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Soul-Sucking Dementor Wasp
Latin name: Ampulex dementor
Topics: Budget Showdown, Politics News
(updated below – Update II [Tues.])
With the details of the pending debt deal now emerging (and for a very good explanation of the key terms, see this post by former Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein), a consensus is solidifying that (1) this is a virtually full-scale victory for the GOP and defeat for the President (who all along insisted on a "balanced" approach that included tax increases), but (2) the President, as usual, was too weak in standing up to right-wing intransigence — or simply had no options given their willingness to allow default — and was thus forced into this deal against his will. This depiction of Obama as occupying a largely powerless, toothless office incapable of standing up to Congress — or, at best, that the bad outcome happened because he's just a weak negotiator who "blundered" — is the one that is invariably trotted out to explain away most of the bad things he does.
It appears to be true that the President wanted tax revenues to be part of this deal. But it is absolutely false that he did not want these brutal budget cuts and was simply forced — either by his own strategic "blunders" or the "weakness" of his office — into accepting them. The evidence is overwhelming that Obama has long wanted exactly what he got: these severe domestic budget cuts and even ones well beyond these, including Social Security and Medicare, which he is likely to get with the Super-Committee created by this bill (as Robert Reich described the bill: "No tax increases on rich yet almost certain cuts in Med[icare] and Social Security . . . . Ds can no longer campaign on R's desire to Medicare and Soc Security, now that O has agreed it").
Last night, John Cole — along with several others — promoted this weak-helpless-President narrative by asking what Obama could possibly have done to secure a better outcome. Early this morning, I answered him by email, but as I see that this is the claim being pervasively used to explain Obama's acceptance of this deal — he was forced into it by the Tea Party hostage-takers — I'm reprinting that email I wrote here. For those who believe this narrative, please confront the evidence there; how anyone can claim in the face of all that evidence that the President was "forced" into making these cuts — as opposed to having eagerly sought them — is mystifying indeed. And, as I set forth there, there were ample steps he could have taken had he actually wanted leverage against the GOP; the very idea that negotiating steps so obvious to every progressive pundit somehow eluded the President and his vast army of advisers is absurd on its face.
Here's The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn — who, as he says, with some understatement, is usually "among [Obama's] staunchest defenders in situations like these" — on what these guaranteed cuts mean (never mind the future cuts likely to come from the Super Committee):
As Robert Greenstein, of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, pointed out in a recent statement about a different proposal, there's just no way to enact spending reductions of this magnitude without imposing a lot of pain. And contrary to the common understanding in the Washington cocktail party circuit, "pain" does not simply mean offending certain political sensibilities. Pain means more people eating tainted food, more people breathing polluted air, more people pulling their kids out of college, and more people losing their homes — in other words, the hardships people suffer when government can't do an adequate job of looking out for their interests.
As I wrote back in April when progressive pundits in D.C. were so deeply baffled by Obama's supposed "tactical mistake" in not insisting on a clean debt ceiling increase, Obama's so-called "bad negotiating" or "weakness" is actually "shrewd negotiation" because he's getting what he actually wants (which, shockingly, is not always the same as what he publicly says he wants). In this case, what he wants — and has long wanted, as he's said repeatedly in public — are drastic spending cuts. In other words, he's willing — eager — to impose the "pain" Cohn describes on those who can least afford to bear it so that he can run for re-election as a compromise-brokering, trans-partisan deficit cutter willing to "take considerable heat from his own party."
UPDATE: Scott Lemieux writes to partially disagree with my argument here, but — except for his description of Obama as a "moderate Democrat" (I think Krugman's "moderate Conservative" is more accurate) — I don't really disagree with anything Lemieux wrote. Of course the fact that Obama wanted spending cuts does not preclude his having also made negotiation mistakes along the way. But my point is a more general one: for a long time, the standard progressive narrative was that Obama wanted a clean debt-ceiling hike but was being forced (by the Tea Party and bad negotiating) into unwanted budget cuts. The evidence — beginning with Obama's own repeated statements — is that that's just not true: he affirmatively wanted these cuts and more as part of the debt ceiling hike.
On a different note, I am quite certain that VastLeft has captured, in cartoon form, exactly what the rhetorical strategy will be for dealing with liberal anger over this deal (click on image to enlarge):
Or, as Charles Davis put it in a different context: "Remember when Michele Bachmann killed all those innocent people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq and Libya? Ugh. Hate her."
UPDATE II: Matt Taibbi writes on whether Obama is actually a "weak negotiator":
Now, Barack Obama has surrendered control of the budget to the Tea Party. . . . Commentators everywhere are killing the president for his seemingly astonishing level of ball-less-ness. . . . The Democrats aren't failing to stand up to Republicans and failing to enact sensible reforms that benefit the middle class because they genuinely believe there's political hay to be made moving to the right. They're doing it because they do not represent any actual voters. I know I've said this before, but they are not a progressive political party, not even secretly, deep inside. They just play one on television. . . .
