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Beer bath
If you thought beer was a beauty product, you'll appreciate this: Visitors to the Bjórböðin Spa in Iceland relax in wooden troughs filled with barley juice, water, hops and yeast. This unusual mixture cleanses the skin and boosts the metabolism. Beer drinkers, never fear: There's a keg of beer conveniently placed right beside the bathtub.

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Egyptian Cotton Finest Products
Egycot sell Egyptian cotton bed sheets, bath towels, table
linens and underwear. We also sell
Organic cotton baby Clothing and organic soft toys
absolutely no chemicals or pesticides are used in the entire growing
and manufacturing process of Egyptian Organic Cotton.
Orders are shipped directly from Egypt. Buy with confidence all our products are made of the "best" cotton in the world. Egyptian cotton established reputation for its softness, strength and superior characteristics. Products made of Egyptian cotton are positioned as the world's finest.


text: Nothing punches the foam like Pro Points 3D NockBusters. The Original is built to dominate the field with high-quality, solid hardened stainless steel in an elongated bullet style. Never fear having to shoot into a crowded 12 ring again. The elongated design greatly reduces the severity of kiss-outs and the loss of precious points. They perform to the same degree as the 3D Nock Buster Pins, but are more durable due to the design. Available for most competition arrow shafts in multiple grain weights, 3D NockBusters Original deliver consistent results in the most demanding situations.


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It's been a long road - five years long, if you can believe it - but the Gears of War franchise can finally take a breather with the end of the third game in the series. To celebrate, toy company NECA is releasing this "Journey's End" version of Marcus Fenix.
If Marcus ever got an invitation to a firefight, and it said business/casual, this is what he'd wear. The top half? With the tank-top and the tattoos? It's casual. The bottom half? With the war pants and the enormous boots? All business, baby.
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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Popular gay porn performer Austin Wilde is in the news. The triple x muscle hotness who was voted Raging Stallion "Man of the Year" has left that studio for internet-based NextDoor.
Wilde expressed concerns over HIV in the gay porn industry, saying too many performers are testing positive and that he now requires his screen partners to be tested for HIV, according to an interview in The Sword.
"Steamworks was my last movie, which was shot back in April/May, I believe. Around that time I had been finding out about a few people becoming HIV positive—both in and out of the industry. It was a wake-up call and a turnoff from sex for me all around. So instead of bringing my personal issues to the set and possibly giving Raging Stallion a bad performance, I decided to back out of the movie and take a few months to myself. ...
"I've recently started requiring my scene partners to be tested. While a test may not detect something contracted a month prior to getting tested, having your scene partners tested is NOT a complete waste of time. That month's time is A LOT less than six months or a lifetime of never being tested. So requiring a scene partner to be tested may not eliminate your chances of doing a scene with someone with an STD/HIV, but it significantly lessens it."
Austin Wilde's announcement comes at the same time there is panic in the adult industry around the so-called "Patient Zero", described as a "male performer who performed in both straight and gay adult videos" and tested positive. A number of adult performers may have been exposed and were quarantined, reports AVN. "AVN also learned that at least one production company has postponed its scheduled production [two weeks ago] in order for proper quarantine procedures and performer clearances to run their course."
In the summer of 2009, "at least 16 additional unpublicized cases of HIV" were confirmed in gay and straight adult film performers. The cases bring renewed scrutiny to the industry's long history of resisting condom use in straight porn. They also bring heightened awareness to bareback gay porn and studios that employ performers for condom and bareback gay scenes.
For someone that has sex for a living, reducing the risk of STD and HIV infection can be considerable. But on a practical level, it's worth asking if Wilde also requires HIV certification from his personal or "professional" off-screen partners. In any event, kudos to Austin Wilde.
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Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani-Splash Pendant
At Design Interviews
Interview with Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : The splash pendant is designed based on a very short moment when a stone piece collides with water. We all have seen this unique moment countless times although haven't pay enough attention to its beauty, by the use of a freeze shot the forms of water splashes has been applied as the main element of this piece. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : Fluid splashes in freeze shots has always been a charming occurrence for the inquiring mind of these days people. In Splash pendant this pure moment has been exploited to attain the main form of the pendant which is designed based on collision between a solid object and liquids. In this piece the fluid spiral form represents the water splashes and the pearl as a metaphor for a stone piece. Spiral forms with its golden ratio make a pleasant appearance for the eyes of user. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : converting the Splash concept to physical product. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : around 40 days from start to the final step. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : we wanted to utilize a charming occurrence in the nature and apply it to a product, it wasn't commissioned. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : we have planed to find a sponsor who is able to support our concept to production. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : The desire to design a different jewelry from Things that are available in the market. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : Everyone, especially those who are amazed by natural phenomenon. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : It has been inspired by the form and the inspiration. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : 3D modeling softwares: Rhinoceros, T-spline, Matrix. Renreding softwares: V-Ray .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani : The biggest challenge of the design process was to make a fluid form which vividly represents the liquidity of water. .
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SCHILLER PARK, IL -- Life Fitness' newest commercial exercise equipment will feature seamless iPod integration, the company announced. This connectivity makes it possible for iPod users to plug in and charge their iPods, watch video on the equipment's large LCD screen and control the playing of their iPod music libraries from the console. The connection also powers and charges the iPod. Users can plug headphones directly into the equipment console or their iPod for audio while safely storing the music player in the iPod holding tray.
The first Life Fitness product featuring iPod integration will be demonstrated at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association Convention March 28-31 in San Francisco and will be available in March, with the rest of the line to follow later in the year.


