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How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
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Publisher's warning: In the wrong hands this book is dangerous. We recommend that you arm yourself with it whilst keeping it out of the hands of others. Only buy this book as a gift if you are sure that you can trust the recipient.
In this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie provides a complete guide to using--and indeed abusing--logic in order to win arguments. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in arguments. We all like to think of ourselves as clear-headed and logical--but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are guilty. The author shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people arguments. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical--and get away with it! This book will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and opponents will all wish that you had never read it.
The book includes entries on:
Affirming the consequent
Blinding with science
Conclusion which denies premises
Emotional appeals
The Exception that proves the rule
Half-concealed qualification
Poisoning the well
Positive conclusion from negative premise
Shifting the burden of proof
Trivial questions
Wishful thinking
Author Bio
MADSEN PIRIE is President of the Adam Smith Institute and author of numerous books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.
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Scott Sterling5 Stars Out Of 5January 20, 2009Scott SterlingThis is a wonderful and easy to use guide fro understanding logical fallacies. Truly, a great weapon for knowing how to win any argument.


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Johnny Walls and Sandy Ryan announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Kristin Walls, to Steven Thomas, son of John Thomas and Brenda Watson.
Walls is a 2008 graduate of Marion County High School.
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The wedding is set for 7 p.m. Friday, June 15, 2012 at Bradfordsville United Methodist Church. A reception will follow at the K.C. Hall, Lebanon.
Steve and Judy Thompson will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on June 23, 2012. The family will attend Mass at 5 p.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Fredricktown, where they were married on June 23, 1962. They have eight children: Stephen, Michael, Paul, Bill, Alex and Edwin Thompson, Catherine Mattingly and Carole Bryan.
Ben and Jessica Riley of Lebanon announce the birth of a 5-pound, 11-ounce son, Bentley Jamison Riley, born May 16, 2012, at Spring View Hospital, Lebanon.
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Colds can spread easily in day care, so you'll want to take some extra steps to keep your child healthy.
Teach him to wash his hands the right way. Make sure he gets them wet with water and plain soap and rubs for 20 to 30 seconds. An easy way for him to get the timing right -- sing "Happy Birthday" twice while he washes. Remind him to wash up before eating and after going to the bathroom.
Also follow these tips:
- Tell your child not to share cups, glasses, and forks and spoons.
- Keep him at home when he's sick.
- Make sure he gets enough sleep, eats a healthy diet, and gets plenty of time to play outdoors.
- Replace his toothbrush and make sure he doesn't borrow one from his brother or sister.
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It's easy to catch a cold if you live in a college dorm, where lots of students live in a small space and breathe the same air and touch the same surfaces.
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Tighter Scrutiny For Bank Salaries
The Federal Reserve adopted sweeping new rules Monday that will give banking regulators more power over how the nation's thousands of banks compensate employees ranging from senior executives to traders.
The policy, which is aimed at curbing compensation practices that many say contributed to the financial crisis, doesn't impose pay caps or restrict compensation at banks but gives regulators the right to reject compensation structures they feel promote unnecessary risk-taking.
The move came as the Fed said it had identified deficiencies in the incentive compensation structures at some of the nation's largest banks. An initial, six-month Fed review of pay practices at 25 large banking organizations found several "deficient" areas at individual banks, including the ability of firms to determine which employees can expose a bank to risk and pay structures that don't adequately mitigate risky behavior.
"Many large banking organizations have already implemented some changes in their incentive compensation policies, but more work clearly needs to be done," Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo said in a statement.
The Fed didn't name the banks with deficiencies, but a senior Fed official indicated the problems were widespread. The 25 banks will undergo another review of pay practices related to three types of business: credit derivatives, mortgage origination and credit cards, according to the Fed official. The Fed could require banks to change pay practices in those areas if it finds problems.
The Fed's policy, which was proposed last year, is the latest effort by the government to guide pay practices at financial firms. Top government officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, have cited flawed compensation practices as a contributor to the financial crisis. The Obama administration appointed a pay czar to guide pay at firms receiving large amounts of bailout funds, and Congress is considering giving shareholders more power to oversee compensation.
The Fed, in detailing its policy, said the overall goal was to have banks more closely align pay with long-term performance rather than reward short-term gains that can jeopardize a firm's safety and soundness.
"Banking organizations too often rewarded employees for increasing the organization's revenue or short-term profit without adequate recognition of the risks the employees' activities posed to the organization," the Fed said.
The policy will apply to about 7,900 banks large and small, including those regulated by the Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Office of Thrift Supervision. The Fed did allow some leeway for smaller banks, many of which said the policy could hurt their ability to attract and retain employees and board members. For instance, the Fed eased for smaller banks a corporate-governance rule requiring that boards of directors have risk-management and compensation expertise.
Still, banking representatives said they were concerned about how bank examiners would interpret the rules and whether they would differentiate between large banks and smaller firms.
"What I do worry about is … examiners saying, 'Aha, this is what everybody has to put in place at their organization,' " said Sally Miller, senior vice president with the American Bankers Association trade group. She said the ABA supported the overall thrust of the guidance.
The Fed didn't craft prescriptive rules butsaid the banks would have to adhere to certain "principles" governing incentive pay. For instance, firms will have to choose from four methods to make compensation structures "more sensitive to risk" including allowing for "clawbacks" that permit banks to reclaim the pay of staffers who take risks that hurt their firms. The Fed didn't ban so-called golden parachute payments, which can provide departing employees with large payouts, but said firms should consider attaching clawback provisions or other measures to the payments to reduce the possibility of an executive exposing the institution to excessive risk, and then leaving.
One of the most controversial aspects of the policy is the scope of employees it covers. Some banking organizations have argued that imposing the rules too broadly would hurt the ability of banks to attract and retain employees. The Fed said the pay rules would apply to "senior executives" and others who "are responsible for oversight of the organization's firm-wide activities or material business lines" as well as any employee who can expose the banking organization to risk, such as loan officers, traders and investment bankers.
The Fed agreed to exempt some groups of employees, including bank tellers, bookkeepers and data-processing personnel.
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Details of the next WWE-produced movie—and Oscars 2012 dark horse—have begun to emerge. Called The Reunion (although IMDB are still calling the movie by its original name, Blood Brothers), the film stars current WWE Champion John Cena and indicates that WWE Studios are returning to their action roots.
This isn't surprising at all. In recent years, the company took a change in direction with their movies: instead of producing cheesy, mediocre action films, they started producing cheesy, mediocre family-themed flicks (The Chaperone, That's What I Am, Legendary, Knucklehead). The results at the box office ranged from middling to disastrous. That's What I Am lost a whopping $3 million and led to the man in charge of the film division at that time, Michael Pavone, quickly handing in his resignation and departing from company.
Sadly, it seems no one was ultimately that bothered about whether Randy Orton went to the papers or not.