The Democrats, despite sitting in the White House, the most awesome repository of political power on the planet, didn't fight at all. . . . We probably need to start wondering why this keeps happening. Also, this: if the Democrats suck so bad at political combat, then how come they continue to be rewarded with such massive quantities of campaign contributions? When the final tally comes in for the 2012 presidential race, who among us wouldn't bet that Barack Obama is going to beat his Republican opponent in the fundraising column very handily? At the very least, he won't be out-funded, I can almost guarantee that.
And what does that mean? Who spends hundreds of millions of dollars for what looks, on the outside, like rank incompetence?
It strains the imagination to think that the country's smartest businessmen keep paying top dollar for such lousy performance. Is it possible that by "surrendering" at the 11th hour and signing off on a deal that presages deep cuts in spending for the middle class, but avoids tax increases for the rich, Obama is doing exactly what was expected of him?
A mere three years ago, huge numbers of people invested substantial time, attention, energy, emotion and "hope" in fighting to put Barack Obama in the White House. The very human incentives not to reach this conclusion are both obvious and overwhelming.
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Soul-Sucking Dementor Wasp
Latin name: Ampulex dementor
10,000th reptile species
Latin name: Cyrtodactylus vilaphongi
Colour-changing thorny frogs
Latin name: Gracixalus lumarius
Long-fanged bat
Latin name: Hypsugo dolichodon
Stealthy wolf snake
Latin name: Lycodon zoosvictoriae
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World's second-longest insect
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Las Vegas this week becomes the tech capital of the world as the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show and an estimated 140,000 conventioneers take over Sin City.
This giant tech confab features an estimated 27,000 gadgets that range from a cell-phone-sized projector from Microvision and sleek OLED displays from Samsung, to dueling wireless technologies (WirelessHD and Wireless USB) that aim to eliminate all those wires behind your HDTV.
Pre-show events start tomorrow. The show floor opens Monday.
What's new this year? For one this year's CES is billed as the greenest ever with vendors touting power-saving hard-disk drives to other gadget firms showing off green-designed gear built with a reduced amount of nasty toxins like lead.
Also new will be a strong showing of in-car gadgets that go beyond GPS navigation systems. CES representatives say this year's show will have 250,000 square feet of in-car gadgets.
It will also be the last time Microsoft's Bill Gates delivers his annual CES keynote addresses. But don't get to teary-eyed. There will be plenty of cool technologies on display to distract anyone from worrying about what Gates' post-CES plans are.
This year's CES will cover nearly 1.85 million square feet of exhibition space that spans across the huge Las Vegas Convention Center, as well as the Sands Expo and Convention Center, as well as the Las Vegas Hilton and Venetian hotels.
There's going to be lots to see at CES. For one, we are interested in Pinnacle Systems' Pinnacle Transfer Video gizmo and whether it lives up to its promise of allowing you to record analog video onto your iPod sans the need for a PC. Pinnacle announced its video capture device early and will be showing it for the first time at CES.
Another pre-announced CES gadget we're interested in seeing in Vegas is Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile software for the BlackBerry. The software is supposed to allow you to watch live TV streamed from any Slingbox model to a 3G wireless or Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry smartphone.
Motorola also pre-announced one of its CES gadgets as well. It will show its Motorola DH01 portable television that allows you to watch broadcast TV on a 4.3-inch screen and also functions as a digital video recorder. Eat your heart out TiVo.
CES will feature laptops with more pizzazz and entertainment features. Bill Gates at his Sunday night keynote kicking off CES will reportedly be holding a PC "fashion show" with celebrity judge Nigel Barker of "America's Next Top Model" to see which notebook maker has the snazziest design.
Expect to see a slew of other notebooks featured at CES outfitted with high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) ports. These ports help turn notebooks into quasi-home theater components allowing you to connect say a notebook's Blu-ray disc drive to a HDTV.
On the other end of the notebook spectrum, look for ultraportables and UMPCs (ultra-mobile PCs) to have a significant presence CES as well. Vendors will show off tiny new notebooks that are faster and cheaper, and able to eke out better battery life.
Keep Cell Phone Expectations Low
Where are the wireless handsets at CES? Phone vendors don't go wild at CES--many hold off for the giant 3GSM exposition a month later in Barcelona, Spain. But Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Nokia will all have booths at CES, and probably a few new handsets as well.

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|Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:01
Taking on The Cavs
Washington Wizards forward Caron Butler earned the nickname "Tough Juice" because of his hard-nosed play and durability.
That reputation may have taken a hit while Butler has been sidelined with a hip injury, but the All-Star is expected to return to the lineup for the first time in more than a month on Thursday night when the Wizards host LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Butler has missed 16 straight games and 19 of the last 21 because of the injury, which also kept him out of the All-Star game. He was originally diagnosed with a strained hip flexor and listed as day-to-day, but an MRI discovered a small labral tear of the left hip joint that extended his absence.
Butler, though, returned to practice Monday and should start in this contest.
"Caron is going to be probable, so we add a little 'Tough Juice' to the lineup," Wizards coach Eddie Jordan said. "And we'll see how it goes."
Butler said he has felt fine in practice other than some tightness after Tuesday's shootaround.
