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Not as EasyBy Edward Cone
Telecom: Merged, Converged, On the Verge
Marvin Maynard feels the telecom industry's pain, and sometimes it feels pretty good. "Every time I do a new contract I get a lower unit cost, or a new service, or better reliability," says the chief information officer of Jefferson-Pilot Corp., a $4 billion insurer headquartered in Greensboro, N.C.
But the roiling telecom industry is causing Maynard some headaches, too. "The resolution of some problems has not been a good experience of late," he says, citing a recent phone outage at one of JP's key remote sites that dragged on, thanks to confusion over which network provider was responsible for fixing it.
Meanwhile, the technology that is driving change in the industry has not yet delivered on its promises. Voice over IP is the coming thing, but Maynard's data networks aren't ready to support it throughout the company, which operates nationwide. Powerful handheld devices and mobile services can keep JP's field agents connected, but a lack of standards limits the types of device the company can support.
"The networks are converging, and the opportunity is enormous," says Maynard. "But the platforms are diverging, and that concerns me a bit."
Opportunity, progress, confusion, concern: that's the telecom customer experience, circa mid-2005. Big mergers have been coming so fast that it's tough to keep track of which company owns what anymore, much less enumerate the different services they offer, and say they will offer soon. But those mergers have begun to bring the future into focus.
The combination of Sprint Corp. with Nextel Communications Inc., announced in December 2004; SBC Communications Inc.'s purchase of AT&T Corp., in January; and Verizon Communications Inc.'s pricey acquisition of MCI Inc., in May, created three behemoths built to compete in a converging market. Even if it is not yet clear who will dominate a future in which voice telecommunications are subsumed into data communications, the long-anticipated convergence of services and networks has taken a big step forward.
Like a Greek tragedy, the telecom industry story is a generational saga, complete with hubris and incest (see "Family Tree," opposite). The era of the standalone long-distance company has passed, and the era of price-per-minute voice communications is ending, taking hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue with it.
After more than a decade of consolidation, the mergers between the regional operating companies (formed after the breakup of Ma Bell) and the long-distance and wireless companies may be approaching a critical mass.
"I would never say consolidation has reached a steady state or a final point, but we are unlikely to see deals as big, or with such high impact," says Raj Pherwani, a San Francisco-based partner at Bain & Co. who follows the telecom industry.
The newly merged supercarriersincluding SBC, Verizon and Sprint Nextelaim to deliver what Pherwani calls the first wave of convergence: presenting customers with one bill and a single source of sales support for a variety of voice and data services via wireless and wireline networks.
He expects to see this front-end convergence happen in earnest over the next 12 to 24 months. The next wave is what he calls "feature convergence," where services such as voice mail will work seamlessly on any platform.
Then comes the ability to share data from various devices across both wireless and wireline networks, which will require a set of protocols still under development, as well as improvements to network intelligence. Finally, Pherwani says, comes network convergence: a common core network that can handle large volumes of any kind of data. That, he adds, is still perhaps five years from making a real difference in terms of ease of use and additional services to customers, and perhaps a decade away from full rollout.
This is the transition that the big phone companies must navigate. "The future of telecom is 'techcom,' the convergence of tech and telecom where voice is integrated into software applications and the phone is integrated into other devices," says Scott Cleland, principal of the Washington, D.C.-based Precursor Group, an independent analysis firm.
"Just as e-mail has largely replaced the fax, multifunction VoIP will replace circuit phone service, and multimode techcom handsets will increasingly replace traditional phones because they are substantially better and cheapera dream come true for the enterprise."
Lead Story:
Telecom Merged and Converged: The victory of the supercarriers and the transformation of American networking
History of AssimilationTwelve major carriers shrink to just three.
Deregulation Pays Off The regulatory picture still looks goodfor customers.
Tiny Chips and Lizard Brains As tech gets smarter, so must the networks that may eventually connect billions of devices.
Next Page: Not as Easy as it Sounds
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As attractive as the dream sounds, obstacles remain. Nearly a decade after the Telecommunications Act of 1996, regulation and taxation remain volatile issues, and a host of technology and management challenges remain (see "Long Arm of the Law," above). But the landscape of telecom 2010 is already being mapped.
And for all the heft and power of the new Verizon, SBC and Sprint Nextel, or the ambitions of Qwest Communications International (still hungry after losing out in the pursuit of MCI), or the entrenched position in its home markets of the last traditional Baby Bell, BellSouth Corp.your next phone company may not even be a phone company.
It could be a software firm like Vonage Holdings Corp., or a tech services giant like IBM Corp. Or it might one of the cable providers, which, by analyst estimates, already provide from 5 to 10 percent of corporate data services.
Jeffrey Eisenach, a veteran industry analyst and former White House advisor on telecom issues, now serves as executive vice chairman of the CapAnalysis Group consultancy in Washington, D.C. He says we are headed to an environment with nationwide, integrated companies.
"We are moving from a world with far too many players to perhaps five or seven major companies, and lots on the margin. Ultimately, we'll probably see two behemoths going after each other."
The danger to the incumbent phone companies is imminent. "Where you had to outsource to the big carriers in the past to have a global telecom network, now you just need access to the Internet," says Cleland. "You can be your own telecom operator, and do it better and cheaper." Technology is already threatening the market for value-added telecom services. Microsoft Corp., for example, has had VoIP capability embedded in its XP server since 2002, but the recent upgrade of its Live Communications Server makes the service scalable to an enterprise level.
"You're talking a few thousand bucks for 15,000 users to be able to initiate a conference call with a mouse-click," he says. Users don't need to schedule calls in advance, and they can work together over shared documents during the call.
"In five years, the telecom sector will look more like the tech sector," Cleland observes. "It will be much more diverse, dynamic, competitive, and consumer electronics-driven than it is today. The winners will be technology companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo! and many others; and pure wireless companies that embrace the shift away from the network to the edge, like Sprint Nextel."
In other words, users with smart handheld devices and a little software will become their own service providers, and phone companies will just carry bits.
In Cleland's scenario, the incumbents don't necessarily die with their old voice business, because they'll still have those huge fiber networks in which they grossly overinvested during the bubble yearsenough fiber to accommodate at least another decade of traffic growth, and perhaps more, as optical technology continues to improve.
"There will be a lasting IP wholesale transport business for all the existing telcos, but at a fraction of current prices," he says.
Kevin Werbach, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School who researches telecom policy, says it's not clear who the winners will be. "It's clear that any incumbents that try to tread water will be losers," he says. "The basic structure of telecom is fundamentally broken, and there is pressure for a real transformation as their revenue from voice charges goes from several hundred billion dollars a year to zero."
To survive, says Werbach, the existing telecom companies need to stop thinking of themselves as network controllers and instead become operators that make it easy for a multitude of service providers to use their pipes. "If people want to use Skype, or get video on the Web, those aren't competition for the telcos, they're opportunities."
With an estimated 43 million customers already using Skype Technologies's free Internet phone service, these challenges are already starting to hit home. Werbach wonders if companies weaned on the old regulatory mind-set can adapt their cultures.
"Dealing with free distribution of software from some server in Luxembourg is very different from the traditional model of doing business," he says. "The politics of the industry have changed dramatically."
A more sanguine view of the existing industry's prospects comes from IBM Global Services Vice President Dean Douglas, who says reports of the incumbents' imminent death are exaggerated. "There is some prevailing wisdom that the many disruptive technologies out there will supplant or totally displace the incumbent providers, but that's flawed logic.
