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Information control can cost lives. In China, news of disasters, epidemics, and other health scares is still carefully controlled or even suppressed, at great risk not only to the health and safety of its populace but increasingly to the rest of the world. For instances, when the Chinese leadership chose to suppress news of the SARS outbreak in 2003, the virus spread far beyond China's borders to places like Toronto and San Francisco, causing the death of at least several hundred in and outside of China and almost a global pandemic. The Chinese authorities received parents' complaints about the tainted milk months before the Beijing Olympics last year. But millions of Chinese babes kept drinking the tainted milk that led to kidney stones without any warning as the Communist Party wanted to maintain "social stability" for its political image at the Games at the expense of people's lives.
The lack of information freedom in closed societies not only is coupled with severe violations of human rights, but also puts the democratic nations at risk as information control in closed societies is often used for manipulation and indoctrination, and sometimes even used to whip up anti-democracy sentiment.
The Internet is a vast, fast, and inexpensive way to access information and to communicate. It has become the greatest hope for global information freedom and democratization. The number of Internet users worldwide has soared. In China alone, the number of Internet users has increased by 10 times since 2000 and reached 298 million as of the end of 2008. While authorities in closed societies can easily shut down newspapers, block TV channels, jam short-wave radios, and ban books, the Internet is far more elusive. With the proper anti-censorship technologies, users in closed societies can access uncensored information online freely and without fear of reprisal. Here, anti-censorship, also called anti-blocking or anti-jamming, refers to technical means that protect users in closed societies from being blocked, monitored, or tracked online.
The Censorship in China
The Chinese authorities started the Internet censorship as soon as the Internet became popularized in the Chinese society in the mid 90's. The battle over the Internet has become intensified since 1999 when the Internet usage started booming in China and, in particular, after the suppression of Falun Gong started.
The Internet censorship in China is related to the suppression of Falun Gong for a reason. On April 25th, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners showed up at State Council Appeal Office outside of the Chinese leadership compound Zhongnanhai to appeal to the central government to release the practitioners illegally beaten and arrested in Tianjin, and allow practitioners to peacefully practice their personal belief without interference. This incident irritated the Party leader Jiang Zemin at that time, who initiated the Falun Gong suppression three months later. As the Chinese authorities prepared for the crackdown on Falun Gong, they found through Internet postings at that time that many practitioners who went to Zhongnanhai on April 25th learned about the incident through the Internet, and a large number of practitioners in the country actually used the Internet as their major ways of communication and information sharing. Consequently, on July 20th, 1999, when the Falun Gong suppression started, one of the very first steps taken by the Chinese authorities besides arresting key coordinators, was to take down all the Falun Gong websites in China and block all such websites outside of China.
The first paramount leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, once said the following that has become the motto for the Party: if we Chinese Communist Party want to stay in power, we need to control two things – one is the gun, the other is the pen. That's why the Chinese Communist Party has been employing violence as well as propaganda-plus-censorship in every one of its suppressions over the past 60 years of its ruling, whether the suppression is on Tiananmen students, Falun Gong, or Tibetans.
Since the Falun Gong suppression started, the Chinese authorities sped up its construction of the multi-billion-dollar Golden Shield Project with the help of Western companies. Golden Shield is an integration of a gigantic online database system and a vast surveillance network. It is the host project of the so-called Great Firewall that is being used to monitor and control the Internet usage in China. According to Washington Post, it was revealed in a Cisco internal document that one of the three major objectives of China's Golden Shield Project is to "combat Falun Gong."
Since late 1999, over the past 10 years or so, we have witnessed in China the development of China's censorship technology and, shoulder-by-shoulder, the development of Falun Gong practitioners' anti-censorship technology in a fierce information warfare over the Internet.
Here I would like to tell everyone that Falun Gong itself is just a traditional Chinese meditation, and does not have any political agenda. However, in order to stop the suppression, many Falun Gong practitioners have come together on a voluntary basis after 1999 to make various efforts to clarify the truth about the brutality of the suppression to Chinese people as well as to the world community. These include launching the world's largest anti-censorship system over the Internet since 2000. The sole purpose of all such efforts is only to stop the persecution in China.
There are three factors contributing to the Internet censorship in China. Firstly, China has developed the world's most advanced Internet censorship technologies. Secondly, China has the assistance from the top high-tech companies in the West such as Cisco and Nortel.
Thirdly, besides the technological aspect, there is a whole other dimension to censorship on the Net in China. We call it the "human flesh Great Firewall." At the top is an army of tens of thousands of net police patrolling the web space in China. Down below are countless website administrators who are forced to sift through the blogs, forums, and bulletin boards they are managing to delete any posts deemed "sensitive" according to certain arbitrary rules. In addition, Internet service providers (ISPs) are told to keep an eye on the sites they are hosting and be ready to shut down the sites that cross another arbitrary line drawn by the state. Internet content providers such as search engines and portal sites also devote significant time and effort in preemptive self-censorship.
For instance, according to an Wall Street Journal article last September, there are nearly 300,000 what Chinese call "fifty-cent party" members in China. These members are paid full-time or part-time employees of the State to monitor the blogs, forums, and bulletin boards to delete content unfavorable to the Communist Party, and to post messages to lead the online discussions to a direction favorable to the Party. They are called "fifty-cent party" because an official document revealed that these members were paid fifty cents per posting by the State.
According to media reports and documents of human rights organizations, dozens of Internet journalists and users have been arrested and sentenced to long jail terms by the Chinese authorities over the past few years. A well-known case is Shi Tao, a journalist who was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for using his Yahoo! email to send a brief of a government document to an overseas website.
Should Shi Tao use our anti-censorship tools at the time, he would not have been tracked and arrested for his email.
Internet Anti-censorship and Global Internet Freedom Consortium
The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) has been running the world's largest anti-censorship operation since 2000. The Consortium consists of a small team of dedicated volunteers, connected through their common practice of Falun Gong, who have come together to work for the cause of Internet freedom. We constantly battle tens of thousands of Internet monitors and censors in China and around the world so that millions of citizens inside repressive societies may safely communicate online and access websites on human rights, democracy and other topics of interest. The men and women of the team maintain operations out of their own pockets, but provide their products and support services to the citizens of closed societies entirely free of charge.
There are three key elements in an Internet anti-censorship effort. The first element is technology. GIFC has developed effective technologies to defeat all existing censorship mechanisms. These technologies are the only ones that have been field-tested in constant battles for over 8 years, and have been supporting the largest user base in the world's most censored countries like China and Iran.
We have developed not just one, but a fleet of five different anti-censorship tools – UltraSurf, FreeGate, Garden, GPass, and FirePhoenix. Currently these five tools accommodate an estimated 95% of the total anti-censorship traffic in closed societies around the world, and are used daily by millions of users.
The second element of anti-censorship is the outreach capacity, that is, the capacity to use conventional means such as email and fax to let users in the closed societies know and use the anti-censorship services. This is particularly challenging in some countries like China because of the strict censorship and harsh repression. With limited resources but hard work, GIFC has now for China the capacity of sending 20 million emails every 2 weeks, 10 million instant messages every day, 500,000 forum messages every day, 30 million phone calls every month, 400,000 faxes every month, and thousands of mails every month. What has been happening is a multi-dimensional information warfare that has crippled and, as many believe, will eventually tear down the world's largest information firewall of China, as well as all the firewalls in other repressive regimes.
The impact of our Internet anti-censorship system has already had a global reach. Of the 43 countries identified as "Not Free" in Freedom House's Freedom of the Press 2008 Survey, our anti-censorship system has served users in almost all the countries including Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
As of the end of 2008, the Top Five censoring countries with the most average daily hits to our anti-censorship systems are (hits per day): China 275 million, Iran 183 million, UAE 47 million, Saudi Arabia 39 million, and Syria 23 million.
We have witnessed first-hand the effectiveness of anti-censorship technologies in improving information freedom for people in closed societies. One particular phenomenon we have observed through years of anti-censorship work is whenever a news-worthy event related to a repressive region happened, the traffic from that region to our anti-censorship system would spike.