"I've got a nice rhythm. I've got a couple of practices under my belt. I'm not feeling any symptoms," Butler, who turns 28 on Thursday, said after practice on Wednesday. "It's a big day with my birthday. Things seem to be really flowing right now, so tomorrow would be a great game to come back.
"If I wake up tomorrow and feel the same way, I'll definitely be on the court."
Butler's return should help an injury-plagued Washington team that has slipped into sixth place in the Eastern Conference. The Wizards (31-32) have been without Butler, two-time All-Star point guard Gilbert Arenas (knee surgery) and center Etan Thomas (open heart surgery).
Arenas and Thomas have both returned to practice, but aren't ready to play.
Washington also lost All-Star forward Antawn Jamison to a lower back strain in the final minute of its 105-97 win over Milwaukee on Tuesday. Jamison is expected to play Thursday.
Despite the injury problems, Washington is 7-5 since its season-high eight-game losing streak from Jan. 30-Feb. 11. The Wizards hope to move back to .500 for the first time since they were 24-24 on Feb. 6, but that could be a challenge against James' Cavaliers (37-28).
James is averaging 37.1 points, 8.1 rebounds and 7.4 assists while leading Cleveland to five wins in its last seven games. He had 42 points, 11 boards and seven assists on Wednesday, but the Cavaliers couldn't overcome a 15-point first-quarter deficit in their 104-99 loss at New Jersey.
"We lost the game in the first quarter," James said after his seventh 40-point performance of the season. "So we started off, we didn't show no adjustments on the defensive end and were very lackadaisical, myself included. And we let them just do what they wanted to do in the first quarter."
James will try to help the Cavaliers bounce back against the Wizards, whom he has dominated over the last two years. He's averaging 30.1 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.3 assists in his last 15 games against them - including 10 postseason contests. The Cavaliers have won 12 of those games, including eight playoff games.
The Wizards, though, are hoping Tuesday's victory will help them get back on track at home, where they had dropped six of their previous eight games.
"It was a much-needed win," Jordan said. "We needed to make home feel like home again."
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Leader of the Finns party, Timo Soini, at a polling station in Espoo last January
Dec 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15 • By ANDREW STUTTAFORD
That the success of the PS and its kin elsewhere is due to the overreach of a project—an ever more deeply integrated Europe run by a small transnational elite—designed to head off such unruly expressions of populism is an irony to appreciate, if not always to savor. That it has happened in Finland only adds to its piquancy. Since joining the EU in 1995, Finland had always been a model pupil, diligent and thoroughly communautaire. Unlike Denmark, and despite initial considerable skepticism on the part of its population (in 1996 fewer than 30 percent of voters supported the idea of a single currency), Finland never negotiated an opt-out from its obligation to sign up for the euro, nor, like Sweden, did it simply grab one. The Swedes and the Danes then rejected the single currency in referenda, an opportunity never offered to the Finns. Eager to please the membership committee of a club they were desperately keen to join, Finland's politicians were never going to risk allowing their electorate to second-guess the goal of monetary union.
For there was something else at work in Helsinki: the thought of a large and still troubling neighbor. Every step Finland took deeper into its new "European" identity, even the adoption of the EU's funny money, was a step away from Muscovy. And it is not only the Finns who feel that way. Anxiety over the bully next door does much to explain the increasingly egregious Europhile posturing—plus royaliste que le roi—by some members of Poland's political class, and, more poignantly, the reason given by the Estonian prime minister for signing his frugal, well-run country up for the madhouse math of the European Stability Mechanism: "Our objective," he said, "is to never again be left alone."
These are sentiments that Soini evidently understands. He shows me a photograph of his daughter standing on the apparently unguarded Finnish side of a stretch of the Russo-Finnish border that runs through the forests to the east. He reminds me—with a smile—that the U.K. did not exactly rush to Finland's assistance when the Soviets invaded in 1939. I suspect he is not convinced that, if it ever really came down to it, Brussels's umbrella would amount to much either. Finland must look after itself.
The still widespread idea that Finland needs Brussels to anchor it in the West is not one that the Finns party shares. It is opposed not only to Finland's participation in the bailouts, but also to the euro itself (if a tad cagey about what to do about it). Most iconoclastically, the PS would prefer to see today's EU replaced by a free trade area somewhat akin to the "common market" that gullible Britons believed they were joining in 1973. Within that looser association, Soini mentions there could be room for closer regional cooperation where it made sense, with the other Nordic nations, of course, and the Balts, say, and the Poles and maybe the Brits, too. And the Germans? "No, they would want to bring France with them."
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nickthegun wrote:Oh, was it not?
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nickthegun wrote:Oh, was it not?
Sorry about that.
Hated, adored, never ignored.
nickthegun wrote:For about 10 games (OK it might have been longer but wasn't more than a season or so). Then faded badly. He may have been sold though, my addled mind isn't what it was.
