the SUV, investigators said. The girl ran to a nearby house and was allowed inside, police said. The girl described the man as in his late 20s with blond hair, no facial hair, thin, clean-cut and wearing a gray tanktop and sunglasses. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Berrien County Sheriffs Department Detective Bureau at (269) 983-7141.
Lightning strikes near man, results in death
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Porter Baptist Church on Teasdale Lake Road in Cass County for Bruce Smith, 47, who died Wednesday in Bronson Methodist Hospital's Burn Unit after being struck by lightning. Constantine fire officials said Smith was taken to Bronson from Three Rivers Health after he was struck about 5:20 p.m. June 2. Investigators said he was standing near a 60-foot tree that was hit by a bolt of lightning in the 300 block of West Fourth Street. Smith is survived by his wife, Gail, and three children. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today in the Eley Funeral Home.
Arrest leads police to allegedly stolen tools
Authorities found a large number of possibly stolen tools in the possession of a man arrested in the Dowagiac area, the Cass County Sheriff's Office reported. The man, whose name was not released, was arrested on unrelated warrants. Police believe the tools in his possession were taken late Monday night or early Tuesday morning, a news release said. Anyone with any information should contact Detective Kristen Daly at (269) 445-1244.
Meeting on assisted living center June 20
The development company Leisure Living will hold an informational meeting at Dowagiac City Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. June 20. The meeting will address the Forest Glen assisted living facility that is being built on Amerihost Drive. Community members are invited to attend the meeting that will be providing information about services, project details for prospective tenants and other questions.
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Netflix's "Bright" Sequel Officially Announced
Will Smith and his co-star Joel Edgerton will be returning to the screens this January, courtesy Netflix. Everyone remembers last year's fantasy action and crime melodrama featuring a Los Angeles Police Department officer and his teammate who battle human and non-humans in an endeavor to clean up the city. Netflix's Bright sequel will be written and directed entirely by David Ayer.
To date, Bright happens to be the highest viewed film ever launched by Netflix, since its launch on December 22, 2017. The film had an overall audience reach of at least 11 Million worldwide. That's phenomenal, considering that it would amount to net ticket sales totaling around $100 million if one were just to multiply monetary averages and audiences.
So what makes Bright such a high-grosser for Netflix? The film presents to us an alternate reality in which humans try to co-exist with elves, orcs, dwarves and several other species that have been intermittently fighting each other for supremacy and survival for thousands of years.
Daryl Ward (played by Will Smith) partners with Nick Jakoby, an Orc polish officer who team up to quell disturbances in Los Angeles. They inadvertently stumble upon a 'Shield of Light' safe house in which they find some corpses, a torso of an elf embedded in a wall, and young survivor elf named Tikka who possesses a magic wand. However, this is not an ordinary wand, and it can only be commanded by someone who is "Bright". Any contact by a non-bright person will immediately destroy the wand.
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The further drama unfolds as four LAPD officers arrive suddenly and decide to keep the wand to themselves. They try to coerce Ward to bump off his partner in exchange for his life. However, Ward acts instinctively and eliminates the four corrupt officers. This attracts the attention of a local human gang – The Altamira – who are then in hot pursuit of the trio.
They make good their escape and flee through the territory of the Fogteeth Orcan clan where they encounter further flare-ups. Meanwhile, Leilah and other Inferni members are also chasing them down. The trio is finally brought into captivity before their leader Dorghu who demands to know the location of the magic wand. He sends his son to kill Jakoby after failing to elicit any response from Ward.
Dorghu kills Jakoby himself, and he falls into a deep pit. Just as he is about to kill ward, Tikka appears with the wand and resurrects Jakoby, thus revealing that she is 'Bright'. By proclaiming this as the prophecy, the entire clan kneels down before Jakoby, and the three are allowed to leave in peace. Tikka, who now knows she can trust them, speaks to them in English and explains the Inferno's plan to resurrect their Dark Lord, a dangerous mythical figure who is to take over the world – because she was once a part of their clan and had been protected by the Shield of Light before fleeing with the wand.