Sprint and Verizon will see people challenge their business, but they will find ways to compete," he adds. Bain's Pherwani agrees. "Ultimately you want a network provider that can give security and other guarantees of the type these companies have experience with," he says. "Those things are far more important than price alone."
Whoever carries the traffic, erasing barriers between voice and data gives companies new ways to use the information they already possess, says Cleland. "There will be no reason to have a separate data center and call center," he says. The impact should go beyond cutting costs to goosing topline growth. "The techcom laggards will be competitive laggards," he says.
Lead Story:
Telecom Merged and Converged: The victory of the supercarriers and the transformation of American networking
History of AssimilationTwelve major carriers shrink to just three.
Deregulation Pays Off The regulatory picture still looks goodfor customers.
Tiny Chips and Lizard Brains As tech gets smarter, so must the networks that may eventually connect billions of devices.
Next Page: CIOs Optimistic, Not Expectant
CIOs Optimistic, Not
It sounds lovely, and it probably will be, someday. "That's what I keep reading," says Dana Deasy, CIO of the $40 billion global manufacturing giant Tyco International Ltd., about the telecom millennium. "I think we will get there, but I don't feel it today. I'm seeing business as usual," he adds. "The promise is there, and the need is there. The business scenarios are there. But fundamental change? Not yet."
Deasy enjoys the pricing power big companies like his have established over their carriers. "We are dictating to the vendors," he says. "When we hear about a big deal, we say to the companies, 'Let us tell you how it will be.'" But he wants more than cheap service. He's ready for all this convergence to actually converge into something he can use. "I just don't have a business case for ripping out my existing infrastructure," says Deasy, of his cautious moves toward Voice over IP.
Wireless technology is a must-have, but wireless service is still a problem.
"It's a pain to manage multiple carriers," Deasy says. He's tired of paying for wireless access in the office, and then paying again when an employee is stuck in an airport, and yet again when she gets to her hotel.
"Tyco has a national footprint, so we need the carriers to provide the ultimate in roaming agreements. That's not a technical issue, but an issue of how the companies play together, how they partner on things like administration and billing. I want that to be simple, and we're pushing for it now in negotiations with one of our key vendors."
Meanwhile, he's watching the big deals with an eye to Tyco's global interests, too. "I hold my breath as consolidations play out," says Deasy. "How international will they be in breadth and depth of new offerings? We need that to get better before we're in any kind of new world."
And it will be a while before the handheld devices so central to the techcom story can be counted on to work closely with user networks and each other. At Jefferson-Pilot, Maynard has decided to focus his resources on developing applications for BlackBerrys, but not at the same time for mobile phones or Palm products. "You have to write for specific devices when designing an application for the agents in the field," he says. "The real estate on each devicethings like the shape and size of the screenmakes each one its own design challenge." (See "Tiny Chips & Lizard Brains," page 46.)
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Deasy sums it up this way: "Think back to what was it like in the first years of the Web. That's where we are now. Is this going to be big someday? You know it is. I think we are close, but we need the killer apps, the universal ones that cut across different industries."
In the meantime, at least the calls are cheap.


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This week's Micro Mart (issue 1074) features my review of the Canon PIXMA iP2600 printer. It's just a quicky, but I'll have some more writing orientated announcements in the next couple of weeks.
In other news, I was sad to see the end of Drobe as a news source. I submitted the news to OS News. Thanks are due to Chris for all of his hard work over the years. In its day, Drobe was one of the best niche platform news sites around. Chris was also one of the first editors to link to one of my web articles on OS News, which really boosted by confidence when I first started. However, it must have been a huge amount of work, and like most people, I fully understand why he had to give it up now that the scene has started to slow down. I just hope that we can keep the old community together to some extent.
I was sorry not to be able to go to the Retro Reunited show. Unfortunately, time and money issues got in the way. Next time, I'll try to move hell and high water to get there as it looked absolutely excellent.
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Why Rav Ovadia Matters
Published in the Jewish Chronicle, the week of Rav Ovadia's passing.
Who was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef? An aged rabbi responsible for countless offensive statements (on Arabs, Ashkenazim and countless others he saw as opponents) and the head of a political party with a reputation for corruption? Perhaps. But also the most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism that could rise to the challenges of the 20th century and of the state of Israel…
I first encountered Rav Ovadia when, as an 18-year-old studying in Israel, I would on occasion attend his public lectures. He had been made head of the rabbinical courts in Cairo at age 27, had won the Israel prize for his contributions to Torah scholarship and was renowned for a photographic memory.
But at the lectures, a different side was revealed. He may have been a Torah giant but he was also human, and possessed an ability to connect with the masses through stories and jokes that one would expect from a good campus rabbi but not from one of the sages of the generation.
Well aware from a young age that his legal writings would be of lasting significance, he can be seen as having two central aims: to unite Sephardi religious practice around the rulings of the 16th century Shulchan Aruch, and wherever feasible, ruling leniently to ensure that the maximum number of people would be able to lead religiously observant lives. With the 30-volume Yalkut Yosef compiled by his son, he has become the de facto authority for Sephardi religious practice.
But he was not only significant for his religious scholarship. After decades of being considered second-class citizens, it was he, above all, who restored pride in the culture and heritage of Israel's Sephardim. Shas, the political party he founded, originated as a movement whose primary aims were to ameliorate the conditions of Israel's working-class Sephardim, while restoring a sense of pride in their identity.
The story of its break from the Ashkenazi Charedi parties reflects his fierce independence and political cheek. In 1992, Rav Shach, the undisputed leader of Ashkenazi Charedim, stated that "the Sephardim were not yet ready for leadership" (a sentiment not so dissimilar from many secular Zionist leaders throughout the 20th century). This was the straw that broke the camel's back and within hours, cars were driving through Sephardi development towns repeating Rav Shach's statements over megaphones, with Shas reaping the benefits at the ballot box.
By bringing ethnic discrimination to the fore and drawing on the affinity that many non-religiously observant Sephardim feel for tradition, Shas built itself into one of the major power blocs of Israeli politics. This success has brought with it corruption and hard-line positions that many of its early admirers find jarring. Nevertheless, all admit that Shas brought about a seismic shift in Israeli politics and society, giving representation to an ethnic group after decades of discrimination.
Beyond ethnic politics and decisions affecting observant Jews, he had far-reaching impact, especially during his decade as Chief Rabbi of Israel in the 1970s. His ruling that the Ethiopian Beta Israel were completely Jewish resulted in the government's operations to bring the community to Israel and without his staunch support there would be no Ethiopian Jews in Israel today.
During and after the Yom Kippur war, he spent sleepless nights to successfully resolve every agunah case, whereby wives of soldiers missing in battle could be left unable to remarry without certain proof of their spouses' death. In the 1980s he wrote the weightiest halachic opinion in favour of territorial concession for peace, arguing that the value of saving lives took precedence over maintaining sovereignty over all of biblical Israel. This latter ruling shows personal integrity, given that a hawkish position vis-à-vis the Palestinians would surely have been a better vote-winner for Shas's constituency.
In this age of gender-segregated buses it is also worth recalling how he met his wife. Returning home from the Bet Din in Jerusalem, the bus stopped at the old market of Machane Yehuda where a woman was struggling with her shopping bags. He helped her on to the bus, they sat next to one another and began talking and were married the following year.