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Western blot analysis of extracts from various cell lines using Rab6 (D37C7) Rabbit mAb.
Confocal immunofluorescent analysis of HeLa cells using Rab6 (D37C7) Rabbit mAb (green). Actin filaments were labeled with DY-554 phalloidin (red). Blue pseudocolor = DRAQ5® #4084 (fluorescent DNA dye).
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Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA, 50% glycerol and less than 0.02% sodium azide. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v BSA, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
NOTE: Please refer to primary antibody datasheet or product webpage for recommended antibody dilution.
From sample preparation to detection, the reagents you need for your Western Blot are now in one convenient kit: #12957 Western Blotting Application Solutions Kit
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
Load 20 µl onto SDS-PAGE gel (10 cm x 10 cm).
NOTE: Loading of prestained molecular weight markers (#13953, 5 µl/lane) to verify electrotransfer and biotinylated protein ladder (#7727, 10 µl/lane) to determine molecular weights are recommended.
NOTE: Volumes are for 10 cm x 10 cm (100 cm2) of membrane; for different sized membranes, adjust volumes accordingly.
* Avoid repeated exposure to skin.
posted June 2005
revised November 2013
Reprobing of an existing membrane is a convenient means to immunoblot for multiple proteins independently when only a limited amount of sample is available. It should be noted that for the best possible results a fresh blot is always recommended. Reprobing can be a valuable method but with each reprobing of a blot there is potential for increased background signal. Additionally, it is recommended that you verify the removal of the first antibody complex prior to reprobing so that signal attributed to binding of the new antibody is not leftover signal from the first immunoblotting experiment. This can be done by re-exposing the blot to ECL reagents and making sure there is no signal prior to adding the next primary antibody.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalently purified water.
posted June 2005
revised October 2016
Protocol Id: 10
This protocol is intended for immunoprecipitation of native proteins for analysis by western immunoblot or kinase activity utilizing Protein A magnetic separation.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
10X Cell Lysis Buffer: (#9803) To prepare 10 ml of 1X cell lysis buffer, add 1 ml cell lysis buffer to 9 ml dH2O, mix.
NOTE: Add 1 mM PMSF (#8553) immediately prior to use.
A cell lysate pre-clearing step is highly recommended to reduce non-specific protein binding to the Protein A Magnetic beads. Pre-clear enough lysate for test samples and isotype controls.
IMPORTANT: Pre-wash #73778 magnetic beads just prior to use:
Carefully remove the buffer once the solution is clear. Add 500 μl of 1X cell lysis buffer to the magnetic bead pellet, briefly vortex to wash the beads. Place tube back in magnetic separation rack. Remove buffer once solution is clear. Repeat washing step once more.
IMPORTANT: The optimal lysate concentration will depend on the expression level of the protein of interest. A starting concentration between 250 μg/ml-1.0 mg/ml is recommended.
IMPORTANT: Appropriate isotype controls are highly recommended in order to show specific binding in your primary antibody immunoprecipitation. Use Normal Rabbit IgG #2729 for rabbit polyclonal primary antibodies, Rabbit (DA1E) mAb IgG XP® Isotype Control #3900 for rabbit monoclonal primary antibodies, and Mouse (G3A1) mAb IgG1 Isotype Control #5415 for mouse monoclonal primary antibodies. Isotype controls should be concentration matched and run alongside the primary antibody samples
Proceed to one of the following specific set of steps.
NOTE: To minimize masking caused by denatured IgG heavy chains (~50 kDa), we recommend using Mouse Anti-Rabbit IgG (Light-Chain Specific) (D4W3E) mAb (#45262) or Mouse Anti-Rabbit IgG (Conformation Specific) (L27A9) mAb (#3678) (or HRP conjugate #5127). To minimize masking caused by denatured IgG light chains (~25 kDa), we recommend using Mouse Anti-Rabbit IgG (Conformation Specific) (L27A9) mAb (#3678) (or HRP conjugate #5127).
posted December 2008
revised April 2018
Protocol Id: 410
Achieve higher quality immunofluorescent images using the efficient and cost-effective, pre-made reagents in our #12727 Immunofluorescence Application Solutions Kit
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
Recommended Fluorochrome-conjugated Anti-Rabbit secondary antibodies:
NOTE: Cells should be grown, treated, fixed and stained directly in multi-well plates, chamber slides or on coverslips.
Aspirate liquid, then cover cells to a depth of 2–3 mm with 4% formaldehyde diluted in 1X PBS.
NOTE: Formaldehyde is toxic, use only in a fume hood.
NOTE: All subsequent incubations should be carried out at room temperature unless otherwise noted in a humid light-tight box or covered dish/plate to prevent drying and fluorochrome fading.
posted November 2006
revised November 2013
Protocol Id: 24
Rab6 (D37C7) Rabbit mAb recognizes endogenous levels of total Rab6 protein.Species Reactivity:
Human, Mouse, RatSpecies predicted to react based on 100% sequence homology:
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a recombinant protein specific to the carboxy terminus of human Rab6 protein.
Rab6 is a member of the Ras superfamily of small Rab GTPases implicated in endocytosis (1). The three distinct members of the Rab6 subfamily (Rab6A, Rab6A', and Rab6B) are structurally similar but likely exhibit non-overlapping functions (2,3). Rab6 localized to the Golgi (4) regulates retrograde transport of membrane-bound target proteins from the Golgi apparatus to the endoplasmic reticulum (5-7) or from the Golgi to the endosome during exocytotic transport (8). Rab6 interacts with microtubule motor proteins such as rabkinesin-6 (KIF20A) and dynein/dynactin complexes; Rab6-mediated transport requires a functionally intact microtubule system (9,10). Rab6 also regulates cytokinesis and cell cycle check point through interactions with Rab6 effector proteins, including the dynein/dynactin protein DCTN1 and the GTPase activating protein RABGAP1 (11,12).
Explore pathways + proteins related to this product.
UniProt ID: P20340
Entrez-Gene Id: 5870
Cell Signaling Technology is a trademark of Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.
DRAQ5 is a registered trademark of Biostatus Limited.


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Daphne Keller
Daphne Keller was the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. Her work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. Read more about Daphne Keller
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
Whether and when communications platforms like Google, Twitter and Facebook are liable for their users' online activities is one of the key factors that affects innovation and free speech. Most creative expression today takes place over communications networks owned by private companies. Governments around the world increasingly press intermediaries to block their users' undesirable online content in order to suppress dissent, hate speech, privacy violations and the like. One form of pressure is to make communications intermediaries legally responsible for what their users do and say. Liability regimes that put platform companies at legal risk for users' online activity are a form of censorship-by-proxy, and thereby imperil both free expression and innovation, even as governments seek to resolve very real policy problems.
In the United States, the core doctrines of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have allowed these online intermediary platforms user generated content to flourish. But, immunities and safe harbors for intermediaries are under threat in the U.S. and globally as governments seek to deputize intermediaries to assist in law enforcement.
To contribute to this important policy debate, CIS studies international approaches to intermediary obligations concerning users' copyright infringement, defamation, hate speech or other vicarious liabilities, immunities, or safe harbors; publishes a repository of information on international liability regimes and works with global platforms and free expression groups to advocate for policies that will protect innovation, freedom of expression, privacy and other user rights.
Daphne Keller was the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. Her work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. Read more about Daphne Keller
Joan Barata is an international expert in freedom of expression, freedom of information and media regulation. As a scholar, he has spoken and done extensive research in these areas, working and collaborating with various universities and academic centers, from Asia to Africa and America, authoring papers, articles and books, and addressing specialized Parliament committees. Read more about Joan Barata
Annemarie Bridy is a Professor of Law at the University of Idaho. She is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a former Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy. Professor Bridy specializes in intellectual property and information law, with specific attention to the impact of new technologies on existing legal frameworks for the protection of intellectual property and the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Read more about Annemarie Bridy
Giancarlo F. Frosio is a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Previously he was the Intermediary Liabilty fellow with Stanford CIS. He is also an Associate Professor at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at Strasbourg University. Giancarlo also serves as Affiliate Faculty at Harvard CopyrightX and Faculty Associate of the Nexa Research Center for Internet and Society in Turin. Giancarlo is a qualified attorney with a doctoral degree (S.J.D.) in intellectual property law from Duke University Law School. Read more about Giancarlo Frosio


