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Native to China, Shiitake mushrooms (non-GMO) have been eaten for nearly 6000 years. The mushrooms gained prominence during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), where they were considered the "elixir of life" and reserved to be enjoyed only by the emperor and his family. Aside from being a rich source of protein, shiitake mushrooms supply niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, potassium and iron, and are a good source of vitamins A, B and C. When used in their sun-dried form they provide a valuable dose of Vitamin D, found in very few foods. They contain more than 50 different enzymes, including pepsin that supports digestion and asparaginase, which is a substance that supports a healthy immune response.
Recent studies have traced shiitakes' legendary benefits to an active compound contained in these mushrooms called lentinan. Among lentinan's supportive benefits is its, ability to support the immune system, strengthening the body's ability to fight infection and disease. Against influenza and other viruses, lentinan has been shown to be even very effective; it even may possibly improve the immune status of individuals infected with HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS.
A large number of animal studies conducted over the last ten years have shown that another active component in shiitake mushrooms called eritadenine may support healthy lipid levels. Even when lab animals are given dietary protein rich in methionine (an amino acid researchers have found causes an increase in cholesterol formation), eritadenine still lowers plasma cholesterol levels in a dose-dependent manner. In other words, the more eritadenine given, the better the support for healthy lipid levels are.
L-ergothioneine, a powerful antioxidant, has been discovered in mushrooms, thanks to a new analytical method capable of identifying this antioxidant in plant material. In research presented at the 2005 American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., an American research team revealed that mushrooms contain higher concentrations L-ergothioneine than either of the two dietary sources previously believed to contain the most: chicken liver and wheat germ.
Thrombosis, the formation of a blood clot that inhibits blood-flow, has been shown to be significantly reduced by individuals consuming shiitake mushroom oil. The Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry at Nihon University in Japan has demonstrated that the levels of lenthionine found in shiitake mushrooms may possibly inhibit platelet aggregation.
Some possible traditional uses of Raw Organic Shiitake Mushroom Powder may include:
● Containing more than 50 different enzymes
● May reduce cellular mutation by way of a branched beta-glucan called Lentinan
● Containing eritadenine which supports healthy cholesterol levels
● Supports a healthy immune system
● Good natural source of vitamin D
● Powerful antioxidant properties
● May reduce blood clots
Suggested Use: Add 1 - 2 teaspoons to dishes, sauces, smoothies or infuse in a tea.
Botanical Name: Lentinus edodes, Lentinula edodes
Other Names: Forest Mushroom, Chinese Mushroom, Black Mushroom, Lentinula, Pasania fungus, Hua Gu, Japanese mushroom, Black Forest mushroom, golden oak mushroom, oakwood mushroom
Ingredients: Organic Shiitake Mushroom Powder.
Origin: China - Certified Organic
Z Natural Foods strives to offer the highest quality organically grown, raw, vegan, gluten free, non-GMO products available and exclusively uses low temperature drying techniques to preserve all the vital enzymes and nutrients. Our Raw Organic Shiitake Mushroom Powder is organically grown in a traditional manner by Chinese herbalists. This products passes our strict quality assurance which includes testing for botanical identity, heavy metals, chemicals and microbiological contaminants. ZNaturalFoods.com offers Raw Organic Shiitake Mushroom Powder packaged in airtight stand-up, resealable foil pouches for optimum freshness. Once opened, just push the air out of the pouch before resealing it in order to preserve maximum potency. Keep your Organic Raw Shiitake Mushroom Powder in a cool, dark, dry place.
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42. Hobbs, Christopher and Michael Miovic, eds., Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradtion, Healing and Culture, 2nd ed. (Santa Cruz: Botanical Press, 1995) p.104
43. Kimoto, M., et al., "Effect of Shiitake Mushrooms on Plasma and Liver Lipid Contents in Rats" Eiyo to Shokuryo 29(1976) pp 275-281
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Three distinguished scholars and diplomats will join in a roundtable discussion of "The Middle East at a Crossroads" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Speaking will be: Itamar Rabinovich, professor and former president of Tel Aviv University and former ambassador of Israel to the United States; Prince Turki al-Faisal, former director general of Saudi Arabia's foreign intelligence service (GID), former ambassador to the United Kingdom and later to the United States, and presently chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh; and Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel and the S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Nitrate Levels and Prime
My tanks got somewhat out of whack when I was battling ick, first in one, then the other. I had to transfer some loaches out temporarily to a small aquarium. The heat/salt worked. Now, however, except for my oscar tank, I am getting a little nitrite and a lot of nitrate when I test. I have been doing partial changes and using Prime.....doing readings every day. Does the Prime obscure the readings---the fish seem okay---I just don't know what to do about nitrate???? The nitrite is very minimal, no ammonia, and ph is fine? I read somewhere on here not to use products to reduce nitrates. I still have the temp elevated in the tanks to about 80-82 to make sure the ick is gone. I just don't get it Prime makes it safer--but it does not remove it???? How do you tell where you are with actual nitrate? Thanks so much---Shirley
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Prime only works for up to 48 hours, the fish continually produce ammonia which then gets converted to nitrite then nitrate, but after the 48 hours the nitrite and nitrate produced in the tank have nothing to detoxify them. I have never heard that it affects test readings. Make sure you are performing the tests correctly and shaking the nitrate reagent bottle very well. If the tests still show you have high nitrates the best thing to remove them is water changes. Be sure to clean the substrate and gently clean your filters during the water change because dirty gravel and filters can cause high nitrates.
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I think my fish is adjusting well to the four gallon, He's laying on his side attempting to go to sleep on the bottom of the gravel.
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Prime binds ammonia and converts it to ammonium for up to 48 hours. After that period, if the bacteria has not consumed the ammonium, it will turn back into ammonia.
Prime has salts in it, and with the presence of those salts, fish will take in the salt instead of the poisonous nitrite.
If the temperature of your tank is higher than normal, which it sounds like since you meantioned that the temps are elevated, you will have more ammonia > more nitrites > nitrates than before.


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Often I stumble upon a great article that I feel every writer should read. Author Carolynn Carey graciously consented to share one valuable piece with us. Isn't networking great -- as well as her cover? ~ Donnell
Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles: We've all heard of them and most of us have figured out what they are, but we continue to write them anyway because— Well, heck, we know what our sentences mean. Shouldn't everyone else figure it out too?