Tikka, however, can only be saved by placing her in one of the magic pools found in a Shield safe house. As they return, they encounter Leilah who has been waiting for their return. To his shock, Ward discovers that he is also 'Bright' as he watches the wand glow a bright orange in his hands. He uses it to kill Leilah while Tikka makes good her escape. The movie ends with the Inferni being labeled as an extremist organization and Ward and Jakoby are felicitated for their bravery and valor.
Netflix's "Bright" sequel promises all the action, drama, magic and sorcery as the prequel, with many more twists and turns as the plot unravels. Previously, Netflix was able to gauge how many users were interested in the movie was heavily advertised and many were able to watch trailers and add the movie to their queues. This further emboldened them enough to go ahead with the film's sequel this month, which by some estimates cost them at least a whopping $90 million.
There's no doubt that Bright is one of Netflix's biggest originals they have ever launched. This is in spite of the fact that the film wasn't reviewed very favorably by critics. Netflix always has some aces up its sleeves. This also gives them an edge over their competitors like Showbox.
They know that no amount of bad reviews will keep their audiences away from pressing the play button in the comforts of their homes and that's why Netflix's "Bright" the sequel makes for a very interesting proposition this January. Don't miss it!


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<networking> A text file on a networked computer that was used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows,
Hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
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It's been a bit of a bumpy ride for FCoE, which started out with more promise than it was able to deliver. In theory, the benefits of a single converged LAN/SAN network are fairly easy to see. The problem was, as is often the case with new technology, that most of the theoretical benefit was not available on the initial product release. The idea that storage traffic was no longer confined to expensive SANs, but instead could run on the more commoditized and easier-to-administer IP equipment was intriguing, however, new 10 Gbps Enhanced Ethernet switches were not exactly inexpensive with few products supporting FCoE initially, and those that did, did not play nicely with products from other vendors.
Keeping FCoE "On the Single-Hop"?
The adoption of FCoE to date has been almost exclusively "single-hop", meaning that FCoE is being deployed to provide connectivity between the server and the Top of Rack switch. Consequently, traffic continues to be broken out one way for IP, and another way for FC. Breaking out the traffic makes sense—by consolidating network adapters and cables, it adds value on the server access side.
A significant portion of FCoE switch ports come from Cisco's UCS platform, which runs FCoE inside the chassis. In terms of a complete end-to-end FCoE solution, there continues to be very little multi-hop FCoE happening, or ports shipping on storage arrays.
In addition, FCoE connections are more prevalent on blade servers than on stand-alone servers for various reasons.
- First, blades are used more in a virtualized environment where different types of traffic can travel on the same link.
- Second, the migration to 10 Gbps has been very slow so far on stand-alone servers; about 80% of these servers are actually still connected with 1 Gbps, which cannot support FCoE.
What portion of FCoE-enabled server ports are actually running storage traffic?
FCoE-enabled ports comprise about a third of total 10 Gbps controller and adapter ports shipped on servers. However, we would like to bring to readers' attention the wide difference between the portion of 10 Gbps ports that is FCoE-enabled and the portion that is actually running storage traffic. We currently believe less than a third of the FCoE-enabled ports are being used to carry storage traffic. That's because the FCoE port, in many cases, is provided by default with the server. That's the case with HP blade servers as well as Cisco's UCS servers, which together are responsible for around 80% of the FCoE-enabled ports. We believe, however, that in the event that users buy separate adapters they will most likely use that adapter to run storage traffic—but they will need to pay an additional premium for this – about 50% to 100% – for the FCoE license.
The Outlook
That said, whether FCoE-enabled ports are used to carry storage traffic or not, we believe they are being introduced at the expense of some FC adapters. If users deploy a server with an FCoE-enabled port, they most likely will not buy a FC adapter to carry storage traffic. Additionally, as Ethernet speeds reach 40 Gbps, the differential over FC will be too great and FC will be less likely to keep pace.
About the Authors
Casey Quillin is a Senior Analyst, Storage Area Network & Data Center Appliance Market Research with Dell'Oro Group.
Sameh Boujelbene is a Senior Analyst, Server and Controller & Adapter Market Research with Dell'Oro Group.
This post originally appeared on the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum Blog.


