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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Fried Kool-Aid on a stick, livestock shows, carnival games and a troupe of performing baboons await patrons of the Arkansas State Fair, organizers said of the annual event, which opens Friday.
Gut-busting food, rides, baboons join state fair
For the first time in more than a decade, the Little Rock fairgrounds will feature a roller coaster among its spinning and twisting rides — sure to be a challenge to keep all that fair food from reappearing. Who would want to lose a roast beef sundae?
Fair director Ralph Shoptaw said one culinary innovation offered this year is Oreos, funnel cakes and Kool-Aid, all deep-fried and on a stick.
But fear not, unadventurous eaters: "We have the traditional stuff too — corn dogs and pineapple whip ice cream," Shoptaw said.
More than 400,000 people are expected to attend the fair during its run through Oct. 21. The fair opens daily at 11 a.m.
Jim Youker of Raleigh, N.C., will sell quart tumblers of regular and flavored lemonade, including bacon, a recipe he said took a while to perfect.
Youker said he tried infusing simple syrup with his own bacon flavoring but the quality was inconsistent. Youker somehow found a commercial supplier of the flavoring, and the drink was born.
"You only need half a squirt," he said as he offered samples during a fair preview. The smoky flavor lingers, but refills for those with a taste for it are $4, a dollar cheaper than the first quart.
Food and fast-moving rides aren't the only attractions. The baboon act, Wild About Monkeys, will have three shows daily, alternating with pig races and Welde's Big Bear Show, which features performing grizzly bears.
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ATLANTA - Philadelphia manager Pete Mackanin thought his team's hitters deserved better results. The Phillies finally broke through Sunday for a rare win.
ATLANTA - Cameron Maybin had three hits, including a home run, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-5 on Saturday night in their best offensive showing in six weeks.
ATLANTA - A.J. Pierzynski and Juan Uribe hit back-to-back homers in a four-run fourth inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 on Wednesday night to end a streak of nine straight losses in the season series.
ATLANTA - Paul Millsap became an All-Star in his first two years with Atlanta and helped lead the Hawks to their first Eastern Conference finals.
He's back for at least two more years on a new contract which doubles his annual pay.
ATLANTA - Jordan Zimmermann took a shutout into the eighth inning and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 6-1 on Tuesday night to continue their season-long dominance of the division rivalry.
ATLANTA - Danny Ferry officially stepped down as general manager of the Atlanta Hawks on Monday and said having to watch the team's most successful season from a distance was "bittersweet.
ATLANTA - It wasn't an easy decision to order a pinch-hitter for Julio Teheran after the right-hander allowed only one hit in seven scoreless innings.
Pedro Ciriaco's clutch hit made that tough call by Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez look good.
ATLANTA - Andrelton Simmons got four hits for the Atlanta Braves in a 6-4 win Saturday night over the New York Mets 6-4, who lost their fourth in a row and catcher Travis d'Arnaud to an elbow injury.
A.J. Pierzynski tripled, doubled and singled.
ATLANTA - An independent investigation has found former Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry was not motivated by racial bias in making statements which ultimately ended his time with the team.
ATLANTA - Matt Wisler allowed only one run in eight innings in his major league debut to outpitch Jacob deGrom, and Jace Peterson hit a two-run double in the eighth to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 2-1 win over the New York Mets on Friday night.
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A new generation of sensors for detecting explosives and poisons could be developed following new research into a type of radiation known as T-rays, published today (3 February) in Nature Photonics.
The research shows that these T-rays, electromagnetic waves in the far infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum that have a wavelength 500 times longer than visible light, can be guided along the surface of a specially designed material, known as a metamaterial. Being able to control T-rays in this way is essential if this type of radiation is to be used in many real world applications.
Researchers believe one of the areas with the most potential to use T-rays is security sensing and scanning, because many of the molecules in explosives and biological agents like anthrax strongly absorb this radiation. If T-rays are tightly confined on surfaces in contact with such molecules then the detection sensitivity is greatly increased.
Simple metallic surfaces have been used to control T-ray propagation before, but these only weakly guide the radiation, which extends as a weak field many centimetres above the surface of the material, thus rendering it less effective for sensing. The new study has now shown that a metamaterial surface draws T-rays close to it, creating a very strong field less than a millimetre above the surface. This greatly enhances the absorption by molecules on the surface making highly effective sensing techniques possible.
The study was performed by a team of UK and Spanish physicists led in the UK by Dr Stefan Maier from Imperial College London's Department of Physics, and Dr Steve Andrews of the University of Bath. Dr Maier explains why their metamaterial design is so important:
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"5-HTP for Premature Ejaculation - Complete Guide to Effectively Last Longer"
5HTP supplement & Vitamins Are Exciting Herbal Trick for Delaying Your Premature Ejaculations Naturally!
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Imagine you call your old girlfriend on friday and inform her that you
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You have booked one of the finest restaurants in town.
On the 'big-day' you are feeling awesome throughout your date, its good wine, good atmosphere, good mood prevailng...
She is feeling like you are a totally changed Man. You are also
feeling the same way, never before have you enjoyed dinner with your GF
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As if she is meeting you for the very first time... You are a
completely new personality.
She can go to bed with you right now...
Your energy levels are high, your health looks great.
You look calm and relaxed. You are so fresh... you've a new glow on your face... there's something different about you definitely.
And when you two have sex - its so refreshing. Sex is so gradual today, it is not 'hurried'. You are taking all the time - its her pleasure of course.
Sex is more satisfying today then it ever was. You are able to enjoy sex for longer duration. You can easily withhold ejaculation without much conscious effort on your part.
She is probably wondering for a day "What on earth have you been doing?" "Is it Yoga or some exercising?", "Are you cheating or what?" or "Are you planning to marry her again?"...
Well that was the good part but if you really want to experience
some amazing youthful, sensual moments in your life then you've come
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I am going to show you how herbal supplements (not
SSRIs) can help you to enjoy a longer sex.
Apart from
feeling energetic, uplifted throughout your day you'll feel good about
yourself because you gave your girlfriend or wife what she sexually
desired - somewhat.
I won't say you'll blow her mind right away but slowly if you work
in that direction - you can get to that point also.
By the end of this page you'll learn a little bit about your body (-chemistry) and know what to expect from Herbal supplements. I am sure this is one of the single most important piece of information you would like to give complete attention to. These 5-10 minutes gonna be great investment of your time...
If you have heard anything about 5-HTP or serotonin then you must be
knowing that its
a very powerful tool and slowly more & more Men are enjoying its
. Are You ready?
5HTP is usually associated with - "mood-regulation" and "dieting" kind of stuff. Of course these are good incidental benefits for any Man. But ever wondered how does it help with sex especially Premature Ejaculation?
