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After watching Food Inc., Jeni and I thought a lot about eating better and following a more sustainable lifestyle. Well, the best that we can. For those that live in Los Angeles, particularly ones that enjoy cooking as much as we do, now is a VERY exciting time. We started utilizing our resources in Los Angeles first by shopping at farmer's markets, particularly the Hollywood Farmer's Market on Sundays. There, you can find pretty much everything you're looking for. From fresh oysters from Carlsbad, to English shelling peas and the tasty California chanterelle mushrooms. It's not a surprise that you would see Los Angeles chefs there. We would buy all of our vegetables there and then make a trip to McCall's Meat & Fish Company in Los Feliz to pick up our proteins. At McCall's, with the careful eyes and hands of two passionate chefs, you have access to free-range, non-hormoned meats and fish. And finally, there's the Silver Lake Cheese Store, for those that want to do some nibbling before the meal even happens. Chorizo from Spain, artisanal cheeses from allover Europe and a nice selection of wine and oils. But while charcuteries, fresh vegetables, meat, fish and poultry are great, where would you be without your proper spices? This is where an Armenian-Canadian by the name of Peter B. from Montreal, enters the Los Angeles culinary scene and completes the home cook's trinity. Hello, Spice Station.
We're all guilty of it. We have spices that probably date back 5+ years. I bet you have that Schilling's black pepper in the red and white tin. That Montreal steak seasoning that has become one block of dried out bits. Or how about the Morton's chemical-tasting salt box with the umbrella-wielding girl. I know I do. Yet I continue to use my spices on my food as though it's flavor is eternal. And when I visited the Spice Station, I knew it was time to leave all that baggage behind. I'm talking 30-40 plastic containers of spices.
The Spice Station is located down a quaint walkway in the Sunset Junction. When you first walk through, you get a sneak peak at Peter B's featured spices on a large chalkboard. The location is so perfect as it feels like a cozy house with fountain and patio furniture. And it's actually a good break away from the skinny hipsters that lurk on Sunset Blvd.
If you're into spices, then this would be considered nirvana. The Spice Stations is seriously spicy. In keeping with the theme, he can take it to the next level and have the Spice Channel running and play Spice Girls but that wouldn't be very good for business would it? And it's clear that what Peter B. began as a hobby, is an impressive exhibition of passion. There are jars everywhere with recognizable and mostly unrecognizable spices. If you think about it, the collection he has here is the result of centuries of trade and war. Back then, being a spice purveyor meant access into virtually any country within Asia, Europe and Africa. Spice was currency; currency meant power. It's hard to believe that a small aromatic spice controlled the way civilizations were run and the amount of blood bled into the soil. Thanks to Peter B., the modern day spice man, you're going to have all your limbs and pay for spices at reasonable prices.
It was fun watching Peter B. I stood there with my camera and just watched him buzz around like a bee pollinating flowers. He'd grab jars here and there and restock them as needed. I would ask him questions about certain spices and he'd have answers for me immediately. Without even really looking at me haha.
In addition to hundreds of spices, Peter B. offers 28+ salts. If anything, this is most important ingredient in the world. NOTHING will taste good without salt, even that iodized table crap salt. I went ahead and tried all of them. He's got sea salts, flaky salts, pink salt and even the ghost pepper salt. Peter B. warned me not to eat more than TWO GRAINS, and man, that was enough to get the point. I plan to buy all of the salts and start a Facebook group on salts. I know you want in on this.
niu rou mian) and Vietnamese Beef Noodle soup (pho) since a lot of locals are heavily into Asian-style noodles. Being Armenian, he offers a nice shawerma/kebab rub.
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Like I said before, I think right now is an exciting time for those that enjoy cooking. And even for those that have yet to touch a frying pan. Peter B. is not only knowledgeable about hundreds of spices but he is a cook himself and can help you make that boring grilled chicken breast into something sexier and remotely edible. Spices are charged by the ounce and it's a 1 oz. minimum. It is actually better to buy in small batches and get into the habit of labeling the date purchased. Thanks for reading.
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"There are writers–Tolstoy and Henry James to name two–whom we hold in awe, writers–Turgenev and Chekhov–for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect–Conrad for example–but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian." –Graham Greene
"[The English Teacher is] an idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and, above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly transcribed." –Elizabeth Bowen
"Narayan's humour and compassion come from a deep universal well, with the result that he has transformed his imaginary township of Malgudi into a bubbling parish of the world." –The Observer
"The first writer of his kind…A more accurate guide to modern India than the intellectually more ambitious writers of recent years." –Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books.


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Jameson, Jill ORCID: 0000-0002-9545-8078, Ferrell, Gill, Kelly, Jacquie, Walker, Simon and Ryan, Malcolm (2006) Building trust and shared knowledge in communities of e-learning practice: collaborative leadership in the JISC eLISA and CAMEL lifelong learning projects. British Journal of Educational Technology, 37 (6). pp. 949-967. ISSN 0007-1013 (Print), 1467-8535 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2006.00669.x)


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It is rarely a good thing when an important elected official fights mathematics.
But that's what Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is doing.
The math in question involves city pension funds, and specifically the annual rate of return they assume on their investments.
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This is crucial because investment returns are one of the three sources of funding for pensions.
The other two are contributions from employees and contributions from employer – in the case of public pensions, city taxpayers.
When pension funds can't produce enough money to meet their pension obligation, the employer – taxpayers – must make up the difference out of funds that would be better spent on services.
Los Angeles has been assuming an 8 percent return.
But experts say that assumption is too high, and are arguing for reducing the expected return to 7.75 percent. The number may have to be adjusted further down to 7.5 percent in the near future, the experts warn.
Villaraigosa doesn't want that – because lowering the expected rate of return requires the city to set aside more money for pensions.
That adds to the city's budget problem – and may require additional layoffs. So the mayor has been voicing his opinion and using his power to replace members of pension boards that don't agree with him on the issue.
He won a small victory this week when a pension board, in making the change, agreed to spread the cost over five years.
Villaraigosa's objections are understandable – and common; local elected officials all over California have been making best-case assumptions about pensions in order to avoid short-term pain. But the mayor says he's a leader.
This sort of thing doesn't help the credibility of a public official who has been bold, in other areas (especially education and tax policy), in confronting difficult truths.
In a larger sense, the whole debate over these rates of return on pension investments seems divorced from reality. All three assumptions – 8 percent, 7.75 percent, and 7.5 percent – seem rather high, at least when compared to the standard for low-risk returns, U.S. government bonds.
Put another way, if an investment advisor approached you for your business and guaranteed a rate of return of 7.5, 7.75 or 8 percent, you would be rightly suspicious. But that's what the pension funds are doing.
An elected official who pushes for a higher assumption on rate of return is effectively claiming that he or she has some special ability to beat the market. And if Mayor Villaraigosa possesses such powers, we'd all be better off if he quit his current job and managed our pension funds.
If not, he should stop quarreling with mathematics.
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(1) Anything of value received by the system from an agent and anything of value given on behalf of the system by an agent;
(2) The name of any employee of the system with authority over the investment of retirement system funds or any board member of the system who deals with an agent regarding amounts described in division (A)(1) of this section.
(B) The disclosures required by this section shall be made annually in a report submitted by a date prescribed by the Ohio ethics commission.
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Why Do We Care About Hair?
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Why do we care so much about our hair? I mean it's just hair, right, so what's the big deal? Why can't we just wake up and walk out the door? Instead we have to worry about straightening our hair or making sure it looks presentable for the world. I'm just as guilty as anyone out there but I still think it's odd that we worry so much about our appearances here in America. In Europe people hardly shower so we could probably quit caring so much, right?
