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S/PDIF-out on Back I/O Port
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On Sunday, last week, eight-year-old Sufian Abu Hitah from Hebron was seized by a group of Israeli soldiers, moved to another neighborhood, and asked to point out children who had thrown a Molotov cocktail and stones to Kiryat Arba –a settlement next to Hebron, on that same day.
A video documenting what happened was released by Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. The organization released the footage online, explaining that two residents of the neighborhood, one of them B'Tselem volunteer May D'ana, captured parts of the incident on video.
B'Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja'bri also collected testimonies from the families who witnessed the event. Sufian's mother, Amani Abu Hitah, explained that her son was outside the house because he was looking for a toy, and that he had nothing to do with the incident that took place in Kiryat Arba. She added that her sons and herself do not even live in the neighborhood. She said they were only visiting her parents (Sufian's grand parents); hence Sufian could not possible know anything about the stones and Molotov cocktail throwing.
Here is what Sufian's mother told B'tselem: "I told the soldier that Sufian doesn't know the names of the neighborhood kids. He ignored me, and the soldiers kept on dragging Sufian by the arms. First they took him in the direction of Kiryat Arba and then towards the street that leads to the Jabal Juhar area".
She described at least "fifteen soldiers" taking her child into someone's house, and Sufian coming out of the house crying. She suspected the soldiers may have beaten Sufian –although there's no evidence of such a treatment. Then she describes the soldiers taking Sufian from house to house, supposedly for him to name stones or Molotov cocktail throwers.
Neighbors tried to help to have Sufian released but the soldiers kept him for more than an hour according to B'tselem.
The Israeli army is currently investigating the incident. Reasons for the whole story are still unknown.
In response to Israeli daily Haaretz, the Israeli Defense Force said: "From an initial inquiry, it appears that last Sunday, an observation point spotted a firebomb being thrown at [adjoining Jewish settlement] of Kiryat Arba. An IDF force that was dispatched to the site caught a suspect and led him to his parent's house because he is a minor. It should be noted that from an initial inquiry, the force did not demand that the minor direct them to additional suspects."
However, according to a later story published by Ynet news, the Israeli Defense Force issued a statement following the incident, saying that the boy was detained after it was suspected he had thrown a Molotov cocktail. Also according to the Ynet news story, the Israeli army said the whole incident lasted for 10 minutes.
In any case, the soldiers shown by the video are new to the area, and they are from the Golani brigade. Although it is possible they did not know much about the surroundings, it is still impossible to consider an eight-year-old as criminally responsible. According to Israeli law, children younger than 12 cannot be punished for criminal acts. Besides, Sufian is heard in the video asking soldiers "Which boy? I don't know who he is".
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I love working with Presidor cannolis! They're simple, yet elegant and their delicious taste appeals to all ages. You and your children will have fun while using them to create this edible menorah. You can create this menorah by putting the candles on a tray, directly on the table or for a more sophisticated look, you can have a glass cut to size and use it as a base.
I love this!! We are going to try it out!! Hope it looks just as delicious as yours does!!
FANTASTIC! Love this idea! It is so creative and the instructions are clear. We can't wait to try this out. Thanks!
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Flora Abstract Long Arch
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PG's Joe Coffey is On Location at the 2010 LA Amp Show where he visits the room shared by LSL Instruments and Red Jones Amplifiers. In this segment, we get to check out LSL Instruments' Paisley T-Bone Pine, T-Bone Aged SA, and a S-style model. In addition, we get to hear these LSL Instrument guitars through Red Jones Liverpool model influenced by the Trainwreck model.


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Hi, HG!
I was just wondering if you had any ideas for a high-fiber, high-protein breakfast that has about 230 calories? I always eat my fiber cereal with a cup of milk, and I'd like to stick with that, but I also want to add some protein. Those calories really add up! Any ideas?
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Dear I Love Breakfast,
I love breakfast as well! And I DO have some ideas for you. First off, not all fiber cereals are low in calories, so there's a good chance that your average fiber cereal with a "cup of milk" (even fat-free milk) will cost you all of those 230 calories right there. Sad times! I say try a half of a cup of Fiber One with four ounces of Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla. That's only 80 calories. Then you'll have 150 calories to play with for your protein. Scramble up some egg whites or egg substitute with fresh veggies and a slice of fat-free American cheese, and you've got yourself a pretty hearty, awesome and FILLING breakfast that has practically no fat, 230 calories and about 15 - 20 grams of fiber. There are other ways to do the "egg" thing. You can also have egg whites with a chicken sausage link (Al Fresco sausages are my favorite!), or scramble a veggie patty into 'em. There's a LOT you can do with those 150 calories! The key is to stick with Fiber One for the cereal portion of your breakfast 'cuz it's SOOO low in calories and SOOO high in fiber!
Hungry Girl --
If I could live on nuts and chips I would. I love all kinds of chips and crunchy items more than anything. I am trying to find something to fill my chip needs. I have tried pretzels, peanuts, etc., but those have a lot of calories, right? Please help me or at least give me a way to deal with my addiction.
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Dear Sinking Chip,
No worries. I'm right there with you. But being addicted to crunchy snacks is not a good thing. I can't lie, those calories do add up. But that being said, I am still constantly seeking new things to crunch on. My newest obsession is Quaker's Mini Delights. Oh my! They are little bags of crunchy rice snacks that come in Buttered Popcorn, Chocolatey Drizzle and Cinnamon Streusel. I haven't tried 'em in the chocolate flavor yet, but the other two are AMAZINGLY good. You get an insane amount of these little critters in each 90-calorie pouch, so it feels like you are munching forever! For straight up tortilla chips, I go for Guiltless Gourmet chips (great for guilt-free nachos). I also dig their Potato Crisps, but those are hard to find. Another one of my favorites these days (because they taste great and you get a gazillion in each 105-calorie pouch) is Crum Creek's Soy Bites in a flavor called "Everything." Wow, those are good! There you go -- start crunching!
Today, January 31st, is National Popcorn Day. Check out some HG popcorn fun right here!
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What is it?
Vita Half-Byte Loader is a project to port the PSP homebrew loader HBL to the Playstation Vita, through the PSP emulator on the Playstation Vita.
This is the official VHBL download page for people who own a copy of the PSP Game Apache Overkill, and a firmware 2.06 or lower. If you don't own this game, or have a higher firmware, go back to the VHBL page to see if we have a version of VHBL working with a game you own.
Check the VHBL page for more details on this tool.
Choose the file that matches your version of the game:
How to Install and Run HBL on Apache Overkill
- It is *strongly* recommended that you turn of all wireless connections on your PS Vita, and that you use OpenCMA on your PC instead of the regular CMA. This is recommended because otherwise your console has a way to force you to upgrade the firmware even before you get a chance to use the exploit.
- Extract the HBL archive matching your version of the game in your CMA PSP Savedata folder. It is a folder on your PC named PSSAVEDATA/[lots of random characters here]. If you don't know where it is, check your settings in CMA
- Connect your PS Vita to the PC through the CMA, it should give you the possibility to copy the savedata from your PC to the Vita. If not, you probably extracted it in the wrong folder. (Note: You will also want to install some homebrews with a similar technique, read the section below)
- To run HBL, start the game, then go to "High Scores". At this point, VHBL should start
How to Install and Run Homebrews
Installing homebrews on the PSP was an easy task. On the Vita, until better solutions are provided, it's quite a pain in the ***.
The CMA will only let you copy savedata, and will not recursively browse folders.
To address this, HBL comes with a tool that can extract archives with a specific structure.
Packaging the homebrew for installation on the Vita:
1) download PSP homebrews from your favorite website
2) extract the homebrew somewhere on your hard drive, and with your favorite utility, zip it again with the store setting (no compression), in a file that you will name "INSTALL.ZIP" (uppercase is important). If your compression tool does not have compression options, I recommend 7zip.
3) take any PSP savedata (but not the one used for HBL!), and add the "INSTALL.ZIP" to that folder, in your PC CMA folder. so your PSP Savedata will look something like this:
in folder PSSAVEDATA/1a2b3c4def5678/UCUS12345000/ (or something like this) you will have the following files:
On this page you will find several pre-packaged homebrews that have already been prepared to run with VHBL.
1) run OpenCMA on your PC, and CMA on your Vita
2) copy the previously packaged SAVEDATA (see above) with your homebrew in "INSTALL.ZIP" on your Vita
3) run HBL (how to run HBL is explained in the previous section)
4) navigate with the HBL menu to the SAVEDATA folder, then go to the folder you just downloaded (in my example, UCUS12345000), and click cross or circle on it
5) At this point, the HBL menu should ask you if you want to install the homebrew. select yes, and wait until HBL is done extracting your homebrew
6) The homebrew is now installed, and you can run it by going to the GAME folder, if everything went well, a new subfolder with your homebrew has been created here, and you can run the homebrew
Need more help? Check our forums for more downloads and tutos
OpenCMA is strongly recommended to install if you want to use VHBL. Open CMA is a tool by Virtuous Flame that allows you to copy files from and to your vita without being connected to the internet. This is useful, especially if you don't want Sony to forcefully update your firmware.
Looking for homebrews that run on VHBL? Check this thread with dozens of tested and pre-packaged homebrews.
Alternatively, check this list which contains a series of homebrews that have been tested on this specific version of VHBL.