During his funeral — the largest in Israeli history — a Sephardi shopkeeper in sports clothes turned to an elderly Ashkenazi Charedi rabbi and me, saying "Surely Mashiach [the Messiah] must come now". To my Charedi neighbour, it was Rav Ovadia's talmudic brilliance which had brought him to the funeral, whereas for the shopkeeper he had restored pride in Sephardi identity. For me, as a modern Orthodox rabbinical student who considers himself a religious and political moderate, Rav Ovadia meant something else again: a model of Jewish leadership who felt a responsibility for those close and far.
His desire to rule leniently was enabled and justified by a Torah knowledge unparalleled in our generation. He launched a religious and cultural renaissance, by being simultaneously able to connect with the masses while drawing from the wellsprings of Jewish religious and historical wisdom.
He had his failings. He defended corruption, his statements were frequently offensive and sometimes unforgivable. But from the standpoint of his historical legacy — to use a halachic notion — his failings were batal b'shishim – nullified within a ratio of one to sixty. His outstanding contributions will remain long after the controversial statements have been forgotten.
Above is the piece I wrote for the Jewish Chronicle (UK) on the passing of Rav Ovadia Yosef. As an 18 year old I would attend his public shiurim and now as a semikha student I use his works on an almost daily basis. His significance cannot be overestimated but it is a sad fact that many people who really should appreciate him only associate him with his controversial and aggressive comments – so that was the spur for writing this piece.
Things that I would have liked to have mentioned but couldn't fit into an 800 word limit (the subtitle wasn't mine and I wouldn't have chosen it):
• He built himself up from nothing: not the son of a famous rabbi or sage, but the son of an impoverished grocer (think Margaret Thatcher ) who insisted he carry on working in the shop all the time he lived at home.
• That specifically in issues of personal status (mamzerut, agunot) he has become the absolute address and fundamental authority, to respond flexibly and sensitively to cases that would more often than not involve personal tragedy. See רב אמנון בזק's fbook status from earlier this week.
• His reputation for extreme sensitivity when faced with the above questions – often being reduced to tears when listening to the cases he was asked to rule on. See רב בני לאו's fbook status from earlier this week.
• Over the last 15 years as an elderly and frail man, many of the inflammatory statements and reversal from earlier positions is due to access to him being controlled by a clique of corrupt politicos. This doesn't always justify – but it does partly explain. A serious tragedy. Rabbi Chaim Amsellem very much sees himself as arguing for a Sefardi culture and politics that Rav Ovadia represented 30 years ago.
• If he can really be blamed for one thing, it is his attempts to consolidate Sefardi halakha around the Shulchan Arukh leading to the dismissal and loss of many other Sefardic traditions. Part of his paradox is that in striving so hard against the Ashkenazi halakhic and cultural melting pot that threatened to engulf Sefardi practice, he created his own melting pot. Doubtless, what he has brought to the Sefardi world has been achieved at significant cost.
• I have received some responses regarding the bitul b'shishim comment at the end of the piece, along the lines that regardless of his positive contributions, his flaws and failings were surely just as significant. My response is twofold: firstly that those who highlight his social and political failings normally fail to acknowledge his tremendous social achievements both for Sefardim in particular and for the state of Israel as a whole. Secondly in 50 years time Shas will have been reformed or will not exist, whilst in 500 years time his legal writings will still be quoted as building blocks of a liveable and responsive Halakhic Judaism.


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A second Earth like planet just a mere 4.243 light years away has been discovered.
A distance that would take the average human using current propulsion technology hurtling at 20,000 mph roughly 100,000 years to travel to has quite possibly been discovered right in our own backyard in the habitable zone of a neighboring system known as Proxima Centauri.
Dubbed Kepler 452b the Earth like planet is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.
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Whats God Got to Do With It / byMassingale, a F.A.S.C. Concept by Henry Massingale, I guess some people have lost the abilty to even know if there is a God or not. I am forbidden by faith to show you God, but I am permited to show you a Evil by the hand of Man.
I am going to share a small part of me, when my twins were born, one of them got sick with the croup, I feared, as little she is and it was a cold hard winter, with all my heart I new she would pass away if I did not help. With all of my children, I all ways did this, I got her in my arms and I placed her on my chest, as she placed her ear to my heart I would all ways say, God give her a part of my streingth, so that she may live. I held her for 14 hours and I did not move until she was better.
As for most of us we are so torn when we lose a loved one and some just stop caring about other children because of their lose.
We are faced with so many issues within the United States Of America, and even as I bring a protest against this Govenment System, I have been called a fool for reaching out to proctect Officials, it is because this is what the Constitution is all about, the right to be of free choice, The Constitution does not protect the right of Freedom of Speech when a people seek to kill others.
The most powerfull tool is the Vote, we all want change, we want honest people in Office, and most of all, Where is our Money ? At any given time I can show around
Take a good look at our Southwestern border, it's a war staged by progressives, fueled my money, lives, and drugs. It's so important that the American State Run Media has been ordered to stay away. This is a war being waged with disinformation and subversive propaganda. It begins with progressives ordering their liberal stooges in academia, media, and the community to brainwash children into believing that the border states belong to Mexico, we stole them. White guilt is applied, so that a when white speaks out against the invasion of these criminals into their schools, society, and land they are conditioned to feel like a racist.
Even though people who unlawfully seep into this country are criminals in every sense of the word; whether they are poor and looking for a better life, or here to sell drugs and perform violent hideous acts, we are being conditioned to believe they deserve what we have. This always translates to state aid, crime, and the economical destruction of the middle class. Piece by piece we are losing our borders, this is a significant discussion and deserves action. We are blowing out 2 billion dollars a week on the war in Afghanistan and the $860 billion dollar secret is we haven't changed a thing! As soon as the last troop is pulled from that hell in the dirt, it will be the same country we invaded only less populated, just as the progressives intended.
With their meticulously clean weaponry shining underneath the sun, China kicked off its momentous celebration, marking the 60th year of communist rule. The pride beamed off their soldiers determined faces, without uttering a word, they convincingly said, " We are powerful, fierce, and growing; we will not be messed with." Perhaps the most interesting fact would be, only through China's toes in the waters of capitalism, have they been able to engineer such massive strength.
Along with the Chinese, the Russians are exercising their military prowess and pumping up their prideful nationalism. Our liberals can only lustfully stare at the progress of these two up and coming meniscus; their liberals rest quietly with bullets in their heads or in prison along side suffering Christians, being tortured and humiliated for their belief in God over government.
Barack Obama's disdain for the country our founders created is evident, and it should scare the hell out of you. Barack Obama is successfully undermining the security and well being of this nation, and this should scare the hell out of you. It is not merely enough for the Obama administration to castrate the ideology of capitalism, which has fortified this countries existence for over 200 years, but they are sabotaging our defenses.
Whether you are a liberal, anti-war moonbat, or just simply stupid, you must agree that the world is an unforgiving place. This Earth is dictated by power and force, so no matter how enlightened or savvy you think you might be, understand this; If not for America's military might and it's fiercely efficient war machine our adversaries would crush us.
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We sit down and review FutureGrind. A new stunt-platformer that adds a twist to light cycles. Here is our review of FutureGrind
As the sea of shooters and RPGs seem to be starting up soon, it is time to take in something a bit less traditional and independent with FutureGrind. A new stun-platforming title that has launched from Milkbag Games to give us all another trial and tribulation on our PS4, Switch, and PC. All while keeping a future and cyberpunk style look about it with the other challenges. This, of course, leads to the question of how good FutureGrind actually is. This is why we are back yet again with our review of this title that has just launched.
