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The ultrafuturistic emotional cyborg that is Tiger Woods gave two separate interviews yesterday, to ESPN and the Golf Channel. These were Woods' first interviews since everyone found out he had extramarital affairs with what seems like half the free world.
Of course, this being Tiger Woods, there were restrictions placed on both interviews. ESPN's Tom Rinaldi was given just five minutes to ask Woods questions. Team members from IMG were ready to sound a gong if he had gone over. Rinaldi was also, I hear, forced to agree to conduct the interview while wearing an Easter Bunny suit, just because IMG knew he'd sign off on it.
The Woods interviews don't add much vital information to what you already know about Woods' transgressions. Indeed, it seems like Woods only agreed to the interviews so he could tell everyone that his life is, like, way private, and totally not up for discussion. Woods, as you see, is a very private man when he is not sexting porn stars at four in the morning.
For certain, Woods looked like someone who is still in the process of being put through an emotional wringer. On camera with ESPN, he looked like a beaten man. His eyes were bloodshot. His words were relatively meek. He appears to be in the throes of intense self-loathing.
But that emotional trauma didn't stop Woods from booting up the old Apologotron2000 Remorse Simulator and offer both his interviewers identical talking points. I combed the transcripts. Here are some of the phrases Woods used word for word in each interview:
-On his Thanksgiving Night crash: "It's all in the police report." Oh, silly me. I should've looked there first before asking.
-On why he cheated: "I quit meditating." At first I thought he said, "medicating," which would have been far more entertaining.
-Woods also discusses getting back to his "core values." I had always assumed Woods' core value was winning every tournament and destroying everything in his path. But no, apparently he used to value being a decent husband and whatnot.
-On treatment: "You strip away denial, and rationalization." And this is the one talking point in Woods' arsenal that rings true. Ask any recovering addict and they'll tell you they had many elaborate ways of justifying their prior behavior, all of which was BS. It usually takes sobering up to admit it to yourself.
In the end, these interviews bring us to the very deadest end of the Woods' saga. He's hurt everyone, now he's trying to make it better, and he still can't go in front of a camera without appearing to be run by an Intel Dualcore processor. None of this story changes until Woods does the only thing anyone has ever wanted him to do: play golf. He starts doing it in three weeks at Augusta. For him, and for us, that day cannot come fast enough.


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Historic Game 5
Sorry I didn't post yesterday. Just a very busy day on many fronts. Plus, energy was one bar like a cell phone.
We are about to witness baseball history tonight when Game 5 is resumed. A suspended game in the World Series has never happened. We will start a game without a National Anthem, first ball ceremony, introduction of starting lineups, etc. Very bizarre.
The Rays have checked out of their Wilmington hotel and will head south after the game. The Phillies came to the park with their personal bags packed and a Delta charter waiting for them at the airport. Let's hope the Delta aircraft returns to its Atlanta base empty tonight.
Trivia Answer
Forgot to provide the answer on Monday to Sunday's trivia question: Who holds the Phillies record for most RBI in a World Series game? Milt Thompson was the right answer with 5 (Game 4, Oct. 10, 1993, vs. Toronto). Ironically, Ryan Howard tied the record on Sunday night.
Laura Managanello is the winner of the Milt Thompson autographed baseball. Please contact me.
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A few comments about the 8:30 starting times. That has been pretty much the same story this decade. Prime time is the key reason. Heck, I believe the NCAA championship game starts at 9 p.m.
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Can anyone tell me what Brad Lidge said immediately after throwing the winning pitch? I would really like to know. 🙂 Help…..

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Gottta be Bollinger.
Gottta be Bollinger.
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I'd suggest they'll go with Harris. If you have both Tait and Nannes in the line-up, you'll need a bit more batting and Harris is a better bat and field. Bollinger in slightly better form overall (perhaps not in LO matches) with the ball but I'd think Harris' all-round qualities would see him get the nod.
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FFS, why not pick Bollinger? One of the best in the world at the moment. Jesus christ!
Should be the bowling lineup, which along with Watto is an excellent attack save for the lack of spin.
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Bollinger has his good and bad days at the death, he's not really suited to it but at least he's a bit more awkward. Harris on the other hand is just beautiful to smash out of the park. Not too fast, skids on nicely, no variety. The batting isn't really a factor for me.
If they plan on bowling Harris out at the start, then Bollinger is still better. If they plan on bowling Harris a couple at the death. Bollinger is much better.
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Reading Scaly's assessment of Harris, then looking at Harris's International Stats so far... just have to laugh really.
And why no Jonners Pasag?
Not giving Hauritz enough T20 games has seen Aus left with a substandard spinning option in a tournament where spin will be vital.
Hauritz being dire the main problem iirc.
I'm with Social, I wonder whether the selectors have actually been watching cricket. Picking Lee was comfortably the worst idea and probaby the worst thing for him too because, as in England, he busted a gut to get back early and injured the same damn arm again.
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January 10, 2019 @ 11:30 am
This is Week 17 and this lecture will be covering Chapter 9A of your text book. The quiz will be covering the previous chapter portion. Be sure to brush up on your reading and any notes you've taken during the lecture. For maximum benefit I highly encourage you to carefully read this part of the the chapter prior to class. You'll be so glad you did! See you there!


