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Ghost Town LyricsArtist: Cat StevensAlbum: Buddha and the Chocolate Box Everybody's waiting for us Down at the ghost town Bill Bailey said he'd be around If Mrs. G. Robinson would just put That bad Havana down Lovely Queen Anne Boleyn Learning new tricks from the Great Houdini. Wo Wo Now thats the way shes gonna make it Wo Wo Come on Come on lets go down Everybodys waiting for us Down at the boom town O. Redding & Washington Chico & Harpo & Karl are In the Kitchen with mum Buster Keaton & King Tut Are waiting for Disney to wake up Wo Wo Now thats the way No that aint the way hes gonna make it
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No, this case and your article should be called "Orthodox Jews Not Welcome" or "Payback Time Against Orthodox Jews."
Rabbi Chaim Casper
Young Israel of Bal Harbour
Surprise! The courts have already spoken: Kudos to New Times on yet another sensationalistic and factually erroneous piece of, um, journalism. Not to mention the cover art, which was tasteless even by the publication's usual standards. Although Gaspar González did do an accurate job of depicting the physical nature and background of the eruv itself, he based the entire piece on a fundamental error and refrained from mentioning case law that pointed out this error, including a 1987 case overturning the ACLU on this exact issue.
Irrespective of the faulty subtitle and text, the eruv does not constitute a religious symbol by any stretch of the imagination. To quote Judge Anne Thompson of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey: "The eruv ... is not a religious symbol. Neither the boundary markers of the eruv nor the eruv itself have any religious significance. They are not objects of worship nor do they play any theological role in the observance of the Sabbath. Under Jewish law, the eruv does not alter the observance of the Sabbath, it merely allows observant Jews to engage in secular activities on the Sabbath" (ACLU of New Jersey v. City of Long Branch). The holding in that case followed a 1985 New York case, Smith v. Community Board No. 14, which also held that allowing the eruv to be constructed on public land was not a violation of the "establishment clause."
In retrospect, however, one cannot fault Mr. González excessively. After all, if the ACLU, that great protector of civil liberties and religious tolerance, still thinks the eruv is a religious symbol, who is Gaspar to argue?
Sholom Boyer
Thanks for helping my students to understand: I suppose I should thank you. When I teach my class on the Holocaust here at Florida International University, it is always difficult to get students to recognize and understand both the nature and the pervasiveness of anti-Semitic images and the seeds of hatred they sow. At best they think such depictions are things of another time and place. And then I saw your cover illustration for Gaspar González's article "Strings Attached," which might easily have been lifted from a Nazi-era propaganda sheet, or from the exhibit "The Art of Hatred," still on view at the Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach.
Perhaps illustrator William Taylor should see the exhibit; he might be surprised as to how well his illustration would fit into a long line of "images of intolerance in Florida culture." While the portrait of the Jewish man is bad enough, adhering to many of the classic stereotypes, what really caught my eye was the ball of string he holds in his hands: an almost perfect echo of the globe so many propagandists included in their images to show the "threat" of Jewish domination over the entire world. Disturbing, to say the least.
Oren Stier
Miami Beach
An apology would be nice: I was extremely shocked and troubled at the cover illustration for "Strings Attached." Its depiction of a Jew in such a derogatory manner is offensive and disgusting. While your paper has every right to publish an article about the eruv, the choice of this picture is a dark blot on the journalistic integrity of Miami New Times.
Those who are familiar with the history of anti-Semitism will recall how Nazi Germany used offensive caricatures of Jews in order to degrade, humiliate, and dehumanize Jewish people. Caricatures, which were published in children's textbooks and other publications, were an extremely effective tool in their effort. Similar derogatory caricatures of Jews were used later by the communist Soviet Union for the same purpose.
New Times owes a strong apology not only to the Jewish community but to all your readers and to all decent-minded people. I am not only writing on my own behalf but also on behalf of the many who have expressed to me similar sentiments.
Rabbi Solomon Schiff, executive vice president
Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami
Remorseful or evasive? You be the judge: Who can believe that reasonable people viewed the words of New Times editor Jim Mullin in last week's "Letters" section as remorseful? I quote from the editor's note: "In a telephone conversation following publication, Rabbi Donald Bixon ... maintained that the drawing ... was analogous to an illustration of �a black man with big lips eating a piece of fried chicken with a watermelon patch in the background.' A stinging analogy indeed. New Times sincerely regrets any offense taken by our readers. None was intended."
Did not the insertion of a quote from an alleged telephone conversation serve to deflect and make the caricature containing an intentionally drawn nose and facial defects seem like humor actually produce an opposite and aggravating effect?
Besides words, are you taking action to repair damage?
Mel Kimmel
Miami Beach
What a difference a string makes: I have only recently been introduced to your excellent publication, in which I find many things of great interest. For example the article "Strings Attached." I am a nonpracticing Jew and I would be most interested to learn in what religious book the ultra and other denominations of very religious Jews have found it written that when they do not want to observe the instructions of these books, they can tie a bit of string around somebody else's property and consider the resulting area their home. Fascinating!

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February 20, 2012 - The Christian Game Developers Conference has officially released the dates for its 2012 event: July 19-21, 2012, at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Last years conference, held in Newberg; offered attendees hundreds of conversations, videos, interviews. The event is focused on providing a venue for collaboration, support and exposure to thousands of Christians who use gaming as not only their careers but as their way to honor God. As more information is released you can expect to see it both here and their official site at CGDC,org.
The staff asks for your prayers for attendance, His blessing of believers, encouragement for developers, and for the developers making Christian-themed and Bible-based Games.


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VirtualHost Examples. This document attempts to answer the commonly-asked questions about setting up virtual hosts.
These scenarios are those involving multiple web sites running on a single server, via name-based or IP-based virtual hosts. Running several name-based web sites on a single IP address. Your server has a single IP address, and multiple aliases (CNAMES) point to this machine in DNS. Phusion Passenger users guide. 2.1.
Synopsis Because Phusion Passenger is designed to run in a wide variety of operating systems and configurations, there are multiple ways to install it. Most users — especially first-time users — will prefer OS-specific installation instructions. How to install configure Apache, MySQL and PHP on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. My Apache Configuration for Ruby on Rails with Passenger.
Posted by smoe on 04/18/2009 One of the great things about using Passenger rather than Mongrel is the simple Apache configuration that gets you started. You don't need to manage ports, decide how many processes an application is going to need, or edit a second configuration file for the application servers. At this time passenger 2.2.0 is the newest release, and it works great with mod_rewrite and every other Apache module I use. This is the virtual host entry from the Phusion Passenger Apache Users Guide.


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@ShadowGenius: One of my clients (I'm a marketing consultant for small business) uses extreme customer service strategies to market his business. He does very well with it. He sends out about 800 birthday wishes with a gift voucher every single month and people come and thank him for this for it all the time. No, he doesn't know who they are - he just smiles and says "you're welcome."
Yes, it's a machine designed to make him more money, but also that's not the point. The point is that they feel special. In a world where people are becoming less and less connected with each other, having one of your clients feel a bit special because he has taken the time to send them this thing still has some value. It's not "real," but for many people they will take what they can get!


