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ROME – Italy faced political paralysis Monday as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear winner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament. The uncertainty bodes ill for the nation's efforts to pass the tough reforms it needs to snuff out its economic crisis and prevent a new round of global financial turmoil.
The chaotic election scenes in the eurozone's third-biggest economy quickly snaked around globe — sending the Dow Jones index plunging more than 200 points in its sharpest drop since November and causing Tokyo's red-hot benchmark index to sink nearly 2 per cent at open.
A major factor in the murky result was the astonishing vote haul of comic-turned-political leader Beppe Grillo, whose 5 Star Movement has capitalized on a wave of voter disgust with the ruling political class.
That has coupled with the surprise return as a political force of billionaire media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, who was driven from the premiership at the end of 2011, to roil the Italian ballot. Berlusconi's alliance was neck-and-neck with centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani's coalition for both Parliament's lower house and the Senate.
The ballot was so close that final official results were not expected until daytime Tuesday, at earliest.
The decisions Italy's government makes over the next several months promise to have a deep impact on whether Europe can decisively stem its financial crisis. As the eurozone's third-largest economy, its problems can rattle market confidence in the whole bloc and analysts have worried it could fall back into old spending habits.
The unfolding uncertainty raised the possibility of new elections in the coming months, the worst possible outcome for markets that are looking to Italy to stay the course with painful but necessary reform.
While Italy's postwar history has largely been one of revolving-door governments, it has never seen a hung parliament. Experts said that's likely to change now.
"This has never happened before," said James Walston, a political science professor at American University of Rome. He predicted such a swirl of political chaos that new elections may need to be called as soon as the new legislature chooses the nation's next president this spring.
The Italian election has been one of the most fluid in the last two decades thanks to the emergence of Grillo's 5 Star Movement, which has throbbed with anger at politics as usual. The movement came against a backdrop of harsh austerity measures imposed by technocrat Premier Mario Monti — who has fared miserably in the elections.
While Grillo trailed the alliances of the two biggest mainstream forces, his movement looked set to become the biggest single party in Parliament's lower house — a stunning result for a protest campaign that is just over three years old.
Many eligible voters didn't cast ballots, and a low turnout is generally seen as penalizing established parties. The turnout, at under 75 per cent — in a nation where it has historically been above 80 per cent — was the lowest in national elections since the republic was formed after World War II.
Disgust with traditional party politics likely turned off voters, although snow and rain — this was Italy's first winter time national vote — also could be a factor.
The decisions Italy's government makes over the next several months promise to have a deep impact on whether Europe can decisively stem its financial crisis. As the eurozone's third-largest economy, its problems can rattle market confidence in the whole bloc and analysts have worried it could fall back into old spending habits.
Bersani, a former communist, has reform credentials as the architect of a series of liberalization measures and has shown a willingness to join with Monti, if necessary. But he could be hamstrung by the more left-wing of his party.
His party would have to win both houses to form a stable government, and given the uncertainty of possible alliances, a clear picture of prospects for a new Italian government could take days. It is all but impossible that Bersani would team up in a "grand coalition" with his arch-enemy Berlusconi.
Grillo's camp also played down the prospect of co-operation with the ex-premier, who has been embroiled in sex and corruption scandals.
"Dialogue with Berlusconi? It is very difficult to imagine that Berlusconi would propose useful ideas (for the movement)," said 5 Star Movement candidate Alessandro Di Battista at Rome headquarters. "It never happened until now, but miracles happen."
Italy's borrowing costs have reflected the optimism that the country will stick to its reform plans.
The interest rate on Italy's 10-year bonds, an indicator of investor confidence in a country's ability to manage its debt, fell to 4.19 per cent in afternoon trading Monday. Last summer, at the height of concern over Italy's economy, that interest rate was hovering at about 6.36 per cent.
Milan's stock exchange closed slightly higher, with the benchmark FTSE MIB up 0.73 per cent to 16,351 points.
With 99.7 per cent of the lower house vote counted, the Bersani camp had had 29.55 per cent of the vote, to Berlusconi's 29.17 per cent. Grillo had 25.54 and Monti's alliance 10.56.
In the Senate, near complete Interior Ministry figures showed Bersani and his allies had nearly 32 per cent while Berlusconi and his coalition partners were pulling nearly 31 per cent. Grillo had more than 23 per cent. The overseas Senate ballot was to be added to the total later Tuesday.
More important than the overall national numbers, however, was the state-of-play in large swing regions — and Berlusconi was projected to win those.
Italy's complex electoral law calls for the Senate seats to be divvied up according to how candidates fare region by region, and Berlusconi appeared to be winning big in Lombardy, and also ahead in the closely watched regions of Sicily and Campania, around Naples.
A Berlusconi triumph in those key regions would likely hand him control of the upper chamber, which in Italy's legislative system is as powerful as the lower house.
When Berlusconi was forced out of office in November 2011, he was widely assumed to have joined the political dead. At 76, blamed for mismanaging the economy and disgraced by criminal allegations of sex with an underage prostitute, a comeback seemed impossible.
But one thing has become axiomatic about Berlusconi in his 20 years at the centre of Italian politics: Never count him out.
This time around, in an age of wrenching austerity, he had a very simple campaign strategy: throw around the cash.
Berlusconi has promised to give back an unpopular property tax imposed by Monti — with money from his own deep pockets, if need be.
Even his purchase of star striker Mario Balotelli for his AC Milan soccer team was widely seen as a ploy to buy votes. Berlusconi has also appealed to Italy's right-wing by praising Italy's former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini during a ceremony commemorating Holocaust victims.
"He played a very able game," said Walston. "Considering that he didn't fulfil his previous promises, it's extraordinary."
With near complete results, Bersani had a tiny edge in the lower chamber, where electoral law enables the biggest vote-getter there to end up with a bonus of more than 50 per cent of the seats.
Monti's centrist coalition was having a terrible election, with his alliance getting roughly 10 per cent. Although respected abroad for his measures that helped stave off Italy's debt crisis, the economist has widely been blamed for financial suffering caused by austerity cuts.
Analysts saw two big stories in Italy's election.
"The first is the big surprising increase scored by the 5 Star Movement, and the other is the disappointing result" of Monti's coalition, said Massimo Franco, a columnist with Corriere della Sera.
Berlusconi, who was forced from office in November 2011 by the debt crisis, has sought to close the gap by promising to reimburse an unpopular tax — a tactic that brought him within a hair's breadth of winning the 2006 election. The billionaire media mogul only a few days ago told voters if need be, he'd reimburse the tax to them by shelling out from his own pocket to the tune of several billion euros (dollars).
Grillo's forces are the greatest unknown. His protest movement against the entrenched political class has gained in strength following a series of corporate scandals that only seemed to confirm the worst about Italy's establishment. If his self-styled political "tsunami" sweeps into Parliament with a big chunk of seats, Italy could be in store for a prolonged period of political confusion that would spook the markets. He himself won't hold any office, due to a manslaughter conviction.
"Italy has developed a two-bloc system. We now have a three bloc system!" Walston said, referring to Grillo's shock success.
"That might work in a country like Austria, or like Germany" where there aren't such marked differences between coalitions. But in Italy, he said, "the personal, policy and ideological differences are too big."
Most analysts believe Bersani would seek an alliance with centre-right Monti to secure a stable government, assuming parties gathered under Monti's centrist banner gain enough votes.
While left-leaning Bersani has found much in common with Monti, a large part of his party's base is considerably further to the left and could rebel.
A key Monti ally called the result "totally negative" and had an even gloomier assessment for his nation.
"As far as Italy goes," said Gianfranco Fini, "I fear the worst is yet to come."
Barry reported from Milan.

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I'm pleased to present my MoDaCo Custom Jelly Bean ROM for the 3G Nexus 7! READ THIS WHOLE POST BEFORE YOU START! No, really, it contains everything you need to know.
About MoDaCo Custom ROMs
MoDaCo Custom ROMs are based on official ROMs. A MCR release is designed to feel like a stock ROM with optimisations, tweaks and complimentary additions that enhance the user experience. The aim of a MCR is to be ultra reliable for use on an everyday device.
In order to use this ROM you must have a custom recovery installed. The ROM is installed at your own risk. A wipe IS recommended if coming from a ROM other than MCR or stock. BACK UP YOUR DEVICE BEFORE INSTALLATION!
