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Ingredients Fritters 1/3 cup skinned & finely diced Yukon Gold potato
1 tsp olive oil
2 Tbsp finely chopped onion
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
2 egg whites, beaten
1 cup skim milk
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh basil
1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
1 tsp finely chopped fresh thyme
1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh chives
1 tsp seafood seasoning, like low sodium Old Bay
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 tsp freshly ground white pepper
2 ears white corn, grilled, kernels cut from the cob
1 pound cooked lobster meat, diced Spicy Tomato Fresco 2 vine-ripened or heirloom tomatoes, seeded and diced into 1/4 inch cubes
1/2 small red onion, peeled and finely chopped
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, finely chopped
1 small clove garlic, peeled and finely chopped
1/4 cup red wine or balsamic vinegar
Freshly ground black pepper
Pinch of red pepper flakes
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Directions To make the fritters, bring a large saucepan of water to a boil and carefully add the potato. Cook just until al dente, then drain and set aside to cool completely. In a small skillet, heat the oil over medium heat and add the onion. Sauté until translucent, then set aside to cool completely. Combine all remaining ingredients except for the onion, corn, lobster and potatoes, in a large mixing bowl, whisking until smooth. Gently fold in the reserved potatoes, corn and lobster. Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Drop the batter into the pan by the tablespoonful, using enough batter in each drop to make 12 (2-inch fritters). Cook for 1-2 minutes per side, or until golden brown. Remove and drain on paper towels. Repeat until all batter is used up. To prepare the spicy tomato fresco, combine the tomatoes, onion, basil, and garlic in a large bowl, toss with the vinegar to coat, and season with pepper and red pepper flakes. To serve, place two fritters on each plate and top each fritter with a portion of the spicy tomato fresco. Garnish with chervil and diced red pepper. Serves 6. Nutrition Info Served Together: Cals 244, Total Fat 4g, Sat Fat 0.6g, Chol 55mg, Sodium 401mg, Fiber 3g, Carbs 32g, Pro 23g


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there was so many of us that has been having these and it makes me wonder how do you describe yours and does any certain thing bring them on? I also went to the dr. w/ mine and have not got results back yet. I too get upset about them which makes them worst. I had a complete physical and am worried about my results. I was also wondering if you are real close to menopause but take HRT should you have symptoms as if you took nothing? I have started a daily diary and am trying to pinpoint mine. Mine seem to come on if I have stomache probs or need to change my hormone patch. My heart seems to beat fast but also pound. I can burp and mine goes away then returns. I get them for a few days then they go away and don't return for a month or so. I have also went to my chriopractor and he will adjust me and I won't have them for a long time. He says if your out of line it can cause them. I would like to hear how all of yours are and what you feel like brings them on. |
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I have the same symptoms as Lynne...racing feeling, and either a fluttering in my chest or a pounding. I have a non-serious heart murmur, and it doesn't worry me a bit. I haven't pinpointed anything that brings them on...perhaps being tired, drinking too much coffee. They are infrequent. I'm 44 and am not on HRT. |
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He's 'The One': James Brown stars in new book
James Brown captivated audiences and made history with his iconic career. Music writer RJ Smith's
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James Brown stars in an early King Records promotional photo. King Records owner Syd Nathan hated
Please, Please, Please
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James Brown sings at Mississippi's Tougaloo College, the endpoint of James Meredith's 1966 "March Against Fear." Meredith started a one-man march across the state June 5, 1966, and was gunned down a day later. Civil rights activists picked up the march on Mississippi's Highway 51 and made their way to the campus of Tougaloo College near Jackson, where they were addressed by Martin Luther King Jr., and entertained by Brown.
The Cape Act as seen at the Alabama State College Arena in Montgomery, circa 1965, and elsewhere on the road. For more than 50 years, the climactic concert moment would come when the emotionally spent King of Soul would collapse while singing
Please, Please, Please
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James Brown and third wife, Adrienne Rodriguez, had a tumultuous 12-year marriage that ended in 1996 when she died at age 47 two days after cosmetic surgery. They met in 1982 on the set of the syndicated TV show
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Diagnostic Methods for Feline Coronavirus: A Review
Sharif, Saeed and Arshad, Siti Suri and Bejo, Mohd Hair and Omar, Abdul Rahman and Alauddin, Zeenathul Nazariah and Khazal Saleh, Amer Alazawy (2010) Diagnostic Methods for Feline Coronavirus: A Review. Veterinary Medicine International, 2010 . pp. 1-7. ISSN 2042-0048
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Feline coronaviruses (FCoVs) are found throughout the world. Infection with FCoV can result in a diverse range of signs from clinically inapparent infections to a highly fatal disease called feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). FIP is one of the most serious viral diseases of cats. While there is neither an effective vaccine, nor a curative treatment for FIP, a diagnostic protocol for FCoV would greatly assist in the management and control of the virus. Clinical findings in FIP are non-specific and not helpful in making a differential diagnosis. Haematological and biochemical abnormalities in FIP cases are also non-specific. The currently available serological tests have low specificity and sensitivity for detection of active infection and cross-react with FCoV strains of low pathogenicity, the feline enteric coronaviruses (FECV). Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been used to detect FCoV and is rapid and sensitive, but results must be interpreted in the context of clinical findings. At present, a definitive diagnosis of FIP can be established only by histopathological examination of biopsies. This paper describes and compares diagnostic methods for FCoVs and includes a brief account of the virus biology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis.
