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Powerful, quiet, clean and multifunctional - aviation meets the fuel cell. On Tuesday 30 September 2008, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) presented the world's first self-launching piloted aircraft with fuel cell propulsion at Stuttgart Airport, in the presence of Prime Minister Günther H. Oettinger of Baden-Württemberg. The Antares DLR-H2 flying test bed was developed by the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (DLR-Institut für Technische Thermodynamik) together with Lange Aviation GmbH. The aircraft's maiden flight will take place before the end of this year - powered by energy from its own on-board fuel cell system. Until 14 October 2008, visitors can see the aircraft, together with an accompanying exhibition about the future of fuel cells in aviation, in the entrance hall of Terminal 1.
"With the Antares DLR-H2, DLR and Lange Aviation have created a technology platform that will significantly advance the use of fuel cells in aviation", said Professor Dr Joachim Szodruch, the DLR Executive Board member responsible for aeronautics, underlining the importance of this research project. After the opening address by Professor Georg Fundel, Managing Director of Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH, Prime Minister Günther H. Oettinger congratulated all parties responsible for and involved in this "highly ambitious joint project by Baden-Württemberg and the Rhineland Palatinate".
Reliable on-board power supply for civil aviation
The Prime Minister expressed his delight at having a leading research institution in Baden-Württemberg that is dedicated to investigating sustainable energy technologies and thereby protecting the climate and the environment for the sake of future generations. "Both inside Germany and abroad, we are at the threshold of a new era of technological leaps and innovations. The central driving force for these developments is formed by the challenges of environmental and climate protection, but also those posed by the limited availability of natural resources on our planet." According to Mr Oettinger, this motivated Baden-Württemberg to strategically support and extend research into and development of fuel cell technology.
DLR's research is aimed at the deployment of fuel cells as reliable on-board power supply for civil aviation. "In this context, the fuel cell is an important alternative for the energy delivery systems used at the moment", said Professor Dr Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Head of the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics. The fuel cell combines high efficiency with low pollutant emission, safe aircraft operation and increased passenger comfort.
Cooperation between DLR and Lange Aviation
The Antares DLR-H2 flying high-tech test bed, developed in cooperation with Lange Aviation, provides a cost-efficient test platform for the development of fuel cell systems for use in aviation. It is based on the single-seat Antares 20E motorglider built by Lange. It has a wingspan of 20 metres and it weighs 660 kilogrammes. A fuel cell system, specially prepared by the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, is used as the primary propulsive energy source for the Antares DLR-H2. Together with the hydrogen tank, it is fitted in two additional external pods underneath the wings, which have been strengthened for this purpose. It supplies the electrical energy for the powertrain developed by Lange Aviation, which consists of power electronics, motor and propeller.
"The advantages of using fuel cells in aviation lie in the fact that they generate electricity with a high level of efficiency and low emission levels", explains Professor Dr Josef Kallo, project manager at the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics. "The basic process taking place inside a fuel cell, the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen, proceeds without generating noise and vibrations - this makes them even more useful." A special feature of fuel cell systems for use in aviation is their multifunctionality: In addition to generating energy, fuel cells also yield other products and advantages that can be put to use in the aircraft, such as the water that is produced in the electrochemical reaction. This makes it possible to carry substantially less water on board at takeoff. The exhaust air, which is very low on oxygen when it leaves the fuel cell, is also used in an innovative way. It is ideally suited to reduce the flammability of the kerosene-air mixture in the tank, thereby enhancing the aircraft's operational safety.
As a technology platform, the Antares DLR-H2 optimises the test time of DLR's Airbus A320 ATRA research aircraft (Advanced Technology Research Aircraft), as its fuel cell system is roughly identical to the on-board energy supply system used in wide-body aircraft. For more than five years already, the Stuttgart-based DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics and Airbus Deutschland GmbH have been working together in a strategic partnership, investigating the applicability of fuel cell systems in aircraft. In the ATRA, the two project partners successfully implemented a fuel cell system as the auxiliary power supply for the hydraulic pumps of the aircraft's control system As a next step, the permanent deployment of a fuel cell system as on-board power supply is envisioned. On 29 September 2008, DLR and Airbus received the silver f-cell award 2008 for their research into fuel cell technology in aviation.
DLR's companion exhibition on fuel cell technology in aviation
In an accompanying exhibition in Terminal 1 (level 4) at Stuttgart Airport, DLR presents the advantages of using fuel cell technology in passenger aircraft. Opening hours are 9am - 6pm daily.


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The following editorial appeared in The Telegraph, Alton, Ill., on Feb. 19, 2013:
(MCT) — Even before Gov. Pat Quinn ordered the closing of Illinois' maximum-security prison, Tamms, dangerous games were being played with prison safety.
While the population within the prison walls continued to rise sharply, fewer people were available to handle the crunch — victims of budget cuts that have sliced and diced their way through most state agencies.
Now, with the closing of Tamms and plans to shutter a female penitentiary in Dwight, it's worth questioning whether existing safety nets can handle the strain.
If not, there could be serious ramifications for the welfare of those who work within the razor wire-encased facilities and potentially for those who live in the communities that house them.
Fading, for example, is a segregation of prisoners based on their level of violence. While once the worst of the worst would have been sent to maximum-security prisons such as Tamms, more are finding themselves sent to minimum- and medium-security facilities.
Not only that, many of these prisons are already overcrowded, so makeshift cells are being created by putting beds in the gymnasiums at six mostly medium-security facilities.
The mixing of offenders with varying levels of violence is an issue within itself. Although corrections officials are trained to handle a multitude of problems, it bears questioning whether they could handle something along the lines of a massive fight that erupted just weeks ago among hardcore prisoners at maximum-security Menard.
There are an estimated 49,000 prisoners in Illinois; there is room to house 33,000.
And while prisons are not hotels and are not intended to cater to prisoners, studies have shown overcrowding is an impetus of violence.
The lack of everything from enough showers and toilets to places to exercise can create a dangerous game of musical chairs.
State prison officials have said this is a short-term solution and deny overcrowding is a concern.
That remains to be seen. Words and numbers can be parsed in many ways to support an idea.
What has to be of utmost consideration is the safety and security of those who work in the facilities and the general public that relies on being protected from those inside its walls.
