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Austin, Texas has always maintained a reputation as a different sort of Texas city, proud of it's originality and unabashedly weird. This sort of friendly, incubating atmosphere has fostered countless subcultures over the years and one particularly expansive and successful offshoot is Austin's disc golf community. Disc golf is a sport with modern roots going back to California in the 1960s; it involves throwing modified Frisbees around various obstacles into designated baskets according to rules very similar to traditional golf. Disc golf arrived in the Austin area shortly after it's California debut and has developed a strong following. The Austin area has around 20 disc golf courses within a 30-minute drive, multiple enthusiast clubs and one of the world's largest disc golf stores.
Historically, Austin's Pease Park and disc golf have gone hand in hand. The park opened its disc golf course in 1989 and the course's central location and proximity to campus attracted large amounts of disc golfers. Too many actually, according to the Austin Parks and Recreation Department. The heavy amount of foot traffic around Shoal Creek led to erosion issues, which threaten trees along the shoreline and expose wastewater pipelines. The bank loss and compacted soil were also taking their toll on the park's natural ecosystem. The Austin PARD opted in 2010 to close the course to prevent further damage and allow groups such as the Shoal Creek Restoration Project uninhibited access to recuperate the area. However, acknowledging the high demand for disc golf in Austin, the PARD initially promised to open a new course as a consolation.
The new course was planned to adjoin a southeast Austin park, Roy G Guerrero Park on the south side of Lady Bird Lake. The proposal involved using 7 acres of existing parkland and 28 acres the city bought in 2007 and had yet to develop. The momentum of the project ground to a halt when it met resistance on two local fronts. The first opposition was support of developing the land into neighborhoods, which while not coinciding with the PARD's intentions did make sense under the original zoning of the land. The second argument against disc golf came from nature advocates, who believed that the stress on the ecosystem seen at Pease Park would also occur at this new course. Specific worries about the health of the historic Pecan and Heritage trees in the area spearheaded this argument. These claims are representative of more general trend in the Austin area to set aside nature preserves, a trend that has seen remarkable success in the greenbelt system.
Now the new course is in limbo, the PARD has chosen to study the issue before moving forward and an advisory committee is weighing the practicality of other sites for a course. If environmental concerns are truly a priority, then perhaps time should be a more pressing issue in this case; the disc golf community in Austin has not shrunk, and by removing a popular course you are just channeling more traffic through the courses that remain. Personally speaking the current course at Bartholomew District Park off of east 51st looks worse in terms of erosion than Pease Park ever did. Furthermore, the damage to trees argument needs either better proof or to be debunked. The PARD's reasons to close Pease Park did not include tree damage from discs, so how can this fear justify putting a new course on hiatus? If the danger is to the root system, careful course layout and the use of "out of bounds" areas can circumvent this problem.
I believe the solution moving forward requires the PARD to better promote their own mission, which is to serve the Austin community at large with quality "recreational, cultural and outdoor experiences". Right now the disc golf community in Austin feels marginalized at the expense of smaller local interests. While local groups must be considered and protected, they cannot have an undue share of influence in how the city operates. Other disc golf courses are currently experiencing the high activity level seen at Pease and will experience similar fates unless the city acts to meet the growing demand for this recreational sport. The city of Austin is expanding and changing at an incredible pace and will continue to do well into the foreseeable future. Taking this into account, it is the duty of the city and its citizens to continue to protect and encourage Austin's cultural identity.
It would be a shame for us to lose touch with the original ethos: "Keep Austin Weird".
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Waterloo Disc Golf President's Letter to the Editor
KXAN: No final plans for disc golf course
KXAN: final tosses for disc golf in Pease Park
Park Profile: Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Park
Shoal Creek Restoration Project
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Two years later after flawless operation, the problem has returned. This time I thought I'd document the repair procedure in case it's of use to anyone else.
First a caveat: don't try this unless you are comfortable with DIY repair and have at least a basic understanding of electrical safety. The instructions here worked for me, but may not be the "correct" way of doing things. If you do decide to proceed YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. Also, if there is any warrantee remaining on the appliance it may be voided by your attempt to repair. Feel free to add feedback below if you have any interesting information to add.
The tools you need for this are:
- Phillips head screwdriver (number 2), but you might get away with a flat head
- Torch (optional)
- Bucket (optional)
- Rag (optional)
- Brush and/or vacuum cleaner (optional)
- FDW60 manual (optional)
Empty any water remaining in the dishwasher. Remove the filters and drawers (
Before disconnecting the cold water in ensure that the water supply to the appliance is OFF. This is usually accomplished by means of a valve leaver near where the hose connects to the water supply. Leaver perpendicular to the pipe usually means OFF. Have a bucket and rag ready to catch any residual water in the hose.
Same applies to the grey water outlet hose. This water may have a foul oder -- so be prepared.
Ensure that the power cord and the two water hoses are free to move as you gently pull the appliance out.
Place some newspaper on the ground and have some rags on the ready. Stuff a rag in the drain well to absorb residual water. Gently lay the appliance on its side. Be prepared from some water to seap out. The bottom of the appliance is now exposed. Use a brush or vacuum cleaner to clean the bottom.
Double check that you have electrically disconnected the appliance (don't just rely on the appliance on/off button!). Best to physically disconnect the power cord from the wall socket. If you can't do this then trip the fuse associated with the appliance. Verify there is no power by switching the device on and ensure the power neon does not light.
The bottom panel can be removed by unscrewing 6 (Phillips Head Size 2, I think) screws marked by red arrows in photo. You may need to temporarly remove the front legs to access two of the front screws(just twist the leg until it comes out).
Most of the essential dishwasher components are now accessible. The drain pump can be removed by unscrewing one screw (see photo) and twisting the pump assembly.
The impeller should now be visible inside the pump chamber. Use a pen or screw driver to rotate the impeller a few revolutions. There will be some resistance due to the pump motor – that is normal.
Ensure that there are no foreign objects stuck in the chamber (use a torch to illuminate the chamber while rotating the impeller). In my case I found a pumpkin seed!
Reattach the pump assembly (be careful to ensure the o-ring seal is still there).
Replace the bottom panel. Bring the unit upright. Reconnect power and water hoses. Run a "Prewash" cycle to test.
That should be it!
Boot note: On my first attempt at reattaching the pump assembly I failed to engage all three posts of the bayonet twist lock mechanism (the one at the back which isn't easy seen had not engaged). This resulted in water leaking during my test which caused the float switch activate. This manifests itself as as flashing "Eco" LED and the drain pump runs continuously. Once the pump was attached properly everything ran smoothly.
Update (24 Jan 2011): I've added additional information about the this dishwasher's controller board in this blog post.
Update (7 Mar 2011): A Hotpoint technician told me that this can often be solved without removing/opening the unit by using something like a wire coat hanger to unstick the drain pump impeller. I've never tried this, so I can't comment on its effectiveness and it probably won't help if there is a foreign object lodged in there.
Update (25 May 2011): Impeller got stuck again today. This time I tried the coat hanger trick that was suggested to me by the Hotpoint technician. It worked! I had to do it twice... first time the pump started working, but it sounded rough and then jammed again. The second time it again sounded rough for a few seconds but recovered and seems to be fully back to normal now. There was probably a foreign object in the pump chamber that got expelled eventually. You need a wire coat hanger and make a right angle bend like this:
The horizontal part (running parallel to my measuring tape) goes into the drain hole. See photo of the underside of the dishwasher above to get an idea of what's going on. About 10cm - 11cm is what you need to reach the impeller. Then just wiggle it... all it takes is just the slightest movement of the impeller to unstick it. Of course if you have a large foreign object stuck in there this probably won't help – you'll need to disassemble the pump as described in the main part of this post.

