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Our nation's birthday is a great opportunity to get out with the family and enjoy some food, friends, and fireworks! As always, we think the best way to spend the day is at the Woodside Mounted Patrol's Woodside Junior Rodeo. The annual event is now in its 64th year and is held at the Mounted Patrol Grounds on Kings Mountain Road. More than a hundred young ropers and ridersfrom all around the Golden State participate in the Rodeo, featuring women's barrel racing, roping, and bull riding – as well as the annual Pig Scramble! Gates open at 8 am on July 4th.
Traditionalists (as well as folks who just plain love a good time) will go and see the 76th Annual Redwood City 4th of July Parade! This year's theme is "Through the Eyes of a Child." The parade is totally volunteer-run, and draws thousands of spectators and dozens of floats and hundreds of marchers from throughout the State. It's truly a sight to see and is the largest 4th of July Parade in Northern California! The Parade starts at 10 am, but be sure to get there early for a good spot. If that seems early for a holiday morning, you can make it a little sweeter by starting the morning at a pancake breakfast at the Redwood City Fire Department – proceeds benefiting the Redwood City Firefighter's Association. Afterwards, stick around for the great festival featuring delicious food, live music, vendors, and fun activities for the kids. For the Parade route, check out their website here.
Other nearby Towns and cities have their celebrations as well, and you won't be disappointed if you decide to check them out!
Menlo Park hosts a small cow-munity parade starting at 11:45, with a festival running from 12-2:30 pm at Burgess Park. The festival includes climbing walls, jumphouses, carnival games, laser tag, face painting and yummy food! Just the thing for a calmer 4th.
PaloAlto has its 33rd Annual Summer Festival and Chili Cook-Off at Mitchell Park from 12-5 pm. Enjoy the fierce competition of the Chili Cook-off starting at 1:30 – decide for yourself who makes the best chili on the Peninsula!
If you want to find just one spot to spend the day, Foster City's tough to beat, with a city-sponsored party running all day from 8 am to 9:45 pm! Games, food, and entertainment, and a fun family and dog parade fill the day, and end with a thrilling fireworks display over beautiful San Francisco Bay.
Or, enjoy what's sure to be a beautiful day on the coast with Half Moon Bay's Independence Day festivities. Their parade runs from 12-1 pm.
For those in a musical moo-d, be sure to join the world-class San Francisco Symphony's concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre, complete with a rousing fireworks display accompanied by the orchestra!
And finally, the big bossy bull of Bay Area 4th Festivities has got to be in San Francisco, with live music and family entertainment from noon to night at Pier 39, ending with a spectacular fireworks display sure to delight kids young and old!
We wish you and your family a safeand happy 4th, and remind you in this year of high fire danger – please please leave the fireworks to the professionals!


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|Himalayas, Lakes & Culture of India
|TourCode: 1104
|10 Days/ 09 Nights
|Northern India
|Delhi – Nanital – Bhimtal – Agra – Jaipur – Ajmer-Delhi
|Best Time To Visit
|Daily, all year round
Day 01: Arrive Delhi.
On arrival escorted transfer to hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Day02: Delhi.
Morning after breakfast sightseeing tour of Capitol State of India. Visit Red Fort, Hawa Masjid, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, and Chandani Chowk Qutab Minar,Humayun Tomb, Birla Temple,Rashtrapati Bhawan & Lotus Temple. Overnight stay In Delhi.
Day 03: Delhi – Nainital. 250 Kms
Morning after breakfast leave for Nainital. Enroute stop for lunch at Tadka restaurant, Khatauli. Enjoy the Indian delicacies in the typical Indian restaurant. On arrival check in at hotel.. Evening free to stroll in Mall road. Overnight at hotel.
Day 04: Nainital – Bhimtal – Nainital. 25 kms one way
After breakfast leave for the full day city tour of Nainital and Bhimtal areas. First visit the China Peaks by cable car and enjoy a grand view of snow covered high Himalayan peaks and then visit Bhimtal and Sat Tal. Enjoy the boat ride at Sat Tal which is supposed to be a group of seven small lakes. Afternoon for the adventure activities like rapelling, rock climbing, tyrolene traverse, short hiking near Sattal Lakes. Late in afternoon drive back to Nainital. Evening at leisure on the Mall in Nainital. Overnight at hotel.
Day 05: Nainital – Agra. 380 Kms
After breakfast leave for Agra by road. On arrival check in at hotel in the evening. Time at Leisure in the local market. Overnight at hotel.
Day 06: Agra
Early morning visit Taj Mahal at sunrise. Taj Mahal is the most famous monument in the world on date popularly known as the monument of love. Later proceed to Agra Fort built by three generations of Mughal emperors. From an interior pavilion you can see the Taj Mahal appearing across the River Yamuna as a distant mirage. We proceed to the Mausoleum of Itmad Ud Daula that was built by Empress Noor Jahan, nine years before the construction of the Taj Mahal was begun. It is the first Mughal era building of all white marble, with designs that are even more delicate than those of the Taj Mahal. Almost the entire surface is covered with mosaics inlaid with semi-precious stones, and marble latticework decorates entrance arches, inside walls and screens. Overnight stay at Agra.
Day 07: Agra – Fatehpur Sikri – Jaipur. 250 Kms
Early morning visit Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. Taj Mahal is the most famous monument in the world on date popularly known as the monument of love. Leave for Jaipur. Enroute visit Fatehpur Sikri – the erstwhile capital of the Mughals which was abandoned by the great Emperor Akbar due to the lack of water. On arrival in Jaipur check in at hotel. Evening free for souvenir shopping. Overnight at hotel.
Day 08: Jaipur.
Morning after breakfast excursion to Amber Fort. Enjoy the elephant ride while ascending the fort. Post lunch visit City Palace, Jantar Mantar & Palace of winds. Evening visit Chokhi Dhani – a 5* ethnic resort for dinner. Get the glimpse of entire Rajasthan along with their living and folk dances in the resort. Overnight at hotel. Palace of winds in Jaipur
Day 09: Jaipur – Ajmer. 100 Kms
Morning after breakfast leave for Ajmer. On arrival Check in at hotel and then Visit dargah of Khwaja Mouniddin Chisti and then also visit the famous school at Mayo College (known to be one of the oldest institutions and also the best in India) which was set up in 19th century for educating the prince of the royal families of the time exclusively but now students from all walks of life come here for studying. Overnight at hotel.
Day 10: Ajmer – Delhi. 365 Kms
After breakfast visit the holy town of Pushkar also a pilgrimage center for Hindus its famous for its Brahma temple who is known to be the god of creation in Hindu mythology. A very good experience for all to see the Indian culture closely. Comeback to hotel for lunch and then leave for Delhi by road. On arrival direct transfer to International airport to connect flight back for home.