MCR Nexus ROM features Include... (many optional via the Online Kitchen) - check kitchen defaults for what is in the prebake:
- Based on the 4.2.2 / JDQ39 release, updated, rebuilt, compressed and optimised with the MCR build system.
For this MCR we've used the latest available shipping ROM, updated with all the latest versions of the installed apps, which we've run through our scripts to ensure that it is as optimised as possible both for install / download size and real life performance.
- De-odexed... re-odexable.
Our ROMs are de-odedex, giving you the ability to flash other mods over the top, tweak the system and generally get the system set up as you want it without worrying about odex issues. We also include the 'OdexMe' application, which lets you odex your system when you're ready, saving valuable space on your data partition.
- Pre-rooted
All MCR ROMs are pre-rooted with SuperSU preinstalled. In addition, the kitchen allows you to choose between secure, insecure and secure with patched ADB boot images.
- Enhanced Quick Settings
The quick settings in Android 4.2 are cool, but limited. MCR builds include a customised version of the excellent 'Quick Settings' mod by kevdlui, allowing you to customise your toggles by holding the Settings button down. The WiFi and Bluetooth buttons are also changed to toggles - long press to access the settings menus.
- Enhanced Power Menu
The enhanced power menu (the one that appears when you hold down the power button) has additional options to allow you to reboot and reboot to recovery.
- Apps aren't disabled on boot
Jelly Bean added a feature to disable apps on boot that aren't intended for your region (Wallet, Ears, Magazines etc.). I think we're smart enough to make that decision ourselves right? So that doesn't happen in a MCR.
- Legacy Play Store
Isn't it frustrating how Google removed the ability in the Play Store to see which apps you'd bought in a nice simple list? I thought so... so I created 'Legacy Play Store', which has this feature.
- Legacy browser and Flash
Google might be ditching the stock browser for Chrome and Adobe might have canned Flash, but we still need to use it sometimes... so it's included in a MCR.
- Patched Google Wallet
We've patched Google Wallet to remove all region and root checks, so you can have a play!
- Facebook sync support
Google removed all support for syncing contact information via the Facebook app, we put it back. It's basic support (an app like HaxSync is more fully featured) but hey, it works!
- init.d support on boot
The init.d directory is processed on boot, allowing our (and your) startup script to be processed before the system starts up.
- Alternative appstores (Amazon and SlideMe Market)
The Amazon and SlideMe stores can be preinstalled, if that's where you like to purchased your wares.
- 'TweakDeck' - Tweetdeck, fixed
Tweetdeck was great. Twitter ruined it. It's fairly comprehensively broken on Android, but we've fixed it with TweakDeck.
- Titanium Backup preinstalled
Once you've flashed your ROM, if you've wiped you want to get your stuff back on as quickly as possible - the option to preinstall Titanium Backup is here to help!
- MoDaCo Boot Logo
Wear your MCR with pride with the MoDaCo boot logo. It can be disabled in the kitchen of course if you prefer the more subtle look.
- And there's more!
We haven't listed everything here because a) there's too much and B) there's things we've forgotten.
- Alternative UI options (clickable when hidden menu keys with alternate locations, search button)
A number of different UI options are included - the default option makes the legacy menu button available on both sides of the screen for easy reach and also keeps them active when invisible, handy if there's a pesky menu button at the top right that you can't quite get too! You can also bring back the good old search button. In stock Android the navigation bar always stays at the bottom - in the kitchen you can choose to have this move to the right. Finally, percentage battery meters are also included in stock style and round style.
- NFC on screen off
If you use NFC tags to set profiles or similar, then the option to enable NFC on screen off might appeal to you. Be aware that we haven't benchmarked the impact this may have on battery life as yet though!
- Stock Launcher with rotate support, Nova and Apex Launchers as options
The stock launcher, with support for Landscape. So simple! If you're an Apex or Nova fan however, you can choose these to be baked right in to your ROM.
- Camera Launcher
In their infinite wisdom Google removed the Camera icon from the Nexus 7 - we put it back!
- Disable camera shutter sound
You can disable the camera shutter sound - use responsibly!
Please see the post below this one for the changelog.
To install this ROM:
- Download the zip file of your choice from the links below (or the online kitchen) and copy to your sdcard.
- Restart your device in recovery mode
- Select the option to apply an update zip, and select the zip file you copied to the internal sd card! Remember that due to the 4.2 user changes, you may need to change to the '0' directory in recovery to find the zip!
First boot may take a while - be patient while it carries out it's pre-dexopt. It's worth it!
Please do not mirror these packs elsewhere, I am counting downloads to determine which prebakes are most popular and should be offered in the future.
Prebake downloads
- Jr10 release - DOWNLOAD - MD5: b8d2e3aafb064066623eec0a6cb216c7
- an online kitchen is also available below for subscribers to bake a Custom Custom ROM.
If you have a general question, please post in the topic.
It's impossible to mention everyone who contributes to the Android community by name, but to everyone out there who does great work and shares it with us all - you have my gratitude and respect.
Future Updates - READ THIS!
By providing this ROM I am not guaranteeing that future updates will follow. Due to limits on my time and the fact that I have a large number of devices for short periods of time, it isn't possible for me to continue providing ROM updates indefinitely. Please do not donate / sign up on the assumption that future releases will be available (I don't want you to be disappointed!).
And finally...
Details on how to donate should you wish to do so are in the download topic at MoDaCo.
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Obama is right to push for a higher minimum wage
Pat Cunningham
James Downie offers five reasons why President Obama is right to call for raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour and indexing it to inflation:
1. It will help the economy.
2. It reduces poverty and inequality.
3. It reduces the wage gap for women and minorities.
4. Indexing the minimum wage is common sense.
5. It's consistent with American values.
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Snapchat skyrocketed to popularity as an alternative to sites like Facebook because the app promises to quickly delete users' posts and photos, eliminating digital footprints that could lead to trouble.
But its commitment to user privacy was in question this week because hackers posted 4.6 million of its users' names, and part of their phone numbers, even after the company had been warned it was vulnerable to cyberattack.
"Here we have a business that prides itself on providing a service that is supposed to be oriented around the private interchange of information," said Mark Bower, a vice president at Cupertino-based Voltage Security. "So it's a concern to anybody using the service."
The breach comes at a critical time for the hot company, which was started by two Stanford fraternity brothers and has become one of the most popular apps in the world, especially with teens and 20-somethings. The Venice-based company reportedly handles about 350 million messages a day and turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook, presumably waiting for a bigger payday.
The Snapchat incident is the latest in a series of disturbing data breaches in recent months. Besides the recent attack on Target, in which cyberthieves stole credit and debit card information for up to 40 million customers, San Jose-based Adobe Systems (ADBE) disclosed in October that hackers had accessed 38 million user passwords. And on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web calling service Skype revealed that its social-media sites had been attacked, although it said "no user information was compromised."
Snapchat user Cheryl Rubiaco, 29, of San Jose, learned about the attack Thursday just after posting a dozen photos and a couple of videos she took while celebrating her New Year's Day birthday in San Francisco.
"I might take a break from Snapchat and see what the company says to assure that its users are protected," she said. "If they're not taking action to protect their users, I would have to rethink whether I keep my account."
Officials at Snapchat — which was launched two years ago by Stanford pals Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy — couldn't be reached for comment. But in August Australian firm Gibson Security reported finding "severe vulnerabilities" at Snapchat. Several days before the breach, Snapchat acknowledged the problems and assured users that "we've implemented various safeguards."
However, its efforts appeared to be insufficient.
The revelation about Snapchat is particularly troubling because its popularity is so tied to its policy of deleting photo and video messages, or "snaps," seconds after they are shared.
"Once all recipients have viewed a snap, we automatically delete the snap from our servers," the company's privacy policy says. However, it also notes that it collects "your username, password, email address, phone number, age and any other information you choose to provide," and sometimes shares user information with its "vendors, consultants and other service providers."
The unidentified Snapchat hackers posted the information — with the last two digits of the phone numbers removed — on a site called SnapchatDB.info. They also sent a statement to the popular technology blog TechCrunch that "our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue and also put public pressure on Snapchat to get this exploit fixed," adding that they were concerned about "how reckless many Internet companies are with user information."
Snapchat late Thursday announced on its blog that it would update its app to make it harder for a similar cyberattack to happen again.
Snapchat user Adrienne Goldsworth, 33, of Fremont, learned of the hack after posting a photo of her cat to 30 friends. She fears her phone number might get into the wrong hands because in 2009 she'd gotten fraudulent phone calls demanding money for bills she didn't owe and "I didn't want that happening again."
