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Pay attention, Syfy original movies gang and indie kaiju filmmakers. These are the animals we want to see in your next flick, eating cities and whirling trains around like nunchucks. They may come from the real world, but they look like they've already gotten the Roger Corman treatment.
Water bear, or Tardigrade
(via Fairfax County Public Schools and imgur)
Glaucus atlanticus, also known as the sea swallow or blue dragon
(via Sylke Rohrlach and Kehan Herman)
Sea lamprey, vampires of the waterworld
(via NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory)
Panda ant, a wingless wasp
(via Chris Lukhaup)
A male tufted deer, with fang-like canines
(via Wikimedia Commons)
The pink fairy armadillo (also known as pichiciego)
(via TED Conference)
The humpback anglerfish or common black devil (Melanocetus johnsonii, females are up to 20 cm or 8 in long)
(via Allan Bruce)
Goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni, between 3 and 4 meters or 10-13 ft)
(via Dianne Bray/Museum Victoria 1 - 2 and Wikimedia Commons)
The star-nosed mole
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The peacock mantis shrimp
(via Klaus Stiefel and Elias Lewy)
The walking handfish
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Twelve Things to Know About the 2018 Farm Bill
Once every five years, the farm bill reauthorizes farm and nutrition programs nationwide, covering programs such as healthy food access for low-income Americans and protecting our environment.
The current version – set to expire on September 30 – took two years to finalize and cost nearly $1 trillion in its final form. The 900-page legislation set food policy for the next decade but is usually renewed every five years.
The implementation of the farm bill began in 1933 as a slice of then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. The farm bill aims to fulfill three goals – keep food prices reasonable for consumers, make sure there is sufficient food supply and to protect our natural resources.
Congressional leaders from the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives are continuing to reconcile their versions of the 2018 Farm Bill, a nearly $870 billion spending plan for programs such as trade, commodities, food stamps and conservation.
Here's a look at what's in the proposed 2018 Farm Bill:
President Trump wants food stamp work requirements to be included in the new bill. | New York Times
After the farm bill gets through the U.S. Congress, President Trump hopes to see the inclusion of additional work requirements for Americans receiving food stamps, as defined by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
New requirements will up the work obligation for those receiving SNAP benefits as well as place a new limit on governors' ability to renounce such requirements.
President Trump has vocalized his support for such an amendment via Twitter. The President believes it will positively impact working Americans. There are roughly 40 million low-income Americans that SNAP to subsidize their groceries.
House version of the 2018 Farm Bill may chip away at the federal safety net. | NPR
Last year, Federal Safety Net programming provided monthly grocery funds of $125 to 42.3 million SNAP participants. Currently, this program requires adults between the ages of 18-49 without any children, to spend 20 hours per week working jobs or in state-run training programs.
However, training programs can be hard to enroll in due to the large number of SNAP participants already involved. There are almost 7 million adults who are in need of this program but not enough room for them.
In the Senate, their version of the new farm bill keeps the existing work requirements and proposes the creation of additional work training programs to create more slots for enrollment.
The House comes down stricter. This version is projected to increase the minimum hours of work or job training for able-bodied adults without children between the ages of 18-59 to 25 hours per week. The budget set for this new requirement is $1 billion per year.
If the House version of the bill passes, the reform of work requirements could affect as many as two million low-income Americans.
Sugar reform didn't quite make the cut in House version of the farm bill. | Washington Examiner
The House barely voted against renovating the federal sugar support system in the 2018 farm bill. An amendment proposed by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), called for restrictions on the production of domestic and foreign sugar on the U.S. market. Essentially, the price of sugar would drop due to this reform.
Federal sugar support programs create a minimum price for producers to sell sugar in the event of a price drop. Foxx's proposal indicated the removal of production limits for U.S. growers and opened doors for an influx of imports.
For now, the price of sugar will stay high and the program will stand as is - the amendment was flattened in the House, 278-137.
The House and Senate consider re-evaluating school lunches. | The Telegraph
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 20 percent of American school children are obese. In an effort to combat unhealthy eating in schools, the Obama administration renovated nutrition standards in the National School Lunch Program. Essentially, the amount of vegetables, sugar, salt and whole grains in school lunches was subject to regulation.
But it's no easy task to meet nutrition challenges while keeping children happy with the food options available in public schools. In Macon, Georgia, the Bibb County School District served up 18,000 lunches over the past school year. Their lunches are free because enough students face difficulties receiving proper nutrition at home.
Under the new farm bill, those meals may no longer be free for all students.
If families in the county lose their SNAP benefits, this district would no longer gain access to federal programs funding free lunch.
Like any other public school district, Bibb County is subject to regulations set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Trump administration has made a few recent changes that have been applied to schools that have funding troubles. One change that has been made was to delay sodium restrictions.
In the House bill, there have been moves to make changes like these, permanent. However, any changes made in the farm bill must also be backed by research in schools and cannot increase costs of programming. The Senate version of the bill keeps SNAP requirements in place.
Funding will pull away from the Clean Water Rule. | The Progressive Farmer
The House bill aims to repeal the 2015 Environmental Protection Agency/Army Corps of Engineer rule within the Clean Water Rule. The Clean Water Rule helps stop pollution in U.S. waters and by reclassifying what is considered protected federal waters, which includes wetlands and small streams.
For now, the Clean Water Rule will stay in place though the EPA has made moves to try to repeal it.
As well as defunding many conservation efforts. | Civil Eats
The federal government has made some effort to inspire farmers to take on sustainable practices. The Conservation Stewardship Program, is a large part of the effort - reducing pollution and runoff on farms.
The House version of the 2018 farm bill aims to consolidate such programs into larger plans. The hope is to boost similar initiatives but the new version of the bill fails to instill complete changes protecting proper environmental practices.
Over the next 10 years, $5 billion will be cut from conservation projects.
The House bill decreases its rules on pesticides. | EcoWatch
Children, farmers, communities and endangered species could be at risk as pesticide protections fall away in the House version of the new farm bill.
Local governments would be blocked from adopting their own pesticide regulations, even if it means protecting children. Essentially, the communities would no longer have the ability to create laws or other protection measures in their communities – even in places like playgrounds and schools. Under this proposal, farmers would be able to spray pesticides directly into drinking water supplies.
Currently, local governing bodies can regulate where chemicals are sprayed and farmers must gain a permit to be able to spray substances into bodies of water. With fewer restrictions and less government oversight, protecting our drinking water could become a difficult task.
Farm bill confronts crop insurance. | AgriPulse
Significant changes are set to impact crop insurance programs. Amendments in the House farm bill detail a limit for crop insurance subsidies impacting the wealthiest farmers. Among the many amendments proposed, some lawmakers hope to decrease the target gross rate of return for insurance companies from 14.5 to 12 percent. Another aims to lower crop insurance premium subsidies for insurance policies. There has been a proposal to restrict crop insurance subsidies with adjusted gross income under $500,000 and to require a public disclosure of premium subsidies.
Lawmakers hope the various amendments will save taxpayers more than $490 million over the next decade. Critics hope to push back on such amendments to protect subsides already in place. Currently, there are no limits on crop insurance.
Farm bill plows into the Affordable Care Act. | NPR
The House farm bill has come down hard on the Affordable Care Act. Under the new bill, farmers have the ability to buy into health insurance plans that are lower in cost but offer fewer benefits than the current plan.
More than $60 million in loans and grants will be required to be dispensed by the Department of Agriculture to help stimulate these "association health plans."
The plans would be offered through the workplace or similar organizations.
For the new health insurance providers, there would be no requirement to offer a minimum set of necessary benefits such as hospitalization, prescription drugs, and emergency care.
