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As a New Jersey–based corporate travel agent, Leticia Huang knows all about scheduling travel arrangements in advance. Yet when it comes to her own plans, she and her husband have decided that flexibility is the way to go.
"We used to work our travel around our time off — holidays, school breaks, that sort of thing," she says. "Now, we figure it's going to be a lot cheaper if we can grab a bargain when it comes up. If I spot something, I'll let work know that, two weeks from now, I'm going on vacation."
Of course, flexibility has always been a valuable tool for deal-seeking travelers, but recently, it's become a virtual requirement. The economy has more people leery about making plans far in advance; travel companies are offering more last-minute deals, and new technologies are fostering bargains that come and go like mayflies.
The key, then, is to be fast, flexible and well-informed. The tactics vary, but depending on where you want to go and what you want to do, there are plenty of ways to stretch your travel dollars. Here are five strategies:
Air travel
How "flashy" can those limited-time-offer "flash sales" get? Forget 48 or even 24 hours. When United announced its first Twitter-based fare sale in May — "Hurry and get your first-ever, time-sensitive Tware. $63 o/w Chicago to DC. + taxes…" — it was over in 59 minutes. Love it or hate it, the micro-blogging site is becoming yet another channel for airlines to create a lot of buzz and sell tickets to a lucky few.
Of course, following everyone from Alaska Airlines to Virgin America would be a time-suck of epic proportion. Instead, consider following the airfare followers, such as AirfareWatchdog.com and FareCompare.com. The latter recently launched individual Twitter accounts for 100 cities, so you can cut to the chase via city-specific posts like: $219r/t Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale down 8%, [http://bit.ly/1HMxT] #LAX #fare. Just don't blink.
Pity the poor cruise lines. Launching a small armada of newbuilds into the teeth of the recession, the industry finds itself with too many ships, too few passengers and some of the lowest prices in recent memory. "There have been prices as low as $399 per person for seven-night Alaska sailings," says Stewart Chiron, aka The Cruise Guy, "and not just for the shoulder season, but for July and August as well. There are still some out there."
To get the most for your Alaska-bound bucks, Chiron suggests opting for a roundtrip sailing out of Seattle rather than a one-way itinerary: "Roundtrips tend to be a little more expensive, but you avoid the additional cost of an open-jaw ticket."
Tours and packages
According to a recent survey by the U.S. Tour Operators Association, average tour prices this year are 20 percent lower than last year. Operators are also introducing shorter trips and more domestic tours to appeal to travelers who don't want to stay away as long or go as far. "Domestic programs are doing very well this year," says Melissa Snape, executive vice president of product for Collette Vacations. "Napa Valley, the national parks ... we're also seeing a lot of interest in New England."
As for non-tour packages, some of the best deals right now are for Mexico, where operators hammered by the swine-flu alert (now lifted) are offering three nights' lodging and roundtrip air from select U.S. cities for $400 or less.
Looking for a good deal on a hotel room this summer? Ask and ye shall most likely receive. "In the past, the rule of thumb was that asking for a lower rate was successful about one-third of the time," says Bjorn Hanson, associate professor at the Tisch Center at New York University. "Today, it's successful about two-thirds of the time."
At the Mayfair Hotel & Spa in Coconut Grove, Fla., potential guests are actually encouraged to bargain for better rates. Under the hotel's Let's Make a Deal program, you can call the reservations department and make an offer, which may be accepted or met with a counteroffer. "It depends on occupancy," says Tom Robertson, director of room operations, "but you can save 15–30 percent or more."
Vacation rentals
For families and other groups, the inherent savings in renting a vacation home are well-documented. This year, though, weak bookings are prompting cash-strapped owners to cut prices and throw in more extras.
"Owners are trying to be more innovative," says Kim Turner, director of marketing for GetMoreVacations.com, which helps owners boost their properties' appeal via complimentary add-ons, such as golf and deep-sea fishing trips. "These are the things that people go on vacation to enjoy," she says. "If you don't want to open your wallet the whole weekend, you don't have to."
Or, as Leticia Huang puts it, "Travel is ultimately a treat for us. We need to save where we can, but not at the expense of happy memories."
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OTTAWA — With Luka Magnotta now in German police custody and poised to face multiple charges in Canada, questions are emerging about whether there should be other legal fallout in the case — notably around Best Gore, the website that initially refused to take down what's believed to be video of the graphic murder of victim Jun Lin.
Toronto Internet lawyer Gil Zvulony said he believes police have a case to lay obscenity charges in connection with the Edmonton website, adding that posting the video breached Canadian law.
"The issue is why haven't the police done anything," he said in an interview.
"I can hear the argument when it was uploaded to that website: 'They didn't know about it.' Okay fine. There's no real crime where there's no knowledge, but once they got notice of that and they allowed it to stay on there, that's where a crime was committed in my view and police should have charged them."
Contacted Monday, website operator Mark Marek said he "decided to disable the video on my own terms." He also argued at length that his website, far from offering grisly thrills to a desensitized Internet audience, performs a public service by vividly displaying the consequences of violence and reckless behaviour.
"Best Gore exists to expose the evil doers for who they really are, though I'm not surprised they are offended with me showing their true faces to the world and want the site shut down or me charged with whatever they can come up with," he said in an email to Postmedia.
He credited the online audience for his website — which features graphic, real-life executions, suicides, murders and accidents — with identifying Magnotta in the video and reporting him to police — and suggested the authorities were the ones who dropped the ball by not acting sooner.
"Case in point, it's only because Best Gore exists and because this heinous video was publically (sic) shared that the community was able to come up with the name of who the suspect most likely was. Had the authorities acted upon the reports we made, they may have captured Luka sooner."
While Zvulony said he believes not all murderous content should be taken off the Internet — for example, he would not remove depictions of governments massacring their own citizens, as happened recently in Syria — the video attributed to Magnotta, he argued, crosses a line.
"We don't want to sanitize reality. We want to have access to the truth. Except at some point, that unsanitized truth becomes really harmful to society," he said.
"It goes against the ethos of the Internet, but we do have to put some responsibility on the people who run these sites."
Michael Kempa, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, agreed it's a crime to post violent and graphic footage of an indictable offence and that doing so is not unlike posting child pornography, bestiality or "snuff" video or film.
The government, he argued, has realized it's impossible for traditional law enforcement agencies to effectively police the Internet and have made it increasingly clear to service providers and web hosts that they are responsible for the content on their pages.
Nathalie Des Rosiers of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, however, argued charges against a web host probably wouldn't stick and there's a "good defence" linked to the "protection of freedom of expression."


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Tonight in Denver, CO, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in front of 84,000 people. When I talked about Hillary being VP, I was actually just looking for the votes, but when her and Bill spoke to the Dems at the DNC, I am hoping that their convincing arguments will turn those equal numbers from recent weeks back onto Obama's side show McCain and his "advisers" that America wants change and not more of the same.
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Organisations performing professional and objective auditing of manufacturing facilities and operating product certification systems can apply for approval as GOTS certifier to the Global Standard gGmbH.
GOTS has developed its own accreditation system for this approval process as well as for continuous monitoring of the approved Certification Bodies, as outlined in the document "Approval Procedure for Certification Bodies ver 2.0".