Well, no. Even if readers know what you mean, chances are that a misplaced modifier will pull them out of your story, which is the last thing you want.
So how do we recognize a misplaced modifier? After you are thoroughly familiar with the concept, your ear will alert you to misplaced modifiers.
But if you haven't reached that stage yet, try this simple trick. When you write an introductory phrase such as "After marinating in the fridge overnight,…" pay particular attention to the next noun or pronoun. If you write, "After marinating in the fridge overnight, I put the steaks on the grill," then you must be both cold and tenderized. Sure, we all know that it was the steaks that marinated in the fridge overnight, but that isn't what you said.
You could just as easily write, "After I marinated the steaks in the fridge overnight, I put them on the grill." Or "After the steaks marinated in the fridge overnight, I put them on the grill." Or, "I marinated the steaks in the fridge overnight and then put them on the grill."
This type of mistake is fairly common. Recently I read an academic paper in which the author wrote, "Although far from ideal, we…" In the remainder of the sentence, the author talked about the conditions in which she and other researchers had been working. As a reader, I knew she meant the conditions were far from ideal, but what she had actually said was that the researchers were far from ideal—a bit of unintended self-deprecation I assume.
And dangling participles are especially troublesome, especially if taken out of context. Take, for example, the following sentence from the local television news: "Having cut his foot on the broken glass, the dog tracked the thief." Only if you heard the rest of the story could you know for sure whether the dog or the thief ended up with a cut foot. (It was the thief.)
So when you proof your manuscript, keep an eye out for misplaced modifiers and if you find one, rewrite your sentence.
© Carolynn Carey
Carolynn Carey is a retired academic editor who is fascinated by the ever-changing English language, as evidenced in her blog (http://carolynnongrammar.blogspot.com). Her interest in language includes fiction writing, specifically romance, and she first sold two traditional romances to Avalon Books. Next, Cerridwen Press published her traditional Regency, Compromising Situations, which won a National Reader's Choice Award. This was followed by her women's fiction, Lilly for a Day, set in a daylily farm in Tennessee, and by a Regency novella that was part of an anthology in December 2008. Carolynn is currently working on a single title contemporary and another Regency.


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Ultrasound involves the use of high-frequency sound waves to create images of organs and systems within the body.
An ultrasound machine creates images that allow various organs in the body to be examined. The machine sends out high-frequency sound waves, which reflect off body structures. A computer receives these reflected waves and uses them to create a picture. Unlike with an x-ray or CT scan, there is no ionizing radiation exposure with this test.
The test is done in the ultrasound or radiology department. You will be lying down for the procedure. A clear, water-based conducting gel is applied to the skin over the area being examined to help with the transmission of the sound waves. A handheld probe called a transducer is moved over the area being examined. You may be asked to change position so that other areas can be examined.
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Preparation for the procedure will depend on the body region being examined.
There is generally little discomfort with ultrasound procedures. The conducting gel may feel slightly cold and wet.
The reason for the examination will depend on your symptoms.
Results are considered normal if the organs and structures in the region being examined are normal in appearance.
The significance of abnormal results will depend on the body region being examined and the nature of the problem. Consult your health care provider with any questions and concerns.
There are no documented risks. No ionizing radiation exposure is involved.
Most ultrasound examinations are performed in the manner described. However, certain circumstances require that the ultrasound probe be inserted into the body, rather than simply passing it over the skin. Consult your health care provider to determine the specifics of your test.
Cosgrove DO, Meire HB, Lim A, Eckersley RJ. Ultrasound: general principles. In: Adam A, Dixon AK, eds. Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 3.
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I've seen on the forum here, many like to use Tim Holtz distress inks for giving their cards/projects a finished look and have many different colors to match the digital paper I'm using in a particular project. I agree with many that the best results come from dabbing a sponge or dauber on the pad and using that to softly swipe across the edges of their project. It does give a beautiful, controlled effect. I really like Tim's wooden handled tool that you can interchange sponge pads with. I feel the handle can give you great control in using several different techniques of inking. One tip I have ... I bought one handle and a pack of replacement sponge pads. I also bought a package of small round velcro stickers. I have placed one sticker on the lid of each of my distress inks and after using the sponge of a particular color I remove that sponge from the wooden tool and place the back side of the sponge on the lid of the coordinating ink. This way I do not compromise my inks nor waste the use of sponges.
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That is what I saw. JOB III sucks. I couldn't understand why during the offseason people spoke so highly of him. Well this year I have seen enough to know he isn't pro material not even close.
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One of the most overrated players to ever sign with LSU. Amazing this player was a McDonald's All American. Astonishingly bad basketball player.
We have to remember this is not his team he is not coaching TJ's team.
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Well..Dale Brown got his boy the job and we are 0-3 in the SEC. I guess daddy Dale has more brilliant ideas when Johnny can't get the program rolling in 5 years.
Defense is much more intense...just lots of fouls..which...doesn't help at all
It is official I have lost all hope for Corban Collins.
Posted by ROUSTER Take it easy on the kid. I think his injury is still bothering him. Hes always been a decent player but lately hes been bad. I really think part of his problem is basketball IQ are lack there of.
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Yorta Yorta artist Treahna Hamm was born in Melbourne in 1965. Her customary lands are along the Murray River around Echuca, in northern Victoria. From an early age Hamm has been inspired by the Murray: the stories it cleaves to, the ancestors residing there, the animals it harbours. A renowned printmaker for over fifteen years, Hamm has also been active in the resurgence of making biganga (possum-skin cloaks).
Nestled along the cool waters of the Murray River floodplain, Barmah Forest is a site of enormous cultural significance to the Yorta Yorta people. With evidence of ancient middens, canoe trees and burial sites, the forest is testament to thousands of years of Aboriginal tenure and custodianship.[1]Suffused with the intense spirituality of place, on the inside of the immaculately prepared possum-skin cloak, Hamm has depicted the Barmah Forest and the meandering path of the Murray River. Populating this landscape is the Yorta Yorta totem, the long-necked turtle, the broad clawed yabby and the Murray Cod. Materialising from the river are the slender forms of sentinel-like Spirit Beings reaching out tenderly in contrary motion, seemingly guiding and welcoming visitors home. Celebrating this powerful site and its spiritual custodians, Hamm avows her own connection to this country and explores its regenerative possibilities. She also invests the site with intense political significance, eloquently contesting Justice Olney's patently false comments in the Yorta Yorta Native Title Claim that the 'tide of history had washed away' Yorta Yorta people's connection to their land and that it was 'not capable of revival'.[2]
The revival of evanescing customary practices has been fundamental in Hamm's practice, and the art of making cloaks from possum-skin pelts sewn together with kangaroo sinew is rapidly being revitalised and renewed in Victoria and parts of New South Wales. Specific to south-eastern Australia, possum-skin cloaks were ubiquitous quotidian objects used for clan identification, as slings for cradling babies, blankets for warmth and bedding, burial shrouds for the deceased and even making music in ceremony.[3] In 1999, Hamm and fellow Yorta Yorta artist Lee Darroch, with Kirrae Wurrong/Gunditjamara artists Vicki and Debra Couzens, resolved to revive this tradition by reproducing the two nineteenth-century possum-skin cloaks still extant in Australia and held in the collection of Museum Victoria.
