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WASHINGTON DC- Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sort of apologized to the president this week after the crushing debate performance he delivered, though it remains unclear as to whether Governor Romney actually knows what an apology is.
Although the political arena doesn't mandate such an apology, Romney's religious upbringing got the better of him as he humbly "apologized" for the thorough lashing he gave the president.
"Mitt has had a lot of practice with apologizing and knowing what an apology actuallt is, recently," explained Matt Rhodes, senior Romney advisor.
"Not only did he deliver an excellent apology after politicizing the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, and he really nailed it when he had to explain himself over the 47% thing the day after the debate. It was totally an underhanded apology that almost slipped by. Mitt's been getting so good at it, he apologized to his wife after accidentally bringing her a caffeinated soda at a fund raising picnic, where he mingled with regular common people. It was a touching moment among many."
Political analysts are wondering if Romney can keep up with his fast paced rate of apologizing. Some of his more notable apologies have reportedly been behind closed doors, especially after the debate.
He has been practicing apologizing to his base constituency for faltering on his platform so many times.
Romney appeared on Univision, a Spanish Language Channel, where he apologized to Hispanics for the tough talk on immigration during the primaries, but vowed to apologize more to them in his coming years as president.
Romney has also been seen apologizing to unemployed Americans, stating he was "sorry for the whole off-shore thing," and that if he got their vote, he would "so get their jobs back for them."
When asked about the apology, President Barack Obama commented, "It was nice and heart felt. Uh… He knew I was tired and had been keeping late nights… what with keeping the world from falling apart, and… cleaning up a rather… big mess left by… uh, Republicans."
Paul Ryan has not been in favor of the recent streak of apologies, stating that "it shows weakness."
"Ayn Rand would be spinning in her atheist grave right now listening to Romney bowing to people, many of whom don't even pay taxes for the entitlements they feel they deserve."
He also added, "did that come off as racist? Is that my first political gaff? I need to go do some P90x and sort all of this out, but you know what I mean about those people [who do not pay taxes]."
Senior White House advisor David Plouffe remarked on how happy he was to see Romney take a more humble approach. Plouffe went on to say, "As much as he's apologizing for the lies, pandering, political polarizing, and suckering poor people in to a program that would marginalize their meager incomes, I don't think I've heard him apologize to Jim Lerher or Big Bird for threatening to fire them."
Mitt Romney will be in the swing state of Arkansas tomorrow speaking at a $5 a plate fundraiser held for the state's wealthiest job creators.


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Your Insider Guide to Austin Pride Weekend
Pride Your Insider Guide to Austin Pride Weekend
From outrageous parties to drag brunches to an exclusive W event with artist Baron Von Fancy, Insider Donna Savage, has you covered on the best places in Austin to celebrate PRIDE weekend.
THursDAY, August 25
Turn It Up For Change Event
W Austin, 6:30pm
Join us alongside Cupcake and Sabel Scities as we unveil the artwork by Baron Von Fancy (check out his first stop at NYC's Pride) in support of LGBT equality and Austin Pride with the Human Rights Campaign. Dance all evening for the best cause and be sure to check out his custom Snapchat filters while you're there. RSVP here!
Late Night
After the party is the after party, and Austin is full of them. I recommend checking out the Pleasers, Jean, Teenage Cavegirl, and Two Lips show at Cheer Up Charlies. Cheer Up's is one of my favorite places in town. It is a gay & vegan dive bar in the heart of the Red River district and they always have great live music or a DJ, and the Alro's Vegan food truck is a local favorite. At Cheer Up's try the Kale Ginger-Lime Margarita!
Friday, August 26
Party all night!
Girl Pride ATX : Austin Pride Week official women's party
- Highland, 8pm
- X-posed: Austin Pride Week official men's party
- Oil Can Harry's (OCH), 9pm
- Pink Friday: Austin's Pride kickoff party
- Cheer Up Charlie's, 10pm (wear pink!)
Video dance party (80's)
The Highball, 10:30pm
Saturday, August 27
Breakfast bake sale
Barley Swine,10am
Check out Bake Sale featuring sweet treats from Barley Swine/Odd Duck pastry chef, Susana Querejazu. Make a breakfast out of her delicious croissants and a cup of coffee before hitting the festival. (Her pop-up bake sales always sell out fast so get there early.)
Austin Pride Festival & Parade
- Fiesta Gardens, 11am
The PRIDE Festival is the LARGEST annual LGBTQ advocacy and fundraising event in Central Texas. The theme this year is "Cirque". Keep an eye out for our W float!
Midnight screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show (punk edition)
Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11:55pm
Let's do the Time Warp, punk style!
Sunday, August 28
- Drag Brunch Sunday: Fierce & Fabulous
- The Parish, 11am
Not your average brunch.
Kawaii Cumbia: Latin & Asian PRIDE party
Cheer Up Charlie's, 4pm
Imagine Selena & K-pop…
For more Austin city secrets check out our Insider Guide. Have a fun, festive and proud Pride!

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Perry Walker is a founder of Talk Shop and the deviser of a number of participatory methods, including discussion kits which are used across Europe and Crowd Wise. He is a Fellow of two London-based think-tanks: the New Economics Foundation, where he used to work, and Involve, where he was a trustee.
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Cynth Icorn is a vibrant young model, performance artist and club promoter based in London, UK. Still a relative newcomer to the scene, and surprisingly only in her early twenties, Cynth Icorn has become well known for her positive attitude combining humour, warmth and serious intent when it comes to all things fetish.
Cynth is making a name for herself in the London and European club circuit having performed at Torture Garden and Europe's largest fetish event, Wasteland. She is also a resident model for Alterpic, Blood Angels and Clinical Torments and has worked with top designers Sebastian Cauchos, Bizarre Designs and models Valentina Fetish Doll and Kylie Marilyn.
Between modelling assignments and performances, Cynth co-launched London's latex-only club Rubber Cult in 2011. All the while completing her arts degree at Central St Martin's College.
"I am an Artist and Fetishist, I live and breathe the two. I believe all life is at its best if done artfully. Fetish itself being the most surreal and exquisite of performance arts." Cynth Icorn.
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We have been invited to an LG press conference in India on November 18 that will witness the launch of the Optimus series. Now what could this announcement be about – the Optimus One Android smartphone or LG's Windows Phone 7 smartphones that also go with the Optimus branding?
Considering that Microsoft has already confirmed to us that Windows Phone 7 devices will be launched in India some time in 2011, in all likelihood Thursday's announcement could be about the Optimus One. LG says that it has worked closely with Google to develop the Optimus One (the name is inspired by the Nexus One) and it runs on Froyo Android 2.2. It features a 3.2-inch WVGA (320X480 pixels) touchscreen, a 1,500 mAh battery and a 600 MHz processor. Its 3.15 MP camera comes with face tracking and smile shot features.
Word on the street is that the Optimus One will be priced at Rs 13,000. Well, we will be reporting live from the event so don't forget to follow us on Twitter @cellpassion.


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1940s, Alec Harvey, black and white, British, British drama, Celia Johnson, Classic, David Lean, film, Laura Jesson, Noel Coward, Trevor Howard
Written by Noel Coward and directed by David Lean, Brief Encounter tells the story of a man and woman whose paths cross in a train station tea room and then again in town. Both married, contentedly, they are drawn to each other. Laura Jesson (played by Celia Johnson) comes to the town of Milford every Thursday for a day away from housekeeping. On one excursion Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) helps her remove some grit from her eye. Every time he bumps into her he pours on the charm.
The movie is narrated by Johnson who's thinking about this four week relationship while sitting in front of her husband who's working on his crossword puzzle. The plot is compelling and Laura especially because there's so much danger of bumping into people they know and the main characters carefully weigh the cost of the lying and secrecy demanded by their affair. I've never seen such thoughtful characters on the precipice of starting an affair.
The only weakness of the film was how little we know about the doctor. We don't get much past his charm and the superficial facts about his work.
Another Criterion Collection DVD, it's enriched by a documentary on David Lean and mini-documentary on the film. Both were worthwhile.


