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Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1/2 onion
thinly sliced roast beef, deli meat
reduced fat provolone cheese
1 whole wheat pita bread
First you slice the veggies thin and saute them in 1 tbsp of olive oil. Stir them occasionally.
Next place the meat in a pan and warm it through, stir occasionally.
Then heat up the broiler. Butter your bread. (the sub rolls were for the hubby and son)
Then put the meat, and veggies on the bread, put 2 slices of cheese. Stick back in the broiler until cheese has melted. Now you have a yummy and easy, 9 point Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich (Pita). MMMM

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SolarCity, the biggest U.S. solar company by market value, increased its loss in the second quarter by investing in the installation of 107 megawatts of new rooftop-power plants.
The net loss in the second quarter increased to $47.7 million, or 52 cents a share, from $39.5 million, or 52 cents, a year earlier, San Mateo-based SolarCity said Thursday in a statement. Excluding some items, a loss of 96 cents was smaller than the expected loss of 99 cents, the average of 10 estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales rose to $61.3 million from $37.9 million.
The company is expected to lose more than $1 billion over the next three years through 2016 on rooftop power projects for homes and commercial buildings. Customers sign decades-long contracts to buy the output, and SolarCity is pouring the revenue into new installations. SolarCity had 141,034 customers at the end of the second quarter.
"With adding 30,000 customers in one quarter we're well on our way to reach 1 million by 2018," Chief Executive Officer Lyndon Rive said on a conference call Thursday. "We're investing in customer growth."
The company installed 82 megawatts of panels in the first quarter. It acquired a solar manufacturer, Silevo, to ensure a steady supply of panels as its chairman, billionaire Elon Musk, predicted annual demand would eventually reach "tens of gigawatts."


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Classic flavors built together with simple fresh ingredients, whats not to love?
Preheat an oven to 190*
Zest the lemon.
Finely grate the garlic.
Mix with the olive oil, salt and pepper and add the chicken supremes.
Allow to marinate for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Heat a large Fry pan to a high temperature.
Add the rosemary sprigs and the frying oil.
Place the marinated supremes skin side down and cook for 4-5 minutes without moving until the skin is golden brown.
Place in the preheated oven and cook for 12-15 minutes until the flesh under the fillet has almost completely turned white.
Remove from the oven and squeeze over the lemon juice. turn the breast on to its flesh side and allow to rest and complete its cooking.
In a large sauteuse or wok over medium heat add the butter .
When the butter has melted add the pine nuts and toast until the nuts are golden and the butter is golden brown.
Squeeze in the lemon juice.
Pick the leaves of Basil, slice and grind in a mortar and pestle with the garlic ad a pinch of salt until forming a paste. Add the Olive oil.
Add to the Sauteuse with the pine nuts and gently stir
Bring a large saucepan to the boil with the fine salt.
Add the tagliatelle and allow to com to the boil.
Drain and add to the pesto.
Mix to combine.
Slice the chicken breast in two horizontally.
Add any juices to the pasta.
Serve the pasta with some of the fresh rocket on top, place the chicken breast on top and shave over the parmesan
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Here is a selection of the best five restaurants in Cusco according to the journalist of Peru this Week. All are close o the Plaza de Armas, the central square in Cusco.
It is the best burger that you will find in Cusco, Peru. The restaurant is owned by Gaston Arcurio, an amazing Peruvian chef who went to cooking school in Paris. He knows how to make the delicious and traditional food of Peru even tastier. Their meat is of great quality and they even make veggie burgers for those who would prefer to not have the meat. Papacho´s is also known for its amazing desserts and their extremely creamy milkshakes. The restaurant is situated in the Plaza de Armas.
Jack´s Cafe
This is a very fancy restaurant that has small portion sizes, but the quality of the food is incomparable. You can either sit at the bar or pay S/7 more to be seated in the dining area. If you would like to eat there on Friday or Saturday, it is best to make a reservation. One of its most popular dishes is the Alpaca Carpaccio. Cicciolina is located on the second floor of an old, colonial home near to the Plaza de Armas.
Greens Organic
It is known for its healthy soups, tasty pastas, delicious juices, and teas. The restaurant has a spacious atmosphere and is a very comfortable place to eat. If you would like something a little healthier for you, you can find Greens Organic on Santa Catalina Angosta 235, near the Plaza de Armas.
Paddy´s Irish Pub
It is a great place to hang with friends and get away from the Cusco rain. It is a typical Irish pub that prides on being the highest in the world. Their fish and chips, hotdogs, and burgers are all great. You will find both Peruvians and tourists in this restaurant, located right next to Papacho´s in the Plaza de Armas.


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Rachel Zoe to Host a New Talk Show Coming This Fall
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Lifetime decided to give us a taste of the network's upcoming Elizabeth Taylor biopic, Liz & Dick, which stars tabloid whipping post, Lindsay Lohan. Grant Bowler will play Richard Burton to LiLo's LizT. The black-and-white teaser pic features both actors in an unfortunate neck-kissing pose, which seems less like a tender caress and more like […]Read more
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It's normally impossible to say this about anything Alexa Chung has ever been involved with, but her latest project is going to make you feel way better about your life. Even though the trailer for her new Lifetime fashion show, 24 Hour Catwalk, makes the reality program seem less appealing than the common cold, it's […]Read more


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In the three weeks before Aug. 1, David Schiller says, he spent 12 hours of every day working on paperwork. He filled out forms on his financial and personal histories. He traveled to another state to notarize papers for his real estate holdings. He was overwhelmed, intruded upon, scrutinized. And when all was said and done, he held in his hands more than 700 pages — the records he needed to keep his business alive.
This summer, medical marijuana centers throughout Colorado had to meet three specific deadlines in order to comply with the demands of House Bill 1284, which required dispensaries to submit paperwork to acquire local, state and cultivation certifications by July 1, Aug. 1 and Sept. 1, respectively.
Schiller, owner of All Good Care Center in downtown Colorado Springs, was one of hundreds who went through this process. He would breathe small sighs of relief after each deadline, then plunge ahead to the next stack of legal forms.
"It was exhausting," he says.
Nicole Romero, owner of South Nevada Avenue's Apothecare Medicinal Center, shares a similar experience that came from sorting through 10 years of her own financial and legal history. She jokes that if there was anything she didn't know about herself, her spouse, or her children before the process began, she knows it now.
"The application process, going through all the paperwork, making sure you did everything correctly, looking at it two or three times, took me at least 80 hours," Romero says. "My stack of paperwork was about 2 feet high, and the more financial assets you have, the larger your stack of paperwork was.
"Your children, your spouse, anything they own or anything they've done could add to your paperwork. From the time the application was put out to actually turning it in, I was working on it every single day of that period."
She credits her accounting degree and her own organizational efforts for the relative ease with which she made it through the process; her 80 hours of work breezed by in comparison to the 250-plus hours that one owner says he put in.
"A lot of people were lost," Romero says.
Matt Cook, director of enforcement for the Colorado Department of Revenue, admitted that the lion's share of his own workload goes into efforts related to HB 1284, as the state goes about regulating a burgeoning industry.
"As far as paperwork goes, and depending on the nature of the applicant, there's a very extensive background search and disclosure process that certainly could generate a voluminous amount of work," he says. "This is a very complex background procedure that we use in various regulated occupations."
Still, several owners doubt that these piles of finance reports, personal background checks and fingerprints are really helping give the industry the credibility it's seeking, and that the state's promising.
"I don't know if filling out a couple of applications will really change too many minds here," says Patrick Warren of Mountain Made Meds, on the west side. "It's going to be a never-ending process of jumping through these hoops. I think the application process might have changed views for some people, but I don't think it did for many."
Romero agrees. "This city's fear of the industry is making it so much harder for it to be a legal business. Some people who were street dealers are going back to being street dealers because it's just more profitable."