The first collaborative biganga that Hamm created was a faithful reproduction of a Yorta Yorta cloak collected from Maiden's Punt in 1853.[4] Liaising with community representatives, museum staff and Indigenous artists, and poring over historical records, Hamm learnt the arduous craft of cloak making. Synchronous with this technical expertise was the successful identification of the hitherto unknown meanings of many of the designs incised into the original cloak. Hamm's practice draws heavily not only on listening to the teachings of elders, but also listening to the voices in the land.
In 2001, Hamm and Indigenous elders from around Victoria participated in a weaving workshop facilitated by the celebrated weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie, at Gas Works in Melbourne. Recognising the importance of educating through the stories of the weavings, Hamm's aim was to create animals and objects evocative of the Murray, revealing the palimpsest of Yorta Yorta history. By giving life to these woven articulations, Hamm gives life to the 'myriad of stories not yet told in Australian history.'[5] Hamm's whimsical woven Yabby 2005 demonstrates her command of the coiled bundle technique of Indigenous weaving, and despite the exaggerated size of the crustacean, sensitive detailing is not sacrificed and the artist highlights its irresistible tactility.
Unerring in her commitment to reigniting customary practices, Treahna Hamm's work, irrespective of the media used, cherishes and replenishes cultural traditions. Yoking together her knowledge of Yorta Yorta history and her intuitive artistic verve, she produces work of aesthetic, cultural and political power. For Hamm, the creation of works of art resonant with cultural memory is a pressing imperative. It inscribes her indelibly in the physical and spiritual worlds of the Yorta Yorta, strengthens cultural associations, and ensures that which was nearly lost is never lost again.
Stephen Gilchrist
[1] Parks Victoria, viewed 10 March 2007, parkweb.vic.gov.au.
[2] Quoted in Amanda Jane Reynolds, Wrapped in a possum skin cloak, Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2005, p.51.
[3] Reynolds, p.14.
[4] Reynolds, p.1.
[5] Interview with Stephen Gilchrist, by email, Saturday 10 March 2007


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Thursday, October 18, 2012
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We are so excited to be able to give one of our lucky readers a copy of Natalia's new book, Beginner's Guide to Free Motion Quilting! Our lucky winner is....Rita in Alaska!
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i have a stack of practice layers i've been working on, trying to get some some good fmq going. not much luck, though, so winning this book may be what'll do the trick. thanx for the giveaway.
Congratulations, Rita! We hope this book is exactly what you need to start free motion quilting like a professional! Send your full shipping information to chelsey[at]fatquartershop[dot]com! Everyone else, get a copy Natalia's book here!
Head over to Natalia's blog to follow the rest of the tour. Don't forget, this week is her stop on the Simply Fat Quarter Showcase, so see her bright version of the Spa Quilt here!
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Congratulations Rita!!! I wanted it,lol...but glad for you.
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Congratulations, Rita, and Happy Alaska Day!
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Congratulations, Rita and enjoy the book!!
- October 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM
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thank you muchly! i'm thrilled to have the opportunity to improve my fmq with the tips, ideas and inspiration this book will bring me! and to have the pattern to make the cover quilt. isn't it yummy?!
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I am updating the documentation in preparation for version 0.30 which will include access to formulas and functions. The target release date is the 28th of February.
The documentation, testing and distro preparation take at least half the development time of each new release.
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Went to the UK for a course on VoIP. "All your IP traffics are belong to us."
If it had been a week later I could have made it to London.pm to hear Damian Conway's talk.
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I'm at Apple's (AAPL) special media event at 4 Infinite Loop on the Cupertino, California, campus. The company is talking up new models of the iPhone, the first time it is unveiling differently price SKUs for the product.
The shares closed down $11.10, or 2%, following the event, at $495.07, and one main big reason may be that China Mobile was not announced as a partner.
But ISI Group's Brian Marshall, writing from the event, speculates China Mobile will be signed up to carry the phone in short order, writing "China Mobile was not formally mentioned but we expect them to carry the iPhone imminently."
There is another Apple event happening after this one, in Beijing.
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CEO Tim Cook comes on stage and welcomes everyone to Cupertino, and extends a special welcome to "all the people in Beijing, Berlin, and Tokyo."
Cook wants to talk about a few things the company has to show, but first he talks about the iTunes Festival in London, for which he said 20 million people had applied for tickets. "It's like when a new product goes on sale," he quips, to much laughter. Roll the video!
Cook turns to talking about the efforts in retail. This past weekend, the company updated its venerable Stanford Shopping Center store with a sleek new glass pavilion, eight times the floor space of the prior facility, something Cook calls an "architectural marvel."
Cook moves on to talking about iOS 7. Next month, the company will ship its 700 millionth iOS device, he says. He predicts iOS 7 "will quickly become the world's most popular mobile operating system."
Cook invites up on stage software director Craig Federighi, who talks about various features now familiar from Apple's June developer conference. He touts the improved functionality and synthesized voices of Siri, the new camera interface, and a slew of new alert sounds, to much laughter. Federighi shows screenshots of apps that are being updated for iOS7, including Open Table and NBC.
Cook comes back on stage to talk about the company's productivity suite, iWork, and about the mobile versions of iMovie and iPhoto. Cook says "no other platform has any apps like these," he says. "We're making all five of these industry-leading apps free."
Cook moves to talking about iPhone. "A couple of you may have been expecting this." Laughter for that, too. The iPhone 5 had the most successfully first year of any model, he says. Cook says in past, older models were discounted when a new model came out. "This year, we're going to replace the iPhone 5 with not one but two new designs. This allows us to serve even more customers."