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1 A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favor rather than silver and gold. | 1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. |
2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all. | 2 Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all. |
3 A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. | 3 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. |
4 By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honor, and life. | 4 Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life. |
5 Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. | 5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them. |
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. | 6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. |
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender. | 7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. | 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. |
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. | 9 A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor. |
10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall end; yes, strife and reproach shall cease. | 10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended. |
11 He that loveth pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips the king [shall be] his friend. | 11 He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend. |
12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. | 12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful. |
13 The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. | 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!" or, "I will be murdered in the streets!" |
14 The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein. | 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it. |
15 Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. | 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him. |
16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches], [and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want. | 16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty. |
17 Bow down thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge. | 17 Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, |
18 For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. | 18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. |
19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. | 19 So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you. |
20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, | 20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge, |
21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send to thee? | 21 teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you? |
22 Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: | 22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, |
23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. | 23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them. |
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: | 24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, |
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. | 25 or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared. |
26 Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts. | 26 Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; |
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? | 27 if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you. |
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. | 28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers. |
29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men]. | 29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men. |
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If Dreams Were Real: Convergence of Distro and Kernel Versions
Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.
In a lengthy 2008 blog (as we reported), Mark Shuttleworth outlined a plan for the most commonly used Linux distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE) to agree to a two-to-three-year major release cycle. The sting: if they were to agree to a common version numbering, it would immensely simply the software and especially the driver development process. According to Shuttleworth, it would lead to a definite positive effect for all distros.
While Shuttleworth considers the biannual releases for LTS versions, the same regularity could be introduced for the Debian releases. The Enterprise distros of Red Hat and Novell could also follow the same pattern. Shuttleworth's suggestions were batted about quite heavily over the last summer among the Debian team, with the outcome that no common timetable with Ubuntu would be pursued: Debian will continue to be ready when it's ready.
However, after the Debian team announced the version numbers for the main components of their upcoming 6.0 "Squeeze" release, Shuttleworth's plan seemed to get some recognition after all. In his March 15 blog, he announced that Debian 6.0 and Ubuntu 10.04 were, in fact, using identical versions of the kernel, Python and Perl, GCC and OpenOffice. Even Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 are likely to run kernel version 2.6.32, so that kernel developers are more willing to nurture it.
Even if this unique convergence were no more than coincidental, there's a great chance that it might have such a positive effect on individual distros to become a stimulus for common release cycles in the future. By current timetables, the chances for Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE Linux Enterprise are good in that Ubuntu is releasing semiannually and Red Hat and Novell are releasing on an eight-month cycle. The lowest common denominator therefore being 24 months gives credibility to Shuttleworth's "The Art of Release" theory.
I agree with the first poster, screw ubumtu and all their baby crying garbage. Thats all we need is debian pushing out half baked products like ubuntu, then all of our distros will be as broke and half assed as bumtu. Debian has better things to do, like create a real linux distro. -
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I prefer rolling release like ArchLinux. Debian should continue to follow thier own agenda and not be pushed around by the parasitic Ubuntu distro controlled by Canonical. -
lowest common demoninator or in fact least common multiple?
The LCM of 8 and 6 is indeed 24. But "lowest common denominator" does not apply here.
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so the ocean murdered a child in coldblood in sandy hook?
we need to put an end to this.grab all ur guns and weapons,we are marching to the ocean and we are ordered to shoot the ocean at first site.no more killing for mr. cereal killer ocean
I don't care what they say tomorrow.i don't surf Belmar cuz I cant handle 23 footers but il be local and il take a ticket to surf 5-8ft in the pm.they can be there with their loudspeakers hooting at me and il casually paddle as far down the coast I have to to invade them.its like cops trying to tell u don't surf the inlet,il paddle over to jenks,haha murdafurkas come and get me
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The temperature in February is a little higher than in January. The highest temperature increases to 9 °C (48.2 °F) and the lowest hits 3 °C (37.4 °F). It is still cold outside. Snow seldom falls this month, but a cloudy and drizzly climate is common. Remember to bring an umbrella with you when going outdoors, and wear a coat and thick trouser.
People often celebrate the New Year in early February. Many interesting activities are held during the Spring Festival. Moreover, many tourists plan to go to Changsha to experience the Chinese New Year with their families.
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I had little to no desire to cook tonight, well let me rephrase that… I had little to no desire to think overly complicated thoughts tonight, and that completely shot trying to make an entree out of Post Cereal. Any time my mind had a chance to wander today, which wasn't too often, was spent trying to suss out a way to use Shredded Wheat as breading on chicken. Every which way I thought of resulted in chicken shrouded by a layer of tiny wheat splinters. Not appetizing.
Instead of torturing myself with cereal, I spent some time searching the Contest Cook website in search of a category that would yield a more palatable meal. I passed by the Feasting on Art Contest once or twice immediately discounting the entry upon the assumption that this would require elegantly artistic plating, and that was just not in the cards tonight. When I went back and read the description, however, I was sold.