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I really don't know what I was thinking when I got dressed this morning. I haven't actually really left the house (apart from to buy some fruit and coffee) so god knows why I pulled these Own the Runway flatforms out to wear! I don't even wear shoes in the house so it's a bit weird to choose them! The dress isn't really hot weather appropriate either but it's cute and reminds me of something Alexa Chung would wear, despite her approx 1/4 my size. It's a touch on the short side too so it's probably a good thing I did venture too far away from my house! I've got very funny about wearing short skirts and dresses in the last few months, which I suppose means Im growing up but it's still a bit strange!
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Before we begin, you should know that the mug I'm currently drinking my hot apple cider out of has Grumpy Cat on it, courtesy my CP Kira. And it makes me unreasonably happy.
It's impossible to have a case of the Mondays when Grumpy Cat already has them for ya.
Now, onto what we're actually talking about: The Week of Book Signings! This past week I had the opportunity to attend three different book signings, which was kind of crazy considering how I usually only go to a couple book signings a year. They were for Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (SHILOH), James Dashner (THE MAZE RUNNER), and Veronica Roth (DIVERGENT). I was super excited for all three of them, and it was fun to meet them in that order, because that was also the order in which I originally read the books. SHILOH was one of my favorites back when I was about eight, I read THE MAZE RUNNER junior year of high school, and I've been obsessed with DIVERGENT since senior year.
I went to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's signing with Rebecca Cao–a fellow Wolverine writer–and her boyfriend. Phyllis is on tour to advertise the last book in her Alice series right now, and while I've never read those books, it was neat to see how passionate a lot of the people at the signing were, along with the broad range of ages who showed up, from little kids to college students to adults. When it was my turn to meet her, I told her how SHILOH was one of my favorite books growing up and I have a beagle now. She's an absolute sweetheart, full of the kind of spunk that makes a person glow. I'm definitely going to have to check out her Alice series.
The inscription reads "To Julia a dog lover–best wishes! Phyllis Naylor"
On Thursday, my friend (and future roommate) Emily and I sat impatiently through our evening classes before hurrying off to James Dashner's book signing, to talk about his new book THE EYE OF MINDS. Because of said classes (and a bit of confusion with our taxi driver), we didn't get there until after he'd finished speaking and was already a good way into signing books, but we did manage to still score the last spots in the signing line–which actually worked out quite a bit in our favor, because it meant he could just stop and talk to us when it was our turn, since we were the last ones there.
We talked to him about his books, and our majors, and other such things, and then as we turned to leave, he called out a "Good luck with writing!" and I managed a thanks with a smile, and one of the people from the book store told me to come back if I ever had a novel of my own published. I looked back and sort of laughed and said, "I'll attempt," because what else is there to say, right?
It was especially cool getting to meet James Dashner because I first picked up my copy of THE MAZE RUNNER at the airport as my mom and I waited for our flight home from my first writing conference, the Writer's Digest Conference 2011, in New York City. Whenever I think of that book now, I also think of that feeling of hope, that excitement and contentment that accompanies a good writing conference–the idea that maybe I could write a great book and get published someday, too.
When Emily and I purchased our copies of THE EYE OF MINDS, we managed to get one that was printed upside down. The store offered to replace it for me, but I've always had a thing for messed up books since they're more unique, so I kept it. Keeping with the theme of it being upside down, James Dashner also signed it upside down for me, and joked that it'll be worth, "Maybe like five dollars someday!"
Last but MOST CERTAINLY not least, I MET VERONICA ROTH!!! I went to the signing with my vlogging partner Hannah, Emily again, and mi madre (who was awesome enough to drive us all to Chicago). You can watch a video about it on Hannah and Julia's Vlog.
We drove out Friday evening, and then got into line to wait for the signing around 11:00 AM central time on Saturday, Starbucks in hand. The event was by far the biggest book signing I've ever been to–it sold out over a month ago, with a thousand VRoth fans getting to meet her and have books signed–and a good number of them were already ahead of us in line, even though the event itself didn't begin until 2:00.
Our seats in the theater for the interview portion of the event depended on where we were waiting in line, while our numbers for the book signing itself were predetermined by when we purchased our tickets–which meant that while my mom and I had ticket numbers 220 and 221, Hannah's ticket number was 890.
We managed to snag seats in the fifth row, center section of the theater, which meant that our view was this:
Which, you know, is a pretty good view.
Before Veronica and the interviewer–Margot Wood of Epic Reads Tea Time fame–came on, the theater kept us busy listening to an organist who had risen on a little stage from the orchestra pit to play songs from the Beatles, and Phantom of the Opera, and more. It was brilliant.
Then Margot and Veronica DID come on, and we all basically just went insane, because OMG VERONICA ROTH.
The interview lasted about an hour–you can watch it here. At the end, Veronica surprised us by bringing her brother Karl Vincent Roth on stage to perform a song with her that he'd written for Tris–listen to it here (it's called "The Mark"). Veronica sang backup vocals for him in the live performance.
Afterward, a massive screen dropped down over the stage, and Veronica had us watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (both Hannah and my favorite HP) while we waited for our group to be called to go get our books signed (they had us leave the theater for the signing area, in the lobby, in groups of fifty). The movie finished before Hannah's group was even called, but that was fine because she finished reading during the climax.
Also while waiting, we had the opportunity to meet Margot Wood. I professed my love of Tea Time to her, and she told me that my hair "is so soft!" (Makes sense, since my name means "youthful, or downy," after all.)
Some shots of Hannah, Emily, and me freaking out with our copies of ALLEGIANT:
When it was my turn to meet Veronica Roth, I managed to hold down my squeeing enough to tell her she was my hero, and she sort of just looked down with a sheepish, disbelieving but grateful smile and said thanks–exactly the kind of response I'd expect from someone as awesome as Veronica. I still can't believe how nice and down-to-earth she is; she tried to make the signing special and unique for every single one of the thousand people she met on Saturday. It was amazing.
After the signing ended–a good four+ hours after it began–we headed into downtown Chicago to do all the touristy things, like drive down Lake Shore Drive, visit Millennium Park and Michigan Avenue, and watch the Navy Pier fireworks.
I've never been to Millennium Park at night, especially towards the end of October, so it was cool seeing how empty it was–it had a bit of a real life dystopian-fiction feel to it.
My favorite part was seeing Crown Fountain (aka the "face fountains") completely empty of people with the water turned off. The faces were still all lit up, but everything else I associate with Crown Fountain was gone–there was no sunlight reflecting off the tiles, no shrieking children splashing through puddles. The only sounds came from the street and our voices echoed between the two fountains.
Because it was the Saturday before Halloween, Navy Pier put on a special out-of-season fireworks show, which we watched from Lake Shore Drive. Afterward, we made our way to the pier itself, where we wandered and then got a very late dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. At that point, it was around 11:00 PM central time (so midnight our time) and the only things we'd had to eat that day were Starbucks twelve hours before, and then popcorn during the movie.
Understandably, we were all pretty loopy by then.
Afterward, we all crashed the instant we turned the lights out. Sunday, we got brunch at my favorite Chicago-area crepe place, and then headed for home. On the way, we stopped at a beach, which was cold but gorgeous.
A bunch of giant, flat boulders led out into a point, I think used for weather monitoring.
Emily and I climbed all the way out.
Overall, it was a fantastic weekend. Veronica Roth is an amazing individual, and I fall more in love with Chicago every time I visit.
Now, special treat: In honor of meeting my writing idol (and you reading through this entire, monstrously long post), I'm giving away ONE SIGNED COPY OF ALLEGIANT to a lucky reader!
All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter giveaway linked below. I've set up lots of different entry options, so hopefully at least one will work for you! The giveaway will run through November 7th at midnight, eastern time.
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PS. The newest/last Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer is incredible. The end of it is so powerful–I can't even imagine what the movie will be like.


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Photo of the Big Stage by Ariel Besor.
Something big is about to happen. It's the biggest cultural draw in town from May 14 until June 6th. And fittingly, it's titled Habama Hagdola: The Big Stage.
This isn't the first time that the plaza of the Suzanne Dellal Center has been turned into a massive, open air theater. The pictures in this post show a previous transformation from a few years ago. But this time around, the construction of the Big Stage is marking something truly huge: the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv and the 20th anniversary of the Suzanne Dellal Center, Israel's premiere center for dance.
To celebrate both of these occasions, the Big Stage (sometimes translated as the Great Stage) will present some of Israel's top dance companies and musical groups as well as world-renowned troupes from abroad. The opening night combines both art forms in a special performance by Balkan Beat Box, with excerpts from Barak Marshall's "Monger" that are set to music by the popular Israeli band. As part of the festivities, Yair Vardi, Suzanne Dellal's director, will receive an award from the Foreign Ministry for his contribution to the field of Israeli dance.