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Maybe the urge to keep loose change in his pocket was simply too much.
If so, that urge will now cost James Bagarozzo, a Buffalo, N.Y., parking meter mechanic, far more than he ever got from stealing $210,000 from the curbside machines.
On Friday, Bagarozzo, 57, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for the thefts, which he got away with for more than eight years between 2003 and 2011 by using his technical skills to rig about 70 city meters so that he could collect from them, then exchange the coins for cash at a local bank during his lunch hours. In total, he rolled more than 10,000 pounds of quarters.
(MORE: Why Parking in Cities Should Be Way More Expensive)
A co-worker, Lawrence Charles, collaborated with Bagarozzo and stole $15,000 in quarters over a five year period, prosecutors said. He is set to be sentenced on Aug. 29.
The two workers got caught after Buffalo parking commissioner Kevin Helfer noticed that the digital pay stations the city uses were making more money than the old quarter-fed machines, according to court documents. An investigation was launched and video surveillance footage showed that Bagarozzo was stealing from the old meters on a daily basis.
After being questioned by the FBI, Bagarozzo admitted to the thefts, which constitute a federal crime, and was arrested in December of 2011. A search of his home turned up $40,000 in cash stashed in his bedroom ceiling.
Since Bagarozzo and Charles were arrested, yearly parking meter revenue in the city has increased by $500,000. The current machines in Buffalo are computerized and take credit cards and coins, and are nearly impossible to rob.
Bagarozzo apologized in a brief statement to the U.S. District Court: "I have hit rock bottom and I have had to come up with my family and friends," he said. Bagarozzo's attorney James Harrington said the thefts came from a gambling addiction that got out of control. "It was rooted really in this spiraling addiction that he had," he told the Associated Press.
(MORE: Chicago's Parking Meter Debacle: The Check Is Not in the Mail)
Stealing from parking meters is not unique to this case, however. In 2012, a Fort Lauderdale man and woman were charged in the theft of more than $65,000 from parking meters. In 2009, an Alexandria, Va., meter repairman was accused of stealing $170,000 in coins from the machines.


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You Can't Change My Mind: Banksy Is Lame
His popularity undermines the supposed anti-establishment message of his art.
Update 7/15/2020: Banksy's latest piece promoting mask use and COVID-19 awareness defied the pattern of his recent work to be his best creation in years.
Entitled "If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get", the scene of stenciled rats using masks as parachutes and spraying sneezes around a train car in the London underground was executed by the acclaimed artist and an accomplice dressed as cleaners and disguising their paint as cleaning fluid.
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The images—accompanied by a pro-lockdown reference to the Chumbawamba song "I Get Knocked Down"—were whimsical and clever enough to qualify as standard Banksy, but what really makes this latest piece special is that no one will ever see it again. Unlike previous Banksy works that have been removed from their original context and sold for massive sums of money, this latest piece was deemed by Transport for London as a violation of their strict anti-graffiti rules, and was quickly removed.
Now if Banksy can just stick to settings where his art is treated as vandalism, maybe he'll be cool again.
On Valentine's day, the English city of Bristol awoke to find that Banksy had consecrated another blank brick wall with a work of guerilla street art.
The new piece is an image of a little girl with a slingshot looking up at a splatter of bright red flowers that she shot up there herself–because vandalism can be an act of love and innocence and beauty, or something like that. It's…fine. The flowers are nice, I guess… Honestly, his latest piece took me through the same cycle of feelings I experience each time Banksy is in a headline: "Oh, I bet this is going to be cool! Oh. Huh."
Banksy has this aura around his work that somehow always manages to fool me. Maybe it's a feeling left over from 2010's Exit Through the Gift Shop—which is genuinely a great movie. Or maybe it's just his politics. The idea of anti-establishment street art is, on paper, exactly what I want to see more of in the world. But these simplistic black and white figures with splashes of color—balloons, fires, explosions—they've felt stale for a while now.
Is it even possible for anything so familiar and established to even be anti-establishment? If he's increasing the value of whatever surface he's "vandalizing," is there anything edgy or interesting about it? Admittedly, the fact that he's still able to sneak around and avoid detection while he works is kind of impressive… But it would be a lot more impressive if people hadn't figured out his secret identity years ago.
That time he painted an elephant was a pretty interesting twist on animal abuse, but it's been well over a decade since anything Banksy has done has been truly transgressive or surprising. His 2018 piece "Girl With Balloon"—with a shredder built into the picture frame—was a genuinely clever and interesting gag.
The main appeal was the same as Exit Through the Gift Shop's—it was a critique of the fine art world and its hollow commodification of culture. But how effective is that critique after the initial shock wears off and the new owner realizes that all the drama has just doubled the value of his purchase?
My real issue with Banksy is that he could have handed over the reigns to someone else years ago—any half-way decent art student with an eye for mimicry—and no one would be able to tell the difference. Throw up some minimal figures with a charming bit of whimsy and a message that says, "Man, society sure is messed up." Boom. Banksy.
He's a brand now, and an anti-establishment brand is a pure contradiction in terms. He obviously knows that's a problem, but has he done anything to address it? To defy what people want from him and actually cross some lines?
He can critique the art world all he wants, but his own career remains the clearest example of the circle-jerking groupthink that elevates a name and a couple signature touches to a seven-figure price tag. At least someone like Damien Hirst embraces the marketing and doesn't try to pretend he's taking down the system that he's clearly feeding into.
At this point, I can only see two options for Banksy moving forward: Either reveal that he actual did hand over the reigns to an art student years ago and let the ensuing chaos take over the art world—destroying the value of rich people's collections—or just start actually destroying stuff, because hegemonic capitalism is getting even staler than Banksy's art.
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The 9 Best Thanksgiving TV Episodes to Watch on Turkey Day
Celebrate thanksgiving by hiding from your family and watching these fictional families enjoy turkey day!
Celebrating Thanksgiving usually entails a day of eating, answering uncomfortable questions from your family about your career and romantic life, hearing about your grandma's bunion surgery, and, if you're lucky, a well-earned doze in front of the TV. This year, given the social distancing guidelines, you may bypass the family time and go straight to the couch.
Regardless of your plans for Turkey Day, when that second helping of turkey starts to settle in your belly and your eyelids start to feel heavy, it's time to shove your cousin (or cat) over on the couch, settle in, and turn on one of these classic Thanksgiving-themed episodes.
"The One With the Rumor," FriendsFriends
Season 8 Epsiode 9

