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"You gon' learn today" — Denmark police officers to Lil Pump, probably.
The 18-year-old rapper had to learn the hard way that he probably shouldn't post a video of himself taunting police officers while still in police custody. Pump ended up getting locked up on Tuesday (December 4), and even had to cancel a show, after he and his crew were detained for an unknown reason in Copenhagen, TMZ reports.
A source told the gossip site they believe someone in Pump's crew may have been busted for holding something illegal. However, Pump ended up getting the brunt of the police officer's wrath because of his actions while he and his team were being hauled off to a police station. The "I Love It" rapper began an Instagram Live stream while in transport, where he showed himself flipping off an officer's back. Now, the problem with having 17.1 million followers on Instagram, is tons of people (most of which a person doesn't know) actually tunes in to these live streams. So, it wasn't long before police officers found out about Pump's taunting and reportedly detained him much longer because of it, causing the "Gucci Gang" rapper to have to cancel his concert in Finland Tuesday night.
Following his arrest, an insider told TMZ, Pump had not been hit with any criminal charges and is expected to be released in the next 24 hours.
Pump's run-in with the law came just three months after he was arrested in Miami for driving without a license. He was also arrested in February for firing a gun into the door of his Los Angeles home.
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Live to merge, merge to live...
As a professional programmer you're familiar with a variety of programming languages, you know by heart the basics and not so basics of data structures and algorithms, you are an expert working on your favorite IDE, you master software patterns and you're aware of the newest trends in agile methods. But there's a useful piece in the programmer's toolbox which is normally more feared than used: the merge tool!
My goal is to remove the fear from merging, so this series of articles will explain, step by step, the very basics of merging and will explore the different merge types, their uses and advantages.
Merging (and not locking, our old and mean friend) is the bais of parallel development, so there's much to gain in our trip...
Fear of merging
So, you write code, don't you? And there's a big chance that you don't develop code in isolation, do you? The code you write for your projects is normally scattered across a number of files. And, according to the Pareto Principle, 20% of the files on your project will receive an 80% of the changes. You can try to trace a bad design smell here, you can try to refactor your code from top to bottom day and night, but, unfortunately, that's just reality: if you and your team work on a project, there's a huge chance you end up editing the same files at the same time.
For a number of projects out there this is a big problem. I've found a number of project managers and software designers trying to avoid concurrent modification wrestling their project plans and software designs. Wouldn't it be better if they were putting such efforts in making better software and finishing it on time?
But, there's an ancestral fear behind this behavior: the arcane fear of merging. "Hey, if you and me modify the same file... we'll have to reconcile all our changes!!". And of course, they assume it will be a painful and error prone process. "So, let's schedule our changes so that only one of us touches the file at the same time". Ouch!
Long ago software development was about lone eagles working alone. Now software development is about new languages, new tools, but at the end of the day is all about collaboration. And, avoiding collaboration doesn't look like the smartest way of getting the best out of a team.
Then, why are we initially so scared of merging our file changes? I find two key reasons:
- Lack of knowledge about how merge tools really work. People tend to think about code merging as some sort of magic process able to understand their code in order to combine changes. They don't believe code can be always correctly understood by the system, and they don't trust merge tools. Of course, under their assumptions, they're right. The problem is merge tools don't analyze or understand the code, they just apply some simple and clever rules to combine texts. The same way you trust your compiler will generate the right machine code, you should trust your merge tool.
- Past bad experiences: merge tools and their big brothers the version control tools, have evolved during the last two decades. Probably you've experienced some awkward issue with an old-fashioned (but still alive) version control system. But if you still believe they're still the same, is like still preferring coding in assembler because you don't trust compilers.
Merging explained: automated conflicts
Do you know how a merge tool works? Let's take a look at a very simple example. I won't dive into the obscure algorithm details but just make a 1000ft flyby.
Suppose we've a piece of code like the one at Figure 1. Then you and I start making changes on the file at the same time. I make a couple of changes at the beginning of the file, and you add a new method below.
Merging our changes manually is possible; it is a small file so it will just take a few minutes to do. It will require both of us to carefully look at our changes, but we'll make it.
Of course the picture changes if we've changed not one but 15 files in total, and up to 8 have been modified in parallel. Also, what would happen if, instead of only the two of us, 5 people is working on the code at the same time? Yes, the process is doable, but it is time consuming, error prone and... boring!! I bet you've better things to do than manually combine files.
But, what a merge tool has to do in our previous example.
The tool will find an automatic conflict. Look carefully, our changes don't collide, so what we would do manually would be just copy and paste my changes on the right part of your file or vice versa. It is very simple, but doing manually is error prone. This is exactly what a merge tool will do: just put the two set of changes together, with no possible collision or conflict.
Normally, during a merge, the tool won't even bother you asking to look into such a conflict; it is so simple it can solve it by itself. Of course, almost all the tools out in the market will allow you to set a mode in which all conflicts are reviewed by the user. It will just propose the changes, but you will be the one actually making the decision. Do you feel safer now? Ok, I bet after a week of manually reviewing trivial conflicts you'll switch to automated mode.
The Figure 2 shows the results of the first merge and how a merge tool will combine the changes together to create the result.
Figure 2. Result of the first merge
What's next
Ok, the trip has just started, so there's much more to come. What I plan to cover next is how manual merging works, so you can start trusting there's no easy way to break your beloved code even when you're not combining all the code by hand, because the tool will always avoid dangerous merges.


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Stuffed tomatoes with lamb mince, dill & rice
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- kcal300
- fat19g
- saturates5g
- carbs21g
- sugars8g
- fibre2g
- protein14g
- salt0.3g
- 4 beef tomatoes
- pinch sugar
Honey and syrups made from concentrated fruit juice were the earliest known sweeteners. Today,…
- 4 tbsp Greek extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle
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- 1 Spanish onion, finely chopped
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- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 200g minced lamb
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 50g long grain rice
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- 100ml chicken stock
- 4 tbsp chopped dill
- 2 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley
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- 1 tbsp chopped mint
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Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Slice the tops off the tomatoes and reserve. Scoop out most of the pulp with a teaspoon, being careful not to break the skin. Finely chop the pulp, and keep any juices. Sprinkle the insides of the tomatoes with a little sugar to take away the acidity, then place them on a baking tray.
Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a large frying pan, add the onion and garlic, then gently cook for about 10 mins until soft but not coloured. Add the lamb, cinnamon and tomato purée, turn up the heat, then fry until the meat is browned. Add the tomato pulp and juice, the rice and the stock. Season generously. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 15 mins or until the rice is tender and the liquid has been absorbed. Set aside to cool a little, then stir in the herbs.
Stuff the tomatoes up to the brim, top tomatoes with their lids, drizzle with 2 tbsp more olive oil, sprinkle 3 tbsp water into the tray, then bake for 35 mins. Serve with salad and crusty bread, hot or cold.
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Moussaka-stuffed tomatoesPlace 1 large aubergine on a baking tray, then roast for 30 mins at 200C/180C fan/ gas 6, until tender. Once cool enough to handle, peel and dice the flesh. Follow recipe as above, folding the chopped aubergine into the lamb mix. Spoon a little ready-made béchamel sauce over each tomato before putting the lids on, then bake.
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VariationsThese improve in flavour if you cook them the day before you want to serve. Add a drop of water and cover with foil when reheating, or simply serve at room temperature. You can vary the filling by adding feta or broad beans, or even omit the meat entirely and replace chicken for vegetable stock for a great veggie meal.