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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters battled for hours over the eastern town of Sake on Thursday, forcing thousands of people to flee as the militants seeking to overthrow the government vowed to push forward despite mounting international pressure.
Meanwhile, the leader of the rebel group known as M23 headed to neighboring Uganda where emergency talks were held this week between the presidents of Congo and its neighbors Uganda and Rwanda.
Fighting broke out Thursday just before noon in the town of Sake, which the rebels had seized Wednesday after capturing the strategic provincial capital of Goma, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away.
One woman whose husband had died of mortar shrapnel to the head wailed as she was carried by her relatives out of town.
Rebel spokesman Lt. Col. Vianney Kazarama vowed Thursday that the fighters would press forward toward seizing the strategic eastern town of Bukavu, which would mark the biggest gain in rebel territory in nearly a decade if it were to fall.
The presidents from Congo, Rwanda and Uganda who met in the Ugandan capital of Kampala have called on the fighters to give up the territory they now control. Congolese President Joseph Kabila later said he was willing to talk with rebel representatives.
"We are not stopping at all; the determination is the same. Whatever happens in Kampala does not affect us," Kazarama told The Associated Press, confirming that rebel leader Col. Sultani Makenga was traveling to Uganda.
There are fears that the rebels' advance could spark a new regional war in a highly volatile corner of the world. Already the violence in eastern Congo has forced more than 100,000 people to flee, more than half of whom are children, according to the U.N. children's agency.
While the rebels have vowed to overthrow Kabila's government, they remain some 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the capital, Kinshasa, in a country of dense jungle with few paved roads.
Rwanda, and to a lesser extent Uganda, have been accused of backing the rebels and of equipping them with sophisticated arms, including night vision goggles and 120 mm mortars. It is widely believed that Rwanda is interested in eastern Congo's minerals.
A report released Wednesday by the U.N. Group of Experts said both Rwanda and Uganda have "cooperated to support the creation and expansion of the political branch of M23 and have consistently advocated on behalf of the rebels."
The report's release, just one day after the violent takeover of Goma, is sure to increase pressure on the international community to confront the two eastern African countries over their role in neighboring Congo's conflict.
Both Rwanda and Uganda have repeatedly denied supporting the M23 movement and have faced little international criticism over the allegations.
The three presidents said in a joint statement released at the end of their talks in Kampala that they resolved to force M23 rebels to give up Goma and make a retreat.
"Even if there are legitimate grievances by the mutineering group known as M23, (the presidents) cannot accept the expansion of this war or entertain the idea of overthrowing the legitimate government of (Congo) or undermining its authority," the presidents' statement said.
Goma was last threatened by rebels in 2008 when fighters from the now-defunct National Congress for the Defense of the People, or CNDP, stopped just short of the city.
Their backs to the wall, the Congolese government agreed to enter into talks with the CNDP and a year later, on March 23, 2009, a peace deal was negotiated calling for the CNDP to put down their arms in return for being integrated into the national army.
The peace deal fell apart this April, when up to 700 soldiers, most of them ex-CNDP members, defected from the army, claiming that the Congolese government had failed to uphold their end of the deal.
Kagire reported from Gisenyi, Rwanda. Jerome Delay in Sake, Congo contributed to this report.


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Scilab/Xcos to teach engineering sciences
A booklet has just been published to help teachers start with Scilab/Xcos in high schools and in higher education programs
Following the French reform of STIDD and the release of new programs for preparatory classes for the grandes écoles (CPGE), Scilab Enterprises, with the help of teachers, has just released an educational booklet to help start with Scilab/Xcos software in engineering science class teaching.
Many examples are available and all reproducible from the embedded demonstrations in Scilab:
- Acausal multiphysical modeling with SIMM module,
- Modeling and analysis of continuous-time systems with CPGE module
- Motor acquisition and control, with Arduino module.
Download the booklet (only available in French)
If you want a copy of the booklet, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
The realization of this booklet was made possible thanks to the support of Inria


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A paparazzo cornered Claire McCaskill last month in a hallway of her Senate office building.
Wielding a video camera for celebrity-obsessed TMZ, he wanted to know why the Democratic senator from Missouri had "grilled Dr. Oz like a cheeseburger" at a recent hearing on diet scams.
McCaskill looked bemused, but she didn't miss a beat.
"It's bad when a doctor says there's a miracle pill that will let you lose weight and keep eating anything you want," the senator said.
TMZ rarely ambushes lawmakers unless they're embroiled in scandal. Yet for media-savvy McCaskill, the attention _ even from a gossip outfit _ got chalked up as a public relations win.
"We are so excited to have been TMZ-ed," McCaskill spokesman John LaBombard enthused in an email to a reporter after the video hit the Web.
Mehmet Oz and diet scams. The General Motors auto recall. Military sexual assaults. Campus rape. Cover-ups in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Waste in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fraud in the National Guard. Mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery.
McCaskill has a knack for picking legislative projects that build her personal brand by linking it to causes that draw headlines but rarely are polarizing.
It's a brand that was at the heart of both her Senate campaigns: the image of a thrifty former state auditor and onetime prosecutor determined to make sure taxpayers get their money's worth.
McCaskill's friends and supporters say any national attention she gets is a byproduct of results-oriented public service work and the fact that she's never been one to mince words, whether in a hearing room or on Fox News.
The senator's spokesman said McCaskill didn't hesitate to go to the media to wage public battles for causes she believes in.
"Claire doesn't see the media as an adversary or a tool, but as a partner for the public good," LaBombard said.
Still, McCaskill's reputation for speaking colorfully and in the moment can give the senator's staff heartburn. For instance, in 2006 she said on "Meet the Press" that former President Bill Clinton had been a great leader "but I don't want my daughter near him." That's also the sort of witticism that makes McCaskill a sought-after guest on political talk shows and cable news.
Beyond the sound bites and buzz, political observers note that McCaskill's high-profile causes tend to be safe bets for a blue senator in an increasingly red state.
In choosing to focus on issues that members of both parties can support, they say, she's avoiding partisan battles. By doing so, she's also dodging some of the more controversial topics of the day, they note.
She has a far less prominent voice, for instance, on weighty issues such as climate change or what the United States should do next in Iraq.
