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Hugh Culver
November 22, 2014
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This short piece by Seth Godin discusses his perspective on why you shouldn't plan on making money from a book. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/03/publishing-books-to-make-money.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29 Rebecca Morgan (email@example.com)
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Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas
Fall 2011
The course covers the basic models and solution techniques for problems of sequential decision making under uncertainty (stochastic control). We will consider optimal control of a dynamical system over both a finite and an infinite number of stages. This includes systems with finite or infinite state spaces, as well as perfectly or imperfectly observed systems. We will also discuss approximation methods for problems involving large state spaces. Applications of dynamic programming in a variety of fields will be covered in recitations.
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The Kansas City Public Library premieres its seventh season of Script-in-Hand performances presented by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre with a continuation of 2012's popular female-focused Women of the Years series. First up is Claudia Shear's Dirty Blonde.This 2000 Broadway hit weaves...
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Come to the North East Book Group each month to share your passion for books and join in on riveting book discussions.
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January can be an opportune time for pitching, repurposing and purchasing. While assessing the wear and tear of seasonal decor, why not take inventory of other household items, too? Can your dishware withstand another dinner party? Are kitchen utensils starting to resemble artifacts from archeological digs? Or perhaps entertaining space could simply benefit from a decorative boost. Even if Santa didn't load your stocking with home-goods gift cards, not to worry. A little supplementing, expert tips and do-it-yourself tricks can transform your serving ware from duds to studs.
Those who covet sturdy plastic ware may be reluctant to part with it. Although plastic utensils and cooking and serving items can withstand many a party and dishwasher, it may be time to consider pitching and replacing. "Cooking utensils, especially plastic, silicone and rubber versions, take a beating during the holidays," said Catie Parrish, chief homemaker and design expert for Wayfair. "Swap these out for metal whisks and wooden spoons as needed, but be sure to have appropriate utensils for nonstick cookware."
Repair and repurpose
When in doubt, you need not always throw it out … especially if it's a matter of breakage. ApartmentTherapy.com, inspired by design book author and regular HGTV commentator Maxwell Ryan, offers several tips on how to repair and repurpose damaged entertaining pieces. For example, the site offers a tutorial on how to repair chipped china by first removing residue with rubbing alcohol, followed by re-attaching broken sections with a quick-drying epoxy combined with artist's powder filler. After drying, sandpaper can be used to smooth the ceramic's surface. Oil-based artist's paint can be used as a finishing glaze. For full instructions, visit ApartmentTherapy.com.
If entertaining stock suffers from the blahs rather than breakage, it may be time to repurpose. When a chair or couch needs a facelift, new fabric can give it a boost. If kitchen utensils and serving ware appear dull, a little paint can go a long way. Visit www.sarahhearts.com for a play-by-play from designer Sarah Khandjian on how to use acrylic paint to spruce the handles of wooden kitchen utensils. Select colors to match existing dishware and entertaining collections. Or, create multiple sets to accompany various seasonal decor. Try experimenting with stripes, or incorporate a wood cutting board to paint with matching colors.
Rather than retire a prized, albeit dated entertaining set, add to it instead. "Supplement what you have with white, or mix and match a variety of patterns in a color you love," Parrish said. "A hodgepodge of blue and white dishes looks charming, not tacky."
Many kitchens contain a mixture of wood, metal and copper utensils and serving ware. Pinterest can be a gold mine for maximizing the aesthetics of eclectic collections. One popular trend: labeling Mason jars in chalkboard paint that contain spoons, whisks, spatulas and more. Or, if kitchen space permits, conceal utensils in a variety of colorful vases, jars and ceramics on accessible shelving.
If DIY kitchen power has reached its full potential, it may be time to make a few purchases. After the essential supplement items have been added, a few frivolous and fun finds can pep up entertaining space without packing a punch to the wallet.
"Family-style meals for company are coming back into popularity, so consider purchasing a lazy Susan for help-yourself serving," Parrish said. "Another fun item to consider purchasing are mini individual salt and pepper servers to place at each setting. Guests can season their food as they please without hunting down the salt and pepper shakers."
Vintage-inspired serving ware has become a popular and timeless trend. Visit Etsy for a mecca of unique finds like Bumble Beading's " Ocean-Colored Beaded Pie Server" or a " Retro Tangerine Drink Set," by Vintage Handmade Perth.
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As Amazon and Google duke it out in the cloud infrastructure pricing wars, computer scientists from the North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon say it's possible to conduct large-scale cloud computing tasks anonymously – for free – by abusing cloud-based browsers such as Amazon Silk, Cloud Browse, Opera Mini and Puffin, according to media reports.
William Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at N.C. State, and his five co-authors describe in the paper, "Abusing Cloud-Based Browsers for Fun and Profit," is a technique they call a Browser MapReduce (BMR).