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The end could be in sight for Symbian as details of the Nokia 803 have leaked, assumed to be Nokia's last handset to run the operating system.
According to one of BGR's "trusted sources" the 803 will run Symbian Belle, the latest version of the OS.
Reported specs also point towards a 4-inch AMOLED display, HDMI port, microSIM and NFC support.
Biggest. Camera. Ever.
Intriguingly the source also revealed that the unconfirmed Nokia 803 will sport one of, if not the largest camera sensors ever on a mobile phone.
Nokia has produced impressive camera phones in the past and we are curious as to what the 803 will offer us: 14MP, 16MP or even 20MP perhaps?
Rumours suggest that the Nokia 803 will be released in May – which means there is a small chance we may get a sneak peek at MWC 2012 later this month.
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1950 Chevy Truck - Sam's '50
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If a person is lucky and lives long enough at some point in their life they will able to build the truck of their dreams. In the case of Sam Head of Redondo Beach, California, the PPG Grabber Yellow '50 Chevy gracing this month's cover wasn't necessarily the truck of his dreams, but rather the only series of Chevrolet truck he hadn't built. To name a few, Sam has owned seven '67 C10 Chevrolets, a '66 and a '69 El Camino, a '62 Ford Unibody, a '53 Ford Courier, a '56 Ford F-100 panel, and a boatload of '73-87 crew cab dualies.
Sam's '50 evolved kind of like a Johnny Cash song with the frame being the first part of the puzzle. His brother Benny up in Fallon, Nevada, had a customer at his shop Benny's Auto Body who had decided half-way through the build that he was going to opt for a tube chassis.
The stock Chevy framerails Benny shipped to Sam came equipped with a Heidts Mustang II conversion up front and a parallel four-link out back. The front suspension features tubular control arms, 2-inch dropped spindles, and a set of adjustable Aldan coilovers. The rear is a basic parallel four-link with a Panhard bar and two more adjustable Aldan coilovers holding a '72 Chevy 12-bolt Posi rearend. The bulk of the stopping power comes from a set of polished billet aluminum Dynalite calipers with 11-inch rotors up front and to handle the rear there's factory drums. In place of the stock single master cylinder hangs a frame-mounted power booster and dual master cylinder setup from Classic Performance Products. Sam plumbed all new steel brake lines to add the finishing touch. For front wheels and tires the '50 rolls on a pair of 20x9-inch KMC Nova rims shod with Nitto NT555 245/35ZR20 tires. To add more off-the-line grip the rears are 20x10-inch KMC Novas with a pair of Nitto 275/40R20 Extreme Drag Radials.
Under the hood is a '69 Chevy 350 punched out to 355 inches by Vellios Machine Shop of Lawndale, California. To plug the holes Sam stuffed in a set of 9:1 pistons. The camshaft is an Edelbrock Performer with a Weiand Action Plus aluminum intake manifold with an Edelbrock AFB carb. To add a little nostalgia, Sam installed a set of Cal Custom valve covers he got from his son Calin along with a louvered air cleaner from Trans Dapt. The nostalgia stops and modern takes over with a serpentine system snagged from a '94 Chevy pickup to drive the ancillaries. In place of a mechanically driven blade-type fan an electric fan sourced from a later Ford F-150 is in place. To transmit power from the 355 to the 12-bolt rearend Sam had friend Steve Sharp build a beefed TH350 transmission. To handle the exhaust chores Sam picked up a set of block hugger headers from the swap meet to run down to a pair of three-chamber Flowmaster mufflers. Extending the '50 Chevy's range and definitely making it a lot safer to drive, the stock Chevy gas tank was removed from behind the seat and a 17.5-gallon tank from Chevs of the 40's was mounted in the very rear.
Sam told us the '50's body was hammered when he got it. "It literally looked like someone walked around the truck and hit it with a hammer. The bed was in pretty bad shape, the only thing usable was the tailgate, crossmembers, and headboard. I bought new bedsides from the Truck Shop in Orange, California, and picked up a set of clean fenders from Dave Bechtel." Getting back to the nostalgic look Sam hung a pair of '50 Merc taillights low on the rear fenders. "After a little trimming of the housing they fit the contour of the fenders perfectly." Further modifications included stuffing the '50 Chevy's one-piece windows into a pair of '53 pushbutton doors. With the bodywork straight Sam had longtime friend Vic Sapien lay down a slick coat of Grabber Orange found on the new Mustangs. After the paint cured Sam installed a new chrome grille and bumper from Classic Industries instead of trying to restore the originals.
The interior of the '50 is where Sam's start in 1959 at Hermosa Auto Upholstery in Hermosa Beach, California, as young kid sweeping the floor, and eventually ending up as the owner for almost 50 years really shines. "The first thing I did inside the cab was string a new Ron Francis wiring harness to everything including the new gauges I got from Chevs of the 40's. Then I got busy covering the headliner and some other trim in a tan vinyl. I got a set of leather-covered bucket seats out of an '04 Hyundai and shaved the headrests and fabbed up some new brackets. I used a tilt steering column from a '69 Chevy C10 and a Kugel shift rod to hook it to the transmission. I really didn't feel like cutting a big hole in the dash for a modern radio, so I built a custom box to fit behind the seats to hold the Pioneer head unit and 6x9 speakers. I scored a factory radio delete plate to fill the dash hole and my buddy "Bruce the brush" did a little striping on it."


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A Pennsylvania man was arrested and charged with attempting a sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl he met on Facebook, police said.
Richard Whitehead, 28, of Sellersville, Penn., thought he was meeting the child at an abandoned bunker in a densely wooded area of Lenape Park, Penn., but instead was met by police. Whitehead was arrested and later charged with "attempted involuntary deviant sexual intercourse of a child less than 16, attempted statutory sexual assault, and other crimes," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Police were notified in early May 17 by a woman who reported that a man claiming to be "Kevin Smith" wanted to "hang out" with her 12-year-old daughter. The affidavit of probable cause contained this transcript:
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"Hi wats up ur cute," the Facebook messages began on May 9, according to a transcript included in an affidavit of probable cause attached to the criminal complaint.
"Thanks I don't know what you look like," the girl replied.
"Heres my number txt me and I'll send u a pic," the man wrote, including his cellphone number.
Detectives used the cell number to identify Whitehead, and then found out a 12-year-old friend of the first girl was also contacted by the suspect, the affidavit said. Police advised her to initiate contact with the suspect, and as a police detective was there, the girl received a text about "having a sexual encounter."
Whitehead was arraigned May 24 and held on $500,000 bail.
Aside from the fact that both 12-year-old girls don't meet the Facebook age requirement of 13, this story highlights the importance of monitoring a child's Internet and texting activity. While Facebook does ban about 20,000 underage users a day, it's a parent's role to educate children on dangers that face them and prevent them from being put in harm's way.


