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Today, I want to share a little history lesson with you. It comes from one of the worst periods of human history but makes a point about human innovation that can't be said enough -- that given enough time and capital, we're capable of some pretty remarkable things.
And the good news for investors like you and me is that we can use this universal truth to profit handsomely...
The Great Famine was among the worst episodes of starvation in recorded history.
Famine began to spread from poorer peasants to wealthier nobleman and merchants. Even King Edward II had trouble finding food for himself.
Millions starved and died. By 1400, Britain's population stood at an estimated 2 million people, off as much as two-thirds from its peak less than a century earlier.
But over time, something happened that put an end to this: Farmers started innovating.
A series of technological developments starting around 1650 facilitated Britain's Agricultural Revolution. Regardless of weather, farmers in England and elsewhere were able to use new technologies to reap more crop yield than ever before.
As with any period of rapid technological change, the Agricultural Revolution created vast wealth and fortunes for innovators such as John Deere and others who ignored traditional farming practices and replaced them with new methods.
The important lesson here for modern investors? Innovation in key industries is at the heart of many of the world's most successful and best-performing companies.
The concept is simple: companies that can build a better mousetrap stand to make more money.
Developing and commercializing new technologies, in turn, requires spending on research and development (R&D). Now, I know income investors don't normally pay attention to a metric like R&D, but trust me, they should.
Of course, just because a company spends billions on R&D doesn't mean it'll be successful in developing a profitable and innovative new product. But there's still an established link between R&D spending, innovation and stock market performance.
In 2006, a group of researchers led by Allan Eberhardt at Georgetown University found that publicly-traded companies that quickly increase their R&D spending outperform the broader market for at least 60 months after that increase.
To test this concept, I examined the ratio of R&D spending to net sales for S&P 500 companies over the past 20 years. I then ranked the top 25% R&D spenders and put them in a portfolio.
Then I added one more important ingredient: Because I focus on solid companies that pay dividends in my Top 10 Stocks advisory, I eliminated any stocks with no earnings in the most recent quarter and any stock with a dividend yield less than 1%.
My hypothesis: Companies with a history of returning capital to shareholders via regular dividend payments are less likely to squander cash on expensive and non-commercial R&D.
The results are impressive:
If you had invested $10,000 in 1993 in profitable companies who spent heavily on R&D and paid a dividend, you would have accumulated over $150,000 by the end of May 2013. By comparison, the same $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 would have turned into just $53,700.
The connection between success and these key components is clear. Innovative leaders with a history of consistent spending on R&D and returning capital to shareholders have outperformed the broader market by a roughly 3-to-1 ratio over the past 20 years.
If that doesn't convince you, consider one of my favorite picks -- Intel (Nasdaq: INTC).
It's long been a proponent of heavy R&D spending. In fact, the company spent $10.1 billion on R&D last year, or more than Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and SAP, combined.
Intel's technological dominance has allowed it to control 90% of the PC chip market, and the heavy cash flow that comes with its success allows it to be one of the most shareholder friendly companies on Earth.
Intel's stock has not only gained over 700% since 1994, it's also increased its dividend by an incredible 6,441%. An investor who bought shares in 1994 would see their effective dividend yield grow from 0.4% to an eye-popping 28.7% today.
Action to Take --> Simply put, cash-rich companies that make R&D research a priority and treat shareholders to healthy and rising annual dividend payments make for some of the best performing stocks.


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On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:52:19 +1000, Qu0ll wrote:
> So just how reliable are TCP and Java sockets over the actual
> internet? I mean do I need to implement some kind of "advanced"
> protocol whereby check sums are transmitted along with packets and
> the packet retransmitted if the check sum is invalid or is all this
> handled by either the Java sockets or the TCP protocol already?
"Java sockets" is a misnomer, since sockets are not specific to Java
or any other programming language. Java provides an interface to the
socket mechanism (sometimes called "Berkeley sockets") already
provided by your operating system.
TCP is a reliable protocol. It manages retransmission when data is out
of order, missing or corrupt, and it will break the connection when it
is unable to provide an error-free data stream, but not before making
a number of attempts to correct the situation first.
Your application can safely assume that as long as your connection is
up, your data stream contains exactly the data sent by the remote.
There are however a number of things that your application can do
wrong. The commonest ones to watch out for are thinking that TCP will
respect your message boundaries (it won't), or expecting that you'll
always read as much data as you requested (you won't).

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n. A person who enthusiastically toes the party line. A combination of "synch" and "sycophant."
A million syncophants blindly repeating the GOP's talking points make me sick to my stomach.
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A misspelling of the word "sycophant" used by ignorant ghetto people and neocon morons.
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Results matter. So does beating the dreaded RBS Six Nations Championship whitewash, the confidence that comes from seeing France in a shambles against Wales on Friday and knowing they are the next opposition, and the knowledge that Scotland have silenced many critics by demonstrating that they can play high-quality rugby.
Yet, at the risk of being deemed a bit of a sourpuss, the victory in Rome does not answer all the questions hanging over this squad and the coaches. It was, after all, remarkably similar to the game last summer where Scotland managed to rescue a win with seconds to


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Shelf Life tells us about a new book by the men who made thousands reach for their hankies, thanks to their YouTube video of their Africa reunion with the lion they raised as a cub.
The Orange Football blog has the insider details on SU practices this week.
Verona won't be seeing Miley's dad anytime soon: Billy Ray Cyrus has canceled his May 22 show at Turning Stone, the Listen Up blog reports.
Check out a photo gallery from spring practice with the SU Orange football team on the Orange Football blog.
The Green CNY blog tells us how National Grid customers can get rebates for saving electricity. Daily Finder has some new windows that'll snag 50 bucks apiece.
Store Front blogs about big-box retailers benefiting from veteran musicians who agree to release their CDs only at those stores.
The Frugal Mom blog has "25 things I do to save money."
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Washington -- Overseeing a dispirited nation, President Barack Obama today sought to assure people that bleak times will give way to better days, calling the mounting economic crisis a time to discover America's next "great opportunity."
"That is what we can do and must do today," Obama said in his weekly radio and video address, taped Friday at the White House. "And I am absolutely confident that is what we will do."
Transcript of President Barack Obama's weekly address.
This morning, the president and first lady Michelle Obama flew by helicopter to the presidential retreat in Camp David, Md., for the weekend. Their daughters, Sasha and Malia, traveled to Camp David separately, the White House said.
The work week ended on more down news, with the report of 651,000 more American jobs slashed and an unemployment rate climbing to 8.1 percent. That is the highest rate of people out of work in more than 25 years, as the recession continued to put enormous pressures on families and industries.
Obama recapped the work of the latest hectic week in his young presidency. His goal was to reassure the country that he and his team are taking specific steps to create jobs in the short term and begin to address huge issues such as health care.
His rundown of the past week: the launch of a more detailed plan to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure; a new credit plan to spur lending for people and businesses; an overhaul of the way the government hands out private contracts to reduce waste; and a summit on how to overhaul health care.
On the last point, Obama has set a goal of signing a bill this year that would fix the U.S. health care system, which is the costliest in the world and leaves an estimated 48 million people uninsured, plus many others lacking adequate coverage.
"Our ideas and opinions about how to achieve this reform will vary, but our goal must be the same: quality, affordable health care for every American that no longer overwhelms the budgets of families, businesses and our government," Obama said.
Obama said he is not wedded to a plan on how to fix the problem. But one proposal he has endorsed, giving Americans the option of buying medical coverage through a government plan, is drawing opposition from Republicans.
Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., emphasized that point in the Republican weekly radio address.
"I'm concerned that if the government steps in it will eventually push out the private health care plans millions of Americans enjoy today," Blunt said. "This could cause your employer to simply stop offering coverage, hoping the government will pick up the slack."
As the White House takes on so many huge issues at once, Obama is encouraging people to take a longer view, and not get caught up in the fits and starts. The president said in his address that the nation will continue to face difficult days in the months ahead. Still, he ended with hope.
"Yes, this is a moment of challenge for our country," Obama said. "But we've experienced great trials before. And with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper -- to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis."