The first poster for the movie was recently released and can be viewed here. Early pictures from the set can be seen here and suggests the film will have the tone of a Western, with Cena doing his best John Wayne impersonation.
Additionally, WWE Studios recently put out of a press release regarding their upcoming release, explaining the plot in detail:
The Cleary brothers, Sam (John Cena), Leo (Ethan Embry) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook) take dysfunctional families to a new level: Sam and Leo have grown up hating each other and neither likes their juvenile kid brother, Douglas, to whom they've only recently been introduced. The three boys share the same father, but all have different mothers. Their father died a rich man and when they're brought together by their sister Nina (Amy Smart) to learn which one of them will inherit the old man's fortune, they are handed an unpleasant surprise. A requirement of the will is that the three estranged siblings go into business together as bail bondsmen. Their first job takes them into the mountains of Mexico where they encounter a drug lord and uncover a kidnapping plot, masterminded by an embittered entrepreneur (Michael Rispoli) that will endanger them all.
Someone getting kidnapped in a John Cena movie? Well, I never! Family strife? Well, that's a new one! He wants his brothers back and doesn't know how! Next you'll be telling me Cena bravely overcomes the odds in the end and recovers the abducted person, defeating the bad guy in the process!
Not to mention, I'm pretty sure if the three brothers went to court and challenged the outrageous terms of their old man's will they could probably get it overturned easily enough by a sensible judge. (Come on, forcing your family members to take on a dangerous, life-threating job to get a settlement from your will? How is this even legal?)
Notably, WWE Studios continue to attract decent Hollywood talent: Boyd "I need a new agent" Holbrook, who plays one of Cena's estranged brothers, starred in the Oscar-winning movie Milk and has a recurring role on Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy, The Big C.
Additionally, the film's cinematography is done by the Emmy-nominated Kenneth Zander, who has worked on numerous television shows and movies, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Desperate Housewives. However, all this amazing talent seems of little use if the scripts are as cliched and terrible as usual (which might may be something you could say about WWE Raw these days, interestingly enough).
The movie is getting a limited theatrical release on October 21st and will then be released on DVD and Blu-Ray a little over two weeks later, on November 8th. It will be likely be pushed heavily on WWE television in the upcoming weeks,too, like all WWE films are.
Under normal circumstances, I'd guess that having John Cena acting (and I use that term loosely) in the movie would ensure it does better numbers than previous debacles The Chaperone, Knucklehead, That's What I Am, etc. (which all sank without a trace at the box office).
Cena is one of the few draws in wrestling left, after all. But considering that the Cena-starring 12 Rounds and Legendary also didnt set the world on fire, either (even leading to The Miz taunting Cena about his poorly performing movies on Raw), it seems the whole WWE movie brand may be permanently tainted in the eyes of fans.
Sadly for Vince McMahon's movie aspirations, these days it simply doesn't matter who stars in the films: nobody is going to go see them anyway.


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I colored it!!!
so cute!!!!
Hi! I just wanna say I love your female Roxas! I think it's so cute especially the way you have her positioned. I want to use it as cover art for my fanfic "If we were Together" which is a KH gender bender. It's actually a sequel to "If I was Yours" which is in the KH1 timeline, but "If we were Together" is where FemRoxas gets introduced. Anyway I'm babbling, I won't use your art unless you give me the okay, and of course I'll give you proper credit for it just as I gave Doria-Plume credit who did the cover art for the first fic. www.fanfiction.net/~briry18 here's the link to my fanfiction if you want to check it out before you decide. Again I LOVE your sketch! keep up the good work!
Im perfectly okay with you using my picture! Thank you for asking first
So cute, so beatiful, i can't believe i'm saying weird stuff like this.
thats a very cute good looking she roxas
Cute! It´s very nice! *^*
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well roxas is cute enough as is, so we needed a female to be equally at cute
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Running Time: 125
Director: Paul Thomas
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Scott Nails, Randi Wright, Vanessa Lane, Monique Alexandre, Brooke Haven, Steven St. Croix, Dasha (I), Trent Tesoro, Jean Val Jean (I), Rocco Siffredi, Lexie Marie, Mandy Bright, Harmony (I)
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It's Monique's first Vivid feature, and she really struts her stuff!
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With Dasha out of the picture (she gets a decent threeway later), Rocco convinces the shy Monique to take part in a volcanic orgy with Lexie Marie, Vanessa Lane, Mandy Bright, Jean Val Jean and Steven St. Croix, in which Lexie and Monique double-team Rocco, Vanessa does the reverse butt-squat on Jean, and Mandy essays anal doggie with Steven.
But Rocco's nastiness during the facial finish causes Monique to bolt, and her discovery of hardcore photos of his tryst with Lexie, which we see in "flashback" (look for great doggie, mish and reverse cowgirl) doesn't help. Now Monique won't return his calls, so he phones good ol' Dasha, who's got a little surprise for him. ?
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I need the ability to specify the width and alignment of my tables - I can do it fine using style information but here's the problem... if my client wants to work on the page in the visual editor, the style info is stripped from my divs. And having the global settings is difficult - because I have a couple of hundred tables in my website, so it would be almost impossible to manage that way.
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Report: iPhone 7 Plus to sport dual-camera system, optical zoom
A new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities is suggesting that the iPhone 7 Plus will include a dual-camera system that would incorporate two distinct lenses to create higher quality photos. The new system would reportedly incorporate the Linx camera technology that Apple acquired last year, allowing Apple to use smaller camera sensors to get the same or better results as the cameras in current iPhone models. Kuo's report also suggests that the Plus will feature a 2-3x optical zoom. Notably, the report states that not only will the standard iPhone 7 not include the new technology, but suggests that it may not even be available on all iPhone 7 Plus models, instead being reserved for specific versions of the device — basically a "premium" model that would include the advanced camera system. [via 9to5Mac]
Notes from Apple's Q1 2016 earnings call
Kicking off Apple's investor conference call in which the company once again announced record-breaking numbers for Q1 2016, Apple CEO Tim Cook reported again that Apple had its strongest financial results ever, with all-time record quarterly revenue, noting that this is a huge accomplishment given the "turbulent world" around us. To put the iPhone's sales numbers in perspective, Cook noted that 74.8m iPhones sold represents an average of over 34,000 iPhones sold per hour, every hour, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, for 13 straight weeks, adding that this represents 50 percent more than the volumes in Q1 two years ago, and four times the volume of iPhones sold five years ago.