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Since 2004, Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival has taken place every three years. Previous festivals took place in Dallas, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois. This time around, Clapton brought the show to the Big Apple's Madison Square Garden.
Coinciding with the show was the "Guitar Center Road to Crossroads" exhibit in the terrace level of the Garden, which displayed Clapton's new line of guitars in partnership with Guitar Center, Fender, Gibson, and Martin, along with several historically significant guitars including perhaps the most important Strats of all time—Clapton's "Blackie" and "Brownie," and Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Lenny." These instruments were on loan from the Guitar Center Legends Collection and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Tickets for the 2013 Crossroads Festival went on sale last November and sold out within minutes. The lucky few that were able to snag a ticket were treated to what can inarguably be described as the ultimate guitar concert. Over a two-day period on April 12 and 13, the biggest guitar stars on the planet—a diverse cast featuring Clapton, Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Allman Brothers Band, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Keb Mo, Keith Urban, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Allan Holdsworth, among many, many others—all came together to perform under one roof.
Here are PG's top 20 moments of the show—10 for each night—in chronological order.
Night One: Friday, April 12
By Joe Charupakorn
1. Eric Clapton's Opening Acoustic Set
Eric Clapton, photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage
While most first acts on a big bill can tend to be dull, Clapton wasted no time getting the 2013 Crossroads Festival off to a grand start. His acoustic band opened up Friday's show and soon after commencing, went straight to his mega-hits including "Tears in Heaven" and "Wonderful Tonight." Guests for this set included Andy Fairweather-Low and Vince Gill.
2. Booker T. and All-Star Band
After Clapton's acoustic set came a groovy change of pace. A Stax-inspired electric set featuring a star-studded lineup of Booker T., Steve Cropper [original guitarist for Booker T. & the M.G.'s], Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Albert Lee, Blake Mills, and Keb' Mo' trading licks on classics like the Santo & Johnny instrumental "Sleepwalk," Albert King's blues staple "Born Under a Bad Sign," and Booker T. & the M.G.'s signature hit "Green Onions."
3. Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, and Jimmie Vaughan
A killer set by Robert Cray (who had just about the most incredible tone of the evening) got guitar fanatics pumped up and ready for the mega jam that followed. The blues elite—Clapton, B.B. King, and Jimmie Vaughan—all joined Cray onstage and schooled everyone on what the blues is all about. King's darker tone provided a great contrast to the trebly Strat sounds of the other blues masters. For blues aficionados, this jam was the highlight of the night.
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4. Ernie Ball and Guitar Center Play Crossroads 2013 winner Phillip Sayce
Phillip Sayce first came to prominence as a sideman in Melissa Ethridge's band, but the buzz was that he was a killer artist in his own right. For some reason he entered the Ernie Ball Play Crossroads 2013 competition and, of course, he won. At the Crossroads Festival, he went up solo and shook the house with a performance so devastating that it would have made "Eruption" sound like a nursery rhyme.
After his solo performance at the show, Sayce told us, "It's all about the music. Everybody gets caught up in competition and shit but this is all about being in a community of musicians and supporting each other. This is another chapter and something I've been dreaming about doing my whole life. Eric Clapton's been my hero since I was in the womb so to be in Clapton's house tonight through Ernie Ball is overwhelming."
5. Earl Klugh jazz duo
There certainly was something for everyone at the show, and jazz purists got a chance to enjoy an intimate rendition of the Jobim standard "How Insensitive" played by Grammy-award winning, fingerstyle master Earl Klugh. The song's intricate harmonies combined with Klugh's subdued, gentle touch, and the purity of his unprocessed nylon-string had the capacity crowd so mesmerized, you could have heard a pin drop.
6. The Kurt Rosenwinkel band with Allan Holdsworth and Eric Clapton
A Dumble and some Yamaha Magicstomps on the same stage? A wacky pairing for sure but there was nothing funny about the ridiculous virtuosity heard on the most daring set of the night. After some technical glitches with his tabletop of Magicstomps, Holdsworth played an unaccompanied solo full of his signature "outside" legato excursions. His acapella intro led into Rosenwinkel's composition "Gamma Band." While you might have expected blues purists to see this heavy fusion set as an opportune moment for a bathroom break, that was not the case. Clapton personally selected the artists for the program and even as challenging as this pair may have been to listen to, the attentive audience was a testament to his impeccable judgment.
After Holdsworth left the stage, Clapton joined Rosenwinkel and his band in a rendition of "If I should Lose You" and "Way Down the Lonesome Road." The contrast in styles—melodic blues phrasing versus fluid sixteenth-note scalar lines—worked much better than might be expected.
John Mayer and Keith Urban, photo by James K. Belmont
7. John Mayer and Keith Urban
Mega stars John Mayer and Keith Urban proved that they have just as much guitar cred as the old blues dudes by tearing it up with a vengeance. On a cover of the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down," the duo's rhythm section brought it down in the middle giving Mayer and Urban a chance to trade licks. The suspense was heightened when Urban's strap came loose. Mayer graciously helped get the strap back on as Urban held a bend on a high F# note, and then the kid gloves came off. The Strat vs. Tele duel raged on, building up to an insane climax that had the audience roaring.
14-year-old Quinn Sullivan, photo by James K. Belmont
8. Buddy Guy, Robert Randolph, and Quinn Sullivan
Buddy Guy and his young protégé, 14-year-old phenom Quinn Sullivan, along with pedal steel virtuoso Robert Randolph had perhaps the most electrifying set of the evening. Quinn's performance, in particular, was the unexpected surprise of the night and perhaps got the loudest applause. The audience literally had to pick their jaws up off the floor as they witnessed his rapid-fire repeating licks and screaming bends, all played with as much authority as the masters that went on before and after him. Joe Bonamassa watch out, the next guitar hero is here.
9. Dan Aykroyd and Keb' Mo'
Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd, who had been announcing the festivities all night, stepped up to the plate for the penultimate number and sang "Got My Mojo Working." He was accompanied solely by Keb' Mo's driving acoustic guitar. To add some grease to the number, Aykroyd pulled out his blues harp midway through the song and took a wicked solo.
Cesar Rosas, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo, and Oteil Burbridge, photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage
10. The Allman Brothers Band
For the grand finale, the Allman Brothers Band took the stage and was joined at various points by Clapton, Taj Mahal, and members of Los Lobos [David Hidalgo and Cesar Rojas]. A historic highlight took place on "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad?" On this number, Derek Trucks played Duane Allman's iconic 1957 Les Paul Goldtop, which was used on the original recording from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. The guitar was personally brought to NYC by E.J. Devokaitis, curator of the Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House in Macon, Georgia. The Allman Brothers classic "Whipping Post" brought the evening to a triumphant ending.


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What would Molydeux? In about a week and a half, we're going to find out. That question, of course, is the name of the coming international game jam that will give game developers in locations around the world 48 hours to break into teams and come up with games based on the wacky game design ideas of Peter Molydeux, the evil satirical twitter-twin to the famous game developer Peter Molyneux.