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I have some problems with Megastore, but I save them to the end of the review to explain Megastore first.
Megastore uses Paxos, a proven, optimal, fault-tolerant consensus algorithm with no requirement for a distinguished master. (Paxos is hard to cover in a blog post, as I mentioned earlier, so I will not attempt to.) The reason Paxos got much more popular than other consensus protocols (such as 2-phase and 3-phase commit) is that Paxos satisfies safety properties of consensus even under asynchrony and arbitrary message loss. This does not conflict with the coordinated attack and FLP impossibility results. Those impossibility results said that you can't achieve consensus (both safety and liveness at the same time), they did not say you have to sacrifice safety under message-losses or asynchrony conditions. So Paxos preserves safety under all conditions and achieves liveness when conditions improve outside the impossibility realm (less message losses, some timing assumptions start to hold).
Basic Paxos is a 2-phase protocol. In the prepare phase the leader replica tries to get the other nonleader replicas recognize it as the leader for that consensus instance. In the accept phase the leader tries to get the nonleader replicas accept the vote it proposes. So basic Paxos requires at least two round trips, and that is very inefficient for WAN usage. Fortunately, there has been several Paxos variants to optimize the performance. One optimization is MultiPaxos, which permits single-roundtrip writes by basically piggybacking the prepare phase of the upcoming consensus instance onto the accept phase of the current consensus instance.
Another optimization is for optimizing the cost of reads. In basic Paxos, a read operation also needs to go through the two phase protocol involving all the replicas (or at least a majority of them) to be serialized and served. The read optimization enables serving reads locally but only at the leader replica. When a nonleader replica gets a read request, it has to forward it to the leader to be served locally there. The read optimization was made possible by having the leader impose a lease on being a leader at other replicas (during which the replicas cannot accept another leader's prepare phase). Thanks to the lease the leader is guaranteed to be the leader until the lease expires, and is guaranteed to have the most up-to-date view of the system and can serve the read locally. The nice thing about the MultiPaxos and local-read-at-the-leader optimizations are that they did not modify any guarantees of Paxos; safety is preserved under all conditions, and progress is satisfied when the conditions are sufficient for making progress.
Megastore's use of PaxosMegastore uses Paxos (with the MultiPaxos extension) in a pretty standard way to replicate a write-ahead log over a group of symmetric peers. Megastore runs an independent instance of the Paxos algorithm for each log position. The leader for each log position is a distinguished replica chosen alongside the preceding log position's consensus value. (This is the MultiPaxos optimization I discussed above.) The leader arbitrates which value may use proposal number zero. The first writer to submit a value to the leader wins the right to ask all replicas to accept that value as proposal number zero. All other writers must fall back on two-phase Paxos. Since a writer must communicate with the leader before submitting the value to other replicas, the system minimizes writer-leader latency. The policy for selecting the next write's leader is designed around the observation that most applications submit writes from the same region repeatedly. This leads to a simple but effective heuristic: use the closest replica.
However, in addition to the straightforward MultiPaxos optimization above, Megastore also introduces a surprising new extension to allow local reads at any up-to-date replica. This came as a big surprise to me because the best anyone could do before was to allow local-reads-at-the-leader. What was it that we were missing? I didn't get how this was possible the first time I read the paper; I only got it in my second look at the paper.
Coordinator, the rabbit pulled out of the hatMegastore uses a service called the Coordinator, with servers in each replica's datacenter. A coordinator server tracks a set of entity groups (i.e., partitions mentioned in the first paragraph) for which its replica has observed all Paxos writes. For entity groups in that set, the replica is deemed to have sufficient state to serve local reads. If the coordinator claims that it is up to date, then the corresponding replica can serve a read for that entity group locally, else the other replicas (and a couple network roundtrips) need to be involved.
But how does the coordinator know whether it is up to date or not? The paper states that it is the responsibility of the write algorithm to keep coordinator state conservative. If a write fails on a replica's Bigtable, it cannot be considered committed until the group's key has been evicted from that replica's coordinator. What does this mean? This means that write operations are penalized to improve the performance of read operations. In MegastorePaxos, before a write is considered committed and ready to apply, all full replicas must have accepted or had their coordinator invalidated for that entity group. In contrast, in Paxos a write could be committed with only a majority of replicas accepting the write.
Performance problemsUsing synchronous replication over WAN of course takes its toll on the performance. This has been noticed and discussed here.
Of course, there is also the performance degradation due to waiting for an acknowledgement (or time out) from all replicas for a write operation. This also leads to a write availability problem. The paper tries to defend that this is not a big problem in practice as follows, but it is evident that partitions/failures result in write unavailability until they are recovered from.
"In the write algorithm above, each full replica must either accept or have its coordinator invalidated, so it might appear that any single replica failure (Bigtable and coordinator) will cause unavailability. In practice this is not a common problem. The coordinator is a simple process with no external dependencies and no persistent storage, so it tends to be much more stable than a Bigtable server. Nevertheless, network and host failures can still make the coordinator unavailable.
This algorithm risks a brief (tens of seconds) write outage when a datacenter containing live coordinators suddenly becomes unavailable--all writers must wait for the coordinator's Chubby locks to expire before writes can complete (much like waiting for a master failover to trigger). Unlike after a master failover, reads and writes can proceed smoothly while the coordinator's state is reconstructed. This brief and rare outage risk is more than justified by the steady state of fast local reads it allows."
In the abstract, the paper had claimed Megastore achieves both consistency and availability, and this was a red flag for me, as we all know that something has to give due to CAP theorem. And above we have seen that write availability suffers in the presence of a partition.
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Megastore has a limit of "a few writes per second per entity group" because higher write rates will cause even worse performance due to the conflicts and retries of the multiple leaders (aka dueling leaders). Is it possible to adopt the partitioning consensus sequence numbers technique in "Mencius: building efficient replicated state machines for Wide-Area-Networks (WANs)" to alleviate this problem?
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The National Center for Pharmaceutical Crops (NCPC) of the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, is a pioneer in pharmaceutical crop research in the United States. It was formerly known as the Center for Medicinal Plant Research. NCPC was established in 2004 through U.S. Congressional Appropriations with the effort of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert.
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The Web Is Improving Consumer Software By Cutting Out Middlemen
from the keep-it-simple-stupid dept
David Pogue quotes an interesting reader email about why high-tech consumer products are so often bloated and poorly designed. It points out that when large companies design a product, they tend to be overly focused on adding lots of complex features in order to put "more check marks in more boxes" on comparison charts and impress reviewers. That raises the price of the product and can often confuse novice users. But in the old days when software was sold in a box at Best Buy, it was hard to avoid this fate because the overhead of producing, distributing, and marketing the software required charging a high price and sucking up to reviewers. The web has eliminated a lot of overhead and allowed an entrepreneur to put his product directly in the hands of users without going through a lot of middlemen. That shifts the marketplace in favor of small, lightweight, easy-to-use software.
Software that would never have been judged serious enough to put in a box and sell at Best Buy can now carve out a niche in the market by appealing directly to customers. And that's a good thing because comparison charts are often a lousy way to judge software. For example, the original Google search engine would have stacked up poorly in comparison charts against larger rivals like Yahoo! that were rapidly transforming themselves into "portals." But Google was a lot better at the one feature that really mattered: search quality. They had trouble convincing the titans of the web to buy their search technology, but luckily they could just put it on the web and let the customer try it. As more and more software migrates to the web, it's likely to result in more responsive and higher-quality software.


