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Egg V4 (tamago) is a multilingual input method for Emacsen
written in only Emacs-Lisp. It supports the following translating servers:
jserver, cserver, tserver, Wnn6, SJ3 ver 1 and ver 2, cannaserver, wxgserver,
and anthy.
WWW: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?p=elisp/tamago.git;a=summary
WWW: https://github.com/hrs-allbsd/tamago
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/editors/tamago/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install tamago-emacs25
cd /usr/ports/editors/tamago/ && make install clean
pkg install tamago-emacs25
PKGNAME: tamago-emacs25
SHA256 (hrs-allbsd-tamago-v126.96.36.199.20041122.19.14_GH0.tar.gz) = c9ffa59b5d56c1dc97c09fb2fc0a7b0abde1b1cb25cb338cc976c6c59689f5cd
SIZE (hrs-allbsd-tamago-v188.8.131.52.20041122.19.14_GH0.tar.gz) = 365797
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
===> The following configuration options are available for tamago-emacs25-18.104.22.168.20041122.19.14_2:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Enabling Tamago
You can now enable Tamago by adding one of following lines to your
.emacs file depending on the language you use:
Japanese: (set-language-environment "Japanese")
Korean: (set-language-environment "Korean")
Chinese-GB: (set-language-environment "Chinese-GB")
Chinese-CNS: (set-language-environment "Chinese-CNS")
Affects: users of editors/tamago
Author: email@example.com
The Wnn backend of editors/tamago port now uses unix domain socket
to communicate the server by default. If $[CJKT]SERVER environment
variable is defined, the value is used as the server host name. In
JSERVER case, for example, the server name is determined in the
following way:
$JSERVER --(if null)--> wnn-jserver --(if null)--> "unix"
If the server host name is null or matches "^unix$", unix domain
socket is used. The path name of the socket can be specified in
wnn-[cjkt]udpath custom variable.
Number of commits found: 84
Chase Emacs update
Chase editors/emacs update to version 25.2
Reported by: des
Approved by: ashish (emacs maintainer), swills (mentor, implicit)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10534
- Use Github for the distfile instead of old, unmaintained tarball
and local patches.
- Compress .el files by default.
- Remove egg-helper.
- Fix some warnings due to obsolete functions or variables.
- Switch to options helpers
- While here, add some NO_ARCHes
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Remove $FreeBSD$ from patches files everywhere.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
MASTER_SITES cleanup.
- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.
Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Chase GNU Emacs updates
- Use fboundp instead of boundp to check binding of
- Remove an extra flag for test(1) in Makefile.in.
- Use with-current-buffer instead of a save-excursion + set-buffer pair.
- Fix (fboundp finalize) in egg/wnn.el and egg/canna.el.
- Remove HAS_JISX0213 check.
- Nuke *.el files from plist.
- Fix a bug that deactivate-input-method was not called in
- Remove an unnecessary overriding-local-map call in
- Regenerate patch files.
- Call override-local-map to set menudiag minibuffer keymap securely.
This fixes "Text is read-only" error when a number is directly entered
to select an entry. [*]
- Deactivate input method when opening minibuffer for consistency.
Reported by: ARAI Shun-ichi [*]
- Fix egg-sim "invalid code(s)" issue[*].
- Reword pkg-descr.
Reported by: ARAI Shun-ichi [*]
- Fix warnings due to use of obsolete functions.
- Style fixes.
Fix warnings.
- Chase GNU Emacs updates
Cleanup plist
Add a patch forgotten in the previous commit.
Unbreak by completing staging.
- STAGEDIR support
- Update WWW in pkg-descr.
Reset maintainership for non staged ports
With hat: portmgr
- Convert gmake to USES
Approved by: portmgr
Fix properties on pkg-plist
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- Remove MAKE_JOBS_SAFE variable
Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery)
- Improve compatibility with older Emacsen.
- Mark MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes.
- Respect CC and CFLAGS for egg-helper.
- Remove redundant lines and style clean-ups.
- Fix (accept-process-output) to use (with-local-quit).
- Replace (inactivate-current-input-method-function) with
- Replace (inactivate-input-method) with (deactivate-input-method).
- Rename obsolete symbol (s/last-command-char/last-command-event/) which
prevents it from working with Emacs 24.3.
- Minor style fixes.
Submitted by: Yasuhiro KIMURA
PR: ports/177498
Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery)
GNU Emacs updates
- Update to 24.3
- Update CANNA patchset[1]
- Unbreak ARM support by using the patch from emacs-devel port
- Add missing INSTALLS_ICONS[2]
- Remove a patch which is already integrated upstream
- Fix Makefile header
- Update to bzr revision 112178
- Fix Makefile header
- Add missing INSTALLS_ICONS[2]
- Add LICENSE.
- Style fix.
Submitted by: Yasuhiro KIMURA
PR: ports/175286
Chase Emacs updates
- Update to 126.96.36.199.20041122.19.
- Fix make-local-hook issue in emacs24.
PR: ports/170360
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M tamago/distinfo
AM tamago/files/post-patch-egg.el
AM tamago/files/post-patch-menudiag.el
M tamago/Makefile
Add support for emacs24.
Spotted by: beat
- Bump PORTREVISION to chase Emacs port updates
- Unbreak INDEX caused by databases/lsdb, editors/flim, and editors/semi
- update png to 1.5.10
- Chase Emacs updates
PR: ports/165082
- Chase editors/emacs update
Chase editors/emacs update
Chase editors/emacs update.
PR: ports/160196
- Get Rid MD5 support
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
Update to 4.0.6+0.20041122.18.
Feature safe: yes
Add emacs23 support.
Feature safe: yes
PR: ports/144393
- update to jpeg-8
Changes to editors/emacs and Mk/bsd.emacs.mk were taken from
PR/137956 by Ashish SHUKLA (thanks!). [1]
Those ports which define EMACS_PORT_NAME to be "emacs21" were
not touched (this time). They may be converted to the new
world order by removing the above mentioned assignment.
Four ports were marked as BROKEN with EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs23
(they do not compile):
. lang/bigloo;
. mail/wanderlust;
. mail/wanderlust-devel;
. www/emacs-w3m.
Three ports were marked as IGNORE with EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs23:
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
Add unix domain socket support for Wnn backend and use it by
default. If $[CJKT]SERVER environment variable is defined, the
value is used as the server host name. In JSERVER case, for
example, the server name is determined in the following way:
$JSERVER --(if null)--> wnn-jserver --(if null)--> "unix"
If the server host name is null or matches "^unix$", unix
domain socket is used. The path name of the socket can be
specified in wnn-[cjkt]udpath custom variable.
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Forced commit to note the port was repocopied to editors/tamago-emacs21
PR: ports/114671
Submitted by: maintainer
Repocopied by: marcus
Obey default EMACS_PORT_NAME defined in bsd.emacs.mk.
Reported by: pav
Fix works on FreeWnn-server and 64bit-emacs.
PR: ports/113755
Submitted by: Nobuhiro Ban <email@example.com>
Debian patch is updated to 11. Now it includes latest anthy patch
from Hideyuki SHIRAI.
PR: ports/112993
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
Install extra files with emacs 21 and above.
PR: ports/109481
Submitted by: NIIMI Satoshi <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Add patch that fixes some bugs that occur when Anthy (japanese/anthy) is used
as backend engine.
PR: ports/98066
Submitted by: maintainer
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with E
- Fix possibility of "infinite make fork" when "Registering install for ..."