Cook invites up marketing chief Phil Schiller to unveil iPhone 5C.
It has an incredible all-new design, he says. It is made in several colors. The entire back and sides are made from a single piece. You won't see seams or gap lines, he says. Schiller emphasizes how the new iOS 7 color scheme matches the bright colors of the 5C. There is a new line of colored cases as well.
It's made of a hard-coated polycarbonate material, says Schiller, with a new rigid metal structure. It runs the A6 chip, with a slightly larger battery than the iPhone 5. It has an 8-megapixel camera. An improved front-side camera has improved low-light performance. The 5C has more bands for high-speed LTE wireless than any other phone, he says.
Blue, white, pink, yellow and green. Priced at $99 for the 16-gig model, $199 for 32-gig models. Cue a video of hardware guru Jonny Ive.
Ive calls the 5C "beautifully, unapologetically plastic."
And now Schiller is on to the second new device, iPhone 5S. It comes in three colors, silver, gold, and a new "space grey."
The 5S features a 64-bit chip, the "A7." Schiller calls it a first for phones.
Schiller notes that iOS7 has been re-written for 64-bit, along with all the apps that come with iOS7. Apple'd developer tools also come with 64-bit compilers. The chip is up two times as fast as the prior chip, and 40 times the performance of the original iPhone. Graphics are 56 times as fast as the original iPhone's graphics. Schiller says the chip will enable a breakthrough for graphics-intense games.
He invites up executive Don Mustard of Epic Games. They are showing off a new version of Infinity Blade, version 3, with what appear to be very sophisticated graphics.
A new chip, a "motion co-processor," named "M7," takes data from the phone's sensors, without having to wake up the main processor. Schiller says it will allow for more sophisticated apps for measuring when you are walking and running and such. The company has been working with Nike for new fitness apps.
Schiller says battery life is 10 hours 3G talk time, 10 hours of LTE-based browsing. Standby time is 250 hours.
Next is the camera. A new five-element lens has a larger f/2.2 aperture, and the sensor has 15% larger surface area. The pixels on the sensor are 1.5-microns large, larger than in most devices, he says. The camera software in iOS7 automatically sets white balance and creates a "tone map" for better color accuracy. "This is DSLR stuff" says Schiller. There's a new flash, a "true-tone flash." It can adjust to the lighting in the environment.
Holding the shutter button will use "burst mode" to take 10 shots per second. Schiller says the software analyzes the photos to present what it thinks is the best shot, so one doesn't have to dig through multiple images.
The video camera can also produce slow-motion movies, capturing 120 frames per second at 720p.
The third thing Schiller wants to discuss is security. He unveils "Touch ID," a fingerprint sensor built into the home button of the phone, as had been rumored. The sensor not only unlocks the phone, it will also let one make iTunes purchases, he says. In a video, it is explained that the picture of one's fingerprint is stored inside the A7 chip and is never uploaded to Apple's servers or backed up.
The phone will start at $199 for a 16-gig model, $299 for 32 gigs, and $399 for 64 gigs.
There's a line of differently colored cases in leather for $39 each. Apple will continue to offer the iPhone 4S in an 8-gig model, for free with some carries.
Pre-orders start this Friday, and retail availability is a week later, Sept. 20. China will be part of the initial launch, and, for the first time, Japan's NTT DoCoMo.
Cook comes back onstage to unveil a special musical guest, Elvis Costello!
And he's up, black hat, gray jacket, black shirt. "Wow, this is a lot of impressive stuff," says Costello, alone on stage, as he straps on his guitar.
"And here I am with just my Fender — can I say Fender up here?"Costello plays, beautifully, "What's So Great About Peace, Love and Understanding." He says his first job was computer operator.
"I think now maybe I went into the wrong business." An iPhone can now do everything a whole room of computers could do back then. After quipping about Apple's iTunes Radio, he launches into a favorite from when he first arrived in the states, "Radio Soul."


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Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the federal official at the heart of a firestorm over Washington's slow response is acknowledging the government's shortcomings.
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Brown — who was famously praised by President George W. Bush for his handling of the crisis ("Heck of a job, Brownie") but then became an icon of FEMA's failings — said the government was wrong to try to make the situation appear less dire than it was.
"There was a mentality in Washington which says you put the best face on everything," Brown told Lauer. He said information given out by the administration was accurate, but "we never put it in context" with how much still needed to be done to lift the stricken city.
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Brown was joined in the interview by Ray Nagin, New Orleans' mayor at the time, who said the city did what it could to urge all citizens to evacuate, and it wasn't until 20 hours before the storm hit that he realized he had to order a mandatory evacuation. Even then, some didn't leave.
"A storm [of that size] had not hit New Orleans in like 40 years, so our culture was 'stay and ride it out,' " Nagin said.
Asked by Lauer if the government's response would be different if a similar disaster struck an American city today, Nagin said: "I'm not convinced ... I don't see any major changes that we have done as a country. FEMA has new people, but it still operates pretty much the same."
"I am very concerned," Nagin added. "The BP situation taught me that we're not quite ready. The Haiti situation, which is international, also said a lot about us."
"People [may] find this shocking, but I agree with the mayor," Brown said. "The studies have not truly been addressed. And I think the second thing is, the American population hasn't realized what their responsibility is in the midst of a crisis."
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The presence of The Shape, indeed even the mere threat of his presence is enough to render any previously cosy domestic space or autumnal leafy suburb, a now creepy, dangerous place, saturated with menace. Carpenter's expert use of widescreen and his placing of The Shape just on the periphery of many shots - lurking in the shadows and corners - is more than enough to generate chills and the threat of violence and set hearts pounding… Indeed even when he appears to Laurie in broad daylight, his presence obviously doesn't belong in cosy suburbia - his eerie menace juxtaposed with familiar settings, and in broad daylight, is positively haunting. It isn't what The Shape does in these shots that makes proceedings so creepy, but what he doesn't do. Anything. He just stands there.
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By Jan Pudlow
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In 1920, the year Malvin Englander was born, American women were finally allowed to vote, alcohol was sipped in secret, and the first traffic light was installed in Detroit.
In 1942, the year Englander joined The Florida Bar, a gallon of gas cost 15 cents, duct tape was invented, and the war bond was introduced.
More than 70 years have rolled by since Englander graduated from the University of Miami and first became a lawyer in Miami Beach. Now, at 92, Englander is finally ready to retire, but he will never stop loving the law.