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I remember walking on Bliss St. outside of the American University of Beirut (AUB) on the day of Lebanon's 2009 parliamentary elections. As young people chanted slogans and waved the flags of their favorite political parties, I thought to myself "what a healthy democratic system Lebanon has". But, as a local saying aimed at AUB students goes, "ignorance is on Bliss [St.]".
Lebanon is a remarkably complicated society with an equally complicated history and political system, so the latest round of discussions for electoral reform may confuse some (it sure does me), or seem of little consequence to others, but to a great extent the fate of Lebanon rests on whether it can reform the electoral process. In principle, the Lebanese Republic is a democracy, but Lebanon's religious-based confessional system has a strong self-perpetuating mechanism that prevents significant political change through electoral contestation.
Most parties are drawn along strong sectarian lines, so it is almost impossible for a party to be held accountable for its actions because its constituents are extremely unlikely to elect representatives from a different religion, no matter how their elected officials behave in government. Lebanese law also stipulates that a certain number of representatives be drawn from each sect. Christians are allocated a proportion of parliamentary seats based on a census conducted in 1932, but due to low birthrates and high emigration rates, they now control a highly disproportionate share of parliamentary seats, meaning that some seats allocated to Christian candidates fall in predominately Muslim districts.
Since parties are mostly religiously homogenous, they only contest seats allocated to the sects they serve. This means that voting in Muslims districts that have parliamentary seats allocated to Christians is essentially pointless because few are able to vote for the parties they support. Though the denomination assigned to each seat is usually based on the most prevalent denomination in the district which the seat will represent, this means that religious minorities in many electoral districts are effectively disenfranchised.
Another rule that perpetuates the status quo is that citizens are assigned to their paternal ancestral districts. My wife's paternal grandfather came from the South, but her family has lived in Beirut for three generations. Nevertheless, she, her father, and her siblings must vote for representatives in a southern district, which is halfway across the country. Because the party they support does not operate in that district, they may only choose between parties that do not remotely represent their views, such as Amal and Hezbollah. Due to these factors, only my mother-in-law votes, because she is able to vote in a district in which her party fields candidates.
Lebanon's current electoral districting divides the country into 26 Qada, or districts, about three of which would fit into an average US county. Gerrymandering of districts under pro-Syria governments to benefit Syrian allies has made these districts even more religiously homogenous. Because of this districting, political ideologies stagnate, further perpetuating the status quo and making it difficult for moderate politicians to enter the political arena.
Fierce electoral competition promotes moderation, but when districts are ideologically homogenous and seats are pre-allocated to specific sects, polarization occurs. Disproportionate representation and forcing constituents to vote in areas dominated by their sect reinforces sectarianism, entrenches social cleavages, and inhibits political change. The Christian-led Orthodox Gathering's proposal has been gaining much traction lately, but it would maintain the confessional system, only with Lebanon as a single electoral district instead of many, further perpetuating sectarian thinking. As proof of this, one need look no further than the horrifying, divisive ads and statements on Lebanese television by various MPs arguing that that one cannot possibly be represented by an MP of another sect, or, in other words, that representation is secured through religion, not democracy.
Christian politicians are not the only ones promoting sectarianism. Lebanon's most senior Sunni religious figure recently stated, essentially, that love should not be shared by people of different sects. Sectarianism not only undermines stability, but has painful social implications for many: permitting non-religious marriages is currently out of the question for the Lebanese government.
When political change does not occur through voting, politicians are held accountable neither for their actions, nor for the weakness of the governments in which they take part. Weak accountability means that corruption, ineptitude, and irrelevant legislation go unpunished on election day. Furthermore, government inefficiency translates to weak service delivery, so support grows for parties, such as Hezbollah, that provide social services. Consequently, political power can be gained outside of the democratic system, which not only saps the legitimacy of the government, but also means that parties can more easily build support for extremist ideologies.
Lebanon's iniquitous and ineffective political system perpetuates sectarianism and weak accountability. The former gives way to instability and the latter to corruption, cronyism, and a lack of transparency. Both contribute to popular disenchantment, emigration, and brain drain and all serve to undermine the business environment and to retard economic development. Engrained sectarian divisions have allowed weak accountability to go unaddressed, further entrenching such divisions and creating a vicious cycle of dogmatism and poor governance.
One way forward is through civil society engagement and an important rallying point is the economy. For this reason, the work of organizations such as the Development for People and Nature Association to drive Lebanese to participate in public life is imperative to achieving meaningful change. Until Lebanon realizes electoral reform, lasting peace and prosperity will remain elusive. If Lebanon's leaders think that perpetuating sectarianism is any sort of electoral reform, then clearly ignorance is not only on Bliss.
Matthew Godwin is Program Assistant for the Middle East and North Africa at CIPE.


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More Latinos Identify as Native American, Census Shows." An interesting article, but I didn't consider it unexpected. I was actually surprised it wasn't happening much sooner.
Genealogists/Family Historians tend to travel...a lot. What apps do you use when you travel to make your trip run smoothly? Brett Snyder has a blog "The Cranky Flier" which may interest many, but he also writes for CNN occasionally and his post on their news site, "Travel Apps That Really Help" was very good.
Jenn Woods at "Climbing My Family Tree One Branch at a Time" always has such great posts. She recently posted about a murder that her ancestor gave testimony about. Always interesting to read and very exciting!
Researching German ancestors? Then you'll eventually need to dealing with German script and handwriting. Nancy over at "My Ancestors and Me, and other relatives, too..." has a post for you! A German genealogical must!
And wrapping it up are two videos. The first a friend shared with me. It was posted on Yahoo! News (it was from KCCI News in Iowa) and it was about a couple that were married for 72 years and they died holding hands. Not to be morbid or anything...I just found it sweet.
The second just happened to start playing immediately after the previous story and was also from KCCI. It was a story about Oak Grove Cemetery and the damage time has caused by eroding away a hillside and the graves ending up in a ravine. Tim Schultz (an area landscaper) is looking to help rectify that situation by building a retaining wall, but the red tape is hard to get through.


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The European Union is drafting a set of guidelines that encourage government agencies to improve technical interoperability. These guidelines are being documented in the European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (EIF) which is currently in the draft stage. A recent version of the draft reveals that changes to the text have weakened the document's emphasis on open standards.
The EIF's original definition of an open standard stipulated that the standard must be authored through an inclusive process and maintained by a nonprofit organization and that patents covering the standard must be made available under royalty-free terms. A standard had to meet that set of criteria in order to be considered "open" in the context of EU guidance on standards adoption. The original version of the EIF also explicitly acknowledged the interoperability benefits of open source software.
The latest draft version, which was leaked this week, looks very different. ComputerWorld UK points out that the section about open source software has been removed entirely and new text has been introduced that attempts to put "homogeneity" on equal footing with open standards. The new version also has a weaker and more ambiguous definition of what constitutes an open standard.
"While there is a correlation between openness and interoperability, it is also true that interoperability can be obtained without openness, for example via homogeneity of the ICT systems, which implies that all partners use, or agree to use, the same solution to implement a European Public Service," the document says.
This statement implies that interoperability can be achieved if everyone merely uses the same exact software. Although a homogeneous environment simplifies a lot of things, it's deeply misleading to suggest that it is equivalent to open standards as means of achieving interoperability. Open standards make it possible for third-party developers to create independent software implementations that can access and manipulate the data. Depending on a homogeneous environment to facilitate interoperability without open standards naturally creates a very strong risk of lock-in.
It's not enough to be able to share content between users of the same software application; you need to be able to pull apart the data so it can be repurposed and used in other systems. This is a key aspect of interoperability. Open standards make data more future-proof and guarantee that it will still be accessible when the software you use to produce and access the data is no longer available or maintained.
The EIF's new definition of openness is also troubling. The text no longer explicitly requires that patents on standards be made available under royalty-free terms. Royalty-free patent grants are important because they ensure that open source implementations of the standard can be created without serious intellectual property impediments. The new draft attempts to address that same issue, but does so poorly—it requires that the standard be possible to implement "under different software development approaches" and indicates that open source software is an example of one such approach.
The ambiguity is potentially problematic. There are some cases where standards are provided under terms that make it technically possible to create open source implementations but with significant impediments that inhibit broad downstream redistribution or make it practically unfeasible. An arrangement like the controversial deal between Microsoft and Novell is arguably an example.
The EIF is still in the draft stage, so it's unclear if the latest revisions will be included in the final version of the document. In general, I can appreciate the need to provide flexible guidelines that will allow government agencies to adopt technologies that are built around closed standards in cases where open technology doesn't meet requirements or would be prohibitively costly. The problem in this case is that the changes to the EIF go much further than that and provide blatantly misleading guidance, particularly on the issue of homogeneity in the context of interoperability.