Get ready for the new extreme sport of the future as we have light cycles piloted around multicolored neon tracks. All for our entertainment as well as for the rider to score some sweet sponsorship deals. The better you perform, the new and cooler bikes you are offered. At least that is how it all looks on their surface. Something else could be going on, but you need to look past the distractions of the fancy lights, crazy tracks, and killer music to be able to spot just what that could be. You could just keep focusing on the sweet moves though…
I have to start off that the UI of FutureGrind does not feel like it was implemented all too well. A weird thing to focus on at first, but when a simple slip up could keep you playing the same track over and over again without knowing how to move on, I would say there is an issue. It is not set up in a fully traditional way or progresses in the functional way it looks like it should. You almost have to keep a close on eye on all of it to make sure you are not just repeating things over and over without actually progressing in the game. Not the worst thing, for sure, but it can get quite frustrating when all you want to do is move on to the next challenge.
Challenge is now the next on my list as well as the thing I found enjoyable in FutureGrind. It is a weird double edge as the part I could not stand had to be the physics of the game and how they seemed to change in the game. Not due to location or any real reason, but like they still had some issues that needed to be worked out before launch. Learning how to manage certain jumps and moves on one level of FutureGrind did not always mean it worked on other levels or the same one you were just on. This led to quite a few explosions from the wrong color wheel hitting the wrong color track. Something I would have been fine to deal with if it was always user error and not the game overcompensating one time and under the next even with the same degree on input.
While the basic challenge of FutureGrind had its issues, when it worked just right it kept me striving to be better and perfect my runs. It had me wanting to learn how to figure out the timing and motions to try to get the smoothest flow for the level while mastering the new bikes. When something failed out on my end, FutureGrind had me back wanting to get better and see just what I could pull off. Even when the difficulty ramped up with the inclusion of new colors, tracks that changed the colors, and all of the other twists that could be thrown in. This would all be a loved section thing had it not been for the physic glitching out at random times instead of always working.
Even though at times it was hard to take in, the art style of FutureGrind was also quite impressive. Just as impressive as the audio and soundtrack mixed in. They all blended together extremely well and put forth a game world that felt more planned out than just cobbling together some tracks and basic platforming. There was room to improve upon it all, sure, but the basics that Milkbag Games presented here showed that there was more thought in FutureGrind than just that. I can see some out there easily getting lost in listening to the soundtrack or going through the various assets outside of enjoying them in real-time during the game. Even if you do not normally enjoy those kinds of things in your video games.
FutureGrind has some faults that need to be taken in when starting things up, but once you know them and see how to circumvent as much as possible, it is a fun game to lose yourself in. It may not be the longest title out there, but the varying difficulties and challenges each bike and track offer up can have you wanting to go back and do better. Just make sure you do not get stuck in a loop of the same track and challenges as I did during my time with FutureGrind. It could be frustrating, even with the great visuals and sound to cam you back down.
I give FutureGrind a 720° Flashy Flip on the Flashy Flip scale.
FutureGrind — Launch Trailer
FutureGrind was developed and published by Milkbag Games for the PS4, Switch, and PC on January 22nd, 2019. A PS4 copy of the game was provided by the publisher for reviewing purposes.


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Notable productions
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, which transferred from the Piccadilly Theatre to the St. James Theatre before moving to the Duchess Theatre where it completed a record run of 1,997 performances in 1942.
Bill Naughton's play 'Alfie' played at the Duchess in 1962. Famously, Lewis Gilbert saw the play and immediately contacted the writer with a view to a screen transfer.
Tom Eyen's The Dirtiest Show in Town, which ran for just under 800 performances in the 1970s
Oh Calcutta, which transferred to the Duchess Theatre from the Royalty Theatre in December 1974. Oh! Calcutta! remained at the Duchess until 1980.
The Players' Theatre Company presented their Late Joys Victorian Music hall programme between 1987 and 1990
Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress For Dinner which transferred to the Duchess from the Apollo Theatre in October 1992 and stayed until 1st March, 1997.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan which ran for six months from April to October 1997.
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This 42' Chris Craft spent most of its life in Lake Michigan. When I spoke with the owner about selling their boat, I was anxious to get the listing knowing its fresh water history. What I didn't know about was the extensive list of upgrades and refits. This owner really understands maintenance as evidenced in this listing. They need a bigger boat so the results of their care can be yours. Read through the listing and come have a look at it you'll like what you see.
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VESSEL IS LOCATED IN: East Greenwich, RI
The master stateroom is forward with centerline queen bed, vanity; cedar lined hanging lockers, new flat screen TV and some nifty custom made storage compartments mounted outboard and above the book rail. The guest stateroom is on starboard and has over and under bunks with new posturepaedic mattresses. The head is on port and it has been rebuilt to offer a spacious shower. Next aft on port is the galley with new refrigerator, microwave/convection oven, stainless steel sink, and Corian countertops. The salon is freshly carpeted and sports a new flat screen TV and a new custom built L-shaped leather settee.
*Engine hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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Cultural Shock
30 Agustus 2009
Nanning, People Republic of China
Well, this is the place that I'm going to stay for one year. Hmmm…No idea how to express my feeling. For the first, it seems like awesome, gakuii..sughooiii..live in abroad and to study there. But, after I arrived here and see in front of my eyes how was the situation here..owww..feels that I always wanna go home. Well, so many unpleasant thing here. And I dont like it coz its tottally different with my lovely hometown. So many cultural shock that I got here..hmm maybe those who has gone to Indonesia found it also but I don't think is as bad as I am..
Ichiban mewa..about my religion and how to get pray
Kyo wa, I stay in an expert building, its fasility is similar with a hotel star 3. Not so bad, I have a refrig, AC, heater, TV, and a large room. for myself..but unfortunately I can't stay here for one year. I have to move to another building which is called students dormitory or asrama. i have seen yesterday how it is like..and you know how could I describe the room??its like a house of garbage..4 until 6 students stay in one room. its terribly dirty!! weks..and of course it will be a very noisy..and also totally messy…!!oh my gosshhh…
No Bed.Just kloso. No pillow..oh my dear..how could I live in such a terrible room??
No place to sholat. This is the worst..Am I should sholat and meet my GOD in my bed??nani mo arimasen
No one wear a veil here, so can you imagine that everypeople looking at you, thinking that you were weird, wearing long skirt and veil on this badly hot day..thats strange,,,
Halal food..I'll wait for halal canteen to be opened and I can eat halal food there..Jadi sejak 2 hari yang lalu, makan nasi baru sekali tok pas ditempatnya ana.
Lack of Money..This is the most terrible thing. I think I could earn money here by teaching Indonesian in some classes. But Pak Gunawan said that I have to focus on studying mandarin not to teach. How could it be, I just bring a few money..hufff…But I believe that there would be a way. I believe that Allah would help me to solve this problem.
Language..Baka jana??I really don't have any interest to learn mandarin…I just want to learn Japanese since a long time ago.But, I have to manage this. LEarning Mandarin is not that bad..Ganbatte ne!!
Feels like Fasting in a Hell..
You really don't have any idea nor imagination in your head how was the situasion..Fasting here, with no rice to Sahur nor proper food to eat..and badly hot weather,,and the things here is that no one is fasting. Everypeople drink ice, eat lots of food, buy icecream, fruits,hmmm…totemo ganbatte..prihatin ya nduk..semakin banyak godaannya berarti semakin besar pahala yang kan kau dapat.Cayo kamu bisa!!Ya Allah kuatkanlah hati hambamu ini, berikanlah hamba kekuatan untuk beribadah padamu tanpa terpengaruh oleh makanan dan minuman itu..amieenn..