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A FORMER TEMPLE University student has filed a lawsuit against the school claiming it unfairly expelled him after a female student accused him of sexual assault.
The plaintiff, whose name is not disclosed in the federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, claims he engaged in consensual sexual acts (but not intercourse) with the female student on Sept. 22, 2012, when they were both enrolled at Temple.
The suit claims that "Temple adopted and applied sexual misconduct policies and procedures that disproportionately affect male students" and deprived this particular student of his due-process rights in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education.


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February 14, 2013, 10:01 AM
I have some 40 and 45 gr Sierra Blitzkings in .223 diameter 22 Hornet. What kinds of problems will I have shooting them in a rifle chambered for .224 diameter Hornet? I'm guessing maybe a slight loss of chamber pressure and bullet instability (accuracy?). Any experience out there?


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YOUNGSTOWN - Police say an officer shot a man in the stomach during a traffic stop about 11:55 p.m. Sunday on the West Side.
A news release from the department said an officer pulled over a car at North Richview and Connecticut avenues for a traffic violation and the driver tried to get away by driving through several back yards.
The car then drove back onto North Richview Avenue and the officer blocked the car from going back onto Connecticut Avenue with his cruiser, but when he chased after the car on foot the car hit him.
The officer then fired several times, hitting the driver at least once.
The driver was being treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center. The officer was also treated and released from the hospital. A woman who was in the car was questioned and released by police.
Police have not yet released the names of the people involved.
Police Chief Rod Foley said the name of the officer involved will not be released until an Internal Affairs investigation is complete.
He also said the name of the driver of the car will not be released until he is formally charged, which could happen sometime today.
The officer involved was ''banged up pretty good,'' Foley said, and he added he was not sure when he would return to work. He did say officers who are involved in a shooting typically are placed on administrative leave for one or two days but the officer may be off longer than that because of his injuries.
The last time a city officer had to use a weapon was in April 2011, when Patrolman Michael Walker, who was working as an off-duty security officer at a Belmont Avenue seafood restaurant, shot and killed an armed robber.
An Internal Affairs cleared Walker of any wrongdoing in the shooting.


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Wild West Domains = Godaddy
Wild West Domains is a reseller platform that is operated by Godaddy
Checking the whois we see
Same Nameservers
Essentially the same address
Same phone number.
The vast majority of spam (83 per cent) is linked to sites established through ten domain name registrars, according to a new study. An analysis of junk mail messages by anti-spam firm Knujon ("no junk" spelled backwards) found that while there are 900 accredited domain name registrars, spammers register their spamvertised …
Wild West Domains is a reseller platform that is operated by Godaddy
Checking the whois we see
Same Nameservers
Essentially the same address
Same phone number.
register.com and NetSol are both huge and I believe eNom is pretty large also. These three being included makes me ask the question what percentage of all domains are registered through these 10 services? 83% sounds high but if 83%+ of all domains are registered through these services it's not that they are really doing any worse than the industry as a whole. Would I like to see them drop spammers? Well yes. Do I think they are more incompetent because I saw their name on this list? Not really.
IP Address would be useful, then we could block those mail servers directly!!!
grow up!
FAIL! these are Registrars not Spammers! read the article again.. its thier customers who are the spammers! they also have a very large number of legitimate customers. as for IP's these can be anything its the domain name that is registered not the IP! IP's can be changed at the drop of a hat. If YOU want IP's do a lookup! if you cant do that you dont deserve to be incharge of any IT equipment at all.
Anonymous, relax my brother!
Everyone who frequents El Reg knows that you have an opinion on EVERY SINGLE TOPIC that appears here, but there's no need to be nasty to other users.
As Daniel Owen points out, without setting it in the context of the percentage of total domains registered through these organisations, this article is mostly meaningless.
There are no IP addresses. Spammers set up web, mail, and DNS hosting on bot networks. The one piece needed to tie that dynamic swarm of machines together as a web site is a domain name. XinNet, eNom, and GoDaddy resellers are commonly used because they'll rapidly create a domain without verifying ownership. That means the bots can generate domain names too, and the whole process is nearly untraceable to the actual criminals.
Does support a fair number of spammers. They resell to a lot of people due to the cheap domain names they have. Our dime hosting sister company uses them and I've seen plenty of registrations that were obviously meant for spammers.
are these not companies that sell domains, so therefore they would want to sell.
Its not for them to decide how peoiple use them, its like Ford selling a car and it being used to ram a shop to break in, Ford couldn't care less, they've made their £0.20p
The registrars are not getting in trouble for their customers' spamming. They're getting in trouble because the domains are registered with false identities. That's what violates ICANN rules and enables easy criminal use. XinNet has an incredible number of customers named "asdf asdf."
I hear people have been taking my name in vain!
Stop it.
I am a very successful web entrepreneur, I have 1000's of domains registered, my companies serve the entire world.
[Pssst, you want pills?]
It doesn't surprise me to find eNom at #2 on that list.
"Reunion.com" (hosted by eNom) has been constantly spamming me for months & trying to get them to stop has gotten me nowhere.
So I finally set up a Message Rule to auto-forward *everything* from *any* eNom hosted server, straight to their up-stream provider's abuse, legal, and domain address'.
No more "Someone is looking for you", no more Web-Cam invites, & a *LOT* of my previous volume of spam has dropped considerably.
(Well, what I actually SEE of it has dropped - everything from eNom is being bounced & deleted unread, which works well-enough, too.)
Either eNom's up-stream provider will get sick & tired of getting spammed by eNom hosted domains & cut them off, or they'll set up their own Message Rule to auto-dump MY emails.
Either way, it's no longer my problem.
May all the companies on that list die a horrible, grisly, agonizing death in a stew of their own internal organs.
(Extremely rude gesture towards them all.)
is it me or does the main bulk of those 10 = the top domain registrars anyway?
It's pretty simple.
Ban domain "tasting" - that's the practice of being able to setup a domain and not have to pay for it until 7-28 days have passed.
The most prolific bot-registered domains are setup with no intention of ever paying, they just use the registration for a few days until it's shut down.
From a spamfighting point of view: GoDaddy and Netsol are among the least responsive to complaints about fake registrations and it took a concerted effort 5 years ago by a lot of people to even get ICANN to think about enforcing registration rules. At one point ICANN's proposed solution to fake data in registrations was to make it allowable.
There are bad apple registrars and there are bad apples in ICANN who are effectively allowing it to happen. Once the money gets really followed, it will be interesting to see who's paying off whom.


