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Angel McCoughtry scored 22 points, Sancho Lyttle added 17 and the Atlanta Dream won consecutive games for the first time this season with a 70-58 victory over the Indiana Fever on Tuesday.
Tamika Catchings missed her first six shots from the field and finished with a season-low eight points for the Fever.
Katie Douglas and Jessica Davenport each added eight as Indiana did not have anyone score in double figures.
McCoughtry, the WNBA's scoring leader, went without a point in the first quarter, but had a combined 18 points in the second and third quarters.
The Fever took their biggest lead at eight in the final minute of the first quarter, but their offense all but disappeared - going 1-for-15 from the field - in the second.
Cathrine Kraayeveld's lane runner ended a 19-1 run at the 4:37 mark of the second that put the Dream up 29-19.
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I hate making announcements prematurely, but I did err with the hot fix announcement in the last post. In fact it was not a lie, as it was posted for a few hours, but had to be pulled back down again. The hotfix install is available again for download today.
There are a few things we have learned about the eConnect 2010 install that you will need to know. please take note of these steps below before you embark on your next install/upgrade.
1. Firstly you need to Create a new Domain User (Administrator does not work when installing eConnect)
2. Add this domain user to the Domain Administrators Group
3. Add this domain user to SQL and give him sysadmin access in SQL
4. For DYNAMICS and every company database the user needs access to, add this user to DYNGRP and PUBLIC in SQL
5. Log into the machine where you want to install eConnect as this domain user and use these credentials on the eConnect setup screen.
For full install instructions on the SmartConnect/eConnect please contact eOne support.
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"Arrow" Gets a Full Quiver..CW Picks It Up For Full Season
It is starting to look like whenever DC Comics and The CW team up, the result is a hit show. After only two episodes of its new show, "Arrow," The CW announced today that the series has been picked up for a full season on the network.
Word of the pickup of the show first came out in the form of a message on Twitter from Oliver Queen/Arrow himself, Stephen Amell. "Best way to start a Monday? Getting picked up for your back nine episodes. Thwick. #Arrow."
In the official announcement that was issued later in the day, CW President Mark Pedowitz credited the network's strategy for this year. "Our strategy of rolling out our new fall schedule later in the year really paid off for The CW on several levels, especially with ARROW, which was the network's most watched premiere in three years and is one of the breakout hits of the new season." He went further to compliment the show. "I'm proud of the quality of ARROW and I"m happy we'll be able to share more of it with the viewers."
There was little doubt that the show would be picked up, with the exception of the speed in which it occurred. "Arrow" has only aired twice, with solid numbers for each episode. So much of the credit goes to actor Stephen Amell, who does an amazing job in the role. He captures the spirit and essence of Queen/Arrow so perfectly.
There is a postscript to this story that gave me a chuckle. It seems that Amell, in his joy and zeal, let out the news before the official announcement was ready for the press. In a series of followup posts on Twitter, Amell tells of the situation. "1. The downside of enthusiasm? I tweeted the news about Arrow's back nine pickup before that news was fit to be tweeted. 2. My apologies to everyone at CW and Warner Bros. It wasn't my news to share. 3. On the plus side, the crew got to laugh at me. Really hard."
I hope the powers that be weren't hard on him. It is so refreshing to see such zeal and excitement in an actor at the news he received. Frankly, it just seems right to this writer that Amell was able to announce it first as he did, as I truly believe it is his work and performance in the role that is selling that show to the public.
What about the future beyond the full season pickup? Amell had something to say on that as well. "Crew and cast of #Arrow have full hearts today. Thank you one and all for such a warm response. 22 episodes!! Next goal: (we know)." All of us in the audience know as well, and frankly, if the show continues the quality of episodes we've seen so far, I make the prediction that Arrow will be picked up for season 2 equally as fast.
Hats off to cast and crew of "Arrow." Keep up the great work!


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Release Date: June 1, 2012
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Running Time: 127 minutes
Director: Rupert Sanders
Synopsis: A ruthless queen (Charlize Theron) fights to prevent her stepdaughter (Kristen Stewart) from taking over her kingdom in this reimagining of the "Snow White" fairytale. Chris Hemsworth also stars.
Academy Awards:
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Best Costume Design
Best Visual Effects
BAFTA Awards:
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Best Costume Design
Golden Globes: None
Spirit Awards: None
Screen Actors Guild Awards: None
Directors Guild Awards: None
Producers Guild Awards: None
Writers Guild Awards: None
American Cinema Editors Awards: None
American Society of Cinematographers Awards: None
Art Directors Guild Awards: None
Cinema Audio Society Awards: None
Costume Designers Guild Awards:
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Best Fantasy Costumes
Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Awards: None
Visual Effects Society Awards: None
Critics Choice Awards: None
Los Angeles Film Critics Awards: None
National Board of Review: None
National Society of Film Critics Awards: None
New York Film Critics Circle Awards: None
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by Jeffrey R. Jenkins, DVM
Our hospital has become aware of problems with one of the new topical flea products, Frontline, marketed through veterinarians by Rhone Merieux Inc. To date, we have consulted with veterinarians who have prescribed Frontline resulting in the death of three rabbits; another rabbit has been successfully treated for severe seizures it developed after Frontline was applied.
The active ingredient in Frontline is not supposed to cross into the central nervous system of mammals, and has proven to be safe for dogs and cats. It kills both fleas and ticks, and is difficult to wash off.
However, it is important to note that use of this product on rabbits is an "off label use" and has never been recommended or approved by the manufacturer. (This is the case with most pharmaceuticals used in rabbits.)
Representatives of Rhone Merieux Inc. admit they have received other reports of "adverse reactions" to Frontline when used on rabbits, but would not go so far as to say that they knew if other rabbits had died. They went on to say that they strongly recommend Frontline NOT be used on rabbits or other exotic species.
In addition we have heard an anecdotal report (someone had a friend whose neighbor told them . . . ) of a rabbit that developed gastrointestinal upset after licking a large volume of Advantage off another rabbit just after it was applied. Before recommending Advantage for our clients' rabbits, our hospital did an in-depth literature search, consulted with the manufacturer (Bayer) and tested the product on many unowned rabbits to make certain that the product was safe. Gastrointestinal upset has been reported in cats who lick a large volume of the product off another animal.
We recommend that multiple pet households separate rabbits or rabbits and cats for 12 hours after Advantage has been applied so the product can disperse on the animal's coat before another animal has the opportunity to groom the treated rabbit.
The reason that these products are sold by prescription only is that there is some risk involved with their use. It is important for the veterinarian prescribing the product to understand those risks-and in this case, those risks specific to rabbits-and be able to explain those risks.
Should you have questions about the use of a prescription product or should you experience a problem during the time your rabbit is taking a prescription medication, it is important for you to contact your veterinarian immediately.


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i have a different feeling about this year. I know with every preseason, it brings hope to the fans of all 32 teams that "this is the year", but something just feels different and right. I can feel it in the air tonight! (LOL, soo cheesy, i know)
1. The National Media, talk shows, papers, blogs, total access, sportscenter, madden... are all treating us and expecting us to be dog sh*t. Some even have us as the worst team in the league, "train wreck" were called. Mock Drafts have us picking first next yr, there's countdown clocks for us to call in Brett Favre. We are flying under the radar and motivated, were going to surprise everyone and i LOVE it!
2. "The Reggie Bush experiance" A lot of ppl, including some on this site, are underestimating how important Bush will be to us. He was Brees' safety valve. The Saints loved using him in the redzone, shovel passes, delayed handoffs out of the spread shotgun, screens and simple sweeps and tosses outside, because no linebacker can beat him to the sticks, he is still a matchup NIGHTMARE. and will turn checkdowns and dump offs into 15 yd gains that keep the chains moving and our defense rested. He brings a dynamic to our slow, predictable, methodical offense from last yr.
3. "The Glyde" Clyde Gates. Pure SPEED, His 4.31 40 time is lightning fast. His 40" vertical and 10'11" broad jump both ranked in the top 5 at the combine. His 10 yard split of 1.53 also shows that he has a lot of suddenness and quickness to his speed and that he'll be able to accelerate quickly and get open. For comparison's sake, DeSean Jackson of the Eagles ran a 4.35 40 time at the combine with a 1.53 split. Jackson's vertical was 5 1/2 inches less and his broad jump was 11 inches less. Essentially as an athlete, Gates is a slightly taller, slightly more explosive version of Jackson, although Jackson was much more polished and trained with the best WR ever Jerry Rice. I hope this kid is our Desean, i really hope so....u never know....