This iconic episode guest stars Brad Pitt (then married to Jennifer Aniston) as Rachel's former classmate who was still bitter about being an ignored and overweight teenager who co-founded the "I Hate Rachel Green Club" with Ross back in high school.

Where to watch: Netflix

"Parents," New Girl
Season 2 Episode 8

This is an adorable and realistic depiction of the family drama that inevitably comes with Thanksgiving. Here, Jess tries to reunite her divorced parents and, obviously, chaos ensues.

Where to watch: Netflix

"Homo for the Holidays," Will and Grace
Season 2 Episode 7

This episode centers on Jack trying to come out to his mother over Thanksgiving dinner. It's as messy and hilarious as it is touching.

Where to watch: Hulu

"Slapsgiving," How I Met Your Mother
Season 3 Episode 9

HIMYM is all about running jokes, and this episode is full of them. The gang is going through a time of transition, since Ted and Robin just broke up and Lilly and Marshall were recently married, and things get rocky (and hilarious) as a result.

Where to watch: Hulu

"Turkey In a Can," Bob's Burgers
Season 7 Episode 6

The plot of this episode revolves around a turkey ending up in a toilet. That's it. Its fantastic.

Where to watch: Hulu

"A Lilith Thanksgiving," Frasier
Season 4 Episode 7

One of the few Frasier episodes that takes place in Boston, this episode sees Frasier and his ex-wife vying to get their son into a prestigious school, while Frasier's dad tries to teach his grandson to play baseball. There are also some fantastic Niles cooking mishaps that make the episode worth watching.

Where to watch: Netflix

"Lockdown," Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Season 2 Episode 7

There are several great Thanksgiving episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but this one, in which the squad gets locked inside the station due to an anthrax scare, takes the cake.

Where to watch: Hulu

"Thanksgiving," Master of None
Season 2 Episode 8

This episode hits all the heart strings in all the right ways. It shows family Thanksgivings over the course of 30 years and tells the moving story of Dez's bestfriend coming out to her mom.

Where the watch: Netflix

"WUPHF.com," The Office
Season 7 Episode 9

In this episode, Dwight decides that a hay festival is just what everyone needs to get them in the holiday spirit. Meanwhile, Ryan tries to scam his coworkers out of a lot of money. Good stuff!

Where to watch: Netflix

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Meghan Markle And 10 Other Celebrities Open About Their Miscarriages
Miscarriages are deeply painful and personal. Some brave women have chosen to open up about their miscarriages in order to help others remember they're not alone.
Miscarriages are incredibly painful, personal events.
They're also shockingly common. Somewhere from 10 to 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriages, according to the Mayo Clinic, though the number may be much higher because many women don't realize they're pregnant.
Celebrities are not immune from reality. Some have eve chosen to share their stories in an effort to make other families feel less alone in their grief.
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This September, Chrissy Teigen shared a heartbreaking post and a series of devastating photos taken just after she miscarried.

Teigen was 20 weeks along when she was diagnosed with "partial placenta abruption," which blocks the supply of nutrients and oxygen from the baby to the mother.

"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn't enough," she wrote in the post.

Later, she responded to critics by telling them that the post was intended specifically for people who had experienced similar grief.

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The Friends actress suffered a miscarriage while starring on the show, and said it was "terrible having to be funny" while grieving. A scene where Rachel gives birth was particularly painful for Cox, who was later diagnosed with a MTHFR gene mutation, which often leads to blood clots that cause miscarriages. "I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them," she said.

Finally, with the help of IVF, she was able to welcome her daughter Coco at the age of 40.

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When she appeared on Armchair Expert, Alanis Morrissette said that she "had a bunch of miscarriages" between having her three kids. Trust and hope kept her going even as she feared she'd never be able to have the three kids she dreamed of.

"We were chasing and just showing up and then surprises and then devastations and all of it," she said. "But, I mean, I do trust. I have this trust pilot light thing that keeps cooking along — even when there's a torrential downpour it's still flickering — of hope and faith and vision for something to work out, whatever it is."

The process was a learning experience as well as a deeply painful event. "I ... learned so much about my body and biochemistry and immunity and gynecology through the process," she said. "It was a torturous learning and loss-filled and persevering process."

Christina Perri

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The Jar of Hearts singer experienced a miscarriage in January 2020.

"Today I had a miscarriage," she wrote. "Baby was 11 weeks old, we are shocked & completely heartbroken...I am so sad but not ashamed. ... To all the mothers who have been here and who will be here, I see you and I love you."

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Shay Mitchell
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In 2019, Pretty Little Liars' Shay Mitchell revealed she suffered a miscarriage the year prior. "I miscarried and lost the child of my hopes and dreams," she wrote in a heart-wrenching Instagram story. "Sometimes it's easier to only showcase the good times on social media, which is what leads many people to criticize it for its lack of authenticity," she added, and shared a photo of an ultrasound alongside a broken heart.

"The support and affection that so many of you show me lifts me up during even my darkest days, one of which happened last year after I miscarried and lost the child of my hopes and dreams," she wrote.

Mitchell continued, "In the spirit of the new year, I think that we need to remember that we are all on this journey together — in good times and bad — and to remind ourselves that we seldom really know or understand the struggles and hardships that other people are going through."