"I began my law career during the World War II, and I think lawyers believed that it was the law that set us apart from other countries," Englander said.
"We worked as a team with our clients. I assumed the problems of my client and worked on them as if they were my own. A lawyer was a necessary part of a client's life, going through all of their ordeals, from adoption to incorporation, to real estate closings, to wills. It was all very personal."
Oldest daughter Nicki Grossman can attest to just how personally her dad represented his clients with their problems, as though they were his own.
"One of the cases that my father was involved in was a boy from Massachusetts whose grandparents brought him to Florida to escape family issues. He brought that little boy home to our house. Everything he did as an attorney, as a gentleman, was never part way. It was 100 percent of the way," Nicki Grossman said.
"When another client passed away and left a dachshund, we got the dachshund."
Prominent in the community, Englander served as vice mayor of Miami Beach in the '50s until 1969, and served as a justice of the peace, coroner, and small claims judge.
Blessed with a sense of humor, one case about two fighting neighbors who threw dog excrement over the fence became known as "The Case of Who Flung the Dung," Nicki Grossman said with a laugh.
She described how the Englanders were a "dinner-table family," and there were no excuses for not being home for dinner on Friday night, as the six children gathered around Mal and Sophia Englander to laugh, share, and learn.
A love of the law rubbed off on many of those children: Nicki is married to 17th Circuit Judge Mel Grossman, Patti Englander Henning is also a 17th Circuit judge; Tobie Englander Bagliebter is married to Broward County attorney Gary Baglietber, and youngest child Joe Englander is a lawyer in Ft. Lauderdale, too. Rounding out the half dozen Englander children are Donna Englander Fleishman, who lives in Atlanta, and Marla Englander Carroll, whose middle name is Chanel, because she was child No. 5.
Though Nicki took her father's political path and was elected to the Hollywood City Commission in 1978, and served as a Broward County commissioner, she remembers as a girl working in her father's law office, learning how to shepherdize cases before there were Westlaw and other online services.
Englander's wife Sophia has also filled in as her husband's secretary over the years.
"He loves the law and he has always loved the practice and helping others. The way he has always spoken about it, and the way his clients have told me how much they appreciate him, I get that feeling there is a mutual love," Sophia said.
"Mal never wanted to specialize. I've heard him say many times that his clients' problems were his problems."
Celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary in March, Sophia laughs as she tells how she first met Mal in Miami Beach.
She was a member of a service club at Miami High School, called a sorority back then, and they rented a house on Miami Beach for a week of summer fun.
"Those were the Big Band days," Sophia reminisced, listing songs like "Stardust," crooners like Frank Sinatra, and band leader Tommy Dorsey.
"In the evenings, we would play the juke boxes and our friends would come and we would dance. One night, one of my friends came over and said, 'Would you teach this young man how to dance?' And we've been dancing together ever since."
As Mal closes his practice, Sophia talks about his deep respect for the law.
"This is what Mal has taught me over the many years: The law profession is one of the few professions you could practice for 70 years, and it's worth spending the time."
When Mal thinks back over his seven decades in the practice of law, he said, "Technology is the greatest change I have seen over the years. It allowed attorneys to specialize, giving more focused representation to our clients and optimizing the results. Going from flat fees to hourly rates also affected our clients. With a flat fee, the client was aware of the cost of the action. There were no surprises about fees when they were agreed to up front."
What kept Englander practicing law for as long as his health allowed? His answer brims with enthusiasm:
"I have never been bored one day of my career as an attorney. Something new, something interesting, something to learn about every day!"
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The St. John's Port Authority's annual general meeting highlighted what a busy year 2013 was for harbour activity. According to a speech made by the federal agency's vice-president of development, there's plenty of optimism about the future.
"All indications are that port activity will continue to increase in the coming years, and whether that means further growth in the cargo or energy sectors or increased demand in the seafood industry, the port is internally keeping a steady course towards continued success," Bob McCarthy said Monday afternoon at the Murray Premises.
Port activity increased substantially, with 1,601 vessels arriving in 2013 versus 1,316 the previous year — a 21.7 per cent increase. Most of that increase can be attributed to the offshore sector, where 1,027 vessel arrivals were reported last year. In 2012, there were 823 arrivals.
All figures mentioned for 2013 were the port's highest within a five-year period.
In terms of cargo, the port experienced a 20 per cent increase over 2012 — 1.7-million metric tonnes of cargo was handled in 2013. The offshore energy sector was again the driving force behind that increase, as the 718,232 metric tonnes of liquid bulk material handled at the port resulted in a 47.5 per cent increase over the previous year's total.
Cruise ship activity held steady in 2013. The 13,111 passengers who visited St. John's via cruise ships was down slighty from the 2012 figure of 13,222.
"Last year, we did lose a couple of large ships due to some wind," said McCarthy. "It's regrettable, but they come late in the season when they transit and then the weather can play a factor."
However, McCarthy said that with 23 vessels expected this year, it's estimated anywhere from 27,000 to 28,000 passengers will visit the city in 2014.
New wharf for harvesters
More fish was landed in 2013 than in any other year within the last five, with 7,642 metric tonnes of product handled in St. John's. The Pier 20 wharf that accommodates most fishing vessels on the south side of the harbour is now in the process of being rebuilt. McCarthy said after the meeting that work will hopefully conclude in November.
A review of the proposed reconstruction project took place after bids from last year exceeded the project estimate by $1 million.
"What will happen is that we will have a new state-of-the-art facility for the fishing industry in place," said McCarthy. The reconstruction project is expected to cost a little more than $4 million.
The wharf was acquired by the former national harbours board in the 1960s and has never been replaced in the years since then.
"In this case, we had to remove the structure. It just wasn't salvageable."
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Can you tell the difference between a French wine and a Missouri wine? What about a $25 California bottle from a Kansas vintage of the same price? Coming up…The Local Show Blind Taste Challenge. We pit some of the area's best wines against their better known counterparts.
With more than 150 wineries in Kansas and Missouri, why do so few local restaurants still refuse to carry area wines on their menus, especially as they advocate so strongly for locally sourced produce on their menus?
The Kansas City based wine website Regional Wine Taster pulls no punches regarding the lack of local wines being served at Kansas City's top restaurants.
