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Dr. Abdul-Karim Khan
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|01/07/2013 - 05/01/2013
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MCTV channel 354 (Oceanic TWC - Maui county)
UHTV channel 355 (Oceanic TWC)
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Oahu County: EDUTV channel 354, UHTV channel 355, UHVOD channel 358
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Hawaii County: EDUTV channel 354, UHTV channel 355, UHVOD channel 358
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Sat 4:30 AM - 6:30 AM (rebroadcast)
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Recommended Preparation: HIST 151 or REL 151
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|History 251 focuses on the history and culture of the Muslim World from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to about 1500..
|Alexander KNYSH, Islam in Historical Perspectives. 2011 edition
Books may be purchased at the Leeward CC bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/lcc/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
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*Oceanic Time Warner Cable Digital TV subscribers may view UHTV programming on channel 355.
*Oceanic Time Warner Cable Digital TV subscribers may also view state-wide cable classes on the UH VOD channel 358. Must have a digital cable box to access VOD channel.
*Oceanic Time Warner Cable Standard or Basic TV subscribers
-that own an HD Television with a QAM tuner, may view UHTV programming on channel 46.55 (27.55 for Maui County).
-that do not have an HD Television, may contact the Oceanic Cable Customer Service Center at (808) 643-2100 to find out how to get a digital cable box free of charge for so long as you maintain your existing analog service subscription. Some restrictions apply.
*Record class sessions if unable to view during actual broadcast. Students should be familiar with setting the timer on their VCR or DVR to record.
*Cable Troubleshooting Tip, http://www.hawaii.edu/dlus/UHTV/troubleshooting.html
*Tips for Cable Students, http://www.hawaii.edu/dlus/UHTV/tips.html
Online Component
Course may also include an online component. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access and a UH email account. Check with your instructor for more information.
Includes a podcast component.
|Additional Notes:
Alternate Technology Access Plan: In registering for a Distance Education course (Cable or Web) the student is responsible for finding immediate alternate access to a computer with Internet connectivity or cable television should that student experience technical difficulties. Technical difficulties can include but are not limited to problems with a student's computer hardware/software; inoperability of a student's VCR or DVR; or lack of service by a student's Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Cable Provider. Technical issues do not constitute the extension of an assignment, project, quiz or exam deadline unless agreed upon by the instructor.
An Alternate Technology Access Plan will be made by the student prior to the start of the semester and should be implemented immediately upon encountering technical difficulties. The student is required to continue course work as a result of having an alternate plan of access while independently resolving any technical issues with hardware/software, VCR/DVD, ISP, or Cable Provider.
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November 17, 2009
Good Times at National Gaming Day
National Gaming Day at the Undergraduate Library was a success. Our crack Super Smash Bros. Brawl Team was narrowly defeated in the first round of the National Tournament. But that did not dampen the mood at the event that ran from 1:00pm - 5:00pm on Saturday November, 14. Many attended an Animation and Graphic Design workshop led by Brandon Smith, a graphics programmer for the Energy Bioscience Institute at the University of Illinois. Other opted to play a variety of games on consoles ranging from the XBox 360 to the Sega Genesis. All and all, it was a great showcase of the of many aspects of the Undergraduate Library Gaming Collection and showed the role games and gaming can play in the campus community.
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Another prestigious award went to Philip Seymour Hoffman as the actor has been named Best Male Lead at this year's Independent Spirit Awards held on Saturday, March 4. "It's ludicrous, and I've been given enough," he commented gratefully. "It's all nerve-wracking." His fellow thespian, Matt Dillon, also brought home one award for his winning in the Supporting Male category, accompanied by Amy Adams who took the same honor in female side. As for the Best Female Lead category, it's none other than the "Transamerica" star, Felicity Huffman, that finally nabbed the title.
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text: Run Like it Matters For every issue of Wheaton magazine, the challenge comes down to this: Arrange almost a quarter of a million characters into about 35,000 words; and then place these words into sentences that become paragraphs that become articles that hopefully interest, inspire, inform, and motivate readers. It's inevitable that something will go wrong. Edit, proof, and proof again—still, typos and ambiguities have a way of cropping up. And yet, despite the mistakes and shortcomings of the magazine (and its editors), Wheaton remains the primary source from which alumni get their information about the College ("Wheaton College Alumni Participation Research," C. Grant and Co., 2007). Among the 35,000 words in this issue, you'll find stories of Wheaton alumni who have courageously used, and are using, words in powerful ways; such as, to speak up for the rights of the unborn, to defend religious freedom, to advocate for Alzheimer's or cancer research, or to urge action against prostitution and sex trafficking. One alumnus represents Liberia as its consul general in the U.S.; another teaches believers around the world to produce Christian literature; and another mentors student–athletes with the message of the gospel. Ah, the wonder and importance of words. President Emeritus Duane Litfin HON writes about them in his recent book, Word Versus Deed: God's revelation came to us, after all, not only in the living Word Jesus Christ, but in the written Word, the Scriptures. What's more, the use of the verbal code lies at the heart of what it means to be human, so much so that we can scarcely imagine life and society without it. We require language to speak of other people, places, and times; or to make statements that can be proven true or false. . . . We use the verbal code to express policies or to urge actions. . . . And most wonderful of all, each of these verbal functions can be combined to produce complex analyses, explanations, and arguments. The ability to use words lies at the center of what it means to be human. (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012, 33-34.) But there's the rub: the very humanness of our language. Yet in spite of our sin-filled mindsets and meager abilities to communicate well—if at all—the Lord entrusts believers with the proclamation of the Good News. Even in our prayers we can't get it right. When distress, pain, and grief leave us speechless; when the accuser must be silenced; when our cries for mercy fall far short; when a loved one is lost; when indescribable joy overflows from our grateful hearts; when His grace takes our breath away; when we don't know what to ask or where to begin—it is the Holy Spirit who must speak for us, interceding with groanings too deep for words, in a language known only to the God of our salvation (Romans 8:26, nasb). Georgia I. Douglass '70, M.A. '94 Editor To view the magazine, please visit Wheaton Magazine Autumn 2012 >>


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Ally is continuing to do very well. We have been spending a lot more time at the hospital lately as she undergoes testing regarding her constant weight gain. We met with a doctor in the Lipid Clinic and he has asked for some very thorough tests to be done. (which I think we finally have them all complete). They are looking at a lot of different things...her resting metabolic rate, insulin levels, hormone-type levels, etc. With the cranial radiation that she had it can affect her pituitary gland (growth/metabolism, etc) and the large level of steroids that she had can also contribute to this problem. We go back to the hospital on Tuesday to learn the results and come up with a plan. I do have to say she has been working super hard to keep her weight in check with 3x a week Zumba classes and a constant monitoring of her diet. For the most part, we think she is getting a little bit better with her belly pain (I say this but she was up a few times with it last night)...and she is also sleeping better. Praising God that he has delivered us to this place we are in now. We just want to be a regular old family! Of course we know that we will always be different.....check out this biography that Ally wrote for the end of year book for her class.....it was all good until I read the last paragraph....it still amazes me.....and it still will always define who Ally Barnett is.
Ally Barnett
My name is Ally. I was born October 10, 2001. I am ten years old. I was born in Ohio. My favorite food is pizza and my favorite dessert is cheesecake.