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I just recently switched over to a wireless network at my house. Before this, I was running redhat 7 as a masquerading server (running snort) and had a windows 2k system behind that.
Currently, however, the wireless router is acting as both the masquerading server and the firewall, with the Win2k and RH server behind the router. The problem I am having is that I want to run snort in a DMZ, but I don't want to purchase another IP address to have this thing outside my router. Short of getting another IP address, what is the best way to setup my network so that I can have Redhat run an IDS, analzing data from the Internet (not my internal network)
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J/Ψ production and nuclear effects in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV
(Springer, 2014-02)
Inclusive J/ψ production has been studied with the ALICE detector in p-Pb collisions at the nucleon–nucleon center of mass energy √sNN = 5.02TeV at the CERN LHC. The measurement is performed in the center of mass rapidity ...
Suppression of ψ(2S) production in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV
(Springer, 2014-12)
The ALICE Collaboration has studied the inclusive production of the charmonium state ψ(2S) in proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions at the nucleon-nucleon centre of mass energy √sNN = 5.02TeV at the CERN LHC. The measurement was ...
Measurement of charged jet suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
(Springer, 2014-03)
A measurement of the transverse momentum spectra of jets in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76TeV is reported. Jets are reconstructed from charged particles using the anti-kT jet algorithm with jet resolution parameters R ...


text: Call of Duty is one of the most recognizable franchises in video gaming. Intense and exciting run and gun action across a variety of game modes make sure there is plenty for spectators to look forward to, and for casual players to pick up. CoD is also one of the oldest titles in the professional gaming circuit.


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Paul Pierce played almost 40 minutes and went 0-for-10 from the field, and 1-for-2 from the line. Forty minutes, bro!?! I get that sometimes players have off nights, but half his shots were from behind the line. Scoot up and maybe make a shot, huh, Paul? You gotta figure the reigning three-point champ was 0-6 and thought, shooter's just gotta shoot, and I'm going to ensure I do so by standing as far away from the basket as is reasonable to break my cold snap. Except that when you're cold as shizz, three feet away from the hoop is about as far away as is reasonable. Just six more feet. Tell Garnett to start barking and stand near him. Defenders hate getting next to Cagey when he's in full-on dog mode. Besides Pierce, only two other players in the last quarter century have played 40 minutes, taken 10 shots and missed them all. A quarter century!?! That's like back when cowboys roamed the earth with dinosaurs!
Look at what else happened in fantasy basketball yesterday:
Kendrick Perkins – 9.3/9.5, with 1.3 blocks in six games this month. Also carrying your team in the Scowls Per Game category.
Rajon Rondo – Triple-doubled (11/10/10) and turned the ball over just once? The league's in trouble if he can keep those turnovers down. He can't, which is good. That'd be like dolphins developing opposable thumbs.
Dwight Howard – 31/13, with three blocks last night. His mpg has increased steadily every month this season, ending in the 40+ he's averaging in February. He's averaging 24.3/15.9, with 1.5 blocks this month.
Brandon Bass – Returned after being out since January 31 and ended with 6/8/1. He'll have better games than this and worse games than this. So will Ryan Anderson, but really, when both are healthy, both values decrease.
Brian Cook – 17/6 in 25 minutes. DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin both accumulated five fouls. So unless that becomes a strategy for the Clips, Cook shouldn't become a strategy for your team.
Eric Bledsoe – He's averaging 12/6.7/3 in his last three as Randy Foye has been on tilt lately. Doesn't matter. Neither player will be worth much once Eric Gordon's boyband beard graces us with its presence again.
Amir Johnson – Returned from injury. Played as if he was still quite injured. Keep him benched until he looks less gimpy.
Ed Davis – … And pick up Ed (13/14, with three blocks) Davis if you've got room. Dude's getting minutes. Keep your eyes wide, your chance may not come again. The times are a-changing.
Andre Miller – 15/12, perfect from the field. Turned the ball over nine damn times. Swingandamiss.
Rodney Stuckey – 0-for-3 yesterday and hasn't shot better than 45 percent from the field more than once in the last eight games. Also, five assists in a game is a distant pipe dream for ol' Rod Suckey.
Mo Williams – After double-doubling in his return on Friday, Williams landed a 10/3/8, 7 tovs line. The Cavs only play once this week. Keep him situated on your bench and see what happens. Did the Cavs win Friday? Yup! Didthecavswinlastnight? Go check.
Josh Howard – Started for the first time all season. Lasted a season-high 25 minutes and ended with 16/5/2, with 2 steals and a block. This was easily his best game since, like, the '90s. Until he parties like it's 1999 a few more times (with Rashard Lewis and Al Thornton in the lineup), I'd stay away.
James Harden – Left with a back injury and he might be out through the All-Star Break. If you've been playing him lately, your fantasy team is grateful for the respite.
Dorell Wright – Shooting .276 (16-for-58) in his last four games. Like your great grandfather saying racist things during Thanksgiving dinner, you're stuck with him for better or worse. Live with it.
Samuel Dalembert – Re-emerged into the starting lineup, played 31 DeMarcus Cousin-less minutes and ended with an 18/15 line that included three blocks. He's scored in double-digits the last three games and would like maintain such production if he played for any other team than the one he plays for now.


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Woody Allen Responds to Allegations of Child Molestation
In the wake of 28-year-old Dylan Farrow accusing her father Woody Allen of sexually assaulting her when she was seven years old, Allen has penned his own opinion piece for the New York Times rebutting the allegations.
In a piece titled "Woody Allen Speaks Out," Allen writes "TWENTY-ONE years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought." He goes on to write " The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself."
A representative for Mia Farrow didn't return a request for comment.
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A couple weeks ago I participated in the Ubuntu Global Jam/Bug Fix session. I started by looking at all the "fails to build from source" aka ftbfs list. I read through the list and found a few interesting packages, but ended up working on live-manual, because I use live-build and also it seems odd that we can't build a user-manual.
At first I was confused, because I pulled the source and ran dpkg-buildpackage on it and it worked fine on my amd64 box. So I tried an i386 VM that I had running, works fine there too! Next, the litmus test, a build in a pbuilder chroot. Guess what, that one failed. I traced the errors back to this one error when building the German user manual:
ERROR occurred, message:"invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII"
It was odd, why are we processing a German user manual file using a US ASCII locale?
I compared the environment between my system, where it built, and the pbuilder chroot, where it failed and found that inside a pbuilder chroot, the LC_ALL variable is set to "C". C is equivalent of US-ASCII. After trying in vain to change the locale to something that understands utf-8, I realized that I needed to install a locale that could handle UTF-8 inside my pbuilder chroot.
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), ruby, libnokogiri-ruby
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), ruby, libnokogiri-ruby, language-pack-en
– dh ${@}
+ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 dh ${@}
Now the build was working, so I submitted my merge proposal.
My fix was accepted but discussions revealed that the fix wouldn't work in debian because their locale packages are different. With that in mind, I worked on a more generic fix, based on what python-djvulibre does. After some tweaking (not shown in the merge proposal), I settled on this fix:
+ mkdir -p debian/tmp/locale/
+ localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US ./debian/tmp/locale/en_US.UTF-8/
+ export LOCPATH=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/locale/ && \
+ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 && \
+ dh_auto_build
Note: During the development of that fix, I had trouble finding all the different steps in the debhelper build and what I could override. A debian developer pointed me to this great presentation which answered a lot of questions: Joey Hess' Not Your Grandpa's Debhelper.
So there are two ways to solve a locale issue during a build. Do you know of any others? If so I'd love to hear them in the comments.