"The positions she's taking are things that probably are less likely to totally alienate her from a whole lot of folks," said Bob Priddy, the news director of Missourinet, a statewide commercial radio network. "She goes after waste, fraud and abuse. She goes after sexual assault. . . . They're things that she can go after that won't be attacked by one side or the other."
As a Democrat in statewide office in Missouri, McCaskill faces an obvious political challenge: how to maintain an electoral majority in a state that leans ever more Republican, said Steve Smith, a political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
With that in mind, he said, McCaskill has cultivated a moderate record with care.
It's all part of her effort to be seen as a Missouri senator first, and a Democrat second.
"She appears to vote against her party on spending and other bills with some frequency, seemingly most often when her party does not need her vote," Smith said. "She ends up avoiding a reputation as a conservative but yet can claim that she is more moderate than the rest of her party."
As part of that balancing act, he said, it behooves McCaskill to attract attention for causes that have strong appeal to some voters without alienating others.
"Taking on bad management in the federal bureaucracy, emphasizing investigations over legislation, championing clean government and reform, and staying clear of the most divisive issues when possible is a recipe for (electoral) success," Smith said. "The senator is a classic example."
He stressed that McCaskill can be sincere in pursuing issues she cares about while benefiting from the strategy of choosing those issues rather than more partisan matters.
"That is what a skilled, patient legislator does," he said.
Consider McCaskill's role earlier this year in defeating a bill sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, a fellow Democrat. The measure would have stripped military commanders of the power to prosecute sexual assaults and other major crimes.
McCaskill blocked that bill in favor of an alternative that would preserve commanders' authority to convene courts-martial but would require civilian review if a commander decided against a prosecution.
The policy battle drew national media attention. It put her at odds with her party and generated blow-back from some victims rights groups, which accused her of betraying them.
The episode might have cost her points nationally. But to McCaskill, the audience that mattered most was in Missouri, said George Connor, the head of the political science department at Missouri State University.
"My sense of that was she was protecting her base in Fort Leonard Wood, among defense contractors in St. Louis, in Air Force bases (near) Kansas City and so on," he said. "Boy, it was a fine line. . . . She went pretty much toe-to-toe with one of her colleagues. But to me, at the heart of that was a strategy that allowed her to support women in the military and yet not alienate the brass, not alienate the military itself, and let them handle their own battles."
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who worked closely with McCaskill on the military sexual-assault issue, said the experience proved that McCaskill wasn't afraid to have the courage of her convictions.
"It's always a challenge when you break with your own party," Ayotte said. "But I think it's also a mark of independence that I imagine her constituents respect."
LaBombard said McCaskill tackled issues based not on what was politically safe or risky but on how important an issue was to Missouri, whether it was getting enough public attention and whether she thought she could make a real difference.
He passed along McCaskill's own response by email. It was a characteristic combination of blunt but funny, the perfect quote:
"If I have been trying to avoid controversy in my career, I've been very bad at it."


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — In the midst of a double-barreled re-election fight, Mitch McConnell is earning praise back home from some unlikely corners for brokering the deal that ended the partial government shutdown and averted a potential default on U.S. debt.
"He did yeoman's work making sure this thing got fixed," said Owensboro tobacco farmer Rod Kuegal, a Democrat.
Newspaper opinion pages that typically disagree with McConnell also give him positive marks. Among them: the Lexington Herald-Leader, which said McConnell "does deserve credit for what he does best — managing in the real, messy world of democratic government."
While McConnell may have temporarily hushed Democratic foes who call him "the guardian of gridlock," his collaboration with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to break the impasse again riled tea party Republicans and other conservatives who long have criticized him.
"We're feeling betrayed," says Tim Isaac, a tea party Republican in Wilmore who owns a small information technology company. "Either he's one of us or he's not, and based on what he did," he's not.
By deciding to work with Democrats, McConnell became the latest Republican to show a willingness to risk the ire of tea partyers by making the pragmatic decision rather than the ideologically pure one. Earlier this week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stopped fighting legal gay marriage in his state, angering parts of the GOP's conservative base but endearing him to others across the political spectrum.
Even Republican allies say McConnell faced a tough choice as the shutdown entered a third week.
He could stand firm with conservative demands to strip the health care law of money — a move that could help overcome a challenge from tea party-backed Matt Bevin — while angering everyone else he'd need to win another term. Or he could look to next fall and broker a deal with Democrats. That would enrage the tea party but endear himself to the broader electorate of independents and moderates whose backing he will need in the general election against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes
In the end, McConnell's decision suggested a confidence that he can overcome such gripes from the tea party, which has never fully warmed to him. It also reflected his campaign's belief that he'll ultimately win the primary over Bevin and will face a tougher fight from Grimes in the general election next fall.
One year out, the electoral environment is shaping up to be difficult for Republicans.
Voters of all stripes are fed up with gridlock in Washington. And national polls show that Americans overwhelmingly blame the GOP for the standoff.
That could be a potential problem for McConnell, the top Senate Republican who is seeking his sixth term and is deeply unpopular in the state.
But McConnell's shutdown maneuvering may have undercut that argument, even though Democrats have spent nearly $1 million on TV ads this year painting him as "Sen. Gridlock.
Grimes, McConnell's chief Democratic challenger claims McConnell had hidden in the shadows through much of the debt-ceiling debate until it was nearly too late. She argued the five-term senator opted to negotiate only because of political pressure back home, and that he now "is attempting to pat himself on the back for finally deciding to do his job."
Tea party activists say McConnell will be punished for compromising instead of siding with tea party lawmakers. They were demanding that any deal to end the shutdown include provisions gutting funding for President Barack Obama's health care law.
Bevin, a Louisville businessman and McConnell's underfunded primary opponent, charged that he "negotiated the GOP surrender" despite his promise that he "would fight to eliminate Obamacare 'root and branch.'
And, within days of the deal being struck, the Senate Conservatives Fund, a conservative group sharply critical of the budget deal and that had been hammering McConnell in TV ads, promised to work on Bevin's behalf.
That criticism aside, voters from various quarters say they give him credit for being the go-to guy for hammering out bipartisan agreements.