The game jam, which started as a half-serious idea tweeted by Double Fine programmer Anna Kipnis, quickly attracted interest from all corners of the internet and snowballed into an international game design shindig. Now officiailly titled "What Would Molydeux," it is scheduled to take place next weekend, from March 31st to April 1st.
As of this writing, there are Molydeux Game Jam locations in eighteen locations around the world. While it seems likely that more will be added, at the moment those locations are:
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Boston
- Los Angeles
- Orlando
- Las Vegas
- Phoenix
- Melbourne, Australia
- Brighton< UK
- London, UK
- Montreal, Canada
- Sydney, Australia
- Munich, Germany
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Toronto, Canada
- Dundee, Scotland
- Monterrey, Mexico
Dang, that's a lot of game jams! Contact info for each location's organizer can be found at the What Would Molydeux official site linked to below. They've also got a Twitter account, which relays official information on the jam and will probably be fun to follow the weekend of the event itself.
Any way you slice it, this is an impressive amount of enthusiasm for the ideas of a guy who started as a joke on Twitter. I'm really looking forward to seeing what all these people come up with.
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Re-post by : Lisa Ades
This is a recipe I developed, featured in the New York Times dining section, as part of a piece by Julia Moskin called Burgers Without Borders. These kebabs are savory and delicious and even good cold the next day (if there are any left over). (Year-round you can tuck them into a pita with salad, but during Passover, when you can't eat any more matzah, why not go Atkins-style and just have them with a crunchy refreshing salad?)
Adapted by Lisa Ades
Time: 30 minutes, plus 1 hour for chilling
2 pounds ground beef (not extra lean)
4 tablespoons tomato paste
2/3 cup minced onion
2 teaspoons salt
Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 dashes cayenne
1 tablespoon ground allspice
1/3. cup pine nuts
Oil to brush on grill rack
Lemon wedges for serving
Lemony cucumber salad, for serving (recipe follows).
1. Combine all ingredients but oil, lemon wedges, and salad in a bowl, and mix to combine.
2. You can make these on skewers, but it is much easier to form them and turn them on the grill without. So just form mixture into torpedo shaped kebabs about 1 inch by 3 inches or into small patties.
3. Lay finished kebabs on a sheet pan and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
4. Prepare charcoal grill, or turn gas grill to medium-low. Spray or brush oil on clean grill rack, and set within a few inches of the fire. Fire should not be too hot, and rack should be at least several inches from heat source.
5. When rack is heated through, place kebabs on grill. Meat should start sizzling gently; it should not spit and turn black. Cook undisturbed until deep brown, several minutes. When meat lifts easily from grill, slide a spatula under kebabs and turn over. Continue grilling until browned on all sides and juicy, but cooked through. Serve hot with lemon wedges and lemony cucumber salad (when it's not passover, serve also with pita bread that's been warmed on the grill).
Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
Time: 5 minutes
6 cups romaine lettuce (about 2 hearts)
1 long seedless cucumber or 3 Kirbys, peeled, halved lengthwise, and sliced crosswise 1/4-inch thick
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
1 clove finely minced garlic (optional)
Salt and black pepper to taste.
Toss all ingredients. Serve chilled.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
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Yangon, BurmaAndrew Mason
Formerly known as Rangoon, this large, vibrant city is full of gleaming temples, markets and interesting buildings. The focal point of any visit to Yangon will probably be the much photographed Shwedagon Paya. This ancient Buddhist shrine is said to be more than 2,500 years old and gigantic golden stupa can be seen from all over the city, much like the Taj Mahal in Agra.
There are many sides to this fascinating city. Wander along the waterfront and you will discover aged streets full of British colonial-era architecture, while other streets such as the Strand or Pansodan Street have been renovated and have an ultra-modern feel.
In many ways Yangon feels like a Western city with tree-lined avenues, picturesque lakes and colonial architecture. A trip to Chinatown offers a different dimension to the city and this is a particularly good place to get an evening meal and wander through the bright lights and colourful decorations.
Most tours of the city will start with its temples and pagodas and there are certainly plenty to see. Top of the list should be the ancient Sule Pagoda, the mirrored maze inside the Botataung Pagoda and the Maha Pasan Guha.
Despite its often chaotic feel, there are plenty of places to relax in Yangon. Take a walk through the Mahabandoola Garden and you will find a beautiful rose garden, while there is a water fountain and informative museum in People's Park.
Take a boat trip on the large Inya Lake before viewing the traditional Burmese royal boat at Kandawgyi Lake.
Those interested in the city's history can visit Aung San's house, which has been turned into a museum of sorts, before visiting the place where Aung San Suu Kyi was held under house arrest for so many years.
There is plenty to see just outside Yangon such as the Naga-Yone enclosure near Myinkaba. Here you will find a large Buddhist statue, while the Golden Rock Pagoda at Kyaik Tyo is an 18 foot high shrine built on a gold-plated boulder on top of a cliff.
Take the The Dallah Ferry across the river to visit the pretty village of Dallah. The ride itself is beautiful and provides an interesting inside into country life as people try hard to sell their ways and compete for attention.


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Warning – COVID-19 in Saba
Warning – Level 3, COVID-19 risk in Saba is high, and new cases are increasing
Key Points
- CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential international travel to Saba. Travelers at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 should consider postponing all travel, including essential travel, to Saba.
- COVID-19 risk in Saba is high.
- Within the last 14 days, new cases of COVID-19 in Saba increased.
- If you get sick in Saba and need medical care, resources may be limited.
- Check with the Office of Foreign Affairs or Ministry of Health of Saba or the US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Country Information page for details about entry requirements and restrictions for arriving travelers, such as mandatory testing or quarantine.
- Local policies at your destination may require you to be tested for COVID-19 before you are allowed to enter the country. If you test positive on arrival, you may be required to isolate for a period of time. You may even be prevented from returning to the United States, as scheduled. You might consider getting tested before your trip. If so, see Testing for COVID-19 webpage for more information.
What is the current situation?
COVID-19 risk in Saba is high. Over the last 14 days, new cases of COVID-19 in Saba increased. CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential international travel to Saba. Some examples of essential travel may include traveling for humanitarian aid work, medical reasons, or family emergencies. Older adults, people of any age with certain underlying medical conditions, and others at increased risk for severe illness should consider postponing all travel, including essential travel, to Saba.
If you get sick in Saba and need medical care, resources may be limited. Plan ahead and learn more about Getting Health Care Abroad.
If you get sick with COVID-19 (or test positive for COVID-19, even if you have no symptoms) while abroad, you may be isolated or not be permitted to return to the United States until you have recovered fully from your illness. If you get exposed to a person with COVID-19 while abroad, you may be quarantined or not be permitted to return to the United States until 14 days after your last exposure.
What can travelers do to protect themselves and others?
If you travel, take steps to protect yourself and others from COVID-19:
- Avoid close contact by staying at least 6 feet (about 2 arms' length) away from anyone who is not from your household.
- Wear a mask to keep your nose and mouth covered when in public settings.
- Wash your hands often or use hand sanitizer.
- Avoid contact with anyone who is sick.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
- Do not travel if you are sick.
What do I need to do after I travel?