As the paper's abstract explained, several cloud-based Web browsers have become commercially available in response to the surge of smartphones and mobile devices.
The paper explores how the computational abilities of cloud browsers may be exploited through BME architecture for executing large, parallel tasks.
In related news, full adoption of cloud computing continues to be hindered by innovation and security concerns. A recent study by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA the Information Systems Audit and Control Association revealed organizations feel the lack of innovation and security issues will hamper full adoption if things don't change, TechZone360 reported.
The study was conducted with 250 participants in almost 50 countries around the world with representatives from 15 industry segments including service providers, consultants, integrators and users.
The most glaring result validating the lack of innovation was revealed by 24 percent or almost one in four of survey respondents stating they don't see any or limited levels of innovation. Regarding the maturity of cloud computing, nearly all the participants said it was far from that goal in fact stating some aspects of the technology was still in its infancy.


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July 7: Author - Dr. David Ansell, County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
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The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. COUNTY covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced and hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid it an emotional farewell.
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As the end of 2010 approaches, there have been many lists of which companies were the most innovative. While for the most part I agree with those lists, I'd like to take a moment to share my vision of the three most innovative modern software technology companies. I also want to take note of two honorable mentions and one other company that is frequently listed. Note that this list is not which companies were the most innovative during 2010, but rather the most innovative companies as of 2010. We'll go in reverse order to keep things interesting.
Not Really Innovative: Facebook
While Facebook has an absurdly large user base and has changed many people's way of using the internet, it hasn't in my opinion innovated in a productive way. In other words, how does Facebook contribute to society? "Well, it's a better way for people to connect." I agree, so let's call that an innovation that it successfully accomplished back in 2005. What else does Facebook contribute to society? Beyond the basic profiles and user base, I'm unable to think of any area in which Facebook has really broken new ground or had real innovation. It seems like all of its applications have been mimics of other applications (Flickr –> Photos, RSS –> News Feed, FourSquare –> Places, etc). I remember once in the past hearing that Facebook was going to use its social network for research and innovation, like understanding social graphs, but unfortunately haven't seen any progress on that in the last 5 years. Sorry Facebook, but I don't see the innovation in wasting people's time, having casual games, and getting a movie made about you.
Honorable Mentions: Nintendo and Intel (neither are software companies)
Nintendo gets my honorable mention for creating and popularizing a new gaming platform, one that I expect will expand beyond gaming and in retrospect will become known as a key point in the movement to create more human usable technology. Without the Wii, we would not have the Playstation Move or the Kinect, and we would have substantially less interest in taking "human input" and human interactive computing. I think this is the first step to having technology systems like Tony Stark's.
Intel has done a tremendous job at creating ultra-fast processors, which have enabled all the rest of software innovation. Without the innovation of multiple cores, hyper threading, chip-based security, and more, we could still be running Pentium IIs. Do you remember how slow computers were back in the 90s? Now, they are insanely fast, built with nano-scale parts, and are ultra energy-efficient. Intel has paved the way for the advances of modern software.
Third Place: Apple
Apple on the other hand has definitely broken into "new" ground. I put "new" in quotes because mobile music players existed long before the iPod, tablet computing has been attempted long before the iPad, and smartphones existed long before the iPhone. However, I do give due credit to Apple for taking long-failed ideas and successfully commercializing them. I think a lot of the true innovation of Apple is not in the idea in the product, but its ability to mass-market and greatly expand the market for these ideas. In effect, it makes existing unpopular ideas into "ideas whose time have come". It's unmatched quality of product and marketing genius, really. This is truly valuable, and despite that I give Apple no points for technical advances, I genuinely appreciate it for its role in changing the face of consumer electronics.
Second Place: Google
Google is awesome, and there's no question about it. They've developed fantastic products, defined whole new industries (search, ads as a business, ad networks, the freemium model, google apps as online replacements of desktop software, cloud computing, software as a service, to name only the largest ones). Google has changed the world, really, and they've done it many times over. I'm a huge proponent of their Google Labs and 20% developer time model, and am happy to click on their ads anywhere I see them because… well, do you remember what ads were like before Google? Totally irrelevant (aka untargeted)! And all this not to mention that they've actually been at the forefront of redefining privacy on the web (personal privacy against algorithms, user-identifiable patterns, the whole China thing?!) and creating products that improve worldwide productivity (free Google API, free Google Apps, free – Oh I could go on forever). Google would be my number one if it weren't for one thing, and that thing is…
First Place: Microsoft (especially Microsoft Research)
Pretty much everyone uses or has used Microsoft products, whether it's Windows, Office, or Internet Explorer. Microsoft products are and have been pervasive throughout modern life, and for good reason. What puts Microsoft at first place is not just the high quality of its innovations, but the incredible quantity and diversity, ranging from deep computer systems (Hyper-V hardware-assisted virtualization), to the best software development platform that has ever existed (the .NET framework), all the way to the motion-reading technology that operates the Kinect. And that's only what Microsoft has chosen to publish. What's unfathomably impressive is all that goes on behind the scenes at Microsoft Research. With labs all around the world and projects spanning from visual programming languages to automatically generating collages to mapping astronomical data, Microsoft Research has been quietly preparing humanity for a better future. This is true beauty of innovation: bringing diverse and challenging ideas into a reality, and creating the future as we will know it.