Robert Myer, a Democrat who is the co-owner of a Mayfield lumber company, applauded McConnell for helping end the shutdown and says he had few options because of Obama's unwillingness to negotiate.
"I'm more appalled at Obama for doing nothing," he said.
Other Democrats also give McConnell credit for deftly handling the situation.
"Somebody had to give in ... At least old Mitch was wily enough to get something for Kentucky out of it, even if he had to cave," said retired teacher June Rice.
Kuegal, the Owensboro farmer, gave McConnell credit for a nearly $2.9 billion appropriation to replace the Olmsted Lock and Dam on the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois, saying: "That was pretty amazing."
But while McConnell supported the money, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the appropriations committee that handles spending on water projects, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the top Republican on that panel, got the provision in the budget agreement.
McConnell got credit for the deal from The Independent, in the Ohio River city of Ashland, which said in an editorial: "Our reasoning is simple: Allowing the federal government to default on its loan obligations or killing a project that is critical to transporting goods on the Ohio River had the potential of devastating the economy of this region."


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Landscape with Ubbergen Castle
CUYP, Aelbert (1620 - 1691)
Media: oil on board
Size: 42.5 x 51.3 cm
Acquired: 1963; Purchase
Accession Number: NMW A 23
A herdsman and his cows linger on the banks of the river Rhine, as a gentleman on horseback slowly approaches. In the distance is the hazy silhouette of UbbergenCastle. The castle in the background, demolished in 1712, was near Nijmegen on the Rhine. This castle was a symbol of Dutch resistance to Spanish occupation and a source of great national pride. Trained and active in Dordrecht, Cuyp was one of the principal Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century. Although Cuyp never visited Italy himself, his landscapes glow with the golden Italian light he saw in the work of his contemporaries who had. His rolling landscapes bathed in golden light earned him the title of 'the Dutch Claude'. This picture probably dates from the mid 1650s and was already in Britain during the eighteenth century.


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Murray faces Haase in first round
Andy Murray will face Dutchman Robin Haase in the first round of the US Open.
Murray will be wary of the world number 70 having needed to fight back from two sets down to beat him here in 2011, although he was an easy winner in the Australian Open last year.
The draw was not kind to Murray, who is seeded only eighth this year. He is in the same quarter as world number one Novak Djokovic and could meet his Toronto conqueror Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the fourth round.
Andy Murray will face Robin Haase in the first round at Flushing Meadows
British women's number one Heather Watson is in good form and back in the top 50.
She meets Romanian Sorana Cirstea in the first round and could play Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard in round two.
Johanna Konta qualified for the main draw on ranking for the first time this year and plays Israel's Shahar Peer.
The standout match of the women's opening round pits top seed and two-time defending champion Serena Williams against exciting American teenager Taylor Townsend.
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With a potential sales and licensing deal between EMI Music and Universal Music Group off the table, execs at debt-wracked EMI are concocting a new business plan, seeking a cash infusion needed to meet a huge mid-June payment on its bank loan.
A source familiar with recent discussions said Thursday that UMG had opened informal discussions with EMI late last month. These talks advanced by the beginning of this week into a proposed two-pronged deal between the two music companies.
In the U.S., EMI would have outsourced its sales and distribution functions to UMG, while still retaining its own sales staff. In international territories, there would have been a separate agreement to license EMI's current releases and catalog to Universal.
The deal would have brought around $304 million to the coffers of EMI, which is scheduled to make a payment of about $183 million in June to Citigroup, the lender in equity firm Terra Firma Investments' 2007 purchase of the company.
However, according to the source, EMI walked away from the deal early Wednesday, because there wasn't enough value for the firm or its acts.
An EMI spokeswoman had no comment. A spokesman for UMG could not be reached for comment; as recently as Tuesday, Reuters reported that a spokesman denied Universal was in talks with EMI.
Sony Music Entertainment also approached EMI to explore a pact last weekend, according to the source, but the talks never moved past the informal stage.
A Sony spokesman declined to comment.
EMI chief executive officer Charles Allen and the top brass must now come up with a new plan to keep the fiscal wolf from the door. Allen, previously EMI's non-executive chairman, took over as CEO after his predecessor Elio Leoni-Sceti abruptly exited (Daily Variety, March 10).
Should EMI fail to pay its note, Citigroup could seize control and sell it, either as a whole or its label and publishing sides could be sold separately.
Speculation has focused on Warner Music Group — which has made several unsuccessful attempts to merge with EMI over the years — as the most likely buyer, but the company's strong roster and deep catalog would attract the other majors and firms outside the music business as well.
Terra Firm purchased EMI for about $6 billion in late 2007, just before the credit market crash. Since then, amid an ever-softening market for music, the company has struggled to secure the financing it needs to meet its Citigroup bank covenants.
In December, Terra Firma sued Citigroup Inc., claiming it paid a "fraudulently inflated price" for EMI's label and music publishing interests as a result of misrepresentations made by the lender (Daily Variety, Dec. 14). The action is set for trial in October in New York.
Ironically, EMI's cash crunch persists as the its commercial fortunes are on the rise. Though still No. 4 among the majors, it boasts nearly 12.2% of current album market share, up nearly five points from the same time last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan data for 2010 sales through March 28.
First-quarter releases by country trio Lady Antebellum and U.K. "virtual band" Gorillaz have reaped strong sales, and EMI's Capitol imprint is distributing the new "Now 33" hits compilation, which entered the U.S. chart at No. 3 this week.
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Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office. Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left—least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.
In pursuit of both terrorists and common criminals, Obama has perpetuated so many of the Bush administration's policies that even Republicans might take heart. Granted, he triggered an outcry on the right when he attempted to close the Guantánamo prison and try the accused 9/11 plotters in federal court, and he repudiated the Bush/Cheney torture policies by ordering interrogators to abide by the Army Field Manual. His moderately liberal judicial nominees, including two for the Supreme Court, have not won him points with the Federalist Society, which grooms young conservatives for the bench.
Otherwise, though, there has been little in his civil liberties record to bother nonlibertarian Republicans. Data collection on individuals has flourished without judicial oversight. People under no suspicion are still monitored clandestinely with Bush-era legal tools. State secrecy is invoked to thwart lawsuits by victims of government abuse. Leakers and whistleblowers are aggressively prosecuted, and federal agencies vigorously resist inquiries made under the Freedom of Information Act. Last spring the hard line against defendants' rights reached into certain criminal matters that have nothing to do with national security.