EMACS ports. [1]
- Allow building a port as root using an NFS-mounted /usr/ports if the
server maps root to a UID other than root. [2]
- Make 'BROKEN' and 'IGNORED' ports exit their "make install" with a fail
status rather than success. [3]
- Improve behavior when dealing with versioned dependencies. [4]
- Fix false positives in check-conflicts target. [5]
- Remove obsolete bzip2 code. [6]
- Add SHA256
Update editors/tamago to debian patchlevel 9
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Approved by: novel (mentor)
Update to 126.96.36.199.20041122.8
PR: ports/80508
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <email@example.com>
- Debian patch is updated to 7.
- Change to install some additional documents.
- Add description about Debian's enhancement to pkg-descr.
PR: ports/79763
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Debian patch was updated to 4.0.6+0.20041122cvs-5, which fixes
the bug in eggrc.
PR: ports/78331
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Debian patch was updated to 4.0.6+0.20041122cvs-4.
- Change pkg-message.
PR: ports/78100
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <email@example.com>
update Debian patch to egg_4.0.6+0.20041122cvs-3.
oops, I forget to add new patch.
update Debian patch to egg_4.0.6+0.20041122cvs-2.
- Tamago didn't work with Canna since last update.
- add note how to use recent Tamago with Canna.
Update to 20041122 snapshot
PR: ports/77414
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro
Display pkg-message when installing from port
PR: ports/73693
Submitted by: TAOKA Fumiyoshi
Update to latest upstream-patch
PR: ports/70008
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro
- Update to 220.127.116.11.20020909.5
PR: ports/69840
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Fix hangup problem in japanese-egg-anthy input method.
PR: ports/68617
Submitted by: SANETO Takanori <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Fix plist and unbreak for tamago-emacs20
PR: ports/67957
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <email@example.com>
Without touching .nosearch, normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path
function in subdirs.el adds %%ELISPDIR%%/egg/egg which is for
implementation specific.
This port has egg/egg/anthy.el, and japanese/anthy also have anthy.el
for actual use. Anthy tries to load egg/egg/anthy.el, not thier
anthy.el without this fix.
Update to HEAD branch(4 times revised at 2002.09.09 based 4.0.6).
PR: ports-jp/14676, ports/66656
Submitted by: KIMURA Yasuhiro <email@example.com>
Obtained from: Debian
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 2)
Remove redundant dependencies. Mk/bsd.emacs.mk takes care of them.
Replace ${PERL} with ${REINPLACE_CMD}
Submitted by: Oliver Braun <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Add missing plist entries.
Oops, I put old patchfile on freefall. Update to use new one.
Add a patch to catch up tamago's CVS. Change default taget to emacs21.
Make use of bsd.emacs.mk and its variables.
Convert category editors to new layout.
EMACS_VER should now be 20.7.
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by hispanic_arts , April 30, 2012—12:00 AM
La Orquesta de Los Taino will perform at Jose Acosta Event!
This Saturday May 5, 2012 at the Arts Society of Kingston New York, 97 Broadway from 5 to 8 pm La Orquesta de Los Taino will be performing their music for all guests to enjoy at the Cuban American Art Exhibition by Jose Acosta. La Orquesta de Los Taino is one of the most famous Latin music bands in all the Hudson Valley and once you hear their music you will know why.
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|History: 43 y/o male with pain after falling on his hand. The original hand and wrist film were read as normal. We couldn't see any abnormalities on this digital film either.
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By Paul Horsley
That the Lyric Opera's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute is a banquet of visual delights is beyond question. Its wildly colorful scenic designs, digital animations and costumes by world-renowned sculptor Jun Kaneko are quite unlike anything we've seen on the Lyric stage: Playful and fun in often explosively eye-dilating ways, they nevertheless retain the integrity of Jun's work as visual artist: Those familiar with his sculptures will find familiarity in the near-obsession with parallel lines, which in his sculpture and ceramic work often takes the form of long drips of molten glass. Moreover Jun has a remarkably musical ear, and this co-production with San Francisco Opera, which opened November 9th at the Kauffman Center, succeeds in translating Mozart's music into visual language with incredible ingenuity. In the Overture, for example, a series of colored lines etch their way across the front scrim vertically and horizontally at first, and retreat: Then during the music's "development section" the lines become curved and even confused to reflect the increased harmonic complexity of the musical/orchestral texture. If Jun's designs are based more on the actual sound of the music than on the eclectic and at times darkly confounding content of Schikander's libretto, the top-rank cast and musical team that the Lyric has assembled assures the production's artistic success: Musically this is among the finer productions the company has mounted, even if the end result is as oddly troubling as Flute usually is. And because it's sung and spoken in English, the story is coherent even without the Kauffman's "Figaro" title system.
This opera is above all a conundrum, and for more than two centuries it has lent itself to an array of crazily unconventional treatments – partly because it's not easy to figure out exactly what it's about. On the surface: The old order represented by the Queen of the Night's dark but not especially evil world and Sarastro's vaguely misogynistic council of Masonic elders is seeking new blood, as represented by youthful hero Tamino and his equally important would-be bride, Pamina – the Queen's daughter, whom Sarastro has nabbed from her mother "for her own protection" and locked up in a sort of harem.
Walking a fine line between the story's fundamental silliness and the seriousness of establishing a benevolent world order is tricky, but not impossible. Stage director Harry Silverstein's Act 1 is pure delight, its whimsical elements lending themselves easily to Jun's visuals: The dragon that the Three Ladies slay for Tamino has two toothy heads, while the Ladies themselves are dressed in startling purple, tealish and red-orange gowns. Images of rings cascade downward on the upstage scrim while Tamino sings his famous "locket" aria, suggesting perhaps his yearning to marry the woman whose portrait he has just seen. Papageno is dressed in square-grid plaid and feathered vest and a crazed bird cap, while diminutive Monostatos sports a burst of frizzy hair. The Queen is stunning in red and gold with midnight blue cape, and rippling colored stripes splay out like a peacock tail on the scrim while she sings her Act 1 aria. The Three Boys (called "Spirits" here because they are sung by girls) enter high atop three green, red and gold ice-cream-cones – or are they inverted pyramids, perhaps, a subtle upsetting of the quasi-Masonic "Templar Knights" shape seen throughout the show? (Pyramids have long been a standard part of productions of Flute.) Even Pamina's rather ungainly "petticoats" look like three pyramids stacked on top of one another. Tamino is dressed more demurely, in "royal" bluish purple, and his flute ushers in several fantastical figures representing a gaggle of barely identifiable creatures.
Act 2 is another matter. As it contains more serious content, Jun was correct in toning down the attention-grabbing visuals. It was also appropriate that Harry slowed down the stage action a bit as the libretto delved into deeper philosophical questions, though at times it felt there was too much stand-and-sing in the very parts where the notorious dramatic longeurs of Act 2 called for more movement. Pamina's ensemble with the Spirits, for instance, seemed to yearn for some interaction between the quartet. More important, some of the more serious elements were treated to a level of whimsy that sometimes threw the dramatic pitch off-balance. We already had buffoonish denizens of the "harem" in Act 1, who are often cast as mildly menacing guys but in this case seemed hardly a threat. That point could perhaps be debated, but the "Armored Men" are, in my view, truly scary figures, and to have them skip onstage like robotic automatons robbed the scene of the gravity the music and text seem to convey.