Serotonin - A Well-Known Terminator of PE!
Serotonin (a neurotransmitter) is a crucial chemical required for cells in our brain to talk to each other.
It's established that Serotonin delays ejaculation in men - given the success of SSRIs. But our body cannot produce serotonin directly so it should be taken through supplements or other means.
When serotonin is available in plenty - you have very good natural control over your ejaculations. Things move gradually - no quick ejaculation.
Everything goes at its natural pace - automatically. Yes things
happen on it own.
How do you delay ejaculation? You
don't 'do' anything 'it' happens. You feel so calm, peaceful
& 'in control'. I am talking not
just about Sex but you feel like you are in control of your life.
In fact many men are surprised by the change in attitude they feel
has come in just few days. Not kidding...
But not now! You know Serotonin is good for you, your relationship. Ok so lets see more about it.
How to Take Serotonin - safely!
Now I'll show you little science behind it, don't worry just a little. Here's how Serotonin is made in our body:
Tryptophan → 5-htp → Serotonin → Ejaculation delay.
That looks quite simple. There's a big myth over Internet that
eating 'trypotophan or serotonin
rich food' can delay ejaculation - of course its just what it is - a
Myth. Period.
For example Bananas are found to be very rich in serotonin. But our bodies are not able to absorb that serotonin.
Various studies show that there are barriers in our bodies due to which food items can't increase serotonin in brain, as widely claimed. So eating Turkeys or Bananas will not make you last longer in bed...
But here's a little trick: if you take 5-htp supplements; it overrides those barriers; 5htp reaches brain and gets converted into serotonin - awesome .
Is 5-HTP Safe to Use? For How Long Should You Take The Supplement?
5-HTP is naturally found in the seeds of the 'Griffonia Simplicifolia', a West African medicinal plant. 5-htp supplements are extracts of that seed!
But supplement's industry is unregulated. There are no regulated manufacturing standards in place. There is a large risk of contamination which can be very harmful for your body. Sometimes toxic metals and other drugs have been found in supplements.
Various health agencies alongwith FDA advises caution on its blind
use. So you can not purchase anything with doubtful integrity here.
But isn't it true that research is not yet complete on 5htp? Yeah it is true that research is not yet complete on 5-htp. As per my experience and research I believe that 5-htp can be taken for short durations - 3 to 4 months - without any negative effect. This has been the experience of many Men who take it on regular basis.
Various doctors like DoctorOz suggest that it should be taken not more than 90 days - please consult your doctor if you are on medication or have any medical condition or your are taking any SSRIs.
Moreover it can take decades for
'research' to complete and percolate benefits of 5-HTP to general
people. May be by then it could be twilight of your sex life. So you've
a very safe
window of 3-4 months in which you can check whether this trick is
working for you or not. And if it is working - boy you are so damn
lucky .
How to take these supplements? In my research I've found that you should start with very low dosage like 50 gm of 5htp. Take the tablet 4-5 times a week. Gradually you may increase the dose, but don't forget to consult your doctor. Then after 3-4 months give yourself some break. Give 1-2 months break and then you may start again if you feel like it..
Hang on.
Taken alone 5-HTP is probably going to go down the flush; you need
Vitamin B6 and Zinc for it to convert into Serotonin!!
5-HTP - Is This 'The Magic Potion'?
Well bio-Chemistry of our bodies are way too complex...
Rest assured poping a pill of 5-htp with some water is not going to do the trick.
You need Vitamins specially B-complex and Zinc alongwith 5-HTP. Vitamin B6 is essential for the synthesis of serotonin.
Additionally when you take 5-htp then a side-effect of this is that you may lose interest in sex and you may have frequent loss in erections. I know this is not what we want.
So alongwith 5-HTP you'll need 'some aphrodisiac' that enhances your libido, helps more blood-flow to penis & helps you maintain good hard erection. Right?
So what it takes to make a love potion?
2) Vitamins (specially B-complex and Zinc)
3) Libido and erection enhancers (not viagra)
4) Melatonin (for good night sleep)
What do you say? Like to add something more? List can be exhaustive .
I know you can't make a perfect combination out of these in 90-120 days. Time is running out from the day one .
Instead of experimentation and doing trial-and-error with all combinations I can suggest 2 good supplements. One with 5-HTP & other one without 5-HTP, both works fine actually.
And what about side-effects?
Yes the potion can have some side-effects. Like any multi-vitamin or SSRI pill there can be some side-effects like heartburn, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness or muscle problems.
Where to Buy The Best 5-HTP Supplement?
I think Prosolution Plus and Climaxagen are very good pills for improving sex
life; reliable - as they are made in a
FDA-compliant, ISO accredited lab.
These pills have all the right ingredients for a good sex. You get serotonin precursors, aphrodisiacs, vitamins & minerals.. so you don't have to worry about anything from day one. Just 1 pill a day as recommended - you work fine, no worries of combinations or over-dosage.
Comparatively I prefer Prosolution Plus, backed by MD Dr. Dave David, as this supplement is devoid of any active 5-HTP and is made to relax you during the 'act'. These tablets produce same effect as 5HTP. Exact process is not known but I guess herbs in this stimulates Parasympathetic Nervous System which is good for delaying ejaculation (same effect as Yoga).
And the best thing I like about Prosolution is you can take it for longer durations, without worrying about its long term side-effects.
How to Get Climaxagen at almost 50% discount?
If you are more convinced about 5HTP and want to take things forward then Climaxagen is the way to go. I've found that if you purchase it at company's website then its bundled with some un-useful stuff like delay creams (3 in numbers!) which I think are not at all useful. You can delay ejaculations at almost 50% discount here.
Avoid This Mistake That Many Guys Make!!
Believe me pooping a pill may not help you for the rest of your
life. Don't make your recovery on just one method. Taking a pill over
longer periods of time may have negative affects... I don't recommend
I highly recommend that you try to 'rewire' your
brain itself to
last longer. Yes you don't always have to take a pill before sex.
You will be taking it for the next 3-4 months and your brain will be charged up. Your brain is going to be very active, more alert than usual. You must use that period to train your brain a new habit. Habit to last longer in bed.
Is this plan wrong?
Although this kind of learning or say training was earlier confined to Therapist's office. However nowadays you can read their advices, methods and connect with them online - and learn at your own pace.
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With crowds coming for daylong festivities, visitors should rethink how they're getting to the National Mall.