My family has five members: my mom, my dad, my sister, Carly and my brother, Evan. My sister Carly is four and my brother Evan is seven. I have two pets: my fish Trooper and my frog Swimmy.
I like to play Skylanders on the Wii with my brother and play outside with Carly. I like to do Zumba with my friend Madison Booher and our moms. It is so fun!!!! I also like to read, write, cook and swim. I am on Idle Hour swim team.
When I grow up I want to be a nurse because I have spent so much time at the hospital. When I was seven years old I was diagnosed with cancer and did two and a half years of chemotherapy treatment.
I also wanted to post the information for the 3rd Annual Rally for Ally that I mentioned in my last post. It will be held on June 16 this year. Here is the information on it! We are so grateful for the support for Curesearch and for this fun event. Thanks Lori Fultz for always continuing to make a difference.
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Obituary: Mary Lou Jackson Grippi (Arrowood)
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March 10, 1931 – September 14, 2013
Mary Lou Grippi was the sixth born of eight children. She was born in Murphy, North Carolina to Harv and Abigail Arrowood on March 10, 1931. Growing up in North Carolina, she was affectionately referred to as "Pretty" by her siblings and friends. She married James Nathaniel Jackson in 1950, and they started a family while running a dry cleaning business before Jame's passing. Mary Lou and her children moved to Fresno, California where she continued in the dry cleaning profession. She married Jack Grippi and they had two more children. Jack preceded her in death in 1982, and in 1999, Mary Lou moved to Gardnerville, Nevada where she worked for Jackson Quality Drywall until retiring in 2006.
Mary Lou enjoyed having lunch and playing Bingo at the Senior Center with her good friend, Cleta Hall and her favorite topic of conversation were her children. Anyone who ever had the privilege of knowing Mary Lou knew that she had seven children and was quite proud that she raised them as a single mother (widow) for a good deal of their lives. She enjoyed attending Carson Valley Methodist Church and, of course, Pastor Pete.
She was preceded in death by her son, James Richard Jackson; she will be dearly missed by Donald (Bonnie) Jackson, Debbie Thomas (Larry), Steve (Amy) Jackson, William Jackson (Flo), Shelley McGriff, and Michael Grippi; thirteen grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
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Why I'm Going to Leave Chase Bank
Ok, so if you read this blog, you know that I'm not an Occupy Sympathizer. I don't write that much about banks. And, frankly, I'm not opposed to big banks. I do have an aversion to the bailouts. I believe strongly in the power of markets, and I am not a fan of the idea of Too Big to Fail. I've never had a problem putting my money into namebrand banks, and have sort of taken for granted the reality of banking fees. Banks gotta make money somehow.
Then I saw this commercial:
And while my independent mind is a bit embarrassed to admit the efficacy of a commercial, it appealed to my sense of optimization. I have lived my life with a view toward optimizing and innovating everything. Banking is a product of the ancient world, though it's not as old as you might think. Modern banking is routed in the 14th century. Banks were structured to facilitate the transfer of money from one person or group of people to another person or group of people. If you're interested in reading a comprehensive account of how banking started, I suggest Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money. In America Wells Fargo spurred quite a bit of innovation in both security and the facilitation of moving money.
Banking has seen numerous innovations since it's inception. But while computers and the internet in general have effectively made the transaction costs of moving money from person to person $0 (we no longer need stage coaches and their shotgun rider, for example), banking fees on the deposit side have gone ever ever up. Now I understand that much of that is a result of federal regulation. But let's be honest, banks made their bed when they tightly wrapped themselves into the fabric of government in the 19th century. Oftentimes regulations limit the ability of small banks to compete, while buttressing the position of larger banks. The designation "Too Big to Fail", for example, meant that while small banks might disappear if they couldn't meet their financial obligations, big banks (unless you were Lehmann Brothers) would assuredly be saved, or the government would negotiate on your behalf. Needless to say, innovations within deposit-taking institutions is a much-needed development and big banks don't seem to have any interest in trailblazing deposit-side advancements.
One of the most important things a business can do in this highly technical era is have incredible, useful and most importantly unique products. It's one of the lessons of Apple's meteoric growth. The once-fledgling tech company taught us that the most important thing a business can have is a relationship with their customers who absolutely love their product. When you get down to it, Apple just sells computers. The iphone is just a computer, the mac is just a computer. But they have so fundamentally changed the way we interact with the machines, and they have so radically transformed our experience with their company, that they are one of the few companies that actually enjoys the benefit of consumer loyalty. Ultimately, the goal of business is to make money. In the case of of low-margin businesses, like banking, the goal should be to have volume enough to reap impressive profits. If being good to consumers is expensive, consumers are willing to pay a bit more to cover that cost; Apple proved that.
That said, banks have a very low bar to meet when it comes to treating us well. In the age of computers, they make it difficult to pay credit cards; In the age of computers, they pretend like making small changes to one's account is an arduous project that takes upwards of 10-15 days. Now, I'm not going to complain about missing a payment on my credit card or mortgage. As of today, my credit score is hovering around 780. I've never missed a payment on anything, and I have very little debt.
While I would never begrudge a bank the opportunity to make some money where the convenience of using their service is actually worth something, one thing I will not stand for are crooked and dishonest business practices. The following picture is a check that Chase wrote me. This check represents hours and hours of work. I was called names, lied to, obstructed, and eventually paid… well, given my own money back. Then I was written an apology letter that said something to the effect of "we're sorry that you were disappointed by some service or product that Chase provided you…." They were right, I was disappointed. Chase stole my money for nearly 6 years, and I didn't even notice.
This image took me at least three phone calls to get. First, I was told that it would appear in my account within a few hours. I called the following evening. I was told it actually took 48 hours. I waited a few days, it still didn't appear, and I called again. I was told that I couldn't even get the image online and that I had to go into a branch in order to get a picture of the image. All of this made me even more determined to finish this article.
Chase Amazon Visa Card
It all started way back when I was in college. I saw an advertisement for a credit card on Amazon that would give me some money off my books for the semester and a percentage of my purchase would come back to me in Amazon credit. I'm sure a lot of you have the same card.
I spent enough money over the years to get a couple hundred dollars off books. Since then, I've discovered credit cards that give me 2% cash back, or miles, or other neat, more adult-ish, advantages. But while I was in college, the 3% cash back on Amazon books saved me a lot of money each semester.
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At around the same time, a bank account monitoring site became popular. This site, later bought by Intuit the company that makes Quicken, allowed you to input all of your bank accounts, credit cards, student loans, and whatever else you wanted it to monitor. I fed all of my accounts into the program, and began the process of watching them closely.
Back in June, Mint updated their site. I got an alert that said that Chase had charged me a fee. I was a bit shocked, since I had never noticed a fee before. So I went to investigate. And when I did, I found that Chase had been charging me a payment protection plan fee since I had first gotten the card. Now, if you've ever registered for a card, you've probably had an opportunity to register for this payment protection plan. It's a 3rd party vendor that charges you 1.5% interest each month based on your balance with the promise that should you be injured and unable to pay your minimum balance they will cover it. Even if you pay off the full balance every month, you end up paying the 1.5%. It's a terrible deal, basic math pretty well shows the idiocy of the plan. Initially, my payments were $1 and $2 a month. As my spending power went up, I spent a bit more each month. Suddenly, I was being charged $10 to $15 each month. Since it was a small fraction of what I was spending, I never noticed the charges.