Gary Thor Wedow led the KC Symphony with comfortable command, thoughtful musical ideas and brisk tempos (except for the Act 1 Quintet, which felt draggy). Ensemble was at times off, but not seriously so. But Pamina's big Act 2 aria moved forward at a sensible pace, instead of noodling around arhythmically as it often does. In fact Lauren Snouffer as Pamina was the singer I was most taken with: With a bright, radiant, bell-like soprano she was just serious enough to convince you she was an emotional wreck. Shawn Mathey sang Tamino with strength and clarity, conveying ardor in both body language and his sweet, ringing tenor. Kathryn Lewek, a favorite Queen of the Night these days, nailed her otherworldly coloratura arpeggios to the wall in her "vengeance" aria, but more impressive to me was the pathos with which she quickly conveyed, in Act 1, the full suffering of a mother whose child has been kidnapped.
Daniel Belcher's Papageno was fun throughout, sung capably and played with a savvy restraint that did not blunt the comedic moments (as when he motions to Tamino to "count him out" of the noble pledges). Andrew Gangestad drew my attention as the Speaker, his voice and demeanor always commanding (though I'm not sure why his face and those of other characters were painted kabuki-esque white). Stately Jeffrey Beruan as Sarastro sang with a glorious mid-range but struggled for the all-important growly low tones. Doug Jones played an athletic Monostatos, bouncing around with his lecherous desire for Pamina. The rest of the large cast sang with consistency across the board, and the chorus delivered a finely honed, full-bodied sound in all but a few passages. Special credit goes to the technical team, which offered up visuals that one rarely sees except in the most lavishly expensive Broadway productions: lighting designers Paul Pyant and Christ Maravich, wig and makeup designer Alison Hanks and a host of others.
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He's No. 2, and trying harder.
With consternation in some corners about the Edmonton Oilers' lack of a bona fide No. 1 centre, even with the acquisition of Michael Peca, Shawn Horcoff won't even try to pass himself off as a reasonable facsimile.
But, while GM Kevin Lowe may have to address the concern at some point - if circumstances and budget dictate - Horcoff is convinced he can make a case that he's the real deal as a second banana.
Judging by offensive numbers that have improved in every one of his first four NHL seasons and the campaign he just spent dangling in Sweden during the NHL lockout, the fleet-footed Horcoff can make a reasonably persuasive argument for that.
"I'm excited about getting a chance to step up my play, improve and be a bigger contributor," Horcoff said.
"That's been my goal. When you come into the NHL you sometimes have to change your game to keep a spot, and that's what I did. I've been able to get a bit better every year and score more points."
Horcoff, 26, has managed that since he left Michigan State and broke in with the Oilers during the 2000-01 season.
The six-foot-one, 205-pound pivot from Trail, B.C., had 16 points in 49 games as a rookie.
In 2001-02, he produced 22 points in 61 games. In 2002-03, Horcoff hit double-digits in goals for the first time, with 12, and finished with 33 points. In 2003-04, his totals jumped to 40 points in 80 games.
OK, so that won't garner Horcoff comparisons to Peter Forsberg or Joe Thornton, but if Horcoff can improve on 2003-04 - by the way, he had 46 points in 50 games with Mora - what's not to like about him at No. 2?
"I don't know. Time will tell," coach Craig MacTavish said, asked if Horcoff can improve on past offensive totals.
"I think it's important we give him the opportunity and situational ice time that he can develop into that type of player.
"Shawn's a smart guy, he sees the opportunity to step in and fill an important offensive role for us."
Horcoff, who filed for a salary arbitration hearing earlier this week, finished fifth in Oilers scoring in 2003-04 with 15-25-40 behind Ryan Smyth, Radek Dvorak, Petr Nedved and Mike York.
Used mostly on the third and fourth lines in his first three seasons, 28 of Horcoff's 40 points came at even strength, again, fifth on the team. He had nine power-play points and three more shorthanded.
"Last season was huge for me," Horcoff said of his time with Mora. "It enabled me to work on my offensive game. I want to be looked at as a guy who can be counted on for 50 points.
"That's a goal of mine. When you first come into the league, you're just happy to be here. Once you establish yourself, you want to build on that and become a better player."
If Peca can return to the form that saw him score 25-35-60 with the New York Islanders in 2001-02, when he earned his second Frank Selke Trophy as the NHL's top defensive forward, and Horcoff can notch 50 points, the Oilers won't be as thin on scoring at pivot on the first two lines as some fear.
"Horcoff will have something to say about that," MacTavish said.
"Peca is a guy who gives me a lot of flexibility. You can use him in offensive situations. You can use him to match-up against lines.
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The British should probably reconsider making too many movies and TV shows about their intelligence agencies. After all, look at what's happened to the Americans. After 30-plus years of Hollywood dragging the reputation of the CIA and the FBI through the mud, the vast majority of people around the world now freely blame everything from the drought to the morning subway train being late on the CIA.
And so, with the coming of the British "Spooks" (re-titled "MI-5" for American consumption), it won't be long before people begin blaming the fluctuations in their country's stock market on shadowy agents of MI-5. And no, James Bond doesn't count. He's a good spy, remember? James Bond battles Goldfinger for the fate of the Earth, while the CIA engineers the rise of dictators and poisons rice crops in Asia because, you know, they're evil and stuff. Of course, the only people who probably don't think too highly of James Bond are the South Koreans, ala the "Die Another Day" fiasco of last year, but that's another story.
Matthew MacFadyen leads the cast of "Spooks" as Tom Quinn, an agency veteran who is seeing a woman who doesn't know his real name, or his occupation. After an abortion doctor is killed in a bomb blast that also injures her young daughter, MI-5 targets pro-life extremists gearing up for more attacks. Before the pilot's first 10 minutes are up, the agents have efficiently zeroed in on an infamous American pro-life activist who has come across the Pond to train some of her British brethrens in the death trade. (Apparently the irony of killing in order to save children from being aborted doesn't register. Oh well, who ever said extremism made sense.)
And that, as they say, is the story. Well, mostly. While MI-5 attempts to capture the activist, the Americans, being so American, are demanding extradition — as in now. Oy, those Ugly Americans, they're so…uh, ugly!
Showing on the A&E in 60 minutes plus commercials (meaning there's actually only about 45 minutes of actual show), the "Spooks" pilot is a breezy look at the show's mechanics, and not much about anything else. Aside from the explosion in the episode's first minutes (of which we only see the aftermath of), the rest of the episode is devoid of action. The fact that the director tosses in all kinds of groovy split screens ala "24" and exciting music ala "Alias" hardly changes the fact that the film looks, and is, low budget. Then again you could just say that this is precisely the "charm" of a British show — it's lack of resources and "stripped" nature. My take is that the show is too ambitious for its own good, and its origins as a BBC original series show.
Since "Spooks" is a British show, it has to be given leverage for not knowing America and Americans all that well. After all, you could probably list the dozens of mistakes American shows make when it comes to the British. Of course that still doesn't change the fact that the radical pro-lifer's "Southern" accent is atrocious, and that she sure acts like a slut (she sleeps around) for someone claiming to be working on the behest of God. Then again, you could say she's inherently a hypocrite, although I still find this '50ish woman humping away at nights just to convince a man to join her cause to be a tad unbelievable.