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Great Family Vacations
Every year we highlight the best family style vacations we hear about and share this information with other families looking for something special and out of the ordinary. Most of the discoveries come from tips sent to us by our dedicated readers, others come from stumbling upon interesting areas when aimlessly wandering the countries back roads and talking to the great people that we meet.
Family Vacations in Alaska!
This year we will be going back to Alaska and heading deep into the interior where the only thing
bigger than the fish are those pesky bugs! Yup, the bugs in Alaska are every bit as big
as the mountains are tall and the numbers of mosquitoes will just about blow your mind. But it's
those mosquitoes that make up much of the food chain allowing Alaska the rights to the most incredible
fishing on the face of the earth.
Read more about our upcoming Alaska fishing trip.
Hawaiian Family Vacations
Christmas in Hawaii capture the desires of families everywhere and once again it tops the list of places to be as one year ends and a new year rings in.
Caribbean Family Vacations
Family Vacation Destinations in 2014
- Alaska
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Caribbean Family Cruises
- British Columbia, Canada
- Florida
- Jersey Shore
Did you know that Disney added two entirely new ships to its fleet in 2011 and 2012? The Disney
Dream and Disney Fantasy are sailing the seas in the Caribbean as you read this. We will be going
on a voyage with them in the fall of 2014.
For all the fun details, read Disney Cruises 2014.
Family Vacations in Canada!
Sharing borders with the northern continental United States, Canada is one of the most visited countries of all times by American families on vacations. From Niagara Falls in Ontario Canada to Wells Grey Provincial Park, near Clearwater, British Columbia; there is much to see and do in the lands of our neighbors to the north.
Family Vacations 2014
Explore the vast country we call home. Take the family to see Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone Park or experience the power and solitude of the Oregon Coast.


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BANGKOK (AP) â¿¿ Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday before China releases last month's inflation and other economic data.
"Chinese data for January should be interpreted positively, but markets react to the country's indicators in a jumpy way and a major deviation from consensus may well introduce volatility," said Dariusz Kowalczyk of Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.1 percent at 23,208.91. South Korea's Kopsi advanced 0.5 percent to 1,941.79. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6 percent to 4,963.10. Benchmarks in Singapore, Indonesia, mainland China and the Philippines also rose.Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 1.2 percent to 11,216.41, slumping after a recent rally spurred by a weakening yen. Some analysts believe the yen may have bottomed out and that the rally has run its course. A weaker yen benefits Japan's export manufacturers because it makes their products cheaper in overseas markets. Wall Street stocks fell Thursday as weaker earnings unnerved investors despite data suggesting that company layoffs are easing. Media conglomerate News Corp. cut its forecast for annual earnings. Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., lost $1.3 billion in its latest quarter as it revamped its network to take on larger competitors. On the bright side, fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week. Applications for unemployment benefits falling 5,000 to 366,000. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 0.3 percent at 13,944.05. The S&P 500 fell 0.2 percent to 1,509.4. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.1 percent to 3,165.13. Benchmark oil for March delivery fell 4 cents to $95.79 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 79 cents to finish at $95.83 a barrel on the Nymex on Thursday. In currencies, the euro fell to $1.3395 from $1.3401 late Thursday in New York. The dollar was unchanged at 93.52 yen. ___ Follow Pamela Sampson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pamelasampson
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A new ransomware threat, which is detected and blocked by Sophos as W32/VirRnsm-A is actually a true virus, unlike most such malware. According to Sophos Labs:
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Based on a list of the most popular tweets by SearchCloudApplications.com this year, twitter users were interested in a variety of cloud application topics, from integration to mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) to automation. Here are five of the most clicked on tweets and the articles they refer…READ MORE
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They were deemed a reference customer for the industry and one of the favorites of the big name vendor and solution provider. Over a long period of the relationship they had acquired almost every solution from the same vendor for any business problem. At times the price was quite attractive to turn …READ MORE
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Southern Vermont College 2012 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient is Bioethicist and Writer Ruth Levy Guyer, Ph.D.
March 7, 2012
Southern Vermont College announces that the 2012 Speaker and Honorary degree recipient for the 85th Commencement Exercises on May 12 will be American writer, commentator, and bioethicist Dr. Ruth Levy Guyer. Dr. Guyer, whose interests include medical ethics, bioethics, public health, social justice, and scientific advances is the author of two books: Baby at Risk: The Uncertain Legacies of Medical Miracles for Babies, Families and Society (2006) and A Life Interrupted: The Long Night of Marjorie Day (2012).