For instances, during the SARS pandemic in 2003, the traffic from China doubled in a short period of time. During the democratic movement in Burma in late August 2007, we experienced a three-fold increase in average daily hits from IP addresses originating inside Burma. Burmese used our system to post photos and videos of the bloody crackdown to the outside blogs and websites. After the protests broke out in Tibet on March 10 last year, there was a four-fold increase in the number of daily hits to our system from Tibet with Tibetans desperately trying to send out information about the crackdown by the Chinese authorities. In addition, of the current 54 million announcements quitting the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations by the Chinese people worldwide, a large majority of them were passed to the posting website by the mainland Chinese using our anti-censorship services.
Moreover, once the traffic from such a region spikes during an event, it would usually stay afterwards and keep growing from then on. This is probably because once people have a taste of uncensored information, they like it and would keep using our services. For example, the traffic from Burma during the crackdown in 2007 was at the level of hundreds of thousands hits per day, but by the end of 2008 it was already 6 million hits per day.
Our Internet anti-censorship services have the potential of transforming the closed societies in a peaceful but powerful way that must not be underestimated.
Our anti-censorship tools have also been of benefit to the Western organizations such as Human Rights in China, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, BBC – and even to companies like Google and Yahoo! who self-censor, since we bring the uncensored version of their services into closed societies.
The third element of Internet anti-censorship is the infrastructure of the anti-censorship system. Besides a number of other important factors, scalability of the infrastructure is critical to the success of a large-scale anti-censorship system. In fact, technically it is not hard at all for a computer-savvy user in a closed society to find some way to get around the firewall. However, it is extremely difficult and challenging to scale up such an operation to accommodate millions of everyday users to use the system simultaneously, especially facing the censors' constant and targeted blocking efforts.
Over the years, GIFC has developed the world's largest and the only scalable anti-censorship infrastructure. The operation of our system has been very efficient: it only needs a few dollars to support a user in closed societies for an entire year; moreover, for every dollar we spend, China will need to spend a hundred, maybe hundreds of dollars to block us.
The Challenges
Despite the hard work of the men and women in the technical team of our Consortium, nevertheless, the demand from the users in closed societies has been increasing at an exploding speed, and far surpassed the little growth of the resources we can obtain. The information warfare over the Internet has actually boiled down to the battle of resources. The truth of the matter is that the amount of resources we have is almost negligible comparing with the almost unlimited amount of resources of the censors.
By the end of last year, the fast growing traffic from mid-East, in particular from Iran, overwhelmed and almost crushed our servers, which forced us to scale down our services to Iranian and other non-Chinese users so as to allow our anti-censorship system to work at a normal load.
At the same time that we are battling the censors for the freedom of the people in closed societies, we are, unfortunately, finding strong indication that companies such as Cisco located in free societies may be involved in helping the Chinese security agencies monitor and censor the Internet, and persecute and prosecute Chinese citizens. In a 2002 Cisco (China) PowerPoint presentation entitled "An Overview of [China's] Public Security Industry," a Cisco (China) official in the Government Business Department listed the Golden Shield Project as one of Cisco's major target customers. In this document, which apparently lays out the marketing strategy for Cisco (China) to sell products to the Chinese security police, one of the three main objectives of the Golden Shield was to "combat 'Falun Gong'."
In the presentation page headed "Cisco Opportunities [in the Golden Shield Project]," Cisco offers much more than just routers to the Chinese security police; it offers planning, construction, technical training, and operations maintenance for the Golden Shield. Our research shows that the infrastructure of China's Great Firewall coincides with the layouts in Cisco (China)'s PowerPoint document.
We must appeal to these Western corporations to reconsider what they are doing. Every time our anti-censorship tools are attacked using their technology, they are taking the side of the totalitarian authorities against Chinese people seeking some of the most basic human rights. They are jeopardizing the national security interests of the democratic nations by directly compromising the safety of millions of Internet users in closed societies around the world. This is no longer just a virtual game, and it is certainly no longer just about dollars and cents. Real lives are at stake. Just ask Yahoo! how Mr. Shi Tao is faring as a prisoner of conscience facing several more years in his prison sentence for sending an email.
Our Consortium has been able to stay ahead of the censorship game by developing new software and new technology, but each battle has been grueling and certainly taps into our already scarce resources. Sometimes we feel like a little David fighting a constant battle with a monolithic Goliath out in cyberspace. It has been a lonely battle thus far and we are tired of having to fight our fellow Western companies.
A particularly insidious aspect of information control is that it allows a repressive government to spoon feed the populace with whatever false information it chooses. On the flip side, anti-censorship technology can allow the people in closed societies to be better informed and to be less subject to manipulation by an unscrupulous leadership. Winning people over to a more open and free society via the Internet could very well be a way to avoid future conflicts that cost lives.
When Chinese "patriotic hackers" break into computer systems at the Western government agencies or maliciously compromise Western corporate data, even if it were not under the direct instructions of the Chinese government, it's usually the result of the Chinese state propaganda demonizing the democratic nations and whipping up nationalistic fervor. A battle being fought in cyberspace can all too quickly spill over into daily reality. The threat to the free world and global security is very, very real.
Dictatorships like China and Iran are spending billions on their Firewalls and cyber-attacks upon the West. How much is the West spending combating this cyber threat? Not hardly enough.
The services the Consortium provides are invaluable and the impact goes far beyond the Internet. When the people in closed societies have gained a taste of freedom and are given a way to share information, they will no longer tolerate tyranny.
Only when the free world shows more determination to keep the Internet open than those dictatorships' will to seal it off, can there be the hope of information freedom and democracy for the citizens in all closed societies, can there be the end of the persecution in China and human rights in all other repressive countries, and can there be a more peaceful tomorrow for all of mankind.


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Uber fans in the Santa Monica area can now order lunch through the Uber app and have it delivered via uberFRESH, the company's new food delivery service. A trial is being carried out in the Santa Monica area, and during the trial, people will be able to order lunch for $12 between 11:30 AM and 2:30 PM.
The available food options are switched every day, and refreshed every week, but people will be stuck with whatever is on the one-item menu for a particular day.
UberFRESH's trial period will run from today to September 5, and Uber says it may continue and expand the service if people like it. UberFRESH will only be available on weekdays, and the service will be shutdown on any holidays or weekends.
Uber says deliveries take place around 10 minutes after an order is placed, but the delivery is curbside rather than to a person's door. The only fee associated with the service is the $12 for the lunch itself, since Uber users do not have to pay for delivery or to tip the driver.
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A couple of months ago I took a short holiday in Indonesia and took both the NX10 and NX20 with me, along with the 18-200, 16, and 30mm lenses. (and 18-55 kit lens, but I didn't use it).
Some thoughts from this - I found using the 30mm /16mm on the NX20 and keeping the 18-200mm on the NX10 worked very well for making best use of the primes but still being about to capture everything I wanted, but carrying both camera bodies was a bit too much for comfort, as well as drawing some curious comments from people who seemed to think I must be a professional photographer... Maybe using an NX200 or 1000 as a second body would save a bit of weight, but the 18-200 lens is still quite heavy, so I'm thinking about picking up a cheap / second hand micro four thirds body and the equivalent superzoom lens as a secondary camera, so I can use the NX20 with the wider lenses and primes that seem to be where the system's strengths are. I think the Nikon 1 should theoretically be a perfect partner for the NX system, but the pricing's still a bit off and the only superzoom available is huge.
In good light at anything less than 100% magnification I could barely tell the difference between pictures from the NX10 and NX20, I got better pictures at low light/ high ISO with the NX20 than I ever did with the NX10, so I feel the upgrade was justified.
The removal of the remote control socket from the NX20 was surprisingly annoying. The app for android phones is not a replacement, as it only works in full auto. Other than that, I don't think I have any real complaints about the NX20. Smaller RAW files would be nice, it's taken months to process all the photos I've taken and I had to upgrade my computer to do it, but I can't really blame Samsung too much for this!