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Andy's long-running partnership with Vince Clarke in Erasure (recipients of Best British Group at The Brit Awards) remains very much a going concern – since the release of 1986′s debut, Wonderland the duo have gone on to sell over 20 million albums, 5 of them hitting #1 and had 17 Top 10 UK singles – the singer's second solo album provides a liberating platform for his more clubby, nocturnal, disco-glam side. He has even purposely changed his vocal register and style for much of Non-Stop, putting clear blue water between his soulfully electronic solo voice and his gleaming, poppy Erasure work.
"I just needed to have a breather and see what else is going on," Andy explains. "Spread my wings, live my life a little. This is like a different character that people don't know me as so much. I wouldn't say I'm a club kid, but I do love hearing remixes and club tunes. The album is quite robotic, quite tongue in cheek, lots of synths and glamorous disco. I can't get Madonna out of my head, and I sort of feel like: if she can do that why can't I?"
Non-Stop was co-produced and co-written by Andy Bell and Pascal Gabriel, the Belgian-born studio all-rounder whose glittering CV of collaborations includes S'Express, Ladyhawke, New Order, Debbie Harry, Kylie and Little Boots.
Andy already knew Pascal, who had previously remixed Erasure, "We had one writing session at Pascal's house in France, then one writing session at the Strongroom in London, and we just clicked," Andy recalls. "He is Cancerian as well, the same as Vince. Their characteristics are quite similar, both very thorough and hard working."
The songs on Non-Stop are timeless, sexy and impeccably classy affairs, from the breathless robo-disco rush of Running Out to the moody, broody, sultry power ballads Subject/Object and Slow Release. Meanwhile, Say What You Want and Call On Me are both sublime synth-pop epics. "Call On Me is going to be the next single, which I'm really pleased about," Andy says "It's a really simple song, and the backing vocal riff was inspired by Diana Ross singing Ain't No Mountain High Enough. It's really about my friends in New York, they're from the East Village. When I see them we just go and hang out in some of the more grimy bars."
The sound of Non-Stop reflects Andy's infatuation with classic 1980′s dance-pop and post-punk icons like Ladytron, M and Claudia Bruken. Most of the album consists of celebratory, life-affirming lyrics, but there are moments of doubt and darkness here too. The shrill, spiky, gnarly electronica of Touch is Andy's angry reaction to the demeaning C-list celebrity freakshow of reality television.
"Touch is probably the most punk-ish thing I've written," Andy says. "It is just about being offered reality shows all the time. It's almost like they're forcing you to make a spectacle of yourself."
The album also reveals more of Andy's nightclubbing, bright-white-clubbing, late-night electro-trash side than anything Erasure have yet released. With its driving groove and huskily seductive vocals, former single Will You Be There was born to be a hands-in-the-air Ibiza anthem. Much like the hedonistic machine-beat throbber Non-Stop – a song, as Andy explains, all about "being fucked up on the dancefloor."
But in terms of decadent glamour and neon-lit cool, nothing else on the album comes close to DHDQ aka Debbie Harry Drag Queen a high-camp homage to the empress of New Wave New York and her armies of imitators.
"I was on the True Colors tour with Debbie and she's lovely," Andy says. "She loves the drag queens as well, in New York. To me, nobody's ever copied her because they can't, she's the queen of all of them.
The one song Andy did not write on Non-Stop is the closing number, Honey If You Love Him, a pulsing nu-disco groove wedded to an agony-aunt lyric about romantic heartbreak penned by Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction fame. Alt-rock legend Farrell is a huge fan of Andy's voice and suggested recording a duet together.
"Perry sang that song for a friend of his, a fashion designer who fell out with this guy," Andy explains. "Perry is so cool, a lovely man, and quite camp."
Classy and camp, soulful and sumptuous, Non-Stop is a deluxe dance-pop album from a master of the game. Prepare to have your ears kissed, your heart stirred and your mind blown."
Contact Red Entertainment for Booking Andy Bell for your next event.


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KUALA LIPIS: Unlike the district of Pekan, Lipis is seldom linked to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak although it is his birthplace.
For the locals in Lipis, Najib is dear to them for he shares their birthplace. Najib was born on July 23, 1953, at the official residence of the Pahang State Secretary in Bukit Bius, which was then occupied by his father, the
late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, and mother, Tun Rahah Mohd Noah.
Najib stayed at the two-storey concrete and wooden house, which was built in 1920, for two years before the Pahang capital was moved to Kuantan in 1955.
Although Najib stayed in Lipis for only two years, it meant a lot for the local residents, especially Puteh Hassan, 91, the midwife who had cared for him after his birth.
Puteh's eldest daughter, Fatimah Hassan, 68, said her mother, who was then with the Kuala Lipis Hospital, went daily for about a month to Tun Razak's residence to care for Najib.
"My mother was asked to replace another midwife for the job. At that time, there were not many Malay midwives," she said when met by Bernama at her house here.
Fatimah claimed that her mother also took care of the Tengku Ampuan of Pahang, Tengku Ampuan Afzan, during her confinement after giving birth to Tengku Shahariah at Istana Hinggap Lipis, which was located beside the residence where Najib was born.
"In those days, the wives of dignitaries do not go to hospitals to give birth. The midwives are called to the house.
According to my mother, the midwife who brought Najib into the world was a senior midwife who was assisted by another midwife known as Timah, but both of them have died," she said.
Fatimah said that when Najib was appointed Pahang Menteri Besar in 1982, her mother felt so proud because she had taken care of him.
She said her mother's health began to deteriorate six years ago and she was now wheel-chair bound.
Another resident, A. Rahim Mat Yunus, 88, said Najib had the qualities of his father.
They are approachable, courteous, mix well with the people, have respect for elders and care for the people, he said.


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On this street, there are two houses that have a high amount of traffic. All day, there are cars parked on the street outside these houses. They block the road and throw trash everywhere. How can we get a no parking on the street sign. There are so many cars sometimes, people can not drive up and down the road. They also have underaged girls at the house, and underaged drinking. Some of the underaged girls are pregnant by the people at this house. The people at the house look like adults. When the police come by to check things out, the main people usually leave later, racing up and down the street and yelling at each other. Often people can not leave their driveways because the cars opposite of their driveway are in the way. I have seen school buses avoiding the surplus of traffic, and car accidents almost happen. This is a 30mph road. Cars screech to a stop because these cars are in the way. This road needs a 'No Parking on this side' sign. Often the children play around their parents cars, running in and out between the cars and into the street. One of these children are going to get hit.
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A by-election to fill the vacant seat in Park ward will be held on Thursday 17 August 2017.
The seat has been vacant since the resignation of Councillor John Shearman in June.
The by-election has been called after a petition from local electors was received by the Returning Officer for the city council, Gillian Beasley.
An official notice of election will be published on Thursday 13 July 2017. Nominations will open the following day from 10am and will run until 4pm on Friday 21 July 2017.
A statement of persons nominated will be published after this period.
Residents in the ward must be on the electoral register in order to vote. To ensure they get to vote in the by-election they must be registered by Tuesday 1 August 2017. You can register online but you must have your date of birth and national insurance number available.
People wishing to vote by post must apply by 5pm on Wednesday 2 August 2017.
For further information, please contact the electoral services team on 01733 452282 or email electoralservices@
The count will take place following the poll on 17 August at Peterborough Town Hall.
Park ward by-election called for next month
A by-election to fill the vacant seat in Park ward will be held on Thursday 17 August 2017.


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Flights restricted over Keys for Obama visit
President Barack Obama is heading to the Keys Friday, according to numerous reports.
The White House rented several houses in the upscale Ocean Reef Club in North Key Largo for this week, said a resident who lives there.
"The place already looks like a compound," said the source Wednesday morning. He added this would be Obama's first stay at Ocean Reef.
In the meantime, the Federal Aviation Administration Thursday issued temporary flight restrictions over the Homestead/Miami area for Friday and over Key Largo from Friday through Sunday. This means pilots must avoid the area, said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.
Bergen would not confirm the restrictions were because of the president's visit. She referred that question to the White House, which could not be reached for comment.
Vice President Joseph Biden stayed at Ocean Reef in 2013. The club has two 18-hole, par 71 golf courses.
First Lady Michele Obama is in Miami this week to try to boost health insurance enrollments under the Affordable Care Act
Reportedly, the White House contacted Ocean Reef last week.
"They've already taken a number of houses and staff," the source said.
The Keys have long been a destination for presidents, among them Carter, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, FDR, Kennedy and Truman.