Feasting on Art is a really unique blog that takes paintings of art and turns them in to wonderful recipes. As you might imagine, and I invite you to check out, there are beautiful pictures of wonderful sounding food. For the blog's second birthday the author invited readers to interpret a painting and submit their recipes.
The painting in question is Floris Gerritsz van Schooten , A Still Life of Cheese.
The only required ingredient was cheese, however you could use the bread and currants seen in the picture if you wished. When I think bread and cheese I think Grilled Cheese. How could you not!?!
For my grilled cheese I made sure to use a garlic Italian "artisan" bread.
In order to get the beautiful, brown crust there was butter, a lot of butter.
I piled the bread high with mozzerella, havarti, and an extra sharp white cheddar to make sure there was an excellent ooze factor.
I have always loved grilled cheese, but I am often entirely too impatient to actually make it, as I crank the heat way up high and end up with burned bread/butter and still firm cheese. Tonight, I took my time and kept the heat right above medium and slow cooked the sandwhiches until the cheese began to drip down the sides and the bread was crunchy perfection.
I have heard that is required by law to have tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches, and wanting to remain a law abiding citizen I happily obliged. Can I call it making tomato soup if I combine two different kinds? I didn't think so…
The grilled cheeses really hit the spot and were perfect for this lazy evening. Mozzarella really shouldn't be over looked when going for a dramatic, fancified grilled cheese. Every bite results in a dramatic string of cheese falling from your mouth back to the plate, letting everyone around you know that you are eating a GREAT sandwich.
If one wanted to be very literal interpreting the painting, might I recommend a currant jelly with a goat cheese, brie and havarti sandwich. I seriously contemplated the idea, but the ingredients required would have resulted in a $20 sandwich, so yeah…no.
I hope you enjoy, and don't be afraid to mix any cheeses you have in your fridge to create your own "artisan" grilled cheese sandwich.
Artisan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
8 slices of italian garlic bread (for four sandwiches)
8 oz mozzerella
8 oz havarti
8 oz extra sharp white cheddar
1/6 cup of butter
Cut four 1/2 inch thick slices of bread. Cut cheese into thin slices. Layer cheese in an alternating pattern on the bread.
On medium heat half of the butter in a skillet. Place sandwich hardest cheese side down and cook for 5 minutes.
Place reserved butter on top of uncooked bread before flipping the sandwich. Flip sandwich.
Cook for 4 minutes, or until both sides are golden brown and crunchy and the cheese is melty.


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In Religious Studies, the category 'religion' corresponds to human activities influencing and being influenced by other human beliefs and practices.
As with other subject areas of the School, research in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh is non-confessional.
In keeping with the ethos of the School of Divinity, students from various religious traditions or no tradition are welcome.
Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh has a strong and increasing emphasis on research. We offer supervised research degrees at Masters and PhD levels.
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There is also an emphasis on issues of theory and method in the study of religion, arising from Phenomenology (and post-Phenomenology), Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies.
Colleagues in other academic units in the College for the Humanities and Social Sciences, such Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle-Eastern Studies, further broaden the scope of opportunities for postgraduate study, especially as each research student has two supervisors.
Religious Studies also has an active research seminar for postgraduates and staff.
The MSc by Research requires 12 months of full-time or 24 months part-time study.
It is particularly suitable for those with appropriate academic background in the study of religion, who wish to focus their interests and deepen their knowledge of a particular topic.
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Besan Dhokla
Besan (Gram flour) - 1 cup
Sooji (Semolina) – 1.5 tbsp
Sugar – 3 tsp
Salt – 1 tsp
Ginger-green chillies paste – 1 tbsp
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder (haldi) – 1/3 tsp
Eno – 1- 1.5 tbsp
Cooking oil
For tempering:
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Heeng (Asfoetida) – 3-4 pinches
Split green chilies – 3-4
Coconut powder – 1 tbsp
- Seive besan. Combine besan, salt ,sugar, haldi, lemon juice and ginger-green chillies paste in a bowl and mix well.
- Add water to make a smooth and homogenous paste (consistency should be little thinner than idli batter).
- Grease a plate or a bowl in which you want to set dhokla.
- Add eno and very little water to the dhokla batter.
- Mix the batter quickly and pour it in the greased bowl or plate. The moment we add eno the batter becomes fluffy, creamy and double in amount.
- Place the bowl/plate in microwave and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds.
- Fry split green chillies and add heeng.
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Nate the greatest (2261802) writes "Here in the US it is legal to resell your MP3s on Redigi, and thanks to the UsedSoft decision you can resell downloaded software in Europe. But if you want to resell your ebooks you had better act fast. Tom Kabinet launched last week in the Netherlands to offer a marketplace for used ebooks, and it is already getting legal threats. The Dutch Trade Publishers Association (GAU) says that the site is committing piracy and if it doesn't shut down the GAU plans to take it to court. Citing a ruling from a German court, secretary general of the GAU Martijn David said that the question of legality had already been settled. Would anyone care to place a bet on whether the site is still in operation in 6 months?"