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement. Institutional inertia doesn't allow for quick reversals, federal agencies' interests transcend administrations and the White House stands at a confluence of perpetual crises. So presidents are hardly inclined to give up their powers, even those they decried as candidates.
Obama is not an exception to the rule. If he were, he would have made good on his promises to rethink the Patriot Act, curb the use of administrative subpoenas known as national security letters and render government more accountable through transparency. He would have bolstered the rights of criminal defendants, pressed for Internet privacy and supported a robust shield law to protect reporters' confidential sources instead of issuing subpoenas, as his Justice Department has done to James Risen of the New York Times. In short, Obama would have given conservatives, rather than liberals, real reason for distress.
But the country remains stuck in the post-traumatic stress from 9/11, notwithstanding the killing of Osama bin Laden. The specter of terrorism haunts us still, the FBI keeps uncovering little plots and deadly aspirations, and officials are braced for some larger assault. Obama came too soon in the historical cycle to be the reformer on civil liberties that many who rallied for him in 2008 expected. In the past, it has taken time for the country to correct its deviations from constitutional principles, and it did so only when security fears abated: after the virtual war with France that generated the Alien and Sedition Acts under John Adams; after the Civil War; after World Wars I and II; after cold war tensions eased. Nearly a decade after 9/11, Americans have not yet relaxed, and Obama has not yet led us to reflect on what we have done to ourselves.


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Some people would argue that music is supposed to be fun--that you shouldn't have to think too hard about it and that, in the end, all any of us really wants is to slow dance with somebody or maybe drunkenly yell lyrics at our friends in a bar. Swedish electronic duo The Knife are not those people.
Actually, that's not fair: They once made a pop song called "Heartbeats" that lots of people have sung along to, and, by all accounts, the Knife are pro-dancing. Their last album, 2006's "Silent Shout," which essentially was a haunted house soundtrack, was immediately affecting, even if it wasn't exactly fun.
Upon first listen of the Knife's new album "Shaking the Habitual," most listeners probably will think the brother-sister duo could stand to lighten up. After all, the record is a 98-minute opus that borrows its name from a Foucault passage, features instruments like a bedspring and comes accompanied by a text manifesto denouncing fracking, the patriarchy and "hyper-capitalism." The album demands attention–but it also rewards it.
If there were a club crazy enough to play the disorienting, frenetic music of songs like "Full of Fire," "Without You My Life Would Be Boring" or "Networking," it might be incredibly creepy, but it also would be kind of awesome. Driven by heavy basslines but amplified by an unidentifiable assortment of ambient sounds, these tracks are best appreciated at punishing volumes.
The industrial-leaning noise tracks "A Cherry on Top" and "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" similarly offer catharsis by teetering on the edge of unlistenability. On the other hand, the 19-minute drone track "Old Dreams Waiting to be Realized" and the nine-minute "Fracking Fluid Injection," which seems to protest fracking by imitating the sound of natural gas extraction, fall over that edge.
Nothing is simple about "Shaking the Habitual." By the time you're done with it, the West-Africa-goes-electronic rhythms of opener and standout "A Tooth for an Eye" and the brooding dance punk of "Stay Out Here" practically sound like Katy Perry. It might not be everyone's idea of a good time, but, like many things that seem overly complicated at first, thorough exploration makes it fascinating.
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I have a large program i need help with, what my program does is makes a character and saves it as a text file i need i have a set variable for skill points here is my code (with most of it cut out for it has no relivance to my problem so ill make a small program that will have my problem in it
what i want it to do is when you choose magic i want it to subtract 4 from SkillPoints And then tell you you have 8 points left you can spend them on magic or weapons then subtract the right amount, when there are no more points to spend or not enough to spend i want it to print your choices ie. magic magic weapons. if i need to be clearer or put my actual program on i will its just i didn't want to fill this up with code not relivent to my problemCode:#include <fstream> #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { string spend; int SkillPoints = 12, Switch; cout<<" You have "<<SkillPoints<<" Points to spend do you want to spend them?(yes or no): "; cin>>spend; if (spend == "Yes") { cout<<"\n(1)magic or (2)weapons\n\n weapons cost 2 skill points magic cost 4 skill points"; cin>>Switch; cin.ignore(); switch ( Switch ) { case 1: { SkillPoints = SkillPoints - 4; break; } case 2: { SkillPoints = SkillPoints - 2; break; } default: { cout<<"you can only type 1 or 2: "; cin>>Switch; break; } } cout<<"\nSpend More points? you have "<<SkillPoints<<" Points left(yes or no): "; cin>>Switch; cin.ignore(); } else { cout<<"\nGoodbye"; cin.get(); } return 0; } {
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AUSTIN, TX --The Texas Department of Public Safety has expanded its efforts to solve cold case slayings by offering an online update on a dozen investigations.
DPS officials on Wednesday unveiled the Texas Rangers unsolved homicides webpage featuring two cases from each of the agency's six regions. The public will have the opportunity to submit tips or other information online via the webpage.
Director Steve McCraw says DPS wants to send a clear message that investigators are not giving up on the victims.
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DIXON – Sauk Valley Community College will host a free spoken word poetry event with Kyla Lacey, aka The Rising Phoenix, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 11 in Mathis Theatre.
Lacey, of Orlando, Fla., began writing poetry as a fifth-grader. Her inspiration comes from her own triumphs and tragedies, colored by her good-humored personality.
The University of Central Florida graduate has released two CDs: "AWay with Words" and "Lady Brings the Blues."
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Apple Inc. rose 1% to $432.60. BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk raised his rating on the company to buy from neutral, citing opportunity from yet to be announced products and expectation Apple will return to per share earnings growth in 2014.
BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd., jumped 1% to $15.80. The stock surged 8.2% yesterday after the Canadian smartphone maker said one of its "established partners" is buying 1 million BlackBerry 10 phones.
Amazon slid 2.4% to $268.53 after JPMorgan lowered its recommendation on the shares to neutral from overweight, saying some of the online retailer's key business lines indicate more material deceleration in 2013 gross profit.