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This year Dundulis stayed true to their tradition and, just before Winter solstice, introduced their traditional seasonal brews: Juodaragio (gruit with yarrow) and Devyniaragio (braggot with pine buds and propolis). These two didn't make it to our wintery beer overview (and what a shame it is!), so we're in a hurry to write at least a short review.
Juodaragio, a 6.66% ABV gruit
Appearance: Hazy chocolate-coloured body with a low creamy brownish head.
Aroma: Yarrow all the way! Plus, a hint of breadiness somewhere in the distance.
Taste: It is dominated by yarrow, but the herb was added with a sure hand — not too much, not too little, just the right amount. The malty sweetness and herby/hoppy bitterness create a beautiful duet. There're also some hints of cocoa.
Mouthfeel: A well carbonated beer with a long lasting aftertaste.
Notes: Very well-balanced beer that is both firm and gentle, just like a good lover. We wanted to keep on sipping it, but couldn't ignore its companion.
Devyniaragio, a 9% ABV braggot
Appearance: Semi-opaque dark amber-coloured body with a tall porous fast-settling head.
Aroma: Honey, of course! Accompanied by pear skin and gingerbread spices. Sweet and very nice.
Taste: Contrary than one would expect, the taste is not only sweet. It's got honey, obviously, some gingerbread spices and the fruity sourness of propolis. And the strong malty backbone helps every note stay in its place.
Mouthfeel: Medium carbonation, long-lasting aftertaste.
Notes: This one is gentle, too, but has a stronger kick to it. It's subtle, yet multilayered. A braggot done right. Ignė, a professional disliker of honey, was particularly surprised that mead ale can be so tasty. She liked this one so much that she didn't want to share it with no one!
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The Italian Countryside Dinner
In this hands-on class, Italian Classics will warm you inside and out as you take a trip to the Italian countryside. Chef Barbara Sowatsky has built a menu around vintage classics with added modern freshness and ease, featuring local flavor with inspirations from abroad. You will make:
Homemade Pappardelle Pasta
Braised Pork Shoulder Ragu
Apple Crostata topped with fresh Whipped Cream.
The delicious Italian Countryside Dinner will be enjoyed with a fresh Green Salad and Wine.


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Strengthen Your Shopping Muscles - Shop for God's Creation
Let's face it- we are all consumers. We all need products, but what if we exercised our care for God's creation by shopping for things that reduce a lot of waste and our footprint on the planet? It's a great time to switch to some more sustainable products for your home and church! Continue reading
Making Easter a Little Kinder Towards God's Creation
When I was growing up my family owned a gift shop. When you are in the gift business, your life revolves around holidays. Good thing we loved holidays! Although Christmas was magical, it was also exhausting and back then there seemed to be a lot of pressure on giving to everyone. People were stressed and harried. That's why my father's favorite holiday was Easter. He always said people give at Christmas because they have to, people give at Easter because they want to. Easter was big with an egg tree and decorations. Pastel colors, chicks and bunnies abounded but one set of decorations gives me the fondest memories. Early in our family life Mother and Daddy had volunteered to decorate tables at church. They blew out dozens and dozens of eggs. They washed them well and papier machéd them. Those eggs were so strong because of the glue and paper that they were part of our decorating for years. Continue reading
Creation Care Hack: Energy Efficiency at Home and Energy Efficient Kits
What's the best way to help cut our impact on the planet from carbon emissions? Use less energy. Did you know that up to 20% of the electricity* that is produced in America is lost before it ever arrives to your home, office or church? Yep, it's a well-kept secret that energy prodcuers don't want you to know. Some of it is coal or natural gas lost in transit to generation stations. Most of it is the transmission of the electricity or natural gas to the end-user. You don't get charged for the loss directly. It is built into the rates everyone is charged. But waste is waste, and we can all take part in reducing waste. So, what's the answer? Reduce your use. There are many ways to reduce your usage. Number one use? Air-conditioner. No, I am not telling you to turn off your air-conditioner. I live in Hotlanta after all and the rest of my family lives in even hotter places. Continue reading
12 Days of Christmas Recycling
Oh the holidays! Who doesn't love it, even though it can be overwhelming? One of the ways it is overwhelming is all the stuff. The paper, the packages, the presents, the bows, the tree, the garland and don't forget the mistletoe! And all that stuff has a big impact. December is the highest month for landfill deposits. Ready to be overwhelmed? Household waste increases by a whopping 25% between Thanksgiving and Christmas. 30 million Christmas Trees will end up in landfills. 4 million tons of wrapping paper and gift bags alone will be used. Continue reading
Creation Care Hack: Train Yourself to Use Reusable Shopping Bags
Using cloth shopping bags should be easy, right? Well, not so fast. Using cloth shopping bags actually has to become a routine. When I made the commitment to use reusable shopping bags, I realized I better have a plan or I would never be able to make it the habit it needed to be. Continue reading
5 Ways to Care for God's Creation on Thanksgiving
WooHoo, it's Thanksgiving! It's my family's favorite holiday because this is the holiday we have designated to be together. Once kids entered our world, traveling with little ones for Christmas got complicated as we live all over the Southeast, so, Thanksgiving became our holiday. Of course, there is the bonus that we are Southern, and we love to eat and cook! Continue reading
5 Things to Reduce Your Kid's Lunch Box Trash
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. - Jeremiah 2:7 It takes work to care for God's Creation, but we all want things to be easier! How do you know what to choose and what makes the most sense? Well, EEN Moms is here to help. We have spent years attending organic, green product and sustainability events. Hundreds of new projects exist that are healthy and sustainable. This list of lunch box items is not meant as an endorsement. Rather, this list serves as a guideline to help you find your own items to reduce waste. If you think we missed something, please share at the bottom in the comment section. Continue reading