When I did the math, I realized that Chase had taken nearly $500 in fees over the course of the last five years. Now, in the grand scheme of things, $500 is not that much money especially when it's taken over a period of time. Like a frog in slowly heating up water, I hadn't even felt the trickle of money from my account into Chase's coffers. But the fact that they'd done it had gotten me angry.
I know what you're thinking, you think I probably signed up for the protection plan. Well, I was pretty sure I hadn't. I wasn't positive, we all have weird lapses in judgment. So I called the bank. During the course of my first call, I told the banker that I was pretty certain I hadn't signed up for it. She told me that I was lying and that Chase had proof that I'd signed up for the plan. Then she provided me the most laughable option I've ever heard.
"Do you want us to research this all the way back to the beginning, or do you want the last two month's refunded?"
"I can only choose one?"
"Only one."
So suddenly, I'm forced to chose between definitely being paid $60.41 of my own money or possibly being given something like $500 of my own money. What do you think I told her? Obviously, I told her that I wanted them to research the transactions all the way back.
Four days later, I logged into my bank account. And wouldn't you know it, Chase had refunded me the last two month's payments.
I figured they'd come to their senses and might be sending the rest of the money in a check through the mail. I waited a week and no check came. So I called Chase and asked where we were in the research process.
"I'm sorry sir, we refunded you the last two months. We can no longer send this back to be looked into."
"But I didn't ask to get the refund, I asked for the matter to be researched," I told the lady.
The woman put her supervisor on the phone. I told her supervisor how unhappy I was, and probably got a bit testy with her; I wanted my money back. Somehow, she was able to escalate it, and send the whole account back for research. They told me that they had a recording of me telling them that I wanted to be signed up for the program. She said I was lying about not signing up and that Chase doesn't sign people up for the program unless they have explicitly stated that they wanted to be part of it. Likely story, considering how many people online claim to have been enrolled against their will:
- Chase Enrolled Me in Payment Protector Against My Will, Starts Charging Me
- RipoffReport – Chase Payment Protector
- BEWARE: never enrolled but billed for chase payment protection
Not to mention the class action lawsuit about this exact issue.
That's just a very brief synopsis of these calls, by the way. I probably had 2 or 3 other phone calls in between each of these, not to mention that each call took more than 45 minutes to resolve. In all, I probably spent 8 to 10 hours on the phone with Chase's call centers being told I was a liar. And it wasn't just an oblique reference to the fact that I probably had my facts wrong, or that I'd maybe forgotten about giving permission. They out and out told me that I was dishonest.
Needless to say, I was right. When all was said and done, I got a check in the mail for $428.61 which represented the full amount of money plus interest that Chase had taken from me since 2006 less the initial refund that I'd already received. In all, the total came to $489.02.
So two things to take away here. First, Chase offers a program which is incredibly detrimental to its customers. Second, Chase does whatever they can to squeeze a few extra bucks out of you in a way that you don't even realize what's happening. The former demonstrates an incredible lack of care for the people they are doing business with, the latter represents a win-at-all-costs sort of attitude to business. It indicates to me that Chase cares more about making money than providing services worthy of that money. It's completely different than the Apple model and it's worse than any bank I've ever dealt with.
That said, there are a lot of big banks out there. Recently, Bank of America started charging my brother fees. He is a college student who just got engaged last week. He's been applying to grad schools and probably has $30 to his name (rings are expensive, after all).
He told me that he started getting notices that his BoA account was a dry hole. He owed money to the bank…. He owed money to them because they decided it was important to suddenly, without adequate warning, start assessing his account some sort of fee. Basically, he was being charged to put his money into a free student checking account that exists in order to have a place that will safely house the money of a person who doesn't have much of it yet. Now there's more to the story, but I already told you all about my experience at Chase and won't make you sit through another example of a poor banking experience; I'm sure you all have your own stories. Needless to say, the problem is pervasive. Big banks think financially, not relationally. Ignoring the relational component of business, however, is precisely the reason so many people are beginning to pull their deposits from these banks. Whether we like to admit it or not, the tangible cost and inefficient, non-scalable effort of forging strong customer relationships is reaped ten-fold in the intangible loyalty of customers.
Ultimately, I don't want to be banking at a place that forces me to wonder if I have the wrong idea about what banks are supposed to do. So far as I know, banks are supposed to be a place where I can put my money and keep it safe. When a bank disappears your money, they do something that runs counter to their mission. To be honest, it's worse than putting all my money underneath a mattress. A world in which banks find more and more ways to bilk their youngest, poorest depositors of their currently meager deposits, is not a world full of hope and possibilities. And let's be honest, that's what banks are supposed to be. To finance an entrepreneur's venture, to own a home, to pay for college… whenever we need to get ahead we turn to our banks. And those are services I'm willing to pay for. Whether the cost is a service fee or some sort of interest, the bank should exist to help me build my wealth. When I build my wealth, my deposits increase, and when my deposits increase, our fractional reserve banking system helps build the wealth and dreams of those in my community.
On the other hand, stealing my money is not a strategy that will lead any bank to a future of prosperity and longevity (lest the government bails them out again). So I have decided to join the big-bank exodus. I will be defunding my Chase bank account, I will not be using my Chase credit card, and I will be moving to a small, local or alternative bank-ish program. I've been researching a few, and I'm trying getting ready to try them out. I'm young. I make enough money that a bank will want my business, but not enough that they will care that much if they don't get it.
But I have the rest of my life to earn enough money to matter to a bank. It's too bad for Chase and their big-bank compadres that when that day comes, the way they treated me today means that they won't get the chance to benefit from my hard work tomorrow.
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chase bank dont care who anyone is ..i have tried for years to get help with my payments and i never have got a letter or anything..when i cant pay for my house i will leave and take what i have done here …and as far as the gov..bailing them out ..why they screwed us and wont help..but yet show millions in profits..who are crooks….you got it big banks..
Large banks are not in the business of serving little people. Indebted newlyweds, college grads who owe $900 a month for the next 30 years, widowed wives who inherit the bad financial decisions of their husbands–big banking is immune to sob stories. The only good thing about little people is that there are MILLIONS of the them who, when combined, are making an astronomical daily deposit. Providing good service to all those individuals is far too expensive. Its much more cost efficient to build self-animated websites, and wherever possible put the consumers themselves to work (e.g., the advent of self deposit slots at ATMs, remote deposits using your iPhone, various apps–there are dozens of tricky examples that have "empowered" the consumer). And let us not forget about the endless service charges: Account Access Fees, ATM Access Fees, Other Bank ATM Fees, Non-suffiencient Funds Fees, Foreign Transactions Fees, Checks Fees, Document Copies Fees, Excessive Activity Fees, Overdraft Fees, Money Order Fees, Stop Payment Fees, Verification Fees, Wire Transfer Fees. These are only broad categories and when looked at individually, banking fees are hilarious. Don't expect the service fees to abate any time soon either, the list will only grow from here on because consumers have no representation.