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Whether rolling along the beach on the Coaster or around the city on the trolley system, riding San Diego's rails is a great way to get to know the city. And no matter where you stop off, you've got immediate access to the region's world famous culinary and craft beer scene. Pick a stop, any stop.
Solana Beach Station (Coaster)
Even beyond the beach and the bites, Solana Beach is a draw for music fans headed to the Belly Up Tavern just steps from the Coaster stop. There's no need to get your groove on empty-stomached. Right across the 101, O.B.-born Pizza Port serves its pies and grog, as it likes to call its signature beers. For something a little more refined, try Pacific Coast Grill and its menu of lobster tail, pan seared seabass, and paella.
Encinitas Station (Coaster)
A walk along Encinitas' enchanting shoreline pairs well with light fare, which Encinitas Vegan Experience has much of. Its smoothies, bowls, salads, and tacos are all meat- and dairy-free, but full of positive vibes – just like the town itself. If it's real dairy you're looking for, Handel's Homemade Ice Cream has that by the scoop.
Carlsbad Village Station (Coaster)
The food scene in this area of Carlsbad, a stone's throw from the Coaster station, is hot—starting with the wood-fire menu at Campfire. The décor makes the space feel like a campground in a National Park, but when was the last time you ate wood-smoked rib eye on a camping trip? More indoor vibes can be attained inside the historic Victorian home that houses The Land & Water Company, which focuses on sustainable sushi and sashimi.
Oceanside Station (Coaster)
Diners come for more than pork (octopus, for one) at Flying Pig Pub and Kitchen, a gastropub that many credit with igniting the culinary boom currently underway in South Oceanside. Just a stone's throw from Flying Pig, in a former BMW dealership, is Bagby Beer Co. In addition to dozens of house-brewed beers, the scratch kitchen turns out things like sriracha corn dogs, braised short rib hoagies, and house-ground burgers.
American Plaza (Trolley, Orange Line)
You could hardly ask for a more restaurant-rich destination than downtown San Diego, where the trolley will deliver you walking distance to far too many eateries and watering holes to name. Less than two blocks from the trolley station you'll find the craft brews for which Karl Strauss Brewery & Grill has won over 100 major competition medals. And, because in San Diego we have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the weather, you can feel good about entering the dark and leathery environs of Lion's Share. Their menu of well-regarded cocktails and game meats like wild boar Bolognese, chicken fried quail, and coffee-rubbed elk loin doesn't hurt, either.
Fifth Avenue (Trolley, Orange Line)
The trolley's Fifth Avenue stop offers easy ambling distance to Biga, an Italian eatery whose pizza is made from a 200-year-old dough starter. For something meatier, check out San Telmo, an unassuming spot for Argentine fast-casual. Those looking for gluten-free and organic fare should visit Café 21, where the brunch menu sports everything from tiramisu pancakes and lamb omelets to shrimp pesto sandwiches.
Old Town Transit Center (Trolley, Green Line)
18th Century vibes are not all that Old Town has to offer. When you've worked up an appetite strolling the area, which dates back to 1769, listening to the resident mariachis, and watching blacksmiths at work, head to Casa de Reyes. The menu of classic Mexican dishes like chilaquiles, tamales, and fajitas is accented daily by live music and folkloric dancing.
La Mesa Blvd (Trolley, Orange Line)
If riding the rails to La Mesa, stop into Farmer's Table and enjoy what the 1940 tractor in the bar is trying to tell you: this place prides itself on farm fresh cuisine (ditto for its reclaimed decorations). Pastries, kombucha, a tattooed clientele – Public Square Coffee, also in the neighborhood, has everything above and beyond coffee that a hip java hut might require.
H Street (Trolley, Blue Line)
No visit to Chula Vista would be complete without a stop at Tacos El Gordo. The street-style tacos at this very casual spot have been inducted into San Diego Magazine's Taco Hall of Fame, a list only 20 tacos long. Not impressed? The place has a 4.5-star rating on Yelp with an impressive 3,431 reviews. Still not impressed? Try the tacos.
Grantville (Trolley, Green Line)
Rolling through Grantville? For a taste of the home-grown craft beers San Diego is famous for, check out the family-owned Benchmark Brewing Company, headed up by Matt Akin of Alesmith Brewing Company fame.


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The first two articles about E&P in deep waters (*) characterized this activity at the global and domestic levels. Aspects such as the importance and attractiveness of this business can be identified as factors that contributed to increase investments, offshore discoveries and production in deep waters.
This article will discuss the process of technological learning and investments in research and development (R&D) made by oil companies. The goal is to encourage attention about the emergence and consolidation of new technologies. It is also demonstrates that increased innovative efforts by oil companies indicates an increasing search for technological ability, in order to counterbalance rising costs.
However, the maturity of a set of technologies and their domain by agents is a process that requires practice and time. In this context, we have to analyze some limits and technological opportunities arose during the development of skills for operating in deep waters, especially in the case of Pre-salt.
No doubt the boundary of the Pre-salt included additional obstacles due to the length of the wells drilled. The costs are directly related to the depth of the wells. They increase further when horizontal drilling is employed, for example. On the one hand, this technique tends to facilitate appropriate access to the reservoir rock and contribute to increase the oil recovery factor in the deposit. On the other hand, horizontal drilling requires a larger number of meters drilled in relation to the vertical drilling, and thus more expensive. We have to remember that drilling is one of the most expensive costs in exploration and production of oil.
Moreover, drilling the salt layer is complex due to the fluidity and instability of such geological strata, including bad environmental conditions of temperature and pressure. Because it is considered as new challenge, exploring in Pre-salt layer in very deep waters is regarded as emerging and developing technological frontier. The industry indicates that there are still evolutionary stages to be followed so that the knowledge is consolidated and technologies are ideal.
However, this is not a peculiarity of the global oil industry (GOI). The technical evolution process evolves a learning curve that even faster it may take a long time, years or even decades in some cases. To illustrate, for decades some oil companies have been studying the geological formations related to the salt layers and that one is below the salt, or pre-salt (sub-salt). Scientific publications investigated in advance these formations more than half a century ago.
In the 1980s some pre-salt wells were drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, although some of them reached this layer unintentionally. However, technologies and available data led to the conclusion that exploration was impracticable in that context, although there was a latent potential. From then, seismic, information and drilling systems developed significantly, and some of them allow a more precise study of the pre-salt formations.
Currently, Petrobras ensures that holds main critical knowledge to carry out exploration in the pre-salt. We have to mention some relevant items related to the extraction, such as: i) how will the oil accumulations react when peak production is reached? ii) which is appropriate gas and water injection mix? iii) what is the appropriate volume of re-injection to achieve the optimal level of production? However, these are issues related to all new fields coming into production. Additionally, in the case of the discoveries already made, it is still necessary to identify the best alternative to transport and monetize the hydrocarbons to be produced.
In Brazil occurred an acceleration of learning about these formations from the set of findings. Elements indicate that the accumulation of specific operational knowledge has been crucial as well. It has enabling the continuous advances in the development of new materials, supplies, equipment and procedures required. It has allowed overcoming the challenges faced in deep waters and very deep waters, particularly in the pre-salt layer.
There are several methods of learning. The mechanism of learning by doing probably corresponds to one of the most important means for achieving significant technological advances. Under these conditions, of course, companies must operate by using the information they already have, increasing it until reaches the full knowledge of technology.
We have to mention that the maturation of a technology package does not guarantee successful operations, since the risk is related to this activity. Moreover, other uncertainties, such as climate source or malpractice, can distort the expected trajectory of a procedure at a time. Undoubtedly, the risk of surprises and accidents will never be null. The appropriate knowledge and technology are to reduce the likelihood of occurrence.
Other types of learning are also possible. Three of them have to be mentioned: i) learning by researching, ii) learning by interacting, and iii) learning by relating. Apparently, the first two models are often used by GOI. The third model has also been disseminating.
The first of them can be directly evaluated from R&D indicators. Table 1 shows the high growth of expenditures on research conducted by the oil and gas producer sector. This occurs as its processes and equipment cover complex technological content to require deep and fast progress. This phenomenon can be seen particularly in the offshore segment to which relevant portion of the technology investments have been directed to in recent decades.
Table 1 – Ranking of growth in R&D investments made by companies in the United States, Europe and Japan in 2011 (% / sector)
* European banks already report R&D according to International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), but the Americans and Japanese still implement this standard.
Source: EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard 2011. European Commission, JRC/DG RTD
The second way to advance the learning curve is associated with technological cooperation. A question often raised is what is the importance of the association, formation of consortia and cooperation between oil companies? For those unfamiliar with the logic of the business strategies made by oil companies, the process of association and formation of consortia seems to be contradictory. This is because companies involved are aggressive competitors. However, in addition to the purely economic reasons, from capital necessary to investment and risk diversification in different projects, there are other technological justifications related to cognitive aspects. Let's see.
Cooperation allows the learning occurred in the deepest part of a particular company to be shared among others. This broadens the potential scope of technological advances and allows mitigation of research costs on the subject shared. And it is apt to take more advantage of tacit knowledge of workers in different companies. In practice, companies have more incentives to cooperate on product innovations to be disseminated in the industry. Generally, it is about incremental innovations to technologies of existing equipment.
Thus, companies can originate joint solutions to common problems. To illustrate, a pool of companies invested in developing a device to contain major leakages, after the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico.
In fact, GOI is increasingly investing in research centers and strengthening links with other research institutions. Petrobras, in particular, employs over 1600 people at its research center and maintains relations with several universities. Table 2 confirms these facts and shows that Petrobras is well ranked among the oil companies investing in R&D, especially regarding percentage of revenue invested in R&D. Most of these investments are associated with the new challenges in deep waters and subsalt.
Table 2 – Ranking of oil companies as R&D investment, EUR million
Source: EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard 2011. European Commission, JRC/DG RTD
As about one quarter of world production occurs in Brazilian deep waters, and the most important recent discoveries were here, other companies are also forming major research centers in Brazil. Although the oil sector is classified as low-tech due to investments below 1% of its revenues in R&D, the deep waters segment has been outstanding according to more complex and technological researches.
However, more innovative efforts do not guarantee overcoming all obstacles. They increase the likelihood of success. Uncertainties relate to possibilities, costs and future accidents are not likely to be fully eliminated. Regardless of company or technical team involved in the activity.
Under these conditions, companies have to invest in different forms of training to increase their scope efficiency. This tends to be reflected in the following aspects: i) increasing the exploration opportunities, ii) increasing the oil recovery factor, iii) improving the ability to produce and transport the hydrocarbons in adverse conditions, iv) reducing costs without increasing risks of accidents; v) increasing the reliability and safety of procedures and operations.
In summary, the processes of learning and technological developments tend to result from a variety of efforts involving various agents including the public level. It is advantageous that these processes are continually encouraged by governments and regulatory bodies, increasing their effects and extent across the industry. It seems to be the best way for taking advantages of hydrocarbon resources located in Brazil. Thus, the benefits of this production may be much greater than the costs involved.
Exploration and production of oil and gas in deep waters: evolution and trends – Part II
Exploration and production of oil and gas in deep waters: evolution and trends – Part I
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'Top of the Morning' eyes Ann Curry 'Today' show ouster
A new book on the network morning shows reports that former "Today" co-anchor Ann Curry was pushed off the show by a former producer who called the plan to oust her "Operation Bambi" -- a reference to the classic Disney movie and enduring symbol of innocence.
An excerpt from the book, "Top of the Morning," by New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter -- which was posted on the paper's website Thursday -- also indicated that talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper to replace Matt Lauer were substantive, and had progressed to the point where it was suggested he join in 2014, overlapping the last year of Lauer's contract. Lauer, the excerpt reported, is almost certainly not expected to stay beyond then.
The excerpt noted that "Curry turned out to be out of her depth almost immediately" after her promotion as Lauer's co-anchor in 2011, and her relations -- on screen and off -- with Lauer chilled. The producer, Jim Bell, who has since left "Today" to oversee NBC's Olympic telecasts, decided that she was "out of position," although a colleague said that getting rid of her "would be tantamount to 'killing Bambi,' " the book reports. (Bell has denied using the term "Operation Bambi.")
As Curry's position eroded, the book notes, she even had difficulty getting into the "Today" studios at 30 Rock -- at one point she was "unable to find her security badge," and had to spell out her name to the guard, who apparently did not recognize her.
"Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV" will be published next week.