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In this tutorial you'll learn to use speech recognition software to automatically add subtitles or captions to a video. We'll show you how to use three leading artificial intelligence technologies, two free and one paid. Adding subtitles to your videos is easier than it may seem, and brings all kinds of great benefits. Read on to find out how.
Accessibility is Good for Everyone
With the rise of multiple online video platforms and the spread of video-capable smartphones we're now producing and consuming more and more video every day. This swell of video creates three new access problems:
- How do we find the videos we want in a crowded world?
- How do you watch all these new videos if you have a hearing impairment?
- How do you follow along with video that isn't in your first language, as is now an everyday reality for millions of people?
Subtitles and captions solve all of these problems.
Search engines have no idea what's in your videos. This is slowly changing with the rise of algorithms that can interpret images but, fundamentally, search engines are built to read text. The best way to tell the world what's in your video is still to describe it. Subtitles and closed captions provide exactly the kind of juicy text information that Google and the rest love to have.
As many as 15 percent of Americans have a hearing impairment. Closed captions, or written text overlaid on a video that replicates what the speaker is saying, are a key accessibility tool. Accessibility is essential in all kinds of videos, but it's especially important when teaching with video, which is why Envato is moving towards providing captions on as many Tuts+ videos as we possibly can.
It's not just us, either: in the USA, significantly more closed captioning will be required by law by next year. It's also worth noting that Facebook videos play automatically, but they play silently by default, so if you want everyone on Facebook to know what people in your videos are saying you really need captions or subtitles.
Subtitles are frequently used as a way to translate language from one medium to another (such as spoken English to written English) or one language to another. They're a great way to make video more accessible to diverse linguistic audiences.
1. YouTube's Automatic Captioning (Free)
Creating subtitles with YouTube is a breeze. Automatic transcription is built directly into the service, and can be edited in the Video Manager. Although the service does seem to be continually improving, YouTube's transcription is notoriously (and sometimes hilariously) imperfect. Thankfully, you have the option to manually adjust them. Select the Subtitles & CC option to view the subtitle settings, and then click on the subtitle file you want to alter. In my case, that is English (Automatic).
Now press the Edit button to begin adjusting them. On the left side, you'll see the transcription that YouTube automatically generated. You can type over any of the incorrect subtitles to correct them. Use the embedded video player to work your way through the video and intervene as needed. Click Publish Edits when you're finished to save the corrected subtitles.
To export and download a subtitle file, click the Actions dropdown and select the file type you need. SRT is a widely supported format (including Facebook video). Google makes it tricky to save the subtitles from other peoples' videos, but there is a workaround.
There are other problems with YouTube's service. For one, there is no way to collaborate on the subtitles. Or maybe your
videos are for a course you're producing and you don't want to put your files on YouTube. Or maybe you are Irish and YouTube just completely mangles your accent.
There are plenty of reasons why YouTube isn't always the right tool for the job. Let's look at how to generate subtitles and captions for any video.
2. Watson and Amara (Free)
Hello, Watson!
You might have heard about IBM's Watson supercomputer when it was defeating defending Jeopardy! champions in 2011. IBM have put Watson technology to use processing all kinds of data, including speech. Simply upload an audio file to the speech-to-text demo and it will transcribe the audio for you.
Go ahead and jump to the app. Don't be fooled: the demo has plenty of functionality. I uploaded a six-minute audio clip and it was transcribed in just a few minutes.
I recommend transcription as a finishing step in editing a video. Lock down your edit, then export a WAV audio file from your video editor. If your app doesn't support exporting directly to WAV, I recommend you use Audacity to convert from other audio formats to WAV.
To upload audio, click on Select Audio File on the app page. Browse to your WAV file and choose it. Watson also supports Spanish, French, Portuguese and Japanese, so make sure and choose the language from the dropdown if it differs from English. Note: If you use an ad blocking plugin for your web browser, make sure and disable it for the IBM website. The demo might not function correctly if adblock is enabled.
A few minutes later, you'll have a transcription of the audio. At this stage, don't worry about correcting all of the incorrect words in the transcription. Copy the text from the transcription box and save it into a text file, using an app like Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on mac.
If you are a capable programmer, IBM offers a much more in-depth way to use the Watson technology. Check out IBM's tutorial on how to use the full Watson capabilities programmatically.
Use Amara to Create a Finished Subtitle File
Now you have a rough transcription of our audio. Next you'll synchronize it with the video.
For this step we'll use Amara, a service that's designed to do just that. Amara can help us generate a finished subtitle file that can be used on many different services. Jump over to Amara's site and sign up for a free account to get started.
After you've signed up for Amara, you'll need to link to your video file. Amara doesn't support uploading video directly to its site, so you'll need to get the file online first. I have an FTP server, so I'll often upload the video to my server and link to it. If you don't have a web server to use you can upload to Vimeo, for example, and use it as a temporary host.
Paste in a link to your video, hit Begin, and Amara will load the video into its subtitling system. Now it's time to upload the transcription Watson generated for us. Click on Upload them directly on the left side of the screen to upload the text file to Amara.
Once you click on the upload them directly option, you'll need to point Amara to the text file that we saved in the last step. Also, specify the language of the text and the video language. Once you press Upload, Amara will load the generated text.
Click on the language of the subtitle on the left side. Then press Edit Subtitles on the next screen to adjust the timings of your subtitles.
Check out the video below to walk through the time sync process:
You could create subtitles using Amara alone, but that requires typing the captions from scratch. IBM Watson gives us a great starting point, and pairs well with Amara to get the timing right.
One of the perks of using Amara is that it's great for collaboration and translation. If you have a skilled translator, they can just as easily link to your video and generate subtitles in a different language.
3. Pop-Up Archive (by Subscription)
PopUp Archive is an automatic transcription service that, like YouTube, can generate SRT files.
A paid service, as you might expect PopUp Archive has some distinct advantages over both the YouTube and the Watson-plus-Amara workflows. PopUp Archive will store audio files, can ingest multiple files at once from a variety of sources, supports multiple users on an account, includes robust transcript editing tools, differentiates speakers, adds punctuation, has very precise timestamps, and more. In testing the options for Tuts+ videos, we've found that PopUp Archives transcriptions are more accurate than competing services. In short, you get what you pay for.
The process with PopUp Archive is the very similar to the process above: export an audio file from your video editor, upload to the service, wait for it to process, and download the SRT files.
To upload a file to PopUp Archive, sign in and click the Upload an audio file link on your My Collection page. In the modal box that pops up you can drag and drop an audio file into the window, use the Upload one file at a time button to upload from your computer, or paste a web address into the Add Files by URL field. You can also do a Batch Upload from the My Collection page.
Once you've selected your audio file you can also add a Title, Images, Contributors, Languages, Tags, and many other useful metadata fields.
When your upload is complete, PopUp Archive will give you a success notice on screen. They will send you an email when your transcript is ready.
Hit Edit Text to correct the transcript and adjust timings. To export your subtitles, navigate to your transcript and click on Export. From there you have a variety of formats to choose from, including SRT, WebVTT, and JSON.
Accessibility Matters to Your Audience
You can't ignore the fact that your viewers may have disabilities that must be accommodated. It's not just a matter of what's right; it'll soon be the law. More than that, though, subtitling or captioning your video is a great way to make your work stand out and connect with audiences. The good news is that recent developments in speech-to-text AI have helped us do this without much additional work, as you've seen in this tutorial.
What other accessibility challenges should we think about when creating content? Also, how are you adding captions to your video productions? Let me know in the comments section.
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Picnics and Sunsets
Labor Day (aka May Day) in Europe is May 1st, so on Monday we took full advantage of the fact that it was 70°F, the sun was shining, and our friends had the day off. We gathered into two cars, and the seven of us ventured out of the city and into a nearby village filled with dachas (cabins) and forest.
It didn't take long before it became very clear that we were no longer in the center of town.
We weren't the only ones with the idea to have a picnic. If you look closely through the trees below, you'll see cars parked throughout the field, where families and friends are enjoying the day.
Eventually, and after bumping down some very questionable dirt roads, we found a nice spot and spread our feast out on the picnic tables while the professionals got to work on the grill.
The shashlik was just the thing to be eaten in a forest on an unseasonably warm, spring day.
We sat on a blanket by the lake for much of the afternoon, chatting, nibbling, and being serenaded by song and guitar, until the sun slowly began to dip below the tree line.
On the way back into the city, we were treated to the most beautiful sunset.
Once home, we went straight to the window of our fifth-floor apartment and continued to watch the sky as it become a darker and darker shade of pink of purple, a pretty decent way to end the day.