Banks are interested in lending and underwriting very large corporations and they're especially interested in lending to governements going to war. Military conflicts cost bucks and banks are where governments get their funding. Try to imagine the money that is lent to sponsor a war and then try to imagine the money that is made on that loaned money and then know that you're imagination falls short of the enormous proifits that are paid for by soldiers and you, the tax payer. Governments pay bankers through the nose when they go to war, and bankers know this. That's why bankers effectively write the bills in congress and all the government officials pushing for wars are more or less working for the bankers who sponsor them. The U.S. government has no money–they owe trillions to the federal reserve and countries around the world. Where does all their non-existent money come from? The Federal Reserve System, controlled by privately run banks.
Keep in mind that at the top of the banking world newcomers are not welcome and competition does not exist. Banking is a club that's comprised of very intelligent people and it has the backing of the foulest corruption congress can sale. And the next time you're upset at a local branch keep this in mind: The real bankers don't give a damn about the workers at their little branches–they're almost as unimportant as the little people handing over their pitiful $1,100 biweekly paycheck. Don't unleash on the teller, shift supervisor, or branch manager. They're powerless. They have nothing to do with the policies they are given. And you? You're a miniscule speck on the monitor of a very large playing field and your voice will not be heard.


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Apple singlehandedly turned the digital music marketplace on its head when it launched the iTunes Store in 2003, and now it's going after the current hottest trend: Streaming media. Apple introduced this new service, Apple Music, during its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference earlier this year, bringing out the company's big guns (record exec and Beats cofounder Jimmy Iovine, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software Eddy Cue, and hip hop star Drake) to show the world how Apple Music plans to compete with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Tidal.
So, will this replace iTunes? Can you listen to music offline? What about existing Beats subscriptions? We've got the answers to those questions and more in this guide to everything Apple Music. If you have any additional questions, let us know in the comments below and we'll see what we can dig up.
Still antsy for more? Check out our first impressions of Apple Music.
Getting started
What the heck is this thing? Apple Music combines subscription-based music streaming with global radio-like programming and a social feature that connects artists to fans. It's bundled within iOS 8.4 and iTunes 12.2 (and all versions of iOS and OS X going forward). The service will come pre-installed on all iOS and OS X devices, but users will be able to stream music instead of purchase music. It's an all-you-can-eat service for subscribers: Pay a flat fee, and you unlock all of Apple Music's extensive 30 million-song library. Apple Music is also the new home for your personal music collection on your iOS devices.
Isn't that the same as iTunes? Not at all. iTunes is all about media ownership, functioning as both a virtual record store and an efficient digital library for music and other media (movies, TV shows, etc) that you own personally. The software comes pre-installed on all Apple devices, and is available as a free download for non-Apple PCs and mobile devices. iTunes doesn't require a subscription fee to use it (unless you use iTunes Match—more on that in a moment), since every song, album, movie, or show was purchased individually—either from the iTunes Store, or imported or ripped from another source.
Apple Music is all about streaming. You pay a flat fee to unlock access to Apple Music's entire catalogue, but you don't actually own the music you listen to. The files don't live individually on your devices; you're instead just listening to tracks stored remotely, that are owned by Apple. If you subscribe to any other media streaming subscription service—be it a music-only service like Spotify, Beats Music, Tidal, or Rdio, a TV service like Hulu, or a movie/TV combo service like Netflix or HBO Now—Apple Music functions the same way.
So, iTunes is dead? Not exactly. You can access your entire iTunes library from within Apple Music—just tap the My Music tab—and iTunes will still be a standalone app and media store if you'd prefer to continue to buy music a la carte. However, if you've let purchasing music fall by the wayside, you may never have to open iTunes again if you sign up for an Apple Music subscription.
What makes Apple Music different from Spotify/Rdio/Tidal/every other music subscription service? Apple is putting a lot of emphasis on Apple Music's three additional features: Beats 1, curated playlists, and Connect.
Beats 1 is its radio offering, which features an around-the-clock worldwide live broadcast from DJs based in Los Angeles, New York, and London. It promises to deliver a curated selection of songs, pop culture news, and interviews with artists.
Speaking of curation, Apple Music also offers up recommendations tailored to your tastes, looking at artists you like and serving up other artists and playlists for you to listen to. But instead of being built by algorithms, they are built by real people, according to Apple. You can find these in the "For You" section of the app—but first you'll have to set it up by following the prompts to select genres and artists you like.
Connect is Apple Music's artist-based social networking feature, which lets fans follow artists. Artists can share special content with fans through Connect—hip-hop artist Drake took the stage at WWDC to show off how he'd use Connect to post behind-the-scenes photos of his life, share snippets of new songs, and other content. Besides Drake, you'll find Connect profiles for Pharrell Williams, FKA twigs, Chris Cornell, Bastille, Alabama Shakes, Pearl Jam, and more. Apple has also created genre-specific profiles to follow. Apple automatically has you follow artists when you add their songs to your music library, but you can opt out of this (and find other artists to follow) in your account settings.
Besides that, Apple Music's library has 30 million songs—the same number as Spotify, though the exact track listings vary. Oh, and you can also watch music videos without ads—something that no other streaming service currently offers.
How much does this cost? Apple Music costs $9.99 per month, or $14.99 per month for a family subscription for up to six people (which requires iCloud Family Sharing).
Is there a free, ad-supported version? Sadly, no. Some aspects will be available to anyone who logs in with an Apple ID—namely, Beats 1, the ability to follow artists on Connect, and the ability to listen to Apple Music radio stations with a limited number of skips—but a paid subscription is required to access Apple Music's entire library.
What devices can I use this on? Apple Music is available for all iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch models that are running iOS 8.4 or later. It's also available on the Mac and PC via iTunes 12.2 or later. It will be coming to the Apple TV and Android phones this fall. It also pairs with the Apple Watch.
Wait, did you say Android? Yes! Android users will have access to Apple Music starting this fall. Music for all!
When will it be available? Apple Music launched on June 30 on iOS, OS X, and PCs, and will expand to Apple TV and Android devices this fall. Apple offered a three-month free trial upon launch, which ends on September 30.
Does it work with AirPlay? Yes! Each song or music video has an AirPlay button next to it—just tap it and select the device you want to beam to.
Which countries have access to Apple Music? Apple Music is available in more than 100 countries worldwide, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Japan, Brazil, and India. Check out Apple's complete list for more info.
Moving to Apple Music from other streaming services
What about Beats Music? Will my Beats subscription disappear? Beats Music isn't going away just yet, but it's on it's way out. Beats is no longer taking new subscribers. If you're an existing subscriber, you'll see a prompt in Beats Music on your iOS device or Mac, urging you to move your subscription over to Apple Music. All of the albums you've saved and playlists you've created will sync over to Apple Music from Beats. You can also keep your Beats username and use it on Apple Music. The subscription cost is the same—$9.99 per month—and once you move your account over, your Beats subscription will be canceled.
If you pre-paid and have an unused balance on your Beats account, your remaining balance will transfer over as a credit to your iTunes account, which you can use for your Apple Music subscription once your three month free trial expires. If you opted for carrier billing on Beats, your carrier will refund you.
Android and Windows Phone subscribers won't see this prompt to switch until Apple Music becomes available for those platforms. Beats Music has a complete FAQ on its website, if you need more information about canceling.