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April 22, 2016 — Today is Earth Day, and Jesuit high schools, universities, parishes and ministries are living the call to action put forth by Laudato Si', the papal encyclical about caring for the Earth that Pope Francis released last year.
The encyclical was groundbreaking as it was the first time top-level papal teaching was exclusively devoted to ecology. The document asserts that fighting climate change is a moral imperative, since it most heavily impacts the world's poor.
"Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us," Pope Francis wrote in the opening words of his letter, addressed to "every person living on this planet." Since the pope is St. Francis' namesake, these words carry extra significance.
One year later, the call to action has been enthusiastically welcomed across the Jesuit network. (We'll also be sharing more stories like these on our Facebook and Twitter pages with the hashtag #LivingLaudatoSi until the anniversary of the encyclical on May 24.)
Santa Clara University in California and Loyola University Chicago held conferences on climate change. Santa Clara officially dedicated 2015-2016 to reflecting on Laudato Si', forming interdisciplinary faculty reading groups for the encyclical and presenting students with the opportunity to sign the SCU Graduation Pledge, in which they promise to consider the social and economic impacts of their jobs post-graduation and to help improve their companies' green policies.
The University of Scranton in Pennsylvania is hosting an entire week of Earth Day events, including an Environmental Bike Tour, a Spring Sustainability Symposium and an Earth Day Fair.
Students attend Loyola University Chicago's climate change conference. (Photo by Mark Beane)
Loyola University Chicago operates the Institute of Environmental Sustainability and Seattle University supports its Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, which both opened in 2013. Seattle University's Sustainable Student Action club hosted open mic performances, an art show and a solutions fair for Earth Day 2016.
Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, has offered a degree program in environmental science for more than 20 years, one of the first Catholic universities to do so. The school recently added a degree program in sustainability and also prioritizes campus sustainability efforts.
Seattle Preparatory School holds an annual Earth Day of Service, where over 700 students, staff and faculty head to local parks to work with environmental groups to help remove invasive species, restore habitat and beautify local natural treasures.
Canadian Jesuit Father John McCarthy, who recently had a newly discovered species of lichen named after him, doing field research in a forest in Newfoundland.
This month, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States has also welcomed Cecilia Calvo as a Senior Advisor on Environmental Justice, a new position.
Have any of these Jesuit-affiliated endeavors inspired you to take your own action in caring for our environment? Share it with us on social media with the hashtag #LivingLaudatoSi before the one-year anniversary of the encyclical on May 24. Check out these climate action suggestion lists from Catholic Relief Services and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for ideas.
Moreover, keep up with EcoJesuit, the online web portal about Jesuits and their work in ecology, created by the Jesuit European Social Centre and the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific; read more articles about Laudato Si' at Jesuit-run America magazine; and read the entire text of Laudato Si'. [Source: Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities]