Currently, Guyer is working as a consultant for the President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, developing a guide for the Commission's recently released report "Ethically Impossible STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948." This study documents unethical experiments that were conducted by U.S. Public Health Service researchers in Guatemala after World War II. The research has only recently come to light.
"Dr. Guyer is a bioethicist for today, broaching the bold questions that need asking, in the often conflicted world of medical advances and technology," said SVC Acting President Jim Beckwith. "She is a highly respected writer on health issues as well as day-to-day topics that move her: words, synchronicities, the natural world, family lore, train travel. Whatever the subject, Ruth makes us think about how what we do and say affects us and the places around us, advice that is especially pertinent to our SVC graduates as we send them out into the world as caring, enlightened citizens."
At the Southern Vermont College graduation, Guyer will be awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters and then address the graduating class as Commencement speaker. The message, according to Guyer, "will be about working for change and justice and how each person can and must find his or her unique way to make a difference in an increasingly complex world."
Guyer has taught courses in bioethics, writing, AIDS, environmental ethics, and other topics to undergraduates at Haverford College, to graduate students at Johns Hopkins University, and to physicians and researchers at UCLA and the National Institutes of Health. Her essays, articles, reviews, commentaries, and stories on wide-ranging topics––cloning, new reproductive technologies, infectious diseases, environmental remediation, public health, informed consent, ethical conduct of research, scientific discoveries, and others––have been published in a range of magazines, journals, newspapers, and a literary quarterly, including Science Magazine, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Bioethics, The Washington Post, and The Wilson Quarterly. Her commentaries were a regular feature on National Public Radio's All Things Considered weekend show from 2004 to 2007.
Her book, Baby at Risk, describes the ethical and social quandaries faced by parents, doctors, nurses, midwives, and family members when a baby is born gravely ill or prematurely. Her new book tells the true story of a woman who lapsed into a coma in the 1920s, remained gravely ill for 17 years, then suddenly resumed her old life, and lived for almost 100 years as a charismatic college professor.
Guyer received a B.A. in biology from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a bench scientist for a number of years before becoming a writer and professor.
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Mr. Mulcair's pledge drew a quick response from a very interesting source: the federal NDP. Charlie Angus, an NDP MP, put a press release up on his website with the rather blunt headline, "NDP NOT BRINGING BACK THE GUN REGISTRY — PERIOD." (Yes, it was all in capital letters.)
There is a fine line between responsible gun-rights advocacy and America's GOP-enabled Yosemite Sam gun-cult carnival — and I feel comfortable drawing that line around the diaper section of my local big-box store
A big city NDPer wants target shooters from Victoria to Halifax to give up their revolvers, not because it will actually save lives in Toronto, but because she knows many downtowners there have never owned a gun, don't know anyone who does, and won't care if they're banned.
An Ontario man who refused to comply with Canada's restrictive gun laws is now fighting government efforts to seize his family home
The RCMP's sudden reclassification of thousands of legally owned rifles was a grotesque abuse of power. In a free society, the police enforce the laws, and even interpret them with trained judgment, but they do not make them up as they go. This can't happen again.
Forget about what the Liberals might do. It's the Tories who are seizing legally purchased firearms from law-abiding Canadian gun owners
This year, my firearms licence is up for renewal. I did my paperwork last month, sent it by express mail and have been waiting ever since. This is important. If my licence doesn't get renewed, that means I will go, at the stroke of midnight in the near future, from a lawful firearms owner to a criminal who illegally possesses firearms I'm not licenced to own. As the days pass, I've become increasingly curious about what the status of my renewal is. So I decided to sign in online and check — which is something the Canadian Firearms Centre boasts about being possible right on their homepage.
By releasing plans for The Liberator into the wild, Wilson arguably forced the State Department to violate the First and Second Amendments' protection of free speech and the right to bear arms.
After three men tried to burn down his home while he was inside it, Ian Thomson shot at them with a legally owned gun. He was charged with four crimes. He never should have been charged in the first place. But an acquittal on all counts will have to do.
The more we learn about him, the more we realize that Adam Lanza was a disturbed individual, and had been for years. He shouldn't have had guns in his house. Who owned them is immaterial. His mother had a right to own guns. But she had a responsibility to give them up.
The closer you look at the registry, the harder it becomes to see it as a tool that would reduce violence against women. How could it? Logging a gun's serial number doesn't make the trigger any harder to pull, and keeping a gun out of an unstable individual's hands is the function of the gun licensing system.
Canada's gun laws are a mish-mash designed more to justify tough-on-crime rhetoric than keep the public safe.
There are now more than 20 million handguns, machine guns and assault rifles outside of the Libyan government's control.