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Ronald McDonald has put his foot down at dozens of schools across the state to remind keiki and other pedestrians to be careful at school crossings.
Ronald's effort was part of McDonald's Restaurants of Hawaii's Pedestrian Safety Decal Installation Program, part of the State of Hawaii's Pedestrian Safety Awareness Month in August, supported by the state Department of Transportation, the state Department of Education and all four county governments.
Ronald's bright red shoe print safety decals can now be found at Hawaii elementary school sidewalks near crosswalks. The shoe prints are accompanied by a bold message in red and yellow to "STOP" and "LOOK BOTH WAYS" before crossing the street.
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Ronald McDonald shoe prints placed at Pomaikai Elementary School remind keiki and other pedestrians to be careful at school crossings.
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"We hope the decals will grab children's attention and remind them to be aware of their surroundings before using the crosswalk," said McDonald's owner-operator Erlinda Rosario. "Crosswalks, especially ones around schools, can be dangerous because children aren't always as aware of their surroundings and careful as they should be."
The safety decals were installed with partner Grace Pacific on school sidewalks near intersections that have been identified as "areas of concern" by the Statewide Pedestrian Master Plan. Some of the installations were reinstallations of Ronald's shoe prints, which were first installed years ago but have faded or worn off over time.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "Divergent," the latest young adult novel poised to become a blockbuster movie, meets all the criteria for the YA genre: The movie is adapted from a best-seller; the story is rooted in sci-fi; and the cast consists of hot, young stars-to-be. But unlike the "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" series, this one was actually written by someone under 30.
In 2011, writer Veronica Roth was just 22 years old when her book hit shelves. Based on a future dystopian society where people are segregated by their values, her debut landed on the New York Times children's best-seller list, where it remained for 11 weeks.
She followed it up with the sequel "Insurgent" and completed her trilogy with "Allegiant." Her books have sold more than 11 million copies.
Summit Entertainment, the same studio behind the "Twilight" franchise, acquired the film rights before the first copy of "Divergent" was sold.
Starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet, the film opened Friday.
Roth talked about letting the studio take her book and run with it, the inevitable comparisons with "The Hunger Games" and how she's grown as a writer:
Q: The first time you saw the film adaptation of "Divergent," did it look the way you'd envisioned it?
A: Not until I saw the shot of the Sears Tower (now Chicago's Willis Tower) and the characters going into the choosing ceremony did I really go, "Oh, that's really it." I got really emotional. And I was happy because I didn't want any sleek or super polished future and it does look kind of destroyed. You can't micromanage the movie adaptation of your book. First of all, they won't let you. Second of all, I didn't want to.
Q: Your stories have been compared to writer Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" series. Both focus on heroines in dystopian societies. Feel any pressure to match the box-office numbers of those adaptations?
A: I think it's a double-edged sword. I try not to think about it, but I don't succeed most of the time. "The Hunger Games" did something remarkable. So in that sense, it's a flattering comparison. But you can't hope to replicate that experience.
Q: What are your thoughts on the casting choices of Shailene Woodley as the character Tris and Theo James as Four?
A: (Shailene and Theo) transported me right away. They had great chemistry. That is what I was most concerned about because that has to carry the story.
Q: What was the inspiration for the story?
A: My freshman year of college I learned about exposure therapy, which is a method of treating anxiety and phobia. Someone is repeatedly exposed to the thing that makes them afraid, so they become habituated to it. I wanted to use it in a sci-fi context.
Q: Writer Stephenie Meyer was 31 when her first book from the "Twilight" collection came out. Suzanne Collins was 46 when the first novel from her "The Hunger Games" trilogy released. How does it feel to be a young adult generating young adult material?
A: I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way, that is good. ... It makes me realize that I should be growing as a writer and a person.
Q: Have you finished your next book?
A: I wrote a collection of short stories that's coming out in July. It's kind of a prequel to "Divergent." I'm just finishing them now.


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lol, oh dear. spongebob is almost on par with dora in my book. barely tolerated.
lol. just a personal preference thing. the makers of dora seem to think all preschoolers are dumb as fuck. i can see the appeal to spongebob, i guess he's not AS bad.
I'm reading: The first book of the A song of Ice and Fire series (thanks Canio ) and Nora Gedgaudes' Primal Body Primal Mind. Plus several required but boring as fuck textbooks for Uni.
My Journal
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- Checking out a downtown apartment tomorrow morning.
- Submitted a letter of introduction and my résumé to a small design and marketing firm this morning. They called me within 30 min to schedule a job interview for tomorrow. Woooo + fuck yeah! I'm very excited but trying to keep my expectations grounded.
- I'm down around 162 lb or so and I can fit the width of my hand into the waist of my 34" jeans! I need a new hole punched into this belt -- that'll be the second hole I've had to punch in my 34" belt since I bought it in August! Kinda scary, that. No idea what my waist circumference actually is. Maybe 30"?! Anyhoo, abs are much more [consistently] visible and I'm toning up a bit, generally. Some of my Large shirts are looking big on me but at the same time are getting a bit tight across the shoulders and chest. This is awesome in terms of signs of progress but crappy because it makes replacing them a pain in the arse. I'll end up looking like some tight-shirt-wearing douchebag if I drop down to Medium size. Hmm...
- Not looking forward to winter and the cold. I might need to buy some snowshoes so I can maintain my outdoors activity levels.
August 2010: 207 lb, 37" waist, 25+% BF | Currently: 177 lb, 33" waist, ~15% BF
I have a new site up and will soon be blogging at The Wayward Mind. (My journal is semi-retired at this point)
Wow Patrick, it sounds like things are going great for you on all fronts. Congratulations!
I like your blog. I've been lurking/reading. I loved the "You'll never be the You You can't Be" post. Great Job.
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awesome news patrick! i'm going to check out your blog again.
TCB -- takin' care of business!
(Also known as GSD -- getting shit done.)
I like it.
Well sir, you are becoming the proverbial bad-ass. I think you will only be considered a tight-shirt-wearing douche bag if you walk around asking people if they have their tickets to the gun show and then flexing. Avoid that and you should be good.
Good luck with the job and apartment hunting.
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N. That place in between a boner and being flaccid.
Man I just saw this chicks boobs for like 10 seconds but i didnt get hard, i just got a floner.
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When you get a boner when you see Flo the Progressive girl.
"I have such a raging floner right now"
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A semi-limp dick that is in between a boner and a flaccid penis. It is similar to semi cooked spaghetti, a soggy uncooked sausage and a pool noodle.
Man 1- I have a floner!!
Man 2- damn bro that blows. I had a floner last night and I couldn't even bang my grandma it was so floppy.
Man 2- damn bro that blows. I had a floner last night and I couldn't even bang my grandma it was so floppy.
od uživatele IseWise 27. březen 2013
A weak boner or more of a flacid boner than a full boner.
I woke up and I had this weak ass floner with which I couldn't do anything, even my sister.
od uživatele ma++ 25. říjen 2006
while floating on your back in a swimming pool, you get an obvious erection that everybody notices and makes fun of you. ALSO know as a floating boner.
oh my god! look at tylers FLONER! haha
od uživatele floner1234 09. červenec 2012
The term for a boner, which you get while wearing a flight suit.
When that chick walked by, it was difficult to control my floner.
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Round 1: The WPJA provided another top-notch judging panel consisting of Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalists and picture editors for this round.
At the age of 32, his work has been published in most major publications around the world and he has been sent on assignment by Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National
Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, and Life Magazine. In 2006, Laforet modified his staff position at The New York Times to become The Times' first national contract
photographer. His photographs have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography in New York City, and Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan.
Vincent's was recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People in Photography" by American Photo Magazine in 2005 and was named one of the "30 photographers to watch under 30" by
PDN in 2002. He and four other photographers were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for their post-9/11 coverage overseas in 2002. His work has been recognized in the
Communication Arts Annual, PDN Annual, The World Press Photo Awards, The Pictures of the Year Competition, The Overseas Press Club, The National Headliners Awards, The Pro-Football Hall
of Fame. Vincent is a Canon Explorer of Light and Canon Printmaster and serves as consultant to companies such as Apple, Bogen, Lexar, and X-Rite.
Vincent has been invited as a keynote speaker by a variety of organizations and universities from around the world. He serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia University's
Graduate School of Journalism. Vincent is represented by the Stockland Martel Agency. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Amber, and son, Noah.
He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer three times prior to winning the award in 2004 along with colleague Cheryl Diaz Meyer for photographs made in March and April 2003 while on
the front lines with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq. He has also won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and numerous regional, state and national
In the fall of 2000, he began shooting video full-time for The Dallas Morning News becoming an industry leader in new media. In 2006, Leeson was named Innovator of the Year in
Photojournalism by American Photo magazine for his work using frame grabs for newspaper daily still assignments. The results of his efforts have culminated in a growing trend by
newspapers to use high definition video cameras for both video and stills (via frame grabs) from a single assignment.
He has also completed more than seven short documentary films and produced and edited a feature length film about the
war in Afghanistan. Awards for his work in video include a National Headliners award, a national Edward R. Murrow Award, two regional Emmy Awards.
Leeson is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, is married and has five children.
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Fruit, fruit, fruit. I've decided that it's summer and I'm going to enjoy it seasonally. Watermelon, cherries, etc. If that's the worse thing I'm eating, well, then I'm doing pretty good.
I also don't think popcorn is the end of the world...if you're making it yourself and being mindful of how much you're eating. If the rest of your day is solid, then a little popcorn won't be that bad (unless, it's causing a lot of joint pain, in which case you may want to switch to homemade jerky or veggie chips, etc.).


