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clarym29Of course thereFri Apr 27, 2012 13:5822.214.171.124could be benefits to anything. So, what? Yes, torture has been used and will continue to be used forever. So what? No, torture was not useless according to my teachers and those that worked in the field. But it was not dependable or should I say it had the lowest dependable rating one could give in this area. All intel developed by any means has to be verified to be of real value. Tortured people have a tendency to tell you what you want to hear (they have a real Romey trait here--tell that particular audience that day what they want to hear.)--I mean if I were captured and tortured, I'd do everything I could, including inventing the best story I could come up with just to get it to stop. is torture always unproductive? Of course not. Nothing is ever totally bad or good. As a rule, when I was in Mil. Intell. it was sop not to use it because it was considered useless or detrimental to the mission of the US Army. And I would be willing to bet you if you know anybody still in the intel business that they would continue to tell you the same thing today.
Spanking--once again nothing is ever totally wrong or useless. But spanking is much like torture. In my experience it does not work, except maybe in a short term manner, at times. "I told you not to go into the street with your bike!" Wack! I did that. Once. The next day I apologized to my daughter for hitting her. But I told her I'd do it again if it was for her safety. I never had to do so, luckily. Spanking is too often used because it is the easiest thing to do. It teaches, whether or not we want it to, that might makes right. In the long run that isn't a particularly good message to pass along. As a teacher in a juvenile hall setting for 39 years, I did not see corporal punishment as a cure for anything. Spanking would not have kept one person out of juvenile hall. (Alright, Sai, maybe one--but if I was pressed to pick that 'one' out I'd not have a clue as to which one it would have worked for.) For me raising a child requires discipline. And it must be consistent and clear. When issuing edicts, the results of the child's choice should be evident to that child. They must be able to see what the consequences, good and bad, would be. And if they make a bad choice then the consequences much be carried out swiftly. The same for good choices--swift and consistent--that must be the mantra. In my experience spanking produces fear and resentment, not respect.
So it was useless sai ram, Fri Apr 27 13:20what plan did they have that was much better?...one that is tried and true?.....I would believe its not 100% or even 50%...but useless...naw. Its been used all over the world by countries since there ... more
If we can torture all the kids in foreign nations ... Baruch, Fri Apr 27 17:37from a young age, maybe they will learn to avoid Americans. You have to be proactive. After the Twin Towers fall is too late. Colonization, extermination, expropriation, enslavement ... our ancestors ... more
- Of course there clarym29, Fri Apr 27 13:58
Authorities don't want your respect ... Baruch, Fri Apr 27 17:43they want your fear, and to use that fear as a tool, to use the violence they have induced, to useful 1% purposes. "verified to be of real value" ... that is something no Republican or Democrat... more
Re: Authorities don't want your respect ... clarym29, Fri Apr 27 18:01"Authorities don't want your respect ...they want your fear, and to use that fear as a tool, to use the violence they have induced, to useful 1% purposes." As they say in the old country--No Shit,... more
fear is sai ram, Fri Apr 27 20:44fear is a big if not the biggest motivator of mankind......is it counterproductive?....I don't know.....most working people have some level of fear about being late for work. This fear just might... more
The official list of phobias ... Baruch, Sat Apr 28 00:56include fear of dirt and fear of death. Now phobia is an irrational or extreme example of a rational fear. I kind of think that the first is crazy but the second is reasonable ;-) Shalom Ever hear of clarym29, Fri Apr 27 22:29the word contraryian? You wear it well. :)
More curmugeonly ;-) (nm) Baruch, Sat Apr 28 00:57
I yam what I yam and thats all what I yam! (nm) sai ram, Sat Apr 28 10:09
Watch out for the listeria on the spinach (nm) Baruch, Sat Apr 28 11:08
I'm not fond on yams. (nm) clarym29, Sat Apr 28 11:48 Counterproductive? Baruch, Fri Apr 27 18:34if you are using fear on your loved ones, then they should "off" you the next time you sleep. See in Newspeak, Love is Hate ... and we express a lot of that lately. The problem has been our... more
Great advice clarym29, Fri Apr 27 18:53if you are using fear on your loved ones, then they should "off" you the next time you sleep. -----Just got a verdict, in the town I live in, on a woman who stabbed her husband to death while he... more
A woman like that is what Conservatives fear most! (nm) Baruch, Fri Apr 27 19:05 the So what sai ram, Fri Apr 27 15:47"But it was not dependable or should I say it had the lowest dependable rating one could give in this area.".....torture is a tool...and like any tools it might not be what you need for the job. But... more
Murder is a tool, and is sometimes useful ... Baruch, Fri Apr 27 17:46or even essential (like against Hitler in 1936). But this is only seen in hindsight. People who want to use violence have the insanity of omniscience and omnipotence ... and the desire to kick ass... more


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ELTON John, Lulu and Sir Bob Geldof count among the famous faces who have either sampled their sound or joined them on stage.
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Sous Vide Practical Tips: Part 1
Over the last six months I have been experimenting with sous vide cooking at home. It's a wonderful way to cook meat perfectly, with minimal hassle - truly the future of food.
If you want the details about sous vide, check out this guide, read up on the scientific facts in one of Harold McGee's fine books (amazon us, uk), or get a Chef's perspective in Heston Blumenthal's Big Fat Duck Cookbook (amazon us, uk), or Thomas Keller's Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (amazon us, uk).