Trade protections are amplified in farm bill. | The New Republic
If more export regulation ensues, U.S. farmers may worry over a potential retaliation on foreign import tariffs decided by President Trump. Both Senate and House bills suggest backing exports for specialty crops. This could help U.S. farmers sell more crops abroad as well as provide a safeguard against additional foreign imposed tariffs. This decision comes as China sends tariffs on soybeans and potentially other U.S. exports.
Rural areas to see more access to internet. | Washington Examiner
There has been a push by some lawmakers, to require a faster internet speed for government-subsidized broadband internet in rural areas. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R – M.O.) proposes utilizing funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service fund. The minimum download speeds would be raised from 4 to 24 megabits per second and a minimum upload speed of 3 Mbps.
Organic food standards may change in 2018 farm bill. | National Development and Reform Commission
The House bill includes a new requirement for the organic industry. The National Organic Standards Board, which decides what substances are allowed to be labeled as organic products, must to refer to the FDA and EPA to define labeling. The funds allotted are $11.5 million. The National Organic Standards Board is referred to as an independent governmental organization. Critics say the new requirement weakens organic standards.
The Senate version of the bill also includes a revision to the National Organic Standards Board. In this version, soil policy is the focus and includes a pilot program with the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. The program pays farmers to improve their soil health and measure soil carbon. It's one way farmers can help fight climate change.
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, online newsroom offering investigative and enterprise coverage of agribusiness, Big Ag and related issues through data analysis, visualizations, in-depth reports and interactive web tools. Visit us online at www.investigatemidwest.org
Kaolin Sewell
Kaolin Sewell is a content editor and reporter for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. She grew up in the Chicago suburbs away from farmland and agriculture but is excited to gain a new perspective in her reporting. Kaolin recently graduated from The University of Illinois and received her master's degree in journalism from the College of Media. At Illinois, she was the executive producer for Good Morning Illini, a student-run morning show and worked for the Daily Illini, student newspaper, creating student guides for various University events.


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Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal
from the in-soviet-russia,-speech-censors-you deptNot too long ago, despite the protests of several sites, Russia passed its own little version of SOPA. It did so for the typical "for the children" reasoning. Even though this new censorship power is only a couple of weeks old, the Russia government wasted no time in taking advantage of it. In what could only conceivably be an act of celebration, perhaps after a vodka binge, the government decided to block all of LiveJournal.
It began by blocking the entirety of LiveJournal, the country's largest blogging community, to the city of Yaroslavl and part of surrounding Moscow from July 18 to 20.Wait. All of LiveJournal? Why? What could possibly go through the minds of these government officials that would cause them to block an entire network of blogs, most of which were not doing anything illegal?
On July 18, local law enforcement informed a Yaroslavl court about pat-index, a neo-Nazi blog it had found on LiveJournal during a sweep. The blog's hateful message violates Russian federal laws against extremism. Because of Bill 89417-6, the court now has the power to stamp it out completely and immediately.You see, the court order demanded the blockage based on the IP of the blog in question. What could possibly go wrong with such a simple open and shut use of such an easy to use identification source? Oh, right. All of LiveJournal uses the same IP address. So when the government officials got their court order to block those few illegal blogs, they took out just a few extra. Kind of reminds me of when Homeland Security, here in the US, took out over 84,000 websites in a similar action.
The court ordered Internet provider Netis Telekom to block, among other illegal sites, this blog's IP. The court order shows the IP to be blocked as 188.8.131.52.
This reminds me of the debates around SOPA. You know, when we and other people, who actually understand the dangers of the legislation, warned repeatedly that such legislation would result in collateral damage of this nature. This collateral damage is also part of the reason why this Russian bill was protested. Legitimate speech was censored for several days. That is not acceptable. It should be a wake up call to the legislators that passed the bill. Unfortunately, too many people in power are unwilling to relinquish the ability to censor speech once they have it. Hopefully, the citizens of Russia will take note of this unacceptable abuse of power and demand the law be repealed.
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Life is so Short, and the World is so Chaotic
Things went as Feng Yu Heng had expected. Before dinner, sure enough, someone came from the Feng manor to Tong Sheng pavilion, and it was not just one person. It was a pair of people.
The Cheng shi sisters coming was something that Feng Yu Heng thought would happen. After the two entered the manor, they did not communicate with her too much. Now that she was about to leave the capital, they had to make this trip.
The Cheng shi sisters saluted Feng Yu Heng, paying their respects and wishing county princess well. Feng Yu Heng personally invited the two into the hall then gave them seats, as a servant brought out some tea. When the servant left, she closed the door behind her.
The two were direct and did not bother with any small talk, as the elder sister, Cheng Jun Man, said: "When aunty told us to marry into the Feng manor, she said that county princess would need to go and produce steel sooner or later, so us sisters will definitely need to take care of the family."
Cheng Jun Mei also said: "Aunty is worried about that eldest princess from Qian Zhou because the tributary moon palace silk that was brought in this year was soaked in musk."
Feng Yu Heng was slightly startled; musk? It would increase the strength and rate of contractions to stop early pregnancies. Moon palace silk was a valuable thing. After Da Shun obtained it, it would definitely be awarded to the Empress or a favored concubine. Qian Zhou had this sort of idea?
Seeing her fall silent in contemplation, the Cheng shi sisters did not rush her. They patiently waited until Feng Yu Heng let out a slight sigh, as her usual calm smile returned to her face. They then heard her say: "Qian Zhou has wicked ambitions. Sooner or later, they will need to eat their own poisoned fruit. Didn't father Emperor award two bolts of moon palace silk to Ru Jia? You two should think of a way to have those two bolts sent into the palace for her to use. Remember, she must use it herself."
The two looked at each other. Having received instructions from Feng Yu Heng, they could not help but smile, "County princess, don't worry. We understand."
"Un." Feng Yu Heng nodded then said: "You must take care to watch over Han shi's pregnancy. You absolutely must make sure that she can safely give birth to her child. Make absolutely certain that nobody can do anything that child."
Cheng Jun Mei was puzzled, "Is Han shi one of county princess' people?"
Feng Yu Heng shook her head, "No, but her child must be born. Like that, this family will become more entertaining."
The Cheng shi sisters did not understand what these words meant, but before they left the imperial palace, the Empress had said that they would listen to county princess Ji An after arriving at the Feng manor. Feng Jin Yuan would not be their support. It would be Feng Yu Heng.
Cheng Jun Main quickly expressed herself: "Very well, us sisters will definitely protect Han shi's pregnancy. Some news came from the palace over the past few days. Concubine An's insanity became worse. Surprisingly, she had the people of her palace perform a dance, and this happened to be seen by his Majesty, who ordered her execution. I heard that before she was sentenced to death, his Highness the fifth prince was taking care of her. Although he could sit at concubine An's side, unfortunately, concubine An continued to think of him as his Highness the third prince."
Feng Yu Heng had been inside her space for most of the past few days, or looking at accounts and arranging matters with Tong Sheng pavilion. How could she have the time or energy to worry about the situation outside. She truly had not heard anything about concubine Ann.
But thinking about it, after she had gone to Qing An Palace the last time, it would not have been very possible for concubine An to continue living well. Going crazy then dying might have been the best possible end for her. In regards to that woman, she had been very merciful. Otherwise, with her emerald hummingbirds poisoning the army, once she had told the Emperor, concubine An's end would definitely have been much worse than going insane.
"Speaking of concubine An, I remembered something." Feng Yu Heng said to the two: "Qing An Palace has a palace maid named Yin Lan. I once promised that I would protect her life at a critical moment. Can you two think of a method to handle this matter?"
The two pondered a little then nodded together, "Yes."
Like this, Feng Yu Heng calmed down, "After she has been saved, just let her go. Have people observe her for a while. As long as she does not contact anyone in the Feng family, she can live as she likes. It will be unrelated to us." Having finally handled all of her matters, Feng Yu Heng looked at the Cheng shi sisters and calmly said: "Presently, I do not have much that I can give you; however, I can promise to help you out. Consider it thanks for taking care of the Feng manor in my absence."