No internet..no facebookk…hyaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggg- gggggggghhhhhhh1@@&^%$&&^&^%%^$^$%##^%%&(^&%$###@$- #!!!^$$@#@#!#!
can do nothing without these thing. huff..Bakalan menghilang selama setahun nih dari dunia maya..sebenarnya ga terlalu signifikan banget sih efeknya kalo ga bisa fesbukan. Malah banyak good things yang bakal aku dapet. Ga ada lagi namanya buang2 waktu hanya untuk baca status fb orang yang sama sekali ga penting dan bring no benefits. Mending belajar or nonton nodame,,,hyakkkakakkakkakk..tapi harus tetep diusahakan bisa akses internet. Semangat!!
hmmm..baru 2 hari disini dah ngeluh macem2, inilah itulah. Nyadar ga sih, kondisimu sekarang tu jauuuuhhh lebih baik daripada temen2mu diluar sana,.. Nah ini kamu cuma disuruh belajar doank..apa susahnya coba. Kalupun ada beberapa kebiasaan yang berbeda,,cobalah untuk menyesuaikan diri dan beradaptasi. Aku yakin You'll find a way to solve your problem if you try!!
So, when you read this, you already get accustom with those cultural shock. And you already bersyukur for all the things that you've got now.
Ganbattteee nee??!!


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In the Kitchen With: Sarah Coates' Frenchie Burger
This week we have Sarah Coates from The Sugar Hit, back by very popular demand. We loved her sweet potato chips so much, and judging by the number of pins that recipe got, so did you, so we decided to have Sarah back. Here is what she calls a "Frenchie Burger," a modern twist on steak frites. I've confessed my love for burgers here many times. It is a love that goes back many years – longer than I can remember! Whether your feelings about burgers are as obsessive as mine and Sarah's or you're just curious to try something new, I hope you'll try this one out! –Kristina
About Sarah: Sarah is the author and photographer behind The Sugar Hit, a blog solely devoted to the joys of eating. She is a typical 21st century creative type, totally obsessed with food, writing, design, photography and styling. She lives in Brisbane, Australia and regularly eats mountains of crudités in a misguided attempt to offset the staggering amounts of butter she consumes daily. You can follow her buttery antics on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook!
See what makes up Sarah's Frenchie burger after the jump!
The Frenchie Burger
(serves 4)
For the béarnaise sauce
- 3 tablespoons fresh tarragon, chopped
- 1/3 cup (85ml) white wine vinegar
- 2 egg yolks
- 6oz (160g) butter
- Salt, pepper, and lemon juice (optional) to season
For the frites
- 2 small Russet potatoes
- Canola oil, for frying
- Salt
For the burgers
- 1 pound (500g) good quality beef mince
- Salt and pepper
- 4 soft white (or brioche) buns
- Butter lettuce or watercress
To make the béarnaise sauce, place half the tarragon along with the white wine vinegar into a small pan. Bring to a boil, and cook away until there is only about 1 tablespoon of liquid left. Strain out the tarragon leaves.
Place the egg yolks into a heatproof mixing bowl (or blender), add the reduced vinegar and whisk vigorously for 20 seconds (blend briefly).
Heat the butter in a small pan until it is melted and bubbling. To make the sauce by hand, add the butter, drop by drop at first, to the egg yolks, whisking very vigorously all the time. Once about a third of the butter has been added, you can start pouring in slightly bigger amounts, still whilst whisking very vigorously. It's easier if you have a friend.
Or, to do this in the blender, simply turn the blender with the yolks and vinegar in it, and slowly stream in the hot butter through the hole in the lid.
Either way, when your béarnaise is made, season it with salt and pepper, and a squeeze of lemon if you think it needs it, and then set aside to keep warm until needed.
To make the frites, finely slice the potatoes into fine matchsticks, and pat them dry with paper towels.
Place about 2 inches of oil in a wide, deep pan, and bring it up to about 375F/180C, or simply place a piece of potato into the oil, and wait until it floats to the surface, bubbling.
When the oil is hot, take about a sixth of the sliced potatoes, and carefully add them into the oil. Be VERY careful, as cooking with hot oil is very dangerous. Be sure that the oil does not get too hot, and don't add too many frites at once, as your oil could bubble over.
Leave the frites in the oil, until they become a light golden brown and are very crisp, about 2 minutes. Scoop them out, and drain them on paper towels, and proceed until all the frites are cooked. Season lightly with salt.
To assemble the burgers, shape the beef into four patties, roughly the same size as your burger buns. Season them with salt and pepper, and then sear them in a very hot pan (cast iron is great, or use your grill), for about 2 minutes per side for a medium or slightly pink burger.
Slice the buns in half, and top the bottom half with lettuce or watercress. Place a burger patty on top of the lettuce, followed by a healthy dollop of béarnaise and pile of the crispy frites. Serve with an ice cold beer and enjoy!
Why Sarah loves this recipe: Who doesn't love a burger? If only we could be as accepting of each other as we are of burgers, the world would be a much more peaceful and beautiful place. I will take a burger in almost any guise, be it tall, short, thin, fat, beef, chicken, pork, or otherwise. In a pinch, I'm even happy to make do with the very average cheeseburger that can be obtained from just about any drive-thru around the world. But sometimes I want to luxe it up a bit and take things to a more sophisticated place. This burger is my handheld take on the classic French steak frites. This burger is rich, decadent, textural, utterly delicious and is absolutely perfect next to a cold beer. I hope you like it!


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We are a family of 5 (3 children ages 21, 18 and 14) This was one of the best activities we did in Italy! Lilliana and Antonio were such gracious hosts! Titi, who was our translator/guide was excellent and spoke perfect English. Lilliana taught us how to make fresh pasta, eggplant parmigiana and tiramisu. It was the best meal we had on our trip and an unforgettable experience that will stay with us always! More than any other activity, this really made us fell immersed in the culture of Italy!
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I long to thirst for You more- yet a shaming lack of desire persists. I ache for depth and refreshment, but my flesh faints, proving my frailty. My soul clings to You because only You are God.
You lift my eyes from circumstance and onto You. You cause me to behold your power and glory. Your steadfast love is better than life. I know this, but do I live this?
Do I praise you? Bless you? Lift my hands to you? Do I find satisfaction in You and in your choices for me? When I do, everything changes.
You cause me to remember, and I meditate on You because You are my help. I hide in the shadow of your wings – not in front of You or behind You – but covered and protected by You. I sing for joy because I am more than satisfied. My joy overflows and bursts forth in praise. Your right hand upholds me, and I do not fall prey to my enemies. You will build your church. You will build me. I rejoice in You.


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Blog Archives
Looking at a Jetta
I spent a lot of my weekend looking at potential cars to repalce my Miata with. I literally probably looked at hundreds of cars, listings and dealer websites in this area. I found two Jettas that I really liked which are at a dealer, and several that looked/sounded ok from the ad that were for sale privately. I am going to look at the better priced Jetta on Monday and see if it is as nice as the pictures and ad say it is. If it is, I am going to see if they will let me take it home overnight and have it looked at by a local mechanic, since its used. Hopefully I'll be taking it home tonight and straight to a shop to be checked out. If everything is good, I may have found my car! It is super nice in the ad, the pictures look great, and its the highest end model they made in that year, has all the safety features and leather with tinted windows… I can't wait to check it out in person.