These tomes make fascinating reading, but many practical tips are missing. I'm planning to share my own experience in a series of posts here.
Before I get started, a word about safety. Sous vide often involves cooking bacteria-ridden food like raw meat at low temperatures. This can be very dangerous if it's done wrong. Before you start, make sure you understand the circumstances in which food pathogens are killed, and in which they multiply. Any of the references mentioned above contain the necessary information. I won't risk repeating it incorrectly here.
To start with, the basics:
Sous vide is wrongly named. It means 'under vacuum', but vacuum is often incidental. The main thing is the low temperature at which food is cooked.
Top restaurants use thousands of pounds of expensive equipment for sous vide cooking, but great results can be achieved without any special tools.
You can cook sous vide by putting a piece of meat in a pan of warm water, inside a zip-lock bag, and monitoring temperature with a digital probe to keep it reasonably constant. If the water is at 55°C you'll get medium-rare meat. It's that simple.
This is not so different from conventional cooking - we're always looking to get meat to 55°C for medium rare. But normally we try to do this in a pan or oven that is much hotter. So it's really difficult to get all the meat to a consistent temperature. Normally it's much hotter on the outside, the middle keeps cooking after it comes out of the oven. Unless you use meat of the same shape every time you'll be hard pressed to get the times and temperatures right with conventional methods.
Minimum cooking times is based mainly on thickness. A 2cm thick piece of meat needs at least 30 mins. Times go up fast as the meat gets thicker. Use a table to figure out the minimum time. There's one in this document.
There's no maximum cooking time. Heston Blumenthal says meat goes pappy if left for two long. But mere mortals can leave the meat in the water until they're ready to eat it. This makes life much easier, especially when cooking a complex meal, or for lots of people.
Brown meat tastes good. In most cases you'll want to brown the meat very quickly before or after sous vide cooking. A blow torch on meat brushed with oil is a fun way to brown lean meat like steak. But a hot pan is fine too.
A vac-pack machine is helpful to keep everything together. I use a "Seal a Meal" unit. The main benefit is that all the juices stay neatly inside the bag.
Brining and sous vide are natural partners. Mix a liter of water with 5 teaspoons of salt, then soak your meat in it overnight, before cooking. Try adding pepper, herbs and other spices to the water.
I'll try to post more tips and some extra details soon.
Have you tried sous vide? I'd love to hear other tips and tricks here, or on twitter
Update : This primer also looks rather interesting, especially the rather handy visual charts
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All I gotta say is FPC will show up and will gain national respect- they've already gained the respect from Bradenton.
My question is why do you Manatee people have to google search and get on our message board and talk cash $hit? What, are you doubting your (hurricane)boys? Looks like you're nervous to me. Why else would you investigate what we, (True) FPC fans are saying about our ball team? Stay off our board -This is a FPC Cobra Nation board only!!!
You need to get out a little more. Fans regularly go to opposing teams news boards, not just Manatee. I was unaware this was a strictly testimonial board for Ft Pierce football. Sounds like a lot of interesting material there. Unless you own the website, you can't decide who is to post and who can't. If that's the case then they should only do stories on Ft Pierce and not cover Manatee so that way you won't get your feelings hurt.
I'm not nervous at all, just came over for some interaction and some can discuss it rationally and others talk trash. I responded to a trash talking post that didn't include you.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Crew of the Nostromo
Here's the piece I created for the Crazy4Cult7 show at Gallery 1988. "The Crew of the Nostromo"based on Alien (1979) is cut paper collage.
The show opens this Friday at 355A Bowery in New York City. If you're in the area check it out. There will be a lot of great art to take in.
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Later This Month
I'm excited to once again be taking part in Gallery 1988's annual Crazy 4 Cult show. This one will be taking place in New York City beginning December 13. I'll be previewing my piece a bit closer to the show.
Monday, December 02, 2013
Ask Me Anything #34
It's the first Monday of the month which means it's time for me to take your questions and answer them as best I can. So, "Ask Me Anything."
You can ask me any questions you'd like, whether it's about my work, opinions, influences, favorites, least favorites, or anything else you think I might have an answer for. Questions can be posted in the comments section below, and I'll either answer them there, or in a separate post sometime later in the month.
Please take the time to view the previous questions so that we don't wind up with a lot of repetition. I've been asked a lot of good, thought provoking questions in the past as well as some really banal ones, all of which I tried to answer. You can see the previous questions by visiting Ask Me Anything #1, #2 , #3, #4, #5, #6 , #7 , #8, #9, #10, #11, #12 , #13, #14, #15 , #16, #17 , #18 , #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, #32, and #33. Answers not found following the questions can be found in the archives section for each associated month under Ask Me Anything.
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Monday, November 04, 2013
Ask Me Anything #33
It's the first Monday of the month which means it's time for me to take your questions and answer them as best I can. So, "Ask Me Anything."
You can ask me any questions you'd like, whether it's about my work, opinions, influences, favorites, least favorites, or anything else you think I might have an answer for. Questions can be posted in the comments section below, and I'll either answer them there, or in a separate post sometime later in the month.