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Florida Fights Back suffers from some of the technical shortcomings you'd expect from neophyte filmmakers -- uneven audio and some jolting edits -- but it captures much of the outrage and absurdity of the times. It shows, among other things:
A group of protesters brandishing a petition with more than 1,000 signatures in the office of Rep. Robert Wexler in early January 2001 asking the congressman to formally protest the Florida electoral count during the upcoming certification by Congress. A clearly unnerved Wexler spokeswoman tells them that "he knows you're here" and that he'll be discussing the matter with Rep. Alcee Hastings "to see exactly what his position is."
A Republican in a dark-blue suit standing nose to nose with a demonstrator on a Fort Lauderdale street. The former shouts repeatedly, "We won!" The latter yells back, "You're a thief!"
Demonstrators trying to confront Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a May 2001 meeting of Catholic lawyers in Fort Lauderdale. Mitch Ceasar, chairman of the Broward Democratic Party, discreetly banishes some protesters from his group's side of the street because of the signs they carry calling Scalia a thief and traitor. "We would welcome anybody," he explains, "but not people with signs that are very inflammatory."
The filmmakers early on found protagonists for their narrative. Greg Palast, a BBC investigative reporter, discovered that Florida officials had erroneously purged thousands of registered voters from the rolls, almost all Democrats. "You have to understand that the investigation of the election in Florida was not conducted by the American press," Palast asserts from his Long Island office, where the filmmakers interviewed him for several hours.
Vincent Bugliosi, a former Los Angeles district attorney and author, decried the Supreme Court decision as criminal because it wasn't based on law. "If in fact the court's ruling was politically motivated -- which it unquestionably was -- this means that by definition it was not based on law," Bugliosi declares in the film. "And if it was not based on the law, that means that these five justices willingly and knowingly nullified the votes of 50 million Americans who voted for Al Gore and stole the election for George Bush."
The filmmakers also found a relentless gadfly in Bob Kunst, a Miami Beach activist who heads the Oral Majority, a Miami-based gay rights organization. The film follows Kunst and his 2002 Florida gubernatorial run, largely ignored by the media, whose primary platform was the initiation of a thorough investigation of the 2000 election.
Both filmmakers laugh when asked if Florida Fights Back has a hero. "Yeah, the people are the heroes in it," Ross says. "There are no political heroes. It really makes all politicians look bad. It's a nonpartisan film."
Gore was the biggest disappointment for them. Yarock says: "I was waiting for Gore to get up during his concession speech and say, 'Listen, I got to tell you people, it's not about me; it's about you. Your vote was stolen. Yes, Bush is going to be sitting in the White House, but he's a fraud, and I wouldn't stand for it.' That's what I would have liked to have seen instead of this weepy, phony, magnanimous thing."
"Through that whole year of protesting," Ross recalls, "everyone was trying to get Gore to speak up, to do something, to say something. He wouldn't talk to anyone, not even the press."
Florida Fights Back would have been done sooner were it not for the September 11 attacks. "We were in a state of shock," Yarock says. "My attitude changed somewhat too in terms of protecting our country. It didn't seem the right time to be attacking anybody in the government. That went on for quite a while." They also burned up months winnowing down 30-odd hours of digital footage for transfer to their computer and learning how to use editing software.
Given last month's rift between Deutsch and Penelas, however, Election 2000 seems far from dead -- at least as a political weapon. Ross and Yarock, in fact, believe that a Democratic hopeful can defeat Bush only if he makes the 2000 election a campaign issue. "That's the only way to beat him with his millions and millions of dollars," Ross says. "I'm still pushing for that. I'm hoping that [the film] will reach enough people to wake them up."


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[Mac OS X] Smartr is a tool for creating virtual flashcards
Posted By Tucker On August 3, 2013 @ 8:17 AM In Mac OS X | No Comments
[1]Some of my most agonizing childhood memories revolve around flashcards. I can remember sitting at the kitchen table with my dad, getting super frustrated when I couldn't dredge up the answer to 8×7 or 12 divided by 4. Since the first flashcards I ever used were math cards (not my strongest subject as a kid), I kind of developed an aversion to them, and never used them as a study aid in elementary school, high school, or college. If I had access to an app like Smartr, developed by Barefoot Hackers AB, however, that all might have changed.
Main Functionality
Smartr is a tool for creating virtual flashcards. This app helps you to study by evaluating your past study sessions, and tailoring your card selection based on past performance and what you need to study next.
[2]Smartr gets big points right off the bat for having such a user-friendly interface. It's really easy to get your bearings, thanks in part to the two example card stacks included here (Japanese language and famous architecture.) These cards let you see how the self-exams work, and are a good visual aid to let you see how the stacks can be maximized with the most info possible.
There is no limit to how many stacks you can create. The app is now 100 percent free, so if you used Smartr Lite in the past, good news: when you download Smartr, your stacks will transfer automatically.
You can easily build out vocal-style cards, question and answer style cards, and visual identification cards. This mades Smartr suitable for a lot of different subjects and test styles. The app also judges your progress in past study sessions and helps to tailor your studies to the areas where you need to most reinforcement.
Overall, Smartr is attractive, works well, and is endlessly customizable. Everyone who wants to use flashcards but hates physical index cards will enjoy this app.
If you're willing to take the time to build out your collection of flashcards, Smartr is a solid app for creating study materials for nearly any subject. This app is great for vocabulary, foreign language studies, art history, and pretty much any discipline you'd want to use a flashcard set to study for. With a solid interface, this app is worth checking out. It's a great free tool.
Price: Free
Version reviewed: 1.3.1
Supported OS: OS X 10.6.6 or later
Download size: 5.8 MB
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Cambridge Disc Golf Club
Est. 2014 • Huck some plastic and go the distance
Club News
John Murphy April 10 at 7:45am
Baskets are in!
The put the baskets in at Lake Ripley last night! Get out and play!
John Murphy March 26, 2014 at 6:26pm
Ripley Park Disc Golf Tournament/Event
Hey guys,
I talked to the activities director today about the possibilities of having a tournament or event at Lake Ripley this summer. We may need some help with planning and getting volunteers the day of the event. Would anyone be interested?
John Murphy March 15, 2014 at 6:12pm
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Battery-powered motor vehicle. Originating in the 1880s, electric cars were used for private passenger, truck, and bus transportation in cities, where their low speeds and limited battery range were not drawbacks, and the cars became popular for their quietness and low maintenance costs. Until 1920 they were competitive with gasoline-fueled cars; they became less so after the electric self-starter made gasoline-powered cars more attractive and mass production made them cheaper to produce. In Europe electric vehicles have been used as short-range delivery vans. Renewed interest in electric cars beginning in the 1970s, spurred especially by new consciousness of foreign oil dependency and environmental concern, led to improvements in speed and range. Recent laws, particularly in California, have mandated commercial production. "Hybrid" cars employing both electric and internal combustion engines and providing the best features of both technologies, have recently become commercially available. Experimental vehicles have used solar fuel cells.
Learn more about electric automobile with a free trial on Britannica.com.
The Studebaker Electric was an automobile produced by the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company of South Bend, Indiana, a forerunner of the Studebaker Corporation. The battery-powered cars were sold from 1902 to 1912.