Edited by Dougs at 16:13:48 26-02-2013
kalel wrote:Advice from the master himself, one day ill get there.
|Darren Huckerby made him look like a legend.
|Having Wiki'd Yeboah, seems he was George Graham'd so I might be being a bit harsh.
|I just remember him getting a few hattricks and scoring some fucking pearlers.
|This is my memory from nearly 20 years ago, so I may be filling the gaps in myself...
|we done Chris Sutton for Chelsea?
nickthegun wrote:He was brilliant on Sensible Soccer if that helps...
reddevil93 wrote:I'm assuming '93 signifies a date of birth?
|We have had a lot of strikers flop on us, Caseraghi was another.
|George Weah at Chelsea is another one. Chelsea do not have a good record.
Yup, why?
Holy crap! How could we have forgotten Winston Bogarde?
Oh yeah, because he never fucking played.
reddevil93 wrote:He PMd me that he thought it was your IQ but I bet him it was your age.
nickthegun wrote:Hahahhahahahahaha, good one man
|How about The Razzy Yak @ Spurs? Though I did like him! Admittedly, not even close to the level of some of the names mentioned above.
|And Mido. Fucking hell. That was a bit embarrassing!
George Weah was only on loan for a few months and did OK, not nearly as bad as some of the others.
Casiraghis only Chelsea goal
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|The feck was ya man's name at Sunderland who was great for a season or so while Bruce was there?
Rasiak was total total pants, but it was only �1m in the end and was always an emergency buy.
Postiga would be a better shout from a Spurs point of view. He was supposed to be our super striker foreign signing. Total rubbish. And of course Bent and Bentley, although the former went for profit in the end amazingly.
|Asamoh Gyan?
|That's the one, cheers
|Gyan didn't flop.
kalel wrote:What about Pavly?
|Anyone mention Jeffers yet?
kalel wrote:Never said he did, just remember him being great for a wee while before heading off to UAE or wherever.
@reddevil93 Pav was a great player - not a flop. Just the manager never really rated him, but scored a load of great goals.
Arshavin, maybe?
Who was that really bad one for the Arsenal recently? Squillaci? What was that all about?
Pav certainly wasn't the Berbatov replacement we needed, but he wasn't stupid money and did ok.
I think we're in danger of just having a discussion about average players now.
|Up until the madness of the last year and a half our record signing and biggest flop was Mike Sheron. Yes I'm that old.
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MOOC is the new buzzword in education – particularly in the higher education lexicon.
What is a MOOC? It is an acronym for a Massively Open Online Course. Let's unravel the meaning of this phrase in reverse order:
It is a course, since it is courseware prepared by universities (or other education institutions) for accredited programmes of study.
It is online, since anyone with an internet connection can access it.
It is open, since you don't have to pay for it. Well, most of the time a MOOC is free; sometimes you are only charged for assessment and/or accreditation.
It is massive(ly),since internet access makes the course available to anyone, anywhere on the planet. The student body is no longer restricted by location or accommodation. In theory, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people can enrol for a particular course.
One may wonder on what technology platform MOOCs will be made available. This is not altogether clear at this stage; the idea of free, open, online courses is appealing to many but the definition of the technology engine is still in its development phase.
The movement towards MOOCs seems like an attractive option for the beleaguered education system in South Africa, but time will only tell how useful it will be. Poor internet connectivity, a lack of access to technology devices and low levels of understanding of e-learning are some of the barriers that we have to overcome to make MOOCs viable alternatives to class-bound courses.
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The computer virus lends its name from the field of biology. In medical terms a virus is a minute infectious agent which lacks independent metabolism and is able to replicate only in a living host cell. A virus acts in a similar way in a computer.
A virus is a small software program, which has really no purpose other than to cause harm. It is infectious – that means it is transmitted from one computer to another. Like a biological virus, it has the ability to replicate – make copies of – itself, while it is within your system. A computer virus can therefore be defined as:
A malicious piece of software that is designed to spread from one computer to another with the intent of causing damage.
Some viruses bring about more harm than others. The damage may range from being a mere nuisance to causing system failure. Some of the effects that you could experience if your computer is affected by a virus are:
Unsolicited e-mails are sent to everyone in your address book from your laptop.
Your computer restarts constantly so that it becomes impossible for you to work on it.
Some of your documents are e-mailed to strangers.
Some of your data files are erased or corrupted.
All the data from your hard disk are erased.
Where do these viruses come from? Clever programmers who want to cause wilful harm to as many computers as possible write these programs – the Microsoft Windows environment is their main target. If you are working under Apple Mac or an open source operating system, you are unlikely to be infected by a nasty virus.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A lawyer defending a Philadelphia abortion provider on murder charges accused officials of "an elitist, racist prosecution," as the death-penalty trial opened Monday.
Lawyer Jack McMahon also accused city officials of "a prosecutorial lynching" of his client, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is black.
Gosnell, 72, is accused of running a rogue clinic that ignored the state ban on third-term abortions and 24-hour waiting periods. Prosecutors say he also maimed desperate, often poor women and teens by letting his untrained staff perform abortions and give anesthesia. And they say he got rich doing it, by performing a high volume of substandard abortions.