If the province is serious about building a gun registry, it should start from scratch
It would be possible to design a system that would be (mostly) effective at keeping handguns out of the hands of the macho, the short-tempered or the unstable. But hotheads like Walt Wawra make it easy for the other side to insist that concealed carry isn't worth the risk.
Matt Gurney: Why call for a handgun ban, when you can enforce the laws you have?
Two teenagers selected to be Ambassadors for the upcoming 2012 Ontario Games will not be allowed to represent the games in public. The reason: Their sport is rifle target shooting.
Ontario knows that its call for a handgun ban won't actually help reduce crime. But that's not really what it's trying to do. It just wants to look busy.
There is no shame in the government and police admitting they are already doing all they can realistically do to make Toronto safe.
It probably wouldn't have hurt if Adam Vaughan had looked into Canada's ammunition laws before deciding to talk about them.


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Yet another video has surfaced showing an arrest that turns physical—only in this video, the officer turns his aggression on the cameraman in an episode that highlights the increasing tension between the NYPD and those who seek to record police encounters. NY1's Bobby Cuza filed the following report.
The 11-minute video begins with a police officer noticing he is being recorded.
The rest is only audio—after NYPD Officer Ryan Lathrop confiscates the phone, he seems to inadvertently leave it recording.
The man in the video, 25-year-old Naquan Miles, was eventually arrested on open container and disorderly conduct charges; he says in the process he was thrown to the ground, causing injuries. The moment is audible on tape, but not visible.
"Obviously, he must have felt like, deep down inside, he was doing something wrong. because if you're not doing nothing wrong, then there shouldn't be no problem with you being recorded," says Miles.
Over the weekend, the man who captured Eric Garner's death on camera was himself arrested on a gun charge.
The NYPD denies it specifically targeted Ramsey Orta; but what's clear is the frequent tension between police and those who are increasingly recording their activity.
"The problem is not that the law is not clear. The problem is that police officers don't understand what the law is," says Chris Dunn of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Indeed, the NYPD's own patrol guide notes it is not cause for arrest if an onlooker is taking photographs or video.
Dunn says arrests happen nonetheless, though.
"The police department's got to get its act together. It's got to be training police officers much more clearly about the right to photograph. And if necessary, it's got to start disciplining officers who do the sorts of things that we see in this video," Dunn says.
Some say it's those recording who can be overly aggressive.
"You cannot interfere with a police action. That becomes dangerous for everyone," says Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch.
The NYPD Hispanic Society is now calling for a law requiring a safe distance be maintained when filming.
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>Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Lost in translation is a long article explaining why German humour is so... german. And it ends with:
Some Germans tell us their jokes ...
Andrea Foss, 46, Schleswig Holstein
"What is romantic?" "I don't know." "When a man strokes a woman tenderly with a feather."
"What is perverse?" "I don't know." "When the chicken is still attached."
Tabea Rudolph, 26, Stuttgart
There are problems in the woods. The animals of the forest are always drunk, so the fox decides to ban alcohol. The following day, the fox spies a rabbit hanging out of a tree, clearly wasted. The fox ticks him off, and carries on his way. But the next day he sees the rabbit drunk again, and gives him a final warning. The next day, the fox does his rounds and there's no sign of the rabbit, but he notices a straw sticking out of a stream. Wondering what it is, the fox scoops it out, only to find a very drunk rabbit on the other end of it. "How many times do I have to tell you that animals of the forest aren't allowed alcohol?" says the Fox. "We fishes don't give a toss what the animals of the forest aren't allowed to do," says the rabbit
Gerhard Bischof, Bad Toelz, 57
A man jumps out of a plane for the first time. At 3,000m he tries to undo his parachute, but the cord fails. At 2,000m he tries to open the emergency chute but that doesn't work either. At 1,000m he bumps into a man wearing blue overalls, carrying a spanner. "Can you repair parachutes?" asks the first man. "'Fraid not," says the other. "I only do boilers."
Wolfgang Voges, 56, from lower Saxon
Three priests hold a meeting to discuss where life begins. The evangelical priest says, "No question about it, life begins when the child is born." "No, no," says the Catholic priest, "it all starts when the sperm meets the egg." "You're both wrong," says the Rabbi. "Life begins when the children have left home and the dog is dead."
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54% of legislators in the tiny European state of Andorra are now women, making it the first country in Europe to achieve more than 50% women in its parliament, and only the second country in the world (after Rwanda).
Previously 32% of its 28 members were women; now, with 15 women and 13 men it has leapfrogged most of the rest of Europe and stands second in the global league table.
In the election held in April 2011 50% of those elected were women, but on 25 May one of the men was replaced by a woman, raising the level even further.
The only legislature in the UK to hit the 50% mark was the Welsh Assembly in 2003, but Wales does not feature in the global records because it is not a sovereign state.