The only character in "Spooks" that gets any semblance of characterization is lead Matthew MacFadyen. In brief spurts, we learn that: he has some sort of mentoring relationship with fellow spy Zoe and is apparently a good friend of the agency's spirited chief played by Peter Firth. And I also think there's supposed to be something going on between Quinn and the CIA liaison played by Megan Dodds, whose character is of course loud, rude, and downright bitchy. As for the rest? I think Zoe has a kid, although the boy could just be a prop.
If watching spy shows devoid of credible action (or even any action at all) is your cup of tea, then "Spooks" is a good addition to your daily viewings. It's definitely nowhere in the vicinity of "The Agency", the American TV show about the CIA that merged high-tech spy gadgets with complex issues ripped straight from the headlines. The most gadgets you'll get out of "Spooks" is guys planting bugs in smoke detectors and agents speaking into each other's ear mic. That isn't to say you need gadgets to make a spy show, but it certainly helps. After all, a spy show without gadgets is, well, a cop show, isn't it? And who needs another cop show in a market already glutted with them.
David Wolstencroft (director)
CAST: Keeley Hawes …. Zoe Reynolds
Matthew MacFadyen …. Tom Quinn
Peter Firth …. Harry Pearce
David Oyelowo …. Danny Hunter
Jenny Agutter …. Tessa Phillips
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Those of us who jumped off at earlier mega-events have been waiting for you. Don't worry. We have support groups. There's some soft drinks and coffee in the lounge. I think they're running some Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons later. Feel free to browse the literature about such great stand-alone comics as Terry Moore's ECHO and dozens of other independents.
Not sure really who DC's target audience is anymore. They alienated longtime fans like me so completely that even if I do see a book that interests me it's so deeply convoluted in non-continuity that I can't make heads or tails of it. Kids? I don't think so. New readers wouldn't last five minutes.
There's no understating how completely underwhelming Flashpoint is. It's kind of amazing, really.
But I would say this much: you're still reading Batman because of Morrison's "weaving Batman epic." Which is great, so am I, but I that book is easily just as complicated as anything else DC publishes. It's actually perhaps more tied to continuity.
And let's not pretend that either of the Big Two are doing anything to attract new readers; all they do these days is try to hold on to old ones.
"Basically, it seems like if I like a title, and it kind of stands off to the side doing its own thing, DC will cancel it."
Or at the least, if you like a title, and it kind of stands off to the side doing its own thing, the sales will be atrocious.
DC's pretty good at giving books enough rope. Enough marketing's another story but if the fanbase (limited as it is in the direct market) only wants to read comics they feel are "important," then DC has a lot more work to do by ways or reducation than just letting REBELS (which was a pretty good book) last more than 25 issues.
Of course, canceling the bottom 1/4 of the line to release 50 Tie-in books to a big event isn't exactly the right signal.
It's either a "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." mentality or at the least. "Well, we made this bed and now if we want market share, we have to sleep in it."
You can't blame DC for axing good books that aren't selling. Except for how you sort of can blame them.
Yeah, DC is really driving my business away. Just about a year ago I actually had more DC titles on my pull list than I had Marvel. Now it's back to overwhelmingly Marvel.
Supergirl's book just became dead to me after the creative team switch. (It really helped inform me to drop the book when their next writer announces his departure after the first issue.)
The entire Superman line was just battered when JMS tried to mess with it. It's since improved with the new fill-in writer. And I love Paul Cornel's Lex Luthor -- but I also want Superman back in his own book. These two titles, with Superman coming back to Action Comics, and the vastly improved Grounded issues - they just barely escaped a cut on my pull list.
JSA has been on the fence too (Even though I even got my letter printed in today's issue!) Luckily things are looking better, with the All-Stars being canceled, and a supposedly happier tone coming back to the book. Now all they have to do is remind Scott Kolins that Liberty Belle and Jessie Quick are the same person.
I love Geoff John's Flash, so I'm of course reading the main Flashpoint mini-series. But I'm only trying the Reverse Flash One-Shot, and the Canterbury Cricket one-shot. (That just looks like fun!)
Besides Supergirl those books I mentioned above where merely in danger of getting cut. The same can't be said for Batman & Robin and Legion of Super-Heroes. The Legion book, while I love it, has just been annoying me to no end with tie-ins to Adventure Comics, Annuals, and One-Shots. I'm just not interested enough to keep on reading. And Batman and Robin - I loved the book, but I can't stick around waiting forever for the new creative team to get off their butts and actually put out the issues they promised. Paul Cornel's 3 issue fill-in was good, but the White Knight story has felt lacking -- and then we get another fill in team to do a Red Hood story arch, and without any info on wether the supposedly permeant creative team is suppose to come back. Sorry DC, you lost you're chance.
On the Marvel side, the one book over there I'm canceling is Deadpool. Simply too many issues all at once, with stories that are leaving me with less and less content; I always get the feeling the issues are being padded out with full-page silliness just to up the number of Deadpool issues sold each month. Silliness for Deadpool is fine - but those antics have long since become unfunny.
Well, I liked what JMS did with Superman, but I don't pay any attention to cataclysmic event storylines.
Very sad to see Doom Patrol go. Again. Giffen's snark gets kind of old, but except for the John Byrne run, which bored me to tears, I've always looked to DP for a challenging, genuinely weird fun read.
Read THUNDER--best DC book right now, up there with the Paul Cornel Luthor story.
One of the things I hate is that DC tries to have it both ways: As continuity heavy as Marvel yet free to disrupt continuity every couple of years for a spike in sales. Anyone able to actually describe DC's continuity? Of course, FlashPoint's gonna be another reboot. (That said, if it gets rid of Superman's idiotic marriage, I'm for this ripping up of the past!)
It really is a shame, at one point in my life I was buying 30-35 DCU titles a month, with this latest wave of cancellations I'm buying 2 - Secret Six & whatever Batman book Grant Morrison is writing. Oh, and Jonah Hex too, does that count as a DCU book? So 3. Still more then Marvel I guess, which is at zero. I don't even buy JLA anymore, which I have been buying faithfully since 1977- the last renumbering was my jumping off point. 3 more books and I'm gone forever DC Universe!
I just gave up on comics. Besides the secret six trades or whatever trades I happen to see that has great art I just dont care. Prices are too high and I hate looking like a tool explaining character continuity.
Oddly, I've finding myself more drawn to DC and less enchanted with Marvel. Maybe part of it is DC's acknowledgement of the whole 2.99 price point deal, but in general I'm just happier with how they're developing their characters and telling their stories. I am wary of Flashpoint, and pretty sure it could lead to either a short DC vacation or a reexamination of what I read on a regular basis. Loving Brightest Day, and meanwhile kinda dreading/avoiding Fear Itself.
"I like the DC Comics characters, but lately, I don't like the DC Comics so much."
This has always been my primary issue with DC. I like DC heroes more than pretty much any Marvel heroes, but DC storylines and villains often give me migraines.


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So, I was doing some shooting in Hoboken and it was COLD. I am talking negative numbers windchill and I guess that distracted me and didn't notice my backpack wasn't on my back. So, I drive to a different spot to do some more shots and went to change glass when I realized my equipment was NOT in my car. This was close to an hour after I left it on a bench along the shoreline. I went pack as I calculated how much stuff I couldn't afford was in the pack, including at least one lens and an Ipod, and to my surprise, it was still there, right where I left it.
Thanks Hoboken.
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Posted by: Mel Steinhauer on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
You are a lucky man, JC !
The day my ship came in... I was at the airport.
Great work as always, BTW.