Studebaker entered into the automobile manufacturing field in 1898 when Frederick S. Fish, Studebaker president at the time, persuaded the board to supply $4,000 for the development on an electric vehicle. However, lacking the board's full support, the project yielded one car. The company did, however, enter into the field of producing bodies for electric taxis through Alexander Pope's Electric Vehicle Company.
Studebaker formally began production in earnest in 1902, and the company chose battery-powered electric vehicles because they were clean, easily recharged, and worked well in urban centers without need of refueling depots (gas stations).
Studebaker Electrics were available in a variety of body styles, many of which mimicked the bodies that it had long produced for its lucrative passenger carriage line. These included the Stanhope, Victoria, and Surrey. A four-passenger model was introduced in 1904.
Fish realized early on that Studebaker's future did not rest in the limited electric car, but in the gasoline-powered automobile. Studebaker's field of expertise was in body building and product distribution, not engine building. This realization led to the creation of the Studebaker-Garford automobile in 1904. The joint agreement worked well until 1909-1910 when Garford attempted to divert chassis to its own brand of automobile, and Studebaker, looking for an affordable car to sell entered into an agreement with the E-M-F Company of Detroit. E-M-F would build the entire car, which would then be distributed through Studebaker wagon dealers.
Still, Studebaker continued to build electric vehicles until John M. Studebaker's son-in-law Frederick Fish decided to begin the process of seizing control of E-M-F in 1909, which Studebaker completed by 1910.
By 1912, John M. Studebaker finally saw that the future in automobiles involved gasoline powered engines, and the limited production of electric cars stopped. An official announcement from the newly re-incorporated Studebaker Corporation stated:


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An elderly Gum Branch resident died during a fire at his home Monday afternoon.
A Long County man is in fair condition after rolling his truck this Thursday evening.
According Long County Deputy Tom Sollosi, at about 6:30 p.m. David Michael Woodard of Long County was driving south on Rufus Davis Road, when he apparently lost control of his pickup as he rounded a curve. The truck rolled and landed upside down, entrapping Woodard.
A wreck Thursday morning shut down a portion of Highway 144 and claimed one life, according to Fort Stewart military police.
A man riding in the trunk of a car and the man who drove the car were arrested by military police around 2 p.m. Tuesday as they were trying to enter the front gate at Fort Stewart.
Aug. 20, Criminal damage to property, simple assault, assault/battery, 332 Nottingham Way
According to Multi Agency Crack Enforcement Drug Task Force Commander Al Cato, agents from his office helped the Savannah -Chatham Metro Police nab a homicide suspect minutes before he boarded a Greyhound bus in Liberty County on Aug. 16.
Hinesville police arrested a New Jersey man wanted for murder early Friday morning.
The Ludowici Police Department hosted the Coastal Area Traffic Enforcement Network's monthly meeting on Aug. 25 at the Ludowici Church of God. The Heritage Bank sponsored the event.
Edison A. Ortiz, 24, a private with 1-64 Armor Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division on Fort Stewart, has been charged with two counts of malice murder.
Like many social trends, gang activity in Liberty County is consistently evolving and expanding, according to HPD Gang Violence Det. Tracey Howard.
Aug. 12, Marijuana – possession of drug related items/narcotic equipment, 1396 Shaw Road
Five Liberty County residents suffered minor injuries after a head-on collision Friday night in Long County.
LUDOWICI -- According to Long County Commissioner David Richardson, the start-up date for the Long County/McIntosh County Wiregrass E-911 Project is still on schedule.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory for our area for early Thursday.
A Feb. 11 car chase that began in Ludowici ended in Liberty County with the apprehension of two Savannah men.
Liberty County Sheriff Steve Sikes, jail administration and probation officers introduced the idea for a countywide prisoner re-entry program during a meeting last week at the Liberty County Justice Center.
Reports filed with the Hinesville Police Department include:
The suspect arrested in connection with Wednesday afternoon's drive-by shooting at Waldo Pafford Elementary School was denied bond Friday, according to Hinesville Police Department Detective Gail Poulsen.
A Hinesville home was damaged Friday night by a fire allegedly started by a 7-year-old.
The bomb threat at the Hinesville Walmart has been cleared as of noon today, according to Hinesville Police Detective Lt. Loyd Slater.
A man was arrested Wednesday night in connection with the drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon at Waldo Pafford Elementary School.
Waldo Pafford Elementary School was the apparent target of a drive-by shooting about 3 p.m. Wednesday, according to Hinesville Police Maj. Thomas Cribbs.
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Our pledge to children in care
Children in care and care leavers have helped to write our pledge to children in care - an important document which sets out what children in care can expect from us, Hampshire County Council, as their corporate parents.
Our pledge to children in care
Your Health, we will:Help you to access health services e.g. doctors Support you in being healthy, both physically and mentally Support you in identifying and taking part in positive activities, interests and hobies |
Your Voice, we will:Be contactable through a variety of ways and get back to you within 24 hours Make time for you to talk one-to-one with us on your own Be open and honest about your care and support you when changes are made Encourage your participation in your Care Plan and other plans related to your care Listen to your complaints and act on them as soon as is possible Make information available to you, so you know your entitlements and rights |
Your Education, we will:Not make you feel 'different' at school, e.g. not take you out of a class for a meeting, and pay for you to go on trips etc. Support you in accessing academic and non-academic opportunities, not just at school or college, apprenticeships, NVQs, other qualifications and job opportunities Involve you in decisions made about your education, and when additional help is needed, why is this necessary Involve you in decisions around your individual budget Support you to access the college/university of your choice, should this be something you wish to do |
Leaving Care, we will:Provide you with support, if you feel you need it Not 'kick you out' on your 18th birthday Provide and support you in building the skills to live on your own Help you find somewhere to live and make sure you have everything you need Give you information about your entitlements and support you in accessing them |
Your Placement, we will:Where possible, try to find you a placement with your siblings Support you in transitions from placement to placement Make better long-term plans for you, not just 'quick fixes' Find you a foster carer who suits you and meets your needs Involve you in your placement planning Keep you informed, where appropriate, about contact arrangements and how and when this can happen |
Your Future, we will:Help you plan, as a good parent should Support and help you build the life skills needed in becoming an adult Not judge you based on how you have acted in the past, but who you are now Encourage you to be the very best you can be Support and help you in achieving your goals Always be there to support you, even when you make mistakes |
About the pledge
The Pledge builds upon the original Pledge created in 2008 and work the County Council is already doing to support young people in its care. The County Council's care ambassadors, all young people who have experienced the care system, are another important element of the County Council's support to children in care. They have worked on the revised version in consultation with other young people who are or have been in the care of the County Council.
Joe, aged 19 and one of the care ambassadors who helped with the revision, said: "We wanted to make it more aspirational." While the original Pledge concentrated on the practical support which children in care need, the new one also incorporates elements relating to the emotional support they need and a pledge to encourage children in care to aspire to go to college or university and to help them with those aims.
"It's not about providing money and things," added 21-year-old fellow care ambassador, Sadie. "It's about having people who are there for you, to talk to you, to give you time one-to-one. There for you when you need advice or are in difficulties, but also there for you when you do well or need encouragement. We want the corporate parents to behave like any other parents."