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Borobodur Temple: The temple itself was huge and difficult to photograph in its entirety, but the view from the top and the carvings were extremely impressive
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Ramayana ballet performance: a nighttime performance at Prambanan temple. An excellent opportunity to test high ISO performance with the 18-200 lens I'm reasonably happy with these, although I wouldn't blow them up to poster size and look at them with a magnifying glass.
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While those ribs featured in the previous post were taking in a long, hot bath, I needed to cook off some hunks of chuck we had in the fridge. I wasn't cooking these for immediate consumption; these were for a weeknight dinner.
We had these for dinner the following Monday (tonight in fact) and they were enjoyed immensely by both the most glorious spousal unit and the most glorious mother-in-law, so I must have done something right.
But, before I cooked them off, I had to cut up the aged chuck and grind it, season it, form it…
and squish it into nice little patties.
Notice the little dimples. This really works to keep the burgers flat when you cook em.
The seasoning I used on these is equal parts garlic powder, kosher salt, ground black pepper, and onion powder and is distributed into the meat prior to forming up the patties. It isn't just put on top, it is integral. We're trying to create a depth of flavor. It's a winning seasoning blend.
While the burgers were searing off, I brought a pan of brats to a boil along with a bottle of beer.
These days, I always parboil brats and Italian sausage in beer prior to grilling. It plumps the sausages and you don't need to grill them for too long.
It gets kinda foamy and the brats wind up looking a bit anemic…
but a little time on the grill fixes that quite quickly.
Those are the Italian sausages on the top row and brats on the bottom.
Doing the parboiling bit keeps the meat moist and helps keep the skin from splitting when they are being grilled. It seems that the skin crisps up quicker, too, giving that nice grilled snap when you bite into 'em.
Frequently, I'll chop up a couple of the Italian sausages and use that meat on a grilled pizza. It adds an amazingly smoky element to the pies.
Then there is chicken breast marinated in lime juice, tequila, and a secret blend of herbs and spices…
Actually, this is HEB fajita chicken. They do that marinade for you, but go ahead and add some tequila — letting it sit awhile — for that extra-homey touch. It's great in tacos, fajitas, or sliced up and put on a sandwich with avocado. Just about any way you wanna eat it, its tender, moist, and delicious.
So, if you are ever looking to kill some time and cook a weeks worth of food while you're at it, fire up that charcoal grill and cook off a bunch of meat. The brats and sausages heat up wonderfully in the microwave (low setting, longer time) as do the burgers. With the chicken, you'll probably want to slice it up and reheat it up like a stir fry: pretty high heat with a little bit of olive oil, then finishing out with a shot of tequila. Don't "cook" it, just heat it up.
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''The whole reason I got into underground music is because I wanted to be involved in something that made the mainstream irrelevant,'' says Henry Owings, editor and publisher of Chunklet magazine. Originally conceived in 1993, Chunklet's early issues were one sheet of paper folded in quarters, mostly focusing on the local music scene in Athens in the early 1990s.
The 'zine came into being when a handful of former Flagpole writers decided to strike out on their own to create an independent music publication that offers an honest, critical and frequently hilarious analysis of indie rock and the culture that surrounds it.
''As I see it, the indie labels and publications have become mini-versions of those on a major scale, which holds zero appeal to me. It's not that I hold them in contempt, but they just do not matter in my world,'' says Owings of his frustrations with the state of music journalism.
Known for a particular brand of self-referential humor that occasionally toys with tastelessness, Chunklet frequently makes fun of the very scene it seeks to chronicle. ''I don't think the magazine is entirely mean, but rather tongue planted firmly in cheek. Of course, I'm a student of comedy, so what do I know?'' explains Owings. ''I think the magazine makes more fun of me and my obsessively geeky lifestyle than anything or anybody else, and I guess that's just what I see, but if somebody wants to think we're being mean, so be it."
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Owings, a former Athenian who fled to Atlanta in search of a more substantial paycheck nearly six years ago, produces Chunklet primarily as a labor of love -- he makes his living as a graphic designer. What began as a rough-around-the-edges 'zine, has grown into a glossy-covered magazine with a nationwide distribution and loyal fan-base, despite its erratic publishing schedule. Last year, Chunklet was mentioned in Entertainment Weekly magazine, which included Owings on the magazine's 2001 ''It List of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment.'' And a couple of years ago Chunklet caught the eye of the big wigs at Mad magazine for using the image of Mad's mascot Alfred E. Newman as cover art.
Owings was issued a cease and desist order and agreed not to reprint the offending issue. ''Since then I've found out that the cease and desist order amounted to little more than inconsequential legal bullying,'' says Owings of the incident. ''But I'd rather just let sleeping dogs lie. I won't pick on Mad ever ever again. Ever.''
Owings who also runs a record label that has put out early records by such now-noted bands as Elf Power, the Olivia Tremor Control and Man or Astroman?, also did a stint as a booking agent for an Atlanta club. He'll bring the critically-acclaimed California bands The Hot Snakes, Beehive and the Barracudas, to Athens for Monday night's show at the 40 Watt Club. ''I have been putting on shows for what seems like an eternity and only in the last two years or so I wised up and decided to say that 'Chunklet Magazine presents ...' because they're always bands that the magazine actively endorses and champions,'' he explains.
''Although it may not seem like it right now, this show is a very big deal,'' he says of the three-band lineup. Monday night's performance and a show the following night at the EARL in Atlanta mark the only two Southeast appearances by these bands and the 40 Watt will be their Southern debut. ''If you come see them, you'll know what I'm talking about,'' says Owings.
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Beckham set to play against Manchester United
MANCHESTER, England -- David Beckham will play against his former club Manchester United at Old Trafford for the first time since he left them in 2003 in a gala European match next month.
Beckham, who scored on his unexpected comeback for Real Madrid last Saturday, has been confirmed as a member of a European All-Star XI which will play United in a jubilee match being staged to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, and United's 50 years of European competition.
Beckham said: "I'm happy to know I'm going to play on March 13th. It will be something special to go back to Old Trafford and I'm really looking forward to it."
The former England captain, 31, played almost 400 games for United before leaving to join Madrid nearly four years ago. Since leaving Manchester United, he has played at Old Trafford for England, but never against United.
Beckham, whose stay at the Bernabeu Stadium will end in the summer when he moves to Major Soccer League club LA Galaxy in America, will be a huge draw for the game.
The European side will be managed by Italian World Cup winning manager Marcello Lippi, who is expected to include several members of his squad which lifted the trophy in Germany last summer.
Beckham is also guaranteed to have at least two former England teammates alongside him with the Liverpool pair of Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher confirmed in the European lineup.
United manager Alex Ferguson has promised to play a full-strength side in the match.


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by Christopher Freeburn | July 29, 2013 4:29 pm
[1]Gold rose modestly in Monday trading as investors await the outcome of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee meeting and a report on U.S. employment later this week. Investors will be looking for signals about the speed with which the Fed will slow its economic stimulus efforts.
Gold futures for August delivery gained 0.5% to $1,328.40 per ounce on Monday, according to CME Group[2]. Gold traded as high as $1,338.10 and as low as $1,322.60. Gold bullion closed in London at $1,332, according to BullionVault[3].
Silver futures for August delivery also climbed 0.5% to $19.85 per ounce. Monday's high for silver was $20.16, while the low was $19.70.
Gold and silver funds sank in Monday trading.
Gold and silver mining ETFs declined during the day.
Gold mining shares were mixed on Monday.
Silver mining shares slipped during the day.
As of this writing, Christopher Freeburn did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Adrian Ash of BullionVault[23] contributed to this report.
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Hey meaty fan clubers, your Super Meat Boy has grown new meaty proportions. As Tweet from the official Meat Boy team pronounced:
Fun Fact: Super Meat Boy past the million sales mark last month! PLATINUM BABY.