Cook went on to explain that Apple's results are particularly impressive given the "challenging global macro-economic environment," highlighting how major markets such as Brazil, Russia, Japan, Canada, Southeast Asia, and others have been impacted by slowing economic growth and weakening currencies, with the Euro and British Pound both down by double-digits since 2013. Major currencies such as the Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, Mexican Peso, and Turkish Lira have also declined by 20 percent or more. Cook explained how these currency fluctuations have had a meaningful negative impact on Apple's results, noting that with constant currency Apple's earnings would have been more than $5 billion higher, or more than the total annual revenue of an average Fortune 500 company. Cook also highlighted that Apple continues to see growth in China, with revenue growing 14 percent over last year, and Apple saw its highest ever quarterly iPhone sales and record App Store performance in China. "Despite economic challenges all over the world, Apple remains extremely strong," Cook concluded.
Apple sets Q1 record: $75.9B revenue, 75M iPhones, 16M iPads sold
Apple reported its first quarter 2016 financial results today, with 74.8 million iPhones and 16 million iPads sold. The company posted quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion and quarterly net profit of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per diluted share. In Q1 2015, Apple had revenue of $74.6 billion and net profit of $18 billion, or $3.06 per diluted share. Gross margin was 40.1 percent compared to 39.9 percent a year ago. International sales contributed to 66 percent of this quarter's revenue. For Q2 2016, Apple is providing guidance of revenue between $50 billion and $53 billion, and gross margin between 39 percent and 39.5 percent. Apple's earnings call will begin at 5 p.m. Eastern time, and can be heard live on the company's investor website.
Microsoft releases News Pro app for iOS
Microsoft has released News Pro, a new free news app. Unlike Apple's built-in iOS 9 News app, News Pro appears to be geared more toward professional and business interests. Billed as "Your Work News Brief," the app is designed to help users search for daily news relevant to their work field, with over a million topics to choose from. Users can link News Pro with their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles to tailor their news feed to their work experience and personal interests, and the app will suggest new topics to explore and web sites to discover based on the user's current profile.
Report: Apple to offer subscription content via News app
Apple is planning to expand its News service to provide subscription content through the iOS 9 News app, Reuters reports. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report notes that the aim would be to give publishers with paywalls a way to limit access to their content, and would help to distinguish Apple's offering from other online news apps and services such as Facebook's Instant Articles. The move may address concerns raised by publishers, which cannot ignore Apple's hundreds of millions of users, while at the same time preferring to still connect directly with readers. Making paid content available through the iOS News app would allow publishers to maintain relationships with their existing reader base and possibly attract new subscribers, although it's still unclear at this time how Apple plans to authenticate subscribers or whether it would take its usual cut of subscription payments, as the company did with its prior Newsstand system.
Apple under fire again for VPN, FaceTime related patents
Apple is once again the target of a lawsuit from VirnetX concerning patents related to VPN and FaceTime technologies, Bloomberg reports. A lawyer for VirnetX told a federal jury in Texas earlier this week that Apple owes the company $532M for using the company's patented secure communications technology. Apple originally came under fire from VirnetX in 2012, when Apple was ordered to pay the Texas-based patent holding company $368.2M for infringing on VPN patents used in the company's FaceTime and VPN On Demand services in iOS — a move that prompted Apple to change the way VPN On Demand works on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. An appeals court later dismissed the damage award against Apple and ordered a new trial for some of the infringement claims, which this new lawsuit covers, along with infringements based on newer generations of iOS devices. An Apple lawyer stated that "Apple believes in fairness and protecting intellectual property," adding however, that "VirnetX keeps moving the boundary, asking for more and more and more."
Apple releases tvOS 9.1.1 for Apple TV with Podcasts app
Apple has released a software update to Apple TV with tvOS 9.1.1. The update includes Apple's Podcasts app for Apple TV, which is placed up top and center once tvOS 9.1.1 has been installed. Other changes within the update likely include minor improvements and bug fixes. While the upcoming tvOS 9.2 update will be a more substantial update, the Podcasts app featured in the 9.2 beta has already made its debut, perhaps earlier than expected. tvOS 9.1.1 is available for download now in Apple TV's Settings > System > Software Updates.
Report: Apple car project 'at crossroads'
Apple's "Project Titan" — the company's automotive project — is at a "crossroads," with the project team under a hiring freeze, according to Apple Insider. A source said Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive recently "expressed his displeasure" with the team's progress, and executives are reportedly "unhappy with the project's direction and progress." It's believed that Apple has more than 1,000 people working on the project.
This follows a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, which reported that Steve Zadesky, who "has been overseeing (Apple's) electric-car project for the last two years," is leaving the company. Zadesky, a longtime Apple employee who worked on the iPod and iPhone, is reportedly leaving for personal reasons. The timing of his exit is unclear, but it does appear there's some instability surrounding Apple's car project at the moment. Apple reportedly wants to ship its first electric vehicle by 2019.
Report: iPhone '5se' to have A9 + M9 chips, always-on Siri
Apple's upcoming 4" iPhone — which may be called the iPhone 5se — will likely have "variants" of the iPhone 6s' A9 and M9 chips, 9to5Mac reports. The iPhone will come in 16GB/64GB capacities, and will feature always-on Siri, in addition to Apple Pay support. It's believed the new iPhone will have curved glass and resemble a smaller iPhone 6/6s — a recent photo posted on One More Thing's forums (and pictured above) purports to show the new iPhone next to the iPhone 5.
Report: 4-inch 'iPhone 5se' to support Apple Pay, Live Photos
The upcoming iPhone with a 4" display will likely be called the "iPhone 5se," according to 9to5Mac. Sources have said the "iPhone" posted in a recent video is a fake, and that the iPhone 5se — the "se" perhaps meaning "special edition" — is best thought of as an upgraded iPhone 5s, instead of a shrunken iPhone 6s. The iPhone will still retain a headphone port, but there will be a number of upgrades and changes, including an NFC chip for Apple Pay without use of an Apple Watch, the addition of Live Photos from the 6s, and the A8 and M8 chips and 8MP/1.2MP cameras from the iPhone 6. The straight, shiny edges of the 5s will be replaced by curved glass as seen in the 6 and 6s. 3D Touch reportedly won't be making its way to the iPhone 5se, which probably isn't a surprise to most. The phone is still expected to debut in March before a March or April release.
Google paid Apple $1B to be iOS default search engine
A transcript of court proceedings between Oracle and Google has revealed that Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default search engine on iOS devices, Bloomberg reports. An Oracle attorney said that Google and Apple have an agreement which gives Apple a percentage of the revenue Google generates through iPhone. While a revenue share of 34 percent was discussed, a Google attorney attempted to get the number stricken from the record, saying, "We are talking hypotheticals here." The magistrate judge refused this request, but Google and Apple have filed to seal and redact the transcript. Both Apple and Google declined to comment on the proceedings.