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an Example of Media Assassination
by Charbel Karam – Aug. 29th, 2018 - source: Ny Reporters
Media assassination is a method utilized by the intelligence to demolish the credibility and active role of a character, a material or moral party, for the purpose of permanently removing them from the arena of effective actions. It is a method exploited by those in authority when murder is not a choice. Media assassination is a less costly method than murder, but no less effective.
Whether these media assassins are intelligence system, countries, political parties, business men or mafia men who aspire to remove honest men who constitute barriers in front of their evil goals, launching a propaganda of fake news to destroy someone's good name practically leads to terminating this person's credibility and role. Eventually, the target becomes an outcast among loved ones, and mistrusted by those closest to him. The weapon utilized in media assassination in rumors, most effective of which is articles and videos.
In March 2012, the "Washington Examiner", an American newspaper, published an article which could only be considered more deforming than bullets against Khaled al-Ahmed, the peace mediator in Syria. Lee Smith, the writer of said article and extreme rightest in Israel, practiced an intentional deformation of al-Ahmed's role, a man who endeavors to establish peaceful solutions being a man of public relations trusted among opposed parties and in major capitals of the world.
In his article, Smith claimed that al-Ahmed directly interacts with officials from the Obama government to coordinate solutions in accordance to a vision which serves Damascus and satisfies Obama at the same time.
In 2016, after the "Washington Examiner", the American "Jewish Tablet" took its part in an article which represents the epitome of media assassination, written by Tony Badran.
In this article, Badran intended to provoke the presidential candidate, Donald Trump, against the "peace mediator", Khaled al-Ahmed. Badran claimed that Barak Obama implicated Trump's presidency in an American policy and vision about the solution in Syria. However, it is nothing but a solution implanted in the minds of the Obama officials for the benefit of al-Assad by a Syrian businessman called Khaled al-Ahmed.
These claims which usually leave a negative residue in Washington were aimed at pushing the Trump government towards considering al-Ahmed an enemy rather than a peace activist in Syria.
Adding fuel to the fire was the article published by the Lebanese journalist, Rania Khaled", on Aug. 2nd, 2018 in which she boasted al-Ahmed's achievements mentioned by the lords of war regarding his role in the peace operation, making him yet again a target of deforming propaganda.
It is worth mentioning that several articles took Badran's path, and the "Jewish Tablet" targeted al-Ahmed and claimed he was an official in the Syrian government who secretly endeavors to re-open routes of communication between Damascus and European capitals. Also, these articles claimed that he was on the verge of success to open direct communication between Damascus and Europe.
The claim of al-Ahmed being a Syrian official is mere rumors launched by the lords of war. Something which can be negated by facts and testimonies by international officials from organizations which aspire to achieve peaceful solutions in Syria and with whom al-Ahmed has cooperated.
These officials assert that he holds no official position in the Syrian government, and that he is merely an independent activist and a peace mediator.
Why would Rightest American media attempt to discredit a peace mediator?
This is media assassination
When the peace mediators succeed in terminating the interests of the lords of war, these lords will retaliate by eliminating said mediators.
In 1948, the Zionist mafia, Stern Gang, murdered the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator for the Palestinian cause and director of the Swedish Red Cross, because his role threatened the Lords of war. Since 2012, and after six years, parties which may not be far from Israel and the Syrian Opposition supported by it continue to attempt assassinating the peace mediator, Khaled al-Ahmed, because his role stands in the way of the purposes of those lords of war.
Eliminating al-Ahmed by discrediting him and targeting his role is punishment for his role in the peaceful operation to end the war in Syria. Because his role is similar to that of the international mediator, Bernadotte, threatening the interests of the lords of war, he will be assassinated just like the Stern Gang murdered the Swedish Count.
Who is Khaled al-Ahmed?
An informed European source who holds an important position in a humanitarian organization says that al-Ahmed is "simply a Syrian citizen with enough courage to communicate with the local opposing parties and the countries active in the conflict in Syria. Thus, becoming a source trusted by all conflicting sides as well as international organizations, especially UN.
When besieged regions needed supplies, al-Ahmed was a mediator. Also at time when towns and villages could be spared the heat of war through reconciliation, al-Ahmed played a major part. In addition, he was one of the peace mediators as an activist cooperating with human organizations searching for solutions for international crises during the international boycott against Damascus."
This testimony on al-Ahmed's behalf asserts the lords of war's responsibility towards the repeated attempts of assassination.
The Israelis, in a similar fashion with the terrorists, want the war to continue in Syria and are bothered by the return of diplomatic communication between Damascus and Europe. Equivalently, extremists in Washington are distressed when the rational officials send good-will messages to Damascus. Consequently, one or all of the above parties attempts to discredit Khaled al-Ahmed.
Would we believe the claims of these lords of war and their aspirations?
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The 12 days of Christmas are the 12 days that separate Christmas day on December 25 from Epiphany, which is celebrated on January 6. Depending on the church, January 6 may mark Christ's baptism (the Catholic tradition), or it may mark the day that the wise men visited the baby Jesus with their gifts.
In the past, there was a tradition of giving gifts throughout the 12 days, rather than stacking them all up on the morning of December 25.
Is December 25 really the day Jesus was born?
No one really knows. What is known is that Christian leaders in 336 C.E. set the date to December 25 in an attempt to eclipse a popular pagan holiday in Rome that celebrated Natalis Solis Invincti, or "Birthday of the Invincible Sun God," on the winter solstice. One mid-fourth century church theologian later wrote "We hold this day holy, not like the pagans because of the birth of the sun, but because of him who made it" .
Originally, the celebration of Christmas involved a simple mass, but over time Christmas has replaced a number of other holidays in many other countries, and a large number of traditions have been absorbed into the celebration in the process
Well ever wondered why is Christmas sometimes spelled Xmas?
According to the book Did you ever Wonder… by Jeff Rovin, the word for Christ in Greek is Xristos. The use of the shortened form "Xmas" became popular in Europe in the 1500s.
The word Xmas is so common in advertising most likely because "Xmas" and "sale" have the same number of letters, and "Xmas" is significantly shorter than Christmas.


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Two decades since viewers last saw them, the Ewings are back. Television's first family of drama, sabotage, secrets and betrayal gather at Southfork Ranch for the wedding of Bobby's adopted son, Christopher, to Rebecca Sutter. Also in attendance is John Ross, the son of J.R. and Sue Ellen, who returns to Dallas with Christopher's ex-girlfriend Elena Ramos, and discovers a major oil gusher on Southfork. When Bobby announces he intends to sell the ranch, John Ross fills him in on the discovery but Bobby refuses to allow drilling on Southfork as it goes against his late mother's wishes. John Ross enlists the help of none other than his estranged father J.R. to help him gain ownership of Southfork, but J.R. has an agenda of his own. Reunited for the first time since their breakup, Christopher and Elena realize someone else is responsible for the abrupt end of their relationship. They both point the finger at John Ross, but the real culprit turns out to be Christopher's mysterious new wife Rebecca. Meanwhile, the Ewings gain a new adversary when Bobby's wife Ann's past catches up with her.
Joining original cast members Larry Hagman (J.R. Ewing), Patrick Duffy (Bobby Ewing) and Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing) are Josh Henderson (John Ross Ewing), Jesse Metcalfe (Christopher Ewing), Brenda Strong (Ann Ewing), Jordana Brewster (Elena Ramos), Julie Gonzalo (Rebecca Sutter) and Mitch Pileggi (Harris Ryland). Season 1 also features appearances from original "Dallas" cast members Charlene Tilton (Lucy Ewing), Steve Kanaly (Ray Krebbs) and Ken Kercheval (Cliff Barnes). The cast is joined in season 2 by Emma Bell (Emma Brown) and Kuno Becker (Andres "Drew" Ramos), with Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark reprising their roles as Gary and Valene "Val" Ewing. A third season started airing in early 2014. The series was developed for TNT by Cynthia Cidre and cancelled in October 2014.moreless