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(CNN) -- North Korea's state-run news agency said Thursday that the country has sent a letter to the United Nations announcing that "reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponized."
The Yongbyon nuclear facility, home of North Korea's nuclear program.
North Korea can also now enter the final stage of uranium enrichment, it said in the letter to the president of the U.N. Security Council, according to state-run KCNA.
When enriched to a high degree, uranium can be used as weapons-grade material. Plutonium can be used in atomic bombs.
Despite stating in the letter that they "totally reject" a Security Council resolution in June that demanded that the country no longer pursue nuclear weapons, the North Koreans said they are "prepared for both dialogue and sanctions," KCNA reported.
The government also warned, "If some permanent members of the UNSC wish to put sanctions first before dialogue, we would respond with bolstering our nuclear deterrence first before we meet them in a dialogue," according to KCNA.
The news comes on the heels of the Obama administration's latest attempt to restart stalled nuclear negotiations with the reclusive state.
In the coming days, U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth and the director of the State Department's Office of Korean Affairs, Sung Kim, will meet with officials representing China, Japan, South Korea and Russia -- all countries partnering with the United States in talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program.
North Korea quit the talks in April after the U.N. Security Council censured Pyongyang for a long-range rocket test that month.
In the letter Thursday, Pyongyang stated that it "never objected to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and of the world itself. What we objected to is the structure of the six way talks which had been used to violate outrageously the DPRK's sovereignty and its right to peaceful development."
Tensions had eased somewhat in recent weeks on the Korean peninsula, giving hope to the resumption of nuclear talks with the North.
In August, North and South Korea agreed to resume cross-border tourism, ease border controls and facilitate cross-border family reunions, signaling a warming in relations that had been tense for most of the year.
Cross-border traffic between North and South Korea returned to normal Tuesday, after eight months of restrictions by the North.
Recent meetings between Korean officials are in stark contrast to the tense public statements the nations made about each other earlier this year.
Tensions between the two were heightened in July when North Korea launched seven short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan. The launches came after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on May 25 and threatened the United States and South Korean ships near its territorial waters.
The two Koreas have officially remained in conflict since the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953, which ended in a truce, but no formal peace treaty was signed.
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"Gutfeld is like Voltaire if Voltaire were actually funny." —Dennis Miller
"Greg Gutfeld is a sweet, hysterical, evil genius. Liberals fear him because whenever they look down their noses, they see him. Or at least the top of his head. This is a man who would take time out from starring in two daily television shows just to help someone who has fallen down on the sidewalk. Mainly because it would be so funny to watch him fall. Viva Gutfeld!" —Ann Coulter
"According to the Internet, Mother Teresa once defined Joy as 'a net of love by which you can catch souls.' In The Joy of Hate, Greg Gutfeld continues her mission—in a completely different way. Hilarious, outrageous, and brilliant, this is the best book on how to think about your fellow man since Atlas Shrugged, and the best book on how to deal with your enemies since The Anarchist's Cookbook." —Jonah Goldberg
"It's hard to get through a page of The Joy of Hate without collapsing in tears of laughter. With every paragraph, I'd stop and say 'You won't believe what he just said.' The truth hurts." —Dana Perino, former White House press secretary, Gutfeld's cohost on The Five
"Greg Gutfeld is this generation's Mark Twain. Or is that this generation's Shania Twain? What I'm trying to say is he looks great in a skirt. Also, this book is funny as hell." —Dan Bova, editor in chief, Maxim magazine
"Anger is like sex. It feels good but it's exhausting—and we often think it's better if we include more people. But as Greg Gutfeld aptly illustrates, words of outrage should be saved for things that truly are outrageous, or you will ultimately lose all your friends and drive yourself crazy. I, for one, cannot recommend this book strongly enough, and it has nothing to do with my relationship with the author." —Greg Gutfeld
The Tolerant Tadpole
My Big Fat Gay Muslim Bar
The War on Moobs
Fluked for Life
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Butch Cassidy and the Subsidized Kid
A Really Bad Day at the Office
Borders Ain't Nothing but a Bookstore
Working at the Death Star
A Pack of Lies
Winners and Looters
The Pirates of Penance
I'm Okay, You Should Die
Loan Rangers
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Stalin Grads
The Joke Stops Here
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Jays @ Reds
It's spitting rain here at Ed Smith Stadium, but not really enough to call this game I wouldn't think. Then again, I'm not a weatherman. I'm hoping it goes on as planned, because I'm looking forward to seeing if Ricky Romero can really pull himself back into the hunt for a rotation job.
Manager Cito Gaston still wouldn't say whether Matt Clement would be gretting another start, but he didn't sound confident that was going to happen. Gaston keeps noting that the Jays are reaching the point where the innings need to go to the guys who might be heading north, and I'd find it hard to believe Clement is still in the mix.
So, we're still left with Scott Richmond, Brad Mills and Ricky Romero. Gaston said that there is no hesitation on Toronto's part to hand a job to Mills due to the fact that he has no career innings at Triple-A. That doesn't mean Mills has a job, just that his lack of AAA innings isn't going to be an obstacle.
Gaston did say that, in the event that three lefties (David Purcey, Mills and Romero) wind up in the rotation come Opening Day, Jesse Litsch might be moved into the No. 3 hole to break up all the left-handers. Gaston said, if that happened, he'd be sure to talk with Litsch to assure him that it wasn't a demotion at all.
Marco Scutaro has returned to the Jays and Gaston said he'll be in the lineup tomorrow. Same for Travis Snider, who didn't make the trip to Sarasota today as originally planned. Snider is coming back from a sore left knee and Gaston said he was playing in a Minor League game as a DH back in Dunedin today.
Today's lineup:
Joe Inglett, DH
Aaron Hill, 2B
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Scott Rolen, 3B
Randy Ruiz, 1B
Aaron Matthews, LF
Raul Chavez, C
John McDonald, SS
Ricky Romero, P
Norris Hopper, CF
Chris Dickerson, LF
Joey Votto, 1B
Adam Rosales, 3B
Jay Bruce, RF
Jeff Keppinger, 2B
Alex Gonzalez, SS
Ryan Hanigan, C
Edinson Volquez, P
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Nice quality outing from Romero in a high pressure situation. Romero's line (from JB-twitter) was: 5 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 5 K, 2 WP, 85 pitches (51 strikes).
I'd expect he moves back into the mix and Brad Arnsberg should be commended for straightening him out.
Good to hear that Romero worded through some rough patches (and did not implode).
Jordan – What was your read on Accardo – seems to be having some problems this spring.
Just read that Shawn Hill is heading to San Diego. I don't get it.
What I liked from Romero today was this: all 7 hits he gave up were singles, thats a plus, he threw something like 14 of 19 first pitch strikes, so he got ahead in the count, and even though he got into trouble on occasion, he battled through it and the damage was almost non-existant. Very impressive
If it were up to me the rotation would have both Mills and Romero. Richmond seams more valuable as a long reliever with our inexpienced rotation exspecially with Janssen out to start the season. So whats everyones bet for the front 5? heres mine. Halladay, Purcey, Litsch, Mills, Romero.
As much as I like the guys you chose 92blue, I still get the feeling these guys like Richmond as a starter. I expect unless Richmond blows up in his next start, we'll see Halliday, Litsch, Purcey, Richmond and as of today-Romero, with Mills going to AA.
gjays that could very well be. if that is the case then I would expect RIchmond to just be keeping the spot warm until Mills or Cecil are ready likely by May/June. Do you think that Romero has passed Mills for the 5th spot because Cito seams pretty high on Mills?
My bet is on Halladay, Purcey, Litsch, Mills, Richmond.
I think it's very much up for grabs though, particularly for the 5th spot. Whomever pitches best next between Richmond and Romero may very well get the job. I think the 4th spot is Mills to lose.
Who knows though. It's making for an entertaining Spring at least.
Looks like Barrett is inching toward the backup Catcher's job, and that Inglett and Lane will be the odd men out for the utility player jobs, though I suspect we'll see them both with the Jays this year, due to injuries and possibly trades.
rene, that does seam like the most likely and possibly safe pick for the rotation. I agree that Inglett and Lane will both be up sooner rather than later.
I tend to agree Richmond will like get replaced in mid May by Cecil or Mills assuming Romero comes north. As good as Mills as pitched, he has only pitched a grand total of 165 innings as a pro over two seasons.
Romero has better stuff, Mills is more deceptive in his delivery and probably stronger mentally,but my guess-and its only a guess, if they perform equally, Romero comes north as a result of more experience.
A lot also depends on when the decision is made. If it's made tonight, as suggested on Jp's twitter, then it could be Romero and Mills, since Richmond didn't look as good as either in his last start. If they wait for Richmond's next start and he performs well, then I'd say Richmond and Romero as of today.
Romero brought his A game today in a high pressure situation, ya gotta like that.
Rene is right, it's been an entertaining spring training as a result, and one way or the other, we now know we have 4 quality lefty starters in Purcey, Mills, Cecil and Romero. That, is a treasure for sure.
I must admit, I like the idea of throwing 3 lefties at either NY or Boston, they always seem to do poorly against them.
Nice to see Romero coming along.Too bad about Clement,I was pulling for him and it looked promising.However, in the Al East,you can't give up too many free passes.Anyone can have a bad day,but this is crunch time.If 09 is the bridge to 2010,then I say let the kids play.Richmond would be the logical choice for long man now that Casey is behind.How did Snider do in the minor league game today?
What a WBC final best game I have ever seen bar none.
Looks like we see the "A" lineup today-except Millar is playing for Overbay.
Scutaro, SS
Hill, 2B
Rios, CF
Wells, V, DH
Rolen, 3B
Millar, 1B
Lind, LF
Barajas, C
Snider, RF
Clement and Thigpen both sent down.
Now lets see what this team can do.
Yes, it will. It looks like both teams are starting their regulars-tough lineup for Purcey.