4. Daniel Thomas. A 6 foot 230 lb. POWER Running Back. He outrushed 80 entire college football teams. He was a junior college QB before being transitioned to RB by Bill Snyder. He ran the wildcat and played for the wildcats. This kids got huge upside imo.
5. Pouncey 2.0 Mike Pouncey will be a Perennial pro bowler along with his brother, he's smart and tough and works real, real hard. Cant wait to watch him Pull and run over Lb'ers blocking for The D-train baby!
6. Charles "cassius" Clay. This FB-TE hybrid will be another outstanding addition and dimension to our new look offense. Fast enough to beat linebackers and Big enough to beat up on defensive backs. Can line up wide where his size can cause matchup problems for defensive backs and he's quick enough to make plays down the seam.
7. "DR. DABOLL" Our new OC will bring a young, new, refreshing, exciting, energy on offense. Cant wait to see it LIVE!
8. "The Vice Squad" Led by the Man! Mike Nolan. Our defense is SCARY good. and were even getting MORE players back from last yrs injuries. Seriously our front seven is a NIGHTMARE to deal with. Soliai alone lol!
9. "Young Guns" And we are only getting younger and faster! We have to be one of the youngest teams in the league. Vontae Davis and Sean Smith have the chance to be one of the best tandems in the league, Reshad Jones coming into his own, Jimmy Wilson making play after play... so freakin' exciting.
10. "Blame it on the Henne" I LOVE that we didnt trade for a QB, this way we "ride or die" with Henne this yr, either he takes control and grows a brass pair and becomes THE man or he's gone, no excuses. Plus this way the local papers and reporters can't start drama every week about a QB controversy, its all or nothing with Henne, we're "all in".
11. Tom Brandstater was here.
This will be a great year for us Dolphin Fans! I can feel it!
....And here's your "random internet picture of the day". ;)


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Writer-Actor Luis Alfaro (Oedipus el Rey) Premieres Solo Show
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Introduce your kids to the theater with this musical journey featuring some of their favorite characters. The Princess and Pirates Sing-a-Long is an interactive concert where Cinderella, Snow White, Captain Hook and more perform some of your kids' favorite songs and invite you to join in the fun. You'll hear "Happy," "Firework," "You Belong to Me" and other pop hits as the exciting story takes place on stage. Come early and you'll get to meet your favorite princess before the show starts. The show is presented by Lythgoe Family Productions, who pride themselves on creating fun, memorable experiences families can share together. Learn More
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I wore shorts, flip flops but my 5 year old and her little friend wore a princess dress. 90%+ of the girls in the audience wore princess dresses!.Princess and Pirates Sing-a-Long dress • Aug 12 2014 star this tip starred
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Luis Alfaro has done it again. Excellent monologist. Great story teller.
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Excellent, moving, funny. Great venue, too. Only quibbles - way too energetic a couple of times for no additional benefit, and a very sweaty performance overall. (Performer needed to keep a hanky close at hand? It was distracting more than once.)
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I'm not sorry that I saw it, but I was disappointed that it had not been promoted as a reading versus a finished piece. More like a Fringe Festival entry, which is fine. Nice tribute to the playwright's father, but no surprised or "plow twists."...continued
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A very moving monologue by the great playwright Luis Alfaro about his father's last year, much of it spent at St. Jude's Hospital, and the stories of Alfaro's life that intense and painful period triggers for him. Very simple staging--Alfaro...continued
The show contains mature content, language and sexuality, and is recommended for those ages 16 and older.


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California Rocks with 800 Earthquakes in the Past Week
NEW YORK (MainStreet) The earthquake this morning in Los Angeles and the 6.9 magnitude offshore temblor last week northwest of San Francisco remind us: California is on a slippery slope. How many quakes have there been just in the past week in the Golden State? You would think just two, but actually there have more than 800 earthquakes registering a magnitude of 3.0 or greater throughout the state in the past seven days, according to data developed by Jon Connoly of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
The 4.4 magnitude L.A. quake at 6:25 a.m. local time this morning was followed by a 2.7 aftershock almost exactly an hour later. In fact, five shakers have been reported throughout the state in the past 24 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
But California is not the only state rocking. Overnight, a 3.3 quake was recorded in central Oklahoma and a 2.5 magnitude quake was felt in western Montana.
The USGS says earthquake activity in the central U.S. is "not slowing down." Researchers say that the current level of seismic activity in the so-called "New Madrid Seismic Zone," a region generally between St. Louis and Memphis, reflects "the signature of active, ongoing processes that continue to generate stress in the region -- stress that we expect will eventually be released in future large earthquakes."
The New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States produced four large earthquakes with magnitudes upwards of 7 over the winter of 1811-1812," the USGS report says. "Over the last two centuries, small quakes have continued to occur in the zone at a higher rate than elsewhere in the central United States."
But the West Coast, California in particular, is most at-risk, with populous areas straddling massive geologic fault lines. In a news conference this morning, USGS seismologist Robert Graves said there was a 5% chance that this morning's LA quake was a foreshock to a larger event.
"Earthquakes are not random events. Earthquakes are clustered in time and space," John Dvorack, a former USGS scientist told Northern California public television station KQED in an interview Friday.
In fact, Dvorack says that with each temblor comes the greater likelihood of another. During any 72 hour period, the odds of a magnitude 7 or greater quake in California are about 1 in 100,000, he said. However, when a magnitude 7 earthquake occurs, the odds of another quake of the same or greater strength occurring within the next three days increases to nearly 1 in 10.
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It's been slow going for James Gray's period epic "The Immigrant." The film, which stars Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival where it played in competition, but since then there hasn't been much news. The Weinstein Company is scheduled to handle domestic distribution, but didn't schedule the lengthy historical drama for awards consideration (it's coming out Spring 2014 instead), and aside from a few festival presentations, remains largely unseen. Thankfully a November 27th release date is still planned for France, which has provided us with the first-ever trailer for the film.
In short: the movie just looks gorgeous (read our review from Cannes here). In the film, Cotillard plays a woman immigrating to New York City in the '20s. While in line to finalize the process, her sister is rejected, and sent back home to Poland. She then struggles with finding a way to get her sister to America, first falling under the spell of Bruno (Phoenix), who gets her into prostitution, and then his cousin Emil (Renner), who also promises to return her sister to her.
Sure, the love triangle looks arch and dramatic but the real star of this trailer is Darius Khondji's lush, honeyed cinematography that gives off an earthy, almost "Heaven's Gate" vibe. It looks like the kind of movie that you can just wrap yourself up in and we're now kicking ourselves repeatedly in the balls for missing it when it recently played the New York Film Festival.
The trailer is subtitled in French and slightly NSFW, with a flash of bare breasts and this exchange between prostitutes: Prostitute 1: "It'll take a lot of money to get her out of here," Prostitute 2: "Or a lot of fucking." It's an interesting turn for Gray, whose last film "Two Lovers" was a modern-day tragic love triangle that also starred Phoenix, and we can't wait to see the results. Recent posters for the film can be seen here. Spring 2014 can't come soon enough. [via Elle]
egghead | October 28, 2013 1:06 PM
Those first few lines yelled by Renner gave me goosebumps. Something about the tone and that shot of a distant statue of liberty makes me so excited to see this. I automatically thought of, The Godfather and Once Upon a Time in America. This will surely be an instant classic.
she's great but... | October 27, 2013 8:12 PM
It's clear that there's a commenter at this site who regularly pretends to be multiple people. Marion Cotillard is great but no way do all these comments come from different readers.
Helen | October 26, 2013 8:26 PM
Marion Cotillard is the best actress of our time.
Shala | October 26, 2013 3:51 PM
Actually, her sister wasn't sent back to Poland but was held in an infirmary on Ellis Island and not allowed into the country (sorry, the detail bothered me).
The movie looked great and Cotillard is incredible in this. Everything else for me fell flat.
bruce | October 26, 2013 8:08 AM
A def. MUST see!! beautifull beautifull!!! Cotillard is great and so is Phoenix, and Renner shows once again how he disappears in his characters , almost didn't recognize him, the guy is a chameleon...