The Cheng shi sisters stood up then solemnly saluted Feng Yu Heng. The responsibility of managing the Feng manor had been handed over.
The next day, Feng Yu Heng woke up early. Taking off her usual bright and beautiful clothes, she put on a plain set of Winter clothes. Aside from all of her clothes having their iconic wide sleeves, the rest of the clothes fit her perfectly, giving her a very clean look.
Wang Chuan and Huang Quan packed a small box of clothes for her and had already climbed into the carriage. On Yao shi's side, there were servants that had helped her into Feng Yu Heng's imperial carriage.
At this time, Yao shi was awake. Although her consciousness was still weak, she could still recognize people.
Qing Lan wrapped her up tightly with a cloak then said to her: "Young miss said that madam must not catch a cold. Let us sit further inside. The wind absolutely must not blow on you."
Yao shi listening was the same as not listening. She did not react too much and could only have Qing Lan help nudge her further inside.
When Feng Yu Heng climbed into the carriage, she saw that Yao shi's gaze was a little blank. Because of her addiction, her face would occasionally twitch awkwardly. Seeing it, her heart began to ache. It felt as though an angry flame was raging fiercely inside her chest.
"A-Heng." Yao shi suddenly spoke, her expression showing a little confusion. Her eyes did not focus, but her mind was clear, as she said: "Me going to the military camp is not good. The military camp does not allow for women to be present. Don't cause his Highness the ninth prince any trouble."
"Mother, don't worry." Feng Yu Heng held her wrist and said: "Things have already been arranged with that side. We will not be living in a conspicuous place. He will not be troubled."
Yao shi let out an "oh" sound, as her breathing became a little ragged. She began to discuss with Feng Yu Heng: "Can you get me a pastry to eat? I just want one piece, no! One bite! Just one bite is enough!"
Feng Yu Heng shook her head, "Mother, don't blame A-Heng for being cruel. Once you have taken a bite, all of the suffering that you have endured these past few days will have been in vain." As she said this, she flicked her wrist and pulled out two needles. Raising her hand, she placed one into Yao shi's neck.
Yao shi slowly fell asleep, and Qing Lan wiped away some tears and covered her in a brocade blanket that had been prepared. Feng Yu Heng patted her shoulder and advised her: "Take good care of her." She then turned around and got out of the carriage.
Outside, Xuan Tian Ming was still waiting in place, as Bai Ze told her: "This servant will personally take care of driving the imperial carriage that madam is in. County princess should sit with his Highness. Once we have arrived at the foot of the mountain, you will go over the mountain with his Highness, and this servant will bring madam and the luggage the long way around."
She nodded and walked over to Xuan Tian Ming's side, "Mother's condition is still not good. My heart is filled with discomfort."
Xuan Tian Ming pulled on her hand and told her: "The Northwest Army is located in the Ping Xu Mountains. You have been there before. That place is filled with mountains and hills. I believe that madam living there will be better than living in the county princess' manor. Or perhaps a change in the surroundings will be good for her health."
Feng Yu Heng agreed with this point, thus she nodded and finally put on a smile: "I knew that you had a way to make me feel better."
He smiled, "This is not to make you feel better. This is the truth. Heng Heng, life is so short, and the world is so chaotic. In this limited lifetime, I will always take care of you and your family. This is my responsibility, and I am all too happy to do it."
The smile on her face became even brighter, as it seemed that a knot in her heart had been relieved. In an instant, her innocent appearance was restored, "Xuan Tian Ming, let's get in the carriage!"
Two imperial carriages, two carriages filled with luggage and the attendants that followed on horseback formed a mighty group that headed towards the city gates.
Unbeknownst to them, in front of the Feng manor, Xiang Rong poked her small head out from a corner and sent them off. Her gaze was filled with envy and hope. Heavens knew how much she wished she could be like her second sister and not be bound to the Feng manor. To be able to go along with her beloved, but An shi, who was standing behind her, pulled the small girl back into reality. An shi said: "I must remind you that second young miss not assigning that debt to us was her being generous; however, you definitely must not overstep your bounds. You cannot hope that she can continue to help you. One's fate can only be changed through one's own hands. It is not changed by relying on others. If you want to escape from this manor, you need to think of your own ideas. I don't care what methods you use, but as long as you don't have a mind to harm others, it is fine. If you really do succeed some day, concubine mother will personally send you out of through these gates. I will allow you to be happy and free. Even if you do not succeed, as long as you put forth your best effort, there is nothing to regret."
Xiang Rong turned around and looked at An shi. The girl that was now one year older was able to think more thoroughly. She knew that concubine mother was doing this for her own good, and she also understood that everything relied on her own efforts. But she lacked confidence. This Feng manor was so profound and large. How should she do her best to get out?
"Let's go back." An shi reached out to pull her, "The day is still early. You can sleep a little longer. After you wake up, we need to go pay respects to elder madam and madam. That is the most important thing to do right now."
Xiang Rong was pulled by An shi back into the manor. She was unwilling to look away; however, she was already unable to see any trace of Feng Yu Heng's group.
From the capital to the military camp, from dawn to evening, they finally arrived in the mountains. The imperial carriage began to tilt and bump around. Feng Yu Heng drowsily clambered out of Xuan Tian Ming's lap and asked him: "Have we entered the mountains?"
He reached out to help brush away some loose hair from her forehead, "After a little while longer, we will be at the foot of the mountains. Wake up a little. I will be bringing you over the mountains!"
The carriages finally stopped, and Xuan Tian Ming sat the little girl in his lap. When he used his qinggong and soared up the mountain, the cold wind blew fiercely, causing her cheeks to hurt; however, she felt extremely happy. She even opened her mouth to welcome this cold wind.
Xuan Tian Ming smiled and pulled her into his embrace and once again used his internal energy. Flying over the mountain, they entered the valley where the military camp was installed.
As they landed, Feng Yu Heng noticed that something was different. The empty valley did not have a single person. The further in they walked, the quieter it became. This silence would cause people to feel a bit flustered.
She was a little worried: "This is the only path into the camp. Normally, wouldn't there be heavily armed guards here?" She asked Xuan Tian Ming, "Has something happened?"
She said this; however, there was no feeling of crisis. Instead, she was calm, as though she was walking through her own yard.
When the two moved along a small path until they arrived at an empty field in the military camp; however, they still did not see anyone.
But there was a bamboo pole there. It was very thick and very long. It should have been many bamboo poles bundled together. It was like the Jin Gu Bang from the Eastern Sea, standing there without moving.
Suddenly, from directly in front of them, a fierce wind surged forward. The force was strong and loud.
Feng Yu Heng's eyes became wide, as she noticed countless arrows appear ten steps away and flying straight toward them.
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Macs Continue to Claim More Office Space
Mac shipments grew faster than PC shipments for the 25th consecutive time during the June quarter. And while that growth was slower overall than it has been in the past, it continues to occur in areas like enterprise, where Apple has long been searching for inroads.
During the June quarter, Mac shipments to business in the U.S. grew 56.6 percent, even as overall PC sales slipped 8.8 percent, according to Needham analyst Charlie Wolf. Meanwhile, Mac business shipments worldwide increased 22.1 percent, amid a 4.5 percent decline in overall business PC sales. That's significant growth, though the Mac is still far, far outdistanced by its enterprise rivals. In the U.S., the Mac's share of the business market was just 5.9 percent in June — and that was an all-time high.
But growth is growth, and given the overall decline in the business PC market, the Mac is clearly gaining traction there. There are a few obvious reasons for this. First, Apple's OS X operating system has become increasingly more business-friendly over the years, and now plays well with Windows applications, thanks to software like Boot Camp, Parallels and VMware's Fusion. Second, the so-called "consumerization of IT," which sees the rank and file acclimatizing enterprise to consumer devices like the iPad and iPhone, and opening the door for bigger hardware like the Mac.