Mobile Music
I have never been willing to spend a large sum of money to purchase a mobile MP3 player such as the IPOD or similar. But this past week I found a great deal on TigerDirect for a Sandisk Sansa 8GB player. My gracious wife made no objections to me getting it, so I happily placed the order. It arrived on my doorstep on Saturday afternoon in the mail, and I began goign through the options and setup. I can play video, music, photo slideshows, FM radio and even use it as a voice recorder. It works with Rhapsody which has recently become my favorite online music source. I like ITunes too, but I find I use it more for podcast subscriptions than music, only because I don't have an IPOD so its not as useful for me. I spent a few hours this weekend searching for and adding new music to my new player. I know I am years behind and people have been doing this for quite a while, but having a mobile music player and being able to sync playlists and media and take them with me anywhere, is really cool!
Have fun destroying any website
I came across this link over the weekend, and it lets you have a lot of fun destroying any website you choose. I like the demonstration and mars attacks. Give it a try for a quick chuckle.
Another Cold Day!
It was 29 degrees this morning when I walked out the door to go to work. Its going to be another chilly day. Fortunately, the worst is over and we will be warming back up to the upper 70s by the weekend. I heard that there were snow flurries reported in Daytona Beach this morning. I look forward to the warmth to return and this cold snap to move on to another area.
Its cold outside!
48 degrees in Tampa right now. A few years ago, I'd argue that this temperature was not cold. Now that I've adjusted to the Florida climate, I have to admit, its freezing cold!!! I nearly froze in my shoes walking outside without a jacket today. Fortunately, this mini-winter won't last long, we will be back up to the near 80s or so by the weekend or beginning of next week.
Home media management
I came across this software over the weekend: Media Center 12
Its a really nice media management package that has all the features I was looking for. It can catalog my media including pictures, audio and video. It can create various types of playlists, and even has a theatre mode for easy use on the PC or a TV. You can even run a media web server and use it as a remote control for the media center and play audio/video or slideshows by clicking links on the web interface, what you select starts playing on the display connected to the server. I really like this package, its got some good plugins and skins and is the best one I've tried yet.
NoSpamToday – SPAMLOGS missing subject fix
Over the weekend I got an e-mail from Dennis Heidner who wrote SPAMLOGS for NoSpamToday. In version 3 of NST, the log parser "spamlogs" quit outputting the subject line of messages in the parsed log output. Dennis has corrected this in an updated version which should be available soon on the byteplant contributions area on their website. I have tested the new version and found that it fixes the problem. Dennis has also added some functionality to check for AUTH Attacks. SPAMLOGS conveniently checks for AUTH attacks and outputs the number of attacks per IP at the end (last column) of the spamlogs csv output.
SPAMLOGS is a must have for parsing the NST spamassassin log file, it turns the jumbled and confusing log file output from NST/SA into a readable and useful .CSV format. Combine his software with the automation utility or scheduled task, and it makes managing the mail logs much easier.
Movie update
Liz and I watched a few movies we'd never seen before this weekend. Included are:
Poseidon (2006) – was an ok movie, but Liz and I can't take much of the mass death and disaster type stories…
Catch and release – didn't really care for this movie, thought it would be good from the description, but it didn't hold our interest for long. Actually watched this the previous weekend (I think).
Evan Almighty – Thought this was funny, not a terrific movie, but interesting and humorous with a fairly good sory.
I've been trying to find a newer romantic comedy that is something good, not some of the sleezy stuff thats been coming out. But after watching that Poseidon movie with all the death and danger, I think we are ready for a musical! 🙂
Weekend followup
We just had a great weekend! Saturday with Michael's birthday party and Sunday enjoying the awesome weather outside in the back yard together and chatting with neighbors, it was just a great weekend. I love this time of year with the cooler temperatures and clear skies. It is so relaxing to sit in my back yard, with the "preservation" area behind us, nothing but the sounds of nature to listen to (and the kids playing of course).
Liz and I even got to work on her allspiffedup website a little. We are testing out some things and trying to make it more interactive and visually appealing. We should have a new site up and running in a week or so. I really enjoy doing web work with Liz, we both enjoy it, and although I'm the more technical person who makes things happen, she is understanding of how things work in general and is very good with graphics and we end up having a good time together doing this sort of thing.
P.S. Michael still talks about his moon, he randomly remembers he has it, and keeps saying "moon" over and over and tells everyone about it. Its really cute!
Update to TILT review
Ok, I did more testing this weekend and have found the following relating to the TILT by at&t.
1. I thought the camera was pretty bad, but found that if you give the room proper lighting, it actually works well and takes ok pictures for a phone. Same goes for video, the video was choppy and really bad with the frame rates, until I discovered that if I had good lighting in the room I was recording in, the video also looked pretty good.
2. The HTC Home plugin was causing my phone to switch to vibrate on its own at what I thought was a random schedule, however it turns out that any time I had a calendar items that marked me as busy, it would set the device to vibrate even if the "auto" setting wasn't being used. This was very annoying, and I was able to find a different build of the HTC home plugin in the xda developers forums to get rid of this issue. Only now the plugin seems a little hesitant to start up after a reboot, I have to go into my today settings and tap ok again to make the plugin appear. Minor complaint, since the vibrate issue is fixed.
3. I highly recommend the Kaiser Tweak app from xda, it quickly lets you apply many tweaks to the phone.
4. The HHC Home plugin customizer is a must! It makes configuring the home plugin much easier and quickly helps you customise your icons and other options.


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The UC College of Medicine, founded in 1819 by medical pioneer Daniel Drake, MD, is one of the oldest medical schools in the nation.
From graduate degrees to continuing education, the college offers a broad spectrum of educational opportunities.
The UC College of Medicine is continuing its upward path in cutting-edge research to enhance discovery sciences and facilitate translation of these discoveries to improve health and clinical care while recruiting new faculty. The new undergraduate program fosters scientific curiosity and investigation for our students. We are creating an environment of advanced clinical care that surpasses any in the region.
The College of Medicine features 26 academic departments, offering clinical, education and research opportunities.
The UC Cancer Center focuses on disease-based centers of excellence to offer a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care, education and research.
The UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute provides advanced evidence-based treatment and active research of complex neurological conditions.
The UC Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute builds upon its nationally known cardiovascular diseases discoveries to make significant contributions to research, education and patient care.
The Center for Integrative Health and Wellness promotes the value of treating the whole person and works to provide evidence-based wellness initiatives across the Academic Health Center and into the community through education, research and clinical care.
Hoxworth Blood Center was founded in 1938 and serves over 30 hospitals and medical facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Hoxworth Blood Center also is a leader in the coordination of research projects developed for the advancement of transfusion medicine, including clinical trials for transfusion medicine-related products.
The College of Medicine has identified four institutes in which we have outstanding quality, a track record of success, opportunities for funding and ability to advance translational research and deliver high-quality personalized care.
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is known for its strong educational programs. From medical degrees to summer research programs, the College of Medicine offers some of the most innovative and captivating science and research opportunities in the nation.
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The educational mission of the department can be divided into four major categories encompassing undergraduate and graduate programs in which students can earn PhD, MS, or BS degrees.
The PSP department is home to two PhD programs: the Systems Biology and Physiology (SBP) Program, and the Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Pharmacology Program (MCBP). Each program is designed to provide training for the next generation of scientists, innovators, and leaders in their respective fields. Students in each program are a diverse group of international scholars focusing their research efforts on a wide array of biomedical topics from trying to understand normal and pathological function to development of new therapeutics, experimental tools and technologies. Students engage in a contemporary curriculum including thesis research training in faculty mentored research programs.