Daniel Delago | October 26, 2013 5:57 AM
It's a shame Marion Cotillard's performance won't be considered for the Oscars. It looks dazzling. She is one of the best actresses working today.
james | October 25, 2013 9:26 PM
Marion is unutterably beautiful. This will be an amazing film, no doubt about it.
sj | October 25, 2013 7:53 PM
How many films have Harvey Weinstein destroyed like this? how long will this continue to have his way like this?
Tania | October 25, 2013 5:12 PM
Oscar for Marion, she is wonderful!
Pedro | October 25, 2013 4:44 PM
Amazing! Marion's presence enhances any screen. Critics aside, i can't wait to see this another unforgettable performance gave by her.


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What's NewComplete map update for all carriers in the continental US.. and a spiffy new icon!
- All carriers seem to be slowing down on expanding markets. Not as much new coverage reported as with previous updates - we may adjust our update cycle accordingly. (We promise *at least* quarterly updates... more recently they have been every other month.)
- Some carriers are starting to roll-out various flavors of 'advanced' LTE. We are also keeping an eye on this. Currently, only Sprint shows their Spark markets on their maps - but yet no device that can run Coverage? is Spark capable.
- T-Mobile continues to not graphically report their LTE markets at regional levels on their maps - so we continue to manually add in purple stars in markets they have announced LTE roll-outs. Sorry folks, that's the best we can do - we can only report what the carriers do.
As always, these FREE updates are funded entirely by new app sales. We appreciate you keeping your reviews in the App Store fresh (they reset with every update) and telling your friends about Coverage? Thank you!
App DescriptionDirectly overlay and compare cellular carrier coverage maps! Perfect for travelers - research where you're covered across the USA!
** Follow our Facebook page to get update alerts: http://www.facebook.com/CoverageMapApp **
Coverage? focuses on helping mobile bandwidth junkies find cell signal as they roam. Save time looking up coverage on the carrier's websites, compare their claims head to head and better plan your travel routing to stay connected.
** The carrier's maps in your pocket: This app contains regional maps based off of each major carrier's data map - as found on their websites. Quickly overlay the carriers you use, to create your own personalized coverage map on your device.
** No internet needed: Our proprietary coverage maps are stored within the app on your device - no downloading needed! Quickly access where you're supposed to get a signal, even when you have none.
** Urban and rural areas: Maps are at a regional level, and cover the entire continental USA, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
** Carriers included: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile
** Know where to roam: view LTE, '4G' (HSPA+ & WiMax), 3G, 2G and roaming areas as inclusive overlays, focus on finding the coverage type you desire. (Hint: T-Mobile does not graphically distinguish between 3G/4G/LTE on their own regional maps. Thus we manually insert dark purple stars to at least indicate their LTE markets.)
Check http://www.twostepsbeyond.com/apps/coverage for a quick video demo. We created this app because we are full time RVers ('technomads') ourselves who rely on mobile data to work remotely. Keeping this app updated is a priority for us, as we depend on it ourselves!
Coverage FAQ:
Q: Why aren't the maps more detailed or released more often?
A: Our map updates require a lot of meticulous labor intensive processing. The carriers are all rapidly rolling out new coverage and there's just no practical way to issue a new update everytime a new tower is turned on. We monitor new coverage and try to find balance between effort & staying current. Updates generally are issued every 7-10 weeks.
Q: What makes 'Coverage?' unique?
A: There are great apps out there that collect user submitted signal reports - we love them. However, those apps are only useful in markets with an active user base. We took a different approach with Coverage? - we needed a tool to at least give us an idea of where signal should be - urban, rural and out in the boonies. Sure, carrier maps aren't a guarantee of where signal actually is, but it sure is helpful to know which direction to head when you need it!
Named 'Essential Tool' by Wired Magazine
** Winner - 'Most Useful App' - iOSDevCamp
"this app can be indispensable" - Lifehacker.com
The original goal of Coverage is to help fellow frequent travelers keep connected and plan their routes. Some have also found the app useful for shopping for their best carrier, even though our maps are regional - not neighborhood level detailed.
The maps in Coverage are our own proprietary interpretations of the coverage reported by each carrier. You should not rely on the maps in Coverage to be perfectly precise or absolutely timely, though we intend to update them at least quarterly. So far, map updates have been free - we may at some point offer more frequently released higher res maps via in app purchase.
Coverage does not report, collect or predict signal strength (there are great apps out there for that!). We can make no promises as to where you'll *actually* get signal.. there are too many variables - towers, device, terrain, weather, etc.
So… Got Coverage?
App Changes
June 19, 2014 New version 2014.4
January 31, 2014 New version 2014.1
November 26, 2013 New version 2013.11
October 01, 2013 New version 2013.9
August 05, 2013 New version 2013.7
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Thanksgiving Day Road Race Closures Detailed
Race officials have announced road closures for the course of the Manchester Road Race on Thanksgiving Day. Police will close Main Street in downtown Manchester at 7 a.m. and will stay closed until around 12:30 p.m. or when all the barricades have been removed.
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Nick O'Leary on Node-RED
Nick O'Leary talks about the creation of Node-RED, a tool for wiring together the Internet of things that he built on top of Node.js using a number of open source web frameworks. He also discusses open source hardware, the importance of open APIs and the rise of MQTT as an alternative to HTTP for IoT applications.
Glen Ford on Building Great Teams, Lean and DevOps
Glen Ford talks about his experiences in different organizations' environments, from start-ups to the likes of BBC. Glen discusses how to build great teams and why in his view Kanban works better than Scrum. Finally, Glen explains how Lean, DevOps and systems architecture all influence each other.
Jeff Gothelf On What Lean UX Is And How To Introduce It In Your Organization
Jeff Gothelf sits down with InfoQ to discuss the origins of Lean UX, how to get started using it in your organization, and where we go from here.
Damon Edwards: DevOps is an Enterprise Concern
Damon argues DevOps is most needed in the enterprise world, and suggests starting with self-service provisioning interfaces, service oriented mentality, designing tool chains and meaningful metrics. All based on his own experience on the field as a DevOps consultant.
Portia Tung on Enterprise Gardening and Overcoming Agile Adoption Challenges
Portia Tung talks about nurturing teams and supporting agile adoption as an Enterprise Gardener. She is a fulltime agile coach working within an organisation helping them achieve agility at scale. She discusses how the fulltime coach role differs from that of consultant coach, how teams are nurtured and why a culture of giving and sharing allows for collaborative growth.
The Mikado Method: A Systematic Approach To Restructuring Software
Ola Ellnestam discusses the Mikado Method, a systematic approach to restructuring software. While complementary to, but different than refactoring or developing 'clean code' this method looks at producing a dependency graph to guide developers through the most successful path when introducing change into an existing system.
Interview with Andy Piper on Cloud Foundry
Andy Piper provides an overview of Cloud Foundry, where it has come from and where it is going, recorded at QCon London 2014.
Arne Roock and Fridtjof Detzner Discuss Organizational Culture at Jimdo
Arne Roock and Fridtjof Detzner share their story of how culture has evolved at Jimdo and the role of coaches in helping that culture grow.
Damian Conway on Teaching, Programming Languages, Open Source and Our Future
Damian Conway talks about some of the secrets of his famous presentations and the joy of teaching. He explains why Perl does not get so much attention as other programming languages in this age of programming languages renaissance. Damian finishes speculating on how technology will shape our future as human beings.
Aviran Mordo on Scaling Wix, Choosing Between MySQL and NoSQL, Scala
Aviran Mordo explains the service oriented architecture behind web hoster WiX, when to choose MySQL vs NoSQL products, introducing Scala, and much more.
Katherine Kirk talks about applying different philosophies to coaching teams in crisis
Katherine talks about how her own life experiences and unique background having been raised in an Aboriginal tribe in Outback Australia and subsequently studied Mahasi Vipassana Buddhism have added to her coaching toolkit, and how she applies these ideas with teams and projects in trouble to help them overcome challenges and solve their problems
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"Life is the childhood...of our Immortality." - Goethe
My friends really don't like to be noticed for their work on here with me - from researching my pages for pending birthdays and anniversaries to typing for me when I have had to use my eyedrops pretty much all day (and those things sting, believe you me!)...but I want to say Thank You to my friend Dave for sponsoring a complete family, murdered during the Holocaust. He said something that literally caused me to break into tears as soon as he said it, and it really again drives home the good and important work that is done on this site: "R, They could not be separated even by the concentration camps...they should not be separated on this site." Here is one family's story, beginning with the memorial page for young Max:
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A beautiful little angel:
Kaliah Dailynn Holly Jeffery
BIG THANK YOUS AND HUGS TO LISA for helping me to update my pages and information! =) Also THANK YOU to everybody who visits my pages, even when they know I'm offline for a few days and unable to return the favor - I always say that when Gannon and I are literally in the hospital together and I start feeling down and very woeful, checking my pages on here and the constant visits from my friends is always better for me than any medicine. =) I will catch up on my own visiting asap, I promise...