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We have a 15 minute 'soft' end time so that we can train up to 8:15 and a little beyond if we are working on a particular move and still have time for a game. However, please feel free to get your wrestler at 8:00 sharp if you need to get him/her home. This may be be particularly important for younger wrestlers that are pooped at the end of a long day and need to go home. (NOTE: Wrestling times and nights may vary as registration and experience may dictate alternate schedules)
The NVWF is a developmental league. Our team prepares young wrestlers with sound fundamentals and plenty of tournament mat time. There are no set weight classes and everyone on the team wrestles at our tournaments.
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My girls are fighting and I don't want them to stop
My oldest and yngest daughters have been having a "photo fight" on Facebook. It started when DD#1 posted an old picture she found of DD#3 and posted it on DD#3's wall. For the last week and a half they have been posting old pictus of each other on the other's wall....mostly trying to find silly and/or embarrassing pictures of each other.
I am loving it and enjoying seeing all of the strange, old pictures they are finding. Is it bad that I don't want this to ever end. ;-)
ftr- DD#1 is 21 and DD#3 is 14. Somehow my middle daughter has been staying out of it - though she and my sons keep appearing on many of the pictures.


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IEA OPEN Energy Technology Bulletin Discusses Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy Policies
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Colonials Knock Off Fordham, 70-59, in A-10 Opener
Maureece Rice finishes with 17 to help head coach Karl Hobbs secure his 100th career victory.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Maureece Rice had 17 points and six rebounds and Regis Koundjia added 10 points to lead George Washington past Fordham 70-59 on Wednesday in the Atlantic 10 opener for both teams.
George Washington (9-3, 1-0) won its 20th straight home game, and coach Karl Hobbs, in his sixth season, won his 100th game for the Colonials.
Junior Marcus Stout had 15 points for Fordham (7-6, 0-1) to give him 1,001 in his career. Stout reached the 1,000-point mark on a layup with 4:42 left in the game, but by then the Colonials led 60-48.
George Washington made just 13 of 26 free throws in the first half, but still led 33-25 as Fordham made 12 turnovers and missed all 10 of its 3-point tries.
The Colonials pulled away after halftime. Rob Diggs' dunk off a long outlet pass gave them a 58-42 lead with 8:05 remaining, and Fordham never threatened down the stretch.
Fordham coach Dereck Whittenburg, a Washington native, is now 0-6 lifetime against George Washington.
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Monday's Metro League bowling highlights, Dec. 19
- Villa improves to 5-0: The Villa Maria girls bowling team defeated East 241/2-31/2 at Eastland Bowl to improve to 5-0 and complete a perfect first half of the season.
Jackie Colish continued her impressive season as she led all Metro League bowlers with a 575 series. Christine Matson also had a strong showing with a 501 series for the Victors.
In other action, McDowell improved to 4-1 with a 21-7 victory over Mercyhurst Prep, while Central Tech also improved to 3-2 and capped off a winning first half with a 21-7 win over Strong Vincent.
McDowell's Alexys Van Dyke led all bowlers with a high game of 206. Colish recorded the next best single-game score with a 204.
Other high series were recorded by Van Dyke (511), Central Tech's Alanna Brace (503) and Mercyhurst Prep's Anna Dzuricky (494).
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GORGEOUS photo!!!!!!!
Kim- Very pretty! I think that your challenge in finding the stitches (2 legs) and rows (1 bar) for seaming is more likely a result of the garter stitch pattern than the cotton fiber. The big challenge with garter stitch is that its unique pattern of knit row, purl row, knit row, as viewed from one side only, means that you are only really looking at the loops that form the stitches, rather than the legs of the stitch, as stockinette produces on the right side. My best advice on finding the stitches is to take the top visual row of the sleeve cap and fold it away from you, as for a hemline. What you will see when garter is forced to flatten this way is the legs that correspond to the stitch loops which would normally be all you see of the fabric surface. Those adjacent leg pairs that look like \/ are the ones you want. The pairs that look like /\ are the inside legs of two adjacent stitches. For finding the rows, you just remember that stitches stack in side-by-side columns. The challenge in this case is that when seaming along a column of garter stitches, the bar between the columns of stitches will alternate between being at the near surface of the fabric and the far surface of the fabric. Stretch the fabric gently sideways to separate the columns of stitches a bit, and you will quickly see what I mean. Hope that helped. I'm sure you will do much better than I did when starting out! I unwittingly set myself on some truly spectacularly challenging paths when I was too short of knowledge to know how truly short of knowledge I was. Live and learn. I will try to check back on your progress in a day or two, but if you have the need, drop me a note and I'll be happy to get more specific.
Thank you so much!
And please drop me a line if you have any trouble - I'm always here and we'll make that seam job amazing (if you haven't already) :)
John your class was the kick start I needed to finish this sweater. Thank you! And it wasn't near as intimidating as I thought. I'll just pay more attention to my selvages from now on!
Beautiful! You may have inspired me to finish a sweater I started 10 years ago, right before I gave up knitting for good!
Thank you so much! I was so intimidated by the seaming that it took me a couple of years to actually sew it together. I'm so glad you are back to knitting!
And if that's a Yorkie I see in your profile pic, I have one too! I just finished knitting her a sweater!
Thank you so much! I was so intimidated by the seaming that it took me a couple of years to actually sew it together. I'm so glad you are back to knitting!