Please take the time to view the previous questions so that we don't wind up with a lot of repetition. I've been asked a lot of good, thought provoking questions in the past as well as some really banal ones, all of which I tried to answer. You can see the previous questions by visiting Ask Me Anything #1, #2 , #3, #4, #5, #6 , #7 , #8, #9, #10, #11, #12 , #13, #14, #15 , #16, #17 , #18 , #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, and #32. Answers not found following the questions can be found in the archives section for each associated month under Ask Me Anything.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
31 Days of Halloween - Day 31 - Bonus
Thanks to everyone who visited this month for the Halloween Countdown as I guided you through dozens of monsters and over 70 movies. For those of you needing even more Halloween goodness tonight and through the days of head, here are some offerings for you.
The illustration above is a 3-D cut paper piece that I created for Underneath the Juniper Tree as the cover for the Fall 2013 issue. Each issue is filled with creepy stories and chilling art, and you can read them for free. Great for under the blankets on a windy Halloween night.
The Grim Gallery is my other blog where I've been sharing some of the thousands of horror related images I've accrued through the years at the rate of one a day 365 days a year. It doesn't sound like much, but it's been running for three and a half years now with 900 images so far.
Available now at a comic book store or book seller near you is X-Files Classics Volume 2 from IDW. This hardcover (despite what it says on Amazon) collects issues 10-19 of the X-Files comic book series which ran concurrently with the television show. It includes the first three issues I wrote. There is a link to order it at the bottom of this post.
X-Files Classics Volume 3 collects issues 20 - 29, most of which were written by me. This won't be available until January 21, 2014, but you can pre-order it now using the link at the bottom of this post.
Finally, be sure to visit The Countdown to Halloween where you will find links to 232 dedicated blogs which have been sharing their love of Halloween all month long.
I'll be counting down to Halloween once again next year. In the meantime I'll have more stuff to share all year long starting next Monday when you can Ask Me Anything.
31 Days of Halloween - Day 31 - Movie 2
Five years after the tomb of Imhotep is discovered, and the mummy is accidentally brought back to life, Imhotep, in the guise of Ardath Bey, directs a team of archeologists to the tomb of his beloved Ankh-es-en-amon. Now that Ankh-es-en-amon's mummified body is within his reach, Ardath Bey encounters Helen Grosvener, who he is certain is the reincarnation of Ankh-es-en-amaon, and he intends to make her his bride.
I was surprised to see that I hadn't watched The Mummy (1932) as part of my Halloween countdown in the past. The Mummy has always been one of my favorite Universal monsters, but my feelings towards the movie itself have been all over the place over the years. There were periods where I found it dull and long, but for at least the past decade I've found it to be a marvelous movie and much more suspenseful than Dracula (1931) which The Mummy is essentially a remake of. Boris Karloff is fantastic as the ancient Ardath Bey, giving him a regal presence while simultaneously suggesting how incredibly fragile he must be physically. His character is also incredibly menacing and determined, and the supernatural aspects of his abilities are well presented even though it's through not much more than illuminating his eyes. Zita Johann as Helen, is also magnetic to watch with her exotic beauty as she wrestles with possibly being two women inhabiting one body and the draw that Ardath Bey has on her. David Manners plays the leading man and is only slightly less boring than usual. This was the perfect movie to close the month with.
31 Days of Halloween - Day 31 - Movie 1
A renowned physician is summoned to a remote country by his former love who is now married to the cruel and mysterious Baron Sardonicus. Sardonicus, who has all of the locals living in terror, wants the doctor to fix his face which has been paralyzed into a horrible rictus grin by a shock he received when violating the grave of his father.
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) is filled with gothic trappings and except for being in black and white has a very similar feel to it as the Roger Corman Poe movies from that same time period. This is one of William Castles most accomplished movies, and builds nicely, taking its time before revealing Sardonicus' condition. This is a really good choice for Halloween viewing.
31 Days of Halloween - Day 31
Monster: The Wendigo
Appearance: "Light of the Wicked" Xombi Hanukkah Special #1. 1996. Unpublished.
"Be Prepared" The X-Files #25 and #26, January & February 1997.
Guy Davis: Artist, Noelle Giddings: Painted Color, Agnes Pinaha: Letterer, Dwayne McDuffie & Jacqueline Ching: Editors
Gordon Purcell: Penciller, Josef Rubinstein: Inker, John Workman: Letterer, Lisa Slykerman: Color Design, Digital Chameleos: Color Rendering, Jim Salicrup & Dwight Jon Zimmerman: Editors, Miran Kim: Cover Artist
The wendigo, windigo, witigo, or other various spellings, was something of a giant cannibal spirit in the folklore of the Algonquin tribes along the northeastern United States and Canada. There are various descriptions and forms it can take, but it's often said to appear as a skeletal, emaciated person with gray skin and deep set eyes, somewhat like a resurrected corpse, whose appetite could never be sated, and whose diet was human beings. The wendigo could also be transformed from a human being who had eaten human flesh, making the creature a cautionary tale against cannibalism. I could spend a lot of time describing all of the varying attributes, but the real purpose here is to discuss how the wendigo became part of my own stories.
The wendigo has long been one of my favorite monsters of folklore. I don't remember when I first encountered it, but I've been fascinated with it ever since.
In the Xombi Hanukkah Special, the characters David Kim and Rabbi Sinnowitz are trapped in a car after crashing off the road during a blizzard (if David Kim looks a bit fat compared to what you are used to it's because the nanites in his body did that to him to insulate him against the cold) on their way to Midnight, Massachusetts.