That's a lot of meat sales! I say, why stop there? For those who have yet to purchase your own copy of this meat phenomenon – what are you waiting for? Why aren't your aiding your favorite meat man in his epic struggle to save his beloved meat girl?
The love. The passion. The meat.


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Three halal vaccines being produced by a Saudi corporation in collaboration with Malaysia's Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC) are expected to be ready in three years, reported Malaysian news agency Bernama on Wednesday.HDC Chief Executive Officer Datuk Seri Jamil Bidin said the vaccines that are the focus of local and international scientists and Shariah experts, are meant to treat meningitis, hepatitis and meningococcal."We are finding ways to convert the vaccines to make it halal and hope to complete it as soon as possible," he told the media after the official opening of the World Halal Week 2014 here on Wednesday.The World Halal Week 2014 [2]was launched by Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed.Established in September 2006, the HDC coordinates the overall development of the halal industry in Malaysia. [3]While focusing on the development of halal standards, audit and certification, as well as capacity building for halal products and services [4], the HDC also promotes participation and facilitates the growth of Malaysian companies in the global halal market.Jamil said vaccines, especially that for meningitis, are required for those who perform the Haj, but are currently pork-based. He said non pork-based vaccines will be in high demand, not only among Muslims but also non-Muslims."People will go for the alternative once they know about it. After developing these three vaccines, we will continue to produce others," he added.Earlier in his speech, Mustapa said the halal vaccines will help alleviate fears and doubts amongst Muslims on the integrity of the product. [5]He said that Malaysia is happy to work with the Saudi Arabian company in setting up of a production facility at the Enstek Halal Park, with an investment of US$100 million to produce the vaccines.This year's World Halal Week has expanded to six halls with 620 booths, an increment of approximately 19.7 percent compared to last year.
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://whc.hdcglobal.com/
[3] http://www.theborneopost.com/2014/04/10/new-era-for-islamic-banking-in-malaysia/
[4] http://www.albawaba.com/business/halal-industry-556596
[5] http://www.flujabs.org/content/are-flu-vaccines-kosher-or-halal-which-follows-similar-principles
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'I'm left senseless by my wife's scent': The man floored by strong smells
GLYNN PARRY thinks his wife's perfume is a knock-out – the slightest whiff of it puts him flat on his back.
The father-of-three suffers from a rare genetic condition that means he collapses with horrific migraines when he comes into contact with certain "trigger" substances.
Glynn, 36, explained: "Some people react to chocolate, cheese, alcohol and caffeine. I've cut all of these out just to be safe. But one of my strangest and strongest triggers is smells. I'm very sensitive to them. My wife Carrie wore some Chanel No 5 and I just dropped."
He gets familial hemiplegic migraines, which cause one side of the brain to shut down temporarily. As the brain is cross-wired, the opposite side of the body goes numb.
Glynn, who had his first attack at the age of 14, loses the power of speech and cannot move his arms and legs.
My wife Carrie wore some Chanel No 5 and I just dropped
He said: "If I'm lucky, I see warning 'auras' [blurring around lights] and then self-preservation kicks in. I try to find a bench, a chair or a bed to land on."
According to the Migraine Trust, attacks last from one hour to several days, but usually less than 24 hours.
Glynn believes his have caused low-level brain damage and he had to give up his job in the financial sector.
He said: "Sometimes I'll forget how to use a spoon or open a door for 30 seconds and then it'll come to me. I used to be very active. I went to the gym and was a member of a squash league. Now I am out of work."
Glynn lives with wife Carrie Jones, and their children Logan, six, Ffion, four, and Sophia, three, in Wrexham, North Wales.
Carrie, 32, has given up perfume and uses mild shampoos to protect her husband.
She said: "The worry is this could be life-threatening or he might not quite recover from an attack."


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Enjoy Father's Day at Megg's Café and Hamilton Bread Company, family-owned and operated by the McCaffrey family. Local ingredients, including their meat and produce, are used whenever possible.
"We try to use everything we can locally," said Meghan McCaffrey-Collins, business manager. "We want it to be picked and brought into the restaurant and used as quickly as possible."
Father's Day is one of the café's busiest days of the year. McCaffrey-Collins said they will run a few specialty breakfast and brunch items not normally on the menu. For those who want to treat their dads to a home-cooked treat, Corey Hamilton, executive chef of Megg's Café in Temple, shared this recipe.
Wagyu Meatballs
Yields approximately 20 golf-ball-size meatballs
1 lb. ground beef 1 tsp. fresh thyme
2 large cloves garlic (minced) ¼ small onion (minced)
1 tbsp. fresh parsley (minced) 1 egg
1/3 cup grated parmesan 1 slice stale bread
3 tbsp. milk 2½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. lemon zest
Sweat the onions, then add garlic and cook until fragrant. Remove from heat and add the herbs (parsley and thyme). Set the mixture aside to cool completely.
In a small bowl, soak the stale bread in milk and set aside.
Combine eggs, parmesan, salt and lemon zest in a bowl. Add the crumbled soaked bread and chilled onion mixture. Pour all the ingredients over the ground beef and fold gently until combined.
Lightly sear meatballs in olive oil.
Finish in the oven at 350 degrees until cooked through. The internal temperature should be 160 degrees farenheit.
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Rock, Talim, Yoshimitsu Will Be Back for Soul Calibur IV
And so the Soul Calibur IV roster expands just little, offering us three veteran heroes for our weapon-wielding battle needs. Now that you're done staring at Cassandra's breasts (you are done staring, aren't you?), you can turn your attention to a pair of outlandish characters and one sweet little girl who will have no problem kicking your ass with some serious tonfa action.
Three of the returning characters for Soul Calibur IV, from left to right (above), are Rock, Talim, and everyone's favorite stand-on-my-head or sit-on-my-ass battler Yoshimitsu. I've never been a huge fan of Rock and his giant mace/hammer thing, but I'm totally digging the inclusion of Soulcalibur veteran Talim. She is easily my favorite female character from the series, largely because she's so quick and she has awesomely easy high-low combo attack. And then there's Yoshimitsu. He's just weird.
I wonder who else is going to get included. We already know about Darth Vader and Yoda in Soul Calibur 4. Let's just hope that they don't go and toss Jar Jar Binks in there too. Anyways, Famitsu has more pictures of Rock, Talim, and Yoshimitsu, if you'd like to check them out.


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David R. Hooks, Jr., began his military career in the United States Marine Corp on August 28, 1965. As customary with all enlistees, he began his career as a private. He first served with the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division in Camp LeJune, North Carolina. While with the 2nd Battalion he was stationed in Cuba for six months. In 1966, he transferred to the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. During his time with the 3rd Battalion, from 1966-1967, he valiantly fought in the Vietnam War. Upon his return to the United States, he again was transferred to the 3rd Naval District Brig and stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Mr. Hooks left the military with a rank of Corporal and was awarded an Honorable Discharge in August 1972. During his time with the Marine Corp, Mr. Hooks received numerous ribbons and awards including the Good Conduct Ribbon.
After separating from the military, Mr. Hooks held numerous jobs in the civilian arena. Shortly after leaving the military, Mr. Hooks worked as a youth coordinator for Community Board #14 located in Brooklyn, New York. He served in this capacity for 10 years. In 1991, Mr. Hooks obtained employment at the SUNY-Queens Educational Opportunity Center where he specialized in career planning and development. After 20 years of service Mr. Hooks retired in 2011.


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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The City of Wilmington, New Hanover County and UNCW want to join forces along with businesses leaders for a large community partnership that will focus on rebranding the area's economic goals.
The proposed committee would work to show prospective businesses that the area has more to offer than just surf and sand.
"We don't have anything that Wilmington is specifically known for other than the beaches, because of the tourism brand. That's great, but we do have other things, and we want tourism to be a part of that, because clearly that's a part of our economic development, but we want companies to consider wilmington, and we want them to know what we have to offer," said Jenni Harris, UNCW's Assistant to the Chancellor for Community Partnerships.