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Joe's Sausage & Greens With Eggs
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|Swiss chard/Kale
|1 Pound (Red / Green)
|Salad oil
|2 Tablespoon
|Italian sausage
|1 Pound, casings removed (Mild / Hot)
|2 Large, finely chopped
|2 Clove (10 gm), pressed / minced
|1⁄2 Pound, sliced
|Ground nutmeg
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Dried oregano leaves
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|8 Large, lightly beaten
|To Taste
|Shredded jack cheese
|4 Ounce (1 Cup)
Rinse greens well.
Cut chard leaves into thin shreds; thinly slice stems.
(Or cut and discard tough stems from kale; cut leaves into thin shreds.) You should have about 8 cups, lightly packed.
Set greens aside.
Place a wok or 12- to 14-inch frying pan over high heat.
Add oil.
Crumble sausage into pan.
Stir frequently until meat is well browned.
Add onions, garlic, mushrooms, nutmeg, pepper, and oregano; cook, stirring often, until all liquid has evaporated and onions are soft.
Stir in greens a portion at a time, starting with stems, until all greens are in pan and just wilted, 3 to 4 minutes.
Add beaten eggs to pan.
Stir over low heat just until softly set.
Season to taste with salt.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. — When Jeff Gordon started the Chase for the Championship with a 35th-place finish at the Chicagoland Speedway, he hoped finishes of third- and second-place in the last two races would get him back into contention.
Instead, he's fallen further behind.
Though every playoff has been different, many agree it's becoming increasingly difficult to win the Sprint Cup Series championship with one bad race in the Chase.
HAMPTON — Carl Edwards desperately needs a win. So do Jeff Gordon, Ryan Newman, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Marcos Ambrose.
None of them, however, could have picked a tougher track to get it than the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Tonight's AdvoCare 500 will be 325 of the most-difficult laps of the racing season. The pavement is worn out and slick. There are deep cracks and big bumps. Tires wear out in a few laps. And by the end of the race, most cars will be rim-riding against the outside wall trying to find some traction.
It's impossible to ignore the resurgence of Hendrick Motorsports in the past month, especially since the team has three wins in the past five races and Jimmie Johnson has led the most laps in two of them.
At the same time, many have also noticed something strange with the rear axles in their cars.
Coaches in basketball, football, hockey and baseball can only hope to face the dilemma at the end of the season of whether to rest starters before the playoffs or try to maintain momentum.
Racing doesn't offer any chance to rest. And 10-point bonuses for each win during the regular season keeps crew chiefs from saving their best cars and taking more chances with setups.
Richard Petty hoped Marcos Ambrose's victory Sunday at Watkins Glen International would put Ford Racing in a good mood — good enough to re-sign his race team for 2013.
While the victory certainly couldn't have come at a better time, Ford apparently was a little disappointed Petty considered a move to Dodge next year and no deal was struck.
"I had my contract in my pocket and I was going to let them sign it right there," Petty said. "I don't think it went over too good."
LOUDON, N.H. – AJ Allmendinger will have a job driving the No. 22 Dodge for Penske Racing if he passes a second drug test this week, car owner Roger Penske said Sunday.
Allmendinger, who was placed on temporary suspension hours before the July 7 race at Daytona Beach, Fla. after failing a drug test, will have a second sample tested this week. If his "B" sample is negative, Allmendinger will drive the Penske car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 29. If he fails again, he will be suspended indefinitely.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Despite winning Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 at the Daytona International Speedway, Tony Stewart still isn't a fan of the current rules package for the two restrictor-plate tracks.
He seemed to be in the right place at the right time at Daytona and its sister track at Talladega, Ala., but he's not sure why. It's a mystery why he seems to miss all the big crashes. And when it comes to winning, he generally has the right strategy — even if he doesn't fully understand it.
"I'm still voting for a figure-eight race here," he said.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A.J. Allmendinger was suspended from Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 after failed a drug test, NASCAR announced 1 hour, 40 minutes before the race.
Former Indy Car champion Sam Hornish Jr. arrived to the Daytona International Speedway from Charlotte, N.C., less than nine minutes before the race started. The No. 22 Dodge was moved to the back of the starting grid.
There were four drivers in last Sunday's race at the Michigan International Speedway who weren't born the last time anyone qualified faster than 200 mph in NASCAR.
CONCORD, N.C. — The wait was worth it.
Kasey Kahne had to wait 21 months to start his job at Hendrick Motorsports, and another four months to finally drive the No. 5 Chevrolet to a victory.
His patience was rewarded Sunday night at the Charlotte Motor Speedway when he led the final 44 laps to win the Coca-Cola 600.
Others were faster in the first 450 miles in stock car's longest race, but like he's done for so much of the past two years, he was waiting his turn.
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Does anyone have experience with this?
Some of you may remember I was having a difficult time getting a document back for our dossier. I finally got it, which is great. But my adoption agency contacted me today to say they are not sure whether or not it will be accepted because the cover letter was notarized, not the the actual report. She has never seen one like that before and she has no experience with it and doesn't know if it will be ok or not.
They are stapled together so I believe they will be processed as one document and both are signed, but the notary is on the cover letter.
I did call our county clerk's office and our secretary of state's office and both said they will authenticate them. I am just wondering if you think this will be a problem once it gets sent over to China with the dossier.
Normally I would just go back to the office where I got this document and ask them to fix it, but it took them almost 2 months and dozens of emails and phone calls and even a visit to their office to get this done in the first place. :(


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James Avery
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Judith Hoag
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Linda Purl
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Pamela Shaddock
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Spencer Garrett
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Miguel Ferrer
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Magna Energy & Hydro Systems Pvt. Ltd.
based in West Mambalam, INDIA
Magna Energy is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of Hydrojet High pressure water jetting pumps. We specialize in various Equipments for Power and Process industries. Magna Energy and Hydro Systems Pvt Ltd has two divisions one for Energy and other for Hydro. By viewing our web site you will get a comprehensive solution for your power and pump needs. We are the ...
Superior Tank Co., Inc.
based in Rancho Cucamonga, CALIFORNIA (USA)
Superior Tank Co., Inc. has been manufacturing and installing a complete line of bolted steel storage tanks for the potable water, wastewater, fire protection, and crude oil industries since 1984. Being an innovator in the steel tank industry, Superior Tank introduced Powder Coating to Bolted Steel Tanks in the early 1990's. Quality products and outstanding customer ...
Absolute Systems Inc.
based in Edmonton, ALBERTA (CANADA)
Commercial & industrial absolute ozone generators are the most intelligent choice. Absolute Ozone Generators are the most compact, offer highest ozone concentration up to 16-wt% for air-cooled ozone generators, at 20-100 PSIG working pressure.High ozone concentration of Absolute Ozone Generators allows to dissolved in water twice as much ozone as almost any competitor`s ...