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Chad Billingsley is happy to work on -- and maybe even worry about -- pitches he knows he has to refine. He's able to proceed because of what has not been a concern at all.
He said his right elbow is fine.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Billingsley threw 3 1-3 innings Thursday for the Los Angeles Dodgers in an 11-all tie with the Texas Rangers. He has pitched 7 1-3 innings this spring after rehabilitation for a partial tear in his elbow last August.
"I'm throwing all my pitches," said Billingsley, who retired nine straight batters before the Rangers got to him in the fourth for two hits that led to two runs. "No problem, no problems at all. I'm bouncing back. I think it's behind, but you never know."
Billingsley, competing for a spot in the rotation, chose last season to skip Tommy John surgery, which probably would have sidelined for the 2013 season. Instead, he had the elbow injected with plasma rich in platelets.
"Two injections," he said. "I'm absolutely happy that's what I did."
In his third start this spring, he looked strong through three scoreless innings. In the fourth, Texas got to him.
"That's spring training," he said. "With each game, you start to work on things and add pitches. For me, that meant incorporating my cutter."
The Dodgers tied it in the bottom of the ninth on a three-run homer by minor league outfielder Matt Angle. He hit a pitch from Josh Lindbloom into the Dodgers' bullpen.
Adrian Beltre hit his first homer this spring, a two-run shot in the fifth for Texas.
"I'm tracking the ball well," said Beltre, who is 3 for 10 this spring. "I'm not seeing the ball, not really. But that will happen with more at-bats."
Beltre was with the Dodgers from 1998 to 2004.
"I think I'm over that," he said. "But it's always nice to beat up on them a little bit."
NOTES: Dodgers LF Carl Crawford hit balls off a tee and remained hopeful he'll be ready for opening day despite nerve irritation in a surgically repaired left elbow that has limited him in drills and kept him out of spring training games. "There's still a chance I'll be ready," said Crawford, who dismissed talk that he probably won't play April 1 against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium. He is scheduled to hit off a tee again Friday. He has yet to resume throwing. The Dodgers are trying to determine whether swinging or throwing caused the irritation. ... Reliever Javy Guerra was back in the Dodgers' clubhouse. He was declared ineligible for Mexico's team in the World Baseball Classic team because of a rule prohibiting participation by players coming off injury. Guerra had shoulder surgery in November. "Crazy," Guerra said. "I was 100 percent going in and I'm 100 percent coming back." ... The Rangers play Milwaukee on Friday at Maryvale. Michael Kirkman is Texas' scheduled starter.
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"Colored Folks of the Antebellum Days"
From the Page News & Courier ca. 1937
The veteran colored folks of Luray were born before the gory days of the sixties but lived in the memory of later generations. They were Fred Lacey, Nimrod Bruce, Harrison Carpenter, Ned Harris, John Smith, Wesley Hill, Tom Jackson, Joe Hill, Ben Robinson and perhaps others.
In the major part they were an honorable aggregation of colored citizens. They set the pace that was followed by the better element of their race. They lived at a time when politeness was an outstanding characteristic. Fred Lacey and Nimrod Bruce were two of the one-horse wagoners in the days that are now local history. Each had his one horse wagon. They went from the crack of day till the cadence of the whipperwill. Harrison Carpenter was the 'right hand' man of the late Andrew Broaddus for many years clerk of the Page County court. He groomed the Broaddus steeds and was ready at every beck and call to do his master's bidding. Ned Harris played the same role for Sam Ritchie, late County Treasurer. He once went to Mount Sterling, Kentucky for a thoroughbred. He rode the horse back through the mountain of West Virginia and declared that he had 'rather ride an old plug than to have his arms pulled off by a Kentucky race horse.' This Kentucky thoroughbred soon became more than a match for Ned and was turned over to the late J. Victor Renalds for taming. The Renalds process worked to perfection. In the long, long ago, John Smith was one of the principle hog killers for Luray people. In hog killing seasons sometime he went from daylight 'until all the lard was rendered,' the ponhoss was to perfection and the pudding and sausage were stuffed. He carried his butchering equipment in a belt around his body, and prided himself with immaculate aprons and when he had finished salting and peppering meat no skippers dared to tamper with it. Wesley Hill., a bowlegged tobacco chewer, was a one time the principle shoemaker on the hill. He got lots of work and did it in a workman like manner and kept his wife, 'Aunt Betsy' as a paragon of splombness even when white folks called on her. Tom Jackson was at one time Luray's only tonsorial artist. He had his shop for a long time in a building on the present site of the Shandelson Ladies Store building in West Luray. At another time Tom held forth in a basement one door west of the Mansion Inn. He is said to have dispensed carious things for the needs of his customers at both 'joints.' Joe Hill was a product of Madison County, was a hard worker and the husband of the inimitable 'Nish' Hill, of West Luray, and of placatorial fame. Joe was a quasi-farmer. 'Nish' gave all the points in their agricultural life when he came to the working side.