Guy Davis decided to depict the wendigos as something like a monstrous cross between a bear and a human. As you can see, they are intelligent, capable of speech, wear moccasins and belt pouches which they've crafted themselves. We even see them providing medicinal plants and speaking Ojibway. Like the monsters in Midnight, Mass., I wanted the wendigos to be depicted as a people with their own culture and not simply mindless monsters. Of course, for all of their ability to reason and discuss, they are predators and people are their food of choice, which makes David Kim and rabbi Sinnowitz menu items and not friends, so the sense of the wendigoes being a constant threat is there from even before their first appearance and you never forget for a moment that they are indeed monsters.
The X-Files also featured a wendigo. Because of the structural needs of telling an X-Files story there was a supernatural possibility for what was going on as well as a rational real world explanation. The story here centers on a Boy Scout troop winter camping. One of the scout masters is attacked by some kind of creature and may be preying on the boys in his troop as well as park rangers and so on.
The wendigo which appears in this story (perhaps as an illusion, perhaps real) was given a more animal like appearance. It was humanoid with animal-like features including an elongated snout, claws and fur as well as a wild mane of hair. This would have been the kind of wendigo that is a spirit creature that is capable of transforming a human being into a cannibal.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
31 Days of Halloween - Day 30 - Movie 2
A U.S. Bomber carrying an H-bomb crashes after being engulfed by a swarm of insects. The Pacific island where the crash occurs is also the test site where poisonous insects are being bred by a badly damaged survivor of the Nazi death camps, but the insects seem to have an agenda of their own and that's to wipe humankind off the face of the earth.
Konchu daisenso/Genocide (1968) is much more of an anti war movie than an environmental cautionary tale. The film is filled with interpersonal and cold war political intrigue pitted within a story of deadly insects bent on exterminating the human race. The problem with any insect related horror movie that I've ever seen is that unless bugs are your particular phobia, it's hard to make the little creatures into a source of terror, no matter how many there are and how many awful stings/bites they inflict on their victims. This is an okay movie that's a bit heavy handed with its message and gets bogged down in a few places with some tedious story elements. Genocide also has an incredibly abrupt ending that's in no way uplifting.
31 Days of Halloween - Day 30 - Movie 1
An EPA inspector and his wife travel to the remote Maine wilderness to try and settle a dispute between a local Native American population and a lumber company by investigating the mills impact on the environment. Enormous salmon and tadpoles are nothing compared to the political tension between the rival groups heated further by a series of grisly murders, which turn out to be the work of an enormous mutant bear.
Prophecy (1979) belongs to that popular subgenre of horror from the 1970s, the environmental horror movie. There's nothing wrong with using horror as a springboard for cautionary tales about the negative effects on the environment that humans are responsible, but Prophecy really beats the audience over the head with its message, with characters going on about it in almost every scene. Further driving home the point, for those who may still not have caught on, are repeated scenes of the wife worrying about what the effects will be on her own unborn child after she's eaten contaminated fish from this polluted ecosystem. The mutant bear and her cubs are pretty unsettling looking, and the plaintive cries of the the cubs is really harsh, but the scenes of the bear in action diminish any effectiveness that the visual of the suit might have. There's a scene of a kid in a sleeping bag being slapped across the camp site by the bear which is unintentionally very funny. Robert Foxworth as the investigating scientist gives a very angry performance of such volume that he overwhelms the rest of the cast who are trying to give subtle performances.
31 Days of Halloween - Day 30
Monster: Carnivore Clouds
Appearance: "Silent Cathedrals - Part 4: Revelations" Xombi vol.1 no. 4. September, 1994.
J. J. Birch: Artist, Noelle C. Giddings: Painted Color, Agnes Pinaha: Letterer, Dwayne McDuffie: Editor
Everything you need to know about the carnivore clouds can be found in the page above. It was never my intention to give them literal mouths. That was something J. J. Birch did on his own, and I suppose it gave the clouds more personality, or at least something to look at to distinguish them from regular clouds. I saw them more as a corrosive cloud shape that would engulf its prey and digest them, and because they are intangible, the bones of their meals would just drop out of them, like a grisly rain.
And, yes, they can be stopped with Mr. Bubble.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
31 Days of Halloween - Day 29 - Movie 2
Two bumbling vampire hunters (Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski) find themselves in over their heads when they set off to rescue a beautiful innkeeper's daughter (Sharon Tate) from the castle of Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne).
Not only is The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967) a truly fun movie, but it's an absolutely beautiful one. The compositions and lighting are gorgeous, especially the night time scenes set on the snow covered landscape. The whole film has a real fairy tale quality to it. I highly recommend it
31 Days of Halloween - Day 29 - Movie 1
A bunch of young women are suddenly dropping dead of old age, the victims of a life force draining vampire. To the rescue comes dashing Captain Kronos (Horst Janson) with his assistants John Cater and Caroline Munro, professional vampire hunters.
I've long been fond of Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974). This was a very different, swashbuckling, vampire hunter, and even the vampires here were not the typical Hammer vampires, draining their victims of their youth instead of blood, though it's made clear here that there are many different species of vampire in existence. Sadly, this never became a franchise. The movie does have some flaws to it, including scenes, such as the bar fight, that don't serve enough purpose for the amount of screen time devoted to them, and our heroes spend too much time preparing to face the vampires and narrowly missing encountering them, which makes this more of an inaction movie than the action movie it's meant to be. Still there's a lot of fun to be found here, and some interesting procedural vampire detecting scenes.