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Prius c combines a responsive electric motor and 1.5L petrol engine to achieve fuel efficiency – just 3.9L/100km[G1].
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When driving at low speeds, the Hybrid system can automatically switch to electric mode, lowering CO2 emissions[J9] to zero.
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[F2]The Guaranteed Future Value (GFV) is the minimum value of your new or approved demonstrator Toyota at the end of your finance contract, as determined by Toyota Finance. If you decide to return your car to Toyota at the end of your term, Toyota Finance will pay you the agreed GFV, which will be put against your final payment subject to fair wear and tear conditions and agreed kilometres being met. The information provided is general in nature. You should seek your own financial advice to determine whether Toyota Access is appropriate for your individual circumstances. Terms, conditions, fees and charges apply. Toyota Access GFV products are available to approved customers of Toyota Finance, a division of Toyota Finance Australia Limited ABN 48 002 435 181, AFSL and Australian Credit Licence 392536.
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The epitome of cool, the sensational new 6 stateroom CARPE DIEM (191 ft) has arrived on the international sales and charter scene. The signature interior by Carol Williamson & Associates Limited showcases the owner's preference for juxtaposing dark woods, light carpet and neutral furnishings. Vintage fashion photography, Art Deco antiques, furniture and styling are recurring themes throughout the interior. CARPE DIEM is unique in offering the flexibility of three full-width Master Suites: the Owners King Suite on the main deck forward, and below, the VIP King Suite Aft and the VIP King Suite Forward. Outdoors, the decks are huge yet inviting with generous seating areas. Removable awnings are available on all three aft decks for those who prefer shade.
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The works Budgies in a Coalmine, Falling of a Perch and Walking on 100 Rare Australian Bird Eggshells reflect the fragility of the environment and the effects of habitat destruction on indigenous bird, mammal and plant species.
Mary in the Meat Locker examines a time when the colonisers, like my Great-Grandparents, had meat lockers. It examines their relationship to meat production in comparison to today, the effects of habitat shrinkage due to the demand for meat and the incapacity of colonisers and ourselves to engage with the bush tucker surrounding us.
It is the use of wall collage or the street art technique of paste-ups that I would like to incorporate and explore more in a series of installations responding to the Warrnambool Botanic Gardens.
This work was made specifically for the exhibition 12/12/2012 Environmental Change – A Visual Response. For a brief explanation go to http://www.facebook.com/twelvetwelvetwenty12


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Eating healthy foods is important in keeping you healthy now and in preventing poor health in the future. The Public Health Nutrition and Dietetics NHS Team in Kensington and Chelsea are your local nutrition experts whose role is to understand local nutrition and health issues and influence and shape the services which help address them.
It is hard not to notice recent headlines in the national press highlighting how family food budgets are feeling the squeeze. We started our Good Food 4 All project to investigate how easy it is for people in North Kensington to shop for a healthy diet on a lower income. To do this we asked 41 local people what foods they put in their basket and where they shop. We came up with a food basket containing 143 items and we surveyed 33 local shops and three local markets to find out more.
The results have been really useful in helping us back up healthy eating advice we give with practical, local examples. We know too that some areas in North Kensington have access to a greater variety and more competitively priced healthy foods than others. We have shared this with the local council.
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After reading Chirs Claremont and Frank Miller's original Wolverine limited series, I was surprised to see Claremont's name while sorting through my old collection. I vaguely remembering reading somewhere that Sovereign Seven was the first creator-owned series DC published, but never realized Chris Claremont was the writer behind it.
My love for Claremont's work on Wolverine is well documented on CnC, but I have yet to read any of his extensive (1975-1991!?) Uncanny X-Men . Still, given his legendary work at Marvel, I find it curious I've heard so little about S7 over the years. How does a heavy-hitter like Claremont defect to DC without sending shockwaves of debate throughout the comic-nerd-world for decades to come?
My only hope was that Sovereign Seven #1 might give me a clue…
A quick, light-hearted read, the first issue of S7 didn't pack nearly the punch I was hoping. It felt as much like the opening session of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign as the beginning of a comic series: Party of heroes transported to strange new place. Random encounter. Rest at the Inn. Random encounter followed by the arrival of a mysterious and powerful new character to drops the slightest hints of backstory. Break.
Even if Sovereign Seven #1 wasn't the gripping first issue I was hoping for, it hooked me. It didn't reel me in, but it did get me on the line. Whether or not I buy a collection of the 36+ (36 plus a few annuals and specials) issue run will depend on what happens when I revisit issues two and three. Like a good Dungeon Master, Claremont spun just enough story into the action to make you want to come back.
The other compelling thing about Sovereign Seven #1 is its self-conscious nod to Jack Kirby's Fourth World stories. The opening page includes a prominent dedication to Jack Kirby:
Had I never been given the first three S7 comics, I still might not have known that Darkseid and the New Gods were Jack Kirby's gift to DC after his own defection from Marvel. This discovery was particularly fun revisiting S7 after reading Grant Morrison's Final Crisis and Batman run. However, there is a key difference between Claremont's series and Kirby's: Sovereign Seven has not been revisited in DC's continuity. Even if it could, I'm not sure it would. Anything good enough to be immortal as Darkseid I expect to grab me right out of the gate. Sovereign Seven #1 doesn't quite do that. It makes you curious in all the right ways and sets up an intriguing start to a story, but it isn't gripping. It's just good fun. That's a damn great start, and I'll definitely be finishing the issues of the franchise I already have in my collection: #'s 1-3, 9, and 12. Maybe it'll be worth buying the trade paperback. If not, I can save the cash on Jack Kirby's Fourth World omniubs. One way or another, Chris Claremont and Sovereign Seven have increased my knowledge of DC comics lore, and I can't help but like anything that deepens my knowledge of comics.


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Hello dollfacess.
Lately I've been having an overwhelming craving for fall-ish foods. You know what I mean. Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin smoothies (sadly, I haven't made/ate any of these besides the pumpkin spice latte which doesn't count since it was made by a barista at Starbucks..) and apple pie! Totally ruined the pumpkin theme I know. P.S. a little fun fact for y'all: I actually don't like pumpkin pie very much. Yes, I am a crazy person, but I do looove anything else that is pumpkin. It's all about apple pie for this girl.
So this morning I decided to listen to my growling tummy and make something fall-ish! And healthy-ish!
Healthified Apple Crisp
{high in fiber, healthy fats & protein!}
serves 2
1/3 c oats
~1 scoop vanilla protein powder (I used Sunwarrior)
2 TBS sugar (I used NuNaturals More Fiber Baking Blend)
1/4 c coconut (optional)
1 apple, thinly sliced
2 TBS cold butter (I used Earth Balance)
1 TBS coconut oil
2 TBS nut butter (optional – I used pecan butter from the samples I received from Artisana!!)
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix oats, protein powder, and sugar together in a small bowl. Add a couple generous shakes of cinnamon.
Add the butter, oil and nut butter to the dry ingredients. It should be crumbly.
Lay the apple slices in a small glass dish. Sprinkle on some more cinnamon! Then pour the oat mixture over the apples so that they are evenly covered.
Bake in the oven for…..I ACTUALLY DIDN'T KEEP TRACK OF THIS. I'M SO VERY SORRY…but I think it was around 15-20 minutes, just until the top looks golden brown and when you poke the apples they feel soft!
P.S. I had the plate above times two. Meaning I ate this entire thing. Ahem. Moving on….
For dinner, the roomies and I had a little potluck.
Soooooo satisfied.
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"Be yourself". But what if I don't have the time to think about who I am?
Saving up money to achieve financial autonomy and thus live however you want has no secret: earn as much money as you can and spend as little as possible. We could add a little bit more colour to the recipe: move to a smaller and less central place, do grocery shopping at wholesalers… All of it theoretically simple, as much as in those magic formulas that assure you're going to get thin: eat only two carrots a day and lose 10 kilos a week.
Whoever wants to lose weight will have no hard time in finding an adequate diet. Analogously, methods to spend less or tips on how to invest abound on the web. The tough thing is to understand why one can't eat less. Likewise, it is far from trivial to understand why we attach "desire" to some "objects" and then allow ourselves to spend so much on them. The rationality of generic methods for saving inevitably bumps into the subjective irrationality of anyone willing to implement them.
Financial autonomy doesn't initiate with numbers. In fact, too much calculation may be problematic in the beginning. Let's explore the idea. "How much money do I need to stop working?" is quite an appealing starting point: quantify the problem in order to overcome it in a measurable way. Nevertheless, it may be but an artful way of covering up the fear of taking the big leap.
Financial autonomy doesn't initiate with numbers. In fact, too much calculation may be problematic in the beginning.
Without a regular income, it is likely that a prohibitively high amount of money will be necessary in order to keep a spending standard that was defined by a position one wants to get away of – that initial state where time is so scarce. That initial situation where pleasures need to be condensed: expensive dinners and exquisite wines. Luxury hotels. Everything money can buy in that short break we occasionally have. If we are working hard, there is no time to waste on thinking about what matters and what does not. Saving is not the difficult part of the story. The hard thing is to escape the golden cage and to become responsible for our own flight. It is easier to just ratify the impossibility of accumulating money enough to buy freedom, thus questioning financial values before questioning the moral ones.
When I started this process, I actually worried too much about the numbers, probably because there was no way I could know, beforehand, how much things would change after quitting my job. The first example were the steps I planned to take right after leaving the financial market, which ended up being disastrous. A slap in the face of my control-freak mind. At least it showed me that it is not all about good planning. After all, I did not leave an unpleasant routine to fall into another one. Else, I was surprised with the good feeling of having time to think about all those personal questions I never had the time to deal with. If you have 8 meetings in a day, forget that doubt that popped up in the morning, suck it up and go to work. Then in the evening you buy something nice to make the day worthy. And if anxiety kicks in, clonazepam is easy to find.
Saving is not the difficult part of the story. The hard thing is to escape the golden cage and to become responsible for our own flight. It is easier to just ratify the impossibility of accumulating money enough to buy freedom, thus questioning financial values before questioning the moral ones.
Having the luxury of waking up without an alarm, managing to prolong a trip, being available for friends, rediscovering the pleasure of cooking. Reading, reading a lot and seeing the world from different angles. Literally. Good pleasures that cost nothing. Life became simple, and my consumption spending fell drastically, without big efforts. As a matter of fact, as a result of choices that have put me closer to what makes sense to me. Saving has been, in a way, a pleasant effort. Obviously, not without some bumps in the road. Obstacles or resistances? Reasons to look back or opportunities for reflection? Keep them coming! There's no such thing as a steady state.
I hope the response to the horrible attacks in Barcelona will be more freedom to people. Europe has been through worse moments than the current one, and this principle has proved to be the best way out.