Women constitute 22% of the Westminster parliament, so that the UK is 50th equal in the global league table, on a par with the Czech Republic, Eritrea and Uzbekistan, just ahead of Serbia, China and Italy and just behind Pakistan, the Philippines and Mauritania.
The top countries wordwide now are*:
Rwanda 56%
Andorra 54%
Sweden 45%
South Africa 44.5%
Cuba 43%
Iceland 43%
Finland 42.5%
Norway 40%
Belgium 39%
Netherlands 39%
Mozambique 39%
Angola 39%
Costa Rica 39%
Argentina 38.5%
Denmark 38%
Uganda 37%
Spain 37%
*Percentages taken from International Parliamentary Union site at http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm and rounded to the nearest whole percentage.
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an initiative by the Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) to strengthen film production in Germany. The DFFF is administered by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and we are happy to be your point of contact. If you produce your feature, documentary or animated film in Germany and spend at least 25% of your budget here, you can obtain a grant of up to 20% of the approved costs.
You will find the eligibility criteria, information about filing an application and all relevant forms on our website.
The DFFF sets no deadlines for applications, so submissions can be made at any time and your projects will be considered consecutively by date of receipt. However, please bear in mind that we must have received your application no later than six weeks prior to start of principal photography. We recommend that you submit your application even earlier, if possible and kindly also inform us if you intend to make an application soon.
The DFFF team will be pleased to answer any questions and to support you regarding the submission of your application.
The guideline is the basis for this funding.
Facts & Figures 2010 - 2012
Cornelia Hammelmann
Project Director
Phone: 030 - 27 57 7 - 522
Tanja Koop
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Kristin Holst
Funding Executive
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David Kussel
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|Who may submit an application?
Film producers may submit an application. The film producer is defined as a person who is responsible for the production of a film right up to delivery of the final product - or share responsibility, in case of a co-production - and is actively involved in the production. Even if a number of co-producers working on a co-production fulfill the application requirements, the application must be submitted by only one co-producer. The co-producers must reach an agreement on this matter and provide the DFFF with a joint declaration to this effect when submitting their application.
|Which films qualify for grants?
Grants can be awarded to any full-length film with a running time of at least 79 minutes, or at least 59 minutes for children`s films, providing the following criteria are fulfilled:
|What is the maximum amount of funding?
The grant ceiling per film is four million Euros. Upon request by the producer, this grant ceiling can be extended to a maximum of ten million Euros. In order to qualify for this increased funding, the German production costs must reach at least 35 percent of the total cost or the film has to achieve two-thirds of the total possible points in the test of characteristics. The advisory board decides on such requests for increased funding.
A German production company produces a feature film
1st example of calculation:
Approved German production costs: 3.5 million Euros
2nd example of calculation:
|How much of the production costs need to be covered by applicants own investment?
Applicants must invest at least 5 percent of the production costs through their own contribution in accordance with Section 34, § 1 through 4 of the Film Funding Law (FFG). The FFA executive board can make exceptions for a producer`s first two feature-length films and documentaries.
|Which other requirements need to be fulfilled?
The application must be filed timely, at least six weeks prior to the start of shooting.
In principal, shooting or animation work must not start before the official notification of the grant.
The film must be completed within the indicated project timeline.
At the date of notification of the grant 75 percent of the total financing must be confirmed.
Within three months after receiving notification of the grant the total financing must be shown proof for.
In addition one final version of the film must be produced with German-language audio description and with German subtitles for the hearing-impaired.
|What are the rules for international co-productions?
Applicants working on international co-productions must cover at least 20 percent of the production costs or five million Euros for productions with costs of over 25 million Euros.
|What are German production costs?
German production costs are expenses that arise in Germany for film-related services provided by companies or their employees, staff or freelancers.
|Which costs are not taken into account when calculating the subsidy?
The following items are not approved when calculating the grant:
pre-production costs,
costs for film rights and rights for other pre-existing works (incl. pre-existing music), except fees for the script on which the film is based, up to 3 percent of the German production costs but maximum 150,000 Euros; for documentaries, archival material up to 30 percent of the German cost of production,
legal consulting fees,
overhead costs,
financing costs,
travel and transport expenses for actors,
actors` fees, if they exceed 15 percent of the German production costs,
contingency reserves of which no deliveries or services have been paid at the time of final auditing,
Deferments and contributions in kind.
|Can different sources of funding be combined?
A combination with other sources of funding is only possible up to the European allowed limit for funding of max 50 percent of productions cost, or up to 80 percent for economically challenging films.
|When is the payment being made?
The funding process begins when the application is submitted by the film producer to the DFFF.
If the evaluation process leads to a positive result, the FFA will issue a notification of a grant.
The disbursal generally takes place after the production has been completed. The FFA can also make payments by installments to be disbursed according to the progress of the production (33 percent at the start of principal photography and closing of the financing, 33 percent when the rough cut is completed, the remainder after the final cost analysis has been audited).