The GOTS accreditation system is based upon the principles of ISO/IEC Guide 17065: 2012 "Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services". It further especially references the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) as released by the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF, follow up project GOMA) convened by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Since certification according to GOTS has certain features that differ from certification of products and services covered by ISO/IEC Guide 17065 (e.g. assessment of management systems such as environmental management and social criteria) and IROCB (which is mainly developed for organic food products) it also includes sector- and GOTS-specific requirements.
Accreditation bodies that agree to follow the approval and monitoring procedure and the requirements as specified in the GOTS accreditation document conduct the accreditation process for GOTS. The main cooperating partner for this process is the International Organic Accreditation Service (IOAS), which specialises in organic accreditation and operates worldwide.
As a prerequisite Certification Bodies applying for approval as GOTS certifier must already have a valid accreditation to perform certification in accordance with ISO/IEC Guide 17065.
Accreditation can be applied according to one of, a combination of or all of the following GOTS scopes:
Certifiers must not certify and/or inspect according to organic textile standards of their own beginning one year after first approval as GOTS certifier on order to support the harmonisation process of GOTS. They shall cooperate with all other Approved Certifiers in a Certifiers Council in order to ensure worldwide equal application of the Global Standard and inspection and certification procedures. They must pay an Annual Fee of 40 Euro per facility inspected and/or certified and need to collect from their certified entities Licence Fees in accordance with the provisions of the 'Licensing and Labelling Guide'.
The qualification, competence and all further requirements for application and approval under the GOTS accreditation system are defined in the document "Approval Procedure and Requirements for Certification Bodies". Certification Bodies that wish to apply must ensure that they have studied, understood and are willing to follow the 'Approval Procedure and Requirements for Certification Bodies' prior to submitting their application using the application form below.
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This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
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- I am usually typing on a computer most of the day, but today I am trying my hand at a new project: My 2011 365-Day Photo Journey. I gained a love for photography when I was required to take a fine arts class for college--I chose photography. The course required a lot of work--Professor Loehr saw to that--but it opened my eyes to a new world. It's been many years since I took that class and I don't know how much I actually remember, but following Laura Delagal's 365 Photo Journey and watching my niece's love for taking pictures has peeked my interested in photography again. Although I don't have a professional camera, I did receive a really nice Sony digital (point-and-shoot) camera from my sweetie for Christmas this year. Going through some difficult times in my life, I thought that undertaking my own 365-day photo journey might be a way to relieve a little stress and have some fun with my new toy. Through this journey I will capture some of life's joy and its pain, but I will also be able to refocus the lens of my life on the many wonderful things that God has created. Well, here goes. Wish me luck!
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Connection:MOSI pin: from the mcu to shift register's data pin (pin1+2 on HC164 and pin 14 on HC595). LCD's RS pin tied to this line as well.SCK pin: from the mcu to shift register's serial clock pin (pin 8 on HC164 and pin 11 on HC595)Enable pin: from the mcu to the lcd.
Advantages over other 3-wire solutions:1) It allows 8-bit as well as 4-bit mode.2) It uses no parts other than the shift register.3) It allows HC164 as well as HC595.
What about the RCK line (pin 12) on the HC595?
QuoteWhat about the RCK line (pin 12) on the HC595?Connect it to the Enable line: those people who designed HD44780 are incredibly smart and with tons of foresight,
The low level LCD driver uses 28 words of program memory and is isochronous.
With delays for the RC tau of 3.3 microseconds, it takes precisely 83.75 microseconds to send each byte to the LCD.


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Open Face Motorcycle Helmets
Open face helmets are typically the mainstay of the scooter and cafe racer crowd, but at RevZilla we see more and more riders opting for at least one open face motorcycle helmet as part of their gear lineup. The benefits of a vintage style open face motorcycle helmet are the experience of a wider field of view as well as more interaction with the riding conditions. It's a great sensation when you feel the wind in your face while riding. Some open face helmets have flip up visors and some do not. There are also open-face motorcycle helmets at a wide range of prices from $60 to over $300 depending on the brand and the helmet features. The only true drawback to an open face helmet is that it offers less protection around the jaw-line than a full face helmet. Anyone buying an open face helmet should consider the pros and cons versus a full face helmet with regard to the type of riding conditions they most frequently experience.


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Great Balls of F.Y.R.E: Marvel's Operation S.I.N. #1
Those looking forward to the January 6, 2015 two hour ABC Television premiere of Marvel's Agent Carter, the Agents of SHIELD mini-series spin off, should also be aware of the concurrently launching Marvel Comics series Operation S.I.N..
Shake, Rattle and Damage Control…
While the television series tells the story of Carter's immediate post World War II exploits in the S.S.R.(Strategic Scientific Reserve), Operation S.I.N. #1 will feature a 1950's cold war scenario that pits Peggy Carter and Howard Hughs analog Howard Stark (Iron Man's Dad for the uninitiated) against burgeoning H.Y.D.R.A. forces. They're all on a collision course to recover powerful alien tech that is planted far behind the Iron Curtain.
We Were Promised Jet-Packs…
S.H.I.E.L.D. fans will be happy to know that "The Man on the Wall", alien fighting hero Woodrow McCord Jr. will also feature prominently in the new book. His origins were revealed last October in Marvel's Original S.I.N. Annual and now we'll presumably learn how he first became connected with Howard Stark.
Written by Kathryn Immonen, with interior art by Rich Ellis, Marvel's Operation S.I.N. teaser panels promise some butt kicking action and Bondian espionage. Find it in your local comic shoppe on January 7, 2015.
SkeletonPete Says…
I, for one, am really enjoying how Marvel Entertainment is handling their cross-media plotline on the road to Avengers: The Age of Ultron, with the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show expanding the Kree technology story, while Agent Carter will fill in the historical backstory of the pre-Nick Fury agency.
I'm thinking we'll need Disney Infinity 2.0 Carter and Stark figures to do some video game stealth work.
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The CCNY STEM students honored for their research by the ABRCMS were, from left to right, Ashraf Elzanie, Tai-Danae Bradley, Syed Haider, Keaira Dupuy and Oluwaniyi Mabayoje.
City College of New York science students brought home a record five wins for research presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California. The winning CCNY students were:
- Oluwaniyi Mabayoje, a senior chemistry major
- Tai-Danae Bradley, a senior mathematics and physics major
- Syed Haider, a senior biology and premedical studies major
- Ashraf Elzanie, a fourth-year student in the Sophie Davis BS/MD program
- Keaira Dupuy, a second-year Sophie Davis BS/MD student
They were selected from a field of more than 1,500 participants from colleges and universities across the country.
"This is huge. You can imagine the kind of competition they were going up against," said Professor Millicent Roth, assistant to the dean of science for undergraduate programs. "We are calling them The Group of Five."
Students from 12 disciplines in the biomedical sciences, behavioral sciences and mathematics were judged on their poster and oral presentations during the four-day conference. Those with the highest scores for each academic level in each discipline were presented with awards at the final banquet.
Ashraf and Keaira conducted their research through a partnership with the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the CCNY-MSKCC Partnership for Cancer Research, directed by CCNY Professor of Biology Karen Hubbard.