You may have been exposed to COVID-19 on your travels (domestic and/or international). You may feel well and not have any symptoms, but you can be contagious without symptoms and spread the virus to others. You and your travel companions (including children) pose a risk to your family, friends, and community for 14 days after you were exposed to the virus. Regardless of where you traveled or what you did during your trip, take these actions to protect others from getting sick:
Because you traveled to a destination where COVID-19 risk is high, also take the following steps after travel:
See CDC's After Travel webpage for more information. Follow state and local recommendations or requirements after travel.
Clinician information
Healthcare providers should obtain a detailed travel history for patients with symptoms of potential COVID-19 infection, including: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, muscle pain, new loss of taste or smell, vomiting or diarrhea, and sore throat. If you suspect a traveler has COVID-19, see Information for Healthcare Professionals about Coronavirus (COVID-19) for information on evaluating, reporting, clinical care guidance, and infection control.
Additional information
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I'm a Mechanical Design Engineer that works for a electronics company, I have experiences designing Injection Moulded enclosures to house PCBs.
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I was listening to the latest Walled Garden podcast and towards the end they stopped just short of stating what many developers I talk to have been saying–mobile gaming is dead.
Ok, not actually dead. After all, mobile gaming revenue is higher than it's ever been, and mobile consumption of everything is eating the planet. However, mobile gaming is completely dead as a business model for independent developers and undercapitalized startups.
IAP has become so dominant that there's really only one somewhat reproducible way to make money in the AppStore: make a hamster wheel f2p game in a handful of established genres and spend tens of thousands of dollars a day on user acquisition to drive traffic to it. Despite many bold experiments, the charts increasingly bear this out.
This means that some companies with top charting mobile games aren't actually making a profit as UA costs can eat up most of the revenue. Surely this will produce a shakeout and consolidation in 2014. This is similar to what happened to Facebook games circa 2010 causing a mass exodus to mobile.
Now that mobile is dead, where should you escape to? There are several options.
The PC, and more specifically Steam, remains the platform of choice for those who actually want to charge money for content. There's a large market for premium games and Steam has loosened their gate with the advent of Greenlight. Some prominent developers have been abandoning mobile for PC with their new projects. Despite PC sales declining in the face of tablets, it makes sense. This is where the paying customers are.
A lot has been written here about the impending demise of consoles, but Sony and Microsoft managed to change up their business model and product strategy enough to have early success with both the PS4 and XBOX One. One of the big changes has been the thawing of the gated ecosystem and allowing independent developers to self-publish. Oh yeah, and on the Wii U also.
Next generation console owners are starved for content. There will be many independent successes over the next few years before the channel becomes completely saturated.
On one hand VR is merely a peripheral for existing games, on the other it's part of an entirely new category of wearable computing and an emerging platform. Oculus Rift is the clear leader with a huge round of investment and development kits widespread. However a glut of VR headsets is on the horizon.
Oculus is building an ecosystem out of their device, but VR content can be distributed through any PC gaming channel. Although, supporting every single headset may be a nightmare for developers–isn't it time for some kind of standard VR API?
Board games
Board games are a cottage industry yet a hot category on Kickstarter. As an example, Sandy Peteresen's Cuthulu World Combat iOS game Kickstarter failed miserably, but when re-pitched as a board game, it blew past its funding goal. Going from digital to physical presents a lot of new challenges for developers, but does have a dedicated fan base of paying customers. Plus, you can't pirate a board game!
Facebook / Web
Facebook games 'died' in 2010, but are ironically becoming an increasingly common alternative platform for mobile developers. Especially if you have a working web client already, why not put it on Facebook? The problem is the audience is decidedly non-hardcore. Facebook games can still make some money, but for a very specific audience. However, for hardcore games, the open web still remains a viable place to find an audience of paying gamers. Kongregate proves this.
What needs to change in mobile?
The supremacy of f2p and the very few options for user acquisition make the momentum towards free and the companies with enough money to compete in the mobile UA wars insurmountable. Apple could make some changes to the App Store to help support premium games and other alternative business models, however there really isn't any incentive to do so–Either way, Apple sells phones. It's difficult to foresee anything but the continuing dominance of f2p and mega-publishers on mobile in 2014. If you have a ton of cash and resources, solving this problem is hard, and thus very lucrative. For the rest of us, plan your strategy accordingly.


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Thanks to the Fed's decision not to taper, gold jumped $55/oz (4%) and gold equities rose 10% yesterday.
Purely from a valuation standpoint, Barrick Gold (ABX) and Compania de Minas Buenaventura (BVN) look cheap among gold miners in the Americas, whether you are using 2014 P/E or NPV to evaluate. BVN also looks cheap on adjusted capitalization per ounce basis.
But valuing gold miners is more than a pure numerical exercise. J.P. Morgan decided to give both a Neutral rating because of political risk. Barrick Gold has the added uncertainty around its balance sheet.
Analysts John Bridges and Anant Inani wrote on Barrick Gold:
Barrick's cashflows have become more difficult to forecast in 2013. While the Pueblo Viejo project has been successfully commissioned, fiscal problems in the host country, the Dominican Republic, will channel half of the early cashflows away from Barrick and partner Goldcorp. More uncertainty has been added with the negative ruling from the Chilean court which has forced Barrick to halt construction on the Chilean side of the Pascua Lama property. [Barron's: political risk!]
The company is also considering asset sales to help bring down its debt load and is currently offloading its energy division but is also considering a sale of some of its Australian mines. Given the uncertainty with two of its key assets and a highly levered balance sheet, we believe that a Neutral rating is justified. [Barron's: leverage!]
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The stock suffered through the last Presidential election due to uncertainty on new tax rates for the Peruvian resource industry. The tax problem was resolved but now the Conga project has become tied up in political disputes which may be tied to positioning for the next election. We remain Neutral given the elevated political pressure on Peruvian miners at present.
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Cato's new staff writer, Aaron Powell, told me he had recently seen two people on the Washington Metro reading The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. That prompted me to check the sales figures for Road to Serfdom at Nielsen's Bookscan. And whattaya know? Sales have increased this year at an even faster pace than sales of Atlas Shrugged. (Atlas sells 10 times as many copies, but the percentage increase over last year is less.)
So far this year the most popular edition of Road to Serfdom has sold 11,000 copies. That compares with 3,000 copies at the same point last year. That's a 263 percent increase for those of you keeping score at home.
Why? Well, no doubt huge new government spending programs and attempts to massively expand the welfare state send people looking for classic literature that makes the case for liberty and limited government. But what the Marxists call the "objective conditions" can always use a bit of help. And indeed, just as I found in investigating the sales bump for Atlas Shrugged, it looks like an op‐ed in the Wall Street Journal was instrumental in boosting the sales of The Road to Serfdom.
On February 4, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, now chairman of Freedomworks, published an op‐ed in the Journal titled "Washington Could Use Less Keynes and More Hayek." Sales of Road to Serfdom, which were in the low hundreds each week since the beginning of 2009, more than doubled over the next four weeks. It seems likely that Armey's op‐ed caused the new interest.
Armey didn't actually mention The Road to Serfdom — he just talked about Hayek and his ideas generally — but when you go looking for Hayek, you're going to find his most popular book. So maybe we could attribute the sales bump instead to David Henderson's review of The Road to Serfdom — titled "Still Relevant–Perhaps More So" — in the Spring issue of Regulation. But the Wall Street Journal does have a larger circulation.
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WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- Five days before two bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report said the finish line was an area vulnerable to small-scale bombings.