Sadie said that she hoped the new Pledge would help children and young people in care feel that being in care could be a positive thing. "People tend to view being in care as a negative thing but if someone is in care it is not because they have done anything wrong. The changes to the Pledge show young people that with the sort of support they want, emotional and well as practical, being in care can be a positive thing."
During the consultation it was clear from the young people that it is not material things that children in care need most – but emotional support and practical guidance so added into the Pledge are new clauses which promise to:
support them accessing academic and non-academic qualifications
support them to access college/university of their choice if that is what they wish to do
make more long-term plans for them not just quick solutions for immediate crises
ensure more one-to-one time with care workers
help children and young people build life skills needed to move into adulthood, including how to budget
maintain support beyond the age of 18 to care leavers if needed.
The County Council has already done much to support these aspects of the Pledge.
Young people are more involved in their care planning having a direct say in arrangements made for them.
There is already a well-established link with Winchester University enabling young people in care to get a taste of university life.
The County Council has initiated a special internship/apprenticeship programme for care leavers.
The Council has introduced a new training programme for Foster Carers to enable them to help young people in their care develop life skills which will help them in young adulthood.


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For those who want the answer quickly – the default netgear router ip address is 192.168.0.1 but if you are unsure what to do then follow our instructions below.
Here are our step by step instructions on how to access the control panel of the netgear router via its ip address.
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TGF-beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1), a member of the MAPKKK family, is thought to be a key modulator of the inducible transcription factors NF-kappaB and AP-1 and, therefore, plays a crucial role in regulating the genes that mediate inflammation. Although in vitro biochemical studies have revealed the existence of a TAK1 complex, which includes TAK1 and the adapter proteins TAB1 and TAB2, it remains unclear which members of this complex are essential for signaling. To analyze the function of TAK1 in vivo, we have deleted the Tak1 gene in mice, with the resulting phenotype being early embryonic lethality. Using embryonic fibroblasts lacking TAK1, TAB1, or TAB2, we have found that TNFR1, IL-1R, TLR3, and TLR4-mediated NF-kappaB and AP-1 activation are severely impaired in Tak1(m/m) cells, but they are normal in Tab1(-/-) and Tab2(-/-) cells. In addition, Tak1(m/m) cells are highly sensitive to TNF-induced apoptosis. TAK1 mediates IKK activation in TNF-alpha and IL-1 signaling pathways, where it functions downstream of RIP1-TRAF2 and MyD88-IRAK1-TRAF6, respectively. However, TAK1 is not required for NF-kappaB activation through the alternative pathway following LT-beta signaling. In the TGF-beta signaling pathway, TAK1 deletion leads to impaired NF-kappaB and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activation without impacting Smad2 activation or TGF-beta-induced gene expression. Therefore, our studies suggests that TAK1 acts as an upstream activating kinase for IKKbeta and JNK, but not IKKalpha, revealing an unexpectedly specific role of TAK1 in inflammatory signaling pathways.
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The Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has launched a public consultation aimed at setting new regulations on the protection of copyright on electronic communications networks that include both Internet and television networks. The document attached to the public consultation notice sets out the guidelines of the regulations that AGCOM is willing to issue and addresses specific questions to operators interested in joining (within 60 days) the consultation.
The consultation is relevant for ISPs as AGCOM's guidelines refer to the adoption of a "notice and take down" system modelled on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and based on the following 5 steps:
notice of the copyright owner to the ISP/provider of audiovisual contents;
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It is still uncertain how (and if) AGCOM is willing to limit the risk of (i) potential abuses by copyright owners of the above mentioned mechanic and of (ii) potential liabilities for ISPs that might be obliged to remove any content subject of a notice. Indeed, the current version of the guidelines prescribe that the ISP is obliged to remove the contents if "the notice is grounded" leaving to the discretion of ISPs the evaluation on the groundness of the notice which represents the main weakness of the system currently adopted through the implementation of the EU E-Commerce Directive.
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The Other Movement, The Other Movement, 0817317597, 0-8173-1759-7, 978-0-8173-1759-1, 9780817317591, , , The Other Movement, 0817385940, 0-8173-8594-0, 978-0-8173-8594-1, 9780817385941, , , The Other Movement, 0817356916, 0-8173-5691-6, 978-0-8173-5691-0, 9780817356910,
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Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South
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The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South
examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions. In recalling political activism in the post-World War II South, rarely does one consider the political activities of American Indians as they responded to desegregation, the passing of the Civil Rights Acts, and the restructuring of the American political party system. Native leaders and activists across the South created a social and political movement all their own, which drew public attention to the problems of discrimination, poverty, unemployment, low educational attainment, and poor living conditions in tribal communities.
While tribal-state relationships have historically been characterized as tense, most southern tribes—particularly non-federally recognized ones—found that Indian affairs commissions offered them a unique position in which to negotiate power. Although individual tribal leaders experienced isolated victories and generated some support through the 1950s and 1960s, the creation of the intertribal state commissions in the 1970s and 1980s elevated the movement to a more prominent political level. Through the formalization of tribal-state relationships, Indian communities forged strong networks with local, state, and national agencies while advocating for cultural preservation and revitalization, economic development, and the implementation of community services.
This book looks specifically at Alabama and Louisiana, places of intensive political activity during the civil rights era and increasing Indian visibility and tribal reorganization in the decades that followed. Between 1960 and 1990, U.S. census records show that Alabama's Indian population swelled by a factor of twelve and Louisiana's by a factor of five. Thus, in addition to serving as excellent examples of the national trend of a rising Indian population, the two states make interesting case studies because their Indian commissions brought formerly disconnected groups, each with different goals and needs, together for the first time, creating an assortment of alliances and divisions.
Denise E. Bates
is a historian and lecturer of interdisciplinary and liberal studies in the School of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University.