As Wolf notes, Mac adoption in the business sector was pretty slow through 2007. But after? "Something did happen around the beginning of 2008 to propel Mac sales in the business market, and it seems reasonable to infer that it was Apple's other products, most notably the iPhone and iPad, rather than the Mac itself that contributed to the significant share gains," Wolf explains. "In our opinion, the role of the iPad cannot be overemphasized. Some observers estimate the iPad sales in the business market might represent up to half of all iPad sales."
Now, Wolf is speculating a bit here, but that speculation seems reasonable, given recent statements from Apple. During the company's last earnings call, it estimated that the number of iPads in use at the Fortune 500 had tripled over the past year, and the number of iPhones doubled. Said Wolf, "No doubt many mobile professionals purchased an iPhone for their personal use, which cast a favorable light on Apple's app ecosystem. Arriving in April 2010, the iPad undoubtedly reinforced the more positive perception of Apple products, encouraging some IT professionals to consider the Mac in their purchasing decisions."
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On the one hand, the trailer for "What's Your Number?" brings to mind the kind of wretched romcom tripe that typically stars Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson. But on the other hand it stars Anna Faris.
Faris' new film is about a young women who learns that 96% of women who've slept with 20 or more men never get married. After doing some quick accounting, she realizes that she's one short of her limit, and so decides to catch up on all her past conquests in the hopes that one of them is Mr Right. Apparently women who've slept with 19 men have a really good chance of getting married.
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The cast of men in her past is impressive: real-life hubbie Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie, Martin Freeman, Andy Samberg, Zachary Quinto, Joel McHale... But if the trailer's any guide, smart money is on her ending up with Chris "Captain America" Evans.
We love Faris--though not as much as Tad Friend--and so we're gonna try to separated this in our minds from "entertainments" like "27 Dresses," and give her the benefit of the doubt that "What's Your Number?" will have a little more brains and heart. The film comes out Sept. 30.
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Welcome to the Website for ETD2014 - NDLTD's 17th International Symposium on Electronic Theses & Dissertations - which took place from 23 July to 25 July 2014 at the University of Leicester in the UK.
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The Effects on Cities of "Best Practice" in Tax Foreclosure: Evidence from Detroit and Flint
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Although property abandonment affects many cities, little is known about what becomes of that property or what institutional differences lead to varied outcomes. More rapid tax foreclosure in Michigan, touted as best practice nationally, offers the opportunity to investigate who loses property and what property becomes after tax reversion. Two counties' practices, using different approaches to foreclosure prevention, revealed large differences in the numbers of owner occupants who lost their homes. Use and condition of auctioned properties primarily reflected use prior to foreclosure. However, other, more deliberate ways of selling tax-reverted property enabled many more owner-occupants, next-door neighbors, and developers to purchase and reuse property. The processes for sale of tax-reverted properties can thus determine productive reuse of property with positive effects on surroundings.
Keywords: Housing, Land Use, Public Finance & Taxation
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Electric cars battle for hearts, wallets
U.S., makers invest billions - public not yet on board
Washington -- Electric cars are at a fork in the road, with oblivion lying in one direction and the mass market in the other.
A woeful tale splayed across the pages of the New York Times on Feb. 8 of a dead Tesla electric sedan getting towed in wintry Connecticut did not seem a promising start.
But the firestorm that followed - Tesla founder Elon Musk all but accused the reporter, John Broder, of lying, Broder issued a point-by-point rebuttal, and CNN conducted a redo that vindicated the car - highlighted the battle under way for the hearts and wallets of American drivers.
At stake is $7.5 billion invested by the Obama administration, and billions more by automakers, who will put eight new models of plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads this year, including Ford and BMW. Nissan has invested $5 billion in electric cars and General Motors $1 billion.
Mass adoption of the electric vehicle, or EV in car lingo, is critical, experts said, to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. That means weaning drivers off the gasoline engine.
"There's no backing off," said Brendan Jones, director of marketing and sales for the all-electric Nissan Leaf. Nissan has opened a new battery plant in Smyrna, Tenn., where it builds the Leaf.
Elizabeth Ferber just leased her first Leaf for her commute from her home in Albany to her job in San Francisco.
"It takes off like a Porsche," Ferber said. "It works perfectly. It loves traffic, it loves red lights, and it loves going downhill," when the battery recharges itself. Ferber said she is saving roughly $150 a month on gasoline, after subtracting the cost of her home charging. Plus she gets to drive in the high-occupancy-vehicle lane.
Falling short of hopes
U.S. households paid on average almost $3,000 last year for gasoline, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, almost 4 percent of their pretax income.
But sales of the Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt and similar cars have fallen far short of expectations, despite a $7,500 federal tax credit and an additional $2,500 rebate in California, with many other states offering similar sweeteners.
That has led some analysts to conclude that the cars will never escape their small niche.
"The Volt is a car that is genuinely fun," said Timothy Cain, founder of Good Car Bad Car, a website that sifts car sales statistics. "The power is instantaneous. It's a spectacular feeling, strangely normal and so abnormal at the same time."
Still, he said, plug-ins were just 0.6 percent of new U.S. car sales last year, "and that was boosted by rebates that aren't available to buyers of other cars."
Vast expansion of charging stations, changes in drivers' mind-sets, battery improvements and lower prices are needed before the cars become mass market, Cain said.
Enthusiasts embrace the new vehicles.
"People become evangelical because electric cars are simply better technology," said Kirk Brown, the managing director in San Francisco of Plug in America, a nonprofit group of dedicated drivers. "They are more responsive, they have better traction and control. They feel safer, and in fact they are."
Drivers who have made the leap to electric seem to love the cars. The Volt ranks higher than any other car in customer satisfaction, according to Consumer Reports, and is outselling half of other car models, including the Mercedes S class and several Audis.
General Motors thinks the market is so promising that it is introducing a Cadillac extended-range plug-in, which like the Volt will have a gas-powered generator to charge the battery when it gets low, as well as an all-electric vehicle called the Spark, said Shad Balch, General Motors' spokesman for environment and energy.
State tries to be leader
California, where the car is king but the governor is green, intends to become the nation's showcase for a revolution in automobile travel. Gov. Jerry Brown joined United Parcel Service this month to introduce 100 all-electric brown trucks for the delivery service, made by Stockton manufacturer Electric Vehicle International.
The venture is part of the state's "Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan" issued this month calling for 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads in 12 years. Transportation accounts for 40 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions. Electrification of cars and trucks is "imperative" to meeting the state's ambitious climate change targets, the plan said.
Detractors note that Thomas Edison himself gave up on the electric car a century ago because of the same problems - weight, expense and lack of range - that still plague batteries.
Plus there is political hostility from conservatives who don't like the subsidies and the Obama administration's embrace.
Automakers are offering discounted leases. States and cities are adding rebates, access to HOV lanes, free city parking and fee discounts. With federal and state rebates, the Leaf can sell for as low as $18,800, Jones said.
Pennan Barry, who commutes from San Francisco to Richmond, devised a spreadsheet that showed he is driving a new Leaf for the almost same cost as his old 1996 Subaru, with a lease of less than $200 per month, gasoline savings of $160 per month, and discounted tolls on the Bay Bridge.
"I wouldn't have done it if the math hadn't worked out," Barry said. Still, he said, the car "is quite fun to drive."
Charging limitations
Jesse Toprak, an analyst for TrueCar, an automotive website, said charging limitations will nonetheless hold down all-electric sales. Homeowners can charge in their garage, but young people who live in apartment buildings often can't. "That's a huge problem," Toprak said. "That eliminates a big chunk of your potential customers right there."
San Francisco, which wants to become the electric car capital of the world, is conducting a demonstration program to install 90 chargers in 35 apartment buildings to see whether that helps induce wider adoption.