The assessment also said "no credible, specific information indicating an imminent threat" to the race had been noted, Tribune Newspapers reported Friday.
"The FBI has not identified any specific lone offender or extremist group who pose a threat to the Boston Marathon," the report said.
The report was written by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, a command center of federal and local law enforcement authorities and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In the aftermath of the April 15 bombings that killed three people and injured hundreds, what was known to whom when has become contentious. Federal officials said the warning showed they did their job, but Boston and Massachusetts law enforcement officials said during a congressional hearing Thursday the FBI didn't tell them about an investigation into Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack.
"We would have liked to have known," Edward Davis, Boston Police Department commissioner, told the House Homeland Security Committee in the first of several hearings investigating the attacks.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with the police April 19, four days after the Boston Marathon bombings. His brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also suspected in the bombings, was captured later that day and is in a federal prison medical facility in Massachusetts.
Davis said he didn't know how local officials would have interpreted Tamerlan Tsarnaev's 2012 trip to Dagestan, noting that the FBI interviewed the 26-year-old but found nothing suspicious and that Russian officials did not tell the FBI why they were interested.
"We would certainly have looked at the information," Davis said. "We would certainly have talked to the individual."
But, he added, "I can't say I would have come to a different conclusion" than the FBI.
The Homeland Security threat assessment was dated April 10 and included a map of the Boylston Street finish line area, the area targeted by the bombers.
Davis said his officers would "absolutely" have taken a second look at Tsarnaev if they had known about the warning.
"My fear is that the Boston bombers succeeded because our system failed," said U.S. Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas.
The FBI said Boston police could have read the information about Tsarnaev as easily as any other Joint Terrorism Task Force member, noting the force "specifically had representatives assigned to the JTTF squad that conducted the 2011 assessment of deceased terrorism suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev."
The FBI statement noted the Boston task force had conducted some 1,000 assessments in 2011, a workload that made it unlikely each assessment could get close attention from every task force member.
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By Elizabeth SheanMy mom's flexibility and resiliency amaze me. Despite living in the confusing world of dementia that makes it difficult for her to cope with something as minor as having her toothbrush out of place, she nonetheless weathered her
relocation to Albuquerque with grace and equanimity. This was largely thanks to the efforts of my siblings in making the process as smooth as possible for Mom.As I talked to friends during the process of moving from Houston to Albuquerque, many of them expressed surprise at how challenging I expected this process to be for my mom. I think they were thinking, "What's the big deal? You put her on a plane and fly her to her new city. Easy-peasy." But anyone who lives with dementia in the family knows it's nothing as easy as that.Like many people with dementia, Mom experiences both cognitive and physical challenges. Her mobility isn't what it used to be. As just one example, she worried about how she was going to navigate the airport. Even though she knew she could take a wheelchair to the gate, she expressed concern about the act of walking down the jetway and then shuffling along the airplane aisle without tripping and falling. And then there's the aspect of sitting for two-and-a-half hours in a cramped seat. It's painful for a person with arthritis.
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cannot count on their siblings or other family members to provide practical help or respite care, and I don't know how they manage. However this knowledge makes me even more grateful for the moral and practical support my sister and brother always are quick to provide. And, boy, was it crucial to the success of this process in moving Mom.My sister, Jan, volunteered to coordinate all of the actual moving logistics for Mom. This included making plane reservations (a moving target, since the closing dates on both my houses changed twice, and the flights had to be coordinated with these), booking hotels and actually shepherding Mom through the airport. Oh, and Jan also sacrificed a week of precious vacation time in order to fly from her home base in Colorado to Houston, then to Albuquerque, and then take care of Mom at the hotel until I could get there.And my brother pitched in, too. He lives in Houston, so he coordinated transportation to and from the airport, along with providing meals so we didn't have to eat out for the entire four days we were camped at the hotel there.I honestly don't know how I would have accomplished this on my own. It certainly would not have gone as smoothly as it did without the
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First of all, it is my understanding that the Prison does not want Martin writing a public statement about what happened! Gee, I wonder why? At any rate, we have all gotten a verbal thank-you and we'll just have to be satisfied for now knowing that he is extremely grateful for all your help in keeping him safe! It is my understanding that we have been successful in preventing any type of retribution and he is back to writing as you will see.
When it comes to Theory & Myth, Martin claims that we are "clinging to old ideas." I wholeheartedly agree with him on that and point to the lack of understanding of what happens when society becomes saturated with debt. For example, economist's formulas to calculate the velocity of money do not account for debt despite it being intuitive that if one is debt saturated that when they get their hands on new money, that money must be used to service those prior obligations. Thus, the money does not circulate through the economy as it would without debt saturation. This is a most basic concept, but one that eludes our current crop of bankers, economists, and politicians who continue to ram debt down our collective throats, much as they have done for the past twenty years in Japan.
Martin spends most of this paper discussing international flows and updating his take on our major indices as well as the rest of the world's. He sees NEW HIGHS in the stock market, despite a continued weak economy. I have to tell you that I have great difficulty seeing that in the short term, perhaps in the longer term, but not short. While I enjoy reading his work and I post it here, I don't have to agree with ALL his thinking. I do agree with a lot, but I feel that in this case he is overlooking a key ingredient… in fact we ARE facing a bubble top. It may not appear at first glance to be a market bubble top, but what it was is a debt bubble top. The United States ALONG WITH most of the rest of the globe have money systems that are backed by debt. This causes a mathematical dilemma. The more money that comes into the system, the more debt there is. Eventually the weight of the debt PROHIBITS further expansion – this debt saturation is what happened in Japan, and it's exactly what's happening to us now. Now, that said, should the world decide to print and print without the backing of debt, then the conditions described by Armstrong will occur – a fate that will eventually KILL the confidence in the currency itself. Yes, Zimbabwe had a roaring stock market for a while under those conditions, but not any more. Despite the twisted logic of many, the United States does NOT operate under a different set of money rules and should we make the decision to print to that degree will suffer as our money shoots overseas and inflates away our ability to afford an resemblance of our current lifestyle. The status of "reserve currency" is a privaledge, one that if abused will be lost.
So, I am not so sanguine about new highs in the market. Should they occur under these conditions the end result will be far worse than a depression. I believe that the dollar carry trade that Martin refers to is changing as we speak. The dollar has broken a descending wedge upwards – we will just have to see how long this new upwards trend lasts. The flows around the world are very dynamic. As countries make decisions, their actions rapidly change the dynamics. The OVERARCHING dynamic, however, is one of debt backed currencies, further spending causes rising levels of debt, while incomes on all levels cannot support those levels of debt. Regardless of how the future unfolds, it's going to be interesting for sure, and I appreciate the fact that we have Martin's take and that he is still able to share his thoughts with us:
Below is a request for Bail from Martin Armstrong. There are people working on strategies to help him most effectively move forward – as is strategically necessary and we are able, we will step in if needed.
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The family is supporting a bill in the House Education Committee that would make it illegal for a teacher to bully students.


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A senior executive of the breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure has resigned after a public outcry over the group's decision to cut funding to women's health organization Planned Parenthood.
Karen Handel, a Republican who once ran for governor of Georgia on a platform calling for defunding of Planned Parenthood, stepped down from her role as the top U.S. breast cancer charity's senior vice president for public policy and chief lobbyist, the organization said on Tuesday.