In its Wine Lists of Shame, it singles out esteemed local eateries like Blue Stem, the Bristol, EBT, Lydias, Grand Street Cafe and YaYa's. The website's author, Danny Wood, and Colleen Gerke, Owner of Jowler Creek Vineyard & Winery in Platte City, Missouri, join Nick Haines to discuss the challenges that local wine producers face.
Learn more about Kansas City's Amigoni Urban Winery:
Harvest 2010 from Michael Amigoni on Vimeo.
Our resident wine expert Doug Frost along with Randy Mason are the referees for our blind taste test. The rating system, based on the wine rating system created by British wine expert Michael Broadbent and a similar system used by the British wine magazine Decanter, rates wines from one to five with five being the highest score and one being the lowest.
The Tasters:
Stretch: Artist, TV Personality, Restaurateur, Visionary and Sculptor whose works have been on display in private and corporate collections throughout the world. The sculptures vary in scale from small approachable pieces to environmentally dominating. The choice of materials Stretch uses in his pieces-glass & steel-work against each other, causing tension while maintaining a high level of dialogue. Stretch is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute. He owns a restaurant called Grinders, and a deli, Grinders West. He developed the sculpture park behind Grinders into a live music venue known as Crossroads KC @ Grinders, which promotes artists, musicians, and benefits for non-profit organizations. He has appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives.
Eddie Kennison: Former wide receiver for the KC Chiefs. He established "Quick Start–The Eddie Kennison Foundation" whose "Festival of Food and Fun" is coming up June 25th where folks can test some great wines and help support Lupus research efforts. An owner of Cellar and Loft wine store in the City Market. Because of his continued charitable and civic activities, Eddie was nominated for the prestigious 2006 Walter Payton NFL "Man of the Year" award by an esteemed blue-ribbon panel from the NFL.
Katie Van Luchene: Katie brings an unmatched passion and depth of experience in writing about her hometown. She was a columnist for Kansas City Magazine and KC Home Design before launching KC Magazine where she now serves as executive editor. She's also written about Kansas City for Midwest Living and Budget Travel.
Stephen Molloy: Stephen is the wine manager at the Classic Cup restaurant on the Plaza. He came to the States from Ireland where whiskey and brew are mainstays. His career began at Starker's, in Kansas City, another established restaurant with a reputation for fine foods and wine. He worked in every position at the restaurant and eventually became the maitre'd. It was here he was "forced" to learn about wines and the maintenance of a wine list. He developed the Starker's wine list from 600-1300 selections – eventually earning the restaurant the Grand Award in 1992 from the Wine Spectator, the highest award from the wine industry's foremost publication.
Lucinda Kreifel: Lucinda is regular customer and fan of wine at Belvoir Winery in Liberty. In fact, she is such a fan of Belvoir that she chose the winery as the location of her upcoming wedding.
Check back after we air the show for a complete list of wines and results.


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Weekly Poll Results
- Written by Dave Walsh
Last week's poll asked: Do you train any martial arts?
41% - Yes, quite a bit
17% - Yes, somewhat
17% - I used to, but not at the moment
17% - I want to, but no
8% - Nope
This week: in case you missed it, over the weekend we posted a video wrap up of March's kickboxing action. Included in that wrap-up was a discussion of the best fights of March (check here for videos from my picks for best fights). So, what do you think?
What was the best fight from March?


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Transcription of either one or both New York marriage documents, depending on what exists. There are two sets of marriage records in NYC for the period 1908-1937. The data in each possible record are similar but not always the same.
Health Department records: Depending on the borough, 1847 – 1937.
City Clerk's records: The City Clerk's marriage license records, 1908-1929, are available ONLY at the NYC Municipal Archives. Records for 1930 to the present must be obtained from the City Clerk, but there are indexes I have access to for 1930 and later records.
Note that the City Clerk's records often have better information than the Health Department's records, especially for second marriages. These indexes can only be searched at the Municipal Archives in person.The Municipal Archives staff will not search these indexes and these marriage certificates cannot be ordered by mail from the Municipal Archives.


text: Migration Info Wilson's Warbler is represented in North America by three subspecies that probably have different migratory routes and schedules. The Pacific populations are the earliest migrants, arriving in British Columbia by the end of April. The other populations, which may cross any portion of the country from the Great Basin to the east coast, are relatively late migrants. The first arrivals are usually noted in the northern Great Lakes region in mid-May, but transients continue to pass through this area until mid-June. Recent studies indicate that the Pacific coast populations winter primarily in Baja California, Alaskan birds winter in the Honduras area, and the birds that winter in the central Mexican highlands come from several breeding sources. Wilson's Warblers are territorial in winter, and males and females are found in different habitats.


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thom: travelling? I was in Sydney for ~6 months, went to Melbourne for two weeks, stayed in Byron for 3 days, then stopped in Brisbane for 7 weeks... Now I'm off back to Sydney... Some traveller, me.
I can top that. Thailand, 3 weeks, Melbourne, er, 4 months ;). I am planning to get moving again soon though, otherwise my Official Traveller Certification will be rendered null and void. Also I'll be thoroughly pissed off if I don't get to try out my new diving sk1llz on the Great Barrier Reef while I'm over here.
gary: Saw Chris Raettig's journal the other day and was impressed; his rationale for an email based journal is appealing [..].
I use a mail-based system to update taint.org, my (other) blog. It works nicely -- the main point was to see how useful WebMake would be for blogging -- but I'm now reverting to using Advogato for diary stuff, keeping taint.org for interesting newsy snippets. Go figure. I reckon it's because Advogato's more of a diary-based community, whereas taint.org is kinda out on its own, and just doesn't seem like a good place to keep a proper journal.
ask: Jabber [..] Maybe it's just crappy clients, but it doesn't seem stable enough to run anything too critical on.
That's the same feeling I got about 6 months ago. :( Let's hope it polishes up some time soon. Open source != crappy packaging!
Oh -- another new hack I forgot to mention, which someone might find useful. MailMan-to-RSS, a little script (and a vaguely nice-looking demo site) which scrapes MailMan list archives and creates an RSS feed of the last 10 posted messages. Handy for following lists using any of the various portal systems (and Evolution!) that support RSS.
BTW as the page sez, if you would like to see a list RSS-ized, and don't have a server to host the RSS on, mail me and I'd be happy to add it to the scraped list on taint.org.