Three of the City College winners are participants in the City College Academy for Professional Preparation (CCAPP), the Division of Science's program to support student research, which Professor Roth directs. CCAPP students present research posters on campus. The organization showcased the posters for all CCAPP students' research projects at an annual at the end of semester event in the Marshak Science Building Gallery.
"It's our 16th year and every year I see more students' posters," said Dr. Chris Li, acting dean of science. "They're going to be going into the elevators next year." The CCAPP posters describe the students' research projects, the theory on which each is based, and how the research applies to the theory. Below are the winning ABRCMS students' stories:
Oluwaniyi Mabayoje
Category: Chemistry
Major: Chemistry
Class: Senior
Mentor: Professor of Chemistry Teresa Bandosz
Oluwaniyi, known to his friends as "Niyi", immigrated to this country with his parents from Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2006 and lives in the Bronx. "I started science because I was expected to do it, but now I just love it," he said, a big smile breaking across his face.
The goal of Oluwaniyi's project was to increase the efficiency with which a metal oxide called cobalt hydroxide can scrub hydrogen sulfide, a toxic pollutant, from the air when it is at room temperature, and then to investigate how it did so. Cobalt hydroxide normally requires very high temperatures to work. Oluwaniyi treated the material with varying amounts of graphite oxide and was able to increase its efficiency at room temperature by 400 percent. He plans to continue with his passion for research and will apply to graduate programs in renewable energy or a similar field.
Tai-Danae Bradley
Category: Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics
Major: Physics and Mathematics
Class: Senior
Mentor: Assistant Professor of Mathematics Brooke Feigon (CCNY)
Tai-Danae grew up in Richmond, Va., and describes herself as "not the typical math student." Not a fan of math and science in high school, she discovered her love of math in her sophomore year at City College. After a busy season playing on CCNY's women's basketball team, she sat in on a summer course to review what she had missed in class.
For the first time, she was able to listen without taking notes and, to her amazement, she began seeing layers of meaning in the theory beyond simple computation. "Math is not just numbers – some of this is mind blowing," she remembers thinking.
In keeping with her first awakening to math, her research project has to do with pure math and number theory.
She explored the pattern of a distribution of numbers called Gaussian Integers. She found that the structure of this previously un-described distribution hid a well-known formula that describes the distribution of prime numbers, demonstrating for the first time that the two are related. Tai-Danae will apply for graduate programs in theoretical mathematics.
Syed Haider
Category: Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics (Award for Oral Presentation)
Major: Biology and Premedical Studies
Class: Senior
Mentor: Christopher D. Hue, graduate student; and Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Barclay Morrison, both of Columbia University
Syed, a native of Pakistan, immigrated to the US in 2007. He became interested in medicine during visits to a neurologist with his grandmother and sees research as a way he can help others and make a difference in their lives.
He presented posters on two different research topics at the CCAPP event and was awarded a travel grant and the opportunity to give an oral presentation at ABRCMS. In the research for which he won recognition, he and his mentor investigated the effect of explosive blasts on the brain.
The blasts essentially punch holes in a protective shield called the blood-brain barrier, which prevents toxins and infectious agents in the blood from entering the fluid around the brain. Syed was able to determine the quantity and size of the neurotoxins that can pass through after the damage.
In another project at CCNY with Dr. Itzhak Mano, Syed is helping to identify the steps of the genetic process that protect the brain from further damage following a stroke. He plans to continue with his dual interests in medicine and research, saying: "As long as I'm doing something for patients, that's my goal."
Ashraf Elzanie
Category: Cell Biology
Major: Biomedicine
Class: Fourth year, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education BS/MD program
Mentor: Dr. Sarah Cheal, research fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Ashraf's father immigrated from Egypt and his mother from Honduras. He grew up in Staten Island. Ashraf lost an aunt to cancer, which inspired him to pursue medicine. He said of his parents' support: "They put me in a place where they said, 'whatever your passion is, you can go for it.' "
He and his mentor used cancer imaging and special fluorescent tags to target tumors for radiation or chemotherapy to help reduce the indiscriminate damage to normal tissue caused by large-dose chemotherapy. They used glowing green antibodies that flag tumor tissue and then clear quickly from the blood. "What I really enjoy is learning about the mechanisms of things, and I apply this to patient care. This is my love for science being translated into medicine," he said.
Ashraf enjoys patient contact even more than research and is considering a clinical internship next.
Keaira Dupuy
Category: Cell Biology
Major: Biomedicine
Class: Second year, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education BS/MD program
Mentor: Dr. Barrie Cassileth, integrative medicine service chief, and Dr. Simon Yeung, doctor of pharmacy and herbalist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Keaira's family is from Haiti, where the Neem tree, a relative of mahogany, grows in abundance. Extracts from the tree are used in folk medicine to treat cancer and other illnesses around the world. Keaira made a critical analysis of the medical literature about Neem in order to provide solid information to physicians and patients about Neem's value and efficacy.
She found promising clinical results showing that components of the tree can kill pancreatic and cervical cancer cells in vitro and showed some potential in human trials as an antiviral agent against the symptoms of HIV-AIDS. "It has shown me my interest in research," said Keaira. "I do want to continue – you get to make a difference."
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maternity clothes? Yup!! One of the third grade teachers at my school passed along alot of her old maternity clothes to me this week. I am decked on on maternity clothes. I have been so blessed to have only bought a few things. I had three friends fill my closet for me!!
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Palm Springs Arts Festivals - 2nd Annual
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
January 17, 18 & 19, 2014
Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday*
February 14, 15, 16 & 17, 2014
Hours are: 10 AM to 5:00 PM for all 3 shows
at the Festival Grounds on Crossley Rd at Ramon Rd
(across from Wal-Mart SuperCenter)
Palm Springs, California 92264
In the birthplace of Western Chic, Palm Springs Arts Festivals is pleased to present 175 of the finest traditional and contemporary artists from throughout the West, Southwest and the World to dazzle your eyes.
We were honored to have had as our Featured Artists for our first season internationally acclaimed master artist Amado Peña, Jr of Santa Fe, NM , master bronze sculptress Felicia of Vail Valley, CO and master glass sculptors, Dan & Joi LaChaussee of Whidbey Island, WA. We will be announcing our Featured Artists for the 2014 Season over the Summer 2013.
* - Because our Februay date is over the 3 day Presidents' Weekend (for some), we have designed this show as a 4 day show - Friday through the Monday Holiday. Artists will be able to choose to participate all 4 days, or 3 of the 4 (Fri-Sun or Sat-Mon), or any 2 consecutive days for the same price. As everyone works on a different schedule that weekend and our venue affords fast and easy setup, many more Southern California will be able to participate.
In February we debuted Palm Springs Indian Market featuring numerous nationally regarded Native American artists. All have been selected by jury for the Autry Museum Indian Market, Heard Museum or The Gathering shows. Headlining our show within a show was internationally famous Amado Peña, Jr of NM, along with noted Cherokee artist, Patricia McAllister of AR. were joined by noted artists and jewelers from Santo Domingo Pueblo to Seattle. We are working now on scheduling for 2012.
The many other renowned artists chosen for this event will display a wide variety both fine art and quality craft
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sculpture and wildly colored glass art to photography and much much more! Their offerings will provide every level of art lover the
perfect opportunity to begin or to add to a collection after meeting the works' creator.