QTech Data Systems (NZ)
based in Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
QTech is a market leading NZ technology company specializing in telemetry, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Remote Monitoring, Data Recording Solutions and Tailored Training. QTech Data Systems has been in the business of development, engineering and supplying Telemetry and SCADA ( DATRAN / DNP3 / ModBus) systems for Local Govt, City and District Councils Water ...
Applied Technology & Management, Inc
based in West Palm Beach, FLORIDA (USA)
Applied Technology & Management (ATM) is a coastal, environmental, marine, and water resources engineering, design, and consulting firm serving public and private clients throughout the world. ATM has teams specialized in a number of niche services, including comprehensive marina services, boating infrastructure development, environmental, utilities, and coastal ...
Enviance, Inc.
based in Carlsbad, CALIFORNIA (USA)
Enviance is the leading provider of Environmental ERP software. Our solutions have been developed, tested and proven by serving the world's leading corporations and government organizations. As the world business community faces increasing sustainability challenges, Enviance Environmental ERP enables organizations to measure, manage, report environmental performance and ...
TREVI nv
based in Gentbrugge, BELGIUM
We build environmental technology!Trevi environmental solutions has a team of 90 specialised professionals at its disposal. This offers you as a client the advantage to solve all environmental problems with only one partner in all disciplines water, air, soil and energy as well.
Trading Green Ltd.
based in Bangkok, THAILAND
Trading Green Ltd. provides eco-friendly solutions that save costs. > MissionWe source, import and distribute green materials for the construction industry.> Vision:To actively help fight the effects of Global Warming and to improve Public Health and Sanitation.Directly and through our network of distributors, we supply advanced materials such as:- nano solar reflective ...
EarthSoft, Inc
based in Concord, MASSACHUSETTS (USA)
EarthSoft`s EQuIS software manages environmental and geotechnical data and is the world`s most widely used environmental data management system. The EQuIS Data Processor (EDP) and Enterprise EDP are the world`s most widely used EDD tools. Many governments, industrials, and especially consultants and labs use EQuIS and EDP. EQuIS Professional and EQuIS for ArcGIS and ...
Titan Cloud Software Company, LLC
based in Brentwood, TENNESSEE (USA)
Titan offers the petroleum industry`s most powerful cloud software--the solution used by the largest c-stores, commercial fleet, and petroleum marketers in the world. This software protects your valuable underground storage tank (UST) and above ground storage tank (AST) assets by enabling proactive management of all regulatory and operational risks. Its full array of ...


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Preheat oven to 375°F. Wrap beets in foil; bake until center is tender when pierced with knife, about 1 hour 45 minutes. Cool. Peel; cut each beet into 8 wedges.
Cook brussels sprouts in pot of boiling salted water until crisp-tender, about 6 minutes. Using large slotted spoon, transfer brussels sprouts to bowl of ice water; cool. Drain. Add turnips to pot; boil until crisp-tender, about 7 minutes. Drain. Transfer to bowl of ice water; cool. Drain. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; chill.)
Melt butter in heavy large deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add shallots and hazelnuts; sauté until nuts begin to brown, about 3 minutes. Add thyme and garlic; sauté until nuts are golden, about 2 minutes. Add all vegetables; cover and cook until heated through, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl and serve.


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East Arkansas, Big Long Lake, circa 1910 According to the notation penned across the top of this card, this well-dressed family was "going home with a boat full of fish from Big Long Lake."
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Wendell Wallach will be giving the keynote talk at the plenary session of the World Future Society Conference in Boston on July 8th. The title of the talk will be, Navigating the Future: Moral Machines, Techno Humans, and the Singularity. Other speakers at WorldFuture 2010: Sustainable Futures, Strategies, and Technologies will be Ray Kurzweil, Dennis Bushnell, and Harvey Cox.
Wallach will also be making a splash in an upcoming issue of Ethics and Information Technology dedicated to "Robot Ethics and Human Ethics." As the Moral Machines blog, Wendell offers the first two paragraphs of his editorial, and some additional information about the issue:
It has already become something of a mantra among machine ethicists that one benefit of their research is that it can help us better understand ethics in the case of human beings. Sometimes this expression appears as an afterthought, looking as if authors say it merely to justify the field, but this is not the case. At bottom is what we must know about ethics in general to build machines that operate within normative parameters. Fuzzy intuitions will not do where the specifics of engineering and computational clarity are required. So, machine ethicists are forced head on to engage in moral philosophy. Their effort, of course, hangs on a careful analysis of ethical theories, the role of affect in making moral decisions, relationships between agents and patients, and so forth, including the specifics of any concrete case. But there is more here to the human story.
Successfully building a moral machine, however we might do so, is no proof of how human beings behave ethically. At best, a working machine could stand as an existence proof of one way humans could go about things. But in a very real and salient sense, research in machine morality provides a test bed for theories and assumptions that human beings (including ethicists) often make about moral behavior. If these cannot be translated into specifications and implemented over time in a working machine, then we have strong reason to believe that they are false or, in more pragmatic terms, unworkable. In other words, robot ethics forces us to consider human moral behavior on the basis of what is actually implementable in practice. It is a perspective that has been absent from moral philosophy since its inception.
"Robot Minds and Human Ethics: The Need for a Comprehensive Model of Moral Decision Making"
Wendell Wallach
"Moral Appearances: Emotions, Robots and Human Morality"
Mark Coeckelbergh
"Robot Rights? Toward a Social-Relational Justification of Moral Consideration"
Mark Coekckelbergh
"RoboWarfare: Can Robots Be More Ethical than Humans on the Battlefield"
John Sullins
"The Cubical Warrior: The Marionette of Digitized Warfare"
Lamber Royakkers
"Robot Caregivers: Harbingers of Expanded Freedom for All"
Yvette Pearson and Jason Borenstein
"Implications and Consequences of Robots with Biological Brains"
Kevin Warwick
"Designing a Machine for Learning and the Ethics of Robotics: the N-Reasons Platform"
Peter Danielson
Book Reviews of Wallach and Allen, Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, Oxford, 2009.
Anthony F. Beavers
Vincent Wiegel
Jeff Buechner
Bravo! Wallach provocatively goes after the heart of the moral issue. Moral philosophy needs machine ethics to test its descriptive theories of human morality and morality in general. Philosophy without engineering and the scientific method is fatally limited.
This has an impact on morality that concerns all human beings. For millennia we have understood morality and ethics through introspection, contemplation, and meditation — but all of these avenues are ultimately limiting without cognitive experiments to back them up, which requires AI. Because we lacked the technology to conduct these experiments throughout history, there became a demand for objective moral codes, often backed by a claimed divine authority. The problem is that all of these "objective moral codes" are based on language, which is fuzzy and can be interpreted in many different ways. The morals and laws of the future will be based on finer-grain physical descriptions and game theory, not abstract words. We cannot perfectly articulate our own moralities because neuroscience needs to progress to the point where we describe our moral behavior more deterministically, in terms of neural activation patterns or maybe something even more fundamental.