31 Days of Halloween - Day 29
Monsters: Fearsome Critters
Appearance: "Velma's Monsters of the World: Fearsome Critters" Scooby-Doo #134. September 2008.
Karen Matchette: Artist, Heroic Age: Colorist, Travis Lanham: Letterer, Jeanine Schaefer: Editor
There's an entire bestiary of oddball creatures that grew out of the tall tales and folklore of North American lumberjacks. Every year, as part of my Halloween Countdown, I've included a comic book story that I wrote. This year's tale is an educational piece on the fearsome critters. Take it away Velma.
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Unveiled at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum, Thunderbolt wouldn't make its debut into an actual product until two years later with Apple's MacBook Pro 2011 refresh, and then another one until it finally started to find its way into PCs.
With most Thunderbolt-enabled products available today being storage-related, we wanted to see what the new Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH motherboard and its dual Thunderbolt ports had to offer in terms of performance. The best way to accomplish that, in our opinion, is to test the new ultra-fast Western Digital My Book Velociraptor Duo, which has a pair of 10,000RPM Velociraptor hard drives.
Interview with Malwarebytes' founder, Marcin Kleczynski
Malwarebytes started its life as a company in 2004 as a one-man operation, but it wasn't until four years later that its star product was released, simply called 'Anti-Malware'. Since then the company has rapidly grown to establish itself as a serious player in the computer security industry.
We recently had the chance to chat with founder and CEO Marcin Kleczynski about the firm's early days, the evolution of malware, his views on the industry, and more.
The Return of a PC Classic: XCOM Enemy Unknown Review
XCOM: Enemy Unknown should have been a disaster. It's a turn-based strategy title, a style of game its publisher said only last year was "just not contemporary". It's also a remake of a cult classic 1990's PC game, beloved by an audience so fickle that a modern version should be the most offensive entertainment product of the year. Yet it is not. XCOM is, against the odds, a little bit special.
XCOM is about as perfect a remake of an old game as I could have hoped for, in that while changes have inevitably been made, they're mostly for the better, and anything genuinely new introduced is only there to improve things.
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review: Kepler Hits $150
It's been over six months since Nvidia launched its Kepler architecture and we've finally seen the GTX 600 series enter more affordable price brackets, delivering a greater value every step of the way.
Having attacked the mid-range and upper-end markets, Nvidia has its sights set on the sub-$200 range, unleashing its GTX 650 Ti. At $150, the new arrival is roughly 34% cheaper than last month's GTX 660 and about 7% pricier than the Radeon HD 7770, which fetches around $140 depending on features and rebates. Here comes our full review.
Guild Wars 2 Review
With a mix of familiar MMORPG tropes and new, modern approaches to delivering them, Guild Wars 2 is an excellent, welcoming take on the genre.
During a full month playing Guild Wars 2, I recorded impressions in a series of logs. The first was where I discovered an insatiable need to explore. In the second, I marveled at how easy it was to get off the beaten path, how unnecessary it seemed to be to form a party, and how generally amiable the community was. Part three was where I discovered crafting, and in log four I hopped into world vs world PvP and fell off rather a lot of cliffs.
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The update addresses a number of concerns that critics have raised over the past year, but as with any high-profile Apple launch, new complaints have already surfaced. We'll investigate these and more as we put the iPhone 5 under the microscope.
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Since most SSD competitors use the same rehashed components, Samsung has been in a unique position to shake things up over the last few years, and it's done a fine job. We had nearly no expectations for 2010's 470 Series, but we were pleasantly surprised when it dominated our performance charts. Last year's 830 Series gave a repeat performance, so we can only hope the same of the 840 Pro.
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A shorter commitment won't get the job done. It takes time to help people build skills and infrastructure, to get policies changed, and to ensure that governments spend their money more effectively.
Smart development demands monitoring and evaluation. Organizations should be accountable to report not only what they do, but also how they measure it. Don't believe stories that guarantee long-term impact after one or two years' investment; that's barely time to lay some groundwork.
We all crave the easy answer, the quick solution, but if eradicating poverty were simple, people living in poverty would have sorted it out long ago. They may lack resources like land, but they certainly don't lack intelligence or insight. Poverty is a global challenge—one that we can overcome together, but listening and learning from people living in poverty, and developing solutions with them, takes time and sustained effort.
This issue of OXFAMExchange includes inspiring stories, but they are just snapshots from a family album: moments in a long journey together. Each story is ultimately about perseverance and the need for long-term commitment.
Thomazeau—home to about 52,000 inhabitants—is a rural community in western Haiti, surrounded by mountains and little-touched by the earthquake two years ago. In fact, it was an area that saw a large influx of arrivals from the capital immediately after the quake. But it is also economically deprived.
Most people here are "planteurs"—small-scale farmers living off their land and selling what crops they can. But poor roads are a major problem in getting goods to markets. And, as Dumel pointed out, there are few economic opportunities available in the community.
That's also true across Haiti, where an estimated 75 percent of the population is not in salaried employment, and jobs are scarce.