From site friend Sherry, this gentleman has just set out on his journey home:
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This angel has a BIRTHDAY on August 31st:
Madison Harmony Sky Brooks
This beautiful little angel has a BIRTHDAY on August 26th:
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This angel has an ANGEL DAY on September 2nd:
Sophia Oceola Medoak Cederberg
A THOUGHT ABOUT SPONSORSHIPS: Please do not feel hopeless when trying to make it through the sponsorship listings! There are days when I can only visit a couple, myself...and I am continuing to work at separating them - for instance, you can already see 'Attention: Sponsored Children' and 'Attention: Sponsored Military Men and Women'...and I will continue to 'compartmentalize' names and circumstances, so that you will be able to go right to names which interest you. =)And, as always, THANK YOU for visiting our pages - every single token and word of prayer is so appreciated.
This HERO has less than 10 tokens:
Lt. Ronald Kenneth Cullers
This HERO has a BIRTHDAY on August 26th:
PFC John M. Vollmerhausen, Jr.
Also from floridaboy is a second HERO with the same BIRTHDAY:
Sgt. William Whitby Olsen
This gentleman has an ANGEL DAY on August 29th:
Seaman Carroll Lloyd Parker
Before my health issues and my mother's passing, I began to work on virtual cemeteries for our still MIA military men and women, as well as those who - as long as sixty and seventy years later - have recently been identified, their remains sent Home at last. Corporal William Ray Sluss is one of those heroes; taken prisoner during the Korean War, he came home to Virginia in 2012. His BIRTHDAY was August 2nd:
Corporal William Ray Sluss
This lovely lady was here too briefly:
Kathy Janene Emminger
Thank You to both The Houstons and Zane's Mom for the links and info which lead to this little angel - she has less than ten tokens:
Brittany R. Mendenhall
My father's ANGEL DAY is on September 5th; as always, visits are appreciated, and I know that Dad would love the attention:
Ronald Lucien Poynter
I was asked to keep the link up to my brother Ron's page; THANK YOU for all of your thoughts and prayers for my family members. =) I just put a poem of mine on Ron's page that will tell a bit more about my brother's short time here, if you'd like to read it - it's - as Ron would have said - the cold as Chicago winter wind truth, and he was very brave to live through everything he did. Here is Ron's link:
Ronald Lucien 'Ron' Poynter, Jr.
Bio: My son Gannon and I live in the Bay Area, but we are from Chicago/Jersey/New York; we have traveled extensively in our lives and are only off the road for now due to medical issues - but I sure hope to be able to hit the road again, someday. =) I am widowed, and I write for a living; I am very lucky to be able to work at home and therefore be with Gannon 24/7; he is seriously physically and mentally disabled, and most of my friends on here already know how I feel about Gannon...If I leave anything behind that is good, it will be because Gannon made me a better person. It is an honor to be his mother. We are interested in charity work and support Wounded Warriors, Make A Wish, Toys for Tots, The Huntington's Disease Foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation; all programs for poverty and below poverty level families in America; Feed America, Books For Inmates, and more. We also have a soft spot for animal welfare programs, and sincerely believe the quote that "If you want to know a man's true character, study how he treats an animal." Lastly, I hope that my work on here will answer questions, bring reunions and pay tribute to those gone, but not forgotten.
"Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living." - MOTHER JONES
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Richard Cowsill 134960022 needs flowers and fame rating thank you
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RE: Daniel Soto
Thank you for adding my previous neighbor and your friend for sponsoring. Hope to find more, healthwise, on September 9.
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on Aug 29, 2014 11:48 PM
Mike L.
RE: Hi! =)
Thanks alot Rhonda. Yes, what I was talking about was transferring my memorials to someone when I am gone. I was thinking about either you, if you would want to do that, or a distant cousin I discovered here on Find a Grave. Her name is Dori Chrisp and I have discovered several relatives due to her work here. Maybe I am thinking too much, but I would like to have someone take them over when I am gone. I dont have a wife or any close family that I would trust to take them over. My brother would have done it, but he is gone. He was my first memorial here. Sorry about your falling apart. I am in the same boat at 53 years old. Anyway, maybe I will see if I can figure out how to set up transferring these. Take care and thanks for the information.
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Thank you for sponsoring William Olson memorial. I have transferred it to you. I am originally from Pocatello Idaho and one of my first projects on Find A Grave was to located all those who died in Viet Nam from Pocatello. Thank you for all your sponsorships.
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Hi again,
Don't want to be a bother, but it's little Anna's birthday too, and she has only 3 tokens. :-( Please send her some friends for a visit.
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Hi Rhonda,
Today is Rudy's birthday and he only has 6 tokens in all. Could you please send some of your friends over with some balloons and toys for him?
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Rhonda, my deepest thanks to you, Dave, and all your friends here on Find a Grave. I am so grateful for everything you do. Thank you so very much to Dave for sponsoring the entire Prins family; there are so many sad stories... Unlike many of the murdered families, this one was able to stay together in death as in life, which I know was a comfort to them amidst the pain and sorrow.
Thank you again very, very much.
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Would you be able to add Daniel Soto, 134569713, to your list. He and his wife lived across the street from my parents. I babysat for his son (Daniel II) when I was about 16. Thanks.
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Hi Rhonda, good to hear from you. I have been meaning to ask you a question about how to transfer a persons memorials when they are no longer of this earth. I gotta head to work, but I'll get back with you.
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If there are more on offer then l would love them, thank you so much Rhonda, you're a gem!! Thanks to you, l have got quite a collection now. l'm off down to Devon (on the south coast) tomorrow. One of my daughters lives there, she's pregnant and not very well at the moment, so she needs her mum. l'll be back Wednesday next week.
Hope things are going smoothly at your end.
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Archive for January 19th, 2010
The Democrats are so pathetic.
Their latest plea is that if Martha Coakley doesn't win in Massachusetts today, they'll lose their critical 60-seat Senate block and with it, health care reform.
It's bullshit. If the Democrats wanted to pass health care reform, or anything else, they could do it today. Any time they wanted, with a simple majority vote, they could end the filibuster rule that enables Republicans to block legislation.
This is so simple, it's useful to break it down the way a child might approach it.
Democratic Senator: Sorry, little girl, we can't pass health care reform without 60 votes.
Child: In school they taught us there only 100 Senators. So don't you need only 50 votes?
Dem: Yes, but there's a Senate rule that allows the minority party to do something called a "filibuster," and when they do, the majority party needs 60 votes to overcome it. Filibusters used to be rare, but now the Republicans do one for every bill we try to pass. Those meanies.
Child: Well, where did the rule come from?
Dem: The Senate passed it.
Child: By a majority vote? I mean, 50 Senators?
Dem: Yes.
Child: Then don't you need only 50 Senators to repeal it?
Dem: Huh?
Child: I mean, if you think Republicans are meanies who aren't being fair about the rule, why don't you just change the rule?
Dem: That would make the Republicans really mad!
Child: So you're afraid of them?
Dem: Of course not!
Child: Then why don't you change the rule?
Child: I was afraid of bullies, too. But then I stood up to one and he backed down. You should try it.
The only thing my hypothetical child might be missing — and only because she's so innocent — is that the Democrats might actually like the filibuster they're always complaining about. Here's a link that nicely lays out how the filibuster works and why the Democrats are motivated to keep it: essentially, because they can use it to excuse their failure to fulfill their promises to their constituents while simultaneously invoking mean Republican abuse of the rule in their fundraising efforts.