Wrong. Hygiene is something that is so important no matter who you are or where you're from. Not just washing your hair daily but making sure that you get a proper haircut at the proper time and keep it nice and trimmed. We don't only use shampoo and hair scissors in America to improve our appearance; we do it to keep a healthy feel to our hair too. Why is this so important, you might ask.
In America people care a lot more about appearance and/or first impressions than people do in other countries. That's the reason most people take care of themselves better here but what they don't realize is that we can keep ourselves healthier and feeling better too by keeping up with our healthy look. There are a couple reasons as to how this is true is. One is because when we have a healthy trim for our hair every six to eight weeks, it gets rid of all split ends and problem areas that can become a pain to deal with down the road. This means that instead of standing and trying over and over to get your hair to cooperate in the morning, you could make it easy to style and a lot less strenuous on yourself.
Another reason it is important to maintain good hygiene is to prevent sickness. If you shower every day, you will keep all the bad/dirty skin cells away from your immune system. It may seem weird that a shower can keep you from getting sick but it's true-keeping skin and hair clear of dirt and grime will keep a higher tolerance from cold and flu viruses.
It's good to know that you can keep yourself healthy just by washing your hair daily. And who doesn't want to save a few minutes in the morning instead of waste an hour on just their hair? These helpful tips will make each day of hairstyling a little bit better.


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Hillary Clinton attacked Donald Trump Wednesday over his tax plan, which the Democratic presidential nominee says would help the wealthy at the expense of investments in education, infrastructure and healthcare.
Two days after Donald Trump was in Ohio to lay out his foreign policy plan, Clinton touted her economic proposal at Marshall High School in Cleveland and criticized Trump's plan to repeal the estate tax because the $4 billion that the Republican nominee would receive could be put to better use helping Ohioans.
Clinton's speech is a part of a coordinated effort by her campaign in key battleground states to emphasize how tax breaks for the wealthy proposed by Trump "would come at great cost to much-needed investments in infrastructure, education, health care, and other priorities."


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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR) today announced it will report results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011 after the market closes on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
Alan D. Gold, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kent Griffin, President, Matt McDevitt, Executive Vice President, and Greg N. Lubushkin, Chief Financial Officer, will host an investor conference call at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, February 9, 2012 to discuss the company's financial results and operations for the year.
The call will be open to all interested investors either through a live audio web cast at the Investor Relations section of the company's web site at www.biomedrealty.com and at www.earnings.com, which will include an online slide presentation to accompany the call, or live by calling 866-730-5765 (domestic) or 857-350-1589 (international) with call ID number 58496845. The complete webcast will be archived for 30 days on both web sites. A telephone playback of the conference call will also be available from 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, February 9, 2012 until midnight Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 by calling 888-286-8010 (domestic) or 617-801-6888 (international) and using access code 27497353.
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BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on Providing Real Estate to the Life Science Industry®. The company's tenants primarily include biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, scientific research institutions, government agencies and other entities involved in the life science industry. BioMed owns or has interests in properties comprising approximately 12.4 million rentable square feet. The company's properties are located predominantly in the major U.S. life science markets of Boston, San Francisco, Maryland, San Diego, New York/New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Seattle, which have well-established reputations as centers for scientific research. Additional information is available at www.biomedrealty.com.
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Exact Magic Software necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We are publishers of one of the top 10 weather apps for the iPhone, simply named "Weather Radar".
As you might expect with such a clever name, it provides real time weather radar and storm tracking. We are soon launching our updated version for the iPad, and want to update our stale icon with something snazzy. You can check out screenshots of the application and the existing icon on our website.
This application is for a world wide audience of iPhone and iPad users. We want to update it with something a little more professional looking.
We need standard app store icon requirements. A 512x512 PNG that also looks good when sized down to 57x57. We actually would like the icon to sport an optional banner for the iPad version, which is called "Weather Radar HD". A little stripe across one corner maybe.
Icon should contain no text, other than that I have very few specifics. It should convey weather, and in particular radar or storm tracking. That could be a radar scope, or radar signal, a weather map, etc.
I've attached the existing icon, which while it has the right feel, is certainly bland and flat. I bet you real artists can do better!


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San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore tells the Union-Tribune that he's betrayed by Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to transfer some state prisoners to local jails.
To which the only proper reply is: Suck it up, sheriff.
Brown's transfer is being portrayed by law enforcement -- Gore is hardly the only one to complain -- as a way for the state to push its budget problems onto local governments. But in fact, the opposite is true. For years, even decades, local law enforcement has pushed its costs and budget issues on the state.
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In California, local law enforcement, from police to sheriffs to prosecutors, have long pushed as many people as possible into longer sentences in state prison because they don't have to pay for it. State taxpayers, not local taxpayers, handle the costs. They did this even though studies show that it's cheaper to keep offenders closer to home, either in jails or diversion programs. The problem was that while it's cheaper than state prison, it's not cheaper for the locals, since they don't pay the costs of state prison and do bear the costs of local solutions.
It's also easier for local law enforcement to send convicted criminals to the state. That means they don't have to do the hard work of assessing risks and figuring out which convicts might benefit from alternatives to prison time. By forcing those decisions back on locals, Brown is not only saving money but he's forcing local law enforcement to make choices and set priorities in how they manage criminals.
This makes local law enforcement's job harder. Which is a good thing. These sorts of decisions are best made in local communities. And they save money. It's also worth remembering that local law enforcement personnel in California are the best paid law enforcement personnel in the country. So they're being paid to make tough decisions. It's time to make them.


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"The Patience Stone" won Best Film in The Eurasia Film Festival, Best Picture in the Abu Dubai Film Festival, and was the Official Selection in the Toronto International Film Festival (2012), Tribeca Film Festival(2013), and Los Angeles Film Festival (2013).
Amanda Alexandria: How has "The Patience Stone" been received by the film community in Afghanistan and in the Middle East?
Atiq Rahimi: We have had a warm reception. "The Patience Stone" was the official selection for Best Foreign Film in Afghanistan, we won Best Picture and Best Actress in the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. "The Patience Stone" won the Film Award of the Council of Europe in Istanbul Turkey."
Amanda Alexandria: Congratulations on such outstanding successes! Have you always been active in women's rights?
Atiq Rahimi: I respect my mother and sisters... Yes, I am always interested in helping women. I care about women's rights ... I care about human rights. My last film was created to help a disabled man. I am to help all people.
Amanda Alexandria: It is refreshing to see women in the Middle East portrayed in such an empowering light...
Atiq Rahimi: Like men, women are people . We become overly concious of the stereotypes of women in the Middle East. Middle Eastern women have desires, and passion, and educations just like men. Women have dreams, vision heart and soul as well!