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The votes are in, your favourite books have been judged and you now have your reading list sorted for the year ahead - congratulations to everyone who took part and a big thank you to our judges and readers for voting. Here are the winners…
Patchwork, embroidery, upcycling, you've heard of them all, but there's so many alternative craft techniques out there just waiting to be tried. With the cold nights approaching and many of us choosing to stay indoors, there's no better time to pick up a new craft. Here's six of our favourites that we can't wait to try!
10 Rio Party Crafts
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The atmosphere of the Olympics is simply electrifying. Once every four years, we gather together as a nation to support Team GB in the hopes they bring home some medals.
There's no better excuse then to invite everyone round and throw a party to mark the joyous occasion. With the fabulous nation of Brazil hosting this summer's games, it's a great chance to deck out any shindig you're hosting with some Ipanema-inspired decs and party pieces.
We've rounded up our top Rio crafts you can do at home before you fiesta your way through the next month. Prepare to sizzle and samba into the evening this summer!


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This is a YouTube Video from our Channel DanteMagica.
It is an MUSIC VIDEO for HATSUNE MIKU GREATEST IDOL MIKU, I refer to her as G.I.Miku lol. I apologize for my hiatus on youtube videos especially this one that I made a poll for a long time ago where I collected votes on which Mitchie M.'s Greatest Idol Album song to use in this video.
Please check out the video and some photos I took from the shoot.
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Also check out these balloons I used in the diorama. Many times, I will use an inspirational item within when creating a set. I tend to like more abstract diorama for the most part rather than realistic rooms or sets as many gorgeous photos done by other users would. Earlier in my set building, I would use three easy steps include: 1.Fabrics - great for backdrop, flooring, wispy effects.
2. Faux Flowers - especially good for quick displays it's just a good accent accompaniment, particularly since flowers always look good with female figures, and you can use flowers that compliment the character's colors.
3. Special Item / Element: This is what I usually look for first, it is something special that you can build your idea off of. This may be something you have somewhere in the house like a miniature pillar an ornate frame, perfume bottles, etc. I usually will come across a cool item that one special item that you may be like, hey that would be cool for a display, and perhaps later down the road you will have a figure to match it. This is a great place to start off and build your set from this. You can find them online, I went to a site that sells just balloons, if you need the website I can look. But I got to choose what type, color, shape of balloons and to air them up, I used a straw to inserting it into the air hole, blow it up, and seal it with a hair straightener.
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Gale W. Skold, age 87, died on Sunday Morning, June 28, at the Glenwood Retirement Village. Memorial services will be held at 2:00 pm on Thursday, July 2, 2015, at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church in Benson. Visitation will be held from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on Thursday at the church. A private family burial will take place on a later date at the Benson City Cemetery. Zniewski Funeral Home of Benson is in charge of the arrangements.
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Yahoo is poised to announce changes to its board, including the addition of Max Levchin, a former senior executive at PayPal, people briefed on the matter said.
The board is also expected to announce the departure of two current directors: Brad Smith, the chief executive of Intuit and David W. Kenny, the chief executive of the Weather Channel.
The shake-up is expected to be announced within days, these people said. Yahoo did not respond to requests for comment.


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I'm excited to announce that Kingdom Blades, A Pattern of Shadow & Light Book Four, will be released for Audible on February 28th. At this point it's not yet listed in Audible's system for presale, but it will be available for pre-purchase as soon as they have it listed. Thank you so much to all. . . Read More
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Paths of Alir on Audible October 18th!