But pilfered phone numbers can cause broader problems. By combining them and usernames with databases of commonly used passwords or other information, experts warn, hackers can sometimes steal consumer identities and access their financial accounts.
"This vulnerability could hypothetically be used to stalk members of society — such as public figures — or the data could even be sold to various firms, with the intent of using it and other data to connect online profiles to people in real life," according to the Gibson Security warning about Snapchat's problems.
Nathaniel Couper-Noles of security firm Neohapsis agreed, adding that "tying your username to your phone number may help connect a few dots that someone might not otherwise have been able to connect."
And because of the growing use of social media and other Internet sites, such threats are bound to increase, added Oscar Marquez of Redwood City security firm Total Defense.
"This should definitely be a wake-up call for both users and organizations with an online presence," he said. "Breaches such as this are going to become more common."
Contact Steve Johnson at 408-920-5043. Follow him at Twitter.com/steveatmercnews.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Topeka police are still trying to find a man who walked into a Walmart more than a year ago and walked out with more than $250,000.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the brazen theft occurred about 3 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2011, when the store was busy with Black Friday shoppers.
The stocky white man with a shaved head simply walked into the manager's office and walked out with the money. He didn't threaten or confront anyone.
Topeka police Lt. Joe Perry said Tuesday he could not discuss specifics of the investigation. Police did say the man overcame security procedures to get behind certain doors to access the cash and receipts.
Walmart has offered $5,000 for information on the case, and Crime Stoppers offered $2,000.


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The Situation of Emotional Distress Claims
Posted by The Situationist Staff on November 20, 2009
Betsy Grey has recently posted her intriguing paper, "Neuroscience and Emotional Harm in Tort Law: Rethinking the American Approach to Free-Standing Emotional Distress Claims" on SSRN. Here's the abstract.
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American tort law traditionally distinguishes between "physical" and "emotional" harm for purposes of liability, with emotional harm treated as a second class citizen. The customary view is that physical injury is more entitled to compensation because it is considered more objectively verifiable and perhaps more important. The current draft of the Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts maintains this view. Even the name of the Restatement project itself – "Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm" – emphasizes this distinction. Advances in neuroscience suggest that the concern over verification may no longer be valid, and that the phenomena we call "emotional" harm has a physiological basis. Because of these early scientific advances, this may be an appropriate time to re-examine our assumptions about tort recovery for emotional harm.
Using studies of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as an example, this paper explores advances in neuroscience that have begun to shed light on the biological basis of the harm suffered when an individual is exposed to extreme stress. These advances underline the shrinking scientific distinction between physical and emotional harm. Drawing on these scientific developments, as well as on the British approach to emotional injury claims, the paper concludes that we should rethink the American treatment of emotional distress claims. In general, it proposes that we change our approach to account for advances in neuroscience, moving toward a more unified view of bodily and emotional injury. Two potential legal applications are advanced in this paper: (1) that science can provide empirical evidence of what it means to suffer emotional distress, thus helping to validate a claim that has always been subject to greater scrutiny; and (2) that this evidence may allow us to move away from the sharp distinction between how physical and emotional injuries are conceptualized, viewing both as valid types of harm with physiological origins.
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To download the paper for free, click here. To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see "New Study Looks at the Roots of Empathy," "Placebo and the Situation of Healing," "The Situation of Time and Mind," "The Rubber Hand Illusion," "The Body Has a Mind of its Own," "A (Situationist) Body of Thought," and "A Closer Look at the Interior Situation."
One Response to "The Situation of Emotional Distress Claims"
November 21, 2009 at 2:23 am
Earlier this month, a boarding school I attended as a teenager was closed due to charges made by former students detailing abuse and neglect. While I had often hoped the school would shut down, I had always felt that the details of our emotional distress would not be incriminating enough. Apparently some of my former classmates felt differently. Reading over the allegations, I can't help but wonder if the state ultimately reacted because the charges invoked something from the physical realm ("they made us recreate scenes of sexual abuse from our past"…etc). I wonder if the charges could have been sucessfully made by simply describing the emotional distress without invoking the sexual imagery.
For more on the background of this case, this Huffington Post article is a good place to start.


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International scientific and practical conference "Law-enforcement and Human Rights Activities in Russia and Abroad at Present"
The new list of federal innovation sites (FIS) of the Russian Federation includes 30 new organizations. Among them is the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. This became possible thanks to the development of the Digital Preparatory Faculty of RUDN University.
RUDN rose to the 26th position in the UI GreenMetric 2022 ranking and confirmed the status of the "greenest" university in Russia. The ranking includes 1,050 world universities, of which 52 are Russian.
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is represented in all 16 subject rankings and in five out of six subject profiles of the Expert Analytical Center ranking. RUDN University showed the best results in the following areas: "Ecology" and "Agriculture and Biological Sciences" — 1st place. "Mathematics", "Chemistry", "Artificial Intelligence", "Renewable Energy" are in the TOP — 5 subject ranking. In total, 152 universities were ranked in 2022 (137 in 2021).


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Windows RT hasn't been jailbroken yet, but the first steps towards opening the platform to enable it to run any program, and not merely the ones that Microsoft authorizes, have been taken. Microsoft's reaction so far has been quietly congratulatory, praising developer clrokr's ingenuity, but suggesting that the operating system flaw he took advantage of may not be a permanent feature.
Updating the operating system to be more rigorous in the way the kernel validates data passed into it is no bad thing, but Microsoft should not simply patch up the problem and then wait for the next jailbreak attack. The company should be proactive, and offer an official jailbreak solution of its own.
Although Microsoft is no doubt encouraged that developers are taking the time and interest to try to crack Windows RT, the company should also be concerned. Jailbreaking is a natural reaction to a locked-down, restricted platform, as there will always be some minority of users who don't like the restrictions being imposed—but it's not healthy.
The fundamental problem that these locked-down platforms create is that incentives become misaligned. Normally, it's in the interest of users to install security fixes as and when they become available, to make their systems more secure. It's in hackers' interests for users to not install security fixes, to make their systems easier to attack. But that changes when jailbreaking is brought into consideration. Because jailbreaking depends on exploiting security flaws, the users cease to regard security updates as desirable; they remove wanted functionality (namely, the jailbreak), making them something to be avoided. This is good for hackers, not so much for anyone else.
The misalignment also applies somewhat to the developers creating the jailbreaks. The desire to jailbreak gives those developers an incentive to publish and exploit security flaws so that users can liberate their systems, rather than report those flaws to Microsoft so that they can be fixed.
One thing that the company could do to discourage jailbreakers from avoiding security patches is to bundle security fixes with feature updates. There are rumors that Windows 8 will receive more regular feature improvements than has been typical in the past; if these feature updates also incorporate security fixes then would-be jailbreakers would have a significant incentive to update their systems, even if that meant losing access to the jailbreak.
However, if the upside of jailbreaking is big enough—and the Windows RT crack is significant in this regard, as it enables a substantial increase in functionality—even this won't work. I know a number of people who are clinging to iOS 5 on their iPhones due to the unavailability of an iOS 6 jailbreak, and it seems inevitable that Windows RT users would respond similarly. No feature that Microsoft could add to Windows RT is going to be as transformational as a crack allowing desktop apps.
I've argued on these pages that Microsoft should provide an official mechanism to opt out of the signature restrictions imposed on Metro apps. By all means, keep the restriction on by default to protect users against malware, but provide a toggle somewhere to disable them for those whose needs go beyond the limitations of the platform. Similarly, I believe Microsoft should provide an official way to opt out of the Windows RT desktop's constraints. Provide a Control Panel setting or similar to allow any desktop application to run.
Offering an official jailbreaking solution, something that wouldn't be jeopardized by security updates, would realign incentives appropriately. Users would no longer have anything to fear from security updates, and well-intentioned developers would no longer have the same motivation to publish exploits. This would make the platform more useful to more people. It would mean that developers could spend their time making useful apps rather than figuring out new ways of subverting the operating system. And it would also make the platform more secure for everyone.