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text: Economy 7 February 2013 Robobacklash: do we even need to worry about automation in the workplace? Where there's a popular view, there's always a backlash. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up The trendy view that robots — or the ever increasing automation of human labour, at least — are going to cause major economic problems in the near future has started getting its backlash. The argument is that we are entering a period when automation will very quickly replace huge numbers of jobs — some estimates say up to 70 per cent of existing American jobs won't exist by 2100 — and that that shift has already begun, explaining a number of concerning economic phenomena over the last 30 or so years, including the declining labour share of income, increasing inequality, and the decoupling of the median wage from GDP. That analysis has led to some strange contortions from mainstream economists trying to conceive of capitalism in a world in which work was not necessary, leading some, myself included, to suggest that in that extreme example, it might be worth re-examining the basic tenets of economics. But once the robots problem hit the mainstream, as evidenced by the Financial Times' Edward Luce writing that Obama must face the rise of the robots, it started being re-examined with a more critical eye. The Atlantic's Derek Thompson argues that our problem now is "a deficit of demand", and our problem in the future can be dealt with in the future. Matthew O'Brien, writing for the same publication, points out that what that deficit of demand means is that in the near term, automation won't lead to job losses, but it will keep pay well below where we'd like it. He concludes that "globalization, mechanization, and the decline of unions have all helped capital and hurt labor, but so has inadequate demand the past decade." The TUC's Duncan Weldon has addressed the case of robots in the present day, and came to much the same conclusion. He writes that the rising profit share of income is concentrated almost entirely in the finance sector, and argues the likely cause is that that sector managed to ensure that the distribution of risk in innovation was spread widely, while the distribution of the the rewards was increasingly narrow. Wheldon's conclusion is that the problem in the present day is less of a problem than it seems: with well-targeted redistribution of wealth, the benefits of productivity growth in the sectors where innovation has been successful can be used to pay for decent services everywhere else. What we're seeing is not, then, a crisis in automation, but a simpler crisis in distribution. I am inclined to agree with Weldon when it comes to the present day. The effect of automation today isn't categorically different from from the effect thirty years ago, but it combines with the receding desire for redistribution and the slack demand stemming from the financial crisis with pernicious results. But when it comes to the effects of future automation, no-one the attitude that "we'll deal with it when we come to it" strikes me as dangerous. We don't know a huge amount about what the effects will be, but it's clear they'll happen gradually, over the next century; there's the very real risk of a "boiled frog" problem, where we don't realise that the entire system is in crisis until its too late. At best, if the predictions are accurate, we've got an upheaval of similar magnitude to the Industrial Revolution. That resulted in massive gains the world over, but only after well over a century of struggle. Life for the average factory worker in the 1800s was hardly better than it was for the average agricultural labourer in the 1750s, though you can be certain that the merchant class saw a hefty improvement. It took world wars, nationalised industries, continued worker's struggle and massive redistribution of wealth to temper the distortions down to a level which could be described as sustainable. Ideally, we should be planning to achieve the gains of the Industrial Revolution without the 18-hour days, sundering of families and massive environmental upheaval that came alongside it. Burying our heads in the sand until the 21st century's dark satanic mills have already arisen is not the best way to bring that about. › Hidden charges: the next big scandal for banks? Photograph: Getty Images Alex Hern is a technology reporter for the Guardian. He was formerly staff writer at the New Statesman. You should follow Alex on Twitter. Subscribe For daily analysis & more political coverage from Westminster and beyond subscribe for just £1 per month!


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The first downloadable content pack for Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed in North America until October 25, 2011, but will include a special bonus, the company announced via Twitter earlier today.
Update: GT5 DLC will hit the North American Store on 10/25 but will include a special bonus. Apologies for the inconvenience! - @PlayStation via Twitter
That means another week until gamers will get their Red Bull X2011 Prototype, four more versions of the Nissan Skyline, Challenger SRT8 touring car, two hybrid racecars and three karts, among other goodies. Maybe the special bonus will be a 1965 Citroën DS 19 rally car. If only. (Hat tip to Mikeado 5 Spec 2.0!)


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The first ever Sam Choy's Keauhou Poke Contest happened today at the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa on the Big Island.
Sam Choy, Kamehameha Investments Corporation Marketing Director Valery O'brien and Mayor Billy Kenoi
With over $10,000 in prizes given away to the winners… the real winner was Jim Lighter and "The Heart of the Campus-Equip the Kitchens Campaign" of Hawaii Community College Palamanui campus who received $1,000 cash collected from more then the 350 folks who paid $3.00 to attend the event.
The event began at 10:00 in the morning in the Convention Center area of the Sheraton and Sam Choy himself was on hand to enjoy the festivities and meet the contestants and folks coming out to the event.
Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa Manager Paul Horner and Sam Choy sample some poke
Kimo Kahoano and Ke'ea Alapai were the emcees for the day and made sure the contest ran smoothly and folks knew what was going on when and where.
There were four categories and the following folks entered in them. The professional entrants were judged separately from the amateur entrants (professionals are listed in bold below):
In the Traditional Poke category the following folks entered:
- Dena Domingo from the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa
- Jason Kanekoa from the Waikoloa Beach Marriott
- Ken Schloss from Huggos
- Dale Taylor from The Fish Hopper Seafood & Steak Restaurant
- Kekuanaoa Hind from Ohana Home Maintenance
- Guy Toyama from Natural Energy Lab Hawaii Authority (NELHA)
- Eli Kipilii
The following contestants entered in the Spicy Poke category:
- Jason Kanekoa from Waikoloa Beach Marriott
- Margy Hanselman
- Jon Kawamura from Aqua Engineering
- Susie Osborne from Kua O Ka La Charter School in Pahoa
- Eli Kipilii
In the Cooked Poke category the following folks entered:
- Deana Delmar from Okolemaluna Tiki Lounge
- Jason Kanekoa from Waikoloa Beach Marriott
- Gwen Edwards
- Kristine Stone from Hawaii Community College Culinary
And in the category of Poke with Soy Sauce the following folks entered:
- Kelsi Ikeda from Sandy's Drive Inn
- Jason Kanekoa from Waikoloa Beach Marriott
- Kevin Lanning from Island Thyme Gourmet
- Eli Kipili
- Ryan Koyanagi from Aqua Engineering
- Keoki J. Rivera
There was a panel of 12 judges – Kyle Chock (Kamehameha Investment Corp. President), Sam Choy Jr. (Fisherman, Poke Connoisseur), Greg Chun, (Kamehameha Schools VP – Keauhou Kahalu'u Ed Group), Nancy Ginter-Miller (Produce to Product, Inc.), Fanny Au Hoy (Retired Hulihe'e Palace Curator), Paul Horner (Sheraton Keauhou Resort & Spa Resort Manager), Kawehi Inaba (Fit Express), Bruce Kekuewa (Kamehameha Schools Kea'au Campus Food Service Manager), Rex Matthews (Fisherman), Barbara Nobriga (Daughters of Hawaii), Dr. Keanu Sai, Carla Tracy (Maui News Dining Editor), Mark Tsuchiyama (Hualalai Resort Executive Chef) and Jaz Yglesisas (KAPA Radio).
After the judges had their share, the public then got to enjoy samples of all the poke and folks got to enjoy the same stuff that the judges got to try!
While the judges were deciding who the winners would be, Guy Toyama from the Friends of NELHA, gave an educational presentation on "NELHA: A Catalyst for Sustainable Seafood Production" that was well received by the folks listening to the presentation.
Most of the contestants and Sam Choy
Sam Choy himself personally brought the contestants aside from everyone and talked about the importance of Poke on the Big Island and said the following to the contestants:
Then the fun began!
Shortly there after a Celebrity Poke Cook-Off happened where Mayor Billy Kenoi himself officiated the 30 minute challenge that was won by Gene "Bucky" Leslie of Flowers for Mama.
Then the winners were announced:
- Overall Winner: Gwen Edwards of Kailua-Kona
Guy Toyama's Traditional Poke was a hit!