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I'm here in the high arctic waters off Svalbard (78º N; way up there!) as a guest for a few days aboard Greenpeace's ship Arctic Sunrise. I wonder if we're doing the right thing.
We're here because warming waters have brought cod and other valued fish northward, and upon them are huge fishing boats capable of following to the end of the Earth, dragging the nets that have ruined seafloors and depleted fish in many parts of the world.
We are here to call for a balance between exploitation and protection. We're here "bearing witness," which means getting close to working trawlers and taking lots of photos.
But while zooming around trawlers in our speedboat, a troubling thought kept recurring: What gives us the right? Is it wrong-headed to want to protect the seafloor? Here are these ships catching food for people and we're saying, "This far, no further." They want food and jobs and money. We speak of deep anemones and sea-pens; we worry about fragile corals.
Are we doing something valid or just harassing these fishing crews? Are we doing enough good to justify it? Where is the line?
I shared my thoughts with Captain Mike Fincken, who has been with Greenpeace for 20 years, 10 years a captain. He's South African. To avoid compulsory 2-year military service during the violent era of Apartheid, he spent 13 years at sea. He's been arrested for participating in a blockade to prevent a coal ship from entering Rotterdam Harbor. He says that two days in a windowless cell where the fluorescent lights were never turned off was a good experience—quite enough time to see what it was like in jail.
He surprised me by saying that he and the rest of the crew and the Greenpeace organization itself are always asking themselves the same question I was asking: Are we doing the right thing? Is it necessary? I admired that openness and honesty. So we talked.
We talked first about people getting hurt. Captain Mike told me that when Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk in New Zealand in 1985 by the French Secret Service, the French made no attempt—no anonymous phone call—to warn anyone to evacuate. The crew aboard was having a birthday party when a bomb attached to the hull exploded, killing a photographer. Thirty years later the diver who attached the bomb apologized. He said he'd been lied to, that he'd been told that the ship was sponsored by the Soviet Union.
And what was Rainbow Warrior doing in New Zealand? It was sailing into waters where the French were exploding atomic bombs in the atmosphere, trying to disrupt those explosions and stop the destruction of tropical islands and the radioactive fallout.
So who were the criminals?
Mike says Greenpeace takes great care to avoid hurting anyone. Here on this cruise, Greenpeace notifies fishing ships before launching our photographic boats. They don't ask permission but they make a courtesy call. The boats might not welcome us (though some are in fact friendly), but they know we aren't here to physically disrupt anything.
The main game here is a long one: provide the documentation to support efforts to protect large areas here before the seafloor is in fact ruined by trawling, as has happened elsewhere. And already, major seafood catchers have voluntarily agreed not to expand into untrawled areas. And mega-retailers including McDonald's have agreed not to buy fish from companies that violate the agreement. So if McDonald's thinks this is right—.
Mike told of having protested "monster boats," fishing ships 350 feet long. They fish off West Africa where governments are in no position to protest or enforce their waters. They don't even raise the nets but send vacuum hoses into them so they can keep catching 24/7. Most of the fish are turned to fishmeal, converted to livestock feed and fertilizer.
During those protests the crews attached large buoys to the net to, yes, interfere with the fishing, fishing that is so damaging that well-functioning governments do not allow those trawlers in their waters. One of Greenpeace's boats got its propeller tangled in the net and flipped. The incident caused Greenpeace to reevaluate its safety protocols.
Mike says that Greenpeace has never hurt anyone and never aims to harm property. They take the "peace" in their name seriously. They evaluate risk before launching actions, to ensure no injury. Their actions are mainly theatrical, hanging banners and the like.
And for safety reasons they tend these days to avoid any contact with fishing operations. (Greenpeace is widely confused with Sea Shepherd, which has rammed fishing and whaling boats—and been rammed—and undertaken other actions designed to damage property and so disrupt the ability of the boats to continue their operations. While I admire Sea Shepherd's nerve and share their anger, I don't support some of their strategies because I suspect they're counter-productive. Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd are wholly independent.)
This ship itself had been impounded after the crew attempted to hang a banner on a Russian oil rig in the Arctic, and its crew imprisoned in Russia facing sentences of 5 to 10 years—for hanging a banner (they were pardoned after a couple of months). Later an international court found Russia's capture of the ship illegal, because Greenpeace's ship had maintained the legal distance from the oil-rig.
A German photographer on board with us is banned from the U.S. for life. During the days of the U.S.'s "star wars" plan to put orbiting bombs in space, he had taken part in a protest. The protesters sought to delay the launch of a dummy missile by sneaking onto a military base to plant balloons that would get in the way of the missile and prevent the launch.
Balloons, not bombs—wouldn't that be nice. But he's banned from the U.S. I can think of many things that should get people banned. Balloons aren't one of them.
So governments and laws aren't always a good guide to who is right and who is wrong and what speaks to justice. And if you protest, governments and despoilers will sometimes push back hard. Life isn't always fair or just. Sometimes someone has to say so, and show a path to better ways.
So is it wrong to peacefully—though sometimes dramatically—protest activities that cause much harm to the living world and our life-support systems?
In these waters and shores we are cruising, walruses had been hunted to near-annihilation. Then whales. Then people came for coal. Now it's fish. This is why our mission—keeping an eye on what's happening, showing and sharing what it's like here, advancing a conversation about keeping some places safe from humanity—can be useful at this time.
The ship carries a totem gifted by Canada's Kwakiutl Nation during a mission to protest nuclear testing. So, what is to some illegal harassment is to others the sacred mission of peaceful warriors.
Greenpeace is simply trying to say, with photos, "Go slow. Leave some." That's all.
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Carl Safina's recent bestselling book Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel is newly out in paperback. See Carl's TED talk here. He is Stony Brook University's Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity, and founder of The Safina Center.