If installment payments are required, a film completion bond or a financial guarantee corresponding to the approved amount of funding must be provided for a grant exceeding two million Euros. In this case, a financial guarantee according to Section 31 FFG is not applicable.
|Can applications be re-submitted?
Applications for the same project may be re-submitted twice.


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Protect Your Smartphone Without Insurance
Editor's Note: Be sure to also read the other two parts of this series, Insuring Your Smartphone May Be Smart and iPhone Peace of Mind Comes at a Price.
TheStreet) -- Most people still don't, or won't buy insurance. One report says just 27% of smartphone owners insure their phones. However, market researcher iGR does note that smartphones owners are more likely to buy insurance then non-smartphone owners because of the higher replacement costs.
But if you can't afford to -- or refuse to -- insure your smartphone, at least keep it protected. Here are some tips from the experts and companies:
Damage control:
- Don't carry your phone in your pocket
- Use a screen protector to prevent scratches
- Get a case to protect the back and sides against scratches and drops
- Get a really good case like the Otterbox Defender Series (with three protective layers: hard polycarbonate shell covered by silicone skin plus built-in screen protector) or Ballistic's Hard Core case (built-in screen protector and hard shell with shock absorbent polymer and silicone outer layer). Very few promise protection from water, but the LifeProof iPhone case promises protection up to a depth of 6.6 feet.
- Turn on the phone's automatic back up to prevent data loss
- If your phone gets wet, remove the battery and SIM card and let it completely dry. Don't use a hair dryer. And don't try to use the phone, which could allow water to move deeper into the phone's electronics.
- Install anti-virus or anti-malware to prevent data damage; most of the major computer anti-virus companies offer a product
Loss/theft protection
- Set up the phone's built-in security by turning on screen or keypad lock or requiring a code or pattern to unlock device access
- Clearly identify ownership either by a simple ID sticker or an app like Contact Owner, available on Google Play, for Android or Owner Information, available through iTunes for iPhone. Both state the owner's contact information right on the locked screen.
- Turn on the free service from the manufacturer:
- --Windows Phones: Microsoft's Find My Phone lets you map the phone's location, make it ring, lock the phone and erase it.
- --Apple iPhone: Set up the Apple's Find My iPhone service on Apple's iCloud to map the phone's location, send it a message, lock it or erase it remotely.
- --BlackBerry: Download BlackBerry Protect to back up data and help find the missing phone.
- --Android doesn't appear to have a built-in service to find missing phones. But several apps are available to help locate missing Androids, including Plan B, available on Google Play.
- Download a free or inexpensive app to help locate your phone or lock or wipe the phone remotely if it gets lost or stolen. Some popular apps: Android Lost, available on Google Play or Find My iPhone, mentioned above.
- Already lost your phone? Try Plan B from Lookout Mobile Security, mentioned above. The Android app is pushed to the missing phone where it launches, turns on GPS and messages the phone's location back to the account holder.
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Jungle life, I'm living in the open
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Did Babe Ruth really call his shot at Wrigley Field?
By JOE COWLEY firstname.lastname@example.com June 16, 2011 10:48PM
In an amateur film taken by Matt Miller Kandle Sr., Ruth clearly points before hitting his home run against Cubs pitcher Charlie Root. But it's hard to determine where he's pointing.
In an amateur film taken by Matt Miller Kandle Sr., Ruth clearly points before hitting his home run against Cubs pitcher Charlie Root (right). But it's hard to
determine whether he was pointing at the Cubs' dugout, at Root or out to center field.
After hitting the homer, Ruth makes a waving gesture in the direction of the Cubs' dugout, then twice makes a pushing motion between second and third base.
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Did he or didn't he?
Almost 79 years later, it's still one of the more debatable moments in baseball folklore: Did George Herman Ruth — ''The Babe'' — really call his shot in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Cubs? Or is it better that we never know?
Does reviewing old 16-millimeter home movies and interviewing sons and granddaughters of players who were involved in the game tarnish what is better left untouched as baseball legend?
''I think that's right,'' author and baseball historian George Will said when he was asked Thursday about letting the ''called shot'' stay a great baseball story. ''[With] the Loch Ness Monster, you can at least say, 'Well, maybe tomorrow he'll stick his head up out of the water.' But [with Ruth], we're never really going to know, and baseball thrives on arguments.
'' 'Who is the best left-handed pinch hitter from South Dakota?' Baseball fans will argue about anything, and this is a hearty perennial for the cold, winter months.''
Or a reminder of that history in the heat of interleague play in June.
Beginning today, the New York Yankees come to Wrigley for three games. That means the pinstripes, the swagger and the history. It means Gehrig, DiMaggio and, of course ''The Bambino.''
The Cubs began playing at Wrigley Field in 1916 and have offered up more heartbreak than history within the ivy walls. But while Wrigley never has seen a Cubs player hold up a World Series trophy, that doesn't mean that baseball history doesn't reside there.