- Cooked: Gwen Edwards with Paniolo Shrimp Poke
- Spicy: Susan Osborne with 'Aina Life Culinary Arts Class at Kua O Ka La Charter School in Pahoa with 'Ulu-Ahi Spicy Poke
- Traditional: Guy Toyama of NELHA in Keahole-Kona (he used all ingredients sourced from NELHA) with Keahole Point Poke
- With Soy Sauce: Keoki Rivera of Kailua-Kona with Little Touch of Heaven
Professional Awards:
- Traditional
- First Place: Jayson Kanekoa of Waikoloa Beach Marriott with Fruits of the Sea Poke
- Second: Ken Schloss of Huggo's With Ahi Tuna Poke Tower
- Third: Dale Taylor of The Fish Hopper Seafood & Steak Restaurant with Chef Dale's Lilikoi/Mango Poke
- Cooked
- First: Jayson Kanekoa of Waikoloa Beach Marriott with Lobster, Scallops & Shrimp Cappucino Poke
- Second: Deanna Del Mar of Okolemaluna Tiki Lounge with Lilikoi Spice Poke
- Spicy
- First: Jayson Kanekoa (only pro vying in this category) with Spicy Kampachi Pockets Poke
- With Soy Sauce
- First: Kevin Lanning of Island Thyme Gourmet Catering in Kailua-Kona With Poke Contest Recipe
- Second: Kelsi Ikeda of Sandy's Drive In in Kainaliu with Everything but the Oxtail Poke!
- Third: Jayson Kanekoa of Waikoloa Beach Marriott with Soy Sake Box Poke
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It has been quite a while, my dear Internet friends. I'd apologize for the absence but I'm having way too much fun at my new job to want to apologize for it. The Matilda Effect is still ongoing and I'm truly hoping it lasts forever.
That said, I've missed sharing my new stuff with you! So… A few things that have happened since we last spoke (… wrote? read? communicated via pixels?). From newest to oldest:
Show up. Just do it. I wrote about the simple but often un- or under-appreciated value of showing up, especially when it's cold, you're busy, and Netflix is calling. This was partly inspired by Wait But Why and Eric Liu's phenomenal book A Chinaman's Chance (really just one chapter of it, but seriously, read the whole thing):
On Ego and Exercise. After running my first (and probably only) half-marathon, I wrote about why I exercise and the intersection of ego and self-care.
On slutty slutty Halloween. Every October (this now seems woefully out of date), there are endless think pieces about why girls dress so scantily. I'm so bored of this conversation, so… I wrote another think piece.
On the pay gap and "trusting the system." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got into trouble by suggesting that women should just work hard and wait around to be recognized and failed to acknowledge systemic and cultural reasons for the pay gap. Oh yeah, this was at a conference for women in tech…


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Looks like an Imbel
find this kit at gun room, which FAL parts kit is this one ?
Based on the grenade sight gas plug, what looks like some baby poo paint on the handguards, and the long buttstock it appears to be a South African contract kit.
Looks like a poor old excuse for a fal kit, You don't want to build on something so old and beat bluejack, you should sell it to me for $20
It looks like a imbel to me. It will make a nice build!
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
I'm not so sure. I think gska might be on to something. The buttstock is definitely longer than any of the 4 Imbel kits that I've built. This is off of an Imbel kit. (I shortened the barrel up to 18")
so which one is ???
some s.african rifle had long buttstocks
Those weapons are no good. Junk, do do. Very difficult to build. Bad shooters, heavy, ugly, just yuk.
I will go $25 shipped and insured.
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look for ZA markings on the lower receiver. they indicate south african, as does the paint scheme and the gas plug type.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Up-grade: Old schoolhouse an apartment alternative
Address: 5171 Advance Mills Road
Neighborhood: Miller Division in Advance Mills
Asking: $175,000
Assessment: $142,900
Year Built: 1934
Size: 870 fin sq. ft., 224 unfin.
Land: 1.38 acres
Agent: Joe Porterfield, Montague Miller & Co. 434-951-7112
Curb Appeal: 6 out of 10
Am I the only one who harbors a secret fantasy about living in an old firehouse? Repurposed buildings have a certain appeal for me and other buyers, but they're not for everyone.
This Earlysville house was one of the County's original one-room African-American schoolhouses. It's said that it served its original purpose for only a decade or so before getting purchased by a neighboring family and used on and off as rental property until the 1980s.
Today, the house perimeter is still the same as that one-room original building, so buyers looking for beefy square footage should shuffle on. It's still a single-story structure with its original metal roof. During the last loan approval process, the seller employed specialty appraisers from Richmond to certify that the roof's seams and joints remain intact, a critical process for loan approval. It has also been treated and painted.
Inside, tells a different story, as only a few features from school days carry over: some exposed brick in the kitchen, part of the school's original flue, and generous 11-foot ceilings.
The front door opens directly into the living room. To the right is the home's only bathroom (housing a stacked washer/dryer unit). There are just two bedrooms, and closet space is minimal. The kitchen opens to a large, bright dining area that leads out to a deck.
Finishes are functional but far from flashy. The bath holds a one-piece fiberglass tub; the kitchen has white appliances and a laminate counter. But things are relatively new, and the place is move-in ready.
Additionally, there is outdoor living space in the form of a porch running the length of the front, and the three-quarter-length back deck overlooks a nearly level backyard. There are mountain views to the west.
On a concrete slab, a previous owner built a freestanding shop with windows and electricity. It's unfinished, but a buyer might insulate to get more use from of the space. There's also a shed.
While the attic has a floor and lighting, it isn't a space that lends itself to intensive use, as the access comes via a ladder through the master closet.
All the systems are new. With such a small envelope, with thermally-insulated tilt-sash windows, and with by 9-10 inches of soy-based insulation in the attic, it appears to an efficient house for a family eager to limit their environmental impact.
Most buyers interested in this house will be drawn by the modest acreage and the mostly flat lot. Being farmland in the past might mean rich soil that's ready for cultivation. A drainage easement over part of the property means that water naturally runs from an adjacent property could be trapped for watering.
Interestingly, there are two lots for sale in the neighborhood for about the same price– but without a house. Another appeal of this house is its location.
It's a sneak-into-town kind of spot because the buyer can skip Rt. 29 or 250 to get to Charlottesville via Rt. 743 straight to Hydraulic. It's a quick trip in under 20 minutes.
This isn't a sprawling country house, but it may be right for a couple or single person looking for a quiet rural setting. Based on the size, buyers should view is an apartment upgrade with the added plus of land and mountain views.
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I'm running the Witcher 2 on a mediocre (at best) laptop and with the settings turned down (although it's still beautiful) it's running pretty smoothly I have to say. Obviously, check you meet the minimum spec requirements but it's anything but unplayable on low end machines.
It's more the tone of voice than facial markers that indicate a person is lying...
My Xbox just updated my firmware, which seems to be screwing with my mod chip, since none of my games will work now... only one that will is Far Cry 2, which is boring as fuck now x.x
And what did we learn?
Not gonna lie. By what you guys say about it... LA Noire sounds terrible
Gosh, the next big thing is what? Deus Ex: Human Revolution? I'm going to need to get a job before that one comes out.
Zelda is a rerelease of a game that gets by solely on the Nintendo fanbase, which is mostly like a Jack Russel with a maggoty bone. It doesn't care that that bone isn't as good as it used to be, it will stay in denial and violently defend it no matter what.Seriously, I've never seen a fan base as ravenous and retarded as Nintendo .__. theres being a dedicated fan, and then theres being a fanboy, and then theres being a loyalist with shrapnel lodged in your brain, and THEN theres being a Nintendo fanboy.
