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The 16-track album includes unheard material from Mano Le Tough, John Talabot and Red Axes.
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The German label's fifth roundup, which includes material from Woolfy and Lake People, is out in April.
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The California Balearic band will continue to trace the movements of Captain Starlight on its next LP, out in August.
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The Spanish DJ has scheduled a couple weeks' worth of gigs on this side of the pond, starting tonight in Guatemala City.
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Seekae, Chet Faker and Flight Facilities appear on the Sydney imprint's 16-track retrospective.
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The two-disc set also has tracks from Secret Circuit, Recondite and Heatsick.
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Lovefingers, Heidi Lawden and Dirty Dave will join the California producers at the historic venue.
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The Basque producer's second studio album will hit the shelves via Fiakun next month.
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We'd like to introduce Los Angeles producer Woolfy. Making his AYLI debut has been a long-time coming and for the HUGE Sunset Sound System, AYLI and Public Works Indian Summer Block Party couldn't be a better time. Marking the 25th installment of the AYLI podcast couldn't have come from a more perfect artist. Included below is an interview by AYLI close friend and No Way Back cohort Conor of Woolfy.
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San Francisco-based digital download site Stompy.com are offering eleven free downloads from acts playing at the WMC, including cuts from Beat Pharmacy, Blaze and Woolfy.


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Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer
With Batman: The Dark Knight Rises still a year away, it's going to be a while before we get a real look at the movie. But an official trailer was released, and you know you want to see it.
I know it's just a sneak peek, but I'm seriously at Nerd-gasm levels here. The first 2 movies were awesome, this one better be too. You can think there is another superhero better than Batman, but you're wrong.
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Donations to IDF Troops Overflowing - but Units Forbidden From Making Requests
One infantry unit has asked for contributions on its Facebook page. In any case, there's plenty of donated candy and other stuff to go around.
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About Pre-Built Segments
After you've created a list and sent a few campaigns in MailChimp, it won't be long before you've got lots of cool data to work with. Segments are a great way to use that data to send targeted campaigns to subscribers who have something in common.
If you're new to segments, or want a shortcut to targeted sending, MailChimp offers a selection of pre-built segments based on campaign activity, purchase history, and other valuable information.
In this article, you'll learn about pre-built segments and how to use them.
Before we go into more detail, let's go over some terms we use when we talk about pre-built segments.
Someone who opts in to receive emails from you.
A section of your list that includes subscribers with common field information.
Pre-built segment
An automatically generated segment based on list information or subscriber activity. Pre-built segments can only be found on the Recipients step of the Campaign Builder.
Campaign Builder
The part of MailChimp you'll use to create, design, and send an email campaign. The Campaign Builder walks you through the different steps to choose recipients, set up campaign information, choose a template, add content, and send or schedule delivery.
Ad Builder
The part of MailChimp you'll use to create a social media ad campaign. The Ad Builder walks you through the different steps to choose an audience, add content, and schedule your ad to appear on Facebook, Instagram, or both.
Predicted Demographics
A MailChimp Pro feature that is also available to paid users with e-commerce 3.0 data in their account. This feature uses data science to predict the gender and age of your subscribers. To learn more, check out About Predicted Demographics.
How Pre-Built Segments Work
When a subscriber's traits or behaviors match certain conditions, like how much time has passed since they last opened one of your campaigns, we automatically add them to a pre-built segment of similar subscribers.
For example, if you have a subscriber who's opened at least one of your recent campaigns, we'll place them in Active Subscribers. Meanwhile, someone who hasn't opened any of your last five campaigns will end up in Inactive Subscribers. Pretty neat, right?
If none of our pre-built segments work for you, use them as inspiration to build your own custom segments. To illustrate, let's consider that Inactive Subscribers segment. If five missed campaigns in a row doesn't match your standard of inactivity, you might want to create a new segment defined by a higher or lower number of unopened campaigns.
Where to Find Pre-Built Segments
Pre-built segments are located on the Recipients step of the Campaign Builder, and the Audience step of the Ad Builder. To use one, select a list and choose Saved or pre-built segment.
Your saved segments will appear at the top, while pre-built segments are grouped below by category.
Types of Pre-Built Segments
Pre-built segments fall into three categories:
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Subscriber Engagement segments are available to all MailChimp users. These segments are based on the date subscribers join your list, as well as how they interact (or don't interact) with your campaigns.
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Customer Behavior segments require that you have API 3.0 e-commerce data in your account. This data can come from MailChimp for Shopify, MailChimp for Magento, MailChimp for BigCommerce, and custom API 3.0 integrations.
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Demographics segments are available with MailChimp Pro, and to paid users who connect their store, and are based on data from Predicted Demographics.
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|Subscribers who we infer are under the age of 35.
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|Subscribers who we infer are age 35 or older.
What You Can Do with Pre-Built Segments
We designed our pre-built segments to help you quickly find the right recipients for your email campaigns, automations, and ads. For example, you might want to use the pre-built segment New Subscribers to send a friendly welcome series to subscribers recently added to your list.
Here are some other ways you might use pre-built segments.
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- Target subscribers Under the age of 35 with a promotional campaign for a specific product.
- Create an Instagram or Facebook ad for a pre-built segment of inactive subscribers.


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LEWISTON – Aided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway.
According to reports, the suspect struck a car driven by a Youngstown man around 5:30 a.m., then drove away from the scene. A witness to the accident followed the fleeing driver, and sheriff's deputies were able to stop her car on Blairville Road a short time later. Carole R. Rossi displayed signs of intoxication and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.
Rossi reportedly told police she had been drinking prior to driving. She was charged with driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, reckless driving, speeding and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.


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The film is now scheduled to release on Diwali day –November 2
All in All Azhaguraja is a full length family entertainer with loads of fun. The film has Karthi, Santhanam and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead with music by Thaman.
According to Studio Green, AAA will release big in Tamil Nadu on Diwali day (Nov 2) in nearly 300 screens.


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Mitt a safe bet for N.H. Hill GOP
For all the differences between the New Hampshire primary and the Iowa caucuses, one stands out: Two of New Hampshire's Capitol Hill Republicans didn't hesitate to endorse Mitt Romney.
No one in Iowa's Hill delegation endorsed anyone.
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The New Hampshire lawmakers' willingness to weigh in reflects a simple reality: Mitt Romney is a virtual lock to win there, presenting Republicans looking to protect their own political interests with a safe, easy choice.
But it goes further than that. Win or lose, backing Romney won't come back to haunt them. There were no such safe choices in Iowa, and plenty of strong incentives not to endorse.