Our Food Court will feature the "World Famous" Palm Springs Lions Club's
Pancake Breakfast and offers a variety of reasonably priced specialties throughout the day.
The Lions Club will host a Beer & Wine Garden with musical entertainment provided each day by national recording stars, Palm Springs High School Alumni and Palm Springs Walk of Stars honorees, The Evaro Family for your enjoyment.
Hours 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Gates close at 4:00 PM
Admission to the Festival is $5 for adults; under 18 and active Military and their spouses are free!
General parking is free!
The venue is handicapped accessible with only Service Dogs allowed.
Other pets are NOT permitted per health regulations.
For further information, please contact us at:
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When we tested mobile device management (MDM) last year, the products were largely focused on asset management - provisioning, protecting and containing mobile devices.
What a difference a year makes. The products we compared in this round of testing have much stronger controls of specific smartphones and mobile operating systems, plus features like location-based tracking, usage tracking, two-factor authentication and sandboxing of personal and corporate identities.
Of the five MDM apps we reviewed, SOTI's MobiControl was very strong and understood specific phones and OS platforms very well. Tangoe had very strong enterprise-focused management features. Newcomer Webroot is promising, but still has work to do to catch up to the others in our test. SAP's Afaria, which we tested last year, sported a new, almost radical makeover that's a dramatic improvement over their last edition. Venerable LanDesk has added MDM to its desktop management suite, and while the installation phase gave us moderate willies, we came to appreciate the product's device controls, easy policy management and reporting.


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• Access Ladder with Flat Steps
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Holcomb's perfect start over; Hefti wins 2-man
WINTERBERG, Germany (AP) — Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann of Switzerland won a World Cup 2-man bobsled competition Friday, ending American pilot Steven Holcomb's seven-race overall winning streak to start the season.
Hefti and Baumann finished two runs in 1 minute, 52.68 seconds. Russia's Alexsandr Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda were second in 1:53.14. Cory Butner won his second medal of the season for the U.S., teaming with Chuck Berkeley to finish in 1:53.15 and take the bronze, a mere 0.01 seconds away from winning the silver.
Holcomb and teammate Steven Langton struggled in their first run with only the ninth-best time and wound up finishing seventh overall in 1:53.45.
Nick Cunningham and Justin Olsen of the U.S. were 12th, doomed by a mistake-filled second run after being tied for fourth at the midway point of the competition.
Hefti and Baumann were 0.33 seconds faster than Butner and Berkeley in the opening run, giving them a big margin of error to work with. The next nine sleds in the field were separated by only 0.35 seconds.
Butner and Berkeley wound up slipping one spot in the second run, but not enough to fall from medal contention. Their bronze was the 26th medal collected by U.S. bobsled and skeleton athletes so far in this World Cup season, the most of any nation.
"We were having good training, fast and we were hoping to be fast on race day," Butner said. "Today we were."
Zubkov and Voevoda made a big move in the second run, but no one else came close to challenging Hefti, who has prevailed in four of the last six 2-man races on the Winterberg track.
"The whole team did a good job this week," Hefti said. "It's always good to win here."
Holcomb remained the leader in the 2-man overall points chase, now with 1,068, 103 ahead of Hefti, who moved up one spot into second place. Butner also moved up a spot, now sitting in third with 935 points.
There's still two more bobsled races for the men in Winterberg, with 4-man competitions scheduled on both Saturday and Sunday.


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Inventive bartender Chris Frankel's new drinks menu rolled out quietly at RDG + Bar Annie this week, and it's a must-try for Houston cocktail aficionados.
Of special interest is a section devoted to cocktails based on brandies and eau de vies — all of them distilled from grapes or other fruits — rather than such classic spirits as gin, rum, whiskey, tequila and vodka. (Don't worry, the list features smart takes on those, too.) The three I sampled were spectacularly good — and not quite like anything I've ever tasted.
The Looking Glass was a translucent, cloudy shimmer of Slivovitz (a plum brandy) and Kirsch (cherry brandy) mixed with unfiltered Nigori Sake, flavored with a trace of passion fruit and orange bitters. I had expected high-proof heat and some sweetness; instead I got grace and smoothness coupled with a delicately dry quality. A whole kefir lime leaf added a trace of perfume toward the end. It's a knockout.
So is the Horns of Hattin cocktail, based on Cognac, red Vermouth and Arak, an anise-flavored grape brandy from Lebanon. It's poured over ice, and lime and mint give it a citrusy, herbal lift that feels right for summer. The Arak makes it all happen, conferring a distinctive earthy note that fascinated me. It seemed far more complex than most licorice-flavored spirits.
About that Horns of Hattin name: it's typical of the historical and cultural references Frankel has woven into his drinks list. It has an "every cocktail tells a story" vibe that will be part of the fun for patrons interested enough to ask. In this case, putting together European spirits with Middle Eastern Arak, Frankel tapped the site of a major medieval battle between French/European colonists in Jerusalem and an army of Muslims under Saladin.
For the brandy-based Looking Glass, rather less seriously, Frankel appropriated the name of the band that performed the execrable one-hit-wonder "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" back in the 1970s. I kind of wish I didn't know that.
When I asked about the source of the Aunt Julia, a pink slip of fizz that was like a champagne cocktail squared, Frankel said that the Pisco involved — a Peruvian grape brandy — had made him think of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, about a student who has an affair with an older woman.
With its pear liqueur, lemon and sparkling rosé wine, the Aunt Julia is bound to be a hit with the ladies. My favorite part: when the aroma from the bruised lemon peel perched on the rim invaded my skull.
The cocktails are priced at $8 to $13. My Looking Glass was $10; Horns of Hattin $8; and Aunt Julia set me back $12. (During Happy Hour, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, three of Frankel's new creations are priced at $7.) Frankel is already making his tonic water in house, and patrons can add it to their drinks for $2 a pop.
And about food: you can avail yourself of the casual Bar Annie menu, which features such items as chef Robert del Grande's peerless barbacoa enchiladas; or even order off the more formal and big-deal RDG menu. Right now that features some beautifully seared sea scallops with a multidimensional green mole, caramelized yuca, pickled fennel and watercress, as a for instance.
Frankel's busy training the cordial bar personnel and mixing drinks and plotting new features. Bar Annie already had one of the handsomest settings in town, with sweeping views of Post Oak Boulevard and a dramatic outdoor terrace. Now it's got the drinks to go with them.
I'm already thinking about my next visit. I'm ordering the Palm Wine Drinkard, described as a "classically styled wine cobbler on crushed ice," made with Lillet, seasonal fruit, dark rum and African palm wine, which is a curious favorite of mine.
The Palm Wine Drinkard name? It's from a surreal 1952 novel by Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. I'm not giving away the plot.
(RDG + Bar Annie, 1800 Post Oak Blvd., 713-840-1111)


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By Marty Martin
Whether you work for yourself or are employed in an organization, one thing is for certain: at some point your career will change. It could be a gradual change, such as a job or industry slowly evolving or phasing out; or it could be a sudden change, such as the Board of Directors mandating a reduction in staff immediately. Regardless of the exact scenario, the key trait that will enable you to reposition yourself and thrive after a career setback is your ability to embrace adaption.