If I subscribe to Apple Music, do I still need my iTunes Match subscription to keep my complete music collection together? According to Apple, iTunes Match and Apple Music are completely separate services, so it will be up to you to decide if you'd like to keep iTunes Match. If your personal music collection has a lot of rare tracks and content that you can't get through Apple Music, then you may want to consider keeping both subscriptions. Check out our explainer to learn more about how Apple Music and iTunes Match work together.
All about the music
How's the music quality? Apple Music streams songs at 256kbps, which is the same rate as iTunes Match. That's a bit of a drop from Beats Music and Spotify, which use a 320kbps bitrate. And competitor Tidal boasts more than just major celebrity endorsements: It offers a high-bitrate option (1411kbps lossless FLAC) at a pricier subscription rate, the "HiFi" tier for $19.99 a month.
Does Apple Music link with Sonos? Not right now, but it is coming. Apple confirmed the plans in a statement to BuzzFeed's John Packowski, saying "we're working together to make Apple Music available on Sonos before the end of the year." In the meantime, Sonos customers can continue subscribing to Beats Music.
Can I save music to listen to offline? Yep! Apple Music lets you save tracks to listen to offline—you can save as many songs as you'd like, as long as your device has space for them. But remember: You won't own those files and you won't be able to offload them anywhere else. You can't burn them onto a disc, use them in separate video projects, or put them on other devices that aren't linked to your Apple Music account. If you decide to cancel your Apple Music subscription, you'll lose access to those songs. However, the offline listening feature is a great option if you're concerned about data overages, or if you know you'll be in an area without a good wireless connection.
To save items for offline listening, head on over to the My Music tab and tap the "More" button next to the artist, song, album, or playlist you want to save. Then select "Make songs available offline," and the songs will start downloading. If you want to only view your offline music, head on over to your Library in the My Music tab, then tap the drop-down arrow next to Artists. Toggle the switch next to "Show music available offline."
If I save too much music for offline listening, how can I delete to clear up iPhone/iPad space? The process is similar to adding music: Tap the "More" button next to the artist, song, album, or playlist you want to ditch. Tap "Make songs available offline" to release them back into iCloud. (Hint: It helps to toggle on the "Show music available offline" switch.)
When I add a playlist or album to My Music, does it auto download to my device when on Wi-Fi? No, it won't automatically download to your device. You'll have to mark that playlist or album for offline listening.
How will Beats 1 differ from iTunes Radio? iTunes Radio takes the Pandora-style approach to radio, where users create their own stations based around songs, artists, albums, or genres, and iTunes serves up songs that flow well around that theme. You can still use a version of iTunes Radio within Apple Music—but it's now called Apple Music radio stations. However, iTunes Radio stations were built by algorithms, and Apple Music's radio stations will mostly be hand-built.
Beats 1, on the other hand, is more like a traditional radio station, with a 24/7 live radio stream anchored by three DJs based in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Former BBC personality Zane Lowe is leading the effort from Los Angeles, with Ebro Darden of Hot 97 in New York, and Julie Adenuga in London. Beats 1 features a combination of songs handpicked by these DJs, plus celebrity interviews, pop culture news, and other music-related content. For now, it is commercial free—but you will hear the occasional sponsorship message—I hear quick sponsorships ads from time to time, like "Beats 1 is made possible by American Express."
What's really neat is that every user around the world hears the same content at the same time, and these stations take a much more curated approach to radio than iTunes Radio does.
Will standalone iTunes Radio remain a free service? Will iTunes Radio stations sponsored by record labels be moving to Apple Music, or will they be dropped? Beats 1 and Apple Music's radio stations are free to anyone with an Apple ID—though the genre- and artist-based radio stations will be ad-supported and have a limit on song skips. If you created your own stations, they'll sync over, and you can find them in the Radio tab. However, many of iTunes Radio's former stations sponsored by record labels have disappeared, so you may be out of luck.


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New Preview of Nicholas Brendon in The Santaland Diaries! Tickets for the November 19-December 19 run are available here.
It's great that he's doing this again, though now that there's clips of it online I'm going to hope that maybe the blank theatre'll maybe record the whole show and let people buy a copy... you know, like people who are in the wrong freaking country
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Before the magnitude-7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, killing 220,000 people, the country was the poorest in the Americas.
Tempest, hurricane, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, or Big Bang?
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which killed 10,000, sent Alarma!
In 2010 he claimed that a U.S. weapons test caused the devastating Haitian earthquake, which claimed some 230,000 lives.
"One of the best things for David Wu is the earthquake in Japan," Moore said.
It is clear that in such an earthquake, Mallet's method would utterly fail in giving definite results.
Though not quite so terrible as an earthquake, it was a fearful monster to behold.
They are only a gigantic edition of those pink and white terraces not long ago destroyed by earthquake in New Zealand.
In the hour of the earthquake, no one heeds the croak of the raven.
The great audience almost leaped to its feet at the sound of that tempest and earthquake.
A sudden movement of the Earth's lithosphere (its crust and upper mantle). Earthquakes are caused by the release of built-up stress within rocks along geologic faults or by the movement of magma in volcanic areas. They are usually followed by aftershocks. See Note at fault.
Our Living Language : Fractures in Earth's crust, or lithosphere, where sections of rock have slipped past each other are called faults. Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of accumulated strain along these faults, releasing energy in the form of low-frequency sound waves called seismic waves. Although thousands of earthquakes occur each year, most are too weak to be detected except by seismographs, instruments that detect and record vibrations and movements in the Earth. The point where the earthquake originates is the seismic focus, and directly above it on Earth's surface is the earthquake's epicenter. Three kinds of waves accompany earthquakes. Primary (P) waves have a push-pull type of vibration. Secondary (S) waves have a side-to-side type of vibration. Both P and S waves travel deep into Earth, reflecting off the surfaces of its various layers. S waves cannot travel through the liquid outer core. Surface (L) waves—named after the nineteenth-century British mathematician A.E.H. Love—travel along Earth's surface, causing most of the damage of an earthquake. The total amount of energy released by an earthquake is measured on the Richter scale. Each increase by 1 corresponds to a tenfold increase in strength. Earthquakes above 7 on the Richter scale are considered severe. The famous earthquake that flattened San Francisco in 1906 had a magnitude of 7.8.
A tremor of the surface of the Earth, sometimes severe and devastating, which results from shock waves generated by the movement of rock masses deep within the Earth, particularly near boundaries of tectonic plates. (See fault, Richter scale, and seismology.)
Note: Earthquakes are particularly likely where such plates are sliding past each other, as in the San Andreas Fault.
Note: Earthquakes cannot be accurately predicted, although the likelihood of a region's suffering an earthquake can be estimated.


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I'm a light skin black and I have a European name Diane. Why do few light skin blacks have African names? Yet many brown skin and dark skin blacks have African (Swahili) names, Muslim names, and European names. Most light skin blacks have European names examples Roz Ryan, Thurgood Marshall, Etta James, Anne Marie Johnson, Ella Joyce, Colin Powell, Harold Ford Jr, Jeremiah Wright, Tom Joyner, Valerie Jarrett, Diane Patrick and daughter Katherine Patrick (wife and daughter of Deval Patrick), Elliott Wilson ex editor of Source magazine, Tracy Marrow (Ice T), 80s musician Perri Reid (Pebbles) and daughter Ashley.