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Poetry Blast: Alan Gillis & Leontia Flynn
For our May Poetry Blast we are proud to present two poets from Northern Ireland.The Ulster Way by Alan Gillis and Airports by Leontia Flynn are read by D.C. actor Patrick Flannery.
Alan Gillis
Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973 and lives in Scotland where he is Lecturer in English at The University of Edinburgh and editor of Edinburgh Review.
His first collection, Somebody, Somewhere (2004) was short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection. Hawks and Doves (2007), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. His latest collection Here Comes the Night was published in 2010.
The Ulster Way
This is not about burns or hedges.
There will be no gorse. You will not
Notice the ceaseless photosynthesis
Or the dead tree's thousand fingers,
the trunk's inhumanity writhing with texture,
as you will not be passing into farmland.
Nor will you be set upon by cattle,
ingleberried, haunching and haunting
with their eyes, their shocking opals,
graving you, hoovering and scooping you,
full of a whatness that sieves you through
the abbatoir hillscape, the runnel's slabber
through darkgrass, sweating for the night
that will purple to a love-bitten bruise.
All this is in your head. If you walk,
Don't walk away, in silence, under the stars'
Ice-fires of violence, to the water's darkened strand.
For this is not about horizons, or their curving
limitations. This is not about the rhythm
Of a songline. There are other paths to follow.
Everything is about you. Now listen.
Leontia Flynn
Leontia Flynn was born in County Down and now lives in Belfast. She is the author of several full-length collections of poetry, including Profit and Loss (2011), Drives (2008), and These Days (2004), which won the Forward Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. She has also been awarded the Eric Gregory Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Fran Brearton, writing in The Guardian described the poet as : "One of the most strikingly original and exciting poetic voices to have emerged from Northern Ireland since the extraordinary debut by Paul Muldoon 35 years ago."
Find out more about Leontia on her website.
Airports are their own peculiar weather.
Their lucid hallways ring like swimming pools.
From each sealed lounge, a pale nostalgic sky
burns up its gases over far-flung zones,
and the planes, like a child's mobile, hang at random.
Like hospitals, they are their own dominion.
We have tried their dishes with plastic knives.
We have packed our bags ourselves, no one has tampered with them,
and as we pass through the eye of the charged needle,
our keys and wallets drop from us like stones.
But now we are passing quicker, colder, clearer,
From East to West un-policed, a gate of light
which lengthens like some animal proboscis
Or a hoop bowled along at speed beside the sun.
And when we return, the airports remain in us,
We rock, dry-eyed, and we are not at home.