Two of the three Republicans in New Hampshire's delegation, Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Rep. Charlie Bass, are backing Romney. A third, freshman Rep. Frank Guinta, has said he is still weighing his options and could endorse in the final days before the primary.
It's a stark contrast from Iowa, where, after months of pleading and lobbying from White House hopefuls, ultimately not one of the state's three delegation members endorsed for fear of alienating the voters who were deeply split among those in the field. In the final caucus tally, none of the top three finishers won more than 25 percent.
"If there was one candidate who had long ago emerged as a strong frontrunner in Iowa, it would have been easier for someone in the congressional delegation to support them. People were trading places for months," said Jamie Burnett, a New Hampshire-based GOP consultant who served as Romney's political director in the state four years ago. "The fact that Romney has been so consistently strong for so long in New Hampshire diminishes the risk for getting behind one candidate over another."
The stakes are particularly high for Bass, one of the most vulnerable House Republicans in the country who faces a rematch against Democrat Ann McLane Kuster, a liberal favorite who nearly defeated the Republican in their 2010 contest, in a district that favors Democrats. But thanks to Romney's commanding lead in the state, Bass has little to lose by getting behind him.
"New Hampshire is a graveyard for front-runners. There are no safe front-runners. But Romney's strength here has a lot to do with top endorsers to gravitate to Mitt," said Rich Killion, a GOP consultant in New Hamsphire who advised Tim Pawlenty in his short-lived bid. "Being such a strong front-runner is of comfort to them."
Iowa's two Republican congressmen, on the other hand, had a lot to lose when it came to endorsing a candidate. GOP Reps. Tom Latham and Steve King are both facing reelection bids against strong Democratic opponents in newly redrawn districts where they must acquaint themselves with a wide swath of new voters. For both, backing a candidate in a divided field would have risked alienating part of the GOP base that they will need to have united behind them in November.
"Congressman Latham has always had a policy of never endorsing in Republican primaries," said James Carstensen, Latham's longtime chief of staff and top political strategist. "When anyone asks Tom why he doesn't endorse, he is quick to tell them that there are neighbors in Iowa who remember who was a Ford supporter and who was a Reagan supporter from back in 1976 and they still hold a grudge."


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So almost no one can actually recieve it and none of them would want to watch it anyway. What a wonderful use of £3.5m.
Next time give it to me and I'll set it on fire.
Freeview HD got a new channel this morning, which will be filled with events from the Cultural Olympiad as well as the occasional Hitchcock film and the usual arts nonsense. The Space sits on channel 117, which puts it into the IP-streamed channels only available to kit conforming to the letter and spirit of the Freeview HD …
So almost no one can actually recieve it and none of them would want to watch it anyway. What a wonderful use of £3.5m.
Next time give it to me and I'll set it on fire.
Still - surely this must mean that the recession is over and everything is rose-tinted again on make-believe street.
Are you Bill Drummond or Jimmy Cauty? Jimmy is more likely as Drummond is on the record regretting saying he regrets the action.
"Next time give it to me and I'll set it on fire"
Oh, so you're one of those modern artists? ;-)
My 13 month old Sony Bravia cannot get this channel or Netflix app. I'm not sure I would want to watch either of them but it would be nice to have the option without being dumped by Sony.
"an animation showing someone switching a light on (and then off again) for a minute and a half"
Will there also be those 1970's East European monochrome art-house cartoons of people being followed by buildings? I still get nightmares about those.
The icon? Well I intend to be Titus Anewt until the Five-ring circus leaves town.
Well, judging by recent experience, ANYTHING has to be better than "The Triplets of Belleville".
I honestly think I'd rather watch the light going on and off.
Ahh you are thinking about things like this
You have no soul.
At least it seems to work on my PC, though the playback controls are lacking on FF and whatever Webm plugin it's using - tip: pause is on the left click context menu.
Now they just need to get something on there I can be bothered watching.
You've got playback controls? I've got a big black rectangle of nothing.
Just as well as its not playing cos, I'd have stopped it. To my mind Shakespear(e) rendered in "SeSotho, Setswana, Afrikaans & South African English " doth not a cultural olympiad make, forsooth.
That of course should be 'right click menu'. Can't tell left from right.
It's getting pretty weird now, either they're still updating the site or different vids have different setup. I'm actually seeing controls in windowed mode - but cant click them because the screen layouts borked. In fullscreen the 'show controls' just started working and I have a draggable timeline. Still no option to leave fullscreen though (hitting back a couple of times works).
I think I'll just save the videos and play them in something more competent. Pity the resolution is so low.
you lucky lucky lucky bastard - the original is worth beelions.
Wonder why they didn't just throw it in with the BBC Red Button stuff or just put the content in iPlayer and be done with it. Would have reached more people, possibly cost less. .
or is it up the wall.
Either way it's alot of money that could have been put to better use.
So in keeping with the rest of the Olympic spending then?
The whole sorry channel^H^H^H^H^H^H "installation" is scandalously overlooked by the Turner Prize committee.
Details at 10, pretension turned up to 11.
Hmmm... my DigitalStream HD device can receive these weird IP channels and it's connected to my router too. That said, even if it was on channel no. 1 I couldn't care less.
Unlike the BBC it's even on the Internet as Webm, what more can you expect?
Listen to you all, whining on about that the content isn't interesting to you, has no one actually had a think as to why this has been done like this?
Riddle me this, given you've a new unproven technology which not many people can receive, what would you put on it to test? Britain's Got Voice? So you can get howls of disappointment from the likes who are commenting here that no one can access it, or something a little more obscure?
Hold on! China Whotsit, Sports Tonight are already doing this, so t'article says. So what's your case that we need a third test channel of boring unpopular tripe? I'd have thought two channels of tripe were two more than necessary - back in the day we used to just have the test card, and that worked a treat, without costing £3.5m of our taxes.
> given you've a new unproven technology which not many people can receive, what would you
> put on it to test? Britain's Got Voice?
You can beam Britain's Got No Talent (and all the rest of the 'reality' shite) straight into space for all I care. Gathering it all together on a no-bit-rate streaming channel would be a good idea.
something else!
Including Globe performances of Shakespeare and restored versions of early Hitchcock films.
No doubt El Reg would've been better pleased with endless animated loops of some unfunny, badly-drawn 'graphich novel' that only shut-in geeks have ever heard of.
The tossers !
I admit it, I would be curious about the Shakespeare productions, which I suppose are that series of foreign language productions being put on at the Globe. The guy wrote some good stuff, and too much has been messed with by school teachers.