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IRAQ:2 Women Killed in Security Shooting Are Buried in Iraq
The two women killed Tuesday by a barrage of gunfire from private security guards in central Baghdad were buried here today, and relatives insisted that the guards be brought to justice.
"The killers must be punished," said Albert Mamook, the brother of one of the victims, Marany Awanees, 59. "We have a right for justice," he said.
Ms. Awanees was driving the white Oldsmobile that was riddled by automatic gunfire in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad Tuesday afternoon. Her front-seat passenger, Jeniva Jalal, 30, was also killed; a woman and a boy in the back seat survived, according to witnesses and local police officials.
The incident came just weeks after a shooting by another company strained relations between the United States and Iraq. An Iraqi government spokesman today condemned the shooting as the latest sign of recklessness by security contractors in Iraq.
The victims were Armenian Christians, and the memorial service today was held in an Armenian cultural club in eastern Baghdad. Relatives and clergy members sat quietly on sofas and sipped black coffee, men in one row and women in another. Those who attended the service expressed condolences to the three orphaned daughters of Ms. Awanees and discussed her life.
Relatives described a quiet woman who had taken to working as a taxi driver two years ago, after her husband died, to support her daughters through college.
The guards involved in the Tuesday shooting were working for an Australian-run security company. But the people they were assigned to protect work under the same United States government agency whose security guards sprayed bullets across a crowded Baghdad square on Sept. 16, an episode that caused an uproar among Iraqi officials and is still being investigated by the United States.
In the Tuesday shooting, which took place on a boulevard lined with appliance stores, tea shops and money changers, as many as 40 bullets struck the car. American government officials said the guards had been hired to protect financial and policy experts working for an organization under contract with the United States Agency for International Development, a quasi-independent State Department agency.
The organization, RTI International, is in Iraq to carry out what is ultimately a State Department effort to improve local government and democratic institutions. But a Bush administration official said the State Department bore no responsibility for overseeing RTI's security operations.
"A.I.D. does not direct the security arrangements of its contractors," the official said. "These groups are contractually responsible for the safety and security of their employees. That responsibility falls entirely on the contractor."
The Oldsmobile was shot once in the radiator, witnesses said, in front of a plumbing supply store as it approached a convoy of white sport utility vehicles 50 yards away.
As the car kept rolling, a hail of gunfire suddenly tore through its hood, roof and windshield, as well as the passenger side.
The guards who were in the convoy work for Unity Resources Group, an Australian-run company that has its headquarters in Dubai and is registered in Singapore, according to a statement by the company. Unity Resources was hired by RTI to provide security in Iraq.
In its statement, Unity Resources said that according to its initial information, the car had approached the convoy "at speed" and failed to stop in response to hand signals and a warning flare.
"Finally shots were fired at the vehicle, and it stopped," the company said.
The episode's connection with the United States Agency for International Development is one of several parallels to the Sept. 16 shootings, in which the Iraqi government says 17 Iraqis died and 27 were wounded.
The Sept. 16 episode began when a convoy operated by Blackwater USA, an American private security company hired to protect the aid agency's officials, entered Nisour Square in central Baghdad and fired several bullets toward a car the guards apparently considered a threat.
In the Tuesday shooting, like the one on Sept. 16, the car drifted forward after the initial burst, prompting guards to unleash a barrage of gunfire. And there were no government officials or policy experts in either of the convoys: the Nisour Square convoy was controlling traffic as part of a larger operation, and the convoy in Karada was on a routine movement that involved only security guards, according to American officials.
Although the United States Embassy in Baghdad has said almost nothing about the Nisour Square episode while an American investigation grinds on, the Iraqi government has said its own investigation concluded that the shootings were an act of "deliberate murder" and called on the Blackwater guards to be prosecuted.
Ali Jafar, a traffic policeman posted near the Karada shooting, said he thought the similarities between the cases were undeniable.
"They are killing the people just like what happened in Nisour Square," Mr. Jafar said. "They are butchering the Iraqis."
The new shootings happened at an extremely difficult time for the State Department, which relies heavily on Blackwater to protect its diplomats whenever they work outside the fortified Green Zone. As a result of new restrictions placed on Blackwater after the Nisour Square shootings, the State Department's numerous programs for rebuilding Iraqi government and technical institutions have been seriously hampered.
Embassy officials have vowed to continue their operations even as they increase oversight of Blackwater operations. But Tuesday's episode appears to show that the new oversight comes with many loopholes: Unity Resources is not working directly for the State Department, but for RTI International, which has been contracted by the aid agency to provide experts on local governing.
In fact, an American Embassy spokesman said, the State Department has no say in the operations of security companies employed by government contractors. "Their contract might be with A.I.D., but that doesn't shed any light on their choice of security contractor," he said.
A spokesman for Unity Resources, Martin Simich, said Tuesday that he was unsure whether the guards involved in the shooting had been interviewed by the American authorities.
On Tuesday, the convoy of white S.U.V.'s was stopped in the eastbound lane of Karada Street at an intersection with an alley lined with low concrete homes, witnesses said. A man who works at the plumbing shop, who gave his name only as Muhammad, said the Oldsmobile was approaching the convoy from behind.
He said he heard no warnings. "They shot from the back door," he said. "The door opened and they fired."
Two witnesses said they heard a single shot first, which apparently punctured the Oldsmobile's radiator, spilling coolant onto the street about 50 yards from where the convoy was parked. As the car continued rolling, the guards opened up with a barrage of sustained automatic fire. The car finally came to a stop about 10 yards from the convoy at a point that, three hours later, was marked by blood stains, broken glass and tufts of brown hair.
The plumbing shop employee said the convoy moved out right away, without checking to see what damage had been done or to offer medical help.
The Oldsmobile was towed to a nearby police station.
As twilight set in on Tuesday, family members gathered beside the car in a dirt alley outside the police station, staring at the blood and hair on the inside of the windshield.
Hrair Vartanian, a brother-in-law of the driver, said Ms. Awanees was the mother of three grown daughters. As he spoke, one daughter arrived and looked at the blood stains, crying softly.
Reporting was contributed by Richard A. Oppel Jr., Qais Mizher and Ahmad Fadam from Baghdad, John M. Broder from Washington, and Graham Bowley from New York.
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Interesting question. To understand the answer, we have to understand where time zones came from in the first place.
Up until the mid-19th century, major cities would set their local time by when the sun was at its highest point in that particular city. It was called local mean time. For example, when it was 12 p.m. in New York City, it was 12:23 p.m. in Boston. With the onset of railroads and rapid transit from place to place, local mean time made things increasingly more difficult, since trains arriving from a certain city would be arriving at each stop's local time. Needless to say, people were confused.
Creating Practical Time Zones
So began the creation of an international standard of time. Delegates from 27 countries met at what was known as the Meridian Conference, and decided to implement a plan outlined by Sir Sandford Fleming (a railway planner and engineer). The plan looked like this: The world would be divided into 24 time zones based on the 24 hours in each day. Each of the time zones would be defined by a meridian, or a north-south line running from the North Pole all the way to the South Pole. All of the times were set according to Greenwich Mean Time (using the prime meridian that runs through Greenwich, England), which later became known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). So for example, Eastern Standard Time became UTC -5 hours. Eastern European Time became UTC +2 hours.
Allowing Exceptions
So why are some cities 30 or 45 minutes off? That has largely to do with the politics in each of those places. For example, in New Delhi, India, they found themselves halfway between two meridians, and therefore decided to be 30 minutes between each, as opposed to adopting one time or the other.