Police found $250,000 in cash during a 2010 search of his home, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said. Gosnell used outmoded drugs and unorthodox methods, forcing women to endure labor and then deliver live babies that were then killed by staff with scissors, she said. Normally, the fetus is killed in utero.
"The standard practice here was to slay babies. That's what they did," said Pescatore, who echoed a 2011 grand jury report in calling the clinic "a house of horrors."
Staff went along with the routine because they were nearly as desperate as the patients, she said. The two other "doctors" on staff were allegedly medical school graduates without licenses. The employee giving anesthesia was a sixth-grade dropout, while a 15-year-old high school student helped in the surgical and recovery rooms, she said.
McMahon countered that prosecutors are applying "Mayo Clinic" standards to Gosnell's inner-city office in West Philadelphia. Gosnell, he said, performed as many as 1,000 abortions a year, and at least 16,000 over his long career -- with a lower-than-average complication rate, he said.
"This is a targeted, elitist and racist prosecution of a doctor who's done nothing but give (back) to the poor and the people of West Philadelphia," the fiery McMahon insisted to the predominantly black jury, as Gosnell sat serenely taking notes. "It's a prosecutorial lynching of Dr. Kermit Gosnell."
Gosnell is charged with killing seven babies born alive, along with Karnamaya Mongar a newly-arrived, 41-year-old refugee from Bhutan. Prosecutors say Gosnell's staff gave the 90-pound woman a lethal dose of anesthesia and painkillers during a 2009 abortion.
But McMahon said he will prove that she also had other drugs in her system, perhaps from an attempt to self-abort the fetus using a tuberculosis drug. She also had bronchial problems that she did not report -- she did not speak English -- and died of unfortunate complications, he said.
As for the infant deaths, McMahon vowed to prove that none were born alive. No physical evidence exists in five of the deaths; the murder charges are instead based on staff testimony that the babies moved or cried.
Authorities have a photograph of the sixth baby, who allegedly had a gestational age of 30 weeks, and the body of the seventh. But McMahon argued that neither took a breath.
He conceded the case will be emotional and upsetting for jurors and everyone else involved "because we all love babies."
Investigators stumbled into the abortion case during a 2010 FBI drug raid of the clinic, as agents investigated Gosnell's high-volume distribution of painkillers. They hoped to search the premises and interview him one evening when no abortions were under way.
Instead, they found about a half-dozen women in the midst of the procedure, and Gosnell arriving only for the delivery. Some women appeared heavily medicated and in pain, and were taken by ambulance to other facilities. But Gosnell, as he spoke with the agents, was allowed to finish the other cases.
When he returned, he sat with his surgical gloves on and ate dinner during the interview, an agent testified.
"He was still wearing his bloody latex gloves. They had some holes in them. And he ate his dinner. He didn't take them off," FBI agent Jason Huff testified.
Gosnell faces the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder in the infant deaths. He is charged with third-degree murder in Mongar's death.
Eight co-defendants have pleaded guilty, most of whom will testify against Gosnell. Three pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, which carries a 20- to 40-year term.
The only employee on trial with Gosnell is Eileen O'Neill, 52, of Phoenixville, who allegedly held herself out as a doctor at the clinic when she was not licensed. Her lawyer told jurors she never did so, and only performed medical duties under Gosnell's orders.
The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks.
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Los Angeles' George Harrison Tree, a memorial to the deceased Beatles lead guitarist, has died of irony. More specifically, a pernicious beetle infestation killed the tree, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Harrison spent the end of his life in Los Angeles before dying of lung cancer in 2001. Since he was a keen gardener, the city planted a sapling in his honor three years later, in Griffith Park. Yet within a decade, beetles had overrun the plant; as the Times notes, other trees in the park have also been felled by bark beetles and ladybug beetles.
Los Angeles Councilman Tom LaBonge says the city will plant a new tree to replace the dead one. Hopefully, the pests will let this tree be. Jon Terbush
Walmart announced Tuesday that it is raising the starting wage for more than 100,000 of its U.S. workers, including department managers and workers in specialized divisions. The wage increases will go into effect next month.
Workers in Walmart's deli and wireless product divisions, for example, will now earn between $9.90 and $18.81 an hour, compared with a range from $9.20 to $18.53 an hour before the increase, The Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, department managers in electronics and automotive care will earn between $13 and $24.70 an hour, compared with $10.30 to $20.09 before the increase.
In February, Walmart announced that it would raise its minimum wage for all workers to $9 an hour in April and to $10 next February. Walmart is America's largest private-sector employer, with 1.3 million employees nationwide. The company said it is spending $1 billion to raise its workers' wages. Meghan DeMaria
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would require states to report all police shootings to the Department of Justice.
In a statement to announce the legislation, the senators cited reporting from The Washington Post published Sunday, which found that 2015 has seen at least 385 police killings nationwide so far.
"Too many members of the public and police officers are being killed, and we don't have reliable statistics to track these tragic incidents," Boxer said in a statement. "This bill will ensure that we know the full extent of the problem so we can save lives on all sides."