It sounds like he may be responsible for the only good stuff that ever gets shown on that channel.
I have last years Sony Bravia TV (2011 NX723). I can access and watch Vision (110), CCTV (111), Sports Tonight (112), and even Racing, if i wanted it.
But when trying this channel The Space (117) it tells me that I dont have a compatible FreeviewHD device.
Umm, someones cocked up somewhere...
I think I've read somewhere (possibly not far from here) that this IPTVHD magick doesn't work on 2011 Sony product, only on 2012. Like you, I've got 2011.
Yeah, wont be getting Netflix, is what i think your referring to. However, the TV that I bought was only released in Sept last year and I bought it in Oct last year. So far I have not been impressed at the lack of internet updates as well as sony believing that this tv is already out of date.
I also have sonys 500GB PVR box, all IPTV channels work...with a catch, only audio works and no video. making viewing 110-117 impossible.
... with the three channels of snooker on at the moment.
(For those who want to check: BBC2, BBC HD and channel 301)
i think with the readership of El reg 24 hrs of non stop Open University programming from the 1970's would have been more popular. It would have been for ME !
Didnt see that appear this morning!
Yippee.......oh, is that it?
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Today's Essential Read: Dismantling America by Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell succinctly lays out how President Obama and his unelected czars along with history's most left wing congress are dismantling America before our very eyes. Here are a few paragraphs:
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?This is an important piece. Please hit the above link and read the rest of Dr. Sowell's article.
Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.


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Project Eden - PC - Review
The Earth, burgeoning under the strain of increased population, has grown in diameter. The physical size of the surface is the same, but man, to accommodate the vast numbers of people has continued to build upward.
Those who live on the surface are content, beautiful people who have adapted to this new way of life. But miles below, down in the shadowed recesses of the decrepit buildings that serve as the foundation for the upper world, life is very much different. Mutated forms, maniacal felons, the very dregs of society ensconced in a madness born of life in the darkness thrives and waits for its day of vengeance.
Project Eden, from Eidos Interactive for the PC, is an unusual mixture of puzzles, mindless shooting and mystery. Mindless shooting? Yep, this is not strategic battle, such as that presented in Half-Life or Unreal – though some of the monsters on the lower levels of this game could have existed in either of those games. The battle portions are often showdowns, where you simply fire until the opposing force falls. If your character is killed, no problem, you take over another team member, then after the battle find a regeneration point and have the dead party member rejoin the group.
Ok, let's backtrack just a bit. While this game is primarily a single-player game, gamers will have to take control of a party of four, each a specialized member of the Urban Protection Agency – the police force. There has been trouble at the Real Meat Factory with machines acting up. (The name of the factory immediately draws up flashbacks to the Charlton Heston film, "Soylent Green" and any moment you expect someone to yell "it's people!") The maintenance crew sent to find and fix the problem has disappeared. It's up to Carter, the team leader, Amber, Andre and Minoko to find out what happened. As they enter the Real Meat Factory, a bridge that would have provided easy access to the levels below, blows up. The team must split into two groups, figure out how to gain egress to the lower levels, reunite, explore and uncover the sinister plot and eradicate the menace.
Each level gets progressively harder as you move downward, not only in terms of action, but with the puzzles. Therein lies the key to the time it will take to complete this game. There are 11 levels in all, and the game boards for each level seem huge.
The control elements are fairly straightforward. This game can be reconfigured for a joystick, but the mouse-keyboard combination works very nicely. Some hot keys are stock to games in this genre, and those that may be a bit different, don't take long to figure out.
Visually, this game is quite nice. The environmental graphics are very well done, as are the special effects. The torch (a.k.a. flashlight) is one of the first effects you will run into, and it is rendered very realistically. The sound of the game is also well done. Some of the effects are rather stock, but the sound track pulsates. The voice acting could have been better. It sometimes seems a little too understated.
While Project Eden does supply its share of shooter action, the game fits into the genre of action/adventure. As a shooter it is lacking, as an adventure it has intrigue and numerous challenges.
This game does support multiplayer gaming, but it is more or less limited to the deathmatch scenario common to a lot of games who merely want to advertise multiplayer capabilities without providing real substance and sustained gameplay.
This program is rated Teen for blood, gore and violence
Install: Easy
This program can take up to 600 megs of hard-drive space, but goes on quickly.
Gameplay: 7.5
You will have to check the version of the game you have, and if less than v1.01, then you need to patch the game in order to correct a minor save bug. Aside from that, this game has a relatively nice flow to it. Yes, there are a lot of puzzles that need to be worked through, and that can take time. But you had better be on your toes when you start moving down through the levels.
Graphics: 8
The environments are well rendered, and the action sequences are a lot of fun.
Sound: 7.5
The musical score is quite nice, and the game has an array of effects that will have a surround system rumbling. The vocal characterizations could have been better.
Difficulty: 8.5
This game is a solid mental exercise. The fact that dying doesn't have much of an impact of your game (because of the regeneration of the deceased), allows gamers to continue in the game without having to regroup, rethink or restart. If there is a drawback, it lies in the fact that the game is very linear in design. Figure it out once, and replay value is out the window.
The storyline isn't a brain-tickler, but the adventure elements do a very nice job of supporting the concept, and moving the game along.
Multiplayer: 7
This game is supported by the GameSpy network, but the program – in its mission mode – is really a one-person game while the multiplayer options also include the typical deathmatch scenario.
Overall: 7.8
This game could have used better (or any) squad-based tactics, but the actual adventure of the game is not diminished because of this aspect. The game sports well-done graphics and sound, and will appeal to fans that want to exercise their minds within the confines of the action/adventure format.


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Alameda County homeowners and landlords have until April 10 to pay the second installment of their 2012-12 property taxes, originally due Feb. 1, or face a 10 percent penalty. But this year they can pay using their iPhone or iPad, in addition to the county's website.
The mobile ACPropertyApp released by the Alameda County Assessor and Treasurer-Tax Collector gives users access to assessment information, property tax details, parcel maps, and views of properties through Google Street View. Users can search for any property in Alameda County, by parcel number or address. They can also see properties on a map, contact county staff, save a list of properties and check later to see changes.
The same 2.5 percent convenience fee apply whether you use the app, pay online or by phone.
The mobile property app is available on iTunes and the website www.acgov.org/treasurer.