E*Trade Financial fell 6.8% to $11.02. Citadel, its largest shareholder, said late yesterday that it will sell about 27.4 million shares after E*Trade rejected pressure to find buyers and the stock rallied 32% this year.
Citadel asked E*Trade in 2011 to hire a bank to review strategic alternatives and take immediate action to maximize shareholder value after "catastrophic losses" that had driven the shares down 97% since 2007.


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By Mike Collett-White
BERLIN (Reuters) - Romania claimed another major scalp on the European film festival circuit this weekend when "Child's Pose" won the Golden Bear in Berlin, underlining the country's emergence as a powerhouse of hard-hitting cinema in the post-Communist era.
The film, directed by Calin Peter Netzer, tells the story of Cornelia, an obsessive mother who uses every trick in the book to prevent her son from going to jail after he kills a boy in a car accident.
It is the latest in a long list of critical hits that have enjoyed startling success at festivals like Berlin and Cannes in recent years, helping to bring Romania's cinema to a wider audience.
Some of Romania's top directors, who have enjoyed the artistic freedom that flourished after the death of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, dismiss talk of a cinematic "new wave", saying it lumps together very different styles and stories.
But ever since Cristi Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" hit Cannes in 2005, and two years later his compatriot Cristian Mungiu won the coveted Palme d'Or there for the harrowing abortion drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", Romanian cinema has been firmly on the map.
"It is an acknowledgement, I think, that Romanian cinema is still producing good quality cinema and has been for a few years and it is a good endowment that it is still like this," Netzer told Reuters after receiving the Golden Bear for best film.
While each film differs, there is a common thread of unflinching storytelling and compelling human drama often laid out against the backdrop of a cold and uncaring society.
Netzer said "Child's Pose" was not a critique of Romania today, despite its unflattering portrayal of flashy materialism and casual corruption among the nouveau riche.
"I think basically this is about a relationship, a kind of pathological relationship between mother and son," he told reporters in Berlin after the closing ceremony late on Saturday.
"The rest - the corruption, the framework, the context, all of that is on a separate level and is really only a backdrop."
Victory in Berlin is likely to give the movie a major boost in terms of distribution in Romania and beyond, although some critics wondered whether the alienating figures of both mother and son might limit its appeal.
"There's an instant bond the audience has with the two young women in '4 Months...' which we are deliberately not supposed to have in 'Child's Pose'," said Jay Weissberg, critic at trade publication Variety.
"The mother is a monstrous figure and her son is even worse."
However he, like many others, was impressed by Luminita Gheorghiu's portrayal of Cornelia, one of several standout performances in Berlin-nominated films by mature actresses making the most of the kind of parts rarely written in Hollywood.
Paulina Garcia was the popular winner of the best actress Silver Bear for her turn in Chilean film "Gloria", in which she plays a 58-year-old divorcee who sets out to live life to the full despite her setbacks.
"We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves or we can hit the dance floor," said "Gloria" director Sebastian Lelio of his character.
The biggest surprise at the Berlin awards ceremony was the best actor prize going to Nazif Mujic, a Bosnian Roma who had never acted before and had to be talked into playing himself in a drama based on his real-life ordeal.
"An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker", made for just 30,000 euros ($40,000), tells the story of how Bosnian hospitals refused to operate on his wife after she miscarried because she was not insured, despite the fact that her life was in danger.
Best director went to U.S. filmmaker David Gordon Green for his quirky road movie "Prince Avalanche" and Iranian entry "Closed Curtain" picked up the best script prize for directors Kamboziya Partovi and Jafar Panahi.
Panahi made the movie in secret in defiance of a 20-year filmmaking ban and was not allowed to travel to Berlin to collect his award.
"Tradition and culture remain, politicians come and go," Partovi told reporters after receiving the honour.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Andrew Heavens)


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Colorful Cooking: The chicken and the egg
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The U.S. poultry industry processes about 8 billion chickens each year. No surprise, right? Chicken is a healthy, low-fat, protein-packed meat that is universally enjoyed, inexpensive and pretty simple to cook. Chicken breasts are the most popular cut of chicken. Stuff this simple cut with herbs and goat cheese to create a fresh flavor. Pair this bird with a lemon kale salad and you have a colorful, quick dinner full of nutrition. Labels on packaged chickens can be nutritionally confusing: all-natural, hormone free, free range, air-chilled. After endless research, buying a chicken with the label USDA Organic is your best bet. The USDA Organic stamp requires that the bird eats organic feed that doesn't contain animal by-products, has outdoor access and has not been injected with antibiotics. Log onto Colorfulcooking.com where I simplify all the labeling mumbo jumbo, give insight to how processing affects taste and share the lemon kale salad recipe. Eggs are a quick fix and a tasty party appetizer. To mix it up a bit, I have stuffed eggs with lobster, creating a chewy texture that blends nicely with the smooth hard-boiled egg and creamy middle. Serve with a side of celery to freshen your breath and clean your teeth. Tracy Miller adds fruits and veggies to all her meals, for more recipes log onto Colorfulcooking.com. She teaches cooking classes at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards and shares recipes Monday mornings on TV8.
2 chicken breasts 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/8 teaspoon salt2 tablespoons each fresh chive, basil, parsley, finely diced1 tablespoon fresh mint, finely diced1/4 cup walnuts, chopped1 tablespoon canola oil 2 oz. goat cheese or cream cheese1/8 cup shallot, diced1/4 cup chicken broth or white wine1 tablespoon lemon juice——————————————-Slice two 1 oz. rounds of goat cheese and place in freezer.Mix salt and pepper in a small ramekin. In another ramekin, combine diced herbs and walnuts.Butterfly chicken and season all sides with salt and pepper mixture. To butterfly: cut fat off chicken and lay it on a cutting board. Place one hand on top of the chicken and using a sharp knife, slice the chicken in half horizontally, keeping a 1/2″ piece intact. When you open the chicken it looks like a butterfly. You should be able to open it like a book. Heat saucepan over medium high, drizzle with canola oil. Cook the inside of the chicken breast for 1 minute, covered. Remove chicken from pan, place raw side down. Reduce heat to medium low. Chop the cheese into cubes and place them in the fold of the open, cooked side of the chicken breast. Layer 1/2 the herb mixture onto the cheese, close with toothpicks, repeat with next breast. Add chicken and onions to the warm pan, cook 4 minutes, uncovered, stirring onions once. Flip chicken, pour in wine or broth and lemon juice. Cover and simmer at 8 minutes until chicken is 165.