California bill would require 'back door' access to encrypted phones
Following New York's introduction of a very similar bill, California is now considering a bill that would require smartphones to have a "back door" for access to encrypted content, ZDNet reports. Assembly Bill No. 1681, which has been presented as legislation for "Human Trafficking Evidentiary Access," would "require a smartphone that is manufactured on or after January 1, 2017, and sold in California, to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider." Any smartphone that couldn't be decrypted on demand would subject a seller or lessor to a $2,500 fine. If the bill became law, iPhones (and many other smartphones) could not be sold in California if their current encryption features remained intact. The bill was introduced by California assembly member Jim Cooper, who told Ars Technica, "For the industry to say it's privacy, it really doesn't hold any water. We're going after human traffickers and people who are doing bad and evil things. Human trafficking trumps privacy, no ifs, ands, or buts about it."
iOS 9.3's Night Shift may get Control Center button
Apple's Canadian preview page for iOS 9.3 reveals something the American preview page didn't — a toggle for the upcoming Night Shift mode within Control Center. First spotted by Reddit user nickjosephson, the Canadian page shows a small lamp button for Night Shift, next to the brightness slider within an iPad's control center. The toggle allows a user to select between "Turn On For Now" or "Turn On Until Tomorrow." The new Night Shift mode makes screen colors warmer at night, to minimize the affect of blue light on a user's sleep cycle. While this toggle hasn't appeared yet in any released iOS 9.3 beta, the image is still up on the page, which makes us think we'll be seeing it sooner rather than later.
Video shows purported 4-inch 'iPhone 6c'
A new video purports to show Apple's upcoming 4" iPhone, which may be called the iPhone 6c. The video, posted by M.I.C. Gadget, shows a phone that looks almost exactly like the iPhone 6s. M.I.C. Gadget claims the iPhone is "one of the first demo examples from Foxconn," but noted that they don't have additional tech specs or information about the device. The validity of such videos should always be taken with a grain of salt, but this isn't completely dubious. Though it's not always easy to judge scale, this alleged iPhone does appear to be a bit smaller than the 4.7" iPhone 6s. It's been rumored that a 4" iPhone with a metal body would be coming this spring, and a familiar design wouldn't be much of a surprise.
Apple introduces new, free Music Memos app
Apple has introduced a new free iOS app geared toward songwriters, Music Memos. The company sent out a press release and has also set up a webpage dedicated to the app. As Apple describes the app, Music Memos "can record any musical instrument through the iPhone's built-in microphone in a high-quality, uncompressed format, then name, tag and rate it to start building a library of your ideas. The app can analyze rhythm and chords of acoustic guitar and piano recordings, and instantly add drums and a bass line to provide a virtual, customizable backing band that plays along to match the feel of your song. Music Memos can even provide basic notation that displays the chords that were played." Think of it as a Voice Memos app for songs. Though the app may not be showing up in the App Store yet on your iOS device, it is indeed already available for download through iTunes. Music Memos requires iOS 9.1 or later, and it works on any compatible iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
Apple Watch Hermès to be sold online starting Friday
Apple Watch Hermès, a special edition of Apple Watch which has only been sold in select boutiques, will be available for purchase online starting this Friday, Jan. 22, Fashionista reports. The watch will be available at both Apple and Hermès' online stores. Prices for Apple Watch Hermès range from $1100-$1500, and come in 10 variations, differing by size and band. While some high-end shoppers may have been waiting for Apple Watch Hermès to become more widely available, it might make sense for any prospective Apple Watch buyer to wait just a bit longer to see if Apple will indeed introduce a new, revised Apple Watch this spring.
Apple looks to open retail stores in India
Apple has formally filed an application to open its own retail stores in India, according to India's Economic Times. Currently, Apple sells its products in India through independent, authorized franchisee stores. A report from late 2014 claimed Apple was looking to open smaller "iOS" stores in the country, and although details are still unclear, those plans might be expanded to include full-sized Apple Stores. India recently relaxed foreign direct investment rules that should make it easier for Apple to establish stores in the country. Apple's recently submitted proposal is currently being examined, India DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant said.
ESPN president says Apple 'frustrated' by lack of progress in developing TV service
It's still very unclear when Apple's much-discussed TV service will make its debut on Apple TV, and ESPN president John Skipper mentioned the company's frustrations in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Skipper said ESPN has "had discussions with Apple" about a streaming TV service. When asked if Apple had a "path to being a player in the TV industry," Skipper was relatively upbeat, saying the company is "creating a significantly advantageous operating system and a great television experience," but he also noted that Apple has "been frustrated by their ability to construct something which works for them with programmers."
While Apple has long been working on its own TV subscription service, the company wasn't able to ready the service for the debut of the fourth-generation Apple TV last year, and it's unclear at this point just when such a service may debut. Judging by Skipper's recent comments — and bolstered by past reports and whispers — it doesn't appear the service will be ready anytime soon. Apple has recently been linked to both the NFL and Time Warner, but it's unknown how much interest — if any — Apple has in getting involved with either entity as related to its TV service.
Apple releases iOS 9.2.1
Apple has released iOS 9.2.1, a minor update that contains security updates and bug fixes. Also included is a "fix for an issue that could prevent the completion of app installation when using an MDM server." The update is available now through Settings > General > Software Update. Apple just released the iOS 9.3 public beta last week.
Apple wins sales ban on obsolete Samsung products in patent battle
The U.S. District Court in San Jose has ruled that Samsung must stop "making, using, selling, developing or designing software or code that helps its products infringe" on three particular Apple patents Bloomberg reports. While the patents in question deal with autocorrect, slide-to-unlock, and data detection, this ruling only affects devices no longer sold by Samsung, including the Galaxy S II, S III, and Note smartphones. Though the ruling will have a minimal effect on Samsung's business, Apple will seemingly have a stronger position going forward in arguing that Samsung's more recent devices still infringe on the same patents, as the companies continue to square off on patent issues. A statement from Samsung said that even though American consumers wouldn't be directly impacted by the ruling, the company is still "very disappointed."


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One of the fundamental design challenges in designing a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is to maximize the network lifetime, as each sensor node of the network is equipped with a limited power battery. To overcome this challenge, different methods were developed in the last few years using such techniques as network protocols, data fusion algorithms using low power, energy efficient routing, and locating optimal sink position. This paper focuses on finding the optimal sink position. Relay nodes are introduced in conjunction with the sensor nodes to mitigate network geometric deficiencies since in most other approaches the sensor nodes close to the sink become heavily involved in data forwarding and, thus, their batteries are quickly depleted. A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based algorithm is used to locate the optimal sink position with respect to those relay nodes to make the network more energy efficient. The relay nodes communicate with the sink instead of the sensor nodes. Tests show that this approach can save at least 40% of the energy and prolong the network lifetime.


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If you're going to tell me "normal people" don't do those tasks, please don't. Quilters run blogs. Salespeople create presentations. And non-techie writers send revisions to editors. It's us nerds who insist that iOS solves the "problem" of normal people who don't understand the file system putting all their files on the desktop. But the desktop acts as shared document storage, which is something it turns out normal people sometimes need, and iOS does not solve that problem. Lecture me about the virtues of containers all you want, but there is no world in which having to use Dropbox as a temporary storage medium is a step forward.