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an adjective describing the darker coloration around a black woman's anus. However it's use it not limited.
I slept with this black chick last night. That was one saunty bitch.
Uck, this sandwich is saaaunty.
Uck, this sandwich is saaaunty.
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4 Course Dinner For The Kitties – Fri 10/24
by IsaChandra
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! Thanks to everyone for your incredible support. We'll be having a December benefit for doggies so check back soon.
Join me at Sweetpea Bakery for a 4 course dinner to benefit Portland?s House of Dreams, an awesome no-kill kitty shelter going through some tough times.
These are my kitties, not shelter kitties, but kitties are kitties, right?
A few Sweetpea, Herbivore and Food Fight staffers and I will be transforming the bakery into a candlelit bistro for the evening and serving a seasonal, organic, intimate, four course vegan dinner for 40. Please see all the info below the menu for ticket purchasing info, and I bet any other questions you have will be answered. If not, then email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks everyone, I?m excited to cook for you and I hope to see you there.
White Bean And Roasted Garlic
A puree of navy beans and sweet smoky roasted garlic with leeks and fresh herbs
Golden Beet And Shallot
Warm roasted golden beets and baby greens in a creamy vinaigrette with caramelized shallots and a handful of toasted walnuts
Autumn Plate
Cornbread and homemade sausage stuffed acorn squash, smoky grilled tempeh in a wild mushroom ragout served with garlicky purple kale
Caramelized Apples
Warm apples in a caramelized maple sauce, served with crisp gingerbread shortbread and topped with homemade coconut based vanilla bean ice cream
Housemade hot chai will be served. Please bring your own beer and wine.
Friday, October 24th. Please arrive between 8pm and 8:30 for a reception with House Of Dreams volunteers. Dinner will be served at 9pm.
Sweetpea Bakery
1205 SE Stark off SE 12th Ave
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Ticket Prices
Since seating limited, you must buy tickets in advance to attend the night?s festivities. Tickets are a sliding scale, from 40 to 100 dollars. Diners who pay 60 dollars or more will also be receiving a House Of Dreams 2009 calendar and a discount coupon for Herbivore. 100% of the proceeds go to the House Of Dreams shelter.
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To purchase tickets, paypal 40 to 100 dollars to email@example.com. Print out your thank you email, this will be your ticket when you arrive to the dinner.
If you are buying tickets for more than yourself, please put their names in the paypal comments and a table will be arranged for you. If you would like to sit with people in addition to the ones you are purchasing tickets for, please put their names in the comments as well, and let me know that you want to sit with them. If you are flying solo, you may end up sitting with strangers. But we promise that they will be fascinating strangers.
Allergies And Substitutions
If you require a gluten free dinner, your entree will come with tempeh instead of sausage and your baked ingredients will be made gluten free. If you have any other allergies please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll see what we can do. You must put your dietary concerns in the paypal comments in order to be accommodated.
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tech punditry: stage-managed gobbledygook with an undercurrent of sexism
The Dads of Tech – by Astra Taylor and Joanne McNeil, The Baffler
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," Audre Lorde famously said, but let Clay Shirky mansplain. It "always struck me as a strange observation — even the metaphor isn't true," the tech consultant and bestselling author said at the New Yorker Festival last autumn in a debate with the novelist Jonathan Franzen. "Get ahold of the master's hammer," and you can dismantle anything. Just consider all the people "flipping on the 'I'm gay' light on Facebook" to signal their support for marriage equality — there, Shirky declared, is a prime example of the master's tools put to good use.[more inside]
"Shirky invented the Internet and Franzen wants to shut it down," panel moderator Henry Finder mused with an air of sophisticated hyperbole. Finder said he was merely paraphrasing a festival attendee he'd overheard outside — and joked that for once in his New Yorker editing career, he didn't need fact-checkers to determine whether the story was true. He then announced with a wink that it was "maybe a little true." Heh.
these platform glitter jelly sandals were made for walking....
How the Internet Changed the World of Fashion: from seapunk and normcore to vaporwave and health goth.
Diversity within us comes out better when there's diversity in our team.
The most recent episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast — #179 Accountability and Diversity with Meagan Waller — is a treasure trove of insights and info about unconscious biases, diversity, employment, culture, tech, and more. The podcast page features a timestamped topic outline of the discussion, as well as many links to the Ruby community websites, projects, studies, conferences, and controversies they discuss… [more inside]
Let me tell you about being publicly separated from your truth.
"But having survived myself, what I want to do now is help other victims of the shame game survive too. I want to put my suffering to good use and give purpose to my past."Monica Lewinsky gives her first major public speech to speak out against online abuse. Full transcript here.
life is short. fly to mars
i build rocket in my back garden for 10 year
i build rocket from spare car part and old nuclear facility
in month of march i buy 10,000 of my favourite protein bar
in month of april i launch rocket with me in it towards planet mars
now i am on mars
Evghenia is on Mars. She has enough water to survive for another two hundred and eighty days. In the meantime, she reminisces about her favorite and least favorite things on earth, comments on the space-speculation of poets Bowie and Elton, writes about her heroes, and criticizes Elon Musk and NASA and all the many people who have failed to be on Mars first. (She is understandably proud of her significant accomplishment.) She also writes about goatbot, who she built herself and who is her only friend, and occasionally tells jokes and sings songs and reminisces about her past and present. Definitely a Twitter account worth following.
i build rocket from spare car part and old nuclear facility
in month of march i buy 10,000 of my favourite protein bar
in month of april i launch rocket with me in it towards planet mars
now i am on mars
Evghenia is on Mars. She has enough water to survive for another two hundred and eighty days. In the meantime, she reminisces about her favorite and least favorite things on earth, comments on the space-speculation of poets Bowie and Elton, writes about her heroes, and criticizes Elon Musk and NASA and all the many people who have failed to be on Mars first. (She is understandably proud of her significant accomplishment.) She also writes about goatbot, who she built herself and who is her only friend, and occasionally tells jokes and sings songs and reminisces about her past and present. Definitely a Twitter account worth following.
Dinner tonight: four containers of gravy and a Diet Sprite
Imagine you're hungry for dinner, stuck at home and don't really want to cook. But you're also deeply ambivalent about what to order--Chinese? Pizza? Sushi? Well, Mike Lacher has you covered. Give his new web app Seamless Roulette your Seamless.com account details and a maximum cost, and it places an order for you at a random nearby restaurant, for something it randomly selects from the menu. If you like surprises and giving up the power to choose your own meal, this might just be for you.
Welcome to the 1099 economy
Silicon Valley's Contract Worker Problem Earlier this year, I hired a house cleaner. I wouldn't have done so normally, but my place was a mess, I was busy at work, and I saw an offer on Facebook that looked too good to be true — a San Francisco start-up called Homejoy was offering home cleanings in the Bay Area for $19. (Not $19 per room or $19 per hour. Just $19.) So I booked an appointment through Homejoy's website, and a day later, a young man showed up at my door. [more inside]
"Nothing fades away anymore."
The Solace of Oblivion by Jeffrey Toobin [The New Yorker] "In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps the Internet."
Parks and Recreation's Aubrey Plaza has just been named as the voice of Grumpy Cat in the upcoming movie Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever. This is not the first time Plaza's acted in an Internet meme turned movie: she was in Safety Not Guaranteed (based on a personal ad hiring a time-travelling assistant) (prev) as well as CollegeHumour's fake Daria trailer (prev). Will it do better than The Slender Man or Snakes on a Plane?
When mistreating users becomes competitive advantage
This week, of course, provided a glorious example of how technology companies have normalized being indifferent to consent: Apple 'gifting' each user with a U2 album downloaded into iTunes. At least one of my friends reported that he had wireless synching of his phone disabled; Apple overrode his express preferences in order to add the album to his music collection. The expected 'surprise and delight' was really more like 'surprise and delete'. I suspect that the strong negative response (in some quarters, at least) had less to do with a dislike of U2 and everything to do with the album as a metonym for this widespread culture of nonconsensual behaviour in technology.Deb Chachra talks about the age of non-consensual technology. [more inside]
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Command line music streaming
Cmd.fm is no frills, command line music streaming. For the geek music lover in all of us. [more inside]
"My real-life shagging has not been self-conscious."
"It irritates me because it seems such a self-conscious way to live. But, to be fair, it's almost always completely unselfconsciously done. It's people like me, carping at the camcordsters, who are overthinking how life should be experienced. We're the ones who are trying to impose our opinion of how things should be enjoyed. 'Why can't you just look at a view!?' we fume, but we never ask ourselves: 'Why can't you just let people enjoy the view in the way they want!?' Exasperated by people staring at their phones instead of the world around them, we end up staring at people staring at their phones, miss the sunset, fireworks display or penguin feeding time, and don't even walk away with a video to watch later." (SLGuardian)
Parenting in the Internet Age: The Problem of Porn