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Americans are rediscovering the coldest aisle in the supermarket.
According to a new report, sales of frozen foods, including vegetables and prepared foods, are now on the rise following a multi-year slump.
The uptick is new — and modest. But growth "is accelerating as consumers begin to see freezing as a way to preserve food with fewer negatives," concludes a report from RBC Capital Markets.
At a time when two-thirds of Americans say they want to eat more vegetables, 85 percent of consumers fail to eat the minimum recommended amount. It's "one of the widest disconnects in the world of eating," concludes the RBC report. Perhaps innovations in the frozen aisle could help narrow this divide.
Frozen produce already has several factors going for it: "its affordability and its convenience," says Phil Lempert, editor of Supermarketguru.com. And given that the typical American family tosses out $1,500 worth of food yearly — normally after it goes bad in the fridge — frozen foods, which have a much longer shelf life, could help cut back on waste. "People are more concerned about waste than ever before," Lempert says.
Big food companies are offering up new options in the frozen aisle. The RBC report points to the development of products such as veggie tots, an alternative to carbohydrate-heavy tater tots, and veggie rice, which is seen as a healthier alternative to white rice, which is a refined starch that can spike blood sugar.
Pinnacle Foods, which owns Birds Eye, has launched new pastas made from vegetables. And Green Giant, owned by B&G Foods, has introduced Veggie Spirals, made from beets, butternut squash, zucchini and carrots. Options like these may help "increase vegetable eating occasions" — and help maintain the growth momentum for frozen foods, the report concludes.
But, there are still headwinds facing the frozen food sector. Many Americans have heard the message that fresh is best. And the texture of frozen vegetables turns some people off.
"Fresh and local is what they say tends to be healthier," shopper Olivia Mitchell told me as she shopped the aisles of a Trader Joe's with her baby in tow. Mitchell says she prefers to buy fresh produce, and she recently joined a CSA, so she's looking forward to deliveries of local produce this summer.
However, with two kids and a busy schedule, Mitchell acknowledges the convenience of frozen food. "I buy frozen peas and okra," she says. She also buys frozen entrees that her husband takes for lunch.
As for the assumption that fresh is healthiest, it turns out that frozen produce can pack a punch when it comes to nutrition.
When you freeze fruits and vegetables, it locks in nutrients, and several studies have shown that this helps retain high levels of vitamins.
"You can store them in the freezer for a year and the nutrient level pretty much stays the same," says plant scientist Hazel MacTavish-West, who is a food industry consultant.
She says many factors influence the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables, but frozen produce tends to hold up pretty well.
Food scientists at the University of California, Davis, designed a study to compare the nutritional value of fresh and frozen produce. They measured the nutrients in samples of eight different kinds of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables — including carrots, broccoli, spinach, peas and berries.
"We were quite surprised to find there were no significant differences," says study author Diane Barrett, an emerita professor in the Department of Food Science & Technology at UC Davis.
"Overall, the frozen was as good as fresh, and in some cases the frozen fruits and vegetables were better than fresh," Barrett says. For instance, most of the frozen fruits and vegetables had higher levels of vitamin E.
That study was funded by the Frozen Food Foundation, part of the American Frozen Food Institute. However, Barrett says the foundation did not dictate any of the parameters of the study. "I designed the study, determined which analytical procedures to use, and interpreted the results," Barrett explains.
Barrett says frozen produce does lose some nutrients during processing, when it's blanched or steamed. But she says part of the reason the nutrition holds up well in frozen fruits and vegetables can be explained by how quickly it's frozen after harvest. "Typically, the freezing facilities are very close to where the vegetables are grown, so within hours, [the vegetables] are frozen," she says.
Frozen food is having a moment. After years in a slump, sales of frozen and prepared foods are on the rise. They are often cheaper than fresh and can be more convenient. As NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, another upside of frozen food may come as a surprise.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Like a lot of us, Olivia Mitchell (ph) has had some preconceived notions about frozen food. She prefers to buy fresh produce.
OLIVIA MITCHELL: I think so. I mean, fresh and local is, you know, what they say is - tends to be healthier.
AUBREY: But with two young children and a busy schedule, she's come to appreciate the frozen food aisle.
MITCHELL: I buy frozen peas and okra.
AUBREY: With a quick zap in the microwave, you can get them from the freezer to the dinner table in a flash. And Mitchell says less goes to waste.
MITCHELL: I think frozen is great because sometimes with fresh food, it goes bad.
AUBREY: After it sits too long in the fridge. All these factors explain the renewed interest in frozen, says Phil Lempert. He's editor of supermarketguru.com. The uptick is recent, he says. But he thinks it will continue.
PHIL LEMPERT: It's affordability. It's convenience. It's not having a lot of waste. People are more concerned about waste than ever before.
AUBREY: And so what about the assumption that fresh produce is healthiest? Well, it turns out that frozen produce can pack a punch when it comes to nutrition. When you freeze fruits and vegetables, it locks in nutrients. And several studies show this helps retain high levels of vitamins. Plant scientist Hazel MacTavish-West, who works as a consultant to the food industry, says freezing is a great preservation method. Take a bag of blueberries or peas.
HAZEL MACTAVISH-WEST: So you could store them in the freezer for a year, and the nutrient level pretty much stays the same.
AUBREY: By comparison, fresh produce continues to lose nutrients due to handling and oxidation.
MACTAVISH-WEST: You could take fresh vegetables, and you put them in the fridge maybe for up to a week. They'll just continue to decline in most cases.
AUBREY: To nail down how fresh compares to frozen, food scientist Diane Barrett and a group of colleagues at UC Davis evaluated a bunch of fruits and vegetables. With funding from the Frozen Food Foundation, they measured the nutrients in samples of fresh and frozen carrots, broccoli, spinach, peas and berries.
DIANE BARRETT: Overall, the frozen was as good as fresh. And in some cases, some of the frozen fruits and vegetables were better than fresh.
AUBREY: For instance, most of the frozen produce had higher levels of vitamin E.
BARRETT: That was really the most shocking thing.
AUBREY: Barrett says frozen produce does lose some nutrients during processing when it's blanched or steamed. But she says part of the reason the nutrition holds up well in frozen fruits and vegetables has to do with how quickly they're frozen after harvest.
BARRETT: Typically the freezing facilities are very close to the place where the vegetable is grown. So within hours, that vegetable is frozen.
AUBREY: Of course fresh produce is loaded with nutrients, too. And many people are big believers in the buy-local movement. But Barrett says frozen holds its own, and it could be one more factor to help make the frozen aisle a little more attractive. Allison Aubrey, NPR News.
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The Chinese Football Association (CFA) on Saturday named Marcello Lippi as the new coach of China's national team.
The CFA said in a statement that the 68-year-old Italian coach has signed a contract after Lippi's former owner Guangzhou Evergrande announced the cancellation of the contract earlier during the day.
Lippi has been linked to the coaching job after former coach Gao Hongbo submitted his resignation when China lost to Uzbekistan 2-0 in the FIFA World Cup Asian Zone qualifiers last week.
Starting his legendary coaching career in Sampdoria, Lippi has won five Italian Serie A titles and one European Champions League title with Juventus. His big moment came in 2006 when he led the Italian national team to the champions of World Cup.
Lippi will make his debut with the team in the fifth game of the Asian Zone qualifiers against Qatar on November 15.
China has suffered a four-game winless run in the campaign, having only one point and sitting at the bottom of the 6-team group which includes South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Syria.
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Friday, April 24, 2015
330 pounds of Meth discovered on a container headed to the Philippines
39 comments:
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 9:35 AM
Thats Manny Pacquiao meth hell need it to beat Mayweather!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM
I think I mite be trippn but those bags say PAC man on dem rite or nah ????Delete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 5:28 PM
Money will need more meth to keep running away the whole fight as usual...Delete
--i know it is called "boxing" these days...
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 9:55 AM
Funny they can find this when they want but not the 10's of thousands of tons of stolen ore being shipped to China. Probably staged with impounded drugs is all to make it look like they are "doing" something in the war on drugs and for Obama to give them some more money to party with...errr I mean use to fight drugs.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 12:17 PM
Good point. I 2nd the comment. Why can't they find anything else? And from the video everything is brand new and immaculate. Stinks of a prepared or staged situation. I agree my friend. Sorry PGR noone believes 99% of what you say or post anyway. It's all about the MONEY can anyone simplify the that. They can con the Mexican people but you cannot con the world. We are still waiting for the 43 students and the 16 police who were massacred and information to that. This is only another blatant attempt to divert attention like "looky here, look what we found" we are so adamant about the drug war but we forget anything that happens before and only want everyone to see the after. To me and I hope I am not alone FUCK you PGR and SEIDO witha a capital F. EPN is as transparent as Obama, stupid is, stupid does.Delete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 5:23 PM
Amen 1:17PM amen. Stupid is stupid does. Follow the leader and "transparency".Delete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 10:38 AM
Cargamento del senor de los gallos pa que vayan y digan! Att cjngReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 1:24 PM
tu y tu pinche gallos el mencho esta donde esta orita por traidor y estando enganando ala gente del pueblo pero aqui t sientas pura GURDIA MICHOACANA al cien con la gente del profe q si son leales y cabronesDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 2:44 PM
Pues no le sabe toriar sin cargas perdidas. #amateurDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 7:44 PM
Cual señor de los gallos ni q nada aquí puro michoacan CTGMDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 10:48 AM
I guess El Mencho and Los Cuinis do love those overseas markets.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM
Mencho is doing his overseas thang I seeReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 12:30 PM
They are lying they can't get their numbers right.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 2:05 PM
Puro apatzinganReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 2:58 PM
Huh, the Chinese and north Koreans make it. Why are they buying from Mexico.? Also Thailand, most of the precursor chemicals are made in China and India. This makes no sense.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 3:05 PM
think bigger, it makes perfect sense for markets such as Australia. it would be much easier to get product into that port than the others, the parts are legitDelete
- AnonymousApril 28, 2015 at 2:51 PM
You have a LOT to learn
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 3:35 PM
Yea, mencho for sure. chapo snitched!!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm humored when people claim ownership "for sure"..Delete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 5:55 PM
manzanillo is the second biggest port in the western hemisphere, it is used by everyone. couldve been many different groupsReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 6:08 PM
It's like, WHOOA! Stop!!ReplyDelete
That's our stuff and it's going in the wrong direction.
Let me fix this and we'll get it back on its way to USA.Replies
- CanadianaApril 24, 2015 at 11:48 PM
Hahaha that's funny.Delete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2015 at 5:33 AM
It is easier to ship from Asia to the US, specially if you are not working with the US mafias...Delete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 6:27 PM
out of all the representatives from that major cartel from the degenerates that are not from the CDS meeting in Piedra Negras last last year, only mencho and the CJNG is the only one still operating. Looks like Chapo ain't the only supposedly snitch these days.ReplyDelete
If this isn't a diversion this is a game changer. Yunnan province has been the hub of methanfetaminas for over 10 years por los filipinos y Hawaii and I don't see the how the cost por kilo is logistically economical to send to los Filipinos when ya ba is so cheap in Filipinos y Indonesia. This is both a diversion y gift to PRI b/c no makes sense economicoReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 9:32 PM
Pacquio vs mayweatherReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2015 at 10:26 PM
Somewhere beyond the sea somewhere waiting for me - Frank SinatraReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2015 at 6:31 AM
this is a sign, putting all my money on PacmanReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2015 at 10:44 PM
Maybe from the Phillipines it's gonna then be smuggled to HawaiiReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2015 at 11:31 AM
Must be Filipinos fault that mex is so fucked up...since the drugs were being shipped there. Yeah right.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousApril 27, 2015 at 5:42 AM
-Philippines is fucked up because the banks will not return the money Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos privatized from the public trough...Delete
-Libya is fucked up for the same reason, only Gaddafi had about 4p billion in the bank..
-El señor de los cielos, 25 billion dls, gone! His nephew had to kidnap his grampas for some pocket money...
--it looks like a pattern, when the money is in, the depositors are out of luck and everything else, and the banks win the lottery!
- AnonymousApril 26, 2015 at 2:09 PM
And now that the photo op is done, time to repackage it and load it back on the container and ship it...no paso nadaReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2015 at 7:09 PM
This meth is colima cartel los tirado if anyone knows who I'm referring too I think there one of there siblings was the great poncho tirado from mazatlan.ReplyDelete
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Carrie Bradshaw made them famous. You know, the Manolo Blahnik Hangisi that popped in and out of episodes of Sex and the City.
Embellished crystal shoes are still a thing. Here are some updated versions, at all price points. Embellishments serve as a perfect way to dress up an outfit or add some bling to an evening ensemble. Embellished sneakers are a fun way to prance about town, as well. Take a gander at these beauties for some bling-y inspiration. Badgeley Mischka Cara
Jimmy Choo Jasmine Suede Button
Jewel by Badgeley Mischa Hendricks Block Heel
Lily Vanity Crystal Embellished Flat
Steve Madden Glamour Slip On Sneaker
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Often during the last year when I wanted to check out interesting bands, I just went to Youtube or Myspace to listen to their music. There is no files to download and no music to own. This is very convenient, very legal and has major effects on the idea of selling-buying-owning music. When all music is available for free at servers that the artist controls, there is unlimited access to the ultimate music collection, that we all share. This is very nice for a listener, but maybe not as good for the musicians.
As the musical inflation accelerates, there is so much so available music that no one really cares. As we dont even have to do the small effort of downloading, this could lead to an economic disaster for musicians who feels they have to giva away more and more for free by just releasing it all on their sites.
I like this movement in many ways, but are there any solution for musicians who wants to make some money? My own ideas are live gigs and attractive digital solutions. Gigs can be magical and will always be worth a lot to an audience. And who gets to shag in front of a computer screen anyway? Good digital solutions, like our Web Album, with interactivity, contact between the artists and fans, and such attempts will be attempted, I hope some of them will prevail.
Not to forget the people who really likes the idea of ownership. I read that vinyl records is a new trend, as they are attractive, sound great and has this physical beauty of large artwork, great smell and magic touch… Myself, I dont own a grammophone at the moment, but its a high priority when the money comes rolling (some day).
So for the future, I bet there is a physical trend with great products, and a non-ownership-listeners culture, directly on the web. Maybe the biggest loser in the future will be file downloading.
Here is a swedish article on the subject: http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/artikel_1565053.svd