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Well presented two bedroom two bathroom apartment in popular block, large reception with open plan kitchen, Master bedroom with en-suite full bathroom, further double bedroom, separate bathroom with step in shower cubicle, property benefits from wood floors throughout, set on the second floor with lift, secure building boasts 24 hour concierge, situated close to the open spaces of Regents Park and both Marylebone & Baker Street Tube Stations, available for immediate occupation.
We may charge a tenant any or all of the following when required:
We shall continue to apply the charges within the existing tenancy agreement until 31st May 2020.
Additional Charges for Tenants
Once you have found the property you want to rent from Kubie Gold Associates and your offer has been accepted by the landlord, you will be required to pay a non-refundable Reservation Deposit, normally equivalent to the value of one week's rent. You will be charged for the preparation of the tenancy agreement, reference applications and other tenancy administration costs required prior to the start of the tenancy, which will all be deducted from the Reservation Deposit.
These charges will vary depending on our agreement with the landlord, so we will provide you with a full break down of costs as soon as possible, once you have selected your ideal property. Here is a list of what you will typically be requested to pay:
Pre-Tenancy Costs (including VAT)
Administration and Referencing Fee: £300.00. This is taken after your offer has been accepted, we have proceeded to collect references and draw up a tenancy agreement.
A Fee of £6.00 per Tenant to access our online portal where we will ask you to upload your reference and I.D. Data and sign the Tenancy Agreement.
A Security Deposit to be held for the duration of the tenancy is usually equal to the value of 6 weeks' rent (the landlord may ask for an increased deposit where a pet is permitted)
During the Tenancy (if applicable)
Change of Tenant: £300.00
Renewal charge of £6.00 per Tenant to use the online Portal for signing Tenancy agreements.
In most lets, a tenant will be responsible for paying for a professional clean and inventory check out upon ending a tenancy.
End of Tenancy
Inventory Check-Out: Starting from £120.00 for a studio apartment (costs will increase based on the number of bedrooms)
Professional Clean: Approximately £240.00 for a one bedroom apartment (costs will increase based on the number of bedrooms)
Please be aware that where third party suppliers are involved in the above, we can only provide an estimate of costs as these may vary and are subject to change.
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In 2009, student Shanyna Isom experienced an allergic reaction to a steroid treatment she received for an asthma attack. Since then, she's been afflicted by a medical disorder that's left physicians at Johns Hopkins University stumped. What was initially mistaken for eczema and a staph infection has left Isom with symptoms that are, well, as WMCTV explains:
Doctors determined she produces 12 times the number of skin cells per hair follicle, which suffocates her skin. Instead of hair, her skin follicles produce human nails. "Where hair grows, nails are growing," she said. Doctors have been able to control her symptoms. "I couldn't sit up I couldn't walk," said Isom. "Now I can walk with a cane and sometimes I can walk on my own."
Treating this ailment has left Isom with $250,000 in medical bills, and you can find more information about Isom's physical and financial struggles with this mystery disorder at this Facebook page. Hopefully doctors will be able to pinpoint the cause of Isom's disorder and devise a long-term plan of treatment soon.
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SANS Forensic Summit 2009 Report
Kudos to Rob Lee for putting on the best Forensic Summit I have ever attended or been a part of! Being able to hear speakers like Harlan Carvey, Oive Carroll, Richard Bejtlich (pronounced BAIT-LICK), Jesse Kornblum, Jamie Butler, Troy Larson, and Eoghan (pronounced OWEN) Casey all in one event is pretty impressive. Now throw into the mix representatives from the FBI, Secret Service, DoD, Georgia Tech, and various local, state, and federal agencies and you have something pretty special. The quality of the speakers at this year's summit made this THE conference to be at in 2009! Again, great work Rob!
So, with all of these great forensic minds in one place, what were the hilights? Was there a pervasive theme, or many scattered ones? Are we all as forensic investigators and incident responders seeing the same things, or does each agency face unique challenges? To answer those questions, "Yes, yes, and yes".
Obviously the various agencies represented face challenges that are unique to their organization. Most interesting to me are the challenges faced by the US Department of Prisons! Inmates are extremely clever in acquiring, hiding, and using cellular phones…much more so that I ever imagined. In some cases phones are being inserted into FROGS, which are subsequently launched over the prison walls/fences. While that seems funny this is a huge problem faced by the prison systems. With cellular phone, inmates can still conduct much of their criminal activities from within the prison walls – kind of defeats the intent of putting them behind bars in the first place.
Most law enforcement agencies shared the common challenge of funding and personnel. Money is tight which affects every aspect of their jobs. Let's face it, forensic hardware, software, training and education, and books are expensive…not to mention what you have to PAY someone who is experienced enough to perform comprehensive forensic investigations. The agencies represented indicated that they are making due with less and getting things done, albeit slowly. Many cases are pushing several months and in the most extreme examples, several years! Compare this to my average case that doesn't last much longer than 3 – 4 weeks (max), you have a drastic disparity.
I had a good conversation with Ovie Carroll, Director of the Department of Justice Cyber-Crime lab, one afternoon in which we talked about the merit of having Law Enforcement agencies outsource some of their casework to external organizations. I think this is a fantastic idea that would leverage the expertise in the private sector (a HUGE percentage of which are either prior service military, former Law Enforcement, or both and have held or current hold high level security clearances) to accomplish casework more quickly and efficiently. Additionally, these relationships could be used to provide low cost (and in some cases FREE) training and education to our cash strapped brethren. I cannot stress enough how much I feel like this concept could provide much needed assistance in an area where it's desperately needed. If you have not already done so, reach out to your local Law Enforcement agency and find out if there is anyway you can assist!
The Law Enforcement agencies also shared that they are all facing the same central issues of identity theft and carding (credit card theft). Among other crimes, these two are surfacing to the top of the list nationwide. Working for Trustwave, the majority of my cases involve carding and I can assure you that this is a multi-billion (that's right I said BILLION…with a "B") business for hackers and is not going anywhere, anytime soon.
I also noticed a couple of central themes that emerged from the various forensic and incident response panels – getting back to basics, and information sharing.
By getting back to the basics, I mean approaching your casework with a solid foundation of forensic theory, methodology, and technical understanding. Planning your work – working your plan! Knowing what data you are going to look for, and then surgically going after and interpreting that data – allowing the DATA to develop your theory, not cramming the data into your preexisting theory. Knowing your tools…what do they do, why, and how. Then carefully, and methodically documenting what you did, how you did it, and what the results were.
The other theme that surfaced was the need to share information. It seems that both the private sector and the various Law Enforcement agencies are suffering from a "stove pipe" mentality and intel is not being shared – which is a crime in and of itself! Now obviously I am not talking about information that would violate a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or compromise a case, BUT we can be sharing information like emerging threats, trends, malware data (hashes and/or artifacts), and the sources of certain attacks (at least IP addresses). Again, I spoke at length with Ovie Carroll, Harlan Carvey about this, but our conversation also included; Special Agent Jennifer Kolde of the FBI San Diego office, Special Agent Andrew Bonillo of the USSS DC office, and Chris Kelly of the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The same feelings were shared by all parties…share what you can, when you can. Doing so will only help everyone! At the end of the day, aren't we all after the same thing – catching the bad guy? If that's the case, then as a body of professionals, let's really strive to cast aside the departmentalism that has prevented the flow of information to this point, and focus on frequent and directed intel sharing.
I could spend the next several pages going over the great talks and the takeaways from the conference, but that would probably make my fingers hurt, and you would probably get tired of reading. Suffice it to say that if you missed out on the conference this year, DON'T DO IT NEXT YEAR! I will echo the statement of Rick VanLuvender from First Data Corp who said, "If you can only make one conference this year, THIS is the one to make"! I could not agree more! This was a fantastic event!
In the next couple of weeks I will be writing about the lessons learned from the conference. If there is something you would like to see covered in more detail, or if you attended the conference, and I am not blogging about something you would like to see me cover, please let me know! My email address is in my profile, or if you were at the conference you likely have my business card. I hope you are looking forward to the next few posts as much as I am about writing them!
I will leave you with one final thought. In the handbook of the top 20 computer security jobs, Incident Responder/Forensic Investigator was #1! Yes, if you are reading this blog, you are either related to me (my wife and mother follow my blog for morale support…I love them but they usually have NO idea what I am talking about) or you are in the same field I am. That being the case, you have the coolest, sexiest, most sought after job in the computer security world. If that doesn't excite you…well…then you are either brain dead, you have no pulse (which would make you physically dead), or you really just don't get it and you should probably find another line of work.