Finding work is especially challenging in rural areas, where even the most casual of jobs are hard to come by. This was a major issue in Haiti, as much before the earthquake as now, and it is hampering people's ability to rebuild their lives.
According to an Oxfam survey last year, finding work is the top priority for most Haitians. And that's why a project which Oxfam supports in Thomazeau is raising the hopes of many women.
The women have their own section within ODECT known as RAFARE. That stands for Rassemblement des Femmes pour l'Accès aux Ressources Économiques, or Rallying Women to Access Economic Resources. Its goal is to try to improve the economic status of women. The group owned one milling machine and earned money processing grain brought to the center by farmers and merchants. Oxfam hired RAFARE after the earthquake to help provide milled cereals which formed part of food kits that were distributed in the outdoor camps where people had sought shelter.
Oxfam is now helping the women again—with funds and training, including enlisting the help of expatriate Haitian experts with specific skills. The group is modernizing its service center and expanding its operation.
The small building where they're currently located will double in size, allowing the women to have storage facilities where they can stock processed and unprocessed grains and market milled cereals. Oxfam has helped them to purchase two new grinding machines and is providing training and other equipment. The goal is to enable the women to run their operation as a full-fledged business. They will buy and sell locally produced grain throughout the year, rather than just seasonally; and during lean times, in between the harvests, they can sell surplus stocks in the local market.
"It will bring more economic opportunities here. There will be more jobs and more money coming in," said Marie-Claude Estenfile, general secretary of RAFARE. "There was always a shortage of grains being sold in the local markets from April to June, but we will be able to provide processed grains during that period.
It means people won't have to travel an hour or more to some of the markets, like in Croix des Bouquets, 24 kilometers away, to buy what they need. It will be easier to purchase food locally and we will help to strengthen the supply chain. The markets will be busier; the money will benefit the local economy."
Having proper storage facilities and being able market their own cereals will enable the women to work all year round, and not just stay open for business during the busy harvest period.
"It will guarantee people's food security here," said Dumel, adding that it will also create new jobs. "During the lean periods, people would have to buy imported rice and grain from other places. But we will have stocks to sell and supply to the local markets."
RAFARE's members are excited about the project.
"It gives me hope for the future," said Hermircie Alfred, 40. "I hope we can buy and sell the grains locally all year round; and we can make more profits."
"There are very few job opportunities here," Alexina Augustin, 45, a mother of eight. "The only jobs we can really find are selling cereals and this project will help us. I lost my home and land a few months ago during flooding and now I can't send my children to school. This will be a lifeline for me," she said.
]]>Achieving farm resilience requires building up the resilience of vulnerable farmers by developing their skills, expertise and voice while supporting their use of agro-ecological farming practices. Building resilience depends not just on how farmers manage resources, but on how well local, national, and global institutions support farmers. Agro-ecological practices can empower vulnerable small-scale farmers, offering them both greater control over their lives and an accessible means of improving their food security, while decreasing their risk of crop failure or livestock death due to climate shocks. Vulnerable farmers can use agro-ecological practices to build resilient farms and improve their livelihoods, achieving multiple benefits: 1. improved food security; 2. adaptation to a changing climate; and 3. mitigation of climate change.
People-centred resilience consists of five principles which should guide how investments in vulnerable farming communities are designed and implemented. They are:
Following these principles ensures that investments support farmers in their efforts to become food-secure and adapt to climate change. Four institutions central to delivering people-centered resilience are: secure land rights; dynamic farmer associations; responsive agricultural advisory services; and public support for environmental services.
]]>"The project has been very favorable for us, because we have seen ourselves embark on a really positive path within ANAP," Ydalmez Gonzalez says. "And for my personal experience, it has been very fruitful. We learned about gender, organizing, communication, computers, and organic agriculture. We learned a lot and it is very satisfying."
Many women in the rural areas of Cuba are looking for work, but there aren't many opportunities. Oxfam is helping to solve this problem by including in its projects the construction of greenhouses and nurseries where women can work. In addition, ANAP has organized workshops on gender in order to lift women's self esteem and create new leaders. Today, in the municipalities of Roda and Palmiras, there are 60 new women leaders.
"This project has been a base for us to continue working on what we have dreamed about for years. Women have the same rights as men, the law says so. But in the real world, from a social point of view, it isn't so," says Alberto Curbelo, president of ANAP in Cienfuegos. "Today, because of this project, 53 percent of the leaders in this province are women. So, when we saw these excellent results, we decided to develop a gender strategy for ANAP nationally. This strategy allows us to identify the problems that limit women's participation in each cooperative and find a way to resolve it. What's more, the project helps women and men identify their own strengths and potential."
For Carmen Padron, president of a credit and services cooperative, ANAP's gender work has been the key to her development. "I started out in ANAP in an administrative position in a livestock cooperative," she says. "Because of this women's leadership project, I began to feel more confident. I started to take on other responsibilities within the same cooperative. I worked a little in sugar cane production, taking on a little more of the role of a director among my workmates. And my workmates, apart from respecting me as a woman, saw me as a leader."