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A wide variety of games are already available for Android devices on Google Play, but several hints suggest the status quo may not be good enough for the search giant.
Google appears to be moving aggressively into gaming with several new hires, and a Google I/O schedule packed with gaming-themed sessions. But what exactly is Google up to? Is the company trying to capitalize on the recent trend of turning Android into a console gaming platform such as the Ouya? Is this about having more games than iOS? Or does the company have an entirely different idea up its sleeve?
Google recently hired veteran game designer Noah Falstein, who has worked in the gaming industry since 1980 with companies such as Lucasfilm Games (before it was LucasArts Entertainment) and Dreamworks Interactive. His new title at Google is officially Chief Game Designer at Google, according to Falstein's LinkedIn page.
As TechCrunch first reported, however, a cached version of his profile shows that Falstein originally posted his title as "Chief Game Designer at Android Play Studio." That title suggests he may be working on Google-branded games that will head to the Play store, but that's purely speculation at this point.
Falstein is not the only big gaming hire Google has made recently, TechHive has discovered. Electronic Arts veteran and Frog City Software co-founder Rachel Bernstein also moved to Google in April. Her title? Executive Producer at Android Play Studio, based on her LinkedIn profile. During her time at EA, Bernstein led the development of The Sims Medieval PC game and MySims Agents for the Wii. Before that, she also created games for Xbox Live Arcade.
Google confirmed to TechHive that both Bernstein and Falstein have joined the company, though a spokesperson declined to comment on specific work info.
Hiring two, and possibly more, game development veterans, makes you wonder what Google is planning.
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Beyond new hires, Google also plans a big focus on games during the company's Google I/O developer conference later in May.
The schedule for developer training sessions during I/O 2013 is chock full of gaming and gaming related-themes on Day 1, Wednesday, May 15. Out of a total of ten Android sessions that Wednesday, half are explicitly about games, as you can see in the screenshot below.
Google's focus on gaming may not seem like a big deal, until you consider that Google I/O 2013 has more gaming sessions than both I/O 2012 and I/O 2011 combined.
I/O 2012 had exactly one gaming-specific Android session. In 2011, Google offered two gaming-specific sessions that weren't really about making great games for Android. I/O 2011 had one session about making your game compatible with the wide array of Android flavors then in the market, and another session was about porting games to Android that were written in C and C++.
What does it all mean?
It's clear that Google is getting big into games by hiring veterans from the gaming industry and setting a game-centric I/O schedule for Android developers, at least on day one. The question is, what is the company going to do and what is the Android Play Studio?
Android is certainly taking off as a gaming platform. Not only can you find great games on Google Play, but new gaming consoles such as Ouya and GameStick are Android-based. Perhaps Google is trying to capitalize on this trend by creating games for these platforms? Developers still aren't sold on Android as a gaming platform, and an active role from Google may alleviate their concerns.
Then again, Google may be paving the way for virtual reality gaming and other entertainment experiences with Glass. While Google isn't publicly advertising any Glass sessions during I/O yet, the new wearable technology will almost certainly be a topic of discussion during the conference--especially since a bunch of Googlers and developers will probably be walking around wearing them during I/O.
This could also be a play to create some new kind of gaming experience. Google already offers Ingress, a highly innovative augmented reality game from Google's Niantic labs.
What's exactly is Google up to here? We expect to hear more at the Google I/O 2013 in a couple of weeks. TechHive will be there to keep you up to date on all the latest news and trends.
TechHive's Brad Chacos contributed to this report.


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The midville Park District maintains five soccer teams as shown in the table. Design a program that accepts a player's team name. Modify the Midville Park District program so that after the last player has been entered the program displays a count of the number of players registered for each team.
Team Number Team Name
1 Goal Getters
2 The Force
3 Top Guns
4 Shooting Stars
5 Midfield Monsters
ok so i am not sure how to put this into array form meaning is it Team Name that becomes an array or team number. Can someone do this problem so that i can see how it is done.This is what i have so far but i dont know if it it right.
num Team_number
string Team_name[5]=Goal Getters,The Force,Top Guns,Shooting Stars,Midfield Monsters
string quit=QUIT
display enter team number
input Team_number
While Team_number not quit
Team_name[Team_number]=Team_number +1
Display enter Team_number
end while
I am stuck after this point i dont know what to doooo!!!!!!!!! next or if i have to start over can someone write this so that i can get an idea of how it would be done.PLEASE!


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Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter and he is also a contributor to Pro Football Talk.
The two buzzwords for Super Bowl XLVI are Rematch and Revenge.
Because the Patriots and Giants locked horns in a memorable Super Bowl just four years ago, people are going for the easiest possible way to frame this year's matchup between the two teams.
The Patriots are looking to avenge the thwarting of their perfect season in Glendale at the hands of a Giants team that few people gave a chance of winning the game. It was a great game, the upset went down and now everyone is looking at that game as a precursor to this game.
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It's a tasty storyline because people really love Revenge, be it in the form of over-the-top soap opera or a battle for the Lombardi Trophy, but it isn't a particularly accurate one.
The NFL changes so quickly that two teams could play in two straight Super Bowls and wind up looking completely different -- unless they are the Bills and Cowboys, obviously -- and four years is an eternity.
While the buildup to the game will tell you otherwise, we've put together a few of the reasons why this game stands on its own, even if the uniforms are going to be the same.
1. Of the 106 players on the rosters for Super Bowl XLII, 23 remain on the Giants and Patriots right now. Some of those players were important players back then and remain important players now, but the roster turnover means that there aren't all that many players who have any connection to the game that's driving the narrative. Defensive tackle Vince Wilfork is the only Patriots defensive starter still on the team. Among the players who weren't there last time are Jason Pierre-Paul, Rob Gronkowski, Hakeem Nicks and Aaron Hernandez, four who will have an impact on these proceedings.
2. The Patriots came into Super Bowl XLII with a defense that ranked fourth in the league in points allowed. They come into this game with a team that ranked 15th and that seems fairly generous given the fact that they are down to playing wide receiver Julian Edelman as a nickelback because they are already down to also-ran defensive backs like Sterling Moore and Antuwan Molden.
3. The Giants have their own shell of a former strength to deal with. The offensive line the last time around was the team's biggest offensive strength, but it has turned into a serious liability. The lack of any meaningful rushing attack is the clearest sign of this, but they are just as vulnerable when it comes to pass blocking.
4. That leads us to our next difference. Eli Manning was a good quarterback in 2008, but he's a great quarterback in 2012, which is the only reason why the Giants survived in San Francisco last weekend. The Giants offense grinded things out back then, but they have just as much potency as the Patriots now and Manning's ascent is the biggest reason for that change.
5. Expectations are very different this time around. Part of the rematch angle is that the Patriots are pitted against a scrappy Giants team that is defying the masses with every breath. That's simply not the case. The Giants are at least the equal of the Patriots this time and it's easy to make the argument that they should be favored. The Patriots, on the other hand, aren't playing with the backdrop of the first 19-0 season looming over their shoulder.
Does that matter? Probably not, but it isn't any more specious than suggesting that this year's Super Bowl has anything to do with the one that went down four years ago.