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4.10 Release of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform
The KDE Community is proud to announce the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. This release combines the latest technologies along with many improvements to bring users the premier collection of Free Software for home and professional use. Special thanks to the KDE Quality Team for managing a comprehensive testing program for this release. Their work greatly assisted developers and played a key role in maintaining quality and stability. The highlights of the release are presented below. The full announcement has more details and delightful screenshots.
Qt Quick boosts Plasma Workspaces
The Qt Quick framework has been deployed in many Plasma Workspace components. In general, consistency, stability and ease of use have been improved considerably. There are improvements and new features across many of the elements that make up Plasma Workspaces. The 4.10 release of Plasma Workspaces announcement has more information.
Additions and enhancements in KDE Applications
Kate, Konsole, Kopete and KDE PIM applications have received substantial improvements. Picmi is a new single player logic puzzle game, and changes have been made in many KDE games to deliver smoother gameplay. KTouch (the typing tutor) has undergone a transformation and offers a superior better learning experience. Marble has a new space orbiter visualization, along with many other nifty additions and improvements. The announcement for KDE Applications has more information.
Development Platform - New and Improved with Qt Quick
The expanded use of Qt Quick provides substantial benefits for developers. Many components have been updated to use Qt Quick exclusively in their user interfaces. Work continues on the creation of a comprehensive SDK for Plasma. The announcement for the KDE Development Platform has more information.
Spread the Word
Non-technical contributors are an important part of KDE's success. While mega proprietary software companies have huge advertising budgets for new software releases, KDE depends on people talking with other people. Even for those who are not software developers, there are many ways to support the 4.10 releases. Report bugs. Encourage others to join the KDE Community. Or Join The Game.
Please spread the word on the Social Web. Submit stories to news sites, use channels like delicious, digg, reddit, twitter, identi.ca. Upload screenshots of your new set-up to services like Facebook, Flickr, ipernity and Picasa, and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencasts and upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo. Please tag posts and uploaded materials with "KDE". This makes them easy to find, and gives the KDE Promo Team a way to analyze coverage for the 4.10 releases.
Follow what is happening on the social web at the KDE live feed, buzz.kde.org. This site aggregates real-time activity from identi.ca, twitter, youtube, flickr, picasaweb, blogs and other social networking sites.
Thank you, KDE team, for one more release of such fine software. Here's to it and for the ones to come!
By Anonymous___ at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 6:27am
Congratulations! I'm downloading as I am writing this. :)
By Mutlu Inek at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 7:36am
Just the best!
KDE goes from strength to strength. Nothing on any other platform matches it. Congratulations on what is clearly the best release yet. :)
By A user at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 8:37am
I've been testing this new release since the latest beta releases. It's a solid and stable release with important bug fixes and new features.
By Josep at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 10:33am
Help us spread the news
Don't forget to spread the news about this awesome release:
By Jure Repinc at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 11:23am
Best KDE ever!!!
KDE 4.10 is the best KDE ever!!! RC3 was super stable for me. But I found one regression in 4.10 final [edited: bug reported at bugs.kde.org]
Other than that everything is perfect :)
By nikola at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 2:45pm
thank you
I'm a newcomer to KDE since 4.7, and obviously stayed because it's an amazing desktop. Based on my experience I'm pretty confident this release will not disappoint either.
By istok at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 3:32pm
Just amazed
Wow... 4.10 is the best KDE version ever. Everything goes smooth, and looks faster than ever. Love the new notifications, the menu, the look&feel. Congratulations!
By Jai at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 4:27pm
Kmail in 4.10 is amazingly fast!
I don't know if it is kmail/akonadi itself or related to nepomuk, but after upgrading to 4.10 on kubuntu, selecting a new mail in kmail displays it instantly! Fantastic work all!
By Christian at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 8:27pm
By gabriel at Wed, 2013/02/06 - 11:57pm
Well done!!
Congratulations to all of you. You just did a great job.
Keep up the the amazing work.
By Sieg at Thu, 2013/02/07 - 12:01am
thank you
i have shared this on my weibo account. There are many people love KDE in China. Thank you for your great job.
By diseng at Thu, 2013/02/07 - 12:17am
Good News, thank you all for the hard work..;)
By thiyagi at Thu, 2013/02/07 - 1:04pm
Substantial improvements?
Substantial improvements to KDEPIM?? Sadly it seems as broken as before... :( The KDE team should really think about their focus. Shouldn't a stable PIM, akonadi, nepomuk be a thousand times more important that putting all that energy into this qt-quick stuff? Once again with this update not really improving anything I'm seriously thinking of ditching KDE after being a loyal user for 15 years now...It's sad :( But I'm tired of this constant state of bugginess. Sorry to spoil the party...
By Redm at Sun, 2013/02/10 - 2:38pm
The KDE team should really
I hope you realize that there is no connection between doing QtQuick on the desktop (and KTouch) and bugs not being fixed in KDEPIM. Even if we would go to the extreme and forbid all feature development until all bugs in PIM are fixed not even one bug more would be fixed. Why? Because QML is not C++. A developer who knows QML does not need to have the skills to also work on PIM issues in C++.
And of course KDE is a very volunteer driven community. There is no manager who can tell people to work on PIM instead of other stuff. Everybody is free to work on what suits them best. So why should a developer who doesn't care about PIM (being a web mail user) be forced to work on a field like that?
That said: KDE is a community, so also you could help to make PIM better. Nobody is blocked from developing on it and I just had the experience that it's quite easy to get a patch into KMail.
Don't tell others what they should do, do it yourself :-)
By Martin Gräßlin at Mon, 2013/02/11 - 6:59am
Basics of Community-Driven Software
Seeing it's such an illustrious release for all and I've seen some comments "staining it", I'm gonna rehash familiar "inconvenient truths" that everybody who loves KDE has heard. I say this in good will, since bad "hyperbole publicity" obscures other users from all the good things about KDE.
I've been where you are, Average Person. Maybe you're used to software you bought. You get it, you install it, and it should just work . If it doesn't work and you don't know why, you're used to customer service and filing requests to get your software working perfectly. You probably feel entitled to it: after all, you paid good money and made the effort of installing this new software. So it is natural to feel disgruntled when something doesn't work. After all it costs time to fix it, and time is money.
Welcome to Community Software.
In fact, money is THE KEY to all this, since you didn't pay KDE one single cent for the software. In fact, no user ever pays for it! So where do the resources come from to fix bugs, add features, etc? From VOLUNTEERS. Yup, people like you and me are part of the "workforce" behind KDE. Sure, companies invest in some developers here, and that's a GOOD THING. But this is still a community, so the rules you're used to don't apply here. You can't "call customer support" when you have a problem. There is no warranty the software will work. And there is no "mediating corporation" that configures KDE to work flawlessly with any particular device. All these things are provided by volunteers. I stress—VOLUNTEERS.
If you bash KDE to the ground for a bug, you're bashing volunteers who put a lot of effort into creating a software No One Will Ever Pay Them For. Think about it. Would you like a horrific bashing for a favor you did to someone? That's how developers feel whenever they have to read "stinky comments" made by disgruntled people. Some have had such bad experiences with these sorts of comments that they stop looking at users' opinions altogether, simply to escape undeserved insults. This in turn furthers the cycle, alienating developers from positive feedback from other users, which lowers the probability of solving the problems you have. If you refrain from your bashing, and adopt a cooperative, respectable, and proactive stance to solving your particular problem, you'll get better results.
TIP: When having an issue, 1) search for your problem on the Internet, 2) ask nicely for a fix, and 3) have empathy for the person who may be able to solve your problem. They're people just like you, and they don't earn their living from giving you support.
Alluding to the positive comments here, this is a *community*. We do this because we love it. If you find a bug, a friendly, correct, and cooperative report to bugzilla will be quite well received. Learn how to do it correctly, and you'll find it far more valuable than anything else we can offer in terms of support. Developers are straight to the point, since they have little time and tons of work to do. But if you're cooperative and work with them, you'll help each other overcome your individual problem -- not just for you, but for others as well.
Please don't call something "non-working" simply because your particular difficulty is not fixed. Surely you can't mean that all of KDE is worthless because of one thing that doesn't work the way you think it should? If you actually do feel that way, you'd best go. You are not welcome here. You will be probably be happier someplace where no mistakes are made or squeaky wheels get the grease.
KDE is closer to ideal than many other software collections around. So let's spend our energy celebrating another great release. With patience and a smile for the quirks left to solve! After all, if we achieved perfection, our work would be finished :-)
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FRENCH CAMP - While serving a narcotics search warrant at a residence in Escalon last week, members of a San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office SWAT team had to approach the home on a dirt road that stretched about a half-mile through a field.
FRENCH CAMP - While serving a narcotics search warrant at a residence in Escalon last week, members of a San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office SWAT team had to approach the home on a dirt road that stretched about a half-mile through a field.
The landscape might have left SWAT team members vulnerable against rifle fire or other high-powered ammunition in their old armored vehicle, but not in their new 2013 Lenco BearCat.
Lt. Philip George outlined the BearCat's capabilities Wednesday during a training exercise outside the Sheriff's Office in French Camp. The vehicle is similar to the BearCat the Stockton Police Department rolled out in 2012, but the new model came equipped with a number of upgrades, George said.
The 20,000-pound vehicle is loaded with state-of-the-art features, including thermal-imaging cameras, radiation and explosive-gas detectors, a self-contained breathing apparatus system and a hydraulic ram that can be used to breach first- and second-story rooms and windows, George said.
The BearCat represents a major upgrade for the Sheriff's Office. Since the 1990s, the SWAT team has used a Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper, a vehicle that was manufactured for the military in 1982. The Peacekeeper was made to withstand rounds from a handgun, George said, while the BearCat can withstand .50-caliber ammunition.
"Let's just say we upgraded from a Pinto to a Land Rover," George said.
BearCat is an acronym for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck. The Sheriff's Office purchased the vehicle for about $415,000 with money from a Federal Emergency Management Agency port security grant, officials said.
The BearCat is a modified Ford F-550 truck that can seat 12 or more and features a gun turret where officers can mount their weapons. In a letter to the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, Sheriff Steve Moore wrote that the vehicle is capable of transporting fully equipped SWAT teams and bomb technicians in response to threats such as terrorist attacks, hostage situations, hazardous spills and natural disasters while protecting its occupants with bulletproof armor.
George said the BearCat will keep SWAT team members safer, noting that officers located guns inside the home in Escalon last week when the vehicle made its maiden voyage.
"If it saves one life during the life of this vehicle, it has done its job," George said. "It's hard to replace a human once they've been hurt or killed. We go into a lot of hot situations that require the officers to put themselves in danger, and this vehicle will limit some of that danger to us."
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a "deathbed" note scrawled inside the hull of the boat where he was captured, claiming he and his older brother set off bombs at the Boston Marathon as retribution for U.S. attacks on Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, a law enforcement source said Thursday.
The note said the victims of the April 15 attack -- three dead and more than 260 injured -- were essentially collateral damage, the source said.
The college student, 19, referred to his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died in a shootout with police, as a martyr whom he wouldn't miss because he would join him in the afterlife, the source said.
The existence of the note was made public on the same day FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III defended the bureau's handling of a Russian warning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev escaped after the shootout four days after the bombings and was captured in the boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Mass., home.
Federal investigators have learned that Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with an exiled former Chechen rebel fighter in Manchester, N.H, less than a month before carrying out the Boston attack, according to the Voice of America. Police in Manchester told Voice of America that FBI agents have searched the home of the former Chechen resistance figure, Musa Khadjimuradov, and examined his computers' hard drives. Khadjimuradov said he had repeated contacts over the past several years with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
On Thursday, Mueller told a Senate subcommittee that an FBI investigation found that Tamerlan Tsarnaev posed no terrorist threat. Mueller acknowledged that electronic notifications that Tsarnaev had left the United States in January 2012 and spent six months in Russia were not shared fully within the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston, according to The Washington Post.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is being held on federal terror charges in connection with the bombings, was badly wounded and thought he was dying when he scrawled his note, the source said. The note was stronger evidence against Tsarnaev than similar statements he made to the FBI in his hospital room, the source said. Those statements were made before he was advised of his rights and could be ruled inadmissible as evidence at a trial, the source said.If admitted in a trial, the note could serve as the equivalent of the confessional videos often produced by terrorists abroad, which are publicly released following an attack, the source said.
"This is as close as you get to that" in this case, the source said. "This is him taking responsibility."
The boat was seized by the FBI after the manhunt and the part of the boat wall containing the note will be removed for preservation and analysis, the source said. The wall was badly damaged by bullets fired by police in Watertown.
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Inktown ThrowdownTuesday, December 16th, 2008
In the grand scheme of things this is a day late, the blitzkrieg of blog press about this having come yesterday, but before I forget again here it is.
Super Art Fight is coming 'round to Baltimore's Ottobar once again on Saturday, December 20th as ink gets applied to canvas in a battle of random themes where artists pull out all the stops to best each other in their application of them to the overall piece. Go on over to Superartfight.com to check out all of the relevant information.
Amu and I (Amu's World represent!) will be there selling amigurumi Ninja and other critters, so stop on by if you are in the area and have the chance. If you pick up a Ninja be sure to check back around the beginning of the year for a special feature set to run on the site JUST FOR YOU!
Other comickers in attendance and participating will be Ghostfreehood (Dead of Summer and Art Fight Highschool), Michael Bracco (BIRTH and NOVO), Chris Impink (Fragile Gravity), Jamie Baldwin (Sudden Valley), Jami Noguchi (Erfworld and angryzenmaster.com), Garth Graham (Comedity), and for a special Co-Creator versus bout Ananth Panagariya and Yuko Ota (Johnny Wander). Also in attendance will be Onezumi, so WHO KNOWS what hijinks will ensue.
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
[Re-post] WHY BIOLOGY IS CRUCIAL FOR MRA. New book. Sex Difference Explained: From DNA to Society -- Purging Gene Copy Errors
[Re-post after spam] BRAND NEW BOOK, Sex Difference Explained: From DNA to Society -- Purging Gene Copy Errors.
The book explains, bottom-up from biology why: * Domestic violence is mostly, indeed overwhelmingly female-perpetrated – the hormonal basis of female preference for violence in a couple context, and brain circuitry re male 'backing off' have been uncovered. *Women owe men after marriage break up, not the other way round – pair-bonding being nothing to do with provisioning in origin, having evolved in the female interest to ward off most males and increase female overall quality of reproductive output. * There is no such thing as misogyny – zero scientific evidence; it's quite the reverse: from childhood, both sexes feel more positive towards females, and this becomes more pronounced in men than in women. *Women are not 'oppressed' in any way by men – there is no form of dominance interaction across sex. * Females are always privileged – they're the 'limiting factor' in reproduction. * There is prejudice against males – 'policing' of male access to sex.
The book is a 'bottom-up' from biology cutting-edge holistic understanding of men/ women: a layman's guide to the converging lines of evidence for profound male-female distinction serving complementarity.
A monograph for the New Male Studies journal, it's available on Amazon.co.uk & Amazon.com in both paperback & Kindle versions; plus it's open-access on the NMS website.
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This is the first time anyone has properly attempted to put forward a truly integrated account of human sociality, utilising all the latest lines of evidence in theory re male hierarchy, female 'personal network', the very different in-grouping according to sex, and pair-bonding.
The core argument is that all major aspects of male-female human sociality necessarily stem from biological principles; which all arise in solving the core problem faced by all life-forms: the relentless build-up of mistakes in the repeated copying of genes.
Explanation here has to be bottom-up, not top-down, because that is the direction of causation: all else is feedback, which in inherent in any system if it is to avoid breakdown. Culture – that is, the facility to have and behave in this way – could not have evolved unless its function is to feed back to and fine-tune the very underlying biology that gave rise to it. So the more complex the organism becomes, then the better it gets at being faithful to and expressing its biology. The notion that instead somehow we go off on a novel tangent and 'escape' biology is the very opposite of what happens.
To deal with all the accumulated gene replicatio_nError, the 'bad' genes somehow have to be filtered out, and this is the function of the male: why males came into being, and why men so fiercely compete with one another to form a hierarchy.
The female contribution to this 'genetic filter' mechanism is carefully to choose only the most dominant/prestigious males, cross-checking that indeed they do possess the best gene sets. This ensures genetic mutations and other errors that would seriously compromise reproduction are purged from the local gene pool.
With men tied to a hierarchy, women evolved to 'marry out' to avoid in-breeding. In preparation for this, girls have a very different social organisation, rehearsing for when later they have to make close bonds with non-kin, stranger-females for mutual child-care. This explains why female grouping is so tight and exclusionary, whereas males group all-inclusively.
Pair-bonding serves to exclude lower-ranked, whilst allowing access by still higher-ranked males; and to provide a serial father of children, thereby in effect projecting forward in time a woman's peak fertility, compensating for her deteriorating store of eggs, and consequent declining fertility and attractiveness. But although this is clearly all in the female interest, the male also gets something out of 'marriage': a more fertile partner than he would be able to acquire for 'no-strings' (promiscuous) sex. It's cross-sex bargaining.
The upshot is that there's an underlying sex dichotomy, to be sure; but it's perfectly complementary, with the sexes of equal importance in what amounts to a symbiosis.