The Post notes that the new bill would differ from the Death in Custody Reporting Act, which Congress approved last year, because it would require reporting non-fatal shootings, in addition to fatal ones, to the DOJ. The new legislation would require reporting details about the shooting victims including age, gender, race, and whether or not the victims were armed. Meghan DeMaria
A new poll from The New York Times and CBS News found that both Republicans and Democrats don't approve of the ways political campaigns are funded.
Forty-six percent of respondents said the U.S. should "completely rebuild" how campaigns are financed. Another 39 percent agreed that the campaign finance system needs "fundamental changes."
Among Republicans, 80 percent of the poll respondents said money has too much influence on U.S. politics, and 76 percent of Republicans supported requiring outside spending organizations to disclose their donors. Meanwhile, 90 percent of Democratic respondents believed money had too much influence, and 76 percent of Democrats supported more disclosure about political donors. Across the political spectrum, many respondents expressed support for new measures that would restrict the wealthy's influence, such as limiting spending by super PACs.
The 1,022 adults polled weren't optimistic that things would change anytime soon, though. Fifty-eight percent of respondents were "pessimistic" that the U.S. will change the way campaigns are financed. Meghan DeMaria
It was under our very noses! Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered what's being called the missing link between the brain and the immune system: vessels of the lymphatic system that escaped notice by "hiding" among major blood cells traveling through sinuses. The full study was published in this month's issue of Nature.
It's being called a "stunning discovery" because up until now, no one had completely understood how the brain connects to the immune system. The answer, Gizmag aptly says, is "just like every other tissue in the body."
For the layperson, its effect on our understanding of the human body is best summed up by this image:
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That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis. [Neuroscience News]
As the chairman of the UVA Department of Neuroscience told Neuroscience News, "They'll have to change the textbooks." Nico Lauricella
The Senate on Tuesday voted 83-14 to advance the USA Freedom Act, a bill that would revise the U.S. government's surveillance powers. The cloture vote came after key provisions of the USA Patriot Act temporarily expired at midnight on Sunday.
The USA Freedom Act has already passed in the House, and it would end the National Security Agency's bulk data collection from phone calls. Under the new bill, phone data would stay private, but the government could search records under court orders.
The Senate's final passage of the bill is expected later Tuesday, and it could be signed into law as early as Tuesday evening. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), however, wants to propose amendments to the House-passed bill, which would delay its passage. McConnell's proposed amendments would "give further assurances" that the government could still search private phone data when necessary. Meghan DeMaria
What if the asteroid that smashed into the earth and killed the dinosaurs had missed? That's the intriguing, parallel-universe question behind The Good Dinosaur, a Pixar movie slated for release later this year — and a new teaser elegantly lays out the basic premise while showing off some impressive animation:
The Good Dinosaur has had an unusually bumpy path to the box office. The film was originally slated for release in 2014, before creative problems led to the replacement of the original director and producer. The film seems to be back on track — but we won't get to see how much the original concept has evolved until The Good Dinosaur hits theaters in November. Scott Meslow
FIFA President Sepp Blatter on Tuesday announced that he would step down from his post following the election of a new leader at an "extraordinary congress" of the organization. He said the congress is to be convened "as rapidly as possible."
The announcement, made at a press conference in Zurich, was a surprise, coming just days after Blatter won re-election to a fifth term amidst allegations that top FIFA officials had engaged in a massive, decades-long bribery ring.
FIFA official Domenico Scala said the extraordinary congress to select Blatter's successor could be held as early as December. He said profound structural reforms, including of the executive committee that is stuffed with Blatter's allies, would also be on the table.
Just yesterday, The New York Times reported that Blatter's top lieutenant was involved in a $10 million transfer to one of the FIFA officials accused of taking kickbacks, suggesting there was evidence that Blatter's inner circle was involved in the bribery ring as well. Ryu Spaeth


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Three Tiny Exoplanets Suggest Solar System Not So Special 83
from the more-exoplanets-than-we-know-what-to-do-with dept.
Yes, that star's habitable zone is probably closer than our Sun's, but the planets are still way to close to be considered in that star's habitable zone.
At the AAS meeting, the discovery team announced that all three planets orbiting KOI-961 whip around the star in less than two days. The outermost body is the tiniest, with a diameter half that of Earth, or about the same as Mars, and a temperature of about 400 degrees Celsius. The inner two planets are larger, with diameters about three-fourths that of Earth. But that is still smaller than Venus. Because the planets are all small and close to their star, much of the atmosphere they may once have had would have evaporated, leaving behind bare rock, Marcy says.
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Package Quality: 3.9
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on 4/28/2013 12:31:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Oily, Dark, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
My first review ever! So I bought 1000 mcg Biotin tablets a month ago and started using them. I bought mine from the Target Up and Up brand (100 tablets). I usually take 2 tablets per day with 2 glasses of water. At night. I started religiously taking them this week after a break at the beginning of the month. I started taking them again because I was getting eczema on my neck. And me taking these religiously for the eczema has helped TONS. It doesn't itch anymore and I can't even feel it! This is a miracle! As for my hair, it's stronger and my natural root color is starting to show again and they are getting a bit kinky! As for breakouts, I have oily acne prone skin and when I first started taking these at the beginning of the moth, yes I did get cystic acne. But, my skin is now brighter, more supple, and smoother! Love this! Oh and my biotin was just $2.72!
on 4/27/2013 7:34:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
I did A LOT of research prior to purchasing this. The reviews were so mixed I decided to just take the plunge. What did I have to lose? (Apart from my money, but then again I managed to get 2 bottles in a buy one get one free offer!)