Also, even though India's expansive regions cross two time zones, all of India carries the same time. Even quirkier? All of China, which spans an impressive five time zones, has the same time, which is UTC +8 hours. That means that in some areas of China, they have dark mornings and light nights. Go figure.
The BBC posted an interesting piece about the politics of time zones when Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez decided to move his entire country's time by 30 minutes in a matter of weeks, sending IT technicians spiraling into chaos to accommodate the change on computers and programs.
Time zones can be confusing, but when it comes to figuring out what time it actually is, a little humor never hurt. Posted in the comments on the BBC article by one David Marshall of London, England: "I live in my wife's time zone, which is 10 minutes later than everyone else's."
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No, drive is not in use (other than being plugged into the system). I have tried three different USB ports, both USB 2 and USB 3, and the result is the same each time after fresh Windows logoff and logon.


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Cameras on buses used to discipline, terminate drivers
Video proves, disputes misconduct complaints
SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. – The minute you step onto a public bus in Volusia County, everything you do and say is being monitored.
Since 2006, the Volusia County Transportation Authority, or Votran, has been using surveillance systems on their buses to document incidents and accidents.
An inspection of a year's worth of "flagged" video incidents turned up video of passengers fighting, buses involved in accidents and drivers who were not necessarily exhibiting the most professional image for the agency.
"It holds people accountable because they know they are being filmed, and it's hard to argue with the facts," said Steven Sherrer, the general manager for Votran.
In April, a customer complained about a driver acting like a "crazy, screaming, maniac" during an altercation that lasted an entire morning.
Web Extra: Raw surveillance of bus videos
The video of the incident shows the driver honking his horn and putting his head out of the window to say something to the driver. At one point the woman is seen getting out of her car and saying something back.
The altercation continued later that morning when she pulled alongside him to tell him she'd be filing a complaint.
In that complaint, she wrote that he boasted to her that everything was being recorded. The audio of their altercation was not captured by the particular surveillance system, but the video showed him pull up to her at a stop light, open his door and point his finger and shake his fist out of the window as he's saying something to her.
After Votran reviewed this video, they terminated the driver.
Another driver resigned in response to a December complaint that she was talking on her cell phone while driving. Votran found numerous incidents where the woman was using her Bluetooth to take personal calls, and she could be seen not wearing her seatbelt.
"Any use of a cellphone is prohibited by our drivers, whether they are using a Bluetooth device or not," said Sherrer.
But sometimes the tapes offer evidence to refute the claims of passengers. In June, a passenger complained that his driver stopped during his route to get "sexual favors" from a woman companion.
The video shows the driver stopping for a scheduled layover, getting off the bus and into an SUV parked nearby.
After a few minutes, an anxious passenger leaves the bus and steps outside to see what is going on. The passenger then comes back onto the bus to report what he thinks is sexual activity going on being the driver and the woman in the car.
Votran viewed the tape and initially terminated the driver, but after a union grievance was filed, the agency took a better look at the tape. Two supervisors set up a re-enactment and parked an SUV the same distance from the bus and used the bus video system to record it all.
"While reviewing the reenactment, it was determined that the level of description that was described was impossible to describe from the viewpoint where that passenger stood," said Sherrer, who noted that the passenger would have been standing 44 feet away.
The driver in question told Votran the woman had brought him something to eat and admitted to kissing her, but nothing more.
Votran ultimately decided to suspend him for a month without pay and then let him return to his job.
"It helps to prevent that he-said, she-said situation and it helps to determine preventability if there's an accident," said Sherrer.
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PIM Hackers Boost Akonadi Into The Future
This weekend the A-Team (Akonadi, not Amarok) gathered in KDAB's office in the heart of Berlin to push the Akonadi PIM storage database to the next level.
Bernhard Herzog, of the long-time KDE and Kolab pillar Intevation showed interesting demos monitoring automatic software packaging using the Debian format for deployment client software on end-user machines. The software provides monitoring of automatic builds of the KDE 3 and KDE 4 Enterprise branches of KDE PIM. Additionally it covers the cryptographic plumbing that make the (email) world a safer place.
So when will all this land in KDE?, the attentive reader might ask herself. Current plans of porting Kontact to using Akonadi as data store are to have contacts and calendaring in 4.3 in July, and email and feed management in 4.4 next January. Those are surely ambitious plans, but a strong team and some corporate muscle promise a good chance of achieving this task.
The Akonadi team would like to thank both KDAB and the KDE e.V. for hosting and supporting this meeting financially, and thus for generously making this event possible. It has been a tremendously successful meeting in terms of raw code output, transfer of knowledge, community-building and generating new ideas for PIM and the Free Desktop.
Plaxo integration and sync with Windows Mobile 6
I am relatively new on the KDE desktop and like it a lot. The addressbook looks impressive, but I am still not using it until I have found out a little more.
I have gathered a lot of addresses over the years (1500+) that needs a good application. Also, I am using Plaxo and LOVE it. Plaxo takes away the need for updating a good portion of these addresses and I hope there will be a good integration with the KDE addressbook soon.
Plaxo did some stupid things in the beginning (sending out requests to all your contacts unless you specifically did not want it) and it caused a lot of people to put it on their spamlist. Fortunately, they are now a lot more mature, and their system works VERY well.
My second wish is probably easier - I need to sync with Windows Mobile 6 (I have an HTC phone).
These two things would completely take away my need to run Outlook as I am not using Outlook for e-mail, just for the addressbook sync!
By Oceanwatcher at Mon, 2009/04/06 - 2:32pm
In kde 3.5 you could can use kitchensync for this. ( And i suppose you still can ) Unfortunately kitchensync does not appear to be ported to the kde4 serries just yet.
I suppose we'll have to wait for akonadi support before we are going to see it back in full glory again.
By Mr Me at Mon, 2009/04/06 - 7:48pm
Kitchensync in KDE4
Unfortunately, I am on Kubuntu 9.04 beta, so the Kitchensync solution will not work for me. But I have heard about it and I am trying to keep an eye on the development.
Just wish they will add Plaxo as well :-)
By Oceanwatcher at Wed, 2009/04/08 - 2:10pm
Akonadi and NFS...
probably this has been discussed already, but what is the recommended way to use Kontact with your $home on an NFS-share in the future?
How's the level of integration with Nepomuk? Nepomuk itself needs a db-backend (semantic RDF storage). How to get the emails into Nepomuks index? Does it need some kind of replication? Is it not overlapping functionality?
By thomas at Mon, 2009/04/06 - 3:28pm
Akonadi and NFS...
You should give nfsv4 a try. Locking has been updated quite a bit and it supports client and server recovery after a potential crash a lot better.
Akonadi and Nepomuk are to different beasts, some seperation will always be needed. Trust the devs on this one ;)
Hope that helps.
By Mr Me at Mon, 2009/04/06 - 6:31pm
maybe you can re-think the nfs share thing
if there is a mysql db, you will be better connecting to a remote db rather than trying to use the nfs share to place the db... and if you are planning to access the db from multiple locations connected with multiple mysql servers you will have bigger problems.
By Tristan Grimaux at Thu, 2009/04/16 - 1:38pm
buzzword-bingo huh. Well, didn't that work out just fine? ;-)
Good read, nice to know what is going on in Akonadi land.