"I have known Karen for many years, and we both share a common commitment to our organization's lifelong mission, which must always remain our sole focus," Komen founder Nancy Brinker said in a statement. "I wish her the best in future endeavors."
Komen's move last week caused an uproar among supporters who also back Planned Parenthood, a provider of birth control, abortion and other health services. Komen reversed the decision on Friday.
Many had accused Komen of bowing to political pressure from anti-abortion groups. The charity says its move was guided by a new policy to not fund organizations under investigation by U.S. authorities.
"We have made mistakes in how we have handled recent decisions and take full accountability for what has resulted," Brinker said on Tuesday. "We must learn from what we've done right, what we've done wrong and achieve our goal for the millions of women who rely on us."
Planned Parenthood is subject to a probe by Republican Representative Cliff Stearns. Komen funds about $700,000 in breast cancer exams and mammography referrals for poor women provided by Planned Parenthood.
Komen insiders have said Handel spent months pushing the plan to shift the organization's grant strategy, leading the board to decide to cut off funding for 17 of the 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates in December.
Handel, who was hired last April as Komen's policy director and chief lobbyist in Washington, maintained that the strategy and the board's decision did not involve abortion politics.
"I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it," she said in a letter to Brinker, dated February 7.
"I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen's future and the women we serve."
The Komen board's decision retained $250,000 in funding for Planned Parenthood, including the organization's three largest grants to the network of women's health clinics.


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Great herds of dinosaurs once ruled the interior of Queensland in the murky depths of prehistory. You too can follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs if you know the right spots. Or you can try your hand at fossicking and crown yourself with treasures. Whichever direction you choose, you can unearth the beauties of nature in Outback Queensland.
Walk where the big fellas walked on Australia's dinosaur trail, through the towns of Richmond, Hughenden and Winton. Be transported back 120 million years at Kronosaurus Korner in Richmond, when Queensland was covered by an inland sea and underwater giants ruled its interior. Prepare a real dinosaur bone in a lab at The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum or book to take part in a real dinosaur dig in Winton. Visit the Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways near Winton, where you can see the dinosaur footprints which inspired the stampede in Stephen Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park".
Head to the channel country where you'll discover one of Queensland's largest dinosaurs at the Eromanga Natural History Museum and prepare a real dinosaur bone in a lab. Head to Boulia Stonehouse Museum, the home of the min min light and you'll find Plesiosaurus fossils from Australia's ancient inland sea.
Stop at Porcupine Gorge National Park where you can see layers of rock formations, 500 million years old, in this deep gorge system known as the Australia's 'Little Grand Canyon'. Discover million-year old fossils embedded in limestone at Boodjamulla National Park and Riversleigh Fossil Sites.


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Ahmed Chalabi, the man who helped convince former President George W. Bush that invading Iraq would transform the Arab world into a haven of democracy at peace with Israel, is back as a key player in the Iraqi election.
Mr. Chalabi, a member of a slate of electoral candidates mostly drawn from Islamist Shiite parties, was deeply involved in a de-Baathification committee that disqualified about 500 secular candidates from running in the election and briefly had some Sunni politicians inside Iraq considering a boycott.
While the boycott won't happen, Chalabi's role in the disqualification of candidates from rival parties – even as he runs on a slate the includes men alleged to have participated in the sectarian violence of Iraq's civil war – increases the sectarian tension around Sunday's election. It's also a symbol of the gains Iran has made thanks to the removal of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's secular Sunni dictator and an avowed enemy of the regime in Tehran. Chalabi has cordial relations with the leaders of the Shiite theocracy next door, as do most of the senior crop of Shiite politicians in Iraq.
Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of US forces in Iraq, said at a conference hosted by the Institute for the Study of War in Washington in late February that the disqualifications were "clearly planned very carefully by certain individuals, Ahmed Chalabi and others who ... I would argue are getting support by other nations who in fact are trying to push very specific agendas inside Iraq."
An inveterate political survivor
Though it seems unlikely Chalabi will lead the next Iraqi government – a poll released in Baghdad last week showed his electoral slate, which has him as its third most senior candidate, drawing 17 percent support – he has reaffirmed once again that he remains a powerful player inside the new Iraq.
That perhaps shouldn't be surprising. Chalabi is an inveterate political survivor. In the 1980s, his Petra Bank was a powerful player in Jordan and he was close to that country's ruling family. In 1989, when his bank collapsed after a series of dubious loans to companies connected to him were uncovered, he fled the country just days before an arrest warrant. In 1992, he was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in jail for embezzlement.
He fell out with the US – which had mulled installing Chalabi as interim ruler following the ouster of President Hussein – almost immediately after the US invasion. US commanders were chagrined to learn that rather than thousands of Iraqis flocking to his standard, as promised, few average citizens had ever heard of the man. The failure to find the chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction that Chalabi had assured them Hussein was hoarding added to their frustration.
US forces raided his offices in Baghdad in early 2004 on suspicion he was passing US intelligence to Iran. That's a charge Chalabi denied, though the US cut ties. But even then, people who knew him well said it would be a mistake to write his political obituary.
"The one thing you can say for sure about Chalabi is that you can never count him out,'' Ghassan Attiya, a former political ally of Chalabi's in the Iraqi National Congress, the US-supported exile organization that Chalabi led during Hussein's rule, told the Monitor in 2004. "He's an incredible political survivor ... an incredible charmer."
Odierno: Chalabi 'clearly influenced by Iran'
Just how much of a survivor has been on display in the run-up to the election? Ali al-Lami, a close aide to Chalabi, led the commission that disqualified the candidates for their alleged ties to Hussein's outlawed Baath Party. Mr. Lami, who is also close to anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, spent a year in US detention on suspicion that he had directed an attack on US soldiers and civilians in Sadr City, a Baghdad suburb, in August 2008.
Odierno, speaking at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington conference, said Lami was released in August 2009 "as part of the drawdown of our detention facilities, because we did not have the actual prosecutorial evidence in order to bring him in front of a court of law in Iraq. All we had was intelligence that linked him to this attack."
Odierno also charged that Both Chalabi and and Lami are coordinating their activities with the regime in Tehran. "It is disappointing that somebody like him was in fact put in charge or has been able to run this commission inside of Iraq," Odierno said. Al-Lami and Chalabi "clearly are influenced by Iran. We have direct intelligence that tells us that," Odierno said. "They've had several meetings in Iran, meeting with a man named [Mahdi] Mohandas ... who was on the terrorist watch list for a bombing in Kuwait in the 1980s. They are tied to him. He sits at the right-hand side of the Quds Force commandant, Qassem Soleimani. And we believe they're absolutely involved in influencing the outcome of the election. Chalabi, who you know, has been involved in Iraqi politics in many different ways over the last seven years, mostly bad."
Chalabi denied Odierno's charges in an interview with McClatchy news service in late February. "I deny that we're under the influence of Iran. I deny that we do Iran's bidding. I confirm that we're friends with Iran, just as we wanted to be friends with the US," he said.
Chalabi calls for closer ties with Iran, Syria
Writing in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Chalabi took an oblique shot at Odierno, referring to "recent intemperate comments and interventions by some senior American officials," but also outlined a vision for Iraq and its role in the region that is sharply different from the one he painted in 2003, of a post-Hussein Iraq that would trigger a tidal wave of democracy and partnership with the US across the Middle East and that would quickly recognize and normalize relations with Israel.