The Other Movement
makes an original and important contribution to the field of American Indian history in the Southeast. In particular, there currently are no published studies detailing the origins of state-tribal relations in Alabama and Louisiana, the administration of state Indian commissions in these states, and inter-tribal politics and conflicts that these bodies often engender. The author does an excellent job using statements of Indian leaders to illuminate issues important to their communities."—Mark Edwin Miller, author of
Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process
Also of Interest
Southeastern Indians Life Portraits
Emma Lila Fundaburk
History of the American Indians
James Adair; edited, introduced, and annotated by Kathryn E. Holland Braund
Re-Enchanting the World
C. Mathews Samson
Those Who Remain
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text: FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwavesBy Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, Special to CNNUpdated 10:05 AM ET, Mon March 12, 2012Limbaugh has long history of hate speech. FCC should ask: Are stations carrying him are acting "in public interest," writers say.Story highlightsFonda, Morgan, Steinem: Limbaugh long made racist, sexist, homophobic remarksHis most recent incident drew strong rebuke, some advertisers have dropped himThey say Clear Channel should dump him; if not FCC should evaluate station licensesWriters: Airwaves scarce government resource; his show not "in public interest"Ironically, the misogyny Rush Limbaugh spewed for three days over Sandra Fluke was not much worse than his regular broadcast of sexist, racist and homophobic hate speech: -- Female Cabinet members are "Sex-retaries."-- "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies." -- The National Organization for Women is "a bunch of whores to liberalism." -- [Said to an African-American female caller]: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." These are just a few samples from the arsenal of degrading language Limbaugh deploys on women, people of color, lesbians and gays, immigrants, the disabled, the elderly, Muslims, Jews, veterans, environmentalists and so forth. Limbaugh doesn't just call people names. He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames -- and the bigger the lie, the more effective -- inciting listeners to view people they disagree with as sub-humans. His longtime favorite term for women, "femi-Nazi," doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore, an example of how rhetoric spreads when unchallenged by coarsened cultural norms. Jane FondaAt least this most recent incident has turned a spotlight back on the vile, damaging statements Limbaugh has been promulgating for years. His sponsors are dropping him; his stations have begun to follow suit. VoteVets, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, released a statement by female vets, including Katherine Scheirman, former chief of medical operations in the U.S. Air Forces, demanding that the American Forces Network drop Limbaugh from its programming. Robin MorganThey state, "Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other -- women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect."Gloria SteinemOpinion: It's un-American to silence LimbaughThat makes this a fitting time to inquire of his syndicator, Clear Channel Communications, whether it intends to continue supporting someone who addicts his audience to regular doses of hate speech. Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks Inc., which hosts Limbaugh's program, has defended his recent comments.If Clear Channel won't clean up its airways, then surely it's time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh's show in fact using their licenses "in the public interest?" Spectrum is a scarce government resource. Radio broadcasters are obligated to act in the public interest and serve their respective communities of license. In keeping with this obligation, individual radio listeners may complain to the FCC that Limbaugh's radio station (and those syndicating his show) are not acting in the public interest or serving their respective communities of license by permitting such dehumanizing speech. Opinion: Democrats should reject Bill Maher's moneyThe FCC takes such complaints into consideration when stations file for license renewal. For local listeners near a station that carries Limbaugh's show, there is plenty of evidence to bring to the FCC that their station isn't carrying out its public interest obligation. Complaints can be registered under the broadcast category of the FCC website: http://www.fcc.gov/complaintsThis isn't political. While we disagree with Limbaugh's politics, what's at stake is the fallout of a society tolerating toxic, hate-inciting speech. For 20 years, Limbaugh has hidden behind the First Amendment, or else claimed he's really "doing humor" or "entertainment." He is indeed constitutionally entitled to his opinions, but he is not constitutionally entitled to the people's airways.It's time for the public to take back our broadcast resources. Limbaugh has had decades to fix his show. Now it's up to us.Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.Join us on Facebook/CNNOpinion.More from opinionAre drugs stifling women?What will happen if the bees disappear?Thanks, Ben Carson, but prison doesn't make people 'come out' gayPowered by Livefyre


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Dee Perry hosts a special show on the 2014 Cleveland Arts Prize awards ceremony where we catch up with some of this year's winners.
We sit down with Pamela Young from Dance Cleveland and Cleveland Arts Prize winners Deena Epstein (Robert Bergman Prize), Kathleen Cerveny (Robert Bergman Prize), Raymond Bobgan (Theatre & Dance) and Richard Myers (Lifetime Achievement in Visual Arts) just in time for Thursday night's awards cermony.
Previous Sound of Applause conversations with Cleveland Arts Prize 2014 winners:
Robert Bergman Prize: Deena Epstein, Kathleen Cerveny
Martha Joseph Prize: William Busta, Pamela Young
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Not that I'm sticking up for the teachers,
but how about we fire bad economists?
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What criteria will Mr. Cowen use in grading a teacher "bad"?
Students that care more about clothing styles?
Students that care more about their Facebook page?
Students that think education is stupid?
Students that don't have a safe enviroment to go to and learn in?
Judging economists is easy. Just see what their batting average is on major economic events.
As for patents, according to the anti-regulation crowd, need to do away with them. They in effect, are cumbersome regulations that intrude upon the free-market. They are a tax on the consumer as they provide monopoly protection.


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How do I unlock my iPhone stranger, to use my sim?
It happens to many to have in my hands a stranger iPhone with SIM locked, or maybe you have about traveling abroad for economic reasons you want to take him there … Today I will show you how to unlock the device so that you can use any Sim, of course Italian, inside, thanks to Ultrasn0w.Prima of all I warn you that not all devices are unlocked, if you have an iPhone 3G or 4 with a baseband of the following: For the only unlockable iPhone 4 and 'the 01:59:00
For iPhone 3G / S are 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04 and 06.15.00 the end (you can check under Settings> General> About> Modem Firmware) you can perform this procedure, otherwise for now there are soluzioni.Per the uninitiated, Ultrasn0w is a program created for the iPhone by the Dev-Team, which allows users to unlock their iPhone so you can use different SIM on the same iPhone Locked.Una Once users haveunlocked their iPhone, will add the repo in Cydia and then install Ultrasn0w to unlock their iPhone, even with the new iPhone OS 5. Before you unlock with Utrasnow, you will need to jailbreak and you can use the tool to the left of the article to see what program you need to install the sblocco.Per iOS5 and unlock your iPhone 3G or 4 you just follow this guide:
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About dshort
My original dshort.com website was launched in February 2005 using a domain name based on my real name, Doug Short. I'm a formerly retired first wave boomer with a Ph.D. in English from Duke and a lifelong interest in economics and finance. In 2011 my website was acquired by Advisor Perspectives, where I serve as the Vice President of Research.
My first career was a faculty position at North Carolina State University, where I achieved the rank of Full Professor in 1983. During the early '80s I got hooked on academic uses of microcomputers for research and instruction. In 1983, I co-directed the Sixth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities. An IBM executive who attended the conference made me a job offer I couldn't refuse.
Thus began my new career as a Higher Education Consultant for IBM — an ambassador for Information Technology to major universities around the country. After 12 years with Big Blue, I grew tired of the constant travel and left for a series of IT management positions in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. I concluded my IT career managing the group responsible for email and research databases at GlaxoSmithKline until my retirement in 2006.
My interest in economics and financial planning was triggered by the bear market of 1973-74. My wife and I bought our first home in August 1973, a month after our second child was born. Two months later, the Oil Embargo tripled gas prices, and I began commuting to work on a bicycle. During the decade of stagflation, I became fascinated with economics, finance, and market behavior (my wife claims it's an addiction).
Charting financial data is something I've been doing for over thirty years. I was an early user of first-generation spreadsheet software (VisiCalc, SuperCalc, and Lotus 1-2-3), and I participated in the beta program for the original release of both Excel and Quicken.
Contrary to what many visitors assume based on my last name, I'm not a bearish short seller. It's true that some of my content has been a bit pessimistic in recent years. But I believe this is a result of economic realities and not a personal bias. For the record, my efforts to educate others about bear markets date from November 2007, as this Motley Fool article attests.
I also developed the original website for the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild. Unless I've been coerced into a vacation, I'm usually watching the economy and markets from my home office in North Carolina.
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It's not the largest feature in a bathroom but a faucet can go a long way to update a vanity or sink. If you have an old single-handle faucet, you can replace it with a new one designed specifically for do-it-yourselfers. There is a nice array of finishes in single-handle faucets, so you'll be able to find one that matches your bathroom accessories.