A father finds pornographic websites in his 9-year-old son's browser history in a surprisingly charming and amusing first-person essay: "I know you were looking at porn." A silence hung in the air between us as I tried to figure out where to go from there. He looked at me, eyebrows up and eyes wide open, on alert for whatever would come next. The past winter had torn up the road, and his still baby-fatted cheeks bounced along with the car as we headed back towards our house. The anticipation of my response was clearly getting to him. "Are you gonna say anything else?" "To be honest, I hadn't really thought this far ahead," I told him. "I only planned as far as this, telling you I knew." [more inside]
A scan for systems allowing remote desktop connections without passwords performed during a Defcon talk about the Masscan tool found a wide variety of system open for anyone with knowledge of the correct IP address, such as access to a hockey rink, a manufacturing plant for a Swedish condiment, hydroelectric plants and a lot more. [more inside]
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures President Ze Frank
Producer Michael Shamberg Wants to 'Invent the Future' With BuzzFeed Motion Pictures - "I don't think there's ever been a Hollywood R&D model like we have here." (previously 1,2,3) [more inside]
This surgery could pay for itself after around 90 hours
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Surprise lap dances are not cool.
Stephanie Woodward is a 26 year-old Floridian woman who blogs about dating. Ms Woodward is an attorney who happens to have spina bifida. [more inside]
How to Invent a Person Online (Is online anonymity even possible today?)
On April 8, 2013, I received an envelope in the mail from a nonexistent return address in Toledo, Ohio. Inside was a blank thank-you note and an Ohio state driver's license. The ID belonged to a 28-year-old man called Aaron Brown—6 feet tall and 160 pounds with a round face, scruffy brown hair, a thin beard, and green eyes. His most defining feature, however, was that he didn't exist. I know that because I created him.
Twitter: More Educational Than You Thought
The Race Swap Experiment What happens when a black woman uses a white male avatar on Twitter? Something a lot more positive than what usually happens for her when she uses a picture of herself. [more inside]
I'd Like To Throttle Verizon
Colin Nederkoorn used the Netflix test video to show Verizon's horrendous throttling versus running his connection through a VPN.
Rebuilding Prodigy, one screen at a time
Say Cheese
"Is it OK to take a selfie at Auschwitz?", asks archaeologist Paul Mullins. Selfies are people in places, not objects in spaces, says Katie Warfield.
Ping City
The Republican Party began selling new web domains ending in .gop today at www.join.gop. Public interest has definitely been sparked, but perhaps not for the reasons Republicans have hoped. [more inside]
N'existe Pas
For many years Bruce Sterling has been writing about the battle for freedom on the internet, a subject he first wrote about in the highly acclaimed book The Hacker Crackdown in 1992. In this book, Sterling predicts that the term "privacy" may already be obsolete, along with those who once thrived on violating the integrity of others. Like spies, the paparazzi, rumour mongers—who actually has the most to lose in this transparent world?
The Other Net
The Energy Sciences Network is a private Department of Energy network operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, that links research institutions in the United States and the world. In 2011 researchers acheived 91+ Gbps disk-to-disk on their 100 gbps network. The Shadow Internet.
Internet, Why So Blue?
Familiar with all Internet traditions
I was sitting NIFOC and TLOL when I ran across this list of Internet slang [PDF] developed for FBI agents trying to navigate Twitter's ARE. [more inside]
Journey to the Centre of Google Earth
"But what shall we dream of when everything becomes visible?" Virilio replies: "We'll dream of being blind."
How difficult is it for the NSA to spy on your Internet use?
On a bright April morning in Menlo Park, California, I became an Internet spy. This was easier than it sounds because I had a willing target. I had partnered with National Public Radio (NPR) tech correspondent Steve Henn for an experiment in Internet surveillance. For one week, while Henn researched a story, he allowed himself to be watched—acting as a stand-in, in effect, for everyone who uses Internet-connected devices. How much of our lives do we really reveal simply by going online? Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter.
Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic.
50 views or less
Petittube is a Youtube video aggregator that shows you videos with 50 views or less. [possibly NSFW results]
Peak Advertising and the Future of the Web
"Advertising is not well. Though companies supported by advertising still dominate the landscape and capture the popular imagination, cracks are beginning to show in the very financial foundations of the web. Despite the best efforts of an industry, advertising is becoming less and less effective online. The once reliable fuel that powered a generation of innovations on the web is slowly, but perceptibly beginning to falter. Consider the long-term trend: when the first banner advertisement emerged online in 1994, it reported a (now) staggering clickthrough rate of 78%. By 2011, the average Facebook advertisement clickthrough rate sat dramatically lower at 0.05%. Even if only a rough proxy, something underlies such a dramatic change in the ability for an advertisement to pique the interest of users online. What underlies this decline, and what does it mean for the Internet at large? This short [PDF] paper puts forth the argument for peak advertising—the argument that an overall slowing in online advertising will eventually force a significant (and potentially painful) shift in the structure of business online. Like the theory of Peak Oil that it references, the goal is not to look to the immediate upcoming quarter, but to think on the decade-long scale about the business models that sustain the Internet." [more inside]
"You Crazy Bastards. What Have You Done? Now I Have To Rebuild!"
In 2003, Andy "waxpancake" Baio created Upcoming, "a collaborative event calendar focused on interesting arts and tech events around the world, curated by its community. It surfaced weird and wonderful events that usually fell under the radar of traditional event listings from newspapers and local weeklies." In 2005, it was acquired by Yahoo!, who killed the site last April with little warning, and no way to back up events. Fortunately, the complete site was saved by the Internet Archive. But Upcoming isn't dead yet! Two months ago, Yahoo! offered to sell the domain back to Baio. And now, with a fully-funded kickstarter, he's planning on "rebuilding it for the modern era using tools and platforms that weren't available when it was first designed." Welcome to the brilliant life, stupid death, and improbable return of Upcoming.org. [more inside]
Hackers disclose how Russia employs professional internet shills
How Russia's Troll Army Hit America. The documents show instructions provided to the commenters that detail the workload expected of them. On an average working day, the Russians are to post on news articles 50 times. Each blogger is to maintain six Facebook accounts publishing at least three posts a day and discussing the news in groups at least twice a day. By the end of the first month, they are expected to have won 500 subscribers and get at least five posts on each item a day. On Twitter, the bloggers are expected to manage 10 accounts with up to 2,000 followers and tweet 50 times a day.
The Internet With a Human Face
"These big collections of personal data are like radioactive waste. It's easy to generate, easy to store in the short term, incredibly toxic, and almost impossible to dispose of. Just when you think you've buried it forever, it comes leaching out somewhere unexpected." A talk by Maciej Ceglowski, founder of Pinboard, about why we have Big Data and why it's frightening. [more inside]
With reference to the recently leaked NYT memo
How Naspers CEO Koos Bekker beat the New York Times at its own game by Michael Moritz [more inside]
Old School Internet Test
If you remember Oolong, this is the internet test for you! [via b3ta.com] (Also, worth clicking on background!)
TRAQ Scores and You
Obby Breeden, husband of The Devil's Panties and Geebas on Parade's Jennie Breeden, on what happens when the web advertising industry decides that an occasionally foulmouthed webcomic is equally "Adult" as a porn streaming site, as well as how to find your own site's score.
For those who remember Prodigy, CompuServe, AOL
Memories of a Bette Midler Message Board Childhood: Reminiscences from the early days of talking to strangers online.
How to not let the internet know you're pregnant
"And finally, I'm actually here today to win the 'Most Creative Use of Tor' award," she said, followed by roars of laughter in the audience. "I really couldn't have done it without Tor, because Tor was really the only way to manage totally untraceable browsing. I know it's gotten a bad reputation for Bitcoin trading and buying drugs online, but I used it for BabyCenter.com."-- How Janet Vertesi tried and hid her pregnancy from the internet and big data. (Direct link to her presentation.)
Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There's a team at a Google office that hasn't slept in three days. Somewhere there's a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she's dead. And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
Net neutrality "all but dead"
The Federal Communications Commission has announced that they would propose new rules allowing content providers to pay ISPs for priority "fast lanes," reversing their earlier position and effectively rejecting the principle of net neutrality held since the earliest days of the internet. The full set of proposed rules will be announced on May 15. [more inside]
Everything is meaningless.
#PostModem [SLVimeo,nsfw:nudity] is "a comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through as series of cinematic tweets." [more inside]
When your line manager's recreational reading is the IBM Handbook.
How I got here in the end. Picture this: you're a former drug dealer who has turned to hacking for a living. You're crashing in an apartment a bit older than Texas, surrounded by about seventeen computers, sleeping on a futon with a girlfriend with metre-long purple dreadlocks, and planning your defection from one net-based futuristic corporation to another over Korean take-away food. [more inside]
IoT & Zero Marginal Cost Society
Jeremy Rifkin posted an article today on HuffPo titled The Internet of Things: Monopoly Capitalism vs. Collaborative Commons discussing his new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society:The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. Wikipedia's page on IoT is here. There was some debate on a recent NPR Science Friday about whether it should be called the Internet of Bits. See also, The Zero Marginal Society website.