I have now been taking these since the end of January (1000mcg). I definitely noticed an increase in hair growth very quickly and in the nearly 3 months of taking biotin my hair has grown substantially. PROOF this works: I have had a 'bald patch' on the right side of my hairline for as long as I can remember and I never used to like wearing my hair up/straight back because my hairline was 'wonky'. Since taking biotin the hair there has been filling in for the first time *ever*. In fact there are new baby hairs all along my hairline, about 2 inches long, nearly as long as a fringe/bangs! That's proof enough for me. Friends who usually (playfully) tease me about having slow-growing hair have commented on the fact my hair is getting long and my boyfriend, who is a hairdresser has said my hair seems stronger. I took off one lippie because if I take the amount it says on the bottle (says to take up to 2 a day) I get bad headaches, which apparently is a common side effect of biotin... I now take one a day which is fine. My advice would be to try it out for yourself and see if it works for you, you really don't have that much to lose.
on 4/13/2013 2:35:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Olive, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Blue
I have 1000 mcg tablets which I began taking twice a day, spaced out to prevent losing all the vitamin in my urine. I did this for maybe 4 or 5 days and then forgot for a few days...suddenly I'm breaking out on my cheeks and back. I normally have no acne at all other than around my period, but it's definitely not that time of the month and I have at least 4 pimples. Sadly, unless I can figure out why exactly biotin causes breakouts and figure out a way around it, I won't try this again.
on 4/8/2013 4:14:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Grey
I buy Nature's Bounty brand at Wal-Mart for $7 for a bottle of 100 tables with 1000mg each. I started taking one tablet every day and broke out horrible. Scaled it back to one tablet every 3 days, worked up to every day and gradually worked up to 5 tablets or 5000mg every day. Take this with a regular multi-vitamin or it will break you out. I always had thin and bendy nails. They're now quite a bit harder and are still bendy but less prone to breakage. So make them grow longer make sure you get your heart rate up several times a day to get your blood flowing.
on 4/5/2013 10:55:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
Well I got super lazy with taking these but did notice quicker hair growth. I've I ever get to being consistent with this, I know it'll work greatly.
Just started taking a couple of days ago. I purchased the Spring Valley brand from Walmart (I believe it's distributed only by Walmart) for $2.94..
My hair is very fine, kinky asian straight, and naturally black!
These pills I bought are really small like the size of an Aleve tablet and is a gel capsule which makes it easier to swallow too!! It comes with 150 pills 1,000mcg (or 1mg) each. I started off with a low dosage because I've read that many people get breakouts from taking higher dosages and want to avoid that route
Will update later!!!
on 4/4/2013 10:00:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Very Oily, Olive, Warm
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
All I have to say is that for me this was acne in a bottle! Holy cow, it caused the biggest acne breakout that I've ever had! It started to clear up the day after I stopped taking it. Take at your own risk if you are sensitive. I've researched and some say that if you take a B vitamin it will stop the acne, I'm not trying it but that may help some!
on 3/31/2013 7:27:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Other, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Add me to the group of reviewers who developed acne from taking Biotin ...
I never get cystic acne, I rarely break out and I have dry-normal skin. My skin care routine is simple: Purity Cleanser, PTR Unwrinkle Cream, PTR Unrinkle Peel Pads 5-7x week, manual/chemical exfoliation 2x week, and SPF30 with Vitamin C every morning.
I've been on Biotin for 4 days and have 2 large cystic bumps. :/
on 3/28/2013 11:16:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I use the Eu Natural Biotin 5000 mcg (search for it on Amazon) and it has been working great. Much healthier and fuller hair, and my nails have also become stronger. I take it every day with lunch and a full glass of water. Right now, I'm growing about an inch to my hair length every month.
There are quite a few different brands out there so it may take going through a few to find the one that works for you. They aren't all created equally! Some aren't potent enough, others can make you break out, and a lot of them are made in China.
on 3/25/2013 5:43:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
NC25 Chinese, acne prone.
I bought a bottle Nature's Bounty from Costco after seeing a blogger rave about it for stronger nails (mine were bendy and starting to peel without understanding why at the time). Took the bottle home, read the MUA reviews and saw the potential acne trigger but figured you never know til you try so only did low dosage of 1 pill per day....
Used it for about 3 weeks, and cystic city! Took a few weeks to clear up. So yes it's true, can trigger acne. No bueno for me.
on 3/23/2013 5:00:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Red, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I've been using Biotin for about 4 months now, starting on 2,500 mcg and now I'm on 10,000 after gradually working my way up. My nails are super strong and my hair is growing faster than usual and in better condition (not so thin and less split ends). I did experience some acne at the start but not anymore, however I have been using Sweet Almond oil and that was what cleared my skin up. I have now advanced onto Paula's choice and that is sorting out blackheads :) If you want to see results you need to up the dosage and be prepared to wait about 2-3 months to see results as that is about how long it takes for most supplements to starting working in the body.