This is a great article, and it hits the nail on the head so hard, the nail's probably in Fiji by now. The only people going iPad-only are bloggers writing "I went iPad-only"-posts, and people who are trying to prove a point. Neither of them constitute a market.
Android relies heavily on the Linux kernel for enforcement of its security model. To better protect the kernel, we've enabled a number of mechanisms within Android. At a high level these protections are grouped into two categories - memory protections and attack surface reduction.
The goal was to publish source code to a GPU that is register compatible with the late 90's era Number Nine "Ticket To Ride IV" GPU. Although the project didn't meet its funding goal, the person behind it later published the code on github.
Despite the fact that this is an older design, it has lots of stuff that is worth studying. It's interesting to compare this design to the VideoCore GPU that I walked through in a previous post. While there are some fundamental differences, there are surprising number of functions that are similar, which shows how modern GPUs evolved from earlier ones.
A walkthrough of the GPLGPU as well as some history and backstory of the Number Nine "Ticket To Ride IV" GPU.
Dan Dodge, the founder and former chief executive officer of QNX, the operating system developer that BlackBerry acquired in 2010, joined Apple earlier this year, the people said. He is part of a team headed by Bob Mansfield, who, since taking over leadership of the cars initiative - dubbed Project Titan - has heralded a shift in strategy, according to a person familiar with the plan.
The initiative is now prioritizing the development of an autonomous driving system, though it's not abandoning efforts to design its own vehicle. That leaves options open should the company eventually decide to partner with or acquire an established car maker, rather than build a car itself. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
In the months leading up to the announcement of the new Apple TV box last year, there were multiple reports that said the company was also working on a streaming TV service as a way to entice cord-cutters and "cord-nevers" into its ecosystem. Those reports suggested that the service would include some 25 channels and cost $30 or $40 a month, and it would stream live content as well as offer a Netflix-esque back catalog of shows on demand.
But it never came to pass. When the new Apple TV launched, Apple pushed apps as the future of TV rather than an all-in-one service. A new report from the Wall Street Journal today says that Apple's negotiating tactics were to blame and that the service didn't come to pass in part because Apple was offering too little money and making too many demands.
The source article is behind a paywall, so hence the link to the Ars story instead. You can try and use this link through Google to get the source article.
Ars Technica talks about dark patterns:
Everyone has been there. So in 2010, London-based UX designer Harry Brignull decided he'd document it. Brignull's website, darkpatterns.org, offers plenty of examples of deliberately confusing or deceptive user interfaces. These dark patterns trick unsuspecting users into a gamut of actions: setting up recurring payments, purchasing items surreptitiously added to a shopping cart, or spamming all contacts through prechecked forms on Facebook games.
I can't recall ever falling for a dark pattern, but I see these things everywhere - a sure sign that whatever company, website, or whatever, you're dealing with is not worthy of your time.
"iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful products in history. It's become more than a constant companion. iPhone is truly an essential part of our daily life and enables much of what we do throughout the day," said Cook. "Last week we passed another major milestone when we sold the billionth iPhone. We never set out to make the most, but we've always set out to make the best products that make a difference. Thank you to everyone at Apple for helping change the world every day."
There's a lot you can say about Apple and the iPhone - but you can't say the device didn't cause a revolution in computing. This is a major milestone, and I'd like to congratulate all the men and women involved in the iPhone's inception and further development. Apple is more than just the corporate facade and Tim Cook and Steve Jobs. There's thousands of men and women working there, and this is a major achievement for them.
Wander into almost any online forum or article comment section about a controversial announcement from Apple Inc. and you will almost certainly hear a variation of this sentence: "Apple has gone downhill since Steve Jobs died." The sentence slithers around vaguely; it never seems to specify how, or in what ways, Apple has gone downhill. I agree, nonetheless, that it has. Whether or not Steve Jobs's absence caused the decline (though I suspect it did), I grow frustrated as I watch each software update further erode one pillar of Apple's formerly astronomical greatness.
No: I am not referring to their software's stability, important and perhaps worsening with time as it may be. I walk a different tightrope. The design-community-approved articles pertaining to an "Apple software decline" focus on bugs (see Marco Arment, Glenn Fleishman, Russell Ivanovic) or even lunge for their shields to claim that Apple has no such software problems (see Jim Lynch), with the glaring exception of this thoughtful and much-needed lament by Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini. The article you are about to read will address the same unsung subject as Norman and Tognazzini's article: the design, not the engineering, of Apple's graphical user interfaces. But where their article is general, I have harvested specific example after specific example of the user interface decline of (the now-former) OS X.
A great article with which I wholeheartedly agree - but my agreement comes with a twist.
Where Howard seems to regard the purest form of the Aqua graphical user interface as the bar for the decline, I consider the bar to be what is now referred to as the Classic graphical user interface, but which is actually named Platinum, which reached its zenith in Mac OS 9.
Platinum in Mac OS 9 was elegant, clear, memorable, focused, and pleasant. Forget OS 9's multitude of structural problems - it was a terribly designed house of cards that would crumble if you looked at it funny - and just focus on the UI, in which elements are clearly marked, there's tons of useful but not annoying visual feedback, and a rare sense of spatiality to it all.
Aqua has always been too candy cane for me, and it's only gone downhill from there for Apple - iOS and Mac OS today are dreadfully bland and void of character, and this article does a decent job illustrating it.
Apple sold 40.4 million iPhones during the quarter, down from 47.5 million a year earlier, while Mac sales were 4.25 million units, down from from 4.8 million units in the year-ago quarter. iPad sales were also down once again, falling to 9.95 million from 10.9 million.
If the rumours are right and the next iPhone is indeed another minor spec bump, Apple is in for a rough year. With "rough" meaning "making incredible amounts of money, just a little less than they'd hoped, but still more than can be comprehended on a day-to-day basis".
I wish I had Apple's rough quarters.
Steve Kondik, founder of CyanogenMod (the community ROM) and Cyanogen Inc. (the company):
CyanogenMod is something that works. Perhaps it doesn't need to "go big" to work. I'm still wildly inspired by the idea of a platform which forces participation. Whether it's the choice to hack your phone to bits and figure out how to install the damn thing to begin with, learning what's possible afterwards, or just having the confidence of being in control, it still serves an important role which hasn't been filled outside of the custom ROM community. Cyanogen Inc (including myself) will still be sponsoring the project and will continue to have an active role in it's development. Contrary to popular belief, we are not "pivoting to apps" nor are we shelving CM. We'll have additional information on the Inc site soon.
Good news for CyanogenMod (the ROM), but communications in the vein of "the company is not going down, honest!" usually precede the company going down.
The final build of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is build 14393. The update, which provides a range of new features and improvements, represents Microsoft's last big push to get Windows 7 and 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10.