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- Blade is made of ground steel and encased in a plastic housing for safety
- Self-sharpening blade cuts in either direction
- Automatic paper clamp holds work securely
- Inch and metric measurements with metric sizing grid for precise cuts
- Sturdy metal base will not warp or crack
- Adjustable backstop
- Can be wall mounted
- Optional paper roll holder available
- Shown on optional floor stand
- Cutting Length: 37 1/2"
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This is the Dahle 556 Professional 37 1/2 inch Rolling Trimmer!
When the blade passes over the paper clamp it helps keep your pages in place when cutting.
There is an adjustable edge guide as well to align your pages with. It can also be move to anywhere on the cutter surface since it's magnetic.
And the blade head can cut from both the left and the right.
There are guides for common angles in the center, and even several lengths of common paper sizes.
It's important to mention, that if you try trimming too many pages, it just won't work. The blade will roll right over them without cutting. This should be used as a precision cutter with only a few pages.
If working with larger formats, there are hooks so you can hang a roll and keep your work together.
With the stand, cutting larger banners is made easy. And all the trimmings fall below to be cleaned when it's convenient. You can buy it with the stand, or separate.
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The Dahle 556 Professional Rolling Trimmer is one of the largest cutters you can buy. But is its size the only thing that makes it worthwhile? Read this review and find out so you can then decide if this is the right trimmer for you.
- The Dahle 556 has a decent cutting capacity for this type of trimmer. It can cut as many as 20 sheets of paper at a time. This makes it good for both small and medium-sized jobs. However, if you need to process a lot more paper on a regular basis, something such as a stack cutter may be a better choice. This trimmer can cut paper that's up to 37.5 inches long. You'll be able to use it for all of your large-format projects (posters, signs, etc.) as well as smaller ones.
- While the Dahle 556's cutting length makes it able to handle both large and small pieces of paper, it also means that this device will take up a lot of room. This device measures 45 1/2" x 14 1/8" so you might have some trouble finding an appropriate place for it. If none of your work surfaces are large enough, you can purchase a stand for this device. It can also be mounted on a wall which can actually make the cutting process easier.
- This device's blade is made out of ground steel and it's sharp enough to cut in both directions. It's also self-sharpening. For your safety, the blade is located in a plastic case.
- This device is equipped with an automatic paper clamp so your sheets will remain in a neat stack when you cut them. This feature ensures that you'll always end up with a crisp cut right where you need it. The Dahle 556 also has an alignment grid and metric and standard units printed on the base so you can measure things before cutting them.
- The Dahle 556 comes with an adjustable backstop. This feature makes it possible to cut repeatedly. And if you prefer to work with rolls of paper, you can purchase a roll holder which attaches to this cutter.
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The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Old Graves
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My arrival to reside in Concord was at the time
when old customs were changing for new ones. The settlement of Waldo Emerson here in 1834, after his return from Europe, and
his first acquaintance with Thomas Carlyle, had
something to do with these changes, especially after his friends began to gather
round him here--the Thoreaus, John and Henry, in 1836; Alcott in 1840; Hawthorne
in 1842; Ellery Channing in 1843; Margaret Fuller from 1836 to 1845 (though she never
resided but only visited in Concord); and the Ripley
family in 1845, inheriting the Old
Manse, and receiving there Mrs. Ripley's
brother, George Bradford, who had been with
Hawthorne at Brook
Farm, and at Plymouth with Marston Watson at his garden and nursery of "Hillside," which Thoreau
surveyed and mapped for the Watsons in 1854.
Mrs. Marston Watson (Mary
Russell, a sister of William and
Thomas Russell, Boston lawyers) had also lived
in the Emerson family before her marriage, and was
'"The Maiden in the East"' to whom Thoreau inscribed
an early poem. These friends and among the Concord residents, the Hoar,
Whiting and Bartlett
families, and Edmund Hosmer, a sturdy farmer, with
his daughters and kindred, all made up a circle especially intimate with
Emerson, Alcott
and Thoreau, though by no means all agreeing with
the social, religious and political reformers, to which class belonged Garrison, Phillips,
Theodore Parker, the Brook
Farm and Fruitlands residents,
and many visitors from America and Europe. [Page 15] Among these soon appeared
Henry James, Charles
Newcomb, the May family, Frederick Douglass, and other fugitive slaves, whom
Mrs. Brooks, the
Thoreaus, and other anti-slavery households received and
cherished--helping them on their way to freedom, when pursued, as they sometimes
were. My school grew in numbers during its first term, and much more in its
first full year, 1855-56, near the beginning of which, in September, 1855, I was
called on to make my first public appearance as a citizen--not as a voter; for I
still had a voting residence in New Hampshire, where my brother and I had aided
in voting down the pro-slavery Democratic party, whose leader at the time was
Hawthorne's college friend, Gen.
Pierce, then President of the United States.
One evening, early in September, I was sitting in our
Channing apartment with my sister, when Mr.
Emerson called for an errand surprising to me. The
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery had been purchased and was to
be dedicated, and Emerson was to give the address. He was
also on the Town Committee to arrange for the exercises at
the grove, where the prayers, hymns and poems were read and sung; and it was in
that capacity he called on me. He said, '"I asked Mr.
Channing for a poem on this occasion, and he has sent me a good poem,
but they tell me it cannot be sung. Now will you not write for us verses that
will go to some familiar tune?"' He had seen some of my college verses, and
others which were made to be sung, and had been sung, and he inferred from that,
a capacity to do the same for Concord. I assented, and presently showed him
these lines:
2. Ode. (September 29, 1855)
3. The day pr…
The day proved to be that prayed for; these lines were sweetly sung to the tune
of St. Martin's; and in the choir I recognized the voices of some of my new
friends. Mr. Emerson liked them, and printed them afterward
in his "Parnassus," as he did Channing's poem, which as
poetry was much better, and which also appears in "Parnassus," and in the XIth
volume of the Centenary edition of Emerson, as here:
4. Sleepy Hollow. (By W. E. Channing)
5. Seldom has…
Seldom has a finer poem been read on such an occasion. My own verses were
favorably received, and the late Judge Keyes, whose
daughter Annie had become one of my pupils, said that I was
now a citizen of Concord, and, like some French poet whom
he named, as rewarded with a grave at Pere la Chaise, ought to have a burial lot
granted me wherever I chose. Long afterward I bought my present lot, in which my
poet-son is buried with a slab of Pentelie marble from Athens above him,
inscribed with a Greek line from a Roman tomb in Beotia, of the early Christian


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So what did we learn this weekend?
- Call this premature, but Michigan might be back. Sure there secondary is horrendous and their defense has issues upfront, but after that 35-31 thriller under the lights for the first time in the Big House it looks like Michigan might have it bearings underneath them to make a run at the Big Ten crown. Watching Denard Robinson lead Michigan to two go ahead leads in under two minutes showed that Michigan had its fight back after 3 punchless years under Rich Rodriguez. It reminded me of teams from Michigan's past that fought until the end and never let any disadvantage seem to large. Credit first year head coach Brady Hoke who has instilled a toughness in Michigan that it hasn't seen since the Lloyd Carr days. Hoke's demeanor and teaching has Michigan looking good at 2-0 especially after Ohio State struggles against Toledo and Nebraska against Fresno State. If they can fix the problems in the secondary then Michigan could be a legitimate Big Ten contender and could make a run for the roses.
- Big teams are continuing to underestimate the little guy. Pittsburgh barely beat Maine, Ohio State had all sorts of trouble with Toledo, Kentucky didn't put Central Michigan away until late, Clemson struggled versus Wofford, and West Virginia trailed Norfolk State at the half before blowing them out. I thought these early games were to be scrimmages for the big boys to get them ready for tough tests down the road. Big conferences are sleeping on their foes and it will catch up to them if they don't start taking care of business. How can I take these guys seriously if they're having trouble putting away teams with less talent than them?
- Oklahoma State should be watched and carefully. Their defense is suspect but the combination of Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon is just too much for teams to compete with. After their beat down of Arizona it's clear that not many teams can stop them on the offensive end as they are just too potent to be contained and they are getting better. Weeden threw 3 interceptions in week one but against better competition he contained his mistakes kept the Cowboys wheels turning. We find out just how good the Cowboys are in two weeks as they head to College Station, Texas to face Texas A&M. that should be a shootout and give us a gauge as to where Oklahoma State is on the totem pole.
- Wisconsin is looking like the team to beat in the Big Ten. The transfer of Russell Wilson has changed the makeup of this team dramatically as they now have a good passing game to go with their dominant run game. Their competition hasn't been too fierce in the early part of the season but they have taken care of business with ease. UNLV and Oregon State have been mere appetizers for the upcoming main courses that they will face at Ohio State and Michigan State. If they can keep the consistency in those games like they have in the past two then the Badgers might make a run for the roses in January.
- The Big East had by far the most disappointing weekend of any conference. Syracuse and Pittsburgh struggled to beat FCS schools and before West Virginia blew out Norfolk State they were down 12-10 at the half. Also Cincinnati got destroyed by Tennessee and Louis lost to FIU at home. This week doesn't get any easier as Syracuse travels to L.A. to face USC, Louisville travels to Lexington for the Bluegrass Battle versus Kentucky, Pittsburgh goes on the road to face Iowa and WVU heads to Maryland to face a tough Maryland team. if they go into those games like they did this weekend then it's not going to be pretty.
Oregon bounced back from their loss to LSU with a 69-20 romp over Nevada where the offense go back to business racking up 603 yards of offense including 376 total yards by Darron Thomas and 7 touchdowns.
Oregon State's start to the season has been miserable. A loss to FCS Sacramento State was followed by a massacre at Madison courtesy of Wisconsin this past Saturday. Their next 3 are against Arizona State, Arizona and BYU. It looks like wins will be hard to come by in Corvallis this year.
Tommy Rees's fourth quarter fumble that prevented Notre Dame from taking a commanding 10 point lead at Michigan. That was so Bad News Bearish.
Trent Richardson, Alabama: 26 carries, 111 yards and 2 touchdowns in Alabama's 27-11 win at Penn State.
Penn State's passing game: 12-39 144 yards and 1 interception including Matt McGloin's 1-10 stinker with 0 yards.
- Oklahoma
- Alabama
- Boise State
- Wisconsin
- 1. Kellen Moore, BSU
- 2. Landry Jones, Oklahoma
- 3. Trent Richardson, Alabama
- 4. Russell Wilson, Wisconsin
- 5. Justin Blackmon, Oklahoma State
On tap for next week are a couple of big ones in the top five including LSU versus Mississippi State, and the game of the week featuring Oklahoma taking on Florida State. Also Michigan State can add to Notre Dame's misery in South Bend and keep an eye on the Boise State-Toledo matchup. The Rockets gave Ohio State fits last weekend and the Broncos shouldn't sleep on them.