The PSP department maintains two stand-alone master's programs:
The Special Master's Program in Physiology is an enrichment program designed for students seeking to bolster their credentials to medical school. Each year, the program accepts 32 students who participate in a rigorous curriculum designed to demonstrate their preparedness for medical school. About half the curriculum takes the form of immersion in medical-school courses: students take four blocks of the first-year medical school curriculum in a side-by-side fashion with first-year medical students. Students' grades in these courses are therefore closely benchmarked to medical-student performance. The program boasts a greater than 90% success rate in getting its graduates accepted to medical school.
The Masters Program in Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Pharmacology – Safety Pharmacology (the MSSP) trains students as successful career professionals for research and laboratory management roles in the field of pharmacology, particularly pre-clinical drug discovery and development, or in fields in which pharmacology knowledge and skills are of significant value. The program also prepares students for advanced academic (e.g., PhD) or professional (e.g., MD, DVM) training in the life sciences.
The recently developed Medical Sciences Baccalaureate Program is an innovative undergraduate program that is at the vanguard of preprofessional education in the medical sciences. The program, administered through the College of Medicine, offers both a major and a minor. Spring 2019, the major capped its fourth year in existence by graduating its first full cohort of students completing all four years of the program. (Five students who had transferred into the program graduated spring 2018.) At present, the major admits around 100 students per year.
The curriculum consists of core requirements and higher-level classes in the biomedical sciences. Setting it apart from many other similar programs, the Medical Sciences Baccalaureate Program offers extensive experiential learning opportunities including research, service learning, clinical shadowing, volunteering and leadership. For their senior-year capstone experience, students choose either a two-semester research project or service-learning project. Many of the PSP faculty make substantial contributions to teaching and leadership in the Medical Sciences Baccalaureate Program.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock prices across major markets rose on Tuesday, led by U.S. technology and consumer sectors following the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, while oil prices fell on fading hopes of agreement on limiting production.
A firmer dollar in the aftermath of the first Clinton-Trump debate helped send gold prices lower.
Some investors deemed Democrat Clinton to have won the debate against Republican rival Trump.
"From a market perspective, rightly or wrongly, there is an understanding that Mrs. Clinton would be a safe pair of hands, that there's very little uncertainty there," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Anxiety about the future of Deutsche Bank curtailed Wall Street's advance and kept European equity markets little changed.
U.S. and German government bond yields fell on safe-haven demand amid worries about Deutsche Bank and weaker oil prices. Investors have fretted over Germany's largest lender in the wake of a massive $14-billion demand from the U.S. Department of Justice to settle claims on bad mortgage-backed securities.
U.S. consumer stocks were bolstered after a report showed consumer confidence rose to its strongest in nine years in September.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 133.47 points, or 0.74 percent, to 18,228.30, the S&P 500 <.SPX> gained 13.83 points, or 0.64 percent, to 2,159.93 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> added 48.22 points, or 0.92 percent, to 5,305.71.
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Oil prices gave back most of Monday's gains on fizzling hopes of an agreement to freeze output as the world's largest producers gathered in Algeria to discuss ways to tackle a glut that has battered prices for two years.
Brent crude ended down $1.38, or 2.91 percent, at $45.97 a barrel, while U.S. crude settled $1.26, or 2.74 percent, lower at $44.67 per barrel.
It was too early to determine whether Monday's presidential debate will result in sizable changes among American voters for either Clinton or Trump in the Nov. 8th election, but the dollar, together with the Mexican peso and other higher-yielding currencies, enjoyed a bump.
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What I Bent Over My Summer Vacation
If you've followed this blog for a while, you'll remember that I went kind of gonzo about circuit-bending this past Spring. After about half a dozen posts, I realized that not many of my readers could relate to my interest in rewiring children's electronic toys. So, I dumbed down my posts to encourage the idiots among you to keep reading, but that doesn't mean that I've lost interest in making music with creatively modified, cast-off electronic toys.
Quite the contrary, over the summer I created a number of circuit-bent instruments from electronic toys I found in our local thrift stores. While not every toy I bent, worked out as well as I hoped, enough of them survived surgery that I now have an array of amusing looking, capable, and unique sounding of synthesizers at my disposal.
While most electronic toys designed for children are nearly bullet-proof, they all share one weakness. One substance has probably stopped more electronic toys from ever working again than any other. This substance corrupts them from the inside, like kryptonite does to Superman. That substance is pee.
According to my extensive research, fully half of all electronic toys found in thrift stores, contain pee. Sure, they've cleaned the toy off. You can't see any pee on it, but set it down in front of your dog or cat. They'll let you know. Of course, when you open the toy, you'll find it. Usually, it leaks through the keyboard, or the buttons, and directly onto the little membrane switches beneath them. This causes keys not to play, and functions not to work. Sometimes you can fix these problems with a thorough cleaning, sometimes not.
The worst case pee scenario happens when pee gets all over the main circuit board. Such was the case with my beloved Bratz drum bra. The cups of the bra channeled cat pee directly onto the main circuit board where it dried to an oily, foul smelling film and proceeded to corrode everything. Despite that, the device continued to work, at least long enough for me to add a pitch bend control and a line out, which actually made it into a great sounding instrument. Since then, however, it works only intermittently.
Now that the sun has disappeared behind the hillside, leaving my photovoltaic panels unkissed by sunlight until next March, and thus bringing my summer soldering season to an end, I've begun exploring the musical potential I've unleashed in these newly altered devices. Allow me to introduce you to a couple of them:
Introducing; My Circuit-Bent Casio ML1
This amazing little instrument pleases me greatly. Stock, it actually makes some pretty good sounds, including a decent imitation of a piano, and it still works as originally intended. However I've added a matrix of touch sensors which allow me to directly stimulate the electronic "brain" of the ML1, releasing its previously untapped potential for composing original music of apparently infinite variety. I enjoy collaborating with the ML1, a relatively young composer, and very much a product of the digital age. As a composer, the ML1 speaks to the age in which we live.
I titled our first collaboration 13 Minutes at the End of Time. The modified ML1 generated every note, phrase, rhythm and noise heard in this piece. My input came only in the form of touching the sensors that I added. Touching any two of these sensors at the same time, creates a new connection within the ML1's electronic "brain", causing it to "think outside the box" with surprising originality.
Like many young composers, the modified ML1 favors quick tempos and complex poly-rhythms, but it balances them with subtle textures and sustained notes that float serenely over the fray. I think this piece reflects the relentless sensory overload and chaos of our wired lifestyle. At 13 minutes, it runs a little longer than the typical modern attention span, but some of us still know how to listen. 13 Minutes at the End of Time also provides the perfect ambiance to induce stress into any situation.
Pretty in Pink
I found this pink "girly" toy keyboard at a thrift store around here. Although it had a few splashes of pee inside it, it cleaned up easily with no damage to the electronics. This toy says "Starring Me" on the front, but it looks identical to this "Barbie" toy keyboard bent by Bogus Noise UK, and immortalized in this video. I presume I have the generic version of the same toy.
I took a different approach to this toy than did the braceletted British bender who bent the bejeezus out of that Barbie brand Bontempi. I started with the ubiquitous pitch-bend mod. This is one of the easiest, and most universal bends that you can make on an electronic toy, especially the cheap ones.