So are the Democrats cowards or cynics? I'm not sure. Sometimes, watching them, I see a study in learned helplessness — they've let themselves be beaten down so many times they just want to cringe in the corner and give up. Other times, I see the Stockholm syndrome — they want to lick the hands of the people who are punching them. Or maybe they do indeed know exactly what they're doing — their "inability" to cope with those obstreperous Republicans is great for fundraising. Regardless, listening to them whine about how they can't pass legislation because they don't have 60 votes is like listening to a guy who says he can't work because he's wearing handcuffs — handcuffs he's put on himself, and to which he's holding the key.
Ironically, undergirding the cynicism and cowardice is stupidity. I doubt the average voter knows that much about the details of health care reform or any other proposed legislation or platform. Most people don't choose a product because they really know the product's features; instead, they make an emotional decision based on the product's brand. At this point, the Republican brand is "bully." Not good, you might think, because most people hate bullies. But the Democratic brand is "coward." And looking out at a scary, uncertain world, a lot of people would rather be led by a bully than by a coward. Until the Democrats grasp this obvious, fundamental point, their fortunes will continue to come down to the results of single special elections, their turns in the White House to interludes between bouts of Republican incompetence so profound that desperate voters will temporarily grasp at any alternative. You can call this state of affairs a lot of things, but "prescription for getting things done" will never be one of them.
Between one party that's "corrupt and inept," and the other that's "batshit insane," what can be done? Digby has the best and most level-headed plan I've come across. Read it on Hullabaloo here.
P.S. Yesterday Scott Horton blew gigantic holes in the government's attempt to cover up torture and murder at Guantanamo. Overseas papers are all over the story, but the American mainstream media won't touch it. Make a difference — post, tweet, or forward Scott's article and do what you can to make America a nation under the rule of law.
What your children will learn in school, thanks to Texas
Amanda Terkel at ThinkProgress:
For months, the Texas State Board of Education has been hearing from "experts" about the direction of the state's social studies curriculum and textbook standards. The advice to the 15-member board —which is composed of 10 Republicans — has included more references to Christianity, fewer mentions of civil rights leaders, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.
On Thursday and Friday last week, the State Board of Education took up these recommendations in a lengthy, heated debate. Some highlights of what the Republican-leaning board ended up deciding, and the debates that went on:
— On a 7-6 vote, the board decided to add "causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schafly, the Contract with America,the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the National Rifle Association" to the curriculum.
– The Republican majority voted against requiring Texas textbooks and teachers to cover the Democratic late senator Edward Kennedy, the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and leading Hispanic civil rights groups such as LULAC and MALDEF. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Thurgood Marshall, the country's first African-American Supreme Court justice, will be taught.
– Republican Don McLeroy lost a battle to "remove hip-hop and insert country music in its place from a proposed set of examples of cultural movements." Republican Patricia Hardy said that while she disliked hip hop music, pretending it wasn't around was "crazy." "These people are multimillionaires, and believe me, there are not enough black people to buy that," she said. "There are white people buying this. It has had a profound effect." Country music was added as a separate measure.
– "McLeroy was successful with another of his noteworthy amendments: to include documents that supported Cold War-era Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his contention that the U.S. government was infiltrated with Communists in the 1950s."
– "Republican board member Cynthia Dunbar unsuccessfully tried to strike the names of Scopes monkey trial attorney Clarence Darrow and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey from the standards. Asked by another member about her opposition to Garvey, Dunbar explained, according to the Texas Tribune: "My concern is that he was born in Jamaica and was deported."
– The board "included a requirement for students in U.S. history classes to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration."
Unable to reach to reach complete agreement last week, the board unanimously decided to "suspend debate on the standards until March, when they will take up other social studies subjects such as government and geography." A final decision won't be reached until May. McLeroy, who has been the driving force of some of the most conservative amendments, said that he plans on proposing more controversial standards, such as an evaluation of the U.S. civil rights movement and the "increased participation of minorities in the political process and unrealistic expectations for equal outcomes," in addition to the "adversarial approach taken by many civil rights groups."
This debate is important not only because it will dictate how the state's 4.7 million schoolchildren are taught social studies, but also because Texas "is one of the nation's biggest buyers of textbooks." Publishers are often "reluctant to produce different versions of the same material," and therefore create books in line with Texas' standards. "Publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list," one industry executive told the Washington Monthly.
UPDATE: Paul Krugman has more on the importance of textbook writers.
UPDATE: The editorial staff of the Waco Tribune writes, "The board's decision to postpone final decisions till March is good, if only to allow board members, special-interest groups and Texans to re-examine what's happening to our society. It's gradually morphing into a republic where students learn what's either politically correct or what's on someone else's political agenda. Little of it truly improves students."
Some anger at the loony progressive left
Several weeks ago, Jane threw in her lot with Grover Norquist to defeat the healthcare bill.
But apparently, she didn't mean it. Because now, her website FireDogLake wants Martha Coakley in the Senate so that Coakley's 60th vote will allow the bill to pass—a bill that Jane detested.
Maybe that bill wasn't so bad after all, Jane? Perhaps you were manipulating your readers and the rest of the blogosphere with your "Look At Me" histrionics? Because you can't be for the bill now when you teamed up with Grover Norquist just a few weeks ago to defeat it. The election of Scott Brown will accomplish the EXACT same thing that your unholy union with Grover was meant to accomplish.
I actually know Grover, Jane. Tip: he's out to promote himself even more than you are. But you went there with him, and now you want us all to think you were just kidding.
So which is it, Jane? We should do everything we can to defeat this bill, including teaming up with Greasy Grover? Or we should do everything we can to elect Saint Martha, because we need to protect Obama and any semblance of our plan?
I'm not fooled. You jerked us all around, and proved that you will say Anything. So now, what you say means Nothing.
I'll hold my nose and vote for Coakley tomorrow, but not because you urged me to, Jane. I'll vote for her only because she's not as bad as Scott Brown. Perfect is the enemy of Good, Jane. Learn that sometime.
And I'll never take FDL seriously again. Good luck, Jane, and get ready for a long, steaming dump of blame, of which you can savor every dripping lump.
Whenever you find yourself making common cause with Grover Norquist and the extreme Right, it's a good time to check your priorities and your reasoning. Jane didn't do that. Instead, she threw a little hissy fit and no doubt will now try to make that go away by never mentioning it.
The foreign press and "Camp No"
Much of the US press, in service to the government and/or the Right, will try to minimize this as much as possible. But Andrew Sullivan points out:
As usual, the foreign press cover the new and powerful evidence that the Bush administration was using torture methods so severe they killed prisoners in Gitmo as late as 2006 – and then covered it up with claims of a triple-simultaneous-suicide. Here's the Guardian. And the Telegraph. And the Independent. Here's the Irish Times. And the Canadian Press. But the US papers?
Nary a mention. Fox News? You have to be kidding. NYT? A buried AP feed. The right-wing blogosphere that is fanning the flames for a torture state? Crickets … In fact, National Review is in full swing with articles by the torture-celebrating Marc Thiessen and a video interview with the war criminal, John Yoo, citing George Washington, perhaps one of the most ferocious opponents of torture in American history, to defend his crimes. The premise of both Thiessen and Yoo is that what was authorized was not torture, and that Gitmo is the best of the best facilities for the worst of the worst prisoners. But the possible deaths-by-torture in Gitmo – which explode their lies and spin – do not rate even a mention.
If you want to know how America became a torturing country, look up Dick Cheney in Wikipedia. Then go look at a great deal (but not all) of the MSM.
It's a very, very bad thing when the government becomes a criminal enterprise. And when government employees can commit crimes with impunity (revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, obtaining records illegally, torturing prisoners, killing prisoners), it's a start.
Quinoa and Avocado Salad with Dried Fruit, Toasted Almonds, and Lemon-Cumin Vinaigrette
This Deborah Madison recipe sounds delicious. The ingredients:
3 Tbs. raisins (preferably a mix of dark and golden)
2 Tbs. dried apricots, thinly sliced
1 cup red or white quinoa, rinsed well
Kosher salt
1 large lemon
3 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 tsp. ground coriander
1/4 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 tsp. sweet paprika
2 medium firm-ripe avocados (6 to 7 oz. each), pitted, peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
2 medium scallions, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced
2 to 3 Tbs. coarsely chopped toasted almonds
Freshly ground black pepper
I'm making my shopping list right now.