Unfortunately, many people lack a belief in their ability to adapt. As such, they become immobilized by fear when change is apparent. So rather than adapt their mindset, approach, and even skills, they choose to stay stuck in their comfort zone, even though it's no longer comfortable at all.
Realize, though, that adaption is natural. For example, when you travel to a location that has a different climate than what you're used to (such as going from Miami, Florida to Chicago, Illinois in the winter), the new weather feels harsh for the first day. But after a few days in the new climate, your body adjusts and the colder temperatures don't feel as frigid. Your body and mind acclimates and you get used to the new environment. This natural ability to adapt at a physiological level also applies to dealing with changes in the career environment. You simply need to tap into your natural ability to adapt and apply it to your professional life. The following suggestions will help you achieve that.
1) Reflect on your past. When change is upon you, reflect back on a few times in the past when you overcame an adversity and identify what you had to do to get through those events. Ideally, choose examples from your past workplaces. If you can't think of any, then go back to your school days and your personal life. If you really have led a challenge-free life thus far, then think about books or movies where you've learned about others overcoming adversity.
Once you choose a few situations to reflect upon, determine the actions and attributes that helped you or others in the past. There's a high probability if you repeat the mindsets and actions that worked in the past, they'll work for you now as well. This exercise helps you shift your energy from victim to victor. You prove to yourself that success is possible.
2) Choose to associate with like-minded people. To keep your mindset strong, surround yourself with individuals and groups who support you in doing something different, rather than those who try to keep you chained to the status quo. Of course, this step is always easier said than done, especially when your family or closest colleagues are the ones holding you back.
First, in your work life, assess your transferable skills. For example, if you were a video store manager whose store closed, your skills likely include hiring and staffing, inventory, merchandising, and customer service. Look at what other stable and growing professions and industries use those skills and join their leading association. This enables you to actively make connections with new people in a sector that has more optimism than the one you're currently in.
If your loved ones are contributing to your negative mindset, sit down with them and have an honest conversation about the current situation and your options for change. For example, if you realize you need to relocate to find a new job, and your spouse does not want to move, show the reality of the situation. You might say, "If we remain here we can't maintain our lifestyle. We'll have to downsize to a one-bedroom apartment or move in with family. But if we relocate to this area where jobs in my sector are plentiful, we can maintain our lifestyle, just in a different zip code. What makes the most sense to you?" Be calm and use specifics when you talk. Chances are the loved one will see the necessity for whatever change is needed.
3) Do scenario planning. Write out detailed scenarios about what can happen if you adapt, if you fail to adapt, and if you somewhat adapt. You need to do all three rather than single point planning, because single point planning can set you up for frustration if the plan doesn't go exactly as outlined.
This sort of triple scenario planning is based on stress inoculation training, which encourages people to anticipate a negative event and explore how they might deal with it in various ways. Should the negative event actually occur, the person has an idea of what to do to overcome, which makes the negative event less stressful. The scenario planning works a lot like stress inoculation training.
For example, if you've been laid off and can't find a new job in your area, you may decide that your best case scenario if you adapt is to find a job you love—one that pays great and offers high satisfaction—albeit in a different part of the country. If you fail to adapt, that scenario may include you moving back in with your parents and working at a minimum wage entry level job that you hate. And if you somewhat adapt, perhaps you find a good paying job in your town, but you're doing work that doesn't give you much joy or satisfaction.
With these three scenarios detailed on paper, you have the option of choice. Which scenario do you want to pursue? Now, instead of becoming paralyzed with thoughts like, "I don't know what to do next" or "Until I figure out what is the right decision I'm not going to do anything," you can make an informed choice of the best way to overcome your current situation. If you are involved in joint decision-making with loved ones, share what you wrote with them so they can be part of the choice process too.
Embrace the New Reality: Make no mistake: Everyone's career is going to be affected at some point in their life. This isn't an "if" scenario; it's a "when." So even if your work life seems to be going well right now, start developing your capacity to adapt so that when change occurs, you know what to do.
If you're in the midst of a change and need to adapt quickly, remember that learning is inherently difficult because you often feel awkward, incompetent, and insecure for a temporary period of time. Eventually, though, you become so fluent in the new knowledge or routine that you can't imagine your life any other way. Therefore, the sooner you start cultivating and embracing your ability to adapt, the sooner you can thrive in your new situation.
Dr. Marty Martin, known for his state-of-the art content presented in an engaging, dynamic fashion, has been speaking and training nationally and internationally for many years. His book, Taming Disruptive Behavior, will be published by The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) in 2013. Dr. Martin is the Director of the Health Sector Management MBA Concentration and Associate Professor in the College of Commerce at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, please visit his website: www.drmartymartin.com.


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Are you killing your pets with your smoke ?
Pets are getting all kinds of cancers, no thanks to the smokers who passed the secondhand smoke to the hapless animals.
Just a sidetrack – I am glad that there is no smoking in confined public places in Singapore. The most recently are the pubs. Secondhand smoke is attributed in the west with killing thousands of adult nonsmokers annually. No matter what is the figure in Singapore, kudos to our government for taking tough but well-appreciated progressive ban in public places. Since July this year, I can walk into any pub to have a nice cold beer and songs with business associates and friends and go home without smelling like a walking piece of shit.
But what about the private confined areas like the individual homes? While many smoking adults might not expose the secondhand smoke to their spouse or children, what about those irresponsible habitual smokers living with pets?
Secondhand smoke kills cats fast
"Secondhand smoke has been associated with oral cancer and lymphoma in cats, lung and nasal cancer in dogs, as well as lung cancer in birds," said Dr. Carolynn MacAllister, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service veterinarian.
Cats that lived with smokers for five or more years had an even higher incidence of squamous cell carcinoma, simply known as mouth cancer.
Cats are twice as likely to have malignant lymphoma cancer compared to cats living in a non-smoking home. It is a type of cancer that occurs in the lymph nodes and is fatal to three out of four cats within 12 months of developing the cancer.
MacAllister disclosed that one reason cats are so susceptible to secondhand smoke is because cats constantly lick themselves while grooming. By licking their fur, they expose the mucous membrane of their mouth to the cancer-causing carcinogens that accumulate on their fur.
What about dogs?
MacAllister also pointed out that "a recent study conducted at Colorado State University shows that there is a higher incidence of nasal tumors in dogs living in a home with secondhand smoke compared to dogs living in a smoke free environment,"
She said. "The increased incidence was specifically found among the long nosed breed of dogs. Shorter or medium nosed dogs showed higher rates for lung cancer."
MacAllister said the longer nosed breeds of dogs have a great surface area in their noses that is exposed to the carcinogens. This also provides more area in which the carcinogens can accumulate. The carcinogens tend to build up on the mucous membranes of long nosed dogs so not as much reaches the lungs.
Unfortunately, dogs affected with nasal cancer normally do not survive more than one year.
"The reason short and medium nose dogs have a higher occurrence of lung cancer is because their shorter nasal passages aren't as effective at accumulating the inhaled secondhand smoke carcinogens," she said. "This results in more carcinogens reaching the lungs."