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Jan 22, 2013
Weberman Being put away for 103 years!
the really big news of the day is the sentencing of Nechemya Weberman for the abuse and molestation of a young girl in his care. He was found guilty a few weeks ago, and in the sentencing today, Judge Ingram handed down a sentence that was just short of the maximum possible - Weberman got 103 years of jail out of the 117 that was possible...
Definitely a big blow to him, abusers and their supporters everywhere, and hopefully it will be a strong message and deterrent for the future..
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Do Matzav and TheYeshivaWorld have ads up for his "pidyon shevuyim" yet?ReplyDelete
Not yet garnel, but they also (cowardly) refuse to report on it at all.ReplyDelete
Rafi u so hit the nail on the head here, that this is a blow to the supporters as well.ReplyDelete
Not just the 'aggressive' supporters, but the 'passive' ones as well. Passive supporters are those rabbonim, askonim and organizations that for so long have either blamed the victim or have refused to acknowledge that sexual abuse is a serious problem.
Most importantly, the whole world knows now just how mishandled frum orgs have been in handling these cases. And justice was done in spite of these rabbonim, without their help and without the rabbinic 'say so'that some orgs would have you believe (erroneously) needs to happen.
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2013 10:35 PM
I have read extensivly about this case. I'm still unconvinced that he is as guilty as charged, though I believe it was a grevious error on behalf of satmar to send girls to a male counselour and on his part for not properly keeping hilchos yichud, by being above and beyond communal standards of propiety in dealing with this girl.ReplyDelete
- Joe in AustraliaJanuary 23, 2013 1:19 AM
Moshe Moshel wrote: I'm still unconvinced that he is as guilty as charged ...ReplyDelete
What would it take to convince you? He spent hours at a time in a locked room with a teenage girl. Leaving the girl's complaints to one side, the halachic presumption would be that he was "seducing" her. Why are you willing to stipulate that Weberman broke hilchos yichud, which should be yeharog ve'al yaavor, but he didn't actually do the very things which those halachos are meant to prevent?
I believe it was a grevious error on behalf of satmar to send girls to a male counselour ...
Why? I mean, you don't believe he was raping her; why do you think it was an error? Are Satmar girls more likely to accuse their counsellors of rape? Or do you think that no male counsellors should ever have a female client? Because in the secular world they handle this by, e.g., not secluding themselves with young women for hours at a time; not taking them on private drives; not buying them lingerie. The idea that all this could be innocent is simply laughable.
Weberman Being put away for 103 years!ReplyDelete
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- his wordsJanuary 23, 2013 4:25 AM
- moshes wordsJanuary 23, 2013 6:13 AM
- Rabbinical RouletteJanuary 23, 2013 10:58 AM
I hope that the rabbonim here in RBSA who condone such behavior and blame the victim wake up and smell the coffee.ReplyDelete
They continue to enable pedophiles with their "mesira" and "parnassa" nonsense while Jewish victims suffer in silence.
Some of them have even established "organizations" that claim to address the abuse issues.
We all know that such organizations are nothing more than a shill for their nefarious stance on pedophiles in the frum world.