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From Bob Mould's new album, Silver Age:
And a couple of classics from Hüsker Dü (both 1984):
And one from Sugar's Beaster (1993):
September 10, 2012
Now Playing: Bob Mould
by allan at 10:05 AM
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5 comments:
- Jere said...
He just played a free show in Brooklyn Friday night. Boston tonight (not free). Here's the rest of the schedule.
- September 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- allan said...
He's been playing the entire Copper Blue album - I really cannot believe that came out 20 friggin years ago. I wish he'd come to Toronto.
- September 10, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- 9casey said...
I didnt think it was possible but peteabe threw me off his twitter. Sorry Pete didnt mean to call you out on your bullshit..
- September 10, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- laura k said...
I love Sugar, especially Copper Blue.
I'd love to see them live. I'd also love a whole bunch more music that sounds like Copper Blue. Probably not getting either!
- September 11, 2012 at 7:33 AM
Thanks. I love Bob Mould but he did fall off my radar. I'm glad he's back I will take a listen.
- September 15, 2012 at 5:41 AM
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Still lively: McGurk fixates with color
It's no secret that I like my art "new." Give me artists who wrestle with ideas, who rework the expected into something startling, or who experiment with surprising media. When it comes to more traditional fare, such as figure studies and still lifes, more often than not I glaze over and take a pass (yawning as I go).
But occasionally, the sheer competence of an artist yanks me out of my been-there-seen-that slouch of apathy. Which is the case with Michael McGurk, whose oil pastel works are on display at the New Dominion Bookshop.
The 12 realistic still lifes– each 12 x 17" and presented in a gilt frame– break no new ground in terms of content, but they are nevertheless compelling, thanks to McGurk's accomplished hand and passion for color. In "Curvaceous," a simple tabletop composition of vegetables and fruit becomes lush via McGurk's deft approach to pigment.
At the show's First Friday opening, I asked the artist about the background of "Curvaceous," wondering if he began with black paper. He said, "No," and excitedly explained he combined blue, brown, and black to create the velvety color. McGurk's enthusiasm for manipulating his medium to create precise hues and effects is what elevates his otherwise mundane images out of the ordinary. An eggplant becomes subtly more saturated and an acorn squash more luminous than in real life.
Such skill only results from years of practice. Thousands of strokes, some evident, some not, power each painting. Another central component of McGurk's work is his ability to convey light. Whether creating a convincing shadow from violet with a tinge of royal blue or using a bit of green and lilac to capture a reflection in a martini glass, McGurk revels in confronting lighting challenges.
In "Screw Can," a label-less coffee can with a red plastic lid stands near an array of tools. McGurk uses purple and white (and, no doubt, other colors) to persuade the viewer of the circular indentations on the metal can. Meanwhile, the primary-colored handles of the tools– blue wire snips, a yellow box cutter, and a red vise– are not as straightforward as they initially seem. Yet the overall result is satisfying, with the right-to-left diagonal of the composition– sloping from the can across a funnel to the tabletop tools– carrying the eye through the composition.
Willfully not cutting-edge, McGurk relies on color and old-school skills to turn heads.
Michael McGurk's exhibition of pastel paintings is on view at New Dominion Bookshop through April 29. 404 East Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 295-2552.


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BrzaenGrowth is holding a fundraiser in Melbourne on Friday May 11th.
There is a fine line between healthy and unhealthy and it is crossed in the mind before any physical signs may appear. Body size is not always the indicator that someone is in the grips of or developing an eating disorder.
Hear from inspiring speakers who have had experience with these serious illnesses of the mind, which negatively impact physical, mental and social health. Speakers include Dr. Sarah Maguire from the Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders, Sarah Coyte,
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Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is recognised as the first line, evidence-based, early intervention model of care for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). FBT for AN has been developed and researched worldwide since the 1990s. CEED has developed and delivered FBT training over several years to provide workforce development in this model to suit Victorian Service conditions. In the last ten years CEED has trained to over 700 clinicians and provided service development and consultation support to implement the FBT model of care in many Victorian CAMH / CYMH Services.
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The Centre for Excellence in Eating Disorders is holding a workshop "Using Diary Writing in the Treatment of Eating Disorders". Presented by June Alexander.
The use of the written narrative can enhance the effectiveness of eating disorders treatment. Excerpts from June's book "Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders – The Diary Healer" seed discussion on how the diary can be integrated into treatment and recovery. The training will involve didactic, interactive and experiential practise opportunities. Prior knowledge of understanding assessing and treating eating disorders is assumed.
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The second edition of the NSW Statewide Eating Disorders Newsletter 'Road to Recovery' has been released.
This issue showcases the incredible work being done across NSW to improve the recovery journey for people with eating disorders.
View the February 2018 Edition HERE.
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Are you concerned about any aspects of your eating, body image or well-being?
Visit the Reach Out and Recover (ROAR) website. Developed by the Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders in Victoria, ROAR is an interactive online tool that can help you by asking about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and prove you with a personalised report you can take to your healthcare professional if you need help.
For more information please visit the website http://www.reachoutandrecover.com.au/
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Are you concerned your child or teenage is developing a problem with eating, weight or body image?
Feed Your Instinct (FYI) is a fantastic online tool developed by the Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders in Victoria, designed to support parents of children and young people experiencing different types of eating disorder and/or body image problems.
For more information please visit the website http://www.feedyourinstinct.com.au/
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MIT professors Andrew Lo and Donald Sadoway have been named by Time magazine as two of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" for 2012.
Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), was cited for his "adaptive markets" theory and his belief that "markets are less like rule-based physics and more like messy biological systems," Time wrote.
"Lo is known for his multidisciplinary approach to finance, using everything from statistical analysis to neuroscience to better understand the markets," the article notes.
Time cites Sadoway's work on liquid batteries and his love of teaching, noting that his recent TED talk — in which he makes full use of a chalkboard — has been viewed more than 380,000 times.
"In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential," Sadoway, a professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, says in the article. "When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential."
Several alumni also made the list, including online-educator Sal Khan '98, MEng '98, who will be this year's Commencement speaker; Mario Draghi PhD '77, the head of the European Central Bank; and Benjamin Netanyahu '75, MS '76, the prime minister of Israel.