Intuition in a chess genius
Interesting post at The Frontal Cortex by Jonah Lehrer:
Time Magazine has an interesting profile of Magnus Carlsen, the youngest chess player to achieve a number one world ranking:
Genius can appear anywhere, but the origins of Carlsen's talent are particularly mysterious. He hails from Norway — a "small, poxy chess nation with almost no history of success," as the English grand master Nigel Short sniffily describes it — and unlike many chess prodigies who are full-time players by age 12, Carlsen stayed in school until last year. His father Henrik, a soft-spoken engineer, says he has spent more time urging his young son to complete his schoolwork than to play chess. Even now, Henrik will interrupt Carlsen's chess studies to drag him out for a family hike or museum trip. "I still have to pinch my arm," Henrik says. "This certainly is not what we had in mind for Magnus."
Even pro chess players — a population inured to demonstrations of extraordinary intellect — have been electrified by Carlsen's rise. A grand master at 13 (the third youngest in history) and a conqueror of top players at 15, he is often referred to as the Mozart of chess for the seeming ease of his mastery. In September, he announced a coaching contract with Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player of all time, who quit chess in 2005 to pursue a political career in Russia. "Before he is done," Kasparov says, "Carlsen will have changed our ancient game considerably."
One of the fascinating elements of Carlsen's talent is that he's learned the game by playing computer chess, matching his wits against advanced algorithms. The end result is a prodigy who's amassed an unprecedented amount of deliberate practice at an early age, as he's able to play multiple games on the same machine at the same time. Computers, in other words, have accelerated the pace of his chess education.
The article then discusses Carlsen's semi-mystical chess "intuition," which allows the youngster to "feel for where to place the pieces":
According to Kasparov, Carlsen has a knack for sensing the potential energy in each move, even if its ultimate effect is too far away for anyone — even a computer — to calculate. In the grand-master commentary room, where chess's clerisy gather to analyze play, the experts did not even consider several of Carlsen's moves during his game with Kramnik until they saw them and realized they were perfect. "It's hard to explain," Carlsen says. "Sometimes a move just feels right."
At first glance, there is something surprising about a teenager weaned on chess software extolling the wonders of intuition. It's as if we expect Carlsen to act like his software, to be as explicit in his strategic decisions as Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer. But that misses the real purpose of practice and the real genius of the human brain. When we practice properly – and this means engaging in deliberate practice – we aren't just accumulating factual knowledge. Instead, we're embedding our experience into our unconscious, so that even insanely complicated calculations – and Carlsen can regularly plan twenty chess moves in advance – become mostly automatic.
This is a truism of expertise. Although we tend to think of experts as being weighted down by information, their intelligence dependent on a vast set of facts, experts are actually profoundly intuitive. When experts evaluate a situation, they don't systematically compare all the available options or consciously analyze the relevant information. Carlsen, for instance, doesn't compute the probabilities of winning if he moves his rook to the left rather than the right. Instead, experts naturally depend on the emotions generated by their experience. Their prediction errors – all those mistakes they made in the past – have been translated into useful knowledge, which allows them to tap into a set of accurate feelings they can't begin to explain. Neils Bohr said it best: an expert is "a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." From the perspective of the brain, Bohr was absolutely right.
And this is why we shouldn't be surprised that a chess prodigy raised on chess computer programs would be even more intuitive than traditional grandmasters. The software allows him to play more chess, which allows him to make more mistakes, which allows him to accumulate experience at a prodigious pace.
Out for a walk
There's a lull between storms right now, so I nipped out and did the walk—another checkmark. :)
More on the Gitmo homicides
It's worth noting that the 3 men tortured to death at "Camp No" were innocent of any involvement in terrorism and were slated for release. So much for the myth that only a few "high-value" detainees were tortured.
Greenwald has a good column, from which this is taken:
(1) The single biggest lie in War on Terror revisionist history is that our torture was confined only to a handful of "high-value" prisoners. New credible reports of torture continuously emerge. That's because America implemented and maintained a systematic torture regime spread throughout our worldwide, due-process-free detention system. There have been at least 100 deaths of detainees in American custody who died during or as the result of interrogation. Gen. Barry McCaffrey said: "We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the C.I.A." Gen. Antonio Taguba said after investigating the Abu Ghraib abuses and finding they were part and parcel of official policy sanctioned at the highest levels of the U.S. Government, and not the acts of a few "rogue" agents: "there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
Despite all of this, our media persists in sustaining the lie that the torture controversy is about three cases of waterboarding and a few "high-value" detainees who were treated a bit harshly. That's why Horton's story received so little attention and was almost completely ignored by right-wing commentators: because it shatters the central myth that torture was used only in the most extreme cases — virtual Ticking Time Bomb scenarios — when there was simply no other choice. Leading American media outlets, as a matter of policy, won't even use the word "torture." This, despite the fact that the abuse was so brutal and inhumane that it led to the deaths of helpless captives — including run-of-the-mill detainees, almost certainly ones guilty of absolutely nothing — in numerous cases. These three detainee deaths — like so many other similar cases — illustrate how extreme is the myth that has taken root in order to obscure what was really done.
(2) Incidents like this dramatically underscore what can only be called the grotesque immorality of the "Look Forward, Not Backwards" consensus which our political class — led by the President — has embraced. During the Bush years, the United States government committed some of the most egregious crimes a government can commit. They plainly violated domestic law, international law, and multiple treaties to which the U.S. has long been a party. Despite that, not only has President Obama insisted that these crimes not be prosecuted, and not only has his Justice Department made clear that — at most — they will pursue a handful of low-level scapegoats, but far worse, the Obama administration has used every weapon it possesses to keep these crimes concealed, prevent any accountability for them, and even venerated them as important "state secrets," thus actively preserving the architecture of lawlessness and torture that gave rise to these crimes in the first place.
Every Obama-justifying excuse for Looking Forward, Not Backwards has been exposed as a sham (recall, for instance, the claim that we couldn't prosecute Bush war crimes because it would ruin bipartisanship and Republicans wouldn't support health care reform). But even if those excuses had been had been factually accurate, it wouldn't have mattered. There are no legitimate excuses for averting one's eyes from crimes of this magnitude and permitting them to go unexamined and unpunished. The real reason why "Looking Forward, Not Backwards" is so attractive to our political and media elites is precisely because they don't want to face what they enabled and supported. They want to continue to believe that it just involved the quick and necessary waterboarding of three detainees and a few slaps to a handful of the Worst of the Worst. Only a refusal to "Look Backwards" will enable the lies they have been telling (to the world and to themselves) to be sustained. But as Horton's story illustrates, there are real victims and genuine American criminals — many of them — and anyone who wants to keep that concealed and protected is, by definition, complicit in those crimes, not only the ones that were committed in the past, but similar ones that almost certainly, as a result of Not Looking Backwards, will be committed in the future.
And he includes a video of Keith Olbermann's interview with Scott Horton on Countdown. Worth watching.
Jesus would love this
New Testament inscriptions on military weapons—just as Jesus wanted. Here's the story.
Criminal government
The FBI broke the law for years in phone-record searches. I wonder now if we're supposed to look forward, not back, and let all those lawbreakers off the hook. Will anyone be punished for the lawbreaking? Isn't the FBI supposed to catch crooks, not break the law themselves? Will the veil of government protection close around the miscreants, as it has around the murderers at Gitmo?
The fact is, I have little expectation now that the government will ever punish those giving orders. At the most, we'll send a few low-level clerks to the slammer, and everyone else will get off scot-free.
John Solomon and Carrie Johnson in the Washington Post:
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions.
E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ultimately was not connected to imminent threats.
A Justice Department inspector general's report due out this month is expected to conclude that the FBI frequently violated the law with its emergency requests, bureau officials confirmed.
The records seen by The Post do not reveal the identities of the people whose phone call records were gathered, but FBI officials said they thought that nearly all of the requests involved terrorism investigations.
FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni said in an interview Monday that the FBI technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked nonexistent emergencies to collect records. ["Technically violated" the Act???? How about "the FBI violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act as though the law did not apply to the FBI"? They broke the law, and all the "technicallys" in the world don't change that. – LG]
"We should have stopped those requests from being made that way," she said. The after-the-fact approvals were a "good-hearted but not well-thought-out" solution to put phone carriers at ease, she said. In true emergencies, Caproni said, agents always had the legal right to get phone records, and lawyers have now concluded there was no need for the after-the-fact approval process. "What this turned out to be was a self-inflicted wound," she said.