"Later, I went on to manage a 125-member sugar cane cooperative," she says. "It wasn't difficult. I learned a lot in the women's workshops. I felt confident. I learned to direct, to communicate, how to talk to my workmates, how to get them to do things without offending them, without mistreating them, or imposing myself upon them. I used the power of persuasion. But when I went on, a few months ago, to lead an entire cooperative I thought they might reject me. But they didn't; they accepted me. And since I had experience, it wasn't difficult. The farmer today is not the same as before. He accepts the fact that women lead, that they have opinions, and he takes them into consideration. So it wasn't difficult to be a woman leader. But if I hadn't have had all these training sessions, all this instruction, all this knowledge I had acquired, I wouldn't have been able to do it. I would have stayed behind a desk, scribbling numbers. No one would have been able to get me out of there."
It isn't just older women who are discovering these new abilities and possibilities. Only in her twenties, Yamelis Ferron was a speaker at an official ceremony. She spoke to thousands of farmers.
"It was really exciting, because after I spoke people said, 'I didn't know you were capable of that,' and 'I didn't think you had the courage to stand up and speak in front of so many people,'" she says, remembering her experience. "In school I would panic whenever I had to speak to large groups. But when I got involved in this movement of women leaders, little by little I lost that fear. I feel very proud to have started from the rank and file. I am now deputy in the municipality of Roda and I continue to work. They are small steps, but steps you notice."
]]>Members of Oxfam International have also provided grant support for neighborhood social programs, such as the world-renowned Martin Luther King Center, a leader in popular education.
Cuba's civil evacuation and protection system is widely renowned for its excellence. Oxfam works with Cuba's Civil Defense to help communities prepare for disasters and has helped Cuba significantly reduce its vulnerability to hurricanes. In 2004 Oxfam America, as part of Oxfam International, documented these experiences and lessons in the publication "Weathering the Storm: Lessons in Risk Reduction in Cuba."
Gender equality is a priority in all the projects Oxfam supports. While Cuban women enjoy a wide array of rights, there continue to be gaps, particularly at home. Supporting research and sensitivity training, particularly in regards to violence against women, is a priority for Oxfam in Cuba.
As part of Oxfam International, Oxfam America has contributed roughly $1.1 million to Oxfam International's work in Cuba since 1995. All of Oxfam America's grants were approved by the US Department of State, and mostly supported agricultural transformation projects designed to improve food security.
]]>In the 1980s, 80 percent of Cuba's trade was with the Socialist Block. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, this market disappeared and the economy practically collapsed. From 1990 to 1991 Cuba's imports declined by 73 percent. The agricultural sector, centered on intensive sugar production for export, depended on imported supplies. It hit rock bottom.
Then came the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 (also known as the Torricelli Law) and the Helms-Burton Act, prohibiting companies that receive US subsidies to trade with Cuba, and excluding ships that dock in Cuba to visit the US for six months. This resulted in Cuba paying more for shipping because ships had to come from very far away and often solely to go to Cuba.
There were shortages of everything: medicine, gas, food, soap, toilet paper, and matches. "My bones were protruding here," says Jose Diaz, a 66-year-old architect, pointing to his ribs. "I had to sell my car because there was no gas. I lost 80 pounds, since there wasn't enough food and I was biking to work. But now I have a pot belly. I eat everything put in front of me."
To confront this crisis, Cuba's doors were opened to tourism and certain economic activities were liberalized, like small restaurants and fruit and vegetable markets. Later on, foreign currencies were allowed to circulate. Today, in addition to the Cuban peso, a convertible peso is circulating and can be used to make purchases in many stores and restaurants. Cuba also started to diversify its exports, focusing on medical services and biotechnology, distance learning, and commodities like nickel and tobacco.
What little foreign currency entered the country was used to maintain basic social services. In meetings with the Ministry of Education and National Institute of Economic Research, representatives were proud of the fact that no educational or health facilities were closed, and the weight of the crisis was distributed in an even manner.
The agricultural sector had to adapt to new conditions, and change from a monoculture, export-oriented model to the organic production of food for local consumption. Cuba is now considered the biggest laboratory for organic agriculture, in part because there are no chemical products available in Cuba for many of its crops.
In recent years, Cuba is slowly emerging from the crisis. In 2005, economic growth was at 11.8 percent; the next year 12.5 percent. During 2007 it grew 7.5 percent, thanks partly to a relaxation of some aspects of the US embargo. The United States is now Cuba's fifth largest trading partner.
The GDP of the country is higher than it was in 1989 when the crisis began. But this doesn't mean that Cuba has fully recovered. There are still great challenges ahead, like transportation, housing, and food security, to name the most pressing. Even though the average diet has increased to more than 3,200 calories per day, there is still much to be desired in terms of variety. There are shortages of milk and beef, and crop yields are lower than they were in the 1980s. The country spends a lot of money importing subsidized food to distribute to the population. But that food only covers half the population's nutritional needs. The buying power of salaries and pensions are insufficient to cover basic needs. Despite substantial increases, an average family still needs the equivalent of three median salaries to cover their basic needs.
]]>Mining has never been a significant part of El Salvador's economy, but modern techniques make it attractive in some areas. The Canadian mining company Pacific Rim is currently exploring for minerals in three areas, and has requested a concession to restart mining at the El Dorado mine in the department of Cabañas where it says it has invested $28 million and can produce 1.2 million ounces of gold and 7.4 million ounces of silver. Pacific Rim is also in the early stages of exploration on its Zamora project, near Texistepeque, Santa Ana.