Today, the rhetoric of friendship with Israel is long gone. Instead, he's calling for closer Iraqi ties with nations like Iran and Syria, the first an Islamist regime that is an avowed enemy of the US, the second a dictatorship also at odds with the US.
"We are proposing the creation of a regional alliance among Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran to bring together our geographic, economic, water, and oil resources into a coherent framework," Chalabi wrote, arguing that's the best chance of peace and stability in the region. "This alliance would be of benefit to the entire Middle East and a strong bastion against Islamic extremism."
He also promised, now as then, that his vision would transform the region. The alliance "could be an effective vehicle in resolving the Iranian nuclear energy issue as well, opening a new phase in international politics that could profoundly change the mindset of Middle East decisionmakers, especially in Iran. It is in the interest of the US to look favorably on such an alliance, despite the fears that some may have of such a structure."
Monitor editorial: Iraq elections on March 7: high stakes, shaky hopes
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Ursinus College will present an International Film Festival throughout the fall semester.
All films, which will be shown with English subtitles, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Auditorium, followed by refreshments and conversation.
All screenings are free and open to the public.
Screening dates are Sept. 13, 'Go for Zucker'; Oct. 4, 'Even the Rain'; Oct. 25, 'The Sun Also Rises'; Nov. 1, 'Tomboy French'; Nov. 15, 'Dolls, Japanese'; and Dec. 6, 'Satin Rouge.'
Below are descriptions for the first few films that will be shown this fall.
The festival kicks off with a German film, 'Go for Zucker,' directed by Dani Levi.
After the death of his mother, lawyer turned bankrupt pool hustler Jaeckie Zucker (Henry Huebchen) receives a visit from his Orthodox Jewish brother Samuel Zuckermann (Udo Samel).
During the wake for their mother, Jaeckie secretly takes part in a pool championship to win the money he needs to pay off his debts.
'Even the Rain,' a Spanish film directed by Icíar Bollaín, is a historical drama in which the politics of the past and present begin to merge during the making of a film about Columbus' exploration and exploitation of the New World.
As director Sebastián (Gael García Bernal) and his producer, Costa (Luis Tosar), stage scenes of revolt against would-be colonists, a real battle is brewing in Colombia: the government has privatized the national water works, and the price of water has jumped by 300 percent, leading to protests and riots.
'The Sun Also Rises,' Chinese, is directed by Jiang Wen. Loosely inspired by Ye Mi's novel Velvet, this follow-up to Devils on the Doorstep drifts between Yunnan's Shangri-la and the Gobi Desert to follow four narratives exploring the roles that culture and revolution have played in Chinese history.
Nov. 1: Tomboy, French, directed by Celine Sciamma. A tender childhood drama in which 10-year-old Laure (Zoe Heran) moves to a new neighborhood and meets Lisa, who assumes that Laure is a boy. Laure then assumes the identity of Mikael and quietly plays along. Before long, Mikael has made friends with the other children in the neighborhood as well. Meanwhile, the closer Lisa and Mikael become, the more delicate Laure's deception grows.
Nov. 15: Dolls, Japanese, directed by Takeshi Kitano. An operatic tale of lost love inspired by traditional Japanese Bunraku doll theater that focuses on the story of Matsumoto (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who agrees to an arranged marriage despite his love for Sawako (Miho Kanno). When he leaves his bride-to-be at the altar, he returns to Sawako, only to find her so incapable of caring for herself that she needs to be tied to him with a red rope. As they wander through Japan, they encounter a woman who, while waiting for a lost love to return, brings lunch to a park for over three decades, and a disfigured pop star who is followed by a devoted fan.
Dec. 6: Satin Rouge, Arabic, directed by Raja Amari. When a newly widowed middle-aged woman (Hiam Abbass) learns her teenage daughter (Hend El Fahem) is dating an older musician named Chokri (Maher Kamoun), she goes to the nightclub where he performs to confront him. While there, she is drawn to the club's troupe of belly dancers and soon begins learning how to perform the sensuous dances herself. In time, she becomes a performer at the club and becomes closer to Chokri.
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CES 2012 Intel's research department has overruled Steve Jobs: touchscreens have been added to the next generation of Chipzilla's Ultrabook spec.
"Touch skipped the notebook, skipped the Ultrabook. It was dedicated to phones, it was dedicated to tablets," Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's PC Client Group told his audience on Monday morning at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas. "It's not going to skip the Ultrabook any more."
In October 2010, when introducing Mac OS X Lion, Jobs said that Apple's research department had determined that touchscreens weren't appropriate for vertical displays such as are found on PCs and notebooks. "We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work," Jobs said. "Touch surfaces want to be horizontal."
Eden admitted that a lot of folks at Intel agreed with Jobs. "There was a lot of dispute about this," he said.
"We had all this discussion at Intel – and some of us have been almost religious, believing that an Ultrabook with touch would be an ultimate solution," he said, placing himself firmly in the touchscreen camp.
Eden and his pro-touchscreen compatriots don't want to replace the keyboard with a touchscreen; they want the two to cohabitate. "People do not want to give away their real keyboard, the physical keyboard," he said, "but they want to enjoy both worlds: the real keyboard and the screen."
To settle the dispute, Intel researchers tested touchscreen-enabled Ultrabooks with users in Europe and the US. "The reaction was unbelievable," Eden said. "People loved it."
What the Intel researchers discovered was that users naturally separated computing activities into ones they wanted to perform with a touchscreen – such as tapping to open files and using multi-touch gestures to manipulate images and scroll through documents and lists – and those they prefer to perform with a physical keyboard, such as entering textual information.
Eden said he was particularly taken by the response of one test subject, who said of the keyboard, "This for working," and of the touchscreen, "This is for fun."
Eden also contradicted Jobs and Apple's research, which came to the conclusion that working on a vertical touchscreen would be tiring – although many at Intel had felt the same way.
"You've got all these skepticism people – also at Intel we've got a few of them – and they say 'Yes, touchschreen is great, but make sure that you sell it to people with gorilla hands, because you need to do like this [reaching towards a screen with outstretched arms] all the time so you better go to the gym room and make sure that you've got big muscles in order to be able to operate it'."
That's not what Intel's researchers discovered. According to Eden, natural gestures such as pointing and flip-scrolling don't require the aforementioned gorilla hands. "It's much more comfortable to do the scrolling like this," he said, flipping his hand horizontally, "than doing it with a mouse."
Eden said that many at Intel didn't believe the results of this first round of user testing, "So we sent teams over to Brazil and China, and the two teams came back with exactly the same results."
Eden then hosted demos of touchscreen Ultrabooks running Windows 7 and Windows 8 – but before he did, he instructed his audience "If you believe me, say 'Wow!', and if you don't believe me, go later on to these notebooks, try it, touch it, and then tell me 'Wow!'"
From our point of view, Eden may be right – but only for Ultrabooks, where the distance between keyboard and display is minimal and the screen is tilted backward. On a desktop setup, where the screen is essentially vertical and the keyboard is a good distance from it, we're going with Jobs & Co. ®
Should touch-enabled Ultrabooks catch on, it'll be strike two for Jobs. Speaking in a conference call with reporters and analysts in October 2010, the late Apple cofounder ripped seven-inch tablets, saying that their displays were too small for easy use. Citing Apple's "extensive user testing on touch interfaces," he said, "There are clear limits on how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen before users cannot reliably tap, flick, or pinch them."