Caproni said FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III did not know about the problems until late 2006 or early 2007, after the inspector general's probe began.
Documents show that senior FBI managers up to the assistant director level approved the procedures for emergency requests of phone records and that headquarters officials often made the requests, which persisted for two years after bureau lawyers raised concerns and an FBI official began pressing for changes.
"We have to make sure we are not taking advantage of this system, and that we are following the letter of the law without jeopardizing national security," FBI lawyer Patrice Kopistansky wrote in one of a series of early 2005 e-mails asking superiors to address the problem. [The "letter of the law"?? How about just following the law. – LG]
The FBI acknowledged in 2007 that one unit in the agency had improperly gathered some phone records, and a Justice Department audit at the time cited 22 inappropriate requests to phone companies for searches and hundreds of questionable requests. But the latest revelations show that the improper requests were much more numerous under the procedures approved by the top level of the FBI. [So I want to see some indictments at the top level of the FBI – LG]
FBI officials told The Post that their own review has found that about half of the 4,400 toll records collected in emergency situations or with after-the-fact approvals were done in technical violation of the law. [Interesting the use of the word "technical"---what they are saying is that the law was violated (no "technical" about it), but they don't want anything bad to happen to those who broke the law. – LG] The searches involved only records of calls and not the content of the calls. In some cases, agents broadened their searches to gather numbers two and three degrees of separation from the original request, documents show…
Continue reading. The efforts by the FBI to minimize the lawbreaking are doubtless very reassuring to members of the FBI who break laws.
Tasty sounding recipe
Very, very treyf, but sounds delicious: Lamb Braised in Milk with Fennel. The ingredients:
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 1/2 pounds boneless lamb shoulder, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
- Salt and pepper
- 1 fennel bulb, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup finely chopped parsley
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed (use mortar and pestle, or chop finely with a chef's knife)
- 2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 2 cups farro (can substitute brown rice)
- Salt
Art of Shaving shave
The Wife received this little box of AOS samples at Sephoro, so I thought I'd give them a go, including the pre-shave oil. I'm generally willing to experiment, so…
Not bad. I liked the parts I expected to like, and didn't like the others. Starting the shave with the pre-shave oil is something I don't much care for, and this oil in particular feels gummy and hard to get off my hands. The shaving cream was fine and made a very good lather, thanks in part to the Omega syntex shaving brush. The Vision did its usual excellent job, even though the Swedish Gillette was a veteran of several previous shaves.
Finally, the finish with the balm—at first unpleasantly slick, unlike a splash of alcohol-based aftershave, but then it dried and/or was absorbed, leaving my skin feeling very nice.
Not a bad shave at all.


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Monday, word came that the ACC schools agreed to a grant of rights through 2025. In the simplest of terms, a granting of rights means that if a school leaves the conference, the conference keeps its media rights for the duration of the term. This effectively means that no school, absent hitting multiple Powerball jackpots, can leave the conference, because the conference would keep all of its TV money.
The move has many Florida State people perplexed. Why would Florida State agree to such a move?
Let's first acknowledge that the people in the position to make this move in the office of the president and the board are not dumb. The power players are comprised mostly of successful businessmen who didn't climb the ranks by making bad deals.
One theory is that Florida State had fewer options than its supporters believed.
Significant geographic considerations aside, perhaps the gap between Florida State's academics and those acceptable to the Big Ten was too great, or the stability of the Big XII too much in doubt for FSU to be able to make a move. The SEC remains a pipe dream.
Would conference stability be enough to entice Florida State to sign?
Probably not, given that before signing, Florida State was perhaps the biggest threat to the stability of the conference.
FSU fans are left wondering about the other shoe. At the very least, it would be irrational of Florida State to sign away its freedom without incentive. The Seminoles are the ACC's most valuable property, being responsible for more TV earnings than almost any two other conference programs combined.
Given that, Florida State's signature represents a tremendous leverage situation, and it would be irrational to not extract extra benefit for the school in exchange for the granting of rights. But what did FSU get in return?
Is it the addition of another team? Some sort of agreement with Notre Dame?
Or is it a greater cut, either from the TV contract or coming ACC TV Network? Jeremy Fowler of CBS reports that media rights, thanks to the unanimous grant, will net each school an average of "$20M plus starting July 1." With the future of cable moving to an on-demand model, Florida State would be smart to negotiate to keep revenue from the ACC Network derived from its shows, as opposed to agreeing to a split.
Or perhaps a move to allow bowl teams to keep their revenue? Currently, ACC teams pool their bowl revenue and split it among all teams, even those that do not make a bowl or who are ineligible to play in the postseason due to NCAA rules violations. Plans for playoff revenue, should an ACC team make it, have not yet been released. That's another bargaining chip in this deal that could be involved.
There's also the remote chance that the ACC threatened Florida State with some sort of ultimatum and forced its hand. In which case the net here would be just the 15-percent increase each league school is getting by going from $17.5M to $20M.
As of right now, we simply do not know what, if anything, Florida State got in return for signing this deal. FSU people have to hope its significant, however, lest the Florida State program continue to slip further behind its neighboring SEC schools.


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Race through the snow, rain and dirt and experience dramatic night races as DiRT 3 is extended with 12 new routes at two new locations plus 13 extra cars and liveries.
Experience freestyle Gymkhana, Rally, Rallycross and more in solo, online and split-screen modes as you compete on a global tour from Finland to Monaco and Tokyo.
Powered by the award-winning EGO Engine for stunning weather, incredible damage and jaw-dropping graphics, DiRT 3 Complete Edition is the essential version of the ultimate off-road racer.
DiRT 3 Complete Edition extends the game with:
The Monte Carlo Rally Pack – eight breathtaking Rally stages featuring dramatic climbs, descents and hairpins of snowy mountain roads. Race through the Alps and conquer the legendary Col de Turini pass.
The X Games Asia Track Pack – four new routes set across two new tracks in Shibuya, the neon heart of central Tokyo, where spectacular mud-spattered Rallycross circuits weave beneath towering skyscrapers.
The Power and Glory Car Pack – stars five cars including the BMW M3 Rally, Lancia Delta S4, Ford Focus ST Rallycross, Scion tC and Chevrolet Camaro SSX Concept, each with a range of liveries.
The Mud and Guts Car Pack – features five cars available for single-player, split-screen and online multiplayer events. Race the Lancia Stratos, Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2, Citroën C4 Rallycross, Saturn Sky and Ford Mustang GT, each with a range of liveries.
The Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack – access the Ford Escort Mk II, a 70s rally classic with five liveries. The Ken Block Special Pack – features a customised and upgraded Ford Escort Mk II, an Open Class Rally car sporting a killer Ken Block livery. The Mini Gymkhana Special Pack – access the mid-engined Mini Cooper S Gymkhana, customised and tuned to become an outrageously responsive Gymkhana car.
1. Unpack the files with WinRAR or equivalent.
2. Burn or mount the .iso file.
3. Install the game, when prompted for serial enter anything.
4. Copy all the contents from the FiGHTCLUB folder on the DVD to the game installation folder, overwrite when prompted.
5. Run the file ProfileImport.exe >once<. It will create five blank savegame profiles. If any earlier (DiRT 3) savegame profiles exist on your computer the three first ones will be kept.(If you have other needs then prior to executing this step manually backup saved profiles and insert them later. Location is %USERPROFILE%/My Documents/My Games/DiRT3/savegame)
6. Start the game. Block it from accessing internet in firewall. Be adviced that the Windows Firewall might not let you choose. If game complains about "xlive.dll not found" then GFWL client didn't install – seems 50/50 it does. Install it manually from GFWL folder on DVD.{Complete}
?DiRT3: Complete Edition", has absorbed all published supplements, includes 12 additional routes to two new gaming areas, 13 vehicles and more than 50 colors for them.
Participate in the freestyle mode "Dzhimhana" take part in the rally, test your driving skills in a rally-cross, entered the competition with virtual opponents, on the other drivers on the network or on a split screen. Conquer the most difficult routes in Finland, Monaco, Tokyo. Snow, rain, mud – be prepared for any weather surprises during the day and night!