I know the majority of you are waiting for Kingdom Blades at the end of this month, but an increasing number of people are asking me kindly when Paths of Alir will be available on Audible, and I can now confirm the audiobook will be released on October 18th. You can preorder it now. Please remember to. . . Read More
Dagger of Adendigaeth on Audible (and Maybe Something About Kingdom Blades)
Today the audiobook edition of The Dagger of Adendigaeth releases on Audible. Yay! Grateful thanks to Podium Publishing and the talented Nick Podehl for bringing my award-winning fantasy series to audio life. (I have to say that for SEO purposes – not just trying to toot my own horn, here). Dagger is set up with Whispersync, for those of you. . . Read More
#Excerpt from Paths of Alir, A Pattern of Shadow & Light Book 3
Paths of Alir, the third book in my epic fantasy series, A Pattern of Shadow & Light, is in the final stages of pre-production (cover design and layout for press). The publication date is scheduled for October, 2014. Believe me, I understand that it feels like cruel and unusual punishment to be kept waiting (especially since you've been waiting so long already!) when the book. . . Read More


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Intro: Still I'm sad... Verse one: See the stars come joining down from the skies, Gently passing they kiss your tears when you cry. See the wind of summer blow your hair upon your head, See the rain, the falling rain, it's rain. Still I'm sad... Still I'm sad... Verse two: Oh my flowers, my tears just falling two days, We are driving the night to find they are lost. Flower, flower the wind is blowing, Time into my heart. When the wind blows hard, we are apart. Still I'm sad, Still I'm sad... Still I'm sad... Outro: Oh, oh, oh, oh, Still I'm sad. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Still I'm sad


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Passwords are the entry point to our IT resources. Protecting access to our resources is pivotal in ensuring
that our systems remain secure. While we have not been exploited, nor do we expect to be, we must be
diligent in guarding access to our resources and protecting them from threats both inside and outside our
Passwords for all systems are subject to the following rules:
· No passwords are to be spoken, written, e-mailed, hinted at, shared, or in any way known to anyone other than the user involved. This includes supervisors and personal assistants.
· No passwords are to be shared in order to "cover" for someone out of the office. employee supervisor will gladly create a temporary account if there are resources you need to access.
· Passwords are not to be your name, address, date of birth, username, nickname, or any term that could easily be guessed by someone who is familiar with you.
· Passwords are not be displayed or concealed on your workspace.
Network and client operating system: Windows 2000 or 2003 username and password (Users will automatically be prompted at a login to change the password every 45 days.)
· Ms. Outlook/Outlook Express: Windows 2000 or 2003 username and password (Users will automatically be prompted at a login to change the password every 45 days.)
· VPN password: Recommended interval is once per year.
· WWW accounts: Credentials to external Web resources (These passwords are rarely changed unless initiated by the user.
- Password may not contain all or part of the user's account name.
- Password is at least eight characters long.
- Password contains characters from three of the following four categories:
- English uppercase characters (A…Z)
- English lowercase characters (a…z)
- Base 10 digits (0…9)
Administrative passwords are subject to stringent composition, frequent change, and limited access. This includes passwords for routers, switches, WAN links, firewalls, servers, Internet connections, administrativelevel network operating system accounts, and any other IT resource.
Passwords for administrative resources must meet the following criteria:
· Password is at least 10 characters long.
· Password contains mixed case.
· Password contains at least three nonalphnumeric characters.
· Password contains at least two numbers.
The employee supervisor has the responsibility to enforce this policy. This can be done through systematic means and interaction with users.
End-Users are responsible for complying with this policy.
This policy is designed to secure the company. This enables company to achieve its business objectives. Full cooperation with this policy is appreciated so that all goals can be met in accordance with the business objectives.
The policy must conform to your business also will depend how secure you need and the kind of users you are manage. This policy must be reviewed and approved. In my opinion one year is to much.
Password policy can and does vary based on needs, risk assesment, exposure and a number of other criteria. There is probably no golden rules for passwords other than they should be strong or at least reasonable strong and they should change and policy reviewed to ensure it is sufficient.
The details of how strong, how often and the various other guidlines will often vary depending on the business and risk assessment.
Nice How-to Jose, always good to see strong password policy documented. This is nearly word for word what I have read and written many times. Although most of our clients would not be too happy with such a strong password policy unless they were in government, armed services, banking or finance.
No doubt that this how-to is really important, and advisable. But I agree that frequently change passwords often leads users to commit serious lapses. I've passed by similar situations, like passwords on notes over keyboard, too. As always, everything depends on user behavior.


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My name is Daniel Albert Rauscher. Son of Theodore Herbert and Mary Ester (McGuinnis) Rauscher.
My grandparents are Albert Rauscher and Ida (Martin) Rauscher. My father Theodore was born in Wenona, Ill. in 1911.