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Chillingo's top-notch physics-puzzler Feed Me Oil is currently available free of charge, marking the first time the game's been discounted since its June 2011 release.
Taking aesthetic inspiration from 2D Boy's superb World of Goo, Feed Me Oil has you placing barriers and objects in order to steer liquid oil around each of its surreal stages.
'Why am I doing that?' you might reasonably ask. Well, it's because each level contains a nightmarish monster, and it's your job to feed the beastie its liquid lunch.
If that sounds odd, that's probably because Feed Me Oil is an odd game, but it's also smart, challenging, and blessed with some fantastically fluid physics.
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There's no word on how long this one will remain an App Store freebie, so our advice would be to pick up this puzzler for nowt while you can.


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RealPlayer 11 – Rip/Save/Burn
Remember Harmony? It was a RealNetworks utility that Real hoped would enable it to infiltrate Apple's music empire by allowing consumers to play songs purchased at Real's download store on the iPod. And it got the company in a lot of trouble with Apple.
That episode, and Real's penchant for developing tech that annoys the heck out of other businesses, comes to mind today as RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser takes the stage to demo RealPlayer 11, which enables one-click downloading of online videos from thousands of Web sites, as well as the ability to organize them and even burn them to DVD and CD.
The new device automatically displays a download button near the video playing on a Web site, facilitating the selection process (it will download most video formats that are not DRM protected). It also enables the user to build a library for storing playlists of favorite downloaded videos. For reviewing, the RealPlayer has a large screen for post-download display, and it will also transfer downloads for watching on a conventional TV. It can also make copies to a CD, which can then be viewed with a DVD player.
- 12:05 p.m.: Ah. Interesting. Glaser notes that videos in which ads are embedded are downloaded with those ads. "We support the content creators' business model."
- Walt asks Glaser to demo the software on Viacom's Colbert video, which the company just requested AllThingsD.com take down.(Update: The Viacom request to which I refer here was the result of a miscommunication. The video is currently live on-site.)
- 12:10 p.m.: Glaser tries to download a DRM protected video file and is prevented from doing so.
- Burn-and-transfer feature supports video CD and DVD. Software transcodes to Mpeg-4.
- RealPlayer has always been closely tied to Real's stores. Is this an example of Real moving away from services and back to software? Glaser doesn't seem to think so.
- Glaser whips out an iPod. Oh, oh. Harmony all over again?
- 12:15 p.m. Loads a video into the iPod.
- And that's it. Short demo.
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Prior to today's game vs. the Oakland Athletics, the Chicago White Sox made the following seven roster moves:
• Optioned OF Alejandro De Aza, RHP Daniel Hudson and INF Brent Lillibridge to Class AAA Charlotte;
• Reassigned RHP Greg Aquino, LHP Charlie Leesman, C Donny Lucy and LHP Erick Threets to minor-league camp.
With the moves, the White Sox 25-man roster includes 12 pitchers, two catchers, seven infielders and four outfielders.
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I really love the lighting in these shots. It was one of those sunny but not too sunny days which are perfect for shooting outfits. Although shooting in the middle of the road is SO awkward! I felt like a kid having to run in and out of the cars to the pavement every few minutes!
As I've said before the Original American Apparel Disco pants are the one. I literally cannot express how good they are. Dupes are alright (I've talked about them here, here and here) but the originals are really the best. Super slimming, form fitting and so flattering on curvy figures.The only huge niggle is that they are ridiculously expensive. However they are on ASOS at the moment for about 20% off which is a huge bargain. It's also worth keeping a eye out for American Apparel 30% off sales which they have every now and again.


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A message on Facebook saying that 16 people died in a Universal Studios Theme Park roller coaster accident in Orlando, Florida, is a scam.
The fake post reads: "OMG!!! Leaked CCTV video caught the accident in Universal Studios Theme Park in Orland, Florida. It shows that 16 people already dead after the roller coaster was departed from the rails and crashed into the ground. There are 24 passengers all in all, 16 dead and 8 are in critical condition. This video will not be televised on air as requested of the family for privacy. Please continue with discretion. Watch this video here."
There's another variation of the message from "Fox Breaking News," which is also a scam.
There is no video and the post merely leads the user to a fake Facebook phishing page that attempts to trick users into giving up their login information.
Those who give their details will be taken to a page that has surveys, which ask for more personal information.
It is not recommended to share the post, "like" the post, fill out one's password or other information, or fill out a survey.
"Users who do click the link in the hope of seeing the accident footage will first be taken to a fake Facebook page and asked to login with their account email address and password. To make the login request seem more legitimate, a message on the fake page will claim that an email address entered 'does not belong to any account'. Thinking that an error has occurred, some users may enter their Facebook login details as requested," reads a message from Hoax-Slayer about the scam.
As a result, the scammers could get ahold of one's Facebook account and spam out the messages even further.
If you believe that you have filled out your password and user account name via the phishing scam, it is recommended that you change your password.
The survey pages say they will give out prizes in exchange for their mobile phone number, address, and other personal information.
However, this will "actually subscribe them to absurdly expensive SMS subscription services. Or, they may be asked to provide personal information as part of an offer. This information may later be sold to online marketing outfits and used to bombard victims with unwanted and annoying emails, surface mail, text messages and phone call," says Hoax-Slayer.