What about birds?
Pet birds also are victims of secondhand smoke. A bird's respiratory system is hypersensitive to any type of pollutant in the air.
MacAllister said the most serious consequences of secondhand smoke exposure in birds are pneumonia or lung cancer. Other health risks include eye, skin, heart and fertility problems.
Killing them at home without smoking
Secondhand smoke is not the only danger faced by pets that live in smoke filled environments. Poisoning is another risk they face.
"Curious pets can eat cigarettes and other tobacco products if the products aren't stored properly," MacAllister said. "When ingested, this can cause nicotine poisoning, which can be fatal."
It is important both for the health of pets and others living in the household, that the smoker has a designated area in which to smoke that is physically separated from the home. In addition, always keep cigarettes, cigarette butts and other tobacco products put away.
"A better choice that could enhance your chances of enjoying a healthier lifestyle with your family and pets would be to stop smoking altogether," MacAllister said.


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Testy Exchange Erupts as I.R.S. Chief Is Questioned on Messages — WASHINGTON — Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican who is leading one of the investigations into the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of Tea Party groups, accused the I.R.S. commissioner on Monday of lying …
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Shorewood man charged with 13 counts of voter fraud — By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel — A Shorewood man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of illegal voting, accused of casting multiple ballots in four elections in 2011 and 2012, including five in the 2012 gubernatorial recall.
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Will Mississippi mudslinging give Dems a chance in South? — If Chris McDaniel on Tuesday knocks off Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), national Democrats will have a rare offensive opportunity in the Deep South. — The nasty, divisive primary fight comes to a close in tonight's runoff election …
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Mississippi Race Points to Appeal of Partisanship
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A Survey Says: Support Is Thin for Tea Party, but It Retains Its Muscle
A Survey Says: Support Is Thin for Tea Party, but It Retains Its Muscle
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BILL CLINTON OFFERS ADVICE FOR UDALL, TALKS POTENTIAL HILLARY RUN — Former President Bill Clinton comes over to chat with the media during his tour of the new Stout Street Health Center and Renaissance Stout Street Lofts June 23, 2014. Mayor Hancock and John Parvensky …
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Hillary Clinton Just Tipped Her Hand About Her 2016 Platform
Hillary Clinton Just Tipped Her Hand About Her 2016 Platform
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The story isn't that Hillary Clinton is rich, it's that she's an overrated politician
The story isn't that Hillary Clinton is rich, it's that she's an overrated politician
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Poll Finds Dissatisfaction Over Iraq — Dissatisfaction with President Obama's conduct of foreign policy has shot up among both Republicans and Democrats in the past month, even though a slim majority supports his recent decision to send military advisers to Iraq to confront the growing threat …
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Most Americans say Iraq war wasn't worth the costs: Poll
Most Americans say Iraq war wasn't worth the costs: Poll
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Poll: Lagging approval for Obama overall and on Iraq
Poll: Lagging approval for Obama overall and on Iraq
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy — The president ignored the country for years, with tragic results. And liberals shouldn't be afraid to admit it. — Yes, the Iraq War was a disaster of historic proportions. Yes, seeing its architects return to prime time to smugly slam President Obama …
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Washington and London Ignored Warnings about the ISIS Offensive in Iraq
Washington and London Ignored Warnings about the ISIS Offensive in Iraq
Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Yahoo! News and New York Times
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Report: Kurds offered to help stop ISIS months ago — but didn't hear back from the White House
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Kurds Warned Obama About ISIS Threat Months Ago, Offered To Help Fight Them ... White House Never Responded...
Jacob Siegel / Yahoo! News: Commandos: Iraq 'an Impossible Mission'
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times: Kerry Says ISIS Threat Could Hasten Military Action
Sudanese Christian woman rearrested, legal team says — (CNN) — A Sudanese Christian woman who'd been sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was rearrested Tuesday at an airport as she was trying to leave the African country, her legal team told CNN on Tuesday.
Discussion: LifeNews.com, Guardian, The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, The Daily Signal and The PJ Tatler
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com: Meriam Ibrahim Arrested Again While Trying to Leave Country After Initial Release
Harriet Sherwood / Guardian: Sudan death row woman Meriam Ibrahim rearrested
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Sudanese Christian "Apostate" and Mother Meriam Ibrahim Rearrested at Airport
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Sudan Rearrests Meriam Ibrahim
After Exchanges Close, 5% of Americans Are Newly Insured — More than half of newly insured in '14 got insurance through exchanges — PRINCETON, NJ — Five percent of Americans report being newly insured in 2014. More than half of that group, or 2.8% of the total U.S. population …
Discussion: BillMoyers.com, Politico, Balloon Juice, Real Clear Politics and Hot Air
BillMoyers.com: Morning Reads: Gun Extremists "Terrorize America"; Ultra-Secret New Trade Deal Wikileaked
Sarah Wheaton / Politico: Poll: 5 percent newly insured in 2014
Richard Mayhew / Balloon Juice: Good News Everybody — Via Charles Gbaba: — Gallup's …
New York Times:
2nd Bridge Inquiry Said to Be Linked to Christie — Investigations into the Christie administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have zeroed in on possible securities law violations stemming from a $1.8 billion road repair agreement in 2011, according to people briefed on the matter.
Discussion: Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, Taylor Marsh and Liberaland
Evan McMurry / Mediaite: Must Reads: How ISIS Got Rich, and How Christie Got a New Bridge Investigation
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal: Ex-Im Bank Officials Face Probe; Big-Box Stores Win Defibrillator Case
Dave-Dr-Gonzo / Liberaland: A Second BridgeGhazi Scandal?
The existential crisis of the liberal millionaire — David Brock has a message for liberal millionaires: Don't sweat being called hypocrites. — Brock, a former "right-wing hit-man"-turned-top-big-money- Democratic-operative, is part of a behind-the-scenes campaign to convince donors it's OK …
Ann Althouse / Althouse: "David Brock has a message for liberal millionaires: Don't sweat being called hypocrites."
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Politico: The vast liberal billionaire conspiracy is for real
Wingnuts' destructive shenanigans — and the media who enable them — Here's why one side is to blame — and why it matters — The latest Pew Poll deep dive into American political attitudes inspired a very bored Ron Fournier to sigh deeply, dust off his lace cuffs and blithely wave off all concerns about …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jay Bookman / Ajc Blogs:
Is the First Amendment only for Christians? — Jody Hice, a Baptist minister and talk-radio host, is running for Congress in Georgia's 10th Congressional District as a stern defender of the First Amendment and religious freedom. But that freedom does not apply to those of the Muslim faith.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story and Hinterland Gazette
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: A Low Sanity Threshold
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo: GOP House Candidate: Islam Not A Religion, Not Protected By Constitution
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story: Georgia GOP candidate Jody Hice: Muslims not protected by the First Amendment
Dennis Welch / KASW-TV:
Pressure builds for Huppenthal to quit — PHOENIX — Pressure on the state's top school official to resign continued to mount Monday as more anonymous blog posts from John Huppenthal emerged. — Using an online alias, the superintendent of public instruction posted several comments …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Hochman / Playboy:
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: GARY OLDMAN — When actors list other actors they deeply admire, Gary Oldman's name inevitably shoots to the top. Sid Vicious, Dracula, Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, The Dark Knight's Commissioner Gordon, Harry Potter's Sirius Black—Oldman's range is so staggering …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Hit & Run, ThinkProgress, Daily Surge, Mediaite, NME News and Gawker
Gary Oldman / Hollywood Reporter: Gary Oldman Blasts Liberal Hollywood, Defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run: Legendary Actor Gary Oldman Outs Himself as a "Libertarian"; Also Upset That He Can't Call Nancy Pelosi the C-Word
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
First on CNN: Romney to endorse Scott Brown — (CNN) - Mitt Romney's making another endorsement, and this time it's in a crucial Senate race in his own backyard. — CNN has learned that next week the 2012 GOP presidential nominee will endorse Scott Brown, the frontrunner among …
Discussion: OnPolitics and Washington Post
Catalina Camia / OnPolitics: Mitt Romney to back Scott Brown for Senate in New Hampshire
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post: Mitt Romney to campaign for Scott Brown next week
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
U.S. Economic Confidence Index Dips to -16 — Americans more pessimistic about future direction of economy — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index lost another point last week, the third week in a row the index has dropped by one point.