He married mom in 1945 in Chicago, Ill. We visited Chicago relatives several times in the past. Summer of 1970 or 1971 we visited at Aunt Helen's house in Bellwood, Ill. Lots of relatives there. Aunt Helen and Addie, Uncle Eddie, Uncle Herm, Uncle Bill and Aunt Joannie, Uncle Wibbs and Aunt Frieda Ney, Uncle Max,... Sorry about not remembering the rest. My parents moved to Spokane, WA in 1953. Dad passed away in 1976 and mom died in 1996. They had six children Theodore Donald-55 in Postfalls, ID, Linda Ann-53 in Spokane, Deborah Joy-49 in Spokane, Daniel Albert-46 in Liberty Lake,WA, John David-40 in San Dimas, CA (Bonnie's husband) and William James(AKA Jimmy)-39 in Farmington,MN. Mom and I visited little Ester Hayes and Frieda Ney during a trip to Skokie in 1979 or 1980.
Please write back and let me know if any of this makes sense to you.
It was great to run into your conversation with Bonnie on the internet. She's a great sister-in-law.
My address is as follows:
Daniel and Charlotte Rauscher
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Liberty Lake, WA 99019-8509
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PS: I understood grandpa drove for the German Keiser not the Russia Czar? I did see a photograph at Aunt Helen,s house with her dad standing next to a fancy car(black dussendorf) wearing a chauffeur's uniform.
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When you read a book, usually you open it on page one and read through to the end. Reading the Bible is slightly different. Opening the Bible is like walking into a library. There are lots of books – 66 in all – written in different styles, or genres. These were written over about 1500 years by lots of different writers. There are stories, poetry, letters, laws and much more.
The Bible is broken into two parts: the Old and New Testaments. The 39 books in the Old Testament are amongst the most sacred books of Judaism, where they are called the Tanakh or Written Torah. They include ancient stories and writings, as well as the laws given to people by God himself. The 27 books in the New Testament are special in Christianity. They tell the stories of Jesus Christ and the beginnings of the Christian church.
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In Wesley Perez's AP U.S. history and government classes at Hawthorne High School, the Bill of Rights weren't just taught. They were sung.
Perez took funk-infused Latino beats from Los Angeles rockers Ozomatli and wrote his own lyrics to the band's song "After Party."
Oye Baby, oye mami, how I love the Bill of Rights
The first right is freedom of speech, freedom of the cross, and freedom of the press is tight…
On Tuesday, the band furthered its contribution to Perez's class by showing up at Hawthorne's Nyman Hall to discuss immigration reform, capitalism, equal rights and community development.
The 29-year-old teacher wrote to the band after seeing how his constitutional remix helped his students improve their grades.
"It's provided us a new method of learning that's not a textbook," said Courtnie Brown, 17. "It's easier to remember song lyrics than something you've read."


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I am 17 years old and have been feeling depressed for 2 years. I used to self harm but am now 14 months clean as of today. I have been smoking since I was 15 and find that it helps me to feel calm most of the time. For a long time I just thought that I was going through a bad patch but every time I get better I hit rock bottom all over again. Most days I wake up and don't want to be here anymore, I don't want to kill myself but I just want to die. I hate myself and feel like a waste of space, the only thing that is stopping me from wanting to kill myself is my younger brother who I don't want to leave behind.
Today at school, we were talking about mental illnesses and in particular depression. When my teacher listed the symptoms and effects I realised that all most every one she mentioned matched the way I feel or the things that I do. I don't know what to do anymore. My mum suffers from depression and has always brushed off my concerns about my own mental health as "low moods" or "it must be your time of the month". It hurts to know that I feel the way I do and my mum doesn't notice or even care. I want to talk to someone but I don't want to be a let down to my family. I want to talk to someone but I don't want my parents to be there.
I really don't know what to do, I want to get help so that I can move on with my life and go to uni next year but I don't know who to ask. Can anyone give me some suggestions as to where I should start? Thankyou


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75,700 vehicles in Canada affected by latest recalls of newer model vehicles
DETROIT—Another day, another recall from General Motors Co. (GM).
At least that's the way it seems as the automaker reviews safety issues across its line-up of cars and trucks in the wake of a mishandled recall of millions of older small cars.