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War movies produced by commercial film industries have a tendency to show any given conflict not as it is or was, but as the side footing the bill for the film would like for it have been. The essential moral irony of war — that acts that would be considered revoltingly inhumane if committed in the name of the individual are not only sanctioned but celebrated when committed in the name of country –– has rarely been reflected on screen as honestly as in 'City of Life and Death," Lu Chuan's stunning dramatic take on the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking, China. Unafraid to depict the blurring of moral boundaries on either side of the conflict, "Life and Death" manages to convey the total horror of the Japanese atrocities from the perspective of both perpetrators and victims, all with exceptional nuance, sensitivity and sadness.
In a three-day siege, the Japanese forces vanquished the bulk of the Chinese army and reduced the city, at that time the capital of China, to rubble. The women, children and Chinese soldiers who managed to survive were told they'd be safe if they remained within the confines of a refuge area run by a number of Westerners, including Nazi John Rabe (John Paisley) and American schoolteacher Minnie Vautrin (Beverly Peckous), both real figures who whose diaries and letters were read by actors in the recent documentary Nanking), and Rabe's Chinese assistant Mr. Tang (Fan Wei). The safe zone did not remain safe for long: soon frustrated Japanese soldiers, given a taste of "comfort" by a visiting Japanese prostitute, begin regularly breaking in to the camp to gang rape women and girls. Rabe appeals to Hitler to intervene, and is told by the high command that it would be best to abandon the refuge camp, rather than sully Germany's relationship with Japan. Mr. Tang is left to negotiate, and in the hopes of protecting his own wife and daughters, strikes a deal that will force 100 women from the camp to "volunteer" their services at a makeshift Japanese brothel.
"City" shifts its perspective back and forth between Tang's struggle to keep the peace by playing "friend" to the Japanese, and the tour through hell of a young Japanese soldier named Kudokawa (Hideo Nakaizumi), who is overtaken by an inconvenient crisis of conscience after falling in love with prostitute Yuriko (Yuko Miyamota). Neither protagonist would be considered hero material in a traditional war film, and this is actually one of City's key accomplishments: Lu's meticulous depiction of the horrors of war is just set up for his exploration of the internal conflict of two men conscious of their own role in the unspeakable.
Sometimes Lu suddenly drops us in the middle of chaos unfolding so quickly there's no way to find our bearings; other times he subjects us to unblinking procedurals that seem to take a moment and stretch it out the point of an endurance test. In one sequence, the heads of the camp are trying to negotiate with a few Japanese soldiers who have forced their way in, when occupators suddenly take the upper hand by swiftly murdering Tang's daughter before his eyes. Another sequence slowly, carefully depicts the dispatching of thousands of prisoners of war via increasingly baroque methods: mass drownings, live burials, live en masse incinerations. The see-saw back and forth leads to a cumulative queasiness. The name of the game is to give the viewer a sense of the total dislocation and disorientation of war, a psychological grey zone that renders combatants and civilians caught in the crossfire equally incapable of real-world rationality. It seems as though this indoctrination process is complete by the time the Japanese soldiers break out into a surreally intense victory dance, but the scene's controlled madness is still incredibly unnerving. Shot in silvery black and white with an epic sense of the frame, "City of Life and Death" has the feel of a lost post-War foreign classic, a masterwork implicating the viewer in the horrors of bearing witness.
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On this date (20 September) in 1953, one of my favorite old time radio Westerns debuted on NBC -- Six Shooter. It was created and written by Frank Burt, who'd also written for The Whistler, The Man Called X, and The Unexpected. It was produced by Jack Johnstone (Buck Rogers, The CBS Radio Workshop, Richard Diamond, Somebody Knows, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and others). The music director, Basil Adlam, arranged and conducted the theme,Ralph Vaughan Williams's "The Highland Lament." The announcers were Hal Gibney (and John Wald), who introduced each episode with the words "The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged. His skin is sun-dyed brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow mother-of-pearl, its handle unmarked. People call them both "the Six Shooter."
The only recurring character was Britt Ponset – played with greatness by Jimmy Stewart, who'd been interested in starring in a radio drama for some time before Six Shooter. Other actors that frequently appeared on the series included Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Reed, Marvin Miller and William Conrad (though often credited as "Julius Krelboyne" since, at the same time, he was starring on Gunsmoke over at NBC's rival network, CBS).


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Yoga for the Outdoor Enthusiast
Namaste in nature!
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Practicing yoga is an excellent way to develop strength, balance, and flexibility. Join REI's professional yoga instructor for an in-store class tailored to help enhance your pursuit of season specific outdoor activities. Whether you are cross country skiing and snowshoeing through the winter, or paddling and climbing through the summer, the benefits of yoga will improve your overall experience. We have designed this class to target key body areas that are commonly tight or easily injured. This is an all level class with the intent to make you feel at ease with beginning yoga to be able to create an at home practice. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult.
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makeDirty method notifies the JDO
implementation that the field's value has changed so that it can
write the new value to the datastore. JDO usually tracks field
modifications automatically; the only time you are required to use
this method is when you assign a new value to some index of a
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getObjectId method returns the JDO
identity object for the persistence-capable instance given as an
argument. If the given instance is not persistent, this method
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object of the given persistence-capable instance. Version objects are
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strategies are discussed in
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That being said excused absence for fitness activities can vary agency to agency; therefore, you should discuss this matter with your local HR or Work/Life office for a definitive answer. To find your agency's work/life contacts, use the searchable database at: http://apps.opm.gov/CCLContact/index.aspx.
Section 7(r) of the FLSA (29 U.S.C. 207(r)) and OPM guidance does not require agencies to compensate employees who are granted reasonable break time for expressing milk. However, many agencies already provide employees with compensated breaks (for example, 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the afternoon) that may be used for any purpose. If an agency already provides such compensated breaks, an employee who uses that break time to express milk must be compensated in the same way that other employees are compensated for break time.
Executive Order 13058, "Protecting Federal Employees and the Public from Exposure to Tobacco Smoke in the Federal Workplace," bans smoking in all Executive Branch facilities, all interior space owned, rented, or leased space by the Executive Branch of the Federal government. There are certain excepted spaces, which include:
Most Federal agencies have wellness programs and plans in action. We recommend you contact your agency's work/life headquarters office, as they may have resources and programs available for you. To find your agency's work/life contacts, use the searchable database at: http://apps.opm.gov/CCLContact/index.aspx.
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In order to be functional, the space must be clean and include a shelf and seat. However, agencies may provide nursing mothers with a wide array of other amenities, such as an electrical outlet, close proximity to running water, a refrigerator, a hospital-grade breast pump, attachment kits, and other helpful tools.
No. A space temporarily created or converted into a space for expressing milk or made available when needed by the nursing mother is sufficient, provided that the space is shielded from view and free from any intrusion from co-workers and the public. The location provided must be functional as a space for expressing breast milk. If the space is not dedicated to the nursing mother's use, it must be available when needed in order to meet the requirement in the law and OPM guidance. Of course, agencies may choose to create permanent, dedicated space if they determine that is the best way to meet this requirement.
Beginning in plan year 2011, all FEHB plans must cover four tobacco cessation counseling sessions of at least 30 minutes for at least two quit attempts per year. This includes proactive telephone counseling, group counseling and individual counseling, and all 7 Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved tobacco cessation medications with a doctor's prescription. These benefits must be provided with no copayments or coinsurance and not subject to deductibles, annual or life time dollar limits.
Also, your agency may offer an internal tobacco cessation program for its employees. You agency's work/life coordinator(s) will be able to provide you with information on any programs offered. To find your agency's work/life contacts, use the searchable database at: http://apps.opm.gov/CCLContact/index.aspx.
Consistent with the requirements of section 7(r) of the FLSA, Federal agencies should provide a reasonable amount of break time and a space to express milk as frequently as needed by the nursing mother, for up to 1 year following the birth of the employee's child. The frequency of breaks needed to express breast milk as well as the duration of each break will likely vary. The space provided by the agency cannot be a bathroom, and it must be shielded from view and free from intrusion by coworkers or the public.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed into law on March 23, 2010, amended section 7(r) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This amendment requires employers to provide a private space, other than a bathroom, for an employee to express breast milk for up to 1 year after the birth of an employee's child that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public. Federal agencies are required to provide employees a private space, permanent or temporary, consistent with these requirements.
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Jean Baptiste Dart born July 21, 1813 in Grand-Leez, Namur, Belgium. Died August 20, 1880 in Wisconsin.
Now if only I had written down the cemetery that I was in years ago when I took the photo. I swear, I can be scatter-brained sometimes! Ah well. It shouldn't be too difficult to retrace my steps. I'll check on that death certificate too and hope it wasn't left blank. Either way I'm delighted to realize that I've got Jean Baptiste's tombstone. One of the many pieces of information I had filed away that needed to be properly filed away!
"In Memory of John Dart
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Aged 6(7) years"