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With the advent of Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft makes public the long anticipated service-oriented platform upon which it has built significant pieces of Microsoft Azure. For the modern software developer, Azure Service Fabric represents nothing less than the next evolutionary breakthrough in software programming on the Microsoft stack, both in the Cloud and on-premises. Just as .NET represented a new integrated runtime for simplifying the development of component-oriented applications, Azure Service Fabric represents a new integrated platform for simplifying the development and deployment of service-oriented systems. This constrained, best practice-informed model helps to reduce the common programming, connectivity and administration headaches that often plague service-oriented systems in the wild. This seamless integration between development and operations makes Azure Service Fabric THE killer app for both modern DevOps and Modern Software Architecture.
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Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam reportedly says he needs more time to decide his future amid the backlash he's receiving from a yearbook picture. NBC reports that Northam told his staff he will take more time to decide his next move during a meeting today. Leaders on both sides of the political aisle are calling for his resignation after a photo surfaced from his 1984 medical school yearbook showing men in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe. Northam apologized on Friday and said he was one of the people in the photo, but on Saturday he said he does not think he's in the picture. But Northam later admitted to darkening his face while dressing up like Michael Jackson for a dance contest.
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Monitor Alarm Management: Decreasing Nuisance Alarms and Preventing Alarm Fatigue
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Critical Care Physiological Monitors detect and notify clinicians of many types of alarms; from technical problems, changes in vital signs, to life threatening arrhythmias. Clinicians may become desensitized when they are overwhelmed with the number of alarms. This can lead to alarms being ignored or disabled. This presentation will discuss causes and prevention of false positive physiological monitor alarms and management of alarm settings for patient safety.
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OXON HILL, Md. -- Leon Lawson Jr., the uncle and assistant trainer of super middleweight Andre Dirrell, was wanted on two assault charges by Prince George's County Police on Saturday night after he punched contender Jose Uzcategui, Dirrell's opponent, in the face after the fight had ended.
Dirrell claimed a vacant interim super middleweight world title by eighth-round disqualification after Uzcategui drilled him just after the bell rang to end the round and Dirrell was ruled unable to continue on the Gary Russell Jr.-Oscar Escandon undercard at the MGM National Harbor.
Dirrell went down hard, face-first, and referee Bill Clancy ruled the punch landed after the bell. As Dirrell was being attended to by the ringside doctor, Lawson stormed across the ring and unleashed a left hand that landed on Uzcategui's face, nearly igniting a riot in the ring.
Uzcategui was restrained by his handlers. Lawson was pulled away but slipped out of the arena during the postfight confusion.
Uzcategui was taken to the trauma center at MedSTAR Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., for further evaluation and was released a few hours later.
"I'm sorry for what my coach has done," Dirrell said. "My coach is my family, my uncle, and he was worried. He cares for me. He loves me. Please forgive him.
"I'm going to stand up like a man. I didn't win like I wanted to, but I'll be back."
According to a report on Showtime's telecast by ringside reporter Jim Gray, police said they were searching for Lawson and that he would be arrested when found. Uzcategui was under police protection, according to the report.
After Russell knocked out Escandon in the seventh round to retain his featherweight world title in the main event, he apologized for Lawson's actions.
"We boys are gladiators, and sometimes emotions get the best of us," Russell said. "Our families support us and we draw from each other's energy, and I hope the fans can see that and understand that sometimes emotions run high.
"I want to apologize for the gladiators. The gladiators are warriors. The Dirrell camp, sometimes emotions build up and take the best of us. Please forgive them."


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Adding A Block Device To A Domu
This section apply to Debian Etch, as well as a Ubuntu 7.10.
If after booting your vm, you realize that you forget to add a special block from domain0, it is still possible to add it when you vm are runnig.
If you read the man page of xen :
# man xm
you will see that you need to do that :
# xm block-attach our_domU_id phy:/dev/hda /dev/sda rw
to add the real block device :
from dom0 to a domU. But it doesn't work actually, and you will get this error :
Error: Invalid mode
Usage: xm block-attach <Domain> <BackDev> <FrontDev> <Mode>
Create a new virtual block device.
Strange, as the mode in the man page did say :
Actually, you have to specify an other mode, w instead of rw, and r instead of ro.
So, you have to type this :
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text: flyingdutchman Posted November 24, 2018 (edited) I have published a new skin, nothing fancy but removed black background on album and track text, all square albumart, some color changes, seelwavebar or seekbar and seekwavebar, Remember that this release is experimental so may behave unexpectedly in terms of layout. It is based on Poweramp dark theme. I will try and get the text below the albumart in the next release. Note that i have tested for devices with smallest width 360dp and smallest width 700dp. It checks for the version of Poweramp first on install. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flyingdutchman.com.yaps Remember, it is free and i do this for fun so dont leave negative feedback just because it doesnt work for you Direct link to version 2 yappy-release.apk Edited December 2, 2018 by flyingdutchman Added apk Quote Mention Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Overcoming the Barriers to Biometrics
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Biometrics once seemed worlds away from mainstream use. But as this category of security technology gains momentum, with advancements like the thumbprint scanner on Apple's iPhone 5s, has its time as a bank account authentication tool finally come?
In some ways it already has. Automated teller machines featuring fingerprint readers have been used in South Africa since 1996. Brazil today boasts more than 55,000 ATMs that integrate biometrics technology into the authentication process. And in the United States, banks have been using biometrics since the mid-2000s to facilitate secure self-service access to safe deposit boxes for consumers.
The idea of using physiological markers is on the verge of widespread acceptance. But the technology first must overcome some notable barriers.
Social Acceptance: U.S. consumers especially are worried about privacy and the potential misuse of their captured biometric data. They're most concerned with where and how the data is held. After all, once the data is stolen, nothing can be done to alter the source. Passwords can be changed; fingerprints, irises and handprints can't.
A potential way to mitigate this concern is for the consumer to retain a digitized version of his or her physical attributes, on a smartphone for instance, rather than having that data stored by a bank. A bank's encryption system would then translate and match that data, as well as the consumer's actual physical attributes, to authenticate the user.
Standardization, performance and security: For biometrics to be applied more broadly, the industry must select a standard form of authentication, such as palm vein technology. Doing so will enable interoperability between systems, which will be critical to acceptance. Naturally, a uniform approach will require the development of regulatory or industry technology standards and compliance guidelines.
The speed of access and authentication also is critical to the success of biometrics implementations. Consumers will have little patience for time-consuming authentications, despite the added security that biometrics technology offers. In addition, banks will need to address the security of all points of their systems from end to end to ensure they've eliminated opportunities for data interception.
Infrastructure: For biometrics to be applied extensively, financial institutions will need to assemble accessible databases of biometric information. And they'll need to ensure those databases are highly protected from external and internal threats.
Cost: The added security that biometrics offer may justify the investment. But there's no getting around it currently, the cost of deploying the technology, educating consumers and building a biometrics database remains high.
Accessibility: To ensure that all consumers are able to take advantage of secure biometrics technology, accessibility challenges must be addressed.
None of the above barriers are insurmountable. In Brazil, for example, consumers have accepted even demanded biometric authentication at the ATM; suppliers have addressed performance and security aspects; and banks have developed the infrastructure to support biometric data management. These concentrated efforts have made self-service biometrics a rapidly growing authentication solution across the country.
For other markets to follow suit, they'll need to reach similar levels of acceptance and infrastructure investment. And some of the groundwork for that already has been laid. Use of biometrics in mainstream consumer devices is intensifying consumer interest and trust in the technology, and we've seen some banks begin to respond with biometric solutions designed to enhance security, convenience and efficiency.
A future in which consumers are routinely able to swipe, scan or touch a device to securely access private financial information may not be that far off.