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Captain America wakes up in an unknown place and time. He quickly discovers that this place has been ravaged and the people who thawed him are a small group of survivors trying to survive in what little remains of the world run by a despotic regime made up of the very rich. This is America, 2025.
As Rich Johnston said in his article, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee have returned Captain America to its more political-minded roots. This comic takes aim at the rich and powerful. Its villains are those who would drown out the less-fortunate under debt and expense to keep them in line.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this too feels like a classic Captain America tale in a lot of ways. While older issues wouldn't necessarily take aim at capitalism in this way, the semi-plausible extremes by which these changes take place do feel like something Steve Rogers would have discovered in an alternate universe back in the days of Mark Gruenwald.
The big conceit is that forces from within the U.S. nuking the nation itself. It's difficult to conceive of anyone actually doing that, no matter how much they hate the poor. What follows, the price of necessities being hiked and starving out the poorer, is something that literally happens all the time.
The new leader being named "King Baby" seemed a little silly to me at first. Then, I thought about the name. It paints the picture of a selfish, petulant, and immature authority with a loose grip on reality and prone to throwing temper tantrums.
He probably screams "fake news" a lot.
The leader of this group of survivors is a woman named Liang. She serves as Steve's guide in this dystopia. She's also a competent and careful leader who has to keep Cap from getting himself and others killed. She's also ripped as hell. She's pretty great.
Cap also tries to write down the Bill of Rights for the survivors before he realizes that it's only 2025. He knows it by heart. It's amazing. This is one of the most Captain America things I've ever seen.
The speed with which Waid and Samnee establish the setting is quite impressive too. Usually the orientation of a dystopia is allowed to overtake the entire comic. However, this issue weaves the explanation into the narrative and you only get one real exposition dump, and it's short.
Chris Samnee's continues to be well-tailored to the title and its lead. Despite the fairly cartoon-oriented style, he plays with shading well, giving the visuals a lot ore depth than the would otherwise have. Matthew Wilsons' color art remains bright and popping. To compensate for the dystopian setting, he throws in a lot of reds to contrast the blue of Cap and give the world a hostile vibe.
Captain America #698 is another excellent entry in the saga of Steve Rogers. The high-concept setting of this issue is balanced by a focus on characters, and the politics of it all are refreshing and timely. Add to this Samnee and Wilson's artwork, and you have a fantastic book. This one comes recommended. Check it out.
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UK Men's Basketball
Jerry Tipton: Terrence Jones follows mentor Damon Stoudamire's path
Conspicuous by his absence at the NBA Draft was Kentucky sophomore-to-be Terrence Jones. For that, UK fans should give at least partial credit to former Arizona star and NBA player Damon Stoudamire.
Stoudamire, a relative through marriage, calls himself a "confidant" of Jones. When the UK player considered putting his name in this year's NBA Draft, he sought Stoudamire's advice.
"I think Terrence trusts me; he trusts my opinion," Stoudamire said in a recent telephone conversation. "He knew I had his best interests at heart. I told him, 'Terrence, if you were my son, I would say go back to school.' "
It's not that Stoudamire doubts Jones has NBA talent. In this case, the mentor simply approves of the budding professional maximizing his NBA potential by extending his preparation.
"When you go to the pros, you'll be the best Terrence Jones you can be," Stoudamire said. "That's what I always preach to these kids. Don't worry about the next guy going pro. Be the best you can be so when you get there, you'll be the best player you can be."
Jones played well for UK as a freshman, at times exceedingly well. He led the Southeastern Conference in rebounding (8.8 rpg) and double-doubles (12).
"He could average 17 (points) and nine (rebounds) again, but it could look a lot better than the 17 and nine of last year, from the perspective of dominating games and leadership," Stoudamire said. "That's what I think Terrence needs to do this year."
What Stoudamire thinks means a lot to Jones. "I've known Terrence and been around Terrence since he was a baby," Stoudamire said.
Since he was a third-grader, Jones attended camps run by Stoudamire. UK fans might recall that Jones, a natural right-hander, insisted on shooting and dribbling a basketball left-handed because that's how Stoudamire played.
"He looks up and admires Damon," the UK player's mother, Linda Mashia-Jones, said, "and he values his opinion. I'm sure it had a little influence."
By returning to UK for his sophomore year, Jones followed Stoudamire's example. Stoudamire considered turning pro after his sophomore season for Arizona, then again after his junior season.
"I hadn't accomplished everything I felt I wanted to accomplish in college," said Stoudamire, who ultimately played four seasons for Arizona.
Stoudamire said he leaned on Terrell Brandon, an NBA player who grew up in Portland, for advice. "I might be with him all day trying to understand the NBA," he said. "Terrence is no different."
For the most part, he applauded the UK players who entered the NBA before completing their college eligibility. To enter the NBA when projected as a lottery pick was "a no-brainer," he said.
Stoudamire, now an assistant coach at the University of Memphis, heard draft projections for himself anywhere from No. 15 to No. 35. He stayed in college, in part, to be at his best as a pro.
"My theory was, I'd been broke my whole life," he said. "What would it hurt to be broke a little longer?
"Some people were telling me I'm dumb (to stay in college). I'm not trying to live for them."
Picked seventh by Toronto in the 1995 draft, he became NBA Rookie of the Year.
Now, along comes Jones.
"He tasted a little success," Stoudamire said of Jones' freshman season. "But I think he wants a little more than that. I was proud of him for staying."
Wheelchair users
Not everyone welcomed last week's news that Rupp Arena officials had budgeted about $200,000 to create extra space in the upper arena for wheelchair users. The move will keep Rupp Arena in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
One reader posted a sarcastic objection. "That's all we need. To take away more seats from a sellout crowd and put in older people (for the majority) who are not rowdy that complain about the volume of the announcements and the crowd cheering. Way to go fellas!"
This prompted a sarcastic retort.
"The nerve of those wheelchair-bound cripples!" Mel Kimble wrote. "With their ADA costing us dollar$. They should just stay in their homes where they don't bother anybody. It will free up those great parking spaces too."
Kimble, 55, lives in North Carolina. "The home of Dook," he wrote. He uses a wheelchair since breaking his neck in a motor vehicle accident 30 years ago.
"I did not think much about wheelchair parking nor accessibility 30 years ago," he wrote in an email. "Now, it is a primary concern when I am preparing for an outing, whether to the grocery store or to my favorite sporting event."
Lexington resident Tony Carmack, 46, has used a wheelchair after contracting a neurological disorder in the 1980s.
When asked about someone objecting to added space for wheelchair users because it might adversely affect UK's home-court advantage, he said, "I can kind of see their point. I never hoop and holler, but I'm a super, super fan. ... I can see how a rowdy person can feel that way."
Carmack suggested more space be created near the Rupp Arena court for wheelchair users. "We should not have preferential treatment," he said, "but should have equal treatment."
'20 percent bump?'
During his "satellite" camp in Bowling Green last week, UK Coach John Calipari's marketing/promotions side was in full flower. He said players get a "20 percent bump" because they play for Kentucky. This bump was reflected in a player's draft position and the value of his shoe contract, he said.
"We're on national television more than any team," Calipari said. " ... When we're on TV, people watch more than any team. That may not have been the case a few years ago, but it is now."
The ratings provided by ESPN and CBS suggest Kentucky games do not draw a markedly larger viewership.
Here are the five highest rated college basketball games on ESPN this past season: 1. Michigan State-Duke, Dec. 1, 2.3 rating; 1. Ohio State-Wisconsin, Feb. 12, 2.3 rating; 3. Miami (Fla.)-Memphis, Nov. 15, 2.10 rating; 4. Indiana-Kentucky, Dec. 11, 1.9 rating; 5. North Carolina-Duke, Feb. 9, 1.8 rating.
As for CBS ratings this past season, Kentucky appeared in only one of the top eight most-viewed games. The UK game at North Carolina on Dec. 4 tied for the fourth-most watched game on the network with a 1.7 rating.
The games on CBS with the three highest ratings were 1. Duke at North Carolina, March 5, 2.7 rating; 2. Ohio State-Penn State, March 13, 2.5 rating; 3. Wisconsin at Ohio State, March 5, 1.9 rating.
The four CBS games that tied UK-North Carolina's 1.7 rating were Ohio State at Purdue on Feb. 20, the Big Ten Tournament game between Ohio State and Michigan, the Pac 10 Tournament championship game between Washington and Arizona, and a split telecast on Jan. 22 featuring Tennessee at Connecticut and Stanford at UCLA.
Bilas on bias
ESPN analyst Jay Bilas scoffed at the notion that he showed anti-Brandon Knight bias during Thursday's NBA Draft telecast. Bilas' supposed bias? He noted perceived weaknesses in the former UK point guard's game.
"I really did a disservice to the kid," Bilas said sarcastically. "I ranked him fifth among prospects in the entire draft."
After pointing out that the Detroit Pistons took Knight with the eighth pick, Bilas said, "So, actually, the NBA values him less than I do."
Bilas defended any viewer's right to object to an analyst's commentary.
"It's kind of like when people complain about LeBron James being booed," he said. "They're not stalking him or threatening him. It's OK to boo."
While "absolutely fine" with viewers voicing their complaints, Bilas said he also mentioned questions about the talents of Kemba Walker and Kyrie Irving.
Knight slipped to the eighth choice because Utah started a run on big men by taking Enes Kanter with the third pick, Bilas said.
"Who cares whether a guy goes third or ninth?" Bilas said. "Where he's drafted and what somebody says is not going to affect his game at all."
Looking ahead
Nine players picked in the last two NBA Drafts says a lot about UK Coach John Calipari's abilities to recruit top-notch prospects and prepare them for professional basketball careers.
The 2012 draft figures to continue the trend. Various mock drafts for 2012 feature a heavy Kentucky presence.
As of last week, DraftExpress.com, NBADraft.net and ESPN's Chad Ford all projected UK freshman-to-be Anthony Davis as the No. 1 pick in 2012. All three mock drafts projected Terrence Jones and Michael Gilchrist as lottery picks in 2012. DraftExpress and Ford also included Marquis Teague as a lottery pick.
By the way, Ford also projected two Florida players as 2012 lottery picks: Freshman-to-be Brad Beal at No. 6 and sophomore-to-be Patric Young at No. 11.
Ford projected Ohio State man-child Jared Sullinger as only the eighth player picked.
UK Coach John Calipari scoffed at rivals who say a move to require players to stay two years in college might dilute Kentucky's success with so-called one-and-done players.
"Most coaches want it to go to two (years)," Calipari said last week. "Till they realize we'll have guys two years."First pitch
According to the Detroit Free Press, former UK point guard Brandon Knight was satisfied with his effort in throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the Detroit Tigers' game against Arizona on Friday night.
Knight, who was drafted by the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night, threw the first pitch from the mound to Andy Dirks.
"It feels great to be here in Detroit and be recognized by the fans," Knight said. "Throwing out the first pitch was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I didn't bounce it."
Rapid response
There was a rapid response to the New Orleans Hornets drafting former UK big man Josh Harrellson in the second round. The Hornets then sold Harrellson to the New York Knicks on draft night.
His high school coach, Gary Wacker, said he was told that Harrellson's cellphone filled with messages. "Seventy-five responses just like that," Wacker said.
Paying players
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany likes the idea. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive called for it to be discussed at the league's spring meeting in Destin, Fla.
The issue gaining momentum is to pay players.
Murray Sperber, a longtime observer of college athletics, said he finds paying players to be a surefire conversation starter when he speaks to civic groups. He found the responses to such an idea suggested a generation gap.
"If they were over 35, they thought paying players was a terrible idea," Sperber said. "If they were younger, they were much more cynical about the whole thing."
Sperber, a professor emeritus at Indiana University and now a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley, questioned whether paying players was economically feasible.
Hopkinsville native Scotty Hopkins did not hear his name called in the NBA Draft. Teammate Tobias Harris became the first Tennessee player selected in the NBA Draft since 2002, when Marcus Haislip was the 13th overall pick and Vincent Yarbrough was taken 32nd. ... In her blog for the Sacramento Bee, Ailene Voisin wrote, "Two players the Kings were not enamored of: Brandon Knight and Kawhi Leonard."
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st: RE: Creating all permutations of station pairs with differing urbanity
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:12:48 +0100
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Zeke Hausfather
I'm working on a project that requires creating all possible
permutations of urban and rural temperature measurement station pairs.
Specifically, I want a database that has urban pair id (integer),
rural pair id (integer), and pair id (string with both urban pair id
and rural pair id separated by an underscore).
I'm starting with a dataset with two columns: station_id (integer),
and urbanity (boolean -- 1 or 0)
I want to create a new dataset with all possible permutations of 1
urban and 1 rural station. My initial attempt was:
gen urban_id_list = station_id if urban == 1
gen rural_id_list = station_id if urban == 0
save base_data.dta
foreach urban_id in urban_id_list {
foreach rural_id in rural_id_list {
gen rural_pair = `rural_id' if `urban_id' != . & `rural_id' != .
gen urban_pair = `urban_id' if `urban_id' != . & `rural_id' != .
gen pair_id = "`urban_id'_`rural_id'" if `urban_id' != . &
`rural_id' != .
save temp_data.dta, replace
use pair_database.dta
append using temp_data.dta
save pair_database.dta, replace
use base_data.dta
use pair_database.dta
But this doesn't seem to work at all.
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Black Friday is here, and with it comes some epic sales over the next couple of days. We've rounded up some of the most impressive games from the past year that you should keep an eye out for.
Ratchet & Clank – R473 (Raru)
Ratchet & Clank make their PS4 debut with a rebooted iteration of the beloved galactic adventurers, and while it also ties into the recent animated feature film, it avoids the trope of becoming a terrible licensed adaptation. The platforming is fun and fresh, the weapons are as bizarre and satisfying as you would expect from an Insomniac game, and it's one of the best-looking games on the PS4. Ratchet & Clank is a triumphant return for the duo and a must-play for anyone familiar with the franchise or looking for something with a little colour, humour, and some impeccably tight gameplay mechanics.
Ratchet & Clank is available from Raru for R473.
Recore – R349 (BT Games)
While it has a few shortcomings, ReCore is one of the most interesting games to come out this year. Designed by one the creators behind Mega Man and Metroid Prime, ReCore is a third-person action adventure, which stars Joule — one of the last surviving humans — who's fighting her way through a destroyed desert world, working with a series of quirky mechanical pets to help her fight robotic villains. It's got interesting combat, platforming, and puzzle elements, which wrap up tightly into a fun and rather beautiful campaign.
ReCore is available from BT Games for R349. (Special ends 27 November)
Gears of War 4 – R499 (Loot)
The Gears of War franchise returns with new characters, new enemies, a new mission, and a new developer on board, and manages to remind us exactly what made Gears so damn likeable in the first place. It doesn't diverge too far away from the cover-shooter formula that made the original trilogy a hit, but does introduce new gameplay twists thanks to some great environmental changes and snazzy guns that mix up the chainsawing carnage. Gears 4 is also spectacular to look at, and is a shining flagship for the Xbox One at this point. This is as high-quality as a triple-A release comes, and it's expansive multiplayer and Horde 3.0 modes give the Gearsseries legs that will outlast until the next outing.
Gears of War 4 is available from Loot for R499. (Special ends 28 November)
Destiny – R149.90 (BT Games)
Even with its stumbles, the initial release of Destiny was a colossal achievement in interactive design, integrating a number of differing genre elements into a smart and unified game. Story-based campaigning, co-op comradeship, or adversarial annihilation – Destiny delivers on all fronts.
- Destiny (Xbox One) – R149.90 (Special ends 27 November)
- Destiny (PS4) – R149.90 (Special ends 27 November)
Mafia 3
Mafia III is one of the unsung heroes of 2016 – being an incredible action experience, but one which released alongside some much "bigger" games (*cough* Battlefield 1 *cough*). Mafia III tells the story of Lincoln Clay, who has just returned from the Vietnam War. He's taken in by the "Black Mob", but just as he starts to believe he's found somewhere he can belong, the Italian Mob wipes them out. Clay vows to have his revenge – and that's when the car chases, shady dealings, and bloody gunfights kick off. The game is absolutely spectacular in motion and the 1968 New Orleans cityscape is a refreshing setting for the chaos that you can unleash in Mafia 3.
Mafia 3 is available from BT Games for R699.90 on Xbox One and PS4. (Special ends 27 November)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate – R299 (Makro)
The last couple of Assassin's Creed titles have left us wanting a little more, but the most recent entry into the series, Syndicate, delivers in spades. Set in 1868 London, Assassin's Creed Syndicate marks the first time players can switch between two main protagonists freely throughout the game, and the first main game with a playable female character. The two Fryes have specialised uses like Jacob being better in close combat and Evie excelling in stealth maneuvers. Syndicate also includes a new means of transportation in the rope launcher that allows Evie and Jacob to rappel up buildings and use a zip-line between them, and carriages and trains can be used to get around London.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is available for R299 from Makro.
Grant Theft Auto V – various prices (BT Games)
By now, either you've played Grand Theft Auto V and have appreciated its brilliance, or you've yet to indulge in one of the best games ever made. GTA V on PS4 and Xbox One is still a better game than most of the other games released on the new consoles so far. A must play for newcomers, and a great reason to return to Los Santos for veterans. (Special ends 27 November)
- GTA V (Xbox One) – R499.90
- GTA V (Xbox 360) – R299.90
*All prices and availability are correct at time of posting.
What gaming sale are you keen on this weekend? Let us know by tweeting @MenStuffZA and commenting below.
More gaming stuff to keep you busy:
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So much has already been written about the Petraeus side show that it seems only right to throw in my perspective on it in bullet point format.
- Petraeus showed great ineptitude in his lack of understanding information/email security. Shockingly appalling for a general and the director of the CIA and underling should have had his back on making sure this stuff was right (not to cover up the affair but to avoid many potential issues).
- He also showed an extreme nativity and the political landscape. When your hailed as a hero and talked about as a potential Republican candidate you have to be smart. He wasn't as tough but he could have been in the Eisenhower mold if he played his cards better and if he had any public speaking ability but I am thinking he didn't have that fire in his belly
- I find it amusing many people in the sphere are quick to call him a beta or paper alpha. Either designation could be true but he's doing what game teaches and leveraged his fame into access to women he desired. Harnessing power/status to get what you want seems to meet the criteria of having alpha traits as defined by many.
- It feels wrong that people want to lob grenades at Petraeus' wife for being old, overweight and unattractive. Unless some evidence changes and she has some culpability in the events how can it be her fault. That is too far gone of a position for me to even consider and I wonder how people who think this get along with their mother or older relatives. Would their mother deserve the same?
- Both women seemingly involved in the affairs are disgusting individuals who have no regard for their families and are the exact type of women this site is trying to educate men about as part of my mission. The worst type of low life status whoring, low moral hypergamy run wild women that try to ruin men for fun. Can't wait to read how they are supposedly good Christian family women when excuses start flying after the initial story dies down.
- The most disgusting part of the story is how the 2 now disgraced generals vouched for Jill Kelley's bat shit crazy sister in the custody hearing against her husband. For that he deserves the monicker Betrayus because that to me is the ultimate definition of all that is wrong with a white knight. Doing wrong and causing destruction to try to win favor of cancerous women who destroys everyone in her path for tingles and selfishness.