The number of recalls issued this year by the top North American carmaker rose this week to 29 as GM announced four separate actions affecting 2.4 million cars and trucks.
GM has recalled 13.6 million vehicles in the United States since early February.
That's more than the total number of cars it sold here in the last five years, and already surpasses GM's previous U.S. recall record of 10.75 million vehicles, set in 2004.
By comparison, rival Ford has recalled 1.2 million vehicles in the U.S. this year, while Toyota has recalled 2.9 million, according to federal data and the companies.
The parade of bad news is part of the fallout from GM's recall of 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts and other small cars for defective ignition switches—and a consequence of government regulation.
GM says it's redoubling efforts to resolve outstanding safety issues.
It's hiring 35 new safety investigators and is issuing recalls one by one, as soon as a decision is made.
GM can't wait and announce a group of recalls once a month; it's required by federal law to report defects to the government within five days of discovering them.
A failure to follow that law already landed GM in hot water with the U.S. government.
The company agreed last week to pay a US$35-million federal fine for concealing a deadly defect in the ignition switches for more than a decade.
GM says at least 13 people have died in crashes linked to the problem, although trial lawyers suing the company say the death toll is at least 53.
Congress and the U.S. Justice Department have ongoing investigations.
More recalls are likely.
GM spokesperson Alan Adler said the company is making progress on reviewing older investigations, "but work is continuing."
But Akshay Anand, an industry analyst with Kelley Blue Book, said the order to dealers to stop selling the 2015 Cadillac Escalade and 2014 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia until they're repaired could give more buyers pause.
The initial recalls covered older models like the discontinued Cobalt; now they're affecting newer models.
The recalls announced this week include Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia full-size crossovers from the 2009-2014 model years and Saturn Outlooks from 2009-10 because front safety lap belt cables can fatigue and separate over time.
In a crash, a separated cable could increase the risk of injury to front seat passengers.
A total of 1.3 million vehicles are affected, including 75,700 in Canada.
Detroit-based GM said it will take a US$400-million charge for repairs on all vehicles recalled so far this quarter.
That includes the US$200-million charge the company announced last week when it issued five recalls covering 2.7 million vehicles.
That's on top of a US$1.3-billion charge the automaker took for recalls in the first quarter.
The recalls announced this week were:
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Fire chiefs are warning youngsters after a blaze at a former shop.
Crews from West End station, in Newcastle, dealt with the blaze on Sunday night at the derelict property in Northbourne Street, Elswick.
Acting station officer Keith Carruthers said: "Fortunately the fire was not given a chance to spread but the potential was there which is very dangerous. Youths who start blazes also present dangers to firefighters and themselves."
Spare places
OFSTED registered childcare is available for children who need full or part-time care in Prudhoe.
Childminder Yvonne Lidgate currently has vacancies and those interested should contact the Children's Information Service on 01670 534440.
Key to course
A COMPUTER fair is to be held at Newcastle Racecourse on Wednesday.
The Gosforth Park event starts at 5pm and lasts until 8.30pm. Entrance is £3 for adults.
Dabble in art
TASTER courses for budding artists are being launched in Alnwick.
The Botanical Art Illustration courses at the Alnwick Garden start on June 7 and run for most of the month.
Contact Alison Hamer on 01665 511360 for details.