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|A Recipe for Gnudi or "Naked Ravioli"
Pasta is simply the Italian word for dough. Originally, pasta in Italy began with growing the highest-quality hard wheat, and the name given to this specific type of wheat was "durum" which in Latin means hard. Italian pasta has been enjoyed for centuries, with old and new recipes being prepared and created. Sailors packed pasta as a staple for long voyages due to its incredibly long shelf life. Today Italian restaurants and home cooks world wide make millions of pasta dishes each year.If you want to enjoy cooking and eating pasta at its best, one way is to buy good-quality dried pasta made with durum or semolina . Once you taste quality dried pasta, it will be very hard for you to return to the industrially produced alternatives. It's not just for flavour, but the firm, rough texture puts it way out in front and actually helps you to achieve that al dente 'firm to the teeth' texture that is the mark of well-cooked pasta. Poor quality often ends up sticky and soggy. If you would like you can read this very interesting article about the history of pasta.
The most common misconception is that pasta is a very fattening food. Fortunately, in the last decade or so, the misconception that pasta is fattening has been corrected by many nutrition experts, through their interest and research into the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. In most parts of Italy, obesity is relatively rare, though a "low-carb diet" is unheard of. Italians do eat a lot of carbs, but they are happy, healthy individuals. And it is also worth mentioning that they consume carbs balanced with proteins and fats. In Italy, pasta is usually eaten as primo piatto (first course), meaning the main course, which is usually a healthy fish dish or a lean meat, has yet to come.
It is the sauce that you put on the pasta that adds the calories to the meal. If you want to eat pasta but keep your calorie count low, you could eat whole-wheat pasta topped with a low calorie sauce. Reasonable portions of pasta dishes made with lean meat, fresh vegetables or fish sauces are not fattening at all. Eating huge portions of pasta with rich sauces every day is not recommended, of course but even those must be enjoyed once in a while! Never has my philosphy of "everything in moderation" rung more true when it comes to pasta!!!! Following that dictum, you could eat pasta every day of the week!!!!!!
Whole-wheat pasta is not only higher in natural nutrients but it also contains more fiber. In addition, whole-wheat pastas tend to have a lower glycemic index. What this means is that it will not raise your insulin level. This is very important if you are a diabetic or attempting to lose weight. Though people have grown accustomed to the mellow taste and texture of refined pasta, whole-wheat pasta is higher in protein, and tends to be more filling, so you do eat less. It becomes lighter as it cooks and can be quite delicious when served with flavorful sauces.
Sauces are meant to coat the pasta and not to drown them. The sophistication found in Italian cuisine lies in the simplicity of the method using a couple of cleverly combined ingredients and herbs that compliment the pasta and not over power them. So be light on the sauce, use whole wheat pasta when possible and eat a balanced diet and all will be well with the world.
I am sending this dish over to Presto Pasta Nights which is the invention of the lovely, talented and fellow Canadian Ruth over at Once Upon a Feast - Every Kitchen Tells It's Stories. I can hardly believe that this is week #145 of PPN!!! What an excellent way to start the new decade.
My dish this week is not really pasta at all (although it can be served on top of pasta as I did here) but it has a pasta name.... "Naked Ravioli" . Therefore I thought it would still work within the parameters of Ruth's event. Malfatti or Gnudi is a traditional Tuscan dish. It's basically ravioli without dough called "gnudi" which in Tuscany means "naked" or also "malfatti" meaning "not well made". This dish gets its name from the fact that it is really the filling of the ravioli without the pasta. Often, gnudi are served without any pasta at all, as a starter but they can also be served on pasta, either with a light tomato sauce or with butter, sage and Parmesan.
This recipe comes from Canadian chef David Rocco from his cookbook "David Rocco's Dolce Vita". I really enjoy this method because he bakes his gnudi in the oven. This is a godsend since in the past I have not had much success where recipes call for boiling the gnudi. This is one of the easiest recipes you will ever make and these will literally melt in your mouth!!!!
1 lb (500 g) fresh ricotta cheese, preferably sheep's milk, drained
1 large bunch raw spinach, chopped
5 tablespoons (75 mL) extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for smearing hands
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
salt to taste
4 tablespoons (60 mL) freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, plus extra for sprinkling
all-purpose flour
20 cherry tomatoes, halved
4 - 8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
Place your drained ricotta in a mixing bowl. Chop your spinach and saute it with some olive oil and garlic. Let it cool down, then add it to the ricotta. ( I used frozen spinach so squeezed it dry first. I am not sure if this is necessary for the outcome of the dish but I always prefer it). Add 2 pinches of salt, a good handful of Parmigiano, or more spinach. (Make it your own and what is right for you!!!) David says, " if the texture seems a bit liquid to you, add a pinch of flour, but not too much. You just want to bind the mixture. The texture should be fliffy and delicate, not heavy".
Pour a bit of olive oil on your hands and rub them together. (As David says this will prevent the gnudi mixture from sticking to your hands, and the bonus is that your hands get a nice spa tretament at the same time!!!) Now take a bit of the mixture and roll it in your hands to make little balls about the size of golf balls. Use all of the filling.
For the tomato sauce cut up the cherry tomatoes. Heat some olive oil and garlic in a pan, throw in the tomatoes along with some salt and cook for a few minutes until they get soft.
Spread a layer of tomato sauce in a baking dish. Lay the gnudi on top, then spoon some more of the sauce on top. Sprinkle some Parmigiano on top of each gnudi ball. Toss the basil on top. Bake in a 350 - 400F (180 - 200C) oven for 10 - 15 minutes or until golden.
Serves 4
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Nephrotic Syndrome
What is nephrotic syndrome?
Nephrotic syndrome is a condition often characterized by the following:
Very high levels of protein in the urine
Low levels of protein in the blood
Swelling, especially around the eyes, feet, and hands
High cholesterol
What causes nephrotic syndrome?
Generally, nephrotic syndrome results from damage to the kidneys' glomeruli—the tiny blood vessels that filter waste and excess water from the blood and send them to the bladder as urine. Glomeruli keep protein in the body. When they are damaged, protein leaks into the urine. Healthy kidneys allow less than 1 gram of protein to spill into the urine in a day. In nephrotic syndrome, the glomeruli allow 3 grams or more of protein to leak into the urine during a 24-hour period. Nephrotic syndrome may occur with many diseases, including the kidney diseases caused by type 2 diabetes. What causes nephrotic syndrome is not always known.
What are the symptoms of nephrotic syndrome?
Nephrotic syndrome is actually a set of symptoms and not a disease in and of itself. The following are the most common symptoms of nephrotic syndrome. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
High blood pressure
Swelling in the feet and hands, and around the eyes
Susceptibility to infections
The symptoms of nephrotic syndrome may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
How is nephrotic syndrome diagnosed?
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for nephrotic syndrome may include the following:
Measurement of blood pressure
Measurement of blood cholesterol levels
Measurement of protein levels in the urine
Measurement of protein levels in the blood
What is the treatment for nephrotic syndrome?
Specific treatment for nephrotic syndrome will be determined by your doctor based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the disease
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
Treatment generally focuses on identifying the underlying cause, if possible, and reducing the following (often through diet, medications, or both):
High cholesterol
Blood pressure
Protein in urine
ACE inhibitors (one type of blood pressure medication) may be used in people with diabetes to protect the kidneys. Consult your doctor to determine if an underlying cause for your condition can be identified. Only after this determination is made can an appropriate treatment protocol be established. A special diet can help some people delay the need for dialysis.


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Diego Fazio is a 22 year old self-taught artist living in Italy. He began his career designing tattoos and perfected his photorealism technique over a period of several years.
In his home country, he won an award in 2011 for Best New Artist and has been gaining fame and accolades every since. With art like this, it's easy to see why.
Thanks to Google for translating Diego's Deviant Art biography.


text: Basic event infoEvent date: Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Jan 09 2024. Feb 21 2023 - 6:30pm to 9:00pmLocation: 850 Ivywood Dr. 93030 Oxnard , CA United States See map: Google Maps California US Public event fieldsMembers of the ChannelAire Chorus come together every week to share the joy of singing, but it's so much more. Any woman who once sang with a high school or church choir and now has those "Gee-I-miss-singing" pangs will find that membership in the ChannelAire Chorus has much to offer. Our members are not professional singers. We're teachers, realtors, nurses, accountants, housewives and engineers. We encourage women of all ages to sing with us. We're always looking for energetic, enthusiastic, vocally talented women who are interested in being the best singers they can possibly be. The ability to read music is helpful, but not required. Previous singing experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. The friends you make in the chorus are friends for life. Why not attend a rehearsal? Come to sing or just to listen - there's no obligation. We love to sing for visitors and, of course, are thrilled to meet prospective members!