An anonymous reader writes with this story about a machine-learning project out of the UK's University of Sheffield: Using simple drones the researchers have created automatic-control software that enables the "flying robot" to learn about its surroundings using a camera and an array of sensors. The robot starts with no information about its environment and the objects within it. But by overlaying different frames from the camera and selecting key reference points within the scene, it builds up a 3D map of the world around it. Other sensors pick up barometric and ultrasonic data, which give the robot additional clues about its environment. All this information is fed into autopilot software to allow the robot to navigate safely, but also to learn about the objects nearby and navigate to specific items.
First time accepted submitter Peter Hudson (3717535) writes Cory Doctorow writes on boingboing.net "BitLit works with publishers to get you free or discounted access to digital copies of books you own in print: you use the free app for Android and iOS to take a picture of the book's copyright page with your name printed in ink, and the publisher unlocks a free or discounted ebook version. None of the Big Five publishers participate as yet, but indies like O'Reilly, Berrett-Koehler, Red Wheel Weiser, Other Press, Greystone, Coach House, Triumph, Angry Robot, Chicago Review, Dundurn, and PM Press (publishers of my book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow) are all in."
An anonymous reader writes I'll be returning to North America for July for the first time in a few years, and I'm curious how the phone carrier market compares with the rest of the world. My last time in the U.S., I had to pick up a disposable phone with all kinds of unnecessary environmental waste (charger, packaging, etc.), and *still* had to register it with another domestic (!) phone number and credit card. I don't think I could get a SIM card there without a contract. Anywhere else I travel, picking up a new SIM card with pre-loaded credit is trivially easy. In my last trip to the UK, I just put GBP 10 into a vending machine at the airport and picked up a loaded SIM card for my phone which aldready has my contacts and settings. No ID, no name, no hassle. What are the best options for me in North America (U.S. *and* Canada)?
An anonymous reader writes It didn't take long for Aereo to deal with the realities of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. As of 11:30am EDT today Aereo is suspending operations while they go back to U.S. District Court. In order to keep good will with customers during this time, they are refunding the last month's payment for service. curtwoodward (2147628) writes to point out that the decision which has shut down Aereo for now doesn't mean doom for other cloud services: Don't listen to the trolls---the Supremes were very clear that their ruling only applied to Aereo's livestream and things that look just like it. iCloud, Dropbox and friends are fine.
fluxgate (2851685) writes "A notice from the FAA announced earlier this week just turned a bunch of kids' toys into drones. In the past, the FAA had made the distinction between model aircraft (allowed) and drones (prohibited without special permission) according to whether they were used for recreation (okay) or commercial purposes (verboten). Now they have further narrowed the definition of model aircraft: If you fly it through video goggles, it no longer qualifies. This move eliminates First Person View (FPV) radio control flying. I'm an editor at IEEE Spectrum with a special interest and blogged about this disturbing development as soon as I heard the news."
theodp (442580) writes In an interview with The Washington Post's Lyndsey Layton that accompanied her report on How Bill Gates Pulled Off the Swift Common Core Revolution (the Gates Foundation doled out $233 million in grants to git-r-done), Gates denied that he has too much influence in K-12 education. Despite Gates' best efforts, however, there's been more and more pushback recently from both teachers and politicians on the standards, GeekWire's Taylor Soper reports, including a protest Friday by the Badass Teacher Association, who say Gates is ruining education. "We want to get corporations out of teaching," explained one protester. If that's the case, the "Badasses" probably won't be too pleased to see how the K-12 CS education revolution is shaping up, fueled by a deep-pocketed alliance of Gates, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and others. Google alone has already committed $90 million to influence CS education. And well-connected Code.org, which has struck partnerships with school districts reaching over 2M U.S. students and is advising NSF-funded research related to the nation's CS 10K Project, will be conducting required professional development sessions for K-12 CS teachers out of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon offices this summer in Chicago, New York City, Boston, and Seattle. So, could K-12 CS Education ("Common Code"?) become the next Common Core?
WIth an interesting followup to the recent news that Germany's power production by at least some measures was briefly dominated by solar production, AmiMoJo (196126) writes Germany is headed for its biggest electricity glut since 2011 as new coal-fired plants start and generation of wind and solar energy increases, weighing on power prices that have already dropped for three years. From December capacity will be at 117% of peak demand. The benchmark German electricity contract has slumped 36% since the end of 2010. "The new plants will run at current prices, but they won't cover their costs" said Ricardo Klimaschka, a power trader at Energieunion GmbH. Lower prices "leave a trail of blood in our balance sheet" according to Bernhard Guenther, CFO at RWE, Germany's biggest power producer. Wind and solar's share of installed German power capacity will rise to 42% by next year from 30% in 2010. The share of hard coal and lignite plant capacity will drop to 28% from 32%.
An anonymous reader writes As the support for the Microsoft (MS) Windows XP service is terminated this year, the government will try to invigorate open source software in order to solve the problem of dependency on certain software. By 2020 when the support of the Windows 7 service is terminated, it is planning to switch to open OS and minimize damages. Industry insiders pointed out that the standard e-document format must be established and shared as an open source before open source software is invigorated. A similar suggestion that Korea might embrace more open source (but couched more cautiously, with more "should" and "may") is reported on the news page of the EU's program on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, based on a workshop presentation earlier this month by Korea's Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning. (And at a smaller but still huge scale, the capitol city of Seoul appears to be going in for open source software in a big way, too.)