Critics might say, "it is your need to formalize ethics as a code that makes you all so uncool". Well, too bad. The motivation here foremost is knowledge, secondarily is the issue that if we don't formalize an ethics, someone else will formalize it for us, and put it into a powerful artificial intelligence that we can't control. We cannot avoid formalizing ethics for machines, and thereby make provocative and potentially controversial statements about human morality in general, because artificial intelligence's long-term growth is unstoppable, barring some civilization-wide catastrophe. Humanity needs to come to terms with the fact that we will not be the most powerful beings on the planet forever, and we need to engineer a responsible transition, instead of being in denial about it.
Promoting machine ethics as a field is challenging because much of the bedrock of shared cultural intuitions regarding morality say that morality is something that can be felt, not analyzed. But cognitive psychologists prove every day that morality can indeed be analyzed and experimented with, often with surprising results. When will the rest of humanity catch up with them, and adopt a scientific view of morality, rather than clinging to an obsolete mystical view?


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I still remember the first time I ordered The Disney Channel. I woke up at 5am set the VCR on 'EP' and recorded for six hours straight. What a great network it used to be. I actually liked the new Mickey Mouse Club. Does anyone remember "Emerald Cove"? Loved it! I had a crush on one of the guys, I think his name was Tony. Pic of him
I had no idea people still pay extra for the Disney Channel. I believe it's been years now, that cable and satellite have the channel included in there normal channel packages.
I was ok with the direction Disney Channel was going only because they still had Vault Disney, but now that's gone I have no real reason to watch.
Just a quick off topic thing..it also makes me sick that Power Rangers are on Toon Disney. They belong on fox...not Disney!


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See the video: Hot Spots of Columbia Road. Behind the fragrant flower market that bursts to life every Sunday on this street in East London, there's a hidden trove of boutiques that just might be the city's best-kept shopping secret. The shelves...
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Laser Etched Meat Business CardsTuesday, April 14th, 2009
Talk about "branding!" If ever there was a concept looking for a home, here it is! www.meatcards.com Several years back we wrote The Best of Business Card Design 6, and I have to say, this would have been featured as a full spread.
From the meatcards.com site:
We start with 100% beef jerky, and sear your contact information into it with a 150 watt co2 laser.
Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. These business cards have two ingredients:
Meat and Lasers
Unlike other business cards, meat cards will retain value after the econopocalypse. Hoard and barter your calorie-rich, life-sustaining cards.
Meat cards do not fit in a rolodex, because their deliciousness cannot be contained in a rolodex.


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Jordan Ballor looks at the bipartisan lack of discipline in Washington on debt and spending, and the effect on future generations. "Christians, whose citizenship is ultimately not of this world and whose identity and perspective must likewise be eternal and transcendent, should not let our viewpoints be determined by the tyranny of the short-term," he writes. "If we continue the current course of American politics, the fiscal cliff will end up being nothing more than a bump in the road toward the cultural, economic and political bankrupting of America." The full text of his essay follows. The full text of his essay follows. Subscribe to the free, weekly Acton News & Commentary and other publications here.
On Nov. 19, Acton Institute President Rev. Robert A. Sirico discussed a recent federal court ruling on the Obama Administration's HHS Contraception Mandate on TheBlaze.com's Real News.
For more on this story, see the Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius resource page on the website of Alliance Defending Freedom.
Writing on The Corner over at National Review Online, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg points to the election and, refreshingly, tells us that, "I'm not one of those who, in recent days, have seemed inclined to indulge their inner curmudgeon, apparently convinced that it's more or less game-over for America and we're doomed to Euro-serfdom."
Gregg, author of the soon-to-be-released and available for pre-order Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future (Encounter Books, January 2013), explains why there are, still, important differences between Eurotopia and the United States. For one thing:
… the strength and persistence of private entrepreneurship continues to substantially differentiate America's economic culture from that of Europe. America remains ahead — and, in some areas, continues to pull ahead — of most of Europe when it comes to private innovation. As noted in a World Bank report earlier this year, the elements that fuel innovation, such as ease in obtaining patents and availability of venture capital, continue (at least for now) to be far stronger in America than in most of Europe.
The same report specified that it is young firms driving innovative growth in America. Among America's leading innovators in the Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, more than half were created after 1975. They include firms such as eBay, Microsoft, Cisco, Amgen, Oracle, Google, and of course Apple. By contrast, only one in five leading innovators in Europe is young. In America, young firms make up an incredible 35 percent of total research and development done by leading innovators. Their European counterparts account for a mere 7 percent in the old continent. That's great news for America and a major headache for Europe over the long term.
Read "Are We all Europeans Now?" by Samuel Gregg on NRO.
I recently talked to one of Italy's leading classical liberal scholars, Prof. Nicola Iannello, regarding the outcome of this week's U.S. presidential elections.
Prof. Iannello, a devotee of classical liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville, is an Italian journalist, international lecturer with Istituto Bruno Leoni, and chair of the Einaudi Foundation's Austrian School of Economics course for Roman university students. Prof. Iannello has published several widely read academic articles on Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Frédéric Bastiat, among other pro-liberty European intellectuals.
Mitt Romney may have lost to Barack Obama but his was not the biggest loss of the election—at least not economically. Despite the millions the GOP spent to elect their candidate, the real economic losers of the 2012 election, as Joel Kotkin explains, are entrepreneurs:
The real losers are small business owners, or what might be called the aspirational middle class. The smaller business — with no galleon full of legal slaves pulling for them — will face more regulation of labor, particularly independent contracting. There will be more financial regulation, which is why Romney's top contributors were all banks.
Small businesses will also face challenges associated with Obamacare, which now will sail on unchallenged. Health care costs are expected to go up 6.5% per employee. Some 58% of businesses say they will shift the costs to their employees. Many owners will face a higher individual tax bill: couples making $250,000 or more and singles making $200,000 or more will pay a 3.8% Medicare tax starting 2013.
All this is troubling, as American start-up rates are already falling. Much of what happens now occurs not from a great hunger to succeed as a desire to maintain. Outside of the inherently entrepreneurial immigrant classes, the only group of Americans starting business more than before are the fifty somethings and above. Many of these may simply be former employees of larger firms, now doing work sometimes in the same industry and even for the same company.