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Falcon Entertainment
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|Gay pornography
|Chuck Holmes
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|Pornographic films and sex toys
Falcon Entertainment (also known as Falcon Studios), a United States company based in San Francisco, California, is one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography.[citation needed]
Founded in 1971 by Chuck Holmes,[1] the company is one of the most recognizable brand names in gay pornography. The owners/managers of several of its major American competitors, Hot House Entertainment, Colt Studios, Channel 1 Releasing and Titan Media (Steven Scarborough,[2] John Rutherford,[3] Chi Chi LaRue,[4] Bruce Cam,[5]:262 respectively) previously worked for Falcon.
Falcon has issued more than 400 pornographic films [4] under several brand names comprising The Falcon Family of Companies:[6]
- Falcon Studios is the group's flagship brand
- Jocks Studios focuses on younger models
- Mustang Studios features more mature models
- Massive Studios focuses on muscular and rugged models
- The Falcon International Collection shoots films in Europe and focuses on European (mostly Eastern European) models
- The Alone With Series includes interviews with performers that masturbate alone rather than having sex with another performer
The company operates a website which serves as a retail outlet for its DVDs and sex toys. Video on demand is also available, as well as the ability to purchase and download videos. Live webcast sex shows are available in a membership area called Falcon TV; membership also includes discounts on other products.[7] Several of the dildos offered for sale are modeled on the penises of Falcon's performers.[8]
Corporate history[edit]
Prior to 2004 the Falcon Family of Companies was owned by parent company Conwest Resources Inc.. Conwest was, in turn, owned by the Charles M. Holmes Foundation, a charitable foundation based in Portland, Oregon.[9] The foundation supports a wide range of organizations, including groups protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, organizations which provide support to people living with HIV/AIDS, and others that help homeless youth or fight pediatric cancer and autism.[10]
In 2004, the company's management bought Falcon from Conwest through 3Media Corp., a company that was formed by Falcon executives Terry Mahaffey and Todd Montgomery. 3Media will eventually assume the Conwest name. The buyout was arranged in order to separate the business from the Charles M. Holmes Foundation, which continues to function as a nonprofit organization.[9]
Terry Mahaffey died on October 31, 2005. Todd Montgomery left the company on May 22, 2008. Steve Johnson became the president and chief executive officer of Falcon and Conwest.[11]
On December 19, 2010, video-on-demand company AEBN purchased Falcon Studios for an undisclosed amount of money.[12] AEBN merged Falcon Studios and Raging Stallion, although the company said that both brands would remain distinct and AEBN's output would remain constant at sixty DVD titles a year (forty from Raging Stallion).[12] Falcon Chief Executive Officer James Hansen would remain with the company as the chief financial officer of Falcon Studios.[12]
Notable directors[edit]
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- Chi Chi LaRue
- John Rutherford - Flashpoint 1994,[13]
- Steven Scarborough
Notable performers[edit]
The company, like other studios have performers known as 'Exclusives', meaning though only work for one studio per contract time. In 2005, they released Heaven to Hell (directed by Chi Chi LaRue) which was only cast with Falcon exclusives.[5]:331
(alphabetical by first name)
See also[edit]
- ^ Spencer, Jeremy (November 2000). "Chuck Holmes, Founder of Falcon Studios, Passes Away at 55". Boneyards. AVN Publications, Inc. Archived from the original on February 10, 2001. Retrieved December 29, 2007. Archived by web.archive.org.
- ^ "Company Info". Hot House Entertainment. June 11, 2003. Archived from the original on December 19, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
- ^ Buchanan, Wyatt (February 23, 2007). "Rescued by New Muscle, a Home to Erotica Rebounds". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
- ^ a b Gallen, Gretchen (April 6, 2005). "Falcon To Release 65 Films in 2005". XBIZ. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
- ^ a b Jeffrey Escoffier Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore at Google Books
- ^ "Company Profile". Falcon Entertainment. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
- ^ "www.falconstudios.com". Falcon Enterprises. Retrieved November 29, 2006.
- ^ "Supercocks". Falcon Enterprises. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
- ^ a b Gallen, Gretchen (August 19, 2004). "Falcon Purchased by 3MEDIA Corp.". XBIZ. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
- ^ "Falcon Studios Joins ASACP as Corporate Sponsor". ASACP Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. February 28, 2006. Archived from the original on October 6, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2006.
- ^ Jansen, Brady (April 27, 2006). "Company Profile: Falcon Studios". GayVN Magazine / Website / Events. GayVN, Inc. Archived from the original on May 8, 2006. Retrieved December 29, 2007. Archived by web.archive.org.
- ^ a b c Press release (December 19, 2010). "AEBN Acquires Falcon Studios and Merges with Raging Stallion". Raging Stallion Studios. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
- ^ Brett Beemyn (Editor)Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories, p. 252, at Google Books
External links[edit]
- American pornographic film studios
- Gay pornographic film studios
- Film production companies of the United States
- Sex toy manufacturers
- Gay male pornography in the United States
- Entertainment companies based in California
- Pornography in San Francisco, California
- Companies based in San Francisco, California
- Entertainment companies established in 1971
- Media companies established in 1971
- 1971 establishments in California