New submitter outofluck70 (1734164) writes Got an email today from Microsoft, text is below. [Note: text here edited for formatting and brevity; see the full text at seclists.org.] They are no longer going to send out emails regarding patches, you have to use RSS or keep visiting their security sites. They blame "governmental policies" as the reason. What could the real reason be? Anybody in the know? From the email: "Notice to IT professionals: As of July 1, 2014, due to changing governmental policies concerning the issuance of automated electronic messaging, Microsoft is suspending the use of email notifications that announce the following: Security bulletin advance notifications; Security bulletin summaries; New security advisories and bulletins; Major and minor revisions to security advisories and bulletins. In lieu of email notifications, you can subscribe to one or more of the RSS feeds described on the Security TechCenter website." WindowsIT Pro blames Canada's new anti-spam law.
jones_supa (887896) writes Google's YouTube announced that it's adding two new features that will especially benefit people who enjoy watching gameplays and those who stream games live. Most excitingly, the site is rolling out 60 frames per second video playback. The company has a handful of videos from Battlefield Hardline and Titanfall (embedded in the article) that show what 60fps playback at high definition on YouTube looks like. As the another new feature, YouTube is also offering direct funding support for content creators — name-checking sites like Kickstarter and Patreon — and is allowing fans to 'contribute money to support your channel at any time, for any reason.' Adding the icing on the cake, the website has also a number of other random little features planned, including viewer-contributed subtitles, a library of sound effects and new interactive info cards.
New submitter trogdoro (3716731) writes with an excerpt from Linux Cookbook author Carla Schroder's enthusiastic introduction to what looks like a tempting tool, combining elements of GUI and text-mode interfaces: Command-line lovers, allow me to introduce you to Xiki, the incredibly interactive, flexible, and revolutionary command shell. I do not use the word "revolutionary" lightly. The command shell has not advanced all that much since the ancient days of Unix. Xiki is a giant leap forward. If you're looking for the Next Big Thing in FOSS, Xiki is it. It's not the first tool meant to combine text and graphic interface, but from the screencast demo, Xiki looks like it gets a lot of things right.
Trailrunner7 writes The United States federal government issued more than 19,000 National Security Letters – perhaps its most powerful tool for domestic intelligence collection – in 2013, and those NSLs contained more than 38,000 individual requests for information. The new data was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday as part of its effort to comply with a directive from President Obama to declassify and release as much information as possible about a variety of tools that the government uses to collect intelligence. The directive came in the immediate aftermath of the first revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the agency's capabilities, methods and use of legal authorities.
The use of NSLs is far from new, dating back several decades. But their use was expanded greatly after 9/11 and NSLs are different from other tools in a number of ways, perhaps most importantly in the fact that recipients typically are prohibited from even disclosing the fact that they received an NSL. Successfully fighting an NSL is a rare thing, and privacy advocates have been after the government for years to release data on their use of the letters and the number of NSLs issued. Now, the ODNI is putting some of that information into the public record."
redletterdave writes: According to a blog post from Gregg Pollack, CEO of the Code School, Google is paying for three free months for any women and minorities interested in tech to expand their skills. The offer is part of Google's $50 million "Made With Code" initiative, which aims to help close the gender gap in tech. While Google is also offering the same vouchers to the women in attendance at its annual I/O developers conference this week, the search giant has released an online application that's available to women everywhere. Google says its available vouchers for women number in the "thousands."
dcblogs writes: In a speech Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) declared immigration reform dead. He chastised and baited Republicans in Congress for blocking reform, and declared that winning the White House without the support of a growing Hispanic population will become mathematically impossible. "The Republican Presidential nominee, whoever he or she may be, will enter the race with an electoral college deficit they cannot make up," said Gutierrez. If he's right, and comprehensive immigration reform is indeed dead, then so too is the tech industry's effort to raise the cap on H-1B visas. Immigration reform advocates have successfully blocked any effort to take up the immigration issue in piecemeal fashion, lest business support for comprehensive reform peel away. Next year may create an entirely new set of problems for tech. If the Republicans take control of the Senate, the tech industry will face this obstacle: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee could become its next chairman. He has been a consistent critic of the H-1B program through the years. "The H-1B program is so popular that it's now replacing the U.S. labor force," said Grassley, at one point.
Dega704 sends this news from Wired:
Plenty of nightmare surveillance theories surround the million-square-foot NSA facility opened last year in Bluffdale, Utah. Any locals driving by the massive complex Friday morning saw something that may inspire new ones: A massive blimp hovering over the center, with the letters NSA printed on its side.
Activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace launched the 135-foot thermal airship early Friday morning to protest the agency's mass surveillance programs and to announce the launch of Stand Against Spying, a website that rates members of Congress on their support or opposition to NSA reform. The full message on the blimp reads 'NSA: Illegal Spying Below' along with an arrow pointing downward and the Stand Against Spying URL."