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Bears were plentiful with lots of opportunities for both bows and cameras.
If you've never experienced the taste of chocolate and someone tries to describe the sensation to you, it's impossible to grasp the undeniable pleasure that you will experience when the sweet substance finally passes over your tongue. Such is the case I experienced with an enchanting land called Buffalo Point.
Wyman Sangster is the outfitter at Buffalo Point and was please I finally made the trip there.
Wyman Sangster and I first met at the Wisconsin Deer and Turkey Expo a few years back; my personal relationship with him has been one of those special affiliations that was rich right from the very start and like fine wine has only gotten better with the passing of time. From the very onset of our association, he pleaded with me to come to Buffalo Point in the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods to see where he lives and the hunting and fishing Nirvana he had just discovered just a few years earlier, himself. What he neglected to mention was what a wonderful getaway it was for those of us who are addicted to digitally immortalizing our trophies with photographic paraphernalia.
I dilly-dallied on Wyman's invitation and finally this spring took him up on his offer to hunt bear there. By the time the week ended, I had been exposed to enough of the natural wonders of Buffalo Point to be hooked on that outdoorsman's paradise for the rest of my earthly existence.
The Points 18-hole golf course was a beautiful with wildlife running all over it.
Upon arrival, I quickly tracked Wyman and his wife, Darlene down on the fifth hole of the beautiful Buffalo Point golf course. It was the first time I had met Darlene so I took some time to get to know her as I followed along while they finished their first nine holes. This bear hunt, which will be an HBM Hunt Club Annual event, is the only one that I have ever heard of that offers free golf during the week of the hunt. From dawn to mid-afternoon, it is golfing or fishing and then the evenings are packed with the nail-biting excitement of bear hunting.
At the end of the first nine, Wyman instructed me on how to find my lodging at the Marina. With that information securely locked in my head, I headed for what would be my home for the next week. I stopped at the Marina, which serves as the main desk for the dozen or so lakeside cabins as well as being Buffalo Point's grocery store, bait shop, camping & boat launching headquarters; and the local coffee shop for the seasonal residents that call Buffalo Point home from early spring to late fall. I picked up my key, got directions and quickly found my luxury cabin. It was beautiful! Screened in porch, full kitchen, 2-bedrooms, whirlpool tub in the bath, a deck right on the lakeshore and satellite TV so I could watch Fox News. It was military clean and exceedingly wonderful.
Curt Thunder and his wife, Cheryl were gracious hosts and excellent company.
Within an hour, I met the gentleman who was to serve as my guide for the week. Buffalo Point has its own Gamekeeper, a local by the name of Curt Thunder. Curt grew up on Buffalo Point and knows its lake, land, swamps and rivers like the back of his hand from 40+ years of traipsing from one end of it to the other. He has a gentle soul, a sharp wit and we quickly formed a bond that deepened during the many hours we spent together over the next seven days. I was the only hunter on this trip so I was able to accompany Curt as he made his rounds replenishing the bait stations each day; I also spent a lot of time with him and his wife Cheryl who went out of her way to provide wonderful meals, great company and a heck of a lot of laughs. The Thunders are a great family and I am pleased to have added them to my special-friends list.
Curt's job is to oversee the wellbeing of the Buffalo Point wildlife and to serve as host to the bear, deer and duck hunters that come there to fulfill their hunting dreams. His keen intelligence and seemingly endless wood lore provide a stimulating and entertaining atmosphere enriching the experience of all who come to harvest wild game at The Point.
Signs warn hikers about the baits close to the settlement.
As the number of permanent homes increased at Buffalo Point, so did the number of nuisance-bear incidents. Buildings were broken into, there was exterior damage, and garbage cans were destroyed and scattered creating a hazardous problem. Over fifty bear complaints a year was a serious dilemma; but, when you build a burgeoning community in the middle of bear country, you should expect a certain amount of "incidents" with a sleuth of bears living in the neighborhood.
To remedy the problem, Curt has been put in charge of feeding the bears from the time they exit their dens in the early spring until the bountiful berry season begins on the Point. Blueberries, wild strawberries, saskatoons, chokecherries, pin cherries and acorns are all prolific on the Point, easily keeping the bears fed, once the natural food comes into season; but for the first few months after thaw, Curt's daily trips into the thick forests and swamps of the Point, keep the bears exactly where they belong – in the woods. This system not only nearly eliminates bear complaints, but it also creates an arena of premium bear hunting. My wildlife photo morgue is plump with bear photos thanks to the six nights on the stands at Buffalo Point and two of those nights I sat in the rain and saw no bears at all.
Cheryl Thunder has a natural way of putting the animals of Buffalo Point at ease.
The second night of the hunt I blew a chance at one of the biggest spring bears I have ever seen in the bush. It was in the very last moments of daylight and I had just put away my camera as was sitting there thinking when I should have been picking up my bow. The big bruin suddenly appeared from out of the thick cover, causing my heart to momentarily stop. It was truly an incredible specimen! In the heat of the adrenaline overdose I was experiencing, I reached for my crossbow, which was hanging on the tree. It was just enough movement to alert the bear and give me a good glimpse of its ample behind disappearing into the bright green undergrowth; proving once again that one is never too old to make stupid mistakes. I passed on a lot of bears at the Point, but that humongous creature was the big-daddy of the week and I had blown it.
On that very same stand the last night of the hunt, amid desperate prayers for another opportunity at that burly beast, I took a smaller bear as the day was fading into darkness. This particular bear had been stuffing itself for an hour and had shown no signs of alarm or concern indicating to me that the big bear was not in the immediate area. When the big boys are within spitting range of the bait, the little guys can sense their presence and head for cover so they are not brutally beaten for their lack of respect.
The very last night of the hunt, this bear fell prey to my crossbow as the daylight fled.
It had been several years since I had taken a bear so decided that this one would be a perfect specimen to break the drought; it definitely would make for a good freezer stuffer. A lot of good photos of the bear had been taken, so I definitely had my trophy to hang on the wall. Watching the bear eat had done little to arouse my excitement, even when it started to climb my tree at one point; but once the decision to take it was made, I lost control as the adrenaline surged through my system in anticipation of the kill.
Sitting on the very point one morning I was joined by a pair of curious otters.
Waiting until I had a perfect broadside, I placed the glowing red circle of the scope on its black rib cage and gently squeezed the trigger of the Kodabow. The silence of the darkening forest was crushed by the discharge of the arrow as I watched it blaze a brilliant red streak to the target, compliments of the Lumenock tip. The doomed bear spun on its hind legs, ran to the tree directly behind the middle barrel and climbed high off the ground. The bruin, I believe, thought that it had been sneak-attacked by the bigger bear and was fleeing up the tree to safety. Little did it realize that its fate had already been sealed by the Rage broadhead that had ventilated its goodie box. Eventually the bear came crashing to the ground in a fall that would have killed it were it not already gone.
There are more Canadian Geese that people on Buffalo Point with goslings galore.
I signaled Curt and his nephew who were sitting offshore doing a bit of fishing and they came to assist in the removal of the bear. The process brought to a perfect end, what had been a wonderful week. The next morning after skinning the bear, I packed and headed for home, already looking forward to coming back to play some more in the natural beauty of Buffalo Point.
Buffalo Point 2012
If you are interested in booking a spring bear hunt or a fall bear/whitetail or waterfowl hunt at Buffalo Point give the HBM Main Desk a closer look. The entire Buffalo Point experience is one that will definitely leave you wanting to come back for more. Curt Thunder, the Buffalo Point Gamekeeper, is also willing to work with disabled hunters for both bear and whitetails in the fall. If you are physically challenged and want a truly remarkable adventure in an enchanted land of the wild things, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Eagles were everywhere. This shot was taken near one of two nest on the golf course.


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Lewis & Clark partners with rural schools to support history teachers
August 31, 2009
Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling will partner with the High Desert Education Service District after receiving a grant totaling close to $1 million from the Department of Education to improve the teaching of American history.
The grant will improve instruction and raise student achievement by helping 150 elementary, middle and high school teachers hone their skills in teaching history. The five-year grant will support weekend workshops for teachers and allow the district to build an online resource-sharing portal to connect teachers in rural communities that span more than 6,000 square miles.
Janet Bixby, associate dean and associate professor of education, and Bill Rexford, the director for the grant and social studies teacher in the district, describe the project and its goal, and how the Graduate School of Education and Counseling and the High Desert Education Service District came to work together.
What is the Teaching American History grant?
Bixby: The Teaching American History grants are awarded by the federal government with the goal of improving the quality of history instruction and in turn students' understanding of American history. This grant will provide funding for the High Desert Educational Service District and Lewis & Clark to work collaboratively with teachers to create professional development opportunities for teachers of American history in K-12 schools over a five-year period. This is an incredibly important program because it focuses on students and future citizens learning to think critically about history.
What is unique about the programs supported by this grant? Will it change the way history is taught in the high dessert region of Oregon?
Bixby: This project will provide teachers in the high desert region with more content knowledge about U.S. history and with the instructional skills to teach history effectively in their classrooms. Specifically, teachers will learn strategies to engage students in critical thinking, adjust instruction for different students' needs, and continually assess student progress. United States history is a dynamic and fascinating discipline, and with the proper content background, professional development, and the support of a strong community of educators working together on this project, teachers can help students develop a deep and meaningful understanding of this critical subject.
How did Lewis & Clark team up with the High Dessert ESD to pursue this grant? Can you describe a little what the relationship has been like?
Rexford: We decided to partner with Lewis & Clark because of their reputation for helping teachers put theory into practice. Lewis & Clark does a great job of walking the line of what is possible with how things should be done. I received my MAT and my basic admin license at Lewis & Clark. I treasure every minute I spent there and I am confident that Lewis & Clark will deliver on this grant. I love my colleagues over here, and the most respect I could show them was to bring in the best and most respectful specialists we could.
Bixby: Bill and the High Desert ESD have been terrific to work with because their values match ours so well: they respect the knowledge and expertise that their teachers already have, they want to work with teachers in a deep and sustained way, they have already built professional learning communities among teachers, and they want their students to engage in critical thinking and genuine historical inquiry. We both agree that we need to be flexible to address the developing and varied needs of teachers as we move forward through the project.
What are the biggest challenges facing history teachers right now? What will this grant do to address some of those challenges?
Rexford: The biggest challenge facing history teachers is time, or the lack of it. The demands on all teachers increase each year, yet history teachers are not given the professional development attention as other areas or disciplines. Those that participate in this grant will be given the gift of time to work on their craft. We are also expected to write lesson plans and units that are targeted to state standards, are differentiated to both ends of the learning spectrum, are sensitive to learning styles, provide continuous and ongoing summative and formative assessment, and hopefully, are interesting and meaningful to our students. No small task, but together we will raise the level of our performance in the classroom.
Bixby: There are two parallel challenges facing history teachers. First, most of them have not had the opportunity to study history in any real depth. While they can catch up on the content knowledge they need to teach, it is harder for them to learn to think historically, to understand how historians think. Without this understanding, history instruction all too often becomes a dry recitation of the "facts" of history rather than the interpretive, unraveling story that it should be. Second, teachers often lack an understanding of teaching strategies that make history exciting for them and their students. This project will address both of these issues directly. Teachers will learn a great deal about how historians actually engage in historical inquiry as well as strategies for teaching their students how to think historically and critically. Teachers will learn this by doing some historical inquiry of their own during this project.
How will this grant help rural schools in Oregon?
Bixby: Rural schools are starved for resources. Teachers rarely have the opportunity to collaborate with a critical mass of colleagues who share an expertise in either United States history or in instructional strategies focused on history. This project will build upon the professional learning communities of teachers already in place in the region and expand their ability to teach U.S. history in high quality ways. This infusion of professional development resources focused on U.S. history in particular is exceedingly rare and vital.
Rexford: We will work hard to create community. Distance over here is not like distance over in the valley. Some of my best friends work in Burns (three hours away from me by car). This grant will allow us to work together and create that network of support that is needed for continuous improvement. Teachers will have better lesson plans and the confidence that they will always have the skills necessary to better their performance after participating in this grant. They will be taught skills, content, and have a learning community to support them.
This is not flash in the pan, hit or miss professional development. The benefits of this project will long outlive the life of the grant. Students will experience lesson plans that are tried and tested and that require them to analyze primary source documents. Students will do history, not just study history.
To learn more, hear High Desert School District's Kathy Emerson and Rexford discuss the project and its impact on teachers and students in the area.