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Loei, ThailandKirsty Turner
This sparsely populated province in the North-East of Thailand has a lot to offer for the independent traveler with a strong sense of adventure and a dash of curiosity. Close to the Laos border, this can be a great place to stop off for a few days and discover the spirit of Thailand.
With its low mountains, flowing waterfalls and immense areas of open, fertile land forming plains that hold the province's main town and the River Loei, this is a place of great natural beauty and contains a wide range of both natural and cultural attractions.
The province of Loei experiences different weather conditions to much of the rest of Thailand. During the winter the temperature can drop to 0 degrees C with swirling fogs and mists, whilst in the summer it is not unusual for temperatures to exceed 0 degrees C.
There are three main areas in this richly diverse province that draw travellers: Loei city, Dan Sai and the sleepy yet picturesque and very welcoming town of Chiang Khan.
The city of Loei was formed in 1853 by king Mongkut (Rama IV) in order to better administer the accelerated population in the area. Loei city is the capital of Loei Province and there are many things for visitors to see and do.
The extremely beautiful Phu Kradung National Park is well worth exploring, and it is easy to spend an entire day there as it contains several sparkling waterfalls and Tham Yai – which literally means 'big cave' in Thai.
Another great day trip idea is the Phu Reua National Park, which can be combined with a visit to the nearby Tham Erawan and Wat Tham Erawan.
The Culture Center of Loei is a great place to explore at your leisure and get to grips with the local history, and you can discover the uniquely creative side of the people at the Sirindhorn Arts Centre.
The centrally located night market is a good place to pick up a bargain, engage in some colourful local banter and find a cheap and tasty meal.
If you are in Loei city at the end of January, don't miss the Cotton Blossom Festival, where floats are decorated with cotton and there is dancing and cavorting in the streets.