The update is available right now to those who have opted in to the Windows Insider program, and it will be pushed out to Windows 10 users on the current branch on August 2. The free upgrade offer from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10, however, ends on July 29, leaving Microsoft hoping that the promise of the new update will be enough to get people to make the switch.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt many Windows 7/8 users here who haven't upgraded yet will be wooed by this new update.
If you're still running Windows XP, you're irresponsible and you should update to 7/8/10 or Linux immediately.
As another installment in a somewhat ongoing series on obscure console history, let's talk about the expansion port on the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES. In case you've never turned over your NES: there's a little door underneath your NES, which covers up a small raised piece of plastic that's (relatively) easily removable. Underneath the raised piece of plastic sits an expansion port on the NES' motherboard. That's my NES, and since I've already taken it apart to look at what's under the raised cover, I had no need to remove it.
Common wisdom is that the NES expansion port was never actually used for anything, but that's not actually true. Modeled after the Family Computer Network System for the Japanese version of the NES (the Famicom), through which the NES could display weather, stock information, partake in gambling, and so on, the Minnesota State Lottery and Nintendo tried to bring a similar device to the United States:
The three parties planned to sign up 10,000 homes for the trial, and while Nintendo handed out free modems, in an even sweeter deal, Minnesota also handed out free NES consoles to those involved who didn't already have one.
For a monthly subscription fee of $10 (remember, that's 1991 money), users would also get a special cartridge for the NES that let them access the lottery, after which they could play every game that month, right up to and including the big jackpots.
The program ultimately flopped and never made it to the official production or availability stages, and since Nintendo never tried to do anything with the expansion port after this initial test, it would remain unused for the entirety of the NES' lifespan. Today, though, you can buy a homebrew expansion board that taps into the port.
I've been reading up a lot on these kinds of stories, so if you have anything interesting - feel free to submit it. Since I grew up with Nintendo (and PC), that's where the focus has been so far, so I'd be quite interested in stories about competing companies such as Sega or Atari.
We're hearing from multiple sources that Cyanogen Inc. is in the midst of laying off a significant portion of its workforce around the world today. The layoffs most heavily impact the open source arm of the Android ROM-gone-startup, which may be eliminated entirely (not CyanogenMod itself, just the people at Cyanogen Inc. who work on the open source side).
We have been told by several sources [ed. note: confirmed by Re/code] that the company plans to undergo some sort of major strategic shift, with one claiming that this involves a "pivot" to "apps."
Quoting myself, early this year: "Don't buy into Cyanogen. Just don't."
Cyanogen, Inc. has been misleading, grandiose, megalomaniac. I wish the people who got laid off all the best in the troubling weeks and months ahead, but I shed no tear for the megalomaniac, misleading, and arrogant way this company conducted its business.
Back in the early '90s, a number of game consoles of the time got CD-ROM based add-ons, such as the the Mega-CD for the Mega Drive (or Sega CD and Genesis, respectively, in North-America). Nintendo wanted in on this trend as well, and in cooperation with Sony - which already made several of the SNES' chips - Nintendo explored the idea of a CD-ROM based add-on for the SNES. The plan was for the device to be connected to the SNES using the 28-pin expansion port located underneath the SNES.
The device - called the SNES-CD or Nintendo Play Station - eventually morphed into a single unit capable of playing both SNES games and new disc-based games, all in a single package. It never made it to market, though, and only 200 or so prototypes were ever made, which all seemingly were destroyed, or so the story goes. Sony took what it learned during its stint with Nintendo, and in 1994, unveiled the PlayStation.
Until in 2015, Terry and Dan Diebold by pure luck stumbled upon one of the presumed lost prototypes - probably the rarest console in existence. The SNES part of the device was in working condition (mostly), but the CD-ROM part was void of any signs of life. It seemed like the Nintendo Play Station would continue to hide its secrets.
That is, until now - Ben Heck has managed to fix the SNES-CD, and get it back into working order. The entire process is chronicled in two videos. In the first video, Heck takes the SNES-CD apart and analyses its insides, trying to figure out what each chip and component does. In the second video, the real magic begins - fixing the device.
I'm not going to spoil why, exactly, the device didn't work - it's too good of a story and too much of a fun surprise to spoil upfront. Grab something to drink, and enjoy an hour of delicately poking at the insides of one of the rarest pieces of technology.
It is the widest superscalar processor on the market, one that can issue up to 10 instructions and sustain 8 per clock: IBM's POWER8. IBM's POWER CPUs have always captured the imagination of the hardware enthusiast; it is the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the M1 Abrams of the processor world. Still, despite a flood of benchmarks and reports, it is very hard to pinpoint how it compares to the best Intel CPUs in performance wise. We admit that our own first attempt did not fully demystify the POWER8 either, due to the fact that some immature LE Linux software components (OpenJDK, MySQL...) did not allow us to run our enterprise workloads.
Hence we're undertaking another attempt to understand what the strengths and weaknesses are of Intel's most potent challenger. And we have good reasons besides curiosity and geekiness: IBM has just recently launched the IBM S812LC, the most affordable IBM POWER based server ever. IBM advertises the S812LC with "Starting at $4,820". That is pretty amazing if you consider that this is not some basic 1U server, but a high expandable 2U server with 32 (!) DIMM slots, 14 disk bays, 4 PCIe Gen 3 slots, and 2 redundant power supplies.
Classic AnandTech. This is only part 1 - more parts are to follow.
In this post, I m going to show you a few of the features of WSL that I personally find very interesting, as well as point you to some resources to help you learn more. First, I'll show the integration of staple commands like ssh for working with Linux servers and devices. Second, I'll demonstrate the ability to use Bash scripting to automate tasks in a very natural way. Third, I'll have a little fun with the great command-line compilers, other tools and the *nix compatibility offered, and play a little NetHack. Finally, I'll show you the ability to use existing Python and other scripts available on the web.
France's data protection commission has ordered Microsoft to "stop collecting excessive user data" and to stop tracking the web browsing of Windows 10 users without their consent. In a notice published on Wednesday, the CNIL said that Microsoft must also take steps to guarantee "the security and confidentiality" of its users' personal information, after determining that the company was still transferring data to the US under the "Safe Harbor" agreement that an EU court invalidated in October. Microsoft has three months to comply with the orders, the CNIL said.
I was reminded of just how much stuff Microsoft tries to collect earlier today - I had to reinstall Windows on my workstation because my SSD had mysteriously died yesterday, and the number of things you have to turn off is just crazy.