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Keep reminding yourself: it's only a movie.
Like horror movies familiar with that sort of tagline, terrorist comedy Four Lions' (read our review here) incendiary premise goes out of its way to suggest it really shouldn't be just a movie. The titular lions are a quartet of Muslim extremists; wannabe suicide bombers whose goal to disrupt the London marathon is no joke, but whose bungling and idiocy provides a comedy that'll keep you laughing until its (potentially) explosive finale.
It's no wonder that the media in the UK, where the film goes on general release today, is at turns amused and outraged. For some it's a well-observed and intelligent act of defiance out to ridicule the people it bases itself on. For others it's a deeply offensive joke at the expense of the victims of these acts of terror. But they're all in agreement on one thing: this is pure, grade-A cinematic controversy.
No wonder that it comes from Chris Morris, who's gone out of his way to redefine the word 'controversy' since he created spoof news show, The Day Today, for British TV in 1994. When his follow-up, Brass Eye, aired in '97, it blurred the line between the increasingly rife sensationalism of the TV documentaries it spoofed and comedy so surreal it's a wonder anyone took it seriously. Nevertheless, a 2001 special on pedophilia provoked more than 1000 complaints to the UK's Independent Television Commission.
Is Chris Morris the antichrist of British comedy, as so many opinion pieces in the UK would be keen to suggest this week?
There's no question that the film is drawn straight from the darkest headlines of the last decade. Nor that it isn't occasionally uncomfortable viewing. Scenes involving one of the terrorists at home leading a happy middle-class life with his wife and child, contrasted with the plotting he engages in with his co-conspirators, are particularly unsettling.
And for some families of the victims of the London terrorist bombings of July 2005, the comedy is a little too close to home. Graham Foulkes, whose son was amongst those killed in the bombings, told the BBC that he felt the film was very specifically based on the events of that day. He said it was about, "four lads from the north, all with strong Yorkshire accents - and the bombers were from Yorkshire ... That's not parodying or being satire about terrorists. It's making money about a specific attack."
But others have suggested the film may in fact strike a blow against terrorism by portraying its characters as the incompetent, irreligious narcissists they often are. Jamie Bartlett, author of The Edge of Violence, told the BBC, "It is important that [terrorists] are seen as such - as it can play a role in denting the brand of al-Qaeda."
Those involved with the film have stressed that it isn't intended to cause any offense or trivialize the events of 7/7/2005. But, as Morris is wont to do, it does provoke very valid questions about the role of satire in tackling subjects of great sensitivity.
It may only be a movie, but for many people the effects of terrorism have been all too real.
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A Mezcal's Clandestine Origin, Migration to Old Pueblo
This brand of smoky agave spirit has humble, law bending beginnings - from Oaxaca, Mexico to the colonial Guatemalan city of Antigua.
This brand of smoky agave spirit has humble, law bending beginnings - from Oaxaca, Mexico to the colonial Guatemalan city of Antigua.
AZPM's Vanessa Barchfield joined thousands of riders on its first day for a portrait of the city welcoming this new mode of transportation.
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Before launching her professional career, 21-year-old Tucsonan returns home.
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National Climate Assessment says Southwest is going to get even hotter, drier.
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Thousands of unaccompanied children at border experience trauma, experts say.
Camp teaches responsible pet ownership, compassion
Co-op selling coffee in Tucson helps Mexican families stay together and avoid dangerous illegal immigration.
Mac Tippins will spend 4-5 months on duty in Mt. Lemmon's Lemmon Rock Lookout.
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Tucson archaeologists are beginning new chapters after decades at the University of Arizona, reveal ancient culture's uses for tough native plant.
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Are you cooking in coconut oil?
So yesterday i was listening to the Paleo Lifestyle and Fitness podcast with Sarah Fragoso and Jason Seib and a lady asked why she wasnt making regular bowel movements and she described what she was eating. So they said she wasnt ingesting enough fats, and i feel i havnt either. The question is what are a list of healthy fats i can eat.
Food log from yesterday
3 scrambled eggs with spinach, with a little bit of cheddar cheese, and 5 pieces of bacon
Post work out
sweet potato and a banana
2 turkey burgers with lettuce, mozzarella cheese, and a hand full of cashews.
4 pieces of baked chicken tendors and salad.
cocoa smoothie
can of coconut milk
4 tbls of cococa
hand full of ice
and a drizzle of maple syrup
What could i have added to this day.
Are you cooking in coconut oil?
Yes, the real Dirk.
Have you used a tracker of any kind just to see where your macros are?
You might be surprised, and could just be really low on the fat.
it seems to be the butter people around here use. I can't get that, but use a NZ butter (as far as I am aware all NZ dairy cows are purely grass fed) Hope I got that right!
Ghee is just butter with the milk solids removed. You can do this yourself. Google for instructions.


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We're thrilled to announce that our much-anticipated launch of the HEARTSAT project is coming closer. Though the flight frame, electronics, and telemetry systems were completed many weeks ago per our... Read more
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Here's the first official photo update, only one of many to come! The flight vehicle construction has completed and flight computer design and construction is beginning later in the day.... Read more
Defining stretch goals: wings, TV stations, and more...
When this project first launched on Kickstarter, I had discussed that additional exciting opportunities would become available in the event we exceeded our initial goal of $1,900. As of yesterday,... Read more
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In a totally unprecedented increase in pledges and project attention, HEARTSAT has surpassed its funding goal just moments ago. I am thrilled that the Kickstarter community will be helping... Read more
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