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Among the effects of my grandmother, Alice M. (Brown) Perkins, was a certificate of marriage (image shown in Fig. 1). When I first saw this slip of papers many years ago, but after the death of my grandmother, I thought it strange that she married Homer L. Perkins in Chester (Rockingham Co.), NH. She had been born and raised in Canterbury and he in nearby Loudon. Nana Perkins once told me that she had boarded in the home of Homer's parents, John B. and Emma (Jenkins) Perkins, when she had taught at the Yellow School in Loudon. I eventually passed off the "strange" marriage location to the romantic notion of elopement. That assumption proved to be incorrect.
I've recently begun a huge project of scanning the documents that I've collected during my family research during the past forty years plus. I'm finding some valuable treasures.
Newspaper Article – a Revelation. This morning, I found an article (see Fig. 2) regarding the 25th wedding anniversary of Homer and Alice. The article contains several pieces of information including whey they were married in Chester. As the above certificate indicates, the couple was married on the 8th of April 1908 by the Rev. Albert E. Hall. In the newspaper clipping below (newspaper not identified) we are told in the 3rd paragraph, that the Rev. Hall had been a former pastor of the Canterbury Church. In fact Rev. Hall was the minister of The Center Congregation Church in Canterbury from June 16, 1895 to March 27, 1898.[1] It is likely, then that the Brown family had belonged to Hall's congregation, but at this point in time I have no evidence of that.
The article also provided an interesting fact about my grandfather, Homer L. Perkins, that I never knew. I knew that he own a store in Loudon Village, and was strongly involved in buying and selling real estate. What I didn't know was that he had left Loudon to study law, but had left those studies to return to Loudon. Now, where or under whom did he read law? Another project for research.
[1] James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727–1912, 2 volumes (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1912), I: 314.
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Today is the 104th Anniversary of Scouting! Well on or about. Scouting began with 20 boys and an experimental camp in 1907. It was held during the first nine days of August in 1907 at Brownsea Island, near Poole in Dorset, England. So generally this is considered the Anniversary of Scouting.
It is a great feeling to be part of such a great organization!
Today we are part of 30 million Scouts and Scouters in 161 countries that make up the World Organization of the Scouting Movement. The newest member, Belarus, joined on 5 September 2010.
In the United States we have about 5,970,203 Scouts and Scouters. Scouting is growing and going strong!
So Happy Anniversary Scouting!
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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By thwarting Satan's plan God enabled a pure bloodline from Adam to Christ to remain, providing free salvation for everyone who accepts Christ's sacrifice for their sin. That is loving.
Is it? Doesn't Christian belief hold that God is omnipotent? I've never understood how people can reconcile the idea of God being omnipotent and still insist that the convoluted schemes for saving people's souls are somehow necessary.
FTL != backwards time travel.
According to relativity it is. If you can send a message faster than light, you can take advantage of time dilation effects when moving at a high relative speed.
Do they want to just bury the signal in noise, or are they trying to send false data to lure US and ROK units into NK air and sea space?
It's worth noting that the military GPS signal is modulated with an encryption sequence. Burying the signal in noise is relatively simple, but sending false signal data would require first breaking the encryption.
So once again, you missed the whole point where the data came from the EU Commission and the UN.
The raw data may have been, but the raw data does not say that there is more violent crime in the UK than in the US. That is a conclusion that the Daily Mail has jumped to.
Second, you still haven't done any research.
I didn't made any citations in my previous post. That does not mean I haven't done any research.
You scoffed at my source as it did not conveniently fit your preconceived notion of the facts.
I scoffed at your source because it's a trashy tabloid that is well known for being economical with the truth.
You basically said that it is impossible to prove my point because any data I want to provide is either biased, inaccurate, or simply ambiguous
I'm not saying your data is wrong, I'm saying you're jumping to conclusions.
Let's assume both of our sources are correct. There is more violent crime reported in the UK than in the US, but considerably less murders. What can we conclude from this?
Well, there are a number of possibilities. The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:
1. Criminals in the UK are more likely to be violent, but less likely to kill you.
2. More types of crime are classed as "violent" in the UK.
3. UK citizens are more likely to report violent crime that does not result in a murder.
You appear to be jumping directly to theory number 1, but theories 2 and 3 also fit the available facts.
I personally find it hard to believe that criminals can be more violent but less likely to take a person's life. Even if we take into account the increased number of firearms in the US, it seems unlikely that the technical difference between shooting a person and stabbing them would account for a such a huge difference. Perhaps there's something psychological about pulling a trigger that makes it easier than stabbing someone? I'm not sure.
In any case, I'm merely professing skepticism about one particular theory. If you want to actually defend a theory, you need to supply some evidence to support it over other explanations.
Couldn't be bothered to do a little research, eh?
Apparently more than you.
Violent crime statistics between countries are unreliable, as different countries have different definitions of what counts as "violent crime". This is why murder rate is commonly used as a yardstick, because the definition of murder is fairly consistent between nations.
Furthermore, the Daily Mail is the UK tabloid version of Fox News. Whilst it might occasionally stumble across a fact or two, it is not usually considered to be a reliable source.
The most important one is that the creation of a bitcoin is *not* backed by anything. It burns computational power for nothing.
In general, it helps to have some understanding of a system before criticising it, otherwise you risk looking like an idiot.
Bitcoin does not burn computational power for nothing. The computations have a very specific purpose: to make it infeasible for an attacker to double-spend bitcoins. All that CPU power is dedicated toward securing the network.
This also gives bitcoins value beyond that assigned by speculators. Securing a distributed digital currency requires a lot of processing power. The more processing power you spend on it, the more resistent it is to double-spending attacks. Bitcoin already has the equivalent of millions of dollars worth of computing power embedded in its block chain - any competing distributed currency would have to start from scratch.
The semantic tags are out of date before the spec has even finalised
Presumably things like this is why they dropped the version number and moved to a "Living Standard". The HTML specification will be continually updated, so there's always going to be time to extend the spec to meet changes in the web.
Thus far it seems to have taken the web backwards in terms of compatibility, many of the new features work differently in different browsers, harking back to the days of HTML3/4 and Netscape/IE battles.
The very minor incompatibilities between today's browsers are nothing like the incompatibilities of the Netscape/IE battles.
In the past, the two browsers had different box models, and entirely different syntaxes for DHTML. Modern incompatibilities tend to revolve around the best way to render rounded corners.
XML syntax seems discouraged which means you'll run into more people using the SGML syntax which seems to be pushed more than XML which makes the web more of a ballache to work with- no more of a push towards simple XSLT
Good! XSLTs are absolutely horrible.