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Audio quality: 100%
Video quality: 100%
Installation of additional Softa
Start the game via the shortcut on the desktop or the Start menu
Installation requires 512 MB ??of RAM
Approximate install time 10 minutes
The Monte Carlo Rally Pack
The Power and Glory Car Pack (not working)
The X Games Asia Track Pack
The Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack
The Mud and Guts Car Pack (not working)
The Ken Block Special Pack
The Mini Gymkhana Special Pack
All except the voice of England
Author RePack'a:
"Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / 7
"Processor: AMD Phenom II or Intel Core i7
"Memory: at least 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Windows Vista and Windows
"Hard diske: 12 GB
"Sound Card: Sound Card compatible with DirectX 9.0
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Why fan the flames of controversy?
Dear Editor,
This concerns your editorial of July 10, "What a way to treat the 'Father of the nation' NW Manley".
Based on the views of one commentator, your editorial condemned the manner we treat our heritage without an apparent effort to cross-reference and thus obtain the existing position.
Let me set the record straight in terms of the building at Roxborough. This was mostly derelict by the early 1970s. It subsequently caught fire. At present, the front façade facing the steps has been secured. The grounds today are maintained by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust and occasional visits are paid to the site.
Yes, Roxborough can be rebuilt, but to what end, and at what cost? The most appropriate use for the premises will be as a camp site. This would facilitate our young people spending time on the site where the National Hero was born. The other sites, such as Stony Gut, could also be used similarly to imbibe the spirit of the National Heroes. At camps such as these, the young people would have time for study, for exploration and for learning to live together.
Let us remember that excellence was the byword of Norman Washington Manley. Everything that he attempted was redolent in his quest for excellence. It was the hallmark of his life as he was not just the "Father of the nation" but also the role model we should all try to emulate.
If we get positive suggestions from the conversations you spark and the writings of your pen, we will be much better off than fanning the flames of controversy.
Ainsley Henriques
Norman Washington Manley Foundation
Kingston 6
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November 29th, 2007 by Dan Meyer
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Classic, romantic and vintage were the words that came to mind when Sally Gregor, an insurance underwriter who grew up in Harding Township, began imagining her wedding to college sweetheart Keith Sheldon, a lawyer from Sudbury, Massachusetts. "I wanted to create an old-fashioned feel with a color palette of ivory, champagne and pastel pink that was soft on the eyes," Sally says. With a clear vision (and a sister who is the editor of New Jersey Bride), Sally had no trouble assembling a dream team of wedding pros to bring her elegant affair to life. As the backdrop for their Gatsby-esque nuptials, Sally and Keith chose the Mansion at Natirar—an idyllic Somerset County estate, surrounded by rolling hills and river views, formerly owned by the King of Morocco.
On September 15, 2012, with 170 guests looking on, the couple said their I dos on the mansion's sweeping back lawn. Sally, in a champagne-colored lace Sareh Nouri gown, carried a dramatic bouquet of 75 hand-wired creamy white orchids with pink centers, inspired by the arrangement she saw in her grandmother's 1930s wedding portrait. The six bridesmaids—including the bride's two sisters, who were matrons of honor—wore Amsale dresses in their choice of color and style. The bride's nieces and nephew served as flower girls and ring bearer. The best man was Keith's closest college friend. "The ceremony was picture-perfect," Sally says.
Candle-filled fireplaces lent a romantic ambiance as guests sipped peach bellinis during the cocktail hour and nibbled on roast duck and tuna tartare. Dinner and dancing to an 11-piece band awaited guests in the tented pavilion. Candelabras wrapped with jasmine and glass vases holding hydrangea, lisianthus and roses adorned the tables. "The jasmine created a subtle perfume scent," says floral designer Laura Clare. "Everything was simply elegant, which fit Sally and Keith to a tee." Though the evening was undeniably refined, it was also a blast. When they weren't on the packed dance floor, everyone was hamming it up at a photo booth with bow ties, mustaches and feathered boas. Another popular spot: The to-go coffee and mini doughnut bar-—the perfect place to refuel before heading back to the hotel karaoke after-party. After a getaway to the Four Seasons Nevis, the couple is at home in Fairfield, Connecticut. — Kristen Finello
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- Agree with your fiancé about how to approach your families. You don't have to treat each parent the same, or even talk to them together, but you should be a team that agrees on tactics and prepares for less-than-ideal outcomes. Here are 8 ways to have the wedding money talk.
- Know what you want If your dream is to have a small and intimate wedding, you'll be asking for a very different amount of money than if you wanted a grand affair. Together, you should complete the Newly Engaged Vision Questionnaire. That will help you get a clearer idea of what you want before you bring in other people to the conversations.
- Lose the expectations In the end it's their money and they get to decide how to use it. Don't let money come between you. That doesn't mean that their answer decides everything, just that you should try to tame feelings of anger or disappointment before they happen.
- Be honest, but not manipulative It's okay to say something like, "As we're envisioning it, we think the wedding will cost $25,000." Or "I'm concerned that a $5000 budget is an unrealistic expectation. Maybe we can work together to find other ways to pay for it." It's not okay to say, "But if you don't give us $25,000, our wedding will be terrible and everything will be ruined!"
- Don't act like a spoiled brat This should go without saying, but it can be good to remind yourself to breathe deep and behave like an adult. Money conversations can bring out the worst in all of us, especially when our hopes and dreams are on the line.
Know how much your wedding will cost You don't need to have your entire wedding budget settled, but it can be extremely useful to have a general idea of how much things cost in your area. Otherwise, you probably will have to go back to ask for more money. Who wants to have this conversation more than once?
Start by reading Getting started with your wedding budget. You can use the state-by-state estimator from Real Simple, though know that prices might be very different in the big cities as compared to small rural communities. If you want the best vendors, designer names, or popular venues, know that those prices will go up. Cost of Wedding also has estimates searchable by zipcode.
Blogs are another way to get a realistic idea of local costs. You may be able to search "$10,000 budget So many couples have blogged about their wedding, you might be able to successfully search for "wedding", your estimate of how much you'll have to spend, and your hometown to find examples of couples who spent about that much.
- Give them time to discuss Don't put pressure on them to answer right away. They need time to discuss with each other privately, and come to an agreement. Even single parents need time to look at their bank accounts, and consider your request.
- Understand that asking for money means giving up control It's a realistic fact that the person with the purse strings is the person with power. If you want a very specific kind of event, it might not be better to ask for any help at all. If your parent wants to foot most of the bill, talk to them about your vision and make sure it gels with theirs.


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Green bay rolls into Tampa off a tough defeat against the Vikings. The good news for the Pack is they're matched up against the lowly Tampa Bay Bucs. Word on the street is the Bucs will be starting another new no-name quarterback and that can't be good news for Bucs fans. The Packers D-Line should be licking their chops, especially after just coming up against the Vikings O-line in their last match-up. We think this one won't be pretty. Look for the Packers to light it up early and just keep piling it on. 9 ½ points seems like a steal as the Pack may take this one by 30.
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Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist will not pursue criminal charges against a 13-year-old boy who fatally shot his friend while handling a shotgun in February.
The death of Eddie Homes, also 13, was a tragic accident, not a crime, Lindquist said in a news release issued Friday.
"This was a heartbreaking tragedy that illustrates the importance of handling guns responsibly," Lindquist said.
Eddie died Feb. 6 after he and several other boys gathered at a friend's home after school. The boy who lives in the house retrieved his stepfather's shotgun from its hiding place to show the crowd. Another 13-year-old boy asked to see the gun and was holding it when it discharged, hitting Holmes in the chest.
Puyallup police investigated the shooting and forwarded the case to Lindquist's office for a charging decision.
In order to charge the shooter with a crime, deputy prosecutors would have been required to prove that the boy acted with criminal recklessness or criminal negligence, but the evidence did not support that, the news release stated.
Eddie's family said in the wake of his death that they did not blame the boy who fired the fatal shot but the gun's owner. They asked that he be held accountable.
Lindquist said Friday he evaluated the evidence and decided criminal charges against the gun's owner were not appropriate either.


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The Harrison County Sheriff's Department, Cadiz Police Department and Jewett Police Department teamed up to arrest a California man for trafficking narcotics.
19-year-old Tristen McGuire of San Diego, and Massilon, Ohio, was a passenger in a car with three other individuals, all from Michigan and the Massilon area, that was pulled over by authorities.
A search of McGuire turned up crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and pills. Harrison County Sheriff Ron Myers indicated the arrest was the result of a month-long investigation.
McGuire is currently in the Harrison County Jail on $75,000 bond.


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