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Museums have been encouraged to work in partnership lately. So the news that 70s US rockers Cheap Trick have decided to open a museum/restaurant combo in Chicago is the way forward for these institutions. Inspired by this I went into the attic to find my cardboard box of vinyl rock and I believe I have come up with the future for bands that no longer attract the younger listener and therefore...
Romney dog: "It was MY choice!"
Seamus, the Romney family dog called a press conference late yesterday. At first, the media thought it was a joke of some kind and crowded the press room at the Romney campaign headquarters. They were "shocked and surprised" as one journalist put it...
Liverpool Robbed
WEMBLEY - As if losing the FA Cup final in controversial circumstances, when an Andy Carroll header appeared to have crossed the line, but was not given, the Liverpool team returned to their dressing room in disconsolate mood, only to learn that they...
Chelsea Bid for Power Station as Defensive Crisis Mounts
Chelsea have lodged a "substantial" bid for the defunct Battersea power station as injuries and suspensions continue to decimate the heart of their defence. Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck revealed that the situation was increasingly becoming unsolvab...
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A Dental Surgery on Pulp Street in Dorking closed its doors for the final time today, as Dorking Dentist John Douglas finally decided to call it a day, and hang up his drill. Douglas blamed a chronic lack of patients for the closure, as he admitte...
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Following the release to the public of the contents of documents written by Osama Bin Laden recently, from a stash of stored documentation confiscated in the May 2nd 2011 raid on his Abbotabad compound, during which he was killed, a second round of documents have been drip fed to the press. The first set of documents - mainly political - were predictably urging dissidents to target President Ob...
Kim Kardashian States In No Uncertain Terms That Kris Humphries Is Not Getting Their $325,000 Ferrari Wedding Gift
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How to Make an Atomic Bomb
In the past, building an atomic bomb was something only attempted by terribly clever, brainy chaps who were good at doing really hard sums, and crossword puzzles in The Times. Now however, it's possible to build your own atomic bomb without any training, and at relatively low cost. There really is no better way to pass a dreary bank-holiday weekend than by producing and detonating your very own...
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Following in the vocal patterns of Shaquille O'Neal and Carlos Arroyo, Rajon Rondo has announced to the world (via Global Grind.com) that he can sing in the rain. Not your usual bebop/hiphop artiste, Rondo insists that his métier is R&B, and h...
Turkey Farm constructs a new fence
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Zooty Is Dead!
Long Live Zooty!
See the history of the illustrious Zooty The First, which has now passed on to the land of spare parts from which it may someday return with an older, slower motherboard.
See the New Zooty which has risen from the ashes to take over the burden of quiet (even if no longer totally silent) computing.
But wait! Yet another incarnation of zooty has replaced new zooty now, this is the Haswell Zooy with a new Z87 chipset and Haswell CPU.


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Learning Journey Celebration Conference – Sheffield
Today we are at St Mary's Church and Conference Centre, Sheffield, for the closing event of a project in Sheffield, looking at the impact of using web 2.0 tools with primary children.
Ten schools involved and this was a 'celebration conference' to share findings and kickstart further projects.
Our role was to inspire even further use of web 2.0 as a speaker but, even more importantly, work with the colleagues here to reflect on the outcomes of their projects.
A case study of the project is in hand too. Some of the tools used included Primary Pad, Wallwisher and Twitter.
Folks today recorded their thoughts in many different ways throughout the event. A Wallwisher, a PrimaryPad, and Tweeting through the hashtag #slj2010
Concord Junior, Southey Green Community Primary (with Owler Brook), Valley Park Primary, Firs Hill Community Primary , Abbey Lane Primary, Stradbroke Primary, Totley Primary, St. Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary, St. Wilfrid's Catholic Primary, Springfield Primary Schools .
Now THIS was what it's all about. Real, practical, inventive, balanced, effective teaching and learning, presented by real practitioners who are "up for a challenge" and open to new ideas that can have a positive impact in their classrooms. We were also joined by two Year Six pupils, who added a valuable perspective to the event, and kept us all firmly focused on the true purpose of creative teaching: to inspire, motivate and engage all of charges in a way that enables powerful progression.
A true delight to watch colleagues, from across Sheffield, present their experiences of the project, in a style that made all of us feel we too could try out their approaches. It felt like a Teachmeet, in many ways: informal, pacey, interactive, recorded and commented upon with many layers of technology, packed with ideas and… a good laugh! Thank you all.
Gail Hudson from Springfield Primary School talked about her project Skyping a Viking! 🙂 She said that one of the main stumbling block was that Skype was blocked by the authority filters! She set about sorting that out. She also talked of her use of Google docs, so that they could add to their work at home as well. That idea extended in to the concept of the children making their own websites, using Google Sites. This had a particularly big impact on the boys in the class, who even chose to use it in their "choosing time"!
You can see some of the results in these images below:
Nicola Sewell from Southey Green Community Primary presented the writing project her Y5 pupils had been engaged in using 'Story Bird'. One of the things that hit many people at the conference was the improvements in motivation. Nicola was open about the fact that the project had less of an impact on her Gifted and Talented children, but it did inspire others in her class to not only write more, but write "better" when they respnded to comments posted on their Storybirds.
Next up were two Year 6 pupils from Valley Park Primary, and their teacher Mark Allison presenting their project using Toondoo.
They explained how ToonDoo is comic-creating tool site, easy to use and fun. It is devoted to creating a unique array of free and customisable online games of educational value for children of all abilities. The girls gave a live demonstration on how to use the site and then presented their thoughts and ideas on how they used it and what could be done to improve it further.
Nicola Sherwood and GavinChadwick from Concord Junior School. shared their expanding project using StudyWiz.
Their focus was boys writing but interestingly they found that project impacted in areas they had not necessarily focused on, with one pupil expressing her development in maths being an outcome.
Cat Taylor, from Firshill Community Primary School, talked about the way her class of 30 children had used Voicethread in a project on Dreatime stories.
The approach Cat took with her class and their use of Voicethread, was to use this tool as a means to collect, share, comment on and rehearse their ideas in preparation for their story writing, as opposed to using it as an end result to present their work – brilliant!
@primarypete_ s use of Voicethread, talked about at Teachmeet Blackpool, also received a great response. Nice one Pete.
myschoolnetwork.org was mentioned as a pool of resources.