12 hard-boiled eggs 10 oz. cooked lobster meat, chopped small3/4 cup mayonnaise2 tablespoons Dijon mustard1 tablespoon white wine vinegar1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon pepperSmoked paprikaCelery sticks (garnish) ——————————————-Hard boil eggs by placing the eggs in a large pot. Gently fill the pot with cool water covering eggs by 1″. Place the pot over medium-high heat and bring to a light boil. This will take 15 minutes. Once small bubbles appear, reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 5 minutes. Turn heat off, let eggs sit in warm water 12-15 minutes. Place eggs under cold water and let cool. Peel and slice in half. There is an air bubble on one end of the egg, start the peeling process there for best results. Put egg yolks in a bowl and mix with mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper. Stir until creamy. Fold in chopped lobster. Spoon 1 tablespoon mixture into each half of egg. Sprinkle each egg with smoked paprika and cool. Makes 24.


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Like most SQL Server users I'm rather frustrated by Microsoft's insistence on making the really cool features only available in Enterprise Edition. And it really doesn't help that they changed the licensing for SQL 2012 to be core-based, so now it's like 4 times as expensive! It almost makes you want to go with Oracle. That, and a desire to have Larry Ellison do things to your orifices.
And since they've introduced Availability Groups, and marked database mirroring as deprecated, you'd think they'd make make mirroring available in all editions. Alas…they don't…officially anyway. Thanks to my constant poking around in places I'm not "supposed" to, I've discovered the low-level code that implements database mirroring, and found that it's available in all editions!
It turns out that the query processor in all SQL Server editions prepends a simple check before every edition-specific DDL statement:
IF CAST(SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') as nvarchar(max)) NOT LIKE '%e%e%e% Edition%'
print 'Lame'
print 'Cool'
If that statement returns true, it fails. (the print statements are just placeholders) Go ahead and test it on Standard, Workgroup, and Express editions compared to an Enterprise or Developer edition instance (which support everything).
Once again thanks to Argenis Fernandez (b | t) and his awesome sessions on using Sysinternals, I was able to watch the exact process SQL Server performs when setting up a mirror. Surprisingly, it's not actually implemented in SQL Server! Some of it is, but that's something of a smokescreen, the real meat of it is simple filesystem primitives.
The NTFS filesystem supports links, both hard links and symbolic, so that you can create two entries for the same file in different directories and/or different names. You can create them using the MKLINK command in a command prompt:
mklink /D D:\SkyDrive\Data D:\Data
mklink /D D:\SkyDrive\Log D:\Log
This creates a symbolic link from my data and log folders to my Skydrive folder. Any file saved in either location will instantly appear in the other. And since my Skydrive will be automatically synchronized with the cloud, any changes I make will be copied instantly (depending on my internet bandwidth of course).
So what does this have to do with database mirroring? Well, it seems that the mirroring endpoint that you have to create between mirror and principal servers is really nothing more than a Skydrive link. Although it doesn't actually use Skydrive, it performs the same function. So in effect, the following statement:
ALTER DATABASE Mir SET PARTNER='TCP://MyOtherServer.domain.com:5022'
Is turned into:
mklink /D "D:\Data" "\\MyOtherServer.domain.com\5022$"
The 5022$ "port" is actually a hidden system directory on the principal and mirror servers. I haven't quite figured out how the log files are included in this, or why you have to SET PARTNER on both principal and mirror servers, except maybe that mklink has to do something special when linking across servers. I couldn't get the above statement to work correctly, but found that doing mklink to a local Skydrive folder gave me similar functionality.
To wrap this up, all you have to do is the following:
One wrinkle you will encounter is that the mirror server will show the data and log files, but you won't be able to attach them to the mirror SQL instance while they are attached to the principal. I think this is a bug in the Skydrive, but as it turns out that's fine: you can't access a mirror while it's hosted on the principal either. So you don't quite get automatic failover, but you can attach the files to the mirror if the principal goes offline. It's also not exactly synchronous, but it's better than nothing, and easier than either replication or log shipping with a lot less latency.
I will end this with the obvious "not supported by Microsoft" and "Don't do this in production without an updated resume" spiel that you should by now assume with every one of my blog posts, especially considering the date.
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Oryx gazella
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Oryx gazella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name(s):
Oryx gazella (Linnaeus, 1758) ssp. gazella
|Taxonomic Notes:
|This is a monotypic species including only those animals from southern Africa, with O. beisa from north-east Africa here regarded as a distinct species (see Grubb 2005).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group
|Hoffmann, M.
Listed as Least Concern as the species is numerous and widespread, and populations are currently stable or even increasing. The Gemsbok's future is secure as long as it continues to occur in large numbers on private land and in protected areas in Southern Africa. Its high value as a trophy animal should ensure further increases in its numbers on private land.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Gemsbok formerly occurred widely in the semi-arid and arid bushland and grassland of the Kalahari and Karoo and adjoining regions of southern Africa, with a marginal intrusion into south-west Angola (East 1999, Knight 2013). The extensive contraction in its distribution and decline of its numbers which accompanied the expansion of human activities in Southern Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries have been partly compensated in the last 10-20 years by the widespread reintroduction of Gemsbok to private land and protected areas. Today, they remain widely, albeit patchily, distributed in south-western southern Africa, although populations in Angola are now considered extirpated, even from the former stronghold in Iona N.P. (East 1999). They have also been introduced in small numbers to areas outside their natural range, such as private game ranches in Zimbabwe (East 1999).
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Native:Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Zimbabwe
Possibly extinct:Angola
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|Population estimates are available for almost all of this species' range. Summation of these estimates gives a total population of 326,000, but actual numbers are probably higher because of an unknown level of undercounting bias in aerial surveys. Assuming an average correction factor for undercounting bias of 1.3 would give a total population estimate of 373,000. Overall population trend is increasing in private farms and conservancies and protected areas, and stable elsewhere (East 1999, Knight 2013).