Posted by: Sydne Archambault on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
I really like A Night in the Park JC! Very, very nice. And lucky you...thank goodness!
Glad you got your stuff back. Could have turned out bad for sure...like they think it is a
suspicious bag and send something in to blow it up....yikes
About the cold weather how does your gear handle that? Weather in the deep freeze
some do not do as well as others.
Posted by: Wingsdomain Art and Photography on 4 Years Ago
Wingsdomain Art and Photography
4 Years Ago
Is that a testament of how honest people are in Hoboken or how crazy you must be to be out in fridgit temperature? :-) Glad you still have have your equipment, JC.
Posted by: Arlene Carmel on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
You are one lucky man JC.....but I wouldn't put it to the test again, especially during tourist season. You were probably the only one out there freezing your tuchas off, but I do love your faith in mankind. :-)
RUN, don't walk and buy a Lotto!!! You're lucky somebody didn't report it as a bomb scare and the blew it up!
Posted by: Christine Till on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
It's my firm belief that most people are good people.
There's no doubt about that.
Posted by: Mike Savad on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
i'll say it was part luck and part cold. if it was the summer it would be gone, or as said, blown up. but it's a great way to check your heart.
my bag never leaves my body no matter how uncomfortable it might be. never been there at night, and it looks like they cleaned it up quite a bit since sandy.
---Mike Savad
Posted by: Angelina Vick on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Part luck and part cold...I think the same thing.
I'm glad you didn't lose your equipment permanently!
Fantastic shots JC.
Thank yall...
Yupp, a little bit of luck and cold going on I would say though there were plenty of folks commuting home along that path. I will say this, Hoboken, at least the part I have been in, feels VERY safe so there is probably a pretty good amount of "good people" effect going on there. As opposed to the image below shot in a not so good part of Brooklyn. I brought my son to a basketball game on the border of Bedford-Stuy and Crown Heights. SO many cool things to shoot but I was not about to stop my car and get out with a camera. I pulled up in a parking area of sorts, with my window down and the camera set to Vr f2.8 and shot this quickly. It is NOT a particularly nice area of NY. I would love to have explored and shot around this LIRR station but I value my equipment and my life. Maybe I can hire big John to stand guard sometime.
RE cold shooting. 1. It is one of the BEST times to shoot because no one wanders in and out of the shot. (Kind of like the 0400 dawn shooting in summer.) 2. The camera handles the cold fine, BUT I generally get a low battery warning every ten minutes or so and have to take the battery out and put it in a pocket deep inside my many layers to warm back up. Then I am good for another ten minutes or so.
Posted by: Janine Riley on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
ok, so Hoboken is NJ. But studies have proven that NY'ers are the most honest & generous people in the nation.
We may be rude, crude & obnoxious - but good hearted people who've got your back.
You are correct Janine but I will say, it DOES depend on what part of the city you are talking about.
Posted by: Mike Savad on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
i'm still wondering how you see at night with that dark helmet on. doesn't that get in the way of the camera?
---Mike Savad
I switch to the high contrast yellow visor, just like we did flying.
Posted by: Janine Riley on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Hell Yeah !
JC is your camera water proof or the kind that can get rained on and still work long as the lens is
not covered with water of course. I want one I do not have to watch the water on the housing.
It is not waterproof but is "resistant" to weather, which I find means almost nothing.
I use a clear trash bag, which I put over the camera and lens, then cut out between the lens hood and the lens and cut a small hole at the view finder.
I keep wanting to try those ones they sell on Amazon that are made for that. I tried the trash bag once and it
did not work so well. But it was snowing and I was also holding an umbrella. Oh well.....I wonder if my brand
of camera comes in one that I would not need that in the used variety. I guess that is what I need to check as
I drool over the used gear. Drool is all I can do for now. :(
Posted by: Penny Hunt on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Very uplifting, amazing story.
Here's what you do tomorrow. Leave the backpack 10 times and record how many times it's still there and how many times it's stolen and get back to us. Important, don't mention this email to Homeland Security!!!
Yeah, well unfortunately, I HAVE done this before. I am 50/50 on getting them back.
So you're saying, 50% of the people in Hoboken are trustworthy and the other 50% are theives? I was born and lived a few miles up river and I know New Jersey. I think you need to get some kinda strap, like surfers have and attach the ankle thingie and the other end to your bag!!! LOL
When ever I shoot alone, in those types of environments, the bag is either on one shoulder, on the ground under the tripod or hanging from the tripod for stability. It's too easy to get distracted by someone, while the other someone walks off with your stuff.
Posted by: Greg Jackson on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Rich, sort of a photogs leash.
JC, glad you didn't lose your gear, and nice captures!
Posted by: Lynn Palmer on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Personally, I suspect if it had been 20 degrees warmer when you left the bag there would have been a different outcome ;)
It wasn't 50/50 there. Last time it was in the woods in Maryland. I have actually been pretty good with the bag since then, well, until now.
Hoboken is fine BTW, My spidey senses don't alert there at all. (I have pretty good spidey senses BTW.)
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BEARS WR: When Jay Cutler and Earl Bennett came to the Bears, some thought they would have an instant connection since they played together in college at Vanderbilt; but in the year-and-a-half they have been together, they never seemed to be on the same page. Until now. With Devin Hester now apparently a non-factor in the Chicago offense, Bennett has had two strong games in a row since joining the starting lineup. After passing the century mark Sunday, Bennett has 11 catches for 160 yards and two scores in the last two weeks. Johnny Knox was quiet Sunday, so suddenly it looks like Bennett is the most valuable Bear wideout.
CARDINALS QB: The head injury suffered by Derek Anderson on Sunday was no laughing matte,r and neither was Max Hall�s separated shoulder. Enter emergency quarterback John Skelton, who completed three passes in six attempts in his NFL debut. Although it�s unknown who will start this coming week, Skelton certainly can�t be any worse than the other quarterbacks the Cardinals have trotted out there in 2010.
COLTS RB: Donald Brown got the start, and Mike Hart got injured, but Javarris James was the only noteworthy fantasy running back for Indianapolis on Sunday. Not that six carries for 18 yards is anything to write home about, but James scored on two short runs and also caught two passes for 17 yards. Brown had just four carries Sunday, but with Joseph Addai still out and Hart nursing an ankle injury again, Brown could see a little more action in Week 14.
COWBOYS RB: After Sunday�s 38-35 victory, Dallas fans have to wonder why Marion Barber has received so many carries the last few years. With Barber watching from the sidelines due to a calf injury, starter Felix Jones and reserve Tashard Choice combined for 183 yards on 41 carries. Choice was especially strong, running for 100 yards and scoring on a 20-yard run on Dallas� first drive. Barber may have to get used to watching the young duo from the bench.
COWBOYS WR: Dez Bryant probably should have stayed home Sunday. A game-time decision with a sore ankle, Bryant attempted to gut it out against the Colts. However, he suffered a broken ankle on a kick return and will miss the rest of the season. Roy Williams is now clearly the No. 2 man in Big D, and Sam Hurd should see a few more looks as well.
49ERS RB: Frank Gore�s season ended when he broke his hip last Monday, so the 49ers hoped that Brian Westbrook would continue drinking from the fountain of youth. Westbrook had a huge game, but that was against the Cardinals. He found the going tougher against the Packers Sunday, finishing with just 31 yards on nine carries. Anthony Dixon, who had 33 yards on nine carries, may have fresher legs at this point; and with the 49ers� season slowly slipping away, they may turn to him instead.