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Walmart is getting into the wireless service business, but not in a way that will appeal to geeks or smartphone buffs. The company says that it will begin offering mobile plans, to run on T-Mobile's network, in order to "help families stay connected while saving money," and that the service will be sold exclusively in Walmart stores starting on September 20.
The plans do offer blindingly affordable "unlimited talk and text" plans. For only $45 per month, Walmart customers can get unlimited voice minutes plus unlimited texts per month without any kind of contract. That's at least $15 per month cheaper than T-Mobile's best contract-free unlimited talk and text plans.
A similar plan from AT&T costs $70 per month with a two-year contract, and Verizon costs almost $90 per month.
Is there a catch to Walmart's offerings? You bet. The available data plans are blindingly expensive, locking out much of the lucrative and quickly growing smartphone market. A single gigabyte of prepaid data through Walmart costs $40, which is quite steep compared to AT&T's 2GB for $25 per month, or T-Mobile's $30 per month for unlimited data.
The upside is that Walmart's data is shared by all of the lines on the account and carries over until it runs out. In a way, it's not surprising—Walmart has set its target on lower- to middle-income families who are still heavily dependent on affordable feature phones, so what would they possibly want with so much data anyway? If the majority of users have feature phones with limited Web capabilities, it makes sense to offer limited data that can be shared, and at a premium.
That being said, the company's announcement says that it does plan to offer Android phones and other with touchscreens, which shows that the company does have some plan to sell more Internet-capable devices. Those users will have a rude awakening when they try to price out data plans, though. Serious data hogs will undoubtedly stick to a carrier that is more dedicated to supporting smartphone users.


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Today's desktops and laptops have become fast enough that we've stopped seeing huge performance increases from generation to generation. This year's processors and graphics cards are faster than last year's, but not by so much that it's worth buying a new PC every year.
In smartphones, though, it's a different story. We're still seeing huge jumps in performance from one year to the next. The Apple A6 processor in the iPhone 5, for example, promised (and largely delivered) performance that doubled that of the iPhone 4S released only 11 months before. Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro, widely used in the high-end Android phones of late 2012, is quicker than the dual-core version of the S4 used in the high-end Android phones of early and mid-2012. And as these phones have become more powerful, our expectations of them have also increased. The modern smartphone began life as a capable Web browser and e-mail checker, but increased processing power has made them multitasking, media-playing, communication-facilitating, game-playing workhorses.
It's the workhorse part of the equation we'll be focusing on today in the fifth and final entry in our ultimate smartphone guide. We'll be looking at the best way to get work done on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8, evaluating both the capability of each operating system's built-in apps as well as the best third-party apps for filling in functionality gaps.
As in the other articles in our guide, BlackBerry adherents will need to sit this one out—BlackBerry 10 is getting its big reveal on January 30 and we'll be paying plenty of attention to RIM on and after that date. But for now, it doesn't make much sense to focus on older BlackBerry handsets with such a radical rethinking of RIM's smartphone strategy coming soon.
To keep this article manageable in size and scope, we'll define "productivity" in terms of e-mail, calendars, word processors, and other related tasks. There are certainly other niches, but these are the ones that will be the most broadly applicable, whether you work in a corporate Exchange environment or you're just trying to keep track of your own wheelings and dealings. When we talk about Android, we'll also be using the stock operating system as found on the Nexus 4 to evaluate the operating system's built-in apps—most of our observations should apply to any recent smartphone running Android 4.0 or 4.1, but the details may vary. The third-party apps should be identical on any supported Android phone, however.
E-mail is a core smartphone feature no matter what platform you're using, so we'll talk a bit about the out-of-the-box capabilities of each platform before moving on to alternatives.
The built-in iOS Mail client is a decent all-rounder that supports a wide variety of services—Apple's own iCloud, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, and other major e-mail providers are all here. Once you've added multiple e-mail accounts, you can view your various inboxes separately or in the unified "All Inboxes" view. iOS 6 introduced "Flagged" and "VIP" message views to further help with organization—the former allows you to keep track of messages you've marked as important, and the latter allows you to mark certain senders as important, making sure you always know when you've gotten messages from one of them.
The advantage to having a one-size-fits-all e-mail client is that, regardless of what services you use, they're going to look and act the same basic way when you use them. The downside is that the Mail app doesn't make use of many service-specific features, like Gmail's color-coded labels (which show up in iOS as folders) or Exchange's similarly color-coded categories. It also won't import your Gmail contacts unless you set up a separate CardDAV account to sync them, an extra step not required in other clients. You could also use Google Sync to connect to Gmail via Exchange and sync contacts that way, but this is a feature that Google is now restricting only to Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government customers while disabling it for personal Gmail and free Google Apps accounts (the latter of which is also being killed).
By contrast, Android phones typically include two separate e-mail clients: one for Gmail specifically and one for other IMAP and Exchange accounts. The Gmail app is solid; it supports multiple accounts, it allows you to navigate easily between your labels, and it comes with plenty of options to let you configure the client to your liking.
The stock Email client is also serviceable, but despite its visual similarity to the Gmail client, you're not given as much flexibility in it as you are in the Gmail client. Where the Gmail client will let you swipe to archive or delete messages and automatically shrink them to fit the width of your screen, the Email app doesn't. You also can't ask the app to confirm before performing actions like sending or deleting mail. Bringing feature parity to the two apps doesn't seem like it would be difficult since most of Email's missing features are in no way tied to the Gmail service, but as of Android 4.2 the two apps are still unequal. You're also not given the option for a unified inbox view in the Gmail app (though you can in the Email app, the rare feature it has that Gmail doesn't).
The Email app also had some problems connecting to the Ars Office 365 server. Where both iOS and Windows Phone automatically detect its server configuration using just the username and password, the Android Email app needed additional manual server configuration. Android's Exchange support is good once you've got it configured, but that initial configuration can be difficult.
Exchange support is one of Windows Phone's greatest strengths. Like iOS, Windows Phone 8 comes with a unified e-mail client that makes it easy to set up Gmail, Hotmail, Exchange, and other POP or IMAP-compatible e-mail accounts. All of these services use the same client, but every account you create leaves a different live tile on your home screen.
As in the rest of the operating system, top-level navigation is performed by swiping from left to right rather than diving into menus. The top-level categories—all mail, unread mail, flagged mail, and urgent messages—are tailored for Exchange, but they work fairly well for other e-mail services, too. You can also use the "link inboxes" feature to see messages from more than one account at once—you can link all of your accounts to get one big unified inbox as in iOS, or you can choose just to link certain accounts to create custom inboxes (one for work accounts and one for personal accounts, for example.
If you're using a third-party service—and we'll keep using Gmail as our primary example—it would be useful to be able to add additional folders to the top-level navigation. Gmail categories like "starred" don't map to either the "flagged" or "urgent" categories in the Windows Phone Mail app, and moving from the inbox into another folder is the work of four taps. It works well enough, but those who rely heavily on folders or labels to organize their messages may find it irritating. Happily, unlike iOS, the Windows Phone 8 mail client can pull in contacts from Google and other e-mail services without requiring Exchange on the server end, eliminating the need to sync the contacts with a third-party program or service.
Other e-mail apps
If you're just a Gmail (or Google Apps) user who would like a stronger native Gmail experience in iOS, Google's Gmail app (free) has improved immensely since its recent redesign. The app supports Gmail's labels along with multiple Google accounts, and it features ties to the Web-based version of Gmail that the native iOS Mail app doesn't (the ability to use the same signature, for instance, or to use the "send as" feature to send mail as one of the accounts you've connected to Gmail).
The app's design, which rumor has it has been helped along by members of the Sparrow team Google acquired over the summer, is also quite slick—menu buttons and sliding panes make it quick to access and organize all of your mail, but never take you too far away from your inbox. This stands in contrast to the standard iOS mail client, where moving from your inbox to any other folder can be the work of many taps.
The Gmail app also offers full support for push e-mail and the Notification Center, making it a plausible choice for default e-mail client even though iOS doesn't officially allow third-party apps to replace the built-in ones (if you want to be able to send e-mail from other iOS apps, however, you'll still need to setup a Gmail account in the stock Mail app). Its main downside is that it supports only Google accounts.
If you need support for IMAP and POP but want a similar look-and-feel, Sparrow for iOS ($2.99) is still a plausible contender. Officially, yes, the all Sparrow clients are discontinued. However, the app continues to get small but significant updates, though neither former Sparrow CEO Dom Leca nor Google's PR team could tell us how long this would continue. iPhone 5 support was added in November, and a number of small bugfix updates have appeared both before and since.