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Distantly Thankful: Popdust's Thanksgiving Playlist for 2020
It's harder to remember what we're grateful for this year, but maybe some music will jog your memory.
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, although this year's holiday festivities are looking pretty bleak.
Even with recent vaccine updates providing a little light at the end of the tunnel, we still have a long way to go before large group gatherings can resume as normal. Travelers are going to great lengths to ensure they reach their destination safely; many folks are opting out of traveling altogether, choosing to spend their holiday season alone at home.
6 Most Awkward Thanksgiving TV Specials
Thanksgiving is destined to be uncomfortable this year.
If you are able to safely gather with loved ones, bitter conservative relatives are almost guaranteed to dampen the mood. Meanwhile, for those of us spending Turkey Day alone this year, it may be nice to escape to alternate TV universes, where the dysfunctions of Thanksgiving 2020 don't even hold a torch to the absurdity of Joey getting his head stuck in a raw turkey. Here are the worst TV Thanksgivings to help you feel better about yours.
The A-Team: "Family Reunion"
The A-Team don't really do Thanksgiving. Sure, they acknowledge that it's a thing, but the team celebrates the holiday a lot differently than others.

In "Family Reunion" the team gathers at a palatial estate, where viewers quickly learn that "you should never get too friendly with a bird you're about to eat." But the celebration is derailed before it even begins, as the A-Team have only 24 hours to reunite a daughter with her terminally ill dad in exchange for secret information on distrustful politicians.

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: "Pangs"
Buffy has fought her share of blood-sucking vamps, but all she wanted to do in season 4 was enjoy a nice Thanksgiving feast with the Scooby Gang. But the holiday spirit is soon thwarted, as the ancient Chumash Tribe, vindictive for being wiped out by settlers, get accidentally released on the world by Xander. A massive brawl ensues, all but ruining Thanksgiving for Buffy and the gang.

Dexter: "Hungry Man"
While Dexter has fought for four long seasons to balance his serial killer instincts with his domesticated home life, it all unravels after Dexter spends Thanksgiving at the home of Arthur, AKA the Trinity Killer, who would soon go on to murder Dexter's wife in one of the most shocking twists in TV history.

Halfway through prepping the Thanksgiving meal, Dexter realizes that Arthur viciously abuses his family, as he learns that beats his son and locks his daughter in her room, causing Dexter to fully loose his cool in front of Arthur's family.

Cheers: "Thanksgiving Orphans"
Nothing like a couple of lonely alcoholics to make you feel better about your lonesome holiday. The band of drunks gather together for a pot luck since they all have nowhere to go in one of the only episodes that takes place outside of a bar.

But dinner at Carla's soon takes a turn for the worst. The turkey takes forever to cook, so the gang gets crabby and soon start to snip at one another, fully unleashing their fury in a messy food fight that ruins the occasion.

Family Guy: "Thanksgiving"
One of the tensest moments in Family Guy, Joe and Bonnie learn that their son Kevin died in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day, forever traumatizing them and ruining Thanksgiving.

But it turns out that Kevin faked his death to desert the army and shows up unannounced at Peter's door. Joe is viciously disappointed in his son, and the gang all sit down for one hell of an awkward (and hilarious) Thanksgiving dinner.

Food Network: Giada De Laurentiis "Thanksgiving Live"
We've all succumbed to a fair share of cooking-related injuries on Thanksgiving day, but not a lot of people can say they've wounded themselves on live TV.

Chef Diada's one job was to cut the turkey without cutting herself, and she ended up cutting her finger so bad that she needed stitches. It wasn't a very romantic moment, and that whole turkey was definitely contaminated and inedible.

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Questions remain from Sunday's protest
Local lawyers and protestors want answers
"When you talk about excessive force there's no circumstance where that is appropriate," said Jared Carter of the Vermont Community Law Center.
The nonprofit organization, based in Burlington, wants answers.
"We need to get to the bottom of exactly what happened," said Carter.
At a news conference in City Hall Park, Carter asked questions about what happened on Sunday when protestors were trying to stop a bus leaving the Hilton, on it's way to a dinner for the New England Governors and Eastern Canadians Premiers Conference.
The Burlington Police say they were provoked to use "less than lethal" munitions, like rubber pellets and pepper spray.
"These folks that were injured are our neighbors, they're folks that sit across from us in the class room, folks that teach our children," said Carter.
The Vermont Law Community Law Center wants to see BPD's rules for using such force, the the names of the officers who fired at protestors, and how they were trained.
In a partial response to the questions, BPD posted the following on their website:
"The officers involved in firing the pepper and sting balls were Officer Tyler Badeau and Corporal Dan Gilligan. Corporal Gilligan is a 'less-than-lethal' munitions instructor."
Inside City Hall, Mayor Miro Weinberger stands behind the department.
"There's a lot of documentation of it, some of it at this point is a little difficult to understand, but I'm confident we'll all come to clarity about exactly what happened," said Weinberger.
BPD will conduct an internal "after-action" review to see if proper procedures were followed. Along with the mayor's office, they'll also hold community forums for people to get involved.
And that's type of communication the law center is looking for.
"What we need is at this stage a dialogue so that we can figure out how to move forward in a way that's going to repair the social fabric, that makes Vermont exceptional," said Carter.
For a complete copy of the Burlington Police Department's response follow this link.


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The New York Times dropped a bombshell Tuesday with its report detailing how President Donald Trump received the equivalent of $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, with much of the money delivered through "dubious tax schemes" to dodge payments to the IRS and, in some cases, "outright fraud."
Trump on Wednesday called the story a "boring and often told hit piece" and a lawyer for the president vigorously denied the allegations to the Times, saying that the facts on which they are based "are extremely inaccurate." New York State officials have reportedly opened an investigation into the Trump's family's tax practices in the wake of the report.
Whatever the political and financial implications of the report may be for Trump, tax policy experts on the left are jumping on the details in the report as emblematic of the ways in which the wealthy avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
"The key takeaway," said Alan Essig, director of the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, "is that the wealthy and powerful abide by a different set of rules than the rest of us. … During his presidential campaign, President Trump called for closing the types of loopholes that allow some wealthy people to get 'away with murder' on taxes, yet his most significant legislative achievement, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, created a slew of new loopholes and amounted to a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans."
In a Twitter thread, Lily Batchelder, a professor at the New York University School of Law and former Obama economic adviser, argued that the Times investigation highlights the problems with the estate tax.
"The estate tax should be reinvigorated," she writes, not cut, as the Republicans did with their 2017 tax overhaul. And loopholes like "valuation discounts," which allow heirs to avoid taxes on the assets involved, should be shut down. "Obama's Treasury proposed a regulation limiting estate tax avoidance through valuation discounts. This appears to be the exact scheme the Trumps used to avoid millions of dollars in estate taxes. Trump's Treasury reversed it," Batchelder writes.
Her other suggestions include:
- Increasing the IRS budget so it can enforce tax law and crack down on more cheats.
- Repealing the stepped-up cost basis on inherited assets.
- Requiring heirs of huge amounts, like Trump, to pay income and payroll tax on what they inherit.
Read Batchelder's Twitter thread for more.