JAGUARS WR: In news that is sure to draw shockwaves across the fantasy landscape, Mike Sims-Walker sat out Sunday�s game and was replaced in the starting lineup by Kassim Osgood. Osgood did his best Sims-Walker impersonation, failing to catch the only pass thrown his way. The Jaguars ran a whopping 53 times against Tennessee and will probably continue to ride Maurice Jones-Drew hard, so Osgood probably won�t see enough targets to be much of a fantasy factor.
LIONS QB: Though Shaun Hill claims he�ll return this year from the injury he suffered on Thanksgiving, a quarterback who breaks a finger on his throwing hand generally doesn�t come back quickly. Drew Stanton filled in ably Sunday against a tough Chicago D, throwing a touchdown pass to Calvin Johnson and scoring another on the ground, but he�s not much of a long-term fantasy asset.
LIONS RB: Jahvid Best returned Sunday and had a couple of big plays, totaling 97 yards on just 10 touches. Maurice Morris was back in his customary backup role, and although he got the ball as much as Best did, he picked up just 40 yards. That�s more than we can say for Aaron Brown, who saw a little action in Best�s absence, but none Sunday.
PACKERS RB: The Packers are looking like one of the best teams in the NFC, but if they want to win it all, they need to find a real running back because Brandon Jackson isn�t cutting it. James Starks, making his NFL debut, may be the back they need. Starks had a modest 73 yards on 18 carries Sunday, and Jackson carried the ball only four times. Don�t be surprised to see Starks get most of the work the rest of the way.
RAIDERS QB: Bruce Gradkowski re-injured his shoulder in last week�s loss, so the Raiders again promoted Jason Campbell to the starting lineup. While Campbell posted mediocre passing numbers Sunday, the Oakland rushing offense steamrolled the San Diego defense to the tune of 251 yards on 52 carries. Campbell had 37 of those yards on seven rushes and scored on a nine-yarder in the first quarter. Gradkowski is done for the year, so it�s Campbell�s team now.
RAVENS TE: Todd Heap lasted only one play Sunday night before leaving the game with a hamstring injury. Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta are the no-names backing him up, and if the injury turns out to be serious, one or both would see significant playing time in the coming weeks. Still, neither should be considered for your fantasy roster unless teams in your league are in the habit of carrying three or four tight ends.
SAINTS TE: After missing a couple of games with sore ribs, Jeremy Shockey returned to the starting lineup Sunday and caught two passes for 28 yards. Jimmy Graham filled in for Shockey the last few weeks and might be the more valuable tight end going forward, but for the time being, Shockey is back on atop the depth chart.
SEAHAWKS WR: Although Mike Williams was able to return Sunday after missing last week�s game with the Chiefs, he suffered a different ankle injury and left the game without recording a catch. Ben Obomanu, who has filled in nicely for Williams, left the game with an injury himself, but his doesn�t look too serious. Obomanu should be back this week, but Deon Butler or Brandon Stokley figure to get a few extra targets if Williams can�t go.
STEELERS TE: Heath Miller left Sunday�s game with a concussion in the third quarter. Since concussions can often lead to long absences, backups David Johnson and Matt Spaeth are names you need to knowr. Johnson set career highs with three catches for 37 yards Sunday.
TITANS QB: The Rusty Smith experiment didn�t last long, as the Titans couldn�t wait to hand the reins back over to Kerry Collins. Of course, the offense didn�t look much better with Collins at the helm, scroring just six points in a loss to Jacksonville. It has been a while since Tennessee found the end zone � the last time it happened was back in Randy Moss� first game with the team. We�re not blaming Moss for all of Tennessee�s problems on offense, but it seems strange that the struggles began happening right when he was supposed to open things up a bit. Of course, the absence of Vince Young, all of his problems notwithstanding, might have something do with that as well.
VIKINGS QB: Is this the way the world ends? Not with a bang, but a whimper? Brett Favre was drilled from behind early in Sunday�s game and sprained his shoulder. Tarvaris Jackson was shaky in relief at first, but he ultimately led the Vikings to 38 points in a row in an easy victory over Buffalo. Favre is slated for an MRI on Monday, but he�s like the Blues Brothers� police car outside City Hall at this point. There are four weeks left in the season, and the Vikes are going nowhere. If the MRI is bad news, expect a big announcement from Minnesota this week.
VIKINGS WR: Percy Harvin�s migraines finally ended up keeping him out of a game, giving Bernard Berrian yet another chance to step up in the Minnesota offense. Berrian finished with just one catch Sunday, but Sidney Rice did serious damage for the Vikings. In Berrian�s defense, the Vikings ran it 40 times and only threw it 23 times, so there weren�t many opportunities to do much in the passing game.


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Spectrum Advanced Specialty Products introduces a complete line of film capacitors offering low inductance, low ESR and low DF while providing a high peak withstanding voltage. Now a part of their product offering for military and commercial power applications, Spectrum has been constructing film capacitors for their power filter designs for over 25 years. These film capacitors are manufactured by dry construction, which prevents harmful electrolytes from being formed. They are ideal for renewable energy inverters, radar systems, industrial welders, aircraft and high voltage power supplies and many more.
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Attack on Malala Yousafzai unites Pakistan in war on terror
The Taliban attack on Malala Yousafzai has badly exposed the militants and weaned away any sympathisers, at least for the time being, as it has united Pakistan in universal condemnation of the Taliban and the threat they pose to the state and to society, observers said.
Malala -- a 15-year-old peace activist in Swat who campaigned for the right for girls to get an education -- and two schoolmates were shot and injured in an October 9th attack on their school bus in Mingora. Authorities transferred Malala to a British hospital for rehabilitation.
"Across-the-board condemnation of the attack on this teenage girl is unprecedented," Awami National Party parliamentarian Pir Haider Ali Shah said. "The level of unity shown by the Pakistani nation over the incident is equal to the one observed when a massive earthquake hit northern regions of the country in 2005."
Until the attack on Malala, the battle with militants in Pakistan had killed about 40,000 people and caused billions of dollars in losses, but the country's political and religious circles remained divided on defining the Taliban as a real threat.
Reading the public's mood, the government and military have also started openly talking of new offensives in areas like North Waziristan, suspected of housing hideouts of the Haqqani Network.
The government "would definitely consider" military operation in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said October 12. The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee met recently to review the security situation.
"It was reiterated that the resolve to fight the menace of terrorism will be kindled and armed forces of Pakistan are ready to render any sacrifice therein," an Inter-Services Public Relations statement issued after the meeting said.
That statement triggered speculation that the armed forces could be preparing for a crackdown on militants.
"We wish to bring home a simple message. We refuse to bow before terror," Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said after visiting Malala in a hospital. "We will fight, regardless of the cost, and we will prevail, Inshallah."
It is time to unite and stand up against propagators of such a barbaric mindset and their sympathisers, he added. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar also issued a firm statement echoing government resolve to get tough on militancy and not tolerate it further.
"Today, for us, it could be possibly a turning point" in terms of determining how far the Taliban will go to carry out their agenda, Khar said in a media interview. "Malala has put it as a black-and-white question. She has put it as either you are with the future that she represents or the future they [Taliban] are trying to impose."
This is the first time that the country's political and security leaders seem to be on the same page regarding the threat from the Taliban, though decisive action might be put off.
This is an election season and the decision to launch another offensive is difficult because it puts residents through tough times, Muhammad Amir Rana, senior defence analyst and editor of a security journal, told Central Asia Online.