Sparrow has always been developed with Gmail in mind first, but Sparrow also works for generic IMAP and POP accounts, giving you a well-designed alternative to the default Mail app if you want one. It does lack Exchange support, however, and major new additions like push e-mail support will almost certainly never come. Its support status makes it a hard sell these days, but it's still worth diving into if you're exploring your options.
On the Android side of the fence, AquaMail (free) and AquaMail Pro ($4.95) will give you a bit more flexibility in your IMAP accounts than the stock Email app. It comes with more flexible view options, the ability to shut off mail checking when on a cellular data connection, a Gmail-like option to color-code folders even for non-Gmail accounts, and the ability to shut off e-mail checking during the nights and weekends for you workaholics.
The inbox view also displays the date each message was received on, making it a bit easier to find e-mails you know were sent on a certain day. It also lets you hide e-mail from the app without actually deleting it from the server, sort of analogous to Gmail's "archive" function. For basic users, none of these small tweaks are strictly necessary, but compared to the relatively option-free stock app, AquaMail is quite customizable.
Springing for the pro option allows you to add more than two e-mail accounts, add alternative identities to accounts (like Gmail's "send as" feature), and removes the promotional AquaMail signature from the bottom of your messages. Unfortunately, neither provides true Exchange ActiveSync support—your Exchange administrator will need to support IMAP access to your server for you to get your work e-mails.


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It was hardly a secret that the look of iOS was due for a design makeover. Former iOS software head Scott Forstall was out, and Apple's product designer Jony Ive was in. Ive apparently winced when asked about the stitched leather look of some apps—it was obvious the days of faux texture were numbered.
Now that we've had a good look at iOS 7, though, it's clear that the departure is stronger than most people expected. This isn't a gentle de-stitching; it's a pretty radical overhaul.
When the iPhone debuted, there just wasn't anything quite like it. Yes, the idea of a screen as a phone wasn't solely Apple's creation, and no, it didn't invent the grid of icons on a touchscreen. Nevertheless, Apple was forging a new path, and it was its trail to blaze.
Fast forward to 2013, and Apple is no longer designing in a vacuum.
My colleague Florence Ion argued that Apple was taking its cues from Android now, that the student had become the teacher. I think it's actually a lot more nuanced than that, and the interesting thing about the iOS 7 makeover is how broad the design debate has become. It's not a binary conversation.
I don't think you can begin the discussion without starting with Windows Phone 8. Call it Metro, call it flat, there's no question Microsoft took the user interface conventions and steered things at a right angle. It was a shot across iOS' glossy bow, and it's clear now that it was a direct hit. Am I saying iOS 7 ripped off WP8? Not at all—it's not that cut and dried. But Microsoft set a direction; Apple is following a bit more and not leading quite so much.
It would be a mistake to call what Apple is doing now "flat" because it isn't. We still have drop shadows, gradients, and the interesting parallax effect when you tilt your phone screen. "Pared down" is more accurate. But the Metro influence is unquestionable.
Perhaps a more interesting influence, though, is one from the past, one from the dead. Who watched the demo of iOS 7's app switcher and didn't immediately see visions of WebOS' cards? This wasn't a subtle influence, either; it was more like a direct homage (or maybe even a rip-off if you were feeling less charitable). Don't be mad, though: the chorus of voices calling for Apple to do just this has never entirely died down. Be glad the company finally listened.
Did you notice that the shape of the iOS 7 icons has changed? It's subtle, but the radius of the round corner has grown. The icons are a little softer, a little less square. The rounding, the gradients, the simpler iconography: it feels a little bit like the Nokia N9, doesn't it? Which, let's be honest here, was really a pretty direct copy of the iPhone in the first place. That's how these design conversations work—they're back and forth, they're circular. They tend to converge.
It's pretty inevitable that someone will look at this and say, "Oh, they're copying Android now?" or something similar. The new Control Center liberally borrows from Android; even the most partisan Apple fan would have to admit that (while at the same time welcoming the influence as it's a long overdue idea). But trying to boil it down to who stole from whom misses the point. The back and forth is just a natural part of the nature of design. Design is a language that evolves not in a vacuum but with the input of other voices. I wouldn't want all smartphones to look the same, but I also wouldn't want to be in a world where good ideas were ignored because they came from somewhere else.
iOS 7 is a new attempt, and it's going to have some rough edges. My personal take is that Apple didn't nail everything out of the gate. There are some odd inconsistencies to the design language (not to mention the conflicts with OS X—the Maps app icons in both OSes, for instance, show there's some sorting out to be done there). Some things feel just a bit too pared down for my liking, like they sanded down the clear coat but dug in a bit too deep and took off some of the paint as well. But I'm glad that Apple is participating in a global design conversation. There's no question the company has some of the most talented people in the business, and I'm looking forward to what they bring to the table and how they advance the language that everyone will be using.


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The diary of John Cam Hobhouse on the Web has undergone some changes. It's current location at www.Hobby-O.com has moved to the Blog site of Peter Cochran at http://petercochran.wordpress.com/hobhouses-diary/. With the move comes significant new content, including full coverage from the years 1809-1824 and new material from Hobhouse's time in London and Switzerland.
From the foreword to the Hobhouse diary:
John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869) was Byron's best friend. Educated at Westminster and Trinity College Cambridge, he travelled east with Byron in 1809, was Best Man at Byron's wedding in 1815, travelled across Switzerland in Byron's company in 1816 after the separation, around Rome with Byron in 1817, and lived with Byron in Venice in the same year. He met Byron at Pisa again in 1822, after Byron's facetious poem on his imprisonment in Newgate, My Boy Hobby-O, had almost terminated their friendship. As a member of the London Greek Committee he encouraged Byron on his last journey in 1823; and had he insisted, Byron's memoirs would almost certainly not have been destroyed in 1824.
Hobhouse's diary was published in heavily truncated and censored form, as part of Recollections of a Long Life, edited by his daughter, Lady Dorchester, in six volumes between 1909 and 1911. He had used it as the basis for three previous publications: A Journey through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 (1813), Travels in Albania and other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 and 1810 (1855) and Italy: Remarks made in several visits from the year 1816 to 1854 (1859).
John Cam Hobhouse's diary is one of the two major texts written about Byron by his contemporaries which has still to see the full light of day – though it is about much more than Byron, for Hobhouse became, as he cast off his Byronic shackles, a significant political figure in his own right. The sections on his two Napoleonic French excursions – on both of which he went without Byron – are worth books in themselves. His weeks in Newgate, just before he was elected MP for Westminster, will be included. However, the extent to which he played Sancho to Byron's Quixote - Pylades to Byron's Orestes - Hal to Byron's Falstaff - Horatio to Byron's Hamlet - Celia to Byron's Rosalind – cannot be exaggerated, and will have justice done to it.


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Green Space: A little effort now will save plants from the deep freeze
I don't care if my yard all winter looks like a landfill. I'm nuts about preserving plants from winter deaths.
The first step is a plant census. Walk around and decide what to protect. Not all plants need help. Fully established ones, at least 3 years old, should survive alone. The younger ones with immature roots are the most susceptible. Include on your list plants severely damaged last season by drought, bugs and disease. They are still weak.
Then we have some weirdoes such as hydrangeas. They bloom on last year's stems. A tough winter will dehydrate them, canceling blooms next season.
Plant wrapping started with burlap. Once upon a time, garden centers sold it in bulk rolls. Burlap is a good insulator and moisture preserver. Downside: It gets heavy when wet and can break branches. It looks like some sort of dead animal out there.
Solution: Floating row covers. These are lightweight sheets of fabric available in garden centers. They are easy to use and do a perfect job of keeping cold winds off plants. Those winds quickly dehydrate plant tissue, and that's why plants die in winter.
Unlike burlap, row covers let in the sunlight and rain, major benefits in any season. Although they are lightweight, they last a long time. Mine survived the 50 mph winds of Sandy on Oct. 29.
It's fun working with this stuff. You can build enclosures by staking around the plants and wrapping the cover around them. A stapler is handy to attach it. Or you can place a tall stake near the plant and make a tent.
The drill is first thoroughly water the plant one more time. Apply two to three inches of ground leaf mulch. I use my mower to make the mulch. My favorite leaves are maples, as they easily rot in springtime, enriching the soil. Avoid hard-to-rot oak and ash leaves.