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Welcome to Jamrock Theatre
Jamrock Theatre invites you to have a closer look at our theatre, for it is quite unique and just what you might be looking for.
This lovely venue is in the beautiful Western Cape and at the start of the Stellenbosch Wine Route. It is situated in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, in Brackenfell.
Entering the doors of the Jamrock Theatre, patrons encounter an elegant, spacious and welcoming entrance hall with black sparkle tiles and ceiling down lighters. This sets the tone for Jamrock Theatre as an elegant theatre.
The theatre itself provides a versatile venue that is suitable for a variety of productions and artists' needs. The theatre is well planned and equipped to showcase most productions from the single artist to a band to a themed show and small theatre productions.
The Jamrock Theatre is air-conditioned and seats up to 136 people comfortably at tables and up to 150 with seats only. The theatre offers a cash bar and catering can be arranged or patrons can bring their own food. Drinks can be obtained at the cash bar.
The stage, sound, lighting and auditorium with tables and chairs creates a welcoming atmosphere for the patron and artist alike. The auditorium has eight uniquely lighted acoustic panels with individually controlled lighting which creates the sense that the seating area is an extension of the stage. All these factors facilitate intimate performances and audience participation.
Jamrock Theatre is a great venue for established and upcoming artists to perform. We at Jamrock Theatre believe that we truly have something unique to offer to artists who want to perform in an elegant venue with quality lighting and sound, and at the same time have close contact with the audience.
Jamrock Theatre is the perfect venue for:
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Melanie discusses closures for latex outfits, including when and exactly how to set both visible and invisible zippers into latex.
Melanie tackles how to buy materials for working with latex, as well as some basic gluing and seaming skills, and safety advice you need.
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When talking about Dyed in the Wool one thing that audiences and critics keep coming back to is their fantastic performance. DITW has been together for over ten years playing great American folk and contemporary music throughout the Midwest with a powerful edge created by their outstanding musicianship and vocals. Meghan McKown is a wonderfully expressive vocalist who is comfortable in many idioms from folk to jazz. Julia Dusek-Devens adds beautiful harmonies and John Devens' solid baritone rounds out the bands interpretations of some of the best songs by some of the best songwriters on the scene today, including some of John's own compositions. Audiences have been captivated by their many surprises on the stage from Julia's flute prowess and whimsical dancing to Jims' impressive command of any instrument he picks up. They have been known to break into some rousing Celtic instrumental dance tunes at any moment that keep delighting audiences wherever they perform. Dyed in the Wool will not settle for musical labels. They let their muse take them wherever they want to go, and their audiences love them for that. Reviews: 'It's a grand CD, one they can be proud of. All the vocals were really on. It sounded like they were having an inspired good time. And the instrumental arrangements are extremely powerful, for Silky and ALL the songs. I'll listen to this one a lot'. Art Thieme 'There are a lot of bands in Chicago, a lot of very good bands. Among the very best is Dyed in the Wool, a gathering of grand musical talents and sweet sensibilities that can handle traditional tunes in ways that maike them fresh and vibrant and create original tunes that will stay with you forever. It's a fabulous album'. Rick Kogan, WGN Radio, The Chicago Tribune.
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Chennai, June 19 (IANS) Actor Tarun Arora, who was last seen on screen in Tamil action-thriller "Kanithan", has been roped in to play the baddie in Vishal-starrer upcoming Tamil action-comedy "Kathi Sandai".
"Director Suraj really liked Tarun's performance in 'Kanithan'. He felt he would be perfect for the lead antagonist's role and immediately roped him in. He plays a role very different from the one he played in 'Kanithan'," a source from the film's unit told IANS.
The film also stars Tamannaah Bhatia and Vadivelu, who has teamed up with Vishal after nine years.
"The team has already completed shooting two schedules. The principal shooting should be wrapped up in the next two months," the source said.
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Spain braces for 'coldest summer in 200 years'
France's main weather channel has announced that there is a 70 percent chance of this summer being cold and wet across Spain, France, Portugal, Germany and Austria.
June and July are only likely to have short periods of summer heat which will in turn bring heavy storms in August.
Flag as inappropriateThere's a Little Ice Age on the way. When it sets hold, we'll all be praying for global warming.
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Flag as inappropriateI suspect yopu'll find we're a little further on than that – the end of
the Holocene merely fanfares the start of the next glacial. The current
sunspot situation rather reflects the Dalton minimum, don't you think?
It's cooling – NOW.
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We are living the end period of an interglacial, which is just another short warm period of an ice age… which has lasted for at least three million years.
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EU Requires Spain to Raise Vat
The last thing a country in recession should do is raise taxes. Well, Spain is in a depression, not a recession yet the EU requires Spain to raise the VAT and lower pension benefits within a year.
One year. That is the time that the government has to undertake major reforms. The European Commission has published today the document with recommendations to the European Council on the National Reform Plan. Includes advice on pensions, taxes, government spending, administrative reform, etc.. There is virtually nothing that Brussels (and the governments of EU members) does not create the need to change, accelerate or deepen.
On Wednesday Brussels gave Spain more time to reach a budget deficit of 3%, but warns that to achieve this, it is still necessary to continue with the fiscal effort.
Brussels calls for "a systematic review of the tax system by March 2014." Normally, these words have meant raising taxes on consumption (VAT or special) to relax the pressure on other that penalize wealth creation, such as income tax or social contributions. But in the current document there are only requests to raise taxes.
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Experience the historic and charming little red cottages under the Sugar Pines on Tahoe's quiet West Shore. Each cabin is uniquely decorated with mountain elegance. All cottages have private baths, entrances and down comforters; some have fireplaces. Enjoy our garden sitting area and decks in the summer. Our warm, friendly common area features a wonderful view of the lake. This very private and relaxed mountain setting with its family-style breakfast is an ideal mountain getaway.
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When talking about overwater bungalows or cabanas, most people instantly think of the South Pacific - Bora Bora, Tahiti, or the Maldives. However, did you know you can also find charming overwater lodging in Roatan, Honduras at CoCo View Resort?
We offer twelve Cabanas, each of which is built directly over the water. Located in three separate buildings to the east of the Clubhouse and our Oceanfront Rooms, the Cabanas are our most spacious guest rooms and are connected by wooden walkways to the rest of the resort.
Staying in our over-water Cabanas means you get to stay dry while still enjoying more ocean time - and is there really anything better than that?
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Now Hiring … But Unemployed Need Not Apply
For many unemployed persons, the posting "Now Hiring" often brings a flicker of hope. However, currently many job sites are posting position openings with a huge condition: "Now Hiring, but Not the Unemployed."
This trend has many people scratching their heads. Companies are hiring but don't want people who are unemployed to apply. Hundreds of listings on Monster.com, Career Builder, and even Craigslist are advertising job openings but telling people that if they are unemployed this makes them a less attractive applicant and they might not be considered.
Even worse, some postings state that if the person has been unemployed for a long period of time then they should not even bother applying.
The New York Times reported that this trend is prevalent in listings in the following fields: concierges, managers, teachers, IT specialists, sales directors, auditors and air-conditioning technicians.
This news is another punch in the stomach to the 6.3 million Americans who have been unemployed for the past 6 months.
The 6-month mark is the cut-off for getting hired for many companies, according to the National Employment Law Project, a national advocacy organization.
Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, told CBS, "There's just a lot of assumptions that get built up around being unemployed by employers or employment agencies really not wanting to take a chance on the unemployed."
The NELP considers this discriminatory against the unemployed.
"I feel like I am being shunned by our entire society," Kelly Wiedemer, an unemployed information technology specialist, told the Times. She was told by a job recruiter that despite her skills, she would have difficulty finding a job because of her current employment status.
Many unemployed citizens have stated frustration over this trend saying they feel like companies are trying to keep them down. To them, it feels like a slap in the face.
Unemployed applicants often worry about holes in their resumes, displaying periods of time when they have not held a job. However, considering the country is going through the worst economic period since the Great Depression, it would seem logical that employers would be more forgiving.