Faucets designed with the DIYer in mind are easy to install because you do most of the work above the countertop -- so you don't have to lay on your back with your head in a dark cabinet trying to see what you're doing. Faucet manufacturers have figured out a way to pre-assemble the unit, eliminating the daunting task of making all the parts fit together. You have to empty the cabinet (it probably needs a good cleaning, anyway) so you can reach inside to hold the faucet while you tighten it. For tools, the bare minimum is required, just an adjustable wrench and a screwdriver.
A plumber will charge $304 to remove an old single-control faucet and replace it with a top quality new one, but you can buy a new one for $170 and install it yourself, saving 47 percent. The replacement gets more complicated and expensive if the existing faucet is very old or has two handles, which usually requires a different type of faucet.
Tip: Don't forget to turn off the water supply lines under the sink before you begin this or any faucet project.
To find more DIY project costs and to post comments and questions, visit http://www.diyornot.com and http://www.m.diyornot.com on smartphones.
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$304 -- $170 -- 1.3 -- 2.5 -- $134 -- 47 Percent
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Some of indie's biggest stars performed in the name of hurricane relief at a benefit show on Saturday which included Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, Real Estate, the Walkmen, Devendra Banhart, and Cass McCombs.
The instantly-sold-out show was held at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn to benefit Occupy Sandy, the organized relief effort created to assist victims of Hurricane Sandy. The show came together within just a couple of days boasted quite an impressive music lineup.
Highlights included a stripped-down and vocal-heavy performance by Dave Longstreth, Amber Coffman, and Haley Dekle of Dirty Projectors, 3/5ths of the Walkmen, joined by a horn section of friends and family members, and Devendra Banhart's whimsical (yet way too short) set.
We Went to Soundwave To Find The Most Popular 'Slightly Christian' Band
QT, Doss, Total Freedom, and Pleasure Centers Performed in a Chinese Restaurant in Manhattan
Here's What the King of the Dot Rap Battle in Toronto Looked Like
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CITY SEEKS PARTNERS FOR YOUTH SUMMER JOBS PROGRAM (Friday, May 14, 2010)—The Department of Community Services is inviting government and nonprofit agencies to participate as work sites in the 2010 Summer Work Opportunity Program to provide short-term work experience training for young people, ages 14 to 23 from June 14, 2010 to September 17, 2010. "It's very important to provide employment opportunities for our young people, so they can gain valuable experience that will help them become hard-working, responsible adults," Mayor Mufi Hannemann said. "I encourage employers to step up and participate, and I urge young people from low and moderate income families to apply immediately, as these placements are offered at a first come, first served basis." The City plans to create summer jobs for approximately 400 youth and young adults whose family income is below 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or who are receiving public assistance, supplemental nutrition assistance, free or reduced lunch, or who are attending Title I schools. Participants will be paid $8.00 an hour up to 30 hours a week. Participant applications are available for downloading on line at www.owib.org. They can also be picked up at the following locations: (1) Youth Services Center, 1505 Dillingham Boulevard, Suite 216, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817; (2) Oahu WorkLinks Dillingham, 1505 Dillingham Boulevard, Suite 110, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817; (3) Oahu WorkLinks Waianae, 85-670 Farrington Highway, Waianae, Hawaii 96792; and (4) Oahu WorkLinks Hauula, 54-010 Kukuna Road, Hauula, Hawaii 96717. Applications must be completed and returned to any of the offices listed above no later than Friday, May 28, 2010 at 4:00pm. Late participant applications will not be considered. Please call 832-7818 regarding participant applications. Federal, State and City agencies and non-profit agencies interested in participating as work sites can download the applications from www.owib.org and return completed applications no later than Friday, May 28, 2010 at 4:00pm to the Contact Information: Lei Nakamura, Assistant Program Administrator, WorkHawaii/Oahu WorkLinks, 832-7960, ext. 32 |


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Garcia Rodriguez, Jose and Angelopoulou, Anastassia and García-Chamizo, Juan Manuel and Psarrou, Alexandra and Orts Escolano, Sergio and Morell Gimenez, Vicente (2012) Autonomous growing neural gas for applications with time constraint: optimal parameter estimation. Neural Networks, 32 . pp. 196-208. ISSN 0893-6080
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This paper aims to address the ability of self-organizing neural network models to manage real-time applications. Specifically, we introduce fAGNG (fast Autonomous Growing Neural Gas), a modified learning algorithm for the incremental model Growing Neural Gas(GNG)network. The Growing Neural Gas network with its attributes of growth, flexibility, rapid adaptation, and excellent quality of representation of the input space makes it a suitable model for real timeapplications. However, under time constraints GNG fails to produce the optimal topological map for any input data set. In contrast to existing algorithms, the proposed fAGNG algorithm introduces multiple neurons per iteration. The number of neurons inserted and input data generated is controlled autonomous and dynamically based on a priory or online learnt model. A detailed study of the topological preservation and quality of representation depending on the neuralnetworkparameter selection has been developed to find the best alternatives to represent different linear and non-linear input spaces under time restrictions or specific quality of representation requirements.
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It was almost excellent. 1 minute walk from arrivals. The room was great, really clean and pleasant to stay. The only disadvantage is that there was no mini bar price list (I think it was on purpose) and the breakfasts were extremely expensive (about 25-30 EUR). But I will definitely stay there again."
Fast check-in and checkout Nice clean and modern reception area. Free Coffee and cake at reception till 06:00 while you waited for the courtesy bus to the airport"
Arriving at night we estimated especially the good signalling of the hotel, even on secodary roads."
The hotel view is awesome; they gave us a free upgrade on the room. Hotel staff is the best I have ever come across. Cleanliness is real good. The Hotel is some 120 steps down the main lobby (at street level); so getting to the room is easy but getting out is strenuous. This is something to be cognizant about for people with health/climbing up issues. Overall, the place was perfect."
We were warmly welcomed by Christina and fellow staff members. Although the room was small, it was very clean and bright and met our needs. The breakfast was substantial, but it was a little chilly eating poolside at the end of October. We would definitely return to this site."
Excellent. This is a definite must stay.. Wonderful and corteous staff, great service and beautiful locations and view from the room.. Would definitely love to visit."
The hotel was beautiful with a spectacular view of the sea. The rooms were very comfortable and very large. The staff was very helpful and pleasant. The complimentary breakfast offered a lot of items to choose from. The hotel was close to the bus line and only 5 Euro to the center of town. I would highly recommend this beautiful hotel for a future visit."
Great pool. Complimentary shuttle picked us up from the airport and dropped us off at the port. Great selection at breakfast. Close to little venice."
It was incredible! The staff was very friendly and consistent. The rooms were amazing. I can honestly say they made my 30th birthday one to remember. This is one of the best hotels I have ever stayed at."
Enjoyed the Hotel and it's location.Only 10 mins from the old town.Wonderful walks available around the waterfronts.We we were not beach worshipers,but if you are,then there is even more he for you."
Great hotel - excellent staff, location, and facilities. However, we booked this hotel because it advertised that parking was available (at 10EU/day). Unfortunately, this was not true. Only curbside street parking was available, which was scarce during our trip in the off-season. I think finding parking would be an impossible inconvenience during the more heightened travel season the rest of the year."
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Waiting on revenue estimates
While most Kansans with real lives are wondering whether the lawn mower will start this year, a bunch of us Statehouse habitues will be waiting to see what is happening to the Kansas tax base.