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Nets christen Barclays with win in delayed opener
NEW YORK -- The chant was 55 years in the making, delayed a couple days by disaster, and delivered by a sold-out crowd that wasn't missing this party no matter what it took to get there.
"Brook-lyn! Brook-lyn!"
Those were the lyrics of a rocking return to major pro sports.
"That gave me jitters, man. Chills," guard Joe Johnson said. "I know that these fans want the best for this team. All they want from us is to work hard and give them a show."
Brook Lopez scored 27 points, Deron Williams added 19 points and nine assists, and the Nets beat the Toronto Raptors 107-100 on Saturday night in the first game at Barclays Center.
A crowd of 17,732 that included entertainers Jay-Z, a part-owner, and wife Beyonce chanted the borough's name a few times during the game and loudly at the end, celebrating the name on the front of the shirt much more than the back.
And with good reason. Brooklyn hasn't had a team to cheer since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1957.
Nets coach Avery Johnson said there was so much that was special about the game, which came two nights after their scheduled opener that was postponed because travel around the city was wrecked by Sandy.
"Let's just start with the fact that we're in Brooklyn now and it's a big difference," Johnson said. "You saw the crowd tonight, even under the circumstances. Not only did we have a sellout, they were into the game."
C.J. Watson finished with 15 points and Joe Johnson had 14 for the Nets, who needed a home as badly as Brooklyn needs a team, and Avery Johnson said it's close to a perfect match.
Kyle Lowry had 28 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the Raptors, who fell to 0-2. DeMar DeRozan added 25 points.
"We've had two games in which we've been in the same situation, playing really well at times and then we fall behind. But we've fought hard against Indiana and the Brooklyn Nets, which are going to be two of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. That gives us a lot of confidence," guard Jose Calderon said.
The Nets pulled it out after Toronto got within two with 1:17 left, an uplifting end to a difficult week for the city and the franchise.
They were scheduled to open Thursday against the Knicks, but that was postponed at the request of Mayor Michael Bloomberg because travel to Barclays Center would have been difficult and perhaps dangerous with so much of the city's mass-transit system not operating.
The Nets, still practicing in East Rutherford, N.J., this season, were forced to move their midweek workouts to Barclays Center after their practice center was flooded and lost power. Some team members were forced into hotels, and Williams said his power was only restored Friday.
"It was good to finally be out here with the guys because we've been waiting since the last game of last season for this and just to have it pushed back, it was a little rough for us," Lopez said. "Like I said, there are some more important things, but we were definitely anxious these last few days."
The Manhattan hotel where the Raptors planned to stay lost power, so the team stayed in Brooklyn, instead.
The Nets lined up buses to run from Manhattan on Saturday, and fans got a boost when some subways began running from Manhattan. The storm's effects were evident at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center transit complex -- water damage on the floor, escalators shut off -- but there was a huge crowd in the plaza outside the arena before the game and the building appeared mostly full long before a lively pregame ceremony.
Commissioner David Stern turned boos into cheers when he announced, "Welcome Brooklyn, USA to the NBA." Former Brooklyn Dodgers Ralph Branca, and Joe Pignatano, along with Gil Hodges Jr., whose father was a star with the beloved Dodgers before they moved to Los Angeles, exchanged jerseys with some Nets players.
The Nets are completely rebranded after 35 years in New Jersey, with a new logo, black-and-white color scheme, and a new mascot called "BrooklyKnight" who was introduced.
Most importantly, they think they'll have a fan base. Never truly loved during while bouncing around multiple homes in Jersey after leaving Long Island, Branca said the Nets will find the same loyal fans in Brooklyn that backed the Dodgers.
The Nets believe they've built a playoff team after re-signing Williams, trading for Johnson and re-signing starters Lopez, Gerald Wallace and Kris Humphries. Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov said the Nets have the "best arena in the NBA and a competitive team."
He said when he bought the team his goal was to win a title in five years. The billionaire bachelor joked that since he's two years into his ownership and said he'd get married if he didn't meet his deadline that he was "maybe the most devoted guy for the championship."
Williams made a jumper for the first Barclays basket, but Toronto shot 62.5 percent in the first quarter and led 35-27. The Nets outscored the Raptors 33-17 in the second, forcing eight turnovers, and led 60-52 at halftime.
"That was a big quarter, a stretch of mistakes there. One stretch that got us in the second quarter," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. "Again, we fought our way back into position even with that bad quarter. We put ourselves in position to win. We got to close it out."
Williams put it away with four free throws in the final 20 seconds.
Reggie Evans had 13 rebounds in just 16 minutes off the Nets' bench.
Game notes
Wallace hurt his left ankle trying to block a shot in the final minutes. X-rays were negative and the Nets said he was day to day. ... Nets reserve Josh Childress sat out with a sore left ankle and Avery Johnson said he doubted Childress would play Monday against Minnesota, either. ... The Nets evened the all-times series at 33-33.
NBA News
Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson march in Oakland's unity protest
Golden State Warriors stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were among several members of the organization who marched in Wednesday afternoon's Walking in Unity protest event in Oakland, California.
Projecting the new NBA playoffs: Most likely surprises and upsets
How likely are the play-in tournaments, and what do we still not know?
Woj outlines NBA's 22-team restart proposal
Adrian Wojnarowski provides more detail on the NBA's 22-team restart proposal, which is expected to be approved Thursday by the board of governors.
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We're an iPhone development company located in the Texas hill country. We've created the first social networking application on the iPhone for motorcycle enthusiasts.
The target audience for this application is 25-55 year old males who own and ride motorcycles regularly in a group setting.
Biker Beacon is a map/location based social networking application that motorcycle riders can use to see where their friends are riding and where they are going. It is based on the Google Map application on the iPhone with custom icons to show other riders and their status on the map. It will also list events on the map that are near the user's location.
Our client likes a clean interface look - with primary colors - likes red/black.
Please design an application icon for BikerBeacon in both 512x512 and 57x57 sizes.
The 57x57 icon is used on the iPhone and the 512x512 is used in the Apple iTunes AppStore.
The icons should be the same.
No text in the Biker Beacon iPhone icon, but we would also like a text based web logo for Biker Beacon that fits in with the web site at bikerbeacon.com.
Icon should match the iPhone UI guidelines and not be completely out of place when sitting next to Apple's iPhone icons.The icon should
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Drink of the Week: The East India House Cocktail
It's not exactly a secret around here that I greatly lean towards cocktails as opposed to drinking even truly fine spirits straight. Still, it's fairly obvious even to me why the best cognacs and other high end brandies are among the most popular of all beverages to enjoy neat. Certainly that applies to the Ile de Ré Fine Island Cognac from the Camus line of fine cognacs with which I was recently blessed by the Powers that Booze.
The PR materials for this brandy emphasize the fact that this particular cognac actually comes from a tiny island off the coast of France which is legally included in the Cognac appellation. My grasp of French geography is nowhere near strong enough for me to know if this is a bit of alcoholic loophole, but no one seems to be complaining about the quality of this cognac which, we are told has a "maritime" feeling and a dash of iodine in its flavor. I've never drunk iodine, so I wouldn't know, but this is definitely about as sippable as any brandy or cognac I've enjoyed, and there is a bit of similarity to a good, slightly smokey Scotch I'm sure many will enjoy. It's also very, very good with an equal part of brandy's best known significant other, Benedictine.
Nevertheless, while many consider it a sacrilege to make cocktails out of really outstanding cognac, breaking that particular taboo is a big part of the name of the game here at DOTW Central. Even so, we've managed to find a very nice cocktail that permits the cognac to be the star of the show, adding a number of sweeteners in small amounts to make for an intriguing and very drinkable whole. While not the equal of the mighty Cognac Sazerac, todays drink is worthy of the status of a very good second-tier classic.
The East India House Cocktail
2 oz cognac (or brandy, if you are an impoverished peon who doesn't get free booze in the mail)
1 tsp. pineapple juice
1 tsp. superfine sugar
1 tsp. orange curaçao
1 tsp. maraschino liqeuer
1-2 dashes aromatic or Peychaud's bitters
1 cherry or lemon twist (fairly optional garnish)
Combine the ingredients in a cocktail sugar, stir briefly to dissolve the superfine sugar. Add ice, shake vigorously and strain into a well chilled cocktail glass. If you're looking for something to toast, you might consider the phylloxera louse. While it's not typical to salute a vine-eating vermin, this wingless insect was kind enough to leave the Ile de Ré alone back in the 1850s even as it was munching up mainland wine crops. I'm not 100% sure this is relevant to the quality of the island's cognac today; I just like saluting lice.
There are several versions of this drink, also sometimes referred to simply as the "East India Cocktail," so feel free to experiment. Some versions I stumbled upon call for raspberry syrup in place of the pineapple and sugar, which sounds worth a try. Robert Hess of "The Cocktail Spirit," dispenses with the sugar and just goes with the pineapple juice, though the original recipe called for pineapple syrup (i.e., pineapple juice and sugar). I found his version a bit lacking.
While I'm a fan of all of the ingredients, I'm not certain I've found the perfect mix here, so I definitely encourage further experimentation. If anyone out there has better luck with different proportions, I'd love to hear about it. I will say my favorite version featured Angostura bitters and a lemon twist, but every permutation I tried worked fairly well.
For those of you wondering about the name of this week's drink, the East India House was a real place in London. It was the headquarters of the East India Company, which was crucial in the development of British Imperialism from the Renaissance up through the 19th century, when it was nationalized by the English parliament.
Especially if you're of Indian or Chinese extraction or just really into human rights, you might consider a drink with a name like that to be a distasteful celebration of oppression. However, another drink I considered making this week was called the "Antebullum Mint Julep" which we are told was a drink commonly enjoyed at pre-Civil War Southern Plantations. What next, I wonder. "The Gestapo Cocktail" or, perhaps less offensively, "The Spanish Inquisition"? as you may be aware, at least that last cocktail has the virtue of being forever unexpected.


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Philly police expect charges against child driver
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police expect to charge a 10-year-old Philadelphia boy with auto theft and related charges after they say he swiped a van then crashed it into five parked cars.
Authorities say the boy made it less than a block after stealing a van that was unloading furniture early Sunday afternoon in West Philadelphia.
Investigators say the boy grabbed the keys from the rear door and jumped in the driver's seat. The brief joyride ended when the van crashed into the rear of a fifth parked car.
The boy's name wasn't released. Police say he'll be charged as a juvenile.


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It's Earth Day! And what't the most annoying thing about saving the planet? Everything is way more expensive when its made out of organic, renewable bamboo. The Chronicle's guide to going green without breaking the bank has you covered. You can take all that money you save and go shopping…or check out the Nature Conservancy's ideas for green living.
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Scientists find the earliest known example of oil painting, in Buddhist caves dating to the 5th to 9th century – 6 to 10 centuries before the technique was thought to have been developed in Europe.
Lizards from Italy are evolutionary whiz kinds – 5 mating pairs were transplanted to Croatia 3 decades ago, and their descendants have evolved a completely new gut structure, larger heads and a stronger bite – changes that should take millions of years.
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If you can make a tiny satellite, you could win a tiny (well, relatively) prize! The just announced "N-prize" (a takeoff of Google's X-prize, valued at $30 million) offers 9999.99 pounds to the first person to "put a tiny satellite that weighs less than 19.99 grams – the weight of about two British pound coins or four US quarters – into orbit on a budget of only 999.99 pounds (about $2000). The satellite must complete nine orbits around the Earth, and this must somehow be verifiable from the ground."