Apparently not.
As unfair as this seems, it is not against the law. Employment status is not protected against discrimination as age, sex, and religion are under the law. However, the Times reports that the Equal Opportunity Commission has recently held a hearing to determine if discriminating against the jobless is illegal because it hurts minorities and older people disproportionately.
"This is un-American, it's unfair and it should not be legal in America to do that," says Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) as quoted by CBS.
Older people (aged 55 to 64) have a 25.5 percent longer unemployment duration than young people, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, African Americans have the highest unemployment rate coming in at 16.5 percent.
The average duration for unemployment is 9.5 months. Given this and the fact that the unemployment rate is currently at 9.2 percent, companies deciding not to hire the unemployed affect millions of families.
The young (age 20-24) touts an unemployment rate of 15.2 percent. The unemployment for the young is the lowest among the groups surveyed, coming in at 28.5 weeks. Still, college-aged citizens express high anxiety over the prospect of finding a job.
"I'm terrified. Especially because I'm a psychology major so I can't get anything with a bachelors," says Hannah Roberson, current student at the University of Florida.
While most companies aren't as blatant about discriminating against the jobless by putting a warning on their postings, many companies do have concerns about applicants who have been out of work for a period of time. Some applicants who have been idle for a while may not be at the top of their game, may be behind on new technology, or lose touch with their networks. Also, while many people were laid off due to the recession, others were let go simply because their supervisors found them incompetent. Therefore, companies have to take the screening process seriously and may look more closely at an applicant with time gaps on their resume. If discrimination against the jobless becomes law, it will be difficult to prove.
"There's a lot of good talent out there (in the unemployed pool) and for somebody to pass somebody over just because they're in that position is short-sighted," says Michael Westerholm, according to CBS. Westerholm worked at a postage equipment giant Pitney Bowes in Stamford, Conn., for 20 years. He was let go in the recession when his position was eliminated.
So what opportunities are available to the jobless? John Challenger, chief executive officer of the job placement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas explains to CBS that health care is the strongest industry in the country adding 24,000 jobs on average in the last year. He added, just in the last month, leisure and hospitality added 34,000 jobs. Energy has been a strong sector, along with skilled jobs, professional business services, engineers, accountants and information technology workers.
Challenger went on to say that one of the best places for jobs is in Texas. In the last two years Texas has added 262,000 jobs and payrolls have increased 2.9 percentsince the 2008 recession. He also noted that the Dakotas and Nebraska have low unemployment rates.


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July 24th, 2013 02:47 PM #6
I actually love Trick as a nn for Patrick and I think it would fit in well with your other boys names!
Patrick "Trick": I think Patrick is classic but interesting and I adore the nn Trick. I think Trick is whimsical and spunky and adds an edge to Patrick that is very appealing.
August "Gus": August is a great name and Gus is so sweet. I like how August is more formal and Gus is very approachable and friendly.
Charles "Chaz": I grew up with a Chaz and I always liked his name. I think Chaz is fun and a little wild where Charles is all business.
Edmund "Teddy": I like Edmund but I don't love the nn Teddy, it seems more juvenile than your other son's nn's and I'm not sure how Teddy will age.
Arthur "Artie": I love Arthur I think it is strong with a bit of a mystical touch because of the King Arthur stories. I don't love Artie but I think it could grow on me when worn by the right little boy.
Winston "Win": I think the nn Win is awesome but I am not a huge Winston fan.
George "Geo": I don't like the nn Geo it makes me think of geology and rocks and not in a fun way. George also lacks the kick of your other choices imo.
I think Frankie, Huck, Flip, and Trick is the best combination followed by Frankie, Huck, Flip, and Gus. I love your boys names I think they are just awesome...can't wait to see what you pick!name lover with a passion for art history and mythology married for going on five years to my much better half
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July 24th, 2013 02:48 PM #8
deciding between Maxwell . Calvin . Finn
Beckett | Jude | Nolan | Dalton | Max | Finn | Teague | Bram | Otis | Ari | Calvin
Jane | Alice | Naomi | Fiona | Georgia | Gwyneth | Thea | Aviva
Elena 'Laney' | Bridget | Cordelia | Evadne | Shea
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Boy #2 due 01-06-18
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Patrick "Paddy" (other nickname suggestions? I like Trick but am worried it's just way too much)-- Eh, I dislike the name Patrick because the only nn that isn't weird or doesn't sound like a leprechaun is Pat, which isn't the cutest for a little boy. Works for a man though.
George "Geo"-- Never heard of this nn, and I think people might think it's a stretch/too bizarre.
Winston "Win"-- Nah.
August "Gus" -- Dingdingding! August fits perfectly with your other classic boys' names, and Gus is freaking adorable. Absolutely the best choice.
Edmund "Teddy" (Teddy is an accepted nn for Edmund, right?) -- Not to my knowledge, no. Teddy is for Theodore. Which would be a good choice, actually!
Charles "Chaz" (we fell in love with Chuck but then realized it rhymes with Huck... ugh)-- Chaz is all Bono to me.
Arthur "Artie" (I'm not sold on this but husband loves it)-- Not bad. My 2nd choice from this list.L e o n a P e a r l
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The downloads include the 3DS games 3D Classics: Kid Icarus (200 coins) and DSiWare shooter Metal Torrent (200 coins). Wii U owners can download Donkey Kong Jr. (200 coins) and Paper Mario (250 coins). If you're a Wii owner, you can also download Paper Mario for the same price.
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Hey, thanks all
I have a couple hunert pounds of pure lead, and about a ton of WW, been scroungin' for years. Glad I did in the earlier days, as now I keep hearing all the scare about the zinc in some. I should have enough to last me and my kids and perhaps grandkids. Pure lead a little harder to get for free and that's the kind I like best, haven't paid for any yet.
I will try a controlled test of WW and pure lead for myself, that would be the only way to find out on my own. Never thought about the aspect of damaging the rifling on a BP rifle with WW, was thinking it would only affect the skirt flare and/or accuracy with blowby if skirt did not flare. I have never driven WW past 1400fps because of the lack of hardness and leading at higher velocities, so I was hoping it would be soft enough for BP rifles.
I push WW in my Remi 58's and Ruger OA, but then again I am not driving tacks, mostly just making noise. I currently don't compete in any groups, and only recenly (finally) joined the local sportsmens club. Been doing it all at the pasture and pond shooting live targets, ie. turtles and carp.
As soon as harvest is over and summer planting done, I intend to take this 58 out and see how it handles.
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"Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water. – On Starlit Seas"
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Tomorrow at the World Cup, host nation South Africa (nickname: bafana bafana, "the boys the boys") takes on Uruguay. Here, local chicken and burger joint chain Nandos looks to lure South American visitors in with a post-game offer of free booger sugar? "No, not that kind of coke" chides the copy. Just liquid sugar—but only if the Uruguayans lose and only with a valid passport. Pretty lame, Nandos. At least with the Mexicans, you offered free lunch (which they didn't have to pay out because of the 1-1 draw Friday) with your illegal immigrant copy dig. Click ads for closer look. |Images: cherryflava|
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wow. that passport comment is ballsy…errr, not nice.
Well, I would say that it was the best advertisement I have seen recently. Even if they lose, I don't think that the burger joint would be facing any loss as they would have become popular among the football fans by now.
This is the best way to attract people to the restaurant and the advertisement is so cool. But the question is that what is the reason for giving such offers? If the restaurant is providing such offers then what will be their profit from these?
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And now, the Mets' rebuilding plans depend on JPMorgan Chase
The New York Mets' media blitz on Monday, in conjunction with extending the contract of manager Terry Collins, produced the kind of headlines the team was presumably hoping for.
"Terry Collins officially back, and Mets seem ready to spend," and "Alderson: Mets set to spend this offseason" and "Jeff Wilpon, Sandy Alderson say it's time for Mets to stop talking and start winning."