By Jos Poortvliet at Mon, 2009/04/06 - 3:40pm
MySQL dependency
I'm using KMail for over a year now (coming from Evolution, then Thunderbird) and I'd wanted to use an integrated KDE program to manage my contacts. So I tried to install KAddressbook on my Debian Squeeze (KDE 4.2.2) laptop. Not so much disk space, bad batteries, long boot times etc. - you know :) Then I saw package dependencies which really devastated me... not just this Akonadi thingy (don't know why I need it, but... well... never mind), it wanted me to install a complete MySQL 5.0 server including its dependencies (exim4, mailx, bsd-mailx) and a half of a dozen further packages.
Proceeding to my question: Does it really require a MySQL DB server just to manage a few eMail addresses?
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If you haven't noticed from the sheer enormity of superhero coverage as of late, we currently live in a film environment that is flooded with comic book content. The "superhero movie" genre is more popular than it's ever been before, and as long as these movies keep making piles of money (they will), don't expect the trend to die down any time soon. While Marvel is currently getting much of the attention with its extremely prolific and interconnected series of films, 20th Century Fox revitalized the X-Men series last year with the wonderful X-Men: First Class. A sequel is in the works for that film, and production is gearing up to begin on a follow-up to the Wolverine spin-off, The Wolverine. The studio owns a number of other Marvel characters, giving them the potential to make some truly exciting comic book movies.
Steve got the chance to sit down with Fox CEO Tom Rothman at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. While they talked about a number of Fox properties throughout the course of the conversation (look for more updates here on the site soon), we wanted to bring you a tidbit of information that Rothman dropped about a feature film adaptation of a really fun Marvel property: The New Mutants. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
For those unaware, the New Mutants comics were a spin-off of the X-Men series. The characters first appeared in 1982 in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and featured a young team of Professor Charles Xavier's students.
Unlike the singular X-Men, the New Mutants team was made up of ethnic diversity and included: Karma, a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl who could mentally possess other people's bodies, Cannonball, a Kentuckian with the ability to rocket through the air, Wolfsbane, a Scot who transforms into a wolf-like creature, Psyche, a Cheyenne with the power to create three-dimensional illusions, and Sunspot, a Brazilian with superhuman strength that was powered by sunlight. The series was rebooted in 2003, but the new version of New Mutants was more closely tied to the X-Men and the Xavier Institute.
Given the commercial and critical success of the young-skewing superhero flicks First Class and Chronicle, it seems like a no-brainer for Fox to pull the trigger on a New Mutants movie. Steve brought the prospect up to Rothman, who gave a cryptic yet telling response:
Steve: I know you guys have like The New Mutants and a lot of characters in the X-Men universe. Obviously you guys are moving forward on an X-Men sequel, you're moving forward on Wolverine, do you envision New Mutants or some of these other characters as franchises that the door can be open to? It does seem to me that the superhero genre is bigger than it's ever been, and you guys have some of the crown jewels.
Rothman: (smiles) Yes.
When can fans expect an announcement on some of these other properties? Before Comic-Con, after Comic-Con, at Comic-Con?
Rothman: In the summer.
Are you talking to filmmakers right now?
Rothman: Let me just say this. All I have to say is, I agree with you in your assessment of the potential in a lot of these characters.
Steve said that Rothman was all-smiles when he brought up New Mutants and all but confirmed that a New Mutants movie will be announced soon. Really, the decision makes perfect sense. Marvel is making a killing with their individual superhero movies, but Fox owns a great deal of Marvel characters and the studio would be stupid not to turn some of them into movies.


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3 ½ oz. Butter – softened
16 oz. Light Brown Sugar
6 Tbsp. Cinnamon
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• Combine all ingredients in a bowl until it resembles wet sand
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• Spread filling across dough leaving ½ inch space at one end uncovered
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• Roll dough starting at the opposite end of brushed area and seal
• Cut rolls 1 inch thick using a serrate knife
• Place each roll 2 inches apart on a parchment lined cookie sheet
• Bake 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown
• Combine all 3 ingredients for glaze and drizzle over buns while still warm
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Google is pulling its pre-paid credit card, citing the success of its cloudy alternative and admitting that when in comes to bonking payments no one wants to bank with the Chocolate Factory.
The pre-paid card will stop accepting top-up credit on 17 October, and after that date there will be a monthly charge of $2 in order to bleed out remaining credit (or encourage users to spend it). Users were previously only charged the $2 if they failed to use the card for three months; this will now reduce to a month to ensure the card disappears in a reasonable timeframe.
Google's pre-paid card, backed by MasterCard, is one of only two which could be embedded in the company's still-US-only electronic wallet – the other is from Citibank. But early last month the Chocolate Factory announced a cloud-based alternative which could work with any credit card, negating the need for local apps embedded in the phone, and we're asked to believe that it is the success of that scheme which has prompted Google's decision.
The new scheme works by storing credit card details, from any card, in Google's cloud. The user then makes bonking payments using their Google-Wallet-equipped phone and the balance is deducted from the credit card when a data connection is available. To maintain the speed, payments aren't authenticated online immediately, so Google takes a small risk of the credit not being there, but as payments are limited to £20 or so the risk is limited and offset by the convenience.
It wasn't supposed to be like this; NFC payments rely on credit card applications embedded in the device's secure element, so don't need to go online. An NFC payment is possible even if the device battery is dead, though for the moment Google is insisting on PIN entry every time, so power is needed.
But Google has had a really hard time convincing banks to create local apps for its secure element, which has driven its creation of the cloud-based alternative. It is unlikely that alternative has really gained many users yet, but it is an extremely interesting model which challenges many of the assumptions on which NFC businesses are being built. ®
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It's tale of two national parties which even stellar storytellers are struggling to narrate to their captive audiences. Is the Congress pro-poor or pro-rich? Is the BJP a party of only Hindus or of all Indians? Is the Congress indulging in excessive minority appeasement or is it skirting the terrorism issue? Are both parties pro-economic reform of the same colour or not? Has the BJP forgotten its Swadeshi agenda to seem a weaker clone of the Congress? Has it moved away from its traditional Hindutva mantra containing issues like Ayodhya mandir, Article 370 and the Uniform Civil Code? As the countdown to the state Assembly elections, followed by the General Elections, begins, both the Congress and BJP are looking for a Winning Identity Tag (WIT) to reap rich electoral dividends. The filthy war of words, which has erupted during the past few weeks between the parties, has nothing to do with their achievements and failures but is all about demolishing each other's traditional identity. While the social, cultural and economic line dividing the top and middle level leadership of both parties is blurred, the fight for power is getting murkier and sharper. Interestingly, both are seriously involved in an internal war of posturing. For example, leaders in the Congress-led government, including the Prime Minister, who are talking about bold economic reforms, stimulus for the rich, free access for MNCs to Indian markets, are pitted against leaders in the party. The latter want the Food Security Bill, MGNREGS, minority reservation in jobs, as they feel only such welfare measures can retain their vote banks. Similarly, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and others who aren't part of the BJP hierarchy are pushing for WIT by talking about Mandir and Hindutava. BJP General Secretary Amit Shah revived the Ram Mandir issue only to be rebutted later by party President Rajnath Singh, who made it clear that mandir and Article 370 weren't part of the party's political agenda.