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→ REVIEWING HIATUS ←Not accepting Review Requests at this time until i can find a guest reviewer to help lighten the load, or i find my reading mojo again.
To Authors or Publishers i'm always open to receiving books from you for Reviews, or if you'd like to host a contest or interview that would be wonderful too, interviews i must have read the author previously.
Each review is my own thoughts and opinions. Authors or Publishers who would like me to review their books please note i will always be honest be it good or bad and not just give a gushing review just for the sake of it, Honesty is always the best policy :)
Each review will be posted here on Sparklys, and on Goodreads (also Amazon if requested to)
Genres i would happily read and review is: ROMANCE and all sub genres of it: Paranormal, Erotica, YA, contemporary, M/M, Gothic, Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
I would welcome other Genre's not mentioned above but i reserve the right to decline the review. (notice will always be given)
A review i give will always be honest and my own opinion, under no circumstances will i agree to a pre-approved review before posting. It's my opinion and will be posted as such.
I prefer Print books but will accept e-form too.
All requests will be replied to, again i reserve the right not to accept if i feel i don't want to read your book.
I love to help out New Authors getting the word out there about their books.
To contact me: clairetaylor28(at)hotmail(dot)co(dot)uk
Thanks for stopping by Sparkly's Book Bitch Haven. I look forward to hearing from you :)
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So after the last few weeks of miserable, stormy weather here in Ireland, the forecast was looking quite good for today so I decided to get up early and take Daves M3 for a drive through the Dublin and Wicklow mountains…
So I headed out over the M50 to the Bear Coffee Company in Blackrock for a quick coffee and a breakfast bar, next was the gas station to get some fuel and I set off up through the Wicklow mountains..
This was my first chance to give the M3 a good run and apart from the terrible feel of the throttle cable, the car felt fantastic on the damp, bumpy, windy backroads..
I tried to stop a few times to get some photos of the beautiful scenery but I was having too much fun driving the car on the mostly empty country roads…
Although the word 'roads' is one I would use loosely as you can see here..
80km/h speed limit on this 'road!'
Was absolutely loving driving the M3 on these roads that I decided to keep on going into Kildare and stop off at my sisters place for a bit of lunch and to see the kids.
A couple of burgers and a coffee later I said I'd head back towards home, it was about 1:30 at this stage so I said I'd head back home over the mountains agin. About 10 minutes down the road it start lashing rain which is a fun experience in a rwd convertible with no traction control or ABS 🙂
I headed back as far as Enniskerry and then turned off and headed up over a very icy and foggy Sally Gap…
…and back home!
I drove a total of around 300km on wet, icy, snowy, bumpy and twisty country roads in a car that can be as demanding to drive fast in those conditions as a 911(pre-996) in my opinion, but is almost as equally rewarding, I was exhausted by the time I got home!
With no radio and the drivers window down, the noise from the M3's straight 6 just make you want to keep pushing harder even though you know it might kill you 😛
Think I'll be keeping my sundays free from now on…
GET OUT AND DRIVE – Magnus Walker