New submitter thermowax sends a report on how Massachusetts SWAT teams are dodging open records requests by claiming to be corporations. From the article: As it turns out, a number of SWAT teams in the Bay State are operated by what are called law enforcement councils, or LECs. These LECs are funded by several police agencies in a given geographic area and overseen by an executive board, which is usually made up of police chiefs from member police departments. ... Some of these LECs have also apparently incorporated as 501(c)(3) organizations. And it's here that we run into problems. According to the ACLU, the LECs are claiming that the 501(c)(3) status means that they're private corporations, not government agencies. And therefore, they say they're immune from open records requests. Let's be clear. These agencies oversee police activities. They employ cops who carry guns, wear badges, collect paychecks provided by taxpayers and have the power to detain, arrest, injure and kill. They operate SWAT teams, which conduct raids on private residences. And yet they say that because they've incorporated, they're immune to Massachusetts open records laws. The state's residents aren't permitted to know how often the SWAT teams are used, what they're used for, what sort of training they get or who they're primarily used against.
vinces99 writes Car and truck exhaust fumes that foul the air for humans also cause problems for pollinators. In new research on how pollinators find flowers when background odors are strong, University of Washington and University of Arizona researchers found that both natural plant odors and human sources of pollution can conceal the scent of sought-after flowers. When the calories from one feeding of a flower gets you only 15 minutes of flight, as is the case with the tobacco hornworn moth studied, being misled costs a pollinator energy and time. "Local vegetation can mask the scent of flowers because the background scents activate the same moth olfactory channels as floral scents," according to Jeffrey Riffell, UW assistant professor of biology. "Plus the chemicals in these scents are similar to those emitted from exhaust engines and we found that pollutant concentrations equivalent to urban environments can decrease the ability of pollinators to find flowers."
mpicpp writes with good news for every New Yorker who needs 44oz of soft drink to be refreshed. New York's Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that New York City's ban on large sugary drinks, which was previously blocked by lower courts, is illegal. "We hold that the New York City Board of Health, in adopting the 'Sugary Drinks Portion Cap Rule,' exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority," the ruling said. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had pushed for the ban on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces as a way to fight obesity and other health problems.
coondoggie (973519) writes "While Video has become ubiquitous thanks mostly to smartphones it doesn't mean you want to actually watch all of it. Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists say they have invented a video highlighting technique called LiveLight that can automatically pick out action in videos shot by smartphones, GoPro cameras, or Google Glass users."
An anonymous reader writes with news that, not long after UK ISPs agreed to send piracy notices (Voluntary Copyright Alerts Program), thoughts have already turned toward adding criminal penalties. From the article: Prime Minister David Cameron's IP advisor believes that the carrot needs to be backed up by a stick. In a report published yesterday largely detailing the "Follow the Money" approach to dealing with pirate sites, Mike Weatherley MP says now is the time to think about VCAP's potential failure. "The Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme (VCAP) is welcomed and will be a good step forward once it is hopefully in operation in 2015, although it is primarily an education tool," Weatherley says. ... "Warnings and fines are obvious first steps, with Internet access blocking and custodial sentencing for persistent and damaging infringers not to be ruled out in my opinion." These suggestions aren't new, but this is the second time in a matter of months that the Prime Minister's closest advisor on IP matters has spoken publicly about the possibility of putting persistent file-sharers in jail.
mpicpp writes in with news about a new dating opportunity for Mensa members. It takes a special person to join Mensa. For one, the elite society only takes individuals with IQ scores in the 98th percentile, meaning just 1 in 50 Americans is eligible. This exclusivity — some might say snobbery — is part of Mensa's lore. Early Mensans in Britain walked around with yellow buttons, organizational publications once referred to non-Mensa members as "Densans," and last year, a top Mensa member and tester called anyone with an IQ of 60 a "carrot." In short, you don't always join Mensa because you think you're smart. You join to be set apart from most people, who are, as one member put it: "mundane." But a new partnership between American Mensa and online dating giant Match.com offers a new, enticing reason to join the society of geniuses: true love. Beginning this week, members of the brainiac group can connect through a separate, exclusive dating service called Mensa Match. In addition, Match.com members can add a special Mensa badge to their profiles, signaling a specific interest in connecting with a single person with a confirmed genius-level IQ score.
Jim_Austin writes A recent study by economist Douglas Webber calculates the lifetime earnings premium of college degrees in various broad areas, accounting for selection bias--that is, for the fact that people who already are likely to do well are also more likely to go to college. These premiums are not small. Science Careers got exclusive access to major-specific data, and published an article that tells how much more you can expect to earn because you got that college degree--for engineering, physics, computer science, chemistry, and biology majors.
Nate the greatest writes It looks like the recent rumors about B&N splitting up were true. Along with could-have-been-worse financial news, Barnes & Noble just announced that it's going to spin off its two-year-old ebook subsidiary into a new publicly traded company. The move won't be finalized until 2015, but when it happens the new company is expected to have both existing parts of Nook Media, including the less than successful ebook division and B&N College, which is still managing to turn a profit.
assertation (1255714) writes with this interesting tidbit from Reuters about the state of solar power in Germany: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022.
New submitter Last_Available_Usern (756093) writes that the Aereo saga is likely over. "The U.S. Supreme Court today dealt a potentially fatal blow to Aereo, an Internet service that allows customers to watch broadcast TV programs on mobile devices by renting a small DVR and antennas (in supported cities) to record and then retransmit local programming on-demand over the internet." Ruling (PDF). Aereo was found to be publicly transmitting, according to SCOTUSBlog "The essence of the Aereo ruling is that Aereo is equivalent to a cable company, not merely an equipment provider."