text: Just recently while trying to run Age of Empires or Halo on my Macbook Pro a message pops up while trying to start the game saying, "sound could not be initialized..." It refers me to go into Applications then Audio Midi Setup and ensure my audio output is set at 44khz and 16 bit. But when I get as far as audio the audio output it says, "audio output not supported" in the field where I would expect to make this change. Any ideas how to fix this?


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By jackiestuart | June 7, 2014
On Friday 6th June Emma Handley represented Sphinx at the Super 4 athletics meeting at Stratford. The competition is for U13s and U15s.
The format of these events is that in teams of 4 for each age group, athletes do 1 of 4 field events, all doing a different one. Plus they can do one running event.
Emma's results
Long Jump 6th 3.79 metres
200 metres 3rd 30.2 seconds.
Well done Emma.
The next event is on 15th August at Solihull so let's see if we can get a few more of the juniors to take part.


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Archive for September 2009
Newsquest give power to the public with hyperlocal blogs, but what about potential problems with this news model?
It's coming up to the first monthversary of the hyperlocal news website I set up for my local area – Bournvillevillage.com – and today Newsquest decided to jump on the hyperlocal band wagon and set up a number of local websites itself.
So media organisations are cottoning on to the success of the hyperlocal scene. Essentially a hyperlocal website is a blog which acts as an outlet for community news for a postcode area – news which is not already being covered by the local print newspaper. It was only a matter of time before local media organisations decided community blogs were the best way of filtering in news which they no longer had the number of reporters to cover. But Newsquest's simple model for the local blogger threatens to overlook some of the bigger problems which have yet to be worked out in this very new medium.
In some way, Newsquests Northern Echo's hyperlocal model vastly resembles the core structure of many hyperlocal blogs – pictures, stories and a basic CMS structure, roughly three posts a week, and the personal touch of the local writer themselves.
But there are a number of issues which arise out of connecting a hyperlocal blog to a local media organisation.
Firstly, there is no mention of pay for the local bloggers – who I presume are expected to write and research local stories in their spare time out of love for the community – but running a blog is time-consuming and can be difficult to juggle alongside a job and personal commitments. So where is the incentive for the local blogger to work for Newsquest as opposed to just starting their own blog and avoiding the thrice weekly deadline.
Security also becomes a key issue, as well as resources. Here are a couple of questions media organisations looking to take hyperlocal blogs under their umbrella might need to consider:
- Will the local blogger be properly protected under libel law? Will they be able to employ the same defenses as staff reporters if they commit libel because, having minimum or no training in media law, they may add quotes/pictures in a blogpost which unbeknown to them are utterly defamatory?
- What happens if members of the public contributing to the site write something their neighbours don't like? Without the protection of an editor or eyeballs of a subeditor to check for editorial integrity and libel – the local blogger could fall into the same plight as the columnist Liz Jones who has been the victim of violent attacks by neighbours because she wrote about the community she lived in in an unsavoury light (local bloggers take note – slagging off your neighbours won't make you popular).
If the local blogger lives in the community they are writing about, they run the risk of offending the very people they are providing the news service to. See more comments on the hyperlocal safety debate here.
Hyperlocal blogs cannot create investigative journalism in the traditional sense – because local bloggers don't have the protection or experience to go poking around looking for dead bodies or unraveling council controversies. This is not necessarily a negative problem, however, as it means the focus of the hyperlocal blog is more on the community rather than generating ground-breaking news. But it is surely an issue the umbrella organisation needs to discuss with the blogger to make sure they know the parameters for their work, and vision for how it integrates into the community and the news organisation.
Talk about Local is a service which helps local people get blogs up and running – but the emphasis is on community empowerment and giving people a voice to talk about what they love – not providing journalism for an umbrella media organisation.
There are other examples of news organisations setting up a list of community or local blogsites as part of their newspaper website, such as the Dorset Echo. The fact news organisations are wanting to create more outlets for getting local news to foreground is, in its essence, a positive step in the right direction. But they must make sure the welfare of the blogger and the community is priority.


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Waist Deep in Trouble
The blizzard of '78 was tumultuous in Boston, and it also represented a tumultuous time in health for the Roxbury community in Boston. There was little access to healthy fruits and vegetables, and people of color were being diagnosed with Type II diabetes in shocking numbers. Al Whitaker contrasts the season of chaos in Roxbury with his own personal struggle with diabetes. The Greater Boston Alliance hosted a month-long campaign to inform the Roxbury community about diabetes and prevention. Now, Whitaker says this time with Aligning Forces represents a "season of health," the harvest time, for the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. "Diabetes is not just a little touch of sugar," he said.


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2018.02.09 — The wind plays Nephew's new album.
Plant a Light in the dusk of autumn
2017.10.26 — The Tropical Dome of Aarhus Botanical Garden's Greenhouses lights up in an interactive spectacle.
Rethink Museum – The spirits of Dysbjerg come to life
2017.10.11 — A mobile version of the Sound-O-Matic is used in a sound installation at Dysbjerg.
The story behind the LEGO setup
2017.09.18 — A LEGO prototype made as a part of the LEGO House project
A nocturnal soundscape in the tropical greenhouse
2017.08.01 — Night sounds played in the tropical house of the Botanic Garden during the 24 hours of Nature
Rethink Museums - Travelling through time and place
2017.06.27 — A narrative train journey between Aarhus-Struer executed on 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd of July.
Concerts in the Tropical greenhouse in the Botanical Garden
2017.06.18 — On the 21th and 22th of June at 8 pm six composers perform a concert in Aarhus Botanical Garden.
The Overheard uses a mobile version of Sound-O-Matic
2017.06.08 — A mobile version of Sound-O-Matic used to perform a concert in Kedelhuset, Silkeborg.
Sound-O-Matic in Aarhus' Botanic Garden
2017.04.21 — A soundscape that imitates the natural sound of a tropical forest
2017.02.27 — As a part of the The Overheard project the Side-Specific Installation by Zimoun is launched.


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Master's Programmes - elective courses autumn 2020
This is a list of courses elective for master students autumn semester 2020. Depending on which programme you attend you may choose some of these courses. Please note that the courses often have required knowledge you have to fullfill in order to take the course. If you have questions about the courses or the different requirements please contact student councellors. If too few students choose a course there is a possibility/risk that the course will be cancelled.
Course period August 31 to November 2 (period 1)
- DAMI - Data mining in Computer and System Sciences
- IS1 - Enterprise Computing and Erp (enterprise resource planning) System
- OBIDAM - Open and Big Data Management
- REQ - Advanced Requirements Engineering of IT-systems
- RIMA - Risk Management
- SOSEC - Software Security
Course period November 3 to January 17 (period 2)
- BIGDATA - Big Data with NoSQL Databases
- BPCM - Business Process and Case Management
- DAMI II - Research topics in Data Science
- DIGMAN - Digital business strategies and change management
- EDS - Entrepreneurship in the digital society
- EGOV - Open e-governance and e-democracy
- INTROSEC - Introduction to Information Security
- IS5 - Data Warehousing
- MGIT - Management of Global IT Resources
- SECORG - Information Security in Organisations
- SERDES - Citizen Centric Service Design and IT Architecture
- TD - Thick Data
Some of the courses above are given as web-based distance courses
The following of the above mentioned courses are given as web-based distance courses:
First cycle course
The course BIGDATA is given at first cycle level. Depending on which programme you take you can only take a limited number of courses on first cycle level. Please contact the student councellors if you are unsure about this matter.
Last updated:
June 9, 2020
Source: Stefan Möller


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06 Dec Huge Lucky Strike Bowling Alley Joining Addison & Clark In Wrigleyville
By Ariel Cheung, dnainfo
WRIGLEYVILLE — The national Lucky Strike bowling alley chain will join the roster of tenants moving into Wrigleyville in 2018-19 as part of the massive $140 million Addison & Clark complex, developers announced Tuesday.
The California-based bowling chain will open its second Chicago location in a 30,000-square-foot space facing Addison Street on the second floor of Addison & Clark.
Wrigleyville "draws tremendous amounts of people, whether for baseball or not, so what we want to do is build up on the entertainment value that the neighborhood is already noted for," said John Bucksbaum, CEO of Bucksbaum Retail Properties. "At the same time, we want to have uses that the residents will want to participate in."
Along with the Lucky Strike housed alongside the AMC River East 21 movie theater in Streeterville, the company runs the FTW arcade and mini-golf course gastropub nearby.
Up north, the only bowling alley in Lakeview is Southport Lanes & Billiards, which offers a handful of lanes that must be booked in advance. Just west of the neighborhood, Waveland Bowl and Diversey River Bowl are popular options for North Side alley cats.
As in Hollywood, the Wrigleyville Lucky Strike will focus heavily on booking concerts and other musical acts, Bucksbaum said. In Hollywood, Lucky Strike "rapidly erupted from a hidden bowling alley into Hollywood's underground entertainment hub," the company said.
Unlike the 17 other Lucky Strikes, the Hollywood location features weekly performances by national and local musicians and offers a "one-of-a-kind blend of edgy steampunk aesthetic, gastropub cuisine and beautifully modern lane design."
Lucky Strike did not respond to a request for comment.