A few comments in the initial feedback include:
"The children have thoroughly enjoyed creating their own Toondoos. They have been excited by the whole process, from viewing our initial model Toondoo, to creating their own Traitors on the website, adding backgrounds and dialogue, putting the pages together and then viewing and commenting on one another's cartoons. It has certainly had real motivational benefits. They have also enjoyed the fact that they have then been able to show their Toondoos to somebody at home and to continue working on them there"
"The project has allowed me to reflect on my ability to plan and deliver a project that runs alongside other teaching and learning schemes. It has shown me the importance of good organisation and communication skills. The project has allowed me to focus in on the specific need of individual children in my class and year group especially those who are gifted and talented. It has also allowed me to integrate ICT into the classroom more and into everyday teaching".
ICT can be very engaging and motivating. Children are eager to access their storybird account and add extra pages. They are wanting to show their learning at school and at home. Children are enjoying writing.
One of the things that has become apparent in the use of web based technologies in teaching and learning is that as soon as you remove children from a text book and onto a computer for them it ceases to be learning and something that is exciting. When I originally set some homework to complete a personal project on the Vikings only the most able rushed to take home topic books and get on with it. As soon as I introduced the option of making a web site, everyone wanted to do it. One child who doesn't have access to a computer at home has asked to come to homework club so he can finish it.
The impact on children's learning was clear as they were motivated from the start. They worked well collaboratively to plan and discuss ideas, select vocabulary and ensure that each part of the story flowed. They were motivated to edit their story as they knew it was going to be recorded and heard by other people.
Thank you all for a superb day, full of practical and inspiring ideas.
When recording their podcasts, the children worked with enthusiasm to rehearse and then perform their stories, paying attention to intonation and clarity.
I have been impressed with the way in which the children have responded to using the Web 2.0 application. Using ICT to create comics ensures that children of all abilities are able to produce meaningful texts. It is this particular aspect of ICT that I feel is of greatest benefit to teaching. Children of widely varying abilities are able to engage, produce and share literacy stories using ICT. In contrast, using a pen and blank page approach will create problems for children who find writing a challenge.
The children no longer see writing as a chore but rather as a way to interact with their friends, peers and the wider community.
This post will never be able to reflect the buzz that happened today. But we will try at another time.
Thank you to Emma Asprey and Jim Gardner, of Edicts.
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A really exciting day – thanks for posting a bit of a synopsis of e others projects as I missed them today – hopefully I'll get to see them another time. Some wonderful ideas from you, I wish some others from my school could have come today as I don't think I'll do it all justice reporting back! Off to try making an exciting PowerPoint now…
Had an exciting day. Really good to see what has been happening in schools across the city. Thank you
Thanks so much for your inspirational and practical contribution today. It really added an extra dimension to a day already full of high quality presentations and reflections from the schools. Well done to everyone!
It really was a good day, wish I could have been there longer. The 2 Y6 girls were amazing and so confident!


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Chapter 3: Disassembly, decoding OMF2 & ExpressLoad
by sowhat on Apr.26, 2009, under Programming
Although you probably want to create programs anew, and I'm with you there, knowing how to disassemble code is really important today with such an old system.
Much of the wisdom and the "knowing of things" is lost to time, it's amazing how much gets discarded. The only real record is in the actual code itself, but you have to decode and decipher to regain that lost wisdom. Even with the most complete documentation library, many things are not still clear and having a good old working example goes miles to filling in those little what the hey's.
Disassembly is the practice of decoding binary file images and producing a sourcefile. You could do this by hand, reading byte for byte and looking up the meaning of the byte as interpreted at the particular location in the code and translating that to the proper assembly syntax, and of course that would take "deep time" as the cosmologists would say.
A quicker way is to use a disassembler.
These come in all flavors, from the mundane to the sublime. I think I used to have a beta of the ORCA disassembler but that's long gone, all I have left is the DISASM.data listing from it. I looked around the Internet and the only thing I could find was a Windows based disassembler for the 65816 called D816.
Now, D816 don't know anything about Apple firmware, software and the like. It's a generic 65816 disassembler knowing only the microprocessor opcodes and modes but we're getting ahead of ourselves a bit here.
Let's backup a notch and deal with the file some more.
The file you want to disassemble will be a ProDOS 8 binary file or relocatable OMF type. Determining which is which will be vital to successful disassembly.
A ProDOS8 binary is filetype BIN($06) but relocatables can be of several filetypes:
GS/OS or ProDOS 16 application S16($B3)
Shell application EXE($B5)
Permanent initialization PIF($B6)
Temporary initialization TIF($B7)
New desk accessory NDA($B8)
Classic desk accessory CDA($B9)
Tool set files TOL($BA)
Apple IIgs device drivers DVR($BB)
Generic loadfile LDF($BC)
GS/OS file system translator FST($BD)
If you want to disassemble a ProDOS8 BIN($06) file then you can go straight to the disassembler, but if you want to do a relocatable filetype (most likely) you need to do some pre decoding, or de-OMFing.
Oh yeah, OMF stands for Object Module Format which is basically how relocatable code it's still done today, only the specifics have changed, the principle remains the same. All computer code must run at a specific location, it's ORG. In short, code needs to be relocatable when a robot such as the Toolboxes Memory Manager is in control. It relentlessly works to dole out and keep track of blocks of memory in the IIgs usually at the next most convenient location. It also compacts memory (move things around to create larger available spaces).
Because it chooses where a program will be initially loaded, the code needs to be installed at and re-written for that location.
Because it moves blocks of code around, the code in them has to be re-written to operate correctly at their new location.
That's why a relocation scheme is necessary, in the case of the AppleIIgs that's OMF2.
Many of these filetypes can be stripped of OMF segmentation by using the MAKEBIN utility in APW as long as you change the filetype to EXE($B5). If they are multi-segment or ExpressLoad type however, this trick will not work and MAKEBIN will let you know. One thing about MAKEBIN is that it will ORG the code at $2000 instead of the normal disassembler ORG of $0. Remember this difference for later on.
In tough cases what you need to do is a little hex editing of the file to remove and expand the necessary parts of the code. Many applications use just a few segment types while a few can use the entire list. You need to learn how to read OMF, it's not that bad but you will need a reference with the OMF segments and headers described. I know this documentation exists in the GS/OS Reference Manual and the APW Reference Manual. It may also appear elsewhere.
Figure#3.1 shows two HexEdit windows where the left one contains a straight OMF2 file and the right one contains an ExpressLoad OMF type of file. The most noticeable difference is that the ExpressLoad header is bigger… it even has the word ExpressLoad in it's header. De-OMFing either is done the same, it's just that the header is different, the segment codes however are exactly the same.
I have highlighted the headers in blue for clarity this is Photoshop magic, although HexEdit can do this, it looks better when dolled up in Photoshop for web publication.