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|Adapted to waterless wastelands uninhabitable for most large mammals, Gemsboks inhabit semi-arid and arid bushland and grassland of the Kalahari and Karoo and adjoining regions of Southern Africa. They are is equally at home on sandy and stony plains and alkaline flats. It ranges over high sand dunes and climbs mountains to visit springs and salt licks.
Although they are predominantly grazers, they broaden their diets in the dry season to include a greater proportion of browse, ephemerals and Acacia pods. They drink water regularly when available, but can get by on water-storing melons, roots, bulbs, and tubers, for which it digs assiduously. Adaptations to living in a desert environment are summarized by Knight (in press).
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|Proportion of specimens taken from the wild and from private ranches is not known.
|Major Threat(s):
Presently there are no major threats to the survival of the species. In the past its numbers and its distribution declined significantly due to the expansion of human activities in Southern Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet, in the last two decades there has been widespread reintroduction of Gemsbok to private land and protected areas, For example, in Namibia the largest numbers occur on private farmland, where the estimated population increased from 55,000 in 1972 to >164,000 in 1992 (East 1999).
Despite this favourable trend, in some areas such as south-western Botswana its distribution is increasingly restricted to protected areas, to the point where there are now two discrete concentration areas within this region, in Central Kgalagadi-Khutse Game Reserves and within and to the north and east of Gemsbok National Park. Outside these protected areas, it occurs mainly in areas of the Kalahari without cattle (East 1999).
Its ability to meet its survival needs within a relatively small area of semi-arid or arid savanna, even during severe droughts, enable it to occupy much smaller mean annual ranges than migratory species such as blue wildebeest and red hartebeest. The Gemsbok's independence of surface water and non-migratory behaviour have enabled it to largely escape the adverse effects of veterinary cordon fencing (East 1999).
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The largest numbers occur on private land (about 45% of the population), especially in Namibia, and in protected areas (35%) such as Namib-Naukluft and Etosha (Namibia), Central Kgalagadi-Khutse Game Reserves and Gemsbok National Park and surrounds (Botswana) and Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa). All of these populations are stable or increasing.
The Gemsbok is of major economic value to the wildlife industry in southern Africa. It is a key trophy species on game farms and an important component of game-capture activities. In South Africa it is in great demand among farmers because of its trophy value. It has been introduced widely to areas outside its natural range, for example Gemsbok numbers have increased dramatically on bushveld farms in the north of the country, mainly due to introductions from Namibia. Kalahari Gemsbok National Park supports South Africa's largest Gemsbok population.
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Last night, several Food Bank staffers attended a screening of 'A Place at the Table', a new documentary from the filmmakers of 'Food Inc.', about hunger in America. The documentary, so far, has gotten a lot of attention from media outlets such as The Washington Post to The Daily Show and NPR. It juxtaposes stories and faces of hunger with advocates like Jeff Bridges ('The Big Lebowski') and Tom Colicchio ('Top Chef') sharing why hunger is an important issue for them.
More than 50 million people in the United States are food insecure, meaning they don't know where they'll get their next meal. Let that number sink in. 50 MILLION. That's, essentially, the population of Georgia five times over. For ACFB, 16.9% of people living in our service area (29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia) are food insecure. There's a common idea that homeless people are the ones who rely on food assistance the most. In fact, while they do need help, kids, seniors, and those who hold down jobs but are not making enough to make ends meet (the 'working poor') make up the largest part of the population that need food assistance.
Given those numbers, it is impossible to deny that hunger in America and Georgia is a real and significant problem. But it is a problem that also has real and significant solutions. The documentary speaks to advocacy and actions taken at a government level. We believe there couldn't be a better time than now to use our collective voice to speak up, and if you're ready, we want you as one of our advocacy champions. But if you want to get involved in other ways, there are plenty of things you can do to help fight hunger in our country and community. You could volunteer, hold a food drive, learn more about hunger and poverty, teach others--it takes that spark and effort to help make a difference and make change possible. It will take all of us, uniting in a variety of ways to make a difference in the lives of hungry people everywhere.
"I've been doing this work for almost 40 years, and there's a window of opportunity right now. We've never had a movie like this. The issues have never been so clear. People have never been so interested in food and healthy food and access to food. I think we've never been so aware of the consequences--the consequences of not having healthy food and what that will do to our nation". --Bill Bolling
The first step we want you to take right now is to see 'A Place at the Table'. The filmmakers have made this an accessible film--you can see it at Midtown Art Cinema, order it On Demand or rent and download it from iTunes. Then, we want to know: What moved you? What inspired you? How did it make you feel? What gifts do you have that could make a difference in the fight against hunger? We're listening--leave a comment and let's get the conversation started!


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The 3.2 news just keeps right on coming.
The News
New Zeppelin: Orgrimmar to Thunderbluff
You mean, no more 15 minute runs through some of the most boring terrain the game has to offer? Sweet!
New Portals: Orgrimmar and Stormwind both getting portals directly to the Dark Portal
You mean, no more portals to Stonard? Sweet!
What It Means
Further proof here that Blizzard is trying to lend new players and low level characters more of a hand to help them level up their toons and get them to Northrend faster and easier.
Personally, I love the idea of being able to go wherever I want to faster and easier. I love to level, but I hate running around simply for the sake of getting from one place to another. Now, if I can farm for either drops or my professions along the way, then I don't really mind it. But if I'm just running from Point A to Point B simply because I need one, dinky little thing from Point B then I'm not a happy player.
Let the QQ Begin!
Yes, this does "dumb down" some of the things you had to do previously, and just like with the Mount Changes Post, I'm sure there will soon be a flood of QQ flooding the Barrens as everyone throws a fit at making old game contented "too easy" and that Blizzard is "conforming to the casuals" and so forth.
The people complaining about all that are primarily people who are already running around in Northrend. And do those players care about low level play anyway? No. So why bother with the QQ?
If you were Blizzard, who would you want to "conform" towards more: the people who praise your product and love what you're doing to help them (the ones like me who rejoice at such news), or the ones that constantly cry and complain no matter how good, or bad, the changes might be? You can never please the drama queens, but the ones having fun are the ones bringing in new business as they share the game with other people.
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