Whilst XML is somewhat easier to parse than SGML, it's not like there's a shortage of good HTML parsers.
Also, unless you're screen-scraping data, a lot of the time you'll be using a JSON or XML RESTful API to pull data from websites.
It's not that I don't like some of the new features proposed in HTML5 like canvas etc., I think they're great ideas. It's just a shame the rest of it is just so painfully amateurish from a software development perspective... I'm hoping for a quick iteration to XHTML6, run by people who actually know what they're doing so we can just bypass the mess that is HTML5, but that's probably a bit much to hope for.
HTML may not be perfect, but it has one big advantage over other solutions: it's actually being implemented.
Violent crime in the UK is much higher per capita than in the US
In 2009, the US had 5.0 homicides per 100,000 people. The UK had 1.28 homicides per 100,000.
I find it a little hard to believe that there are more violent crimes per capita in the UK, but almost four times less murders.
or dealing with the massive memory leak problem that firefox has had for years and has yet to actually try to fix..
Does anyone still have memory problems with Firefox? Last I checked, Chrome was far more memory hungry.
The Bitcoin thing has gone off in a different direction than its promoters anticipated. They were thinking "payment system", like gift cards. The idea was that most Bitcoins would be tied up in people's "wallets", and spent slowly. All that static value would anchor the currency.
That's not what happened. Bitcoins turned into a speculative vehicle, with "miners" grinding away solving hashes and generating more Bitcoins,
Which in general is good. The more miners there are, the more secure the currency is against double-spending.
The exchanges are tiny; today's worldwide Bitcoin trading volume is comparable to the sales of one supermarket. The daily volatility is huge, even on days when there isn't a break-in. So no major retailer can accept Bitcoins; they don't know what they will be worth at the end of the day, let alone the end of the month.
There's no reason retailers have to wait until the end of the month or even the end of the day before cashing out their bitcoins. A retailer could cash out their bitcoins immediately, or after the first confirmation block. The volatility of Bitcoin is only a problem for speculators.
The difficulty level has reached the point where buying and powering the new hardware is not cost-effective. And that was before the price of Bitcoins crashed. (The current price is around $13.)
No it isn't. An average ATI graphics card will still net you $100 per month profit, even at the current difficulty.
Worse, they're not just "exchanges". They're depositary institutions, holding customer balances. Mt. Gox customers are now very aware of this, because they can't get at their money while Mt. Gox is down. Some people are worried over whether the money will be there when Mt. Gox comes back up.
Why anyone would store money in Mt. Gox and not immediately take it out after a trade is beyond me. Clearly some people do, but that seems like asking for trouble.
The "exchanges" represent a mis-design of Bitcoin. There should have been a way to do an exchange in a distributed way, without the exchange holding customer assets.
It's not a "mis-design". Acting as an exchange is beyond the scope of the Bitcoin protocol. If you want a distributed exchange, that's an entirely separate project.
However, I can't see how a distributed exchange would work, unless it was just some manner of trust network and actually making the trades was up to the individuals. That doesn't seem particularly user-friendly to me, so I suspect that exchanges will have to be centralized websites.
That said, it would be better if (a) people used alternative exchanges more, and (b) the exchange source code was open sourced.
The EFF was right to bail.
The EFF bailed for entirely different reasons. If the future legality of bitcoin is contested, they want to be able to fight without also being the one of the ones being prosecuted.
The statement by the EFF does not mention blackhats or criminal activity. If you're going to make wild claims, could you back them up with some evidence?
The main problem with current electronic voting systems is that they are not independently auditable. If a machine says that 1000 people voted for Alice, and 500 for Bob, we have to trust that the machine is correct. With a paper system, there are multiple independent systems (i.e. human beings) counting the votes, and votes can be recounted if the result is contested.
Now, there are cryptographic voting systems that get around these problems. In a good cryptographic voting system, your can verify your vote was posted, and independently verify the result. The problem is that no-one currently uses cryptographic voting schemes like this.
Bitcoin works in a similar fashion to cryptographic voting systems, in that all transactions are public and can be independently verified. In fact, there's even a financial incentive to verify them.
Of course Bitcoin's success is far from certain, but there's a chance that it will succeed. Even if it becomes only as popular as Paypal is today, I'd imagine many of its proponents would mark that as a distinct success. At least we'd be free of Paypal's tendency to freeze assets without notice.
However, I'm not sure why you consider that the most successful Bitcoin can be "even in theory". As it stands, the network could scale to 10,000 transactions per second (i.e. peak VISA-level) and a total economy size of around $10 trillion without any change to the protocol. Above that and one might have to start tweaking the design, but that's not going to be a problem for the foreseeable future.
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A trait that all good leaders have in common is that they develop a "Critical Eye".
The Critical eye helps the leader recognize situations, see were improvements can be made, and of course see when things are going well.
The first step in the development of the Critical eye is understanding two things. The definition of leadership, principally the components that define leadership and that is providing Purpose, Direction, and Motivation. The second is knowing what "Right" looks like.
Once a leader understands those two things, the leader can observe and determine if things are going well, needs improvement, or can be sustained.
Knowing what "Right" looks like the leader can stand in the center of activity and know right away if the task is being completed to meet the purpose.
It is like trash on the ground. Most people will walk right by it, the leader understands that it does not belong there and picks it up.
Setting up camp, the leader knows the tasks that must be completed and will ensure his team does it. This "Critical Eye" does not eliminate fun, it keeps the team focused so when the time comes they can have more time having fun.
In the National Youth Leader Training (NYLT), we discuss what a leader must BE, KNOW, and DO. Developing a critical eye encompasses all three. The leader must BE an example, he must turn the critical eye to himself and ask serious questions about how he is conducting himself.
He must KNOW what Right looks like. And he must DO, leading from the Front and the middle, pulling his team along or pushing them along, the leader must provide a clear Task and Purpose, give the Patrol or Troop a Direction and Motivate them to want to complete the task.
The critical eye allows the leader the opportunity for a deep look at the progress of the unit and gives him the know how to react or better yet be proactive in leading. It allows the leader to employ the LEADING EDGE.
The Critical eye is an important element in leadership, without it finding direction becomes cloudy and the compass seems to be off. In order to be a better leader, the led need to see the leader as someone that knows what he is doing, understands the goal, and is confident in executing the task. The critical eye allows the leader to clearly see it all.


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