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The Pussycat Dolls' 'Hush Hush; Hush Hush' music video captures Nicole Scherzinger in the bathtub with clothes off and the group in a party with Carmen Electra.
A music video for The Pussycat Dolls' new single "Hush Hush; Hush Hush" has finally been made available for public viewing pleasure after previously uploaded on YouTube with private setting. It shows the group's lead singer Nicole Scherzinger sitting in a bathtub and walking out of it naked. It then continues with all members of the band partying.
Furthermore, the newly-debuted video directed by Joseph Kahn features a cameo from the band's former member Carmen Electra and blogger Perez Hilton. They join the Dolls during the party scene.
"Hush Hush; Hush Hush" is one of the new songs appearing in "Doll Domination 2.0", the re-release version of The Pussycat Dolls' sophomore set "Doll Domination". The song is recorded with an addition of a bridge from Gloria Gaynor's smash hit "I Will Survive".
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Written by a journalist from the saddle of her motorcycle, Hear Me Roar is the first and only detailed account of this little-known facet of women's rocky road to personal independence in America.
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The Outbreak of Salmonella in Eggs
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Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D.
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the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
September 22, 2010
Good afternoon, Chairman Stupak and Members of the Subcommittee. I am Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, Principal Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the recent Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) foodborne illness outbreak associated with shell eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa, Inc. Before discussing this outbreak, I would first like to thank you, Chairman Stupak, Chairman Waxman, Chairman Emeritus Dingell, Ranking Member Barton, Ranking Member Burgess, and other Members of the Committee, for your leadership in obtaining passage last year of comprehensive food safety legislation. We are hopeful that Congress will soon send legislation to the President for his signature.
- buy chicks and young hens only from suppliers who monitor for SE bacteria;
- establish rodent, pest control, and biosecurity measures to prevent the spread of bacteria throughout the farm by people and equipment;
- conduct testing of the poultry house environment for SE. If the tests find the bacterium, a representative sample of the eggs must be tested over an eight-week time period (four tests at two-week intervals); if any of the four egg tests is positive, the producer must further process the eggs to destroy the bacteria, or divert the eggs to a non-food use;
- clean and disinfect poultry houses that have tested positive for SE; and
- refrigerate eggs at 45 degrees Fahrenheit during storage and transportation no later than 36 hours after the eggs are laid (this requirement also applies to egg producers whose eggs receive a treatment, such as pasteurization).


text: [Federal Register: June 23, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 120)] [Notices] [Page 37162-37163] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr23jn03-64] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. 1999P-1656] Posting Warning Letter Responses on FDA's Web Site; Notice of Pilot Program AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to implement a 6- month pilot program in which we (FDA) will post on our Internet Web site certain responses to warning letters. The pilot program is part of our ongoing efforts to keep the public informed regarding agency activities and to make information publicly available. During this pilot, we will post copies of certain responses to warning letters if the recipient requests that the response be posted on our Web site and submits the response in an appropriate electronic format. We will review the responses and redact certain information to ensure that the responses comply with protections available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). DATES: The pilot program will begin on September 22, 2003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Philip L. Chao, Office of Policy and Planning, Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-0587. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background FDA traditionally receives many requests under FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552) for warning letters issued to FDA-regulated entities. In compliance with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 (EFOIA), we post on our Web site warning letters that are, or are likely to be, frequently requested documents under FOIA. Updated information regarding a specific issue discussed in a warning letter, however, may not be available on the Web site. In a citizen petition dated May 26, 1999, we were asked to draft regulatory procedures that would require us to promptly post, to the extent permitted under FOIA, agency records related to any previously posted warning letters. The petition requested that this policy extend to agency memoranda or letters that relate, refer, or pertain to any resolution of any of the issues in the warning letters and, where applicable, updates to the firm profile. We declined to post all materials related to warning letters on our Internet Web site, but decided to initiate a 6-month pilot program in which we will post certain responses to warning letters. II. Pilot Program Description The pilot program is part of our ongoing efforts to keep the public informed regarding agency activities and to make information available in a manner that is accessible and fair. Accordingly, we plan to test, for 6 months, a pilot program that provides warning letter recipients the opportunity to have their responses to warning letters posted on our Web site. For purposes of this pilot only, we consider warning letter recipients to be the addressee and any other individuals or entities specifically named in a warning letter. When the pilot program begins, responses submitted to us: (1) With request that the response be posted, and (2) in the format described in the following paragraphs, will be considered for the pilot program. After 180 days, we will evaluate the pilot and determine whether the program should become permanent. However, if we experience undue burden in dealing with the process, find that the process is too resource- intensive, or determine that misleading information is being conveyed to the public as a result of the pilot, we may discontinue the program. We will post a warning letter recipient's response on our Web site if the recipient: (1) Requests that the response be posted, and (2) submits to us a copy of the response in a word processing format on a disk or CD-ROM. (The disk or CD-ROM should be submitted to the FDA office that issued the warning letter and should be submitted with the response.) We will review the response and redact certain information to ensure that the response complies with protections available under FOIA. For purposes of this pilot program only, we consider a warning letter recipient to be the addressee and any other individual or entity specifically named in a warning letter. If a warning letter recipient wishes to participate in this pilot, the recipient should submit a copy of the response on a computer disk in a word processing format. We will electronically redact and also convert the document to a format that is consistent with 29 U.S.C. 794d. Warning letter recipients submitting a response should clearly identify the warning letter to which they are responding by noting the date of the warning letter and the company(ies) or individual(s) involved. We reserve the right not to post responses in some cases, such as when a response would likely mislead the public concerning the safety or efficacy of a company's product(s). During this pilot program, we also intend to place a disclaimer on our Web site stipulating the following: Note: The Food and Drug Administration cannot assure the accuracy of information submitted to the agency without a complete review of the submitted materials and resolution of the issues discussed therein. To make certain information available to the public, the agency has undertaken a pilot program to post responses to warning letters before evaluating the documents and resolving the issues. The responses are redacted to the extent permitted by the Freedom of Information Act. [[Page 37163]] We believe the disclaimer allows us to properly inform the public about the information contained on our Web site. We reserve the right to change the language in the disclaimer should we consider it appropriate to do so. Once we have had sufficient opportunity to assess our experience in implementing the pilot program, we will decide whether to make the program permanent. Dated: June 16, 2003. Jeffrey Shuren, Assistant Commissioner for Policy. [FR Doc. 03-15732 Filed 6-20-03; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160-01-S


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Monday saw Jaso Solar (JASO) jump nearly 7% on positive earnings news, which technicians could have seen coming for one of the best known solar stocks.
On March 14, the Profit Scanner powered by Recognia, which allows traders of all experience levels to quickly understand the o technical analysis outlook for a particular financial instrument, identified four short-term bullish patterns in JASO's chart:
- A short-term "Know Sure Thing" (KST) – the KST, "Know Sure Thing", an oscillator that combines multiple time frames into a single measure of momentum for a security.
- A Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD). A bullish event is generated when the MACD crosses above the signal line, showing that the current MACD is actually higher than its average, a sign of increasing strength for the price.