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"It is often said that if you want something done and done well, ask a busy woman," says Atlanta Daily World Publisher Alexis Scott. "Because we all know this, we are honoring Atlanta's 'Women of Excellence' at a special event this year."
The Atlanta Daily World's 'Women of Excellence' will be acknowledged and honored by their peers, family, friends and community leaders on Thursday, June 20 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 200 Peachtree St.
"This is the first of what we hope will become an annual event. It will celebrate 50 African American women who motivate and inspire others through their vision and leadership, exceptional achievements, and personal contribution to the community service," said Scott.
Atlanta's 2013 Women of Excellence will be celebrated with food, inspiration, and entertainment. Hosted by actress Kim Coles, ticket and table reservations are first come, first served. Honorees will include representatives of Atlanta's most powerful and celebrated women in business, politics, religion, entertainment, education and community service.
'Women of Excellence' is a signature event of the newspaper group Real Times Media which also includes the Michigan Chronicle, Michigan FrontPage, New Pittsburgh Courier, the Tri-State Defender and the Chicago Defender. Collectively, Real Times Inc. is the nation's largest African American owned and operated newspaper organization in the country.
"Real Times Inc. is dedicated to sustaining its presence as the leading source of African American related news, entertainment and lifestyle information and marketing services," says Hiram Jackson, Real Times Media CEO. "It is the goal of the Atlanta Daily World and all of our papers to inform, inspire, and elevate the quality of life of its readers through dynamic print content, great web and digital presence, effective social media and impactful events."
"Women are doing incredible things all across the country," Jackson said. "We are pleased to add Atlanta to our list of cities that recognize their achievements."
For more information or to purchase tickets click here.


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|Winnebago County Sheriff's OfficeNews Media Release
|News Release Number 2008-023
|Information: County Board Proposed Conceal Carry Ordinance
|Date: 05/19/08
|Time: 1200 Hrs.
|Page 1 of 2
Narrative: Forty eight (48) out of fifty (50) states have some form of conceal carry rights. The only two states banning conceal carry are Wisconsin and Illinois. During an Internet search, I found information stating that Wisconsin passed conceal carry legislation that was vetoed by the Governor and only fell two votes short of an override. Based on the above, it is obvious that the time has come for the right for conceal carry to be addressed in the State of Illinois. Although no doubt passage of conceal carry may bring negative issues along with positive issues, the lack of conceal carry is just as problematic. There is legislation that area representatives have signed onto to address conceal carry at the State level and I believe that is where we should focus our attention. In an article in today's Rockford Register Star, reference is made regarding statements by Board Members Randy Olson and Doug Aurand as follows: "Olson and Aurand counter that the sheriff already has the authority to deputize and arm citizens. In their interpretation of the law, the sheriff also has the authority to issue permits to qualified applicants who live in his jurisdiction". Olson states, "We're not changing any law. We're using the law currently on the books. We're directing the sheriff under the powers that he already has to immediately upon passage (of the resolution) to establish a permit process". The above information quoted in the Rockford Register Star from Aurand and Olson is totally incorrect. There is nothing in the State statute that enables the Sheriff of any county to issue permits for conceal carry weapons. The auxiliary deputy statute references to by Mr. Olson and Mr. Aurand is not being interpreted correctly by the gentlemen and does not allow me to authorize even auxiliary deputies to carry a concealed weapon. The statute reads "Such auxiliary deputies shall not carry firearms, except with the permission of the Page 2 of 2 News Release #2008-023 sheriff and ONLY while in uniform and in the performance of their assigned duties". When they go home, and take their uniform off they cannot leave their home carrying a weapon. My interpretation of the auxiliary deputy statute has been confirmed by the Winnebago County State's Attorney's Office to include State's Attorney Nicolosi himself. The issue of whether the County Board has the authority to pass an ordinance to circumvent state law is something that the State's Attorney's Office and the Attorney General for the State of Illinois has said is not permissible. The above information is provided simply to clarify the misinformation being disseminated by Mr. Olson and Mr. Aurand. Although they are undoubtedly well intentioned, their interpretation of the auxiliary deputy statute is incorrect. I would encourage the Winnebago County Board and the citizens at large to address the conceal carry weapon issue with their State Representatives and work to achieve a change at the State level; all citizens of the State of Illinois, not just Winnebago County, deserve the same rights.


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Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, predicts a future in which the standout FIFA series transitions from annual disc-based releases to a more persistent online game.
Moore, speaking to MCV, said that EA Sports' FIFA title needs to provide a persistent world reflecting the year-round quality of international football. "This year there was, what, a 15 day off-season? And even then we were thinking about it and reading about it," Moore said. "That's the space football occupies in our lives and that's how we've got to look at it."
Moore did not completely envision the end of retail discs in this future, saying he believes there still will be disc-based games going on five years from now. Still, "We need to provide that persistent world, maybe sometimes powered by discs, maybe on social networks, or the cloud or whatever," he said.
MCV's full interview with the EA Sports boss is at the link below.
Interview: Peter Moore [MCV]


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May 30, 2009
The global financial crisis may morph into a second, equally virulent phase where borrowing costs rise again, hobbling an embryonic economic recovery, debilitating cash-strapped banks, and punishing investors all over again.Early warnings signs of this scenario include surging government bond yields, a slumping U.S. dollar, and the fading of the bear market rally in U.S. stocks.
Optimists hope that a fragile two-month rally in world stock markets, a rise in U.S. Treasury yields from record lows during the depths of the crisis in late 2008, and some less scary economic data all signal that a recovery is around the corner.
But gloomy analysts insist that thinking is delusional.
Once Credit Crisis Version 2.0 ramps up, foreign investors may punish the U.S. government for borrowing trillions of dollars too much by refusing to buy its debt until bond prices plunge to much cheaper levels.