New submitter MdotCpDeltaT writes: Robert Morris University will be the first school in the country to offer athletic scholarships to students who play the video game League of Legends. It's a move that seems to stretch the definition of sports and athletes. Associate athletic director Kurt Melcher said, "It's a team sport. There's strategy involved. You have to know your role in the game. Obviously it's not cardiovascular in any way, but it's mental. There are elements that go into it that are just like any other sport."The article says, "Though the gaming scholarships are primarily designed to attract what the school calls an 'underserved male' population, they are open to all, and Melcher said some women have inquired about the program. Even if the awards end up going mostly to males, he added, it should not upset the school's scholarship gender balance, which already has strong participation in women's sports."
New submitter Andreas Kolbe writes: "Businessman, philanthropist and musician Yank Barry and the Global Village Champions Foundation are suing four Wikipedia editors for defamation, claiming they have maliciously conspired to keep Barry's Wikipedia biography unduly negative. The Daily Dot article includes a copy of the legal brief and quotes Barry as saying, "My page was so ridiculously false and made me sound like a terrible person and people believed it causing deals to fall through. I finally had enough."
New submitter dmitrygr sends this news from Reuters: The U.S. government's no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. ... "The court concludes international travel is not a mere convenience or luxury in this modern world. Indeed, for many international travel is a necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society," [U.S. District Judge Anna Brown] wrote in her 65-page ruling (PDF). "Accordingly, on this record the court concludes plaintiff's inclusion on the no-fly list constitutes a significant deprivation of their liberty interests in international travel," Brown said.
hackingbear writes: Burdened with Alabama's highest unemployment rate, long abandoned by textile mills and furniture plants, Wilcox County, Alabama, desperately needs jobs. And the jobs are coming from China. Henan's Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant here last month, employing 300 locals. Chinese companies invested a record $14 billion in the United States last year, according to the Rhodium Group research firm. Collectively, they employ more than 70,000 Americans, up from virtually none a decade ago. Powerful forces — narrowing wage gaps (Chinese wages have been doubling every few years), tumbling U.S. energy prices, the rising Yuan — up 30% over the decade — are pulling Chinese companies across the Pacific. Perhaps very soon, Chinese workers will start protesting their jobs being outsourced to the cheap labor in the U.S."
A couple months ago, we discussed a new phone app being used in San Francisco to auction off parking spaces to the highest bidder. The city has now ordered the app makers to cease and desist, and threatened motorists with a $300 fine for each transaction. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said, Technology has given rise to many laudable innovations in how we live and work -- and Monkey Parking is not one of them. It's illegal, it puts drivers on the hook for $300 fines, and it creates a predatory private market for public parking spaces that San Franciscans will not tolerate. Worst of all, it encourages drivers to use their mobile devices unsafely — to engage in online bidding wars while driving. People are free to rent out their own private driveways and garage spaces should they choose to do so. But we will not abide businesses that hold hostage on-street public parking spots for their own private profit.
mpicpp (3454017) points out this story illustrating the problem of betting on the differential between the price of deliverable bitcoin-mining hardware and the price of bitcoin itself: Yet another Bitcoin miner manufacturer, CoinTerra, now faces legal action for not fulfilling an order when it originally promised to. CoinTerra is the third Bitcoin-related startup to face litigation for breach of contract and/or fraud in recent months. The CoinTerra lawsuit was filed in late April 2014 by an Oakland, California-based man seeking to be the lead plaintiff in a proposed class-action lawsuit. Lautaro Cline, the suit alleges, purchased a TerraMiner IV in October 2013 for delivery by January 2014. The company promised, he claims, that this miner would operate at two terahashes per second and would consume 1,200 watts of power. It did neither. However, Cline's suit also claims that CoinTerra did not deliver the miner until February 2014, and it "operated well below the speed advertised and consumed significantly more power than CoinTerra represented, causing Plaintiff to suffer significant lost profits and opportunities."
An anonymous reader writes The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit last week reversed a tax evasion conviction against an accountant because the government had used data from his computers that were seized under a warrant targeting different suspects. The Fourth Amendment, the court pointed out, "prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another." Law enforcement originally made copies of his hard drives and during off-site processing, separated his personal files from data related to the original warrant. However, 1.5 years later, the government sifted through his personal files and used what it found to build a case against him. The appeals court held that "[i]f the Government could seize and retain non-responsive electronic records indefinitely, so it could search them whenever it later developed probable cause, every warrant to search for particular electronic data would become, in essence, a general warrant," which the Fourth Amendment protects against. The EFF hopes that the outcome of this appeal will have implications for the NSA's dragnet surveillance practice.
mpicpp (3454017) writes with word that Mozilla released a full development environment integrated into Firefox (available now in nightly builds). From the announcement: Developers tell us that they are not sure how to start app development on the Web, with so many different tools and templates that they need to download from a variety of different sources. We're solving that problem with WebIDE, built directly into Firefox. Instead of starting from zero we provide you with a functioning blueprint app with the click of a button. You then have all the tools you need to start creating your own app based on a solid foundation. WebIDE helps you create, edit, and test a new Web application right from your browser. It lets you install and test apps on Firefox OS devices and simulators and integrates the Firefox Developer Tools for seamless debugging and inspection across those devices. This is a first step towards debugging across various platforms and devices over WiFi using open remote debugging APIs. The default editor is based on CodeMirror, but the protocol for interacting with the IDE is open and support for other editors (Emacs anyone?) should appear soon.