- A bullish signal from the Commodity Channel Index that indicated an end to the prior bearish trend.
- Bullish momentum, which is significant because it signals the strength of price trends
With JASO closing at $11.42 on Friday, March 14, the Profit Scanner identified a short-term target of $13.60 to $14.60. On Monday, after the company released its latest quarterly report, JASO jumped to a daily high of $13.14, just shy of the target.
JASO has now settled back near the high $11 range, and while it certainly could make another run to the target, the Profit Scanner has no shortage of trading ideas on other stocks that could also deliver surprise spikes in the short term. Here are three stocks trading under $10 that are setting up to return 25% to 70% or more within the next few weeks – names that you might have never found or considered on your own.


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A frugal and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century
Innovation is a key directive at companies worldwide. But in these tough times, we can't rely on the old formula that has sustained innovation efforts for decadesexpensive R&D projects and highly-structured innovation processes. Jugaad Innovation argues the West must look to places like India, Brazil, and China for a new approach to frugal and flexible innovation. The authors show how in these emerging markets, jugaad (a Hindi word meaning an improvised solution born from ingenuity and cleverness) is leading to dramatic growth and how Western companies can adopt jugaad innovation to succeed in our hypercompetitive world.
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Wall Street is again losing jobs because of global economic woes, threatening tax revenue for a city and state heavily reliant on the financial industry, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Tuesday.
DiNapoli said that after adding 9,900 jobs between January 2010 and this April, the industry shed 4,100 jobs through August and could lose nearly 10,000 more by the end of 2012. That would bring the total industry loss to 32,000 positions since the economic crisis of 2008.
He said profits at New York Stock Exchange firms earned $9.3 billion in the first quarter of this year, but declined sharply in the second quarter and are likely to reach $18 billion for the year, a third less than in 2010.
"The securities industry had a strong start to 2011, but its prospects have cooled considerably for the second half of this year," DiNapoli said. "It now seems likely that profits will fall sharply, job losses will continue, and bonuses will be smaller than last year."
Cash bonuses also declined last year.
Securities activities drove 14 percent of state tax revenue and 7 percent of New York City's last year. DiNapoli warned that current and future collections are likely to fall short because of the weakness.
"Excessive risk-taking on Wall Street was a major factor leading to the financial crisis and the recession," he said. "Regulatory changes that reduce risk and focus attention on long-term profitability rather than short-term gains will enhance stability. Despite the weaknesses we are seeing, the securities industry remains profitable and is a key component of the economies of New York City and New York state."
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Not everyone wants their mum to make a birthday cake for their "special day," unless of course your mum's baking skills match the legendary craftsmanship wielded by the ancient Hylian blacksmiths! Few of us can say that they have ever gazed upon such a glorious Zelda tribute in edible form as this 18-year old's shining birthday cake. The cake is a stunning replica of the Hylian shield design debuted in Twilight Princess.
The metallic sheen on the cake was produced by an edible glaze, which gives the cake the durable appearance of the metal shield from the game. Notice the flawless detail of the Hylian Crest placed perfectly below the golden Triforce, all the fine touches that really… put the icing on the cake.
Riorus, a UK user on Reddit claims that his mother is not a professional cake smith but has been forging him and his sister special cakes, like this one, all of their lives. This is clearly a cake worthy of a knight whose ancestors lived amongst the gods! If you had this cake would you eat it or preserve it through the ages? Let us know in the comments below.
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Epstein Critiques the ADA
A recent story in the New York Times offers a surprising critique of the Americans With Disabilities Act when it comments on the "flood of suits" brought by a small number of individuals in wheel chairs against a wide range of small businesses in New York City. These quasi-professional litigants scour the landscape to identify businesses whose premises are not in compliance with the elaborate access rules set by the ADA. Then, for a fee of around $500, they refer their discoveries to specialist lawyers who force expensive settlements with the hapless owners, collecting lucrative fees for themselves in the process, usually without litigation.
One successful ADA lawyer, Martin Coleman, puts it bluntly: "As a private attorney, every lawsuit that I file is to make money, because that's how I make a living. . . . And in that regard, I'm no different than any other private attorney."
My gripe is not with Mr. Coleman, but with the legal system that authorizes this type of litigation in the first place. The lawyers behind the ADA scheme claim that their private enforcement beefs up public enforcement. But private lawsuits need not be aligned with social welfare. Indeed, in this instance, they work at cross purposes. Lawyers like Mr. Coleman march to the incentives the ADA creates for them. They don't know and don't care that these capital expenditures produce little to no social benefit. Indeed, if there had been any perceptible need for the changes demanded in such lawsuits, some regular customer would have sued long ago.


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The NBA and locked-out players returned to talks Friday with the hope of reaching a deal to save a 66-game schedule.
At 12 a.m. ET Saturday they had entered their 12th hour of talks.
The participants for the league are NBA Commissioner David Stern, Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, San Antonio Spurs owner and labor relations chairman Peter Holt and attorneys Rick Buchanan and Dan Rube. For the players are trade association chief Billy Hunter, trade association president Derek Fisher, trade association vice president Mo Evans, economist Kevin Murphy and attorney Ron Klempner.


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Conservative elements of the Coalition have been forced to back down on opposition to a bill that makes it illegal for faith-based aged-care providers who receive Commonwealth funding to exclude same-sex couples from their facilities, after threats of an internal party revolt.
After initially pledging to support the Sex Discrimination Amendment Bill 2013, which provided new protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the Coalition switched its position when Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus introduced the amendment on aged-care providers.
The Australian Financial Review understands there was significant dissension within Coalition party ranks on the decision to no longer support the bill and threats of "total bloody war", according to one MP, if the members were required to vote against it in the lower house on Tuesday night. The decision was subsequently made to verbally oppose the amendment but to not put the bill to a division, effectively waving it through.
Liberal MPs Mal Washer and Judi Moylan expressed support for the government's amendment, with Ms Moylan describing the current legal exception for faith-based aged-care providers on same-sex couples as "blatantly discriminatory". Mr Washer described the decision not to put the bill to a vote as a "good outcome".
On Monday night, Liberal senator
"We need clear recognition in legislation that it's not acceptable for aged-care facilities to discriminate against residents on the basis of their sexuality or sexual identity," Senator Boyce said.
Openly gay senator
"An examination of all the evidence suggests the faith-based exemption specifically related to taxpayer faith-based services can no longer be justified," Senator Smith said.
Labor senator Penny Wong said the reforms were "long overdue".
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Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Jewish
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"Funny, you don't look Jewish." Here are 17 famous stars and celebrities you may not have known are Jewish. At some point in their lives, someone has probably said to them, "You're Jewish? No kidding! Wow, I had no idea." With so many stereotypes of what a Jewish person should look like, it's not surprising that people are often shocked when the star they adore is of the Jewish faith. Some on this list were born to a Jewish mother, which means they are fully Jewish according to Jewish religious law. Others have converted to the Jewish faith. So get ready to be surprised a "bissel" (Yiddish for "a little bit") by the names on this list of famous Jewish celebrities. And to you, our loyal readers, whatever religion you identify with, to you we say, Mazel Tov.