text: rkarmark 128 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) Link to the old elcano challenge! The Elcano Challenge "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by." - Robert Frost Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476 – 4 August 1526) was a Spanish explorer of Basque origin who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth. After Magellan's death in the Philippines, Elcano took command of the nau Victoria from the Moluccas to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain. This challenge is simple. So simple, it's easy. Well...it sounds easy. Those of us who have completed it would probably disagree. The challenge to you is to become the next Elcano. To do what no one, or very few, have done. A challenge to circumnavigate an orbital body, be it moon or planet, solely by ground and/or water. This challenge is a continuation of the first Elcano Challenge, (yes we are on generation 3, hope i can hold it for a bit longer) posted and managed by Fengist. (Hopefully I can be as clever with my comments as he was. ) The rules are simple: Basically, you are to circumnavigate, either equatorially or via a polar path. Your path should not diverge significantly from the intended direction . AS LONG AS YOU DRIVE ALL THE WAY AROUND THE BODY. You may do as I did and mark your path via flags. Or you may provide ample proof via screen shots. Using ScanSat BTDT (Been there done that) scanners also works provided you don't have a bunch of different vessels with BTDT. Or use the new kerbnet to make waypoints (recomended) oh and i have the right to disqualify you if i think you cheated Plant a flag at your beginning spot and return to that flag... the long way around. The main mission and support missions must be launched from the launchpad or runway and delivered to the destination body. Part of the journey is getting the crew/ship there. (i.e. No HyperEditing or save file editing the vehicle into position.) Any combination of launching, refueling, or docking is permitted. The vehicle must be Kerballed during the circumnavigation. The ship does not have to be launched or delivered in one massive mission, but there needs to be at least one kerbal onboard the rover/boat during the circumnavigation (capsule, cockpit, seat, or loose). Stay on the ground or on/below the surface of any water present. (BRIEF jumps over dunes and such permitted.) The same vehicle that crosses the land must also cross water. No ferrying your vehicle on a boat. You may send replacement vehicles. If you read Fengists' circumnavigation of Eve, you'll see why. Game mechanics are not kind to ground vehicles. Your crew must be transferred to any replacement vehicle and it must be very similar to the original. I understand this is a learning process...and will allow some design changes. You may use aerial and orbital recon vehicles. You may refuel if needed. Use of ISRU (or similar mods) is permitted. Saving and reloading (F5/F9) is permitted. If your vehicle is complex, be aware that saving can slowly corrupt/damage the craft if it's flexing due to movement or weight. (I suggest you read over Fengist's journey to see what happened as a result.) Only stock planets and moons are acceptable. Asteroids (stock or modded) or orbital bodies introduced to the Kerbol system via a plugin are not considered valid orbital bodies for this challenge Exception: Circumnavigations on RSS Earth are allowed, given the origin of this challenge. Any rule I haven't thought of that breaks the spirit of this challenge. The point of the challenge is to build a rover/boat, deliver the vehicle, and circumnavigate the body. Proof: Document your journey via images, or as those of us who have manage to complete this feat, by words and pictures. Categories: Stock / Stock Craft / Modded - Mods are acceptable, those who complete this stock will have it noted. Support vehicles used (delivery, replacement, recon, and refueling) also factor into this category. The categories are broadly defined as follows: Stock - Mods can be used before the mission begins (such as using KER for design, HyperEdit for testing, etc), but no mods of any kind used during the record flight. No mods that add or modify parts, information, visuals, physics or any other aspect of the game are permitted during the mission. "Stock" means stock. (If you normally use mods, consider having a separate install if you want to go for this category.) Stock Craft - The craft and all support craft are made from all stock parts with their stock configuration. Installed mods may not modify physics or add/modify parts in use by the craft. Mods that add PartModules to stock parts, but do not alter the stock parameters, are also permitted. Examples of permitted mods are information displays (such as KER), transfer window planners, and visual enhancements (such as EVE). "Stock Craft" means the .craft or save file can be used on a stock install and it looks/works exactly the same way (your mission would remain effectively unchanged without the mods). Modded - Use of add-ons that change physics or add/modify parts in use by the craft are permitted. An add-on's technology level must be "near term" or of "next tier" type of capabilities as compared to stock. Mods that allow the user to skip elements of the challenge or violate the spirit of flying to and circumnavigating a body are not permitted. (i.e. Slightly better/larger/stronger engines, wheels, fuel tanks, etc. are permissible. Hyperdrives, antimatter engines, wormhole generators, hyper dense or exotic fuels, etc. are not allowed.) This challenge is not for the feint of heart. It will take persistence and a great deal of patience. If you're the competitive type and think of this challenge as a race, it will get boring really quick. If you look at it as I, Fengist, and Wooks did (as an adventure) you'll find plenty to keep you entertained. Since this is challenge is more about the journey than reaching the destination, feel free to create a thread in Mission Reports so that everyone can share in it. It doesn't matter whether it fails or not, everyone there loves to read the stories, even the sad ones. Good luck and um... Godspeed.... And before you grumble about how long this will take... think back at how many hours you spent doing other things in KSP that ended up being less rewarding... Advice to explorers Be cautious when quicksaving. Some vessels in particular (especially with robotics and/or movable parts) are prone to errors with alignment after repeated quicksaves/quickloads. Gravitational and motion stresses on ground-based vehicles are a LOT more than spacecraft. If you quicksave while a part is misaligned due to these stresses and then reload, you just doomed your vessel to a corrupt save. This theory was originally posted by Fengist in his Elcano thread, and seems to strike some vehicles harder than others. CIRCUMNAVIGATORS Grand Master Circumnavigators Those who have circumnavigated all Planets & Moons Claw - Stock - Completed all circumnavigations! Planetary CircumnavigatorsThose who have circumnavigated both Kerbin & Eve Master Mariner CircumnavigatorsThose who have circumnavigated both Kerbin & Laythe via ocean. @HarrySeaward Post here stock kerbin cirkumnavigation mostly by sea _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ @Sharpy Post here Through all the biomes of Duna in a ksc truck. Very Modded install (must have crashed as hell) @HarrySeaward Post here full stock circumnavigation of laythe. HUGE rocket for his boat @Magzimum Post is here! 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Helmets don't work every time you dive headfirst into a large wooden structure. Professional BMX rider and 2012 X Games invitee Tom Dugan found that out the hard way when he attempted a "one-handed no-footed cancan" (a feat where the rider moves both of his feet to one side of the bike, letting go of the handle bars with one hand while suspended in midair) at a competition in Spain this past March. The crash knocked him unconscious and eventually landed him in a medically induced coma.
Not to worry, though. When Dugan woke up three days later, he spent time away from his bike and took to recovering by getting some "important things" done. Like vacuuming:
Now that I just literally don't have anything else to do, I've just really been focusing, like, on vacuuming. You know just, like, getting the lines perfect. My carpet can never be clean enough. I'll vacuum, you know, seven or eight times a day. I literally just can't get my carpet clean enough.
Organizing hats:
And hats, you know, have always been a big part of my life, and it's good to have time for that now. Like, I spend a few hours a day just organizing them, you know. Like color coding, and making sure that each style is perfect, making sure there's that perfect hat for the perfect outfit, you know, all the time.
Finger painting:
I like to try not to work out my brain too hard, but, you know, you gotta be subtle about these kinda things. You gotta work in slow. And one of the ways that I thought was good was, like, painting and working on art things.
"Mailing things":
I'm always mailing things. Like, I've always had payments for tickets and things that I have to mail things for. I'm always the guy that people go to for, like, envelopes and stamps... I'm always thinking about other people and so I'm always wanting to get more stamps, you know, so I could always have them to give to people. And the more stamps I've been getting, I've realized that there's actually a lot of badass stamps and I don't always want to give those ones out.
And reenacting commercials:
I know it sounds like I wouldn't have a lot of time to watch TV or anything, but I just spend a lot of time on the couch, you know, just watching stuff and I've really been getting into commercials and if I do have some spare time and I see a good commercial, you know, I try to reenact it.
Dugan plans to get back on his bike to do crazy stunts in the X Games this summer, so it's good that he documented these fleeting placid moments. Perhaps he'll think fondly of his fingerpaints while flipping perilously through the air.