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Yes, the theme of this Drink issue is DIY, but I'm really not interested in detailing something that you can easily look up online by simply typing in phrases like: "how to make kombucha," "how to make a SCOBY from apple cider vinegar," and "how to grow a kombucha SCOBY from bottled kombucha." So, yes, I'm telling you to Google that shit! (SCOBY by the way stands for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast.)
Instead of playing yeast coach ('cuz who wants that on a business card?), I want to focus on FLAVOR. Like, since you're determined to make your own kombucha, all you're really needing now is the push toward which flavors you want to brew. And, though you can also look up something like "best kombucha flavors" with ease, I'd rather point you toward some market-tested and more dynamic recipes by local craft kombucha makers.
First, let's review why you want to flavor kombucha: because the raw product tends to smack you with acidity and vinegar-like essence minus any buffering fruit or herb or spice. Some would say it's like serving strong black coffee without cream or sweetener (although many of us like it that way), but suffice it to say it just doesn't feel like a finished product, especially when a second fermentation with flavor infusions yields such magic.
Just because I'm not detailing how to make it doesn't mean I won't refresh you on what's happening scientifically, or more directly, quote my colleague Griffin Swartzell, who described the process a while back in our Side Dish column like this:
Kombucha is a fermented drink made from tea and sugar ... One introduces the sweetened tea to a SCOBY, defined by Colorado State's Food Source Information page as "a biofilm-like microbial mat composed of cellulose and a mutually beneficial association of fermentative bacteria and yeasts." Basically, yeast eats sugar and produces ethanol, which the bacteria eats to make organic acids, like acetic acid in vinegar. There's more to it — a SCOBY hosts a variety of yeasts and bacteria, and it's typically left open to wild microbes during fermentation — but that's the basics.
Yeah, that's the basics, and kombucha drinkers revere it for its probiotic value, amino acids, enzymes and more asserted benefits. So, in-house plagiarism aside, let's talk about extracting flavors. My favorite is a chipotle-habanero-onion-cheddar-sausage kombucha.
I'm kidding! That's foul. In fact there's plenty of foodstuffs you do not want to put in kombucha if you want to live. (Seriously, don't poison yourself over a bad batch of booch.) Again, research online to note things to avoid, like items with high oil content which can jack your bac(teria). But read closely: Just because honey inhibits bacterial growth and generally isn't used for its sugar content, diluted honey in green tea makes another kombucha-like drink called Jun. (Again, explore the interwebs.)
Fruits are common to kombucha because of their sugar content, which feeds the yeasts for another round of fermentation (steeped in jars with the booch), and creativity abounds on grocery shelves these days with increasingly complex and fun flavors. Like, why go just blueberry when you can go blueberry-lavender, one of my personal favorite flavors when I used to brew. But again, I'm not your yeast coach; let's hear from a few local experts who've brought their brews to market. I asked each to pick two favorite flavors...
Richard Lemesany operates a stall at downtown's Pikes Peak Market, and his products (facebook.com/CoSBucha) can be found in shops around town like Building Three Coffee Roasters, Willamette Market & Deli and Radiantly Raw. He says he prefers to make booch "on the lighter side, I like that style." Meaning he aims to go a little less time on his fermentation to minimize the acetic acid (vinegariness); he doesn't like it in the nose when sipping, and depending on the flavor, "you can lose the uniqueness of your tea."
Though his very favorite creation was the first he ever made, a grape-ginger kombucha, he offers two other picks here for you to try at home. The first, a pineapple-ginger, shows restraint on the ginger the way he makes it, so it's less zingy and biting than many ginger booches out there. "Because you already get the pineapple and kombucha tartness," he says, there's a good redundancy. He calls it a "super refreshing" flavor, and of course if you are a ginger head (like me), brew to your own tastes and don't be shy on the rhizome slivers.
Lemesany's second pick: grapefruit-basil. He only uses the fruit's peel, enhancing a bitter element, and he uses the familiar grocery store basil, Genovese (but you could deviate into Thai or lemon basil, etc.). The result's citrusy, with the clean flavors of each input, he says. He enjoys the bitter element so much, he's been toying with hop infusions. He hasn't quite perfected a hop flavor yet, "but I'm looking forward to it."
Found at four coffee shops, including Switchback and Carnelian Coffee, as well as Nourish Organic Juice and a couple more spots, Bliss Booch operates out of the Bliss Bar & Conscious Kitchen (112 Ruxton Ave., Manitou Springs, blissbooch.com). Owner Ashlyn Zamora, prompted for her two favorites, happens to pick one that might make Lemesany jealous: her Citra hop kombucha.
"I'm really jazzed about it," she says, noting hops procured from a local brew store. "All you do is put them in, in the secondary fermentation." For non-beer drinkers, hops are calming and taste good, she says: "If you like IPAs, this is a really good one." She compares its flavor to New Belgium's Citradelic IPA; it's not beer-y, "but there's a fermented flavor, it's a little bitter and sour." She feeds her SCOBY a green tea, and says her kombucha's lighter than many on the market, and "smooth," which "gives a platform for the hops to shine."
Zamora's second pick is her Happy Heart label, made with dried hibiscus and rose petals, plus goji berries (freshly picked when possible, during the summer season). "The rose really ties it together because it's a sweet flower, and it smells really good," she says, noting it's only faintly tart because not much hibiscus is used, and the berries offer more sweetness to balance. She originally designed this flavor around Valentine's Day, and says "all my flavors are very intentional." In this case, they literally focus on the heart's health, as she says the hibiscus is regarded for combating high blood pressure and cholesterol, while "rose is one of the highest vibration flowers — it channels that heart's love." Meanwhile, antioxidant-strong goji berries supposedly fight depression, providing "happiness."
Athena's Goblet (tinyurl.com/AthenasGoblet) owner Layla Redding also thinks medicinally with her booch brews, found at Manitou Springs' Create Café and Coquette's Bistro. As we talk through her many offerings trying to pare down a couple favorites — she does love pure, single flavors like a straight blueberry or ginger — we agree there's something unique about her Tulsi-peach booch. Tulsi tea, also called holy basil, holds a list of purported properties, from anti-cancer to respiratory benefits. To be clear, she still feeds her SCOBY black tea for the first fermentation, but adds the tulsi in the second fermentation with fresh or frozen (thaw them first) peach pieces. She uses as little as possible of the fruit to keep sugar content low, just enough to impart a "soothing flavor, with mellow, light notes of peach."
For her second pick, Redding opts for her Blood Orange Twist, brewed with hibiscus, roasted chicory and cinnamon. "People says it tastes like Christmas," she says. She uses fresh blood orange juice and just a little of the peel, noting this booch does fall a little on the sweeter side; chicory contributes a hint of nuttiness to balance the cinnamon's spice and hibiscus' tartness. For a bonus option here: Try it at Coquette's in a "komboozie" cocktail, created in partnership with bar manager Andy Swan — they've made an Old Fashioned spin-off, called an Old Soul, utilizing the Blood Orange Twist, among other kombucha-infused cocktails.


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Facebook has something big up its sleeve planned for April 4th. In an invitation it sent to the press, the company invites us to "come see our new home on Android." While it's not immediately clear what the "new home" will be, it's possible that the company could be taking the wraps off a long-rumored HTC handset featuring its own customized version of the open source OS.
If a July Bloomberg report is to be believed, the project has been in work for some time, originally slated for a 2012 release, but eventually pushed back to make way for HTC's other product releases. While the companies' previous collaboration, the HTC ChaCha, failed to find an audience, 9to5Google reports that the pair is hard at work on a major ad campaign "designed to focus on the potential user of the device, not on the hardware or software."
It's anyone's guess what kind of deep integration Facebook might have planned for its own platform, but we know that it's already begun pushing updates to its existing Android app outside of Google Play's own distribution mechanism in order to test new features on the platform.
Last summer, when rumors were heating up about a possible Facebook-HTC collaboration, CEO Mark Zuckerberg insisted that the company was not working on co-branded hardware, saying that it "really wouldn't make much sense." Instead, he pointed to deeper integration with mobile platforms like the built-in sharing tools in iOS 6. Since that time, Facebook has expanded its mobile service to include free voice calling over Wi-Fi and cellular, and the company has even announced plans to offer free and discounted data for people using its apps on European carriers.
On the surface, it seems like Facebook potentially has a lot to bring to its own platform, and Amazon's Kindle Fire model shows that it's possible to build success outside the Google-stewarded Android mainstream. Hopefully, next week, we'll see whether the company's new "Android home" is worth moving into.