Writing for National Review Online, Rev. Robert A. Sirico offers three salient points about last night's election:
1. Americans give signs of moving in a morally and politically more progressive direction, by which I mean that the appeal to the wisdom of past ages and tradition is simply not as compelling as it once was. People today, not all, but many, seem to want the trappings of the tradition (the white gown at the wedding), but not its obligations (chastity before it), thus indicating they would rather live off the legacy of the past than work to create a new and enduring legacy for the future.
2. This tendency applies not merely to moral issues, but to economic and political ones as well. As expressed in the elections results, and confirmed over time in numerous polls, Americans want a prosperous economy with all the "toys" it will produce, but they also demand a wide assortment of political and governmental props to ensure they do not have to sacrifice too much or risk too much in order to attain it. In many respects it is as simple as wanting to have one's cake and eat it too — writ large.
3. Finally, and with specific application to our religious institutions, now under more governmental threat than at most any other time in the history of the Republic, there must be a recognition of failure on our part to make persuasive, compelling, and authentic the message and identity we bear. The very existence of our social-service institutions is taken for granted at the moment that these have themselves lost their own raison d'être (witness the wholesale sell-out of Catholic Bishops by the Catholic Hospital Association in the face of the HHS mandate, among others). At least with regards to the Catholic bishops in the United States, along with various movements of Evangelical Protestants, there is a growing recognition of a failure in our role in forming a clear, vibrant, winsome, and effective "world view." The recognition is growing, as I say, but what this election gives evidence of is that we have a great deal more yet to accomplish.
Read more of "One Election Cannot Fix What Ails Us" on National Review Online.
It is clear that what President Barack Obama has achieved is historic: Being re-elected when not a single one of his major initiatives has enjoyed broad popular support.
What is also clear is that the moral and spiritual demographics of the United States have changed considerably. If Gov. Mitt Romney, an honorable man of moderate political preferences and conservative personal convictions, cannot attract a winning coalition we are in deep trouble. His loss illustrates the change that has occurred in the nation and the challenges it portends. Politics is about addition and Gov. Romney surely tried to run an "additional" campaign and I can think of no Republican who was more likely to accomplish what was necessary for a center-right victory.
Last night's election illustrates that Americans have become a people more dependent on the government. The country will continue to trend culturally and politically to the left. This means that conservative causes that take their impetus from the truths and moral rationality offered by the Judeo-Christian political and philosophical tradition will continue to be marginalized, the Church's liberty restricted, and the cultural, moral, political and spiritual leftism, hedonism, and materialism, with its attendant anomie and nihilism, will continue the long march through all of our cultural and governmental institutions. (more…)
Quoting former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, Mitt Romney was right to make the point that the federal deficit is the biggest national security threat to our country. Romney has also been critical of President Obama for failing to resolve significant cuts to defense spending under the Budget Control Act. Both political parties agree these cuts would be a disaster and they were implemented primarily as a motivational mechanism for real budget reform.
While cuts to defense will not solve our budget crisis, considering the depth of our spending mess, defense cuts can't be ruled out entirely. Acton's own principles for budget reform declare, "While no federal spending measures should be immune from cuts, our funding priorities should reflect the constitutional responsibilities and duties of the federal government."
The defense budget was raised dramatically over the last decade to combat terrorism and fight two wars. Certainly as some forces draw down, savings can be made along with new investments for national defense and readiness. At home, we also have a moral obligation to care for our wounded warriors, which I addressed at greater length in a 2009 commentary, "Veterans First on Health Care."
The challenge of course is securing savings while not compromising our constitutional charge to defend the country. Defense spending and defense budgets are a complex subject, but there are areas for savings. The military has a fairly long tradition of acting in one degree or another as a social laboratory. Military social programs continue to swallow up even more of the defense budget. I leave you with these words offered by Allen Baker in a discussion I had with him this morning. Baker, a combat veteran, served as a naval aviator:
We are three aircraft carriers short of providing absolute minimum coverage. When the "Arab Spring" sprung, guess what wasn't in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time in a half-century? (Hint for Pres Obama: It's a ship where airplanes take off and land). Ditto when terrorists murdered our ambassador in Benghazi. No U.S. carriers nearby (despite the clearly elevated threat). That's because we have too few, and the ones we have are either worn out, or are wearing out at a faster-than-programmed rate due to the extremely high operations-tempo . . .
They are building multi-million dollar child development centers in places like Columbus, Miss. while the Training Squadrons have broken jets sitting idly on the ramp for lack of parts and maintenance . . .
The Army needs new tanks. Smaller, faster, cheaper. New helicopters, too. Less child development and 'total warrior support' and just more warriors and weapons. Simple stuff, really.
Rev. Robert A. Sirico appeared on the Frank Pastore Show Oct. 15 to discuss Vice President Joe Biden's claim that the HHS mandate was not a threat to religious liberty and the quick rebuke he received from the Catholic bishops. Rev. Sirico also discussed broad faith and policy themes, including how best to reduce poverty, in this hour-long program.
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On National Review Online, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg offers an analysis of last night's debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. Gregg begins with the assertion by Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post that the candidates are ignoring poor and working-class Americans. Gregg responds:
… what's generally missing from the discussion of poverty in the context of this presidential election — though Romney did obliquely reference it in the second debate — is acknowledgment that: (1) the economic causes of impoverishment are more subtle and less amenable to wealth redistribution than the Left is willing to concede; and (2), with a few exceptions, liberals are generally reluctant to acknowledge some of poverty's non-economic causes, not least because it throws into relief some of the more destructive effects of their cultural agenda.
If poverty was simply a question of wealth redistribution, the sheer amount of dollars spent since the not-so-Great Society programs of the 1960s should have resolved the problem. In 2011, Peter Ferrara calculated that "total welfare spending [in 2008] . . . amounted to $16,800 per person in poverty, 4 times as much as the Census Bureau estimated was necessary to bring all of the poor up to the poverty level, eliminating all poverty in America. That would be $50,400 per poor family of three."
The effects in terms of reducing poverty have, however, been underwhelming. As Ferrara observes: "Poverty fell sharply after the Depression, before the War on Poverty, declining from 32% in 1950 to 22.4% in 1959 to 12.1% in 1969, soon after the War on Poverty programs became effective. Progress against poverty as measured by the poverty rate then abruptly stopped." In short, America's welfare state, which now easily accounts for the biggest outlays in the federal government's annual budget, has proved inadequate at realizing one of its central goals.
Read "Who's Really Forgotten the Poor" by Samuel Gregg on NRO.


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Not All Social Media Platforms are Equal – How to Pick the Ones That Work for You
Launching a new business? Or promoting an existing one? Either way, my guess is that social media figures pretty high on your priority list when it comes to marketing your brand.