We'll do the easier of the two by doing the OMF2 file on the left, CB.PRELAUNCH. After loading this file into HexEdit I open up a TextEdit window and make some zeroes… several lines of 32 zeroes each this corresponds to each line having 16 bytes ($10). These will be used for type $F1 (DS) segments. See Figure#3.2.
Now that I am setup for decoding OMF lets take a look at exactly what we are up against. Figure#3.3 shows CB.PRELAUNCH with all important regions color coded. Blue is the header and trailing zeroes, Green is LCONST segment headers, Orange is DS segment headers, Purple is the relocation dictionary and yellow is static code bytes (what we are after here). I picked this file because it is simple and also because it will fit on one screen, most programs are a bit bigger than this one.
The key skill involved with this in my opinion is "pattern recognition", much like as is dramatized in the movie "A Beautiful Mind". Just remember to never interact with those imaginary people!
The first 64($40) bytes are the header, it has a lot of 00 and 20′s (spaces) all that information means something but for our purposes only one bit is of interest. 8 bytes in there is the pattern "7C 02 00 00″. This is the finished length of the file contained, make a note of this. If you are new to the IIgs, numbers are stored in memory in reverse order what is really being represented is a 4 byte value (long) "00 00 02 7C" or just plain "27C" ignoring the leading zeroes. That's a number represented in hexidecimal and after a quick tap on the calculator the file will be 636 decimal bytes long. You could of course do this conversion in your head if you were painfully smart. Personaly, I need my calculator set to programmer.
After the header there is another pattern "F2 A2 01 00 00″… a five byte pattern. This is an LCONST($F2) segment header. Once again make note of the last four bytes, they are the length of bytes to follow that contain static program code. Here we go… Select the first 69($45) bytes which is the header and this segment header and delete them!
Now, index in $1A2 bytes and you will find another pattern: "F1 9A 00 00 00″ immediately followed by another pattern "F2 40 00 00 00″. This is a DS segment header followed by another LCONST segment header. The DS header says to insert $9A(154) zeroes at that point in the code. Go to the TextEdit window with the zeroes and highlight $9A of them, hit
copy and then highlight both of these headers in HexEdit (10 bytes) and hit paste. See Figure#3.4 and Figure#3.5.
Now we're nearly there, see… I told you it would not be real hard. The last thing to do because we are all out of construction segments is to highlight and remove the relocation dictionary and trailing spaces Figure#3.6. On most code, that's all there is to it except for their being more DS followed by LCONST headers in the code, do them one by one in sequence and you will not have any problems.
INTERSEG headers can appear when the program is broken down into multiple load segments where each segment has it's own relocation dictionary, you will come across INTERSEG headers and special relocation headers which have to be dealt with differently. Read up about these segments and it will all become clear. Now you have a properly constructed binary image of the file ORGed at $0… perfect! Save this away to disk as CBPRE.BIN and get ready to stick it in the disassembler.
The next chapter will be a continuation of this chapter but it will actually deal with authentic disassembly, the meat and potatoes of the process, until then try this out a bit and get a feel for relocatable architecture.
As a side note here, if you have the ORCA disassembler then you really don't need to do any of this stuff because ORCA knows how to read OMF along with a bunch of other stuff and does all this cutting and pasting for you automatically. I just though it would be good background on what's really happening when you load a relocatable file by telling you this at the end of this section rather than before where you might tend to skip over this vital information.
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Feb 10 (Reuters) - ITE Group Plc, a trade exhibition and conference organiser, said it teamed up with trade fair organiser Messe Frankfurt to buy Moscow-based trade events for vehicles - Comtrans and Autotrans.
The 50:50 joint venture will be named ITEMF Expo AO, ITE said in a statement on its website on Monday. (bit.ly/1DzX1mi)
"It has been said that ITE tends to exit Russian crises in a stronger commercial position... We are certainly intrigued that ITE is acquiring assets in Russia at this time and welcome the sense-check that sees the company investing for the post-crisis period," Peel Hunt analyst Malcolm Morgan said in a note.
Morgan believes ITE will pay about 4 million pounds ($6 million) for its 50 percent stake.
Chief Executive Russell Taylor told Reuters in October that there would be less incentive to develop the business further within Russia.
ITE, which received about 59 percent of its revenue from Russia in 2014, said in January that trading conditions in Russia had deteriorated over November and December, hurting its international and domestic exhibitors.
Shares in the company were marginally up at 149.25 pence at 0942 GMT on the London Stock Exchange. ($1 = 0.6580 pounds) (Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by Don Sebastian)


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NEW YORK, May 22 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, forced to resign from Congress because of Twitter, entered the New York mayor's race Wednesday via YouTube.
Weiner's video, posted shortly after midnight, asked New Yorkers "to give him a second chance to work for you." While it ended with a political pitch, much of the video showed Weiner with his wife, Huma Abedin, who worked as an aide for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their son and reminded voters of his roots in Brooklyn as the son of a teacher and a lawyer who got his degree on the GI Bill.
In 2011, Weiner, who represented a New York City district as a Democrat, resigned from Congress in disgrace. He had been caught sending explicit photos to women who followed his Twitter account.
"I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down but I have also learned some tough lessons," he said on YouTube.
Abedin also pushed her husband's candidacy.
"We love this city and no one will work harder to make it better than Anthony," she said.
At least three other candidates are seeking the Democratic nomination, the New York Daily News said. Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the front-runner, has been slipping, the News said, and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Bill Thompson, the city's former controller, are also in the race.
A poll last month put Weiner in second place.


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She's (vocally) hot. He's (vocally) not.
Woman can intentionally modulate their voices to be sexier, (well hello there, Scarlett Johansson) but according to new research, published yesterday in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, dudes don't have the same gift. When ladies were instructed to "speak as if they were trying to impress someone with whom they were romantically interested" — to flirt, as we call it in the wild — they had no problem sexing up their voices to be more appealing to male subjects. Almost uniformly, they got low and husky. Almost uniformly, it worked: women's ability to manipulate their voices to seduce potential mates seems to cut "across cultures and time," says Susan Hughes, Albright College psychology professor and lead author of the study.
When men tried to dial up their vocal charms to impress the ladies, though, things didn't go so well. If anything, dudes' conscious attempts to enhance their vocal sex appeal made them less alluring to female subjects. "It got a bit worse," Hughes says, tactfully. Sorry, gentlemen.