Forrest North, founder and chief executive of Xatori, a Menlo Park company that runs the PlugShare smartphone app to help electric car drivers locate charging stations all over the country, said electric cars have passed a critical threshold.
"Plug-in vehicles have crossed over the point of being an economic no-brainer in the last few months," he said. "The public perception is behind reality by maybe six months to a year."
North said he drove his Leaf for two years, about 1,000 miles a month. "I have not taken it in for a single service in those two years," he said. "You can fit the entire cost of ownership, lease, service and fuel into the fuel bill of any other normal car."
Battery technology is poised for big gains, and that inertia is holding back broader acceptance, North said.
Nissan's Jones said automakers must find an alternative to the gasoline engine. Global auto sales are expected to rise 55 percent in 12 years, he said, making gasoline prohibitively expensive.
"All manufacturers better have alternative vehicle platforms that are viable," Jones said. "And what's more viable than no gas?"
Carolyn Lochhead is The San Francisco Chronicle's Washington correspondent. E-mail: email@example.com


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Patriotic Sculptures Honor Anniversary of September 11
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Offered exclusively from The Bradford Exchange, Hawthorne Village Division, each sculpture in this collection captures a defining moment in the events of September the 11th, 2001 and the days thereafter. The Twin Towers sculpture that introduces this collection is handcrafted in crystal clear artist's resin and majestically mounted on a glossy black base with a silver-finish title plaque. Embracing the Towers is an elegant American flag of real fabric. With the flick of a switch, watch as the illumination of this Twin Towers sculpture changes from red to white to blue, to give this dramatic September 11 tribute a soft, reverent glow. This unique tribute collection takes on even greater meaning because a portion of the proceeds will be donated to support families of emergency responders who died in service. Heavy demand is expected for this landmark September 11th tribute collection to America's heroes, so don't wait! Order now!
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BY Patrick Hedlund
If the painted pitch-black walls of the famed Pyramid Club in the East Village could talk, they'd also sing, laugh — and likely gag.
Ask anyone who spent time at the Avenue A nightspot about their experiences inside the historic venue, and you're bound to be awed by tales of ribaldry and revolution, glamour and gaudiness.
It's where performers named Brian and Jon became Hattie and Bunny, Hells Angels and skinheads mingled with filmmakers and drag queens, and creativity of all forms was honored above all else.
The confluence of those ideals — including the building's early life as a social gathering space dating back to the 1800s — will help the property's push to achieve landmark status after a local preservation organization recently undertook the effort.
As part of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation's sweeping survey of the East Village, the group recently nominated the four-story tenement building at 101 Avenue A for landmarking after uncovering a wealth of history at the property dating back 130 years.
Once a social and banquet hall for German-Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the ground floor also acted as a place of merriment and mourning for the many Germans who lived in the East Village during that time. As the neighborhood transitioned through the years, the space kept pace by morphing into a music and performance venue while retaining its reputation as a cultural petri dish.
When it eventually became the Pyramid Club in 1979, the property had already served a century's worth of patrons and organizers from the neighborhood. But its history going forward — and the prominent role the club played in promoting performance art — might be what eventually cements the Pyramid's past on Avenue A.
"As we were doing this research, 101 Avenue A just jumped out at us," said Andrew Berman, G.V.S.H.P. executive director, of his organization's block-by-block East Village survey. "It's in some ways one of the more extraordinary illustrations of what the East Village is all about."
In their research, Berman and G.V.S.H.P. found the space originally housed the Kern's Hall saloon after German-born architect William Jose oversaw its construction in 1876. From there, it became Shultz's Hall, Fritz's Hall and more famously Leppig's Hall for a 30-year stretch. During its time as a meeting hall, it celebrated the opening of the adjacent Tompkins Square Park in 1879, acted as a gathering place for local laborers and unions, and memorialized the more than 1,000 people — many East Villagers of German descent — who died in the General Slocum disaster of 1904.
"It kind of mirrors the East Village," Berman added of the building's uses through the years, also noting the facade's elaborately detailed cornice and stone-, iron- and brickwork.
When counterculture bohemians and artists starting replacing the East Village immigrant community in the 1960s, the space adapted by becoming a music venue catering to multiple genres. A cultural center and theater by 1979, the space changed hands again — this time calling itself the Pyramid Club.
The name, according to former creative director Brian Butterick, stemmed from the original pyramid design found in the building's tiling.
"It still had the vestiges of that neighborhood bar when we ran it," said Butterick, who helped lead the performance-art and drag scenes that eventually brought the club to the height of its popularity. "But we always forced a little art and controversy down people's throats in the process."
Butterick once performed at the club in drag as Hattie Hathaway and now runs Rapture Café and Books a few blocks north on Avenue A. He said the perception then of the Pyramid as gay bar was false, since it actually appealed to what he called a "polysexual" clientele.
"Every happening nightspot in Manhattan was run by gays in those days," he said, calling the emergence of drag performances in the '80s the "biggest social revolution" at that time. "It changed from specific female impersonations to female interpretation," he said.
In fact, a "drunken party at 6 a.m." in Tompkins Square Park, where clubgoers donned wigs at the impromptu show, evolved into the gender-bending Wigstock festival featuring famous drag performers RuPaul, Lady Bunny and Lypsinka.
"The Pyramid was the CBGB of drag and Downtown performance culture," said Village Voice nightlife columnist Michael Musto, who covered the club "as a bastion of high camp, low culture and creative explorations."
"It was a ramshackle place where struggling artists could take chances, make fools of themselves and create beautiful work," Musto added. "A springboard for some talent that eventually went more mainstream, as well as just a place where anyone with some nerve could nab a spotlight and some onlookers."
Bobby Anger, who was working behind the bar on a recent Friday night, started coming down from Connecticut to visit the club in 1985 and has worked there in some capacity since 1989. He remembers coming to the club during one of its notorious "Trip and Go Naked" parties — where clubbers waiting in line earned swift admission if they stripped down outside — and witnessing all forms of sexually explicit feats.
"There was the big discos and all that, but the Pyramid was something different," Anger said. "It was about just having a place to perform. … You could be that individual, and nobody would say anything."
Performers considered at that time on the margins of socially palatable art sought refuge inside the Pyramid, which garnered an anything-goes reputation for allowing — and encouraging — experimental acts.
John Epperson, a.k.a. Lypsinka, started going to the Pyramid in 1984 and performed drag as well musical theater at the venue.
"When I went there, I realized it was the '80s equivalent of what the gay baths had been 14 or so years earlier, launching the career of Bette Midler," Epperson said. "I just knew in my bones this was the place to be. And there was a built-in audience on Sunday nights that loved everything, no matter how awful. It was O.K. to try anything."
While many considered the Pyramid a gay bar, those who knew it best claimed the club simply catered to a more avant-garde and progressive crowd, which included people from all walks of life.
Lower East Side documentarian Clayton Patterson, who photographed the club and also presided over the Tattoo Society that met there monthly, said the Pyramid championed organic art, or "making creations out of nothing."
"That was the magic of it," he said of Hells Angels joining drag perfromers at the club and skinheads working the door. "That's the kind of strange crossovers you would get. … It wasn't about status, it was about creativity."
Legend also has it that bands like Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers played their first New York City gigs there, joining acts like Madonna and Blondie, and further fermenting the club's character as an artistic axis.
That rich history could play a deciding role in whether the property receives landmark status, said Lisi de Bourbon, a spokesperson for the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission. She confirmed that the commission considers a building's cultural, historical and architectural significance, but that it's difficult to weigh these factors against each other.
A building's social impact is "a difficult attribute to quantify," de Bourbon said, adding that New York City properties have been landmarked based purely on cultural influence in the past. However, she did not comment on where the commission's evaluation of the Pyramid currently stands.