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(LiveHacking.Com) – As is often the case with large, well known events, cyber-criminals and spammers will be using the World Cup as a chance to steal more personal information and disrupt services in "cyber protests."
According to TrendLabs phishing campaigns have intensified and are evening targeting Brazilian nationals in a attempt to steal from them during the fervor of the World Cup. Typical campaigns try to solicit information like credit card numbers or personal identifiable information (including name, date of birth and even national identity numbers), from unsuspecting victims. This data is later sold on the black market.
The example given by TrendLabs was for a $2.2 million lottery. As with legitimate lotteries you need to pay to enter. Since the lottery is a scam the credit details entered are harvested for sale. TrendLabs has identified more than 80,000 people whose credentials have been stolen. Of those 83% had email address from providers with domain names in the .br top-level domain.
But it isn't only phishing that will be increasing during the World Cup. According to reports by Reuters, the hacker group Anonymous is preparing cyber-attacks on the corporate sponsors of the World Cup.
"We have already conducted late-night tests to see which of the sites are more vulnerable," said the hacker who operates under the alias of Che Commodore. "We have a plan of attack."
The threats by Anonymous and the increased amount of phishing are just another problem for the Brazilian government. The event has been marred by delays in the building of the stadiums and widespread discontent among Brazilians over the excessive cost of hosting the event in a country.
Recently Anonymous attacked the Brazil's Foreign Ministry computer networks and leaked dozens of confidential emails. In what is a massive security breach, Anonymous posted 333 Foreign Ministry documents including documents about the briefing of talks between Brazilian officials and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and a list of sport ministers that plan to attend the World Cup.
The World Cup 2014 kicks off on 12 June with a game between hosts Brazil and Croatia. The event continues until Sunday 13 July when the final will be held in Rio de Janeiro.


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Videos: Eating Goats to Save Them and Treating Bones Like the Gold of an Animal
Our buddy Liza de Guia of Food Curated (a finalist at this year's upcoming Food Film Festival), has two new videos worth a look.
Eating Goats to Save Them: No Goat Left Behind
Eat Goats to Save Them: Heritage Foods USA's NO GOAT LEFT BEHIND Manifesto from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
"I'm never really surprised by what people don't know in agriculture and food production because I didn't know either," says Erin Fairbanks, the coordinator behind No Goat Left Behind, a project of Heritage Foods USA. "Oftentimes people are so removed from food production, the really basic realities just aren't clear to us."
What are the basic realities behind goat farming? While there is a huge demand for and appreciation of goat milk, goat meat remains uncommon in the United States. Since half of the kids born to female goats are male, there is an excess of male goats that goat farmers have no market for. This means they are often forced to take measures they aren't proud of, like killing the goats at birth.
Liza de Guia met up with Fairbanks at Consider Bardwell Farm. "It's urgent for us to have an outlet to send these lovely creatures," says Consider Bardwell owner Angela Miller. "We want to create a demand for goat meat the way there is a demand for lamb...it really can be the new healthy low fat meat."
Enter No Goat Left Behind, and their spinoff project Goatober, which strives to get chefs and the general public to start putting goat on their tables. Fourteen farms and nearly one hundred restaurants have agreed to participate in the project, among them Serious Eats favorites like Parish Hall, Northern Spy Food Co., and Court Street Grocers.
"New Yorkers are ready for goat meat," Fairbanks believe, "just as they're always ready for something delicious with a great story and history."
You can learn more about Heritage USA's project No Goat Left Behind at their website.
Brooklyn Bouillon: Treating Bones Like the Gold of an Animal
Brooklyn Bouillon: Treating Bones Like the Gold of an Animal from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
"To a chef, bones are the gold of an animal. A good stock is the foundation for good cooking," says Rachael Mamane, founder of Brooklyn Bouillon, a Brooklyn company that makes artisanal stocks and demi-glaces. There are very few artisan-made stocks on the market, even though the quality of a stock is so important to the product. A supermarket stock is incomparable to an artisanal stock.
Her company is the "first stock and demi-glaces company that [is] sustainable and traceable to the farm." Mamane describes Brooklyn Bouillon as "for the home cook who cares where their ingredients come from." She creates her product with ingredients only from farms that maintain sustainable practices.
Her products are small-batch, and the name of the farm where the bones come from is on the label of every container of Brooklyn Bouillon stock. "You will taste a different profile from stocks that are made from animals that come from different farms," Mamane says.
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WiFi has worked without issue before on this exact same hotspot, and it is currently working for other devices so I'm assuming the error is in the phone (edit: also tried another hotspot, wifi is definitely dead), but after enabling encryption on my device it gets stuck in a loop. It detects the actual network, but it goes like this:
Saved with X authentication... Authenticating... Obtaining IP address... (Repeat)
I also tried deleting the network and adding it again without success, thinking it had something to do with the cached WPA key. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot before I just wipe and reinstall? Is this some kind of known issue?
edit: "Solution" Re-locked and unlocked bootloader, flashed recovery via Galaxy Nexus Toolkit and pushed a new AOKP via ADB, installed it and everything is working fine now. No idea what caused it but I'm pretty sure the full device encryption screwed something up. However, since CWM doesn't even support full device encryption, it feels like a bug relating to it is kind of low priority since people shouldn't encrypt their devices with customs ROMs anyway and expect a smooth ride. Thanks.


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He railed against Israel, condemned "rapacious capitalism" and predicted the collapse of the "American empire." He defended Holocaust revisionists and denied that Iran had any homosexuals. Whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the world stage, he was sure to inflame tensions.
As his successor Hasan Rouhani prepares to address the United Nations for the first time on Tuesday, he has already made a deep impression on world leaders with his markedly milder tone and apparent willingness to reopen negotiations with the West on Iran's disputed nuclear program.
He has raised hopes of a long-elusive warming of U.S.-Iran ties with his condemnation of the Syrian chemical weapons attack and his Cabinet's greeting to Jews on their New Year's holiday, Rosh Hashanah, earlier this month. His foreign minister agreed on Monday to restart nuclear negotiations with six world powers later this week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
In contrast, Ahmadinejad was jeered and pilloried during his eight visits to U.N. headquarters in New York. Most of his speeches to the General Assembly were boycotted by the U.S., Israel and Western allies.
Here is a look back at some of Ahmadinejad's more memorable comments.
No gays in Iran?
In 2007, Ahmadinejad was in New York to address the General Assembly. He also delivered a speech at Columbia University where he provoked derisive laughter when he responded to a question about Iran's execution of homosexuals.
"In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country," Ahmadinejad said.
Israel bashing
At that same 2007 speech at Columbia, he defended Holocaust revisionists. The speech caused such outrage, he was forced to cancel a trip to Ground Zero because of planned protests and fears for his security.
In 2008, Ahmadinejad bashed Israel, saying "the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse, and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters."
In 2012, he declared Israel has no place in the Middle East.
America, mixed feelings
In 2010, Ahmadinejad perpetuated the conspiracy theory that Americans were behind the Sept. 11 attacks, saying they were staged in an attempt to assure Israel's survival. He said the U.S. used the attacks as a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
In 2006, he accused Washington of abusing its power in the U.N. Security Council to punish others while protecting its own interests and allies. He said it had become an "instrument of threat and coercion" for the U.S. and Britain. Separately, at a news conference, he expressed love and affection for the American people.
In 2008, he declared that "the American empire" is nearing collapse and should end its military involvement in other countries.
In 2009, he lashed out at the "rapacious capitalism" of the U. S. and its allies. He accused the West of hypocrisy, saying it violates the fundamental principles of the democracy it preaches. But in an Associated Press interview, he urged President Barack Obama to view Iran as a potential friend instead of a threat.
In 2011, he poked at a sore spot for the U.S. and Europe by referring to their former slave trade. He also singled out the U.S. for using a nuclear bomb against Japan in World War II and imposing and supporting military dictatorships and totalitarian regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Bathed in light
In 2005, the Iranian leader accused unnamed "powerful states" - an apparent reference to the U.S. and some European countries - of engaging in "nuclear apartheid" by barring some nations from gaining access to peaceful nuclear technology. Afterward, Ahmadinejad said he felt "bathed in light" during his speech and claimed his audience was so enraptured that they "did not blink."SHOW MORE