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Thank God it's Friday! It's almost weekend so i know some of you have plans to go out or will just stay at home to rest. Well me, I'm gonna tell you what happened on the 1st month of my blogging journey.
Blogging is something I always saw on Twitter. They promote a product, they tell stories, they gave a review to a movie or anything they want. Honestly, I never thought I will be part of this awesome community.
I wrote my stories on Tmblr just to express what I feel in everything that happening to me. I don't even call it blogging cause I made my Tmblr as a Diary. Until one day, someone on Twitter made a GC and I met a lot of bloggers. They are all so creative and amazing. They support each other. I showed them my Tmblr account and they read my entries there. They told me that it's good and it's already Blogging! They convinced me to create a WordPress account because they know that I will meet amazing bloggers here and give me support that I need, Which is happening right now. And I feel so blessed because they don't see me as a competition but a friend who wants to learn and share in the community.
There's so many ideas coming into my head but I'm really not good in expressing it through writing. So I read some of the blog post to create an idea. And thank God it works!
I've met different kind of Bloggers amd they're all amazing! They support me in best that they can and I couldn't ask for more. I've realized that having friends online is not as strange as before. They give me advice and feedbacks. The compliment my works. I can feel their love, and I'm grateful fot that. I know that you know who you are folks. Thank you for the real support. You are all the best! 💖
If there's one person in the community I will give thanks. It will be Mary 💖 She's one of my blogger inspo and my sister in-law. She gives me all the support I need not just in blogging but also in my life as a Mom. I'm so grateful that she introduced me here because it's one of the biggest and happiest changes in my life. Thank you, sis!
I never force myself to write, I only write when feel like writing. Writing about my daughter and my small family is my favourite things to write. But of course I'm giving myself a Time to put blogging on the next level like giving a product review, Promoting something and of course our travels! Gonna share to you some of our outfits too cause I know you're all waiting for it.
I know that there will be more challenges as time pass by. But I'm ready for it! I've got my Family and Blogger friends who supports me.
Thank you for reading, Folks! Have a great freaking weekend 🌈✨
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Filed under: Documental | Tags: Andrew Jarecki, Arnold Friedman, capturing the friedmans, child molestation, child molester, cinema, David Friedman, documentary, Elaine Friedman, film, Films, Jesse Friedman, movie, movies, paedophile, paedophilia, pedophile, pedophilia, Seth Friedman, witch hunt
Even the most unassuming of people can harbour the darkest of secrets. And when those secrets come to the surface they can tear even the most seemingly loving family completely apart. That essentially sums up the premise of the film 'Capturing the Friedmans' as directed by Andrew Jarecki.
Arnold Friedman is the aforementioned unassuming man. He was an award winning teacher, taking hundreds of children under his wing to teach them computer classes. He had a seemingly perfect family, a loving wife and three sons. Of course he also had a dark secret otherwise we wouldn't be talking about him, would we? What was that dark secret? Well, it seems as though Arnie had a bit of a penchant for kiddie porn. He was captured when the postal service seized some of his mail which turned out to contain items of that nature. They set up a sting operation, Arnie fell for it and he was arrested. Fair enough but it's from here that things take a more controversial turn.
Now of course it's only natural that when child pornography turns up in the possession of someone who has been teaching children that further investigation is necessary. You'll want to interview those kids and find out if anything untoward had been going on. It's at this point that the film began to remind me of another film, Witch Hunt (which I thought I'd reviewed but apparently I haven't).
The problem with interviewing children is that they can be very eager to please and so will respond to questioning differently depending on the way the questions are asked and the methods used to obtain the answers. To be fair, that's probably a sweeping generalisation. I'm fairly sure most adults will act in the same way when confronted with an authority figure. Anyway, the problem is that it is hinted that the police questioned the children using leading questions, in other words basically telling the children the answers they wanted to hear. They also used hypnosis to try and recover hidden memories which is so fucking irresponsible it pretty much begs belief. You see the suggestive state caused by paralysis is a wonderful way of accidentally implanting false memories which is a bit of a problem when investigating a crime. It should also be noted that there is absolutely no physical evidence that any of the children had been molested at all and the testimony of hundreds of children that absolutely nothing happened.
Due to the testimony of the children, not only is Arnold arrested but so is his eighteen year old son, Jesse. Now, the film never really strongly takes a side with regards to Arnold's guilt but it seems as though it's pretty much made up it's mind that Jesse is innocent. I don't know if that's the reason why but I certainly ended up feeling the same way. With Arnold, I felt he was probably guilty of something but it's really hard to know for sure. Obviously he should have served time for the possession of child pornography but whether he or not he actually molested children is really up in the air.
What do you do in that situation? Do you take the cautious route and convict someone of a serious crime when there's the possibility of that they're or innocent? Or do you accept the fact that when there is still a good amount of reasonable doubt with regards to someone's guilt that you simply can't convict them, let them go free and live with the possible consequences that being wrong could lead to? It's a tough one to be sure.
Still, this film isn't just about the arrest and whether or not it was justified. There's also the more personal story of how these allegations affect the Friedman family as a whole, most importantly the almost complete breakdown of the relationship between the three sons and their mother. The three sons are firmly on the side of their father, believing that the allegations are ridiculous and that he's clearly innocent. The mother, Elaine, on the other hand, has lost all emotional attachments to her husband since the whole mess started and, through home movies, you get to see a few huge arguments and the complete lack of respect that the boys now have for their mother essentially seeing her as a traitor to their father. It really is quite devastating to watch.
At the end of the day Capturing The Friedmans is a damn fine film. Nothing is really resolved by it but then I don't think it's supposed to be. It's just a chronicling of the events and all the consequences triggered by them and at that it succeeds admirably. I highly recommend it. Four and a half pints out of five. Laterz.