A recent push to rezone the East Village could also affect this process, Berman noted, as a city assessment of the neighborhood's historic resources would help bolster a landmark designation.
"[The neighborhood] definitely deserves much more attention," Berman said, "and the commission is clearly now taking a look at the East Village."
Today at the Pyramid Club, the bawdy performances have been replaced by themed dance nights, with gay men outnumbered by their straight gal pals, according to Anger. He claimed women now dominate the club's most gay-friendly night, although a recent visit showed the men at least outpacing the women on the dance floor.
Musto said that while most clubs' current marketing efforts aim at attracting a specifically gay or straight crowd, the Pyramid always has had "an overriding gay sensibility."
"I think to some people it will always be considered a gay bar," Anger acknowledged.
Those determinations, though, seemed lost on most who spent time at the Pyramid during its heyday. For them, it wasn't about the diverse characteristics people brought into the club, but how they all coalesced inside.
Although Butterick no longer has any affiliation with the club, he still fondly reminisces about his time there and the cultural revolution he helped spawn. He even waxes spiritual about the historic space, predicting a continued dynamic future for the property.
"I think that walls and floors and the very land that something is on retains some of the soul of prior existences," he said, adding that club regulars used to joke that the space sat on a former Indian burial ground. "I think that ghosts of the past live on there, so there will always be something happening there."


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Saturday, December 28
GO→ Ring in the "Holliday" with Broadway's original Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holliday. Expect this Tony winner's inimitable take on jazz and R&B classics mixed with songs off her first solo album in 23 years, "The Song Is You." (Through Dec. 29. 54 Below, 254 W. 54th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Aves. Info/tickets.)
Sunday, December 29
LAST CHANCE→ Broadway's Big Fish takes its last swim at the Neil Simon Theatre. Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman is at the helm of this family-friendly, coming-of-age story, starring two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggart as the Family Bloom. Andrew Lippa penned the score for the musical based on the 2003 film of the same name. (Neil Simon Theatre. 250 W. 52nd St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Aves. Click here for Playbill Club discount tickets.)
WATCH→ Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Terence Blanchard, Garth Brooks, Sutton Foster, Patina Miller, Karen Olivo, Snoop Lion (née Dogg), Justice Sonia Sotomayor and more join the Obamas for the annual Kennedy Center Honors. The 2013 honorees comprise opera singer Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine and Carlos Santana. (9 PM EST. Info.)
Monday, December 30
LAST CHANCE→ Get your last bit of Christmas cheer this season with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring Santa and his high-kicking gal pals, the world-famous Rockettes! (Radio City Music Hall. 1260 6th Ave., btwn. 50th & 51st Sts. Info/tickets.) Tuesday, December 31
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NYC→ Chita Rivera at 54 Below. (Info.)
NYC→ Paulo Szot in Die Fledermaus at the Met. (Info.)
NYC→ Two New Year's extravaganzas from Sleep No More producer Randy Weiner: First, the opening of Queen of the Night at the refurbished Diamond Horseshoe — an extravagant new immersive show set at a lavish dinner gala (info). Then there's Sleep No More's "King's Winter Masquerade" party (info).
VERONA, NY→ Franki Valli & the Four Seasons at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino. (Info.)
VEGAS→ Kristin Chenoweth at the Smith Center. (Info.)
LA→ Sergio Mendes and Sheila E. at the Hollywood Bowl. (Info.)
SAN FRAN→ Michael Feinstein's at The Nikko. (Info.)
PALM BEACH→ Tommy Tune at the Colony Hotel. (Info.)
MIAMI→ The Midtown Men of Jersey Boys fame, including Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer, play the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. (Info.)
PARK CITY→ Bernadette Peters at the Park City Performing Arts Foundation. (Info.)
Wednesday, January 1
GO→ Spend the first day of 2014 with a marathon of words at the 40th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading Benefit at the Poetry Project. The 11-hour read-a-thon will feature a round-robin of readings from 140 acclaimed writers and artists, including Patti Smith, New York Times contributing arts critic Claudia La Rocco, dancers Yoshiko Chuma and Yvonne Rainer, composer Philip Glass, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, filmmaker Jonas Mekas and many more! (St. Marks Church. 131 E. 10th Street. Tickets from $15. Info/tickets.)
Thursday, January 2
GO→ Jeff Daniels — yes that Jeff Daniels, of "The Newsroom," God of Carnage and "Dumb and Dumber" fame — takes a decidedly different turn on a New York stage with an intimate evening of folk music at 54 Below. (Through Jan. 4. 254 W. 54th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Aves. Info/tickets.)
Friday, January 3
PREVIEWS→ "Will and Grace" and "Smash" star Debra Messing will grace Broadway with her smashing presence (see what I did there?!) in the world premiere of a new John Patrick Shanley play. In Outside Mullinger, Messing plays an Irish misfit who bonds with another outsider played by Tony winner Brían F. O'Byrne. Directed by Doug Hughes. Officially opens Jan. 23. (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. 261 W. 47th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Aves. Info/tickets.)
Blake Ross is the editor of Playbill magazine. Follow her on Twitter @PlaybillBlake.
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As I sit here with an overwhelmed, overloaded with junk food from a party where in a weak moment I threw caution (and any hope of sleep tonight) to the wind and said 'what the hell eat what you want', bouncing off the walls with red ears and face, farting like Satans spawn little boy I have been thinking about you all.
I have been overwhelmed by the support and love of the internets.
Everyday someone emails me saying that I put a smile on their face or a spurt of coffee on their keyboard.
Everyday someone mentions that my miserable existence brightens their day.
Everyday I feel the love of the blogosphere and I want to send you money and shoes.
But seeing I have no money and there is no way in HELL I am parting with my shoes, I thought I would give you a little something.
Consider it an early Christmas present for the wonderful people all over the world that visit my little corner of the internet and make me squeal with delight when I see your comments or mention of me on your blogs that I
stalk visit.
So without further ado, I present you the Blog Bling.
I made it all myself.
Yeah, alright. We all know how freaking clueless I am (right Veronica?;) ) so Moo did it. But it was my idea! Honest. Truly. I dragged her away from playing Sims or Quiddich World Cup or chatting up a 40 year old man in his underpants on Myspace or somesuch and
made her with the threat of no Santa asked her to help me design it.
Now the explanation. When the girls and I want to express our mutual admiration in public we say 'Less than Three'. If you look at it sideways:
It looks like a heart. So I heart you.
And I do. Every one of you. Even the hundreds of lurkers (I know you are there…. bwaaaa haaa haaa!) and if you poke out your head and leave a comment you can have one too!
So here is the list of the first 'I less-than-three your Blog!' recipients in absolutely NO particular order …..
Drumroll please…..
Once you take your button you need to do the usual crap, pass it on and link back here from whence it came so I can
check up on you see how the love is traveling around the blogosphere and explain what it means for the idiots people that don't know that expression.
Now this took me all fucking night (c'mon I had to slip it in here somewhere, I am trying to break the Guinness Book Of Records record for the pottiest mouthed Mummy on the planet) so pass it on to the blogs you deem worthy.
And if you don't I will send that Ninja chick and her minions Stealth Ninja Moves Boy and Ninja Biatch to steal your Christmas trees.
Now I don't expect you to tag 28 people. I did 28 in honour of Boo as it is his favourite number. I also understand that a lot of people don't do 'buttons' and will not want to play
well that freaking sucks big fat hairy bleeding haemorroids that is OK. Just know that I lurve you!
And no sulking if I forgot you today. I will fling you some bling ASAP.
edited to add:
If the link to your blog is not working, shoot me an email ('Talk to me' up the top there) and I will fix it. I was a bit tired last night 🙂 Veronica and Riayn, I am on it and will fix your links today sometime after I clean all the chocolate off the walls that Boo found in the middle of the night. At least it wasn't shit and toothpaste!!!!