Mulch preserves soil moisture while helping to prevent soil heaving due to changing temperatures. Then build your cage or tent with stakes wrapped in row covers. One layer should work. All you're doing is keeping the dehydrating wind off, not shielding from the cold.
The walls of your enclosure should be six inches taller than your plants. Secure it to the ground with U-shaped clips made of coat-hanger wire. Keep an eye on it for a few days to make sure it's wind secure.
Row covers come by many names. The oldest and most famous is Reemay. It is made from spun polyester and lasts many years. It comes in blankets 67 inches by 20 feet for about $8.
If your plants are small, simply lay the material on them and attach with the U-clips mentioned above.
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It's easy to get excited about the idea of encoding information in single molecules, which seems to be the ultimate end of the miniaturization that has been driving the electronics industry. But it's also easy to forget that we've been beaten there—by a few billion years. The chemical information present in biomolecules was critical to the origin of life and probably dates back to whatever interesting chemical reactions preceded it.
It's only within the past few decades, however, that humans have learned to speak DNA. Even then, it took a while to develop the technology needed to synthesize and determine the sequence of large populations of molecules. But we're there now, and people have started experimenting with putting binary data in biological form. Now, a new study has confirmed the flexibility of the approach by encoding everything from an MP3 to the decoding algorithm into fragments of DNA. The cost analysis done by the authors suggest that the technology may soon be suitable for decade-scale storage, provided current trends continue.
Trinary encoding
Computer data is in binary, while each location in a DNA molecule can hold any one of four bases (A, T, C, and G). Rather than using all that extra information capacity, however, the authors used it to avoid a technical problem. Stretches of a single type of base (say, TTTTT) are often not sequenced properly by current techniques—in fact, this was the biggest source of errors in the previous DNA data storage effort. So for this new encoding, they used one of the bases to break up long runs of any of the other three.
(To understand how this could work practically, let's say the A, T, and C encoded information, while G represents "more of the same." If you had a run of four A's, you could represent it as AAGA. But since the G doesn't encode for anything in particular, TTGT can be used to represent four T's. The authors' system was more complicated, but did manage to keep extended single-base runs from happening.)
That leaves three bases to encode information, so the authors converted their information into trinary. In all, they encoded a large number of works: all 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a PDF of a scientific paper, a photograph of the lab some of them work in, and an MP3 of part of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. For good measure, they also threw in the algorithm they use for converting binary data into trinary.
Once in trinary, the results were encoded into the error-avoiding DNA code described above. The resulting sequence was then broken into chunks that were easy to synthesize. Each chunk came with parity information (for error correction), a short file ID, and some data that indicates the offset within the file (so, for example, that the sequence holds digits 500-600). To provide an added level of data security, 100-bases-long DNA inserts were staggered by 25 bases so that consecutive fragments had a 75-base overlap. Thus, many sections of the file were carried by four different DNA molecules.
And it all worked brilliantly—mostly. For most of the files, the authors' sequencing and analysis protocol could reconstruct an error-free version of the file without any intervention. One, however, ended up with two 25-base-long gaps, presumably resulting from a particular sequence that is very difficult to synthesize. Based on parity and other data, they were able to reconstruct the contents of the gaps, but understanding why things went wrong in the first place would be critical to understanding how well suited this method is to long-term archiving of data.
Long-term storage
In general, though, the DNA was very robust. The authors simply dried it out before shipping it to a lab in Germany (with a layover in the UK), where it was decoded. Careful storage in a cold, dry location could keep it viable for much, much longer. The authors estimate their storage density was about 2.2 Petabytes per gram, and that it included enough DNA to recover the data about ten additional times.
Which brings us to the authors' more general argument. Assuming the process is streamlined and automated, and the physical cataloging can be handled at minimal cost, is this ever likely to be a cost-effective way to store data? As a point of contrast, the authors considered a data set from the LHC. After a few years, access to data from these archives tends to be very limited, while the cost of maintaining them tends to involve sporadic migrations to upgraded magnetic tape technology.
With current, state-of-the-art DNA synthesis and sequencing, the economics start to make sense only if you're planning on storing the data for over 500 years (although it would be good out to 5,000). But they also note that if the relevant technologies continue improving at their current rates, it will only take a decade to get to where DNA-based storage would start making sense for archiving data for as little as 50 years.
Both this team and the previous one point out that, unlike storage media, the actual physical storage of information won't change if DNA is used, even if we end up using different methods to synthesize or read out the molecule's contents. And life on Earth will always ensure that whatever we need to manipulate it will always be available to us. In other words, if we're ever not able to read the information in DNA, then we've got bigger problems than having lost some data.
Nature, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/nature11875 (About DOIs).
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While playing poker with his buddies at the home of his friend Eddie one Sunday evening, Dan happened to drop a dollar bill to the floor. As he bent down to pick up the dollar bill under the poker table, he happened to look directly at the shapely legs of Eddie's wife, Mona, who was seated on a chair near the poker table. Sensing that Dan was staring at her legs, Mona slyly parted her legs revealing that she was not wearing any underwear at all! A surprised Dan quickly got up and excused himself to get a drink from the kitchen. Mona also got up and followed Dan into the kitchen.
When the two of them were alone in the kitchen, Mona made her move. "You know, Dan, I've always wondered how great you might be in the sack."
"Me too," Dan blurted out. "I mean, making love to you, of course."
"Well if you want to find out, come back here tomorrow afternoon at four and bring a thousand bucks." said Mona seductively. "Don't worry, I'm worth every cent of it. You won't regret it."
Dan just nodded as he returned to the poker game.
The next afternoon at exactly four o'clock, Dan was knocking at the door and Mona opened it quickly. She said, "I knew you couldn't resist me! Got the thousand bucks?" Dan waved a wad of greenbucks and Mona smiled as she counted the bills greedily and pocketed the money, "C'mon loverboy! Let the games begin!" And they proceeded to have great hot s ex in the bedroom. After they were through, Dan got up to get dressed and he thanked Mona for the good time before leaving.
A few minutes after Dan left, Eddie came home from work. He asked his wife, "Hey Mona! Did Dan come by the house this afternoon?"
Mona was so surprised that she blurted out, "Why, yes, he was here! What did he tell you?"
"He told me that he's gonna give you a thousand bucks."
"W-w-well, he d-d-did.." stammered Mona.
"Well good! That's what he promised to do when he borrowed that thousand bucks from me last night!"
The sky was dark
The moon was high
The wind did fade
All alone, she and I
Her hair was soft
Her eyes were blue
I knew just what
She wanted to do
Her skin so soft
Her legs so fine
I ran my fingers
Down her spine
I didn't know how
But I tried my best
I started by placing
My hands on her breast
I remember my fear
My fast beating heart
But slowly she spread
Her long legs apart
And when I did it
I felt no shame
As all at once
The white stuff came
At last it's finished
Yes, all over now
My first time ever
At milking a cow.
Two crusty old war veterans, sitting in front of the fireplace at the retirement home: "Dave, it seems so long since I last made love to a woman. How long has it been for you?"
"Nineteen forty-five," says Dave solemnly.
"Hell, that's a long time!" exclaims, Jim.
"Not really," says Dave, puzzled. "It's only twenty-thirty now."
The general was confined to the military hospital for treatment of a minor malady. For almost a week he made a complete nuisance of himself, irritating both staff and the other patients, demanding attention and expecting his every order to be followed immediately. He was in a six-man ward rather than a private room, his meals were too cold or not served to suit his taste, the light needed to be adjusted to his demands, the nighttime activities interfered with his rest… and on, and on.
One afternoon an orderly entered the room. "Time to take your temperature, General." After growling at the orderly, the general opened his mouth to accept the thermometer. "Sorry, General, but for this test we need your temperature from the other end." A whole new barrage of verbal abuse followed, but the orderly was insistent that a rectal temperature was what the test called for. The general at last rolled over, bared his rear, and allowed the orderly to proceed. The orderly then told the general, "Stay exactly like that and don`t move. I`ll be back in five minutes to check up on you." and withdrew.
An hour later, the head nurse entered the room, saw the general with his bare rear in the air and gasped, "What`s going on here?" "Haven`t you ever seen someone having their temperature taken?" the general barked.
"Yes I have, General, but with a daffodil?"
The big game hunter walked into the bar and bragged to everyone about his skills as a hunter. The man was undoubtedly a good shot and no one could dispute that. But then he said that they could blindfold him and he would recognise any animal's skin from its feel, and if he could locate the bullet hole he would even tell them what calibre rifle was used to shoot it.