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Just like the famous nursery rhyme, Mozart transcends your little star above the world so high. The Stellar night sky is illuminated by Mirror music scores while the Jolly stars dance freely nearby.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an Austrian composer, was a prolific artist who created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that significantly shaped classical music. He composed more than 600 works of music, including the melody for the famous lullaby Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Today, Mozart is among the most influential classical composers, and his mastery is profound on Western Classical Music.


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Perry Signs Abortion Bill
Saying it 'expands our commitment to protecting human life in Texas,' Gov. Rick Perry today singed that controversial abortion measure, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Outside, a small group of pro choice demonstrators held up a sign reading 'shame.'
The restrictions, some of the strictest in the country, will require abortion clinics to receive certification as 'Ambulatory Care Centers,' and it requires that every abortion clinic have a doctor on staff who has admitting privileges at a hospital no more than thirty miles from the clinic.
The bill also enshrines the so called 'Fetal Pain Provision' which bans abortions after twenty weeks gestation, on the grounds that after that point, the fetus can feel pain in the womb.
That provision pleases Marjorie Dannenfeilser, the President of the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro life group.
"Texas' monumental new law sheds light on the urgent need for action in the U.S. Senate," she said. "Unborn children and women deserve federal protection from horrific late-term abortions."
But Janet Crepps of the Center for Reproductive Rights, says a lawsuit challenging the bill, which is inevitable, will result in most, or not all, of it being thrown out as unconstitutional.
"In the states where these laws have been challenged, the courts have been finding the unconstitutional, or at least saying that the law should not be allowed to take effect," she said.
Supporters of the bill point out that 20 weeks gestation is the limit in most of Europe, and many U.S. states have approved laws limiting abortion to 20 weeks. The U.S. House has also passed a 20 week limit. Supporters say the conviction of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who was performing brutal late term abortions which left at least one woman dead, has been the driving force behind these abortion restrictions.
"Real lives are at stake," Dannenfeiser said. "Washington, as well as the abortion lobby, must not be allowed to ignore the women and babies suffering barbaric late term abortions nationwide."
The Texas law will take effect in three months, to give abortion clinics the opportunity to meet the standards of the new law.
Pro choice groups say it will force 38 of the 43 abortion clinics currently in operation in Texas to close their doors. Pro life groups counter that the laws are 'common sense regulations,' and if the abortion clinics close, that will because they have made the business decision not to pay the extra money to upgrade their facilities and it is the clinic's decision to close.


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The Kill Society (commonly abbreviated as "TKS") is an American band based in Detroit, Michigan. Their style of music ranges from hard rock, to industrial rock, to metal. Throughout the years, TKS has undergone many changes in their lineup. The original lineup (when the band was formed in 2006) consisted of founding member, Tony "7Ven" Koenig on drums, co-founder Brandon Scott on lead vocals, Brendon "Gore" Trembath on guitar, and Spencer Dant on bass guitar. Since then, there have been over 10 musicians (mostly small name musicians) that have been welcomed into the band. However, the only remaining original member is 7Ven K. There are now 4 established members (including Koenig), however, the band is searching for a permanent lead guitarist at this time.
TKS is currently signed to Rain Sector records for their latest album "Falling Away" (not to be confused with their song with the same name).
The former lineup of TKS can often be seen on their drummer's hit MTV series "Smashed", or in "Smashed: The Movie" and it's sequel "MTV's Book of Epic Failures".


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Gameplay trailer released for Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: Scarif
Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: Scarif received a new trailer today. The video runs a little over a minute long and features ground- and space-based combat, as rebels fend off an invasion force. The add-on will feature battles inspired by the upcoming film, along with two new playable heroes: Jyn Erso and Orson Krennic. Four new maps are also being added that will introduce the jungles and beaches of Scarif. Along with the maps, a new multi-stage game mode is being debuted that mixes space and ground combat.
Star Wars Battlefront getting Rogue One: Scarif, X-Wing VR on Dec. 6
Star Wars Battlefront will be receiving its final download pack, Rogue One: Scarif, on December 6. The drop will add four maps set in a new location—the Beaches of Scarif—a multi-stage mode that mixes space- and ground-based combat, and two new playable heroes, Jyn Erso and Orson Krennic. Launching alongside the add-on is the free PSVR-exclusive mode Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission.
E3 2016 – Electronic Arts: Battlefield, Mass Effect, Star Wars, Titanfall
Electronic Arts held their pre-E3 E3 showcase earlier today. Below are several highlighted titles, including Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2, with new trailers and screenshots. A Star Wars overview video also provides a quick look at several unnamed projects. For those wanting to check out the entire presentation, the studio has put up a stream of the event in its entirety, which clocks in at over four hours long.
GOG kicks off its 2016 Summer Sale with events, free games, more
GOG.com has officially begun its 2016 Summer Sale. Slated to run for two weeks, the promo will feature over 1,000 deals along with activities and an XP system that awards points for use towards free games. New deals will be added every 24 hours. To kick things off, the service is giving away a free copy of System Shock 2 through their GOG Galaxy client for the first 48 hours. The recently updated Homeworld Remastered Collection is also on sale for 50% off. For those wanting to see some of the games in action, GOG staff will be streaming Stardew Valley and Grim Fandango Remastered tomorrow on their Twitch channel. As a bonus, anyone who tunes in will receive an XP boost.
Minecraft: Console Edition gets Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack
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PlayStation 4 getting price drop to $349.99 on Oct. 9, bundles detailed
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Star Wars Battlefront to launch for console, PC on November 17
Electronic Arts has released a new trailer announcing that Dice's Star Wars Battlefront will be released on November 17. The game will feature solo, co-op (couch and online), and 40-player versus missions across Endor, Hoth, Sallust, and Tatooine. Players will be able to play as characters from the original trilogy, including Boba Fett and Darth Vader, as well as pilot speeder bikes, snow speeders, AT-ATs, Tie fighters, and the Millennium Falcon. The video runs a little over two minutes long and features a forest battle powered by the game's engine, showcasing a handful of the different abilities, vehicles, and races.
GOG.com adds Rogue Squadron 3D, Rebellion, and Empire at War
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GOG.com adds Tie Fighter, X-Wing, Monkey Island, and more
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Zen Pinball 2 launching for PS4 on Dec.17 with free, paid DLC tables
Zen Studios is expanding their pinball empire later this month with the release of Zen Pinball 2 for PS4. The upcoming version is scheduled to launch on December 17, and as before, the game will be a free download and serve as a platform for downloading tables as DLC. There will be 20 tables at launch, and each will be available individually or as part of eight different sets (Star Wars Pinball, Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force, Marvel Pinball, Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles, Plants vs. Zombies Pinball, Epic Quest, Paranormal, and Earth Defense).


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About the Book
Art today reflects life. And life hurdles, sharp edged, at ever increasing speed into the 21st century. Just to survive, to keep even, to stay afloat - the mind revs in panic. Neurons firing at an ever increasing rate, vision focused and sharp, details magnified, overwhelming - and somewhere the soul cries No.
This series of 44 pinhole photographs provides a short, intimate look back – an unfocused, romantic interlude to refresh the soul before life starts again.
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Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
54 Pages
- Publish Date Jan 27, 2008
- Tags fine-art photography, figure study, black and white photography, b/w, nudes, nude, pinhole, sensual, romantic, form, motion
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