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|Cheat Death
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- For the warrior Tier 3 effect with the same name, see Cheat Death (warrior buff).
As assassins and redistributors of wealth, rogues specialize in avoiding unpleasant confrontations.
Cheat Death is a passive rogue talent available at level 45. Its main purpose is to increase survivability in PVP situations, oftentimes allowing a healer just enough time to land a crucial heal.
- Patch 5.4.0 (10-Sep-2013): Cheat Death now reduces damage taken by 85% after activating (up from 80%).
- Patch 4.1.0 (26-Apr-2011): Cheat Death now reduces damage taken by 80% while in effect, down from 90%. Its internal cooldown has been raised to 90 seconds, up from 60.
- Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Cheat Death was activating by a warlock's Chaos Bolt but not working. Chaos Bolt will still trigger Cheat Death, but will not kill the rogue.
- Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Cheat Death received a large change to it's mechanics. "Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue's health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes." The resilience required to reach the 90% damage reduction cap is 22.5% critical strike damage reduction, or 444 resilience.
- Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008): A combat log message will now show when this ability activates and now has an animation.. It will now almost always be accurate in displaying the amount of damage done to a rogue when under the effects of Cheat Death.
- Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): When multiple attacks land simultaneously, all those resolved after the attack which triggered Cheat Death will now have their damage reduced by 90% as intended. However, the combat log will still report them doing full damage.
- Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): The chances of avoiding damage were increased to 33/66/100% from 10/20/30%.
- Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): Added a visual, sound, and combat log message when the Cheat Death talent saves the rogue from death.
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FAQs for the Registrar's Office
What do I need to do to be able to participate in Commencement?
A Degree Application allows students the privilege to participate in May Commencement. Only those seniors whose current registration will bring them within 8 credits of completion of all degree requirements by March 1st may participate in Commencement.
How do I know if I am eligible to participate in Commencement?
If you are NOT eligible to participate in Commencement you will be contacted via email by March 1st. You can also confirm you are eligible during Grad Finale.
Who should complete a Degree Application?
Undergraduates who have completed 88 or more credits or two semesters before you intend to graduate.
How will I know if my application has been successfully submitted?
Once your Degree Application is received in the Registrar's Office the 2nd checkbox on your DegreeWorks audit will state Graduation Application Received. Please allow up to two weeks for DegreeWorks to be updated.
If I think something is incorrect after I submit my application, how do I get it changed?
Any changes to your Degree Application should be directed to the Registrar's Office:
CSB Students: email Denise Laudenbach SJU Students: email Anastasia Nathe
I think I'm eligible to apply but I am unsure about my Graduation plans. What should I do?
Submit a Degree Application ASAP and contact the Registrar's Office:
CSB Students: email Denise Laudenbach SJU Students: email Anastasia Nathe
What if I am studying abroad or want to graduate early?
You should submit a Degree Application two semesters before you intend to graduate. Degree Applications are completed online with your CSB/SJU email address.
I missed the deadline to apply; what should I do?
Email us with your plans regarding the date you plan to graduate. Please complete the Degree Application ASAP.
CSB Students: email Denise Laudenbach SJU Students: email Anastasia Nathe
My major or minor is not listed correctly; what should I do?
Once your Degree Application is received in the Registrar's Office, your majors and minors will be updated to reflect what is on your permanent record.
What if I no longer plan to finish a 2nd major or a minor?
Email us regarding the information on the major/minor you will not be finishing and we will update your Degree Application.
CSB Students: email Denise Laudenbach SJU Students: email Anastasia Nathe
How do I change how my name will appear on my diploma and in the Commencement Booklet?
Your legal name will be printed on your diploma. If you would prefer, we can use your middle initial only instead of spelling out your middle name. If you have had a name change, please bring the original documentation of the change to the Registrar's Office so our records can be updated.
How do I make sure my name is pronounced correctly at Commencement?
During Commencement Rehearsal the Vice Provost/Academic Dean will confirm that he is pronouncing your name correctly.
When is rehearsal for Commencement?
CSB Rehearsal is at 3pm on Friday, May 16th
SJU Rehearsal is at 12:30 on Monday, May 12th
What do I do if I cannot attend rehearsal?
Rehearsal is mandatory. If you have extenuating circumstances please email Anastasia Nathe.
When will my degree be posted?
Degrees are awarded once final grades have been posted and all degree requirements have been verified. The Degree Awarded date on an official transcript may take 3-4 weeks to post after the term has ended. Your degree will appear on your transcript in Banner web once awarded.
What address will my diploma be mailed to?
Your diploma will be mailed to your permanent address that is on file. You will have a chance to review this address at Grad Finale. If you have any changes after that date please email Anastasia Nathe. Remember, it takes four to six weeks to receive your diploma once your degree has been awarded.
Why is my diploma on hold?
Diplomas will not be released to graduates until all college bills have been paid or until satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Student Accounts Office. If you have questions about this please contact CSB or SJU Student Accounts.


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|Acceptable Use Policies
|A list of rules explaining what you may or may not do with the information, website, or program
|Intellectual Property
|Anything a person has written, drawn, or created from their own ideas (Examples: books, art, websites, songs)
|Copyright Laws
|Laws created to protect people's products such as books or songs so that they are not copied or stolen.
|Ethical Use
|following rules or doing the right thing
|Computer Hacking
|gaining access to online information without permission
|someone copies computer software or other digital information without permission
|computer virus
|this ruins files or the hard drive on your computer; it usually begins by opening an infected email
|invasion of privacy
|accessing someone's private information without their permission
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Addressing your post, today - I think you genuinely have me confused for someone else. None of what you purported in your post about me or my husband is remotely true. I just want to set that straight.
Just a suggestion
Thanks for the "like" on my 1st Comment.
I'm still trying to figure out the rules & procedures here.
It feels a bit like walking through a minefield wearing snow shoes
Thanks again
welcome back. hope things are going well IRL. look forward to seeing your posts. we have managed to acquire a lot of talent in addition to some more dead weight
Hey Bubba, I have rejoined the world and have come back to DP. I hope you are well my friend. Hugzzzz
merry christmas justa
Thanks for all the likes! Appreciate it!
I was taking a break from the craziness of the election rhetoric around here. I see much of it remains from the expected characters. I've not heard of Amy LaVere, but I will be on the lookout for her. As a matter of fact I have been working on a project with girl just 19 years old that knocked my socks off with her lyrics and performance. I will pm you one of her original songs (rough mix) as I'm far from releasing it to the public yet.
Hope you are doing well my friend!
Is it just me or do you keep changing your lean? You were conservative? Maybe I'm going senile....
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Natural Gas
ACC's Dooley discusses impact of shale revolution on chemical industry profits, growth
How is the unconventional oil and gas revolution impacting the U.S. chemical industry and its ability to compete internationally? During today's OnPoint, Cal Dooley, president of the American Chemistry Council, discusses a new report that highlights the economic benefits of expanded shale gas production. He also explains how the boom in shale development shifts the focus of the liquefied natural gas exports debate.


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Leatrice Eiseman
, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, is the author of seven books on color. She is included in the group of 50 top style makers by Home Furnishings News and noted as "tops in the field of color" by The Color Association. A member of the American Society of Interior Designers and the Industrial Design Society, and chairholder of the international forecasting team for the Pantone View Colour Planner and Color Marketing Group, Lee has helped many companies make the best and most educated choice of color, where color choice is critical to the success of the product or environment.
David Shah
is the publisher of Metropolitan Publishing BV which includes
Textile View Magazine, View2, Viewpoint, PANTONE View Colour Planner
View China;
co-publisher of United Publishers S.A., Paris'
View on Colour
In View Magazine;
and co-publisher with CTDC, China of
CFCA Colour Planner
. He is additionally the owner and director of DRS Consultancy BV, a specialist company dealing in publishing, fashion, lifestyle concepts, future strategies and designing and merchandising for men's and women's clothing for leading European and American chain stores and designer labels.