Over 70% of all online adults in the United States have a Facebook account. For the first time ever, 56% of senior citizens are on social media. That figure stands at 89% for young 'uns, or users from 18 to 29 years of age. The millennial generation, consisting of young adults born between 1980 to 2000 and accounting for nearly 30% of the US population, see social media as their primary means of connecting with brands. Over half of them claim that "social opinions" directly influence their purchase decisions.
So we all agree that being on social media is unavoidable if you want to be relevant to today's consumer.
With the explosion of social media platforms, the question now arises, "which social media platforms will give me actual results?" And this, my friends, is the most sensible place to begin your social media journey.
Research Your Options
The first step to social media success lies in being active on the right platforms and engaging with your target audience in the form that they prefer best. But before you make a choice of which platform would work for your business, you need to first figure out what each platform has to offer you and then proceed by eliminating the least attractive ones.
Before we analyze each platform's pros and cons, let's see where they all stand with respect to each other.
The data above clearly shows Facebook as the leader in terms of number of users, followed by LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter – in that order. This data also shows us how in a matter of a couple of years, Twitter has gone from being the third largest network to a lowly number five. At the same time, we see Facebook stagnating in its usage figures in the last year with a barely-there upward blip in 2013.
Let's arm ourselves with some more facts about the top five social networks before we decide which ones work best for our business.
Facebook offers brands the widest possible reach – with 1.34 billion active users per month, Facebook is light-years ahead of competition. As a platform it is marginally more popular with women than men, it's also more popular among Hispanics and Whites as compared to African Americans. A trend that has been accelerating in recent years is the exodus of teens from the site with 3 million teens dropping off in the last three years.


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Our first look at Halo: Nightfall, the upcoming digital series on Halo
Thanks to San Diego Comic-Con currently underway, we've just received the first look of the upcoming Ridley Scott-produced digital series, Halo: Nightfall. Microsoft, 343 Industries and Scott Free Productions have been working together, unleashing this trailer to the world just hours ago.
Halo: Nightfall is a live-action digital series with its story taking place between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. At the center of it, is Agent Locke, who is a character that is new to the Halo universe. Locke leads a team of soldiers from the Office of Naval Intelligence as they are investigating terrorist activity on a distant planet known as Sedra.
The trailer doesn't inspire much, but we might just be seeing a bare tease of Nightfall, but let's hope things get better from here.
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Titanfall gets in-game currency with 'The Black Market'
Respawn has just announced its new Titanfall DLC known as Frontier's Edge, but the company also took the time to tease that it is introducing something it is calling "The Black Market".
The Black Market is Titanfall's way of offering in-game currency, which will have two different sets of items that you can purchase: Burn Cards, and Titan Insignias. There are multiple sets of Burn Cards that are based around a theme, but the cards themselves you'll receive are random. There's a Weapons Pack, which should include some cards about weapons, for example.
The cards will be purchased using the new in-game currency known as "Credits". You can earn these credits by doing various things in Titanfall, with six ways of acquiring Credits: by winning a match, completing a match, for your first victory of the day, completing daily challenges, selling burn cards you don't want to use, and once you reach level 50, a portion of your experience will be converted into credits. You can only access The Black Market once you've reached level 11 in Titanfall.
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EA delays Dragon Age: Inquisition, new release date of November 18
EA has delayed a second game today, with the first being Battlefield: Hardline pushed back into sometime next year, but Dragon Age: Inquisition is also getting a little more time in the oven. Bioware's upcoming fantasy RPG has a new release date of November 18, 2014 - an extra month of waiting.
Executive Producer on the game, Mark Darrah, explains: "I'm writing to let you know that Dragon Age: Inquisition has a new release date of November 18, 2014 in North America (November 21st in EU). We appreciate the enormous support we've received from all of you to get to this point, and while this extra few weeks may not seem like a lot, I know the game you'll play will be all the better for it".
Darrah continued: "Since we began working on Dragon Age: Inquisition almost four years ago, our goal was to create the best Dragon Age experience ever. It was that goal that motivated many of our decisions: moving to Frostbite, bringing race choice and customisation back, improving tactical camera, building a team of characters whose relationships evolve based on your actions, and most importantly, crafting an epic, nation-spanning story that both draws upon past games and takes you to many new places in the realm of Thedas".
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Bungie's upcoming Destiny spotted on the Xbox One running at 1080p
While most games aren't running at 1920x1080, or 1080p on the Xbox One, the upcoming shooter from Bungie, the studio behind Halo, will be running at 1080p on the Xbox One.
As you can see in the above video, this is what we should expect from Destiny on the Xbox One. The beta that is available right now isn't running at Full HD, but rather 900p. The final version of Destiny on the Xbox One has been confirmed at 1080p. Destiny isn't far away, as it'll arrive on September 9, just a couple of more weeks away.
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Battlefield: Hardline gets delayed until sometime next year
Electronic Arts has announced that it has delayed the release of the Visceral Games-developed Battlefield: Hardline until next year, citing that the development teams want more time to polish the game before it gets released to gamers across the world.
DICE's Vice President and Group GM, Karl Magnus Troedsson, explains: "Back at E3, we launched a beta for Hardline - we wanted to not only show you the game, but to let you play it for yourselves. Millions of you jumped in and had a great time. As a result, the Visceral Games team learned a lot from players about what they wanted in the game. We've been pouring over the data and feedback, and have already been putting a lot of it right into the game and sharing it directly with you".
He continued: "This feedback also spurred us to start thinking about other possibilities and ways we could push Hardline innovation further and make the game even better. The more we thought about these ideas, the more we knew we had to get them into the game you will all be playing. However, there was only one problem. We would need more time. Time that we didn't have if we decided to move forward with launching in just a couple of months". Troedsson said that the teams at DICE and Visceral Games wanted to spend more time on developing better innovation on the multiplayer side of things, as well as bake in "ideas direct from the community that will evolve the cops and criminals fantasy into a truly unique Battlefield Multiplayer experience".
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GameStop gift card exchange program launches, powered by Cardpool
We've all been there at birthdays or during the holiday season, someone gives you a gift card to a place you don't like and you silently think that gift card will sit in your sock drawer forever. GameStop has announced a new gift card exchange program that is powered by Cardpool that will let you trade those unwanted gift cards for credit for stuff you do want- games and accessories.
The new gift card exchange program allows users to exchange physical plastic gift cards and e-cards to get a digital GameStop gift card that can be spent online or in GameStop retail stores. The trade process is very easy with three steps to swapping unwanted cards for GameStop cards.