Or maybe not so sorry, because the study suggests that men have other vocal tactics to woo potential mates. While women are better at making their voices sound attractive, guys are better able to make their voices sound "confident" — at least, to female listeners. And according to Hughes, that might fill the same evolutionary niche. When dudes are looking for potential partners, they're placing a lot of emphasis on women's attractiveness. One sign of that attractiveness? A hot voice, which apparently "predicts attractive body and face characteristics." Meanwhile, women looking for love "place an emphasis on a prospective mate's earning potential," and earning potential, the researchers say, relates directly to confidence. Women are sexy if they sound attractive. Men are sexy if they sound rich. (The findings of this study sound like relics from a previous era.)
This newfound knowledge, researchers say, has potential to be useful "in the professional fields of public speaking, acting/entertainment, customer service, and advertisement." Also, vocally seducing people at bars? The Journal of Nonverbal Behavior seems to have left that one out.
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Black olives absorb the flavor of red wine and fennel in this warm appetizer.
- 1 cup unpitted Kalamata olives or other brine-cured black olives
- 1/2 cup dry red wine
- 1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds, coarsely crushed
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Combine olives, wine, fennel seeds, sliced garlic and olive oil in small baking dish. Bake uncovered until olives are heated through, about 20 minutes. Cool slightly. Serve olives warm.
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- Calories143
- Carbohydrates5 g(2%)
- Fat11 g(17%)
- Protein1 g(1%)
- Saturated Fat1 g(7%)
- Sodium443 mg(18%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber2 g(8%)
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The Guardian reports that hackers recently accessed data from approximately 480,000 initial inquiry forms submitted to the U.K.'s Harley Medical Group.
The forms included potential clients' names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and birthdates, along with the plastic surgery procedures they were considering. No clinical or financial information was accessed.
Harley says the attack was aimed at extorting money from the company.
"We acted immediately to deal with this situation," Harley chairman Peter Boddy wrote in the notification letter. "We have informed the police and will continue to provide whatever assistance they may require to track down the perpetrator of this illegal act, and are also informing the Information Commissioner's Office. At the same time our Web site was taken down while a fix was put in place. Further upgrades will be implemented in the near future."
A spokesman from the Information Commissioner's Office told the Guardian, "We have recently been made aware of a possible data breach involving the Harley Medical Group. We will be making inquiries into the circumstances of the alleged breach of the Data Protection Act before deciding what action, if any, needs to be taken."
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Win in '09 over Saints key in Bucs' turnaround
TAMPA – Time will tell if the
Bucs continue to build on early
success. But if they do, you can point to their 20-17 overtime
victory at New Orleans in December as the signature win that began
to turn the franchise around under coach Raheem Morris.
The Saints still needed to win that game to secure homefield
advantage throughout the playoffs, and they exploded to a 17-0 lead
by scoring on their first three possessions.
Bucs' season was circling the drain,
and there was speculation that Morris might not make it to
But the
Bucs defense shut out the Saints in
the second half, and the team rallied behind RB Cadillac Williams
(24 carries, 129 yards, touchdown) and a 77-yard punt return for a
score by WR Micheal Spurlock.
Of course, had the Saints' Garrett Hartley not missed a 37-yard
field goal with 5 seconds remaining, the
Bucs never would have had a chance
to win in overtime.
But the victory sparked Tampa Bay to five wins in its past seven
games, including four straight on the road.
"I think it gives you confidence that when you beat the best
team in football, you can beat anybody," LB Barrett Ruud said. "I
definitely think we got some confidence from that."
When the Saints come marching into Raymond James Stadium today,
they might not resemble the Super Bowl champs. New Orleans has been
victimized by turnovers – nine in their past three games. QB Drew
Brees threw three picks in a surprising loss to the Cardinals last
Part of the problem is a lack of balance on offense. New Orleans
has been hurt by injuries at running back. Reggie Bush and Pierre
Thomas are out, and the Saints have had to turn to Ladell Betts and
Chris Ivory.
Conversely, Gregg Williams' defense has always made a living by
creating turnovers, and this season the Saints have created just
one in five games.
The Saints are a more desperate team. But a win by the
Bucs today would signal to the rest
of the NFL that they are for real.
"When you look at what Raheem and his staff (have) done, there
are a lot of new faces, and yet they're playing with great
intensity; they're playing with a lot of confidence," Saints coach
Sean Payton said. "A lot of times, you can see attitude on film,
and I think you can see it with Tampa Bay. I think the players have
played with a lot of energy, and they've done a very good job with
the early part of their schedule, and as a result, they're
Winning formula: As much as any other team, the
Bucs are living off creating
turnovers. They are second in the NFL with nine interceptions
(Falcons, 10).
How else do you explain a 3-1 start for a team that is last in
sacks with four, is 30th against the run – giving up 143 yards per
game – and can't run the football? And Williams, the starting
tailback, is averaging 2.6 yards.
"If you read anybody's tip sheet or if you read our team
philosophy or really our mission statement to how we approach a
game, it starts with one thing: score or get the ball back," Morris
said. "It's all about getting the ball back for our offense."
Team building: Special teams coach Rich Bisaccia addressed the
Bucs during their team meeting last
week to kick off the second quarter of the season.
He pulled from memories of the successful first quarter of the
season and challenged the club to make more starting today against
the Saints.
And Bisaccia had players take turns telling teammates what they
meant to each other.
"Our team in the team meeting was able to express to some of
those guys how they value each other and how they feel about each
other," Morris said. "We had a little floor exercise. I'll leave
that amongst teammates, but I thought it was pretty special."
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Even though voting in Israel's elections was completed last night, it may be weeks before a new Israeli prime minister emerges at the head of a new government.
Voting in Israel is done on a system of party lists chosen by proportional representation. This year, 33 separate parties stood for election. A coalition government is almost inevitable, but requires a long period of behind the scenes negotiating and bargaining.
In a week, after the official results are formally published, the Israeli president Shimon Peres will meet with the heads of all the parties and ask who they think ought to form the next government. He will then choose one MP who he thinks is most likely to form a majority coalition – not necessarily the leader of the largest party – and will set him or her the task. Whoever is chosen then has 42 days to draw up that coalition.
All of this is laid down in Israel's Basic Law, under an amendment approved in 2001. If two parties emerge with exactly the same number of seats in the 120-seat Knesset then they could rotate the premiership, each party leader holding the job for two years before passing it on to the other.
Only once before, in the mid-1980s, has there been a situation similar to this latest result. At that time Peres, of Labour, won more seats than any other party but could not form a majority government. Instead Peres agreed to take a two-year term as prime minister before passing the job to Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud, for another two years.