Tom Mirabile
has held senior merchant and product development positions with corporations like Neiman Marcus Group, Horchow and Bloomingdales among others, and has designed home collections for such icons as Vera Wang, Kenneth Cole and Calvin Klein. In his current role as senior vice president of Global Trend and Design for Lifetime Brands, he provides creative direction for some of the most well-respected brands in the housewares and tabletop industries. Tom travels globally to gather information on color, style and lifestyle trends, and also serves as Lifestyle Trend Forecaster for the International Housewares Association.
photo : Edward Addeo
Keith Recker
, is founder and editor of
HAND/EYE Magazine
, a print and online publication that explores the nexus between art, craft, design, philanthropy and enlightened consumption. Currently a consultant to Pantone Color Studios as well as WGSN, with 20 years experience as a home furnishings executive, Keith Recker has a deep knowledge of product sourcing and color and has helped to shape brands, products and services into sharply communicative and results-oriented vehicles.
Martha Seidner
is the vice president of Smith Design, an award-winning design firm specializing in brand identity, structural + graphic packaging and brand communications. Founded over 30 years ago, Smith Design has offices in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and Carmel, California. Martha is a branding expert with over 20 years experience at the firm, working with leading consumer products companies including Unilever Foods, Rubbermaid, Hain Celestial Group, Scholastic Media, Johanna Foods, Pepperidge Farm, Vivitar and others.
Fiona Jenvey
, an inspirational forecaster of fashion, lifestyle and business trends, is a successful businesswoman who has established and developed the UK's leading forecasting organization that now operates in over 50 countries. As CEO of Mudpie Ltd, which she founded in 1992, Fiona is a much sought-after analyst on fashion and lifestyle trends in newspapers and magazines, from the London Evening Standard to the New York Times. She is also a regular speaker at conferences and exhibitions around the world, providing globally respected trend insights.
Marije Vogelzang
graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven and chose to use food as her main material because of her love for it. In addition to her many commissions and self-initiated projects, she is the founder of Proef restaurants, "eating places that started out as food design studios" in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Marije's work is featured in the book
crEATe: Eating, Design and Future Food
by Martin Raymond and Chris Sanderson, and she has just published her first monograph,
Eat Love
, an overview of her work of the past 10 years.
Alan Dessy
is president and CEO of The Dessy Group, the leading manufacturer of bridesmaid, social occasion, flower girl and destination wedding dresses under the labels Dessy Collection, Cynthia Rowley Bridesmaids, After Six, Alfred Sung, Lela Rose Bridesmaid and Sandals Destination Wedding Dresses.
For more information about The Dessy Group, please visit


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Learn how you can graduate as a confident professional and change the world through art, design or architecture.
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The second blizzard in as many weeks is hitting the Northeast. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
A winter storm initially expected to produce blizzard-like conditions in parts of New England brought moderate snow and strong winds to the region on Sunday.
Forecasters had said up to a foot of snow would be possible in areas of New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts, but the storm was moving out of the region Sunday afternoon after less than half that amount had accumulated.
For southeastern New England, including Boston, the snow totaled 3 to 5 inches, Boston.com reported. The snow and ice in the city caused flights arriving to Logan International Airport to be delayed an average of 52 minutes.
Meanwhile, arctic air and heavy winds meant below-freezing temperatures in New England and wind chills in the single digits across the whole eastern U.S. over the weekend, weather.com reported.
Janet S. Carter / The Free Press via AP
Snow flurries shroud Washington Street in Kinston, N.C., on Saturday.
"What will be noteworthy today are the winds which will be especially strong along the coast," Meteorologist David Epstein said. "At times some coastal areas south of Boston could see wind gusts hit 50 miles per hour."
The Weather Channel's Dr. Greg Postel warned the strong winds could cause scattered power outages throughout the region.
The snow that was hitting the New England area came a day after the moving storm brought 2-3 inches of snow to the Carolinas.
Much of New England just finished digging out after a historic winter storm that dumped 30 inches of snow on parts of Massachusetts and even more in Connecticut.
NBC News' Alastair Jamieson contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:25 PM EST


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SCHOEMAN, Marinus. The humanities in a soulless institutional environment? Thoughts on the contemporary university and the neglect of its educational function. Tydskr. geesteswet. [online]. 2012, vol.52, n.1, pp.121-129. ISSN 2224-7912.
Over the past few decades vocational training has increasingly become the norm within our universities. This, together with the demand for democratisation and "social" equality, resulted in the eclipse of the classical ideal of a comprehensive humanist education (Lat. studia humanitatis, German Bildung). This had a particularly detrimental (if not devastating) effect on the teaching of the humanities. Traditionally it was accepted that a thorough schooling in the humanities was only meant for the few. Not everybody was deemed equal to the task - not on grounds of principle, but rather because of circumstance. Factors such as talent, interestedness, intellectual and cultural background, as well as the level of aspiration and commitment together play a decisive role in preparing a person for such a schooling. However, the idea of such an education as the exclusive preserve of the few is now widely rejected as outmoded, too elitist and hence totally unacceptable. Education should be accessible to all "because we are all equal". And if the latter seems not to be the case, everybody can and should be made equal by means of "progressive" and "transformative" education. This is called the "democratisation of the university", but in reality it means a popularisation and even a form of demagoguery by means of which far too high and unrealistic expectations are aroused among our young people. At the root of this levelling process in education, and of the egalitarian dogma in general, lies the fallacy of the zero sum. It rests on the assumption that if something or someone fails, it is the result of another that has succeeded. The other 's success was the cause of my failure. All gains are paid for by the losers. This fallacy plays an important role in supporting many a social reform programme or transformation initiative and the false hopes it arouses. The makers of current higher education policy (also those in university positions) increasingly appeal to didactic principles and practices in order to make young people fit for and amenable to study at a university. Thus they give expression to one of the most persistent superstitions of our time, i.e. the belief that there is a technical solution for each and every conceivable problem. More than ever before people believe that by applying the appropriate didactical techniques, somehow everyone can be successfully schooled. This goes hand in hand with unprecedented forms of coercion and manipulation that are completely at odds with a truly humanist education. Moreover, a humanist education in the traditional sense is regarded as useless and obsolete. Under the influence of the ideology of economic profit-seeking and technical efficiency the emphasis is on knowledge that has practical utility value, and this signifies a shift towards training at the expense of a humanist education - training which is geared towards the mastering of skills that are necessary for one 's job or profession. For this very reason there is a continuous search for new and more efficient teaching methods. In contrast to this, a humanist education requires a kind of initiation which cannot be accomplished merely by means of controlled methodological procedures. Both types of teaching (humanist education and vocational training) have their own merits. They need not compete with one another. However, an alarming tendency exists at universities to become mere training institutions, providers of "high level manpower" that comply with the demands of industry, the business sector and the professions. Thereby universities could find themselves wholly in the grip of economic-technical rationality. This would result in the loss of academic freedom and the rise of "educated philistinism" (Hannah Arendt). The decline of a truly humanist education in our universities must be arrested. To my mind this can only happen insofar as universities succeed in maintaining their autonomy. If our universities wish to do justice to the name "university" in any credible way, they must provide sufficient scope for free intellectual activity, thus allowing students to freely commit themselves to the discipline of scholarship, with no other motive than their love for a specific field of study which they deem important for their own cultivation as human beings. Universities must insist on being islands of academic freedom, safeguarded against all sorts of illusions, unrealistic expectations and interferences of interest groups and lobbies, and averse to any form of ideological and technological expediency. However, the autonomous status of universities can only prevail as long as they maintain strict entrance requirements.
Palavras-chave : Humanities; humaniora; Bildung; education; the university; vocational training; democratisation of education; social justice; equality.