Farmers near the town of Texistepeque are skeptical about mining, and some have even visited large-scale mines in Honduras and come back opposed to any mining in El Salvador. Salvador Antonio Seseña Rodruígez, 62, is one of the farmers who made the trip to the San Andres mine in Honduras. "I was really impressed by the destruction," he said about the mine. "We saw the main river there was almost dry, and there was no life in the river."
Rodruígez is a father of 10, and makes a living raising cows and growing corn and beans. So he was particularly concerned about the water problems he saw. "We already have a water crisis here," he says. "We can't drink contaminated water. How will we end up if we allow mining here?"
It was through his church and a meeting with the Centro de Investigación Sobre Inversión y Comercio (know as CEICOM) that he participated in the exchange visit. He came back ready to mobilize others in his community.
Oxfam America is working with CEICOM and a coalition of social, environmental, and other civil society organizations pushing for a voice in a real debate about whether mining is suitable for El Salvador, where some estimates say 90 percent of surface water is already polluted. The country has also been largely deforested, leaving many communities at risk of landslides during heavy rains, so many are already concerned about the environment. The Salvadorian Bishop's Conference released a statement saying mining causes damage to the environment and communities in May of 2007.
Civil society organization in El Salvador have proposed a law that would prohibit all hard-rock mineral mining, arguing the country is too densely populated and water is too scarce to support the industry.
Oxfam America's program in Central America, which is based in El Salvador, is working to enrich the debate on this issue, help civil society project its voice and hold the government accountable to the people, and provide information about mining and its effects on communities and the environment that citizens can use to make informed decisions.
The government of El Salvador has said it will not grant any new licenses to explore or operate mines until it does a strategic environmental study to assess the likely impact of open-pit mining in the country. "We feel this study should be done with the participation of civil society," says David Pereira of CEICOM. He said that in 2006 the minister of natural resources came out publicly against mining, saying the government did not have the capacity to regulate the industry. The minister then challenged civil society to change the laws and cautioned land owners not to sell their land to mining companies.
Some members of the senate have written a public letter to government leaders saying that they believe allowing industrial mining into the northern areas of the country will jeopardize development projects supported by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a $460-million, US government-funded foreign aid program, to bring sustained economic development in that region.
Pacific Rim continues to explore at El Dorado, which it says is its flagship property. The company is running an aggressive public relations campaign with radio ads introducing the slogan "minería verde" in an attempt to win hearts and minds of government and citizens. It also sponsors municipal soccer teams, and holds community meetings to sway farmers to accept mining in their community.
In the meantime, the Environmental Committee of Cabañas is reporting that 10 natural springs have dried up in the past month in areas close to Pacific Rim exploratory drilling. These reports have been verified by the Ministry of Natural Resources. In one of the cases, cattle-raising communities lost their natural spring four days after Pacific Rim began drilling. The company is now trucking in daily rations of water.
]]>"We lost almost everything," he said. The floods arrived at the end of the second maize harvest. Some of the farmers were able to save a little—half, at best. The unlucky ones lost everything.
The question is commonly heard: How long has it been since something like this happened? "It was around ten years, since Hurricane Roxanne. That one flooded everything," says Alelia Ricárdez. "My children built this house a little higher to avoid the same damage happening again."
So this time she was able to help: the families of her five sons took refuge inside her new house. They lost some animals and a big part of the milpa crop, but they saved most of the furniture. "We lifted it and tied it with ropes to the roof," she said. They couldn't save the refrigerator. No time.
But the problem comes now. It's time for the second maize harvest, but the fields are flooded so the farmers can neither harvest this crop nor plant the next. Moreover, there are no seeds. Normally, farmers harvest enough to save seeds for the next season, but in Tabasco this year there aren't any.
"Right here there are fish and prawns instead." Emigrafio Domínguez from Ejido de Potreritos points at his maize field while he speaks. His farm is 300 meters away from the river, but the water arrived and covered everything. He still tries to salvage something: "I have to pick the oranges now, because the tree is dead."
To save some of the corn, he wades through water up to his knees. He gathers four or five ears and takes them to dry land. Though he managed to save his turkey, he lost his hens and watched his ducks go with the water. "The next season will be really hard."
In Ejido de Potreritos, the worries center around the crops - not knowing what will happen next season if the farmers cannot plant in November. "With a hectare and a half of maize, I had enough for the year," says Francisco Dominguez. "Not this time."


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UTICA — General Brown graduate Ben Mack has become the first lacrosse player in Utica College history to be inducted into the Pioneer Hall of Fame.
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Mack was not only a member of the college's first varsity men's lacrosse team, but he also scored the program's first three goals, and was the program's first offensive Most Valuable Player. He was the first player in program history to reach the 100-point milestone and was the program's first and only two-time captain.
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Contemporary Colonialism: The Permanent US Drone War Base in Djibouti
Monday 29 October 2012'The Washington Post has published a third story in its series on the Obama administration's institutionalization of its targeted killing program. This story highlights Camp Lemmonier, the United States military base in Djibouti where drones land or take off around sixteen times a day, and is reportedly the first time the US military has confirmed publicly drones are present at this base.
Written by Craig Whitlock, the story reports this base has become the main combat hub for "the Obama administration's counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and Middle East." Drones either head for "the collapsed state" of Somalia, which is just 10 miles southeast, or "north across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, another unstable country where they are being used in an increasingly deadly war with an al Qaeda franchise."'
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