It's called the Consensus Revenue Estimate, and it will be released later this week and will predict just what the state is going to have in the way of tax income for the rest of this fiscal year -- that's until July 1 -- and for the next fiscal year which we've cleverly named Fiscal Year 2015.
The CRE, as we call it, is compiled by the state's fiscal experts with some university help, and it will become the marker for figuring how much the state has to spend.
Now, there's no doubt the state will have enough money to pay the bills that come due before July 1. The question is going to be how much money will be available for the next year, and that's tricky.
Gov. Sam Brownback, who had to swallow more income tax cuts than he was hoping for last year, knows the tax cuts mean less state revenue for, well, everything the state spends money on or hands over to local units of government and schools for them to spend.
The concept was if Kansans paid less income tax, they'll spend that money on other things that are subject to state taxes, ranging from the sales tax to liquor and cigarette taxes.
But you never know the trends in spending and what that means to state revenues until the CRE looks at the tea leaves and makes the estimate on which the governor and the Legislature base spending decisions.
Is there an indication Kansans are taking that income tax money they're saving and buying stuff? Or are the businesses that are now largely tax-free hiring workers who will pay income taxes and all?
Or, is it just too soon to tell? Has everyone adjusted their income tax withholding to account for lower tax rates, and are those businesses which aren't paying state income tax anymore expanding or are their owners just pocketing the money?
Or did the massive income-tax cuts actually put more money in Kansans pockets, but with the recession just over and the national economy not very healthy, are Kansans just afraid to spend it on those items that come with a "consumption" tax?
Because the fiscal experts who make the estimate are tied into many areas of the economy they'll be studying whether airplane sales are rising or whether there is enough rain for healthy crops or whether livestock diseases are likely to pare output -- or increase prices, or both.
Yes, we'll get the best estimates of what state revenues are going to be for the end of this fiscal year and the predictions for the upcoming new fiscal year; there might well be more than just numbers to be read.
There might be a peek at whether the massive tax cuts are working.
Syndicated by Hawver News Co. of Topeka, Martin Hawver is publisher of Hawver's Capitol Report.


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Return of the M.A.C.
M.A.C Cosmetics and the M.A.C Pro team are returning to the Virgin Media Louder Lounge, the legendary VIP area at V Festival, Hylands Park, to makeover celebrities and guests with the hottest festival looks.
The M.A.C Pro team has taken inspiration from this year's decadent Virgin Media Louder Lounge theme of Rococo, developing four gorgeous looks to recreate on celebrity and VIP guests. The bespoke designs include Smoke-Coco, Love Rococo, Rock-Coco as well as an intricate thespian-inspired Golden Leaf creation, giving guests an instant festival beauty fix with a twist of baroque glamour.
M.A.C artists will also have their brushes at the ready backstage to provide makeup services to key UK and international talent performing over the weekend, ensuring all acts look their very best for their performance to thousands of festival goers. Acts include Rihanna, edgy Jessie J and new comer on the Style circuit Eliza Doolittle.
Dean Rudd, M·A·C Pro Trainer who created the exclusive Virgin Media Louder Lounge face charts, comments: "The Virgin Media Louder Lounge is renowned for its glamorous surroundings and VIP crowd and our team can't wait to preen its guests as well as the headline acts backstage at this year's festival - it's a great opportunity to be creatively involved with one of the most star-studded festival events of the year."
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I really like the softness of this balm.The color is hardly noticeable. It's kind of moisturizing, the packaging is adorable and it is luxurious. I have gone through a whole tube and I purchase these as gifts for friends and relatives. I hoard lip balms and my collection wouldn't be complete without this. It is not an end all be all balm, it's just Dior.
$32 USD. This feels like a waxy lip balm then disappears very quickly. While it hasn't damaged my lips, I can't tell whether it's helping either. It also did nothing for me as far as color enhancement. I'm severely disappointed. I thought this was supposed to enhance my natural lip color - I'm really into Benetint and thought this would be a more convenient way to get similar "natural" look. It just became an extremely expensive lip balm, so I'll be returning it (which I rarely do with Dior products).
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This is the best lip balm I've I had. It's very moisturizing and is the only one that helps my cracked lip in this super dry weather. Although it's expensive, it's totally worth it!
I adore this balm. It is moisturizing, although not the most moisturizing lip product I've used, but that's not what I bought it for. It really makes my lips look so beautiful and bright healthy pink. If smells nice too. Will repurchase.
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I have one that I bought 3-4 years ago, and I've been giving it chance after chance to do something. Nope...nothing!
On me, it doesn't change color (yep, it stays clear like a lip balm), it doesn't moisturize at all (it actually dries up my lips) and disappears within the hour, without me eating or drinking or even talking.
I think it's time for it to go to the garbage can :(
I love this stuff. It feels so smooth and hydrating on my lips and just feels so glamorous to apply with the amazing packaging. I have to make sure I don't run through this too fast as I just want to use it all the time. The color it gives me is very nice and natural, just my lips with a little something extra. Will definitely repurchase and think this would work for everyone!!
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This is actually the first lip product that I have finished over such a short period of time! This is both a good thing, and a bad thing. The good thing is that I enjoyed the product enough to use it so often, the bad thing is that I felt the need to re-apply all the time when carrying this around.
The whole thing about lip balms is that they're supposed to moisturize, right? Well, this thing does not do that, at least not in my book. Dior is a luxury brand, but they do not take the ingredients that much in consideration. It's supposed to have top notch, caring ingredients, but they do not make it high enough on the ingredients list to give a truly caring effect on the lips. With that said, it still deserves a 4/5, because:
The smell is great,
The taste is non offensive and sweet,
It has spf 10,
And the packaging is sturdy and pretty.
The effect it gives on my lips is very smooth and somewhat glossy. I will say it "glows" more than it shines, which I guess makes the product live up to it's name. On my lips it's a bright barbie pink, while on my friend it looks like a dark pink, almost red-ish shade. Me and a pack of friends bought this when it came out, and it gave all of us a different, but wearable color. Very natural and suitable, especially if the thought of playing with bright colors intimidate you.
I give it a high rating because it's comfortable to wear both in looks and texture, but I won't give it a 5 because of the lack of moisture I experience. This is a product you would use because you want to look nice and put together, not because your lips feel dry and chapped. It doesn't do anything bad, but it won't do anything good either. It has a similar effect like vaseline, it just sits on top of your lips. Thankfully, this leaves you with a slight tint, so it'a not like the color is going to go MIA on you after 5 minutes. Note that if you use this as a lip balm, then you will run out very fast, because it does not perform well in that department. Still, I'm definitely going to re-purchase because of the look and feel it creates when applied. You can get it for a fair price on evilbay, if you take the sellers rating in consideration that is.
So yeah, all in all, worth the hype. If it's in your budget, then I would highly recommend it. If not, then there are lots of dupes out there that's worth a look. The Korean brand Missha has got a balm in a variety of colors that I'm itching to try out.