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US stock futures jump after ECB walks back Draghi hawkish remarks
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wednesday after the European Central Bank tried to walk back comments made by its president, Mario Draghi. Nasdaq futures erased earlier losses to trade 15 points higher, while S&P and Dow futures climbed 6.5 points and 45 points. The ECB said it sees the market as misjudging Draghi's remarks from Tuesday, in which he said "the threat of deflation is gone and reflationary forces are at play." Nasdaq futures had dropped about half a percent earlier. Tech stocks were under pressure Tuesday after EU regulators hit Google with a 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine, stating that the tech giant had violated antitrust rules when it came to its online shopping practices. On the data front, mortgage applications fell 6 percent last week. International trade in goods data are also due at 8:30 a.m. ET, and pending home sales at 10 a.m. ET. Politically, investors will be looking for any news out of Washington, after Senate Republicans announced Tuesday that they would delay a vote on the Obamacare replacement bill until after July 4. Meanwhile, in commodities, oil prices were under pressure on Wednesday, after an API report showed U.S. crude inventories had risen by 851,000 barrels in the previous week, according to Reuters. Glut concerns capped price gains in morning trade, with U.S. crude trading around $43.99 at 8:31 a.m. ET, while Brent was at $46.51. In the central bank sphere, investors are likely to be digesting the comments made by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Tuesday, when she told an audience in London that she did not expect to see another financial crisis during her lifetime. In Europe, bourses were trading in the red, while Asia-Pacific markets finished trade on a negative note. The Nikkei 225 declined 0.47 percent, or 94.68 points, to close at 20,130.41, and South Korea's Kospi was off by 0.39 percent, or 9.39 points, to end at 2,382.56. Markets in greater China trended lower. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was down by 0.54 percent at 3:03 p.m. HK/SIN. The Shanghai Composite fell 0.54 percent, or 17.2936 points, to close at 3,173.9033 and the Shenzhen Composite declined 0.799 percent, or 15.1641 points, to end at 1,883.3713. Gold prices rose on Wednesday as the dollar weakened and stock markets fell after a delayed U.S. healthcare bill increased doubts about President Donald Trump's ability to pass economic stimulus measures. The dollar sank to its lowest since November as Japan's yen strengthened and the euro hit a one-year high when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi hinted that stimulus could be trimmed this year. A weaker dollar makes dollar-denominated bullion cheaper for holders of other currencies and can increase demand. Spot gold was up 0.45 percent at $1,252.60 an ounce, while U.S. gold futures were 0.5 percent higher at $1,253.10 an ounce.


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Yet Einstein's theories do not say this, at least not in the way many people think. And certainly, Einstein's ideas of relativity have nothing to do with whether we should believe in God, as many people seem to think, assuming Einstein to have been the ultimate pure-science atheist. Einstein was a theist, believing that a creator is present but rejecting organized religion. He penned such thoughts as, "God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists." Had Einstein chosen only slightly different words for his work, he might have sent the century an entirely different message.
In 1905, Einstein published his first big idea: the Special Theory of Relativity. This postulate held that physical laws are the same for all observers regardless of position and speed; that the speed of light is always the same from all points of view; and that matter and energy are equivalent (that's the E=MC2 part). For techno-reasons we can skip here, applying these three assertions overturned classical, or "Newtonian," physics, which assumed that the universe is simply a gigantic version of the same effects seen on Earth. Under the Special Theory of Relativity, for example, there is no fixed length for an object. To an observer standing on Earth, a 10-foot pole is 10 feet long; to an observer in a spacecraft at high velocity, it may appear five feet long. Neither is the "correct" dimension; both are equally valid relative to perspective. Under the Special Theory, time can "dilate," seeming to move at different rates from different perspectives. In unusual circumstances, even the order of events may become unclear. That is, two different observers might have opposite opinions on whether A came before B or B came before A.
Clearly, Einstein believed that his physical laws that always applied from all perspectives could lead to mind-bending results, such as time dilation. But most of the mind-bending results Einstein foresaw had to do with "relativistic" velocities for matter or with extremely dense amounts of mass, conditions that are rare even at the cosmic scale. Under typical conditions, even typical conditions for stars and supernovas, the assumptions of the Special Theory help us understand why the universe is stable and comprehensible, rather than pandemonium. Considering his premises that the speed of light is always the same and physical laws are always reliable and predictable, Einstein might as easily have called his first work the Special Theory of the Cosmic Absolutes.
Then there is his second great achievement, the General Theory of Relativity, published in 1915. In this theory, Einstein struggled with the question of why the universe does not fly apart; he came to the conclusion that gravity orders the heavens by giving an unseen but powerful shape to space-time. (Collectively, Einstein's two hypotheses are spoken of as a single theory.) Parts of the General Theory of Relativity are spooky and hard to grasp. Einstein supposed, for example, that space appears flat to us but would appear curved from the perspective of someone outside the universe. In turn, he thought that gravity functions by bending local space-time, such that when an apple falls, what it's doing is rolling down a curvature we cannot perceive.