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So, I'm back home again! Giles Deacon was amazing, and I had such a fun time! Was so weird being backstage and seeing the flurry and stress that goes on! Filming for my New Look video took up most of the time, I don't think I've EVER been so stressed out, awkward and frustrated. I kept getting my words wrong and my mind going completely blank! So if the video is really cheesey and I look like a idiot, Im sorry! Ill probably talk more about the show itself when my video is actually edited and up! Other than that it was a fun time, Me and Greg went to some exhibitions. We went to these awesome ones at the Wellcome Collection on drugs and the history of medicine. Both of which were equally fascinating and creepy. The medicine collection had far too many pairs of forceps for my liking!
Thank you to New Look for taking me along with them, and putting me up in a hotel. And Greg for being my long suffering friend who had to mooch around London on his own while I was filming!


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As this is our first "Faces of CFCA" since we moved to our new Facebook timeline, we'd like to highlight this photo in our album!
Stephanie Angalet visits Juana, her sponsored child in Guatemala, in this photo.
Stephanie lives in Minnesota and has sponsored Juana since 2010.
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Keep clothes off the floor and tucked away out of site when you add this traditional style dresser to your kids room. The storage piece features six drawers, each of which showcases jeweled drawer pulls for an added sense of glam. Bracket legs and intricate moldings beneath the top surface combine to create a timeless look perfect for your home.
The 2039C Traditional Dresser with 6 Drawers by Homelegance at Find Your Furniture in the area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
With a look fit for royalty your child will be resting and playing surrounded in style and storage when you bring home pieces from this collection. Each piece in the collection shows off a beautiful traditional style thanks to bracket feet, jeweled drawer handles, and intricate moldings. Meanwhile storage pieces will help keep the space clean.
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Hi my name is Max and my rednose brindle pit/lab mutt's name is Harlow. she was a rescue dog. I adopted her about 18 months ago. She has come a long way. Originally she would not let any males near her ( with the exception of me) she is now a little more comfortable and trusting. We did an obediance training class and that definetly helped. She listens very well for the most part. my neighbors have a blue nose pure bred and that is Harlows best friend. They are moving this week!!! I know its just a coinsidence, but she has been acting a little funny. She comes to work with me every day. I let her walk around my little office but she always just stays in her open crate behind my desk. If i walk to the copy machine she follows. Anways, she has been a bit more agressive recently. She always barks and growels at guys she doesnt know doesnt/ like but its has been a bit more intense the past week or two.
Ok, so on a seperate note, i have been thinking of adopting a second rescue. Harlow and I went to the local pound and we may have found a great match. We found a male brindle blue nose. Harlow is fixed and the male would also be if he were to be adopted. he is about 8 months old. Very affectionate and friendly. They also played very well toegher. He submitted to her and laid on his back and just let her feel him out. So i guess thats good. I guess im just a little confused. I can afford another dog; I just dont know if its a good idea. But i think it would be fun; and Harlow would definetly like the company.


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Financial Assistance Dictionary
General Types of Financial Assistance
- Work-Study: Provides students with part-time employment
(more under Federal Work-Study).
- Gift Aid: Financial aid that is not repaid
- Grants: Typically based on financial need
- Scholarships: Typically based on achievement or talent
- Federal Aid: Aid administered by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Private Aid: Financial aid that comes from non-government
Federal Aid Programs (studentaid.ed.gov)
- Federal Pell Grant: Federal Pell Grants are awarded to help undergraduates pay for the pursuit of their first baccalaureate degree. For many students, these grants provide a "foundation" of financial aid to which aid from other federal and non-federal sources may be added. The maximum annual award will depend on program funding.
- Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG): The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant is a federally funded program. Recipients must demonstrate exceptional financial need as determined by the federal formula. Funds are limited and Federal Pell Grant recipients are given priority.
- Teach Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant: The Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) grant is a new federally funded program beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year. Students who plan to begin a career in teaching may qualify for up to $4,000 each year, based on meeting program conditions. In exchange for this grant, a student must sign an Agreement to Serve (ATS) as a full-time teacher at certain low-income schools and within certain high-need fields for at least four academic years within eight years after completing (or ceasing enrollment) the course of study for which the candidate received the grant.Failure or refusal to carry out the obligations of this program will convert the grant(s) into a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan(s) with interest dated back to the time of disbursement.
State Aid Programs (www.isac.org)
- State of Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP): The Monetary Award Program (MAP), a grant funded by the state of Illinois, provides need-based grants for undergraduate students pursuing their first baccalaureate degree to help pay for tuition and mandatory fees. Independent students must be Illinois residents and parents of dependent students must be Illinois residents who are enrolled at least half time in a degree or certificate program.
- Silas Purnell Illinois Incentive for Access (IIA) Program: The Illinois Incentive for Access (IIA) award, a grant funded by the state of Illinois, provides need-based grants for freshmen undergraduate students with a $0 Expected Family Contribution (EFC) pursuing their first baccalaureate degree to help pay for educational costs. Independent students must be Illinois residents and parents of dependent students must be Illinois residents who are enrolled at least half time in a degree or certificate program. Program is subject to state appropriations and has not been funded in recdent years.
Loan Terms
- Annual percentage rate (APR): Amount of interest (fee for
borrowing money) associated with a loan. If the interest rate is variable,
the rate can change; if it is fixed, the rate will not change.
- Consolidation loan: Loan that allows borrowers to lower their
monthly payments by combining their original federal loans
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agreement and is legally obligated to repay the loan if the borrower
does not make payments.
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to recover the money and will affect your credit rating.
- Delinquent: When at least one loan payment is late or
missed. Serious delinquency may result in default.
- Grace period: The time between when you leave school
before repayment begins.
- Principal: The full amount borrowed. During repayment,
refers to the portion of the original amount still owed (not
including interest).
- Promissory note: A contract between the borrower and the
lender that reflects the terms and conditions under which
the borrower promises to repay the loan.
Financial Aid Terms
- Financial Need: The difference between the annual cost of attendance
and the EFC (Expected Family Contribution: amount your family is
expected to pay based upon the calculation done by the U.S. Department
of Education in response to your FAFSA).
- Financial Aid Package: The total financial aid you are
offered, including scholarships, grants, work-study and loans.
This information is typically summarized in your E-Award offer.
You may choose which aid you would like to accept.
- FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The annual application
used by the Department of Education to calculate the amount of federal and state aid for which you are eligible.
- Verification: Review process in which the financial aid office
requests documentation to verify the accuracy of FAFSA
data (on average, about 1/3 of all applications are selected).
- Professional Judgment: Financial aid administrators may
adjust your aid package and contribution when
extenuating circumstances exist (e.g., loss of a parent).
- Dependency Status: If you are considered a dependent
student, colleges will consider parent income, assets and
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