Ignoring for a moment the fact that users regularly "tap, flick, or pinch" Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, the success of Amazon's popular – if flawed – Kindle Fire fired a high hard one through the strike zone of Jobs' seven-inch dismissal.


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Libertarians call for prosecutor's ouster
Marsha Garst, the commonwealth's attorney who raided the office of the James Madison University student newspaper, the Breeze, on April 16 and threatened to take all of its computers and equipment, essentially shutting it down, has been denounced by the Libertarian Party of Virginia, which calls for her resignation.
"This is absolutely chilling," said Bill Wood, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Virginia in a release. He compares the Harrisonburg/Rockingham County prosecutor's actions to those of the former Soviet Union. "Based on her actions, she is unfit for public office," he says. " Any government official who violates the Bill of Rights should be removed and prosecuted."
Garst came in with a search warrant and police officers and demanded unpublished photographs of the April 10 Springfest riot, and took more than 900 photos.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli tells the Breeze he doesn't believe the raid is a First Amendment issue and that he supports Garst's actions. "I support any and all legal means to gather information to build a case against people who allegedly harmed or intended to harm law enforcement officers," Cuccinelli says in a statement.
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Additionally, although probably not thought of when the Chairman of the LPVA barfed up this statement was that Marsha acted pursuant to a search warrant signed by a Circuit Court judge. It's like not Marsha's fault that he was unaware of a federal statute which might have stood for the proposition that such a warrant should not have been signed.
I've got to tell you, it's totally reasonable to assume attorneys, especially prosecutors, should know all of the laws that could reasonably be expected to be utilized, however, I would use an an example, that attorneys for 20 years let non-attorney employees of the Division of Child Support Enforcement illegally sign legal pleadings on behalf of that state agency, and nobody, lawyers or attorneys ever raised a stink about it.
At that time, I realized how nearly useless attorneys and judges really are.
The real crime with prosecuters in Va has nothing to do with this...
The real problem is that prosecuters are PAID by the state for every FELONY they charge someone with even if they plead it down to a misdemeanor. This means they charge everybody with a felony that tey can possibly justify legally... even if common sense dictates otherwise. Consequently people who make minor mistakes like getting in a shoving match or are caught with a friends prescription etc lose their jobs and their lives are placed on hild for a year while they get jerked around by the system. This puts the prosecuters on COMMISSION.
The Hook should consider investigating this. It ruins lives.
IMHO, Marsha Garst does an excellent job.
I do however have mixed feelings about this raid. I would view it as a lapse in judgement after the cop shoppe laid it on her plate perhaps.
As a former Communications Director for the Libertarian Party of Virginia, I can attest that this is a dysfunctional party controlled by the people who have always controlled it...their favorite hobbies are consuming their own effective activists and also revising their bylaws.
One merely needs to look at lpva.com and see that the "Party" hasn't put out any publication since January of 2009.
As Gasbag wrote above, we should probably be concerned, but certainly not because of anything the Libertarian Party of Virginia says.
The fact is, Marsha didn't violate the Bill of Rights...she may have violated part of the United States Code...if there was a violation of the United States Code, it didn't arise to a criminal violation and under Virginia law isn't likely grounds for removal.
You can take my opinion for what it's worth, as I actually wrote the petition, required under Virginia §24.2-233, to remove the former Harrisonburg City Treasurer.
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Why is everybody busting on the Prosecuter instead of the Judge?
If she thought it was possible she had a duty to ask.
He is the "decider"
If she gets the OK then why not?
The only issue I have is wheter they asked the paper for help and were turned down. If they diod then the warrant was justified. Freedom of the press protects sources. They didn't need to know who took the pictures.
Just so I have the wording correct, I've obtained a copy of the warrant where Garst and the Harrisonburg Police Department were COMMANDED to seize the pictures. The warrant acts as a court order where disobeying the order could result in either criminal or civil contempt charges.
First, it is HIGHLY unusual for the Commonwealth's Attorney to go along for the execution of the search warrant. The fact that she was there makes it highly likely that she WROTE the search warrant involved. This wasn't a situation where the magistrate drafted a search warrant that forced her to go along. That's not how it happens.
Second, anyone who has been a prosecutor as long as Marsha Garst has should have known about the federal statute involved. It's not a new law -- it's been on the books for more than 20 years.
Third, the way that state search warrants are done, the cops or the prosecutor goes to a magistrate, who need not be a lawyer (and usually is not a lawyer). They present an affidavit saying why they believe that there is evidence to be found in the place that they want to search. They present a search warrant that they have already typed up, waiting for the magistrate's signature. The magistrate then signs it and off they go. The important point is that in 99% of the cases, the prosecutor or the police drafted the search warrant. She doesn't get off the hook just because the search warrant told her to do what she did, because odds are very high that she asked for the order to say that.
Fourth, in considering Marsha Garst's performance here, consider this -- she was the only prosecutor that I have ever known who announced, BEFORE EVEN HAVING A SUSPECT IN THE CASE, that she intended to seek the death penalty.
In my experience, the most dangerous space in Harrisonburg is the distance between Marsha Garst and a television camera.
Yes, it is highly unusual, but state law neither mandates, not prohibits from doing so...she often appears at major crime scenes, which is also neither mandated, nor prohibited under the law.
Second, I'm not sure Marsha's even attempted to acquire evidence of a crime from a media source, so if that's the case, why would you expect her to know a law she's never had to consider in application thereof? Moreover, you could say the exact thing about Judge Lane, except I'm sure he's never been asked to sign his name on such a warrant, so again, why would you expect him to know ever aspect of federal law relating to something he's never had come before him?
Third, you're saying Marsha has done something done in 99% of the cases...so, nothing out of the ordinary here...except that instead of going to a pin-headed magistrate barely unable to read Virginia law, Marsha went to a Circuit Court Judge.
Fourth, how would you KNOW when Marsha would have acquired a suspect in a case? Your statement calls for speculation unless you have untapped knowledge into her head.
I'm not a fan of what Marsha did...she obviously knew, at least after the fact, that she screwed up, which is why the Breeze's faculty adviser is in possession of the pictures.
My great concern is that the Libertarian Party press release makes the Chairman of the Party look ignorant of both the law and the process.
I'll only address your second point here. We expect Marsha to know the law, even if she's never attempted a particular action before because it's her JOB to either know, or do some research before she attempts something she's never done before.
A basic tenet of law enforcement is "ignorance of the law is no excuse". If you or I do something that violates a law, we will be prosecuted for the act, even if we didn't know it was illegal. We should hold Marsha to the same standard.
It is akin to the Commonwealth of Virginia being paid $.66 for every dollar that is run through the Division of Child Support Enforcement...it encourages the state to issuer higher awards of child support than the non-custodial parents can generally afford to pay.
I mean, why else would it be ILLEGAL to pay your child support IN ADVANCE?


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Troopers seeking hit and run driver from fatal Carson accident
Staff Reports
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers are looking for the vehicle involved in a fatal hit and run that occurred in Carson City this morning.
A pedestrian was killed 6:30 a.m. at the intersection of at William and State streets.
Trooper Chuck Allen said the vehicle that fled the scene is described as a silver Toyota 4-Runner SUV with black rims.
Anyone who saw the accident is asked to call the Nevada Highway Patrol at (775) 687-0400.
Traffic control will be in place at the intersection until both lanes are cleared.