I buy my biotin online at iherb.com as it is way cheaper than trying to find it in New Zealand, you can use my discount code for $10 off a $40 purchase... DWQ834
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The Chicago Cubs have played at Wrigley Field since 1916. Ivy covered brick wall in the outfield, the manual scoreboard, the bleachers, and of course the red marquee out front that welcomes you to the Friendly Confines. All of these things help make Wrigley such an iconic ballpark, and are a key part of the history of the baseball team on the North Side of Chicago. I personally cannot even imagine a world where the Cubs are not playing in Wrigley, but things are developing, and it is starting to seem like a possibility. Could the Cubs actually move out of the Friendly Confines? First, let me explain the back story a bit. The Ricketts family purchased the Chicago Cubs from the Chicago Tribune company back in 2009. With their purchase, the Ricketts family also received Wrigley Field. Right away Tom Ricketts (who is widely known as the Cubs owner, he seems to make most of the hires and such for the family) let it be known that he could like to renovate Wrigley Field. If you have eve...
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These two lines represent the contrast that is San Jose. These two lines are very literal as well.
As I mentioned in a previous Annotation, I went on a 30 mile march across Silicon Valley to confront wealth inequality that is represented in these two lines.
Below is an article I wrote about the March to Heal the Valley and my experience on the journey.
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The BCS projections are up for this morning. I have Stanford dropping to 9th, just above Houston, and Boise State down to 12th after each team suffered its first loss of the season yesterday.
Voters could be in a conudrum if Oklahoma St goes down, especially if it's Oklahoma that beats them. Right now, lined up behind No. 2 Oklahoma St is Alabama and Oregon, each of which suffered its only loss of the season at the hands of No. 1 LSU. Voters looking to avoid a rematch may have no good option except the Sooners.
Also, Houston is now in the cat-bird seat for the non-AQ at-large spot. Even if the Cougars lose, Boise St would not be eligible unless someone beats TCU and the Bronocs are at least league co-champions. BCS rules say that the non-AQ spot is reserved for a conference champion.,
All data is projected top 25 in each ranking component except the Harris and coaches' polls, Colley and Sagarin, which are actual data through yesterday's games.
The coaches poll showed Boise State doing better than I expected, so I have re-projected Harris to reflect similar thinking. The result of that has the Broncos now 10th, ahead of Houston. That does not impact the AQ status for either team.
The Harris poll will was pretty similar. Stanford is seventh in Harris, but ninth in the coaches' poll. Virginia Tech is the opposite.
The official BCS release will be at about 8:30 PM ET.


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The trouble is free to play and microtransactions are too often trying to court two very different audiences: time-limited, even casual players who want a way to shortcut to the fun stuff, and dedicated, time-rich players who want to experience every last aspect of the game. There's some crossover, but when the most passionate, experienced player sees someone who's clearly a rank amateur run by while somehow wearing the same armour that they spent hours, days, weeks working for, they're only going to feel exploited.
Team Fortress 2 has found a smart middle-ground, in that the most exclusive in-game hats (TF2's character-adornment of choice) are only available to veteran and highly-skilled players, but how it's going to play out over time is mystery. Will it charge for content as well as aesthetics?
Charging for content is a fast way to make players angry - if it's implemented badly. The trick is to charge for what quite clearly seems like extra content, maps or characters or quests or modes that extend the experience rather than carve the game up in a way that suggests the initial package has been cruelly restricted so key chunks can be seperately monetised. The newly-rethought World of Warcraft trial is a fascinating example of this: you can play as much as you like for free until level 20, and even then keep exploring if you want to.
But if you want to go higher than that (WoW's character level cap is 85) you'll need to subscribe. It's not exactly free to play, though it is a foray into that field, but crucially it's dangling the carrot of more in front of the player, rather than making them feel like everywhere they turn they're met with a locked door with price written on it.
In many ways, it's a more logical way of approaching online worlds than subscriptions are. It's all too easy to tot up just how much (hundreds of pounds) the latter costs you in a year, or feverishly worry that you're not playing enough to get your money's worth. Done right, done gently and done with a conviction that you're offering players more and better content rather than just using compulsion techniques to get a direct line to their wallet, a player will be happy to lob a few pounds to keep playing for a bit longer, to see a bit more, to experience something above and beyond what they already have.
Too many free to play games seem to build the business model first then squeeze a game into the cracks - the key will be to build the best games possible first, and only then work out what players will feel is genuinely worth stumping up extra for.


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The Ciao from Dahon is an incredible women's specific folding bike for the female or male rider who prefer an easy step through frame. The Ciao is lightweight and comfortable and comes with low maintenance Shimano Nexus Revo shifters with 7 gears. It's a foldable urban city bike for running errands, going shopping and riding the near by bike path leading from Venice to Santa Monica.
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