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Of course, when we talk about breaches, we're usually talking about someone "stealing" data. It's not actually "stolen" because you still have it. It's more accurate to say that in a breach the data is exfiltrated. This is also called an attack on the confidentiality of the data.
In security, we talk about the C-I-A triangle, Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. Confidentiality is about the secrecy of data. Integrity is about the accuracy of data. Availability is about being able to properly access data when it's needed. A well-rounded security program needs to consider all these aspects.
What is somewhat different this year is the crypto-/ransom-ware attacks. In these cases, the attack is a virus that typically gets in as an email attachment. Someone opens the attachment and the virus executes. It finds files in network shared directories and encrypts them. Now, encryption is often a good thing, but that's when you (or your organization) has the decryption key. In a crypto-ware attack, only the attacker has the key. That's a problem. It becomes ransom-ware when the attacker offers to provide the key for a "small" consulting fee, usually paid via the anonymous crypto-currency, bitcoin.
These are basically attacks to the availability of data. We've seen instances of hospitals or other organizations temporarily shutting down as a result. These could also be considered attacks to the integrity of the data - though I think we have not yet seen the real integrity attacks... and they are coming.
So, how do we prevent these attacks? We can't. In fact, just ban the word "prevent" from your security vocabulary. The attackers are well funded and skilled. This has become a business, and business is "good". And, it's not if, but when an organization will suffer an attack.
Should we just give up? I said we can't prevent, but there are things we can do.
I don't use the "p" word prevent, but I do use the "p" word proactive. And in addition we must be able to detect problems and respond.
This week I moderated a panel of CISOs talking about Incident Management at the Cyber Security for Healthcare Exchange. It was a great discussion. Incident Response and Management could be one of the most important parts of a security program because "when" it happens, how we respond to minimize the impact can make a huge different both for the patients/customers and the organization. Incident Management needs to be a key part of an overall enterprise security program.
First you have to know where your "stuff" is. That means understanding what data and assets need to be protected either for regulatory reasons or because it might be of interest to attackers. Once you know what you've got, you need to figure out how it might be attacked. That's called Threat Modeling. Then, for each method of attack, you figure out what you would do to investigate and respond to a problem. We call those "playbooks". Easy, right? Well, it's conceptually easy, but complex to actually pull together. Here's some good news... while creating the specific plans is important, what is perhaps more important is the actual process of planning. That's because the actual response will never go down exactly as you planned it!
Another important component is monitoring. You must monitor your systems and networks. First, you need to know what "normal" is before you can figure out when things aren't normal.
One area of incident management that is often overlooked is training and awareness. There are two different components. First is training for people who will be part of investigation or response teams. This can be as simple as including those people in the planning and make sure people understand the playbooks and communication channels. But also very important is security awareness for everyone in the enterprise including understanding how to report problems and phishing email and malicious links and attachments as these are often root causes for incidents.
Ultimately, the goal is to get basic plans in place, learn from what happens (via an After Action process to review and capture lessons learned), and to practice continuous improvement. It's not about getting everything right the first time. It's about learning and improving.
The title of this post is "it's not if, but when". So what happens when it's "when"? Well, first you execute your playbook and procedures, modifying as appropriate. Another key part of the plan we didn't discuss above is communication channels. This means both how you communicate with internal as well as external stakeholders. If things get really bad, this can include: Law Enforcement, external counsel, external forensics or other security experts, your cybersecurity insurance company, the media and, regulatory bodies. Recent history has shown us that, for the worst breaches, those companies that over-communicated seemed to come out better.
This is a very rich topic so we'll revisit parts of this another time. For now, there are two guarantees... it will get worse before it gets better, and, it's not if, but when. But all is not lost! Start, plan, respond, learn, improve!


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9359?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15840736#comment-15840736 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on CLOUDSTACK-9359: -------------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1700 > Return ip6address in Basic Networking > ------------------------------------- > > Key: CLOUDSTACK-9359 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9359 > Project: CloudStack > Issue Type: Sub-task > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) > Components: API, Management Server > Environment: CloudStack Basic Networking > Reporter: Wido den Hollander > Assignee: Wido den Hollander > Labels: api, basic-networking, ipv6 > Fix For: Future > > > In Basic Networking Instances will obtain their IPv6 address using SLAAC (Stateless Autoconfiguration) as described in the Wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/IPv6+in+Basic+Networking > When a ip6cidr is configured and is a /64 we can calculate the IPv6 address an Instance will obtain. > There is no need to store a IPv6 address in the database with the /64 subnet (ip6cidr) and the MAC address we can calculate the address using EUI-64: > "A 64-bit interface identifier is most commonly derived from its 48-bit MAC address. A MAC address 00:0C:29:0C:47:D5 is turned into a 64-bit EUI-64 by inserting FF:FE in the middle: 00:0C:29:FF:FE:0C:47:D5. When this EUI-64 is used to form an IPv6 address it is modified:[1] the meaning of the Universal/Local bit (the 7th most significant bit of the EUI-64, starting from 1) is inverted, so that a 1 now means Universal. To create an IPv6 address with the network prefix 2001:db8:1:2::/64 it yields the address 2001:db8:1:2:020c:29ff:fe0c:47d5 (with the underlined U/L (=Universal/Local) bit inverted to a 1, because the MAC address is universally unique)." > The API should return this address in the ip6address field for a NIC in Basic Networking. > End-Users can use this, but it can also be used internally by Security Grouping to program rules. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)
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July 10, 2009
Mr. Michael Gray
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Problem Solved!!
During the holidays we spend a lot of time up close and personal. This is not the time for the dreaded halitosis (bad breath!) When visiting families and loved ones that we have not seen for some time the last thing we want to be remembered for is our bad breath. We hope to spend this time laughing, talking about Christmas pasts and ones to come. Here are some foolproof ideas to kill the enemy of bad breath:
- Brushing and Flossing
- Tongue cleaning
- Avoiding certain foods
- Water
- New Toothbrush
- Rinses
- Prescription Management
- Routine Cleaning
- Peridontal Treatment
Please use these ideas and pass them on to your friends along with some holiday cheer!
Merry Christmas!


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Customizing Email Templates
Magento includes a default email template for the body section of each message that is sent by the system. The template for the body content is combined with the header and footer templates to create the complete message. The content is formatted with HTMLHyperText Markup Language: A standard for tagging and structuring text, images, videos, and other media on a web page. and CSSCascading Style Sheets: A style sheet language that controls the appearance of HTML documents; a way to control the appearance of text, graphics, lists, links, and all other elements on a web page., and can be easily edited, and customized by adding variables and frontend apps. Email templates can be customized for each website, store, or store view. Make sure to update the system configuration after creating a customized template, so the custom template is used instead of the default.
The default templates include your logo and store information, and can be used without further customization. However as a best practice, you should view each template, and make any necessary changes before they are sent to customers.


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