The page for the trade in program lets you check gift card balance, fill out your information to get a trade quote, and then get the GameStop card via email. It's unclear if this is a dollar for dollar exchange program; presumably, Cardpool is going to take a cut of the money in the trade.
TheWorse mod for Watch Dogs on PC reaches version 1.0
One of the biggest issues Ubisoft had this year was gimping the PC version of Watch Dogs, something that a modder fixed in his spare time. Federico Rojas (or TheWorse) released a mod called 'TheWorse' that reverted the graphics on the PC version to what Ubisoft showed off at E3 2012, something that looked far better than the game did when it was officially released 2014.
Rojas explains in the release of TheWorse Mod version 1.0: "This is the last release of my modification. I did my best to improve graphics and performance as much as I could without degrading the quality". This release is split in two, the first includes the high resolution texture pack from another modded by the name of MaLDo, and the other does not include this high-res pack.
You can download version 1.0 of TheWorse mod for Watch Dogs right here.
Newbee takes out The International, walks away with $5 million
The build up has been big, but the huge DOTA 2 'The International' tournament is over for another year - with Chinese team 'Newbee' taking first place. Newbee takes home a huge $5 million for their efforts.
Coming in second place is fellow Chinese rivals ViCi Gaming, who walk away with $1.5 million. Newbee entered into the finals with a 7-8 record, compared to ViCi's 12-3 record. For its first five matches in the Grand Final, Newbee lost them all, but then won the final three in a row. Coming in third place was Evil Genuises, who take home $1 million. Fourth place goes to DK, who scooped themselves up $819,000.
DOTA 2 International championship Grand Finals teams now known
After two weeks of intense gaming, and the leaking of the strategy of Team DK for DOTA 2, we now know the two teams who will be competing in The International's Grand Final. The Chinese team Newbee, who clawed their way to the final from losing multiple rounds, to not losing a single round in an entire week of play.
The second team, ViCi Gaming, started off strong against Evil Geniuses, with a 16-minute win in-game on, but lost during their second game. In game three they caught up, so that they could compete against Newbee in the final. The two teams will now play a best-of-5 series that will see the winner of The International take home a huge $5 million.
This also marks the first time that The International final has featured two Chinese squads, too.
Lead R&D Graphics Engineer of Crytek leaves for id Software
We have been reporting on the still on-going issues over at Crytek, but things just got worse for the developer of Crysis. Tiago Sousa, Crytek's Lead R&D Graphics Engineer has left the company, joining the ranks of id Software.
Sousa is now working as the Lead Rendering Programmer on the new reboot of Doom and the engine that powers it: id Tech 6 game engine. Sousa was with Crytek for 11 years, so this is quite the loss for Crytek. According to Sousa's LinkedIn profile, he has contributed to work on CryENGINE 3, as well as all three Crysis games, Ryse: Son of Rome for the Xbox One, Warface and "undisclosed multiplatform projects".
Considering most of Crytek's UK-based staff have stopped going to work, and the studio isn't paying its staff on time, this is troubling times. This isn't considering that the studio has already lost key staff such as the game director for Homefront: The Revolution leaving, as well as its Development Manager, Ben Harris.


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I'm writing this on the day before Israelis vote for our Knesset, but one thing I can presume is that unless a cow is seen jumping over our ten-day-old new moon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked by Israel's president, Shimon Peres, to form the next government.
If I had to choose one word to describe our prime minister, the word would be "sensational."
No, he's not a relative of mine. No, he hasn't done what Heshy Frank of Quality Carpet has done for me by sponsoring my radio broadcasts for thirty-one years, helping me survive twenty-eight years of living in the holy land.
I knew in the year 2001 that Netanyahu had experienced a rebirth, so to speak. I knew then that one day this man would become what our small, holy nation really needs – a true Jewish leader who puts the importance of the citizenry, the importance of the land, and the importance of our Torah above the human desire for wealth, honor and success.
I first met Bibi in 1993, shortly after he'd been chosen to lead the Likud, making him the voice of Israel's opposition parties during those early Oslo days.
I told him I was "Ben Israel," a radio host on Arutz Sheva with a midnight show.
"Oh, you're Ben Israel," he said. "I like the way you speak!"
I had no idea the Likud leader was a listener.
When the leftist government forced me off the air, Bibi found himself missing my show and asked me to come to his office. "I'll help you get back on the air," he assured me. But I decided that since there was no real freedom of speech in Israel at the time, I'd pass on the offer.
Netanyahu's popularity kept growing, and as it became increasingly apparent to Israelis that the Oslo agreements had been a tragic mistake, it seemed that Bibi would easily defeat Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the next election. But the horrible assassination of Rabin created a huge backlash against the right, and Netanyahu barely beat Peres in the '96 election – and only by promising to continue the Oslo process
Many Oslo opponents lost faith in him. But I understood that Netanyahu's honest spirit forced him to be truthful to his word – to govern as he promised he would on the campaign trail.
But then came Sukkos 1996, when a door was opened to the street from the Kotel tunnels. Yasir Arafat's thugs started shooting at our soldiers, and when the air cleared eleven holy Israeli soldiers were dead.
At that point Netanyahu found himself too unseasoned and politically feeble to do what he should have done. He should have torn up the Oslo agreements and quoted Yitzhak Rabin's own words: "If they use the guns we give them on us, the Oslo agreement will be terminated."
Instead, the very next day Netanyahu found himself reluctantly shaking Arafat's hand before a smiling Bill Clinton.
The Oslo disaster continued, but Bibi's grudging acceptance of the so-called peace process gave an opening to opposition leader Ehud Barak, who unseated Netanyahu in the '99 election.
It was right around then that former Likud prime minister Yitzhak Shamir termed Netanyahu "a traitor to his own principles."
Barak took the reins and promised to see the Oslo agreement through and bring about true peace, but his efforts instead led to a second Intifada. The Likud convinced Netanyahu to return to politics and what was sure to be an easy victory over the now unpopular Barak.
It was then that Netanyahu changed the course of his future. This was to be the last direct election of the prime minister (as opposed to the entire Knesset) and while there was no doubt he would win, Netanyahu realized he'd find "himself at the mercy of the leftist Knesset that had been voted in along with Ehud Barak."
So he asked the Shas Party, with its seventeen seats, to vote to change the Knesset. Otherwise, he said, he would refuse to accept the prime ministership.
Shas leaders, knowing they would lose several seats in a new election, turned down Netanyahu's request. Bibi remained true to his word and declined the offer to run for prime minister, which led Ariel Sharon step in and win by a landslide against Barak.
About the Author: Dov Shurin is a popular radio personality and the composer and producer of several albums. He lives with his family in Israel and can be contacted at email@example.com. His Jewish Press column appears the third issue of each month.
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