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Star Trek: The Video Game Review
Reviewed on Sony PlayStation 3Also available on Microsoft Xbox 360 and PC
Captain's Log, Stardate 2009.129. JJ Abrams releases into the wild his reboot of the classic sci-fi TV series, Star Trek. A commercial and critical success and one which was accepted by fans and non-fans alike thanks to its refreshingly modern take on the classical characters of Kirk, Spock and the rest of the gang. It was a Summer blockbuster with all that comes with it, action movie, comedy, sci-fi and more all at once. It was never in doubt a sequel would one day arrive and this Summer Star Trek Into Darkness has opened in cinemas globally. With such a massive franchise for Paramount it was always likely a videogame movie tie-in would arrive sooner or later. In fact the studio had been planning for quite some time having acquired the rights to Chris Pine (Kirk) and Zachary Quinto's (Spock) likenesses in 2011 and signed them up - and the rest of the cast - for voice duties in 2012.
Star Trek: The Videogame is a third-person action adventure with optional co-op play. You can choose to play through as Captain James T. Kirk or Mr. Spock, although for completionists a run with each is needed to get all the trophies. We soon learn that the Vulcans are trying to find a new place to call home after the events of the first film and have developed a way to terraform a suitable planet into what they need. Unfortunately in doing this they've caused various problems in the space-time continuum and have attracted the attention of the Gorn, a lizard-like bad guy seen before in one episode of the original series. What happens from here on in is too enjoyable to spoil as the story, and the way it plays out, is the best part of the game. The production values are in this regard clear to see but annoyingly absent in others. It is excellent to see the effort and resources put into transferring these new films into an interactive game. The story is written by Marianne Krawczyk whose previous credits include God of War but she developed the plot alongside the producers and writer of the second movie in the rebooted franchise. This not only assures a certain level of quality to rival that of the cinematic busters of block, but also continuity. The events of this game are in fact described as canon and fill in the gaps between the first and second movies. All of this shines through, delivering a fun and engaging narrative told through the interplay between our main two characters (the bromance and bro-op as described by one of those involved in its production) and the supporting cast. The fact that each looks and sounds like the real thing only adds to the excellence of what you hear and see and do. It's a shame then that this high level of production value in ensuring the right players are involved and the right quality of script is available is let down by the merely average graphics, textures and animations. Such a dichotomy jars often and always and lets down the good work to some extent. Such feelings pervade much of the game.
The actual gameplay is also a mixed bag, with some serious breadth but minimal depth. The characters move quickly enough but feel lightweight meaning there's rarely a sense of control of them and what they're really doing. This isn't helped by the seemingly awkward ability to quickly identify and lock-on to your preferred target, (there is no auto lock-on either) or the complete lack of awareness regarding your orientation when coming out of cover facing left when you'd have expected right and vice-versa. Alongside the typical mission objectives of getting to point B, eliminating all the baddies and so on, you'll find things mixed up all the time either by the need to hack a locked door mini game stylee or shooting spaceships down or completing one of the de rigeur platforming sections. There's a pseudo-RPG aspect to the game in that you can collect XP by scanning various items in rooms or vanquished foes and use these to upgrade weapons or equipment. Your Tricorder for instance is something very important as it enables hacking and scanning and if playing as Kirk allows direction of Spock to do a mind-meld to learn valuable information. Upgrading this powers it up allowing you ultimately to scan a whole room rather than an individual item. This is invaluable for efficiencies but also makes the Tribble and trophy hunting that bit easier. The collection of XP though is involved and as such tedious and repetitive. Why not collect it naturally for doing things as opposed to having to scan a dead enemy? This is not helped by the fact that every action requires you to hold the action button for a few seconds (Square on PS3). Why can't we just press it and save considerable time across one or more playthroughs?
Star Trek: The Videogame is fundamentally a cover-based shooter which has looked at all the successful games of this generation and taken a piece of each of them because it was really good but forgotten to actually fit that aspect into this game. Sure when Kirk goes all gung-ho and ends up hanging off a ledge what he says makes you chuckle and gets you through the next section but the climbing is slack and awkward with no signposting of where to go, nor do we even get accurate collision detection to provide feedback to the player that they are doing the right things. Normally it's only in there to showcase the differences between Kirk and Spock - Spock soon realises an alternative way through. Funny the first time but worryingly samey the times after that. What this means is that parts of the game feel out of place, don't work very well or just don't work at all. You'll find yourself from moment to moment flitting between entertained to nonplussed, to confused to downright annoyed. The game knows what it wants to be but doesn't choose that alone and it means you'll always be thinking the game was rushed to fit in with the film's release or has suffered from requests from studio executives. A blast from the movie/game tie-ins of times past.
Consistent throughout the game in single player mode is the frequent frustration due to a technical lack of polish with the AI and the regularity of bugs. In the very first mission we found ourselves falling of the outside of a ship in space but magically hovering in mid-blackness suspiciously able to move around as if we were on the platform a hundred feet or more above our heads. Amusing at first but eventually we were screaming at the game to just show the kill screen and restart as there was nothing we could do. Another instance on the same level found us just waiting for our AI partner to do his part of the two-man job we were attempting yet nothing was happening. Spock had just decided he wanted to do the same thing we were doing but he didn't come over and make this apparent until we went looking for him. In the second mission we were in a room and our navigation told us we were on top of our objective but going around the entire area to try and interact with something yielded no progress. Suddenly we realised our partner wasn't there. He'd managed to get flummoxed by a door which had shut on him because we had raced ahead. As soon as we let him in the cutscene started and we moved on. The poor AI of Spock (or Kirk if playing through the other way around) is light years away from Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite or even any of your team in the Mass Effect series. Think Resident Evil 5 and that's pretty much what we have here. In fact, so much of this game looks and feels like something from 2009 or before.
There's a lot of game here for those who can stomach it. There are a number of chapters which will last around seven to ten hours depending on ability and chosen difficulty level. None are particularly hard but there are one or two dizzyingly frustrating spikes on hard difficulty level purely down to the game design and buggy code. To get one hundred percent you'll need to play on hard at some point but you're unlikely to choose to do so for a second go at the game. If you do want to get the most value out of it you will play it twice and if each of those times is alone there's the option to play it in co-op mode locally or via drop-in online. You can look around the visually sparse Enterprise and chat to the crew members for the little you get out of it. Like the whole game everything's just so bland and basic even when regarding something so essential for fans' buy-in. There are over twenty weapons and each has an alternate fire mode but if you can aim (questionable - Halo this is not) accurately then really anything will suffice. To gain a commendation you'll want to set phasers to stun at times anyway, and this allows you to bring into play close-up finishing moves and the like. Nothing snazzy, just a wrap of the arm around the neck. There are other commendations available as these are really just optional objectives scattered throughout each mission but again it adds to the bulk of the game.
What we have here from Digital Extremes and Namco Bandai is an Enter The Matrix for 2013. A movie tie-in set between a pair of the cinematic entries and canon in their narrative as endorsed and indeed developed (in part at least) by the movie's creatives. It brings everything else about the 2003 tie-in into play also. We have the unintentionally basic and retro graphics, the bugs, the third-person mismatch of action and stealth and all in-between. We have key game mechanics lifted from modern blockbusters with Batman's detective vision given life through the Tricorder, Nathan Drake's rampant climbing, any Assassin's stealth and Commander Shepard's exploration gameplay as well as a tiny little bit of the RPG elements from there. The ideas aren't bad, they're just poorly executed and rushed to market in a bed of unfinished and rocky code. A jack of all trades rather than a master of one. Had the developers made a co-operative adventure game with the strong writing herein then they could have focussed on polishing what was there in time for release. As it is we have something that is good for little more than use as an interactive movie.
A jack of all trades rather than a master of one. Had the developers made a co-operative adventure game with the strong writing herein then they could have focused on polishing what was there in time for release. As it is we have something that is good for little more than use as an interactive movie.


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I don't have a lot of friends, and everyone is getting these amazing pictures taken of them. I like how they capture the moments.
It's weird asking random people take pictures me, so how? If I don't have many friends.
I 'll try it!Ronna said:Put your camera on a tripod, set the ten second timer and run into position. That's what I do.
Ronna said:Denis!!!!!
dencal said:chirchri
Buy a selfie stick
Buy a drone camera
Use time delay shutter release
Join a photography group
Rob a bank
Volunteer for police line ups.
Summer said:@chirchir Your question reminds me that over the years I've been with people who had no qualms about asking strangers nearby if they would take a picture of us. I've even seen this done in the movies. As a single person, alone, I wouldn't chance it. So, I agree with the suggestion above to put the camera on a tripod, set the timer for 10 seconds as you put yourself into position for the selfie. I also set the camera for multiple shots at different light settings and pick the one that looks the best. On my digital cameras, it's called bracketing and auto-bracketing. Summer
BOB73 said:I would have commented earlier but I couldn't stop laughing at Denis's response. Anyway I can't think of anything to add to what's been said.
Many thanks .
Now I know what to do.


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In a very dark part of the forest I spotted this Zela that at first sight looks like Zela zeus, but I think could be instead Zela elioti.
Anybody has the PDF of
Kirton, L.G. & J.N. Eliot,2004 : A Revision of the Rattan-Feeding Skipper Genus, Zela de Nicéville (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Malay. nat. J. 56(4):317-367 ?


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I believe that taking chances with your style is important. Especially when you have a look you strongly prefer, it can be easy to get stuck in a style rut. And clearance racks can be a great way to kickstart your creativity and your risk-taking side!
Today's top is off the JCP clearance racks from a few weeks ago. While it combines some elements that I know I love (florals and lace), I wasn't sure about the shape or the fact that it's fairly sheer. I tend to overheat easily and therefore typically want to wear as few layers as possible, especially in the summer. But I loved the way that two traditionally soft patterns were made just a touch edgier by the black geometric lines. It gives the shirt a more tailored look and breaks up the print in an interesting way. Plus it was on sale for $10, so I gave it a shot and really like it!
Today I've paired it with ankle crop skinny jeans, leopard flats (of course), and a nice bright statement necklace for a playful summer work look. I could definitely see wearing this more casually with shorts and sandals (if I wore shorts), or more professionally with black slacks and a cardigan, or even a full suit. It could also work well with a pencil skirt, either tucked in for a streamlined look with some texture and color, or untucked to add a little romance to a polished look.
So many choices! And all because I like cruising the clearance racks. My mother instilled in me the love of a good deal, plus, the better the deals, the more awesome new things you can add to your closet!
What has been the best deal you've ever scored clothes shopping?