Almost all of theses little noise-making electronic toys, use a single resistor to set the speed of the central processor. If you change the resistance of that resistor, you can make the whole machine operate faster or slower, which in turn, raises or lowers the pitch of all the noises it makes. You will usually find this resistor located right next to the black blob in the center of the circuit board, often labeled "R1".
If you touch this resistor at both ends, the toy will usually go up or down in pitch dramatically, or stop working all together. If you replace that resistor with a potentiometer, you can use that potentiometer to sweep the pitch of the sounds up or down. This opens up a lot of new potential sounds for you to exploit.
In this pink girly keyboard, I used one of the purple ornamental flowers as the knob to adjust the pitch. The three switches on the lower left, allow me to switch even more resistance into the circuit, which allows me to play the keyboard in four distinct registers, with the pitch-bend knob active in all of them. This four-speed pitch-bend mod extends the toys range by nearly an octave above, and several octaves below, it's original voice.
I made one other major modification to the sound of this pink girly keyboard. I added a passive ring modulator. A passive ring modulator adds a very weird kind of distortion, and it allows you to use another signal to change the harmonic profile of that distortion in very strange ways. Q Reed Ghazala shared this schematic of a passive ring modulator on his Anti-Theory website.
It looked pretty simple to me, consisting of two transformers and four diodes. Even I could handle that. For the secondary, or "Y" signal, (that modifies the original or "X" signal) I built an analog square-wave oscillator from an 8-pin "555" chip, relying on the instructions I found in the Crème DeMentia "Bending Buddy" comic book. Everyone interested in circuit-bending should check out the Crème Dementia kits and comics.
Both circuits fit easily on a 2" square piece of circuit-board, and inside the toy. The "Y" oscillator has an independent on/off switch with an indicator LED, and a pitch control knob. Another knob blends the "Y" oscillator with the "X" signal. You can see the switch and indicator light between the two purple flowers on the upper right, and the control knobs located to the immediate right of the keyboard.
I displaced one of the ornamental purple flowers to make space for a quarter inch phone jack that serves as a line-level output, but I re-purposed the flower as the pitch-control knob. I added three tiny LEDs to the handle, to make my new instrument extra pretty, an amber one in the center, flanked by two red ones, because I had them lying around. The red ones came out of a small power inverter that burned out, and the amber one came from a disposable led tea light, with a dead battery.
How does it sound? Th passive ring modulator give this toy a very biting and aggressive sound, reminiscent of a an old Farfisa organ through a fuzz box. The analog oscillator feeding the "Y" oscillator dramatically alters the harmonic character of the sound in real time, with a twist of a knob, not unlike an analog synthesizer, and imparts an authentically analog Theremin-like sound on it's own.
I composed this rather abstract, obtuse, but somehow endearing piece entirely with the newly modified pink girly toy keyboard. It reminds me of some of the electronic music popular in sci-fi movies of the sixties.
As you can see my enthusiasm for circuit-bending has not waned. I hope at least a few of you enjoyed this look at a couple of my new instruments. I built these instruments to force me to think about music in different ways, and I hope this approach will lead to some interesting and hopefully compelling music in the coming months. Stay tuned.


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Nick Harkaway
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For a rare time the government's claims re the Go Away Bomb is not obfuscated with the usual disinformation and misinformation. The assertion that the weapon was not of mass destruction just capable of erasing nasty reality elements made people euphoric with the no damage to property concept. However, the reality modification proved in reality a bit more convoluted as Einstein was right about relativity. Soon after the release of the Go Away Bomb, people's nightmarish thoughts started to turn into real monsters of the under the bed variety.
The Jorgamund Pipe is built like a belt around the world that releases FOX, an elixir to counteract the Go Away Bomb effect at least for the few kilometers nearby. When a fire threatens the pipe and consequently the shrunk world, Gonzo Lubitsch, his best friend, and their HazMat emergency team go to put out the blaze and repair the damage. They know they enter a world of horrific chaos, but as Gonzo's pragmatic best friend says that is the norm for his pal going back to childhood under the tutelage of a Kung Fu guru, his military time building a bomb of not mass destruction and seeing its collateral damage shrinking the globe to a small Livable Zone.
With nods to Vonnegut and Pratchett, THE GONE AWAY WORLD is an engaging satirical science fiction cautionary tale that takes a strong anti-war stand based on the justifications proving reality is relative. Those who believe will insure the facts fit their thesis; those who do not likewise (Cheney and Anti Cheney Effects). The story line is non linear as the unnamed best friend narrates by providing readers with Gonzo's biography. This is for the most part entertaining and relevant even with a final monster twist but also at times at least to the reality envisioned by this reviewer feels as if a sidebar hijacked the plot temporarily. Still cerebral sci fi fans with plenty of time will want to read Nick Harkaway's thrilling thriller.
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Malaga has been in excellent form this season inLa Liga.Theyare fourth with eighteen points in the first ten matches. They suffered a shock loss this weekend at home to Rayo Vallecano. It is their first home loss in all competitions this season. In the Champions League they have been great with three wins.
Malaga will go through Champions League campaign test as they travel to the San Siro. The Rossoneri will try to repeat their weekend victory match against Chievo. Christian Abbiati will start at the goal. Kevin-Prince Boateng can miss out this clash, as Massimo Ambrosini despite returning to training in the last week. Robinho is also available, but he is not in a full fitness form.
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Keitha Carnrike doesn't think recycling is a new concept. She learned how to do it at her mother's knee, watching as quilters made blankets from bits of cloth. Mrs. Carnrike is a volunteer for Community Care's Thrift Shop in Picton and the agency is holding a raffle with first prize being a handmade one-of-a-kind quilt that she made entirely from scratch.
As used clothing with holes and defects accumulated in the shop Mrs. Carnrike quietly took the items home, washed them thoroughly, cut them into pieces and sewed a colourful quilt top. Purchasing a flannelette backing, she added quilt batting and then tied the quilt. The day she took the quilt to the office she said that she "didn't think it was much but it might fetch a few dollars in the Thrift Shop". Her quilting teacher, her mother, would be proud. The quilt is a beautiful example of recycling and reusing at its best and it symbolizes the mission of the Thrift Shop.
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Adolf Mueller is a character from the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's manga. He is a finalist in the D1 Grand Prix.
Not much is known about Adolf's past, other than he apparently suffered an embarrassing loss to Jack Atlas on his path to become King.[2]
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Adolf was present at the D1 Grand Prix opening ceremonies where he watched Rex Goodwin's introduction to the tournament. When Rex mentioned the contestants had to break through a wall to win, Adolf questions what he meant, shortly before Jack bursts into the stadium.[2]
Although Adolf's Duels weren't shown, he made it to the tournament finals and was shown on the cruise travelling to Saiko Island for the finals. When Lazar explains the Duel Zodiac, Adolf questions whether a Duelist can use a Star Ticket value of more than 12 to enter the finals, which Lazar informs him that he can't.[1] He was later shown to have obtained the Level 3 Star Ticket by defeating Tiger Eyes, but he lost it to Admire Derby.[3].
Lazar reveals to Andre that he defeated Adolf and sealed his soul within a "Soul Prison" card.[4]
No cards in Adolf's Deck were shown.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Ride 26: "Premonition of a Fierce Fight...!!"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Ride 9: "The D1 Grand Prix Begins!!"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Ride 35: "The Battle for the Duel Zodiacs!!"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Ride 42: "Fly-Lord Sect!!"