Zothecula (1870348) writes Thanks to its extensive composting and recycling facilities, the city of Edmonton, Canada is already diverting approximately 60 percent of its municipal waste from the landfill. That figure is expected to rise to 90 percent, however, once the city's new Waste-to-Biofuels and Chemicals Facility starts converting garbage (that can't be composted or recycled) into methanol and ethanol. It's the world's first such plant to operate on an industrial scale, and Gizmag recently got a guided tour of the place.
Freshly Exhumed (105597) writes with news that NOAA's latest global climate analysis is showing things are getting hotter. From the article: Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday said May's average temperature on Earth of 15.54 C beat the old record set four years ago. In April, the globe tied the 2010 record for that month. Records go back to 1880. Experts say there's a good chance global heat records will keep falling, especially next year because an El Nino weather event is brewing on top of man-made global warming. An El Nino is a warming of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that alters climate worldwide and usually spikes global temperatures.
An anonymous reader writes in with news that the memo presenting a case for killing Anwar al-Awlaki has been released thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday released a secret 2010 Justice Department memo justifying the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S citizen killed in a drone strike in 2011. The court released the document as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union to make the document public. Then-acting Assistant Attorney General David Barron, in the partially redacted 41-page memo, outlines the justification of the drone strike in Yemen to take out al-Awlaki, an alleged operational leader of al Qaeda.
mpicpp writes with news about a new Microsoft trade-in program to encourage sales of the new Surface Pro 3. Microsoft is offering a limited time Surface Pro 3 promotion via which users can get up to $650 in store credit for trading in certain Apple MacBook Air models. The new promotion, running June 20 to July 31, 2014 -- "or while supplies last" -- requires users to bring MacBook Airs into select Microsoft retail stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. (The trade-in isn't valid online.)...To get the maximum ($650) value, users have to apply the store credit toward the purchase of a Surface Pro 3, the most recent model of the company's Intel-based Surface tablets.
UnknowingFool writes In Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled against the EPA on some limits to greenhouse gases but also upheld other limits. In a 5-4 partial decision, the high court ruled that EPA overstepped their authority in requiring permits only for greenhouse gases for new and modified facilities using the Clean Air act. Such regulatory action can only be granted by Congress. But in the same case on a 7-2 decision, the court ruled that the EPA can enforce greenhouse gas limits on facilities that already require permits for other air pollutants. This leaves intact most of the new regulations proposed by the Obama administration earlier this month as many coal plants produce other air pollutants that can be regulated by the EPA.
schwit1 writes One of the great "paradigms" of the New Normal tech bubble that supposedly differentiated it from dot com bubble 1.0 was that this time it was different, at least when it came to advertising revenues. The mantra went that unlike traditional web-based banner advertising which has been in secular decline over the past decade, social media ad spending — which the bulk of new tech company stalwarts swear is the source of virtually unlimited upside growth — was far more engaging, and generated far greater returns and better results for those spending billions in ad bucks on the new "social-networked" generation. Sadly, this time was not different after all, and this "paradigm" has also turned out to be one big pipe dream. According to the WSJ, citing Gallup, "62% of the more than 18,000 U.S. consumers it polled said social media had no influence on their buying decisions. Another 30% said it had some influence. U.S. companies spent $5.1 billion on social-media advertising in 2013, but Gallup says "consumers are highly adept at tuning out brand-related Facebook and Twitter content."
An anonymous reader writes Oracle is buying hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, in a deal that will be its largest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. "Oracle said the acquisition will extend its offerings by combining Micros' industry-specific applications with its business applications, technologies and cloud portfolio. Oracle expects the deal to immediately add to its adjusted earnings. Its stock climbed 18 cents to $41 before the market opened. Micros' board unanimously approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of the year."
An anonymous reader writes "A report from the European Space Agency shows the first collection of high-resolution results from the agency's three-satellite Swarm. The report illustrates the latest changes in the Earth's magnetic field and shows the movement of the magnetic North Pole. "Launched in November 2013, ESA's Swarm mission consists of three 9-meter satellites orbiting the planet at altitudes of 300-530 km (186-330 miles). Their goal is to monitor Earth's dynamic magnetic field, observing its changes over a period of four years. The data gathered by the Swarm satellites will help scientists better understand how our magnetic field works, how it's influenced by solar activity, and why large parts of it are found to be weakening.""
sfcrazy writes The Linux Mint team has announced the release of Linux Mint 17 KDE codenamed Qiana. It's based on KDE Software Compilation 4.13.0. There are notable improvements in Mint Display Manager (MDM). The multi-monitor display has improved and it allows a user to "configure which of the monitors should be used as the primary monitory by MDM." Users can also define a background color or a background picture no matter what greeter they are using.