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GrahamS the dude on the left is Gadaffi's son raising his fist in victory.
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Lockerbie bomber release.
The guy will be dead before the STW massive have stopped argueing about what tyres for the BBB!
I lost my dad to prostate cancer, and believe me he hasn't got an easy way out.
And do you REALLY believe he did the bombing singlehandly?
No, and I'd like to see those who were involved brought to some kind of justice. That'll never happen now, will it?
Anokdale, send us an email (mail address is in my profile) I come to Tripoli at least once a month for various NOC/Local business
And Al-Meghari/Libya never did it
I wonder if similar treatment would be given to the people who are known to have shot down the Iranian airliner killing 230+? Oh yeah, I forgot, they weren't put on trial let alone sentenced. They may even have been given a medal or two. Their govt (US) didn't apologise or pay compensation. Unlike the Libyans.
"don't want to do the time? don't do the crime"
He's done the time, and now he's going home to die.
Or do you think we should keep his corpse in prison until it's served it's 27 years ?
No, when he dies, he either goes into a pauper's grave, or someone pays to ship the box home. Just like anyone else who dies in jail.
Just like anyone else who dies in jail.
Not in Britain. Terminally people are generally sent home to die, but if someone was to die suddenly in prison, why would they be buried in a 'pauper's grave' ?
Have you arrived from the Victorian age in a time machine or something ?
GrahamS the dude on the left is Gadaffi's son raising his fist in victory.
yes and I think any "Hero's Welcome" for him is in very poor taste, not to mention deeply insensitive (on a diplomatic and personal level). But that doesn't change the fact that I believe we did absolutely the right thing in letting him go home to die.
Why is it insensitive? The Libyans (i.e. the whole country) were set up and suffered for years, now America and Britain are in a desperate scramble for Oil, why shouldn't they thumb there nose at the west and make us/them suffer?
I think any "Hero's Welcome" for him is in very poor taste
Not if they think he's innocent it isn't.
If they said : "here's the man who killed 259, let's all cheer our hero", that would be in poor taste.
But if they say : "here's the man who was completely innocent and never killed anyone, let's all cheer for the ordeal he's been through" how is that in 'very poor taste' ?
btw, according to the BBC :
Libyan authorities have maintained their silence on the release of Megrahi from a prison in Glasgow.
If he's a devout Muslim, and he did it, then his last couple of months are going to be dominated by the knowledge that he's going to hell for all eternity
If most Americans are as bonkers fundmentalist Christian as they appear in the media, they too know the man's going to hell for all eternity
"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord"!
i'm pleasantly surprised by STW.
i would like to withdraw this statement.
If the situation was reversed and a Scottish man was released from a Libyan jail perhaps even with many in Scotland believing that he was an innocent pawn in some political game...Would such a man receive that same sort of welcome home in Scotland?
Ah well, we'll know for sure when the various documents are all made public many years from now.
Oh no - I forgot. David Miliband has slapped a Public Interest Immunity Certificate on them all, so they'll remain secret "for ever". I wonder why that is then?
Here in Tripoli the local newspaper the Tripoi Post is running a front and rear page spread with photos 'celebration Al Megrahis" release but on the inside it says thousands turned up at the airport to great him, no two busses of youths shipped in from town were actually there in the white tea shirts and baseball caps, they incidently had already been shipped into town as the leaders son was to address the youth movement in town that night anyway.
What is really winding everyone up here is that it says they are shocked at the state of his health, and i quote blamed the Scottish authorities for not taking care of Megrahis health while in prison and speculated that he was left, on purpose, to die of his cancer. End of quote. This from a country where the ones with cash get on a plane and fly to the UK, Italy and even Tunisia for definitive health care for cancer.
Speaking to the avergae Libyan they know this guy had dirty hands, he by his position in the airport was well connected, but are also fed up of the 40 years of similar stories put out by the Government here.
All in all a display of the normal lack of humility, understanding,denial and arrogance shown by the vast majority of Arab nations to International relations and Diplomacy. Rant over.
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Bar Basque is out of Eventi. Jimmy Haber's ESquared Hospitality is in.
Bar Basque is out of the Eventi Hotel April 29th and Jimmy Haber's Esquared Hospitality will take over May l. No one was confirming the information that was making rounds over the weekend, but Eventi, a Kimpton Hotel, has been shopping its food service deal around for a while, according to a source that did not want to be identified.
The hotel on Sixth between 29thth and 30th Streets, has been unhappy with its existing partner, Jeffrey Chodorow's China Grill Management. Chodorow had delivered the all white futuristic FoodParc on the ground floor in October, 2010, and a few weeks later, its stylish and flashy Bar Basque on the second floor, a scarlet homage to Spanish cooking. It also signed on to handle catering and room service. The hotel also wanted to reconfigure the lobby, the source said. That meant taking over the FoodParc space.
Chodorow had serious ambition for Bar Basque as a spillover of the Spanish food revolution, assigning it to his marketing right hand, Terry Zarikian, a passionate devotee of Ferran Adria and the Basque revolutionaries. Star chefs from abroad rotated through as guest toques. But resident chef Yuhi Fujinaga wowed too as I wrote in my Seeing Red at Bar Basque, Octoboer 2010.
The lively young bar crowd never did quite mesh with the gourmand aspiration on the dining terrace. And serious eaters, me included, complained about the monster television screen across the courtyard intruding in our great mackeral moments. But I went back often for Fujinaga's exciting dishes and to catch up with the visiting chefs, whose opening nights were, confession here, usually dedicated to Citymeals-on-Wheels.
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The good folks at Sonos have yet to issue an official app for BlackBerry 10, and sadly the Android app throws connection issues as soon as it starts up. Thankfully there are some third-part options, but they still leave out some of the newer features. Today I came across this thread in the Connectedly forums however, where one user stated that the latest version of the Android Sonos app was working on the BlackBerry Z30. I haven't had too much luck in the past getting the official Sonos app to work at all across any of my BlackBerry 10 devices, so I didn't have much hope.
With fingers crossed and Sonos on my mind, I loaded up the latest official version of the Sonos app on my BlackBerry Z3 and much to my surprise (seriously, I didn't think it would work at all) it connected straight away and I was up and running in no time — that's the good news. The bad news is that it doesn't seem like it's working for everyone. Kevin tried loading the exact same version on his Z30 with no luck, getting the same connection issue as before. So it unfortunately doesn't look like this will work for everyone. It could be any number of issues as well — device, OS version, Android version, your Sonos setup, router, modem — you name it.
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