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And why not? As Alderson pointed out on Monday, the Mets have $25 million in salary commitments for 2014, David Wright's $20 million and Jon Niese's $5 million. Even if they bring everybody back who is arbitration eligible, that's another 11 players, at an estimated $22.3 million. That's just north of $47 million.
And back in June, Alderson said the Mets should have a $90-100 million payroll, so the team could add "enough to be competitive because we can use the money on position players, which is our problem right now."
Soo what's the holdup?
Oh, right. The crippling debt.
The New York Post reported on Tuesday that Fred Wilpon and his partners are reaching out to banks now, attempting to re-finance the $250 million loan due against the team in June 2014 without having to pay any more of the principal due.
There's some really useful information within that news, so let's break it down.
For one thing, it allows us to account for that $160 million the Mets owners got last winter, borrowing from the last bit of equity they had in their ownership stake of S.N.Y. Annually, the Mets have been servicing their debt to the tune of roughly $90 million, between the loan against the team coming due, the loan against S.N.Y., now greater than $600 million, due in 2015, and the twice-annual debt balloon payments on Citi Field.
That the other $70 million went toward paying down that loan, from $320 million to $250 million, means the last of the money is almost certainly gone.
The Post also reported that the Mets lost only $10 million in 2013, down dramatically from the $70 million loss in 2011. But that difference of $60 million is a reflection of decreased payroll spending, not of increased revenue. (The Mets have seen revenue drop significantly over the past few years, thanks to fielding a team degraded by lack of resources.)
Now, the Mets have a winter to survive without selling minority shares in the team (been there, done that), or by tapping their equity in S.N.Y. (also been there, done that). It is noteworthy that when they did the latter last winter, they managed to get only an additional $160 million, even though the value of S.N.Y. doubled from $1 billion to $2 billion since the Mets owners originally borrowed $450 million against it back in 2010. It is also noteworthy that during this re-financing, the term of the loan didn't change: it's still coming due in 2015.
But first the Mets need to get past that $250 million due next year. Whether they can is entirely up to JPMorgan Chase, which essentially needs to weigh things like whether by delaying, they stand a better chance of getting their money, or if they are better off forcing a sale now, when they are at the front of the line, chronologically. This seems to matter to JPMorgan Chase, as it did both when they refused to let David Einhorn ahead of them in the repayment line during negotiations in the summer of 2011, or by forcing the Mets to reduce the amount due to David Wright between the day he signed his extension and June 2014.
Hypothetically, they could give up this chronological position, and also determine that delaying without asking for any principal is best, and even be comfortable with the Mets spending on free agents this winter to help improve the chances of the Mets becoming profitable again. But there's been no indication that they're happy to do any of these things before now, which has led to the years of austerity.
There's another problem, beyond even getting the loan refinanced, extended, and avoiding any principal payment: the Mets' owners then need money to spend on the team. Remember, they've managed to cover team losses and finance their debt, not with incoming capital each of the past two years, but by selling the asset of minority shares for 2012, and borrowing against S.N.Y. for 2013. With these options closed to them now, exactly how they raise the money to cover any 2014 losses, let alone finance their debt, remains another problem to solve.
And once that's taken care of, then, and only then, can they conceivably move forward with some kind of budget for 2014. Every dollar spent on a free agent might well be a dollar ownership needs to cover losses and debt service, just as has been the case in prior winters, but without the infusion of capital from minority share sale or additional loan against S.N.Y. It's all got to come from somewhere.
It's been darkly amusing to watch the Mets, 18 months after the trustee suing them determined they were circling the financial drain, make statements of good financial health absent any change or reason to believe them, even within the context of taking basic steps merely to survive. They've done so again. Now it'll be up to the good people at JPMorgan Chase to determine how closely those statements can hew to reality.
It isn't any wonder that the vision of competitiveness back in June from Sandy Alderson has given way to this kind of hazy conversation. We want to believe their promises. But what the Mets do won't necessarily be up to them.


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Yep. The rest of the world laughs at us because of this kind of religious insanity
Louisiana Use Public Funds To Teach Creationism
- by Judy Molland
- November 26, 2012
First came Louisiana's Science Education Act, passed in 2008, which encourages teachers to critique science such as evolution and global warming and see creationism and evolution as competing theories. It was the first of its kind to be approved in a state legislature, although other states, notably Tennessee, are following suit.
Now this year, Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law a new voucher program, which gives thousands of poor and middle-class students the funds to pay for the full cost of tuition at 120 private schools across Louisiana, including small, Bible-based church schools.
Louisiana has embarked on the nation's biggest experiment in privatizing public education, as the state moves tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public schools to pay private industry, businesses owners and church pastors to educate children.
Every time a student receives a voucher, his local public school will lose a chunk of state funding. This is the nightmare that many of us educators have been afraid of for a long time: getting rid of public education.
But it gets worse: the Science Education Act, as bad as it is, directs teachers to present creationism and evolution as equal options. Instead, some of these state-sponsored private schools will be deliberately spreading ignorance by using curriculum that repudiates modern science.
As a classroom teacher, I find this morally repugnant. Teaching is about empowering students with knowledge, not presenting them with a bunch of lies.
Buzzfeed recently printed some pages from an unnamed fifth grade textbook in an article entitled "Here Is What Louisiana Schoolchildren Learn About Evolution."
Here's just a sample:
Evolutionists believe that dinosaurs and man never lived on the earth at the same time. But the Bible says that God created all the land and sea animals during the fifth and sixth days of Creation. And He created man on the sixth day of Creation. So dinosaurs and man would have lived at the same time. God's word is always accurate. We can trust it to be true even in areas of science.
This might be laughable, except for the fact that it is downright dangerous to present the Bible as fact to fifth graders.
Here's another example from Discover:
One textbook used by many private schools makes the creationist claim that no transitional fossils showing evolutionary changes have ever been found, which is simply not true. "This gradual change from fish to reptiles has no scientific basis," the book reads. "For the change, to have taken place many transitional forms would have been developed. However, no transitional fossils have been or will ever be discovered because God created each type of fish, amphibian, and reptile as separate, unique animals. Any similarities that exist among them are due to the fact that one Master Craftsman fashioned them all" [poor reasoning and use of commas theirs; emphasis ours].
This excerpt comes from a high-school science book used in the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum, an educational tool in many Louisiana schools.
Another popular textbook publisher in Louisiana is bju press, "Christ-centered resources for education, edification, & evangelism." The opening of the description for the fifth grade book reads "Science 5 focuses on man's use of God's creation and design as well as a study of minerals and rock, fossils, matter and heat.."
Why do people have to hold on to these simplistic ideas that deny reality and make them the laughing stock of the world? Can they really not see the Bible as metaphor?
I have plenty of ideas on this, but can't do better than Bill Nye in this video: after pointing out that the denial of evolution is pretty much unique to the US, he explains that evolution is the fundamental idea behind all of life science, so it gets really hard to explain the world if you don't believe in evolution. He finishes with a plea to grown-ups, that if they want to hold this completely inconstant view of the world, at least don't force this on the kids.
And all this is happening in schools funded by taxpayer money? Outrageous.
What do you think?
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I don't understand how it is legal to teach creationism or other creator based theories in a public school science classroom. I thought SCOTUS already dealt with this issue.
And I am very grateful to live somewhere that the education is top notch, and I don't have to worry about this nonsense.
This is why orgs such as Freedom From Religion Foundation (http://ffrf.org/) and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (https://www.au.org/) need our support.
They have mine.
Without continued vigilance we would see the Constitution shredded and our nation turned into a Christocracy.
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I think its a great idea! Jmo.
It is your opinion that teaching non-science in a public school science classroom is a great idea?
May I ask which state you live in?
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No offence, but no. Considering my sn is a little giving away my real name.
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Quoting ashleybgarcia:
I think its a great idea! Jmo.
It is your opinion that teaching non-science in a public school science classroom is a great idea?
May I ask which state you live in?
What about the first question, can you answer that one?