In a discussion at TypeDrawers, Greg Hitchcock (from Microsoft) shares a bit of the history regarding OS/2 table's name in the TTF font format:
Because the design of fonts between OS/2 and Windows was very similar (the same folks at Microsoft did most of the graphics for both OS/2 and Windows - with some input from IBM based on their FOCA values) we decided to consolidate the OS/2 and WIN tables into just one table - OS/2. This is why the spec says "...a set of metrics that are required by OS/2 and Windows." The parting with IBM occurred later in 1990. Microsoft had already made enough fonts using the OS/2 table that we decided it would be too expensive to rename the table to the WIN table.
Ultimately the OS/2 table has become somewhat of a catch-all for additional bits of data, which is why we are now on the 6th version of the table.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the U.S. government today on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment.
EFF's lawsuit, filed with co-counsel Brian Willen, Stephen Gikow, and Lauren Gallo White of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, challenges the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the 18-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). These provisions -contained in Section 1201 of the DMCA - make it unlawful for people to get around the software that restricts access to lawfully-purchased copyrighted material, such as films, songs, and the computer code that controls vehicles, devices, and appliances. This ban applies even where people want to make noninfringing fair uses of the materials they are accessing.
Great move.
WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.
Interesting project. They also provide details on how it works:
WinFsp consists of a kernel mode FSD (File System Driver) and a user mode DLL (Dynamic Link Library). The FSD interfaces with NTOS (the Windows kernel) and handles all interactions necessary to present itself as a file system driver to NTOS. The DLL interfaces with the FSD and presents an easy to use API for creating user mode file systems.
It's open source, using the AGPLv3 license.


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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Darlinghurst Blog: Animal Life: Ralf the Cat
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Quite a sad post:( I too hope he's allright. To have a love for animals is to have a big heart, and Ralf knows you love him and miss him. And when you do meet up again it'll be a joyous reunion.
I've gone through a few seperations of this nature and it's awful but know this that other good people share your sadness, and send you their (me) love and comfort.XXOO
- May 16, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Dear Violet,
Hope Ralf re-emerges , maybe he was jealous?
Have you thought of hosting any pets whilst the owners are away if thats possible?
Do you know Atticus the ferociously regal Siamese of Green Park , who arrives on his owners shoulder and chases my dog sometimes? Haven't seen them as much since the weather is colder , but their usual haunt is near the tree beside Michelangelo and Carlo's cafe in the bandstand.
- May 21, 2013 at 6:42 PM
- Violet Tingle said...
Yes, I do know Atticus! Apparently his owner toured with The Doors.
- May 22, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Nice post on Ralf, we live down the corridor from "the man with the umbrella" and used to enjoy Ralf's visits. "The man with the umbrella" has a cat too but timid Timmy is not at all social.
I was wondering why I hadn't seen Digger
- July 22, 2013 at 8:38 PM
Hi, Ralph used to live in the building on the north side of the Royston, I met his owner, she was nice and at that point he was up on the roof!. Thinking they must have moved. Ralph used to come and sit in my beetle with me when I was waiting for a parking spot, a gorgeous soul, I am sure he is fine! Funny to find your post as I was just back in Royston and I always think of Ralph when I'm there.
^. .^
- October 16, 2013 at 4:54 PM
I loved Ralph! He used to sit on my lap in my beetle whilst I waited for a park. I was worried when I hadn't seen him, but I since found out he has moved to the country, living on a lovely property so he is fine. Just wanted to put your minds at rest on that.
- January 24, 2015 at 11:42 PM
it's now 2015... have you seen Ralf again? i loved reading your story about him!
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This is the very last installment of Neal Pollack Fact of the Day because the big event at Chop Suey is tonight.
People who've been to The Stranger's past literary events with Jonathan Safran Foer and Zadie Smith will recognize the format. In addition to the headliner, there's a special guest—tonight's special guest is the famous snowboarder Dan Savage. There is a band—the glorious "Awesome," the newly anointed "official band" of Stranger literary events, who've written some scathing/hilarious songs about Savage and Pollack. And there is an MC—tonight it's Sean Nelson—whose main job is to ask Pollack a lot of wild, inappropriate questions you would be too afraid to ask yourself.
I did ask Pollack a question over email this morning though, a question inspired by yesterday's Line Out post about what music Stranger staffers listen to when they have sex. Without further ado, the final NPFOTD:
FACT: Neal Pollack listens to DJ Cheb i Sabbah when he's making love to his beautiful wife. What does this tell us about Mr. Pollack? "He thinks he's having sex in 1,001 Nights," says Charles Mudede.
[We're going to play DJ Cheb i Sabbah before the show tonight. More lovin' for everyone! Pollack's new book is about being a "hipster" dad—expect Nelson to grill him on what the hell that means. The P-I's take on it is here. Chop Suey is at 1325 E Madison Street. Doors fly open at 7 pm—if you want a seat, get there early. Show starts at 8 pm. It's 21+. And it's FREE!]


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Saudi official backs arms for Syrian rebels
TUNIS, Tunisia The Saudi foreign minister says arming the rebels fighting the brutal regime of President Bashar Assad is "an excellent idea."
Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal went further than any of the other Friends of Syria nations meeting in Tunis Friday to increase pressure on Assad to call for a cease-fire, step down and allow humanitarian aid to flow to hard-hit areas.
Asked at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton if he thought arming the Syrian opposition was a good idea, al-Faisal said: "I think it's an excellent idea." Asked why, he said, "Because they have to protect themselves."
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NC man hollers summertime tune to win national title
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SPIVEY'S CORNER, N.C. — A North Carolina man who won the National Hollerin' Contest says he almost disqualified himself by going over the four-minute time limit.
The Fayetteville Observer reports that Tony Peacock of Siler City won the 42nd annual contest Saturday in Spivey's Corner in central North Carolina. His hollerin' rendition of the popular Gershwin tune "Summertime" got him the title.
Peacock says he had to cut short his last holler because he had only two seconds left.
The winner of the contest gets bragging rights and opportunities to perform at events and on television.
Participants competed in several categories: men's national hollerin' contest, ladies callin', conch shell blowin', whistlin' and junior and teen hollerin'.
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They don't care about boxing. It's far down the list of their in demand sports. That's why despite Setanta's strong boxing line up and affordable monthly fee, they still couldn't subsidise their losses on boxing alone, they needed people to commit for their footie coverage, people didn't want to subscribe to a further sports channel and it went down the ****ter. Sky could easily run a much better boxing line up, but if its not making them money then they aren't gonna put the shows on.
The fact they haven't bided for the rights to Ricky Hatton's comeback pretty much shows how little a future the sport has on the channel. He was their golden boy and his return could have been marketed massively, but they just don't want to know.
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From the original Macc Book – as used by designers in the 1500s
Before black vinyl folders, and way before the website, the Mediaeval ancestors of today's graphic designers produced 'model' or 'pattern' books to show their work to potential clients. Only a handful survive but the British Library has recently discovered a prime example – the so-called Macclesfield Alphabet Book.