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October 5, 2010 FLICC Announces 11th Annual Awards for Federal Librarianship
Contact: Robin Harvey, FLICC Publications and Education (202) 707-4820 | John Sayers, Public Affairs (202) 707-9216
The Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) has announced the winners of its national awards for federal librarianship, which recognize the many innovative ways that federal libraries, librarians and library technicians fulfill the information demands of government, business and scholarly communities and the American public.
FLICC will honor the award winners at the 2010 Fall FEDLINK membership meeting on Oct. 6, 2010, at the Library of Congress in Washington, where the winners will receive their awards from Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. The names of the winners will remain on permanent display in the FLICC offices at the Library of Congress.
Federal libraries and staff throughout the United States and abroad competed in three award categories. The winners are listed below.
2009 Federal Library/Information Center of the Year
Large Library/Information Center (with a staff of 11 or more federal and/or contract employees): National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library, Bethesda, Md., is recognized for its leadership role in the "green" initiative at NIH, serving as a role model for green procurement and environmental stewardship with the opening on Earth Day 2009 of its Green Terrace, a fully-sustainable space. The Terrace and a new "green" Information Commons provide a mix of quiet study and interactive social spaces. The library also expanded its "informationist," or embedded librarian program into the laboratory setting with the introduction of its bioinformatics training and consultation service. NIH library informationists provide research support to more than 40 research teams and programs for 16 NIH institutes and centers. Of special note is their donation of 5,000 linear feet of medical journals, already held in trusted digital archives, to help rebuild the collections of the University of Baghdad Medical School.
Small Library/Information Center (with a staff of 10 or fewer federal and/or contract employees): Gorgas Memorial Library, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Md., is recognized for its 2009 implementation of a citation database and citation management system for its Silver Spring Lab and six overseas labs. Using this licensed data, librarians create innovative products such as publication strategies and research impact analyses on each organization's malaria and dengue research. Librarians also developed publication and citation metrics for the organization's Balanced Scorecard which improve bench scientists' workflow, facilitating discovery and citations for future manuscripts, and identifying mission success. Customers indicated high satisfaction for new and already established information services which are instrumental for researchers and ultimately preserve the fighting strength of marines, sailors and soldiers and their early return to duty.
2009 Federal Librarian of the Year
Eleanor S. Uhlinger, University Librarian, Naval Postgraduate School/Dudley Knox Library, Monterey, Calif., is recognized as a transformational leader who championed the need for the library to be involved in all levels of accreditation, curriculum and program reviews. In 2009, she oversaw library renovations to create a combination of quiet and collaborative spaces with technology to enhance learning. Physical and virtual enhancements, coupled with her patron-friendly focus and promotion of staff initiatives, resulted in double-digit increases in in-person reference requests, interlibrary loan and reserve item circulation, with only a limited increase in library expenditures. Uhlinger's emphasis on assessment, metrics, budget oversight and improved efficiency, combined with her commitment to the collection, preservation and access to the school's research, publications and history, made the Dudley Knox Library more proactive in serving the current and emerging needs of the faculty, students, staff and alumni of the Naval Postgraduate School.
2009 Federal Library Technician of the Year
Gary B. Baker, Library Technician, Army Counterintelligence Center, Ft. Meade, Md., is recognized for single-handedly operating the center's library, managing and cataloging its collections remotely as a result of a 2006 facility fire, and laying the groundwork for a physical map collection. In 2009, he cataloged 2,600 items, created 229 bibliographies in addition to collecting more than 2,000 other bibliographies from the Library of Congress and other sources, and relabeled and repaired more than 1,000 volumes. Baker actively promoted library services and access to materials and supported its patrons without the benefits of a physical library space.
For the latest information on the awards, interested parties may refer to the FLICC website, www.loc.gov/flicc/awards.html.
The Federal Library and Information Center Committee fosters excellence in federal library and information services through interagency cooperation, and provides guidance and direction for the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK). Created in 1965 and headquartered at the Library of Congress, FLICC also makes recommendations on federal library and information policies, programs and procedures to federal agencies and to others concerned with libraries and information centers.


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If we ignore the reality of the parentage of Cersie's children, then Tommen is the "rightful" heir to Joffrey since Joffrey did not have any offspring.
I also tried to provide a certain moment of pathos with the death. I mean, Joffrey, as monstrous as he is and certainly hes just as monstrous in the books as he is in the TV show, and Jack has brought some incredible acting chops to the role that somehow makes him even more loathsome than he is on the page but Joffrey in the books is still a 13-year-old kid. And theres kind of a moment there where he knows that hes dying and he cant get a breath and hes kind of looking at Tyrion and at his mother and at the other people in the hall with just terror and appeal in his eyesyou know, Help me mommy, Im dying. And in that moment, I think even Tyrion sees a 13-year-old boy dying before him. So I didnt want it to be entirely, Hey-ho, the witch is dead. I wanted the impact of the death to still strike home on to perhaps more complex feelings on the part of the audience, not necessarily just cheering.
Quote from: EdSolo on April 15, 2014, 07:01 AMIf we ignore the reality of the parentage of Cersie's children, then Tommen is the "rightful" heir to Joffrey since Joffrey did not have any offspring.Depends... on a 'certain point of view'
True... I was thinking along the lines of the Martells, who believe Myrcella is the rightful heir.
She's the heir in the sense that her father (right?) was the mad king, but that was a popular uprising was it not? So isn't there some equal POV that Robert's bastard is the rightful heir here?I'd say he and Stannis hold more ground than Khalisi in that regard... Of course, I lean to what you say though, Ed. I prefer Khalisi at this point because she's not insane, seems like a good leader, etc. But in that world her family was kicked out by everyone, more or less.I love this show. In the breakdown of the episode they really did want people to feel something for Joffrey, but for me it was purely good riddance... He was a monster, and horrific. His mother's one of the few equally horrible people, to me. Kid or no... I felt no sympathy.I feel sympathy for the actor... Poor kid gets ragged on by people he meets, and that sucks. I sometimes just don't get fandom.
Since Danaerys is the last Targaryen (that we know of for sure at this point), she really has the strongest claim to the throne, but does not quite have the power to take it.
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Engaged: Julie LaBella, Josh Labshere
Charles and Donna LaBella of Kinney Hill Road, New Preston, announce the engagement of their daughter, Julie LaBella, to Josh Labshere, son of Layne and Cindi Labshere of New Street, Canaan.
The future bride graduated from Shepaug Valley High School in Washington. She is a student at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Mass., studying for her master's degree in occupational therapy. She is a rehabilitation aide at Geer in Canaan.
The future bridegroom graduated from Housatonic Regional Valley School in Canaan. He is an equipment operator at O'Connor Sand and Gravel.
An August 2010 wedding is planned.


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