And tell me if you are in a Southern state? Or is that too specific as well?
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I think its a great idea! Jmo.
It is your opinion that teaching non-science in a public school science classroom is a great idea?
May I ask which state you live in?
Well, what do you expect from the South? Keep them ignorant of truth and fill their heads with religious 'truths'. I'm just glad I live in the North.
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From what I read, it said private school, and that's up to them.
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I think its a great idea! Jmo.
It is your opinion that teaching non-science in a public school science classroom is a great idea?
May I ask which state you live in?
It's TAX money being used teach religion and that is a violation of the Constitution- THAT'S what the problem is.
We spent about a day brushing over the concept of "Intelligent Design" in my 9th (or was it 10th?) grade integrated science class...then we moved on to evolution. That's about as much attention this nonsense deserves.
I am absolutely appalled that taxpayers are funding religious education---in science class! I would have no problem with a world religions class, or even a series of classes on individual religions, as I think such would actually do society some good, however, religious creation stories have no place in the teaching of evolution or the origin of species.
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Taraji P. Henson Will Star in a Gender-Flipped Remake of What Women Want
If there is one movie that really doesn't hold up well in 2017, it might be What Women Want.
If there is one movie that really doesn't hold up well in 2017, it might be What Women Want.
Monday night's Jeopardy! had a "What Women Want" category, but instead of featuring things women actually want—paid maternity leave, to finally adopt the ERA—it had herbal tea and good-fitting jeans. (It wasn't even a celebrity edition.)
"Talk to them like humans and don't be a jerk," conclude the writers, "Just like dudes in romance novels."
Just kidding! Science still can't figure it out.
A TrueCar.com study of recent U.S. vehicle registrations found only nine cars — all small cars and crossovers — are more likely to be bought by women than men. Volkswagen's Beetle topped the list with 56% female registrants. [LAT]
Chevrolet recently redesigned the Equinox to include some "female-friendly" tweaks. In today's pink-it-and-shrink-it world, what, exactly, does this mean?
A survey of 2,500 women revealed that our "secret turn-ons" include facial stubble and a geeky personality. And more than half of respondents eschew the muscles in favor of a cuddly man, despite what they say in public. [Mirror]
The 76ers are offering a special Ladies Night Out promotion, which almost sounds like a good time (wine and free junk!) except for one thing: tickets include two salads. Would a hot dog really have been too much to ask? [NBA]
A new, highly unscientific study from Matchmaker.com, Date.com and Amor.com found that men are more likely to admit to being "depressed and upset" after a breakup. This somehow prompted Joanna Molloy for the NY Daily News to write this:
What women want - aka, female sexual desire - is a fraught issue in the mental health community. Also: Raisins.
Newsweek ponders "The Pursuit of Sexual Happiness" and wonders what turns women on. I wonder why this is such a big mystery.
Dating site OKCupid analyzed 500,000 inquiry messages and found, as shown in the chart at left, that calling a woman "pretty" decreased a man's chance of getting a response. Women prefer comments about their interests, not looks. [Sociological Images]
Sony Ericsson has finally figured out what women want in a cell phone! Its Jalou phone is shaped like a diamond and features a mirror, horoscope application, and pedometer to "see how far you have walked while out shopping."
According to the Telegraph, British men are the least romantic in the world, and have no idea what women want. But as a woman, I am puzzled, what do we want?
PR companies trying to shill shit for women email us with their announcements, hard sells and hoopla. The result? A smattering of what people think women (or we) want. Crap emails from publicists, after the jump.
Let's start with the headline: "Can an ex-civil servant finally persuade women to buy erotica?"
Anna and I were not the only ones to weigh in on the New York Times Magazine story about research into female sexuality. Much of the female blogosphere weighed in today as well:
Do you want the ads for the crap that you buy to be more female-friendly? Well you're in luck! An ad agency called Womenkind just opened its doors in New York City, and its goal is to "use a network of women to conceptualize and execute ads designed to appeal to females." Apparently 85% of all brand purchases are…


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Jan 11, 2011
$100 DIY cheese vat/sous vide circulating water oven
I love cheese.
So does Yoav Perry, our friend and neighbor who makes, invents, and ages his own cheese.
Yoav's idea is to make a digital cheese vat based on our $50 dollar sous vide. Since temperature control is essential for cheesemaking, we are on the same precise heating page. He purchased a discount double-pan roaster at Kmart to serve as the water oven. We then hatched plans to replace the innards of the roaster with the sous vide components.
This post gives details of the technical aspects, but please enjoy Yoav's account of the construction as well.
UPDATE: We now have a kit to build your own sous vide controller for $80! It requires soldering, but we think it produces an elegant and convenient result.
Shopping list:
- Roasting oven (Yoav found this Oster 22-qt oven on sale for $30; Amazon)
- JLD612 PID controller (Lightobject)
- Pt-100 RTD temperature sensor (Lightobject)
- 25A Solid state relay (Lightobject)
- Aquarium air pump (Amazon)
- Aquarium air tubing (Amazon)
- 2 feet of high temperature wire (18 gauge)
- Ring and spade terminals (18 gauge)
- Electrical tape
As always, please build anything you plug into a wall at your own risk.
NB: serious hackers! We have a quickie MAKE guide.
We first disassemble the roaster– we unscrew the bottom, remove insulation, and detach the thermostat. The wiring is very simple, but the roaster's thermostat is difficult to remove.
At first we weren't aware our wires needed to be high-temp safe so we used basic double stranded wires (as seen above). Disastrously, during our trial run our wires started melting– so now we write instructions now to fit our high-temp safe single strand wires.
Prep four high-temperature wires. Two will be the power cords, so we attach ring terminals on either end. The other two will control the relay, so we attach spade terminals. Check that the ring and spade terminals will fit into their PID locations before fastening them on. See the wiring diagram for details.
Pull on the wire and attached electrodes to ensure they will not come loose.
Next, we use heat shrink tubing to protect wires. If tubing is not available, an easy substitution is to cover the thermostat hole in a few layers of electrical tape.
Next, pull out the two wires attached to thermostat of the roaster through the hole. Attach the wires to the SSR according to the above wiring diagram.
Now, take one prepped wire with ring terminals and connect it to the roaster power wire inside the roaster. Connect the other wire with ring terminals to SSR terminal 2. Connect the other ends of these wires to the PID controller terminals 1 and 2.
It's now time for the prepped wires with spade terminals. Use one wire to connect SSR terminal 4 to PID terminal 7, and the other to connect SSR terminal 3 to PID terminal 6.
Finally, connect the thermocouple to PID terminals 8-10 as shown in the wiring diagram.
We have found the Pt-100 sensor to be particularly sensitive to water so we put the whole thing inside a latex glove.
Lastly, we put the end of the air pump tubing into the air pump, and the other end between the tines of a fork to weigh the tube down.
The last step is to correct the thermocouple settings on the PID controller. On the PID, hit SET, enter the number 0089, and press SET again. Scroll up or down so that"Inty" is blinking, and press SET. Then scroll so that "Pt10.0″ is blinking. This lets the controller know we are using a Pt-100 and want to measure temperature to 0.1 degrees. Press SET, scroll to "End" and press SET.
And she is finished! We add water to the tub and plug everything in.


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I have made and drunk so much of this stuff. Depending on the quality of the apple cider you use and how long you leave it to mature, your hard cider will come out one of two ways:
Strong, gets the job done, but swallow it quick, OR, strong and wow that actually tastes great!
You can be drinking your hard cider within the week, but for the best results you want to leave it for 3-4 weeks. Likewise, this can be made very cheaply with low cost apple cider, but the very best results come from the higher quality apple cider.
A word of warning – if you drink this stuff like you drink beer, you will be on your back pretty quickly. This stuff is nearer the strength of wine than it is beer…
If you want you want to have a go making your own hard cider, Greene Deane from Eat The Weeds has written a great article which includes details on how to make your own hard cider.
How To Make Hard Cider
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