But senior journalist Anwar Ali predicted a high likelihood of tough action against the militants.
"I think the military was waiting for such an occasion, putting [it] in a stronger position against the militants," Ali said, adding that the attack on Malala has pulled the rug from underneath the Taliban.
Now they stand isolated and nobody dares to sympathise with them, creating an ideal time for the government to strike, he added.
Ali likened the situation to the 2008 Swat militant public flogging of a teenage girl that prompted a swift military reaction.
"The video [of the flogging] appeared in December 2008, and by January 2009 there was a massive operation against militants with a heavy force," Ali said. "So, you cannot rule out tough action anytime, anywhere."


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The importance of the decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the health reform law today cannot be overstated. I am proud to have helped author the Affordable Care Act and you can count on me to continue to stand tall to protect this law so affordable, quality health care is a reality for each and every American.
Thanks to the law, right now:
More than 6.6 million young adults -- and counting -- have been able to obtain coverage on their parents' health insurance policies;
Americans of all ages get free, lifesaving preventive benefits;
Senior citizens with high drug costs no longer face a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage known as the donut hole;
Children with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied health insurance;
Small businesses are benefiting from tax credits to help provide health insurance to their employees;
Insurers must continue to pay rebates to their enrollees if they spend too much money on administration and CEO bonuses.
Starting in 2014, the law creates a new, fair marketplace for people to shop for coverage, provides tax credits to make sure coverage is affordable, and will end the ability of insurers to deny coverage to anyone based on pre-existing conditions.
Contrary to what the law's opponents are saying, ObamaCare will not impose a "massive tax hike" on the middle class. Americans who choose to remain uninsured and don't meet hardship exemptions in the law -- an estimated 2 o 5 percent of the population -- will be required to pay a small fee.
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Adriene Hill: Here in the U.S., federal prosecutors say they may delete data from file-sharing site Megaupload as soon as Thursday. The company says more than 50 million users could have their data erased from their personal storage space on the Internet. The government says it's deleting the files because the space was used to share movies and music illegally. But what's it say about the safety of the Cloud as a place to store and share things like our pictures?
For more, we go to Rik Fergeson. He's a security expert at Trend Micro. Good morning.
Rik Ferguson: Good morning
Hill: So what are the risks to storing things like photos, information, in the Cloud?
Ferguson: I think only one of the risks that you do have to take into account when you're using a cloud service is the longevity and trustworthiness of your cloud provider. So for example, if you're using a service from Apple, with the iCloud service, you can place a much larger degree of trust in them, as a provider.
If you're talking about a company like Megaupload, this is not publically listed company, it's not a company with a great pedigree. And therefore, you know, you should have consequently less trust in that provider and take other measures to protect your data.
Hill: Now are there other risks involved in keeping my important information in the Cloud?
Ferguson: I think the other consideration that a lot of people come up against when they're thinking of storing either personal or commercial data in the Cloud is: how secure is my data from employees in that company? Do they store my data in an encrypted format -- which means they can't get access to my data -- or is it all freely available to those employees? I know some time back, there was, for example, a Google employee who had to be dismissed for inappropriately accessing information of Google customers.
Hill: Does this mean I shouldn't be storing my really important photos in the Cloud?
Ferguson: No, absolutely not. It means you should do your research before you make that commitment and make sure that company that you're placing your trust in is deserving of that trust. Make sure they're going treat your data carefully, make sure they're going to respect your privacy, and make sure that they're a company that you can trust.
Hill: Rik Ferguson is a security expert at Trend Micro. Thanks so much.
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Clickfree C2 227 (250GB) Review and Ratings
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Our Verdict: This backup drive and its bundled software are both supremely easy to use. It's a superb backup solution if you're willing to pay the high cost per gigabyte. Read More…
- What We Liked…
- Extremely easy to use
- Fast
- Additional features added to already strong software
- What We Didn't…
- Does not import videos from iPods
- Not as much storage space as competing drives
- A bit pricey
Clickfree C2 227 (250GB) Review
By November 12, 2009reviewed
If you're still stuck backing up gigabytes upon gigabytes of videos, games, and music onto DVD, then you know that this process is the equivalent of a root canal; it may be long and painful, but it's absolutely necessary. So, if you're still backing up the old-fashioned way, now's a good time to upgrade to the 21st century. Clickfree offers the simplest hard-drive-based backup solution we've seen with its C2 backup drive. And if you are about to update your PC with Windows 7 (or your Intel-based Mac to Snow Leopard), Clickfree's latest drive makes that process simpler than anything else we've seen.
We reviewed Clickfree's 32GB Traveler credit-card-size flash drive in June and came away impressed with its incredible ease of use, thanks to its excellent software. File backups were hassle-free, and the software offered users plenty of options to customize their backups. Clickfree continues that trend here and has added some noteworthy improvements to its already stellar software.
Clickfree's C2 250GB hard drive is similarly very easy to use. Once you plug the C2 into a USB port, its software opens up automatically, and a countdown timer begins ticking down from 34 seconds. When the timer hits 0, the drive starts backing up all commonly backed-up file types (such as e-mail, documents, videos, and music files) on your hard drive automatically. Once the backup is complete, just unplug the drive and you're done.
When the backup is done, a screen appears that gives you a breakdown of all the content stored on the drive. This summary is categorized by file type (music, text documents, and so on). This rundown will also tell you how much space each file type takes up on the C2. If the drive doesn't have enough space to back up all your stuff, a window will pop up allowing you to choose what you do and don't want backed up.
Unlike more complicated backup software (which may offer more useful options for some), using the C2 drive's software is painless, and it comes with some new features that improve upon what was available in previous versions. For security purposes, Clickfree added the ability to encrypt the data you put onto the C2 drive without slowing down your PC, thanks to 256-bit hardware-accelerated encryption. You can also schedule the drive to perform backups at intervals ranging from every 2 hours to every 2 weeks. Files can be burned from the drive directly to CDs or DVDs, as well (in case you want to relive that root-canal-like experience, for old time's sake). A new file category has been added to backup e-mail attachments as well—a welcome addition. In the event that Clickfree doesn't offer a file category or extension in its extensive list, the software gives you the ability to add custom categories and file extensions of your choice. You can also password-protect the drive to guard against unauthorized access.
Another handy feature, under the Options menu, is an Import Music tab that will allow you to copy music, podcasts, and playlists from your iPod or iPhone directly onto your computer. The Clickfree software features an option to import your content to iTunes automatically after the drive completes the import process. However, the C2 won't import videos from iPods, which is a big minus if you happen to have a lot of video content on your portable device.
Visually, though, we're a bit put off by the software's color scheme, at least in Windows. The Minimize and Exit buttons found at the top right corner of Clickfree's software window are both colored gray. We found this to be a bit puzzling, as grayed-out buttons are usually associated with unusable functions. Since both buttons sit on top of a bright orange banner, the gray is accentuated even further. However, when we plugged the drive into a Mac (the drive works with Intel-based Macs only), we noticed that the software looked a bit more polished, versus the way it looked on PC, blending in well with OS in just the way that the Windows software, with its bright orange accents, doesn't blend in at all.