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
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RTR Advisory Group is a financial planning firm. Each year, we host a client event for our premier clients (professionals, retirees and business owners).
Our existing premier clients-professionals, physicians, dentists, retirees and business owners
RTR Advisory is hosting its annual client event and this year's theme is "Passport of Dreams". We are hosting a wine tasting and appetizer event and would like to create a "passport" that gives information about each wine and the country it is from. Please see attached sheet about our 6 wines and the country they are from. This is where you can show your mad "graphic design" skills and get creative.We were also thinking of having a page for the top 10 countries that produce wine so clients can keep their passports and write down their favorites from that particular country. We would love a consistent design element for these pages.The last page will be have space for a stamp to indicate the wine they sampled. Once they rotate through their stations and receive all 6 wine stamps, they can write their name and phone number down and enter it in a drawing.
The actual size of each page is going to be slightly less that 4.5 x 3 and be sent to a binder ( we think you will be able to create 4 of these pages to print on a 8.5 x 11 sheet to be sent to the printer).
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India's Ranthambore National Park announced that the country's famed tiger, Machli, died Thursday at the age of 19, NBC News reported.
Also known as the "Queen of Ranthambore," Machli was described as one of the world's most photographed tigers and the oldest female tiger living in the wild.
She had not eaten for five days and had been unwell, the park said in a statement announcing her death.
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Yost feels Holland is back on right track
KANSAS CITY -- Struggling Royals closer Greg Holland might be onto something.
"He figured something out last night, I think," manager Ned Yost said on Wednesday.
Yost referred to Holland's escape from a self-inflicted, bases-loaded situation that included two walks. Holland struck out the Twins' Joe Mauer to end the game in a 7-4 Royals victory -- logging his second save.
Yost figured that Holland's approach, in two rough outings at Philadelphia and early on Tuesday night, was wrong.
"It happens -- you lose your closer's mentality," Yost said. "You start looking at the game situation -- OK, I've got a two-run lead or a three-run lead and I need to throw strikes here, instead of going with the mindset that, hey, it's a one-run game no matter what the score is and coming in on the attack, boom-boom-boom with all your pitches."
In short, Holland was just trying to place his fastballs for strikes instead of aggressively using his full assortment of pitches. Holland tended to agree and said he readjusted his approach against Mauer.
"My mindset was to get ahead so I can use all my pitches, which I haven't done the last few outings," Holland said. "I was so [focused] on getting ahead with my fastball that I haven't pitched like I pitched in years past, when I would throw any pitch in any count."
Holland stranded the three runners in rain and poor footing.
"What he did was pretty amazing, to get through that inning as hard as it was raining and as muddy as it was," Yost said. "It's like trying to pitch in snowshoes."
After Holland slogged through the mud and threw 27 pitches in the perilous ninth inning, Yost decided that if a save opportunity arose in Wednesday night's series finale, he'd opt for Kelvin Herrera. That would give Holland a chance to rest up for the Toronto series.
That came as a surprise to Herrera.
"I didn't know that," he said.
Herrera worked a scoreless ninth, pitching around a Mauer double with three strikeouts, getting the save in a 3-0 victory. But Yost emphasized that Holland's status had not changed.
"Greg Holland's our closer, so there's no question there," Yost said. "When he's right, he's as dominant a closer as there is in the American League."


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Look ma, no baking so no oven needed! Gary Rhodes' article in the BBC Good Food magazine provided me with the recipe to adapt for this confection which is really very easy to make!
I know, I know, the picture doesn't look too polished. I brought this to our nephew's baptism reception and there wasn't any plate big enough nor a knife to properly slice it. So a squashed pie plate was produced and everybody just hacked it with plastic forks and spoons. Not a pretty sight but well worth having as it was not too sweet with just the right balance of the white chocolate and cream cheese and with nary a smidgen of sour cream. The topping of course are lovely blueberries that always marries well with cheesecakes.
White Chocolate-Blueberry Cheesecake
*Biscuit Base:
225 g plain Hobnobs* - crushed to fine crumbs
100 g unsalted butter - melted
300 g white chocolate - chopped
200 g cream cheese (or Philadelphia cheese) - at room temperature
25 g [5 tsp] caster sugar
2 cups double cream
350 g blueberries
100 g icing sugar (confectioner's)
2 Tbsp water
- Line bottom and sides of a 23cm/9-inch round springform pan with greaseproof paper.
- Mix crumbs and butter. Press into the bottom of the prepared pan. Chill in the fridge.
- While the the crust is chilling, melt white chocolate very gently in a heatproof bowl set over simmering water in a saucepan. Remove from heat and cool a little until warm.
- Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
- Stir in melted chocolate. Mix well.
- Whip double cream to very soft peaks then gently fold into the white chocolate mixture.
- Pour into the prepared pan. Spread and smooth top. Chill in fridge for 2-3 hours or overnight.
- For the topping:
- Place blueberries, icing sugar and water in a saucepan and warm gently until sugar has dissolved and the berries are starting to soften but still retains their shape.
- If syrup is too thin, take the blueberries out with slotted spoon into a container. Leave a few pieces and mash these to release the juice. Continue simmering the syrup for a few minutes to thicken.
- Remove from heat and mix back in the blueberries. Leave to cool.
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- Remove cheesecake from baking pan then spoon the cold blueberries with syrup over the top.
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Start-up Foodily, a recipe search engine, is now partnering with Facebook to bring its menus, foodie photos and recipe-sharing to the social network.
Users of Foodily, a San Mateo-based start-up, can now post a menu for a Facebook event, swap recipes and share foodie porn (the photogenic images of a well-done dish,) according to the Andrea Cutright on the Foodily blog.
Started in 2000 by two former Yahooligans, the start-up received $5 million in funding last year.Their website is probably the best recipe search engine I've seen because it allows users to see all recipes side-by-side, making it easier to see which one has a special ingredient, no flour or would be the easiest to cook.
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"People love to plan meals, share recipes and go out to eat," Cutright, who held several marketing positions at Yahoo from 1999 to 2007, told USA Today. "With so many people playing games on Zynga or shopping, why not food?"
While websites devoted to recipes and baking may not have the cachet of those aimed at venture capital and mobile technology, it does revolve around a $1 trillion food industry. So perhaps Facebook's partnership with a small start-up now makes much more sense.


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