This was a bit too much for the other customers, and soon a heated argument was going on. Then the hunter said that he was willing to prove it if they would put up the drinks, and the bet was on. They blindfolded him carefully and took him to his first animal skin.
After feeling it for a few moments, he announced. "Springbok". Then he felt for the bullet hole and declared. "And shot with a .22 rifle". The others could not believe it (he was right, of course) and the argument was even hotter than before. When some started to suggest that he must have peeped, he said that he was prepared to do it again. He would put up all the drinks they had bought before against them buying another round for him.
So they blindfolded him again, very thoroughly this time, and they brought a skin that someone happened to have in the boot of his car. He took a bit longer this time and then said, "Kalahari Lion" and fingering the bullet hole, said "and the rifle was a .308″ and he was right again.
This, of course, was like throwing fat on the fire, and he had to prove his skills over and over again, everytime against a round of drinks. Finally he staggered home, stoned out of his mind, and went to sleep.
The next morning he got up and saw in the mirror that he had one hell of a shiner. So he said to his wife. "Listen I know I was drunk last night, but not too drunk to know that I did not fight anyone in that bar. So where did I get this black eye?" .
And his wife replied angrily. "From me, of course."
"But what did I do?" he asked.
She replied, "You got into bed and put your hand down inside my panties. Then you fiddled around a bit and announced in a loud triumphant tone: 'Skunk, killed with an axe.'"
Gotta go for now, but I'll be back. That is not a threat.
Lmao @ bobcat...good job! And its no more disturbing than knowing that very same person is doing nightly neighborhood bedroom checks! With an extremely strange curiosity to know their s e x u a l patterns!!!!
I couldn't resist. Are you doing better today ?
Lmao yup! Im investing in an electric shock collar @ bobcat...and every time he opens his mouth to talk...ZAP! Lol 😉
Dad? How do you feel about abortions?
"Why don't you ask your sister."
But I don't have a...
Well. Off to the hospital with my pregnant wife for a 12 week scan. I can't wait to see if it's a boy or an abortion.
What do you call a black abortion clinic?
My wife is such a hypocrite, she is dead set against abortions.
Different story when my girlfriend got pregnant.
I locked my keys in my car outside of an abortion clinic.
It turns out they really get upset when you ask them for a coat hanger.
Abortion. It really brings out the child in you.
I've just been banned from eBay. Apparently a rat and plastic tube does not consti tute a DYI abortion kit.
Finally convince my girlfriend to get an abortion. All she needed was a nudge in the right direction. And some stairs.
Electric shock fetus collar?
I just found out my girlfriend is 26 weeks pregnant.
So I did the honourable thing and got down on one knee.
And punched as hard as I could.
Abortion clinics: Unexpecting the expected.
What a pregnant teenager thinks: My mom is going to kill me.
What the fetus thinks: My mom is going to kill me.
Why is it so hard to fool an aborted fetus?
Because it wasn't born yesterday.
Warning: Women do not see the funny side when you try to cheer them up after an abortion by scrambling them some eggs.
The following dedicated to abortion man above. Apologies to my friends.
What do they call abortion in Prague?
A cancelled Czech
The government of Colorado recently outlawed all abortions even in cases of raype or inc est, so if your daddy raypes you, you still have to have the baby. Which should pretty much account for the government of Colorado.
A Colorado Senator said that abortion has become a "convenience" for young girls. Like you're in the middle of s ex, and she says, "What, you don't have a rubber? I'm not on the pill... oh, hell with it, I'll have an abortion. No sweat, get it at Wal-Mart. They have a clinic, $19.95. And you want a laugh? It's right next to the Pampers! Law-zee!"
I once went on a date and when I told the guy that I had once started an abortion jokes blog he said it was the se xiest thing he'd ever heard.
Q: What do you call a cow who's had an abortion?
A: De-calf-i-nated.
Can the author of this post please identify him or herself? I want to ask the question whether this person recovered from this episode.
"Just took a flight from Newark, NJ to Chicago. This guy sitting next to me was smelling like rotten onions. I asked him where he was from. He muttered Tamil Nadu, India. I apologized politely to him and told him that I was nauseous due to his BO. That I will call flight attendant to move to another seat. I did so but none were available. Halfway through the flight he opens up a tupperware. It had some kind of fish curry. The smell coupled with his BO did me in. B'fore I could get up I started throwing up all over including into his curry. I was sick. The doctor on the flight helped me move to the toilet. Thank you. I was later told that guy from India kept on eating his curry and licking his fingers in sheer joyful ecstasy. More power to him. I have landed at O'Hare and am still sick from the odor."
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Q: If you had one cricket ball in one hand and another cricket ball in your other hand, what would you have?
A: A bloody big cricket.
Q: Why did the ants dance on the jam jar?
A: The lid said, "Twist to open."
A hinddoo from India goes to the doctor and says, "I feel terrible."
Doctor says, "go home, get a bucket, p iss and s hit in it for a week. Throw in dead rats and rotting fish. Put a towel over your head and sniff the fumes for three days."
Week later Hinddoo goes back and says, "Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?"
Doctor, "you were homesick!"
Tired of constant blonde jokes, a blonde dyes her hair brown. She goes for a drive in the country and sees a shepherd herding his sheep across the road.
"Hey, shepherd, if I guess how many sheep are here, can I keep one?" she asks.
The shepherd agrees. She blurts out, "352!"
The shepherd is stunned but keeps his word and allows her to pick a sheep.
"I'll take this one," she says proudly. "It's the cutest!"
"Hey lady," says the shepherd. "If I guess your real hair color, can I have my dog back?"
Why don't sharks eat hinddoos?
They think its whale s hit!
Q: What do you call a dog that has balls of steel and is dragging them across cement?
A: Sparky.
A slight hiatus.
What did the Alabama sherriff call the Hinddoo who had been shot 15 times?
Worst case of suicide he had ever seen.


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Librarianship is a profession that's all about helping people, which means we need to be able to work with them. Even if you don't work with patrons, you'll still have to work with coworkers that run the gamut. Cat lovers(ahem), gamers, tattooed drinkers, the sweet old lady who doesn't know what email is(patron or coworker), you might run across them all. You can't escape people in this profession! Whether you were drawn to this profession because you love books, or because you wanted to put off student loans, having people skills is a must. We're expected to have some technology skills and maybe even more advanced programming skills. That's all great! However, there are a lot of things library school can't teach you. People skills being one of them. No one can teach you how to be in the world, that's something that we all develop as we move forward in life. Employers are looking for folks who have these skills.
For example, take a look at these qualifications taken from different job ads:
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrated commitment to customer service.
Ability to manage complex workload, prioritize tasks and complete work on time with minimum supervision
Ability to work independently and collaboratively, and to contribute positively to a team within a rapidly changing, complex and multicultural environment
Basically, they want to know if you are a good person to work with. Are you going to be okay to work by yourself on certain things. Can you talk to people? Can you be a team player? Are you going to go crazy if someone asks you how to print for the millionth time? Addressing this in a cover letter isn't as easy as saying "I am a great communicator" or "I work well with others" because they want to know how you do that. If it was asking for specific tech skills, it would be easier to address. "Excellent interpersonal skills" isn't a course that you can take in school. Sure, we might take a reference or information literacy teaching course, but does it really show you how to work with a patron or be a nice person? Not really. These qualifications should be indicators of what is expected of us when we graduate. They want well-adjusted, socialized people, but being that person means that you should have developed that skill somewhere along the line.
Brett Bonfield, wrote in his post Perspective and Doing Good Work, "What you do before you get your library degree matters…" and for many of us this is true. Even if you don't have prior library experience, there are transferable skills that you can use in a library setting. I spent many years slinging coffee beans, working in customer service. I had no clue that the experiences I had at the coffee shop would actually help me as a reference librarian. I've always been a shy person; but since I worked in a high traffic, noisy coffee shop, I learned to be loud in order to be heard. Now I'm more comfortable with the public and can handle being at the front of a crowd (check out Andy Burkhardt's post on developing soft skills for more pointers). It took my awhile to realize it, but knowing how to deal/work with people is something I brought with me to library school, not something I learned in class. Taking what I've learned through the years and applying to the big picture has totally helped me feel like I'm in the right place. After all, we are a people based profession.
Do you think library school teaches people skills or is it something you develop as an individual? Any tips on how to get over shyness or people anxiety? Can you hate people but still be a librarian? Feel fee to share your insights below!
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