I too am coming to the end of my tube of this. I liked it initially, but it's not as moisturizing as It Cosmetics Lip Vitality in Je Ne Sais Quoi! The It Cosmetics is half the price and, if you can keep it from breaking (it's only flaw) it is truly a your lips but better balm. My dentist (female) even asked what I was wearing when I had it on. Will not repurchase the Christian Dior even though the packaging is elegant.
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Porting LinuxBIOS to the AMD SC520: A Follow-up Report
As of July 15, 2005, we have moved the arch repository to Subversion. Arch checkouts will continue to work, but any new changes will be available only in Subversion.
Well, it was too easy. Things were going well with our project to port LinuxBIOS, until we tried to Flash the Flash part. Then we started to hit some problems with the board, the board design and the AMD SC520.
What went wrong? Put simply, when we tried to use the flash_rom program to Flash the part, it failed even to discover the type of part we had on the board. From there, it got worse. We wrote a small program to dump the Flash part, shown here:
#include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> # include <stdlib.h> #include <ctype.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd_mem; volatile char *bios; unsigned long size = 512 * 1024; int i; if ((fd_mem = open("/dev/mem", O_SYNC|O_RDWR)) < 0) { perror("Can not open /dev/mem"); exit(1); } bios = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem, off_t) (0xffffffff - size + 1)); if (bios == MAP_FAILED) { perror("Error MMAP /dev/mem"); exit(1); } write(1, bios, 512*1024); }
When we ran this program, we couldn't get sensible results. This program runs and runs well on everything else we own--several thousand K8 nodes, our laptop, 1,500 Xeon nodes--so it is not the program. What's going on?
As mentioned, we found a problem with the design of the MSM586SEG and the other SC520-based boards from Advanced Digital Logic. The problem, put simply, is the full Flash part cannot be accessed from the CPU; only the top 128KB of the part can be accessed. This limitation requires us to modify all of the tools that we support for Flash access, so they are aware that although the nominal size of the Flash is 256 or 512KB, only 128KB of that space is available.
Making that change, however, still did not help. When we dumped the Flash part, we got not garbage but nonsense. We saw strings that read CCCCoooo and so on. This nonsense led us to think that the Flash space was being cached somehow. In addition, we believed the hardware design had a problem such that burst reads from the Flash part--which would happen if the cache were enabled in the range of memory--were returning the same byte four times, not four consecutive bytes.
Then, we hit some other problems. We had two MSM586SEG boards, and the IDE interface on both of them stopped working. It turns out that the MSM586SEG has an FPGA controlling many functions, and we suspect that this FPGA has some teething problems. We decided to try out the older design, the MSM586SEV, which has no FPGA.
The MSM586SEV resolved all our problems save one: we still got nonsense when we tried to read the Flash. It now was time for some deep-diving into the SC520 architecture. We learned that a set of 16 registers, called the PAR registers, need to be managed in order to enable Flashing the part.
What are the PAR registers? They are used to steer memory and I/O access issued by the CPU. Almost all processors today have a special set of registers in the memory and I/O address generation path to modify the manner in which such addresses are handled.
Why is this type of register needed? With multiple busses capable of supporting memory and I/O access, the processor has no idea where to send the access unless it is told. That is the function of the PAR registers. Consider the block diagram of the SC520 shown below.
A given I/O access can go to the PCI bus or to the GP devices shown at right. A memory access can go to SDRAM, the Flash part or the PCI bus. The PAR registers allow the BIOS to specify, for a given range of I/O or memory, which bus it goes to, whether it is writable or read-only and whether it is cached.
We found that for the BIOS range of memory, 0xe0000-0xfffff, the PAR register was set to SDRAM. This setting is not surprising: for performance, the BIOS typically copies the BIOS image to SDRAM and then makes sure all BIOS code fetches go to the SDRAM holding the BIOS. This operation is commonly called "shadowing the BIOS".
Because Linux doesn't use the BIOS at all, we can ignore this setting. What we do is set the PAR register for the BIOS region, PAR register 15, back to the original BIOS. This is a simple matter of mapping in the registers, and then setting the register. Here is a code fragment to do so:
if ((fd_mem = open("/dev/mem", O_SYNC|O_RDWR)) < 0) { perror("Can not open /dev/mem"); exit(1); } mmcr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem, (off_t) 0xfffef000); if (mmcr == MAP_FAILED) { perror("Error MMAP /dev/mem"); exit(1); } p = mmcr + 15; l = *p; printf("l is 0x%lx\n", l); /* clear cache bits */ l |= (1<<27); /* enable writeable bit */ l &= ~(1<<26); /* set type to flash, not sdram */ l &= ~(7<<29); l |= (4<<29); /* 64k pages */ l |= (1<<25); /* blow away base and size stuff. */ l &= ~(0x1fff | (0x7ff<<14)); printf("l is now 0x%lx\n", l); l |= (8 << 14) | (0x2000000>>16); printf("l is now 0x%lx\n", l); *p = l;
Once we had this done, we still had troubles. The further problem was the design of the PAR registers. They live in memory at 0xfffef000; in other words, they are placed right in the middle of the top 2MB of the 4GB of memory space. This space is, by convention, reserved for BIOS Flash, but the SC520 breaks that convention. So, although we had worked around the board problems, we now were faced with an architectural problem.
A light bulb went off at this point, though, relating to comments we had seen in sample code from AMD. The AMD code always was careful to program the PAR registers to place the Flash part above the top of DRAM, that is, at 32MB or hex 0x2000000. We modified our parbios program slightly, and voilà--all 512KB of Flash now was available, starting at 0x2000000.
Th effects of this change are far-reaching. We had to modify our flash_rom program to enable the Flash on the SC520 and place the Flash at an odd location in memory. Nevertheless, at least we can program it now. This change also affects LinuxBIOS itself. If we want to use all of the Flash part, or simply more then 64KB, we're going to have to make a lot of changes to how LinuxBIOS addresses Flash. We've never seen a machine to date that could not address Flash directly at the top of memory.
MMCR can be moved...
"Probably the single biggest problem is the location of the configuration registers, placed right in the middle of the top 2MB of memory"
You can map the MMCR to any 4k offset in the lower 1G by writing to the CBAR register. 0xFFFEF000 is just the default location, so I would not see that as a flaw.
I ended up using rolo instead of Linuxbios on a SC520 based product I designed a few years ago. U-boot is another very powerful option, but they are both more targeted to embedded products.
MMCR can be moved ... but not removed.
The problem in this case is that even if you "move" the MMCR, it is still sitting at its old position 0xFFFEF000, in addition to the new one.
Code sample
The code snippet is broken - presumably due to mangling by a CMS. Given the extreme difficulty I'm having in getting this godawful commenting system to not mangle these code snippets, that's my working theory. LJ staff, please fix your CMS so it doesn's strip spaces in >code<>/code< blocks! I had to use in a >code<>/code<block, which is (a) gross and (b) should probably not be interpreted as an entity, but rather as a literal.
In addition to the total loss of indenting, I found two other problems. First:
bios = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem,
off_t) (0xffffffff - size + 1));
looks like it should be:
bios = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem,
(off_t)(0xffffffff - size + 1) );
#include #
should evidently be:
With those changes it builds OK here. The dump doesn't look too interesting on this system - probably not a flash image, anyway - but it's an AMD64 box so it's quite likely the flash is mapped to somewhere different. Any idea what address it might be at?
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