"…and with this alphabet we achieved best of breed stand-out in the highly competitive gruel sector…"
Produced c1500, the book is filled with designs for different styles of script, letters, initials and decorative borders. All are believed to have come from one workshop, where the book would have been used not just in ye olde pitche meetinge but also to teach assistants how to reproduce the house styles.
There are 14 different types of decorative alphabets featured, including decorative initials with faces
'foliate' alphabets, ie those featuring leaves or other foliage
plus, the Library says, large, coloured anthropomorphic initials modelled after fifteenth-century woodcuts or engravings
as well as two sets of different types of borders, some of which are fully illuminated in colours and gold.
"Yes, very nice, but can you make my coat of arms bigger?"
The Library is appealing for donations so that it can acquire the book, which it describes as being of "outstanding significance" and which has been in the library of the Earls of Macclesfield since around 1750. So far it has raised £340,000 of the £600,000 purchase price. If you can help, please email email@example.com or email@example.com
I asked the British Library about whether people should use gloves, here's what they had to say:
"We recommend that people do not wear gloves when handling collection items unless they are touching certain vulnerable surfaces such as un-protected photographs, lead seals or the surface of a globe.
Instead we prefer people to ensure that they have clean, dry hands. There are several reasons for this. Gloves can blunt touch and make people less manually dextrous as they cannot feel the item that they are handling. This can cause them to grab at the item they are viewing or to hold it too firmly. This can actually increase rather than minimise the risk of damage to the item.
It is also very difficult to turn or lift pages with gloved hands. We have recently filmed a series of short videos which demonstrate the best way to handle and use different types of collection items.
This includes a video entitled 'Using Gloves with Collection items' which demonstrates how difficult it is to turn or lift pages with gloved hands. These videos can be viewed on our website by following this link.
Lastly gloves can also catch on loose pigments or fibres as well as picking up and transferring dust."


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This winery is situated on the sun-kissed northern shores of Lake Constance in Nonnenhorn, Bavaria. The Gierer family has been devoted to the art of winemaking for over 300 years, passing on its expertise from generation to generation. Their new vinothek unites exceptional design and regionally sourced materials, while affording visitors views of the scenic countryside outside and the wine cellar down below.
A modern cube, completely clad with larch wood, has been attracting the attention of onlookers in the Rems valley since 2012. With huge, largely uninterrupted surfaces and light and airy spaces, the new building at the Wilhelm Kern wine estate in Kernen-Rommelshausen, Württemberg, creates an atmosphere of quiet relaxation in which visitors can concentrate on what is important: the wines.
The heritage-listed buildings at Julius Wasem's wine estate in Ingelheim are home to a vinothek (with tasting rooms), a restaurant, a wine barn with an adjoining garden, and function and meeting rooms. The combination of modern architecture and the heritage-listed facades of the Cistercian Convent of Engelthal make this an exceptional setting in which to enjoy wine.
It may be unusual for a wine estate to look like a classical modernist building, but that is exactly the case in Kindenheim in the Palatinate region. The Kreutzenberger family estate was built in 1929 in the then avant-garde Bauhaus style. Despite its modernist look, this small family winery sets great store by traditional values and grows its grapes in prime locations in Kindenheim, Bockenheim and Wachenheim.
The Lubentiushof wine estate in Niederfell dates back to a winery founded in 1711 for the House of Leyen. In 1994, the estate was taken over by Andreas Barth who, as a lawyer, has come from a very different background and brought a wealth of new ideas to the business. The grapes in his vineyards thrive on the slate terraces of the Lower Moselle, where they are all picked by hand because of the steep slopes.
The ensemble of buildings at the centre of the Franconian wine village of Iphofen offers an exciting combination of traditional and modern architecture. As well as rooms for showcasing wines, the vinothek is also home to the tourist information office, a gallery for temporary exhibitions, meeting rooms and a vaulted cellar. There is also a wine bistro and farm shop.
The Winery on the Würzburger Stein is situated on sun-kissed slopes north of a bow in the river Main. The limestone soils provide the basis for Ludwig Knoll's high-quality wines, which are mainly of the silvaner and the acclaimed steinwein varieties. Knoll has been managing the estate, which has been in the family for generations, since 1991 and given it his own modern and individual style.
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Another year gone, another assortment of big-screen missteps made that should never be repeated again. We get an incredible amount of new releases each and every year, so of course not every film can be a box office hit or Academy Award contender, but the upside to that is there's always an opportunity to learn from the mistakes.
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The original Shaq Attaq was initially sampled in both a traitional size 9 as well as in Shaq's size, 20 (he would eventually wear a size 22). This was done to be sure that the design details would still work on such a big shoe.
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Traditionally you will come across the "next big thing" in New York, London or sometimes even Berlin. IN GOLDEN TEARS on the other hand call the far north of Germany their home. They arise from the same place where The Beatles once built up their reputation – the city of Hamburg.Read More...
Resisting hindering influences such as Europe's famous red-light district and the local obsession with football, the four barely 20-year-olds managed to shape their dark and deep sound into perfection.
After receiving critically acclaimed reactions from bloggers all over the world, IN GOLDEN TEARS are set to play their first UK tour in April following the release of their debut single.
"Urban Emotions", produced by Marius Lauber (Beat!Beat!Beat!) in Cologne and mastered by Andrew Heppner (Bravestation) in Toronto, has already awaken interest amongst various renowned independent labels. The song will be available worldwide through Humming Records (via Rough Trade distribution) from April 1st.
With a cutting, melodic guitar sound which lives up to the names of Joy Division and Interpol, IN GOLDEN TEARS spark an entire firework of melancholy. Pumping basslines chase echoing drum sounds and fragile synthesizer fogs across the room.
It is no surprise, that Patrick H. Kowalewski (Vocals, Guitar), Mats Dörband (Bass), Patrick Behrens (Vocals, Guitar) and Moritz de Chambord (Drums) have already gained quite some recognition.
Alongside the praising international press reactions, IN GOLDEN TEARS were voted Myspace' artist of the week, opened at Dockville Festival and shared the stage with the likes of The Drums, Villagers and Flashguns – at that time still under the moniker Secrets.
Following the single release and UK tour, IN GOLDEN TEARS are preparing to gig throughout their homeland, looking at recording a full lenth album later in the year. There is lots more to await from Hamburgs "next big thing". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Holiday Inn Plainview features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
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The daughter of a Polish sculptor, Misia Sert (1872-1950) was a well-known figure in Parisian artistic and intellectual circles. Renoir''s portrait shows her as an accomplished society hostess, at ease in a chaise longue. Her soft, low-cut chiffon blouse and bold-patterned skirt provide an interesting contrast with the contemporary dress in Klimt''s portrait of the same year (also in this display). A number of artists painted Sert; she was a confidante of Picasso and Jean Cocteau, an early patron of Sergei Diaghilev''s Ballets Russes and a close friend of the designer Coco Chanel.
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