Discussion: YG Network
New York Times:
The Supreme Court Correctly Affirms the E.P.A.'s Authority — The Clean Air Act is a complex and often confusing piece of legislation, especially when it comes to confronting the challenges of global warming, which were not fully understood when the original law was passed in 1970.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog, The Dish and ThinkProgress
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog: Opinion analysis: EPA mostly wins, but with criticism
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: EPA Regulations Hold Up In Court, Sort Of
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Billionaire activist to meet with White House officials — Washington (CNN) - Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist who's pledged to spend millions in this year's midterm contests, will discuss climate change with top White House officials and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew this week, according to officials.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico: White House, Tom Steyer to meet on climate
New York Times:
A Thin Rationale for Drone Killings — The Obama administration on Monday reluctantly released its justification for killing an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, whom it considered a terrorist, in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen. But the rationale provides little confidence that the lethal action was taken with real care.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Talking Dog, emptywheel, Business Insider and Gawker
The Moderate Voice: The Obama Administration's Justification For Killing An American Abroad Doesn't Fly
Tdog / The Talking Dog: Killer Memo, Dude
Michael B Kelley / Business Insider: NYT Skewers Obama's 'Slapdash' Legal Justification For Killing American By Drone
Aleksander Chan / Gawker: Memo Approving 2011 Drone Strike on American Released by Appeals Court
Matt Lamb / The College Fix:
Gay Activists Target Campus Building Named After Polish Anti-Communist Hero — Following comments last year by Poland's former president about homosexual members of Parliament, some students at Northeastern Illinois University are pressuring the school to rename a building that bears his name.
Discussion: The Daily Caller


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I'm on a press junket par excellence with Infiniti/Red Bull that gets me seat time in the new Infiniti Q50 with Four-Time F1 World Champ and Chief Scientist Sebastian Vettel. What should I ask him?
Ah yes, the disclosure for this trip will be quite full and ridiculous. No one parties more thoroughly than Infiniti, historically speaking, and after thrashing
G37 Q50s around Nashville's Super Speedway with Vettel tomorrow, a few of us will be transferred to Austin for more drinking and eating and watching the young driver be better than us (and everyone else) at what he does.
There, but for the grace of the Infiniti media budget, go I.


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The CARGOS 8500 dual-purpose wagon now makes the option of 30.5-inch tyres available to mid-sized contractors, and to farms that operate their own machinery. The new tridem-chassis version of the CARGOS 8500 can be fitted with tyres up to a size of 710/50 R30.5, with the benefit that the large contact area minimises compaction damage to soils that are moist or less able to withstand a load.
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For 69 years, this relaxed Gold Coast suburb was home to Miami Ice, an iconic ice factory built from two recycled army huts which were demolished in 2013. Even Australian singer John Farnham used this venue to film his Two Strong Hearts film clip.
But while the controversy over the demolition of this cultural icon has since melted, Miami remains an uber cool place to visit with its burgeoning café culture. A highlight of a visit here is Miami Marketta, where Miami bursts alive with an outdoor dining experience seating 450 people and serving food from around the globe. Edgy local watering holes such as The Cargo Bar and The Shed Bar serve boutique wine and locally-brewed beer, while the main stage is a hot bed of local blues, jazz, roots and independent artists.
Blessed with a beautiful beach, a wide range of accommodation, and a host of beach shacks which remind you of the Gold Coast of old, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in that other Miami. Yes, Florida. White suits optional.
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Pair of afternoon games feature Ace-Offs
Lee-Harvey matinee followed soon after by Kershaw-Zimmermann duel
Two of Sunday's games feature matchups between teams' respective aces, as past Cy Young Award winners and 2013 hopefuls meet in the day's Ace-Offs.
Starting with Cliff Lee (10-3, 2.86 ERA) vs. Matt Harvey (7-2, 2.35) at 1:10 p.m. ET, fans will be treated to head-to-head duels of some of the best pitchers in the game over the course of the day.
Harvey, who started the All-Star Game at Citi Field last week for the National League team, was scratched from his last start with a blister on his right index finger, but it is evidently a non-issue. He has an NL-best 147 strikeouts this year, and he impressed in the Midsummer Classic by throwing two innings of shutout ball.
Lee, the 2008 American League Cy Young Award winner, has been key in helping the Phillies stay afloat in the NL East thus far this season, but he is just 1-1 with a 4.87 ERA in his last three outings.
Shortly after the Mets and Phillies start, the Nationals and Dodgers will tango at Nationals Park, where Jordan Zimmermann (12-4, 2.58) and Clayton Kershaw (8-6, 1.98) will square off. Zimmermann, too, has a bit of a nagging injury -- he had an MRI exam Friday that revealed an issue with some soft tissue in his neck -- but the righty has been Washington's most reliable hurler this year.
Kershaw, with 21 strikeouts over his last three starts, struck out 10 in his last outing. The 2011 NL Cy Young Award winner's ERA is tops in the Majors.


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Can LinuxMC be pointed to a dir that consist only of dirs with .rar files in them, unrar on the fly and show the movie (xbmc style ). This feature is very neat and so far as I know only xbmc does it :/
Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
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CAIRO — The Egyptian government acknowledged that its security forces killed 36 Islamists in its custody on Sunday, as the country's military leaders and Islamists vowed to keep up their fight over Egypt's future.
The deaths were the fourth mass killing of civilians since the military took control July 3 but the first time so many had died in government custody.
The news of the deaths came on a day in which there appeared to be a pause in the street battles that have claimed more than 900 lives since Wednesday, most of them Islamists and their supporters gunned down by security forces. The Islamists took measures Sunday to avoid confrontations, including canceling several protests against the ouster of a democratically elected Islamist-led government.
While confirming the killings of the detainees Sunday, the Ministry of the Interior said the deaths came during an escape attempt by Islamist prisoners. But officials of the main Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, described the deaths as "assassinations," and said the victims, which it said numbered 52, had been shot and tear-gassed through the windows of the locked prison van.