There are some undisputed facts about Ruth's ''called shot.''
After hitting a home run earlier in the game, Ruth came up in the fifth inning with hostile words coming from the Cubs' bench. There is footage of the Cubs riding Ruth to no end, especially after pitcher Charlie Root threw a called strike on the first pitch.
After the pitch, Ruth looked at the dugout and raised a finger, almost reminding the Cubs it was only one strike. Root then fell behind 2-1 before throwing a second called strike. The Cubs' dugout — and the stands — erupted.
Ruth waved two fingers at the Cubs' dugout, then started yelling at Root on the mound. It was at that point that he made a gesture. Was he pointing again at the Cubs' dugout? Was he pointing at Root? Or was he pointing to center field and calling his shot?
Root's next pitch was a curveball that Ruth hit what was estimated at the time to be about 440 feet to center field, near the flagpole. It since has been estimated as a 490-foot blast, considering where the flagpole was. But then the story really got interesting.
As Ruth rounded the bases, he mocked the Cubs' dugout twice in what was an eventual 7-5 Yankees victory. The Yankees put the Cubs to rest the next day, completing the four-game sweep. But the ''called shot'' would be Ruth's last World Series hit.
Only one article written on the day of the game mentioned that Ruth pointed to center field, and that was by a reporter named Joe Williams. But Williams never referred to it as Ruth calling his shot. Several days later, as more and more writers read Williams' story, they began writing that Ruth had called his shot. It had taken on a life of its own.
And like a magician who never reveals his tricks, Ruth fed the beast, never coming out and saying it did or didn't happen. All he said was, ''Well, it was in the newspapers.''
''Babe Ruth's 'called shot' ranks as high in baseball folklore as George Washington and the cherry tree ranks in our political folklore, and they have one thing in common: They probably didn't happen,'' Will said. ''Babe Ruth never said he did it. He may have on his deathbed said that he didn't do it, but he never claimed that he did it.
''During that game, the Cubs' dugout was all over him. Bench jockeys were a lot fiercer and meaner in those days, so there was a lot of back-and-forth. He could have been pointing to them. He was no doubt yelling at them because that was part of the ethic of the game then.
''The fact is that we don't know and we're never going to know for sure — unless Charlie Root comes back and tells us something different. That was the pitcher that was 60 feet, 6 inches away from him at the time.''
Root hasn't come back to tell his side of the story, but his daughter, Della, did. In a documentary done in 2009, Della Root said Ruth wasn't calling his shot.
''The day before [my father] died,'' Della said in the piece, ''I was holding his hand, and he said, 'You know, Della, I gave my life to baseball, and I will always be remembered for something that never happened.' ''
Oct. 1, 2012, will be the 80th anniversary of Ruth's ''called shot.'' The way the Cubs are going, it's safe to say it still will be the greatest moment in Wrigley Field's history of home-team failure.
Was Ruth's gesture actually the slugger calling his shot?
''It's a hell of a good story,'' Will said with a smile.
One that baseball is better off keeping alive and well.


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We're frequently asked for reading advice--which author to try if you've finished everything by your favorite writer, which book comes first in a series (and whether that matters)--but almost never queried for listening suggestions. Most readers have assessed their needs in this case, whether it's suspenseful fiction to prevent drowsiness or an assigned classic to facilitate multi-tasking. My requirement is even more practical.
Audiobooks usually correlate with navigation--road trips, commuting, fitness walking. If you are as directionally challenged as I, you are obliged to devote extra attention to the goal of reaching your destination on the first try. When walking a familiar route, I may safely choose any sort of audio literature, secure in the knowledge that muscle memory will deliver me back home after I become completely absorbed in the story. Driving is another matter.
While I prefer KUT or music for local driving, nothing but audiobooks will suffice for longer trips--excursions that demand awareness of imminent turns, distances between points, and the voice of the GPS (where have those been all my life?). So, for highway consumption I seek out thrillers that are only moderately suspenseful, nonfiction that is reasonably interesting but not enthralling, and--above all--humor that isn't too funny.
David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day (read by the author, no less) has been deleted from my "approved for driving" list for all time. Enjoying this fine production during a Kansas-to-Texas run, my husband and I were caught off guard by an especially riotous passage. We found ourselves literally doubled over and snorting with laughter in the midst of city traffic. Thank goodness I married a natural navigator; if I'd been alone I would surely have ended up in Arkansas.
I've been wanting to read this book for quite awhile; now, having read your comments, I'm going to have to add it to my reading lists. Because once I put something on a list, it gets done! (Yeah, right.)
I've never thought of laughing as a danger when driving. I suppose now they have to issue tickets for DWL (driving while laughing). On a serious note, before we recently went to Italy, my wife was learning Italian with an audiobook. It made me nervous when she was driving as I'm not sure where her focus was...