The top leadership of both parties has realised that votes cannot be garnered on the basis of performance or failure. As they dig deep in the dirty political pit to extract a few saleable ideas to hawk to the masses, they are getting mired more and more in the mud. The more they talk about issues and individuals, the more they reflect their identity crisis. Although, political differentiation between various parties revolves around just two words—secularism and communalism—both the BJP and Congress are desperate to find that extra spin which would give them the edge. Predictably, Modi, a symbol of both hard Hindutava and development, set the ball rolling by calling himself a proud Hindu nationalist. Modi is known for choosing the right words at the right time for the right people. He defined his politico-religious identity in an interview to a foreign news agency, and not to an Indian media organisation. He followed up on his ideological narrative by accusing the Congress of hiding behind the secular burqa to cover up its all-round failures. Modi's new mantra not only turned out to be a new election talking point for the ideologically starved BJP but also forced the Congress to get engaged in a debate to acquire a WIT. Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken accused Modi of dividing India by narrowing down the definition of nationalism to religion. After letting the nation debate be polarised along Hindu or non-Hindu nationalism lines, the Modi Sena quickly moved on to other issues. The party itself pulled down the hoardings of the Gujarat chief minister projecting himself as a proud Hindu nationalist, much faster than they were put up in prominent corners of Mumbai.
To shore up their economic ideology, lately the Congress and BJP are competing for the endorsement of foreign-educated Indian economists. Modi promoters have been heavily dependent on foreign-trained PR agencies to reposition him as the messiah of development. According to some BJP insiders, BJP's corporate and social advisers have counselled a few middle-level party functionaries to promote economists of Indian origin as the credible brains behind a Modi-led government's economic agenda. Recently, the BJP's fund collector organised a five-star dinner in Delhi for an economist, for which a few corporate leaders and friends of the BJP were invited to interact. His only qualification is that his name was added to Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati's, one of India's finest economists. According to credible economists, Bhagwati lost the Nobel Prize to Amartya Sen only because he was considered pro-economic nationalism than fashionable liberal nationalism sans boundaries. The differences between the BJP leadership and a Modi-promoted economist on current economic policies came to the fore when a former Union minister vehemently questioned the need to abolish subsidies for the poor. The BJP is sharply divided over the UPA's current economic decisions. Despite the strong public mood against the frequent hike in petroleum prices, the BJP's top leadership has maintained a sinful silence over the government's decision to raise gas prices by almost 100 per cent. The party is still studying the details of the government announcement.
The Congress is equally confused. The Prime Minister is openly supporting the fall in the value of the rupee while many party leaders have expressed grave concerns over what could prove fatal for the party in the next elections. Even on the Ishrat Jahan issue, the government and the party are at loggerheads over legal and international complications. It was left to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to close the issue by taking refuge behind an agreement between the US and India that information provided by the US agencies on terror couldn't be shared in public. In their unprincipled and rhetoric-led confrontation to acquire a WIT, both parties are fighting to divide a united India along ominous lines. Nothing else can define the end of both 'India Shining' and 'The Great India Story'.
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TUX Magazine: Guarddog, Quanta and digiKam
The August edition of the free to subscribe TUX Magazine covers a number of KDE applications: Guarddog "lets
Guarddog is insecure by default!
Let your computer be an ICQ _client_ and the supposedly "secure by default" firewall opens all _server_ ports >= 1024!!!
By c at Tue, 2005/08/02 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
then don't use ICQ. Seriously, the ICQ protocol is grossly insecure and just doesn't work with firewalls. ICQ wants almost every port open so that it can do direct connections for chat.
By Simon Edwards at Tue, 2005/08/02 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
Perhaps it could check using netstat which server ports >1024 are already in use and exclude them from the rule?
Ok, it's harder, and it is not perfect, but it is slightly better.
Another idea: it could ask the user what ICQ app (say kopete) he is using and then do something like "-m owner --cmdowner kopete" on the iptables rule.
Or, you could have ICQ-kopete ICQ-whatever rules.
Of course, that only works on the OUTPUT chain, so the connection may still take place, but the box shouldn't send much stuff over that connection that isn't ICQ (or gadu-gadu/MSN/whatever kopete can handle), I suppose.
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2005/08/02 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
then do 1 or more of the following:
1. warn that the icq protocol is not secure
By c at Wed, 2005/08/03 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
> 1. warn that the icq protocol is not secure
I'll have a good think about how best to communicate that to the user.
(Suggestions are welcome. I'm gravitating towards any extra 'risk' column with a small rating symbol. Instead of little gold stars there will be scary little skull-and-crossbones symbols. :-) Seriously, that is exactly what I am thinking now.)
> 2. use ralsina's proposal
That is not likely to happen soon. It is, well, radically different than the current approach.
> 3. don't advertise guarddog as secure by default
ICQ is not on by default.
By Simon Edwards at Wed, 2005/08/03 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
> > 1. warn that the icq protocol is not secure
> I'll have a good think about how best to communicate that to the user.
> (Suggestions are welcome. I'm gravitating towards any extra 'risk' column
In addition to that, how about a GRC-style set of coloured boxes that show what ports Guarddog has opened up. Additionally doubly warn of server ports that are opened up.
> > 3. don't advertise guarddog as secure by default
> ICQ is not on by default.
Oh please. The real issue is this:
No user can expect that allowing an ICQ client turns their computer into an open server!
By dsaf at Thu, 2005/08/04 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
To be honest I don't think that warning the user is really going to help much. People don't read warnings. The best idea I can think of right now is to choose a range of ports and open only those for ICQ, and tell everyone to configure their ICQ client. That looks like the safest way to me.
(Email me, or take this to the mailing list. Lets not take over the Dot. ;) )
By Simon Edwards at Thu, 2005/08/04 - 5:00am
Re: Guarddog is insecure by default!
use jabber's icq transport (its supported at least by psi)
By Nick at Tue, 2005/08/02 - 5:00am
Guarddog is good but it can be the best
for average joe user Guarddog is an enigma! Anyone who knows these:
can only have a good firewall in place with Guarddog. That's definitely for some System Administrators but not for average joe user, who *uses* the computer but doesn't administer.
Here What I think would help Guarddog become "User-friendly" not "administrator-only" application:
1. Observing which applications are being used (learning mode) and allowing incoming and outgoing (if necessary) traffic.
3. likewise kpf (personal webserver) etc., should also take permission from Guarddog or Guarddog should restrict/allow an incoming connection.
This could only happen if Guarddog becomes a PART of KDE instead of just *an application*.
if Guarddog implements few small things then Guarddog becomes the *friend* of average joe KDE user ;) else it will remain a friend of administrator which users in general can't make use of it.
Anyways, I love Guarddog, it is much better than using iptables rules setting by hand. And I really wanna thank Guarddog Authors/Developers! Thanks guys you made my KDE/Linux system secure :)
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Tue, 2005/08/02 - 5:00am
On the other Hand
Actually, I thought Guarddog was the easiest firewall software I've found in a long time (ever?). I tried several different frontends to generating iptables stuff and I couldnt figure any of it out. None. Then I found guarddog and was instantly impressed. Perhaps I know a bit more about IP, servers and clients than the average person, but anything that was "learning" like you suggested would be a pain. (I've tried ZoneAlarm on Windows and the constant popups about "Internet Explorer is trying to access the internet in the following way:..." just got bloody annoying.
One minor (ok major) problem which might not be guarddog related: I'm on Gentoo and I had their scripts save the IPtables state and reload it when I rebooted. This worked fine when I was behind a router, but now that I'm directly connected to the cable modem, it seems that the saved IPtables state blocks all internet access (while im sure thats very secure its not exactly what i want ;p). I checked that the IP address doesn't change but I cant imagine what other problem would be.
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Schauspieler: Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Franz Drameh, Amy Pemberton, Dominic Purcell, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Nick Zano, Arthur Darvill
Qualität: HD
Erschienen: Jan. 21, 2016
IMDb: 7