The killings were the latest indication that Egypt is moving into uncharted territory, with neither side willing to back down, Egyptians increasingly split about the way forward, and no obvious political solution in sight. The government is considering banning the Brotherhood, which might force the group underground but would not unravel it from the fabric of society it has been part of for eight decades.
Foreign governments also remain divided about the increasingly bloody showdown. US officials said they had taken preliminary steps to withhold financial aid to the Egyptian government, though not crucial military aid, and the European Union announced Sunday that it would "urgently review" its relations with the country, saying the interim government bore the responsibility for bringing violence to an end.
But the Egyptian military retains the support of the oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have pledged billions in aid to the new government.
Although it appeared that security forces were more restrained on Sunday — with no immediate reports of killings in the streets — Major General Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, the country's military leader, spoke out on national television in defiant and uncompromising tones, condemning the Islamists again as "terrorists," but promising to restore democracy to the country.
The Muslim Brotherhood had announced that it would stage nine protest marches in and around Cairo on Sunday as part of its "week of departure" campaign that began Friday to protest the military's deposing of the country's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi.
All but three of the marches were cancelled, and even those that continued were re-routed to avoid snipers who were waiting ahead, along with bands of pro-government thugs, the police, and the military.
The authorities, too, appeared to avoid aggressively enforcing martial law provisions, including a 7 p.m. curfew, that would have led to clashes with the protesters.
Protesters who gathered at the al-Rayyan mosque in the Maadi area of Cairo had aimed to march from there to the Constitutional Court, Egypt's supreme court, whose chief justice, Adly Mansour, has been appointed interim president by the country's military rulers.
Marching in the 100 degree heat, protesters were fatalistic about the threats they faced. Mohammad Abdel Tawab, who said his brother was killed Friday at Ramses Square, had heard the reports of pro-government snipers ahead.
"They will kill us, I know, everybody knows, but it doesn't matter," he said.
A woman, Samira, dressed in an abaya with only her eyes visible, marched holding her 1-year-old daughter Sama. "Whatever will happen to us, will happen," she said. "God has written it already."
Protest leaders, however, were more cautious, and repeatedly rerouted the march at the last moment to avoid confrontations, turning down narrow lanes where residents in upper stories sprayed them with water. It was not always clear whether the gesture was in support or in contempt.
In the last mile, the leader of the march, Mohammad Salwan, ordered everyone to get on the metro train for the final approach to the court, and then protesters dissipated instead of trying to breach barricades set up by pro-military factions.
"We know there are snipers along the route, and we want to avoid losing any more lives," he said.
Similarly, a protest in Giza was called off after it was threatened by military supporters, and the only other one to be held was in a strongly pro-Brotherhood area, Helwan, in south Cairo. Another march, to the presidential palace in Heliopolis, was also canceled.
"The leadership decided things were getting out of control and they couldn't afford more casualties," said a Brotherhood member who writes for one of the group's publications and who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the organization.
Even on Saturday, which had seemed quiet, 79 people were killed across Egypt, according to the government press agency, MENA.
Brotherhood leaders in particular have paid a heavy price, with the children of many top officials among the dead. They include Asmaa el-Beltagy, the son of a senior Brotherhood leader, Mohammed el-Beltagy, killed at Rabaa square Wednesday; Ammar Badie, 38, son of Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohammed Badie, shot during clashes Friday in Ramses Square; Habiba Abd el-Aziz, 26, the daughter of Ahmed Abd el-Aziz, the media consultant to Morsi, killed at Rabaa from a bullet wound to the head on Wednesday; and the grandson of the movement's founder.
There were scant details on the prison killings Sunday, and no explanation for why the victims were inside a prison van and had reportedly taken a prison official hostage.
The Ministry of the Interior issued conflicting accounts of what had happened, at one point saying prisoners had taken a guard hostage, then saying militants attacked the prison van to free the prisoners, who were killed in the process, and then saying that tear gas used to suppress the escape caused the prisoners to suffocate to death. Later, the ministry claimed the deaths happened in the prison, not in the van.
The violence came a day after a speech in support of the Muslim Brotherhood by Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who likened Egypt's military leader, Sissi, to Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
"There are currently two paths in Egypt: those who follow the Pharaoh, and those who follow Moses," he said.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Joao Sousa ousted world No. 4 David Ferrer in straight sets Friday to earn a spot in the semifinals of the ATP's Malaysian Open.
Sousa notched his first win over an ATP Top 10 player with a 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) decision over Ferrer. Sousa converted all three of his break chances and won three of the four break opportunities Ferrer had.
Sousa dropped only five points on serve in the first set and took 60 percent of the points when serving in the second set.
He'll be looking for his first ATP finals berth when he plays fourth-seeded Jurgen Melzer in Saturday's semifinals.
Melzer swept past Federico Delbonis 6-3, 6-2 Friday by winning 71 percent of the points on serve and nearly half -- 30-of-61 -- when receiving .
Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka need to win a third-set tiebreaker to get to the semifinals, eventually beating No. 6-seeded Dmitry Tursunov 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
Wawrinka managed just one break but that enabled him to win the second set. Both players saved a break point in the third set before Wawrinka jumped out to an early lead in the tiebreaker and advanced.
Julien Benneteau, the No. 5 seed, got by Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 with five breaks in the other quarterfinal.
Sousa defeated Melzer in Acapulco earlier this year in their only previous meeting. Wawrinka and Benneteau have split their two earlier matches.


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This panoramic image is one of the most stunning shots I've ever seen from low Earth orbit. Treasure this photo: It's the last time you're going to see the Space Shuttle with the aurora australis—the southern lights—as a backdrop.
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Taken on July 14 from the International Space Station, the composition is just gorgeous. The magically illuminated Atlantis, the robotic arm and the station's radiators all converging towards Earth, with the aurora taking all over the background. I love the green lights on the station itself. It makes the whole thing look like it's from the future. And it is. [NASA Goddard Pictures]


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This clip will teach you everything you'll need to know to draw a custom Pepsi logo playercard emblem in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Emblem Editor.
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This section describes how to build a simple Android app. First, you learn how to create a "Hello, World!" project with Android Studio and run it. Then, you create a new interface for the app that takes user input and switches to a new screen in the app to display it.
Before you start, there are two fundamental concepts that you need to understand about Android apps: how they provide multiple entry points, and how they adapt to different devices.
Apps provide multiple entry points
Android apps are built as a combination of components that can be invoked individually. For example, an activity is a type of app component that provides a user interface (UI).
The "main" activity starts when the user taps your app's icon. You can also direct the user to an activity from elsewhere, such as from a notification or even from a different app.
Other components, such as broadcast receivers and services, allow your app to perform background tasks without a UI.
After you build your first app, you can learn more about the other app components at Application fundamentals.
Apps adapt to different devices
Android allows you to provide different resources for different devices. For example, you can create different layouts for different screen sizes. The system determines which layout to use based on the screen size of the current device.
If any of your app's features need specific hardware, such as a camera, you can query at runtime whether the device has that hardware or not, and then disable the corresponding features if it doesn't. You can specify that your app requires certain hardware so that Google Play won't allow the app to be installed on devices without them.
After you build your first app, learn more about device configurations at Device compatibility overview.
With these two basic concepts in mind, proceed to the next lesson to build your first app!