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Emerald is May's traditional birthstone, but since good quality emerald is getting harder to find (I still say the most beautiful ones I ever saw were at the British museum in ancient jewelry) it seemed a good month to look at two other gorgeous green gems.
Especially since outside the spring greens are starting to ripen!
Chrome diopside really needs a trade name. Despite the fact that it sounds like a polishing agent, it is a beautiful green stone that is sometimes used as an emerald replacement.
The word diopside comes from Greek, meaning double shape, after the shape of its crystals. Chromium is the element that gives chrome diopside its name and color. Traces of chromium are also what make emeralds green. Oddly enough, it's also what makes rubies red!
Chrome diopside can indicate proximity to diamond mines. So some people search for minute crystals as a hint of where to mine. Most chrome diopside come from Siberia, near the diamond mines there. It is also sometimes found near the diamond mines of South Africa.
It is a much softer stone than emerald. The hardness of stones is measured on the Mohs scale, and chrome diopside sits around 5.5-6.5. That means it is more easily scratched than emerald. It is best used in earrings and pendants; or in rings with a protective setting.
Emeralds are tougher. They are rated at 7.5-8 in the Mohs scale; but it is one of the few gemstones expected to have inclusions. Inclusions break up the crystal structure and make both visible and structural flaws.
(One of the things I love about emeralds is that even the best gems are expected to have flaws. Visible flaws in emeralds are called jardain, French for garden, for the foliage effect flaws add to the stone.)
Tourmaline sits between these two on the Mohs scale at 7-7.5. The name tourmaline covers a large group of related stone species that come in all different colors: clear, yellow, pink, red, brown, green, violet and black. Multicolored crystals are more common than single colored ones.
Originally a lot of the different stones each had their own name; For instance verdelite was the name given to all shades of green and indicolite for all shades of blue tourmaline. Now they're mostly just referred to as green tourmaline or blue, etc.
One of the classic color combinations for tourmaline is the watermelon tourmaline: a crystal that's green on the outside and shades to pink on the inside, so that the cross-section looks like a slice of melon. (I don't actually like watermelon, but I'll take a slice of watermelon tourmaline any time, thank you.)
The intense pink and green are normally the most desired tourmaline variants. The pinks range into the most delicious raspberry colors while the best greens can almost put emeralds to shame.
Tourmaline is found in many places all over the world. Brazil is the largest supplier, but mines are found on every continent except Antarctica. In the United States tourmaline is found in Maine and California, and is the former's state stone.
* Care and feeding of chrome diopside- it's light stable, so it won't fade in sunlight like some other gems (yes, even natural ones) however, it is sensitive to heat and hydrofluoric acid, so pieces with chrome diopside shouldn't be cleaned using a steam or ultrasonic cleaner


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BYRON WIEN: The Big Risk To The Stock Market I've Been Warning About All Year Will Start To Hit Next Week
Blackstone vice chairman Byron Wien said in August that he was worried about the second half of 2013.
The veteran investment strategist is one of the most prominent proponents on Wall Street of the view that corporate profit margins are peaking, a phenomenon he believes will begin eating into earnings growth and become a negative catalyst for stock prices.
In January, Wien predicted that "a profit margin squeeze and limited revenue growth cause 2013 earnings for the Standard & Poor's 500 to decline below $100, disappointing investors" and causing the index to trade below 1300.
That obviously hasn't happened yet, but Wien thinks it could begin next week when the third-quarter earnings reporting season gets underway.
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I know you're shocked, right? Bloggers are just so creative and the food bloggers blow me away...not only with the food that they prepare but with their photography, as well. So recently I was visiting one of my favorite blogs.....
and Joanne had posted beautiful photos and a recipe for making slow roasted beets with buttermilk bleu cheese, arugula and toasted pecans. This looked so good to me!
If you have not been over there to visit her blog, you should totally go over there and visit her. You will be so glad you did. She makes the most incredible sounding food and the photographs that she posts just makes you want whatever it is that she's serving.
So anyway, I shared with you last week that we made a trip to the local Coop Food Store last weekend. While I was wandering around the store, I happened to run across some wonderful organic golden beets. When I saw them, I remembered seeing the beets on Joanne's blog so I grabbed a couple of them and brought them home. I hadn't expected to make the beets when I went shopping that day so I didn't have the ingredients for her recipe on my shopping list. I just knew when I saw them that I had to buy them and I would figure out what to do with them later.
When I got ready to cook them, I didn't have the ingredients to make her recipe exactly and didn't want to go to the store. I did what I normally do when I don't have the ingredients for a recipe...I improvised. I knew that I wanted to roast the beets which is really very easy to do and just like with other veggies, roasting brings out the natural sweetness in them.
To get started with roasting them, I just washed the beets really well and cut the root end off of them I kept the skins on intact.
I rubbed them with olive oil and placed them in a baking dish with a head of garlic that I planned to use with another dish. I covered the dish and roasted them in a 350 degree oven until I could pierce the beets easily with a fork. It took about an hour for them to get tender.
Last but not definitely not least, I added grated shallot. The recipe called for 3 tbsp. of shallot. I assume that was chopped shallot. Instead of chopping the shallot for the dressing, I grated it. That gave me all the nice flavor of the shallot without having pieces of it in the dressing. That worked out great for me.
Thanks so much for stopping by to say hello. I hope you have a wonderful week!
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Fatal Mountain Goat Attack Sparks $10 Million In Wrongful Death Claims
Death is always tragic, but the ways in which some people pass on can be decidedly more unusual than most.
That seems to be the case regarding a local hiker from Port Angeles, Washington, who was hiking in Olympic National Park in October – and then was gored by a 370-pound mountain goat, the Peninsula Daily News reports.
The goat severed an artery, causing the hiker's death within minutes, according to the ABA Journal.
"I feel like they weren't protecting people and the ecosystem, and…on the day of the accident, they responded very poorly to our calls for help," the victim's widow told the Peninsula Daily News. . .


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Victoria Beckham has admitted she's "tremendously excited" to be sending Kate Middleton a selection of her dresses from her new collection after discovering that Prince William's fiancee was a huge fan of her fashion.
The 36-year-old former Spice Girl-turned-designer, currently expecting her fourth child with footballer hubby David, was speaking at a preview of her autumn/winter 2011 line at New York Fashion Week.
She told the Daily telegraph:
"Apparently, she likes my clothes and has asked to see a selection. It will be from my current spring/summer collection. It's tremendously exciting and I would be honoured if she were to wear my designs. I admire her tremendously.
"She's a beautiful young girl, she has a wonderful figure and I think she wears clothes beautifully."
Meanwhile, it's being reported that 29-year-old Kate will have Prince Edward and wife Sophie's seven-year-old daughter Lady Louise Windsor as bridesmaid for her big day on April 29, at Westminster Abbey.
A source told the MailOnline:
"William and Kate made the decision together.Sophie has been very helpful to Kate, advising her on all the do's and don'ts of Royal life. She has been a real ally. Sophie and Edward are both really pleased to see how happy this has made Lady Louise. She really is the loveliest, kindest, little thing.
"Edward and Sophie have always been terribly protective of her but she is now at school. They know she is going to have to get used to being in the limelight..
"And you couldn't deny her this chance. It is the perfect age to be a bridesmaid – not too old to be intimidated or embarrassed. She is so, so excited and they are all going to look terribly sweet walking down the aisle."
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Hello and welcome to my blog today. It's Wednesday so it's time new Paper Craft Crew Challenge. This week we are hosting a Tic Tac Toe Challenge for you. So how does it work you create a card by picking the items listed as if your were playing tic Tac toe as we all did as kids. Three across, three down, three in a roll diagonally. Here's a look at the card I created using the three choices across the top.
There are so many choices that you can from for this challenge that I know there's something that will inspire your creative leaf. Here's a look at this sketch weeks card.
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If you want to see what all the other design team members created with this weeks sketch you can click here to view them.
I picked the most subtle pattern I could find from the Nature's Poem Designer Series Paper pack. I did this because I knew that I wanted it to be a focal point on the card and add texture but not overwhelm the card. The texture on the designer series paper also helps add to the natural element along with the linen thread. I stamped leaves from the Rooted in Nature Stamp set using colors pulled from the designer series paper pack. I went with Blackberry Bliss, Mint Macaron, and Grapefruit Grove, and stamped the leaves in these colors as well. The leaves were cut out and embossed using the Nature's Root Framelit dies.
For the inside of the card I added a piece of Whisper white card stock cut at 5 1/4 x 4. I added a small strip of the same designer series paper close to the bottom of the inside along with three of the die cut leaves in the colors that I've used throughout the card.
Finishing Touches:
To finish off the card I added three of the Faceted Dots in the three colors (Blackberry Bliss, Mint Macaron, and Grapefruit Grove) that I've used throughout the card. I stamped the "thinking of you" sentiment from the stamp set on the designer series paper like I mentioned above in Blackberry Bliss.
I also stamped the envelope on the flap and the front with leaves in the colors I've been using. I love to decorate the envelope as well. Which if you've been following my blog that will come as no surprise to you, but if you are here for the first time welcome and I hope this helps explain when you see the envelope done. Tomorrow I will be sharing with you a envelope that I created for the card that was posted yesterday.
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