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John Hempton the excellent Aussie blogger who writes Bronte Capital appears to have a blockbuster of a scoop.
A Connecticut hedge fund called Ponta Negra Group, run by 27-year old Francesco Rusciano has been frozen by the SEC, which accused it of fraud. Hempton was all over this a few weeks ago, but had to take down his posts when Ponta Negra lawyers threatened to sue him. They're back up now.
But the big news here is Hempton's discovery that the allegedly fraudulent fund has some, um, oddly coincidental connections to Vice President Joe Biden's son and brother, who run a firm called Paradigm Global. The firms are run out of the same floor at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York, share the same "marketer," a guy named Jeffrey Schneider of Onyx Capital LLC, whose website is currently down, and the SEC filing gives a phone number for Ponta Negra that goes through Paradigm's switchboard.
Ruh roh.
This wouldn't be the first time the Bidens' fund has intersected with an alleged fraudster. Two months ago it was discovered to be entangled with disgraced financier Allen Stanford in a $50 million fund co-branded Paradigm Stanford Fund and marketed by Stanford.
Mr. Schneider was involved in that joint venture, which the Bidens say they made without ever even meeting Mr. Stanford:
A Paradigm marketer, Jeffrey Schneider, confirmed accounts provided by others that he brought in the Stanford business. Stanford would bring clients to the fund and Paradigm would manage it, according to Mr. LoPresti.
Now, I suppose there could just be an amazing amount of coincidences here. Hempton is good on the "to-be-sure" stuff:
I was worried at first that Ponta Negra might be a legitimate fund headquartered in another cubicle on the 17th Floor of 650 Fifth Avenue. It turns out that there are several funds also HQ'd there. Paradigm it seems does all the signage on the floor – but once you get past the couple of Paradigm people on the front desk you find several doors behind which reside several hedge funds – a hedge fund hotel if you want. Most of the offices were empty mid-morning – which was very surprising. These funds are largely marketed by Paradigm.
Still there could be a fund (Ponta Negra) independent of Paradigm on the 17th floor. There could be – they too would need to employ a Jeffrey Schneider as a marketing agent.
But let's face it:
Ok – by this point you should at least be open to the possibility that the Vice President's son and brother employ someone who uses the good Biden name and a stolen client list to market Ponzi schemes.
There is no allegation here that the Bidens are involved. Just that their standard of due diligence is low. Very low.
Now the Biden's hedge fund hotel contains an assortment of other colourful funds. One of them is a SIPC registered broker dealer who also manages client money. This broker dealer does not list their auditor anywhere on their website. However they report startlingly good funds management results for 2006 and 2007 though they have surprisingly failed to update their website to include 2008 results. Their website boasts that their trades will be completed with zero commissions and transaction charges allowing them to focus exclusively on the investments that best meet the needs of the clients without the concern of transaction charges and hidden revenue sharing…
Here's what Dow Jones says about Rusciano:
According to the complaint, Rusciano previously worked at UBS Securities before forming the Ponta Negra Group, but was later forced to resign after he allegedly misreported certain Brazilian bond transactions and non-deliverable forwards. He now also faces charges by the Federal Reserve that he engaged in illegal trading and banking practices and schemed to defraud UBS by trying to conceal major losses, the complaint said. After starting up his own company, the SEC further claims he never disclosed the Fed's allegations against him or the reasons why he left UBS.
Not only did Hempton break the news on what he originally called a "Ponzi scheme" before having to take it down under legal threat, he's put together this Biden family connection.
Just outstanding work.
It wouldn't be the first time a fraud has been cracked by a blogger before the big media and regulators lumber around to it. Alex Dalmady broke the Stanford scandal, with a big push from Felix Salmon, then at Portfolio—and got disgracefully little credit by the media.
This is going to be a big story. I'll be eyeballing the press closely to see how it handles attributing the news to the Bronte Capital blog.
(h/t Felix Salmon)


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Have you ever used a machine gun-powered jet pack to fly through a top secret laboratory to freedom? The refreshingly unique Jetpack Joyride gives you the chance - and thanks to some crisp, cartoon style visuals, you'll have a great time while doing so.
From the very start, this quirky title doesn't take itself too seriously. The hero, a likeable everyday man by the name of Barry Steakfries, flies through a colourful laboratory full of hilarious scientists reacting to your actions. Some get comically zapped by their own deathtraps as they try to escape from Barry, others try to hide in plain sight. These Wile E. Coyote style boffins quickly become the stars of the show, as they get knocked across the screen, engulfed in flames and even high-five Barry as he zooms past them.
And while all of these memorable moments are played for laughs, each part of Jetpack Joyride is polished with the same attention to detail. You feel every bounce, bump and knock poor Barry takes during his adventures, before you come back and make him do it all again. Don't forget to save some of your - and Barry's - highlights during your game to the special photo album at the end of each attempt.
The ride of your life
Strap on your machine gun jet pack for a unique high-flying adventure that blasts arcade action into the palms of your hands. Jetpack Joyride is all about short, intense blasts of entertainment that keep you coming back for one more go.
You control a struggling salesman called Barry Steakfries, who's trying to escape Legitimate Research's secret lab using a stolen jet pack. All you need to control Barry is one finger - by pressing a button or using the PlayStation Vita system's touch based features, you can launch our hapless hero into the air with a rattle of jet power.
Mastering this accessible control method is essential to Barry's chances of survival. The lab is full of lasers, guided rockets and electrical traps, all designed to turn Barry's flight of freedom into a short hop. Thankfully, there's help in the shape of handy suits and vehicles left around by Legitimate Research's careless scientists. Hop on the Bad As Hog motorcycle for a speedy power-up or take a ride on the ferocious robot dragon Mr Cuddles.
With its entertaining collectable items, a massive variety of mission objectives such as reaching a certain distance or collecting a number of coins, Jetpack Joyride is brilliantly addictive. The randomly generated obstacles keep you on your toes and the longer you last during your attempt, the more the level speeds up - so you need nerves of steel and swift reflexes to survive. Wipe down those sweaty palms, post your best scores online and blast Barry back into action.