Aesthetics aside, in speed testing, the Clickfree C2 easily beat out the 320GB Seagate FreeAgent Go drive but lagged a bit behind Iomega's 500GB Iomega eGo drive. The C2 wrote our 10GB test folder in 7 minutes and 39 seconds, and read it back in 5 minutes and 38 seconds. This folder contains a variety of files, including photos, music, video, and data. By comparison, Seagate's drive took 8 minutes and 24 seconds to write to the drive and 7 minutes and 35 seconds to read the same folder back to our PC. Iomega's eGo drive, on the other hand, took 7 minutes and 1 second to write the same folder and 5 minutes and 30 seconds to read it back to the machine. So you're not getting a scorcher in the C2, but you are getting a drive that can hold its own against the competition. And really, when it comes to backup drives, speed matters little, as all USB 2.0 hard drives are speedy enough to get the job done.
The Clickfree C2 drive's dimensions are 4.5x0.6x2.9 inches, which makes it slightly thicker than Seagate's current portable drives, though a little shorter, as well. Its rounded corners help keep it pocket-friendly. The optional $20 dock is a nice touch, but when the C2 was slotted into the dock, it felt a bit wobbly. Still, while testing, we poked, prodded, and tapped at the drive to see if there would be interruptions in the backup process as a result of the dock's seemingly feeble nature. We encountered no problems, even when we picked up the drive and turned it on its side, dock and all. The connection feels a bit flimsy, but it's certainly more secure than it seems.
The short, permanently connected USB cable that protrudes from the underside of the drive is oddly (and a bit inconveniently) placed. Luckily, a mini-USB port hides on the bottom of the drive, allowing you to connect your own cable should you so desire.
The C2's design is stylish, sporting a glossy black finish and Clickfree's logo across the front of the unit. Fingerprints will start showing up on the glossy plastic in no time, however. The front also has a blue light that flashes whenever the drive is performing a backup. When idle, the light is solid. While there aren't as many color options with this drive as you'll find with Iomega's eGo or Seagate's FreeAgent Go drives, its design is relatively low-key, which will make hiding it easier. Most keyboards and monitors these are black, so in the event that you want to keep the C2 on your desktop, it will likely fit right in with the rest of your desk's residents. The drive also comes in a Mac-friendly white model.
The C2 is both PC- and Mac-compatible; however, there is a caveat to this. Since PCs and Macs use different file systems, this may pose problems for people who use a PC at home but a Mac at school or work. You can transfer your PC files to a Mac machine and vice versa, but that's where the cross-platform compatibility ends; you can't back up Mac and PC content onto the same drive. That same limitation applies to all drives, though with the Clickfree, since the software works on both platforms automatically, it can lead to some confusion for folks expecting to be able to back up both Macs and PCs on the same drive.
The 250GB C2 is priced at $139.99, which makes it one of the most expensive backup drives (in cost-per-gigabyte) on the market. (For those who need more storage space, 320GB and 500GB C2 drives are also soon to come from Clickfree.) Competing models such as Seagate's 500GB Replica drive and Iomega's 500GB eGo drive can be had for significantly less (around $130 for the Replica, $110 for the eGo), and both have double the space that our C2 review unit came with. However, each of these competing units have their flaws, which may make the C2's $140 price tag easier to swallow. For example, the install process for the Iomega eGo drive's software suite is extremely tedious and time-consuming, forcing you to create user accounts on Iomega's site to register and use each piece of software. The C2's software is housed on the drive, and doesn't need to be installed at all—it just runs when you plug the drive in. Seagate's Replica drive is slow and doesn't allow you to pick and choose what you do and don't want to back up. So while you'll have to pay extra for Clickfree's offering, weigh the pros and cons of the cheaper competition before being completely scared off.
With the recent launch of Windows 7, those about to make the transition from Windows XP or Vista may find the C2 a great choice for transferring important files to their new-OS home. The drive's user-friendly nature, combined with its "fire and forget" functionality, makes tedious file backups hassle-free. Seagate's Replica backup drive offers a more simplistic full-system backup (backing up not only your data but your OS and applications, as well) that may be better for some. But restoring your OS and apps from a backup after a drive failure can be a major licensing hassle involving (at the very least) a call to Microsoft tech support for a Windows re-activation request, unless you're replacing your old hard drive with a very similar model on a PC with the same components. For many, backing up only essential files is a more sensible solution. And those folks can't really go wrong with Clickfree's 250GB C2 drive.
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Our Verdict: This backup drive and its bundled software are both supremely easy to use. It's a superb backup solution if you're willing to pay the high cost per gigabyte.
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Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in California
The merchandise my 16 yr old daughter shoplifted, is valued at $50.00. She doesn't have a criminal record and this is the first time in trouble. The attorney is asking $375.00 due in 20 days. This is more than we can afford to pay at one time. Do I have any options?
Asked on 8/06/13, 7:30 am
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Terry A. Nelson Nelson & Lawless
Whether you pay the 'cost demand' or not, the store can file criminal charges, and most stores will do so. Consider saving your money to hire a criminal defense attorney, who will charge considerably more than that demand.
If serious about hiring counsel, feel free to contact me. If you can't afford private counsel, then apply for the Public Defender at the first court appearance, if the store does press charges. You'll get a letter from the DA if they do.
Answered on 8/06/13, 5:23 pm
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Asado Urban Grill - Seating Area
Enjoy some of the best Midwest regional flavors in a casually comfortable setting at Asado Urban Grill.
R Bar Lounge
Have a sip and a nosh at R Bar, our trendy, comfortable lounge that's as stimulating as it is lively.
Indoor Lap Pool
Take a refreshing plunge in the heated indoor lap pool or a relaxing soak in the adjacent whirlpool. On weekends, children's films are projected onto the wall of the pool area, and there are plenty of toys and lounge chairs to go around.
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Millennium Park is one of the newest additions to Chicago's many wide-open urban spaces, and is host to a range of indoor/outdoor activities for the entire family.
LaSalle Boulevard and Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade Building was Chicago's tallest from 1930 until 1965.
Wrigley Building Clock Tower
The Wrigley Building sits directly across from its famous counterpart, the Tribune Tower, just north of the Chicago River on Michigan Avenue.
Buckingham Fountain
Graceful sea horses spray jets of water into the lagoon that surrounds what is perhaps Chicago's most beloved public piece of art.
Renaissance Ballroom Foyer
Our lower level pre-function space has been redesigned to impress with modern lighting, seating and contemporary finishes.
Renaissance Ballroom
Our newly remodeled Renaissance Ballroom features 5,000 square-feet of event space, with room to accommodate up to 600 guests.
Renaissance Ballroom - Theatre Setup
Whether you're hosting a corporate event or celebrating life's special moments—big or small, we'll make it always dynamic and uniquely Renaissance in our event space.
Renaissance Ballroom - Meeting Setup
Enjoy newly renovated, technologically adept Chicago meeting space near Rosemont Center for your next corporate function.
Renaissance Ballroom - Social Setting
Whether you're hosting a corporate event or celebrating life's special moments—big or small, we'll make it always dynamic and uniquely Renaissance in our event space.
Upper Level Pre-Function Area
Our newly redesigned pre-function space offers an ample area for registration, cocktail hour or just room to gather during your event at our O'Hare Airport hotel.
Small meetings are handled with ease at the Renaissance Chicago O'Hare Suites. All meeting rooms in our second floor spaces have floor to ceiling windows with blackout curtains.
Writer's Room- Classroom Setup
Our Writer's meeting room is the perfect spot for your next small meeting. All of our meeting spaces on the second floor have floor to ceiling windows with blackout curtains that are certain to provide a productive environment.